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Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-16

the panel, on the other side hangs little slate whereon memoranda made be made, for it is the housewife's pride to keep the press well stored. and all deficiencies must DC supplied as soon as practicable. Is not this a more praiseworthy ambi- tion than the gathering together of paper butterflies with clothespin bodies; stringy or stiff, picture throws," (more properly spelled throes, as indicative of the pain they sometimes cause the obssrverD dauby paintings in which the paint is conspicu- ous and the Srt invisible, and all the rest of the long category of articles which lack the element of beauty, or of utility or both9 The money spent upon tasteless bric-a-brac might "ftly furnish forth" the chest or press with all kinds of handsome and serviceable napery, well cared for and more enjoyable to look upon and reckon reckon up, than a whole room full of plaques, tidies, scarves and cushions, the outcome of many hours of busy idleness.
 ABOUT SOME WOMEN
 By the death of Miss Caroline c. Thayer of Roxbury, the Boston Public Library will come into possession of her large and valuable collection of books, the acc umula- tion of many years. Already the gifts of herself and her sisters fill Q large room in the library and are counted among it's most valuable possessions.
 Miss Thayer was most enthusiastic lover of books, especially of history and biography, her collection of which, all in choice bindings, number thousands of volumes. In her eighty-sixth year, the last of her life, she continued to buy and read works of this class with unabated enjoyment, at the same flnna raadiny and mo and keeping up keen interest in all mat ters of public importance, discussing with equal eagerness books, topics of the day, or events and personages of days long past. Besides thin she appreciated choice poetry and fiction, and cherished real love for needlework, which she esteemed one of the fine arts and most worthy and wo- manly occupation. The new library build ing on Copley Square is to have a special room devoted to and bearing the name of the Thayer Collection, thus perpetuating the memory of a most generous, sympa- thetic and lovable woman.
 Madame Rosa Bonheur's latest picture, "After Storm in the Highlands" was painted at Fontainebleu, from sketches made in Argyleshire Madame Bonheur, whose life has been given to art, is now in her advanced youth" having reached her seventieth year.
 During the session of the Woman's Ma tional Council at Washington, Miss Fran ces Willard, assisted by Mrs. Ole Bull, cir culated petition, the signers of which bound themselves never to wear the bodies or feathers of birds upon their bonnets. The paper, it is said, received less than two hundred signatures. Evididently, then, many representative women, so-called pre- fer the stiffness of unnaturally- poised wings, twisted heads and perky tails, with their accompanying suggestions of suffer ing, to those lovely creations of muslin, silk and velvet that vie in color and form with the flowers they initiate. It is prob ably only lack of taste on the part of the women. We cannot expect them to have everything. HILARY.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-16
DOME.

eff you must tell a secret impart it to q colored man" "Whyin 'Because it's no trouble for him to keep dark '"-Kate Fields Washington.
 "These trousers are very much worn this season. said the tailor, displaying his goods. ''So are the ones have on, !" replied the poet, sadly.-Life.
 Judge-What trade do you followl
 Vagrant-I am builder
 What do you build!'
 Castles in the sir. r.''-Texas Siftings.
 Customer-Your lO-cent shine isn't as good As your 5-cent one Bootblack-I know it, sir; that's the reason charge more. They injure my reputation Puck
 Two girls about twelve years old talk conhdentially. "What does your papa dor'
 ''Just what mamma wants him to. Exchange.
 'You think you are getting little fly, don't you," said the man to the trout, as he leisurely pulled him in. 'I do seem to be catching on," replied, the trout-Life.
 She-I don't see why so many girls ob- icct to love in a cottage.
 He-I was afraid you would.
 She-I am not so foolish. One of those at Newport would just suit me.-New York Herald.
 Tommy-Paw, what is hold-over sena- tori MT. Figg-The qualifications of hold-over senator vary in different states. In Kentucky he is expected to hold over half gallon without staggering. apolis Jonrnal.
 MT. Bellows-Why are you so very anx- so,,- Al early! Mrs. Bellows (of Chicago)-Be- cause the doctor says you will be another man entirely when you get out there.- New York Herald.
 Ethel-That is portrait of young Lord Fitznoodle"
 Margaret-He appears to be premsturely gray:
 Ethel-Yes; and all the gray matter is on the outside of his head.-Brooklyn Life.
 Featherstone-Is your sister inl Little Willie-Yes, but she's sewing button on a coat, and you may have long time to wait. Festherstone- don't see why. It shouldn't take long to sew a button on a coat. Little Wlllie-It does when there's a man in it.-Clothier and Furnisher.
 Mrs. Desporte looking up from her newspaper)-I really think they will finally do away with prize fighting altogether. MT. D.-What makes you think so, my dear! Mrs. Dwell, think the move ment is in the direction of reform. I just read of fight where they discarded those cruel. ugly, clumsy big gloves and fought with kid gloyes.-Harvard Lsmpoon.
 Mir Suburb (after long weary tramp to his nearest neighbor)-Good evening, Mrs. Lawnmower. I find my wife has not re- turned from her shopping trip to the city, tIo ;g .Ha I.ft ha key here, I presumes Mrs. Lawnmower- No-o. She said it was pity you should have to take such long walk for the key every time she was out, so she put it under the front door mat.-New York Weekly.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-16
Marianne Farnin Eham.
HOUSEHOLD RANCHES,

