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Vol. I.
HE FEAR OF A MOUSE.
nstiince Where It Made a Luna¬
tic of a Woman.
mouse has long been known to be
bitterest enemy of womankind,
m why the average run of femininity
Id fear stich a helpless, harmless
s creature cannot be explained.
uring the civil war a famous female
was betrayed through the instru
tality of a mouse. The woman was
pierading as a boy and succeeded
irably in deceiving the enemy un
pne evening while dining with a
y of men at a farmhouse a black
se jumped from a cupboard to the
e, almost in the face of the sup
d boy. With a shrill feminine
Bk the t-py threw up her arms and
led across the room, and, springing
i couch, Went into hysterics from
ir fright. The men, of course, sus
ed her and, rather than be searched,
confessed, but by the aid of the loy
Id farmer and his wife she made her
|pe in the night.
i well known woman physician of
jettgo says • she can do any kind but of
j;ical work without a tremor,
/ ll {sight of a mouse turns her stiange
and thoroughly “unwomans” her.
mother woman has such a terror of
3 that she recertly went insane
iugh fright at one of the wee crea
is. The woman was sweeping her
ir when a mouse darted out from
Old barrel and ran about ber feet.
tried to step on it and beat at it
h her broom, calling piteously to
little boy to help her. But the boy,
liking she was iu. fun, frightened
terrified mouse toward the woman
enever it tried to get away. At
gth the Doy rushed at it in earnest
1 tbe mouse darted under the worn*
s skirts and she fell to the floor in
isible, only to lose her mind w’hen at
gth consciousness returned to her.—
fcveland Plain Dealer.
3 CHINESE IN LEADVILLE.
v r« Mfftaiicd Celestials wi.o Were
x Tabooed by tbe Town.
ily f Chinese Celestials is represented in entered Leadville. the
two ever
and the story of their short stay
uninue unique and nno interestin'* mtertsun,,. There xnere wasn’t
uch cf a demonstration on their ar
val Hal, for roi it it was uas late late at at night nigui when wutu
|ey climbed down from the roof of one
, ’ the tne coacnes couches into into the tne busy m.sy streets streets and ana
bstily surveyed the strange surronnd
Ms. W T ord whispered about the
was in
; ves with which the street was lined,
id soon the pigtails were encompassed
>itb a quiet and gentlemanly mob of
jcarcely jerhaps a hundred word miners spoken, and hoboes. but as
a was
oon as the luggage of the passengers
nd the mails were taken from the boot
if the Concord the China boys were as
isted to the seats they had just vacat
id, the driver was given a tip and the
Jistinguished arrivals were whirled out
3 f town in much quicker time than
:hey had entered it, for it was a down
hill pull to Malta, the nearest settle
ment down tbe gulch. There they were
left to shift tor themselves as best they
might.
What means of communication with
each other these strange little people
have I know not. but the news of tbe
reception that was tendered to the first
representatives cf their race to visit
Leadville traveled rapidly, and the fact
eoon came to be understood by them,
in all localities where they congregated
in Colorado, that they were not want
ed . r later queried a Chinaman in an
• adjoining town as to whether he had
ever been in the great mining camp,
and his reply was characteristically la
conic: “I no go Lead-v-i-l-lee. Lead
v-i-l-l-ee too muchee likee heUeel”—
fcJanta Barbara.
Eniy Plan.
“That young man,” said tho citizen,
pointing the to a sharp featured youth
across street, “has made fame both
for himself and this his native vil¬
lage.”
“As to how?” asked the stranger.
“Simply by sending ^alegrams of con¬
gratulation or condolence, as the occa
Bion called for, to prominent persons. ”
—Indianapolis Journal.
Speech and Hands.
A professor who has made a study of
children says he has discovered why
the majority of the people are right
banded. Infants use both hands until
they begin to speak. The motor speech
function controls tbe right ride of the
body, and the first right handed mo
tions are expressive motions, tending
to help out speech. As speech grows >
does right handedness.
Statesboro, Ga., Thursday, July 27th, 1899.
Knni!l!at!i»!r u Rival.
