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J. C. HEARTSELL. Ed. and Pub.
VOL XI.
DREAM I NO OF HOMS.
It eamee to me often in silence.
When the fire light sputters low—
When the black uncertain shadows
Seem wraiths of the long ago;
Always with a throb of heartache
That thrills each pulsive vein,
Comes the old, unquiet longing,
For the peace of home again. *
I’m sick of the roar of cities.
And of faces cold and strange;
I know where there’s warmth of welcome.
And my yearning fancies rang*
Back to the dear old homestead,
With an aching sense of pain,
But there’ll bs joy in the coming.
When I go home again.
When I go home again 1 there’s music
That never may die away.
And it seems the hands of angels,
On a mystic harp, at play.
Have touched with a yearning sadness
On a beautiful broken strain,
To which is my fond heart wording—
When I go home again.
Outside of my darkening window
Is the great world’s crash and din,
And slowly the autumn shadows
Come drifting, drifting in.
Sobbing, the night wind murmurs
To the splash of the autumn rain;
But I dream of the glorious greeting
When I go home again.
—Eugene Field , in Chicago News.
A WEDDING PRESENT.
BY CLARENCE C. CONVERSE.
SMACK BROW-
NELL and Hugh
Morris, two chums
■ of mine,and I were
I roughing it West.
The camp we had
I selected for our
/a -r I headquarters was
si'"- 'I.7S far up in the wild-
V est part of Colora-
, i do, and only num-
f bered a baker's
dozen of old, al¬
A ii most tumble-down
IM log cabins. They
were stretched
along the eastern
edge of a deep end
‘ill picturesque ravine
along whose base its
sturdy denizens
sunk their gloomy-
cabin stood little looking shafts. Our
a removed from its
neighbors, up the ravine. The view from
its doorstep was magnificent. The rug¬
ged peaks of tall mountains towered at
the west, forming an admirable frame
for its grand sunsets; at the east lay in¬
viting green valleys broken by oddly
winding passes, while here and there
rose slighter peaks in fine contrast with
their emerald beauty.
We sat about the doorstep one night
reading the mail the stage had just
brought. I had two letters, Jack and
Hughes, each one. Hugh finished his
first, and when I had read mine I saw he
was regarding Jack with apparent in¬
terest and amusement.
Jack's face was brightening more and
more, every word he read of his dainty,
scented little message. He was a hand¬
some fellow then. His head was crowned
with wavy, golden hair; he wore no
beard, his eyes were large, dark brown,
and his build was almost faultless.
“Is it from Dresden?” finally ventured
Eugh. Jack nodded. We smiled.
Then he turned one of the leaves nearly
upside down and kept on reading. The
next page, too, had writing up its side,
as we told by his tilting it; but that was
the end, and he exclaimed;
“Boys, I am the happiest fellow in the
glorious United States! Do you congratu¬
late me?”
“I never knew you two cared for each
other,” cried Hugh, jumping at the con¬
clusion Jack's words hinted. “And
tions now you ! Do say you really are open to it?” congratula¬
you mean
I also stammered something, I forgot
just what.
“Yes, the heart of stern Papa Hastings
was melted by my fervid supplications,”
cried Jack, tossing his hat into the air,
boyishly. “Now you two know the
secret reason why I have lost ten pounds
avoirdupois in the last three weeks. It
hillsides. was not my climbing these perpendicular
Th* old ogre wanted to force
Belle into marrying some lout of a lord
over there. It is a wonder I have not
gone stark, staring mad.”
He opened the little billet-dcux and
read: “ ‘His name is Claverhouse, and
he has two or more castles, and is one of
les immortelles, and papa likes him
hugely, but I put my foot down against
marrying him. I would rather my— » J)
Jack stopped there, blushing hotly,
and decided not to read further.
I feel as good as I would if I happened
on to a ton of gold up in the hills,” he
exclaimed. “If we were in New York
I would take you fellows down to Del’s
and give you the best supper he could
serve.”
“But as we are not?” queried Hugh.
