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fKEATED AS CONVICTS.
JEWS ARE SENT OUT
O? RUSSIA IN CHAINS.
k ffowspnper Correftpomlfliit Describe*
<Ik> Umn Uniting and Oraet Ciremn-
■faticp* Attending tbo Flight of Jowf»1i
filrtlW-ClowIy Gaardod.
£ ft Hf-grapiigd Jows etpelled the fact from of Moscow my having
omAra, but in
as the censorship has become
A) rtxlct.1 eoeild nit enter hi to details, I
^Bited yrtobJiG.-s was Informations about te that be dispatched a convoy of
osrfntn at
• ftrpe from fhe prison (peresce-
JQfA), wi% *pvt and at 1 tiie accordingly timo indicated. proceeded to
ilvefl I ^be a*-
fho small western door of
*s fhe Invalids of the convoy were
brenght ont and placed on three
wrtnghwn carts. There were abont eight
fib eabh cart (not Jews), old men,
Women and others, of various ages,
Ifwfcrty in extreme debilttv.
Chny seemed ntterly helpless and care¬
ts «d ♦omen presented were present, a very sad evidently sight, in- A
ftrw»te<l in tho fate of the prisoners.
carried bags and tins, which I saw
4 «aeo wore meant to bo given to some
wred one in the convoy. I noticed two
ot fbGre women particularly, tho ono a
rPty ladylike person of middle ir**, with
r 0 | 0 iar features, telling that b1ie was
wp a Russian. Her companion was a
were jjlrl of perhaps sixtocn or seven-
t<Wn, v/Ttli an undoubtedly Jewish coun-
tbnanco.
Mr Information was that there would
Ito either two or four Jews in the convoy,
tfrr very ffew now remain in tho prison,
tfe* rest having been removed, and it
yas by their features, bearing and dress
should recognize them. While I was
thus observing things around me tho
procession of prisoners began to defile
from the small door mentioned. They
dime two by two, chained together by
handenffs, and closely guarded by prison
wardens. Tho prisoners were of both
*Xfcs and varied in age, appearance aad
Some w-ore prison garments, somo
Wbre their own clothes and somo tho con¬
fine* dre«8 with the yellow diamond on
tn buck
TWO IjmOCKNT JEWS.
A* tb* convoy pas-ed the group of
wottMd alongside whom I stood, I noticed
*«0mmotion among thorn. Tne Russians
gfcwmlttted prayors after their wont; the
*ft)W4y 1/wly and girl liecame excitcrl. I
B^mHnizz^ Ww prisoners closely, being
well Htared at by them and scowled at
ftature* ar rtie guard, bnt crmld detect no Jaw.
upon which vice and crime and
i»t*fortnn* and misery were stamped in
HKtelfblo stains there woro in plenty, but
Ahong three 1 notlceil no Jewish face.
#B*t Hi* « rear waa coming up, and in
fifth row from tho last, 1 notiood two
|*sd*omo open countonancea
There were what I was in search of.
could not be a moment’s hesifa-
WHv Hero were two JewB. The one
Wte 1 * tfcslwart, elderiy roan,with a beard
and ruddy face, on whom prison life had
b*e« ablo to do little hurt. The other
was likewise tall, with short black beard
end moro prononuced Jewish features
‘Hi* two Jews were chained together.
ItbbabV thoy 3ro to be sent to the same
lWgfcbqjhood. A* I expected, the lady and girl
wero
for tho£5© two prisoners, like my
iJRf, and attempted to pass th* bags
wfth the httto noqr kettles and jjanni-
Aflutte th«i* relatives or friends. The
Anfeat wntder, gcefcng tho attempt,
ftwefl/ 'Ofeelza," or “That is not al-
and raised his drawn sword as
a to ftrike the girl, who was in front of
Hr eomprfnlon. Falling back with a
Mgh, <ho girl seemed not to despair, but
m huge for perserfranco anpfher chanw, characteristic with that in-
<3 so
fti«rore.
STRICT GUARDS.
Iftorward at tire railway station 1
v tno girftre pair engaged on the same
erTnnd, but whether they suc-
or not t do not know, I could
t help tfieftv, but only might have
®promtsea fhem wifli tho authorities
fiMuhles. Af^er traveling by railway
cub or the western provinces within
ttvn the Jewish prisoners will bo
oft, presumably, in' us they are at
moment I write, chains, t-o the
(Rjrtlnatkm assigned them.
The natore of theso two Jews I could
mi U it were necessary, nn d I know that
ftoy are not diorgcsl with any offense,
fctrt are merely being sent away by the
csmr’s nkaee, ami not having money
fttongh to pay their railway expenses,
<*, Aefr more probably, having given over to
dear oat's tho money they possessed,
flh «7 are tgnomlnionalr herded with
(JHtoinaia, and chained like them.
