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A MUNICIPAL ARMY,
CREATER NEW YORK’S VAST ARMY
OF EMPLOYEES.
They Number 25.000, and Nearly Equal
the Standing Army of the United State*
How They Are Divided. Many Under
Civil Service Ruling.
In epending the $400,000,000 of
Greater New York’s money an army of
men and women—chiefly men— will be
employed. It will be nearly aa large
as the standing army of the United
States. It will have in its ranks a
greater number of persons than there
are in the majority of the cities of
the country.
This great municipal army will con-
tain not far from 25,000 persons. The
most of them will draw salaries rang-
ing from $1,000 to $4,000, while many
of the salaries will be as high as $7,000
and $8,000. A few will go over the
$10,000 mark. The great rank and
file will receive from $1,500 to $4,000 a
year—a pretty comfortable stipend,
The persons employed by the city,
If sequestered into a community by
themselves, would make a respectable
city, as far as size Is concerned. Such
a city would be as large as Pough-
keepsle, and it would take as many
fine homes to house them as are
found in Newport, for the combined
salaries of the 25,000 amount to more
than is annually spent In America’s
most fashionable watering place.
Of the 25,000 about 8,000 are police¬
men, and as many more are employed
in the various schools of the greater
city. The employes of the Street-
Cleaning Department of New York
come next in number. There are more
than 5,000 of them. Next in order are
the employes of the Department of
Public Works in New York and of the
Department of City Works In Brook¬
lyn. These number between 2,000 and
3,000. Under the new charter the work
and the employes of these two depart¬
ments will be divl4pd among three or
four depart* - cats, and at the head of
each will be a full-fledged commission¬
er, who will receive a salary of $7,500
a year.
Many of the places are so fortified
by the rules and regulations of the
Civil Service Board that the occupants
could not be disturbed by the ordinary
changes incident to a change of ad¬
ministration. This fact has stared the
present reform administration in the
face during all of the three years that
it has been in power.
In Brooklyn the Civil Service Board
has a much tighter grip on offices than
that of New York. In fact, there are
less than fifty sorts of positions in
Brooklyn that are exempt from com¬
petitive examination.
Under the new charter practically all
of the positions of the new city will
be subject to the supervision of the
Civil Service Board. Appointments by
the Mayor will be exempt. An efTort
will be made by the Civil Service
Board, however—if it is made up as it
is at present—to Include in their regu¬
lations all of the new positions below
the rank of deputy commissioners.—
New York Pres3.
Temperature of Foodi
Tlvo temperature of the things we
eat and drinks is hardly ever noticed;
still, it is of considerable importance
that food or drink should be of the
light temperature. For healthy peo¬
ple hot articles of food should be served
at a temperaturo about that of the
blood, but for infants it is imperative
that milk should be given at blood
heat. Drinks intended to quench
thirst are about right at a temperature
of from 50 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
Drink or food at extremely high or ex¬
tremely low temperatures may do great
damage, and are moat harmful when
swallowed rapidly. Drinking water is
best taken at 55 degrees, seltzers and
soda water should be slightly warmer
and beer should not be cooled to more
than GO degrees; red wine Is best at
03 degrees; white wine at 50; cham¬
pagne is the one liquor which it best
at the lowest temperature allowed, but
should not be taken colder than 45
degrees. Coffee and tea should not be
taken hotter than from 105 to 120 de¬
grees: milk is considered cold at 60
degrees, when it will be found to have
the best aroma.
A New Avocation.
The Visitor: “And what are you
going to make of him?” Mamma: “I
want him to be a philanthropist.”
“Why, there is no money in that.”
“ But all the philanthropists have been
very rich. ”—Life.
Slain by Poison.
Not the poison that the covert assassin ad¬
ministers in the drink, the food, or some
other guise, but the poison of malaria shortens
the lives of myriads. There is a safe and cer¬
tain antidote, ffostetter's Stomach Bitter*,
which not only fortifies the system against
malaria, but roots out its seed* when they
have germinated. Dyspepsia, constipation,
rheumatic, liver and kidney trouble are con¬
quered by the Bitters.
If one ex poets to get a square meal he must
pay a rouu a price for it.
You may not know It but there are large
numbers of people who have made fortunes
In Wheat and Dorn during the last few
months. Then* are equally good opportuni¬
ties now. Why should you not do so. Henry
Mugridge<& Co., ft! Con ramerce Building, Chi¬
cago, make a specialty of advising their cus¬
tomers on the condition of the market.
Write to them for full particulars. All orders
fillet! on Board of Trade Floor. Bank Refer¬
ences.
Fits permanently cured. No fits or new ous-
ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. S? trial bottleand treatise free.
Dr. R. II. Ki.inf, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma¬
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle.
