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ONE DANGER OF AMMONIA.
Plan«» at Shew and Premiss, but Net It Waa Mads by a Pasr Tallsr Who This gubatan«« May Bring About th«
Muoh of Anything Elsa.
Had Mighty Hard Lusk.. fl^ f l r\
*"4 of tK» W«ria.
Some idea of life in a large Span
ish hotel mgy be gathered from Mr.
W„ D . Howells
book, ‘'Fam iliar
Spanish Travels.” T h e author says
that ip most cases the hotels were
hospitable, but bad. A t a Granada
hotel the door refused to latch, and
M r. H owells tells us that the infirtn-
itv of the door latch was emblematic
o f a temperamental infirmity in the
whole hotel. There waa a glittc
almost a glare, of Bitslike splendor,
and the rates were Bitzlika, bnt
there the resemblance ceased.
“ The porter followed us to our
rooms on our arrival and told us in
excellent English — which excelled
less and leas throughout our stay—
that he waa the hall porter and
that we could confidently refer all
our wants ta him, but their refer
ence seemed always to close the in
cident, There was a secretary who
assured us that our rooms were not
dear, and who could not, out o f r
gard'to onr honor and comfort,con
sider cheaper ones, and then ceased
to appear until ha receipted our
bill when we went away.
“There was a splendid dining room
with jffit e r s of such beauty and
dignity, and ao purple from clean
shaving that we scarcely dared to
face them, and there were lunch
eons and dinners o f rich and deli
cate superabundance in the menu,
they were banquets from the ‘A r a
bian N ights’ imagined under the
rule o f the Moors.
“Everywhere shone silver bright
radiators,'such aa we had not am
since we left their like fram ing in
B urgos; but, though the weather
f iresently changed from an Anda-
usian softness to a Castilian severi
ty after a snowfall in the sierra, the
radiators remained insensible to the
difference, and the air nipped the
nose and fingers wherever one w e n t
in the note!. The hall porter, who
knew everything, said the boilers
were out o f order, and a< traveler
who had been there the winter be
fore confirmed him with the testi
mony that they were out o f order
even in January. There may not
have bean any lire under them then,
aa there waa none now, but if they
needed repairing now it was clearly
because they needed repairing .thou.
“ In the corner o f one o f 01
rooms the frseooed plastering had
scaled off, and we know that if wa
came back a year later the aau
•pot would offer us a fam iliar wel
come.**
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• f English.
A woman visitor at a smart girls’
finishing school in a N ew York
suburb was much interested in a
Japanese pupil who was in bar sec
ond year at the school. “ Does she
pick up our language at all read
ily?” she inquired of one of the
teachers with whom she was talk
ing.
“ 1 think you may say fairly well,**
replied the teacher. “ For instance,
she has been trying to make her
straight black bair wave like that
o f our girls. It was only this morn
ing that she came and told me that
last night she had put up her hair
in curlers, and she added that when
she took it down this morning
•there was nothing doipg.’ **— N ew
Y ork Press.
A Vanturwaama Jawmay.
On bis perilous expedition through
Tibet Dr. Sven Jledin stained bis
hands and face like a native’s and,
disguised as a common Ladakhi,
made his way through the country,
exploring and collecting informa
tion of great value. When the party
met strangers the doctor woula get
down and walk with the attendants
driving the baggage and sheep and
in f by the name of H ad ji Baba,
ven so, more than ones the real
husineee o f the party was suspected,
and the venturesome doctor had
more than one narrow escape.
p A s early as 1790 there wss a rude
machine used by shoemakers for
sewing the leather for boots and
«hoes. T h at was the first. step in
toe progress of mechanical sewing,
but the machine waa too crude to
bo used on anything finer than
leather- i.
jp#The first reallv practical sewing
machine was made by a poor tailor,
Bertbelemy Thimmonier of S t Eti
enne, France, in 1830. In Thim -
monier’s apparatus the needle was
hooked at the end, and, descend
ing through the cloth it brought up
with At a loop o f thread that I t car
ried through the previously made
loop, and thus farmed a chain on
the upper surface of the febric.
Although th e machine was made
of wood and very clumsy, it appear
ed at an opportune time, for there
was a great demand just then for
thousands of extra army garments
tb it could not be supplied through
the regular sources.
A s many as
eighty 'machines were n ude and
used fpr the government. Bnt the
occasion that made the invention
successful w m also the means of
its downfall, for shortly afterward
an ignorant and furious mob wreck-
ad the establishment and nearly
murdered the unfortunate inventor.
Thimmonier, however, waa not
discouraged.
