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FLIRTING WITH THE FAN.
L.) 111i l1 G 11s Can Talk lifl‘ectivelg “12':
This Baublr.
“It is really very amusing in this
matter-of—fact day and generation, to
see -a Spanish woman flirt with her
fan,” a bright, chatty woman juzt
home after a winter in Spain is re—
ported by the New York Commercial
Advertiser to have said. “Spanish wo-
men are not very brilliant as far as
wit or conversation goes, but give
senorita a fan and the use of her eyes
and she can capture and hold a lover
over whom the most brilliant repartec
and the most charming chatter could
have no influence at all. The young
Spanish girls of good Society are of
course rigorously duennaed and guard-
ed, but balconies and opera boxes are
' where their flirtatious are carried on.
I have seen at the theater at young
Spanish beauty seated between two
duennas openly coquet with her fan, in
response to the languishing glances of
a lover in some other part of the
house. For example, when the lady
' draws it through her hand, Don Juan
may go home or repair to fresh pas-
tures, for he has been told as unmis-
takably as possible that he is cordially
detested, that an irrevocable ‘No’ will
meet all his proposals, and, what is
worse for his suit, there is no ‘Yes-
ness’ in the ‘No.’ When the lady
twirls her fan in the left hand Don
Juan may take courage, but for the
time being he had better go, to re-
turn at a more convenient opportunity,
for the signal means that he and his
inamorata are being watched. There
is only one other signal that need de-
tain him. When, after having told
him that they are being watched, the
Spanish girl opens her fan very osten-
tatiously and Very wide, nothing must
induce Don Juan to leave the spot. He
must not follow her, for the signal
means,, ‘Wait for me where you
stand.’ "
Drama by Appearance.
An old darky was arrested for steal-
ing a s11ver dollar. The dollar was
found on his person“ and produced in
court.
“You stole this money?” asked the
judge.
“Dat’s whut dey says, suh!"
“Well, what have you to say for
yourself?”
“Well, suh, nuttin’ much, ’ceptin’ dat
I wuz driv ter it.”
“Driven to it?”
“Yes, suh. You see, jedge, dat dol~
lar had a bird on it, en it look. so much
like a game chicken dat I though it
wuz in a hen roos’ en des nachully
bagged it!”—-—Atlanta Constitution.
A Fatal Defect.
Editor—No, young man, I’m afraid
your" story wont do.
Author—Why, what’s the trouble
with it? 2
Editor—You’ve got the Chicago
lovers marrying and living together
for the rest of their lives—New York
Journal.
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ROUGH ON THE CHICKEN.
Some Novel Experiments with the Gath-
mann Shell at Indian Head.
Some interesting experiments with
:he Gathmaun high-explosive shell
have been made at the Indian Head
proving grounds. One of the Gath-
mann shells exploded in a big 12- inch
gun at Indian Head recently and burst
the valuable piece of ordnance. The
naval officers did not accept this ac-
cident as proving the shell to be val-
ieless. They have given it some prac-‘
tical tests without any trouble result-
ing. .
In order to test the effect of_ the con-
:ussion produced by the explosion of
ihe shell, four live chickens were
placed in the rear of the target, 17-
inch plate, with a backing two feet
ihick. The 300 pounds of gun cotton
contained in the shell were exploded
1gainst the plate. One chicken, tied
immediately behind the backing, was
nade crazy by the explosion. An-
other confined in an air-tight coffer-
dam containing sufficient air to keep
it alive, and placed fifteen feet from
the target, was killed. The idea of
having the cofferdam air-tight was to
arevent the chicken from experiencing
the concussion. The head of a chicken
lied in the open air thirty-five feet
:rom the plate was blown off and all
its feathers removed, showing the ter—
vible effect of the concussion, while
the fourth fowl, placed in an air- tight
tofferdam thirty- nine feet distant was
dazed, but not unconscious. It died
the next day—Nev; York Sun.
SAFETY'IN SEA éAT‘HING.
A Novel Corset Which Enables Those Who
do Not Swim to Have No Fear.
A garment for the convenience and
safety of bathers is the pneumatic
corset. It can be worn over or under
the bathing suit, and serves the douule
purpose of supporting the bather in
the water and of preserving the figure,
as any other corset would. With such
a corset the woman who does not swim
can have as good a time in the water as
the woman who does, and not only be
perfectly safe herself, but be able to
act as a life saver should the necessity
arise, for, in spite of the smallness of
its bulk, the corset holds air enough
to support two people. It is made in
two sections, can be inflated in two
minutes, and when deflated can be
carried in the pocket.
Vests constructed on the same prin-
cipal are made for men and children,
-...11d are the greatest possible boon to
any one having the care of little ones
at the seashore. When provided with
me of these vests the merest child can
play in the water with safety.
The garments make perfect life-pre-
servers, anad are already being used
[or that purpose by some foreign nav-
ies. Americans have been somewhat
slower to discover thier virtues, but it
is said that they will soon take the
place of cork life-preservers on steam-
1,rs.—New York Tribune.
