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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12
A Famous Chateau.

OF Adelina PATHS latest acquisition,
the famous Chateau de Chenonceaux, a
correspondent writes from Paris: at
was here that Francis | conversed with
Bayard on the happiness and glory of
France, and it was in the sitting room
that the monarch, the friend Of letters,
received into his friendship Rousard and
Clement Marot; it was under these trees
that Marie Stuart and Anne Boleyn. then
brilliant in youth and beauty, walked in
their sweet dreams of happiness; it was
in this mysterious oratory that Claude of
France, daughter of Louis XII, had so
often prayed Here are also the subter-
ranean passages where, at the time of
the conspiracy of Amboise, Diane of
Poictiers, concealed the chief of the
French mobiles from the rage of Gather
inc de Medici. Finally, it was on these
beautiful banks of the River Cher that
Delville wrote some part of his poem
'Des Jerdins;' Thomas, a few of his
'Eloges Historiques;' Marmontel, his
prettiest 'Contes Morceaux;' BartheI-
envy, the introduction of his 'Anarchar-
tis,' and there is that delightful sylvan
walk which j. j. Rousseau speaks of
with such intoxicating delight, where he
loved to mediate and where it is thought
his immortal work on education had its
foundation. Chicago Herald.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12
Gallery Critics.

The weIl-to-do man who goes to the
theatre in dress suit and sits in a box.
or in seat just back of the orchestra,
has a good view of the play and the
players, but doubt if he gets as much
pleasure therefrom as the ragged news
boy who sits in the gallery. just under
tie roof
At the boys distance the Illusion is
complete The footlights are not too
bright, and the music becomes a low, in
distinct melody. l have heard more
criticism in the gallery of Broadway
theatre during single performance than
could write in an entire day.
"The Silver King" with well known
actor In the leading role. was played on
the east side some time in the beginning
of the season. My neighbor was lad of
IA years, who answered TO the name Of
Rocksey. His chum arrived at the close
of the first act, but he had eHidentlT
seen the play before, for he knew it by
heart.
'Hey, RocGsey, how's he a-dOin't it?''
was the first question.
ooh. he's overdoin' it horribly; he
can't act till he gets tree or four drinks
into i'm. The villains the worst stuff l
ever saw. He just stands around waitin'
for his time for gettin killed. I'd like
to see play where the villain gets killed
before the curtain goes up"
The gallery gods can furnish an untold
amount of gossip about the personality
of people on the stage, and the tales have
as much truth in them as the stage
stories which emanate from more i'm
portant sources. New York News.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12
a Chinese Lottery.

The Chinese are getting in their
work III fine style in the lottery bust
ness in Carson. They have two draw
ings day. The racket is rnnn by tick
tIs -oo~creu WIN squares, and a
Chinaman makes the rounds every
day to peddle tickets. You pay ten
cents for ticket, and then YOU dot
the square with a brush of ink and
make seven marks. When the tickets
are all in they are compared in China
town with another ticket, which has
been marked. If your marks should
correspond with two of the other
marks you get 81; if with three So,
and so on. If the spots are all like the
one on the king card you win SIS.
This is very fascinating game and
the ladies all think it lovely. The
joke of it is that they never see the
king card at all, but the Celestial who
sells the tickets is trusted with the
money and brings back the prizes
won. He buys the tickets at whole
sale, and if ticket wins, say 500, he
gives the lady $1.50 and keeps the bal
ance.
BELLY good guess; you catchum
big money"
The Appeal has list of the ladies
who patronize this lottery and it
would cause many smile in print.
Some of the ladies who buck at the
Chinese swindle think that state
lottery would be perfectly awful, "
but they stick by the Chinese lottery
through thick and thin.-Carson
Nev.) Appeal
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12
A Disinterested Friend.

