davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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Woodworking Women.

thousand women sleep masked every night
in this city, says the Albany Jomnars New
York correspondent. That is an estimate but
II is based on facts that make it entirely trust
worthy. In one Of the streets given over to
retail trade in women's decoration, from the
harmless necessary calico 10 the vain super
ious satin, from essential COVERINGS feet with
shoes TO overlayinss OF faces with cosmetics.
there hangs sign-board which tells that toilet
masks are sold up stairs. On entering L found
article OF humbug was a pliable mask made
seemingly of cloth impregnated with an oily
unguent, and Is meant 10 be worn on the face
during bed times with the expectation that il
would improve the complexion. The false
visage was in a great variety OF features and
sizes, SO that any woman could get snug fit.
the idea being that the skin OF the entire face
should come into close contact with the sup
posed medcament. The probability rs that
such sweating OF the skin really produces
softness and smoothness. though exposure To
the cold might easily chap the tender surface
learn to a certainty That about two thous-
and masks had been sold within a week and it
Is fair 10 believe that, with SO many distributed
at least q thousand women nightly using
them. WAS describing all this TO "A friend
this morning, and he rather vebemently re-
marked that the Information would have been
OF value three days before. "It was lust this
way" he explained: IL went home hate at night
and stole softly in, SO as not to awaken my
WIFE, The gas was burning dimly. 1 glanced
at the bed TO see II she was asleep. There saw
o face that wasn't my wifes. The figure was
fernai complexion masks They're painted
rosy and pretty, You know, and how was 10
discern on sight that il wasn't real face? Ny
wife said in pretended fright while the mask
made her voice unrecognizably muffied. Go
away sir, IL you please-you are ia the wrong
ROOM. That was her little joke. Seee And
very funny, too" remarked. mo il wasn't,
either" said my friend. at seems that didn't
retire with apologize alacrity which she thinks
ought 10 have characterized "A stranger and for
the life OF me can't make her believe 1 dis
covered the truth before tried to soothe her
alarm Jocosely. Bless me il don't fear suit
for divorce"
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De Witt CIinfOn's Old Slave.
FUNERAL OF A COLoRED MAN WITH AN INTE

ESTING HISTORY.
Harry Brown, at one time a slave Of Gov De
Witt Clinton, of New York, was buried at
Honesdale, Pa, Sunday. The funeral was more
largely attended than any service of the kind
that has taken place here in years. Only twelve
colored persons were present, this number con-
shutting the entire coOred population of Homes
dale. Harry was born in Sbawangunk, Ulster
county,. New York, in 1889. He was first
owned by Cornelius Low, from whom he was
sold when a lad at sheriff's sale, and was
bought by William Smith, Of New York city.
BY this master he was hired out to an Episco-
pal minister of the city named Rev. Peter
Mckee. Soon afterward he was bought by
Thomas Powell, OF Newburg New York, whom
he served many years. In 1914, while Clinton
was mayor OF New York, he purchased Harry
for coachman. Soon afterward he married
one Of his masters slaves. When the slaves
were liberated in New York in 1927 Mr. Ciin-
ton assisted Harry and his wife in obtaining a
home, and up to the time of his death in 1928
continued to look after their welfare. Upon
the death OF their old master they came to
Honesdale, where they spent the remainder of
their days-Harry as day iabOrer and his wife
as q nurse.
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Style and Suicide.