Very handsome bed-spreads may be made from the coarse honeycomb material now so fashionable as background for darned embroidery. Large patterned figures are stamped upon them, and these are left white, while the entire ground is alarmed with the lustrous linen art thread. The expense of stamping may be saved by cutting out the desired design, an oak leaf or fieur de lys, for instance, from stiff paper, drawing the outline with pencil upon the material, and working it over with Kensington stitch.
 Another method is take one of the ordi nary honeycomb counterpanes and adorn it with alarming of yellow rope linen, leaving the woven figures in relief
 Very delicate and airy-looking spreads may be made of the little Turkish doyleys, and this will be work better suited to the coming season, since the weight and warmth of whole honeycomb spread are hardly desirable on a summer day. The embroid- cred squares are put together with heavy lace insertion, the spread is lined with silk of harmonious tint and the edge finished with rufle of lace.
 For tea cloths, doyleys, bureau-sets, and even for pillow-shams, the tiny floral de- signs known as Dresden are most in vogue. Minute sprigs are scattered over the fine linen surface with systematic irregularity and embroidered with wash floss in natural tints. A favorite combination is the rose, violet and forget-me-not.
 Another pretty fancy is for apphqued embroidery upon fine white linen for aprons. Figures of delicate hued flowers are cut from lowered sateen, are tackled firmly in place upon the linen, either pow | dered over the entire surface or massed in a border and are then buttonholed around with fine white or colored silk.
 In quite another line of home art comes the rejuvenating of an old chest of draw CTS, making it beautiful as well as indis- pensable bit of furniture. Many women are trying a "'prentiee hand" at painting and vanishing and find ing very satisfactory results obtained in much less time than it takes to spot a bit of linen with infnitesimal sprigs of em- broidery. The chest is treated to two coats of white enamel paint. The draw CTS, of course, must be painted separately after their wooden knobs have been re- moved. Brass knobs, or handles, are to be found at any hardware shop, and these, with fanciful escutcheons cut from sheet brass and fastened above the key holes with small, round headed nails, add bright ness and glitter to the ivory tint of the enamel. So embellished, the old chest be- l comes nHuusOuo IccoPbaoho Ao1 oou linen, smoothly laid away with dainty sachets of sweet-smelling lavender among their spotless folds.
 Better than a chest the German house
 mother loves linen press, with doubl, doors and many shelves whereon the liner lies in orderly rows and piles. Each shel has valance of linen edged with lace, ant , perhaps still further ornamented with border of embroidery, or monogram, O , with some concise motto of housekeeper' lore, worked in old German characters. Ol l the inside of one door written inventor, , of the contents of the press is tackled [
Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-16
9t1J 6unds.

