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I Law SChOO" (LL B after twq

oars ) EVENING CLASSES. (LL. 3.11m: three years}
$11in sessions 3 .30 to 6 and 8 to 10 P. M. ,_ ‘

. Tuition 5 1 00 per year.
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sensation"
of dryness
and heat
in the
throat.

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AT IIOIIE.

Don’t go out of town to
have your Awnings
made when you can get
them right .here at
home just as cheap.
If you want a canopy
for a party or a wed-
ding, I will supply it at
two hours’ notice.
A letter or postal card
will receive prompt at.
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A HORSE THAT EA'rs RAW MEXT. ”

bored of Stealing lfiish by a Crabs Ten-
ucious Grip.

The most extraordinary appetite
Known in a horse belongs to Billy, a
randsome bay, owned by a firm in San
Francisco.

Billy’s duties are to draw the fi1m’s
lelivery wagon, and his stand is On
llerchant street, in front of the shop.
Here he is often on exhibition, eating
with an apparent relish steak, liver,

.lripe, and, in short, almost any variety

1f meat handed him. Sometimes, after
having. had his fill of oats and hay, he
refuses to munch meat, but this seldom
mcurs. -

Billy’s appetite developed several
months ago. No one knew of it until

'bne day he was seen to reach into a

butcher cart that was tied just ahead
it him and calmly begin eating a
Iteak. After that he was fed often
with the firm’s wares, and many a bet
has been won and lost on his appetite.

The horse formerly varied his carnal
neals by purloining fish, but he was
lured in a manner that was ludicrous
lo the spectators, but very painful for
he equine phenomenon.

He reached into a fish wagon one
lay, when his olfactories detected the
MIDI of his favorite smelt, but an active
and belligerent crab took offence at
:he intrusion and promptly fastened to
his lower lip.

Billy shook his head frantically and
whinnied in pain, but the crustacean
field on until he was crushed by being
banged against the side of the wagon.
Since then the horse has kept clear of
fish .—San Francisco Call. _ Q .2:

-'4 .. ' LEGS LOST IN BATTLE.

Evidence That the Soldiers was Not Try-I
ing to Avoid the Enemy.

“I can tell almost to a certainty to
which branch of the service he be-
‘onged when I see an old soldier stalk-
ing around on one leg,” said Colonel
ruamar Fontaine, of Mississippi, the
famous Confederate scout and poet.
‘If the left leg is missing then I am
pretty certain he belonged to the in-

*antry, and if he is minus the right

.eg, then I feel safe in betting that he
was a cavalryman. In either case the
lbsence of the leg proves more con-
:lusively than the written record that
:he man who lost it was fighting like a

-:oldier when wounded.

“The reason the infantryman loses
;he left leg in battle is this: Infantry—
nen are drilled to place the left foot
forward when firing in order to balance
.he body so ; that steadier aim can be
:aken. This naturally acts as a pro-
zection to the right leg, which, of
:ourse, is more or less concealed. Con-
sequently the bullet of the enemy is
nuch more apt to find lodgement in the
Teft leg than the right. Now, the cav-
ilryman uses a pistol nearly alto-
gether. It is handier and less cumber-
some. The pistol is held in the right
bland, and this causes the cavalryman,
when firing, to place his right foot for-
ward for support. In this way that
side of him is much more likely to suf-
fer than the left. But, as I said, either
:ase is conclusive evidence to me that
:he soldiers thus maimed were facing
the enemy when shot. The loss of the
leg indicates almost to a certainty that
:lie sufferer was standing in military
position and not crouching or run-
ning.”——St. Louis Republican.

 

REASONING OF A MONKEY.

By Frightening :1 Fruit-Seller, He Secured
a Good Meal.

Monkeys °love by nature to imitate
what they see, and have been known to
smoke a pipe, and to pretend to read a
book that they have seen other people
reading. But sometimes they can do a
great deal more than this and show
:hat they can calculate and reason bet-
ter than many men, says Lang’s Ani-
mal Wo1ld.

