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be closed until lie first balloon vindicates Itself. In that event it is probable that we may build a dozen npre balloons and establish a regular l|ne between the Klondyke and the highest navigable point on the Yukon river. As you see, we are hurrying through as fast as possible. We are working from sun rise until midnight. "We expect to «iUrt for the West on August 8th or 9th—in fact, we must do so. If the balloon is not finished by that time we will take it with, us and do the coating and put on the finishing, touches in the West The balloon will set out on its trial trip from the Tliko Pass about August 28th.

STREAMING INTO DAWSON CITY.

Many Arrivals There—The Probable (Sold Output.

Seattle, .Wash, August 2.—A letter received today from Dawson City, written June 26th, says: "This is-the land of gold. Unless all signd mislead, as signs have rarely misled, not California in the days of '49, not Australia, not thep rofific Rand in South Africa, should rank with it. '"I venture to estimate the output of goli for the season from the placers in the immediate neighborhood of Dawson at $5,000,000. Some of the enthusiastic miners here say the product for the season will be nearer $10,000,000 than $5,000,000, but I have noticed a local inclination to brag, and I want to be entirely within the facts in any information.I sent out from this camp of marvels "Dawson has grown like a mushroom since the news of the richness of the mines in this neighborhood has reached the other diggings along the Yukon, and its tributaries. The present population of this town is about 4,000. "Men are streaming in as rapidly as their legs or the river steamers or horses will transport them. We in Dawson have an idea that by the close of the snort summer season there will be 10,000 people in the town. There are no openings hero for new-comers

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locate claims along any' of the creeks where gold placers are known to exist. All the claims on the 'good ground' in this immediate vicinity have been taken up. "A stranger has to get out and prospect in places of which nothing definite is1 known. Parties leave here every day on prospecting tours. When a discovery of gold is reported crowds rush out in frenzy to the place. The thronging in of men is making an important change in the prices paid for labor While provisions are dear the price of labor is going down. I have known a laborer to get $20 a day for his toil, but that price was not paid to every man. "The Indication now is that many men who must have food and clothing will crowd the town, and that the rate of wages will fall to the cost of subsistence. Flour is $6 a sack."

Wise Action of Mounted Police. Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 2.—The steamer Queen, which arrived from Alaska thi* afternoon, brought word that the mounted police of the Northwest territory are neei.ng all people bound for the Yucon countrv at the British line beyond White and Juneau Passes and compelling all who have not a year's supply of provisions to rcmrn to the* coast. But few of the fortune seekers who have left Tacoma and the South within tbe last few weeks for Dyea and Skaguay had crossed into the interior when the Queen left Dyea July 28th.

A Bloomfield Man Ha* the Fever. James G. Langworthy, superintendent of the United States Express Co. on the E. & I. and E. & T. H., will start today for Klondyke. A number of Mr. LAngworthy's friends have chipped in $600 and he puts his time. If he makes a strike he gets half and the contributors pro rata the other half. If tfe fails they lose their contribution and he his time and it may be his life.—Bloomfield Hustler.

WITH THE FISH COMMISSIONER.

Some Law Breakers Who Wouldn't Whack Up Sent to Jail. The Rev. Z. T. Sweeney of Columbus .and fish.commissioner of the state of Indiana, has no reason to complain of his deputy who isi on guard over the fish in these parts. Deputy Earle hae been here but three weeks, and in that time has done about as much ta preserve the fish in the Wanash as any one man could. He spread consternation all the way down from Lafayette and his fame preceded him to Terre Haute.

One of the settlements Mr. Earle passed} through on his way down the river is Black Rock, about half way between Lafayette and Attica. This place is noted as the mosC thickly infested hive of depraved and vicious humanity in the state. Earle expected to have trouble with the ruffians, who openly defied the fishing laws. But he came upon them unawares and gathered in the nets and seines, arrested them, had them fined and was off before they knew what had happn§d. One fellow tried to row away from him when asked to stop and the deputy calmly leveled his Winchester at the boat. He didn't 6hoot the fugitive, for he didn't want to. But he bored the boat full of holes and sunk it, so that the fellow was obliged to swim to the shore and give himself up.

This might have (been a feat for some, but Earle had seen service in the Lone Star state, where bowies and Colts 44 grow on every bush. For some time he was the special detective for a railroad down on the border, near the land of the Greasers, and there he had ail the practice he needed.

Mr. Earle says he wHl go soon to Kisciusko county, that of the many lakes, where his services are in pressing demand. He will probably remain here a week at least.

