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ilailc <f,01111(11 WenrS • f GEORGIA. John Grasse, the Sioux chief, says that an Indian’s head can hold only one idee,. He might have added that that idea is wrong. _____________ General Greedy, C hief of the Signal Service, claims that three out of four of the weather predictions of that bufeau during the past year were correct. General Boulanger’s popularity appears to be wauing. Jlis reappearance, last week, in the French Chamber of Depu ties, failed to provoke a single cheer. Mr. Stanley's last words on leaving Cairo on his, present African mission, were: “It must not lie supposed that 1 am lost because I canuot communicate with the outer world.” The report upon the French vintage says that the injury from the phylloxera seems 'at last to have been arrested. Since 1873 it has caused the enormous loss to France of $2,00!),000,000. Christianized Chinamen are becoming numerous enough in New York City to make a new quarter for themselves near University Place, and Mott street is rapidly being abandoned to the heathen. Germany has at la c t decided to make a bold plunge for colonial aggran dizement. As a consequence she has entered the combination with England to occupy the East Africa coast, and generally to smash up the Arabian slave trade. In a naval conflict with Great Britain, i Secretary Whitney says the fighting would resolve itself into an assault by our fast cruisers upon British commerce; and that with the vessels projected for | our new navy wc would hold our own in 1 an attack and defence. It would take a rran 200 working days of eight hours each to read the Cong re <- tional Record of the last session, provid ing that he read it at the rate of 200 words per m'nute. If we were as rich in statesmanship as in oratorical wind power this would be a great country. The value of old boots does not con eist wholly in their case. The leather has a distinct commercial value, and, what is perhaps not so well known, the nails alone pay for the old shoes. By means of magnets the iron nails and the tacks and brads are separated and sold. The absconding treasurer of Cleve land, Ohio, the hitherto highly respected Axworthy, used money to the amount of $-181,000 which did not belong to him. He is called a defaulter. If he had made off with only SIOOO, moralizes the New Y"ork Wurld, he would have been dubbed a thief. The English language is very flexible. There is an odd superstition among many farmers that the date of the mouth, added to the month of the year, when the first snow falls will give the number of snow storms for the winter. If this be true, then wc shall have thirty-eight enowr storms this winter, the first snow having fallen on the twenty-ninth day of the ninth month. A little French railroad law would help matters in the United States, accord ing to the American Cultivator. AY he 11 a ETench road has an accident somebody must suffer therefor. If they can’t find the culprit readily they search until somebody is found upon w'hom the blame can be laid. It is somebody every time. The French never bring in a verdict of “Nobody to blame.” The New A ork Witness says: “Oyster men on Long Island Sound are loudly demanding protection against th it for eign pauper laborer, the star-fish, which has entered into competition with them 10 vigorously that they are in danger oi having to abandon their industry. The radiated sea-pirate can eat oysters faster, it appears, than the human animal can gather them. Let the star fishes be pro hibited by all means.” The Chinese Exclusion law is not without its humorous effects, although to the victims they are anything but funny. The wife of a rich Chinese mer chant in Ban Francisco was on the ocean when the bili was passed, and on the voyage gave birth to a child. The cus tom officers at San E’rancisco refused to permit the infant to be landed. This seems too hard, comments the Chicago Herald, but there is no remedy. A few years ago, remarks the Detroit Free Press, there was an insane competi tion to see who could write the most words on a post card. The present post card craze is to send it around the world. Jules Verne's man went around the world in eighty days, and it was consid ered at the time a great feat. The cost, according to M. Verne, was something enormous. A post card recently went around the world in ten days less than Verne’s hero required, and the cost was but a few pense. Great Britain is worrying about the rapidly increasing number of its lunatics. It appears that those supported by the Government alone have grown to 75,000. It is attributed to the hurry of modern life. Those who attribute it to that, ob serves the New York (S'/?