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THE YAP DOLLAR.
Weighs Eighty Pounds and Hardly Avail-
able as a. Pocket Piece.
First and last there have been many
different kinds of dollars in the United
States—silver dollars, gold dollars and
multifarious paper dollars of some-
times dubious value; and in" other
countries, iron, platinum, brass, bone,
Ivory, and even wheat and cotton goods
have done duty as money. But the
oddest “dollar” ever seen thus far, per-
haps, is that coined, or rather quar-
ried, by the chiefs of the island of Yap,
one of the group of Caroline Islanads
in the South Pacific.
These Yap coins are even more cum-
bersome to carry about than the great
silver ”daddy dollar” of our own land.
Vastly more cumbersome, indeed, since
they weigh eighty pounds apiece and
are over two feet in diameter! A de-
faulting cashier would certainly have
difficulty in absconding with many of
them!
Two of these strange pieces of money
may now be seen in the National Mu-
seum at Washington. They are circu-
lar disks of coralline rock, dull white
in color, yet apparently crystalline,
twenty-six inches in diameter and from
three to four inches thick. At the
centre of each there is a round hole
two inches and a half in diameter.
The Yap chief enjoys a. monopoly in
this singular sort of coinage. When
in want of money, he has but to send
his slaves to the quarry to fashion as
many flat “dollars” as he needs.
His treasury is a number of long
poles set on support in front of the
royal hut. The dollars are struck on
the poles like beads in a necklace; and
the number of strings of these great
stone dollars possessed by a chief is
the gage of his wealth and respectabil-
1tv.
But if utility should be a character-_
istic of money, a dozen grindstones
piled on a pole would be of more value
than the whole of iL—Youth’s Compan-
(on.
Dead to the “’orld,
“You have ruined my life.” he said
bitterly, just after she had broken
the engagement. “My ambition is
dead. I go to seek everlasting obliv-
ion.”
Then he became Vice President of
the United States, and was never
heard of again. -—.\’ew York Journal.
A rec1eation pier has been open ed
on the east side of New York this sea-
son by the city authorities. It is at
the foot of East Third street, near the
tenement quarters of 250,000 persons.
Three more will be ready by next year.
The lower story is left open for trade.
Steel“ arches suppOIt the floor above,
which is exposed to the sea on three
sides and affords room for 3,000 people.
Harmless refreshments are allowed,
and the city supplies music several
times a week.
. Melody by NELSON KNEASS.
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MME.’ BhRNHARDT’S‘TREA‘KS.’
She Put the Town Officials to Consider-
able Inconvenience.
Sarah Bernhardt does not grow
more reasonable or obliging as she
grows older. It has been her habit for
many years to keep her audiences
waiting until she got ready to go on.
the stage, whether it happened to be
a. quarter, a. half or three quarters of
an hour, and the audiences have
quietly submitted and now the report
has recently come along the shivering
cable that she refused to attend a
municipal reception given to herself
by the authorities of Portsmouth,
England, her excuse being that she
did not feel strong enough to climb
the steps of the Town Hall. And so
the mighty ones of Portsmouth waited
In their official robes—rich and beau-
tiful garments which such persons
wear over there—and waited for the
French actress to come, never think-
ing, in the simplicity of their hospi-
table souls, that their architect had
built their Town Hall so high as to
make it unreasonable for them to
think of paying special honors to
French actresses.
It is curious that the municipal au-
thorities of Portsmouth should have
thought of giving an official reception
to Mme. Bernhardt at all, but when
the fact that they did is fully digested
it seems strange that she should not
have accepted with alacrity, till her
own probable view is taken into ac-
count, that she could gain a good deal
more distinction by refusing than by
accepting it.
All English provincial towns will no
loubt hereafter refrain from giving re-
ceptions to notoriously capricious
French actresses, or else will see that
their town halls are built , with
their reception-rooms on the level of
the ground—New York Tribune.
Saved Hei List of Books.
A Boston paper tells a story of a
Smith College girl who was awakened
in her summer home by the c‘1y,
“Fire! Fire!” 0001 and collected, she
donned her clothes, and then thought:
“Now, 1. hat do I value the most?” Af-
ter matur ereflection she took a list of
books fiom her writing desk and left
the house. “I am so glad I saved it,”
she said afteiward to a sympathizing
f11e11d “for if I had lost it I could not
tell what books I read last year.”
An Odious Companion.
“I don’t think there is any doubt
about the Indians progressing in civ.
illzation,” remarked the professor.
“I haven’t had very extensive op-
pmtunities f01 obseivation,” replied
the p1i111 old lady, “but the fact that
none of the Indians I evei saw was
in the habit of expectorating on the
floms of street 01115 or of using profan
ity in public leads me to think that
they have got a very good start."-
~ Washington Star.
