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GLORIES OF Vt-NICE. imon* Them That ol Dreamln* the Daye iray la a Gondola. If Home in these day is too warm for comfort, if Florence is an oven perfectly unbearable, there is one spot in Italy which is as near perfection as one can hope to find in this world. Venice, Venice the golden, is in the height of its glory in these warm, summer days, when one can float about all day and half through the night in a poetic but at the same time admirably comfortable gondola, when the sun deepens the tints of sky and water and gilds the fairylike palaces, when the man dolin and guitar tinkle until dawn under the window of some fair Inamorata, when the Lido is a long strip of gold laved by the refreshing sea, and the harshest sound to be heard is the human voice—when, in fact, life in Venice is the apotheosis of the dolce. far niente. However, if one be energetic there are other ways of amusing oneself In the Queen City of the Adriatic than by lotus eating. The cases, chantants and other wise, are in full swing, the theaters are open, the social world still lingers, the usual attractions to sightseers are open, and there is the International Art exhibi tion, which quite merits more than one visit Take, for example, the Japanese exhibits, those delicious landscapes with a blending of colors all their own; fascinat ing, tender little women, and gems of bronzes in which the Japanese have reach ed such perfection, reproducing animals and flowers with the most scrupulous ex actness. There are examples of Japanese art of the end of the eighteenth and be ginning of the nineteenth century, espe cially of the well known artists, Hokosal and Otamaro. In utter contrast are the British painters represented, and especially the Scotch group, while the Russians, and under some aspects the Austrians, have distinguished themselves. Connoisseurs in Italy, who until lately clung to old prejudices, have been obliged to cast them aside and acknowledge the pre-eminence * of these schools. In April there were 80,- 000 visitors to the exhibition, about 8,300 a day, and from all sources, sales of cata logues, etc., 323,230 have been gathered in during that month. The municipality of Venice has bought 83 pictures in oils, three statues and one water color for a sum of 320,000. So far the Italian gov ernment has made no purchases, much to the indignation of the Venetians.—Pall Mall Gazette. The African Cook. The A coras, who are employed right down the whole west coast of Africa, thanks to the valuable education given by the Basel mission, as cooks, carpenters and coopers, cannot resist fishing, let their other avocations be what they may. A friend of mine the other day had a new Accra cook. The man cooked well, and my friend vaunted himself, and was con tent for the first week. At the beginning of the second week the cooking was still good, but somehow or another there was just a suspicion of a smell of fish about the house. The next day the suspicion merged into certainty. The third day the smell was insupportable and the atmosphere un fit to support human life, but obviously healthy for flies. The cook was summoned and asked by her Britannic majesty’s representative where the smell came from. He said he could not smell it and he did not know. Fourth day, thorough investigation of the premises revealed the fact that in the back yard there was a large clotheshorso which had been sjnt out by my friend’s wife so that he could have his clothes aired. This was literally-converted into a screen by strings of fish in the process of drying—L e., decomposing in the sun. The affair was eliminated from the do mestic circle and cast into the ocean by seasoned natives, and awful torture in this world and the .next promised to the cook if he should ever again embark in the fish trade. The smell gradually faded from the bouse, but the poor cook, bereft of his beloved pursuit, burst out all over in boils and took to religious mania and drink and so had to be sent back to Accra, where I hope he lives happily, surrounded by his beloved objects.—Miss Kingsley in Na tional Review. Netting the Natives. Here is a good yarn explaining how whalers get native crews: “When a whaler is fitted outfrom home, she takes her officers, boatswains and a few foremast hands and steers for the western islands (Azores). Arrived there, a boat is lowered and a box of new boots put in it. The crew pull ashore into some convenient little bay surrounded by woods, and, landing, they open the box of boots and stand them all along in a row. Then one man begins at one end of the row and pulls all the boots on and off again one after the other. They then board their boats and pull off around the point out of sight, and the natives, who have been watching ‘ them from the wooejs, come down and try the boots on. When the offi cer in charge of the boat thinks they have had time enough to be fitted, he cpmet back, and the poor ’Gees, being unable to run with the boots on, are easily captured and carried off whaling. I know this to be a fact, for the wijaiefg told me of it themselves.”