EXPERIMENTS WITH FERTILIZERS.
What Government Stations Are Doing for
the Farmers of the Country.
HE WRITES STORIES.
PENNY POSTAGE.
Wonderful Changes That-Have Taken Place
in the Past Fifty Years.
ALWAYS INTERESTING.
Dom Pedro its a Republican.
As a number of American gentlemen were
recently discussing the overthrow of the Bra
zilian empire, one of them expressed an
opinion that Dom Pedro had willing with
drawn from the throne, and another, ex
President Hayes, replie«i that he believed
Dom Pedro to be at heart a republican, fully
in favor of republican institutions. Mr.
Hayes then, according to the Nashville Times
Herald, told the following anecdote:
At the centennial celebration at Philadel
phia, in 1876. I sat next to the emperor of
Brazil. Just before Mr. Evarts began his
great speech, Dom Pedro drew from his
pocket a well worn, well creased copy of the
Declaration of Independence, a fac-simile of
the original, with the written interlineation
•nd corrections.
“This,” said he, turning to me, “was given
me by an American friend over ten years
ago, and I have had it as a constant com
panion ever since. It’s a grand, good docu
ment. I’ve made a close study of it.”
While the Declaration of Independence
was being read from the orator’s stand the
Brazilian emperor, with bowed head and eyes
fixed intently on the well worn document be
fore him, followed the sentences word for
word.
The impressive reading, and the accom
panying thought that the project of “free
and independent states” had been grandly
accomplished, evidently made a deep impres
sion on him. When the orator had conclud
ed the emperor, with bowed head, still kept
his eyes on the last words of the page before
him. Then looking up, his eyes dimmed with
tears, he said, in a husky voice:
“A wonderful document! a wonderful
document I”
“When I recall that incident,” said Mr.
Hayes, “there is not only pathos but prophecy
in it.”
OLD CLOTHES MADE NEWT
RIVÁL EXPERTS GIVE INFORMATION
THIS MAN “MANUFACTURES LITERA
On Fridav, Jan. 10, 1840, there came into BABY ANALYZED FROM THE STAND
Farmers in the older states are spending
ABOUT A CURIÖUS CRAFT;
TURE" AS HE SAWS WOOD.
POINT OF A BACHELOR.
operation in this country one of those great
millions of dollars annually for commer
measures of social reform which may be said
cial fertilizers. In this country, as in
Europe, they have become an absolute He Makes 87,000 a Year and Is Never to constitute the landmarks of a nation’s prog Some Comparisons That the Fond Mother
Scouring, Dyeing and Pa telling the Gar
ress—the uniform penny postage system.
’ Amulets Which Possessed Won- necessity on worn out soils, but to make
ments That Have Seen Better Days.
Bothered by the Critics—Fiction Made This measure, originating with a private in
and Devoted Aunt Will Indignantly
Powers—Belief That Kings Could them profitable it is necessary that they
The Old Fashioned, Simple Process, and
from Newspaper Clippings—How One dividual who, up to the age of 37, had been a
Repudiate—After All, the Child Teaches
Diseases by Laying On of Hands, should fit the wants of the soil and crops
and who was wholly uncon
for which they are used. If a farmer buys
the Methods of a “Scientific” Cleaner,
Kind of Harmless “Trash” Is Gotten Up. schoolmaster,
1
Mankind the I.esson of Faith.
hing a Plague from a Scotch Town. potash for land which abounds in potash,
nected either with rhe postoffice or the gov
One whole side of the shop was hung with
I
ran
across
a
New
York
friend
of
mine
i
ernment,
has,
in
the
last
half
century,
revo
Babies
belong
to
the
neuter
gender,
so
An eastern story called “The Talisman,” but needs phosphoric acid, he of course the other day who makes $7,000 a year
what some people call “pants,” in regimental
lutionized the postal service of the world, and knay be classed with the marine ascidian
one of Walter Scott’s best romances, was loses. The fundamental principle in the writing novels, and who is never bothered made the name of its author—the late Sir Lnd
order,
dangling two by two from frames ill
other jelly like structures. They
ipublished in 1825. The incident from which use of commercial feltilizers is to select by the critics. He writes his novels to or Rowland Hill—a household word in every
a serried column, awaiting occupancy by
should invariably be spoken of as “it,”
lie romance derived its name is this: A those materials which supply in the best der, gets his pay promptly and doesn’t care •ivilized country.
their several owners. All of them were spick
land speculations as to ultimate sex should
knight’s squire has been cured of a severe forms and at the lowest cost the plant food a button for praise.
and span, like new, because they had just
To the present generation the old postal ¡never be indulged in in presence of the
illness by an Arabian physician sent by Sal- which the crop needs and the soil fails to
passed
through the cleaning mill. In fact,
I
asked
my
friend
to
tell
me
a
little
about
system,
which
was
swept?
away
by
Rowland
parents, but it is always safe to make a
p,din, who has beard that King Richard, dan- furnish.
that was precisely what the establishment
his
business,
for
business
it
is
with
him,
Hill
’
s
reform,
is
now
so
«nuch
a
matter
of
general
statement
of
“
its
being
like
its
fa
In order to enable farmers to find out
jgerously ill, has been given over by his doc
might properly be termed. The sign outside
just as much as journalism is with the ancient history, and of ¿history but little
tors, who were not very well instructed at the wants of their own soils and the best average newspaper man, or sawing boards studied, that probably wry few have any ther.” Even if it should eventually turn
said: “Steam Dyeing and Scouring.”
¡out to be a girl, this statement is not sup-
way of supplying them, and at the same
*that time.
