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The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
Amateur Entertainments.

Most amateur entertainments are given
in places where there are no regular
stages, and in such case a platform
should be built about three feet high and
ten or more deep, the full width of the
room. Curtains of canton flannel can
be used, or large screens, If such are
more convenient. While the characters
are being posed for tableau, or the stage
being set for any scene, the piano or or
chcstra can be played as in a theatre,
and for that reason the piano should be
outside of the curtain or on the floor. A
dressing room should be parted off on
each side of the stage.
There are books which have many
bright little comedies requiring two,
three or four characters. Among them
are: ga Happy Pair" only requiring
two persons; ga Fair Encounter" need
ing but two women, or "Weeping
Wives" needing four. This last was
translated from the French by Mrs
James r. Pitcher, of Short Hills, N. j.
There are many others which are bright
and good. Let the manager beware of
tragic pieces. or "scenes" from "Mac-
beth, Mary and Elizabeth" or Romeo
and Juliet" Let everything of this kind
be light and sprightly. 1t is within the
possibilities for man or woman who is
a good manager of parlor entertain
ments to write piece that shall be full
of amusement, because novel and new,
and novelty is to be sought for.-Olive
HarDer.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
Flag Lore.

To "strike a flag" is to lower the ma
tional colors in token of submission.
Flags are used as the symbol of rank
and command, the officers using them
being called flag officers. Such flags are
square to distinguish them from other
banners.
A alag of truce" is white flag dis
played to an enemy to indicate desire
for parlcy or consultation.
The white flag is sign of peace. After
battle parties of both sides often go
out to the field to rescue the wounded or
bury the dead under the protection of a
white flag.
The red flag is u sign of defiance, and
is often used by revolutionists. In our
service it is mark of danger, and shows
a vessel to he receiving or discharging
her powder.
The black flag is sign of piracy.
The yellow flag shows vessel to be at
quarantine, or is the sign of contagious
disease.
A flag at half mast means mourning.
Fishing and other vessels return with a
flag at half mast to announce the loss or
death of some of the men.
Dipping the flag is lowering it slightly
and then hoisting it again to salute a
vessel or fort.
If the president of the United States
goes afloat the American flag is carried
In the bows of his barge or hoisted at the
main of the vessel on board of which he
is.-Journal of Education.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
How Max o,Re,, Woke the serv,,t.

When he first came to London Max
O'Rell took little house in n retired
quarter Of the city. About 2 o'clock one
morning the whole neighborhood was
aroused by cries in the street; somebody
was shouting at the top of his voice:
"Murder! Fire! Thieves!" and this hub
bub was protracted until everybody in
the locality was at his window in state
of violent alarm. 1t was Max O'Rell,
who, returning home at this unholy hour
and finding himself locked out, took this
way Of arousing his servants. Finally,
standing in the middle of the street, the
cynosure of all eyes, O'Rell lifted his hat,
and, bowling politely this way and that,
said: Thanks, good neighbors, for your
friendly solicitude; having awakened the
concierge, will now enter my home."
Who buta Frenchman could have done
that thing in just that way?-Eugene
Fields London Letter.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
Chance a Great Factor in Life.

Experience shows that chance, or
what we call chance, is the most active
agent in choosing a profession, though
this should not prevent the young man
from faithfully considering what he is
going to do. In very many cases he will
find that he has mistaken his calling;
but he has not for this reason necessarily
wasted his time in seeking what proved
not to be available to him. He has been
adding to his knowledge and his expc-
rience enables him to act more wisely in
the future. He has developed his pow
ers to a greater extent, and thus discov-
cred what he is fit for. One thing al
most always leads to another if the can
didate has stability and "push. Cor.
Buffalo Express.
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Condition of Havt,.