“Come in and burn a pipeful of boot-
top tobacco with me,” he laughingly ex¬
claimed.
He gayly led the way into our little
cabin as he spoke, and soon we were sit¬
ting around the shaky table puffing our
corncobs and chatting merrily about
Jack’s good news, a cloud of blue smoke
hanging over our this heads.
“Somehow subject suggests one I
have intended to broach three or four
times before,” said Hugh, after a while.
“No; it isn’t anything like Jack’s an-
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. FEBRUARY 18, 1892.
nouuoement," be Added, as we started to
jcke him.
Slowly h« knocked the ashes from his
pipe by striking it against the edge of
the table, and then tilted his box—that
cabin had never known a chair—against
the wall. He had an unruly mustache,
and he tugged at it as he said:
“Monti.”
“What of Monti 1” asked Jack.
“I am afraid he will do some mis¬
chief before we leave here.”
“Nonsense,” insisted Jack. “He is
as reliable as any greaser.”
“I hardly like his looks,” I acknowl¬
edged. “You remember I advised not
hiring him, at the first. I think we
should get rid of him.”
“But I am learning a lot of Sp ,nish
from him,” exclaimed Jack. “And we
three athletes need hardly fear one thin
greaser, who appears as weak as the pro¬
verbial cat.”
“I have heard you say ‘si senor’ once
or twice,” twitted Hugh. “I hardly
think you will gain a hoard of knowl¬
edge fiom Monti, and I say with Cad,
get rid of him. You are likely never to
see Belle Hastings again if you don’t; I
run a chance of never putting foot on
Broadway, and Cad the same. Shall we
give him his walking papers when he
appears to-morrow?”
“No, no," pleaded Jack, “I rather
like him, too, for his Castilian airs. We
have weapons. Let us keep him. That
he is useful you cannot deny.”
We finally gave up arguing with Jack,
and let the matter drop. Monti’s ser¬
vices were not dispensed with the next
day. He continued to tutor Jack in
Spanish, carry our packs when we made
our little excursions thereabouts, and to
religiously collect his pay at eventide
each day.
Thus did a week slip by. On one of
our rambles during that time, we came
upon a fissure in a ravine’s rocky side,
where we thought gold might be found.
It lay about two miles east of the camp
in a little bit of tlraberland.
We had worked a day or so in the
shafts sunk by the miners of the camp,
for the novelty of the experience, and
when we discovered this opening, one
of us suggested that we put a blast in it
and see if we could lay bare any veins of
precious metal. The proposition was
received with favor, and we settled on a
day for the experiment.
On the morning of that day, we set
out for the promising spot, Monti carry¬
ing a can of powder and other accessories
for the blast. Hugh and I took our guns
with us. We reached the spot in about
an hour and a half. Then Monti dropped
his load at the edge of the fissure, and
we started to prepare the blast. But our
drill was misring. It had either slipped
from Monti’s load or been left behind.
“Monti,” said Hugh disgustedly, “get
back to the cabin, as quick as your thin
shanks will carry you, and bring a drill.
Look along the ground, too, as you go
—you may find ours dropped by some
stone."
“Si, senor,” the fellow returned.
“We will take a little run down the
ravine for game while you are gone—
hey, Cad?” Hugh added.
“AH right,” I exclaimed.
“And I will try a snooze hore, mean¬
while,” said Jack.
He stretched himself lazily upon a
mossy knoll as he spoke, threw his coat
over the powder keg for a pillow, and
pulled at his corncob contentedly, It
was a pleasant spot for a nap. A stunted
little maple gave him shade; the stream
flowing through the rocks, ten feet dis¬
tant, sang a melodious, sleepinducing
lullaby.
“I should have bad dreams with such
a head-rest” said Hugh looking down at
Jack’s blond locks and smiling face.
“And I, too, senor,” added Monti.
“You won’t forget to put that pipe
out?”
“Oh, no,” laughed Jack.
We separated then. Monti hurried
off toward the cabin and Hugh and I
walked up the ravine.
