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THE QUEEN “AT HOME”
A PLEASANT PICTURE OF THE DO¬
MESTIC LIFE OF HER MAJESTY.
■ lories fVi.rsetert.tts mt the Brltl.h
KorerelRn Kbe Will Live Any v. her*
bnt In Londan—A Day at Windsor—
Relation.hip Parties*
Once upon a time there was a charm
ing little blonde princess, with large blue
eyes and golden tresses, who was known
as Mayflower, because she was bom in
that beautiful spring month, and her ;
and father, ladies holding who her hastened up before to the the hahy, lords J
sec ,
said to them: “Look at her well, for she j
will be queen of England 1" The spring
of the year 1819 is far off now; the May
rose has changed into the Christmas rose;
the little princess lias become the doyenne
of the sovereigns of Europe, and her
people honor in her half a century of
reign which, in the words of the national
antliem, has been “happy and glorious,"
and distinguished by her majesty’s great
virtues and devotion to the public weal,
After being softened by the joys and
griefs of her crowned romance, the pub
lie venerates the grandmother who, from
th# tbronr*, has made the nation admirt*
sentiments which are most dear to it.
The one place where the queen is never
to to found is her good town of London.
Whether it to that Buckingham Palace
is displeasing to her majesty (as it might
well to), or whether the air and noise of
the capital ore injurious to her health,
one thing is certain—that she avoids
London like the jieatilence, leaving to
her charming daughter in law, the Prin
cess of Wah^s, and to the extromcly pop
ular heir apparent, the duty of ropre
renting her on all official Occasions. Since
Princess Beatrice’s marriage and espo
eially since the extraordinary manifesto
tions which marked tor jubilee, the queen
has shown herself a little more to h«
liege subjects.
There is also mom animation in the
palace. Her majesty has commanded
irtmtos to appear at court, and has on
couraged her entourage to get up ama
tour theatricals. The fact is t-hat
Princess Beatrice has married a Prince
Charming, from whom oue wishes to
banish all ehnni, and, as ho can not bo
sent over to Germany to hunt and shoot
every week, the domestic hearth is made
as attractive as possible. With the ox
ception of a few weoks spent at some
health resort the queen divides her thno
almost equally between Windsor, Os
tome, and Balmoral Windsor, the
immense fuedal palace of William the
Conqueror and Edward III, is the actual
official residence of the queen, and neve,
has monarch had a more stately homo.
It is to Windsor that her majesty in
vita? those whom she w ishes to entertain,
The invitoti.,ns are UsUftUy to dinner, the
gueats arriving at the castle in time to
The drt«s, and sjiending the night at the
queen’s day begins a little later now
than formerly, the rheumatic affection
from which she suffers having dimin
ished her strength, although she still
works very hard. Rising between 8 and
8 o’clock she breakfasts alone in her
apartment, but occasionally invites
Princess Beatrice or some other member
of the royal family. Often, in fine
weather, she drives to Frogmore, and
when it is warm enough she break lasts
in a tent erected iu the gardens. From
10 to 3 her majesty works. One of the
ministers is always at hand, but the
queen seldom presides over a council,
except on some very exceptional ocea
packets; eion. Every day there are 20 or 80
of dispatches for her majesty to
look through. Everything comes under
her eyes. Prince Albert used to say The
queen ought to be the best informed
person in the realm. “Ministers go out—
Uie queen remains,” said the prince.
Her majesty has an emban-aade choix,
for of the 5(1 children and grandchildren
that Providence has granted her (with
out counting the fourth generation,
wtrch treads upon the heels of theothers),
there remain 42. As, beside, the queen
is allied more or less closely to all who
reign, have reigned, or will reign in Eu
rope, one willingly abstains from at
tempting to classify those related to her
majesty. For the queen, however, the
disentangling process is a pastime; hei
mait-rty never gets confused over it and
good humoredly pretends to to sairprised
t.iat everybody is not so clever as her
seif. After lunch there is a short walk,
and at 4 o’clock, no matter what the
weather may to, the queen goes for a
drive, generally accompanied by Princess
Beatrice, the lady in waiting, and sonu
other fair invitee. Dinner is at 9 o’clock,
Should a reigning prince be present, the
queen takes his arm; if not, she walks
into the dining room alone. Before her
majesty comes down, the gentleman in
waiting acquaints all the mate guests
with the name of the lady they are tt
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take in.
