Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1896, Page 23

f~——_ tO THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES: e ” “Washing made graceful.” - (After a sketch in New York Truth.) - We want to show it bétausé thi seems to be a wO6mari’ who”uses Pearline (2%). “'She’s‘doing no work to speak of, you see— she doesn’t look as if she ever had to: She appears to be rinsing out the clothes, after letting them ‘soak in Pearline(,."%., ) and water, which is about all the labor required. The washboard we don’t understand —unless she’s washing use Pearline washboard. They don’t have that tiresome, wearing rubbing over it. But for cleaning washboards or it, Women who ceewi) don’t need a wood work or paint or anything of the kind, then they want Pearline. Washing can’t be made graceful unless it is made easy. Of all the ways of washing that are perfectly harmless, the easiest, quickest, most economical, is with Pearline. LMMMONS"LPCUUM iets Sa ae as a Be a te ee ss ee ee ee ee eee a ee aa a ad HUNYAD! JANOS, The World’s ° Best Natural Aperient Water. 25 Years’ Success in U. S. Highest Reputation all Over the World. CAUTION: None genuine without the signature of the firm . “Andreas Saxlehner,” On the Label. edetetetetetetetectectetetectetee es eledetettitetedetetetetieetetes eteeetechecteecew? ‘TO LOCATE WATER. Practical Beliefs in the Old Super- stition of the Divining Rod. From the Philadelphia Press. Finding on several occasions that the divining rod was spoken of by the farmers of a Pennsylvania community, I deter- mined to investigate, and to my astonish- tment found that not only did no one avow Plain disbelief, but that many expressed most perfect confidence in the mysterious One person, largely townbred, and ps, therefore, more familiar with phases of skepticism, boldly asserted that, tkough at one time an unbeliever, he had recanted his error, and had become a firm adherent to the belief that you can discov- er water underground by means of a stick of the proper kind, carried in the proper ay in the hands. ‘Two instructors in the art were forth- ceming, and I was told of a third, who was well-tried professor, and who would, for small sum, infallibly point out a place at which you might safely bring well-sinking eperations with full confidence that your lator would not be in vain. I took my les- scns in private with each of my teachers indepentently of the other. The procedure was exactly the same in both cases. We repaired to the orchard and found a shoot of one year’s growth, which had formed a ferk. Note well that it is necessary that the shoot should be of one year’s growth. I was then instructed to place my hands horizontal with the palms upward, the thumbs, of course, being outward, and my elbows close to my side. The two branches of the fork were placed in the palms which were then closed tightly, so that the “han- dle’ of the fork stood perpendicularly up- ward. The next direction was to hold the @pparatus firmly in this position, and to walk slowly and carefully about, when, if I passed over a spring of water, the index, or handle of the fork, would bend down to the water. I did so, and after a short time I felt the divining rod twisting round in my hand, until the index was horizontal and finally vertically downward. In each case my teacher was delighted, and pre- dicted that I should make a good diviner. We did not, of course, sink a well to com- plete the demonstration, but that has noth- ing to do with the matter. My instructors were convinced that water was under my feet. So am i, for you could scarcely go ten yards or sink a well twenty feet deep without finding water, seeing that it bursts from the sides of the hills and bubbles up in_the plains in all directions. It was useless to argue about the muscu- Jar force that was acting down my arms and slong my fingers, and of which I was painfully conscious, from the constrained Fosition in which I held the twig. Now, please observe that this is an ac- count of an event which took place within 300 miles of the enlightened city of Phila- delphia, in the year 1896, A. D., only four years before the dawn of that magnificent twentieth century in which time and space and darkness are all to be abolished, and men may even hope to understand more than three, four or five dimensions. Con- servatism would certainly hold that the be- lief in the power of discerning water and other treasures in the recesses of the earth, by means of a divining rod, rests on a surer basis than discovering the contents of a purse by means of Roentgen X rays, because it is so much more ancient. Baby- lenians of old used divining rods. The mystical Magians