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Northern Advance, 14 Dec 1899, p. 12

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an 1Il\JUIA\lJO It therefore seems that the perfect- ed. telectroscope works something aft- er this fashion. Two vibrating mir- rors do the work of. resolving the into points and project them upon a selenium disk. Selenium is a rare element, something like .~u.pi.-L:1', which has the singular property of transforming {waves of light into waves of electricity, so that if rays of light be thrown upon a selenium disk from which wires extend it will be found, on closing the circuit, that 84 current is set up in the wires. Fur- thermore, and most important, these rays of light differing in color and intensity, produce currents Whivh d.- fer in intensity, each particular my having its corresponding current,nnd no two of them alike. ` fl1L- _4!___-.., _.._ ..--L-I __1_2-_ J':...\.`l WEI X17103, B110. LIB! hp nogpx"X$'Yi7 ll DWU UL LLICLLI` E11.-l5Uo The mirrors are metal plates, fixed on sounding boxes and are kept in continued vibration so long as an electric ball at` a certain pitch is sounded somewhere in,the app:u`:1tus. Furthermore, as these metal plates and their sounding boxes are tuned to the pitch of the electric bell. the two inirrors mu-st vibrate at a uni{oru1 nate-8,000 or 4,000 times a second. Andi inithe same way the two mirrors in the receiver mrust vibrate in ll11l50D with `the far-away other pair. THE VIBRATING MIRRORS. How these m~irrors-vibrating, say. 4',000 times a second - break -up Illa image into tiny points of light and transmit them at the rate of 4,(`0Li 10 the second is a marvelous story- :'1fhough mirrors, they are blackened. so that they reflect only one W16 each, as ne as the edge of 2. knife -bliade. In the first blackened plzlie the mirror line runs crosswise; in 111 second it_ runs lengthwise, so that while the first, vibrating, reflects suc- cessive lines on the second, the lat- ter reflects only single poinis of .-these linesupon the selenium cell. ms........a............... n... ........... nr Ianm in- "1-`V59 11-|lU3_u1J'UL1 LL10 aU1.r1.uuu.A v~---- _ Transforming the waves of ligm m- to waves of electricity, the sviexiiullli disk gives them to the wires for tr.u_1:`- mission. At the other end the :;cI`l85 `of electric impulses, acting on W0 steel -plates,` or lips, cause thcux to open and close, so that the band of light betweenthem constantly changK`3 lniintensity. The two mirrors in the receiver, `being arranged like the two in the transmitter, with the same 'period4s'fof>vibr`a.tion,iand the same nar- rowlihg's at reflection, pick out sing ;4poi`r`11;s=; -Vfro1;:r_ each band of light and projaot`. thO`~ points with incalculabnd mpiility upon p. ground glass plate. 0` hihbhithw `gr: hlendqd in a perm` g - - * Sir E. jaw; the new financial mgmr `..b;jj-otVh 6 Indian Council, is an Ilflsh _lV'! l ., his 0. long record `of d1p10' '-;n;m.txc~ eorvloo, and has also served 8| .1 a.L.. n.....I `And-Illa`?-1. _l-v--- ----y --u-ununuv UOI.`I'" A no Perfect In livery Pm-tlcuaar- It operates. ` ASTOUNDING `PROMISE. smeum 14. 2399 `K r-llo`l _;____.- _--T..._.--.--- ..--..'v The case was tried in! Scotland, and so much sympathy was expressed for the lovly girl that a verdict of "Not proven" was given and Madeleine Smith was acquitted. ' Mann Illlii alias: as nu.{-:...- -2..---_. I-LILLLI W GD uuquwuuu. Many years after a curious circum- stance occurred. It was related to me by George du Maurier. the artist,- novelist. and well known to you all as the creator of '.l`rilby. One lonely Sunday, in London, a friend approach-. ed him and asked him if he had any- thing particular to do; if not, would he dune a.t.t`heVhouse of some very hos- pitable acquaintances, or his. -We will call them the Robinvsonal They had iven Du Mauri:er s friend carte blanc e to bring any one! he liked to "meal on `Sunday, in an informal: CIYO `I Wu 0 J . . t the dinner table the conversation turned on celebrated poison cases and trials. "Du Maurier launched out and quoted V the Madeleine Smith case, maintaining with warmth thatishei ought. to have -been? hanged, beautiful or" not , no matter what" provocation therehad been. ' - T L , .W'\hen he had done le h'ara.ngruov4 `there was a deed silence . Gonversa-` tlom fell at. and the party broke up 4 ._ o . .. .WHhA'! DU MAURIER DID.` _ -' tsgrsot on`tiem~- mi Mai:ti2sr'= way. :Al- I _w lavas An, . ` - \ \ `5 '.B'a1V-t.,;'.1js,t. dad! :_te:llow,V Iggow % DRUG LITTLE KNOWN THEN. L.YI."l.|UlI L911; guy uuuuuu. uu .Ill.|l.u1'1_Bl' 3 him. sa;d:-- __ j ' ' ypu k ow. what you have done 9 '_'Dono! hat do you. mean; done ? `fDo_you' knqw who your. hostess is I" . 'A'M.:`-5-u*.B'"*n. I presume; you ivhe1"11.