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Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19

If the average American tourist can.
not speak French, the natives can.
Nothing will stop them. Calling at the
house of all acquaintance, I was greeted
by the concierge, female janitor, soul
less as a corporation, and with no aspi-
rations to beauty. Carefully reading
from my phrasebook, l said as best I
could, sis Mr.. Blank at home?'
The woman should have said "No"
or eyes" Instead of that she said
much more, and 1 missed the monosyl-
tables if she uttered them.
When order was restored, repeated
my question. Again she was volumi-
nous. Then played for safety, which
the phrasebook suggests. I said in
French: II do not speak much French.
Please speak deliberately in order that I
may if possible properly understand
you" l did not want to say all this.
but did not know what words to leave
out. let it all 60. I think the woman
did her level best, but to this day do
not know if she said my man was in
or out. could only make her pro-
found bow and say in United States,
"Heaven bless you for those words" 1t
was horse and horse.
Then sent my man letter asking
him to call. He told me that it was
curious that two Americans had called
on him the day before, his concierge
telling him one of them seemed half
daft, for although the woman had told
him her master was in and requested
his name of him he kept repeating his
question and finally left.-Paris Letter
in Kansas City Times.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19
His Own Spoon.

SI heard q capital story of Charles
Mathews, writes Mr.. Joseph Hatton,
om an old actor at the Lotus club in
few York. He was invited, with his
manager and two others, to dine with a
/! Sitizen who carried on the business OF
Il awnbroking and though we'll off kept
but one assistant.
Y Mathews was we'll known among his
friends and admirers for his remarkable
Ypowers of rapid imitation and charac.
1terization, off the stage as we'll as Oh,
but probably he never gave more re.
fmarkable illustration of those powers
bthan on this occasion.
The host being called out of the din.
ling room ut tho back of the shop, Ma
|thews altered his hair, turned up his
|collar and put on another mans hat.
Then, making suitable change Of
|countenance, he took large silver gravy
spoon from the table, ran into the street,
and, entering one of the little boxes
which universally shield one customer
from another at pawnbrokers' counters,
pledged to his unsuspecting host his own
piece Of plate and returned to his place
at table as the pawnbroker re-entered
the room.-Youth' q Companion.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19
Dogs Meet the Train.

The oriental express, the famous
train from Paris to Constantinople, ar
rives at the Turkish capital three times
a week at "a certain hour in the after.
noon. When the train comes in, says an
exchange, there are always many dogs
ready to receive it. Before the passen-
gers have had time to get out the dogs
jump into the carriages and search ev
erywhere under the seats and in corners
for the scraps Of luncheon left by the
passengers, and when they have found
all the pieces they 60 away. The re-
markable thing is that they never come
at any time except when the oriental
express is due; that they never make q
mistake in the day, and always remem-
Der that between Friday and Monday
there are two days and not one. They
pay no attention to local trains, because
little or no food is left in them owing
to the short rides the passengers take.
Exactly this same knowledge of the
time table and Of the difference be-
tween local and long distance trains has
been noticed at the station of the Asiatic
railways in Scutari, across the Bosporus.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19

II had read, as illustrations of the
force of the imagination, said Mr.
Billtops, "the stories about people get
ting fresh air by opening window that
really opened into an adjoining room,
and about their getting up and break.
ing window that they discovered in
the morning was the window of book
case and all that sort of thing. felt
terrible draft the other day in a
street car, and glancing over my shout
der I saw that window at my back
was open. I didn't want to shut it my
self. didn't want to take the trouble
to ask the conductor to shut it. just
simply shifted over to the other side Of
the car, and from there I cav that the
window that had thought was open
was in reality closed. But l was not
chagrined by the discovery. On the con-
trary, was amused enough over it to
smile, and that relieved thu tension and
dissipated the draft. New York Sun.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19
History of q Brave Bird.