A la1ge Ahvssinian monkey was one

day being taken a1ouncl Khaitoum by

its master and made to perform all
sorts of tricks for the amusement of
bystanders. Among them was a date-
seller, who was squatting on the
ground beside h‘is'fruit. Now the men—
key was passionately fond of dates, but
being very cunning was careful not
to let this appear, and went on per-
forming his tricks as usual, drawing,
Iittle by little, nearer to the date-bas-
ket as he did so.

When he, thought he was near
enough for his purpose he first pre-
tended to die, slowly and naturally,
and then, after lying for a moment on
the ground as stiff as a corpse suddenly
bounded upwim a scream straight in
front of the date-seller’s face and
stared at him with wild eyes.

’1 he man looked back at him spell—
bound, quite unaware that one of the
monkey‘s hind feet was in the date-
basket, clawing up as much fruit as
his long toes could hold. By some
such trick as this the monkey managed
to steal enough food daily to keep him
fat and comfortable.

Testing Water.

To test the purity of water, there has
been found no better or simpler way
than to fill a clean bottle three—fourths
full of water to be tested, and dissolve
in the water half a teaspoonful of the
purest sugar—loaf or granulated will

' answer; cork the bottle and place it in

a warm position for two days. If in
twenty-four or forty-eight hours the

.water becomes cloudy or milky, it is

unfit for domestic use.

 

.Lace from-Leaves.
The beautiful lace known as Fayal
lace is‘ made from the fibres in the
leaves of the bitter-aloe—grown in the

Azores, or Western Islands—a relative,

of the common century- -plant.

This lace is manufactured by women
but the necessary skill is so rarely at—
tained that there are but twenty- five
persons on the islands who can m..ke
it;——Harper’s Round Table.

0

. fever at Newport.

 

 

CAR HORSES.HARD TO GET.

Since Electricity \Vas Introduced the
llIarket Channels Have Been Closed.
One of the most curious effects of

the general replacing of‘ horses by

electricity and cable traction for draw—

Ing streetcars is being experienced by

one of- the extensive car lines. inNeW

York city which still uses horses. The.

Bun saysone would suppose that, since -

the only lines in the Whole cOuntry
which continue to use horses now form
but a very small percentage of those
which used them five years ago, these
lines would have a ,much wider range
of choice, and could get horses of a.
grade superior to the general run of
those which used to be offered to them.
Remarkable as it may seem, this is
the exact opposite of the, truth.

The New York city line referred to
runs in direct competition with the
cable lines of the upper west side, and
Its managers, who recently purchased

' lt, determined as soon as they came
into possession to place upon it a su- _

perior lot of horses, and in this way
improve its running until mechanical
propulsion could be introduced. Orders
were sent out to buy the needed horses.
Much to the surprise ‘of the managers,
it was discovered that there were alv

mest no street- car horses of any kind.

to be bought.

The eXplanation of this situation
lies in the fact that since the demand
for street-car horses almost ceased, the

:rade ‘ machinery by which they
were gathered has fallen into
disuse. A few years ago the

street- car horses were one of the
most important features of the
horse market. They were animals of
a. standard grade and of almost stable
price, and every part of the country
contributed its quota. The street-car
horse had to be big and _able, and
sound of limb and wind, but it might
be of any age. Few lasted long enough
In the service to make the question of
a. few years more or less of any con-
sequence. The demand was constant,
and the price never varied in New

York more than from'about $125 to.

5150 each. Dealers could always 'count
upon getting this mice and getting it
promptly, and as a consequence every
h01se which would answer the purpose
was a safe investment at a little small-
er price, and a clean profit of $10 a
horse was regarded as a fair margin in
handling them.

Horses of all sorts, which lacked the
qualities of speed, beauty or youth, but
possessed the other requirements, were
quickly sorted out from the markets
of the whole country, and every big
dealei was always able to gather
droves of car horses as fast as the
companies needed them. The t1olley
has superseded the car horse, and car
horses are no longer quoted as staples
In the'market. The companies which
still use them are obliged to go out
and search the marts and buy them
one by one, instead of simply sending
out an order for 100 Or 200 of 500 and
getting them readily.

