The Washington Bee Newspaper, September 21, 1895, Page 3

THE WASHINGTON BEE. - \ SBASH cainak he millinery to be in keeping toilette 1s animportant factor. ul autumn costume is of ‘ on. The wide skirt of pas- 2 erie at the lower part. The is draped with a fichu Marie cette of dotted silk. Large bal- some walking costume can of flowered pompadour The skirt with basque tabs in k and bands down the front of ne point d’Alencon, The cor- juare figures, with collet ex- ver the shoulders and in the rpretty costume of Havana Phe skirt ha panel bands of white nousseline i guipure, with spangles on lhe blouse has tight fitting ivest of guipure, with ribbon round the yoke. reception toilette of ie Siirt made very full e has a vest and ruffles st and neck of dotted sleeves are composed sted silk. new pelerine is made of red guipure full in front and yoke. Epaulette bands lipure and a bow at rows ot dc oth, the corsage round , With stitchings across «eicrly simulated scalloped edingote revers and_vel- WISE AND OTHERWISE. | | The smallest wrinkle may serve as a grave for the phile Gautier, | “I reach and reach, but cannot grasp,” sighs a certain poet. He must have been chasing his hat | “What is the use of knowing how to tell the truth; so few persons know how to hear it?—A. d’Houdetot. To live above your station shows a proud heart, and to live under it dis- covers a narrow soul.—M. Malot. Man was made to mourn, but he has fixed things so that his wife has taken the job off his hands —Texas Siftings. “Where was Magna Charta signed?” asked a teacher in a south of London Board School. “Please, sir, at the bottom.” The voice of conscience is so deli- cate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake, There is an immense profoundness | of thought in commonplace phrases. They are holes dug by generations of ants.—Charles Beaudelaire. The road to ambition is too narrow for friendship, too crooked for love, too rugged for honesty, and too dark for science—J. J. Rousseau. Profound observers have remarked that when @ man don’t know anything | he is singularly apt to disclose the fact whenever he has an opportunity. “I walked the floor all night with | the toothache,” said he. To which his feeling listener replied, “You didn’t expect to walk the ceiling with it, did you?” Shop Assistant—Really, madame, that white feather in your hat makes you look ten years younger. Old Maid —Is that so? Then give me another one.—Tid-Bits. “I suppose you are tired of talking about the weather,” said the philos- opher; “but I have been thinking that if people average as good as the wea- ther how happy we should be!” Mr. Emerson says, “Life is hardly respectable if it has no generous task, no duties or affections that constitute | a necessity of existing. Every man’s task is his life-preserver.” greatest love.—Theo- | The sleeves full at ht fitting below the elf flaring revers. collet can roidered a. by with be formed chiffon. r pretty one is of blue surah® ithe yoke and around the full ¢ autumn toilette of Am- The skirt plain, with belt. Full corsage with tight fitting yoke of flowered wdered by passementerie and ach corner, with a monli- zhi fitting sleeves of satin oi crepon on top. pon afternoon costume of foulard The corsage has collar and a simulated of which the points reach the top of the sleeves, and_ which lered with a velvet band. In front side a fichu drapery of lace, ne waist line by velvet bui- stoc casare still in the lead. One trimmed profusely with black arrrow braid on each seam of the godet skirt with a jacket with short , opening in front with en’chale heavily braided over a chemis- pink batiste is beautiful. is a costume of dust gray mc» rimmed with bias band of t as around the skirt as yoke, ceves and as belt. rtainty that later in the sea- cavy gross-grain, velvet and richly trimmed will be in rs as well as feathers will ap- fall and winter hats and tyle of coiffure has much to do arrangement of the bonnet on i. Ifthe hair is parted the is placed a litthe further back s if either a pompadour or bang ver rosettes are made of tiny s and of violets, but_ the good e violet rosette is lost if any n velvet violets are used. of lace, arranged after the fash- ins, are seen on the back of small bonnets that come elvet will be greatly in vogue r wraps and costumes. velvet roses are rather