B K B G O K A P H 1C
010 F 0 RU 0 LT 0 N
Now Ntw York’s Famous Aquari
um at the Battery.
ONCE NAMED CASTLE GARDEN.
TI m Historic Building In Its Day H u
Hs«r«l *ha Klaqu.no« 0f Daniel Wab-
eter, the Nary Oratory of Keeeuth
and the Divine Veiee at Jenny Lind.
A SARTORIAL NIGHTMARE.
The "Colleg« Togs" • ported by Har
vard Students In 1$8$ ■
The old time "college toga" worn by
‘ he Harvard students back in 1886 was
an amusing sartorial creation, or may
be It would more properly be classi
fied as the result of the dressmaker’s
art Of course, no one now living
remembers i t but the ancient "toga''
Is described In the annals of the col
lege. and> the present Oxford cap and
gown are very simple and sober things
In comparison.
As described by a writer whose
curiosity bad been aroused by stories
concerning the gay festive "college
toga," even the togas worn by the old
Roman senators were negligible quan
tities. In 1866, when Harvard cele
brated her two hundredth anniversary,
this fanciful summer garment was
much In vogue, and for at least two
seasons It was in high fashion with the
undergraduates.
/
It was made of gingham and o f s
color and pattern to suit the taste of
the wearer. It was a loose fitting gar
ment reaching to the knees, was gath
ered at the neck and also at the waist
behind. It had a turned over collar, a
small cape rounded la front and a belt
o f the materia) o f the divas. The
sleeves were either booked or buttoned
at the wrist It was trimmed with a
long tnsseled white fringe. The accom
paniments o f this dress were a low
crowned, broad brimmed straw hat.
secured by a broad ribbon under tbs
chin; trousers and silk or thread gloves
o f a color In harmony with that o f the
toga, and usually a heavy cane.
It Is not known to whom the distinc
tion belongs of having first conceived
the “college toga." , Like Jupiter. It
came Into being complete in Its match
lees-grace and adornments. It was
probably due to the creative genius
and skillful fingers of “ Ma’am” Dana,
the college talloreas o f that day. who
was probably the sole manufacturer
o f the strange garment
This estimable woman presided over
a bevy o f sewing girls, a! vays care
fully curtained from the public gase.
in the lower story of a small wooden
building opposite Wadsworth bouse, at
that time the official residence o f Presi
dent Quincy.—Exchange.
It la well to think well. It Is divine
to act well.—Horace Mann.
■ a s.
i
cause he likes blonds best”
“Oh. I see! 8he’s positively dyeing
for him.” —Baltimore American.
OLD ROMAN HOTELS.
Hew They Treat the Blue Dirt In ths
Kimberly Region,
Iff here On# Could Oat Tiger o r Lisa
’, »tow, but Ns Credit
For G o o d n e s s S a k e
Writing to bis monthly f^om Jo
The traveler who is prone to
hannesburg, E. W. Howe tell* bow eomplain of sleepless nights spent
tig.- diamonds are taken from the in uncomfortable hotels in this
ifly,the country may find some solace in
mines in South Africa. Briel
tonds is this account o f the Roman hotcla in
process o f finding the diamoi
at follows:
"■ " - '/ J R
the days of the late republic and the
The blue dirt in which the .'dia empire:
monds are found is brought to, the
Most o f the ho«tallies and tav
surface precisely as cog] is htfisted erns of Rome, says Humbert de
ted in about the same way. Qallier in “ Usages ei Moeurs d’ Au
and mined
It is then pieced in little iron'cars' trefois,” were situated along the
d, wi
where it Appian way. Some o f them were
and hauled to $ level field,
is spread over the surface > to a depth passable. It was' at one o f the bet
o f two feet. This is done i to permit ter ones that Cicero used frequent
the weather to disintegrate tty dirt ly to stop and write his letters.
and render its washing easier. .To
G U A R A N T E E D Q U A L IT Y
The most interesting hostelriea,
day I saw a field o f 4,000 acres cov however, were near the circuses
ered -with this blue d irt It wiH re and amphitheater# -The shrewd
D elivery E veryw h ere
P hone, W h ite 2 6
main out in the weather a year be and generally dishonest owners had
fore it is treated in the washing a double purpose in selecting that
milla.
