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Dunstan Times, Issue 2172, 10 March 1903, Page 5

STORY TELLER’S LOST CHANCE Had a flood T»r«, B«t Mlwll m £vs< Glorious Opportunity. to 1»proTa on 14. Dr. Joseph Walsh, of the University ol Pennsylvania, saw the Passion Play, at Oberammergau, and one evening lately he entertained a party of friends with his impressions of the spectacle, relates the Philadelphia Record. “One day while we were staying there,” ha said, “my sister and I were standing on a bridge that crossed a stream, when we noticed a picturesque Tyrolean peasant on the bank. He was a big, handsome fellow—as handsome a specimen of physical manhood as I think I have ever seen. He saw that we were watching him, and he returned the compliment by sizing us up, and smiling. My sister was carrying a parasol, and this slipped from her hand and fell into the si ream below. “The big peasant, without a moment’s hesitation, waded out into the water, rescued the parasol, and returned it to us. We learned later that he was one of the Passion Play actors, taking the character of St. John. Quite an interesting experience, wasn’t it?" “Oh, I don’t know,” rentalkod one of the doctor’s friends, whose bump of veneration is not largely developed. “If I had been telling the story I should have made the fellow play the part of St. Peter. In that case he might have simply walked out on the water for the parasol instead of waging in and gettin S wet ” I A RUSSIAN SALT. Found in Copper Minos sad Ksoiri in Chemical Parinaee as Mala- j •kite, Asnrite, Eta, There is a strange kind of salt, Which is blue and green and pink and all other colors combined. It is not at all like table salt and is not salt to the taste. It is found in copper mines, and is used to ornament chairs and cabinets and so forth, says the Chicago Chronicle. The largest and finest pieces of this strange substance are taken from the mines of Siberia, audit was the Russians who first found a way of using it. That required a great deal of thought and patience, for the substance cannot be melted and It breaks easily. The only way to prepare it for use is to slice It into thin strips, join the strips together with cement and polish the surface. Wh«» this la done it looks like dark pearl, with its wnvy lines and changtrfulcolor effects. . The chemical anme for this substance is carbonate of copper, for It is ' formed of carbonic acid and copper. However, the green variety is known to dealers in it as malachite, and the blue kind is called azurite. In some of Hie churches in Russia there are large columns of malachite, which look as solid as marble and far handsomer. In the palace of Versailles, near Paris, there is a room in which the furniture and mantels are made of this same salt. Azurite, because it is more brttj tie than malachite, is 1-ass used. DIAMONDS AT A DISCOUNT* Aspirant t or Fame Finds TtiaS Geat Are Wot the Only Requisite oC Success on tie Staae. , i’acrc was a merry villager in a solemn opera companj' who had aspirations to be n. whole- constellation all by himself, saj's the New York Commercial Advertiser. She watched the starry firmament very carefully and noticed that every star had; plenteous collections of jewelry and so many diamond sunbursts that they got tanned wearing them, tlhe forgot to remember that all the «*arc had written testimonials to patent medicines, and that the picture of one of them or another went with every bottle of tonic, tshe thought all were stars who glittered and straightway saved up her salarj- for ten years and soon I. ; 1 a bureau drawer full of kohim ors. She then applied for a job on the strength of her gem museum. Hut the manager asked her i i her pictures were all over the town recommending a new sort of nutritious puppy biscuit. Then she sadly replied that it was not. He replied: “You won't do. The diamonds are all right, but we can’t put them on a billboard.” Whereupon he blew cigarette smoke through iiis nose, which signified that the interview was over. Moral: A bucket of paste on a billboard is worth two £eal diamonds in the top drawer of a Louis Seize chiffonier. ATTEMPT TO “HOODOO” EVANS How n Virginia Nejrro L.TglUlu>«Mß Keeper Tiled to “InSueacrf' tiic Adzatiral. ' Hear Admiral Kobley D. EvanS waa once in the lighthouse service. In« •Sailor’s Log,” published by the Aft* pi e tons, he tells of gae of his experiences as follows: “I found mrd of the lighthousekeepers in Virginia waters were colored men put in office by Gen. Mahone and his followers. Many of (them had to be removed, generally because they would go to sleep and neglect their lights. One of them 1 had to remove for a very curious offense, or, rather, he removed himself when he found I was going to do it.. I visited the station where be was on watch, and was inspecting, when 1 noticed that he followed me about, spitting frequently when he thought I was not observing him. I learned from the principal keeper, a colored Methodist minister;; that the fellow was chewing her-b§ and spitting around me as a hoodoo to prevent me from reporting the various irregularities 1 discovered. When he found that I had reported them all, and asked his removal well, he jumped overboard. &juJi o|£ not seen again.”