During the day there is complete lib
erty for all, yet there is none of that
eociahility which chavactortees English
country house life. The evening has
never been a time of much gayety at the
palace. CharlesGreville found it “deadly
dull.” The queen used to seat herself at
a large round table and the conversation
became more or less animated. Now,
the queen gore from one to the other,
aridressing to each a few words aimablre
et banales, and retiree at 11 o’clock,
When only members of the royal family
are present there is often music. Lik«
all her children, except the Prince of
Wales, the queen is an excellent musician
and sometimes site down to the piano
with Princess Beatrice, or there will to
Singing. Nature has endowed her maj
esty with a fine voice, not only for sing
ing, but for speaking; char£ so that she is able to
give a certain even to official doc
uments. She reads them as nobody else
can, although she ingenuously confesses
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RTHIOIMAIW TDHIIKt) WHIVB.
""* tor. n*y Tteis Ca» Oc I>«me ThrangU
•lo l’r«B.pl«»llnj of Akin.
Provided a victim ctmid te found foi
the skinning operation, surgicaUkill is
equal to the feat of turning a negro’s
skin permanently white. The question
of the f raaspoeition of color in the cuticle
Of the two races has been given a local
otw) Deciliter interest hv an emerimenf
in the grafting of the skin of a negro
upon a white man by Dr. John Ege, of
Heading, Pa.
The experiment of Dr. Ege was made
for the purpose of healing a wound on
the leg of a white man, and if it sue
needed in this it was all that was ex
pec-tod of it. Not only did it do this, but
as the wound liegan to heal Dr. Ege was
surprised to notice the 80 particles of
black skin transplanted were gradually
losing their color, and by the time the
wound had entirely healed the new sur
face was as white as if the cuticle be
longed by nature to the spot to which it
was transplanted. This resul. was sur
prising to the doctor. because medical
men have hitherto declared that colored
skin, wherever transplanted, would re
tain its color. It seems probable now,
therefore, that some of the theory of skin
grafting may undergo a change, and that
in the future one may be enabled to
change one’s skin as easily as the Pari
sian belle the color of her hair.
A physician, in seriously discussing
the matter, said that the original cause
of the difference in the color of the skin
of different races is still a matter of some
dispute. Some authorities on the nub
jeet maintain that it is attributable solely
to climate. In contradiction of this,
however, other authorities prove that the
dark color of the skin does not depend
upon geographical position, nor even al
together on racial purity, by the fact that
the extremes of the hroroatio scale are
found throughout the whole nftgro do
main.
Dr. J. V. Shoemaker, the eminent der
matologist of this city, in speaking of
the result of Dr. Ego’s experiment, said
that, in his opinion, a negro’s skin grafted
upon a white man would probably lose
its color, the process of cutting disturb
ing the cells containing the coloring mat
ter. Dr. H. 0. Boouning, demonstrator
of anatomy at the Medico Chirnrgical
College, also holds this opinion, hut at
the same time says it is imperative that,
the particles of skin transplanted shoe Id
to. very minute, as in the ease of Dr.
Ego’s experiment. Dr. Boouning also
said that while colored skin transplanted
on a white man will lose its color and be
come white, white skin grafted upon a
negro would never become black. From
this it will ho seen that although a negro
might, possibly bo turned wd.ite, those
white persons who are so enamored of
the soft, glossy, unctuous epidermis of
the negro as to desire a change are de
barred by nature from indulging their
peculiar- taste.—[Philadelphia Record.
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The Good Book.
