_ THEIR NAMES VARY.
Restaurant Waiters Who Are Addressed Differently Morning and Evening. Some people have names which they re- ecived in the ordinary way, and some have names thrust upon them, and many wait- ers Who are employed in different parts of the city have several names, none of which wes given to them by the persons who are usually vested with authority on that point. Ludicrous situations and compli- cations have resulted from this cause. There are a number of down town res- taurants where the waiters are supposed to be French. They do speak that language after a fashion and understand what is said to them when addressed in French, nithough they are for the most part Alsa- tians and Swiss and speak a patois which is known in some parts of Europe as ‘“*Platt-Deutsch Franzosisch.’’ Many of the patrons of these places think it the proper thing to address the waiters as *“garcon’’ and to ventilate their bad French when they give their orders, and the wait- er, With an eye to business, never smiles, but frequently guesses at what is meant. He icels safe in bringing what he thinks
is wanted, because he knows that the guest is not sufficiently versed in the lan- gui to argue the point, and that ho would not reveal his ignorance by resort- ing to English. These waiters are usually cal Gaston, Jules, or by some equally ul nerican name, and the names ble- sthem tosuchan extent that they unsyer to them without effort and as a matter of course. Long befere the wholesale. houses and offices close their doors for business the day's work is over in these restaurants.
The waiters go to their homes for a little and toward evening the same men may be seen in up town beerhouses, clubs and wein stuben, where they meet another class of people. There the waiter serves becr and all sorts of German delicacies, from Frankfurter and sauerkraut to kalter
aufschnitt, and a French name would not be in harmony with the surroundings.
There are Pauls and Herrmanns and Fritzcs in these places who would be sur- prised to be addressed by any other name, ugh a few hours before they were Pierre, Henri or Francois. For years these
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men have a morning and an evening name. One waiter said recently that he had been called Felix in his down town
place for years, and that no one thinks of calling him anything but Herrmann in the Kneipe where he serves beer at night. ‘‘ But the funny part of it is,’’ he said, ‘‘my name is Julivs. Lam Felix among the French people and Herrmann in the Ger- man waiters’ society, and I have hard work keeping my right name in my fain- ily.’’—New York Tribune.
PARIS’ OMNIBUSES.
A System That Gives Every Passenger a Comfortabic Seat.
On all the streets of Paris one of the features most rcticeable to a foreigner perhaps is the litle omnibus stations so characteristic of Paris. The Parisian omnibus system, by the way, is an excel- lent one when you understand it. But you usually have to be put off a bus two or three times before you appreciate its merits. In time yon discover that the vehicles stop regularly at little stations, where those who understand the system obtain bits of pasteboard bearing numbers in the precise order of the application for them, entitling them in the same order to the vacant seats in the buses as they ar- rive. These little stations bcing not far apart, it is a matter of no difficulty to ob- tain these numbers, and when that is done the system secures, as you see, a perfect application of the rule ‘‘frst come, first served.”’ Fer «hen the bus stops, just opposite the litte rix.ticn, am official comes out, cond standing lelind it he calls off the nuvubers ta @heir erder, and the would be passsngers, as their mumbers are called, take the vacant places. When all the va- canci:s are file@, the bus drives on, and those whose numbers come next in order heave, cf course, the first chance at the va- cancics on the 4Ring bua.
And now let n:e mention nnother fea- ture «f this omnibus ststem which I think is werthy of our notice. Each omnibus and cach street cer in Paris—tcr the strect ear system is practically the same—ia built to seai—not to carry, mind you, but to
eat—a certain number of persons. Theat nuinbcr is indicated upon the exterior of
the vehiole, and when it is complete no more xre permitied to enter under any cir- curictincea. Ovr eloricus Amcrican sys-
tem, therefore, cf riding ona strap or of getting one foot cn the back platform of the street car and clinging to the unfor- tunate individual who kas preceded us and has both feet on iswhkclly unknown in Paris.---Chautaz¢<.2n.
