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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-08
The Black Dinner Gown.

The black dinner gown, whether it
be plain velvet or some of the richly
figured materials, is always in good
taste, and the woman wearing a we'll
made black gown of suitable material
is properly dressed for the most ella
borate function. Elderly ladies have
long ago concluded that nothing is so
becoming or 50 suitable as black velvet,
made TO look even more elegant by the
use of fine lace, and, so, very many Of
them adhere strictly to gowns of it,
and very often to one style of making
the princess. Dame fashion has or
dercd that black satin is suitable to all
ages and conditions for a dinner dress,
and so combined with lace OF made
harmonious with color it is very gener-
ally seen. Jackets richly embroidered
with gold are liked for wear over a
black satin gown, and one will tend to
make it look very rich. A woman
who goes out a great deal, and always
looks well, has had five different bod
ices, made to wear with her black satin
skirt, and she expects to be considered
a well-dressed at every dinner
party which she attends during the sea-
SOD.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-08
EMININITIES

As soon as women become ours we
are no longer theirs.
Why cannot a woman become a sue
/ cessful lawyer? Because she's too fond
Of giving her opinion without pay.
The world is never interested in a
man who talks about his wrongs, or a
woman who talks about her rights.
A Cincinnati woman who died re-
Gently consumed, it is said, sometimes
as many as a dozen packs of cigarettes
In a day.
In Germany the law makes servants
! give q months notice before leaving.
The mistress must give similar notice
before a discharge.
He: Don't you think women ought
to have the right to propose2" She:
"And give the men the right of refus-
ing? No, indeed! The ideal"
"Why did you give up .lling on
Miss Ansonia?" mo man an make
love successfully to a woman who per-
sists in keeping a cuckoo clock!"
Maud: George told me last night
that he was madly in love with me-"
Ethel: Poor fellow, perhaps he is.
I've heard that insanity runs in his
family"
I want . sofa, as I want a friend, up
on which I car repose Familiarity. If
you can't have intimate terms and free
dom with one and the other, they are
of no good.
"How does it happen that the Rev.
Worldly performs the marriage cere-
mony for so many old maids?" 'Oh,
he always asks them in an audible tone
If they are Of age, and they all like
him"
Cora: Eyes, Hettie says that Jack
made her a most impassioned declara-
tion-actually threw himself at her
feet" Dora: Really? Refreshing
change, isn't 1t, when one remembers
how often She's thrown herself at his
head2"
The emperor and empress Of Russia,
we are told, not merely superintend,
but they direct the education of their
children. 1t is not many years ago
that the young grand dukes were pun
ished by being deprived of their pud-
ding after dinner for any slight mis-
take; and If ever they lost a pencil they
were taken to task for such an act of
negligence.
A piece of evidence some time back
in a Quebec breach-of-promise case was
a cuff with an offer of marriage written
on it. One night, while the defendant
was holding the plaintiffs hand and
whispering fervid words, he popped the
question on the smo 9th linen at her
wrist. She was sentimental or shrewd
enough to keep the article out of the
wash.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-08
ROT CLIMATE
Lord KeIvin's Theory Concerning
the Changes 1t Has Undergone.

Lord KeIvin's Theory Concerning
the Changes 1t Has Undergone.
The reissue of Lord Kelvin's ad.
dresson geology and general physics
revive a discussion as to the probable
cause Of the arm climate once expert
enced in the arctic regions. That such
a warm climate did prevail at n time
in those regions is beyond doubt; for
not only are remains Of forest trees
found within is degrees Of the North
Pole, with every evidence of their hav-
ing grown there, but the return OF the
arctic expedition in 1875 brought home
proofs of a very warm climate, proba-
bly, as warm as the tropics, within 8 de-
grees of the north pole. The explana-
ton of this condition which Lord KEEL
vim suggests is this
The Arctic Ocean is a ~land-locked sea,
and the effects Of the surrounding
coasts is to hem the ice in and prevent
free oceanic circulation, while the land
| itself serves to receive and accumulate
| snow wherewith to load the neighbor-
ing sea with q thin surface layer Of sur.
face ice. But If the land was lowered
1000 feet the sea would be open but
for a few islands, and the water deep
enough for plenty of warm currents to
flow in sufficient to clear the ice away
and keep it clear. Even now the Ice
seems to be 3 feet thick, evidently
melting away underneath.
Having regard to all the defenses-
the heat capacity of moist air, the for
nation of dew. and such like-it Is sug.
gested that the same conditions as pro-
tect a large continent in temperate
zones from destructive cold during a
warm night would prevent even SO
much as hoar frost on a small island at
the very pole during its whole winters
six months night, if it were surrounded
by a deep ocean with nc land to OBJ.
struct free circulation between 1t and
tropical seas. In Lord Kelvin's tudg'
ment, glaciation Is promarily due to ele
walton, and changes in climate principal
~ caused by variations Of elevation.
The theory that n shift in the earth's
axis is responsible for such climatic
changes finds no favor with Lord KEEL
vim. who declares that there is 10 evil
dence, either geological or astronomical,
of any considerable shifting of the po-
sition of the poles. AS to the warmer
temperature at one time prevalent all
over the earth, the simplest, and In ev-
cry way the most probable, hypothesis
is a warmer sun.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-08

