Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 25, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 December 1882 — Page 2

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THE MAIE

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TRRRK HAUTK, DKC. l«t 1882

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THEIR CHANCER FOB MATRIMONY.

The BOBton Globe bu been investigating matter* matrimonial and says the tim$ .-•la here when weddings will be the order of the day, in greater number than any otber part of the year. It is not easy to determine why tbe young folka should think the advent of tbe holidays should lead them to tbe by menial altar any quicker than the blithesome days of spring. Possibly tbey have more leisure to en jay a wedding perhaps the olose of tbe year finds them better off financially: perhaps the climate at this season makes them more sentimental, or perhaps they think it is well to follow the fashion of the people in that respect. However that may be the fact rernaJ ns that between now and New Year's there will be thousands of couples married in this country. Of course this is a pleasant spectacle, and we hope that the young people will bo better off for tbe change.

But while they are rejoicing we suspect there are a large number of single ladies who will be ratbor disappointed at not finding themselves on the married list. Borne of this class are perhaps to be commiserated, while others probably do not desire any pity. The chances of matrimony of those who are "left out in tbe cold" are worthy of considering now as tboy always have been and this seems to be the view which a Philadelphia lady takes of the subject. She is unmarried herself, and therefore her calculations are worthy of .ggonsideratiori probably by her sex. For ^hany years she has been keeping a .rscord of the sges of brides of her acquaintance who have accepted tbe hymenial butter, and having reached tho number of 1000, has made up a table for the benefit of her friends, showing the average matrimonial chances at different age* between 14 and 40. From that table, which we append, it appears that out of 1000 marriages among people in the s*\mo walks of life tho brides wore of tb numbers named opposite the specified ages:

Age Chances Ago Chances 14) t«t IT f' l*» »I il U\ 23i J4 I •JT( S7)

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ENCJMSH travelers who write about this country aro usually surprised because the tomato is used Almost as generally as tbe potato. Thomas Jefferson brought tomato-seed from France, where he saw that that vegetable was extensively used as food for swine. Dr. Dio Lewis used to say that tho too frequent oating of Itbyhumanlbolngs produced salivation. The Italians have taught Americans that fine tomato sauce makes macaroni more palatable. But there aro many poor cooks who hide thoir shortcoming by putting the tomato Into every dish so that one cbof recently said of another, "Oh, he'd put it into a church plate."

DR. I/OVKTT, a phvsican af Pennsylvania, claims to havo perfected a process for preserving tho dead which is in effect that employed by the ancient Egyptians. Ho uses a combination of antiseptic elements that destroys all corruptible matter, converts tho fiesh into a cartilaginous state, and make tho denser part like horn. Bodies so treated become like rubber, and while remaining pliant possess no properties of decay. The doctor and P. S. Knsworth havo applied forapateut on the discovery.

A FTKR those many years it is propoaed to bring to this country the remains of John Howard Payns, author of "Home Sweet Home." They have been interred in Tunis since his death, and, to ofltat the tardiness of attention, it is proposed to heap the greatest poaidblo honors upon the mortal part of him whom the whole world sings. It is singular that though Payne did some noble and lasting literary work in his dayone of the noblest of the heroic tragedies now pl«tyed being of his writing— his fame rei* almost entirely upon ths simple melody and unaffected verse of chance ballad.

AccoRMNwto the liartford limes a sfcild lately died in that city from tbe effect* of fright at a locomotive whistle. While waiting in tbe Boston depot, the father holding the baby of four months, a passing engine gave a shrill screeching whistk*. The baby was greatly frightened, Mid for hours oould not be quieted. On reaching home at Hartford was found that the child was partially paralysed, nnd alter lingering a few months, continually failing, it died.

A Philamuhua bird fancier says: You can Uirae a canary inside ol sis hours by depriving It of food for that length of lime, and then putting your hand fllltd with seed into the cage. Repeat this at intervals, and tbe bird will soon become tame enoagb to fly about lbs mom and come to you whetx you whistle for it." ii-a

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A Borrow w-rvant girl didn't make a hit of fu» when told that she was heir to fSa,0Q& f* be simply remarked in a quiet way that*)» could sow lie abed until eight oViock in tb* morning.