`you .ftoolIne {:6 `-the m>mx1!!*; . , |`_g;gu_o,v_; '~-;;):,e ogn'4:" have ' hp; %1': L'lJV\JDl|UU 'Ill7l.VlD Inl-ID WULlU.n- `So much in England depends `on the temperament and summing up of the `judge. .`We have what are called` `hanging judges and judges who strain every point to avoid the -extreme. penalty of the law. = . V NONE or THEM HANGED. I was in the Central" Criminal Court during the whole of the Pen e murder trial, when two brothers, enry and Patrick Stau-nton, the wife of one of the Stauntons, and Alice Rhodes. the mistress of the other brother--four irn all-were arraigned for the- wilful murder of an old woman` by neglect-' ing to give her. their mother, the com- ' mon necessaries of life. They shut the poor lady up, they treated her vilely and brutally, and she unques- tionably dled of neglect. ' The ques- tion was whether it was wilful murder or ma-nslaughter The prosecution argued one way, the defence argued the other. nu- `f--_.A.1-- 1'1____I-:_.- _--...._. - .1 __ The Mrs. Maybrick case is a poison mystery of such recent occurrence, and -itlhas been so. freely -discussed both in England-and .-America/,. that-it will be unnecessary to go into details of the arsenic extracted from fly':gpa.- pera,~ the habits of the dead man, his illness and all the `pros and cons'ot this most extraordinary cause celebre.` I have-heard as many eminent lawyers capable of sitting evidence strongly oppose the verdict as I have heard many. the family included, maintain its justice up to the hilt. For my own part Ifeel certain that had'Mrs. Maybrick been tried in Scotland and not in England,.the verdict would have been as i-n the case of Madeleine Smith -Not p-roven "-and this verdict. seems a very righteous one in a trial. for murder as opposed tojthe stereo- typed "Guilty. or not guilty. Let us hope, anyhow, that justice i-n . this dis- puted case will be tempered with mercy, and that the unhappy woman, after all these weary years, will be re- stored. to the arms of those loving ones who have never ceased to maintain her ingccenoe before the world. .. ....--L :.. `m_..I___'I .I___-___1_ --_ LL- d0OtO_!' was ueaerveuiy nuuguuo < * *A1l London waejonce very, much ex- cited by the "Brawfo" tn-ystcry._ Mrs. Bravo was a `beautiful woman. In 8090 society. who had married an athletic. handsome and very popular barrister. She originally resided in Malvern, where `her best friend was the local ppthysiniatn-.-" Suddenly `they all re- removed to Balham. 0. London suburb, where young Bravo mysteriously died. It was charged that antimony was} in- troduced again and again into the wi.ne.he drank, con_ti.nuously and` in small quantities. The poor young fellow sickened and died. After a long and anxious inquiry Mrs. Bravo was acquitted. ' CASE OF MRS MAYBRIOKJ _ . V "No.1. 'Ho_w-ion ea.rth? eh 6\1l'l;:'I.l" ` "Madeleine Smith'l!"l `. -A ~ ~-Quick curtain . V - The Lamgoni-cane way '8-not-he!` 03! otpoieonlng hm a doctor. ,`A,little~lad. at school. `a , was in Dr. Lennon : W8 4 End 1t W" `convenient to get rid 0! im. ....-So the. doctor visited him at school and tpoln with him , as u arrogant a delloxous cake, wel=.1".prime ' {Wt}! 8* 'hn,in9d Lameon. watching hun all t e tlme. alt brother, ~1r believe- without turning a hair. saw the little l fellow eat the cake. The lad died.Thb doctor was deservedly hanged. - L I` Tannpitnun u-sync`: AVIIIA IVAFII Ivllinh AX: ' 1 Mr.. Justice Hawkins summed up ; dead against the prisoners, and main- ` tainod that if it war;-.Lmurder at allit wgnsk "wLlful in the wickedest: sense.` _ A._._l ..--_ ..-,A. -..-_. ._..L:] .. VI GU VV IILIJLI III 811'? VVIULUUUBU nuuuo. ;1`hc trial was not over until nearly midnight. lt was a ghastly scene when all were found `guilty and con- dvelmnead to death in that dim, `half lighted court. the feebleagas supple- mented by guttering candles. As the solemn sentence was pronounced the two women gave" piercing shrieks and tell fainting mto the arms of the fe- male warders. The two brothers huddled together and received. their death `condemnation shuddering, hand in hand. a a 4 Then a curious thing happened. Pub- lic feeling was very stron ly opposed to `the verdict. Protest a ter protest was printed in the newspapers. In the and not one soul of them was "hanged. The sentences were commuted to penal servirtude in three cases, and Alice Rhodes, though Isaw her con- demned ,to death, was actualJy\ac- quitted and was afterward engaged as a barmaid in the city. a TI: futile Ivknw `roll on ad-nun 4|-en` Ann L-I1 uuu UIBJV ' In fact they tell a sto y_ that -one day Alice Rhodes foundhherselt in the presence of Mr Justice Hawkins on same race course, when the following conversation took -place:-- ' . HT uni! Jnnn alts van Irnnur us-Inn I I certainly. do not," replied the popular Judge. - Why, I m Alice Rhodes, the girl you condemned t.5`death!" ` , C1--.