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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-16

Mr.. and Mrs. John Eylers, OF West Ninety-sec-
ond-st will give a reception at their home to-mor-
row afternoon IN honor OF their son-in-law ana
daughter Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Gest Megrew. who
were married in the Lutheran Church Of st. James.
Madson-ave. and ty-thrd-st.. few weeks
ago. and have just returned from their honeymoon
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Sly Old Commodore.

"When Commodore Vanderbilt was
alive" says a New York Central Off
cial, "the board Of directors Of the
New York Central used to find their
work all cut out for them when they
met. All they had to do was to ratify
his plans and adjourn. Yet they had
their uses. Occasionally man would
come to him with some scheme which
he did not care to refuse outright.
"'My directors are a difficult body
of men to handle he would say. 1'll
submit it to 'em, but warn you that
they are hard to MANAGE
"The matter would be submitted to
the board when 1t assembled and
promptly rejected.
There the commodore would
say when his visitor came to learn the
result. I did the best I could, but I
told you in advance that my directors
We're an obstinate lot."-New York
Herald.
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"Dropped" Eggs.


What we in New England call drop
ped eggs all the rest Of the country
call poached eggs, but l am going to
stick to the name in spite of every
thing and call the method am going
to give you now dropped eggs"
Put one quart Of boiling water, one
teaspoonful of salt and one teaspoon
full of vinegar in a frying pan. Place
in the pan as many muffin rings as
there are eggs to be dropped and set
the pan where the water vii. just ,b4b-
Bile at one side. Break each egg care.
fully and drop it into a ring. If an
egg seems not exactly fresh, or If the
yolk breaks, do not use it. Cook until
the whites of the eggs are firmly set,
then gently pour off the water, remove
the rings and lift the eggs with cake
turner; place them on slices Of butter
ed toast and serve at once. Putting
them in muffin rings makes it much
easier to do them and bring them out
whole. 1t may take a little practice
to serve a dish perfectly, but when
once you get the knack you will Won
der that you ever had any trouble or
thought it once hard to do.-Woman's
Home Companion.
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Maryland Superstftions.

There are superstitions throughout
all the counties of Maryland concern
Ing crossroads and running water.
Witches are supposed to make their
home at the crossing Of two roads and
to appear there at midnight. One pc
culiar thing about witches is that they
cannot get across running water, and
stream of any sort always acts as
a protection to the nightly prowler,
who will follow along the bank. Of a
stream in preference to the road.
These are some Of the things which
are more generally believed in the
country around Washington and along
the eastern shore. Some of the arti-
cles of the creed Of the superstitious
In that neighborhood are:
If you sweep your room at night,
you sweep away your wealth.
Never shake crumbs out Of a win
dow after dark. They are supposed
to fall into the eyes of the Lord a !
to disturb the spirits of the dead who
wander abroad at night.
Don't wash your hands in water in
which eggs have been boiled. You
are liable to become covered with
WartS.-Baltimore Sun.
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Only nm Enrthnunke.

During his lecture tour In 1898 r..
Marion Crawford, the novelist, had his
first experience with an American
earthquake. 1t was in San Francisco,
and the shock was one of the greatest
known on the slope for years. Mr..
Crawford was lunching at the hotel
with his lecture manager when sud
denly the building began to tremble
with the sickening motion which is Pc
culiar to earthquakes. Then the ia
bles shook and dishes fell Gathering to
the floor.
In an instant there was panic. Men
and women rushed from the room.
Some religiously inclined guest began
to pray. and several women tainted.
The manager rose and staggered to-
ward the door, but Mr.. Crawford
caught him and pulled him back into
his chair.
"What is it?' gasped the manager.
Nothing" answered the novelist.
reaching for another slice Of bread.
"But the building is collapsing."
"Nonsense. It's over now"
"But what is it?"
"It's only an earthquake. We get
them In Italy right along. 1t doesn't
amount to anything. What kind of
dessert are you going to have"-Phil-
adelphia Post
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She'll Never Tell.