Howe & StetsOl. A BIG SUCCESS ! GREAT FoRCED-oUT REMOVAL SALE ! Our very low cut prices ir- ritate our neighbors, the great "History Makers" who have complained to manufacturers about our deep cuts, threaten ing to withdraw their patron age if we continued our re- moval sale prices. The sale will go on just the same, how ever, and our patrons will have the benefit of the lowest prices ever quoted on reliable Dry Goods in New Haven.
 Remember that our prices are sliced down all over the store, through all the depart ments, and that you will find benefit prices wherever you may look and select.
 Housekeepers of all kinds and hotel men will save money to look over our Linens and Quilts, Blankets, Cottons and, in fact, all housekeeping goods and domestics,
 Do not forget to visit the Hosiery and Underwear, Gents Furnishings, Gloves and Hand kerchief Departments also the Ribbons, Laces, Muslin Un- derwear, Notions, Dress Trim mings and Jewelry Depart ments, in all of which money is to be saved on first class, desirable goods.
 Black and Colored Dress Goods, Silks, Velvets, Jackets, Capes, Lace Curtains, Chenille Portieres, Scrims and Draperies all marked down.
 Latest and newest styles Parasols and Sun Umbrellas, all greatly reduced in price.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-16

rope so far this week. This is great, ,glo- rious and comparatively rich country, but it can't afford to send out gold at this rate.
 You can't confuse tho intelligent con- positor One of our esteemed contempo- raries describes the Japanese assailant of the czarewitch as belonging to sect "noted for their fanatical hospitality to foreign ers'
 The jury system occasionally gets hard blow. A man and woman indicted by the grand jury at Holyske for adultery, were tried before different juries, and although the evidence in both cases was the same, the man was found guilty and the woman not guilty
 A New York man who wanted to see how cheaply boy of fourteen could be clothed took the youth to a Bowery store and got him suit of clothes, cap, shoes, necktie and stockings for $1.51. This boy will be Mckinley Republican in few years.
 There's nothing true but Heaven. A manufacturer of mummies was recently sentenced to jail for five months by g court at Alexandria, Egypt. He was very skillful in preparing mummies from the dried skins of donkeys and brought them into trade as mummies of tho old Egyptian kings. All tho donkey skins he could got | were worked over into defunct Pharaohes who in chronological order flooded the market. When the old kings where ex- hausted, the priests of Ammon had to serve the purpose, and Baron Rothschild, in Paris, possesses one of these prepared donkey skins, for which he paid its weight in gold.
 respondent of the London Times de- scribes queer little kingdom which has been discovered on the Limpopo River, Africa, not far from the point which Lord Randolph Churchill has set out to reach. Not the latest queer feature of the king. dom is the King, Lobenoula, who has seventy-eight queens. His palace and throne is an ox-cart. Surrounding this are the huts of his wives. The King is ffty-six years old, maintaining himself with great dignity towards his people and foreign envoys. although he wears nothing but bead sash. Life in .aa ox-cart hai charms for him. Traders have found that he is very fond of beer, but does no like champagne, and when they give it te him turns it over to his wives as not be ing fit for king to drink.
 Pluck and luck will do great things for man. Dr. W. R. Lee, of Springfield
 Ohio, who has been appointed royal physi
 elan to the King of Siam, is only twenty
 eight years of age. Only four years ag
 he was driving an express wagon and de
 livering express packages in Springfield
 He was youthful, of handsome appearance of fine physique, of rare intelligence an, was always active in church work. Hi friends raised a fund of over $1,O00 t
 assist Mr. Lee in taking course at tn e University of New York to fit himself fo :, medical missionary. He was graduate ! with high honors in the class of 1890, an
 after his marriage with 3 young Canadia
Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

$7,7O0, 900 in gold has been sent to Eu- rope so far this week. This is great, ,glo- rious and comparatively rich country, but it can't afford to send out gold at this rate
Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-16

The jury system occasionally gets hard blow. A man and woman indicted by the grand jury at Holyske for adultery. were tried before different juries, and although the evidence in both cases was the same, the man was found guilty and the woman not guilty
Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-16

You can't confuse the intelligent com positor. One of our esteemed contempo- raries describes the Japanese assailant of the czarewitch as belonging to sect ''noted for their fanatical hospitality to foreign
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-31
The Strasburx Cleck.

