Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 24, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 December 1882 — Page 2

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THE MAIE

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TKKRK HAUTK, DEC. 9, 1882

WASTE OF POOD.

American housewives generally won Id resent the imputation that tbey are wasteful in their methods of living. Bat the factcannot he successfully disputed that the waste, especially in the article of food, in greater in the United States than in any other country in the world. England is not much more economical, bat France sets an example in this re* spect that other nations might follow with great profit. In our country what is wasted in the average kitchen would go a long waya to support an average family in France. The contents of the receptacles for what we can refuse show this. If the reader has ever noticed the contents of these reoeptacles belonging to private houses and hotels, be will remember that the ingredients consist largely of bread, vegetables, and meat or bones. In Francesuch articles are never thrown to the swine. No scrap fit to eat is wasted. Bread, vegetables and meat that remain upon the table are put into son.e savory form of solid food for another meal, or, with the bones that are broken for the purpose, are convert* ed into appetising soups, Perhaps one reason why so much is wasted here is •that so little is generally known of the accomplishment of compounding more than «He kind of palatable soup. The

Frenchman who said that this was a remarkable country because it bad fifty different kinds of religion and only one soup, was not far out of the way and it may be that be stated both cause and mttbc.i. Political revolutions have often resulted from empty stomachs, and why may not church schisms have resulted from a dearth of su.«*ulent soups? Seriously, this subject of waste is one that is doseiy identified with national prosperity. It is the habit of saving in small things that largely contribute to tnske Prance one of the richest nations on earth, and that enabled her, a few years ago, to pay some four thousand million dollar* as indemnity at thecloseof the war with Germany.

AH step in the right direction, cooking schools, like that of Mrs. Ewiugs, should be encouraged. They not only -impart skill and some knowledge of hygienic laws in the preparation of food, bat also teach how to economize and to make toothsome dishes out of slender materials. Such teaching ought to bo ranked close to schools that develop the brain and the heart, for the condition of the stomach has a good deal to do with tho intellect and the affections. Indeed it is doubtful if the stomach, instoad of the heart, be not tho real seat of affections, at least in the male gender.

MARRYING AND THE COST OF LIVING. The cost of living in conncction with the subject of marrying is becoming almost as interesting a social question in this country as it has long been in Engfand and other European countries, and the drift of opinion seems to be that in increasingly difficult struggle for life marrying is a luxury that a young man with less than $700 or $800 a year cutinol afford. If this theory be correct our social organisation must be at fault, for marrying is one of the corner stonos of a well ordored society, and all experience proves that it is an unfoitur nate community in which this proper relationis avoided. It is true the conventionalisms of fashion in this country are growing moro harsh and exacting •very year, and that young people who do not submit to these harsh requirements must to a certain oxtent live out Of society. But Is this an intolerable hardship? May not a young couple who have achieved tho main point of making a wise choice in choosing one another live a happy and useful lire on a stipend less than that required to admit them within the pale where fashion reigns? Besides, the beginning is not the ending. In this comitry an industrious, diligent and thrifty young man hlesaed with avcrago capacity and good health, may hope to gather, if not a substantial fortune, at least a modest competence by the time he is of middle age particularly if he has a wife ef similar qualities to help klm In the enterprise and when this Is done society will be only too glad to admit them to the eharmcd circle from which It at first excluded thorn. There is a world of meanlug in the old-fashioned contradiction thit it cost no more to support two than to support one. Theoretically the thing f* an undemonstrative absurdity but, practically, it is the foundation of nlno out of ten of the fortunes in the land, and young persons may commit themselves to it with absolute faith in the remit, It is astoni*hing how little a family can live on, aud thousands of families do live on, when they set themselves abont U. It wa* recently stated th*t iu some of tho public institutions In Massachusetts the cost of feeding the Inmate* la only sixty-five cents a weekend they hare no lack of good, wholeaome food. Mr. Atkinson, a well-

known writer on social subjects, assert that the average earnings or the whole population of this country are not over Afty cents a day, or one dollar a day for a family of two persons, and two dollars a day for a family of four, and there are thousands of families who manage •o get along on an income of 1300 a year. Wlicit social conventionalism lays it tlown that a couple have no business getting married on a smaller in com* than ft.000 a year, it not only defies notorious facta, but forgets that the majority of those who constitute our best Society began life on half a thousand a year.

