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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
A London Cook.

There is celebrated cook in London
about whom it is said that he makes an
income of over co, 900 year. He is at
tached to no house. :
This is how he earns his living: In
his own brougham he sets out toward
evening for the honse of some rich man
who is going to give dinner at which
every dish must be above criticism.
Here he alights, and, making for the
kitchen, goes through the process of
tasting all the soups sauces and made
dishes, advising, when his palate sug-
gests, little more salt here pinch OF
herbs there, dash of sugar in this en-
tree. suspicion of onion in that sal
mis-, etc.
This done, he pockets his fee of D
guineas and drives ON to the next din
ner giving patron who has hidden him
to his feast in this strange fashion. His
nightly list comprises many houses all
through the London season. -Philadel-
phia Ledger.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
The Masarwa Bushman.

Here is a solitary figure, that of a
Masarwa bushman, engaged in digging
up bulbs as food supply. These bulbs,
small, round and smooth and of sweet,
nutty flavor, are exactly the same as
those for which the guinea fowls are
searching so eagerly. They may be
called the bushman's bread, and when
game is scarce or hunting luck is out
they serve as a mainstay against utter
starvation.
The bushman collects his bulbs in the
shell of tortoise and presently will re-
turn to the protecting bush beneath
which he and his family slept last night.
After that he will perhaps visit snare
he set yesterday to entrapa duyker, ,9p
of the small antelopes of South l.>.dca,
or, failing the capture of the little buck,
he may try to stalk paauw with his
bow and poisoned arrow or follow the
troop of guinea fowls on the ca chance
of securing a head. London Spectator.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
Conclusive.

A doctor OH tour through the high
lands came upon a fair sized village
where there was no brother practitlon-
er. Surprised at this and anxious TO
learn how the people got on without
one, he took the first opportunity to in
Quire.
"A doctor!'' said the old woman
whom he accosted. 1--WE need nae doc
tor.
"And what do you do for medicine III
the case of illnessf" pursued the man
of medicine
1--WE need nae medicine either. We
jist keep whusky for the man an tar for
the sheep" replied the old woman.
The doctor admitted that glass OF
whisky might be good enough in some
cases, but not always.
"A weel, readily responded the old
woman, "if ae glass disna dae we gle
twa, and if twa disna dae we max 1t
three, and if that disna dae they were
gaun tae dee anyway. - Scottish
Nights
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
Floating Up n River.

1t was a vexed question in 1890
whether the Pilcomayo river, which
flows for hundreds of miles from the
Bolivian Andes to the Paraguay, might
be used as commercial highway from
Bolivia to the ocean. Our countryman,
Captain Page, settled this question so
conclusively that no further effort to
utilize the Pilcomayo is likely to be
made, and in this work, that cost him
his life, for he died of his privations
after being hemmed in for months by
hostile Indians, he devised plan for
steaming up river when the water was
SO low that his vessel was stuck in the
mud. He was determined to 60 still
farther, though his little steamer,
which drew only l8 inches, rested on
the river bottom, so behind the boat he
threw up an embankment of earth clear
across the channel, backed it with palm
trunks and brushwood, and before long
the water had risen couple of feet,
and the little Bolivia was able to go on
her way four miles before she stuck
again. Then another dam was built,
and this process was repeated seven
times, and with the aid of the dams the
vessel advanced about 80 miles above
the highest point she could reach at the
natural low water stage. Harper
Round Table
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
Court Fools Who Owned Whole Towns.

Hitard, who was attached to Edmund
Ironsides, is the first court jester of
whom we have record. He owned the
town of Walworth, gift from the king.
He held it through four succeeding
reigns, and before leaving England for
Rome, where he spent his last days, he
presented it to the church, placing the
deed upon tho altar of the cathedral OF
Canterbury.
Gallet, Galet or Goblet, native OF
Bayeux, was one of William the Con-
queror's testers He was attached to
William when only Duke of Normandy
and saved his masters life by disclosing
a plot for his assassination. Berdic was
another. He is enrolled i'll domesday
book as joculator regis and lord of three
towns, all rent free, and five carucates
in Worcestershire. Rahere was Jester
to Henry 1, and William Piculph, or Pr
col, Jester to King John. Master Henry,
who, it is thought may be identical
with Henry of Avranches, the poet lau-
reate or versifcator, was jester to Henry
IH.-Amelia Wofford in st. Nicholas.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
A Baked Bonnet.

