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THE ORIGIN OF "FUDGE."
Expression Now Common Is Not Easy
to Trace.
Where did that very common word
"fudge" come from, and what does it
really mean? The antiquarian of the
Boston Journal says the first appear
ance of the word in literature is the
description of the cell of Lady Blarney
and Miss Carolina Wilhelmina Amelia
Skeggs on the Vicar of Wakefield's
household: "But previously I should
have mentioned the very Impolite be
havior of Mr. Burcfiell, who, during
this discourse, sat with his face turned
to the "fire, and at the conclusion of
every sentence would cry put 'Fudge!'
an expression which displeased u all,
and in some measure damped the ris
ing spirit of the conversation." Does
the word tome from ihe provincial
French "fuche" or the Low German
"futsch"? Or shall wo trace it to the
.story of 1700 quoted by the elder
'Israeli: "There was, sir, in our
times, one Captain Fudge, who always
brought home his owners a good cargo
of lies, so much that now aboard the
ship the sailors, when they hear a
great lie told, cry out, "You fudge it!'
QUAY STOPPED THE PANIC.
Brave Act of Pennsylvania Senator
in Civil War.
A great many persons do not know
_at Senator Quay won a deserved
reputation for bravery in the civil
war," said Dr. Edward Bedloe at
the Waldorf-Astoria. "It was in the
charge upon Marye's Heights where
Quay was a volunteer aide de camp.
When an effort was made to rally the
breaking line he noticed a backward
movement among the men.
'Dn it, boys!' he cried, 'what
are you dodging for? If I can sit on
my horse and the bullets go over my
head, they certainly can't hit you.'
His presence of mind stopped the
panic."New York Times.
A Colorado Goose Story.
The telegraph columns of the Chi
cago Inter Ocean are responsible for
one of the most interesting stories
that sbave come out of the West.
John Gridley is a ranchman at Grid
ley, Col. His principal product is
hogs, but he has several hundred
acres in wheat. His wheat has suf
fered greatly from wild geese, and
neither scarecrow nor shotguns help
ed him out. Sd he stuck a lot of
6takes in his fields and on each stake
he fastened a fish line and fish hook,
the latter baited with a pancake. The
first morning he had twenty-seven
geese. That afternoon he got four
teen and the next day he got sixty
two. He fed the geese to his hogs, i
which seemed to like the unusual
food.New York Commercial Adver- i
tiser.
Pity for Western Nations.
The Chinese enjoy the greatest
liberty. The laws of the western na
tions are too numerous and too
severe. Instances of their bondage
may be given. All the children in the
country are bound to attend school at
a certain age. When an author
wants to print a book he has to ask
for a copyright. Before a man can
start a newspaper he must apply for
a certificate from his government
sanctioning him to do so. There are
fixed regulations governing all com
panies and firms. All marriages
must be reported to a certain depart
ment for registration. Thus there is
no liberty between husband and wife.
Peking Sin Pao.
He Feasted Too Much.
Mayor Low of New York is suffer
ing from a surplus of banquets. His
digestion has gone on strike against
the rich and highly spiced foods served
at elaborate functions and Mr. Low is
now dieting strictly. He had arranged
to attend a dinner given by the
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, but sent
a letter of regret, in which he says: "I
have been indulging in so many miles
of dinners during the last fflw mouths
that I have had to cancel ali of my
outstanding dinner engagements for
this month. Even St. Patrick, I fear,
could not hold me harmless if I were
to violate the dictates of prudence in
this regard."
Khartoum's Paper.
Khartoum is very shortly to pos
sess its own paper. The native jour
nal, Al Mokattam. has, by agreement
with the government of the Soudan,
established the first print'.ng estah
lishment at Khartoum, where all of
ficial documents will be pri.ited. Most
of the work will be in Arabic and
French. There is also to be-, in-con
nection with the undertaking, a new
journalthe first in the Soudan
first it will be printed in Arabic
later it is hoped to add an English
section.
And More Economical.
On account of the thieving propen
sities of the "paleface" the Indiau3
have abandoned their old burial cus
tom of depositing valuables belong
ing to the deceased with the corpse.
