A BAD SEA BONG.
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PORTRAITS OF WASHINGTON.
WAGES OF FAMOUS COOK&.
LIBRARY'S
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Farm Life in Kort
C»liR*n »kill—H«W Ckefe DI m «.
Previous to W JL Vq^derbUt's culinary
extravagance in hiring a $10,000 cook Corne-
hite was supposed to hare th* most expensive
one in town, paying Fred Hemmerle, Ml
chef. $1.W a month, the highest salary jMi<i
bv any private family in New York. Mr*.
Langtry is not so far behind. She pays Con­
stant Migirard, who get* up her meals and
travels with her, $100 a month. Ogden
Goelet gave Valtet $100, but Judge Water
bury bid a little higher and ba* him now.
John Jacob Aster ba* a Frenchman, Jcm-pb
Paeteau, who get* $100 a month and who ha*
little to do thi* winter, the family being too
deeply in mourning for even the *uialle...
dining. Eliot Shepard, another Vanderbilt
son-in-law, is fond of good cooking, and pays
a good price to Mathxee. a man who used to
be assistant cook in the Jockey club, of Peris.
Whitelaw Reid is th* dhly newspaper mm
; who can afford a famous chef as caterer to
his appetite, but he pays a good, round sum
to have his meal* prepared by Gaillet. His
rich father-in-law. D. O Mills, pay» no mo’e
to Menier, who presides over his dinner par
ties. August Belmont imported his cook
himself, having found him in rather an ob­
scure Parisian restaurant, and has never had
reason to be dissatisfied with his discovery.
'W. B. Astor employs Gustave Berand,‘and
pays him $125 h mont h. The Marshall O.
Robertses and Efradley M rtins have English
cooks, being strictly Anglican in all their ap­
pointments.
When these chefs have anight off they
never dine in their own place, but seem to
take great delight in sampling the food of
their rivals. I have seen Fred Hemmerle in
Delmonico’s with all the bead waiters flutter­
ing anxiously about him while he critically
examined the menu, and no millionaire was
as carefully served as he Delmonico’s heaii
coiik goes up to the St. Ck i d and to the res­
taurant of the Hotel Norma.idie when he has
an evening away from c a»y, and while be is
dining it’s very nearly impossible to get
waited on, for the waiter all get nervous and
forget your order while they hang about the
famous cook and wait to see upon what food
doth thisxnir Csesar feed and then rush off to
the kitchen to see that his order* come up hot
and in perfect shape. I was told on one of
these occasions by a hysterical waiter, whom
I corraled with a half a dollar and induced
to give me some attention, that these great
cooks order the simplest sort of food. They
themselves adjure most of the sauces and
gravies with which they stimulate the jaded
palates of the public and, looking carefully
over the bill, pick out just those dishes which
require, through their simplicity, perfect
ennking to make them palatable.—Brooklyn
Eagle.
An Italian woman gives a sad account of
the state of farming in the northern portions
of her country. Almost all the farmers are
tenants. They furnish the team and imple­
ments» while the landlords make repairs and
pay the taxes. The crops are equally di video.
As a rule IxAh classes have a hard tune. In
regard to the foud and drink of the laborers
she writes: The, light, pure wine, which
fore the vine disea&e cost next to nothing,
and acted as a corrective to all the defects of
diet, has been sui'cecded by wine which is
more beady and k«s wholesome, and of which
the price places it out of tboredchof the
Iteasaut as »daily beverage. On a feast day
be may drink a glass or twp>at the osteria;
but, being unaccustomed to it, it does him
snore harm than good, and violent quarrels
are the ounst-quenca The Italian navvy is
«till a prodigious worker; nearly all the
greatest engineering feats of modern times
are the work of his hand. But then, it must
be remembered that he eats and drinks better
'than* the peasant.
The rural poor can
not afford coffee, which is heavily taxed;
their drink is water, and not always pure
water, and their staple food is maize flour,
Uther prepared as polenta or made into a
very indigestible kind of bread. The former ■
is the usual and kes objectionable way of
eating it.
