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The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
CHILDHOOD LOVERS UNITED.
gan In Muncie, Ind, and
Ended I'm Hawaii.

An interesting romance, which be-
gan in Muncie, Ind, and ended III Homo
lulu, has just been told to the bride S
relatives in the Indiana town. Twenty
years ago Miss Allie Smell, eldest daugh-
ter of DR.. S. Smell, now deceased, and
George W. r. King were schoolmates
and lovers. They agreed to get mar
ried when both reached certain age,
but the young mans parents moved
from Muncie and finally landed in
Honolulu, where they have since re-
sided. Miss Smell was later married TO
Thomas Connor and for mary years the
couple have lived happily together.
They moved to San Francisco three
years ago, and year ago were divorced,
after she had learned the place of resi-
dence of her schoolmate lover and the
fact that ne was yet unmarried. Soon
after the divorce The lady met her child
hoods lover and a wedding was ar
ranged for upon the arrival of Mrs. Con-
nor in Honolulu.
The lady is the possessor of large
properties, mostly located in Muncie,
and her new husband is a rich man.
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
MET TIE WRONG GIRL.
And as a Consequence the Ardent
Swain Got In an Unfortun-
ate Complication.

Comedy is not confined to the stage.
Second avenue belle who graduated at
an eastern seminary has former school
chum visiting her. 1t goes for the say
ing that they are carried back to the
days of their comradeship and having
lots of fun, says the Detroit Free Press.
The other evening after dinner the
visitor threw on the cape and hat OF her
hostess just to run to the nearest store
and procure supply of bright ribbon
she wanted to complete her wardrobe
for party that night. AS she neared
the house on her return the dusk was
deepening and she was startled at the
approach of a gentlemanly looking
young man who lifted his hat and said,
pleadingly: Cant you walk for just
five minutes, little one?"
She sprang past him with scream
and rushed for the front door, from
which emerged on the run the father
and brother of the chum. The youth in
front took to his heels and there was q
stern chase covering several blocks.
The old gentleman examined the tracks
in the snow the next morning and
vowed that the villain" must have had
wings, as he only touched the pave
ments at street crossings.
Both the laughing girls knew by this
time that the fleeing youth was the resi-
dent girls favored beau, who was not
in he good graces of the father and had
tc carry on catch=as-can courtship.
That hat and that cape misled him.
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
STUBS HIS RELATIVES.
The Young Gear of All the Russias
Delivers Many Rebukes
to Royalty.

There is no sovereign in Europe who
has had occasion to administer so many
bitter snubs to his fellow-rulers as the
young emperor Of Russia. Although
be is in point of age, as well as the dura-
ton ofihis reign, the junior of nearly all,
yet, just because of his silence and re-
serve, they all seem to be eager and
anxious to force their society upon him
and to pay him visits with an impresse-
ment that savors far more OF vassals
than of independent and friendly SOW
ereiSns, says the Washington Post.
The snubs that be has administered to
Emperor William have been so numer-
Gus that people have lost count of them.
He has only just consented to reopen
the doors of the winter palace to Prince
Ferdinand Of Bulgaria, after keeping
them closed against him for a couple
OF years. He has curtly declined to
receive visits either from the prince
OF Montenegro. from the grand duke
and grand duchess of Baden and from
the disreputable ruler of Monaco, and
now King Milan cf Servia, having hum
bly, craved for permission to visit St.
Petersburg fer the purpose of explain
ing to the ear why he has taken up
his residence at Belgrade, Nicholas in
formed him that he would not permit
him to set foot on Russian territory,
since he has broken the solemn pledge
which he had given to the late car
at the tiiae OF his abdication never to
return to Servia. and was therefore un-
worthy of credence or of treatment as
an honorable gentleman.
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
NOISE ANNoYs AN OYSTER.
The Slightest Disturbance Makes the
BibuiOus Bivalves Close Their
Shells In Fear.

