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THE MONROE ADVERTISER.
VOL. XL.
A philologist of high repute is au¬
thority for the statement that there
nro seventy-two languages spokeu ia
Russia.
The taking of the census in Japan
is simple, but the figures are utterly
unreliable. The houses aro counted
and an average five persons is allowed
for each house.
The jays and other birds common in
tho neighborhood of New York city
are also common in tho neighborhood
of Sitka, Alaska, which, by the way,
is no colder in winter than Bouton.
Many Alaska birds comes south to the
United States for the winter, flying at
a speed which Fleming estimates at
from thirty to 150 miles an hour.
Hays tho Pittsburg Dispatch: Ex¬
porting American boots to England,
is an achievement to bo proud of. But
it ih nn accomplished fact. Tho labor
cost in American boots is less than m
England, though tho per diem earn¬
ings of tho American workman are
larger than those of his English
brother. The American superiority
in bootmaking is only tho forerunner
of much more that is coming.
The New York Him Icnrns that
county teachers institutes are disliked
by teachers in tho larger village
schools. Attendance is practically
compulsory, and the schools arc closed
for a week at the time of tho institute
while tiie law provides that no teacher
shall be paid for that period unless
she attends the institute. Tho teachers
say that their own lucil association
meetings hold once a month on Hat
urdays aro far more interesting and
instructive than tho institutes.
The express business of this coun¬
try has reached gigantic proportions.
’The American has the largest mileage,
43,000; then the Wolls-Fargo, 29,000;
Adams, 22,000; Southern, 22,000;
United Htates, 21,400; and Pacific,
21,300. In respect to tho number of
packages hnndlod in a year, tho
Adams stands first, the Wells-Fargo
second, the American third, and the
United Htates fourth. In respect to
money orders issued, the American
standR*#nr at the head, withTthe UUTl^Y
fifatos and Wells-Fargo rivals for tho
second place.
Tho Japanese judge, and with few
exceptions theJapaneso lawyers, wear
black European suits. The policemen
always do. There aro usually no spo
tfttors in court except a reporter or
two. The lawyers have much more
opportunity to distinguish themselves
in civil than in criminal cases, and
plead with energy and eloquence. The
prisons"aro clean ami humanely mati¬
aged, and, except for the system of
press censorship, there exercised ns a
part of tho legal machinery, Japanese
methods would compare not unfavor¬
ably with our own, admits the New
York Recorder.
These five yours liavo indeed done
Wonders in tho domain of street rail¬
roading in this country, and have
even set our trims-Atlantic friends to
work following our example, writes
Joseph Wotzler in Soribner’s Maga¬
zine. To give some idea of the extent
to which electricity has displaced tho
horse, and, on tho other hand, been
instrumental in creating new roads,
we need only cite the fact that at the
present time there are over eight hun¬
dred ami fifty electric railways in tho
United States, operating over 9,000
miles of track and 23,003 cars, and
representing a capital investment of
over four hundred million dollars.
hat stupendous figures, when we
consider that in 1887 the number of
such roads amounted to only thirteen,
with scarcely one hundred cars.
According to reliable reports there
was less railroad building during 1894
than in any other year since the Civil
Mar. lhc addition to the railroad
mileage of the country was but 1,761
miles, or lesj than 1 per cent of the
entire mileage. From 1880 to 1890
an average of 5,000 miles of new track
was laid per year, but from 1890 to
1893 the average dropped to 4,030
miles. I hose figures are especially
interesting in comparison with the
prospects for railroad building for
1895. A revival of activity is reported.
There are at present 20,547 miles of
new road in course of construction or
about to be built. The 20,547 miles
of track comprise many new short
lines and extensions on old roads
in forty-six Htates and Territories.
The State of Texas takes the lead with
a proposed mileage of 2,913. Cali¬
fornia comes next with 1,390 miles.
Arkansas plans 1,377 miles, Pennsyl¬
vania 768 and New York 393. The
construction of the 20,547 miles of
aew railway is assured by trustworthy
financial backing.
FORSYTH. MONROE COUNTY, GA, TUESDAY MORNING. JUNE >2:. >, 189.1
FOIt THE FAIR SEX.
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TWO PARIS DREAMS THAT CAN
BE MODIFIED TO SUIT.