Excerpts From James Inglis' e
Book, "OOr Ain Folk"

Excerpts From James Inglis' New
Book, "Oor Ain Folk"
The local jealousy between town and
town is amusingly illustrated by the
following anecdotes: A worthy burgher
Of Perth and a Newburgh man had got
into a rather acrimonious dispute over
their toddy anent the merits of their
respective towns. The Perth man
vauntad the virtues of the beautiful
Tay and the noble expanse Of the city
links. The Newburg man INSISTED that
their water was purer and clearer, and
the breezy heights about their town
put the links of Perth completely in the
shade. The Perth man renewed the
attack by speaking Of their busy streets
and the volume of their trade. AS New
burg happened to be a favored chang
ing for numerous intersecting lines Of
mail coaches the Newburg man was
able to score a point by insisting that
"mair stage coaches gaed through New
burgh in a day than cam tae Perth in
n week" This put the champion of
the "Fair City" on his metal, and, swell
Ing out his chest with conscious dignity,
he rather pompously delivered what he
considered a clincher:
"Ah!" said he, "but COR provost gangs
ABBOTT WI a chain"
dis hep dryly responded the other.
"a weel, we lat oors gang ABBOTT loose"
1t was but the third time the Rev.
James Don had mounted the pulpit.
The scene was in Mr.. Paton's church,
in the pretty village of Fe~ttercairn.
When the young preacher, after giving
out the Psalm, had taken his first rapid
survey of the congregation, he noticed
two finely dressed gentlemen in a Sc
cluded pew, dressed in superfine broad
cloth suits and adorned with white
clerical neckties. One was a venerable
looking old gentleman, with silvery
hair; the other young, with a rather
aristocratic and refined look. 1t then
being the height of the tourist season,
Mr.. Don put the two gentlemen down
at once rs some travelling English rec
tor and his curate, and he felt very
nervous In the presence of what he took
to be such critics. In the evening the
same couple occupied the same seat,
and the minister underwent another Or
deal Of inward anxiety. When he came
to disrobe, however. in the vestry, he
asked the beadlo who the two distin-
guished clerics might be.
"Och, there wis a meenister L the
kirk. sir" said the beadle.
Yes. there was" said Mr.. Don, they
were here this morning, too" Then
he described them.
'Hoots, sir" said the old beadle,
they wis nae meenisters; that was
jist Dancie Fettis an his son-the twa
dancin' MASTERS frae Brechin."
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-08
WALKING BEAN MYSTERY,

Explained by the Presence of "a Cat
Bean.
Many persons who have purchased
the walking bean have wondered why
such a hard, ~impenetrable object should
exhibit so much life, TO crafty my
philosophical turn Of mind and being
convinced that it vas no electrified,
/ carefully removed a segment of the
fat side. when I discovered a species
Of caterpillar. AS nature had not pro-
vided 1t with any natural warm cover
ing the cold exposure made it torpid
until I placed under the glass cylinder
of a microscope, when it soon felt the
warmth and began to thatch over the
opening in the roof. This it did by
spinning a silken web and attaching it
to each side and coating it with some
mastic until 1t was completely incased.
It's modus operandi as seen through a
microscope was extremely interesting,
| would advise great care in opening it
as the least wound would destroy it,
also keep the beans in a box for fear
that when they emerge from their CO.
coon they may be a species of the
Egyptian moth which will cost the
Commonwealth another hundred thou
sand dollars to eXterminate.
1t would be interesting to the public
to hear from some naturalist about
their origin and if the so-called bean
is the cocoon of the insect or a vegeta-
bic product In which it mandates it.
self. for the winter and energies in the
spring as a beautiful butterfly or a de-
structive OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Tran
script.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-08
ABOUT THE SIZE OF 1T
A ton of gold is worth 5000, 900.

