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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09
Chinese superrtitlon..

In China girl who is partaking
OF the last meal she is to eat In her
fathers house previous to her mar
rage, ats at the table with her par
ents and brothers; but she must eat no
more than half the bowl OF rice set be-
fore her. else her departure will be
followed by a continual scarcity In
the domicile she Is leaving. II the
bride breaks the heel OF her shoe In
going from her fathers to her hus-
bands house. It is ominous OF unhap-
piness In her new relations. A picce
OF bacon aud parcel OF sugar are
hung on the back OF a brides sedan
chair as a sop to the demons who
might modest her while on her Jour-
ney. A bride while putting on her
wedding garments stands in round
shallow basket This conduces to her
leading placid, well-rounded life in
her future home. After her depar-
ture from her fathers door, her moth
or puts the basket over the mouth
oven. to stop the mouths OF all who
would make adverse comment on her
daughter. and then sits down before
the kitchen range that her peace aud
leisure may be duplicated In her
daughters life. Saturday Evening
Post
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09
HOW FRANCE LOST AUSTRALIA.
The Occupation Of Akaroa Entrust-
ed to a Dilatory French Captain.

The Occupation Of Akaroa Entrust-
ed to a Dlatory French Captain.
Great Britain is supreme in Austria
lasia, but she came near having ri
val in France. II it had not been for
the selection of an officer who could
not act promptly and keep his own
counsel when France had conceived
the plan OF taking possession OF New
Zealand, the great islands which con-
stitute the colony, would to-day have
been French possession. The story
is told in "At the Antipodes."
A certain Captain LAnglois boing
much charmed with the position of
Akaroa on the Banks Peninsula in
the South Island of New Zealand,
bought large district of land in the
neighborhood and returned to France
to seek colonists to settle en- his prop
erty. The Government encouraged
his plan and supplied man-ofwar
under Captain Lavand, to protect the
migrants on landing, Lavand was Or
dered to proceed at once to New Tea
land and await their arrival.
L'Anglois left France with party
OF colonists, and reached the Bay OF
Akaroa August II, 1910. TO his
surprise he saw the English flag flying
where he had expected to see the
French. The enigma was soon solved.
Captain Lavand, before reaching
Akaroa, had stopped at Auckland,
and had fallen in with an English cap
tain named Hobson, who was looking
after British interests in that part
OF the Pacific.
In an unguarded moment Lavand
divulged the object OF his mission and
boosted OF the beauties OF Port Aka
roa and the fertility OF the adjacent
country.
Hobson, an energetic man, immedi-
ately resolved to get ahead OF the
Frenchman, and secure New Zealand
for England. Therefore, while the dill
atory Lavand was amusing himself
on shore, Hobson hastily dispatched
n small war-ship in the direction OF
Akaroa with orders to plant the Brit
ish flag there before the arrival OF the
French.
The stra.agem succeeded, and
Lavand found himself, to his great
dismay, just too late. The British
standard had been unfurled on the
hill! above the bay, and not only Aka
roa, but the whole of New Zealand,
was added to the British dominions,
Youths Companion.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09

[ dug an unpretentious well,
And when had 1t dug
placed upon the curb near by
A little earthen mug.
And by that mug placed girl
As pretty a. q pink,
And paid her fifty cents day
To charge five cents drink.
And then advertised that well
As Cure AL Spring." you know,
And everybody came to see
II what said was so.
And now, as In my brownstone front
sit and write my name
To countless checks. 1t makes me smile
To think that this is fame.
New York Truth.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09
Lowers ARE NuisANcEs.
You Find Thsm In Every Room. and
They Always Snub You.

