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TR I() OF TRICKSTERS. ----- GAMES WITH WITH WHICH THEY DECEIVE Trie uNwisItY• 1 hr Man Who Made a stake 1.11./X1 the I ,rl,,er liii chase... Picot y of soap I hi. i.r. a eNt of All so Eh. 11.11a ol h Edurator. :REEleports come - u - us from different parts of the Conn - try, of the opera- . lions of swindlers .• whose aim is to get : something for noth- ing. One appeared in a good-sized eountry town, bought some pow- dered alum at a lip, store, put it up in packages, and by tib tins of his glib tongue and persuasive mar neru, spud a large number of them as heat:a:lie powders. But not all peo- ple had need of headache powders, and that these might receive the benefit of his great wisdom—and Dowd , ' ed alum -- he changed the labels, and dealt them out as cures for any other ills with which the people might happen to be afflicted. After all were cured (?) he began selling a powder guaranteed to )e'event the explosion of kerosene lamps, and thus 4sposed of a goodly ktuantity more of his powdered alum. lint as his arduous labors necessitated a change of climate for the benefit of his own health, he silently took his de- parture without leaving behind his fu- ture address, and islprobably still do- ing his level, best to decrease the stock of powdered alum in the country. Philanthropist No. 2. remembering the adage that cleanliness is next to godliness, engaged in the praiseworthy effort to sell soap. Making his head- quarters at the county seat, he en- gaged a team to take himself and his oleaginous\ wares into the country roundabout. For $5 he offered a box containing 10 cakes of soap, and each customer was to receive a prize from a long list of m3rble clocks, lace cur- tains, etc. But, for advertising pur- poses, it was desired to exhibit these • articles at the county fair -soon to be held, after which they were to be deliv- ered to the fortunate customers. The soap was delivered on the spot, and, of course, the bagatelle of a price collect- ed. The fair came and went, but the soap dealer and his magnificent collec- tion of prizes differed in that, while they went, they didn't corner at least, no one has seen any of them. But the -buyers have several hundred dollars worth of soap among them! Yes, and the soap is probably worth less than the boxes in which it is packed. No. 3 had an itching to educate the people—and he did, some of them. Coming to a good-sized village, he pro- claimed abroad his desire to found there a great business college, which should be a means of great education to the attendants thereof, and bring much fame to that village. Would-be students were to receive a membership with all accruing rights and privileges, for a certain specified number of dol- lars paid in hand. A goodly number availed themselves of this \opportunity. of a lifetime.\ Unfortunately, the plans of this college founder were uncere- moniously interfered with by the ap- pearance of an unfeeling minion of the law, from another town where this great educator had founded a similar college—and collected the small mem- bersbip fees—and had forgotten to leave an explanation of his absence. Ile had, also, incidentally forgotten to pay - his board bilf. Fortunately—for him --he didn't personally meet this minion of the law, hence was able to leave for some other town where he might found another college—and collect more fees -and where the people may not attach so much importance to the matter of a man leaving town between two days. Thus may virtue be its own reward— Rural New Yorker: BLOOMERS WILL NOT LAST. Says an in‘ctitnr of a Bicycle Cos- tume. \Bloomers may, perhaps, be worn by a certain class of women cyclists, but they wili not prevail.\ says Mrs. Alice Nash. a w‘ll-known wheelwoman of Minneapolis, according to an exchan2e.. \They are for the most part ungainly in appearance,\ continued Mrs. Nash, \and for that reason, as well as for the question of their strict propriety, they ill not come into universal use. The ibleal costume is that which combines the convenience of the bloomer With the modesty of the skirt, and thia, I think, will be the future Mm of dress reformers.\ Mrs. Naslj has put her ideas into practice and b contriveul'a sontume which combines h °mere and skirt. Several Minneap in women have adopted it and wear it not only for 'Acycling, but also for skating and other mtdoor sports. The costume consists of a short skirt, to the hem of which *neat!' is attached a short pair of bloomers extending just below the knee. The attachment of the bloomers to the skirt prevents the latter from blowing tip, and the combination affords perfect freedom of limp. Leggings are worn over the stockings. The costume is put on like an ordinary pair of men's trousers. is made of tweed or similar strong material, and is fashioned with side pockets. Waists and jackets of the prevailing styles may be worn and the same of the hat. That worn by Mrs. - Nash has the shape of a fried egg, bat Is very neat and dainty withal. One. Wifey Do you think there Is a man that could conscientiously say to his wife: \You are the only woman I ever loved?