The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 11, 1891, Page 2

a a TL NT A Quier GAME. Yomen Are 4s bond of it as Men, Bat They Want to Win. The nramber of fashionable vmen | ~ho have solved thesised into little tubs for the 1 1 iniquities | f poker playvi ealculat- nt to rend woe and distress the dozen of warly of the censo ind cae as bothiaen and women Writes a correspondent. Qor Natic for undeniably poker is that and at seme these “ladies poker glubs” startlingly large sums are lost | and won. These little gatherings always take place at the 5 the members. aor constitutic well-regulated o. vate residence of one of nd there are no by-laws s attached. In all of the however, twostrin- gent rules hold sw. and they are: Thou shalt) not borrow.” and ~ Thou alt pay up at the time The settle- ments may be made in cash or by check, and anent th little story was told last lost S106 fo Mrs. H.. a funny Mrs. amount. It occurred to Mrs. B.'s hus- band to lo er his wife’s returned cheeks on nd there he saw this check, which doobeen duly cashe When he amazedly asked Mrs. 7. the vhy and whe re. she. in an unpr said she red moment rarer angus fad loaned the money to Mrs. H.. for she would not for the world have her tadulgent husband know that she was guilty of the very fault for which she took him so severely to task. Not long afterward Mr. IL. and Mr. &., who were Wall street opponents, Gad a nasty little row. and Mr. B. funted Mr. fH. (who really is a miserly v) with keeping Mrs. H. so short” on pin money that she was forced to borrow money from a woman friend, money she could never repay. As a sonsequence of this accusation the whole affair transpired. and even the torrid heats of last summer were not rdent enough to thaw out the general coldness which prevails among. this orthy quartet. If 1 should write own here the names of the principal women who give to feminine poker clubs. the distinetive cachet of beauty, swelldom and wealth. it would reat a breeze so sturdy and so devas- tating as to be worthy of the naine of a al cyclone. —N. Y. Press. HAMMOCK RIDERS. some Queer Ways of Traveling in the Madeira Funchal. the stretches for nearly a mile along the shore, a number of the smaller streets snd lanes extending up the steep slope wnd the hill behind. The str formerly very dirty, but sinc gutters have been nearly all ried un- Jer ground, they have been tered | very clean, and are also well paved. The houses of the lower classes sel- stom exceed one story in height, but are well kept as regards the exterior, being neatly whitewashed, while the resi- lences of the wealthy are Jarge, hand- some buildings. The favorite mode of Maderia is in) hammoc' horses and small open ¢ their attendant a . can be hired tn+Funchal at any time. edges. or earrinhos are used on the stec p Mount Rtoad above Funchal. They are like a tow armehairy made of wickerwork, padded and cushioned, with a platform for the feet, and set on wooden runners. ‘The car is impeled by one or two men, reeording to its size, and guided with strong throngs of hide. ‘The sensation of rushing down the incline from 2.000 feet above the seain about three mir es is most enjc it is very ‘erely that any a happens The costuine of the peasantry is pict- uresque, and consists of an embroidered bodice, the white chemisette, collar and short sleeves, being fastened with gold link buttons, tinely worked; of a striped petticoat. closely woven in bright col- rs, anda blue or scarlet baize cape, with scalloped falling collar, bound with & contrasting color—the number and shape of the scallops varying in the dif- ferent parishes. The peculiar pointed vap is worn by both sexes.—-N. Y. Jour- nal of | Madeir: s were the open traveling in s although Got Pay for the Ham. ‘The proprietor of a large provision store made a credit sale of a fine ham to | one of his customers, but) much to his surprise he found out a little later that he had forgotten to whom he sold it and had failed to make any note of it. This bothered him somewhat until a happy thought struck him. He cudgeled the gray matter in his brain and recalled the names of thirteen men who had happened to be in the store at the time the transaction took place, though for the life of him he could not think who had gone off with that piece of swine. But nothing daunted he went back and | told his book-keeper to charge up one ham to each of those thirteen different | accounts, telling him at the same time that when twelve of the men objected to paying for it to explain to them that | it was a mistake that would not occur again. What happened? Why, twelve of that party paid their bills without a question and only one raised any objec- tion on account of the pork item. So at least eleven, and very twelve, had paid for something they had ot bought and that some one else had sposed of. Steer clearof bills.—Wash | ington Sta! An Unequal Struggle. Grocer—Come on, now. to pay this bill without further eom- meat. The bill is all right and if you dont pay it P11 bring suit. Spongecake—Go ahead and sue then, VU get the best of you. Grocer—Well, if you get the me. you'll be the first who ever d n goods seat to ight there of cer you're Americ: “You say a dealerin aw tographers ! believe it. : ip How did it happen?’ amateur photographer himseli.” eago Tribune. 1 don't immense, i was an —Chi- in popularity, | and gave her acheck for the | likely all | {expect you | Spongecake (remembering the quality Os eur pho- | } ! PITH AND POINT! } —Driven Gut by Rudeness. | did the soprano leave?” “She said the hiny interrupted her With the tenor.—"N, Y. -“Why Sun. rth have yon ing al + been taking notes with Harvard Lampoon. shovel m Results the pianov” “Wa but | kinder thinks rt Worth Gazette. she says sh she —Hi bey «t that when | @woman is buying a cheap quality of any thins. or a small quantity of it. she | generally ~buyes it for a friend Boston Traveller. happen to be ¥ you can write | { “Well | you should money to me.” the letter now, uncle. if yer | kind." —Fliegende Blatter | You say that re due to something influencing ne sleeper at that particular moment. How do you }account for iy dr the other thly the polis Jour- night that I was de room was too hot. nal. “Have noticed what a vast quantity of information old Simple has quired during the last: several day Indi you “Yes. It is easily accounted f fifteen-year-old son returned — fro boarding schoo! last w for a short visit.” N« Ethel new dr istown He “Tam so anxious about my my si Tshall insist on havi dress-maker make it fit me. It will then be sure to look well.” Maud—"Ye: but wouldn't it look better if you in- sisted on having the dressmaker make you fit it instead?" —Harper’s Bazar. Time's Changes.— Brown could never understand a womar Cobwigg: “No. Before marriage I oceupied my time in making myself out we than I was: now it takes me every minute of my time to make my- self out better than [ am.” - Epoch. —Medical science threatens tocireum- vent all the ills that flesh is heir to, and “So yor asin time there will be no such thing as death the rth will soon become | crowded, hold on to your real estate. #1 hundred eript. not per help cent going up | Hoston | —By Proxy.— Goodinan to the hi man, ja Christian?” “WI crm i {1 John. Do you ever hn.” said jv Pm sometimes a little kee hice like va my talk.” “Loam sorry, John.” re- ned Mr. Goodman. -But we will Eanteces about this some other time. T wish you would take this money and settle this bill of $4 for thawing out a aterpipe. and talk to the man in a reless kind of way if it were your own bill.--Chicago Tribune. CAMPAIGN THUNDER. | How a Candidate was Crushed by a Pen- ny-u-Liner. As about cight out of ten men one ts nowadays are up for the Legisla- y sheriff or some thing, it is ing that a large proportion » politicians are of the self-made that could not deliver an intel- ligible speech if they were to be hanged. The result is that: the hard-up penny liners are turning an, honest penny by supplying these tongu tied statesmen with ready-made campaign thunder. The other night there was a most en- thusiastic primary meeting at Petaluma, during which an aspirant for county clerk wes introduced. The gentleman laid a written speech on the des! in. He had only got as fz citizens.” whe na hungry ina week- whole appe stood up pered: “How about that little amount?” The orator coughed, . looked fixedly at the gallery. and strove tocon- { tinue. 4 “Tsay.” continued the interrupter, | more loudly. “you Know what | told you—cash down or no sale.~ “PU—TN see you in the gasped the mortified polit “Morning don't go.” itor, doggedly. morning dodge me yoluminonsly - nd started “Fellow looking party t. and whose do destitution, row and whis- arance den im the front color morning,” , n. * replied the cred- } “You can't play the me; I'm dead on te you fellows. Tam. You've got to put up or shut up. Pungle out that $12 right here, or nary an ornte.” | “Lhaven't got that amount with me.” murmured the distinguished speaker, fumbling in his clothes. Just—just sit down, and Ill see you later.” “Later be blowed.~ rowled the pencil parer, and reaching up he trans- ferred the manuscript to his coat-tail pocket and walked out. The crushed nominee took a back seat on the plat- form and wept like a child. while the band filled in its time by “Listen to the Mocking Bird,” with variations —San Francisco News-Letter. Mahogany Packing-Cases. There are few instruments or pieces | of apparatus more delicate and fragile | than many of the costly and intricate 1 productions of mechanical skill in gen- eral use to-day by electrical companies for the purposes of refined electrical measurement, and it can easily be un- derstood that the difficulty of shipping these expensive and easily deranged in- | struments from place to place without | risk of damage from careless handling | in transit is a perplexing question both to manufacturers and users. A famous | English electrician says that he early | adopted a plan which proved so success- ful that he has adhered to it ever since. Finding that careful packing and con- suous labels stating the contents to h great ¢ “ were not | re always sufficient to prevent breakage arts. he hit on atl his instru- ~d mahogany and dar the ide ments re to delicate pa of sending out beautifully px conversation | “Does your | the fe | | Some of the Quali PIGEONS ON THE WING. Instances of the Extraordinary They Acquire. The power of pigeons on the wing proverbial. trained birds of th species ha ications in ay marked de; rst is speed, the | sustained powers ef | be amply are flight. de ; some of the most On O¢ | | onstrat remarkable records: y John Ross dis- patched a pai ing piyeons from Assistance 1; west of Wel lington Soumd, and on October 15 a pig eon made its appea t the dov cote in Ayrshire, Seot whence S$ John had the The ance direct pair ti en ont. is 2.009 mi of a pi Ghent, 1 a half. it of flight h, in 1845, Rouen to an hour is the case of a pigeon wh fell wounded that it was one of tt the Duke of Well a a ton from Ichabor suway. . 