To Cure a Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Brorno Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund the cash if it fails to cure.25c.
M e have i\ot been without Piso’s Cure for
Campbell, Consumption for a) years.—L izzie I’eurel,
Harrisburg, Pa.. May t, *91.
If afflicted With sore eyes use Dr. I saa^ Thomp¬
son s Lye-water. Druggistssell at 2V-. per bottle.
ITS WORST FORM
All Symptoms of Cut»rrh ll«ve Disap¬
peared Since Taking Mood’s.
**My daughter has had eatarrh in its
worst form since she was lour years old.
She obtained only temporary relief from
medicines until she began taking Hood's
Sarsaparilla. Since using this medicine
the disagreeable symptoms of the disease
have entirely disappeared.” M. W. Siisby.
Hartland, N. Y. Remember
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Is t lie be st —in fact the One Tr ue Blood Purifier.
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A SONG OF AUTUMN.
Ho for the bending sheaves,
Ho for the crimson leaves
Flaming in splendor! gold,
Plenty Season in of crib ripened and fold,
Skies and depth untold.
Liquid and tender. \
^
Far, like the smile of God,
See how the goldenrod
Ripples and tosses!
Yonder, a crimson vine
Trails from a bearded pine,
Thin as a thread of wine
the mosses.
•-James Buckham, in “The Heart of Life.”
A Wedding Reception
By HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
UST what I ex¬
5^ pected!” said
Miss Delavigue,
mournfully.
She was sitting
M jjfi out on where the bal- the
-- - cony,
mignonnete and
w asters were all a
blaze of vivid
the color, to enjoy
sunset; bat she didn’t enjoy it
any more, after Muriade Tail had
told her the news. There was a band
playing in the little park, whose green
grass and sparkling fountain formed
such a pretty picture, but she did not
hear its music any longer.
“Married!” said Miss Delavigue,
lifting her hands and drawing a sepul¬
chral sigh—“married! Does the
whole world think, and dream, and
trouble itself about nothing else?”
“I’m very sorry, aunt,” said Muri¬
ade, “but—”
“No, you are not,” interrupted Miss
Delavigue. “Don’t begin, at this late
day, to tell me falsehoods.”
“I don’t mean that I’m sorry be¬
cause I’ve promised to marry Tom,”
said Muriade, with a bright spot on
each cheek, “because that would be a
falsehood. No, indeed, I’m not sorry;
but I mean I’m vexed to disappoint
you, aunt.”
Muriade was a dark, Spanish-eyed
girl, with brows like two perfect
arches; a red, cherry-cleft mouth, and
the most roguish of dints, scarcely
large enough to be dignified with the
name of dimple, that came and went
in a capricious fashion in her chin.
She stood, with folded hands and
head slightly drooped, before the
prim, elderly lady, whose black silk
dress resolved itself into such perfect
folds, and whose iron-gray curls hung
so precisely ou either side of her face.
“Didn’t I take you when you were
seven years old, and bring you up as
a young lady should be brought up?”
sadly demanded Miss Delavigue.
“Yes, aunt.”
“And haven’t I had you educated
at Mademoiselle Melisse’s, with extra
piano lessons, and your voice culti¬
vated at two dollars a losson?” went
on the old lady.
“Yes, aunt,”’ confessed Muriade.
“And,” severely went on the cate¬
chist, “just as you were getting to be
a real companion for me in my advanc¬
ing years, you forget all this, and run
off with—Tom Whitworth.”
“I haven’t run off with him, aunt!”
flashed out Muriade, scarcely knowing
whether to laugh or cry.
“But you would if you couldn’t
wring a consent from me. You know
you would,” said Miss Delavigue.
“You’d scramble down a ladder, or
climb out of a fourth-story window.”
“I love him, aunt,” said Muriade,
earnestly; “and he loves me.”
“Rubbish!” said Aunt Delavigue,
with an energy which nearly tipped
her eye-glasses from her Roman nose.
“You mean that he loves your expecta¬
tions. He loves the idea of inheriting
j*y money and this brown-stone house,
and all the shares iu the Mexican sil¬
ver mines. That’s the beginning and
the end of it!”
“Never, aunt!” cried poor Muriade.
“That’s well,” grimly pronounced
Miss Delavigue; “because I’ve my
own ideas ou the subject. I don’t
know that I’m at all too old to marry
myself. ”
“Aunt!” exclaimed Muriade, in sur¬
prise.
“Why not?” said Miss Delavigue.
“I suppose there can be old fools as
well as young ones.”
“But,” pleaded Muriade, “are you
in earnest?”
“Why shouldn’t I be in earnest?”