made them out of tama- rick boughs. Hindoos, as long ago as when the Vedas were written, practiced the art of discovering hidden things by means of magic wands. The Chinese “from time im- memorial” have made them of peach twigs. European nations have had faith in the Eazel branch, and not even the sarcasm of a Sir Walter Scott, as put forth against the person of Dousterswivel in “The Anti- qvary,.” las been able to kill the English and Scotch belief in the method. ——_+-«+____ A Bri t Man. From the Somerville Journal. Wiggles—“Watson is cne of the ablest men I know.” Waggles—“What makes you think so?” Wiggles—“Well, for ore thing, he always keeps a supply of two or three dozen collar buttons on hand, and when he loses one under the bureau he never stops to hunt for it." HOW DUFFY STOLE A JAIL. The Extraordinary Achievement That Enabled Him to Serve His Friends. From the Kansas City Star. This is the narrative of Duffy's theft of a jail and the prisoners therein. Mr. Duffy, from the core of the nation’s intellect; bal- loonist, manfish, tourist and orator, had found a friend who had indulged him to the extent of the following items, to wit: Three drinks, one supper, one cigar. This story was his payment therefor. He unbuttoned his vest, for he had consumed a large, thick steak, two dishes of potatues, two platefuls of bread, two cups of coffee, three large, heavy flannel cakes and a glass of milk. “Thrue oratory and me gintlemanly in- stinets often lead me into pleasant fields and the company of conjanial companions,” he began. “I oncet committed most shame- ful larcenny in the state of Indianny. 1 was tourin’ with a friend, an’ we had jour- neyed as far as Jay county. Now ye can't tell me that the people of a county with such a name can cope with a set of brains from Beston. We had reached the town of Portland. Me friend committed the indis- cretioa of becoming hungry an’ was arrest- ed. I brought me intellict to bear upon the sitooation, an’ kept well fed an’ free. Now, Portland was the county sate, an’ the jail had recently been burned to the ground. The sheriff therefore kep’ his prisoners in a box car down on the railroad thrack, the same bein’ loaned by @ conservative com- pany, the which didn’t want the prisoners beatin’ their way on its trains. Me friend was dumped into this jail; me an’ ine intil- lict_ stayed on the outside. “I agitated me thinker all day, and by nightfall had planned the deliverance of me friend an’ his fellow incarcerates. At supper toime the gyard went away home, leavin’ his lantern by the thrack side. It was me intintion to pry the door off the car, an’ I was lookin’ about fer a pry whin I heard a train comin’, Me intillict was equeal to the emergency. I took the gyard’s Jantern an’ flagged the train, which was of the way freight species, the hardest of all fer a tourist to travel under. The train ‘stopped an’ the conductor says kind o' im- pedint : ‘What'n’ll d’je shtop this train fer?’ ‘Me friend,’ says I, ‘this car 1s bound fer Tiffin, Okio, an’ me instructions was to shtop yez an’ hitch it on to yer train.’ He grumbled a good deal, but hitched the car on, me hangin’ to the brake beam. It was along about 3 o’clock in the mornin’ when we crossed the Ohio loine an’ shtopped at a station. I crawled out, broke open the jail door wid a couplin’ pin, an’ all me laddybucks came forth, free as the air. An’ that’s how I stole the jail in Indianny. My, but I'm dry.” The Mariner's Grave. Beneath the grim old beacon tower ‘They made his last straight bed, ‘The gray and grizzled slope below, The ocean wide outspread. ‘There might he see the ships slip in And out across the bar, And down the night the warning light Fling its recurrent star. ‘There might he hear the harping wind Retune its anclent strain, And that sublime musician, sea, Antone its joy and pain. There might his sleep be long and deep, From time and tide withdrawn; Above, the sea-gull’s Until the last red dav Complete Annithilation, London Spectator Correspondence. Perhaps you will allow me to send you the following specimen of a “bull” which I heard from a Roman Catholic pulpit in England. The preacher may have been an Irishman, but I am,not sure. He was speaking of the transitoriness of earthly things. ‘“‘Look at the great cities of anti- quity!” he exclaimed, “where are they now? Why, zome of them have perished so utterly that it is doubtful if they ever existed.” ——__+e+____ How She Knew. From the Somerville Journal. “Is she a neat housekeeper?” “She must be, Her husband was telling Mr. Binks the other day that he never could enjoy himself at home.” S Fish-frying in Greenlarnd.