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'?'.@w.?'?'.?'.1 ? j| - Full new st<i ,? up-to-date or vari @ ? ? I For Ladies: /TV 18) ? I/ ? IV :?:?:?.?:?:@;?:?:?:?: CANADIAN HARE SKINS." i Macje Into Warm. Soft, Lisht Blankets by the Indians. From tiie fur of the Canadian J hare, which conies south into the United Stat< - and in winter turns snow white, the Indians make one of the warmest and softest of blankets. After the skin has been cured and made supple it is cut with a sharp knife into a single narrow strip many feet in length. The 6trip is carefully curled into a tube seven feet long, with an inner diameter of rather more than a quarter of an inch and an outer diameter of about half an inch. The skin is thin, but tough, so that the tube is light, but strong. The edges are sewed together with great care and firmness. Enough of these tubes are made to form a blanket seven feet square. When all are made they are sewed together with animal sinews, so | that the blanket is almost as strongly made as if it were woven. All this is done !?v the Indian women, the men merely trapping the hares, whieh are so numerous in the far north of Canada that the trapper may catch dozens in u single night. When finished the blanket is a beautiful thing of dazzling whiteness, extremely light and very warm. Its warmth is secured not only by the fur, but also by the air in the manv slender tubes. In time the blankets lose their beautiful whiteness, hut they retain their essential qualities and last for years. They are highly prized-bv the Indians, and they fetch good prices. As a matter of fact, they are seldom seen outside of Canada, and, like an eiderdown quilt, tney are overwarra for heated houses in this latitude. It is probable that fully 200 rabbits go to the making of 6uch a blanket, since one skin makes but a single narrow strip of the whole seven feet. An old Indian chief was asked one night as he sat before his campfire in the north how . many skins were required for a * blanket. He looked at the questioner and said, with a smile: 'Til tell you how many slpns make a rabbit blanket. ? "You go out into a clear spot in the woods when the snow is very deep in early winter and give a whole day to felling trees and gathering light, dry wood for a fire. Then at night you make your fire, a very big fire, of all the wood you have gathered. "It will light up all the clearing and will melt the surface snow for many yards around. The hares will come out of the woods in whole families, attracted by the light of your fire, and will crouch on the surface of the melting snow to watch it. There they will sit for hours until the fire has gradually died down. "Meanwhile the cold night will have again frozen the surface of the snow, and the rabbits, which have covered it so thick you cannot see anything but* their fur and their ' eyes, will freeze tight to the freezit\rr cnAtr V ah r?o n rr/% Atlf TL'l'fll A OilVTf i. VU VUU VMV n*VM ? stick then and knock them all on the head, but it will be a big job. When it is done, however, you'll have enough rabbit skins to make a blanket like mine." ? Washington Post. IF YC HERE YOU I ?:@ ?:?:?:@:?:?:?:?:<? =sc >ck just arrived. Oi ed stock of school sho We are agents 1 Queen Qualit 1NQSTRE ?:?:?:?:?:@:?:?:?:?:<8 HE GOT THE CHANGE. Then He Got a Jolt When He Got Sack to His Wife. Aft?*r haggling for twenty minutes over lli*- price tl?e th aler finally consented t< lei the va>e go for .Mrs. Brownlee knew >he was getting a bargain at that priee, so the considerately retrained from in- j sisting uj)on a further reduction. "Have you t lie money with you to j pay for it?'' she said to Mr. Brown- j lee. "I've $10," said Brownlee. "That'll do," she replied. "The man can change it." Somewhat reluctantly Mr. Brown- j lee produced the bill. With equal [ reluctance the dealer refused it. "No gota change," he paid. "Sat'day aftanoon. Put alia da mon ina da bank." "But aren't there other shop*1 near where they will change it for you ?" asked Mrs. Brownlee. "No leava shop," the Italian ex-, plained. "Boy gona home. Other j customer lie wanta buy. Gota stay , here." Mrs. Brownlee was disappointed, j but not discouraged. "I must say" she said, rather severely, "that you don't seem very anxious to make a sale. However, 11 am bound to have that vaee. Dear," I to Brownlee, "suppose you get the j bill changed. You'll only have to ' go down to the corner and buy a cigar." Mr. Brownlee already had sis | cigars in his pocket, but he obedi- j ently made a trip to the nearest to-1 bacconist's for another. He selected a strong, black cigar worth 15 cents and offered the ten dollar bill in payment. 