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THE MORGr ANTON STAR. FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1888 LADIES' COLUMN. Mrs. Astor' s Tjaces. Speaking of the fact that the laceg owued by the late Mrs. Astor have been presentsd to the Metropolitan Museum Jof Art in New York, the Commercial Ad vertiser says : The collection is of great Variety and extremely valuable. Mrs. Astor was very fond of laces, and her wealth enabled her to gratify this expen sive taste without stint. As a result she gathered together during her life a great many of the rarest and finest specimens and designs, many of them being master pieces and from the best makers of Eu rope. The collection comprises many old pieces of lace of historic association, which of course greatly enhances their interest and value for the purpose to which they are now to be put. These laces include all those that Mrs. Astor wore, beside what she merely collected from her love of lace. Their exact value is not known, but the collection is cer tainly worth a large sum. Chicago's Petticoat Palace, Central Music Hall block might very properly be called the petticoat palace of Chicago. Largely owned and entirely managed by a woman Mrs. Carpenter a greater number of women pas3 through its doors each day than any other building in town is honored with. In and out they go all day long, and ranging all the way from the beautiful and enthusiastic young girl, who is in dulging in the dream that her voice will make her famous, to the decrepit old woman whom a friend or servant must assist up the stairs to the office of e woman metaphysician or Christian healei who has undertaken to remove her lameness or her ills. There are in Central Music Hall women doctors, women metaphysicians, women Christian scientists, women dentists, ar tists, milliners and what-not. It is, too, a great place for fads, novelties, new things, progressive of all sorts. On the various floors of the handsome building may be found, besides the mind healers, women doctors of the old schools, a woman manicure and chiropodist, mas sage practised by both sexes, a school of languages in whick Volapuk is taught, ocean brine bath, Swedish movement, compound oxygen treatment, a dramatic teacher, and, as one might easily suppose from the number of women who fre quent the building, a millinery store, a candy shop, and embroidery bazaar and a photograph gallery. Chicago Herald. Dairy Schools for Girls. In Germany and Denmark specially, and also to a limited extent in France, there are specials schools for training girls in dairy work and all matters per taining to farm work. The largest school of this kind in Germany is at Radeu, in the Grand Duchy of Meckletjbnrg Schwerin. It owes its existence to pri vate liberality, but it has a subvention from the State of 325 a year. The same training is also given at Heinrichstal, in T-adeberg in Saxony, where ten to twelve young women are taught th6 theory and practice of butter and cheese making. The practical instruction is given by a nvstress, and includes tech nical management of a dairy, including book-keeping: feeding and management of cows; fattening calves and pigs; in struction in cooking; housekeeping ic general; management of poultry accord ing to their season ; management of the kitchen garden. At Hildeshelm, ir Hanover, another dairy school of a liif6 nature exists, with a grant from the Ag ricultural Society of Hanover of 225, which stipulates that six pupils shall be provided with board, lodging and teach ing for a whole year at 18 each. The pupils give their services in the day until 1 o'cloc'c, nfter which hour they art taught housekeeping. The heavy part ol the work is done by servants, but if the pupils do not know how to perform anj description of dairy work they are taught it carefully. In the afternoon the pupils are taught reading, writing, arithmetic, history, geography, etc. ; in -fact, all the elements of a general edu cation, as well as sewing. Brooklyr Citizen. Fashion Notes. Stiff English felt hats in sailor shape and small felt pokes are shown for misses and girls in their teens. The finest artistic judgment and taste is demanded and displayed in the coloi combinations of indoor toilets. The wide embroidery on the back ol gloves gives place to that which is nar narrower and less conspicuous. The pretty sashes of Bengaline with flowered designs arc particularly pretty ' with gowns of gossamer stuffs. Polonaises of embroidered muslin will have apron fronts, with lapping surplice waists and much ribbon garniture. "White embroidered muslins run very much to ilouncep, with insertions of vary ing widths for their other trimming?. As the season advances the skirts of dresses are less bunched at the back than heretofore and are laid in wider pla't3. Embroidered muslin gowns are in the hands of dressmakers, who are making them up for the spring and summer trade. Silver, gauze has proved itself so stylish and popular that other ' metal fabrics are being introduced with good effect. Surplice waists lapping over on one side and forming a V opening at the neck are in favor for house dresses of ' all kinds. Some fine specimens of hair-dressing are seen in the new coiffures which the ellort to introduce the Psyche has i brought out. Canary yellow point d'e sprit and ac cessories of black velvet and jet make a very effective and becoming ball gown for a dark brunette. St.ipjd gossamers are very much ad mired and iave a more dressy effect than many of the plain fabrics in tulles, India silk muslins or laces. Xew ginghams, sateens, percales and printed cotton goods are being made up for ne vt season in very pretty, simple I styles, with full pTcated overikirts over under jupes, the draping effected from the waist line, and given easy sweep by a slash in the overskirt on ea:h side, showing a panel of the underskirt. A Grim Eskimo Joke. There was another episode which those peculiar people seemed to consider as a huge joke, which I will explain as briefly rs possible to show what the native peo ple consider as funny in the frigid zones, Bays Lieutenant Schwatka in Woman. One of the Eskimo men had a painfully disfigured face, to which he pointed so often that one of the party was finally led to ask him the cause. He most cheerfully assented to explain, amid the grins and suppressed laughter of the others. "When he was a young boy he was one of a small band of natives that came upon the re mains of Sir John Franklin's unfortunate parties, that had starved to death, and they found many curious things among the scattered material at the sit of the sad scene. One, which immediate took his boyish eye, was a red flattened 'can that he found full of ' black sand," as he ex pressed it. The "black sand" was of no possible use to him, and on the first oc casion he had to utilize the can, which was one winter evening when he was sit ting by the lamp in his snow house, he poured the useless material out on the platform of anew that held the lamp, and in doing so some , of it splashed in the Same. There was an instantaneous explosion, which he tried to explain by yelling "boom" until I thought the top of my head had been knocked off, and when some of the shock had passed away he found that the top of hi3 enow hut had disappeared in the dark night, the I stone lamp was broken into pieces, and the kitchen utensils and parlor furniture all mixed up. He was a medicine man ol the tribe that is, one supposed to cure sickness by magic, incantations, etc. and at the time the powder can exploded a patient was visiting him, who disappeared m the confusion, and his whereabouts was not known for a month or two afterward, when he turned up in another tribe farther south, whose doctors, he claimed, were not of such a pyrotechnic school of medicine. The medicine man said that his own nervous system was badly shattered for a long time, and his hands and face were fearfully scarred as evidence of his story, but if his appetite was at all injured he had more than recovered, for he was the most enormous eater, savage or civilized, that I ever saw in my life, and could easily dispose of a reindeer ham at a lunch, whenever he came around to re peat his story, which was altogether too frequent; but we luckily found a good plan of ridding ourselves of him by the apparent careless handling of a powde can. Th3 Grigin of a Fhras3. TViq rnxl T U 1. m-. i .!. iiii.iu x iiru is a genne- j man whom we in tbse dejeuerate days ' know too little, ller.i is Mr. Olinhnnt'a history of him: "He was a Pennsyl vania Quaker in Mrs. Centlivre's convjdy: A Bold Stroke for a Wife.' This wor thy person being about to visit London to attend the quarterly meeting of hia sect, his friend, Aminadab Holdfast, sends a letter of recommendation and in troduction to another tua'cer, Obadiah Prim, a rigid and stern n.an, who is guardian of Anne Love y, a young lady worth )fi, 000. Colonel Feign well, an other character in the same play, who is enamored of Miss Lovely and her hand some fortune, availing himself of an ac cidental discovery of Holdfast's letter and of its contents, succeeds in passing himself off on Prim as his expected visitor. The real Simon Pure, calling at Prim's house, is treated as an impostor, and is obliged to depart in order to hunt up witnesses who can testify to his iden tity. Meanwhile Eeignwell succeeds in getting from Prim a written and uncon ditional' consent to his marriage with Anne. No soorer ha3 he obtained pos session of the document thau. Simon Pure reippears with his witnesses and Vv'.xo. discovers thj trie'.: that has been put upon him. ' Here endeth Mr. Oiiphant's information. Whoever de sires to know which of the twain suitors obtain erV the hand of the lady must con sult Mrs. Centlivre's play itself. Corn- m. George n. Clarkson, who was recent ly robbed by footpads in "Kansas City, Mo., has sued the city, on the theory that it, is bound to protect life and property. A PIE