The man who never owned dog
doesn't know what it is to have de-
voted and disinterested friend. Do
you know any creature half so faith
full as old Clip, or Nero, or Bruno, or
Fido, or Towser, or Rattler9 When
young you maltreated him dreadfully.
You rode on his back, you pulled his
ears, you twisted his tail, you kicked
him and cuffed him. But he bore
your abuse patiently and was always
ready to lick the hand that smote
him. He bore no grudge against
you, but forgot and forgave every
thing. When you left home he was
the last one of the family to say good
by; when you returned he was the
first to give you greeting. In youth
he was your comforter and protector;
now he is your companion and friend.
New York Tribune.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12
A Mean Trick.

''There's only one way to get even
with that rare article, a growing
drummer on the road" said Detroit
er who travels much and meet all sorts
of people.
CLOVIS that2"
'"They get the best seats in the cars,
the best rooms at the hotels, and the
best of everything everywhere, he
continued, ''and you may kick and
growl and they wont be disturbed over
It. thought over it a good while be-
fore | got the idea"
But what is it2"
"Well, when | enter car and find
a drummer occupying two seats and
his nosein novel, 1slip up to him and
inquire:
"'Are you from the house of Blank
s. Blank, Chicago2'
"'No, sir, | represent the house OF
Git, Up & Git, of st. Louis
+" Nor
You bet dor
"'Sorry for you, old fellow, but !
suppose you've heard of it before
this2'
/" 'Whatg
"'Your house has failed-gone to
pot-complete wreck.
"'Great Scotsl'
Sand then he gathers up his grips,
counts his money, asks for telegraph
blank and at the next station he drops
off, a crushed and humbled man.
Some folks call it mean trick. DE
trOit Free Press.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12
Real and stage Propo.al,.

They talk about realism being ram
pant in later day stage productions, said
man who leaned over the back row Of
seats the other evening, and by that act
proclaimed himself theatrical rounder,
but / fail to see it. Stage realism, as
understand it, means the counterfeit Of
reality in private life. Now, want to
know if ever lover off the stage got be
hind his girls chair when he wanted to
propose to her like that one did in the
second act just now? Some way or other
stage lovers always get around behind
their girls and pour out their passionate
tale over the fair ones shoulder. And
then they appear to be surprised when
the girl rejects them; but I'm not If |
was girl | would not only reject a
lover who got behind me to propose and
talked over my shoulder, but would set
the dog on him to boot Yes, | would.
II tell you there's only just one way
to propose to a girl-Tve had experience,
and know: You've got to get mighty
affectionate and snugglesome before
hand, and before you spring the i'm
portant question you've got to Get her
waist in chancery, as it were, while you
patty cake palms with the disengaged
hand. Then you must look soulfully
into her eyes and let it go. Under such
circumstances man can talk in way
that no girl of heart can resist, and be-
fore you know it she has said yes and
you've kissed her and it's all fixed. Com
pared to this method the stage lovers
way is as sawdust pudding to tapioca. y
Chicago Mail.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12
Returning the Favor.

In 1900 an English regiment was serv.
Ing in Holland, and at Egmont-op-Zee
crossed bayonets with French regiment
A ball, fired during the retreat of the
latter. passed through the jaws of a sol
der of the former named Robert Hul.
lock, who, in the course of the after
noon, was buried in the sand hill where
he had fallen, by soldier of his regi.
ment named Carnes. During the night
bullock recovered. and, having been
lightly covered with sand, crept out and
crawled to picket of his regiment post
ed near. He was sent to the hospital
recovered, and was serving with his reg
iment in Malta in 1906. Hullock's face
having been much discolored. and
his voice scarcely Ineligible Ia part of
his tongue and palate having been car
ried away, he had for some years served
as a pioneer to his company; a soldier of
it died, and bullock. as a part of his
duty, dug the grave, at which he was
found, on the arrival of the body for in
terment, still at work, though it was then
near ten feet deep. On being drawn
out and asked the reason for making it
so unusually deep, he replied: why,
sir, it is forpo John Carnes, who buried
me, and | think, sir, if l get him that
deep, it will puzzle him to creep out. as
| did" On the burial service being
read, he proceeded to fill up the grave.
and actually buried the man who ten
years previous had buried him. bullock
was discharged and pensioned in 1874
San Francisco Argonaut.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12