A rather dilute specimen of youthful man
is
with
the
majority
of
carpenters.
conception
of
the
state
of
affairs
which
ex
•posed to cast any stigma upon. it or its
. The Saracen, who really is Saladin in dis- time to get light upon the properties of
hood with insipient side whiskers and a shrill
“I go about my work,” he said, “with as isted in this country at »date no further re
F^uise and known only as El Hakim (the phy- soils in different sections of the country, a much system as any other worker. While moved than the early years of her majesty’s mother, but is generally received with
voice was engaged at the moment in submit
¡gratitude.
iician), is entirely trusted by Richard, who number of experiment stations are intro at it I write from eight to ten hours a day reign.
ting to the notice of the attendant a grease
! Roughly speaking, babies may be divided
[places high confidence in the honor of the ducing soil tests with fertilizers which are when I have a contract for a story on my
spot of considerable size on that portion of
Up
to
1840
the
postoffi®,
so
far
as
the
poor
into
two
classes
—
those
that
resemble
pigs
feoldan, his enemy. El Hakim produces a largely conducted both by the stations and hands, and I generally keep at it till it is and the lower middle class was concerned,
the trousers he wore which is ordinarily con
small silken bag, made of net work twisted also by individual farmers on their own finished. I began writing about twelve may be said to have beeh almost non-exist ¡and those that Lave more of the character
cealed from view by the coat tails.
with silver, containing something heavy, farms. Of course many of the experi years ago—indeed, even longer ago than ent. The rates chargedlon letters were in jistics of the monkey tribe. The pig vari
“I told you when you brought them here,”
'which he immerses in a cup of spring water ments are failures, but many practical men that. Yes, let’s see. I had jlist got out of the these days so exorbitant, especially when ety is usually sloppy in texture and runs
said the shopman, “that cod liver oil was the
land retains it therein for a few minutes. who have engaged in-this work have de high school. I began to feel within me the compared with the scanty wages then obtain over in the matter of cheeks, and has a
one thing we couldn’t remove from cloth.
The king empties the cup at a draught, and clared that they have thus learned a great promptings of imitation as the natural se able, that correspondent was a luxury far ¡multiplicity of chins, each more unstable
The only thing I can suggest is to cut out the
¡falls back on his couch as if exhausted; is deal which is practically useful and highly quence of the admiration those stirring too costly for all but the well to do. Even than the other; to kiss an infant of this
stain and put in a patch.”
’
class
resembles
kissing
a
poached
egg.
and
[left to rest in quiet, and when he awakens instructive.
The young man posed himself between two
The results of these tests in general story tellers had aroused within me, and I in the upper middle classa thé cost of postage •under very few circumstances is handling
some hours after the fever has wholly left
opposite mirrors, and, with coat tails still up
wrote a boy’s story which met wjth some was a heavy item of household expenditure, ¡advisable, as the head appears to be insuf-
•him, without the necessity of liis taking a sec- show that “soils vary greatly in their capa degree of success.
lifted,
surveyed with evident dissatisfaction
only
to
be
incurred
after
much
careful
con
|ficiently attached to the main body, and
iond dose. The silken purse had contained a bilities of supplying food to crops. Differ
an endless perspective of stylish customers,
“I put a great deal of blood and thunder sideration; but the vast multitude'of the ¡rolls in an astonishing manner. Total
ent ingredients are deficient in different
talisman!
with
unpleasant
stains on the seats of their
in it, I confess, but no wickedness of heart lower orders were practically .excluded from
■ At the conclusion of the romance Sir Ken- soils. The best way to learn what mate and no immorality. I wrote other stories all use of the postoffiçé,| When once their ¡baldness and great bunchiness and bulb
pantaloons, extending in a line toward Penn
aieth, the disguised son of the king of Scot rials are proper in any given case is by ob of a similar character and had them pub families parted off from Borne it was a sepa ousness of skull are usual with this spe
sylvania avenue.
land, was married to Edith Plantagenet, servation and experiment. The rational lished in some of the New York weekly ration almost like that of death. The hun cies, though sometimes there is a thin cov
“I don’t think I would care to have that
of white or primrose colored down
Richard’s cousin, and Scott says: “It is still method for determining what ingredients story papers of that day. I experienced the dreds of thousands of apprentices, of shop 'ering
done. They’re my very best trousers, you
’
on the head.
of
plant
food
a
soil
fails
to
furnish
in
¡in existence, having been bequeathed by the abundance, and how these unfurnished usual disappointments of all rising young men, ^O^ go ye
seeJ’, Ja^replied, gravely» and a moment jater
ser v an ts
These babig^,are i^ually called ‘‘.fipe^chil-
Earl of "'Mfe11ingdon to a brave knight of
he walked out.
Plum Pudding- Is Not Plum Pudding.
tauthors, of course, and found ndt a few" were cut off fron^ami^^n^ions as if seas ¡dren,” and their legs are often exhibited in
iBcotland, <Kir Simon of the Lee, in whose materials can be most economically sup manuscripts tossed back upon my hands. or deserts lay between thenfand hdme.
The writer, who had come in just in time
It
would
be
well
if
Mr.
Mattieu
Williams
1
confirmation of the statement. The legs
plied,
is
to
put
the
question
to
the
soil
with
[ancient aiMl honorable family it is still pre
But I was too young to care much, and
Except in the local townfyleliveries—tech are fashioned upon the proportions of an lecture on plum pudding at Birmingham to witness this performance, asked how it
served; and although charmed stones have different fertilizing materials-, and get the consoled myself with the conviction that nically known as “penny pcets”—the lowest
was
that pantaloons and other clothes were
distributed rolypoly, and their circum could be made familiar to everybody. It con
been dismissed from the modern pharma reply in the crops produced. The chief use the pigheaded publishers didn’t know a charge on any letter was foil- pence, but that ill
ference
is usually in excess of their length. tains matter which would surprise, perhaps, cleaned.
of
fertilizers
is
to
supply
plant
food.
