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SEkN AND HEARD
IN MANY FLACHS.
One of the curious nve’ations
of the recent 1 i itish cei>m s is the
extraordinary predominance of
the female over the male sex
among the gr< wn inhabitants of
England. 3he figures show that
the excess of the form r over the
latter amounts to exactly 809,900
Another remarkable thing in con
nection with this excess of women
i« the faci that more than flve
ptw»hs of the tola! 899,000 are
widows.
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A wonderful volume, in which
the text is neither written nor
printed, has been “published” as
a curiosity by a firm of silk weav
ers at Lyons, France. It is made
of pure silk and was published in
25 pares. Each part consisted of
snly two leaves, so that the en
iire volume contains but 100
•ages. The leaves of this unique
'olume are inscrib’d with th*
na»B service and several prayers,
loth the le'ters an! the border
ve in black silk on a white back
ground.
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If it were possible for a man to
onstruct a globe 800 feet in height
-much less than twice the height
f Washington’s monument —and
j place upon any portion oi its
irface an atom l-4880th of an
in diameter and 1-120 h >f an
. ich in height, it would correctly
anote the proportions man bears
> the gigantic globe upon which
■ e stands.
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The curious custom of “telling
!0 bees’’ is observed in parts -of
iarly every country in the world,
’hen a person dies those who ob
rve the custom go to the bee
ves and tap gently on each, then
oop and whisper under the cap
at Mary, Jane, Thomas or Wil-
I un is dead. This, it appears, is
’ ni» tok ep tne lit le honeymakers
forsaking their abode should
ey be compelled to find out the
we themselves.
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Says the Philadelphia Record.
“It is unnecessary to agree with ,
■xey to become interested in him.
i is natural and earnest. There is (
t a trace of a demagogue about i
n, but he asks no man to pay
e doller towards t e enunciation i
hip ideas. With unflagging ener- ,
he travels through the land, the
| vstle of his own creed, paying
owe expenses, asking no contri
lirions, and desiring to despoil ,
i man’s property. He and the
T ue quarry do it all. By care and
gality hehas brought abauta
ifortable home condition cf
netary affairs. From his excava
-1 five miles beyond Massillon
men bring wealth from the
I th and a well-appointed stock
n produces many of the best
ding stock that has ever flown
tly over the tracks of the Grand
| cbs. That is the practical side
' loxey. His sincerity dsmon
tes itself in the fact that he is
; ing to take his honest earnings
ng assistance from no human
ig, to give earnest and public
cession to that which he be
es is for the public good.
o o o
ie manner in which he got the
i of his much-talked-of “Good
de Bill’’ shows the common
which, diverted as it may be
□ nates the man. While he was
•arnest advocate of the green
c theory he had ns clear idea
o how the government should
e the money. Riding from his
rry one night towards Massill
nd finding the roadway un
illy and profanely rough the
ight occurre <. to him that it
!l Id be a great idei to have
icle Sam’’ take the hundreds
thousands of unemployed and
the roads of the country into
shape, issue greenbacks in
|» nent and thus accomplish a
'!■' 3 public work with benefit to
I,', ? who were distressed. The
■I. >quent thought that this
dnot prove of benefit to the
ities led to hie now w
known “Non-interest hearing
Bond bill’’ which he is now en-
■ d©a voting to engraft as the primal
principle of the Populis s party.
With these theories as the ba«is
of his appeal to public supports
Coxey went before the people of
Ohio bst fall against both the
[ candidates of the Republican and
■ Democratic parties, stumping the
State from one end to the other —
and mind you, still at hi* own ex
panse—making 175 speeches and
convincing 52,675 voters that he
was right. That is not a work f»r
one man tobeashamed of. Now he
is going down in Tennessee, Geor
-1 gia, Alabama and Mississippi and
all through that region to try to
convert the Prpulists and other
I e >ple in those States that his
views are for the benefit of human
kind, and again let it be recorded
all at his own expense.
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Say what you will, think what
yon will, you cannot but admire
rhe indefatigable energy of a man
like this who can say his say with
a low, earnest voice, a clear eye
and his hair cut.
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Among the new tests t > be shown
by Mrs. Abbitt, the Georgia ma'-
ie( at Macon on Friday night D
me de cribed as follows by the
N ishville Btouer in an article a
cjlumn 1 mg telling of herp rform
mcs in that city.
A handsome pair of scales were
hen brought <m and Mr Turner
Henderson, ss an expert weigher,
tested them to his own satisfac'ioi.
tnd that of rhe comm't’ee and
audience. Miss Abbott then st p
p d on th? platfoun and lh« scales
not on 'y would not balauc*, bu
showed no regularitv in their
variations. Mr. Bob Runs ths>
placed his entire weight on the
ittle woman’s shoulders and she
w'aighed no more. He then under
t >k to lift her and her weight
ncreaaed. Here i* a feat that ha
baffled all investigation aud.wil
ever remain one of the things that
imp'y are. The last te ts wer*
stunners. Five men piled on one
chur and Miss Abbott lifted them
first by the under one’s neck and
then by the sid-H of the chair, all
the time holding fresh egg between
her hand and the chair. The
Georgia Wonder announced at this
juncture that it was ge ti ig Ute
aud that she would bring her enter
taiument to a close if the audience
was satisfied; if nit, she would
make tests until daylight before
she would let a skeptic go. There
were no comp aint< an 1 the per
form nine cone uded with cue m >re
fwa . Six gmtUiniu grasped a
strong p >U and h id it to t it) fi ior.