—"On by Fred erick Benton Williams. Foul Breath and How to Treat It. Foul breath comes from several causes —viz, digestive disturbances, bad teeth anti certain forms of catarrh. If foul diges tion, it comes from the stomach, and in that case ths stomach should be washed out or otherwise sweetened and a mild diet adopted until the stomach clears it self. If from the teeth, it usually comes from a cavity in which food lodges and decomposes. This Is deleterious to health, aside from being disagreeable, and should be remedied by consulting a good dentist. If from catarrh, it Sa generally the atropio kind, in which there is usually a good deal of dryness to the throat. The seore ' tions become morbid and cling to the mu cous membrane, decomposing and form ing a crust, usually tn the posterior nares, or vault, of the pharynx. This Is a vesy troublesome form of catarrh and should lead to a consultation with a specialist. A spray of peroxide of ; hydrogen mixed with water, equal portions, will destroy all odors. An application of carbolized vase line has also been found to be of great service.—Home Doctor. Golden Silence. On one occasion Mr. J. M. Barrie found himself sitting at dinner beside a literary celebrity with whom he was well acquaint ed. After the conventional salutation, Mr. Barrie turned to his companion and asked: “Do you feel like talking!” “No, I do not,” was the prompt reply. “No more do I,” answered Barrie. And it Is told of the twain that neither ex changed a word with the other during the whole progress of ttie dinner. DUTY OF PARENTS. I Wise Guidance Needed For the Youth Who * Is Leaving Childhood Behind. ?■ “There is something pathetic in the ’ struggle of the child to cast aside its child nature and put on the nature of J manhood and womanhood, ” writes Flor , ence Hull Winterburn in The Woman’s j Home‘Companion. “He is beset inter - , nally by misgivings even while he is i urged on by ambition. Ho wants he i scarce knows what, but something new ' and never before possessed. Perhaps, in a nutshell, the great desire of his soul is to be left somewhat to himself, yet with sympathy within call, and to be trusted. It is a great evidence of tact now’ for the mother or father to say, with a kind smile: ‘Do what you think best about this matter, my son. You are old enough to judge what is right. ’ Happy responsibility I Delightful confi dence! Influence is never stronger than when it withdraws slightly into the background, leaving its object apparent ly free. A good deal is said nowadays about the extraordinary freedom our children have. Seemingly it is so, but looking here and there an observer notes little real change among the aver age people. “A young friend of mine whose happy married life lias not yet driven from her memory a cramped and im bittered youth confided to me that the one idea that haunted her from 8 to 18 was that of running away from home. If she had been less conscientious, a lit tle more reckless, what a gulf of ruin her innocent feet might have plunged into to escape the intolerable nagging and interference she was subject to in her father’s house! “We little know what effect our thoughtless and meaningless words of comment and chiding for every small matter that goes wrong produce upon the half grown girl and boy. They are apt to be reserved and to become sullen under restraints they dislike, and when this sullen attitude once sets in we may say farewell to all confidential inter course between parent and child. To avert such an evil we will do well to apply all our powers of tact and kind ness. Let us avoid arousing the spirit of perverseness that stirs in every young creature at this period of life, and, by enlarging his opportunities for action as his ambition extends, soothe any bud ding revolutionary ideas and inspire in him the trust and confidence in parental benevolence that will be his safeguard when he needs advice and assistance, ■for youth never stands in deeper need of wise guidance than at this time when there is a desire to dispense with it But the guidance must be so wise, so tactful, so gentle, that even the most* independent young soul will feel that love, and not force, is thq motive power that draws him toward what is best, and that he is restrained by nothing ex cept his own honor and trained sense of right ” POLITENESS NOT WANTED. In the Case of the Elevator Man It Should Be Discouraged. In view of the fact that the various petty employees of large corporations are usually not overburdened with po liteness or consideration for the public, the complaint recently made against a passenger elevator man seems remark able. It was alleged that the man was “too polite for safety. ” The man who was the subject of the complaint did what hundreds of elevator men da When the elevator gets to the ground floor, the conductor usually steps out of the car to get a whiff of fresh air, to say a word to the hallman or possibly make inquiry about the ball game. The hallmanor starter shouts “Go ing up!” to the people coming