-I. - J.I.!..__ _... A J..._ ._-_._I___ A_ A I am 3 * ll'l' IIIJUIJJIJDIJ by IJUKIIIIII Such a thing as a free pardon to a condemned criminal has, I- suppose, never occurred before. She, poor girl, passed indeed through the valley of the shadow o death. ' ~- l\..l_ -_.. -8 LL- L---_l._.._ ..__.._.!___]l O XIGLIUVV UK \lU1l|v\I.Iv ] wonly one of the Stauntons survived the sentence. He was recently releas- ed, a prematurely old and broken man. The water famine has reachede. ser- ioue crisis in Letterkenny, there be-' lng only`, a few inches : depth qt water in the lower" levels of the reqervoir. There is a general outcry against the Urban District Council for having given away the public water, to a Large n-umber of builders for mortar during the last three months." ,_-L1__ LL- r1_-,1_ -rr-_.4.|.-_____ -:.A;vFh;ppe.n ' od,.to have~bee`n present at some of the "most celebrated "mur- der trialsin which. various ..poisons were used during the last: titty years, i heard the evidence, saw the.` prisoners and stood up when wretched `men and women have been condemned to death; It struck me that it. might be interest- ing to run over 9. few sensational cases or poison murders in England during the Victoria era. ----_. __.- .__._, -_. Quite recently .tl1e Northern Railway Company. of Ireland has add- ed 9. splendid batch of. carriages to its line. The new. carriages are about 56 feet in length, and built on bogie frames. The tirst-cluss are upholster- ed in moquette, and some otthem have coupe compartments. with plate-glass tronta,- while. the second-class have been upholstered `in rep, and both classes are supplied with.` lavatory `ao- oom:m' od1at`ion.~ ~ ` ' '.l.f-hecerem-any o"th.rorwn`g the dart" is an ancient custom preferred by. the" Mayor of Cork every,` third year. to assert. his authority as admiral of the port. Accompanied by the corpora- tion,he` proceeds from the harbor and casts the u'sna1_d.art into the sea. gt a; dinner which follows the last _'ce_1f`e- nony, the toastflist opens with "Our native land-,'j_p_ut dose not contain the toast of-7'HI,1` M9133!-3 ~ [At the last dinner, before the Me',y_o'r`had an up I .'portu nit-y;o`f.tn:hxnitting.. the tirst emi- `ransned tmot,.`,1l:rB0nt;lemen` fo_seh. and [ whim!` Wu waaemryroelved bx , \FIJVIJL(II15I_lIJ W I\lc I"? "Iwsay. Judgv`:n.d`c; you know wh I .` N 'olI'atelaines.- lalway: . `in. yourjewel.` oasessand nesurryect . them - when you are married and~-the mother of a7 marriageable` daughter. Then she will takoastmuoh pleasure in bringing 'all`yo_ur chateiainep charms out, burn- lshihc them up and displaying. them to , her friends` as .the very" latest` as~you did before her. That is the` way with all new 'lfads,'th"ey are only revivals of old fashions. ' In support ot this asset-' tion; attention is drawn to the new `chains which are to be just the smart- est thing. this season. They are all copies of`the long old-fashioned chains worn by our mothers when they were young girls. It is-a season of chains. Chains, long, chains short,` chains med- ium. but chains you must _have if! - you would be in the swim. The very newest-tad in these "chains is one ot_ medium lengthy which is hung around the neck: and, reaches to thebust or just where thefancy yokes end. "1. These chains` hevevery artistic pendants attached . to theern, the pen- dants giving the finishing touch to the toilet which the lavaliers did this sum- mer. They are called La Florence. and certainly some of the pendants at- tached to these chains are works of` art". ' lcnnms mu MUSIHAVEI Some are Egyptian, in the red. blue _and old goldlcolorings. - while others- are of the new "vert or and gun metal. effects; By the way, this new color- ing for gold chains. greenish blue in hue, just a. little tarnished and brassy looking; is at present moment all the ragein Paris. It is. creating a per- fect furor, and every body who pre- tends to be anybody is wearing jewelry in this "vert or" coloring. . -- ,_I_'_I_ -..:lI Then , again. another fed which will be very popular. and which is intense- ly artistic in its conception, is that o wearing old coins attached to long and short chains. The rarer, the older odder these coins are the smarter they are._ This fashion has recently reciv- od a. great boom in me Zaza chain. This nk-min In vno:-Ln nF.'1-rnlfl nr nilvnr ` .'1`he first celebrated poison case o! the last half `century was that of Pal- mer, a local doctor, or Rugeley, in Stattordehire. who was charged with murdering, by poison his friend. Cook. a racing man,- whose me he had in- sured. and to whom he owed a con- siderable amoumtof money. 