Daily News, Franklin, Johnson County, 9 November 1889 — Page 5

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Which i« JU dry a* the btocoit After a ti, he hath otnmtM' crarmn «I With information. th»- hich in* vc»t» lit uiaugkd Uituf POIX# MAK«* HIS I'KWLT IX S* IETY—I*

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BwtT .SH il.TV. Whether from diHguxt for his evil ways, regret for hi* kmtm at cards, or from the argwmnw of tlu* 'young lady with whom In* is fast l*-coming infatuated, I know not: but wrtain it i» that ray friend Poins not long nine* announced to iut* hi# intention "of making his debut in society. Winn he «poke of it, he was jtM recovers I from an attack of reminiscence. He had been wjM'itkintf of the good old days when Harry the Fonrth wan king, and tin Prince. hia ^n, the merriest, wild/«t voiing gallant in all England. *kt from iiirt ree.i!eetioti of hi* friend Prince Hal, there may have Wen lx»rn some le*ire to mingle t|piin with the aristocracy, He hud invested in a dress HUit, of approved model and rut, and from the hamls of a xkilk'd tailor.

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evening that a

reception *vsi» to l«* held, and at 11, an the eardft announced. then* would le dancing. Tbr«»ugh noine occult means unknown lo iiie one of the ?»jiiare, white envelopes addrenned in a fashionable, HiUfulai hand to Mr. Edward Poins, hud reached that gentleman's lodgings some day* if.

about ..Vlork, or

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tliia Weduesday even

ing, A«niodeu«, if that famed being was abroad that night, must have lcheid an interesting wight. Mv mediieval friend wan grappling with the mysteries of the modern dress nuit, and with the assi.ntante of a large mirror wan garmenting hi mac If to appear leautiful, not alone, I snspeci, in the general eye, but in a pair of particularly large and brilliant orbs, whose owner I could almost accuse of theft in regard to mv eomtmnion's heart. "lk^hrew me, if this be not a m«t marvellous combination, he remarked after he had struggled into his shirt I beg my fair reader'H pardon—but that ia what it wa*T and WJW attempting to induce bin collar to behave in a re»iactable and conventional manner. Thia waa aecompliahetl only after Home haaty remarka c»f doubtful propriety. By that time he waa red aa to bin face, and ruffled aw to hia temper. When, with my awiatance, he had coinpletyd hia toilet, and stood in correct coat time, he gazed into the mirror with a HOinewhat doubtful eve, and I gathered that the reflection in the glaaa waa more admirable limn one in hia mind. llow do you like it?" ^ventured. "It hath a sombre appearance/' he replied. "1 look and fuel a mourner at my own funeral. Hevil take thn thing," he exclaimed he twiafed about in a vasn endeavor to get comfortable, "it hath much the compression and awkwardness of a nuit of armor.'*

A* he ga/cd longer at hi» reflection in the mirror, his face betokened a deeper Kcorn. "And thi«, goml Benvolio, is oateemed bv gallauta of your time a marvel of bea»ty and faahion. 1 prithee, what would you consider dull and ugly""

Not another word did he utter until we reached the scene of the evening'* festivity. I'p atone atepn, through a wide door it»to a hall whoae carpet waa hidden by tarpaulins, we weent together. Becoming aeparoted from Poiua, after 1 had di*|ot«ed of my hat and overcoat, 1 had

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dewxmdeil to the first floor, when 1 met him. Catching my hand, ami drawing me hastily aside, he whiapeml:

Art sure, mv friend, wo hove not mistook the plact^r"

What do you mean queried. "I-ook," he answemi, waving a nervous haiui in the direction where, through the ojcu dixir, 1 Iwheld agnmp of young men and women laughing and ehatteriug. "At what'*" I askeil. "At the women." "What of them?" "Their costume, man. Or rather," he added, with a wudonie grin, "their lack of it." "Oh, that's all right," I laughed. "That's the proper thing." "Are these your best? he asked. '*Lo omen of prestige altire themselve* for the public giute?"