A ton of gold is worth $500, 900.
A Bank of England note measures
five inches by eight inches,
A Georgia shoemaker has made for
the use of a customer a pair of shoes
with solos fourteen inches long and
five and one-half inches wide.
An old restaurant bill, printed in
Richmond in January, 1854, gives the
following wartime prices in Confeder-
ate money: Soup, $I.50; chicken, $50;
roast beef, SO; ham and eggs, So; raw
oysters, So; coffee, So; bread and but
ter, Sl.5O; a bottle OF champagne, $50;
a drink of rye whisky, So; "A bottle of
ale, SIP, and Il cigar, So.
The Kudzu vine is probably the most
rapid growing plant in the world. 1t
belongs TO the bean family. The
leaves look something like a Lima
bean, and it WIS once called dolichos
%japonicus. 1t will grow easily sixty
feet i'll three months. 1t wa intro
duced into America by the Japanese
during the Centennial exhibition.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-08
FUN NJ L

When a man is raped in slumber it
generally apt to wake him up.
Somehow it Is awfully hard to be-
lieve that a hero can be made of the
man next door.
Waiter-"Have a bit of spring chick
en-, sir?" Guest-"Yes, please. And,
waiter, make it this spring, please"
When a boy begins to wash his neck
without being told it is a sign he is
passing into the ordeal of his first love
affair.
A story is told of a conductor who
seized his wife's nose in his sleep and
rang up three fares upon it before her
shrieks awoke him.
81 hear that Jiggins has e new phono-
graph" eyes. don't wonder at it.
No man could do the amount Of talk
ing he does and keep it up without
help"
Man from Colorado-"I am studying
up on the science of irrigation. Do
you know anything of it. Mar from
Kentucky-"Why, sir, it is not q sci.
ence; it is a habit"
First Physician-"Did old Coupons
case yield to your treatment2" Second
Physician--''It did. I treated it for
six months, and it yielded something
like a hundred guineas."
New Boarder-''I s'pose you like
boarders who will eat anything that's
set before them and not grumble?'
Mrs. Slimdiet-"Bless you, no. I'd a
sight rather they'd grumble and not
eat"
Newly Arrived Spirit-"Who was
that venerable looking parsonage that
yawned so dismally while I was talk
ing about the tremendous rain they
arc having on the earth?" Resident
S~pirit-"That was Noah"
Ambitious Mamma-"Edith, I no.
ticed last night that Mr.. De Rich paid
you considerable attention. I hope
you showed him a proper amount of
civility." Ingenious Debutante-"Oh,
yes, mamma, 1 did! Pm sure he knows
he can have me for the asking"
Wrathful Suburbanite (who has just
moved in)-"say, if you don't keep
your side of this alley cleaner, by
hockey, I'll report you to the health
oficer!" The Other Man--''Go ahead
with your report, my friend. I'm the
health officer"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-08
Fur.LincJ Garments,

For midwinter are graceful long Rus.
sian coats of cloth. in golden brown,
reddish-brown. black or gray cloths,
covering the costume entirely, Tapped
to the left side with a huge shawl-col-
lar of fur, such as jeannet, the dark
whole-gray squirrel lining, o II else the
lighter squirrel Innings.
There are also tailor-made coats of
Oxford-gray, biege, or black cloth in
three-quarter length with strapped
seams. and lined throughout with squir-
rel-back skins, giving a whole gray sur
face. These have large revers and col
lar of Persian lamb fur. and cost from
$75 to $125. Fur lined circulars are
of two lengths, one reaching just be-
low the knee, the other covering the
dress skirt entirely.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-08
BOUND TO HAVE A BICYCLE.

