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History of Starch.

"a package Of starch7" asked the
intelligent and learned grocer; and
rs he wrapped the package up he
talked.
Starch originated" he said, Gin
Flanders. 1t was introduced into
England, with the big ruff, in the time
of Queen Elizabeth. 1t was like our
starch Of today, except that 1t was
made in colors-red, yellow, green,
blue. The effect of this was to tint
delicately the white linen to which
the starch might be applied.
Before Queen Elizabeth's time
rufles and rufus were made of fine
Holland, which required no s%tiffening.
Then the rufus of cambria came, and
these must of necessity be starched."
The grocer consulting his memoran-
dunn book, resumed:
ut is recorded that when the queen
had rufs made of lawn and cambria
for her w princely wearing there
was none in England could tell how to
starch them; but the queen made
special mean for some women that
could starch and Mrs. Gullham, wife
of the royal coachman, was the first
starcher.'
an 1864 a Flanders woman, Frau
Wander Plasse, came to London and
established there a school for the
teaching of starching. The school sue
ceeded. The Flanders frau got rich.
She charged e5 a lesson, and an extra
20 shillings for a recipe for the max
ing of starch out of wheat houB, bran
and roots.
yellow was the most fashionable
color in starch among the nobility.
The fast, racing set went in for green.
The Puritans used blue starch,
though at first they had been against
the stuff altogether, clubbing it, A
certaine kinde of liquide matter which
they call starch, wherein the DEVIL
hath willed them to wash and dive
their duffes, which, when they be dry,
will then stand stiffe and infexible
about their necks.'
Starch is made from wheat, corn
and potatoes, and starving men have
often subsisted on it, finding it nour-
ishing, though not tasty.'-Philadel-
phia Record.
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ENGLAND MAY DISAPPEAR.
The East Coast Said to Be Recedlnq
at an Alarming Rate.

According to the London Express
the inroads made by the sea into the
east coast of England have seriously
alarmed the local authorities, who
have Intellectually spent many thou
sands of pounds in protective works,
and an important conference was re-
Gently held at Norwich to consider this
matter.
The position of affairs is, indeed,
very serious. Lowestott, which has
had to spend between $4,000 and
$50, 900 on protective works, has been
especially hard hit.
The north beach has been undergo
ing a steady process of d~enGdation by
the sea, while the Ness has all but dis
appeared, and the lighthouse has been
at least three times removed further
inland within living memory.
At Kirkley and Pakefeld, adjacent
hamlets, houses built comparatively
recently have had to be taken down
to prevent them topping owe into the
ocean. At Pakeield heaps Of broken
concrete lie strewn on the beach, all
that remains of the protective works,
and at a wreck a few weeks before
Christmas the lifeboat could not be
launched . on account of the debris.
Further south the cliffs have been
washed quite away.
A familiar instance of the ruin
wrought by the sea further south is
Dunwich, about five miles below South
Wold.
Once a 1ourishing town with a har.
Dor and fishery extending to Iceland,
and in earlier times a bishops seat,
Dunwich Is now wiped out. Only a
few crumbling walls denote the ruins
of the sole surviving church on the
cliff.
The land there used to extend miles
further out, and it is on record that
over a score of churches stood where
the ocean now reigns.
Several other parishes have been
practically blotted off the face of the
earth in Norfolk by the e~ncroaching
sea, such as Little Waxham, Whimp-
we'll, Shipden and Keswick.
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A China Tower.

It is quite appropriate that st. Cloud
should have a lasting memento of the
great mandatory of Sevres porcelain,
which stands almost in the shadow Of
the lovely Pare de st. Cloud. A tower
made entirely Of Sevres porcelain is to
be erected on the spot occupied by the
famous Lantern of Diogenes before the
war. The tower is to be about 40
feet high, 125 feet in diameter, and to
consist Of seven stories, which will be
connected by a double spiral staircase
like the one in the Chateau de Cham
bord. The color of the tower exter-
Eally will be a happy blending Of en-
erald green turquoise, coral and brown
en- a white ground. AS may be mag.
!ned, such an undertaking is no small
matter for the mandatory of Seyres,
London Taller.
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oPELOUsAs, 8 LOUISIANA.
Fire Signals.

