Ashland tidings., November 05, 1880, Image 1

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ASHLAND OREGON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, ISSO.
NO. 22.
J M. McCall.
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PROFESSIONAL.
DR. J. H. CHITWOOD,
ASHLAND,
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OREGON.
OFFICE J At tba Ashland Dru/ Stars.
We are now receiving
© our New Fall and
Winter Stock, and everyday will
witness additions to the
largest stock of
General Merchandise !
Ever brought to this market. We de­
sire to say to every reader of
this paper, that if
Standard Goods!
OFFICE—In Port Office building. S|>eeial attention
iven to conveyancing
Sold at the Lowest Market Prices, will
do it, we propose to do the larg­
est business this season, ever
done in Ashland; and
we can positively
make it to the
advantage
of every one to
call upon us and test
the truth of our assertions.
We will spare no pains to fully
maintain the reputation of the House,
As the acknowledged
M. L. M’CALL
HEADQUARTERS!
JAMES R. NEIL,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Jacksonville, Oregon.
J. W. HAMAKAR,
NOTARY
PUBLIC,
Lmkville, Lake Co., Oregon.
PURVEYOR & CIVIL ENGINEER,
Ashland, Oregon.
la prepared to do any work iu hU line on short notice.
DR. W. B. ROYAL,
Has permanently located in Ashland.
Will (fro his undivided attention to the practice nf
medicine. Has had fifteen years’ experience in
Oregon. Office at his residence, on Main street,
opooslte tho M. E. Church.
For Staple and Fancy Goods, Groceries,
Hardware,
Clothing,
Boots,
Shoes, Hats, Caps, Dress
Goods, Crockery, Glass
and Tin Ware, Shawls,
W rappers, Cloaks,
And, in fact, everything required for the
trade of Southern and South­
eastern Oregon.
A full assortment of
DR. E. J. BOYD,
IRON AND STEEL
DENTIST.
Linkville,
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Offioe and residenoe, south .ide of Main street.
DR. J. M. TAYLOR.
SURGEON.
DENTIST
Main street, Ashland, Oregon,
P»FICE—In »»cond rtorv of Masonic Hall. Office
houn, from 8 to ITA. M.. and from l:S0 to 6 P. M.
Wagon
Manufactory,
W. W. Kentnor, Prop’r,
MAIN STREET,
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ASHLAND.
Wagons, Buggies, Carriages, Wheel
Barrows, Plow-Stocks, etc., made
and repaired at short notice.
BEST EASTERN STOCK ALWAYS
ON HAND.
Al/ orders left at my new shop, north
of the bridge, will receive prompt and
tisfactory attention.
W. W. KENTNOR.
For Blacksmiths’ and General use.
A Full Line of
Ashland Woolen Goods!
Flannels, Blankets, Cassimeres, Doeskins,
Clothing, always on hand and
for sale at lowest prices.
The highest market prices» paid for
Wheat, Oats, Barley, Bacon, Lard.
MeCAI.L, ATK1VBON A CO.
A shlisd , October I, 1880.
JAMES THORNTON,
JACOB WAGNER,
W. H. ATKINSON,
E. K. ANDERSON.
THE
ASHLAND
WO OLEN
MÄNÜFÄC’G
CO.,
ARE NOW MAKING FROM
Juab Wagner.
E. K. Anderaon.
W. H. Atkinson.
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THE
A «TFT. A1TD MUXS !
The Very Best
We will continue to purchase wheat
-AT-
The Highest Market Price,
And will deliver
Flour, Feed, Etc.,
Anywhere in town,
AT MILL, PRICES.
BLANKETS,
FLANNELS,
CASSIMERES,
DOESKINS,
AND HOSIERY.
r, Andernon A <’•.
ASHLAND
Livery, Sale & Feed
STABLES,
Main Street,
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Ashland.
I have constantly on baud tho very best
BABBLE HOMES.
■UCMR1BB AM» CABBIACES,
Apd
lOUR patrons !
OLD AND NEW,
Are invited to send iu their orders and
are assured that they
Shall Receive Prompt Attention I
At Prices that Defy Competition.
furnish my customers with a
tip-top turnout at any time.
horses boarded
»On reasonable term«, and given the beet
attention. Horses bought and sold
and satisfaction guaranteed in
all my transactions.
A X
ArrER aia .
W. A. Wilshire
W. H. Atkinson
Oh, the old friends are the truest,
After all—after all!