Owing to a hitch in the proceedings the case against "Greeney" Sullivan, the keeper" of the Ft. Harrison camp, will probably be dismissed. The case was postponed yesterday. "Curley" Wilson, who owes the county a fine 4s the result of his prosecution last week, was committed to jail yestferday. He refused to pay or stay the amount assessed. A committment on the same charge has been made out against "Fatty" Schafer, and he will be arrested today.

HOW THEY GET THE GOLD.

A. Cnrater of the Natidaal Museum on the Klondike Mines. Dr. William H. Ball, one of the curators of the National museum, Washington, is familiar with the region of country in whioh the Klondike geld fields are located through having been-on several geological expeditions to the region in Alaska adjoining the gold district, and says that in his opinion the reports from there probably are not exaggerated. He said recently: "Tbe geld bearing belt of northwestern America contains all the' gold fields ex? tending into British Columbia, what is known as the northwestern territory and Alaska. The Yukon really runs along in that belt for 500 or 600 miles. Tbe bed of the main river is in the lowlands of the valley "Tbe yellow metal is not found in paying quantities in the main river, but in the small streams which cut through the mountains of either side. These practioally wash out the gold. Tbe mud and mineral matter is carried into tbe main river, while tbe gold is left on tbe rough bottoms of these side streams. In most oases tho geld lies at tbe bottom of thick gravel deposits. Tbe gold is covered by frozen gravel in tbe winter. During tbe summer, until the snow is all melted, tbe surface is covered by muddy torrents. When the now is all malted and tbe springs begin fa/Tease, the streams dryufi At the *ji./. *•*. :£Z I M'-*

proacb of winter, in order "to get at the gold, tbe miners find it necessary to dig into tbe gravel formation. Formerly they stripped tbe gravel off until they came to the gold. Now tbey sink a shaft to the bottom of the gravel and tnnnel along underneath in the gold bearing layer. "The way in which this is done is interesting, as it baa to be carried on in cold weather when everything is frozen. Tbe miners build fires over tbe area of whicb tbey wish to work and keep them lighted over that territory for the space of about 24 hours. Then, at tbe expiration of this period, the gravel will be melted and softened to a depth of perhaps six inches. This is then taken off and other fires built, until tbe gold bearing layer is reaobed. When the shaft is down that far, fires are built at tbe bottom, against tbe sides of tbe layer and tunnels made in this mariner. .Blasting would do no good, on account of tbe bard nature of the material, and would blow out just as out of a gun. The matter taken out containing the gold is piled up until spring, when the torrents come down, and is panned and cradled by these: It is certainly very hard labor."— Chicago Times-Herald.

WHEN GREEK MEET3~(&EEK

Could Not Get the i/ost parse, bat Neither Could That Other Woman. Where they all came from was a mystery. And why so many women bad selected this day to shop was incomprehensible—at least to the finite masculine mind. But the big shop was packed and jammed with them. Tbey all looked utterly fagged, out, and many showed signs of growing irritation.

Two women of widely contrasting types paused for a moment on the outskirts of this human vortex. They stood at opposite points, equally distant from that portion of tbe long counter dedicated to "remnants." Neither was young. The one, evidently a country.woman, had the plaoidly 6tupid gaze of a ruminating cow. The other was distinctly a product of New York. She was dressed in rusty black. Bits of crape were pinnedJJt uncertain intervals upon her costuiVe. Her shabby bonnet, with its drunken plume, was very much over one ear. She wore'the suspicious but alert air of a terrier that has been fooled too often by the cry of "rats!' The Illusion was heightened by a peculiar habit of carrying her elbows close to her sides and letting her bands fiop down from her extended, wrists, as if "sitting up, begging."

A common impulse put both women in motion. On the floor by the remnant counter lay a purse. Apparently no one else saw it.

The small woman, by a vigorous application of ber sharp elbows, worried her way'toward the prize. But here size defeated agility. By sheer force of her own weight the country woman projeoted horself upon it. Victory was hors.

The little woman gave a yelp of disappointment as she saw her rival's band open the purse and disclose a goodly sized roll of bills. Instantly her face gleamed with malicious triumph.

Leaning over the counter, she called in a shrill voice: "Miss, here's a lady" With scathing emphasis—"as has found a purse with money. Won't you take her to the department for lost articles?"

The country woman's eyes filled with tears of rage. "I guess it ain't your busi ness. I kin take care of it myself, I reok on."

But it was too late. The ever present floorwalker had heard the request, and he condescended to lead tbe crestfallen country woman to the cashier's desk. With a last exnltant snarl the small woman corksorewed her way through the crowd and disappeared.—New York Herald.

WON HIS CASE.