2 The ac- ltual murder occurred at the Raven: Hotel, at Shrewsbury, but the trial took place in London, as often hap- pens,` to` avoid local prejudice in the Detection of. a jury. . The case was tried by'Lord Campbell, a` very drastic Scotch Sludge, Jock Cfamlpbell they used to call him. .The.Attcrn.ey Gen- eral prosecuted, and the then `Attor- ney General was Alexander Cockburn,_ afterward Lord Chief Justice of Eng- land; For the defence was Sergeant Shee, an eloquent Irishman,` with an enormous practice. cu U `LUCA: UUUIJL [LI I-LIV uuau vuunuu This chain is made of -"gold or silver,` lnlarge or small links, according. to fancy. It encircles theneck. and pen- dant from it is an old coin or talisman, whichever the wearer may` chance to be the `possessor of. It isa/`good luck chain, therefore a talisman or lucky ' piece is de rigueur. When a woman 'begins to wear a chain like this she `must never leave it.ot`f. It can be, and will be. worn twisted arond the muff, taking the place of the "bunch of vio- lets;" ltvcun be twisted through the belt,` after the fashion of a watch chain; it can be used as a girdle with a tea_ gown. but it must always be in evi-_ dence after once being donned. Wheth- er itls worn at night is a question too. sacred to be asked, unless the informa- tion should come gratis. 'D...l. LI...` mnaf annular nhain. nf all I U011 snoulu Uuuns gxuuu. But the most popular chainrof all with the young girls and widows will- be the memory chain." This is a long`- chain oweave, caught here and there with quaint little slides, some repre-A senting the four-leaf clover, heads, coins. mistletoe. pansies or any fancy| which pleases the wearer. To the endl of this chain, which hangs ;straight' down in front. as far as its length will allow-they are usually a yard and a halt long, which, when doubled, would make them hang about three quarters, of a yard in length-is attached a ring,I and on the ring are hung an unlimit-.| ed numbers! charms and keepsakes, souvenirs and all kinds of fancies. 17---- LL- L..- -4-... Al #53: nI\n:n `ion `in souvenirs uuu. uu. uuua un. uasuusua. - Now, the beauty of this chain lies in the fact that the knioknacks hanging to the ring as they are "few or many denote just how popular the girl is. `A maid with many strings to her bowfor boasting of many friends, will show! just how fond her friends are of her by the number of charms attached to the ring of her memory chain. a Vhann nharr-nu non ha in nnv fnnhinn [I16 .l.'ll.lg Ul. HUI. uxozuuny vuxuu. These charms can be in any fashion according to the taste of the giver, There. must he a pig among them, a four leaf. clover. a chestnut, a sprig of mistletoe. a coin-.-but why go on enumerating. the feds. for they are endless. The girls will have to buy the chains themselves. for two or three men, when spoken to-upon this new gift for their sweethearts. exclaimed: \V|\ni- 'hnv.n nhnin fnrl nnnfhnr fnI_ BILL l.Vl LIJUIL Bvvcvlcl-Ivqusl-G; Uavnusluvuo What. .buy- izlchain fo11_v%7no1ther tel- Iow to hang 0 arms! on? 61 , I just guess not. ' 'I34:n-n-In alr'II Ian]:-I "fl-\n=r nurn n at-A B I.lU|ro Pearls still hold `their own and are shown in long ropes, chains to be wound round and round the neck," in large stones, in small one. ropes ` of many strands. or just simply one twist, but they are very much in evidence and consequently very popular. Pearl collars are quite the tad. of as many strands as the` length on the wearer's neck` can stand. with-narrow slides 01! tiny rhinestonesysometimes four and sometimes five. These collars must fit this neclciclosely. and as they are the most becoming neck ornament, softening lines of age, bringing out the fresh tints of youth.` are conse- quently in favor with all woman, `young. oldand middle. aged. L IA: C-`HA worn Innn cnrvtsnlrin :5`. `Des :- Jvllllsp UL: ullll Ill-l\lI.LlV* 559. (As the very latest wrinkle in Paris ie`th'e gray-ostrich feather boa, it may be confidently expected. that thefe will be an` influx of-`these dainty neck dressings among the. smart women this tall and winter. In anticipation of this tad. and having; learned by ex- perience in the past how veryadifficult it is to keep! boas of; any` kind. feather, fur or. otherwise, in -place without in- jury. to the perishable ' material of- which they `are made-. the .Pa1"isians have hit` upon a novel and pretty` con. iceit for effectually preventing bo aaot; Inn Irin n`Hnn3n'ov.-flnnfil fail-ann-an vwnl. I.vL wLI.uuuua:l.L lrLUv,UIhlu5 HUGH U]. an . kind. s1i_pping';.their tastenings. 1 . he newest device is-9. silver or gold snake. twisted so.that it forms-`an S., in and out of the twiete of. which the ebbaiis wound. = "rho head ieraised as. it read to "strike. and the eyes; of emeral` e" or" =r)1,bie_s._. give a. nob- by=t`one,h' to the -`pretty "ornament ag 't'hjey`g1itter;fn_the f1ufy_-` 'ma._s_es t furs` or f`Q[t'h'?OVIv.'B;; f';\ . ` .)s. ,_ FoIr1_;al "\?