Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 9, 1889, Page 5

THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS An Amusing Thread Trick Which Catches Every Time. MADE A MISTAKE IN HIS CARD. Cold Chills Produced by a Rat—The Northwestern Travelers Assocla- tion—A Package of Samples— Sunday Visitors in Omaha, The Drummer's Lntest Trick, The drummer always brings the latest tric! Here it is: pool of white basting cotton. Drop it into your inside coat pocket, and, threading a needic with it, pass it up through the shoulder of your coat. Leave the end an inch or the ou of your coat and take off the necdle. Four men out of five will try to pick that thread off your shoulder, and will pull the spool until it actu does seem as though your clothes all bastin nd thut ere unraveling only your , but you 11, asin to see W ian’ in DBoston last week,” traveling man. “It was most sting and thetic portion of the play. Everybody was rapt. I was sit- ting bolt upright, and didn’t know or care to know a soul around me, when suddenly I felt some one tugging at that basting cotton that I myself had clean forgotten. 1 didn’t say a word and did not move. Koot by foot it un- roiled. Half glancing around, I saw a man-—a total stranger—yanking at that thread, His face was scarlet e had pulled out about ten yards und was now hauling in hand over hand. He didn’t drre to stop, because he had decorated my buck and the whole aisle with bast- ing cotton. He hardly dare go ahead, for he didn’t know what portion of my domestic interior economy he was trifling with. Rip! rip! went the thread, Hand over hand he nked it in. The aisle was full of it. *F'or heayen’s sake! will it never end?said he above his breath. 1 sat perfectly still und ran the spool while he pulled. How I wanted to yell. I never saw any- thing in mylife halt so funny. The whole geetion of the house gotonto it. They didn’t know whether to laugh at me or him and some looked on amazed at the spectacle. At last the stranger behind me pave one frantic rip and yanked out about eleven yards on one bunch, and as the cotton got twisted around his watch chain, over his eye- lasses, in his very hair and filled his F.,.,, I turned around and, producing the spool from my pocket, said, ‘I am very much obliged” for your interest in mo and very sorry that I misled you. You see ] have about a hundred and twenty- four yards left, but I presume that you don’t care for any more tonight. 1 am honestly sorry, but I can’t help smil- ing. “The man was a modest sort of a gen- tleman in appearance. His face was red as fire even to his ears. He looked at me and then at the spool. He changed color once or twice, and thenas the crowd caught on a great laugh went up right in one of the painful passages of *Claudian,’ and the gentleman who had intended to pull that thread off joined in the laugh and said, ‘T will square that up on my wife when I get home; but, my friend, I swear to heaven that I did think at one time that I was going to undress you where you sat.’ It catches every time, and my own wife has been fooled twice on it.” o long on de whole on Barret in said in pa- ilson the inter Nine Times Fu'l, The Jowa traveling men held their ninth annual banguet at the Savery hotel in Des Moines last Friday night, and according to all reports it was a very fine affair. Blue points, red snap- per, saddle of venison, broiled quail fur- nished a substantial base in each stom- ache for the fancy cakes, ice cream and fruits. After the repast came a season of oratorical eloquence. M. W. Ward was one of the principal speakers, W. A. Parker officiated as toast master and read many telegrams from traveling men all over the country expressing their regrets at not being able to be present, In its discription of this ban- yuet the Des Moines Loader says: The callow youth and brainless dudes who are conspicuous figures at many socinl gatherings were not on hand and the matured and handsome gentlemen who constitute Towa’s force of nomadic salesmen and the charming and enter- taining ladies in pretty cossumes, mado up an assemblage such as it is a pleas- ure to mingle with. Thayer’s orches- tra furnished delightful music and the minutes passed pleasantly enough until the Lour arrived for throwing open the dining room door. With forming new Bequaintances and renewing old ones, relating experiences and saying pretty little nothings to the tadies—and tray- eling men are noted for their ability to