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Effect of sympathy.

Ancient physicians duly considered the
doctrine of sympathy" in their treat
ment of sick persons. Patients suffering
from smallpox were fed on lentils and
rape seed, the grains oil these plants being
supposed to be in affinity" with the
marks of the disease. To eat hare was
likely to epgender a timid disposition. A
diet of the brains of birds was thought to
strengthen the memory. Some precious
stones were considered to be in mystic SYM
pathy with their wearers or doners. Tie
emerald lost its luster if the love of its
giver waxed cold The carbuncle paled in
similar manner if its wearer fell into. bad
health. 1t was by knowledge of the
doctrine of sympathy" that the witch
contrived her baneful spells. To destroy
living man or woman it was sufficient
to model them in wax, and expose the
efiigy to a fire, or stick it full of pins.
Wasting sickness, or pains in that part
of the living body which was pricked
in the image, resulted from such practices.
Hair, even when cut from the head, was
still in such sympathy" with its owrer
that to burn lock was sufficient to inil.re
its original producer. The custom of Civ
ing lock of hair as a keepsake NAV have
n
token of affection. Belief in " sympathy
was an integral part of the creed of the
Rosicrucians. By the exercise of this
power they protested to be able. to bring
" the dead from beyond the seas,n and gold
and Jewels from the bowels of the earth.
One of their number described a kind of
sympathetic telegraph, which was to con-
sist in the transference of piece of flesh
from one human arm to that of another
person. On this transferred surface the
letters of the alphabet were painted. and
the two individuals were then supposed
to be able TO communicate at any distance
by touching these letters-a pressure on
one arm beng sympathetically commu-
nicated to the original owner of the portion
of flesh touched. The author of ',Hudibras'
has alluded to treatment of I" transfer
ence," and of the possible announcement
effects that might follow its adoption.
What is the modern belief in the powers
of thought-re aders but literal survival
of the old doctrine of sympathy" Quite
recently a thought-reader claimed to be
able to detect where stolen property was
concealed, by putting himself en- rapport
with the thief while the latter was men
tally dwelling on the hiding-place of his
il!-gotten goods. Those of US who are
most incredulous regarding the powers of
the thought-reader must often have been
struck by the curious manner in which
unspoken ideas can be communicated by
one person to another without any outward
sign. Strange, also, is the manner in
which we are often attracted to entire
strangers, Gas those we had known and
loved before" Plato's doctrine of the
dual soul has found favor in many later
enerations-London StaadaYd.
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"When 1 got TO the depot In Chicago to
take the train for home, )" said Detroiter
the other day, e / had four S. bills in my
vest / was going to the ticket window,
when little woman stopped me ndsaid
"Beg pardon, but they can't change
this bill at the office. Perhaps you would
be kind enough
"Oh, certainly
"' shall be so glad
=" took her twenty and gave her my
fves, and walked up to the window and
called for a ticket to Detroit The ticket
seller threw the twenty back with the
statement:
"'That bill was offered here five min
utes ago. It's no good
at was a counterfeit, and 1 was clean
busted. l looked around for the woman,
but of course she had skipped. 1 had to
telegraph home for money, and that's why
| was day late, Talk about bunko men
and pickpockets, but women are twice as
dangerous. Detroit Free Press.
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Secretary Halford,s Chirography.

Mr.. Halford's chirography is bad.
When the typewriter wave broke over the
West he invested il one of the machines
and practiced on it for while. The new
come printers Immediately held jollifca-
ton meeting over it, while the old-timers,
who had been getting rich by setting
double-leaded takes of Halford that
mob, y else could read, were downcast and
respondent. But in month or two he
fell back into his old ways. Shortly after
ward new man got sheet of his copy
that commenced and ended in the middle
of a Sentence. He studied it for five min
utes, and then wslking over to galley Of
"pi," picked up handful and put it
among the newly-set matter, marking it to
correspond with the number of the "take'
he failed to read. He then put on his coat
and walke,. out of the Office, no doast
thinking if the editor sent in "pi toread
he should be accommodated with the gen
uine article. : Chicago Taibtme.
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There Were no Files ON Them.

