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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-14
LOST TREASURES.
What Is Found Under the Seats After an
Operate Performance.


When the curtain has made its final fall
after an operatic performance at the Met
ropolitan and the bejewcled audience has
dispersed, queer scene is enacted. A
company enters and spreads itself out in
boxes and orchestra stalls, ovcrhauling
chairs, searching floors, prying under
cushions, peering into corners, as though
hunting for the strange demon who COM
pels even the brightest of operate stars to
occasionally sing flats where sharps are
written. But the members of the COM
pany of seekers are in search of something
more prosaic than demons. They are look
ing for the almost endless variety of arti-
Giles that grand opera audience nightly
leaves behind. Any one connected with
the house can join in the search, and every
one whose duties permit invariably does
so, for there is some valuable cleaning to
be done at the Metropolitan after the en-
rapturCd and cntrancCd audience has de-
parted.
For one yoar tho property is kept in the
opera house safe labeled with the name Of
the finder, and duly entered ina book kept
for the purpose. If unclaimed at the end
of the year, the article is presented to the
finder by the management as reward for
his honesty.
Among the queerest articles at the Met
ropolitan which await claimant are u
false tooth with heavy gold / late attached,
tYo silk hats, whose owners must have
been strangely entranced with the music
TO go home bareheadCd; an elegant lace
mantilla, which must have cost at least
$3.50; u gold bracelet, the broken clasp of
which shows the reason for it's loss; u dia-
mond ring, gold chains of various pat
terms, apparently torn off in the scramble
for the door, opera glasses by the dozen,
black, blue and fancy colorcd carriers by
the score (some with handsome gold clasps,
engraved with monographs that it has been
found impossible to Identify; canes and
umbrellas by the hundred, overshoes car
riage shoes, gloves and pocketbooks, lined
and unlined.
One of these pocketbooks, picked up by
cleaner, was found to contain $500 in
greenbacks. 1t was handed in with the
rest of the findings to the manager. Its
careless owner, a japanese connected with
the consulate, claimed il the following day.
The honest finder went unrcwarded. But
they are accustomed to that sort of treat
ment at the Metropolitan. York
Press
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-14
Sing OF TIE l-scli.
MeUis,ne i.as Turned the Cold shoulder on
an ola Friend That Il still Effective.

4 MeS,tt ne las kefDtt stS Nott -NoNiucf ON
an ola Friend That l. stlii Effective.
a young man wi.a a n * eye was led
Into a Brooklyn dr. store a. Fulton street
the other night q ONE friends TO see
what could ho done 10 make the eye pre-
sentable The druggist sHid that he could
not paint tbs eye, which tho young man
insisted was the only proper course, but
lecoh could be applied There was some
argument Ia the effect that leeches were
old fashioned, but the young man consent
ed To an operation. The druggist brought
out jar six inches in height and 1shed
around inside with one hand He brought
ont crawling, black object that no inn
mcdiately transferred 10 little pasteboard
box, in one side of which he had cut a
small hole, near the edge in the cover.
Holding the hole up 10 the young mans
eye, the druggist shook the box q little and
the leech's head was soon at work reducing
the size of the dark patch under the eye.
Meanwhile the company got some instruc-
tion about leeches
"The indicative leech is not so much In
demand as it ought to be- said the drug
gist, land the main difficulty in this
country is TO get leeches that will not cause
blood poisoning. The decrease in the use
of leeches by the medical profession is re-
markable. In England the largest two
hospitals formerly called for about 80, 600
of them; now they call for 80 or 100
leeches at irregular intervals Owing TO
a lack of demand and overproduction in
the old country, the price has fallen there
TO about one-half of that easily obtained 30
years ago. In this country a few places
produce leeches, but they are not so good
rs these that are imported. The best are
brought from Norway in tubs Of rich loam
In England the speckled leech, which is
raised in Hungary for the English trade,
is the most popular. The leech is used
almost exclusively for removing blood
from the eye after the bruise is day old.
When the eye is first bruised, the best
thing to use is raw meat. The best leecbes
are those that hang on the longest. These
are from Norway, and they are long and
slender.
Il guess this came from Norway" said
the sufferer, wincing "It pulls hard
enough
"Oh, you will feel as lively as cricket
after this is over" said the druggist.
"You needn't be afraid of any impurities,
such as some have complained of when
using American leeches. Some are raised
in Florida, but they are not held To be
very good. The danger of having leeches
raised in warm countries is that the bite
Is dangerous, giving rise to blood poison
ing. That's what is snid of American
lecches, but | never had any experience
with them. 4"
How muchg' said the man after the
leech had let go.
"Twentyilve cents, " sail the druggist.
New York sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-14
A Boat 4.5OO Yeara OLD

