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SODA WAITER. INTERESTING FACTS CONCUR* ING ITS MANUFACTURE. Produced at a Cost of Less than Two Cents a Glass—Machines for Dispensing the Effer vescing Fluid. More than twenty thousand gallons of Boda water are drunk in this city, .says the New York Commercial Advertiser, durii g a warm day in summer. This is the estimate of a manufacturer who turns out 8000 gallons a day. In the manufacture of soda water as in that of ice ( ream America is ahead of Europe. Across the water they do not use the dispensing apparatus which is bo common in every drng store and con fectionery store here; they serve it' only in bottle and siphons. The business has developed enormously within the last half century. There are now about twenty-five thousand of these “foun tains,” as they are termed, gushing the popular elfervescing drink into'glasses and down the thirsty throats of people in this country. This estimate is also arrived at by the manufacturer upon the basis that a trifle more than fifteen phr cent, of the whole number of “fountains” manufactured are now in use. The big firm referr. d to has made more than lOt',oo 1 of these fountains altogether. A hundred different kinds of machines are now in fashion and kept on hand, costing from S7B to $4900 each. A good many in unique designs are built to order for customers. One sent to the London Exhibition last year cost $lO,- 000 to make; this was the biggest thing yet attempted, and rather astonished the eyes of the Englishmen. The name “soda” water, by the way, as is generally known, is an entire mis nomer for the effervescing drink. It was possibly given to it oy some obscure manufacturer, who wanted a name of his own in the early h'story of the business and stuck to it. The article as now used is simply water impregnated with car bonic acid gas—the same gas which op erates in the “raising” of bread or any thing of that sort. The ingredients used in generating carbonic acid gas for soda water are few and simple and have long been standard articles in the market of the world. The two necessary materials are a carbonate of some kind and an acid, by a union of which, with the carbonate, the gas is chemically evolved. Experi mentally, a great variety of acids and carbonates have been employed. For practical purposes sulphuric acid is now admittedly superior to any other, but as for the carbonate, pulverized mafble, whiting and bicarbonate of Soda are still competitors for favor. The gas is gen erated according to the American sys tem, in an apparatus for the purpose, the gas after its evolition from the marble being carried through three washers, where any impurities are caught off by additional chemical appliances. It is then put into the steel fountains, ready for transport, by a process especially de vised to suit the exigency. The regulation size fountain will hold fifteen gallons. Ten gallons of Croton water which has been filtered through charcoal, sand and gravel, are first put into it. Then the fountain is placed upon a shaking machine and the gas forced into it under pressure while the shaking thoroughly impregnates the water with the gas.- The fountains are made to stand a pressure of 500 pounds to the square inch, being of steel with block tin seamless lining, but th.e pres sure of the gas is but 150 pounds to the inch. The marble u-ed in the manu facture is the white snowflake, found up the Hudson and said to be the best for the purpose, containing ninety-nine per cent, of the carbonate of lime and mag nesia. When the water is filtered as thoroughly as it is for this purpose, the {rroduct in the fountain will keep for any ength of time, and an export trade is now being built up in the article.. fine generator of the size ordinarily ilsed here will make about 2175 gaffons of gas at a charge, enough to supply 750 gallons of water. The largest firm of the kind in this city controls now- about two hundred patents in the various departments. It manu factures not only “soda” water and all the appliances of fountains and fixtures for dispensing it, but also the fruit syrups, boxes and other details re quired, even shoeing their own horses. “Soda” water is kept on tap in- the factory for the refreshment of the hands, the same as lager beer in breweries, or ice water in ordinary establishments. Between three and four hundred men are employed during the busy season, from January to July, chiefly making dispensing apparatus and fixtures. After the Fourth the demands of those going into the business has been pretty well supplied and the work of the factory il cut down to the manufacture of supplies lor the “plant.” • “Soda” -water is also used about the factory premises as a fire extinguisher. The most popular flavoring for soda is the same as for ice cream—vanilla— about one person in every three calling for it. Lenfon ranks next and sarsa parilla next, after which the various flavors are about on