Scene-Rue de Baxter. The second
hand clothing emporium of Isidor Mentz.
Time. y NJ.
Isidor-" Levi, my poy, ware are you2"
Levi" vos going to lunch, farder."
Isidore-" No lunch to-day, my poy.
Peezness ahead nit pleasure. L musdt go
oudt for two hours. leave de store in
charge undt | geeve you de private mark
should a sucker customer come in. Every
article has tag nit it. Undt if der vas
one little pencil dot, two tollars dree pen
ell dots, dree tollars, and so on up"
Levi" All right, farder"
Isidor departs and returns before two
o'clock.
Isidor-a Veil, Levi, bows peeznessg'
Levi" Had a customer !"
Isidor-" No! Did you sold him2n
Levi" For sureI"
Isidor-"V you sold him, nay poy %
Levi" A pair Of. pants"
Isidor-" For hox much, my poy2''
Levi-"Sixteen sollars"
Isidor-"Voti Sixteen teIlars?A
Levi" Yes, fsrder."
Isidor with uplifted hanas)-Gord Pies
der flies. "-1oaoa Topics.
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Yegetarian,s Joke.

The elder Booth once took the .ancy to
be an absolute vegetarian, and while pos.
sessed of this idea he was travelling on a
Western steamboat, and happened to be
placed at table opposite solemn Quaker
who had been attracted by the eloquent
conversation of the great actor. The be-
nevolent old Quaker, observing the lack OF
viands on Booths plate, kindly said,
" Friend, shall | not help thee to the breast
of this chicken ?" No, 1 thank you,
friend" replied the actor. "Then shall j
not cut thee a slice of the ham?D "No,
friend, not any" "Then thee must take
a piece of the mutton thy plate is empty"
persisted the old Quaker Friend" said
Booth in those deep stentorian tones,
whose volume and power had so often cleo
trifed crowded audiences, 81 never eat any
flesh but human flesh, and prefer that
raw" The old Quaker was SPECIFICS,
and his seat was changed to another table
at the next meal.-Iit6its.
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Twenty-four Grammatioa1 ResdIpe..

To illustrate the numerous grammatical
changes which can be made in single line
or sentence, the following may be pre-
sented:
The weary plowman plods his homeward way.
The ,plowmsn, weary, plods his homeward way.
His homeward way the weary plowman plods.
His homewari way the plowman, weary, PODS
The weary plowman homeward plods his way.
The plowman, weary, homeward plods s way.
His way the weary plowmau homeward plods
His way the plowman, weary, homeward plods.
The plowman, home ward, plods his weary way.
His way the plowman homeward weary plods
his homeward, weary way, the plowman plods
Weary, the plowman homeward plods his way
Weary, the plowman plods his homeward way.
Homeward his way the weary plowman plods
Homeward his way the plowman weary plods.
Homeward his weary way the plowman plods.
The plowman, homeward, weary plods his way.
His weary way the plOwman hOmeward plods.
His weary way the homeward plowman plods
Homeward the plowman plods his weary way.
Homeward the weary plowman plods his way.
The plOwman, weary, his way homeward pods.
The plowman plods his homewaId weary way.
The plowman plods his weary homeward way.
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i VERY COMMENTED MAN.
He Differed With His Wife on Religio,
hut still Was HapDv

ouN sum los hhppys
A physician, while strolling through the
woods near Jacksonville, heard peculiar
noise, and looking about him, discovered
an old negro sitting on log, humming a
tune. The physician approached the ne
gro aud said; .
"You seem to be happy, old man."
"Wail, sab, l amt got nuthin' ter plain
erbout."
Do you know that yellow fever is rag
ing all around your"
"Ought to know it, sab, when 1 dun
buried my wife yistidy."
Then how can you SIT around here and
sing?n
"Dis yer is Gods worr, amt it?"
/ suppose so"
An l b'longs to God, doan' l ?"
Yes"
"Well, eff de Lawd put it in my heart
ter sing, doan see why l oughter keep
my nouf shet."
sAre you not afraid of taking the fever ?'
What's de use'n bein' erfeered? Eff de
Lawd wants me ter take it, / will, an eff
he doan, / ain't-dat's all; sides dat, l
amt ewine to take it no quicker eff I sings.
/ lay you mer go round dat town now, and
you'll fin mos o de folks what's got de
feber didn't sing er tall"
Al don't see" said the amused physi-
clan, how you can feel disposed to sing
when your wife was buried only yester-
day"
No. sab case you didn't know dat lady
like I did,
Didn't you get along well together 2"
Didn't get erlong tergedder ez well ez
we did erpart sab"
sod man, do you want job of work ?''
No, sab; KANT say dat does
.Is't your name Reuben White?"
Oats my nomination, sah."
Didn't see you some time ago going
a-ound asking for work p"
You mout; yes, sah.D
Way did you want work then ?"
Had 10 work den to get suthin to eat
'sWell, but don't you have to eat now ?n
eyes, but l doan wuck for it. Look
yere, you reckon Ise gwine to wuck wen
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LINCOLN AND HARRISON.
A Curious Coincidence in the Election of
These Two Gentlemen,