So This Jersey COlored Man Made
One Himself Out of Raw Mater
ial.
An ambitious colored man over in
Jersey who could not afford to buy a
safety, but was determined to have a
bicycle of some sort, has constructed
a machine so curious and so original
that the wonderful "one-hoss shay" is
quite outdone by 1t. Some of the tra-
ditional points of construction now rec
ognized as essential in the modern
safety are overlooked it is true, but the
important item, strength, is certainly
not sacrificed to grace and beauty,
says the New York World.
With a jackknife, a Ratchet and a
drawshave the enterprising machinist
has succeeded in producing something
that do move" at least. The material
used was boards, barrel heads, trees
and other nondescript material, so that
in its composite character the wooden
horse resembles Joseph's coat Of many
colors. The front wheel is two inches
thick, and In lieu of pneumatic tires,
both wheels r fitted with pieces of
garden hose, securely nailed to the rim.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-08

According to recent statistics there
cine on the continent of North America,
of whom $50 are homeopathists. The
majority are ordinary practitioners, but
among the remainder are seventy hos
pital physicians or surgeons, ninety-five
professors in the schools. 610 special
lists for the diseases of women, seventy
alienists, sixty-five orthopedists, forty
oculists and aurists, and finally thirty
electrO-therapeutists. In Canada there
is but one medical school exclusively
devoted to the training of medical Ia
dies, but in the United States in 1898
there were ten, one of them being q
homeopathic establishment.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-08
New EIdorndO.

San francisco, Specialize steamer
Alameda brought only three passen-
gers from Australia. This was owing
largely to the fact that nearly every
body was on the rush to the gold
fields of Western Australia - Cool
Eardie. While the steamer was In
Sydney harbor over a thousand min
ers arrived from the New Zealand
gold fields en- route for the new Edo
RADIO.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-08
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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-08

The cranks are in two pieces and look
like the handle of an old-fashioned
churn, though much ruder. The frame,
which was cut out Of a small tree, is
thicker than a mans arm. Nails and
screws were employed to fasten the
parts together, with the exception of
the front post and backbone, which arc
held together by two rusty hinges.
The triumphant darby amuses HIM
self by riding down the hills in this We
hicle and pushing his bike up again.
like a noble king Of France that had
10000 men. There is no danger of its
running away, even oh a steep hill.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-08

Miss Bacon in Costume.
when the party returned all wore a
more or less bedraggled and muddy ap-
rearance except the bicycling tourist.
The result was that more than one OF
the reading party became a convert to
dress reform.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-08
OudIn I'm Rad shane.

London, Speeial.-Eugene Oudin, the
operate singer who vas announced In
these dispatches on Monday last to be
suffering from paralysis, Is no better,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-08
TOURED IN REFORM DRESS.
A London Girl and Hex Bicycle Trip
of Four Hundred Miles.

"A LonuOn u1rI ana Ber IT'D
of Four Hundred Miles.
Among the most ardent London ad.
vocates of dress reform In woman's
dress is Miss Bacon. She is also an en-
thusiastic bicycle rider, and has Just
concluded a wheeling tour Of 1900
miles in Great Britain. The costume
she wore on the trip was Of the reform
variety, and Miss Bacon reports that
nowhere on her lengthy +our did she
hear any criticism other than favor
able of her appearance. While In the
lake region in the north of England
she came upon a reading party" com
posed of women who had not yet got
beyond petticoats. She accompanied
them on a trip up Skiddaw, one of the
highest mountains in England, and
The evening world., 1894-03-19
BROOKLYN NEWS.
ALICE MEz|EK MISSING
Left Her Playmates Saying She
Would Never See Them Again.
She Is Only Five Years Old and
Went Away in a Pet.