Summer Linens Are as Dainty as
CHine and Crepon Effects Are
Shown --Turkish Batiste isSome
thing New--Summer Capes
The dinner dress illustrated hero
is of lilac bengalino richly embroid
end in silk, gold and jot. The vis
It,no K..wn IS Of Bros do hues in a
soft shade of pinkish gray. J he
pointed collar is made of rose pink
silk embroidered with ruby beads
and silk over a deep plisse of silk
muslin in tiie shade of the gown.
The summer cottons and linens
are very dainty and lovely, and carry
out in colors and designs ail the new
features seen in the silks and wool.
Some of the zephyrs have a distinct
chine effect, and there are many cot
ton stuffs showing erepon waves or
seersucker stripes. A very lovely
material is a bulT cotton with a
creamy, crinkly stripe running
through it. On the plain stripes are
printed tiny Pompadour rosebuds,
Most of (he materials are decidedly
fanciful and show combinations of
color as well as a mixture of threads,
Indeed, the combination of cotton
and silk in tho same goods is the
most prominent novelty. Tlio now
ginghams have silk dots, or stripes,
or small figures woven in them. Some
times mi all over lace design is
woven on the surface in silk of the
same or another color. Lace stripes
run through many of the cotton
goods, and necessitate a s ! lk lining.
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Turkish natrsto' It slices slightly
tufted squares, giving it a faint re
semblance to Turkish toweling. A
groat deal of black and white is still
seen ; so are the cool cornflower blue
and the old fashioned buff and flower
designs, particularly roses, are
sidered in very good style. These
designs are partly stamped and
partly embroidered. For
a very palo yellow muslin has a
large all ovor design of woodbine
stamped on it in dull greens and
golden browns, with the bright her
ries embroidered in rod silk. A cool
looking lawn has b ack polka dots
embroidered on a white ground and
is divided into squares by threads of
yellow silk. Many of the lawns have
cords running through them of cot¬
ton err silk, in the same or a different
color. There are lovely crepes, some
with the popular Oriental or Japanese
designs printed on them. Theso
make charming gowns when softened
by a profusion of yellow lace.
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W’raps grow smaller and gayer; still
they all seem to retain tne simplicity
and the daintiness that have from the
lirst characterized the spring modes
for wraps. A cape that shows a novel
feature in the use of ribbon is of
black silk finished about the bottom
by a ruche of the same. It has a
short round yoke of an embroidery
of jets and blue paillettes done on
black net. Below the yoke the cape
is covered by two aceordeon plaits of
black chiffon. At intervals there are
straps of black satin ribbon fastened
l> 3 ’ buttons of blue paillettes. The
collar is of the aceordeon plaited
chiffon, crushed in on each side by a
large bow of ribbon. A light silk lace
is aceordeon plaited and very much
used on these collars. It is newer
and perhaps in better style now than
the chiffon. A pretty cape of fancy
shot silk is trimmed with two rows of
this lace. The upper row passes
about the shoulders and is bunched
up on the shoulder with some ribbon
loops. This arrangement of the trim¬
ming would, in most cases, add to
the becomingness of the garment.
The cape lias a turned over silk col¬
lar, and over this is the aceordeon
plaited lace, which is arranged with
some ribbon, another bunch in the
back.
FASHTOJf XQTF.3.
Skirts remain straight and round,
with godets and organ pipe backs.
The general revival of wash mate- 1
rial for gowns will be an interesting
phase of the summer world of fash
ion.
A fetching cotton fabric showing 1
fancy stripes on dark and light blue
grounds is known as marine twill.
AM bou ij ant effects shou]d be lott
cnlircly t0 lbe thin „ oman
needs them and can wear them with
,r 00 d results. ;
° Tall long j
women may wear capes
with good results, but those who are
short or of medium height should
wear them much shorter.
Among silks taffeta lias the prefer¬
ence for summer wear, as .it is of
light weave and is produced in a
g rea t variety of effects,
( Crepe ribbons made with satin
are
edges that often contrast in hue with
crepe, which is very soft and is par
ticularly effective in stock collars.
Fine laces will be used for trim
ming gowns of India muslin. It is
a novel decree of fashion that coarse
Rices are most suitable for use on
brocaded taffetas and similar fab
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10 fancy pompadour silks are
in!, de up into exceedingly dainty
parasols. I hose eornoin pink, blue,
> ellow and white grounds, with chine
P rinted garlands strewn over the
surface.