1 "Smallest you've got ?" asked the j clerk. Brownlee lied and said it was. "Sorry/ said the clerk. "I can't change it. This is Saturday afternoon, and we've put most of our money in the bank." Mr. Brownlee returned the cigar and renewed his quest for small j change. The pursuit took him to two more cigar stores, two groceries, a drug store and a saloon. In the j latter place, by appealing to all the! other thirsty customers present, the ! desired change was finally secured in , dollars, halves and quarters. Mr. Brownlee then took his bearings, j He computed that in his wanderings lie had traversed a distance of fourteen blocks and had consumed half an hour's time. As a result of that calculation he was in a bad humor when he again entered the little store. "Here's the change/' he said, "and n confoundedly hard time 1 had to get it too!"' Mrs. Brownlee patied his hand sympathetically. "Oh/' she said. "I'm so sorry! I shan't need it, after all. After you went out I saw several other little things that I liked, and I bought enough of them to come to the whole $10."?St. Paul Pioneer Press. Mortgage, real estate, title lien on crop, bill of sale, agricultural lease and lien, mortgage personal property, bill ot ,3 i: ? v: j bdic <luu ijcu uu cumuineu for sale at The Record office. \ I n riAR >U WANT TO GET THE PAR WILL FIND A COMPLETE >:@:?:?:@:?:?:?:?:@:?:<s iHOOL cat variety for boys a os to select from than for the following w y. i :E DRY SAM WELLER. Where Dickens Got the Idea of This Quaint Character. There were Wellorisms before j Weller. It may he noted, by the way, that Samuel's name was no invention. The name of Weller is -1 -_ ^,,.1 *., laminar IU jgCUl'UIUgliai siuuvum I as that of families in Kent, Surrey j and elsewhere in the south oi England. In the time of Edward III. a certain Hugh le A eller was living at Henley-on-Thames, so perhaps Mr. Weller, Sr., when from the gallery of Mr. Justice Stareleigh's court he encouraged his son to "spell it with a we" was not so very far wrong. There can be but lif"Ae doubt that just as Mrs. Frances Sheridan's Mrs. Tryfort, with recollections of Dogberry and his like, suggested to j Sheridan the creation of Mrs. Mali-1 prop, so Dickons drew the idea of j Sam Weller's peculiar way of illus-, trating his talk by apt comparison and felicitous allusion from a character in a farce by Samuel Beazlev, which was popular before "Pickwick" was thought of. This was pointed out in detail more than a quarter of a century ago by the late Mr. E. L. Blanchard, although many lovers of Dickens seem to be still unaware of the existence of this prototype of Weller. Both i Beazlev, who was bv profession an architect, and his dramatic works are unknown to the present generation. But in the early decades of the last century his plays were popular, especially a musical farce called "Five Hours at Brighton; or, The Boarding House," produced at the old Lyceum theater in 1811. A favorite character in this farce was Mr. Simon Spatterdash, a militia-1 man. Copies of the play are very j rare, but Mr. Blanchard gave a j number of examples of Mr. Spatterdash's sayings, of which we quote one or two: "Come on, as the man said to his tight boot;" 'I'm down upon you, as the extinguisher said to the rushlight;" "Where shall we ' fly?" as the bulet said to the trig-1 ger;" "I'm all over in a perspira- j tion, as the mutton chop said to the gridiron;" "Let every one take care j of themselves, as the donkey ob- < served when dancing among the chickens," and so on. An actor named Samuel Vale was j identified with