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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08
Reversed Writing.

The case of John Ghidotti, six years
of age. a pupil at the North Adams
State Street school, is attracting con-
siderable attention in hat city. The
boy is considered a phenomenon by
some because every word he writes
and every figure he makes in school
are reversed, and look like the correct
writing viewed in a mirror. The boy
uses his left hand and begins at the
wrong side of the page. His teacher
has made every attempt to correct the
fault, but has not succeeded very we'll.
The boy has made correct letters, but
seemingly with as much difficulty as
III would have in initiating his mega
tive c~hirography. The case has been
brought to the attention of DR.. G. w.
Wright of North Adams, who is a spe-
cialist on the eye. The doctor has not
met with any such case before. He
calls the case a freak of nature, and
does not think that it is caused by any
unusual crossing of the nerve fibers.
but thinks it is evident that the image
of an object appears reversed to the
boy. He prefers to leave the case to
higher authority.-Springfield (Mass.l
Union.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08
An Electric Drcdger.

A dredger of novel contraction has
been built in Rotterdam for use on
the River Esla in Spain. It's principal
feature is that it's motive force, in the
form Of electrical energy of high en-
sion, may be generated on shore by
any convenient means, the current be-
ing distributed either by overhead
wires or cables laid under the water.
In the installation under notice the
central station is situated on the river
bank, and furnishes current not only
to work the dredger, but also to oper-
ate an elevator which returns the ula-
terial dredged into lighters and ballast
wagons. All the motions are control
led by one man in the cabin. The mo-
tor for operating the bucket chain is
capable of developing forty-tive horse
power when making 600 revolutions
per minute. The average power re-
quired to work the dredger is equal
to about fifteen horses, and as the mo-
tor will account for forty-tive horse
power in normal working, a good mar
gin is left for emergency. Besides OPP
Grating the motors for driving the
screws, driving the dredge chain, rails
ing the dredce frame and lifting the
piles, the electric current also works a
centrifugal pump.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08
a Maxim for Married Folks.

Here is a funny incident that &C.
CURED at Il wedding: The bridegroom
of the occasion was a man devoted to
inventions, whose hobby lay in patents
and electricity, and who was engaged
at the time Oh a wonderful piece of
machinery for Il purpose that has Slip
ped my memory. Anyway, his thoughts,
even while at the altar, were so en-
crossed with his pet scheme, that while
h clergyman was asking, wilt thou
etc, his ear caught but the patter of
the rlindroDs upon the stained-glaSs
windows and he impulsively exclaimed,
II do hope they'll think to cover up
my machine!' The clergyman vas
shocked. but repeated in whitening
tones, wilt thou have this woman to
be thy welded wife,"
"Of course | WILL" was the impetu-
Gus reply of the inventor. what else
do YOU think I've come for?' And then
he was suddenly recalled to language
more fit for the occasion.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08
Dffurcntc Garments,

Elizabeth Cady Stanton ridicules the
idea that d woman doesn't lock well on
n bicycle. mo woman could look II
worse on a wheel than a man ben at
an angle of 40 degrees and with coat
tails flying" she declares. AS for dress
she does not doubt that in time women
will look pretty and graceful in long
stockings, knickerbockers, tight-fitting
acque and military cap.
81 like a trig vessel in a storm with
all sails reefed. They will, as an OBJ
ject lesson, Illustrate n great natural
law, that Oma Is a bifurcated ami
nal, and does not run, as she seems to
the ordinary observer, like a churn on
casters, a pyramid in shape from waist
downward. A being with two legs, for
free motion, must of necessity have
bifurcated garments. This revelation
of legs has been Il great shock to some
sensitive souls. and the debates on the
question of what women should wear
have been as hysterical as on the first
point Should she be permitted to ride
at ala. AS she decided the first for
herself and defiantly rode off in the
face of her opponents she will decide
the second point and wear what she
pleases, gradually making changes in
dress and wheels as added comfort and
convenience demand and popular pref
udices must yield her tindisputed sway
in this new field of activity just as
they have other stroIgholds from time
to time in the past.''-Chicago Chroni-
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08
The Bicycle Hand.

