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Show All Had Ac. "The moat exciting game of poker I T(r played, said a reformed gambler to a reporter, was in a saloon In Cincinnati. Accompanied bjr two friends I entered tbe idace and we Beated ourselves at a table upon which lay a deck of cards. a game of poker was proposed and the man to my left dealt the cards. 1 glanced over my hand and found four aces, which, as straights were barred, wis invincible. I raised Ihe amp, the dealer followed suit, and, after several ra:s s, the ante alone was a pot. I saw that the other two had good hands and stood pat for fear they would think i had fours if I drew a card. The others did the same and I played one for a full, the other for a flush. We all had a good deal of money with us and betting ran high and exciting. Finally one said: Ive got you all beaten, but Ill have to raise it only $10 for a show down. The money went up and I shouted: Tour aces!' The man to the right pinned the money to the table with his knife. 'Four aces here.' 'And here,' shouted the other as he drew a revolgood-size- d ver. Shentlemaus, dondt shoot, called the proprietor. 'Go on the sidewalk if you vas going to fighdt. Yot de droublcs vas?' ' Somebody's been a cheatin, I cried, and it is not me. Three hands have four aces.' "Yah: das vas vun peanuckie deck, and i he saloonkeeper laughed while we divided the pot. Washington Star. A Urucsaiut Jlolicuiiiin Cliurcli. TO SLEEP WELL. AMMONIA. A Krllrlnc li little ammonia in tepid water iriS a Light Supper Just llclun Ilrurflt-ial- . often and cleanse the skin. Door plates should be cleaned by rubbing with a cloth, dipped in ammonia and water. To brighten carpets wipe them after sweeping with warm water, into which has keen pouri d a few drops of ammonia. To wash you brushes and combs put one tabiespoonful of ammonia in one quart of water, rinse, shake and dry in the sun. A tabiespoonful of ammonia in a gallon of warm water will often restore colors In carpets and will also remove whitewash from carpets. Yellow oil stains left by the sewing machine may be removed by rubbing the Bpot with a cloth wet with ammonia before washing with soap. By rubbing nickel and silver ornaments with a woolen cloth, saturated with spirits of ammonia, they may be kept very bright with but little trouble. If those who perspire freely would use a little ammonia in their bath daily, it would keep their flesh clean and sweet, doing away with all disagreeable odor. Spirits of ammonia will often remove severe headache, hut should be carefully used, as the constant use of salts, ammonia ami other strong scents injures and inflames the nose. Equal parts of ammonia and turpentine will take the paint out of clothing, even if it has become hard and dry. Wet the spot as often ns necessary, and wash out in soap suds. One teaspoouful of ammonia in a cupful of water will clean gold or silver jewelry. A few drops on the under side of a diamond will clean It Immediately, making it very brilliant. Old brass may be made to look like new by pouring strong ammonia over it, then scrubbing with a brush; rinse in clean water and be careful not to touch your hands with the ammonia. To clean windows put one or two tablespoonfuls of ammonia Into a bucket of water. After washing thoroughly polish with an old newspaper, and your windows will ba beautifully bright. Flannel and blankets should be soaked in a pall of water, containing one tabiespoonful of ammonia and a little clean suds; rub as little as possible, and they will be white and clean, and will not shrink. Grease spots may be taken out with weak ammonia in water, and if very oarefully applied will remove spots from paintings and chromoa. Lay soft white paper over and iron with a moderately hot iron. In the centre of the arched roof of All Saints church, Sedlcc, in Bohemia, hangs a chandelier constructed entirely of human bones. The church In which this remarkable object is suspended is decorated from the floor to Lie ceiling with the blanched bones of human bodies. Garlands of bones stretch across the walls and hang from the ceiling. Pyramids, topped with golden crowns, are artistically reared from the ground with these whitened remains of the dead. The altars are literally covered with Bkulls, among which are hundreds of those which had been pierced by gullets or crushed by murderous blows from swords and other weapons, denoting that these grim relics of humanity have been gathered from adjacent battlefields. Tradition says that these piles of human bones were gathered by a blind friar of the Cistercian Order, who stored