Lovely house gowns are made of
white chiffon over pale silk.
Many hats are trimmed with real
lace, appliqued to the brim.
The revival of mohair is one of the
most pronounced novelties of the
market.
Some very fetching hot weather
costumes are composed of black and
white lace in combination.
The new style of hair dressing for
women is going to increase the diffi¬
culty of obtaining a becoming hat.
The stout woman should not ac¬
centuate her stoutness with belts or
girdles, although a flat narrow belt
may be used with round waisted
gowns.
'The new wools come in many of
the artistic tints such as fawn, rose,
sea-green, blue-green, leather, navy
blue, and such combinations as
brown and white, green and white,
gray and white, etc.
.let trimmings of all sorts are in
^Lillis season.
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without any foundation of silk,
A frock of white India mull, sheer
and line, is made over a slip of white
! satin.
Little satin capes are much fa
; vored, and the satin should be stiff
enough to stand alone,
Black chiffon or mousseline de soie
; and honiton lace, in rich dead white,
j combine beautifully.
| One of the latest things in house
shoes has an oilskin sole. Its ad
vantages are flexibility and noiseless
ness,
j Modistes in Paris are making short
and elbow sleeves for evening of a
mass of frills sewn to a padded bal¬
loon.
In the way of material for blouses
the great vogue is for silks covered
with large designs, as flowered pat¬
terns and plaids.
Some of the newest chine silks are
in black and white effect, and when
put with a solid bit of either make
swagger costumes.
This year’s muslin must be made
over silk, and is so berib
boned and betrimmed that washing
would be absolutely impossible.
Judiciously arranged bretelles or
straps of thick velvet ribbon, or of
jet, is a favorite method of adorning
a white muslin frock.
Ruined by a Flower.
The Southwest has been overtaken
by a misfortune almost as great as
that caused by the Russian thistle,
which has created such alarm in the
wheat belt This is a water lily, a
bulb of which was imported from
Colombia, S. A., by an admirer of
the flower a year or two ago. A cor¬
respondent of the New York Sun
says the bayous are becoming choked
with the stems of these plants and
navigation is seriously impeded. The
p eS £ j s spreading so rapidly that
already it has extended into Mississ
ippi and Tennessee and the inhabi
tants 0 f Louisiana are seriously
a j avme d. for the united efforts o'f
those along the bayous have been
futile.
Sooner or Later.
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flower to trim my lady’s hat—why
not the vegetable?
Real Point Lace.
A woman who docs not love lace is
the sort of freak that lias never yet
been found, and her admiration of it
cannot be called a fad. for it is too
persistent and varies only in its de¬
cree of enthusiasm* over the finer
and heavier weavesJn proportion to
its suitability for the purpose which
she has in mind. |
There is just a r- v'val of the Irish
point lace that be.stair to become a
cr l u0 ' T^rybody is try.
nig to learn how to make it, since the
hand made product Bells fabulously
high in the shops and its purchase is
limited to the rich. Narrow, loop
edged braid comes by the piece foi
the purpose, ranging from 2-1 cents tc
$1..10 per dozen yards, and with an
outlined pattern, a spool of linen
thread and a needle, intricate and
beautiful work is done that rivals the
weblike lace of the old world work
ers.
As the latest luxury in lace de¬
manded by fashion is an elaborate
collar of Van Dyke points, with a
smaller set for the sleeves, the clever
amateur lacemakcr is trying her ut¬
most skill upon these, and with such
success that one of them was recent¬
ly offered a large sum of money for
such a set by a leading merchant
who saw it.
These points are very handsome on
fancy silk waists, and are extremely
effective on small boys’ suits, a la
Fauntleroy. A great deal of it is be¬
ing made to trim sheer India mus¬
lins for the coming summer, and the
fine kind makes handsome ends for
soft mull ties.
Franklin Invented Iron Coal Stoves.
One of the very first attempts at
making an iron stove was by Count
or Cardinal Polignnc, of France, early
in the eighteenth century. The re¬
sults of his efforts were simply iron
fireplaces, constructed with hollow
backs, hearths and iron jambs; the
only improvement it showed over the
old fireplace was in a slight saving of
heat. In the year 1816 Dr. Dos alig¬
ners, of London, improved the Polig
nae fireplaces to such an extent that
they could be used for burning coal
as well as wood.