Ii is not a mooted question in Persia
whether women dress for the eyes of
men or those cf women, as there only
Women see women, at parties. In her
nook. ‘’Through Persia on a Sidesad
die. Miss Sykes, writing of the women
of Teheran, ^ tlie capital of Persia, con
fosses that even Mohammedan isolation
dees riot prevent women from being
envious of other women, if they are
dressed better than themselves. She
writes
I was told that many of the fine ladies
would give large sums in the European
shops of Teheran for any brocade of silk
which struck their fancy and would
wear it at the next party to which they
invited their friends, flaunting the new
toilet ostentatiously before them to fire
their jealousy.
Usually, however, one of. the guests
would pay her hostess out by buying
some more of the same material and
having it made up fox one of her slave
women. She then would invite a large
company to tea. and the cups would be
handed, round by a negress adorned in
the rich silks with which the former
hostess is arrayed.
Later on the slave would dance before
the guests. The great lady, who had
been invited to be mortified, would be
both disappointed and humiliated. The
lady who had given the party would be
pleased at vexing the rival,
-
Rood In Siberia.
freeze while they jump. Eggs are as
hard as tiints. I have carried them in a
Back over my horse’s back.
The rivers of Siberia abound with ex
cellent fish, among these a beautiful
kind of grayling and the incomparable
sterlet, quite the most delicious fish I
know. While descending the Yenisei
we caught a gigantic sturgeon, yield
ing many poods of coarse black caviare.
a dainty highly esteemed. Sturgeon
cutlets, with wild chervil for flavoring,
are delicious. Quails and dabckicks
b~U fov aM&titl braakfaa*
The bread I found dark, hard and som
but sustaining. A great deal of vodki
to 4nmk. hot it is both periiotts and
nauseous on account of the fusel oil it
contains, ivwass in m ,nmmer summer time time is is re- re
freshingly acid, and. drunk from a small
oaken , bowl, it . is . , better . than , cid.r. .,
Tetl is taken at every meal, but is
. „ . . . fletest *ible The
very weak. tsncK tea is cietestame. ine
stamped bricks are used as money till
nto ^ ^.ml.ut Liotii. AH.oits of
abominations aie Hung into W ihe
DrtW tnKK and'^lab^’ anci biaD ‘ inmoaAble lu P 0oalDiQ to 10
western pa lates.
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* Ie en n " K , s ras c ea
’
The tragic story ot the beautiful and
talented Scottish woman. Helen Irving,
| s not ’ perhaps, well known, although
it has been celebrated m song. She had
been for some time courted by two gen
tleuien whose names were Bell and
Fleemmg. I ell tola the girl that l is
ever !ld bel U1 eni lng 9 C01n P an y
he would , kill . him. Uie, however, . had
a
strong regard for Fleeming, and one
da y'. ''bile waiting along the toman ic
banks of the u lo, s e o serve na
rlval on tbe ® tber 6lde ut tho river
among tie n *
Conscious of the danger her lover
was 1U ‘ sh ® P as9 f d between him and his
® aeIJ! x : w b er '
*
fleeming crossed the river and , . killed
tlie coward. A heap of stones was raised
f 1 the plac* where the brave woman
* all ‘ a “ d she ", a8 b " ned ln th ® nea *
enure n.in . eemmg, overw e me
wltb love and gr1 ^’ y eat abroad ’ blx J
B00 f ret,mied andl stretching himself
on her grave, expireu. He was buried
b ^ ber 8lde ;_____
A Lucky Hairdresser.
The old saying that a man may be a
hexo to every one but his valet is called
to mind by an article in The Illustrated
Loudon News on “Famous Masters of
the Tonsoriai Art, ” in which stories are
told of Duplan. the hairdresser to Napo¬
leon. This astute man made himself so
indispensable to the unfortunate Jose¬
phine and became so intimately ac¬
quainted with the emperor’s affairs that
ho was retained in the service of th«
imperial family when Josephine .was
superseded by Marie Louise. He cared
for the hair of both the emperor and
empress, being paid 4,000 ffancs a year
for service to tbe former and <5,000 for
arranging tbe coiffures of the latter.