The last act was just closing at the
Lyceum the other evening, and the
actors and actresses We're grouping for
their final bow ensemble. In the house
the ladies We're putting on their gloves
and getting their hats ready. A young
man and young lady we'll toward the
front overheard this conversation:
why, Mary, I'm afraid can't get
these on. They're awfully tight"
''Oh, yes you can, Nell. Try again."
Nell evidently tried again, for there
was silence for moment.
what shall l do? 1 can't get them
on. That's what comes of wearing
new shoes to the theater. They hurt
me so that l simply had to take them
off, and now they won't go on again.
OH
The remainder of the agony was lost
in the applause which greeted the fall
of the curtain. All that history records
of the denouement Of the interesting
story Is that woman was noticed go
ing down the aisle with pair Of shoes
under her arm. Whether she and Nell
were one and the same is not certain.
If SO, how she got out Of the difficulty
is not told. 1t was raining, and per-
haps she wore her rubbers. But this
only she and her friend know, and it
is safe to say that she at least will
never tell.-Detroit Free Press.
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1t Was Always Raining.

In his book Figures Of the Past"
Josiah Quincy tells Of journey that
he made in stagecoach days-away
back In 1S62-from Boston to Washing
ton, with Justice Story of the federal
supreme court: The justice was telling
Of the routine Of the courts Washing
ton social life. I'VE dine" he said,
"once a year with the president and
that is all. On other days we take our
dinner together and discuss at table
the questions which are argued before
US. We are great ascetics and even
deny ourselves wine, except In wet
weather"
Here the judge paused, as if think.
ing the act Of modification he had
mentioned placed too severe q tax
upon human credulity, and presently
added: what l say about the wine,
sir. gives you our rule, but it does
sometimes happen that the chief JUS
tice will say to me when the cloth Is
removed, Brother Story. step to the
window and see If it does not look
like rain. And If tell him the sun Is
shining brightly Judge Marshall will
sometimes reply, All the better, for
our jurisdiction extends over so large
territory that the doctrine Of chances
makes it certain that it must be rain
ing somewhere
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Begging Letters For the Rich.

A lady living less than days jour-
ney from New York had the curiosity
the other day to make certain calcula-
tions in order to see how large part
OF her property she would have had to
sacrifice had she granted all the re-
quests made for money within a period
of AZ days. She kept all the begging
letters received during that time, add.
ed together the amounts they asked
for and then discovered that had she
granted each individual request for
money she would have disbursed ST.
100000. And this, be it remembered,
in a short period Of six weeks.-Har-
per's BaZar
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1t Didn't Matter.

A bluff old farmer with loud
voice got in AT a little station and
walked down the aisle looking for a
friendly face or kindly eye. but not
seeing any he asked the most sour
looking man on the car to move over
and give him seat. The fellow did
SO, but with a manner that indicated
that the old man was anything but
welcome. The old farmer wanted to
talk, and tried in every way to en-
gage his seatmate in conversation, but
the through passenger would have
none Of it. He turned his shoulder to
the farmer and gaZed out of the Win
dow with a bored expression on his
face. The old farmer was determined
to draw him out, and after several in
effectual efforts raised his voice loud
enough to be heard all over the car
and said:
Il killed a hog yesterday for my
winters meat. How. much dye think
he weighed?'
The through passenger looked worse
bored than ever, but finally said. y
don't know anything about hogs
"Oh, we'll. you might make guess"
"Well, say 500"
''No. he didn't weigh that much.
Guess again.
''Well, III say 200"
''Too high. He wasn't as heavy as
that. Make another guess"
I'm not good at guessing. How
much did he weigh, anyhow" =
"Well, you have had two guesses.
But you see he wasn't much Of hog,
and l didn't weigh him" m."-Indianapolis
Sentinel. .,
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Wonders of the Steam Engine.