The Breeze of Bliss. I. T., is author
ity for the statement that the In
dians now place money in the bank
and put the certificate of deposit in
the coffin for the dead Indians to
take along to the Happy Hunting
Grounds, as they have found this to
be a much safer method.
Move for Uniform Laws.
Several of the principal powers of
Europe are about to adjust the differ
ences of their laws on the subjects of
marriage, divorce, and the guardian
ship of minors. The only powers that
have not joined in the movement are
Britain, Turkey, Greece and Servla.
France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain,
and nearly all the smaller stats hav
taken part in conferences.
DUTIES OF "MY" DOCTOR.
Physicians of Millionaires Must Be
Up to Date.
Such a man as Rockefeller or Mor
gan is a life study for a physician,
and the man who can keep in perfect
order a human machine of vast im
portance in the community is worthy
of Schwabian compensation. The
big insurance companies are willing
to employ a physician at $100,000 a
year to keep either of the gentlemen
mentioned alive ten years longer.
"My" doctor in such a case must
know what medicine to prescribe
whenever Morgan or Rockefeller
sneezes, frowns, swears, limps,
groans, growls, thunders, kicks over
the waste basket, smokes too many
cigars, drinks too much water, eats
too heartily of corned beef and cab
hage, talks too much to his Bible
class, charges too small a commis
sion for promoting a trust or reor
ganizing a railroad, telegraphs sena
tors to hold up anti-trust legislation,
or commits any other little indiscre
tion that billionaire flesh is heir to.
He must be familiar with the slight
est symptom and ready with his dose.
New York Press.
FOG AS A BEAUTIFIER.
New York Society Woman Divulges
Mrs. Langtry's Secret.
Mrs. Langtry attended a reception
in New York last week and roused
much envy among fashionables who
were present because of her beautiful
complexion, which is really a marvel.
Subsequently a rather faded beauty
exclaimed: "How on earth does she do
it? Why, she's 50 if she's a minute."
Another grande dame, who spoke as
though she knew, gave this explana
tion: "It's Jersey, her birthplace. You
know Mrs. Langtry'spends six or eight
weeks every season on her farm there.
She wears a short skirt and thick
bootssometimes no boots at all
goes about in a sunbonnet and lives
like a farm girl. The fog of the island
does the rest."
Insane Doctor Was Wanted.
A doctor at Hiattville, Kan., was
adjudged insane by the probate court.
There was no room for him at either
of the state asylums, so he was taken
to the county jail in Fort Scott. A
few days ago a delegation from Hiatt
ville appeared before the probate
judge and asked that the doctor be
sent home pending his admission to
the asylum. "We have an unusual
amount of sickness in our vicinity,"
said the spokesman: "we have great
confidence in our old doctor and we
want him to come back and treat our
sj(
Th
reques
esunie( 1 ni
was granted and
the old doctor returned to Hiatville
practice.
Legally Qualified.
An old but still sprightly patriarch
stepped up to vote. "How long have
you resided in this precinct?" asked
one of the judges of the election. "Let
me see," said the old man, musing
ly, "I moved here the next year after
Laraeeh was born. Seven from nine
leaves two. Eight from sixteen is
eight. One to carry. Two from nine
is seven. Something over 780 years,
gentlemen. I am old enough to vote,
toif anybody should ask you."
Whereupon, there being ^no objection,
Methuselahfor it was hewas al
lowed to deposit his ballot.Chicago
Tribune.
Thirty Years of Service.
James M. Swank completed with the
close of last year thirty years of con
tinuous service with the American
Iron and Steel association, first as its
secretary and latterly as its general
manager. As a souvenir of this in
teresting fact Mr. Swank has pre
sented to the members of his asso
ciation a neat little booklet contain
ing complete statistics of the pro
duction of iron and steel, iron ore
and coal in the United States. Great
Britain, Germany, France and Bel
glum, 'with other statistics of interest
f() tn
oi
association down to the close
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How Lyddite Was Discovered.