FACTORY. popularity of a distinct ively AMERICAN PASTIIY. Throe Hundred. Thousand Gotham ites Addicted to Its Daily Uso An Immense Bakery 15,000 Pies a Day. Sullivan street, in '.he vicinity of 82, is a tantalizing neighborhood, remarks the New York Graphic. A soothing and delicious odor penetrates the air and per vades the sense. It is the smell of fresh- j ly baked pies. Through an alley out of j r, t- 3 .1 " 1 I uuunjaru cuamping uorss uu:iic prancing with their fragrant loads in the gay wagons behind, leaving a fine crusty flavor in the air. Sixty wag ons roll away with their cupboards full of pies every morning and roll back with their cupboards empty every noon, and the links of fragrance make an un broken chain. Fifteen thousand pies are sent out of this factory every day just one-fifth of the whole number con sumed in this town. As one pie will give four people a piece, there are 800, 00G people here who have pie every day. The gentleman who runs this benevo lent institution has baked pies on tho same spot for forty years and eaten several every day. He still has a first rate digestion and scoffed at the notion that evil is concealed in the great Ameri can pastry. But it must be properly made crust like a snow-flake under smoked glass, fruit that is freh, juice like syrup and au even piping hot. On tho flat sido of a paddle, after twenty minutes of baking, the ideal pie was a feast for a king or a crank. Was flour indigestible f No. WaB fruit? Of course not. Was sugar or lard or shortening in small quantities? We all know better. There fore, concluded the pie-maker triumph antly, thesa element combined is an ideal peptic compound. And the pie eaters of New York and vicinity pay this excellent man $2,100 every day to thow that thcr back him up. To reach the office of the factory one must pass through a little shop where on a counter are ranged tempting pies popped hot out of an oven. The customer who stops to examine these pies is lost. Up stairs is a handsome counting room connoting with the factory in the rear by a br'dge on the second story. The fruit room is on the top floor of the factory, the syrup room is on the second, the bakers occup7 the first and the huge ovens are in the base ment. O to one side are stables, boiler and engine rooms, and surrounding the courtyard are the wagon sheds. Pie baking i3 a big industry, and the ca pacity of this single factory, which is the largest, is SO, 000 pies. This immense establishment has grown from a small bakery where $30 a day was a big busi. ness and the pie3 were baked in a sheet iron oven. The product averages, however, 15,000 ; pies a day. This requires fortj barrels I of apples a day, 375 gallons of canned iruit, 2,5C0 pounds of sugar, the same quantity of lard, twenty-five pounds of spice and sixteen barrels of Hour. All the apples u?ed are the famous "T. C. K.'s," which are kept sound and good for nine months in the year. During June, July and August only canned goods are used. The apples are the staple of most of the factory-made pie3, though peaches, apri cots, pears, plums, cherries, raspberries, cranberries and m fact all fruit in their season and many the year round, beside custard and cocoanut, are emp'oyed, and are palataMe. The owner of the factory likes them all, but rather gives prefer ence to mince. He makes his own mince meat, and the way he mixes up his meat, sugar, currants, raisins and apples is a toothsome revelation. Pi etty girls are the apples with machinery and cut them up by hand. They are sent below to the choppers and syrup makers on the pajpunir oqj Aq SutUAVojq fatd fcnopsnj SarjiOTTs pun opts oqi m pojnuid 6JOP-303J Sjq Aq pojqir su3ao uodo oq; oirj uioo.1 "aoqo orri jo sopts ooaqj uq -asipiuuj jo uot-TA s.Aoqipocps AjSunq v st .-cipo uolo o2nq sqx suoao oq; ojut lr.d uaaq PA;q Aoqj jsjjb pojiy oju uoitpu. 'sir.uuoooo puc spjttjsno oqi inq ipj pesq oq o ipsoa suoao aqj o; UAiop paijjtjo sir. said oq uaqj, -saod -dtis apj jb3av jpj uotuqoincr pooS ojoiim 'ooojji jo ioojjs uiBtu oq; 10 uaqojij puBii;u2E a3j v nv.oo se si ootqd Qjoqw aqX saurqoem st? A"pmb su sisnjo sqj ;mo urn; o; aSeuuni Aaqj pun 'urjap pun isoi puu atrj v ajTj A)q -qjos pnsajiqAV oat? sputrq jpqj put? 4sdt3o sjtqAv juoav 6J3jp;q aqj, -;S3q3 uresis s ui paup uosq xfutATjq 4j3Aiis poanoos sn ?qSuq 'aid oqj Jopun oau Aaq; put? 