The country is naturally rich, but not
rich enough to support the hordes of
shameless, self seeking politicians anx,
ious for their own enrichment. The
cause for their appearance in such num-
bers is easily explained. The many rcvo,
lutions, with their concomitant murders,
pillages and conflagrations, have de.
stroyed industry and labor, and have
closed all the avenues to the attainment
of competence by honorable pursuits.
Of what use is it to the peasant to plant
cane or to cultivate coffee when at any
moment the general of the arrondisse-
ment may force him to abandon his crops
to bear arms in support of some one who
in the set terms of the usual proclama.
ton, has ''raised the standard of revolu
ton against the most odious of tyrants9
Cor. New York Post.
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A Startling Prop,,ecv,

Nothing in the future appears more
probable than that within the lifetime of
persons now living the industrial SUI
premacy of Great Britain will pass away
with the exhaustion of her coal fields.
Switzerland, Italy and the Scandinavian
peninsula are destined to become the
great manufacturing districts of Europe.
This extraordinary industrial revolution
will be brought about by the transmits
sion and distribution by electrical means
of the inexhaustible and permanent wa
ter power in those countries. More than
year ago in Switzerland woolen man.
ufactory with $4,000 spindles, with the
usual complement of auxiliary machin-
cry, was operated wholly by electric
power conveyed from distant stream,
deriving its never failing supply of wa
ter from the melting of Alpine SHOWS.
In the new era the Swiss republic may
not improbably become the foremost in
dustrial nation of Europe.-Electrical
Engineer,
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
People Wonder
|HTHEN they find how rapidly hcal,l,
w is restored by taking Ayers Sar-

|AIHEN they find how rapidly hcaltl,
Wv is restored by taking Ayers Sar-
saparilla. The reason is that this
preparation contains only the purest
and most powerful alternatives and
tonics. To thousands yearly it proves a
veritable elixir of life.
Mrs. Jos. Lake, Brockway Centre,
Mich, writes: oliver complaint and
indigestion made my life a burden
and came near ending my existence.
For more than four years suffered UNI
told agony. was reduced almost to
q skeleton, and hardly had strength to
drag myself about. All kinds of food
distressed me, and only the most deli
cate could be digested at all. Within
the time mentioned several physicians
treated me without giving relief. Moth
ing that I took seemed to do any per-
manent good until began the use of
Ayers Sarsaparilla, Which has pro-
duced wonderful results. Soon after
commencing to take the Sarsaparilla I
could ON
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24

One anecdote told by Mr.. Stevens of
the way in which Stanley disposed of the
Egyptian officer who was convicted of
having plotted to hand the expedition
over to the Mahdi, is worth repeating.
Stanley, who was suffering with acute
gastritis, had himself carried in chair
outside the tent. Turning to the incrim-
mated officer he said:
"We have come through a thousand
difficulties to saveyou and yours. Mean
while you have been plotting to destroy
us. Depart to God"
Saying these words, he pointed to a
bough of a tree, where justice was done
after the fashion of Judge Lynch
Mall Gazette.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
Utilize the Housetops.

I am much inclined to the theory that
roof gymnasiums, solariums, gardens
and promenades will become q feature
of the Twentieth century architecture.
What wise use it would be to make
OF our fiat and unpromising city roofs.
Imagine one of our ugly and unoccu.
pied roofs converted into veritable gar.
den of Babylon, where exquisite flowers
would breathe their delicious perfumes
the year round; where swimming baths,
swaying hammocks and soft couches
would alternately invite to exercise and
repose.-Anne Jenness Miller.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24

The storm doors on the postoffice build
ing open outwards, as all public doors
should. Thirty out Of every forty people
who enter the postoffice, no matter how
often they have been there, give jump
on the doors, figuring that they open in
wards. Saturday forenoon a lady got
out of carriage and attempted to pass
in by the inward bang, but it was no go.
"Those doors open outwards, ma'am, :"
said boy who was close by.
"Oh, they do, eh?' she..queried. "Well,
let 'em open!"
And she walked off to a lamp post box,
deposited her letter and stiff1y entered
her carriage and was driven away.-De-
troit Free Press.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
Great Britain's Inventions.

In Great Britain the number of appli-
cations in 1888 was Is, S,051, and the num-
bor of patents granted was 9,410, against
$500 applications and 1924 patents in
1854. In Great Britain in 1888 there was
an increase as compared with the imme-
diately preceding year of more than
three fold in applications and nearly
three fold in grants-an increase which
is attributed to notifications of the
patent laws.-Industries.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
THE coRslcAN VENDETTA.
Tho Custom That Has Often Extingulshcd
Entire Families.

