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“Panamed” is now the Parisian word
for anything; plucked, fleeced or shorn.
A dog-clipping establishment has a sign;
“Poodle* Panamed here.”
r Seme of the cotton mill* in South
Carolina earned a* high as forty-two
cent, on their investments last vesr, and
all in all it wa* the most prosperous in
the history of cotton manufacturing iu
tbe State.
1 Ia response to New York's official de¬
mand for better transportation f iciilt e*
the Manhattan Railway Company pro¬
pose such improvements and extensions
in elevated service as will expand New
York’s “L” system to four aolid three
track linen, two on each side of the city.
' Co-operative joint stock farming
or
is being conducted on a large scale in
the region of the Douibe* lying between
Bourg-Eabreast- aoi Lyon*, France,
“i’lsntati****•, Arbitrage, artificial fertil¬
isers have in twenty years reduced the
area of marsh land by two-thuds, in¬
creased the population by onc-thir.i, and
in tbe tamo proportion diminished mor¬
tality.”
_
Creameries are now at work in Ten
nessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, South
Carolina, nnd North Carolina, and there
is no good reason why this should not
be the case in all the Southern Stales,
says the Sbipimrs’ Gazette, which fur
tberadda: In tbe Southern mountains
the business may be carried on every
dsy in the year, and butter of the finest
quality may be there made for lest cost
than elsewhere in the world.
“Wales," says a Weitern YVeUhman,
has given throe Preiident* to the United
States—Jefferson, Adstns and Monroe.
Thomas Jefferson was pure Welsh, ton, ,
end the Welshmen of New York art .
now organizing a movement to erect
grand monument to him. There
5,000,000 Welsh and their
descendants in tbit country, and
, ' 1,200,000 ' pare * Welsh and their
descendants. The Welsh, Irish
Hcotch are, in my opinion, all
of the little band of Aryans that
over from Little Brittany and settled
whet are now the British Isles.”
When John Jacob Aator died in 1843
worth $25,000,000 he left
more then the richest American before
him. But in the last ten year* at i*»
two men, W. H. Vsndorbilt nn l tb*
•snsaff forfi»^T#icrth*t»tae, J^nJsgibAxtor, have
f tita _ and John
*>. Rockefeilet is ordinarily ttUasstt I u
b* also worth $100,000,000. It is as
llm»ted that there are only eeven Atner
can fortune* of over $33,00 >,000, Hunt
iegtou, ring*, William
Stanford, Mrs. Green and William A*
tor; six over $20,000,000, 1). O. Mills,
Amour, Bearles, Ch.rle* Crocker’s «•
tats, Henry Hilton and the L. 8. Hig
gins estate. Of fortune* over $10,000,.
090 there are seventeen.
t Tbe report of the Government's special
agent in Alaska on tne salmon , „ tuheries . .
does not,in thn opinion of the S»n Fran
cisco Chronicle, encours-;o the belief that
the supply of Diet region will be long
maintained. m According to tho state- ,
meat of the ngeat the men fishing on *
I*n» scale and the Indians are c.nal
ollsndeti against the . . tws, am . arc ap
pueatly Indifferent whether their actions
remit ia diminishing the supply or
creasing it. Not only dees the ngent
tau t#U me the .torv story of the defiance of the largo
fisheries, but be broadly intimates that
unless some anlutsry restraint is placed
upon them in a very short time the in
dian* who detrend verr * lar I relv upon the
salmon ■ for . their load suppsy. wit. ettntr
starve to danth or become nn expensive
charge upon tbe Government.
Captain Bower, the Thibetan explorer,
he* arrived in London, with a mass ol
valuable information concerning that
little known country, whioh he has col
lifted primarily for tli* benefit ot lhe
1 ailisa Govern meet, in the course of
iftasn months of Ursvst acres* thn wildest
part of tba country ha learned many
curious and interesting facta about the
Inhabitants. lit* journey was mvde
Muring [was 1S»1 nnd 1S92, nnd Lis route
almost due west to east, starting
Leb or LoJnk end crossing the
I_H of other explore** I who I had
traversed the country lrom north . t>
south. He erosrei, snuti; others, the
route followed by M. Boavs'ot, tbs
French explorer, an 1 bis companion,
p_- io . i. eury .. t.rao*, , .. ,. .. * ., ••
other traveiere M recent times, be found
it impossible to enter Lhasa*. Hi*
am rest point was si out 15) miles from
T!i .
cant supreme in the country, but nc
whs** did be meet with ho*tile treat
Horn the native.. The ftikkim
nt^sk n whole*' ... effect, end the
Be^ tr*vt,.a, ie Thibet is ao*»
in no desger. home i its the diffi
•nlLss eau hardships of tb* *V easy
h of
the feed from bfit
feta ab »r tits i MJ t
end test for weelu toget % H i*
dad not <et*t »t.a* * bnsnn
hidden Things,
In tbs heart of tbs stone
The statue is hiding;
But this secret is shown
From the heart of the stone
To the sculptor alone,
mat is worth the onfiling:
In the heart of the stone
The statue is biding.
