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They Eat as Dickens Told Them.

A good story is told at one of the ho-
tells here about SOME of the English di-
vines who are in the city in attendance
upon the Methodist ecumenical council.
It was noticed that at the hour set down
for dinner on the card posted in each
room giving the rules of the house these
English preachers would gather about
the doors of the dining room and when
they were opened would make wild
rush inside, and to seat themselves hasti-
ly at the first table they reached and to
begin to eat as quickly as possible.
The landlord was puzzled to know the
cause of this strange conduct on the part
of his foreign guests. Inquiry developed
the fact that these reverend gentlemen
had before coming over posted them
selves on American customs by reading
Dickens american Notes" and tMar-
tin Chuzzlewit." The scene in the latter
descriptive of the effect of the hotel din
ner gong causing everybody to quit
whatever he was doing and make rush
for the dining room lest he should fail
to get any dinner they took as gospel
truth and were governing their own con-
duct accordingly. = Washington Cor.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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An Aeronaut,s Experience.

A story is told of the thrilling ex-
perience of a veteran aeronaut with a
bald eagle and Connecticut constable.
During a recent ascension, when at a
height of 5000 feet, the balloonist was
attacked by the eagle. A desperate fight
ensued. which resulted in the eagle being
killed. Half fainting, the aeronaut
descended to terra firma, When he had
recovered he hunted for and found the
dead bird. While he was examining his
prize the constable came along and ar
rested him for killing the bird, for which
offense, he claimed, a fine of $50 is i'm
posed. The aeronaut, it is related, had
more difficulty in escaping punish
ment than he had in killing the bird
Boston Journal
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ParnelI,s Brother.

According to an Atlanta paper
seedy looking man, not quite fifty and
wearing a discouraged and colorless
slouch hat, with suit to match, stood
before the bulletin boards in Atlanta the
other day to get glimpse of dispatches
about the death of Charles Stewart Par
nell. The man was John Parnell, a
brother of the Irish leader, who has
spent the latter years of his life tending
fruit trees on a little farm seventy-fve
miles from Atlanta. 81 cannot believe
that he is dead" said he. ''The only
thing that makes me believe the report
is the statement that he died suddenly.
There were twelve children in our fam
lily, six of whom are dead, and every one
of the six died suddenly. Our sister
Fanny, who died last, was found dead in
bed. Charles, and in fact all of us, are
subject to attacks of nervous prostra-
ton, and if he is dead this must have
caused his death. He loved us all, and
but short time ago he wrote me most
affectionate letter."
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rhe Formatiop OF Tumore.

The oldest theory by which it was at
tempted to account for the origin of
tumors ascribed it to peculiar state of
the system, a ''cancerous diathesls,
which rendered the tissues of the body
liable to ''cancerous degeneration. The
great answer to this theory is the large
number of cases now on record in which
complete cure of the disease has been at
tanned by early and thorough operation,
for.if the tu1nor does not return at its
previous site or elsewhere it is manifest
that its cause must have been a local
cne and must have been removed with
the tumor.
The coexistence of several tumors has
been advanced as proof that there was a
constitutional taint, but more careful
pathological work has shown that in al
most every case it can be proved that
where there are several tumors one is
considerably older than the rest, and
that the latter are secondary and owe
their existence to an infection from the
first. The old theory also fails to ex-
plain why the cancerous growth remains
confined to one small portion of the body
for so long a time; and why, after re-
moval, it persists in returning to the
same locality; whereas both of these
facts become clear at once on the suppo-
sition that cancer is a local disease
Harper's.
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a Doctor who refused a Fortune.


DR.. Cover, of Brighton, carried in his
pocket a competency for life when he
left the house on Walsingham terrace
with the knowledge of Parnell's death;
for Parnell died at midnight, and the
doctor could have realized fortune by.
selling the exclusive news of the event to
any of the richer papers in London or
New York
1t was so when Gambetta died at in
the morning. At midnight he was pro-
nounced convalescent. The death watch
of reporters was relaxed. Yet one of
them, Frenchman, member of small
Partisan news agency, came out of wine
shop at early morning and saw a maid
servant running across the grass.
t'The master is dead" she called to
him. He stood there in great perplexity.
To whom should he sell the news? He
hesitated between the Paris, London
and New York p apers. He finally cabled
thus, "Gambetta died at this morn
ing" The dispatch reached New York
Office at ten minutes before 3, there
being five hours difference between Paris
and New York. Half page of accom-
panying matter was given to the COM
positors, and at twenty minutes past
the whole story was on its way to the
stereotypers.
The reporter is still living on the pro-
ceeds of his ''beat;" and the sensation of
Gambettas death was nothing to that of
Parnell.-New York Truth.
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The Ancient schoo1master.