I ory3 thought of taking a camera to
*d*nce rfotograph them, but would 1 do not think the
so obtained be stronger
fhaa that nent given. It is not easy to
grtmd photograph particular individuals in a
in motion, nor ca:i it t>e done
#rithcmt axefting notice. As I was three
tr*rned*by tire sentry that It waa
«ot alKJW8d “te look,* 1 as Ire put it-, prob¬
ably X should have been expelled like a
Jew ft 1 had been csngkt photographing
What the Russians consider is a private
t affair of thetr own. Having seen what
hftTfi recorded, no honorable person can
diejmte the ev^dbneo. I have only seen
two, that Is trne, bnt had I been nd-
thitted easier into the secret of what was going
(ffi I should have seen many.—
lloBco^ Cor. London News.
Took Slpoiiy for a Hartsinan.
ft fc related of Moody, the evangelist,
he was sitting ia his family carriage
Korthfield station recently as a
in. A stranger, mistaking
him for a Jbackman, ordered him, with
srore show M authority, to drive to the
bct*L Sre and, without ft word of dissent,
preacher did as he was bidden.
Bt refused te teke any pay fcr his eerv-
Icw, however, «id this excited the cari-
erffr b«Zri3test*f. of the man, who appears to have
Be Was dumteunde.1
tfi Warn that the hiwtanan, to whom he
al«o made freh comments on Mr.
Moody* ia the course of the drive,
wa* hone other than tho evangelist him
8A; aucust 19 ssqi.
80m* Rev nranvvrlek Superstitions.
girl A invariably Portland lady puts says pin thjt her hired
a in her mouth
when pooling onions, and when asked
the reason, said it was to prevent her
eye* from watering. It is a practice be¬
lieved fn among tins people in New
Brunswick, where is her home, and her
mother, now advanced in age, thoroughly
believes in all sorts of signs and super¬
stitions. On New Year's morning she
will on no account allow any of her
large family of children to take any
article ont of tho house until they hav*
first brought something in, a stick of
wood or any object, no matter how
vala*flcss. The idea is that if tho new
year ie thus begun it will he prosperous
and moro will come into the house than
will go ont.
This woman would not, of course,
think of beginning any task on Friday.
It would be a long and arduous one if
she did. Neither would she take a broom
with her while moving the household
goods from one place to another. Old
brooms would bo left behind and new
ones bought. A cat also would be left
behind while tho goods were being
moved. It would, howover, be safe to
Tetnrn and bring the cat .alone. To
dream of passing through dirty water or
that a train of cars parsed the uva Is .a
warning of approaching derrS m the
family.
An even number would never be al¬
lowed te sit down to a wedding dinner,
mul at a marriage the carpet would be
taken np and tho direction of the boards
ascertained, so that the happy couple
2 ouId l)e so placed that a eraofr shonjd
not run between them during the cere¬
mony, tor otherwise subsequent dissen¬
sion and separation may bo expected.—
Portland Transcript.
A I’urriit’K CoDdrit,
My aunt had « parrot that had bee*
taught to sing 1 1: - first stanza of "There
Is ;t Happy Land," and Polly was very
proud of h~r vou-o. One day a neigh-
bor brought over her canary to be kept
while she was away from home. No
sooner would the canary commence sing¬
ing than Polly would bristle her feathers
and cry ont: “You don’t sing right! yon
don’t sing right! Hear Polly singl’’
Then Polly would execute ‘‘There Is a
Happy Land” to the best of her ability.
One evening my nnelo, who is some¬
what deaf, was telling mo that there wns
r. concert in tins town hall, and lie should
like to go, bat did not tldnk he could
hear. \Vheroi:pon the parrot shrieked:
“Polly'11 sing! Polly’il make yon hear!”
The gentleman tc.rncd courteously to
her. “Thank j-ou, Polly! I'll etna- at
home and hear you!” ho said. She danced
abont her cage in delight. “Beantifnl
Pollyl Polly can singl” she kept saying
8oft.ly to herself, with a pride in her ac¬
complishment that was amusing to see.
—Wide Awake.
Arnjjo’s AToUeatx.
Arago, the great French scientist, was
never seen with a decoration on his
breast. Ho valued honors slightly. One
evening Loverrior, the astronomer, called
on hitn on his way to dine with a minis¬
ter. lie expressed a wish to appear
decorated with an order, to which he
wae entitled, having recetvcd the official
notice of rfto honor, although he had not
as yet tho decoration i teclf.
“Open that drawer,” said Arago, “aud
take whatever you want.”
In that drawer were all tho crosses
and ribbons which kings and emperors
rerr.fer.
Y»'hilo Arago wished above everything
to promulgate science and to make his
researches useful, he did not attempt to
identify himself forever with his dis¬
coveries by writing books. He had no
timo for writing, bnt contented himself
with noting the results of his work in the
record of tho bureau of longitude, or an¬
nouncing it verbally to the academy.—
Youth’s Companion.
Salt Making; Among; t?»e Cltinese.
A wonderful example of patience in
the Chinese is affordo<l by a consular re¬
port dealing with the manufacture of
salt in central China. Holes about six
inches in diameter :rre bored in tho rock
by means of a primitive form of iron
drill, and sometimes a period of forty
years elapses before the coveted brine is
reached, so that the work is carried on
from otm generation to another. During
this time the boring, as may be imag¬
ined, goes down to an immense depth.
