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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-18
a Code of Etiquette.

The card should be printed or written
very plainly.
White cards, withoutany establishment,
are regarded as in the best taste; avoiding
extremes in size.
The gentleman's card should contain
nothing except the name and address of the
caller; III general, omit the address.
The titles of "Hon.," "Mr.," esq"
etc., are not allowed on calling cards.
MRS." or 'tAIiss" are admissible on
ladies cards. Professional titles, such as
"Dr, Rev" and NJ d." ETC., are ad-
missible On gentlemen's cards.
A military title, such as 'Iieut. !"
Capt. - ''Gen., !" ~. s. A., y "U. 5. N"
ETC., is also admissible.
The handsomest style is that which is
engraved; next is that which is beautifully
written; next comes the printed card, in
text letter.
AT hotel, when calling on any one, send
your card and await reply in the recep-
ton room.
If two or more ladies are in the house
hold, the turning down of corner signifies
that the card is for all the ladies.
Cards may be left Immediately where a
death is known, but call of sympathy and
coincidence is not To be until a week after
the bereavement.
The lady in mourning who may not de-
sire to make calls will send mourning-cards
to her friends instead during the season of
retirement from society
IL is quite well to send in your card by a
servant, as the mispronunciation of the name
is thus avoided
If a lady is not at home, it will also serve
to show that you have called
The hostess should, if not desiring to see
any one, send word that she is engaged
when the servant first goes to the door, and
not after the card has been sent up.
1t is admissible, when lady does not
desire to see a caller, to instruct the servant
to reply that 1.-The mistress is not at home"
the understanding being that, whether in
the house or not, she is ''not at home" for
the reception of callers.
A business card is inadmissIble as call
ing card, unless the call be purely one for
business.
In making New Years calls it is custo-
mary 10 present card to each of the .a-4ies
who receive with her, as well as TO the hos
ess.
In taking a letter of introduction to
lady in the city, if you send it to her by the
servants who answers the bell, also send
your card with the same.
The card being left in your absence, is
the equivalent of a call A call is now due
from you to the person leaving the card,
In leaving the city for permanent resi-
dence abroad, it is customary to send out
cards to intimate friends, adding 10 the
name ''P. p. C."-Preseats Parting
Compliments.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-18
The Antiquity OF Forks.

Among the valuable finds in the explo-
ration of the relics of the ancient lake
dwellers of Switzerland is a pair of forks.
apparently invented for table use. They
were fashioned from the metatarsal bone Of
stag. This gives a higher antiquity to
table forks (if they were really intended as
such) than has hitherto been suspected.
Other bone implements and ornaments are
frequently found. Animal remains are
also common. Among them are the bones
of the dog, the badger and the common
otter. The latter were doubtless met with
In the immediate neighborhood of the lake,
but the presence of the bones of the wild
OK and of the bear indicate that the~lake-
dwellers were bold and skilful hunters, q,
well as ingenious tool-makers. They were
also keepers of cattle. for the mess numer-
ous animal remains brought to light were
those of the common cow and the moor
cow. These exist in every stage of growth,
showing that their owners had a taste for
both veal and beef, while their fondness
for venison is proved by the many bones of
the stag and roe discovered by the ex-
plorers. Evidence Of a like character
shows that they were hunters of the wild
boar and eaters of the domesticated pig,
and the existence of the beaver in Switzer-
land in prehistoric times is attested by the
presence, among other bones, OF several
which comparative anatomists declare TO
have belonged to that rodent. One olnis.
sion on the list is striking. No mention Is
made OF the bones of horses having been
found, from which it may be inferred with
tolerable certainty that the horse was either
altogether unknown to the ancient lake
dwellers, or that they had not succeeded in
capturing and tanning him.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-18

