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privileges, either
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made in the
* the product* of 1
Show exceed the
gin Oockran, the New York or
that the “tendency of
#t*g ia this country is toward
K««, except politics, and that
eventually beoome liberal, too. ”
ill
’ Mark Twain asserts that all modern
jokes are derived from thirty-five or
Igiaal jokes whioh were priginnted in
days of Socrates. Several of the
finals, a little frayed, are still
about
Che lecture business has vastly
taged in the last few years. It is
loult avert the Chicago Heraid, for
rleotorer to get $100 a night now,
| a season of fifty lectures is a long
t, Few lecturers are good for more
a one season at high rates.
.. the native Amerioen sailor
threatens to beoomecsxtinot, the native,
>Af nf*sa«« pf sailing craft still
the Chicago Herald is proud to
WK«W« hailing from tha
ports of the United States are com
oomipanded by .natives, bnt the
I often made up of men belong
Lai* f dozen European nation
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. It to estimated that the loss of prop
rfty by fire last year throughout tbe
rhols country reached the enormous
“•' *•*•«*** “■ Turk
ilv flpneeswork, declares the New
itusim, but the result of careful es
tlljtr T~ J r *r * committee of the
lUdaoal Board loI of Fire rire Underwriters, unasrwmeij
.
***,” I i° r 1$9$- llV *t to
the fire insurance
Had at the loasee
' enforcing a
a of rules and
perturbed over
mite Paraguay.
m of good land for
raliaa colonists, or
iu
k join them, and
IMon that 10,000
>u the lands. AU
i Brir Australia are
re a oon siderabl s
the loss of a few
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Australia has,
settlement
who want to
avorably dealt
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RIYEE.
ik RELIGIOUS CO! AA ID
ISO OS THE,
Simple Th rand Plain Their
* Garb¬ .per Wb«a Ott¬
ers Falf, aud They Live
HPha € /
a 1 1 —
r* TTHT I' HE River Brethren are of Dun
kard stock from among the
qT 1 hille of old Lancaster, Pea*
When they resided iiYe<f th«Ww
portion of the members s, up
among the hills and another portion
down the communities on the river, those fo distinguish the river
on
were Called the “River Brethren,” and
after a time the appropriateness of the
term resulted in au receiving the titla
' One day it dawned on these sturdy
farmers that there was a land where
agriculture was easier than among the
rook-bonnd hills of tbe Keystone State.
So in 1879 they prepared to emigrate
to Kansas and did it m a thoroughly
characteristic manner. In numbers
and equipment the colony that came
to the then new lands was a wonder to
the settlers, f W* ft fr.
Over 800 wet# in tbe first party, and
they brought with them a complete
stock of everything needed in their
new home. That they might not be
without a religions leader,they brought Jeese
one of their bishops, the Ber.
Engle, who held a prayer meeting the
first night, and from the start there
was a complete church organization.
There were fifteen oars of freight end
not less than $500,000 in cash carried
by the immigrant*. They resided built alarge it
frame house at first and in
until lands oould be parceled They out,
after which it became a ehnrob.
prospered from the start, and among
those who came then and those who
followed there f has been § not a angle
pauper. ?■
This is to an extent accounted for
by the foot that they stand by one
another ia adversity as well as in
prosperit - Not long ago Bishop En
gi®, deceived by hie judgment as to
the talus of lands, bought mpre than
5S£- HU pro^/pSa of the debt,
out leaving •boat something sixty per like cent, $5000 due the
creditors. At onoe there wee a eub
eoription paper started, and the
oontributed liberally, mak
ing up the defioit, that none of their
order should go into the hereafter
with debt hanging over him. Thfr
characteristic is so foreign to the
usual methods of the Western emi¬
grant as to be particularly noticeable.
In dress the Biver Brethren have
the typical wide-brimmed hats, the
severe black or drab suite. The
women dress in black or drab,- with no
sign of flounce or trimming, winter Their end
hate are black sun bonnets,
summer, and after their reception in¬
to the ohuroh a white muslin cap be¬
neath, which is never removetbexoept
during sleeping hours. Demure, in¬
deed, are the ten and twelve-year-old
misses with their pretty white head
coverings. The men mostly allow
their beards and hair to grow long,
and lew, indeed, are bold enough to
adopt worldly ways in hair-cutting or
shaving. old-fashioned funereal
They ride in with straight-curtained
carriages, back in these
sides, but cavernous pnd
depths the somber black bonnets
the wide-brimmed hate lean together,
and the pink faeee boisterous which. the former prairie
itoot from the
uds give ftp «a : Vteh jiasee as. oan
otmpre
fat
Th«'homes of the River
km> jjoi hn oorious a h*** their one
or toms. e flaring There woetber is nevft vane.. an extra Their nt |
eipHne says .that it i* inconsistent to
* I up lightning rods, end henoe none
pears. Inside there hr plainness
I severe style everywhere, but- in
my of nrsventrioh the wealthier homes of stuff* thin,
si not % Of quality wealth. The
bead of the
tow. His place
dot fete table, and when
pr-ent ta the women writ
in
■ divine are’ feaq,,.. bleeriag .
irn by the chif
on the
^ble ST
.wilh the
v
H. ^
.