These Two Gentlemen.
Abraham Lincoln, in his first canvass.
was elected to the Presidency on Noyem-
Der 9th, and the session of Congress imme-
dlately succeeding that event opened on
December Sd. This was in 1860 No
President has ever been elected on Novem-
Der 6thSince 1860 except Benjamin Harri-
son, because election day in Presidential
year has never occurred on November 9Th
until this year. The FIRST Tuesday after
the first Monday in November in the years
following 1860 has come on November
9th in 1856 1877, 1888 aad 1888. and in
these years Congress opened on December
Sd. But IN none of these years, except
this one, has a Presidential canvass taken
place.
The cycle which brings election day on
November 9th land the opening Of the ses-
sion of Congress ON December 80, in Pres
idential years, IS ordinarily completed in
. years. That is to say, these things
occurred in 1Se& and 1882, as we'll as in
1850 and 1888. They would occur again
in 1916, and not before, were it not for
disturbing factor which here enters into
the problem. Presidential years are gen
orally leap years, and. have 500 days. The
year 49OU, however, at which date a Presi-
dental election takes place, will be an
ordinary year of 1861 days. In the Gre
gorian calendar centurial years not diyis-
lble by four without remainder, after
striking off the two right-hand figures, are
not classed as leap years. and therefore do
not get the extra day given to the years
preceding or succeeding which are re-
moved from them by four-year intervals.
The year 1900 was leap year, but neither
1909 nor 1900 was, nor viii the year 1900
be entitled to that distinction. The year
1000, though, will be leap year. For
this reason the cycle which-has Just begun
will not run on until 1915 bat will close
twelve years hence. A President will be
elected on November 9th and a Con-
gressional session will begin On December
ID, in the year 1900, and these events will
not take place in the same year before that
tiae.-iS. Louis Globe Democrat.
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wheat Raising in Great Britain.

1t is of interest to this country to know
the present year is witnessing phenome-
nal increase in the culture of wheat in
Great Britain and Ireland. The end
of 1887 left the kingdom with 1,OO0,-
900 acres less wheat than it had in 1878,
or 2,3SS0oo acres against 3,3S2,O00
acres Had the decline been yearly evenly
distributed, the loss would have. been
100000 acres per annum. Now, how
ever, comes a reaction in 1888, which .ex-
hibits an addition of 2S1, 900 acres into
the area Of the wheat crop. At the
English average return this would add 81
100000 bushels to the next years crop.
Instead of 100000 acres short, as the
United Kingdom found itself one year ago,
as compared with 1878, it is now but
100000 short of the area of 1S7S.-G Chicago
Ne1rs
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The Irdians That Are Lett

There are about 2s5, 900 Indians in the
United States, not counting the Alassans
About 10000 Of them are in Arizona. r.
900 in California, &c, 900 in Dakota, 10000
in Indian Territory, $4,000 in Nez Mex
leo, $4,000 IN MoptaDa, 1000 ia Wash
ingt0n Territory, 5000 in Nevada. 8. 1000 in
Wisconsin, 1900 in Michigan, 5000 in
Minnesota, 5000 in New York and 5000
along the line between North Carolina
Tennessee, and fewer tn .ousands in Oregon,
Idaho, Nebraska, Uta'l, Kansas and Wy
oming, and scattered hundreds in Colo.
RADIO, Iowa, Texas, Indiana, Florida and
Maine,-J. B. Harrison, IN The Ctqutauqua
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The Mans osazy.