 

DEPEW TAKES TO THE WHEEL.

The President of the New York Central
Surrenders to the Bicycle Craze.

There was a subdued air of excite-
ment around the Grand Central Sta-
tion. The atmosphere was strongly
:ainted with a smell of iodine and lini-
ment. Telegraph instruments clicked
noisily all the day, and it wasn’t long
before it was known from one end of
the line to the other that the president
had taken to riding a wheel. That
Chauncey M. Depew, after sixty-three
years of total abstinence, suddenly
should go on a violent and prolonged
bicycle tear was too much. One glance
at Mr. Depew as he sat in his office
:onflrmed the report that he is at least
an enthusiastic wheelman. Sundry
scratches showed that all had not been
smooth sailing on the start, but the
contour of his face showed a remark-
able resemblance to the bicycle face
of a veteran.‘

A year ago Mr. Depew was the stout-
est opponent of the bill compelling
railroads to carry bicycles as baggage,
Now he is a convert to the silent steed.
He glories in the victory of the Bicycle
Baggage bill, and says, with a chuckle,
“It was a great victory for us wheel-
men.” Mr. Depew caught the bicycle
It was a sudden
a d violent attack. He learned to ride
wi 11 remarkable ease, and announced
that he would keep at it for all time.
He smilin 01y said that he was not a
candidate fo1 a 1ide on a silver bicycle
from Nice to Naples, adding: “I hard-
ly think two trips to Europe in a year
would be advisable.” He wouldn’t dis-
cuss makes, century runs, sprockets,
saddles or other data dearto a wheel-

 

man’s heart, and explained apologeti- 4

sally, “I am only a beginner. When
everything gets in working order I will
be ready to debate with any one.”
——\Tew York I‘ribune. '
The Cheerful Idiot.

“Are you aware,” sair the garrulous
boarder, “that oxtail soup was the in-

' vention of the French refugees, who

used to beg the oxtails because they
hay no money to buy soup bones?”
“In other words,” said the Cheerful
Idi’ot, “they were reduced to the last
extremity.”—Indianapolis Journal.
When a man again meets a former
love, he always finds some cause fer
self-congratulation.-—Puck.

“ but He Felt Like
“I have p1oposed to seven girls this

summei alieady," said Tim-mine, “and

I haven’t been able to get
Dinged 'if I am not beginning,

accepted

 

once.
to feel like one of my p0ems."———lnd an-
apolis Journal.
In Hard Luck.
Mrs. Mulcahy-jAnd so your COW

sick?
Mrs. Burke—She is, and it makes ‘1
hard for mes ilf and the children ’-'.e
have no milk at all; I have to sell it —-
Boston Transcxipt.

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THE ADVERTISING ART.

ts Improvement and Develop: .1: H Show:
Its Value to the Public.

Of the millions of people who read

the .daily papers published in the Uni-

 

ted States, from New York to Indians

apolis and from Indianapolis to San
Francisco, a very large majority give
more or less time to reading the ad-
vertisements. Some do this because
they wish to find a. particular, thing
or are interested in some particular
line of business; others because their
eye is caught by a good display; others

to see how business is; others in search ‘

of bargaips, and so on. The regular
patrons of a paper, its home readers,
read the advertisements almost as reg-
ularly as they do any other part of the
paper, and if regularly followed up
they are a good picture and reflex of
the times. A daily newspaper without
its regular grist of advertisements,
changing every day in the year, and
giving with every change a kaleido-
scopic view of trade with its reflected
lights of socia‘l life, would be a very
p001 sort of paper.

The evolution of the art of advertis-
ing is as interesting as ’th‘at of any
other feature cf modern life. In the
infancy of the business there was no art
about It, and not much business. Its
valve was not appreciated either by ad-
vertisers or publishers and ’probably
it had not as much value in former
times relatively as it has now, because
it took time for the people to become
educated up to reading advertisements
as they do now. One reason why they
are so much more read now than for-
merly isthat they are so much more
readable. They are not only better
but worded fresher, and being changed
so much oftener, are much more a re-
flex of the times. A badly Worded ad-
vertisement is almost as bad as none
at all, and a stale advertisement, one
that shows on its face that it is out
of date, is as ofiensive to readers as it
should be to publishers and advertis-
ers.