? :
situation. It was well chosen for
You might pause a moment and the patronage of the huge crowds
think of that 4,000 acre field, cov that went to the circuses on holi
ered to. a depth o f two feet with the days to see the fights between wild
blue dirt in which diamonds, are animals and the gladiatorial com
found. The 4,000 acre field 1 saw bats. and the landlords could buy
represented the output o f only one conveniently and reasonably those
mine; there are eight in the fCim- animals that had been slaughtered
berly district, only two o f which are during the day, to be served on
is largely a matter o f good sanitation. The
known to be dnffers, as they say their tables.
here— that is, o f little value..
best
modern
plumbing fixtures are designed not only
Thus a merrymaker might wit
And you may rest assured that ness a battle between a lion and a
to look well and to wear well, but also to afford
this 4.000 acre field is carefully tiger in the amphitheater in the aft
hygienic conditions o f the highest possible standard.
guarded, it ia surrounded with a ernoon, and if he went to a nearby
barbed wire fence fourteen feet hotel might find parts o f the aame
It is impossible to secure
high, and on the top o f the fence lion or tiger id his stew for dinner.
good
sa n ita ry conditions
are four wires spread out in such a A bear’s steak was considered s
with cheap plumbing. Fine
way that no one could possibly great delicacy in Rome.
climb over. At night the fence is
plumbing fixtures and good
The furnishings o f the common
illuminated with electric lights, and room, which in these hotels served
workmanship are expensive, «
there ia a patrol o f armed guards ' as dining room, parlor and taproom
but the far-sighted house
day and nigh t But you might be were severely simple. A few wood
holder chooses than because
turned loose in the 4,000 acre field en tables, a few wooden benches
they afford a f e e l i n g o f
and not find a diamond in a year. and a sort o f elevated throne were
The process o f finding them is very the only pieces of furniture. On the
sanitary security that ia in
intricate, expensive and difficult, raised chair or throne sat the owner
estimable.
v
Many o f the natives who work in of the inn and watched over hia
the diamond mines have never seen guests arid probably hia belongings.
You want only the best plumbing for your home,
a diamond; they see only the bine
A large number o f the hostelriea
and
you may obtain it by having us install
dirt.
displayed upon the ceilings o f their
guaranteed fixtures.
After the blue dirt has lain out in common rooms a painting repre
the weather a year and been plowed senting a rooster. The painting
up at intervals with steam plows bore an ipscription, the spirit of
that all portions o f it may haT# a which wilt never grow o ld : “ When
chance at the sun, it is washed in ’this cock eyows, then.We will give
T i n n e r a n d P lu m b e r
enormous mills and reduced in the prédit.”
r-,\
proportion o f 1 to 4,00d.000— that 'M à i is the one link that binds
is, for every pound o f diamonds the crude, uncomfortable tavern o f i -w r ------------_____________ :
found 4,000,000 pounds o f blue flirt ancient Rome to the elaborate ho
are mined, hoisted, exposed in the tel o f the present day.
field a year and then ran through
‘ >* * Names Of DanoSa.
the washing mills.
T he position token by the dancers
In these washing mills the blue
dirt is first crushed between rollers gives the name to the “ quadrille” —
and „ then run through shaking literal English for “ V little square’'
You will always find here a full snpply o f family medicines,
washing pans three different times. in the French tongue. From the
the people everywhere believe in me and
I am i glad to say
aay that
tr
have been ray firm friends every since I started in business. I
What-is left is then taken in cars French we get also “ country dance,”
sit my store for all kinds o f Drugs, Medicines
to another mill called the pulaator. which, as a matter o f fact, haa no
and here the precious dirt is again reference to rural frolic# “ Contre
and Lowney’ s fancy candies and in fact every thing carried by an
washed three times.