To preside over the senate is one of the
least profitable and least interesting oc-
equations public man can have, espe-
cially when he has not the right to vote,
but only to sit as a figure head-a SYM
Dol of authority. The dignity of the po-
sition, of course, makes it one that most
any American citizen would be glad to
occupy, but it is seldom the desire Of
either the vice president or the president
pro tenn. to occupy the chair at all times
during the session. For instance, if a
speech is to be delivered by some gentle
man who prolongs the interest of his
topic in diluted quantities through many
hours, the presiding officer has nothing
to do but to sit in the chair and try to
appear to pay attention and to keep him
self from going to sleep.
Ingalls,, it is said, used to stick pins in
his legs now and then on such occasions
when he felt himself getting drowsy. 1t
is customary, however, when anything
particularly dreary is to occupy the SEN
ate, for the presiding officer to call upon
some member to act as his substitute in
the chair The older men understand
very well that they are being made a
convenience of when called to preside in
this way, and they are not usually fat
tered by the distinction, but the new
senator is apt to be ready victim for
the sacrifcs.-Cor. Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12
imperfect Footgear.

"Mothers are making a mistake in
permitting their children to wear heel
less shoes" said a shoeman to a reporter
of The Free Press. THE fiat soled shoe
causes the child's feet to run to length
All our girls have abnormally long, slim
feet, and that is the reason"
'But the spring heel shoe prevents
the growth of corns and keeps the foot
perfect, does it not?"
Nothing of the kind. That is all a
mistake. The instep or arch of the foot
falls fiat when it has no support and be-
comes weak. and often useless. A low
heel would support and strengthen it.
In growing children who wear the spring
heel shoe turn their feet over on the side
and learn to walk badly"
"What is the popular shoe?'
SIT Is a narrow toe with broad, low
heel, either to button or lace in front
And the ladies are all wearing loose
shoes now, extra long, The small foot
has gone out of fashion. All our ladies
who used to wear 2s and 3s are now
wearing As and IS. "-Detroit Free Press
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12
Tricks of Horse Car Conductors.

even the best of u.s." he said, ''some-
times miss fare in crowd, but it doesn't
happen often, and that is because we have
thing down to a system. On all lines
there are certain streets at which we start
to go through our car to pick up nickels.
Often am in doubt as to who has not
paid fare, but | don't take chances of
wounding any ones feelings by asking
for it in that case. | merely meander
through the car, stopping now and then
before any one | suspect of not having
anted up. The guilty person usually has
pricks of conscience when place myself
before him and clears up all doubt by be-
ginning to fish through his pockets for the
nickel. That is one of the tricks, and it
saves many harsh words, for almost as
often as you ask a man who really has
settled if his fare has been paid he will
abuse you for intimating that he is try
ing to do the railway company. have
learned by experience that it is better to
chip in a nickel ont of your own pocket
than to go around asking for fares when
you are in doubt, and most old time con-
ductors will agree with me. Boston
Herald
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12
Travelling Children.

There is much written nowadays con-
corning the home amusement of children.
Would it not be well if suggestions were
offered for the entertainment of the little
people while travelling? Any one who
has made long railway journey must
have had her sympathies aroused for the
tired little mortals, for whom no provi-
sion had been made for varying the mo-
notony Of the trip. The mothers or aunts
accompanying them were provided with
books or knitting work, but the poor
children had not even strings to play
cats cradle. No wonder that under these
circumstances they fidgeted and wearied
their companions until travelling with
children was voted bore. If new pic
ture book, a pencil and paper, game or
small doll had been provided, to be
brought out at the first appearance Of
rettlessness, the vote might have been
different New York HousekeeDer.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12
Their Deaths ForetoId by a Ghost.

