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Noted Men Who Married Women Older
than Themselves.

Mohammed's wife was twenty years
older than her husband, and it is much
to the credit of the latter that he hon
ored her to the last. He ascribed much
OF his success to her assistance and in
fiuence. John Howard, the philanthro-
plst, married out of gratitude woman
who was equally his senior. She died
IN few years. however, and his second
union was one of love- It was, how
ever, also dissolved by the death of his
wife, and then he devoted himself to
philanthropy. Napoleon's first wife,
Josephine, was his senior by six years.
being 30 at the time of their marriage,
while he was 25. It would have been
well for him had he valued her coniugal
love, whose violation was the beginning
OF his ruin. Aaron Burr also married a
widow, who, like Josephine, had two
children. Mrs. Burr was ten years older
than her husband, but the union was
very harmonious. She probably allowed
him that large liberty with the fair sex
to which he had been accustomed. and
thus avoided domestic quarrels. John
Wilkes, the famous London agitator of
the last century, married lady who
was ten years his senior, but she was not
willing to overlook his Irregularities. and
hence obtained divorce.
johnson, the photographer, married
the Widow Porter, who had a small
property. He was acquainted with the
family before the death of her husband,
and this helped in the matter of court
ship. Mrs. Porter was 49,, while her
husband was only 81 at the time of the
wedding. The parties started horseback
for the place where the ceremony was to
be performed, and johnson thus, de-
scribed the journey to Boswell: ''Sir,
she has got into her head from old ro-
mances that woman OF spirit should
use her lover like dog. At first she
told me rode too fast and she could not
keep up with me, but when I Stacked
my pace she passed me and complained
that I Jagged. Twas not to bemade the
slave Of caprice, and therefore pushed
on till I was out of sight. When She got
to the destination I observed that She
was in tears johnson always mourned
the loss Of his wife, and though he was
only 43 at the time Of her death he
never married again. How often in his
subsequent writings he refers to his lost
companion in the most affectionate
When only Is Shakespeare was married
to Annie Hathaway, whose age was Is.
Six months from the wedding day the
first son was born to this ill-mated pair.
The husband and father had no means
Of supporting family, and when the
latter had increased to the number of
son and two daughters he fed to Lon
don. The deserted wife supported her
children as best she could, and twenty
years afterward her husband returned,
and by his subsequent conduct strove to
atone for his early error.
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Changing His Religion.

"Ill be dinged eff l doan bl'eve in de
predespernation doctrine" remarked
Woody Calvin, the preacher, to party
Of brethren.
On what fabricationment oh theoet-
icalism do yer place de sinews oh yer
rationsination % asked Toney, the phi
losopher.
CHM me dem words SO I can commit
tai dem to understanding, Toney," re-
quested Calvin, turning with beseech-
ing expression. id
emo, sir" said the philosopher, with
emphasis. Gle got my larnin' by de
sweat of my brow at night school ober
ibery stable, an I doesn't perpose to
gin it away fur nuthin'. When 1 Aings
out anythin, an yer can ketch hit, all
right, but doan' ak me ter make yer a
present OBJ my encyclopedias" 80
" Scuze me, Toney, didn't tend ter
rob yer. But ez ter dat predesterna-
ton business In my church, fur Use
q pizen Methodist, I hez alters fout
dat doctrine. Now, I hez been WINGED
OBJ hit an will hab ter change my
1igion. I'll tell yer how I wuz 'vinced.
Yesterday mornin' when I came along
down de street, I thought dis way ter
myself: Now, SEE /, EFF hut is tended
fur me ter git drunk ter Gay, Use ur
gwine ter do hit.
Wall, how did dat prube de doc
trine OBJ predespernation?"
got drunk" f
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TIE Birds Burial.
BY HELEN T. NoRTHAM.