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A t.Kttr of Chicago who has reared quite a family has carried oat a certain Hoe of action In order to prevent the *preading of any disease in the family. Jibe had never allowed her children to use a tumbler, cup. plate, fork or spoon thai had been used by any other person, whether belonging to the family or not. She eveu mrriesthUrule to the toilet— «aoh one having his own towel, washdoth and soap. For years they kissed each other on the forehead or cheek Instead of the mouth. When a member of the family l« sick, eveij. with a slight on Id, he or she is immediately quarnmtined and kept apart from the rest of the family. She also uses bellalonna as a *r*rl«w fever preventive wheocver It prevails in live vietaty As the result of thi*»*fc»eay*. awn bow grown has never bad the a*siriet-fever. There Is not the •lightest doubt that manv diseases are by the of towels, etc., «h have been contamina:- by

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BEECHES ON WEED.

In remarks about Thurlow Weed Henry Ward Beecber said the otber day: "It was very rare that life could not afford to spare anybody. He bad never noticed that any great element bad suffered by the death of anybody. It was Use dipping a bucket of water out of East Itixer. There was a splash, a gurgle, a momentary commotion of the waters and the river flowed on unmindful of its loss. 8o in life. A man dropped out, the ranks closed up and the march went on. The newspapers made the most of men's deaths, and perhaps perpetuated the impression that the places of great men could not be supplied. Their maw must be filled up witb something, and so their columns were filled up with daily reports of a man's condition. Then came reports about his funeral, then the reminiscences, so that in these days it really required about a month to fairly get rid of a man. [Laughter.] The man who was apt to think he was somebody, and that the Lord would find it difficult to supply bis pIace,ought to have no such concern. The Lord would certainly attend to it, and two or three men would spring up who would do the man's work a great deal better even than be. All tb.e great leaders of the church in the country had gone up, yet the moral power of the church in America was greater to-day than it was thirty-five years ago. Amherst and Yale and Princeton bad been emptied and yet bad been filled up again." __________

WIFE BEATING.

Flogging in New York prisons was abolished twenty years ago, but the increase of wife beating convinces a New York paper that the brutal assaults of men upon their wives will be most effectually checked by a return to the cat-o-oino-tails. The police court fine iu such cases imposes but little restraint. Not unfrequeutiy it is paid by the wife herself out of her earnings. The policeman iti the drama of Lights o' London" asks the waif whom he has picked up in the streets, "Where's your father?

Doin' three months." What for? '"For punching man's uose." Where's your mother?" "Doin six months." "What for?' "For stealing money to pay the lawer for speakin' up for dad." The wives of wife-beaters, are notoriously soft-hearted wheu brought up as a witnesses against their husbands, and generally beg them offor pay their tines. Consequently the brute of a husband is not very thoroughly scared out of the wife-beating habit, and it is quite apt to repeat the offence, whereas if given to understand that a flogging was the certain penalty of his brutality he would probably tind it convenient to forego the ploasure of giviug his wife a thrashing whenever a little of temper.

THE LATEST NONSENSE. A New York correspondent says: Can you guess what is the newest fashionable diversion for young women of wealth and leisure? Dressing llvodolls. That is to suy, tbey make toys of little girls—Bisters, nieces, cousins anything in the shape of a female child will do, if sho be comely. This has suddenly become a rage in certain circles. I ltnow an only daughter who, having no little girl relative, uses the three-year-old offspring of one of her papa's poor tenants, a pretty little chit, on whom she places costly costumes witb all the ardor of a fresb pursuit. The child isascutoas possible in Kate Greenaway garmonts, and my lady takes delight iu dressing her after some quaint picture. Two or three afternoons a week she is arrayed in something novel, and taken out for a' walk or drive. Of course that will not last long, and the child will soon be returned to calico: but she may acquire a

longlugforJinery which someday could dily '8 not right for rich women to divert themselves In any such way nor ia there any excuse for it, now that it is fashionable to do art needle-work.