Finally the danse.” which haa reference to the
up-to-date Dtug Store. Don’t forget the R&xal) fine, everything
guaranteed. I make prescription work a specialty.
diamonds, and the heavier pebbles ’ position o f the couples, opposite
----- . Y ou Are Alw ays W elcom e at the Rexall Store
remaining after six washings go in each other, is readily corrupted into
a stream o f water ovhr a shaking “ country dance.” The “ pelka” is i
¿ .Y 2 V 2 V B o F E R G U S O N
pan. the bottom o f which is covered Polish dance, the name being deriv
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with vaseline. The diamonds stick ed -from the Bohemian word “ pul-
CkKiattaoac^oaoaogagDaoaoaogoaoaoaoaoaoaoaoaoaoaoaaaaa
to the vaseline for some reason yet ka,” meaning half, and refers to the
unexplained, while the pebbles roll half step which occurs in this meas
The “ wait*” is German-
away with the water. The diamonds ure.
— aaaaaaaaasaaaa a sffu sssia a a a i
on .th e screen are then easily col waltzen, meaning to revolve— the
circular motion of the couples
lected and sorted.
easily explaining the connection.
; Suieide as a Luxury.
Tlie “ reel” is suggestively obviou#
Suicide has often been regarded “ Jig” is o f course from the French
as a luxury, and,Marseilles, France, gigue.
colonised from Miletus in ancient
Olaeiere ef the Alaskan Coast.
days, preserved a custom and a pris
on for many years under Roman
i t is very probable that more
rule. A dose o f hemlock and aco American travelers are familiar
nite .was allowed to any one who with the picturesque fiords and gla
could show sufficient reason why bff ciers o f Scandinavia than have
should deserve death. “ This dia viewed the incomparable scenery af
tom 7* says
Valerius 'Maximus, forded by the coast of their own
“ comes from Greece, particularly Alaska, where the somber inlets are
»wweerawrwwwasra r ié é s e
»t a s s i
IM IM III M IM W M I
from the inland o f Qeoa, where I bounded by sheer and towering
■■■"■'ma
saw an example. It waa a woman cliffs and where the great fields of
o f great quulilv, who., having lived slow moving snow ice lose them
vqrv happily ninety, years, obtained selves in some bay or inlet or pitch
leave to die this way, lest !by living off suddenly into the ocean itself.
longer she should happen to see a The stream o f visitors to this splen
change o f her good fortune,”
did American scenery is annually
increasir. in numbers, and to those
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Mere Important.
who ¡lia rs e the “ See America
; Mrc Ehfcstifa did not approve o f First” program Alaska offers a mag
f.W son’s choice o f a wife and waa nificent field.
trying to persuade him to see things
A Perilous Pet.
as he did.
■
An
English
major with a pen
“ Yes, you arp quite right, fa
ther,” said the son. “ Mabel has her chant for entomology asserts that
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defects, she is vain, full o f preten the hornet is “ a gentle, inoffensive
sions and grand ideas, with a very cqeature, very suitable for a p e t ’’
OVERLAND 30, fully equipped including $50 Warner speed
difficult character. But, father, in This reminds one of an incident in
ometer,
self starter, presto tank, tire irons, top and top foot, clear
the
life
o
f
the
late
Lord
Avebury.
spite o f all, I simply adore her. I
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can’t live without her,”
“ B ut that ia not the question, my train with a pet wasp in his pocket,
CADILLAC, fully equipped, very much improved, equal to
boy,” said the father. “ Can you live he hurriedly thrust his hand into
any car o f any price.
his pocket to get his ticket, and
with her?” — L ip p in cotf#
the wasp stung him. He did not
Let S. A. Mills tell yoa about either of them.
