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“One of the fine arts in letter-writ-ing," says a writer who is also an observer and thinker, “is to conform your style of writing perfectly to the person whom you address. Many things must be considered. The age, the degree of intelligence, the social position, and the amount of familiarity you have with your correspondent are only a few of the points which the good letterwriter remembers always while he writes. Although seemingly he writes without constraint, yet these reflections govern all that he says, not only the matter, but the manner of it.” The result of such care .should be a letter exactly suited to the person addressed. Not to shock a^rieud’s prejudices by sneering at customs he respects; not to engage in useless or foolish discussions on paper; not to write upon subjects or in a inanaer of which you would be ashamed to afterward reflect, or feel regret at rereading— these are the primary rules which should govern all letter-writing, whether the writer be young or old. Yet in these days of cheap postage and rapid, careless and voluminous letter writing many idle and weak-minded people forget that the written word, far more than the spoken, stands to condemn the writer, and that the words of an ill-advised or hasty letter are hard to eradicate from the mind of
its recipient.
Letter writing, like all other human actions, must be judged largely by the motive. Yet although the brief notes pertaining to the courtesies of social life mat’ be freely sent, it is best to consider more carefully the longer letters, In which the indiscreet writer often betrays secrets of heart and mind. No one should send a letter written in anger or bitterness of spirit. Such a letter may be an escape valve for a hurt state of mind, but the writing of it should bo suflieient; let it be dropped into the flames, not into the letter-box. Answer every letter soon, before the glow of pleasure at its reception has faded away. Discard postals as an enemy to grace and to the leisure of polite society. They are useful only to a limited extent by people who have business to communicate briefly.
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SS T l£i IS. 33 T* :EJ 13 ’ a ig lien Cm Ear Worms in all Animals. Cured forty young pigs. Head the following: Hennepin, 111., Nov. 24, 1894. G. G. Stekktbb : Your Hog Cholera Cure arrived on time; we used it on forty young pigs that were coughing and olF oi their feed and not a bit lively. They are nulled through safely and are as lively criCKet?. Send me f 1 worth more. Wm. E. Thomas. Ask druggists for Steketee's llog Cholexa Cure, fifty cents, or sixty cents by mail. Address, GEO. G. STEKETEE, Proprietor, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Notice to Non-Residents. State of Indiana, Putnam county, ss: In the Putnam Circuit Court, November Term, 1895. Catharine Howard, Administratrix of the e«tate of John M. Howard, deceased, vs. Joseph W. Howard et al. No. 1885. Petition to sell Real Estate. Catharine Howard, one of the defendants in the above cause, having filed her crosscomplaint therein, together with an affidavit that her said cross complaint is in relation to a duty imposed by law in relation to the partition and sale or real estate, and that the following named defendant is a necessary party to said cross-complaint, to-wit: Joseph W. Howard, ami that said defendant is a nonresident of the State of Indiana. Now, therefore, the said defendant is hereby notified that unless he he and appear t u.uam Circuit Court, to be holden on the 3d Monday ot November, A. D. 1895, at the Court House in the city of Greenoastle. in said county and Stale, and answer or demur to said cross-* «mplafnt, the same will be hoard and determined in his absence In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, this 17th day of September, 1895. DANIEL T. DARITALL, Clerk. By W. H. H. CULtart, Deputy. J. H. James, Atty. 3123
Grevy and Thiers the Wealthiest of tbs
Dead I’resteleuts.