“If we get anything out of that hole
in the wall, what do you say making it
into a wedding present tor Belle Has¬
tings?” asked Hugh, as we went on.
“A first-class idea?” I exclaimed.
“It may be a gorgeous dinner set.”
“Or a glove buttoner.”
“Yes,” laughed Hugh.
We went on a little further, and our
way was finally barred by a steep ascent.
I proposed that we return to Jack.
Hugh was willing and we retraced our
steps.
We said little. Each was on the alert
for game. A rabbit would make a very
acceptable stew, but not a single cotton¬
tail crossed our path. Hugh tugged at
his refractory mustache spitefully in his
disappointment as he preceded me.
A walk of ten minutes brought us to
the bend in the ravine where Jack
awaited us. When we turned it we bs-
held a tableau I shall long remember;
Jack lay sleeping quietly and over
him bent the panther-like form of Monti.
The greaser’s sallow face bore a fiendish
smile. He rested on one knee, and in
his right hand he held a burning match.
He had not heard our approach, and be
was on the point of applying the match
to a bit of fuse he had inserted in the
stopper of the powder keg on which
Jack’s head rested.
Hugh threw his rifle to his shoulder
and pulled the trigger. Monti sprang
back and fell with a low groan. I would
have fired if I had not just unloaded my
weapon. Jack started up and looked
about him in surprise.
“Your Spanish officious” professor was getting
a little too exclaimed Hugh
grimly, to him, as we came forward, and
“TELL THE TRUTH.”
he told Jack of what we had caught
Monti at, while I made sure that the
treacherous villain’s match had not ig¬
nited the fuse.
“What’s up here?” cried one of three
men, from the camp, coming upon us
just then. “We heard a shot."
Monti lay groaning and cursing by the
maple’s roots, and crying out that we
had tried to murder him. So I told
them the facts of the case; and Jack’s
pocket-book which fell from Monti’s
pocket confirmed bur suspiciou that
Monti intended to rob Jack and have the
powder explosion cover his crime. The
miners listened attentively to the ex¬
planation, and then one of them seized
the wounded greaser and started oil
campward, beckoning for his compan¬
ions to follow, which they did, after a
“Good by, gents,” to us.
“A miss is as good as a mile,” cried
Jack, shortly, picking up the drill Monti
had brought while we were away. “Now
for our gold mine.”
“You will not engage another Spanish
instructor?” queried Hugh.
“Not if I live to be a hundred!” re¬
turned Jack determinedly attacking the
rock, with an extra vim. “I once was
foolish enough to think only the story
book greaser was a villain. Now I
place no reliance on one of them.”
We drilled and blasted the rest of the
day, and that rock-pocket yielded
enough gold for a really massive solid
table-set for a present to Belle Hastings.
— Yankee Blade.
The Utilization of Niagara.
It is quite likely that the first large
contract the company will take for the
delivery of power at a distance from its
central station will be to light the city
of Buffalo. This will require 3000 horse
power. The present value of a horse
power $35 generated from steam in Buffalo
is per aunum. The company is now
willing to contract to furnish on its
grounds at Niagara Falls horse power
per annum of twenty-four-hour days at
these rates: For 5000 horse power, $10
per horse $11; power; for 4500, $10.60; for
4000, and so on down to 300 horse
power, for which there will be charged
$21 per horse power per annum. If
there be not a very great loss of power
in the transmission to Buffalo, It seems
very likely that the company will have
no difficulty in underbidding any con¬
cern now using steam as the motive
power for the electric lights, as the loss
by transmission is considerably less than
twenty per cent. About the use of
water power of the great falls in Buffalo
within a year or so there can be no
doubt. When it shall be brought to
New York is another matter, but about
that there are not so many elements of
improbability as to excite men to scoff,
for power has already been transmitted
electrically a great distance, and that
too with reasonable economy. At the
recently held electrical exposition at
Frankfort-on-the-Maiu, power to operate
some of the machinery was transmitted
by electricity from Lauffen-on-the-
Neckar, a distance of 108 miles. At
Lauffen there was a waterfall from which
a turbine was opened, and a dynamo on
the shaft of the turbine generated the
current which was transmitted to Frank¬
fort over a wire one-sixth of an inch in
diameter. It was found here that the
loss in transmission was only twenty-five
per cent. Therefore it is likely that the
power can be transmitted four times the
distance without a loss so great as to
make the scheme impracticable. When
it does reach the great city, and by the
water which leaves its natural channel
for a brief space in the Niagara River,
our streets lighted, our factories run, the
machine of the seamstress kept in motion,
and the very drill the dentist uses to
bore our teeth impelled by it, then we
shall more than ever feel that around the
earth has been placed a girdle, a living
belt that throbs and pulsates at the
bidding of science, an encircling band
rich in the potentialities of mighty but
well regulated movement.— Harper's
Weekly.