**~JHan«nd Byes are perfect and i*o beautiful thai ft Is a plwsorc to tr—' thwen. Eqnally good for dark or U* colors* lOrta.

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THE ONE GOOD THING THAT WILL OOME OF IT. «r

Speaking of tbe Gougar-Maodler slander case, tbe Lafayette Courier says: One good thing will come of the scandal, anyway. Mrs. Cougar's net may scoop in a few of the mjue gossips who ply their vocation in Lafayette. There has been too much talk-talkee, too much freedom with the names and reputation of reputable women. "I give no man my confidence or friendship," says Emerson, '-who, under any circumstances takes the name of a good woman on his lips save in kindness." One female gonip in a community has been compared to a boy who takes tbe itch to school, and a mate gossip may be compared to one who carries tbe smallpox around in his clothes for distribution. Lafayette bss more than her quota of these and tbe possible contingencies of the Gougar-Mandler case, as Intimated authority in tbe Courier of

ie tiougar-A good aut Wednesday, Wednesday, have occasioned quite flutter among them. The rumor that one or two bad put their property in otber hands to evade a possible suit for damages is doubtless an exageration. But there is music in tbe air.

And tbe Indianapolis Review remarks: Gossips are tbe blow-flies of society. They never alight any place without leaving loathsome larvae, to pollute what they have fed upon. A female gossip is about as painful a blister upon tbe public as tbe enemy of tbe race ever invented but a male gossip is the dirtiest creature that lives. Vile in mind and body his tongue wags unceasingly to tbecletriment of some person. Whoever is above him, man or woman, he defames, and be can always find somebody as vile as himself to listen to him. If tbe Gougar-Mandler case trans-plants a few of these filthy weeds from Lafayette soil to tbe balmier atmosphere of the penitentiary it will prove a blessing to society. ____________

A CODE OF ETHICS FOR BARBERS. New York Tribune.

A barber's congress has lately been held in Berlin, at which a code of trade ethics was adopted after full and free discussion. Hereafter the operation of shaving will invariably begin with the left chock but is still left to the discretion of the individual barber whether tbe soapjsliall be applied with tbe brush or tho hand.

Upon one point the Congress was unanimously agreed, and no barber can remain a member of the association who persists in tbe practice of holding his customer by tho uose while shaving him. To their everlasting credit be it recorded that a majority of the delegates expressed the opinion that in the matter of talking barbers sbo jld confine themselves to tho business in hand and not ramble over the domains of politics, commerce, philosophy, literature and the arts. An observation upon the weather by way of greeting or farewell,' will probably not imperil an artist's standing in the association, although on that point the utterances of the Congress were not of decisive as could have oeen desired.

LOVE STORIES.

For the average man or woman a truo lovo story never loses its charm. Do we not live over again tho pleasures and the romance of owr youth, whether iu tho pages of printed books or in those evermsh volumos, the lives of our children? It is a great mistake to let go our hold on any of the easily attaiued pleasures of life and of them all what fs so easy of attainment as books? It argues, indeed, a mind both selfish aud narrow, no matter with how many historical facts it may be stored, to lose interest in tho old, over-new love story, with which the heart of the world beats. It is a lovelv story, too—tbe loveliest in the world. The sky is bluer, tbe flowers are more fair, and the fields wear a softer green when the light of this one superb exporiencc transfigures them. It was divine, in its day, for each of us in turn and tbe tales that recall the ancient rapture are not without their charm for tne eyes that read them through the spectacles of old age. It is something to have been in Arcadia, but he has never himself been there who can read with a sneer or without emotion the simplest record of a genuine oxporii heart, honestly and faithfully told.

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FAT OR LEAN MEN.