“Maize matures so late that in wet seasons
it does not harden naturally, mote of the
rich proprietors have introduced stoves for
drying the grain; but the jieasante are < are-
le«s and leave it out in the ram till it be­
comes moldy. Polenta forms the unfailing
morning meal; for dinner tber^ is sometimes
a minestra or soup made of rice or of the
coarser Italian ¡»astes, with cabbage or tur­
nips and a little lard. Un fast days linseed
Charitable Fair tn Switzerland. __
«Ml is a substitute for the lard. Kausages, gen­
After dinner we went to the vente, or char­
erally of a home made kind, aud raw vege­
tables with or without oil and vinegar, ure itable fair, which the young ladies of the
added when they cun be got, and eggs, cheese town were holding in one of the public build­
aud dried fish are luxuries. On dairy farms ings. It was bewilderingly like the church
the'peasants get-a little milk or buttermilk, fair of an American country town, socially
and mezzajuoii who keep a cow reserve a and materially. The young ladies had made
.«mall portion of the milk for the chil­ afl sorts of pretty knick knacks, and were
dren. Those who keep chickens eat one selling them at the little tables set about the
now and then, but butcher’s meat is hardly room; they also presided, more or less allur­
ever bought, except for a marriage or ingly, at fruit. cofTee and ice cream stands;
for a sick person. ' if a hoi-se has to be shot and—I will not be sure, but I think—some of
the jjeasants are very glad to eat the flesh, them seemed to be flirting with the youth of
and some are said to also eat that of animals the other sex. There was an auction going on,
who die of disease. Hedgehogs, frogs aud and the place was full of tobacco smoke,
snails are esteemed as great delicacies.”— which the women appeared not to »mind. A
booth for the sale of wine and beer was set
Chicago Times.
off, and there was a good deal of amiable
drinking. This was not like our fairs quite;
Queer Dwelling House*.
£,The Gilbert Islander does not generally and I am bound to say that the people of
• care to have any sides to his dwelling. He Aiglp had more polished manners, if not bet­
w;t* in four corner posts, about four feet ter, than our country town, average.—W.D.
high, made from the trunks of screw {»alms, Howells in Harper’s Magazine.
cut off and inverted so as to stand alone ou
the stumps of the branches. Lashed from
Street Car Conductors and Driver*.
one to tiie other of these are long, slender
“How often do street car conductors and
trunks of cocoanut palms, and from these drivers miss their cars in'the morning C
again spring pairs of ratters, which, in their “Not often, I tell you,” said an employe.
jturn, support the neatly thatched roof. The “When we miss our car we go to the foot of
gable eu<ts are then closed, and the house is the list and take our chances '„with the ne^
<*omplute. Not a nail or a piu of any kind is men. Sometimes it is nearly a year before
used. All the twams, rafters and the thatch we can get another car regularly." T have
are secui-ed by ingenious lashings, made gen­ seen the boys running to the barns in "th*
erally from the juilm leaf fiber, though some­ morning half dressed. Once I saw a driver
times braided from the owner’s own hair. in the winter rushing through the snow in
The floor spuce is smoothed off, and then his bare feet, his boots in his hands, yet, poor
covered with a thick bed of small, smooth fellow, be was two minutes late after all.
pebbles or coral. On this are spread plenty He had a big family, and I noticed he went
of soft, thick mats, made, of course, Iron
around behind some cars. I wâs a good
palm leaves, and then, with a supply ot friend of his, and slipped around at the risk
young cocoanuts at hand, with a string of of miæing my own car to comfort him
shell* filled with a good supply of “toddy" tie, and found he had broken down and was "
.hanging outside the house, and the huge taking a good cry. Luckily, he got back in
fragment of shark, baked in a w.do oven in two weeks.”—Chicago Tribune.
the sand, the islunder is content to eat and
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sleep uutil hungry again«. .
Safety of Building Association*.
In the middle of every village is a “council
The co-operative bpnka, sometime* called !
house.” This is a large hut, one that we
building association*, although they never
measured being 120 feet long, GO feet wide build directly, are the very ingenioh* out­
and GO feet high at the ridgepole, built on growth of an endeavor to make the savings
the same plan as the dwellings, but intended of men of moderate means yield a higher
as a place of meeting, especially for the “old rote of interest than savings banks pay, aud
men,” who rule each community. These
also todistribute these savings in small loans
“potent, grave uud revereud seignora” meet
daily, aud hear and deende all complaints, among the same class. They have proved
eminently safe and successful in both re­
and istfue all ordinances for the government spects. But here, also, the borrower must
of the people. If their decisions and ordi­ lave a “margin,” albeit a smaller oner will
nances happen to meet with the approval of pass muster than in thé savings banks. This
a majority of those interested they are is no indication of insecurity, for the loan is
adopted. If they don’t, another lot are pro­ at its maximum and the “margin” at its
mulgated the next day, and so on until the minimum only at the outset, for the monthly
matter is settled or dropped. —Kan Francisco payments immediately and constantly in
Examiner. **T'
crease the latter and decrease the former.—
Boston Herald.