Though the face be not the newest,
Alter all—after all*
When the fever heat Is highest,
Or the chilling tide is nighe.t,
Over all there comes a reaching
Of a friendship whose sweet teaching
Gives us joy, and peace, and reat,
For the weary soul the beat,
After all—after sal!
What are all the stngs of mal ce,
After all—after aM!
There are joys deep in life's chalice,
After a l—after all!
Should the shadow, then pursue us,
And the sunbeams ne’er come o’er us,
As our feet paM by the daisies
Shall our souls ne’er count His praig a ?
Heaven shows us perfect rest,
There our weary souls ane blest,
After a«l—after all!
A Bohemian Bonanza.
FROM THE
FRENCH
OF
HENRI MURGER,
Schaunard and Marcel, who had been
at work since morning, suddenly stopped.
“ Gods! but 1 am hungry,” said
Schaunard, and he added carelessly,
“ don’t we breakfast some time to day ?”
Marcel showed great astonishment at
this question. “ Since when have we
breakfasted two days in succession ?”*
said he. “Yesterday was Thursday,”
and he finished his response by designat­
ing with his maul-stick that command­
ment of the Church which refers to meat
on Friday.
Schaunard found nothing to say to
that, and set to work again at his pic­
ture, which represented a plain upon
which a red tree and a big blue tree
were clasping branches—being a trans­
parent allusion to the charms of friend­
ship from a very philosophical stand­
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point.
Just then the porter knocked at the
door. He brought a letter for Marcel.
“ Three sous to collect,” said he.
“Are you sure?” said the artist.
“ All right, we will owe them to you,”
and he shut the door in his face.
Mai cel took the letter and broke the
seal. At the first words he put himself
to capering about the studic in an acro­
batic dance, singing at the top of his
voice a j>opular student’s song of the
day, which indicated with him the very
appex of joy.
“tLook here,” said Schaunard, feeling
already symptoms of mental alienation,
“if you don’t dry up I’ll play the allegro
of my symphony on the influence of
blue in the arts,” and he went to the
piano.
This threat produced the effect of a
drop of cold water falling into a boiling
liquid, calming Marcel ?aa by enchant­
ment.
“ Read that!” said he, passing the
letter to his friend.
It was an invitation to dinner from a
deputy—patron of the artj in general,
and of Marcel in particular, who had
painted the portrait of his county resi­
dence.
“ It is for to-day,” said Schaunard.
“What a pity that the ticket isn’t good
for two. But, come to think of it, your
deputy supports the Ministry. You
can’t, you ought not to accept. Your
principles forbid your eating bread
soaked in the sweat of the people.”
“ Bah !” said Marcel; “my deputy be
longs to the left center, and voted against
the Government the other day. Be
sides, he is going to give me an order
and has promised to introduce see in so­
ciety. And then, you see, it is Friday,
and I am hungry enough to eat a raw
dog, and I must dine."
“There are yet other obstacles,” re­
plied Schaunard, a little jealou» of the
good fortune which had befallen his
friend. “ You can’t go to a Bwell «in­
ner in a red blouse and a ’longshoreman
hat.”
“I will borrow some clothes of Ro-
dolphe or C'olline.”
“ Bah ! Have you forgotton that we
have passed the twentieth of the month,
and that at epoch the clothes of those
gentlemen are spouted ?”
“I will, at least find a black coat some­
where about heie by 5 o’clock,” said
Marcel.
“It took me three weeks to find one
when 1 went to my cousin’s wedding,
and that was early in January.”
“Well, I will go as I am,” replied
Marcel, btriding across the room. “It
shall never be said that a miserable
question of etiquette prevented me ta k-
ing my first step in society.”
“Good,” said Schaudard, taking much
pleasure in the chagrin of his friend ;
“but what about your boots ?”
Marcel went out in a state of agita­
tion impossible to describe. Toward 2
o’clock he returned, loaded down with a
paper collar.
“This is all I can find,” said he, pit­
eously.
“It was hardly worth while r uining
about for that,” responded Schaunard.
“We have paper enough here to make a
dozen cellars.”
“Confusion !” said Marcel, tearing his
hair; “we ought to have some effects
between us ;” and he commenced a long
research in all the corners of the two
chambers. After an hour’s hunting, he
realized a costume composed as follows ;
One pair of plaid trowsers.
ZZZZ
One glove, originally white.
One black glove.
“That will make t vo black gloves at
a pinch,” said Schaunard. “ But when
you are dressed you will look like the
solar spectrum. But wbat of th^t, yon
are a colorist.”
Meantime, Marcel tried the boots.