It
is
copoeia, its virtues are still applied to for
“The process is very simple,” the shop man
good thing when they saw it—a conviction only sufficed for a distance of fifteen miles; Persons of great nicety and exactness of most people. For example, the so called plum
¡stopping blood and in cases of canine mad- good farming to make the most of the I still hold to with what I am inclined to beyond that radius the rates of postage rap 'politeness
insert «a finger under one of the pudding is not plum pudding at all; there are said. “It is merely a matter of soap and
natural resources of the soil and of the
Iness ”
hot
water. A pair of pants, say—-and the
regard as a commendable degree of ten idly increased with the distance the letter had 'chins of these creatures, and make a little no plums in it. . The plums of which we
| The talisman is still preserved. It is manures produced on the farm, and to de a city.”
to be conveyed, till letters from London to chuckling noise, which gives great satis speak are really grapes—dried grapes, of same thing applies to other clothing—is first
hailed the Lee Penny, or the Lee Stone. It pend upon artificial fertilizers only to fur
AN AUTHOR’S START.
Liverpool or Manchester were charged eleven faction to the parents, while exceptionally course, but grapes all the same, Again, we thrown into a big kettle of hot—not boiling
is an heirloom in the ancient Scottish fam- nish what more is needed. It is not good
—water and allowed to soak for half an hour.
I asked my friend if be still sometimes
nly of Lockhart, and derives its distinctive economy to pay high prices for materials found himself among the great army of pence, those to Edinburgh or Glasgow one strong minded people will make a dent in speak loosely of the currants in plum pud- Then they are taken out and laid upon an in
shilling four and one-half pence, and to Cork ¡the cheek or even in both cheeks and coo: ding. There are none in it whatever. What
¡title from the estate of Lee, in the west of which the soil itself may yield, but it is the rejected.
or Londonderry, one shilling five pence, and but it requires long practice and phenome we call currants are grapes, too—dwarf clined trough like table for scouring. This is
good economy to supply the lacking ones
¡Scotland.
“Yes, almost as often as when 1 was a even these exorbitant rates were at once nal coolness to carry this off satisfactorily, grapes dried. And Mr. Williams mentions done with a sponge, a stiff brush and quanti
| The Lee Penny is a stone of a dark red color in the cheapest way.” .
youth
—
that
is,
if
I
send
my
manuscript
to
doubled or trebled if theletter, however light, ¡as not infrequently the infant considers that he could not procure from any English ties of ordinary soft soap. First the outside
Probably the most valuable practical
and triangular shape, and it measures about
of the garment is cleaned by rubbing with
new publishers and let them go on their
¡half an inch on each side. It is set in a pieceT work that these experiment stations have I merits. This is a world where there are contained one or more inclosures, or consisted 'the act in the light of a liberty and raises a grower a single plant or cutting of the dwarf the sponge and scraping with the brush, and
¡of silver coin much defaced, on which a few done has been to analyze these various many men of many minds as there are of two or three pieces of paper. Thus a letter ¡howl; a hasty retreat is the only approved grape; they all come from abroad and mainly next the inside, turned inside out, is treated
from Greece.
letters may still be deciphered. Antiquarians commercial fertilizers which are offered many fishes in the sea, and the editorial consisting of a sheet of paper and a check, 'course in that event.
But what in Mr. Williams’ lecture will be in the same way.
PECULIARITIES.
¡have declared that this inscription resembles for sale by manufacturers. In some of the mind is quite as diverse and cranky as the with an envelope to . inclose them, which now
“When this has been done, the pants are
goes
from
London
to
Cork
for
one
penny,
most surprising to most people is the asser
The
other-
variety
of
baby,
the
monkey
[that on the shilling of Edward 1. Once a states, in New Jersey, for instance, the average individuals. But with the pub
thoroughly rinsed in three successive editions
¡lapidary was allowed to examine this tails- fertilizers are analyzed, and the qualities lishers who know me ’well I meet with no would, prior to 1840, have been treated as a 'sort, is frequently hairy on the head, and tion that plum pudding, eaten by itself, not of cold water, and, after being wrung out,
[man and found it was a stone—but of what of chemicals found in each sample com such mortification. I generally wait for treble letter, and charged four shillings and ¡of very deep red ocher or intense orange after an otherwise heavy dinner, is by no are hung up in the hot air room to dry. <Fi •
three pence, or more than fifty fold the pres color. It inclines to skinniness, and as means indigestible. If we ate it before, in
pared with what the manufacturer claimed
¡kind be could not toll.
them to give me an order. Sometimes my
punching is not desirable under these cir stead of after, the beef and turkey it would nally they are pressed out, and then they are
| The tradition:»1 account of this Lee Penny, that the composition contained. So as to tales go into their weekly papers, some ent rate.
Letters in those days were almost al ways cumstances the visitor should always make do us no harm. Nay, it would do us good. ready for delivery. In cases where goods left
jas delivered by the family which has possessed make this perfectly plain, the money value times they are printed in pamphlet form.”
sent unpaid, and were in many cases refused 'some remark as to the astonishing length And Why? Because the grape, of which it is here are very moderately dirty we only dry
lit for over 560 years, is singular enough. of the chemicals found in each sample is
“But you started out to tell me,” I said;
clean them, that is to say, the spots are taken
¡Robert Bruce, king of Scotland, dying in 1329, noted and compared with the price charged “just how you manufacture your novels by the persons to whom they were addressed, of the limbs and predict that it will be a mainly composed, is the greatest supplier of out with benzine and they are pressed. Like
especially by those of the poorer classes, so tall child. Nervous people often feel a cer potash, and because potash is the best cor
¡left a will which directed Lord James Doug by the manufacturer. Some startling re and romances.”