Helen,' said Mic, one day, 81
wish you would feed the birds this
morning, and all the rest of the morn
1ngs! You can have the birds for
yours II you want them, for I am
tired OF them. hope if / ever have
little girl of my own, no one will
give her bird for fear she will pet
tired of it, and I'll have to take care
of it for her,
We laughed at Mic for borrowing
trouble, and I took the cage down to
feed the birds. The little mother
bird was called Jennie, and her mate
was called Uncle Doctor, on account
OF peculiar way he had of looking at
us as If he were looking at us over his
spectacles as old gentlemen sometimes
do.
Jennie had a nice little nest of eggs
and was patiently sitting on them
waiting for the little birds to peep
out, but she hoped down eagerly for
her breakfast. when l put the seed in
the cage.
She was dear little yellow ball of
a bird, and a great chatterer. and as
usual began to chirp and talk as soon
as she began to eat and the next
thing she knew, or 1 either, a half
shell OF hemp seed stuck in her throat
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BRITAIN's RULERS.
The Kings and Queens of England
Length Of the Reigns of the Several

The Kings and Queens of England
Length Of the Reigns of the Several
Houses.
The Norman line began with William
the Conqueror then came in succession
the houses of Plantagenet, Lancaster,
York, Tudor, Stuart, the Commonwealth,
Stuart Orange, Stuart and Hanover.
William the Conqueror was the sixth
sovereign Of Normandy. Henry H..
the first of the Plantagenets, was
the son of Matilda of Scotland, q
direct descendant of Edmund IL. sur
named honside, who was the son and
successor of Ethelred IT,, born in $50,
and King Of the Anglo-Saxons in 1016.
Henry w., as the last of the Plantage-
nets Orchard II. left no children, was
the eldest son of John of Gaunt, Duke
Of Lancaster, fourth son of Edward III. !,
and Of Blanche, daughter and heiress Of
Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster,
grandson Of Henry III. Edward
W., the first of the House OF York, was
descended from the fifth son of Edward
ILL.,, as the Lancastrian Kings had de-
seconded from the fourth son Of the same
sovereign. Henry VII, the first of the
Tudors, was descendant of Henry Y.
James I. Of England, and VI. of Scot
land, was the son of Lord Darnley and
Mary Queen Of Scots, and his right to
the succession rested on his descent
from Henry VII, through his great
grandmother, Margaret Charles II.
was the second child among six OF
Charles l., and started anew the Stuart
line at the restoration. Mary, who with
William Of Orange, ruled Britain, was
Stuart, as was also Anne, "the good
Queen" George l., OF the House OF
Hanover, was descended on his mothers
side from James I. The following will
show the length Of the reigns of the
several houses
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ton she simply ordered her servants
to aquaint the police with the exact
state of affairs. The footman told the
porter; the porter communicated with
the gardevoi on duty in the street.
By the time the official had made the
matter plain to the pristav, or police
lieutenant, and that functionary had
sent for the police surgeon to accom-
pany him to the scene of the catastlo-
ply, some three hours had elapsed /;
and when the executive removed the
Prince from the window frame that
unfortunate nobleman was as indis-
putably no more as good Queen Annie
herself.
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The Origin Of Restaurants.

The use Of restaurants has become so
general all over the world that it will be
interesting to many to hear how they
originated, and to what they owe their
COW familiar name. It appears that the
first OF these establishments was started
IN l765, by a man rejoicing in the not
inappropriate name of Boulange. This
date has, however, nothing to do with
the choice Of the title by which the new
houses OF entertainment were known.
In order to explain this we must go back
to'the seventeenth century, at the end
of which one Of the soups, or liquid ali
ments, most used by the people was
6Ouitlon known as the divine restorer.
1t was made up of the remains of fowls
and viands boiled down in an alembic,
with crushed barley, dried roses and
Damascus currants. AS it was only the
class OF comparatively well-to-do per-
sons who could afford such luxury. a
genius was required to bring the "di-
vine restorer" within the reach of all the
multitude. He was found in q certain
doctor named Guilliard, who proposed
to provide San excellent substitute" for
the real nectar by cooking fat fowl in
O little aromatized water, and selling the
bouiIloo as "divine." At that time the
privilege of cooking and serving ragouts
was reserved for the traite;1rs, or licensed
victualers, and that of providing set
dinners was secured by charter to the
corpol alton of the rOtisseurs. But the
new sellers of the restaurant divin"
were free lances, bound by no particu-
lar rule, and they moreover claimed to
have more select set of clients than the
common eating-houses... Consequently
the restaurants, as they came to be
called, soon achieved an extraordinary
and at length their proprie-
tors found it necessary to combine with
their old profession that of tyaiteurs,
which word was in the process eclipsed
BY the more new-fangled term restaura-
,e1Lr
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Getting Orer Difficulties.


