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THE WINDS
Of the sons and daughters ot Ocean,
Nursed in their mother’s lap,
The wind called East, I’m sorry to say,
Is a poevisli, tyrannical chapl
The West wind is calmer and kinder,
And, in lior feminine way,
She often rebukes the lowering clouds
And carries the raindrops away.
In his wild, stentorian fashion,
The wind of the North is fr-'o,
Wasting liis hfc in riot and noise,
The prodigal son of tho foil
In a purely nr id- nly manner,
The wind of ! a South is mild;
Aiul tho Ocean's : ■ npi ail daughter
Is doubtless the 1 csf beloved chil l.
-XVil ivn 11. Hajna, in IndepenJe. t
liESET 1)7 r(RATES.
“The Singapore Tracing Comany,
limited,” was and is ah organization
owning half a • o en brigs and schooners
which voyage among the islands of the
Indian Ocean, and traiiic for pepper,
spices, cinnamon, beeswax, figs, rare
woods, medicinal roots and herbs, etc.
On one occasion—th is was twenty years
ago—this company received an order
from Sydney, Australia, for a great
quantity of sharks’ brains. It seemed
that some eminent quack doctor in the
colony had made the discovery that
sharks’ brains was tlic great panacea the
medical world had been looking for to
cure nil diseases. They were dried and
then pulverized and mixed witha certain
roof, and, as silly as it may look to
you, the people went wild over the new
cure. I presume that the quack had
a corner on the root part ot the cure,
but lie could not corner the other por
tion. t harks arc plentiful all about
Australia,.but they could not be cam lit
fast enough to sujtp.y the demand. The
price during the h - gilt of the excitement
was is! an ounce for the dried brains,
and $7 an ounce for the mixture. The
craze lasted about 7 months, by which
time the swindler had made his pile and
was ready to skip. Then everybody
ridiculed everybody else, and the price
of sharks’ brains dropped to .70 cents
per pound, ot which figure the Chinese
used them for a banquet di-h.
When the order was received at Singa
pore I was mate of a small schooner
called the kittle Duke, and it was plan
ned that I should be set ashore on some
of ihe i-lands to the north of Australia
to fill it. I had voyaged from Singapore
to Torresi Strait several times, and after
a little talk 1 selected South Aroo Island
as the most convenient place for carry
ing out the purpose. There are seven
of these islands in a group oil the New
Guinea coast. While the water from
the Straits of Malacca to those of Torres
are really the Indian Ocean, they are
laid down on maps and cliaits as diiier
ent seas .lava, Flores, Banda, and Ara
fura. W e had once been cast away on
the coast of South Aroo. and had found
the waters almost alive with sharks. We
knew it to be uninhabited, and about
twenty miles long by ten broad.
Our outfit was very simple. I was to
have a couple of meu with me, and we
tool; a tent, a lot of shark lines, a couple
of lances, and bedding and provisions.
For firearms we had revolvers, and dou
ble-barreled shotguns, and after a long
and tedious voyage, during which we
called at several islands, we finally east
anchor oil South Aroo, and were safely
landed on a sandy beach. The schooner
was in haste to got away, and two hours
after landing us she was out of sight.
We were to he left on the island from
fourteen to twenty days. Near where we
landed was what sailors call a rip, that
is, a narrow channel between the main
land and a sand bar. This channel was
about sixty feet wide, fifteen or twenty
deep, and open at both ends. The san i
bar was not over four feet above high
tide, half a mile long, and not so much
as a spear of grass grew upon it. We
didn’t have to look twice to seethatthis
rip was our sharking ground. A dozen
dorsal I ns could be seen cutting the wa
ter, and a p.ece of salt pork .liuug out
resulted in a light, in which a score of
the monsters participated. We ere; ted
onr tent in the edge of tbe fored, set up
-our windlass above high water, and next
morning after landing wero'aH ready to
begin work. Our method of proceding
was very simple. Our windlass' Was a
roller, provided with a handle on'ei ther
end and resting in crotchets. One end
of the shark line was made fast to this
and the hook at the other was bated and
flung out... When a shark was last we
brought him in by turning the windlass.
While the two men turned i stood at the
edge of the water with a lance and
jabbed him as he got near enough.