most
cleaners, we do mending and repairing,
that the postoffice constantly overshot its tain alarm at being with infants of this rective of lithic acid, to which we owe gout
las, commonly called the Good, to convey his sults have been shown. One fertilizer sell
“You use the proper word, manufac
and it is no unusual thing for-us to have a
heart to the Holy Laudato be buried in Jerusa ing, say, at twenty-five dollars per ton, ture,” he laughed, “for they are literally mark in its endeavor to make a great profit, ¡class, because the expression of their faces and rheumatism. It comes to this then— customer who takes it for granted that, for
lem—hence, a heart, crowned and bleeding, would be found to have a value of twenty made by hand, as it were. It does require and had to carry the letter from .the writer is so prematurely old and wise. The clev that if Mr. Williams’ science is good science, the small amount we charge, the clothes he
¡appears in the armorial bearings of the Doug eight; another, selling at forty dollars a | some little intelligence, however, and not to the addressee, and after all to lose the erest man feels his miserable insignificance we ought to cultivate plum pudding all the wishes to have cleaned will be made over
las family to this day. Douglas went to fight ton would Be found to be worth only fif- I a few literary men of some reputation but whole postage. The old high rates of postage land foolishness beneath the weird stare of year round, and to eat it, moreover, in pref again, as to buttons and patches, like new,
the Saracens in Spain instead of going direct teen dollars; and in one instance I recall I . meager incomes essay the blood and thun simply killed all domestic or friendly corre 'one of these infants; it is so immeasurably erence to beef and turkey, not to say goose. incidentally. Very many articles are left
to Palestine, was slain in battle, and the per the manufacturer charged fortv-three dol- | der novel and completely fail at ite They spondence, or drove it into illicit channels, wise and ancient, so far removed from the Not only this, but the children ought to have on our hands, mostly by people who find
two helpings of plum pudding, whether they
son who carried Bruce’s heart to its destina lars a ton for his complete fertilizer, and Î can surpass me in diction, felicity of ex and in proof of this Rowland Hill, in 1847, “mistakes of human life.
themselves unable to pay the charges upon
On the other hand, it is safer to hold one ask for it or not.—London Globe.
tion was one Simon Lee, who, to commem the chemist found that its actual value ! pression and beauty of thought, but they drew attention to the remarkable fact that
them. Impecuniousness is the ordinary
was
only
$2.50.
in
the
twenty
years
ending
with
1835
(during
of
these'than
one
of
the
former
variety,
be
orate his achievement, took the name of
lack
the
life,
the
constant
dramatic
pose
of
reason for such failure, but it would surprise
Pay of Actors in Rome.
which period the trade and population of the cause they have rudimentary bones and do
Bulletins like these have certainly done
[Lock-heart, putting on his shield a heart
the
characters
and
the
swift
movement
of
United Kingdom had greatly increased), the. not fall to pieces; also their heads are
great good, for they hâve warned farmers
In view of the complaint often heard as you to know how many of our customers die
within a lock.
the actors which have become the natural
or get into jail, so that they can’t very well
' In the Holy Land this gallant gentleman from buying inferior chemicals, and they characteristics of all I write. Let me tell revenue of the postoffice had remained sta 'firmly attached tQ the rest of them and do towhat it costs to bring first rate actors take their things away. All that line of coats
[fought fiercely against the Saracens. Hav have compelled manufacturers to keep you my method: In the first place, I keep tionary. As an instance of the extraordinary ¡not roll. The real secret of successfully and singers before the public, it may not and pants along the rear wall belonged once
ing captured an emir in battle, the aged their compositions up to the advertised a scrapbook; not such a voluminous tome charges sometimes made under the old sys holding both sorts of babies is to grasp the be uninteresting to examine whether the to men now dead.”
[mother of that prince came to ransom hi:h. standard. When there is more universal as Charles Reade kept, to be sure, but still tem^ it is stated that in 1839 Sir John Bur- .clothes firmly and let the baby look out for histrionic brethren and sisters of olden
“How do you dispose of such things?” asked
[As was his right, Lockhart exacted as large education among the farmers it will only a book filled with many hundreds of news gone wrote to'complain that-for a packet of itself. It cannot, however, be impressed times were really content with merely the newspaper man.
a sum as possible, whiclf the old lady was be necessary to express the values of fer-, paper clippings—an inexhaustible mine, papers sent to him at Dublin, from some too strongly upon the mind that inverte earning their bread and their laurels. To
“To ordinary customers. People often
[willing to pay—-partly in cash, partly in.jew tilizers in chemical terms. We have the into which I delve for plots, exciting ad other part of Ireland by mail coach, as a let brate animals are best regarded from a dis go back to the classic days of Rome, in come in here and inquire if we have this gar-*
Ovid’s time, the beautiful Dyonisia, the
els. Taking the latter out of her purse, there authority of the United States agricultural ventures, queer happenings of alb kinds, ter instead of a parcel, ha had been charged tance and not tampered with.
A careful and intelligent 'study of the first woman who ever appeared on a Ro ment or that to sell cheap. As a rule we
[fell out of it a. stone set in a silver coin, and department for the statement that in the names for my characters and places, and a postage of £11. That is to say, for a packet
which he could easily have carried in his baby leads the impartial observer to the man stage, received 200,000 sesterces per have something of the sort desired. We
she picked this up with so much haste and states where experiment stations have long even for striking titles for my chapters.
been
established
the
greater
number
of
the
pocket
he
was
charged
a
sum
for
which
he
■conclusion that it is a development of the season, i. e., $10,000. Phoebe Vocontia came never sell to the second hand clothing men,
anxiety that the Scottish knight became as
HOW HE PROCEEDS.
could have engaged the whole mail coach.— 'genus or order Holothurian, a creature out in the following year: she received one- because they don’t pay fair prices.”
sured that it must be far more valuable than farmers now need nothing more than these
The view of this interesting subject taken
“Truth is really stranger than fiction, London Standard.
¡composed of a mouth and rudimentary third more than her predecessor, leaving
lit appeared. He refused to liberate the em.r chemical terms to guide them in selecting
stomach. Let any one who doubts this out of the question the magnificent gifts by an expert whose sign hung out only a few
unless that amulet were given him. After the special fertilizers needed in given and all these clippings tell a story of actual
The. People of^^ragnay.
place any object (the costlier the better) which those ladies used to get from their doors away was very different. Said he:
[many refusals the lady consented and deliv cases.—-John Gilmer Speed in Harper’s occurrences. I find it is hardly ever neces
“It must have been one of these cheap
sary to exaggerate. I jot down names of
Asuncion women, tliouglvalways barefoot, within reach of a baby, and he will see it admirers in appreciation of their art.
ered it to- him, explaining how it was to be Weekly.
all
sorts
as
I
meet
them
in
reading.