Dr. Franklin’s stove, invented in
the year 1745, was a great improve¬
ment on everything in the stove line
that had preceded it. The principles
upi* which it was constructed were
similar to the airtight stoves intro¬
duced many years later. Indeed, it
is believed that. Lad i t been possible
at that time f r nders to make
the Franklin
■Lgan ait-light.
A bout tfn-TVc#r tfl Ifl Hf Bfict xxT isJ 1 adiLW
dispute about % date)'Dr.
Franklin improvi j stove so as to
make it suitable t^^he consumption
of common bituminous coal. In 1782
Benjamin Thompson (Count Rum
ford) made several improvements on
Franklin’s designs, in 1833 J. L.
Mott made the first stove that would
burn anthracite coal. Since the last
named date hundreds of inventors
have taken part in bringing the stove
up to its present perfection.
Aerated Bread/
Dr. Danglisk, an Edinburgh phy
sician, discovered a way of making
bread without the use of yeast in
1859. It soon became known as
aerated bread, and the new process
of bread making became more or less
common. Aerated bread is made
from dough that has been raised by
the mechanical introduction of car¬
bon dioxide. Dr. Danglisk’s process
consisted in using water charged
with carbon dioxide in place of yeast,
and in mixing the flour and water by
a mechanical contrivance instead of
by hand. By doing away with the
use of yeast the evils of fermentation
and deterioration are avoided, and
the aerated bread is said to be more
nutritious and more digestible than
ordinary yeast bread. Another ad¬
vantage is that it can be made in one
and a half hours. It requires about
five hours to form the sponge alone
of yeast bread. Aerated bread baker¬
ies have been established at different
rimes in New York, Chicago and
Philadelphia, but none has ever suc¬
ceeded in America. In England,
however, aerated bread is very popu¬
lar. There are in London to-day
eighty-three shops selling aerated
bread, which employ 1,000 workmen,
The shops are patronized by some
300,000 customers a week, or about
15,000000 customers a year.
New Characters in Fiction.
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Frankie—What is the name of the
hero of that novel?
Gussie—Why, Maude Terabout;
and she is in love with one of the
most beautiful and innocent little
men 1 ever real about; he is just too
sweet for anything.
CRIMINALS »
WESTERN
IN THE BROOKLYN, N. Y . PENI¬
TENTIARY.
Boy Bandits, Half Breed Cut
Throats, Train Robbers and
Counterfeiters Are All There.
Whilft ii 1
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the Ivmgs , C Pnnnt ounty 1 enitentiary, in
Brooklyn, N. Y., is under contract
iviiMu \m th the r l mted n a 0 i cioi . tales M Goxernment
to take and proxido for Government
heaTTi^n Ik ad, it is not t generally pp n’er lmmvi/tn known to
Iff <, ,° vera0 ’ lb 1 ‘ as
tl tSVt J ?'' b i t wit.tout nnt its t - |
h, riving,^ LntojTctd all^the /ay
from
one year to life. Out of the l.OOfl
nriaonets now serving at the pen, as
it is usually called by those who have
dealings keeper's with it either as convicts,
or otherwise, about 200 are
Untied Stales prisoners. l>erhap.lt
should be taken as a compliment to
the general management of the
prison that tho majority tiie of the pris
oners sent there are most des
* perate, heartless, cruel and cunning °
of f hose sentenced by United , r,. States .
courts, many of them coming from
Texas and the West. The percentage
er escapes during the past ten years
has been so small, in comparison
with the escapes from other like
prisons, that the United Slates an
thorities have come to have almost
Implicit confidence in its security,
When there is a particularly daring
and desperate criminal to be sent
away J the r Kings . P ri County , penitentiary ..
is among 1.1 the first l prisons • mentioned. ,. i
who is serving a sentence of twenty
four years for robbing a mail train in
Arkansas. Wilson isn bright look
ing lacl of 18 years, and if you were
to meet him on the street ho would
be tho last J person i you would suspect 1
of . , being . desperado. In fact, . ,
a upon
liis Innocent appearance he toagreat
extent relied in the confidence games
and petty thefts for which he was
well known, throughout the West
when but a mere child. Young as he
was, however, he was the leading
spirit of a3 desperate a band of brig¬
ands as ever existed in the West. It
is believed by tho authorities that
manyof the acts of daring in tho
West were done by this gang, but
tliis was never proven until be held
up the train for tiie robbery of which
he is now in prison. After he had
•conceived the idea of robbing the
train he and his gang piled the
track fuli. °f ties, whore it ran
IhifoUgh a rocky gort^a—JLc IU|,JC< - on
the engine and tw^fWWPI
car, while those who were loft dis
tributed themselves along the train,
covering the doors with their revol
vers, so that no one should escape.