A Philadelphia Lawyer's Idea of Thrift and How It Worked. Over in Philadelphia dwelt a young law student who fell in love just as he was about to be admitted to practice. The girl's father also belonged to the profession and was reckoned pretty smart, as Philadelphia lawyers go. The old fellow gave a partial consent to the young man's pleadings, but concluded he would try the student and see if he was worthy to be his son-in-law. So he said: "The case of Blank against Blank has been on the calendar several years. It has been tried, appealed, decision reversed, tried again and oomes up again for argument at the next general term. I am counsel for the plaintiff. I have had the case four years, but now I turn it over to you. Here aro the papers. See what you can do."

The young man took the papers and went to work with a vim born of love—for if he won the case would he not also win a bride? At Iwst life seemed to him worth the living. He studied the case thoroughly. He eensulted the authorities and was loaded arid primed for a brilliant argument when the court convened. He made his plea and won the case without any trouble.

With a heart overflowing with joy, he returned to his prospective father-in-law, and, slapping down the papers, he exclaimed: "Soe here, sir! The case is won! Those are the proofs. What you tried for years to do I have accomplished at a single term of court. Now, may I have your daughter?"

The old fellow looked up with a smile upon his face as he replied: 'I think you a fool and you can't have my daughter. But I will just give you a little gratuitous advice: It is true I had the case four years without winning it, and it is also.fcrue that I made thousands of dollars out of it. But you have gone and settled io, and what have you made? About $50. No, sir, you can't have my daughter!"—New York Journal.

Thoughtless People.

Elevator Boy—I don't see what dese mugs is always in such a hurry fer de elevator fer.

Messenger Boy—Nor me, neither. Elevator Boy—I wouldn't mind if dey needed t-er hurry, but dey knows just as well as I dcros dat der elevator runs all day till 6 o'clock. Dey gimme a pain.—Boxbury Gazette.

A Hoosehotd N cessity.

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Would Be Appreciated.

"You can trust the man tvho slfngs *St' his work," said the cheery citizen. "Yes," replied SWnioter. "Twish some one would persuade tbe -roan who works around my woodpile two or three nights a week to singJoud enough for me to hear him."—Washington Star.

Incomplete Statement.

"Wherever there's smoke there is fixe." The learned one answered: "I guess not. Wherever there's smoke there's imperfect combustion. That's all."—Detroit Tribunj. _v_

SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES.

Allen's Foot Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting feet and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen'f Foot Base makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired, aching feet. Try it today. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. By mail for 2ac in stamos. Tfial package FREE. Address, Alien S. Olmctead. J-aRoy. N, Y».

MAYBELITHIA W A.TER

DISCOVER* ON MR. B. 6. COX'S FARM: THAT PROMISES WBW. INDEED,

Boring For Ordinary Water Mr. Cox Strikes a Remarkably Pare and Soft Liquid, Possibly Lithia.

There is a strong possibility that Terr® Haute is to have a lithia spring very close' to its gates.

Several of Mr. Cox's-friends have visited •his farm and drunk the pure product of his new spring. They have been greatly pleased with it and some say it certainly possesses many rare properties. Dr. Gerstmeyer is one of 'the persons who believes that it is lithia water and that Mr,

The fatal attraction that causes people to make uncomplimentary remarks about near relatives is proverbial, and it behooves a stranger to beoareful in his comments in a mixed assemblage. "I say, old fellow," said a man to''a business friend, meeting him at a sooiai reunion, "did you see the woman I tofyk in to supper? Wasn't she bitter ugly? And she Was as stupid as she was plain." "I saw you with my sister-in-law," Mras the answer, which might have been &tpeoted, for, like curses and chickens, sdeh remarks seem fated to "c»me home to roost."—Philadelphia Press.

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FATAL REMARKS.

We Blinder Into the Very Thlpgs We Are Trying Not to Say. "Hare you ever nbtioed bow, when yon have once said the wroiig thing and begin to flounder, how hopeless it is—how you are sure to go on and say worse in spite of yourself, and tbe words seem to slip from you as if they were possessed by a natural depravity quite independent of your volition? "I have been horrified sometimes by my own speeches, which I seemed quite as powerless to prevent as if they had emanated from some other person. I was talking with Mrs. A. lately, who, tbey say, is on the eve of separation from ber husband, and who, I am sure, dyes her hair, and who, I have been told, is an unsuccessful aspirant for literary honors. Mrs. Z. came up, and, with the best intentions in the world, between us we nearly finished poor Mrs. A. There was no sensitive topic that we in our embarrassment did not touoh upon and then desire to change the subject. "I am so particularly unfortunate in this respect that the other day, when I went tooall upon a woman wearing a wig, I kept saying to myself before she came down to the drawing room', 'Susan (that's my name) you must not mention the word wig,' and the very first thing I blurted forth when she happened to say that it was very windy was, 'Yes, it is enough to blow one's wig off.'