into the hall, and the elevator man stands in front of the cage and politely asks his passengers to “step in,” while he re mains on the outside until the starter shouts ”’L right!” Then he cuts his sentence short, steps into the cage, starts the elevator and slams the door after the ascent has begun. Most persons “step in” when asked to do scr, but occasionally a man with an eye to self preservation refuses to do so, and one of that class made the com plaint The man who insists on the ele-- vator man being in the car before he will go in is usually looked upon by the man of many ups and downs as foolish ly careful, but owners of buildings who are held responsible for the safety of their tenants while riding in the eleva tors are pleased to see them firm on that point It may look well for a uni formed man to step aside and ask the passengers to precede him into the ele vator cage, but many persons will agree with the man who made the complaint that it is a case of politeness which should be discouraged in the interest of safety.—New York Tribune. Horse Model Makers. “Making full sized models of horses is quite a distinct and well paid busi ness, the models for the whole world almost being made in London,” said the manager of a great firm of carriage builders in Long Aera “There is scarcely a considerable car riage builder or dealer anywhere who has not in' his shop or warehouse one or more full sized models of horses (we and some other firms have respectively several such models always), which are not only used as a mere attraction, but are also, being movable, put into differ ent sets of shafts, so as to show custom ers how a complete turnout will look. “Then, again, extra good models are made for exhibitions, shows and the like, and many of the best harness mak ers in all countries keep them in their shops for trying on purposes. “I have given as mttoh as 60 and 70 guineas for a good model, but of course the general run of these things costs far less, except for. exhibition purposes. I have seen models made of the skin of a real horse, but the imitation variety is the rule. The men who make the models—quite artists in their way, some of them—are also the sellers, as a rule ” —Pearson’s Weekly. HE NEVER LOVED A LORD. » Bat Hla Fir. Girls Married All the S*uae. l it was evident that he was not only r pretty well satisfied with himself, but f that he didn’t care who knew it. - “Five daughters, ”ho said, “and ev- R ery one of them married to a title. • That’s a pretty good record for a man s Who wouldn’t be considered rich enongh s to buy more than one high grade title. *’ r “I don’t see how you did it,” sug i gested the man who knew nothing ex -1 cept that the husband with a title was t ordinarily quoted at a pretty stiff figure. 5 “Oh, it’s easy when you know how, ’’ t replied the self satisfied man. “So far , as lam concerned I would have prefer e red to marry the girls to enterprising i yotmg Americans with no titles, but ’ their mother insisted upon getting them • something more fashionable, and when i their mother insists I have to hump > myself and see that things come the ■ way she wants them. 1 confess it was i something of a problem at first, but r when I got it figured out in my mind t and began playing the cards it was so t easy that I was inclined to be ashamed ■ of myself for not trying something harder.” i The self satisfied man stopped long i enough for the listener to suggest that ■ he would be glad to hear the story, and i then, in view of the fact that they were I all married and publicity could do no harm, he told it '“I took all my available assets” he i explained, “and made them a dowry I for my eldest daughter. Naturally there ! was a rush for her, and she was able to i take her pick of five. I rushed matters as much as possible, got her married, ■ gave up the dowry I had promised, and ■ then steered her titled husband against i the Stock Exchange, where I gave him i soxna had tips, took his trades myself > through a broker and won book all the 1 dowry and part of his ancestral estates, i Then I gave the dowry to my second daughter, got her married and played the same game with her husband. I • worked the scheme right through the 1 family, until I finally married my youngest to a baronet yesterday. I got 1 them to postpone their wedding trip fox ’ a few days, so as to give me a chance to win back the dowry before they had spent any of it, and by day after tomor row I expect to be on Easy street again, without a care in the world. If girls must have titles, why, I am in favor of giving them to them, but I don’t believe in contributing large fortunes to the support of the tottering monarchies ol the old world, and, what*s more, 1 don’t intend to do it ” —Chicago Post • ■ --- ARMORED PLANTS. Thorns and Spies That Protect Plant* From Their Enemies. “Plants and Their Enemies” is the title of an article by Thomas H. Kear ney. Jr., in St Nicholas. Mr Kearney says: There are a thousand things that threaten the well being and even the life of every tree and shrub and lowly herb. Too much