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PRAYED TO BE FORGIVEN.

The Awful Lie Told by Bridget and Its
Amusing Sequel.
Boston Cor. Chicago Tribune
A lady on Mount Vernon street told her
newly-acquired Irish maid the other day
to say she was not at home in case anyone
called. One visitor did come, and she is re-
sponsible for the story.
"Is Mrs. Blank in?" she said, when the
door was opened in response to her ring.
"No, ma'am, replied Bridget stonilv.
"She's not at home, and may God forgive
the awful lie I'm tellin' ye."
Whereupon she slammed the door in the
visitors face, and that was the end of it.
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571-AN dDDITY.

have no tongue, an d yet 1 talk,
Though first my words are few;
have no feet, l cannot walk,
Yet run can and do.
In figures am posted well;
I'll point them out; their names I'll tell,
My face-you often on it gaze;
My hands often upward raise.
In truth never lifted one
But what told you when twas done.
F. s. W.
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Beauty in a Blush.

0OslOn OOuIlef.l
A natural blush showing itself through q
clear compile xion is like the tint on the pc
tails of the moss rose, something that cannot
be initiated by art, and at the same time one
Of the most beautiful things in nature. And
yet there are young women who write to
story papers asking for cure for blushingl l
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HE WASTED HIS GUM.
Story of Drummer's Courtship and Its
Unhappy Ending.

Story of DPummer's Courtship and Its
Unhappy Ending.
Savannah News.J
A wealthy gentleman of Jefferson county,
who can truthfully boast of being the pos.
SCISSOR of as pretty daughter as can be
found in days journey, was very much
carried away with a dashing young COM
mercial tourist who had been attentive to
the young lady for some time. He re-
marked that he was real nice fellow, and
gave all the encouragement young man
wanted. Now, the drummer had been using
all his wits to stand in with the old man,
and had kept him well supplied with chew
ing gum, presumably to make the tie of
friendship more adhesive. Things moved
along smoothly until week or so ago,
when the young lady gave her admirer the
mitten. The old gentleman, a few days
later, received from his drummer friend a
bill for chewing gum to the amount of So.
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56S-PHoNEr1c cHARADE.

AS went out among the men,
l saw boy whose name was =;
And while stood and watched them hay,
l saw bird, it was =;
l also saw pretty wren
Come out and linger with the -.
l turned my steps to the forest, where
Among the hazel 1 saw a.;
And close to the border 1 did espy
A large and beautiful field of -.
But night was coming, had to run
TO reach my home ere the setting -.
Now put together all these things
And noted man before you springs
ARTIBUS LAURENTIUS.
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OBERT had fin
ished his education
at the old school in
the village, where
his father and
mother lived, and
he was now of an age
when a healthy and
strong boy with a
true spirit of devel-
oping manhood and
independence wants
to learn a trade. The
village in which the
boys parents lived
was but a small one,
and outside of the
tailor and the shoe
maker there were no
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
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572-sQUARE.

l. To draw by influence of a moral kind. q
Among the Italians, an assemblage of build
ings which represents an agreeable scene to the
eye. 8. Clasping. 4. To Shed light or bright
ness on. 5. A Latin name. g. Harsh exami-
ners or judges. Z. One of the osseous fishes.
DROMIO.
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573-DISsECTION.
In History seek famous Greek
Divide in three his name,
The head, the heart and neither part,
Will read each way the same.
The latter two combined by you
Will name mystic stone,
That forth the gravest measures gave
When Soils beams on it shone.
The first will make turbaned sheik-
At titles, Pm fright,
And often think Den should rank
Between a Dey and Knight.
w. WILSON.
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By her ol0Tl telling England honors one,
Chief among chieftains, unapproached alone;
His triumphs dwarf and shadow all beside;
Shall jay or Li1lT1et gIOW with eagles pride.
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570-DoUBLE ANAGRAM

Still on peal ON, trump of his renown,
Whose sword carved out his pathway to a
crown;
Dark night, pale noon, were clouded by his
frown,
And future ages hand his glory down.
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rwE1rrEN FOR THE DrsPATcH.l
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But one there was whose most ambitious
Sdl0 nothing but his country's highest good;
All, how shall one who has not tCing to soar,
Sing his great name, that lives forever more?
NJ. C. s.
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w. WILSON.
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, 1889-02-05
Gamblers. nomnge TO Joss.