Ultimately he was the recipient of
about 40,000 francs a year, his demands
being constantly increased because of
_ . refusing , al
Napoleon's restriction in to
low the tonsoriai artist to treat the hair
ot any other customer .___
F-irber* of Anntrln.
Austrian* are very methodical in
many things, and they take no chances
with their barbers. The Barbers’and
W igmakers’ union of Vienna sees to it
that only competent persons are ad
mitted to practice. Barbers must, of
course, have a thorough knowledge of
t’he practical side of the subject, and
are questioned as to keeping razors,
brAshes, etc., clean, and the general
idea Ofi' antiseptics must be well under
sto< » by them. When the barbers ap
po#»- before the committee, they have
tb-;r razors dulled on n pine plank, and
must then sharpen them and pro
wed to shave a subject.
These subjects are recruited from the
poor and from among those who are
something for nothing,
If *«»« apprentice performs his work to
the satisfiuNem of the judges, a certifi
#*4e is iwued to him, and he must serve
as *n apprentice for two years before he
open a shop of his own. Provision
is also made for women barbers who de
sire to carry on the business of their
husbands. 'To do this the women have
to be enrolled as apprentices for three
years, and they must exhibit a great
proficiency before they are allowed to
open an establishment of their own.
The barber business in Austria is not
particularly lucrative, as one can be
shaved for 5 cents and have one’s hair
cut for about 3 cents.—Scientific Amer
ican.
The *Z,,rZ ot"the'hiimer o,
,
knelt reverenAy diree times, was spread
trpon the table. Then came two others,
on ® Wlth a ro<3 - the other with a salt
* J* 1 ® 1 ’ ® * la 'Zthill'Lti!!
times, placed the things on_tlie
table ’ k ? e f • again and ^ e | ,red ‘ ^ ext
came a m waiting. foUowed by a
r
aft< 17* * J”** IcZuiSy 7 rnhheA tfe
b '
j o i ■ , ,, .
VffiS^a^STarrvS . a^Lh
cla cia ° ’™
tab! whtle rte the UHasWiTto ady taster gave to
f g ” ‘‘ taste trom the amn
he had . brought in. for fear of possible
• Th^sp gnarrts wIppIpi! selected frnm tiom
P° ls ° n ’ wptp were
the tallest and stoutest men m all Eng
ltX d At 1 c c * e x ‘. t - eit ' raon y a
number , of unmarried . , ladies appeared
, with <n-e-it solemnity lifted th«
9 ueen in her private apartments. The
qneen dined and supped alone, with few
attendants> and it v - as seldom that any
one was admitted at this time and then
on j y at tije intercession of some one in
power.
Sbe Got the Money.
In Berlin they tell a pretty story about
p iau Blnmenthal, the popular wife of
witty playwright and director of
the Lessing theater. Herr Blnmenthal,
it appears, had great misgivings regard
ing the success of his new piece, “Zina
Weisson Roesse. ” One day, when he
was nearly ready to throw the mann
script aside, his \fife, who did not share
his view, said to him: “If I had only
20 marks ($5) for every 1,000 it will
bring yon I should be quite content. ”
“All right, you shall have them. ” said
Herr Blumenthal.
“Zum Weissen Roesse’’(WhiteHorse
J n n) met with an immense success. Ev
ery night the frau director—forinGer-*
many the wife shares in her husband's
titles if not in his tin—went to the
cashier and levied on her 20 marks per
L000. On one occasion, after the piece
^ad been running some months, bad
weather caused a falling off in the re
ceipts below the $1,000 marks, and con
P equently Frau Blnmenthal was not en
titled to her “tantieme of 20 marks.
“How much have you taken?” she
asked the cashier.
“Only 997 marks,” was the reply.
“Well, give mo a seat at 8 marks,
then,’ said Frau Blnmenthal, laying
down the coin. “Now you have 1,000
marke, give me my 20. ” She got them.
Tvtatn Wnnii’t Well.
