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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-11-15

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automobile coats was the name under
! which they appeared; and as q matter
OF fact, they are not comfortable for
walking, but some few are seen on the
streets nevertheless. Three-quarter
coats, whether in box or Empire
styles, are much to DO preferred for
comfort, although it must be admitted
the former are try ing to all but the tall
elender figures. The Empire models,
with their shortwaists, are far more
becoming and graceful. Some of the
handsomest are made with box plated
skirts falling from the shallow yoke,
and include genuine Empire revers,
with their deep points. For young
wearers, the color is light, as / stated
above; and the style is much liked for
elderly women, to whom it is ex-
ceedipgly becoming and for their use,
is made in fine black cloth, peau de
sole or velvet. Like many another
garment, it changes its atmosphere
with the color and material; and in
shape and style, suits women from the
embryo age to that ripe maturity which
demands dignity of garment as proper
and natural adjunct to dignity OF
figure and character. Tiny girls are
lovely in the little Empire coats; and
their grandmammas are not less charm.
ing in theirs, only we take care thai
each shall be made to suit the specia
age. The wee tots wear velvet, to be-
sure; but it is made youthful with
ribbons and fur of a childish sort,
whereas their elders enrich it will
applique or make on seyerest lines
Two that have been received from de
6igners OF repute are ono in broad
Clotb one in mean da soie Tho fcrna
has a yoke overlaid with silk Srais
applique, below which the skirt fall
in shslloS box plaits that are severe,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-11-15
His House In Order. y

Hoods Pills cure liver Ills; the non.irritatng and
only cathartic to take with Hoods sarsaparia.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17
The Inst Chinese Actress.

Many visitors to the Celestial king
dom have noted the absence of women
from the stage. All the roles in a Chi
nese play are taken by men. This sin
gular custom is traced back to a wom-
ans whim. The Emperor Yung
Tsching married an actress at the be-
ginning of the eighteenth century,
when women We're allowed on the
stage. The emperor died and the en-
press dowager ruled the country for
her son, the Prince Kim Sung.
To satisfy her vanity this shrewd
and most peculiar woman issued a
decree in the year 1916 forbidding I'M
der penalty of instant death by the
sword of the executioner, any member
of her sex to appear on the Chinese
stage. after me, no one" said the
empress dowager, and since her day no
woman within the reach of Chinese
law has dared to test the strength Of
her decree. In Hongkong Ga British
colony women have played in Chinese
theaters, but never as vet, we believe,
in San Francisco.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17

Arthur a. Leeds of Tioga met Ste
phen Crane once under circumstances
which showed how little the novelist
traded upon the fame that came 10
HIM Mr. Leeds got off train at Del
aware Water Gap The only man on
the platform was bumped up against
the side of the depot gazing into space.
He looked like farmers boy. His
trousers were baggy, his coat battered
and his hat rowdy.
"say, carry this stuff to the hotel for
me- viii you?" asked Mr.. Leeds. The
man grasped the bags and started in
the wake of Mr.. Leeds toward the
hotel
When the hotel was reached, Mr..
Leeds lost sight of his porter for a few
minutes while he greeted friends.
Looking around for his baggage, he
saw the man who had packed it to the
hotel sitting on the piazza with his
Iegs on the railing. He was reading a
book.
who's that MANI asked Mr.. Leeds
"Oh, that's Stephen Crane" some one
said The next day Crane left the place
before Mr.. Leeds had an opportunity
for 8explanations.--Phi Philadelphia North
American
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17

Coffee is a powerful irritant Of the
cerebro spinal nervous system. Re
cent tests have shown that it increases
mental and bodily waste rather than
retards it, as has been claimed. COT
fee poisoning is sometimes mistaken
for the troubles engendered by the use
of alcohol In both cases the stomach
and nervous system are the sufferers
Caffeic and alcoholic gastritis are
nearly identical as to their symptoms.
The use of coffee by children has in
several cases caused an arrest of de-
velopment. Cases have been reported
of delirium tremens brought on by the
excessive use of coffee. 1t is related
in foreign medical journal that a
man, in the absence of his wife, I'M
dertook to make his own coffee Not
knowing the correct proportions for
use, he took about one-quarter of a
pound of fresh roasted coffee for two
cups. Two hours afterward he com
planned of vertigo, headache and, at
first, trembling of the legs only, which
soon became general, followed by sew
eral other distressing symptoms, some
of which continued day or two
longer,
BY busy physician it is stated that
at least two-thirds of his practice
comes from the excessive use of coffee.
The excessive use Of tea and coffee,
as well as the use of alcoholic liquors,
often almost wholly oblterates the
sense of taste.-Health Culture.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17
wcirht Of women,s Brains,

The woman's brain is always less
than the mans. From Boyd's figures
we can pick out 102 men and 113 wom-
en- between GA inches and 66 inches
high, averaging close ON Go inches, for
each group. But the brains of the men
average 400 ounces, while those of the
women are only 41.9 ounces. which
gives the men an advantage of u per
cent. There are q small men whose
height averages 60 inches, and there
are 1876 women of the same height. The
brains of the men weigh 1916 ounces,
those of the women only 42.9 ounces
New York Herald
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17
A Famous Prison .