a par as to popular ity. The ordinary purchaser of five-cent glasses of soda water does not realize that he is giving about 25Q per cent, profit to the dealer. But here is a circular of the above-mentioned firm says about it: The profits which dealers in carbonated beverages may reasonably hope to make can be readily inferred from the following ac curate estimate of the cost of manufacturing each beverage: One glass of plain soda costs one-tenth of a cent. One glass of soda water with syrup costs one and a half cents. One glass o' mineral water costs one cent. One glass of root beer costs one cent. One glass of ginger ale costs one and a cents. ' One glass of fine draught champagne costs four cents. Owing to the destruction of the cemetery of Waring, Germany, a removal of Beethoven’s remains was neceslarv, and the great composer’s skeleton was exposed to view. It was found that the cranium was unusually large, and that the teeth were flue and strong. The hands had quite crumbled into dust. The increase of population in Australia iast year was only three and one-half per cent., which is by no means as large as England would like to see it. The total population is 3,546,725. An Island in the Pacific Ocean Ruled by a Jersey man. Captain George Davies, of Vhe British bark queen's Island, has written to a resident of Wilmington, Del., an inter esting story of a visit to a distaut and lonely isle in the South Pacific Ocea*. This isolated spot in the great waste of waters is known as Palmerston Island, and is situated in latitude 18.4 south and longitude 163.10 east, being repre sented cm the charts of the wor d as an uuinhabibed coral reef, quite distant fr6m navigation. Upon this exclusive territory Captain Davies says that one William Marston, who claims to have formerly lived near Salem, N. J., reigns like a veritable Monte Cristo, lord and master of all he surveys. When . the bark was off Palmerston Island Captain Davies was greatly sur prised to see a boat’s crew put off from the shore and signal that they wished to be taken on board. It was at first thought that the guests were wrecked sailors, but when the small boat pulled under the shadofv of the bark the discovery was made that the little craft was loaded to the gu'n wale with cocoanuts and tropical fruits. The islanders were out on a trading expedition and apprised Captain Davies of tTieir d'etre to exchange their cargo for wearing apparel and other products of civilization not to be obtained on their lonely island. ff’he crew of the bark welcomed the strangers on board and sat around them in wonderment, while William Marston, fhe King of Palmerston Island, spun his yarn. He spoke with feeling of his old New Jersey home, and claimed that his parents are still living in that State some where. Twenty-five yearl ago he shipped as a seaman on the bark Rifleman, at San Francisco, bound, to the Tahita, one of the group of the Society Islands. He deserted the vessel directly after she had reached her destination and remained or> the island for three years. At the end that time lie migrated to Palmerstcn Island, where for twenty-one years he has been planting and growing cocoannt trees and selling copra, or dried cocoa nut, to traders who visit the island about once a year in the interest of San Fran cisco merchants. The population of Palmerston Island numbers about thirty-liye souls, all of whom save himself are naives of ‘cent islands who have made their homes on Palmerston and toil year after year in the cocoanut groves that abound t^ore. Captain Davies tookrthe boat-loa'd of island treasuies. Chief Marston and his crew rowed away in' the direction of their lonely home, and when last seen they were standing on the bank waving their farewells to the fast-receding bark. Thrilling Oriental Dental Operation. According to the latest intelligence from Teheran, there has been the great est consternation prevailing at the Per sian court because the Shah had been suffering from the toothache. An east ern potentate whose feelings are ruffled by things going wrong, whether, -in the harem or the treasury, or with the dinner or his majesty’s instruments of mastica tion, is only too apt to relieve his feel ings by making au example of some great functionary, and ordering .the instant decapitation of the grand eunuch or the Minister of Finance, or by having the cook soundly bastinadoed. In the present case, when the Shah had made up his mind to have the tooth out, and His Majesty’s dentist was sent for, the members of the court assembled round the throne in a state of fear and trembling bordering on frenzy. What the Consequence might be in the event of the operator drawing the tooth proving nervous o. unskil ful, did not bear contemplation. All present, however, had had the fore sight to provide themselves with what experience had shown to be the molt effective means of appeasing his majesty’s wrath; and wjien the Shah mounted the throne* in order