Nat a Cass ef Sympathy.
blame the wasp, however, as his
Teacher— Willie, did your father hum ed action had frightened the
F IR S T C L A S S S H O P W O R K
whip you for what you did in school creature.
Wasps have frequently
yesterday ?
become peta. but the major ia said
Willie— No, ma’am ; he said the to be the first to turn the hornet
licking would hurt him more than in to one.
me.
ss
- A Walsh Verdiet.
Teacher— What nonsense I Tout
father is too sympathetic.
Welsh juries were formerly ac
Willie— No, ma am ; hut ha's got cused o f giving their verdict in ac
O ur B u ild in g M a t e r ia l» a r e th e B e s t
rheumatism in both anna
cordance with their liking for the
rival counsel rather than on the
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Register.
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Before New York's famous old build-
in# at the Battery became the Aquar-
lucp It had changed from fort to reeep-
, tton hall, from chief amusement place
of the city to gateway o f the promised
land. Long before It became ¿he home
of the finny tribe the building resound
ed with shouts for Lafayette. Andrew
Jackson. Tyler, Van Buren. It beard
the eloquence o f Daniel Webster, the
fiery oratory o f Louis Kossuth, the
Hungarian patriot and the divine
voice o f Jenny Lind, the Swedish
Nightingale.
When the building was new It stood
on a little island separated from the
v mainland by some 200 feet o f water,
and was reached by crossing a draw
bridge. A great part o f Battery park
was then water, and It was the filling
In o f this stretch that made the aqua
rium a part o f the mainland. The rea
son for building It on an Island away
from the main shore was disclosed In
a government order to Colonel Jona
than Williams, who hsd charge o f the
construction o f the proposed fo rt This
order said to construct the fortification
- so that the guns could be trained on
both the North and Bast rivers.
“ A foundation should be made around
the bastion o f the old Battery, where
the flagstaff Is placed, extending forty
or fifty feet from the present and
upon this foundation a battery should
be constructed In such manner that
the run on the right will take In the
North river, while that upon the left
will range along the courtlne o f the old
Battery.”
Such were the orders the govern
ment gave Colonel Williams.
But
Colonel Williams said it was Impos
sible for guns to command the en
trance to the North and Bast rivers If
SATURDAY BATHING.
they were placed at the old. Battery.
Two hundred feet out from the shore A Custom tho’OScidsnt Borrowed From
was the least distance at which that
the Orient.
result could be accomplished, and some
Most barbarians, judged by modern
time afterward the secretary o f war standards, were anything but cleanly
authorised the colonel's plan for the In tbelr personal habits. In England.
fort's construction.
Prance and Germany bathing was an
In 1822. eleven years after Its era- almost unknown custom until after
tion. when the military headquarters the Crusades. The pilgrims from the
was transferred to Governor's island, east brought home with them ideas of
the federal authorities ceded Port Col the bath as help In the treatment of
ton—as the preeeut aquarium was then disease, and bathrooms were gradually
called—back to the city. Throughout Introduced Into the hospitals. Prom
the war o f 1812 not oue shot ha«J been the hospitals the Ideas o f bathing
fired at an enemy from this fort, nor spread generally.
People who had
’ has one been fired since. The em- been treated there saw the value of
‘ brasures for the thirty and tlllrty-two keeping the body clean In order to re
pounders that were never used against sist disease. The great plague that
>an enemy cau still be seen In the nine swept over Europe In the early years
foot outer wall.
o f the fourteenth century helped to
,It was then that the former fort be teach this-lesson.
came a place o f amusement and re
By the fifteebtb century there was
ceived the name of Castle Garden, a scarcely s large city that did not.pos
name which it retalued for three quar sess well patronised public bathing es
ters o f a century. Two years after the tablishments. although it was not until
shifting of soldiers to Governor’s Isl the seventeenth century that the Turk-:
and Castle Garden was the scene of a lab bath was Introduced, and not until
great reception given to General La the eighteenth century that sea bath
fayette when be visited America in ing. so common among the American
1824. It was also the scene of a great Indians, was tried experimentally.
memorial service when be died ten
Saturday was chosen as bathing time
years later.