/,have doubtless never seen Chicago or auy other live American town, where everybody hurries in a way that Englishmen have no idea of, and where few are insane. The New York Board of Education has instituted a series of free lectures for workingwomen and workingmen and they are proving to be very popular. “This is a wise move,” is the verdict of the Detroit Free Free. “Mental culture is a most desirable gift to have, yet from the very necessities of the individual case it is not every one that has the time or the opportunity to secure it. Ten years ago the plan of giving Sunday) afternoon free lectures for the benefit of j the toilers was tried in Chicago and the result was very beneficial. As far as j possible the mental culture of the masses \ should be looked after. In the proportion j that a person becomes intellectually de- I veloped, he or she is the better citizen. I Fifty years ago the United States was the home of a large number of peculiar wild animals. Euless a National pre serve comes to the rescue very soon, another decade will see them nearly all extinct. The grizzlic are disappearing from the Rockies. A live buffalo is now worth troin SSOO t > HUM), which three year 3 ago cost scarcely . one-fifth that amount, and they are found almost no where but in the corner of Texas and in the Yellowstone Park. The caribou has been huuted almost out of existence. The mountain sheep, the moose, the beaver, the antelope, are all disappearing. If we are to know anything in the future about our wild' animals, we must arrange right speedily a “zoo.” Says the New York Graphic: “Here is a young man who is rdally too good to live. His name is Jerry Fields, and he is Treasurer of AVaubausce County, Kan. His father had held the same office for eight years, and when some months since he declined to occupy place any longer Jerry was e’ected to succeed him. The old gentleman was a plain, homespun farmer, without much knowledge of accounts, and when Jefry went over the books lie found a shortage of several thousand dollars, or at least a discrepancy that his father Could not readily account for. Did.-Jerry go over the books again and try to straighten the accounts? Not at all. He sallied forth to the nearest Justice of the Peace aud had his father arrested for em bezzling the funds of the county, aud at last accounts the old man was in jail.” Theodore Tilton's wife, Airs. Elizabeth Tilton, is threatened w’ith blindness. Since the famous Beecher trial, thirteen years ago, in which she figured so con spicuously, she has led a quiet in Brooklyn, where she resides with her mother, Mrs. Morse, and her two sons. Her sight has failed her more rapidly than is warranted by her advancing age, and it is said that sight has already left one eye. Her son, Carroll Tilton, ha? been married to Miss Miriam Alice Blauvelt. He is a haudsome-looking man of twenty-five, of medium height, slender build, with smooth lace, square chin, finely chiseled nose, clear blue eyes and long wavy hair. Ilis sister, Mrs. AV. H. Pelton, formerly Florence Tilton, who, for several years has been with her father, Theodore Tilton, iu Paris, has sailed for America, to be homo w ith her mother. Admiral D. D. Porter, in his annua] report, says he regards sailing vessels as the best practice ships afloat, and that, while two steamers might well be em ployed as gunnery ships, they should be retained in the navy for the purpose of giving the ’prentice boys an extended voyage to sea. In speaking of the ap prentice system, he says: “The crews of our ships are generally made up ol sailors from every part of the world, but mostly of the Scandinavian race, good, reliable men in time of peace, who car* little under what flag they sail. Thoj come and enlist in our navy, softened it character it is true, but they are the sam< free-lances as of old. They ship foi money. They have no sentiment for oui flag or nationality, and possibly, if it came to an action with a ship of theii own or a neighboring nation, they would haul down the American colors and hoist their own. This is a contingency against which we should provide, and w e havi the means of doing so through the vast number of American boys who are roam ing the streets at will, and who would consider Government employment s boon. AVhat is required is a larger num-, ber of native-born apprentice boys, and *n enlargement of the conveniences for their introduction into the service.” j » v Miss Frances AVetmore, formerly 01 New Y’ofk, has been appointed Govern ment physician for the island of Hilo. “Dr. EaDny,” as she is called, has i large practice and is very popular amond all classes. t-he makes her visits on horseback, and is ready to answer anj call, night or day, in lair weather 01 foul. The great Cromwell left the University of