4 customer in a fish dealers place
was leaning against barrel of oysters
when he suddenly turned and addressed
the bivalves, says the Chicago Times
Herald.
''Hello, there. What are you gaping
for? Getting tired of being cooped up,
are you?"
woman standing near peered tim
idly into the barrel. Say" she asked,
"are those oysters alive?"
81 should say they are" answered the
man. look at them hustling for air.
Keep still a minute and you'll see each
one of them with mouth wide open
or shells, which amounts 10 the same
thing
Sure enough, after a spell of silence
a queer rustling was heard in the bar
rel and the oysters opened their shells
and gaped for air, but the slightest
noise closed them again as tight as
drum.
''l'm used to their performances" said
the fish dealer. why, you'd think
sometimes they were coming out of the
barrel, but they are just taking a new
supply Of air, and they can shut up
quicker than a wink Oysters aren't SO
slow after all"
Il should say not said the woman
customer, moving away from the barrel
us the rustling began again.
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
Getting Her MONEYS Worth.

A young woman | know went to a
Spiritualist senace once upon an even
ing, ard though she strained every
nerve in an effort TO concentrate her
mind on her dear and gone acquaint-
ances. there was. no message for her,
relates writer in the Washington Post.
Quite late in the evening the medium
announced the presence of spirit call
ing himself Uncle Jimmy. The young
woman Immediately rose and claimed
him. Uncle Jimmy said he was doing
nicely, sent his love to all the family.
and departed. AS the young woman
and her escort left the hall. the escort
yeptured to say: 'Why. didn't know
YOU ever had an uncle named Jimmy p
Il never did," said the young woman,
cheerfully, "but l wasn't going to pay
so cents to get into that seance and not
get anything at all for my money"
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
AMERICA AND ENGLAND.
Two Things That Would Bring About
An Alliance Between the
Nations Instantly.

Two things would bring about an
Anglo-American alliance instantly. If
a combination of European powers
should be formed to crush the United
States-and after the official utterances
of the foreign ministers of Germany
and Austria this is not wholly an ex-
travagant supposition they would
have to crush the British fleet as well.
That this is the view of those at presen t
responsible for British policy know,
writes Henry Norman in Cosmopolis.
AS | have said elsewhere, we should
never stand by and see hundred mill
lions of people who speak English
trampled on by people who speak Rus
sian or French or German. And we
cherish, not as those who have no hope,
the conviction that if the people who
speak Russian and French and German
laid aside for the moment their deadly
rivalries to join in crushing us. beside
the flag of the three crosses there would
be found on the seas certain flag of
stripes, as we'll as stars"
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
DOCTOR A BAD NEIGHBOR.
On Account of Him the Man In the
Other Half of the House
Moves Out.

"Why, man." said the landlord to a
tenant whom he had recently secured
for a house that had been unoccur:ed
for several months, according to the
Detroit Free Press, you're not going
TO vacate so soon? You've only been
there a month"
II know it, and month more would
be the end of me. am going to get
a house way out in the suburbs and in
the center of big lot. You'll never get
me into double house again as long as
| live. I'd rather take the family and
camp out"
"The place is all | told you it was,
sir; good house, good neighborhood and
everything in good repair. I'll look to
you for the rent until the end of your
term."
That's all right, and I'll pay it. I'm
not mean enough to try to sublet it,
either. One thing you didn't tell me
was that the man in the other end of
the house is doctor and that he seems
TO have trained his patients to call on
him at night. | haven't had any sleep
worth speaking of in the whole three
weeks. Coming up on the porch they
reach my door first. They ring the
bell as though it were fire alarm and
then begin pounding on the door. When
I'm forced to go to the door to prevent
its being broken in and to give the rest
of the folks little show to sleep, it's
Get into your clothes, doc, and come
right over to the house, or Jimmie has
the Group or 'Baby's having an awful
time with his teeth or Why didn't you
call this evening as you agreed tor If
put my head out of the window and
try to explain they get hot and tell r.,
I'd better retire from business, or some
thing worse. I'll bring you the keys
this evening"
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
FUNERAL FLOWER TRADE.
How Business In This PeculiAr Line
In Drummed Up by an Enter
prising Pennsylvania.

