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JMBER io, 1892'.
BRIGHT BITS OF GOSSIP,
WRITTEN FOR WOMEN AND
ABOUT THEM.
l Ilomr Nude TurkUh llnth—now Cel
ery li Ncrrr.l -A Fnrorlle Per
fume- Goa.lpr Noteu*
An; one onn fix up a Turkish or
■vapor bath in his own bedroom at little
or no expense. A woodseated chair
can be placed over a tub of boiling
•water, and the bather has only to sit
«u the chair and cover himself from
bis shoulders downward with a heavy
blanket to get a flrst-olass vapor bath.
Some people vary the arrangement by
putting hay into the tub as well as the
boiling water, but this is unnecessary,
and only adds to the trouble and mess.
The problem of how to serve celery
has been solved, at least temporarily,
in the prevailing fashion of laying
two or three choice stalks at the side
of each plate. Nobody regretted the
retirement of the tall celery vases, but
the flat dishes were about equally as
awkward nnd inconvenient. The pre
sent idea is sensible and satisfactory,
and should be preserved.
The huge muffs that look as if one
were hiding one’s hands in a drum-
major’s lint horizontally placed arc
appearing, a notable contrast to the
dainty bits of silks and feathers which
did duty only last season.
White lilac is the present favorite in
perfumes, but no liquid preparations
can equal the subtle fragrance of
saohet powders. Little scented bags
can be sewed into the facings of
dresses and also in the' hems of silk
skirts.
Victoria silk is a new, soft variety,
not unlike sicilienne, and is much used
for evening wraps. I11 oream white
tints it Is also the latest Parisian ele
gance for evening dresses.
The linings of seal and fur-trimmed
cloaks are unusually gorgeous this
season. Palo brocades, gay tartans,
brilliant silks and high-colored satin
effects are common.
SATISFIED WITH IIKH 8U It HOUND I NOS.
As Corydon and Phyllis full*
Paused In tho sliado to rest,
Ho throw his nnns around her tlicro
And drow her to his brenst.
If I had gold, ho said to her,
’Twould bo my dearest duty
To soo that your surroundings were
Polltting to your beauty.
Sweet Phyllis blushed and softly sighed
A sign of deep content,
And whispering said, Pm sntisfled
With my environment.
-Life.
BhcTdould Teft
A French ohroniqueur records an
interesting and perhaps valuable dis
covery on the part of a child of a
means of ascertaining whether peo
ple are young or not. The child, a
little girl, had been playing merrily
in the country with a gentleman who
was known to have come very close,
to say the least, to his fiftieth^iear.
The little girl’s mother, seeking
for her, came up just as she left this
gentleman’s company.
‘‘What have you been doing, my
dear!” the mother asked.
“Oh, I’ve been playing with that
young man over there.”
The mother smiled. “What is
your way of telling when people are
young, deart” she asked.
"Oh,” answered the little one,
"young people are those that have a
good time I”
A Kait Application of a Proverb.
When Frau von Eisenhart one day
thanked the late Dr. Dollinger for a
gift of a little hook, he replied
“There is an old proverb, ‘Lee petita
cadeaux entretiennent l’amitio.’ Mon
tesquieu applied it once very happily.
He was at variance on some parlia
mentary question with a gentleman
of position and influence, hut who
was also somewhat bigoted. Twould
stake my head on it,’ said the latter
to Montesquieu, ‘And I accept it
gladly,’ Montesquieu replied, ‘for
trifling presents cement friendship. ’
A Peculiar Apology.
A. —Sir, I must request you not to
Btare at my daughter.
B. —I beg ten thousand pardons,
thought she was only your wife.—
Texas Siftings. ■
How to get a Georgia exhibit at the
World’s Fair should be one of the most
important measures before our legis
lature.
Feeling In the Gober trial is so
strong that it has been deoided that
the arguments must be handed in in
writing. It was feared that the law
yers in the case would come to blows.
It appears from a distance that the
whole trial has been characterized bf
* feeling of intense prejudice.
60L. GRAHAM, ’OF POSEY^COUNTY.
0. Rerfateri In HI. English Clothes, bn.
He’ll Never 1)0 It Again.