viking craft found in Norway solne
time ago was in use about the year 1000
A. d., and at once became famous as by
lar the Oldest specimen of watercraft in
existence. The boats in the Gizeh mu-
scum, it was decided by the learned, were
used at least $500 years ago, and were
contemporaneous with the Dashur pyra-
mids of the eleventh Egyptian dynasty.
With this boat and the two which re-
main In the Cairo museum were two more
which still rest in the sands which stretch
desolately from the Dashur pyramids, near
which they were found.
The five boats were found buried ot n
considerable depth, not far from the famous
largest pyramid, and in such orderly form
and with such mathematical relationship
To the great pile of stone that it was evil
dent that they had been buried with de-
sign at that particular spot.
The boats were found to be alike in tho
material of which they were constructed
and in their general Dimensions. The CO.
oar or antiquity, which entered into so
much OF the construction of things Of
wood, was used in building these boats
While the equipments of the boats had
generally disappeared with time, their
shapely outlines still remained
The boat that Is i'm Chicago now yvos
probably better preserved than any. IL is
oo ieet long, feet of beam and 4 feet of
hoid. A well preserved and peculiarly
marked and designed piece of rudder of
WOOD was found near the boats. -Harper's
Round Table.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-14
Lead Workers.

1t is said that lead working disfgures
the human body more than any other kind
of work.
In this industry it Is inevitable that
sooner or later the workers must succumb
to lead poisoning, and there would appear
to be no part of the body that the poison
Gus fumes and floating particles which
permeate the atmosphere of the workshops
do not affect. The complexion takes on
a CHASTITY, corpselike pallor, the gums turn
blue, the teeth decay rapidly and fall out,
and the cyelids are hideously inllamed. A
scratch or an abrasion of the skin becomes
an unbeatable sore.
Later on, when nerves and muscles DO.
come affected by the poison in the blood,
the eyebals are drawn into oblique posi-
tions and take on n dim and bleared APP
pearance. The joints, especially the knee
and the wrist, become semiparalyzed, and
tho whole form is gradually bent and con
torted.-New York Journal.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-14
BOXING AND spARRINa.
No Other Exercise Calls Into Play So
Many Of the Muscles.

