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ROMANCE ON THE ICE. . . ‘

 

. Reasons for the Coolness That Exists Be-

tween Two Brooklyn Lovers. ,

She was a poor Skater, she said, but‘

her escort, who thought she was just
about perfect in everything else, in-

- sisted that she could skate well enough

for anybody’s criticism and that he
wasn’t much of a skater himself, so
they went to-. the park together one
day last week and were very soon on
the ice. Perhaps you might have seen
them, for they were as noticeable as
ever were two lovers from the country
when. they first visit New York and
take a walk on Broadway.

Each had told the truth, but each
secretly believed that she and he re-
spectively was a better skater than she
and he had pretendede When they
were fairly “launched,” so to speak,

“they took hold of each other’s hands,

and in their attempt to maintain up-
right positions their wrigglings and
sawings of the air with their arms not
in use suggested St. Vitus’ dance.
“Look out there! Where are you go-
ing?” shouted a skilled skater whom
they suddenly plunged into and nearly
upset. He had braced himself for the
onset, and they split on him, as it were.
She went one side and he the other.
.Two pairs of hands were in the air as
if trying to claw chunks out of the sky,

then came the collapse. He went down.

on his back, and she—well, she tried
to sit down, but made quite a frantic
and unnecessary effort. The ice
seemed to her to meet her half way,
and there was a very dull thud indeed.

“There! I told you so!” shouted the
skilled skater. He was addressing
himself to the young lady’s escort, and
at the same time gallantly went to the
side of the young lady, apologized to
her very handsomely for running into
him, and assisted her to rise before her
escort had found time to do anything
but glare at him. Then the skilled
skater said .to the young lady: “Per-
mit me!” Holding her firmly in posi-
tion, he gave her a fine “spin” across
the lake and back again. By that time
the escort had gained a tolerably erect
position.

“Hurt?” asked the skilled skater, pat--

’ronizingly. No, the escortwas not hurt,

except as to his feelings. He said, with
a feeble attempt at politeness, that he
was not injured and this time directed
his glare at the young lady. The
skilled skater smiled mischievously,
raised his hat to the young lady and
glided away.

“F or my part,” snapped the escort,
when they were left alone, “I think
the ice is no good.” “Would you like
to go home?” she asked, with a shade
of stiffness and threeshades of sarcasm.
They might as well, he grumbled. And
when they got their 'skates off and
started homeward the temperature
seemed to grow colder. He said he

might not be "up” that evening, as he '

expected to be detained in “the city,”
and he has not been “up“ since.—
Brooklyn Standard-Union.

 

i Advice to a. Candidate.

“I know what I’ll do,” said the young
candidate. “I’ll lay in a big supply of
plug tobacco, and every time I meet
one of the hayseeds I’ll offer him a
chew.”

“You will do nothing of the sort,”
said his manager. “You will go out
without a bit and borrow a chew from
every man you meet. Haven’t you got
sense enough to know that the man
you are under obligations to always
feels warmer toward you than the man
you have done a favor ?"—Indianapolis
Journal.

 

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The Health Right,

Because it makes
The Stomach Right.

Eugene M. Hinds, of 83
North Spring Street, Con-
cord, N. H., says:— “ Ihave

. been troubled with indiges-
tion and catarrh of the stomach" for
several years. At times my stomach
was very weak, and I had to give up
work for awhile and doctor for i but
ast
summer I decided to try Puritans. It
helped me at once, but I thought it
might be like a lot of other remedies
I had tried which were not permanent.
Now it has been seven months since
I‘left off taking It, and I have had no
return of the old trouble. I would
recommend Puritana to any one suf-
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‘ ‘ "AltMENIAN‘ WOMEN.
Piety and Industry Their Principal
Characteristics.