In the leaves of the rose
A romance it ia waiting;
Till the summer win! blows
From the leavaj of tba rose
To the page of pore pros
What's so well worth relating
In the leaves of too rose
A romance is in waiting.
in the a»r ail around
A coy song is delaying;
There’s a faint sighing sound
In the air all around
And sweet love-wort* abouni.
Hidden mode betraying
In the air all around
A coy song i« delaying.
In the heart of the sea
There's a syinp'iony sleeping;
There Is waftet to mo
From tlie heart of the sea
A divine meloiy.
Mingle ! laughter an 1 weeping!
In the heart of the sea
There’s a symphony sleeping.
in this oommonoiaco age
Lives tb* hero obscurely;
But the els.u ml* rage
In this co nmon-piace ago
And I) -nth flings down his gage,
In the end quite a- sureSy:
In this common-plan ago
Pic* the hero obscurely.
In tliia world of the mart
Rises sometimes n |ioct;
All men vie 1 hi* pari
In this world of the mart,
j For But he labors the world for art; will not know It;
In this world of the mart
None tin less thrives tha poet.
—K. C. far loss, in Home and Country.
^ BASKET OF ROSES.
BV JEAN MIDOhEMAHS.
HERE!”
lu a tom* half
z spiteful, half tri¬
umphant, which
.. &Sb fiPPtivj spoke volumes.
Ti c speaker wa* a
•jgft/ Wmr*?/. eft’s* girl womanhood, on the verge bru- of
a
nette, tall, lithe and
; mmTii- piquant As she looking, gave utter¬
i*
ance to this expressive monosyllable slto
set down on-tbo table such a lovely
basket of rose* that tbe whole sur of the
room «*i at once filled with their fra
K«" co * hcir ,, ' ,v
Near the table, embroidering . „ flours de
0|) a wb ite satin ground, sat another
a nd a fairer girl, lar more regularly
beautiful; a Saxon blonde. Nora Tre
herne had none of the piquancy of the
elder and more h nighty Lolla.
She raised her eye* from her cm
J broidery aud gazed on tbe roses with
pleasure. Lolla, how lovely 1 Where did
"Oh,
you get them! Did oue of your nu¬
merous admirer* send them to you!"
• one of vours, you menu.”
“How mine!"
. ^liuryovt we 3
to ’^ajteaier , ^ Mite '
» M
xu« tone wa* «tt!l triumphant, even
; though Nora’s fair cheek bleached to a
' deadly pallor as sho heard it.
*•!«*• and icaloiw? ,en ' ,io 8 by lo LMUI
Euv? were no meant
T(CCt | D which Nora habitually indulged,
but the one human being she had ap
preprinted for her own wa* Reggio
,ho “*o“i5 bt »»« *«»▼«'*
her ’
s he dM aol ul , w . MUIU , t but tric( ,
| faln | y totally ply ber unconcerned. uce M though Sho would slto
were
not for tbe world have L illu see how
troubled she wa*.
, Meanwhile Lolla liad opened tho note
on | b( . ox tciior ot which tbc*c w»mi«
wtre written, nnd was pursuing it with
such delight that she saw naught of
what ws* written on ber sister’s face.
j Having drunk lu with avidity every
, word lho letter contained, she tossed it
j jjor*.
“So ha has at last asked me to be his
wife—turdv haltitiL* lover thou *h he
hM ' «iii not on that
a( .count make a worse husband than
t ,,| lrr mcn Shy men are not my prefer
tU ce but to be Lady Breton, with five
thousand shyness." a Tear, is something to set
sesinst '
Xhrre WM n |lta te, during which she
8|uc j t (ht , rosfeJ . ’ at )a8t s j, t , turnr ,j
ir0U nd
“VVhatl not a word o( congratulation,
Nortl It cannot be poss-bletliat you
c ^ ha| , pill-fc Thlllk| clli ,j t
too, what a good Huug it will be for
vou. How I c*u take you out—what
presents 1 can give you.
Then Nota struggled with the voice
that was barely at command, aud said,
“I nan glad you should be happy, Lolla.
1 do not waut to go out more than
I do now,or to have any presents from—"
“You odious Uttie thug! How wood
• T ° u are. Well, I'd keep my pretty
gifts for those who appreciate them.
Only I hope you will be civil to Sir Keg
gie when tie cornea, and not treat him to
any of yonr disn ;reenWs airs.”
“I am going away tomorrow to stay
with Aunt Lou, so I am not likely to see
him for some time,” a most whuirered
Son.
“A good thing.too. I shallhave settled
evmthing bv the time you eoaic back.
Although Sit Reggie is a goed match, i
, uppost , tbtfre a! „ t*. trouble.
)>.,« U i lke you; lie ala ays maxes
difBcaities where ao.ie exist, and ss you
»re hi* favorite daughter, doubtless be
wiO think you oucht to be married first,
though 1 aui the oldest."
Nora did not answer. She was ac
costumed to Lolta't outbreak*, which
*«e seneraiiv as unjust a* they were
repoBerou* Nora's
ia thu lixtancc, too, poor
,rart was too heavily wounded for her
j hste the courage tu at’.ude to her
am. Lc!U at:d Nora Trebvrae were
,.e t«o dv-ic utet* <*; a suiai. country
*quireof limit* ! income. Their mother
•pi... - . t»i
e.r»wu :.«tinrt to U t .-a
Lot.* mad frieni of tveri sr jdy.