liked, chosen being rather small, and ge, bunches of leaves, instead s mounted on the long rubber ally seen when rose leaves are I parate bodice has a very fine ! n stylish women. ecting woolen materials for a those that are mixtures of silk an «en are to be chosen. e mohair trimmed with black t dressy occasions will be in 1d embroidered muslins, mull, nd wool mixtures, and occa- eof the thin soft silks are s favored for party dresses er decoration is fancied dame vs it must be upon the bodice. bons are in vogue for chil- ages, butthe very wide ones or gray are the best litraveling gowns, with a match. sare gradually growing wut flaring skirts will prevail land winter. ored shoes wear better than t ; are not suitable for e cooler than black. “1. be worn to the waist and oke trimming, turn- k ruche. ee? Barber—Would you like a bottle of | our hair restorer? Customer—No, | thank you; I prefer to remain bald- | headed. Barber—Then our hair re- | storer is just the thing you want, sir, —Chicago Mail. Delegate Goodwin, of the Utah | Constitutional Convention, holds that “no public man should refrain from reading newspapers, some for infor- mation, and some for the horrible ex- ample they set.” Wickwire—What a beautiful whine you use in asking for a dime. You really ought to have that voice cul- tivated. Dimal Dawson—Well, I don’t know but I might be willin’ to | have it cultivated—say under the ir- | rigation system.—Indianapolis Jour- nal. Sthallwort—Old man Gripe, the chattel mortgage man, got a needle in his hand this morning and the doc- | tors had to cut it out. Ford—Nothing | strange in that They would have had to do the same thing had it been a nickel.—Indianapolis Journal. | FACTS iN FEW WORDS. ~ It is estimated that $100,000,000 was | spent in England alone in charity in 1894. Coal-tar yields sixteen shades of blue, the same number of yellow tints twelve of orange, nine of violet and | humerous other colors and shades. In the famous cellars of the Hotel | de Ville at Bremen there are a dozen cases of holy wine, which has been preserved for 250 years. | Official estimates place the value of farm animals—horses, cattle and hogs and sheep—in the United States at no less than $1,819,446,306. A school with a play ground on the | roof and twenty shower baths in the basement is to be erected in the con- gested district of New York. The largest sailing ship afloat is the | remodeled Pedsian Monarch, 3,923 tons measurement. Her iron masts are 184 feet high from the deck. With a population not much over | half that of London, New York city (proper) consumes daily 183,000,000 gallons of water, against 190,000,000 for London. A beggar who died a few weeks ago in Auxerre, France, was found to have 1,000,000 franes in bonds in his trunk, and in his cellar 400 bottles of wine of the vintage of 1790. The following appeal was printed recently in a Scottish newspaper: “Wanted, a good school for girls | where the birch rod, coming into fash- | ion again, is used in the old way. | The earliest farming mill Q%id nowing machine was erectedé+The and was in use there fol a: while Europeans were cleye mai 4 grain by casting it in ‘ethe rac © windy day. Ane 5 EQ Byron’s household according t. ri f ly consisted, besides servants, of a : horses, eight enormous dogs, thie monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow | and a calcon, and all except thé | horses went to and fro in the house at their pleasure. At University college. London, re- cently, Prof. Boys described the ap- paratus devised by him for estimat- ing the density and weight of the earth. The experiments gave the den- | sity as 5.5°7, from which the weight of the earth was calculated at 5,832,- | 064.000,000,000,000,000 tons. The practice of ringing the curfew bell appears to have prevailed throughout Europe long before the Norman conquest of England, its object being the laudable one of preventing fires, which on account of the houses being built chiefly of wood were at that time quite frequent and | cestructive. One of the cleverest inventions ever patented is the machi.e for sticking cecmmon pins in the papers in which they are sold. The contrivance brings up the pins in rows, draws the paper a ‘he j | i X Tansten made of pink, yj >-eBox plait in i. \ satin, sou- f - loped edge i seach side; \ ry i] in position, crimps it in