2.009 mile ago the orto Ma of tif! experiment pigeon was recently dispatched from a northern newspaper of with a quest that it might be liberated for its return journey at ot a.m. It reached home at 1:10 p.m., having covered i the meantime 148 miles, flying at the rate forty miles zn hour. In the rate niles an ; north pigeons have long been used to conve: Messages between country houses and market towns, and in Rus- sia they are now being employed to in balloons. The the kind was made from the cupola of the Cathedral of Is: and the subject photographed was the Winter Palace. | The plates were packed in envelopes, | impenetrable to light. and then tied to et of the pigeons, which safely and carried them to the station at Here is another interesting ance of speed and staying power. ‘ons in question flew from Bor- nehester, and not only beat records, but flew more than further than any thing ttempted by English flyers. ing bird at the © of quick Volkov flew 1,879 y sninute. or over 64 miles an hour, and thut for a distance of 1421; miles. Fhe same club has’ flown birds distances of 613 and 625 miles. These latter, howeve were several days in returning. and in their the only wonder is that they could nplish the distance at all. The fol- lowing is still more interesting, as it entailed a race between birds and in- sects. A pigeon fancier of Hamme, in Westphalia, made a wager that a dozen bees liberated three miles from their hive would reach it in better time than a dozen pigeons would reach their cot from the same distance ‘he eompeti- tors were given wing at Rhynhern. a village nearly a league from Hamme, and the first bee finished a quarter of 2 minute in advance of the first pigeon. three other bees reached the goal be fore the second pigeon, the main body of both detachments finishing almost simultaneously an instant or two later. The bees too, may be said tohave been handicapped in the ace. having been rolled in four before starting for pur- poses of identification. zine. THE GIRL WE AIKE BEST. s That Endear Her te ind. M likes. Nobedy can tell exactly why, but after you have net her you sarn away to seme other “Don't you ike M Woman and say: SG Now svenor? the reason you like hetis a subtle one: j without knowing all about her. you feel ‘ just the soct of girl she is. She is the girl who is. not “too bright and good” to be able to find joy and pleasure all ever the world. She is the girl who appreciates the fact that she can not always have the first choice of every thing in the werld. She is the girl who is not aggressive and does not find joy in inciting ag- | gressive people. She is the girl who has tact enongh not to say the very thing that will eause the sketeton in her friend’s claset to rattle its bones. She is the girl who. whether it is warm or cold. clear or stormy, finds no fault with the weather. She is the girl who, when you invite her any place, compliments you by look- ing her best. She is the girl who is sweet and wom- anly to look at and listen to, and who doesn't strike you as a poor imitation of a demi-mondaine. She is the girl who makes this world a pleasant place because she is so pleas- ant herself. And. by the by, when you come to think of it. isn't she the girl who makes you feel she likes you and. therefore, you like her?—Chicago Journal. The Power of Advertising. —A noble of high standing in St. Pe | tersburg made a bet that by advertising the merest nonsense he could get money } sent him from all parts of the empire. He inserted an advertisement in the | papers that for the sum of one ruble he | j which. if put in luke warm water, would breed a dozen of chicks. were sent to him by the thousand. He won the bet. but he had to pay an} j equivalent in re turning the ruble to | the senders and giving them a piece of | advice. bra cases, With rance of the en to the lish by fre edom of the | uments from ge ply repaid the extra costof the luxurious cases — | Chicago Daily News. s and mount- j do dock- | he heart | —A nov sity i in the washing-machine line has just been invented. It is con- | aected with a child's swing. and after the soiled ments. uantity of soap shavings. have been put in the tub. a child is placed in the speed two » places | and exhausted at Vauxhall station. then the terminus of the uthwestern rai way. It bore a message to the effect | » dispatched to | winning ! w trained | re- | convey negatives of photographs taken ] first experiment of | ORIGIN OF “LA MARSEILLAISE.” Dramatic Circumstances Attending the Production of the Famous French Air. “La Marseillaise.” the nutic mal air of France. is the ‘hearts of Fr nas no aes musi can. vosed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. a French poet. player, ; soldier and si 2 and of this It was production Cz wrote in wht