The celebrated Mamertine prison fur
nishes an important scene in Sienkie-
wicz's story, ''Quo Vadis." 1t is locat-
ed on the slope of the Capitoline, in
Rome, and, according to tradition, 1t
was begun by ANGUS Martius and later
enlarged by Servius Tullius. Jugurtha
Is said to have been starved to death
here, the accomplices Of Catiline stran-
gled by command of Cicero and Seja-
nus, the minister and favorite of Tibe-
rius, executed. Church tradition has
consecrated this prison as the place
where st. Peter and st. Paul were con-
fined by order of Nero. Historian Hill
lard says Of it,
"The Mamertine prison is a hideous
vault divided into an upper and lower
portion scooped out of the solid rock
and lined with massive blocks in the
Etruscan style of architecture. A more
heartbreaking place Of confinement it
Is not easy to imagine. According to
the traditions of the church, st. Peter
was imprisoned here by order of Nero,
and the pillar to which he was bound
and d fountain which sprang up mirac-
ulously to furnish the water of baptism
to his jailers, whom he converted, are
shown to the visitor There is no rea-
son to doubt that Jugurtha was starv-
ed to death in these pitiless vaults.
Here, too, the companions of Catiline
were strangled. It is a curious fact
that the chances of literature and his
tory should have carved two such
names as those of Sallust and Cicero
on these Cyclopean wallis"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17

The following bit of nonconformist
humor is taken from THE Earring
dons," an English romance. The speak
ers are Mrs. Bateson and Mrs. Han
key, worthy wives, but not altogether
above feeling certain pleasure in
showing up the ways of husbands
They've no use, men haven't
said Mrs. Har that's what's the
matter with thu.
''You never spoke a truer word, Mrs.
Hankey," replied Mrs. Bateson. "The
very best of them don't properly know
the difference between their souls and
their stomachs, and they fancy they
are a-wrestling with their doubts when
really it Is their dinners that are
a-wrestling with them.
"Now, take Bateson hisself," contin-
ued Mrs Bateson. "a kinder husband
or better Methodist never drew breath,
yet so sure as he touches bit of pork
he begins to worry hisself about the
doctrine of election till there's no liv-
ing with him. And then he'll sit in the
front parlor and engage in prayer for
hours at time till says to him.
g 'Bateson,' says l, I'D be ashamed
to go troubling the Lord with a prayer
when a pinch Of carbonate of soda
would set things straight againp"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17

Why is it that woman has always
been more beautiful than man? In
human beings the attractive qualities
have always been on the side of the
female. Why is it? Without wishing
to cast any dispersion on the members
of the superior sex, we may fairly an
swer that it is because they have hith-
erto been the less educated. But wom-
ans ideas are changing. She has lis
tened to the voice of the tempter, whis-
pering in her ear all sorts of sweet fall
lacies about equality Of the sexes, in
tellectual development and its neces-
sity, and the like, and she has yielded
to the temptation. And the result Of
this will be that she will lose her
beauty. She will suffer in appearance
as man has done and is doing, and in
the course of time the extremely civ
ilized races of mankind will be ugly
irretrievably and lamentably ugly.
Parsons Magazine.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17

The Hard Work of congressman.
Let those who are blissfully ignorant
laugh at congressman for the easy time
they have at washington. Only those
who have been through the mill know
how hard a congressman must work If
he is to fulfill his public duties. A
Woodworking senator said to me, Il
might have made $4,000 during my
term In the senate If / had given as
much attention to my private business
as 1 have given to the public business"
The amount of work which is laid up
on member or senator is simply enor-
NOUS What with the demand for pen
sions postoff1ce documents, applica-
tons for promotion or discharge in the
army and many other things, mem
ber's time may be taken up with the
exactions of his daily mail. A good
clerk may be Of immense help, but
some senators employ two or three
and then find there is a great deal
which they must answer or attend to
in person.
The daily sessions from II to about
5 take up half day, and committee
meetings often take up the other half
for two or three days in the week. It
is hard to tell when the busiest mem
bers, who are never absent from a ses-
sion or from a committee meeting, find
time to prepare the elaborate speeches
which they sometimes deliver. 1t is
not strange, then, that so few members
of either chamber are found in the
reading rooms devoted to them in the
Congressional library. When they want
books from that or any other deposit
tory, they have them sent to their
mes.-Independent.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17
A Fnmnns PenrI.