• imrety are they labored with by
be kget dtmrch that erery possible effort
oat is made.
Whe church declares thet the mem*
mp ajj|n, shall not have their photographs
nor shall they conform to the
’a ways in dresa in any particn
lar.; So far ae the history of the Kan
Bgregation |r is concerned, bat one
of the church has ever ran
for eleottf Khp-and he was so triomphant
ly and was withal so popular
in hWchnroh and so successful as an
lial that there was no formal pro
It was even hinted that some of
the members so far forgot themselves
as to vote for him. They do not be¬
lieve in serving on juries nor in going
to law, but sometimes are compelled,
to do both. V,
So completely are their affairs left
in the hands of Ood that not even the
ordinary protection of insurance on
the members’ lives is permitted. permittee An
insurance on their buildings is al
.
lowed, but no rich company makes
profit out of it.\ The members, in ease
of fire, assess emseives a sum to
make good the loss, and there is no
other formality. Disputes are ended
by arbitration before tjie elders, but
it is to their credit that few disputes
arise. “Peace-and meekness” seems
to be their motto, and yet it by no
means involves recklessnes essness, for few
are The sharper at a bargain.
ohureh had its origin among
the hills of upper Switzerland, and the
first members were Mennonites. persecution! They
underwent many and
trials, and at last, in ordi to secure
religions liberty, came to merica in
1750, settling along the S mehanna.
Their growth has been slow* there be¬
members’ ing almost no families. accessions The outride the
own pt
the fundamental Scriptural discipline.
but the Bible is their
Onoe a year there is a general confer¬
ence.—Detroit Free Press.
The Rice Paper Tree.
The rice paper tree, one of the most
interesting of the entire flora of China,
has recently with been Florida, suoceesfully where experi¬ it
mented in now
flourishes with other subtropical and
oriental species of trees and shrubs.
When first transplanted in Ainerican
soil, the experimenters expressed
doubts of its hardiness, fearing that it
would be unable to withstand the win¬
ters. All these fears have vanished,
however, and it is now the universal
opinion that it is equally as well
adapted to the climate of this ooun
try as to that of the famed Flowery
Kingdom.
It ia a small tree, growing to a
height of lesq than fifteen feet, and
with a trunk or stem from three to five
inohes in diameter. Its canes, which
vary in color according to the season,
are large, soft and downy, the form
someirhat resembling that noticed in
those of the oaator-bean plant.
The celebrated rioe paper, the pro¬
duct of this^queer tree, is formed of
thin slices of the pith, whioh is taken
from the'body of inches the tree in in length. beautiful
cylinders The Chinese several apply
workmen the
blade of a sharp straight knife around, to these
cylinders, and, turning them
either by rude machinery or by hand
(in which latter operation they dis¬
play tnnob skill cud dexterity), pare
the pith from oiroumferenee to oenter.
This operation makes a roll of extra
quality paper, the scroll being of even
thickness throughout; After a cylin¬
der has thus beed pared,, it is unrolled
and weights plaoea upon it until the
surfaoe is rendered uniformly smooth
throughout its entire length. . It is
altogether probable that if rioe paper
making beoomes au industry in the
United States these primitive modes
^done *way
’with.—St. Louis Republic,
> Mysterieus Carers Discovered,,
Great exoitement has been caused
in the vioinity of Bristol, Ind., by th«
disoovsry of a cave. In "digging a
well Henry Oswalt oame upon a solid
bed of brick and mortar at a depth of
eighteen feet. The earth was cleared
away for a spaoe ef two feet square,
when tiie discovery was made thet the
brick formed a solid walL With piok
and ax OsWalt suooeeded in removing
i nqmber of the square blocks, ana
was jnystifled! to find a large opening
below. A closer investigation dis¬
closed the presence of $ large oave,.
and the brick haa been used in oloe
ing up the mouth. . The dirt thrown
wponii bad completely bidden tbe
eevern from deteeUou. The oave is
tooated in the ruatie MBs north of the
viUsge, usd may have- been made the
biding ” plsoe for valuables diming the
Yar. Thaprepeuee ef brick ia a good
state of preservation would indicate
that the opening had bean closed by
white neighborhood men, bat the-older have residents reooUec- of
tbs no
tion of its existence. A party has been
end the cavern udDbe in
* Tbe belief to general that
u been the heectyuaiters of -
a
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Oom
nlKi
X° 2 mm n
» in :
mt*
J OF QUININE,
THRF. DRUG HAS A ROHAH*
TIC PARTED HISTORY.