When brine is found it is drawn np In
bamboo tubes by a rope working over a
largo drum turned by bullocks. The
bric^c is evaporated in iron caldrons, the
heat being supplied by natural gfti,
which is generally found in the vicinity
of tire salt wolle.
How Ho Sold the Goods.
"Have you got any bnff trinun lire, to
go with this stuff?” asked a flashily
dressed woman of an assistant in a large
draper's near Regen! street the other
day.
“I think so, mice,” ansv :ml the polite
young man, taking down n piece of goods
and spreading it on the counter.
“Bnffl Do you call that bnff?” ex¬
claimed the woman. “That’s boo dark
for a bnff.”
“But, miss, that is”-
“It’s too dark! I can see it is.”
"Why, of course it’s dark, madam,"
persisted the man. “It's l?,ind man's
buff—the new shade, you see.”
He sold the goods.—London Tit-Bits.
A Boot and Shoo Hnwnm.
One section of the great historical col-
lection at Dresden is literally a museum
of boots and shoes, being, it is believed,
nr.eqnaled in the world as a repository
for the footwear of celebrities. Among
tW things of interest shown are a pair
of shoes worn by Martin Luther at tli’e
Diet of Worms, and the toilet slippers
of the great Marla Theresa. In a sealed
case are s&own the boots worn by Na¬
poleon at the battle ef Dresden, and the
tack boots of Teh* the Great,—
Louis Republic*
v w ftrm Bay.
Mother Fra afraid vou'll cstch cold
1 'f Vnn 1,^1* s’t iu * draft
f Little Boy n. Hut, d-i* mamma, mummo T'll iu <M.teU oe.cn
hot if I don’t.—Good News.
A CHINESE FARMER.
HI* Methods and Saceess Astonish fhe
Long Islanders.
Chinese fanning oq a small but won -1
dorfullv ^ elaborate scale has Ijeen intro'
dxiced at FlatbnVh, L. L, and the old
settlers are astonished. All the agrictli-
.-v.
T
m ngp V: -Sr
Iv *i
H
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•-ssjJui'v Haf
ij-ii 5 ^. / . -' \
i F.r. vixo ni\a.
tmvd lore accumulated by five germr.u-
timva of Dutchmen (and tiie Dutch
tire wonders <>f the western world for
getting much from a small ?pm:e)
Lwn beaten the firs! season by tw^w
Chtnnmen, Lee Ying lling and his cous¬
in and employe.
Leo was n farmer in China and ngfrtn
in California, and on removing to N.ew
York concluded that the city lines for
Chinamen were overdone. early last
May he rented of Farmer Gordon, of
Flatbush, two little patches on different
*td«3 of the main road, not quite two
acres in extent, and went to work in a
way entirely novel to the old settlers,
Hir, land is trenched both ways to divide
it into little plots, and in these are grown
all the vegetables raised by neighboring
garderj^rs before, and many they never heard of
Of theso the most noted is called “c*-
bifce” l»y Lee himself, and a real luxury
it is. Tho leaves resemble those of the
white turnip, and tho stem is something
like a slender radish, but leaves, stem
and ail are delicious when served with
the usual sea-son lags. One maqjaw it
tastes like spinach, another declares it is
a very line celery, while a third thinks it
pastes “like wisp green lettuce did when
I was a' boy.” Anyhow, ft sells readily
at ten cents a pound, hjkI Lee thinks he
can raise six crops a year on Flatbusli
soiL
Lee has, however, made n few eerions
mistakes. Ho did' not understand the
ways of Long Island weeds, and when
he fertilized his field with half rotted
stable manure and wet it down every
morning it brought a great plague of
then, So fertllizeSRte he lia^to uso wood ashes and
bone 0 and his assistant
live in a shanty on one of the lots, work
in their native costume of bluo blouse
and pantaloons, with enormous high
peaked straw hats, and trouble 110 one.
In fact, they don’t even object to being
stared at.
Mcn«l of the Grand Array.
The Grand Army of tho Republic,
after having major generate, brigadier
generals and bre-
wt t? euer als nt its
1 head, now has a
rT. plain captain,
J which Illustrates
Wk, '-f tire that old the saying
us years
go on after a
great war the sur¬
vivors are slowly
m promoted in the
popular talk and
estimation.
Captain John
CAPTAIN PARMER. Palmer, the now
commander in chief, was born on‘Staten
Island. March 22,1 842, and reared chiefly
iu Albany. Sept. 19. 1801,. he en¬
listed in tho Ninety-first New York vol¬
unteers, and in four years’ hard service
rose to the rank of brevet captain. Siuce
the war ho has been a boss painter in
Albany and has prospered. His father
was killed iu the war and he was him¬
self once carried eff tho field for dead.
Slatistics of tiie Catliollc Church.