You Find Thsm In Every Room. and
They Always Snub You.
Have you ever been in a house
where there are a couple courting9 1t
is most trying. You think you will
60 and sit in the drawing room. and
you march of there. AS you open
the door you hear noise as II some
body had suddenly recollected some
thing. and when you get in, Emily is
over by the window, full OF interest in
the opposite side of the road, and
your friend, John Edward, is at the
other end Of the room with his whole
soul held in thrall by photographs OF
other peoples relatives.
"Oh!" you say, pausing at the
door. al didn't know anybody was
here"
"Oh! didn't your" says Emily,
coldly, in tone which implies that
she does not believe you.
You hang about for a bit, says
Jerome X. Jerome in 'Three Men In a
Boat" then you say: "It'svery dark.
Why don't you light the gas?"
John Edward says he hadn't noticed
it, and Emily says that papa does not
like the gas lighted in the afternoon.
You tell them one or two items OF
news and give them your views and
opinions on the Irish question, but
this does not appear to interest them.
All the remark is: "O!" ais it?"
"Did her" "Yes," and "Yon don't
say sol" and after ten minutes OF
such conversation you edge up to the
door and slip out, and are surprised
to find that the door Immediately
closes behind you and shuts itself
without your having touched it.
Half an hour later you think you
will try a pipe In the conservatory.
The only chair in the place is occu.
pied by Emily; and John Edward, il
the language of clothes can be relied
upon, has evidently been sitting upon
the floor, They do not speak, but
they give you q look that says all
that cAn be said in a civilized commu-
nifty, and you back out promptly and
shut the door behind you.
You are afraid to poke your nose
into any room in the house now, so
after walking up and down the stairs
for while, you 60 and sit in your
own bedroom. This becomes unin-
teresting, however, after q time, and
SO you put on your hat and stroll
out into the garden. You wall,
down the path, and as you pass the
summer-house you glance in, and
there are those two young idiots,
huddled up in one corner OF it, and
they see you and are evidently under
the idea that, for some wicked pur-
pose of your own, you are following
them about.
"Why don't they have special
room for this sort of thing, and make
people keep to it?" you mutter, and
you rush back to the hall and get
your umbrella and go out.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09
Pet Roostcr.

A Brooklyn storekeeper has the sat
isfaction OF possessing pet peculiar
ly his own. II is q rooster. whose
antics attract many people to his
owners shop. This bird Is oftentimes
seen on the sidewalk playing with the
children. He will let stranger pick
aim up In his arms and stroke him.
and enjoys the process with as much
apparent delight as would a dog or
cat The owner OF the bird IL partic-
ularly attached TO him and appears TO
be one Of the proudest men IN the city.
going TO and returning from his storo
with the rooster following him ~
would pet dog. When tho owner
reaches out his hand the bird jumps
up to peck at II and altogether they
sttract good deal OF attention.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09

If child has swallowed anything
that will not digest" said a noted
physician. particularly II 1t is sharp
let him eat Immediately two or three
pieces OF dry bread. This is very apt
to surround the object swallowed with
a sort OF coating. In addition let the
food for several days be more solid
than usual and under no circum-
stances give purgative medicine The
chances are that the child will feel no
trouble from the carelessnesa
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09
Temperance Note.

care you going to the masquerade
balls" said a young society man to his
friend.
"Of course"
"Then we will see each other there. ]
am goipg too"
THAT may be. but I don't think
you will recognize me-"
why nots Are you going in cos
tuner" M
: mo, but am not going until after
twelve o'clock, and by that time you
will be so tight you won't be able to
recognize anybody"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09

Urben--'I wish to buy my wife q
present; can't you give me an ideap 1t
must be something very old; she is
dead crazy just now on the antique. y
valentine--.:H How would nice as
sortment OF the latest jokes answerP"
Boston Post
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09
The Weaker Sex.

Magistrate: Prisoner, are you not
ashamed OF ill-treating feeble
creature like your wife?"
prisoner, smiling: feeble Great
ure! Did your Worship ever see the
feeble creature?"
magistrates: "No."
Prisoner: "Then you will please
allow me to make ashort statement?
Three weeks ago / got her weighed on
the automatic weighing-machine. And
the feeble creature, as she stood in her
clothes, was found to weigh 1877
ounds!"-Tagliche Rundschau.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09
Paris Beggars.

Alexandra Dumas, on alighting from
his carriage recently, was accosted by
a beggar, to whom he gave a couple OF
sous. The latter, expecting some
thing handsomer. no doubt, started
back in amazement.
"Come, come" said the author OF
'rhe Princess of Bagdad," with q
knowing smile, 'just take the coppers,
will you. and give them to the first
poor chap you come across. Anna
les Politiques ct Litteraires.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09
A Sequel to the Recent Ministerial
Assault.

A French Deputy lately went down
to the House having his head and face
covered with huge fencing mask. On
going in he was stopped by the usher:
eve cannot allow you to pass dis
guised in that fashion, sir!"
~ beg your pardon, but to-day l
have a question to put to the Minis
tiers. lie Gil Bias.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09
Love and Luore.