There may be spots where the shark;
is more numerous than off the New
Guinea coast, but I doubt it. There
was no waiting about the business of
catching them. No sooner was the
baited hook thrown iu than a shark
seized it and was fast. They were not I
ground shirks, nor shovel-noses, but the |
genuine man-eater, ranging from nine to i
fifteen feet in length, and terribly strong
and fierce. An ordinary man would be
snapped in two by one of these fishes as
easily as a boy bites tuto a cracker. We
had to so ure the brains and spread them
in the sun to dry, and this made it slow
work. Our catch the first day was
seventeen. We increased this to twenty
on the second day, and for foflE days
maintaned that figure. On the after
noon of t e fourth day a sad calamity
occurred. The spring at which we got
our water wa< about four hundred feet
inland, and we had cut a path to it.
We had seen a few snakes, but thev
seemed desirous of avoiding us as much
as possible, and none of us were a’armed
about them. < u this afternoon, as one
of my helpers went after water, he was
struck by a snake lying in the tangle,
and although he was back within live
minutes, I could tell by his looks that
he bad received a deadly bite. In ten
minutes he was rolling on the ground :n
agony, and in 1 Id ecu his body began to
swell. While he had not seed the ser
pent, we had no doubt of its species. It
is known in the East as the collar snake,
and is found on all the islands iu the
Jndim Ocean. ,It attains a length of
two feet, and has a white ring or collar
about its neck. There is no more
poisonous snake. In forty ra nutes from
the time the man received the bite he
was dead, and his body was a terrible
sight to look at.
When we had buried our companion
in the sands we loaded our guns with
line shot and went snake hunting. We
- «
killed a round dozen of the collar snakes
between the tent and the spring, and
felt assured that the firing would rid the
neighborhood of any which had es
caped us. They had probably been
drawn that way by the scant of the blood
and meat. The tragedy had upset us
both, and neither was inclined to sleep
that night. It was well that we were in
wakeful mood. Ever since the Indian
Sea was navigated by European vessels
there has been more or less piracy. At
this time almost every island had its
boss wrecker, who was no better than a
pirate. While not daring to attack a
ship, if she was caught in distress it
went hard with her. It was a quiet,star
light night, and;*! was sitting outside
the tent while' my comrade was lying
down inside, .when I caught a sound
from the water whic n alarmed me As I
rose up and advanced I caught sight of a
native craft stealing into the rio from
the lower side. She was from the Pindo
Islands, to the north of us, and was a
spice boat She had a single mast and a
lateen sail, and during a ca m was pulled
by oars. I ran back to my companion,
aud we crept forward on hands and
kn ees to discover the object of the visit.
Had the men been honest they would
have been talking and singing. They
would not have come into the rip had
they not known of our presence and tho
fact of their coming so quietly boded ill
lor us. The craft was grounded about
lUO feet above us, aud twelve or fifteen
natives leaped out on the beach.
When we had seed this much we re
turned to our tent, secured the three
guns and course ammunition, and took
up our stations between the tent and the
water. In five minutes we had burrowed
our rifle,pits and charged the guns with
buckshot. It was not for us to open the
light. We could just make out the
group of figures around the boats and
they would soon let us know whether
they were friends or enemies. We had
just got fairly settled when we saw the
crowd stealing over the sands in the
direction of the tent. All had spears
and clubs, and their cautious movements
proved them bent on mischief. When
they came up quite close to the tent they
raised a loud yell aud dashed forward,
hurling their spears and swinging their
clubs, and it was two or three minutes
before they discovered that the tent was
unoccupied. Then, as they huddled
together, we opened fire. They were
not more than sixty feet away, and the
buckshot had to tell. There were
screams, and shouts, and a stampede.
All broke for the boat —all who were on
their feet after our fire. Two or three
men had been left in charge of the craft,
and as soon as they heard the firing and
veiling a panic seized them, and they
pushed the boat off, sprang; into her,
and made oif down the rip. Nine
natives were thus left in the lurch. They
raised a great cry, calling aud commands
ing, but those in the boat did not even
reply.
