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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11
Twins with But One Set of Teeth.

"Speakin' OF twins" said the old
man Chumphins. "there was two boys
raised in our neighborhoo1 that looked
just alike till their dyin' day. Lena
didn't have any teeth and his brother
Dave did, but they looked pree-cisely
alike all the same. The only way you
could tell EN- apart was to put your
finger in LENS mouth and IL re bit
yer, twas Dave. "-Lewiston Jous. Ial.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11

MAN, am, and you want to look out for
your scalp"
They took their positions.
That's not fair, Ella, and won't play"
said Gerty. "How do you suppose Pm
going to hit you if you stand up edgewise?
| can't see you at ali when you do that,
except your Psyche knot"
81 don't care; it's no worse than what
you're doing. You're standing so that the
keyhole of the door shows on both sides of
you at the same time, and it bothers me
Just too awfully."
Then, before the seconds could insist
that the affair should proceed according to
the code, the principals dropped their ps-
tolls and went at each other with their
nails. Such a scratching and clawing!
1t was terrifyingl
When they were pulled apart Mrs.
Wheelox's Psyche knot was in tatters, and
there was long red scratch on the end of
Mrs. Slatherton's nose. At the sight of 1t
Mrs. Wheelox tainted. Surgeons worked
faithfully over both contestants, but in
spite of their efforts Mrs. Wheelox revived,
and piece of court plaster of fashionable
shade was stuck on Mrs. Slatherton's
countenance. Mrs. Wheelox couldn't for
bear to say that it was remarkable that
anything should be stuck on it-but let
that pass. Honor was satisfied on both
sides.
Dear Mrs. Slatherton!" sail Mrs.
Wheelox.
"You sweet thing?" returned Mrs. Slath-
ertOn.
Then they embraced and kissed each
other on their respective ruby lips, and the
party separated in great secrecy but SIN
cere rejoicing.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11

"That's right" said Mrs. Slatherton
grimly, lain low and then L won't shoot
the room full of false hair"
Mrs. Slatherton quietly laid aside a
travelling ulster and stood revealed in all
the glory Of evening dress.
You're mean thing" said Mrs. Vince
ox addressing Mrs. Slatherton.
"Dear Mrs. Wheelox, you're another"
was the elegant retort from across the
room.
The seconds matched buttons for choice
of position Mrs. Wheelox stood on the
east side of the room and her rival on the
west. Light came from chandelier.
Each grasped her pistol firmly, if not tech
nically and Familiarity. Miss Dainty was
to give the word, but just as she had be-
gun to count
"Eeny, meeny, mony, my"
a mouse ran across the floor in plain sight
of everybody. We all jumped TO the chairs
and tables which had been placed at the
sides of the room and held up our skirts
and shrieked.
"What q coward Mrs. Wheelox is?'
Sneered Mrs. Satherton, getting down.
''You ran irst!' retorted Mrs. Wheelox.
81 didntp'
"You did; saw youv'
"Now you take your place and I'll Just
shoot you right in two, you horrid thing"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11
An Interruption.

Geoage (fixing parlor stove)-Why the
dam
George" exclaimed his mother, re-
provingly.
George-Pshaw, the dam
'Why, George" screamed his sisters"
show can you
George-Why, hang it all, l was only go
ing to say the dam
Lizzie-'Ilow cam
George continuing desperately)-That
the damper is turned off and there is no.
draught. What is the matter with you
all?
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11

The wife of your youth Is clearly en-
titled to the easiest pump in the house
well, and covered walk to it from the
kitchen door.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-09
THE MATINEE GIRL.