The Ranchman'* Commissary Department.
A ranchman’* life is certainly a very plena
Grave of Alexander the Great.
ant one, albeit generally varied with plenty
Saida, the town at which has been discov­
of hardship and anxiety. Although occa­
sionally he pasMM days of severe toil—for ered the sarcophagus supposed to cntain the
example, if he goes on the round up he works remains of Alexander the Great, who died in
as hard as any of his men—yet he no longer 334 B. C. from a fever contracted while sur­
veying the merahes around Babylon, and tc
has to undergo tfie monotonous drudgery at
tendant upon the tasks of the cowboy or or which he was the more susceptible because
he had just got over a protracted drunk, h
the apprentice in the business. His fare ii
simple; but, if he chooses, it is good enough. about twenty-four miles from Bey rout, in
Syria,
and is the ancient Sidon or Zidon. In
Many ranches ore provided with nothing at
all but salt pork, canned goods, and bread; 1850 gold* coins of the time of Alexander,
indeed, it is a curious fact that in traveling valued at $40,000, were unearthed there, and
it was while at the head of the French ex
through this cow country it is often impos
sible to get any milk or butter; but this fa ploring expedition there in 1860 that M.
Renan picked tip a good many of the point»
only because the owners or managers are tot
lazy to take enough trouble to insure their which he used in his famous “Life of Christ.T
own comfort. We ourselves always keep up —New Orleans Times-Democrat.
two or three cows, choosing such as are nat­
Rolling Out Rifle Barrel«.
urally tarns, and so we invariably have plenty
of milk and, when there is time for churning v By means of recently invented processes in
the
manufacture
of rifles as many as 130 bar
a good deal of butter.
We also keep bens, which, in spite of ths rels can now be rolled m an hour by one ma
damagiug inroads of hawks, bob cats and china. They are teraighte”«»! cohl and bored
foxes, supply us with eggs, and in time of with corresponding speed, *xjd even the rifling
need, when our rifles have failed to keep us in im done automatically, so that one man tend­
game, with stewed, roast or fried chicken, ing six machtnes can turn out six|y or seventy
also. From our garden we get potatoes, and barrels per day. With the old rifling ma
uuiess drought, frost or grasshoppers inter­ chines twenty barrels were about the limit ol
fen» (which they do about every second year) a day’s work, but the improved machines at>
other vegetables as well For fresh ment we tend to everything after being started, and
when the rifling is completed ring a bell U
dt ¡»end chiefly upon our prowess as hunters.
call the attention of the workmen.
—Theodore Roosevelt in The Centurv.
An Incom peter t Railroad Engineer.
Ikmbrandt Peal«** Aecou«t of H«w th«
Firte PrMldeat
tor Hi* Father.
Rembrandt Ptede, the artist who painted
th© famous, but horrible in its subjact and
•uccestivenes*, picture, “The ’ Court of
Death,” waaaMof the also famous Charles
Wilson Peale, who painted from personal
■itting* several portrait* of Washington. In
a recent interview be said: ‘ Washington
gave sitting* U> Stuart and iny father at the
same time, and I was often with him. Thi*
was when he wa* president -about 1734 Ho
sat for my father in the quiet early morning,
before his state toilet had been made, and
when he appeared to the eyes of the charmed
olwerver simply as George Washington, the
man aud citizen. He was then about 62
year* old, and the toils and trials which he
bad ;*as*ed through a* the commander of the
army, and the quite as great cares of six
vwere of the presidency, added to the weight
of increasing years, had told with no little
severity upon his tall, stately and still impos­
ing frame and features. His somewhat thin
ha’.r was gray; years and fear* and care*
had all left traces on his face, and his teeth
being gone, the lips and cheeks and lines
about the mouth were somewhat ckpressed
and contracted. My father’s portrait of
him,” related Mr. I^ale, “was exactly of
Washington as he really was while he wo*
the man only, and before he had prepared
himself, a* president, to enter upon his, more
especially then than now, arduous duties us
chief executive of the great but very young
republic,”
“But why,” it was asked, “the two por­
traits being painted at the same time, should
Stuart’s be so very unlike your father’s!”