One really kind Office of love to ame]-
iorate the distresses of a suffering
child of humanity has more power to
refine and exalt the soul than the study
of whole tones of theories on the per-
fectibility of human virtue.
A Frenchman, eight days after mar
riage, and while on his wedding trip,
received telegram announcing the
death of his mOther-in-law, and, with
touching sincerity, writes her epitaph:
''To the best of mothers-ln-law."
No place, no company, no age, no
person is temptation free. Let no man
boast that he was never tempted; let
him not be high-minded, but fear, fol
he NAV be surprised in that very in
slant wherein he boasteth that he was
never tempted at all.
In Cicero and Plato and other such
writer's, meet with many things acute
ly said and things that awaken some
fervor and desire; but in none OF them
do find the words, "Come unto me
all We that labor and are heavy laden.
and will give you rest"
1t should be pointed out with con-
tinual earnestness that the essence OF
living is in deception, not in words;
lie may be told by silence, by equivoca-
ton, by the accent on a syllable, by
glance of the eye attaching a peculiar
significance to sentence.
We neei to change our standards.
Men must be honest in proportion to
their virtue, and considered rich by the
measure of integrity. Life is so much
wasted that it loses the divine idea,
which is not the number of mans
days but the character Of his life.
Give us sincere friends, or none.
This hollow glitter of smiles and words
compliments that mean nothing
protestations of affection as solid as the
froth from hampagne--invitations that
are but pretty sentences, uttered De-
cause such things are all-worthless.
So deeply inherent is it in this life OF
ours that men have to suffer for each
others sins, so inevitably diffusive is
human suffering, that even justice
makes its victims and there is no retri-
button that does not spread beyond its
mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.
Infinite toll would not enable you to
sweep away a mist; but by ascending a
little you may look over it altogether.
So It is with our moral improvement.
We wrestle fiercely with vicious habit
which would have no hold upon us if
we ascenGed into higher moral atmos-
paere,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-18

That a man who canl.ot lead the cotil.
lion is utterly worthless in fashionable So
ciety.
That skating on artificial ice is an excel
lent ground work tor genuine flirtations.
That the dinner card mania has been
done for all it is worth and ought to be
stopped once for all.
That the florist refuses to send baskets
on credit any more unless security of some
kind is deposited.
That people should be careful how they
take in and do for every foreigner who re-
presents himself to be what he is not
That Derby hats for ladies have ceased
to be genteel, and the, sooner discarded the
better for all denaoiselles concerned.
That nurse girls sent out with the baby
carriages shoul d not have any more conf
dsnee imposed in them than the law allows,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-18
Dampen the air.

We can hardly too often suggest the im-
portance Of providing ample moisture in all
rooms heated by stoves, furnaces, steam
pipes, or hot water pipes. There are sound
scientific reasons for this, as well as in the
results of a practical expeiieLce. As stated
in "Short Notes of Air." every degree of
heat added to the atmosphere in n room
gives it a power of absorbing and secreting
moisture. The air in room 20 by 20 feet
and ten feet high, at 80 deg holds, secretes,
about 1-2pints of water. The same air heat
ed at 70 deg. secretes upwards OF two quarts
OF water and unless this il supplied IL is
hungry for more water, absorbs it from
every accessible source, from the furniture,
from our bodies, and essentially from the
breathing organs-the mouth, throat and
lungs leaving them dry and husky. There
fore, every time the air in the room Is
changed by the admission Of fresh, cold air,
and heated TO 20 deg. two quarts of wafer
should be evaporated into the room. The
strong objections some have to warm-air
heaters have arisen mainly from this cause.
In using furnace heaters we always put into
the hot-air chamber extra water pans be-
sides any that are supplied by the manufac-
turers, and take good care to always have
them filled with water. In stove-heated
rooms there should usually be an evaporat-
ing surface Of water equal to one square
foot for every twelve feet square of flooring,
and more if the water is not on place hot
enough to keep it rapidly evaporating.
Plants in a room are mainly destroyed, or
have sickly growth, because the warm air
becomes too dry and sucks out the very
juice of the plants. The house plants
''ollve" or otiierwise-suffer similarly. In
a warm room large towel frequently wet
and wrung so as not to drip. and hung over
a chair back near the stove, will make
marked difference in the comfortable feeling
and healthfulness of the atmosphere.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-18