Travelling men who pass through
East Pennsylvania cities when looking
over the local newspapers are frequent
" surprised at the quantity of flowers
which are mentioned in the published
accounts of funerals Of people not in
public life. In many of the cities the
business of drumming up the funeral
flower trade is quite scientifically done.
a funeral flower trade drummer told
the other day of his mode Of operations,
says the New York Sun.
'To get early INFORMATION of deaths
stand in with the obituary reporters
of the daily papers. They cover all the
undertakers in the town. get all the
deaths up to two p. N. and then get out
to business. OF course, in these busy
days most people haven't time to go to
greenhouses for flowers. Hundreds of
people are willing to send some dead
friend nice token of remembrance,
but many don't think of it, and the
others haven't the time. Now, | make
it a business to do all that for them.
When l hear of a man dying I get the
names of his near relatives, lodge asso-
ciates, business connections, if any, etc.
have sample books of bouquets,
crosses, crescents, anchors, stars,
sickles, harps, Tyres, hearts, gates ajar,
doves, sheaves of wheat, clusters of
lilies, wheels with broken spokes, pill
lows, pedestals and many other set
pieces. l have price lists of these and
of cut flowers, roses at SO much per
dozen--in fact, anything people are
likely to want. call on the friends of
the dead person, ask if they wish to
order anything and promise to deliver
the goods on the morning of the day
of the funeral, fresh and handsome,
with their cards attached, all in proper
and satisfactory shape.
81 make out a complete list of the
offerings, with full description OF
levers. with names of flowers correctly
PEELED, all typewriter, and give it to
he reporters. Then my customers see
Eeir names in the papers as having
Kindly sent in beautiful floral dona-
ion, SO when l call next day to collect
ny bill they cheerfuily pay. l never
Csc anything"
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
MATRIMONIAL LOTTERY.
The Curious Custom Which Prevails
In a Russian Proyince-The
Principal Prize.

In one of Gilbert and Sullivan's operas
a much-sought young man proposes,
when pursued by '''2O lovesick maidens,' y
that he be put up at rattle. Cynics
have often remarked that marriage is
a lottery, and that grim Scotch libret-
tist may have obtained inspiration from
this statement. AS a matter of fact.
hcwever, it is real lottery in the prov
ince of Smolensk, Russia. A recently
returned traveller has this to say of the
curious custom, which is observed every
three months:
Husbands and wives are chosen by
the chance drawing of a lottery ticket.
The tickets cost one ruble each. There
is only one prize to be drawn, and it con-
sists of the entire sum yielded by the
sale of the tickets, amounting to 5000
rubles, together with lady described
as of poble blood. The tickets are sold
only to males, and the lucky winner of
the prize will have to marry the dam
sel if he takes the 5000 rubles. If, how
ever, he be already married he is at
liberty to turn over the money and the
lady to any friend whom he may wish
to put in for such good thing. If the
winner should be willing to marry but
is not found to be to the damsel's taste,
then they are to be excused from mat
rimony and permitted to divide the
rubles. It is not hard to imagine con-
dition of affairs where the lady in the
case refuses her chosen lord and pre-
fers to take the cash, deciding that
$500 rubles is more to be desired than
a more or less doubtful happiness with
husband of whom she knows moth
ing"
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
A Herd of Irish DuIIs.

Those fond of Irish bulls may find
some amusement in the following let
ter, which was written by an amorous
swain, native of the Emerald Isle, to his
lady fair:
My Darlin' Peggy: ] met you last
night and you never came! I'll meet
you again tonight whether you come
or whether you stop away. If I'm there
first, sure I'll write my name on the
gate to tell you Of it. and if it's you
that's first, why rub it out, darlin', and
no cne Will be tho wiser. I'll never fail
TO be at the trystin' place, Peggy, for,
faith, I can't keep away from the spot
where you are, whether you're there or
whether you're not. Your own, Paddy.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
GREAT DIpPER'S NEW NAME.
A Bright Little Chicago Girl Says the
Angels Use 1t to Boil Easter
Eggs In.

There are a great number of West
side families-about 100000 of them
that boast the possession of smart chill
dren. One of these possesses four
year-od girl who frequently makes her
parents laugh. On the evening of Easter
Sunday she was seated with her father
in the window seat when he called her
attention to the Great Dipper in the
northern heavens, says the Chicago
Chronicle.
al know all about that" cried little
Bernice, clapping her hands. That's
the dipper that the angels boil their
Easter eggs in"
On another occasion, being repri-
manded sy her mother for some trifling
fault, she declared, by way of defense:
Eyes. and if the world was to crack
open, mamma would say it was my
fault"
She is quite singer, and her rendi-
tion of popular songs often excites mer-
riment. Thus:
Mary had a little lamb;
Po.icemans white as snow
Her idea OF Sherman's march to the
st q is expressed thus:
Hurrah hurrah, the flag that makes you
freeze.
The other day she said to her mother
with an air indicative of reflection and
the mastering of a great idea:
Mamma, there are three Peters
Pete over at the grocery store, my
papa and the pumpkin-eater."
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
THE WAVE THEORY.
As 1t Was Elucidnted By a Btbulous
Scientist and States
man.

