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baggage usually has to be paid for and il an
endless bother. The tourist who makes $500
answer will pay no larger fees to walters and
boots than II native would do. The funkeys
at the cheaper hotels do not expect large
fees. Be will take n lodging in London, il
he stays there above four days. London
lodgings are usually dirty, but not always
de will take breakfast at a coffee house,
lunch at a vegetarian restaurant, and tor
OFT with a square meal at night and the
cheapest seat in the theater.
In Paris he will select a hotel in the Latin
quarter, which is the most convenient as
we'll as cheapest part of the city. and pay
from so to rs cents for lodging and break
fast, 20 cents for lunch and % to 80 cents
for a table d'hote dinner, which will not be
at all bad. Paris and London, with a total
necessary expense of 81 to $1.5O day,
bring down the average wonderfully.
The economical tourist will afford him
self some Injuries. He will walk when he
can-certainly for two weeks in Switzer-
land and W or three days in the lake dis
trict of England, where the coach and the
diligence are the recognized and expensive
means of conveyance. He will buy an etch-
ing or two when he gets to Amsterdam
and a lot of salon photographs in Paris.
In Brussels he will get a fine lace handker-
chief for his sweetheart. The $3.50 a day
must cover all this.
The economical tourist las more fun thar
the thousand dollar man. He sees more of
the countries he passes through, learns
more of their languages. gets a better idea
of their daily life: and he always comes
homo a better American than when he
went. while the man who puts up at the
best hotels is sometimes SPOILED for Citizen
ship here by the luxury and the toadyinp
there. At least that's my con
%clusion, from observation and experience.
j. w. VALLEY.
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Copyright.
GOOD AND BAD BOOK BEER.

The Former Must Have Been Brewed at
Least Three Months.
/ The foreman of a big brewery uptown
that has a capacity of 10000 barrels said to
a New York News reporter about the frauds
perpetrated by some brewers on the con-
sumers of book beer.
THE best book beer" he said, lis made
out of superior malt and hops and is a third
stronger than the ordinary beer. 1t should
have an age of three or four months MT
least before it is put on the market. MANY
of the small brewers, however, with n ca
pacity of say 1900 barrels, send their beer
out when 1T is only Il few weeks old. These
brewers who have very little capital want to
turn their money over as rapidly lis posi-
BILE. Moreover, their storage capacity being
so small they cannot afford to keep the beer
very long. The beer we are senCing out
to-day was brewed i'll December. In
Germany. the first Sunday in May sees the
first of the book beer, while in this country
some brewers have ii out in February, and
Others in March and April. The regular
time, however, is the last week in April, or
the tirst week in May"
AS there are about 1900 breweries in the
country, and all of them put GU more OF
less book beer, the statement of the fore
man is of great interest SO far rs the public
health Is concerned.
IA SNiuS JllNt VI buS pptTu or nenltl
expressed himself freely on the subject.
Beer that has not fermented PROPERLY"
he said. lis certainly very deleterious. be-
cause the fermentiug germs still present in
the beer will develop great activity In the
stomach and derange tho digestive func-
TONS"
Persons with weak digestions vomit and
are seriously affected. Fermentation is due
to the development of n germ in the beer,
tho yeast germ or saccharomice ceriviciae.
This germ attacks saccharine matter in the
beer, and splits it up into alcohol and orr
bonic acid. If this is not checked either by
heat or the addition of alcohol, or some
other substance. another fermentation called
%acetous takes place. 1t is commonly known
as souring, II it is during this fermentu-
tion that sarcini are developed. 1t is this
latter fermentation which gives rise to
digestive disorders.
"A blending of new and old beer is, ac-
cording to brewers, occasionally practiced. |
with, il is said, no deleterious effects. II
Is, perhaps, TO this reprehensible practice
TINT many of tho deleterions effects on the !
digestive organs which sometimes follow
the consumption of considerable uuantit les
of poor grades of lager beer are to be
IL is often asserted to be the fact
that beer drinkers, who have daily drunk
from twenty to twenty five glasses of pood
beer with apparent i%mpunity, experience
disagreeable results from the habitual con-
of much smaller quantities of |
poor varieties"
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DOING EUROPE FOR $500.
Hints for the Economical Tourist
Who Wishes to go Across
the Ocean.
A Kansas City Man Made the Trip
for q Very Little
Money.
One Hund red Dollars n Month Will Cover
all Necessary Expenses---Things
Not To be Done.