them In a corner of the church. As they were fast changing into their original elements, a man named Rlnt devoted himself to the task of cleaning and arranging them In the church. Prince Carl of Schwanenberg took a strong personal Interest In the restoration and arrangement of the church, and ordered all the repairs to be done NOTES OF UB. at his own expense. A large number of tourists visit this extraordinary The pointed waist la church every year. in again, and even the stiff and ungraceful stomacher is seen on some of An Exemplar of Finance. The youthful heir of the noble hones the newest evening gowns. It is to be a fur season than which came slowly down from his high nothing is prettier or more becoming. and stood In the paternal presence. Fader," he asked, holding out a bril- Narrow bands will be used not only for street costumes, but for evening liantly pictured sheet, "who vas gowns and tea gowns as well. Chennlngs Pryan? The old man gazed fondly at his Black satin and velvet ribbons in son. various widths are used lavishly for Ah! he vas a great man. I dells you dress trimmings, and are particularly a secrets. Ikey. He vill malg de Unitpretty to finish the bolero jacket or ed States vail for leefty cent on de vest, either sewed on plain or plaited toller!" in a frill. With a nod of intelligent satisfaction Tbe fur vest will be much worn this the boy mounted his counting stooL whether in Persian lamb, chinwinter, Puck. chilla, Bable or economical astrakhan. A sensible fashion, which gives just Kuhnian Malachite. the needed warmth to the useful coat One of the most beautiful of minerals and skirt gown. as well as rich ores of copper Is the The newest skirt models are trimmed green carbonate, malachite. As a fine at the bottom, paneled at the sides, marble for carving the Russian malawith the effect of an overskirt draped comIs chite Is highly prized. It very and made with tablier fronts two pact and prettily banded in different kinds of material being invariably hades of green. The malachite from used to make a of tones. harmony as beautiful speciArizona is equally If to want In be the very top you mens, although not often occurring olid enough for use as a marble. The notch of fashion have a touch of red on winter gown or in your winspecimens of the velvet malachite, con- ter your Parle has declared in favor of hat of of surfaces crystals capillary sisting that color, and It promare in tufts and radiations, especially handsome. Azureite, sometimes called ises to be the mode par excellence. Little bolero jackets of fur are a deblue malachite, is but slightly different in chemical composition. The color is cidedly new fancy of the moment, and deep azure blue to blue black. At the even girdles and belts of fur are seen Arizona localities the two minerals gen- on some of the smartest walking gowns a fashion, however, rather unbecomerally occur associated. ing to any but the slightest figures. German Law. The prettiest novelties are seen In A German court has decided that neckwear, and these dainty confecelectricity cannot 'do stolon. A man tions of chiffon, lace velvet and fur was arrested on th charge --f having give a touch of elegance to the simstolen several thousand amphorcs of plest costume, while they have the current by tapping a light company's further recommendation of being exmains and using it to run a motor. tremely becoming to the average The court, on appeal, ruled that only woman. a movable map-riaobject could be a:o.e?i. which electricity was not, and THE CHURCH MILITANT. therefor the in.;:; was acquitted. K'ccttle Review. The lit. Rev. Mendel Creighton, bish-- P of I Vtrrsboro, has been appointed of London in place of the RL The ni.ni ot Jai'n will net tm cast o : e arc same people Lev. K. Temple, who waj last down Iccaii'" a ha seem to hr nuking la Uevii s servwed; appointed archbishop of ed pif VII-lia- m long-neglect- ed l .dt-iio- 1 1 . Can-.cibnr- ice pay. y. ihai-.