Prince Metternich, in discussing the
wonderful development of the wesld's
means of transportation by land and sea,
used to tell the following anecdote with
much relish. He was compelled to wait
an unusually long time one day for an au-
dienee with Napoleon. As he was waiting
In the ante-chamber man rushed out
with traces of the deepest despairron his
eountenance. Napoleon was walking up
and down the room in great excitement.
did you see that man wh9 Just went
Oat ~ he asked.
Certainly" replied Metterrieh.
"The mans crazy. He has proposed to
me to send my fleet to England with boil,
ing water"
The man was Robert Fulton, the In
ventor Of the steamboat.-N. y. SER.
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GIdar Girls of fin,ham-

The freedom of speech which marks this
winters buds is turning gray the locks of
many man who has withstood TIE shocks
of repeased winters. 1t is new school Of
maideniiness which produces these young
women whose minds are as full as their
lips are free with the anecdotes which usu-
ally discolor the walls of roues apart
ment, who uublushingly relates those
stories which have become associated with
the lower order of stag parties toward
morning. There is one extremely pretty
little maiden in the freshness of is years
! who has smiled her first smile upon the
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gay verdi within the past fortnight, who
has already gained a reputation for off
color stories, just as she has litsle name
as rival Of Sara Of the ballet. She has,
in Difference of parental authority, ses up
little poker game in her own boudoir,
whittier she sometimes smuggles one or
two of her male friends, who usually leave
with depleted pockets and muddled brains
But she has not yet been dropped, be it
known, and she graces, the Patriarchs.-
Ij-,,tL
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Give Them a Chance.

That is to say, your lungs. Also all your
breathing machinery. Very wonderful ma
chinery it is. Not only the larger air pas
sages, but the thousands of little tubes and
cavities leading from them.
When these are clogged and choked with
matter which ought not to be there, your
lungs cannot half do their work. And
what they do they cannot do we'll
Csll 1t cold, cough, Group, pneumonia,
ca'arrh, consumption or any of the family
of throat and nose and head and lung OBJ
sfruciioDs, all are bad. All ought to be got
rid OF. There is just one sure way to get
rid of them. That is to take Boschee's
German Syrup, which any druggist will
sell you at 70 cents bottle Even if every
thing else has failed you, you may depend
upon this for certain
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The recent publication of the fall results
of the excavations made on the site of the
ancient Ateste, in the province of Venice,
during the years 1SSl-6, reveals to us a dis
tinct seat of ancient art in Italy, which
flourished there from the fourth to first
century B. G. Greece and not Etruria
seems to have been the source whence it
drew its first impulse and inspiration.
Among the objects found on what, from a
few architectural remains, is judged to
have been small temple, are eighteen
bronze tablets bearing boustrophedon Eu-
ganean inscriptions, some of which reveal
to us certain letters in the alphabet of
Venetian photography unknown to us be-
fore, while some now fix the use of letters
which were uncertain. Some eighteen
votive nails cast in bronze and of pyra-
midal form, also bear regular inscriptions :;
but there are 100 others inscribed ONLY
with letters, together with about dozen
stone pedestals also inscribed. The cast
bronze statuettes are quite different in
style from some Graco- Roman statuettes
found at the same time. The worked
bronZes are cut with the ehisel. chased
with a craving tool, beaten out repousse
work, or else pierced in open fret. They
represent for the most part warriors
clothed in tunics, with shield, crested he'll
met, lance and sometimes a trumpet.
Women also appear, some of them carry
ing the sacrificial basket But the most
remarkable sculptured bronzes represent
horsemen with round or else oval shields,
with hemlets crested, or else brimmed.
The Oldest coins found were barbarian
counterfeit trioboli of Marseilles, of the
second century B. c., and the latest Roman
coins of Hadrian. From the number of
bronzes and terracottas of similar rude and
primitive style found scattered over the
Venetian province, and as far as Trent, it
is concluded they all came from COM
mon center of manufacture at Ateste.
While the language of the inscriptions is
strictly that of the Veneti, many of the
objects found in tombs, and of the figures
of warriors on swords and lances of the
later period, attest the influence of their
Gallo invaders in the second and FIRST
centuries B. C.-London Antheneum.
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Even More Imrxessiva-