There seems to be an impression among the French people in general, according to the 1’aris Figaro, that the various French presidents have been men of great wealth. This arises possibly from the fact that the civil list of the presidents is 1,800,000 francs ($840,000) a year. But the journal declares that the impression is erroneous. “This is not even true,” mills the Figaro, “of M. Grevy. This affirmation may seem paradoxical regarding the father-in-law of Mr. Wilson. It is, however, absolutely true. When M. Grevy became president in 1879 he had an income of 80.000 francs. At his death, in 1891, he left, in addition to his former fortune and the estate of Mont-sous-Vuudrey, real estate in 1’aris val ued at 8,000,000 francs and 4,000,000 francs in bonds and stocks. These 0,000,000 francs represented the savings of M. Grevy during his nine years as president. He drew 1,800,000 francs a year, and as an old man did not use more than the half of it. The French criticised him severely for his niggardliness; but when a man is 80 years old and lias always lived simply, it is impossible for him to spend 100,000 a month. But he is also the only one who made anything out of the presidency. “The first president of the republic, M. Thiers, was twenty-seven mouths in office, but without pecuniary profit to himself. lie had married Mile. Dosne in 1833, and when he died, fortyfour years later, the considerable patrimony of his wife, added to his income from the ‘History of the Consulate and the Empire,’ the fruit of a long, laborious life, did not make a fortune of more than 3,000,000 francs. This included the value of his famous house in St. George’s place and his collections of art, estimated to be worth a large amount. But M. Grevy and M. Thiers were the only presidents in twenty-five years (excepting M. Casimir-l’erier) who after leaving the Elyseo were not obliged to use the omnibus in making their tour about I’aris. Here are the
others:
"All the world knows that Marshal MacMahon, in the course of his presidency (May 30, 1873, to January 80, 1879) ate up his patrimonial estates. At his death in 1898 ho owned only two small estates, sold a year ago. He was obliged to live from his salary as field marshal. “We now pass from a marshal whom the presidency impoverished to M. Carnot. Sadi Carnot, a modest, conscientious man, religiously spent his whole income from the state, and his private income in addition thereto. This private income at the time of his election amounted to 50,000 francs, and this he left to his widow and children when he died. His widow declined the pension offered her by the government. ‘It is said that Gambctta, for many years leader of the republicans and prime minister, paid his cook more than many a cabinet minister received. However, he left an income of 8,000 francs to his son and a bundle of
bonds.
“Another president of the chamber, Burdeau, died poor, and the chamber had to care for his heirs. Jules Ferry also lessened his fortune by politics.” PASSING OF THE MULE.
Little Further Use for tho Animal in the World. At the Eureka colliery, Winderist, I’a., where eleven thousand tons of bituminous coal are turned out every month, there is not a single mule dragging out its gloomy life in the long underground works. Electricity has replaced animal power to good advantage to the mine operators and to the mules as well. At present, says the Philadelphia Inquirer, there are in the colliery nine thousand one hundred and thirty feet of track, having a gauge of thirtysix inches. The coal is collected in cars holding about a ton each, which arc made up into trains of twenty-five to forty cars. Formerly the cars were connected together by chains and hooks, but since electricity was adopted they have been supplied with link and pin couplings. The grades, as a rule, are under two per cent., and the most of them are favorable to the loaded trains. Just at present one locomotive is in use. It is a little over ten feo{, long, five feet wide and exerts a pull of fifteen hundred pounds at a speed of eight miles uu hour. The current is taken from a bare copper wire by a trolley and the locomotive can bo operated when tho trolley wire is only three feet above the rails. The whole car is protected by a strong covering from damage by falling rock. Three more locomotives have been oniered for the switching service inside the mine. They are somewhat smaller auu arc designed for a pull of about eight hundred pounds at the drawbar. The power-house is a little frame building containing a sixteen by five and a half-foot boiler, a one hundred-horse power engine and a ninety-kilowatt generator. The owners of the mine are so pleased with the operation of the electric haulage plant that they liave been installing one at another of their collieries.
CURIOUS OLD LAWS.