A Pittsburgh detective observes that there are few fat men among the criminal classes. Tho lean and hungry Cassius is tho bad man. "Our most desperate criminals,"the detective remarks to a reporter, "are mostly small-sized mon, with light complexions. I suppose thoir average hoight will vary from five feet six inches to five feet ten inches and I don't think their average weight will exceed 140 to 145 pounds. If a crime of magnitude has oeen committed, we never think of connecting a fat man with it, unless the preliminary evidence Is pretty direct. The Instigators of some of the most celebrated bank or bond robberies in this country and Europe havo been fat men. Sometimes they take to pocket-pi eking or work a confidence racket, where an Imposing pres ence is an advantage. Onee in awhile a gang of high-livers will oome to grief as a municipal ring, like the Tweed combination in New York. But tbe desperate and dangerous work is nearly always intrusted to confederates oenspicous for their leanness."

EXOLAXD has been undergoing one of her historical snowstorms, it has been snowing heavily in every part of the United Kingdom for several days, and travel everywhere has been obstructed. The sailing of ocean steamers has been retarded, all railways have been impeded, great damage has been done to property, and the mails and telegraphs have been thrown into confusion. In Wales a train was lost, and was sought for bv bodies of men on horseback. Finally the top of it was discovered protruding through a snow-drift sixteen feet deep. The imprisoned passengers had suffered from hunger android in tbe unhealed cars for eighteen hours. It took a day and a half to dig out tbe train. The passengers suffered fearfully from

England, and

cold and exposure are being received from all quarters. Many parts of tbe country are inaccessible by reason of tbe drills, and persona have been found on tbe high-way from to death.

"I tisoA?r the of Compeuned Oxygen Treatment iu** a* I was taking a O' tk» cola pmmd nf wtiAotU AE wt wiwjw, orotAenri*e kitrlmg M*. Hare had no pain or rattling In my !---g* after the first two weeks' trwau It works mysteriously on my whole *y* ,n. 1 am stouter now than 1 have Ik*»i for two wait." writes one of our patient*. Our Tret

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY JifvTCNIIsrG MA IT

FEMALE BARBERS.

The Detroit Cheek says: "The female barber question is again being agitated in the East, and one or two shops have recently been opened New York which employ none but female barbers. We should think there would be a great many drawbacks to any very glittering success in this direction. Aside from the curiosity it must excite in the outsiders who stand on tbe. sidewalk and darken the front windows trying to get a peep at tbe victims in the chairs getting shaved, or shampooed, or salivated, or their hair cut, it must certainly be somewhat embarrassing to the less Attractive females to have all the customera wait for a chance to slip into the chair run by tbe best looking girl in the house. Whenever there is a row among the men, you will generally find a woman connected with it in some way, either as a principal or an accessory before the fact. How, then, is it going to be when fascinating females are right on the spot to breed jealousy among the males and fire the angry passions Any man who has been in the habit of throwing his head into the large, rounded, dimpled arm of a buxom barberiHt with love-lit eyes and a Saratoga wave, and having her tuck a snowy napkin under his grisly chin with her soft, fat fingers, and bold his head up to her throbbing corset—any man, we say, who has been in tbe habit of goiug through such delightful rehearsals as this twice or three times a week for a month or two, hates like thunder to miss his chance of occupying her chair and being thrust off into the' charge of an elderly female with with warts and a bad breath, and see his ideal barb6ress, tbe one who has toyed with his side whiskers and bathed his throbbing temples, in bay rum and hair tonic,bestowing her tonsorial attentions on a young fop who owes him five dollars and can't raise even a moustache.

The introduction of female barbers is bound to breed mischief. If it don't come one way it will another. A man's wife may get on tbe female barber racket, and dog his every footstep like a sleuth hound. She may catch him at it, and just a£ likely as not go right in and help the female barber muss up his hair. There is far more horrible fact than poetic fancy in this suggestion.