At last the long-eXpected objection
has come! The pastime of bicycling by
ladies, out Of which they have derived
so much health, enjoyment and muse
ment, has been repeatedly assailed
with a view of turning it's devotees in
to another channel Of occupation. So
far, however, by the spirited enthuSi-
aSm by which the craze has been taken
up, all these assaults have proved I'M
successful. However, there is admit
tedly some danger of acceptance in
the last objection which has been adj
vanced. There is a decided artfulnesS
in it's PRONUNCIATION, and lady ~bicycliStS
taken unaWareS, might be disposed in
consequence to look for the first time
with some aSkanSe at their new play
thing. We allude to the allegation con
corning the bicycle hand" Ladies
are now being warned that "the bicy-
Gle hand is a thing of ugliness and
horror forever" The distinctive feat
ureS of this hand are stated to be that
lit becomes fiattened, bulges out at the
sides, gets lumpy and out of shape,
and the fingers all become crooked"
and all these dreadful results are due
to the habit of clutching the handle of
h machine. But, after all, assuming
this terrible allegation to be true, what
does it matter. Let women cultivate
health and the ways that bring health,
and the mel will value them more for
20 doing, despite the fact that the re-
suit may be a little loss in the graceful
outlines of the female figure, owing
merely to some healthful increase in
the muscular tisSuo.-LCndon Medical
Press.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08

DR.. Heber Plank says: Chemists
Tor a long time considered it impossible
to separate nitrogen from v g as 1t
exists in the air, and then to unite it
with hydrogen to form ammonia; but
claimed that u sources of ammonia
must come from the waste and decom-
position of organic matter. More re-
Gently, however, by experiment, am
monia has been produced directly from
atmospheric air by means of electric
ity. This would seem to prove the fact
mat every flash of lightning is manu-
Idcturing tons upon tons of ammonia,
and every peal of thunder is but re-
"ordlnS the same, that falls to the
ground during every electric rain
storm, each tiny rain drop, well laden,
conveying to tn esoil its portion of the
good things already prepared for the
plants banquet table. And this also
explains the reason why vegetation is
so much more luXuriant after n gentle
and refreshing thunder storm on our
grass piats and lawns than is produced
by irrigation from hydrants or brooks.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08

Many physicians, according to a lee
turer on dietetics, are ordering thin
bread and butter for delicate patients.
especially those suffering from dyspep-
STA, consumption and anaemia. or any
who need to take on iesh. This thin
bread and butter insensibly induces
persons to eat much more butter than
they have any idea of. 1t is extraor-
binary, says the lecturer, how short a
way a pat of fresh butter will go if
spread ON a number of thin slices of
bread. This is one advantage, and a
great one III the feeding of invalids,
excellent form of the fat which is so
essential for their nutrition in a way
that lures them to take it without re-
bellien. But the thin bread and butter
has another advantage equally as great
1T Is very digestible and easily as
simulated. Fresh butter made from
cream is very much more digestible
when spread upon thin slices of bread
than the same amount of cream eaten
as cream, per Sc, would be.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08
A Mystery of Arithmetic.

1t was interesting to read about the
gentleman who, at a Sunday school
meeting last Sunday, told the children
that in the thirty-three years during
which he had abstain ed from tobacco.
he a saved by that means SS,8S2.6 Il,
1t would also be interesting to know
whether any bright boy in the room
asked him if he had all that money-in
the bank. 1t is one of the curious
thlngs about economies of this sort
that they never seem to make any diff
terence with ones budget at the end
or the year. Theoretically, arithmet-
lcally, they must, of course, but prac-
ideally they don't. What lots of saw
ing, thrifty, get-ahead fellows there
are who smoke, and what lots of total
abstalners from tobacco who can't lay
up a cent to save their lives! 1t really
seems as if the matter of saving mon
ey were presided over by unseen imps,
who spirit away dimes and dollars
from some people by night and put
them in the pockets of other people.
cash accounts don't altogether explain
the mystery. A man who doesn't use
obacco may often wonder where he
would get the money to buy it if he
lid use it; but if he did use it, probab-
y his accounts would somehow come
20 the same thing.-Boston Transcript.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08
His One Great TrOubIe.