A roll measuring about fifteen feet
long, containing poems hitherto un-
known of Herodius in Seazon or cho-
hambic meter, has just been exhibited
in the manuscript department. of the
British museum. One of the poems is
entitled ''The Schoolmaster. A mother
appears before the master called Lam
priscus. She is accompanied by her son,
and entreats the pedagogue to fog him
within an inch of his life because the
boy is the terror of her existence. He
has nearly ruined her by playing pitch
and toss, he associates with the lowest
characters of the town, and if he is
asked to spell the name of Maron he
turns it into Simon; in fact, he has en-
tirely got beyond the control of his par
ents. Lampriscus therefore fetches his
instrument of correction, which is made
of cowhide, and applies it without
mercy. The boy howls and promises to
be good, and when the schoolmaster
thinks that the youth has had enough
he tells the mother to keep him close
prisoner for some time to come.-Man-
chester England) Guardian.
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Illustrated Reporting.

In connection with the suicide of Gen.
eral Boulanger, feat has been accom-
plished by one of the Paris weekly pa
pers which shows to what perfection of
dispatch illustrated reporting has now
been brought. On Wednesday, on the
reception of the news of the generals
death, The Illustration sent to Brus-
sells two members of its staff, one
craftsman, the other a photographer.
On Thursday morning these artists had
photographed the general lying in state,
as well as the hotel in the Rue Montoyer,
and had even improvised a representa-
tion of the scene in the cemetery. They
then took the train, and arrived in Paris
on the same day with all that was need
ed for the illustration of that days issue
of the journal. An interesting detail is
that the proofs of the photographs were
taken and the artists drawing executed
during the railway journey back to
Paris.-London News.
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Singular ocean sponres.

A singular ocean sponge is the glass
rope, which sends down into the mud a
coiled wisp of filaments as thick as knit
ting needle. The latter opens out into a
brush, fixing the creature in place after
the manner of screw pile. Still an
other remarkable sponge is found in the
deep water off the Loffoden islands. 1t
spreads out into thin circular cake.
surrounded by what looks like fringe
of white floss silk. Yet another curt
osity is the ''eupectella" sponge of the
Philippines, which lives embedded to it's
lid in the mud and supported by a love-
ly frill. Interview in Washington Star.
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Glass and Paste Diamonds.

OF late years paste diamonds, imita-
ton diamonds, quartz diamonds and
glass diamonds have been placed upon
the market i'm quantities, and it is
difficult to distinguish many of these
from the genuine articles. They are
cut in the most approved style,
and good quartz diamond, cut in the
shape of a brilliant, makes very effect
i've show. Its value, however, is less
than one-twentieth of that of diamond
of similar size and shape.
Glass cut in prism shape will illustrate
the value of angles in any transparent
body, and glass diamonds can often be
cut so that they resemble greatly the
pure water gems. Fine, large diamonds
are so very expensive that many wealthy
people prefer to wear limitations on gen.
eral occasions and leave the genuine
stones for only very important and
special ltimes.-George E. Walsh in New
York Epoch
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About Furnaces.

In placing your furnace in your new
house, always remember that lateral
pipes never give out much heat. The
hot air must invariably ascend to pro-
duce current, and therefore we see
very often register in the third story
giving out splendid heat, when in the
extension library. where warmth is par
ticularly desired, the air of the room is
hardly affected at all. In large coun-
try house it would really be better to
have two small furnaces rather than
one large one. Less coal would be
used to more purpose, and they would
not be much more troublesome to tend
than is one. But if you have two, do
not make the mistake of putting them
side by side, as was done in a very large
house near New York. This simply in
tensified the heat in the same part of the
house without carrying it into the wings,
where it was chiefly needed.-New York
Tribune
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The Ivory Nut in South america.

The ivory nut is grown in the equato-
rial regions in South America. The
principal point of shipment is Colon, on
the Isthmus of Panama. Like the ba-
mana, the ivory nut is perennial in its
native cline, and may be found in all
stages from the bud to the ripened nut
at all seasons of the year. The nuts
grow in great punches of about fifty in
cased in shell, as are chestnuts in the
burr, though the shell outwardly resem-
bles in roughness the surface of pine
apple. The entire cluster of nuts in this
shell is as big as mans head. This
shell comes off easily after the nuts are
ripe. At this stage they fall from the
trees-which are.fourteen or fifteen feet
in height-and are packed on the backs
of natives to the points of shipment.
They are about the color of an unwashed
last years potato and as hard as an ele-
plants tusk.-New York Telegram.
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BasiI,s Forge.