Biblical Traditions Followed in the Home

Life Which Keeps Successive Gen-

erations Under One Roof—-
Model Housekeepers. ,

The school of the Armenian woman
is the home, and the first character-
istic of the home, after its piety, is its
industry. The households are large,
sons bringing home their ‘wives and
grandson's, theirs making up a family
often of from forty to sixty persons.
In the interior 'villages among the
peasantry, the number is often much
larger; This condition is a. relic of
Biblical times, and is still necessary in
many parts of Armenia for mutual
protection and economy of living in a
' country where life is often dependent
upod resistance to barbarous tribes
and money and food products are sub-
ject to the justice (‘1’) of Turkish taxa-
tion. '

With primitive utensils and incon-
venient methods of living it may be
seen that industry is a necessity in
such great establishments, and abso-
lute cleanliness goes with it. A
Frenchwoman, Mme. Chantre, who
spent months in Armenia with her
husband, an oculist. and had an un-
usual opportunity to study the ways of
the people, speaks emphatically of
‘this element of the Armenian home.
"The Armenian warm-e 1,” says she,
“are perfect housekeepers. Their
houses are marvelously clean.” '

The servant problem does not exist
in Armenia. All well-to-do households
employ servants who come from the
peasantry, and are trained in the
service of a family and become a part
of it. They “know their place,” as is
said here. and yield all respect to their
masters and mistresses; on the other
hand, their “place” is known and re-
spected by every member of the
family.

The Armenian women are expert
and skillful cooks. Aprominent for-
eigner who has traveled much through
the country has said: “No one has
eaten a good dinner who has not
eaten one cooked by an Armenian.”
The chief meal of the day is eaten in
the evening after the work of the day
is done. At this are served rich cereals
and vegetables cooked with sur-
passing delicacy and relish, and
fruits, preserved and in their sea-
son, of the most luscious and tempting
varieties. Meat is used, but not so much
as here. Armenia is a land of fruit and
flowers, and the Armenian woman is
deeply skilled in the art of preserving
fruits and making confections from
flowers. The time of such compound-
ing and preparation is a. sort of holi-
day. The whole household gathers for
the ceremony; the fruit is prepared
and put into great caldrons over which
presides some experienced aunt or
other relative specially secured for the
occasion. The rest of the women as-
sist according to the degree of their
expertness, down to the younger
daughters of the home, who can only
earnestly watch and admire the skill»
which‘it is their ambition to emulate
some day. At the critical moments of
.the operation, when a drop more or
less of lemon juice or an added degree
of heat too soon or too late may be
fatal, care and watchfulness are in-
tensified to the superlative degree.
Silence reigns while tastes and tests
are taken, and the weight of a nation
can 'hardly burden its bearer more
than the responsibility of her on whom
rests the final decisive step.

For the children it is aholiday pure
and simple. Fruits and sweets abound
and saucerfuls of the confections at
various stages of the process are gen-
erously dealt out.

These preserves are offered to all
who are guests of the household.
Ceremonious visits would not be com-
plete without them. Two fine glass
bowls are Set out containing each a
choice variety of the sweetmeats, with
an ample supply of silver spoons and
an array of crystal goblets filled with
water. A spoonful of the sweet is
taken by each guest and a sip of wa-
ter, then Turkish coffee is handed
round—N. Y. Times.

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Men Invented Corsets.
The much maligned corset was in-
vented and first worn by men. The
earliest mention in the history of the
article was by Aristophanes, who lived
in the fifth century, B. C. In one of
his comedies he ridicules a brother
poet, who. inordinately vain of his
personal beauty, was dissatisfied with
the shape of his figure, which was far
removed from ideal symmetry, being
much too thin for his height. He
therefore hit upon the plan of improv-
ing his physique by incasing his body
in an under-cuirass, made of little
pieces of wood. The idea was imitated
later on by another man, Emperor An-
tonius Pius, who found great difficulty
in persuading the ROman women to
follow his example—N. Y. World.

 

An Irresistible Offer.

“How many ponies will Hen’s-Spur
give for the hand of Homemade-Pie?”

It was the maiden’s father, the great
chief Bear’s-Breath. who spoke.

“I have no ponies,” answered the
young suitor, as he stood dangling the
scalp of a red-headed man, which hung
from his belt. _

“Ugh! Bean-Pod offers fifty dollars
v and a mule,” said the chief, with a dis-

dainful wafture of the hand.
“But-—” pleaded the youth.
The chief turned to listen.
“But. I have a. bicycle, and you may

leap’year.”
With a. bound the chief clasped
Ben’s-Spur in his arms. ‘
“Homemade-Pie is yours,” he said.—
Harper’s Bazar.