“Simply because,” continued Peale, “as I
have already stated, Washington gave his
sittings to Stuart on the same day, bite after
'a careful preparation of bis state toilet; and
he was exceedingly, almost austerely nice in
all matters of conventional dress and deport­
ment. Indeed, the remove from the manner*
and customs of England's monarchy was so
recent and so slight that the social atmos­
> phere of the White House partook largely of
: the etiquette of the court, and the expected
I and practiced deportment q^«|^ executive
chamber was as formal in’ffegree as that
which had been necessary in order to have
i i audience with the king.
“This state toilet, among other things, in­
cluded the careful combing and powdering of
the hair and the tying of it in a cue; also a
discreet “make up” of the face, and, most
i noticeable of all, the fitting into the mouth of
a full aet of false teeth. Now, th* art and
skill of the dentist in those days had not at­
tained to a very perfect imitation of nature,
end the plates being large and clumsy, gave
to the mouth and whole lower portion of the
face that flat, full, square and unnatural ap­
pearance which all careful observers of
Btuart’s great portrait cannot fail to observe,
and which., is very often questioningly re­
marked
This
portrait
adopted —
as
m/H
ACT1 upon.
UfJVU.
*
•» waw was
wmr vwyrww
^harmonizing more fully with the courtly
conception of what the personal appearance
and habiliment* of one in so great authority'
should be; but m a portrait, it is of the
president rather than of the man. and is to
be regarded as the ideal, rather than as the
real Washington.”—A 8. Pease in The Sara-
togian.
The danger of running on an engine han­
dled by an incompetent engineer or a man
who has remained at some other business
long enough to get rusty is not fully under­
stood by the traveling world. I had an ex­
perience of that kind that drove me off the
road and into more pleasant lines of labor.
The Iowa legislature passed a law in 1877
holding all railroads responsible in heavy
amounts for loss of life or in juries incurred
in their service, and to offset the liability the
railroad addressed a circular' to all employe*
Who h'Bever CrazyT
asking them to relinquish their claims. One
There are many firm believers in the theory
morning I had fired up as usual, and run the that most people are crazy at times, and
engine around to await the freight which Wo facts seem to support their belief. T^ie fol­
were to take west from Burlington. Before lowing, from a source unknown to the
the hour an agent stepped up and asked the writer, will likely remind a number of our
engineer to sign the agreement. He refused readers of some incident in their experience,
and was discharged on th£ spot. A new man which at the time of its occurrence seemed
was put in the cab. He had an engineer’s to them most unaccountable.
license, and everything looked straight, so
■“A wise man will step backward off a
far as papers went. During the talk my fires porch or into a mud puddle; a grg£.t philoso­
had run down, so 1 filled in coal until steam pher will hunt for the specks that are in his
was hissing out of the safety valve, and then band or on his forehead, a hunter will some-
I opened the furnace door.
----- um«« shoot himself nr insdog. A working
Having taken our train, an hour later we girl bad,beetv feeding a great clothing knife
were spinning along nicely when I turned to for ten years. One day she watched the
feed the fire. Throwing open the door I ob­ knife come down slowly upon her hand. Too
served the crown sheet and rivets showin;
late she woke out of her stupor with one
through the fire box, and lodked up at tiu
hand gone. For a few seconds her mind had
gauge only to find that we were running witl failed, and she sat by her machine a tem­
a dry boiler. I yelled to my partner, and h< porary lunatic and had watched the knife
started out on the running board with i approach her own hand.
hammer in one hand. The pump had stoppec
A distinguished professor was teaching
working. The new man struck the meta
near a canaL Walking along one evening
gently to loosen the plunger. That's all i in summer he walked as deliberately into
saw. I started over the cool in the tender
the canal as ho had been walking along the
and, climbing up on the side of the first car
path a second before. He was brought to
was not long i|i putting twelve or fifteen car
his senses by the water and mud and the ab­
between me and that engine. Reaching th
surdity of the situation. He had on a new
caboose and sitting on the cupola, I waitc
suit of clothes and a new silk hat, but though
for the explosion. If that fool with his han;
the damage was thus great, he still laughs
mer had succeeded in starting that pump h
over the adventure. Our mail collectors
would have gone into eternity the nex
find in the iron boxes along the streets all
second, for the toiler was at a white heat,
sorts of papers and articles which have been
wasn’t in a suicidal frame of mind, and taat’>
put in by some hand from whose motions the
why I lit out. But the old adage about fool
mind has become detached for a second. A
and children proved true, for that engine?
glove, a pair of spectacles, a deed, a mort­
had to stop, draw the fire flud wait for:
gage, a theatre ticket, goes in, and on goes
relief engine. We had only run fifteen miles
the person, bolding on to the regular letter
but the damage in half an hour took
which should have been deposited. This is
months to repair.—Globe-Democrat
called absent miudedness, but is a brief
view.
lui^jy.”—Scientific American.