Lyddite, freed from all technical de
scription, is merely a form of picric
acid melted down and allowed to
solidify. It was discovered in 1771,
and for a century and a quarter
served a peaceful but very useful pur
pose as a dye for silk and woolen ma
terials without its explosive powers
"xeing dreamt of. A few years ago a
ehous 0 Hr
At I
but
6ccur-ved in Manches
ter, England, the flames spread to a
shed in which picric acid was stored.
There was a terrible explosion and an
investigation took place, with the re
sult thi*f lyddite was born.
Dr. Lorenz and Slang.
The surgeons of New York have in
dulged in considerable quiet amuse
ment over the manner in which the
English language has at times taken
a fall out of Dr. Lorenzespecially the
department or' American slang. He
was speaking of the fees he had
earned while here. "We arc told."
said one of the younger men. "that
you pulled Armour's leg for $50,000."
"No." said the doctor gravely, "it
was $30,000. Rut hot the father's
it was that of the leetle daughter."
New York Press.
Tale of the Kangaroo'6 Tail.
A young teacher in one of the Phil
adelphia public schools was giving a
lesson on the animals of the different
zones to a class composed almost en
tirely of foreign children. Mentioning
the kangaroo, she said: "It has a tail,
but not much to speak of." Later,
when the children wrote about the
animals native to each zone, on the
paper of one little girl appeared this
entence: "The kangaroo has a tail,
but we must not talk about iL"
WESTERN WATER FARMINO.
Wisconsin's Many I.HEKHI Give Promise
of Great- Profit.
Scientists who make it their business
to look ahead into the far future are
now busy telling what will happen
after all the land In the United States
has been put under cultivation. When
there are no more quarter .sections up
on which the settler can establiah him
self, it is predicted that water farm
ing will become a general occupation.
This information is comforting to resi
dents of Wisconsin. No state in the
Union has better facilities for water
farming than Uie one famous for the
number and beauty of its lakes. When
the time comes for men to fence off
acre plots on the crystal waters of the
inland seas Wisconsin will have a
boom worth while waiting for with pa
tience. Of course there will be draw
backs to water' farming, but the in
dustry offers gre.it possibilities. Al
though it will be dir?!cuR to keep one's
crop of fish from being mixed with
one's neighbors', there will be no plow
ing or harrowing, no wrestling with
stumps, and no trouble over irrigation.
After the fish are planted each season
there will be nothing to do but to wait
until harvest time. P3y a little diplo
matic advertising water farmers may
persuade city men to .spend their va
cations on the lakes as assistants dur
ing this harvest season. Houseboats
on the water farms would be ideal
places of residence during the hot
months. It is estimated that the fish
eries of the United States produce food
of the value of $45,000.000 every year.
As soon as the water farming industry
has a good start. Wisconsin will be
able to add millions to this amount.
If the calamity howler cannot find any
thing worse to prophesy about than the
water farm, this stale cart pursue, daily
its business p"rs.iits without any fore
bodings. Milwaukee Sentinel.
MUST DO THEIR WORK WELL.
Incompetent Dentists Liable to Damages
for Their Hungling.
The courts are taking cognizance of
the competency or incompetency of
professional men. A short time ago
a New York tribunal held that a phy
sician was liable for 'unskillful or neg
ligent treatment of a patient and now
the court of appeals of that state has
rendered a decision holding a car
poration liable for unskillful, dental
work. This corporation, according to
the complaint, represented that it car
ried on the practice of dentistry in con
nection with its other departments.
The plaintiff, a woman, having under
gone treatment, .sued for alleged re
sultant injury and received a verdict.
Apparently the defence of the corpora
tion was that the dental business was
not, in fact, carried on by it, but was
owned by the dentist. But the court
held that the company having held it
self out as carrying on a dental de
partment and the plaintiff having been
ignorant of the fact that the company
was not the real owner of the dental
department, the corporation was
estopped from making such a denial.
For, under the circumstances, the court
said that the plaintiff had a right to
rely not only on the presumption that
the company would employ a skillful
dentist as its servant, but also on the
fact that if that servant, the dentist,
whether skillful or not. was guilty
of any malpractice, she had a respon
sible party to answer therefor in dam
ages.Chicago Chronicle.
