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The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
NUMBERING QUEENS ENGLISH
A Queer Old Southern Character and
One of His Remarkable
Speeches.

Over in Jeffersonville is a quaint Old
character, Capt. Bill Taylor, whois noteo.
For his many peculiar sayings and his
frequent assault and battery on the
queens English. Capt. Taylor, says the
Louisville Post, has a collection of big
words and he just drops them into his
conversation here and there without re-
gard for their fitness or correctness.
Some years ago, it is said, he gave it out
among his friends that he was going TO
have dance at his house and he wanted
everybody to attend. But it rained on
that night and there were very few
present. Even the musicians did not
put in an appearance. But Bill was
equal to the emergency and. mounting
the kitchen table, he said in loud,
hoarse voice:
Friends, we will have to correspond
this dance until some more supersti-
tious occasion, when the inciemency of
the weather will not be so severe and
the music will be more deranged. BY
that time will build condition to my
house and everything will be more
imitistical.' "n7
Capt. Taylor is the man who killed
bad John Tucker, the Point evangelist
and ex-convict. Only few months age
he was acquitted of the charge in the
Jeffersonville circuit court. He claimed
the ghost of Tucker haunted him until
he hunted up medium and apologized
to the spirit of the dead man. Since
then he had had rest from the persecu-
tions of the ghost.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
MIRRORS FOR SEARCHLIGHTS.
Important Instruments for the De-
lection Of the Elusive and
Deadly Torpedo Boat.

The strength of the Spanish navy in
torpedo boats makes it necessary that
all United States vessels and forts shall
be provided with searchlights, and it is
found that it is 10 easy matter 0 pur-
chase a sufficient number of search
lights in an emergency. A large num-
Der Of the finest searchlight mirrors
have been bought, but an adequate sup
ply of them cannot be hn1 Having
mirrors the electric companies could
turn out the lights in brief time says
the Chicago Times-HcraId.
The mirror is an essential part of the
light, and its manufacture is delicate
operation which needs care and time to
finish it successfully. 1t is not an or
dinary reflector, which may be cast and
nodded, but has to be ground accurate
ly and highly polished. 1t is really
concave lens, backed by silver and
hardened vulcanite. Machines for
grinding the refectors have been made
which facilitate the work, but it re-
quires about a week to make a satis-
factory mirror.
The glass is purchased, nodded into
shape and the machines are put to work
on this ard the surfaces are ground to
the requisite curve. After grinding and
polishing the mirror is tested, and
when it is satisfactory the silver back
is put on by electrolysis and this back
is covered by an opaque substance, gen
orally vulcanite.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE.


There are two kinds of people on earth to.
day,
Just two kinds of people-no more, 1 say
Not the sinner and saint. for tits well un.
derstood
The good are half bad and the bad are half
good.
Not the rich and the poor. for in counting
mans wealth
You must first know the state of his con-
science and health.
Not the humble and proud, for in life's lit
tie span
Who puts on vain airs is not counted man.
Not the happy and sad. for the swift flying
years
Bring each man his laughter and each man
his tears.
No; the two kinds of people on earth l
mean
Are the people who lift and the people who
lean.
Wherever you go you will find the world s
masses
Are always divided in just these two
classes;
And, eddy enough, you will find, too.
ween,
There is only one litter to twenty who lean.
In which class are you? Are you easing
the load
OF overtaxed lifters who toll down the
road?
Or are you a Ieaner, who let's others bear
Your portion of labor and worry and care?
-Bookkeeper.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
TIN MUSIC ALouG SaoRE.
Life-Snvers of the Jersey Coast In
tr0duce GraphOphOnes just
for Fan.

