The herald., 1911-06-29
Tho Trouble With One of the Eqqs.

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two soft boiled eggs and got them.
Then he opened the eggs. The first
one was all right. but the second
He called To the waiter.
Iii, you; look at this egg. I've a
notion To make you eat it"
The waiter came and looked. \ far
! from pleasing odor arose. but either
the waiter had "A bad cold or he re-
fused to notice It,
"Whats the matter with them
eggs?" he asked They looks all
right to me. Wasn't they boiled long
enough"
"Well," replied the patron slowly,
"they were both boiled long enough.
but one Of 'em wasn't boiled soon
enough. Chicago News.
Valuable counterfeits.
There are cases on record where
counterfeit coins are worth more than
the coin which they initiate. In former
times platinum. which has about the
same weight as gold. was worth only
one-third as much. The cOunterfeiter
sawed the real coin into three sections.
leaving both the diverse and the re-
verse sides untouched. The third part
was taken out and platinum substi-
tuted for it. \ little milling machine
and some skilful soldering did the rest
The counterfeit was almost beyond de-
lection. even to its ring. Since those
do n1o hn
dously in value. and coin counterfeit
ed in this way is now worth more than
the genuine.-ArGonau:
A New Name.
A young woman who had not partic
ularly enjoyed her first trip across the
ocean was Of a party discussing the
names chosen by the different steam.
ship companies for their boats.
They try to get something distinc-
tive, you See" said one, 80 that one
can tell from the name what line Il
belongs to. For instance, the names of
The White Star line boats all end in ic,
like Teutonic and Majestic. They have
really reached the end Of the list,
have heard, and are at a loss what to
name the next one that they build"
THAT ought not to be hard" COM
mented the young woman reminiscent.
ly. why don't they try Cesic pa
dies Home Journal
kaffir Doctors.
The belief in Kafir doctors and their
pretensiOns to magic still survives In
South Africa. Nearly every old Kaffir
has always with him a bag of bones
knuckles and joints Of animals. With
these he pretends to be able to fore
tell the future. He throws the "dolos."
as they are called. and then reads out
the Omens. Should a white man wish
TO confer with the oracle he must
throw the bones himself. Many whites
firmly believe in the ability of the KAT
fr doctor to cure them from sundry |
Ills. and In Rhodesia k0ff1r doctors
are said to save many whites from the |
ravages Of the feyers that rage there,
In addition to coping successfully with
toothaches and other ills.
The Durands and Meyers.
In France the name employed to des-
gnate one Of very large number of
men, as Smith Is sometimes figurative-
y used with us, Is Durand, the COM
honest name In the French directories.
In Berlin and other cities of north
Germany Herr Meyer" is the equiva.
ent OF Mr.. Smith" In other parts Of
Germany the name of Schulz or
Schulze is the most common. German
'olice authorities, who keep a sharp
we on everybody, have much trouble
o distinguish all the Schulzes who
AVE the same given name. One
'chulze, who received a public Office
n Berlin, was inscribed on the police
oils as Hermann Schulze Lv." On
he same roll there were a Lehman
XIX. and Neumann XIv.-Harper's.
When Feathers Came High.
A young lady only ten feet high
vas overset in one Of the late gales Of {
7ind in Portland place and the upper /
nast Of her feather blown upon Hamp-
tead hill. .
The ladies now wear feathers exact :
? of their own length, so that a wo- a
Ian Of fashion is twice as long on her
eet as in her bed.-London Times,
Zee. 80. 1875. =