heat or too little works great harm to plants. Then there are all manner of wasting diseases caused by other tiny plants called fungi and bacteria. Many largo animals, as horses and cows and sheep, live by grazing the herbage and grass or browsing the foli age of trees and shrubs. Os course they greatly injure the plants they feed upon and therefore many plants are in one way or another protected against such attacks. Did you ever stop to think why this tles are so well armed with sharp prick les or why the ugly roadside nettles are furnished with stinging hairs? Notice cattle grazing in a field where thistles or nettles grow. See how careful they are to let those disagreeable plants alona That is the reason for the stings and the spines. See this honey locust tree bristling with its horrid array of three pointed thorns. What animal is brave enough to try to rob it of its leaves or great pods? Hawthorns, too, and rosebushes and blackberry briers all have their sharp little swords and daggers to defend themselves against browsing animals. Out on the wide, hot deserts of Ari zona and New Mexico those odd plants, the cactuses, grow in great numbers. Some of them take strange shapes—tall, fluted columns, branching candelabra oX mere round balls, like the melon cactus. They are almost the only plants that grow in some parts of that country, and there is always plenty of sap inside their tough skins. To the hungry and thirsty crea tures that roam those dreary wastes in search of food and water they are very tempting. Were they not in some way protected these cactuses would soon be entirely destroyed, but nature has made them to be like strong forts or great armored battleships among plants. They are guarded by all sorts of sharp spines and prickles and fine hairs that burn when they get into the flesh. Negation. This was overheard on the Bangor boat: First Woman— ls I married a man what drinked and I knowed he drinked when I married him I wouldn’t never say nothing about it Second Woman—l wouldn’t neither. He’s got so bad now that she don't never expect nothing different—Shoe and Leather Reporter. There are more ants to the square mile in Florida than in any other coun try in the world. There are anta that measure more than half an inch in length, and then there are ants so small that they can scarcely be seen to move With the unaided eye. Raw eggs, milk and plenty of fruit are recommended for brain workers. The fruit corrects the bilious tendency of the milk and eggs. In some portions of Abyssinia the men mark the ears of their women as if they were so many hogs. ■ ■ - ■ ■' ■ ■■— The Two Clean Cities. The two cleanest cities on the continent today are Toronto and New York, and they are both cleaned by direct labor. New York not only employs and that direct* all Its street cleaning and garbage dispatch forces, but it has an organized department, with an adequate and proper ly adjusted equipment of hones, carte, brooms, stables and stations, and it pays Its men 33 a day and upward for eight hours’ work. To be sure, it has had a Colonel Waring, but had Colonel Waring been a contractor or a contractor’s super intendent the metropolis would not have been the clean city it Is today. It la by the method of direct labor, under mode) conditions of employment, that this first worthy result of the kind In a largo Amer ican city has been achieved Toronto, the other of those two exem plary cities, has gone even further than New York in eliminating the contractor In this enterprising Canadian town, with its 100,000 people, Street Commissioner Jones has during the lust seven years en tirely revolutionized the care of tho street* of the city. He has not only organized the execution of this work under a distinct department, but out of the margin thru saved from the annual appropriations foi caring for the streets ho has actually built and equipped a modest but complete sei of workshops, where the entire construe tion and repair work of the department ii executed. Not only are the sprinklers, rotary ■weepers, automatic loading carta and snow scrapers, each after a special pattern devised by the commissioner or under hii direction, built in these shops, but even the harnesses aro mado there, the horaoi are shod there, and it is tho truthful boast of the commissioner that every article oi manufacture used by tho department if produced from the raw material in these shops. It is exceedingly refreshing to find there inventive genius constantly brought to bear to produce appliances not for sal* in the general market, and hence of that crude adjustment which can be used any where, but appliances precisely adapted to the particular needs of Toronto, with its own climate, soil, street mileage and pavements.