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THR doepeat caal mine In America is tho Pottsville, in Pennsylvania. The shaft is 1,576 feet deep. From its bottom, almost a third of a mile down, 200 cars, holding four tons each, are lifted every day. They aro run upon a platform, and, the whole weight of six tons is hoisted at a speed that makes tho head swim, the time oconpied in lifting a full car being only a little more than a minute. The hoisting and lowering of men into coal mines is regulated by Taw in that State, and only ten can stand on a platform at once under penalty of a heavy fine. However, carelessness cannot be prevented, and unaccustomed visitors nre appalled by it. "A person of weak nerves," says a correspondent, .should not brave the ordeal by descending the Pottsville shaft. The machinery works as smoothly as a hotel elevator, but the speed is so terrific that sue seems falling through the air. The knees after a few seconds become weak and tremulous, the ears ring as the drums of these organs are forced inward by the air pressure, and the eyes shut involuntarily as tho beams of the shaft seem to dash upward only a foot or two away. As one leaves tkelight of the up per day the transition to darkness is fantastic. The light does not pass into gloom in the same fash'on as our day merges into night, but thereto a kind of phoaphorenceut glow, gradually becoming dimmer aad dimmer. Half way down you pass, with a roar and sudden crash, the ascending car and at last, after what seems several minutes, but is only a fraction of that time,the platform begins to slow up. halts at a gate, and through it yon step into a crowd of creatures with the shape of men, but with the blackened facss, the glaring eyes, and wild physiognomies of fienda."

BAD FOR BEER PR INKERS. Cincinnati OsiHte, Hope are ona«oallv scarce and high this season on both atom of the Atlantic. They bring at least 100 per cent, more than ordinarily, having risen to $1.35 a ponnd for the best quality. The brewers are consequently at their wits' and for substitutes, Quassia chips, which are ordinarily worth two cents a pound, have risen to ten cents, and twenty tons wers lately sold st this rate in Kes York for brewing purposes. Quassia yields a strong bluer flavor, and is not an unhealthy tonic. Aloes, Colombo aud nux vomica, which are also in demand by the brewers, are quite as bitter as quassia, but are tiarbly the substance* which one wolod tike in take in a brokerage, ft wa« the opinion of the National Druggists'convention at Cleveland the oilier day that for the

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The Funny Story Teller.

HIS POPULARITY IN SOCIETY.

HOW DULL PBOPLE -SPOIL THE POINT OF THE BEST JOKBS-THE BROAD STORIES AND WHERE THEY COME

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The brilliant man of sodefj', who can illustrate a point by a good story well told is considered a great acqusition in every circle. He is the life of tbe com pany, the favorite of both sexes, and in bis genial presence dull care takes flight. This happy faculty uot only creates pleasure for all who come within its charmed influence, but it is equally available oftentimes to crush the weightiest argument of an adversary. Embarassmeut disappears before his magic and wall-flowers are put at their ea?e by him. He can transfohn a business journey into a pleasure trip and can render even imprisonment enjoyable. It is not necessary to expand upon bis power to please. The good story-teller is not so rare but that nearly every one has had his own personal experience en riched by his acquaintance and com pan ionship. To try to tell wbut constitutes a good story would be to give the anatomy of wit and humor, and much more besides. A good story must uot only contain one or the other of these, but it must be clothed in a well-nigh perfebt wont suit, a linguistic glove-fit to the spirit of wit it contains. Anything short of this detracts from the story.

