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Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-25
A GAY TIME
THE BACHELORS CLUB
ENTERTAINS.
A Large Party Present to
Enjoy the Social Event
of the Season.

About 20 couples We're present last
night at the 9Th annual ball given by
tho Bachelors Club in Thomasi hall
This occasion has always been looked
upon as one of the social events of the
season and since its institution the re-
ceipt of an invitation to be present has
always been looked upon as = mark OF
high favor, Their dances have always
been most enjoyable but the one last night
eclipsed them all. The popularity of
these events is shown by the fact that
it is rule of the club to limit the num-
ber Of tickets sent out to 20, and these
were all taken.
The grand march started soon after
8 o'clock and the party made splen-
did appearance in marching around the
hall. There were many elegant and
tasty gowns and each gentleman W, re
white gloves. The dance order con-
sisted Of 20 numbers and the party did
not break up until about 3 o'clock
About midnight the committee passed
around the light refreshments consist
ing of coffee, cake and sandwiches.
Music was furnished by Messrs Bruce
Grant, Gilbertson and Phillips.
The floor directors were Alexander
Coutts, Alexander Hanton. Frank Mer.
chant and Joseph Yule.
The committee on arrangement con.
sisted of Louis Roberts, James Coutts,
George Stewart, William joss, John
Mackie, Alex Cruickshank, Miss Lizzie
Downie, Mary Smith, Mrs. James Coutts
Mrs. Frank Merchant, Mrs. Louis Rob.
erts, Mrs. George Stewart, Mrs. Alex
Cruickshank and Mrs. Joseph Yule
Robert Coutts had charge of the coat
room, and John Lind was doorkeeper.
The club was organized in 1892 with
- members and since then it has always
| Oecu INC CuStClll W htCP iIchiD'Aeo't
uonfined to this number, and as fast a'
one forsakes their ranks to join the cir
Gle OF Benedicts his place has been fillet
by someone else. Every year ii ha'
been the custom to hold dance in tht
winter and the Bachelors picnic in th'
summer. On these occasions the ~
Bachelors are always present and fe"
friends are usually invited from out
side. Six of the present members arr
scattered all over the world so that 10
the last nights dance the ranks wer
temporarily filled by the Ex Bachelors
In the left front corner OF the hail
large ice water tank was placed amides
very artistic decorations and on tn
right was similar one containing lem
onade. The floor was in good condl
ton, the music was excellent. the part
congpnial and everything combined
make it grand good time for all.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-25
TYPEWRITING

Will be taught Systematically by drills
in fing' ring in accordance With the best
methods. No pupil will take a go-as-
you-please style of practice. The stu
dent will be taught proper business and
legal forms, duplicating, care of ma
chine, etc. Every shorthand pupil will
spend not less than an hour day in
practice,
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-25
EVENING SESSIONS.

An evening session, presenting the
same advantages as the day session,
will he held four evenings each week.
Those who .re employed during the
day will find it an excellent opportuni-
ty for securing business or shorthand
education evenings.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-25
SHORTHAND

Will include complete and practical
knowledge of Pitmanic Shorthand
The aim will be to produce rapid writ
ers who can make accurate transcripts
in good English, of business, legal and
general diclation.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-25
WARMING.

vbs leyal voters of the City of Barre, w.,
,rc hereby notified and warned to meet on
Tuesday, March 7th, \. ID. 1899, at O'Clock
n ,he forenoon, in their respective wards, ri
the h, st. several voting places hereinafter named,
for tbe purpose of electing Mayor, City
cIerk. CITY Treasurer, First and Second
Constahles. one Assessor, Three Auditors,
md Three Directors of the French Library,
ali of whom arc to hold Office for one year,
except the Assessor who is to hold office for
three years,
And for the purpose of electng
In Ward One-One Alderman for two years
One School Commissioner for
three years.
In Ward Three One Alderman fortW0 years
and One School COmmis.
sioner for three years,
In Ward Fiye-Onc Alderman for two years'
-------s--------
The following are designated as voting places
VIZ .,,:,
Ward one Church street School Buldldg
Ward Two Spaulding school Building
WarJ Three City Court Room
Ward Four North Barre School Building
Ward Five blackwell street Hose House
Ward Six Engine House, Prospect street
JOHN w. GORnON, Mayor.
City Of Barre, February 2l, 1879.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-25
Voters Attention.

rhs Eoard of Civil Authority meets al
.Aa C,y Court Room at 7.3O p. M, on
wv W. toljowing dates to make corrections,
~, I,or,,ious and additions to the check.
I ,ist February 2s;h, March LIST, ID and
ll
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-25
DISCOUNT TO CHARTER
MEMBERS.