Eldred is very small boy of FIVE
He goes to school with an elder sister
One week his sister was i'll, and could
not go as usual; and no little Eldred
appeared bearing his wild rose or bit
of white pea to give to his teacher.
Finding that he must stay at home
unless he went alone, he started and
got safely through the park and some
fields, and then there was large gate,
to the latch of which. he could not
reach. After waiting patiently some
time, two men at work in field came
towards him.
Will you open the gate, please e.
said Eldred.
"What for q
"That I may go through, please. .
But the men only laughed and then
turned, and went off to their break
fast.
So Eldred. little daunted, went
back home. Next morning, with a
little present of ferns, he appeared
smiling.
"But I thought you could not open
the great gate 2" said the teacher.
With his eyes sparkling, and color
bright, and his voice raised, he an
Sweared:
81 got over it p
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A Talented Family.

The McSpilkins family is one of the
most fashionable in Galveston. The old
man, however, is not as nice as he ought
to be, but the rest. of the family are
highly accomplished. Somebody was
speaking Of them the other day, and be
remarked how they all played on some
instrument.
"What does the old lady play
asked bystander.
"She plays on the piano."
"And the youngest daughter?"
"She plays on the harp"
"And the next daughter p"
"She is very proficient on the guitar"
"And the boy ?"
"He plays on the fiddle"
We'll, does the old man play 2"
"You bet he does. He plays the STAY
inest game of draw-poker on Galveston
island. = Galveston Neaos.
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Investigating His Historical Learning.

"And so you are studying American
history?" asked a fond father of his
hopeful.
eyes !" responded the lad.
"Good enoughp' roared the delighted
parent. "Now tell us who George Wash
ington was"
"He was nurse to lot Of old colored
women, sang the boy:
What was he first IMP"
"First ashore, first to leave3 and first
in the carts Of the hungry man.
Look here, you scalawag," said the
old man, riling up, "you want to get
this thing straight. What was it Wash
ington couldn't do?"
s"He couldn't lie !" snorted the young
ster.
you've got the right man. What
fight did he win?
"He licked bunker Bill on Boston
Common. In three rounds"
"What was it he cut when he was
boy?"
sHe cut his fathers cheese, and ex-
claimed, Father, spare me; cannot tell
q Ratchet from lie ="
His father graduated the boy at once,
and he now makes q living selling papers.
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Opening Oysters.

There is just as much difference in the
manner in which two men open shell
oysters as there is in the way they 90 to
church or walk on the street. Who has
not watched thorough oyster-opener at
an Eastern oyster market, and observed
the tender manner in which he takes up
the shell and looks at it, as though It
was friend of his. He inserts his in
strument between the shells as delicate
~ as a dentist will probe an aching
tooth, and by little turn of the wrist
your oyster is uncovered and reclining
upon the half-shel plump and juicy, in
vlting you to fire him down your neck.
How different it is when an amateur at.
tempts to open oysters. He commences
by getting red in the face, and knocking
off an inch of the edge of the shell, and
letting all the juice run out and drip
down between his fingers. He knocks
some skin off his thumb, and that bleeds,
and your heart bleeds for the oyster.
lie inserts an iron that looks like stove
hook into the shell, then prizes and
grunts, the shell opens and the oyster
sticks to both sides Of it and splits. He
saws off the mantel-piece that holds the
oyster to the shell, and hands you the
haf-sheH with something on it that
looks like scrambled oyster. The dirt
from the shell gets on the oyster and it
is about as much comfort trying to eat
it as it is to eat hickory nut that has
been cracked by laying it down on the
side and MASKING it with Ratchet
The oyster opened by an amateur looks
ragged and discouraged, and the man
who opens it looks about the same,
while the oyster opened by man who
understands his business Joks as though
it enjoyed life, and the man who opens
it looks like thoroughbred who is not
ashamed Of his business, and knows he
can do it as well as anybody. The
world is full of men who do everything
the way an amateur opens oysters. They
try to do that for which they are not
fitted, and it is hard to make them be-
lieve they are not doing what they at
tempt to do well, but they always act as
though they wanted to apologize for
something being wrong. This oyster
business is little out of season, but you
have all noticed how it is.-Peck's Sun.
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The Egotism of a Diplomat.