Testing War-iinx* at Sea.
Twenty-five years have elapsed
since Prof. Tyndall, at the instance of
the Trinity House corporation, car
ried out a series of experiments at the
South Foreland, near Dover, England,
to determine the value of various
sounds as warnings to the mariner of
his approach to dangerous spots in
thick weather. The result was a large
increase in the number of fog signals
all round the British coast. Much
knowledge has been .acquired and
many new inventions have been made
in the intervening period, and a spe
cial committee of the elder brethren
of the Trinity House, assisted by Lord
Raylclgh and other eminent scien
tists and engineers have been en
gaged for some time in making elab
orate tests of all the latest- improve-
ments in the different kinds of ap
paratus for making cautionary noises.
The scene of their operations is the
Isle of Wight One of their chief ob
jects is to determine the relative mer
its of reeds and sirens as sound pro
ducers. Much attention, .also, has
been given to the trumpet and various
modifications of that instrument.
Other careful experiments are to de
termine the carrying capacity, in cer
tain conditions of notes of different
pitch, and the effect on the dissem
ination of sound of the conformation
of the coast line. etc. Another point
to be considered is the question of the
most effective and the most economical
utilization of power.New York Post.
France to Lay More Cable*.
The question of an extended system
of French submarine cables, which
has been so long intermittently occu
pying the attention of the government,
now promises to come speedily to an
issue. Ever since December. 1899, a
special committee has been studying
the matter. e?lling in expert advice to
help them, and the-result is a bill, just
finished, which the government pro
poses shortly to present to the cham
ber. This bill outlines an agreement
with the French cable company for
the construction and care of an ex
tended network of cables, aggregating
nearlv 10 000 miles in length and 6.-
000,000 in cost.
Fools make feasts and wise men eat
them.
One of life's peculiarities is that the
orld is seldom watching a man when
he is doing good.
FIRST USE OF CHLOROFORM.
Prof. Simpson, the Discoverer, Ad
ministered It to Child.
The first child born under the In-
CHANGE SPOILED THE EFFECT.
Minister's Unfortunate Alteration of
Biblical Phraseology.
William Dean Howells, at one of
his Sunday afternoon receptions, was
talking about the slight change of
phrase that may suffice to make an
impressive thing ridiculous.
"I remember a sermon that I
heard," he said, "in my boyhood, in
Martin's Ferry, the quaint Ohio town.
It was a sermon about Judas, and
the minister, after reading to us how
Judas betrayed the Master for thirty
pieces of silver, added, 'Thirty pieces
of silver, dear friends, is $18 in our
money.' And then he went on heat-
^"Tes, Judas betrayed the Master
he prostituted that holy symbol, the
Tea a la Smith in the Dark.
A Vassar girl said she liked her
tea best with orange peel and pine
apple in itwhile a young woman, a
Smith product, always adds a tea
spoon of Jamaica rum and a slice of
lemon. Some oneI think it was the
Smith girl againtold how to make
"tea punch a la Smith," with the
lights out. Into a quart of boiling
water put an ounce of green tea.
Have heated a bowl, and put into it
one-half pint of brandy, one-half pint
of rum, juice of one lemon, and one
quarter of a poUnd of loaf sugar.
Serve in glasses when the flames
have subsided.
Proposed Electrical Laboratory.
An appropriation of $275,000 for a
New York state electrical laboratory
at Union College, Schenectady, is rec:
ommended by a commission appoint
ed to determine the necessity for
such an institution. The laboratory
is to supply information on questions
of electrical science, and an official
standard for electrical measuring in
struments and apparatus, together
with standards for electric wiring of
buldings for the protection of munici
palities and the general public. Ger
many has such an institution.
Marriage a Good Thing.
It is said that statistics prove that
in every thousand bachelors there
I are thirty-eight criminals, while in
every thousand married men the
criminals .number only eighteen. If
this is so, it surely proves that the
present-day members of the sex la
beled coy and hard to nleasp have at
least an immense capabili* for keep
ing men out of mischief, .ufflcient to
outbalance perhaps eve, the unkind
reputation handed down the ages by
Mother Eve.London Tatler.
