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EART-BURNINGS to burn were in order at the opera in
New York the other night when two social queens sat
in the higher society circles in gowns exactly alike. Both of
these Parisian products were of amethyst^colored gauze,
heavily trimmed with spangles. The women glared at each
other, but braved it out, tho music had no charms. Beholders
were amused and made good-natured remarks at the expense
of the social leaders. The next day the cable to Paris was
kept busy roasting the "dressmaker.''
Us men know exactly how they felt. Have we not blos
somed out into new trousers only to have our entire business
day spoiled by seeing trousers of precisely the same trouser
ing on the shapeless limbs of a business rival? Incidents
like this may well make one doubt whether the universe is
designed to promote happiness.
Mm
The evening was passing pleasantly and socially in the
basement when the furnace brought forward an idea that
a labor union of all the underground workers ought to be
formed.
"I'm agreeable,'' said the Coal Shovel, "but I think the
Coal Bin ought to be arrested for being full again last week."
I don't know why the shovel should pick me out," said
the bin in an injured voice I noticed that he 'had an edge
on' after scraping out the last of the coal."
"Here, here," said the Check Draft, "stop that quar
reling. I'm here to put a stop to this hot-air business."
"0, you're getting as flighty as the cellar stairs," re-
sponded the shovel. "Bu let's get down to business."
"My attention has been called to this matter," continued
the furnace, "by our friend the gas meter. He is being
worked overtime right along now."
Here the screens that were resting peacefully at one side
of the cellar broke in.
"Why can't you fellows let well enough alone? We are
all right as we are. This is the easiest time we've had for
a, month."
"There are no flies on the screens," said the Ash Pan
sotto voce.
Here the Cellar Broom fell down, and the cloud of dust
that arose checked further conversation.
arc,
A correspondent sends in a legal description of certain
real estate "situate in Lubec, in Washington county," which
is in Maine. This piece of property "begins at the south
west corner of the house adjoining the street thence wester
ly on said street 38 feet to land of Jabez Mowry thence
northeily along said Mowry's land 33 feet to a post thence
easterly adjoining said Mowry's land to a post thence west
erly about 12 feet to another post in range with the northerly
end of the Mowry, formerly Root barn, to the northeast cor-
ner about 22 feet thence southerly to said Mowry's barn
and along the east side thereof 44 feet to John Harris' line
thence easterly along said Harris and Pike's land about 15
feet to James Boyl 's land thence southerly along said Boyl 's
and Clerys' land 3 rods and 9 links to the street first men-
tioned thence westerly along said street to the corner of the
house first mentioned."
Some scoundrel will pull up one of these posts some day
and about all the real estate titles in Lubec will have a cloud
6n them.
You have noticed mama carrying baby in the streetcar,
have \ou not? What would you think if baby should sud-
denly bark, leap from mother's arms and rush out into the
street barking furiously1?
This is exactly what happened at Louisville, Ky., Monday
last. Miss Margaret Hickman had an experience at that
time that she is likely to remember. There is a law in Louis
ville which prohibits the carrying of dogs on streetcars. Miss
Hickman dressed her pet in long baby clothing, including
frills, laces and baby shoes. Then, covering the "baby"
with a thick veil, she boarded a Fourth street car. Now
and then she leaned over and whispered to the sleeping infant
and everything went well until the Seelbach hotel was
reached. There the terrier gave a sharp, long-pent-up bark,
and with a bound was out of the car and into the street.
Passengers laughed, Miss Hickman rang the bell sharply.
The animal ran in and out of the passing cars, trailing the
long baby clothes and creating excitement and wonder among
females, who marveled to see a baby darting recklessly among
the carriages. Miss Hickman finally captured her pet, laces
and all, and fled. That night little Fanchette was put to bed
without her usual bone. Naughty, naughty! A. J. R.
What the Market Affords
12y2 cents a pound.
EGYPT'S
Maryland black bass, 25 cents a pound.
Scallops, 75 ceitfs a quart.