- Usually A light supper Just before retiring is usually of advantage. Rabies aal brute animals are usually otunolcul when their stomachs are well supplied with food, the activity of tin- - stomach withdrawing the excess of bloud from the brain, where it is not needed during 6leep, says the Medical Record. On the other hand, peuple who arc very hungry usually find it difficult to feep. And then, a habit of sleep at a regular time and during proper hours should be cultivated in case this habit has been lost. In accomplishing this the attainment of a favorable slate of mind is of great importance. Sleep cannot be enforced by a direct exercise of the will. The very effort of the will to command sleep Is enough to render its attainment nugatory. The mental state to be encouraged is one of quiescence, one of indifference, a feeling that the recumbent posture is a proper one for rest, and that if the thoughts are disposed to continue active they may be safely allowed to take their course without any effort toward control This state of mind and thought is next akin to dreams, and dreaming is next akin to sound sleep. Many mental methods have been advised and put in practice for the purpose of securing sleep, the design being to turn the thoughts from objects of Interest to a condition of monotony; as by mentally repeating phrases' or sentences or by counting. But the slate of indifference, if this can be obtained, la likely to be the most efficient, as being the least active. The mere mention of these simple methods will be sufuiAaat to suggest others equally effective s Luis putpu.v. is still r.igh: on. in sp;:r of the ami wmrUiinesa in the j Epi.-top- r-- : ROUGHING IT OUT WEST. Kite flying Is one of the chief sports of the adult Malays. Tattersalls, tin- fuinnui horse resort, was founded in ITCti. Last year 17,5no.iii;u pounds of hops were Imported from the l niicd States by British brewers. - A Richmond (Me.) woman has work- ed twenty-liv- e years in a Ja'Wismn mill, llie most of the time ai the one loom. A mem her of tin Laconia (N. II.) Board of Education is slid to lie liable to arrest for not sending his own children to school. A writer in the Lancet says that leprosy is more prevalent in Iceland than is conunouly supposed, there being about two hundred eases at present. A Fosail (Ore.) woman shot a coyote which her husband missed and carried tbe scalp to the newspaper office and applied it on her husband's subscription. Among the books recently translated Into Japanese are Darwin's Origin of Species," Weslermark's Hislury of Marriage and Critique of Pure Reason. Of the thirty-eigSultans who have ruled the Ottoman Empire since the conquest of Constantinople by the have died violent Turks, thirty-fou- r deaths. The Club is the name of an organization of women in Southington, Conn., which proposes to abhor all of the opposite sox and any asidst-anc- e they might render. Of the 5G,(i9.' mn employed on British sailing vessels. 92S or one in sixty lost tlieir lives by drowning, whereas of the 162,129 men employed on steamships, only 674 or one in 241 were drowned. The Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians In Wyoming have raised enough oats STRATEGY OF THE TURTLE. and potatoes the past season to supply The llxuuer In Which It Capture XUU their own wains and to 1111 the confish for Food. tract for these commodities at Fort The snapping turtle eats a variety of Washakie. things; when it gets a chance it catches and eats live fish, u'.sually killlflsh. CARE OF HATS. While the turtle ktlc pretty fair swlm-- . mer in its way, it begin to com Lace can be cleaned by using alcopete with the fish Oiptures the fish hol with a piece of clean flannel, then by strategy. Wh' e$ tide comes in d botaround a wrapped ibfi killifish come up peeks In swarms tle till dry. Wie klllifiBh for food is looking If the summer hat is to be almost anything. scavenger; It will Any scrap of food in ating on the water for another season altogether the best is fastened upon, perhaps by one killl plan to pursue before putting it away or by ten, or there' may ha a hundred Is to remove all the trimming from it. klllles struggling and pushing to get Chiffon must ba replalted and at it, and tearing Aff shreds and frag- pressed. Fur and such feather trimThis is ming as dressed birds and wings must ments whenever tjjy reach the turtle's opponZnlty. The turtle, be protected against moths and ralcg standing in the shallow water, edges as well, towards the nearest Mill, moving slowThe hat itself should be brushed ot ly and cautiously with its neck extendfrom dust and rubbed with ed. As it moves nearer It gradually wiped free a cloth in alcohol Be caredampened contracts its ne k, drawing its head never to ful use the alcohol near a back toward its ihelL Its body is all the time getting iloser to the Mill, but fire. Some of the trimming thus freshened its head Is not The Mill If it has an and put in order may prove to be Just eye on the turtle at all la thus lolled into a false security. It seems never to what is wanted for the fall or winter realize the telescopic character of the hat, and if not it will be in readiness for the milliner in the spring, and In turtle's neck, The turtle calculates distances with a much more