H e went to Paris,
traveling the entire distance on
foot, without a penny in his pocket,
I n that city he had the good fo r
tune to interest a firm in his inven
tion, and preparations were made
to begin m anufacturing tne ma
chines. But scarcely was the enter
prise started when the revolution
o f 1848 turned the country upside
down and blasted the prospects o f
tha resolute inventor. Still be hop
ed to get recognition in the great
exhibition at London in 1851, but
here his machine failed absolutely
to attract any attention, ao, down
hearted and discouraged, he Jour
neyed sadly back to St. Etienne and
died there in 1837. m I H
Elias Howe was more fortunate.
H is machine, too, wss more ingeni
ously made and did better work,
bnt there is no doubt that Thim -
m onier, the poor French tailor, de
serves the credit o f making the first
practical sewing machine.— Y ou th ’s
Companion.
Origin •» Myth«.
T h e human mind, whether that
o f tha savage or the civilised man,
is naturally a thinking machine. In
early times, ’W o r e
born, the phenomena of nature re
quired an explanation, and the sav
age beholder shaped the myth,
which satisfied his untutored mind.
It is out o f man’s natural craving
to know the “ reason w h y" that all
myths are horn. A s the distinguish
ad anthropologist Tylofc puts it,
“ W hen the attention of a mar in
the myth making stage of intellect
is drawn to any phenomenon which
has to him an obvious reason he
invents and tells a story to account
fo r i t ” I n such way •& mythology
originated.
Enticing Lobster« to Death.
In the neighborhood of the
mttdae the sea ia extremely trans
parent, so that the fisherman can
readily see the horns of lobsters
protruding from their hiding places
in the rocks at considerable depths.
T o entice the crustaceans from
Principal Cause of Chelera.
those crannies they tie a lot of
The principal cause for an out snails in a hall and dangle them in
break o f cholera is the presence of front o f the cautious lobster. W hen
cholera bacilli in the drinking water he grebe the ball they haul him op.
supply of a city. Its descent is sud
den and widespread. Aim oat an en
They Ckang«d.
tire population can he stricken at
A Vienna paper relates an anec
once. T h e stricken person usnally dote of the painter Makart, who
is dead or on the road to recovery was sometimes as taciturn as V o n
within twenty-four hours.
Some Moltke. One evening at a dinner
times, however, a fever hangs on ha sat for an hour next to the sou-
fo r several days, in some instances brette Josephine Qallmever without
resulting in dsath. It is not believ volunteering a word.
Finally she
ed that the disease can be com- /bet patience end exclaimed, “ W ell,
mnnicatad by contagion.
lear m aster,. suppose we change
the subject.’’
HIM.
“H ello, Blank l Where &re you
AsscuMIng Per the Jumps.
going in such a hurry ?” 1
Mollis—-I see the sinews o f the
“T o the poatofflee to put up a kangaroo are specially desirable for
kick about the wretched delivery
) in surgery, for sewing wounds
and binding broken hones together.
service,*’
“ W hat’s the trouble V
Dnllie — That accounts for Jos
you promised umping from one thing to another.
“ WI.V, that
to send me ten days ago hasn’t
always thought he had some of
reached me y e t " — Boston Tran- he kangaroo in him. — Yonkers
script.
Utatesinan.
mxk i
OF
LOAN.
f e e S tatut« r i
Waa N«4 Canti (ton
well known Kansas banker
- T h e continuous decay of vegeta
years ago told a# story about
tion generates ammonia. A s many
statute of limitations. There is
scientists nave said, there is mors *
in it, plus some good phi-
ammonia in the atmosphere now
than there was 10,000 year* ago,
day an old aoutberner walk*
and considerable more than there i
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7 w - t a n k « ', office. The
was 1,000,000 years ago.
F re s h , ®d
r was a typical gentleman
supplies are added year after year, t sk > i
oM school, suave, courteous
so that in s future day there will be
o f punctiliousness and
an exceedingly great quantity of it.
to a degree of martyr-
Now,.am m onia has a combustive
property. I f the atmosphere should
at can 1 do fo r yon?” asked
get laden with it a universal con-
iter,
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flagration would be inevitable. The
ell,” replied the southerner,
outbreak of a volcano or a flash
of lightning would he sufficient to “ about fbirtv-five years ago I loan
cause the circumambient air to ed a man down south soma money
not it very big stun. I fold him
ignite— all space would become a
t whenever I should need H I
mask of raging flame which would
uld
let him know and be coaid
boil the rivers and aeas, convert
ing them into hot vapors, which S l y me the money. 1 need sotn
would devour all living creatures, money now, so I shall let him know,
all forms of vegetable life, would and 1 would like to have yon trans
bake Hie earth and perhape-burn it act the business fo r me.”
My good friend,” replied the
to cinders.
kar,
“ you have no claim on that
t T h e eerth could he converted
into smoke within a second.