Cambridge at e ghteen. A REVERIE. Once more I stray along the slope Of this old mountain gray; Once more 1 muse, in wayward hope, O’er yon departing ray. The golden landscape of the leaves Pales, ’no.ith the sombre brown. oer haunted stillness which aggrieves. And bears emotions down. The purple veil of day’s decline Is spread before my vi6w. And shades enfold the amb r line And solve it into dew. So fade tin* rays w ithin my breast, So tears, forbidden, fall, As o'er the seen? dear memories rest, And 1 one face recall. What charm to tread where once she led, To be where she has been; * To read the stars she boding read, To see what she had seen! Ilie orbs that float in vapor nigh, And glint o’er leaf and tree, Are tears of love from one on high, Who wanders back to me. To sparing touch of spirit feet The grasses bend and rise; So rise and fall my heart-love’s bjat, As hop? before me flies. If man could prize the loved ones gone When rosy morn was theirs, if then their loss we’d dwell upon, How few would be their cares? Pond hearts would beat to hearts aglow, Nor ill to them should fall; And then a world would wake to know , True love’s the life of all. Hugh Farrar McDermott. A HYiSTERIOUS THIEF. I was a chunk of a boy, living with my aunt in a village on the New Eugland coast, when a series of events happened | which threatened the peace of mind of ! hundreds and caused the jail doors to ! close on a dozen different persons. My j uncle was Captain of a mcrchant-man out | of Boston, and was then absent on a long voyage. .My aunt was a good old soul, liberal, charitable and every ready to overlook the faults of others. She had a hired man named Duncan and a hired girl named Anna, and both had been with her for years. One m .ruing I started off fishing, and did not return until nearly sundown. 1 ! .reached home to find my aunt in a dread- j ful stew over a roobery. She had several ! hundred dollars in a bureau drawer, and that morning had taken out a bag of i silver to pay a small bill. The bag con tained SIOO, ami she left it for amoment on the bureau. When she returned it had disappeared. 1 was away, the hired man in the field and the girl down cellar. By no possibility could any of us be' suspected. It was in June, and the bed room window was up, and it was con cluded that some tramp had come along ind committed the robbery. He would have had to enter a front window in full view' of the street, and some one should ; have seen him hanging about or getting j away; but there was no other way to ac count for the robbery. The town ?on- ] stable was notified, and before night.he had run in three tramps. Not, one of them had a dollar, nor could it be proved 1 that they' had been on our street. As a result they were turned loose. In that quiet New England town the robbery made a great stir, and folks would have it that either the hired man or the girl had got the money. Five days later there was another thunderclap. A iily living about four blocks away was robbed while eating supper. Some one went through the 1 chambers and took a lot of jewelry, two silver cups, $203 in gold, and* several trinkets. Whoever it was must have climbed upon the roof of a shed and reached an open window', but there was no cha 1 ce for suspicion to attach to any one. All the inmates of the house, in cluding the hired girl, were at supper together. There was no hired help out side. Not a suspicious character had been seen about the town. There were boys playing a few hundred rods away, and they must certainly have seen a man had one mounted on the roof. There was now as much excitement in the tow’n as if war had broken out. It w r as gen crally believed that both robberies had been committed by one and the same person, and that the guilty party was a resident of the town. Suspicion fell upon this one and that, aud a well dig ger and a hostler w'ere arrested. Each had an alibi, and their release added to the excitement. Four days later one of the nabobs of the town, doing a little work in his orchard, hung his coat and vest on an apple tree. When ready to resume them he discovered that his wallet containing about SBO in cash, together with his costly gold watch, were missing. He was positive that no human being could have approached without being seen. His wife sat sewing by a window which over looked the orchard, and she was sure she could have seen any one approach. How'ever, wallet and watch were gone in broad daylight, and now men began to look at each other and think of the old witch days. Suspicion was directed here and there, and this time a stonecutter, who had rather a bad reputation, and a house painter, who was out of a job, were arrested as the criminals. The stonecutter proved that he was at work three