There IL nc 0thir exercise that calls In
70 action so many muscles as sparving.
The act Of duCking 70 avoid blow Is per-
formed 10y neck, arm, chest, abdominal,
back thigh, leg and foot muscles. lie is
asserted by gymnasium directors and In
works en- anatomy and training that the
bicCpS and the other muscles on the 'front.'
Of the arm take no part In the delivery of
a blow i'm sparring If this were true,
there could be no such thing as an up
per cut" blow, nor would the fighter who
gets his opponents head in chancery
be able 20 Go any damage 10 that Oppo'
ncnt's face. The mechanism of the upper
cut" is as follows. being generally deliv-
cred with the right arm The limb being
flexed (bent at the elbow, with the hips
and knees slightly bent, the hips and
knees are rapidly Strengthened, while the
body is carried forward 10y the contraction
OF the muscles on the front of the thigh
and knee Joint At the same time the flexed
arm is carried forward and upward IL
the opponent has been able 20 recover par
italy and move the trunk and head back,
he may be so far away that the arm is al
most straight when the blow is struck, in
which case the triceps, the front hbers OF
the deltoid and the upper fbers of the pee.
toralis major furnish the motive power,
the triceps strengthening the arm and
other muscles carrying the upper arm and
shoulder forward.
But the opponent may be so close that
the blow is delivered while the arm is still
bent at the elbow-sometimes almost at
right angle. In this case the triceps take
but little part in the blow which is deliv-
cred through the combined action of the
front fibers of the deltoid, the upper fibers
of the pectoralis major, the biceps, the
brachialis anticus, the coraco brachialis
and the supinator longus The biceps is
the great flexor Cor bender) of the fore
arm, and Is assisted by the brachialis
anticus, broad, fiat muscle lying
under the biceps and on both sides of it.
After having flexed the forearm, these
muscles continuing TO act, carry the limb
upward. The supinator longus acts first
10 turn the hand over after it has been
turned backward; continuing to act, it
flexes the forearm. The trapezius muscles
on the upper part of the back and running
up TO the skull not only help TO draw the
arm back, but pull the head back TO get il
out of the way of an advancing blow.
When a sparrer throws his guard up TO
protect the face or neck, the arm move.
ment is performed by various muscles be-
tween the wrist joint and the middle of the
back and by the upper chest muscles, while
at the same time muscles of the trunk,
thighs and legs maintain the stability of
the body, which take part in the move
ment Chicago Chronicle.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-14
The Chair She Wanted.

One day last week she walked into %
large and well known furniture store
where there is an enormous stock of stuff
and began nosing around among the
chairs
'What is it you wish, madam" in
quircd one Of the ever present and over
pleasant clerks fer which tho place is fa-
nous.
Il want chair she replied in that
tired feeling tone of voice which one
doesn't always have to know Brooklyn
women TO hear.
"Be seated, madam" exclaimed the
chivalrous clerk, whirling the chair around
for her with such burst of politeness
that he quite forgot lis business.
Il mean | want TO buy one" she ex-
planned.
ooh, ] beg your PARDON" he said.
May | ask what kind, madam"
"Ihc kind you haven't got in the whole
store, III bet II cookie. "
But we can get it, madam, If we do
not have It in stock"
"You can't either, I'm almost sure. "
"Ncw designs are constantly ON the
market, madam, and surely we can sup
ply any demand made upon us.
'lou think so, do you?' she asked, as
If she had been to III furniture stores
that morning only to be disappointed at
each place. "Well, sir, have you got a
chair that has got an alarm clock i'm the
back Of it that will set off spring in the
seat that viii throw young man out Of
the window that hasn't got sense enough
to go home before / o'clock at night, So 5
my daughter, that has to holp with the
housework and cookin for six boarders.
can get nights rest, that everybody has
to get If they expect TO do their share? If
you have a chair like that, just send it up
right away. Here's my address. And
charge me anything you please for it;
moneys no object
Up to date the suave and sure sales
man has not been able to supply the de-
mand, but his house is Offering prize for
what is wanted.-New York sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-14
Have You Seen n Broken Heartq

"Gentlemen Of the jury" said the at
torney for the man who had been sued for q
breach Of promise, "my learned brother
who represents the fair plaintiff in the case
Is trying to work upon your sympathes,
and TO do it he has gone upon your facts.
He has talked at length about his clients
broken heart, in spite of the fact that no
evidence has been introduced TO show that
her heart is broken or ever has been bro
ken.
S6nsation on the other side.
Gentlemen, continued the lawyer i'm
pressively, after a pause, II don't believe
her heart is broken, and although on such
short notice l am unable to produce any
evidence of its exact condition, l think /
can convince you that am right. Do you
suppose that my learned brother would
have let matter that would affect so seri-
ously the case stand upon mere state
ment if the heart was really brokenf You
know that he would not That might
have been permissible before the days Of
the Y rays, but il Is not now. If her heart
be broken, why does he not produce n
photograph of it and prove his statement?
Gentlemen, he dare not He knows that
the cathode rays would show a healthy
and sound heart. F"
And the jury gave verdict for the
young man without leaving their seats
Pearson's Weekly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-14
Theory and Practice.

