The Columbus journal., 1894-05-23
A Curious Story.

S~s sVuS SaVA
There is a tale told of a sea Captain
who, in a distant corner of the southern
seas, visited an undiscovered or unex-
| plored group Of beautiful islands. After
landing and trading with the gentle
natives, he wa astonished by the visit of
a white man, evidently a person of means
and consequence, who, after making
himself very agreeable, implored the
Captain to give him a story-bcok, if he
bad such q thing in his possession. The
Captain had. and, deeply touched by the
pigs and c%ocoanuts which the white
exile had given him, bestowed on him a
copy of the "Arabian Nights Entertain
ments." Overcome 10y the present, the
exile burst into tears, and cried, "YOu
have saved my life, and given me rank
and wealth." On explanation, he said,
81 should long ago have been eaten, but
while they We're fattening me l learned
enough of their language to tell a child
the story of Little Red Riding Hood
The child repeated it, and the whole
population were mad with JOY. They
had never heard a story before. From
that day l became a great and honored
man. When they had a national festival
1 sat on top of a hill, and thousands
wept (while some elderly relative was
being cooked for a feast) at the cruel
death Of the grandmother as caused by
the wicked wolf. / had with me a vol
ume of Fairy Tales and l soon began
to set a price on my performances. Red
Riding Hood is rather worn; / only get
a hundred c%OcOanuts for her now; but
Cinderella is still good for four pigs and
a turtle, and Beauty and the Beast
brings six or seven, according to the
quality. But with the Arabian Nights
l shall be able to go on accumulating
pork to the end of nv DAYS"
To MAKE canvas waterproof, prepare
three baths, as follows: The first, by
dissolving ono part of neutral sulpha:e
of alumina concentrated alum-cake) in
ten parts of cold water. Fer the Sec
ond, boil one part of light resin, one
part of soda CRYSTALS, and ten parts of
water, until the soda is dissolved; add
one-third part of common salt, to sep
arate the water and collect the soap;
dissolve this soap with with an equal
amount of good palm-oil soap in thirty
parts of water. This soap bath must
be used hot. The third bath consists
of water only. Soak the fabric thor
oughly in the first, or alum bath; next
pass it through the soap bath; and,
lastly, rinse in the water.
Tossing on the "Briny"
is very far from amusing, untraveied reader
ifs,ie you are one. a rebellion fomentct
b.: each mountainous wave that smitcs tho
vessels hull threatens absolutely to di>lOdg.
your very vita!s from their natural resting
place and a nausea so frightful that il wOulC
reconcile you to 4 termination of your sui
feringS by shipwrc X harrasS you. Well fOI
you then, OI rather before this crisis, if you
are provided with HoStcttcr's Stomach Bit
tiers, "A sw # remedy for and preventive Ol
the nausea of Travellers by sea or land. n r.
vousneSs caused by the vi ratiOn> of the
screw OF a steamer or the jarring of a rail
way train. and an antidOte to bowel, liver
water and unaccustomcd food. The Bitter,
also rOunterartS tn effects of fatigue and
exposure. and is = safeguard against NAL
aria, rheumatism and kidney trouble
Her "COuSin."
A telegram came to the Wesleyan Fe-
male Seminary at Cincinnati for Miss
Mary Beach, daughter of a State Sena-
tor, saying that her father had died sud-
denly of apoplexy. The school officials
gave a ready assent to her speedy de-
parture, and did all they could to soothe
and assist the seemingly grief-stricken
girl. She was joined at the depot by a
Young man, whom she introduced as her
cousin. He really was her sweetheart,
and had sent the message according toa
previous understanding with her-not
because her father was dead, for he was
not, but to enable her to get out OF the
seminary and elope with him. They
were married before the fraud was dis
covered.