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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-11
THE ANCHORIA SAFE.
LYING OFF ST. JOHNS WITH HER MAIN
SHAFT BROKEN.
THE PAssENeERs AND CREW ALL WELL
DISPATCHED TO THE ASSISTANCE OF
THE DIqlRTfD Vessel.

DISPATCHED TO THE ASSISTANCE OF
THE DISABLED VESSEL
ST. JoHN's, N. F.. Oct. 1O-A iife-boat con-
tanning eight members Of the crew
of the overdue steamship Anchoria
of the Anchor Line arrived at this port
at noon to-day. The officer In
command reported that the vessel is lying under
canvas about seventy miles off Cape
Spear Lighthouse. bearing east-southeast. The
passengers and crew are all well. The
detention Of the Anchoria was
caused by the breaking of her
main shaft. She proceeded slowly under
sail and sighted Cape Spear head
land on Friday. The first officer with seven
men Immediately set out for this port
the life-boat seeking assistance The
steamer Miranda left here at p. m. to take the
Anchoria in tow and render whatever aid may be
necessary. The two vesselsare expected to reach
st. Johns tomorrow afternoon.
The telegraph office at St. Johns N F..
closed early as 0 o'clock last night, and
it was impossible to get full dispatches
from there. 1t is understood that some'
II all, OF members of the
of the Anchoria who arrived at
ST. Johns in the fe-boat returned in the Miranda ana
that the Miranda was supplied with necessary stores
OF fresh provisions for tho passengers and crew OF the
disabled vessel.
Cape Spear. which sighted by the Anchora on Fri
day, i lofty headland at the eastern extremity OF the
hsrbor OF st. Johns and is about five miles from that
city. II Is the easornmost point Of Newfoundland ana
has lighthouse.
The Anchoria left Glasgow on September 10
with 300 souls, including the crew, on Doard
She Is not fast steamer, and 1t was not
until she four days overdue that any anxiety
on her account began to be fet The incoming steam
did report hor the anxiety was increased
friends and relatives OF the passengers began to
make Ious inquiries at the Office of the Anchor Line
Teegrans from all parts OF tho country came pouring
answering them.
The Anohoria is q stanch vessel aud ably command
ed and the agents could believe that she had gono
down, so encouraging answers were given to all in-
qurers. 1t became apparent, however, that some
accident had befallen the vessel When last Saturday
night came and there news Of the missing
steamer OF hopeful sank. 1t looked
as II repetition OF the sad case Of the
City OF Boston, which sailed out OF port and never was
seen afterward
The news that the Anchoria had sighted of Now
foundland yesterday grateful to all who heard II,
and ended long and trying time OF suspense. II no
news Of the steamship had received yesterday she
would probably have been given up for lost.
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DIR. ARMITAGE AT CORNELL.

ITHACA, Oct. 10 (Specidb The Rev. DR..
Armtage OF NowYorK. preached tho sermon under the
Sage before tho faculty and students OF Cor
nell University here to-day. Tho weather was no and
the attendance consequently large at both services Dr.
Armitages discourse was plain, practical and withsL
profitable. The body Of the sermon directed more
particularly to the sludens aud the peroraton 10 the
professors The latter wero exhorisd TO help the stu
especially the poorer ones. by word and deed 10
reach the largest and most useful life attainabe.
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ROSS ALMOST MEETS HIS MATCH.
HARD BLOWS GIVEN AND BLOOD DRAWN IN
MOUNTED SWORD CoNTEsr.