A KlDf Who Hesitated.
The king who heritatc* is very often
lost, just as muci} as though he were an
ordinary aortal A very interesting dis­
covery of recent date shows that if Louis
XVI had only been ¿. little less dilatory he
might have prevented the taking of the
Ba*tile, and possibly changed the course
of history. It is now clearly proved that
early in 1788 he had given his conditional
approval to a plan for demolishing the
Hostile and for laying out the site as a
garden; and a p.an was actually prepared
rbowing how the proposed change could
be effected, but the king, unfortunately
for himself, did no: at once approve this
plan when it was placed before him. He
•:dd he would think about it, and while
be was thinking other and more stirring
events followed, till presently, on July 14,
17S9. the Parisians, tired of waiting for
the king’s consent, pulled down the Bastile
on their own account. The original plan
for laying out the site as a public garden
is still in existence, and may be seen by
the curious among the historical treasons,
•it the National library at Paris.—London
Figaro
Dakata Kdltor and flla£
,
Stranger (to
Dakota landlord >—l
■oticed a party of scarred and crippled
eutiemen at a 'able in. the dining room,
»far veterans, 1 s’pose, enjoying an an
null df lner*
Dakota Landlord—Na str; it s agrees
(inner, given by the editor of the Daily
Paralyser Io his staff.—The Epoch.
A 8o|<iler*s Special Pension.
Benjamin Franklin, of tlie Second Mln-
^esqfa volunteers, is the only man on the
government i«cnsion rolls who sacrificed
both hands and feet in the late civil war,
and ns there is no provision of law ap­
plicable to such special cases, a bill will
be presented to congress increasing the
pension he now receives to $150 a month,
lie now receives the pay provided for a
soldier or a sailor who has lost both hands
or both feet — Nev York World.
Not a Word of Praise.
Mrs. Frou Frou—George, dear, you
have never said a word in praise of my
reception gown; the blue one, with the
V-shaped back, you know.
Mr. F. F. (with a deep drawn sigh)—
Na dear; my mental obtuseness is due to
the thoughts I had of the V-shaped green­
backs which that dress represents.—Pitta­
burg Bulletin.
Flowers for Wall Street.
Among the many expenses that Wall
street broken have to face every vear ts
the Item for flowers with which they
brighten and adorn their offices. Winter
and summer, spring and fa H, huge bunches
■d expensive posies are kept on hand in
many of the very attractive offices. It is
reckoned that the average expense for an
•ffice is >10 a.day. At dusk the office
»ys and lesser clerks divide the flowers.
—Chicago Herald.
BUPERSTITION8 OF THB
the Opinio« of Loudon
I
Omena and the LihT’^O
Mr. Toole, the comedian,
J
in the subject, says that althouaS
cnsely superstitious hirnxIT.-
J
n ghosts—not the ordinary ghctt/uS
out one that walks every w«ek^5JW
As for omens, h* coufeMe« thw SI
the theatre at 7;8O and
juople right ncroes the street
loor* to open, he usually con*iA?UH
iooil
Mr. Edward Terry,
jg
London actor, is vei y fond of pyjM
»ay* tiiat bis new pieces have
producad on that day, and thathsS
travels with a company of thirtaS^B
The same boldness is a chariMtisSH
Marius. His opinions of stag«
ure as follows:
“I would rather produce a ^0^1
on a Fri<lay than a bad one on aZ!H
would rather receive £13 thaa£K3
tune. 1 would rather sit down thirt-Jj
good dinner than twelve to a 1>M
uot believe in unlucky theatrss
actors, but I believe m a gog* ¿J
acted, drawing good houses,
be.
If there is ono superstiticte^^H
to get the best of everything at tuTR
rate.”
On 4.lje otfief hand,
confesses that she is exceedingly «upqxS!