The rites of pagan worship were
celebrated in Chinatown until a late
hour last evening, and formed an in
teresting spectacle. The Celestial
gamblers were paying homage to their
joss to cur luck in the games.
Small paper bonfires were started at
intervals all up and down both sides
of Second street, each of which was
tended by two Mongolians.
h bonfireS were made of a certain
kind of prepared paper, which is sup
posed to possess a peculiar quality of
~sacredness. Before each fire a bundle
of joss sticks and several red and white
"a candles were lighted. A large
salver of edibles was brought out and
placed beside each fire for the supply
of the gastronomic wants of the god.
The salvers contained dishes of nuts,
plates of prepared meats, bowls of
cooked rice, apples, and several empty
cups. One of the attendants poured
tea from a pot into each of the cups,
and then lifted each plate and dish
separately, fgiving them all reveren-
tial swings in the direction of the bon
fires.
The food was then taken back into
the houses to complete the feasts al
ready begun. These rites are gone
through with on two nights of each
month, and are supposed TO be ex-
tremely efficacious in the procuring of
luck for the manipulators of cards,
dice, and fan-tan paraphernalia.-
Portland Oregonian.
, 1889-02-05

Sir Richard Bethel, whose great
ability as a chancery lawyer made
him lord chancellor, had a hot temper.
but its outbursts were quickly quoted
by an appeal 10 his sense of equity.
Sir Richard one day ordered his
coachman 10 take n colt which the
master had bred to a neighboring fair
and sell it for not less than $40. The
man, however, sold the colt for c3S.
Sir Richard was angry, and said TO the
coachman:
'Paice, you have d~isobcyed my
positive instructions. You arc dis
missed"
well, Sir Richard" the coachman
answered, that is very hard. ] took
E3S for the colt, for if l had brought il
back the cost of its keep for the next
three months would have amounted to
nor than the difference in the price.
shan,t take my dismissal for such II
cause
Very well, PAIGE, so be il" replied
Sir Richard, struck with the equity OF
the plea. The man remained in his
masters service for the rest of his life.
Youths Companion.
, 1889-02-05
Marriage.

The scientific marriage is never a
failure. Ill health supplies the di-
vorce courts with business. The
healthy man or woman is not fretful,
peevish, morose or sullen. Thousands
of unhappy marriages a be traced
directly TO disease. The proportion of
young people who should marry, com
pared with those who ought not to
marry, is small. Iii only in rare in
stances that the stock Of love with
which the young couple starts in their
matrimonial career, is able to stand
the drain caused by the complainings,
signs and i'll temper of the sick room.
No unhealthy person can be happy or
beautiful or sustain the married rela-
tons successfully. In the history of
the world there have been nations
who, for n time, married scientih-
cally, and these people were always
the rulers of the world. Their
decadence dated from the time
when they abandoned scientific
marriage. Scientific marriage need
not interfere with sentiment; on the
contrary, sentiment is fostered and
preserved by science applied to mar
riage. The scientifically married grow
old respecting each other. They do
not learn TO despise each others weak
nesses. To be healthy is TO be beauti-
full, and beauty is the corner stone of
love. No person should marry who is
afflicted by consumption, heart disease,
chronic dyspepsia, rheumatism or dis
ease of the nervous system.
The Spartans married scientifically,
and for hundreds of years produced
brave men and beautiful, strong
women. The Brazilian is expected to
obtain with his marriage license a GER
t%iiicate from his physician hat he is
free from constitutional disease. Gus
toms of this kind lessen the business
of divorce courts.-St. Louis Republic.
, 1889-02-05