A New York correspondent says: The in
delicacy of some OF the women in the
opera boxes attracts attention. They dress as
no selfrespecting woman could, ana they chat
ter and jabber like gang of monkies. When
one goes to the opera and sweeps the tiers OF
boxes with an opera glass for a moment, the
question comes, ais it proper to Iook?"
Upon careful examination and scientific com.
putation it is pretty certain that of the women
in the opera in any five boxes adjoining one an.
other, not less than one out OF every three is
three-Quarters naked above the waist-that is
of the square inches Of surface from the waist
up, three-quarters are exposed to the view and
TO the air.
go to balls it is far worse. The percentage OF
semi-nude figures increases until fully 50 per
cent is reached. WHAT may be thought of the
propriety OF this stripping of the body from a
standpoint OF modesty is one thing, and from
the stu point of health isquite another Every
| sensible person knows and will admit that
of any young girl or midde-aged matron than
exposure, and yet night after night hundreds
take Oft hanneis and high-necked cloth dresses
to put on the low-waisted, lOw-necked sleeve
less cQrsage. II they were to go to place where
there were no drafts no harm would be done.
but as it is, in every place they go the rooms
have not only different temperatures, but the
doors are being constantly opened and closed,
letting in currents OF cold air which sweep over
their naked shoulders.
Does nothing come oft? Of course. SO often
it is said that Miss So-and-So has a bad cold, or
that Mrs. This-and-That is laid up with pneu-
monia, that one hardly pays enough attention
colds, the doctors say, predispose women to
cold by creating local weakness in the lungs,
Nothing is SO common as pulmonary COM
plants bronchial affections and in nine
cases out of ten the case is no more remote than
the lOw-necked dress. The doctors may speak
OF TINS eyii and impiore their patients to wear
will take medicine, but at clothes they will in
sist upon drawing line.
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Brilliant Solar Spectacle.
ADAzZLING PHENOMENON THAT WAS OBSERVED
AT SARATOGA.

a DAZZLING FAENOMENONT THAT WASOBSERVED
AT SARATOGA.
A very remarkable celestial spectacle met the
eyes Of early church-goers In Saratoga last SUM-
day. To the north and to the south of the sun,
which was shining in q cloudless sky, appeared
q sort of rainbow point which gradually grew
in width and length, becoming intensely brill
liant, SO that 1t dazzled the eye. II showed all
the colors of the solar spectrum, clearly defined
from these sun dogs, or mock suns, which were
one degree in length and half degree In width.
Brilliant white streamerS, like the tails of two
comets, reached around the sky In a direction
opposite the sun, meeting in the west aud
making continuous band Of white.
AS the mock suns grew brighter rainbows be-
gan to show against the celestial blue back
ground. There finally appeared four OF them,
perfect circles and exceedingly brilliant, with
broader bands of color than are usual tnrain-
bows. The four intersected each other at the
points where the mock suns first appeared.
about twenty-five degrees from the sun. There
was apparently little change in the strange
phenomenon for half an hour, and there was
none OF the trembling and pulsating of light so
characteristic and noticeable in auroras. In
little over halr an hour the pictures faded quite
rapidly. Not cloud was In sight and the sky
was q clear light blue.
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!: Died Among Paupers.

THE COMPANION OF DARWIN ENDS HIS CAREER
IN AN ALMsHoUsE.
A dispatch from Erie, Pa, says. DR.. p. w.
Moshlech, who has been one of the most accom-
plished philologists of his time and was the
master of ten languages, died in the Erie
County almshOuse in his seventy.ninth year.
~MOshlech was born in Bainesburg, Rhenish
Prussia: After preliminary study at Mayence
and graduated with high honors, especially in
the departments of philosophy and medicine.
He then Rracticed medicine in Paris for seven
years. His talents there won general recOgnf.
ton, and during his residence in the metropolis
he mingled upon terms of intimacy with Alex
and
He afterwards spent several years in the princi-
pal cities OF Europe. devoting most of his time
He enjoyed the acqnafntance OF Charles Bar.
win, with whom he frequently discussed bio
logical subjects ,b %sr bearing 1s Origin Of
contemplation. He was also the guest at one
time Of ". J. Hooker, the eminent botanist.
Wheeling, w. Va. Though a devout Roman
Catholic, ne was soon atterward rendered the
chair of Hebrew and Greek in Bethany college.
a West Virginia institution under the CONTROL al
the Campbellite denomination. He continued
ms teacning unt1i Inc outbreak Of the REBELLION,
until 1866 he maintained himself by practicing
medicine and writing for religious and scien.
years in Warren, Pa, and in 1879 went TO Erie.
His age had begun to tell upon his pow.
ers ana the doctor there failed to secure
and after his means were exhausted. an.
piled for admission to the Erie county
house began his talent were still recognized by
local scholars, and DIR. Moshlech ON several oc-
casions came from his pauper retirement to
lecture before the Erie National Historical SUI
ciety, OF which he had been elected y member.
He also prepared several young men for enc
trance 70 Yale college. DR.. Moshiech was pro-
ncient In The principles and literature Of the
English, German. French, Spanish, Greek.
Latin, Hebraic, Syr.ac and Sanskrit languages.
and during sojourn In the Hawaiian islands
he compiled q dictionary Of the Hawaiian lam
guage under the direction OF the bishop. His
BODY was brought 70 the city to-day and buried
church. and other friends
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Steering the TobOggau.