—Fliegende Blatter, ‘FRESHMAN z 23 THE PUBLIC SERVICE Training Which is Given at the Fa- mous Polytechnique of Paris, — THEY WEAR A MILITARY UNIFORM > Curious Customs Which Prevail Among the Students. PRANES Se Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, April 2, 1896. HE ECOLE POLY- technique of Paris is undoubtedly the most famous engineering school in the world. It does not turn out -engineers, but it «gives that general sclentific training which fits the stu- dent to succeed in the special schools of practical engineering. And there are many of these in France. Every parent looks forward to getting his child Into some government service; and the government has made something like our civil service out of every work for pub- lic utility, whether military or civil, that goes on in the country. So this government school prepares, during two years of se- rious mathematical studies, hundreds of students who are to go up to the special schools fitting them to be engineers of mines, of highways and bridges, inspectors of the government tobacco factories, of gunpowder and saltpeter, of hydrography, of naval construction, officers of the artil- lery, of the army engineer corps, of naval artillery, of the navy, and of the navy com- missariat. All these employments and of- fices are under government control, are en- tered from government schools which cor- respond to our West Point and Annapolis, Bump Against a Citizen. though with much greater variety, and fur- nish a lifelong career to the young French- man. These young students of the Polytechnic School immediately on their admittance to the establishment are provided with a military-like uniform to wear. . From the start they have the illusion of belonging to the government service. They have ai- ready their pride, their traditions and their esprit de corps. The sole riches of the late President Carnot came from his having been a, successful student of this school. It sent him-up to the speclaf school of bridges and highways, where. the govern- ment took him to preside over the roads of Savoy, a position which warranted him in marrying a well-to-do wife. Marcel. Pre- vost, the author of Les Demi-Vierges, in spite of the success of his nov enough not to give up the position which the Polytechnique won for him as director of the government tobacco factory in Lille. Emile Henry turned anarchist, and so came to have his head cut off, because he had failed in the entrance examination into the school after Paris had educated him in her colleges for eight years. Examination Inevitable. The Polytechnic School is so important that it is independent of all the other tranches of the State University. It ac- cepts no examinations but its own, and these are public. It is not under the min- ister of public instruction, but depends directly from the ministry of war, al- though by far the greater number of its students engage in some branch of civil engineering. The school is also under real military discipline, with a colonel in com- mand, and with a squad of drummers to call the students out of bed and to their various exercises. Few students present themselves for the entrance examination ‘The New Uniform. unless they are already bachelors of science of the French university. But this does not help them, and they have to stand up with the others to be questioned in their pre- paratory studies, while their fathers and mothers sit behind them in the hall, listen- ing and trembling for their success. In point of fact, a great number do not succeed. The school can receive only two hundred and fifty new studen‘s at most each year. On account of the difficulties of this entrance examination, there are num- bers of private schools having for their special object to prepare for it. There are few bachelors of science from the univer- sity who do not take at least one full year of special preparation before facing the or- deal. They have no time to lose, ‘or no one can enter the school later than his twenty-first vear, not completed. Two-thirds of the candidates and -fully one-half of those finally admitted come from the state colleges of Paris itself. The Test have been educated in religious schools or privately, or come up from the state schcols of the provirces. It is this predom- inance of Paris, so it is said, which has al- ways kept the Polytechnique on the side of the revolution and the republic. The army officers have often heen accused of a liking for a king or emperor; but the Polytechnic students have helped in every revolution from 1830 down. Uniforms for the Students. The student enters in his civil dress. The first operation he has to undergo is to get into his uniform. This, with the rest of