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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. Hood’s Pills SS«?iS£i“sRJs~ $12 < 3000 t* cl&tfii BICYCLES out a* onc*. fVAfli . SfAndird *91 *U*4*U, guarant'd, ylu to model* fm V fZO Sd hand wheel? ft appro**! Shipped without to anyone A atiY&rvf*© \ V*deposit EARS Great A fartery mCTCtk f «*!• 7k A’ fe briaiae td-wttbe w« v m L F&££ USX of % hihwl tc introda-'w W rttr at rare foe Mr£»*r!*l Offer. Mead Cycle Co. 136 Avenue F., Chicago, lit. FuU DRUNKlfifS information (in plain vrrapperi maned with- free OSLORNE8 Ay »«*•• It Ufa. SsortUiae. Gr. Actual Cheap buvlneav. board, (tend No for test ff CKaiogg*. 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 neyiew • 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 A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE. Heat, sense ere all indications Where these symptoms exist on —the stitch in time, womb, disease of the 1111 the left the right side of the or there will be, if there ovary a discharge, trifling at is not p‘Snfradia°Sng Lm first, but later there will be felt “ “ ?hi’r J those of you who are of treatment i) . iTwill restore the organs^ to their normal con- lathis connection Mbs.'e. L. Mtrtn, badly QnaW i« My Ovanes ^c . ake, Pa., says: Tere cesed, burning and for pnma almos^a trnien year , most ; unen j .lur able, most and relieved a dull, with heavy pain in the lower portwn of ^ n mv foot J 1 toId „ , wou ld have to take resting on a use d half a bottlc of Lydia E. 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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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