A Classical Instance.

“I hear.” said Diana the huntress, as
she rested her toe for an instant on the
pedestal. “that Pygmalion is in love
with Galatea." ‘ "
“Indeed!” ejaculated the Bust of
Minerva; “well, it’s a cinch that he
gets the marble heart.”—Puck.

 

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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

~Washington is noted for the beauty
of the trees which line her sidewalks,
and the reason lies. in the fact that for
many years past she hasmade‘the care
of them a municipal duty. -- ‘

Boston has solved the tramp pro -
lem by requiring the “Weary Willies”
to work for everything they receive at
the Wayfarers’ lodge, and indignant
men of leisure are boycotting the place.

—The latest fashionable ailment in
New York is “ammonia colds.” Accord-
ing to the doctors who do businesswith

gence in artificial ice rinks. The“shop-
ping face,” the “golf straddle” and the
“bicycle hump” are not in it. with this
latest addiction.

~Nini Novgorod, in Russia, was al-
most obliterated by fire in 1864. All the
buildings and bazars in which were
held the annual fair of merchants from
all parts of Europe and Asia were blot-
ted out, and that year most of the trad-
ing was done in tents or temporary
structures.

——Of every 1,000 clergyman between
the ages of 45 and 65 only 15.93 die an-
nually, but of every 1,000 doctors be-
tween the ages of 45 and 65 no fewer
than 28.03, it is said, die every year.
Some statisticians attribute the high
rate of mortality among medical men
to the harassing nature of their duties.

——Last June James Bridgeford lost
his fine $75 gold watch while plowing
on his farm near Kelso, Wash. He
hunted the land over at different times,
drawing harrows'and even forking most
of it over, but never could find the
watch. The other day George McClellan
came through the field and picked the
watch up.

-——A Frenchman named Villon has in-
vented a novel method of sealing cham-
pagne bottles. The loss and deteriora-
tion of champagne due to the escape of
gas, long, he says, made some process
of perfect air-tight sealing desirable.
M. Villon accomplishes this by covering
the cork and part of the neck with a
thin layer of copper electrically de-
posited.

AT A WIDOW'S WEDDING.

Etiquette Which Governs This Highly
Momentous Event.

Etiquette governing the wedding of a
widow has been recently reorganized and
temporarily, at least, is finding high
vogue among certain great ladies who
are making second matrimonial ven-
tures. The widow’s engagement ring
is now a peridot, which in reality is an
Indian chrysolite, and a deep leaf-green
in color. The peridot ring is set about
with diamonds, and when it arrives the
lady gives her first engagement ring to
her eldest daughter and her wedding
ring to her eldest son.

One week before the wedding a state-
ly luncheon is given to the nearest and
dearest of the old friends of the bride to
be. After the engagement’s announce-
ment she appears at no public func-
tions. At the altar her dress may be of
any subdued shade of satin. To make

the “400” they are caused by overindul- “ _ _ .
I m light gowns and. bearing big

'up for the absence” of veil and orange
blossoms, profusions of white lace trim
the skirt and waist of the bridal gown
en secondos noces. Even the bonnet is
of white lace and the bouquet is prefer-
ably of white orchids. And up the aisle
the lady goes, hand in hand with her
youngest child, no matter whether it is
a boy or girl. The little one wears an
elabOrate white costume, holds the
bride’s bouquet, and precedes the newly
married pair to the church door. Where
there is a large family of children and a
desire on the widow’s part for a trifle
more display than is usually accorded
on such occasions, all of her daughters,

bouquets, support their mother to th
altar. » - '
An informal little breakfast now fol-
lows the ceremony. Such a breakfast
is scarcely more than a light, simple
luncheon, served from the buifet,wound
up by a wedding cake and a toasting
posse-t, but the bride of a second mar-
riage does not distribute cake nor her
bouquet among her friends.“ Her car-
ri age horses do not wear favors, either.
though shoes and rice can be freely scat-
tered in her Wake, and, to the. comfort
and economy of her friends, she does not
expect anything elaborate in the way
of weddin ifts.———N. Y. Sun.
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/ HIS MISTAKE.