Halibut, 18 cents a pound.
Blue Point oysters, in the shell, 25 cents a dozen opened,
40 cents a dozen.
Cotuit oysters, 35 cents in the shell, 40 cents opened.
Beets, 20 cents a peck.
Carrots, 15 cents a peck.
Head lettuce, 10 cents each.
If you prefer the Cotuit oysters to the Blue Point for your
Christmas cocktail, you will find them in the market. The
Cotuit is a little larger than the Blue Point, and many people
thmk that it is far superior. For the second time this winter
scallops can be purchased, but they are even more expensive
than they were on their first appearance, when they sold for
60 cents a quart. Maryland black bass and the perch will
prove tasty to those who prefer fresh-water fish to salt.
The perch are skinned and dressed, ready for the fryingpan.
The bass fried with bacon will make an unrivaled dish for
the morrow's dinner. After the fish has been thoroly cleaned,
cut in pieces, season with salt and pepper, roll in flour, then
in beaten egg, and then in fine breadcrumbs. Fry to a golden
brown in deep fat. In a separate pan fry a piece of bacon
for eveiy fish, lay the bacon on the fish and garnish with
parsley. Serve with mashed potatoes and sliced cucumbers.
Here is a recipe for bisque of oysters which is rapidly
taking the place of the once popular stew: Drain a quart
of oysters. Boil and skim the liquor chop the oysters with
a silver knife, and add them to the juice. Boil and skim
again. Put a quart of milk in a double boiler and thicken
it with two tablespoonfuls of butter, and three of flour rubbed
together. It should be like thick cream. Add celery, pepper,
and the oysfcers, and strain thru a sieve.
"ANTIQUITIES" OF THE SUDAN.
governor general has promulgated an ordinance
by which the government exercises its right of posses
sion of any archeological remains and antiquities discov
ered in the Sudan. This decree will deal the deathblow
to the Egyptian "faker" and his nefarious traffic in coins,
papyri and other spurious antiquities, in the sale of which
he plies a thriving trade during the winter season among
the credulous tourista*
Thursday Evening,
-Bye nature's walks, sboot tolly MM fibs."
Paris Dressmaker Plays I Low Down on Two Society Queens
of New YorkTwo Social Leaders, Provided with Dresses
Exactly Alike, Glare Furiously Across at Each Other at
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CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS.
For Your Family Physician.
A String of Good Stories
".tenaot tttt how the truth may be
i say the talc a* 'twas said to me."
HOW PERKINS "DID" A CLAIRVOYANT.
PERKINS of California was met at the door
of the House by a man whom he had not seen for
twelve years.
"How do you do, Stone," he exclaimed, "you are looking
better than you did the last time I saw you."
"Well, how on earth do you remember me?" cried the
other. I don't believe that you ever met me more than
twice or three times in your life, anyway."
"Oh, it's an easy thing to remember a name or face,"
replied the senator, with a laugh, "that is, if only you have
a system. Now, I have one. It is all by association.
"That reminds me of a little incident that took place
long before I went into politics. I was 'merchandizing' then
in a little store. One week there was a clairvoyant exhibit
ing at the operahouse, and his feats of memorizing were the
talk of the town. One day this mind-reader happened to
come into my store, and we got to talking about his work.
I can do some of the things that you can do,' I said,
'and I think I can do some things that you cannot do.' He
wanted to know what, and I told him to take a pencil and
paper. 'Now write down names as I will give them to you,'
said I. He did so, and I gave him the names of 100 men,
all citizens of the place. 'Now,' I continued, 'fold that paper
up seven times in your hand.' He did so. 'Now, turn around
seven times.' He did so. 'Now, I will read you those names
jn proper order backward,' I said.
'You cannot do it for $10,' he exclaimed. I don't
want to take your money, for it is too easy,' I said, and then
I repeated the names in the reverse order, without making
a single mistake.
'That is marvelous,' he exclaimed. 'How on earth did
you do it?'