1t does not matter, so far as the true
science of this chronicle is concerned,
whether the statesman mentioned here
in is senator or mere representative,
or whether he halls from the near east
or the far west. Suffice it that he is in
learning much superior to his fellow
statesmen, and he is much more OF
scientist than he is a warrior. he IS
also more of bibulist than he is tenn
perancist, and one particular friend of
his il constantly on his trail with per-
suasions of all kinds against this grow
ing habit. Not long ago the two men
were at the statesman's apartments and
the host was expatiating on the wave
theory of light, says the Washington
Star.
"Color, you know, my dear major"
he was saying, sis sensation produced
by the action of very minute waves upon
the nervous substance of the retina.
When these waves have a length of
about 1-39, ,o00th Of an inch they pro-
ducek.he sensation which we call red.
When they have"
The statesman stopped in the midst
of his remarks to see what his friend
was doing or going to do with tape
measure he had taken from his pocket.
go on, don't mind pe," expostulated
the friend. I'm just making a little
side calculation to determine whether
the waves aren't about that size be-
tween the end of your nose and the
northeast corner of the retina of my
eye. That's all. Go on with your
theory; I'm calculating on practice"
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
NOT DOING THE WORRYING.
Conditions Under Which Partner
Thinks He Ought to Put In
More Capital.

'I have made a discovery" said Mr..
Billtops, in the New York Sun, land
that is that there is likely to be some
one person in household that does all
the worrying. There may be others that
fret, and very likely fret over trifing
things, but the real worrying over
things that have got to be done and got
to be looked after is usually done by
one person. The person that does the
worrying in my house is Mrs. Billtops.
The children and myself and all hands
lean on her and expect her to do every
thing. | don't know, but | sort of
think that we expect her to provide
things whether we have any money or
not, and she certainly does seem to
make everything come out all right
somehow.
Nov, as a rule, among men, the
man who does the worrying gets paid
for it. He is usually the man at the
head of an enterprise, or a concern, or
department, or whatever it may be,
who is able to do the work and willing
to take the care and responsibility of
it. Those under him may pile their
cares up on him, and he shoulders them
many man-easily. There are,
thank goodness, plenty of men that
don't shy at possibility.
but these men get paid for what
they Go, and Mrs. Billtops does not,
unless she counts my appreciation as
something. The children don't realize
what she does; they expect it. And as
for me, the silent partner, if l don't
stand up and take the knocks, l think
| ought at least to put in more capital y
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
The First Opera Glasses.

The single opera glass was first used
in the time of Louis XIV; it became
the rage and everybody used one. The
double opera glass (Jumelle) was in
vented in 1925, but did not at first find
favor with women A treatise was writ
ten in the early part of this century
on Fart de lorgner, in which it was
shown that a woman with fine arms
would hold the glass with both hands,
if she were blessed with fine hands she
would take off her gloves, if her neck
were long she would recline back in
her chair, and SO on. It was quite a
treatise on coquetrY.
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
A Novelty Gold Mine.

In one of the rivers in California, gold
is collected by means of an iron cylin-
der. which is constructed somewhat on
the principle of diving bell. The
cylinder containing the workman is
lowered. air is forced into it, and by a
series of pipes under pressure, the
workman sends the gravel from the
river bottom up to the deck of the boat.
There it is poured into proper recep-
tacles, is sluiced and washed, ard the
gold separated from the refuse. While
the men engaged in this work do not
gather gold in Klondike quantities,
they make fine living. and one which
they think they may depend upon for
1o-C ti--o-N Y 1G --cr
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
Accommodnttng Mourners.

Here is an instance of his willingness
to oblige: I was making a sketch OF
the village cemetery and wanted only
a funeral procession to complete my
study. I remarked to the old man:
sSWnat pity there does not happen to
be funeral going on, so that might
put it in!" His reply took Inc by sur
prise; for, jumping up, he said: There
is a man i'll in the village, and he must
die soon; f'll go and hurry him up!'
And, sure enough, he hustled them all
so much that an hour later my sketch
was complete and the man safely in
terred! And believe that the bereaved
family considered themselves especial
ly honored by my interest in the cere-
mony!
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
Feeling the Earth's Pulse.

