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English capitalists are interested in
Mexican railings to the extent of #40,•
000 , 000 .
The booming of new manufacturing
towns in the South continues, announces
the Chicago Sun.
A New York scientist advocates
drowning as the most humane form of
capital punishment to which criminals
can be subjected.
GooinU'x Sun, states that the Southern
furnaces make twenty tons of pig-iron
out of every hundred made, und the
Northern furnaces, eighty.
_
There are more than eighty National
Cemeteries in America containing in all
1515,555 graves. Of these 133,148 are
the graves of unknown soldiers.
It is reported that the Russian Govern¬
ment intends to buy all the Polish rail¬
ways and transform them into state rail¬
ways on account of their strategical im
oortauce.
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Boys the New York Observer: “It is at
least a little strange that while so many
thousands of hymns have been written in
England and in America since the long
metre doxtffogy was composed, nothing
has ever taken its place.”
It, is remarkable, observes the San
Francisco Chronicle , that the production
of pig iron goes on increasing in this
country, although the demand for steel
rails has fallen off enormously a3 com
ns ared with such years as 1888 and
European manufacturers are compar¬
ing notes upon the heavy taxation to
which they are subject, on account of
military and attendant expenditures.
Several manufacturers estimate that their
taxes amount to ten per cent of their net
income.
Within a short distance of the New
York Postoffice there are 8,000,000
people. Brooklyn has over 800,000;
Newark has 175,000; Paterson, 75,000.
It is estimated that in 1802 there will be
3,500,000 people living within sight ol
sack other.
The discovery of oil in Michigan will
extend the oil territory of this country
in a new direction. An expert who has
examined samples of this product pro
liouuccs it to be of fine quality, and
further expresses the opinion that natural
gas will be found iu the same vicinity.
The longest uninterrupted debate on
record was recently brought to a close
by the New Zealand House of Repre¬
sentatives. It had caused a continuous
sitting of seventy-six hours, entirely
given up lo*thc discussion of a representa¬
tion bill. Yet the debate was not fin¬
ished then.
Except tradesmen or people who lure
some live profession or employment, r.c
one is made welcome iu Australia iron;
other countries. Hi —- large section ol
people known as 1 n . erks,” from people
who can merely read, write aud cipher,
up to experienced bookkeepers, are not
wanted at all.
MwMMMntnwwi i
The White Lead Trust represents
properties valued at $15,0Q0,CUi). Ail
tlic trust managers have issued certificates
covering $83,018,800, and a few years
hence, predicts the New Orleans Tl o.
Democrat, the wages of employes will
be reduced because the combination is
not making a fair interest on its cap¬
ital.
The New York ii v declares that if
it were not for the vast fields of bulk
which are abundant !y irrigated, wheat
grown in the United States would be
worth a quarter more iu the markets of
the world than it now is. India partially
breads Great Britain and furnishes mor*
than half of what is eaten on the Couti- ;
neat.
French physicians who are studying the
matter are confident that hypnotism will
in time succeed the use of chloroform in
oainful surgical opera
Maay most remarkable experi¬
ments in this direction have proved suc¬
cessful. Patients have been hypnotized,
and while in that condition undergone
operations of the most painful and deli¬
cate nature without evincing sensibility
iu the slightest degree.
. MIST. ^ ^
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Beyond the mist are sunlit leagues of sea,
And towering peaks by lingering sunshine
kissed,
Where heaven's lights doth shine eternally
Beyond the mist.
Could we but pierce the haze, could we but
list
To some far voices from the shore, would we
Still in these dolorous waves of doubt per¬
sist?
Can we not see the stars above that be?
Is there not one to guide our bark, I wist?
Lost mariners upon life's troubled sea,
Beyond the mist.
—Bennett Bellman.
CINDERELLA.
Whenever Effie thought of her lot,
which appeared at present to Ire to do
the housework for her step-mother and
her two step-sisters, her mind naturally
reverted to her favorite fairy tale, the one
she liked to read oftenest in those child¬
ish clays not so far away, for she was not
yet seventeen, before her father filled her
dear dead mother’s place with the over¬
whelming presence of the Widow Hum
pherics, whose twin girls had quite
thrown Effie into the shade from the time
that they entered the house.