From reports it would appear that the
site of Basil's forge at Grand Pre- is no
longer a mystery. Mr.. w. G. Archi-
bald, while cutting away sandy knoll
about two miles west of the village of
Wolfville, came upon what is supposed
to be the remains of the ancient black
smith shop, under about four feet of
soil. Foundation stones, charcoal and
Stag were discovered in large quantities,
so unless the Acadian Grand Pre- could
boast of more than one smithy, this is in
all likelihood the spot where Basil lived
and worked. 1t looks as though Wolf
vile was the heart of the ancient village
of Grand Pre.-Nova Scotia Bulletin.
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Buried in. silver.

William L. Scott was buried in mag
ni6cent coffin, the manufacture of
which required seventy-six pounds of
solid silver. besides quantities of silk
and broadcloth. The undertakers say
that within their recollection only one
other American, Samuel j. Tilden, ever
had his mortal clay housed so elaborate
ly. The use of gold bars and solid gold
plates on expensive caskets is not un-
usual, but SO lavish use of solid silver
is unprecedented Francisco Argo-
naut.
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weighing Mosquitoes.

It is told of great author that he was
wont to amuse himself by jumping over
a chair. But l have correspondent
who, as the following shows, amuses
himself by weighing mosquitoes:
Il have recently weighed some mos
quitoes of this locality on sensitive
balance. The average weight of one
mosquito was 1.27 milligrams-that
is, it would take 100000 to weigh a
pound.
Mosquitoes which had filed them
selves with human blood were found to
weigh about three times as much as
others, showing that they had swallowed
twice their weight in blood. Boston
l10be
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How New York Boys .syVllip Isehind.,
Trust the small boy, whose playground
is the busy street, to get all the fun out
of life that there is in it-for him. He
never wants for game. When he tires
of one his ingenuity will quickly sug
gest another. The boys over on the
west side of the city around the ap-
praiser's stores are now enjoying a
sport that has just enough of danger
and devilitry in it to make it a craze
among them. The streets there are trav-
eled from day break TO sundown by trucks
going to and from the stores and the
wharves. Stealing rides on these trucks
has long been the pastime of the youth
of the locality, but it was accompanied
by so great possibility of swish
across the legs from the whip of some
irate driver that the lads began to tire
of it. The boys have now circumvented
that difficulty. Scores of them have
obtained old jute bags and have stuffed
them with hay, straw or rags. They
have tied around the necks of these long
pieces of strong rope.
Now they stand innocently on a corner
and wait for truck that is moving rap
idly enough to make it desirable vic
tim. AS it passes them they pass the
end of the rope around one of the guard
stakes on the truck The stuffed iute
bag comes along, they jump down on it,
still holding the end of the rope, and are
towed along until the driver forces them
to retreat. They are so far out of the
reach of whips that he generally must
stop his truck and get off to do this. By
that time the boys are half block off
Sometimes five or six lads will get a tow
on the same truck. The result of SO
many drags on behind is often to bring
the poor beast on whom the burden is
placed to a standstill. York
Times.
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The Lake in the Great Desert.

1t is estimated that nine-tenths of the
water from the Colorado river is flowing
into Salton sea, and the winter floods
will greatly augment the volume of wa
ter, which may seek gulf outlet. A
lake $50 miles long and 800 feet deep is
predicted. San Francisco Bulletin.
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The late Banker James H. Mead, of
Sheboygan, Wis, in his will, besides a
bequest of $4,000 for a public library,
left $4,000 for the erection of a hall
wherein the boys of Sheboygan may in
dulge in innocent sports and pastimes.
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The government proposes to build an
other timber dock in the navy yard at
Brooklyn, the accommodations of the
other two docks being insufficient 1t is
to be about 600 feet in length.
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Four years ago strange birthday pres
entwas received by charles Kettleberger,
of San Francisco. 1t was coffin, and
the other day he was buried in it.
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Arnold T. jain, who recently died in
Chicago, was the son of Frederick Lud-
wig jain, the founder of the now
famous Turn Vereins and in his day
one of the greatest of German patriots.
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A Revelation.
175 Second st.

tea q bright. shiny green, but also permits the
use of off-color and worthless teas, which.
once under the green cloak, are readily
worked of as good quality of tea
An eminent authority writes on this sub
ject: "The manipulation of poor teas. to give
them a-fner appearance, is carried on exten-
sivefy. Green teas, being in this country
especially popular, are produced to meet the
demand by coloring cheaper black kinds by
glazing or facing with Prussian blue, tumeric,
gypsum, and indigo. This method Is so gen
eral that rery little genuine uncolored green tea
Is offered for sale"
1t was the knowledge of this condition of
affairs that prompted the placing of Beechs
Tea before the public. It is absolutely pure
and without color. Did you ever see any
genuine uncolored Japan tea? Ask your
grocer to open a package of Beech's, and you
will see 1t, and probably for the very first
time. It will be found in color to be just be-
tween the artificial green tea that you have
been accustomed to and the black teas.
Itdraws a delightful canary color, and is SO
fragrant that It will be revelation to tea
drinkers. It's purity makes it also more
economical than the artificial teas for less
of it is required per cup. Sold only in pound
packages bearing this trademark:
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THE DAhhES CHRONICLE
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Washington