; in a different ~
ret t
Bh* tu SIT packed op ready to go to
Clifton—where Aunt Lou lived—early on
the morrow. Thus, to her intense relief,
she would avoid a meeting with her
sister's declared lover, atom, in writ¬
ing her acceptance of her suit, Leila had
liegged to come over to luncheon on the
following day.
Never before had she felt so thankful
as when the train that was bearing her
from her home glided out of the sta¬
tion.
Aunt Lou lived in s pretty house near
the Suspension Bridge, and there Nora
strove hard to think that she liked the
work she was called upon to do, and
was content and at peace. If only she
could get oil their wedding; if find she could
go back to her home and Lolla
married and installed as mistress in Sir
liei'otnald'a house she wonld then be able
to face life bravely.
Meanwhile she had a month's re¬
prieve. Poor little Nora she hsd combative
no
powers; resigned to her fate she had left
the coast absolutely clear, and when Sir
Reggie Breton arrived at the Squire's
houie to luncheon, it wai to find Lolla
alone in the drawing room awaiting him,
and the basket of roses, still in the
zenith of their be* ly, placed in a most
conspicuous position. bewildered
He looked round with a
air, as if he did not wholly comprehend
the situation; but then he wa* so shy,
wuat else could be expected?
“So good of you to send those lovely
roses—they are divine. So like you to
remember one’s pet flowers and put tbe
sentiments that accompanied them so
tenderly and prettily.” tbe flowers—I
“The flowers—all, yes,
have seen them all grow, and Simpson
knows how to arrange them,” said Sir
Reggie, still looking about the room
with an uncomfortable beiitation of man¬
ner.
! “Your sister,” he asked at last, “your
sister like* these flowers."
; “5Iy sister thought them lovely. She
i has gone on n visit to Aunt Lou at
Clifton; she went yesterday.” went."
“She saw the flowers and
Lolla nodded her bead.
“Ah!”muttered shortly by air Reggie,
ami then a long pause.
Even Lolla wa* nonplutscd, and began
to think tncrc must be some mistake.
“Oh, I sec—yes—she thought—"
What she thought he did net say, per¬
haps he did not know; at all events, he
wns too shy to express it.
Lolla, however, was not afflicted with
diffidence, and ns this big fish wa* wrig¬
gling at the end ot her line, she intend¬
ed to laud it, if possible. suppose,” she
“.She thought, I went
on, still laughing n little rcstrninoJlv,
• that you and i could sottle arrange¬
ment* best without her.”
“Exactly. Yet I do not quite see why
*he should go away. Perhaps it would
lie better if I came again another day.”
“Certainly not. Papa expects you to
luncheon, aud afterward you can have a
nice long talk with him, and after the
talk you cau como and sit in the garden
with me."
They aggressive^pospitabls went in^luncheon. The Squire
was in hi* effort*
to set 8tr RsggTe at his eaio, for he was
well awsre of the Birouet’s proclivities,
which he by no meaos lessseoed by his
tremendous attempt* to “drtw'hiin ant.”
Eventually, tt\two \ men adjourned>o
the dt red smoking coffee uuk roj here where she L-uJ^d w|K/ et
-
;i;e I ! fl pg raraWMETuat aae aopaa wouu
be the result ol tletr conversation.
Not that she felt, by any means, as
assured about the future as she had baen
before fiir Re *gie arrive! that morning,
lie was so strange, so undecided, that it
would not surprise her if he did not
•peak to her father at all, and if he did,
what would lie say* And Lolla grew
white and faint lrom a sudden pain
which this query seemed unexpectedly to
have brought her.
Coil'd it be possible after all that it
was Nora he lovedf Had she, the itifal
lible Lolla, made a mistake! She took
out the note and read it once mare.
No, it was addressed and written to
her; there could be no mistake. Yot
why wa* he so anxious to have Nora
theret She supposed he wanted the
little sister to back him up.
The interview in the smoking room
was a long one, and the farther it was
protracted the more anxious Lolla grew,
At last the clock struck 4; if she ha 1
leimd to im thought unraaldenly
i ike would have gone into the smoking
room and broken up the conclave, so
impatient had she become, when she saw
l:cr fstI,cr * , ‘ ),uin K toward the house
f r»'“ » totally opposite direction—and
' “Has Sir Reggie gone!” she asked, ns
soon as h« fntlwr was near enough to
[ u , at #
“Ye*, 1 nave just unlocked the pad
dock gate lor him. It is a m uh short
er walk that wav."
Lolln could cintnin hereelf no longer,
“You have uot refuse I your consent to
the marriage, im;*!" child,
“Not a bit of it, not a bit of it,
On the contrary, l have told hiui l shall
b- proud to have him for a son in-law.”