HARD BLOWS GIVEN AND BLOOD DRAWN IN
MOUNTED SWORD CONTEST.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 10 lSpecidt.-About 1000
persons witnessed tho mounted sword contest to day
between Duncan Ross and August schmitt late OF the
German Army Sergeant Walsh has been lighting with
Ross through the country but when the pair reached
this city and issued challenge to all comers. schmtt
who is an adept swordsmAu accepted It. and genuine
fight was the result. There nine attacks and all
ver. vic,ou. BLOWS on tho armor counted. but head
blows re allowed Ross. who To- extremely powerfu:
cut through Schmitrs armor In tho thrd ATTACK. ana
dre HOOD in a stream. Rosa the first four At
tacks aud Schmitt then won three. almost knocking
Ross from his horse In the seventh. koss won toe
mead cutting the mask ana almost splitting his Skull
The ngnt WAS awarded Ross by nyo points 10 FOUR
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-11
urSc GEORGE TALKING ABOUT EUROPE.

PARIS, Oct 1O.-The Temps publishes an ac-
count Of an interview had by member OF Its stan
with King George OF Greece. Tho King said that his
covsrnment would maintain an observant atti-
tude with reference to the Eastern aues-
t,on. such as was maintained by France
He referred to the examples OF Charles ", LOUIS
xiv and Napoeon aud eI pressed the opinion that no
newer ct1,ld long maintain absolute supremacy In
Fnrone He smoke In terms OF the CHEST praise OF NJ
Camhe.ta ana NJ de Froycinet
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THE CONSERVATIVE PROGRAMME.

LONDON, Oct 1.-The Daily NepS says 1t
ia the intention Of the Government. after proms-
ing Homo Rule bill. to take up the
procedure measure tho frat business OF
the session. The Government have so intimated
to Lord Harrington and Mr. Chamberlain, but nothing
definite las been arranged. Although the Government
hon. IN carry tbe Homo Rule measure by .
majority Of 100. they prefer TO secure The right
iect to the GovernmsnTs programme aud insist that
Irish affairs q business
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THROUGH NEW-YORK STATE.
EXTENSION OF STATE BANK CHARTERS

EXTENSION OF sTAIE BANK CHAKIEKs.
ALBANY Oct. 10.-There being no provision
in the banking OF this State for the extension OF
charters of State banks, Bank Superintendent Willis s.
Paine submitted to the Attorney General the question
Of the right OF suoh orporatons to extend their corpo
rate existence under provisions OF the General Act
Chapter 937 Laws passed for that purpose The
holds the statute quoted TO DO appli-
cable 10 banks as well as other cOpOraiIOns
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ELECTION RIOT IN BULGARIA.
FRIENDS OF zANKoFF ROUGHLY HANDLED-KAUl


BARS CALLING FOR TROOPS.
SOPHIA, Oct. 1O.-To-day 100 peasants came
In from the surrounding villages. and after visit
lug the Russian Consulate, where they were
harangued by Consul Neklindof, tried to put
stop the elections. An ahray ensued
IN which sticks and stones freely used and
ersl persons we're wounded. Tho intruders were
eventually expelled from the city, Consul NeKlndof
complained to the consuls OF the other powers
that the elections Illegal. iDasmuch as friends
and followers Of Zaukor were roughly handled and not
allowed to vote The Consus sent evasve replies. The
polling is going on quietly.
At Rastchuk on Saturday General Ksulbars met
0 delegation OF svowed Russophobists The Rus
ne ssH had aS'"s concluded the delegate. expressed
erai thereupou became enraged aud. turning his back
on the aesxs,es ds%,ssed neI from his presence.
that the Bulgarian Ministry has Addressed circular
sSSs,. nS Sa % iesn.. "ssh wso
msddls with TIE polling the secOn'
Is obviously directed against the Ku..isps
The Russian agent at sophia, M. Nekimdon has re-
intention OF with coasing diplomatic relations with
Bulgaria % co.., Haulhars no. ,.,.
grapned he must now be either recalled
furnished with troops. The failure OF LIS mesioh Is
PanifroroLIs, Oct lo.-A plot has been discovered s
TO revos throughout the two Bagarias p}
CT armed bands engaged by the Russian eonso.tss a.
Sophia, Phippop0ls aud Rust thuk Several OF tue rHK
leSd re nave been arrested.
LONDON, Oci. lit 10 reported that the Russian
Government is preparing note 10 tne rowers which
FEASIBILITY OF THE HUDsoNs BAY ROUTE
HALIFAX, Oct. 10 Especial. The Dominion
Government Alert returned from Hudsons Bay
this afternoon she brought home all the officials sta-
toned there for the last two taking meteoroog
cal observations TO the feasibility OF the Hudsons
Bay route 60 Europe. Commander Gordon reports that
tie ann total OF observations obtained shows that
bavisstion is practical four aud half months In the
SEASON.
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TO PREPARE FOR 1HE NAVAL PROCESSION

