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men;
1 too fat mart
and “keen”
HMttbe SUnniost smiles
of feminine wiles
pidprfeom her own lingo
.dMSfl and quite adored;
tepwr iHiit much-coveted ends,
Of obliging friends,
Bl Hite delighted helpless to gooso.” be or use
■ban whom well 1 wot,
Kftnd Kr-Centary one Is—not.
Magazine.
FOB WOMEN.
Hphtion That Kmtxxlles
HLr* and Profit.
pber of women are tak
King as an occupation,
■ | is becoming of more
to the country popula
ter the question asked,
pping pay?’ ” says a
tgricaltnral ply Times. “To
intend to do their
: pfcired hard working insects,
of them after the
they will be found, a
jjp of pleasure and profit,
when the small cost
Mr hives is taken into
M a colony of bees one
■good I bar framed hive.
a difficult thing for an
L considering the quau
nt libest kinds of hives on the
hive for practical
§» | at most reasonable simple one price, that
a
Ijkbsolutely necessary fit
ponld fitovable consist floor of board the fol
on
nina-incU body box,
•If, with packing be
'ze the temperature,
ye*.contain a porch to
is Jpe into tbe hive, and
Jjjgjld H;; liter be the fitted size of with the
T<liffierent seasons of
C The body should
t e ~nough to take ten
||pU8 ^practical. sized hive Above being this
m which is known as
jj§»r, inside is a six-inch walls, lift,
ar~
Mt ^either crate a of set sections of ten
a
/ -f bars foundation. should be filled
igjortatit ■This question done is in to
can be
ys. The following
t hods most adopted:
| of March or the be
ril IvStGck purchase a good,
of bees. The
nver, should have a
■the vendor that the
psctly healthy and free
JP- iginning * This will to about bring
up
ir, a ponnd or two of
Ua few extra sections
a veil is also neees
Can generally be made
p vith a good, strong
■She bees will be ready
fHirop SH soon as it np
lia oft.en it is possible to
. s honey early iu the
pi it at a higher price
H'wheu v there is in
more
K Brge jgood stock will always
swarm, and so in
Bkeeper’s Ipve assets. Sixty
is a good yearly av
i|g |*n, is but not it only is most a profit- intor
Kstruotive to those who
■Me to watch aud study
H plgenuity habits of is Bimplylmar- bees; their
Mrhole I|heir pages ooUld be
curious and clever
pepiug fit is it welj does fitted not for
up, as en
p |6t work; used tbe to being great stung diffi
liet under these soiue
circumstances. This
ire is a good cimuoe of
Hill Street Wear,
n dots, bowkuots and
pat R many of the spring
Grey veilings, with
||—very Ipught small light ones and and
— are
Jig and with tonches the of
PS i in the trimming
■H and pretty. A silk
H| Hue appearauce rippled part has stand- a
ground embroidered
Bchenille dots. Black
Bte are carried out in
jesign, while in some
Raised I effect is in pink,
outlined by a gold
'the ground is in black,
lard—-a first epusin to
ie-r-the material itself is
■siel tint, but the em
f.# is invariably black.
t Ind designs appear in
d organdies, too, aud
|bright k'&eaningless colors to patterns perfec
iocfh plards. colors are found iu
White grounds
fzag patterns yellow, in China vivid
si rose,
Stic lilac are offered to
■test,” “the most strik
j|o. I Striking they lmagiua- oer
with a little
be them made up, styl
fe, ■wallpaper in their sort own curious, of way.
■nd handsome foulard
Hadine ||n stripe, alternat
stripe, over which
|R L a*ul colored also flowers. black-and- A
a
|L ■^circles u raphasized of by narrow oircles
fflrMi HL on the blue or'
‘ Persian patterns
colors are ex
>L OHgy are as rich
''York Com
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the
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to
The Minister, who was accredited
to known Washington and popular March in 30, society. 1898, is Ho wel| is
a member of the Metropolitan Club
and a favorite dinner guest with resi¬
dent as well as official hostesses. He
speaks French and English fluently,
and is frequently mistakeu for a Span¬
iard. His wife and youu^ sister will,
however, not adopt American ways,
but will follow to the letter the Mo¬
hammedan law, even to the matter of
always appearing veiled outside their
own home, no exception being made
even in favor of the official functions
at the White House.