the necessary “trousseau,” will cost him from one hundred and forty to one hundred and sixty dollars. The officer on service makes sure that his beard and hair have the reg- ulation cut before vaseing him over to the tailor, shoemaker and linen keeper. The student is at once furnished with all he is supposed to need for his entire stay of two years: It is his business to take care of it. There is one uniform for the interior of the school, and the tradition is that the stu- dent need take little care of it. On the contrary, he must give the great- est attention to his uniform for the out- side. The latter has two rows of buttons on the coat, with a black velvet collar (in- side which a white collar appears), a belt with a sword, and the two-horned hat. His year! costs him two hundred dol- lars, and he is charged twenty dollars for damages it is supposed that he will do to the building. As these are never item- ized, it is the immemorial practice of first- year students to immediutely break all the windows of the freshmen students imme- diately on their,arrival, The student or his family must ide pocket money and board him durii the vacation. The students awakened in the morn- ing at 6 o'clocl arp, to the sound of the drum. The pri le of French hygiene de- mands that all@@eir’work, as far as possi- ble, shall be on an empty stomach. So‘ they go diféetly from dormitory to study hall, where they prepare their classes from 6:30 till 8:30. Then only, two hours and a half after rising, they are given the lightest kind of a European breakfast—dry bread and milk, or lukewarm soup, with Jaft on holidays. {0 make a walk of diges- until they are called to tion necessary,’ class at 9 o'clock. ‘The effect of this regime frequently lasts students through their life. One of my friends, who hag been out of the Polytech- nique for ten yeArs, still adheres to the fol- lowing morning hours: He rises at 6 a.m., makes himself @ cup of tea at $ a.m., eats nothing with it but the smallest dry crust, ‘The Frenchman Explains. and only takes his lunch at 11 a.m. Thus, he says, he gets five hours’ solid, clear- headed work done every morning, and has time to amuse himself in the beautiful af- ternoon. Time for Digestion. It is only at 2 o'clock that dinner, the first solid meal, is served. The food is simple, but abundant. From that time un- til 5 p.m. there is no question of work. It is the students’ recreation time, in which they may chat, amuse themselves, smoke, engage in gymnastic exercises, read novels or sleep. All this has to be done Inside the establishment, however, for students are not allowed outside of bounds on common days. If a student undertakes to work during this time of digestion the officer in charge urgently remonstrates, unless it is near the time of the examinations. At 5 o'clock work begins in, and now goes on unbroken up till 9 This is the time when the students draw or make up for lost time in their literature and history; and there are supplementary eourses in the sciences. At 9 o'clock at night supper is served, from which the students go straight to bed. At 10 o'clock all the lights are out. ‘The students of each year have four prin- cipal professors—one for mathematical analysis and calculus, ore for mechanics, one for physics and another for chemist Then in the first.year they study persp tive, descriptive geometry and other draughtsmanship; and in the second year they have a course of astronomy. In all these studies special examinations held, and the students, on leaving the stitution, are ranked according to the marks which they have received in them. Altogether, each: student has eighteen ex- aminations to pass each year. ‘There 4 other very ex-ejlent courses in architectu- ral design, in the military art, in history and literature, ‘id there are exercises in French essay writing. But all these count little for the place the student aims to ob- tain on the lists and which determine his order of promotion in the public service. Physical Exercises. Special army captains are detailed, under the title of “inspectors of studi to in- struct the studesi{s in military maneuvers, There are eigh{ of these, four for each Trying the Effect. year, and each one is assisted by an adju- tant. They are also charged with the gym- nastic exercises, for which the officers of the fire companies of Paris are brought in. Then there are lessons in fencing. All of these physical exercises are compulsory, but the student, if he wishes, may engage in horsebeck riding and in learning to dance in special schools outside the estab- lishment. ' The days out of the students are not very numerous. Each week they can. leave the