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GLORIES OF VENICE. Among Them That of Breaming the Day* Away la a Gondola. If Rome in those day is too warm for comfort, if Florence is an oven perfectly unbearable, there is one spot in Italy which is ns near perfection as one can hope to find in this world. Venice, Venioo the golden, is in the height of its glory in these warm, summer days, when on ®°“ n 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 doloe far nlente. 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 havo 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, Hokosai and Otamaro. In utter contrast are the British painters represented, and especially the Scotch group, while the Russians, and under some aspects the Austrians, havo 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 8,800 a day, and from ali sources, sales of cata logues, etc., $22,220 have been gathered in during that month. The municipality of Venice has bought 33 pictures in oils, three statues and one water color for a sum of $20,000. So far the Italian gov ernment has made no purchases, much to the indignation of the Venetians.—Pall Mall Gazette. The African Cook. The Accras, 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 Ashing, lot 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 flrst 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 Ash 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 files. 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 clotheshorse which had been sent 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 house, but the poor cook, bereft of his beloved pursuit, burst out all over in bolls and took to religious mania and drink and so had to bo 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 out from 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 woods, 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 comes back, and the poor ’Gees, being unable to run with the boots on, dre easily oaptqred and carried off whaling. I know this to boa fact, for the whalers told me of it themselves.’’—“On Many Seas,” by Fred erick Beaton Williams. Foul Breath and Bow to Treat It. Foul breath comes from several causes —viz, digestive disturbances, bad teeth and certain forms of catarrh. If foul diges tion, it comes from the stomach, and in that case the 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 5s generally the atropic kind, in which there is usually a good deal of dryness to the throat. The secre tions become morbid and cling tn the mu cous membrane, decomposing and form ing a crust, usually in the posterior nares, or vault, of the pharynx. This is a very troublesome form of catarrh and should lead to n 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 serv ice. —Home Doctor. Golden Silence. On one occasion Mr. J. M. Barrio 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 liko 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 the 'dinner. - - ? ' . . ' - ? DINAH-SALIFOU. The Ludlerots Adventures of a Negro King In Gay Paris. * Dinah-Saiifou, formerly king of the Nalous, died a few days ago in the Mili tary hospital of St. Louis, in Senegal. It may be remembered that only two sov ereigns visited the French universal exhi bition of 1889. Dinah-Salifou was one, and the shah of Persia, the luxurious Nasr-ed-din, was the other. They met one day at the exhibition. The shah looked at his black cousin from head to foot and then turned away in contemptuous silence, much to the surprise of the poor negro monarch, who felt inclined to call him out. The shah, however, compensated for jthe affront by presenting him with a mag nificent saber, which Dinah-Saiifou im mediately suspended to his belt. It was the happiest day of his life, as Joseph Prud'homme would havo said. But, alas, his happiness did not last long! There be ing some doubt as to tho authenticity of the African potentate, no reception was prepared for his arrival, and he had to lodge in a small furnished apartment. Every day our negro king, accompanied by his queen, a corpulent lady dressed in savage fashion, went out in an open cab to visit the sights of Paris. Behind the royal couple camo their suit, which was composed of half a dozen natives, all at tired in what may be described as rags and tatters, and grinning liko so many gorillas. His majesty knew nothing of the French language beyond a phrase which he had learned, and which he em ployed on all occasions, from grave to gay, from lively to severe. “Suis tres content” (I am very contented) was tho universal phrase in question. One evening Dinah- Saiifou, together with his wife and at tendants, went to the theater of the Porte St. Martin. The king was dressed in a long robo very much like a dressing gown, a hat which resembled a wideawake, With a tall crown, red babouches, and by his side the saber which tho shah had given him. Tho queen wore a white dress, with a necklace niado of colored beads, and a small hat of red and yellow velvet. As regards their suit, they put on for tho oc casion caftans of various colors, greasy and patched up. One of tho dignitaries had on a pair of red trousers which evidently be longed at one time to some French soldier. Another was tho treasurer of the king dom, who was considered to boa distin guishod personage. His African majesty was a tall, well built man, as black as ebony. Tho queen was also tall and not without a certain grace. But she was not so