with beautiful accuracy. During the
morning Mr.. Smith advocated the removal
of the canvas, on the ground that intruders
deserved to suffer. In the wee small hours
of the next morning, however, he reached
his house in state of semi-inebritv which
made his footsteps uncertain, and while en-
terIng the door he was incautious enough
to place his right foot on the little spring
before he removed his left foot from the
doorstep. The result was a rapid aerial
flight, fall into the canvas, slide on the
sidewalk, and walk back to the door.
This little incident removed the objections
which Mr.. Smith had formerly to the can
vas, and one day he watched fifty or sixty
peddlers and canvassers practice muscular
contortions during their flight from the step
To the canvas without feeling the slightest
regret that they were uninjured. 1t will
be proper in conclusion to inform the pub
lie that Mrs. Smith has reserved the patent
right of her wonderful invention.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-18
AT REST.

Once more the ripened year unfolds
Her rennons, gold embossed;
And where the grand oaks, tempest tossed
Lift up bare arms, communion holds
With Him who thus bound has set
For human longing and regret!
While blessed Rest. in slumber deep,
On.drooping eyelids lays hand,
And spreading white wings o er the land,
Bids stars eternal vigil keep
TIL sleeps sweet influence shall restore
The earth to fruitfuiness once more
Thus the full year so lightly rounds
Her finished need of work. and stands
Exuitant; though her folded hands
Assures us that all peace abounds,
And past ali longing and regret
Ia the fair goal her soul has set
How differ, mt we! We trembling stand
On our graves brink and cringing cling
To all the transient hopes which ding
Their fitful lights along the strand,
And till our star of life has set
Cheat Us with longing and r gret!
OH typo of everything Divine
Dear Nature-Graw us closer yet,
And us where no vain regret
Can our unwilling souls contine,
And fold us il. thy fond embrace,
When We shall meet Death face to face
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-18
Sayings.

No weeds wilt 80 quick AS those of wild
ows.
Some people are like an egg-too full OF
themselves for anything else.
The dog is the only thing that loves some
body else better than himself.
There are men so pious that when they
go fishing on Sunday they pray for good
luck.
Men were created little lower than the
angels-and they have been getting little
lower ever since.
Young man, never take the bull by the
horns. Always take him by the tail-and
then you can let go.
Young man, don't cry.over split milk.
Pick up your pail and your milking stool
and go for the next COW.
Coquettes make better wives than prudes
and there are better ones in the market
than either of them.
A man who is always confessing his sins
and never correcting them, is the most un-
reliable of all sinners.
Life amt much more than farce any
way-but it is highly important that the
farce should be well played.
A live man is like the little pig-he weans
young, and begins to root early. He is the
pepper-sa of creation.
The hump Oh mans back is not so much
the subject of ridicule as is the wreath of
flowers with which he seeks to hide it.
A man who makes up his mind TO be-
come rascal had better first examine him.
self and see if he was not better intended
for fool.
A man who will sit for half day fishing
over the side of boat with 70 bait on his
hook, isn't afflicted with patience. Lazi.
ness is what ails him.
A life insurance agent is too cold and
calculating for comfort-too much like an
undertaken that comes around about once a
week to see how your cough is getting
along.
Ii had seventy-five children, would
teach sixty of them to shut the door after
them when they go out, and | wouldn't
care whether the other fifteen learned any
thing or not.
Happiness is wonderfully like flea.
When you put your finger on him he don't
seem to be there, but when you follow him
TO where he actually is-he don't seem to
be there also.
The man who can draw half a pint of
New Orleans molasses from half inch
auger hole, and while he is waiting for his
can to fill can sing, "Home, Sweet Home"
amt sudden enough for 1880.
The live man is as busy as girl with
two beaux. He is often like the hornet
very busy-but what he is about the Lord
only knows. He is not always a deep
thinker He is the American pet-a mys-
terry to foreigners.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-18
Wonderful Dogs.