An Enormous Appetite.
water and fot glasses of Benedictine,
paid the bill of 2 15s., giving 4s as
gratuity to the waiters, and left the
restaurant none the worse for his
hearty meal.
Remarkable Hailstorm.
While out driving near Tlmaru,
New Zealand, a hailstorm came on
which was so severe that a gentle
man was compelled to cover his horse
with his rugs and the carriage mat
to preserve it from injury. Hi
head he had to protect with cuanions.
During the fifteen minutes that the
storm lasted the vehicle was filled
to overflowing with hailstones tha
siz? of a hen's e&g.
.-"uence of chloroform was the daugh- hart was in Philadelphia a few days
ter of a doctor friend of Prof. Simp- ago on business c-v nnected with bis de-
son, who is credited with the discov
ery of the drug, and she was christen
ed Anaesthesia to celebrate the eir- age and most nectarian flavor. Now,
cumstances of her birth, as the
first child to be vaccinated in Russia
was christened Vaccinoff. The be
ginning of the new era of chloroform
was on a night in November, 1847,
when three men sat around a supper
table in an Edlnb.urg dining room
with glasses charged withchloro
form They were Dr. Simpson him
self, with Dr. Keith and Dr. Duncan,
and as they sat talking all three be
gan to inhale the fumes from the
glasses. Suddenly the talking cexsed
and three senseless men fell like dead
bodies on the floor. For some- min-
utes the room was as still as a grave
and then Dr. Simpson awoke. "This
is good," he said, as he found Dr.
Duncan snoring under the table and
Dr. Keith creeping on to his feet,
Eleven days later the first public trial
of chloroform was made at the Edin
burg infirmary.
1
One of the leading restaurants of
Kieff, Germany, was patronized the
other day by a powerful, well-built
man. who entered about 11a. m. and
ordered lunch. He consumed nine
helpings of cutlets, six bottles of beer, i down below. If." magnanimously, "yez
five bottles of wine, two of seltzer will take a ground-floor flat some
wheres I'd stay wid yez. Then I could
look out- the winder and see what's
goin' on an 'twould be more inter
tainin' fur me."New Y'ork Evening
Sun.
JUDICIAL INDIGNATION.
A Judge's Verdict on the Conduct of
Two Ungrateful Young Men.
Street Cleaning Commissioner Igle-
partment, and met a friend who of
fered him some whisky of an untold
Col. Iglehart is a member of the South
Hrtver Club, and it goes without saying
that he is a judge of a few things
besides the best way to clean streets,
His description of that whisky is some
thing to give the "strongest blue-rib
boner a pang of regret. He will not i
tell the name of the brand or where it
is to be gotten, for he says if he did a i
large part of male Baltimore would
move '.odiiy to Philadelphia.
But Col. Iglehart's friend told him a
little-story in connection with that
whisky. It seems that there is a club
where it can be securedor could be
fore it got so scarce. One day two
young men entered and called for this
brand. Each poured out a drink and
eachhorror of Iforrors! poured wat
er into it and tossed it off. The bar
keeper fell up against the wall and i
then quit work for the day. The board
of governors held a meeting and sus
pended the two young men for a year,
Some time later this same friend of
Col. Iglehart who tells the story fell in
with Judge R., one of the eminent
jurists of Philadelphia, at that time
holding a place on the bench. He of
fered the judge some of the famous
whisky and told him the story of the
two young men who had watered it.
The judge closed his eyes and allowed
his head to fall back, while he enjoyed
the entrancing liquid.
"Suspended them for a year?" he
said at last. "Only that? I'd have
hanged the rascals if I'd had any
thing to do with it!"Baltimore Sun.
ast
MELTING OL,D PLATES.
Those Used for Printing Money
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kiss, for the small sum of $18.' This was "melting day" at the Bu-
"The change of phrase was slight," reau of Engraving and Printing. All
Mr. Howells concluded, "but somehow the plates, rolls and dies u?ed in print-
it sufficed to make everybody smile." ing gold and silver certificates, postage
i and revenue stamps, bonds and postal
cards during 1901 were loaded, early
this morning on two big trucks. Al
though the precaution had been taken i
But They May Be Happy Yet.