To be effective
should be well constructed, adroitly
worded, right to the point and changed
as often as possible. No doubt one
reason of the great growth of adver-
tising in recent years is that business
men, having learned to appreciate its
value, are more careful than they used
to be in keeping faith with the public
and living up to their advertisements.
In these days of sharp competition a
merchant who should break faith with
the public by advertising one thing or
one price and offering another would
soon find the public letting him se-
verely alone. A shrewd advertiser

would almost. as soon let his note go
to pro-test as not to live up to his ad-
vertisement. Shrewd advertisers, too,
look carefully to the Wording of their
advertisements, and if" no one in the
establishment is skilled in that direc-
tion, they hire somebody else to do it.
In all cities now there are professional
writers of advertisements, who do
nothing else, and receive larger sala-
ries. The business has grown enor-
mously in every direction, givlng em-
ployment to a great many people,
maintaining large and costly agencies,
and involving the expenditure of hun-
dreds of millions of dollars annually.

The art of advertising has been pro-
gressive from the beginning. It has
never experienced any check—except
bank check—and it is as expensive and
progressive to-day as it ever was. This
is the best possible proof that it pays.
——Indianapolis journal.

How Elephants Keep Cool.

The elephant, in a wild state, is a
nocturnal animal, rarely, if ever,,stir—
ring in the daylight from his haunts
in the shady forest, and, when domes-
ticated and compelled to work or trav-
el in the daytime, his enormous size
and dark color cause 'him to be a great
sufferer frbm the heat.

To relieve himself, the animal has
contracted the habit of withdrawing
from his stomach a quantity of water
by means of his trunk, which he then
squirts over his back and sides, in or-
der, by. its evaporation, to cool the
skin. I

As this process is repeated, on an
average of once in every five minutes,

. and as the elephant’s aim is not good,

his efforts to keep cool causes consid-
erable inconvenience'to his riders, who
are frequently sprinkled by the water,
though the fluid is quite clear and has
no offensive odor.

The habit is acquired. in domestica-
tion, for it is not known to be practiced
by elephants in the wild state; and is
altogether one of the most singular in
natural history.

“’hat Was Counted.

Reporter—~How many years have you
been in~public life?

Statesman—~Twenty-four.

Reporter—But your biographer says
twenty-eight.

Statesman—He includes four years
when I was Vice-President. — San
Francisco Examiner.

COULDN’T SEE ANY OTHER REASON-

 

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Dempsey—This is th’ fuirst whisky
Oi' ve shini‘. t ~ince NewY em" a.

Murphy~-Ol’n_1 troubled wid safari]
inesiIf—p\\ hat cured yez?

an advertiséjiuent .

 

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COURTED AND WED IN 4Q MINUTES.

 

The Widow Desired a Companion and

Proposed Getting One Without Delay.

Forty minutes is not a. long time
for courtship and marriage, but when a
woman of sixty-five concludes that she

wants towed, and when she has plenty-
.of property to bestow on her husband,

arrangements can be quickly made:
It took less than three-quarters of an
hour for Mrs. Mary A. Shaw and Wil-
liam Downard to become acquainted,
to decide that it would be well for them
to marry and to have the knot tied.
Mary was a widow and the owner of
a fine farm near Shelbyville. Ind.
For two or 'three seasons after her
husband died she became indifferent
regarding her broad acres, and' allowed
her fa1m to run down, as well as her
bank account. Finally about the year
1880 she determined to buckle on the
armor and look properly after her in-
terests. She was alone in the world.
without even a child, but she employed
proper help and went to work with re-
newed vigor. The result was that she
was soon the rival of her neighbors.
Her cribs were groaning was the
weight of grain, and her bank account
was large. - . .
This accomplished she began to sigh
for some one to take the place of her
late companion. She informed the
neighbors of her intentions, and they

prevailed upon her to dispel the:

thought For a while she heeded their
advice, but she again arrived at the
conclusion that she needed a husband
who would look after her interests.
There was no one in the vicinity, of
Blue Ridge whom she thought kindly
of, and so, one morning, after attending
to her household duties, she hitched
up her span of blacks and alone drove
to Shelbyville. She went directly to
the office of her attorneys and informed
them that she had tired of single bles-
sedness, and that before returning
home she wanted to become a married
woman.