establisament on Wednesday after the 2 o'clock dinner. On Sunday, when there is no grand review on hand, they may go out from 7 in the mornirg, without their break- fest, of course. They must be back by 10 o'clock at night on ordinary occasions. A special theater permission is sometimes giv- en, which lasts until half after midnight. After the first examination of the year, in February, there is a vacation of fifteen @cys. After the second, at the end of Juiy, there is two months. During the year tie students are from time to time taken to visit scientific and industrial establishments and even are exercised at military marches acress country. The object throughout is to treat these young men like schoolboys who have still a great deal of work before them; and the tradition of the Polytechnic has it that the first year’s students shall conduct themselves in such a way as to mislead the despised freshmen into many boyish follies and little vanities. A Student's Holiday. According to the jokes of the older stu- dents, the first “sortie” of a freshman is about as follows: The morning breaks, and he has a whole day before him in the city of Paris, to air his new uniform and to com- mit innumerable debauches. His earliest oc- cupation is to hiirry out of the school and cross the street #b'a celebrated wine and to- bacco shop—thagfof ‘the mother Leblanc’— and treat himg@e to a dish of brandied prunes and a ge of cigarettes. Then, not being used t@Mavigating his two-horned hat, and beng plightly excited by the Youth’s Fond Dream, prunes, he must bump his hat against a lamp post or the eye of a citizen. Item: Avoid breakfasting in the rich cafes, where they charge dear; keep your pocket- toney for getting your photograph taken; eat your luxurious restaurant breakfast in a reasonable Duval establishment, avoiding fancy dishes like truffled sausage, to go in for the nourishing boiled beef. This will give you more beer money in the afternoon. It 1s imperative to sit a couple of hours in a pretty-waiter-girl beer cafe, chat with the damsel: Bees enous thal ecu eet ce many a drink, so proving that you are no longer @ mere schoolboy with the law against minors hanging over your fair per- son, The great event of the day—to have one’s photograph taken. Ht is a tintype, so that you can take it immediately to your moth- er, aunt or any other relative or lady friend on whom you now will pay a call. Toward evening you will strcli along the Grand Boulevard wondering what in the world to do next. Every one is admiring the uni- form, of course.. But you are lonely, and the time grows long, because you are not used to being out alone as yet, young man of twenty-one. In the omnibus, on your way back, however, you will nete the ad- miration of the public with increased satis- faction. Fan With a Freshman. It may be that some rougish middle-aged man will slide up beside you, ask timidly: “Monsieur is ro doubt of the officers’ school of Saint-Cyr?” You must energetically pro- test and appcar slightly amused at the ig- nerance of ypur neighbor. He thinks that the Pclytechnic Sckcol is only for the edu- cation of tobacco Inspectors! Rectify this erormous errcr for the honor of your class, ard do not hesitate to run over the names of all the careers of government service fed by the Polytechnic—engineers cf mines, tridges, tobacto, powder, water surveys, roads, artillery, naval construction, etc., giving a clear and full explanation and de- tails on each division. That will make the timid gentleman open his eyes with admira- tion and you will have a quiet laugh at his expense. Only it mzy happen to you that at the moment you get out of the omnibus to- gether he will turn and ery in a rude Yoice: “Ras conscrit!” which, in the slang of the Polytechnic, means “Don’t be late, school boy!" and ro proved himself to be an old student of the cstablishment who saw you afar, followed you, and listened to your izrocent brag in order to amuse himself. console yourself. Take another brandied prune at Mother Leblanc’s, reflect that you will make the same joke some day, and dream at night of future fame. Despite a full knowledge of this kind of hazing, near- ly every voung Polytechnician gets caught in this fashion some time during his first year. It is looked on as a religious duty of any graduate who catches a freshman out to follow him and bunco him if it be possible. . There is a great spirit of fraternity amcng these students. One of their most curious customs is the organizing of their study halls into business corporations. There are eight to ten students for each study hall, and these take up for a year some one of the various branches of