During a recent rainstorm society
woman was caught in sudden down
pour and was compelled to run home in
very undignified haste. Her dignity,
however wasn't damaged as much as
her bonnet. The latter had been
dream of beauty when she started out.
1t was a perfect nightmare when she
reached home again. She thought that
q little heating would bring it about all
right The kitchen fire had gone out,
but she put the bonnet in the oven and
prepared to build the fire. Just as she
had got all the materials together the
doorbell rang. 1t was caller. The Wis
itor was great gossip, and she had q
brand new bit of scandal TO tell. The
two women became very much absorbed
in their chat During the course of it the
servant girl, who had been out for the
afternoon, returned and passed back into
the kitchen. About an hour later the
two gossips in the parlor began to notice
"a queer odor coming from the kitchen
The truth of the situation suddenly
flashed upon the hostess, who immedi-
ately rushed out into the kitchen. There
she found TO her horror that the girl had
built the kitchen fire and her lovely
bonnet lay in the oven roasted to crisp.
-Philadelphia Record.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
Graduate. of Indian unlver.,,,e..

think that the sorrows of a child
less wife in India are not nearly so
great as Mrs. Steel describes them to
be. simply because of that "curious res
ignation, that impressive acquiescence,
which, F." she says, ''does more to separate
east from west than all the seas which
lie between England and India, I" and be-
cause, even If the barrenness of the
first wife necessitates the marrying of a
second with view TO the future per-
Torrance of religious rites), there can
be no jealousy between the two, for to
them marriage has for its object the
preservation of the hearth fire, not the
fire of passion. and the jealousy which
is virtue to the civilized is crime to
these barbarians. Mrs. Steel, ! fear,
has also fallen into the common error
it would have been marvel had she
mott of assuming that every graduate of
an Indian university is prig
The Indian graduate is also the pet
aversion of Mr.. Rudyard Kipling. But
both are wrong in their assumptions. In
the discharge of my academical duties,
not so very long ago, / came daily into
contact with more than 700 undergrad
yates of the Calcutta university, and
did not notice in them as a class any
particular priggishness, anything which
would differentiate them in that respect,
say, from English varsity men.-Acad
emy
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
A MORNING GLORY CULT.

This Flower Taking the Place of Chrys-
anthemums In Japan.
Miss Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore has an
article ON 1.-THE Wonderful Morning
Glories of Japan" in " Century. Miss
Scidmore says:
AS floral sensation he chrysanthe-
mum may be said to have had its day,
the carnation is going, going. and seek
ers after novelty among flower fanciers
are signing for new flower to conquer.
1t is hardly known, even to foreign res
idents in Japan, that that land, which
has given us so much of art and beauty,
has lately revived the culture Of its most
remarkable flower, the asagao, our
morning glory. For size, beauty, range
of color and illimitable variety there
attained this sunrise flower precedes all
others until its cultivation has become
a craze, which is likely To spread TO
other countries, and-who knows-per-
haps there introduce the current Jap
anese custom of o'clock in the morn
ing teas and garden parties.
Asagao, the morning flower, Is more
especially Japan's own blossom than
the chrysanthemum, which, like 1t,
came from China as a primitive sort OF
weed, afterward to be evolved by Jap
anese art or magic into floral wonder
of hundred varying forms.
We who know and grow the morn
ing glory as a humble back yard vine on
a string-a vine with leaves like those
of the sweet potato and puny little pink
| or purple howers-are as far In the
floral darkness as the Chinese, who
know it chiefly as a wild thing OF fields
| and hedge rows, the vine OF 1.-THE little
trumpets" or the "dawn flower" that
is entangled with briers and bushes for
miles along the top of Peking's walls.
| The old poetry and the old art do not
! seem to be permeated with 1T, as IN
| japan, where the forms of vases, bowls
| and cups, the designs and paintings OF
| the greatest masters, repeat the graceful
| lines of vine and flower, and scores OF
famous poems celebrate the asagao IN
[ written characters as beautiful TO the
eve as is their sound TO the ear.
The asagao was brought to Japan
with the Buddhist religion, that partic
ular cult of early rising. Scholars ano
priests who went over to study the new
religion brought back the seeds OF many
Chinese plants. The tea plant came
then, and Eisai brought the seeds of thu
sacred DO tree, and Tai Kwan, the Chi
nese priest at the Obaku temple in vi
who may have introduced the flower t.
Japan, was one of the first to sing o
the asagao in graceful outas, CLASSIC
poems which scholarly brushes repea
today. "Asagaos bloom and fade s.
quickly, only to prepare for the NOR
rows glory, is Tai Kwan's best known
| verse.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
A Mean DOG.