The situation was this: We had the
feiiows penned up on a neck of
without cover, aud we had firearms and
they had none. 1 have no doubt we had
been spied upon before they came to
make the attack, and very likely they
believed there were three of us. They
were afraid to attack ns, and as for sur
render it was not to be thought of. In
the five years I sailed among the islands
I never knew a quarrel between white
men aud natives to terminate in a draw,
fine party or the other ran away or were
wiped out. These wreckers had meant
to butcher us. Had 1 offered them terms,
they would have refused. Had they
captured us alive, they would have
lanced us off-hand, aud been .astonished
at any protest. Lying in our Vide
pits, we > otli realized that it was a ques
tion of the survival of the strongest, ami
that we would have mo relief until the
last man was wiped out. \Ye heard
them chattering, and cursing for an hour
or so, the leader evidently seeking to
work their courage up to the attacking
point, and then ah was quiet.
Daylight came at last, and what was
our astonishment to discover that the
nine had crossed the channel to the saud
bar, leaving most of . their weapous on
the main spore. We also soon discov
ered why they had braved the shafts to.
reach that spot. The .boat had- run 1
down the rip, circled around outside the
surf, which was very light there, and at
ts muted fo land on the head of tbe.bar.
The fellows flad swam over expecting to '
be taken oil', but the craft had struck a
rock and filled and sufik in fifteen feet
of water. There must have been three ;
men with her, for the number on the
bar Was now twelve. The only explana :
tion of why the sharks did not seize any
of the nine was that they had followed
the boat out and around. Well, that
was the situat.on, and 'no two men ever
had a neater plropori a gaifg of cutthroats.
They had their knives albhri>, "■ while wp
had shotguns, a.m it would have been
the easiest sort of work to bowl them
over in succession bv off-hand shots. By,
our volley w hen attacked we had kiljed
three and wohuded a fourth so that he
could not leave the spot. That made
the strength of the attacking party six
teen.
I could talk all the lingoes of the
islands, and I askgd, the wounded man
who they were and why they had at
tacked us. lie said the boat was from
ttie Pindos. and the name of her Cap
tain was Abyan. They had attacked us
for the sole object of pluuder. The fel
low liadseveial buckshot in his left groin
and others in his log, and Hold him he
was fa ahy w ounded.
“It was so written,”he calmly replipd.
“Be so kind as to finish me.”
“Kill you?”
“Certainly. I would do as well by
i you.”
“But I cannot do it.”
“Then I will. I waited for morning
in hopes my friends would kiil you, but
us they have not, and as all must die,' I
will go first.” “"•> -
He had his naked knife in his hand,
and before I could move to prevent lie
drew it across his'throat, and two min';,
utes later was dead. We now had the
living to look out for. As I told you, -it
was only about sixty feet across the rip,
wad we could look right into their eyes.
A more bloodthirsty dozen could not
have been scraped together in the East.
Had they been humbled by the situa
tion I should have at least hoped to see
them get away, but they were not. On
the contrary, they were brazen pud de
fiant. As soon as they saw us moving
they uttered shouts of defiance and
brandished their knives, and because
we did not begin shooting they taunted
us with cowardice.
Just what steps to take I did not
know. I stood guard while my com
panion prepared breakfast, but there
was little fear of any of them crossing
the channel. The sharks had come in
until they actually crowded each other,
and out beyond the surf we could see
their dorsal fins by the score. The na
tives saw the situation in all its dangers,
but they continued defiant. I called tc
ask them why they had attacked us, as
we had done them no harm and were not
trespassing on their domain, and tho
leader shouted back:
“You are a dog! You are not fit to
live! Yes, you are a dog and a coward!
I have wet my hands in the blood of half
a hundred white-faced dogs, and I am
only sorry that 1 haven’t your heart to
throw to these fishes!”
“Well, what are you going to do?” I
asked as I choked back my anger.
“What is it to you, dog? Come! You
are a cbward,: Now that it is daylight
you tremble before us and dare not
shoot! Ilq! I believe you will run
away!”
My companion was for killing them off
at once, but I was more merciful. While
I knew they thirsted for mv blood, and
would kiil me if they got the chance, it
seemed awful to shoot them down in
their helpless situation. After breakfast
we sat down opposite them with our
guns in our hands, when those who had
knives began to flourish them, and their
taunts were renewed. The leader finally
worked himself up to such a pitch of
anger that he threw his knife across at
me. It came whirling and whistling
through the air and entered the sand
beside me. I replied with a snap shot
which stretched him dead. Ilia fall
only enraged the others, and I had
scarcely finished reloading when my
companion said:
“Take care! They are going to try
and swim the channel!”
