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customer and not by the house. The
habitues of particular restaurants
know them by name and order their
geishas as they order their dinner. II
no special favorites are called Tor they
take their turn IS customers come IN,
always gong in pairs. While you are
eating they sit around on the floor
and make themselves merry, repeating
the latest gossip, reciting little poems,
telling anecdotes and jokes and max
Ing themselves as entertaining as pos
sible. If you want them to sing or
play the samisen they will do so, but
their musical accomplishments are not
appreciated by foreigners, who sell
dom ask them to sing twice. A jap
anese song is recitative in minor
kew pitched very high and and inter-
spersed with little squeals and
screeches. 1t has no melody or har-
mony, and one finds it difficult to de-
tect any rhythm.
The wife of Japanese gentleman
never presides at his table except
when he has lady guests, but she u.s.
ually makes her appearance when the
servants bring in the tea and sweet
meats that always precede dinner.
She gives you a graceful greeting and
then retires to reappear as you are
saying your "sayonaras," which is the
Japanese for ''good-by."
Thin silken cushions are scattered
around upon the floor, and the guests
are arranged in the order of their
rank or seniority, which is a matter OF
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Hot Roast Beef Sandwiches.

Each season develops at Coney Island
its particular fad in the way of hot
Iuncheons, according to the Baltimore
American. One season it was the
hot frankfurter, which had run of
several seasons, and would probably
still be popular had it not been dis
covered that factory for the produc-
lion of frankfurters was suspiciously
near a repository for dead car horses.
That hurt the sausage industry. Then
came soft crabs on toast and other
tempting dishes. This season it is the
hot roast teef sandwich. The beef is
roasted in front of the passing crowd
and cut from the long rolls and
served. 1t is far from tender, but it
is good enough for a person who will
try and satisfy vigorous appetite at
the stand of Coney Island fskir.
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great importance among so ceremoni-
Gus a people as the Japanese. Little
tables about six inches high, such as
you see piled up like pyramids in the
bric-a-brac stores in America, are
brought in and placed before you.
Then barefooted nesans, or waiting
maids, looking fresh and cool and
graceful in their soft-tinted kiminos,
bring trays of laquer upon which are
several covered bowls. Before they
place the trays upon the little tables
they leave them on the floor for mo-
ment while they make their very best
bow.
Bowing with us is lost art. Our
lumbar vertebra has never been linn
bered up to q degree sufficient for us
to move more than the head and per-
baps the shoulder, but the Japanese
bow begins with the hips, and when
you meet gentleman or lady they
usually show you the back OF their
neck several times before they COM
mence conversation, placing the hands
upon the knees and turning the body
into right angles. Servants drop
upon their knees, place their hands
upon the mating and touch the fore
head upon the floor. This ceremony
is srepeated with the greatest gravity
whenever they bring you a dish or
take one away. and they are trained
from childhood. A little boy or girl
of three or four years will make as
digni6ed bow as the most renowned
instructor in decorum, and Japanese
housekeeper is great deal more par
ticular about the dress and manners of
her servant than we are.
When you are in Japan you have
to do as the japanese do, and you can
find out their ways easily by watch
ing. Your host is thoughtful and OBJ
serving, and tries to put you at your
ease and help you along by dropping
little hints as to the manner of using
your chop-sticks and the customary
way of doing this and that. Some
times at dinner they give you hand
somely carved ivory chop.sticks that
are heirlooms, and may have been in
the family for generations, but it is
less ostentatious to furnish little strips
of sweet, white wood highly polished
and split apart for only half their
length to show that they had never
been used. No well-ordered family
ever uses the same chop-sticks the Sec
ond time. The Oxen or tables, the
lacquer trays, the bowls and cups in
which your food is served are all OF
the most exquisite workmanship and
artistic designs. You seldom see a
plate or a saucer at japanese dinner.
Those are made exclusively for the
foreign trade, but the little bowls and
cups in which your food and sake are
served are works of art.
The host sets an example by remov.
ing the covers from the bowls upon
his tray and, initiating him, you find
an assortment of food that is entirely
new and often trying to your palate.
There is no use OF a knife, for every
thing is cooked in little morsels, but
a fork would come mighty handy, and
a spoon would be even better, for you
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THE JAPANESE HOST
ENTERTAINMENT GUESTS DE-
VELOPED INFO 4 FINE ART.
The Graces and Formalities OF a
CeremouIous Dinner-Girls Who
Beguile the Timc-The
Odd Menu.
CEREMONIOUS Japanese