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SILK AND TAILORS.

Found the T»lue "of

First Person Who the Little Worm. '1 The first person in all the world who raised silkworms for the purpose of robbing the oocoon of its soft covering was the Empress Si-Lung-Chee, who reigned "'In China 2700 JB. C. She is now worshiped as goddess of the silkworm. Onoe each year a national festival is held in her honor. The reigning empress and her maidens resort to the temples of Si-Lung-Chee, and pay ber in flowers and spirit money an installment upon the debt whioh China owes to her, for did she not make the important discovery whereby the poor may earn life's necessities and the rioh may rustle in shining garments?

Perhaps more people wear silk in China than in any other country, for plain, raw silk is almost as inexpensive as ootton. Even for winter garments the material is made to serve, with layers of wadding placed between the outside and the lining. As their garments do not go out of style, it is not necessary to buy. new ones until the old are well worn. This is a great item of saving for every one but the tailors, but if the people followed vhe example of the tailors themselves there would oe still less for tbat craft to do. Like the feet of shoemakers' ohildren, the Chinese tailors, while at their work, are as nearly bare as possible. When well fattened, their unoovered bodies suggest the animals which Americans inclose in a sty. The more like a well fed porker a Chinaman becomes the prouder is he of his looks, for a corpulent loan is regarded by his almond eyed brethren as a high type of humanity.

In the tailor's workroom, whicb is frequently open on all sides, the passerby may see from five to ten men seated around a low, matting covered table. Each man is in undress uniform, consisting of his cue, a pair of slippers and pantalootas{ibon| 6 inches in length. Tbey work botH for shops and individuals, receiving about to a month, yet somehow they manage to keep fat-—Lippincott's Magazine. .v 07

LONDON TAGS HAVE VALUE.

Old Clothes Men Willing to Pay For the Mark of the English Tailor.

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The old clothes man refused absolutely to give more than 75 oents for tbe cutaway ooat. •'But," remonstrated the customer, "you offered me $1 for the sack coat, and the cutaway is worth about four.times as muoh astbesaok." 'n "The saok has tbe.tag of tbe' Londoo makeron it," explained the dealer, "^fhajt makes the difference.4' "Does It?" retorted the customer.' "I'll always give half a dollar more tar a coat with a London tag en it than for one without," said tbe dealer. "I can always sell it quicker and better." "You'll be doing pretty well if tbe tag helps you to seHtbat fcost at any gria3,"

remarked tbe customer, surveying tbe ADdent and dilapidated garment. "Tbatcoat or some other coat," returned tbe dealer. "You see, the tag's the tiling. There area lot of Englishmen in New York wbe can't afford to get tbeir clathes in London, but would rathe? starve *h»n wear anything bnt Lendon clothes, and there are some Americans here who have lived in London so long that nothing American suits them, and who would go back tbsre tomorrow if they bad money enough. These men come into my place and see a coat with one of these tags on it, aqd I tell them it's a misfit that's oome to j^e, andthey bay it and go away happy. 'So tbe tag is really worth dtore than the odafc.

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About a year ago workmen on the farra of Mr. B. G. Cox, three miles from the city, were boring .for water, They were sending the drills down on the top of a hill near Mr. Cox's country place. It was thought that probably water would not be struck short of 200 fee,t down and the driller's contract required him to gd to that depth it necessary,

At a depth of 98 feet the drill penetratedstone and released a strong "flow of water. It was not thought necessary to go any deeper as the man in charge of the work assured Mr. Cox that the geological conditions were such as to make it reasonably certain that the supply of water would prove inexhaustible." Accordingly the tools were withdrawn: and the work was abandoned.

Mr. Cox shortly began the- use of the water in a boiler. Recently his curiosity has been excited by the discovery that the boiler does not (become coated on the inside with accretions (from the water used in it but is in better condition now than when it was first brodght into requisition. This fact was. remarkable as the 'hard water of this//neighborhood—indeed all hard water—covers the inside of boilers with an accumulation of sediment that must be removed at intervals to keep the 'boilers in serviceable condition. It was evident, therefore, that the water found at a depth of 98 feet from, the surface of the hill had some peculiar qualities of its own and did not have some other qualities commonly met with.

Great Shooting.