\ ::<>ti1t1fn". 'Si1'ffrz'a?g:i_`st--I tell A_1ynoI'1,f`:_:;1`y= sisters, I` wear no man`: 901 `A Ti.` ,, V _ . _ _ I . - -nu-2 _--_1s:;':- -I-r-_n:-< .a_'_.'__ 1.1.5. 11;." . C Vf<,>1. r.ro.=;n At1i97RarV .-- %~1Va:=s**=For2.~trh`<~u.*}' ~ ~ V "body, and Palmer was provedto have gemonstration that he had got rid of Palmer, the Rugeley doctor, was i charged with poisoning his friend Cook. with strychnine, a deadly` `drug or which very little was known at the time, and consequently gave rise\ toe noertworthy. discord in the medical.` evidence. There never was such blacln and white swearing as on this occasion over the strychnii-ne and its effects. At any rate, at the autopsy strychnine was discovered-in the murdered man's bribed the postboy who conveyed the contents of the stomach for analysis to London to` fail of his -horse and P smash the contents ofthejar. Pal- mer, the doctor, throughout the trial preserved the utmost sang froid and fully expected he would be acquitted. The only thing that puzzled him was the obsequiousness of Lord Campbell, the Judge, who was not wont to be elvil to anybody. Toward the close of the trial Palmer from the dock sent down a pencilled note to his counsel with these words written on the -paper: , -``The old devi-l on the bench is too beastly civil. He means to hang- me 1" i Palmer, the poisoner, was right. Hanged he was. Indeed, if he had. not been condemned on this charge he would -have been hanged a dozen times on others, for it was proved almost to elf his family. whose _lives he had ' reviously insured. . Strychnine was ound in each`case, and death occur- red after "tetanuAs, . or twisting, upot the limbs, a direct evidence o the ef- fect of an overdose of strxchnine. 5AHf\fhA'l"I'A1'nnI`I?nI|n (noun Inna Jrhunt ml _1NcoNsIs'.r_mzcY, 'rfo%R'1'unn;~I" Abvmaron sorta cunuous |=Ac1`s coN6BRN-`L ma THE ylsmua cako. >: I I .most=; other-.. every-day" `articles, ,0! , 11}. .is"e;b.arelj `a century old. and, ornament, `-is the resultiot -a. . gradual process o~e.volution_;v and the . form which the card` now "universally takes"is by "no means so attractive as those which` it took in so1ne,of_ U18 earlier stages of its history. of late years, i-ndeed, there have been whis- pers of a new departure in cards. A revolt from the prevailing monotony ,, in paste-boards has more than once been threatened; and the great `army of those who suffer from collector- mania have been tantalized wtih the prospect of new worlds. to conquer, -in: the shape of visiting-cards ornamented with elaborately engraved devices.; The idea of those who mooted thei change was "to give to the visiting-I card a touch of individuality, so that; each card, like a book-plate, should be; a witness to its owner s individual} tastes and inclinations, and not a mere 2 machine-niade production " of a uni-3 versal pattern. But nothinghcamve of: the proposal, and the present day vis-g icing card still wears its uniform oil: plain black and white. . Hudthe pro-';; posed_ change been carried out, how-3 ever, it would simply have been a re-! vival of a fashion that prevailed little more than a hundred` years ago. `,In:i>:mtI,,nn r-13:: I usrniln a ll nfrnlvuvmilf I-II\D&W In-IJGI-I (I HIIIKHCWII 'C$I (DB9-'0 Visiting-cards were a development from the old style of message. and in- vitationt cards. Throughout . the greater `part of the last century it, was customary to writemessages and; invitations on the backs` of used -play-I ing -cards. lobe particular card used was often chosen at` ranuom;'but oc- casionally it'was picked'out with an` eye to the delicate s/uggestiveness of some one suit.- This sometimes gave` the recipient an opportunity for "air- ing his or herwit. A Rev. Mr. Lewis, who was ministerof Margate from 1705 to 1746, once received an invitation to"di.nner, from the Duchess of Dorset, written on the back of a ten of hearts. The revereued -gentleman promptly re- plied by the following epignm: Your; compliments, lady. I pray you A1-hnnr L `JILL \a\I.I.LltlIlLLlUIIlvD' Laug, L *1]: G JVII forbear, _ .~ Our old English service is much more Ilgflllf i , Eincere. . } You sen: me_t`en hearts-the tithe only I mrna 0 So gi:ewn ae' one heart, and burn t other nine. One of the many stories that are to account for the name of "Curse of Scotland, which is given to the nine! of diamonds, attributes its origin to the alleged action of the Duke of Cum- berland in writting his cruel order, re- {using all quarter to A the defeated Highlanders after Culloden, on the back of this particular card, before the battle of Coiloden was fought can hardly be true-. An n"vI.|`In;r\1` t\xro\vv\rI.`1\ A` 3-5:.` nu.