Then the Kid, pulling from his
pocket a whisky bottle made in imi
tation of a revolver, started from the
first car and walked through the en
tire train, flourishing the whisky
flask revolver fiercely in the faces of
the frightened passengers and de¬
manding their money and jewels, lie
compelled everyone to throw the val¬
uables into a big sack and when he
arrived at the back platform he
pulled the cork and took a drink
from the supposed revolver before
leaving.
Another train robber at the pen
who is but a boy in jears is Bob
Stittler, 19 years of age, who was
Kid Wilson’s lieutenant and who,
with his captain, governed a score of
desperadoes eacli old enough to be
his father. He is serving thirteen
years. One of the best known train
robbers, horse thieves and probable
murderers which Kansas has ever
seen is serving a fifteen year sen¬
tence in the pen. His name is Henry
Turner, but he was also known as
Dynamite Jack. This worthy for
years led a double life and few even
of iiis own band knew who he really
was. When with his band he was
never without a mask over his face
and a cape, which completely hid his
figure. But lie was seldom with the
band, excepting to execute some
bery which he had conceived from
information while acting the part of
general sport under the name of
Henry Turner in some town in the
vicinity of his band’s headquarters,
It is said by people in the pen who
come froifi the same section with Dv
naraite Jack that he killed the for
mer captain of the band to obtain
the command himself. He obtained
his name some years since by using
dynamite to blow open the safe of an
express ear.
Another interesting prisoner is a
colored man named C. \V. Lewis,who
is serving twenty-eight years for forg¬
ing pension claims. He was a minister
and preached around the country.
His mode of operation was to find in
his travels church members who had
fought in the war but were not
drawing pensions. He would obtain
all the particulars necessary, upon
one pretext or another, and then
forge the requisite papers. He sue
ceeded in carrying on this deception
for years, having forged fourteen dif¬
ferent claims, for each of which he
was sentenced to two years’ impris
omrent. He was at last discovered
by one of the per-ons whose claim he
had forged making personal appliea
Don for apension. Lewis had a most
enviable reputation for piety, be
cause he invariably refused to take
pay for his preaching, and performed
many acts of charity.
One of the most bloodthirsty vi 1 -
lains at the pen is a colored man
named Warren Taylor, who was sen
teneed to ten years’ imprisonment
from the Eastern district of Texas for
murder. Taylor had a mortal ene¬
my whom he swore to kill and to cut
his heart out. For ten years he fol- j
lowed his enemy from place to place
un ^ *’ ie opportunity for
which he had waited so long came,
and he killed his enemy, afterward
literally keeping his oath by cutting
his heart out.
Many of the United States prison
ers a { ^jje penitentiary are Indians
who have been sentenced for various
crimes. Among the most desperate
of these is a Cherokee with an un
pronounceable Indian name,who was
f’ Ue . i f ed . l0 . 5 V . c n jeftrS YeaM Ior r or il man ] ai .
slaughter under the , name of Mitchell
q- av!or _ }le CO mes from Oklahoma
w L ere lie was tli 6 cliief of a band of
Indians and half breeds. One night
^ made a descent upon anew set
tlement with the intention of wiping
5fc out - Fortunately the whites had
been 5nformpd of flic intended raid
«"<> "'fro■ prepared to meet it A
' m ,° b “ " e ook P ,a “' wh,ch
r,, Z lor s ' meA undoubted bravery
»»<• good generalship, and was ha<1 only
be “ tc n 0 ter f' x m e " boe 1
, k ‘" cd . “J',' 1 ''foty odd . wounded.
«<“orge 1 owell, another Cherokee
rom Oklahoma, la serving a tea year.
? ‘f be m rc, f , or "f, V,‘“ hlm g * something "’°T" to eat.