Why.v^," I au»wc»\xl, "it is the custom." "Will she be «o npparvlled, he said, half in uuestion to nimself and as he hpoke his voice was lowervnl, "1 hots* not," answered.

And tor the sake of my hiend's peace of mind, I am glad to say my hope was mil led..

After the iirst strangeness had worn ofT, he iH'gau to have quite a {food time. He did not t«.ke to the danemg at all, making some san-astic comments \»|wn tluwe denominakHl "»juare," ami rejecting the wait* Hi once as foolish. His evening's pleasure was partly marrwl by a misundenfitanding with a young laily who shall be nameless, l*oina insisting upon leco»ning s*»nUmental ami txn\*ersmg of sKrt't nothings in a quiet comer near the head oi the staircand, and beimvit'ig wry ladly indt^xl when she showed her preference for the glancing tloor Wneath, and that, too, in eotnjmny with ft youth of tlaming hair and frwk-

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face, utterly tie void of romance. Not Udng entirely ciwlawnt as yet, howe\*er, he found a sweet revenge in the person of a statuesque blonde of much CX{MTieiuv atul lowers of fascination. Togeth-1 er they "sat out." not one but sever*! ilanotv, within the dejvlha of a large Ixiv window*, whose curtains of la** wrwneil •them from olwervation. hut jwnnittetl a full view of those who werv on the floor. I

When we haul returned home and were enioviug a quiet smoke, he spoke: "lit good jwoth, Benvoho, it was.5 though strange, most pleasing. The fair lady in whose sweet **iety I silent a pleasant half honr within tbs wtw told me of things that were sure to breed as* touvshment. She hath a trick of the eye. a manner of casting her look upward with a Middeouess to make a man a heart leap, antl then to drop it J® «uen sweet contusion that he is dividetl tweeu regit1! for the kok that haa left

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him and admiration for the beauty before his eyes. She is in all verity a most delicious compound of charming qualities, she hath. too. a mind of often startling originality, and an occasional freedom of speech and easy swing of comment that is like a cold shower Iwtth—startling but exhilarating. "You use with the freedom and recklessness of custom the phnLse

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society.' Yet, if what my fair informant alternately spok«s and hinted to me be true, there are in this best society many people of character the worst." *Tis strange," he mused, "passing strange, that the women who are most feared and respected are those whose sharp and biting tongues are dipied in the gall of personal knowledge. When they see the faults of others most clearly 'tis by the light of nast experience. What they have done tnemselves they may freely apise others of, certain that their random shaft will find a vulnerable spot wherever they let it fly." "You are learning rapidly," 1 «aid. "Nay, 'tis not so much learning as remembering. What 1 can recall of human nature in my «iay I find most apt in this. You travel with a swifter pace, and have invented some new vices, (which are but old

ones

in new dress),

but in the main, you are the same. There are new names for old things, old names for what you in your unbounded conceit consider new ones, but aside from your mechanical advancement and ehe addition of some few retinements of vice and minor comforts which render life more endurable and pleasant, human nature under Harry the Fourth and under what you are nleaaed to call a free liepublic differ only in outward appearance."

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"I'd rather be a wild turkey and livi on the prairie," said a little boy, "than be a tame turkey ami be killed every year."

Liberal—"John, see, your little sister is crying because you did not share your peach with her. "That iaift so,mamma I gave her the stone, and if she plants it she can have a whole, tree. "—[Fliegendo Blatter.

Minister—Johnny, is your father a Christian Johnny—Not since last week, sir. He lias bought him a cheap typewriter.— [Burlington Free Press.

A little girl who was eating green corn by gnawing it from the cob got her teeth entangled in the corn silk. "Oh dear!" she exclaimed, "1 wish when they get the corn made tney'd pull out the basting threads.

Bessie stands corrected—Little Bessie —Fred, what do you think'! Mr. Stokes had a perplexity fit yesterday.