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PROVED THEIR CAPABILITIES.
Political Jobs.
Ex-Gov. Thatcher of Colorado, tells
this: “I had been ‘in charge of my of-
fice but a few days when I received one
day a large bear that had been recent-
ly killed, accompanied by a note tell-
ing me that it was ‘mighty fine b’ar
meat.’ This note did not give the
name of the giver. A few days later
a dozen wild turkeys arrived at the
executive mansion. The next gift was
a large box of fine mountain trout,
along with some fresh berries. By
this time Iwas a little curious, but had
no way of learning who they came
from. One day I received an extra
large box. There was a large cake,
some pies, bread, jams, and jelly, with
small pieces of different meats finely
'cooked. This time the note informed
me the unknown would call on me in
a few days. I was anxious to see the
person, and when one Saturday a long-
haired man from the mountains came
in I was somewhat surprised. ‘Well,
Governor, what dd you think of my
ability as a hunter and of my wife as
a cook?’ asked the stranger. Without
any more talk he said he wanted the
job of furnishing my household with
fresh meats and his wife wanted the
position of cook. As they had shown
their abilities, I gave them the posi-
tions at once. He never failed to keep
-a good supply of meats on hand, and
his wife furnished good home cooking.
If all the office seekers were like that
man a Government oflicial’s life would
be a happy one.”—Omaha Bee.
A NOISELESS HORSESHOE.
It Haslleen Declared a Boon by Experi-
enced Horsemen.
A rubber-tired and noiseless horse-
shoe, which is expected to revolutionize
horse running and racing, has been
invented by a Western genius. The
shoes resembles the ordinary horse-
shoe, except that a circular rim of rub-
ber is invented in its bottom. The in-
ventor is John W. Monarch, formerly
chief of the fire department of Des
Moines, Ia. The rubber portion tends
naturally to give the horse a much
surer footing in climbing and descend-
ing steep hills or when traveling over
roads ma‘de slippery by mud or ice.
A horse equipped with the new shoes
was driven on one of the steepest hills
in Des Moines recently by way of ex-
periment. The animal was first driver
down hill at a fast trot, and it was
found that instead of trotting wit}:
stiff knees, as a horse naturally would
the horse traveled almost as surely as
it would on' a perfectly level road
When the bottom of the road was
reached the horse, while still trotting
rapidly, was turned off sharply with-
out making him slip or use his footing
Experienced :horsemen who have ex
amined the new shoe declare that it i:
a boon.—New York World.
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'HO'W A‘BOOK IS PUBLISHED.
2,000 Copies Begun Monday and Com-
pleted Wednesday.
A large book bindery may have a.
capacity of 10.000 books a day. The
resources of some of these binderies
are wonderful. There is an instance
on record where a publishing house
took an order on Monday for a cloth-
covered 121110 volume of 350 pages and
actually shipped 2,000 copies of the
book on the following Wednesday..The
type was set by machinery for the
entire 350 pages before work stopped
Monday night. Electrotype plates were
made so rapidly that on Tuesday
morning several printing presses were
set in motion. In the meantime cov-
ers were made in the bindery, and by
Wednesday morning the binders had
the book in hand. Two thousand vol—
umes were completed that day, and the
edition of 10,000 was entirely out of
the way before Saturday night. In
modern book-binding machinery, as
in the production of printing presses,
America leads the world, and no other
nation can equal it in the speed and
general effectiveness with which all
branches of the industry are carried
out.—St. Louis Globe Democrat.
cuesenr HUMOR.
Mrs. Humbugg (whose husband
manufactures patent medicines)——Sci-
entists have just discovered a new dis-
case!
Mr. Humbugg (aghast)———The deuce!
1‘ hat will cost me dear,
Mrs. Humbugg—How so?’
Mr. Humbugg—Why, I’ve just had
1,000,000 circulars printed advertising
my new “Cureall.” Now I’ll have to
have them all reprinted so as to get
that confounded new disease into the
list of certified cures—Puck.
Amelia—«Swear not by the moon, the
neonstant moon.
Augustus—Then what shall I swear
Amelia—Swear by that which you
..old invaluable; something that you
annot live without. '
.-\ugustus—Then, Amelia, I love you!
ear it by my bicycle.——Tit-Bits.
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Lira. Eastlake—“You visited Venice
aphiie 1::31 were in Europe, I hear, Mrs.
l‘rotte.
Mrs. Trotter. “Yes, indeed, and we
were rowed about by one of the chan-
deliers for which that city is noted.”
—Harper’s Bazar.
Miss Oldbird (aflianced, somewhat
:adly)—-Ah, Count, you love me now,
2.ut will you after our union?
The Count (ecstatically)—Loaf!
.Vhy, mein tarling, I vill be vun g-r-r-
and loafer all my lifel—Judge.
Bingers—And were you married on
;ime?
Ginger—Oh, no; I had to pay the
Lgarson cash—Yonkers Statesman.
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