The present clock in the Cathedral OF
Strasburg was built in 1sSS by German
clockrnaker and machinist named Schwil-
que II, however, replaced similar CLOCK
which was built in ISL. and which IN turn
took the place Of an earlier clock that, ac-
cording TO local records, was constructed
in the Thirteenth century By Al unknown
clocknaaker- Many pieces of the two former
clocks enter into the mechanism OF that
which Is now regarded as the pride OF the
city, and il is believed that the main feat
ures OF all three were identical The remark
able points of this great timepiece are its
calendars and its display of automatA The
quarter hours al all times Of the day and
night are struck by an angel with ham
mer, while by the angels side an allegori-
cal figure turns an hour glsse ~ the bell L.
struck
A skeleton. surrounded by figures repre-
senting childhood. youth, manhood and
Old age, tolls the hours, while various de-
tiles, symbolical of the day OF the week.
show themselves AZ each hour. AT noon
the twelve Apostles pass in review before
the Savior, who, with ousspresd hands,
gives his benediction; cock Crows, Satan
appears and claims Judas, and ether anfo-
rzta go through various movements more
or less replete with meaning The caien-
dars ara IS wonderful ~ the mechanism.
vince b. them are indicated nOs only IL
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-31

MOSU OF US niue DeDluu UlSSulSeS.
Some do it innocently, from shyness.
They shrink from standing in naked per-
sonality before the world. So they cloak
themselves in mannerisms. Usually there
are lonely souls which brood over them
selves. Thus in isolated farmhouses,
whittier the poets send us for the simplici-
ties of nature, one is likely to find more
affectations and tricks of manner than in
our city dwellings.
The affectation of quality, of an &C
complishment, is a covert roguery. The
overt rogue picks your pocket in his game
of hide and-seek with society. But the
man who would win your esteem, admira-
ton, affection. confidence, by appearing TO
be what he is not. is rogue so subtle that
he often ends in deceiving himself.
There is the sweet infantile creature who
shippers and writhes, and drops her chin to
look up from under her lashes, and uses all
manner of guile 10 show you how guileleSs
she is. There is the strong minded woman
who talks in chest tones, is always posi-
tive, and holds advanced opinions on all
points - borrowed opinions, since the
strength of her mind is not in the direction
OF originating any There are the ignorant
people who affect culture.
This sort of dishonesty gulls only the
duliard. Such Alterations are open adver-
tisements of poverty, since no one affects
what he possesses. Bazaar.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-31
Luxury of the Bonapartes Criticised.

The luxury of the courts founded by Ma
y,leon, it is opportune to observe here, was
absurd. The luxury of the Bonapartes
was neither German nor French. 1t was a
medley-a kind Of learned luxury. There
was a touch of gravity in it, as in that of
Austria. There was something half Eu-
ropean, half Asiatic, borrowed from st,
Petersburg. There were few imperial
mantles taken from the old Rome of the
Caesars. But, on the other hand, there was
very little visible of that ancient court of
France where the art of good taste yelled
the gorgeousness of personal adornment.
What this kind of luxury displayed was
an utter lack of propriety, and in France
whenever les convenanceS are lacking rid
icule is not far off.
This Bonaparte family, coming from a
lonely isle which was barely French, and
where it lived in mean circumstances,
having for its chief man of genius whose
elevation was due to military laurels won
at the head of republican armies, which
armies were themselves the outcome of q
democracy in state of ferment-should
not this family have discarded the old lux
ury and adopted new method even in re-
lation to the lighter side of life? Would
not noble simplicity have made it more
imposing and inspired confidence in its pow
er and its durability? Instead of this, the
Bonapartes so far deluded themselves as TO
believe that childish imitation of the
kings whose thrones they had taken was
one way of succeeding acknowledgement s
Memoirs in Century.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-31
A Wild Idea.

Said a prominent patent attorney: "A
wild eyed and bushy bearded man entered
my Office the other day and gravely pro-
posed that l should present to the patent
office at Washington his scheme for firing
cannon ball to the moon. His idea,
briefly put, was that a cannon ball might
be constructed big enough and loaded with
sufficiently heavy charge of a high ex-
piosive to fire the bali outside of the at
traction of gravitation on the earth, and
once beyond the earth's atmosphere be ar
gued that it would be attracted to the
moon and eventually find lodgment there.
81 settled him by going to my library
and taking out a magazine more than
twenty years old in which the late Pro-
fessor Ingraham had set forth q precisely
similar fancy, with the exception that in
Ingraham's case it was purely scientific
skit, while my would-be client imagined
that he had got hold of q new idea. But
it is difficult to show his folly to fanatic,
and he left my Office swearing that he
would 20 to some other attorney who pos
sessed more brains than had "-Philadel-
mia Press
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-31