A bnlletin recently issued by the cen¬
sus bureau gives some valuable informa¬
tion regarding the strength of tho Catho¬
lic church in tho United States, Tire
total number of communicants is 6,250,-
045, tions who (churches, arc attached chapels to 10,221 and organiza- stations), j
making an average of Gil communicants ;
to each congregation. The total value j
of church property, including edifices,
the ground 011 Which they stand, furai- i
ture, bells, etc., is $118,381,516. The
average v.iin 3 of each edifice is therefore,
about $13..MO.
The metropolitan sc-e of New York,
with its 472,806 communicants, has
church prupei ty valued at nearly $9,000,-
890: that of Chicago comes second, with,
property worth $6,457,064, and that of
Boston third, with a total of $6,379,078.
Brooklyn comes fourth, with a valua-
■tion of $5,751,907, and Newark fifth,
with $4,297,482. These live sees have
more than one-foilfth of tho entire valu¬
ation of the chnrch.
In the distribution of communicants,
the archdiocese of Now York comes first,
with 472,806; Boston second, with 419,-
660; Chicago third, with 326,640; Phila-
uelphia fourth, with 231,162; Brooklyn
vv ’ r|1 ^ au ^ clx ^>
203,184; and Baltimore seventh, with
; l02- ! ‘4‘- are twentjjtwo sees,
; which contain upward of 100,0.0 com-
I municauts eacn.
] A Remarkable Accident.
| One can never tell the moment of
. danger or in what manner disaster
a
may occur. Passengers recently arriv-
i ing at Vicksburg from Jajjkpon, Miss.,
rope»rt a strange accident occnmng on a
train of the Yazoo \ alley railway, a
. ■ branch of the Illinois Central. As the
! train waspassing through a field a fright-
eaed quail flew in through a window and
! 1111 a = e d lady in fhe faoe with
' force as to destroy killed. one of her eyes,
The terd was instantly
WILD BEASTS HIS FRIENDS.
Tbfi Queer Stories Tol.l About a Tloneer
- Rancher.
Washington
Among the visitors to Seattle the past !
^eek was Pater Gallagher, a rancher ltv- !
ing three miles from Renton. Mr. Galla-:
gfc er j g one 0 f the pioneers of the sound
country, and has lived on tho same place
for twenty years or more, taking np a
quarter section as a homestead from the
govemment. By years of hard toil he ;
baa cleared up and improved a splendid
place, which, though secluded from the
outside world, is a model ranch, of which
the owner is justly proud.
Mr. Gallagher is not given to hunting
and does not molest wild game of any
kind, and to this may be ascribed tbo
tameness of a number of animals which
make the woods in that vicinity a home.
One of ttmsc, a black bear, lias for a year
visited his stockyard almost daily and
eaten with the cattle, lyiug down among
the calves and displaying neither fear nor
ferocity.
Mr. Gallagher goes among Hie stock
and frequently passes within two or
three feet of bii* bearship, not only in the
yard but in th* woods. Ho pays no at-
tention to the bear and the latter never
offers to molest him—on the contrarv.
eats with evident satisfaction pieces of
bacon and other scraps from the table
that are thrown ont to him. Th* bear
is a handsome pound fellow and .op-
pears to enjoy the company of the cattle.
Other pets arc a pair of fawns that
runaround with the young stock on the
place, eating with the calves and lying
down among thorn os contented as
though with their own kind. They evi¬
dently corn? from the vicinity of Cedar
lake, where considerable hunting is done
and from which section game is being
driven. Mr. Gallagher says ho had
rather part with tho best cow on his place
than ono of tho fawns.
This is tho second trine fawns have
taken np their abode at this place, the
first pair coming there a bout five years
ago and remaining with his stock for
two years, oven going iuto the stables
and being locked up over night. Ho
gave them to a neighbor, who in turn
presented them to friends at Snohomish
and up the Skagit.
This sounds fishy, but not only is it
vouched for, but it is f arther said that
wild ducks and geese aibght in his yard
and show no fear in his presence,
though tho appearance of a stranger is
the signal for flight Mr. Gallagher
never hunts and will not allow hunting
on his place nor interference in any way
with his pets, either quadrupeds or
winged.—Seattle (Wash-) Press-Times,
Woman FrofoMorm
What is there so incongruous in a
woman professor in universities, where
men are educated with women? Tiffs is
the question Mrs. M. lionise Thomas and
others are asking, who are trying to
raise'funds to endow a woman's chair in
ft northern university. Why is it that , . a
woman teacher ife dee med bo necessary
through nil tho graded from the primary
to those of tho graduating class of the
high school, and vet she should be
deemed so pernicious and disastrous in
colleges? Whether tl :e.-.e are good rea-
sons or not, tho esa leriment is to be
given a fair trial, for very recently the
bill providing for a. woman professor-
ship at Hu- State Univ nrsity ' of Michigan "
has become a law.
