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FOOD AND HEALTH.

A Question That Must Always Remain
One of Individual Constitution.
Physicians have prepared tables sup
posed to represent the relative digesti.
bility of food, none of which can be
regarded as infallible. That of the
French doctor Beaumont placed among
the most digestible articles pigs feet,
brains and tripe, and among the least
digeStible food roast veal, roast mutton
and oysters. This classification Of
oysters will strike Americans as
heresy. Fowl carefully prepared is con-
sidered so digestible that it is one of the
articles of food most frequently given
in case of sickness, and yet thousands
OF stomachs rebel against it. There
seems no objection to placing pigs feet
at the head of the list if they are we'll
cooked and eaten without any of those
highly-spiced additions used by many
cooks to render them more ac-
ceptable to the palate. Among the
things generally regarded as trying to
the digestion are smoked and sailed
meats, hash, cauliflower, with several
things already mentioned. Roast meats
are more digestible than boiled meats.
OOOA
whose digestibility the doctors and the
human stomach are best agreed. AS
too great variety of food is not to be
commended, so the prolonged use of q
single article Of diet is generally to be
avoided. If circumstances render it
necessary that q person or community
should subsist on q uniform kind of
food. potatoes, fish, and milk come the
nearest to satisfying all the conditions.
Neither of these species of nourish-
ment tends specially to muscle, and yet
the almost exclusive use of either is en-
tirely consistent with perfect state of
health. Milk goes far, it must be re-
membered, to supply the lack Of animal
food. A French physician, basing his
conclusion on this principle, advises
that cheese be made an important part
of the ration Of the French army, be-
cause it 10 highly diGestible, exceed
ingly compact and very nourishing.
The Irish peasant. who IL usually witty,
invariably healthy, and often hand
some, shows the physical ad-
vantages resulting from the use of the
potato. AS to fish, it is 9 diet that
nourishes much larger proportion of
the human race than that which has the
priYilege-and it is limited-of feeding
on the flesh Of four-footed animals. As
TO the relative use of meat and vegsta-
bles, 1t depends on an infinite variety
Of questions, two Of the most important
Of which are those Of labor and of eli
mate. Near the equator the use of meat
is extremely limited, principally be-
cause the system does not require 1t,
while in high degrees Of latitude its
consumption isgreatly increased, and the
greater amount Of fatty matter it con-
tains renders it the more acceptable.
In many cases the want of it is supplied
by pure oil. But after all is said, aside
from general rules, the question of food
remains, and must always remain, one
Of individual constitution and human
iudgmenk-SanF Francisco Chronicle,
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DECIDEDLY uNRoMANTlc.
Most of the Hotel Typewriter,s Custom
Are Plain La tter-nf- ct Men

Most of the Hotel Typewriter's Custom
ers Are Plain. Matter-of-Fact Men.
Typewriter at HOTEL have read a
number of paragraphs in the newspa-
pers about how various people act when
them come in and try to dictate a letter
for the typewriter. 1t may be that
when the business was new there were
more instances and some that were more
funny. But / have had no such expert
ences as are attributed to my profession
by the press. The only funny one ever
had was that presented by an honest old
man who, after watching me for some
time, came up and in good sort of way
asked me to explain the machine, which
I did.
you mean to say" he asked, ''that
you can write letter on that thing for
any body?"
l said yes.
Then you may write one to Saman-
thy. / want to let her know that am
well, and that am coming home next
rate in what l came for"
l put all this together in readable
shape and then read it to him. He said
it was all right and signed his name to
it and l dropped it in letter-box for
him. The next morning he came to me
somewhat excited and said:
Say, miss, you remember that letter
you writfor me yesterday to Samanthy?'
/ said yes.
Well" he continued, 81 want you to
write another one to her telling her how
you done it and how l signed it. You
see, when she gifts that letter that is
printed jest like the newspaper and then
sees my scrawl at the bottom of it she'll
know there's somethin' wrong. She's
mighty suspicious emmy way, and if you
can fix it up so as to let me out of it I'll
be ever so much obleeged to you.''
To satisfy him l did as he asked. He
took the letter and / have never seen
him since. But have found all my
other customers to be plain, matter-of-
fact men. The novelty and romance of
the typewriter are wearing away.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
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AFTER THE BATTLE:
4 SeFgOant's "Reminiscences of the Brit.
ish Campaign In Egypt,