AZ u meeting OF Hope Hook and
Ladder Go. No. !, held on July 0,
1901, the town was divided into Fire
Districts and o Code Of Signals was
adopted In order to facilitate the loca-
zion of fires In the future. The town
was divided as follows:
District No.. ALI that portion Of
kwn bounded north by Bellevue
street. west by Union street, south
and east by corporation line.
District No. 2-All that portion of
town boundeedtJ.n Bellevue street on
the south, Union GftMtset n the west,
and corporation line on to north and
east.
District No. 3-The portion of town
lying west of Union streets ana south
of Bellevue street, with the corpora
ton line as the south and Welt boun-
dairy.
District No. 4-The portion Of town
bounded on the south by Bellevue,
east by Union, north and west by COR
poration line.
The Signals adopted were short taps
to indicate the district in which the
fire 10 located, followed by a rapid
alarm, same to be repeated until gen.
eral alarm is given.
To illustrate, should an alarm be
sounded for District No. 8, first three
taps, one, two, three, followed by rap
Id alarm, and repeat.
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truth, and the evil Is done. The
grayest case is when the child is taken
as an accomplice in a lie, or when his
mother tells him, above all, do not
tell this to your papa" This is the
ruin of morality.
The third stage is the first encounter
of the child with society-the first
shock with social life. The child who
tells all he knows, sees and hears, all
that he would better have left unsaid,
is called the "enfant terrible" His
parents do not tell him to lie, but they
tell him it is not necessary to tell all
he thinks. This is extremely serious,
as it teaches the child that he cannot
show himself as he is. This is the
revelation of the lie obligatory. Above
all, among his comrades he is naive
expresses all his joys, pains, desires
they make sport of him-nay, worse,
they abuse his confidence; the hopes,
projects which he has conf1ded to
them he some day sees used against
him.
Thus the impossibility of living with.
out lying is revealed to him. Society
u certain forms of lying which
are inspired by a feeling of polite
ness, modesty, shame.
The child becomes a liar because
all the world about him lies. The dis
tinction between the liar and the man
of sincerity is only relative. There
are in reality only two categorieC
those who content themselves with
the lies exacted by social life Il
those who have h%abituated themselves
to lying more than society wishes-to
lie because Of some personal interest.
An important cause in the develop
ment of lying in children is the en-
ployment of excessive and i'll advised
punishment. The child who becomes
a liar is the one who lives in perpetual
terror of reproaches, humiliation or
strokes. The lie for him is a supreme
resource.-Chicago Tribune.
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More than 100000 Holsters were
caught h Maine last year.
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HABIT OF LYING.
Ways In Which Prevarication May
Be Developed.

Ways In Which Prevarication May
Be Developed.
How does one become a liar? That
is to say, how does the child dis.
cover a lie and habitually make use
of it?
We can admit that at the begin
ming there is absolute sincerity. The
child through all it's first years neither
lies nor dfssimulates. It's sentiments,
its desires, translate themselves into
words and into acts. It's body is the
constant and perfect expression of it's
inmost being. Such is the starting
roint-sincerity, absolute transpa1-
ency.
There is a multitude of little lies toll
Grated which we treat as pardonable.
We tell the domestic to say we are not
at home when we are; we compliment
people to their faces and criticise
them when they are gone; we say we
are happy to see some one and d.
rectly after speak of having been an
noyed. No more Is necessary. The
example has been given.
We lie to the child himself; we are
pressed by his many embarrassing
questions and In order to free our
selves from the embarrassment re-
ply with what Is frequently a false
hood. Some fine day he discovers the
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What is the color OF the EmpLIe oIdIe'
and when was it officially adopted?
Rv common consent the imperial
color, purple, has been used as the
color for the Empire State. No Official
action had been taken as to its adop-
tion. however. until the Columbian Tx
position in 1893, when the State Com
missioners in charge of New YORK
exhibit adopted it as the color emblem
Of the Empire State.
What is the approximate value Of coal
land in the anthracite fields OF the 0nlted
States? H. fhECND.
An exact estimate of the tota! capital
in coal land is difficult to make, as
the price varies from $500 to $4,000 an
acre. In 1889 an estimate was given
" John Birkenbine, who placed it at
S162, 900, 900, which did not include I'M
developed land. The census Of 1870
gives 213,93S acres, valued at Slof,4lo'-
SO2. rhe total average as estimated
nv William Grihiths in The Bond Rec
ord. 1896, is 267, sos acres. If we estl-
mate this at $500 an acre we have
S133, 752, 800 as an approximate estl-
mate of the value of coal II
Is it true that women are IN excess OF
men. h"o
Statistics show that the proportion
between the sexes Of the new born is
1868 boys to 100 girls. Boys are
therefore considerably in excess at
birth, the male majority amounting to
6 5000 in every million human beings.
This seems to contradict the general
observation to the effect that women
are in the majority. This contradiction
is, however, explained by the fact that
the proportion at birth does not remain
stationary, but is reversed in the later
years of life. Until the age of ten
there is still an 1cess of boys, but
from the age of ten to twenty the pro-
portion between the sexes slowly adj
justs itself, and in the third decade OF
life the proportion becomes 100 males
to 1927 females. This excess of fe-
males grows continually, so that at the
age of seventy the proportion becomes
100 males to 1928 females.
~ What is the density of the moon?
(2) What is it's distance from the earth?
(3) What is the time of its revolution
round the earth? a. What is its diane
ter F. 0. Monroe, Me-
~ The earth being taken as a unit,
the moons density is 0.61; mass. 1-S1;
volume, $50, and gravity, 1-6; that is
to say, the earth would weigh as much
as eighty-one moons, is fifty times
larger, and a pound Of matter at the
moons surface would, if transferred
to the earth, weigh six pounds. 81
The mean distance Of the moon from
the earth is 23S, $50 miles. 81 Its mean
sidereal revolution around the earth is
81 days, Z hours, 43 minutes and 11.46
seconds; its mean s%ynodica! revolution,
OR the period from new moon to new
moon, is 90 days, II hours, A minutes
and 2.S7 seconds, a. 2162 miles.
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TO THE MOTHER.

