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THE QUEEN’S BEDROOM.
Private Apartnenta of the Woman Who
Reiffnn Over Great Britain.
There are three rooms in Bucking
ham palace which have perhaps ex
cited more curiosity than all tho rest
of the apartments put together—viz,
the royal bedchamber, the dressing
room and the small room opening
from the “white drawing room’’ and
known as the queen’s private closet.
Most people when they think of
the queen’s bedroom have visions of
stately grandeur, in which bedsteads
of gold vie for supremacy with jew
eled carpets, impossible tapestries,
fantastic furniture and other elabo
rate adornments. In reality, how
ever, the queen's bedroom is surpris
ing in its plainness.
Both the bedstead and the furni
ture are of tho simplest form imagi
nable. But, though the room is seem
ingly so unpretentious, there are in
numerable articles so costly and dear
to tho queen that money could not
possibly buy them. In the first
place, the photographs and pictures
of the prince consort stand out con
spicuously on every hand. Tho room
is full of them, for none of her maj
esty’s possessions appeals so power
fully to her heart as do these. Each
one has its own history, and in tho
mind of tho queen are hidden un
speakable memories in which these
all have their little part and lot.
The queen’s bedroom, more than
any other room, is, in this sense, her
chief treasure house. For this rea
son imperative orders have boon ■
given by tho queen herself that on ■
no consideration must her bedroom
and dressing room bo shown to the
public eye.
In the top hand corner of tho
white drawing room is a secret
spring, faced by a magnificent cabi
net and surmounted by a costly mir
ror. Even a close scrutiny of tho
wall would scarcely reveal tho fact
of what lies beyond. But tho initi
ated hand can in a moment effect
a miniature transformation. Ono
touch, and cabinet, mirror and all
open intact into a smaller room be
yond. This is tho queen’s private
closet. Tho carpet herein is sacred
to royal feet. No visitor or guest
outside tho pale of tho royal family
is suffered to tread tho precincts of
this room. It is used exclusively by
her majesty and those members of i
her family who are going with her ;
into tho throneroom to assist in re
ceiving foreign embassadors and
those distinguished members of tho
aristocracy who aro privileged to bo
presented to royalty.
Tho royal closet is tastefully if
not luxuriously furnished and con
tains, among several other interest
ing art treasures, a magnificent col
lection of enamels. 'Tho subject of
one is “The Holy Family.” It is
placed immediately over tho door
way and is tho largest enamel
known. It is this secluded corner
also which furnishes tho abode of
the most magnificent collection of
cabinets in tho palaeo. There is one
cabinet of inlaid pebbles, withormo- I
lu carvings and jardinieres of fruit
in the center, which can scarcely bo
matched anywhere. There aro also
two cabinets of the most exquisite
workmanship.
Crimson silk forms thoclothing of
both walls and furniture, tho frames
of the latter being overlaid with bur
nished gold.—Philadelphia Press.
Camera and Microscope.
The camera, in conjunction with
the microscope,reveals some remark
able facts. The microbes or germs
of disease can easily have their por- j
traits taken, though at a low compu
tation it would take 300,000,000 of
them to cover a square inch. Seven
complete portraits of persons have
•been produced in the space occupied
by tho head of an ordinary pin, so
that 10,000 could be included in one
inch square. Another great feat in
microphotography, as it is called, is
that of the Lord's Prayer inscribed in
a space the size of one oue-hundred
and-fifty-thousandth of a square
inch. The height of each letter was
but one one-ten-thousandth of a lin
eal inch; therefore the space occu
pied by a letter such as u or n, which
is as wide as it is high, was actually
no more than one one-hundred-mil
lionth of a square inch.—Chambers’
Journal.
The Rejected Article.