NEWPORT, Oct 10 (SpeciaD. j.
s. Abbott, United States Navy, secretary TO Rear-Ad-
mral s. b. Luce, Commauder.in- Chief Of the North
Atlantic squadron. has gone to New-York to arrange
with General Schoaed for the necessary details regard
ing the water procession the day OF the unveing
OF the statue OF Liberty. Admiral Luce will be the
senior naval officer shUat that day, and will be IN
command Of all Government vessels which will be able
TO participate should the vessels OF the training
squadron, which expected here daily arrive In time
10 reach Nrw-Yorg by october 20, their commanding
officers VIII be directed to join the NORTH Atlantic
squadron temporarily IL 10 expected that the Tennessee
will sail from lie re- for New York by October 20,
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BtIyPP IN CHAKLEsTOy.

CHARLESTON, Oct. 1O.-The day passed
without al thing TO mar It's perfect beauty No shock
has occurred since yesterday morning aud no more are
expected. Tie churches to-day were crowded with wo
snippor and the sermons generally touched upon tue
lessons Of the recent calamity From september 10
October 2l7542 ratons have been distributed by the
Earthquake Relief Committee at cost OF @l4.S39 SO.
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REPORTING ON the Loss OF la MAsooTrE

st. LOUIS Mo-, Oct. 10.-Captain Thompson
commander OF tue recently wrecked steamer La Mas
cotte aid five OF OF the boat arrived here yes
tcrday None the bodies OF the victims lost In tho
river has been found. Captain Thompson made An In
formal report OF the disaster TO Captain AsDury
visins Inspector OF Steamboats, aud Will make al oe"
report on Wednesday.
dispatch from Cape Girareau says that tDe ootJ & y,
Judge Hager was recovered yesterday aernoon a''u'
two miles below where La MascoLtc explodcu.
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OPIUM sxUooLED TEA CHESTS.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Oct. lO.-It was learned
last night that Custom House seizsd
largo quantity Of opium. which was CONSIGNED In the
disguise to Chung Ysk q Co.. OF shis CITY, was
brought over on the steamer Belgo froa, Hon6 Kong
aud Yokohama, which arrived on THURSDAY. Ihe veoe
Vt tho opium seized 10 estimated ~ e2o,00o
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body at tho dedication Of tho Statue of Liberty New
Vorh

SICKNESS IN Mr. GLADsToNEs FAMILY.
LONDON. Oct. 1O-Mr. Gladstone is suffering
with cold. which keeps him within doors. Tho con-
dillon OF his daughter. Mrs. Drew, IL still critical
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ACQUITTED OF CHARGE OF MURDER

LOUISVILLE, DCt. IU.-I Ht II III UI IOIt5sOI
Ira o. strunK, charged with killing Charles V. Hoover
In New-Aibany, Ind. aboHt tnroe months ago, ended
last ght verdict OF guilty was rendered Hoover
wac druggist and evidence went to show that tho
shooting was the resuit Of his Intimacy with 5trunk
vlfA
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IN MEMORY OF FATHER MATHEW.

Cork, Oct. 1O-Five thousand members OF
the League OF the Cross abstinence society, pa
radsd Cork to-day to celebrate the
OF tho birth Father Mathew They were
accom- panied by banda OF music aud sang rish, frehcn
and Amercah National songs Although rain WAS rail-
ing 20 600 persons viewed tho parade.
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CRUSHED BENEATH A FALLEN ROOF.