Cursed fatality ! They were both for the
same foot. The despairing artfat then
spied in. a corner an old boot in which
they put their brushes, and possessed
himself of it.
“Like Garrick in ‘Syllabe,’ ” said his
ironical companion. “This one is pointed
and the other is square.”
“Nobody will notice that; I will var­
nish them.”
“Good enough I All you want now
is the regulation black coai.”
There came another knock at the door.
Marcel opened it.
“Monsieur Schaunard I” said a stran
ger, standing on the threshold.
“That’s me,” replied the painter, beg­
ging him to enter.
“Monsieur,” said the unknown, bearer
of one of those honest faces which are
the type of the countryman, “my cousin
has talked a great deal of your talent
for painting portraits, and being about
to make a voyage to the colonies, where
I am delegated by the sugars refiners of
the city of Nantes, I wish to leave a re­
membrance of myself with my family.
This is why I have come to find you.”
“Holy Providence!” murmured Schau­
nard. “Marcel, give a chair to Mon­
sieur—”
“Blancheron,” replied the stranger;
“Blancheron, of Nantes, delegate of the
sugar refinery, former Mayor’of V------ ,
captain in the National Guard, and
author of a pamphlet on the sugar
question.”
“I am very much honored to have
been selected by you,” said the artist,
inclining himself before the delegate of
the refiners. “How do you wish to
have your portrait ?”
“In miniature, like that,” replied
Monsieur Blancheron, indicating a por­
trait in oils ; because, for the delegate,
as for many others, that which is not
house-painting is miniature—there is
nothing between them.
This simplicity gave »Schaunard the
measure of the man; above all, when lie
added that he desired his portrait paint­
ed with the finest colors.
“I net er use any other,” said Seliaun-
ard. “How would monsieur like Ins
portrait ?”
“As big as that,” replied Monsieur
Blancheron, designating a canvas. “But
how high does tnat come ?’’
“From fifty to sixty francs; fifty »vith-
out the hands; sixty with—”
“Wliv, my7 cousin talked about
thirty.”
“That is Recording to the season,” said
the painter; “the colors are higher at
different seasons of the year.”
“What, just like sugar?”
“Exactly.”
“Go ahead, then4 for fifty francs.”
“You’re wrong; for ten francs more I
would put in the hands, in which I
would place place your pamphlet on
the sugar question, which would be
flattering.”
“B’gosh, you are right.”
“Ye gods !” said Schaunard to himself,
“if he continues I shall explode and
wound him with the pieces.”
“Have you remarked ?” hissed Marcel
in his ear.
“What ?”
“He has on a black coat.”
“1 understand and I have your idea.
Leave me alone.”
“Well, monsieur4” said the delegate,
“when shall we commence? It must
not be delayed, for I sail shortly.”
“I have a little journey to made my­
self; I leave Paris day after to-morrow,
so, if you like, we will commence at
once. A good sitting will advance the
work.”
•‘But it will soon be dark, and you
can’t paint by candlelight,” said Mon­
sieur Blancheron.
“My studio is to arranged that 1
can work at all hours4” replied the
paintei-; “so, if you will take olf your
coat, and assume the posse,* we will com­
mence.”
“What do you want me take off my
coat for ?”
“Didn’t you say yon wanted this por­
trait for your family ?”
“Yes.”
“Well, then, yon ought to be repre­
sented in your home custom, in your
dressing gown, Jesides, that i.i the
custom.”
“1 have no dressing gown,” replied
the monsieur.
“But I have. The case is foreseen,”
said Schaunard, presenting to his model
a ragged jacket, historic with paint
stains, which made the honest country­
man hesitate at once.
“That’s a very Angular garment,” said
lie.
“And very precious,” responded the
painter; “a Turkish vizier gave it to
Horace Vernet, who gave it to me. I
am a pupil of his.”
“You are a pupil of Vernet ?” said
Blancheron.
“Yes, monsieur, I can boast of that.
Horrors !” murmured he to himself, “I
am denying my gods.”
“That is worth mentioning, young
man,” replied the delegate, in putting on
the dressing gown which had such a no­
ble origin,
“Here’s the gentleman’s coat in the
wardrobe,” said Schaunard to his friend,
with a significant wink.
“I say,” murmured Marcel, in leaping
into his prey, and designating Blanch­
eron, “some style about him. If we
could only keep a little of him ”
“I will try ; but dress quickly and
run. ^jlet back here by 10 o’clock, and
I’ll k^ep him till then. And don’t you
“I will bring a pineapple,” said Mar­
cel, going out
He dressed himself hurriedly. The
coat fitted like a glove, and he went out
by the other door.