They scattered along the bar its full
length, like skirmishers going to the
front, and at a given signal all sprang
into the water. Had there been no
sharks we could have answered for
every black head crossing the channel.
By spreading out they hoped to distract
tho attentiou •of the monsters, and
reasoned that a portion of them would
get over to attack us. But there were
too many sharks. For about live
minutes the sight was terrible. It seemed
as if there were three or four sharks for
every victim, and they fought over the
feast like so many tigers: Not a mac
lived to make twenty strokes toward us.
In ten minutes after I tired my shot we
were rid of the whoie gang aud ready to
resume our labors, nor were we annoyed
aitain before the schooner took us off.—
New I'otJc Hun.
The German Soldier’9 Equipment.
A new outfit is being rapidly intro
duced throughout the whole German
army. • One, indeed, of the alterations,
as it does not involve any. new equip
ment, lias been already taken up by all
the regiments—that is, the strapping of
the overcoat round the knapsack instead
of over the shoulders and across the
body. This has the great advantage of
allowing the man to breathe more freely
aud to open his coat if he wishes. The
kuapsaciv itself has been changed and is
of a longer shape than before. It con
sists of two pat knapsack proper
and the pocket,former containing
« linen, the latter the famous
ge” and bacon. The belt
V outfit, all important, aud
ke the whole equipment fast,
the b#., hangs the bayonet,
en W'sl'.ortened that it is
i light dagger not a foot
in front two pouches are at
tached, each containing thirty cartridges
ithe uon commissioned officers have
smaller pouches holding only fifteen
each). Behind is a third pouch, which
contains forty cartridges, made up in
two pasteboard cases. These are a re
serve,: and were formerly kep; in the
knap ack. By. this change the soldier
carries twenty cartridges more than for
merly, On the rignt hangs the bread
wallet, which is-larger than the old pat
tern. , It has no longer a belt of its own,
but hangs directly from tho sword belt,
thus relieving the (best. The water
flask is hookedjOti the bn ad-wallet. The'
pannikin used to be fastened in the mid
dle of the knapsack, but is now laid flat
On the top with the forage-cap, tvhieb
xvas formerly under the flap of the knap
sack, below it: The combined result is
that the soldier’s chest is almost quite
freh, and that the air can circulate - be
tween'the knapsack and his back. He
can-also by merely undoing his belt take
off tho whole of his accoutrements. The
.trenching tool is npt earned opi the sol
dier’s back, but. hangs .at his left, side
With the, bayonet.—N?.' James's Gazette.,
One New Yorker’s Physical Training:
I was at the country house of a New
York, lawyer ,the other night, says T. C,
Crawford, m the New 1 oik World. If
all New York business men fo„ow his
coursey the English cannot reproach up
with being negligent in the matter of
physical training. This friend, who lias
as many busy and hard-worked hours
daring the day as any one in Nevv York,
when he reaches home drops ail care
arid goes in for riding, walkiug and
•athletics. In the morning he is up at
(5, into a cold plunge, and'then he is
off for an hour’s run or r.de on horse
back. Then when lie returns he ha- his
rub down, his solid breakfast, and is
away before 9 to the city. In the
evening hp puts on flannels and runs fot
a half-hour before turning in. .After the
I run fie hits the yielding and defenseless
bag until 10:30, and then to bed. The
result is that he is brown and hardy, al
though engaged daily in a nervous strain
tnat would soon pull down a man of
average fi-ame.
Origin of “ Boom.”
A writer in 'Notes and' Queries traces
the history of “boom” in its present half
slang sense of exceptional prosperity, and
can carry it no further back than iSTi),
wherefore the W'.o gather rises to remark
that for at least a century the word has
been current in the'sniddle South, as ex
pressing a superlative condition. At
first we make no doubt that the appli
cation was a trite onomatopv ic, a stream
was “booming” when its flood tide
roared through the land, then crops,
when warm rain and hot sunshine made
them grow asbv magic, were metaphori
call “booming,” trio, so it is no wondor
that when coal and iron and wondrous
water powers builded cities in a night,
as it were, and made the was f e places
precious, that their habitat was. spoken
of as having a boom
UNIQUE INDIAN JEWELRY.