to undergo the opera tion, the dignitaries one and all ap proached his feet, and, with a deep obeisance, each of theul deposited there a bag of gold. The court dentist was now commanded to approach the royal presence and perform his task. With astonishing rapidity and dexterity he armed himself with a formidable-looking instrument, and placing it between his Majesty’s jaws, instantly produced the unsound grinder from the royal mouth, not without extracting from the same source an involuntary shriek which struck terror into every heart. An in stant afterward, however, to the im mense relief of the court, it was clear that all was well. The operator was rewarded with one of the bags of gold, while his Majesty, who deigned to accept the rest of the pile, couferieJ on his principal favorite the unprecedented distinction of making him or her the envied possessor of the royal molar.— London Standard. * m • Aztec Gold Traditions. The lost races, who possessed some of the arts of civilization at least; have left their traces in this country, which show that they kne.w of the wealth that lay in the earth there. Down beneath the soil and debris of ages which cover the hard rocks with four to six feet of vegetable deposit their prehistoric tracks are found. Implements made of tempered copper, hard as the best of stevl have been found which indicate that they had worked for gold apd silver and worked in shafts which probably extended far out beneath the great depths of the lake, and there have been bits of gold and silver found that have been refined by peculiar pro cess: and in the traditions of the Aztec 3 are vague hints of a land where it is cold far away toward the polar star, where the earth glittered with gold. Perhaps it was the Lake Superior country that furnished the tradition.* I i there be a gold fe\ er, and it brings thousands of its victims into that coun try, they had best cross, the great lake and swing their pickaxes and build sluices in that country which stretches away from the shores of Superior to the Arctic Circle. Gold and silver are there like the great mines of the Indies the ex perts firmly believe, and . there are no title deeds to prevent prospectors from • pre-empting as many claims as they see tit.— Few York Sufi. v ».J A 500-acre farm in Essex, England, is bhid by the present owner at the nomi nal reDt of $5. A few years ago the same tenant paid $2500. • BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. A Russian Courtship—Keeping Him Busy-*-Not. for llimsell—Her .Mother had Been There, Etc., 11 Be mine!” said the ardent young Saw milegoff, - t In a voice with emotion quite husky. ‘Mv fondest devotion,oh, please do not sooff, Katinka Pojakaroluskif” * Techcrnyschevsky, my friend,” the shy maiden replied, “Your people are noble and rich. Would a Qolgiisoff’s granddaughter be a fit bride For a nephew of Maximovitch?" “ I care not a kopeck!” he said. "In my droshky I have you safe now, and I laugh At the wealth of a Klitkin or Overhaul osiiki, Gojavnik, or Pullerzedoff. “ You are worth more to me than the gold of Slugmiski, Brakemupski, or Sumarakoff! Katinka Pojakaroluski, it’s rigky, \ But I’m going to carry you off I” And this is the way the young Sawmilegoff Put an end to all furtherfliseussion, 'Twas a simpler proceeding to carry her off, Than to go on courting in Russian. —Chicago Tribune. Keeping Him Busy. “James,” said the grocer to his new boy, haven’t you got anything to do now?” “No. sir.” “Well, ketch some flies an’ stick’em on the fly paper in the window. "'—New York Sun. Not for Himself. Snarley—“l see you’re spending a lot money on that little place of yours in Surrey.” Snobley—“Yes' I wan’t to make the place—a—thoroughly fit for a gentle man, don’tcherknow?” Snarley—“Oh, I suppose you mean to let it?”— Punch. Her Mother Had Been There. Eight-o’clock a. m.—Mrs. Popinjay— “ Where are you going, Angelina?” 0 Angelina—“ Only just around the ■ corner to match this piece of silk, mamma.” Mrs. Popinjay—“ All right. I’ll tell Bridget not to have supper until 7 o’clock.” —Free Press. Agreed With Her. ). Mrs. Yeast —“Do you buy your eggs at Short counts’?” F«Mrs. Bacon—“ Why, certainly; his eggs can’t be beat.” Mrs. Yeast—“l know it; that’- the reason I don’t think they’re good. Not Wholly Voluntary. Mrs. Yan Prim—“l am astonished, Clara, that you should voluntarily *aliow Mr. Featherly to put his arms around you.” Clara—“lt wasn’t exactly voluntarily, mother; at least, considerable pressure was brought to bear upon me.”— San Francisco Examiner. A Practical View of the Situation. Lady Blanch—“l’m so fond of riding, I could almost live in the saddle! The habit grows upon one so, you know.” i ady Rose—“l wish mine had grown on me! I had to have it moulded to my shape, and I expect papa will grumble frightfully -at the cost when he has to pay the bill.”