I have often wondered if there
lives a man who can truthfully say
that the first article that ho wrote—
his maiden effort—was accepted by
the first editor to whom it was sub
mitted and printed, without modifi
cation, as written. I am, of course,
referring only to an outside contri
bution and not to an article written
to order. If so, I should like to
meet him, to grasp him by the hand,
and, on behalf of my brother tyros,
ask him how it's done? Proba
bly I should privately entertain at
the same time very strong doubts of
that young man’s veracity.—Cham
bers' Journal.
The most ancient inscriptions date
events from the year of the acces
sion of the monarch under whose di
rection they were prepared, just as
at present the laws of a British sov
ereign are dated in the year of the ,
reign.
THE LISTENER.
James G. Blaine, Jr., has become an ex
pert golf player.
The assets of Andrew Carnegie are plac
ed at $20,000,000.
Henri Durant, the founder of the Red
' Cross movement, is in a .Swiss hospital,
sick and in poverty.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British em
bassador to the United States, is still in
England on leave of absence.
It is said that Arthur Bewail. the Dem
ocratic vice presidential candidate, has the
| best vegetable garden in Maine.
Richard McGriff of Deerfield, Ind., and
John McGriff of Geneva, Ind., are twins
who have j ust celebrated their ninety-third
, birthday.
William Bills of Norwich, Conn., was
the fattest man at the clam bake of the Fat
Men's association of Westerly, R. I. He
weighs 335 pounds.
Henry A. Russell, the oldest letter car
rler in Newark, resigned after 31 years of
active service, 29 of which were spent in
plodding over one route.
Frederick Lockwood of Bridgeport,
: Conn., has bequeathed 520,000 to a boys'
j club, providing a similar amount is raised
from other sources within five years.
J. H. Davis, the leader of the Texan
Populists, lacks only one inch of being 7
feet tall. He is called “Cyclone” Davis
from his tremendous voice and breezy style
of oratory.
Felix Potin, who died recently, was for
many years the most famous grocer of
Paris. He gave a new word to the French
language, a special kind of spicy gossip
being called “potin.” He was well known
for his charities.
Philip T. Colgrove of Hastings, Mich.,
who has just been elected world’s supreme
chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, is
87 years of age, a native of Indiana, a
graduate of Olivet college and a practicing
lawyer in Hastings.
Dr. H. H. Hale of Detroit carries a walk
| ing stick the intrinsic value of which is
$3,000. It wan presented to him some years
ago by his friends in Edinburgh. It is or
namented with gold and jewels and the
head contains a fine chronometer.
James Louis Washington, a negro boy
of New Orleans, 8 years of age, is known
as tho “boy proacher. ” The New Orleans
Picayune says that he can repeat nearly
the whole of the Bible from memory. He
has preached in many churches of the
south and is always listened to by large
and attentive congregations.
The Rev. Dr. Lucius R. Paige, who has
just died at his home in Cambridge,
Mass., at the ago of 94, was said to be the
oldest Universalist clergyman in the world.
He was an active Mason and was of great
assistance to the order during the anti-
Masonic excitement. He was a frequent
contributor to religious periodicals.
Comparing Henry Ward Beecher, ''Ven
dell Phillips and John B. Gough, Major
Pond says that the two former were
more eloquent and had a greater power to
i hold their audiences, but that Gough was
j a more popular favorite for a greater num
ber of years than any other lecturer. He
lectured altogether 9,600 times to about
9,000,000 hearers.
CURTAIN RAISERS.
John G. Sparks has made a big hit in
"On Broadway.”
J. E. Dodson is interviewed oftener than
any other member of the Empire Theater
Stock company.
Maggie Cline has made a success as a
star on the legitimate stage in her new
play “On Broadway.”
R. A. Barnet is casting about for the
subject of his next extravaganza. He has
just completed “Jack and the Beanstalk” J
for Canary & Lederer.
Albert Chevalier isan omnivorous read
er and a great student. Added to this he
has a splendid memory which has never
been known to fail him.
“The Geisha” had its first performance
iat Daly’s theater. The principal roles
were enacted by Dorothy Morton, Violet
Lloyd, Edwin Stevens and Van R. Wheel
er.
