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READY-NADE CLOTHING.

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cally headquarters for this trade.
, 1888-09-15
When Washington Laughed.

1t has been observed hat Washington
seldomed smiled and never laughed. This,
however, is not correct. One instance is
mentioned by a gentleman, well known
for his veracity, with a degree of sang
froid. At the time the troops were en-
camped at Cambridge, information was
received at headquarters that the English
were about leaving Boston to give them
battle. All was hustle and confusion.
The soldiers were strolling over the town,
and the officers were but Ill prepared for
the approaching renconter. Some of the
generals were calling for their horses, and
others for their arms; and among the rest
was Gen. Greene, at the bottom of the
stairs, bawling to the barber for his wig.
Bring my wig, you rascal; bring my
wigl' Gen. Lee diverted himself and the
rest of the company at the expense of
Greene. your wig is behind the looking
glass, sir" At which Greene, raising his
eyes, perceived, by the mirror, that the
wig was where it should be-on his head.
Washington, in a fit of laughter. threw
himself on the sofa, and the whole group
presented rather q ludicrous spectacle
New York Mirror, Jan. II, 1884.
, 1888-09-15
Bismarck's weighing Machine.

Close by the side of Prince Bismarck's
bath is q weighing chair, covered with
red velvet, of the most modern construc-
ton, and the great German minister
never fails to try his weight" at least
once a day, or to record the result of his
trial in the small diary he keeps attached
by a string to the arm of the weighing
chair for the purpose. There was a time
when the prince scaled the somewhat
Gargantuan weight of PAT pounds: but
much has happened since then, " as his
late friend Lord Beaconsfield once re-
marked. And, among other things, the
prince has taken not to "Banting," but to
a more recent system of dealing with ones
too, too solid flesh" Thanks to deter
mined perseverance in the system, the
German chancellor was last Friday able to
at the breakfast table, in a tone
of triumph, hat he that morning only
weighed 100 pounds. Europe, which has
such a deep interest in Prince Bismarck's
continued life and good health. would do
well, if possible, to secure for informa-
ton a daily return of the weights re-
corded in the chancellor's little diary
London Figaro.
, 1888-09-15
Women Make Good Swimmers.

The records Of the humane societies on
both sides of the Atlantic show that of
late years u fair proportion of their medals
fall to the lot of girls. There were sew
eral notable instances of rescue from
drowning last summer by girls under
twenty. Many women are accomplished
swimmers. This is but natural. As
their bones are generally lighter than
those of men, and their flesh more buoy
ant, they have less difficulty to overcome
in acquiring TIE art. Some of them could
float at their first attempt, if they could
acquire the requisite faith in the power of
the water to hold them up Swimming is
very much an art of faith, for it is gener-
ally the case that when a person believes
sufficiently in the buoyancy of the water
to trust to it his precious body, lol he is
a swimmer. There were young girls at
Newport, last summer, who could float
on the surface of the ocean with nc more
difficulty than they experienced in lying
upon a sofa They could have hoated for
hours. if necessary. Some of the most
famous swimming feats have been accom-
plished by very young women. h
Argonaut.
, 1888-09-15

E. R Brady, who has been connected
with various public enterprises in cleo
tricity, p~ungently remarked: The aver
age American citizen will let you rob him
daily and hourly of O small amount of
money, and permit you to rob all his
fellow citizens in a great community at
the same time, SO that in the aggregate
you have IN enormous plumber, when, If
you were to take even a 1.-THE of the
amount out of his pocket annually or out
of the public treasury he would want you
hanged to the first lamp post. The street
car lines take a penny more from every
passenger than they are justly entitled
to. Ferry boats are in the same class.
The price per thousand for gas might be
reduced.
Every telephone subscriber could pay
less for his telephone and leave still q
large profit to the companies. Telegraph
messages could be reduced, but in this
hustling and active country no one wants
to stop and consider those things. You
pay your nickel of fare on the street car
without eve so much as a thought that
three cents fare would pay a good divi-
dend on the original investment of most
of the roads. You pay $1.25 a thousand
for gas, although you know in your in
most soul that 81 Is a big price. 1t is in
franchises of this character that money is
rapidly made, and since the people are
all willing to pay these small larcenies, I
don't know but that my original Ian
guage, terming it robbery, is a little too
strong. Perhaps the fact is that the
American citizen is willing to pay pretty
well for good accommodations OF any
kind. New York Tribune.
, 1888-09-15
Fallibnity Of Human judgement.

Yet, after all. isn't it rather q curious
weakness in human beings to care for one
another's opinionsf Why should Jones
mind what you or / think of him or say of
him, when you and are almost certain to
be wrong2 Nay, why should he mind
what the majority think of him, when the
majority are usually wrong2 what the
cultured minority think of him, when the
cultured minority are seldom right? what
an entire generation think of him, when
the next generation may reverse the YER
dlct2
An accurate history of criticism, for ex-
ample, would be a delightful burlesque
upon the fallibility of human Judgment;
only the historian should owe no fealty to
what was current; he should stand so far
apart from present human thought that
all its most cherished conclusions should
appear to him only shifting waves in an
ocean of folly-should recognize that our
moralities may be vices, our vices virtues,
our orthodoxies f~ollies, our rascals heroes,
our masterpieces daubs, our Shakespeares
and Goethes and Virgils and Dantes the
puerile intelligences that their contem-
poraries mostly believed them to be-
Lippincott's Magazine.
, 1888-09-15
customs of Eurlish sportsmen.