An old. bedridden fisherman at a
fashionable watering place was FIRE.
q%uently visited during his last iiiness
by a kind-hearted clergyman. who
wore one of those close-titting clerical
vests which button behind.
The clergyman saw the near ap-
proach of death one day in the old
mans face, and asked if his mind was
perfectly at ease
100 ay, I'm a rich," came the feeble
reply.
"You are sure there is nothing trou-
bling you? Do not be afraid to tell
me-
The old man seemed to hesitate, and
at length, with a faint return OF ami
nation, said: 'Weel, there's just ae
thing that troubles me, but l dinna
like to speak OF"
Believe me, l am most anxious to
comfort YOU replied tie clergyman.
Tell me what it is that troubles and
perpleXes you"
"Waal, sir, it's just like this" said
the old man, eagerly. Il cauna fol
the life O. NE max cot hoo we manage
tae get intae that westcoat."-Tid-Bits
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08

The other day two gentlemen were
k,iied by lightning e Cooperstown,
n. Y. One of them was William Ker-
nan. a grandson of the late Senator
Herman, and the other Henry c. Bow
ers, of New York city. The two gen
tlemen were engaged in playing a game
Of golf when a thunder shower came
up suddenly and they took refuge from
the rain under g tree The tree was
struck by lightning and both the young
men were Killed. In a thunder storm
the shelter of a tree is a most danger
GUS refuge. This was taught in books
formerly used in the public schools,
and it is a fact worth remembering. Ii
Is not remembered, however, and per.
o n are constantly being killed Just
as the two young men at CooperStown
were killed.-Baltimore Sun.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08

New styles are chosen in quite an
odd way. The fashionable dressmaN-
ers bring over, twice a year a selection
of costumes, from which their custom
ers choose what suits their fancy.
They cannot buy the gown they see,
that is not always, but from the mod
ell shown there IAN be ordered a gown
n'4 de to fit rhe particular figure.
Sometimes the blending Of colors does
not suit the taste of the purchaser,
who then chooses what she prefers,
guided, of. course, somewhat. by the
taste of the d~resSlnaker, who is an &C,
knowledged aut)crat. and refuses to
allow too much latitude Of choice.
When a costume has sufficient origin
atty of design to mark it as distinct
i've, it is certain to be copied. and in
this way all new fashions make their
debut.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08
COLONIAL SHIRE OFFICERS,
Laws of OlIen Day. That Seem Severe
to Us Now.

Laws of OlIen Days That Seem Severe
to Us Now.
The colonial shire officers were
England, but they had different names
and there was a tendency to increase
the number, says a writer in the Chau-
tauquan. Still there was never such
a multiplication of offices as in the
town. The sheriff was the execu-
tive officer of the courts, but a separ-
ate Office usually received the taxes.
His service met with obstacles still
familiar in the West. Here are some
of the returns made to writs which
had been given to Virginia sheritfs to
serve.
mot executed by reason there is no
road to the place where he lives"
Not executed by reason of an ak. "
Not executed because the defend
ants horse was faster than mine"
The first legislative assembly in
America gathered in Virginia in 1919.
After passing the earliest set of colo
NAL laws it proceeded to try an Of
fender and to sentence him.
40 stand fower dayes with his
cares nailed to the pillory = 4 X and
every of these Tower dayes should be
p%ubliquely whipped"
The county courts possessed a sim
liar combination of judicial. admins
trative and legislative authority.
The following vas the judgment of
a Virginia court:
That if Mister Holmes does not
quit worrying Mister Jones and max
ing him curse and swear so, he shall
be sent to Jail"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08

The readers of this paper will be pleased
disease tnat science has been able to cure
in all it's stages, and that is catarrh.
Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure now known to the medical fraternity.
Catarrh being a constitutional disease, re-
Quires a constitutional treatment. Halls
Satarrh Cure is taken internally. acting
faces of the system, thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature IN doing
its work. The proprietors have so much
faith in it's curative powers that the Of
that it fails to cure. Send for list of tes-
timonials. Address,
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08
New Notions in Grammar.

Our English friends are a good deal
exercised on account of a new Eng
fish grammar which has appeared un-
der the auspices of the professor of
English at Vanderbilt University, in
Nashville, Tenn. The writer takes the
view that custom is the great authori-
y in grammar. Horace, long ago, took
much the same position; but the ques-
ton arises: "What usage, whose us.
age" This new authority in gram
MAJ commends such sentences as ST
was him." ''Who did you see?'
''These sort of books" This kind OF
English sounds a little too much like
Cracker" English to warrant its
Observation-Disclosures Press.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08
BEANS FOR EVERY MEAL.
n rIxabIc Diet of a Man Who
WAS From Boston.