ARTISTIC SILVER ORNAMENTS 07
THE PUEBLOS AND NAVAJOES-
Remarkable Results Produced by
Primitive Implements—Earrings
Bracelets and Rings.
In the quaint Territory of New Mcx
j ico there still flourish two aboriginal
races, wholesale wearers of jewelry,
whose silversmiths turn out work unique
and characteristic in design, and of re
markable neatness when we consider
their rude appliances. Tliese are the
Pueblos and the Navajoes.
The Pueblos are commonly classed as
Indians, but Indians they are not. Pure
. blooded descendants of the ancient Az
tecs or Toltees—there be ethnologists
who pretend to tell which, but their
grounds are ludicrously shadowy—(the
Pueb'os) dwell in neat, substantial
adobe houses, till the soil, build irriga
ting works, weave their blankets and
tend their flocks as they did centuries
before the first European foot trod the
new continent. They are the oldest civi
lized race in the western hemisphere,
and the most interesting. Of the count
less Pueblo villages whose ruins mark
nearly every township of New Mexico,
only nineteen are now inhabited. Of
the flat),OOD Pueblos whom the Spanish
conqnistadores found, only 0000 remain,
but the little remnant is at present hold
ing its own very fairly. This is the sim
ple race whose ancestors made old
.Mexico ind filled it with its wonderful
monuments.
The Navajoes, on the other hand, are
straight Indians —nomads, warriors and
hunters —who never till the soil nor in
habit a house, and whose rude hogans
are tenanted no longer than suits their
roving disposition. Their only indus
tries are stock raising, weaving the most
beautiful and the most durable blankets
known to the world, and thumping out
a semi-barbaric, but always graceful,
jewelry. The tribe numbers eighteen
thousand souls, supposed to occupy a
reservation lying half in Mexico and half
in Arizona, but generally well scattered
over the whole circumambient county.
The tribe has about SIOO,OOO worth of
silver jewelry and ornaments.
Silver is the only metal used by either
Pueblo or Navajo for purposes of orna
mentation. For gold they have no use
whatever, and it is only those approxi
mate to the railroad and therefore con
versant with white man’s ways who will
even receive Uncle Sam’s yellow r dinero.
Silver, however, is in universal demand
with them, and it is astonishing what
store they have of it. Their supply is
now' drawn almost exclusively from the
cartwheel dollars of the Yankee and
Mexican daddies. .
The silversmith among either Pueblos
or Navajoes is a person of mighty in
fluence. Upon ‘his inventive and me
chanical skiU each aborigine depends for
the wherewithal to cut an imposing
figure at the feast-day dance or the bet
staggering horse race. His tools are
simple, not to say crude. A hammer or
two, a three'cornered tile, a rude iron
ptinch or two- and a primitive arrange
ment for soldering comprises his outfit.
If he is a Pueblo, one of the little rooms
in his house, equipped with a bench,
serves him for a workshop; if a Navajo,
his smithy is under the alleged shelter of
hishogan—an open-faced hovel of cedar
branches and sarth—and a smooth stone
is his workbench.
The simplest form of silver ornament
is the button, a decoration of which
both races are immensely fond. Akin to
the buttons aie the striking bell disks
which glisten upon every well-to-do.
Pueblo and- Navajo on festal occasions.
These are always circular,, slightly
arched, average four inches in diameter,
are handsomely made, and average $3 in
weight. From Sour to a dozen of these
arc worn, strung-upon, a narrow thong,
as a belt. Some ultra dandies have a
shoulder belt of them besides.
In horse trappings the well-to-do
Nava o is partiieularly gorgeous. Be
sides a large weight of sundry silver i
ornaments on K his saddle his “Sunday ’
bridle is one mass of sil er and but an
infinitessimal fraction of the leather sub
'stratum is visible. It is nothing uncom
mon to see S4O to S6O weight in silver
on one bridle. The straps are covered
with silver sheaths, aud more or less
heavy pendants dangle upon the foretop
and from, the ...tuts:
'The Pueblos occasionally thus besilver
thpir bridles, but are not as daft on.the
fashion as are the Navajoes. ,
The most popular form of jewelry with
both races is the bracelet. In early days
it had its useful as well- as its . onia.-
mental adaptation. To protect the.
wrists from tne vicious stin’g-qf the bow-
string- the melt very commonly wore a*
iii'oad wristlet of leather, tied at one
side with a buckskin thong. The sims
plest bracelets—commonest with the
NdvajbesA- are simply round circlet. 4, ’
generally tapering a little. to the ends,
and marked with little file-cut lines. A
silver dollar is usually. ontirely used up
in hammering one of them out.