Diversity of Itcllfcious Opinion Once For* bidden by Henry VIII. The old law books ore curious reading, and give some funny ideas of what kings and parliaments thought they could do. Henry VIII., for example, passed "An act for the abolishing of diversity of opinion in certain articles concerning Christian religion.” It staggers one to think of how many acts would bo required to-day “to abolish diversity of opinion" in religious matters. It is not generally known in Scotland—the home of football—tl 'it it Is still illegal to play football. An act passed in 1434, and never repealed, says: “No man shall play at football under a pain of fifty shillings." But Scotch ladies with a tendency to overdressing are in no better position. Their overdressing Is still illegal. By an act of James II. restriction as to dress is laid down, and only the wife of a bailie or alderman is allowed to wear “clothes of silk, scarlet gowns.” No woman is to come to kirk or market with her face mnssaled (or veiled), that she may be known. In the reign of George III. a bill was introduced for the improvement of the Metropolitan watch. In this, “watched arc compelled to sleep during tho day." When read In committee a gouty M. I’, said: ‘‘Let this act apply to members of this house, that my gout trouble mo no longer by making me sleepless in the night.” Scotch temperance reformers will be delighted to hear that James I. passed an act “that no man be found in taverns drinking after the strike of nine.”
A Dogr*A Grief. Dutch was a brown retriever of advanced years; Curly was reputed to be a Scotch terrier, but his appearance suggested some uncertainty in Ids descent. Dutch was chained to her kennel and Curly, who enjoyed his liberty, evinced his friendship by frequently taking bones and other canine delicacies to his less fortunate friend. One morning Curly presented himself at the house, evincing unmistakable signs of grief hy his demeanor and his whine.*. A visit to the kennel, where poor Dutch was found lying dead, showed the occasion of Curly’s unhappiness. We buried Dutch decorously under a vine in tho garden and supposed that Curly would forget the incident, but we Were touched to see him in tho capacity of a faithful mourner frequently revisit the spot where old friend was laid, taking with him by way of offering choice bones, which he carefully buried by the grave. This practice Curly continued for two years, when he left the house.
GHEE FOO, CHINA. Tile Oriental Watering Place Where tha Recent Treaty W’a. Signed. Chee-Foo, where the treaty of peaoe was signed between China and Japan, and which also goes by the name of Yen-Tai, is one of the best known ports in the northeastern part of Chiua. It is situate*! at the head of one of the bays of the Gulf of I’etchili and is in the neighborhood of two of the most prom- , inent places iu the recent Chino-Japan-ese war. It was here that the peace of 1870 between England and China was signed; by which three new ports of entry were opened to foreign commerce. The signing of the treaty on the 8th of last May between the two inimical brothers of the fur orient has giver. Chee-Foo a new historical importance. From June 8, 1850, until the ChinoEuropean war, France had occupied Chee-Foo without any interference
from foreign powers.
It is thickly populated, having one hundred and twenty thousand inhabitants, according to the consular reports of 1891. In summer it is a fashionable watering place like Trouville and Brighton. It is very attractive, with its villas with vine-enshrouded verandas clustering on the hillsides which overlook Semaphore Point or dotting the plain. Beside the signaltower a pretty pagoda rears its head, crowned by its cap with upturned wings. America and Russia send petroleum oil to Chee-Foo, England cottons and metals. The great article of
export is raw silk.
In the quarter facing the sea, in a small hotel, bearing the European name of Beach hotel, the peace treaty between the Chinese and Japanese plenipotentiaries was signed. WHAT IS ELECTRICITY? Some of Hie Various Theories on the
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Well, what is it? It is scarcely possible to say. There are theories—many of them. It is evidently something of which we cannot take a part; we cannot cut a piece of it off and subject it to analysis; nor can wo pour a little of it into a bottle for future study and contemplation. It is like the wind, its effects can be measured; its force, fhrength and quantity can now be calculated to a very nice degree. Still, to liken it to the wind, it is a stupendous power, a mighty typhoon, blowing, as it were, without moving, two ways at once along all parts of its path; giving off a halo of magnetism at right angles to that path everywhere. One of the nicest theories, perhaps, is the one that considers electricity a “condition” of atoms, brought about by chemical action, as in a battery cell, or by what might be called a severe irritation of the magnetic halo, as in a dynamo, and by other means, such as
heat and friction.
What this condition is is beyond us; it may be a violent rotation, or it may be an equally violent vibration of atoms; probably the arc light would prove it to be a vibration. But as no man has seen an atom at any time, not even with the most powerful mieri> scope, it is impossible to say. Friction in some form or other is present, as heat Ls produced before burning, or destruction, takes place.
