Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 4 January 1906 — Page 6

—— M Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cole pre- ’ sided at a six o’clock dinner Wed n sday evening ak their home on Nortlr Couni bus street. The affair wa< a pretty courtesy extended to her visitors., Misses Elizabeth Peterson and Pansy Bell, of Decatur, Ind., the former home of-the host ess. Other guests invited included Mr. J. Harold Reeves Mr. Clyde Clinton Cole and Mr. Will Peters. —Laoaster (O.) Gazette. The days of postoffice political machines are over, writes Louis Ludlow. The president has decreed that the '•machines’ which congressmen have been constructing from the postmasters of their districts shall go to the political junk heap and that in the future postmasters shall not consider themselves in any sense under political ob igations to congressmen or beholden to them. The president wants postmasters to understand thoroughly that they get their appointments, not from the congressmen. but from the president, and that, what is expooted of them is that they shall give efficient service and keep out of politics. The postmaster who proceeds to “work politics’’ at tho dictation of a con/ gressman will find, sooner or later, that he has made a mistake. Tee object of the administration is to sever completely the political relations between postmastrs and congressmen and to give the former to understand that they are entirely independent of the latter. While the president has yielded to congressmen to the extent of accepting their recommendations in oases now pending before the department he has served notice to senators and representatvies who have called on him that every postoffice political machine in the country must be smashed and the.t postmasters must keep out of politics. Moreover, he proposes to see that this rule be enforced to the letter. Rev. Erl R. Ricks, the famous St. Louis weather sharp, is out with his regular monthly prophesy covering January. It is as follows' The first storm period in January is central on the 2nd, and covers the Ist to the sth. A reactionary storm period is central on the 7th, Bth and 9th. Tais period is at the center of the Mercury disturbance, as well as near the mcon’s extreme north declination and full on the 9th and 10th. From the Bth to the lltb, look for a marked fall of the barometer, thick and prolonged cloudiness, and heavy sleet and . snow storms over most central and northern sections. In the south rains will be the order, while on western and northern fl inks of storm areas blizzards need surpris e no one. From about the 10th to the 13th, look for rising and high barometer. A regular storm period is central on the 14th . extending from the 12th to the 16th. Storms of this period will reach their cul minating stage on and touching the 16th. In western emotions falling baromerter and rising temperatur will show the coming of these storms by the 12th to 13th, and during the 14th, 15th and 16tn they will grow in extent and activity as they pass over the country iu daily progress from east to west. Moon, being on the oe lestial equator on the 16th and at last qua ter on the 17th, marked storms of rain, sleet and snow will culm late on those dates, being crow led closely from theron west by high barometer and another cold wave. A regular storm period is central on the 25th, reaoh- • ing from the 3rd to the 7th, calling < for increase of warmth, low baroma eter and prompt development of j cloudiness and poeoipitatin to warmer, faling barometer and rain, as a rule, may be looked for in connection with new moon. ?A I sudden rise of temperature at new ti moon in winter, is usually followed o by rain, quickly turning to snow, b rising barometer and change to much colder. Such results generally may be expected about Weda’ nesday, Thursday and Friday, the cl 24th, 25th and 26th. A dash of so severe .ortherly blizzards is not A , at ail i probable at this period. Those ao prudently watch and plar f;■ bc‘. results will ten to T1 one, be wir lets. The moon crosses the oelestia* equator on the 9th, coming from south to north de--4 5» clinatrion. T- facts, as a rule, f resiSt in obaiu.' to warmer, and of--ten in rain and thunder even in aS mid-wiuier.