Gorgeous Gotham Creatures Who Wor-
ship Manly Beauty.
The matinee girl, with the regular re-
opening of the theatrical season, becomes
distinct figure on the streets again, says
the New York Torld. With her Iorgnette
in little plush bag, her silver or enameled
bonbonnierre (filled with little disks of ju-
jube paste favored with violet), tucked Sc
curely into the neat jacket pocket, and an
air OF Joyful and enthusiastic expectancy
on her young and lovely countenance, she
Is unmistakable; you couldn't by any posi-
bllty be deceived as to her destination.
For the most part she wears gowns of clear
gray cameIs hair, made with kilted skirt,
long, smooth draperies, and the trim bodice,
concealed under a jacket of heavy Russian
blue cloth, finished only with stitchings,
and buttoned with big, plain black buttons.
Her hat is small and almost like little cap
in shape, and is completely covered with
wide bows, which lie crisp and close, and
are of gray-blue ribbon, with fine red
stripes. Her gloves are 'Dent" gloves. That
is to say, they are of dogskln, and haveuno
buttons, being loose wrsted and heavily
stitched with the same color. She wears
on her left wrist bracelet of leather, in
which Is set tiny watch, orelse she carries
one of the new French card-cases of gray
blue morocco, with a watch as big as ten
cent piece set up in the left-hand corner,
surrounded with heavy silver scrolling. If
she doesn't carry Dlrectoire umbrella with
silver handle yard long, then she has in
that hand three or four roses, american
Beauties" generally, or sometimes Gather
inc Mermet. That is the very latest 'fad. ;"
She no longer considers it correct to wear
flowers in the street, but. it is held to be very
"ah-h"-as the Parisians say-to carry
roses, a cluster of pinks or a knot of violets
In one hand. When Mrs. Chanler first ap-
peared in the theater here, she hired three
messenger boys to bring three large bas-
kets of roses to her box, on the plea that
she required their perfume to enable her to
bear the close air of the playhouse. Since
then every matinee girl finds she can't sit
out the Lottery of Love- without the aid
of a handful of blossoms, so the Wednesday
and Saturday houses bloom like the Vale of
Cashmere, and late-comers think they have
strayed by mistake into a conservatory or a
flower show when they first enter and find
the warm, confined air heavy with the scent
of hot-houSe flowers.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-09
GRAYs TEL-AUToGRAPH.
What This Marvellous Machine VIII Ds
When Completed.

What This Marvellous Machine VIII To
When Completed.
From his workshop in Highland Park
Prof. Elisha Gray is at last able to Law on
the desk of his correspondent in Milwaukee
fac simile of whatever he puts on paper at
this end of the wire. The finishing touches
to the tel autograph will be made within a
few weeks. A head company has been
formed in New York and subordinate COM
panles are organizing over the county TO
put the invention in use.
''The instrument now reproduces each
stroke of the pen or pencil with almost ex
act fidelity" said Prof. Gray to Chicago
Tribune reporter. THE reproduction is Just
up to the point of not being the original
The difference is enough to prevent long
distance forgery. At the same time the
copy at the other end is so nearly like what
you write that for all ordinary purposes it is
your handwriting
Several specimens of copy. when COM
pared with the original, showed slight
wayiness of line as the only distinction. One
could come much nearer telling the repro
duction of friends voice by the perfected
phonograph from the voice itself than he
could tel-autographic copy of the same
friends handwriting from his true fist.
expect the invention continued Prof.
where accuracy is required and over long
distances. 1t viii also be taken up immedi-
ately as an adjunct to the telegraph in the
transmission of messages involving mon
etary transactions. 1t can make no mis-
takes 1t tells at the other end Just what
you write. word for word and line for llne
No operators or third parties intervene as in
terpreters between the two pieces of paper.
They stand as fac-simile records, in the
hands of transmitter and receiver, Of what
has passed between the parties.n
The machine is an artist as well as pen-
man. 1t will reproduce any line drawing.
A girls head, a bunch of daisies and a sun
flower were only Hunted in faithfulness by
the execution of a draug An illus
trated telegram win not be one of the least
novelties Of the future.
When Prof. Gragis company gets its lines
established the business man VIII be able to
impress On his dispatches the authenticate
of his autographs a resident Of Jacksonville
during the fever can at moments notice
show his anxious wife IN the North that his
hand is still steady. The lover can put into
! the swiftest message ali the dots and crossee
and hOurishes MS sweetheart has learned to
love In short. the tSlautograph is designed
TO DO the work Of the pOst-ofice over the
wires
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-09
THE PINES.