Colonel Graham, latje of Posey
county, Ind., had a very fretful time
with the hoard of registry in his
district.
“Why, do you know,” the colonel
said, "I never was so insulted in my
life. It was perfectly awful. There
was a regular bench show of inspec
tors there, sir.”
The colonel has recontly returned
from London. He is very proud of
being an American, hut of course
when a man lives for six months ill
England he buyB some English
clothes. At any rate the colonel did.
* ‘These clothes are all right in their
way,” said the colonel, looking down
with pride at his long brown over
coat, with plaits marking tho top of
the skirts in the back; “they’re all
right, don’t you know, except that
they are a bit noticeable in New
York. Now what right had that in
spector to talk to me in that wayl
What right, sir?”
The colonel left Indiana many
years ago, nnd he claims the right to
vote in New York.
It wasn’t so much what those in
spectors said," grumbled the colonel,
“but it was tho nasty way Hioy said
it. When I entered the room a man
with whiskers jumped up and pushed
n Bible violently against my broust.
Before I recovered my breath ho
shouted:
“ ‘Take off that hat I’
“Now, wlmt do you think of that
inspector) Why of course I took off
my hat. I also advised'tho man to ho
less abrupt, and to calm down just a
little. He really made me nervous.
The follow then mumbled something,
ending up with ‘S’elp you gawd-
kiss the book.’ Then he shouted,
‘Put on that hat I’ Now, is that tho
regular proceeding) It isn’t) Well,
then, what do you think of that in
spector) He didn’t stop there, hut
looking at me very hard, he said:
“ ‘Whin did you come over)’
“ ‘Think of that, will you) ‘Why,
I was bom boro,’ I said.
“ ‘H’m,’ said the fellow. ‘A na
tive, eh!’
“ ‘Why, certainly, sir,’ said I, be
ginning to feel peevish. ‘I was born,
sir, in Poseyvillo, Posey’
“ ‘Never mind where you were
bora,’he interrupted. “You’reana-
tivo.’
“I gave him my address and some
other personal details, and he said
‘That’s all. You may go.’
“These proceedings were a bit ir
regular, you say) Well if they were
not God help us all. As I went out
of the door I heard the fellow say:
“ ‘ I wouldn’t mind having enough
from the tails of that coat to make
me a pair of pants,’ and the whole
bench show laughed. Now what do
you thing of -that inspector, eh)”—
New York Sun.
INVENTOR OF THE BAGGAGE CHECK.
A Device That Maile Its War HapliUj to
• General Adoption.
The alleged origin of the decidedly
useful baggage checks has been told
by Mr. D. Morrell, of Union City,
Mich., as follows: >
John Palmer, of my town, is the
inventor of the baggage checking
system. I will tell you his story as
he told it to me. John Palmer was
bom in England some eighty-two
years ago, and came to the United
States in 1829, and to Union City in
1835. In those early days he was in
great demand, for his violin enliv
ened many and many a winter night.
Ono great annoyance he experienced
was tiie constant trouble people had
in finding their coats, hats, wraps,
robes, etc., after the party broke up.
Well, it was announced that there
was to be a big dance at Burlington
on Thanksgiving evening about I860,
and Mr. Palmer was to have charge
of tho music. He knew that there
would he a terrible crowd there, nnd
that there would ho lots of trouble
with the clothing, and he went to
work to dovise a plan to obviate it.
Well, after studying on it lor a
lofig time he had Bolved tho mys
tery. He got out eight cards nnd
marked them in paiys—11, 2 2, 3 3,
4.4—nnd one of tho greatest bless
ings to tho business world was bom.
Now for the first test. He had four
children, ho took thoir shoes and
stockings, tied each up by them
selves, put tags 1, 2, 8, 4, on each lot
and put them away. When the
children got up they inquired for
their shoes. He gave each one tho
check that corresponded with the
check on their shoes, and told them
to go into the other room and pick
out their own by comparing the
numbers. Each child got its own.
Now for a trial on a larger scale.
He prepared a lot of checks in the
same way for the guests at tho party.
About the first to arrive were the
four railroad men from Marshall.
Three took their checks; one would
not have the thing and threw it on
tho floor. When they called for their
clothes they hod forgotten all about
the checks and demanded their
clothes. Mr. Palmer asked them for
their checks. After hunting some
time the three produced their checks
and at once received their goods.