com- merce, which are for the public utility. The profit is not to be distributed in money, Lut it is to serve for a festivity at the end of the year. One hall sells tobacco. An- ether, under the name of foie gras, sells pies, chocolate and such like eatables. The hall of liqueurs 1s the closest watched by the management and has the merchandise which is oftencst seized. The most original of these halls has the German name “schicksal” (destiry). It insures the stu- dents against the most dreaded form of di ny while they are in the school, namely, the being questioned by a pro- fessor in full lecture hall. By paying two ts of insurance money before lecture begins, the unlucky student stands a chance of receiving from two to four dol- lars, which mey console him if he has an- swered badly. STERLING HEILIG, 2 ee At the Opera. From the New York Sun. 1. WHAT THE MAN HEARD, id I hear Madame Prima sing?’ d her quaver ver, 1, that was # different thing; ‘on the outsid net ny viet etrified smile adorned her fa And, b r to the Course ‘she never could tink ia anchored ard La Prima sh ont = the town against the crowd, led to tell it, right out loud. nsome one lid brought a baby there Whose i d its lack of hairs It howled * al high ther carry her up beard La Prima sing! ine e winked al blinked and wrinkled her nose, outh to swallow her focs, E nortnal pose, ddenly reared and raged and rose igeied and w ‘led nud stood on her toes, It was something marvelous, 1 suppose, couldn't tell, as a nian remarked, coughed or rd La Prin 0, yes, T was the swectest thing! piffon, aml cut quite lo ft you know, and green, I've seen. ave been nine yards ‘round, and fell 60 W And the colors were lovel: The prettiest sh ‘Then it mast 5 net. Dykes! ‘They fell bodice, of course, and they’ did look O, Lalmost forgot her Van From t sw ‘They were supphire blue, and they matched so well. Then a belt with a buckle of foweled gold; ke it hol it fully sw ugke the whole thing com ing sleeves! ‘They wet of being balloon or plain ch, three pulls; T think It was three. Why, I'm telling you, can’t you ste ‘They were Just the And that point de ge One-half the effect \ He Informed the Bishop. From the London Tid-Bits. A well-known bishop, who takes a promi- nent interest in everything affecting the working classes, wishing to judge for him- self what a journey in a workman's car- riage was like, took a ticket and joined the miscellaneous crowd which fills these trains on the Great Eastern railway. After a most undignified struggle for a seat, he found himself jammed in between 4 nayvy, smoking a strong black pipe, on his right, and an artist in house painting, smelling strongly of his craft and carefuliy balancing a can of green paint, on his left hand. The good bishop, apprehensive for the safe balance of this can and nauseated by the very unpleasant odors arising, was also very much shocked by the bad lan- guage which garnished the conversation of his neighbors. After a particularly from the navvy, gently, inquir “My good man, please tell me where you learn the language you have just made use of.” The navvy replied, with a suspicion of pride in his tone: “Learn it, guv’nor? You can’t learn it! It's a gift!’ —__+-e+—_____ The Ear Trampet. From the Household Words. A pitman entering a public house in Newcastle, where an old man was seated near the fire, accosted him with the cus- tomary salutation of “Gude mornin’.” The old man, however, paid no attention, and the pitman repeated his salute in a louder voice. This time his lungs had effect; the old man raised himself up, and taking from a capacious pocket a trumpet of peculiar construction, put it to his ear. Our honest pitman stood amazed; but after waiting with the most anxious expectation for some moments while no sound came, he exclaim- ed with a disappointed air: “Nay, man, it winna dea; thou canna play wi’ thy lug.”’ HILLIPS: yes COCOA THE ONLY COCOA WITH RICH CHOCOLATE FLAVOR, strong expression the bishop, touching him A REMARKABLE HOLD-UP. A Detective Telis a Story of a Hold- <« Up Net im the Bills. “This story I see going the rounds of the newspapers about a gang out west scheming to hoid up a train with Vander- derbilt, Depew and other rich meat on it,” remarked a detective to a Star re- porter, “reminds me of one similar that occurred in my bailiwick when I was work- ing in California.” “As to how?” questioned the reporter. “A chap out there came to me just as the fellow did in the case of this detective and said he was one of a gang that was going to hold up a train with a lot of ’Frisco millionaires aboard, but that as I had been a friend to him when he needed it, which was true, or he would