\ linbby—Only one that Iran think of. Wifey--Who? You, deareit! hubby—Oh, no; Adam.—houlaville Truth. WILL NOT BE BURIEC ALIVE. Guards Watch ty, Fault fot Thirty Days and Thirty For thirty days met I liirv tights, counting from yesterday afternoon, the time of the funetal, the lid of the cas- ket in which lies the body of John G. Rose, will, -not be screwed on, says the New York Herald. Mr. Rose was a wealthy _brick man- ufacturer and died at his home at Rcseton, N. Y., four miles north of Newburg Wednesday. The casket Is in a receiving vault in Cedar Hill cem- etery, half a mile from the late resi- dence of the dead man. Mr. Rose had, 'It is said, of late years been haunted by an acute fear that he might be buried alive and it is in ac- cordance ssith his oft -repeated wish that the preetution mentioned is being taken. The door of the vault is to re- main unlocked, so that in case Mr. Rose as'hiceas from a trance he can giVe ai Marna, if eta make his way out of the resting place of the dead. Two guards ire to stand at the en- trance of the Milt, one at night and the other in the day time, until the body gives positive evidence of decomposi- tion Or the specified time has elapsed. The fear of burial alive is generally accepted as furnishing the reason for this course, but one theory offered by disinterested person in regard to the proceeding is that Mr. Rose was appre- hensive that body snatchers might seize the body and hold it for ransom. One of the guards employed at the vault is Mr. Garrison, of Rosetoa, and the other had long been a trusted em- ploye of the deceased manufacturer. The spot in tha cemetery where the body lies is really the center of three vaults. One was built by Henry Ball, of the firm of Ball & Black, New York, Jewelers: the second is that of Mr. Rose and the third is the George Gordon vault. GRIM MARRIAGE, A Strange Spertat le In ' I: Cemetery at . Medford. Mass. Over the grave of her second hus- band, in Oak Grove cemetery, at Med- ford, Mass., a woman was remarried the other night to her first husband, John li. Jackson, whom she had long thought dead, avers the Boston Posi. A carriage containing five persons drove up Main street a little after 9 o'clock, anti on toward the cemetery, on reaching which it drove quietly through several radways that seemed to have interminable turns. ' Two of the occupants were women and three men. Two of the men wore high hats and three Were dressed in the height of fashion. The other wore a soft black hat and a long eape over- coat that reaehed to his heels. He was a clergyman. The two -women wore heavy long cloaks. The, party approached a grave, and one woman and one map clasped hands over the mound. The minister, uncovering his head, took out a small volume and read the marriage ceremony. When the bride lifted her hand she disclosed the fact she wore white wedding garments: under her heavy black cloak. A Hag was passed across the grave. It was over the grave of her second husband that the marriage ceremony was per- formed. The groom is a lawyer, John H. Jackson by name. He was the for- mer husband of the bride about twenty- six years ago. The couple used to live on Riverside street at that time. Peo- ple now living in Medford remember the separation of the couple at the time and how the husband disappeared, but why they never knew. The bride has a son about 23 years of age, a thriving young business man in the neighboring city. When her first husband had been missing seven years. by common law he was regarded as dead, and she married again. The whole is one of the most marvelous occurrences within the memory of the city recorder, who is authority for the statements in this story. ARTIFICIAL TEETH. F11141 .