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IMI TATION OYSTERS.
r Traveler's Tale of Oyster Faetelrle
in Paris.
[New York Sun.]
"The most singular thing that I as*
in Paris," said a gentleman just ru
turned from Europe, "was artificial
oysters; not what you call mock oysters,
that is, meat done up in a patty or a
]potpie, but an imitation of the real
bivalve and fit to serve raw. And as
gar as their looks go, ou would say at
once that they were genuine American
oysters, but when you came to eatone
the difference would be perceptible
at once. How they are made
and what is used in their manu
facture is a mystery I did not solve,
but it is certain that a great deal of
mnoney is made by the producers. The
usual price is 5 cents each, and some
times in the second-class eating houses
they are to be had for 3 cents, though
they are not apt to be fresh at that
price. You order a plate on the ha'f
shell, and when the waiter brings them
to you they look just as nice as those
you get in the best New York places.
If you are not a good judge of oysters
you will eat them withyour twine and go
away without asking any questions.
"The only thing genu;ne about them
is the shells. The manufacturers buy
second-hand shells from restaurant
keepers at a small expense, and with a
sort of paste, fasten the spurious oys
ter in its place. Only one-half a shell
is used for the purpose, and in that
shape the fraud oysters are packed on
shelves in boxes. Others, to be served
without the shell are put up in cans
containing twenty-five or 100. The
dealers in real oysters urge the saloon
keepers to break up their shells as fast
as their contents are consumed, and
even pay the cooks and waiters to pound
them to pieces.
"Do we have any manufactured oys
ters in this country?" a reporter in.
quired of a Fulton market oysterman.
"Yes, sir," he replied; "the Standard
Oil company and several other similar
concerns are manufacturing oysters into
lamp wicks, warranted to burn oil or
lamps, and I think it's an infernal-"
"Hold on," exclaimed the reporter,
"that is not what I mean. What I want
to know is, do they make an imitation
oyster that could be sold as the real
article?"
"Not that I know of. I do not think
they have come to that yet. What is
more, I do not think it would pay, that
is, just at present; but we cannot tell
what we will come to if any more oil
is dumped in the bay and rivers. At
present the finest oysters are 2 or 3
cents apiece, and I should say they
could not be imitated and sold for that
price."
Wr Tlamsla thn d nvernars Wilfe.
He Kissed the Governor's Wife.
["Carp" in Cleveland Leader.] li
A most villainous picture is being b
published in all the country papers
purporting to be a likeness of Senator b
Vance, of North Carolina. It is a libel T
on one of the finest looking men in
public life. Senator Vance is a tall,
broad-shouldered, handsome man of 54 01
years. He has a large, pleasant, open b
face, a bright, fun-loving eye, and lux- e
uriant hair and mustache of iron-gray. a
He is a very popular man among his h
fellow senators, and he can tell more
good stories than any of them. He
likes a joke, and North Carolina is full
of the evidences of his propensities in g
this direction.
One day when he was governor el
the state it is said that he was riding
on horseback along a road about ten
miles from the capital, when a stranger
overtook him. The two men fell into h
conversation, and the stranger told a
Vance he had been to Raleigh to see a
the governor, and that he had called at t
his house, but that he was not at home. i
"Did you see the governor's wife?" s
said Vance. a
"Yes," was the reply.
"And did you not kiss her?" t
The man,'very much astonished, re
plied, "No, but she wasvery pretty, and a
I should have liked nothing better."
"Well, I've kissed her," continued I
Vance, "and I never meet her but that I
I do so." And, thereupon, after enjoy- I
ing the man's astonishment for a t
moment, he told him that he was the
governor. _
The Lime-Kiln Club's Museum.
[Detroit Free Press.]
The keeper of the museum reporte4
the receipt of the following relics within 1
the last month:
A stocking said to have. been wort t
by Cleopatra on the day of her death.
It is just a fit for Giveadam Jones, and a
he wears a Ne. 11 boot.
A coonskin cap supposed to have be.
longed to Daniel Boone. One who sees
the cap cannot blame the Indians for
wanting to kill Daniel.
A pistol said to have been worn by
Lord Cornwallis when he surrendered.
A general who would lug such a
weapon around could only expect to
tome to some bad end.
A Most Wlilalanoas bave.
[Japan Cor. Cornhill Magaaina.)
There is no European quarter in Kh le,
the capital of the mikados. On the night
of our arrival we went into a barber
shop for a shave, and the excitement at
our appearance increased in intensity.