Swing in the sky, new moon;
The day is done.
Swing low, oh, cradle, Groom
A lullaby.
Shut your eyes, baby, soon;
Night has begun.
At touch of Dawn's striped wand
Ends mothers rest.
Each duty knows her hand
Can tend it best,
And it is Nurseryland
On mothers breast.
Sing in the tree, oh, wind,
Nights secret song,
Cry not, oh, brooding bird;
Your nest hangs strong.
Out of a starlit night
A day is born.
I know your night song, wind;
For I haze guessed.
A prayer qor peace to find
A gentle rest
In heart of her who rocks
The cradle nest.
Roberts, in Good Housekeep
ing.
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FOR SALE.

A house and lot in the town OF
Washington, La, in the square bound.
ed by Carriere, Wilkins, Ewes and
Dupre. Frame building made Of
choice cypress, ceiled inside. weather.
boarded outside, 20x3O feet. Will be
sold cheap for cash, or part cash and
balance on time to suit. For particu.
lars apply at the Courier Office, Ope-
lousas, La. If
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Town Residences For Sale

In o desirable neighborhood in ope.
lousas, with an ~entiressquare Of land.
we'll shaded with lire oaks, magnolias,
cedars, pecans. etc., about 8 squares
from the Courthouse, 5 squares from
High School, 2 squares from Catholic
Church and convent. House il two
story, brick basement, 8 rooms. four
AZ places out-buildings, ETC., oil mn
der good fence. VIII be sold cheap for
cash Az part,eash and balance On time
y App St Ills ealee. u
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Pretty Hard,

1t is pretty hard for a man to keep
on being a pessimist when a beautiful
woman looks up into his eyes and tells
him she is just awfully interested in
his work.-Chicago Record-Herald.
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What is the color of the Empire State,
and when was it officially adopted?
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Hts Last Hope Realized.
From the Sentinel, Gebo, Mont. l

From the Sentinel, Gebo, Mont.l
 In the first opening of Oklahoma to settlers in 1889, the editor of this paper was among the many seekers after for tune who made the big race one fine day in April. During his travelling about and afterwards his camping upon his claim, he encountered much bad wa ter. which, together with the severe heat, gave him very severe diarrhoea which it seemed almost impossible to check, and along in June the case be- came so bad he expected to die. One day one of his neighbors brought him one small bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a last hope. A big dose was given him while he was rolling about on the ground in great agony. and in few minutes the dose was repeated. The good effect of the medicine was soon noticed and with in an hour the patient was taking his first sound sleep for fortnight. This one little bottle worked complete cure, and he cannot but feel grateful. The season for bowel disorders being at hand suggests this item. For sale by all druggists.
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THE LOST MINES OF IDAHO,