Far back in days of childhood stood grove OF
stately pines,
The fields spread green around them and their
shadowy outlines
Reached up into the sky so far that believed
it true
That angels on their upstretched arms. passed
thro' the Heavenly blue.
And when the night winds murmured in their
branches sweet and low,
listened thro' the dark and said: "Yes, an
gels hafps, know;
Good angels who will give me all want If
am kind"
childhoods faith is bind
And as the angel music filed my soul with
visions bright,
1 lay upon my pillow in a dream of rapt de-
light,
Where noble knights and maidens moved in an
enchanted land
OF palaces and gardens fair, and castles tail
and grand.
"Sweet angels, grant me but two gifts, and TIL
be good, pray:
A palace for my home, and let my mother live
alway;
Ny mother dear. so beautiful that like to you
she seems,
my dreams.
No palaces are mine, yet round me woods and
mountains stand,
Arrayed in all the splendor of the wondrous
fairy-land,
And DER the grave beneath the pines the birds
sing all the day,
And Faiths bright angel tells me that my
mother lives Away
-Ztettd Cooke, in ". Y. Graphic.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-09
CLEvERLY TAKEN IN.
How an italian Sharper Played His Well
PIanne6 Little (.an1a-

How an italian Sharper Played His Well
Planned Little Game.
The HdifGn PiccolO tells the following good
story apropos of the enormous number Of
forged bank notes which have recently been
issued in different parts OF Italy The pub
, lie IS said to look with distrust at every
note, a fact which a clever impostor has
turned to splendid account. Itappears that
few days ago well-dressed stranger en-
tered hotel at Naples, asked for a room
and demanded his account every day, be-
cause, he said, he might have to leave at a
moments notice. AS Is frequently done by
Itaiians he only slept at the hotel. taking
ms meals elsewhere, and every day he paid
In advance with new iye-lire note. After
few days he asked the waiter in an off.
hand way whether he mad given the notes
to the hotel-keeper. No. replied the man. he
had paid the host with different money as
he wished TO keep the beautiful new notes
1or himself . If that is sou said the
stranger. Il will tell you confidentIv that
tne notes are forged. / have made them
myself; but you need not be anxious about
them; they ara 50 well forged that nobody
viii recognize them.n With this the afor-
ger went calmly away. The terrified
wafer went at once to the host and told
Wnat ne mad Just heard. At the first mo-
nenI lne host thought Of informing the POI
nee without delay, but he thought better Of
u, ana took the next account for the day per.
sonaLiy TO hls mysterious guest, who received
nila very amlabiy and again produced a new
nye7hre note. The host, in greatest surprise,
looked very carefully at both sioes of the
note and at last said very sternly: .sThe
note is forged" The guest laughed and
said = ou say that becauseI said so toyour
waiter But ask you quite seriously would
you have seen that the note ,v Se,.s,,a -
tad moi told your s,No.u s.Ver-v ven "a
TO fcur different bankers. ASK them to
test the note, and 1 assure Won not one of
them syIll find out For the rest you can
make me responsible for any risk YOU NAV
run The test was made and rrnvad an.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-09
STRANGER THAN FICTION.
The Remarkable Story of a Woman with
Two Husbands.


A romance in real life is reported from
Zelienople, Butler County, Pa, to the New
York Times. The story seems incredible,
nevertheless it is authentic in every par
tlcular Eighteen years ago Louis Leitz
resided in small village in France. He
had wife and three children. Louis was
passionate fellow and very strong. One
day he quarreled with fellow-workman.
whom he threw over precipice and killed.
He was convicted and sentenced to fifteen
years Imprisonment. He heard nothing
OF his wife during his long confinement, and
as soon as he was liberated he made in
quiries concerning her whereabouts But
sad surprise awaited him. He learned
that the woman had married a man named
Walther and had a number of children
by the marriage The minute the false
wife saw her first husband all her old
love for him returned, and, crying pite-
ously, pleaded forgiveness. She was
ready to desert Walther. But husband No.
l was somewhat of philosopher. The
children belonging to Walther were a bar
rler to the scheme proposed by the woman.
Leitz coollv considered the circumstances,
and finally made proposition looking to-
ward compromise. He was willing to
take his wife again, but she was to retain
Walther in order that he could help pro-
vide for the double family. The woman and
husband No. Q consented to this arrange
ment, and ever since Mrs. Leitz-W Walther
has been apparently happy. The two men
became warm friends, and joy and happi-
ness have resulted from this remarkable
arrangement.
Later in life the double family came to
this country and settled at Zelienople.
Where they have resided sincel
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-09

