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Evening star., 1896-03-07
THE PRECISE MAN.
He Advises His Son as to the Manner
Of Putting on q POstaxe Stamn

He Advises His Son as to the Manner
Of Putting ON a Postage Stamp.
From the New York Sun.
when you put postage stamp on an
envelope" said a precise man to his son.
'you should put 1t on square and true, in
the upper right-hand corner, and as near
as possible to the margin of the envelope.
You put 1t on at the right-hand corner for
the convenience of the stampers in the
post office, SO that 1t may be uniform in To-
cation with the stamps on other envelopes,
and 80 more conveniently and expeditiously
stamped; you should study the comfort of
others as well as yourself. You should put
1t as near as possible to the corner, SO that
the canceling stamp will be less likely to
deface, and SO perhaps to obscure the ad-
dress on the envelope.
You should put 1t on square and true
because that Is the methodical and proper
way to do. Many persons are disturbed by
the appearance of stamp put on in
careless and slipshod manner. And I can
easily imagine that such a practice might
work positive injury to you. You might
have occasion to write to q man on mat
ter of business that was Of Importance to
you. You might compose and write this
letter with faithful care, and set forth
what you had to say with commendable
clearness and precision, and yet upset 1t
all by slapping on a stamp carelessly: the
recipient might Judge you by the one slight
act done naturally rather than by the
studied work done with purpose.
my son, don't do It; put the stamp on
where 1t belongs, 30 that the little touch of
color VIII grace the envelope and not de-
face It." = rle-G->'
Evening star., 1896-03-07
A SCARED POLITICIAN,
Congress Did Not Take Him Into It's
Confidence.

Congress Did Not Take Him Into It's
Confidence.
From the New York Recorder.
George Drake the well-known mountain
detective, who has spent much of his time
in the mountains Of eastern Kentucky on
missions attending his profession, is au-
thority for the following amusing story,
which he claims was an actual occurrence:
'In Letcher county," says Captain Drake,
there is a stretch of country about fifteen
miles square where the ignorance of the
natives is astonishing. In the winter Of '94
/ had occasion to travel through this coun-
try, being On the lookout for moonshiners
Riding along one afternoon 1 CHANGED to
stop in blacksmith shop-the only one for
miles around-to have a thrown shoe re-
placed. The blacksmith who fitted the shoe.
I learned later was the intellectual giant
of that section. His fame among his fell
lows was due to the fact that he could read
a newspaper. AS he hammered away at
the horseshoe a lanky specimen of the
mountain type rode up, and, after greeting
us with 'evenin',' secured his horse, and
took seat upon broken plowshare in the
shop. After sitting in silence for some
minutes chewing ponderous quid of to-
bacco, splitting at intervals and eyeing me
the meanwhile, he offered the question:
Sam, have yer paper cum yitg
Come Yesterday replied Sam.
Eyes
"'Wut hev they er dun this trip, SamT
"a few moments hesitation, and then.
with wink over his shoulder at me, Sam
responded:
tew more months ter ther year. and them
tew is winter months
by durn! calculated Try, ZEN me en-
Hirum is both short er fodder. tew"
Evening star., 1896-03-07
PHYSICIAN AND BUCCANEER.
DR.. Dover of Powder Fame Discovered
the Original of Robinson Cruxoe.
From

DR.. Dover of Powder Fame Discovered
the Original of Robinson Cruxoe.
From the Medical Record.
In an address delivered before the His
tcrical Club of Johns Hopkins University
DR.. William Osler gives an account of Dr.
Thomas Dover, whose name has passed
down to posterity in connection with pulyis
ipecacuanhae compositus. There are few
physicians who have not prescribed Dover
powders, but there are, we think still few
er who know much. about DIR. Dover, and,
especially, who know that he was at one
time successful buccaneer and discovered
Alexander Selkirk of Robinson Crusoe'
fame DIR. Dover was born in Warwick
shire, about 1860, and was probably stu
dent of Sydenham's. After taking his de-
gree, he settled in Bristol. and, having
made some money, Joined with some other
merchants in privateering expedition
Two ships were fitted out, and Dover went
as third in command, being styled Cant,
Dover He sailed to the Spanish Main
and In 1'09 arrived at the island of Juan
Fernandez. There Capt. Dover went ashore.
and discovered the sole occupant of the
island to be Scottish sailor named Alex
ander Selkirk. who had been left there
alone four years ard four months before
SelEirk was taken off and made an officer
on one Of the ships. The expedition after
ward sacked the two cities of ,1uayaauil
Dover leading in the assault. They took a
number of prizes. and cruised about the
coast from Peru to California They then
sailed across the Pacific and reached Eng
land in I'LL. The expedition was very sue
cessful, realizing the enormous sum of
sS5O000, of which Dr. Dover received con-
siderable part. After his return home Do
yer travelled again somewhat, but finally
went to London. His most famous book is
one known ''The Ancient Physicians
Legacy published in 1913 This was
popular treatise on medicine, and was in
tended, apparently, to get practice for the
author,
Evening star., 1896-03-07
67,5S3
743,413