CHICAGO, Oct. 1O.-Meagre particulars have
been received from south Chicago Of accident which
occurred there this forenoon Tho roof OF the repair
shop OF the North Chicago Rolling Mil is reported TO
have fallen In burying under lt number OF faborers
one of " hom was removed dead and nine injured.
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10 REPRESENT THE FRENCH SENATE
PARIS, Oct. 10.-The Senate has appointed
r.l J.ures and General Pslssisr 70 represent that
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CRIMES AND CAsUALTIES-BY TELEGRAPH
UNIVERSITY STUDENT KILL
FATAL QUARREL OVER

UNIVERSITY STUDENT KILLED.
RALEIGH. y. C., oct l0-In q difficulty last night j. a;
Freczee Rowan County, student IA Tho University oi
North Carolina at Chapel lill was killed by negro
FATAL QUARREL OVER DITCH.
GALVESTON oct lOA dispatch 10 The Netos from MOUNT
John Dellard and James Reed quaIreiled
Yesterday the cutting Of ditch winch the latter was
digging Dellard thought the ditch woulh damage ms
property fired dozen shots Al each oter anu Dot
killed.
SHOT DEAD BY BARKEEPER
NFw.ORIEANs oct lO.-A dispatch 10 The l1edHnns from
Vicksburg Miss, In night last night John hahkcn
ship railroad switchan. mas shot ana killed " Josepn
Wiley. barkeeper.
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When Baby was sick, we gave her c~asto~ia,
When abe was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When abe hsd Children, she gave them CastOria
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a little plush-lined case and might bt
carried in an overcoat pocket, but when
struck with a little hammer give out a
sound like an anvil. 1t tells a story of
the times that there has been 50 much
music written of late relating to cham
payne drinking that instruments have
been devised and patented to initiate
the ''popp of a champagne cork. Mr..
Davis has two such instruments. One
is a simple wooden cylinder, piston
working III one end and a captive cork
in the other. 1t is as simple as a boys
popgun, but the sound has a S5-a bottle
bang that is most captivating. The
second pop imitator, recently invented,
can be worked more rapidly and made
to initiate the sound around a race
course bar Just after the field has won
against long odds. This is a long brass
cylinder, the piston running through the
cork and having a bolt on that end to
prevent the cork from flying off and hit
ting the ringer in the eye. The piston,
pushed in rapidly, causes a deceptive
''pop'' and being as rapidly pushed
back, plugs the cork tight in again
ready for another bottle, which action
can be kept up faster than the thirstiest
crowd could cut the wire.
The crack of a whip is a noise that is
heard under very different circumstan-
ces on the stage. 1t may be a chorus
describing a rOllicking sleighride, a
Lady Gay Spanker, who emphasizes a
story with a flourish of a whip, or the
Overseer in "Uncle TOMS Cabin y
Whatever the occasion, the man sitting
at the end of the orchestra supplies the
''crack.n Mr.. Davis does this with a
little instrument that looks like q big
razor strop split down to the handle,
and there hinged. 1t Is worked with
one hand, for very frequently, at the
same time, sleigh bells must be heard,
and the other hand is employed in shak-
ing a belt of silver bells right mergly.
The castinets used in the orchestra
are not played, as by the dancers, in the
palms of the hands, but are fastened
two pairs) on a fan-Shaped piece OF ce-
dar, and all Spain could not produce a
castinet player who could get more rat
Ting out of the genuine article than
does the drummer. with this proSaic ce-
dar fan waved with n hand while the
other rattles and raps a tambourine.
When, in a sensational play or burleSque,
or orchestra number, the sound of a To-
comotive should be heard, the drummer
turns to his assortment of trick mstru-
ments and selects three. The first rep
reSents the whizz and whirr and puff,
and snort and rattle. 1t consists of an
arch of sheet iron, the ends of which
are rolled in under the arch, making
two supports for it to stand upon. This
is ''played''upon by two bundles of steel
wires, fastened at one end by a clasp OF
tin, and otherwise loose.
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Trick Instruments, and How They
Are Used.