Destined to be the Best
Manufacturing Center in
1.-THE Inland Empire.
Telegram-herald., 1891-11-26

heaeflis 10 be derived from the kinder
tea. frosssi thought that ckssorca
should grow naturally like flowers, ana
ss the beauty and sirengts oi plsn's
depend isrg ely upon the coil IN h ch
tney are ssowa and tns care TIE, %
eslve when young. 90 si.oaid chiiare-s
have the rsght surfeunosngs oarlns
their nfsl ssArs Il ws vssh them 10 de-
xsiop stroag and beautiful ebsrscteTs.
The PAys.cai development gained an
the kinaerEarten 10 strengthening. out
more than that 10 the spirituAi enoughs
and purposs under each action, oevel-
oping strength of character and ssif-
reliance NO song. game or story should
be gwen 10 . chsld ~ home or N ochool
without definite purpose aud an up
lifting thought. IL speaking Of pua-
ishmcnts the speak 2 taoughs the pam
atty should bear dlrect reistlen 70 the
fault The only punishment gwen IN
kindergarten q alienation. The child
who py dlsagIesabse actions becomes .
disturbing element must sis alone untsl
be ieSrns that be . part Of q little
community. and be must respect the
r.ghls of Others II he wishes % bc re-
speciei. Ii through csreiessness some-
thing Is dropped, he must pick li up.
The deed musy come hack upon the
ooer. aud the child wall grow nsinrally
seif-rellant snd careful. Ars. TT, 81
recommended 10 mothers froebe .
book OF mother plays, containing tne
troebei philosophy, tie spiritual
thought winch should BE understood
by All interested IN enid culture.
Telegram-herald., 1891-11-26
coLoRED DRESS BALL.
The Leading Lights of the Colored "4OO'
Dance MerriIy.

Dance Merrily.
A thrill of excitement and auticipa-
ton has fiuttered in the breasts of the
coored 400" of this city since the day
Mcbride & Jansen announced that on
Thanksgiving eve they would give an
exclusive swell dancing party.
The daughters aud younger married
ladies ordered elaborate costumes for
the occasion, and the gentlemen
brushed up their dress suits. laid in a
supply of white neckties, patent
leather shoes, and waited.
Sl,lshly dressed colored ladies aud
gentlemen began to arrive at the Inde-
pendent Athletic club hall on Pearl
street shortly before nine O'Clock.
Finch's orchestra mounted the stage
in the north end of the hail, and,
during the early part OF the evening
before the guests bal all arrived, pro-
duced delightful strains of entranclng
music. when had the effect of inject
ing elasticity INTO the limbs OF the gen.
tIemen and Causing the ladies TO long
for the moment when instructions to
"seIeet partners" would be given.
From one end of the hall TO the other
the light shone on the pearls of colored
arlstocracy. Long trains were FIRE.
quently noticed, caught up neatly at
the side, while the more youthful of
the gentler sex were clad in becoming
gowns which resched To their feet. On
many swelling bosoms diamonds scintl.
lated an | lent radiance to the scene.
| The dance did not end until early
this morning, and the event will lone
be remembered as happy one. Tne
following guests were present: Mess
DANES Grant, Green, Parker. Barnes,
Howell. Crockett. Harris, Benton, Cralg,
and the Misses Linnie Craig, Grace
Craig. Myrtle Craig, Jennie Ramsay.
! Rose Bean, Lulu Allison. Lotta 8utner
| Ella Buckner, Floren Brown, Battle
Greek; Lena Evans, Mamie Bean. JOSIE
| Bean. Lizze Loekett, Matte custns
| Kalamazoo: Josie Caruthers, Natfs
Ramsey, Hattie 1rason, Enlms HaInes
| aud Maggie Rogers. Gentlemen
| Messrs. Howell, Grant. Burton, VIII q
| Daily, Joe Glenn, Johnson. Caruthers,
Geo. Glenn, Matt Glenn, Bowyer,
| Grant. Hsines, Crochet. Newman
yencent, Ardis, Parker. Jones, Pink.
ney, Williams. Dempsey. Outlsnd, K. j.
| Holloway, Chicago; William Green.
| Chicago: Lvsia, weekley, Grason, John.
son, non. Alex. liza milton, III. l.. WI.
| iis, Barry, Grant, and Howell.