Mme. Ferrdugh never before left
her native country. Her present
home, on Q street, is furnished in true
Orierftal fashion, and her maid is a
native of Constantinople. In a short
time she will observe a day at home,
like the other diplomatic hostesses, only,
but the visitors will be women
no man other than her husband and
brother ever being permitted to look
on the unveiled face of this interest¬
ing and much-discussed young wom¬
an. Her sister-in-law is still under
the direction of a governess, who ac¬
companied the party from Constanti¬
nople, the same rigid laws applying
to all three. Another member of the
household is the brother of Mme. For
rouh, who accompanied the family
from Turkey.
A Successful Prison Matron.
Mrs. M. H. Walker, of Denver,Col.,
has been appointed matron of the
Arapahoe County .Tail for a second
term. Her work in charge of the
women and little boys in the jail has
been commended by all charitable and
philanthropic persons interested in the
condition of the publie institutions.
Mrs. Walker has a warm sympathy
for the prisoners, tempered with a
wise judgment of character, which
makes her invaluable. For young
girls in jail for the first time, whe
show a desire to reform, she secures
positions where they will have good
surroundings aud a chance to do bet¬
ter. At her suggestion the Woman’s
Club and the Civic Federation have
appointed committees to co-operate
in this work. The little boys, too,
mere children some of them, who are
sent to the county jail, are fortunate
in being under the care of a motherly,
warm-hearted womau.—Philadelphia
Ledger,
A ConMoliiif? Thought.
There is one comfortable thing
about getting into a now century, we
shall probably not hear so much of
the fin de sieolo girl. She has been
cavorting around in conversation and
cold type in all sorts of possible aud
impossible ways for tho last few years,
until tho words have come to be mean¬
ingless, not to say deadly dull. Prob¬
ably not half the people who uso the
expression know what it means, so it
may last over for a time until the
bright person who says things
not halfbad in the first Haying starts
sometimes about the begiuning-of-tho
centnry girl.
Rule For Wearing White Tulle llow*.
The rule adopted for tho wearing of
the white tulle bow has its exception,
of course, The woman with a Bliort
neck, probably with a plump figure,
wears the tulle bow set at the nape of
the neck. This does not rob her of
any space beneath the chin nor make
her look as if garroted. The girl who
has too slender a throat conceals her
lack of flesh by putting tho bow uuder
tbe chin, where it helps to fill up the
vacant space.
New Millinery Fancy.
Hats made entirely of flowers are
now appearing, aud they are extremely
pretty and dainty. A little toque
is 'completely covered with vio¬
lets, pnt on flat, while a cluster of
blush roses stands up in front.
The Newe.t Fashion*.
Rather long hairpins with roal
heads are a new fanoy.
Laco will be a prominent feature of
millinery os well as tnlle and chiffon, lace,
and we are promised hats all of
with lace strings.
Feather boas in the flat, instead of
tho round shapes, are the correct
thing, especially in the mother-of
pearl shades of marabont mixed with
ostrioh feathers.
One of the novelties in material for
separate waists is a plaid silk, either
pale blue or pink and white, divided
in diamond square with narrow Yalen
oiennes lace insertion.
Lace straws which are dainty re¬
minders of the old-time hats worn by
oar grandmothers are revived again,
and in the same old patterns in some
cases. In fact, all kinds and condi¬
tions of fauoy braids are already in
sight.
The .craze for buttons on cloth
gowns seems to be increasing and it
must be granted that they give a
pretty touch of color to a costume.
Buttons set with real gems are the
thing if you can afford them; if not,
the very latest fancy is cameo in
either stone or shell.
^High-heeled shoes seem to be com¬
ing into vogue again, aud the bulldog
toe. except for strictly walking pur¬
poses, is out of it altogether. The
medium round toe is the faucy of the
moment, and if you would be quite
up to date you must have embroidered
satin slippers to match your evening
gowns aud tea gowns as well.
The new spriug jackets, so far as
they have displayed their intentions,
are iu the Etou or bolero shapes, fall¬
ing a little below the waist line iu
front. A more masonline style of
jacket, with a very short basque, is
either single or doublo breasted, and
has tho usual revers, which in some
form are a part of every coot, either
plain or embroidered.