The requirements of modern operetta,
musical extravaganza and such pieces
as are advertised to be ''nonsensicallY
musical whimsicality" have brought
many strange musical instruments into
use. Trick instruments would be q
better name for some of the curious in
ventions shown to a reporter recently
in the orchestra room Of a theatre by
Simon Davis, the drummer of the Or
chestra'
Mr.. Davis, although called the drum
ner TO distinguish him, might be term
ed with equal justice n of twenty-five
or thirty other names, for he plays and
operates that many instruments besides
the drums. There is something of a
trick even about the base drum playing,
for it is operated by a pedal which with
one action plays the cymbals at the
same time, leaving the operators hands
free TO use any other instrument which
the music or the action on the stage
may require.
One of the instruments which Davis
plays is commonly called the bells, or
orchestra bells in Germany called the
''plockenspiel." 1t consists of a num-
Der of short bars OF steel resting on
straw ropes. The bars are played upon
by short hammers, the metals of which
are connected with the wood handles by
w~halebone. The full chromatic scale,
two and a half octaves, are represented
by the bars, which are toned by size.
The instrument most like the bells IS
the XylOphone, which consist of a num-
Der of pieces of wood strung together by
two cords and resting on ropes of straw.
The method of tuning a XylOphone is
curious. If a note be fiat it is corrected
in tone by having a section sawed off
if sharp, it is notched on the under side
by Il saw cut.
The anvils in an orchestra Me far
from being such as smiths play upon by
the side of a forge, though their toRes
are remarkably like those Of the real ar
ticle. The anvils which Mr.. Davis has
are two pieces of hemi-octagonal brass,
hollow and about eight inches long.
IEemi-octagonal may not be the scien-
tifc term for describing a tube which
would be octagonal if alike on both
sides, but which looks as il it had been
octagopat and sliced down its length
and the HAT side covered over. That is
what they are. They are contained in
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Tho Cd Home.

I remember an old gay farmhouse,
All messy, and stained with timei
With a film Of age upon 1t,
While yet it stood in its prime.
A broad, low proved old homestead,
Where ~clamhering wild woodbine
Hung ont its flames in the autumn,
Like wreaths on a holy shrine.
Great dropping elms swayed Ger IT.
And blossoming lilacs tall,
Thrust their purple plumes in the win
dows,
With the bees they held in thrall.
All under its roof so messy,
And around its heart SO warm
1t gathered its happy children,
In a merry, busy swarm.
With the beat of rain on its shingles,
1t lulled them all to rest,
When spring brought the muttering show
ers,
Surging up from out the west.
As a hen soothes her sleepy chickens,
Beneath her wings widespread,
So we heard the soft, sweet wind-song,
OF the old roof overhead.
And now when 1 fall a-dreaming,
When it rains, and the wind Is strong,
1 hear again the deep murmers
And beat of the old roofs song.
And the years fall away and leave me,
A sleepy child once more;
Slow rocking on grand wild surges,
Toward some dreamland shore.
Now drifting among the tree-tops,
Now floating Ger rivers deep,
Till | sink in that rushing, sweeping sea,
Down to the land of sleep.
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NUMBER Al.