The crowd blocked up the narrow street,
the first line flattening their noses against
the window, and steaming it with their
breath. Inside the shop there was a re
flex of the excitement. The barberhim. 1
self, though pale, was olleetedin a man
er, and gave mmeonly one gash. But.
his~whole family .were ranged in a group
in the kitchen, wbich opened into the
shop., The assistants stood around,
f rom time to time handing un
,tsrysr eclp to 1h omtor 1
u- uo nupemtem case was mne small
boy, whose duty it was to stand by and
nand paper, combs, brush, towel or what- .
ever might be needed by the barber. He
stood at the elbow of the chair whilst I
was being shaved, with his foot half a
foot from mine, his lips slightly parted,
and a pair of gray-brown eyes unnatu
rally distended, fixed upon my face. 1
fancy he was in a condition of modified
catalepsy. At any rate, he neither Al
moved nor spoke whilst the barber fh
rasped me.
It was the most villainous shave I ever
suffered. A dinner-knife would have
been for the purpose a luxurious article he
`ompared with the razor. I besought ii
the barber to let me off, but without
avail. It was the opportunity of '
a lifetime, and he1 would not
limit its duration to any volun
tary act. We had brought Ito, g
our guide, with us, a necessary precau- b
;ion; otherwise before we could have
made our protests understood we might cc
have had a few bald places artistically in
arranged on our heads, and perhaps our
,yebrows shaved off in the manner of il
the Japanese. After much haranguing, ac
[to induced the man to let me go, to the
manifest disappointment of the crowd,
who were only consoled by seeing the
young gentleman from Glasgow take the
chair, Finally the barber charged one
and eight-pence for his fiendish work,
which, considering we had left the
United States, seemed dear for a shave. a
The. price to a native would have been
two pence half penny at most, and he b<
would, in addition, have had his ears h
and nostrils shaved and his hair brushed
9d oiled.
WonAdefr of "'musle-Reading ',.
[Exchange.aJ
Mr. Stuart Cumberland, the muscle. a1
reader, has had a great success in Ln- p
don, the "sanctum"of The Pall Mall Ga- in
sette being chosen as the scene of his b1
experiments. Musle-reading has not, lc
as might be at first be supposed, any b<
connection with pugilism, but is a kind se
of mind-reading by touch. Mr. Cum. tl
berland's theory is that any exertion of g:
the mind produces a muscular oontrao- a]
4ion, and that by taking hold of a per- oi
son's hand, the muscle-reader can tell ci
what he is thinking about. The cruoia"i
experiment made in London by MA a
Cumberland seems to amount to nothing e
short of an absolute demonstration eo d
ohe truth of this theory-which is a:
vouched for also by our old friend Col.
Olcott, of the Theosophical society. Mr. E
Grant Allen thought ofi an object not in a
the sanctum at all, ant Mr. Cumberland si
then proceeded to fnd it blindfolded. ii
taking Mr. Allen by the hand, he madt b
a bee-line for No. 7 Nlorthumberland a
street, and here the great moment came. f
Mr. Allen thought that he had thought a
of something at No. 7, whereas he hat a
really thought of something at a
No. 6. On this being called to ft
his attention in an inaudible whisper p
by the only other person wha a
was in the s.eet, straightway Mr. Cum. U
berland pulls r. Alen off to No. 6,
They enter the house, up-stairs they go, k
Mr. Allen is:ld by the muscle-reader to t
,1e drawer of a table, then round to an fi
ottoman, of which he lifts the lid, and b
from it he pulls out a strange-looking f
object, a 'hunch"--or, as we should say, a
a hunk of bread-the very hunch or I
hunk given eighteen years ago to the I
aiateur casual of The Pall Mall, Mn
Greenwood, for supper in Lambeth
work-house. It is needless to say that
t was of this very hunk that Mr. Allez
bad been thinking.
ida been thinking.
The Bostonlan's Voice.
[Boston Cor. Philadelphia Times.]
The very tone of a Bostonian's voice
haa a gentle, dog-eared curve, so to
speak, that suggests frequent handling,
a mellow turning of tones, a readiness
to go on or turn back until the question
Is made quite clear to us.. There is s
detailed touch in the voice that answers
and questions us that seems to fold
about its words in a kind of patient.
loving naturalness and to close about
the spirit of the listener in a subtile en,
souragement to the ideal value he has
somewhere placed upon himself. The Bo.
ionian lisens as well as he talks. His
Interrogation is perfectly sincere. He
means you should bring your facts and
theories to the front. If he sounds the
"personal note" in himself he rings your
own out with quite as beneficent impar
tiality. Emerson is said to have been
an almost too good listener. He listened
to your smallest fact with an expectant
attention that shriveled your conscious
ness into nothing. But one of Emerson's
most potent charms, is the sense of room
that he seems to offer to the humblest
not only the sense of room, but that he
eauses us to feel that he has given us
almost of his very identity--so gracious,
so impartial in his view and sympathy,
lteen's Prepheey rtblltoonta&
[New York Express.]