X CEREMONIOUS Japanese
" dinner is a tiresome ex-
NJ perience for an American,
particularly if he be in the
habit of doing things in hurry and
is given to stiff joints end embon-
point, writes W. E. Curtis in the Chi
cago Record. But the novelty is
worth the test OF endurance, and If it
happens to be in the home OF a rich
man, where one can enjoy to the full
measure the hospitality that is re-
garded as one of the fine arts as we'll
as one of the cardinal virtues, with all
the eraces and formallties of oriental
etiquette, it will never be forgotten.
Buddhism has lett its impression
upon the diet as we'll as the manners
of the Japanese. The strict tenets OF
the church forbid the taking OF life,
and, therefore, animal food was prac-
tically abandoned in Japan more than
1000 years ago. Nine-tenths of the
people live on vegetables and dried
fsh-the latter being concession to
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The Elephants Mud Bath.

Animals when wild constantly die a
lingering death from injury to the
skin, whether caused, as usually hap
pens in tropical countries, by wounds
aggravated by insects, or by cutane-
ous disease. Hence the pains which
they take in making their toilet, and
in the use and selection of tcos.
metics." Among birds, the salt water
species often seek fresh water to wash
In, different land birds choose differ
ent earths in which to dust, and also
wash in water, and nearly every trop-
ical animal, including the tiger,
bathes either in water or in mud. Per.
hsps the best known mud bathers are
the wild boar, the water buffalo and
the elephant. The latter has an i'm
mense advantage over all other ami
mails, in the use of its trunk for dress
ing wounds. It is at once syringe,
o powdering puff and hand.
Water, mud and dust are the main
"applications" used, though it some
times covers sun-scorched back with
grass or leaves. "Wounded ele-
phants," writes Sir Samuel Baker,
shave marvellous power Of recovery
when in their wild state, although
they have no gifts of surgical knowl.
edge, their simple system being con-
fined to plastering their wounds with
mud, or blowing dust upon the sur
face. Dust and mud comprise the en-
tire pharmacopoeia of the elephant,
and this is applied upon the most
trivial, as well as upon the most seri-
sus, occasions. I have seen them,
when in tank, plaster up bullet
wound with mud taken from the bot
tom" The Spectator. ....
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human frailty. Chickens are used to
some extent, and pious fraud is
practiced in calling the deer q
mountain whale" When you see
the sign "Yamakujira" written over a
market or eating house it means that
they have venison for sale there under
the title I have given, but it IS SO ex-
pensive that only the rich can indulge
in that sort of sin. Meat eating IS on
the increase, however, and markets
for the sale of beef, pork and mutton
are found in the neighborhood of all
the fashionable districts.
There are three or four eel houses
in Tokyo that are as popular for din
ing as Kinsley's in Chicago or Del
monico's in New York, and the Golden
Koi has been made famous by Edwin
Arnold. When you enter that or any
other eel house you are led to tank
full of squirm1ng reptiles aad asked
to select your victims. The larger
eels are rank and coarse and greasy
and the American seldom tries them
but once. The little fellows. how
ever, are delicious, particularly when
about five inches long and broiled on
bamboo skewer like white bait. You
can see them cooked if you like, for
true to their habit of having every
thing the reverse of what it is with us,
the japanese restaurants place their
kitchen in the front part of the house
adjoining the entrance and their din
ing-rooms somewhere at the end OF a
series of corridors in the rear.
The tea gardens in Japan are all
alike, and they are all lovely, but the
houses would be more comfortable If
one could have tables and chairs and
knives and forks instead of being COM
PEELED to sit on mat in his stocking
feet and endeavor to eat with chop
sticks. Everything is served to you
on little lacquered trays on the floor,
and the food is usually in bowls or
tiny cups which you can lift to your
mouth if you like and shovel in the
food as most of us have TO do, because
the use of chopsticks is an acquired
art, and very few foreigners can ever
do it gracefully.
While you are eating there are al
ways two or three nesans or geisha
girls to entertain you. None of them
can talk English, bat at the tea houses
usually frequented by foreigners a
few useful words have been acquired,
and, as the girls are very quick of per-
ception, it is only necessary to give
them e-quarter of an idea and they
will supply the other three-quarters
with their native wit. No matter what
Sir Edwin Arnold and other sentimen-
tai writer's on Japan may say, these
japanese girls are not pretty. Their
figures are shapeless. their features
are fat, their compilations are muddy,
teeth are bad, and If they wore mod
ern garments one would never look at
them second time. They cannot com
pare in looks with the shop girls of
Chicago and New York, and the wait
resses in our country hotels will aver
age quite as we'll for beauty. But
their kiminos are of the daintest
shades and combination Of color, their
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Slaughtering Horses for Food.