It money. Y o u can’t bold that me
could be buried out o f its course to that loan. Y ou say it hay bae
and made to come iqto dreadful col thirty-five years since you loaned it
lision with another planet, or, to him? T h e statute o f limitations
thrown dangerously near the sun, ha** ran against that loan years and
it would he drawn by the wonderful year* ago.
replied the southerner,
solar attraction into the fiery boeom * “ Sir.
o f that bright monarch of the uni “ the man to whom I loaned that
money is a gentleman. T h e statute
verse.
T h e horror o f soch a catastrophe o f limitations never runs against a
appears unspeakably great— some
the hanker sent for the
thing from which the startled im ag
,
and within a reasonable
ination recoils and staggers. A n d
yet, after due reflection, we must time thereafter the money came.
admit that the prospect is sublime Thera was a courtly gentleman st
rather than horrible. Anticipation the other end o f the
o f an intolerable pein is w a n e than also.— Kansas City Journal.
the pain itself. A human being ia
capable of pain up to a certain de
gree only, as also of pleasure up to
a correspondingly high degree, and
no more. N ay, one person is capa
ble of more suffering and more en
joyment than another, and it ia a l
together a fallacious notion that
there ia as much agony when a fly
is crushed “ as when a giant die».”
H o w often, after long and dismal
anticipation of a tragic event, we
have found at the last that the an
ticipation o f a tragic event outran
the reality. This is caused not only
by the quickness and resourceful
ness o f min<V bat also by the cir*
cuinstance that we cannot bear
more than a certain measure o f
pain and affliction.
T i m , too, it mast he remember
ed that as every extreme causes its
opposite, as a white beat gives a
sensation of $old, as frost can born
like fire, as laughter can end in
tears and tears in laughter, as wis
dom sometimes subsides into folly,
and tha jester will utter the sayings
6f a sage, so excess of pain may end
in a sort of thrilling pleasure, and
this may account for the sudden
ecstacies of martyrs under torture.
T h e passing o f earth, then, would
not cause so much human pain as is
generally believed. It would prob
ably be nothing more than the sud
den awakening into a new world
from an outgrown condition of be
ing.— N ew Y o rk American.
The Demeetie Maehine.
A Soak« That Craw«.
There exists in Venesuela a spe
cies of snake of an exceedingly ven
omous and crafty character. T his
snake utters a cry that is the almost
exact imitation of a cock crow. The
unwary
traveler
when
walking
through the buah will be astonished
to hear near at hand this extraordi
nary crowing. H e proceeds toward
the'spot, when the snake darts out
and stings the unfortunate man
with its terrible forked tongue. I f
not taken promptly in hand the
sting will in nine ctaee out of ten
turn oat to be fatal.
STORY
Origi« e#
It is not generally kpowu that
the word “ humbug,’' long ao
in vogue, is of Scottish origin. \ „
wna in olden om e a n e t called
Bogue or Boag o f that ilk in Ber
wickshire.
da
ue. A daughter
o f the family
married s sob o f Mu me. In p rocce«
o f time, by default o f male issue.
Bogue estate devolved cm one
Hume o f the B o n o , or
“ Hum o* the Bug.” l i e was
inclined to the marvelous and had
a vast inclination to exalt himself,
Ms wife, family, brother and ail Ids
ancestors on hath sides. H is tales,
however, did not pass current, and
a* last, when any one made an ex
traordinary statement in the Near-
us, thh hearer would atnmg up bis
shoulders and style it just “ a hum
o’ the bug.”
This was shortened
into humbug, and the word soon
spread over the whole kingdom.—
Philadelphia Inquirer.
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P «# 0 Aeuttoratien.
Food adulteration is practical!!
as old ss bumap selfl.«hnr«e and
p rw d . For the co-tom of uddttenit-
Mg foodstuff* the moderns are b>
do means raepoueible. It ja impos
sible to shv when the vile practice
did oot exist. The anhala o f Greece,
Bores and Egypt, Chaldea apd As
syria a|l reveal the fact that away
r . »n u . u zm
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addicted to the practice o f a d u lte rs-.
tion. T o come to Eagliah history,
we find that as fa r back as the reign
Get a
« f John < 1203) there were proclama
tions regulating the qoaW fe of ■
bread, cakes, etc., and contem pt CB3PC»30Pe<CN C ra^
rsry laws of other European coon
~
tries deal with the adulteration ot
wine*, baker*’ good* and other ar
ticle* of food and drink. — New
York A metrics n.
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R EO T R U C K
In France there is s carious form
of life insurance, the peculiarity be
ing that the longer a man lives the
lea* bis heir* become entitled to.
