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OLD LOVE SONGS.
At. lovet dear iovei what tender songs they
sang—
Those poets to tho women of their choice;
Vet nono more tenderly than I to you
Bad It pleased heaven to give me but the voice.
My heart stirs, but my lips are ever mute.
For all my common words have common ways;
And nono are high enough that I should daro
Essay with them my lady's perfect praise.
Vet, when I hear these others sing I feel
Such passion as the poor gray weed well knows.
Condemned to grow in flowerless nullity
In gardens where there blooms full many a rose.
. —C. A. Pratt
Prosperity of tho Maoris.
“New Zealand has more debt in pro
portion to its size and wealth than any
other country in the world,” said Father
Wissel. “There was a great deal of
faith in gold mining for a time, hut tho
yellow ore failed to materialize in suffi
cient quantities to put the miners' busi
ness ou a paying basis, and tho mines
were temporarily abandoned. The Eng
lish have not given up hopes^vet, and
companies are beginning to take hold of
the enterprise of hunting gold again.
Tho Maoris, or natives, call their houses
waoris. They raise potatoes and com,
dig gum or do anything for a living, and
they are very intelligent people. Tim
Maori people'are better off almost than
the whites, bceanso tiiey possess a lot of
land that the whites do not. They have
the king country, and their gardens,
fruit farms and horso pastures aro well
taken care of. They aro very fond of
horses and keep lots of them. They buy
vegetables, guns, coffee, tea ard grocer
ies in tho towns. Their war dances aro
interesting, and at them they havo all
sorts of games. Sometimes they bccomo
warlike toward tho whites and refuse to
let them pass through the exclusive
Maori country.”—Globe-Democrat.
TIio Matting of Fancy Candles.
In the big factories lozenges and mot
toes are stamped in tho sheet and then
cut out separately with patent cutters
Wafer lozenges are moro carefully pre
pared than tho thick, round kind. The
latter nre fed into a machine like a job
printing press, by tho sheet, and come
out round, hard confections. Wafers aro
cut by hand. Fruits aro now crystallized
to somo extent by wholesalers in this
country, but not as successfully as in
France. Opinions differ on this matter.
Somo dealers ileclaro that hero the fault
alone is in tlioquality of the fruit. Others
assert that wo havo not acquired the
French secret of preparing the syrups and
getting them to penetrate to tho heart of
the fruit. Tho finish of fine candies is
put on by wholesalers in tho same way as
in retail houses, where all work is per
formed by hand. Tho syrup used in tho
process of crystallization is used "'in tho
making of clear candies and stick goods.
—Chicago Herald.
A Tacit of Tnstc.
Ono Of tlio most irritating of tho recent
idiocies of tourists is the fashion of leav
ing cards at the tombs of distinguished
people. Tile bust of Longfellow in West
minster Abbey is constantly surrounded
by these inappropriate bits of pasteboard,
and the grave of ‘ II. II.” is said to ho
literally 'covered with tile visiting cards
left by tourists who climbed tho lonely
mountain near Colorado Springs to visit
tiie last resting place of the poet and
novelist. Nothing hut nn abundance of
tiie most egregious vanity and absolute
lack of taste could prompt mi action so
idiotic as tiie following of this absurd
custom.—Boston Courier.
An*r!*cr ITso for Photography.
The Latest use to which the magnesium
flash liglit.luesbeenputis tiie photography
of tho human eye. At tho suggestion of
Du Bois Reymond, a normal eye, after a
quarter of an hour's rest iu a darkened
room, was photographed life size, tho re
sult being that tho photograph showed
tho pupil ol’ the eye dilated to its fullest
extent. As these photographs permit of
measurement, they cannot fail to he of
great value to medical science.—Photo
graphic News.
An Incentive to Industry.