Finger rings are a little-less numerous
than the articles aforesaid, but are still
common enough, and remarkable skill
is often displayed in their workmanship.,
Plain round rings of the American, mat
trimonial pattern are almost unk.hdwn
here, -the fashion being in cha&ed binds
and sets. AThe Navajoes set’ native
nets or turquoise in rude box; settings
and the Acotna smith sometimes makes a
curious stagger at a crown sotting.
One of the most unique native rings is
of the nature of a' cpHi&o--. ring, the,
j “cameo” being cut from an American
dollar with Liberty’s head protuberant
thereon. . '.
A silver ornament peculiar to the T’ue
blos is the dres-pin worn by the women.
Their-dresses are something like blank-*
ets, worn over one shoulder and under
the other, reaching.just below the knees
and fastened down the right side with
huge pins. These are something brass,
but generally of silver, made by solder
ing two or three 25, -or 50-cent pieces
upon a pin. Sometimes the coins are
left intact, sometimes polished and
chased. Iha ve seen a really elegant one
made of a polished and concaved .dollar,
covered with relief work and set with
imitation opals from a cheap American
piece of trumpery. — San Francisco
C ro tie’e.
The Bank of England has just finished
% series of experiments with electric
light and likes it so well that it has de
cided to adopt it permanently instead of
gas.
SELECT SIFITXUS.
London contains 120 hospitals.
The temple of Diana was four bun
dred feet high.
The Koran says all flies shall perisp
save one, the bee fly.
The palaces of Rome each accom'-
modated about 250,000 people.
It is regarded as a deith warning in
Germany to hear a cricket's cry.
A real, live princess keeps a millinery
store in Fifth avenue, New 5 ork.
Mr. Robert Ilonner paid .Mr. William
H. Vanderbilt $40,0 )0 for Maud F.
The Tapuya Indians in South Amer
ica say the devil assnmes the form of
a fly.
In China the highest recommendation
a man can have is the fact of his having
a wife.
. Cremation is still illegal in France, so
Frenchmen have to go to Italy for the
purpose.
In Mexico young ladies give a few
drops of their blood as a charm to the
young men. . ,-v
Rain is, m some parts of our own
country, expected to follow unusually
loud chirping of cricikets.
Some interesting prehistoric relics
have just been found buried under 300
feet of lava in a table-mountain tunnel,
near Sonora, Cal.
Babylon was sixty miles within the
walls, which were twenty-five feet thick
and thiee hundred feet high, with one
hundred brazen gates.
A woman living near the banks of
the Tiber once sold her possessons in
Rome, and it was learned that she
possessed four hundred slaves.
The Bank of England monopoly was
established by the prohibition, by act of
Parliament in 170 S, of any company ex
ceeding six persons acting as baukers.
Mrs. G. Booth, of Washington County,
ded recently at Knoxville. Tenn., in
the log house she was born in, ninety
eight years ago. 'She had never been
away from home over five miles.
In 314 Constantine declared that
liberty was a right which could not be
taken away, affirming Unit sixty years of
captivity could not take from the free
born the right of demanding liberty.
When Queen Victoria went this yea:
from Windsor to Osborne she took a
number of her favorite cats with her, and
now every English lady* takes her cats
with her from “to country or
country to to wn. *
Mr. Blood worth, of-l Griffin, Ga., has
grown this year twelve ears of corn upon
one stalk and fourteen squashes upon a
single ai mof vinaj s , o it is entirely cred
ible that from a garden one-sixteenth of
an acre he has so*d $35 worth after sup
plying his family.
One of the English regiments is ex
perimenting with a machine called a
centrecycle, which has four small wheels
a foot in diameter and one large one in
the-center. It is said that the invention
makes climbing a hill as easy, for a cycler
as rolling off a log.
An eagle, six feet from tip to tip, and
with talons nearly two inches long, was
killed in, Georgia the other day, but it
took two loads of shot and a rifle ball to
do it, anil then the bird took such a
death grip on its perch that the tree had
to be cut down to secure it.