A great many misstatements have
been made about Old Abe, the live eagle
of the Eighth Wisconsin regiment. The
facts of the birds history have been
supplied by Ella e Gibson of Barre,
Mass, and are given here for the infor.
nation of readers:
The Eighth regiment, Wisconsin in.
fantry, in all its long marches during
the first three years of the civil war,
was accompanied by a live bird, which
was carried OH a perch by soldier.
The bird was in all the battles of the
regiment. but always escaped unscathed.
Old Abe's history is as follows: He
was taken from the nest in 1861 by an
Indian in Chippewa county, Wis, and
was subsequently purchased by a citi-
zen of Eau Claire, who presented him to
Captain Perkins. the first commander
OF Company G. In 1864 he was brought
home by the regiment and presented to
Governor Lewis, who transferred him
to the state. He was kept in the capitol
grounds at Madison as valuable relic
Of the war until he died, March &c,
1881, aged 20 years. He was often ex-
hibited at fairs and was great attrac-
ton at the centennial exposition in
Philadelphia in 1876. Boston Globe
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19
Horace Greeley's Eccentric ideas.

Even his eccentric ideas were made
plausible by his treatment. heard him
say once that what was then thought to
be the Great American desert ought to
be planted with Canada thistles SO as to
give nature some sort of green start,
when other vegetation might be made
to follow. But the trouble is Canada
thistles, like any other thing inspired
by "pure cussedness, will only grow
and thrive where they ought not to.
Find place where their presence would
do some good, and, as in the Humpty
Dumpty case, "all the kings horses and
all the kings men" could not fasten
them there. This perversencss suggests
in a certain way the small boys con-
ception of good and bad-his enchiridion
of nature and life.
"What's fun" he said, "is always
wicked; what we don t want to do is
pious. "
Mr.. Greeley would cut down his
alders in the spring. When mildly sug-
gested to him that our agricultural au-
thorities preferred the autumn for that
work, when nature could not SO we'll
aid their struggle for existence, he
thought this reason was mere excuse
for not cutting them at all.-Joel Ben
ton in Harper's Magazine.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19

The subject of "candles'' has dis
turbed the equanimity of more than one
American in Europe. To pay for q
whole candle when only small por-
ton of it has been burned Is sufficient
to rouse the ire of the meekest and most
enduring. One of our American consuls
to Belgium tells an amusing story Of a
New York man who found new use
for this much discussed article.
A New Yorker was shown to room
in hotel in Brussels. where he found
20 candles stuck in chandelier in the
center. AS it was dark the attendant
lighted them all, but the guest had been
in European hotels before and made
him put them out Immediately.
This was of no avail, however. In
his bill next day be found them charged,
$50 candles, 10 francs" ($9).
He went back to the room and took
them all out, wrapped them in bit of
paper and slipped them into his over
coat pocket.
When he was about to leave the
house, he found the servants drawn up
in two lines in the hall, in the Euro
pean style-ten menservants on one
side, ten maidservants on the other, all
smiling and ready for the expected tip.
Then he drew out his package and dis.
tributed the candles, one to each.
"Allow me, monsieur, said he, with
bow; permit me, madam. They are
very superior candles, assure you. I
paid 10 cents apiece for them," and he
left them all staring at the candles like
so many altar boys.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19

Wines and malt liquors, while con-
tanning far less amount Of alcohol
than the distilled liquors, do contain a
definite amount of nutritive material.
Perhaps the best definition of beer as
brewed today is that of fermented
saccharine infusion to which has been
added wholesome bitter. 1t consists of
water, alcohol, carbonic and acetic acids
and bitter principles from the hop. Ac.
cording to Professor Atwater s investi-
gatioEs "ale, beer and wine contain
small quantities of nutritive material in
addition to their alcohol and other con.
stituents. That of wine consists mainly
of compounds akin to carbohydrates
and averages trifie over 8 per cent of
the whole weight. That Of ale and beer
includes, on the average little over
one -half of per cent of protein and
other heterogeneous compounds and or
per cent of carbohydrates and allied
substances. A pint (pound) of ale or
beer would contain, roughly speaking,
about as much of these nutritve sub.
stances as l-5 ounces of bread, and a
pint of wine about as much as three
quarters of an ounce of bread. Out
look
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19

Nasioa, having called at the house of
the poet Ennius and the maidservant
having told him, Oh his inquiring ut the
door, that Ennius was not at home, saw
that she had said so by ner masters Or
tier and that he was really within, and
when few days afterward Enrius call
ed at Nasica's house and inquired for
him at the gate Nasica cried out that
he was not at home. "What!" says En-
MUS. "Do not know your voice?"
"You are an impudent fellow, " rejoin-
ed Nasica. "When inquired for you,
believed your servant when she told
me that you were not at home, and will
not you believe me when I tell you that
am not at home?"-Cicero's "De Ora
tOre ~
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19
he Was Used to It.

