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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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?"
The famous Scotsmah gazed at him
steadily tor a lew moments ana men,
laying a band on the Inquirer's shoulder,
bellowed:
"Hoot, mon!"
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