- Molar Fashioning Is Now an Et- tablIslied Science. \ Within the past fifteen or two,nty years dentistry in all its branches„ but particularly as regards artificial teeth, has made rapid professional progress. To -day milady may part with all her grinders, if she so wills, yet the special- ist in artificial ones will replace is porcelain the two sets intact, with such perfection that her dearest friend can not detect the change, says the Phila- delphia Press. The fashioning of false teeth has been reduced to a science; their maker is pecome an artist. He times his head as well as his hands. When his charming feminine patient comes to him for a single tooth be will make her a duplicate which will deceive herself. This alleviates the mental stress of the sufferer. When, in the course of time, it be- comes a case of an entire set, the spe- cialist makes a close study of his (air patient's face, as Weil as of what man- ner of Seeth nature originally gave her, and works accordingly. If they have been straight and white, he makes the new ones SO. It departing front their original plan, they have changed color or been filled, the alteration is copied. If they chanced to be irregular or im- perfect, the imperfection is reproduced to the letter. The plate no longer fills the mouth to overflowing and crowds out the lips. All is compact and tight- fitting. But, In case the cheeks or lips need bolding out, the artificial gums are more or less enlarged, FO that the pro- verbial plumbers could not do better. - - -- - A Sandwich Reelpe. Never was there such a variety of sandwIch recipes The following is one ret Patty obtained. The breast of chicken covered with the tender heart - leaver, of lettuce and a creamy film of mayonnaise dressing makes a most de- lirious renter when gutarded by tisln slices of white bread. LIFE BUOY ON WHEELS 1 CURIOUS MACHINE INVENTED BY M. BARATHON. It (an Put l'p It Little Sall The NoW Life Iluoy Carries a t ottlpaInti NO 1 14 1.11114 . Light at \s11;11t .41/tI Make, f a a Spred. Is likewise night. , This life -buoy folds up into a ‘ery small space, and the shipwrecked mar- iner could with a machine of this kind maintain himself afloat for days at a time. He could even carry a supply of water and food, if not some extra cloth- ing. Franeols Barathon of Paris was the inventor of this machine, which for compaetness surpasses anything in the same line previously developed. The Barathon life -buoy, as the new ma- chine has been called, has been put to severe tests by the French government, which will doubtless adopt it on many of the French men-of-war. The new life -buoy really consists of an elongated rubber balloon. This serves at once as a float and a seat. There is a hollow tube running through this rubber bag, and the tube incloses the shaft for a horizontal pro- peller. This -propeller is worked with pedals exact ly like a bicycle, and when - , MAN in France has iny ented a life - buoy which has many of the ele- ments of a yacht. It is provided with sails and a ',repel-. ler; it will nisin- lain a. man a Save the waves, and it carries a compass to steer with,Svhich provided with a light at IN A BEAR COUNTRY, of the f ormidable Aulmais Its On• believe 1 gut as big a bag of bears in as short a Dine as any man ever del.\ said Doc Stadiess the ex -Sheriff and bear -hunter of Mendiclno, to a San Pra Isis, reporter. \A hag of bears!\ exclaimed the ting man who had just been telling about a bag of snipe he haul once killed. \What were they --little fellows; what Is it yeu call them --kittens; no, cubs; that's it?\ ' No, sir; they were not kittens or I its. They were bears,\ declared Doc. I I hink I piled up about a ton of bear Meal ill about thirty seconds. I was out hunting in the southern pars of Trinity county, about seventeen or eighteen years ago. We had killed about forty deer and three panthers and a bear or two in a couple of weeks, and were pretty near ready to break camp when I thought I would go out and kill another deer to take home fresh. It was late Ill the aftertutapfland 1 . was creeping along through the brush when suddenly I came out into a little open- ing. I stbpped to see if there was any sign of deer, and while I stood looking about a big black bear climbed up on •the trunk of a big fir tree that had been uprooted. He wasn't thirty yards away and I plugged him in the ear. He rolled off the log and down the hill toward me, lett before I had time to see if he was dead another bear climbed on the same log to see what the row was about. I shot it in the head and it rolled down the same way the other had gone. Up climbed a big two -year -old to take its place, and after I had shot it two big yearlings, one after the other, clam- bered up on the log to be shot. \Every one rolled down the hill toward me and were kicking and thrashing around not tee steps away. Hv that time I came to the 'conclusion that I was in a bear country and I THE BICYCLE LIFE -BUOY WITH WHEELS. s there is no wind the shipwrecked mar- iner on.the Barathon life -buoy can pro- pel himself at a considerable speed. When there is a good breeze blowing he ean spread his sails and skim over the water as well as if he were in a canoe. The propeller has been rigged both as a screw and as a paddle. The tube which runs through the balloon is really the backbone of the Machine. To this the hardy mariner who trusts his life to the buoy lashes himself to prevent his being swept away by heavy seas which may break sver him. The mechanism is concealed in a water -tight box in front, which is suf- ficiently large to assist flotation. It is to this box that the mast is affixed, and here signal flags are displayed. A curious thing about this new and Improved life -buoy is tifat it is fitted with a vertical propeller to assist flo- tation. This propelle7 is worked by the hands, while the vertical propeller for propulsion is worked by the pedals. A fair speed has been attained with this machine. 