"Then why oa earth ha* he gone
awavt”
“Why should he star! H* is going to
Clifton by the evening train, 1 belie vef”
“To Clifton I”
“Well, isn't Nora there I"
“Nora! You mean Hut Sir R- ggie
wants to marry Nora I”
Tire Squire looked at her rather com
i.ay, then burst out laughing. Hi*
catuie wa* somewhat coarse.
‘-By Jove, and vou thought Ureiou
wanted to marrv you! Bv the stars, but
here is a Weird imbr .giio-juite a
fam:!v drauar’ And the Squtre set up
another discordant peat.
“If he wishes to uwrrv Nora, why did
he write to me f asxed Lolla, angrily,
taking Sir Retgie’s letter from her
pocket aud handing it to her father.
lie read it through float end to end,
becoming more seriou* aa be aid so.
“A manly, straightforward letter; yes,
a* l sai I before. 1 am proti l of ium. He
wUi make little X.na a good husband.”
“8tra.ghtforwarJ, you cull it, to write
to me when he mean* Xoraf”
“it ;» ail your own tsuit, Lolla, and
the lens you ray about it the better.**
•*My fault, mjcod! '
“Tea, yon sre a.«ays trying to aJ
vu * yourself and tbrieit X >ra into tbe
* is k
* s-: ■ -1
'
wrsu
’ No, ■T-uvre ait, *'d tbs squire
4.
* N >.» * »* *« let thss you.”
l •be renew
w, now. *.>j»e we-s* %;e, is
foolish, thoughtless eat, she had
made this false «tate «{ Wot to Sir Reggie,
•ad she skulked iwa i to the house to
bide her confusion httcr annoyance.
She sat down to dot emplate the un¬
pleasant know .edge What Sir Rejgie wa
on his way to Clifton, wiere in truth he
arrived that evenin'* Art too late to cal!
at the pretty house j j| Ate the Suspen¬
sion Bridge. LrArever; he
He did the neat be f put
up at an hotel ufese end then went
out for a stroll.
It might just l iMtasible that be
would meet the fair; jet of his devo
tion.
Nor was he desti^i^ftgnia she^Jsitting to be dis
appointed; reading—d.-aUi^K there under a
tree, rather.
She started tip when she
saw Sir Reggie he7e-tciHM re'fjgfflnitnci wU»! is it? Is
“You
there anything wr# j home!"
“What should ife- sweet Nor.?
Why should 1 not wr^^Bbut to see you?
There is nothing a mistake,”
he went on, sitting wfo beside her.
“My basket of raS'-'-^Bk given for to you." your
sister, but they MjB^^Rcrne, ” she said
“I am not :
quietly. |V; IB I made— __
“No—that »*
will you MWBWBB|BWaI
fiir Reggie to im
plicate Lollu, her tbqs^^HIVconversa- the men
tion with *
fully understood ‘ h*^ come
.
about. >trf4HHS*
“Forgive 1 look 80
Old?” E of
“No, you the younger
the two, only *o ashamed
of what has «* “ P ainfl11
to “Thea uoe to talkj us^^TM^niething else,
let loveforii land
“Of my your love for
me; “If shall It will be soj n Jn| t* looked down
you blush.—Nel ; h Advertiser.
with a |-.
The Profrewt# 1 ImtCMltiire. [growing
Tbc progress of in this
srjsss.?ipii'«2: tutidu Dod-e, JL k now pro
».
ports of last year »Lo tlfcnty-five greater thau the
aggregate product o»!d lands years jncreas- ago.
The yield per acre is
inir and” new culti1|on.—Oianitrc. wiifsSiwTamis are annually
brought into .nUie ♦ few fields culti
vaS New Enxlaud ^
Vest. aero thau the
richest soils of tWt The yield
dccliucs fattest in newest and rich
th TCai oMbf mwle an average
wixxi apparently much
favorable and prosp'cM
worse, giro, a field of about iourtcen
bushels tier acre. With good cultivation increased
and fertiUzvtlon it 4i»«>oW be
to twenty report bushei% trou,Vr» individual farms m
Maine acre! y to forty bushel,
per some aerjlHB in York report
thirty-two or many in Illi
nols and North Dsl»* *»*• twenty and
thirty bushels The rate of
yield could reaiiiM^fliHpereased QW one
half, ^according
Tbe wheat croo_ to
the National • it report, l*
* ypio ta yield
been
musuium . . www—inr i
area ia mtinjate. jni, i36 acre*, !
prqduciag 518.91V* #324. >ntiel*, valued j
on the farm at A* The yield
per acre is 13.4 bueflida, and the value
per bushel 63.4 ceat*. The largest
yield of the present year is 2T.8 bushels
in Montana, on 1921 acres. The next
in order is 25.2 bushels in the Indian
Territory. The next lower is 23.9 in
Nevada, and Maine averages nearly as
much, 23.7 bushel*. In the West, the
largest rate is nineteen bushels in j
Indiana. It should be understood that
there are averages oi States, ami not of
individual farms, some of which are much i
higher, explains the authority quoted. i
The progress of wheat-growing was ;
stimulated greatly by the crop failures of
Western Europe prior to 1830. Twenty {
years ago no crop had attained half the !
values of that of 1801. The average i
production of the decade between 1870
and 1879 was 312,133.738 bushels. The
average of That the next the decade three was 449,- J
695,359. of past iork years
is 5)8,997,000 bushels.—New
World.