'sapqd mj oqj SaiqSBAY C33q OAfcq hothoav uazop 3jp3jj isnio doj utq; 3q; Aq jtso3 m psjpn; puts qSnop ajsjcav sqi ojut psTpiq si it odti st unjxiux aqj uoqv "sqnj uajjco Suiuiqs pun ivdo m ao;t3ui oj taaqj OAT33I put? pSJUTJAY PpUnodtUOO -ipsqAV oint uisqj joa. oqAi 'Avopq 4003 A delicious aromatic, mouth watering perfume tills the room. The very stones are spicily fragrant and smell eatable. All the bakers are fat, and their caps and aprons are as white as the pie crust. If a boarding school could be turned loose in that cellar it would tickle these men to fill the boys up. You can see that they eat pies themselves, and it agrees with them. On the day before Christmas they worked far into the night to cook miuca pies that carried one and a half tons of mince moat, in whicli were GG0 dozen eggs. It was a big order, but the more pies they bake the fatter they get. For twenty miles aiouud Sullivan street people cat these pies even- day, and there is a branch factory in Newark and one in Philadelphia. There are about thirty other smaller factories in the trade, and most of the small bakeries make a few pies for thcmselve. The factories on the whole turn out wholesome and palatable pastry, and it isn't at all wonderful t! at people are fond of it. No other country has the same advan tages as America in this respect, and the "tarts'' of England and pastries of France have never been able to rival the popular and economical qualities of the American pie. JYl w York Graphic. California Rabbit Drives. Rabbits have tnutiplied so rapidly throughout California that they have be come one of the most serious pests of the country. It is estimated that three rabbits will eat as much as a sheep, and that what can be killed in a day's rabbit drive will consume as much alfalfa as a hundred beef cattle. A good many schemes have been derised for getting rid of the pests, but the only efficacious one is the rabb:t drive. This is consid ered very good field sport, also, and a drive is always participated in as much by those who are after fun as by those who want the rabbits killed. The first ihing in getting up a rabbit drive is to make a rabbit-proof corral of close, high palings, enclosing a space about thirty by ten, or twenty yards. Leading into this at right angels are two lines of closely set palings, a quarter of a mile in length. Several hundred men on horseback and on foot then surround a section or two of land and work slowly toward the corral with shouts and beat ing of the ground. At first but few rab bits will be seen, but as the drirers close in toward tho palings the little fright ened beasts a-e as thick as sheep in a corral. They make frantic efforts to es cape, and in trying to break through the line of beaters many are killed by the clubs of tho walkers. The drirer3 close in slowly, and the rabbits are gradually driven into the space partially enclosed by the palings, and from there it is easy to force the.ti into the corral. They troop in like sheep, crowding over one another, and filling the corral. The drivers on foot follow, the corral is closed, and the slaughter begins. They are killed with tho club3 by striking them on the head. The air is filled with their shrill squealing, which can be heard a mile away. They leap about in desperation, jump high, and dash them selves against tho fence, huddle in the corners, and try to hide behind one an other, or behind the heap? of those al ready killed. The clubs whistle through air, net infrequently striking tho shins of the killers instead of the heads of the rabbits, for it requires a good aim, a steady arm, and no small amount of skill to guide every stroke to its destination on the skull of a rabbit that is leaping about like mad. When the slaughter is ended the rab bits are strewn over the ground as thick a3 dead leaves, and in placc3 their car casses will be in piles two feet high. Be tween 1,200 and 1,500 rabbits are usually killed in each drive, and it is no uncom mon thing for one ir.au to score a hun dred dead rabbits in one round up. In parts most infected the drives are held once a week. iV?u York Sun. Deceiving Thsir Father. "Do you want to see a neat game? Then watch the three girls sitting with their father in the fifth pew of the mid die aisle," said tho tenor of a fashionable uptown church to a reporter who was paying him a visit in the choir during Sunday morning service. The reporter fixed his eye. on the men tioned pew. The father seemed to be a prosperous banker or merchant, a portly, gray-whiskered, red-faced man, evident ly somewhat of a martinet. As tho deacon approached with the contribu tion box the parent drew a fat wallet from his inside pocket, opened it and pompously handed each of his daughters a bank note. "He gives them a tenner apiece," whispered the chorister: Each girl as she received her bill crumpled it careicssly in her right hand and became absorbed in the hymnal again, which was held in both hands. When the silver salver was handed into heir pew the father dropped his contri bution in with a placid air and then passed the plate along to his .daughters. Each took her left hand from her book, dropped a crumpled bill into the repos itory, and the plate was handed back to the waiting deacon. "A clever idea," taid the tenor. "Each girl drops a dollar bill on with her left hand and holds out a ten with her right hand. It seems that the young misses have to resort to .'harp devices at times to raise money for mfxtinee tickets and boa. bons, chi"- di ggo 2Iall. Taking all crops, corn, cotton, wheat, oats, rice, sugar, tobacco, etc., and the enhanced valuc3 into