Accounts have been given of the
marriage at Atchison of Lieut. Je
rome Pillow and Miss Mary Hether
to spoil the face of each plate with a
ington. At the wedding supper, an- Me. four strapping employes of the
cording to the Globe, Mr. Pillow was
called on for a speech. He arose and
said: "While I was at West Point
I was taught to keep my mouth shut.
and I have adhered to the rule ever I
since." Then the bride was called i
on for a speech. She arose and said:
"While at St. Mary's I was taught
to talk all the time, and I have prac
ticed the rule ever since." But how
sad it is to see such a spirit of con
tradiction and contrariness made
manifest even before the honeymoon
had commenced.Kansas City Jour
nal.
Treasury Department rode on each
truck. A Treasury committee rode in
a carriage.
The procession went to the Navy
yard foundry, where the plates were
unceremoniously dumped into one of
the furnaces, to r-ome out as pig steel
and to be" used for ballast for, war- I
ships. There were twenty tons of
plates, rolls and dies, from which
were printed last year $2,200,000,000 in
gold and silver certificates of various
denominations, and $889,000,000 in
postage stamps, besides hundreds of
millions of bonds, revenue stamps and
postal cards. i
The engravers are now at work on i
the plates, rolls and dies for 1903.
Those in use now will be destroyed
next February.New York World.
"Faithful" Service Rewarded.
The late Judge Smyth, so much bet
ter known as "the Recorder," used to
have a reminiscence of another law- i
yer who now enjoys much distinction
at the bar and ,for a time rejoiced in
judicial honors, but who was at the
time the managing clerk of a law of
fice on the same corridor with that of
the future recorder.
"I met him in the hau one day,"
said the old judge, "and he was evi
dently very much agitated. I inquired
the nature of his trouble. Almost
weeping, he answered: 'I have been
discharged, discharged without a word
of explanation, after five years of
faithful service. It is very hard.' And
then he quite gave way, and added, in
tears: "And you know, Mr. Smyth,
yOU know what affidavits I have made
f0r that man.'
Mr. Brown's Wild Klrte on a Shovel.
C. Henry Brown, (10 years old, of
Heitt, Ohio, was persuaded by friends
to go coasting. The old man procured
a scoop shovel and said he preferred
to ride on that instead of a sled. He
started down a steep incline and rode
for half a mile. When the bottom
of the hill was reached Brown ran into
a stone wall. He was rendered uncon
scious and lay in the snow for six
i hours. He was finally picked up and
taken to his home, where he is in a
1 critical condition. The track Brown
I rode on is almost straight up and
aown, and composed of solid icei
She Wanted a. Change.
The latest argument against sky
scrapers comes from the kitchen. A
cook in a West Side top-floor flat gave
warning the other day. "Shure an' it's
no mtprtainmint I have," was her an
swer when asked her reason for leav
ing. "It's too high fur me to see any
thing of hat's goin' on in the street
Gave Them a Rent.
"I don't see." she complained, "why
they always set me alongside of some
awfully wise professor or philosopher
or writer or something of that kind
whenever I'm invited out to dinner."
"I suppose," her friend answered,
"that they do it for the benefit of the
great men they set you next to. Most
men who are engaged in intellectual
pursuits like to relax at such affairs
and not have to alk ssnse, you kno-*."
ORIGIN OF NUN'S HEADDRESS.
First Placed on Pretty Head by Gal
lant French King.
Very few persons, says a French
paper, know the origin of the head
dress which so many nuns wear, and
which hides so much of their faces.
It was formerly the custom for con
vents to send nuns to "the various
cities and towns for the purpose of
collecting alms, and as a rule two
nuns, one old and the other young,
went to each place. They wore small
caps, and were popularly known as
"Swallows of Lent.''