SeFROant's "Reminiscences of the Britt
ish Campaign In Egypt,
The men had been suffering so feaFs
fully from thirst before they reached
the canal that l saw some of them
drinking the blood that ran out of
wounded camels. When we had drunk
our fill of canal water, the Assembly"
was sounded and the roll was called,
when many a poor fellow had to be
marked as absent" Men told one
another OF their adventures, narrated
their escapes, and had time now to ex-
anime their bare legs, from which
much skin had been lost in falling into
and clambering out of the trenches. The
most remarkable escape / remember
was that of color sergeant who was
looking at the enemy through binocu-
lar when bullet came along, shivered
the glass, and then dropped spent into
his mouth, from which he spat it, with
the loss only Of couple of teeth. Some
of us were detailed to search the Egyp-
tian camp to make sure that none of
the enemy remained lurking in it. A
guard was set on Arabs tent, through
which l had passed In advance, and had
snatched outlet from the table, little
voting to whom tent and food had be-
longed. 1 had the luck to chance on .
small shed full of melons, nuts, bottles
of eau de cologne, tins of Turkish tobacco
AID boxes Of cigarettes. Ifilled my water
bottle with eau do Cologne, my hayer-
sack with cigarettes, and with Q tip OF
tobacco and bottle of eau de cologne
in Tnu in Of -
Captain. He was not to be found in the
tent nof which the officers had taken
possession, and ] handed tho eau de
cologne bottle to Major, an Irishman,
who swallowed the contents neat at d
gulp. Presently met my Captain, to
whom l gave the cigaretts, and showed
him where he could get all he wanted
of lemons, tobacco and eau de cologne;
he gave me sovereign for my trouble.
Volunteers were now called for to go
and assist the wounded, l made one of
the party, and started we'll equipped
with pipe in mouth, haversack full OF
cigarettes, a water bottle full of eau de
cologne, and plenty of water. The
sights OF the battlefield were gruesome,
now one looked at them in cold blood.
The artillery had wrought fearful havoc.
| remember one heap of twenty-four
corpses, some blown absolutely into
fragments, others headless, others with
limbs Topped OF. Some of the dead
Egyptians were roasting slowly a.
they lay; their clothing had been ig-
pited and was still smoldering. A
man Of the rides came along, drew his
pipe from his pocket, and lit it at one
of those bodies, remarking, somewhat
brutality it struck me: II never thought
/ should live to use dead Egyptian for
a light to my pipel" In the outer trench
our dead and wounded lay more thickly
than those Of the enemy, but in the
| inner trenches and on the spaces be-
| tween, for Que man of ours there were
certainly ten EgyptisHs. in the re-
doubts the black-gunnerS lay dead or
wounded almost to man, for they
had been fastened to the guns and
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A SAMOAN ROMANCE.
How Jack Tar WoOed the Charming
MAID OF the village"

How Jack Tar wOOed the Charming
Maid OF the village"
Lieutenant Brown, the navy officer
who saved the Trenton at the great
spring hurricane off the Samoan coast,
tells some interesting stories about
Samoan customs One of these is very
much like the old English custom of
browning the fairest maid in the village
Queen of the May" He says the
Ssmoans live in small settlements like
our villages, and each year elect the
purest, the best and fairest girl of a
tribe maid of the village" She fills
the Office for twelvemonth, and is held
up as q model for all that time. II she
commits sin, her punishment is treble
that of the other maidens, so that her
honors and disgrace are commensurate.
No white man is ever allowed to talk
with .'maid of the village" but s.loYe
laughs ct locksmiths" even in Samoa,
for once upon time an English sailor
saw one of these much-guarded maidens
and loved her. She was a chiefs
daughter, too, and all the more heinous
was her sin. She consented to fly
to the English ship with her lover. and
be married by the chaplain. Early
morning was set for the escape, when
the chief and his men would be sleep
ing of the effects Of too much ki-rOOt
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A SORT O. ACCIDENT.
How = Farmer Looking Man Skinned Tw'
or Three RnuckIes.