and the reason Is not difficult to Im
It was there that 8amuel P. B. agine. On Sunday everybody was com
Morse. Inventor of the telegraph, first pelled to go to .church, whether he
demonstrated the possibility o f control- would or not As the Moslem In the
Ing an electric Current in 183f>. During east bathed before entering the mosque
those early years, too. It was the so did the medieval man before enter
scene of the receptions given to Ameri ing his church, only be must take his
can presidents when they visited New bath on Saturday afternoon In order
York. Jackson. Tyler and Van Buren to be clean the following day. There
. were received there, and later on the was even a distribution of bath money
Prince o f Wales. There also many to the children whose parents were
great political meetings were held. unable to pay for their baths.—New
Some o f Daniel Webster's greatest ora York Post
tions were delivered there.
Castle Garden was widely proclaimed
Dssp and Shallow Diamonds.
as the first real home of opera In
In buying a diamond see to It that
America. The great auditorium, now jou r stone Is neither too deep nor too
occupied by fish, ordinary and extra shallow. If It be too {leeg the “ table”
ordinary. was then packed nightly at the top o f the atone wilT have a dead
with people who gathered to hear those look Instead o f showing as much colSr
famous artists o f the middle nineteenth and tight as at the edge,, where the
century: Mallbran. Soutag. Mario. diamond la cut thin to receive title
Qrlsi. the members o f Jullen’a orches light. You are simply paying for ex:
tra and—best known of all—Jenny tra weight that adds nothing to, bnt
lllnd. whom all the theatergoing public rather detracts from the appearance o f
o f the United States and Europe wor the gem. The shallow.¿efope. on 'th e
shiped. The first night la I860 that other hand—which ia technically known
the Swedish Nightingale appeared at as a fish eye—has a glassy look. Some
Castle Garden, under the management people buy them because they appear
o f P. T. Barnum. the choice seats sold bigger than they really are. but the
for several hundred dollars. Her tre bargain Is a poor one and to be avoided.
mendous popularity was made open
greater when she gave to local char
Optimism.
*.
Ides the $10,000 which composed her
Cheer up. old boy. don’t dump your
share o f the box office receipts.
joy because the day Is glum; pick ont
The next year Louts Kossuth, the the best and dump thé rest, let's bear
famous Hungarian patriot came fmm you start to ham
When In a jam
England to the Ualted States and made
don’t cusa and slam, bnt grin and wait
an address to a vast and enthusiastic
It out: the joys love hope. It’s power
throng In Castle Garden.
ful dope and puts tbs glooms to rout
This was one o f the last great recep
So don't despair, turn down dull cars
tions held In the historic old building.
and lyave hlnB to the mob. The nun
Four years later It was converted Into
ain’t dead, he’ll leave his bed and
an Immigrant station for the port, of
soon he on the Job. — Cincinnati En
New York and from then until lflBO.
quirer.
when the Immigration office was re
moved to Ellis Island. It served as the
Another Illusion.
gateway through which 8.000.000 of
'Had an interview with a farmer Just
people entered to work out their des
now." said the poet, “ which gave me
tinies In the new world. In 1806 It be
quite a shock.”
came the aquarium.—New York Sun.
“ How was thatr
“ He told me that new mown hay had
The Far H arisen.
no points o f superiority whatever over
Little Arthur, taking part.In a geog hay a year old.” —Pittsburgh Post
raphy examination, should be award
ed a prise for his definition of "horl-
A Proof.
son.*' which ran as follows:
’Does Emily dote so on that young
"The horison Is where the sky and
man of heist”
water meet—only they d o n 't” —W o
"Doss she? At this moment she is
man’s Home Companion.
changing her brown heir to golden be
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