A Young Lawy Happy Retort to a
Presiding Judge.

The New York Recorder gives a story
of a young lawyer who evidently did
not consider the well-known learning
of the judge a sufficient reason for omit-
ting evidence of his own attainments.

The judge was compelled to listen to
a case that had been appealed from one
of the police courts. The young prac-
titioner who appeared for the appellant
was long and tedious; he brought in all
of the elementary text. books and quoted
the fundamental propositions of the
law.

At last the judge thought it was time
to make an effort. to close the argument.

“Can we not assume,” he said, pom-
pously, “that the court knows a little
about law itself?” .

“That’s the very mistake I made in

, the. other court,” answered the young

orator, “and I don’t wanttolet. it defeat
me twice.”

 

Pope Was Not offended.

The London Morning Post tells a
pleasant story of Pope Leo’s kindliness.
It seems that not long ago an English
lady, a Protestant, with her little son,
11 years old, and her daughter, ob-
tained an audience of the pope, through
the good offices of Cardinal Rampolla,
the papal secretary of state. The latter
invited the boy to kiss the pope’s slipper.
“We don’t kiss people’s feet in Eng--
land,” said the little fellow, “but he’s
a nice old gentleman, and I’ll kiss his"
hand, if he likes.” The pope was de-
lighted With the little fellow’s answer,
and paid him several compliments in
Italian.

 

 

 

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Tricks of Rascals Who Rifle Uncle
Sam's Letter Boxes.

Much Money Is Annually Pllfered from
Envelopes by Expert Operators—
Schemes by Which They
Are Caught.

 

One of the few cases of rec‘ent occur-
rence where money has been stolen in
the New York postoflice happened in
March, 1895, when a clerk named Lagan
was detected in secreting letters.

It was his duty to distribute the let-
ters into boxes, and as he did this rapid-
ly he managed to throw about one out
of five into his vest, which was really a.
large pouch open at the tep. Lagan was
sentenced to three years in prison.

In the fall of 1891 a gang of expert
thieves was found to be plundering mail
boxes all over the country. In each city
they would proceed in the same manner,
their first care being to get possession
of file padlock attached to a mail box,
which they could easily do by sawing
through the staple.

Having procured this lock, it was
child’s play for them to make a key
which would fit it, and this key would
open any mail box in the city.

Having provided themselves with the
key, the rest was plain sailing. Every
evening one of the thieves, disguised in
the regulation uniform, would make his
round from box to box in the most open
way, being practically free from inter-
ference or suspicion, since not even the
policeman in any neighborhood or resi-
dent-s there would have any idea that
he was not a postman, perhaps a new
one, and he would be left free to go
ahead with his depredations.

The stolen mail thus obtained would
be brought to the rooms occupied by the
thieves and there carefully examined.
Every letter would be opened, either by
steaming the envelope or with a pen-
knife, and if found to contain nothing
valuable would be rescaled and mailed
again, so as to lessen the chances of
suspicion. Of course, money and all ar-
ticles of value were retained, and a
great quantity of checks were obtained
in this way, the latter being in many in—
stances “raised” or “altered” so that
the conspirators were able to realize
large sums on them.

The originator of this ingenious
scheme of robbery was Prentiss Tiller,
who is now “serving time” in the J ack-
son penitentiary, while his-accomplices
were sentenced to from 10 to 15 years.

As it is almost impossible to take
postofiice thieves in the act of robbing
the mails, the inspectors have to rely
upon ruses in discovering the guilty
clerk or employe. One of the most‘com-
mon and successful devices is that of
the test letter, a trap in which many
lightrfingcred employes have been
taken.

After weeks. sometimes months, of
surveillance, the question of guilt is
narrowed down to two or three men,
upon whom the decoy leter or package
is then tried.