Then, too, tho pretty female barber may have a young man in tow who is mashed all out of shape on her. It would be most mighty strange in this world if she didn't. He might drop in while the protty female was doing up your back nair, and he might sit round and scowl, and knock his boot heels together, aud get mad because his girl seemed to hang over you a little too long in giving you a few finishing touches, and he might suddenly jump up and kick over the cuspidors, and break the cigar case and commence firing a whole case of shaving mugs promiscuously around itho room. A man don't want to be jumped right out of a chair with his hair dishevelled and mouth full of soapsuds, just because a bow-legged bloke in a five-dollar overcoat happens to be sweet on his barber and don't want her to fool away any timeon a customer. We are afraid, iu cases like these, a man would be slighted, or else his face would be cut up into a checker board through the girl's nervousness.

No. as we before remarked, we aro afraiu the female barber business bas too many drawbacks for success in this country. It might do, however, in Utah, where one woman is adfgood as another, and jealousy is away down below xero.

EPITAPHS.

One seldom would think of visiting a graveyard for mirth, but some of the old churchyards in England display upon their tombstones some very quaint humor. Here are some samples:

On a work-house pauper: "Thorps. Corpse. OH an infamt: '•She never told her love." On a wife: "She once was mine,

And now

To Thee, O Lord, I h«rrcwlgn, And am your obedient, humble servant KOUKRT LKMP. From a churchyard in Hereford:

WOMAN.

"Grieve not for me, my husband dear, 1 am not dead, but sleeping here With patieace wait, prepared to die. And in short time you'll oome to I.''

KAH,

"I am notsrleved, my dearest wife, Bleep on—I've got another wife. Therefore I can not oome to thee. For 1 must go and live with she." Here LB something good written on a tombstone in Devon: "The wedding day appointed wan,

The wedding clothes provided And ere tho day did eome, alas. He sicken*d and be die did." Once more we quote from Lincolnshire: "John Palfreyman, who lyeth hers,

Was aged four and twenty year And near this pteoe bts mower lies. Also bis father when he die*."

MISERIES OF A MEAN MA If. Burdette. Sometime* I wonder what mean man thinks about when be goes to bed. When be turns out tbe light and lies down. When the darkness closes in about him and be la alone, and compelled to be honest with himself. And not a bright thongbt, not a generous impulse, net a manly art, not a word of blessing, not a grateful look, comes to bless bun again. Hot a penny dropped Into the outstretched palm of poverty, nor the balm of a loving word dropped into an acbing heart no suribeam of encouragement oast upon a struggling life the strong right hand of fellowship reached out to help some fallen man to his feet—when none of these things come to him as tbe "God Men you" of tbe departed day,bow be must hate him-

How be must try. to roll away from himself and sleep on the other side of the bed. Wben the onfy victory be can think of is some mean victory, in which be bas wronged a neighbor. No wonder be always sneers wben he tries to smile. How pure and fair and good all the rest of tbe world must be to him, and bow cheerless and dusty and dreary must his own path appear. Why lone. Isolated ad of meant one lone, isolated ad of meanness Is enough to scatter crumbs in tbe bed of the average ordinary man, and what must be the feeling of a man whose whole life Is given up to mean acta? Wben there a so much suffering and heartache and misery In the world, anyhow, why should vou add one pound of wickedness or sadness to the general burden Don't be mean, my boy. Suffer injustice a thousand times rather than commit it onne.

"I KOVK," mid delegate In a Virginia convention, "that our chairman take a dune of Dr. Boll's Oough Syrup, be fat •o bo*r*e that I cmzinot understand him." That geutlenan lad no doubt tried tbisj womderful medkioe.

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THE SULTAN'S BRIBE.

MARRYING AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR.

A Ocrcmony Required bg Law—How the Choice oj Maidens is Effected—A Place the Harem an Object of Moslem

Ambition.