He was small boy-not such a very
small boy-in an out of town school
He had written composition. 1t was
upon the subject OF dogs Now the
teacher of the school was man, and he
was not popular He was what the boys
called "mean " They disliked him thor
oughly from the tips of his shining
shoes to the ends of his pompadour comb
ed hair. In the composition there was a
story of dog 1t was the story OF a
very mean dog, and as the composer of
the literary effort came to the last line
he read it emphatically and with great
distinctness of utterance, and the hearts
of all the other small boys in the room,
as they listened, quaked, half with de-
light and half with fear, knowing what
was to follow, and gazing, fascinated, at
the upright couture of the master, as
the reader ended, And that dog was SC
mean that his hair stood on end -
New York Times
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05

A Cleveland clergyman who is not
given to putting on a long face either
In. his pulpit or out of it says that be-
fore he came here from the south he
was one day asked by young man to
unite him with the woman of his choice
in the holy bonds Of wedlock upon the
evening of a certain day.
81 am very sorry" said the reverend
gentleman. "but shall be ont Of town
upon that Gay.
The young man was crestfallen, said
that he had set his heart upon having
that particular minister perform the
ceremony and asked if there was no
possible way in which it could be ar
ranged.
IL thought the matter over, )" said
the clergyman in recounting the expert
ence, land finally agreed to return for
the express purpose of complying with
his wishes He was greatly pleased, as
surod me that it was very kind OF me
and limited that would be well repaid
for my trouble and consideration.
$50 upon the day set for the ceremony
l travelled nearly 200 miles, paid out
So. so for my railroad ticket and other
accommodations and gave the happy
couple one of the best marriage services
| in my repertory.
after the ceremony the groom came
to me, blushing furiously, slipped SO
bill into my hand and in all serious
ness said
This is all have to give You now,
but hope TO he able to do better next
| time.
! II was So so out of pocket on the
| transaction, and l guess I'll let him
hunt up somebody else next time. -
| Cleveland Leader
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05

The puppet show is such an ancient
institution and has been popular in so
many countries that its origin is quite
obscured by the mists of antiquity. An
tiquaries with chronological spectacles
have peered into this pristine fog and
discerned connection between the pup
pet show and religious observances
They have established the fact that dolls
and marionettes are closely related and
even advanced the theory that the shad-
ow puppets used in many lands denote
time when all the people saw of reli-
gious ceremonies was the shadows of the
officiating priests cast upon the walls OF
the sacred tent.-Francis J. Ziegler in
Harpers Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
A Contingent Name.

The Syracuse Post says that q girl
baby was recently brought to clergy
man of the city to be baptized. The lat
ter asked the name of the baby.
"Dinah NJ. !" the father responded.
"But what does the M stand for?"
Intercepted the minister.
"Well, do not know yet. 1t all de-
ponds upon how she turns out. F"
"How she turns out? Why, do not
understand you" said the dominic.
"Oh, if she turns out nice and sweet
and handy about the house like her
mother, shall call her Dinah May, but
if she has fiery temper and displays a
bombshell disposition, like mine. shall
call her Dinah Might F"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
The Early London Omnibus.

When the queen came to the throne,
omnibuses were new but already pop
ular institution They were longer, mar
rover and lower than the present ones
and had no seats on the roof. The pas
sengers were carefully shut i'll by a
door at the end, as if to make quite sure
of them, once they were captured, till
they had paid their fares. On little
round perch behind stood the conductor
or lead, hanging Oh by leather loop
passed over his arm. Sixpence was the
usual bus fare 60 years ago, whether
you went from beginning to end of the
journey or only few hundred yards
AS there was very little regulation Of
the street traffic of London in those
days, if the bus was filled up at start
ing it went like fire engine i'll order
to get in an extra journey, but other
wise 1t crawled and pottered about till
the requisite number was obtained.
Each omnibus was licensed only for
a particular route 1t paid the stage
coach duty of e5 when first started and
a shilling year for keeping the license
in force, besides mileage duty, varying
with the number of passengers 1t would
hold, but coming TO about threepence
per mile on the average. -Gentleman
Magazine
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
What Is Style?

The fact that we use the word style"
in speaking of architecture and sculp-
ture, painting and music, dancing, play
acting and cricket, that we can apply 1t
to the careful achievements OF the
housebreaker and the poisoner, and to
the spontaneous animal movements OF
the limbs of man or beast, is the noblest
of unconscious tributes to the faculty
of letters Morals, philosophy and @s-
thetic, mood and conviction, creed and
within, habit, passion and demonstra-
tion-what art but the art of literature
admits the entrance of all these and
guards them from the suddenness OF
mortality? All style is gesture, the GEES
ture of the mind and of the soul Other
gestures change and fit; this is the ul-
innate and enduring revelation OF per-
sonality. -"Style. by Walter Raleigh
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05