Here is a story of Mark Twain, whose
after dinner speeches are unique. At a
dinner to which he was invited his
name was associated with the toast of
“Literature” by an orator, who re
ferfed with great eloquence to Homer,
Shakespeare, Milton and—Mark Twain.
l n response the humorist thanked the
6 peaker for bis kindly references ant
excused himself from making a longer
speech by saying, “Homer is dead,
Shakespeare and Milton are no more,
and I—I don’t feel very well myself!’
—Detroit Free Press,
HE HAD A BAD HABIT.
And It Made Him a Poor Inanraitc*
Risk In Kentucky.
The manager of a life insuranco com¬
pany had the floor.
“Life insurance companies,” he was
saying, "are as particular about the
people they already have on their lists
as they are about getting them on in
the beginning. They are rich, of course,
but they are no more anxious to take
in a man who will die of disease within
the first year or two than they are to
take in a perfectly healthy man and
have him hazard his life by taking per¬
eonal risks in dangerous pursuits or by
travel in unhealthy countries,
“j remember a funny instance that
occurred once while 1 was living in
New England. One of our $10,000 men
bad a way of calling a man a liar in the
most careless and indiscriminate man¬
ner and with only the merest or no
provocation. One day he was in our
office and casually mentioned the fact
that he was going to make a trip to
Kentucky.
“ ‘When?’ inquired the manager
alertly.
“ ‘Next week.’
«t « On business or pleasure?’
«« 4 Going to buy a pair of horses.’
• 4 « Um—er—erf’ hesitated the man
ager. ‘Before you start I wish
would stop in and see me.’
“‘What for? Want me to buy a
horse for you V’
“ *o. I t..m»g..boat y«,
(zrA -° arrange
~
. , we’ll have to advance the rate
nD tii Tot , come back. ’
«« ‘Well, what in--began the
policy Interrupted holder hotly, when the manager
him.
“ ‘Don’t fly the track, my dear fel
|ow . h<3 gaid gently *It’s all right here
.
and fhe rate is satisfactory to us: but.
Jove, we can’t give you the same
rate and let you go to Kentucky and
call men liars like you do in this sec
Not much! We haven’t got $10,
000 policies to give away like that, and
J™ oughtn’t to expect it.’
^ gtor
THEIR FIRST HORSE CAR.
The People Were So Delighted That
They llode All lJuy.
“I made the survey for the strpet car
^ in tbe City of Mexico,” said the.
tivil engineer, “and when we got the
tracks down and the cars running we
had a laughable time. Young men of
the first families not only ventured to
act as drivers and conductors, but in
gisted on taking those places without
wages. The thing was like a new toy
tochildren. People paid fare or withheld
it, just as they saw fit, and some would
ride around for half a day. The Yankee
superintendent of the lines was in a
sweat all the time, but it was kicking
against a stone wall.
“The tracks were single ones, with
switches here and there for the cars to
pass, but such little things didn’t
bother the drivers. Some of them would
start the mules on a dead run and go
clear to the end of the line, and others
would pull out on a switch and go to
sleep or indulge in games with the pas
sengers. I guess it was two months be
fore the drivers consented to give np
their siesta hours. At 12 o'clock pre
cisely the mules were brought to a halt,
no matter where the car was, and the
driver would walk off to eat, sleep and
smoke and be gone two hours. No Mex
i ca n ever hurries. Most of the com
plaints received were to the effect that
the cars went too fast. Even after we
g «t things somewhat systematic, Don
Pablo Chora, the president of the road,
returned from a trip one day to say to
the manager:
•< ‘Ah, senor, but I am afraid we
ghall never get our people to accept this
enterprise.’
“ ‘What is wrong now?’ was asked,
“ ‘Why, one of our greatest mer
c h a nte paid hie fare to be taken to the
Alameda in 20 minutes, and, lo and be¬
hold, the driver cut the time down to
151 We shall be ruined by moving folks
around too quickly. Let us tie up tho
legs of the mules and take the whips
away from the drivers!’ ”—New Or¬
leans Times-Democrat.