J OF MASSAGE.* Nobia, Where the Inhabitant* Never Take a Hath, The masseur had just returned from Nubia, the birthplace of massage. ■ ‘/l didn’t learn as much as I expected I to± he said, “but I got hold of two 1 mAvemeuts that will eradicate wrinkles and remove fat in an incredible way. •(Nubia is a queer place. They have so little water there that they never take baths. The T.iasseb,’ or kneading, whence our word ‘massage,' is the bath's substitute. You strip, lie down and are covered from bead to foot with a cream male of mutton fat, musk, sandalwood powder and certain plant juices. Then you are kneaded, you are massaged. I studied the Nubian movements thoroughly and learned, as I say, good things. "The Nubians are a handsome and queer race. They bunt elephax ,s withthe si.ord. A hunter steals o' on a doz-' ing, elephant and slashes aim in the back of the leg ten inches above the hoof. This cut severs '-he artery, and the elephant bleeds tc death. “They cook meat on hot stones. First they build a tire, then they put big stones on it. a’,d when the stones are hot enough '-tiey clean them o', ashes and embers carefully and throw on the meat. This is a better way of rooking than the broil, for it preserves all the meat juices. But greenhorns don’t know what kind of stones to use. Most kinds heated explode. "The Nubians are shapely and handsome. They never wrinkle, they never get fat. their skins are smooth and tine. They impute these graces to the •massc-if—the massage—that they take regularly three or four times a week. Every masseur ought to go to Nubia if he wants to learn bis business thoroughly.” GLOBULES. One-third of the land surface of the globe is covered with trees. A Birmingham man named Batchelor has just married a young lady named Widdow. A penny is estimated to change hands about 125,000 times in the course of its life. A paper chimney fifty feet high and fireproof is a curiosity to be seen at Breslau, Germany. Cats are licensed in Berlin, and every cat in that city must wear a metal badge bearing a number. Gibraltar may fairly be called the land of tunnels, there being over seventy miles of burrowed rock. London has only one mile of tramways to every 30,000 of her population. Manchester has one to every 5,600. The China Times of Peking is issued in seven languages—Chinese, Japanese, English, French, German, Russian and Italian. The Nile is noted for the variety of its fish. An expedition sent by the British museum brougiit home 9,000 specimens. Glasgow has the largest tramway system of any town in the British isles. Manchester stands second, while Liverpool makes a bad third. Lion tamers frequently perfume themselves with lavender. There is, it is said, no record of a lion ever having attacked a trainer who iiad taken the precaution of using this p<wt tme. In Fiji the coinage consists chiefly of whales’ teeth, those of greater value being dyed red. The natives exchange twenty white teeth for one red one, as we change copper for silver. Where Vessels Have Eye*. Painted on the prow of nearly all the junks, or Chinese sailing vessels, are to be seen huge eyes. It is believed by the superstitious inhabitants of China that if the eye, which is raised as In relief, was not there the vessel could not see where to go and would there fore come to destruction. Even if when at sea the eye got destroyed or damaged another wouid have to be painted in at once. No Chinaman will sail on a junk which is not adorned toy a>. t-ye, and even an English passenger boat which plies between two Chinese towns has a huge eye painted on each side of het paddle boxes. Whitman on Emerson. I often say of Emerson that the personality of the man—the wonderful heart and soul of the man. present in all he writes, thinks, does, hopes—goes far toward justifying the whole literary business—the whole raft, good and bad; the entire system. You see I find nothing in literature that is valuable simply for its professional quality. Literature is only valuable in the measure of the passion—the blood and muscle—with which it is invested—which lies concealed and active in it— From Horace Traubel’s “With Walt' Whitman In Camden” in Century. Better Than References. “Can you give me references from your last place?” “No, ma’am. The last woman I worked fur was Mrs. Libby that used to live next door to you. She an’ I couldn’t get along at all. You don’t know how mean she is. I could tell you ever so many”— “You may come.”—Chicago Tribune. Very Important. “Uncle John, should I be justified in writing to a young man who has never written to me?” “Only on very important business, my dear.” “Well, this is important business. I want him to marry me!”—lllustrated Bits. In some South American tribes the i women draw the front teeth, esteemi ing as an ornament the black gap thus made. . I 1