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a stepping stene for Egyptian and Asiziio Civilization ia its pregress toward the shores of Greese, Crete remained through- out antiquity singularly free from any close political connection with Egypt, Asia or Grecoe. ‘This insularity is to this day one of the marked characteristice of the Cretan people, and without accepting the view thet they are the purest descendants extant of the Liellencs of the cighth cen- tury B. C., we must regard them uever- theless as one the most interesting branches of the Greck race. Unfortunately, the gravest defeots of the ancient Greek character were nowhere so pronounced as in Crete, und we are told that its history throughout antiquity was one continuous chain of civil strife, car- ried on with a scavagences aud bitterness of animosity oxceeding all that was known in the rest of Greece. ‘This political de- pravity was attended by such a degeneracy of morals as to render the name of ‘‘Cre- tan’’ a synonym fer nearly every vice.— Demetrius Kulopothakes in Century.
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oT THE COCOANUT PALM. 7
Something About This Wonderful Tree of a Hundred Uses.
The xocoanut palm is indigenous to the tropical countries. Its branchless trunk grows to a height of from 60 to 90 feet, and bears at its summit a crown of pin- nate leaves that are from 123 te 20 feet in length. It is essentially littoral, and ‘loves to bend over the rolling surf and to drop its fruit into the tidal wave.’’
Tbh» thick husk and the hard shell of the cocoanut ars well adapted to preserve its germinating power while fit is being tarried by the winds and the waves to some distant shore. Hence the cocoanut palm ‘‘waves its graceful fronds over the emerald islands of the Pacific, fringes the West Indian shores, and from the Philip- pines to Madagascar, crowns the atolls or girds the seahoard of the Indian ocean.’’
It isa beautiful tree and ‘‘a joy forever,” because it yields a large veriety of useful products. To the inhabitants of tropical countries the cocoanut is an important article of food. It is eater both ripe and unripe, the young, unripe nut containing e milky fluid that is very palatable. When fully matured, the nut yields a fixed oil, which is used for culinary purposes, in lamps and for manufacturing stearin can- dles and marine scap. By compression in the cold, the oil is separated into a liquid called ‘‘oleine’’ and a more solid part called ‘‘cocesine.’’ The hard shell of the nut is fashioncd into cups, ladles, spoons, beads, bottles, knife handles, etc., and is often beautifully polished and elab- orately carved.
The terminal bud, or “palm cabbage, is an excellent vecctable when cooked. Indeed, it is considered a delicacy, but it because its removal neces- sarily causes the death of the tree. From the trunk ef this wonderful palm is ob- tained a saccharine sap called ‘‘toddy,’’ which is esteemed a plcesant, refreshing drink. The dried palm leaves serve for thatching houses, for making mats and baskets, and for cattle fodder.
Coir is the most important fibrous prod- uct cf the tree. It isthe fiber or husk of the immature nut. It is prepared for use by being soaked several months in water, and then beaten until the fibers have en- tirely separated. Coir is a valuable ma- teriai for ropes, brushes, carpets, mats, beds, cushions and nets. It is excellent for cables because it combines elasticity,
ightness and streneth. The long foot stalks of the fronds are used for fences, yokes and fishing rods.
After the tree ceases to bear fruit itis cut down and its wood is nsed for many pur- poses. It is 8 reddish wood, !s beautifully veined, admits of a high polish, and is im- ported for ornamental joinery under the name of ‘‘porcupine wood.’’ It is said that no other tree and no other plant con- tributes in so many ways to the wants and the comforts of man as does this ‘‘tree of 100 uses’’—the cocoanut palm.—Phila- delphia Times.
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The Chair She Wanted.
One day last week she walked inte a large and vell known furniture store where there is an enermous stock of stuff and began hosing arcurd among the chairs.
‘What is it you wish, madam?’’ in- quired one of the ever present and over- pleasant clerks fcr which the place is fa- mous.
‘IT wanta chair,’’. she replied in that tired feeling tone of voice which one doesn’t always have to know Brooklyn women to hear.
‘“‘Be seated, macdam,’' exclaimed the chivalrous clerk, whirling thechzir around for her with sucha burst of politeness that he quite forgot his business.
“‘T mean I want to buy one,’’ she ex- plained.
“Ch, I beg your pardon,’’ he said. **May I aek what kind, madam?”’
“The kind you haven’t got in the whole store, [’ll het a caokte.’’
‘“*But we can get it, madam, if wedo nct haye it in steck.’’
‘““You can’t, either, I’m almost sure.’’
‘“‘New designer are constantly on the market, madam, and surely we can sup- ply any demand made upon us.”’