The following, which may bave.aoubtless heard, illustrated how a slight chauge may deaden wit and at the same time give point to a story: An eldvly man uuined Gregory was passiug along the street one day and overtook great, loutish, overgrown boy, who wore a short {jacket or roundabout, such as might have been appropriate for his little brother, if he had one. "My friend," said Mr. Gregory, "it seems to me the coat you wear is a very short one." "It will be long enough before I getar.other one, "the boy replied. The answer struck the old gentleman iu a fuuoy spot and be just sat down and laughed. He couldu't get over it, apd every little whileduriug the rest of the day be would tbink of it and burst out laugliiug. That evening be went to a church sociable. A few of the fathers and iriothera in Israel were engaged in propounding sanctimonious conundrums to their sanctified companions, and appearing to be at iheir ease. Tho young people, however, wero-far from it. They shifted from one foot to the other, looked at each other in a wistful but don't-give-it-away manner, aud then relapsed into kicking themselves. Comprehending that things wero not as lively as they should be, Mr. Gregory thought that be would tell the company about theamusoccurrence of tho afternoon, and the tiute he thought of it he burst out laughing nor did ho stop until ho got the whole company uurmng with curiosity, and be hadalm»-t convinced some ofthem that he was crazy. Finally he broke out with: "I want to tell you about it. I never laughed so Ju my life before. After indulgingin another lit of laughter hecontiuued. Thlsalternoon I was going along the street and I overtook a great overgrown bov wearing a jacket, one of these roundabouts, you know. "Well, I said to him "My friend, it seems to moyour coat is a .-very short one,' and what do you suppose ho said And tho old gentleman was struck again with convulsions of extra severity. Kecovering himself at last he added, "hesiyd to me—ig) mid, 'it will be'a long time before I getlhothSr one,'" and Mr. Gregory entered Upon another fit of laughter even more hearty than before. But he stopped almost immediately. No one was laughing or even smiling, except in a peculiar way. They evidently saw nothing funny. With bis face sobered with a suddenness that was sad, poor Mr. Gregory exclaimed, "It don't sound half as funny as it did, somehow." Soon after be edged out of tho door, and he didn't find out what was the matter until after he got home.

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their abilities to "catch on," as the terse and forcible expression goes. Some more honest tban bright, always refuse to laugh until the joke is explained to them. Others know that tho joke is there, and try to cover up their stupidity in not seeing it by joining in the laugh. The Germans, as a race, are slow to see a point, at least as it is brought out in American jokes and stories. It was a German who' kept a general store in Ohis, when Ohio was on the frontier. At these frontier stores could be found dry goods, drugs, groceries, boots and shoes, and in short everything from a paper of pins to a hav wagon. Among other things to bn had at the store of the worthy German referred to was whisky. This he sold at six cents a drink. One day one of those eccentric, ingenious individuals who are kept down only through lack of energy, sauntered into the store and called for six cents worth of crackers. The Teutonic proprietor went to the cracker barrel, ana thrusting in his arm brought forth the required articles and placed them on the table. The customer sat gaxihg at them a few moments and then said: "Say, Hans, I believe I'd rather 'av a drink of whisky. I wish you'd »,lve mo some whiskv for these crackers." "Yah, I vill do 3ot," said Hans, obligingly, and in a moment the crackers were returned to the barrel and a drink of whisky was placed in their stead on the table. The customer drank it off with evident satisfaction, and after lingering about a little started to go out. "Sthop, nuue friend!" exclaimed IIan« you hev not p*M m« for dot whisfcy!" "The whKky? Why, didn't I hive vo the cracters for the whisky?"' ell, you hev not paid nif for dose crackers!" cried Hans, a little more excitedly. "The cracker*? Why, haven't you got the crackers?*' "Veil, 1 don't understand dot," said Hans, scratching his bead perplexedly, "but see, shust you go oudt I don't vant any more of your custom,

Everyone knows how much Lincoln was addictcul to story telling, and bow minted many of bis stories wtm. In its great debates with Stephen A. Douglas be not infrequently utterly destroyed all effect of his able opponet'a argument by simply teiliog a slorv. During the far not a little of Lincoln's popularity and success was due to tbe happy trait which he possessed of covering a point witb a story. When pointed stories are used as arguments tbey are well nigh srabli unanswerable so far as tbe verdict of a