V
Iu Flr * t ranee in England
's ed a Spanish Princess—
Its Virtu< icovered by Accident
H IS Grace the Duke of Fife,
who is a chemist as well as a
politician and a banker to
boot, has recently communi¬
cated to the world all that he knows,
and practically all that is known, con¬ qui¬
cerning that life-saving alkaloid,
nine. The Duke says that medicine,” if qnjnine
is not exactly a “household
dnring the past few years it has cer¬
tain^ become a household word. And
per rhape no other drug has a history
more varied and interesting. Peru¬
vian bark first appeared in the London
pharmacopoeia in 1677. It was, how¬
ever, used in England at least as early
as the year 1655, and was advertised
for sale in 1658 as “The excellent pow¬
der called by the name of Jesuits’
powder, brought over by one James
Thomson, merchant of Antwerp. ”
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But what is now universally known
as quinine—one of the most important
of the alkaloids—was not discovered
till 1811; nor was it obtained in a pare
Btate by complete separation from the
other constituents of the bark until
ten yearo afterward. Quite
tifically, quinine may be described as
the base, or essential principle, of the
bark of certain individuals among the
cinchona family of trees, This bark
was first introduced into Europe in
1632, though it is generally said to
have been unknown there before the
return to Madrid of the Countess of
/ Cinchon, the wife of the Viceroy of
Peru, in 1640. This lady, from whom
the bark-producing trees derive their
botanical name, had been cured by it
of a fever contracted in Lima in 1638,
. and her physician, by whom she wat
accompanied to Europe, not unnatu¬
rally made much of the wonder-work¬
ing medicine.
But the Jesuits who had settled in
Peru were quite aware of its virtues
at an earlier date. They were, at all
events, the chief agents of its distri¬
bution ^n Europe, the powder obtained
from the bark being then generally
known as “Jesuits’ Powder.” In
Madrid it was oall6d Countess’ Pow¬
der, and in RCme Pulvis Patrnm.
From the latter city it speedily found
its way to Brussels and Antwerp, where
it was sold for its weight in silver, or
about ten times the then price of
opium. In 1658 twenty doses of the
powder were sent from and Cardinal Borne to Paris Maz
at a cost of $250,
arin Ulness recopmended of Louis its XIV. ubo in That a danger- Peru
us
vian'bark was administered to the
tereating Frenoh king piece is undoubted, of histon&fch bnt evi!< an in
011 ce
points to a different source as the
means of its introduction to that charts
Iu 1679. a well known London physi¬
cian named Talbor cured Charles II.
of tertian fever, with the now famous
bark, which he regarded in the hands
of skilled persons “as a noble and safe
xnedioine. ” Compared with the nature
of the “elixir,” which had been in all
good faith compounded for James I.
for a similar distemper, the new drug
was indeedrirtMethv of admiration. The
fame Frai|e of vharh physician. extended
to and inis XIV’s surgeon
published an a mt of Talbor’s treat
men was ted into Eng¬
lish, Secrfilor l entitled Curingof^gues “Ttibor’s Wonderful
and Fevers. ’*
Tha prevalence and severity of these
dimaasa, down to the dnd of the seven¬
teenth century, national ogoaed them to be re
aa iflourges for which
> “fever bark" was accepted as al
teat a miraculous nan aces. Nor does
hit estimate of i powers appear ex
ariagant when A ludicrous and
iflpn barbarous j kre of the reme
Ills wnioh it g Aally snperseeded
<a taken info co feration. “Plais
and re among the prs-,
ing nostrums, t their Ingredients
• rather snggt ve of the contents
wick’s oauld i than of the ben
At I of later days,
wss to be kl by music and
W while the placing
[ 1 patient’s of the Hliaa bead under
gas
1 magical • value in
Above ail, fear was
pecially ne ce ssary ia
ague, and the de¬
ny P&ave of the methods then
been well oalcu
Idoubted Re whether the
of the bark was orig
to the Peruvians, but the
perns to be that its q«ali
f understood by the na
ti ore the Spouiards landed
ml There is a tradition
srties of fhe were
3y realised trim, by e fever- 1
n, rest by his being toft ba¬
eoapaaiona
flowed
whioh had
c hark of the over*
His cure was
I . looked upon aa
tr* Indians flocked to
teof its s up poee d.