When a London man is asked down to
join a shooting party. he would not take
his loader" with him, as his host would
expect to find him a loader" for no mar
loads his own gun in England; it is the
dutv of a servant. But If he were resid.
ing in the country he would expect to
take his 'loader" with him. and he could
shoot with two guns" that is, he would
bring two guns. as the delay OF waiting
for one to be loaded might lose him a fine
shot. 1t is considered a great oftense in
England # a man is NOISY" when out
shooting, loudly talkative or boisterously
merry or given to explanations when q
bird rises or when a bird Is missed. a
true sportsman observes a strict silence
Cor. Philadelphia Times.
, 1888-09-15
Our Little knowledge of Greenland.


There are two questions in chief that
lend romance to Greenland. one of which
Is akip to the delightful, unsolved problem
of an open polir sea, the other having to
do with a chapter in the Icelandic settle
ment of America before Columbus. whose
opening passages we find in the Morse
chronicles. put whose sequel no man can
read Nordenskjold has made two at
tempts to break through what he con.
siders a belt of thick ice surrounding a
central part of Greenland not glaciated
in the same way, IL at all. He argues
tina Greenland is comparatively fiat. and
does not breed glaciers from a central
lofty ridge Xix the Alps; those glaciers
which produce icebergs for distribution
over the North Atlantic are in his view
phenomena local to the sea coasts, If we
could force the barrier of the inland ice.
whose outer edges are glacier like in
movement and effects, we should reach
the real Greenland. by no means a tropical
land. of course, but one capable of sup
porting the small but rich and quick
maturing fiora of the Arctic circle, and, as
n necessary consequence, the living auna
of such a region.
The more romantic question is the old
one, What became of the Icelandic settle
ments on the east coast2 Access to that
coast by sea is almost always ndere by
foes and masses of icebergs; from the
land side the inland ice blocks the way.
Esquimaux ave not been slow to affirm
that descendants of the old Morse settlers
linger on that inaccessible spot, and love
to add that ghosts of early Scandinavians
haunt the glittering fields of hummock,
crevasse and underground river which
present such an impenetrable front to
hunters and explorers. The general
opinion is that the Norseman of the east
as well as the west coast dwindled and
merged with the Esquimaux from choice
or from necessity. Attempts have been
Esquimaux of Greenland to an infusion
of Morse blood 1t is certain that during
the last few centuries Danes have inter
married readily with the Esquimaux. and
that the children are remarkably more
handsome than their parents.-New York
Times.
, 1888-09-15

In no place more than q studio is It true
that the early bird gets the worm; but in
a studio that bird must be prepared to
defend her spoils. Thus it Is a great thing
to be among the first to pose the model at
8 on Monday morning; but unless you are
prepared to fight for the continuance of
your pose, you will find that each
will want to alter it to suit her particular
taste. Unfortunately, m~alcontents have
the right to put the pose to the vote, and
it not unfrequently happens that after
you have patiently blocked in the figure
during the first hour, at o o'clock, when
the crowd arrives, a fresh and totally diff
ferent position is voted for and carried by
an exasperating majority, and all YOU
labor is lort.-Demorest's Monthly.
, 1888-09-15
A Dude and His Trousers.

'Bagging at the knees is q matter, /
confess, which has caused me more un-
easiness than l can tell you 1t has done
moro to turn my hair gray than anything
else. But ] do not have SO much trouble
now as l used to have. You know they
are wearing trousers larger now than @
couple of years ago. In fact today a well
made pair has hardly a legitimate excuse
for bagging unless they are worn con-
stantly. myself never wear a pair two
days in succession. A little while ago,
when we wore trousers almost skin tight,
l thought / should have to go into Rn
asylum. A pair worn half q day showed
q decided inclination to expansion at that
most critical point. l found myself at
tempting to ward off the evil. / tried
every method l could hear of and every
one / could invent, but they did little
good. Finally l invented one of my own.
l used to hang the trousers up by the bot
toms, being particular to have them hang
straight, and then l dampened the incipi-
emit bags. After that / attached q weight
of some sort to the waist band, SO as to
bring the strain over the knees. The
cloth in drying came back into shape and
remained so.
Your tailor or your furnisher has no
doubt tried to sell you the device known
as pants stretcher.' Don't waste your
money. have tried every kind known,
and they don't give satisfaction. They
don't stretch the cloth evenly enough, nor
is the cure permanent. That little scheme
of my own Is the best / ever found. Oh,
yes; you may try it.. 1 haven't patented
1t. But If you really want to know the
best and most satisfactory way of remov-
ing bags from the face of your trousers
let me whisper it to you Go to your
tailor. For 10 cents or a quarter he will
press them, and nothing works SO well.
But when you are on the top of Mount
Washington the tailor is not there. Al
ways hang your ~pantaloons up carefully.
l hav known fellows who would go home,
take off their coat and waistcoat, throw
them into a chair, remove their trousers,
dump them in q heap on top of the coat
and vest. and then pile the shirt and
Undertaking on top of the trousers. This
is all wrong. A mans underclothing is
always a little damp, even in winter. The
coat and waistcoast at the bottom, the
trousers between them and the under
clothing, the pantaloons are certainly In a
regular sweat box. There they are, all
crumpled, creased and in q heap, and, of
course, when the wearer comes to put
them on In the morning he wonders what
the deuce makes his trousers look SO out
of shape. boston Cor. New York World,
, 1888-09-15