The new artificial flowers are
dreams of beauty in pastel colorings
delicate shadings aud exquisite dain¬
tiness of texture. Many of them are
made of gauzy silk and chiffon and
every imaginable flower is reproduced
in tiuts which almost surpass nature
itself. There are chiffon roses, the
daintiest silk poppies and the most
beautiful foliage of all kiuds, includ¬
ing ■ nfrtii shaded leaves. Certainly hat flowers
have the lead in trimmings
J. ginnWtf'U this beauty woul,d be
. intrcducMNh* J
.
1
An hoot Teacher WhoM Blind
Wan Full of llrtlllant Flan* For lln
foruilni: tlm World— Solit I'apcra in
Grol^q ue Gurlt In Cleveland.
W ITH the braiu of a Mme.
de Stael, tho determina¬
tion of a Charlotte Cor
day and tho luck of Cy¬
rano de Bergerac, all twisted, may¬
hap, but still so pronounced that they
made their possessor almost a beggar
instead of a queen. Ann Purkin,
seller of newspapers and writer of
poems and essnys, died in a bed of
charity at St. Alexis Hospital, Cleve¬
land, Ohio, a few weeks ago, aged
fifty years. For a score of years she
had been the most picturesque figure
of Cleveland streets from the fact that
she wore the clothes that it pleased
her to wear. For most of those years
she has been hungry, at least part of
the days, simply because sho would
not use her wits as the world wished
her to use them. She was a orank,
but a brilliant one. Her love of let¬
ters was ideal, passionate and unre¬
quited—she died for her opinions.
Ann Parkin died with a trunk fall
of poems and essays, half of which
are so good that many writers of
poetry and philosophy would have
been glad to have written them. But
she was not only a dress-reformer but
a reformer of everything else almost.
Years ago she addicted herself to
spelling reform, and, as in all things,
she went to the utmost extreme of it.
She would not allow a line sho had
written to be printed otherwise than
she bad writteu it, both us to spelling
and punctuation. She would rather
starve. Thu kept her out of print
and made rubbish of what would
have been otherwise available matter,
for in whatever she wrote there was
more or less of the force and bril¬
liancy of the pen that has a right to
write for print. She made ouo excep¬
tion to this last summer when, during
the street-car strike, she used to take
to the newspaper offlco3 articles urg¬
ing the cessation of violence in the
fight against the company. With a
tone in her voioa which a Hindu
mother might have had wheu she sent
her girl child to tho husband that had
bought her, she would say, “Yon may
change it if you want to,” for she had
gone over the ground often enough to
know no newspaper would print what
she wrote as she wrote it.
dressed like a boy.
Ann Purkin’s death was tho only
kind of a death her life could have
brought her. All winter, when she
was not ill, sho was at her usual cor¬
ner on the busy square, selling the
afternoon papers. Her voice was a
shrill squeak as she cried out the
names of the papers. To almost all
the newspaper buyers she lmd ceased
to be a curio, they bad known her so
long. If those who did not know her
stopped to gaze they saw that in her
face which kept them from laughing
at her clothes. Her di ess consisted
of tvboy’s woolen shirt—for she was a
very little creature, less than five feet
—a coat over it that looked as though
it had been made by the wearer with
tho disregard the for it that she showed
for all other things that seemed
to her uuessentials, and a pair of short
trousers-like garments that reached
to her knees. Tbe breeches were
made of what looked like pieces of
horseblanket, aud wore 'shaped not
unlike an ordinary pair of trousers
out off at tho knees. Her stockings
were white and her shoes heavy ones
such ns working boys wear. Any¬
thing in the way of head covering
would do, and there was not in the
wholo of her costume any attempt at
ornamentation or care.
Funny as her clothes were, one for¬
got them in looking into her faco.
Tho eyes were clear, small and ox
pressivo aud there was in them, when
one talked with her, the look of the
sonl that thinks it lias never been un¬
derstood aud has grown hopeless of
ever being.
But there was not a prouder spirit
in the breast of any woman. It is not
known that she over had a penny that
she did not earn. Feoplo who offered
her charity were rebuked with a
severity they never forgot. If one
gave hex a nickel for a paper and
walked away she ran alter him and
made him take his change. Once sho
was ill for a week or two and the city
relief department sent her a ton of
cool, piliug it up in the oue room
where she lived, against her protests.