‘You think so, do you?’’ she asked, as if she had been to 147 furniture stores that morning only to be disappointed at each place. ‘’Well, sir, have you got a chair that has got analerm glock in the back of it that will set off a spring in the seat that will throay a young man out of the window that hasn’t got sense enough to go home before 11 o’cicck at night, so’s my daughter, that has to help with the housework and ccokin for six boarders, can get a night’s rest, that everybody has to get if they expect to do their share? If you have a chair like that, just send it up right away. Here’s my address). And eharge me anything you please for it; money’s no object.’’
Up to date the suave and sure sales- man has not been able to supply the de- inand, but his house is offering a prize for what is wanted.—New York Sun.
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A Boat 4,360 Years Old.
A viking craft found th Norway soine time ago was in uss abeut the year 1000 A. D., and at cnce hecame famous as by far the oldest specimen of watereraft in existence. The boats in the Gizeh mu- scum, it was decided by the learned, were used at least 4,500 years ago, and were contemporaneous with the Dashur pyra- mids of the eleventh Egyptian dynasty.
With this beat and the two which re- main in the Cairo inuseum were two more, which still rest in the sands which stretch desolately from the Dashur pyramids, near which they were found.
The five boats were found buried ata considerable depth, not far from the famous largest pyramid, and in such orderly form and with such mathematical relationship to the great pile of stone that it was evi- dent that they had been buried with de- sign at that particular spot.
The boats were found to be alike in the material of which they were constructed und in their general dimensions. "he ce- dar of antiquity, which entered into so
much of the construction of things of |
wood, was used in building these boats. While the equipments of the boats had generally disappeared with time, their shapely outlines still remained.
The boat that is in Chicago now was probably better preserved than any. It is 30 feet long, 8 feet of beara and 4 feet of bold. A well preserved and peculiarly marked and designed piece of rudder of wood was found near the boats. — Harper's Round Table,
SOMETIMES fT HAPPENS SO.
How did she know his heart was hers? He spoke no word
Of love to her. How did she know
That when she passed cr touched him—se— His pulse was stirred?
Wow did she read his secret thoughts And never err?
Flow did she knew her glances thrilled
His soul? That all h'+ beart was filled Nith love for her?
now their life would be One grand, sweet song? To tell the truta, she dicn'’t know Shese things. Ske thought thut they were sO, But she was wronr.
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THE CHILD’S PRAYER.
Simple Lines That Sweo-tly Linger In Our Memories.
It is said of that good eld man John Quincy Adams that he never went to rest at night till he had repeated the simple prayer leerned in childhood—the familiar *“*Now I lay me down to sleep.”
Is there ret something touching in the thought that thee words, breathed from the roeyv Hips of in‘enscy, went with him away Cewn through cia age into the dark
valley of death? And who is there, man or ween, for whem this little prayer has not oll, s\eet associations? Who, hearing its werds, hears not, tao, the ‘‘memory bells’’ ring up from: the golden plains of chilchecd? It may bea manin pride and strength of years, who bas carved out for himecif an honorable nameand destiny in the rid, perhaps the owrer of broad } and proud homes, with heart grown hard in its battle with the world.
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the old ‘‘Now I lay me’’ they have all rolied back their massive doors and we go down through them to the old, red, one story house where life {rst took {ts morn- ing. We see the little window on the right close under the rafters. Woll, we silent sounder slumber and dreamed swect- er dreams in that old garret than we ever have in, ovr lofty chambers, with gilded ceilings and snowy Craperies. And what of it, if the bed wasa straw cone and the coverlet made of red and yellow ‘‘patches”’ of culico? We have never snuggicd down so contentedly on our springs and hair mattresses.
‘“‘Now I lay me.”? How softly sleep would come and weigh down the eyelids as we repeated the words after mother. We can hear her very tones, though it is eso many years since Ceath silenced them, and feel the soft tcuch cf her hand on the pil- low and the tender lingering of her kiss upon our lips. It may be years since we have repeated this little prayer, or {tf may be that, in the din and struggle of life we forgotten it amd that at night we have lain Gown on eur pillows never thinking to give thanks fer the day and for the night.
Rut sooner or later we shall ‘lie down to sicep’’ when this preyer will be all our souls can take, all thas will avail of rank or wealth or fame; whatseever we most prize in this world. Fut the little prayer, the first, ig may he. that we took upon our childish lips, shall fclicw us as we sail out under the sclemn arches; follew us asa sweet, faint, tender air from the shores, und when wecest eur anchor, ‘‘the Lord eur souls chall take.’’—Beston Herald.