FROM the North Adams Transcript
Steering the toboggan is a great science. The
lady or ladies sit In front, ana regard the hill
with great confidence, because they know that q
kind man behind them will steer them through
1t, for he knows all about il. Yes, he does! The
poor man gets on behind, assures his lady friend
that it's all right, that they are perfectly safe;
then he shuts his eyes, they jump from one side
of the slide TO the other, ny through the air. the
young lady's heart is in her mouth, and some
times the man's-that is, the mans heart is I'm
his own mouth, not hers-but finally they reach
the bottom of the slide and the steerer again
opens his eyes and regards the young lady, the
slide and the toboggan with much complai-
steer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-02-06

INVOLVING THE RELEASE OF MANY Con-
vIcTs.-A suit involving the release oil $50 con-
victs from the penitentiary has been filed in
the supreme court at Nashville Tennessee.
q petition for mandamus to compel the
warden and iessees of the penitentiary 10 grant
him good time" under the law passed by
the general assembly lass year. The good
time" allowed by the law is two months
for the first year, three months Tor tie second
year and SO on mp TO and including the tenth
year. not only for the years that elapse after the
passage OF the act, but also for the years pre-
declared constitutional by the supreme court,
many cOnvicts will be Immediately set as Alb.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-02-06

Accident TO A SLEIGHING PARTY.-At Ed
gerton, o., Thursday night, sleighing party OF
Lake Shore railway In front OF an approaching
freight tram. Seeing that the attempt was
likely to fail, the party was thrown into con-
fusion, some endeavoring to hold back the
horses, while others tried TO urge them for
ward. The locomotive struck the sleigh, injur-
Ing more or less severely six Of the oCcupants.
one, VIM. Harker. fatally.
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WAGES Nor TO BE CUT.--The five Philadel-
phia and Reading colleries In the Mt. Carmel
district Pennsylvania, drawn to furnish rate
vi wages for January work, have returned prices
per cent below the $3.50 basis, but the COM
pany has announced that they will pay the full
basis rate. This is good news TO the miners and
business men, who feared a cut In wages and
consequent troubles. This rate is 10 per cent
above the wages paid in January OF last year,
and the members OF tue Miners and Iaborerss
Amalgamated Association attribute the inn
provement 10 the existence Of that organiEa-
ton.
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Rogues, Thieves aud vagabOuds.