A:--"Are those two lovers yonder
firmly engaged yeti" They are billing
and cooling like turtledoves. sup
pose their parents are agreed on the
subject"
b. Pretty nearly there is only a dif-
ference OF thousand marks between
themp'-Der Schalk.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09
An UncommeroIaI Traveller.

Gaswell-Hello, Bellefeld, haven't
seen you for six months. Are you still
keeping books for Sheetz & Linnen?
Bellefield-No; I'm travelling for the
firm.
"Ahl Since when?"
"Since Saturday. It was on that
day they told me to take q long
walk. "-Pittsburg Chronicle.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09
Tho Florida Way.

John North, on the cars.-Fcr
Heavens sake, conductor, can't this
train make little better time? We
have stopped 20 minutes out here in
the woods for no apparent reason.
There is only one house in sight, and
Colonel Gator, the conductor.-No
reason, sub? Wy, bless yo heaht,
sub, we are stoppin' in the interests
of business. Minus Wiregrass, who
lives in this yeh house, wants to take
full dozen OF turkey eggs to market.
She's got l now, an is waitin' fob
the turkey to lay the othuh one.
Just as soon as the turkey does her
duty, we'll steam onward.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09
A Pleasing Prospect.

DR.. HAAS just amputated both
neither limbs of one OF his patients.
After few words Of encouragement,
he adds
"Whatever you do, keep quiet, and
in six weeks at the outside, you will
he on your legs again. lie Papillion.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09
UnkInd OF Him.

"They say you have an excellent
memory, Mr.. Dukane," observed Miss
Wallflower.
Eyes, indeed" replied the brute. ~
can remember distinctly events that
occurred in. 1640, the year you we're
born.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09
The TraInmen's Gentle Way.

me Irainmen'S Gentle way.
lie came rushing up the stairs to
the elevated station, bought ticket,
dropped it in the box as he ran and
pulled himself up with jerk ut the
car platform.
"This train go to Franklin square?"
he asked, painting.
mop" answered the trainmen,
slamming the gate.
Then the man in q hurry walked up
and down the platform nervously and
along. He got on the front car, but
at the door he turned to make sure
that he was right.
"Franklin square train?" he asked.
"Nop," said the trainmen. Four
tenth next" and he threw the gate
after the fleeing heels OF the passenger
who had hastily left the car.
There was another promenade;
another train pulled in, and again the
traveller asked:
"Does this train go to Franklin
Square?"
Mop" said the trAinman, looking
sweetly at the young woman in q red
jacket.
There was desperation in the man
ner of the stranger after the third
train had gone. He looked around
him carefully, walked quickly back
and forth, turning sharply and taking
short savage steps. Before the fourth
to the ticket chopper" and said very
respectfully:
Does the next train stop at Frank
lin Square?"
mop" said the chopper, prying in
the glass box with wire and then
chopping viciously.
docs the next train after the one
coming stop at Franklin Square?"
"Nop," answered the official, put
ting on his gloves, which hehad taken
off to handle the wire, and carefully
examining little rip in one of the
fingers.
''The next one after that?" ~
Mop"
"Wifl you kindly tell me-" said the
passenger meekly, "when q Franklin
Square train will conner"
''Tbere amt no Franklin Square
trains on this side"
"None at all?"
mop"
"But Thought"
"Nop. This is the Sixth avenue line.
You want to walk over to Third ave-
nue."
Couldn't you have told me that
beforef" asked the stranger, with q
faint smile OF wonder.
Mop
"Why not'" mildly.
Cause you didn't ask me-" and
the stranger went down the stairs
very softly as II he were afraid OF dis
turbing q sleeping lion.-New York
Tribune.
Heroes In Kansas.
about the COOLEST thing ever
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09

saw" continued the man Who had
beed talking. writes C. p. Parsons to
the Detyoit Free Press, twas some
thing that happened out in a scrap Of
place in Western Kansas one day l
lazy over there a couple of years ago"
.'Indeedp interrupted the quiet lit
tie Had, cornered up next the car win.
dow. .
ut seemed . couple OF boys had
come into town the day before and
got so ALFRED sunny that the citizens
had to dust up their old pine scantlin'
calaboose for their benefit.
"Well, by the next morning they
were heap too dry in the throat to
stand any nonsense, 80 they made up
their minds mighty quick to leave
their present quarters and they did it,
too. Their knives, you know.
"Well' one Of 'em slipped down to
their one-horse printing Office and got
big poster struck-'We are fugitives
from Justice And what did they do
but stick it onto crosspiece OF their
scantlin' and parade the town
with that bill flying over their
heads.
what did the citizens say?
"Why, the town just naturally
yelled itself hoarss and passed
the hat to pay the damages.
Fact!"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09
A Wrinkle for Dentists.