do that—the knights of the grip were very jolly. When supper was an- nounced 150 persons were on hand. The tables were handsomely decor- ated with smilax set with roses, and baskets of flowers were here and there. Mac's Uard. A prominent traveling man from Omaha who had been entortaining some friends in room 22 at the Midway hotel, Kearney, last Sunday evening, had evi- dently lost his busiuess cards as he en- tered one of the prominent stores, th next morning, and politely remarked: “M-— Jones, here is my card,” and the following tasty card was drawn from his coat pocket and handed to the mer- chant: “The Midway Wine Order. Please send to room No, 22 —— —— Oue whisky and soda on side. Date 12, 1880, MCAULIFFE." The merchant kept the card and handed it to a fellow traveling man and itisnecdless to state that sky and #oda did not go, but several bottles of Pomery Sec were cracked. Rats, Anold granger came into u store at Colon the other day complaining that he had folt cold chills running up and down Lis back all morning and was sure that his time must be at hand, and he said he was ready to go. About that time oue of his neighhor- came in and diseovered the head of a well developed rat protruding from the top of his over- coat, which had undoubtedly produced the chills. The rat was of course n‘w‘ed&lly dispatched, The old gent ex- i that he had ot had the coat on since last fall. He also said that he found whitstones in his hair in the fall when be had it cut, but this was the first time he had ever found a rat. N.ow A All mombers of the Northwestern traveling men's association residing in Nebraska, and a'l traveling men who desire to become members, are re- auested to meet in the parlors of the Paxton hotel, Omaha, Neb., Saturday night, Decomber 21, for discussion of proposed amendments to the constitu- tion and to appoint representatives to the annual meeting, which takes place on December samples, James Winterstine was a conspicuous figure in the lobby of the Midway at Kearney last Thursday He travels for a Lincoln house and is a hustler. Tverybody knows the genial Charley Thorn burg, who travels for David Cole, the western ngent for Pl Com- s celebrated oystors, Charley al- ys carries a oysters and an in- ventory of wormy chestnuts for the edi- fication of his friends. His a thorough- bred on matching a nickel ag: f quarter for a cocktail, and wh doubt arises he invariably claims percentage. R. Farguson, the favorite son of St. Joseph, can talk less than any otner man on the road—ho swmmers, He sells plug tobucco for Sam Reid of St Joseph. nk Buckheit, who hustles for Me- Cord, Brady & Company of Omaha, made a flying trip over the Union Pa- cific to Sidney last week. M. I Sayere, who sells agricultural implements for Deere, Wells & Com- pany of Councill Bluffs, has been in Wyoming and Utah taking a few orders from the prosperous farmors who in- habit the mountain recesses of that re- gion. Billy Manning, with Bmerson, Tal- cott & Company of Omaha, is doing the rustle act for his firm out in western Ne- braska. H. B. Kessler, who sells saddlery for Kipper & Sons at Atchison, visited his Grand Island customers last Friday. As the ordinary traveler entered the lobby of the Midway at Kearney last Thursday night he couid notice Bob Simmons, the XXXX coffee man of Lincoln, slumbering away in a cush- ioned chair waiting for an early train. Bob is a handsome fellow and “always wears u tasty tie in four colors, J. R. Rooks. r at the Midway, is giving ction and caters to the wants and demands of the festive drummer. He showldeced a grip for nearly fifteen yoars himself nd traveled through the New Englana the It is reported that Arthur Sheels of St. Josoph, and by the way one of tho most clever manipulators of the Eng- lish ,language in selling goods, will soon tie the nuptial knot with one of Grand lIsland’s comely maidens. Iis fricnds are waiting for cards. Ed H. Culver, the festive boot and shoe man from St. Joe, 18 hustling over tho country with old-time vigor and is greeting his customers with o smil Ed unfortunately met with a little acci- dent in room 16, Commereial hotel, at Ogallalaone day last week, but his friends are in hopes he will recover. Jay W. Kennedy, representing Chamberlain & Company, manufac pharmacists of Des Moines, spent Sun- day at the Palmer, Grand Island. E. G. Rust, of the Richardson drug company, has been looking after the trade along the Union Pacitic for the past