A few exemplary old citizens who did tbeir deer bunting before the noble game

Cox has made a discovery the importance' was as soarce as ft now is were recalling of which may be very considerable.. As! feats of marksmanship when they were yet the water has not been analyzed, tbe nimroda of the day. Specimens of it have been sent to an Eastern chemist and hiis report will be received probably in the near future. If

I very seldom pulled a trigger that I didn't get venison," modestly declared one veteran whose hair and voice have

he spring 7urns out Tbe a product «*own "In one i-^ceI^ouf ht lithia Mr Cox will at once take steps to' down a fine buck that I never expected to develop the commercial possibilities •his discovery. #Jt

get. I saw him oozing on tbe dead run— that is, I saw his antlers, for he was on a ledge about 100 yards away and just enough below me to oover everything but his horns. I tried to get his head or body in sight, but be was going too fast. Just because was mad I let fly at tbe trunk of ione horn. I followed along slowly, muttering at my hard luck, when I found my 'buck dead as a herring." "Shot him dead through the horn, hey?" sneered tbe man who will soon be 80. "Better wait till you hear it all. That bullet struck the lower inside of one of the prongs, glanced and went through tbe head of the deer. It was natural enough, and I only tell it to show what strange things may happen." "Couldn't have been much stranger," said the old man who has been bald so long that he is proud of a little tuft of hair above each ear. "I once bad a pecul iar experience idyself while out killing deer just for the sport of tbe thing. I shot a deer in tbe hind foot, the same bullet going through his brain." "Caromed on tbe hoof, I presume," chuckled an old cynic, who looked as though he didn't believe a word tbat had been told. "Ob, no! The deer was scratching his ear with his foot when I shot."—Detroit Free Press.

An Imbecile Peer.

The Lord Denman this generation knew would be harshly described if be were said to be insane, for he was not violent and never offended any more than he hurt anybody, but he was certainly of weak or at least eccentric intellect. He attended every sitting of the house of lords quite conscientiously, and no sitting passed without his rising to speak. Then a very ourious thing would happen. You, as a visitor, would ibe surprised, perhaps even a little shocked, to observe that every peer in tbe house began at once to talk to his neighbor and to talk in as loud a Voice as he could until ktbe usually somber and spectrally silent assembly became positively as noisy as the igrassboppets in a big field.

When you looked at the venerable figure •.with the hooked nose and heard the melojdious voice, you were positively shocked jthat an assembly of noblemen should show :itself so wanting in the commonest courtesies of life, but really there was no choice in the matter. Lord Denman always talked (insanities or imbeoilities, and there was no method by wliic& he could be kept down except by the rough and ready method I .'have deeoiibed. He made motions. Nobody took notice of them. The lord chancellor did not even go through the formality of putting them to the vote and having them rejected. It was as if nobody had spoken, as if this figure fcere a ghestfrom the grave.—Harper's Magazine.

New York's Pinnacled Sky Line. The sky line of New York is changing so rapidly that the American traveler who goes abroad can recognize with more certainty the profiles of tbe foreign cities he approaches than that of his own metropolis as he sees it from the deck of the steamer on his return. It may be his first visit to Europe. He may know London, Rome and Paris only from views of tbein in old prints, but if be bas an eye for such things bis first glimpse of St. Paul's. St. Peter's or Notre Dame will tell him to what place he is coming, for all the world knows these pinnacles, has known them for centuries. They are as conspicuous and characteristic in the silhouettes of tbeir oities as they were when they were bunt.

One of the Dutch governors of New Amsterdam, seeking in spirit soaie familiar earthly habitation, might find old Amsterdam, for it outs the same figure in tbe sky today tbat it did when be left it, but tbe last dead boss of New York, if by any cbance he should get away from where he ought to be, would search tbe horizon in vain for tbe face of bis city. The features his eye would seek are there: Old Trinity still stands, its steeple, like the spires of tbe old cathedrals, uplifted high above tbe earth, but its solitarf prominence is gone. The modern office building has risen higher than the head of tbe cross, and the chureb bas lost its distinction. The enterprise of business has surpassed the aspiration of religion.—J. Lincoln Steffens in Scribner!s.

Dinner Bell Hartley. .- «i-

David Hartley, member of parliament for''Hull4 in '1779, was called "the dinner bell" because bis rising had a similar effect in emptying the house. Oneday, when he had wearied everybody out, he moved tbat tbe riot act should be read as a document to prove some assertion. Burke, who had been bursting with impatience for hours, bounced up, exclaiming: "The riot act, my dear friend! To what purpose? Don't you perceive tbat the mob has already quietly dispersed?" But ..tho sarcasm was trtterly thrown away.« J*

Proof Positive.

"Uv oonree the sun is dyic cot," the aged gentleman, Isaning heavily on his staff. "It don't even shine as bright ner as warm as it did when I was a boy." —Typographical Journal

ODD ORIGIN OF WORDS

SOME THAT ARE MOW FAMILIAR DUE TO ACCIDENT.