Fee of $200 for Advice of One Word.
Not long ago Mr. Morris Butler, sob
of John M. Butler, who had just arrived
home from an evening party at 2 o’clock
in the morning, heard a carriage drive
up to the house, and a moment later an¬
swered a ring at the door bell. A young
man of handsome face and energetic
manner blurted out without ceremony:
“What States can cousins legally mar¬
ry in?”
“I don’t know,” said Mr. Butler, as
soon as he could recover from the ef¬
fects of his visitor’s bluntness, “but I
will ask father.’’
He went up stairs and, after much
knocking, aroused hi* father.
“Father,” said he, “what States can
cousins legally mairy in?”
“Kansas,” was the single word in re¬
sponse, between what sounded suspicious¬
ly like snores.
Mr. Butler returned down stairs.
“Well, what does ho say?” asked the
visitor.
“Kansas,” replied young Mr. Butler,
laconically.
“Thank you 1" The door was closed
and the young visitor was gone.
Nothing further was thought of the
incident until yesterday’s mail $200 brought
Mr. Butler a certified check for for
“legal advice" from his hitherto un¬
known client. This is probably the
highest rate per word ever $100 pud for legal
advice. It divides into per syllable
and $33.33 per letter .—Indianapolis
ifwi.
THE I’.iKil AND GARDEN.
BONE MANURE FOR HENS.
There is phosphorus in eggs as well as
lime in their shells. The lack of these
materials in winter is often one reason
why hens do not lay well. We have
feed the commercial phosphate to hens,
mixed with grain, and they ate the first
almost as greedily as the other. But
ground bone is cheaper as well as better.
The gizzard will grind it so that the
hen will get most of the good available
from it.— Boston Cultivator.
ENSILAGE IN BARRELS.
An inquiry has been made in regard
to keeping ensilage in barrels, for the
use of poultry. It is too late now to
put up ensilage, but if the barrel is
strong and will resist the required pres¬
sure, there is nothing to prevent the
the storage of cut corn, green clover,
grass, cabbage or any other material;
but the pressure must be sufficient to
entirely exclude the air, as fermentation,
should it result, will destroy the con¬
tents of the barrel.— Farm and Fireside.
SPIDERS IN THE CONSERVATORY.
We often heard of red spiders in con¬
nection with plants, and what an amount
of damage is caused by them. But it
should not be inferred from this that all
spiders are injurious to plants. The so-
called red spiders which are harmful to
plants, are not true spiders, but are a
species of mite—small, indeed—but
mighty often in numbers and effect.
The true spiders, such as spin visible
webs and are found in dark corners
about buildings, are predaceous in their
habits, and live upon flies and such in¬
sects as may prove injurious to vegeta¬
tion, Their presence may not be appre¬
ciated, because of the prejudice which
many have against them, but they are
friends in the conservatory rather than
foes. They should not be classed with
the little mite known as red spider,—
Ladies' Home Companion.
THE HEAT OF A nOTRED.