Detectives Holland AMI Dol,n, OF the
Clymer street station. Williamsburg. have
been searching since 6 o'clock last night
for Alice Mezlek, five years old. OF $50
broadway.
Alice and some other lit:le children
were playing in Broadway Yesterday az
tsrnOon. when = vas suggested that they
visit the Church OF the T~ranshgura-
lion, Marcy avenue and Hooper street.
Alice, who was the only one In tle party
vino knew the way. acted as guide.
She led them to the church. but some
Of the children wouldn't believe they
were at the right place. n insisted
uIOn going TO another huliuiUg. Alice
became angry and, telling her play
mates she intended never to see them
again wandered away. She iii MOI; re-
turn home. and all night her parents
were in a state of anxiety over her alb
SsnCe.
Tn detectives believe she Is being cared
for by some persons who picked her up
in the street. and do not know where to
her.
The evening world., 1894-03-19
ONE YEAR FOR VERNON.
He Swindled Kelly by Representing
Himself TO lie Dead.

Frank ". Vernon. the young man who
swindlrd Eugene Kelly, tr.. out OF tl0S
by representing himself to he dead and
securing the money for funeral expenses.
pleaded guilty TO grand larceny in the
second degree before Judge Fitzgerald,
in Part III. OF the General Sessions. to-
day. He was sentenced TO one year in
the penitent,ary.
Mr., Kelly told the Court that in De-
cembsr last he received a letter signed
\, +. Peltzer Il CO.. undertakers. OF
chicago, requesting that SlU> be forward
81 To them 10 pay Tor N~ernOn's funeral
EXPENSES. The letter stated that Yer
mons watch and ring would b. shipped
by express, and that pr. Hillreth asked
81 for his trouble.
y few days later the package came
by American Express, =. %. II. 80. Mr..
Kelly paid the money. but instead o..
finding the jewe!ry found only a soiled
pack OF playing cards.
Vernon, after receiving the money
from Mr.. Kelly. me to this city. lie
was arrested in the Putnam House.
Twenty-siNth sire and Fourth avenU
on March ..
Not being satisfied with s~winlling Mr..
Kelly. he wrote him letters threatening
10 tell his father that he played the
races.
The evening world., 1894-03-19
BR00KLYNS THUG TRIO.
Footpnds Attack Two
e in the Erie Basin District.

Detectives McMillen and Farrell, OF
the Hamilton avenue station. Brooklyn,
are to-day investigating the story OF
John Conroy, of li5 Twelfth street. who
alleges that he was knocked down by
thee meI and robbie Of about $gl
Early yesterday morning he entered a
saloon al, summit street and Hamilton
SYenue. He met Edward Wigs, Of .
SItnmit street, and they had several
drinks. W!gg got into a quarrel with
an unknown mar and-thny fought.
3, conroy thought h. would set away
before the police arrived. Three men
followed him out on the sidewalk. he
saws, knocked him down and wen
through his pockets.
Joseph Mesalo. Of Al Columbia street.
ttoli the police this morning that he was
heli up by three men at Columbia and
ilqueer streets, late last night. They
Demanded 81.
Mesalo refused. and they knocked him
While two men held him the
Sther attempted to rife his pockets, but
ne fought them off. and they left with
out securing anything.
The evening world., 1894-03-19

WOODBINE, y. J., March 10. - The
Jersey and South Jersey road, at this
place is in statu quo. since midnight
both sides have been resting on their
arms waiting for a battle.
The carload Of pig iron which vas
placed on the crossing 10 prevent the
South Jersey Company from building It's
and allowed to sink above the wheels in
the sand. 50 that 1t would require d der
rick to get II ont.
Ting Pennsy!van!a Company is backing
and every Effort Will ue made to Oh
struCt the South Jersey Company in the
hull4lnG OF its ROAD. The south Jer-
sey Company, II It succeeds in con-
nent Of the West Jersey Company FOR
the Summer traffic - Cape May and At
lantic city.
Supt. Stubs. Of the West Jersey Com
We're master OF the situation, and that
they proposed to hold the fort,
Meantlln" thu South Jersey men are
keeping in the BACKGROUND. but there is
likely 10 be a clash between the rival
forces at any time.
The South Jersey Railroad people have
tracks at this place. and to-day expect to
b" ~ tn point where they intend to
cross the West Jersey tracks, They say
thcy Will cross the tracks at all hazards.
rut~l point. and are prepared to give the
south Jersey people a warm reception
when the latter Try 70 cross the Com
Will be trouble this afternoon.
The Yves: Jersey and South Jersey peo-
PIE are armed. and II Is Likely that blood
shed will follow in the event OF the South
Jersey. people attempting to cross the
W est jersey tracks.