The nice adjustment necessary in the
various parts Of the immense engines
now employed for some of the trains
on our great railway lines may be indi-
Gated by a few data of the work per-
formed by these parts when the loco
motive is worked at high speed. Thus
in the case of a passenger engine at 60
miles an hour, a driving wheel of 51a
feet diameter revolves five times ev-
cry second, and, this being so, the re-
ciprocating parts Of each cylinder, in
Guiding one piston rod, crosshead and
connecting rod, weighing about $50
pounds, must move back and forth a
distance equal to the stroke, say 2
feet, every time the wheel revolves, or
in the fifth of a second; this weight
starts from a state Of rest at the end
Of each stroke of the piston and must
acquire velocity of 80 feet per second
in one-twentieth of a second, and must
be brought to a state Of rest in the
same period of time. A piston 1S inch
es in diameter has an area of 25411a
square inches; steam of $50 pounds
pressure per square inch would there
fore exert force on the piston equal
to 3S,175 pounds, which force is ap-
piled alternately on each side of the
piston ten times in a second-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
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UTILIZING THE GOVT.
1t Has Power to Soothe the Man
With n Cracked Shoe.

with n cracked ShOes
"Every now and then" said a man
Of moderate means, something hap
pens to remind me that l am only q
novice in the art of life. For instance,
my shoes We're wearing out, and in one
of them there was an ugly crack in the
top. If there is one thing more dis
turbing to me than another, 1t is the
sight of shoe on one of my feet with
a hole in the top. But l had not the
money wherewith to buy another pair,
and, though it may seem ridiculous, l
couldn't very we'll spare the quarter
that it would cost for patch, to say
nothing Of the fact that patched shoe
is little less unsightly in my eyes than
one with hole in it.
walking, in this predicament, one
day, met a friend, whose means, so
far as knew, were little, if any, great
er than my own. He now had in the
top of one of his trinity blacked shoes
a carefully cut round hole. Since had
last seen him he had apparently pros
pered enough to have got the gout,
fact on which l ventured to comment.
"'Why.' he said, you can get precise
ly the same kind of gout with a pair
of shears. And then he smiled. He
always was blithe and gay, no matter
what betided.
well when | got home l enlarged
that hole in the top of my shoe to the
size and responsibility Of a gout open
ing, and now, when | go down in the
morning on the elevated, don't hold
that foot with the broken shoe curled
under the seat, back of the other ankle
as though l had curious habit that
way, but place it boldly out in front,
and l read the paper with the air of
man who is going down town with his
surplus interest money to take a little
fier in stocks. s.'-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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One on the Minister.

A distinguished Massachusetts, cler-
gyman tells q story at his own ex-
pense. He was on a tramp through
the White mountains with another
clergyman for a companion. One day
they mounted the drivers seat of q
stagecoach. AS is often the case, the
stage driver was an interesting char.
acter, whose conversation abounded In
good stories. The three speedily be-
came friendly, and 1t was with reluc.
tance that they parted at the end Of
the journey. I'm glad to hev met
yer fellers." said the driver on leaving
them; yer see, haven't seen man
this summer-only ministers"
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wed had brush with the Indians
on No Mans creek" said the cavalry
sergeant. "and had driven them out of
the cottonwoods, when we caught sight
Of a warrior trying to work in on our left
flank. Three or four of the boys turn
ed loose on him and drove him off. but
he was soon replaced by two others.
They We're beaten off to be replaced by
FIVE or six. We couldn't at first make
out what they We're up to. but by and
by we discovered that their objective
point was thicket on our front center.
Then it was easy to conclude that some
warrior Of prominence was in that
thicket, dead or wounded, and that the
object was to carry him off.
"Our captain gave orders to cease fir
ing. He wanted those redskins to I'M
derstand that Company d had too
much honor to fire upon wounded foe
and too much mercy to shoot down
those who would carry away the dead
for burial. We lay there and let the
Indians dash up with a yell, and two
minutes later, as they rode off with
whoops and cheers, we We're all shak-
ing with laughter. They were not after
a dead or wounded buck, but what
they wanted and what they got We're
two kegs of whisky which had been
hidden there.
Our captain didn't catch on until too
late. and then he jumped up and down
and told us to blaze away. We blazed
away, but though we fired away $40
worth of Uncle Sans good cartridges,
we didn't even Craze a pony."-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
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HER UP TO DATE ALBUM.
The Chicago Girls Travels Recorded
by Photographs of Herself.