Sumner Howard, formerly Speaker to
the Michigan House of Representatives
and now a lawyer with a tine practice
in an Arizona town, accepted a few
shares of stock in an undeveloped mine
last fail as a retainer ir* a murder case.
A few days ago he was offored <IOO
for the stock, but declined to part with
it.
A modern French custom at baptisms
is that of presenting all the guests with
sugar almonds in a bonbonniere, which
has the appearance cf a roll of parch
ment. On this roll are inscribed the
names of the child, of the parents, god
parents,. the date of the birth, and christ
ening, and the mime of the church where
the ceremouey was performed.
The weat-lier vane in the shape, of a
large grasshopper, which adorns Fancuil
Hall in Boston, is said. to. have been
placed there by the owner of the hall,
who was also .a wholesale groeer, as a
sign of his occupation. ’'The-grasshopper
was the s'gn ot the Wholesale Grocers*
Association of Boston. Mr. Fancuil was
a prominent inember.’Of. this association.
Railroad conductors get, a great deal,
of medical information and the under
, standing of tnany helpful little schemes
in the, course of a long year’s run. Many
of jive conductors' who, among the many
other ills and ailings of their passangers,
have found that ‘of a particle of dirt or
cinder in the eye to be of the most fre
quent ana 'painful, carry with ’them a
supply of horse hair.- Their experience
jnakes them‘.experts in doubling the hair
and drawing it over, the eye while the
lid is closed.
Mollie Stark.
The speech popularly attributed to-
General uoha Stark on going into the
battle of Bennifrftfton, xYugust 1 iff. 1777,
was: "Boys, wa hold that field to-night,
or Molße's,Stark’s a widow.” Iliswife,.
the daughter OfV-Caleb Page, of 1-iarkl
tdwn,- nows; DaAbartofi, N. 11., was
named Elizabeth, and though there is
mucli’diseussion about the matter, its Is
probable, that-’ the legend . is correctly
given by Rev. J. i‘. Eouman iti’ his cen
tennial poem of the “Battle of Ren
.ningtoa:”
-The morning ran** —there stood the- foe;
» Stark eyed them astliey stood; '
Fe w words Do spske-s’t.wa3 not a time
Fot- morulas lug mood-.
- t‘Bae there the enemy, my boys!
• valor's' might,
Beat Ahem, Or'BdttyStark will sleep
- In widbwh'oAd to-night.”
"J Star.
/r A* Difference.
was young.” said good Miss Jean,
weren’t ashamed to learn to cook.
They didn’t spend tlieir time between
■ The pariOV Und,ihe fashion-book, ■
Nor d;d: they t ike three hours to dress!”
(Sfie rais-dher, bands in consternation.) , ;
“And drearn.of, nothing more «or less •
Than picnic-, parties and-flirtation j
Wtien I wan young!” -■
“When J.°u were young! I dare say, when,
Ah! when indeed;" mused naughty Alice,
“I'm glad I didn't live ju-t then,”
She said albud, with playful nialiee.
“Not Hitt? Tnvsure the cause is clear-*
They never knew my Cousin Harry!
Another reason, aunty dear—
You see the maidens didn’t marry
When you were young!”
—Martha T. Tyler in Judgt.
NitWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
The white petticoat is] a thing of the
past.
The most fashionable women wear no
bustles.
The plain hem at the bottom is again
in vogue.
Jacket fronts are a. feature in the new
tea gowns.
Few fdathera are seen on the dressiest
fall bonnets.
Fur will be much used in trimming
winter gowns.
Many young women are now seeking a
business education.
Borders are a prominent feature of the
best stuffs this season.
Mrs. Sheridan is still young, being blit
thirty-five and beautiful.
Queen Victoria has had wicker baskets
made for her cats to travel in.
Strings of bonnets come from the very
back, not the ears, this season. 1
. The Czarina is so passionately fond of
dancing that she is called ‘la Santerelle.”
The Duchess of Rutland has just com
pleted an excellent guide to Homburg.
Cloth-finished flannels are the pre
ferred wear of women of taste but limited
means.
Mrs. Ella Transom has challenged
Mrs. Shaw to a whistling match for SSOO
a side.