How = Farmer Looking Man Skinned Two
or Three Rnuckles.
A Sun man who was in the waiting
rooms of the Erie depot, across the
river, the other day, came upon farm
er-looking man who was nursing two or
three skinned knuckles, and inquired if
an accident had happened.
"Sort o accident" was the reply. 81
was sittin' here about half an hour ago
when young Teller came along and
wanted me to go and look at a trunk full
of clothes which was to be sold to pay
the railroad charges. I'm allus on the
lookout for bargains, and ! went"
YES"
"He rambled me up the street about
q block, and we met another Teller, who
said he had got to have twenty-five dol
lars right off quick, to save some ma
chinery from being sold. With that
dropped to the game"
Confidence"
Exactly. l kinder looked lamblike,
however. and when number one said
could perhaps loan number two the
rhino, and take check for hundred
dollars on the bank. ] reached down
into my pocket, as If to get the spOn-
dulicks"
81 see."
''But l didn't get It. scraped to-
gether a handful of dry ine-cut ter.
hacker, shet my fist up tight, and when
pulled it out swung for No. 2's nose,
and landed like q ton Of brick. He
went a-tumbling into the mud, and
turned on No /. lie had slid-dnsted
out of sight like q rabbit a-gittin' fol-
home ahead Of sixteen cur dogs"
"And what became Of the one you
hitP"
Lynn right there yit onless the police
have have taken him away. When
left, five minutes ago, one of them had
his head proppeG up and the other was
a askin' him what sort of wagon run
over him, and he was a-ssgin' that he
wanted to be taken home to bis anxious
mother. ] sort o calkerlate them two
won't bother me agin-not until after
the plantin' time is oyer and let my
fall whiskers groH.,"-N. Y. SnR.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-06-18
HUMOROUS.

-Policeman-"How does my new
club strike youa" Vagrant-'It's stun
ming. Washington Post.
Maria, dear" said the fond moth
er, the postman asked me to-day
whether you wouldn't use some other
perfume on your letters. Violet doesn't
agree with him. "-Harper's Bazaar.
-Lady-"I don't need any of your
burglar alarms" Agent-''Your next
neighbor said twas no use for me to call
here. as you had nothing to be stolen. :"
-Lady-"Put in three"
hobby 'Don't be scared. Johnnie.
Perhaps your father didn't mean 1t
when he said he would lick YOU. i"
Little Johnnie-''Yes, he did. Itwast't
as il he had promised to bring me home
new whistle"
There are grave fears OF an insur-
rection in Spain owing to the King hav.
ing reached the age at which his saw
ings strike his mother as worthy of
repetition. The strain upon the loyal
subjects is said to be too great for them
to bear.-Life.
Mrs. Chaffer-"What, twenty cents
apiece for those small cabbages,
That's pretty high price" Grocer
Yes, ma'am, but cabbages are scarce
and dear. You see there are several
large cigar factories right near here. "
Light.
Grateful Citizen-'I am delighted
to read in the papers that you had re-
fused to raise the price of ice." Presi-
dent Ice Company-"That is true. We
shall make no change in the price.
The only change will be in the Jumps. +"
IN. Y. Weekly
Mrs. Wickwire-"Yo know very
well that your cigar bill for one day
amounts to more than all my incidental
expenses for week" Mr. Wickwire--
Yes; that's just a woman's luck. /
wish | could get along as cheaply as
you an."-Terre Haute Express.
Guest attempting to carve)-
what kind of chicken is this, any
how?" Waiter-"Dat's genuine
Plymouth Rock, sah." Guest throw
ing up both haHds)-sThat explains it.
knew she was an old-timer; but / had
no idea she dated back there. Take'er
away. draw the line on the hens
from the .Mayhower.' Texas Siftings.
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A POETS MISTAKES.
Anomalies In the Text or Several OF Camp
bells Hest Works.