While it Js ordinarily tho custom of
carpenters, masons :uid painters to con
tract for their work by tlio day or by tho
job, there are occasional deviations from
it. Ono expert carpenter in Philadelphia
makes hist contracts by tlio job, specify
ing that ho shall receive a bonus if ho
finishes before .a certain time. As ho is
a rapid workman ho contrives to earn
considerably moro than lie would if con
tracting in tlio customary way.—Chicago
News.
Only "Think of It.
Mattie—Don’t you know, I’vo found
out something awful about Mr. Green.
Hettio—Why, what can it be?
“He’s n Mormon, or a bigamist, at
least.”
“A bigamist!"
“Yes; he fek! 11“ tfvat I '-• wii'o wosonc
of a thousand! G !/ jtUa of it!”—Bos
ton Transcript.
Not Mtu-.i
“Oh, tiie From-’ man was very harshly
treated. They threw him off tho bal
cony into the street. ”
‘•They did? Well, wav he hurt much?
Anything broken?”
“Nothing but his English.”—Haiper’a
Bazar.
Tlio average school life of tlio woman
teacher in the west is about two years,
and tlio farther west eho goes tho less
time s’uo teaches.
A note raado by a minor is void; a
contract rnado with a minor is void; a
contract made with a lunatic is void.
Be tho same thing that ye would ho i
called. i
Hovel* of the Hebrides.
Tlio hovels were as cheerless within as
without. I do not know why it is otic
takes liberties with the poor ono would
not daro tako with the gich. It is no
small evil of poverty that it is everybody’s
privilege to stare at it The people of Har
ris aro hospitable, and receive tho stranger
with courtesy, but you can see that they
resent the intrusion. It is not, I fear, to
our credit tliat curiosity got the better of
our scruples. Wo knocked at a cottage
door ono Sunday afternoon, J , ns
excuse, asking for a light. As we drew
near we heard the voice of some ono
reading aloud. Now it was silenced,
and a tall old man in his shirt sleeves
camo to tho door with an open Biblo in
his hands. Within, on the left, was tho
dwelling room of the household; on tho
right, tho stable. Cattle and family
share the only entrance. Into the room,
through a single pane of glass, ono ray
of daylight fell across the Rembrandt
like shadows.
On the mud floor, at tho far end, a tiro
of peat burned with dull red glow, and
its thick, ciioking smoke curled in clouds
about tho rafts and softened tiie shadows.
Wo could just make out tlio figures of
two women crouching by tlio fire, tho
curtained bed in tlio corner, the spinning
wheel opposite. All other details were
lost in gloom and smoke. Until you seo
it for yourself, you could not believe, that
in our Nineteenth century men still livo
like tliis. Miss Gordon Cumming says
that to tlio spinning nnd weaving of tlio
women “is duo much of sucli comfort,
as wo may seo by a peep into some of
their little homes. ” But our peep showed
us only that women weave and men
work in vnin, and that to s]ieak of com
fort is mockery in a cottago of Harris,
or, indeed, in any cottago we saw in any
.part of tho islands. For all those wo
went into wero alike iu their poverty and
their darkness. As a rule tlio fire
burned in tho center on a circle of stones,
and over it, from tho roof, hung chain
and hook for tho kettle. They havo not
changed ono jot or tittle since, a century
-ago, they moved Pennant to pitv- ,
Tho Origin of n Poem.
Longfellow’s poem of this title tells
liow tlio Moravian nuns “consecrated tlio
banner in a chapel or church and pre
sented it to tho hero with injunctions
that he should bear himself witli bravery
and magnanimity tinder its folds nnd
that if ho fell in battle tho banner should
ho used as his martial cloak and shroud.”
Tlio concluding lines me:
Aud tho warrior took that banner proud.
And it was his martial cloak nnd shroud.