two lines, | then at a single push passes the pins | through the paper and seis them ir | oy | position. “900,000 and 2,000,000. NTERESTING INFORMATION. Italy has 23 crematories. . ! A fioating cannery is new. France may tax foreigners. Vermont has 200 creameries. Yucatan exports hammocks. An electric gun is announced. ’Frisco has 950 manufactories, A gun fires 770 shois a minute. Switzerland has watch schools. California has Japanese miners. Bosnia has two female physicians. Paper bicycle tires are annouuced. Vermont is first in marbie cuipat. Germany still has chimney sweeps. OUne-sixia of Engiand’s wo.nen work. United States contain i,yo4 disiil- leries. Jehno Bull built 31 war ships 18394, Norway ships frozen milk to Eng- Jand. France has an aluminium torpecc boat. Une Londen policeman wears spet- tacles. London has thirty people whose in- comes are over $d0U,Uuu a year.- Mosi of the black pearls in exist- ence come from the aark-ipped oys- ter of Lower California. Two thousand patents have taken out in this country manufacture of paper alone. The largest Bible in the world is manuscript Hebrew Bible in the Vau- can, weighing 320 pounds. A cob pipe factory, with a daily out- put of.8,0U0 pipes, will shortly be pui in operaiion in Waverly, n. The hall porter of a London club pleasanuy admits that his position brings him in about $7,500 a year. The largest sailing ship afloat is the remodeled Persian Mouarch. 3,928 tons measurement. Her iron masts are iS4 feet high from the deck. The beet root sugar crop cf the United States is something ever +4,- 600.000 pounds a year, of wnich Cali- in been on the | fornia produces 29,000,000 pounds. Czar Nicholas 2 stablishe a fund of $250,000 to relieve jours $ and authers in distr and to pro- Vide for their widows when they Cie. Wheat can be gro in the Alps at an elevation of i zil at 5,000; in the C é sinia at 10,00: at 11,000. t nloons in Kekom ed to Cioze., as i no prospect of mak to the string acted temperance la The municipal elections held 2 throughout the State of Ne where the license question wa volved, resulted in $0 per cent. o the towns declaring in favor of license. Twenty million dollars worth of bank notes leave the Bauk of Engiand daily; while sixty felio volumes or ledgers are filled with writing in keep- ing the accounts of a sngle day. The French camps in Madagascar will be surrounded with electrical cur- renis so arranged that the approach of any one will be automatically sig- naled, even if the sentinels are asleep. A bill has been introduced in the Minnesota Senate by Mr. Brainerd providing for the application of the Australian ballot sysiem to the grant- ing of licenses to sell intoxicating | liquor. The new cable vocabulary of 250,000 words makes a large book. There is no word in it that contains more than ten letters, and every word differs in at least two letiers from every other word. One of the proposed two-wheel or “bicycle” railways from New York to Washington promises a speed of 120 miles an hour as a of eleciricity and the minimizing of friction. From the Patent Office at Wash- ington comes the report that in the eleven years since the type-writing machine was first put upon the mar- get the sales have amounted to near- y $30,000,000. It is said that most of the 5.000 horses shipped from America to Eu- rope recently were intended for slaughter as food. Electricians think this a sign of the coming triumph of electricity as a moti. STATISTICAL. In Paris one person in eighteen lives on charity. Thomas A. Edison is the patentee of over 600 inventions. The woollen factories of this coun- tryJemploy 220,000 persons. Five thousand-herseshave been sold t $5 each in Oregon for the meat. Over $50.000,000 are spent in main- ing the churches of the United @tes, and $400,000,000 in running the Ss. sew Yorkers are claiming that their y has a population of between 1.