A young man, faultlessly dressed and
not at all i'll looking, took seat in a
Broadway car few days ago, and,
with tho air of one well satisfied with
himself, spread out a morning newspa-
per and commenced to read. A woman
near him glanced out of the window,
and in turning her head caught sight of
his cheek. Instantly she gave little
scream, went to the other side of the
car and took hold of strap.
Ibid you see the mouse?" whispered
her friend, who was also standing.
"Did l! Well, it nearly frightened
me to death"
And the young man with the birth.
mark OH his cheek read calmly on
New York Tribune.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19
A Real Grievance.

The young man who had just come
Into the business Office of the newspape,
I'M taken his silk hat off to brush the
hxle back from his brow.
agSssI am writer of distinctly mod.
IN school Of fiction" he said to the
urhAne gentleman behind the counter.
Our advertising rates are'-
8ssI don't intend to buy advertising.
wish to see an editor.
Tint can be arranged. Of course. +"
And composition.
as.s!Yes?"
And a proofreader.
s Indeed!"
@ And representative Of each Of the
cther departments.
SssH All at once?''
ISSs'I don't care whether they are all in
NM same audience or whether I make
wen of eight separate and distinct APP
ptarances. But I desire to be sure Of
hiding the person who ia responsible
~ an attempt to allude to me as a
Necadent litterateur.
"Well-isn't that what you are:"
Gs Perhaps. I will not discuss that
but think that am entitled to an op-
|prtunity to demonstrate with the indi-
I ldual who put that ~ in the word
decaydentr "-Washington Star.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19

"It was during the administration of
Governor Albion X. Paris" says the
Kennebec (Me) Journal, "that General
Lafayette made his memorable tour of
the United States and paid his visit to
Maine. 1t was on a Sunday that the
general concluded that visit and pro-
posed leaving the state from Portland
Governor Paris demonstrated with him
for taking his departure on that day
and said, If you will postpone your trip
until Monday, will myself escort you
to the state line with all the military
honors.' But Lafayette accustomed to
the continental Sabbath, insisted on not
altering his plans and left Maine on
Sunday, while the Sabbath honoring
governor of a God fearing state attended
his church service as was his habit"
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19
A Catch Question.

Of Bishop Short, who held the see of
St. Asaph, many curious stories are
told. Occasionally be put questions to
candidates for ordination that apparent
ly had 10 connection with the discharge
of their purochial duties. They tested,
probably. their wit or tact, two neces-
sary qualifications to public men. but
nothing more. One such question pro.
posed by tho bishop was the following
(which has the greatest number of legs
"a cat or no cat:"
AS might he expected this created a
litter, but the bishop would not take a
laugh as the answer and consequently
be repeated the question and desired
some one to solve the problem. At last
one of the candidates, smiling, said, II
should think, my lord, cat"
"No,' retortcd the bishop; there
you are wrong, for cat has four legs
and no cat has five. "-London Tele-
graph
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19
Old Roman Women.

Among the Roman women at one
period there was o morbid ambition to
grow boards, and they used to shave
their faces and smear them with un-
guents to produce these inappropriate
appendages Cicero tells us that ct one
time to such an extent did the mania
for boards grow upon women that it
was found desirable to PASS a law
against the "adornment.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19
His First Deer.

AZ lever Is a hunters disease the
i'4 70 of which are pretty we'll
bat they have seldom been more
described than by a Mar.
iiii11 {pitizen, whose first experience
{nE Shooting is related in The Min.
iiI Fnal.
II q spending a few hours tramping
- the woods, feeling tired, he sat
6n log to rest. Like most hunt.
x ~ had taken his pipe and tobacco
Filling the pipe, he smoked for
1e without interruption, when,
az Ming to turn his head a little to
4 1 lde, he saw a large buck coming
tfht toward him. As luck would
it, he had sat down to smoke near
ri Gex trail.
" rue deer came nearer and nearer, un-
r. W was nearly opposite the place
~ the hunter sat concealed. While
th hnnter was watching the approach
a tho deer he forgot that he had gun
aud that the deer was "his meat" He
beeSS to tremble and shake in every
III Ind joint and 1t was difficult for
% restrain yell Of fright.
watched and trembled until the
tx passed his hiding place and went
inf0 the thicket beyond. Then, feeling
~ his pipe, he discovered that 1t lay on
the ground near his feet. By the time
AZ had picked it up the deer was out Of
range, and then he discovered that in
his excitement he had bitten the mouth
piece Of his pipe in two.
HI was greatly relieved to see the
deer move on, as it seemed to him that
% Was the game and the deer was the
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19
A Hint to the Girls.