“I should have been christened Cinder¬
ella,” she used to say; “only I certainly
have no fairy god-mother, and no one
will ever change the rats, that frighten
me so when I go down the kitchen stairs
in the dark, into horses, or one of the
big pumpkins 1 am forever stewing for
pies into a carriage; and certainly, cer¬
tainly, certainly the young prince will
never fall in love with me or one of my
shoes. ”
And then Effie would give the stout,
serviceable boots, which her step-mother
always bought a size too large for her, a
contemptuous look, which would have
withered their soles, had they been any¬
thing more sensitive than leather and
prunella.
Effie never said all this to any one but
herself, certainly not to her step-mother,
who, now that she was a widow once
more—for Effie’s father had not lived
long after his secoud marriage—was
completely mistress of the house. Every¬
thing had been left to her and she had
her own ideas of justice. She neither
abused norjllussd Effie, but she had a soft
way of coercing her that was just as bad.
Melissa and Amanda, her two girls, were
older than Effie, and of this fact the
mother made good use. Effie was “just
a child,’’and she could wear calico dresses
and serviceable boots, while Melissa
and Amanda must have trained dresses
and dainty coverings for their feet.
Effie was so young that she could “run
of errands,” yet Effie, being a mere girl,
needed sleep at nights and must retire
early; aud as tire young ladies sat up
later she must rise earlier than they and
help get breakfast. A woman was kept
to wash, and cook, and scrub, and Effie
only had “nice things, that a child should
learn to do,” to attend to, said step
mamma; but the little hands were always
busy and the little feet tired, and, like
Cinderella, when there was nothing else
to do she had her sister’s handsome
di esses to work upon.
It provoking, vvith . notamg _ f°
was r
herself but her every day calicoes and
step-mamma s old brown silk, made short
and scanty, for Sunday's church going.
It was only lately since it had seemed so
hard, though—only since Leslie Good
wood had come home from college, aud
she had seen, as plainly as young eyes
do see these things, that he admired her,
even in the brown silk and Melissa ’3
last year’s hat, which was, in step-mam¬
ma's estimation “quite good enough for
a mere child.”
Since then she had called herself Cin¬
derella often; than before, and when at
last the Got - I wood* gave an evening _
parvv, ano E onlv rs, Mervin and he r
daughters < : invited, but also 3Iiss
Effie Mr tin, in r; little note addressed to
herself, sh fai y rebell l as he step r
n her ex ressed it to be her c m p
that might take Amanda and Meli r
but. “Effie could not i c*a i i Q^O.
“Why not, I should like to know,
when I’ve an invitation?” asked Effie.
“You’re not in society yet. dear,” sai
Mrs. Mervin, blandly; “and it isn't goo
for young girls to go out in the evening.
In a few years--”
“In a few years the Goodwoods’ party
will be over,” said Effie; “aud I want to
go so much. Oh, do let me!”
“My dear!” cried Mrs. Mervin, “there
are onlv three davs to get ready in, and i
you ' have no parti dress.”
“I ought to have." said Effie. “It's a
shame.''
“Dear me!” said Mrs. Mervin. “ -
I didn’t know better what you ongl to
*
have than you.’’
“She might alter mv blue grenandine '
to fit herself,''said Am; .ida.
And Effie of''the gave a start, for the second
daughter step-mother iu Cinder
ells being more good-natured than her
sister, cried: “Give hcr one of my old
dresses!” when the famous ball was iu
question. did
But though Mrs. Mervin not cry
out frank)v, as did the step-mother of
the fa; v tale: “3Iy dear, the King's son
will be' there." she thought much the
same thing. She remembered Leslie
Goodwood—such a good match for any
one who was happy to catch him; and
she remembered also that Effie was much
prettier than her Melissa.
“No, my dears; no. ” she sffid with a
smile that she could always command at
will, and that gave her such a reputa
tiou • ns an anna * i-vl ole it. woman. i,v “.No, -v call- Ji
dreu -I know what is beat for young per-
sons. Effie will be a woman soon enough,
and wish her childish days back again.”
With which words she left the room to
dress herself for a shopping expedition,
for lace and flowers and ribbons and
dainty shoes, were needed for her girls,
even though they had handsome dresses
enough already for the Good woods’
party.
So Effie was not to go. She was to
remain at home and sit up for the others,
And her little face was as long as it
well could be as she took her seat beside
the grate fire, and put her feet upon the
fender.
“Cinderella! Cinderella!” she cried
aloud. “If ever there was a Cinderella
on earth, it is I. I wish—”
“What do you wish, my dear?” said a
voice behind her; and Effie turned her
head toward the door with a little
scream, and there stood a tiny little old
lady, not exactly in a red cloak, but
certainly in a red shawl, which nearly
covered her.