“Aunt,” burst out Muriade, “is it
Major Larkington? Is it? Oh, I
know it is! And oh, aunt, dear, I do
so hope yon will be happy! And Ma¬
jor Larkington is perfectly splendid,
since he got his false teeth, only, aunt,
those tedious stories of his about the
war iu Florida—won’t you get tired of
them, day?” if you’re obliged* to hear them
every
Miss Delavigue looked in some per-
plexity at her niece. She had sup-
posed that this hint would have filled
Muriade with dismay and disappoint-
meat ; but on the contrary that young
lady appeared to accept tlie idea*asthe
most Tom natural Whitworth, thing'in the world. And
accident, of chancing, entirely by
course, to come iu just
about that time, coincided in Muriade’s
view of affairs entirely.
“The jolliest thing I ever heard of,”
declared Tom, who was a fair-corn-
plexioned young Saxon, with eurlvyel-
low locks, a blonde moustache and
perb teeth—which latter was a for-
tuuate circumstance, because Tom
Whitworth was always laughing, “it’s ;
regular middle-aged romance!”
“I dare say,” said Miss Delavigue,
primly. “But what do you say to
Borne one else getting all ray money?”
“Dear me!” said Tom, lifting his
blonde brows. “It was Muriada
wanted, not your money, Miss Dela-
vigue. Of course, if you chose to
leave it to us, after yon had done w th
it. it would have been very accepiibl '.
Beady cash always comes h. nd \
Now, you know that, Muriade, as well
os I do, in response to a warning
gesture from his fiancee.
‘*Oh, Tom, you are such a bungler!”
said Muriade, half laughing, half cry-
ing. r
"Well, perhaps I am,” confessed
Tom "But I want Miss Delavigue
to understand the whole thing. The
money is hers, and we don’t grudge it
to her. And we’re ready to work for
our own, aren't we, Muriade? I'm
not rich, but my office brings me a
thousand dollars a year, and were
botli going to economize like every-
thing—arent we, Muriade? And Ma-
]or Laramgtou s a brick, aud we hope
you 11 Je happy, exactly as were going
°. vLue“ , '
n 0 nnti? q iff e
Dela s Zrt liand the old lady
cried n? oux for
..JJ.,,:. •A ™ ° *> • t Muriade, xr • ,
radiantly, when \ the wedding
is to
Bright Sparkles "neath the the morning blue
frosted dew,
Gem-llke and starry.
Hark how the partridge cock
Tlpes Hindful to how his scattered swift the flock, hawk
D arts on his quarryl
Autumn is here again—
Banners on hill and plat
Hall Blazing and flying.
to the amber mom,
Hall to the heapt-up com,
Hall to the hunter’s horn,
Swelling and
be? And why haven’t you said any¬
thing about it before?”
Miss Delavigue hesitated a little.
She blushed. Apparently she did not
know what to say on the spur of the
moment.
“Well,” she faltered, “Major Lar-
kingtou did say something about the
twentieth of December.”
“Christmas-time!” exclaimed Mu¬
riatic. “Oh, Tom, how perfectly de¬
lightful! Couldn’t we manage to have
our wedding at the same time?”
“No,” said Tom, stoutly. “We
must be married on the first of De¬
cember. Yon said we should. Mn-
riade, and you mustn’t go back of
your word.”
“But, Tom, it would only be three
weeks.”
“Three weeks or three days,”
stoudly maintained Tom Whitworth,
“you promised me, and I can’t let you
off.”
“Well, then, yon obstinate fellow,”
said Muriade, “we can be back from
our trip just in time to dauce at Auut
Delavigue’s wedding.”
“Agreed!” said Tom, looking very
happy, indeed.
Apparently the young oouple were
in no wise discomfited at the idea of
going to housekeeping on a capital of
love, and love alone.
Tom Whitworth began to look dili¬
gently around among dim old auction
rooms and musty second-hand stores,
to find something astoundingly cheap
and delightfully comfortable, where¬
with to garnish the small cottage
which he had decided to take a little
out of town, so as to economize in
rent.
And Muriade joined a cooking class,
made herself a bib-apron, and began
to come down into Miss Delavigue’s
kitchen to experiment in pies and
puddings, dainty little tea-bisenit, and
salad which might have tempted an
anchorite to break his vows.
And she studied up the question of
polishing brasses, cleaning plate-
glass, mending china, and darning
table linen with notable earnestness.
And she was more affectionate than
ever with her aunt.
“Because,” she told Tom, “there
is something so pathetic about Aunt
Delavigue’s happiness, coming so
strangely in the autumn of her life.
And I’m afraid, Tom—now don’t tell
anybody—that Major Larkington is
only going to marry her for her money.
For he is certainly ten years younger
than she is, and he has only come from
Philadelphia once to see her since the
engagement.”