miles away, and the house painter had several witness to prove that he was stupidly drunk all that day. It was plain to everybody that the right party had not been found, but tnis omy added to the mystery of the three cases. All were agreed that each case was a neat piece of work, and that the thief was a profes sional. This conclusion cleared the rest of our townspeople of suspicion, but made it very annoying for such strangers 1 as paid us a visit. The fourth robbery occurred in a dry goods store. Near the back door stood one of the old bolt-head safes, and the door of the safe was always open during the day. The store door led into a back yard about forty feet square, which was all ro fed in. Two or three da s after the third robbery, and at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, a citizen ten dered a large b 11 at the store in making a purchase, and the clerk had to go to the safe for change. He found some Eapeis fen the floor, while all the money, eing about $250 in bills, was missing. No one could have “sneaked” that safe except from the back way, and the only Opening from the shed to the back yard was a chimney hole in the roof of the shed through which neither man nor boy could have squeezed himself. The bell in the tower of the town hall was rung and an excited crowd assembled. Some thing must be done. The two clerks in the store were sons of the proprietor and above suspicion, and the most imagina live citizen could not, suspect any resi dent of the town. There was talk at the meeting of anarchy, safety of property, \ condign punishment, and other things, 1 and a vigilance committee was appointed. This committee consisted of ten persons, who had authority to patrol the streets and make arrests. Two or three men were arsested during the next two days, but, as in all other cases, they’ were soon relea-ed. To say that the town was almost at a standstill, and many citizens would not leave their homes by day or evening. On the fifth day after the fourth robbery the unknown rascal showed his hand agdin. This time it was a private house which was robbed. A widow named Stafford, who kept money, jewelry, and valuable papers in the house, collected everything with the intention of placing them in the bank. The package xvas left on a table in the sitting room while she went up stairs for something, and when she returned, after an absence of only five or six minutes, it was gone. There wasn’t a soul in the house. Not a person had approached it, and yet the package was gone. There was another public meeting, and money was subscribed to hire a Boston detective. One came down and looked the ground over and said he would soon lay hands on the robber. As my aunt was the first victim, ho had considerable talk with her, and I overheard most of it. It was eight days between the fifth and the sixth robbery, aud then, oddly enough, it was the detective who was robbed. He had a second-floor room at the hotel, and during the night some one entered his window by way of the kitchen roof and rqbbed him of his gold watch and purse, the latter containing about S3O. If the officer was furious, the towns people were ready to burn some one at the stake. The detective had scarcely eaten his breakfast when he made the arrest of a young man who had just established a writing school in the town, and I heard him say that he would wager his reputation that he had the right party at last. Two days subsequent to this I went fishing again. While skirting the Sound, two miles from town, it came on to raiu, and I sought shelter in a de serted house near the beach, hut facing the highway. It was a small, one-story affair, with doors and windows gone, and many leaks in the roof. I sat down in the large room for a while, and then a boy’s curiosity led me to look into the bedroom. As I entered soinnthing jumped at me with a scream, gave me a severe scratch across the face, and went out of the house with a rush. I rau to the door iu time to see Captain Pobasco’s pet monkey, Mingo, going up the rosd like a flash. I returned ;o the bedroom to see what he had been up to, and there iu a heap on the floor, cove ed with an old horse blanket, was every single arti cle and dollar carried off in the six rob beries. I must explain about Mingo. Captain Probasco was a seafaring man, generally making* voyages *to the Fast. On his return from India, four months pro viously, he had brought the monkey with him. I forget what port the ship was lying in when a native brought Mingo aboard as a present to the Cap tain. . On the very first night the Captain lost a roll of bills containing s6l). It so happened that one of the crew de serted, aud the theft was laid to the man. On the next, night his watch was taken, and this