Remarkable Diet of a Man who
Was From Boston.
Sixty-tWo days. Three meals n day.
Beans for every meal.
That was the record of Pierre Richie
lieu's imprisonment by the Splash au-
thorities ut Santa, go de Cuba.
If Pierre were a native Bostonese
lie would probably have liked nothing
better than beans; but he was born in
France, and is a man of the sea withal,
and that protracted period of subsist-
ence on beans has left rancor in his
heart and utter decentralization in his
internal economy.
Pierre had taken out naturalization
papers in Boston previous to risking
his life, liberty and digestive mechan-
ism in Spanish territory. He hoped,
fondly but vain1y, that this ceremony
would render him bean-proof. In his
travels about the world he had heard
of the vast use tie S%paniards make of
beans.
He is now standing off and n
about the corridors of the United
States district court in Boston, wait
ing for the authorities to look up his
Citizen papers," and with them as q
basis to file a $4,000 claim against the
government of the dons for the de-
struction of his intestinal equipment.
Pierre's complete name is Pierre Gus
tave Laymet Richelieu. In February,
1895, he found himself at Port au
Prince, Hayti. One day he started
out in a little sail boat called the
Yankee Doodle, and with a companion
named August Bolton, went fishing
along the coast for turtles.
A storm drove them out of their reck-
oning, and IN a dark night they went
ashore OH the coast of Cuba. Nc soon
Ell had they set foot on the soil than a
lot of vigilant senors thrust them into
prison as insurgent sympathisers.
There they remained for siXty-two
days.
Now, Spain feeds her army and navy
principally upon beans, and the Span
ish captors reasoned that what was
good enough for the warriors of Cast
lie vas certainly good enough for reb-
ell suspects. So, beans they got, and
nothing more. The weary weeks Of
confinement and bean diet were pune
tuated by cheerful announcements,
from time to time, that they might eX-
pect to be shot within a day or two.
WELL" says Richelieu, 'they didn't
do that; but it's about the only thing
they didn't do. We had nothing to eat
but beans"
Whether it was really the beans or
the fear of death that did it, within a
few days both the men were so i'll that
they could scarcely stand. They man.
aged at last to gain the notice of the
American consul, and were released.
There was no evidence against them.
They came back to New York victims
of beans and Andalusian perversity,
and demanded that the United States
government obtain redress for Them
| New York Journal.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08
THE BROTHERS RETURN.
He Received n Joyful and VigOro,
vNaInrnn

-
He Received n Joyful and Vigorous
Welcome.
How does the tramp and the Michi-
gan farmer agree?" asyed a Free Press
reporter of a seedy looking chap who
struck him for a dime at the city hall
the other day.
wall, speaking for the tramp, 1 can't
say that we hev anythin' in perticler
ag'in the farmers" he sagely replied.
Pretty generous, are theyT
"Tolerably generous"
And they seem to believe your tales
of woe?'
"Our tales of woe are always trueand
ortcr to be believed. Jist on the spur
Of the mint. | can't remember of but
one mean farmer in all this state, and
I've Travelled over most Of the country.
He lives neal Ann Arbor and the Cir
cumstances happened two years ago.
| was lynn in a fence corner one day
and / heard some men in a field talkin'
about the owner of the next farm west.
His name was Johnson, and 1t appear
ed that he once had a brother Bill who
ran away and hadn't bin heard Of fur
fifteen years. There was a heap o talk
about how glad he'd be to see Bill
again, and it put an idea into my head
7 pass yourself off for Bill"
EXACTLY. That evenin' l put in an
appearance. Johnson was milkin' in the
barnyard, and / sat down on a hayrack
and broke the joyful news to him that
his long-lost brother Bill finally stood
before him. He got white and red and
trembled all over, and finally he got up
n embraced me and seq:
" Yes, it's Bill, fur sure! I'd hev
known you if we'd met in Chiny.
Thank the Lord that the long lost has
at last returned. Now l kin be happy
ag'in.'"
"Acceptel you offhnnd, chg
Yes, sir; and for Il few minutes 1
thought i had struck it rich. He got
through milkin', and we We're ready to
go into the house, when he sets the pail
down and seq:
Bill, remember the day you left
home in the distant long ago?
Yes
4 advised you not to go, and you
got mad and called me a red-headed
hump backed liar! / have never forgot
ten that, Bill, and I've allus stuck to it
that if you eve got back, I'd have to
turn to and lick We out of yer butesl
You are here, Bill, and now I'm goin'
to do it,"
But he didn't?' was asked.
Yes, he did! He was as big as two
of me, and he mopped me all over that
barnyard for half an hour, and the
only way l saved my life was in break
in away and crawlin' through a hole in
the fence. He hollercd to me to come
back, and that the fatted calf was
ready. but I never stopped runnin' fur
five miles. Can't say that the Michigan
farmer is particularly down on tr;tmps,
but they don't seem to hev no brotherly
feelin's fur long-lost brothers,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08