There is wonderful dog in Detroit, an
Irish water spaniel. She always awakens
her master at exactly 6 o'clock in the
morning. On Sundays, when he takes his
cane, she is frantic to accompany him on
his walk. She has useful talent for bring
ing in firewood. She has also passion for
sardines; sits at the table; but never offers
to eat what is on her plate until .he family
have finished and risen. She is exceedingly
expert in catching ball. She has arrived
at the dignity of long notice in Detroit
newspaper. Speaking of dogs, there is one
in Sacramento Cal, famous for its hostil-
ity to Cinnamon; and if one of them enters
the house, he is liable to be nibbled. 1.-THE
other day the dog went to the dining-room
and at once became furious. He growled,
barked and bristled and ran all about in
quest of his enemy, but as no Chinaman
was present, his conduct was regarded as
inexplicable, until crock of Chinese pre-
served ginger was observed on the table.
That was what the dog smelt and what he
was after. so at least says the veraciOus
narrator of the story.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-18
The Indian and the Telephone.

An amusing application of the wonders
of the telephone as an assistant detective of
crimes comes from Julian, California.
Several horses were recently stolen in that
neighborhood, and suspicion fell upon
certain Indian as the thief. Some one
having introduced a telephone up there, the
same was being exhibited, when it occur
red to the owner of the stolen forses to get
the Indian to come in and hear the 'Great
Spirit talk. The Indian took )ne of the
cups and was thrilled with establishment at
being apparently so near the Great Keeper
of the happy hunting grounds. After some
little time spent in wonderment, the Indian
was solemnly commanded by the Great
Spirit to 'give up those stolen horses!"
Dropping the cup as if he had been shot,
the Indian Immediately confessed to having
stolen the horses, and tremblingly promised,
if his life was spared, he would restore the
''caballos" at once, and he did so.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-18
Meaning of the Hands.

Profound study has led M. d'Arpen-
tigny to the conclusion that the hands rep
resent three types. Those who have fin
gers with pointed tips are possessed of a
rapid insight into things; are extrasensitive,
pious and impulsive. This class belongs
to the poets and artists To the ''square
tops" belong scientific people; sensible, self
contained characters, professional men.
The spade-shaped tops-thick tips, with
little pads of flesh on each side of the nails
are materiallsts, commercial, practical,
with high appreciation of all that tends
to bodily ease and comfort. Each finger,
no matter what the kind of hand, has also
one joint-that which is nearest the palm
representing the body; another-the middle
tho mind, and the top, the soul. Each of
these divisions corresponds with one of the
types above given.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-18
A Discouraged DebUor.

One could see that he had a grievance
as he walked up and down the post office
corridor, and pretty soon he met with a
friend and began:
"I'll be 'anged if l know what to make
of this blarsted country!'
"What's the matter with our great and
glorious American asked the other.
''Hin Hingland, God bless her, my gro
Ger sends me 'alf barrel of wine or box
of tea, or ten pounds of coffee at the hend
of the year as a present.
eyes"
"While hover ere in this frozen-up
country my grocer drinks the wine himself,
blarst is heyes! and sends me a statement,
showing that Pm howing i'm balance of
$l3 hon account. What scrt of way his
this to hincourage me to run up blu there
hin 1902
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-18
Wooden Books on Wood.

A most interesting, as well as novel, col
lection of books is to be found in library
in the province of Cassel. These volumes
appear like so many wooden blocks; but
each block is complete history of the tree
which il represents. For instance, an oak
book is formed thus: The bark is stripped
from the back, and the title is inserted.
One side-these books are all bound in
''boards"-is formed from the split wood,
showing the grain. The opposite side
shows the vanished wood. Inside, as one
might naturally expect, are the leaves !;
but the seed, the fruit, the moss that grows
upon the trunk, the insects that feed upon
it, &C., are all represented as well. To
these specimens is added simple account
of the tree, its usual location, the manner
of its growth, and no doubt other branches
of its history
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-18
Modernized Othello.