It was in tho dead of winter and she
was forced to use about a quarter of
the ton of ooal. Then she carried
what was left of it down the stairs
and threw it out into the street, fjom
where it was quickly taken by the
less scrupulous women of the tene¬
ment. Then she went to the city
hall, made her way into tho Mayor’s
office and handed him a dollar, say¬
ing: “That is for what I used out of
that load of coal yon sent to mo. I
thiew the vest of it into the street,
but I want to pay for all I used and I
want yon to take the money so your
thieving olerks can’t say I didn’t pay
it”
REFUSED CHARITY FOOD.
V
A week before she died the other
people in the Detroit street tenement
iu which Ann Parkin lived remem¬
bered that she bad not been seen for
some days. She never locked her
door, and when they went into her
room they found her alone in the
cold, there being neither fuel nor fire
in the room, only her trunkful of
manuscripts. Thera existed between
her and the poor people among whom
she lived something of the feeling
that made the slums of Paris worship
Verlaine. The refusal of the world to
give the poetess what she deserved
and them what they wanted made a
bond of sympathy. They brought her
food, which she would not eat, aud
built her a fire, which she could not
prevent. For years she Las eaten
nothing but fruit and such other food
as she could eat uncooked. That was
a part of her belief, that only un¬
cooked vegetable food should be
eaten. For years she ate nothing but
fruit, raw oatmeal aud raw rice
soaked in water. She hated a doctor
as she did correct spelling aud skirts,
aud was a hydropath. When the
other people in the tenoment called a
doctor she refused to even allow him
to talk to her, and she was; taken to
the hospital against her violent pro-
displayed tiHR, an was
here that she the only thing
that seemed at all like womanly weak¬
ness that is known of her. She said
she wanted to be bnried in the old
cemeter^at Berlin Heights, a country
village twenty-four miles from Cleve¬
land, where the graves of her father
and mother are.
WAS AN OHIO SCHOOLTEACHER.
Berlin Heights is a small country
community. There was once n wave
of free-thinking sentiment there, and
later tho “bloomer” craze. Ann Pur
kin had been a schoolteacher there
and was the star of the woman’s
club. She donned bloomers and wore
them ever after. It is to’d that she
was married at that time and that her
husband told her she could not be his
wife and wear bloomers, too. She
chose the bloomers; and they separated
.amicably. This the dead nowswomau
l denied, insisting that bIio had never
been married. She said her family
name was Perkins, but that was not
tho way to spoil it, and ns there was
but one of her, her name must be
singular instead of plural.
All her young life in the country
she had been writing poems and es¬
says, but the editors always changed
them and thereby harrowed her soul.
So, twenty years ago, she went to
Cleveland. She was determined to
make the world hear her. She lec¬
tured on dress reform and wrote more
poetry. The poetry and some essays
she had printed in a pamphlet and
sold it in the streets in her bloomer
costume. While the novelty lasted
she did fairly well, but Cleveland was
not then large enough so that it offered
a permanent market, and as soon as
she had made money enough out of
one book she would get out another.
Sales dropped off, though, and she
went to Chicago thirteen years ago to
work on a woman-suffrage publication.
After remaining in Chicago six
months, sometimes lecturing and
sometimes working as a servant, she
came back to the Cleveland streets
and newspapers. The newsboys came
k> recognizing her as a judge for their
differences and advisor for their
troubles. One of her principles was
that when one had made money
enough for his necessities he should
stop and give others a chance. When
she had sold a certain number of pa¬
pers—aud she sold them rapidly be¬
cause of tho attention she attracted—
she would stop and go home.
WANTED TO REFORM THE WORLD.
Her mind was always full of brill¬
iant plaus for reforming tho world and
making it a heaven. A lifeloug vege¬
tarian of the strictest eort, not using
milk or eggs, the scheme that filled
her mind during her last days was a
magazine to be devoted to vegetarian¬
ism. The simplicity of her mind is
shown in the fact that she was going
to call it “The Fig Leaf” and edit it
herself. In her delirium in the hos¬
pital she bemoaned her inability to
liud a backer for the magazine.