Thomas Barber, from , Texas, .8 sen
mg » Kfo sentence or murder. He
lay in wait for his victim and killed
with a charge of buckshot,
0 Stanislaus , . . ... \\ robllenslci, who , la serv¬
■"* “ n el S M Kims sentence from
Delaware waa one of the cleverest
counterfeiters ins country has ever
seen. He owned a small fruit canning
factory. H.s engine was belted to a
shaft winch was supposed to run a
portion of the machinery in the col
'ar, but winch m reality ran under
ground 9.., to a cave in the side of the
lull against . , which , . , the factory backed,
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, lel . 0 Ul0 col , nter[ei ting was carried
whore n< ? os j*] they 111 - wore L ''' given n 0 a over i. is to an agents (i
who d,d " t know whoro '-''“Z
' A0!e ,)5a !‘ e ' lie was eventually
t™l>Pe<l. however, by . passing . some of
the spunous money in hie own
neighbbrhood, c another case of oyer
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HOW A STEER IS CUT UP.
The Chicago Trust H;s Paralyzed
the Whole Meat Industi-ay.
Careful 4 -, study of the aceompan,
1I] ff diagram of a prime steer as it
reaches tne wholesale butcher from
either Chicago of the local big establishments 1 hree, or their of
New York allies will clear up many
statements that have been published
since the cattle combine put the
screws on and made beef clearer.
Such neel as I handle, said a
SUUliJiLsLij^A, _ j pou nds, that
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no waste. The fat and bones are sold.
Such extras as you see on the butch
ers ’ stalls as brains, tongues, liver,
tripe, oxtails, etc., do not come to
us as dressed beef. These are special
1 lines handled by special men.
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“There is a steer,” ard the dealer
pointed through the glass door of a
refrigerator, “that weighed 800
pounds when laid on these scales to¬
day. 1 paid nine cents a pound for
it. Don’t believe those eleven and
twelve cent stories, for they are not
true. It cost me $72 at the ware¬
house. I hauled it here, must pay
my men to cut it up and deliver it
and all that. What will I get for
what cost me $72? Just $75.20.
“A steer gees into an abbatoir on
! the hoof commercial ancl every ounce commodity. of him goes
out a A
V 200 pound steer will net 800 pounds
of b8ef - The hide is sold to the tan¬
ners. A limited number of tails go
1° dealers in ox tails and special
dealers buy the tongues, which are
s °h4 to delicatessens here, and in
, Chicago go to the canners of ‘lunch
tongues.’ I here is a limited demand
for brains. All livers find a ready
S£ d e > !ind the lining of the paunch,
known as tripe, is growing in such
f avor that it is all disposed of to
dealers who pickle it.
“From the pure fat is extracted
the highest quality of oieo oil. This is
generally exported to Holland, where
it enters into the make up of the gilt
edged Dutch butter that commands
fancy prices in England. From other
fats come the lower grades of oleo
oil. From selected bones are secured,
jk basis v ooiling, of all eneap gelatine, jellies which and marma¬ is the
lades. Stearine. used as a base of
chewing gum and for many other pur
P oses i of }be pressing product out left oleo from oil. the
process
hoofs are boiled and the val
'’able commodity known as neat s
foot oil is secured. The horns are
so,d manufacturers of combs and
^ anc J 7 goods. I he hoofs after boiling
f>re a! -so used in the making of horn
ornaments. blood, Everything that is left,
entrails, etc., is made into
fertilizing material not tne least val
liable commodity turned out of the
abbatoir. I have no positive figures,
but I believe that the 4O0 pounds of
offal, the term used as applying to
everything except the actual beef,
w *ll net the killer from $20 to $22.
The wholesale slaughterer does not
get any of tiie vvorst of it at any stage
the game,
England is known to foreign ob«
servers as the country of large fal¬
ilies.
NO. 21.
Worth’s Predecessor.
Tt has been erroneously assumed
by many people that t he late M.