Not far behind com es the news nlsc
that the University cf Denver,
nnmbcrs about m rl ud*nts, has
forred on a woman the honor of nainina
an important profec*5« rship after her—
that of literature- -do be known here
after as the Marr 1 *ou n Dickinson chair
of belles letter, win (rh chair lias just re-
ceived as an endowment from ex-Gov-
era or John Evans She mini of $50,000.-
Brooklyn Eagle.
Ilmr Hjo II fllmen Turn Tall.
It ir, possible that lirfore our soldiers
get to close qu urters with the enemy
they will Bee the latter “turn tail.” Lot
them not be dec;t>ivod. Turning tail is a
different thing with the hillmcn to what
it is with ns. The inhabitants of one
group of vill'A&es, the Hangman, are
ticeable for • jrcariim a caudal appendage,
This, of cf jnrse, is not natural. It is
fashioned < jf wood, eighteen inches long,
carved up ward, tapering to a point.
This is. fitted to the back, being sus¬
pended f jrom the riionldcrs-and secured
in posit ion by a cash, which is tied tight¬
ly nro; rad the waist. This singular ap¬
pend; go is worn in battle, and is intend-
ed to signify defiance. The wearers tnrn
thei c backs'"toward the adversary, and,
by balancing the body alternately on
eit h< ;r leg, wag the tail defiantly in hia
very face.—National Review,
Where Genius Tires,
Ajt one of the table d’lioto dinners of
the IFellowcraft club one man said: “I
know that your device might be the
vetrg of Eviradnus, ‘Without ever being
absent or saying I am tired.’ You write
fiv e 01 six columns every day. Tell me
this, Ts literary work tiresome or is it
not';" The other replied: “Not to the
mind. It is nothing to unroll the ara-
besqaeS of fantasy, but the bending over
one’s p3 per and the guiding of one’s pen
give pains in the back.” It reminded a
third pi r?ou of an interview with Sarah
Bernhardt, when ho asked, “In playing
so inanj * emotions, in affecting so much
eulrerinj;, don't you feel tenable pains in
yo\jr heart?” “Oh.no,” she said sadly:
“it’s in. tbe legs.”—New York Times.
He Paid tl»e Bills.
Shrt—'You are always talking about
the '.fashions. Now. hone.-tly, do you
think that yon would know the latest
fashion in hats if yon were to enter a
milliner’s?
Ho—Certainly.
She—How?
He (ruefuUy)—By looking -it the prices.
—Exchange^
-
Tiie cultivation of the India rubber
tree on the island of Trinidad is receiv-
niucli attention. A few trees of dif-
ferent vorietir-; were imported some years
: and we ro placed in the botanical
gardens. Th - results have shown that
the soil and climate are remarkably fav-
j rouble to thoir cultivation.
FROM MANSION TO SHANTY.
Sorrswfnl Old Age of a Woman Who Wns
fticken*’ Friend.
A few miles east of Brooklyn a shanty,
about twelve feet square and most rudo
N r fashioned, stands in a little hollow
which opens toward the Atlantic, and in
that shanty with a dog. an assortment
ofjcats anti some pigeons, with goats ;«d
chickens thick about tho door, ^yj^Yil-
Ham and Victoria Tregear. It gJ^^vitli-
out saying that they are extremely pber,
and it is a sort of snrpriso to loam that
the old woman gives music lessons in tire
neighborhood, while the old man does a
little work at odd times.
Yet that woman was reared in a fair
degree of luxury tn Loudon; her father
wns Gabriel Shire Tregear, a wealthy
picture merchant; she was long an inti¬
mate friend of Charles Dickens, and was
and still is a lady of thorough education,
refinement and literary taste. At her
father's house in London, aud still more
at the mansion of her wealthy uncle,
Dickens was a frequent visitor and the
little girl was his favorite, especially as
Ids opponent In a game of chess. The
Story of her <V*l*no is lioth sad and ro-
man tic; still it’s an old story. Great
in trade were followed immediate-
*7 ** father’s death, the remu;wit of
th* estate fell mto bad hands and was
wpuradered, her wealthy relatives died,
*he became a governess, married, re¬
moved to America, and thus on aud
down to Snug Lake shanty, as the place
is called,
She still styles herself Victoria Tre¬
gear, and so her rather noncommittal
husband t* known by the same namo
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VICTORIA TREGE All’S HOME.
ftm0 ng their few visitors. Of late years
ph(J bas bc .,, n writing her recollections of
Dickens, and ef London life in 1840-60, and
t ho few who have examined the manu-
script pre diot that it will bo a very read-
ab ] c boo fc As ni m b t be expected, she is
i “badly broken,” as her suburban neigh¬
bors say, though but sixty-one years ohl.
Ifc is only when a reporter or ether
enrion.n visitor asks for the hut that
the people thereabout take any interest
in thin sad illustration of the awful vi¬
cissitudes of human life.
Two Inventions.