"But about the balloon ?"
"Well, having lightness with power,
we should not need enough balloon fee
actual lifting power and we could at
tain a very high velocity. You could
hold a ten-horse power motor out is
your hand, and, once in the air, with
Ave pounds of coal, could the consump
tion be made direct, the little jigger
could go anywhere. Nobody would
want to ascend to great heights where
the air's resistance to the propeller
would decrease, but skim along over
the trees and housee like a bird above
the water. The rudders could all be
worked, and your ballastless balloon
could he raised or lowered, turned to
the right or left, by the motor itself.
and a boy could do all the work. Suc
an arrangement would scarcely do for
heavy freight, but it coeid carry par.
songers, and mail matter, and exprew
parcels, and move readily at eighty t
1OO msiesan .e ,r. we n
powv q uestio e eoando
A PERENNIAL RESORT.
atlantic City Said To Be Warm ta
Winter and Cool in Summer.
It has been said by poetical Philadel
phians that Atlantic City is Philadel
phia's Coney island. Thin is very vilely
libelous, but I will leave it to the court
.o decide on which side the libel falls.
For the benefit of those who imagine
Atlantic City to be a row of hotels and
shooting galleries facing the ocean, I
will briefly describe it as resembling
the probable result had some acquisi
tive cyclone, sweeping up boarding
houses, cottages and skating rinks on
its way across the continent, suddenly
cropped them in a retired spot on the
coast before skimming over the sea.
Or it might be fancied that some
gigantic fair had offered a prize for
boarding-houses, and that disappointed
competitors pooled their efforts and
combined on the aforesaid freckle.
It is said there are 9,000 inhabitants
in Atlantic City. Every one runs at
least one boarding-house or hotel, sad
this gives you an idea of the amount of
accommodation you can expect if you
go. To go and choose after your ar
rival is wise. Most persoe:s of a credu
ious turn are advised by some friend.
generally a Phila2eiphian, t, go to
such-and-such a h:, se. On arrival
the wayfarer finds tha.t the affair is -alif
a mile from the beach and is painted
pink. Still, if ha wishes to move, he
can have his choice. There are big
boarding-houses and littlk boarding
houses, middle-sized boarding-houses,
and boarding-houses which resem
ble a small but fortified town.
There are boarding-houses clean
and boarding-houses questionable,
and boarding - houses slatternly;
pink boarding-houses, red board
ing-houses, blue boarding-houses;
boarding-houses painted brown, yel
low, green, sorrel or brindle, and
boarding-houses that cannot afford cay
enne pepper, much less paint. Then
there are hote's-lots of 'em-from the
grand affair with real clerk, a genuine
annunciator, a register, a telegraph
office, a blue glass conservatory for
consumptives, a bar,a billiard-room,and
one bell-boy, to the skimpy little inn
with triangular rooms, a red-headed
cook, two towels a week, a steady and
destructive diet of underdone muffins,
and a perennial smell of fish.
Unto these come many foreigners.
Every one arrives with a valise, an
anxious eye, and an important and
searching cold. You meet colds heue
in all stages of development, from the
bronchial variety with awar-whoop and
a bad eye to the latest wrinkle in in
fluenza, trimmed with handkerchiefs
and misery. Then there is the wheezy
asthma and the barking croup and the
unutterable catarrh and the muffled
tonsilitis, not to speak of dark-eyed
pneumonia or the perambulating con
sumptive with one leg in the grave
These fill the boarding-houses, and
make happy the drug stores andhotels,
keep Atlantic City busy, and feastupon
the muffins and fish. They all come
for health, which they expect to get by
I breathing the air when it is balmy.
,which it always is not,) and racing
against the sea-salt breeze on tre beach
if they are able, or being blown away
B by it ii shey are not.
--r
Peck's Sun: Deception, my sea, Si VM
t tin brother to fraud, and the s~eping
,nno to that. Be positive, Am and
BERT HUY,
I Architect.
GREAT FALLS, MONT.
b HUBERT MORIN,
Carpenter, Contractor and
Blilder.
DGREAT FALLS, MONTANA t
Estimate on all kinds of buildings furnished
on application
Correspondence solicited.
Job Work a Specialty.
Shop opposite Great Falls Livery Stable.
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Across the Missouri River above
SDrthe mouth of Sun River is now
running. A new wagon road con
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tersects the Helena road near Eagle
Rock, and effects a saving in distance of TEN MILES between
A Great Falls and Helena. The road is plain and good.
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