The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-18
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in the ninth century most Of thu
clothes worn In Europe were made In
the monasteries which kept large stock
Of ready-made clothing.
SOAP is frst mentioned in the ninth
century. Il was alluded to Is in ~
IN Germany f~or.clsansing clothing and
- IN excellent medicine.
Oliver Wendell Holmes il spending
two hours . day In writing the story o,
his brilliant life brilliant with
achievement and mirth. DR.. Holmes
wa born two years before Edgar Allsu
Poe, though he has survived him By
nearly half q century.
Joaquin Miller is growing on his
California ranch q mile of roses. he
believes families live too close to.
Rether; therefore, in place of building
one large house he has erected four
small ones-one for his mother, one
for his brothers, N for his w use,
and the fourth for his guests.
The title president occurs in the
Bible: at pleased Darius to set over
the kingdom 100 princes, which should
be " the whole kingdom; and over
these three presidents, of whom Daniel
YES first; that the princes might give
accounts unto them, and the king
should have no damage" Daniel vi,
1-2.
I'm the Sierra Madre mountains it is
distressingly healthy. Lung diseases
are unknown, people live in defiance
Of all hygienic laws and are rarely
sick. When cholera reached tho
mountains some years ago the sick
people took q bath-the Mexican cure
for all ~diseases-and promptly got
we'll.
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 near the fruit stand Of
which her father is the owner, in
Brooklyn. Charles F. 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 a kissing position, he
was discharged with a 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 gander
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"
Mr.. H. H. Dixon has been studying
the locomotion of insects and spiders
by means of instantaneous photo
graphs. He finds. says Nature, that
the limbs together in diagonals.
In insects the first and third legs on
one side move with the second on the
other, the antenn@ moving with the
Arst 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
years before. were found to be in good
condition when the new bridge was
erected in 1859, and those which served
as the foundation for Trojan's bridge
over the Danube. 4. ID. los, are said to
be still visible at low stages of water.
School 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 ut his destination he took the
sweeps to the booking Office and
bought them each . frst-clsss ticket
back again and put one in each first
class carriage sacks and all.
"A licensed organ grinder and his
Rrizsled old collector illustrated the
other day how the Law against street
begging 10 disrsgsrded and the license
70 Grind out music n abused. Tho
grinder wss Is sturdy IN Italian rs
ever said stand to true man In the
mountains 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 psssers-by and capered about in