KANSAS Cry, April 14.-About Il year ago
n ticket agent, hearing that l was going
abroad, tried to sell ING a we'll planned tour
ticket issued by a %"personally conducted''
man, at an expense Of about 5000, every
thing included.
my dear sir" said ], sin the first place ]
want to stay two or three weeks longer. and
in the second place l can't afford your price.
l have only $500 to spend"
The ticket man laughed long and loud.
why" said he, "if you stay as long as
that, it'll cost you nearer a thousand. We
get the very lowest prices on everything.'
And, indeed, there ia a pretty general idea
that a thousand dollars is about right. For
do not the 100 600 Americans who 90 abroad
annually spend all of 500, 600, 900, including
the money that goes for little purchases
they do not wish the custom house people
to see?
But $500 is enough. and the trip is worth
it. can prove the former statement by
carefully verified quotations from my own
expense occount. The latter needs no
proof.
Here is how a single man spends a thou
sand dollars or over upon a three months
tour:
ateaniship tickets ;...-...... g. $50. $50 to $50
= .eamship It ewards' free......... 25 to 90
travelling ard hotel expenses. 60
days .........."....:..-... 400 to GOO
Fees. museums, photographs, beg
gars. calls, omnibuses. theatre
tickets. etc. 200 to 800
Looming bouG ht... :........... 100 to zoo
Keepsakes and incidentals; 90. l.. :.
This estimate would cover the expenses
of travelling in good. but not extravaganza,
style. 1t takes a little longer to tell how it
can be done for $500.
In the first place, the common custom of
taking a Liverpool return ticket is expen-
sive, both of time and money. After seeing
England thoroughly and getting to the con-
tinent, it is a waste of both to cross the
channel again and railroad the whole
length of England before setting sail for
home. 1t is better to go by Liverpool and
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return by Antwerp, which can bedone with
out extra expense. Still better, avoid Liv-
erpool altogether and take one of the
cheaper Glasgow lines, returning by way of
Amsterdam. First-class passage tickets by
these lines come from 1926 to $50 cheaper
thar tine Liverpool return tickets, besides
saving a good deal of railroading and one
channe passage.
Second class return tickets, emitting one
to make the voyage with perfect comfort,
are obtainable at from $50 to $40 up to $50
by the fines boats aloat. The latter rate
than tirst-class tickets on second class
boats, but most Americans would prefer the
latter alternative. Not always. though. l
know of six young Harvard students who
both went and returned in the Storage for
$40 each. Another friend did the same for
SS6, going alone; and for the remaining ~
of the $50 he had saved, enjoyed Il limited
but interesting trip abroad. He must have
nearly starved himself, however, because
ho enjoyed Storage Irish stew on the return
voyage. Fortunately this sort of thing isn't
necessary to the wealthy young man with
$500. He can go first class and flint with
the pretty girls all the way, for which
amusement there's no place under heaven
like an ocean steamer.
Once we'll across the Atlantic the active
warfare begins. Ii the traveller has the
resolution to definitely limit his stay in
England he will do we'll to go by Glasgow
and get the long June twilight on the Scot
fish hills. Scotland will discourage him,
however, as it is the most expensive travel
in Europe. For this reason, he will proba-
bly, not go to Oban, which is interesting
but not more so than dozens of places yet
to see, but go from Glasgow to Edinburgh
by way of Roy Roy and Roderiok Dhu
county-Loch Lomond and the Trosachs.
From Edinburgh n natural route would be:
Melrose. Abbottsford, Durham, Nork-more
interesting than Chester and much cheaper
lincoln, Oxford, Windsor, London. A
detour between Melrose and York will take
in the lovely Lake district, which is we'll
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THE DARkIES DID NOT BITE.
Free Rabbits and Free Guns No Tempta
ton at This Season.