Entire Families.
Should Corsican, in revenge for in
jury done to himself or his relations, or
even to his dog or his horse, kill another
with knife or coup de fusil, public SYM
pathy sustains him, the hills shelter him,
his relations feed him, and justice, in the
shape of gendarmes, winks with both
eyes unless the murderer be very un-
popular. True, he is termed "bandit'
and has to take refuge in the macqui, as
the natural bush is called that clothes
the mountain sides. Well informed Cor
sicans tell one that there are at this mo-
ment in the island over one thousand in
hiding.
But please understand the bandit is no
brigand. Should you, defenseless, hap
pen to fall in with him, he will not take
your purse, but, on the contrary, offer
you food, if he has it, and shelter in his
cave, and most probably refuse any pay
ment for his hospitality. 1t is only his
foes family against which he wages war,
and of course in self defense with the
gendarmes. These latter he will shoot
N,
And yet, though the Corsican will not
rob you, it is not because he does not love
money. For very few francs, both
Corsican gentlemen and English resi-
dents aver, you can find a man who will
do your killing for you and rid you of
your enemy with knife or bullet. And
while this utter contempt for human
life prevails there can be no hope of the
extinction of the vendetta.
An English gentleman, Capt. G., who
has now lived for some ten or fifteen
years in Corsica, on his own property,
told me the following story: cit seems
that one of the employees of the former
proprietor, fancying he had some grudge
against the new owner, made himself
Objectionable by breaking down fences,
driving goats and sheep into the gardens
and annoying Capt. G. in other ways.
Capt. G. happened to mention the fact
of the mans enmity, and deplored it as
unreasonable both to Corsican gentle
man, neighboring proprietor, and also
to a shepherd with whom he was OH
friendly terms.
"Let me know if it continues" said
the gentleman, "and I will have the
man taken over to yonder rocks and you
won't hear of him again."
81 will arrange for little coup dc
fusil whenever you like to give me 'the
office,'" said the berger.
This was fifteen years ago, but even
| now it is said there il in Aiaccio alone nj
least one murder week, though these
outrages are SO hushed up by the author
tiles that it is difficult to get any reliable
statistics. Inever, for instance, saw the
account of any murder in the little loca
French paper LIE Raillement, the only
one, I think, in Ajaccio, but this proves
nothing, for there was undoubtedly one
atrocious crime committed in the village
of Bocognano, about twenty miles off
while we were at Ajaccio, for particulars
of which I vainly studied the columns ol
LIE Raillement.-New York Times.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
Adnlteration of Eooi,

The total food consumption per year
in the United States amounts to 81, $780,
100000. 1t is estimated that 2 per cent.
of this is adulterated, or 800, 900, 900, of
which 90 per cent. is harmlessly DOCTOR
ed. If the estimate be true, then there
Is all annual output of food containing
poisonous adulteration to the amount Of
$4,000, 900, while the portion that is
harmless reaches total of sS1 1000, ,OOO.-
American Grocer.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
The Education of Fifty Years Ago

The treatment of boys at school is in
every way infinitely improved, COM
pared with what it resembled even fifty
or sixty years ago. Early hours of ris-
ing-a boy of that epoch said that his
idea of Paradise was waking up in the
night and finding that it was only 2
o'clock in the morning" - insufficient
food, w1etched accommodation and great
severity were the lot of boys who were
brought up even at some Of our best edu-
cational observation-disclosures Tele-
graph.
In different European countries medi-
cal and legal societies have petitioned
the authorities to prohibit all public ex-
hibitions of "mesmerism" by any person
whatsoever, and to forbid the employ
ment of hypnosis by any person not a
physician with special knowledge of ner-
>ous diseases. The use of hypnosis by
physicians should be limited to thera-
peutic purposes, or for the instruction of
medical students, and as for these ends
the lower grades of hypnotism are, ac-
cording to Bernheim, sufficient, no in.
furious consequences need follow. For
his own protection the physician should
not use the method except in the presence
of third reputable person as witness.
DIR. j. O'Connor in Catholic World.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
Kind of Men Women Like.

Women like a man who can be strong
as a lion when trouble comes, and yet, if
one is nervous and tired, can button up
shoe and do it with an amount of con-
sideration that is a mental and physical
bracer up.
They like man who can take hold
of the baby, convince it of his power and
get 1t to sleep after they have been wor.
rying with it, and walking with it, until
their eyes are tired and they feel as if
they had no brains.
They like man who is interested in
their new dresses, who can give an opin-
ion on the fit, and who is properly indig-
nant at any article written against wo-
men.-Ladies' Home Journal
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
Slight Preparation.