Master Fred—Perplexity fitI' Oh, dear, what a girl. You mean a parallel stroke. —[Harper's Young People.

Gilbert's destination—Little Gilbert, aged 8 years, on being reproved once, got his hat and started out the door. Borne one said to him "Where are you going, baby?" "I air going to meet Jesua iu the promised land," waa the reply.—[Boston Globe.

A thoughtful observer—** Now Flossie," said the fashionable mother, "it is time for you to say your prayer. "Who shall I pray for?" "For papa, and the baby, aud all of us." "And Fido?" "Yes if you choose.

MMamma?

Well,

dear." "Who shall I put first the baby?" A boy's composition on girls—"Girls are very stuck up and dignified in their manner and behaveyour. They make fun of boys and then turn around and lovs them. I don't beliero they ever killed a cat or anything. They look out every nite «u»d say, oh, ain't the inoon lovely?" Thir is one thing I have not told, and that- is they always know their lesson* bettem boys."—[Public Teacher's Notebook.

Fido or

A little boy of 4 ypars, when reieaUng his catechism to his mother, said: "Adam was turned out of the garden of Kden for eatiug the forbidden apple," and with aome idea of a "flaming sword," his young mind added: "God put t. red gun ou top of the gate and then tightened the fence."

Sir William McGregor, governor of New- Guinea, has recently made the as cent of Mount Victoria. 13,121 feet high, the highest peak of the Owen Stanley range. On the summit daisies, buttercup*. forget-me-nots* grasses and heaUter were growing, and larks were seen. Icicles and white frosts were met with. The country traversed by the party was very mountainous. Natives were met with only on two occasions. T.iey were Stout, well-built men, with *hort legs. No women were wen. They were destitute of warlike instruments. Many new plants and bird* were discovered and one animal mvmbUng a bear, but with a long tail. Its extreme length is three fact six inches, the tail being eighteen Indies long.

Moncnre Conway is making personal investigations in Virginia for his historical and biographical introduction to the volume of unpublished of Washington which l»e is editing for the Long Island historical society-

In a town in Baden a ininWw Hosed a sermon with the?«e words: We would be pleased, iworeover, to have the young man who now standing outside the door come in and make certain whether she is hens or not. Thai would be a grwrt deal better than opening the door half an inch and exposing the pr-ople in the last row of seats to a iraugbU

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Ratger* college has conferred the dens* of

W$liam Walter Pheija,

PWlii Stat— Minister to Germany Walter C. Doha, the famous Pnncatou ntzmar. contributed to Harper's Young Peaple an article on How I Trained for a Race.

Ella Wheelar Wilcox is devoting herself to works of charity, says rumor. TfvU is ta line with th* report that she has quit writing poetry.

Tennyson is growing old, in fact, he i* alincet in a condition of decrepitude. He is more eccentric than ever, and declines to converse with strangers altogether.

Harrriet Preecott Spofford has written a poem te accompany a picture entitled "An Autumn Paatora.l" which W. T. Smedley lias drawn for Harper's Bazar, to be published October 2!i.

Sir Lepel Griffin, who wrote a book denunciatory of the United States, has given up his position in India aud has decided to go into English politic He is to marry Miss Mary Leupold, whom he recently met at Homburg.

After destroying a very large number of letiers Mr. Gladstone has selected 60,000 for preservation, and has built for them a fire-proof room. When his biographer comes to overliaul them he will find his work half done in advance.

Where the "Grolier Club" of New York got it* name, aud what are the purposes and methods of the club in fully explained by Brander Mathews in an illustrated paper in the Century magazine. Careful drawings by Grolier ai'e represented in connection with the text.

Mr. Andrew Lang, after having written about fairy stories for many years, at la*t has Uken to writing them himself. Hia "Prince Prigio, shortly will be published by Longmans, Green & Company. The Prince is said to be a great grandson of the Giglio of Thackeray's "Rose and the King."