q =
A mother took her little five-year-
old to the dentists to have bad
tooth extracted. The young monkey,
in anticipation of the pain, set up an
awful squeal, till the dentist pacified
him with these words:-
81 say, my little man, are you good
at whistling?" NJ
"Y-e-sW
"Then let me hear you" hoy
whistles.) II tell you what, my boy,
this is how we'll do; as soon as it be.
gins to hurt you whistle, and I'll stop
at once"
The lad fell in with the suggestion,
the dentist pulled out the tooth, after
dreadful howl.
"Ah! my little fellow, why didn't
you whistler"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09
FUN, FAST AND FURIOUS
LATEST PRODUCTIONS OF THE
FUNNY MEN.
Grace Thought II Was Wrong
The Irainman's Gentle Way
Heroes In kansae--
Tho Florida
Way.
oracle Thousht II wa. WRONG.

OraCto IOouRnt it was WFon8s
"Gracie, you-you don't think I
come here too often, do your" was the
anxious inquiry heterogeneous, open
faced young man who stood leaning
against the piano.
Certainly not, Frank" said the
young lady sitting on the piano stool.
Lum-ti-tum- ti.tum-tum-tum. R-r-r-
r-r-r-r-r-tum-tum. Which the saga
cious reader will interpret to be an in
terlude ON the part of the piano.
~ didn't know" pursued the young
man, refectively, "but / had been
overdoingit."
Rr-r-r-r-r-r-rum-tum. Lum-ti-tum-
ti-tum-tum. R-r-r-r-rum-tum.
"What made you think so, Frank"
"Why, it was the stipulation, you
know, when you gave me the-cold
shake, that should come to see you
occasionally as a friend, so as not to
break off too sudden and get people
to talking. Wasn't it?" ~
Lum-ti-tum-tum. willi-willi- will
li-willi-willi. Ker-chug. Ker-chug. r.
r-r-rnm.tum.
Eyes, believe that was the under
standing"
That's what I've been doing, you
know Oracle. I've been coming occa-
sionally. Once or twice week is oc-
casionally, isn't it?"
Eyes, suppose you could call it
So"
"But when fellow gets to coming
three or four times week, you know
it looks as if he were getting of the
occasional basis and trying to make
a new deal. That's what is worrying
me-"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Ker-shung
let such little thing as that-lum-
ti-tum-tum-worry me-"
"It's all right, OF course, to 60 on
being friends, Grace. but it's going to
take long time to break it to'em
gently if this occasional business gets
any more h'm-occasional than is
now. And it'll be pretty tough on me
to make it any less occasional"
Lum-ti-tum-tum. Rum-tum.
''Some day, OF course, I'll have to
quit. 1t has been a pretty long time
now since have bored you, Oracle,
with word OF love"
"a long time!" exclaimed Oracle,
pensively. "It's been an eternity,
Frank"
Yuml Yum! yum-yum! Yum
yum!
Which the sagacious reader will I'M
derstand to be an interlude with which
the piano had nothing whatever to
do.
80
And Frank is to go to see Miss Gra-
Gle one day next week with o regular
ly ordained minister, a new black suit,
and marriage license. Chicago Tri-
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-04-09
Heroes in Kansas.

"About Che cocIsst thing ! ever
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-03-11
NOTABLE DEATHS.

Noah Porter, ID. D., LII. D.. ex.presdent
Of Yale college aud Clark professor OF moral
philosophy and metaphysics, died at his
home in New Haven, c.. on the 4th inst
In DECEMBER last, DR.. Porter suffered from
an attack Of the grip, from which he never
rallied. He was born in Pennington, CT, in
1911. He was the son of Rev. Noah Porter.
ID. d., who was pastor Of the Congregational
Church ut that place for go years,
from 1906. President Porter was graduated
at Yale College in 1891 and was master of a
grammar school in New Haven from 1881
to 1893, and tutor In Yale College two years,
from 1888 to 1885. In 1896 he married Mary,
daughter OF Rev. Nathaniel W. Taylor. ID.
d., professor OF theology in Yale aud extern
slvely known as thco'ogian' In 1871. on
the retirement OF President Woolsey, Prof.
Porter was elected president OF Yale College,
O position which he held until his resignation
in 1886.
Moses Harris, aged 80 years, a United
States Regular Army veteran of the Black
Hawk, Florida. Mexican and civil wars, died
At his home in Warrensburg Warren county,
n. y, on the ID. lie was In Florida in 1916,
and went with HIS company, under Gen.
Zachary Taylor, to Point Isabel, and took
part in all of "Old Rough and Rendy's" bat
ties In the Mexican war.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-03-11
new ENGLAND INVENTORS.
List of Patents for the Past Week