They were two pretty girls on the street
Cur. They were talking at u rate to make
a monograph throw up its hands and ev-
erything was said In the striCtest conf
dence. though all in the car could hear.
did you ever see such airs as Alice
takes on since she's married?" asked the
little blond as the pink in her checks deep
ened 10 flush of scarlet. "She seems to
think that her new existence is so delicious
that we of the set who are not welded
must be pitiod and patroniZcd. It's too
ridiculous for anything. | guess that
there are other fish in the matrimonial
sea.
"It's u way they all have" smiled the
more philosophical brunette. "Mamma
says that n young married woman simply
can't help growing over her girl friends
and is pleased rather than troubled when
she sees how they hate her for it. Don't
you understand? She has landed her fish,
and we are still angling for bites. "
"Indeed re not. I've rcCled in two
or three myself and then tossed them back.
She has no business growing over me. And
she needn't think I'll be good naturcd un-
der it either "
"But she hooked the fish she wanted
and wouldn't throw it back, dear. That's
whore she has the best of us. fl"
"No she hasn't. r.
Then there was gasp, the blond wills
pered excitedly into the ear of the bru-
nette, there was an embrace, resounding
kiss sounded through the car and the pas
sengers could not but exchange meaning
smiles as the charming little blond plumed
herself and began to take on the airs she
had SO wrathfully condemned Detroit
Free Press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-14
The Sand Laden Missouri.

Mr. Frank Fl. Spearman writes in st.
Nicholas Of the freaks of the Missouri riv-
err his article being entitled "A Shifting
Boundary" Mr.. Spearman says
You must know that the real business
Of the Missouri is to carry the mountain
waters east and south into the gulf of
Mexico. But in bounding from side to
side of its valley through the tedious CEN
turtles it has twisted and turned so many
times that no doubt its head Is confused.
Carrying the quantity of mud it does, You
would hardly expect it TO be clear headed
There is actually so much sand in the
water that the fish all have sore eyes;
some are totally blind, the saddest look
ing creatures you ever caught A really
fastidious trout or bass dropped into the
Missouri would hang himself in despair
on fishhook.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-14
THE cocoANuT PALM.
Something About This Wonderful Tree OF
Hundred Uses.

Tho cocoanut palm Is indigenous to the
tropical countries. It's branches trunk
grows TO height of from 60 To 80 feet,
and bears at its summit IA crown OF PIN
nate leaves that are from IL TO 20 feet In
length. 1t Is essentially littoral, and
cloves to bend over the rolling surf and To
drop its fruit into the tidal wave. +"
The thick husk and the bard shell OF
the cocoanut are well adapted TO preserve
its terminating power while IL is being
carried by the winds and the waves TO
some distant shore. Hence the cocoanut
palm waves its graceful fronds over the
emerald islands of the Pacific, fringes the
West Indian shores and from the Philip
mines to Madagascar, crowns the atolls or
girds the scaboard II no Indian ocean.
1t is a beautiful treS and ga JOY forever,
because il yields large variety of useful
products To the Inhabitants of tropical
countries the cocoanut is an important
article of food. Ii is eaten both ripe and
unripe, the young, unripe nut containing
a milky fluid that Is very palatable. When
fully matured, the nut yields n liked OH,
which is used for culinary purposes, in
lamps and for manufacturing stearin can
dies and marine soap. BY compression
in the cold, the oil is separated into II
LIQUID called "oleine" and more solid
part called "cocosine. The hard shell of
the nut Is fashioned into cups, ladies,
spoons, beads, bottles, knife handles, etc.,
and is often beautifully polished and elab-
orately carved.
Tho terminal bud, or palm cabbage,
is an excellent vegetable when cooked.
Indeed, 1t is considered delicacy, but 1t
is seldom used because its removal neces-
sarily causes the death of the tree From
the trunk of this wonderful palm Is OBJ
tanned saccharine sap called "toddy,
which is esteemed a pleasant, refreshing
drink. The dried palm leaves serve for
matching houses, for making mats and
baskets, and for cattle fodder.
Coir is the most important fbrous prod
uct of the tree. 1t Is the fiber or husk of
the immature mt. 1t is prepared for use
by being soaked several months in water,
and then beaten until the fibers have en-
tirely separated. Coir is a valuable ma
terial for ropes, brushes, carpets, mats,
beds, cushions and nets. 1t is excellent
for cables because IL combines elasticity,
lightness and strength. The long foot
stalks of the fronds are used for fences,
yokes and fishing rods.
After the tree ceases to bear fruit IL is cut
down and it's woodis used for many pur-
poses. 1t is "a reddish wood, is beautifully
veined, admits Of IA high polish, and is i'm
ported for ornamental joinery under the
name of "porcupine wood" 1t is said
that no other tree and no other plant con-
tributes in so many ways 10 the wants
and the comforts of man rs does this "trce
of 100 uses''-the cocoanut palm. -Phila
delphia Times.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-14
THE cHILD's PRAYER.
Simple Lines That sweetly Linger In Our
Memories.