For instance, if the complaints have
been in regard to small pieces of jew-
elry, such as are often sent through the
mail, the test letter will contain a scarf-
pin or a pair of sleeve buttons, inclosed
in such a way that they can be plainly
felt by anyone handling the letter. ’

And if money has been stolen, then
the letter is prepared with bank netes
wrapped in thin paper, so that they can
be readily seen on holding the letter up
to the light. Whatever is inclosed in
the letter is marked in such a way that

. it may be easily identified afterward. -~

Thus prepared, the test letter is
mailed in the district from which came
the letter in regard to which complaint
has been made. The letter is posted by
one of the inspectors, who, unknown to
the postman, stands near by and
watches until the letter is gathered up.

Returning to the office, the inspector
notes whether the letter is in the mail
pouch which is to carry it to its destina-
tion. If it is not there the field of sus-
picion is narrowed down to the postman
who carried it from the box to the office
and to the clerks who handled it while
being stamped and put in the mail
pouch.

If the letter is found in the-pouch,
then it is checked at every subsequent
point where it is liable to be handled,
the checking being done by the inspect-
or in charge, who in no instance inter-
feres until the usual opportunity for
theft has been accorded.

As soon as the inspector who is on the
trail of a test letter finds that it has dis-
appeared, and concludes from his check
system that it must have been abstract-
ed by one of two or three men, be im-
mediately orders those men to be taken
to a private room and searched——
searched thoroughly, so that if the tell-
tale bill or obje’ct is on their person it
must be discovered.

There are many complaints of money
lost in the mails, which upon investiga—

tion prove to have their source in the '

dishonesty of employes. Porters, office
boys, petty clerks, all have opportuni—
ties to take what they know are valu-
able letters, and often avail themselves
of them.

For instance, only a short time ago
many complaints were received from

the Presbyterian missions, which were .

losing money at an extraordinary rate.
The culprit proved to be their office boy,
a lad of 16, with a salary of four dollars
a- week. ‘ He confessed'his fault, and
said that he had spent the money in
taking his girl to the theater; that they
went two or three times a week, and
that he liked to give her small preséiits.
There are many similar cases, and a
remarkable feature of them is' that
often the people who have made the
complaint refuse to press it when they
know it concerns one of their employes,
and sometimes they do not even dis-
charge the oifender.—Boston'Globe.

 

Railroads in India.
'A good deal of public interest attaches
to the Ahmedabad-Parantij railway

line from the fact of its being the first-

.railway constructed by private enter-
prise in India with— rupee capital. ‘

It Seem to Have held on toi- More mu
' _ a Century.

For more than 100 years, it was said,
a fatal Spell hung over the Goldsmids.
Toward the close of the 18th cen-
tury there died in London the Rabbi
de Falk, who enjoyed a high reputation
as, a. seer. He left to Aaron Goldsmid, a
great-greatgrandfather of the late
member for St. Pancras, a. sealed packet,
with injunctions that it was to be care-
fully rreserved, but never opened. The

bran-ch of the Goldsmid family in this
country was warned that as long as
his order was obeyed, so long would
the Goldsmids flourish like a young
bay tree. If it were disregarded, i11-
fortune would for all time dog the foot-
steps of the race. Aaron Goldsmid left
the packet inviolate for some years.
One day, curiosity becoming ungovern-
able, he opened it. When his servant
came to call him he was found dead.

Aaron Goldsmid left a large portion of
his fortune to two sons, Benjamin and
Abraham. . These went into business
on the London stock exchange, and vast-
ly increased their patrimony. Benja-
min founded a naval college and per-
formed man-y acts of less known gener-
osity. He lived long, but the curse of
the cabalist overtook him. Enormous-
Iy rich, the delusionth..’.'ha.uw11d.die
a pauper fastened upon him, and to
avoid such conclusion of the matter,
he, on April 5, 1808, being in his 55th
year, died by his own hand. Twoyears
later his brother Abraham, being con-
earned in a ministerial loan of £ 14,000.-
000, lost his nerve, blundered and
bungled, sank into a-condition of helpless
despondcncy, and on September 28,
1810, a day on which a. sum of ,£ 500,000
was due from him, he was found dead
in his room.