tirely successful. Tnoughtfully the host
returned home, began further CONVEX
sation with his guest, and asked at last
very seriously why he exposed himself to
the risk of being discovered and punished
for Sd small amount of money as five lire
Why not forge larger notes2n II should
have done that long ago. was the answer,
land especially should have forged notes
OF thousand hre each, for these are even
more easily forged, but to tell the truth, /
have not got thousand lire note, and it
will take some time before can exchange
as many flyers as want to get onen 'sIf
that is the only obstacle" said the host, s'I
will lend you a thousand lire note OF
course we go halves afterward'' The pro-
posal was accepted. The forger received
the note, went away and was heard of no
more. When the host saw how matters
stood he hurried IN mad rage TO the police
to accuse the sharper, on which occasion he
suddenly found that he had brought him.
self into the fangs Of the law for "aiding
and abetting."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-09
A CHEMICAL RACKET.
1t Was Good, But Didn't Work to Rver,
BOdy's Satisfaction.

HKaFY
Body's Satisfaction.
Said druggist to Chicago Tribune re-
porter: "a commercial traveller whose
business is selling balxng-powder of a low
gradewas IN quandary what to do His
customers saw the analytic comparison by
diagrams in newspapers and naturally
would want the purest. In his dilemma he
came to me to ask if l could not put up
some chemical dodge on the other fellows
to get even for the advertisement. l mixed
him compound and gave him strict in
structions how to use it. By little sleight-
of-hand trick he could pour the contents out
of bottle into a glass OF water and it
would turn black Or green, as he desired.
advised him TO call for the green color
when processing to analyze any of the ad-
mittedly purest baking powders, but when
testing those which rivaled hls own imper-
feet goods then he should shake the water
until 1T was black as ink. OF course, you
understand his own powder would ALWAYS
call for the green color
Il didn't see my friend for some time
afterward, and then was surprised to see
him carrying a grip of shoa samples. He
told me he had quit selling baking-poyder.
that there was nothing in the business and
that he had a better thing of it in shoes.n
How did the chemical racket workp 1
asked
Don't say any thing about it-that con.
founded thing bust up the whole business,
How was thati, inquired.
Wen, II you won't give me away I'll
tell you. You see went into a store where
had never called before and saw a number
OF show-cards of various baking g-powders
hanging on the walls. l commenced tho
usual story about the superiority of our
goods over all competitors, and when the
proper time caps produced my bottle of
WiytuFs and asked for spoonful of each
kind OF powder they had in stock
|" The clerk smiled rather wickedIy as he
gave 1t to me, but didn't tumble worth a
cent. went through the whole magic
performance, turned one black. another
green, another dark green, and so on. when
man stepped out from behind the coun-
ter
"1What blamed foolishness is thisp he
asked, rather savagely.
i assured him that it was chemical
test which had cost the house thousands of
dollars to have made.'
I" Chemical fddiesticksl Leave your
samples right here, SIR he added, and
VIII write Mr. Smith fthe cashier at our
heusel TO pay your salary due and you may
go, sir. ] am DR.. -,
= Great Scott Here was the inventor of
the baking powder Iimself-my employer
whom had never seen, and had been try
ing to work the cheap Jack dodge on him,
Every ounce OF the powder had been ex-
perimenting upon was our own mapufactr
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-09
A Railroad Mani. rh.a-

correspondent of the Northeastern Reil-
rodder advances a curious theory for the in
creaslng prevalence OF floods and rain
storms. He says that there are over 10000
locomotives in use in North America, and
estimates that from them alone over 53.OOO.-
100000 cubic yards of vapor are sent into the
atmosphere every week, to be returned in
the form OF rain, or over 1000, ,O00, 600 cubic
yards day-'quite enough" he says, ito
produce arainfall every twenty -four hours u
estimating the number of other non,con-
oenslng eegines in use at eight times the
number OF locomotives, the total vapor thus
sent INTO the air every week IN this country
amounts to more than 47Q,0co, ,0Oo. 600 cubic
yards. "ls this not,n he asks, SUFFICIENT
Tor the floods Of terrori Is there any reason
70 wonder why our storms are so damage
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-09
An OniciaI PenciI-sharpen.r.