consideration, it is very reasonable to estimate that agricul ture yielded to Southern farmers in 1SS7 $7:;,000, 003 more than in 1SSG. Need there be any wonder, declares the Min i facturer'i llcrord, that Southern farmers are in better financial condition than for some vears. A Determined Sulciie. A gallant French officer has just taken Lis life under tho most extraordinary circumstances prcfering death to dis honor. The occurrence took place at Lisicux, Calvados. France, on the road to Cher bourg. He was accused of a flagrant breach of military discipline. The charge, so far as it concerned that oXccr, was turned over to the military authorities. General Dumont then sent for liuffet and informed him of the ac cusation that had been made against Lim. lie added that, as the matter bad gotten into the public prints, it would be necessary to make a formal investiga tion, and that during its progress the Colonel must consider himself under ar rest. "General," was Ruffct's reply, 41 1 am the victim of an outrageous attempt to levy blackmail. Not a word of the charges is true, but I will not allow my name and my reputation to be tarnished. If you order an investigation I shall blow my brains out." "You understand, sir," General Du mont answered, that I must do my duty; the investigation must be held; and in order that you may not carry out your threat. I shall at once place you iu confinement." No sooner sa'd than done. RufTet was consigned to the military prison, and strict orders given that he should be constantly watched. In order that thb might be done, the Colonel was given a cell with a loophole in tho door, through which an eye could literally be kept on his movomcnts night and day. During the evening that followed his arrest his trunk wa brought to him. He opened it in the presence of the guard, but it ap parently contained nothing more than a change of linen and a few toilet articles. Suddenly the guard, seeing liuffet thrust his hand rapidly under some clothing as if ho wcr& trying to lay hold of some concealed weapon, sprang on him and seized his hand, in which the prisoner clutched a loaded revolver. A wild struggle between the two men then ensued for the possession of the firearm, during which they rolled over and over on the floor of the cell. For a second the Colonel seemed to have gained the mastery, but by a supreme effort tho guard succeeded in opening the latter' clinched fist and getting hold of the weapon. "RufTct appeared to bear hn disappoint ment calmly, and the guard con gratulated himself that all danger was averted. After supper the Colonel re tired for tho night, the guard was re lieved, and toward morning a third took up the ucintcnnilted watch, liuffet had apparently resigned himself to the fate, and was sleeping quietly. What guard No. 3 did not see. however, was that the prisoner had half opened his eye3, and cautiously thrust one hand under his pillow. He thus grasped a razor, that had been iu a concealed compartment of the trunk, and which had escaped the vigilance of the prison authorities. The sharp blade, and the hand that held it, again disapprarcd under the bed cover ing. Iluffct lay on his back, his eyes closed, but with the sheet drawn neatly tip to his lips. He seemed to be asleep. The eyes of the soldier were not re moved from him for an instant. He could see the slightest movement of the muscles of his face, and yet at that very moment the prisoner had committed suicide by cutting his throat. His head rolled over on the pillow, over which the guard- saw a stream of blood suddenly flow. He shouted and threw open the cell door. It was too late; the Colonel seemed to be in the agonies of death. In spite of this terrible wound, how ever, he lived an entire day long enough to enable his brother, an officer of higher rank, to reach the prison in time to receive his words. "I hacbeen slandered," he gasped, "for money, but I would not permit our name to be tarnished. I wish my body laid by the side of our sainted mother. I swear that I am worthy of it.' Then came profuse bleeding and death. Ktw York S'ar. One of the most interesting cases known in recent years is that of young Jesse Pomcry, of Boston, who developed a murderous instinct when scarcely out of petticoat, and the impulse ha grown with his growth. Einil Fctrovsky, a Kussian lad, evinced the same disposi tion to kill and torture as did young Pomeroy, and so did Pierre Chavaz, whose case recorded, some twenty years ago in Marseilles, attracted great atten tion in Europe. This lad with a subtle cunning far beyond his years enticed his childish companions into a dense forest and there murdered and buried them. No less than six victims were discovered. Strangely enough each of these children was the offspring of a father whose ticde was that of a butcher, and in each case the mother occasionally assisted the husband in slaughtering cattle and sheep. It is claimed that the love for sacrificing life and the indifference to suffering