It is a fact that Count Cnsimir Pulaski,
visiting Lafayette when ho lay sick at
Bethlehem, Pa., in 1770, procured a ban
ner from tho Moravian Sisters in that
place. But all tlio pretty garniture
woven by tlio poet around this simple cir
cumstance lias been brushed away by
historical research. The sisters did not
livo n cloistered life, and Pulaski bought
tho banner from them in the prosaic
order of trade, for by soiling this kind of
work they supported tlicir house. On
tiie death of Pulaski tho banner passed
into tiie hands of Capt. Bentalou. of Bal
timore. and is now in tiie possession of
tiie Maryland Historical society in that
city. In a newspaper interview Mr. Long
fellow told the origin of the ;>ooni ill
these words: “It wan one of my early
works. I wrote it while at college. I
read in a newnpiqier that tho Moravian
worm :i at Bethlehem had embroidered a
haulier nnd presented it to Pulaski. Tlio
story made an impression on my mind,
and ono idle day I wrote tlio [ioem. I
called them Moravian Nuns because I
had gathered from something I had read
that they were called nuns. I suppose I
should have said Moravian Sisters, but
but tho change doesn't spoil the ro
mance.”
New York's Chinese Residents.
We have a Chinese imputation of nearly
10,000 in this city, hut it is a rare sight
to see any Chinaman applying for help
at any of the public charitable institu
tions of the city. Our Chinese residents
are.always ready to assist each other in
all tho emergencies of lile. Most of them
belong to societies of- mutual assistance
on the Chinese plan. When one of them
is penniless he ear. Iiorrow money. When
one it: out of work lie finds others ready
to aid,him i.i procuring it. When ono is
ill, nurses furnish tlio needed service,
and if lie dies the expenses of his burial
aro always easily obtained. Several hun
dreds of them havo become well off
through tho business of their wash houses,
Thero are no loafers among them, and oil
of them are noted for their industrious
lives. There nre few of them addicted to
tlio opium habit, though many of them
occasionally indulge in tlio fumes of tlio
drug. It is mainly tho wealthy men
among them who oujoy the luxury of
Chinese wives, but others who desiro to
form white matches find no difficulty in
doing so, so far os tho procuring of mates
is concerned. As a rule, tho children
horn of these unions udopt tho American
style of life. The Chinese of New York
boast that they produce proportionately
fewer criminals tiian any other element
of our population.—New York Sun.
Between Asplnwali and Panama.
Aspinwall has risen like n Phoenix
from its ashes. Tho laat Colombian revo
lution, happily curtailed by Uncle Sam,
has left the town scathed but still there.
Aspinwall, or Colon, with a stress on tho
“on,” is not a healthful place. There is
a funeral train to Monkey HiH every day,
sometimes twice a day. It is a hospital
city, as well ns a sea port, and the men
who have been inveigled into delving
amid tho treacherous marshes of tho
isthmus nro filling coffins at the rate of
eight or ten per diem, and ono coffin docs
tlio duty for many. Men are cheap, but
tho coffins aro dear. As to tho canal, all
I can say is that there is more machinery
ignobly rusting between Aspinwall and
Panama than would pierco a dozen forty
mile canals.
SYSTEMS OF “CHECKAGE.*
Jm Howard Thinks They Aro a Nuisance,
Policy of ifemesty.