Many Of the life-saving stations along
the New Jersey coast have tin music OH
tap to keep out the roar of the ocean
and the whistle of the cold winds. The
little graphophones with the tin mega
phones are much in evidence. The sta
tions at Shark river. Spring lake, Squan
beach, Bayhead Mantooking. Toms
river and Island beach have all been
enjoying metropolitan amusements at
long range. Every station own a CYL
inder that cheeriIy tells about the high
temperature on one night in an old
town. When the winds sweep up the
beach at 20 and so miles an hour those
who staid indoors kept the ''hot-time"
cylinder doing double duty, until it was
a question whether the gTaphophone or
the stove was the Warmest thing
around.
When the crew at Squan station saw
an advertisement of the talking and
singing machines two cents was in
vested at once for a catalogue and
cheap one was bought on speculation.
AS soon as it arrived there were contin-
uous entertainments. The telephones
were opened, and some of the good
things were shared with the life-savers
upand down the beach. The idea spread
like contagion, and now there is a
graphophone society along the New
Jersey beach. Each station buys cyl
inder every four weeks and exchanges
It along the line, and in this way there
is a change of programme weekly in
each station.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The Bank of France is four times as
large as the Bank of England.
Sisy languages are spoken in the en-
pire governed by the czar of Russia.
An English print dated 1919 contains
a picture of woman on tricycle..
II is claimed that Lake Erie produces
more fish to the square mile than any
body of water in the world.
The japanese have a custom of cele-
brating the blossoming of the fruit
trees by a general holiday.
Reed pens, split at the end like quill
pens, have been found in Egyptian
tombs, dating probably $500 years be-
fore Christ.
The princess of Wales has pair of
opera glasses of platinum set with ru-
bies, sapphires and turquoises,v valued at
$4,000,
The Spanish armada consisted of 1872
ships, 3,165 cannon, 8,766 sailors, 2,08S
galley slaves, 1855 soldiers, 1856 vol
unteers.
The largest theater in the world is
the Grand opera house of Paris. 1t
covers more than three acres of ground
and cost 63, 100000 francs.
Every language contains such names
as cuckoo, pewit, whirpoorwill and 9th
ers, in which the sound emitted by the
animal is initiated as the name.
The extraordinary precocity of the
children Of India has called forth the
astonishment Of recent traveller, who
says that many of them are skilled
worl1men at an age when children are
usually learning the alphabet.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
DAD wRIGHT'S STROKE.
The Many Things That 1t Did Besides
Curing His rheumatism.

"a few years ago Dad Wright, of
able experience with lightning" said
a gentleman from Garrard county,
whose stock of good and true stories is
always large. His escape from in
slant death at the time was miraculous.
While fastening on foot through an
open field toward his home during a
terrific thunderstorm he was struck
squarely on the head by an electric
bolt. 1t stripped the hair from one
side of his brainpan, tore the clothing
from his body ,and made a crooked black
stripe an inch wide down his left side
from head to foot. When struck he
bounced several feet in the air and fell
back upon the ground as if dead. The
shaft entered the earth, throwing up
q shower of mud.
"At the time Wright carried in his
hip pocket loaded revolver. Every
chamber of the weapon was discharged,
the woodwork was burned and the
metal partially fused by the heat. His
left shoe was ripped from his foot. The
uuAOll uildtC Hen lay schSclCSS anu
naked for several hours in the drench-
ing rain, but, incredible as it may seem,
finally regained partial consciousness
and began to staggcr uncertainty about
over the field. He was in this pitiable
condition when discovered.
He was soon recognized, taken in
charge, and conducted to his home,
where he was clothed and given proper
attention.
"As a result of the stroke his teeth
and toenails were loosened, his scalp
almost denuded of hair, and his hparing
permanently impaired On the other
hand he reaped an unexpected and de-
cided benefit. For years prior to the oc-
currence here outlined he had been a
great sufferer from muscular rheuma-
tism, but never afterward felt twinge
of pain from that disease, being com
pletely cured of it by the terrible shock.
"The dark, zigzag streak along the
left side of his body, indicating the
SCARED path of the electric current,
could never be altogether removed, al
though various methods were tried for
this purpose. In @ very short time
Wrightwas up and around and as cheer
full as bird. From that time forth he
was famous in that section as the
human lightning rod" = Louisville
Post.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
Anthony Sauce.