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Despised “.Slone Coal."
At the beginning af the coal," present cen
tury anthracite or -stone as it was
called, was not used at nil except by
blacksmiths and Iron workers in thsdis
tricu where it was touad. It was be
lieved that it could no; bo made to burn
«cept by an arUfierel current of air,
such as a bellow, supphad. In 1803 two
great host loads of it were floateJ down
from Mauch Chunk, Fean., to Philadel
phia. Not n lump of H could be sold,
because people did not consider it of any
use for fuel. The city authorities tried
to use it for a steam engine at the water
work*, but it would noT burn. Finally
they gave it up, declare 1 the coal worth
less and caused what remained ol it tc
be broken up and spr 1 in*read of grave!
on the footpatbn otgfrftpstblic grounds.
Tais failure put s sVo the mining at
Mauch Chunk, by as renewed m
1813, and in tbe ‘ F J*?*
ioad Lehigh <> f River * he to “ ' * ■?* )s,bywayoi i
the D.'laware. up stoves
in conspicuous public pioce* ini the cit
ies. built coal link ’-bom *ad iavited
the people to nop sad inspect then.
They went to private boo*** and pre
vailed on the iamates to be allowed to
kindle anthracite fires in the grate*
which had been built for »be use ot sort
can!. They even bribed jonrunymen in
blacksmiths' shops to five ww ereta >
f*>r trial in the ; organ. — t* a»sun, .oa
Star.
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*nklaf _ .
A genUeman traveimg in the counhy
»t Sto-Usrd, N. H.. wnmw it is sU rocks ;
and bowlder*, saw a ssy sf twelve or
fourteen hoeing in s c ren&eld on tbe side
of wha’ would be pastnra land oa any
body eiese's farm Tbe corn ws* rather
poor looking. Ttm trevslsw reined in ;
his hone and spofc« to tbo boy. He
said to -i *Y '«ra looks father
*'. » ■ “'Ve.' ' assd lit b*y, ••we
p.aated dwsri core ’ * Wmi, it lv*S
yoUetr, pul, and tb*n.’‘ “Weil, w#
planted yeiiow cos*.” • WeM,"said the
■to*.! ' i dot 4 retM lb* 1 It don't
te ak o* tf }0* weoi l fst more than half
s crop ” “I don't exparet to. Iptaateii
tt on tiaras. ” Argwwre*.
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HAWAII’S CHARMS.
ISLANDS OF PERPETt’Ab SUN¬
SHINE AND FLO W CltS.
A Iteantilnl Land Where Vegetation
is Luxuriant—Iticn ness ot the
Soil—The Large-t Apple
Orchard in the World
H A WAIF, the land of luxuriant
vegetation. Hawaii, a coug
try where summer and winter
(. have no other meaning than a
convenient division of time; where the
frosts, blizzards and cyclones of the
North are unknown, and the typhoons and
hurricanes of the South never mc'i;
where the grass and trees are always
gre en and flowers always in bloom, the
climate a perpetual spring. Such is the
COU ntry in the Pacific Ocean, which,
owing to recent events there, seems de?
tined soon to become part of the territory
0 f the United States.
j 0 Hawaii there are no light summer
clothes to use in the morning, with win
ter wraps brought out before sundown.
No such unpleasant climatic changes take
place, and the thermometer never varies
more than thirteen degrees from one
year's end to the other. At anv time of
the year foliage ot endless variety covers
the mountain sides, and there is always
a picturesque production of nature in any
of the valleys that cau be appreciated
only by those who have visited the
mams of the late King Kalakatia.
Xhe royal pa i mt (j ste painii travelers'
an ,j w ine palm are as luxuriant in
Decembor as in May, and the rapidity of
growth ol ever.' k.nd of vegetation in
Hawaii is something marvelous. Five
Tea- a „ 0 the lawu in front of the hoUJe
0 f Samuel Parker, the ex-Prime Minister
of Forei , n AtIairs at Honolulu, was as
Urren a , a pl8in> To-dav it is M
luxuriant as is shown in the lllustra
tions.
Tim wine palm is a beautiful tree,
length ol ei.-ht feet. 1 lie si-bt of one
another curiosity. It generally grows in
barren parU ol tlio islands, some dis
tance from streams, ami is called a
“travelers’ tree” because each branch of
the fan-shape I tree holds about a quart
of pure "rainfalls water. It catches toe moisture
at and retain, it for a long
time, or until another .bower comes
along. The branches are soft, like all
Sy'tr.^lwis'frequcntlj'iLde^d wUicU he i,ua ued ti
«LZ°z::r ry "
The elevation to the country gives
universal variety to Us Hors. There arc
844 species of (lowering plants on the
UUnds, anfl the unusually large
tion of 15i» ferus or vascular crypto
grams. found Of the IK>9 spec.es. 653 are
only on the islands. The proper
tion of shrubbery plants is large, and
lo me representatives of low-growing
genera of other regions grow to an im
meuse size in Hawaii. There is a dock
tlxat occasionally reache* the height of
forty feet, twenty-five feet being the
average size; a plantain (pilantago) that
forms a stem six feet UBktr e branching;
a ium with a stei fcWto lve feet high
mote from ti.econMnorFcUiflrweetrThat
»re busby shrubs.