Every mineral region has its alleged lost mines-stories augmented by love of mystery and romance, but sometimes founded on truth which hap pens to be stranger than fiction. The loon Creek locally is replete with such stories more than any other region in Idaho. In fact, it seems to be an en- chanted land whose vast labyrinth of mountains and streams bewilder a re- turn to it's once discovered riches.
 The Lost Packer" went insane in a long and fruitless search for ore that once dazzled his sight, and other men roamed those same mountains, more or less, for years, thereby substantiating their belief in bonanzas seen once by them and then lost in bewilderment. One inclined to levity might say the lyocality is rightly named "Loon," and that Lost Docoe" would be more ap- propriate than Lost Packer" or other lost" lead. Interest in Loon Creek is chiefly centered in the fact that some rich leads lately are found beyond likelihood of losing. But let us tell 8 few stories of lost mines that seem
 
 some guidance to their discovery.
 As far back as 1865, party of east erners, coming west in quest of wealth, made their way from Bannock, Mont, into the then strange and wild country of Loon Creek, and for some time camped at what seems to have been the meadows, or mouth of Warm Spring Creek, eight miles below the subsequently, famous Place camp on the Main Loon, In the party was a man named T. J. Cleveland. For sake of the narrative we hope he was no kin to Grover. He was thought too much of tenderfoot to do any prospecting, so was appointed cook for the party. The story goes that he played pranks on his companions, once by placing rushes under their bedding, so that the boys thought they were lying on a nest of rattlesnakes. He so incurred their displeasure that when he afterward showed them d collection. of yellow pannings from rock he had found in the nearby mountains, they cursed and said they would not be fooled by his pranks. The party broke up and returned east, where subsequently it occurred to MT. Cleveland to get as- says on the ore containing the yellow substance. To his surprise, it went forty-one thousand dollars in gold. He closed up his accounts and came west again expecting to be the possessor of fortune. But search as he would, the vast mountains concealed it from him. He is now old, feeble and gray, but re- cent finds on Loon Creek have re- freshetd his memory. He has gone to the vicinity, with full equipment, to re- new the search and feels confident he will succeed. If others find it through the tip hereby given, they should pre- sent the writer with ton of that for ty-one thousand dollar ore as mark of esteem and reward for veracity. But there are others.
 It was about fifteen years ago that q man named Hagerty, while perambu- lating the mountains with a small pack outfit, struck "the real. stuff' and sacked up sufficient of it that he was minded to go back and buy up old Ire land, and make himself emperor of the same, but by adverse fate he hied himself down to Utah and fell to cele-
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DRESS TIES
COSGROVE SHOE EMPORIUM,
 45 Church Street, corner of Crown.

8 feet on Orchard street.
 Herbert Mason est. to Mary J. Dag gett, 30 feet on Winthrop avenue; 5 feet on Wall street.
 Julia A, Cooper to Hartford Building and Loan association, s feet on Put nam street.
 Warner D. Judson, adm., to Homer J. Broadwell, Boston avenue, 50 feet on Clarendon street. 100 feet.
 Homer J. Broadwell to Warner D. Judson, 50 feet, Boston avenue; 100 feet Clarendon street.
 George D. Farovid to Nellie F. Eus- tace, 2 feet on Willow street.
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WITH THE LEGISLATORS.
DESCRIBING ACTION ON THE
 DEMURRAGE BILL.
Norwich Hospital for Insane Now an Assured Fact-New London Street Railway Charter Amended Other Bills and ResoIutiOns.