Boil one medium-sized well-cleaned
white onion ten minutes in water, re-
move and chop fine, then place the
onion with half tablespoonful butter
over the fire; add half bay leaf, one
Glove, six whole peppers; cook three
minutes without browning; add half
tablespoonful -four; stir and cook two
minutes; add one cupful strained to-
matoes (take canned tomatoes and rub
them through a sieve); season with
one-quarter teaspoonful salt, the same
of sugar and one-eighth teaspoonful
pepper; cook six minutes, rub the sauce
through a fine sieve into another sauce
pan; mix the yolk of one egg with half
cupful whipped cream and stir it in the
sauce; stir a few moments over the
fire and serve.-Brooklyn Eagle,
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
Plot Enough for a Bank.

An ex-sea captain now living in Sgd
ney, N: S. W., was many years ago in
charge of ship carrying some con-
victs. The convicts mutinied, murdered
the crew and ordered the captain to
navigate them to the islands, and, be-
ing a prudent man, he did so. When
satisfied as to their course the convicts
deliberated, decided that he had be-
haved himself we'll and pat him ashore
on the first large island they came to.
He was musician and took his violin
with him. A threatening crowd of saw
ages greeted his arrival, but the ma
rooned captain played to them till they
thought him god, brought him unlim-
tied pigs and yams and bowed in adora-
ton. Finally h married the chiefs
daughter, succeeded him and ruled the
island for years, till ship called and
he sailed away.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
TOO MUCH FOR HIM.
So Long Since His Last Visit He Had
Forgotten How to Behave Him.
self In Church.

For ten long years he had not been to
church. One Sunday morning he con-
cluded to lay aside his heathenish ways
and surprise the rector. He is naturally
of timid disposition when it comes to
publicity, and with a sweet girl friend
hanging to his arms, his best suit of
clothes on, a collar higher than usual
and the prospect of meeting number
of friends who be knew would be ready
to guy him, he was anything but COM
Portable when he walked into the
the front by the usher, says the Louis
vile Com mercial.
For an hour be managed to stand it.
but it was an awful strain. The per-
spiration ooZed out and wilted his col
lar; it dripped from his finger tips;
there was hot time in the old church
for him.
He glanced behind him and noticed
that his friends were smiling. Then he
concluded something was wrong with
his apparel. He feared it might be his
hair had not been combed. At COM
munion he could stand it no longer. and
he asked the fair girl if she was ready
to go. She assented and they hurried
out. AS he went the smiles on the faces
of his friends deepened. and here and
there one of them made peculiar mo-
ton. He had forgotten his overcoat in
the excitement and they were trying to
call his attention to it.
Once ON the outside he missed his
coat, and then it all flashed upon him.
But he would rather have lost his coat
than have gone after it. just as he was
about to abandon the garment to the
foreign missionary society boy came
along and he gave the youngster 25
cents to slip in and get the coat. When
it was once more in his possession and
he was on his way home he made a
mental resolve that he would not go to
church again until he was more com
posed.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
what preyfus Has Cost .tFrapce.

Apropos of the money made out of
the Dreyfus case, it is curious to esti-
mate what it has cost France. as a
whole. 1t costs over a hundred thou
sand francs a year, 70 begin with, to
keep the prisoner On the island. The
prosecution, in the first instance-for
spies are well paid-must have been ex-
pensive. Since then there has been an
other eourt-martial, to say nothing of
two preliminary trials, which have in
volved the payment of writing experts,
and so forth. Then, on the side of the
public, is what the Dreyfus family have
spent on advocates for propaganda lit
has been put at 3,0OO,OOO). The tons
and tons of literature that have been
printed must have cost a small national
debt Zola will spend a good many
thousands in his case. The cost of eX.
ira police cuts some figure, too. 1t
would be possible TO go on indefinitely
mounting up the figures, without tax
ing any account whatever of the moral
and intellectual damage" which is not
iuappreciable by any means-Pa1is
Messenger.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
IRISH BELIEF IN FAIRIES.
The story of Lost Child Who Was
Found Recently by Smoking
Ont the Sprites.