- The new police census makes it nearly 19,000,000. The secretary of the Vermont Boart of Agriculture reports that 1,973 farms were scld in the State last ye of which 155 were previously occupied. While Baltimore was getting ready to splace fenders on its street cars, eigh\y-two lives were crushed out. und 300 people more or less injured by tha electrics. During the past twelve years near- ly 10,000 miles of narrow-gauge ruail- road have been either converted to standard gauge, or abandoned entire- iy in the United States. Sons of the American Revolution, in convention at Boston, recommend- ed June 14th as “Flag Day” and the erection of a siatue of John Paul Jones at Washington. The Siamese have such a supetsti- tious dislike of odd numbers that they studiously strive to have in their houses an even number of windows, doors, rooms, closets, etc. Less tobacco is consumed in Great Britain, in proportion to the inhabit- ants, than in any other civilized coun- try. The average is twenty-three ounces per annum for each person. result of the use ; 35 MINERS MAY BE LOST. They Did Not Heed the Warning of Danger at Houghton, Mich. Houghton, Mich., Sept. 9.—It is pos uvely known that thirty-five doomed men are entombed in the Osceola mine h no possibility of the recovery of neir bodies until the fire is exting' 1, which may not be for months. 1e opinion of some of the oldest o: >: the mine that the tire was the wo. ac incendiary. All of the doomed miners might have escaped had the heeded warnings, as Captain Edwards, the firs: detect the existence of fi dispa ? ssengers to every slope where ere known to be wor! is not heavily timber except © shafts, the idea of serious danger was ed. By going a roundabout way all he ‘men who were in the lower level of 4 shaft might have escaped, bui they red the shorter route of ascent by t shaft, and when they got up to ighteenth level they found them: it off. Some passed into lateral sha! <pecting to reach other shaf. Twenty of the thirty-five are married men and most of them have large fam- ilies. ge EILL SPEAKS TO FARMERS. Twenty Thousand Persons Heard Him in Chemung County (N. ¥.) Fair Grounds. Elmira, Sept. 6.—United States Senator id B. Hill spoke to 20,000 persons a’ the Chemung county fair yesterday af. noon. He refrained from discus tics further than to refer bri ne last Legislature in this State. ing of it, he said, among other th “I may be pardoned for sugs that in the matter of law-making it o tid any of its predecessors since the or- ta c anization of the State government. actually passed 1,045 separate and tinct bills, which became laws. It is not ‘sible that all of these laws were actu- necessary. On the contrary, th ere hundreds that were unnecessary, cial in their character, mischievous their tendencies, unwise or uncalled for. “Tn the multiplicity of laws there is no safety; there is confusion, a tendency to orruption, a waste of valuable time, un- likelihood of their enforcement, and gen- eral demoralization.” ps a ROYAL PAUPERS SHOULD BE BARRED Frades Union Congress Favors Salaries for the Commoners. Cardiff, Sept. 5.—At the session of the Trades Union Congress to-day the Par- liamentary committee was instructed to urge upon Parliament the passage of 2 bill declaring for the principal of ment of salaries to members of the douse of Comons. - Sexton, a delegate from Liver- pool, in seconding a motion for the tion of a resolution in favor of the nibition .of the landing of pauper said he wished to include with- in the scope of the resolution royal paupers who arrive without visible means of subsistence, but who soon found them, These, Mr Saxton said, were the men who controlled the empire while the pee British taxpayers har no rights at all. -_ POPE'S INVITATION REJECTED. Archbishop of Canterbury Protests Against Reunion With the Catholic Church. London, Sept. 6.—The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued _a long pastoral letter dealing with the Pope’s recent let- ter to the English people and the appear- ance in the Church of England lately of certain foreign usages and forms of de- votion. He recognizes the desire for reunion as characteristic of our times, and admits that divisions among Christians are the ief obstacles to the prog: S- : He accepts the many e: anxiety for delivery from these d is a Sign of God's purpose, but p’ ‘against the introduction of mod Roman innovations in the ritual and doc- trine.” He contends that ‘the suggested reunion only means forgetting our own church,” ty of ich character- ic spiritual re- zed our primitt e Cath formatio GEN.HARRISON FOND OF THIS STATE. ite is Negotiating With Dr. Webb for Land in the Adirondacks. Old Forge, Sept. 6.