Just say three and cipher make three;
write down three in the units place; then
add eight and three, which make eleven;
one; then add five, and eight and one car
ried make fourteen; write down four in
hundreds place. and carry one Continue
adding every figure to the next following
OF e, until the operation is finished.
The same number may be multiplied in a
like manner by III by first writing down the
three, then the sum of eight and add three,
and SO on.
Multiplying by nine may be reduced to
simple subtraction. Take, for example, the
same number-61.5 .5S3. The OF ly figures nee
essary are these:
Evening star., 1896-03-07
67,5S3
GOSo47

After a cipher is added to the end, sub
tract each figure from that which precedes
1t, commencing a the right. Continue in
this manner. taking care to borrow ten
when the right-hand figure is too small.
These are some of the tricks of lightning
calculators 1t is not hard to learn these
various systems. and the peculiarit;es Of
each number, and when a man gets them
thoroughly Into his head, he is able to do
some things apparently marvellous.
To determine the divisibility of numbers
is perhaps one of the tantalizing things
mathematicians have to deal with. The fol-
lowing properties are useful:
Any number is exactly dvisible by four if
Its two rght-hand figures are exactly divis-
ible by four.
When the sum of the dgits of any num-
Der is exactly divisible by three, so is the
number itself.
Any even number is exactly divisibie by
six which is exactly divisible by three.
If the last three figures of a number are
exactly divisible by eight so is the number
itself.
Any rumber is divisible by twelve which
is divisible by three and four.
Evening star., 1896-03-07

to thirteen men, and. after Capt Couch
died, g. w. Buckley was the first man to
wear star No. 18. He was discharged June
passed to Jim Edwards, who was clubbed
and nearly killed on election day. Jim Mes
bit then wore the star, and on November
ID, 1892. was dismissed for cause. The star
was taken by Osmond Olson, but he re-
signed because of Ill fortune. George Wulf
then pinned the star on, and his revolver
went off and removed section Of his heel.
Wulf turned in the star. Jim salmond took
1t. and his hand was SO badly hurt he had
to lay of, but he stuck to the star. When
he returned to work he fell from car and
as compelled to lie on his back for days.
Railroad Men Laugh at 1t.
There is little trace Of the thirteen super
stition to be found among the railroad men.
The Poughkeepsie bridge route had some
trouble with engine 13 on the 18th day of
the month. but 1t frightened no one.
A. j. Cross, general manager of the c., B.
and O., cheerfully responds: 'I was born on
half hundred years old, alive and well.
When creditor owes me $l2 I am always
ready to accept thirteen in full payment, or
match thirteen men till I win $!3.
Morsewate of the Arkansas Pass, recalls
that when a boy he was one of thirteen to
divide twelve oranges with disastrous re-
suits to the thirteenth, but the number is
ager Stickney of the Chicago Great West
ern writes: I'VE have an engine Is, which
has been in the service several years and
also train 49, I have never heard any
&C mplaints regarding the engine that are
different from any of the other engines;
while the train is an exceptionally good
paying one.''
w. ]. Murphy, superintendent of the Gin
cinnatt division of the Cincinnati, New Or
leans and Texas Pacific, writes, however,
as follows:
Locomotive engineers. as a class, are
superstitious with reference to number 13;
but In talking this matter over with some
CT the men. not one knew of anything that
mad ever occurred upon which to base his
notion of bad luck in this connection Ny
attention has just been called to the fact
ttat engine 54S broke side rod on the 18th
of February, and 1 am told that on the
same date there were seven wrecks on the
Norfolk and Western"
]. P. McCaen, superintendent of motive
power on the same line, calls attention to
the accident which befell engine 313, which
broke loose from her fastenings while being
transferred to the Louisiana side of the
i1ississippi river, and landed in forty feet
of water.
Evening star., 1896-03-07
JOsEpHINE,s ExTRAyAc.NcE