The Chicago Girls Travels Recorded
by Photographs of Herself.
The Chicago girl that knows her
business-and where is there one who
doesn't?-has an album or card case
devoted exclusively to O. collection of
pictures Of the one person whom she
thinks more Of than anybody else in
the World-namely, herself. There are
several laws regulating the collection
of personal gallery Of this kind. In
the first place, no two pictures shall
be alike; what is equally important, no
two shall be taken in the same town.
from a glimpse at this second condi-
ton, it is obvious that the young wo-
man who has popular collection of
her own photographs must be some
thing Of traveller.
In order to give added interest to
this pursuit Of herself in miniature,
each photograph is stamped in violet
ink, with the name of the town where
taken, the name of the artist and the
date Of the sitting. There are also
margins for recording any other Incl
dents connected with the occasion
note.
In this way the business Of photo
graph collecting is kept on a system
attic, methodical basis, and the book of
photographs becomes an abridged bic
graphical history Of travels in an in
definite number Of chapters. 1t is
evident that the more pictures it con-
tains the more comprehensive will be
the text, hence the ambition Of every
young woman possessed with the craze
to become globe trotter.
There are few standard towns that
are absolutely necessary to the reputa-
ton Of any album, such as Chicago,
New York, Niagara and the prominent
intermediate points. Beyond these,
the more distant and romantic the
places the greater the interest attach
ed to these pictorial histories Of the
world as seen through maiden's eyes.
Chicago Times Herald.
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Almost Cot It's Name.

Communication had been established
at last with Mars. The man at the in
terplanetary telephone called out:
"Hello!"
"Hello!" came the answer back.
IAN speaking to Mars?"
ITO whom?'
"Mars."
TRY again. l don't understand you.
Stand little farther away from the
phone, please"
II say-hear me any better now?"
eyes"
sis this Mars?"
"What?"
'Mars-fourth planet in order Of dis
tance from the sun-Mercury, Venus,
Earth-this is the Earth-AIars. That's
you, you know"
mo, sir. You are away of. You
haven't got the names Of any Of them
right. This is the fourth planet from
the sun, but its name is not Mars. 1t
iS"-
(Bnt the world is not ripe for this
knowledge yet.)-Chicago Tribune.
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The Road to Wealth

In my opinion, the secret Of money
making depends chiefly upon FIVE
things-push. "squareness," clear head
edness, economy and rigid adherence
to the rule Of not overworking. Too
much work is worse than no work at
all. 1t undermines the constitution
and units man mentally and phys
ically for the battle Of life. Ten hours
D day Of steady work is as much as any
man-no matter how robust-ought to
attempt. In addition to these things,
avoid being too grasping; better make
small profit by sure means than at.
tempt to make a larger one by uncer-
tain and risky measures.-Andrew
Carnepia
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No Wonder 1t Pinned.

A tender hearted old woman noticed
horse with a broad rubber band
stretched around its leg Just above the
hoof. She asked the waiting driver of
the cab why it was there and suggest
ed that it was more than cruel to place
it on the animal.
Eyes, num-" replied the cabby, 'it's
painful to the horse, no doubt, but that
Is not the worst Of it. It's the getting
of 1t on that pains the poor thing. Why,
we had to stretch the band and pull 1t
over the horses head and down all his
body to get it on"
"For the lands sake aliver' exclaim-
ed the woman and walked away hor-
rifed.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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He Raised a Storm.

A handsome young fellow stood at
the glove counter of large store the
other day and fairly hypnotized the
four girl attendants.
He had word for one, smile for
another, a wink for a third and a
pink for the fourth--by far the pref
tiest of the quartet.
The floral Offering was too much for
the pinkless three, and they all turned
on the radiant recipient Of the flower.
"Say, Nellie Norries. you're too
fresh! Amt you got a nerve! Flirt-
ing that way with a stranger"
"Oh, so on"' laughed the shameless
one. "Youse all jealous! 'Tain't my
fault if he thinks me the prettiest."
The young man laughed gayly.
That's so." he said. "And you are
too"
He was silly young man.
For the trio now attacked him with
zestful bitterness.
"Say. mister, you'd better get your
change and go before the foorwalker
comes around. You'll get that poor
girl discharged. and that'll be nice
thing, when her father drinks and her
mothers in the hospital"
"Nellie" turned on them like q fury.
Don't you tell no lies about me-"
she said fercely. cor for two pins III
tell what you said about the floor
walker. You talk to me all you like,
young man."
But the young man had fed before
the storm that he had so foolishly
fomented.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Kansas Husbands.