' NELSON’S FIGHTING MEN. #■—ite Had Few Plea«ur<-» and Faced Death With a Jest. Os tne “wooden w:ni» of England, the great sailing ships in which Admiral Nelson won his victories, and of the men who worked them, a cruic writes: • Though beautiful to behold agd terrible to fight with, those old men of-war were wire often than not abodes of tyranny and wretchedness. The violence of the press gangs, which seized men of all ages and occupations, was but a prelude to the oppression that followed. Decent men were herded indiscriminately with ruffians, the rights of free born Englishmen were rudely snatched from them—for them thenceforward there was no law save the will of the captain and the dread articles of war. Shore going leave was nonexistent, the food was atrocious and scanty, punishments were barbar- ■ ous, and the only thing served out with any liberality was rum, on which the men got drunk and then were Hogged for that offense at the gratings next morning. “In Nelson’s time the seaman bad few- pleasures save the prospect of a hot fight and his daily pint of rum. But to these must be added the vainglorious satisfaction he took in his clothes. When rigged out in his best he frequently .wore rings in his ears and silver buckles on his low shoes, his short blue jacket would be decorated with gold buttons and colored ribbons sewed down the seams to give an additional gaycty, his waistcoat might be red or canary, and a black silk handkerchief would be knotted loosely round Ills throat. As the finishing touch his hair would be hanging in a cue down his back. The broad collars were first worn as a protection against the grease and pomatum used in dressing the pigtail. “But all these fripperies were discarded when the guns were cast loose from their lashings and the linstocks were lighted. It was the custom of the men when going into action to strip to the waist. They took their black silk handkerchiefs and bound them very tightly round their heads over their ears, so that the roar of the guns might not deafen them for life. It was remarked that men going into action always wore a sullen frown, however merry they were in their talk. “Methods followed in that day were curiously primitive and toilsome, but the results were undoubtedly satisfactory save to the nameless and numberless sailors who mot grim death on the black and blood stained decks or in the dark horror of the cockpit. That those hardy and careless men often faced death or disablement with a jest or a cheer only renders their unconscious heroism the more impressive.”—Chicago News. Four Good Reasons. An amusing incident happened the other day at a club which had hospitably thrown open its doors to two other clubs. A certain well known officer in the brigade of guards was guilty of the offense of smoking in the morning room. As a matter of fact, be was under the impression that it was the smoking room. A brother officer told him of his mistake. He went up to the only other occupant of the room, an old gentleman dozing in a corner, and apologized for having inadvertently broken one of the rules of the club. The old gentleman replied, without haste, as follows: “My dear sir, pray do not apologize. In the first place, I am sure you would not have smoked had you known that it was prohibited; in the second. I should be the last person to blame you if you had done so; in the third. I am not a member of the club, and in the fourth, I have just been smoking myself.”