wa3 transmitted in each of these case? to the offspring, and the up holders of the theory adduce this as a proof that women s-hoald not be engaged in pursuits which are essentially intend ed for men. Thc present ca?e offers a field for the investigator. FUN. The political speaker is usually plans-; bl?, even if not applaus-able. The man who invests in mining stock is usually put out over the out-put. Many Crown Princes are perfect ret before they come to be crowned. Sift ing. Our pocketbeok is now in such a feeble condition that it cannot stand & loan. Orange Of server. A dyspeptic traveler rercatly suicided at a country hotel by hanging himself to his bedpost with a rope made of twisted doughnuts. raragraplur. We are informed that Russia will not take the initiative. It is certainly re assuring to know that there is something that Russia doesnot want. ELon Tram a ijt. Foreman "In what column shall I put the account of the man who fell and broke his backbone?" Editor (busy writ ing a leader) "Spinal column, of course." "The coming newspaper," says a well known journalist, "will not print any advertisements." If this is so, the com ing woman will not read it. &mrei2U Juurml. That was an exhaustive article of mine on Our Political Future" said the contributor to the editor. I found it so, was the somewhat unsatisfactory reply. Washington Critic. An engagement ring on the finger of a young lady is apt to be made conspicu ous by the wearer. It is the same way with a scalp worn by an Indian in hia belt. Xeut Orlsan Picayune. Ca'igula once spent $100,000 oa a re cent supper. So history says. Tbctrujh, probably is that he spent $100 on the supper and handed over the rest as lips to the wa:ters. BtUirvtr American, Cuns that will shoot five mile have been invented. We mention this faet only to emphasize again to spring poofcs tho advisability of sending in all their contributions by mail. 6on(rt&t Journal. Funny Man (of Chicago dally) "A sudden feeling of nausea has come over me. It must be something Pre eaten.' Horse Editor (sjmpathetically) "Possi bly it's something yoa hare written. UarfCT" Bizar. Little Darling "What a pleasant gen tleman Mr. D'Esprit, the piragrapher, is always so good-natured." Rival Journalist (crossly) "Well, if jou could sec him grinding out his jokes as I dat you'd aay ho was generally out of hamor. Til-BU. A teacher of music in Ontario county inserted her professional card in one of the county newspapers. It was seen by an old lover in Chicago, who at once hunted her up, explained his absence ef a quarter of a century, and married her. It pays to advertise. Elmiri Adterliter. Mr. Borclf Bore-Dore (pausing at the door) "Ah, beg pardon ; you have your hat and cane I sec. I will call again. Busy Editor (eagerly) "No, indeed my dear fellow, don't think of if. Do come in and sit down I'm just going out." Baltimor: JNcir. Where they landed: Newspaper ad vertiser "Been sending circulars to peo ple, I see." Business Rival "Urn Tes,I sent out a small lot last night. How did you find it out?" "I saw them scattered around the postofSce floor where people get their letters." 0.7.a.Vi World. The "Datch Lai!" Hoax. Concerning the origin of the "Dutch Mail" hoax a writer in Lippincott's Mag azine says: Some fifty years ago an arti cle appeared in aa English provincial paper, the Leicester JfcroM, under the title or "The Dutch Mail," with the an nouncement tliat it had arrived too late for translation and had been set up and printed in the original. A great deal of attention was attracted to the article, many Dutch scholars announcing in print that it was not in any dialect with which they were acquainted, until it was finally discovered to be a hoax. Sir Richard Thillips,. the editor of the paper, tells this story of how it was conceived and earned out: "One evening, before one of our publications, my men aal a boy overturned two or three columns of the paper in type. We had to get ready someway for the coaches, which at 4 ia the morning required four or five hun dred papers. After every exertion, we were short nearly a column, bat thers stood a tempting column of pi on the galley. It suddenly struck me that this might be thought Dutch. I made un the f column, overcame the scruples of the foreman, and to away the country edition went with its philological puzzle to worry the honest agricultural readers' kads. There was plenty of time to set up a column of plain Englih for the edition." Sir Richard tells of one man whom ho met ia Nottingham who for thirty years preserved a copy of the Lei cester Jleralf, hoping that some day th.' letter would be explained. The Boston's Young Men's Christha Association, establishing a library, in vited George W. Cable to dtlivcr a lec ture in behalf of the enterprise. N tickets were scld. Admission was glvca to anyboly who brought a loi-k for tU library. The s?hctsc ma le a happy Lit; a good many libra?; ihelvcs were fiile-L
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