Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1889 — The Art of Eating Watermelon. [ARTICLE]

The Art of Eating Watermelon.

Thk prince of Wales wears a sash with his summer costumes. It is said that the queen’s estates at Osborne, if broken up and sold in small farms, would fetch $250 an acre. J M. Eiffel makes SB,OOO a day out of his tower, which is certainly the biggest thing at the Paris exposition. There is a report in England that Mrs. Langtry’s beautiful complexion is the result of rubbing the cheeks with veaL At the shah’s visit to the Paris exhibition the finest diamonds shown are said to have been worn by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. ■ The approaching retirement of Lord Lytton from the po3t of British ambassador at Paris is attracting a good deni of attention. Gen. Boulanger is getting “hard up.” His drafts are no longer honored and bis mysterious wealth seems to have dried up. Entertaining the shah at Guildhall; cost London £2,200. This is a much smaller sum than was expended on the ball given in his honor at his previous visit Fanxt Bignon, who is praised by zoologists for a recent paper on the anatomy of the lacrymal gland of the green turtle, is one of the remarkable women of Paris The duchess of Fife, tho recently married daughter of the prince of Wales, can’t squeeze her foot into any-, thing less than a 31 shoe. More frequently it is a full-fledged 4. Giovanna Morosini was recently, asked by a Soratoga clergyman if Jay Gould “keeps the Sabbath?" “Of course he does,’’ answered Morosini. “He keeps everything he liyshls hands :OiL JI •••" -I'l.lll - John K. Davis of Cincinnati is said, to be very proud of the fact Jthat he has the smallest man’s hand in the Country. He can not get, except with, difficulty, a glove small enough to lit him. The Haverhill (Mass.) Gazette remarks: “Capt. Costello, the oldest man in this city, is reasonably busy this year in cultivating his garden and shows considerable activity for a man 106 years old. His growing vegetables look fine.” Vice-President Levi P, Morton has given up his New York city residence nnd it is offered for rent. He will spend his summers at his country seat on the Hudson and his winters at his .Washington residence until the expiratiou of his official term. The king of Holland, who ought to have been in his grave six njonths ago according to his doctor, is getting on wonderfully well in every reSpect.Save one. He does not seem to recover sufficient muscular power in his loyirer extremities to enable him to walk/ King Leopold ol Belgium is not only the sworn enemy of tobacco but he is a vegetarian, dislikes music, and is tcicities... Qae- of these- is- an aversion to wearing his hat in the open air, as he believes the action of the wind-on-his head is beneficial. The courtiers of the boy king of Servia have been trying, with some success, to set him against his mother. “You are a king now,” they said to him, “and don’t require to be governed by your mamma.” To which the lad replied: “Oh, yes, I am a king, and can take care of myself.” ' Jeremiah Wilcox of Lebanon, Conn., is 90 years old. his wife. 73, and ooth are well. One day last week Mrs. Wilcox slipped the bail of a six-quart tin pail over her arm, climbed the family cherry-tree to the top of it, and picked the measure full of cherries. She then decended, went into the house, and made a cherry' pie in quick time.

Baltimore American. Eating watermelon is an art, learned only bv experience. As a dessert it is not a success. It falls too heavily- on a dinner. Like a pretty girl, it is best by itself; it loses half its charm by being mixed in a crowd. The melon should be cold. It should be ripe. Its flesh should blush like a graduate. Its heart should glow like a sun-kissed cloud at the close of day. and its temperature should be as chilly as the smile of a Boston belle. When you get such a treasure do not bother with other food. Open it, gaze on it, bury your face in its sweetness, and let your appreciation run riot.