—London Globe. The Empire of Dollar*. Wall street is the capital of the em pire of dollars. Like all other capitals, it has its intrigues, its favorites, its duels, its cabals and its camarillas, and, like all other capitals, it gives its color to those who spend their lives there. It has even a sort of patriotism —“wolf honor”—which brings its citizens together at times in defense of the dollar and of property rights. The empire of dollars is not altogether a noble spectacle. We are not thrilled at the mere thought of those Venice bankers who "financed” the crusaders. We do not like to think of those Wall street manipulators who tried to corner the gold supply during our civil war, when the nation needed gold.—Samuel Merwin in Success Magazine. Time For a Change. What shall we do with our parents? There is my father ruining himself and me by his willful ignorance and my mother ruining us by her extravagances. It is a great development of the times that the ordinary child who is past twenty is altogether better educated, more experienced and wiser than are his parents' It has occurred to me to suggest that after the eldest child reaches twenty the parents should therefore come under the control of the children.—Letter in London Graphic. Belcvlnm Shrimp Flayer*. Horses play an important part in shrimp fishing along the Belgian coast. A procession of weather beaten fishermen starts from the shore, each man mounted upon the back of a trained horse, dragging the triangular purse shaped net which scoops in the shrimp as it passes over the sands. These fishermen on horseback frequently make hauls of several hundredweight in a single trip. “David Hamm,” the novel written by the late Inward Noyes Westcott, netted the auwor’s estate about $125,000, accord a stabment made in surrogate's court, Syracuse, N. Y. ■ £ - ■ — - — „

~ HABITS OF SQUIRRELS. * How These Little Animal* of the Forest Survive Winter. While certain members of the squirrel tribe store their winter's supply or foo.l Hl hollow trees. I. think most of them htde it on the ground, under old roots, brush piles and even beneeffi heaps of dead leaves. Their 1 the wmter woods seem to bear th . While it may be that this frequency of the tracks indicates a scarcity food and the traveling about a desire to find a supply. I believe in the main that these outings of the squirrels hav a definite destination, because when you see them skip across the snow, stop short and scratch a bole down to the ground, bringing up a supply or ■ nuts or cones placed there in the month of plenty, you are apt to attribute their luck more to a good memory than to any haphazard speculation. Os the squirrel family the most prominent in winter is the black. He seems to be flowing over all the time with pent-up energy, which keeps him in constant motion, and you sometimes feel that you would like him to be able to talk and tell you how pleasant it is to have the joy which flows from a glad heart Now watch him jump from limb to limb, rush headlong down the trunk and course across the snow in long, graceful bounds, with no apparent purpose but to exhibit the happiness within hire. His red cousin once in awhile may be seen at tiie entrance to his home in the heights of seme tree, but in him no sign, of exultation. He looks around for spring to come and clear away the snow, and no amount of coaxing will cause him to utter a note of scolding or alarm Not all the red- squirrels, however, keep to the trees. Many of them through want of food have to take to the earth, and their track in the deep snow is a heavy floundering of labored bounds as they go from tree to tree in search of the scanty provisions hidden beneath the surface. Here and there we find the gummy scales of the pine cones, the shells of the acorn, the seed cones of the birch and cedar, scattered about on the snow, showing the food on which they subsist. In greater contrast to the delicacies just named, often one will find during long and severe winters that the squirrels have attacked the hemlock trees by stripping them of their bitter seeds. When one finds this, ft is evidence of great want, and a merciful act would be to bring some food and scatter it about to assuage the pangs of hunger which these little fellows are enduring.