' Oue of the featuresof Honolulu life is
about sea-bathing four miles at Wail^^a froflPTVonoluIn, seaside where resort
there is a fine beach of coral sand. The
temperature of the water the year
through is from seventy-three to sev
enty six degrees. through the
The roads most of coun
try district* are better than the average
country roads of the United States,
u,nolulu has about seventy miles of
streets and drives, about thirty miles be
ing macadamized with crushed volcanic
rock, pressed dawn by steam rollers. It
; 9 8ai ,t that no other city of its size—the
population being about 24,01)0—does so
much riding and driving as Honolulu,
Besides having aboui sixteen miles of
street railways and a large number of
well-equipped livery stables, the city
supports about 600 hacks, and nearly
every family has its own horse aud car
r j age .
lu the wild district between liana and
Kaiku during July a’ud August the most
beautiful and largest apple orchards in
the world can be seen. The Wilderness
of Kooian, as the district is called, cou
tains a foicst of native wild apple trees,
countless in number, stretching from the
sea far up the mountain side. 1 he trees
vary from forty to fifty feet in height,
and in the harvest season, trom July
September, are loaded with fruit, some
white, but mostly red. A person stand
ing in the mtdst of this orcrerdcan look
around him for miles, up tue mountains
and toward the sea, and the only thing
i a fie w will be one vast grove of apple
trees, literally red with ripe and ripen
ln g fruit,the branches of the trees bend
i Ui! to the ground with the bounteous
harvest. The crop of this extensive
apple orchard, which nature planted in
the solitary waste, would fill a fleet of
100 steamer*. l'he orchard stretches
over a country from five to ten miles
wide, bv twenty miles long. Tue fruit
is delicious for table ure, and will sp
pease both thirst and hunger, but as yet
commerc. °“ e _ ^ si ute u *'” of ,be theapp.es. trou *> le t0 When “* ke
rlpe they will not keep more tuan a
week, but they rnaie excellent je.ly and
jam, and simply for the lack of a little
enterprise thousands of barrels of app.es
are permitted annually to fall to the
groU nd and rot.—New York Tr.buae.
-- — -
l aw* f. r Bakers.
Special laws for ba.ers have been in
ex is, ea ce since early times. In parts of
Asia, whenever fiintne threateaeii, it has
been customary for the rulers to proclaim
a fixed price called s Harsh, or uar*v, (as
it if pronounce t in India ) Or this ac
count diauocest bakers were aa led to
u^ir doorposw by their ears in some
parts of Asia, while the more polite
French have contented themselves for 6 JO
years and at the prerent time with nail
fag their prices ia their shop*.—Nation
ai Her lea.
—— 1
A I’' ,n » Bis.' _
T <* *«r- to t,
>• % . •
vaaB * to wtibdcaw ;tom « rculathm ait
rbetwo-oout -eo pieces which they re
*
to e«>.i «
tka eota ***. .a vounr, *.* , c«a
time*.
Battling Under Water.
The greatest q i.stion in sava! warfare
to-day is not about the big battle-ships
or saucv torpedo-boats, but how to get
a boat that wilt safely dire below the
keel of a hostile vessel and blow her t#
destruction with a charge of dynamite
or guncotton. This mode of attacking
an enemy is not entirely new, for, nearly
twenty-five hundred years ago, divers
were lowered into the water in a simply
constructed air-box, to perforate the
wooden bottoms of an qdvesary a war
JChU®? 5 ) * Q o r ^ er to sink them and drown
or capture their rowers and fighting men.
The diving warrior and his box did
not outlast the great ga leys tueyhal
t r!ed SInk . and the history of these
boats passes over two thousand years to
the American Captain Buihaell, of the
Revolutionary army, and his diving-boat.
This was a tiny, walout-shaped vesse’,
sculled by a single oar, and h iving a
crew of one man. Toe boat sat low in
the water while on the surface, emailing
it at night to get near its intende d vie
ti® without detection, raca tne hatca
closed, shutting in a.r enough to
1®** * n hour, and by letting in a
little water and turning an upright s;rew
bladed oar, the boat was s in a to near
the keel-level of the enemy s Vesse', an 1
sculled under the hull. A torpedo out
side the boat carr e l a heavy coarse of
gunpowder, and .vas prev.ded w.t i
clociwork to fire t ie c large a.ter the
I' 1 ** 15 torpedo-boat should h ive re.-citcd
t” * s “F e distance, lhe torpedi on I a
pointed screw stem, by whie.i it ;sa»to
be attached to the dj .ineI vetse , the
screw being turned from tnsi ie toe to:
pedo-boat. Except for l ie ’.ire.i^ ii; <i
this screw, it is possible that tue dritisn
admirals flag-ship m gut have . ocea
blown up as sue lay at am: nor m Ne v
York Harbor; but tb it is m:ie gues-;
wor.. - for, as General IVashiug o i sit i of
,
the boat, “too mnav things were neccs
sery to be combined m it. Vet it was
ingenious, a credit to A nencaa sail, and
daring and its arran enmts are s ill
studied by those utere, e in .-u •
to". t't,.'fvJl'.t.ell let.