have then been wearing the stripes, he was going to give the snap away. It looked to me to be the chance of my life, and I at once began operations to thwart the robbers. I told the chap to go ahead and help the gang get reedy for the train, and that when it was held up they wouid hear something drop, and that h2 had better keep in a safe place or it might be him along with the others. ‘The train left ’Frisco one night at 9 o'clock, and I was informed that the rold-up was to take place in a lonesome spot about an hour out of ’Frisco. I had a carload of armed men ready. ‘AS we struck the dangerous place I was pretty nervous and so was everybody else, but we meant business, and braced up with a drink or two for whatever work we might have. It came at last with a light on the track, where a man stood swinging a lantern, and the train pulled up. As it stopped there was a volley of half dozen shots poured into the train from the woods near the track, which my men responded to cn the spot, much to my chagrin, for I had wented the robbers to board us, where we could have them in good shoot- ing position. My men were green, though, or at least most of them were, and they were so rattled by the volley that they forgot what they were doing and banged away. “Nothing was left then but to give chase, which we did for a few hundred yards through the woods, but they got away in the dark, and we found nothing except as we came back to the train my friend, the informer. Him we founi lying in the gutter on top of his lantern, scared half to death. We took him in, and 2s the train pulled out I explained his part in the affair and th> millionaires were so pleased with his heroic conduct in saving them that they made up a pony purse of $1,500 and presented it to him on the spot and offered him a railroad job where he might have a chance to lead a new life, “He took the money and the job, and the next time I saw him ke was in jail at Sacramentc with a bullet hole in him. Before he quit living, however, he told me with a laugh that the hold-up was a fake from start to finish, and that his wife did the shooting from the woods with a re- volver and ran away 2s fast as she could. They figured that the rich men would make up some sort of purse, and if they didn’t get more than a hundred dollars it would have repaid them amply for all their cx- pense and trouble. As for the risk, there wasn’t arye I was glad nobody heard the scoundrel teli his story, for it made me mighty sore, and I never told it till I had been away from California for five years.” ———. Roentgenized. From Vanity. She (tim, 1 a m.)—‘Where have you been until this late hour?” He—“I had a customer from the west, who detained me talking business.” When he had fallen asleep she applied a cathode ray to his bald spot. “Three queens and a pair of feurs—and a double jack pot,” she exclaimed. Quickly invesUgating the contents of his pockets, she resumed her place on the bed, with the rema “Just as I expected, the other man must a held that hand—but wait until morn- ng!’ Thoroughly Posted. From the New York Weckly, Cigar Dealer—“Yes, I want a boy here. Have you had any experience?” Youthful Applicant—“Lots.” “Suppose I should mix up the price marks in these boxes, could you tell the good cigars from the bad ones “Easy ‘pough.” “The wust cigars is got the purtiest pictur’s. ——_+e2.—___ So Did He. From the Boston Trarscript. Mrs. Grimble (to her offspring). here you go, tracking the floor all over with mud. Didn't I tell you to wipe your feet before you came in Johnny—“Oh, nobedy’s blaming you, ma; you did all you could.” ee Grave and Reverend Seniors. The Figaro gives statistics respecting the ages of the members of the French second chamber. From these it appears that more than one-third—viz., 123 out of 20—are over sixty-five years of age, and 179 over sixty There are twenty-nine between seventy and seventy-five years of cge, thirty between ve and eighty, and twenty-one the boxes wot's MALARIA AND RHEUMATISM From the Journal, Wilmington, Ohio. On one of the fertile farms of the rich Olio valley, seven miles from Wilmington, tho county seat of Clinton county, Ohio, aud but a short dis- tance from the small town of Melvin, thei post office, in a cozy little country home, resides Johm Arrasmith and his wife, Minnie. A few days since a representative of the .ournal @rove out to Melvin to sce them. In the course of the conversation Mrs. A. detailed the facts of ber cure. ‘Last July,” said she, “from undue exposure in my work about the farm, I contracted malarial fever and rheumatisin and suffered from the Hl ness greatly. 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