A good book—who can exaggerate its
power? Benjamin Franklin said that
his reading of Cotton Mather’s “Essays to
Do Good ” in childhood gave him holy
aspirations for all the rest of his life,
George Law declared that a biography
he read in childhood gave him all his
subsequent prosperities, A clergyman,
many years ago, passing to the far west,
stopped at a hotel. Ho saw a woman
copying something from Doddridge’s
“Kise and Progress." It seemed that
she had borrowed the book, and there
were some things she wanted especially
to remember. The clergyman had in his
satchel a copy of Doddridge’s “Rise and
Progress,” and so he made her a present
of it. Thirty years passed on. The
clergyman came that way and he asked
where tho woman was whom he had
seen long ago. They said: “She lives
yonder, in that beautiful house.” He
went there and said to her: “Do you
remember me?” She said: “No;
I do not.” He said: “Do you
remember a man gave you Doddridge’s
‘Rise and Progress’ 80 years ago?” “Oh,
yes I I remember, That book saved my
soul. I loaned the book to all my
neighbors, and they read it and they
were converted to God, and we had a
revival of religion which swept through
the whole community. We buiit a
church and called a pastor. You see
that spire, don’t you ? The church was
built as the result of that book you gave
me 80 years ago. ” Oh, the power of a
good book!
But alas! for the influence of a bad
book. John Angel James, than whom
England never had a holier minister,
stood in his pulpit at Birmingham and
said: “Twenty-five years ago a lad
loaned to me an infamous book. He
would loan it only 15 minutes, and then
I had to give it back; but that book has
haunted me like a specter ever since. I
have in agony of soul, on my knees
before God, prayed that he would ol>
literate from my soul the memory of it;
but I shall carry the damage of it until
the day of my death. *
Tho assassin of Sir William Russell do
dared that he got the inspiration for his
crime by reading what was then a new
and popular novel, “Jack Shephard.”
Homer’s “Iliad" made Alexander the
warrior. Alexander said so. The story
of Alexander made Julius Cresar and
Charles XII both xuen of blood. Have
you in your pocket, or in your trunk, or
in your desk at business, a bad book, a
bad picture, a bad pamphlet? In God’s
name I warn you to destroy it.—{Tal
mage.
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(nervations have a toen made of^uccessl
i ve rotations of i this 2 *sri.*to Dlanet and ^5 the facts
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to recognized, and that the markings
a,-e not accidental, but are probably due
to some configuration of the land, like
those of the planet Macs. The atmos
(here te so dense on Vanns that the suc
eemnt than *i a much
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Blti KIND OF MOMMIES.
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IMPORTANT DISCOVERY OF AN EGYP- ;
' T1AN CRYPT.
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*»'»«•«« M*»«*crtpf* - Th»ir tv
> * tpbcrlng M»/ Restore the Los*!
nt R*xpt~ Cnrloo*
ttoue I tiat Await Solution.
v letter from Cairo to the New York
Tribune announces the discovery near
tin- Temple of Hatasu, in Egypt, of a !
! <rypt containing mummies and manu
scripts that have never before been dir
‘ hirted. The discovery Is considered
as
i important as that in Der el Bahari, in
I lH71 . whf ’ n thfi mummies of Raineses the
Croat, M*e chief oppressor of the Israel
ih *' ftmi o1 Thothmes I, II, and 111, j
,Soti L and Ament,„tep I, were recovered. !
i ' Ihe hidden tombs at Der el Bahari had
i h, ' f ' n I*«‘yed upon for 10 years by the ;
«hrewd Arab who discovered them. He j
hail ojiened mummy cases and sold I
j<‘ wol » and manuscripts to travelers, and ;
marl F manuscripts were destroyed, but j 1
j oth « ra were decipherable.
: These manuscripts threw much light
1 the customs of the Egyptians, their
: daily life, and the extent of their learn-,
! »«K in medicine and law. The historical 1
have never been vary uw*ful, S
except to fix dates, as the records are
merely boasting of kings written in the
most florid style. Truth about kings was
smothered. The learned men of Egypt!
formed a vast orgt dzation for keeping :
knowledge within the bounds they hail
fixed. The discovery of a subterranean
ton it. or crypt near the temple of Queen 1
Hatasu, at Thebes, was made by an Arab, j
who reported it to the government, and i
r, **->ived a proper reward for his faith
fulness. The temple stands under a bluff
of limestone at some distance from the
Nile. Near the temple the opening of a
I*rpendicu1ar shaft in the solid rock was
found. This shaft upon exploration
proved to be 45 feet deep, and at the tot
bun was a doorway, which had to-on
Wa «ed up. The f Towing description of
fbe underground (...ambers is from the
Gairo letter:
“Passing through the doorway, the ex
ploiers entered a level corridor running
north an d south, about 250 feet long.