The Super* tition of Sldpper "Schooner".—Where "Silhoaetto" Came From—How "Qaim" Was Mad»—MLnlla-| bjr" Originated With Arabian Mothers*

There are words all frequently use whose histories and derivations are quaint and peouliar. The schooner is' comparatively a modern craft and is a product of Yankee ingenuity. A bluff old New England

You can buy genuine Stradivarius "kipper, Captain Andrew Robinson, who ^labels for violins in New York for «1 a Probably brought more slaves to the colodozen," said tbe customer. Why don't you go to that man for your genuine London clothes tags? You would find it cheaper." "That's m," replied the dealer. "I think I have heard it said that some dealers do co to the. Stradivarius man for their tags, bat'that's no reason why we shouldn't be glad to get a tag like this when we jiave a chance. Someho^'lJ gives a better air of reality. It's worth more anyhow." "I wonder," proceeded the customer, "whether tbe tag was the thing I paid for when I bought that ooat. The coat never fitted me. It kept ripping and tearing.and all the furnishings about it were Of,poor quality. The only reason why anybody should respect it at all was that it was English." "That's tbe way with English clothes," answered tbe dealer. "Tbey may not be anything in the way of olotbes, but tbey have tbe tags." "Make it $1 for tbe sack coat," said the customer. "Be patriotic." "Can't afford it," replied the dealer. "Seventy-fivecents is an awful big price." "All right," concluded tbe customer. "Take it. And, say, what did you soy was the address of that man who sold the tags?" "I didn't say," returned the dealer. "Well, tell me it." "Not muoh," said the dealer, with a chuckle.—New York Sun.

nlos than molasses and other common importations, one day came to the conclusion that he could rig a boat that Wbuld bet an improvement on the craft then in use for coastwise shipping.- Ueing superstitious, as most seafaring peopli are, be determined to let cbance name his* hew boat. There were many spectator^' at the launching, some shaking their heads dubiously, othen ridiculing and then others believing in the invention of the old captain. As the boat left the stays she plunged her nose into the water, came up, again like a cork and skimmed over the* water like a bird. A burst of admixatio'b broke from the crowd, and one of the onlookers exclaim-ed,-"See how she scoons!'* Captain Robinson reverently taking the cue said, "Then scooner let her be," and "scooner" she has been ever since, with the exception of the letter "h," which generally manages somehow to get into words where it is not needed.

Another ourious word, which has a significant and historical origin, is silhouette. Although this word is somewhat un-Eng-lish, still it comes under, the general appropriation which the English speaking pebple made of everything that would serve them. One Silhouette was minister of state of France in 1859, a critical period with that country financially, whioh tame near culminating in national bankruptcy. Silhouette is represented as being a very wise and sagaoious man, and in politics he would now be termed a "reformer."

Silhouette and his doctrines became the butt of all the wits of Paris, and many a jest was perpetrated on tbe minister of state under the very nose of Silhouette. With serious faces but laughing inwardly persons wore short coats without sleeves, and many other extravagances of a like nature were committed, among which was one of particular note which created a great deal of merriment at the time—in tact, so much 60 that it has been handed down to us together with the name of the great reformer as being the climax of the pranks of the Parisian wits. All of the portraits were made in black to represent a profile of the face and bust similar to a shadow cast upon a white paper by the aid of a strong light, thus economizing colorBd paiats and other expensive materials, and this is our present Silhouette and all that is left of him.

The youth speaks of going to his "haberdasher. This word is among that class that owe their ^origin to one of the most common of sources—viz, corruption. The Email shopkeepers of Germany had a custom in past ages of standing in the doors of their shops and inviting an inspaction of their wares. Their common salutation to every passerby who had the appearance of being in the least susceptible was, "Habt ihr dass, herr?" ("Have you this, sir?") which was, one may readily imagine, corrupted into "haberdasher" by rapid and constant repetition.

Another word, "exebequer," has a peculiar derivation. In tbe time of the old Normans there was established a court of equity, or claims, before which was settled the claims of tbe king upon the people, tbe claims of the people upon the king and tbe claims of the people upon the people. Before the judge or presiding officer of this court was a table, upon which was a checkered cloth similar to a chessboard, which was used as an assistant in counting, and to observe this court in session it had the appearance of a game of checkers, and so by common usage it became the court of exchequer, from which comes the word as it is most commonly used now, meaning principally a treasury.