A Cnndld SnItor
, <W} ™ , TO „ TJ an^monev
k e t y }
in marrying me. ” .
“Was . Jack insulted?*
, 'Insulted? He told pop that a good
was more of an object to him
wages. “—Detroit Free Press.
No. 26.
Elephant IlnnllnK In ft'tibin.
When the elephant is ptirsned on foot,
it is invariably sought in the depths of
tlie forest, where it has retired for shel¬
ter front the noonday sun and also for
the short repose it takes daring the 24
hours. The hunter, having tracked his
quarry to its retreat, is obliged to use
the utmost stealth in approaching it,
%
the elephant being a very light sleeper
and awakened by the slightest unusual
sound.
The difficulty of moving through a
dense, thorny jungle without making
any sound dissimilar to those which
might be produced by nature, such as
the stirring of the branches by a light
breeze or the occasional falling of a
dead leaf, is greater than can be realized
by any one who has not tried it.
On getting within arm’s length of hik
game the swordsman slowly raises him
self to an erect position and deals a
slashing cut on the back sinews of this
nearest foot about ten inches from the
ground, at the same time leaping nim¬
bly back to avoid a blow from the ani¬
mal’s trunk. The cut, if propotiy deliv¬
ered, bites sheer to the bone, severing
the large arteries, and in a short time
death ensues from hemorrhage.—Har*
per’s Weekly.
A Sinter Lott*
At one time, when two Cheyennes got
to gambling, one lost, and luck seemed
to ba against him. After he had lost
every piece of property lie had, in des
erzzr, ■t.ssssr* ^
Over 2d years ago the writer was su
perintendent of the Arapahoe Indian
school at Darlington during a period of
fivo J^rs. During this time not les*
than four T^ung Indian women came
to the school, asking admittance and
protection from marriage that was
abfmt t0 be forced upon them. Thepro
tection was given, and. the yottng Wo
“en afterward married r3 to
their own choice. Since the S these
tribes have been gradually breaking
awa 7 f ™ r)1 tb «r original customs nntn
now they are married with the lawful
»»«» ntes.-Sonthern Workman
and Hampton School Record.
Wanted—A Playfellow.
The Two—Mrs. Reagan, can your lit
tie Jamesie come an play wid us?
Mrs. Reagan—Yis. Yez are good
byes ter let little Jamsie play wid yer
What are yez going to play ?
0ne of the Two—William Tell. Wa
want Jamesie tor stand wid de apple
on his head. Skinny is William Tell.
He hain’t a very good shot, an I waa
afeard to stand myself.—Harlem Life.
Earned the Reward.
“Ma, Mrs. Smith gave me a big
piece of cake. ”
“Jimmie. I’ve often told you not to
ask for anything to eat when you are
over there. ”
“But, mu. she gave me the cake be¬
cause I told her who waa here to dinuef
last night.”—Chicago Record.
The Englishman, it is calculated, ex¬
pends on the average $250 a year for
sustenance: the German $215, the
Frenchman $210, the Italian $110, the
Russian $95.
No Company For Him.
Rich Old Party—What do you want
n wife for when you can hardly support
yourself? Why, sir. my daughter would
utarve I
Snookins (with great dignity)—Well,
sir, if you are the kind of man to let
your daughter and her husband starve
I don’t wish to enter the family.— Fun.
Ottlciul Lamppoata.
The placing of lampposts in front of
the houses of the chief magistrates of
towns is an ancient custom. We find in
Hey wood’s “English Traveler” that
posts were so, placed in front of sheriffs'
houses. Reginald says
What brave carved postal Who knowsbnt her*
In time, sir, you may keep your shrievaltie
And 1 lie one o’ th' serjants?
From sheriffs, the practice extended
to the houses of mayors and provosts.
It has been suggested, with some prob¬
ability. that the posts were at first in¬
tended for the affixing of proclamations
which it was the duty of the sheriffs to
publish.
Tell Ing Secrete.
The man who tells yon a secret and
aebs you not to tell doesn’t treat yott
rigbt - He enjoys telling it and forbid*
your having just as good a time.—«
Atchison Globe.