A woman takes great consolation in
thinking that some day when she is
laid in the cold, cold ground her hus-
band will wish he had her back to tell
her how sorry he is that he treated her
so mean. She imagines him weeping
over the sod and wishing he could see
her, If only for moment, to ask her
forgiveness. But he will not appear in
such scene. On the contrary, he will
probably be chasing after some other
WOman.-Atchison Globe,
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The highest Windmill.

The highest windmill in England is
the High Mill' at Great Yarmouth. 1t
is believed also to be the highest In the
world. Built in 1912, at total cost Of
$4,000, its height in brick is 100 feet,
and the wooden cage on the summit
further increases this another ten feet.
In q high wind the mill works at 80
horsepower and is capable of grinding
nine comb Of wheat an hour or crush
ing ten comb of oats an hour
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Funny TrOusers.

The tailor who for years made Bal
zac's clothes says: "He used to wear
the most extraordinary trousers ever
saw. He would insist upon my max
ing them of peculiar nut brown col
ored cloth, with wide straps fastening
beneath the shoes. From the knee
down the trousers were cut so as to
fall in deep, voluminous folds, so as to
keep the calves of his legs warm while
writing"
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Lightning Rods.

There was a time when every house
had a lightning rod. 1t was believed
that every good man thus protected
his wife and children and his home.
1t is now known there is nothing in
the lightning rod theory; lightning
rod is no protection against lightning,
and there was never any danger from
lightning, anyhow.
But a lot Of other fool theories are
still accepted. If we have at last ac-
quired a little sense in the lightning
rod particular, why not In other re-
Bpects? Why continue to accept other
silly notions? Why advertise our
selves as fools by accepting the preju-
dices Of fools ?-Atchison Globe.
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In the Year 2O9O,

1t was a very different meal from
Victorian breakfast. The rude masses
Of bread needing to be carved and
smeAred over with animal fat before
they could be made palatable, the still
recognizable fragments of recently
killed animals. hideously charred and
hacked, the eggs torn ruthlessly from
beneath some protesting hen-such
things as these, though they constitut-
ed the ordinary fare of Victorian times,
would have awakened only horror and
disgust in the refined minds OF the peo-
pie of these latter days.
Instead We're pastes and cakes of
agreeable and variegated design, with
out any suggestion in color or form of
the unfortunate animals from which
their substance and juices were de-
rived. They appeared on little dishes
sliding out upon rail from little box
at one side Of the table.
The surface Of the table, to judge by
touch and eye, would have appeared to
a nineteenth century person to be COW
cred with fine, white damask, but this
was really an oXidiZed metallic sur
face and could be cleaned instantly
after meal. There were hundreds of
such little tables in the hall, and at
most Of them were other latter day citi-
zens, singly or in groups. And as
Mwres seated himself before his ele-
CANT repast the invisible orchestra,
which had been resting during an in
terval resumed and filled the air with
music.-Pall Mall Magazine.
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Art and Nature.

The milkmaid with the picture hat
and the brocaded silk skirt tossed her
head.
"1n society, suppose, I should be an
impossible person." she exclaimed,
"but it's different in art"
And after all, to be perfectly candid,
there is nothing essentially degrading
hbout milking an art cow.-Detroit
Journal.
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An Irritating Phrase.

"Are you seriously ill?' asked the
well meaning friend.
"Oh. no." answered the dyspeptic
with Earring. sarcastic laugh. I
hurt all over and don't care whether
the sun rises tomorrow or not. But
I'm not seriously Ill. I'm jocosely,
hippantly and farcically i'll. I'm going
through all the symptoms. but don't
mean one Of them."-Washingt
Star.
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Where They Went.

The professor was demolishing Gas
he believed Darwin and his theories
task which he frequently engaged in
when he triumphantly wound up
with the question::
IF we are monkeys, where are oul
tails?"
The lecturer, who had been speaking
his full hour, was startled to hear in
reply from one of the audience:
I'VE have sat on them SO long that
they are worn off"