“What is it you wish so much, Effie?”
asked the old woman.
“Oh, I was wishing I could go to the
Goodwoods’ party,” said Effie, bursting
into a little laugh. “Do come in, Mrs.
Percy. I really thought you were my
fairy god-nlother at first. Did you come
down the chimney?”
“You what?” asked Mrs. Percy, “I
didn't scare you, did I? I found Dinah
at the kitchen door, and I ran in that
way. But what a shame it was for the
Goodwoods not to ask you to their party.
I know Mrs. Mervin and the other girls
are there. I saw them go m.”
“Oh, they asked me,” said Effie.
“They sent me such a nice little note.
And I wanted to go, but my step-mother
said I mustn't. She always thinks me
too young for any amusement. I'm only
old enough © to work.”
“That’s a shame,” said Mrs. Percy.
“But why didn’t you say you would go?
If it was your own mother, that would
be different; but we’ve all noticed how
you are kept down, and we're all pro¬
voked about it. Why shouldn't you
have a little fun? You're just the right
age for it.”
“I think so myself. - ’ said Effie. “But
I hadn’t any dress, and I never have any
money. Papa left me nothing, you
know.”
“Your pa? Well, your poor pa is
dead,” said Mrs. Percy. “But see here,
Effie, you shall go to the party if you
like.”
“It is my fairy god-mother,” said
Effie.
“What are you talking about, child?”
cried the old lady. “But just wait a
moment. My niece is at our house with
her daughter, and she has a great trunk
full of the prettiest things. Do your hair,
and I'll bring you all you want to wear.”
“But I shan’t dare to go,” said Effie.
“I’ll take you,” said Mrs. Percy,
dauntlessly.
Away she went; and Effie, trembling
at her own temerity, brushed her hair
into the loveliest curls ever seen, and in
the shortest possible space of time. Back
came Mrs. Percy with a pretty dress of
pale blue silk, white gloves and slippers,
and just the prettiest bunch of blush
rosebuds.
Mrs. Percy made a deft tiring-woman,
and iu a few moments Effie stood before
the parlor mirror admiring herself in her
now attire ^bich fitted as though made
f or ] ier
ihc slippe.s are^a li.de t. o lai^i,
SSTSi ' Av are'Ldv „ _nit hoieft „,,,i
to come
!orI sM1 be *
°V' ;-Ton dear angel 1 ox a god-mother!
‘“Dear me, I wish I had been, but
wasn't you know.” said Mrs. Percy.
**N\hat ^ . ..
• .0 von meam:
-That I'm Cinderella in actual fact,”
cried Effie. “You’ve made a. coach cut
pumpkin, too! 1 ’
a
“Cinderella? Oh, that’s a fairy tale,
hm re* icraber something of it. But she
:r slippers,” said 31 rs. Percy.
“Dear, dear! and a step-mother, too. 5
begin to understand.''
Then she hurried Effie into the little
pony carriage, and away they drove.
“You must go and speak to Mrs. i
Goodwood first,” said 3Irs. Percy; “aim
that’s all. I've no doubt you’ll be taken
, , „
“dbc,” S.U Effie, rueful!-, hi
“I wonder what my step-n
say.
lady who , , looxs .
- “Who is that young 50
Hite Effie?” whispered Mrs. -Mervin to
Amanda.
should think _ it Effie.’ sa:u .,
“I was
; Amanda. “Only there :s notamg mine
i house anything like what sne has on.
“ Adi1 s y e ‘ s P r( * t5e T lh;, “ E J“ e ’ saui
31 : Mervin. “But now nice.
•
; '-^ r - Goodwood is going to dance with
her,” said Amanda.
Indeed, Leslie Goodwood was at the ^
moment leading Eme to her place in a
qu Mii’.c.
i “That's another proof it can't be she,"
; said Mrs. Mervin. “Effie doesn’t
dance.
i But Effie had had lessons in those
schooldays of which hcr step-mother
! knew nothing. And she had a sense of
time and a grace of motion that made
......------ c.\ 1 i .l.
She he*' step-mot " and ^ sisters:
s-w aer
and saw thev did not recognize her.
And she envied the fun of the position
greatly. She was altogether happy; and
so, also, seemed Leslie Goodwood, vln
I paid !- M r as *'c muen miiph artc^uon attention flS fl auua lio^t
might pay to one lady, who waited on
her to supper, and who was again dancing
with her when the cloek which hung iD
the hall struck twelve.