The Kent Examiner publishes the
following letter, written by Dickens
on the occasion of the death of one of
Mark Lemons children. The editor
states that it is the letters first appear
ance in print:
My dear Mark-We are indeed
greatly gricvcd at your calamity. |
have no need TO tell you, dear fellow,
how constantly you are in our
thoughts, and that | have not forgot
ten, and never can forget, who it was
that watched with and comforted me
tho night n little place in my house
was left empty. We know you will
both have found comfort i'm that blessed
relief, from which the sacred figure
with the child on his knee is in all
stages of our lives inseparable. For
of such is the kingdom of heaven.
1t is hard, God knows, TO lose n child
of any age, but tffere are many sources
Of comfort in losing One so young as
yours. There is a beautiful thought
i'll F~eldingis journey from this world
TO the next, where the little one Inc
had lost many years before was found
by him radiant and smiling, building
him n bower in the Elysian Fields
where they were to live together when
he came. Ever, old friend, yours
ever, CHARLES DICKENS"
, 1889-02-05

There are on exhibition in the rooms
of the state mining bureau at San
Francisco four ''desiccated human
bodies that We're found by Signor s.
Marghier in n sealed cavern Mt an ele-
walton of 1000 feet on tho eastern side
of the Sierra Madre mountains in
Mexico. The bodies were found in a
sitting posture, with the hands crossed
on the breasts, the heads inclined for
ward and facing the east. The adults,
male and female, were side by side,
and by the side of the man was q boy
and a girl by the side of the woman.
The bodies were apparently dried up
by the air, M embalming process
being used. They are not like any
known Indians of today, the hands
and feet being particularly small, and
the woman's hair brown and silken.
The woman's forehead is large, and
the reasoning powers were apparently
well developed. In the lobe of each
ear is a piece of hollow reed. The
burial garments are of cotton, hide,
grasses and the bark of willows. In
addition, the little girl is covered with
the skin of some animal. ST. Paul
Pioneer Press.
, 1889-02-05

A new method of treating tubercu-
losis, or consumption of the lungs, has
been proposed by M. Halter. It con-
sists in inhaling dry air heated to the
temperature of from $50 dogs. to 275
dogs. Fahrenheit, the theory being that
at this temperature the bacilla
which + supposed to produce the dis
ease are destroyed. Old experiments
have shown that there is no difficulty
in inhaling air at these temperatures,
but it seems more than doubtful
whether the effect will be in the least
degree advantageous. Another and
o rational novelty in the treatment
is that described by Dettweiler as in
use at the Folkenstein sanatorium.
The essence of this method is that the
patients are required to live perma-
nently in the open air, to sleep there,
even if the temperature fall as low as
II dogs. Fahrenheit. Thus perfectly
pure air is secured without the break
i'll the conditions which occurs when
patients live out of doors in the day
time, but are housed at night. The
patients aresaid to become fond of the
treatment, and the recoveries are
placed at 25 per cent. of the cases
treated. New York Sun.
, 1889-02-05

We all know that there is a Ian
guage of nature. Every sentimental
girl (without being a botanisD is ac-
quainted with the language of flowers.
But it has remained for q recent
writer TO indicate the Language of
umbrellas: ITO place your umbrella
in a rack indicates that it is about to
change owners; an umbrella carried
over a woman, the man getting moth
ing but the drippings of the rain,
signifies courtship; when the man has
the umbrella and the woman the drip
pings, it indicates marriage; to carry
it at an angle under the arm signifies
that an eye is to be lost by the man
who follows you; to put a cotton I'M
brella by the side of a silk one means
exchange is no robbery to lend an
umbrella may be interpreted, 4 am a
fool to carry an umbrella just high
enough to tear out mems eyes and
knock off mems hats signifies, L am a
woman st. Louis Republic.
, 1889-02-05

A prominent resident at Chaplin,
Conn, who is extravagantly fond OF
fox hunting, started out on a bitter
cold day, and, arriving at the edge OF
the woods containing the coveted
game, he started his hound on the
trail. The faithful hound caught the
scent Immediately and bounded away,
and in q few moments was lost from
sight The owner waited patiently un-
til, utterly benumbed by the cold, he
crept back to his wagon, where he
found the noble hound snugly en-
sconced beneath the buffalo robe, fast
asleep.-Chicago Herald.
, 1889-02-05
WHERE HIS THOUGHTS WERE.
A Lightly Clad Somnambulist Visits His
Sweetheart Mt Midnight.