Nrom this a flight of steps led downward
about 18 feet, and then came another
oorridor nearly 40 feet long. At the
ewl * of thw mwad corridor were two
mortuary chambers. Still a third eor
f! rlor found > "luting from the top of
Hf The mummies sta i ' vay and were winding found piled 175 about feet, in
ft F arts (,t those room and °° m dors in
«»«« » way as to feyor the theory that
' V( ' r< ‘ hasti, y amoved thither from
th ''' r "ngmal restiii' place."
Uy February 19 about lfiO inom
"] los ,lftd bw!n re,noved u > the Bouiak
Mu8eu m. It is the opinion of tho Egypt
ol, * if,ta who aro in charge of the ex
animation of the mummies and manu
scripts that tho most recent tolung to
the twenty-first d> nasty. That dynasty
was established by a priest who possessed
great influence. Many of the mummies
are those of priests. About the corridors
are hollow wooden images containing
manuscripts, and other manuscripts hqve
been found upon piles of mummy eases.
It is believed that these writings were
hidden by priests after the mummies
were removed to the underground
chambers. The hasty disjHisai of the
mummy cases and manuscripts leads to
tho conclusion that they were originally
deposited in the temple of Hatasu and
removed before a threatened invasion,
The painting on the cases, although at
least 8,000 years old, Is brilliant in color
end apparently unchanged. The elabo
rate decorations indicate that the dead
were persons of consequence. The forms
of some of the mummy cases are new to
Egyptologists and new forms of hiero
glyphies appear in the manuscripts.
This may to accounted for by the fact,
recorded by Rawlinson, that Heritor of
the twenty-first dynasty had formed ab
Ranees with outside nations and had a
wife of Semitic race, who was not a
princess. Heritor was known as'Si-Am¬
nion or son of Ammon. If the new
records can be deciphered, the history of
Egypt may be rewritten. It would to
a singular and interesting outcome, if,
at this late day, all of tire lost learning
of Egypt should to restored,
The civilization of ancient Egypt had a
vaot influence upon the world, chiefly
through the captivity of the Israelites,
The Egyptians devoted a great part of
their energies and their fortunes to prep
aratkms for a future life. Their belief
in the literal resurrection of the body has
had its influence upon all religious belief
Whatever modern antiquarians believe,
they have not respected the belief of the
Egyptians; for the Egyptian dead have
been scattered and destroyed, ship loads
of mummies having been brought to Eng
land and the United Stakes to be ground
into paint. The vast cemeteries have
been pillaged for relicc of the past. Still
the resurrection of tLe body is one of the
cardinal doctrines of to-day. The Egyp
tians held it necessary to aid in that
resurrection by preparing the body for it.
The moderns hold that the power which
can raise the body to an immortal life is
great enough to bring together the scat
teved fragments after dissolution. The
belief in the resurrection of the body was
shared by the Incas of Peru as well as by
the Egyptians, and Peruvian mummies
wre almost as common in our museums
as those from the land of the Nile. The
pyramids of Mexico and the mummies of
Peru are the best evidences yet adduced
to show that there was formerly a con
land between Africa and America,
Jbe story of the lost Atalantis came from
E’AVpt, and discoveries in America go far
t0 Vilrd wnfirmin <? * Thequestion now
* 8 ’ ™ ** c ‘ vUi88tion
rtae iu Anu ‘ rU a or Africa? Ar0 <*» W
n ' idrt of Me * ico older than th<% Pyramids
of K AU’ t? Are the mumies of Peru older
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When young trees or plants are received
from the nursery it is important that the
roots be not exposed to the wind or be¬
come dry. They should be “heeled in”
if the ground is not ready. A large ma
jwtty tmaM of ha the vof failure* ad * with young trees j
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A MEKORTi
Some may forget the sweetheart ol*
They knew when life was young;
lint though the tale be often told,
Thl .VTu' v.I.nmTgTvfmy heart
I can remember yet,
White imti -mu twi *, «ar-4rp pgstart—
Ah. who would love forget!