A (iooct Shot. IVince do Joinvllle tells in his “Memoirs” a story that is rather hard on the Americans he found during Ids visit to this country in war times. "Une of the chief members of society at the time was the British minister, Mr. Fox, a diplomatist of the old school. 1 was told that one day as he was leaning against a chimney piece in a drawingroom, where dancing was going on, in deep conversation, an American came and stood just in front of him In a country dance. Soon the young man began to show signs of anxiety; his voice grew tmek, Ids cheeks swelled alternately, and he cast anxious glances at the chimney piece. At last he could hold no longer, and with the most ad- j mirable precision he shot all the juice | of his quid into the fireplace, just be- j tween Mr. Fox and his interlocutor, j ‘Fine shot, sir, 1 the old diplomat contented himself with saying, with a bow." i
Yankee Ingenuity in Arizona. Yankee ingenuity is displayed on the Arizona deserts. One of the ranchers, says the Los Angeles Times, the story goes, wanted water, so he trained a number of wild desert camels to go to a water hole, fill themselves with water and return to tho ranch. He thereupon Introduced a reed siphon down their throats and emptied the water from the stomachs of the patient animals. Thus did he irrigate his fruit trees. Of course, the camels soon grew thirsty again and readily carried an indefinite number of loads of water for the rancher. Novel and Effective Scheme. A San Diego (Cal.) woman who was postered, as many people are, with other folks’ chickens scratching up her bud und iiiicriiig uer yard, hit on a novel scheme for conveying a gentle hint to her neighbors. She tied a lot of small cards with strong thread to big kernels of corn, and wrote on the cards: "ITease keep your chickens at home." The chickens ate tha corn and carried tho message to their owners in a fashion that was startling and effective.
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WHEN BIG SLEEVES GO. There Wllj lie Many Surprises When We See Our Friends Again. Much interest attaches to the rumor which comes from London that the princess of Wales and her daughters have been lately seen in public in gowns with small sleeves and narrow skirts, remarks the San Francisco Argonaut. This bit of intelligence does not necessarily cinch the doom of the balloon sleeves and the letter A skirts, but it will tend to make prudent investors wary of locking up much capital in those vanities. Of course, the balloon sleeves mnst go presently. When fashionable mothers began to put them on little boys’ legged nightgowns it became apparent that the taste for them had come to be an extravagance and could not lust. But it will be a shock to miss them. Doubtless we will find our friends much changed when we get down to their real selves again. Some who have grown stout will not shriuk as much as we expect, and others who wore away in the hard times perhaps will shrink much more. Ilu( b-t us have the facts at any cost, especially as there must be material enough in the present sleeves and skirts to cut over iuto anything conceivable and have enough left ov*.!- to clothe a child. A Rather Touorh Prelacy. A journey of nearly seven hundred miles through the bush was necessary fer the new bishop ox Mashonaland, South Africa, to reach the center of his diocese, and he says: “It was a very rough journey, with scarcely any sleep and little food. On Sunday afternoon, after many hours' traveling in choking dust and heat, we rested for an hour at a wayside shanty of poles and mud. Prospectors were lounging around, and one man had put on a clean shirt, but all were hearty and glad to see the bishop. I expect that I was the only bishop in the world on that particular Sunday, sitting astride a plank, cutting slices of ‘biltung’ with my pocketknife, and washing them down with digger tea out of a billy, a sort of tin pot which prospectors carry about.” Iron In MIIU. Cow’s milk is almost at the bottom of the list of the food substances that contain Iron. As it is so important to infant life, Prof. Bunge has been led to experiment on animals to see iu what proportion iron is present in the system at different ages. lie finds that' I uie younger animals contain inuob more iron than adults. In a guinea pig | or rabbit one hour old. for Instance, there is more than four times as much iron as in the same animals two and a half months old. He infers from this that a long-continued exclusive milk diet is not good for babies, but should bfe supplemented by wheat preparations.
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