-us A` Lanna. \ALJ LIV BL II-`IO i An amusing example of the use of cards for messages can be seen in the fourth plate of I.-logarth s Marriage a la Mode. Vb-ich dates from 1745. In a corner of the picture are several playing cards lying on the floor, with` inscriptions which show a considerable devotion to phonetic principles of spelling on the part of the fashionable worl-d of that day. One bears the fol-_' lowing: Count Basset begs to no how - Lade Squander sleapt last nite. iAnother has: "Lady Squander s com- pany is d'esir d at Miss Hairbraine s Rout. f9-..--A_!..___ LL- L,__I_ -1 _I-,,2___. __._J` 1 M:>inetimes the hack of playing-cards ;which were used for invitations and }similar purposes were elaborately, en- *g~raved. Dr. Doran, in one of his 1 pleasant books of gossip, declares that it was in Paris, about the year 1770, that the custpm was i-ntrodiuced of visiting en blanc, as it was called, that is by leaving a card. Old-fashioned I `folks, he says", who loved to visit in ! I I state and display their costumes, call- ed this fashion fantastic, and strong- ly opposed it, But of course, opposi- tion of this kind was bound to fail. The ceremonial leaving of a card, an equivalent to a visit, may have begun in 1770, but the writing of the name on a card and leaving it when the person called upon was not at home was cer- tainly practised somewhat earlier. `KIT:-:0-In:-r 4-Ha nnnnn An I-ho hon]: n n sum FAMWS Muanm] ' Laluzy yxavbbcvu Bvuuovv nu. VIII-LIIFLO `Writing the name on the back of a ` card was soon found to be too simple a matter, and it became the practice to write the name either on the backs of playing cards, or on the face of cards adorned with engraved devices. Clas- sical ruins and the like designswere highly fashionable. Cards so engrav- ed appear to have been sold in packs, with assorted views; for two or--more `cards have been found bearing the - same name written across them, but with quite different pictures as back- grounds. The practice of writing the name seems to have -been superseded by engraving both name and back- ground. - ' .----_.L_..-.__ The French coffee is reputed the best` in the world. It is never overdone, so as to destroy the coffee flavor, which is in nine cases out of ten the fault of the coffee we meet." with. Then it is ground and placed in a coffee pot with a filter through which, when it has yielded up its lifeto the boiling water poured upon it, the delicious ex- tract percolates in clear drops, the coffee pot standing on a heatedvstove to maintain the temperature. The ex- tract thus obtained is a perfectly clear dark fluid, known as cafe noir, or black coffee. A tablespoonful or two ofthis in boiled milk would make what is ordinarily called` a strong cup of coffee. The boiled milk is-prepared with no lessvoare. It must ebeifresh and new, not -merely warmed; or even ibrogught to the boili.ng.point, but slow. ly. simmered till it attains a `thick, creamy richness. !l`he- coffee `mixed with this is the celebrated" `cafeanslait, the flame of _which has gone round a the I do think that boy bf m.i.ne,_ said one member of a company ` of ' friends, breaking in upon a. lull in the_.conv..er- satxon, 134 the - most. _rQmarkehle- little - ~e fellow I ever saw. . 1-1. ___-.. 1.`..- 1-1`- -1.- ._`__:_a 1.1, , . &VlI.\rVV -In UVUL LPEBVVC It was too late to avoid the ordeal .byM ahasty 1'etreat,. and the others braced the_mselves" to endure it. . Yes! _sa.1d `one of them..li$tless1y. ' ' He is_ `six years old , pursnpd th fath-. `er, Van d I ;_can _t gemember tkhatg he ave`: quit _a. his 2311: 1.11-'8g!1-h.i5,1.i_.f0- % n`u:~;.;." m `......:4-5 '* ` u-`I..'..' ...__ WI BI-I5rLl'5 I-IJ..LIlB`-LI\L?q` , ` Other parep-ts,. hqwever,` who may. read __th.igs, W111 be hkely -to conclude that` It must havabeen the fatlier,, not V the `boy... who ways um-iqu.`= {_ _. FRENCE COFFEE MAKING. LAN U UNUSUAL `BOY. xogagcg `tu_IIo~ I`o|-se, `lie `is rmmn-3 run ` my : Best Friend`..- ' Next` tothe horse, the male is cer- t'ainly_the most useful of all` animals employed in war. A. mule lives longer than a horse,` and his tougher consti tution renders him much less liable to disease; -5 V . . _ _____`_ snvnux. onLnriTrr1znL$1>o1sorxizai cgsns IN ENGLAND. *A Vmulefishot generally put to work until no isi'ire years old, but as he um sometimes for thirty-five years or even longr, his sphere of useful- -mess is an extended one. The average load of the ordinary warmule may be estimated. at about 160 lbs., though ibherweight orfthe pack-saddle is not 'included.. Very fine mules, it well ;fed,` will. however. carry as much as 3300 lbs. I '"-"I?11-e`-_1nule is by no means a gourmet. }Unlike the horse. he will eat almost iiany desdnption of fodde; howmfer Eeoarse and apparently unht for eguxne gconsumption. In one way only 13 the `gmule fastidious. He invariably pages :a point of objecting to his dnnkmg water unless 11: is .fresh and pure as 3 possible. Lord Wolseley, who has em- ! puloyed them as pack animals in all .3 parts of the worxd, says that theyiare "very particular and whimsical in this respect.