black as her royal husband. The manager of tho thea ter did honor to his royal guests by plac ing them in one of tho prominent boxes, from which they were ablo to see the whole audience. “Suis tres content,” said the king, showing his tongue and indicating thereby that he was thirsty. Beer was brought to them, and as they drank it tho orchestra struck up a “bamboula,” which delighted them beyond measure. Tho per formance passed off all right, save that tho queen fell asleep and set to snoring so loudly that she had to bo removed to a back seat. Tho king preserved a more dignified attitude. Upright and immobile, with his right hand on his saber, he fol lowed tho representation. Now and then he looked at the audience, and a few cries of “Vivo Dinah!” were raised, whereon he bowed gracefully and exclaimed, “Suis tres content!” The news soon spread that Dinah-Saiifou and his suit were inside, and in a few minutes tho theater was be sieged by a largo crowd curious to see them. When the dark monarch appeared at the door, ho was greeted with all sorts of cries, to which he responded by clap ping his hands. It was some time before the royal couple and their attendants could bo pushed into cabs, but, alas, such was tho crowd that it was impossible to move on. The police were powerless to clear the way, and renewed cries of “Vivo Dinah! Vive les morioauds!” echoed on all sides. Dinah-Saiifou seemed at flrst to be agree ably surprised and shook tho hands of all near him, exclaiming“Suistres content!” but on seeing the crowd jump on his cab and take other liberties with himself and' wifq ho began to feel uneasy. Suddenly he rose in great wrath and glaring fero ciously at the crowd around him cried out louder than over, “Suis tres content!” which, of course, only increased the mer riment of the spectators. His fury grow ing greater, he wanted to draw his saber and chai go the crowd, but unfortunately tho weapon was intended for show only and had no blade. But for that some dis aster might have occurred. His misfortunes, however, did not end hero, A little ragamuffin, more audacious than tho rest, seized hold of his majesty’s crown and madooff with it. The king was about to descend from his carriage and pursue tho urchin, but his queen kept him back by the tail of his caftan, The disorder was now complete. A strong force of police, however, soon arrived, and tho crown was restored to its owner. The crowd then made way for tho royal vehicle, and Dinah, who had recovered from his indignation, saluted them. The latter again shouted “Vivo Salifou!” while the black monarch responded with cries of “Suis tres content!” and so ended the royal adventure. —Paris Letter in London Glpbe. Funds Locked Up In Chancery. The receipts and transfers into the su preme court of judicature (England) dur ing the year ended Feb. 29, 1896, were £15,383,257 Is. Id. This sum, added to tho balance in hand on March 1, 1895, makes a grand total of £76,768,417 3s. sd. After payments out of court to successful claimants and others amounting to £l7, - 035,648 14s. lOd. there remained in hand in cash and securities on Feb. 29, 1896, tho large balance of £59,732,768 Bs. 7d., exclusive of a largo item under the head of ' “Foreign Currencies.” The proportion of this balance which may be classed as “un claimed” is not stated, but no less than £2,327,822 13s. sd. has been appropriated in the absence of claimants to various ob jects. The consolidated fund is liable in respect of this appropriation in the event of legitimate heirs at any time substan tiating their claims. The number of suit ors' accounts is 49,924, of which some 5,000 relate to funds unclaimed between 1720 and 1877 The funds in tho supreme court of judi cature (Ireland) on Sept. 80, 1896, were £5,381,213 4s. Bd. In tho chancery divi sion there is a large, sum of unclaimed money, but tho exact amount is not stated. More than £250,000, part of such un claimed funds, has been appropriated to ward the cost of building the law courts and law library in Dublin.—Chambers’ Journal. His Loquacious Wife. Van Wither —How cheap things are get ting to be. I see you can buy a talking machine now for $lO. Von Miner —Yes. But I got one for nothing. It was a wedding present from my wife’s parents.—Cincinnati Commer cial Tribune. ri re -xx-j AGURAI IN MAROCCQ. The Whole Population of the Town la , Descended Front L'curgades. . A guru is a small town surrounded witfi walls of from 40 to 50 feet in height and built of tabia, or con tolidated rubble. It owes its existence to Mulai Ismail, who held the throne of Marocco from 1722-1757. One gate alone gives entrance to the place, and in this respect, as well as in its archi tecture within and without, it much resembles the “ksor” of the Sahara de scribed in the writer’s “Tafilet.” But it owns one feature of curiosity which was lacking in the desert, for almost without exception the entire population are descendants of the renegades and Christian slaves of the time of Mulai Ismail, with the addition of stray rene gades who havo been sent there since. Probably no such cosmopolitan place exists in the world, for its 300 or 400 inhabitants are representative of no less than 13 nationalities. Each family re members and is proud of its origin, the Arab equivalent being applied as sur names. The family in whose home the writer spent the few days of his visit were Flemish, while the next door neighbor on one side was an elderly