The attorneys were dumbfounded,
but knew that the woman meant just
what she said. A hasty consultation
was held, and it was decided to send
the oflice ,boy for William Downard,
a poor but honest Kentuckian, who was
at the time engaged in doing some gar-
dening for one of the lawyers.

Downard, when he enteredthe law
ofiice, presented anything but a hand-
some appearance, but he was presented
to the widow with proper apologies
and informed that he would make her
an ideal husband. The woman asked
for a private interview with Downard,
which 'was granted, and in twenty min--
utes they returned and asked that a
magistrate be sent for. This was
done, and‘ in exactly forty minutes
from the time the widow arrived Jus-
tice H. D. Andrews had made the pair
man and wife.. .

The new husband was then taken
out 'in town, given a bath, a shave, two
suits of clothes, a gold watch and the
following day a deed to 160 acres of fine
land—New York World.

.,___....__.___..
A NEW BUG OF BAD HAB‘ITS.

Seeks the Lips of the Sleeper at Night and
Bcstows Its Poisonous Bite.

A new bug of ferocious habits and
mysterious origin has made its appear-
ance in St. Louis.

It comes in the night, and bites its
victims generally in the region of the
mouth. No man, woman or child has
yet been able to secure a specimen of
this common disturberof the peace.

The victim suffers from abnormal
swelling of the lips, face and arms.
every instance the symptoms have
been practically the same. The lips
are puffed, the jaws are. corresponding-
ly enlarged and the patient complains
of sharp, shooting pains, extending
from the region of the eyes up over
the forehead and head. The eyes are
generally bloodshot, the mouth is

parched and dry and every indication '

of a serious poisoning is present. In
a few instances the arms and limbs
have swolen in places.

What puzzles the medical men most
is the ease with which the evil is
cured. An application of warm cloths
and a single internal treatment reduce
the sWelling in a few hours—New York
Journal.

Equal to the (Jc t. asiun.
An old lawye1 in Pails had instruct-

ed his client to weep eveiy time he .
1 struck the desk with his hand, but for-

got and struck the desl: at the wrong
moment she promptly fell to sob-
bing and crying

“Vi’hat is the mattel
asked the judge

“Well, he told me to cry as often as
he struck the table.”

“Gentlemen of the jury,” cried the
unabashed lawyer, “let me ask you
how you can reconcile the idea of
crime in connection with such candor
and simplicity'2’1—L’Illustration.

with

 

Electric Tornado Alarms.

A cyclone or a tornado will rush sud-
denly upon a township and leave it
in ruins a few minutes later. This
fact has resulted inthe invention of a
barometer, built'on such lines that, a
few minutes before the arrival of a vio-
lent atmospheric disturbance, the
mercury, being agitated, rings an elec-

 

Wot-Imam 'os‘srAcLss. ,

[he Numerous Evil spirits That Must m
Exercised Before Work is Hognn.

If a house is to,be repaired, wonder.
I111 forethoughtis'nepessary.' The evii
spirits which -a.-re._supposed to occupy
each dwelling thatTmbrtals have inhab-
lted cause the' carpenter no end .01
lrouble and no trifling expense. First,
an. astrologer must be consulted with
regard to the most lucky day for begin-
.ning the work; then a square suspend—
ed from the ridge beam is a notification
to the spirits of darkness that their
dwelling place is to be diSturbc d,
wherefore the square thing for them to
do is to move out quietly and peaceful-
ly. Next, the carpenters make offer-'
lugs to these unseen residents. These
gifts seem to say, “if you please, spir-
its of darkness, accept this bribe and
speedily take your flight.” Next, the
neighbors must be warned that these
evil influences are about to be ‘turned
loose, perhaps to seek shelter under
a. neighboring roof. Every house on
that street receives a notice that upon