The word "quiz" is purely an accident, or, more properly speaking, the result of an Irishman's joke, and in reality has no meaning. A wager was made between some students of an old university that one of them could not invent a new word which in 24 hours would be the talk of all Dublin. There was much laughter at the expense of the would be coiner of the new word, but next morning upon rising tho new word was at the expense of the scoffers, for the letters quiz were posted on every wall and available space in Dublin, and thus the word" became the talk of the town and has since remained exactly what it was when it was invented—a riddle.

There is a word in our language which, correctly speaking, m6ans nothing whatever, although its relative meaning is familiar and dear to alL Who is there in whom the word "lullaby" does not stir 6ome of the tenderest and dearest recollections? This word "lullaby" comes to us in sweet contrast as a myth from the starry plains of Arabia, polished and rounded by the roll of the eternal ages. As a consequence of Lilith, Adam's consort, forming an alliance with the evil spirit, and thus falling from grace, in the course of time the name Lilith became dreaded, and many fearful deeds were attributed to her, so much so the Arabian mother never dare leave her slumbering child without commanding Lilith to be gone and to do the little one no harm. The Arabic phrase invariably tised had the sound of 'Lilith a by." As time progressed this was taken up and made the burden of the crooning, drowsy bummings of a mother singing her baby to sleep and bas finally come down to us as tho sweet, soft "lullaby."—New Ynrk Herald.

TOBACCO INSOMNIA.

ft CM Be Cored Simply by Abstention From the CM ot the Weed. Many brain workers suffer from inability to sleep. This is frequently met with among those who work late at night. The sufferers complain that they feel most lively just when the time for retiring has oome and that a long period of restlessness precedes a troubled slumber, from which tbe slightest noiso awakens them. This is very often caused almost entirely by overindulgence in tobacco. They smoke just before going to bed, ignorant of the fact that not. only may tobacco prevent sleep temporarily, but that it may render it less deep and consequently less refreshing.

A grave responsibility attaches to those who lightly seeh to relieve a symptom which is really a warning by a recourse to a dangerous palliative. The inability to sleep is often merely the outqpne of an unnatural mode of life, and if this be corrected the disability disappears of itself. Men who work late are commonly addicted to the tobacco habit. To them tobacoo is not a relaxation after a day's work, but a nerve stimulant which enables tbem to accomplish tasks which would otherwise be difficult of accomplishment. When the inoutb becomes dry, aloohol in some form or other is resorted t»aa a fillip to enable tbe smoker to .tolerate still another cigar or two. Undler these circumstances tobacco acts as a cerebral irritant and interferes with the vasomotor centers of the brain to sucb an extent that-the vessels are unable to adjust themselves forthwith to the condition required for heatfthy and untroubled sleep.

Discretion in tobacco use would save many from this distressing condition of chronic Insomnia. Smoking early in the

day should be disooantenanoed, and It is equally undesirable within an hour or to of retiring to rest. Tbe best remedy for tbe tobaooo habit, short of total abstention, is to take a short walk la the open air after tbe last pipe. Under no circumstance should drug? be nsed for this form of nootnrnal restlessness.—San Fnuaclsoo Bulletin.

FRANCE'S DUTCH KING.

He Supports Himself by Wood Canbg la a Holland Village. There is a little bouse in Holland, at Teteringham, near Breda, with a brass plate on the door, bearing, the naine, "L.

C. de Bourbon."^ T^he .owner of' t^ie name elalmg to W heir to the' thyohe of Frianoe as the son of the' dauphin, who was {ao*' cording to this sbsord legend} not murdered by ill usage in tbe temple, but escaped and afterward passed under the name of Naundorff, working as A watchmaker. He lived till 1845 and is buried in the cemetery at Delft. The inscription on bis tomb describes him as Louis XVII, king of France and Navarre, born at Versailles on Maroh 37, 17SS, died at Delft on Aug. 10, 1846.

His son. lives in a very modest fashion and passes much of his time in wood carving, whereat he is an expert. He has in his possession some ielios of the Bourbons, an order of the Saint Esprit, a cross in sapphires and brilliants that belonged to Louis XVI and a musical box of Marie Antoinette. He declares himself to be neither a conspirator nor a pretender neither does be wish to change the form of government which Franco has chosen for herself. He asks* only one thing—that tbe name of his father should be respected. But none the less the Naundorff legend is brought to light once and again, just, ae when "Louis Charles, duo de Normandie," issued a manifesto protesting against the visit of tbe French ships to Kiel.