Sweetheart Mt Midnight
The strangest somnambulistic feat
we ever heard of occurred in the woods
e Interlachen the other night.
y young man, whom we will call
Tom Jetfreys, by way of illustration,
was very much infatuated with a young
lady who lived on the public road,
three miles from his home. Every
body who has travelled that part of the
country knows that the neighborhood
is thickly settled, and for miles you
go without getting out of sight of
ONE ones house. The road is Travelled
about as much as some of u back
streets.
One night, about s o'clock, he re-
tired early. II was bright moonlight.
In his sleep he got up out of bed, and,
in his night clothes, walked undis-
turbed TO the house of his lady love.
AS is generally the case in this coun-
try, stairways III up TO the second
floor on the outside of the buildings,
and this one in particular leads from
the ground TO the young lady's room
door. Young Jeifreys walked up
those stairs and sat down unconscious
ly nea the lady's door. How long he
remained there he does not know, but
when he awoke his head was resting
on his knees, and it was 10 o'clock.
Imagine his surprise. There, Mt his
aiiianced's home, in his night clothes,
three miles from home. As easily as
possible he crept down the stairway.
He could hear the old man down in
the field attending TO his horses and
c1tle. Everything was still. The peo-
pie i'll the house were quietly chatting.
An open space of about twenty feet
separated the kitchen from the main
building. The young man went around
to the corner of the house, and saw
the young lady and her mother going
TO and fro in discharge of household
duties. He couldn't speak 10 them,
because he wasn't dressed that way.
His trouble was 10 get back home
without being discovered or noticed.
When lao was quietly stealing his
way out of the yard into the road two
ferocious dogs awoke from their slum-
bers, and with grinning teeth took
after the flying night shirt which was
making its way TO the thicket on the
side of the road. The animals over
took the object, and what part of the
white garment they did not tear off
the briars and brush did, and that
young nan found himself in n most
unpleasant fix with half his skirts torn
off. Tho night was cold and he felt
1t. On getting into the thicket he got
out Of the way of the dogs, but for two
hours he was vending his way home,
lodging passers by in the public road
and shivering like a leaf il, the Arctic
regions. -Palatka (Fla.) Enterprise.
, 1889-02-05

M. G. A. Tabourin proposes to the
Paris municipal council to fit each
lamp post with arc light dynamo and
gas engine. He has contrived a
dynamo of minute parts and a gas
engine ten inches in diameter for
coupling up with it, and would put a
dynamo and gas engine in the post
under each of the gas lamps, as used
at present in that city, utilizing the
gas supply for feeding the gas engine.
He shows by tables of cost and guam
tity, which he says are correct, that
far o light, in the form of cleo
tricity, can be had by the use of this
product of coal applied to the dynamo
than when the gas is directly used for
light. Then he sets out to show that
the cost of apparatus would not be as
large as, at the first blush, it would
seem, and, considering the price paid
per arc light per year, not costly; far
less SO than the JablochkoR candle in
stallation in rAvenue de rOpera some
years ago. Should his scheme prove
practicable, we might be enabled TO
give up the discussion of burying
wires, SO far as high tension currents
are concerned, fort would not require
any.-Scientific American.
, 1889-02-05
A NOVEL SIGNAL ROCKET.
1t Does Not Need n Stick, and Its ExpIo-
sion Can Be Heard TMeIxe Mills.