week. J. M. Jurrett has represented the Harter Medlicine company of St. Louis since 1883. He attends to advertising Harter’s remeaies, and at every town llage and hamlet in Nebraska Har- ter’s lithographs can be seen standing out in bold relief. Mr. Jarrett is very popular and nearly every knight of the grip is familiar with him. He will go to St. Louis next week tospend the holidays, when on January 1 he will re- turn to keep up the good work in Ne- braska. James R. Wash, a prominent insul ance uu{uslce from Lincoln, was Grand Island Saturday. H. Monheimer, the cigarette man from Chicago, 15 shying his caster into the competitive ring out in western Ne- braska. ~ He is selling Allen & Ginter’s famous brands of tobacco and cigarettes. Ed Gundlefinger, the great hustler for Darst & Company of Owmaha, was interviewing his customers at Grand 1sland yesterday. The Midway Hotel Annex at Kearney will be ready for occupancy about De- cember 10, Every commercial drum- mer will appreciate this, as passengers riving at Kearney on late trains in- bly have to sleep on cots. Henry Wetzler, senior member of Wetzler, Sachs & Company of Mil- wuukee, bas been selling his leaf to- bacco west of Grand Island for the past week. ‘Walter H. Bates, the handsorae and ubiquious represantative of the Newton Wagon company, spent Sunday at Grand Island, S V. Slusher, who travels for Paxton & Gallagher south of Hastings, is very sick at his home in Holdrege with an abscess in his side. Ike Hill, one of the best known and most popular knights of the gripin the western part of tne state, will leave for Salt Lake the first of the year and try his hand selling grocerics to the Mor- mons for Paxton & Gallagher, J. A. COlisbie, who sold Red Lion coffee for the past few yearsin Ne- braska, has gone into the employ of Paxton & Gallagher, and will make the territory vacated by Ike Hill, Drummers in Omaba on Sunday. At the Windsor: Carl Wheeler, Grand Island; W, H, Preston, Chicago; A. J. McDonald, Chicago; H. B, Miller, St. Joe; T. IT. Mead, Sedalia, Mo.; J. A, Ackley, Chicago; J. M, Evans, Jr,, Chi- cugo; A, Pickle, Warrensburg, Mo.; James S. Grubbs. Chicago; J. T, Spin- ney, St. Louis; J. C. Wood, Omaha; J, W. Bradshaw, Chicago; W, T. Foster, Creston, In.; C. R, Hughes, New York; M. Sachs, Chieago, At the Bark {arry Loder, Omaha; F. C, Schultz, Leavenworth: J, K. Utesh, Chicago; T. J. Blocher, Chi- eago: T. L. B.lhngsley, Minneapolis; J. I. Laue, St. Louis; T. B. Anderson, Cleveland; R. C. Martell, Chicago; J. D. Rowley, Kansas City; J. 8. Taylor, Kansas City; George Krug, St. Louis; J. K. Van Duser, Kansas City; Scott Matson, St. Louis; George Norwood, Boston; H. M. Adams, Liocoln; F. M. Smith, Davenport; Sam Wessel, Lin- celo, At the Murray hotel Chief Clerk Higby and his assistants entertained the following persons: H. G. Coles, 1. S. McKurry, A, J. Pickett, W. W, Douglass, H. G, Schramm, J. E. Bourk, W, Sweetman, George A. Hill, C, E. Meyer, S, C. Eppensteion, J. M. Peaslee, G, W. Burpee, G. A. Van Eps, William Strehl, W. W, Stewart, W. J. Cough-~ lin, H. H, Shaw, J. F. Pride, A, L. Sproule, R. T. Simms, from Chicago; H. E. Hackman, R. T, Krebs, B. Berk- son, J. W, Saunders, Joe 1. McCarthy. E. W. Copelin, from St Lows: H, I. Dickinson, E. J. Capdoze, Theodore Newell, George J. Ketchum, H, E. Imhoff, E. T. Wells, F. Rochford and wife, George C. Boniface, Jr., G. H. Horbort, M. Gluck, George I'. Ahrens, Harry E. Bell, W. C. Edler, Theodore Newell, F. 8. Haskeil; New York; William P. Brown and wife, Pennsyl. vania; H. C. Bruner, Philadeiphia; Mark Duryea, Sarauna, Ill.; Oscar Tucker, Philadelphia; J. - Kinsman, Philadelphia; John H. Hambucker, St. Louis; H. A. Ballingal, Short Hills, N. J.; Fred Loy, Rock island; A. J. Tay , Rock Island; C. M. Johnson, Davenport, Ia.; Ed Clement, Ashton, 8. D.; Otto Lachmund, Lyons, in.; A. Guitman, Atlantic, Ga.; W+ H. Donaldson, ~ Westfiield, Mas Grifel, Milwaukee, Wis.; Paine, Jr., New Orleans; Aldridge, Rochester, N, Y.; J. M. Sherman, Denver; J. A. Murphy and C. B. Bewell, Massachusetts; . . Weld, St. Joseph; A.M. Pettit, Knosha, Wis.; William Calder, manager Pattio Rosa company; Miss Finch, Pattie Rosa company. Chief Clerk Sherman of the Paxton was busy all d yesterday with his commercy The register shows the followir ¢ Hamilton Brown, Chicago: C low, Chicago; A. R. Val Maurice Rosenbaum, Chic V. Kingman, & Edwar Welsh, New Yor St. Louis: J. Olive H. B ery Chi- Brooklyn; John and Clinton T 11, St. 