! The slaughter OF horses for food has
began at Linnton, Oregon, in an aoat'
toir especially CONSTRUCTED for the
purpose. The San Francisco Ezamin-
er says:
The operation is about the same as
killing beef. The horses are driven
up the inclined roadway from the COR
rails and each is enclosed in pen.
The executioner strikes them in the
head with sledgehammer. The doors
of the pen are lifted and the carcasses
are drawn out on the floor and expe-
ditiously dressed and hung up.
Trenches in the floor and chutes con.
vey the offal out of sight, and, in a
short time, number of carcasses are
suspended by the gambrels from iron
tracks above.
The pile of hoofs in one corner, q
pile of horsetails in another, and the
length and slimness of the legs on the
carcasses are all that would indicate
to an inexperienced person that any
thing unusual had been going on.
The flesh of the horse is darker than
that of good beef.
There are certain variations to the
customary method of converting live
horse into an edible one which de-
serve mention. Horses which have
been killed in the cars, or had "brok-
en their necks running down an en-
bankment trying to get away" as one
butcher said, must not be allowed to
20 to waste. So they are gotten out
of the way very e1peditiously. The
legs were cut off at the knees, the
name and tail removed, u slit made
the whole length of the skin and the
head and part of the neck divested OF
the epidermis. Then y rope was
made fast to the loosened skin and
chain put around the neck and fas'
tened to the trunk Of an apple tree.
A team Of horses was hitched to the
rope and the entire skin thus pulled
off. A few cuts and slashes and the
carcasses were in the steam tank being
converted into fertilizer.
This is, in brief, the way horses are
killed for eating in the first establish
ment of its kind in America. 1t is
not intended that any of the meat
shall be offered for sale here; nor is
there any part of the establishment
devoted to canning. The company
will not can horses, at least at pres
ent. Only the. hams Will be picked
for export The offal will be convert
ed into fertilizer and made into other
marketable products by methods in
use at all frst.class abattoirs.
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Highest of all in Leavenng Power-Lates US. Govt Report
R&!a!!! g! Rskassi! RskiHs
ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE
The Oldest Man in the World,