How long have yea had that clcck,
jenkins ?" ASKED one of The regulars at the
grocery store.
About twenty-five years"
"By George, a clock is a. wonderful
piece of mechanism. isn't is?, IL always
takes my breath away when 1 stop to think
OF its tiraless tiek-tick-tic&, running on
year in and year oat."
's Yes 2 replied she grocer, X but there is
one thing that affects me still more"
"What is that p
"The tireiess- tick-tick-tiek that you've
been running here eEer SINCE this store
openad "-Mrehant TrarelzT.
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de folks all ober de country is sendin'
hams and flour and all sorts o provisions
down here? Is er cat gwine to war her
self out scratchin' roun' after mice wen
OARS er big piece er meat lyin' side her :?
Look yere, man, what sorter fosipher is
you, nohow ?'-JacksonriHe (F7a.) Ne
f,nnolis
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The little boy had come in with his
clothes torn, his hair full of dust and his
face bearing unmistskable marks of a Sc
we're conflict. .Oh, Williei Williep' ex-
claimed his mother. deeply shocked and
grieved, "you have disobeyed me again.
How often | have told you not to play
with that wicked Stapleiord boy " Mann
ma" said Willie, washing the blood from
his nose, do l look as if had been play
ing with anybody ?''-CRjeago Tribune.
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I" 1 tell you, sir" said DR.. - one morn
ing to the village apothecary, l tell you,
sir, the roT popai should not-muss not be
regarded" What, doctorw exclaimed
the apothecary, rubbing his hands, "you
don't say that's broken out in town, too
has it? What unhealthy times these arep
Iolca Health Bulletin,
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GENERAL NOTICES,

Fog holiday Delicacies for the Table,
such as Sausages all kinds, Swiss Cheese, Butter,
Eggs and fresh Buttermilk by the glass, 90 to
BAUMLES. 723 street. d21-lm
Emile Dreyfous, Teacher of Violin, etc.
Leave orders at any music store. d6-tf
L. III. Taylor, Civil and Hydraulic En-
gineering. Also Land Surveying. 2l4J st. If
For a first-class Carriage or Buggy go
to HARRY BERNARD'S, Sixth and L SIS. IT
John Eitel, Assayer and Chemist, corner
seventeenth and J streets. Also buys gold
If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DIR. Isaac
THOMPS0N'S EYE WATER, Sold at 25eents. 1yS
The best Phee in California to have your printing done.
A J. Johnston & Cos, 40 St, sacramento,esal
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Cu.stomer Go milkman) -"fll have t !,
ask you to chalk up Milkman at
s,Cractedly)- Oh, that's all been attended
to-oh-er-beg your pardon; Certainly,
take your own time.'-Lye.
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CAT AND DOG STORIES.
Instances of Remarkable Instinct In the
Familiar Domestic Animals


| have cat that knows a thing or two
Whenever she wishes anything to eat,
while we are dining, she will 60 to the head
OF the table and standing upright upon her
hind legs wait quietly for food which, il
tossed her, she will adroitly catch between
her fore paws and convey to her mouth. 1t
IS an inherited trait Upon my marriage,
about four years ago, took Niger TO my
home, which is about one-half mile from
my parents. AT first she remained con-
tented, but my wife is not partial to cats,
preferring dogs, and Niger soon left for her
old home. From time to time we would
get her TO thin the mice out, but her stay
was brief. This summer we kept her
some time, she seeming quite at home
One day she was gone, and a few days
later we learned that she was at my pa
rents with family of three kittens. When
the young ones were old enough to wean
one was taken away and we took the cat
home. AS soon as letout she disappeared
The next day she reappeared with the
smartest and best dispositioned kitten in
her mouth. 1t has proved veritable
chip of the old block" never scratches
or bites the children and enjoys their
frolic. The cat remained day or so to
look after her offspring, then returned to
the one left behind, and for some time di-
vided he attention and time Jetween the
two. Now she seldom comes, evidently
thinking that as she has furnished cat,
equal IN all respects to herself, that we
have no need for her.
A wELL-DEvIsED REVENGE.
A friend of ours owned kitten and a
puppy of about the same age. They had
grown up together and were always good
friends. The puppy being of the New
toundland specimen grew to be great dog,
but kitty did not seem to be afraid of him.
although he was so large; in fact, she
rather imposed upon good nature, by bit
ing his ears, scratching his face and teas
ing him in every way imaginable, when
ever he tried to go to sleep. AT last, one
day, when kitty had tormented him more
than any respectable dog ought to stand.
he suddenly got up, rushed out Of the
house and hurried to place in the yard
where 1t was very sandy, and began to dig
furiously. In few minutes he had dug
quite hole. He then walked into the
house, and going up to his little tormentor
with an air of NOW I'll attend to your
case" seized her in his mouth and started
for the hole. In this hole he deposited
kitty, and holding her with one great paw,
he shoveled dirt on her with the other
one. We watched the fun for few sec
onds, when being really afraid he would
bury her, we went to the rescue.-Quadru-
ned World.