—Recreation. The Bells of England. The metal tongue of the big bell rings out many changes to our modern ears. It speaks of disaster and death, of rejoicing and devotion. In England it often tells of old times and quaint customs. Mr. Ditchfield, in a book on old England, gives some of the traditions handed down through the “tintinnabulation of the bells.” In some parts of the country the bell which tolls the old year out is called the “Old Lad's Passing Bell.” In western England the bells peal merrily on “Oak Apple Day,” to celebrate the escape of King Charles at Boscobel. Another bell, rung at the beginning of Lent, is known as “Pancake Bell,” because. in old time phrase, it “summons people away from their pancakes to confession and fasting.” A lively peal of bells is often rung at the end of the Sunday morning service, and is called "Pudding Bell.” Perhaps its purpose is to announce to the stay at homes that service is over and that the pudding may come out of the oven. Every night at five minutes past 9 “Great Tom.” the great bell of Christ Church college at Oxford, booms out its ponderous note 101 times. This particular number was chosen in accordance with the number of students at the foundation of the college. Catering; to Carlyle. There are some interesting anecdotes of the leading British literary lights of the middle nineteenth century in "Mrs. Brookfield and Her Circle.” On one occasion there was great embarrassment at one of their gatherings. The majority of the party were anxious to hear Tennyson read “Maud,” the first copy of which had just reached him, but it was known that Carlyle could not endure to hear any one reading aloud. What was to be done? A plot was laid to have the reading during 1 the time of Carlyle’s morning walk, but for this he always demanded an appreciative companion. Mrs. Brookfield says: “Chairs had been arranged in a quiet sitting room. The visitors were taking their places. Alfred was ready. So was Carlyle—in the hall, waiting for a companion in his walk and evidently determined not to stir without one. It was quite an anxious moment. At length Mr. Goldwin Smith generously stepped forward and joined the phi-. losopher, and then Mr. Brookfield join-| ed them both, while the rest of us remained to listen with enthralled attention to the new words of the poet.” The Cape Cod ChaUe. Os course we had a chaise —Cape Cod’s ship of shore—called a one horse chaise to distinguish it from the two horse chaise which never struggled through Cape Cod sand. Everybody big enough to be anything above nothing had a chaise. He had to. A Cape Codder without a Q chaise was not a Cape Codder, and nobody but a Cape Codder, by birth or marriage, long lived on Cape Cod. There are some of: the old chaise hulls left, some even in use. and none of them has completely perished. Once a Cape Cod chaise aiways a Cape Cod chaise, for neither the rifled east wind nor the forest fire can destroy or put it entirely out of commission. The whole or a part of each and every one of them lives in or in part, so.-ever.-“Gun.®ion,” by N. C. Fowl-- Jr.

CONGENIAL WORK. „ one of ib'eTrea..-.. Factor. For •r Good Health* •al work With mind and hands Congenial work wim Dersons should be ‘ U well P l» its for its prophylactic a 1 curative Qf BerV ‘ Ce bu e itS application should be nc cases, but its .. There S'S ” -"“"2 .-Hl “ . U L“ trom really harmful. Jo semi an active business life to one of complete inactivity will often prove disastrous as much so as to prescribe al f< ThJ nervous will complain that they Jo not feel like work. If left to themselves and told to do absolutely nothlng not even to read, they are sure to dwell upon their infirmities and grow thereby morose and b - v P^ bo “ dria thus increasing their in' ahdisu . • desire for work should be encouraged in all conditions and in all classes If one's interest is aroused even to a slight degree a continuance in the work will develop a desire tor occupation. One will never feel like work if one has nothing to do. Work will often accomplish what medicine, however pioperly applied, will not, for it is not alone that we must earn cur bread by the sweat of the blow, but every man and woman should work for the pleasure of it as well as for the health giving, brain expanding results and the benefit of example.