Aro wo a nation of liars, thieves,
cheats? If not, what is tho meaning of
tho universal suspicion which poisons
every brother’s cup? Why tlieso checks
in street cars, these mechanical contriv
ances in barrooms, tlieso private detect
ive agencies? You remember what a
hubbub was created years ago when con
ductors were compelled to wear mossivo
medallions, with intricate mechanism,
supposed to show correctly the number of
fares taken. They looked like so many
Japanese gods with bungling, onerous,
burdensome ornaments about them. Tho
directors suspected that tho conductors
were stealing, aud every timo tlio con-
- _ , ductor pulled tho spring that rang tho
In exact proportion its the Panama , boll j J0 cballeuEcd public scrutiny, and
tram recedes from Aspinwall does t 0 the suggestion came to every mind, “tho
faith of tho traveler vanish j? 1 * 0 | company suspects this man to be a thief,”
nothing. For the first ten miles all ) s | and so they did suspect overy man to ho
well. Then things begin to take on their | athi( . f and theydoubted tho accuraoy
natural shape. There are Americans, y,eir mec |, an "j sm ^ well, because co-
Europeans, Chinese, natives, g'lziug at i ver .]y a[u j secretly they sent spotters,
tlio cars ns they pass tow n after town on 0 j d men> y 0U11 g ] a dies, tender children,
tlio line, but tlio faces of all bear tho , workingmen iu every possible disguise,
same impress. ‘‘All hope abandon, yo . to jjeep tally of the number of people
who enter boro. Every man who goes j w j, 0 rodo upon the cars and paid faro
to work or starts a store on tho isthmian for tho priv ;i ege . Aa it was in Boston
canal route is a silent partner with King E0 j t was in Now York and in all tho
Death. It is a lottery out of which the j great centers. Tho system of checkogo
adventurer hopes to emerge a winner. ■ j n u£c U[)on our railways today is not
But tho winners they crowded tho de- | on ]y C \-pensivo to tho companies and an
pot at Panama and what were they! i intolerable nuisance to tlio traveling
For tlio most part hospital patients, or j public, hut a direct impugning of tho in-
subjects for hospital treatment. Feverij tegritv of every man in the employ.
It brooded over every inch of those forty- . j buy a ticket from hero to Boston,
seven miles between Aspinwall a |"l I an d pay in advance. I pay $5 for my
Panama. \ou breathed it in the air; ^cket, and $1.30, or whatever, for a seat
you drank it in the water; you beheld it j n a drawing room car. It should bo
rank, pestiferously potential m the sur- ; quito sufficient for mo to give up my
roundings of every palmleaf roofed liu., ticket to a gateman ; .enter the depot,
every single story tenement, every j an( j my ot i, cr ticket to tho porter in
dwelling on tho lulls along that fated charge of the drawing room car, ns I
forty mile stretch.—Cor. San Francisco e nter tlio car.
Chronicle.
Tlio ilohonzollem “Wlilto tally."
During the middle ages, a noble lady,
surpassingly beautiful, of the house of
Orlammule, fell madly in lovo with a
prince of Uio reigning house, and sent
iiiui privately word of her love and an
offer of marriage. The prince would
gladly havo married her, but for the fact
that his parents would not consent.
Social intercourse was somewhat re
strained in thoso days. He was com
pelled to dispatch a page to tho lady with
an ambiguous message, declining her
offer on tlio ground that “four eyes”
stood in tlicir way. Tho young widow
believed that lie referred to her two chil
dren. and promptly put them to death,
notifying him that tho obstacle was re
moved.
A terrible scene ensued between tlio
prince and his murderess lady love, after
which lie fled into solitude and die died
of remorse. Since then her gliu-t is said
to Ik? condemned to haunt the halls of
tlio Hohenzollerns, and her npiicaraiico
ia a warning of deatli to somo members
of tlio family. About fifecen years ago,
Climbing Tip the Blgi.
I am not certain whether It pays or
not to go up on the Rigi. When the
weather is clear you can see three moun
tain ranges all snow capped, 12 of IB
lakes, 17 towns and cities, 40 villages, 00
odd glaciers, and this in a circumference
of about 300 miles. Glorious, I admit,
but oh! tho discomfort of tho descent
again! It takes longer to como down
than it does to go iip, and passengers are
jerked, jerked, jerked from apex to base
so rudely that life is no longer a pleasure
ere wo liave reached Vitznau again. Out
on such cogwheel contrivances for hu
man torture, say I; the old fashioned dil
igences may havo been slow and cruel,
but they wero Pullmans alongside of
theso now fangled cars.
Four years ago I climbed tho Rigi,
mere child’s play after doing Pilatus, and
I havo not grown much older since I said
I would climb it again and I did so day
before yesterday. It wad'a worm after
noon. Not a breath ef air, and the sun
shining full on mo tor half the distance.