.to’ atoq
of tbe
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SdXKTIFIC AM> irorswuik
The spot* on the tan were first ob*
Served in 1611*
In South America rain frequently
falls in torrents from a clear sky.
The metals which have been proved
to exist in the sun are iron, sodium,
nickle, copper, zinc and marmm.
A species of ape, closely resembling
the African gorilla, has been discov¬
ered on the Mosquito coast, Nicar¬
agua. .used
fly mile of wire, such as is in
themanqfactare of hair springs for
watches, would weigh less than half a
pound. made in
Artificial ice is now so
Prance that upon giving it a rap it
will separate into small cubes instead
of irregular lumps.
The lines over which it is proposed
today submarine telegraph cables are
now as carefully surveyed as any line
o fproposed "fail road.
A doctor says in time the lungs of
Pittsburg folks get a very dark hue,
on account of the so<jty smoke they are
obliged to breath constantly.
A late theory of catching cold is
that when one enters a cold room after
being heated the bacteria in the room
flock to the warm body and enter it
through open pores of the skin.
An astronomer calculates that if the
diameter of the sun is daily diminished
by two feet, over 3000 years must
elapse ere the astronomical instru¬
ments now in use could detect the
dimunition.
Sinoe the beginning of this century
no less than fifty-two volcanic islands
have risen out of the sea; nineteen
disappeared, being submerged; the
others remain, and ten are now in¬
habited.
The colors of.the chameleon do not
change instantaneously, but reqnire
a considerable length of time. The
change is a provision of natnre for the
protection of a helpless animal from
immune fh ble Anomies.
^Tfie strongest live animals vegetable in the world diet.
are those that on a
The lion is ferocious rather than
strong. The bull, horse, reindeer,
elephant and antelope, all conspicuous
for. strength, choose a vegetable diet.
It has been estimated by competent
oivil engineers that the Mississippi
Biver annually discharges 19,500,000,*
000,000 cubic feet of water into the
Gulf of Mexico. Of thiB prodigious
quantity the l-2900th part is se< nent.
Thus it will be seen that the.
mtfll ___ in
sippi annually deposits enough mile
the gulf to cover a square of sur
face to a depth of 240 feet
A collection of bird bones recently
received by the Paris Academy of
Science, indicates that at a period
contemporary with man Madagascar
contained at least twelve species of the
gigantic birds, all capable of/flight
The conditions under which the bones
were found indicate that the birds
lived on shores, with troops of small
hippopotami, crocodiles g$a turtles.
It is a remarkable fact
that no species of flower ever embraces,
in the colors of its petals, the whole
range of the speotram. Where there
are yellows blue And and reds there are no
blues; when red occur there
are no yellows, and when we have
blues and yellows there are no reds.
Tulips come nearer to covering the
whole range of the spectrum than any
other species. They oan be found
ranging through reds, yellows and pur¬
ples, but a blue one has never been
found.. ,
The ChaageableTlower oft'hlua.
The botanical oddity of tbe Flowery
Kingdom is the flowering tree, Known
to the scientists as the Hibiscus nta
tabilis. Its beautiful flowers, gener¬
ally double, are pure snow iu the
morning, bright pink at noon and of
into a deep, blood sky-blue red by at bedtime. sunset, fading The
a
leaves of this particular tree somewhat
resemble those of the grapevine, being
deeply notohed, or seriated, rough
and of variable lengths. The tree is
not only a native of China and Japan,
but is found in great profusion in In¬
dia, Corea and Siam. The “Cham¬
eleon flower" (so called on aocount o!
its changeable colors, because not yet
scientifically identified sad named),
recently Tehauntepee, discovered in the Isthmus of
is only au American
variety of Hibiscus mutabilis. In ease
of the former, the colors do not pass
abruptly from one shade to another, but
change gradually from the saft white
of the morning to the pink,end red of
noon mod evening, «id thence ^ to'ihe
blue of night. . •
The Tehaun tepee tree is l^ger than
its Chinese relative of ■»—jla* habits,
the flowers have the peealarity of
only giving forth perfume Vhen they
are red.
Several other species of. Chinese
and trees bear fl owers whioh
change oolor daily, chief of which is
the Oriental hydrangea, which changes
from bright green to a deep pink.—
St, Louis Republic. ~ ;
Tartan to
old t- boarding-house joke
• ehronio grumbler
mid to his tondtodv
that she provided bear boarders with
the very beat salt he bsfa^y, had ever tested,
Tbiswteeuppoeedto but as
f of *Jrit
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The latest fad among the pretty
girls is to talk woman suffrage.