—Ex-President Harrison is negotiating with Dr. Sew ard Webb for a number of lots in the Adirondacks, near here. Some time ago se endeavored to buy the land around Big Moose Lake which is owned by Dr. Webb. The land was found to be in gation, however, and General Harri- yn will not be able to get {then he has been given the ri tive lots on First Lake. Saratoga, Sept. 6.—Ex-President Ben- jamin Harrison has leased a Saratoga cottage for three months, and will oc- -upy it with members of his family after eaving the Adirondacks PLATT BEATEN IN NIAGARA. al ot The Antis Elect 70 of the 99 Delegates to the County Convention. Lockport, Sept. 5.—The political fight between the Platt and anti-Platt fe ons of the Republican party Niagara county has resulted in a com- | glete victory for the latter. The anti-Platt forces, led by Richard ‘rowley and Assemblyman Clark, have elected about seventy of the ninety-nine delegates to the county convention, in- jicating the nomination of an entir anti-Platt ticket in this county and John H. Clark for Senator. The figh nas been a very hot one throughout, and the feeling is very bitter between the Republican factions. —___.__ ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP 4 CHURCH. in Michigan Vandals Use Dynamite to Get Money From a Corner Stone. Greenville, Mich., Sept. 9.—An attempt was made yesterday to bow up the F Congregational Church of this city wit dynamite. The charge was placed unde: the corner stone, but not being put under ‘far enough, little damage was done. The supposition is that the attempt was made for the purpose of obtaining a large sum of money that is reported to have been deposited in the corner stone wher the church was built piaia sa eoe Peppermint Plants Used for Hay. Niles, Mich., 6.—Owing to the scarcity hay the farmers in this vicinity are curing peppermint plants. Experiments h dicated that they give better resuic timothy hay when fed to stock. Growe of peppermint have realized over $1), this season, The growing takes place ir. wet lands. e ine Fireman and Trainmxn Killed. Lexington, Ky., Sept. 9.—A collision occurred on the Cincinnati Scuthern railroad last night, near Blanchet, be- tween two freight trains. John Slosser, the fireman, and James Hendricks, a trainman, were Killed, and Engineer Roberts, was injured fatally. THE REMORSELESS BARBER™ Experience of a Lecturer with the Hair Triv ing Fiend, The wild ungovernable passion barber has for trimming your 1 On the 4th of December I was in F ton, thinking about a lecture I w pected to deliver in the evening, 4 so badly scared that I couldn't r member the subject nor what it v about. I went into a Tremont sire titute of Facial Manipulation sorial Decoration,” and ing for the professor who occupied chair of Mediaeval Shaving and } teenth Century Shampoo. One of junior members of the faculty wv brushing an undergraduate L pointed me to a chair, and I climbed in. When the performance was about concluded, the barbe nid to me: “Have your hair trimmed, sir?’ I believe not. “Needs it very badly, sir,” he said: “looks very ragged.” ue with a barber. I said: “All right, trim it a little, but don't make it any shorter.’ Immediately he trimmed all the curl out of it, and my hair naturally, you know, has a very graceful curl to it I never discovered this myself unti! a few months ago, and then I was very much surprised. I discovered it by looking at my lithograph. Well, anyhow, he trimmed it. On the 6th of December I was at Bath, Maine. Again I was shaved. and again the barber implored me to let him trim my hair. When I an wered him that it had been trimmed only two da, before, he spitefully asked where it was done. I told him. and he gave expression to a burst of tie laughter. Il, well, well,” he said at las ou let them trim your hair in S Well, well. ow you look like a man who has been around the world enough to know better than that.” Then he affected to examine a lock or two very particularly, and sighed heavil, ur, dear,” he said, “I don’t know ly. as I could do anything with t hair or not; it's too bad.” Well his manner frightened me, and [ told him to go ahead and trim it. but please not to make it any shorter. NO, he's no, it v necessary to cut it any shorter; it was teally too short now, but it did need trimming.” So he “trimmed” and when 1 faced the Rockland ndience that light, I looked like a prize fighter. In four days from that time I was sitting in the chair of