'l.‘ '\ k 1 ‘ A DlSSlPATED' DOG. The Colonel’s Jugs are Very Frequent and Complete. , ’ , Fort Logan, Celo., has a favorite who has contracted the bad habit of indulg- ing in the flowing bowl, and when in the vicinity of the canteen—about the time of pay day especially—he is sure to get more or less intoxicated-on the of- ferings of the doughboys who like to share with their favorite the good things of the day which comes but once a month. Jerry Simpson is a private in the ranks, and is a total abstainer, never going near the canteen except when ordered there on duty to escort to the guard house those who are un— able to pick their way to the barracks. On such occasions it is not an uncom- ‘ mon thing for J erry- to find Colonel, his famous retriever, prone on the floor in the highest stage of inebriation, ' chewing the last remnants of a good- sized jag. Colonel is kept by his mas- ter for his usefulness on hunting fields. His boon companions keep him well fed and supplied with tobacco~ for the Colonel likes a taste of the herb nicotiana when he is in the dumps af- ter soaking his head in the stable bucket on the morning following a de- bauch. He is a troubled specter when in his moods after recovering from the good things of the night before, and acts very much like one of the two- footed revelers who enticed him from the sedate‘quarters of his owner. 'VVery llIuéh‘Named. ‘ Triplets, named W'illiam McKinley White, Garret A. Hobart White and James A. Mount White, were born to William A. and Mrs. \Vhite of Kokom, Ind., and the father, who is a Republi- can, and proud of the youngsters, named the boys after the Republican candidates for President, Vice-Presi- dent and Governor of Indiana. The father thinks he detects indica- tions of a Napoleonic expression grow- ing on McKinley, and he pounds his crib with the vim and cleverness of a Cabinet-maker. Soon after the birth of the trio Messrs. McKinley, Hobart and Mount were notified Of the honor conferred, and autographic acknowl- edgmuents were received from each.— .\'ew York-World. . Anecdote of President Lincoln. A' lieutenant, whom debts compelled to, leave .his fatherland and service succeeded in being admitted to the late President Lincoln, and, by reason 17f his commendable and winning de- partment and intelligent appearance, was promised a li-eutenant‘s commis- shill in a. cavalry regiment. He was so enraptured with his success that he .leemed it a duty to inform the Presi- dent that he belonged to one of the oldest noble houses in Germany. “0. never mind that," said Mr. Lincoln: you will not find that it) be an obstacle to your advancement.” a .' service He is now Cured, and He Thanks God and P. P. P., Lippman’s Great Rem- edy, For It. Mr. George Briggs, of Moore, Okla, suffered almost indescribable torment for three ,long years.‘ Neuralgia held him captive. The right side of his face was so badly affected that the slightest. touch would cause the unfortunate man intense agony. For several weeks he could open his month just wide enough to be fed with liquid nourish- .ment, and in this manner life was sus— tained. Read the following extract from his letter: “Truth is stranger than Fiction.” NEURALGIA, CATARRH AND RHEUMA- TlSM COMPLETELY CURED. George Briggs, of Moore, Oklahoma, writes that. P. P. P., Lippman’s Great Remedy, cured him of catarrh, facial - neuralgia and rheumatism, after three years of intense suffering. The pain lay in his cheek bone and temple. down the right. side of his face, along his upper lip, and from the slightest touch he suffered agonies for weeks at a time. (Could only open his mouth wide enough to admit. a teaspoon. and any acid in his food would put. him in torture. He had a consultation of the best physi~ cians in Texas, but all to no purpose. Catarrh and rheumatism were also causing him much trouble. until he tried 1’. P. P. lie says he is well and will swear that there are no cases of neuralgia, catarrh and rheumatism, no matter how chronic or how old the cases are, that P. 1’. P. will not make a total cure of. Mr. Briggs winds up his testimony by saying he thanks God and our med- icine, l’. P. P., Lippman‘s Great. Rem- edy, for the great cure. Kidney troubles, if neglected, bring about serious and painful and very often fatal results. P. P. P. removes the irregularities, and cures the dis- eased parts. Dyspepsia and indigestion, skin and blood diseases, can be speedily removed by P. P. P., Lippman‘s Great. Remedy. Ladies, take P. P. P. and rid your face of pimples, blotches. freckles,‘ yellow or .muddy skin, wrinkles and vulgar redness. _ Sold by all ‘druggists.’ LlPPMAN BROS, Apothecaries, Sole Prop'rs, Lippman's Block, Savannah, (la. 4Wt.rnEfiEsziNG1oAZETTE-C“TTi-77°SK'YT;' WASHINGTON NOTES. The pages in}, the Supreme Court of the United States are required to wear knickcrbockers. Three of the pages, are nearly full-grown men, and when on the street they always wear long trousers. The short knicker- bockers are known as their" official trousers, and are only worn "when the Supreme Court is in session. Pages of the court receive a salary of $01) a month. This is more than either the Senate or the House pages get, their allowance, being only $75 a month during the session of Congress. In Congress the pages are not restricted to any particular kind of trousers. but are. privileged to dress as their fancy dictates. _ Mr. John Addison Porter. of Pom- fret. Connecticut, and formerly ed- itor—in-chicf of the Hartford Post, is to occupy, under President McKin- ley. the important and highly exact- ing office of private secretary to the nation's chief executive. Mr. Porter is the eldest son of the late Addison Porter, long time dean of the Sheflicld Scientific School of New Haven, and ‘Josephine Earl Sheffield. :1 daughter of the founder of that institution, and JOHN ADDISON PORTER was born in New Haven forty years ago. After his graduation from Yale, where he was distinguished in the classics, Mr. Porter studied law under distinguished auspices at Cleve- land, Ohio, but subsequently left the legal profession for that of journal- ism. His newspaper experience, cov- ering a period of sixteen years, has embraced service in various capaci- ties with the New Haven Palladium, Hartford Courant, New York Ob- server, aud New York Tribune. He has also been a frequent contributor to the leading magazines. Representative Cooper of \Viscon- sin is known as the champion pie eater of Congress. His friends say he ,can eat more pie at one time than any other man in Congress. “'hcnever the Congressman's digestive organs are in good wurking order he can usu- ally be seen at the Senate restaurant partaking of two or three pieces of Page‘s choice pie. Pumpkin pie, “the kind that mother used to make,” ap- peals particularly to the palate of the Badger State Congressman. Fre- quently be. has been seen to eat two pieces of this special kind, and then glance about the counter to see. if there was not another variety that he might select.‘ ' All but one of the Presidents inaug- urated since the election of Abraham Lincoln in the year 1860 had experi- ence in war before their election. Mr. Lincoln was Captain of a company raised for the Black Hawk war; and Til-ant. lI-ayes, Garfield, Harrison and McKinley were engaged in the. war for the I'nion. The only man inaugu- rated since the period spoken of who never carried a gun in his country's is Mr. Cleveland. Andrew Johnson. who became President after Mr. Lincoln was slain, had previously been military Governor of Tennessee: and Mr. Arthur, who became Presi- dent after Mr. Garfield was slain, had honorably served his state during the war as a Quartermaster-General and an Inspector-General, with the rank of Brigadier. Mr. Peary, U. S. N., the Arctic ex- plorer. told some interesting things of the polar regions at a recent public dinner. He said he could talk of only one thing. and then-laid hold of the -pole. Picturing a. man standing over the North Pole. he said that this per— son would have but one point to his compass. and that Would be south. He could not move except south. Time. would be unknown to him. He would know no night or day. Experiences of Nansen and-himself during the last three years. he said. had shown that the ideal part}: to discover the pole \must consist of only two or three per- sons. The old uha of a large party must be abandoned. By modern meth— ods the pole could be reached without any ofthe horrors of the Franklin and Greely expeditions. I-Ic consid- ered that the man who makes the dis- covery will rank with Columbhs. The question as to what good it would be to such a man to discover the pole. would be like asking what good was the wreath [at the Olympian games. It would be a tribute to endurance. energy. persistence, the. conquering of obstacles. It would be. the peerless prize of the day, and should go to an American. It had become possible, with all the recent light on the sub- ject, he said, for him to advise and propose within the last month a prac- tical plan to get there. There were only 260:“miles beyond the highest point; already reached to be traversed. He thought, the only way to reach the pole would be to follow up Green- land as it reaches toward the pole. A certain tribe of Eskimos there could be relied upon to furnish assistance. A fund of $150,000 would keep such a. small party as he advised for ten years working steadily away. ' . ‘ SENATOR. Jr an OYSTERS FOR LON DOF'ERS They Are Pack-ed So Tightly in Barrels that. Their Juice Cannot Escape. The barrelling of oysters for the Lon- don market is done carefully. The oysters are laid in with 'the deep shell down, and packed tightly. When the heads are hammered down not. an oys- ter in all that company can open his shell the fractional part of an inch. They are fastened in close confine— ment, and their juice cannot escape. ’ ‘he strange result of this treatment is that when the barrels are opened in London town the oysters are fatter and finer flavored than when they are raked up. For ten days they have been fattening on their own liquor, and they are a thousand times more healthy than those atrocious oysters which so many dealers fatten in fresh water and serve up, bloated, diseased and with all their delicious flavor de- stroyed, just to make full measure and feast