Prince Metternich writes in his
Memoirs If think over what is, if
l compare it with what ought to be,
and with that which SO easily might
have been, Ideplore the fate of the
world, ever given up to the gravest
errors, and to great faults committed
in consequence of petty calculations
and great illusions. My mind con-
ceives nothing narrow OF limited; 1
always go, on every side, far beyond
all that occupies the greater number
of men of business; I cover ground
Infinitely larger than they can see or
wish to see. 1 cannot help saying to
myself twenty times a day: "Good
God, how right I am. and how wrong
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VapOr Baths.

Tho Oriental system of sweating in
connection with bathing originated in
primitive days, when pile of stones
was placed in hut and heated by fire.
Water was then thrown on them by
the inmates, who luxuriated in the
engendered steam. The so-called
Turkish bath, which sweats the
patient with dry, hot air, is not known
in Turkey. 1t originated with a DR..
Barter. at Blarney, in Ireland, in 1856,
and was soon adopted in England. It
was considered more. effectua1 than
the old system, inasmuch as in the
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USEFUL HINTS.

ONE gallon of neatsfoot oil, mixed
with four ounces of lampblack, makes
good harness oil.
DEoAYNa cabbage is said to be par
tlcularly efficacious in breeding diph-
liberia. While you are removing the
cabbage from your cellar, take out all
the other decaying vegetables.
RECIPE for polishing furniture: Make
a mixture of three parts lnseed oil and
one part spirits of turpentine. 1t not
only covers the disfgured surface, but
restores the wood to its original color,
and leaves luster upon the surface.
Put on with wooden cloth, and when
dry rub it with wooden.
To PREVENT the soles of boots or shoes
from squeaking, rasp with coarse rasp
the insole and outsole and every other
piece Of leather that comes in contact in
friction by the action of the foot then
apply freely good wheat or rye paste.
Ii this is freely attended to from heel to
toe, the boot or shoe viii not squeak.
RECIPE for pleasant and durable per-
fume: Take thirty drops OF oil of berga-
mot and the same quantity of oil of
lavender; add fifteen drops of neroli, five
drops of oil Of verbena, and the same of
oil Of cloves; of essence of musk, amber
girls and jasmine each half drachm.
Mix all in two ounces of rectified spirit
of wine, and you will have the famous
Bouquet de Ia Refine" eo4
To MAKE the hair stay In crimp. take
5 cents worth of gum arabic, and add
to it just enough boiling water to dis
solve it. When dissolved, add enough
alcohol to make it rather thin. Let it
stand all night, and then bottle it to
prevent the alcohol from eyaporating.
This put on the hair at night, after it is
done up in paper or pins, will make it
stay in crimp the hottest day, and is
perfectly harmless. ~ 5liR'
ONE who has tried everything saws
that, after an experience Of fifteen years.
he has found nothing equal to the fol.
lowing as cement for leather betting
Common glue and isinglass, equal parts.
soaked for ten hours in Just enough
water to cover them. Bring gradually
TO boiling heat, and add pure tannin
until the whole becomes ropy or appears
like the white Of eggs. Buff off the
surfaces to be joined, apply this cement,
and clamp firmly. s
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The effect of alcohol on the Indians of
the high, dry plains, even when taken in
small quantities, is to almost instantly
drive them crazy. The frequent as
saults that have been made by mounted
Indians armed with bows and arrows, on
Western trading posts defended by
American lifemen, sharply indicate the
effect of alcohol in men Of highly nerv-
GUS temperament, natives of dry coun-
try where the light atmosphere is highly
charged with electricity.
SO it is with white men. The muir
derous acts of the "cow boys, when
under the influence of liquor, are well
known. When sober, more hospitable
and kind-hearted class does not exist.
When drunk they exhibit all the charac-
teristics of the Indians. They are
transformed into bowling, bloodthirsty
fiends. They shoot and stab each other,
as well as unofending strangers, with
the sayageness Of Cheyennes or Sioux.
Most of these men are residents of West
ern Texas. Many of them were born in
that State.
Almost all of them have lived on the
plains for term of years. The country
they inhabit is arid and of an altitude of
from 1900 to 5000 feet above the sea.
Throughout the pastoral region the at
mosphere is surcharged with electricity
that expends it's force in terrific thunder
storms, in tornadoes and in the dreaded
dry waterspouts. Throughout the pas
toral region the fact that man who has
become acclimated cannot safely stimu-
late himself with alcohol is well known,
and has long been admitted by all think
ing men.
In Kansas, above all other Western
States, has the attempt to settle the arid
belt with agriculturists been made. Liv-
ing in this belt are thousands of voters.
and it was the ballots of these men that
accomplished the adoption of the con-
stitutional amendment prohibiting the
manufacture and sale Of alcoholic liquors
IN the State. Internationally they, by
their ballots, recognized the conditions.
OF the climate in which. they live. The
adoption was a measure of self-deIense.
Democrats and Republicans, prospect
i've of party, voted for the MEASURE
Frank Wilkeson, in the New York
Times,
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You've Mallory De Smith, who exter
inmates melody with fiddle, met old
Col. Northcote yesterday, and said to
him: Colonel, you must be on hand
tonight at the De Smith mansion.
want you to hear some really good music.
I Will give few solos on the violin to o
few invited guests, and afterward, at g
o'clock, we will have some refreshments
oysters, wine, cigars, you know.
" My dear boy, will be on hand Just
little after 8. Rely on me. Galveston
NeWs. coats
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How Rome Was Saved by a Goose.