They had to identify the goods for
the fourth man.
Shortly after that there was an
other party at Burlington, and among
the first to arrive were six railroad
men from Marshall, including the
first four. They said they wanted
their things checked the same as be
fore. They watched the plan the
whole evening, and went away con
vinced that they had found a grand
idea. Inside of three months it was
adopted by the railroads of the United
States.—Chicago Tribune.
THE ARBUTUS TREE OF CALIFORNIA.
HOW BAGGAGE IS HANDLED.
Io the aforetime, when the ecu m young,
But yet the moon nlruady waxen old.
Nymph, god and eetyr wandered through tho
wold.
And Memnon’e stony Ups at eunrlse rang.
Atone have poised like hours sines sirens
suug.
Since Jove wooed Dnnno In a shower of gold,
But Duddhn, lord of Barth and Time, was
old,
Whon Jove and Juno, Time and Earth wore
young.
A mystery broodeth over the forest dim,
Whero solemn redwood, laurel green and
bay
All bow obotBauce to groat Buddha’a throno.
Ghosts of doad gods whisper a phantom hymn-.
Trdcs, birds and humans, awod and cower
ing pray:
Moved by tho night breexe, moanoth tho ma
drono.
-Jerome A. Hurt In San Frnnolseo Argonaut.
Why f’eoplo Stammer.
Stammering depends on a want of
harmony between tho action of tho
muscles (chiefly abdominal) which
expel air through the lurynx and
that of the muscles which guard tho
orifice by which it escapes, with that
of those which modulate tho sound
to the form of speech. Over oither of
the groups of muscles by itself a
stammorer may havo as much power
as other people, but ho cannot har
moniously arrange thoir conjoint
action. Nervousness is a frequent
cause of stammering. It is possible
that the defect in some instances may
result from malformation of tho
rts about the hack of the mouth,
e fact that stammering people are
able to sing their words bettor than
to speak them has been usually ex
plained on the supposition that in
singing the glottis is kept open, so
that there is less liability to spasmodio
action.—Brooklyn Eagle.
A Groat Man’s Way.
Frederick the Great looked with
serene indifference on all that his
enemies might say of him. One day,
as he rode through Berlin, he saw a
crowd of people Btaring up at some
thing on the wall, and on sending
his groom to inquire what it was,
found it to he a caricature of him
self.
The placard was put so high that
it was difficult to read it, so Frederick
ordered it to be placed lower in order
that the people might not have to
stretch out their necks.
The words were hardly spoken
when, with a joyous shout, the pla
card was pulled down and torn into a
thousand pieces, while a hearty cheer
followed the king as he rode away.—
Youth’s Companion.
v It is a noteworthy fact that the
Legislature is taking an active Inter
est in the advancement of higher
education especially among the farm
ing classes. The introduction of the
measure providing for an agricultural
oollege at Griffin, where farmer’s sons
are to be taught the higher branches
in connection with their art, and
which is tobe supported by the funds
arising from the inspection of fertil
izers, is a mo¥e Iff'ilfeetrfjfiit directing
and wilj be oaloulateCtp interest J’the
entire State Tn thehigher education of
All olasses within its borders.
Belatlre Expense.
A certain minister, not a thousand
miles from here, loves a dollar with
a dose affection. Not long ago a
young man asked him how much he
would charge to marry a couple.
“Well,” said the preacher, “the
bridegroom pays what he pleases,
but I never charge less than ten dol
lars.”
“Whewl’’ exclaimed the prospec
tive bridegroom, “that’s a good lot
of, money. I thought that kind of
work went in with your regular sal'
ary."
“Oh, no," exclaimed the minister,
“salvation is free, hut it costs money
to get married.”—Detroit Free Press.
How a Hlahop Deceived Trespassers.
The bishop of Exeter it seems was
constantly annoyed by the intrusion
of strangers into his grounds, ailfl
he had put up-very stringent notices
forbidding trespassers. One morn
ing he was walking along in a medi
tative mood when suddenly two la
dies broke through the shrubs and
stood awkwardly enough confront
ing him. They stammered out some
excuse, saying they did not know
they were in private grounds.