To the first ten entering the day
school we will give discount of $500,
and to the first ten entering the evening g
we will give discount of $3.50.
Call or send for journal.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-25
For Sale

A two tenement house and barn,
practically now at II East st.
Also an extra building lot. Spring
and cistern water. Upstair tenement
rents for &1S a month, Four stalls in
barn. Splendid chance for investment
Reason for selling, poor health. Fol-
further particulars inquire of
s. q. MEAKER,
ZION THE PREMISES.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-25
RaiSinS

Large and plump California
Ra'sins 8 cents per pound.
Three C1rwn.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-25

S. D. Slbley has just put in IL new
bone cutter and is ready to furnish
freshly ground bone to poultrymen. IL
is on sale at Burke \ Abbott's and AT r
NJ. Waterman's.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-25
Kerosene

WATER WHITE Kero-
sene Oil. 1oc. | er. lon, made
byttstStardard Oh Co. ...''
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-25
FOR SALE.

Desirable Real Estate of the late Mrs.: NJ. I:
Hatch, No. 25 South lIain st., consisting ol
two story house and harm. situated opposite
DR.. j. Henry Jackson's residence. ms prop
arty must be sold to close al estate. for pr.
ticulars enquire of T.. J. Gale ut the City
Hotel.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-25
PRACTICAL PENMANSHlP.

Every student in either department
will receive Il one hours drill each day
under the instruction of a practical pen
man and teacher.
Under his instruction the poorest
writer will become IL finished penman
in q short time.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-25
COMMERCIAL ARITHMETIC

Every young person who desires to
become a practical bookkeeper should
have thorough knowledge of Com
mercial Arithmetic. He should be able
to add, multiply, and divide numbers
and compute interest by the shortest
by the shortest aud most practical meth
f,1s
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-25
BUSINESS LETTER WRITING

TO know just what to say and how to
say 1t in rs few words rs possible. when
writing business letter, is an art which
ever young person should acquire early
in life. Students will be thoroughly
drilled in this important branch Of a cor
rect business education,
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-25
COMMERCIAL LAW.

This branch will be taught in class
work and by lectures. The subjects
taught will include Contracts. Agency.
Corporations, Liens, Affreightments, In
surancc, Negotiable Paper, Partnership.
Interest and Usury, Bailment and Real
Estate.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-25
RAPID CALCULATIONS.

That " SAGSO GN ut0INSs
Students will receive twenty min
utes' drill each day in Rapid Calcula.
tions of all kinds. knowledge obtained
in this drill will save the students many
hours of laborious figuring in the future
OFFICE PRACTICE DEPT.
This department will include a col
lege Bank, Six Wholesale Offices. a
Commission and Real Estate Office.
These offices will be conducted the same
a. similar offices in large city banks
and mercantile houses.
| In the Office practice department is
where the real practical experience nee
essary to qualify him for entering upon
The duties Of bookkeeper or business
manager In any large mercantile. house
The knowledge herein obtained will be
worth many thousands of dollars to him
during his business career.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-25

THE PREMISES.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-10
TREASURE OF TEXAS MATRoN.
Her Husbnnd'. Thirty-Two-Year-Oia
Wedding Shirt stiM Pre-
served.

On the 9th of November Mr.. and
Mrs. w. A. King, of Nacogdoches, Tex,
celebrated their wedding anniversary.
On that occasion MIR. King wore the
identical shirt in which he was mar
ried in 1866. The ancient garment was
in good condition, having been treas
ured carefully by Mrs. King all these
years and only brought out on we'd
ding anniversaries. She launders It
herself, no one else being allowed to
lay finger on it. Mr.. King, who is a
native Texan, served in the confed-
crate army, and at the close of the
civil war settled near Nacogdoches,
where he has lived ever since. In 1866
he was married to Miss Mary Jane
Maroney, niece of Gen. Thomas J.
Pusk. In those days dress shirts were
rare in that part of the county. The
garment which Mr.. King wore at his
wedding is homemade and handmade
of white cotton goods. 1t has bosom
after the mode of negligee shirts. with
transverse plaits. Mrs. King says it
will last for many year yet, and her
husband declares he will last as long
as the shirt.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-10
THE DRUNKEN MAN.
And the Mystery of How He keeps
His Feet and Steers Clear
of Danger.