“Is it really twelve o'clock?” said Ef
fie. “Then I must go. Some one is to
come to drive me home just at twelve.”
“I am so sorry. But you must let me
see you to the carriage,” said Leslie,
And then Effie got her wraps, and
Leslie went down stairs with her, and
there was the pony carriage, and kind,
independent Mrs. Percy, and Leslie
handed her in; but as she sprang into the
carriage the oddest thing happened,
Her slipper, which was, as we have said,
a little too large for her, slipped from
her foot and fell upon the pavement,
“Oh, my shoe!” cried Effie, is a
whisper,
But no one heard her. Leslie had
clasped her hand and said, “Good-bye, "
and Mrs. Percy had driven off.
“I’ve lost your kind neice’s slipper,”
said Effie, in despair. “What shall I
do?”
“Oh, she has a hundred slippers,” said
Mrs Percy, “and I'll get her another pair.
Don’t fret.”
“And this makes it more like Cinder¬
ella!” cried Effiie. “I’m getting fright¬
ened at myself.”
And, to carry the story out, she was in
bed, with her calico dress hanging over a
chair back, and all the finery—odd slip¬
per and all—gone home with Mrs. Percy,
when her step-mother peeped into the
room on her way to bed.
“There was a girl just like you, Effie,
at Mrs, Goodwood’s last night,” said
Amanda.
“But handsomer and older,” said Mrs.
Mervin. .
“Oh, I’m sure she was hamdsomer and
older!” cried Effie. And, under her
breath she whisrered: “Cinderella
again!”
Late in the afternoon, some one in¬
quired for Miss Effie Mervin, and sent in
a card with
: guslis Goodwood. :
upon it. The others were taking naps
up stairs, and Effie went into the parlor
in her childish calico dress.
Leslie was there. He had a little folded
parcel in his hand; and after he had
spoken a few words, he said :
“I think you lost a slipper last niglit,
Miss Effie. I have brought it home. I
found it just as you drove away.”
Effie crimsoned. She scarcely knew
why. She was utterly confused, and her
presence of mind quite deserted her.
“It is exactly like Cinderella,” she said
aloud; and then, horribly ashamed of the
dreadful speech, bit her lips, and felt a
strong wish that the floor would open
and swallow her.
But Leslie, coming closer to her, said,
gravely:
“I hope it is. The young Prince,
when he found Cinderella’s shoe, vowed
he would marry no one but its owner. I
have made the same vow. Will you help
me to keep it?”
It doesn’t matter in the least what Ef¬
fie said. But afterward she always called
herself Cinderella iu her own mind; sc
that you understand, of course, that she
married Leslie, as Cinderella married the
young Prince, and was “happy ever af¬
terward.”— The Ledger.
A Central American Despot.
^ t - ue s t uc ] ea t 0 f metaphysics the
an engima, from its many strange con
and mc.v,,liable moo* . Ho
s sfi’SSirtfS* breath. as- & On
hot and cold with the same
one dav he was a Caligula hl his ferocity,
while the next found him practicing the
Cm-istian virtues of lorbearance and *or
mveness. To-day lie would lau^’h, 1 JNero
l^e . * of P blood while , -y to-mor¬
m an orgy
row he might break the shackles and se*. at
liberty his most inveterate foes. Strange,
wayward, and many-sided, he was withal
a man with a crude idea of justice, and
certainly aimed at the material advanee
ment of his country. But a summary of
his life, taking into consideration all of
its lights and shadows, will lead to the
inevitable conviction that he was a very
bad man who was domineered by his
grosser instincts. His unpublished 600 his¬
tory is written in the blood of vic
tints among his own peonle, who have
suffered deih to satisfy hi.eupiciou, rmd
caprices. An attempt to Drmg out the
true facts of liis life by a young lawyer of
this city was suppressed by the govern
ment as entailing a scandal upon the
nation.
He allowed no man or set of men to
stan( j p a the way of his ambition, and
u?on bare rumor often ordered a citizen
to be shot without a moment's warning
or shadow of trial. Not lc-ss than two
hundred citizens of Guatemala now lie
- n death’s embrace, by his order, who
never knew even the charges preferred
against them. At one time a rebellion
was brewing in one of the northern dis
tricts, and. without knowing who were
the ringleaders, but to spread terror iu
the department and quell the uprising,
eight men were sciec*ed, more or less at
random, and shot.
YTe encountered the indubitable au
thority of this heiuous order of
;in a saw men who had read it .—Chicajc
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