The very day when I proposed,
The very hour, the place,
T Thrh[ nh«Z k ^r t ^^ ,f< ° mP ° SWl
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The -hot, perhaps. I’d better teU
The w-ctof. On my life
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'* >c * n ** o my wtfcl
Lon* Kngagemcuts.
Owing to tlie complications of modem
life, and the large increase in the list of
creature comforts which polite people
have come to regard as necessaries, mar
riage has become a vastly more serious
undertaking than it used to he, and is
deferred until a later period of life,
people in cities who have been used to
wear good cloti.es, and to have servants
to wait on them, and to go out of town
In summer.no longer marry when the,
girl is 18 and the man 22, The man is
opt to be nearing 30 before his income
will stand the matrimonial strain, and
the lady is proportionately experienced,
It would not be quite accurate to say
that, though it Is harder to get married
than it was, it is as easy as ever to te
come engaged. That would not be quite
true. The difficulty of getting income
enough to marry does defer, and even
prevent, a great many betrothals; never* _
theless, engagements do often happen
when the prospect of marriage is remote,
and a reasonable js-reentage of them last
until marriage ends them. Long ■
gagemonts are not popular, but enough
of them are running to make the to
haviorof their beneficiaries a fit subject
for comment iu ti.o interest of human
happiness,
All the world loves a lover, but lovers
make a serious mistake when they pre¬
sume too far on the strength of the
world’s regard for them. The polite
world loves its lovers exactly so long as
they are interesting aud agreeable. When
they cease to te so its sentiments toward
them take the form of anxiety to have
them married, which may indeed lie so
extreme as to result in practical efforts
to put them in the way of pairing, but
which is more apt to take the form of
what is vulgarly known as the col. i
shoulder, I-overa who are intelligent
and who are disposed to make them¬
selves agreeable ought to to exception¬
ally charming. They are enveloped in n
pleasant blnzo of sentiment which tnalt -
them interesting. So long as they ate
nice, all kind people are in a conspiracy
to indulge them and make thorn il.i,.!
that life is lurid > ! th rose tints. Tina,
politeness is the more appreciated to
cause it is thought to involve especial
self sacriflo, and whatever they do for li.
community’s amusement is rated atone
its ordinary value because they hau
done it.
Ail the worse, then, when lovers re
gard themselves as temi«oraiily exempt
from the ordinary obligations of polite
ness, and abandon themselves to spoor¬
ing and mutual ateorption. The sort of
courtship that goes on for hours behind
cloned doors, that insists ujsm seclusion
and resents a third person, that thinks
first of tho beloved object and not at all
of any one else—this may do for a six
weeks’ intermission between maidenhood
and marriage; but long engagements
should to conducted on radically differ¬
ent lines. Was there ever a dearer sweet
heart than Lorna Doone, whose maidenly
reserve allowed John Ridd one kiss aday
and no spooning whatever? And do yon
remember Mary Garth, so true to her not
any too eligible Fred, and yet so straight
and strict with liereeif ? Engaged or not,
she must surely have been a welcome
companion in any house, Fred or no Fred.
And again that dame in silver gray who
married John Halifax—be sure that her
betrothal was a modest and unselfish one.
—[Scribner’s Magazine.
Thf Great Gun* of the Xeyranete Nnvy.
The attention of naval and military
authorities has toen strongly drawn of
late to the remarkable difference in the
effective power of the heavy guns of
English made and those of tho French.
The 110 ton guns of the English navy,
constructed at immense cost, represent
the latest and most formidable type of
armament which Britain has produced.