The beautiful pearl known as the
Great Southern Cross was found in
Western Australia in the year 1884. Il
consists of nine pearls joined together
In the form of a cross, in which shape
it was found by man named Clarke
1t is said that the finder and the first
purchaser of it buried it for some time
superstitiously regarding it as heay-
emily miracle. 1t was, however, ulti-
mately taken up from its burial place
and sold for 81 ,000 since which time il
has frequently changed hands and is
now valued at $4,000. AT the Colonial
and Indian exhibition in England it at
tracted a good deal Of notice and is
probably the only natural cross ever
found
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17
A ProftnhIe nenosit.

l remember the case of an old lady at
E. who usually had from f13,000 to
f15,000 standing to her credit. and,
needless to say, as she did not ask for
any interest thereupon, none was al
lowed her. The manager whenever
she entered the office was always most
particular to step forward and inquire
most tenderly concerning the state Of
her health, and if she replied that she
was suffering from slight cold the
expression upon the mans face grew
quite sad, No wonder, when he re-
membered that even slight cold might
carry off an old lady who was handing
his company at least 1900 a year
How to Deal With Your Banker by
Henry Warren
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17
The Bibulous Dane.

When the police in Denmark find a
man helplessly drunk in the streets,
they drive the patient in a cab to the
station, where he sobers off. Then
they take him home. The cabman
makes his charge, the police doctor
makes his, the agents make their claim
for special duty, and this bill is pre-
sented to the landlord of the estab-
lishment where the drunkard took the
last glass that did the business. No
wonder that certain landlords protest,
saying that proofs are insufficient and
that some alleged victims sham intoxi-
cation to get into trouble landlords
against whom they have a spite.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17

There is no game eXtant which Sc
admirably combines educational and
recreative features or which is in every
way so well adapted for popular and
profitable amusement among refined
and appreciative classes as draughts
It's influences are Of an eleyating char
acter. 1t not only teaches, but prac
tically enforces. the necessity of pa.
tience and perseverance, courage and
courtesy, SELF reliance and self control
The game is also peculiarly ana sell
evidently worthy Of paternal encour
agement, as q knowledge of its ineom
parable beauties viii destroy the taste
for demoralizing games Of chance
Scottish American.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17
cannibaIs ana Pork.

In the New Hebrides human life has
been made safe by the introduction OF
pigs into the island. The cannibals are
said to prefer roast pork to roast man
and as the porcine tribe increases
among the natives they may give ur
their feasts ON human flesh altogether
excepting when something unusual
happens, such as entertaining a king OF
some other cannibal island or on state
occasions of rare ceremony.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17

The contributor wrote a joke about
a plumber whose bills were always
normal. THAT" said the editor, re
jecting it, lis not a joke; it's lie"
The contributor tried again with 0
story of the plumber whose charges
left nothing to be desired on the score
of size 'That." Gid the editor, who
had suffered. sis not lie. Neither is
it joke" Scraps.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17

Professor-I'm grateful for my sense
of humor. Thank heaven, l can al
ways see a joke.
Miss Flavilla-Oh, professor, the
sense of humor is not ability to see a
joke. The sense OF humor is ability
to take a joke. indianapolis Journal
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17
A Political Ross.

"They say you are merely a political
boss said the candid informant.
Great Scottr calculated Senator
Sorghum. 'The irreverence of these
moderns is something disheartening
Why, that's all Julius Caesar vas
Washington Star.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17

Sailors call how lying iceberg a
growler, and the world would in gen
eral suggest something cool We're it not
for bulldogs and London four wheel
cabs, to which it is also applied
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17
More Honest.