-Medietd World. GIOTTO, THE ARTIST. Hie Circle He Drew From WMrt Grew a Fnmoos Phrase. Giotto was a famous painter, sculp tor and architect of the latter part of the thirteenth century. He was a son of a poor shepherd, but the attention of the great master, Cimabue, having been attracted to the boy by a drawing the lad had :?ade on a fragment of slate, the young artist’s fame spread rapidly throughout southern Europe, In those days t was customary for the popes to send for the noted men of their reaim, more for the purpose of gratifying their desires to see such celebrities than anything else. Giotto was no exception to the rule. No sooner had the young Tuscan become famous than Pope Boniface VIII. invited him to Florence. When young Giotto arrived at the gates of the pope's private grounds, according tc. the account, the guard halted him and Inquired concerning bis mission. The artist made the matter plain, but the guard was not satisfied with the explanation, frequently interrupting Giotto's explanatory remarks with, "I View he must be a much larger and distinguished looking person than yourself,” and “Giotto, too. is a famous painter By your walk I would take you to oe a shepherd.” Finally, upoil detnaidiiig evidence of the artist's skill, the latter stooped and traced a perfect O in the dust of the path with his finger. Auy one who has ever attempted the feat of drawing a perfect circle “offhand” well knows how difficult it is. It is needless to add that the artist was forth with ushered into the presence of the supreme pontiff, and that since that time "Rounder than Giotto’s 0” has been a favorite hyperbole to la dlcate “Impossible perfection ” TWe Stuart Klnjn. The family name of the Stuarts was originally, as Mr. Bayley observes. Fitzalau. The original Waiter Fitzalan, brother of the ancestor of the dukes of Norfolk, waa lord high steward of Scotland, and from this cir -umstance his branch of the family appears to have adopted the name of Stewart. When the change began is not certain, but it was probably not later than the time of Alexander, the great-grandson of Walter Fitzalan, for both his sons—James,-the grandfather of Robert 11. and all the Scottish Stewart kings, and John, the ancestor or Lord Darnley—appear to have borne the name of Stewart. — Notes and r~ THE IRISH PEASANT. ■l* Hospitality I* Only Equaled by His Courteny. The especial characteristic of the Irish peasants, according to Frank Mathew, in “Ireland,” is an old fashioned courtesy. They are all sure, he asserts, that they are descended from 1 chiefs, and their manners are ruled accordingly. Take shelter in any hut on the mountains, and you will be greeted as if it» Inmates had been longing to see you. This will not be due to the fact that you seem prosperous; Indeed, you would be even more graciously welcomed if you were in rags. Nor is their courtesy only exhibited when they are hosts. Once when - 1 was exploring the Burren of Clare a ragged old womat . seated by the wayside accosted m< | equally ragged driver. "Excuse sir, she said, "but did you happen to meet a loaf on the road?” “ 'Deed then, ma am,” said he, bowing respectfully, “and I’m sorry I did not.” "Who wai she?” I asked him when we had driver, out of her hearing. “’Deed then, and I don t know, said he. “ ’Tis some poor ; soul that has lost her loaf and will b< goiu’ to bed hungry tonight.” On another occasion an aged man, clad in knee breeches and a swallowtail coat addressed me as I was climbing a path | In Connemara. “I am thinkin’, sir,” said he, “that you are Mr. John Blake.” 'Mell, sir,” said I, “you are thinking wrong.” “Well, sir,” he answered solemnly, “says I to myself as I saw voa , come up tne side, that is Mr. jLliu : Blake, and if ’tis not, says I to myself tis a fine upsthandin’ young man he la whoever he is.” Now 1 am convinced that bo knew I was a stranger, but waa that a charming way to suggest that I should sit bs»ide him on the low wian "* l ' anJ dUCU£S 1116 ways oI I ®

...LegaHiwJw Notice v Notice I* hereby given to th ß , wii and lot owners of the Deca, „, , .TSHi goclatlon that there will be an fat at tbeoffice of J, H. Stone, in eatur. Indiana, on the 4th duv ,’D val lliW, at J o’clock Pm .. for t L 1 ou, electing seven trustees for th PU| X > 111 Cemetery Association for the - CT lool Special Meeting Adams County Lol Notice is hereby gi ven tha , Ototy Cjua-11 wul mu; m Eve Monday, January 1, i9i H for forthe purpose of making aonronw C ’ lUl tuonie- that have reverted tunrt. for the paymem of out,, ->SI • against tliecountv and to takeupo'”'’ A indebtedness. To all of notice, C. D. I-EWTox A ‘‘” the Her ■VrOTICE OF FINAL steTl F'lr,, B ed ’ estate, ILE W Bhe Notice is here ty given to the credit Spi and legatees of John Welfley ft? BID K to appear in the .Glams c rcmtc uu <' ,< t Decatur. Indiana, on the 2uth dav nt, — - 1 ISOti. and show cause, if ln L final settlement accounts with ’’ tate of said decedant should noth. c ' it “o ed. and said holra are not,lied t 0 there make proof of heirship, ” a pel their distributive shares. H akdrew welfley. Admin®,. ,ire ■ Decatur. Ind.. Pec. 18, 1905. Merryman & Sutton. Attys - i ii A Guaranteed Cure for K’' visa Itching. Blind, BleedingorProtudn. 