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Show lMttllMMIllMMMMMtMtMMMIMMHMMII, i I J: SOME CURIOS AND. ODDITIES, sh j, "Queer thing's, happen la this office." said the board of health fumigator. "People come here and want me to do the most peculiar things." He pointed to hie fumigating apparatusa appara-tusa metal machine about two feet high. " " "Do yeu know, what a woman asked me to do yesterday T She asked me to fumigate her cat. She came In here with the cat In a basket. There was typhoid fever In the house across the street from her.' she said, and, although the people in that house were quarantined, quaran-tined, the animals in It, through some oversight, were not. A black cat from the infected house had been parading about freely, and . the day before she had found it playing with her cat That was dreadfuL Suppose her cat should take the ever! Wouldn't I fumigate It for her? " 'Well.' I said, ft ain't regular to fumigate fu-migate animals, -but I'll do It la your case, provided you don't tell your friends about -It. I can't have this office of-fice turned Into a dog and cat hospital, you know.' : "So I sprayed the cat, and got In return re-turn for my work two scratches and this small bag of cigars." The fumlgator smiled. Then he resumed: re-sumed: . "Men often come here for fumigation. " 'Fumigate me; disinfect me,' they say. 'I spent the night in a house where there was consumption.' Or, 'A man sat beside me in the car who had eome terrible disease. I believe it was smallpox.' "We fu ml gate All these people. They go away from here smelling like a ten-acre ten-acre chemical factory. And they are happy, for they set great store on fumigation. fu-migation. They believe that a well-fumigated well-fumigated person Is Invulnerable to every disease germ that exists. "The strangest thing I ever fumigated fumi-gated was a, Jar of human ashes from a crematory. A man's wife had died of the plague In India. Her body had TTTTTTVTTTtetSSttttttettt i plated are in this machine of solid ell- -ver. I "The Csar has had his typewriter over a year.- He was fond ef it from I the start, arid by now. I am told, he is a fairly expert operator. All his personal per-sonal letters are written on It. "This typewriter cost 700 to build. The Caar paid nothing for it. It m a. gift to him from the humble manufacturer." manufac-turer." "The latest novelty," raid the cutler, "Is a skata with a foot-warmlna at-tachmcnt.' at-tachmcnt.' . . The skate was sumptuously made. In donning It the foot slipped Into a velvet shoe lined with fur. To the sole of this shoe the skate proper was fixed. Altogether. Jhe contrivance appeared excellent. "The Queen of ' England." said the cutler, "has a pair of skates like these. The Empress of P.ufsla has a pair. Some of the richest New York women wear these skates. And every woman i and every . little girl ought to wear thsm. They keep the feet qulte'warm and comfortable and there Is never any danger of frostbite." e e The turkey farmer pointed to a small mill wherein a petroleum engine chug-, chugged vigorously. . "In that mill." he said, "the feed for my 2000 turkeys is ground. The whole secret of successful turkey raising lies in abundant feeding. It Jceeps six men busy to feed my birds. J "They are fed five times a day and each turkey gets as much as he can hold. Carrots boiled In lard and crushed barley and milk are very good fatteners. and the birds stuff themselves them-selves with them. Then, the last thing before going to roost, they eat al the oatmeal porridge and buttermilk they 1 can find room for. - "A cock three hours before killing is I made to smallow a half pint of vine- I gar. Thla vinegar makes his flesh fin and tender; without it he would be I coarse and tough. 1 "A turkey farm like mine pays eas- lly from $1500 to $2500 a year," Chlca- J go Chronicle. .-- been cremated and the ashes had been shipped to America. I fumigated them on their arrival here." ' "Hair boxes, leather breeches, a compass, com-pass, a sword, a tinder box and a padlock pad-lock were the concomitants of every traveler In the eighteenth century." said an antiquary. "I speak with authority, author-ity, the authority of the brown book here. My great-grandfather would no more have traveled without his hair bag and his padlock in 1770 than I would travel today without my hat" The little old brown book was called "The Traveler's Guide." It was dated 1770. Two pages In It were given over to advice upon the luggage question. "Take." said the guide, "two salts of clothes (one coffee-colered and the other blue), a chest flannel, against chill air currents, a pair of leather breeches, a sleeping suit, three pairs of stockings, two pairs of gloves, two wigs, one hair bag. six undershirts, four overshlrts. "Take also a Bible, a book of sermons, ser-mons, a Traveler's Guide, two albums, a diary, a quire of white paper, quills and Ink, an almanac, a mirror, a silver watch, a silver snuffbox, a silver tie-pin, tie-pin, a knife and fork with silver handles, han-dles, a sewing case, an opera glass, a compass, a wax light and tinder box. a toothbrush, a silver toothpick, a sword, a silver-mounted cane, a padlock pad-lock with which to fasten your door at night Inside, a clothes brush, a box of medicines." The antiquary said that the hair bag mentioned in the Traveler's Guide was a leather box for wigs. The chest flannel flan-nel buttoned down the front. The brush part of the toothbrush was three Inches long and an inch broad julte a mouthful. e "The Csar of Russia." said a dealer In typewriters, "has the finest machine in the world. All its keys are made of ivory and the Russian characters inlaid in-laid on them are of blue enamel. The steel parts are polished like a Damascus Damas-cus or Ferrara blade, and the parts that In ordinary machines are nickel- |