Schaunard put himself to work. As
it grew dark, Monsieur Blancheron
heard 6 o’clock strike, and remembered
that he had not dined. He bo remarked
to the painter.
“I am in the same fix, but to oblige
you I will let it go to-night, although I
was invited to dine in the Faulbourg
St. Germain,” said Schaunanl. “ But
we can’t disturb ourselves ; t‘ t would
compromise the resemblance.”
He returned to his work.
“However,” said he, carelessly, “we
could dine here without disturbing our­
selves. There is an excellent restaurant
down stairs, and they could send ud
whatever we wanted.” And Schaunard
waited the effect of his trio of plurals.
“An excellent idea,” said Monsieur
Blancheron ; “and in return for the sug­
gestion, would you do me the honor of
keeping me company at table ?”
Schaunard bowed.
“Hurrah I” said he to himself, “this is
a man worth knowing ; a veritable en­
voy of Providence. Will you select the
bill of fare?’’ he asked.
“You will oblige me by doing it
yourself ]” said Blancheron.
“You will repent it, Nicholas,” sung
the painter, as lie descended the stairs,
four at a time.
lie entered tho restaurant, stood up
at the counter and dictated a bill or fare
which made the Vatel of the shop turn
pale. .
“Some ordinary Bordeaux.”
«
“Who is going to pay t”
“Not I, probably,” said Schaunard,
“but an uncle of mine, whom you will
see up stairs—a great epicure. So try
to distinguish yourself. And we will
be served in half an hour, and in porce­
lain—do you understand ?”
At 8 o’clock Monsieur Blancheron
felt the desire to pour into the bosom of
a friend his ideas on the sugar question,
and he recited to Schaunard the pamph­
let which he had written.
Schaunard accompanied him on the
piano.
At 10 o’clock Monsieur Blancheron
and his friend danced a galop, and called
each other endearing names.
At 11 o’clock they swore never to
part, and made their wills, each leaving
the other his fortune.
At midnight Marcel returned, and
found them in each other’s arms, dis­
solved in tears. There was already half
an inch of water in the studio. Marcel
ran against the table and saw the splen­
did debris of a superb repast. He ex­
amined tho bottles ; they were perfectly
empty.
He tried to awakon Schaunard, but
he threatened to kill him if he should
take from him Monsieur Blancheron, of
whom he had made a pillow.
“Ingrate 1” said Marcel, pulling out of
his pocket a handful of nuts; “this to
one who has brought you your dinner.”
Toads in Trees and Stones.
A large toad was found a few years
ago in an old apple tree at Wonham
Manor; it came to light when the tree
was blown down. The “Mémoires of
the French Academie des Sciences" con­
tain a description of a live toad found
in tho lieai t of an old elm tree. Near
Nantes, when an old oak tree was cleft
open, a toad was found in the very
heart-wood, although no crevice or other
channel of entrance could be detected;
there were about ninety rings in the
trunk of this oak, leading to the infer­
ence (according to one theory) that the
animal must have been in his prison
ninety years. Mr. Jesse, in reference to
a frog found in the trunk of a mulberry7
tree, expressed a belief that the annual
rings had been gradually but surely in­
closing the reptile. Toads in clay have
been more frequently met with than in
trees; sometimes a whole family have
been thus ferreted out at mce. In 1856
a toad was found at a considerable depth
at Benthall, near Brosely, Shropshire.
Mr. Bathurst, earthenware maiufactur-
er at Benthall, ascertained that the
creature was met with about six feet be­
neath the surface, in a layer of tough
lay customarily used for making coarse
brown ware. Above this layer, in suc­
cessive strata, were ferruginous coal of
poor quality, a clay7, a loam of clay and
gravel, and meadow turf at the top.
The toad was found filling a cavity as
wax does a seal. A minute examina-
sion of the superincumbent strata
failed to detect any fissure through
which the animal could have entered.
The light of day seemed at first to dis­
tress it, but this it soon became accus­
tomed to; the eyes were brilliant, the
skia moist, the mouth quite closed.—
Chambers’ Journal.
After family prayer, a few evenings
since, says an exchange, a little boy
asked: “Mamma, how can God hear
folks pray when He’s so far awayl” Be
fore the lady could frame a suitable re­
ply, a sunny-faced little miss of five
summers vehemently said: “I’ll jes’ bet
He’s dot telephones a-runnin* to every
place. ”___________ ___________
America has tens of thousands of
shop-girls whose good looks would make
a professional English beauty turn green
with envy. English tourists are the
bring me something in vour ones who make the assertion.—Detroit
Free Press.