— Fun. Hope Springs Eternal. Mr. Tilbury Carter—“ That ship yonder is the Pontiac, bound for the Land of Orange Blossoms.” Miss Marie Gold (twenty-nine, des perate, and humming Mendelssohu’s “Wedding March” under her breath— “l should n’t mind being bound in the same direction myself!”— Pack. A Terrible Threat. “Vat,” said the collector for a little German band to a citizen who sat in his front window. “You no gif noddings for dot moosic?” “Not a cent!” repliea the citizen, with hopeless emphasis. "Den ve biay some more, dat’s all!” threatened the collector: so the citizen hastily gave up a quarter.— Epoch. A Singular Coincidence. Benson (entering Newport Casino) — “Where have you been, Ed?” Cathcart—“Called on that rich and hideous ‘heiress, Miss Smith. Thank heavens she was out.” (Exeunt twenty young men.) Miss Smith (at home next day)— “Strange that thirty-seven gentlemen should have left their cards last night— just the night when J was not at heme.” Time. Unlucky Fate of a Hotel Clerk. Clerk—“ Will you register now?” Lord Divvivian (taking pen)—“Aw, aw, James!” Enter James. Lord Divvivian—“What is me full name, Jeames?” James—“ Cecil Fauntus Victor Albert Quincy Burle gh Bacon \\ alvfcughan Warwick Divvivian, sixth Earl of Gil courtmage, me lud.” Lord Divvivian—“Aw, thank you, Jenmes.” —Mall and Express. A Stray Lamb. Village Parson (entering country editor’s office)—“You promised to pub lish that sermon I sent you on Monday, but I do not find it in the latest issue of your paper.” Editor—“l sent it-up. It surely went in. What wal the name of it?” Parson—“ Feed my lambs.” Editor (after searchihg through pap.er) —Ah—yeS —urn— H6re it is, * You 'see w*i’ve got a new foreman, and he put it under tne head of “Agricultural Notes,” as “Hints on the Care of Sheep.-*’ A Great Sale. On a railway train. Two men dis cussing a book that has just been handed to them by the newsboy. First Man —“That’s a great book, sir, a masterpiece of work.” %J Secpad Man—“l wonder how it is sell ing?” First Man—“ Selling likp whisky at a Montana picnic. Never saw anything like it. You see lam the publisher and •ought to know.” Second Man—“ Your information da lights me. lam the author.” First Man (with fallen countenance')— “Well, that is, it hasn’t had much of a sale yet, but I think it will have. Big risk you know, getting out this sort of book. "-—Arkanauw 'Traveler. Slightly Misu ml era food. “Yes,” said Miss Crushiugton, the celebrated exponent of society and emo tional drama, “I had a most successful tour in England last summer.” “Did you enjoy the trip, across the ocean?” “Very much coming back, but not so much going over.” “Were you sick?” “N not so very, but I felt badly and wished 1 hadn’t agreed to come. Wanted to back out, you know.” “I understand ; you felt like throwing up the whole affajr. ” “Oh, dear no! I wasn’t as sick as that!”— Merchant Traveler. Disproving Vital Statistics. There was a cold, hard look in her eyes and a baby on her arm as she came into the Critic office and sat down in the visitor’s chair, alongside of the editor’s desk. “You are the editor,” she asserted, confidently. The editor did not deny the charge. “In your paper not long since,” she continued, “1 read an article on the cen sus returns made by the police, and in it I noticed that the increase of population in Georgetown from 1885’ to 1888 was only twenty-three.” “Yes, madame,”said the editor, be cause he hadn’t anything else to say. “Well, it’s a base slander on our town, sir,” she exclaimed indignantly, and dis turbed the baby till it grunted. “Why, sir, on my block alone, the increase has been twenty-four within a year, and this one I’ve got is one of them.” “Yes, madame,” repeated the editor with striking originality, sticking -nis pen in the paste pot.” “Now, sir, 1 want to sue somebody for libel. It’s either the police or the newspapers.” J • - “The police, of course, madame,’’said the,editor, recovering his xvits. “i’s all the same to me. so long as somebody has to pay for it. Good morn ng. If any other member of the Georgetown Committee on Population call, tell them, will you, that I’ve been here?” and she went out haughtily with the baby.— Washington Critic. * — How Congressmen, Live. * » x Representative Long, of Massachusetts, in a recent letter to an editorial friend, corrects some mistaken notions as to the manner in which Congressmen generally live in Washington. He says: “There are a few persons of great rich’eS who now and then give entertainments, and live in an extravagant and profuse way, as some rich people do in every other community. But the great bulk of Rep resentatives, including noticeably nearly all those of controlling iuliuence, are men of limited means, who live -in a modest and simple manner. “On the whole, I should say that the instance of Henry Wilson, which you cite, is a type of the present majority of members. Our Massachusetts Senators, Dawes and Hoar, live quite as simply, one in a little tenement not better than bur' ordinaey New England parsonage, and the other in a boarding