She refused to take any medicine at
the hospital, refused food and would
not even allow the hospital doctor to
take her temperature. When any one
approached her bedside she would ask
“Are you a doctor?” aud if the answer
was “Yes” she would iusisfc that he go
away from her. Her attitude toward
all humanity was hostile, save that
she took a motherly interest in news¬
boys, and toward reporters showed a
disposition that was a quaint mixturo
of frieadliuess and adoration,so strong
was her love of all that pretended to
the guise of literature. the last,
before she died, the hospital doctors
got to telling her that they were re¬
porters in order to do the little that
was possible in her aid.—Chicago
Record.
CUR IOUS FAC TS. t
Tho original idea of the Chinaman’s
pigtail was that it formed a convenient
handle by which, one day, be would
be lifted up to Paradise. This curi¬
ous belief is still to be found among
the natives.
Fruit is now being shipped from
New South Wales packed in tho bark
of the ti tree, and the outer bark of
the melaleuca leucadendron, which is
shredded into a sort of coarse chaff.
These barks seem to have some pecu¬
liar power of preserving oranges dur¬
ing carriage.
The largest library in the world is
that of Paris. It oontains upward of
2,000,ft00 printed books and 160,000
maunserrpts. ’The British Museum
contains about 1,500,000 volumes, and
the Imperial Library at St. Peters¬
burg about the same r umber, These
are the largest libraries in the world.
The Fata Morgana, properly speak¬
ing, is a sort of mirage that is seen
most frequently between Calabria and
Sicily. The atmosphere must be in
proper condition to produce tho phe¬
nomena. Then, the rising of heated
air and the flowing iu of cooler layers
of the atmosphere make a most aston¬
ishing displuy. Towns, buildings,
ships, hills, trees, people, are seen
moving along in the air, but all of
them upside down.
In the middle of the fourteenth
century the city of Paris cleans¬ apssod
an ordinance enjoining the
ing of the street’s and the shut¬
ting up of swine. It was neglected,
as usual, and a terrible plague was
the oousequeuce. Tho faculty of
medicine, called upon for a remedy by
the King, sent to iuform him, after
long discussion, that the plague was
the result of a hostile 'conjunction of
the planets Mars and Jupiter.
According to the American Consul
at Chiugting, China, tho people are
not so far behind the procession as !
may be thought. At least, Mr.
Sinithers gravely reports to the State
Department that, iu the department
callod Yuugpie, Chih li T’ing is found
iu abundance by washing iu the val
ley near the city. Tho inhabitants of
tbe neighborhood keep large flocks of
geese to work the gold fields for them,
Wheu the geese are found to be very
heavy they are killed and their craws
emptied of the gold contained therein,
A flock of geeso is sometimes worth a
■ood deal of money, but geese dressed
lirady for eating are very cheap in
djce<^—from fifteen to twenty cei^ts
ch.
LOVERS OF FUN.
Iler Literary Deficiency—The Main Fofnt
— Him Own — Desperation —• HI* Bent
Hope—Not Very Consoling—The Spirit
• of Kefleavch—Company For Dinner, Etc*
SUo could talk about tbe classics In a very
knowing way; mathematics and in art
Sbe was 11 uo in
mad« some display;
rend wr"" cook book—well,
I3ut whene'er she a
she somehow got it wrong.
—Washington Star.
JTlie Multi Point.
“Kirby Skaggs is a great talker.”
“Does he ever say anything?”—
Chicago Record.
Ills Own.
Ostend (reading a book of poems)
— “Pa, when was the romantic age?”
Pa—“When I was twenty, Ostend.”
—Chicago News.
Desperation.
“I hear about the fool-killer some¬
times. Who is he?” asked Cliolly.
“There isn’t any fool-killer!” re¬
plied the other man, savagely.—Chi¬
cago Tribune.
Ilia Best Hope.
“Can yon give me no hope?” ho
wildly cried.
“Yes,” sweetly smiled the young
girl; “if you go out very quietly papa
may not hear you.”
Not Very Consoling.
Humorist—“The editor makes fun
of my jokes.” that
Spacer—“Well, I don’t see you
have any kick coming. That’s more
thamyou are able to do.”
The Spirit of Research.
“Ma, oh, ma!”
“What is it, Gcorgie?”
.‘“If you had married somebody else
’sides pa would 1 ha’ had red hair or
black hair?”—Indianapolis Journal.
Company For Dinner.
Tommy Jones—“I didn’t eat half
enough dinner.”