1. Ginsherg, New Yorl uly D. Morgan, ( George D. Conger. Toledo, 5 A. Shulper, Detroit, Mich.; John C. Ballett, St. Paul, Minn.; G. D. Davis. Covin fuo, New Yor cago; W. H. Draps James, Philadelphi W. >eavoy, Min- Halerman, Chicago; Minneapolis; J. M. A. Vilnois, New York; nn, Mass.; S. Stan- foreign agent Chicago, Bur- Quiney, London, England; N, ks, St. Louis; L. M. Westlake, sburg, Pa.; H. . Frede, Detroit, h.; W. I Enton, Chicago; James B, Hubbell, Chicago; A. L. Belknap, Chi- cago; A. W. Horton, Minneapolis; Louis Sholes, Milwaukee; D. C. McMartin, Des Moines, Ia.; Charles robridge, St. Louis; Charles Brooks, San ran- cisco; O, D. Haynet, St. Louis; F. X Craft, Cineinnati, O.; James Aaler, New York; John O. Foening, Philadel- ‘!hin L. B. Scott, John M. Locke, G. W. Griffin, j ames G. S. Best, David Barrie, I, H. Johnson, J. I, Mills, Chi- cngo; George H. Holden, Minneap- alis; A, -F. Holden, Cleveland, O.; aniel Wike; Peoria, Tll.; R. W. Har- vey, St. Louis; O. C. Rash, Cincinnati, 35 IXdmound Mallel, Oswego, N. Y.; Ed 3 T. C. White, S neapol O. D. Kinney. Pierce, Chicago: A. B, Jaqui T. L. Carrow, New York; M. Luther Krotel, New York; S, B. Braun, T. D. Drake, Chicago; John Ronaldson, St. Lou D. T. Mervine, Kansas City; R.'T. Shennerham, New Yorl; J. W. Barlow, New York; T. W. Ayers, New York; Stewart L. More, St. Paul, Miun.; Clarence Mckee, St. Paul, Minn. At the Merchants: Chicago; R, P. Mille Wilson, St. Paul; T, St. Paul: J. G. Mills, New York; Charles Dryfus, Omahna; J. W. Buchanan, Chicago; G. A, We ton, Boston; John E. Owens, Chicago; G.W.Husselton, Kansas City. G. Smith, Chicago; D. B. Welpton, Omaha; W.T. Kennedy, Omaha; B. McLain, Chicago; C. H. Cunningham, Sioux Falls; John L. Dow, Roonsville, Ind.; W. A. Ter- williger, Brooklyn; S. A, Moffitt, Mad- ison, Ind.; W. N. McCaskey, Sioux City; W. S. Jefferson, Chicagos Charlos J. Thomas, Chicago; W. L. Gleissner, St. Louis. Sl J. H. Peterson, Omaha; E. G. . Wright, ped s e g pless, nervous prostration, norvous a, dullness, blues,cured by Dr. Miles' v Samales free at Kuhn & Co.'s, 15th and Douglas. e An Historic Church. The historic West church. overlook- ing Cambridge street, Boston, isa brick building with a wooden belfry, writes a correspondent of the Worcester Spy. It is a feeble expression of the cold and torpid architecture of the Italian re- issunce, but the open space before it ves it an air of dignity and reserve. The unpainted pews of pine date back toearly 1n the present century. The gallery 18 supported by tall;-white Cor- inthian columns, and the pulpit, a mas- sive affair of solid mahogany, well carved, is perched nigh above the heads of the people. One of the pastors was the father of James Russell Lowell, who says: “In my early years I thought that pulpit to be the highest effort of luman skill in archi- tecture. The crimson draperies behind it, mellowed by age, add to the quaint effect, It issingular that gas hasnever been introduced into this church, and it has never been used for eyening sorvi- cos or secular purposes. It issaid that the first Sunday school in New England was organized within its walls 1 1 The character of the locality has en tirely changed since its bell first sum- monéd from the vicinity a rather select gation. The majority of the old residences have passad through the de- scending scale of boarding houses, tene- ments, liquor shbps and—worse. Dr. Bartol has been the bond that held to- gether the remnant, weak and small, but loyal to the old church where their fathers worshipped. His resignation means that the West church becomes simply “an ancient landmark that the fathers have set.” It is now proposed to convert the building into a branch of the public library for the convenience of the west end. — - Notice to Convractors. Bids will be received until noon of December 10, for erecting a building for an electric station ut the foot of Jones street, according to plans and specifications on filaat the office of the engineer, 2054 North Seventeenth street. The right is reserved to reject any or all bids. Address all bids to'the New Omaha Thomson-Houston Electric Light company, 205 N. Seventeenth st e We are the Peopte. Business men from Nebraska for Chi- cago, Milwaukee and all eastern citios will please note that by the new time sl'hu&ulu (in effect from and after No- vember 17, 1859), they can arrive at Omahaabout 4 p. m., can do business or visit with Omaha merchants and friends for nearly two