There is one necessary element of
growth in the germination of seeds (this
will be fully explained on another occa¬
sion) besides moisture and warmth, and
this is air. If a seed is buried too deep
in the soil it does not germinate. This
is a matter of common experience, as
when land is plowed deeply or dug up
from a considerable depth, seeds ger¬
minate that have laid in the ground for
many years. Almost all seeds contain a
large proportion of oil,-and this is a pro¬
vision of nature for their preservation.
This oil resists decay and prevents rot¬
ting of the seeds. The manure from an
old hotbed spread out on the surface of
the ground the next spring will almost
always produce many weeds, and espec¬
ially grass and clover, the seeds of which
have remained sound in it from the year
before. The same is true of manure
heaps a year old.— New York Times,
COUNTRY BEEF CLUBS.
We used to be foolish enough, in this
neighborhood —Philadelphia, Mo. —to
sell all our nice fat beef to the butcher
for city people to eat, and we would eat
old salty bacon, except late in the iall
we would kill our winter beef. That
way is changed now. We have, in this
neighborhood and other neighborhoods
in this county, organized beef clubs,
which annually kill fifty to sixty beeves,
inside of a radius of eight miles, before
freezing weather comes. Usually eight
persons or families agree to furnish a
yearling heifer. Then some one is
chosen or agrees to do the killing, divid¬
ing and keeping of books, and is paid
by the club $1.25 to $1.50 for each beef
killed and thus divided. If, in case one-
eighth of a beef is too much for one
family, they either sell part or take in
another partner. We begin killing
about the middle of September, or as
soon as nights are cool enough thor¬
oughly to cool off the beef. We kill
yearling heifers because they make bet¬
ter beef than steers, and are not worth
as much money. Heifers sell at two
cents and two and one-quarter cents per
pound, gross. That makes our beef net
us four to four and one-half cents, and
gives us a chance to get rid of all bad
colors and low grade cattle.— Journal of
Agriculture.
POTATO VINE BORER.
In the past five or six years there has
appeared in this section, writes Dr. A.
G. Chase,of Kansas, an enemy of the po¬
tato that is seriously affecting the yield.
It is a borer, about an inch and a quar¬
ter long by two lines in diameter, pink¬
ish brown on the back, with a light yel¬
low, narrow stripe on the sides. Indeed,
I think there may be more than one kind
of these borers, although I have never
found but this one in the potato; but I
have found another and different worm in
squash and pumpkin-vines and in the
common “careless” or hog weed, as it is
often called. In the potato vine they
do their work chiefly from the middle
of June to July 10. They generally enter
a few inches above the ground and work
up and down, hollowing out the pith
and pushing their chips out through
the entrance hole, like the hiokory and
other wood borers,and the vine soon dies.
With the early crop of potatoes their
work does little damage, but second early
and late—unless very late—they reduce
the yield from one-fourth to one-half,
by checking the growth. In my potatoes
this year every third or fourth bill had
a borer, and many of the vines were
dead August 1 that ought to have been
iia vigorous growth. I am uot an entomol¬
SI.OO a Year in Advance.
ogist to recogmze the moth, or to hatch
the worm. I have thought that two or
three sprayings of the vines with Paris
green might prevent the laying of the
egg; or, what is more probable, two or
three thorough dustings with insect pow¬
der, but I have not tried either.— Amer¬
ican Agriculturist.
THE HESSIAN FLY.
The Hessian fly has more or less in¬
fested the wheat fields of many of ths
States during a period exceeding 100
years. It is an imported insect and its in¬
troduction about the time of the landing
of the Hessian troops in Revolutionary
times has led to its name.
Professor P. M, Webster,now consult¬
ing entomologist at the Ohio Station,de¬
scribes the insect as a small two-winged
fly about one-eighth of an inch long and
of a dusky color, appearing during May
and June and again in September and
October. The eggs are deposited on the
upper side of the leaves and the young
as soon as they hatch make their way
down the plant behind the sheath to near
the lower joint and there become im¬
bedded in the soft part of the stem. Here
they pass the winter and summer; in the
former case in the young wheat, and in
the latter case in the stubble. The adults
appear and the eggs are deposited at
dates varying with the latitude, being
earlier in the fall to the northward and
later to the southward. After the fly
has gained possession of a field no reme¬
dy is known that will destroy it.