1> .at foe a m >
the iiull of a ‘thec^ilhu/
..S ' ~ oar 1 nio
a paddle wuetl w r a . K • n .j • He ■■
forced into ,i coppe .. •
supply a crew o ho our me hor a ^ ^ iile ^ M
water for s,x irs. u-e «
‘he sur ace. the boa- was ^ «-A
remova de masts and sans, iiu.ex,K.r.
meQts :4 ^ te s« »»e twuveyeir-s l
_
wher* scouted1 the
^ ™an y tret* *c a ^:z
- ’■ was ’ unloved .* witnout
•
1 . V ? , )m „ of u , 0
. Wa! , th _ v w
l “ n, ‘ coasts in th ><- c oFlSl ' Though ,
do setual damagc ‘be block
advr, were badly ingUtencd by tbc at
tftin i ,ts ' St ‘ ^ c ‘ '
_
. .
A 1 o1nl ' ,,nel ’
One way of combating an evil pr.ic
tice is to make it lo >k ridiculous. It
was by this means that duelling was
stopped in a certain district of Kentucky
some forty years ago. preacher
At this time a traveling
-was conducting some services T7
Kentucky. At one of his meetings, a
well-known desperate character created
a di-tubance, and being publicly re
Imkea by Bowman, sent him a challenge
to fight. the challenged party, had
Bowman, as selected
the choice of weapons. He a
halt bushel of Irish potatoes ns big as
his fist for each man, and stipulated that
his opponent must stand fifteen paces
distant, and that only cne potato at a
time should be taken from the measure,
The desperado wa, furious at being
thus freshly insulted, and made an in
dignant protest, but Bowman insisted
that he was the challenged man, and
bad a right to choose his own weapons,
and threatened to denounce the desper
ado as a coward if he failed to come to
time. As there was no way out of the
fix but to fight, the desperado con
seated.
Almost everybody in the place was
present to see the fun. The seconds ar
ranged tbe two men in position, by the
side of each being a half-bushel measure
filled with large, hard, Irish potatoes,
Bowman threw the first potato. It
struck bis opponent in a central spot,
and flew into a thousand pieces. A yell
of delight went up from the crowd
winch flurried the desperado, and his
potato flew wide of the mark,
Bowman watched his chance, and
every time his opponent stooped for a
potato another one hit him m the side,
leaving a wet spot on his c.othes and
then scattering to the four winds of
heaven. He hit the desperado about hvo
times, and then the sixth potato struck
him in the short ribs, knocking the win l
completely out of hiui, and doubling him
up on the grass.
Tue people were almost crazy w j tb
laughter, but Mr. Bowman looked as
sober as if he had just finished a funeral
sermon. The desperado was taken stayed home for
and put to bed, aud tuere he
more than a week before he recovered
from the effects of the Insh pouto duel,
That was the end o due. mg m ua.
region.—kankeeB^de._ *
Origin ol h , _ . ,
. ame o .
Richard SchiefH n. of Lo* Angcle*,
Cal., was at the Palmer tbe other day
and attracted considerable attention by
bis peculiar Western attire and long flow
ing hair. Mr. Schieffltn was famous a
few years ago as the discoverer of Tomb
stone in Anions. He was a poor pros
pector on the Anz»na desert in searciof
gold, which he believed was located it
the southern part o. theTerntory. After
getting a “grub stake at a store in
Yuma he started out alone to cross the
srid waste lying west of Y'uma. Ashe
left the town he was told th*t :n«aad oi
finding gold he would dad his tomb
stone. For week* the daring prospector
struggled on until hi* provision* were
nearly exhausted. One nL’ht whiic
camping out beside a small, dry stream
he was rrtHignd t# di g in thfi swd ®f the
river-ired to get waur, and white thus
.ye t . t -■-■*' ». ..... > A
_■ i Ia • . F. -.e -•. . . a. u
*rt* 1 t • » i .:••.**
ported that be had found hi* toattHtoae,
bui that it wa* line 1 with golden nog
I -
>'umbel*— aysaog, nasi to day "Dek"
ficb ieM lin 1* a— of tbe wealthiest men la
L» Angels*. — 1 Cbtca»<9 tribune.
A WHITE WORLD.
I never knew the world ia wb'ts
So beautiful conli be.
As 1 have seen it here to-day
Beside the w.ntry sea:
A new earth, bride of a new heaven
His been revealed to me.
Tfce sunrise blended wave anj clou I
In one broad flood of goH.
But touchei with rose the worl.’s white
robes
In every curve and foil;
tvhile the blue air did over all
Its breath in wonder hold.
. ... b .
"
Seninfcor’s mJLt hant
ovr * bonds with lova
Above the , worz „ He plannei. . ...
u, oa sue a av,
To feel and understand.^ XjIrc;)m
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PITH A \ P .. 01 . , } „
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A love knot—No.