Maurice Barrymore will shortly com
mence the rehearsals of his new play,
“Roaring Dick & C 0.,” which is to be
presented at Palmer’s theater, New York,
in November.
Jeff De Angelis has established himself
as a star in comic opera. His new distinc
tion is deserved by years of conscientious
! work. His first appearance in “The
Caliph” was voted a success on every hand.
Frequent comments have been made on
the undoubted resemblance between Thom-
I as W. Keene and McKinley. It is now dis
covered that Charles B. Hanford, the tra
gedian’s leading man and manager, is the
exact counterpart of Bryan. The company
refers to them as “the rival candidates. ”
FIN, FEATHER AND FUR.
Fur bearing animals are becoming so
scarce that the feasibility of breeding them
is being discussed.
The titanosaur, an extinct animal which
formerly lived in the Bad Lands, was 63
feet in length and stood about 38 feet in
height.
Hie tail of the kangaroo is the fleshiest
part of the animal. It is considered dainty
food when boiled in its own skin, which
afterward may be drawn off like a glove.
When a humming bird alights near a
flower from which no food can be extract
ed, it has been known to exhibit wrath by
excitedly chattering and tearing the flow
er to pieces.
The giant cuttlefish is a native of the
coast of Newfoundland and the north Pa
cific waters, and they aro able by their im
mense strength to seize a fishing boat and
drag it to the bottom of the sea.
A serpent in confinement has been '
known to refuse all food for a period of 21
months. A viper will live 10 months
without food and a bear 6 months, while
a horse will live 25 days without solid
food, merely drinking water.
THE HILTON FAILURE.
The failure of Hilton, Hughes & Co. has
demonstrated that a lawyer in a dry goods
shop is as much of a success as a gentle
man cow in a bric-a-brac store.—Washing
ton Post.
A. T. Stewart's great store has col
lapsed, Stewart is gone, his wife is gone,
yet 20 years ago the socialists were worry
ing for fear the Stewarts were our Aris
tocracy.—Wichita Eagle.
Albert B. Hilton, who was really “the
firm" of the old A. T. Stewart company
that failed recently, is 32 years old. He is
a member of the Manhattan. Riding. Law,
Democratic, Seventh Regiment Veteran,
New York Athletic, Merchants', Colonial,
American Yacht, Larchmont Yacht and
New York clubs. No wonder he didn't
have time to fool with business.—Minne
apolis Journal •
DORR’S GREAT MEMORY.
A San Frandwo Man Who Is a Living
Directory of the City.
Charles Dorr, a bartender in Colo
nel Coakley’s resort out on Geary
street, has one of the most remarka
ble memories that have ever been
mentioned in print. Ho has at his
tongue’s end the exact location of
any fire, police patrol or telephone
box in the city of San Francisco. In
other words, tho fire alarm card or
tho telephone book is useless when
ho is within consulting distance.
He has been in this country but a
short time, too, and has gleaned this
remarkable information by simply
glancing, as it were, at the written
schedules.
Tell him upon what street you
live and between what intersecting
streets and ho will inform you
with incredible swiftness the near
est fire box you should seek in case
of a fire or the nearest police patrol
box that would be used in case of
trouble. In fact, bis knowledge of
this city in the matter of streets and
numbers is absolute in preciseness
and comprehensiveness.
A party of gentlemen recently
made a wager of §4O that he could
be caught in the fire alarm and po
i lice patrol system of boxes extant in
the city. He was put to the most
trying test and camo out victorious.
The men who put up money on him,
it is needless to say, were not the
losers. The questions asked him
were: “If I live on Broderick street,
between Sutter and Bush, which is
the nearest fire alarm and the near
est police patrol box?” and “Near
what street is box so and so?” In a
flash the correct numbers would be
given.
Mr. Dorr can also give tho tele
phone number of any engine house
in the city and can tell you at a mo
ment’s notice what number to use
to call up any fire chief or marshal.