If the calculations of the makers could
be realized in practice, the powero'f these
gnus would to astonishing. They are 48
feet 8 inches long, lftj inch tore, intended
to sustain a charge of .960 pounds of
powder, carry a projectilo of 1,800
pounds, with a muzzle velocity of 2.128
feet per second, equal to penetration of
almost 84 inches of wrought iron. Sev¬
eral trials of these guns have been made
with charges much below the maximum,
and in every instance the guns have been
so much injured as torenderit dangerous
to subject them to full testa. The latest
trial was that of the ilO ton guu of l ire
war ship Sans Parvil, at Shoeburynesa.
with a moderate charge of powder. The
result was the bore of the gun was found
to have dropiped, and also to have become
laterally deflected. This is much to be
regretted, for the gun Is a magnificent
specimen of mechanical construction.
In France the great company known
as the Forges et Chautiers de la Medi
tevranee, at Havre, under contract with
tlie Japanese government, have produced
some large canet guns for the war vessels
of that nation, which must te conceded
to stand at the present time in the front
rank. Japan may to said to beat th«
world in the actual power of her heavy
gur.s. They have l>een subjected to the
severest tests, no expense having toen
spared in these trials to render them sure
and effective. Each round fired cost
f2,000, and some $40,000 in all were spent
for the purpose. These guns weigh 66
tons, 124 inches bore, 41 feet 8 inches
length, maximum weight of projectile
1,084 pounds, powder charge 562.3
pounds, muzzle velocity 8,262 feet per
second, penetration ef wrought iron
45.16 inches, maximum range over 18
miles. Twenty rounds were find with¬
©nt the least st injury ta er carriage*
Thera are wonderful
that the Breach
BUSINESS FOR WOMEN.
SUGGESTIONS FOR THOSE WHOM
NECESSITY COMPELS TO LABOR.
Possible Openings ttt Rcelf Hands
and Willing Heart .-Great Talent*
! Are Wot RseenUnl, ns Many iplea
Show.
U ** not onl T no k *P* * disgrace for
women to work, but also a manifest need,
writes Bertha Greene Lockwood, since so
many ot them have to earn not only their
sugar money, but their bread and butter
money as well. Much has been done in
fi,uii “K openings for them, but the move
ment h-nds b» much in one direction,
Kver y woman does not possess artistic or
library talent that produces remunerat
lve rtwlltfl - e ^ry one a taste for
dw ‘P study, and to some active spirits
confinement and sedentary habits are
alm0f,t unbearable. For these there are a
number of employments waiting, if they
arP wise'euough to invent them, ot will
«11 them when the need of them is sug
grated.
Our luxury of buying catsup from the
grocery store sprang from a little thing.
An old German farmer’s tomato vines
yielded beyond all demand for the fresh
fruit. The frugal wife declared that not
one should waste, so die made catsup
until the jars were too numerous to keep,
and began giving them away to friends.
The next year orders came pouring in,
not only from friends, but from many of
whom the old people had never heard.
The outcome of it was the largest factory
for making bottled sauces in the world.
When we consider the unsatisfactory
laundering with which most people have
to struggle, and the delicate handling
that expensive flannels require, it seems
indeed that a good income would rew ard
tlie woman who would make a specialty
of caring for that part of the washing
atone. Provided with borax and line
white soap for baby’s dainty skirts and
fluffy jackets and blankets, and with a
bottld of ammonia for heavier blankets
and shawLs, aud above ail an understand¬
ing of the right temperature for tho
water, aud the quick, deft handling, pat¬
ting, and stoking, she would toe a wel¬
comed assistant to the overworked and
overworried housekeeper. The embroid¬
ered linens also require more care and
delicacy of treatment than the average
laundress usually gives them, and tho
specialist might include them in her list.
Another occupation suggests itself by
the fact that silver cleaning and polish¬
ing require more professional knowledge
than most housekeepers possess. Thera
is a valuable recipe for a sort of recoat
ing that jewelers use when the silver
needs polishing, which might be easily
procured. Powder is all that is required
for ordinary cleaning. Sponge, soft cot¬
ton, and flannel complete the outfit Tht
care of tlie beautiful, expensive lamps
now so favored might belong to this
service, also tho picture frames, chande¬
liers, and mirrors.