hours, and can then take the through Pullman sleeping car of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway short line fast train at Omaha depot of the Union Pacific railway it 6 p. m. (supper served on dining car leay- ing Council Bluffs at 6:30 p. m.), and arrive at Chicago at 9:30 a. m, (break- fast also served on dining car), in ample time to make connections with the fast morning trains from Chicago on the principal eastern and southeastern lines; or if desired, passengers for the eust can remain over in Chicago a few hours for business or pleasure and re- sume their journey by the afternoon fast and_limited trains of all the east- ern roads, In addition to the foregoing, another through short-line train leaves Omaha daily at 9:15a. m. and Council Bluils at 9:40 a. m., arriving at Chicago at 6:50 a. m,, making close connection with the express trains of all eastern roads,, For"tickets and further particulars apply to the noarest ticket agent, or to F. A, Nush, general agent, 1501 Far- nam st., Omaha, Neb- ROMANCE OF IDA ELLIOTT, From a Humble Life to Rich and Real Parents, Miss Ida Berry has found her parents. After living in ignorance of their e istence for ten years or moro, by acoci- she learned that sho was not Ida but that her parents were promi- nent vannah people, and a few days ago she returned fo them, and is now living in & happy bome surrounded by every comfort, sAys the Atlanta Con- stitution, Puolic interest was first attracted to the girl Inst springy when she left her home and went to police headquarters to secure her clothes from her foster mother, Mrs, Berry, She had been liv- ing with Mrs. Berry for many years, and supposed that the latter was her real mother. But the two had a _ disagreoment, and then the girl found out that sho was not Mrs. 8 child, Tho case got into the courts, the girl was sent to the Home for the Friendless, and Mrs, Berry sued out a_writ of h s corpus for her after she had beeame an inmate of the home of Mr. and Mvs, J. H. Wil- linms, Ordinary Calhoun decided in tavor of the girl, and she elected to go and live with Mr. Williams’ famiiy, and he was appointed guardian for Miss Berry. During the progress of the trial avannuh physician wrote to the authorities that he knew who were her parents, and that if she desired to find them he would undertake to assist her. This was all that he wrote, and Miss Berry remainea with the Williams fam- ily for six or eight months, The story of herlife was a strange one., She had been taken from Savan- h during tho y epidemic, ne ten ye: was then a r Berry, for some reason, obtiined a burial certificate of another child that had died about that time, and sent it to the parents of the little , with the explanation that tho child was dead and buried. From that time forward they mourned her as dead, and she re- mained with Mrs. Berry in utter ignor- ance of the true facts of the case. Mvrs. Berry kept her at the public schools in Atlanta, so that she obtnined afair education, and would have entered the Girl's High school this fall. But their circumstances were very moder- and the life of the girl was spent amid very humblo surroundings. ‘When the matter gotinto the courts the sensational developments caused other papers to copy the sto By that means the old physician heard of tho long lost child and wrote to the Atlanta authoritics. Tho parents of the girl were also informed of her whereabouts, and she decided, after spending several months very pleasantly in the home of her guardian, to return to her father and mother, of whose stence she had lived so long without any knowled By a curious coincidence, her fath who had som rt of land claim ngainst the federal government, wuas suc- cessful in pushing his ims, and came into possession of some very valuable property in South Carolind. Alveady in comfortable circumstances, this added a greatdeal to the wealth of the family, so that the g whose life has been so full of romance, found her- self one of a happy family, surrounded by all that wealth and rofinement can contribute to the enjoyments of life. She has written back to her Atlanta friends and expressos hersell as very happy and contented in her new-found home, Her nams is now Miss Ida Llliott and she has bidden farewell for- ever to the name and howe where the carliest part of her tife was spent. The blood" is the source of health. Keep it pure by, taking Hood’s Sarsapa- rilla. which is peculiar in its curative