Drunken men, of course, do tall
down cellarways and that sort of
thing said Mr.. Nozzleby, according
to the New York Sun. I'VE read about
it occasionally in the papers, but still
such mishaps are comparatively rare.
Men seem to stagger up to the very
verge of such places, and then sheer OH
in safety. Probably everybody that
has lived in city has at one time or
another followed some drunken man
with his eye and seen him as he pur-
sued his zigzag course along the side
walk, lurch up to and fairly lean over
the top step of some basement stairs,
seen him still leaning, as though he
must inevitably topple over and go
smashing down to the bottom, only to
observe him finally sway back, away
from the steps, to start again on his
devious course and bring up moment
later on the curbstone hanging in the
same manner and in the same danger
Of falling, now into the gutter.
"But he doesn't fall, and one won
ders what preserves him. He staggers
on his way, and stumbles sometimes,
but RECEIVERS himself and never quite
goes down. Again he skins smooth
and straight along the very edge of
some danger spot, but keeps right on
into safety. And so he pursues his
crooked and dangerous way with dip
CT dive now and then that brings
the heart into the mouth OF some pass
er-by who chances upon him suddenly;
and at times it seems as though ne
must go down, but something keeps
him up, and some instinct, apparently
independent of himself, turns him
back from the brink. With such glim-
mering of sense as he has left, if he
has any, he struggles hard to keep up.
He may not realize it himself, but in
| stinct makes known to him that if
once he goes down he can't get up.
| Pursuing straight course you
soon come up with and pass the stag
gerer going criss-cross, steering out,
I perhaps, as you pass. to avoid collision
i, with him.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-10
loATHED CIDER.
Two knights of the Road Who Had
No Use for Anything That
Worked.

A farmer named L. C. Hamer, who
makes frequent trips to this city
with produce, and whose place is near
Mount Repose, o., little settlement
just north of Madisonville, is response
BILE for the following story: He was
driving toward the city the other morn
ing with load of cider in barrels, when
he met two specimens of the hobo va
riety trudging along the pike. They
stopped before his wagon, one politely
lifted his hat and asked:
"What's the nearest town?'
"Mount Repose," answered the
farmer.
s'Ah! sweet name!" answered the
tramp. II think we'll just stop for the
rest of our lives when we reach there.
Couldst proffer us drink from one of
the barrels?"
The farmer Immediately drew quart
cup full of cider and offered it to the
pair. They drank it, each made wry
face, and the one of grandiloquent
speech, who must have at some time
been member of variety troupe,
drew himself up and said:
"Dost know that thou hast insulted
us in offering cider? We have holy
horror that amounts to loathing for
cider"
'Why?" asked the farmer.
Because, answered the tramp, with
farewell wave of the hand. Because
/, it works."
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-10
DUSAY LAM VI l4lN.
Females of an Arsa Tribe VINO Go
Unveiled yt2slse Their alien
Cover 'vl,eir Faces.

Many an Arab lady never leaves her
house from the time sh, is married UNI
til she is carried out to be buried, says
Pearson's Weekly. \ woman OF the
middle class is allowed more liberty,
and occasionally goes out for walks,
accompanied as Il rule by servant.
The poor creature is enveloped in
masses of white drapery, which make
her look like walking bundle, and in
front of her face she arranges a large
black scarf embroidered with blue, red
and white flowers. 1t falls low in front,
and, even by holding up the ends, she
cannot see more than foot or two of
the road before her. l often wonder
that she does not get run over when
she goes out alone, for l am sure she
needs a dog to guide her quite as much
as any blind man. Servants and other
women of the lower classes wear
pieces of black crepon wound tightly
round their faces, leaving just slit
for their eyes to peep through, and
they are equally mufiled up in White
draperies. Seen from distance, they
might be men with masks or thick
black boards, as in Arab countries it is
by no means easy to tell a man from
woman at first sight. The older and
uglier woman is the more prudish she
seems to be about covering up her face,
which, after all, is rather considerable
on her part. Even the greater num-
her of negresses wear the yashmak,
but the Bedouin women never do. In
deed, l am told that in the interior
there is one Arab tribe whose men
wear wells, and whose women go about
with their faces uncovered. These are
probably the new women" of Africa.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-10
A BOY HERO.
The Pittsburgh Youth Who Fought
Mt Manila and Met ADJ
miral Dewey.