, . rrIn . the * snb . ^ . ct f
ave ,
0i ; * s “ wo
»°r«l “^entions, one of which is
of practical vnlne not only to the fair
wearer* of Jewelry, but to those who on-
joy the privilege of replacing the car-
P[« entoh w \ nAl «n ^ the ciw !ost ' wire, . there of w a a snn- -.ug
^ the end of a . L ;*.!• r<vl r.Juimfnp and
tu> ?ft t ; he 1-o.e!toT the
”'' r ' i uut nu *‘ : f V" of J
. .
\ V3r V ’
*
,r ’ ;” ! *, >>’ a fl> :1 ”S
entch on t K) mo. It isabsomfiny , impos-
« !>1 “ fl,r th( “come ' r:lt ^ loose 1 u> of *!“ itself, r ;‘.: r ,l lic: | l a the ‘. - v
or a:-
dainty golden ni l. standing upTgnt be¬
hind tho ear, as u must, at the same
effectimlh’ _ ,, prevents the earrinz
trom n l> ™
«n ungraceful posithm. t the security it
atfor(lR lr ” howi ‘ Vt T’ t;1 ° t!au ?* nnf1
l3 eve ” 1hau th;it , “J* «
plate , behind the ear screwed on tho
shank of the setting.
The other invention is a swivel.se-
snrod in position by an almost micro-
scopic lever and catch, to compel a soli-
t n ’ re diamond to dangle at anj required
angle. 1 hat is for the beneut of ladies
whoso little ears lie fiat against the sides
their heads. When they wear ear-
rings only the edges of those adornments
«rc presented to the view of those who
face them. But with the new device the
precious stones may bo made to hang r-o
as to cast their brilliance squarely in
front, in friendly rivalry with the wear¬
er's eyes, no matter how nature may
have tipped her ears.
flow tho Elder Settled It.
Antoinette Sterling, the well known
contralto, who used to sing in oratorio
in America, and wdm lias lately joined
the Quakers, created an unusual sensa¬
tion at a meeting in England. After the
meeting had sat for a long time without
the spirit moving any one to speak, Mme.
Sterling got up and sang. Singing is
unheard of in junkers’ meetings, but
s ^ e *ang “Rest in the Lord” without in-
terruptiou. Afterward one of the elders
approached her and said, ‘ Thee knowest,
eister, that it is against the rules, but if
the Lord telleth thee to sing thee must.”
Chief of the Daughters of Veterans.
Miss Millie Robertson, the recently
chosen president of the National Alliance
Daughters of Veterans, is a good looking
brunette, twenty-seven years old, and a
55 native of Mount
JgL Pleasant. is at present Ia. She liv-
VUrjl big at Keokuk.
j. where she has
e 7 te*' V'sW long been active
as a member of
the Women’s Re-
lief corps. To
Miss Robe-risen,
' "
among others, is
due the orga niza¬
'/ ^ tion of Amiie
mollie robrrtsox. , Witten in oyer
y,- 0 j
Daughters of Veterans, at Keokuk, the
first association of the order formed in
Iowa. At the organization of the Na-
tional Alliance at Qnincy, Ill .. !;>-t year,
she was chosen vice preside?;!:, and when
the state department of the erds-r was
formed a few weeks ago rhe was‘ elected
to act as president, aud also to represent
the iapartment of Iowa at Massillon.
No .31
Th» Fashionable Olnucr Table.
Tho fashionable dinner table is square.
It snonld bo i^go ono^jll to tlCCOm-
modafce comfortably the number of
people to be seated. No more guests
should be invited than will serve
to make twelve people in nil, on nc-
couat the number of pieces of
china in each course of dinner service.
Heavy white da mash is used for the
tablecloth, and this should be hem-
etitched all around. I ue fashlonahlo
patterns in damask are small figures,
and tnosa mostly in the foriu o. fine
ferns, fine flowers, single rosebuds, pinks,
chrysanthemums, carnations and long
grasses, in the center of the table Is
placed the piece of dainty linen
fully embroider 'd in colored mlks, rep-
resenting national flowers in all
brilliancy.
Upon this centerpiece is placed the
bouquet <>r flowers, or the large c.muela-
bra. The smaller ©moroidered pieces,
which are used under separate denies
and condiment jars, should be exact hn-
Rations of the renterjnecc, and if that is
square, all the small pieces should be
square; if round, the same rule holds,
and if Hie edges are ' 'rrated the edges
of nil must be cut in the same shape.—
Fashion Journal.
Stilu’isi'liio Telephones.
The difficulty of submarine Iclrphony
over great d.ist.-mo's is the fact of con¬
siderable electrostatic capacity in the
cable, the result of this being
tion ami deformation of the electrical
impulses t ransmitted. If a line could b*
uiadA of very, very low resistance, so
that the electric current would have the
freest possible discharge, the evil effect
of this capacity would be in part done
away with The relation between flmse
two things has been determined in a
some want , empirical . , , way. Calling ,,, tho .
total rwtetnnee of a .telephone wire !l
and vts total capacity m nncroforads K.