A Fulton street dealer in birds and ami
mails does quite trade in chameleons
These quaint little creatures are affected
as pets by people both in and out of the
400. The cost of a chameleon is from two
to five dollars, according to the season of
the year. They are brought from Mexico.
and the location from which they are
taken is kept strict secret. The cha
meleon apparently feeds on air, as they are
known TO exist for months without taking
food or water. The tame ones, however.
will eagerly take fly or small insect from
the hand of their owners.
Those people who affect chameleons as
pets keep the little creatures in box. the
bottom of which is divided into differently
coiored squares. When the chameleon
moves from one portion of the box TO the
other he changes his color in conformity
with the squares on which he is resting.
Hence as show pet he is interesting and
valuable.-New York News.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-31
Just across the street from the office, and |

just across the street from the office, and
Mr.. Hesing called on Schmidt, the new
man, to Ego over and take look at it,"
Mr.. Hesing and Schmidt stood on the office
steps for short time and then the former
left for his home. The blaze was a serious
one, and all the morning papers but one
gave the item from one-third to one half
column. The exception was The Stats
Zeitung.
Mr.. Hesing always talks English when
he is angry, so when he called for dot fell
low Schmidt" we all knew things for the
new reporter were not going to be so pleas
ant as might be. Schmidt appeared before
his chief. Ivy didn't you write up dot
fire2" asked Mr.. Hesing. Ivy. you saw
de whole blazes yourself. Vat vas der use
of writing it? If you hadn't seen dot fire
! would have written Something's" Mr..
Eesing was hot. 81 tell you vot you do,
Schridt," yelled the editor. wen any
body asks you vas you working NIT der
Stats Zeitung, you yust tells dem no.
Interview in St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-31

The French navy has not been allow to
avail itself OF the many reccnt adaptations
Of electricity to modern naval warfare. and
besides the lighting Of its ships, the work.
ing Of guns, windlxsses, ammunition Aoists
and other devices by electric power. Is has
fitted up many OF its ships with special
telephone sets. The parts OF these instru-
ments are so constructed as not 20 be dam
aged by damp. even II dipped in SEA water
for several hours The line has five wires
with distinct circuit for tia bell Ex-
periments show that speaking is distinct
even when the firing Of the big guns is go-
ing on.-New York Commercial Adver>
tiaer
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-31
Imagination in sickness.


he power OI lulaSiu6tiOus SdIes an up
town druggist, sis past comprehension.
Not long since domestic in the employ Of
prominent family came into the store in
great haste with prescription which called
for two grains of morphine in two ounces
of aqua pura-that is, distilled water, the
accompanying direction reading, "A tea
spoonful every hour until the pain is al
layed.' The patient for whom it was in
tended was the head of the family, who
was suffering from severe attack OF nerv-
Gus neuralgia.
"Now, it so happened that the family
physician who had written the prescrip-
ton was behind the counter when the
messenger arrived, having dropped in, az
was his wont. on the way to his office.
While was putting up the prescription
we chatted and laughed and joked, and
passed the time of day as only professional
men are capable of doing. filed the bot
tie, corked it carefully, and labeled it prop
sriy, and when the retreating form of the
domestic had disappeared out Of the store
door, returned to my companlonable physi-
clan visitor. As l did so I saw TO my
amazement the two grains Of morphine
reposing upon the prescription 1Dles.
Doctor, CALCULATED, I've given that
girl nothing but distilled water. The
morphine is here; look at it. What shall
dos'
"'Do' he replied, with admirable sang
froid, dor Why nothing at all. III wager
Eou that the aqua pura will work as well
without the opiate as with it,
Agreed said /. And do you know"
concluded the pharmacist, ''the doctor was
.s~xI,@ ov,l $ka NO
neuralgia-ane exceptionally intelligent and
college bred man-was sleeping as peace
fully as babe after the second dose of the
mixture Faith is everything where
medicine is concerned New York Times