It does not appear to be generally known that the Sultan is obliged to marry many women against his will, yet such is the case, and at least ouce in each year whether his Majesty be young or old, sick or well, does the law of the oountry oblige him to marry. This law has not always been in force, but was introduced by tbe Sheik ul-Islam, or head of the church, about one hundred years ago, to force

Sultan Selim, who, wishing

to abolish polygamy, kept oue wife only, to maintain and uphold the ancient and authorized customs. The ceremony of the caliph's marriage is so important an event that a description of it will be interesting. For many days psevious to the ceremony the Palace ofllcials are busily engaged in selecting tbe girls, who will be allowed to be present on the evening of the Kadir Gegessi,aud from whom his Majesty will select one as his wife. Singular as it may appear to Americans, there is hardly a Mohammedan fatnilv which does not do its best to get its daughters into tho harem, although they know full well that it is already adorned with some hundreds of wives or slaves of great beauty and from all countries. The present Sultan has in his harem Albanians, Circassians, Armenians, Afghana Turks, Greeks. Georgians Tartars and every other nationality of women, many being slaves, women who have been sent as presents to tbe Sultan, or volunteer slaves, the latter entering the haieui of their owu freewill. It is and ever has been tho ambition of every Turkish father and mother to get their daughters into the Imperial Harem, and for this purpose tbe moment a girl uttaius the age of fourteeu or fifteen and is good looking, hefr parents spare no efforts to get her introduced to his Majesty or to some of his favorites, who, for a consideration, mention the girl to their master. Sonse of the most beautiful women of the empire can be seen always hanging about tbe entrances of the palace or the imperial mosque and other resorts of tho Sultan, in order to find au opportunity of showing him their pretty faces. Neither the age, disposition or health of sovereigu are considered by the parents. He may be as ugly, cruel, infirm and old as possible—all that they wish for is that they may become related to the throne besides which, during the short time that their daughter may be a harem favorite they will be the most noted people in the empire, receiving honors, titles, decorations and high appointments, not only for themselves, out for their parties also, for which, of course/ they get well paid.

The original custom was that girls of all ranks aud conditions of society should take chances on the birth-ii^ht of the prophet but now so much influence, both political and financial, is brought to bear on the ofllcials selecting tne maidens that few, if any. of the poorer classes are ever permitted to enter the list. These officials accopt brides and presents from parents and guardians and make decent fortunes every year at 'he time of selection. Toward the close of the reign of Sultan Adbul Medgid, that monarch one night refused toseloct a wife from among those who were pre

sen ted to him, and, breaking through the ring, selected a poor girl who was standing in the crowd selling flowers, to the astonishment of all the pashas and beys present. For several years after the officials conscientiously did their duty, selecting tho prettiest girls, irrespective of the positions or infiuenco of their parents now, however, bribery and corruption will open the door to a rich girl to the detriment of a poor one who may be ever so much more beautiful than tho favored one. The number of maidens allowed to compete is one hundred and one, and when the selection Is complete, invitations, or rather imperial commands, are issued forthom to attend, with instructions as to dress. The dress consists of a large white linen sheet, thrown over tho shoulders in Roman fashion, and sandals to the feet. All tbe maidens had to dress alike, leaving their hair -hanging, and no gems or ornaments of any description are permitted.

On the night of the ceremony the Sultan proceeds on horseback to tbe Suliemanieh Mosque, on the Stamboul side of tho Goldon Horn, accompanied by all the high palace officials, ministers of state and pashas, all in gala uniform and surrounded by his aides-de-camp in their picturesque costumes, representing the various nationalities over which bis Majesty reigns supreme. Tbe streets through which be passes are lined with soldiers, who, to make the scene more effective and to illuminate their master's passage, have Cblr.ese lanterns stuck to their bayonets, and military bands play the Sultan's march at short distances along the route. Arriving at the Suleimanlch Mosque his Majesty Is conducted to tbe holy carpet, whereon he alwavs stands during tbe service, and where be hears tbe regulation sermon, or rather advice preached by the Sbeik-ul-Islam, in whick he Is enjoined to be a good ana true Mussulman, and to take warning by tbe mishap which befell his ancestor* Selina, in that very mosque, because he took one wife only unto himself. His Majesty stays In tbe building for about half an hour, after which be proceeds to tbe square facing tbe mosque, where great preparations are made for his reception. On a large temporary eleva* tlon are all tbe dignitaries of tbe [State, tbe clergy of tbe Imams. Mollabs and Hawagaa occupying tbe places of honor. In tbe center Is a pavulion of scarlet velvet embroidered in gold, with the "Tour»h"or Sultan's monogram, which Is always tbe official emblem of Turkey hanging in each corner. It is covered at tne top, and supported by four silver columns, thus leaving tbe sides open. In tbe pavillion are tbe Sbeik-ul-Islam and tbe beir of tbe throne while around it stand the 101 maidens drawn in tbe form of a complete circle, each maiden being attired in tbe regulation white sheet, and holding a towel In bar hand, which, being subject to no restrictions, vary in color, deiflgn and quality.