Just previous to the smothering scene In
"Othello,' at the N Theatre, recently,
and while the curtain was down, the fol-
lowing conversation was overheard by a
reporter;
''What an awfully jealous man Othello
is, to be sure. You'll never be SO when
we are married, will your"
81 should say not"
81 can guess how it will end" continued
the fair one. ''Now the villain will be
found out and there will be a reconcilia-
tion."
eyes, my dear, Pm certain Of itl'
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-05-27

THE late Judge Sanford E. Church
was man Of remarkably fine personal
appearance. Both in face and form he
reminded one foreibly of the late Chief
Justice Chase. He had the same well
proportional form, indicative of great
powers of endurance, and the same
shaped head, with face remarkable for
strength and power. The face was that
of man of great goodness and benevo-
lence. In manner he was suave and
courteous, recalling the traditions of the
gentlemen of the old school. His head
was grand and massive, with certain
prominence of the jaw that would seem
to indicate Scotch-Irisn descent. Com
bined with the firmness and determine
ton of the mouth was an indescribable
something that indicated almost un-
bounded benevolenee. Gov. Cornell of
New York, in a message to the Legisla-
ture, formally announcing the death of
Chief Justice Church, says:
SCALED by the people to preside over
our highest Court just ten years ago to-
day, Judge Church discharged his great
trust with eminent success and fidelity
His former partisanship caused him,
perhaps, in the beginning to be distrust-
ed by many of opposite political opin-
ions, but his impartiality and patriotic
bearing soon dispelled every doubt; and
it can now be truthfully said that never
in the history of our State has the Ap-
pellate Court enjoyed the confidence of
the people in higher degree than
during the period of his service as the
presiding Judge"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-05-27
Coughs Ruse.

Most lecturers who have been intro
duced to their audiences have suffered
from the high eulogiums passed upon
them beforehand by their misjudging
introdueers. The natural effect is to
arouse expectation that cannot be met,
and to produce marked disappointment.
John B. Cough relates how he once
managed, before a London assembly, to
avoid such result. His introducer had
pronounced him the greatest orator who
ever lived, and ended long and fulsome
eulogy by telling the people to prepare
themselves for such burst of eloquence
as they had never listened to. Cough.
knowing that the best effort he had ev-
er made would, under such circumstan-
ees, fall far short Of anticipation, deter
mined to practice ruse, and the ruse
was 10 affect stupidity. He opened by
stammering and hesitating, beginning
his sentences and leaving them uninish-
cd, until, as he said, the worst speaker
in England could not have done worse.
He soon overheard those on the plat
form whispering their disapprobation
and censure, one man saying: 20. this
will never do here, you know. 1t may
be all very well in America, you know;
but in England, you know, it is quite a
different thing" He still continued in
his dull, disconnected way until he had
seen that he had a background for his
verbal pictures. Then he gradually
adopted his natural manner, and, as SEN
tence after sentence rolled out vivid and
resonant from his lips, his audience grew
enthusiastic, and fairly roared with ap-
plause. He had never been more raptu-
rously greeted than he was then and
there. Those who heard him declared
that they had never known q man TO
change so after he had warmed up.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-05-27
Overheated Rooms.

: The grert tendency in winter is to
keep rooms too warm. The foundation
of pneumonia, pleurisy, and pulmonary
consumption is frequently laid in over
heated, ill-ventilated apartments. The
inmates become accustomed to breath
ing hot, close air, the system is toned
down and relaxed, and slight expos
ure TO cold and wet results in serious
illness. A uniform heat of seventy de-
grees is adequate, from sanitary point
of view, in any weather. If that tenn
perature is not sufficient to give warmth,
it is an indication that the person does
not take sufficient exercise, and the cure
for it is more miles than flannel. In the
coldest weather, when the ground is
like stone under the feet, when there
is no drip from the caves, and when
snow lies on the roofs, rooms should be
ventilated. Pure air should be admitted
through open doors and windows, so
that the oxygen consumed by flame and
by respiration may be replaced, and the
effects and poisonous matter thrown off
by the body thoroughly drivenaway.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-05-27

The spring fish story comes from Flo
rida. A Tallahassee paper relates that
while party of ladies and gentlemen
were boating on the Wakulla spring, one
of the ladies dropped airing, and it could
be seen sinking in the clear water. A
trout darted for it and swallowed it. An
ingenious man present Immediately bor-
rowed another ring. fastened it to hook,
and let the line down into the crystal
water. At the depth of about ninety
feet trout was seen to approach the
shining bait, seize and swallow it. The
fish was hauled up, cut open, and there
lay in its stomach the lost ring.