By half-past 7 o'clock I had reached the
kulm or highest pciut, and there I threw
myself on tho earth and saw the sun go
down. Then I had my feet and legs
well rubbed with liniment, meanwhile
eating dinner, and then I went to bed to
bo called early enough to see that 6ame
sun riso again. Tho Rigi Kulm is the.
best place I know of to observe the splen
did ruddy glow that comes over tho great
Alpino peaks at tho rising and setting of
tho sun. Unfortunately theso effects Of
light do not lust long, but they aro mar
velously beautiful Night before last ns
tho sun went clown it became first yel
low, then dark re l and In on instant
everything touched by its dying rays as
sumed tho sarno ruddy tint. This lasted
for a couplo of minutes after tho sun had
entirely disappeared, and then suddenly
everything turned black and lol the
stars wero shining.—Henry Haynle in
New Orleans Picayune.
Instead of which, I am
stopped at tlio gate ns I enter tho .
depot, in order that u gateman may No Clinn0c , Acalnit Gamblon.
punch the ticket. I tako my seat in the J j„ 1840 th „ t famous magIclant Robert
car. In comes a train conductor, who noudin roquested by thojjudgo of
tak«i my ticket and punches it n three , lnstructlon of t ]f 10 tribunal of the Seine
or four different places I settle down t o examine and verify the genuineness of
to read my paper or my book and along j m of cards been seized
room conductor, w ho j t] possession of a man who enjoyed
l gives me another in : nnythJn £ but a ^ovy reputation. A
peculiarity of tho cards was tliat they
wero perfectly white, and it was impos
sible to detect tho least proof of their
having been tampered with or to find the
slightest mark upon them. Over his
work Houdin spent a fortnight, now in
specting them with the unaided eye,
again by means of superior lens. Every
individual card of tho 150 packs was in
spected again and again. Ho was giving
up his work in despair, when, of a sud
den, closo to tho corner of ono of tlicm,
ho perceived a dullish spot. Looking at
, ,, , it closer tho spot disappeared, but holding
was when a man could go with Ins friend t a distance from him the spot ro
tate a cafe, order his lemonade or what- j appearcd . Following up this clew, he,
over he wanted, generally tlio latter, , ascertained that on every card there ex
throw his money on the counter and i isted n 8pot which, according to its posi-
walk out. Now lie has to perform tlio : tion on * th ocard, indicated tho suited
service of a waiter. Haying taken Ins ! thoTnluoof tho card.
refreshment ho waits while tho attendant
comes the drawing
tidies my ticket and gives
its placo, on which lie punches tlio year,
tho month, tho day of tho month, tho
number of the train, tho number of tho
car, tlio number of the seat, iny destina
tion and the amount paid, all of which
takes my timo und gives him unnecessary
labor. Wo pass beyond Now Haven, and
another conductor comes, nnu lio has to
punch my ticket, and another conductor
comes nt Worcester, and ho has to punch
tlio ticket. Then they como along again
and take up tho tickets.
Como with mo into any of our bar
rooms, our restaurants, our cafes. Timo
oi'i'acamnt'of^soinoreiwrted aplieimances ^toob-ick o™ta Ho l >ursued th ° furthcr ’ for
of Lie White I^dy/rraVttMhTbeight SK fr^wM^dra^ a LS «S.‘ Uw whetber .°
that the kaiser had every ono of the 700 1*"°“ *■?-*»?** <#
rooms in thoSclilosa tnorousrhlv soarcliod. , . . ... . . . t .. ...