house, which you will not think extravagant When I tell you that, with the exception of my-* self, the rest of the boarders are meat employes, whose annual salaries range from #2,000 rapidly downward. Walking out with Mrs. Longat sundown last evening, we passed a modest door step on which~Vith his young childrelS* playing about min, sat a member who pointed to a suite of rooms as his lodg ings, and whose dress and manner of living are as simple and unostentatious as those of a Plymouth County farmer; and yet he is a millionaire—the richest man, I think, in the House; a Western lumber man. wise and hard-headed, and not ashamed, but proud, of the goad stick which he wielded in his youth, and with which he pricked his way to for tune. ■ “Among the leaders, Reed lives in the fifth story of a small hotel; Randall in a house that would perhaps yield a rent of s3o') or $100; McKinley, in two or three chambers; .Mills, in a quiet board ing-house; and so on through the list. The House is full of poor men who make no show; who are just such plain, well-behaved, temperate, churchgoing people as you and I meet at home; who go' afoot and drive no line teams; who ape no fashions; some of whom go to the few public receptions that occur in the winter, but few of whom are able or care to hold receptions or give enter tainments themselves. “Fine raiment is so rare among them, that an old suit which I am now wearing for the third summer has actually been exploited by the newspaper reporters, in the absence of any other sensation, as subjecting me to the charge of being ‘well-dressed;” and if Tom Heed should cover his shining head with a silk hat, he would lose r the Republican leader ship. The member who lives luxuriously is the exception, What is undoubtedly true of a few officials, especially of. some outside persons of great wealth, who re side and entertain in Washington in the winter and are advertised in the society oolumns of the Press, it is not true of the great .majority of the people’s servants.” Smallest Locomotive In the World. Henry Case of Gloversville, N. Y., has just completed what is said to be the smallest locomotive in the world that runs upon a rail or by steam. It is made of solid gold, silver, steel, and brass, and contains 283t> pieces. The weight of the engine is. pounds; of the tender 2 pounds';' length, bf engine -MJ inches; with tender, 12 inches; height, inches; gauge of track, 1 i**inches; diam eter of cylinder,.s-1(5 of an inch; stroke of piston, —piston head fitted up with sectional or ring packing; stroke of valve, 1-16 of an inch; length of main and parallel rods, 11 inches, connected up with straps, bolts, keys, set screws and boxes aronnd the pins; length of links, 7-16 of an inch; width of link, inch; diameter of [eccentrics, £ inch; diameter of drive wheel, 14 inches; diameter of truck wheel, 4 inch. It is fitted up with reverse lever, with thumb latch and, click-throttle lever, steam gauge, etc.* Itcan beruma mile in 22 minutes, drawing a miniature coach.— Nev Tori Sun. MISSOURI'S MARBLE CAVE. features that rival the GREAT KENTUCKY CAVERN. A Giant. Stalagmite Containing a Chamber 30 by 40 Feet, in Which is a Pool of Water. That Southwest Missouri abounds in caverns is well known, but comparatively few people are aware of the existence of such a mammoth system of subterranean passages as are to be found in the Marble Cave, the entrance to which is situated on the summit of the Koark Mountain,in Stone County, eighteen miles southeast of Gafina, two miles from the Taney County line, and three miles north of White River. It is true, nevertheless, that Southwest Missouri can boast of a cave containing a chamber 150 feet high, a stalagmite 300 feet in diameter at the base, 130 feet high, inside of which, sixty feet from the base, is a chamber thirty by forty feet, a lake fif teen feet in diameter, and a natural petrophone (if a new word must be coined), on which musical airs can be played; a chamber filled with the re- mains of animals, etc. The entrance to the cave is at the bot tom of a basin shaped like the crater of a volcano. The remnants are visible of an enterprise started some time ago for the removal of bat guano, of which there are thousands of tons, from the cave, but which failed because the transportation to market cost more than the fertilizer was rvurth. From a windlass at the top of the crater a rope flangs down. By holding to the rope w e reached the bot tom of the crater, Next, a twenty-foot ladder, almost perpendicular, and not fastened at the top, leads to a platform. From this dizzy height a ladder sixty five feet in length rests upon a nili in the amphitheatre, as the first chamber of the cave is called. The ladder is made by splicing together four long pine trees, and, although it is absolutely safe, one cannot descend it without fear and trem bling, especially if he allows his gaze to rest upon the depths below. From the bottom of the ladder a