time no one could be suspected. A. watch was set, and lo! on the third night the monkey w'as caught as he was making off with a bag of dollars from a cabin locker. His master had presented him to the Captain that he might rob the cabin and bring him the plunder. Captain Probasco’s first thought was to kill the monkey, but he thought better of k and chained him up, hoping that the native would come spying around to find out what had happened. If he did he was not seen, and w'hen the ship sailed for home Mingo was still a prisoner. He was so knowing and kind-tempered that the Captain decided to bring him home. Every one in the town knew the beast, but, as the Cap tain had only told his story to a few, no one had suspected the rascal of the rob beries. lie had not* stolen from the Probascos, because they were his masters, and he had secreted the things in the old house because he once went there with the Captain, and the latter went poking about as in search of some hidden treasure. The raiu continued to pour down steadily, and as I did not want to leave the house until I could take the stolen property with me without damage, I waited for a break.. At about two o’clock in the afternoon, as I stood at a window looking out on the strip of marsh between the house and' the beach, I caught srght of Mingp coming back. He was wet aud bedraggled and forlorn, but the instinct of thievery was -strongei than his dislike of the weather. He had in his mouth a large wallet, andhacame softly up to the house, listened for a while to make sure that I had gone, and then sprang into the bedroom window i and deposited his plunder with the rest, lie did not stay long, and when he had gone I found thq wallet to be the prop erty of a man who owned a grist mill in the town. It contained S6O and many papers. At four o’clock I bundled up the plunder and started for home. The seventh mysterious robbery had almost set the town crazy. Three arrests had been made, and the Boston detective was making a speech in the Town Hall. If ever a small boy’s appearance cre ated a stir in a community mine was a j climax. I left the bundle at mv aunt’s and went over to the hall to tell the new 3, and I had no sooner uttered it than I was put under arrest and de nounced as a liar. However. I had proofs all the way ’round, and within an hour I was a hero. The detective had to let all his prisoners go free, and he was com pelled to pay the writing master SSO or stand a suit, and of all the people in the case he got the least credit. When the monkey's guilt was clear all could look back and see that no man could have perpetrated the robberies, aud each one wondered why he d d 11’t suspect the ras cal. Mingo was called for by the com mittee. He hung his head and betrayed his guilt, and that evening was hung by the neck until dead and past all mis chief.—Few York Sun. NEWS AND NOTES FOlt WOMEN. Irish poplin will be much worn this winter. The newest round waists are without a belt. Houston, Texas, boasts a woman, dentist. Ibe cane a la Tosca is carried by fashionable damsels. Women’s visiting cards are to con tinue square in shape. Epaulettes still appear upon prorae nade and dress costumes. One of the best shades is a peculiar color known as steam gray. Miss Braddon is just fifty years old, and has written fifty stories. Silver gray and green are the promi nent colors in the new dresses. The latest fad among fashionable young girls is to carry heavy walking sticks. Cloth-finished flanuels are the preferred wear of women of taste but limited means. Miss Nellie Gould, the daughter ol .Tay Gould, js probably the richest heiress in America. There are said to be hundreds of pat ents on bustles in the Patent office at Washington. Both large aud small bonnets will be worn, but the toque of medium sue will be the favorite. It was Mine, du Deffand who said wo men were too imaginative and sensitive to have much logic. High collars of cream or pale flannel, that stand high about the throat, super sede the linen oollar. Gold and silver embroideries promise to be extensively used is winter to brighten dark dresses. Fifty women and girls are employed as clerks in the office of the Isthmus of Panama Canal Company'. Snake rings, with body of vari-colored gold and eyes of blazing topaz, and glit tering emerald, are in high favor. Among the new dress trimmings aj-e cords of white and gilt, combined with crystals beads having golden centres. The most stylish of all the stylish green shades now so much in vogue is the new pale gray green known as reed. Lockets made of silver dollars are worn, with a miniature burned into the metal, after the fashion of china paint ing. “Price S2O” was the legend that a Mt. Clemens, Mich., lady wore on her cloak as she