Provided with a bellows, sponge, old
pieces of silk and soft cotton, a bottle of
furniture polish, and a knowledge of the
different stains, varnishes, and enamels,
one might offer her services for the clean¬
ing and repairing of furniture. Indeed,
quite a field offers itself in pianos atone,
for it is well nigh impossible for the
housekeeper to keep them free from dust,
and the professional tuner pays little at¬
tention to their cleanliness. With this
work one might include wall paper clean¬
ing and patching. Sharp scissors, a roil
of cleaner s dough, and the permission
to match papers in some well furnished
paper store, are all the requirements.
Housekeepers would soon consider suc¬
cessful workers in these specialties a
necessity, especially where there is ex¬
pensive furnishing, or little lingers te
soil, break, and tear.
These housekeeping industries may
also to made timely. In house cleaning
teaaon the repairing and cleaning of
curtains, drapes, and rugs, the recover¬
ing of cushions and stools, and the de¬
vising, turning, changing, and inventing
for new and artistic effects with the old
furniture, are mattere to be carefully
considered. Indeed, one might make
house cleaning itself the specialty, and
engage a number of assistants to wield
scrub brush and broom. Engagements
could to made three months in advance.
Following this is the fruit season, which
lasts late into the fall. Because of the
large orders during the whole season,
the specialist could procure fruit, sugar,
cans, and all requirements from the com¬
mission houses at wholesale rates, thus
making her services doubly desirable. In
the winter season cooking pumpkin and
hominy, rendering leaf lard, making
mincemeat, fruit cake, and plum pud¬
dings and all such things that suggest
themselves will keep the ball rolling.
It is surprising that some enterprising
woman does not see clearly that Santa
Slana needs an agent. With samples,
circulars, prices, and above all sugges¬
tions of a hundred unthought of treas¬
ures for her stock in trade, she could soon
make herself a place with both dealers
and customers, and her sphere would
ultimately extend to weddings and birth¬
days.
A successful occupation might belong
to the woman who would make a spe
cialty of manufacturing potpourri and
sachet powders. A very superior form
tda for the potpourri is: One pound of
rose leaves, two of powdered orris root,
four ounces of vanilla bean six of ton
qua bean and one each of cmnamon,
verbena, allspice, and dove powder. In
making sachet powder omit the rcee
leaves. This would be especially lucra
tive to anyone having a rose garden.
A recent eastern advertisement says:
“Send some pieces left after cutting your
dress and we will make your buttons
and return them quick by witted next mail.” Why
can not some woman make
just such an offer near her own home ?
A supply of button molds in all sizes,
from the factories. A card to all
dressmakers, and the quick, neat filling
01 *
Not one month, or three, or six, can
build up a large busiaera of any one at }
these namedj but if jg lha faithful ***"** ami
I^o net of *bi‘ Vm t« an
Rome, July io. Some additional
i commuiiichtb i.s ii<m tellable sources
in regard U* ibe t rUis in tiie St. Peter’s
pence have ju>t come to hand.- It is
known that the i*ope has dtemissed
Mgr Fotebi and the old administra¬
tion on account of the biases unstained
by St. Peter’s pence and to«-au»e of im¬
prudent inv-f-tuiei.lt- and tonne which
bad bten made under his administra¬
tion. It is now known that last winter
Mgr Folchi, in i id* t to lavetheJBaneo
41 Rotna, in which the 'atican-held 10,
OoO out of 12,W (I shares b<e>dtf> other
srcnriiies, end. avored to estat.lish
banks first in Paris aud in London and
afterward in Rome, Berlin ana New
fork,
NOT SUCCESSFUL
In this he was not successful, aud it
was thought that the fall of Mgr Fol
chi had put every thing in peri). When
Mgr FiQelii ti-ok over the administra¬
tion of the va i. an final Cet he had un¬
der his control abm,; L-',OOttOtiO lire He
left after eight years' edminh train n
aliour 31,(00,000 lire, of wbi.h, how¬
ever, 6 000,000 are still in danger, a* it
consists of loans made to Roman
princes anu of a larges mount of dt pre
ciateu securities At the same time
Mgr. Folchi has i>«id over each year to
the pope the sum of 12,U 0 lire to cover
the extraordinary expenses of the Vat¬
ican Consequent I> Mur Folchi’s ad¬
versaries can oniy leprosch fi-m vith
making imprudent investments and
with the affair of the Catholic banks.
cuiUiiiutni u« Omt n.