female, whose father, an Englishman, had be come a renegade some 80 years since, and who quickly tired of it, leaving a wife and daughter, the neighbor in question. The other neighbors were the descendants of Spanish gypsies, the head of the family being “Absalam ben Mohatnmed el Gitano el Espanoli. ” They were particularly proud of the “Gitano” (gypsy) part of the surname and begged mo not to confound them with the ordinary Spaniards, of whom there were many descendants in Agurai. The ancestor of this gypsy family was two generations back. He had left his country, they naively told the writer, because he was not on good terms with his sultan, who wanted to • imprison him, being afraid of his influence. Prob ably it was more of an affair of the po lice courts than political intrigue. The “Ulad el Aluj” (“sons of the converts”), as the inhabitants of Agurai are called, have entirely, except in one or two cases, lost the type of their Eu ropean ancestry, and through marriage, no doubt, are as largely Berber in ap pearance as the wild tribes that sur round them. They speak among them selves both Arabic and Berber, and both, curiously enough, with a strong foreign accent, easily distinguishable. They are exempt from all taxation, but have to serve in the sultan’s army, where they perform the duties of cooks and butchers.—Geographical Journal. COURIERS BACK NUMBERS. No Longer Any Need to Go Through Eu rope With Them. Up to times within the memory of living men almost no one- of means traveled through Europe without a courier. Before railroads were built and before good guidebooks were print ed he was almost indispensable. His tribe survives, but in greatly dimin ished numbers. To the self reliant trav eler he is of no use whatever. Indeed he is frequently a positive incumbrance, and worse. To my mind one of the great pleasures of travel is in learning to travel by myself. There are satisfac tion, pleasure and education in plan ning routes, deciphering time tables, making bargains, learning by observa tion the lay of the land. The time may have been when a courier could save a traveler more than his cost. Most certainly that is not the case now. On the contrary, as he gets a percentage on every purchase his party makes, which, of course, comes out of the purchaser in increased price, and as it is often for his interest to advise the more costly route, the more costly hotel or the more costly excursion, he eats up much more than his wages, while saving positively nothing. Bean declares that in a two weeks’ trip in southern Spain, which he made side by side with a couple having a courier, he invariably reached the hotel first, got better rooms and saw all the sights to as good advantage, yet the courier was, of his kind, an expert. The fact is that travel has become so general, tourist companies, railroads and landlords have so well studied its needs, books are so plentiful, that you couldn’t very well get off the track or have a mishap if you tried.—Herbert Luce in “Going Abroad.” What He Played. A member of a military band at a certain barrack came to the surgeon re cently with a long face and a plaintive story about a sore throat. “Sore throat, eh,” said the surgeon pleasantly. ‘‘Let mo see. Oh, that’s not so bad. A slight irritation; nothing more. You’ll be all right in a day or two. I think you had better fake no risk in renewing the trouble by using your throat, though, so I will recom mend you for a fortnight’s sick leave.” ’ Armed with the surgeon’s certificate, the bandman obtained his two weeks’ sick leave. The two weeks had just come to an end when he met the rar geon on the parade ground. Tho band man saluted. The surgeon recognize:) the face and stopped. “How’s the throat?” he asked pleas antly. “It’s quite well, sir,” was the reply “That’s good,” said the surgeon. “You can get back to your duty with out fear. By the way, what instrument do you handle in the band?” “The small drum, sir,” said the mu sician. —Chicago News. From the top of the cathedral spire in Mexico you can see the entire city, and the most striking feature of the view is the absence of chimneys. There is not a chimney in all Mexico, not a grate Dora stove nor a furnace. All the cook ing is done with charcoal in Dutch ovens. Bowling, billiards and card playing are unlawful in Michigan, according to some dead letter statutes. JAPAN’S WOMEN. rh«y Have Been Orfudilnj to Seeure I Their Rights. “The Japanese ladies arc really organiz ing at last. They are beginning a strong movement to amend the Japanese laws so that a Japanese gentleman that supporta another woman besides his legal wife can be arrested. The laws are now one sided —yes, very much one sided. The Japanese busband can have as many outside wives as ho pleases; not regular wives, you un derstand. Japan law lota the husband marry only one wife. Otherwise he is guilty of bigamy, same ns here.” This announcement of woman’s Inde pendence In the land of silent wives and maidens that won't be kissed came recently at the Hotel Ryan from S. Klshi, a young attorney of Tokyo. Mr. Kishl having practiced some time in his own city, resolved to venture forth into western lands to see how it was possible for lawyers to mnke an honest living In Europe and America. Tho study of this intricate problem detained Mr. Klshi six weeks in San Francisco, three months in Milwaukee and some weeks in Chicago. Ho has now arrived in St. Paul, where he will enter