A young man we'll known in the city
lately departed for Europe with the
shortest notice ON record. A few hours
before the train left Buffalo that made
connection with the steamer at New
York he determined to join some
friends on their European tour. He
went home, told his family of his inten-
ton, and, of course, was met by the sur
prised queries: GLOW can you get
ready? You have got to prepare for an
ocean voyage. What are you going to
do?" Nothing, but black my boots"
was the laconic reply. Who will assert
that woman is superior to man after
such an incident?-Bufalo Express.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
Turtle as Food.

Turtle rs Food.
In st. Bartholomew's or Turtle bay, as
the whalers call it, where for five months
we lay, taking and curing abaloncs, our
food was chiefly turtle. This little har-
Dor swarmed with them. After few
hours hunt one of our whaleboats would
return with five or six of these unwieldy
creatures in the bottom, some so large
and heavy as to require hoisting over the
side. Often the green fat under the
callipee, or under shell, lay three inches
in thickness. I served up turtle fried,
turtle stewed, quarters Of turtle roasted
and stuffed like loins of veal, turtle plain
boiled and turtles fippers boiled to q
jelly and picked. Aturtle is ia variously
favored being. Almost every portion
has distinct and individual taste. After
all, old Jake, our black boatsteerer,
showed us the most delicate part of the
turtle, and one previously thrown away.
This was the tripe, cleansed of a thin
inner skin. When the cabin table had
once feasted on stewed turtle tripe
they called for it continuously. After
many trials and much advice and sug.
gestion. learned to cook accept
ably the abalone. The eatable part of
this shell fish when fresh is as large as a
small tea saucer. There are two varie-
ties, the white and black. The white is
the best. Cut up in pieces and stewed,
as I attempted at first, the abalone
turned out stewed bits of guttapercha;
fried, it was fried guttapercha. Then
man from another vessel came on
board, who taught me to inclose single
abalone in small canvas bag and then
pound it to jelly with wooden mallet.
This process got the honey out of the
abalone. The remains of four or five
abalones thus pounded to pulp, and
then allowed to simmer for a couple of
hours. would make big tureen of the
most delicious soup man ever tasted,
every drop of which, on cooling, hard
ened to the consistency of calves foot
jelly. When my cabin boarders had
once become infected with abalone soup
they wanted me to keep bringing it
along. The Americans do not know OF
use all the food in the sea which is good.
Prentice Milford.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
How Ella Wheeler wllco. Dresses.

Among the ladies who seem to have
the gift Of dressing is Ella Wheeler Will
cox, the poet. She knows herself, and
has adopted to herself a style that is q
part of herself, and it is all white for
home or evening dress. When you have
left her presence all you remember is a
sheen of satin and film of lace, statu-
esque figure not too large or too small, a
sweet. genial face, two loving eyes and a
crown Of FURNISHED hair. This is just as
it should be. In the street she wears
soft gray and fawn colors, and every
thing is just simply a setting which is
never obtrusive, yet is remembered be-
cause of its perfection and its quiet 1T
ness.-New York Letter.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
Weeds That Travel.

The thistle and some other weeds have
winged seeds, and these not unfrequently
travel 300 miles in day in passenger
car and by rail, are swept out at the end
of the journey, find suitable habitat,
take root and grow. There are plants
growing in Kirkwood between the rail-
road tracks which are only found in
Kansas, the seeds being brought on the
railway trains.-St. Louis Republic.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
Enclishman Deeply Shocked.

The Englishman will condone every
dereliction except an infringement of
custom and tradition. Talking together
in the smoking room of the Hotel Me-
tropole one evening not long ago, a party
of gentlemen discussed the peculiarities
of appetite. One of the party said he
had seen, a few days previous, a friend
eating mustard on his roast mutton.
General surprise was expressed by the
others in the party; one Englishman
was deeply shocked, and 1 shall never
forget the pathos in his tones as he
asked: 81 beg your pardon, sir, but did
the fellow live?'-Eugene Fields Letter
in Chicago News.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24

When the late Cornelius Vanderbilt
built his summer residence at Hartford
at an expense of over 100000 the deco
rators covered the walls of his dining
room with ordinary brown paper, such
as is used by butchers to wrap meat in.
There was cherry wood dado and a
rich frescoed frieze. This room was con-
sidered one of the handsomest in the
wealthy town.-New York Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
TIE LAVA FLOW.

