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"Since arriving in the United j
States I have been greatly aston- ■
Lhed at the way you pronounce
proper names/’ said Mr. John II.
Laiison, a tourist from Hudders
field, England, in Washington a,few
days ago" "For example, this very
hotel at which I am stopping (the
Raleigh) is given a pronunciation
that sounds barbarous to my ears.
You call it as though it were spelled
"'Pawley.' How, this is positively
incorrect, for the great Englishman
in whose honor it was no doubt
named is known now and has al
ways been known .with us as though
his name were spelled ‘Rally.’ I
can’t criticise your pronunciation of
such words as ‘Potomac,’ but in,
England your beautiful river has
over been called Pot-o-mac, with
il|p accent on the last syllable. It
is in an Indian word, I believe, and
you have the right to place the em
phasis on any syllable you like, al
though it seems to me .that our way
of pronouncing it gives far more
strength and dignity to the name.”
,,Peanuts Versus Insomnia.
The peanut cure for consumption
is widely known and believed in.
Mow a lloxborough man comes for
ward with a peanut cuse for insom-
| in. He says of it: "I had been a
poor sleeper for live years. Violent
ucercise, drugs and other remedies
L:ul given me no relief Finally, at
the suggestion of a vegetarian, I
tried'the peanut. I put beside my
1 3(1 a bag of peanuts, newly roasted,
helled and salted, and on my first
.utack of’insomnia I ato fifty, mas-
• eating them very thoroughly, giv
ing, in fact, twenty-five chews to
■ eeh nut. While taking this large
ioso I felt a gradual drowsiness
■'< oaling over me, and as»soon as the
Lise was ended I fell asleep. Sinco
: fiat time I have always lcept fresh
neamits by me at night. They have
rover failed of their effect, and I
•Live! noticed furthermore that my
i Hacks of insomnia have decreased
Lira in average of eight a month
. > two.”—Philadelphia Record.
All His Money In Clothes.
According to an Omaha corre
spondent of the Chicago Tribune,
II. Iloffmun, a Union Pacific
! ichinist, getting $3 a day, has re
vived the palm as the most expen-
si vely dressed man in that city. The
extent of his wardrobe was brought
,<io light in a trial in Omaha, where
a man was charged with stealing a
■’it case full of clothing from him.
W bile under oath he stated that the
p ip contained $6 worth of neckties.
Low many neckties have you alto-
/.•■Lher ?” asked the attorney. He
. ' plied, "I have $40 worth of neclc-
CONpENSED STORIES.
Mr.- Thomson Thought Conductor,
Should Have Got Another Wife.
The late Frank Thomson, presi
dent of the Pennsylvania .railroad,
was called upon in his official ca
pacity on . one occasion by the
friend • <ji a conductor who had!
been issed from, the service be
cause . intoxication while on duty.
Mr. Thomson- received the delega
tion of pleaders very courteously,
listened to all that could be said on
behalf of the luckless employee and
then, while expressing his sorrow,;
said he could not see his way clear,
to interfering. It was urged that
the conductor had always thereto
fore borne a reputation for sobriety.
"Necessarily,” replied Mr. Thom
son, "else he never could have be
come a conductor on this road.”
"But,” one j)i the pleCtlers went,
on, "he never drank a drop until
last winter.”
"And why then ?” asked the pres
ident. •
"You see,” it was explained, "he.
lost his wife in the fall.”
"Well,” quietly questioned the
disciplinarian, “why didn’t he get,
another wife ?”
A Cure For Monotony.
A British soldier tells the follow
ing experience in the Transvaal:.
"One night I went to the door of 1
our tent rather late and was at once;
attracted by an unusual, object,
straight before me. I went up to it
and found it to be tho figure of &
man turned upside down and ap
parently fixed so in an everlasting
THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
a
.ip" The court gasped and the
; ..orney turned pale. "Is the rest
% your wardrobe in proportion?”
i. la d the attorney. “It is,” re-
M mded the witness. Iioffman was
i jorie d faultlessly.
Passing of the Lightning Rod. •
Tho day of the lightning rod is
) .ssing. The government’s latest
O' asus returns shov^ that Frank-
li /s invention for protecting the
V mso is little used today. Ho elec-
Lical manufacturing establishment
reports it among the products, and
Tolar as the census expert has been
nb'.o do learn only one American
c«a rical engineering firm makes a
i..less of setting up the rods or
L ipiling them. So far as large
■ oa are concerned, disastrous
L^. ming strokes are reported to
1 e more rare, and the decrease is ac-
avuited for by the network of elec-
t v ' ally charged wires and other ap
paratus with which .the city is now
interwoven and surrounded.
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Good Better Best.
) v prosperous Cincinnati malster
- himself "G. B. Best,” and only
j , .nv of his intimates know that his
A >11 name is Good Better Best.
"When his father came to this coun
try from Germany a good many
yfoirs ago, he wisely made haste to
learn the English language. While
studying that part of grammar
which treats of positive, compara
tive and superlative he found the
letters of his own name preceded by
"good” and “better.” Just about
that time his wife gave birth to a
boy, to whom the happy father
promptly gave the curious name he
now bears.
Ping—That fellow Graspit cer
tainly knows the value of a dollar.
Pong—Been trying to borrow one
of him ?—Chicago Hews.