Thomas Connors, Engineer Thomas
Mowray and Fireman Michael Myers
were killed almost instantly. The rest
of the crew escaped with slight inju-
ries. All trains were delayed twelve
hours. A fearful storm of wind and
rain prevailed on the 18th III Kansas
City, Missouri, from IL O'Clock until
neon. The Court House. the Lathrop
School building, an over all factory and
two Oh three other buildings were part
tally or wholly demolished. Twenty
four persons are known to be killed
twelve at the school house, SIX at the
factory and six elsewhere. The injured,
as far as ascertained, number about 30,
several of whom cannot recover.
During camp. meeting in john
son county, Kansas. ON the 9th, a large
tent was blown down. Three persons
Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson and their in
fant-were killed and many were
Slightly injured.
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THE VIOLIN.
Early History of the Sweetest of All
Musical Instruments.

The violin in its earlier forms is of
| great and uncertain antiquity. Its ORR
| igin is traced to a stringed instrument
used in India from the earliest ages,
the ravanastron, which, a buddhist
tradition says, was invented by ha~
vana, King of Ceylon, 5000 y. c. A
similar instrument was the crwth of
Wales, which is known to have been
in use long before the sixth century,
among the Britons, and to which the
! Anglo-SaXons gave the name of fythel,
whence our word fiddle. The imme-
date precursor of the violin was the
yiol, which is known to have ben in
use in the tenth century. This was fias
above and below, had very deep bendl
in the sides, used from three to six
strings, and was played with a bow.
But the violin of modern form IA not
made until the fifteenth or sixteenth
century. The earliest maker of the
modern violin whose instruments are
authenticated was Gaspard di Salo, OF
Lombardy, who worked between l56O
and 1912. To one other maker living
before this time, Gaspard DuifOprugcar,
some existing instruments are attribu-
ted, but it is very doubtful whether this
maker constructed any thing else chan
yiols and lutes. The italian school of
violin-making had its origin in Brescia,
and as far as is now known, was found
ed by Gaspard di Salo. The greatest Of
the Brescian makers was Giovanni Pao-
10 Maggini, who lived about 1~590-164O,
and whose instruments still hold aplace
among the best ever made. But soon
the BreScia violin-makerS were ecllpSed
by those of Cremona, whose instruments
have been the wonder and admiration
from their time to the present, possess
ting a tone and quality that subsequen
makers have tried in vain TO equal.
The three greatest of the many success
full violin-makers among the numbers
who for generations kept up the reputa-
ton of Cremonese work, were Nicholas
Amati, Joseph Guarneri del Gesu and
Antonius S~tradivarius. Very little is
known of these great makers, for IN
their day they were simply hard-working
artisans who sold for a few fiorins in
struments which now command hun
dreds and even thousands of dollars.
Experience has shown that the mlnutest
details of form and proportion, and the
material of which each separate part IS
made, are matters of vital Importance
to the quality of the violin. The great
makers seem to have secured by many
delicate experiments the very perfection
of actoustical quality, which dexterity
and careful workmanship enabled them
always TO fully reproduce.
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Ii your earthern pie-plates are dis
colored, rub them well with whiting
or sand soap.
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Fashions on the Congo.

On the banks of the Congo, when a
belle wants to be particularly fashions
bic, she clothes herself solely and eX-
clusively in brass ornaments. The IA
vorite articles of jewelry in this line are;
Copper bracelets and copper ~ankle-rings,
heavy copper chain girdles, and around
the neck a semi-cireular chunk of brass
as thick as a horse collar, and weighing
from twenty 10 thirty-eight pounds.
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The classic Tiber is once more to
become a commercial highway. d line
of steamers having been built to run
between Rome and Genoa.
The supply of heas in Paris is said
to have greatly fallen off this season, a
fact which some persons connect with
the possible approach of the cholera.
According to Thomson, the Afri-
can traveller. the greatest compliment
you can pay a member of the Nasal
tribe IS TO SPIT on him, or her. as the
case may be,
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Measure twlce, cue put once.

TIE Sultan of Morocco has one
thousand wives. IL Is we'll there is one
man in the world who has made sure
OF having his buttons sewed on.
Concord, Mass, has a mysterious
character known as the waterproof
man, who goes around at night wear
ing a big waterproof and a mask, and
takes delight in soaring women and
children.