After a sbort prayer the heir to the throne approached the soverign, and kneeling offers him two pigeons, which be begs of him to sacrifice to the Almighty and invoke His awshrtance in selecting, from among tbe bystandlng maideoa, one who will become a faithful wife, a loving mother, an ornament to tbe crown, and an example to otber women. Tbe Sultan then takes a knife from bis belt, and, kneeling himself, sacrifice* tbe pigeons, invoking the help of tbe prophet in tbe selection which he is about to make, after which he rises and proceeds to wash his bpds in a

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his ablutions however. On the contrary, he proceeds exceedingly slow, carefully scanning tbe pretty girls surrounding tbe pavillion meanwhile. It must be no easy matter to determine, seeing that all the competing damsels are verv graceful and beautiful, and many a little heart must be throbbing terribly while this examination goes on. Some of the cabphs have oeen knowu to coutinue washing their hands for an hour, while others have made their selection in a fow minutes but it bas been geirerally remarked thot the yonnger the Sultan is the sooner ho washes his hands. As he advances in years, however, he becomes more difficult to please, and being experienced takes his Uuie, proceeding with very ^great deliberation. Having made up his mind he leaves the pavillion and goes sraight up to the maiden he has selected, and takes from her hands the towel she is holding, upon which he wipes his hands. No sooner has he made his selection than the poor flurried creature, who by this act has become the wife of the highest in the land, is immediately seitedby half a dozen attending eunuchs, who throw a thick veil over her, and rush her off a carriage, which is lutended for the purpose, the

strike up, the artillery roars, the people shout, the officials congratulate nis Majesty on his wise selection, and the Sultan himself looks highly pleased. The palace treasurer then throws bags of small coins to the crowd, and while they r. I I

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It may as woll be stated here that in Germany every glass is marked with tho measure it holds. Tbero are no Coney Island glasses with two Inches of glass botton, two inches of foam, and one inch of beer you get a liter, a halfliter, or two liter and a half—just what you pay for. The moasuro of the glass put upon it iu plain figures always, rhfs is to prevent swindling on tho part

of tbe publican and then the man who sits down for an evening wants to know exactly how many gallons he drinks. A two gallon ftiun doesn't want to havo any doubt as to the quantity ho has consumed. If experience has taught him that two gallons is enough, why ho knows when he has got two gallons. They are very symtematicin Germany about everything

As to the quality of the leer, it is a mistake to suppose that it is any better than tho American product. Perhaps there are cities where it is better, but in this section good judges (we consulted several Americans who were beer-drink-ers) say that it is in no sense superior. All the groat brewers manufacture beer iy

especially for tbe American market, nich is much finer than that served to

their own people. The German j)eople will not pay tbe price tbe American public su omits to.

There are light beers, light in color and in strength but the German prefers a very heavy, sweetish boor, very dark and very strong. And be wants no foam on it—be wants, and will have, solid beer. "Foam Is not beer," and be indignantly sends his mug back if tbe foam is too thick.