—Review of Reviews. Magnetic Sentinel. Lieutenant F. B. Badt has patented an electro magnetic sentinel, which is de signed to give warning at a distant post ol the approach of a hostile warship to a sub marine mlno, or to explode the mine auto matically, says tho Pittsburg Dispatch. Such a device was badly needed. Th* usual method employed for coast protec tion by means oLexplosive mines has been to sink them in the waterway to bo pro tected, ordinarily in a narrow channel, .and form two observatories on shore, con nected by telephone and telegraph, the offi cers on duty following, by means of rang* finders, the movements of any hostile ves sel. When the instruments indicate that the vessel is directly above the hidden mine, a switch is thrown which sets fre< an electric current and explodes the mine. This method is expensive, as it entails keeping up two observatories, two sets oi instruments and two or more operators. Moreover, tho apparatus cannot always b« relied upon. It may get out of order just at the moment it is needed. It can follow the movements of only one vessel at a time, and at night, in fogs or storms, it if of little or no use. Lieutenant Badt’s device is automatic in its action and gives warning by night as well as by day. It is simple and direct in its operations, and requires but one ob servatory, ono set of instruments and one attendant. When arrangements are mad* to explode the mine automatically, tho at tendant can be dispensed with. An in duction coil, suitably connected, Is secured to the mine or torpedo, the fuse of which is fired by a powerful electrio current switched on either automatically or at th* observatory. When the modern war vessel, heavily protected by Iron or steel armor, approaches the induction coll, there will boa magnetic disturbance, which is in stantly indicated to the officer on duty ai the observatory. He watches the vessel, and at the proper moment closes the fust circuit and explodes the mine. In caso as automatic device is employed, tho arm oi an indicator is deflected until contact if made,which causes the explosion. A Peculiar Case of the Pacca Edict. An arrangement has been finally com* to between tho Impecunious Prince Sclarra and the Italian government in regard t* the masterpieces of art in his gallery. Prince Sclarra wanted to sell some of hit pictures, but under an Italian law known as the Pacca edict, he could not dispose ol them to any one living outside of Italy. Some time ago, however, he succeeded in smuggling certain canvases out of th* country, among these being Raphael’* “Violinist,” which he sold to Baron Al phonse de Rothschild for 750,000 francs; Titian’s“ Belle,” sold to the samefor 600,- 000 francs; Leonardo da Vinci’s “Vanity" and “Modesty,” also purchased by Baron Alphonse for 600,000 francs; a Peruginf sold to the Louvre for 150,000 francs, and Caravaggio’s “Gamblers,” for which M. Schneider paid 60,000 francs. Now th* Italian government will permit Prine* Sclarra to dispose as he pleases of all th* works of art in his possession excepting th< following 15, which become the property of the government: Guido Reni’s “Made leine,” Giotto's “Life of Jesus,” Sche done’s “Arcadian Pastors,” Andrea del Sarto’s “Virgin,” “St. Joseph” and “St. Peter;” De Carpi’s “Pico Transformed," the same painter’s Vestal, with the statu* of Cybele; the painting, “Church of th* Gesu at the Canonization of St Ignatius," by Gagliardi and Andrea Saochl; Bellini'i “Virgin and Sleeping Child,” Bronzini’f portrait of Stephen Colonna, the “Vision of Friar Thomas,” artist unknown, and five pieces of statuary.—Collector. Hawthorne’s Writing. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, In her “Mem cries of Hawthorne,” gives this descrip tion of her father’s methods at writing: “He had none of the frantic reconsldera tions of Soott or Balzac. If he made a change in a word, it was while it wat fresh, and no one could obliterate what h* had written with a more fearless blot oi the finger or one which looked more ear nest and Interesting. There was no scratch ing nor quiddling in the manner with which he fought for his art. Each day he thought out the problems he had set him self before beginning to write, and if a word offended him, as he recorded the re sult he thrust it back into chaos before the ink had dried. I think that tho manu script of ‘Dr. Grimsbawe’s Secret’ Is an exception to acme extent. There are many Written self communings and changes 1b it. lam notsure but that my father some times destroyed first drafts, of which hi* family knew nothing. Indeed we have hi* own word for it that ’he passed the day in writing stories and the night in burning them. ’ Neverthless, his tendency we know to have been that of thinking out his plot* and scenes and characters and transcrib ing them rapidly without further change. ” —A r that the V ■** "lIA IgFAC-SIMILE II - SIGNATURE slmilatiriglheFoodandßetfuta.- H ’nessandHest.Contalns neither I Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. ■ jg Qjq* THE Not Narcotic. | H WRAPPER I I I I bottle of ' I ■■ '*s|| A perfect Remedy for Cons ti pa- £S E fts tion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea, ■■■ H 9® B Bl- /'IB Worms .Convulsions .Feverish- ■■ ||% g ness and Loss OF SLEEP. g || TacSimile Signatureof NEW YORK. I I Osstaris is pat cp la on«-*!re bottle* only. 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