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GUESSED NAME BY TOWNS.
Kan frem Texas Knew Himself the
Instant "Austin" Was
r Mentioned.
"I aw a chap the other day in Wash
ington who didn't know his own name,
and made me guess it for him." said Mr.
Geoffrey Lambey, of Savannah, at the
Eutaw hou6e, according ro the Balti
more News.
"No!"
"Yes. It happened this way. I was
visiting a number of the government
buildings, and among them the big mint.
There was a small party of us standing
around the guide while he explained the
methods of making and counting money.
One girl behind the caged partition was
just then counting a roll of thousand
dollar bills as big as a small cannon, and
the sight somewhat inspired me. I
turned to my first neighbor and said:
" 'That wad would start a civil war in
Georgia.'
"Then it turned out that he was from
Georgia, and we were glad to meei each
other. We went the rest of the route
together, and when we separated, I said-
" 'By the way, my name's Lambey, of
Savannah; what's yours?'
"Well, sir, that chap stood there like
a man in a trance for fully a minute.
Then he said:
" 'Blessed if I know. Why. confound
it, I knew my name this morning! It's
a town in Texas what's a town in
Texas?
"I suggested Galveston. Waco, j
Houston every town I could think of
Dut none of them fitted him. Finally I
said:
Austin?'
"You ought to have seen his
eyes
brighten up.
" 'That's it,' he said: 'my name's Aus
tin Henry Austin. I'm a thousand
times obliged to you!' And he shook
hands with me like a man who was just
being congratulated."
USEFUL FLORAL NOTES.
Information for the Homekeeper Who
Has a Taste for Flowers
and Plants.
Try a table fork to loosen the soil
around pot plants.
Coal gas, whether from the stove or
gas pipes, is fatal to all plant life.
Apply tobacco tea to chrysanthe
mums if they are troubled with in
sects. A heavy coat of fine rotted manure
put on the flower beds now will be
very beneficial.
A pot of winter-blooming morning
glories makes a beautiful picture. The
plants commence to flower when only
a few inches high.
Beds of bulbs which are protected
with some coarse litter over winter
will produce much better results than
those which are not
No pot plant should have water un
til the earth is dry. More failures
rise from giving water when 'unneces
sary than from any other cause.
When your geranium buds turn
brown and dry. and fail to bloom, it is
a pretty good sign that the tempera
ture is too dry. The room is probably
too warm both by night and by day.
If geraniums are healthy, and the
cellar is dry. there should be no diffi
culty about wintering them. They
should be given but little water, and
kept as nearly dormant as possible by
keeping them cool and in the dark.
A good way to winter roses is to
heap evergreen brush about them.
This shades them so winter thaws af-
feet them less, and catches and holds
blowing snow for their protection. It
is better than to bury the standing
plant in the cinders or sawdust as
some do. The brush shelter is a more
natural one.
HOW TO MAKE GOOD PIES.
A Few Suggestions Which May Prove
of Value to the Novice
in the Art.
The best cooks use a glaxe io pre
vent the juice from spoiling the under
trust of a pie. This glaze is simply
the beaten white of an egg. brushed
lightly over the crust before the
filling is put in. and if it also
brushed over the top crust it will give
an especially nice yellow-brown bake,
says the American Queen.
Too much handling of the ingredi
ents will make the crust tough. Use
a knife to mix with and have every
thing chilled. If possible, use a glass
rolling-pin filled with chipped ice, and
avoid, as far as possible, putting the
hands to the dough. Lard and butter
in equal parts make the best crust, and
the best results must not be expected
If ordinary bread flour is used. Use
pastry flour and sift it twice; also use
as little water as possible, pouring it in
by drops, and be sparing of salt. Put
plenty of flour on the board to prevent
sticking, and roll the crust only one
way away from you.
Never put a hot filling into a crust
If the filling is to be a cooked one. pre
pare it in advance and give it time to
get thoroughly cold before combining
it with the dough. Cut three or four
slits in the top crust to let the steam
escape and prevent undue puffing.