One of the heroes of the battle of
Manila is 13-year-old boy, who is
popularity called Boots by his com
rades. Boots lately returned on tie
transport City of Para, and has had the
distinction of having had a personalin
terview with Admiral Dewey, who gave
him free trip to Hong-Kong on the
Olympia because of his services in the
siege of Malate and the fight before
Manila. He is the boy who came from
Pittsburgh with the regiment. The
men Struggled him aboard the trans
port, but he had hard luck, as he fell
down the hatchway on the third day
out and broke his arm. He was all
right when Manila was reached, andln
the trenches before Malate he carried
water and ammunition and paid no at
tention to the bullets. AS he said:
There was no chance to dodge 'em,
they came so quick" He was among
the first to enter Manila with cap
back with him. On August 10 he
learned that the Olympia was to go 70
Hong-Kong, SO he determined to make
the trip. He boarded the ship and
asked to be shown to the admiral's
cabin. Dewey was sitting at table
with the captain of the ship.
Boots" said: II salutes and says:
Admiral, want to go to Hong Kong
and he says, pleasant like: We'll, my
boy, you come aboard and We'll take
you.''
He was 10 days on the Olympia.
When he got back to Manila Col. Haw-
kins feared that he might catch the
fever, SO he sent the boy to New York
on the transport.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-10
FoRMosAN CITY ABANDONED.
ham Are Compelled to
Leave 1t.

The japanese government has ordered
the destruction of the city of Teck-
ham, Formosa, and the removal of all
it's inhabitants to new location. The
city is situated or the northwest coast
of the island, and has been frequently
subjected to pestilence. In 1896 and
1897 plaques visited Teckham with
enormous fatality. This fact being
called to the attention of the govern
ment, an investigation was ordered by
sanitary experts, who reported that
the city was built upon a swamp, where
upon an order was issued to the gov
ernor to select new location as con-
venient to the old as possible, where
the natural conditions were healthful.
A new city was laid out. and each prop
erty holder in the old one was assigned
a site that correspondent in area with
the one he occupied at Teckham and
was given IL months to move his build
ings and belongings. Sewers, railroads
and sidewalks. public buildings, water
works and all other public improve
ments were laid out by the government
in the new city without expense to the
people. but they were required TO pay
the cost of the removal of their own
property. Most of the houses and other
buildings in Teckham are built of very
light wooden material,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-10
STARTLING BLUNDER.
Russian Court Minister Disposes Of
Memorial Wreaths.
Observation-Disclosures an Order Given by
the Gear and Hurts His Mns-
ter's FeelinEs-His ResiEna-
ton In Inevitable.