“Love is like the measles,” said
Tom, philosophically. “Every one
has it a different way. ”
While Miss Delavigue, who had
been judge and jury all by herself, at
least rendered the verdict to a public
consisting of herself, alone.
“They love each other, after all.
My money had nothing to do with it.
Tom loves Muriade, and Muriade has
not ceased to love her old aunt, now
that she no longer believes herself to
be an heiress. There is such a thing
as honor, and truth, and real affection
in the world, after all.”
The first of December came, and
Miss Delavigue gave Muriade the
prettiest of weddings, under a mar¬
riage bell of white rose-buds and smi-
lax, with an artistic little dejeuner,and
the bride went away in a dove-colored
silk dress, with daisies in her hat.
“But, aunt,” she said, “it’s so
strauge that Major Larkington isn’t
here?”
“He couldn’t come,” said Miss
Delavigue. “He’ll be on hand on the
twentieth. Mind you and Tom get
back in time!”
“Oh, we’ll be sure to do that!” said
Muriade. “And be sure, aunt, that
you thank the major for the dear little
pearl locket that he sent me.”
The twentieth of December came;
so did Mr. and Mrs. Tom Whitworth,
fresh from the icy spray of Niagara
Falls.
Miss Delavigue’s parlors were once
more decorated with the choicest hot-
house flowers, while Souberetti’s men
' n ere arranging the supper-table. The
lady herself, in pearls, point lace,
aQ d palest of lavender silks, stood
* u the middle of the room, receiving
^ er guests. Major Larkington kim-
self was there, looking very stiff and
military, and an old-young lady in a
dress exactly of the same pattern of
^ iss Delavigue’s.
“You are late, Tom and Muriade,”
said the hostess, beamingly. “The
marriage ceremony was performed half
an hour ago. The major thought he
would rather have it over before the
guests began to arrive. Stop! Don’t
congratulate me! I’m not the bride,
This,” introducing the old-young lady
with the profusion of curls, and the
slight soupcon of powder on her cheek
t> ones . “is Mrs. Major Larkington,
an d m y °W schoolmate, Helena Dove,
w ^° b flS given me great pleasure by
accepting my hospitality on this occa-
“Delighted. I am sure!” stam-
mered Tom, staring with all his eyes,
“Many congratulations!” faltered
Muriade, scarcely less amazed.
And then they took advantage of a
stream of newcomers, who monopolized
the bridal pair and taxed Miss Dela-
vigue with her duplicity.
“Sold,” said Tom, succinctly, “corn-
pletely!”
“Aunt, how could you deceive us
so?” said Muriade.
“I didn’t deceive you,” said Miss
Delavigue, laughing. “I said there
could be old fools as well as young
ones, and I say so still. And you
yourself mentioned Major Larkington!
I didn’t feel myself called upon to go
into any disclaimers, although 1 knew
then that he M as engaged to Helena
Dove; and the only point I gained was
the certainty that my dear niece and
nephew were not heartless fortune-
seekers, but loved me just as well as
lf themselves my heirs,
as well as the conviction that Tom
M hitworth loved Muriade just because
ihe was Munade, and not the rich old
woman’s only relation,”
Miss Delavigue made her will the
next day, and she left all her money
to Muriade and Tom, because she was
easy ih her mind at last.
“It was a regular conspiracy,” she
said; “but it revealed to me exactly
what I wanted to know.”—Saturday
Night,
_
WORDS OF WISDOM.
If you want to live long, don’t try
to live more than one day at a time.
The man who loves money and hates
work is going to swindle somebody.
The heathen is a person who doesn’t
allow himself to quarrel over religion.
When^a woman makes up her mind
to marry a man there is no escape for
him.
Not one woman in a hundred knows
how to dress, and what is more no one
can tell her.
No matter how poor a man’s
memory is, he never forgets when you
owe him money.
If your schooling does not help yon
to better the world, your time and
money are both lost.
Apparently the heads of some peo¬
ple were given them merely as conven¬
ient bumps upon which to do up then-
hair. i
The young ladies do not loaf around
the church doors and make remarks as
to how pretty the young men look as
they pass out.
There is no good in arguing with
the inevitable, The only argument
available with an east wind is to put
on your overcoat.
It very often happens that the more
learnedly a graduate talks on com¬
mencement day the harder he has to
“hustle” for a job.
A girl always worries more about a
speck of lint on her best fellow’s coat
before she marries him than she does
after the knot is tied.
A man who knows'says it’s harder for
a bachelor to pack his trunk than a
married man. A married man gets his
wife to pack it for him.—The North-
West.
American Tools Abroad.