"Haye you noticed any difference in
your wife since she became converted
and Joined the church"
YES; she asks me to wait an hour
for her now instead of a minute. =
Harper's Bazaar.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17

The record for Ceylon snipe shooting
still remains that Of the muzzle loader,
400 couples Ia one aQ5 This record
was made by q Ceyion civil servant
called l'rancheil early in the nineteenth
century. Average gunners get 30 to 40
couples a day
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17

Nearly 100000 worth of articles are
pawred in London weekly.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17
MachIne Mnde .Inkes-


Some time ago a fellow got up a
little book giving hints on how to be
funny. Copies of this book are evil
IDENTITY in common use by the funny
men connected with many of our news
papers. Witness this specimen joke
attributed to Chicago paper:
He--Who is that ugly old woman
over there by the piano?
She-Oh that's Nine. Cosmetique.
the famous beauty specialist
The book tells Just how to make this
class of jokes in bulk. The same idea
will do for whole batch Tie asks:
"Who is that baldheaded man?" "She"
answers. THAT is DR.. Quacknostrum.
the Hair Remover man. Again He
asks What is the matter with those
crying brats?" And "She" responds.
"Their mother has gone to lecture on
the training Of children" once you
catch the idea YOU can produce funny
things Of this kind automatically, and
if YOU are a funny man ON a news
paper your readers win laugh every
time and other papers win quote your
jokes and give your paper credit for
them Pathfinder
stage Fright.
When Bob Burdette started out 70
lecture, he struck the same town as
Henry Ward Beecher, who sent FOR
him
well, young man, how do you like
it?g
"Air. Beecher,n he replied 1T is aw.
full I nearly die every night from
nervousness.
let inc console You, then. Ths
longer you lecture Tie more nervous
you'l get And Bob declared It 10 bl
rue. Saturday Evening Post
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17

tHaye you read Borus' latest book
Boiled BrainsTH
Yes
= thought you didn't like Borus'
style,
sI DON'T
Fhat aid ven read his book for2'
t'ecailse knew some blamed fool
wouia be sure to ask ne If l had read
1t. Chicago Tribune,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-08-29
ANIMOTO, THE MURDERER, WAS
HEAVILY SENTENCED.
Second Motion to Abate is Denied by
Judge Silliman-Case to Supreme
Court on Techncalities.

Animoto, the Kahuku Japanese
charged with murder, was sentenced bN
Judge Silliman this morning to i'm
prisonment at hard labor for twenty
five years. Defendants attorneys an
pealed to the Supreme Court and the
r.' Ter Will be reviewed by that trib-
unal.
lne case was finished yesterday. AS
Will be remembered the charge was
murder i'm the first degree unani-
nous verdict in that degree failed and
unanimous verdict of murder i'm the
second degree was returned. Attorney
HaHkey, for the defendant, had moved
to quash on the ground of defects in the
Indictment The attorney general
warmly attacked this theory, asserting
that II was trumped up, etc, to ahate
Justice. The court overrued the mo-
tion.
This morning Mr.. Hankey renewed
his motion. He cited two instances of
defects in the wording of the indict-
ment. In long and earnest speech
he denied that he was a theoriZer or
that his contentious were theories, ana
called attention to cases that had been.
uuashed on less significant technicali--
ties than those presented by him. The
deputy attorney general replied repre-
senting strongly the status of the case
and of the insignificence of the conten-
ton of defendants counsel.
Judge Silliman agreed with the attor-
general that the Indictment was in
due form and that it's meaning was;
plain. He thereupon sentenced the de-
PENDANT as above stated
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-08-29
BYAUTHORITY
ROAD JURY.

Notice is hereby given that upon,
Thursday, August 30, A. d. 1900 at 10
o'clock a. m. a jury duly drawn and
subpoenaed, an re Extension and
Opening of Kekaulike street, from Ho-
tel to Beretania Streets City of Homo
lulu" will meet at the office of the
High Sheriff. at the Police Station, in
Honolulu, Oahu, and thence adjourn to
the site of the proposed roadway. there
to inspect and examine such locality
and ascertain all facts as may have q
bearing on the matter.
All persons in any way whatsoever
concerned in the above mentioned i'm
provement are therefore notified to be
present at such time and place, there
to be heard by the Jury in relation to
the proposed Improvement.
A. NJ. BROWN,
High Sheriff, Territory of Hawaii.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-08-29
BYAUTHORITY
TEACHERS HEALTH CERTIFI
GATES.

The Department of Public Instruc-
ton has adopted rule that all teach
ers in it's employ must, at the COM
mencement of their service an1 on or
before the first of August in each year
thereafter, present to the Department
a certificate from some regularly IL
censed practitioner, stating that they
are free from tuberculosis or other
communicable disease. and that they
are physically able to discharge the
duties of teachers.
Blank forms for certificates will be
prepared and forwarded to the School
Agents, who will furnish them to teach
ers as may be needed.
Health certificates as provided for
above are to be forwarded to the Sec
rotary Of the Department before the
beginning Of the coming term.
C. T. RODGERS.
Secretary.