Amusing to an outsider, but serious
enough to all concerned, was the acct
dent that recently befell the memorial
wreaths offered by the various Euro
pean sovereigns on the death of Car
Alexander Ill, which, up to a short
time ago, still lay. as they had lain
since the funeral, in 1894, on the tomb
of the father of the present monarch
of Russia. Emperor Nicholas was re-
Gently visiting the tomb at the imperial
burial place in the Cathedral of SIS.
Peter and Paul, St. Petersburg. In this
church, which is situated within the
Petropavlovski fortress on the banks
OF the Neya, all the emperors and en-
presses of the Romanof dynasty lie
buried. His majesty observed that the
floral tributes offered by high person
ages in all Europe, and indeed in all
the world, had fallen into decay. The
leaves of the wreaths were covered with
an accumulation of dust; the petals of
the flowers had crumbled, and the rib
bons, with their inscriptions of COM
pliment and sorrow, were time-stained
and discolored.
81 wish you 10 take immediate care
OF these dusty wreaths," said the czar,
turning to Baron Vladimir Fredericks,
minister of the imperial court of APP
panages. ''They are in most disrep-
utable condition.
Unfortunately for Baron Fredericks,
says the Chicago Record he misun-
derstood the order. and it was inpos-
sible-so he thoughts it seemed I'M
necessary, to trouble the emperor for a
further explanation of what appeared
to be so simple command. Accord
ingly, he made haste to remove the
dust-covered and broken wreaths from
their place on the tomb, and the relics
of the late car were sold to shopkeep-
ers in the capital. These in turn sep
arated the wreaths and their ribbons
and passed them on at vastly in
creased price to private persons, who
considered the exorbitant sums they
had to pay full cheap enough for relics
so interesting.
The wreath offered by Kaiser Will
helm of Germany was sold to the pro-
prietor of an Amsterdam curiosity
shop, while the ribbon, whereon the
German emperor had ordered placed
in gold an inscription dictated by him
self, in honor of the dead monarch,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-10
No Beer Served with Fruit.

A German law prevents proprietors
of eating-houses from serving beer to
people eating fruit.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-10
0IAIIO4N T1H1IIy1LIIIOINk5.
Qmperial Russian Minister of Court and
Appanages.)
BARON FREDERICKs.


Appanages)
was bought by the custodians of the
Hungarian National museum at Buda-
pest. The price paid for the ribbon
alone was $4,000 guidens ($5,s2o).
In time the car bethought him to
ed his order. 81 have removed all the
dusty old wreaths," replied the minis
ter, with all the pride of faithful
servant, "and they have even been sold
for considerable sum-
''What!" cried Nicholas, in a rage;
"sold the memorials to my father2 You
will return them at once, sir! 7 told
them-far less to sell them! Whatever
it costs to recover these wreaths you
shall restore them!"
Fredericks did not prolong the in
terview. He sought out the dealers
who had purchased the relics, but the
flowers were gone beyond reach, some
to unknown Russians, others beyond
the confines of the empire. Where his
excellency could get track of the
wreaths and ribbons he telegraphed to
the purchasers beseeching them to sell
back the now priceless mementos. In
the case of the Dutch and Hungarian
purchasers of the wreath and ribbons
sent by William the German, however,
he met with stout refusal to part with
them, though he offered a small for
tune for their restoration. In all, only
a small portion of the lost wreaths
have been brought back to Russia, and
those, the least priced of the lot, have
been placed once more on the despoiled
tomb.
To such blunder there can be but
one ending. Whether the court minis
ter is to leave his Office by force simply
of his own chagrin, or on the emperor's
suggestion, it is rumored that his resig-
nation will not be long delayed. The
czar's first furious resentment has
given place to profound regret and it
is not likely that he can long tolerate
in his cabinet the presence of a minis
ter so stupid
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-10
sibcrian sun.bin.

The Russian meteorologist, Prof.
Woetkof, calls attention to the almost
uninterrupted sunshine that prevails
IN winter in the Irutsk region of 81
IBERIA. He thinks il would be IN ideal
place for consumptives and for raising
plants under glass.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-10
conlurer Brought to book.

Mr.. Maskelyne. the London coniurer.
has been compelled by the courts to
make good his offer of $500 to anyone
who could initiate his box trick. He
had made the offer with impuniiy for
years but when two young clerks took
1t up, refused to pay.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-10
Lake water Raised BY storms.

The tidelike effects of gales on lakes
having no ordinary tides is very con-
siderable. In the Caspian gale will
raise the water on either side six feet.
causing total difference of level of l2
feet, and in Lake Erie heavy gales oc-
casionally cause difference of level of
more than Is feet.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-10
Every Day i. sunday.

BY different nations every day in the
week is set apart for public Worship
Sunday by the Christians, Monday by
the Greeks, Tuesday by the Persians.
Wednesday by the Egyptians. Friday
by the Turks and Saturday by the He
hrews.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-10
Has a Wasp for a Pet.

Perhaps the strangest pet ever kept
by man was wasp, which Sir John
Lubbock caught in the ryrenees and
resolved to tame. He began by teach
ing it to take it's meals on his hand.
and in very short space OF time it
grew to expect to be fed in that way