The marvelous retentiveness of
his memory is illustrated in any
field. Give him the number of any
street car in the city, and he will
tell you the street it runs on. Give
him a street, and he will tell you the
number of all the cars that run on
that particular street. Ask him
whore a certain house, numbered so
and so on any street is, and he will
say, “It is between such and such
streets. ”
Ho can tell tho nearest telephone
number and any house number in
the city. He will tell you correctly
the present number of the badge of
any policeman on the force, giving
you that officer’s name.
Write a row of 20 or more figures.
He simply runs bis eyes across it.
; Ask him a week or a month later,
and he will tell you the number you
wrote without an error.
His knowledge of the English lan
guage is meager, but he can spell
any name which ho cannot even
pronounce. In short, whatever ho
sees or reads or hears ho never for
gets, but can tell it as he heard it I
any time after.
Ho multiplies, adds, subtracts and
divides with wonderful quickness.
Ask him to multiply six figures by f
six figures, and he gives you the re- ,
suit before you have calculated the '
first figure.
Should a policeman tell him what
boat he traverses Mr. Dorr will in
form him what fire and patrol boxes ,
aro on his beat, and exactly where
they are located, and the police pa-;
trol box system is complicated, there
being numbers repeated over and
over again.
In his voyage here from Australia
Mr. Dorr astonished the captain of
his vessel by his wonderfully rapid
and correct reading of signals given
by passing ships. He will tell you
the street above and below any street
in the city. But to enumerate all
that his remarkable gift is capable
of would fill pages. He has acquired
this accurate knowledge, too, in the
most desultory sort of way— be
tween mixed drinks, as it were.—
San Francisco Call.
Few Sunstrokes In the Country.
“Sunstrokes are confined almost
entirely to towns, and principally
to cities,” said Dr. A. C. Fowler of
Atoka, Ind. “Cases of sunstroke are
i very rare in the country, and sel
• dom fatal. Men work in the broil
ing sun, when thermometers regis
ter over 100 degrees in the shade,
and very seldom have even to seek
I shade. Harvesting is done in the
hottest seasons of the year, and yet
the hands ire not injuriously affect
ed. To some extent this is explain
ied by the use of iced drinks and in
toxicating liquors in the towns and
cities, and it is partly due to the
sun being reflected from sidewalks
and houses in a city, while its rays
are absorbed by the earth in the
country, but these matters would
not seem to explain all of the differ
ence, and it appears remarkable o
me that there are no sunstrokes in
the country.”—Washington Star.
Cause For Thanks.
We can be thankful to a friend
for a few acres or a little money,
and yet for the freedom and com
mand of the whole earth and for the
great benefits of our being, our life,
health and reason we look upon our
. selves as under no obligation.—Sen
' eca.
CHOICE OF AN OCCUPATION.
An Important Subject Which Is Strangely
Neglected.
From the day tho child is born
there is one mighty motive driving
it to become a working unit in the
sum of human existence. The in
fant may be swaddled in purple and
fine linen, it may ba tossed by fate
into squalor and rags, it may be the
average everyday youngster taking
chances with half a dozen brothers
and sisters, yet whatever it is the
world demands its apprenticeship
and a certain share of its force sor 1
good or evil. Happily for the child,
ho feels none of that responsibility
which attends maturity like a shad
ow, and his early years are passed
in idle misery er idle happiness, the
young animal that he is. His (strug
gle for bread is wholly a matter of
physical craving. He sinks into the
gutters, or he rises to the comforta
ble level of a decent neighborhood,
with its background of loving par
ents, who protect and nurture him.