the part of Simon Spatterdash and in private life was , in the habit of bclarding his talk | with comparisons of the Spatter-1 dash brand, comparisons which j flowed with fatal facility from his j Co?i "Volft'c rmssivl I , llj/r>. i.'am * o ?uww? I from mouth to mouth, and both the ; name of the actor and the farce j with which he was associated must j have been familiar toDickens. There can hardly be any reasonable doubt that the name of Sam Vale sugj ge^ted that of Sam Weller, just as j his trick of talk, derived from the : militiaman of Beazley's farce, suggested Samuel's amusing method of j ' speech.?London Globe. ? i Teeth Chatter. I The Gold Tooth?Say. you'll be pulled If you keep on disturbing the peace. The Troublesome Molar ? Hooray! I'm just aching to get out of here, you know,?Puck. I lerely a matte C U S' SEASON'S NEWEST Al ! EX CI : SHOWING OF THE MOSli OTHER W >;?'?.?:@:?:?:?:?:?:?:<? . SHO lid girls. Wide range t ours. EVERY PAH I elUknown standarc For Men: How; r?/\rvrvc UUUU3 Inventor Davy and Love. Sir Humphry Davy. the inventor of the Davy lamp, found love .something of a delusion, if not a snare. Writing to his mother, he said. "I happiest of men in the hope of a union with a woman equally distinguished for virtues, talents and accomplishments." And in a letter to his brother he expresses his rapture thus: "Mrs. Apprece Las consented to marry me. ! and when the event takes place#I shall not envy kings, princes or potentates." I The widow must have been a person possessed of great powers of fasclna- i tion, for Sir Henry Holland makes | mention of her as a lady who made such a sensation In Edinburgh society ! that even a regius professor did not ' think it beneath his scholarship to go ! down on his knees in the street to fasten her shoe. The sequel need not be j dwelt upon further thau to add that the marriage turned out to be altogether a mistake. Fenjusson and the Rabbits. Robert Fergusson, the poet, was first matriculated at St Andrew's universl- ] ty In the session of 17G4-.". It was the custom at this tline for each bursar to take his turn in invoking "blessing" at the meals. The college table having ' been surfeited with an unbroken diet of rabbits In various forms of cookery, Fergusson, on being called to say grace, repeated what are now celebrate ed lines: I For rabbits young and for rabbits old, For rabbits hot and for rabbits cold. For rabbits tender and for rabbits tough Our thanks we render, for we've had enough! It may be added Fergusson was uot sent down, but the rabbits were "rusticated." Thsy Were Changed. While serving as commaudnnt of a district in India General t'reagh had on one occasion presented the prizes at the garrison sports and was rather surprised when* one of the prize winners?a privr e in an infantry regiment? apprc *4ied lilrn a few days later and bagged to know if he would l>e allowed to change his prize for something more useful. "What was your prize?" asked the eeneral. In reply the man produced a long case from under his arm and showed a handsome carving set. "Very nice. I am sure." said General Oreagb. "What do you want to change them for?" "Well, you see. sir," replied the man, "I find them rather difficult to use at ' mealtime, and if it is all the same to the committee, sir, I would rather have a knife and fork of the size to eat meat with." Nature. lie who knows the most, he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens and how to come at these enchantments. Is the rich and royal man. Only as far as the masters of the world have called In nature to their aid can they reach the height of magnificence.?Emerson. How to Make a Noise. Harry, the highlander, was bent on being a successful Scot. He was bent 011 making a splash. Ocb, aye! But be was going to make those daft gowks (Scottish for "silly Idiots") In Efigland sit np. But how was Harry to achieve his aim? He sought advice of a great friend? a Scotsman who had already made bis mark. In shipbuilding circles. "Tell me," pressed Highland Harry, "hoo can I mak a noise In the warld?" 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