Ihe story is related OF the fourth siege
of Rome, in the year 387 before Christ.
A number of Gauls, under the command
OF Brennus, entered Upper Italy, and
laid siege to several places. Rome in
terfered, and by this act simply irritated
the invaders, who marched against the
Empress of the World" A battle was
fought and the Romans were defeated.
Rome was now practically at the mercy
Of the Gauls. The Senate had not enough
men left after the battle to defend the
External City," and SO they threw all
the men capable of bearing arms into
the Capitol, and sent away all useless
mouths the old men and women and
children took refuge in the nearest cities.
There remained in Rome only a few
pontifs and ancient Senators, who, not
being willing to survive either their
country or its glory, generously devoted
themselves to death, to appease, accord
ing to their belief, the anger of the in
fernal gods. These were found by
Brennus, and for time their splendid
habits, their white boards, their air of
grandeur and frmness astonished the
Gauls and inspired a religious fear in
the army. Finally, however, the Gauls
massacred the Senators, and all who
had not escaped were slaughtered, and
then they attacked the Capitol. While
the Gauls plundered the city, the coun-
try round was recovering from it's defeat.
Camillus was chosen leader of the Ro-
mans, and while the Gauls were revel-
ing they attacked the invaders and
killed many Of them. Camillus was
proclaimed the savior of his country,
but he refused to do anything as their
leader without the order of the Senate
and the people shut up in the Capitol.
1t was almost impossible to gain access
to them. A young Roman, however,
had the hardihood to undertake this
perilous enterprise, and was successful
Camillus was declared Dictator. and
collected large army. The Gauls had
discovered the traces left by the young
Roman, and Brennus attempted during
the night to surprise the Capitol by the
same path. After many efforts, few
succeeded in gaining the summit of the
rock, and were on the. point of scaling
the walls the sentinel was asleep and
nothing seemed to oppose them. Some
geese, consecrated to Juno, were awak-
ened by the noise made by the enemy,
and began to cry as they do when
they are disturbed. Nautilus, person
of consular rank, ran to the spot, en-
countered the Gauls and hurled several
from the rock. The Romans were reused
and the enemy were driven back; and
ultimately were defeated in open battle
by Camillus, who has been called Romes
second founder. Chicago Inter Ocean.
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BITS OF INFORMATION.

GEOGRAPHICAL maps were invented
by Anaximander, of Miletus, 568 years
B. @.
The population of Africa is about
FOG, 900, 900. The area is 1880, 600
square miles.
TIE fastest mile by running horse
was made by Ten Brock, at Louisville
May "a, 1877. Time, 1882.
The changes of the moon are the re-
suits of constantly changing positions in
space of the moon and the earth with
reference to the sun.
In ancient times, when the Romans
began the year with March, and Deem
Der was the tenth month, the year con-
sisted OF only ten months. January and
February were introduced into the
Roman calendar by Numa Pompilius,
with new division of the days of the
year.
THE Chief Justices and their terms of
office since the Supreme Court of the
United States was created, have been as
foI1oxrc .r..-.f.a
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they are And how easy the reason
is to sect is so clear, so simple,
and so NATURAL" 1 shall repeat this
till mrlast breath, and the world will
go on in its own miserable way none
the less.