A bachelor philosopher remarks that
emo man ever wants to kiss girl after
he has once seen her hold q nickel the
conductor has given her for change be-
tween her teeth while she gets her
purse open, and he further intimates
that such "a girl is only fit to kiss pug
dog. Of course bachelors are not always
responsible critics Boston Globe.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19
Earned His Pleasure,

A little darky sat on the horse block
pounding his thumb nail with ham,
mer.
why do you do that?" asked a man
riding past.
"'Cause," he whined, " cause it do
feel so good when stop. "-Lewiston
journal.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19
Force OF Habit.

my friend" pleaded the temperance
evangelist, laying his hand affectionate-
ly Oh his shoulder, "we are laboiing in
common cause for our own reforma'
ton and the good Of mankind. Will
you join us?''
Don't care if I do" replied MIR.
Jagway, with tears Of contrition in his
ewes. Chicago Tribune.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19
Dime Novel Cure.

II had hard work to keep that boy of
mine from reading cheap novels" said
the resolute man, "but l finally Sue
ceeded.'
"How? By keeping them out of his
way"
"No. I knew it would be of no use
to try, so merely required him to
learn Two pages from one of them by
heart every day, and now he lodges
them and reads schoolbooks for amuse-
ment. Washington Star.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19
His Pointer.

An eminent judge, being asked how
he could turn with such facility from
one case to another, replied:
81 learned that from what l saw at a
oolored baptism when was bog. Tue
weather was very cohl, SO that to i'm
merse it was necessary to cut away the
ice. When one of the female candidates
was dipped back in the water, the cold
made her squirm so that she slipped
from the minister s hands and went
down the stream under the ice. Look
ing up with perfect calmness at tho
throng on the bank, the minister said:
Brethren, this. sister hath departed.
Hand me down another. '-Brooklyn
Citizen,
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your
Life Away.

If you want to quit tobacco using easily and
forever. he made well, strong. magnetic, full
of new life and vigor, take No-To-3ac, the
wonder-w orker that makes weak men strong
600 cured. Buy NotTo-Bac from your own
druggist. who will guarantee Il cure. Booklet
and sample mailed free. Address Sterling
Remedy Co., Chicago o. New York.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19

In times Of scarcity the South Afri-
can natives sometimes rob ants nests of
the termites, and as much as five BUSH
els of grain have been taken from a sim
gle nest.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19
Not Built That Way,

Tho Publisher-We can publish your
book Of epigrams if you viii! guarantee
us the cost of printing and binding.
The Poet-It's no 80. never could
enjoy witticisms at my own expense -
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19

Eczema in any part of the body is instantly
relieved and permanently cured hy Doan's
Ointment. the sovereign remedy for all itchi-
ness of the skin.
Cure that cough with Shioh's Cure. The
best Cough Cure. Relieves Cronn. r"omptly.
One million bottles sold doses
for 2bCts. Sold bv Kentl
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19

Girls in New Guinea have small
chance of clipping. Every night they are
put in little house at the top Of a tall
tree, The ladder used to reach it is then
removed.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19
Cses OF Luggax. :.

"Isn't it possible to travel abroad
with less luggage?'
"What would you do? You cant get
them to paste the labels in scrapbook.
Detroit journal,
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19
German Military Honor.

