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Too Hnclt Civil Life. Sword of a TBonsanfi Pieces.
It would be bard to tell which is What do you think of a sword blade
worse, a dun' or a crying baby. One that contains a thousand sheets of met-
of the latter on a crowded street car al? Yet they are not uncommon and,
raised sheol. A poor, dispirited, sad as you. will readily imagine, are of ori-.
faced man held it with its red face ental workmanship. Our painstaking,
wabbling over his shoulder and its feet patient Japanese friends are the mak-
oceasionally beating the air as it re- , ers of them, and a few days ago I had
hewed its pathetic screams. The wo- the pleasure of seeing one in a Fourth
men glared at him. ‘‘No wonder it avenue . curiosity shop and had its
cries,” said one. “See how that idiot method of manufacture explained,
is holding it.” The old married main The blades of these sabers are made
longed to give him a word, or two from magnetic Iron ores. The steel is
about carrying a child on the public produced In small, very thin sheets,
cars. The bachelor swore under his and the workman begins by fixing one
breath and said something about nui- of them to the end of an iron rod which
sances on street cars and forcing peo- serves as a handle. To this are solder-
pie to quit after paying their fares, fed pther small sheets until the mass
Meanwhile the baby screamed louder has a length of about eight inches, a
than ever, and the poor father was ; width Of about two inches and a thick-
wild. He saw the looks on the faces ness of a little more than a quarter of
around him. He knew exactly what an inch.
those folks were thinking. Finally he : This bar is brought to a white heat,
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said, with a tremble in his voice, “La
dies and gentlemen, you must excuse
this baby, but its mother"— Tears
stole down his haggard face. “Oh, the
poor little thing,” interrupted the old
maid in the corner sweetly. “Let me
hold the little angel.
doubled on itself and hammered until
it is down to its original dimensions.
This process is repeated 15 times. Four
similar bars are then soldered together,
doubled upon themselves, resoldered
and heated, the operation being repeat
ed five times. This process makes the
Cures Blood Poison, Scrofula, Eczema.
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The old bachelor turned hastily aside ! superposed layers so thin that a saber
and wiped a tear which had given his ! contains at least a thousand sheets of
eye a surprise party, and the married !
man coughed and felt a strange lump,
in his throat. “It’s mother,” continued
the baby holder, “is attending the
business meetings of 16 of her clubs
today.”—Louisville Times.
Father Time’s Old Clock.
“The transmitting clock at the Naval
observatory, Washington, is the abso
lute monarch of American timekeep
ers,” writes Evander Mclver Sweet in
The Ladies' Home Journal. “Every day
in the year except Sunday by one pen
dulum stroke it speaks directly and in
stantaneously to every city and consid
erable town between the peaks of the
Rockies and the pines Of Maine, saying
to them that on the seventy-fifth merid
ian it is now high noon to the fraction
of a second. A duplicate mechanism
stationed at the branch naval observa
tory on Mare Island performs a similar
service for the people of the Pacific
slope. And by this one clock at the na
tional capital, together with its dupli
cate on the Pacific, is set nearly every
timepiece in the United States and Cu
ba, most of those in Mexico and many
on the border of Canada.
“A number of clocks—from 3 to 3,000
"•-in nearly every city and large town
are wired together into a local family
and by means of a switch key at the
telegraph office are put into direct con
tact with the parent clock at the na
tional capital. So that the instant the
electric touch is given from Washington
every clock in the circuit, whether it be
at Boston, Minneapolis or New Or
leans, begins a new day in perfect ac
cord with its mechanical deity.”
metal.
If you find one of these swords that
has a veined appearance, you may
know it is caused by alternate layers of
iron and steel being soldered together.
—New York Herald.
Dry Goods Coopers.
“This is a strange place for a cooper
shop,” said a stranger in New York,
pointing to a sign over a basement in
the wholesale dry goods district.