There
the clothes were clean, hair nicely combed, conveyed, as a matter of course, to that
Esopus, who was at the same time the cleaners that you interviewed. There is a
used and what wondrous healing virtues it
An Indian Gliost Story.
is great suggestiveness in a name. Take and the little hut, as a rule, scrupulously neat baby’s mouth. This is a universal law of greatest tragedian, the most dissipated primitive method practiced by such as they,
possessed.
A college professor who was stopping at a
with soap and warm water, which does very
| On one occasion complaint was made in house near Herrington, Kan., was awakened such a name as Paggles or Bippus or Bob- and only containing one room, with a shed 'babyhood; coal, soap, penknives, hair man about town and the biggest fool of well for amateurs. But did you ever see a
let—all actual cognomens which I have attached. The furniture consisted of a bed brushes, books, toys, boots, umbrellas, are his time, left his son the remains of his
¡Scottish ecclesiastical courts against Sir by a light in his room, and, white with terror, seen
on signs or met in ‘newspapers—and stead, a hammock, home made chairs and al all tested by the mouth, and the bigger the fortune—2,000,000 sest. Cicero—and he is grease spot destroyed by soap and water?
[James Lockhart, then laird of Lee, for cur he looked out from the bed to see an Ind’an
Hardly, I think. It will disappear tempora
ling diseases by witchcraft, but on trial' the in full war paint, but as ethereal as a wraith, they present a distinct character to my im ways a wooden vessel in which the corn is article the more the baby enjoys the effort good authority on such matters—tells us rily, only to come out again as offensive as
that Roscius had 500,000 sest. per annum
Lee Penny was solemnly pronounced to be an standing before him beckoning. He followed agination at once. Then, on the other pounded. Each day the women thus manu to swallow it.
ever
after a little dust has had time to settle
hand, take the name of Gertrude or Flor facture their flour for the day’s use.
BABY
IS
AN
OPTIMIST.
from the government, which in Rome sup
'amulet, “to which it had pleased God to an and was led to the grand parlor on the floor
or the ‘stately name of Eleanor,
The epidermis, or outer surface of the ported most public amusements. This upon it. To really cleanse a pair of panta
My curiosity to see something of the home
nex certain healing virtues which the church beneath, where, in a circle, with the beauti ence,
loons,
for instance, a much more elaborate
which became her well,’ as an old time life of the poorer class was gratified by stop baby, bears a general resemblance to vel same Roscius was considered very patriotic
¡did not presume to condemn.”
ful paintings, the upright piano, the book
method of procedure. must be adopted. In
| When the plague was in the town of New cases and the portieres for a background, romancer put it, ór of simple Mary, Kate ping to rest at one of the huts. There was vet. and frills, but as the town naturalist for playing free of charge on certain sol this establishment a scientific system does
or Sue. Each belongs to a particular style
castle, on the borders of Scotland, the inhabi stood a group of ghostly warriors, each with of being and fits like a garment. The the cotton growing in the yard', and I saw is not often provided with a magnifying emn occasions.—Philadelphia Music and the work. To begin with, all the men’s
tants borrowed the Lee Penny, giving a bond sterti and solemn countenance. Silently they average voracious novel reader has a great our hostess in her picturesque costume gather glass, he cannot speak with certainty of Drama.
clothing that is brought in is divided into
to a very considerable amount for its safe re excavated a shallow grave in the parlor floor taste and discrimination for the opposite it with her own hands, and spin thread with the huge masses of millinery in nurses’
Caught a Tartar.
three classés—very dirty, moderately dirty
no machinery whatever, only skillfully twist arms invariably containing a baby. «
turn. The plague suddenly disappeared, and brought one of their number—a ghostly ness of these things.
It isn’t any fun to be a stamp clerk at j and comparatively clean. The three grades
A general rule may here be given—when
ing it in her fingers.
which the inhabitants attributed to the talis corpse—and laid him therein. Then, while
represent pretty accurately three correspond
the
postofflce,
but
the
limited
variety
of
“Well, I start out and select a title for
My bedroom consisted of a hammock tied the mass squeals it is safe to conclude that
man, which they offered to purchase at a the professor stood with hair erect and start my story. It must be startling or sensa
to two posts in the yard; and my dressing there is a baby inside, as all naturalists are I articles at their disposal makes the posi ing classes of customers. It is undesirable’
■large cost, but the owner refused.
ing eyes, they circled about the grave (or tional or interesting, just as the display or
tion rather easy, particularly since the in to mix them up. Suppose—to take an ex
I In the reign of William III a lady of rank what appeared to be such) and finally filed scare head of the newspaper is intended to room was a cleared space behind the rancho, agreed that babies can and do squeal; but formation bureau has been in operation. treme case—the germs of some disease were
near Edinburgh, bitten by a mad dog, bor out through the door. There was a slamming arouse the ’interest of the reader. I take with a nice carpet of green. The skill of these even here there is very little statistical. in Occasionally a funny man or a crank is on present in a certain coat: they might be
rowed the stone, drinking and bathing in the of window blinds, a rattling of casements and many of my best titles bodily from the lowly women is simply wonderful. At an formation to be relied upon, some authori duty inside the window. That’s the kind communicated to other garments, and our
¡water in which it had been dipped, and at a whirl of damp air, and the professor stood headlines of some newspaper sensation. In other place we stopped we saw the women ties stating that the creature is of noctur who was at one of the windows when a business would suffer. Therefore it is that,
tributed her complete cure to its use. This alone in the great parlor with the piano and the next place I make a table of contents— making the beautiful nanduti lace, so fatuous nal habits and howls chiefly at nights, nervous individual, who was in a hurry, after the clothes to be stitched have had
others declaring that it howls unceasingly;-
water, called Lockerlee water, is in high re books about him. He returned to his room, Chapter I, ‘The /Strange Arrival at Chet- id this country.