His lordship made them a profound
bow, pointed to the printed notice,
adding, “But perhaps you do not
read; however, as you seem to have
no scruples, pray go on, go along the
paths, Into the flower garden, across
the lawn, enter the house, visit the
drawing room, dining room and
study, but let me recommend you not
to penetrate into the bedrooms at
this early hour, as the housemaids
may not have done their work.” The
intruders must have wished them
selves in another diocese.—Temple
Bar.
9hi Talm of Gmt Telescopes.
I should like to call attention to the
fact that the history of the great t< *
scopes at Mount Hamilton and at
Washington will serve to layaway
finally a widely published opinion
which we used to hear repeated every
few weeks—namely, that great tele
scopes are of little use. The work ot
tlieso two groat telescopes (not to
speak of many others) has conclu
sively shown their great superiority
over lees powerful instruments in
every field of astronomy, in the ob
servations of planets, nebulas, stars,
comets, satellites, in spectroscopy,
and also in those, departments of
astronomical photography for which
they are adapted.
Smaller instruments have their ap
propriate fields, and in some of these
they will always be more convenient
than larger ones. But the great tele
scope, when properly used, 1b and al
ways will he pre-eminent—Professor
Edward S. Holden in Forum.
bard
rr
success of the Normal
School project. It merits a carefu
consideration and a good appropria
tion.
toSg Buttoning.
“Miss De TrOp.had on the longest
gloves last night that I ever saw.
She buttoned them from her wrist to
her elbow.”. , ,
“That’s nothing. , My girl buttons
hers all . the way. from home to the
theater.”—Exchange.
It is hardly probable that the legis
lature will wind up Its important busi
ness in the time! allotted. Either the
time is too short or the law-makers are
trying to pusti-through too much leg
islation.'' f"*"' v - :
The force-bill fssue was.a good pro
moter of Democraticharmony.
Wonder* of Engraving.
It is now known that precious anil
semiprecious .stones wer» engraved
with all the delicacy of modern fila
gree work os long ago as the time of
Horaco, centuries before drnery pow
dor, wheel nnd lathe were known.
In more modern times, nnd with the
tools and appliances which civiliza
tion naturally places in the artisan's
hands, engravers have performed
wonders, even going to tho extent of
carving relief pictures on the hardest
of all mineral substances, tho dia
mond. The first artist to engrnvo a
diamond was Jacorno da Trozzo in
1567. The earliest instance of any
kind of an engraved gem is the em
erald signet ring of Polycrates, 740
B. C. In the time of Francis I, Mat-
teo del Nassaro, an Austrian citizen
of Italian parentage, cut his famotiB
‘Crucifixion" upon a bloodstone, the
lines conforming with the red spots
and specks in such a manner ns to
make it appear that they wevo drops
of blood issuing from the mortal
wounds of tho Saviour of tho human
race.—St. Louis Ropublic.
An Anocdoto of Tope.
Mr. Jesse narrates an anecdote of
Alexander Pope concerning one of
tho old watermen whownsomployod
for many years in rowing Popo on
the Thames. Pope was in the habit
of having his Bedan chair lifted into
the punt. If the weather was fine,
he let down tho glasses; if cold he
pulled them up. He would some
times say to tho waterman:
'John, I am going to repeat some
verses: take care and remembor
them the next time I go out."
When that time came Pope would
say:
‘John, where are the verses I told
you of I"
"I have forgotten them, Blr."
“John, you are a blockhead. I
must write them down for you.”
John says that nO one thought of
saying, when speaking of him, “Mr.
Pope,” hut that he was alwqya
called “Mr. Alexander."
The Srxt.ni Employed on Olio Itnllrnail
In Now EiiKlund.
"Tho summer tourist business of
Maine, as wo are able to meusure it
by our baggage, has increased from
12 to 15 per cent, a year for the last
four or five years," said General Bag
gage Agent Towle, of tho Maine Cen
tral, the other day,
“The amount of haggngo carried is
a very good moasure of the number
of persons traveling. On an Average
two persons go with every piece of
oheclced baggage, hut tho number of
pieces of baggage cannot bo depended
oh as an exact indication of the
absolute number of persons travel
ing, since the system of returns
adopted by tho railroad gives on
some routes two reports for each
pieoo. But for the increases of
volume of travel from year to year,
tho baggage returns aro n very good
measure. Tho mouths for tho tourist
travel ore July, August nnd Septem
ber.”