American tools are sold all over
the world. The New York represen¬
tative of an American tool manufac¬
turing establishment, when asked
where American tools were sent, ran
over the export orders received that
day. They included orders from
Hungary, Austria, Germany, France,
England, South Africa and South
America. There were altogether
about twenty orders, and from some
of the countries named there were two
or three orders. The export orders of
the previous day included orders from
Russia, Australia and New Zealand;
and these were not unusual orders,
but such as are constantly received.
In the shipping room at that moment
stood cases marked for Java, for
Ecuador, and for Australia.
Many of these orders are small. In
some cases there were orders for a
single tool, or for two or three; for
some, orders of half a dozen, or two or
three dozen, to supply orders or to
keep lines filled. These small orders
are mostly from European countries,
with which communication is nowa¬
days quick and convenient. European
merchants order these things just
about as merchants in other cities in
this country would. It costs no more
to send to London than it does to
Chicago, aud it is as easy to send to
Berlin as it is to Paterson.
The characteristics that commend
these American tools to their foreign
purchasers are the same that mark
American machiuea and implements
generally; lightness, fine finish, and
perfect adaptability to their several
uses. The exports of American tools
to all parts of the world are steadily
increasing.—New York Sun.
Transporting Gold by Mail.
A San Francisco bank which not
long ago offered the Secretary of the
Treasury several millions of gold coin
for New York exchange to save the
cost of transportation has resorted to
a novel plan for transferring the gold
across the continent at the expense of
Uncle Sam. It is being shipped by
mail in small canvas bags about the
size of a sausage, each bag containing
fifty $20 gold pieces, and there are
seven or eight bags on every mail.
Over $700,000 has already been re¬
ceived in this way. The packages are
sealed, registered and sent under let¬
ter postage at the rate of one cent an
ounce. A double-eagle weighs about"
an ounce, and fifty ounces is about as
heavy a package as the postal authori¬
ties will accept. The postage on each
package is fifty cents, more or less
the fee for registration is eight cents*
and the money is insured at the rate
of $1 per $1000 against loss by fire,
robbery or accidents. Therefore the
cost of transportation amounts to about
$1.60 for every $1000. The express
rates, including insurance, are $3.50
per $1000, and the saving is there¬
fore about $1.90 per $1000, or 700
times that much on the shipments thus
far.
The Government assumes no re¬
sponsibility for packages intrusted to
the mails. The registration is only a
safeguard and a receipt, which is ad¬
mitted as prima-facie evidence in the
courts, so the insurance companies
take all the risk. Small packages cf
gold have been transmitted by mail
frequently for years back, and there
has never been a loss, but this is the
first time that bankers have shipped
it by wholesale.—Chicago Record.
A Magnetic Island.
The stories of magnetic mountains
that exert an attraction that cannot be
withstood on all vessels that come into
their vicinity have some foundation in
reality, and that, too, in the neighbor¬
hood of Germany, The well known
island of Bornholm, situated in the
Baltic, and belonging to Denmark,
may be regarded as a buge magnet.
Although the power of this magnet is
not so great that it can draw the nails
out of ships, as was told of the island
in the “Arabian Nights,” the magnet¬
ism of the rocks on the island of Born¬
holm can cause a good deal ox trouble
to ships in quite another way. It ex¬
erts such an influence on the magnetic
needle that it can cause a vessel to
turn perceptibly aside from her course.
This is quite possible, as the effect of
this magnetic island is perceptible at
a distance of nine and a half miles.—
Glasgow Herald.
What “Ocean Springs” is.
Ocean Springs, the scene of the fever
epidemic, is the oldest French settle-
ment on the Gulf Coast. In 1682 La
j Salle and Tontv, after having explored
j the Northwestern country, paddled
down the Mississippi River to its
mouth aud claimed all the sourround-
ing country in the name of the French
King. Several rears later France sent
out colonists who settled at Ocean
Springs, which, however, they called
Fort Biloxi, the name having been
changed in recent years. The plague
which visited these early colonists
from time to time was probably noth- j
( ing more nor less than yellow fever.—
| Milwaukee Sentinel. I
THE FIRST UMBRELLA.
Just 147 Years Ago Jonas Hanway Car¬
ried One In London Streets.
The umbrella is o comparatively
modern feature of European civiliza¬
tion.
In 1750 Jonas Hanway, a Quaker,
first went through the streets of Lon¬
don carrying an umbrella. Three
years from now, in 1900, it will be
meet to celebrate the sesquicenten-
nial of this most useful implement.
As this is an age of celebration it is
not likely that so good an opportunity
will be missed. Already in London
they are discussing the proper manner
of doing homage to the umbrella.
Hr. Hanway was a man of strong
character, but it required all his cour¬
age to brave the London crowd with
his strange rain shield. The inhabi¬
tants of that great metropolis received
him with jeers and even more sub¬
stantial marks of disapproval. But
he was imperturbable, and in conse¬
quence of his example the umbrella
came very rapidly into general use.