Even the Emperor Napoleon Was
Bothered by Dressmakers' Bills.
From the Century.
On his return Napoleon had found Jose
phine's extravaganza to be as unbounded
as ever; but he could mot well complain,
because, although for the most part frugal
himself, he had this time encouraged Law
ishness in his family. Still, it was not
agreeable to have dressmakers' bills flung
into his carriage when driving in state
with his consort, and on one occasion he
sent an unprincipled but clever milliner to
the prison Of Bicetre for having disobeyed
his orders in furnishing her wares to the
empress at exorbitant prices. The person
was SO indispensable to the court ladies'.
however, that they crowded her cell, and
she was soon released. 1
Evening star., 1896-03-07
COURTING A QUAKER MAuD.
| The Agreement Entered Into by Two
| Ardent Maryland Brothers.

From the Century
The later assemblies of Annapolis, Mari.
borough and Chestertown were hardly more
IN vogue than the yearly meetings of the
eastern shore Quakers Their curious
qua;ntness, and the picturesque contrast
they presented to the radiant attire and lii,-
ertihe manners Of the worlds people who
in!4uetted and coQuetted in manor houses
and caroused and ruffled in cockpits and
bowling courts, drew Romanists and Eng.
hsh Catholics" to the doors of their sober
conventfcle. and filled its leafy approaches
with profane chariots and chairs and pranc.
Ing steeplechasers. and side-saddIed pal.
freys. So ii happened that to the yearly
meeting held at Third Haven, near Talbot
Sourt-house, in the year 100, there came
py opposite ways, through groups of booths
erected by the graceless and irreyarent for
the sale OF trumpery and tipple, a Quaker
maiden mounted on a pillion behind Ter
iatner, and two plumed and rapiered cava-
ners gaily curveting. The wimpled maid
whose overcoming charms still bloom in
tradition. was Sarah Covington of Somer-
set, and the prancing cavaliers were the
orothers Edward and Philemon Lloyd. sons
Oh Madam Henrietta Maria aforesaid Inn
medlately the pretty lads, with a sudden
equal passion. loved the wimpled maid, and
yearned for her: and each conceived a cum
rang purpose, proper to the country and tha
time, and shrewdly held his peace.
Wnen the meeting as over. the brothers.
each taking his cunning scheme i'm hand
mounted and galloped away, taking differ
ent ways; and they rode hard, laughing as
tney rode, Tor JOY at their boyish artifice.
AFTER lingering for a while in places remote
from the highway, where was no fear OF
d1scoVery by any chance acquaintance ana
SO tnat the slower Quaker folk might have
time 10 regain their homes, they rode ON
INTO Somerset-and met at their charmer'a
gate. FIRST they swore, then they blushed
and then they laughed loud and long. Phil
said: 'e - "ii
Let her be for whichever, you or L did
see her first and Ned, the elder and the
feir, assented Then said Phil:
NO sooner had I taken my place in tho
meeting than I beheld the girl, and loved
her." ~ 'o'e0
And Ned said, II passed the night befora
the meeting at the Peach Blossom farm,
and at the foot of the hill, turning into the
gate at the water mill. 1 saw this girl on a
pillion behind her father and they INQUIRED
the way to the meeting house; and / loved
her"
Then Phil rode back to Talbot, and Ned
oismounted at the gate and led his horse to
the porch. Thus. in 1703 Sarah Coyineton
became the wife Of the heir, and mistress
OF wye House. She it was who i'm l133
built with English brick the house OF
Readbourne' in Queen Anne's county. that
typical colonial mansion, still in excellent
preservation, and showing an imposing pile
ntted with materials brought over from
England, where the noble hall and the
brofd stairway of the period confer a char.
acteristic distinction.
Evening star., 1896-03-07
16S.OO3