Finally see that the oven is not too
hot. so that the pastry will not be
scorched or set before it has had time
to rise.
Baked Succotash.
Empty a can of succotash into a shal
low baking dish, add a tablespoon of
butter, half a teaspoon of salt, a dash
of pepper and of paprika and enough
milk (about one cupful) to make very
soft Bake two hours or so in a mod
erate oven. When done, this should be
very brown. Serve piping hot. This is
far superior to stewed succotash.
Canned corn can be prepared in the
same way. Good Housekeeping.
NAT WENT OUT FOR CLOVE
Followed the Kan Who Made a Prac
tice of Going Out Be
tween Acts.
She had ensconced herself in her com
fortable orchestra chair, found a place
for her muff and boa. stuffed her choco
lates into a little groove beside he
spread out her skirts, and fastened her
hat to the back of the seat in front of
her, relates the New York Press. She
had just reached the point where she
was wondering if "he" was going to take
hold of her hand when the curtain rose
and the light went out.
The leading lady had already stated
her troubles and the leading man had
made a hit with the balcony, when the
man who is always late came in with his
wife. His seats were in the middle of
the row and five or six people had to get
up to let him pass, among them the girl
with the chocolates. At the end of the
second act he got up and everybody else
rose and let him out again. He had been
gone about a minute and a half when
the girl with the chocolates gave a littlo
scream.
"Where is my hat?" she cried excit
edly. Everybody looked, but the bark of the
chair was vacant. Then the man with
her and the woman next to her got up
and looked on the floor. It was too dark
to see, however, and they asked two or
three others to move. The news of th
lost hat spread, and nearly everybody in
row O was on his or her feet. Final! v
they all lined out in the aisle and gave
the girl who had lost her hat all th
space she wanted. But the hat had disap
peared as completely as though it had
fallen through the earth.
The girl with the chocolates glanced
suspiciously at everybody in row O.
and everybody in row O looked nervous
and distrait. Letting her eyes rest in
turn on each guilty being, the girl re
marked in loud, clear tones:
"I don't mind so much about the hat.
but that hat had a diamond hatpin in it!'
There was a moment of awful silence,
and then the man who had come in late
and gone out between the acts returned.
As he passed down the aisle in the briN
liant glare of the electric lights there was
a distinct titter. The moment she saw
him the girl with the chocolates caught
her breath.
"Look!" she cried, clutching the arm
of her escort, and she pointed to the
back of the man who had come in late
"Look!"
Dangling from his coattails, where
it was caught by a slender pin with a
diamond head, hung a white chiffon hat
with a trailing pink feather.
NEW NOTES ABOUT DRESS.
Smart Features and Fashionable
Frills of the Up-to-Date
Costumes.
The age of a frock is tested by its
sleeve.
White lilacs are favored for the bridal
bouquet.
- Don't get. ermine for an all-around
fur. It's too dress v.
The fur muff with a big pocket is a
practical whim.
These elbow sleeves necessitate a
small fortune for gloves.
Mustard yellow and old gold are two
of the revived colors.
A curious bright shade of mnskrat
brown is thought very smart.
A daisy chain of siher makes a pretty
belt for any Hgnt silk frock.
Suede belts with and satchels to
match are among the attracrivo litrin
accessories.
Red is little used as trimming, but in
an entire costume it seems to be quite
the thing.
A rose sparkling with a diamond dew-
drOD forms the head nf nn Invclv o-ni-j i .
-
A silk skirt flounced on a dress of dia
ptianous stuff is one of the novelties of
the season.
One of those Himsj chiffon veils, yards
and yards long, would make an appre
ciable gift.
Most waists when made of the same
material as the skirt show some sort of
draping effect.
Aiy. light and filmy stuffs are univer
sal for evening, reception and restaurant
dinner gowns.
Skirts of evening gowns are very full,
with shorter train and trimmed halfway
to the knee.
Tight little Marie Antoinette elbow
sleeves, finished with a broad flounce,
are worn wiyi evening gowns.