The idea is that if a man die* voung
his children will require help, but
that bv the time be is fifty they will
be old enough to earn their own
living.— Liverpool P o s t
to th eir equ ip m en t w h ic h
e n a b le s them to h a n d le lo n g
distance w o r k w ith disp atch
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; “ W hat do you say to a young
lady at a dance.*” queried the youth
who was shoot to attend his fin t
ball-
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“ Oh,” replied tha society mad.
“ talk to her shoot her beauty.”
“ But suppose she hasn’t u n y f
said the youth.
“ In that case,*
d ety man. “ talk to
about the
ugliness o f the other
— Ixmdon Tstler.
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W hat they call tha rainy season
Mexico comes only in the form
fa ll in the after
noon. Those showers usually occur
every day, but sometimes there will
be two or three days of perfectly
clear weather. There is no steady
downpour, however, ss in most
tropical countries, and in Mexico
the rainy «easeo is regarded as the
finest seaHou uf i he year. .
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A barefooted darky while hoeing
cotton one day *aw hi* big too un
der a clod, and, thinking it waa a
mole’s head, hit it and hurt him
self.
A fter working with it for
awhile he got tired, *et his foot on
stump and raid. “ W ell, jes pain
sway now. f doesn’t care; von hurts
raatif wusin re do me.”— Argonaut.
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i fined sine, w ill n eve r m o s s g r o w * ,
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“ Y ou ’ve
met
Mrs.
Chatters.
haven’t you?” asked Nan
‘ Yes,” said Fan.
•Tell me all about her.”
“ l>o you know any stronger words
thaif ’talkative* or ‘loquacious’ that
mean the name thing? ’
“ I can’t think of * n r ju*t now.”
“Well. then. I can't describe her
to you.”— Chicago Tribune.
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The Mack inhabitants of Venexa
•la are, like all other dark races.
ic A m e ric a n ,
raled
very supem
itioi
rstitiou*.
And as regards
the rattlesnake they have a curious
belief. They affirm
afi
that if a rattle
snake is captured and the hones in
its tail which form tho rattle are re
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moved the snake trill never rest un
Call on
til it M fs sought out the man that
com
the th e ft' and exacted
N e w b e r g M & n u fa c tu r.
for the robbery.
They
cite instances o f men who have tsk- i n g Ac C o n s t r u c t i o n G o .
For Windows, D ent» & General MHI
en tbé rattles and gone fa r journey
Wrrk,
M3 N. Main Street
only to be followed by the infurmt
ed snake and killed, w hether there
is any tyuth in thla ia a matter of
conjecture.
I f half the tales that
are told have any truth in them il
would seam superfluous to gainsay
the superstition.
M r. Meek was laboriously hook
ing up the heck of his w ife’s even
ing drees just as the clock was strik
ing their dinner hour and their din
ner guests were ringing the door
bell. M r. Meek breathed h erd; his
forehead was damp, and his hands
shook.
“ I do wish some one would in
It waa a N ew York schoolteacher
vent a machine to do this kind of
who received this message from a
work!** he muttered miserably.
‘ W hy, they have!” replied his mother who was advised to punish
wife brightly, aa she appGed some her wayward son, “ You lick him,
powder nonchalantly to her nose. teacher— I ain’t mad at him.”
It was a Cleveland teacher who
•They have, and you are it!” —
wrote
to the mother o f a mischiev
Y ou th ’s Companion.
ous boy asking her SMiHtance in
Cwtolt.
making the boy behave. .This wa*
Catch is a hard, brown, brittle the answer she received:
substance, and when broken
“ If you ain't able to control your
senta a smooth, shining surface , £
school without assistance, you bet
anthracite coal. I t is used fo r tan ter git another job. P. S.— 1 ain’t
ning leather and also for dyeing his mother— I ’m his stepmother.”
textiles black or brown. Catch is — Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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made from the bark o f the man
What Putter's Earth Is.
grove tree*, which grow in great
Fuller's earth is so called because J
abundance in salt marshes, extend
ing inland in various places in north of its general use formerly by full
ers or bleachere of cloth to absorb
Borneo as fa r as 133 miles.
the graaee and oil collected during]
the weaving process. It Ira n earthy
“I hear,” said Mrs. Nextdoor, hydrated silicate of aluminium, |
‘that that stubborn candidate for greenish in color generally, though
nreeident e f your club has finally sometimes bluish.’ white or even
been induced to withdraw in the in brown. It i* found in the oolitic or
terest o f harmony.”
jurasaic aeries of rocks— that ia, in
“ Yes,” replied Mrs. Peppery. “B v the third o f the five divisions into
the way, it’* a wonder yon' couldn’t which geologist* divide the earth’«
induce your daughter to withdraw cru*t.> T h e maximum depth of »
from the piano occasionally fo r the deposit o f jfuller’* earth ia 400 feet
same reason.” — Exchange.
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