Let IT he supposed to subtract all the
amounts below the line at B from all those
above 1t at A. Add all the figures in tine
first lower column B, which will make IA,
and subtract their sum from the next nigh
er number of tens, or 20. Add the remain
der, u. to the corresponding column above
at A, and the total will be %. Write down
3 at the bottom, and be cause there were here
two tens, as before, there is nothing to be
reserved or carried. In like manner add
the figures Of the second column in B,
which will amount to 8, and this taken from
1O will leave ]; add l, therefore, to the sec
ond column of the upper numbers, the sum
of which will be 20; write down cipher at
the bottom, and because there were here
two tens, while in the lower column there
was but one, reserve the difference and
subtract 1t from the next column of num-
bers. marked B. before you begin to add.
In the contrary case-that is, when there
are more tens in any one of the columns
marked b than in the corresponding col
umn above 1.-THE difference must be added.
In the last place when 1t happens that the
difference cannot be taken from the next
column below for want of more significant
figures. as the case here in the fifth column,
1t must be added to the upper one and the
whole sum written below the line. By pro-
ceed:ng in this manner the above result is
obtained, and 1t will be found invariably
correct.
Any schoolboy who has passed multiplica-
ton in his arithmetic knows that to multi
ply number by ten it is only necessary to
add cipheri by one hundred, two ciphers
and so on. Hence it follows that 10 multi
ply by five it is only necessary to suppose
cipher added and divide by two Thus, il
1t were required to multiply 127 by five
with cipher added you have 1870, which,
divided by two. equals 635, the product re-
quired.
In like manner, to multiply any number
by twenty-five, two ciphers must be added
Or first assume that the number has been
mutt piled by 100, then divide by four Ac-
coIding to the same principle, to multiply
by Ia 1t will be necessary to add three
ciphers and divide by eight.
The multiplication of any number by
eleven may be reduced to simple addition.
Let the number to be multiplied by eleven
be 1888. The whole process may be re-
duced to the following few strokes of the
pencil:
Evening star., 1896-03-07
Heresy in Chicago.

From the Indianapolis Journal.
The Studious Son-"Daddy, did you know
the sun rises about an hour earlier In Phila-
delphia than it does here?''
The Chicago FatEer-"How did you git
that fool notion?'
Learnt it at school,
IF they are teaching at school that
Philadelphia is an hour ahead Of Chicago,
I guess it is time you were took out of there
and put in the store
Evening star., 1896-03-07
On Sale in the vestry.

From tie Westminster Gazette
A curate once was intrusted by his vicar,
who was rather deaf, with the delivery of
two notices, which were to be given out in
certain order. Unfortunately, the curate
forgot what he had been told, and reversed
the notices, which related to baptism and
new hymn books. The curate began on the
hymn books, stating that in future a new
form Of hymn book would be used in the
service of the church. He then passed on
to baptism, and said that the clergy had
noticed with sorrow that more parents did
not bring their children to be baptized. All
parents should bring their babies to church
to be baptized at the earliest opportunity
"And for the benefit Of those who have
none," remarked the vicar, who thought the
notice just given out referred to the hymn
books, Il may mention that they may be
purchased in the vestry after service-stiT
backs, Is. 3d.; limp backs, 1s.'
Evening star., 1896-03-07

From Truth,

From Truth
After years Of application.
With 4 masters touch acquired
She resumed her humble station
Music Waj, ambition fired
Something simple, she reflected
Would most tickle her relations
Consequently she selected
"Home, Sweet H0me"-with varfatiooa
When they came to hear her play,
Ere ifs last run died away,
6pake her father, coaxing slow,
That II ane, we will allow, dear,
:. AAd welt daae,. we're sure; but, now, dear
Play us something that we know"
Evening star., 1896-03-07

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mizzle-"How did you happen to join tn
Independent Rifies?'
Fizzle-"To avoid Jury duty
Mizzle-"They tell me you resigned Just
as coon as there was prospect of war"
FizZle-"That was because / felt con.
WINGED no good citizen should shirk the de-
mands of the jury box"
Evening star., 1896-03-07

LUCK OF THIRTEEN
Opinions Of Police Officers, Fire
Fighters and Railroad Mem.
COMFORT FOR TIE SUPERSTITIOUS
Some Curious Stories, Which May
Be Believed or Not.
AS ANY OTHER NUMBER

8 THIRTEEN AN
unlucky number?
This question was
lately addressed to
a large number of
railroad, army, navy,
police and fire de-
partment authorities,
and many replies
have been received
and classified. AL
though several in
stances of apparent.
ill-luck following the
number when it ap-
Evening star., 1896-03-07
Dangerous.