Hanway had traveled much in the
East, and there he had noted the
great benefits derived by the natives
from the umbrella, both as a protec¬
tion against the sun and rain. The
East, with its infinitely older civiliza¬
tion, had been familiar with this as
with so many other useful articles at a
time when Europe was in the wildest
savagery.
Umbrellas were known to the Egyp-
tions, and were certainly used by the
ancient Hindoos. The umbrella is
mentioned in a poem of Sakuntala,
written in the sixth century, and it
figures in various bas-reliefs among
the Ninevah sculptures discovered by
Sir Henry Layarcl. The Chinese
“Book of the Rites of Tcheon,” print¬
ed about the year 300, containing a
description of a veritable gamp. And
it is on record that when the son of
the then Emperor of China was cap¬
tured in the second Tartar invasion,
he was made to carry the umbrella of
the Tartar chief when he went out
hunting.
The parasol was invariably carried
by tko high-bred dames in ancient
Greece, and a white parapluie was
borne by the priestesses of the god¬
dess Athene in the annual Seirophoria.
The fashion migrated also to Rome,
where the umbraculum carried by the
women, and even by some of the men,
was made of leather, and could be
opened and shut. This fact is men¬
tioned by Martial, Juvenal and Ovid;
while the latter also speaks of “a
golden umbrella which warded off' the
keen sun.”
In Siam the umbrella has always
been regarded as a mark of distinction,
and M. de Loubere, in bis work on
that country, tells us how the use of
the umbrella was only granted to cer¬
tain of the King’s subjects. The
King was invariably protected in his
progresses by an umbrella, appearing
as if three sepai'ate protections had
been mounted on ono stick, one over
the other. Tavernier speaks, in his
“Voyage to the East,” of the throne
of the Great Mogul being supported
on either side by an umbrella. The
princes of the Mahratta provinces in
India bore the title of Chatrapati
(Lord of the Umbrella); while in Ava,
to this present day, the title of the
ruler is “King of the White Elephant
and Lord of the Twenty-four Um¬
brellas.”—New York Journal.
Honey Bees Capture a Ship.
The bark Shirley, which has car¬
ried millions of feet of lumber on the
Pacific coast, is now said to have
aboard a small cargo of honey. Her
owners recently decided to put her in
the Klondike service and L. B. Mitch¬
ell was sent to Quartermaster Harbor
with men to get her ready for re¬
pairs.
“We found that she had been taken
possession of by honey bees,” Mitch¬
ell says, “and in going into her we
found every passage and. room was ap¬
parently full of bees. We shut the
hatchway and thought we had them
imprisoned, but we found a steady
stream going and coming through the
hole left for a stovepipe iu the cabin.
We were on board thirty minutes, aud
iu that time the column of bees con¬
tinued to move, making a noise like
escaping steam. We were unable to
work on board until something should
be done. We lowered into the hull a
tank of burniug cedar bark and closed
up everything. A great many of the
bees were killed, but we were unable
to go into the bark the next day.
Some think she may contain a ton of
honey or even more.”
Dog’s Nose a Divining Rod.
Thomas Hanley, of Choconut Centre,
Me., has a Newfoundland dog which
is bringing him in a goodly sum in a
capacity that no cauine has heretofore
tried. Several months ago Mr. Han¬
ley determined to drill a well and ac¬
cordingly set a gang of men at work.
Several ineffectual attempts were made
to find water, and Mr. Hauley was
about to give it up, when he noticed
the peculiar actions of his dog, who
sniffed the ground at a certain spot
and rushed hack to the drill in an evi¬
dent effort to attract attention. At
last the men took the hint and for a
joke more than anything else, began
drilling, but they had not gone twelve
feet when a vein of water was struck.
Since then Ponto has been much in de¬
mand by the neighbors, and his mas¬
ter receives $5 for each well he dis¬
covers. He always understands what
is wanted and will go along with his
head to the ground until he finds a
suitable p’ace and then sets up a howl.
The trick seems to be instinctive, and
Mr. Hanley has refused large sums for
him.—New York Press.
A House That Attracts Lightning.
Not far from Hodgenville there
stands an old house which has a won¬
derful attraction for lightning. It is
located in an unused field, surrounded
by shrubbery and undergrowth. It is
only the frame of a once costly dwell¬
ing, and has been standing there for
forty years. Strange as it may seem,
it has been struck by lightning every
time an electrical storm has visited
that section. The house was erected
by a well-to-do farmer years ago, and
was intended for a dwelling for his
family, but had to be deserted on ac-
count of its habitual subjection to
lightning. It has never since been oc¬
cupied. During a thunder-storm one
perpetual flash of lightning plays
about the old house. The house has
been torn away, strip by strip, with
each bolt of lightning, until now only
a small portion is left standing. So
tar as is known no fatalities have ever
occurred in the house.—Bardstown
(Ky.) Record.