Ii Is said of that good old man John
Quincy Adams that be never went to rest
at night till he had repeated the simple
prayer learned in childhood-the familiar
"Now lay me down Co sleep.
Is there not something touching in the
thought that these words, breathed from
the rosy lips of infancy went with him
away down through old age into the dark
valley of death? And who is there, man
or woman, for whom this little prayer has
not old, sweet associations? Who, hearing
its words, hears not, too, the memory
bells" ringing up from the golden plains
of childhood? 1t may be man in pride
and strength of years, who has carved out
for himself an honorable name and destiny
in the world, perhaps the owner of broad
lands and proud homes, with heart grown
hard in its battle with the world.
How many yef was it? Twenty,
thirty, forty-no m tier. AT the sound Of
the old "Now lay me- they have all
rolled back their massive doors and we go
down through them TO the old, red, one
story house where life first took its morn
ing. We sec the little window on the right
side, close under the rafters. Well, we
slept sounder slumber and dreamed sweet
er dreams in that old garrett than we ever
have in our lofty chambers, with gilded
ceilings and snowy draperies. And what
of it, if the bed was straw one and the
covcrlet made of red and yellow patches"
of calico? We have never snuggled down
so contentedly on our springs and hair
mattresses.
"Now l lay me-" How softly sleep
would come and weigh down the eyelids
as we repeated the words after mother. We
can hear her very tones though it is so
many years since death silenced them, and
feel the soft touch of her hand on the pill
low and the tender lingering of her kiss
upon our lips 1t may be years since we
have repeated this little prayer, or it may
be that, in the din and struggle of life we
have forgotten it and that at night we
have lain down on our pillows never
thinking to give thanks for the day and
for the night.
But sooner or later we shall "lie down
TO Sleep when this prayer will be all our
souls can take, all that will avail of rank
or wealth or fame; whatsoever we most
prize in this world. But the little prayer
the first, il may be- that we took upon our
childish lips, shall follow us as we sail out
under the solemn arches; follow us as a
sweet, faint, tender air from the shores
and when we cast our anchor, "the Lord
our souls shall take. boston Herald.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-14
A Pet Squirrels Food.

DIR. Emily G. Hunt, in st. Nicholas, de-
scribes "A White Red Squirrel that i
a pet of some New Jersey girls. DR.. HUI.
says: Beads has his own notions about DIS
food. He makes but one meal u day, eau
ing very heartily of corn, taking the sweet
Kernels only and throwing the rest away
He always keeps nut or two soaking III
his water cup to soften and to save Dis
teeth. He hides most of his store In DIS
bed, always eating the nuts that have been
in the water. Others he loves to hide al
over the room, whence they come rolling
down on one at unexpected moments j,
He was presented with big box VI
woods earth to dig in. In this he loves 70
hide nut. Then he will begin his usuai
scratching, gradually clearing all away ou'
just column where his treasure Is, as ho
supposos, hidden.