Beads, jewels and laces run riot over
the evening slipper, each one of which
is become a veritable art work.
Entire wreaths of little button roses,
tied with a small bow of ribbon or velvet,
are pretty for the debutante.
Gray furs need care in the choosing.
Those with a yellowish cast are not
nearly so becoming as the blue grays.
It takes yards of delicate lace insertion
and much hand embroidery to make the
modern cobweb called a stocking.
A new chapeau favored abroad is a
simple affair of fight felt trimmed only
with a handsome buckle and a big row of
fur matching the wrap.
Presh Air for Plants.
House plants must have fresh air and
plenty of it, but one must exercise a lit
tle judgment in the manner in which
this need is supplied. Plants dread
draughts quite as much as human beings
dread them. Open the window in an
adjoining room instead of the window
in which your plants are kept. House
keeper. Everton Taffy.
Put one pound of brown sugar iuto a
pan. add six teaspoonfuls of cold water
and six ounces of butter. Stir gently
with a wooden spoon till they boil fo
ten minutes: add one teaspoon ful of va
nilla extract and pour at once into a
buttered tin. ai.d -e: away in a cool
place to hanipn. Philadelphia Press.
BEHEAD FAILING BANKERS.
luminary Treatment of Chinese Fi
nanciers Who Are Unsuccess
ful EBusiness.
Col. H. O. S. Heistand, assistant ad
jutant general, U. S. A., has. locked up
in his safe at department headquarters
on Governor's Island, a Chinese bank
oote, only one other of which is known
to be in existence. That other one is
in the possession of the British museum.
The bank note which is guarded so
iealously by Col. Heistand is more than
15 inches long, very nearly a foot in
width, and is gray and crumbling with
age. The good quality of the ink used
by the Chinese is evidenced by the
clearness of the characters, considering
that the note was printed in 1401 A. D..
3r nearly 100 years before Columbus set
foot on the shores of America.
This ancient specimen of John China
man's banking efforts was secured b
Col. Heistand during the occupation ot
Peking by the foreign troops in 1900.
when he was chief of staff of the Amer
ican forces in China. The bank note is
an accurate proof of the antiquity of
certain customs which are in vogue to
some extent throughout the civilized
world to-day. Whiie Columbus was try
ing to make an egg stand on end and to
prove that the earth was round, the
Chinese were printing newspapers.
They had banking laws and were versed
in philosophy and science to a degree
that far exceeded the knowledge of the
discoverers of the new world.
The custom bequeathed to present day
civilization is that of burying in the
corner stone of public buildings and
places of worship coins of the nation.
The bank note secured by Col. Heistand
was found in the stomach of a Buddha
idol which was thrown down and broken
at the time of the fire in the summer
palace in Peking, during the occupation
of the city by the foreign troops.
The note came into his possession
intact together with specimens of all
other forms of Chinese currency. The
bank note was taken to the leading Chi
nese scholars of the empire, who identi
fied it and assured him of its authen
ticity. It is a treasury note issued by
the Chinese board of revenue during the
reign of Hung Wu. in 1401 A. D., the first
emperor of the-Wing dynasty. Similar
notes were then in general circulation
and were equivalent in value to 1,000
Chinese pennies, one tael or one ounce
of pure silver.
The laws against counterfeiting in
China are much more severe than in
Uncle Sam's domain, and while the bank
notes were in circulation Hung Wu. who
must have been a strenuous monarch,
authorized the Chinese board of revenue
to behead him who should counterfeit a
ote and to reward with 250 taels any
person who should arrest the counter
feiter. Chinese banking laws are all severe,
but. according to Chinese savants, the
end has justified the means employed to
keep the nation free of" "frenzied
finance." When a bank fails in China all
the clerks and managers have their
heads cut off and thrown among the
books of the firm, which are set on fire.
As a result of this penalty for over 700
years a bank has never been known to
fail.
THE CHILDREN'S HOLIDAY.
In China New Year's Is the Great Day
Among the Little
People.