1 30nj I Druggist’srefuntnoney it PA7.OOM thnaa fails tocure any case, no matter ot'lk, standing, iu fi to 14 day,. Fjrsu 'fr s gives ease and rest. 50c. If your dr, ’ n’t it send 50c. instamua ami n wim.' ai»il rded postpaid by the Pans Medl ine, St.L. teugl - Fell ] DIAMOND SMUGGLERS® P * ■ 6 coi Few Caußl-.t Owing to Their Bent, niitj In Hiding Genu. *.mH "Diamond smugglers are a source of worry to us,” said thj reßel toms house inspector. “Despi UMI precaution taken here and air, elati spot them, not moiV- than are caught with the goods. Theres- The to be no limit to the devilish Inge nna employed by these—l was going t T c gentry—but there are quite as J women in the business as men. erk’i “It is really wonderful, when arct come to think of it, that we ar? pj J. able to make a good haul w!:-: consider how easily diamonds concealed. Hollow heels are a far -^ m€ receptacle for the precious stones oses I understand that there are ithet Europe where you can buy ciaily constructed with spaces 1:1- . heels. “I remember one woman—she i, r in the business —who displayed gre her geniiity iu snn;gali:.c was only by chance that we caught at one of her tricks. She arrived • a very striking Paris bonnet. was ornamented with banebt "ne. grapes While we were t-xam;u:2:lß baggage this dream of a bat blew (’her, and was smashed by a passing' - o ug] I rushed gallantly to recover the h ; , rv j and then saw that each of the contained a diamond or precious st» iasl She got what was left of the ha tent nothing more. ial, “What can a man of ordinary pt, or9 ception do with such people 1 Tbrttfl will best him every time unl«ds gifted with second sight. I neceri fees a chap with long hair but I think' reci the day we picked SIO,OOO worth er f stones from a fellow's head who a pompadour like a brush heap. “No, we can't keep up with all tht 1130 tricks and don’t expect to. It's the! as havior of the smuggler that geneaß ] gives him away. When we see a ea or woman acting uneasy, nervous HSi fraying his or her guilt by gestures,l have him or her searched. One g» 1 DC know the smuggler face after a E ref, and so captures are made."-Mew Herald - ince -tne OnlT Onie of It* Klnl >SU On an evening somewhere about end of the sixteenth century atra > from Sweden might hive been ol)Sf |£ 6r . ed at the door of the Rose ffieata London. He was going to se* a piece called “Titus Andronicus, ern in order to follow it in the nati reßi guage he bought a copy of fi> e ? we price sixpence, at the theater Wheu he went home to Sweden JP the book with him to show bis and friends what strange stu! foreigner ranted. For 300 years - 0 . preserved and in 1904, being on . ere<l in the home of a country’’'>*K?| was transferred for safety to the university. The book is th e on '' • of its kind known to exist. ian v, E M*teliniaklng In Fr,1,f, '.,.-ABl A recent writer says of eta! side of matchmaking :n “In most French marriages ?ati plays the important part. ■ ry question asked by the young ir E ‘How much?’ As a rule, it is ■■ r matter to ascertain without ap!' directly to the papa, but even ’ r question of dowry is raised at t- ’ , ■ al demand there is always 5 0n tract drawn up by a notary, specifies the exact sum the f- ; ceives ” ine; A Man of CrertitA distinguished Irish lawye- , ' In impoverished cirrum-ti 1 ’- 1 took Chief Justice A' liitesn'e 1 magnificently furnished new ' Dublin. , v . 3 ij a: “Don’t you think,” he sa - 4be ; Complacent look about, "that 1 • great credit for tills?” , m jL , 14 “Yes," the judge answered/'•“ ’ 1 "and you appear to D»’* U jt ’ •’ ’ u gi ■ Retaliation. 0 ! Mrs. Jawback—Just like a/ n 1 idea of losing your temper : • 0 ing at your razor be*; us ■ ' Jawback- Well, 1 * • 1 Didn't the razor lose It - tempi l M Cleveland Leader. ■