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as tbe hills,n and have been transmitted from one generation to another, as were the Scotch ballads in ancient times. They circulate not only among tbe men and boys, but the female portion of humanity as well, having passed the con versational barrier between the sexes through the marital chamber. There is reason to believe, however, that the softer sex keep a much smaller stock on hand than do their male companions. One of the queerest things about these stories, and the remark will apply with more or less force to all stories, is the question of their origin. Where do they come irom? Whoever saw or beard of a person who had made up a new one The emanate from some source, however, and new ones are constantly com Ing to the surface. It is safe to say that tbe recognized humorists of the country start some of them on their travels. While a well known Iowa humorist was iu the city last winter, he entertained "the boys^'with several which were new, and which could hardly have had an origin outside his own fertile invention. No doubt many of then are actual scraps of history. It is noticeable that those which are based upon or which involve circumstances which might easily exist, are tbe best and most pointed. It would be difficult to prove that an occasional acquaintSnce witb a story of this kind referred to is auy more degrading tban the acquirement of knowledge on other points, scientific or otherwise, which are very properly barred from conversation between the sexes.

SMOKERS* ODDITIES.

PHRASES OF HUMAN NATUUB IN A CIGAR STORE.

"This cigar is a daisy." A natty young man made the foregoing remark in a well-known cigar storo one evening last week. He asked the clerk for a real good cigar, and tbe clerk handed out a half-dozen from which the natty young man selected the "daisy." A reporter who happened to be in the store asked how much the man paid for the cigar. "Only five cents," was the reply, as the clerk arose to wait upon auothor customer, who said. Give me fine cigar, a real fine one, if you've got it in the house." A cigar was passed out, and the buyer remarked, as he lit it, that it was an excellent one. The reporter asked how much the man paid for the cigar, and the clerk replied, fifteen cents, for he smokes good cigars. He added that he had never seen tbe man before, and to the inquiry how he knew that tbe man wanted a fifteen-ceut cigar, and the other man wanted a nickle weed, said: Ysu must judge your man. If a man asks for a good cigar, and means a fifteen-cent cigar, and I offer him a five-center, he is apt to get mad. Then if I offer a tenceut cigar to a man who thinks a nickle cigar is good enough far him, be feels hurt if he has to say be wants a fiver. 1 can tell how 1 do it, but the minute a man asks for a cigar I know what priced uigarbe is in the habit of smoking."

After watching the customers that me in during tho next hour the reporter was satisfied that to be a good salesman a man must have a fine memory and, above all, must keep his temper. For one customer he must have a smile, another must be congratulated on bis appearance,and a third must be asked If the weather suits him. Then there are men who come in and throw down a quarter or half-dollar, pick out their cigars aud quit the store without a word. Oue conspicuous merchant, the clerk said, bought six of the fifteen cent cigars every day, and yet ho had not spoken word in the store in four months. Most men will enjoy a five-cent as much as he would a fifteen, provided he thinks tho five center is a toney cigar. Not one man in a score kuows anything about tbe cigars he is smokin. A label on a box has much to do with making a brand popular, and customers generally refuse to buy their favorite cigar jf the label on the box is changed. Tno stealing of Cuban manufacturers' labels by Amorlcan manufactures was occasioned by this strange fancy. Home manufacturers cannot sell a fine cigar for a profit if they do not give it some high-toned name. Yet in seven cases out of eight a straight fifteen-cent domestic cigar is superior to the imported cigar of the same price. Hut the majority of customers can't or won't see this. Hebrews are, as a class, the best judges of good cigars, Tboy smoke the finest. Gamblers are erratic. For months they will smoke twenty-five ccnt cigars, and then they will suddenly say they will try a "nickle movement" for a change. No questions are asked by the clerk, and in a short time the gambler returns to his costly brand. The cigar clerk detects an advance in a young fellow's salary when he begins *to order ten-cent cigars after he has smoked five-centers for a yaar or more. Dry goods clerks smoke flvocenters as a rule, and they buy tbe brand that has a red paper band. These clerks imagine that people think they are smoking an imported article. But tbe youngsters who smoke cigarettes show up heavy in a cigar store. Tbey gener any come in pairs, buy a bunch of cigarettes, and then discuss tbe merits of some brand. Cigarette smoking has a more injurious effect upon the growth of a mustache tban a cigar or pipe does. The poison generated while smoking a cigarette acts upon the mucous lining of tbe upper lip, thus stunting tbe hairs of the moustache. Therefore youngsters who are nourishing faint hairs on their upper lips had best drop cigarettes and bravely call for a "five-center."