{mi

begin on the dwelling of Ah Sin. Each
household can then pay the imps not
to enter their doorway, but to go to
the next neighbor, ”new... an“;

Even the farmer cannot begin his

 

In,

you?” .

work in the spring‘until after the na-
tional festivals are celebrated in honor
, of the special gods who are supposed to

1 make it their particular business to
look after the welfare of those who till
the soil. In a land where more‘than
one hundred million people are sup-
ported by agriculture,
farms have been in cultivation for
three or even four milleniums, we nat-
urally expect to find skill in that line
of work. In this we are not disap.
pointed, for Chinese farming is scien-
tific handwork. — Lippincott’s Mega;
zine. . ,vn

1" IM-ixff
W
AN“ INTERESTING CONVERSATION 1‘

Bubinstein‘s Enjoyment of Sir Arthur
Sullivan's Pleasant Company.

Sir A. Sullivan went ,to see Rubin-
stein at his hotel in London. The Rus-
sian composer asked him to step out
on the balcony and smoke a cigarette.

They sat down, twisted their cigar.
ettes, and pufied the blue clouds into
the air. After a long pause Sir A. sul-
iivan observed:

“You are a great admirer of Beetho
ren, I presume?” , .

“Yes,” said Rubinstein.

“And Wagner?”

“No,” was the reply.

Not another word was spoken. They
rocked themselves in their chairs and
smoked away. After a very long time
Sullivan said:

“I think it is time for me to be go-
mg.”

“Don’t say so,"
“Stay a .bit" lohger.
talk to you.”

Sullivan stayed, and went on rocking
himself into the small hours of the
morning. when he got up and said:

“I must be off now; I think we have
chatted long enough.” .

Rubinsten drew out his watch.

“Half- past two,” he said. “Strange
now quick time flies in pleasant com-
pany. ”—F rom Answers.

SOUNDS IMPOSSIBLE.

the Story of a Man Who W'as Evidently
Down on His Luck.

The luck of a Randolph 'man is some-
thing surprising, according to his 10-
cal paper. On going to the " creamery
on a recent morning he lost his horse
' blanket, and on his way, home he lost

his ove1coat, says the Springfield “Re-

publican. “’hilc unhitching his hofge
.' one holdbnck caught on the thill, and
. the horse, snuggling to free himself,

Jw/

 

 

said! Rubinstein.
It is so" nice to

was thi own down and broke one of the '

tllills, the broken piece injuring the
noise in such a wav that it will be of
no far-thoi use. That same day he was
offered $80 for' the horse before start-
. lug for the creamery.

After all this had transpired he went

to his sugar house, and in turning the
faucets to the evaporator both broke.
Later in the day he called on a neigh-
bor, and while relating his experience
walked past the neighbor’s horse while
it was eating grain, and was kicked,
but fortunately was but little hurt.
The horse is a pet, and was never
' known to kick before. He concluded
be had better go home, and asked his
neighbm to watch balm to see that he
did not get killed.

 

“ihy the Chicken Died.
1' A professor at one of our universit-
ie’s is the subject of a queer anecdote.
Last winter he was married and went
to housekeeping outside of town.

would add a few hens to his stock; he
already had a dog. He set a couple of
hens and in good time had tw0 largi
broods of chickens. He was very
proud of them, but in a week or so‘thi
fowls began to die. The professor
called in a neighbor to look at the
chickens and offer advice. They were
certainly adilapidated lot of chickens
that the neighbor viewed. They were
thin and apparently without ambition.

“What do you feed them?” asked the
neighbor after a brief survey,

“Feed them?” responded the profes-
sor, as though he didn’t hear right.
“Why, I don’t feed them anything. I

i thought the old hen had enough mill
1 for them. ”—From Christian at Work

 

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