There is little chance of any heed being paid to his assertions, unless some indisputable documentary evidence is forthcoming to support them, and which the son of tbe famous pretender, Naundorff,. in whom many persons believed some 60 years ago, notably in this country, does not seem able to produce.- There are other Bourbons in Holland, at Haarlem, and at Utrecht, but tbey are altogether Dutch, and they make no pretensions to parentago with the royal family of France.—New York Press. -i

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Slightly Misunderstood. "7

We were talking of wrecks at eei. *1 I have been in several .and am still alivp to tell tbe tale. The most remarkable qf. all was the loss of the Oregon. Mystery Still hang6 around it. Its sinking was like the sinking of an island city o$ the coast of Spain. There was one inoldaot connected with the going down of this magnificent steamship that invariably causes xne to laugh when I think of it. Mr. and Mrs. Collis P. Huntington were among the paesengers, returning, from a tour of Europe. In tbe excitement of getting off in the boats they were separated, Mrs. Huntington, with other ladies, being harried away in one of the large boats forward of the second cabin. The sea was ahnost calm, but the boat was so heavily loaded that the gunwales were within an inch or two of the water, and a slight movement I caused it to dip. Suddenly Mrs. Huntington, who had kept up her courage well, sprang up and. shouted in a tearful voice:

My Collis I Ob, where is my Collis?" She clasped ber hands and looked anx- t: iously toward tbe fast sinking ship. "Sit down!" roared one of the saltans as the water ran over the side. "But my Collis! Oh, where is my Collis?" "Sit down, I say! D—n your collars I You ought to be glad you saved yourself !n —New York Press.

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The Death Watch* i'

In 18631 had two chums of the nam*

of Seth and Cicero Dodge, who lived down in the forks of 'Coon, about four miles below us. The boys were hauling woei to town, and they told me that the woods down in the forks were alive with squirrels, and tbat if I would go baok with them that evening they would get tbeir father to let tbem have the next day off, and we would have lots of fun. I went home and got my No. 14 muzzle loader, plenty of ammunition and my dog, and went home with tbem. Father Dodge bad built a new frame house, but it was not large enough to accommodate the family and any strangers, so Cicero and I slept out in tbe old log bouse. I shall never forget tbe scare we got that night. As boyB will, we lay there a long time disaussing the various propositions that suggest themselves to two boy cbums who haven't seen each other for some time. Along toward midnight we thought we discovered tbe presence of somebody under our bed. To make it more certain, we distinctly beard tbe ticking of his watch. We became uneasy, for the ticking of that watch was regular and incessant. At last Cicero quietly slipped out of bed, went over to the new house and called his father, who came and investigated. Mucb to our chagrin, the old gentleman soon discovered that the cause of our dread and forebodings was only a death watch at work in an old log by tbe side of the bed.—Forest and Stream.

Insuring a Friendship.

That there may be sucb a thing as oaf. rying insurance too far is indicated by the case of Mr. Mulcahy and Mr. Mulhooly, two Irish gentlemen. Though tbey were known to be great friends, they were one day observed to pass each other In the street without a greeting. "Why, Mulcahy," friend asked in astonishment, "have you and Mulhooly quarreled?" "That we have not!" said Mr. Mulcahy, with earnestness. "There sefttnod to beS coolness between you when you passed jufit now." "That's the insurance of our friendship." ••I don't understand." "Wboy, thin, it's this way—Mulhooly and I are tbat devoted to wan another that we can't boar the idea of a quarrel, an as we are both moighty quick tempered, we've resolved not to shpaks to wan another at all!"—Pearson's Weekly.

To Clean Copper and Bra**. Copper teakettles and other household articles having polished surfaces should not be allowed to get rusty, as rust will destroy the motal. If the surface be rubbed but a little overy day, the labor of keeping them.bright will be very light. In case a rust is formed on the surface apply a solution of oxalic acid, which, well rubbed over tarnished copper or brass, will Eoon remove the tarnish, rendering the metal bright. The acid mugt be washed off with water, and the surface rubVd-^ with whiting and soft leather. A mixture^ of muriatic acid and alum ^dissolved water imparts a golden color *tq brass prti-:^ cles that are steeped in it a few seconds.' To give a fiuer polish, go over the surface of the metal with rotten stone and sweet" oil, then rub off with a piece of cotton or flannel and polish with a leather.

Victor Emanael Sees Thing*. There is a homely story told of Vittorio Emnauale when at the Pitti palace. He was looking idly out of a window one day, when he saw two large wagons full of forage going out of one of the gates. He im-

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mediately reasoned, very justly, that forage might come in at the gates of the patace lawfully, but could only go out from them unlawfully. He set on foot an in-

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quiry, conducting the Investigation himself, trusting to no one, and thus discover^! ed a gigantic system of stable robbery. Those concerned in It he promptly punish^ ., ed.—Contemporary Review.