A young lady of Buffalo who wanted
something that would keep her stock
ings up where they belonged thus adj
dressed the terror stricken young store
clerk
ut is my desire to obtain pair OF
circular elastic appendages capable OF
being contracted and expanded by
means of oscillating FURNISHED steel ap.
pliances that sparkle like PARTICLES OF
gold leaf set with Alaska diamonds and
which are utilized for keeping in posi-
ton the habiliment of the lower ex-
tremities which innate delicacy forbids
me TO mention. buffalo (Wy.) Voice.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
MADeMoIsELLE THERMOMETER. :

know OF restless young lass,
Who lives in house made OF glass,
And from her location
Marks each vibration
OF hot and cold waves as they pass.
When heat is announced, she will spring
To quickly make note OF the thing
IT'S very surprising
That simply by rising
So true a report she can bring.
To self elevation inclined
She has such a volatile mind
That in every season
A suitable reason
For frequent depression she'll find.
Her temper mercurial thus
Creates everywhere such a fuss
That in conversation
Affairs OF the nation
Are sighted this maid to discuss.
Julia M. Cotton in New York Christian Ad
yOcato.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
How Punch and Judy Came to England.

The heyday of the puppet show III
England was during the last century
Long before then strolling showmen
had exhibited "drolls" or motions
as the English puppets were known in
the early days-to crowds OF gaping
rustics, but it was not until the time OF
Steele and Addison that the puppet show
became fashionable amusement, pat
ronized by upper tendon.
Pulcinella came to London In 1866,
when an Italian puppet player set up
his booth at Charing Cross and paid a
small rental to the overseers Of ST. Mar
tins parish. His name was at once
Englished into Punchinello. which was
soon to be completely Anglicized az
Punch. Harper Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05

have read the newspapers only
through Roberts eyes. He reads them
in a room sacred from the foot OF wom-
an. And this is not always satisfactory,
as whenever Robert falls into state OF
disgust with any political party he
throws tho whole subject over Every
now and then he ignores France alto
gether, and l, who am more tolerant
and more curious find myself suspend
ed over hiatus. ask about Theirs
speech. "Thiers is a rascal, he says
81 make a point of not reading word
Of Thiers." NJ Prudhon, then? "Prud.
hon is mailman. Who cares for Prnd-
honY' The president? 1.-The president
is an ass not worth thinking Of. +" And
SO we treat Of politics. Letters OF Eliz-
abeth Barrett Browning.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
At Her Mercy.

$50 the telephone girl is taking her
revenge, Whirly?"
"It's awful. Every time l ring up
she connects me with three or four
wrong numbers in succession, and then
sweetly informs me that the number
which l really want is busy now. -
Detroit Free Press
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05

A candidate at an election was known
to be strongly in favor of fogging In
the army. He said he saw no necessary
disgrace attached to being logged.
why" cried he, IL was logged my
self once, and it was for telling the
truth.
"And It cured zee, nav doubt, " said
a rustic in the meeting. -London Tele-
graph.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05

Fontenelle listened to everything
and he offended no one by disputing
anything. At the CLOSE Of his, life he
was asked the secret Of his success, and
ne replied that it was by observing two
maxiWA Everybody may be right"
and Everything may be So
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05

Marie--I am in an awful predica.
ment am in love with two men.
Mertie-And you can't choose be-
tween them? How embarrassing
Marie-Oh, l can choose all right,
but neither of the men seems able tc
do so!-New York World.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
Natural Bent.

The first time the boy was taken out
to tea he helped himself to the biggest
piece of cake ON the plate. His parents
were mortified, but in after years they
were proud Of him, when he became
great politician. philadelphia North
American.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
Better Protected.

He was crying, but he finally man
aged to blubber through his tears:
IT wisht / was girl.
"why do you wish you were eirl?''
asked the father, who was mainly re-.
sponsible for the tears. !.
=. 'Tain't so easy to wallop them, 7"
answered the boy, hardly realizing how
great the truth he had hit upon. Chi
cago Post.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
q Lord,
GhA a. f1x

The clergy Of Russia are divided into
two classes--the white or village cler-
~, who must all be married, and the
black clergy. or monks, who are vowed
to celibacy. The higher disnitaries Of
the church are invariably chosen from
this last clasa
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05

Hortensius, the Roman orator. had .
memory 20 wonderful that on.a wager.
he spent . whole day at IN auction ana
4 night repeated all the salsA the
prices and the names Of the buyera
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
East and SLOW.

she--He's fast, understand.
He-No--slOw.
"You evidently done know how he
spends money 'lt "a
s.Ah. but I know how. hs pays HE
debts. "-Philsdelphia Record.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05

"Nan has gone into the ministry
again"
''Whst do you mean7''
"a 'sShe 10 engaged to another clergy
man. "-Chicago Record.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05

"Confound that caddie, he's never
round except at the tee!''
"Sort Of q tea caddie, ehr'-Brook'
Ign Life. 1t IA ~
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
An Epitaph.

The danger of using porcelain letters
on tombstone is illustrated in village
cemetery not far from st. Louis The
inscription reads:
. Lord,
. She is thini
The final re" had been knocked of in
a thunderstorm. St Louis Star.