-ucers ul apeasing, with our present
instrument. is really an impossibility
when the product IvR of tho resistance
°f the line in ohms by its capacity m
microferaJs la greater than about 10 ,000
In the very best Atlantic cable kk
equals somewhere near 3.000.001) so that
unless there should he some totally new
developments in telephony we can see at
once that successful telepconmg across
the Atlantic is very improbable on nc-
count of the enormous cost of a conduct-
or of low resistance and capacity, if for
no other reason. -Electrical Engineer.
A K#t; !.'so for flio ithig;.
VVlistever the measures adopted, the
principle of isolation is the essence of all
genuine disinfection. Tt* efficiency for
this purpose was well shown at Epsom
common. Quo of the children in a gypsy
encampment having been taken ill with
scarlet fever, was, along with its mother,
very successfully : purated from the rest
of the community by the simple expedi¬
ent of a ring fence made of ropo drawn
around the infected lent and regularly
watched.
The result was that tho slow progress
of convalescence was passed through and
disinfection completed without further
extension of the disease. IT 10 surveyor,
Mr. Harding,'is to be congratulated on
the success of his novel and effectual
maneuver. Tho satisfactory result thns
easily attained is of obvious importance,
and the simple method employed de¬
serves to be remembered in case of emer¬
gencies of a similar kind.—London Lan¬
cet.
lyncn to r.» Oculist.
Should any of the fallowing symptoms
be experienced, an oculist of repute
should be consulted: Spots or sparks of
light floating before the oyes; quivering
of the lids or sensation of Kind in tho
eyo; perceptible fatigue or the require¬
ment of strong light In rending the
holding of objects at arm’s length or
close to the eye: squinting one oye or
seeing objects double; dizziness or dart¬
ing pains in tho eyeballs or over the
temple; perceiving a colored circlo
around the lamp; sensitiveness of the
eyeballs or contraction of the visual
field; binning of the vision or being nn-
nble to see objects di t'nefly at a dis¬
tance; watering or redness of the eyes
or lids; running together of the letters
when rending, or seeing the vertical bet¬
ter than tim horizontal liner.—Exchange.
Tho First Horn.
Young Father—I am amazed, shocked,
my dear, to hear you my you intend to
give the baby come paregoric. Don’t
you know paregoric brnpjum, and opium
stunts the growth, enfeebles the consti¬
tution, weakens the brain, destroys the
nerves, and produces rickets, marasmus,
consumption, insanity and death'/"
Yeung Mother — Horrors! 1 never
heard a word about that. 1 won't give
the little ducky darling a drop, no, in-
deedy. But something must !>o done to
stop hi3 yelling. You can carry hitn
awhile.
Father (after an hour';; steady stamp¬
ing ^ith the sqnalling inf as t}—Where in
thunder is that paregoric?—New York
Weekly.
_
Tlic Duty of Every Teacher.
A teacher of scienco ought also to bs
an investigator, werrv it only for the in¬
spiration that his example might give to
tho pupils in his charge. To impart
knowledge is a good thing, bat to reveal
the sources of knowledge is better; and
in that revelation is found the educa¬
tional value of research regarded as a
part of the teacher’s essential duty.—
F. W. Clarke In Popular Science
Monthly.
Paint Instead of Clothing.
The amotta plant has seeds coated
with a red, waxy pulp, which is dried
and mado into cakes. It is much em-
ployed by tl* South American Caribs
for painting their bodies, paint being
almost their only article of clothing.
As a commercial article it is mainly nti-
lized ns a coloring for cheese, butter and
inferior chocolate*:—Washington Star,
Way oar.
Dallpato (who prides himself on bi 3
abstracted air)—Did yon ever notice what
a faraway look I have sometimes?
Miss Spiritrilie—Yea Is that because
you are a little off: - UoeJ News.
IT WAS A GREAT SCHEME.
B|lt r nck of rrev««.te.i ft.* m-
ventor from Making a Fortune*
Mv friend j> bn . t ricll ft ten « t Ttk(4y
be eV er will be rich. But be firmly
Sieves that he would have l»een a very
rich man bv tbis tiul0 lf he had only ^
ab ] 0 command a little capital a few
years ago.
When he conceived the great scheme
which ought to have realized a- fortune
b j m be was a clerk in a gas works,
wasn't one of your new fangled works
wb ere they make gas out of water,
aad bcaven knows what besides, but oue
^ the old fashion^, honest sort in which
g M was extracted from oool And nothing
Evorybo.'v didn't is supposed to know,
flnd D f course know, that one of
the cllie f impurities of the crude gas,
after it is expelled from the coal hr the
ficrcs he;lt of ^torts, is snlphns.
sialplmr, or the larger portion of it,
is got rid of by passing the gas through
series of boxf s called purifiers filled
w jfb lira?. Wh.en the lime has absorbed
sulphur that it is capable of hold-
i n g it is renioveil and fresh lime f» sub*
? titntc.l The sulphur saturated Am*
emits a rerg pungent and disagreeable
oilor. especially when the cover is flirt
lifted from tho box aud the Hme, being
hot, throws of? clouds of »tenm.
Some doctors hare a notion, wbetjior
well or ill founded I don't nretend t*
know, that this hot, foul smelling mfor
is a capital remedy for whooping cough.
