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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, Great Drawing to a. Bobtail Pair. TRIAL TREATMENT B.B.B. FREE. 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. Rheumatism and All Blood Troubles. 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 . •, a ■ , * . . , J ...; is now recognized as a sure and certain ! 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 | der the giins and passed, as did also htimors, scabs br scales, : syphilitic ibibcldj 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. tions, pimples,; boils, aches, and pains in bones, joints or back, swolen glands, ris- ifigs and bumpB Oh tHe skin, rheumatism or catarrh, or any form of skin or blood diseases. Men, women and childi en are being cured in every state by Botanic Blood Balm for purifying tlie, blood, and 'expelling the germs and humors frpin the entire system, leaving the skin free from eruptions/ and rosy with evidence of pare, rich bipod. No sufferer need 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. It is sent free. /Send name and address to GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St, N. 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