While your correspondent Was talking TO
one OF the clerks of the State Department
the other d Y, says Washington letter to
the Kansas City Is1Ial, the gentleman in
question touched an electric button and a
swarthy messenger appeared at his elbow
n 9 moment Nota word was said, but the
clerk, with a grand air, passed to the mes
senger lead pencil, the point of which had
been dulled. The messenger bowed almost
to the floor and vanished without a sound.
In two minutes he again appeared, and
with an ohsequious salaam, he handed the
newly-sharpened Faber to the clark and
again almost striking the floor with his
head he departed without having word
passed between the two. That is one
sample Of the way in which the air in the
diplomatic branch OF the Government af-
fects an unsuspecting young man who 10
induced to accept Government salary for
tho service he performs there.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-09
Temperance TonIc.

Tne chemist of the Massachusetts Board
oI Heaitn mas analyzed forty-seven speci-
mems Of the tonics and bitters with which
the market is flooded Many of these ara
advertised as being free from alcohol. and
some as overcoming the craving for drink,
YET iorty-six of the specimens examined
were found to contain alcohol, in proportions
ranging from to As per cent, 21.5 per
cent oelng the average. A specimen Of So
called sulphur bitters" contained no sui,
phur
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-09
Esectrfcal Naxire1n,..

The navigation of the Thames by electric
power is now an established success A
small electric launch has been running for
some months, and the largest electric boat
yet bnilt-sixty-five and one-hah fest
long and ten feet wide-has just been COM
pleted. A floating station has been put IN
operation for charging the storage bat
teFtes. Other launches and stations are
being designed and constructed, and new
era IN river travelling seems to have been
fairly he-un-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-09

It. l.. LISDLEY Asst Cashr.
c. b. CURRIE, I'd Vice Pres ;
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-04

Said returned tourist the other evening
to reporter: Il see it don't take long for
the walters on this side Of the water to ADOPT
European tactics when it is to their personal
advantage"
What, for instanceF'
From long and not unusual experience in
cafes IN various parts Of the world, have
adopted the custom of looking carefully over
the itemized bill brought me for my meals
and comparing it with the prices on the bill
of fare That is what an itemIzed bill is for,
and not simply to look like washing list
The other night when dining rather literally
at one of the uptown hotels remarked dis
crepancy as between the account presented
aud the change returned from the bill 1 gave
the waiter.
''It was only so cents short, but 1 called
the walters attention to the fact. He seemed
astonished and counted the change twice:
then, lifting the bill Of Items from the plate
where it rested with the change, his features
were spread with satisfied smile as two
quarters of dollar appeared Hereunder
His hilarity disappeared, though, when told
him that | had spent time and money enough
in Paris to know that trick well, and always
rewarded them there as l proposed to do
with him. by emitting his accustomed fee."
What is the trick2" queried the reporter.
Don't you see that by hiding two or three
coins under the list in that way when return
ing the change to a careless man, who does
not count his change, he would receive his
tip and the hidden coin also; but when serv-
ing more careful person-myself, for in
stance-and recount was called for, the
missing coin could be found and no sus-
picion of dishonesty attach to tho waiter,
unless fellow got tired of having the same
old chestnut played too often."-Ncw York
Telegram.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-04
Habits of Aged Now Enrlanders

The information which the blanks give on
the subject of habits comedies with the
opinion of most people, formed from obSer-
walton, that longevity without regularity of
habits is rare. These old people, men and
women alike, are put down as early risers
and retirers, almost without exception, and
fully nineteen out of every twenty have OBJ
served this custom throughout life, except
perhaps at some short period in youth.
Meals have been eaten regularly, three each
day, with dinner at noon, the exception be-
ing so rare as to indicate nothing. Exercise
in most cases has been hard work up to Is or
20, and after that period has consisted when
the regular occupation has been given up) of
walking, gardening, or both. Except in
cases of sickness these old people are as a
rule as active aud as Ennd Of cnJS tapt nccD