Worth was the first man milliner of
European reputation. This is a mis
take, as has been pointed out by a
j learned writer in the Eclair. 1 ho
i man milliner of whom history
takes notice, says the London Daily
^ows, was Rhomberg, who became
famous in Paris in the reign of Louis
xv AN - ne u w as ,, t-ne son son oi of a a .iiaxaiian Bavarian
peasant. 11 is manner of advertising
in the early part of the eighteenth
century was to send out carts, the
body of which represented a corset,
while tho shafts wore made in iinita
tion of a pair of tailor’s shears. The
notion got abroad that he was ox
tremely ekilltul in hl.linj. little do
formities in the figure, and the vogue
lie enjoyed was immense. Although
he was but a few years in business,
dying at the early ago of 40 years, he
left a fortune estimated at $200,000
or $250,000, a large sum for a trades¬
man to have earned in those days.
Under the first empire his successor
was Leroy, who dressed the Princess
of the Imperial Court. At tho period
of the restoration ho lived in retire¬
ment in a sjdo did mansion in the
Rue Richelieu, where ho entertained
in princely style. Leroy was said
to be wit.ty and a model of deport¬
ment, and lie numbered the most
fashionable people among his friends,
About Passports.
At this season of the year, when
the European travel is becoming
heavy and hundreds of Americans
are going abroad, tho State Depart¬
ment at Washington is daily remind¬
ed that the general public sooms to
be very little informed in regard to
the methods and fees for securing
passports. Travelers in certain for¬
eign countries are obliged to have
passports, and it is a very convenient
paper for any foreign traveler. Tho
idea seems to ho abroad, if one can
judge from the inquiries and the let¬
ters to the passport bureau, that it
requires a great deal of red tape and
a very largo fee to secure a passport.
The very reverse is the fact. Pass¬
port application blanks can be had
of almost any notary public or on
application to tho State Department,
and a u that is required of the appli
cant ia a description of himself and
the oath of allegiance before a nota
g^ This can be sent direct to the
te Department, inclosing a one
do n ar i )d i r or < ln d the n-ms
port will be returned by the next
ma iL Some years ago the fee was
$ 5> a gentleman applied for a pass
port, the other day, and when he was
marl® <Y .lr1 ,a.~ • ^ -k .m,i | ^ a.
j|i 2
yaw i{
before T v 1
Living Stones in Falkland.
The most curious specimens of
vegetable or plant life in existence
are the so-called “living stones" o?
the Falkland Islands. Those islands
are among the most cheerless spots
in the world, being constantly sub¬
jected to a strong polar wind, in
such a climate it is impossible for
trees to grow erect, as they do in
other countries, but nature has made
amends by furnishing a supply of
wood in the most curious shape
imaginable. The visitor to the Falk
lands sees, scattered here and there,
singular-shaped blocks of what ap¬
pear to be weather-beaten and moss
covered bowlders in various sizes.
Attempt to turn one of these “bowl¬
ders" over and you will inept with A
sycxkfrSe' because the stone is actual¬
ly anchored by roots of great
strength; in fact you will find that
you are fooling with one of the native
trees. No other country in the world
has such a peculiar “forest” growth,
and it is said to be next to impossible
to work the odd-shaped blocks into
fuel, because it is perfectly devoid of
‘‘grain,’’ and appears to bo nothing
but a twisted mass of woody fibers.
Latest in Wedding Rings.
A woman well known among so¬
ciety people, although not exactly a
member of the four hundred, recently
astonished her friends by appearing
in public wearing three solid gold
rings on the third finger of her right
hand. The bands of gold fairly cov¬
ered the joint between the knuckles.
So much curiosity was aroused that
one of her friends finnlly asked her
why she wore the rings in the way
she did.
“Oh,” she replied, “that is the
very latest Paris fashion. I got it
direct from a dear friend of mine who
lives there. You see, the first ring
was given to me by my first husband,
who died of yellow fever. I we -r
that in memory of him. The next
one I wear in joyful remembrance of
the fact that I got a divorce from my
second husband, and the third ring
reminds me that I am married again
and getting to be an old woman,”
she concluded.
Cork Concrete.
Another use has been found for
the bark of the cork oak It seems
that in Europe cork concrete, made
of ground cork mixed with a cement
that is called liepine, is somewhat
extensively used in building It is
-aid to be as strong as the porous
terra cotta which is known as terra
cotta lumber, to be better in its ca¬
pacity for holding nail.3, and also as
a non conductor of sound, and al¬
most equally fireproof.
Perhaps one of the very oddest
nouuments is the tablet in a church
n memory of a soldier who had his
left leg taken off “by the above
ball,” the actual cannon ball being
inserted at the top.