a barber down it, in New York State. He shaved me in grateful snee, and then thought fully run his fingers over my lonely hair. rim this hair a little. sir?’ he said. ighten it up I meekly told him I had it trimmed twice during the preceding week, I was afraid it was getting too sh for winter wear. “Yes,” he said, “he didn’t know but what it was pretty short, but you didn’t need to cut it any shorter t& trim it. It was in very bad, ragged shape at the ends.” I remained silent and obstinate, and he asked me where I had it trimmed last. I told him and he burst into a shout of laughter that made the win- lows rattle. “What's the matter, an assistant partner down the room. holding his patient in the chair by the Jim?” inquired nose. Jim stifled his laughter and replied: “This gentleman had his hair trim med down in Maine There was a general burst of merri ment all over the shop, and the ap yrentice laid down the brush he was washing and came over to look at the Maine cut, that he might never for- get it. I surrendered. “Trim it 2 little, then.” I groaned. “but. in’ the name of humanity don’t cut it any shorter.” “No,” the barber said, “he wouldn't make it a hair's breadth shorter.” When I left that shop, if it hadn't been for my my hat would have fallen down clear on ny shoulders When I reached the hotel, everybody started, and a couple of men got up and read a handbill on the wall. de= eriptive of a convict who had recer ly escaped from Sing and looke from the to my! intently That night several of th audienc: drew revolvers as I came out on th platform. Then I went to Amsterdam, N. Y The barber of that sleepy village. who, in the interval of his other du ties acts as mayor of the town, and the local papers. undertook t re me with a piece of hoop iror he pulled out of his boot les. When | resisted he went out inte the kitehe: and came back with a kitchen knif ind a can-opener, and offered me my; choice. I selected the can opener, an he began the massacre, remarking in cidentally that he used to keep a spoke shave for his particula: but he lost it. Then lr y needed = trimmin ver: I protested that it was im it had been © immed thre ten d nd was a short now as a business man on ti 1st of January. “Oh,” he said, “it wasn’t too short and beside there wasn’t no style abou it at all.” He could ve it som shape, however, he said, without mak ing it any shorter. So I surrendered and told him t shape it up. And if that foredoomed abandoned, Amsterdam son of a oakum picker didn’t go out into th woodshed and come back with a rust) old horse sp and began to file aw what little hair I had left. He ed a few shreds main, however, r there to my scalp in sho: nes I rather feared th pearance that evening would cr panic, but it did not. I observed the the majority of the audience had thei heads “shaped up” after the sam manner, and were rather pleased v my conformity to the local custom an style. Well, I got along to Corry, Pa., an rushed in for a shave and got it 1 no time and two moti “Hair trimmed, s said. : I supposed he was speaking sar tically, and so I laughed. but v feebiy, for I was getting to be a lit sensitive on the subject of t here ly lonel nm “che barbe i or rather my late h But he peated his question, and said that needed trimming very badly. I to him that was what ailed it h been trimmed to death; why. I sa. e tim my hair has been trimmed fi during the last thirteen day was afraid it longer. “Well,” he said, “ft was hardly the thing for a man of my impressive ap- pearance, who would naturally at- tract attention the moment I entered a room (I had to stand on tiptoe and hold on with both hands to look over the back of a car seat) to go around with such a head of hair. when he uld straighten it out for me in a minute.” I told him to go ahead, and closed my eyes, and wondered what would come next. That fellow took 2 foreeps and “pulle: U had left. “There,” he said proudly, “now when your hair grows out it will grow yut even.” I was a little dismayed at first when pair of dentist's every lock of hair I looked at my glistening poll, but ufter all it was a relief to know that the end was reached. and nobody could torment me again to have my hair trimmed for several weeks. But when I got shaved at Ashtabula, the barber insisted on puttying up the holes and giving my head a coat of shellac. I