` "E 3:: '4`.-I An-`mun :cn -up-\l\I'-I`-rn:'\I\I`I nnI~rn_ bun) 1UDtl'DUIno_ - It isgor course, in mountainous coun- tries and all hilly districts that the mule proves his value most. In coun- tries of this kind he is more useful {even than the elephant, which re- iqulres good food to keepvhim in work- ing order. Indeed, a mule will live, he fat,'and do useful work under cir- qcumstances that would kill the ele- { phanzt in a week. `xrlvanm It-sntlnr` I-":11 117111` 7:11:11; I t"I$I-DI; Ill 3 VV CG .VVhen_load_ed heavily the war mule can easily travel at a rate of three, to three and a quarter miles an- hour, Moreover, in a rocky, uneven country, like the Transvaal his wonderful sure- _footedness is proverbial. Soldiers say of him -that he "can hang on to a precipice with his eyelids and ears. mkn 'YII'I.' `a nun nv-nnllnnf cII1:rn1nnv| PJUVAEIUC VVLLJ-I LIED CJUJLLID CILILI UIILVDO The mule is an excellent swimmer,. and never funks water. He is able to cross a wide river in perfect safety. Although in tropical coimtriee the war mules `suffer much from leeches and `other insect pests, which do their best `to make Life a burden for man and ..beast alike, yet his skin `is much. tougher than that of his cousin the hdrse. ' . m-LL AA_.!-, AL- ,,_x,!-_, _, I.I\II. 39! In South Africa the rations a mule earns by- his labors are 10 lbs. of 1 grain. mealies, or 20 lbs. of oat hay, or half of each together. This is sup- plemented by a little allowance o half an ounce of rock salt. This is very `good living, and it is not always obtainable. Nevertheless, when for- age runs short the war mule, philo- sophically puts up with what he can get, and does his work without grumb- >WH.ERE THERE IS NO CHRISTMAS. l The.C.hrisLmas hater may be made j happy. He can have his wish and go somewhere where there. isn't any !C1ristmas. He will not have; to die ito do it either, fbusb he will have to be A 'g'c)Vo to fully enjoy his paradise, which is not on earth. It is on water. ' i Vl;e Wwillstart him. on his search \ from Vancouver. British Columbia, on December 18, in the direction of. the Orient. As the - days pass and he comes nearer and nearer the twenty- fifth of the month, he may begin to feel uneasy_ and think himself the vic- tim of_ a joke. Even as late as bed- time on December 24, he may feel re- sentful over what he fears is a wild goose sail. He -may fall asleep think- ingof the disagreeable things he will do next day, just because it will be Christmas. But he: will be disap- pointed. He is reckoning with his Christmas day, instead of without it, as he should have still faith to do; for, when he wakes in the morning, he will tint it the 261211 of December. The twenty-fifty isnot, and has not been, It seems-to have passed.` in. the night: It is gone. com:pleteIy--but w-here? An experienced navigator explains the lapse thus: on. . ....o ..|...... 4.1.... .....:.:.:n..' ..e Li... AI. lulu: mm: noqmboa .us. any Which Wu Tried When In Wu I I071 tn which _n Physician IEDIOIGC`. ltryellnlne. Little `Known II 'l`lmt. i!'IIue-'l`hInlu` Iootlnnd `Would lave Acqnmed Mn. Ilnyil-IoI:.i - ` W No! No! They do but Jest; poieon:_i eet; no offence in the world i quoth Hamlet. Prince` of Denmark. Alas!" they have often poisoned in grim earns est since the time that Hamlet's fath- .or was sent to eternal sleep in the"- garden. writes Clement `Scott. -_ _...-..-..A. In just about the middle of the Pacific, Ocean is t-he 180th degree of longitude, and when that imaginary line is reached the westward traveller drops one day out of his calendar for the year. . That line crosses the anti- _podes, or poi.nt on the earth s surface which is precisely opposite to Green- wich, England, the place at _which, by consent of all nations, the counting of time begins. At noonday, when the sun is directly` overhead at Green- wich, at other points to the westward the time will be earlier by one hour for each fifteen degrees of longitude, so that when 190 degrees is reached it will be midnight. ' I I"'I`uoan|Ivn Lanna knuvn I-`nun- `g__- ...2_ ' V7511 IJU l.LLl'\l.J.J|BI.|vI "Twelve hours have thus been gain- ed, and the other twelve would` be added if the journey around the globe were covmcpletedw So, by universal agreement, the 25th of December would he dropped by all navigators reaching thetfatal line on the previous -day, and travelers would be oheated out of their Christmas at the only place on the ea.rth e surace where such a thing `could happen. The ways of _auctioneers in differ- ent parts of the world vary greatly. In England an1_America.