From the Detroit News.
Daughter (home from boarding school,
"Say. NAV, city folks keep their table
knives heap sharper'n these"
.Aother-'tLaw sakes! I sh,d think they'd
be afeared Of cuttin' their mouths''
Evening star., 1896-03-07
Seemed Sufficient.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Mrs. Tono-''So you're going to send your
daughter to Wesleyan. Why not Vassar?''
Mrs Update-'The Vassar colors don't
become her."
Evening star., 1896-03-07
CURIOUS FIGURES.
some Ingenious Methods Of Making
Remarkable Calculations.

some Ingenious Methods Of Making
Remarkable Calculations.
From the New York Herald
Are you bookkeeper or bank clerk? If
you are it is ten to one that you don't
krow the peculiarities of those things with
which you juggle daily in your business
namely. numbers. They are certainly very
''freaky" things. and the average lay matil-
ematician knows not half the mysteries of
which they are possessed, although anus
ing dissertations concerning them are SEEM
ingly without end.
To begin, there is a method Of subtracting
the sum of several numbers from the sum
of several other numbers without adding
each sum separately.
First make this table:
562i3
S4,564 A
3252
26SiS
2942
1864 B
230S
Evening star., 1896-03-07
Report of the Examining Committee
Office of The Mutual Life Insurance Company
of New York


February II, 1896
At meeting of the Board of Trustees of this
Company, held on the 18th day of December last,
the undersigned were appointed Committee to
examine the annual statement for the year ending
December 81, 1895, and to verify the same BY
comparison with the assets of the Company.
The Committee have carefully performed the
duty assigned to them, and hereby certify that
the statement is in all particulars correct and that
the assets specified therein in possession of the
Company.
In making this certificate the Committee bear
testimony to the high character of the investments
of the Company and express their approval of tho
system, order, and accuracy with which the ac-
counts and vouchers have been kept, and the
business in general transacted.
(s,smp) n. c. Won posr Rosepr olypa.sr
CHAs. r. HENDERSON W. p Onos
james c. AoloeN J. n. HsRRlcx
COMMITTED
Evening star., 1896-03-07
ROBERT A. aRAMN,ss v,ce-pxes.oexr

D. r. BRESEE & SONS, Branch Office.
1888 Est. NV, Washington, DC.
Evening star., 1896-03-07
Well Described.

Well Described.
From the Chicago Post.
'Do you know Bilk?'
'Know the internal scoundrel! Why
he
"Ah! see you dc know him."
Evening star., 1896-03-07
THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE

NoTF-lnsurance merely sO>Ifs<n is discarded
from this Statement as wholly misleading and
only insurance actually issued and paid for in
cash is included.
Evening star., 1896-03-07

have carefully examined the foregoing State.
ment and find the same to be correct
CHARLES A. PRELLFR Auditor
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-09-19

SUSSEX county alone. headed by the
Democratic county chairman. Mr. A.
King.
The Southern railway had no special
train. but a large number OF the Halifax
and Charlotte county Democrats came In
on the o'clock train In the morning.
while the evening train was crowded.
A club mfty strong) came over the
Norfolk and Western from Farmville,
bringing the contingent from Nottoway,
Dinwldde, Prince Edward, and Amelia
counties.
The enormous crowd had little trouble
In returning from the Auditorium. With
wagons. buses. and the complete accom-
modations of the Traction Company,
everybody got home quickly and com
fortaby. though the cars on returning
were all filed. and some OF them even
accommodated passengers on top.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-09-19
Excursion to the Seashore.

Tomorrow morning at $50 o'clock the
usual Chesapeake and Ohio special Sun
day excursion will leave Broad-Street
Station for Newport News. Norfolk. Old
Point. and Buckroe Beach. These ex-
cursions have been well patronzed all
through the season. and still continue to
attract a large number each week. The
trip is made TO Newport News In less
than two hours. and those who go TO
Norfolk take the Chesapeake and Ohio
steamer Louise. which affords the variety
of pleasant sail OF nearly an hour TAls
feature is much enjoyed by many regular
patrons. Due MOTTO. Of the o.scou-
tinuance OF the Chesapeake and Ohio
Sunday excursions will be given by the
mana cement, and the public are requested
to take no notice Of rumors to that effect
from other sources.