Miss Millward » even more
Fanny Leslie, the burlesque
era it unlucky to pluce an uinfatS]
prompt table, and also to drop the »J?J
duri ng rehearsal. Black cats she
very lucky, but she will never ¿a?’
tract ou Friday. Miss Letty Lind L J
some strong opinion* on the Mum ¿fl
• I am peculiar enough,” says Mim i»j!
iielieve the number thirteen to bevuykj
It was the number of my drt«iag ¿3
Lho Gaiety theatre when a L ndoJ ¡3
was kinci to me for the first tima C?
return to that theatre I snail «Ain
allowed to have the same From.
tinio I went to see a manager and m
woman with an evil eye, or rath» a m
eyed women. I walked deliberate» □
again, knowing that the muuagarh3
lion would hot believe in me. White flow
i believe, are very unfortuuate. fa »3
ladder 1 will uot. And T have found tte
1 ha peu to meet any oue on the «tin»
i am going on for a dance I don’t get u
core.”
From these few examples it "lay bi a
¿hat the English actors and actress, tte
not quite so superstitious as their ]te
•brothers and sisters, are yet not wholly fj
.rom the same influences.—Phii*^
/inies.
J
An Extraordinary Mental Po««r,
S
I know of a case where the
¡¡J
recognised evidence of a jxjwer of '"feM
ncing another’s mind through mim
-uthetic action, was most unwilling J
uiivinced. He was a doctor and oppoteM
ill belief in faith cures, and to allwwl
ecmed to favor the doctrine
uilueuce mind. He had conceived date
trong feeling of ¡jersonal dislike for ihl
nought reader—an American of souead3
ity.or notoriety, I will not say whichIkl
offered himself as a “subject,” belieUrl
hut the exhibition was chiefly humbug,(bl
»tlier “subjects” mostly coniederste, &]
nentaliy located a “pain”—that is, hl
.bought of a pain—in a particular nenl
io Lis surprise the thought reader beguhl
¡ kiss his hand over his (the exhibiteru
right jaw, and presently marked with hhi
.
■th)ger
the precise course of the nerve al»|
which the doctor had imagined theptefl
extend.
I
We see in such experiments — farhaJ
form of the power which seems in io«J
cases to have been possessed by person»»I
der* strong mental emotion, of lnflueocagi
the evidence can be rejected showing tte j
on certain occasions such power has btel
exerted—usually " without any comcted
effort. It seems much more incautiooilfl
reject the evidence than to admit the a I
istence of such a power—not, however,«
something supernatural, nor evenaipti
tem£t>ral or extra natural, but simply mi -
quality not yet explained or understood, tel
recognized, as it seems to merit, gped*l>i
vesti»ation.—Richard A. Proctor in BoteM
Globe.
The Wife of Th eoxlore Thomsa.
]■
Very few people knoW anything of Thotmf ■
domestic side, which is a very happy oa l
Some twenty years ago Miss Porter, wtel
teaches the far famed girls’ schools at Far» ■
ington. Conn., undertook to educate ayouM
girl to be her assistant and eventualsliced». ■
Jurt about the time she had crammed her ill«
of Greek and t he higher niathematicsatoifljB
unwisely invited a certain musical Gennufl
up to the school to lecture before her pupil 1
on orchestral effects aud composition Ttol
learned young graduate followed theeiampbl
of other young women less learned, and fell
promptly in love with the lecturer. He ws 1
wise enough to return it and Miss Porter tail
an assistant, while Theodore Thomas gaired w
a wife. ,
I
It is the proud and uncontradicted bote® |
this classical and mathematical scholar tte I
in all the post-twenty years her husband M
eaten but three inferior meals in his tell
house. She comes of a race of “notabW 1
New England housekeepers, and the inhtete 1
instinct" is sb strong that the theory tte]
learned women are lacking in domestkffij
if true—has no demonstration in her.
are a thoroughly affectionate and conge*»!
couple, and Mr. Thomas’ domestic existent* |
is as happy as his public career has bte]
graat. There is a pretty daughter just grown! ]
up who does not appear to greatly resemtej
either parent, as she is but a mediocre»*
sician, and despite the fact of being a *^”1
at the Harvard Annex, is considerably mtej
concerned with the fashions than with
ferential calculus.—Brooklyn Eagle.
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“One day a man whom I met,” Mid tfa.
Chicago man, “had occasion togofrte;
hie home to the county seat. HewzM'
man of more intelligence than most Ot te
fellows, but he had never in his life be«
away from home before. He had note
Been a town. The nearest approach toog
he had seen was the collection of bonte
about tbfe store whei*S he sold his true*
and bought bis bacon. When he gotbsc*
from the county seat I asked him what»
thought of what he saw. 'Well,* »J* *
‘all I got ter say is this: If this 'vorld«ij
big on the right uv us as it is on tte*
she must be a reglur whale.*