The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-10
GOSSIP AND NEWS GRAB-BOx.

M I'D is the newest skin beautifer, the
IN latest fad for the improvement OF
the complexion. Just common, every
day, unromantic. dirty mud. The use and
application of this remedy Is one Of the
wrinkles which the summer girl will bring
back to town with her from the place OF
her summer sojourn. Not new thing, by
any means. this daubing of the face and
throat with dampened earth, but new to a
great many people, and especially new to
the city districts. In the country, far from
towns and drug stores, Its use has been
general and effective for many years. but
just as as the city commences to
creep out and to encrOach upon the ru-
rality of place, natures remedies are
given the go-by. and the people fly to drug
and "store medicines" for the aid which
the word around them has been wont to
supply.
And so it is with mud. In the early days
of the western states, when doctors and
complexion beautifiers were alike unknown,
mud was highly valued by the women OF
the country. The feminine sex delights IN
far skins and white hands. even If there
Is no one In all the township to see them,
and the early settlers borrowed the mud
idea from the Indians who valued 1t for
its medicinal effect.
The mud treatment costs nothing. and Is
far more helpful than series Of Turkish
baths. The principle Is precisely that OF
the facial masks. both of ancient Roman
times and of the present day. and the mud
washing maiden Will be as fair as lily all
fa..
Underneath the town of Norwich. En-
gland are numbers Of brine springs. which
were used for the preparation of salt even
before the Christian era. Owing TO the I'M
mense excavations ocasioned by the pump
ing up of this brine the main street OF the
town is now to be raised about four rect.
AS recently as 1892 1t was raised nVe feer
and again the thouroughfare Is on lever
with the River Weaver. which runs close
|. by. The property to be lifted consists OF
| hotels and large shops. under which ny
draulic jacks are placed and as the struc-
lures are raised wooden wedges are M
serted. So accurately Is the work cone
that business Is carried on as usual dur
ing alterations and but little Inconvenience
is experienced by the families.
dent Of the German Catholic union against
dueling has been signed by AL members OF
/ the German nobility and gentry, mainly
Catholics.
| The list includes 1O3 princes, counts. and
other nobiemen: IS lawyers, 68 physicians,
and 46 professors Fresh signatures con-
tinue to arrive daily, among them that OF
Admiral the Prince Of Leningen. 1t re-
! mains to be seen whether this moVement
against dueling will prove more successful
! .
ders, which hitherto have been disobeyed
| in several instances.
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| At Mount Vernon, N. Y, the ten boy
graduates of the high school were hazed at
the conclusion of the commencement eXer-
cises by fifty of the Alumni association. led
by some Cornell students residents there
They were compelled to treat their COM
panions to soda water, and were then taken
five miles out in the country on special
car chartered for the purpose, and were
tied to board fence and deserted. They
were badly bitten by mosquitoes for ar
hour and would have been compelled tt
endure the torture all night had not one Of
their number succeeded in untying the
knots that bound him and released his com
| panions.
The British and Foreign Tract societ,
has translated Bunyan's Pilgrims Pro
gress" into no less than ninety-five differ
ent languages and dialects Some of thes'
as might have ben anticipated, ar of INV
breaking character. So much So indeed
have the compositors of the Oxford Uni
versity Press found the Eskimo language
to be that they have demanded highe
rate of payment in regard to it.