Original Golf.
Tne game of golf is said to have been
invented in ancient times by a lonely
shepherd who had *
do than nothing better to
to knock round stones into a
rabbit hole M T ith his crook.
Dewey County, South Dakota, which
is larger than tbe State of Delaware,
is officially declared to have no inhab-
itaats, and no votes were cast in it at
the last election.
WOMAN’ S WO RLD.
A Tremendously Effective Sasli.
A sash of green chiffon, fnU width .
and tucked at the ends, with a large
bow at the waist, is very dainty, but
apt to prove perishable. Such a sash
is tremendously effective worn with a
bine flowered foulard. The corsage
renders a blouse effect. The back is
formed in two plaits, extending from
the shoulder seams to the belt; the
fronts make two even plaits, closing in
the middle; they are trimmed with
large revers * opening over round an belt em-
broidered waistcoat, The
as well as the plaits in front are
trimmed with oval jets, Tbe sleeves
are in one piece, linislied with a lace
ruffle, which falls over the hand.
Ilair a Source of Worry.
A fashionable hairdresser, to whom
a customer was bewailing her fate the
other day, said that half the wrinkles
-on fair faces are caused by worry about
hair. “A woman came to me one day
not long ago and asked me to arrange
her hair in what, according to my
judgment, would be the most becom¬
ing style for her to wear. She was a
little dark woman with a slight, oval
face, and her hair was black and
straight. She had a worried, har¬
rasa ed expression, and lines about her
and mouth that needed softening. ”
eyes philosophical hairdresser smiled at
The
the recollection and continued: “I
twisted her back hair into alow, soft
knot, a sort of a ‘bun,’ only softer and
more becoming. I parted it in tne
middle in front, and waved it, leaving
the waves ripple down across the fore¬
head, and drew them back over ber
ears, making the ridges puff out. No
curls were on the forehead; no frizzes
or flyaway locks, It was simple and
soft without being untidy, and I con¬
fess I was proud of my handiwork
when it was finished.
“The Jittle woman looked at herself
in the mirror for a few seconds before
she spoke. She smiled like a pleased
child and the lines faded out of her
face like magic. She appeared about
ten years younger. It wasn’t the
coiffure. It was simply because she
was so pleased. Then she poured her
woe3 into my ear. It seems that her
husband had a special and particular had
fondness for pretty hair. She
tortured her locks into every fashion
she could think of to please him, but
her most earnest efforts met with eith¬
er silence or derision. She came to
me—about the tenth hairdresser she
had been to I imagine—because she
took a fancy to a wax head in the win¬
dow. She admitted that to every
coiffeusewho had dressed her hair she
had given instructions to dress it elab¬
orately. In that lay the whole trou-’
ble. Dark hair should not be dressed
elaborately. Curls and frizzes, with¬
out reason or limit, belong to the fair
haired woman. And a thin, serious
face should be softened by fullness
and puffiness around cheeks and tem¬
ples, but the fullness should look as
little like art and as much like nature
as possible.”
Finest Pearls in Europe.
On the occasion of the grand dinner
to the Emperor and Empress of Ger¬
many at Venice by the King and
Queen of Italy, the Queen wore her
wonderful pearl necklace, which has
no equal in the world. When she was
first engaged to King Humbert, who
was then Prince of Naples, he pres¬
ented her with a single string of these
precious stones, each as big as a
hedge-sparrow’s egg, and of the most
perfect form and color imaginable.
Margarita being the Greek for pearl,
the offering had a special significance.
At every birthday since the King has
presented his beloved consort with
another string, each one being a little
larger than the last, so that the latter
ones waist. now While reach far below Her Majesty’s
on the subject of pearls,
a few other ornaments composed of
these exquisite jewels are worth men¬
tion.
The Empress Frederick of Germany
has a very fine collar necklace com¬
posed of thirty enormous pearls of
exquisite shape and color, and it is
said she wears them both day aud
night, as the lustre of these almost
living treasures is immensely en¬
hanced by contact with the human
form. Our own Queen possess what
is supposed to be the “pinkest” of all
Pearl necklaces, and it is reported to
have been a part of the dowry of
Queen Catherine or Arragon. The
marvelous black pearl necklace of the
Empress of Austria is well known, and
she has worn it incessantly ever since
the sad death of the Archduke Rudolph;
attached to it is a curious black dia-
mond having a quaint effect, quite
unique. Lady Ilchester has a very
^ ^ ie sa ™ e Idack pearls,
which i is often seen in London draw-
mg-iooms. Oi single pearls of im-
mense size the present Pope Leo
XIII. is the possessor of the most
famous, a superbjewel, given by one
of the Doges of \enice to a former
Holder of the papal throne; it is
arranged as a reliquary and has a
wl beside °l u m crown a gold of case.- thorns Jewelers placed
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Fashion Notes.