Robert Withers, M. A. Vicar of
Gately, England, in 17O6, relates, in a
publication of that time, the following
singular story of the supernatural:
Mr.. Grose went to see Mr.. Shaw
on the 2nd of August last. As they
were talking in the evening Mr.. Shaw
says: On the 21st of last month, as
was smoking a pipe and reading in
my study, between eleven and twelve
o'clock at night, in comes Mr.. Naylor
formerly fellow of st. Johns Col
lege, but who had been dead for four
years.. When | saw him | was not
much affrighted, and l asked him to
sit down, which, accordingly, he did
for about two hours, and we talked to-
gether / asked him how it Jared with
him. He said: Very WELL Were any
of our old acquaintance with him?
No Cat 4rpLioh L 1Sx.s.ss---za.,.z .u.strvl.
alarmed, but Mr.. Orchard will be
with me very soon, and you not long
after AS he was going away ] asked
him if he would not stay a little long
err but he refused. No, he had but
three days leave of absence, and he
had other business
Mr. Orchard died soon after. Mr.
Shaw is now dead. He was formerly
fellow of st. Johns College-an in
genuous, good man. knew him there
but at his death he had acollege liv-
ing at OXfordshire, and here he saw
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Enquirer.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12
Phosphorus in Fish Meat.

Fish meat, according to Professor At
waters researches, does not contain more
phosphorus than ordinary butcher'smeat.
The benefit which brain workers are said
to derive from diet of fish should there
fore be ascribed, not to the phosphorus,
but to the greater digestibility of the
fish. The excess Of phosphorus in the
urine of such persons need not be regard
ed as resultant of brain work, but as an
indication of the disordered digestion to
which sedentary persons are liable. The
recent researches of Zuelzer and others
seem to indicate that excessive elimina-
ton of phosphorus by the urine is asso-
ciated with nervous depression rather
thanswith nerve activity.-Christian at
Wo~b
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12

If we have regard to emotions as these
occur in the brute, we cannot fail to be
struck by the broad fact that the area of
psychology which they cover is so nearly
coextensive with that which is covered
by the emotional faculties of man. In
my previous works have given what
consider unquestionable evidence of all
the following emotions, which | here
name in the order of their appearance
through the psychological scale-fear.
surprise, affection, pugnacity, curiosity.
jealousy, anger, play, sympathy, emula-
ton, pride, resentment, emotion of the
beautiful, grief, hate, cruelty, benevo-
slence, revenge, rage, shame, regret, de
ceitfulness, emotion of the ludicrous.
Now, this list exhausts all the human
emotions, with the exception of those
which refer to religion, moral sense and
perception of the sublime. Therefore
think we are fully entitled to conclude
that, so far as emotions are concerned,
it cannot be said that the facts of ami
NAL psychology raise any difficulties
against the theory of descent. On the
contrary, the emotional life of animals
is so strikingly similar to the emotional
life of mainland especially of young
children-that | think the similarity
ought fairly to be taken as direct evi,
dence of a genetic continuity between
theme. j. Romanes in Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12
fHE OLD oAkEN BUCKET.
with what anguish o mind remember my chi

with what anguish o. mind remember my child
hood
Recalled In the light Of knowledge since gained.
The malarious farm, the wet. fungus grown wild
wood,
The chills then contracted which since have re
manned;
The scum covered duck pond. the pigsty close
by It.
The ditch where the sour smelling house drain
age fell;
The damp. shaded dwelling. the foul barnyard
nigh it,
But worse than all else was that terrible well.
And the old oaken bucket. the mold crlsted
bucket,
The moss covered bucket that hung In the well
Just think OF it. Moss on the vessel that lifted
The water drank in the days called to mind
Ere knew what professors and scientists gifted
In the water of wells by analysis find:
The rotting wood fiber the oxide of iron.
The alge, the frog of unusual size
The water impure as the verses of Byron,
Are the things remember with tears in my
eyes
And to tell the sad truth. though shudder to
think of it,
considered that water uncommonly clear
And often at noon when went there to drink of it.
enjoyed it as much as | now enjoy beer
How ardent | seized, with hands that were grlmy
And quick to the mud covered bottom it fell
Then reeking with nitrates and nitrites and
Shiny
With matter organic it rose from the well
Obi he'd but realized in time to avoid them
The dangers that urked in that pestilent
draught,
I'd have tested for organic germs and destroyed
them
With potassc permanganate ere had quaffed;
Or perchance I'd have boiled it, and afterward
strained it
Through filters of charcoal and gravel com
bined
Or, after dstilling, condensed and regained it
In potable form, with its filth left behind.
How little knew of the dread typhoid fever
Which lurked in the water ventured to drink;
But since I've become devoted believer
In teachings of science shudder to think
And nov, far removed from the scenes I'm de-
scribing,
The story for warning to others tell,
As memory reverts to my youthful imbibing,
And gag at the thought of that horrible well,
And the old oaken bucket. the fungus grown
! bucket,
In fact, the slop bucket that hung in the well
Christian Advocate
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12
A Porter Who Sees the seamv Side.