MuNE-F. A. Howard, Belfast. screw.
driver. j W. Jones, Bcifrst. scrcW.drivcr
NEW HANP>HiRE.-T r. Clark, Lancas-
ter, car-hrahc
NEEMoNT.-lI. James, Waterbury, organ.
w, j. stanton Jr., Lyndon combined rul.
cr, paper cutter and hlnttcr
MANSACHusETrs.-R Ashc. Somcrvil'e
nali-driving machines. 7. \. Briggs Airing.
ton, printing machines. F. Clark. Ncwtor
Centre, leather gauge. +. e iiiord, Quincy
shoc-clasp. \. j. Ferris. Eisthampton, at
tachmcnt for planes. +. s Clifford, New
Bedford, cheese safe. j. +. Gordon, Lowell
Grant snd l.. Nclton WcStlield ferult
for whips and making the same l.. W
Icrnberg Worcester, furnace CRATE. J.
LuS>icr, Cambridge, device for sharpening
horseshoe calks. y. T. Mrthycn, Spring
field speCtaclcs. W. Mitchell, Maiden, cleo
tricaly heated smoothing-ron. W. S
Morey, Natick. machines for lasting anC
trimming uppcrs j. H. Reed, Lynn. sol,
trimming machines. j. Il. Reed
WrsttieId, rocking CRATE for furnaces. II. ID,
SiSson, Pittstield. adjustable suspension APP
pnratus for electrical translating devices. w.
Stanley, Jr., Great harrington, system of
electrical distribution. A, Stienhnuser, Fal
River. sizing compound. r. Symonds Leo.
minister, valVe-opcratinG me, hanism foI
clam-> he'll buckets !. G. TAYLOR, Westport,
A. =. Benjamin AMI G.. f. Allen, Oakland,
Can-labeing machines. W. q. Wakefield.
Lynn, journal hox. A. A. Whiting, Rock
land, pie-box. f. Il. WiImarth, Attic
borough, eyeglnss-hOlder.
The following in Boston: ID. 4 Hall
Boston, table. {. y. Hammond insulAto-
J, Harris, car-wheeI. \. l.. PARCEL dcvic,
for controlling electric motors. j. ii. Will
liams machines for marking curved sheet
metal binding pieces.
RHODE IsLAYp.--G. T.. Adams, Prnv
dcnce. button. e. 4. Dunlap, Providence
stage-fountain. w. A. Harms Providence
(2) cutoff for steam pipes, dash-pOt G. i
Hussey, Providence, packing-cnSc. ii. F
Whipple. Paw tuckct, tea or coffee straincr
W. ]. Williams, l.. NJ Bates and II II
James, Providence, adjustable reclining
chair
CoXNECrCUT-S. V. BCckwith, Winsted
hand for time piece. G.. =. Botsford. New
Haven. hydrocarbon oil yaporizcr. \. W
| Dickinson, EssaX shoe horn. II. X. FriShie
Bridgeport, door check. X. Calling
Hartford, apparatus for cleaning wool ol
other material by the use OF stem or othc
fluid. A. b. Hendrix, New Haven. wir'
holder. c. A. King, Meriden, eiecto
mechanism for brecch-loading firearms
]. NJ. Marlin. New Haven, magazine
for firearms. A. 7. Mason, Meriden, cuil
link. H. Morton. Bradford, cylinder lock
|. +. Palmer, MiddlctOwn. hammock spread
| cr. J. b. Perrns, seymour, machines 70
finishing the edges OF tube blanks. L. +
Rhodes, Hartford, adjustable too! chest. J
| II. Shaw. New Haven, (2) locks. w. +
| Sparks, New Haven, knob attachment. II
l.. Webb New Britain, faucet. j. c. Wells
East Hampton, gong signal.