These poor people are very hospitable, while mothers rapturously affirm that baby approached just ahead of me on the line. numbers stitched into them with white cot
pute throughout the west of Scotland. In and the next day, taking a hint from his wyn Hall;’ Chapter II, ‘The Stranger’s.
never cries. There ought to be very little He laid down two pennies and said noth ton, for purposes of identification, the fore
seeming
to
take
such
genuine
pleasure
in
Hdpe’s “Table Book” is a short description of night’s experience, examined carefully the Sudden Death;’ Chapter III, ‘The Mysteri
ing. It would be presumed, without a very man divides them up.
the Lee Penny, with an accurate engraving debris thrown out by the workmen in exca ous Woman in Black;’1 Chapter IV, ‘Dr. making strangers welcome and studying their difficulty in collecting reliable information great stretch of the imagination under the
“And the very dirty ones?”
this point, but the self devotion of our
of it. In the top of the silver setting is a lit vating the cellar. He found unmistakable Julien’s Discovery;’ Chapter V, ‘Put to a comfort. At one time finding myself far on
“They have first applied to them a solution
savants’has not reached that point yet. | circumstances, that he wanted a two cent
ahead
of
the
party,
I,
with
the
servant,
tle chain, by which it was held while the pro evidences that the height had been used as a Terrible Test;’ Chapter VI, ‘The Flight by
stamp, but t-h'is clerk made no move.
of chloroform, éther and benzine in equal
cess of dipping it into the water was per burial ground by the Indian tribes in the Night;’ Chapter VII, Tn Love’s Fetters,’ stopped at a little hut to rest our horses and Historically considered, the babies have
“
Well?
”
said
the
man
after
a
moment.
parts
lyith water. Next they are placed in
get a drink, writes a correspondent. Though neyer been of much account unless they
formed.
past. The spectral funeral which he wit and so on to the end of thè tale.
“Well,” echoed the clerk, “what’ll you a machine by which steam is forced through
the old woman of the place .talked quarim were of the male sei, and not always then,
I The inhabitants of Persia, Arabia, Turkey nessed was the repetition of one of their old
“Of course, I get a central idea to work (Indian), and could not understand my Span i One interesting feature is to be observed , have?”.
them at a tremendous pressure. What is
and Egypt have very great faith in amulets burials.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
“A two cent stamp, confound it! What’d the result? I can best explain it by referring
out, and my chapter headings indicate to ish, she was not contented to give me a chair, in the baby of the present day. j Although
’ ’ _
¡and talismans, believing that to wear them
L the last
..... I you suppose I wanted—two sticks of candy to the chief disadvantage of the primitive
my mind some of the scenes that are to be but put up a hammock, asking me if I did not so low down in the scale of events,
will* prevent accidents and even cure dis
described; but the rule of the great novel prefer to lie down.
process. Consider, if you please, that each
born baby starts in life with the same ego or a two cent whistle?”
A Supposed Shakespeare Table.
eases. Walter Scott did not disbelieve the
What had been intended for a sarcastic piece of cloth has three sides, a right side,
I found that during the warmest weather ism and self confidence as if it were the
A very interesting piece of furniture has ists, never to undertake to tell a story till
virtues of the Lee Penny, though he did not
______
je
S
_.
____
.S.
._.
The
ex-
smile
on
the
face
of
the
funny
clerk
quickly
you have a story to tell, does not hold with
a wrong side and an inside. The inside is
and only baby in the world.
explain why. He hinted that imagination just been added to the museum at Shakes me. My story is never anythiug like com (mid-summer this was, in January) the na first
perience of hundreds’of generations has changed to a sickly grin. He toss&d out the web and woof of the material. Get a bad
might have a good deal to do with any cures peare’s birthplace—an old oaken table said plete in my mind until I have .written ten tives are all in the habit of sleeping in their done nothing to modify thé natural hope- [ " stamp and retired into his shell.—New grease spot on your trousers, of course it
hammocks,
and
it
did
dot
take
me
long
to
to have belonged to Shakespeare’s family
attributed to it.
chapters of it. I make it up as I go along,
goes right through the stuff and no amount
.fulness and optimism of thè baby. Cain York Herald,
In Hone’s “Table Book” he says: “There and to have been in use in the poet’s day. It as the children would say. It moves, for discover how much cooler and more comfort
of ordinary soap and water will remove it.
was not more serenely optimist ’
When a Man Can See 200 Miles.
are some ludicrous instances of wonderful was only discovered a few days ago, and ward steadily, of course, but not with that able hammocks werb than ordinary beds.— himself
You may sponge it out of the right side and
than
the
last
new
infant,
for
the
sin
and
cures performed in the north of England on one’s examination of it on Saturday was consummate art that a Dickens or a Bui- New York Journal.
About
200
miles
in
every
direction
is
the
the wrong side, but it still remains in the
sorrow of the world does not touch the
credulous people, by| virtue of water wherein practically the first inspection to which it wer employed.
distance
a
man
can
see
when
standing,
on
substance of the inside, and sooner or later
baby. It-starts as fresh as Adam every
A Wonderful I etri faction..
•the Lee Penny was reputed to have been has been submitted. It is a low round table,
a clear day, on the peak of the highest
THE EVOLUTION OF THE PLOT.
Joseph Sweshenger, who resides near Stan time, and believes it can have the moon to mountain, say at a height of 26,668 feet, or it will reappear on the surface. We avoid
dipped, and yet neither the. water nor the Lee with raised edge, standing on a stout center
“
The
reader
of
trashy
novels
or
of
boys
’
iplay
with
witu
the
same
cheery
obstinacy
all this by forcing the dirt out on the sur
r
PréSs
particulars
ford,
writes
to
The
RivJ
leg with three toes. The top has evidently
Penny had crossed the Tweed.”
books of adventure doesn’t require it any
its prehistoric thousandth great a little over five miles above the level of face with the steam blast and washing it
I The Lee Penny cures are not more ingredi-* been beeswaxed for centuries. On the under more than the reader of an ordinary news of a wonderful discover^ he recently made in ¡that
the sea. An observer must be at a height away as it comes. After the steam two
grandfather
did.
ible thau the popular belief that prevailed for surface of the table two letters (J. W.) appear. paper sensation. I have some little diffi an unfrequented mount« h near his residence.