Lilly Langtry, the actress, claims
to be only forty-one years old.
Women gardeners are in great de¬
mand in England and Germany.
Butterfly bows are very popular this
season, and are seen on' almost every
thing.
In Holland an attempt is being
m ade to pass a bill allowing women bt
be elected to Parliament.
Mrs. Cleveland, wife of the Pres!'
dent, dresses her hair in the . stylf
known as the “Diana knot.”
The Baroness Emma Bporri, of Nor¬
way, is said to be the best known wo
man painter in northern Europe.
Qneen Victoria has sixty pianos at
Osborne, Windsor and Buc kin g ham
Palace. Many of them are hired.
Rosa Young, a direct descendant of
one of the Pitcairn mutineers and at;
woman of more than usual intelligence,
is writing a history of the Pitcairn
colony.
The first woman to be elected a
member of the Yacht Racing Aseocia-i
tion of Great Britain is Miss Mabel
Cox, of Southampton, who owns the
cutter Fiera. -
Madam Marchesi, of Paris, is thg
most famous vocal teacher’ in the world.
She has trained nearly all the great
singers of this generation, inoiuding
Melba, Calve and Eames.
The jewels of Mme. Tetrazzine, tha
most famous prima donna in South
America, were recently seized for
debt, when it was found that all tha
gems were made of paste.
Miss Baker, who is professor of
Greek and Latin at Simpson College,
Indiana, iB only thirty-two, and it is
&Cd that when she was fourteen she
slated one of the plays of /Feohylus,,
Miss Charlotte M. Yonge, the Eng-
lish writer, is tall and inolined to
stoutness. ' Her hair is white—she id
now in her seventies—and ahe has
large dark fr^ow n eyes that are full of
expression. >
It is said that the Khedive’s mother!
has picked out as a bride for her son
tha jkjnoess of Naime, daughter of tha
Sultan 5)aikey, who was born in
1876, and is said to be beautiful and
highly cultured ________
The Empress of Austria haa a pa-,
thetio delusion. She fancies that her
unhappy son, the Crown Prinoe Bu
dolph, is still a baby. A big doll has
been given her, which she fondles and 1
keeps constantly by her.
folded Satin ribbon, three inches wide,?*
to ther width of the ordinary
collar and fastened 1 he side HMt
saucy, butterfly bow, a change from
the shirred velvet co or, that has re
ceived the approval of (amadela Mode.
Miss,Alice E. Hayden,, of Madison,
Wis., has distinguished herself abd
surprise^ her neighbors by shooting a
big wildcat. Miss Hayden, although. '•
a fragile Eastern girl, handles a rifle
with the ease and skill of an old hon¬
ter. iv
The Princess Beatrice $foaely fol¬
lows all the topical songs, and after
dinner at Balmoral the Queen ire
quently listens to a medley of-popular
airs played by the Prinoess, '.who
all theatrical matters is thoroughly up
to date. ' - v . * '■ j
The estate of “Prinoess” Kaiulani,'
according to a. late report of her tros-, ’
tee, is not very extensive. It consist*
of something like a bushel of jewels,
spine sugar stock, a little real estate
and a small interest in the property,
left by her mother.
“A Contest of Silence” is the,novel
entertainment to be given by the mem¬
bers of a woman’s sewing society fa
Indianapolis. Last year the first wo¬
minutes. man to' speak was quiet lor. only three*
The winner held her tongue
for seconds. nineteen minutes and >./•*• twenty} *.
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.. Mrs. Susan Stewart Fraekleton, of
Milwaukee, Wis., has attained great,
distinction as a potter. She is Presi- '
deaf of Ahe National League of Min -
eral Painters, and is the author of A
work which is used as a text book at,
the South K ens i n gton Art Museum, {
London. , . *
. The Empress Frederick has indneed
Berlin societies of amateur' photog- i
raphers abyut to international oo-opentie exhibition in brining,
an of
photographs Her iy by amateurs in 1895.'
Mty as haa ha* undertaken to be *
Henry, pafronesa, and requested Priaoeas
to act as her substitute ea tha
oonunittee. . , - ' , '
A blonde requires a softer ■hade of
gwen than the brunette. Too brig]*
a hue would giye to tbe fair-haired,,
fan skinned woman a swallow washed
outlook. Sat H Is writ to know that
this eoler, as well as all other* can bo'
softened and rendered wearable
Idtttu Kitty Blank, aged tour,;
paatod ber doffs cheek* with briofc
dasi sn i i wa to r and 1
eyebrows with mk. in the
who rouged
i
;