rooms in tho Set,loss thoroughly searched. whicll amouai ia „ hown in g i arin g tetters
i.uhe liois. of finding some clew to the; tho machill0 M the impression is
m-.-.rry; Imt had he succeeded, I doubt ^ T||U th „ cu8tomer w Spelled
whether tlio people would have given up (Q sometimes a distance of a lmn-
their net superstition. Many ore ready dred At aI1 cvent8 ho must carry
enough to testify to haying seen this i( . whcrover tll0 (:ashicr chancc3 t0 hb
pale white robed apparition before tl.O t;( , l[od . Uo lialldj tho chcck and tl)0
death of tho late emperor mid stones mo , )ev thfl ^ wj his mouth
nre current of her having shown herself , T „’
! Cos:
that time.—Lucy C.
npolitan.
nnd walks away. In other words, tho
barkeeper is distinctly informed by this
procedure that Ills employer has no faith
in him, ami both ho and tho cashier is
informed by this mechanism, which reg-
hos tho slightest chance of winning with
a person who plays only to live. Tho
conclusion ho arrived at was that there
is no such supposed favorablo chance,
and tliat tho amount of tho non-profes
sional’s losses is limited only by tho mag
nanimity of tho professional.—Boston
Herald.
The I’rincc's Hungarian Cuuchman.
During the recent visit of tlio Prince
of Wales to Hungary ho was much
struck with the magnificent mustaches
worn by tlio coachmen of that country.
Ono man in particular roused the admir
ation of his royal highness l>v tlio fierco-
ness and graco of his hirsute adornments.
Tho prince engaged him. On reaching
Marlborough house tho jehu saw that tho
coachmen, footmen nnd, in fact, all the
servants wore faces devoid of hair. He
nt once sought a barber and bad his faco
shaved dean. 'When tho prince saw him
again ho was horrified. “I engaged you
for your mustache and for nothing else,”
said his royal highness. That evening
the Hungarian set out for his native
land.—New York World.
Favor! to nororages la Persia.
Tlio great boverago in Persia is sher
bet, which is plentifully supplied, and of
which there are many varieties—from
tho bowl of water witli a squeezo of
lemon to tho clear, concentrated juico of
, , . ( any sort of fruit to which water is added
And, after nil, do checks check? t to diluto it , T ho preparation of sherbet,
Thieving conductors wero supplied by r w hi c h j 3 done with the greatest core, is
ingenious mechanics with little arrange- a very important point in so thirsty u
merits by which, while pretending to C0UXlt L ti Persia, and ono to which
register, they in reality pocketed tho faro f xnucli. timo is devoted. It may bo either
without registering. Barkeepers, by col
lusion with cashiers, can, if they wish,
railways wero retained by conductors,
they having duplicate slips furnished
them by the accountant in tho office.
Human ingenuity is certain to lx: met by
human ingenuity. In tho long run, tak
ing ago after age, accumulated facts
havo crystallized themselves into a pro
verb, “Honesty is tho best policy,” and
dishonest men know just as well as tiro
good and true that tlio path to success
lies in tliat direction, and tliat leaving
all question of morals out of considera
tion, the best “policy,” tlio truest way
in whicll to servo one's selfish purpose,
is to be honest.
There must be responsibility some
where. Somebody must he trusted, and
nil this intricate system of- clieckogo
doesn't amount to shucks. If n man is
dishonest nnd lias not brains enough to
Tlio books that are most widely read ; buow that, in spite of his dishonest ten-
defraud their employers. This very week j of pomegranates, cherries or lemons
ono of our railroad auditors tumbled over j mlxcd with 8Ugar nnd 6 ubmlttcd to a
a plan by which fares collected on steam 0^;,, degreo of heat to preservo it for
Children of KurxOS City.
Professor Stanley llall published re- I isters the amount, that tlicir employer
centlv the..•suit of examinations mndo trusts neither of them. I
of very little folks in Boston schools.
Professor Greenwood inudo similar in
vestigations among tlio lowest grado of
pupils in tlio Kansas City schools, and a
table ol' comparisons is printed. The per
cent, of children ignorant of common
tilings is astonishingly less in Kansas
City schools tiian in the Boston; even tlio
colored children of the western city made
a mucli better showing.