power, - Misunderstood the Avplause. An incident urred in this city a few nights since in_which some‘of the delegates to the Marine conference figured, and which shows how customs differ in different countries, suys the Washington Post. A young lady, a daugnter of one of the delegates, is an accomplished performer on the piano. "Her company has been courted by many lovers of music, who have eutered upon their social entertainments rather early this fall. GOn one occasion, when the parlors of her hostess were crowded to hear the magnificent performance that she gave, the approval of everyone burst forth spontaneously in a round of applause. Several elderly gen- tlemen captivated by her "ability as a performer were not ‘satisfied with merely clapping their hands, but accompunicd that by lightly stamping their feet, the latter sound reaching the ears of the young lady. She showed her embarrassment, and ivstead of complying with the request of the host- ess for a response to the encore, walked across the room, pale and trembling, scating hersol{ by her father's side as tears came into her eyes. Nearly everyono, pt the foreigners, pres- ent were ildered and unable to ac- count for the action until it was ex- plained to the young lady that while the stamping of feet in her own coun- try signified hissing and disapproval, it had no such meaning here. There were a series of apologies from the un- conscious offenders, and everyone learned a lesson in the customs as they prevail in the United States and Span- ish-American countries. —— Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup the best remedy for their children. 25 cents a bottle, = e P— TO DAM THE ARCTIC CURRENT Scheme to Tempef the Climate of Newfoundland and Labrador, The announcement that Mr. E. J. Ben- der has succeeded in malking arrange- ments in London for the purchase of the Quebec & Montreal railway, and its ex- tension to the Straits of Belle Isle revives the proposal of Géneral Sir Selby Smythe, laid hefore the dominion government in 1879, for diverting the Arcticcurrent from the Gulf of St. Law- rence by filling in the Straits of Belle Isle, which would serve as a bridge, connecting Newfoundland with the main land for railway purposes. The idea of running a line of railroad along the north shore of the St, Lawrence to Belle Isle, to connect there by ferry with a line of railway crossing New- foundland, is not a_modern invention, writes an Ottawa corresondent. As giving the shortest possible voyage across the Atlantie; it has frequéntly bean referred to i the dominion par- linment as one of those projects which must follow in the line of march of civilization, General Smythe’s idea of constructing a dam across the straits does not appear to have been original with that gentleman, as Lieutenant Maury, 1t is understood, laid & similar proposal before the British government ever thirty years ago. In his report to the dominion government, General Smythe draws attention to the fact that the Straits of Belle Isle are open to the northeast, thus receiving the direct floz of the polar current lfiowu Baflin’s bay, Thisicy stkeam, at from two to four miles an hour, pour its way iuto the Gulfof St. Lawrence, overcoming by its greater deusity the warm gulf streams from the southern latitudes. The cold stream, he says, divides into two branches ncar Cape 1’Amour, one running westward up the gulf and the mogning! PC&I’S obtained « Paris Exposition, 1889. the only gold medal awarded solely for toilet SOAP in competi- tion with all the world. /ilest possitle distinction.” W\DE ONLY BY AMACBETH&Lo. Py For Sale by M. H. B! other southeastward, discharging into the oces ain between Newfoundland and Cape Breton. The general ex- plains that this brauch then sweeps along the eastern coast of Nova Scotia and shoulders off the warm wator further out to sea, which would other- wise find its way 1g the shores of the continent and into tho gulf. 1f, there- fore, the polar current could be ex- cluded and deflected eastward of N foundland in the open ocean, the climatic effect, by the exchange of cold for warm water, would be very marked in the gulf and adjacent shores. SHORT ON GEESE, Development or an tncid nt That Oo- currcd Four Thousand ¥Years Ago, The momentous fact now bursts upon the world, says tho Levant Herald, that in the fourteenth yearof the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus one of the royal gooscherds wrote a letter stating that e could not supply twelye geese wanted for the king’s festival, Of this simple fuct the world hus heen in ignorance for over four thousand years, yot we ure now assured of it on as irrefragable evide as that which tells us that the Pharaon of Joseph’s time imprisoned his chief butler and chief baker for probably as small an offense. 