went through the town the other day. The Duchess de Galliera has founded an institution for paying the rent of re spectable working people in monetary distress. In London the puffed and slashed sleeve will hereafter be seen only indoors. Oh tlie streets plain close coat sleeves are worn. In Philadelphia the classes in the In dustrial Art School number 800 pupils, and the Ladies’ Decorative Art Club has 200 members. The Princess of Wales is more than ever discarding laces, satins and furbe lows in public places. She dresses with studied simplicity. The Philadelphia statistics show that there is not a trade or profession pursued in that city which is not more or less followed by women. * Some of the new long cloaks for mid winter wear have yokes as well as bands of fur down the front, and around the long, flowing sleeves. The young women of Anthony, Kan., spend so much of their time in the sad die that it is said the horses at that place are becoming lop-sided. Mme. Dieulafoy, the intrepid wife of the North African explorer, is one of the latest women to receive the decoration of the Legion of Honor. Nearly all new winter dresses are made with sleeves in more or less fanciful style, and the fulnesi around the arm hole is a marked feature. Dresses, redifigotes and hats for young ladies of from twelve to fifteen are made in very imitation of those of their older sisters and mothers. Gretchen cloaks for little girls snd Newmarkets for misses will be the rule this winter. Plush, astrakh in and beaver are the materials promised. Bourette woolens are popular for traveling costumes. These are shown in self-colors, and also with stripes or fig ures of a contrasting color. Queen Marguerita of Italy has been for some time collecting white pearls, with which, it is sad, she intends to decorate the dress of her son’s bride. Mrs. LeilaG. Redell says: “Probably there are more women doing things iu more organizations in this city (Chicago) than in any other in the country.” Moose cloth is the name given to the camel’s hair stuffs which come with im-' proved surface finish, bat longer, stronger hairs thrown into the weft. Leaves iu conventionally arranged de signs are the favorites in the ne-v brocades, and every possible leaf shape, from the locust to the lotos, is seen. Feather-stitched tucks and plaits are the favorite decoration for cashmere dresses for little girls. The stitching is usually in a contrasting color or white. AA’omen in Kent, England, surpass the other sex in the art of writing by two per cent., in Burrey by two and a half per cent., and in Sussex by four par cent. Many of the winter cloaks combine two materials in their manufacture, such as cloth for the body of the garment,and velvet or plush for the large sleeves aud down the fronts. Ground was broken for a new railroad at Nicholasville, Ky., a few days ago, and the first wheel-barrowful was wheeled away by Miss Maggie Cheu ault, a young lady of fifteen. Every girl over fifteen should wear her skirt 9 to fall at least to the top of the in step or to the ankle. Girls from twelve to fourteen wear their dresses long enough to show the top of the boot but not tbe stockings. There is a Countess in London who lives alone except for the presence of numerous cats and dogs which she be friends from time to tune. Bhe has fre quently been brought before the courts on complaints from her neighbors, who testify that her house is uncleanly and a nuisance. A CHINAMAN’S FUNERAL, BURIAL of a general of Til 1] BLACK flag IN N l \v YORK. t anned Fruit and Ora ages, Roast Pi« and Boiled Rice Provided For the Last Journey. In the rear of James Naughton’s un dertaking establishment, 35 Mott street there was a strange and almost unearthly scene this morning, says a recent issue of the New A ork Graphic. Chinamen, musicians and inquisitive persons of all creeds moved about the dimly lighted place irtul wore kept in order by Rounds, man'Miller and officers from the Sixth Precinct. The wooden ceiling was hung in black and white and curiously shaped draperies of plain black ornamented the walls, somewhat relieving the monotony of the bare walls. Near the further end of the room on a black covered standard was a casket which contained the em balmed remains of Li Yu Doo, the Gen eral of the Black Flags. The receptacle was of red cedar, covered wiih broad cloth, and the trimmings wtere of solid silver. A plate on the top red: Li Yu Doo, Died October 19, 1888, Aged 50 years. We meet on the level, We part on the square. By the side of theiasket was a lon<z stick covered with a yellow cloth bear ing cabalistic characters. This was to serve a? a ladder upon which the dead General was to mount to the skies. The lid of theco iin was fro ;uently opened to permit