Except at the Chinese New Year,
which comes in February, it is very hard
to catch a glimpse of children in China,
writes Bertha Runkle, in "Child Life in
China and Japan." in St. Nicholas. Little
beggars will run beside you for miles
to earn one "cash." a copper coin with
l a square hole in the middle of it. worth
tne
twentieth of a cent; but children
who have, parents to care for them seem
to be kept indoors all the time. oronly
allowed to play in walled yards and gar
dens. We used to say to each other:
"Why. where are the children? Haven't
they got any?" But at New Year's we
found out that they had. This is the
great holiday of all the year in China,
when everybody hangs out flags and
colored lanterns and sets off fire
crackers. ( We borrowed our custom of
fire-crackers for the Fourth of July from
Chinese New Year's ) All the people
put on their very best clothes, and the
children the best of all. jackets and
trousers of bright blue or green or yel
low or purple, the boys and the girls so
much alike that you can only tell them
apart by their hair. The boy's, of
course, is braided in a pigtail, and the
girl's is done up on her head with silver
pins. or. if she's a very grand little giri.
with gold or jade. Thus decked out, the
children go walking with their proud
papas and mammas, and often go to the
theater, which is a rare treat for them.
Perhaps Chinese children have romp
ing plays together, but they always look
as if they were born grown up.
Electric Light Aids Vegetables.
Electric light is known to have a
stimulating influence on the growth of
vegetables. Two farms on Long island
which are equipped with arc lamps
are said to yield remarkable products
in much less than the time usually re
quired. The effects of an exclusive
electric light on the colors of flowers
are still to be determined, although
all kinds of plants are reported to
grow with uncommon rapidity and to
bear blossoms of deeper tone when
subjected to the rays. One florist be
lieves he will yet show a coal-black
rose by the use of this light with
globes of certain colors. Philadelphia
Ledger.
Frigid.
"She used to consider the Blugores
the cream of society, didn't she?"
"Yes, but that was before she tried
to get into their set. I think she con
siders them the cold cream of society
now." Philadelphia Press.
MUST NOT LEAVE COUNTRY
An Unwritten Law Governs Presi
dents When Traveling and in
Beceiving Presents.
The president must not leave the
United States even for a day. This is an
old, unwritten law which has been re
spected by all successors of George
Washington, with perhaps one or two
exceptions. This restriction is not im
posed by statute. President McKinley
emphasized his respect for this rule on
his tour to the south and west. It was
unofficially announced that he would
meet President Diaz of Mexico some
where near the boundary of that sister
republic. A controversy as to whether
Mr. McKinley might properly cross the
Mexican line, even for a few hours,
arose. Early in May. when he visited
El Paso. Tex., where he was greeted by
President Diaz's personal representa
tive, he expressed a desire to take a look
into Mexico.
From El Paso there extends into
Mexico the international bridge span
ning the Rio Grande. Whether the
president would dare to cross this struc
ture or not was the question which mem
bers of his party asked one another. He
did not. He wnt to the bridge and
caught a view of theSierre.Madre. Half
way across the bridge was a line. Step
ping over this was putting toot upon
Mexican territory.
President Harrison had ventured as
far as this line ten years before. But
President McKinley did not so much as
place his foot upon the bridge. Presi
dent Arthur was accused of violating
this unwritten law in October, 1883, upon
a pleasure trip to Alexandria bay
Thousand islands. His political enemies
accused him then of venturing across the
Canadian line on a fishing excursion
The boundary between Canada and New
York extends to the middle of the St
Lawrence river.
President Cleveland was similarly ac
cused. On one of his hunting trips to
North Carolina he sailed by the ocean
route past Cape Hatteras. His enemies
contended that he ventured outside the
three-mile limit. According to inter
national law, a country's possessions
extend for three miles outside its coast
line. Plying the seas further than this
is leaving home territory.
The president must not accept gifts
of great value from inferiors in the fed
eral service, but he may accept gifts
from foreigners. Grant. McKinley and
Mrs. Roosevelt have received gifts from
foreign rulers. Several gifts have been
sent to Mr. Roosevelt from the west.
