The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
OF GENERAL

the monasteries which kept large stocks
Of ready-msde clothing.
Soap is first mentioned in the ninth
century. 1t was alluded to as in use
In Germany ~forucleansing clothing and
~ an excellent medicine.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is spending
two hours a day in writing the story OF
his brilliant life brilliant with
achievement and mirth. DR.. Holmes
was born two years before Edgar Allan
Poe, though he has survived him by
nearly half a century.
Joaquin Miller is growing on his
California ranch a mile of roses. he
believes families live too close to-
gether; therefore, in place of building
n large house he has erected four
small ones-one. for his mother, one
for his brothers, one for his own use,
and the fourth for his guests
The title president occurs in the
Bible: 1T pleased Darius to set over
the kingdom 100 princes, which should
be over the whole kingdom; and over
these three presidents, of whom Daniel
was first; that the princes might give
accounts unto them, and the king
should have no damage" Daniel vi,
1-2.
In the Sierra Madre mountains it is
d~istressingly healthy. Lung diseases
are unknown, people live in defiance
of all hygienic laws and are rarely
sick. When cholera reached the
mountains some years ago the sick
people took a bath-the Mexican cure
for all diseases-and promptly got
well.
1t is with butter as with eggs,
the tradesman has subtle distinctions
that puzzle the uninstructed mind. An
east side butter dealer makes these
seemingly inconsistent announce
ments: Very best butter, twenty-five
cents; do. fine, twenty-five cents; do.
good, twenty cents; cooking butter,
seventeen cents."-N. Y. Sun.
At a recent meeting of Kyle Union
parochial board, Ayr, Scotland, it was
reported that the board of supervision
visiting officer was of the opinion that
the inmates of the poorhouse were too
comfortable and had suggested that
if the use of tobacco was stopped and
tea-making prohibited the number Of
male inmates would soon decrease.
The members decided not to restrict
the privileges.
"A young girl, tall ,curly-headed and
bright-eyed. sat lei the fruit stand Of
which her father is the owner. in
Brooklyn. Charles +. Erwin tried to
kiss her and may have succeeded. She
screamed. He was arrested. but pro-
testing to Justice Goetting that his ar.
rest was an outrage. for the girl had
put her lips in 4 kissing position, he
was discharged with Il mild caution to
be more careful.
A French priest. who had usually a
very small audience, was one day
preaching at the church in his village,
when. the doors being open. a gauder
and several geese came stalking up the
aisle. The preacher, availing himself
of the circumstance, observed that he
would no longer find fault with his
district for non-attendance, because,
though they did not come themselves,
they sent their representatives"
MIR. H. II. Dixon has been studying
the locomotion of insects and spiders
by means of instantaneous photo
graphs. He finds. says Nature, that
the limbs move together in diagonals.
In insects the first and third legs on
one side move with the second on the
other. the antenna moving with the
first leg On the same side. In the case
of spiders, which have eight legs. the
first and third on one side move with
the second and fourth on the other.
seasoned timber is but little liable
to decay under the influence of a dry
atmosphere. and will resist decOmposi-
ton for an indefinite period when kept
totally submerged in the water. The
piles of old London bridge. driven 500
year, before. were found to be in good
condition when the new bri'lye vas
erected in 1859, and those which served
as the foundation for Trojan's bridge
Owe the Danube, A. ID. 10j, are said to
be sill visible at low stages of water.
and Home.
There is a good story told of the
duke of Northumberland, who. in
spite Of his vast wealth. is very unaf-
fected and simple in his life. When
ever he travels on a railway he usually
takes a third class ticket. to the indig-
nation of the railway officials. Upon
q day they determined to break him Of
this frugal habit, and they filed his
compartment with chimney sweeps
carrying bags of SCOT. When the duke
arrived at his destination he took the
sweeps to the booking Office and
bought them each a first-class ticket
back again and put one in each first
class carriage sacks and all.
A licensed organ grinder and his
grizzled old collector illustrated the
other day how the law against street
begging is disregarded and the license
to grind out music is abused. The
grinder was as sturdy an Italian as
ever said stand to q true man in the
of Sicily, while his collector
was the wrinkled, white-haired coun-
terpart of old Gobbo. As the grinder
ground, the old man held out his hat
to passers-by and capered about in
feeble fashion to catch the eyes of the
while the grinder directed
him now and again with a rough word.
Then when the grinder shouldered his
and trudged of, the old
man followed slowly half a block BE-
hind, pausing now and then to engage