'Previous life -buoys were only designed to float a man in the water, but this Row type will assist a man to reach the land in case no ship may be In his neighborhood. Cable ('Sr Respects Nothing. That the hump of venerat loll is singu- larly absent in the average American was long since discovered and exploded by Mark Twain in his \Innocents Abroad.\ This fact Is nowlicre more no- ticeable than in the little happenings that go to make tip the ensenthle of 41fe in a big city. Coming uptown in a clanging Third avenue cable car, a fun- eral cortege interrupted for a moment 'the ear's passage. It was the funeral of a Fret' .1 i-on and the hearse' was 1. band of musicians playing it ; 1 issrch. Only for a moment the ( ar slackened, then with a clang and start it sped along between the car- riages of the mourners. A u tirloits crowd lining the pavement on either side gazed at the procession. Not one of the assembly lifted his hat, a ,custom of respect observed in almost every city abroad.—New York Herald. A Boston Duller. \Is Mrs. Lai k Ins at hone''\ asked the taller. 'Physically, madame.\ ret n1 - 114 , 0 the educated butler, \she is: as as didn't lose any time climbing a sapling. When I got well braced up among the limbs I sat and pumped lead at that pile of bears; every time one kicked I gave him a bullet, till they all stopped kick- ing. I had five bears in one pile, and I think they must have weighed over a ton altogether.\ Huxley and tiladatone. There was—perhaps there still la— in England a metaphysical club, of which Huxley and many, other eminent persons were members. They met once a month to discourse of these high matters. Mr. Gladstone was one. There is no known object on which the great parliamentarian is not ready to enlarge with copious confidence. He did on metaphysics at the club and elsewhere. Mr. Huxley was once asked whether Mr. Gladstone was an expert metaphysician. \An expert In metaphysics? He does not know the meaning of the word,\ was the rather starthin answer. Be- tween Mr. Gladstone an Mr. Huxley no love, in truth, walk ever lost. Their re- lations were never intimate and though in private they met as men do in Eng- land, amicably and eivilly, no matter how much they differ In public, there was and could be no cordiality.—Scrib. i's. Chrome and Digestion. The digestibility of cheese has been tested by a German chemist, who placed the, samples in an artificial digestive fluid containing a considerable portion of fresh gastric juice. Cheshire and Roquefort cheese took four hours to di- gest. Gorgonzola eight hours and Brie, Swiss and ten other varieties ten hours. As an ordinary meal is digested in four or five hours, the common belief that cheese Shift digestion appears to be Cr. roneous. Grateful Appreciation. Drummer --I've done a big day's work to -day: have taken orders for over $5,- 000 worth of goods. Bill Collector— Who are the parties? Drummer—Ali to Skinner & Slowpay. Bill Collector That means steady employment for niu for ten months. Thanks; don't know what I should do if it weren't for you.— Boston Transcript. ()neon M•ritharita Write, a Hook. , . 1 1 1 i 01 Oo to THE nINT 1 For Imported And Domestic Liquors, Wines, Cigars — n ilwaukee and St. Louis Bottled Beers. The Anheuser-Busch Celebrated BEST IN THE - \Premium On Draught. WORLD. Pale\ 1 1 SPARL1NG Wickes, Proprietors, & SCHARF - - Montana. • J. W. MONAHAN, WICK ES. — MONTANA. DEALER IN Hay, Grain, Flour, Rolled Oats, Corn Meal, fRY F - 1__C)UFZ. Lowest Prices for Cash. DEAN & TAYLOR, Wholesale Ind 1ef iii De3lets ill Beef, Mutton, Pork, Hams, Bacon, AND MONTANA LARD. frt -intl.! be deelea. hut question the Queen Margharlta of Italy has - lo. in relation to yes , , I• .'ro to see I,or I come an authoress. She Is an expel! cannot say definit , ; . until I have a s sr mountain climber and hart embodied • lekeSe tained Mrs. Harkin at wishes in the eta; her experiences in a book *hien Is ler. Pray be seated until I ' ,‘ e re- I shortly to be rublished. It is to be ceived advices from aboY - ' i i 'tiler's illustrated with pencil sketches mede Haz . ar. I by the distiligniahed writer. IVIontarla. 1 . •t =- •