The reign of faith can never die put of 6,667 feet above sea level to see objects , more applications of the benzine, ether and
The discovery consists on J petrified man, with
The old Stratford families whose surnames
■many centuries that the British sovereign
at a distance of 100 miles. The distance in chloroform are made; the article of dress is
culty with my opening chapter often, for it
of preservation, while babies are being born; they believe miles at which an nhieet n'nnn
had the poster of curing diseases by touching begin with W are legion. Shakespeare had must be decidedly thrilling, and when I all his limbs in a perfect
surface
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of ^everything, hope
i of the earth is visible is equal to the square TfTrügäT fÖT&ffrit
the part fleeted. Especially was this the I cousins named Webb, but t.he records do not tome to the pointwhere the wise publisher Thii
hüfig fifiTn thä~hb’t'
- îêfiTugi'enttuTe will doubtless do some- root of one and a half Limes the height of
base in regard to the disease known as scrof- 1 allow any of them a Christian name needing quietlj' adds, ‘To be continued in our next,’ which it seems t » r. ■ m
room
to
dry,
and is subsequently pressed for
thing to modify the extreme youthfulness
.'ula, or king’s evil. Edward the Confessor I I or J. The information on which the table I must make the situation positively elec cannot be removed withoutwnadbrable labor ¡and happiness of the baby, as it has low the observer in feet above the sea level.
delivery.
There
is.
no
sort
of spot that will
nine centuries, ago, “touched” many of hi»- . was purchased is to be found in a statement trifying. I often do that without knowing and expense. A tiny stream of water, flow ered our vitality and curtailed our passion; L. j" Some allowance has to be made for the not come out after that treatment. Moder
x subjects. Chroniclers differ in opinion o i made on oath before Mr. Lloyd Chadwick, how under the sun I am going to extricate ing from a spring above, falls directly upon but so far t’he one irredeemable bit of sav effect of atmospheric refraction, but as ately dirty things we treat but once with the
the question whether this power was due t > Warwick. This gentleman, who is 80 years the unfortunate individuals whom I may the head of the body, and, after passing over agery which no knowledge has touched, the refraction varies at different heights, chloroform solution before steaming, and
it, loses itself in the surrounding rock.
of age, states that when a boy he remembers
and is affected by the various states of the
the special piety of Edward, or whether
have left facing a brace of burglars’ revol
The body measures 6 feet and 9 inches no refinement smothered, no civilization Weather, no precisely accurate figures for clothes that are only slightly soiled we
was inherent in the blood of the Saxon kings. the table being in the possession of his grand vers, or in a burning building, or on a
merely sponge the stains out of and finish
veneered,
is
that
utterly
irreclaimable
from
the
crown
of
the
head
to
the
soles
of
the
general purposes can be given. Probably
To what extent the Norman kings follov c 1 mother, and he often heard it spoken of by sinking ship, or even before the breakfast
vestige of primitive man in all his original one-fourteenth to one-tenth of the distance with the iron.”
the example is not known, but Henry II cer her and others. She bought it from a wom- fire of merciless cannibals. But my scrap feet, and is well proportioned, the chest and savagery—the baby.—Black and White;
“And how is it about women’s dresses and
limbs being of ponderous width and size.
! an who purchased it at the sale of Shakes
' given by the formula would have to be de- such things?”
tainly “touched.”
book often comes to my aid, and theirs,
__
__ _
' ducted, owing to the refraction of the at-
An __________
Unsatisfied Query.
_ ' The ceremony was more or less continued peare’s house in Henley street, Stratford-on- too, and shows me what really occurs in' The features are of a severe Roman type,
“For them we use mostly what we call the
to the Eighteenth century. . The Stuarts be Avon, and it was always known in the fam life and I am all right, and go on for an surmounted by a broad, high forehead and a
You have blown out a candle, no doubt. r Biosphere. —London Tit-Bits.
‘dry’ process. This means the application of
lieved in it, or at any rate accommodated the ily as Shakespeare's table.—Birmingham Ga- other chapter or two till I get the poor luxurious growth of hair, which is as firm as Where did the flame go that vanished be
chloroform
and ether. Both are wonderfully
rock itself. A beard reaching to the waist
Heow?
belief of it in the minds of other jiersons.
volatile, yon know, leaving the fabric .dry a
creatures of my brain into more embar completes a picture which inspires a feeling fore your breath? As easily answered, and
The day was cold and the sleet driving. second or two after they are put on. Just
William III did not. Macaulay says that
rassments.
”
more
so,
perhaps,
than
the
world
old,
time
How to Preserve Meats.
when the king heard that his palace was be
I asked my friend what he usually did i of awe and reverence in the beholder. Cer worn query, where dofes the vital flame go The train stopped at a little station. The how they are used is a secret of the trade
tain hieroglyphics are cut upon the rock, a
sieged by a crowd of sick persons toward the ' Commissioner of Agriculture Henderson with his characters eventually.
when breathed upon by the wind of death? forward door of the car opened and a gen which I am not at liberty to disclose. Most
“Put them where they belong. In this true copy of which Mr. Sweshenger promises One moment here, active, intense; the next tleman, in a suit of black and cravat of cleaners
close of Lent he exclaimed: “It is a silly su- ■ has found another excellent recipe for pre-
employ benzine liberally, but in this
•
one
respect
I
don
’
t
follow
nature.
I
pun-
to
send
us.
Thus
far
he
has
kept
the
discov
___
__
_____
serving
meat,
which
he
is
anxious
to
have
the
white, entered; but, without quite closing
perstition; give the poor creatures some |
as little of it is employed as possible,
the bad and reward the good. The ery a secret, but will in due time divulge its —where? Where does God store these in the door, he stood peering searchingly shop
though it is a powerful cleaner, because it is
money and send them away.” And when
Li_, on • farmers of Georgia make use of, as he con- . ; ish
telligences
whose
record
is
thus
effaced
in
villains
are
killed
or
sent
to
jail.