On a certain Ash Wednesday two
of them succeeded in obtaining admis
sion to the king's palace in Paris, and
though the monarch and his courtiers
were at dinner, they did not lfesitate
to solicit alms from them. One of the
nuns was very pretty, and the young
nobles who were feasting cast such
bold glances at her that she blushed
with shame, whereupon the king rose
from the table, and, taking his nap
kin, folded it in two and placed in on
her head in such a manner that it
concealed her blushes. Ever since
that day, it is said, this kind of head
dress has been worn by nuns.
THE INVENTOR OF VALENTINES.
New England Spinster Who First Cut
Fancy Paper Hearts.
Miss Esther Howland of Worcester,
Mass., invented the modern valentine
in 1849. She never married, and died
about ten years ago. She was a
graduate of Mount Holyoke seminary,
and her father had a small book store
and bindery. Wishing to add a new
feature of the business, she took
stiff letter paper.scalloped and fringed
the edges, cut heart-shaped holes in
the corners, glued on colored pictures
that came with raisins, tea, etc., put
around the pictures borders of the
lace paper that was used on the in
side edges of fancy boxes, and hand
painted a little verse on them. The
valentines found a ready sale busi
ness men in New York and elsewhere
began to order them for the next year,
and it soon appeared that Miss How
land had developed a jeal business.
Experiments of No Value.
All eggs have a parthenogenetic
tendency, which, as Boveri demon
strated at the last meeting of the Ger
man Society of Naturalists and Phy
sicians, disappears through degenera
tion of the controsoma. All that Prof.
Loeb of Chicago did was to show that
this parthenogenetic tendency could
be stimulated in sea urchins by a nor
mal salt solution. In certain infusoria
the process of fecundation consists
essentially in a subtle osmosis be
tween the sexes. The experiments of
Loeb did not create life, but simply
stimulated bisexual generation at the
expense of parthenogenesis. These
experiments, therefore, demonstrate
nothing as regards the cause of life.
Running as an Art and Exercise.
Running, like many other things, is
an art. It is seldom an inspiration,
and to be performed properly should
be learned and practiced. A bad, un
tutored style is not only ungracefuL
but it prevents a player doing the best
work of which she is capable and
militates against good plays as pow
erfully as anything can. A good, free
style, on the other hand, which entails
the full use of all proper muscles,
gives a girl additional peace and se
curity, with infinitely less exertion,
when once it has been acquired.
Moreover, it improves the carriage
and. lends grace to ail the movements.
Decries Statue of Houstonfv
The statue of Gen. Sam Houstcihof
Texas, to be placed in the capitof at
Washington, of which Miss Elizabeth
Ney is the sculpter, is to be a dupli
cate of the statue which has just
been finished and placed in the capi
tol at Austin. This statue represents
Houston as an Indian at a time when
he was living with the Cherokee tribe
after his self-banishment from Ten
nessee. Judge John H. Reagan, who
knew Houston. intimately, is angry
over the Indian statue and in a letter
protests against its duplicate being,
placed in ti.e national capitol.
Offered His Card.
An amusing incident occurred in
Judge Galloway's court the other day
during the progress of a civil case,
says the Memphis Scimitar. One of
the litigants, a Beal street pawn
broker. "Now, Mr. said the
attorney "turn your face to the jury
and tell them your name and place
of business." The witness reached
into his coat pocket and, drawing
forth a well-worn bit of pasteboard,
said: "Here vas mine card." Judge
Galloway was obliged to pound for
order.
Secretary Cortelyou's Pompadour.
Secretary Cortelyou is one of the
few remaining men in public life who
affect the pompadour style of brush
ing the hair. Fifteen or eighteen
years ago it seemed as if all mankind
had the pompadour craze. When
"Pompadour Jim" came on the stage
every sport that was a sport wore
his bristles rampant. The style is
very becoming to Cortelyou. It ena
bles him in serious reflection to run
his fingers harrowlike over his head
without disturbing his contour.
The First Artificial Butter.
Margarine, the first artificial butter,
was made atr-Poissy, in France, in
1S69 for the first time. It was made
from the fat of the kidneys and loins
of cattle. Tallow, lard, and olive and
cottonseed oil are also used in the
manufacture of various butterines.
Cocoa-nut butter is largely used in
..Northern Europe.