Jimmy Brown—“What’d you have
fer dinner?”
Tommy Jones—“Company.”—Ohio
State Journal.
A Discreet, Retreat.
“My French professor went home
and wrote to me that he couldn’t teach
me any longer except by mail.”
“Why not?”
“He said my pronunciation threat¬
ened to ruin his.”
The Wroug liine.
“It’s too bad,” said the condoling
friend. “I thought you were right in
lino of promotion.”
“No,” mournfully replied the man
wtio had lost his job. “I was right in
the firing line.”—Chicago Tribune.
In Tliorouitli Subjection.
Mr. Meeker, who had gone to the
front door to answer tho postman’s
ring, put his head inside the door of
the room where his wife wa3 sitting.
“It’s a letter for me, iny dear.” he
said. “Shall I open it?”—Chicago
Tribune.
He Would Invite ^Trouble.
Mother—“Stop ponudingyour little
brother, Margie. What do you mean
by treating him in that manner?”
Margie—“Well, mamma, I told him
we had better play we were engaged,
but he would play we were married.”
—Philadelphia Press.
The Trail of the Sleuth.
First Detective —“That was a very
neat piece of work. How did you
guess that man was a woman in dis¬
guise?” Detective—“I asked him
Second
why he was sitting there and lie raid
‘Because.’”—New York Press.
Hard to Remember.
Miss Pepprey—“Why, she doesn’t
look as if she knew her own name.”
Miss Newitt—“She doesn’t, half the
time.”
Miss Pepprey—“Really?” she
Miss Newitt—“Yes, you know
married a Polish nobleman.”—Phila¬
delphia Press.
One Style ot Satire.
“This cartoon of yours has a certain
element of humor in it,” remarked
the Paris Scavengeur.
“Yes,” answered the artist, “I
tried to supply that.”
“Well, don’t do it again. It de¬
stroys the artistio symmetry of your
work. You must try to learn to be
vulgar without being funny,”
Explained.
“I must confess to a great deal of
egotism,” said Willie Wishington.
“Indeed?” responded Miss Cay¬
enne.
“Yes. I think about myself cn
tirely too much.”
“Oh, that isn’t egotism. That’s
merely the usual human teudency to
worry over trifles.”—Washington Star.
A Sure Test.
“Are you sure she is as gentle and
patient and amiable as she seems?”
asked the friend.
“Not quite sure,” answered the
young mau who is iu love, “but I’m
going to find out.”
“How?”
“I’m going to get her to call some¬
body up over a long-distance tele¬
phone aud then watch her.”
Dtinger of n Business Education.
“This love letter that you wrote to
me—” she said, aud then paused in¬
quiringly.
“Well, what of it?” be asked.
“I rotice,” she answered, “that it
has been manifolded. ”
“Hang it all!” fie explained, as he
jammed his hat down on his head and
started for the door; “I never did be¬
lieve in giving woman a business edu
cation.”—Chicago Post,
H « Couldn't Hold it ah.
“Madam,” said the tramp, as a
middle-aged lady came to the door in
response to bis knock, “would you
give a poor old man n bite to eat?”
“Why,” replied the lady, “you are
certainly able to earn a living. You
don’t look very old.”
“Looks are often deceitful, lady,”
answered the wanderer. “I am old
enoigh to be your grandfather.”
A moment later he was seated in
the kitchen and nothing she had iu
the pantry was too good for him.—
Chicago Record.
cultural ticifenSb; reports that Beeds o l
a large number of important plants
will germinate after being kept fifteen,
but not after twenty, years.
An analysis has been made by M.
Demoussy, of Paris, of tbe little shav
in g 8 of cla ,y tbat are baked ou b “ ck ’!
and eaten 4 by natives m some parts of
Tokin. The material is like kaolin
I in appearauce and composition, and
no nutrition, substance what*
ever.
A patent was issued to Waltber
Wolff, of Charlottenberg, Germany,
on an apparatus for measuring the
velocity of sound waves, aud more
especially the velocity of propagation
of a single shock or concussion of air
sueh ns is caused by the report of a
firearm or other explosions. The ap¬
paratus consists of a hollow box or re¬
ceptacle ckised on all sides and pro¬
vided wim a hole in its cover; this
hole is closed by a rigid lid held down
by a spring, which lid when suddenly
raised by the notion of the sound
wave causes the interruption of elec¬
trical current.