The fortunes of the family were re-
stored by Isaac Goldsmid, nephew of
the hapless brothers and grandson of
the founder of the English house. Like
all the Goldsmids, Isaac was a man of
generous nature and philanthropic
tendencies. ,With him it seemed that
the curse of the cabaiist had run its
course. It is true that before he died
he lapsed into a state of cliildishness.
But he had at the time passed the limit
of age of fourscore years, after which
as one of the kings of his race wrote
centuries back, man’s days are but
labor and sorrow. Isaac Goldsmid was
succeeded in his fortune and his baron-
etcy by his son Francis, on whom the
curse of the cabalist seemed to fall when
he was fatally mangled between the
engines and the rails at Waterloo sta-
tion—H. W. Lucy, in “From Behind the
Speaker’s Chair."

WOULD NOT CUT HIS HAIR.

Marshal Canrobert Refused to Obey the
. Army Regulations.

It was a singular fact that the late
Marshal Conrobert, the last of the

-French marshals, offered in himself a

constant example of the violations of
the regulations of the army in which he
was so conspicuous an officer. Through-
out almost the whole of his military
service Canrobert were long hair flow-
ing down his shoulders, and this hair
was a sort of oriflamme to the soldiers.
But ever since the year 1833 the French
army. regulations have positively re-
quired that every oflicer and soldier
shall wear closely cut hair, “without
any tufts, curls or ringlets whatsoever.”
and severe penalties are provided for
persistence in letting the hair grow
long.

Canrobert had a profuse mass of hair
which he was very proud of. It was
cropped to his great grief when he Went
into the military school of St. Cry in.
1826, but when, as a young officer, he
went into the Algerian war in 1835 he
profited by the relaxation of many ré’g—
ulat-ions there to let hishair grow down
his shoulders again. Several years later,
also, in Algeria Col. Canrobert, bare-
headed, led a heroic charge at Zaatcha
and his long floating hair, in the thick
of the combat, served as a rallying sign
to the zouaves as they swarmedthrough
the breach. After this war Canrobert’s
head of hair had already become so fa-
mous that no superior ventured to com-
mand him to cut it off, though Gen.
Pclissier, who hated him, once called
him “professor” in a cafe in Paris, and
by way of excuse affected to have mis-
atken him for a doctor of philoSophy on
account of his hair.

The emperor Napoleon III. did once
venture to remonstrate with Canrobert
for wearing long hair. The marshal’s
response was very “Frenchy.”

“Sire,” he said, “my hair belongs to
history!” '

He did not cut it off. It floated all
through the French and German war,
becoming legendary among the soldiers.
Long since it became snow white and
fell upon. the old marshal’s shoulders
in his declining days, and it clustered
about them as his body lately lay in
state in Paris—London Tit-Bits.

Canadian English. '

 

F When Jean Baptiste goes on his trav-
els he takes a ticket, with a check for
his baggage, and enters a train. (He

used to go to the station in a gig, ac~ _ ,.

carding to M. de Gaspe, but I never
heard him use the word, though I know.
he patronizes the cab-stand rather than
.‘the “place de fiacrcs.”) “All aboard!”
shouts the French guard. “All right.”
says the French passenger. I remem-
ber one day, going down from. Mon—
;ftreal to Quebec, hearing the guard ask
“a swarthy habitant for his “billet:”
,“Eh?” said he, puzzled. “Votre ti-
guette,” explained the guard. “0h, Je
lcomprcnds. Le voici.” I have even
encountered a sentence like this: “Nous

 

'Jeur donnerons des free ticket.” Jean
Baptiste will also tell you, if you. desire

(Such information, that the train con-

sists of “douze chars et un engin,” in-
stead-of “d'ouze wagons et un locomo-
tive;” but he still finds time to call the
railway itself a “ch’min d’fer,” having
'cut down the syllables from four. to
two—Contemporary Review.

——A traveler by mail routes may cover
the distance between New York and
San Domingo city in nine days.

 

' ‘ MASEAMIL‘Y' coaSE.

old Dumb merchant who founded the '

 
 

 

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