can officer who permits himself to
be insulted by a civilian without i'm
mediately killing him will be dis.
missed" This is one Of the unwritten
clauses in the code of kSnor obtaining
in the corps of German officers. If the
insulter is not misunderstanding (ca-
pablo of giving satisfaction)-thati is to
say, if he belong to the classes who are
not wont to fight duels, then the officer
must Immediately draw his sword and
cut him down or kill him Oh the spot
with any other weapon. These laws are
nowhere to be found written, yet they
are strictly obeyed. At Augsburg an
officer i'll private clothes recently re-
ceived blow Oh the face, without hay
ing given any cause of offense, from all
impudent business clerk. 1t chanced
that the officer had a revolver with him.
He, however, made no use of it, nor did
be challenge the clerk, whom he regard
ed as unworthy of meeting in duel.
Instead of taking either of these steps
he had recourse to the courts of justice,
with the result that his assailant was
bCuUCuCCd w ttly III
Thereupon the regimental officers court
of honor assembled and compelled the
officer to hand in his resignation be-
cause he had not adequately upheld the
dignity Of all officers rank. Pail Mall
Gazette.
Lived to Fight Another Day.
"By George, boys, l never was IN
such hot place in my life! Every fell
low who put his head up so that the top
showed over the stone wall was sure to
get bullet through it, Out Of 81 men
in our company % were plunked right
square in the forehead. "
The battle SCARED veteran, known to
be such because he acknowledged it
himself, was entertaining crow d of
loafers in grocery store. They stood
around and listened with respectful
awe to his tales of battles aud blood.
"Whnt company was it that you be-
longcd to? inquired quiet looking
man who sat back in tic ecrner.
Company X, Eleventh Pennsylvania
reserves, answered the narrator brave
ly, land no other company was in as
many battles or lost as many men rs my
company. ByGcorge, boys, you haven't
any idea of the fun we went through -
"Might inquire your name:" asked
the quiet man again.
"My name? Sam Smith, Of course
Ask any Of the boys about Sam Smith
of Company K, and they will tell you
that he was always ready for love
scrare or brush with the Johnnies
All, boys, but l was a reckless follow
in my yourg days. "
eyes, that's fact" assentcd tho
quiet man. II happened to be captain
of that company, and I remember you
now as the man who deserted from it on
the way to tho front. You were reckless
of your honor then, and you re reck-
less liar yet. You'd better 60 home"
The quiet man walked out of the
store, and the silence was broken only
by Sam Smith.
swell, by guml'-Pittsburg Dis
patch.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19

With a two headed sword Godfrey OF
!Bouillon, at the siege Of Antioch, cut
Turk into halves from the shoulders to
the hips .-.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-19

Food, drink and tobacco cost the peo-
pie of New York city $1,000, 900 and
over per day.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-10-06
Twilight

Correspondence Of the Argus.
Alex D. Squircs is on an extended
visit among friends and relatives at
Tunnelton.
y. VI. squires, OF Piedmont, is: visit.
ing his father Asa d. Squires, Of near
R%esdsvflle.
Miss Louie Johnson. daughter Of
Jessie M Johnson, is suffering with
inaammstary rheumatism.
A Pittsburg gentleman is looking
after the George ". Fairfax farm ne.r
Eeedsviiie. with a view OF making =
summer resort.
Ella Shriver, o. Fairmont. has been
visiting friends near the Bethlehem
church Tor some time. She retpr,rd
home last week.
We had the pleasure Of listening ~
an able sermon delivered by the R.g
a. - Mcksever. ~ Jane lew. az ths
bethlehem church on Sunday s~vening.
Septe mber 25th.
Mr. and Mrs z. y Havicv. a.
Opckiske. are visiting his father. Rev
O.. HawleY They attended the dcdi.
cation Of the MI church out on Bird.
Creek last sunday.
Hubert Conley, Of Piedmont. vas I'm
this sic nifty last week. &c has been
on tho sick list To- s,ne time aud wss
taking % short Vacation in order TO re-
cupsrate bis health.
some Pittsburg ptrtiss have been iu
this nciRhbJrhood Tor sO,ue time with
hands emploYod gathering moss for de-.
Sims and burial purposes. They az.
shipping 10 % PittsburQ.
Miss Fannie Hswlcv, ~ whom wo
made mention in a former letter
started for Gresham. Neurasita. last
thursday morning. She expects to
stop of az Parkersburg over night to
visit an uncle who lives tHcre.
Born, 90 AR. aud Mrs. william
HartseiL q hne girl girl Jaov. Mondag
Scptemocr 18th. Dr. w =. Martin. 81
ktuQwood. attending physician.
Mother and daughter getting aloug
nicely and Bdiv SAYS he never feIt 90
happy since granny bad the measles"
JENNIE MAY.