Free Rabbits and Free Guns No Tempta.
ton at This Season.
The readers of this paper are familiar
with the great quantity of rabbits there are
in Australia, the damage The,
commit by eating up the crops and by
biting off the bark from the Young fruit
trees, and how futile nave been the efforts
to these pests, says a Raleigh,
N. o., correspondent of the New York
Times: A large reward is now standing,
offered by the government, for some means
to kill out the rabbits without lmpairine
the health of the people.
Capt. j. w. Lee. drummer of the Ameri-
can Tobacco company, who has been sta
toned In Australia the past two years, is
now at home in this city. He saws the
damage done by the rabbits is constantly
increasing, II that it is a great drawback
to the farmers. The rabbits breed every
month IN the year, owing to the mildness
of the climate. The captain told the
authorities of the love of our North Caro-
lima darkies for brer rabbit and of their
propensity for and delight in hunting the
toothsome animal. He suggested that the
Importation of 10000 young. negro gentle
men, between the ages of eighteen and
thirty. by the Australian government,
would be the best means of Kidding that
country of the rabbit.
The captain says he was authorized to en-
gage this number of negroes for the Aus
trailan government at one dollar per day,
Sunday included, for five years. the negroes
to be furnished with breech-loading shot
guns of the latest patent, and liked ammu-
milton by the government, and to do moth
ing but kill rabbits. Arrangements have
been made by the government to dispose of
the dead rabbits to fertilizer companies
organized by the government for the pur-
pose of consuming the dead rabbits. The
good crops of the past year, the distance to
Australia, and possibly the propinquity to
the LIST of April make it difficult for the cap
tain to find many negroes who agree to GO
back with him, though they admit the great
delight they would take in numbering the
rabbits. The captain reports Australia as a
very pleasant country. and speaks III the
highest terms of tho government. He has
no doubt that tho negroes would like that
country, and that they would be we'll
treated. He has no hopes of getting any
considerable number to go back with him
next month.
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An Early Riser's OUTFIT,

A recent electric novelty is a combination
clock and call-bell which is intended fol
those unfortunate people who have to tum
pie out of bed at unreasonable hours. and
for whom the ordinary alarm clock hns NOT
sufficient staying power to arouse from Il
sound sleep.
An ordinary clock is electrically con,
nected with the call bell. which, when it
once starts off, does not stop ringing until
tho circuit Is broken. As this can only be
accomplished by ones getting out of bed,
the chances Tor the apparatus to accomplish
It's mission arc excellent.
Argent advantage this invention possesses
over the ommon alarm clock il that tho
alarm does not require any winding to set
1t, but III always ready to perform its deadly
work at the appointed hour.
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sailing from Amsterdam. This tour, which
admits OF wide variation, involves no doub-
ling or retracing, and only II long rail
road journey. Italy can hardly DO brought
into n 500 tour. but the economical tourist
can console himself by rejecting how many
OF his coHntrymen and women die of Ko-
mar fever every Bnrnmer A small addi-
ton would bring III Berlin, Munich and
even Vienna.
The lowest expense of this trip. every
thing included, may be tabulated something
like this, using my W account as the ba-
sis;
Steamship tickets, second or first
Stewards feen. ..."...'... 'S to 10
AZ expenses abroad. 60 days. at
,tb@''o. ...'....-....t.. ,...., sl30 100
h'epSakcs, etc. ......."...s...,. 90.
Either OF these sums leaves enough to
take q man back home again, if he lives be-
yond The mississippi, n II reasonable al
ioWance OF photograph and keepsake money.
It's better not to try to gfnuggle any cloth
ing, as it can be bought toquite as good ad-
vantage at home. 30 / have made no esti-
mate for that.
The daily allowance of $3.50 for all ex-
penses. travelling, museum fees, washing,
Rratuities and guide books, is ample with
economy. 1t might be lone for a quarter
,ess, especially If the stay. is short in Britain,
which IL the most expensive country visited.
Ii Is said in Europe that only fools and
Americans travel by railway iirst-class. Do
AZ the natives do and go third class. 1t il
good enough and about half as expensive.
Besides. the company, il not so we'll dressed,
10 more polite. 10 estimate the cost of any
railroad trip in Europe measure the dis
lance on the map and reckon at two cents q
mile, always third class.
The economical tourist will have plenty
OF guide books, because they more than pay
their way. He will select a hotel from the
list given for each town, taking one of the
cheapest. 1t is a good rule to take the last
'starred' hotel in Baedeker. It will usual
ly be found endurable except in England,
and there nearly as good as the best, which
are bad.
The economical tourist will never take a
cab or hack. They are much cheaper tina n
here, but they count up. To avoid hacks he
will carry only a gripsack of modest dimen-
slons. A larger one can be checked from
point to point. On the continental railways
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: MIR. AND MRS. CHAPMAN
!: request the pleasure OF your company
A.: ut the marriage of their daughter
. E~SCLAIaMoNpE
+: Mr.. GERALD FIT2 GERALD
: Thursday, June rs, at Twelve O'clock
. st. Peters Church.