PASSING A WA Y.

THE RANKS OK THfc WAR VETERANS RAPIDLY THINNING OCT.

"Have yon noticed," said General Hoke, of North Carolina, tbe otber day. "the rapid disappearance of one-armed and one-legged men At tbe close of the war in tbe Houtb—as almost every Southerner was in tbe army—men without an arm or a leg were be seen everywhere and on all occasions. In a few more years it will be a rare thing to see one. Ton will appreciate this still more if you notice tbe next assemblage of soldiers at a reunion or in procession on some occasion. It Is pitiful so see bow old and grizzled tbey look. Tbe youngest of Lbetn are middle-aged men. Why, tbe day 1 surrendered I could place my band on my saddle-bom and vault over my horse'stiack. Now about all 1 care to do is to climb up one side of him."

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Tbe vest is a useless article of a wornjby mau. It is an encumbrance handed down from past generations and perpetuated only through pure stupidity. In old times it was termed a "waistcoat." It was then a vertiable coat, intended for the protection of the body. The regular coat over it protected only the back arms, being cut entirely away from the breast. The vest of today'is a rudimentary garment. It is simply a vestige of former fashion. Iu summer it would be gladly dispensed, with did people dare to do so. It adds another thicBuess for the retention of anitnal beat. In wiuter an additional thickness of coat would serve the purpose of the vest. The vest, as to use. is simply a coat without arms. It is principally useful to tailors, enabling them to charge for an additional needless piece of cloth. Vests always survive other garments. A man wm wear out three coate and four pairs of trousers to oue vest. Such is tbe force of custom that no mau would dare to buy a suit of clothes without the vest, though cut and worn in such a manner that the vest is invisible perpetually. As for vest pockets tbey'are a nuisauce. They become siukholos forold matches and uotestbrust in a hurry, which one's wife finds, because she knows where to look for them. Wheu robbers rob a man they show thelr contemp for the vest by not taking It. They will deprive a man of his trousers aud his coat. They leave the vest. Of what use is a mau clad only iu a vest Tbe vest is only a cause, aud almost an excuse for poor fitting garments. Any man looks better in a Duttoned-up coat, a la militaire. But the vest perpetuates the frocfc, double-breasted coat (though why called double-breasted noue can clearly tell) and the fit of such a ce.at never lasts over two months, since it depends almost entirely on the tailor's stiffening and smoothing iron. These are stern facts. A bas the vest. Let us forui a societ3' for the abolition of the vest. The vest is useless, even in charity. Who would give a beggar a vest? It would be mockery.

TOILET HINTS.

One of the most useful articles of the toilet is a bottle of ammonia, and any lady who haa once learned its value will never be without it. A few drops in the vater takes the place of tho usual amount of soap, and cleans out the pores of the skin as well as a bleach wilt do. Wash the flash witb a flesh-brush, and rub the lips well to tone their color. It is well to bath the eyes before putting in tbe spirits, and if it is desirable to increase their brightness, this may be done by dashing soapsuds into them. Always rub the eyes in washing toward the nose. Many coiitend that a freo use of soap turns the skin yellow, and some go so far as to declare that a too frequeut ap-y plication of water is injudicious. Some prefer treating the hands, neck and face with an ointment of glycerine, rubbed dry witb chamois skin. This is said to bo attended with the most satisfactory results, and there Is a story abroad just now concerning a young woman who bad not washed her face for three years, and is always clean, rosy and klssable. But sho has come to grief, and her experience ought to be a lesson to every woman of sound mental condition. In a moment of gushing confidence, such as at times will attack eveu the best regulated women, she gave her mcrtot away to her lover, and subsequantly received a note from him stating that he could never reconcile his hoart and his manhood to a woman wlto qonld get along without washing her face. letia rouge is being used every yoar. The face la more thoroughly rubbed or brushed with wet and dry brushes, and whenever a lady gets a chance sho may be caught

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SENSE OF TASTE. I)lo Lewin.