Nearly all the new fall stuffs display
solid colors with stripes of different
weaves.
Fanny Fern never wrote a word for
publication until she passed her fortieth
birthday.
Plain woolens with deep borders of
cashmere are among the importations of
fall goods.
Miss Edg-eworth wrote her stories, in a
common sitting room, surrounded by
her family.
Twenty-three Montana mail routes are
to be run for four years by a woman,
Mrs. Ira Me Lane. ‘
Mary A. Livermore began her minis
terial life in Chicago as pastor of the
I niversalist Church.
Dr. Harriet .Tones lias charge -of the
woman’s department of the Insane Asy
lum at Weston, W. Va.
There are no plain, tight-fitting tailor
gowns among the fall importations of
Par s and London dresses.
Round hats are very large and elabor
ately trimmed, but the brims are not so
wide nor so eccentiic as formerly.
Mrs. E. R. Holbrook is superindent of
department of woman’s work in the
Minneapolis Industrial Exposition.
Many of the newest woolens show a
decided double twill with a deep rice
lined Persiap border along one edge.
Miss Sarah A. Brown, of Lawrence,
Kan.,is candidate for State Superintend
ent of Rublic Schools en the Prohibition
ticket.
Many fine twilled woolens have-ribbon
stripes two or three inches wide in
blacks, crossbars or shaded effects woven
throughout.
The Association for the Advancement
of Women, better known as the Woman’s
Congress, will hold its annual meeting
November 14, 15 and 16.
In China girls are not obliged to go to
school at all. Their position in the em
pire is so insignificant that no provision
is made for their education.
Airs. E. L. Knowles,, of Montana, who
is studying/ law, has been appointed
notary public—the only woman in. the
territory holding that office.
The,Empress of Japan is rapidly be
coming the best-informed woman of her
time. She is a hard student of German,
Russian, French and Italian.
Camel’s hair cheviots, soft yet fine,
come in Cloth shades bordered with a
deeper tone, and are among, the most de
sirable of all the season’s offering.
Jet-black birds are worn, with straw
or felt hats. The black and suede
straws are faced with black velvet, a
plaiting of lace lying next the face.
Elbow ruffles of sheer muslin, simply
hemmed, and standing frills, with long
fichu ends, or else coming down the
front of the bodice, .arc quaintly pretty.
In England women are again taking to
wearing gaiters. The e are made to
measure-and are of almost any kind of
cloth.’ The ffavorite, hpwever, is the or
dinary drab.'
The fashionable h&t should look as
though it had been put- on wrong side
forethbstv, All bat .trimmings arc placed
far at tlip back, and the front is quite
bare-®f any ornament. 4
The'wife of .bimator Sherman is one of
the leading horticulturists of this coun
try. She not only knows all of the at
tractions of the garden but understands
how to make them thrive.
Mrs. Harvey, of Sftanklin, Isle of
Wight, has founded an instit nation there
which is doubly philanthropic. It is a
home for old ladies and a training-school
for servants'at the skme time.
Chantilly lace with Leaf edges or Greek
squares in open pattern is the. favorite
now for trimming, and is set in two
knife-plcnted rows, turning opposite
wavs, about the. necks, of many new
gowns.
Tlierfcis a great variety in sashes, both
as to coldr find stuff! but the favorites
'Wo tho wide half belts, which come down
from under the arms, - the soft, loosely
knotted Turkish sash, and the fine di
aphanous sitsh. of the tint and texture of
the rainbow.
The famous'“NcHy Bly,” of the New
York World. is a pretty auburn-haired
giti with pretty bjown eyes and sweet
face. , Her name is Miss Cochrane and it
goes with without saying that it will be
famous if the young lady continues her
daring exploits in journalism.
The will of Mrs. Anne Seguin, the
motheF-in-law of the charming opera
singer, '/elda regain, gives the latter the
annual intofest of $20,000 on condition
that she does not again The
figure, is so small as to be of little ac
count to a girl disposed to marry.
Ilomt says that sets, of decorated china,
such as used to sell eight or ten years
ago for s*h), are now put on the market
.for «20. This is. mainly owing to the
decline in the price'paid the painters ol
it. A class of girls has been educated
ns declarators, and do the werrk as well
and far cheaper than of old.
Edwin Booth, the actor, haunts studios
end Auokes a pipe,