-
Another card is enclosed to those who are
asked to the reception.
After these cards are out tho finncee must
not appear at the opera, the theater or
balls.
In asking n young lady to be her brides
maid the bride is supposed to be actuated
by feelings of relationship or friendship,
although fashion and wealth and other con
siderations often influence these invita-
tions. Each bridesmaid is expected to give
n handsome present. The groom asks men
of his own nge and OF his intimate ac-
quaintances.
They must be unmarried men, and nre OK
pected to manage all matters at the church.
Music should play softly through the rre-
paratory entrance OF the family, The
mother of the bride and her nearest reln-
tives precede her into the church and are
seated before she enters, unless the
mother be n widow and give the bride
away, n very touching md beau
tiful ceremony. After the which
should be conducted with great dignity and
oomposure on all sides. for exhibitions of
feeling in public are in the worst possible
taste, the officiating Clergyman shakes
hands with the young couple and congratu-
lates them. The bride takes her husbands
right arm and they walk down tho broad
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worth while, especially in tho rare DAYS of
June. From London to Paris the cheapest
way is by Newhaven md Dioppe, and is
also the best, since 1t gives n peep at
kouen, tho most interesting town in
Franco. bar Paris. From Paris one goes to
to Switzerland direct, and from that won
derlana of snow mountains and manure
hsapa down the Rhine to Cologne. with n
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A ME- Y.

How fair shc WAS. lis years ago
Blu | behold her vet,
She sat within tho iirolight's glow
The night that first we met '
How tnir sho was! Her very dress
Wa all ot snowy fur,
II .was. no wonder. | c~onfess,
fell in love with her. .
How beautiful sho seemed To me!
Her v%oice-l hear Il still
Flowed sof'er than tho melody
VI any summer tiil;
] SAW her Dyes all-golden shine.
IA In the glow va sat.
She was -ah, would she now were mino,--
A perfect Persian cat!
Temple Bar.
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Builders and Manufacturers Exchange

The attention of evory member of the
exchange is called to the meeting to DO held
next Monday evening, April 20. At that
date it is purposed TO make n thorough re-
vision of the constitution and by-iawE prior
to having the new edition published. Az il
takes II three-fourths vote of the member
ship to amend the constitution. a full At.
tendance 10 necessary.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-05-29
wild Geese and Electric Lights.

The night was still and dark, writes a
Kansas correspondent, and as the birds
few over the city SOM of the geese
would get ~bewildered by the bright light
of the electric lamps and circle round and
round the light, squawkinga as if lost. The
ducks do not seem to care for the excite
ment of city life, and go quietly on their
way, but a goose is SO supremacy curious
that he can hardly pass an electric light
without flying round and examining it.
About two years ago there was a terrific
thunder storm in this city 1and vicinity,
during which a flock of geese, number
ing probably 200, entered the city and
5000 became bewildered by the storm.
Some Of them, it is said, even lit on the
roofs of houses; but certain it is that at
half-past 4 or s in the morning there was
a great flock of geese sitting in the light
of the arc lamp, IN tho corner of Main
and Fort streets, in the center of the
town. This, of course, is an exceptional
case, and would probably never have
happened if it had not been for the storm,
but why they should be SO irresistibly at
tracted toward a light as to lose all fear
of mans habitations and to alight in the
middle of the street has always been a
wonder to me.-F0rest and Stream.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-05-29
The Spoon Fad.