But, whether he enters this battle
ns a child of poverty or of riches,
his future occupation is marked out,
and “what ho is to be’’ has been al
ready arranged by those mental fac
ulties that are his birthright. The
formation of his character deter
mines that point incontestably,
and he can only escape having
an occupation by being either an
idiot, or, what is perhaps worse
in some instances, the inheritor
of too much money. But the
tastes of childhood are not to be
relied on in the choico of this oc
cupation, and tho baby of 6 years
who declares that he wants to be a
soldier is sure to change hs mind at
the more experienced ago of 12. To
i show’ how ingrained is this desire to
be something, one has only to ask
tho ever inane question of children
what they mean to do when they
have grown up—to bo told in the
most succinct and convincing man
ner.
Recently in a big public school
157 pupils were bidden to write on
slips of paper tho occupations of
their parents and also what calling
they meant to pursue as a means of
livelihood after leaving school. In
19 cases tho parents wero mechan
ics, but only 6 of the 157 children
chose mechanical pursuits. Eighty
seven of tho pupils wero girls, and
of this number 46 wished to become
teachers and 12 selected the life of a
waitress. Eight girls wero ambi
tious to become dressmakers, 4 want
ed to enter big shops and 13 aspired
to bo milliners. In no instance did
a girl express a desire for any kind
of housekeeping or domestic service.
Various motives actuated these
children’s choico, but only 4 wished
“for fame, ’’and only 11 of tho 157
wished “to do good in the world, ’’
while 24 wero influenced by tho be
lief that their selection would pay
well. Tho probability is that half
of these future citizens will find
their hands turn to a very different
labor from tho one they wrote down
in answer to this query, “What
means of livelihood do you intend
i to pursue when you leave school?”
One of the leading lights of Massa
, chusetts at tho primary stage of his
( career determined that life would
net be worth tho living for him un
less he could drive a milk wagon
■ when he camo to man’s estate, and
so impressed was ho with the charm
of that avocation that bitter tears
were shed when he was told he
must enter Harvard college first, and
• after that his father would see. Pa
rental vision, however, had never to
go beyond that point, for this pas-'
sionate love for tho matutinal milk
cart changed long before the time
arrived when the real choice of a
profession became necessary. But
it is useless to say the child is not
father of the man, and the inherited
business or professional talent crops
out before pinafores are abandoned.
The great difficulty is to drive it in
to the proper channel and give the
“instinct” a fair chance to develop
along the lines marked out for it.—
Boston Herald.
Ungracious.
Givers who bestow their benefac
tions in such away as to attract the
most attention are entitled to credit,
not because they give in that way,
but because they give. But if they
heard all ■tbat is said of their gifts
they would probably not be so well
pleased with themselves as they
sometimes are.
The story is told that a certain
very miserly man, who during the
greater part of his life had never
been known to give anything either
publicly or privately, at last bestow
ed a chime of bells on a church in
the town where he lived.
“What do you suppose he did
that for?” some one asked.
“Oh,” some one else answered,
“he did it so that he could hear the
ring of his money I”—Youth’s Com
panion.
Not to Be Thought Os.
Mrs. Jones—You say, Uncle Lem
uel, that you are out of work and
your family is starving, and yet I
understand that you have three dogs
about the house?
Uncle Lemuel—Yes, ma’am, but I
. couldn't ask my family to eat dogs.
—Vanity.
I
HOUSING OF THE POOR.
' The Wage Earner Has a Deep Interest In
This Subject.
i What are the wage earner’s spe
: cial interests in improved bousing?
• In the first place, this class is vital
ly interested in the conservation of
health. Good health means earning
i power, and as workingmen lead
i more or less of a hand to mouth ex
■ istence any loss of earning power is
a serious matter. Lord Beaconsfield
i aptly voiced this truth in an ad
> dress delivered at the opening of
some new blocks of improved tene
ments in London. He said “the
health of tho people is really the
foundation upon which all their
happiness and their power depend. ”
: Few realize the loss of productive
i energy through sickness brought
' . about by bad living environments.