Such a demand has sprung up in England for the new novel of Karl Emil Francos, entitled "For the Right." that the English publishers have issued a cheap edition. The American publishers of the work. Messrs. Harper & Brothers, brought out a paper edition over a year ago. It will be remembered that Mr. Gladstone reviewed this work in the Nineteenth Century.

Probably the largest returns, everything considered, that come to writers are those which are received in royalties for text books for schools. The late Professor Elias l-oomis, of Yale, was supposed to be a comparatively poor man, yet his estate, on probate the other day, revealed wealth that is pretty near a half million dollars. This represents the returns he received in royalties for his text booka.

That "Ben-Hur" will outlast "Robert Elsmere" in popularity, is the judgement which Mias Ellen M. Coe has formed from her experience as librarian of the New York Free Circulating Library. "Ben-Hur" has now passed "UncleTom's Gabin," which in 1887 headed the list of fiction in greatest demand. The recent report of the Maimonides Library. New York, gives the same testimonv, "Ben-Hur" heads the list of single volumes of fiction moat sought after.

Edward Bellamy is anotheryoungBoston author who has rapidly risen to prominence. To-day he is one of the best known of the younger writers of tUis country. He was formerly a lawyer, but his practice has been entirely abandoned, and his time is now exclusively given to literature. His great work, the one which has brought him recognition, is, of course, that book which is on everybody's lips, "Looking Backward." It is one of tb# most successful novels published in years. Mr. Ballamv resides very quietly at Chicopee, where he works hard k*ul steadily. He is a man of very quiet disposition, airing nothing for society. He will be a hard man, therefore, for society to lionize if it wants to. He is a fine looking gentleman, with deep, penetrating eyes, and well-formed features. He wears a mustache which is rather heavy.

The best paid literary worker in America to-day is Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett®. The sale of Little lxrd Fauntleroy haa already brought her $20,000, aud for months the dramatic right to the play increased her bank account from $1,00® to $3,000 a week. The profits of "Sara Crews" to date are something over $1 lt.OOO. She has a $15,000 contract with some New York publishers to write a story f«r their weekly paper, and also at h*r disposal an offer for a grown-up "Lord Fauntleroy." So it will be seen that this remarkable woman has little cau»e to complain of the appreciation in which she is held by the public. After Mr*. Burnette, A. C. Gunter, in the last year er so, has probably earned more by his pea than any other American writer. Not long ago he said Chat he made from

Mr. Barneo of New York and Mr. Potter of Texas." in two months clear of exp*use«, $$7,000. Sixty thousand copies of hia new n*vel "That Frenchmon" have bean disposed of* and as Gunter is his own publisher, it will be readily seen what his f'fofits from his last venture hav* been. John Hay. whose "Castilian Days* brought him lews than $5 during the first two rears of its publication, in conjunction with his co-laborer. Mr. Nicolay received from the Century publishing company $50,000 for "The life of Lincoln, now running in that magazine.

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jl Wa*|» that Is too Much for th« Poi»oaoui Ja*ect- It* Habit*. "The cheerful Mexican wasp that tourist described isn't solely a Mexican product," said a gentleman who had traveled a bit himself. "You'll find that remarkable insect wherever there are tarantulas, for it seems to owe the perpetuation of its kind to the presence oi of that kind of spiders. In fact, it is known by the name of tarantula killer' in Texas and other parts where the big spider has its habits. "The most pugnacious birds of the air give the tarantula a wide birth, and the fiercest beasts are content to leave him unmolested. In fact, the tarantula seems to defy the entire animal kingdom, with the exception of this giant wasp. The appearance of a hawk sailing over a barnyard will not cause a more sudden or frantic scattering of a brood of chickens to a place of safety than will the approach of a tarantula killer among a colony of these spiders. Whether the tarantulas can see their enemy a long way off, or whether they hear the hum of its wings, or smell the dreaded insect. I don't know but whenever a tarantula is seen scampering like mad for his den, and closing its trap-poor, without delay, it is ten to one tliat a tarantula-killer' will be seen sailing along that

buries the tarantula. Sometimes it I hides the spider in a cleft iu the rocks and piasters the opening shut with mud.