Mr. Towlo’s system of handling the
baggage of tbo Maine Central system
is eimplo and effective. Evory train
baggngo mnstor nnd evory station
agent makes a daily report of evory
pioeo of baggage that ho lins handled,
describing its nature, whether trunk
or vnliso, the number nnd kind of the
check placed upon it, tho placo
whonce It starts nnd its destination.
The return forms aro uniform in ev
erything but color. Those for tho
main lino are white, except for that
portion east of Bangor and on the
mountain division, which nro huff.
For the branclios blue forms are
used. In a large case, with a pigeon
hole for evory station, aro filed tho
station agents’ daily returns; tho
train returns are separately filed.
If a jiassonger loses a piece of bag
gage Mr. Towlo’s office is informed,
the number of chock and name of
station whence it started being given.
The clerk steps to tho caso, takes the
roturn of tho station from its pigeon
hole, finds the baggago reported and
complete description of it, nnd the
train on which it was put. He then
turns to tho train report nnd finds
what was done with it nnd the sta
tion whero it was put off. The re
turns of the second station will show
its receipt. In less than five min
utes tho piece of baggage is located
If it has simply gone astray. Of
courso if it has been stolon there
must be further search.
As an evidence of the thorough
ness of tho system it may be men
tioned tin. 1 for all the great amount
of baggago handled in four monthB
by the Maine Central there was hut
one piece for which it is responsible
that it has not been able to acoount
for successfully. — Portland (Me.)
Press.
Zola nml tho La to Emporor*
M. Zola, in The Figaro, in reply to
some critics, insists that the emperor
rouged his cheeks at Sedan. The
emperor’s friends, he soys, have
talked as if to have done so would
have been humiliating—“the role of
a buffoon.” “On the contrary, this
seems to me a great mistake. I find
the act superb—worthy of a hero of
a Shakespearean play, heightening
the figure of Napoleon HI to a tragic
melancholy of an infinite grandeur.”
That is a characteristically. French
exaggeration. We presume M. Zola
means that it was noble of the em
peror to take the trouble to conceal
from his troops his desperate phys
ical weakness. But even granted
that it was a prudent thing not to
show a cheek of ghastly pallor, we
fail to see that it was heroic.—Lon
don Spectator.
A Story of Hard Task.
'The latest ‘hard luck’ story that
I have heard,” said a racing man in
an up town cafe the other evening,"is
that of a young man who went to the
track and lost $180. He had ten dol
lars left. He liked a 20 to 1 chance
in the last race. He went into the
betting ring, got into a crowd at a
bookmaker’s stand and was holding
his ten dollar note high in the air
when the wind caught it and blew it
•way. His hone won in a canter."
—New York Times.
Boston nnd Birmingham.
Any one who knows the two cities
of Boston and Birmingham, England,
which have about the same popula
tion (Boston 448,000 in 1890 and Bir
mingham 480,000 in 1891), will admit
that Birmingham enjoys every re
sult of nfcnicipal enterprise, and to
at least as great an extent as Boston.
Many persons would, be inclined to
state the case much more strongly in
favor of Birmingham, which also
confessedly possesses many develop
ments of local activity not yet ap
proached by the sister city.
Birmingham’s • government costs
per year $2,610,000, and Boston's gov
ernment costs $12,570,000. Is it pos
sible to give any reasonable explana
tion of this discrepancy, which may
well suggest misgivings to the minds
of the American tax payers, and
which goes far to account for the
deficiencies in the services rendered
by municipal government of which
they complain)—Joseph Chamberlain
in Forum’_ '
Think of it I $200,000,000 s year for
pensions to mote Federal soldiers
than were in the army at the time of
the surrender. This Is half the total
expense of the United States govern
ment; and still names are going on the
lists at the rate of 1,000 a day.