the eyes of those who know no better than to eat oysters that have been freshcned. "Good business.” said the boss. “Yes. pretty fair, I must say. But wehad a great fight at the first: _, The London people were afraid of American oys- ters. I guess they thought they had trichinae or something in them. For a time we couldn‘t make them'go, and we had a lot. of barrels spoiled on our hands. But our agents over there kept at it till they got the flavor of them on their palates, and now we can‘t keep up with the demand. It has been suggested that we quietly run in'some "Jersey blue points” or some of those that grow in the Sound and pass mus- ter 011 easy people for the real Great South Bay article. But we are not in . such a hurry as that to get rich. We i send our own goods and none other.” A REMARKABLE BOOK. Sixty-six Thousand Dollars Could Not Pur- chase it, ' The most curious book in the world is neither written nor printed. Its pages arecomposed of the finest qual- ity of vellum, and the letters were with infinite pain and trouble cut out of the material with a sharp pointed knife or pair of delicate scissors. It is interleaved. with blue paper, and the - letters can, therefore, be read as easily as any print. It formerlyrbelonged to the Prince de Lignegand is now in the library of a. noble French family. The title of the book is “Liber Pas- sionis Domini Nostri Jesu Christi, cum Characteribus Nulla Materia Compos- itis;” in English, “The Book of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. in Characters, Without Materials of Composition." The matter is a 110m: ily probably composed by some mon- astic preacher of the middle ages. A remarkable‘ circumstance connected 'with this book is the fact. that. al- though it bears the royal arms of England. no mention of it can be found in any English writing. The book is believed to have been-made some time in the thirteenth or four- teenth century. In 1640 the Emperor Rudolph II. offered for it 11,000 du- cats. which in the money of our time would equal about-$66,000, and the of- fer was refused.——St. Louis Globe- Democrat. Faithful \to the Captain. That was a loyal if not very gentle answer once made by a private soldier to Frederick the Great of Prussia, as the story is told in Harper‘s llound Table: ' . During a campaign in Silesia the , king made it his habit to stroll through i his camp in disguise at night, to come ; into closer relations with his soldiers. i One night he was stopped by a sentry, —.\'cw York “'orld. Quite to the Point. It was at the dinner table. There were present several poets and writ— l ers of repute, ameng whom was a; charming and witty American woman. I One of the poets related a‘story he had : heard oi"\\'ordsworth. It seems that ' tliisli:ird was in the habit of writing at night and in the early morning. and that he used to rouse his wife and exclaim. about four o‘clock, “Marla. get up! I have thought of a good word!“ Whereupon- his obedient help- mcet‘ arose. and recorded it on paper. About an hour after a new inspiration would seize upon the poet, and he would call out, "Maria, get up! I’ve ‘ thought of a better word!” We list- ened to this story with admiration. but the bright-eyed American re1narked.j with a wave of the red rose in her -' hand, “Well, if he’d been my husband I should have said. ‘Wordsworth. get up! I’ve thought of a bad \VOl‘t l” i A Lnl'dly Dish. . Wild boar, roasted whole, was the‘ chief dish at a State dinner recently given by the Prince of Montenegro. It was brought» in smoking hot. Inside the boar was a turkey, and inside the tur- Key was a snipe which had been shot by the host. but giving the proper password, was permitted to proceed. Instead of do- ing so. however, be endeavored to tempt the sentry into accepting a ci- gar, saying that a smoke would solace his long watch. “It is against the rules,” said the soldier. “But you have my permission," said Frederick. “Your permission!” cried the soldier. “And who are you ?” “I am the king.” “The king be hanged!” said the incor- ruptiblc sentry. “What would my 'captuin say?" The Owl's Foot. The construction of the owl's foot is peculiar. Unlike the well-known foot of the parrot, which has two toes in front and two behind, and that of the eagle—or a more familiar example—— the common sparrow, it has one toe be- hind and three in front; but the first of these is capable of much lateral motion, while the fourth or outer too is reversible, and when the bird perches is turned backward, so that the, bird sits on its perch with the two middle toes in front and the two outer ones behind. - «me Time Cost o S WASHING remiss WWR‘QK WWW?) What More Can be Asked? Only this : ask your grocer for it, and insist on TH E N. K. FAIR Chicago. St. Louis, New York, trying it. Largest package—greatest economy. BAN K COM PANY. Boston. Philadelphia. r - - EM an: A Wise Man Keeps ' his Home Insured Against Fire. - HE BEST CUMPAN'ES REPRESENTED l w. H. BYlNGTON, ROOM I, GAZETTE BUILDING, - -. - - NORWALK, 00H“ ‘INSUBANIIEE \ _ 7“ é‘ r IS... OVER. i NUW- is ; 8 TIM . TA To Subscribe for the \ AND 55} I a
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