Anomalies In the Text OF Several OF Camp
bells Hest Works.
1t is extraordinary that so fastidious
and careful writer as Campbell, whose
painful slOwness of composition gave
Theodore Hook his joke that the poet
had been safely delivered of a couplet
this morning." should have been be-
trayed by his ignorance Of natural his
tory into certain not very important
yet none the lees egregious. plumbers
concerning the fauna and fora intro
duced into his tales. In THE Pleasures
of Hope" and Gertrude Of Wyoming"
we find the tiger standing along the
banks of Lake Erie and the panther
domiciled in the woods of Ohio, while
the flamingo disports itself on Pennsyl-
vania waters and the tropical aloe and
palm flourish in some northern latitude.
These errors were pointed out TO Camp
bell by his friends. ~ order that he
might rectify them in later editions; but
to revise his work when once printed
was always an uncongenial task to him,
and, in defiance of the botanist and
zoologist, the anomalies were therefore
allowed to remain in the text. An
other and more pardonable error
into which Campbell was led in his
chief narrative poem by trusting to
work entitled the History of the De-
.struction Of Wyoming IN 177S," was
brought home to him in very strange
and unexpected manner. Following the
authority just mentioned, hs had de-
nounced as the treacherous destroyer Of
Wyoming Mohawk chief named Brandt
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

In mailing the first half OF his
manuscript of Darkest Africa" from
Cairo to the Scribners, Stanley wrote:
when it is done, not Vanderbilt's
wealth would induce me to write upon
the subject at length again.
The literary production of Mexico
is quite wonderful. One of her latest
photographed lists mentions no less
than $4,000 volumns by 5000 native
Mexican authors. The first book
printed on this continent was published
in Mexico.
Count Muster, the present German
Ambassador at Paris, is the author of
one of the best cook books of the day.
A sarcastic colleague once said of him:
HE is the best cook among the diplo-
matlsts, and the best diplomatist among
the cooks"
Its reported in Boston that Edward
Bellamy wrote Looking Backward"
as satire on Socialism, and was the
most astonished man in the country
when thousands of people took it seri-
ously and set him up on a pedestal as
the prophet of new era.
Rose Hartwick Thorpe says that her
earliest recollections are of writing lit
tie rhymes on scraps of ribbon paper
When she was a little older she boarded
every penny in order to buy sheets of
foolscap, on which to write her effu-
sionS.
Miss May Rogers, of Dubuque, Ia,
is the author of ''Waverly Diction-
ary," in which the l, 300 or more char
acters in Sir Walter SCOTS novels are
are all described, with illustrative ex-
tracts from the text. The book is said
to be complete key to SCOTS works.
The only unmutilated copy of the
Century that gets into Russia is the one
the Gar personally reads each month. In
all others Remnants articles are smeared
over by the Russian postal authorities
with some black stuff of very pene-
trating nature which it is quite impossi-
bic to remove, even through chemical
process, without destroying the print
ing. Even whore only Remnants name
appears the same smearing tactics are
applied.
Miss Blanche Willis Howard, the
novelist, lives in Stuttgart, and receives
and chaperones young ladies studying
music, languages and the like. One of
the girls under her care says: "She is a
practical manager, housekeeper and &C
countant. She teaches us cooking and
economy. Besides all this she is a half
doctor. She takes excellent care of the
health Of the girls, and tries to make
them reasonable in caring for them
selves"
The first almanacs were of Arabian
origin, and reflected the local genius of
the people in a very striking way They
served as models in other countries for
hundreds of years. The Oldest known
copy of such work is preserved in the
British Museum and dates back to the
time Of Rameses the Great of Egypt
who lived 1000 years before the birth of
Christ 1t is written on papyrus in red
ink, and covers period of six years.
The entries relate to religious ceremo-
MES, to the fates of children horn on
given days ana to the regulation of bust
ness enterprises in accordance with
planetary influences.-Boston Tran.
script
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beer. The lover with two sailors met
his sweetheart on the shore, helped her
into the shallop, and had rowed some
distance from shore when the old chief
and dozen stalwarts appeared on the
hilltop. The chief loved his daughter
and would not consent to send the arrows
for fear he would wound her. He COM
manded the Englishman to stop. The
lover measured the distance and, feel
ing secure, stayed the oars. The
chief ordered his daughter to give
up her white lover. She chung to him.
and the sailor who wanted peace, prom
ised to return her if the chief would
consent to their marriage. That
worthy hesitated. 1t was against the
law of the island for a maid of the vii
lage" to marry white man. and he
feared the vengeance of the other chiefs.
The girl added her pleadings to the
lovers, but the old chief would not give
in.
All this parleying had taken place
with a shining stretch of water between
them, and as the decision was an
nounced the sailors picked up the oars.
the natives jumped into the water to
overtake them, and the old chief waved
his arms after the manner of Lord Ullan
in the ballad Love won, and in few
hours the Englishman and Samoan maid
were united by the chaplain. The old
chief made great show of anger. There
was council of ali the rulers, and they
finally agreed to accept the white man
if he would enter his wife's tribe and
promise never to return to England-in
short, to become Samoan. Negotia-
tions were opened, the lover consented,
and in three days there was big we'd
ding-feast and all the ceremonies be-
longing to the marriage of two OF their
own people. The Englishman has kept
his word; he has never left the island,
and this all happened seven years ago.
&C. S. Pepper, in Wide Awake
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-Jnst ono bundrad vaars have a,..