In village in the west of Ireland
few weeks ago a child wandered away
into the country and was lost. Its anx-
ious parents, after weary and unavaIi-
ing search, reported the matter to the
constable in charge of the village. After
carefully questioning them he told
them that any further search Tor the
child would be useless without certain
preliminaries, because it was clear to
him that the poor child had been car
ried off by the fairies, according to
their well-known custom. The consta-
BILE told them to make fire and burn
in it as much of a certain herb as they
could find. They did so at once. Then,
according to hisinstructions,t they went
again in search of the child. He had de-
clared that the smoke of the burning
herb would force the fairies to bring
the child back, and, sure enough, on
going over the ground they had previ-
ously searched, they found the little
boy asleep beside q stream, says the
New York Sun. 1850 ~
The reputation and authority of that
constable have now increased a hum
dredfold in all the countryside, and
very few householders in those parts
now have the temerity to risk offending
the good people" as they call the
fairies (rnuch as the Greeks used to call
the furies 'the Eumenides," or we'll
wishing ones), by emitting to leaye out
every night the traditional bowl of milk
and the gridd!e cake for their benefit.
l. II
charm brought the child back. Yet,
like all the Royal Irish constabulary, he
has had to pass fairly stiff examina-
tion in order to be received into the
service.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
CRAFTS ILLNESS.
said rot TO Have Been Due Entirely
to TObacco-Cancer fron
Pipe Smoking.

notwithstanding all the good argu-
ments that have been offered against
the evils Of excessive smoking, it can
hardly be claimed that the habit is en-
tireiy responsible for the production
OF cancer of the lips, mouth or throat,
says the New York Herald. Since the
illness CT Gen. Grant it has been the
popular belief that the dreaded dis
case from which he suffered was caused
" his oFerindulgen in tobacco. Thus
1t may be easy 10 believe from a report
that another victim of tobacco has been
added to the long list of similar suf-
ferers.
The facts, however, in these cases. do
not by any means confirm the theory.
1t was we'll settled in Gen. Grants case
that tobacco in itself was not the in
itiatiye cause of his threat trouble, but
merely induced subsequent aggrava-
ton of symptoms by the extra irrita-
ton OF the smoke passing over the al
ready diseased surface. s
1t is quite true that cancer of the lips.
is very common among pipe smokers,
but the real factor of harm is not the
tobacco or any special poison it may
contain, but the persistent, localized ir-
rltation of the pipestem. Clay pipes.
above all others, are particularly harm
ful. as they are the most easily heated,
have a rough surface for the lip. are
mostly used by persistent smokers and
are usually held stationary CT one side
of the mouth, all of which tends to
focalize and intensity the. irritation.
which determines the malignant
growth. The first Indication of the dis
ease is a watery patch Oh the lip at the
usual point of contact with the pipe
stem. When discovered early it is per-
fectly nmenable TO surgicaltrea tment,
the percentage of cures being larger
than that of any other form Of cancer.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
BOUQUET WAS LOADED.
The Young Men Didn't Know 1t, and
Got Into Trouble.

Got Into Trouble.
A young society man of our neighbor-
ing city of Carlisle, whose gallantry is
largely in excess of his pecuniary
means, has been in the habit of send
ing a bouquet occasionally to the. girl
of his choice. In order to remedy the
defect occasioned by his lack of ready
funds and to save the money required
for the purchase of expensive flowers
he made an arrangement with an indi-
gent gardener in his locality whereby
the latter was to furnish him a bou-
quet from time to time in exchange
for some of his cast-off clothing.
1t thus happened one day that he re-
ceiyed a bunch of beautiful flowers,
which he at once sent off to his lady
love. In sure anticipation of friendly
welcome he called at the home of the
lady the following evening, and was not
a little surprised at the frosty reception
he met with.
''You sent me a note yesterday" the
Young woman remarked, in the most
frigid of tones.
ga note2'' he inquired, in blank as
tonishment.
"Certainly; along with bouquet"
81 certainly sent the flowers, but I
know nothing of the note.''
"But, sir, there was note inside.
Do you still mean to deny it? Lookl"
With these words she handed the
dumfounded swain scrap of paper, on
which was written this message;
Don't forgit them old pants you
promist me the other day."-Paris
(Ky.) Register.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
A Estxed Pace.