There has been a great deal of very interesting discussion about the preciso seat of tne sense of taste. Experimenters have reached widely different conclusions. Some think that the sense of taste is confined to tho very back part of the mouth and tongue, and to tbe overhanging palate, In other words to those parts which are seen upon widely opening the mouth, in tho very Imck part.

Magemlie is ef the opinion that the pharynx and even the gums and teeth are endowed with the senseof taste. Valentine and Wagner believe that the top of the tongue, especially about tho middle part and toward the tip, has no sense of taste whatever.

There can be no doubt that the back part of tbe tongue, where tbe large papillie are seen, and the parts immediately surrounding, both at tbeside and above, are most highly endowed with the sense of taste, while my own experiments lead me to the conclusion that tbe edges of the tongue and the tip are susceptible to sour, sweet and bitter substances In a moderate and varying

ingenious expert menters have thought that certain portion* of the moutb are devoted to bitter, sour and sweet tastes, respectively.

CATCHING COLD. I/Hiliville Medical II(raid.

When a current of air blows in at the window, all the light and small particles of lint and dirt are carried with the carrent of air. We breathe the insoluble and irritating matter into tbe nose, throat and bronchia) we sneeze, become hoarse and cough. We go to an evening entertainment, suffer much tbe same as described, from tbe iobalrftion of an atmosphere tainted with tbe exhalation of a number of persons, some of whom almost certainly have catarrh, pulmonary phthisis. All these sources of irritation of tho respiratory passages are set down as cold.

AN EX A (TING LA NDLOIlD. A man who had been living in a rented bouse notified bis landlord that be was going to move, "I hope," said tbe landlord, "that 1 will find tbe boose in tbe same condition it was when you took it," "No, I do net expect to leave it in exactly tbe same condition that I found it." "Well, I expect you to do so." "All right, then, 111 drop tbe ctot In tbe cistern and advertise for bed-bags."

Fmrr-EioHT million dollar* Is the estimated value of finger rings of this country actually worn, and still there are people mean enough to go backing and coughing because tbey do not want to invest 28 cents for a bottle of Dr. Boll's Cough Syrup.

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THE WAY GIRLS WALK. Lmiisvllfc Courier. 'I The conventional girl ba* to bring 'IMS adaptability into play just, as much she selects her style of walk as shed, in deciding upon the style of her hat thestutf for herowM gown. Cotigrui, too, plays an important partin lierstr appearance nml is an important factor] her success. The plump git I who is rich, ripe, round curve and massivemv*^ can bouml along with a quick, ela.s:ij step that would be ridiculously out place in her lank nnd swoetlv-icsthct I sister. The first can travel with th.-il easy spring away that is as suggestivSI of physical luxury aud solid comfort as1 a pine-apple fiber hammock under an, apple tree the other must glide—hor very appearance suggests the frailties of her structure and the possibilities of hei' being jarred out of shape in the bound-T ing process. Every woman has a peculiarity of gait that isessentiallv herown. To one who watches the crowd it becomes a question whether, with a proper description of tbestera and motions of the body, it would not lie possible oclassify' each girl with a tolerable degree of :uv« curacy. Tbe matter-of-fact girl bring«l down her feet with such prosaic force] that she is readily distinguished. No,I too, is the romantic young lady, whoseJ step is in itself suggestive of rope-laddein and mysterious moonlight. There is aj go out-among-the-heathen goodness ofg gait that will mark the evangelistic damsel ten blocks from a prayer iueet-| ing, and the "quadrupo*danto-putre«aj .Hoiiito-quartitongula-cnmpum'' steps oJ the literary woman has an onomatopoeia about it that proclaims her at ouce.

DR. GUYSOTrx YELLOW DOVE] AND £.4 RSA PA R1LLA. This medicine is very pleasant to takei aud exhilarating In its efi'ect. It acts asj a strengthening cordial aud system! renovator, effectually cleansing the system of all blood impurities, canccrous affcctious, and many other ills that human flesh is heir to, restoring and renewing perfect health and strength.