yielded. and my head look- ed like a varnished globe with the maps left off. Two days after, I sat in a barber's chair at Manstield. The barber shaved me silently. Then he paused, with a bottle poised in his hand, and said: “Shampoo?” I answered him with a look. Then te oiled my hairless globe and bent over it for a moment with a hairbrush. Then he said: which side do you part your Robert J. Burdette. Ancient and Mediaeval Chemistry. The workmen who dyed clothes, clothing and tapestries in purple or other colors, an industry practiced first in Egypt and Syria and then all the Grecian, Roman and Persian world, not to speak of the extreme East. em- ployed highly developed chemical manipulations; and the cloths found on the mummies and in the sarco phagi attest their perfection. Pliny and Vitruvius describe in detail the production of colors, such as cinnabor or vermilion, minium, red ¢ in- digo, black, green and blue ¢ Sy vegetable as well as mineral. p ed by painter: The chemis: alimentation, fruitful in resour in frauds, w: next practice art was known of aceomplishi will tho: i fermentatio which produce br wine and and which modify large number Ss; also of falsifying wine addition of plaster and other ients. The art of _healit everywhere for resources had learned to : ate a large number ¢ ible products. sueh $ of = seeking Linst and v of poppy, e s xide of white | ind poisons re composed at th time, for diffe tors and mz is. The ma ture of arms and of inflammatory sub- staneces—petroleum, sins and bitumens—had alr jy. ancientls well as in our own time. drawn upon the talents of inventors and given r to formidable applications. especially in the arts of sieges and marine bat- tles, previous to the invention of the Greek fire, which was in its turn the precursor of gunpowder and of our terrible explosive matters.—Popular Science Monthly. A Story Linclon Told Grant. Chronologically the talk ha Grant's east to as: eral Gon and with Lincoln. “Did om of Lin ym that int: I asked. etly.” answered Col. Grant. I was with him at the give you n he return- mpre: ad 1 time.” hinzton and in the White House- h him and Lincoln.” “Is it true that Lineoln quoted a about Capt. Bob Shorty and the de from the Orpheus 's to your father at that ked. ; though I don't remem- meeti “Very likel ber. The story that I do nember hearing him tell my fath that day was about Jecko. Jocko was the com mander of monkey wa that if his ta nh army of monkeys in a and he was alway: ail was a little lon sure he could end the monk war. So he kept asking the authorities of the monkey republic for more of a tail. They got other monke a and spliced them on hi: H 1 tail got too leng to d after him, and they wound it around his body. Still ii nted more, and they wound his spliced tail about his shoulde ally it got heavy that it b h back. Mr. Lineoln applied the story to the of generals who were al- ways ealling for more men and never did anything with them. They talked about the campaign. but in desult- Lincoln's wouldn't last muc.. way. I remember Mr. saying, ‘I don't give my w orde Some of those [ do know are wrong. ometimes I think of them are wrong.’ "—Me- ine. that all Cure’s Ma Pat's Ingenuity. An Irishman on one ocea on passed a grocer’s shop, and seeing a pile of cheeses on the counter, and n the shopman had left the sl thought it a good opportunity to a cheese for nothing. He therefore stepped lightly into the shop, and taking a couple of ch placed o1e on each side of the s The shopman, hearing the noise. came from the back shop and asked Pat what he ¥ about. “Och,” said Pat, “don’t annoy your- self; I only wished to know if your cheese or mine is the heaviest.” wike your confounded cheek,” said the shopman. angrily; “if you don’t take your cheese out of this at once I'll set the police on you.” Pat lifted the cheese, and. smiling at the trick he had performed. bade the shopman a respectful good-day. Following a Prophet. A false prophet bas arisen on the Island of Jamaica. He teaches that God has given him power to make a new Bethesda ot a small river on the jsland. Every Wednesday he stands on a rock in the stream and blessed the waters, wh.ch are then supposed to have the power of healting any disease. The natives are crazy in the fanatic belief in the new prophet, and 20,000 pilgrims a day bathe in the waters. -