The old fashion of having all parts
of a costume to match in shade is be¬
ing revived.
Washing silk for skirt waists is an
economical material, as it can be worn
late into the fall.
Chiffon is by far the prettiest ma¬
terial for dressy occasions: it is folded,
draped, puffed and tucked.
A novelty costume has a skirt made
of alternate breadths of crepe and silk. !
f/r^i 1086 ' 7 tuckeJ ’ whUe thc |
Corsages of fancy style '
are not yet
discarded, and their total abandon- I
dent is not desired by those of econ- 1
omical bent.
Many of the fashionable parasols 1
are more suggestive of over-trimmed j
lamp shades than of any article be- l
longing to the toilet. j
Beading three inches wide may bf I
obtained in the various seasonable
■
colors. It is used for ginghams and
batistes, and makes a pleasing finish.
The conservative woman clings to
the plain, untrimmed sunshade, but
the material is of the very best and
the workmanship must be faultless if
these plain models are to be approved, i
Gray is one of the fashionable col¬
ors, and is used in every tint and tone
as well as every imaginable fabric. It
is almost always possible to make it
up with some color that renders it be¬
coming to those who could not wear
it alone.
Among the popular materials for
house dresses are India silks aud foul¬
ard. These fabrics will be worn un-
til late in the autumn, and a goodlv
number have been ordered with an
eye to indoor wear throughout the
season.
Brocaded taffeta in colors is a favor¬
ite for evening gowns, and takes on a
quaint air iu its flower-besprinkled
surface. They are made more plainly
than a plain material, and their erispv
freshness makes them a durable ami
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~ The Peanut Cure for Consumption.
In dealing with consumption two
tilings are needful;to keep Up the heat
and vitality, and also to kill out the
tuberculous germs. One means used
to keep Up the heat Is cod liver oil,
which we do not think Very mtlch of,
as we much prefer sweet cream, fresh
buttei* arid the oil of various nuts.
The journal of Hygiene states that
Dr. Brewer has a new idea concerning
food for consumptives. His treatment
consists of the inhaling the fumes of
vinegar and the eating of peanuts. He
gives his patients as many peanuts as
they can eat without injuring their di¬
gestive organs, Two young ladies,
who had been the round of the doctors
and taken cod liver oil and tonics till
they were nearly dead, were put on his
treatment and recovered. Concerning
these cases, Dr. Brewer says: “I now
commenced feeding fteanUts. One
would think this a very indigestive
diet, but they craved them, and it has
always been my policy to find out what
my patients desire to eat, and unless it
is too unreasonable I humor them.
Both young ladies have become plump,
and after a year’s inhalation have
ceased to cough, and I pronounced
them well. The peanut was long known
as an excellent fat producer, and much
more agreeable than rank shark oil,
that oftentimes is sold for cod liver
oil. While not all can digest peanuts,
a great many, even with feeble diges¬
tion, can eat them without discomfort.
It beats the Koch lymph, and is the
most satisfactory treatment I have
ever tried for these diseases.”
We are of opinion that freshly baked
peanuts are worth trying-—they are
cheaper than cod liver oil, and much
pleasanter to take, They are also
feebinmended as a remedy for sleep¬
lessness.
Navajo Indian Weaving.
"In the art of weaving the Navajos
excel all other Indians in the limits
of the United States,” said R. Johns
of Santa Fe. "In fineness of finish,
artistic design and \v.iety of pattern
the Navajo Blanket is ahead of any
of the handiwork of the other tribes.
They are clever enough to weave blan¬
kets with the different designs on the
opposite sides, but of late years their
work has deteriorated somewhat be-
cause of the substitution of inferior
aniline dyes bought from traders for
permanent native dyes formerly used,
and also on account of the yarn got
from the same source, instead of that
laboriously twilled by the hands of the
Indians. They are great at weaving
belts, sashes, garters, and saddle girths,
The Navajo woman finds her greatest
diversion in this occupation, and the
acquisition of money is by no means
the chief motive that actuates her in
producing a blanket that is really a
work of art, for after wearing it a
little while, till the charm of newness
is gone< she will sell it at a price
that doesn’t at all compensate for her
time and labor. The wealthiest of the
tribe will weave just as assiduously as
their poorest neighbors, which goes to
proV e that they regard it as more in
the light of pastime than toil.”—New
York Tribune.
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