'Oh, that is my secret,' I said, and he never did know
how I had performed the trick.
"As a matter of fact, I had not performed any trick
at all. I had simply taken the residents of a couple of
streets, had gone from house to house and had named the
occupants. When I dictated the names to him I had gone
down the street. When I read them backward to him I had
come back."Washington Post.
IT WAS WARRANTED DRY.
Rev. Edward Lloyd Jones, a Manchester (England)
minister, tells a story of his experience in Fenian days.
He was traveling from a Welsh village to Brecon, and had
with him a strong wooden box filled with heavy theological
books. At Shrewsbury the detectives, who were on the look
out for explosive machines and the like, suspected this
heavy box, and word was sent on to Brecon. When the young
minister stepped out of the train he was astonished to find
a sergeant and several constables awaiting him. I think
you have a box with you, said the sergeant. "Quite
right," said the preacher, who began to scent a joke. Out
came the box, and its weight excited fresh suspicion about
its contents. "This is your box?" "Yes." "It contains
ammunition?" "It does." "Very well, consider yourself
in charge. Open the^box." The company stood away while
the lid was cautiously wrenched off. When the sergeant
found it contained nothing more explosive than Adam
Clarke's "Theology" he expressed his indignation freely to
the minister. All that he got back was the soft answer:
"Why, bless my soul, man, you asked if the box contained
ammunition. That is my ammunition. I' a Methodist
parson, and that's what I shoot with."
A STANDING ORDER.
EWLIN HAINES, of the Atlantic City Hotel Men's as
sociation, was talking about the odd rules that prevail
in many of the cheaper restaurants and cafes.
"For instance," he said, I go in and order oysters,
salad and dessert, and get a napkin but the man next to
me, because he has only ordered pie and milk, can't have a
napkin on any account.
A guest here last summer gave me the best example of
these absurd rulings and differentiations that I have heard
yet.
"The man said that he entered a lunch cafe in London,
an ornate place with a counter where some of the patrons
stood, and with a number of little tables where others sat.
"The man gave a small order, and took a seat at one of
the tables.
'Thereupon a waiter hurried to him.
'Beg pardon, sir,' he said, 'but buns can't sit.'
IN THE SHOOTING SEASON.
*r70R every deer that is shot in the shooting season,"
1 said John W. Gates, at a dinner in New York, "tw
other living things are pepperedtwo cows, two horses, two
men, or something of that kind.
A young man returned hurriedly and unexpectedly
from a shooting trip in the west the other day. He had
been shooting over the preserves of a banker who has an
estate that is conducted in the English fashion.
'What?' I said to the young man. 'Back already?
Did you get a big bag?'
"'Yes,' he answered. I did. The head keeper, the
prize cow, my host's cap, and his son's favorite hound. I'
going to Florida tonight.'
going tonight, 4
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How Mrs, Bailey
'Beat" the Store
INETY-EIGHT centsjust think!" reiter
ated Mrs. Bailey, as the oblivious man
opposite her at the breakfast table
reached for his morning paper without
responding properly to what she had been
saying. "Yo don't seem to sense it,
dear. I expected to pay at least $2 and
probably two-fifty for those bedroom cur
tains, and these are the sweetest things,
all ruffled and with a blue figure that
just matches our paperfor only 98
cents a pair! It seems a sin to get them
for so little, but I must say it's con
venient, just before Christmas!"
"H'm!" commented Bailey, as he opened the newspaper,
I see some advertised here for only 59 cents. They look
quite grand, too."
"Let's see," demanded his wife, and, a moment later,
the section of the paper which he had handed across to her
was lowered to disclose a flushed, astonished face. "They're
mine! The very ones, reduced to 59 cents! Of all the tricky,
overreaching, dishonorable performancesto sell them to me
for 98 last night and cut them to 59 the very next morning!"
"They should have put up a notice, saying, 'Do not buy
these curtains yet. We are going to reduce them tomorrow,
and you will save money by waiting!'