The Frankfurter Journal has dis.
covered, by q sheer accident, the old
est man in the world. A "Kommer-
zienrath," who dated his letter from
Hellbronn, observed at the end Of the
epistle: ~ have been subscriber to
your paper ever since its first appear
ance." The editor remarks in note
that "such an example of fidelity to
one and the same newspaper deserves
praise in 80 changeable generation"
But what is still more remarkable is
the phenomenal longevity ofits CORE
spondent. "The first number of our
Journal" observes the editor, zap
peared 2s0 years ago." Hence the
respected subscriber must be about
300 years old.
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"Sometimes we do it this way" and
lifts his bowl to his lips and shovels
in the food as you would shovel coal
into a cellar. This method cannot be
recommended for gracefu)ness or re-
fnement, but it is better than starVa-
tion.
There are half dozen dishes in each
course and your host kindly tells you
what they are. First suimono, kind
of beau soup; kuchitori, chestnuts
boiled and crushed into mush kama
boko, fish picked fine and then rolled
into little balls and baked; sishiml,
raw fish cut into tiny slices and COW
cred with ice. This is dipped into 9
rich sauce called scy, and really doesn't
taste as bad as It sounds. Each course
is served With little cups of warm sake.
There is no bread or butter, and you
will not have a napkin offered you un'
less you ask for it.
The second course is a small flsh
broiled whole, with the head and tail
on, which is very difficult to eat with
chopsticks; umani, bits of fowl boiled
with lotus roots or potatoes; little
salad made of onions, peas and string
beans, with few leaves of lettuce or
crosses; su-no-mono, sea slugs served
with eggplant, mashed as we do pota-
toes, and chawan-mushi, thick, GUS
tardy soup made of fish and vegeta'
bles. with mushrooms for relish.
The third course is usually a curry
with rice and picked vegetables, such
as eggplant, cabbage leaves, radishes
and onions; and for fourth and final
course you have soba, sort of buck.
wheat vermicelli served with soy and
a sweet liqueur called mirin; shiruko,
rice cakes, sea weed and all sorts OF
confectionery, which is very sweet
and tasteless.
The nesans keep your sake cup full
and during the course OF the dinner
each member of the company rises and
proposes the health of the host and
then some other guest until the whole
party is disposed of. This is trying
ordeal to one who does not like sake,
for you must lift your little cup to
your forehead in saluatation each time
and therempty it in three sips. 1t
holds but thimbleful, but it is fiery
stuff and inaames the blood more than
our brandy. 1t is customary also to
drink the health of the mattresses,
who bow their foreheads to the floor
in acknowledgment while the compl-
ment is paid them.
At the close of the dinner the tabako
bon, a tray holding tiny hibachi
with live Goals IN cone of ashes and
q section OF bamboo for an ash receiver
is placed before you, and cigarettes
and cigars are passed around IN boxes
Of cloisenne that tempt you to violate
the commandment that forbids steal.
ing.
You rise from q Japanese dinner
with your legs aching, sense OF I'M
necessary fullness and q craving tor
food, and when you reach the hote!
you feel inclined to send for o plate OF
crackers and cheese or a sandwich
The native diet is clean, free from
grease and rich in carbon, but it does
not satisfy the foreign. appetite, and
to sit on your heels for two hours Is
more tiresome than climbing mount
aiQ
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SMALLEST OF REPUBLICS.
1t Has Forty-six Inhabitants, and the
Women Vote.

Women Vote.
On the route from the Italian con.
tinent to Caprera lies Tavolara, all ISL
and q mile wide, which has forty-ive
inhabitants. King Charles Albert of
Piedmont made Paul, the head Of the
Bartoloni family, owner, KIM and
absolute ruler of the place i'll 1886.
For forty-si1 years he managed his
little kingdom admirably; and, dying,
he expressed the wish that the ISL
anders should be allowed to govern
themselves. The experiment proved
successful, and Tavolara WAS declared
a republic in 1885, while two years
later the State was formally recog-
nized by the Italian Government. Its
President is elected for five years, and
its public officials give their services
free of charge. Women have the
privilege of voting as we'll as men.
Once the island had narrow escape
of becoming the site OF gambling
casino like that of Monte Carlo. Ger
tain British speculstors desired to ac-
quire the place for this purpose, and
the proposal was likely to be enter
tanned, but the Government ultimately
prohibited the sale. On the island
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obis are of the richest brocades, and
their hair is marvel in its arrange
ment. All this makes them interest
ing, and they have pretty, graceful
manners.
The girls receive no regular wages,
but are sort of extra that is served
with every order and are paid by the
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EATING THEIR SUFFER- AT HONE.