1t comes about in this w The state paper concerning the royal geese was duly pigeon-holed and “after the lapse of years ~perhaps was sold as waste papyrus. It fell into the hands of tho undertakers, who used it all along with u lot of similar material, in making the cartonnage head ease for a mummy. This mummy entombed in the neeropolis of a” little town (the site is called Tell Gurob at this day) which began to fall into decay about the time of Menepthaw, the supposed Pharoah of the Exodus. Tt has been disinterred by Mr. Petrie in the course of his last sea- son’s excavations in the Fayoum. The head-case, with a thin covering of plaster over all, was soaked in water, and the papyri of which it was composed became sepurated without injury to the original writing. Thus we come to know about a great many other far more interesting f: in connection with overy-day life affairs of the Egyptians of that epoch, for there are lots of mummies and quite a crop of Ptolemaic documents, and many of them will soon be in the actual custody of the British museum authorities, Considering the progress that has been made in Lgyp- tology during the present centuvy, and abundance of fresh waterial that has been hrought to light of recent years, the noxt generation may be able to learn as much about Egyptian antiqui- ties as the present one can about Gre- cian or Roman. From records previously recovered it appoars to be established ‘that Agean Greeks visited Egvpt quite 4,800 years ago. During his last season’s explora- tions Mr. Petrie exhumed at Illabum some pottery of that period stamped with alphabetical characters which are neither hieroglyphic nor hieratic. There 15 nothing to show that these two facts are in any way connected. But he exhumed at Tell” Gurob a quantity of pottery of undoubted Cypriote and Tycenwan types, and which belongs to a period somewhat anterior to the Iixo- dus, These, curiously enough, are in- cised with characters of a very similar description, The obyious inforence is that these alphabetical characters aro early ek or Phwenecian, Should this conjecture prove to be well founded it would lead to some very startling conclusions, It has generally been ac- copted that tho Homeric epics were preserved by oral tradition and edited, ifnot added to, at a later period. But these discoveries of My, Petrie suggest the astounding possibility that the *Ilind” may have been reduced to writ- ing at blind Homer’s own dictation, el The Typical Democrat. Tho girl of sixteen, I think, is the typical demoerdt allover the world, When I was going to school I used to wonder why it was that all the pretty girlsshowed favor to the bad boys and guve th 1d shoulder to the best ones, saysa writer in the St. Louis Globe- Democrat. I couldn’t understand it, and I never did until long after [ had left school and gone out into the world. Then I began to see that the girls wera the best judges, after all, 1t was not that the girls liked the bad boys, - It was that th iked those of force of character, manliness and aggressive- ness, and were notattracted to the willksops who called the other crowd bad. When they get older, unfortun- ately, there is a change, but'up to the age of sixteen the girl is a democrat of the most un ng instinet, If you must have the bureau in the room, and it is not a baundsome article of furniture, stain it to represent dark mahogany, get brass handies for the drawers, and have your brother make a set of shelves to hang over it for your books. Nothing furnishes a room so much as books. Pretty little bamboo book shelves can be bad “quite cheap of two or three shelves, Cover the bureau and the mantel with pretty scarfs, as Cicely did the table. You might make all the changes we have mentioned with 810 if you take ad. vantage of the barg s that are alwa, tobe had. Don’t make the mismke of looking for cheap things in the ‘“‘cheap” stores. You will get better goods for the sume money at reliable houses, The above suggestions in parlor decoration are given by the American Agriculturist to one of its correspond- ents. 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