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pointing upwards, just as you pull a cork from a quart 

 bottle. After getting one-half of the tooth out, the door 

 opened, and in came a man to be shaved, and the barber 

 asked me to wait till he had shaved the customer, when 

 he would try again. I sat on the floor waiting till the 

 man was shaved, when the barber commenced almost the 

 same operation, almost lifting me from the floor, until at 

 last his efforts were crowned with a glorious success. The 

 charge was about ten cents. Some years afterwards, an 

 American dentist from Philadelphia settled in Gothenburg, 

 and fitted up luxurious parlors with 'operating chairs and 

 all the modern Yankee fixings, and everybody predicted 

 a quick failure if he meant to keep to dentistry alone, with- 

 out doing some shaving, hair-cutting, and wig-making, 

 with occasionally a little leeching, bleeding and cupping ; 

 but to the astonishment of all, he built up a large practice, 

 and others, following in his wake, have now in a great 

 measure relieved the barber from his primitive method of 

 dentistry. "Allah be praised !" 



Easter eve is celebrated by a family gathering and a 

 late supper, consisting of boiled rice and hard and soft 

 boiled eggs, with the usual allowance of wine. 



A story is current in Sweden of a charity student being 

 invited at such Easter eve supper to the family in which 

 he had his free meals ; before him stood the large deep 

 bowl filled with the customary boiled rice, and on either side 

 a decanter of wine. The room was lighted by two caudles 

 on the table, and in snuffing them both were accidentally 

 put out, and the maid sent out to the kitchen to relight 

 them ; when all were in darkness the student thought he 

 would improve the opportunity to take a long draught 

 from one of the wine decanters, and after doing so he set 

 it down softly on the table, but when the lights were 

 brought in, it was found to the astonishment of all that in- 

 stead of putting the decanter back again on the table, he 