A dog show—Teeth.
Stone blind—A cat’s eye.—Puck.
Open to conviction—Penitentiaries.
Every man is a hero to his imagination.
—Life.
A question of identity—“ tVhat's your
name ?”
A cash balance—The scales of justice.
—Puck.
“That is another story,” a* the builder
said when ordered to run the walls up
higher,—Troy Pres*.
Truth may be stranger than fiction,
but in literature it hasn’t as high a mar¬
ket value.—Boston Courier.
When a man unexpectedly step* into a
fortune he can not be upbra.ded for
having put bis foot in it.—Puck.
Fin not your faith to any man
Who feels no throb of joy.
Whan to the circus he's a caanci
To chaperon a boy. —Fuck.
People finally get onto the man who
is always volunteering to oblige his
friends, but who never does it.—Atchi¬
son Globe.
You may freeze, you may bust the gas
meter if you will, but at the end of the
month just the same, there's the bill.—
Williamsport Republican.
“What is pillage, papa?” “It is
charging a dollar for eight cents’ worth
of pills, my son. It is a very lucrative
business.”—Harper’s Bazar.
Procrastination steals our time,
The sages gravely he but say. takes •>
It is in justice; throw
The lime we away.
—Washington Star.
•‘Death loves a shining mark,” said
the man who was engaged in selling
mythical fortunes ia ore, “but luckily
it’s different with a mining shark.”—
Washington Star.
Edison is quoted as declaring that the
man of the future will be able to do
without sleep altogether, This im
plies the extinction of the policemen.—
Washington Star.
Solitude builds up the strength; so¬
ciety pulls it down. It is tho necessity
of having to meet so many people that
turns the able-bodied lemon to circus
lemonade.—Puck.
Magistrate—“Your hand was found
in the prosecutor’s pocket. Havo you
anything to say a‘lawyer, I" Prisoner—“Oaly that
I u-ed to be your worship, and^,
Gilgal—“If you want anything well
done, do it yourself, is a good rule.”
Mullins—"I know a better one. If you
want anything well done, tell the waiter
to bring it rare."—Elmira Gazette.
Ltt dark-frowning plunkity rub-a-dub-dub.
And the snickersnee pizzle-te-bu blubberty-blub n;
We'll guzzle the muzzle of
To the eott-wailiug rum-a-tum-tum. Truth.
—Harold Fayne, in
Primus—“Why does Boswell wear
that monoclel" Secondus—“Ob, there’s
an English girl uptown who is the apple
of his eye, and he’s trying to cultivate
her under glass.”—Kate Fic.d’s Wash¬
ington.
Visiter—“Are you going to be a shoe
merchant, like your father?” Johnny—
“Naw. I’m going into some business
where I can afford to give ray little boy
a dime whenever he wants it.”—Indian¬
apolis Journal.
“Johnny, you have left the door
open, and arc letting the cold air into
tho bouse." “I can’t help it, ma. I’m
playing this room's a street car and I’m
the conductor. It would not seem real
if the door was not left open.”—Buffalo
Express.
“Who is that man with the loud voieo
and tbe loud clothes and the loud man¬
ners?" said the commercial tourist whose
efforts to sell goods hail been ruthlessly
interiupted. “That,” partner.”—Washing¬ was the reply,
“is the firm’s silent
ton Star.
Allred (rapturously)—“Now, darling,
please name the happy day.”—Minnie
^blnshingly)—“Three weeks from neat
Thursday, Alfred." Norah (through the
keyhole)—“If you please, miss, that's
ray day out. You’ll have to git married
in tbe early part of the week."—Tit-Bits.
Walking Mania or a Woo ichopper.
Brick MMuirc a brawny woodchop
wag Emitted to the County Hos
recently suffering from locomotor
^ ^ j, de .
. cr jbed as a disease of the spinal cord,
which causes a patient to lose all control
of his gait. When the fits come on the
sufferer Farts walking. He must go
^ itr;li .,h: ahead, he can turrf neither way,
^ ^ ftopped by eoma p^-^n M
obitacle or he will walk himself to death,
M j ^ lire ha , tUe disewe in its wor?t
o A few davs since a fit came bn,
be walked full tilt into s tree with
force eoou?h to stun him. When be
. va * revived he escape*! from hi* attend
notl au( f walked into a deep pool of
wat , r> At the hospital he walked
.j,reuxhtbe dining-table and collided
srith a hot stove. He is now kept
fir ,nped to a i»unk to prs vent him f tom
wl : k in k through the wails.— Hoiitster
, c . , Advccate.
An Odd Fish.
O'* of the oddest fh’ae* that
* w bat* air. under in any sex the it unattractive that known Mail to n^H _
a
.......si.- " A es o’
.
f . i ;s t .*• -• % of Oi ve. « ere ■
i t n«*-. • * ol ea^H d
siga and elegance of workmanship
tbe efforts oi tne majority of feata^E
ing S*iu aa old root “t toek
under tbe water, and th* mseon*
slits of seaweed, k ra*s and Isov**.—
itxhastst Tim**