the law department of the Great Northern railroad and remain several months. Eventually he will proceed to Europe. “Formerly,” continued the smiling, white toothed law pilgrim, “that is to say, up to 25 years ago, a Japanese gentleman could have as many informal wives as he wished. Ho was rather proud of them and showed them in public. Now sentiment has so changed that he keeps them hid away. He would be thought very immoral to exhibit them in public. Yet ho cannot be punished by law, but this exception in favor of the men is likely to be done away with. There is a commission now revising our civil code. That code is based upon the Code Napoleon, not on the English common law. Our commercial code, how ever, is modeled after the commercial code of Germany. “But it Is natural for woman to wont less than man in Japan. Wo consider that she is equal to man in quality, but not in quantity. That is the way we express it. And she is always by nature different. Man’is strong, rough, brave. Woman is weak, gentle, gracious, timid. She must attend to her home. Man must go out into business, into government, into war. Wo do not mix occupations us you do here. For example, the men ride bi cycles in Japan very much more now than before, but tho women—never. A woman astride of a bicycle! It would be too rude, too bold. She should bo at home, not showing herself upon the streets. “Her costume? Oh, it is almost always Japanese. Years ago, perhaps ten years, one of our cabinets thought they would help Japan abroad by persuading our peo ple to dress like Europeans. Even tho court ladies began to wear foreign dresses. But tho cabinet went down. Tho women took back their native costumes. Now a Japanese lady most always wears her an cient costume. We find that your dresses aro not convenient, as our women sit about on the floors of our little houses. But the Japanese men aro using the Euro pean clothes very generally In our cities— that is, for business in government offices and in the professions. But when tho men get home they take off these clothes and put on tho good old Japanese robes. Then we are comfortable.”—St. Paul Pio neer Press. “Arranging” a Landscape. The composition of a landscape photo graph requires as much care as any other picture, though beginners in photography usually think that a landscape, being com posed of stationary objects, cannot be “ar ranged” in any special way. This is true, but if tho landscape cannot be moved the camera can, and by shifting it a little to the right or left an artistic picture may be made of what would be a most uninter esting scene if tho point of view wore not well choson. In a general landscape view tho camera should bo adjusted so that the horizon line will bo about a third of the way from the top or bottom of the picture. If the hori zon line is nearer the bottom than tho top, there should be plenty of clouds in the sky to give variety to the picture. In case there aro no clouds in the sky they can be printed into the picture from a cloud neg ative. The line of the horizon should never run straight across the picture, but must be broken up as much as possible by ob jects which rise above it. According to artists’ laws, the lines of a picture should either run diagonally or be arranged in a pyramidal form. If tho lines run diagonally the tallest objects should be at one side of the pic ture, and if they are to bo in pyramidal form have the tallest point a little to one side of the center of the picture. By mov ing the camera a few feet either way this effect is easily obtained. A picture should never be divided in the center by any prominent object, like a tree, a house, etc. Pictures of this kind are very trying to look at, giving the effect of two pictures on one card.—Harper’s Round Table. Hopeless. A Mr. X. wished to havo a telephone put in his house, but bis aged mother vig orously protested against it. “Robert," she said, “if you bring one of those dread ful things in hero I'll never close my eyes for fear it may break out and sweep us all Into eternity, and us not a bit the wiser.” Mr. X. tried to persuade her that it was a most harmless instrument, but she said: “No, no. Look at tho thousands —aye, millions—of poor Hindoos it killed last autumn.” “Why,” exclaimed he, “that wasn’t a telephone, mother! That was a typhoon.” But the timid old lady lowered her spectacles, and, looking at him over the rims thereof, said: “You need not try to make a fool of me, Robert. ( perhaps don’t know very much, but I do know that the typhoon is the emperor of Japan.” Mr. X. gave it up as a hopeless case.— Strand Magazine. Story of Lee’s Surrender. When Hamlin Garland was gathering material for tho life of Grant, he spent a day or two in Atlanta, where he met an old Virginia negro who said that he had witnessed Lee’s surrender. Garland was Interested and questioned him closely. “You say you wore present when Loe surrendered?” “Dat I wuz, suh!” “Did you see Lee give up his sword?” “No, suh, I didn't! Gin’rnl Leo give up be sword? Not him! Dey tried ter take it sum him, but he made a pass nt one er two of dem, en dcy lef off—l tell you!” “And where was Grant all that time?” “Oh, he wuz right dar, sub! En he tol’ ’em, he did: ‘Well, boys, let him keep de weepon. He can’t do much damage, kase he done whipped anyhow.* At lanta Constitution. AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. 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