82 50 PER ANNUM
It Blowed Up.’
The following story is a very good
one, whether it occurred in Gainesville,
as the Hesperian “seems” to indicate, or
whether it was made out of old material
lying around the office loose :
He was a pretty good sized boy, ap­
parently about sixteen years of age.
His appearance was that of an obedient,
boy, but as he had just come from hunt­
ing, contrary to his mother, (she having
alb along been prophesying that if he
didn’t quit carrying that old gun around
he would be walking home dead some
day), it was safe to conclude that this
boy was simply an average boy, neither
better nor worse than we all were at a
certain time in the dim past As be­
fore stated, this boy had been hunting,
of course he had had powder with him,
and like a boy, when the bottle which
contained the explosive substance was
found to be large and troublesome, he
emptied the contents loose into his
pants pockets. He had not taken the
precaution to empty them when he came
home, and at the time we first noticed
him was coming up the street puffing
a cigar, while the thumbs of each hand
were stuck pooudly into the armholes of
his vest. Why ho attracted our atten­
tion particularly we cannot say, but as
we followed his every movement, we
saw him turn a corner and come face to
face with that paternal tyrant known to
all boys as dad. Without hesitation,
quick as a flash, the boy jerked t<e
burning cigar from his lips and plunged
it into the powder-filled pocket. What
became oi the boy ? Better ask the
wild winds which swept around the cor­
ner, what they did with the poor boy’s
pants. Such a wonderful transforma­
tion was ne-er witnessed before. A
well dressed boy converted into a candi­
date for the garden of Eden in short
metre. “\Vas he hurt I” No, no. IJis
feelings were slightlp hurt at being un­
dressed so hurriedly in public, but the
moral to be derived from the incident
will be of use to all good little boys, and
will make our little hero happy to think
that he, from a whole world of boys,
had demonstrated fully that a lighted
cigar and powder made a disagreeable
mixture.
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About the Hair.
The cause of gray hair is the destruc­
tion of the top of the papillae, of life and
color-giving bulbs at the root of the
hair- Not only old age, but nervous de­
bility and exhaustion arising fro.n over­
work or dissipation, will cause the color
of the hair to cease, and there are many
instances on record ot the hair being
turned suddenly white by a great shock
to the nervous system, among the best
known being that of the unfortunate
Queen Maria Antoinette, It has also
been stated that hair will sometimes re­
sume its original color again, as in the
famous case of Nazarelia. Nazarelia, a
man 105 years of ago, was, in 1774» at
Vienna, presented by nature with a new
set of teeth and a restoration of the
black hair of his youth ; also, Sir John
Sinclair, a Scotchman, dying at 110, re­
joiced in a youthful head of hair during
the latter years of his life. “Variegated
hair,” which is alternately banded white
and black, is noted among the hirsute
curiosities of nature, and green and blue
hair have beon described by some
authorities ; but these colors owe their
production to the influence of surround­
ings in which their subjects live, the
green hair belonging to those who work
iu copper mines, and blue to those
whose occupation is cobalt mining.
Workers in indigo also have blue hair.
In Tripoli and Turkey the ladies paint
the hair of their children a vermiliion
color.
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Wi-mii j a Wife.
Housekeepers’ Help.
Miss Dod’s lectures are full of little
bits of information that might fairly be
called culinary proverbs. Here are a few
of them:
There are a greenness in onions and
potatoes that renders them haid to di-
, gest. For health’s saxe put them in
warm water for about an hour before
cooking.
The only kind of a stove with which
you can preserve a uniform heat is a gas
stove; with it you can simmer a pot for
an hour, or boil it at the same rate fo
twenty minutes.
Good flour is not tested by its color.
White flour may not be the best The
test of good flour is by the amount of
water it absorbs.
In cooking a fowl, to ascertain when
it is done, but a skewer into the breast,
and if the breast is tender the fowl is
done.
A few dried or preserved cherries,
with the stone3 out are the very best
thing possible to garnish sweet dishes.
Single cream is cream that has stood on
the milk twelve hours. It is best for
tea and coffee. Double cream stands on
its milk twenty-four hours, and
for butter frequently stands forty-wghf
hours. Cream that is to be whipped
should not be butter cream, lest in whip]
ping it change to butter.