"Oh, well, you can laugh, but I think it's an outrage. A
woman has to be a regular sharper to shop successfully now
adays. I might have had two pairs for the price of one."
"Do you need two?"
"N-no but I could have made dresser covers and things
out of the others."
I thought it was a sin to get them for 98. How about
59
"Well, other people will, if I don't."
"Yes, but I don't
forget the Audubon
glare I got when I
proposed that argu
ment in favor of a bird
on your winter hat."
"This is different.
Every woman I know
will think I bought my
bedroom curtains at
this 59-cent sale."
"What do you care,
if you like them?"
'I wQuldn 't so much
if I had really bought
them for that. I de
clare I believe I'll"
But Mrs. Bailey shut II
her lips suddenly and
finished that sentence
to herself. Two hours later she
stood in the basement
of the big store, de
murely facing the sales
man who had served TT^UM^
her the day before. %^*a
I have decided to "I HAVE DECIDED TO BETUHN THESE
return these curtains," coxum* SHE ANKOTOOE*.
she announced, with dignity. "You remember I was afraid
when I bought them that the blue figure might fade."
("Which is perfectly true," she added to herself, as she
darted a guilty glance of intention at a tableful of curtains,
precisely like hers, but shamelessly placarded, "Today, only
59 cents!")
-There was no objection to the return, and Mrs. Bailey
received her cash credit slip and walked away with the air
of a duchess. No one would have suspected her of a gleeful
plan for approaching that department from another direc
tion, securing a new salesman, and buying the same kind
of curtains for 59 cents!
It looked simple, but it proved awkward. Women kept
crowding about the table where her eoveted purchase lay, all
keen on the scent of a good bargain, and three times over
Mrs. Bailey swooped down on a salesman only to find him
"busy" selling the curtains she wanted to some other cus-
tomer and herself in imminent danger of being turned over
to the dapper young man whom she especially wished to
avoid. And, three times over, she suddenly lost all interest
in muslin curtains and became deeply engrossed in pillow
covers and cretonnes.
The morning was passing and Mrs. Bailey was tired
but she persevered. After the fourth onslaught and retreat
she felt like a shoplifter, and hurrying away from the de-
partment like one pursued, when she bumped into her friend,
Mrs. Monroe.
"Angel! You've saved my life!" she cried. "Go straight
over there and buy me a pair of the 59-cent blue and white
muslin curtains on that table. Don't stop to ask questions,
and when you come back I'll explain."
In less than five minutes Mrs. Monroe reappeared. "Th
blue and white ones were all gone," she reported. "Th
salesman said they were the prettiest of all, and they went
off like hot cakes. There are some purple and green ones
left."
"Oh, the miserable things!" gasped Mrs. Bailey. "If
they haven't cheated me out of my curtains altogether!
It's just as I told Mr. Bailey this morningthe shops are
getting so tricky and overreaching in their methods that
but come along, dear, and I'll tell you all about it!"
NOT A PLEASANT SIGHT.
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE, in his recently pub
memoirs, tells how, while in the United States
he was taken to see an unnamed "pork-curing establishment,
where, during the season, they kill 1,000 hogs a day.'' The
animals," he writes, "walk up an inclined pathway of their
own accord, in a continuous pi'ocession, and at the top are
caught up one after another by a ehain round their hind legs
and swung on to the men who kill, scald, scrape and cut them
up all the separate parts going thru the several stages of
cleaning and curing till the result is bacon, ham, barrels of
pork, black puddings, sausages, bristles. The ingenuity of
the whole process is undeniable but to go thru it all along
narrow planks and ladders slippery with blood and water
and in the warm, close, reeking atmosphere, was utterly dis-
gusting. My friend was, however, quite amazed at my feel-
ing anything but admiration for the whole establishment,
which was considered one of the sights and glories of the
city!"
WORKING THE GULLS.
EAR the small town of Liegnitz, in Silesia, lies the vil
lage Knitz, which is the possessor of a small lake, hav-
ing a rush and reed-covered island nestling in its center.