DR. TALAt iGE DESCRIBES A GOOD WOMAN. You see hundreds of men whoaresuccessfnl only because there Is a reason at horpe why they are successful. If a tnan marry a good honest soul ho makes his fortune if ho marry a fool, the lArd help bim. The wife may be a silent partner in the firm. There may bo only masculine voices down on the exchange, but tbefa often comes rrom tho home circle a potential aud elevating influence. The woman of Shunem, at whose house the prophet Ellsha stopped, was a great woman and the superior of hor liusband. He, as far as I can understand, was what we often find in our day, a man of large fortune and only a modicum of brains, intensely quiet, sitting a long while in the same place without moving hand or f«»ot if you say yes, responding yes: if vou say no, responding no inane, half shut, mouth wide open, maintaining his

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that class of pooplo who nood no name to distinguish them, no title of princess or queen. She was great in ho hospitality. Jupiter has the-surname of "The Hospitable," and bo was said to avenge the wrongs of strangors. Homer extolled hospitality In his vorse. Tho Arabs were punctilious about it.

BEECH Ell ON BABIES. From II IKSundaySermon. When a babe is Imrn it is nothing but a little animal, and a very poor one at that. It has no voluntary control of its' muscles—can't control its feet or its handi^ It is a little brute animal, and if it was not for tbe angelic potentiality that belongs to it, it would be the poorest thing on tho face of tho earth. That little sackful of meat and bones that we call Itaby would be nothing but tho hope of its future. It gradually unfolds and ripens, and at last comes development, and we fiave the full man as the son of God.

TIM family In New York Stale who last summer walkod about sixty miles to a circus, were outdone years ago by some young poople in Oswego county. The young men lived In a log house and wanted to glvo a party. The nearest young women were fifteen miles away. They started through the woods to go for them, and after a tedious dsy'* tramp arrived at their settlement. The young ladles consented to walk back with thorn,and the next morning started. After twoday's travol they arrived at the house where the dance was to bo given, and after dancing all nigbt returned home the next day, occomfmnlod by the young men, who thus traveled sixty miles through a per foot wilderness in order to enjoy one night's dano-

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PRKSIDKNT TVLKII had a gifted sister who lived with her father in Virginia, One night, sleeping with her cousin, she awoke and saw her mother, who had been dead several months, sitting In tho window, and looking at the boa where lay her Infant daughter when the mother died. While Miss Tyler looked,her cousin awoke and exclaimed, "There Is your mother." Thereupon the figure vanisbed. Several years afterward sho was 1 again at ber father's bouse, who was then dead. Walking through the ball late at night she met him by the staircase, recognizing Wlm perfectly. As long ss she gs«ed st him he remained, but her sister's voi« speaking to lier 1 a re a a 1

THR offer of a bed qui It to the girl re- I reiving the greatest number of votes, at 1 fifty cents each, at a London (Ont.) church fair, resulted in a terrible row. Miss Goodacreaud Miss Porte wore tb* leading *ndidates„ and each hud an enthusiastic, even reckless supporter Iti the person of ber affianced husband. After the commonplace voting had ceased, and bad been realised. Mr. Fox nut down bis gold watch for Miss OoodWe, as security for $100. Then Mr. Stanley placed 1200 in cash to Miss 1 Porte's credit. Next Mr. Fox offered his house in lieu of f1,000. Uproar ensued, and tbe fair closed In something like a riot. Afterward, the pastor returned the watch and tbe 1200, and decided that tbe quilt should go to Miss Porte, who bad oeeu ahead when tho Fox Btanlay con tost begun.

THN farmer who manages to tbe best advantage will use every effort to get bis bos* fat enough to kill as soon as tbe cold weather sets in for he well knows that to fat a bog when tbe mercury settles below zero requires a much larger quantity of grain than It does before freezing weather seta in. Wbst Is true of bog* is true of sheep and poultry that are being flatted for the market.

A oustri-KMA* writes: "Ir. Ouysott's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparllla cured me of a severe case of tbe piles, Impure blood and general 411-bealtb.

Another gentleman writes: Dr. Juysott's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla eared me of nervous debility, palpitation of the heart, dizziness, night sweats, sleepiessaees, etc.*