“Yes; it would be a queer place,” was
the answer, “if the product was like
that of nearly all cooper shops. But
there was never a barrel made in the
place, and probably not one of the 15
men who work there could head a bar
rel, to say nothing of making one. This
cooperage does business only with big
wholesale houses.”
There are several similar shops in the
district They make a business of
strapping cases of merchandise after
they have been packed. The large
concerns have the cases put in the
street after they have been packed, and
then the cooper is sent for to nail the
wooden straps around them. He re
ceives about 25 cents an hour for his
labor and from 15 to 25 cents a pair
for the straps. The shops are the
storehouses for the hoop poles, and
there the men split and shave the hick
ory saplings which finally become the
case straps. There are some houses in
the district where the porter does this
work, but the large concerns turn it
over to the coopers who never make a
barrel.—New York Tribune.
Hotels and Trained Nurses.
Trained nurses are not welcome
guests in New York hotels, and In fact
in many they are expressly forbidden
to appear in the dining rooms in their
uniforms. The hotel keepers object to
their presence in their working dresses
because any indication of the existence
of disease in a hotel is disadvanta
geous. Under these circumstances they
are compelled to go through as much
preliminary labor before they go to
meals as if they had been invited under
Another Romance Spoiled.
“Tell a good story and stick to it,”
is an old maxim that is illustrated in a
story that is going the rounds along
the Rialto. A certain well known
actor floated into his home one morn
ing about 2 o’clock. The wife of his
bosom was waiting up for him. He
told her he had been out all the even
ing with one of their friends, Charlie
B., and then related an interesting
fairy story of how Charlie had taken
a crowd to supper, how funny Char
lie had been all the evening, how
well Charlie looked in his new suit,
how he said this, that and the other.
After telling a 15 minute story, to
which the gentle partner of his joys
afid put of work periods listened with
respectful attention, but cyclical mien,
he paused for breath. Then she, in a
confident now I’ve gpt you tone, said
“That’s a lovely romance you’ve been
giving me, and I hate to spoil it, but
Charlie has been here nearly all the
evening waiting to see you about an
engagement. He left only about half
an hour ago.”
The teller of the tale looked rather
dazed for a moment as if he had been
struck. Then quickly gathering him
self together he assumed a bold front,
with hands in his pockets, head thrown
back and, in defiant innocence and em
phasizing each word, said:
“Well, that’s my story, and I’m not
going to change it for anybody.”—Clip
per.
“The most remarkable draw I ever!
saw made at poker was in a Chicago
cltiblone-night/f sdld :a dhiqago man/' V. J ■ .
“There were Are of us in a little social TbeBotaDioBloodBalto (B.B:B.)treat-
game, with i limit of $25 and a u 3ack ' meat for impure blood and skm diseases
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AyfpendjX>f^ mhie whom I will j cure f or f]j e 1BO st advanced stages of can- ;
call Jones was dealing. I was first un?. cerj eating sores, eczema, itclii’ g, skiti |
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the two men sitting next. The fifth poison, scrofula, ulcers, persistent erup-
man—we will say his name was Brown ” ’■ ’ ” ’
—opened the pot for §5. Jones didn’t
have the shadow of a thing in his
hands, but be raised Brown $10 r in
tending to stand pat and bluff it out.
Brown had three aces, and he came
back at Jones with $10 better. ,
“Now 5 , instead of laying down, as a
wise man should in a case like that,
Jones determined to see it through. He
knew, of course, that it would; be use
less'to try to bluff, so he drew three
cards to a king and queen of spades;
Brown had drawn two cards to his
aces and had got a small pair. As a
bait he led off the betting with $5.
Jones hadn’t looked at his hand until
Brown bet, and when be picked up his
cards he almost fell dead. He had
drawn an ace, jack and ten of spades,
making a royal flush. They raised each
other back and forth until one or the
other had: all his money in, and when
the hands were shown the game broke
up right there.”—Washington Post.
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Army Jokes With a Moral.