Seldom has a fad taken so surely and
spread so quickly as that for souvenir
spoons. Its bids fair to pervade the
length ard breadth of the land. 1t is,
perhaps, hardly necessary to explain that
these spoons take their names from their
design and decoration, the "Liberty
~spoon,r for instance, having a fac-simile
of the old Liberty bell etched in its bowl
and appropriate emblems on the handle,
while the handle Of the " Whittier" ter
inmates in a faithful reproduction of the
features of the venerable poet. There
are souvenir spoons galore, representing
celebrated Americans, among them the
Longfeflow, Lincoln and Grant spoons ;
and old towns of historic interest have
each one or more memorial spoons. For
tunately these spoons combine usefulness
with beauty. They are made in a variety
of shapes and sizes to serve as tea,
coffee and desert spoons, and there
are specially formed spoons for oranges,
and spoons with fancy bowls for almonds,
bon-bons and the like. A family may,
therefore, make a fine collection OF these
souvenirs, with no more improvidence
than would be felt in securing an assort-
ment after the old monotonous fashion.
These commemorative spoons furnish a
new fund for conversation at teas and
dinners and greatly please the little folk
with their object lessons in history.
Among New York souvenirs are the Lib
erty and Knickerbocker; Washington has
her George Washington and White
House spoons, while New England IS TO
the front with the Moll Pitcher, and the
Witch spoons, the Plymouth Rock, Paul
Revere, Dexter aud a score OF Others
-Nea York World.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-05-29
The Fur Seals in Behring Sea.

Every spring the seals appear in
droves from their unknown winter quar-
tiers, and settle down on the Pribylov
Islands, some 200 miles away from the
mainland of Alaska. The males come
first, accompanied by the young seal
pups born during the previous summer,
and choose their respective homes on the
rocks. The females follow three weeks
later-meek little creatures, in steel gray
garb, very different from the big brown
male seals, with their fighting propensi-
ties. Often one seal possesses twenty
wives, and he has a hard task to defend
his home and family from his ueighbors,
Indeed, the old seals fight like furies, be-
coming covered with scars aud terrible
wounds, and sometimes losing an eye or
part of a fiipper in a fray. Most of the
fighting is done with the mouth. The
combatants approach each other with
averted heads and sly looks, till suddenly
thsy utter a shrill piping whistle, and
engage with their sharp canine teeth, the
hair flies the blood flows amid much furl.
Gus believing. The young bachelors
from one to five years old-herd together
in their own quarters at a respectful dis
lance, till they are strong enough to
fight for wife and home. -Seientiit
american.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-05-29
A Curious Indian Tunnel.

A curiosity in the shape of an old in
cline tunnel was unearthed at the Homer
Lake mines in Georgia recently. The
mouth of the tunnel was walled up with
rocks, as il it had been ~purposely closed
and covered over with dirt to prevent its
discovery. Below the mouth of this
tunnel in tho sluice ditch the work.
men have found about six tons oil
very rich ore, which they believe came
from a vein in the tunnel.
There is DO one, eve among the oldest
of inhabitants, that can remember when
this tunnel and some old shafts were dug,
but tradition has it that the mine was
worked by a white man and some Indians
fifty years ago, and that it was very rich,
and the %presumtion now is that when the
Indians left the couutry they closed up
the tunnel and filed up the shafts to pre-
vent their rich mine from being worked
by the 'spale faces" As yet no explor-
alton has been made, but a force of hands
Is now at work cleaning it out, and in a
few days 1t will be thoroughly examined.
-Atlanta Constitution.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-05-29
The Value OF Asbestos.

Asbestos is now being extensive rely EN-
ployed for protection purposes in work.
shops, foundries and mills to guard
against the danger of burning the hands
and face, and generally to make work
ing IN hot metals a safer and more COM
Portable occupation. Asbestos mittens
to guard the hands are made for firemen,
assayers, %reiners, etc., and armed with
a pair the artisan or worker can grasp
hot irons, crucibles and the like without
discomfort. Masks, too, are made OF
asbestos, which are a fireproof, and the
heat from the hottest fire is said not to
penetrate to the skin. Air is drawn
from beneath the mask for the purpose
of breathing, 50 that the burned or flame
and smoke laden atmosphere is not in
hailed. Aprons and insulated coverings
for the entire body are also constructed,
have like protective qualities, and for
iremen complete suits of asbestos fire.
proof cloth arc made. Plumbers are
likely to welcome asbestos cloth for joint
wiping, and larger holders, intended for
use by smelters, moulders and workers
in metal generally, are among the most
recent uses of this mineral. The asbes-
tos thus prepared is very flexible, and
even the mittens are sufficiently pliable
to permit of small objects being readily
picked up and held in the hand wearing
them.-.4msrican Manufacturer.