satisfactory condition state through great nicety. Still inching steadily for- than if left in its cast-oward, It keeps all the time drawing in all the winter months. its head until perhaps only its eyes are All aigrettes, quills or feathers should visible, peering out from under the be wiped free from dust and wrapped edge of Its shell. Then, when It Is withby themselves. It Is best to leave ribin striking distance, suddenly but bon hows tied, unless the ribbon is shoots Its head, and oftener than not it mussed. If fresh, it can he used to the gets the killl. best advantage as already looped; hut If the bows are mussed, untie, brush, II ow Far Will Its Worn. press and roll up the ribbon. If left This season one has a fine opportun- in bows, stuff each loop with tissue paity of using advantageously all the furs per and loosely wrap the whole in the new and old, in one's wardrobe, for the same. fashion of combining two kinds of fur Before lials are to be put away for the on one garment, added to the fact that winter provide yourself with a supply many furs formerly out of style are of white lissiip paper. If you are sure again In high favor, makes it an easy you want to wear the hat anoiher seamatter for the maid who has kept these son just as it is, and it ran be thorvaluable accessories of winter tolleta oughly brushed and dusted without rein some place where moths did not cormoving the trimming, provide a hat rupt. These may be gathered together, box of sufficient size to hold it without sent to a fashionable furrier and re- the least crowding. Brush the hat turned completely metamorphosed In- well, and rub with a cloih dampened to wraps both beautiful and useful. in dust the ribbons with a bit alcohol; Persian lamb, chinchilla, sable, seal- of old velvet if of taffeta, with a soft skin and moufflon, which is light gray white cloth. in color, are the most fashionable furs, but all the cheaper vatetles seem Coal Mina Worked by Ona Man. to have their uses. Chinchilla is comThe smallest coal mine In the world bined with seal this season, and short in the southern province of New is are over used of sable capes longer ones of seal. The fur boleros will ba a Zealand, where, according to the reuseful fashion for those who have a ports of the inspectors of mines for the small amount of fur to be transformed colony, the Murray Creek colliery is into a fashionable garment. These are worked by one man, T. Bolitbo, a very becoming to slight figures and Chinaman, who owns, manages and very stylish with wide revers. The works this small, but to him valuable, There is another Rinall new fur coats are rather short, not so coal mine. full In the basque an they were last colliery In the same province worked by one man with (he nssistanre of a season, and have loose fronts. donkey. Tin next smallest colliery is in England, in the village of Nelson, A IlUrnrcry of rrrjirtuml Motion. in Lancashire. It is situated near the At Freeport. HI- - n new Industry Is Colliers' Arms and affords employment to lie s'nr'ed. On a quarter section of for two iqiw-rs- , father and run, who laud an enterprising Kansas farmer combine in tin in: iws the pnsi'ioi.s of will establish a Ihiiiisanil Mark cats propri lor.--. tu, .nagers, mulcts rtnd hivl 5,(nfl rats, on which to feed ihe l.i'il-(if t!,e uiidcTl.li-.i'ir;Tic;. have rain, estii lining that the ca'a will t.T ,i dn'ikoy, j: n ,( the tlj t in s'u years, tlieir ikini i. ci! of to tbi ho i v. a cloi'i.ir each. Ti e rata output who vi- in ibo vLi.'igo or its nill i:nii,!,Iy live times ns f.i.q a the Immediate v : it; 'si i and will lie '!', I to foi-- tin l v. while the fckinoel mm will f. ndsh i in i iiui'k. lbus has pcrjiiiual fi'tnl to llii! nil-th-t.hi-w..; Colon pl.t: ui.r.ion lii'i n discovered at last. War-o- n gran landed down id mu by my Sentinel. dear soul, who have linn In llieso isty years. Mrs. Ierre-lio- o France has 2,150 female authors and heaven me! How awfully behind Bless Journalists, and about 706 female the times they arc up thers, ain't they? ht ed flannel-covere- it list Thai VwtlM f th Country. so long ago that Id It huppt-utust as lief tell you fellows now, said Yippey, the broker, as a party of them were taking on liquid coolness at ths club, says the New York World. The doctors had told me to get out and rough it if I wanted to regain my lualth. i was hound lu give the a fair trial, so bought a horse at Omaha and struck out into the country. About the third night I put up wph a frontier ret tier, and in the morning nty horse was gone. Tbe old fellow hustled around as though the rest of his family had been