friends to gaze upon the fea tures of the deceased and a peculiar odor was emitted, rather pleasant than otherwise. The face of the dead General was com posed, and the body was dressed in the ordinary garments worn by him in life. A great number of small oblong pieces of cardboard, bearing hieroglyphics, were scattered about the dead man’s head and shoulders. These were playing cards placed there that the departed might p iss away the time during the long journey pleasantly. At a distance of about two feet apart from each other and in front of the casket were three pine tables. On the lirst were dishes of candied fruits and piles of oranges. The second table groaned under the weight of a big pig, nicely roasted and intact. On either side of the porker were pillows of crysanthemums and peonies, one of which bore the words: “.My cousin at rest.” The third table was near the front of the establishment. On it were several bowls of rice, in which were stuck burning joss sticks and sev eral ordinary wax candles. Chop sticks and small tea cups were laid on either side of the table. All that the lirst and second tables contained was placed on the grave of General Doo, that he may not want food should he awake before reaching the great unknown. About ten o’clock a number of Chinamen began rig ging themselves up in long gowns of muslin. Four of these men wore blue with white belts, and the four others had on surplices with black netting. These were the relatives of the dead man, and their strange costumes indi cated their deep sorrow. These chief mourners ranged themselves along the side of the room and began humming a queer tune. At intervals of twenty' min utes a tall, raw-boned Chinaman stood in front of the third table waving his arms and chanting in a low tone. Suddenly the band started the “Dead March from Saul,” and continued playing it for ten minutes. Meanwhile additional joss sticks w'ere placed in the rice bowl 3 and the Chinamen bowed low and chanted a dirge. The band played “The Soldier’s Peace” twice, and the mourn ers kept up the chanting, moving about spasmodically between the tables. The music attracted great crowds and Mott street for some distance was lined with people. Almost every window in the neighborhood was open and heads were thrust from the apertures. When the music had ceased a Chinese band played a funeral march ifnd the noise was al most deafening. This was continued with frequent interruptions to allow the chief mourners time to make their devo tions until one o’clock, when the parade started. From the undertaker’s the pa rade passed through Chatham Square to Oliver street, to Henry street, to Grand street, thence crossing the ferry and winding up at Evergreen Cemetery. An immense crowd was waiting at the far away corner of the cemetery, where the Chinese have tbeir burying plot. At 4:40 the colfin was taken from the hearse and carried through an avenue of Chinamen to the grave. Then the coffin was lowered. The banner of the Lun Gee Tong was stuck at the head and two huge lanterns of the dead planted ou poles next to it. Tom Lee threw the first sod on the resounding rough box lid. Wfiile he was doing that, the other Chinamen stripped themselves of all their funeral trappings, sashes, blue and red and black blouses, everything that they had put on that had anything to do with the funeral, and piled them all up on the left of Li Yu Doo s grave. Then on the pile they put the mandarin umbrella, the eight em blems of Tan, the poles and banners, and when the pile was big and broad and long they lighted it and stood to one side to pray in silence. It was Li-YYi Doo’s funeral pyre, and, though there have been Chinese funerals in Elver greens before, this was the biggest one ever burned there. The last thing thrown on it was his trunk. It was tilled w'ith his clothing and all his personal prop erty. This was done so that everything he had in this world for daily use might go out to him transformed in smoke for use in the next. Another set of China men placed two chickens, some bowls of rice aud cups of tea on the grave. Thon two bottles of wine were emptied on the mound, and all that the living could do for the dead was done. It was late when all was over, and the sun had gone down so far that the last thing it saw as it was speeding to make day for Li Y u Doo’s native home was his burial in a foreign laud. Professor Lucy M. Balinon, of Yassar College, recommends a domestic poly technic institute for two years to young ladies who are to superintend households. Bhe says they should be taught sanitary laws, physiology and hygiene, care of the sick, cooking, marketing, care of servants, sewing, principles of kinder garten, artistic housefurnishiug anu domestic economy.