The
he-
a particular occasion, a patient was impor 1 siders it an excellent one. For 1,000 pounds , roes finally conquer, always get the girl of locality. It will doubtless attract the sa midforce? When the gardener plucks roses through his colored spectacles at the few a greasy fluid, and clothes treated with it
tuning for a touch, William said: “God give
give , of meat, mix with 100 pounds of salt, 2 ' their choice, and generally an unexpected vants of the day, and a large sum of money he carries them to the banquet hall; when occupants, particularly at a bevy of pretty catch dust readily afterward. The most dif
from it. It is, indeed, a
ficult thing to clean is velvet. To make it
1^ pounds
cloves, > 1 pound
.you
and more sense.
sense.” How
F'"» pounds saltpetre, -zs
you better healtii
ueairii—ana
now
i——----------
- fortune thrown in. Love, of course, per- may be realized
discovery, indicating as it does the harvester gathers in the ripened grain misses.
new costs about $1 a yard, and_few cus
¡far the hope of some little pecuniary advant- cayenne pepper, 6 pounds brown sugar, and vades every page of the story—you cannot wonderful
Out spoke a plain looking passenger, in like
he stores it in barns; when the vineyard
that
the
fust
inhabitants
of
this
country
tomers are willing to pay that.”
•age influenced the patient it would be diffi- dissolve in water. Then boil slowly and skim l have a successful novel without love.”— were giants.—Tacoma News.
yields its grapes the fruit is turned into a deprecatory but clear, loud voice, “Shut
;
New
York
World.
I
well,
until
the
brine
is
strong
enough
to
float
cult to decide.—Troy Times.
wine; only death, chief gardener, harvester the door!”
Makiug Wax Images Wicked.
an egg. If necessary add more salt. Trim
His clerical majesty inclined his head, as
and vineyard master of all, is dumb before
The famous adventurer, Jacob, chief of
Diamond Cutting.
Although the summer of 189b was very
meat well and pack iu watertight barrels,
He Was Impolite.
if
doubting
his
ears,
fixed
upon
the
speaker
our
eager
questioning.
—
Chicago
Herald.
the Pastorals in the Thirteenth century,
I
Diamond cutting and polishing form-an
[ a glance of dignified surprise, and in a seriously believed, as he says in his ‘‘De
“CSn you give me the time, sir?” asked a and when the compound is cold pour in until exceptionally cool, murders and suicides
Trees Were Made to Be Climbed.
the meat is covered, and weight it down so were unusually numerous, a fact that interesting but difficult art. Very few ex
tone slightly nasal with a rising inflection monology,” that the devil taught men the
man in a street car.
A small boy after doing Forest park gently admonitory exclaimed, “Heow?”
‘‘You might as well ask me for a dollar,” as to keep it submerged. Keep on hand throws some discredit on the old theory pert cutters are found in the world, al
though our modern system is as old as ¡pretty thoroughly the other day, and be i “Instantly came the reply, “ W’y push it, art of making images of wax and clay, the
enough of the compound to add as it evapor- that heat is promotive of crime.
was the reply.
destruction of which brought on the sick
1456,
when
Louis
Bergnen
established
a
In
four
or
five
weeks
the
meat
will
be
ing
told that he mustn’t do this, and that
“I beg your pardonl I thought you had ates-
ness and death of the persons they repre
For preventing the vibration of the fila-, trade in Bruges. From that time until because the police had their eye on him, you fool!”—Life.
ready to hang up, then take it out, wash well
a watch.”
| X---.
sented.—L. Popoff in Popular Science
ments
in
incandescent
lamps
in
electric
quite recently the best diamonds were all remarked that he would like to ask the ■
Where Gypsies Are Found.
¿.“d i hang "p.
“I have, but time is money.”—Detroit an<
up. This should be done in dry
______
___ __ of
__ the
_________
and it would be well to dry out railway cars a lamp has the loop of the fila cut in Amsterdam, where today many of commissioners to put up a new sign and
The
majority
Scottish ___________
gypsies have Monthly. _____ _
Free Press.
I • weather,
”
with slow fires. When thoroughly dry, take ment held by a short loop of carbon sealed the finest cuttersand polishers carry on have it to read, “This tree for boys to emigrated to America, where they have
Mr. Gladstone’s Walking Stick.
their business. Since this early date im shin.”—Springfield Republican. -
Stage Jewels.
¡down and sew up’neatly in a covering of to the top of the butts.
I gpead over a vast tract of country. Here
Mr. Gladstone is the owner of the largest
provements have been made in the trade,
Props (rushing into the manager’s office) shirting or ducking, which cover well with a
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they have gradually become lost to view as lead pencil in the world. It is the gift of a
A tight shoe may sometimes be made such as the invention of machines for sim
—That, confounded Sticky, the supe, has paste made of two parts lime and one part of
The camera and ordinary oil .amp are a distinctive race. In Europe they are pencil maker at Keswick, and is thirty-
stolen the star’s diamonds!
I wheat shorts or flour. See that the paste is easy by laying a cloth wet in hot water plifying the work, but the general prin now being used to produce photographs of found in the greatest num'.er today in nine inches in length. In place of the
across
where it pinches, changing several, ciples of the art remained practically un ¡the indicator cards in. steam engines, by Hungary and Wallachia, v.
Manager—I left them in your charge put on thick enough to exclude the air. Hang
? there are customary rubber cap it has a gold cap.
and you will have to pay for them. I’ll up in cool, dry place and the méat will keep times. The leather will shape itself to the changed.—George E. Walsh in New York '[which the working of the engines can be about 500,000.—George E. L.ush in New Its distinguished owner, uses it for a walk
foot.
Epoch.
dock you three dollars from this week’s for years.—Atlanta Constitution.
seen and studied at all times.
York Epoch.
ing stick.—New York Jotirnal.
salary.—Jewd.ers’ Circular.
. *
ORIGIN OF “THE TALISMAN,” MADE
FAMOUS BY SCOTT.