DIFFERENT
KIND OF CAT.
And
the Inexperienced Housewife
Waited in Vain for Her
Kittens.
"You mean old thing!"
"But, madam "
"Don't say another word;
I won't
come into your shop again! "
"It's all a mistake. I " r
"Don't try to explain!"
These words, passing between an ex
cited young woman and a red-faced
man. wearing a white smock and apron,
were heard in a Main street store, re
lates the Worcester Telegram.
This is what led up to the dialogue:
Two mouths ago. when one of
Worcester's June brides began taking
htv first lessons in marketing, the pro
prietor waitt'd upon the fair customer,
bud. as he declares, neer took advan
tage ut inv inexperience, the result be
ing the chi icest cuts of beef and the pick
oi pi.ultr. and vegetables went into her
or .
"Winn this cat has kittens." she said
tu the butcher one morning, noticing a
urufclj man eu maltese in the window.
"Ail! jon be kind enough to let me have
one of them? I am so fond of cats."
"Certain. madam." replied the
butcher, "when the cat has kittens you
r-hail hae the pick, the first pickj
madam."
The bride waited several weeks,
then mentioned the subject again.
"Nothing doing, madam." was
butcher's comment.
Three weeks later, or Saturday
and
the
aft-
ernoon. the woman expressed some im
patience to the cashier. safely ensconced
in the wire cage.
"I shall be gone from the neighbor
hood." she said, "before I get the kitten
Mr. Blank has promised me."
"More than that, lady." blurted out
the cashier. "If you wait until that cat
has kittens you'll see sausages growing
on pink lilac bushes. That's a gentl
The young woman went out of the
store like a flash, after telling the pro
prietor that he is "a mean old thing."
He tried to explain, but he couldn't butt
in with more than three words.
Now. big Tom. who has the reputation
of being able to lick his weight in
coyotes, must find another home.
Top-Heavy Passenger Engines.
Locomotive engineers of experience
and observation are almost unanimous
in their condemnation of the lofty type
of passenger engines adopted by many
of the railways recently. They insist
that many accidents have occurred he
cause the laws of gravitation have
been too mucn ignored and that the
standard gauge of modern American
railways is too narrow as a base for
the huge locomotives, and weights of
which have been lifted upward until
when a curve is struck at a high rate
of speed, it is more luck than good
forethought that prevents an accident.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Fully Explained.
"Why do they call a fort a fortress
just as if it were feminine?" asked
the Tired Citizen, forgetting that the
Cheerful Idiot was in the vicinity.
"Because." glibly responded that in
dividual, "there's generally a lot of
men gathered about it. anxious to take
a hand, until they find out they can.
after which all interest in the cam
paign ceases." Baltimore American.
WRONG MEDICINES CURE.
Girls Got Their Doses Mixed, But the
Results Were Entirely
Satisfactory.
"I received a shock about the value
of medicine quite early in my career,
said a woman doctor who has been
ten years establishing a paying prac
tice in New York, relates the Press
"After taking my degree I accepted a
position as resident in a large girls
school up the Hudson. Such a posi
tion is no sinecure. In a school with
."00 girls the resident doctor will have
about three times as much to do as in
a school with an equal number of
boys. The superintendent discovered
that some of the girls were having
their medicine bottles filled at a drug
store in the village without the know
ledge of the house doctor, and that
tney were doing themselves positive
harm. The order was sent out that
empty medicine bottles must be re
turned to the school doctor. I was
expected to keep a record of them in
a book set aside for the purpose
"It was the custom of the girls to
leave their medicine bottles cn the
dining room table. Then they would
take them either before or after meals
as prescribed, and there was little
danger of forgetting the dose. The
girls were expected to write their
names on the label, so that the wait
resses would know where to put each
bottle when setting the tables.
I remember distinctly prescribing
for Miss Crank for loss of appetite and
weak digestion. She was to take
teaspoonful of her medicine before
meals. The same morning I pre
scribed for Miss Blank a medicine to
reduce the heart action. She had too
much vitality. She was to take her
dose immediately after meals. The
bottles were sent to the dining room
and the girls wrote their names on
them as usual. In a few days Miss
Crank came back with a bottle of
medicine half filled.