Among the preventive measures are
burning the stubble, late sowing and ro¬
tation of crops. The idea of late sowing
is to retard the plants so that they do
not appear until after the greater part of
the fall brood of flies have appeared and
died, when, if sown with fertilizers, the
plants may overcome the effect of this de¬
lay before winter closes in. Pasturing
early sown wheat in the fall may destroy
many of the maggots and eggs.
This insect suffers much from the at¬
tacks of minute parasites, and Professor
Riley, of the Department of Agriculture,
has, during the year,imported from Eng-
landa foreign species of these parasites,
some of which, by his instruction, have
been turned loose in the fields in the vi¬
cinity of Columbus, with the hope that
they will become established in the State.
—New York World.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Don’t unnecessarily expose the horse
to storms and wind.
The best poultry breed is the one you
have tested aud tried and is best adapted
to your purpose.
In all cases of fistulu or poll-evil, it is
well to give a constitutional as well as
local treatment. A sore like these must
affect the blood more or less.
It does a team no good to let it stand
tied to a hitcbing-post,with the thermom¬
eter ten degrees below zero, an opinion
which everybody will endorse.
It is reported that there are in the
United States 10,000 bee-keepers having
500 colonies. A very prominent bee¬
keeper seems to doubt the statement.
Poultry raising as an exclusive business
has only in exceptional cases proved a
success, the principal dependence for
both eggs and poultry is upon the
farmer.
There are ringbones that cannot be
cured, unless* skilled veterinarian exam¬
ines the case; however, there is no way
to tell that, except by trying the usual
remedies of blistering and firing.
A reliance on old and tried varieties of
fruits is the proper thing for a novice in
fruit culture. Many of these old fruits
are as prolific and profitable as they were
a generation ago. Let the scientists and
the nurserymen do the experimenting.
Treat the dog well if you are deter¬
mined to keep him. Feed him such
foods as will satisfy the whole system.
We have little doubt that some dogs are
led to kill sheep because the system
craves for nourishment that it does not
get. grain
There’s not a farm where has
been fed, especially cotton or linseed
meal, but the evidence may be read in
the fertility of the soil. These grains
are so rich in plant food that the ani¬
mals take but a small per cent, in its
passage through the body.
If you know that dam and sire are
without weaknesses, we would say to a
correspondent, there is no danger in
close inbreeding. The trouble is that it
is difficult to know that. It is not to be
forgotten that our improved breeds are
largely the result of inbreeding.
Some men will plow and work around
a bowlder for half a lifetime. The
cheapest way to dispose of it, if it is too
large to be hauled off,is to dig a pit and
topple it over into it. We have seen
many an unsightly, bothersome stone
effectually disposed of in this way.
Pigs cannot he grown profitably on
whey alone, but when fed with cornmeal
and shorts there is a marked saving;
Seven pounds of whey .about equal one of
cornmeal when they are fed together, and
therefore when the former is worth twelve
dollars per ton whey is worth eight cents
per hundred.
A growing hog will, if of good breed,
increase fully one pound in weight every
day of its life. If it does this it is
pretty sure to leave a profit over cost of
seeding aside from its addition to the
manure pile. If it does not, dispose oi
it in some way, and get pigs that will do
this. There are several breeds that can
be fed with profit and the grades oi
these for feeding are as good as the pure
blood.
NO. 50.
NEWS AND NOTES FOB WUsiEN.
Tight sleeves cause red hands.
A bow-knot is a rage in jewelry.
Gloves and stockings correspond.
New handkerchiefs have no hems.
Lorgnettes are made with shorter han¬
dles.
More flounces in the near future, say*
the modistes.
There is a rage for colored leather belts
holding a watch.
Queen Margherita, of Italy, has just at¬
tained her fortieth birthday.