mur-red. notifying the deputy sheriff to take the trail with a posse and agreeing to keep the horse for me, if recaptured, till my return. I went right for a train and pushed on further west. After we had gone about thirty miles our engine broke her piston rod, and while we were waiting a yahoo came flying down the road astride of my horse. I didn't care to be detaiued in that section, and when I suggested that he take a walk lie thought so well of it that he left on the run. I took to the saddle again, but hadn't gone far until I was overhauled by half a dozen rough ridcis with sawed-of- f shut g utis that induced me to throw up niv huinlu at the first notice. Explanations urn no go with those fellows. Tim burs was stolen, I bad him and that settled it. The posse stood thru to three for hanging me then and there, but the deputy talked one of the men over. They hustled in to a squire who carried two In his licit and a pint nf whisky under it as ho held cour ho rear end of a barber shop. The squire enuhln . cnee me as a horse thief, but the old fox gave me three months for stealing a saddle and bridle. Of course, I was not an agreeable prisoner, and when I called the jailer a liar for pointing nte out as a rse thief he rut me down to bread 1 water for a week. When I repeated the offense lie had a menu from the best hotel In Omaha tacked up In my cell to aggravate the punishment. By the end of twenty days nty Innocence was bo completely established that the squire was glad to order my release. But the Infernal jailer detained me when I went to leave on a claim that he must communicate with the authorities. His opinion was that If I had no business there 1 ought to pay my board. I settled rather than wait, and he charged Delmonlco rates at that I'll make you fellows a present of the West Why On pre-scripii- ln-'- ii dt wild-looki- rs - : I A Spiritual Bond Uetwsca Than and Their Faplls. All children who present themselves at the Veat for study are received. It Is not ever required that their parents bring them or visit them, says Popular Science Monthly. The newcomer chooses his professor, and, If accepted, begins at once to study under his direction, Installs himself In his cell or In the school hall, and becomes Ills servant. If the professor has already too many pupils he refuses the new pupil nnd advises him to choose another teacher; sometimes he guides his choice, directing him to a master who has few or no pupils or takes him to the superior, who will select a teacher for him. The choice of a professor is always a grave affair, because it is held in ('ainbodia, as In all Buddhist and Brahmaitic countries. Mint professor and pupil are bound by strong ties of spiritual affinity, and that the pupil ought to r spool his master as be docs his father and mother. The law inflicts the same penalty upon an offense of the pupil against his master os an offense by a son against his father and mother and it prescribes that In certain cases the pupil may be heir of his professor when he has cared for him or supported him or served him when studying under his direction; not only a family bond, hut a religious bond, too, is established between them, for the professor makes It bis business to teach his pupil the course by which he may earn a more advantageous reincarnation anl rearh the Nirvana, and becomes his spiritual guide. BITS OF KNOWLEDGE. Two million glass eyes.are manufactured yearly in Germany and Switzerland. At the bottom of the deep seas the .vatir U only a few degrees above the frci zlni; point. Ships hiiili of steel are said to be aide to carry 20 per cent more freight ini-- !. ,t it of iron. .Mil rs Is almost it twice &s Wjir of i .ns: n.i if M on our planet, being exactly ns; days of (into. i ii i;i s say that the s'.tonpest t!,i:u ip- - do it at. probably, reveal of nti'mal life the l.f.vi'it star-oto bo openings po'.s :.rc hi m '! sun's photosphere, or imtilnous env li.po, through which the orb is I terro.-drlp- I - . 1 li. g:-a- In-vr- j i n. TIutc an more wrecks In the Baltic titan In any other place in the The average is one wreck a day wot throughout the year. Sa New York World. I t l s ii , , TEACHERS IN CAMBODIA. ri h- ou 1 . 1 Broker , ff it-- of ot Hen in s commemorative of tin thundering nriiiiterrt'.ry of the Mos.Vtah lrot-- ! chi I'iii! nh lplila. slant ill! relics. Acre beg iin ami cor.tur.cd during the Many a face wo consider homely, seek, with holy communion In the would he radiant with beauty, if we nornlng uml special sermons In the couM see it without looking through ivenlng. darkened windows. Ram's Horn. I MISSING LINKS. |