A life-saving device which was
tested recently on Lake Michigau is
a gasoline eugine propelled lifeboat. the
The self-righting properties of
boat were not affected by the addition
of the engine, which is placed in the
after air-tight compartment. The en
giue is geared to twin-screws, so that
either screw may be started, stopped other,
or reversed independent of the
and it is possible to turn the boat iu
a very small space. Seventy-five gal¬
lons of gasoline, sufficient for a run
of 280 miles at the maximum speed of
seven and one-half miles per hour,
can be carried in a reservoir loeated
in a forward compartment.
The Medical Record says that excel¬
lent results are beirg had with surgi¬
cal dressings of common wood pulp,
such as is tised as a base in the manu¬
facture “of paper. When macerated
in water it swells up and absorbs four
nr five times its weight of liquid. It
retains heat for a long time and makes
a better poultice than flaxseed or
bread and milk. It can be infused
with emollient oils or with antiseptics
for special purposes; and it is well
adapted as a substitute for splint
bandages for it dries bard and rigid.
Ordinary clean paper, boiled and
soaked in water till reduced to a per¬
fect pulp, or paper macbe, would
doubtless answer the same purpose
where crude wood pnlp is not obtain¬
able.
A marvel of ingenuity is tbe me
chauical perpetual calendar con-,
structed in leisure hours by M. Albert
Jagot, of Mans. It consists of but
five wheels—with a total of ninety-six
teeth—and nine levers or catches, yet
it is designed to indicate the day of
the week, the date and the month,
automatically, for centuries, aud to
show the 29th day of February in ac¬
cordance with our calendars—that is,
every fourth year except the three
century years in every four centuries
that are not leap years. The mechan¬
ism is operated by three weights, of
which one requires winding every
fifteen days, tho second is to be
wound once a year, while the third
acts as a counterweight to bring the
principal wheel to its starting point
once a month.
T3ro Bayonet in Modern Warfare.
Tlie fire of the defense becomes
more destructive evevy moment, while
that of the assailants is shaken by
their losses, but at last a sufficiently
thick firing line of the latter get with¬
in point blank of the defenders, and
the latter sea many more soldiers
crowding up behind. Tne defenders
do not feel themselves beaten yet, but
they know that their assailants’ fire is
again growing equal, aud more than
equal, to their own. Suddenly the
enemy fixes bayonets and his bugles
sound the charge; the defenders have
stood still beneath his fire all day,
they have seen their comrades scat¬
tered on all sides by the deadly but
invisible tap of the rifle bullet, they
have been strengthened by the merry
riot of their own gnus against the ap¬
palling bla^t of the shrapnel, but now
the enemy has ceased his noise. He
is a great bully; they were not afraul
of his muskets and guns, they have
not so far shrunk from him, but now
he is coming to knife them where they
Btand. They are but stricken game
awaiting tho coup do grace. A few
among the defenders will not flinch
even now; they,-too, fix their bayonets
prepared with the bitter heroism of
the lost to fight it out. But most men
fear certain death worse than ques¬
tionable dishonor, their nerves crack,
and they fly. The 'fight is over, and
the bayonet, if it has not drunk a drop
of blood, has not tho less directly
ended it. — From “How Soldiers
Fight,” by F. Norreys Connell.
Forolfin Game In American Marker.
A correspondent inquires as to the
effect upon our domestic game supply
of the sale of foreign game. The
effect of the sale of game actually im¬
ported would, of course, not effect the
domestic supply in any way whatever,
unless it might be possibly if the im¬
ported stock were so plentiful aud so
cheap as to lessen the demand for na¬
tive species. That is something
which is not likely to happen. The
actual conditions are these—that
while there is in tho market some
actually imported foreign game, by
far the greater proportion of the
game labelled as foreign is American,
and is sold illicitly under a foreign
name. Brazil birds are American
quail; French pheasants are American
ruffed grouse.—Forest and Stream.
Antediluvian Boneyard.
Phosphate rock is mined in South
Carolina and converted into a flour.
In the mines have been found many
queer substances which give evidence
of life before the deluge, These
antediluvian relics have attracted the
attention of scientists of two worlds.