Just one hundred years have elapsed
since the Inauguration in Europe of the
high silk hat-yclept 1.-THE stovepipe'-
and the centennial anniversary thereof
was lately celebrated by the hatters Of
the old world with all the solemnity
warranted by the occasion. According
to the traditions of the "tiling" frater-
nifty, it was the Quaker headgear Of
Benjamin Franklin which first gave to
the Paris hatters the idea of ''the stove
pipe" and that led to its adoption.
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A DimcuIt Problem.

Freddy Gazzam-Mamma, with NUT
ton at fifteen cents a pound, what would
Mary's little lamb come to?
Mrs. Gazzam-You must tell me how
much the lamb weighed.
Freddy-O, you don't need to know
that The lamb would come to Mary
when she called it.-Munsey's Weekly.
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in the Restaurant. = Customer
'How's this? l ordered a steak long be-
fore that man over there ordered yet,
while he's half through with his"
Waiter-"That's all right, sir. 1 was a
soldier once, and in the army we were
always told to obey the last order.''
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TALK rs CHEAP.

and the press teens with advertisements OF
sarsaparillas, and other liver, blood and lung
remedies, but there is one medicine, and onlU
one, the claims for which. as a cure for all
lingering diseases arising from Torpid Liver
or Biliousness, or from impure blood, are
backed up by positive guarantee! If
it don't do just as represented in cuery case,
the money paid for it is promptly refunded.
This peculiar medicine sells beyond all
others throughout the civilized world. And
why should il not? Talk is cheap" but
tee, by house of long established reputa-
ton, for honesty, integrity and sound fnan-
cial standing, then t0ords mean business! And
that's just what the Worlds Dispensary Med
ical Association, of Buffalo, N. Y, mean in
guaranteeing their DIR. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
checks the frightful fnroads of Scrofula and,
if taken in time, arrests the march of Con-
sumption of the Lungs, which is Lung
scrOfula, purifies and enriches the blood.
thereby curing all Skin and Scalp Diseases
Ulcers, Sores, Swellings, and kindred all
mentS.
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Necessity is the mother of inven-
ton and likewise the father of lies
Puck.
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