It found a valley young and fair
And virgin of regret;
That laughed away the amorous mir,
Nor dreamed of love as yet.
It left a valley wan and old
And outcast of desire,
When through her maiden heart had rolled
Its passion flood Of fire.
Her springs are dry; and dry between
Is oil her flowery pass
Save one wee strip of faithful green
The friendship Of the grass.
And black across her beauty's wreck
Poor wreck, that may not die
Lies dead the flame she could not check
Nor can revivify.
So, wan and writhen in despair,
So, frozen black In stone,
They lie-the awful semblance there
OF lives that have known.
Charles F. Lummis In Frank Leslie's.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
Good Form.

1t is good form not to mind if your
friends are bit shabby, but to be salts.
fed because they are your friends, and,
curiously enough, although riches are
appreciated, it's good form not to envy
anybody their gold, but to make the
most out of ones own possessions. and in
the matter of costly banquets and rich
gifts to take the will for the deed.-Ex-
change.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
A Chinese Altar.

The chief joss in the Mott street wor-
ship house of the Chinaman in New York
has a new altar and canopy specially i'm
ported for him at cost of $1,000. 1t is
made Of wood almost as heavy as metal
and intricately carved. The figures are
in heavy gold leaf and crystal. Chicago
Times.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
What Focs Signify.

Night or morning fogs, or in winter
persistent fogs, often signify calm and
settled condition of the air and the prev
alence of fair weather. Heavy dews,
especially in the autumn, likewise por-
tend fine weather, but usually of shorter
duration. Fogs appear usually in one of
tao conditions-either the air is nearly
saturated up to considerable height, or
else is unusually dry, except in stratum
Immediately above the ground. .-Ex-
change,
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
Pillars from Pomneii.

Delmonico's old Beaver street building
is probably the only one in America par
TALLY erected from material found in the
ruins of ancient Pompeii. The marble
pillars of the portico over the entrance,
and, in fact, nearly all the marble of
which the porch is composed, were inn
ported from Pompeii in 1884.
So well authenticated is the history of
these marble pillars and slabs that the
Metropolitan Museum of Art is making
efforts to obtain them.-New York Tele-
gram,
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
Improvement

in my condition, my appetite began to
return and with it came the ability to
digest all the food taken, my strength
improved each day, and after few
months of faithful attention to your
directions. I found myself we'll
woman, able to attend to all household
duties. The medicine has given me
new lease of life, and cannot thank
you too much"
1--WE, the undersigned, citizens of
Brockway Centre, Mich, hereby certify
that the above statement, made hy
Mrs. Lake, is true i'll every particular
and entitled to full creicnce."- T..
Chamberlain, G. w. Waring, G. A.
Wells, Druggist.
my brother, in England, was, for
long time, unable to attend to his occr-
patton, by reason of sores OH his foot.
I sent him Ayers Almanac and the tcs-
timonials it contained induced him to
try Ayers Sarsaparilla. After using it
little while, lie was cured, and is now
q we'll man, working i'll a sugar mill
at Brisbane, Queensland, Australian
A. Attewell, Sharbot Lake, Ontario.
Ayers Sarsapari||a,
PREPARED by
Or. J. G. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Price 81; six bottles, IS. Worth IS lo',!..
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24

Queer accidents will happen in Con-
necticut. A citizen of Norwich, stroll
ing along, accidentally hit his pipe with
his hand; piece of burning tobacco flew
and hit him in the eye. 1t burned deli
cate round hole In the eyeball, but care
full treatment saved the sight of it.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
A Frog That Die. of Old Are.

A frog in Nicaragua, colored red and
blue, fearlessly hops about in the day
time. 1t has perfect faith in its warning
color. No snake OF, bird will touch it,
for it is disgusting to the taste, and the
sooner it is recognized the better.-Cath-
olic World
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
circumstances Alter Cases

Northern Man down in Florida)-
What's the price of that orange grove?
Native-Ten thousand dollars, mister.
Had the consumption long?
Consumption! I haven't consump-
tion."
"Just weak lungs, maybe?'
"My lungs are sound as dollar.
am merely looking for good place to
locate; doesn't matter to me whether it's
north or south, east or west"
ooh! Well, I'll let you have that
grove for $250."-New York Weekly.