Sir James Paget, the distinguished
■ English physician, estimates that
| the whole population of England be
tween 15 and 65 years old works in
each year 20,000,000 weeks less than
i it might if it wero not for sick
ness. He puts down the loss inflict
ed on wage earners at nearly $15,-
000,000 annually. He refers simply
Ito a purely preventable loss. Some
years ago the London health au
thorities instituted inquiries in cer
tain low neighborhoods to estimate
the value of labor lost in a year, not
by sickness, but from sheer exbaus
' tion induced by unfavorable sur
roundings. It was found that, upon
tho lowest average, every worker
lost about 20 days in the year from
this cause. One might go on multi
plying such instances, but it is not
necessary to enforce the argument
by cumulative citation.
. Wage earners are vitally interest
ed in the passage and enforcement
of wise sanitary laws. Bad sanita
tion entails proportionally worse
economic consequences to them than
to the more highly favored. They
are also more often the victim of
sickness and epidemics, fostered by
insanitary neighborhoods. The
workingman has a positive interest
i in using whatever political power
he possesses to secure legal reme
dies against uninhabitable houses
( through expropriation law’s such as
' those current in England and the
. measure recently put into operation
by the board of health of New Y r ork
city under the tenement house law
,of 1895. Who, if not wage earners,
are interested in the obliteration of
rookeries where the death rate
equals 73 in 1,000? Whatever pro
motes better living conditions, no
matter whether it comes from legal
enactment or private effort, will find (
support from wago earners who ap- (
predate their true interests.
Important as aro the physical and
economic aspects of this question, !
I they are not the sole, perhaps they (
aro not even the chief,
tions. Ethical issues have greater
ultimate significance. Many of our
moral and social ills are more near
ly connected with bad housing than i
appears upon the surface. Take, I
for example, drunkenness. How ah- ‘
surd to suppose that immoderate I
liquor drinking can be suppressed so i
long as people are left to live in I
houses where lack of elementary
sanitation saps vitality, while noise
someness and unattractiveness im
pel a search for outside relief. It
is entirely unjust to suppose that
only a low impulse to debauch or a
reckless disregard of family duties
leads wage earners to contract the
“saloon habit.” The utter dullness
and tho lack of individuality in tene
ment house existence often lie back
of the fatal temptation.
He Informed the Bishop.
A well known bishop, who takes a
prominent interest in everything af
fecting the w’orking classes, wishing
to judge for himself what a journey
in a workman’s carriage was like
took a ticket and joined the miscel
laneous crowd which fills these
trains on the Great Eastern railway.
After a most undignified struggle
for a seat, he found himself jammed
in between a navvy, smoking a
strong black pipe, on his right, and
an artist in house painting, smelling
strongly of his craft and carefully
balancing a can of green paint, on
his left hand. The good bishop, ap
prehensive for the safe balance of
this can and nauseated by tho very
unpleasant odors arising, was also
very much shocked by the bad lan
guage which garnished the conver
sation of his neighbors.
After a particularly strong expres
sion from the navvy, the bishop,
touching him gently, inquired:
“My good man, please tell me
where you learn the language you
have just made use of.”
The navvy replied, with a suspi
cion of pride in his tone:
“Learn it, guv’nor? You can’t
learn it. It's a gift.”—London Cor
respondence.
A Speck In the Eye.
Often a cinder or a speck of dirt
may be removed from the eye with
out injury or pain by placing a grain
of flaxseed in the eye. As the grain
dissolves a glutinous substance is
formed which envelops any" foreign
body that may be under the lid and
is easily washed out when it has
served its purpose-
IRISH NEWSPAPER CLAIMS.
Some Quaint Announcements Which Are
to Be Observed In Them.