To beat the whites of eggs quickly,
put in a pinch of salt. The cooler the
eggs the quicker they will froth. Salt
cools and also freshens them.
In boiling eggs hard put them in boil­
ing water. It will prevent the yolk
from coloring black.
You must never attempt to boil the
dressing of a clear soup in the stock, for
it will always discolor the soup.
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In making sauce put the butter and
flour together, and your sauce will never
be lumpy.
Whenever you see your sauce boil
from the sides of the pan you may know
your flour or corn starch is done.
Boiled fowl with sauce, over which
grate the yolk of eggs, is a magnificent
dish for luncheon.
Tepid water is produced by combining
two-thirds cold and one-third boiling
water.
To make maccaroni tender, put it in
cold water and bring it to a boil. It .
will then be much more tender than if^
put in hot water or stewed in milk.
The yolk of eggs binds the crusts
much better than the whites. Apply it
to the edges with a brush.
Old potatoes may be freshened by
plunging them into cold water before
cooking them.
Never put a pudding that is to be
steamed into anything else but a dry
mould.
Never wash raisint* that are to be
used in sweet dishes. It will make the
pudding heavy. To clean them wipe
with a dry towel.
To brown sugar for sauce or puej/iings,
put the sugar in a perfectly dry sauce­
pan, If the pan is the least bit wet, the
sugv will burn, and you will spoil your
saucepan.
Cutlets and steaks may be fried as
well as broiled, but they must be put in
hot butter or lard. The grease is hot
enough when it throws off a bluish
smoke.
The water used in mixing bread must
be tepid. If it is too hoc the loaf will
be full of great holes.
To boil potatoes successfully: When
the skin breaks, pour off the water and
let them finish cooking in their own
steam.
In making ciust ot any kind, do not
melt the lard in flour. Molting will in­
jure the crust.
In boiling dumplings of any kind, put
them in the water one at a time. If
they are put in together they will mix
with each other.
“There is nothing,” says Lord Shaftes­
bury, “ which is so merely fortune and
more committed to the power of blind
chance than marriage.” A curious illus­
tration of his meaning comes to us from
the staid old town of Franxlin, Massa­
chusetts. At an evening party there
a gentleman challenged a charming
young widow to try her fortune at Bas-
sino. She accepted the challenge, and
playfully proposed that they should play
tor a wager, and he agreeing asked her
to name the stake. Seeing she was at
a loss to respond, the host laughingly
said: “ His hand against yours.” The
lady demurred, and was turning away
from the table, when the challenger in­
terposed with: “ My hand for yours if I
win, or at your disposal for any young
lady of respectability, her consent being
attainable, if I lose.” The wager was
accepted, and the amused company
gathered round the board. The lady led
off and made 45, her adversary failing
te score in return, but improving in his
play as the game progressed, reached
215 to the widow’s 164. Growing ner*
vous she played worse and worse, and
finally left off the loser by 247 points.
Then the hostess advanced, took the fair
one’s feebly resisting hand, and’ placed
it in that of the exultant winner, who
begged permission to keep the mace
with which he had won the match and a
wife.
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He that embarks in the voyage of
life will always wish to advance rather
by the impulse of the mind than the
strokes of the oar, and many founder in
the passage while they lie waiting for
the gale,
Cold Cabbage.
George Abrahams was extravagantly
fond of cold cabbage, and one day, see­
ing that quite a dishful was left after-­
dinner, asked hie wife to save it for Lis .
salad at night.
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About m idnight George came home
laboring under a stress of heavy weather.
Feeling hungry and thinking of his fav­
orite cabbage, be asked where it was.
His wife ieplied: “ In the pantry, on
the second shelf.”
Down ho went, found the cabbage,
got out the oil, mustard and vinegar,
cut up the cabbage, dressed it to the
queen’s taste and ate it all.
In the morning his wife noticed the
plate of cabbage wh^re she had placed
it the night before, and, turning to her
“dear George,” innocently asked him
why he did not eat the cabbage.
“I did,“ he said.
“How did you like it!”
“Oh, not very well, it was tough and
stringy.”
“But here is the cabbage; whey* -did
you find any more 1”
“Why, on the second shelf, where you
told me.”
A quick glance at the shelf by the
wife and then a cry of agony.
“Why, George, you have eaten $20
worth of lace collars and cuffs that I
had put in starch; stringy cabbage, in-
deed.”
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To make the hands soft: Take
portions of glycerine and alcohol; mis
well; before retiring at night week the
hands in warm water and rub well
the lotion*
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