The fanciful notion which men used
to entertain that the earth is, in some
sense, living thing would probably
have derived support from the recent
observations of Prof. John Milne, and
others, on the shivers and quivers that
frequently run through it's rocky frame,
but escape notice except when watched
for with specially constructed and ex-
ceedingly delicate apparatus. Prof.
Milne reports that apparatus of this
kind has now been mounted in Canada.
British Columbia, the United States.
South Africa, New Zealand, Java, India
and Argentina, as we'll as in England
and at various places on the continent
of Europe.-Youth's Companion.
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
The Kamr and the Month

AT dinner party in South Africa the
hostess told the kaffir boy to bring the
champagne" The boy left and ret turned
without the wine. She commanded him
again to bring the champagne, with the
same result. Then he whispered: mo
WINE" Nonsense" said the woman,
there is plenty" "No," persisted the
native, "me look at all the bottles: all
say extra dry!" A second woman en-
gagged boy in September, and at the
end of the month gave him his wages.
AT the end of October she again pre-
ceeded to pay him, when he surprised
her by objecting to the amount. lie
wanted TO be paid more for 81 days than
for 30-not unreasonably. The woman
demonstrated, and broke into poetry.
Thirty days hath September" etc.
NO." said the Kaffir cutely, mo month
81 day-a!l month 80 day. Your month
80 day, then 81, then 80. No, me no stop
here!" and no logic could induce him TO
consent to an arrangement that seemed
likely to progress indefinitely in favor
of his employer
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
Nnnf CInxes Are.

Cloves are the unopened flower buds
of a small evergreen shrub resembling
the bay or laurel, which is Indigenous
in Malacca, but is not much cultivated
in tropical regions of America. The
buds are gathered while still green and
smoked by wood fire. and are then
dried in the sun. The four petals,
stamens and other parts of the flower
may be distinctly seen by anyone who
has the curiosity to soak dried Glove
for little while in hot water and TO
then examine it,
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
The Arknnsaw Wnx-

"Good afternoon, sir!" said a tour.
ist in an Arkansas village to a man sit
ting in the shade of chinquapin tree.
'Where are all the people who live in
this neighborhood? You are the only
man have seen on this side of town" 4"
81 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 single
weeki"
"IPm! Then why are you not there
also to catch a glimpse of the
strangers ?"
Il am paralyzed an can't leave my
chair."-Harlem Life.
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
The Mind as a Disease Producer.

We know that congested liver pro-
duces gloom, perhaps leading to sui
eide. Another kind of gloom is per-
haps due to congested spleen. A dis
orderly heart produces apprehension of
coming danger. Certain intestinal con-
ditions produce fear. Morbid condi-
tions of other organs mar the sense of
strength and manhood or womanlinc&s.
We know also Il few converse truths:
That gloom of despair may induce
jaundice; that good news will make the
heart beat vigorously; that cheerful
ness will calm and regulate its beat;
that fear and anxiety may paralyze di-
gestion.-Dr. Herbert Coryn, in Ma
tional Review.
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
uouse Set A6re by "A Meteor

What struck Flume (Austria) ware
house and set it on fire turns out to
have been meteor. 1t was assumed to
have been lightning till four-ton me-
teoric stone was found in deep hole in
the cellar.
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
Taking oaths In Maryland.

Witnesses in Maryland courts will
longer have to kiss the Bible when tak-
ing oaths, nor will they be obliged to
say, $50 help ME Cod" A new law has
made these changes.
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
Hens Not Feeling Well.

Twelve eggs sold by Brooklyn dairy
man had among them five that were de-
cayed. The purchaser returned them,
saying that he wanted the product of
healthy hens. These" said the pur-
chaser, must have been laid when the
hens were not feeling WE'LL"
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
Use Damask Instead of Flowers

Flowers are never used in Tuscany,
but at Christmas and Easter all the
walls of the cathedrals are decked with
wonderful damask of almost priceless
value.
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
Latest Things in Gloves,

A glove has lately been patented with
elastic webbing in the sides of the fin
gers and thumb. to stretch as the glove
is pulled on, thus making it fit any sized
hand.
The Winslow mail., 1898-06-04
Alcohol Microbe,

microbe that lives and thrives in
strong alcohol has been discovered by
'Veley. 1t is believed that this accounts
for the fact that rum sometimes deteri-
crates on sea voyage.