" I don't think I require any more
of this at present, doctor.' she said. I
am feeling all right again.'
"I looked at the bottle and then at
my records.
" 'Have you been taking this medi
cine as prescribed?' I asked.
" 'Certainly.'
" 'And it has braced you up?'
" 'Wonderfully.'
" 'In a day or two Miss Blank came
with an empty bottle.
" 'It has done me so much good, doc
tor,' she said, 'that I shall keep on tak
ing it. unless you object.'
" 'Heart palpitation all gone? I
asked.
" 'No sign of it for days. she re
plied.
" 'Well,' I said. 'I will let you wait
awhile, and if there is a recurrence of
the trouble, alter your medicine.'
"No one but myself ever knew that
the waiter had inocently changed
those medicine bottles, and that the
doses taken conscientiously by each
girl had no more effect on their physi
cal ailments than they had on the ac
tion of the tides."
BETTER HORSES ARE USED
Business Houses of Standing in West
ern City No Longer Use
"Plugs."
"I've noticed many changes in town
since I was here three years ago." said
a Texan who ships his cattle to the Kan
sas City market, reports the Kansas
City Star, "and next to the city's great
growth, the greatest difference is well.
you couldn't guess. Wnat impressed me
is the difference in the horses seen on
the streets. A few years ago anything
with four hoofs and not too feeble to
arouse the Humane society was consid
ered good enough to draw a wagon in
Kansas City. But I notice now that
merchants of any standing look upon
the appearance of their horses and wag
ons as an important factor in their
standing among the people. I don't care
how fine a store a man may have, if he
sends his goods out in a shabby, half
painted wagon, drawn by a plug, he
gives himself harmful advertising. Look
at the horses and wagons of live con
cerns and you'll find good-looking an:-
mals.strongand well-groomed, and wag
ons that are as clean as a carriage.
'Down at the horse markets they tell
me that the quality of the draught horse
in the city is steadily improving. The
plugs' are no longer sought for by the
city trade. Once only the brewers and
packers used fine, big horses, but now
the good draught horses are the rule ami
undersi.ed and scrawny ones thf excep
tion. In the last Tew years fine speci
mens of imported stallions have been
sold in Kansas and Missouri and their
presence is apparent in the young horses
now sent to the market.
"Good horses mean good harness and
vehicles. There's nothing that helps
the appearance of a town more."
Discarded War Material.
Some idea of the vat quantities of dis
carded war material thrown upon the
general market by the successive
changes in armament adopted by the
various great powers may be gathered
from the list of arms now offered for
sale from this cause by the Italian gov
ernment. The list includes t00,000
rifles, adopted so recently as 1887. with
48.000.000 cartridges; 1.200 nine-pounder
and 500 seven-pounder guns, with
200.000 shells, and 170 seven-pounder
mountain guns, with 17.000 shells.
Domestic Bliss.
Wife According to this paper, hot
water will prevent wrinkles.
Husband So? Then how do you ac
count for the numerous wrinkles I
have?
"How do I account for them?"
"Yes: you keep me in hot water
nearly all the time, you know." In
dianapolis Sentinel.
NAVAL ALLIANCE SUGGESTED
English Officer Sees Mots of Xcomeasy
in Combine of John Bull and
Uncle lam.
In 12 years the naval expenditure of
the United States has trebled, while that
of Great Britain has doubled, and under
existing conditions the international
rivalry for supremacy on the sea bids
fair to necessitate still further increase
in the annual outlay on the manufacture
of fighting ships. Lieut. Carlyon Bel
lairs, of the royal navy, says the North
American Review, proposes an arrange
ment between Great Britain and the
United States which would enable both
countries to effect vast economies by
curtailing their annual naval output,
without impairing in any degree the
guarantee of their national or imperial
interests which their navies are in
tended to provide.