Charleston, S. C., July 7.~The low
oticeof cotton is vaunifig great dissatis¬
faction among tho fatiui-.rs in this state
and various piopxsit.obd have tot-a
made to limit the protection—by de¬
crease of the acreage, by plott ing upon
one-fourth of the present growing crop
and by oilier ih vu es. The Fanners’
Vllianee of Marlboro county ip tto*
state h .* adopted the following res la
liout:
1, That ve pledg. ouiaelvn to tilirl
only ton acres of cotton to the- l airse i t
1893; provided we, can get iho co-opera v
•ion of all the cotton states, so as to de
crease the production of cotton and so
obtain due reward fur oar labor.
2. that we request the Sttte alliance
'o call for a convent! m of the cjftoa
growers of ilia Houtb, ir.e. pective of
-lass or color, to meet not later than
Uecemtoi 1 next, to consider the same.
The Stat. alliance will mi et at Spartan¬
burg, July 22, and will probably take
action on the subject.
Should Como to Florida.
Cape May Point, N. J., July 8.—The
president was disappointed iu his first
ocean tilth again this m .rning. A
northeast storm set m during the night,
and to-day a (.aril, steady, persistent
rain was falling aud ihe air a os cold
and penetrating. The president re¬
mained within doors, seuidrnz and re¬
ceiving a few telegrams and dictating
several letters to las stenographer.
iho president played billiards with
Mrs. Gimmick iu the afternoon, and
fayed indoors all da v.
Rklti'i Tuinuull.
New York, July 8 —The Atlas line
steamer A!vena, which arrived here
from Jennie and other West India ports,
brings tome inle esling Haylian n. wB.
The Aivena left Jennie June 20, and
there were then indications that the
black republic w. uld soon t-e the Beene
of another bloody rebellion. Jennie te
in (he southern part of Hayti, where
Hippolyte nossesve t his strongest sup¬
port in n ie. ting (be presidency from
Legitime. At present, however, that
stciion of ihe island is bitterly rpprged
(o Hippolyte and there are lrud ruutter
iugs against his rule So strong is the
optiobit.on to the president that an out¬
break is apt to occur any moment
Many of the residents are so fearful of
• he impending insurrection that they are
leaving in ali haste.
C Icammioa * wk appraisers.
Atlanta, Ga., July 6.— Judge New
nan, io the United Buies district court
to-day, rq pointed J. B. Bill, Joseph A.
U. and S. 11. W heeler appraisers for
Citicamsgua and Chattanooga national
park progeny. Tl.is roveis 7 500 acres,
> mbiucing P.6 ts perute tr etc of land.
Sneculatotb ha- e put up the value of
this profit rty to exorbit r.t figures, and
some recent pint hasete win be out of
money by the w..tk ui ti.iae appraisers,
i'he appropriation for the para was
$230,000
U»«J» Naval Asa*. m V .
v A SHINGTON July 7. The board
”f visiters !o Annapolis has made its
report 'o the Navy Department. They
lecou.rneuJ tirat the age of admission
to the naval academy be fixed from 15
, 8 yP » Vr , instead of from 15 to 20, ac
(i h t|ie exiting tew ; that the
. providing a donation . .. of . one year’s ,
tf>a toYi amounting to $950, to cadets
oot entering tlie service at the end of
the six years’ eour,e he repealed ; that
.very cadet shall be ai-p intel one
' e ' ,T m adv IKe ot ‘ t a ” R ’ xcept
when, by , reatoii of death or other
cause, a vacancy occurs which canuot
n e provided for hv Mich appointment
tivient in either conduct or studies aud
recommended for discharge by the
“»“*r“r po uted m the 1 scadeniy, or appointed " rz
io any place in the navy until his class
^, al i have } e ft the academy and
their nrwrafiratom