The publishers of Irish newspa
pers designed for home circulation
appear to work on the theory that it
is wise for the conductors of a news
paper to let the whole world know,
not what it contains nor how exten
sively it circulates nor what advan
tages of publicity it offers, but rath
er the class of people who read it
and who and what they are. Thus
one who reads the published an
nouncements of some of these pa
pers cannot fail to be impressed
with their recognition of social con
ditions which get very little toler-
I ance in the United States. There
is the Roscommon Constitutionalist,
for instance, which, the advertise
ment declares, “enjoys tho patron
age of the clergy, gentry, merchants,
shopkeepers and farmers.” There
is The Northern Standard of Mona
ghan, which declares that it has “a
very extensive and rapidly increas
ing circulation among the Conserva
tive lauded gentry, farmers and the
general public.” Tho Galway Ob
server claims a large circulation
among farmers and commercial
men. There is The Leader of Naas,
in western Ireland, which appeals
for patronage) as “the recognized or
gan of clergy, professional mon,
traders, graziersand farmers.” The
Irish Cyclist and Athlete, published
in Dublin every Wednesday, is solei
for a penny, and this is the appeal
it makes: “Cyclists aro more or less
a moneyed class, and the
has an enormous circulation among
them.” The Irish Educational Jour
nal, published in Belfast overj r Fri
day and sold for twopence, claims as
its patrons “school managers and
inspectors, the clergy of all denomi
nations and the general public.”
The Drogheda is supported, its bul
letin declares, “by the mercantile,
manufacturing and agricultural in
terests, and, from the respectability
of its subscribers, is a most desirable
medium. ”
Tho Journal of Claro is published
in Jail street, Ennis, and is “tho rec
ognized organ of the gentry, the best
class of farmers, and the wealthy
classes generally of Clare.” It is
“well printed and has ably written
leading articles on local and general
topics—due attention paid to litera
ture.” Tho Clare Advertiser, which
is also the Kilrush Gazette, was es
tablished in 1856, and its announce
ment of its merits contains this sol
emn warning: “Advertisers should
: seo this paper before they select, as
fly sheets on tea paper are called
! newspapers,being but the cxcresonce
of literature.” The Carrickfergus
Gazette,
for a
High street aWrNorth
street, Carrickfergus.” indus
tries of Carrickfergus would appear
from the announcements to besome
; what varied, for they include “iron
l and wood, shipbuilding, yards, flax
> spinning mills, weaving factories,
j printing and bleaching works, trade
in shipping and four salt mines.”
Tho Armagh Standard makes a few
; claims to aristocratic patronage. It
announces that it is “extensively
read by the upper, middle and work
ing classes, and that it will continue
on its march of loyalty,independence
and progress, its circulation being
far in advance of any newspaper that
ever was or at present is published
in Armagh.” Under this announce
ment is another line signed by the
proprietor, “The foregoing is a fact
( which cannot be denied. ” The Wick
low News is published by the pro
| prietor of the Bray Herald, and it
circulates not only “among tho gen
try, the quality, the bench and the
bar,” but also among “tho auction
eers, merchants and traders.”—New
York Sun.
Continuous Wool Spinning.
A unique kind of machine has
been devised by the Woons ;ket
I.) Machine and Press company, by
which continuous wool spinning is
effected, thus rendering practicable
the supersedure of the mule in spin
ning woolen yarn. This spinner ir
built of 96 spindles in a machine and
can bo operated on the very highest
“Os stock or that which is medium or
low grade. And not only this, but
one such machine of 96 spindles will,
it is stated, spin as much yarn as
will a mule of 400 spindles, conse
quently saving floor space, poweu
and cost of labor, as the arrangement
can he operated by a lady in charge,
tho same as is the case with a cotton
frame, and the opinion of woolen
manufacturers is that by the use of
this spinner a mill will be able to ef
fect an important saving in the pro
duction oFits goods.—Exchange.
The Bankers.
No Christian sect, perhaps, is
more strict in accepting the Bible
literally than tho Dunkers. The
Living Church says that the ques
tion was once submitted at a Dun
kers meeting whether it was lawful
for the brethren to patronize or es
tablish high schools, and the answer
was in tho negative, on tho ground
that the Bible tells Christians to
mind not high things, but to con
descend to men of low estate.