Not all Americans are Anglo-Saxon.
Even in the south, where the proper
tion Of people drawn from that source
is greatest, there are strong infusions
CT French, Irishand Scotch-Irish blood.
In the west are extensive German, Irish
and Scandinavian populations, in the
east vast Irish population, large Ca
madam French element and an immense
number of Germans. Even what is
called the Anglo-Saxon stock is mixed
with Dutch, Huguenot and Scottish
contributions. When this country has
fighting to do she does not lock to one
race among her people, but to all, and
her foreign relations cannot be planted
on the affinities of Angio-Americans or
any other ethnic element.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
How Peking IL Lighted.

Peking is advancing. So at least one
gathers from the Peking and Tientsin
Times, which announces that a couple
of gas lamps and three petroleum lamps
now illuminate the capital of the celes-
tial kingdom. This unwonted depar-
ture, however, is not due to native en-
terprise. The gas lights are set up in
front of the Russian embassy, while
the three lesser luminaries shine for the
benefit of the customers of the Russo
Chinese bank. Throughout the rest of
the city wayfarers still have to follow
their noses as soon as darkness sets in.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
The Arkansayy Way.

'Good afternoon, sir!" said tour
list in an Arkansas village to a man sit
ting in the shade of a chinquapin tree.
"Where are all the people who live in
this neighborhood? You are the only
man I have seen on this side of town" "
II reckon they are down at the depot" "
was the reply.
"Why should they be at the depot? ?''
'Why? Wal, good Lawd, man.!
Sometimes as many as four strangers
git off from the trains yere in a single
week."
Him! Then why are you not there
also to catch a glimpse of the
strangers?"
81 am paralyzed an can't leave my
chair.'-uarlem Life.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
Csndted Poncorn.

Put into an iron kettle one table
spoonful of butter. three tablespoon
fuis of water, one teacupful of pulver-
lied sugar. Boil until ready to candy;
then throw in three quarts of nicely
popped corn. Stir briskly until candy
is evenly distributed over corn. Take
kettle from fire, stir until it is cooled
a little, and you have each grain sep
crate and crystallized with n sugar,
taking care that corn does not burn
~ Y, Ledger.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
Scissors and Corscts nm Escutcheon.

Une day IN 173O Beautiful carriage
appeared on the bouleYards of Paris
with an escutcheon in the shape of a
pair of corsets and an open pair of
scissors painted on the panel Of each
door. This was the coat of arms of
Rhombcrg, the first man who made a
name as woman's dresmaker. Rhom-
berg, who was the son Of a Bavarian
peasant from the neighborhood of
Munich, owed his rapid success to his
genius for concealing and remedying
defects of figure. He left an annual in
come OF $4,000 francs to his heirs. .
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
Refreshments in Scotland.

In the course of the arguments before
the house Of lords in case in which
he necessity for additional refresh
nent accommodation at Oban Station
arose, Lord Watson, himself Scots
man, interposed and remarked that re-
freshments in that part of Scotland had
only one meaning, and that-whisky.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
nIsrnarck,s sins.

OF the neuralgia pains in his face,
which were so severe that he sometimes
had to press the points of his fingers
on his cheek bones for several minutes
to secure little relief, Bismarck was
reported as saying: "This is quite nat
ural. have sinned in my life the most
with my mouth, in eating, drinking and
fatlinnD
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
ola Ttn,e RecuIatfons cs Dining.

Old Time Regulations cg Dining.
An act of parliament was passed in
the reign of Edward III. prohibiting
anyone from being served at dinner or
supper with more than two courses, ex-
cept upon some great holidays therein
specified on which he might be served
with three
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
InfaNfrY.

The term infantry" meaning foot
soldiers. originated with the Spanish,
1t was first applied to the military force
employed by an infante, or young
prince of Spain, to rescue his father
from the Moors. owr
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
Pineanple for pyspepsia.

An Italian doctor has discovered that
there is in the common pineapple a
substance similar to pepsin, and that
one pineapple is sufficient to digest ten
pounds of beef.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-28
why He Does IT.

Percy-Bradford uses a lot of per-
fume. Doesn't he know that it is bad
form?
Earold-WeH, it's a sort of family
pride. You know he comes of old
colognial stock,-The Widow.