This island has been selected by a native dealer as a breed
ing ground for sea gulls and thousands may now be seen
there. The eggs of these birds are held in much esteem as
dainties. The demand is so large and the quantity of eggs
secured is so considerable that the owner is making money
quickly.' The birds do not seem to object to the removal of
their eggs, but lay all the faster to make up for the loss.
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TpHE COLD WEATHER will be here soon.
A pair of Gamossi Fur Gloves or Fur
Lined Mittens will be most welcome. Nothing
could be a more appropriate present for one who
drives or rides. The Gamossi is the recognized
headquarters for Fur Gloves and Mittens. Our
stock is most complete, comprising everything
wearable in warm hand clothing for Men, Women
or Children.
Men's, Women's or Boys' best quality Spring MuBk
rat hand-sewed Gloves or Mittens /ft
regular $2.50 kind O
Men's and Women's Castor Mittens, gy Si\
fur lined$2.25 value ,*pg
On nearly all flat silver plated ware. This in
cludes our select line of Berry Spoons, Sugar
Shells. Gravy Ladels, Cream Ladles, Butter
Knives, and many
other useful articles.
Men's and Women's Castor Gloves, d* S*
fur-lined$3.00 value *pje 4*J
Men's and Women'B Genuine Reindeer Gloves and
Mittens, lined with, best Siberian fur tf /l/l
skins, sold ordinarily for $6.00 nfrej, (J(J
WARM SPECIALTIES
Boys' Velour and Sheerling Gloves 4Qsv
and Mittens 40C
Children's hand-knit Genuine Angora jPO/^
Mittens, pair O^fC
Glove orders redeemable at any time, sold tor any amount.
The Ideal thlnx to buy tor a Christmas present.
Haifa'
Store of
Gloves the Other"
e*r*+ Half
Umbrella*
CHRISTMAS
Umbrellas or Gloves
or Mittens
GIFTS IN LEATHER
Beautiful and inexpensive as you wish.
Jewelry and Handkerchief Boxes,
Purses, Handbags, Grips, Cigar Cases,
Fitted Toilet Rolls, Etc., Etc
NORTH WESTERN TRUNK CO.
*Jp Carvers, Gpme Sets,
Manicure (foods, Pocket Cutlery
and specialties
useful*nd prac-
tical as Xmas
gifts. "Our
cutlery never
cuts friend-
ship"it makes
friends.
Retail Store248 Nicollet Ave.
Make Splandld Presaat*
for Little Tots.
Little warm Mit
tens of best yarn,
from 10e to 40c.
Mocha or Kid Mit
tens, fur top and
fleece lined, 50*.
Little Miniature
Umbrellas, 14-iit.
to 24-in., 60o.
610 Nicollet.
Haifa Star* of Gloves,
the Other Half
Umbrella*.
GAMOSSI
Olove Co. Ac 20.
For the Next 2 Days
Xmas Shoppers
.Will be given a reduction of
FIFE'S
Cutlery sad Tool Store,
Sign of the "Booking Doll."
420 NICOLLET AVE.
INSIST
UPON
CRESCENT CREAMER
BUTTER
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610 Nicollet Ave.
When You Think of
Changing Laundry
Remember
THE HENNEPIN.
We could not do poor work
if we tried. We've done
good work so long that
it's sort o' second nature
with us. We try to please
all and we succeed nine
tenths of the time.
For a trial
Next Monday, Gall
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VICTOR AND EDISON MACHINES
On Easy Payments.
Minnesota Phonograph Co.
(Open evenings,) 518 NICOLLET AVE.'
Write for Edison or Victor Catalog,
Even Carpets Can Be
Dyed.
We are the only bouse in the
Northwest capable of dein
carpets and we do ft fine. A
soiled carpet can be made to
'look very pretty by our process.
If you are not located in town
you can send them to us. If
located here we will send our
wagon.
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