1t Does Not Need n Stick, and Its ExpIo-
sion Can Be Heard Twelve Miles
A new signal has recently been
brought out by the Cotton Powder
company, OF Queen Victoria street
London. The distinguishing features
OF this invention are That no stick is
required and there is no back fire. The
rocket takes the form of a metal cylin-
der, in the base of which is the pro
pelling charge. Above this is a charge
Of tonite, and above this again a star
composition. The rocket is placed in
phosphor bronze socket, which may
be screwed or let into the rail of the
ship. When it is required TO fire ii a
firing tube is placed in the center of
the rocket, and to the top of this a
lanyard is hooked. The propelling
charge is fired by simply pulling the
lanyard, and the signal is propelled
upward at one impulse. The wire
fuse by which the decorating charge
is exploded is at the same time ignited
and this burns until the rocket has
reached the maximum height, which
is 600 feet.
The stars are thrown out, giving a
brilliant illumination, and the tonite
charge then explodes. The noise of
tho APiosioh Squdi 20 Ine urlnS OF
a six pound gun; but being high, is
heard at a great distance; indeed in
one instance a disabled vessel brought
another to her assistance from q dis
lance of twelve miles. These rockets
are SO portable and easy to ffe-no
match or port fire being required
that they are very suitable for boats,
and doubtless many lives would have
been saved had they been in use in
cases where shipwrecked crews have
had to take to the boats. The board
of trade has authorized its
to pass these rockets distress signals in
lieu of both guns and rockets, so that
many lines of steamships have landed
their guns and use these signals in
stead.
The National Lifeboat institution is
also introducing them with red stars,
which is the distinctive signal to sum
mon a lifeboat crew. A further ad-
vantage in this form of rocket is that
a combination of colors and number
OF stars can be SO arranged as to
form u code or the principle of the
Morse alphabet, a feature which may
prove of great importance in naval
maneuver and for torpedo boat opera
tons. The full sized rockets are seven
inches long and two inches in diam
eter. A smaller size, which is called
the "rocket light signal" is also made.
This has no explosive charge. An
other modification of the idea consists
of a sound signal, which has no stars.
This takes the place of q gun.-En-
cheering.
, 1889-02-05
Eox nATep IhE woMEN.
Curious Career of the British Envoy In
the First HArrison's DAY.

A"t IL Days
The foreign legations of the first
Gen. Harrison's period entertained
frequently-dinners and evening par
ties being the style of the day. The
notable exception was in the English
legation. Mr.. Fox succeeded Sir
Charles Vaughn, and the contrast be-
tween the two ministers was striking.
The one made the legation a frequent
scene of splendid hospitality; this
other, a r~ecluse, who barred the doors
against all women and nearly all men.
His dinners were confined to the Off
cial ranks, and his reason for not in
Guiding ladies was that ''he would
have to shake hands with women"
He was the nephew of the celebrated
Charles James Fox, embalmed in his
tory, and was said 70 be a very able
man. His appearance was remarkable
very thin, but refined in features.
He generally appeared on the avenue
after 3 o'clock-always alone. Nan
keen trousers, with straps, then the
prevailing style, vest of the same, and
"A blue coat with n largo velvet collar,
which had been built, n legend said,
in Rio Janeiro while he was British
minister in South America, n shirt
collar that dwarfed Spinola's, coming
up above his ears, and a large hat,
many sizes too big, and n large green
silk umbrella. One hand was invari-
ably in his pocket, and he moved
along at n smart walk, neither seeing
nor speaking to any one.
He never retired until 3 or 4 o'clock
and never got up until nearly the
same hour next day. Some one met
him at 6 o'clock in the evening in the
Capitol grounds and invited him 10
dine with them. He thanked him,
but said his people would be waiting
breakfast for him when he got home"
At a diplomatic funeral-which
must have disturbed his ISLANDERS, for
it was held in the m~orning-he said TO
the wife Of the Spanish minister:
How queer we all look by daylight.
] have never seen any of them except
by candle light"
Lord Bacon, writing from Naples,
says: 81 met Henry Fox the other
day, who has been d~readfully i'll, and,
as he says, so &kanged that his oldest
creditor would not know him"
Mr.. Fox died from an overdose of
morphine, in 1916, mt Washington.
Many stories were told of The gam
bling that went on in his house. The
most celebrated gambler of the day,
named Towuley, won largely Of him,
it was said.-New York Telegram.