which works voiceless in this black-browed mass (the | seillaise™), Rouget de L n inspired Tyrten Colonel, whom the earth still holds, has tr ated into grim melody and rhythm; into his hymn or march of | the Marseillaise: luckiest musical com- she position ev ulgated, the sound | of which w 1 tingle in ' men’s veins: and as- Ss Weep- ng, with hearts detiant of { Devil” - origin of this song is told by Lamartine. “There was a young vr in gurrison , at Strasburg named Rouget de Lisle.” says the hist an. He was born at 1 in the Jura, that coun- Lons-le-S try of nd energy. as mountain- and bu h. Despot ut dramati tic ous countries always are. This young man loved war like a soldier—the nlike a thinker. He charmed roses and music the slow. dull with } garrison life Mach in request from his two- as musician and poet. he visited the house of Dietrich, an Al- satian patriot. on intimate terms. Diet- rich’s wif and young daughters shared ce feelings, for the revolu- | tion was advancing toward the frontiers, | just us the affectionsof the body always jcommence ut the extremities. They were very partial to the young officer, and inspired his heart, his poetry and his music. They ted the first of {his ideas hardly developed. contidantes of the earliest flights of his genius. “It was in the winter of 17 there was a searcity in Strasburg. The house of Dietrich was poor and the | table humble, but there was always a {welcome for Rouget de Lisle. The j Young officer was there from morning | till night. like a son or a brother of the Hfamily. One day when there were only some coarse bread and slices of ham on the table Dietrich, looking with calm sadness at De Lisle. said to him: ‘Plenty is not seen ut our feasts: but what mat- ter, if enthusiasm is net wanting at our civic fetes and courage in our soldiers’ hearts? I have still a bottle of wine leftin my cellar. Bring it he added, addressing one of his daughters, ‘and we will drink to liberty and our coun- j in his patri ui and try. Strasburg is shortly to have a patriotic ceremony and De Lisle must be inspired by these dast drops te produce one of — those hymns which convey to the soul of the people the enthusiasm which suggested it The young girls applauded, fetched the wine. tilled the glasses of their old father and the young ofticer until the wine was exhausted. if was midnight and very cold. De Lisle was a dreamer; his heart was moved. his head was heated. ‘The cold seized on him, and he went staggering to his lonely chamber, endeavoring by degrees te find inspi Cornhill Maga- | } | recollections There is a type of gir? that every body | | would forward the sender a powder | Rubles | with the proper | Fin tion in the palpitations ef his cit heart; and un his small clavicord, now composing the air before the words and now the words before the air, combined them so intimately in his mind that he could never — tell which was first produced, the air or the words, so impossible did he find it to separate the pectry from the music. and the feeling om the impression. He sang every thing wr runge. “Overcome by this Divine inspiration, his head fell sleeping on his imstrnment, and he did met awake unt® daylight. The song of vernight returned to his memory difficulty. like she He wrote it Dietrich. He His wife ond daughter had not yet risen. Dietrich aroused them, called together some friend as fond as himself of mmsie, and capable 6f uting De Lisle’s composition: Dietrich’s eldest daughter accompanied them. Rouget sang. At the first verse all ccuntenanees turted pale, at the second tears fowed, at with of a dream. down and then ran to found him in his garden. the last enthusiasm barst forth The hymn of the coantry was found. Alas? it wz stined to also de! be the hy:an of terror. The unfortu- nate Dietrich went a few months after ward to the scaffold to the sound of the notes prodvced at his own freside. from the heart of a friend. and the voices of his daughters. | “The pew song, executed some days afterward in Strasburg. flew from city to city in every public orehestra. Mar seilles adopted it to be sung at the open- ing and the close of the sitting of its clubs. The Marseillaise spread it all over France by singing it everywhere on their way. Hence the name of Mar- seillaise. De Lisle’s old mother. a roy- alist and religious, alarmed at the ef- fect of her son's voice, wrote to him: ‘What is this revolutionary hymn sung by bands of brigands who are traversing France, and with which our name is mingled?” De Lisle him- self, proscribed as a royalist, heard it, and shuddered as it sounded on his ear, whilst escaping by some of the wild passes of the Alps. ‘What do they call that hymn” he inquired of his guide. ‘The Marseillaise.” replied the peasant. It was thus he learned the name of his jown work. The arm turned against the hand that forged it. The Revolution, }insane, no longer recognized its own |voice. * * * It was the fire-water of the Revolution which instilled into the | senses and the soul of the people the in- toxication of battle.” France has other songs of patriotism, ibut only one Marseillaise.—St. Louis Gio an —Finnegan (1 it strikes) —“*"Whats that? Eliven, twelve. thirt fourt t—Bad * coos G it! Bye ‘me Phe fur? 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