INVITED To TEA, AND LEcrUREp AND SUNG To
From the London Chronicle
admit bearer to a Free Tea for Rogues
Thieves, and Vagabonds, on Friday evening,
Jan. g, at z o'clock, la the Lille Road Missi on
hall, West Brompton. After the feed an ad.
dress will be given oy your sincere friend. Ned
Wright" The dubious compliment conveyed
In the above invitation might naturally have
been imagined 10 induce a feeling Of dinidence
on the part OF its recipient but apparently DELI
cacy Is not marked characteristic of the
dangerous classes" Not only did those To
whom tickets were addressed present them
selves In full force, nearly filling the Mission
nan. but there were a number OF applicants
outside who, though not specially invited. were
willing and anxious To prove that they pos.
sessed the necessary qualification for admission
Some $50 guests, chiefly young men, many OF
them mere lads, assembled under the Mission
nan rooi 10 enjoy the meal provided for them,
and aferward 10 listen To the exhortat1ons OF
Ned Wright The proceedings were tolerabiy
orderly, but there were one or two turbulent
spirits present whom nothing apparently
would satisfy. A complaint was made by a dis.
contenteo gentleman at the back of the room
none. don't take any notice of him: ne n
telling confounded lie, for / saw him eating
ana No, drinking Just now" was the retort OF
put down, though not without the protest IF
you can prove what you've said IN give IN"
the Fort" which was sung TO the accom- nani-
ment OF "A violin and harmonium Wright next
CiaIiueu aIlentlon 1Or MS Characteristic
addresses, in which, with considerable power
and feeling, he depicted his early life and the
change the conversion had worked 10 him.
The narrative OF his early exploits in the crimi.
nal line awakened a more lively interest among
his hearers than his spiritual advice did. His &C.
count OF how he met in battle and conquered
one Cooper, a prize-fghter. in two hours and
ana twenty-e1ght minutes, was received with
due respect; but some exhibitions Of skepti.
cism were dimly visible when he asserted that,
In consequence OF twenty-five years total iab.
stinence. he should, had he TO meet Cooper
again. be able to 'settie" him In an hour.
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snow fell TO the depth Of four inches ct Mexi-
calclngo, four miles distant rom the city OF
Mextc0s Tuesday, This IL the nrst snow that
has iaIlen In thts Vicinity since 1856.
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One Sleigh Ride.
A sleigh
A day
Ofglorfous winter weather:
A girl
a wLirl
Ofman and maid together.
A freeze
A squeeze
"A touching OF cold noses
A crush
A blush
And cheeks As red a. rosea.
A yearn-
A turn
And hOmeward they 70 flyinR:
A sigh
Good-by,
Ana then some more sood-bying
A span
A man
The livery stable tFustedr
A youth,
In truth,
Demented quite, and busted.
-Aerchdnf Ztoueyey.
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REV. DIR. ARMSTRONG FOUND GUILTY.
Bishop Beckwith announced the decision OF the
ecclesiastical court in the Armstrong case at
Atlanta, Ga, yesterday. The court found Arm
strong guilty of violating his ordination vows,
in that he confessed drinking beer i'm a hotel
and visiting houses of ill-fame. Although on .
iaudable mission, it was not setting good ex-
ample TO his fock. The penalty is moi more
than ten years suspension, but the bishop has
not pronounced the sentence yet.
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At the request OF NJ. DE Lesseps, the New
York chamber Of commerce will send two dee
gates tc inspect the Panama canal
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day.
But the demon OF a naturally violent temper,
aggravated by insane jealousy, was reused in
the man, and he thrust her from him almost
roughly She drew back To the other side OF
the room; there was a dangerous light in her
eyes. a dangerous red spot on either cheek In
the window the unregarding bird shrilled on
then ceased, and Reginald spoke:
will you fling those flowers out OF the win
DOW, send that man back his gift, and swear to
see him never more? Win you do this.''
NO, viii not do it, and her voice was firm
on will not do that 10 please NEE"
VIII not do that 10 please you. will be
your wife; will not be your slaver'
The man answered, swept away i'm a storm
OF rage Then, by Heaven, part now and
forever. l thought love might have tanned
the iilrt IN you, but see my love is powerIess
10 do that! Marry you! and have NV life
rendered hell by that long, lank Sentimental
DraiDleSs FOOL We seen how ne would look
at you with those sawney. scboo,s;rI eves v ~
i ms when ne thought mine away.T Here she
where! lou are growing offensive to me-"
linen tina: Is because you love him, I've
respected either of US" '"~
There she interrupted him again
w ait! must speak here! 1 know should
have said before what am going to saw now y
she went on, her voice softening as She CON.
ti1ued. .'our engagement, Reginald. has not
been happy one. though there have been
hours in il which shall always love IN renoen.