Russian fur-trimmed cloaks are the fad
among the women of fashion in Paris.
Cameos are very much in vogue and
are displacing diamonds as head orna¬
ments.
There never was a time when women
dressed with better taste than they do
to-day.
There are over one hundred regions in
the world where women enjoy the right
of suffrage.
Between the years 1590 and 1680 no
less than 3400 women were burned in
Scotland for witchcraft.
Mrs. J. C. Ayer has given her hand¬
some residence in Lowell, Mass., to be
used as a home for young women.
Marion Crawford, the novelist, says
that there is only one thing that a wo¬
man really hates, and that is being
bored.
Margaret Fuller’s pin cushion was ex¬
hibited and regarded reverently at the
Woman Suffragists’ Fair in Boston,
Mass.
The good people of the town of Dud-:
ley have presented the new Lady Dudley
with a beautiful diamond crescent valued
at $3500.
A company of women is running two
canning and preserving factories in Mich¬
igan. Not a man is allowed to work in
either place.
Mrs. Margaret R. Elliot is the first and
only instance among Wisconsin Congre-
gationalists of a woman being taken into
the ministry.
There is said to be more widows in
New York City than any olher city in
the world, London excepted, Paris
comes third.
Queen Victoria, of England, is a great
believer in the benefit of early bed time.
It is the odd night when she is up after
10 o’clock.
Dr. Helen Druskovitch, the first wo¬
man in Austria to follow a course of
philosophical studies,has lost her reason
from overwork.
Miss Leslie Colton, the young Amer¬
ican artist who is exhibiting in London
and Paris, has won her principal reputa¬
tion in the past two years.
$5000 The English Queen has an income of
a day, and yet she has had many
queer little experiences of fiodiug her¬
self penniless in awkward situations.
Mme. Albani, the prima donna, is a
French Canadian, and was born in Mon¬
treal, her real name being Emma La-
jeunesse. Her debut was made at Mes¬
sina in 1870.
There are but three places in the world
where women possess all the privileges of
voting which are accorded to men, and
they are Iceland, Pitcairn Islands and
the Isle of Man.
Dr. Concepcion Alexandre is the first
woman appointed to any official post in
Spain. She has recently been made a
member of the staff at the Hospital de
la Princesa, in Madrid.
Mme. Tateno, wife of the Japanese
Minister at Washington, can talk Eng¬
lish well enough to go shopping, and she
spends just at much time over it as her
American acquaintances.
The faculty of Wesleyan University at
Middletown, Conn., have removed their
restrictions upon gentlemen callers. The
ladies assert that they are old enough to
behave properly unhampered by rules.
Queen Margherite, of Italy, is a pretty
brunette who, though the mother of a
son now of age, looks as attractive as
when she was a bride, twenty-three
years ago. She takes great pains to re¬
tain her good looks.
For the girl who affects tan colors
there are, among other novelties, collar¬
ettes made of monkey, mink and fox
tails, purses and card-cases bound in pig¬
skin and brown umbrellas and fans with
almond-wood sticks.
Princess de Sagan, leader of fashions
and frivolities in Paris, who has contri¬
buted more than any other woman to the
fortune of Worth, the man milliner, has
a villa at Trouville that reproduces even
to details the residence cf a Persian
millionaire.
A remarkable family of eight old
women is living in the same house at
Texio, Sweden. Three are widows and
five are old maids. Their ages aggre¬
gate within a year or two of 700 years,
each of the women being nearly ninety
years of age.
Small bonnets have small ribbon poufs
and rosettes in delicate shades that bunch
up prettily in rosette forms, such as let¬
tuce green, apricot, Venus, pink, sky-
blue, maize, etc. Two or three shades
may be used, but harmony is always re¬
garded in the grouping.
In Cassel, Germany, turning has been
made compulsory in all the girls’schools. which
The Gossler school reform bill,
will be up again for discussion iu the 1
Prussian Landtag, proposes that turning
{la shall be compulsory it is in in Berlin, every girls’ school
Prussia, as