When the egg is hatched inside the spider the result is a most voracious grub, which immediately begins to eat its way out its storehouse. It is as if the spider had been kept on ice, nice and fresh in all its flesh and juices. The wasp's greedy larva devours everything to the right and left of it and all that's ahead of it, and when it emerges from the tarantula's head there is nothing left of the spider but its hideous hairy shell. The grub digs itself out of the spider's grave and in time becomes itself a tarantula killer and performs the same act for a future supply of wasps that was performed for it ''—[The Great Divide.

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A ProfuMtor" of Till* Art Telln How to Analj** Character. Look at. your hand. Do you read your character in it'( Or, study your girl's hand and be wine.

The science of chironomy, or the meaning of the human hand, always excites curiosity but few people understand it Can a man's character be read on his hand as well a« you cau read it in hia face or by the bumps on his head Tis so claimed, and the science by which it i« a pretty one. It has many branches, all of them well worth studying. "If the palm of the hand ia skinny and narrow," said a professor of the science. "It denotes timidity, a feeble mind, and want of moral and intellectual force. If the palm is too thick, big, and strong, it denotes a low intelligence and a tendency to brutalitv. A hollow., deep palm always signifies misery, ill-luck, and failure in life. Fingers which are smooth denote a tendency to act upon instinct, impulse, or intuition, rather than by rea-|| son, calculation, or deduction Knotty fingers denote a tendency to order and arrangement. People with short fingers are quicker, more impulsive, act more on the spur of the moment than people with long fingers. If the fingers are very short it signifies cruelty and want of tact. "Long fingers denote a love of detail Such persons are tidy as to their appointH*ente, easily put outT and very careful about trifled Workers in small things always have large hands, and the constructors of colossal works have small hands. Small-handed people write large, while large-handed people always writ© small. frly "Thick fingers denote luxury. Twisted and malformed fingers, with abort nails, denote cruelty, tyranny, and a worrying, teasing disposition. If a hand is stiff and hard, opening with difficulty te its fullest extent, it betrays stubbornness of character and avarice. If the fingers are supple, having a tendency to torn back, they denote, as a rule, cleverness and inquiaitiveness, nearly always generosity, ending in extravagance. If the fingers fit close together it is a sign of avarka If twisted as to show chinks between them, it is a sign of curiosity. If they art smooth and transparent tbey betray Indiscretion and loquacity.

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few seconds later. "It flies up leisurely, its reddish-brown wings spread to their full tluve-inch sweep, and contrasting strikingly with its dead black legs and Lody. The hiding of the tarantula iu his den does not worry the wasp a bit. It lights at the trap door and has it ojen as quickly as the tarantula can ojK-n it himself, and walks straightway iu. The big. iiairy, deadly spider has no terror for the wap. The quality of the wasp's sting is shown in a startling way bv its etleet on the tarantula, for in five seconds after the killer has entered the spider's, den the tarantula has succumbed to the thrusts of thestiug, and is dragged out by the wasp as a butcher would drag a dead pig out of a pen. "But the strange part of the quick knocking out of the spider by the wasp is that while the former will never enjoy the pleasures of life again, he is not dead. The poison }he wasp injects into the tarantula does not kill him, but throws him into a trance from which he will never awaken. The tarantula is actually embalmed alive, and if the subsequent processes the wasp has in store for him prove abortive in their working, as they sometimes do. the tarantula will remain in that dead and a live condition ever afterward. "Sometimes it happens to suit the wasp, when it does up' its spider in the latter's den, to leave him there to carry out the rest of Its programme but usually it drags the tarantula to some other part of the country, frequently a mile distant, although the tarantula is many times the wasp's bulk and weight. When the big wasp has dragged the tarantula to the spot it has selected, it punctures the victim's body at the base of one its hind legs and lays an egg deep in the opening. The wasp then digs a hole in the ground

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