A glimpse into the inside history of
the professional fasting" business is
not without interest. A nan who has
tasted three weeks In a show called
"Wonderland,' in the Whitechapel
quarter of London sued the proprie-
tors for his salary, which they meanly
withheld when he was ready for a
very large quantity of victuals. He re-
covered most of his salary, but the de-
PENDANTS offered in eviderce a suspi-
cious-looking bill against him for 're-
treshments" during the fast. The 're-
freshments' were only lemonade and
sugar and water, and the cost of these
was deducted from his salary. He
seems to have been a reasonable kind
of fasting man. Not all these abnorm-
Ii performers are SO scrupulous. What
| would Wonderland have said to the
a in a trance in Vienna, who, on the
withdrawal of the public for the night,
was seen by a watchful detective to
rise and make a hearty meal of Ger
man sausage.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08

Ruth AshmOre. in summarizing her
paper on "A Girls Familiar Friend
girl friend-in July Ladies' Home Jour-
nal, offers this wise counsel: "Haye a
friend. but guard your friendship and
your friend as you would a crystal
vase" Once the crystal vase is broken,
all the careful mending in the world
can never make it as it was, and once
there has cOlnc in yOur friendship the
words that Jared. the actions that
were unkind, and the looks that seem
TO cut like a knife, the friendship, like
the beautiful vase, can " be as it
was. And what is Il girl without a
girl friend? She stands alone. Men
think that she must differ from other
women, and that there must be some
thing about her less sweet and less
feminine than that which pervades her
sisters. l am Il believer in the girl
friend. Any girl can. with very little
trouble, gain the admiration of a man,
but it takes something finer, some
thing better and something more
charming to attract a woman, n to
make and keep her a friend. In all the
history of the world there is nothing so
fine as the friendship of women;
whether it be given to men, or whether
it be given to women, it stands out
magnificent, unseltish, sympathetic and
Christlike-when it is the right kind Of
friendship. You will remember that to
Him who was without sin, the joy, the
beauty and the sympathy of friend
ship was known, and that it was a
woman who was a friend, who stood
hy Mary watching, until the tragedy Of
the cross had ended. and waiting until
the glory of the resurrection had be-
gum"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08

A bicycle in Mexico must be prOvid-
ed with a bell, a metal plate showing
it's license number, and at night, a Ian
tern. The number Of wheels in. the
capital is increasing rapidly. All makes
are represented, and the very latest
patterns and Improvements are de-
manded. There are many splendid BIZ
cycle trips to be made in the valley.
In every direction extend roads that
have paths made smooth by the tread
of the burro and barefoot native, and,
while they would offer little induce
ment to a vehicle, furnish a good track
for wheels.-Modern Mexican.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-04-08
New Mania.

Two well dressed strangers in widely
different parts Of the city were s'ezet
with some absurd mania, and began
throwing away money right and left
to the delight of the small boy and the
rigid establishment of the nearest 30.
Iiceman. One proved to be an out-of.
town lawyer and the other a Scotch.
man who made big money laying golf
links during the prevalent craze. How
a man can throw away money in New
York, where there are so many good
places to spend it and get a return of
100 cents on the dollar, is hard to con
ceive.-New York Letter.