find it almost impossible to convey
anything from your tray TO yonr
mouth with chopsticks. They slip and
wabble and cross each other with q de.
pravity that seems Intentional. You
drop your food into your lap and up
on the floor in " most amusing but
embarrassing ma2ner. Your host Of
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STATE OF ONO, CrTY OF TOLEDO,
T,uCAS CO1STY oSs -

STATE OF ONO, CRY OF TOLEDO,
LUCAS COUNTY. ''
lenior partner Of the firm OF F. j. CHENEY 81
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Fill pay the sum Of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case Of Catarrh that
eannot be cured BY the use Of HALLS CATARRH
CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day Of December, A. D. 1885.
Z ~, A. w. GLEASON,
SEAL Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
lets directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
pf the system. Send for testimonials, free.
+. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
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Tohacco,a Triumph.

Every day we meet men who have appar-
sntly lost all interest in life, but they chew
and smoke all the time and wonder why the
sunshine is not bright, and the sweet birds
songs sound discordant. Tobacco takes away
the pleasure of life and leaves irritated nerve
centres in return. No-To-Bac is the easy
way out. Guaranteed to cure and make you
we'll and strong, by Druggists everywhere.
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ATLANTA, GA.-The Southern Railway, Pied
rom Washington to Atlanta, Ca, for the Cot
ION States Exposition: Washington to Atlanta
ind return, on Tuesday and Thursday each
week during exposition, rate Of Sl4 for the
Every day, during the exposition, rate of sl925,
rood to return thirty days from date Of sale;
lso round-trip rate Of $685.; good to return
Until January. For rate schedule and through
way; Philadelphia, 81 South Third St; Boston,
Voc n,
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Clean fGar UrM Hats.

Leghorn hats may be cleaned :hus:
sStir one tablespoonful of powdered
sulphur into the Juice oi II lemon:
brush this mixture well into the Int
with q toothbrush, AMI when quite
clean place it under II tap anu let
water run over it to free 1t from tine
sulphur; dry IN .hc air oHt OF the
sui. Atlanta Constitution.
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there is peculiar breed of wild goats
whose jaws and teeth are covered with
q golden enamel. 1t is believed that
this is derived from the water on the
island, which contains largo quan-
tity of mineral matter.-New York
procc
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causing decay and loss on many heads.
The length of the hair in our picture
is five feet four inches, and its color
bright auburn. The lady, who resides
in Melbourne, is native of Auckland,
New Zealand Francisco Chron-
in1e
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A New View of Life.

It is surprising how often the troubles Of
this life spring from indigestion. And more
surprising how few people know it. You say,
arm blue" or MY head feels queer" or II
can't Sleep" or Everything frets ms." y inc
times in ten indigestion is at the bottom Of all
your miseries,, and box of Ripans Tabules
would give you an entirely new view Of life.
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Mrs. A. s. Palmer, who died at
Cleveland recently, was in her youth
instructor of James A. Garfield. 1t
was she who taught the future Presi-
dent his alphabet.
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Luxuriant Hair.

It is very seldom that so luz
ariant a growth of hair as that
illustrated is met with in Australia,
she summer heat, it is believed,
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DR.. Kilmer's SWAMP ROOT cures
all Kidney and Bladder troubles
Pamphlet and Consultation free
Laboratory Binchamton, n, Y.
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It has been discovered that $50, ,000
of bonds have been fraudulently du.
plicated in Harden County, Ohio.
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma.
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ONE ENJOYS

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Syrup of Figs is for sale in 81
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