Hartford, June 10.-In the house the demurrage bill, providing for two days free with a charge of twenty cents a day for the two days thereafter, and $1 for each day after that was explained by MT. Downs of Wallingford, chairman of the committee, who said that the bill was satisfactory to the railroads and to majority of the business men. He urged that the bill be passed or killed on its own merits.
 The bill was defeated by g. large ma- jority on viva voce vote. The vote was at first doubted, but the doubt was jection stood up.
 In the senate the bill creating a state insane hospital at Norwich at a cost of $100, ,O00 was passed without objection af- ter 8 brief argument by Senator Patti son.
 The bill requiring street railroads to conform to regulations of cities and towns in regard to paving material, etc., was placed at the foot of the calendar on motion of Senator Bradstreet. This bill passed the house Tuesday.
 The itinesant vendors bill recom- mended bv the State Association of Mayors was passed after an explanation by Senator Walsh.
 An amendment to the charter of the New London Street Railway company, giving it additional rights, came in from the house with an amendment requiring the construction of the new lines by January i, 1905. The bill was tempora- rily tabled owing to the absence of the senator from the New London district.
 The demurrage bill was passed with but one or two dissenting votes, thus making disagreeing action between the two houses.
 A resolution extending the time for the completion of Montville Street Rail- road caused considerable debate. AS amended in the house to provide for fifteen cent face from Norwich to New London the bill was passed.
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All the above TOT the term or two years from June l. 1908.
 Director of Public Works, s10,0O0, and Superintendent of Charities and Correc- ton, $25,00O, both of which for the term of two years from July 1. 1903, Bids must state the particular officer or officers for which bond is offered and the price of such bond for such officer separ- ately.
 A certified check for $50. drawn to the order of the Controller, must accompany each bid
 The right to reject any and all bids is
 JONATHAN N. ROWE, j9 St Controller.
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Il have been troubled for some time with indigestion and sour stomach" says Mrs Sarah W. Curtis, of Lee, Mass, and have been taking Chamber lains Stomach and Liver Tablets which have helped me very much so that now can eat many things that before I could not" If you have any trouble with your stomach why not take these Tablets and get well? For sale by all druggists.
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Judge-I will give you just one hour to get out of town.
 Peevish Polhemus-Well, if I'm brought back here for overspeeding me auto" don't blame me, jedge.-Puck.
 Did he marry for money?"
 "Yes." And did he get it?"
 He did. I understand she makes him a cash allowance of $2.50 week" " Cleveland Plain Dealer
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CONTROLLERS OFFICE,
Room 15, City Hall, Nopy uaran Ennn Iune


 New Haven, Conn.,, June 8, 1903. Sealed proposals will be received at this office until 7.30 p. m., June IS, 1903, for the City of New Haven surety company bonds for any one or more of the elected and appointed to office in in the City Charter, namely, for the follow ina officnrS arnnuntS and terms:
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RTryS DWELLING.

The Hartford Building and Loan asso" citation has sold to L. G. Hoadley, real estate dealer in this city, dwelling in Eaton street. The price paid is about 5000.
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Frank E. Williams. ct aL. to Lucy N. Hoggson. 50 feet on Scranton street, S3.O0O.
 Mary McCable to New Haven Savings bank. 2S feet on Haven street, $500. Danish Norwegian Evangelical Free church to New Haven Savings bank, 62 65-10O feet on Cedar street, 9S 6-1O feet on Minor street, S2,0O0.
 Margaret Marvin to Walter Judson, 20 feet on Davenport avenue, s1,050.
 Attachments. Ernest F. Hill to Warner D. Judson, 5S feet on Eaton strGet.
 Henry Copperthrite ct al.. to Louisa Ferrucci. 52 6O-1O0 feet on Chapel street. Frederick Hallier to Patrick J. Tier ney, $200, 9 feet on Lock street.
 Appointments.
 Samuel R. Bishop estate, Walter S. Bishop, administrator.
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Quit Claim Deeds.

Elliott II. Morse.tr., to Thomas Quinn, ct als., 50 feet on Anderson street. Frank L. Kimberly to New Haven Truck and Storage Co.,. 14S feet on Woster street. 145 feet on Wallace street.
 James M. Mason to Mary J. Daggett,
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WANT A GAME.

The Clipper baseball team has an open date Saturday, June 1S, and would like to arrange a game for that date with some good team. Address c. s. S., 194 James street. " '' 7: /, ,ss4: .
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Mortgage Deeds.

Cornelius Daly to Edward Lynch, 5t feet on Anderson street. S65O.
 Lemuel G. Hoadley to George w Sackett, 40 feet on Eaton street, S2O,0O0. z Edward J. Ahern to Thomas Kelly sO1a feet on Hamilton street, $S,oOO.
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Administrators Deed

Administra tors Deed. Carl A. Liefield estate to Ernest T Liefield, 71 feet on Orchard street. Ann Quinn estate to Cornelius DaIy 50 feet on Willow street.
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