They will have it heavy, and wben tbey can set it, of nothing but malt and hope, ana those ingredients in liberal quantities but tbe German brewer, like his American brother, has discovered tbe cheapness of glucose and drugs and, notwithstanding the government restriction and supervision, he manages to make much cheap and very bad beer.

Strong as it is, it does not intoxicate tbe German, nor even the American who drinks it. There is very little drunkennees in tbe Pfalr. Indeed, I have not yet seen a drunken man. Wine and beer are tbe only stimulants taken, the use of spirituous liquids being entirely unknown. A roan after much beer overnight, may take a thimbleful of brandy In the morning, but that is all. He never drinks it during the day, and they cannot understand tbe American custom of standing at bars and gulping down half-tumbler* |trf fiery spirits. Were a man to do that here be would be considered a beast.

Their drinking customs are complicated. You salute every man at tbe table you sit down at, whether you know him or not, and, if you are In a party of friends, every one must touch glasses with every oue rise, with the salutation, "Prosit f" which Is, "Gold help you!" whenever you qp the glass to your lips. On rising from tbe table you mustjialate every remaining sitter with "Adieu," which also includes the girl who has waited upon you, tbe woman who draws tbe beer, and the proprietor, who hi doing tbe heaving standing around.

Tbey are very jollv over their beer in a quiet and rather h» .y way, but never especially noisy. Rodylam hi something entirely unknown, as women and cbilddreu oome to the public beer halls the same as men. A New York ruffian would find himself la the lock-up ia au

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caliph leaves tho pavillion, and, mounting his horse, returns to the seraglio, the chances being that months will elapso before be again thinks of his new wife, who is leading a life of idleness and luxury in the harem, uevcr seeiug anybody but her "consoeurs" and the attending eunuchs.

LAGER BEER.

HOW IT IS DRANK IN OKU MANY

"Nasby" in Toledo 1 (little.

Beer and wine are tho beverages that are in universal uso iu Germany. Coffee is drank^for breakfast after that beer and wine occupy the field to the exclusion of everything else. The workingmau drinks it as the Araorican does water, all the time. The business man commences about 11 in the morniug, preparatory to his midday lunch,

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Dinner or upper at G:!W with wlno and from thence till bed-time, boer. The amount consumed peivapita is something enormous. The regular glass holds a half-liter, which is something loss than a quart aud a healthy citizen manages three or four of them at a sitting. If he is really thirsty andactuully needs to moiston his clay thoroughly, more goes tho way of all beer. Rut throe to four half-liters between Hand 11 in the evening is about what is considered necessary for the pleasure of the thing.

In Nuremberg, in a bier hallo, wero three young men who drank, as iH the custom where mon are friends, out of one mug, or rather a jug that held two and one-half litters. They commenced at about 8 and finished their pleasant sitting at 11, when all the beer was gone. They bad emptied that enormous vessel exactly fifteen times, and tliey walked aws3' as comfortable as you please. Whore they stowed tho liquid is a mvstery. They were not in any sense Intoxicated. The only effect it had upon them was, they wore tolerable ioily and somewhat communicative, lliey left, as the beer was all exhausted iu the house tboy had been iu all tbe evening, and wont away to find a fresh supply, they had noteuough of it to sleep upon. Tbey wanted beer.

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instant. He would be regarded here am a sort of wild beast and tbe estimate putJ upon him would be very correct.

Wbeu I say everybody drinks mean everybody. Young girls, ikij women, babies in arms, all drink it.A^J mother in arms brings hor child the beer-garden, and takes it from®! breast to put to it3 lips tbe heavv bell she is drinking and the little infant* ]»ulls at it with a fervor that proves iU iking. They have a curious habit dnnkfng out of one glass. At a tab! where a family is sitting, two little girl will have a gl between them, at whicil they take alternate pulls and vor\l friendly people drink from tho sanw/ glass. It is one of the most touehinV sights in nature to see a youug felloxl with his sweetheart at a tablo under a, tree. They invariably drink out of onoi glass, and the tender solicitude witW which he insists that she shall driukl aud|the sweetness with which she pushei it back to him that he may havo his full share, are very pretty Indeed. How] ever.noue of it is ever left in tbe glass except in rare Instances.