`he seller bearer expense. of--.=the.saV1e,' but in vv'Fi-ance the purchaser bears the cost, 5 .1791. nt- Q/il1`18. Ed-(1f6d'to his pui- hzase.` In H9IIand"_it""is still ' worse, fhn'11nvar-bBii)1i5'ntIn`ii-EA +.'. v`...`. 1n ...x.. uuuuc. -ll-I u.vx_wl.`1u {L }S SL141 Worse, the buyer: bei;_1$"i-eqnirejd to pay 10 pr cent. addltlona `tor the oxnsanse. of the amid `- ` ' " Magnicticence, may signify one thing to one person and quite another thing to another person. It is related that a `gentleman went to a dentist and asked him to take elook at his teeth. Thmdentist. did so, and seemed full of admiration-. . ` xtrL_L .1- _...-- 1..L.!__I_ -3 LL- ,, an n Lu"I,`h` anything: to do tothem? . __ } To do to them.l:Why, were are four ftobe pulled... six to be filled, and three to" be orowned;l - ` , . 3|-Ilululll `nI`JI-I What do'yu think of them? asked the patient. "nan-:nnn" nnn:u'un:::;nuuJ;I --.__ _I'| w1`:[;:rL1-liT?`1`:;ba'nt! magnificent! was all the dentist could say. Tkdn IIIUII nv-HA -.*~-I-(9.! .-.-`cpl-l.:...... 1.- .1- fm.UI*.Es IN WARFARE. THE POIN17 OF VIEW. pvvu I-IL nu uvcsuuwv UL au'y.uuu1nu-e *Another`remarkable case_.was that of Madeleine Smith, a lovely Scotch girl; who poisoned the cupot chocolate she offered to her lover, who turned out 9. blackmailer and a dastard. He was a young Italian. 1 Weary of an in- trigue which had become distasteful to her, and anxious to be honorably married, Madeleine Smith severed her nonnection with her lover. L But he was brute enough tothreaten' that if she dared marry he would show all her runaudnnnl-Va oven` on t\vl|r\na\unn:o-.:--._ I_4LLV____ ABO.UT AUCTIONEERS. 1T:1s%T1wLL wnun %'rnu:c'rnoscoPf A MIRACLE on A ` mommn scuzncn. mu Not 39 shown main Paris Exlllbltloi Opens-Tile Distance Seer" sum 1 Ba ,I'.e|-1'1-rt In Ilvnrv ll.-n--.a._.. .._ ( hi Undoubtedly the most sensational 01 Val; the side shows at the Paris Exhibit J_tio_n will be the "distance seer" of an zyoung Pole, Jan Szczepanik, writes a correspondent. . I do not know of an, .previous example of n perfected in, vention of absorbing interest to thq general public being held back mo" the-n`:_1 yearn simply that it may .1" shown with eclat at a great exposition, _The truth is that Szczepnnik, seduced by Iln offer of 6,000,000 francs for thg LParis Exposition, entered into an iron- clad contract not to show the dis- tance peer anywhere before that lsafn, ` There is little doubt that Szczg. panik s invention has solved to per. fection the `long-dreamed-of {problem of. sight at 9. distance over wires, just as` the telephone transmits sound. Photographss are shown that have been taken in a darkened room from a camera. 40 miles away. "7 ,_r__.. The principle of the telectrosropa depends upon the fact that any image produced upon the retina of the eye is only the blending of an infinite number of points projected sep'rate-- ly from the object, seen by separate rays of light. It is not necessary_ that all these points reach the eye at ex- actly the same moment; the vision will still be perfect, though some come a.` fraction of a second later than oth- ers, or though they all come at suc- cessive intervals, provided they be short enough. -The persistence of vision" of the eye will bring them to- gether in a complete picture, just as it makes a circle of fire out of a glow- match and when it is moved swiftly` round and round. At that-5 Exhibition, where the telec. troscope, as _it is ezrl-led, will be ex. hlbited in a building capable of seat. ing 8,000 people, the views, in full co]. or, as in xnovement. will be thrown on a screen, as in the case of an or- dinary magin lantern. There Lhey will show, they say, the moving life of Piccadilly Circus right in London; the arrival of 9. transatlantic steamer `at Bmst or Havre, the fisish of a Longohamps horse race, and, as our- l.Ol1_'S as anything, :1 bird's-eye view of Paris, .ta.ken from a balloon actually in the-air. The best seats at this show will be 20 francs, $4, each. THE VITAL PRINCIPAL. Szczepanik has found a way of sep- arating any image that may be form- ed by an ordinary photographic lens intoits component luminous polnis, of transmitting these points separzltely, but with enormous rapiuity, over w.res and of letting the eye reconstitute them at the other end into the origin- al picture. `Io'- 4-'.-.4...-.fn-`A .Vn\I\rv\z~ 4L..4- 6-Ln H...-Fund-_ put? uusuu u.I.cu.L; no wuluu BJJUW an RBI salonate and c ompromising letters E: her intended husband. The girl was accused of settling the difficulty with a little poison, in the young gen- tleman's chocolate that did for` him. 1 SYMIPATHY ACQUITTED HER._

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