These patrons have no interests which
conflict in any material way. their pol
icies are identical and neither power
can be successfully attacked except from
the sea. Should they jointly agree to
come to each other's assistance in the
event of either power being threatened
by a coalition of three maritime pow
ers, they could each afford to reduce the
rate at which, as matters stand, they are ,
compelled to add yearly to the strength
of their respective navies. Says Lieut.
Bellairs:
"That population and riches are no
match in war against such careful or
ganization, we have seen in the case of
Russia. It is only the knowledae that
the sea barrier Is impenetrable which
will effectually prevent the expanding
Teutonic, Slavonic and Latin races of
Europe from contemplating aggression
on the American continent. If unable,
to do so singly, nothing but sea power
will prevent them from trying to effect
their purpose in combination. They
have combined in the past for the parti
tion of Poland. By the Russian declara-
tion of February 26. 1780. Russia.
France. Spain. Holland. Prussia. Sweden
and Denmark combined to resist the.
right of search, and the same powers
were acting together against Great Brit
ain over this question in 1800.
"In 1807 Great Britain had to break
Napoleon's compulsory alliance, framed
by the treaty of Tilsit, by seizing 18
Danish and eight Portuguese battle
ships and by blockading the Russian -
battleships. Thus a fresh union of over
140 battleships was nipped in the bud.
but such decisive action could not have
been taken had not Great Britain been
in the plenitude of her naval strength '
with 212 battleships. We learn that
within a period of 27 years there were
three European alliances of three or
more great powers against Great Britain-
and all were broken up by the operation
of sea power."
SUPER'S MEAN REVENGE.
Put an Egg in "Julius Caesar's" Hand
and Spoiled the Shak
. ing Scene.
'Did I ever tell you about the time
my uncle, the actor, played with Fred
erick Warde?" said the sailor, according
to the New York Press.
"No," said the druggist.
"Well, uncle was a super with Warde,
and for drinking too much he got fired.
' iou can go.' Warde says, 'at the
end of the week.'
"That made uncle mad, and he decid
ed to have revenge. So on his 'last
night, after he had got his salarv all
right, he went on the stage with an egg
in his hand.
Warde was playin 'Julius Caesar,'
and it was the garden scene, where
Brutus that was Warde walked about
and shook bands with the various con-
pirators.
Uncle was one of the conspirators,
and he held the egg in his right fist. He
watched his chance, and when Warde.
a lordly way. went to shake bands
with him he dropped the egg in Warde's
open palm.
Uncle says he never seen such a
surprised look on "anyone's face as he
seen on Warde's then. His band closed
immediately, and he glanced down at
the thing that had been given him.:
more surprised than ever.
'He couldn't put no fire into the scene
after that. He didn't do any more hand
shakin for fear he might smash the
eg
He kept shiftin it from one hand
o the other, and you could hear him
cursin' under his breath.
"At the end of the scene he rushed
into the wings yellin':
" 'Where's that infernal Musgrave?'
"But Uncle Musgrave. you bet, had
skipped."
Gooseberries and a Cat.
Not long ago officials of the depart
ment of agriculture were much .amused
by a letter sent the department by an
occasional correspondent in Virginia.
Among other things, the writer hast
ened to advise Secretary W'Ison to
this effect:
"My wife had a Tame cat that dyd.
Being a Tortnreshell and a Grate
faverit. we had the same berred in the
Gardin. and for the enrichment of the
soil I had the Carkis deposited under
the roots of a Gooseberry Bush. (The
Frute being up to then of the smooth
varriety.) But the nex seson's Frate,
after the Cat was berred. the Goose
berrys was all Hairy and more Re
markable, the Catapilers of the Same
Bush was All of said Hairy descrip
tion." Collier's Weeklv.
First Over the Wire.
The first actual communication
through an electrical circuit was made
in 1787, when Lamond, a French philos
opher, placed two electrical machines In
different rooms of his house and con
nected them by wire. He agreed with
bis wife t hat the movements of little pith
balls should be understood to mean cer
tain letters, and in this manner carried
uc regular conversation.