HEA LTH.

Health is happiness and long lif The priceless blessing of health can retained, or if lost recovered, by using I medicine which the experience of yean has convinced an intelligent public both safe and eftlcaci ous, mid tin modiciue is Dr. Guysott's Yellow Doi and Sarsaparilla.

WHEN TO GET MAKRIJSD. Philadelphia Time*. Among the perplexing conundrum which conte to the Times is ono from young man who wants to know when bad better get married, lie says he without fortune and has a very suu income. He really doesn't talk as if ought to get married at all. He doosn seem to have made the first proparat iot He has a little better sense, bowev* than tho average of young mon of l» class, because he seeks advice before

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rushes iuto marriage. The most of thei wait until it is too late una then wi* they had done something else.

Thore used to bd an old fashioned np tlon that a young mau should not thin of marrying until ho oould provide proper homo for his wife, and gii wero hard to find who wero willing ti marry without such provision. All tlin sort of bother Is now dispensed will Girls don't trouble themselves about homo it is the uice, perfectly lovel" young man they want, and no worrying thought of anything else disturbs the" till aftor marriage. Sooner or later th realize how much bettor a little patioii. and discretion would have beeu.

Many young women or real rofinomon possessing something of an educaltoj aud with many social graces, are whirloi away to ordinary boarding houses with in a month of their mariiage. This is great misfortune to any girl. Thollf of a boarding house is well calculated unlit a young woman for those domost and social duties which every man has right to expect of his wife it will almi, inevitably destroy her homeaccompHsli ments. It requires the strongest, churac tor and severest trainiug to escape sucl demoralization, and few young womq escape.

No young man can afford in this wa to spoil a girl whom he expects to uial I him happy through lifo. No one wl sincerely loves and has the ability essci tial to the protection and support of wifo will think of doingayoungwomai such a wrong. If a man does not so loy and has not that ability he has no tigl to set married. His time lias not com' All cannot llvo in palaces, but no you* man can take a youug woman from refinomouts and comforts of homo the terrors of a common boarding hot and then oxpect her to make him ago wife. Ho bas taken tho most dire measures to spoil her, oven though si bo an angel.

MR. F. L. CAHKV, of Madison, In writes: "1 was completely broken with rheumatism, and wasalso suffon from indigestion and piles. My aut Mrs. Whalon, living iu LouisvU wrote, abvising me to try Dr. Guysol Yellow Dock ond Sarsuparilla. 1 did I also bathed my joints with vinegar salt. This treatment relieved me of suffering." ________________

Mil. Knos liito, 33 Court St., Indi apolis,says: "Brown's Iron Bitters cu me of foverand ague."

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Slag, Oil Ning (bail Nong Agm* How can you wben you cougi every breath 7 Why, get a trial lx of Dr. Bigelow's Positive Cure, and will be answered. It cures oo. coughs, consumption, whooping cou and all diseases of tbe lungs, and It' lost you nothing to test it if you cs' Moffatt A Gulick's drug store.

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It is said an old philosopher sougf. honest man with a lighted lantern, humanity has since been seeking honest medicine by tbe light of kn edgy. It has at length found it in Jones' Bed Clover Tonic, which curr* disease* of the of tho blood, rem pimples, and acts promptly upon liver and urinary organs. Only

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The Conductor. WixojfA, Minn., Nov. 29 ^{f

1 have been suffering with a se cold for several days, and WAS SO ho I oould not speak above a whisper. 18th I met one of Dr. Warner's ag on my train, be handed me a boti. White Wine of Tar Syrup and one 1 after taking tbe first dose my hpt nees commenced to leave me. In tw* four hours my voice was quite clear natural and tbe cold nearly cured. tbe beat remedy I ever saw. llrwpectftrtly,

C. W. WARREX. conductor Chicago A Northwester R.

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