at was dat bald headed ole man wild
de yeller chin whiskers, said the colored
porter of the Pullman car, with regretful
cadence, as he leaned against the water
cooler and famed his heated brow with
a soiled towel. "What was?" asked
sympathetic passenger.
''De ole wretch wot guy me fo' cents.
He's gwine to git off at Ro'way, and
seed him dallyin' wild seben quo'ters a
few minutes ago, and done glib him a
hart dollar brush. Deed l did. Brushed
his hat and coat and scratched nine mud
spots off his ohercnat, and den he p1lls
out dem fo' cents, and says he, Sorry
potter, | amt got no mo- change kin
tell you," added the porter with soul
weary look, "dey talk about de po'ters,
but we all cert'nally sees de seamy side.
Yo' git yo' hope way up, and youse gwine
shure huff to git it squashed."
And then, with the air of a man whose
reward is not in this world, the saddened
porter went back into the car and told a
little man with red whiskers to stand up
and be brushed.-New York Tribune.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12
seasick on Land and Sea.

Gen. Horace Porter, in his eulogy of
Abraham Lincoln, said that the great
war president wasn't much as cham
payne drinker. The general recalled
a visit of Mr.. Lincoln to City Point.
On his arrival the general said that
Mr.. Lincoln was suffering from the
gastronomic disturbances incident to
most folks who have sailed on rough
water. "A young staff officer. very
previous he was" said the general,
grabbed bottle of champagne and
thrust it toward Mr.. Lincoln, saying
that that was the very thing he needed.
No, young man, Mr.. Lincoln said, /
have seen too many fellows seasick
ashore from drinking that very arti-
Gle. Detroit Free Press.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12
Natural Gas in Indiana.

Some idea of the vast importance Of
the natural gas interests of Indiana
may be gained from study of the re-
port recently made by the state geolo-
gist. He has been collecting all the
information he could possibly get con-
corning the subject, and from the re-
suits Of his investigation we learn that
the gas area of Indiana is 165 miles in
length by SIS miles in width; alto
gether there are 381 paying wells in
the district. The entire flow of gas is
placed at 900, 900, 900 feet of which, it
is calculated, something like 1000, 900
feet 90 to waste. The average flow of
gas from each well is stated as being
about $50, 900 feet. The report further
mentions the fact that during the past
two years seventy-nine manufactures
have located in Indiana, simply and
solely because of the fact that they
could obtain this fuel Theircombined
capital is stated, in Fire and Water, as
reaching 81, 500, 900, and it is said that
they will employ $500 men.-Scien-
tific American.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12
stranrulation Produces CoIor.tion.

The question is asked why the face
of person who is strangled turns
blackl An answer to this is as fol-
lows: Blood is of two kinds. arterial
or bright blood, a1d venous or dark
blood. The brilliant color Of the arte-
rial blood is due to oxygen which it
carries from the lungs to the tissues;
these rob it Of its charge, and it hur-
ries back to the lungs as dark venous
blood for more. If this regular course
of nature is arrested by strangulation,
which means the compression of the
jugular vein, the venous blood is re-
tanned above the ligature and becomes
less and less oxygenated. Ii the liga-
ture is very tight the carotid arteries
will also be blocked, and no more ar
terial blood will reach the head and
face. And so the result Of strangula-
ton is blackness, or rather purpleness,
of the face-the outcome of an excess
of venous blood and deficiency of oxy-
genation. New York Telegram.