Another subject of investigation is the
ulteged physical deterioration in this
country. Examinations wero mado of
hundreds of school children from tlio
ago of 10 to 15, and comparisons taken
with tlio tables in Mulhall's Dictionary of
Statistics. London, 1884. It turns out
that the Kansas City children ore taller,
taking sex into account, than tho average
English child at the age of either 10
or 15, weigh a fraction less at 10, but
upward of four pounds more at 15. while
tlio average Belgian hoy and girl com
pare favorably with American children
two years younger. Tho tabulated statis
tics show two facts, tliat tiie average
Kansas City child stands fully as tall as
tho tallest, and that in weight he tq» tho
beam against an older child on the other
side of tho Atlantic. r ' *♦**• •
expressed from the juico of fruit freshly
gathered or from tho preserved extract
are novels; and after them come works
of travel and adventure, histories, biog
raphies nnd autobiographies, and pic
tures of current manners and customs.
Popular poetry treats of love, effort and
disappointment; white moral and phil
osophical essays and religious treatises—
unless concerning somo new sensational
religion—are found, if anywhere, on tho
shelves of tlio bookseller. In short, tho
books tliat circulate are books that treat
of human relations and activities; they
keep us in mind thereof, and therefore
they servo to augment and forward
Another Civilized Ailment.
A curious affection is paradoxical deaf
ness. Dr. Boucheron, in a note to tlio
Paris Academy cf Sciences, lately stated
that tiie patient is lieaf for speech m tlio
silence of-a retired room, yet hears tho
same in tho midst of noise, ns in n mov-
tbein. They maintain the heat of die- i ing carriage or railway train, or ia tho
deucy, success can ho obtained by honest
methods alone, no power this side of
heaven can keep him from cheating, and
cheating for a white witiiout detection.—
Joe Howard in Boston Globe.
missions, tho sharpness of rivalries, the
rumor of success; they spur us on when
we flag, invite us when wo linger, and as
sure us when wo doubt; wo return from
realities to them, and they drive us bus..
with fresh impulse to realities. For G
books tliat would keep us at^ome
have uo taste nor- leisure. ’
Traveler.
street. Tho disorder, wliicli is grave,
| progressive and sometimes hereditary, is
caused by compression of tho labyrinth
of the —Arkansaw Traveler.
A Paris linn ha3 produced porous glc-a
; for window panes. Tho porea are too
j fine to admit a draught, but they assist
"in ventilation.
preservo
: winter consumption. \
i Another sherbet much drank is called
i guzang ebben. It is mode from tho
honey of the tamarisk treo. This honey
is not tho work of tho beo, but is mado
l>y a small insect living under tho leaves
of tho shrub. During tho months of
August and September tho insect is col
lected find tho honey is preserved.
When used for sherbet it is mixed with,
vinegar, and, although not so delicious,
os that mado from fruit, it makes an cx-
, colled! beverage. •
Only among the rich and fashionable
aro glasses used. In all other cases sher
bet u served in china bowls and drank
from deep wooden spoons carved in pear-
wood.—Youth’s Companion. ' '
every day you ono or i
‘dog” advertisements in the no
If owners didn't lovo their d
wouldn’t go to tlio expense of
ing for them. Most of theso iostd
havo been stolen. The thief eelte the
to somebody else. Then bis “pal” gr
to the rightful owner and obtains a hand-
romo reward for recovering thn nnimnl.
Tlio New Zealand government Is ad
vertising for qualified persons acquainted
witli tho best apbtems of dairy farming,
and competent to instruct dairy farmers
in New Zealand as to tha best methods
of preparing their produce for tho Eng
lish market.—Boston Budget.
Sir
Daily
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lunar o • was. observed at Babvlon
721 B. < *
r win Arnold, tho editor of The
. egrnph, wrote his “Light of
w.iibt traveling in the railway
: to mui r ro. i his newspaper of-