Opposition In -
The Democratic non
t; offices in Thomas count;
some strong Third Party d
Tho Third Party nominees
ordinary, J. A. Chastain; l
J. E. McMillan; for tax. re
R. Wynn; for tax collector, J. 1
son; for treasurer, James
for coroner, Gus Braswell.
Tho Times-Enti-rprise says
Third party will try to oqnti
Negro vote in the oounty oleotion
the indications are that there i
to bo another Dcmooratio tii
in that part of the country.
swin
The shades of political oblivio
soon be n muoh sought nfter reti
England gives the Prince of
$300,000 per year for waiting
King. It Is a fat job.
Won’t there be a lot of Interest oi
tered on the first fire that breaks i
after the now water-works departme
is organized nnd ready for
Every fireman will be on his' meti
and then nnd there the new
will oither mnko friends or eneml?
those who will be influenced
tho enpaoity of tho system to
tho blaze. But tho fire laddies v,
not fail to do themselves nnd tho n
system credit when the time con
The newspapers from all scotl
tho Stnto contain accounts of
practiced on the peoplo -of
cities, by gamesters nnd clients
uootod with different oirousoi
traveling in Georgia,
for llsoenso to show tn Alba
been inndo by several advntioo
of olrcuses this year, but tl
llsoonse that tho city fathers
orecd shall be paid by every
log to tho oity, has had the di
feet of making them pass us b;
it's the best thing that aould Im
pelled to us, as is evident
wails that are being sent up
of our sister, oitles.
Large shipments of orana
Westonln Grove received wee'
22-d30t B. R. Weston
HflVlfN
A Common Ilford.' '
The ass is gonerally supposed to
bear tho same name in all families
of speech. In Accadian its sound is
doubtful, but in Turkish speech it is
as as-ek (with the noun ending in
ek), while in Egyptian it is sn. Tho
Aryan asinus has been compared
with the Semitic athon, for “i
and all these words seem to come
from tho old root os, “blow,” or
“breathe,” and to be thus connected
with the softer form oh, and so with
the note of the animal, which is its
greatest peculiarity. In other lan
guages the ass is called khara, "he
who odes out,” from a similar origin.
It may be conjectured that the ass
was not unknown to primitive man.
—Scottish Review.
Photographic Mirage.
M. Gaston Tissandier draws atten
tion to wha t he calls “photographic
mirage." Three years ago M. Paul
Boy photographed his son in the open
day, and on 'developing the picture
found to his surprise a vague image
of himself in the background, at? he
stood in the act of* removing the cap
from the lens to take the photograph.
As a matter of fact his image had
been formed on the atmospheric
haze, and although invisible to his
oyesight it was strong enough to af
fect the plate.—Boston Transcript
No Imitation.
Stranger—That's a very fine imita
tion of an old colonial residence.
• Proud Owner—Imitation 1 That's
genuine. Come in and I’ll show you
the roaches,—New York Weekly.
There are plenty of needed reforms.
They will begin to diminish sfter next
Msreb.
Politics is s risk; business, but ob
servation slone doesn’t seem to teaob
the lesson, . ■
Thh American foreign polio;, as Il
lustrated at Brussels, appears to be
rather weak-kneed.
■ i—— H i i—I
The contingent-fee fight has taken
on the shape of a legislative measure.
Mr. Br;sn Cumming, of Blohmondi is
the author of s bill which imposes sev
eral restrictions upon the oontingent-
fee business;
' Thebe is some talk of legislation In
Congress in favor of a graduated In
come tax. There is no doubt but that
something should be done to p^evetR
the accumulation of vast and unwlejflp-
1; fortunes in the hands of one man. "
Proper means for fl, reorganization
of the Central Railroad Co., are being
discussed in New York.b; the board
of dlreotors. This valuable piece of
propert;, so Important to the develop
ment of the State, should be put In or
der as'soon as practicable.
A LARGE AND I
STOCK OF
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* GENTLEMEN, BC
CHILDRE
Wo nro prepared to nt extra slz
Long ami Slims as well as vcgi *~
Hock Bottom Trices, too—to si
lino line of FUIINISHINQ
sorted stock of NECKV
Manhattan Shirts. Tho Kv
tlcmcn and Dora—'best and
market. The Stetson nnd if
era In styles. Also, othor i
assortment ITats and Caps
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