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They were two pretty girls on the streets ear. ‘They were talking at a rate to make a phonograph throw up its hands and ev- erything was said in the strictest ecnfi- dence, though all in the car ceuld hear.
tid you ever sec suck aire as Alice takes on since she's married?’ asked the little biond as the pink im hercheeks dcep- ened to a flush ef acariet. ‘‘She seems to think that her new existence is so delicious thet wo of the set wha are not wedded inust be piticd and patromizcd. It’s too ridiculous for anything. I guess that there are cther fish in the mutrimonial een.’
‘iis a way they all have,” smiled the mcre philosophies! krunetic. ‘Mamma say3 that a young married woman simply ean’t help crowing cver her girl friends
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enc is pleased rather than troubled when she sces how they hate her for it. Don’t j you understand? She has landed her fish, and we ave still ancling fer bites.’’
‘‘TIndeed we’re net. I’ve reeled in tro |
cv three inreelf and then tossed them back. Ske has no husiness crowing over me. And she necdn’t think I'll be good natured in- der it cither.’’
i “Put she hooked the fish she wanted ene wouldn’t thror it back, dear. That's whero cho Eas the boot of ys.”’ Noshekesn't. V'~—
Then there was a gasp, the blond whis pered excitedly into the earof the bru- nette, there was an embrace, a resounding kis? scunded through the car and the pes €-ngers could not but exchange meaning siniles as thecharming little blond plumed herself and began toa take on theairs she had so wrathfully condemned.—Detroit Froo Press.
Tead Werkers.
It is said that lead working disigures the human body more than any other kinc of work.
In this industry is is inevitable that sconer or later the workers must succumb to leaG poisoning, and there would appear to be no part of the body that the poison- ous fumes and floating particles which permeate the atmosplivre of the workshops do not affect. The complexion takes on a ghastly, co“psellke pallor, the gums turn blue, the teeth Gecay rapidly and fall out, and the eyelids ara hideously inflamed. A scratch or an abrasion of the skin becomes an unhealable sere.
Later on, when nerves and muscles he- come affected by the poison in the blood, the eyeballs are drawn into oblique posi- tions and take on a dim and bileared sp- pearance, The joints, especially the knee and the wrist, become semiparalyzed, ind the whole form is gradually bent ana con- torted.—New York Journal.
A Fellow Feeling.
‘“'There’s no doubt,’’ said Mr, Meekton, ‘*that the bicycle has done much to pro- mote the happiness of mankind.’’
‘*In what way?’’ ;
‘*Tt makes people more sympathetic. It wus not until she had a bicycle that my wife ever expressed any sympathy with me when I losta collar button.’’—Wash- nape... . cf
Big Building Needed.
“Tf I could only find a large enough bullding,’’ said the thoughtful man, ‘I would get up an exhibition that would muke my everlasting fortune.’’
“What's the matter with the Coliseum ?’’
‘“‘Not half large enough,’’ answered the thoughtful man. ‘‘I don’t believe if would hold half the exhibits.’’
‘‘What’s your scheme? What kind of an exhibition would you have?’’
“Why, if Icould get a building large enough I would make a collection of the first bicycle ever made. I estimate from the accounts I have seen that there are something like 4,681 of it.’’—Chicage Post.
Two thousand five hundred cab drivers ix T.ondon own the cabs they drive. Alto- gether there are about 15,000 cab drivers in London.
The Irishman Scored.
Some years ago an Irish gentleman went into ¢he British museum. While looking ata book one of the officials ap- proached him saying:
“That book, sir, was once owned by Henry VIUII.’’
‘*Pshaw!’’ replied the Irishman. ‘‘ That's nothing! Why, tn one cf the Dublin mu- seums we have the lead pencil which Noah used to check off the animals as they came out of the ark!’’—Laendon Answers,
The wases of honor to Queen Victoria ore incligible to retain their posts after reaching theageof 17. At the present time the only functions which the two pages of honor in waiting are required to attend are the drawing rooms.
Coach is a word derived from the Italian, meaning ashell. The chrysanthemum is literally ‘‘a gold flower,’’ and the lilacis an eastern lady. Map comes from ‘‘ mappa,’’ a Punic word which signified a signal cloth.
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