“During the civil war,” said an ex
army officer, “the authorities for some
reason were anxious to move troops up
the Tombigbee river. Word was sent
to the engineer in that district asking
what it would cost to run up the Tom
bigbee. That official got gay and re
ported that the Tombigbee ran down
and not up, a joke that promptly land
ed his head in the basket, as the mat
ter was serious.
“At the bombardment of Charleston
It was extremely desirable to bring to
bear on the city an extra heavy gun
called by the men the Swamp Angel.
The gun took its name from the swamp
in which it stood, and to move it
through that boggy morass was an en
gineering feat of extreme difficulty.
However, the commanding officers were
determined to have the gun brought
within range of Charleston and issued
orders-to that effect. At the same time
they sent word to the engineer haying
the matter in charge of requisition
without regard to trouble or expense
for anything necessary to accomplish
the, desired object. His first requisi
tion called for men 26 feet 6 inches in
height. Another officer promptly took
the matter In charge, from which it can
readily be deduced that it is not a pay
ing investment to make jokes in the
army at the expense of your superiors.”
—New York Tribune*
Conflicting- Orders.
“The average photographer,” said
Henpeck musingly, “is an unreasona
ble creature.”
“Whafs the matter now?” asked his
friend.
^Haqplness.
Some folks tries" so hard ter be happy
in dis worl’ dey gits miserable tryin.
Happiness is alius whar you ain’t look-
in fer it.—Atlanta Constitution.
sung out: *Look pleasant, please,
natural!’’—Philadelphia Press.
Be
Oh, while my wife was sitting for
formircircum stances!\ YeTthe^wisdom her Picture today the fool photographer
of the rule on the part of the hotel pro
prietors Is admitted, as in some of the
large hotels up town occupied chiefly
by families there are frequently 10 or
12 trained nurses employed. The sighl
of so many would not be reassuring to
guests.—New York Sun.
.. . His Fervent Hope.
Mrs. Sleepyize—Henry, the alarm-
clock just went off.
Mr. Sleepyize—Thank goodness! I
hope the thing’ll never come back.—
Ohio State Journal.
Black Teeth.
The custom of women in Japan at
marriage giving their teeth an ever
lasting coating of blacking is practiced
now by only a small percentage, but
there are still seen in the cities hun
dreds of women hideous With black
ivory, and dentists* showcases contain
sets of black teeth.
A man who gets into the habit of
never making mistakes is altogether
too near perfection for this world.—
Chicago News.
Good advice Is like castor oil—easy to
give, but hard to take.—Atchison Globe.
The Time to Break the Rale.
There is an anecdote in some volume
of French theatrical memoirs narrating
an'experience of Mile. Clairon, the
great tragic actress, with a pupil of
hers, a girl of strong natural gifts for
the histrionic art, but far too frequent
and too exuberant in her gesticulation.
So when the pupil was once to appear
before the public in a recitation Mile.
Clairon bound the girl’s arms to her
side by a stiff thread and sent her thus
upon the stage.
With the first strong feeling she had
to express the pupil tried to raise her
arms, only to be restrained by the
thread. A dozen times in the course of
her recitation she was prevented from
making the gestures she desired until
at the very end she could stand it no
longer, and in the climax of her emo
tion she broke her bonds and swung
her hands to her head.
When she came off the stage, she
went humbly to where Mile. Clairon
was standing in the wings and apolo
gized for having snapped the thread.
“But you did quite right!” said the
teacher. “That was the time to make
the gesture, not before!”—Brander Mat
thews in Harper’s Magazine.
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“The Experiences of a British Phar
macist In China” was the title of an
address by Mr. Frank Browne, who
was introduced as the government ana
lyst at Hongkong.
As illustrating the Chinese regard for
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ing mother-in-law story. A man and
his wife maltreated the husband’s
mother. As a punishment the scene of
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magistrates were deprived of their of
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signed to render the empire filial.—
London News.
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“My people never go to sleep," said
the second.
“Ah, there comes my car,” replied
the first, and they parted company.-?-
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