At all events lots of mothers hotter*
them, and when whooping cough i# prev¬
alent bring their afillefed little cues to
the nearest gas works to inhale ft. D was
when several suffering youngsters were
snuffing np the vapor and rti* odor
around one of the purifying bores whoro
he worked that the inspiration seized
him. ft was nothing less than to take
thjs fonl Uin0 b<lttle j, np , , irr n nh igl»
9o;i]ldlnv , name nniX sell it as a aped fie
fof n . h ,, 0 ., in? offering a reward
0 f $500 for any case tlmt it emiMu’t cure,
a!1) i all that sort of thing,
..Jeewhittakeri” he exclaimed, enthn-
gia , tb . al1v . wl-.u expounding tho scheme
to m9 . ... !nst thinU of ihedead loads of
moil( . v th;it is in it! The lim« doesn't
co8t nIiy i hing; the company p.avsto have
u c ., vto<1 ;iwav . U .„„ lil;tk e a contract
wi(ll lheni to'do the taming and make
^ money out of it. Then all the ex-
{ wiU bo t . will be for bottles,
lftb( . ls An q ndvwtWB ,. At rents a
bottl „ , t ,, 1?) ,, nd h, g n like hot e*>«.
TIimc is always more or leas whooping
cough around, It is an ill wind rthrt
blows nobody good.' If I am not a rMk
man inside <*f tuaHre months nr twrnra
isn't B.”
H* invested fifty dollars—the sura to ml
of Ids accumulated savings—in bcffles.
Then he sought tiie Assistance of capital¬
ists. That is where he si ruck a snag.
He found their lack of faith was propof-
tior.ate to the extent of their resource?.
His name is still B.: he still has tho bob-
ties. but not even the beginning of n for¬
tune yet.
B it It was a )4g schema, and he was
very proud of haring hatched it and do-
liclos to talk about the millions that rtro
still hi it—for somebody vrRh faitn .-ml!
capital.— New York Herald.
Shooting «!nr.* at V.'ff'M-
lb unlimited night sights are now In
tvw on the gnus of many ef Briffifli
ws.- .-hit*. The front sight consists of a
paP gnn n gla^s. point r.p, beneath whi»^
is placed a small incandescent la«vp.
The n-ar sight in similar in principle. n.v
cepl that instead of file cone t^ere w n
metal crossbar with n V notch in t%«
middle.
There is r. polished under surface tn
this sight from which light that first
passes through ruby glass is reflected.
In righting th • pale green jKilnt at ligtit
which coiiMi', ate* Jim forward sight ft
brougiit to the bottom of the Y coteh iti
the r<;ar sight arid the line of the rnht
light is brought into fcobr.eidsnea if?fu
it The electric current for faeh gnu ft
supplied by a battery of two e!emeirt%,
so srran red that the action may be
stopped by tr.mimv the battery upsMfc
down.—Philadelphia Record,
T!se r.Trfil of Tr/irel.
It is Impossible to compare nations aa
if they wore individuals. Each naflen
has, .50 f r- speak, ge-nwi up tn an atmos¬
phere o l fis own. TTe rrrugt recognize
the peculiarities of other peoplo as neces¬
sary features ef them, and by no raeans
hm characteristics meant to excite langV
tcr in the r^t of the world. Wlum fint
I traveled abroad I was much arnnsefi
by the way the common German oftts
with his knife. But habit and a meas¬
ure of experience have toned down these
feelings until they hardly exist ta as.
And nowadays I am as much at home
with the long haired woodman of a Sar¬
dinian forest, in his grimy little hut, 39
in my own English den among my books
and pictures.—All the Year Round.
Xosc Ornaments of TSarliarinns.
The ornaments put through the walls
of the nose vary greatly. There mar he
but one perforation in each wall or tnera
may be several. In New Zealand flower*,
in flew Guinea a boar's tusk, in the Solo¬
mon islands a crab’s claw, in New Britefa
thorns, set upright, are the object* tire*
worn. Those are .all original and primi¬
tive; after the natives come in contact
with whites, these give place to metal
buttons and rings. In the Sturgis col¬
lection is a ratlher pretty nose ornament
from Now Guinea. It is V shaped, *r4
the arms fit by stud shanks, one Into eaeh
wall of the nose.—Professor Frederfcfti
Starr in Popular Science Monthly.
An Estimate of Woman’s Talne.
A young Scotchman waa once halting
betwixt two loves, one possessed 0 ?
beauty and the other of a cow, Im de¬
spair of arriving^at a decision he applied
for advico to a' canny compatriot, wbn
delivered himself thus, "Marry fh* hflb
that has the coo, for there’s no ths denf-
crence o’ a coo’s value in any twa wtona-
in in Christendom.”— SanFranciieo At-
gonaut.
A Good Opinion of Himself.
Snodgrass (after Snlvely finishes 4 Ml
s t°iy)—WelL I like A liafS
Epoch. Naively—Yon egQfetf—Ifa* THS