further descent of one hundred and fifty feet is made, which is so steep that the hands must aid the feet in going down. About thirty feet further to the southwest the bottom of the amphitheatre’is reached, from which the scenery is sublime and indescribable. Two hundred feet above, the roof spreads out like a dome, and 300 feet aoove and to the northeast the'crevice in the rocks, revealing the sky and admit ting a flood of light, looks like a rift in a dark, lowering cloud. The sixty-five foot ladder is plainly visible, and the visitor isthanklul that in descending he was unconscious of the great depths be low, but heucefo'rth he dreads the de scent with an emotion akin to horror. In portions of the amphitheatre the ef fects of an 'echo are startling. The con cave walls send back an echo many times louder than the original sound. The whole amphitheatre resembles a theatre in its general shape, the resemblance being heightened by a stalagmite called the Great White Thrdiie, situated in the centre of where the stage should be. . It is 150 feet in circumference and feet high. The top is shaped- like a dome', and two-thirds up there is a fringe of drapery extending around it, making a beautiful scene. The throne inside may be reached by a winding passage among the formations. The ne.xt passage to the right leads to a stream of water forty degrees in temperature, and a blast of wintry air. * This ice w r ater is pecu liarly refreshing alter the violent exer cise of a tour through the cave. The next passage is a remarkable one. It is 200 feet long* about tlie size of a barrel and almost perfectly round at the top. At no point of this passage is there room to turn around, and on returning one must crawl backward. ‘The passage is as straight as an arrow. It leads into an animal burying ground. The exit was so choked up with the dust from decayed animals that the chamber could not be entered. The bottdrn of the entire pas sage is filled with dust which, when stirred up, is suffocating, and hence great camion is required when exploring th:s portion of the cave. The chamber is filled with dried-up carcases of coons of all kinds, ’possums, foxes, and various other wild animals,some unknown to this zone, but no stench arises therefrom, the only inconvenience lifting the suffocation caused by the dust when stirred. There is a hole in a bluff down the mountain side through which these animals are supposed to have entered. No idea of the distance traveled over can be formed, but the proceedings everywhere are fraught with labor aud peril. Now we are crawling fiat in the mud; next we are straddling with hands and feet a chasm of unknown depth, and then we are descending a slippery series of stones. After two hours’wandering our guide said we had traveled two miles, but had not taken in half the explored part of the cave. In one portion of the cave is the registry room, the walls i? f which are adapted to the carving of one s - initials. A passage from this is called Lost River Canyon, a mile up which may be seen Springstead’s Throne, a forma tion 33 by 35 feet at the base, and com posed of beautiful statuary and drapery. The most wonderful feature of the ca- e, and probably the largest crystai ized formation in the world, is Blonde's Throne, so named from the discoverer. It is reached after numerous aud peril ous descents and ascents, terminating in a flat crawl through mud a foot thick. On account of the recent rains the floor of the chamber containing this wonder is covered with water shoe-mouth deep. Blonde’s Throne reaches from the door to the roof, a height of 150 feet. At the base it is 300 feet in diameter, but it grows smaller higher up, like a churn. At a height ot 120 feet, a cupola connects with the roof, being a stalactite formation. Sixty .feet from the base there is a chamber inside about thirty by forty feet, and in the center a lake fif teen feet in diameter, containing water from two to four feet in depth. The water is clear and cool, and is supplied by drippings stalactites above. The only inhabitants of the water are white, eyele-s water dogs. The cham ber and lake are reached by easy pass ages. Around the chamber are numer ous leaf-!ike formations hanging down ward, which being struck give forth a musical sound, loud, or soft, according to size, and in a high or low pitch ac cord ng to their length. By experiment ing a few minutes an octave was ar ranged on which various airs could be beautifully executed, the music rivalling' in sweetness the notes of the xylophona or Swiss bells. No cave can produce a greater curiosity than Blonde s Throne. — S’, lyjxlii Globe Democrat. NEWS AM) NDTIs FOR WO YEW P"ace veils now drop below the chin. Ail jackets have very short basques now. The draperies worn are airy and lightly ornamented. The women of Rhode Island pay taxes on #70,000,000. Percale and chillies in small patterns are much worn. With gowns of wash fabrics come. parasols to match. Blouse and pleated waists are in great favor just at present. A young lady of New York city keeps humming birds for pets. London and Paris costumes are re markable for the prevalence of green. The mother of General I’oulanger is a Welch woman, and eighty-four years of age. Miss Etta Ingalls, the daughter of the President of the Senate, has become a journalist. Very small black birds are seen among the other trimmings of black lace hats and bonnets. This year the graduating class at the Harvard “Annex” for women was larger than ever before. Several New York drugstores employ young women as clerks, and are teaching thenl the business. Upper-ten young ladies in London society have adopted photography as their pet diversion. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has learned to speak French, Italian and modern Greek since her marriage. The world of dressmakers and design ers have become history crazed in tha matter of new costumes. j Kentucky was the first State in the Union to give school suffrage to women. The law was passed in 1852. Ladies who find a veil trying to the eyes are wearing a veil with a fine esprit star on the very thinnest ground. A new shade of tawny yellow is tiger lily. It is seen in new tulles, gauzes, and piece laces for evening gowns. The latest fancy parasol has a handle covered with leather —red, blue, or white —and it is silver capped or mounted. A pretty sleeve for a house frock is a rather long single puff gathered into a band of embroidery just below the el bow. A golden bronze straw hat trimmed with hop blossoms, clove, and dandelion flowers run to seed is a fall offering oi millinery. Mrs. Maria E. Beasley, of Philadel phia, is a woman of extraordinary me chanical genius, and has made a fortune from her inventions. Borne of the new imported gloves are delicately perfumpd, and a London mil liner has set the fashion of perfuming choice hats and bonnets. Tan colored shoes are the “fad” of the fashionable on the other side, both men and women wearing them on occasions when they look out of place. It is well to remember that blouses of washing silk must be ironed alway on the wrong side, and care taken that the iron be warm rather than hot. Steel lace, as fine as cobweb, and in any color, collars and cuffs for women that will not wilt in the warmest weather, and are winning favor. A late fancy in Paris is the w °aring in the hair of tortoise shell combs aid pns witli lie ids of faceted steel flowers that look like diamonds by gas light. Sleeves grow loose and looser and are aften ornamented at top with a separate braided bit, to match which there are braided shoulder pieces and collar. Flannel is still the favorite stuff for tennis and yachting costumes, but serge and Jersey cloth are preferred by the best dresters, if expense is no object. Woolen gowns are made of special material which has a satin foundation worked all over in gold and colored silks. They are dressy but inexpensive. The dresses called and worn as Empire gowns look very little like those worn by the Empress Josephine, for many of them are parodies of that tasteful woman’s-at tire. Yokes of all kinds, square, round, and pointed, smocked and tucked, plain and braided, and half yokes, are all fashionable on children’s dresses and coats. Pale-colored gloves of dressed kid are the latest ianev. Goru-color, shrimp, teal, and pearl are ornimente 1 with stitching one shade darker than the kid itself. Amber is once more the rage, and a napkin ring of mottled amber, or a cigar ho der of the clear stuff, are among the newest, attractions of good jewelers’ windows. The word “obey” was left out of the marriage service when that church rite was performed, either by Dr. James Freeman Clarke or his grandfather, Rev. James Freeman. . • U Beads on some fans are now arranged so that when folded those beads on ttie edges of the folds make the letters of a name. When unfolded, the beads are lost in the general pattern. There are several women in New York who make a living going from house to ho ise, washing, combing and caring for the hair of other women who like it, but can’t afford a lady’s maid. The order of “King's Daughters” i 3 not yet three years old, bat it has more than twenty thousand members, aud has commenced the publication of a maga zine called The Silver Croat. Mrs. Blatch, the daughter of Mrs, Elizabeth Cadv Blanton, is making speeches in England in favor of home rule. She is an orator of unusual elo quence. and a very pretty woman. Bailor hats of white mull shirred on reeds of cards arouml the brim and crown are styli-h 1 . A bunch of some white flowers, daisies, or lilies of the valley, pla ed high up behind the crown,, adds to the effect. The average yearly income of the working womau of Boston is #260.07, j and her average expci a -s are reckoned j at #2ii1.30. There is ie tainlv not very, j much left over for incidental items, such, i as doctor’s bills, amusements and bt-okaatJ