Coffee is a handy and harmless disinfec-
tant. Experiments have been made in
Paris to prove this. A quantity of meat
was hung up in a closed room until de-
composed, and then a chatting dish was
introduced and 800 grammes of coffee
thrown on the fire. In a few minutes the
room was completely disinfected. In an,
other groom sulphuretted hydrogen and
ammonia were developed, and ninety
grammes of coffee destroyed the smell in
about half a minute. It is also stated
that coffee destroys the smell of musk,
castnrum and asafstida. As a proof
that the noXious smells are really decom-
posed by the fumes of coffee and not
merely overpowered by them, it is stated
that the first vapors of the coffee were not
smeLed at all. and are therefore chem
ically absorbed, while the other smells
gradually diminish as the fumigation CON
tinues. The best way to effect this fumi-
CATION is to pound the coffee in a mortar,
and then strew it on a hot iron plate,
which, however, must not be red hot
Globe-Democ1at.
, 1888-09-15
A Ceremonious Invitation.

The following invitation to attend the
funeral of the Baron Solomon de Roths-
child was received by a United States
official in Paris, who says truly that it
cannot fail to be curious to American
readers:
"SIR-The Baron and the Baroness An
seine de Rothschild, the Baron and the
Boroness James de Rothschild, the Baron
and the Baroness Nathaniel de Roths-
child, and their children, the Baron and
the Baroness Adolphe de Rothschild, the
Baron and the Baroness Willy de Roths-
child, and their children, the Barons Al
phonse, Gustave, Solomon, and Edmond
de Rothschild, the Misses Louise and
Alice de Rochschild, and the Barons Ma
thaniel, Ferdinand and Solomon de Roths.
child, the Baron Amschel de Rothschild,
Nine. Worms, Nine. Sichel, Nine. Monte.
fore, Nine. Beyfus, the Baron and the
Baroness Lionel de Rothschild, and their
children, the Baron and the Baroness An
thony de Rothschild, and their children,
the Baron and the Baroness Mayer de
Rothschild, and their children, the Baron
and the Baroness Mayer-C Charles de Roths-
child, and their children, Mr.. and Nine.
Adolphe Beyfus, Mr.. and Nine s. Sichel
and Mr.. ]. Sichel,
Have the honor to inform you of the
irreparable loss they have experienced by
the decease of the Baron Solomon de
Rothschild, who died at his hotel, No. II
Rue Lafitte, the 9th of July, 1855, at the
age of SO years, their well beloved father,
father-in-law, grandfather, great grand
father, brother, and uncle;
And invite you to attend the funeral
on Tuesday, the 31st of July, at 0 o'clock.
THE funeral will take place from the
residence of the deceased Youths
Companion.
, 1888-09-15
An Artfu1 little Dodrcr.

A lady came out on the steps of a house
on Duffield street and called aloud in
sweet, persuasive tones:
George. dearf"
There was no answer, and she looked
a~nxiously up and down the street and
again called, but in a firmer voice:
"Georgel'
Not a word. Taking in the entire hori-
zon with one sweeping, comprehensive
glance, she made a trumpet of her hand
and called shrill and sharp:
"Georgiel"
Then a little pair of scurrying feet
came around the corner Of the house, &C.
companied by n round, innocent face,
much stained with watermelon juice, and
q sweet voice inquired:
did you call me, mamma?'-Detroit
Free Press.
, 1888-09-15

MEssRs. STEVENS & BRUNER: Monroe, N. c.
Dear - two months ago, on read
ing your recommendation, l bought a bottle
Cuticura Resolvent, one box Cuticura Salve,
and one cake Cuticura Soap, for my son, aged
Is years, who has been afflicted with eczema
for n long time, and / am pleased to say that l
believe the remedies have cured him. His
s~ufferings were intense, his head being nearly
raw, his ears being gone exceptthe gristle, and
ton was frightful to behold. The sores have
now all disappeared, his skin is healthy, eyes
bright, cheerful disposition and working every
day. My ~neighbors are witnesses to this re-
markable cure, and the doubling ones are re-
quested to call or write me or any of my neigh
bors WIN. s. STEPHENSON
Winchester p. o., Union Co, N. c.
, 1888-09-15

Persons who respond to an advertise
ment that promises twenty-five useful
household articles for twenty-five cents"
are receiving by return mail a literally
pointed response-twenty five needles.-
Chicago Herald.