"WHY, WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU, MIKE?"
station. I turned the figure over
and found it to be a friend of mine
in the regiment endearingly known
as the ‘Dubs’ (the Dublin fusiliers,
that is). ‘Why, what’s wrong with
you, Mike ?’ I asked. ‘Ugh,’ he re-
E lied, ‘doctor, he sez, “Ye’re not
joking yerself today, Mike.” So
I sez, “Heither am I feeling it, doc
tor,” sez I. ‘‘So what is the mat
ter wid ye, then?” sez he. “Ugh,
sonr,” sez I, l “I thinks it’s the mo-
nothony that’s preying on me vi
tals.” “Why,” sez he, “go and
shtand on yer head, man,” sez he,
“that’s all you’re needing.” So I
thried it, and I felt such an im
provement in me gineral health that!
I’m just continuing the motion.’ ” j
A Joyous Wedding Day.
M. MalleVal, a Parisian financier
who is mixed up in some swindling
transactions, is an interesting char
acter. His lively youth resulted in
his being disinherited. He decided
to marry money and did it. And
then on the day of his wedding he
went out with his wife, took a cab,
went to a certain -gambling club on
the boulevards and. told her to wait
outside. That was, it appears, in
the afternoon, and at 2 o’clock In
the morning the bride was still
waiting. When he finally arrived,
the bridegroom informed her that
he had lost the whole of her ‘ f dot”
at play. According, to the fParis
papers, that was but a typical inci
dent of his career.
Casserole Chafing Dish.
An earthen casserole set in a cop
per frame and fitted with a copper
covet is the newest thing in chafing
dishes. The casserole is made of
the common red earthenware and
is glazed inside and unglazed out
side. A severely plain and rather
“stumpy” earthen handle adds to
ihe picturesque effect.
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine
Tablets. All druggists refund the
money if it fails to cure. E. W.
Grove’s signature on eachbox.25c.
Of the strenuous life led by most
business men nowadays W. J. Otis
of St. Paul, who . is a successful
grain merchant himself, says:
“What is the use of all the wild,
hysterical stampede that takes place’,
daily? From the cheap clerk up to;
the business man, who ought not to
waste his energy in wild rushing, ;
every one is tearing along as if the:
fiends of hell were pursuing him.
He '-wastes more' time by needless
hurry than he saves at the other
end. Your average business man
does not have to be at his office un
til, 9 or 10 o’clock in the* morning,
yet he gulps his breakfast' down in
five minutes and reads the paper
for an hour. When he gets to nis
office,’ everything must run at fever
heat. He has an hour for luncheon,
eats it in three minutes and wastes
the balance. He hurries home after
the day’s" work, wades through his
dinner and races ior the theater or
club, then is whisked ,home for a
nervous, restless sleep. How can a
man last under such conditions and
be at his best ? If that is the way
modern business must be conducted,
with no regard for hygiene, diges
tion or nerves, I think the man is
better off with less money and more
ease/
We Don't Need the Pole Now.
In my note on the results of the
arctic expedition of 1875, written
in the following year, I had already
come to the conclusion that there
was a deep sea and not land to the
north of Franz-Josef Land; that
there was a continuous drift across
the arctic regions from east to west
and, consequently, heqvy ice pres
sure on the western side.
All this was oonfirmed by Hansen
in his great discovery of the polar
ocean. After his voyage there is no
longer any geographical object in
going to the north pole, except for
the sake of deep sea soundings, for
it is merely a point in \ the polar
ocean, the economy of which has
been made known by Hansen. That
h'lieat explorer finally removed the
veil which concealed the secret of
the arctic regions. There is no
'lisuperable difficulty in reaching
the pole with an able leader and a
proper system, but there is no suffi
cient object.—Sir Clements Mark
ham in London Geographical Mag
azine.
It Was Funny.
•The death of R. M. Field, for
many years manager of the Boston
Museum, recalls his experience
some years ago with Maurice Bar
rymore when he tried to engage
that actor as bis leading man. Bar
rymore was in He ( w York, making
$250 or $300 a week, when Jack
Mason, then leading man of the
Museum stock company), resigned.
Mr. Field looked over the list of
leading men and finally telegraphed
Barryinore: /
Will give you $150 a week to play leads
at the Boston Museum. R. M. FIELD.
Barrjpnore was sitting in the
Lambs’ club when the dispatch was
handed to him. As he read it he
smiled, and then, sending for a
blank, he indicted this reply:
R. M. Field, Boston Museum:
I have sent your offer to Puck.
MAURICE BARRYMORE.
—Hew York Times.
To the Bitter End.
Whether .there is any foundation
for the prejudice of women labor
ers in England against the female
labor inspector is immaterial. The
prejudice exists, says the Queen,
and is sometimes displayed in strict
ly feminine fashion.
In England, where legislation is
concerned with laundries, a female
inspector, after much argument,
persuaded the head of a small es
tablishment to show her over the
premises. The superintendent threw
open the door of a steaming kitchen
in which there were some half dozen
washerwomen bending over tubs.
“Ladies,” she said in a dramatic
voice, “a woman from the govern
ment to see you!”
Rheumatism IT Years Cared.
People who have been cured sound the
praise ot Uricsol. Mrs. Mary E. Hart
well, wife of the treasurer of Los AngeL
es, Cal., says: “I desire to express my
sincere appreciation of yoi^r remedy.
After seventeen years of constant afflic
tion, oftentimes helpless with swollen
feet and hands, I used six bottles of
Uriosou, and now, after two years’ re
lease, gratefully acknowledge a perma
nent cure." Druggists sell it at $1.00
per bottle, or six bottles for $6,00.
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