Der. There has hardly been a man To whom +
nave SPOKEN OF whom You have not been jeal-
Gus, iii the feeling has eliminated I'm this in
sane idea about my cousin. You saw am a
nirt, and that you had hoped your love MIGHT
tame me? am no fiirt, but hoped-and now
see how vainly-that tenderness and forhear
ance might cure you OF your jealousy The
last time there was a painful scene bet ween us
because OF II you were penitent, and swore IL
should not happen again. thought you meant
your words-and see what has come of them,
Another woman might have concealed bot IA
these gifts; but could not respect q man
from whom i had TO conceal things to win his
favor; ana I will marry no man whom can
not respect You have said more than once
before tina. IL was Better we should part and
when you pleaded Tor forgiveness for,.ave you:
OUT the words you have said to-day take as
nnai Don't think that misj Judge you, be-
ueNe In spite OF your words that you love me
ssI'i. and dear" here her voice faltered ..indeed
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4u0 OOJcCC III LulS pTOC0SS Is 10 eVaDOrat0 all
moisture from the opium, changing it from a
sticky substance TO u solid, similar to sealing
wax.
warmed over the light. The opium, In a melted
condition, Is rolled over the face of the bowl
until an. IT. Is shaped into cone, the apex being
The cone is now heated until it Is very soft. the
needle Is pushed into the small hole Of the bowl
a cylinder The hole OF the bowl is thoroughiy
heated, the needle is pushed entirely into the
e the the which sdhsres
small hole through the opium to the opening
Of the bowl. This mass is termed pill TO
smoke this the bowl is held over the lamp. SO
that the pill is directly above the dame. The
opium melts, giving forth q vapor or smoke
This is sucked into the bowl along with the
melted opium.
1t took me over a month to do this right. I
now came 10 the joint every night, frequently
lying in one spot two nights and q day. some
OF the frequenters didn't leave the Joint once a
week, and then only for few hours. having no
home togo TO.
They Were the professional cooks, receiving so
was brought ia she'll. hardly ever eat more
Than one mea! day. Sometimes only took
not because cared Tor 1T.
FIRMLY IN THE TOLLS
Some nine months after my first Introduction
to joint was unable to get my usual smoke
one night. I felt very bad when got In bed.
but Immediately tell into q heavy sleep. from
which l was aroused in the morning AFTER much
calling.
On becoming thoroughly awake I went
through series of novel sensations.
81 IT'D h Degan 70 cape ana pain In the back
eyes, q catarrhal discharge from the nose my
teeth Chartered and trembled from head TO
eat some breakfast, but II would not stay on
my stomach. Haitian hour more q nd rheumatic
s ,ms sno' inr nR my y limbs cramps i1 the
lew momen6 all the disorders ceased.
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caused to be made on the model of the one worn
by Mile. Derval in LA Biche au Bots, {" possesses
Three objects, instead of being sold in
their present form, are first to be
melted down. Ofthese two are swords which be-
Ky III. The third OF the objects to be melted is
the imperial crown made in 1854 for the coro-
nation which never took place. 1t Is inscribed
full taste" Its value is more than doubtful, con-
sidered as historical relic. Plus TX, it win be
remembered. had been counted upon to per-
form the ceremony for which IL was made.
But NAPOLEON III, never found himself in a
position to induce the pope 70 assist, in his coro-
crown which was destined never to be used are.
after the stones have been taken out, to be
melted and sold as SO much metal, in order
Tussaud or the propretors of the Musee Grevni.
FAMOUS DIAMOND.
The government does not, however, propose
to sell the famous Regent" which was ac-
quired by that Regent Orleane, to whom 1t
told OF the '.Regent" that it had been stolen by
q French deserter from the eye OF the figure OF
JuggernaVt, though according to another YER
slave who had found it in mine, and was in
the habit Of carrying 1t about in a wound Which
he had made expressly Tor its reception In one
being the purest, If not the largest of famous
diamonds. The kings of France wore it In
of his Ss II
would not for a time have been lost to France, as
1t iii fact was when at Waterloo, II fell into the
hands of the Prussians. After the Restoration
IL went back to France, and that 1t might not o
second time become the property OF the Prus-
tai was about TO be invested, from Paris to
Tours and from Tours to Bordeaux. II has had
strange adventures, too, in France ITSELF Thus,
under the consulate and the empire, 1t re-
NAMED in the possession Of NJ. Vanderberghe,
who held II as a guarantee for the repayment Oi
q state iOan and meanwhile lent 1t TO his wife
To wear at evening parties, replacing IL In his
strong box by an excellent Imitation In chrys-
tai, which Is said on more than one occasion to
have been exhibited as the original TO the
authorities charged with the duty Of visit
ngiI