There are monster tusks, teeth of all
sizes and shapes, fish bones in great
quantity, all of which is ground up
and made to produce the great South¬
ern staple—cotton.
When He is at Rest.
A clever man always likes to sit next
to a clever woman at dinner, because
a clever woman never expects a m.iu
to be.—New York Press.
]..uiy, ;l:e
cred close to the
with spindles tit, tbflH ofl|
which arc; Inserted In
spiral spring to give ties
broom when in use.
Tertli Mmie from 1’Hpe^HfH
Teeth of p-. jiler much" are the t|K
lien Istry. by a peculiar procog* rail
rendered better than any other tl
i’aper teeth may I e one. hut we will nuS
that most people prefer Halted ihelr own,
may best he a venu by kin pi, ctJ J
s'omaeh healthy with Hostetler's stomftjB
bitters. 'Ihe condition of the Hitter^
variably affects the teeth. Tbe
streiiffthon your stomach, cure djspepsla
biliousness.
telephone, For calling another tizen of man llouno a liar count thrnu^H
a c JH
had to pay a tine of $'*.
Don't Tolmtro Spit and Smoke Your Mfe !■
To qnlt tobacco easily and forever, bej
retie, full of life, nerve and vigor, take «
Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weal™
strong. All druggists, 50c or 61. CuregmS
teed, booklet and sample free. Addi
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New Ya
Their Frequent Trips.
“The erand fury mug-, go away frequent!
said Mrs Caswell to her husband. i
‘•Go away?” repeated Mr. Gaswell. 11 Wl
do you mean?” ; J
“I often see In the papers a headline wlr iT
leads, • Graud Jury Iteiutns.”
To Cure a Cold in Oni* Day. .
Take Laxative ft homo Quinine Taiu.kt^' XI
flnieutets refund the in ,uey if it fails to cur*
Ji. \V. Grove's signature Is on each box. wji,
His Rest Hope.
“Can you give me no hope?” he wild
cried.
"Yes,” sweetly smiled the young girl; iiei “
you you.”—Exchange. go out very quietly papa may not
From Washingto
How a Little Boy Was Saved.
Washington, D. C. —“When our
was about It! months old he broke
with £ rush which was thought to
measles. In a few days he his
swelling on the left side of
and it was decided to be mumps.
w-as given medical attendance
about three weeks when the
said it was scrofula and ordered®
salve. He wanted to lauoe the
but I would no! let him and
giving him medicine for about
months when the bunch broke in
places and became a running
Three doctors said it was scrofula
eac.h ordered a blood medicine.
neighbor told me of a case
like our baby’s which was cured
Hood’s Sarsaparilla. I decided to
it to my boy aud iu a short, while hia
health improved and his neck healed
so nicely that I stopped giving him the
mediciae. The sore broke out again,
however, whereupon I again gave him,
Hood’s Sarsaparilla aud its persistent
use has accomplished a complete
care.” Mrs. Nettie Chase, 47
St.. N. E. .
Glass Cooking Utensils.
Some women have to be queens, some
pot-wrestlers. Pot-wrestling is in high
er favor than washing the dishes
scouring the knives. But our pots (us
lug the word as a generic term
ing the whole field of cooking uten
sils) have not kept pace with our civil
ization. They still bend aud rust,
crack, wear out and scale off. I sug
gest to our glass manufacturers an
uealed kettles, boilers, stew-pans,
coffee-pots, etc., of indestructible vi
treous substances. I have no doubt that
such utensils would quickly supersede
those metal ones which we have been
wrestling with these many years. No
acid would affect them, no fruits,
vegetables, meats or beverages would
taint them. Nothing would stick to
them. They would require no polish¬
ing, no shining up once n week. Their
cleanliness would bring godliness to
the home, which is next to the kitchen,
He who introduces glass cooking uten
sils will reap a fortune.—Victor Smith
iu New York Press.
Pessimism Checked.
“No,” he complained. “I have never
succeeded in getting anything for noth¬
ing! I have always had to strive hard
for everything that has come to me.
I-”
“What about the mumps you had last
winter?” his wife interrupted.—Chicago
Times-Herald.
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Nearly all the Ills of
women result from
derangement of the
female organism. Mrs.
Plnkham's great
olne makes women
healthy? of this there is
overwhelming proof.
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you Pink*
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