M*. Lucius B irch, who tips the
beam, at 20), ciun ied on »op and
with olio nand that wonderful
woman raised that polo and moved
it ha f way a toss the stage, deep'.te
i|p s’rugg'es of the strong men.
It w more than wondorful; it
was superhuman, uucany audthr
amazement of the retiring audience
was unbounded.
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Storms in which red, yellow and
colored snows fell were recorded
as long ago as the Sixth Century
Humboldt mentions a hailstorm
which once occurred in Palermo,
ir which every hadstone was as re 1
as a globule of froze” blood. On
arch 14 1813 fliers was a hail
storm in Tuscany in which the in
ilividuil stones were each of a
bright yellow color. In 1808 at Car
mola, Germany, they had a fall of
crimson snow which was nearly
five feet in depth. Snow of a brick
red hue fell in Italy in 1816, and
in the Tyrol in 1847. In some sec
tions of Iceland snow seldom fails
to any considerab’e oepth without
being core posed of alternate layers
of fiozen crystals of different col
ors. Sir John Ross mmt’sns Artic
banks of red snow which are s >
well known to exp'orers that they
arecalhd the “crimson cliffs.’’
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A bdy lately Os Topeka, writes
from her new home in El Red,
t’aiilornia, to a friend here:
“There is a class of men here
called‘Blanket Men.’ they go a
round the coutry in crowds and
herds, each one carrying his roll
of blanketa, sleeping anywhere
FME HUSTuER OF ROME SUND aY DECEMBER 8 1 -95
They beg from ! ous to hous
something to e»t. They work a fe*
days 11 a tiin- and then go and
sii in front of a «a'oon u til th'ir
money is g me. When -Sunbiy
c miHS th-y go to a stream and
wish their cl th-s. It is jus. riread
ful to th nk m-n cing t>o lo v. 1
n -ve - t tough) hsr < aiv g" d
in tne C >X"y m vmn«*ut u> td imw ;
he was i h • mea is of getting a 1 r ’•
numbfrol th*<emjnout: o the
Stat".
“ They sav tla Califonia ts th"
onlv State wh-ie they can bve in
that wiy. ve ask them sometimes
how tmy ca i forget ter homes in
the East and live , like animals.
I’hey say.‘O'.i, it.s the climate!’
Our preacher said wk n here r o tea :
I believe more people will g> to
hell from California thau any
other place, a d it is al’ the fault
f the cliroate ’
“We hear noth ng of law here.
Each sone d ’«s as h pleaes. I
makes me sad a id homesick. There
are hundreds and hundreds cf
these men wondering from one
dart of the Sta'e to another. Ties
bread and wo’k for whiskey.”
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Two Kentuckian< discu -
sing Car isle in a group at lie
Metropolitan in Washington ,one
uph'lding the Secretary and the
ither belittling him. The formor
said Carlisle was growing evety
day more popular in hie native
State, siid in time h- might have
votes enough to make him Presi
dent.
Why said h% two men I know ”f
have named their babies after h
smirtest man in the country —
John G Carlisle.
The oth r Kentuckian demand
ed to know the names of these so nd
fathers, and when told exclaimed:
Why Jiin Short's baby ain’t bo-n
I know it replied the other, but
hehaswriiten to Carlisle tba‘
vh*u it 18 be will name it after
him.
Pshaw, returned the Secretary's
■ « i y, That’s the t-ouble with all
f Carlisle* strength—it ain't
• i'n ye\ Snort’s bitey miy bs a
. il.
l'h»re was a laugh until a eol
mu looking Georgian interrupted
it with this remark :
It is hard tc decide whether Mr.
Carlisle has grown popular in
K-mtuoky or not, but from what
I ou gentlemen say, his friends are
vidently doing the very best they
can for him.
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A tie v fac3 was noticed the oth
er night behind the desk of a very
swell hotel. Several of a group
m ide inquiring commet upon the
presence of the stranger. An old
hotel man sto<ed by. S nd hs : Why
chat is, next to the proprietor, the
most valutble man about this
• gtablishment.
Hi is a sizer, an 1 the cleverest
in the business. There was natu
ra'ly a query in c i >rns as what
was meant by t - z , an 1 the
ho‘el man exp a; i• i o t he wa<
i trusted and con ti i u ial hotel
employe who sized up what each
patron of the establishment —they
ire not guests, as every mwspaper
in the laud daily iuformim —is
willing to pay for the service ac
o'ding him. This is a i iuuer
mystery of the hotel business that
has never publicly bsen revealed.
Humanity is read most easily
hi a public hostelria. There every
knd of human being is seen ou
full parade with all the foibles of
mankind expose! to ths public
gaze.
it is a great object lesson; an
exhibition of the weaknesses and
the vauiteis of ourselves and our
fellows. The hotel Man who under
stands this, gauges it and feels its
pulse, is as sure winner Hence,
Vory hotel, in the prominent
cities of this country, especiaTy
in New York, which is, miuaged
upon the European plan, employs
a sizer, who is paid a larger salary.
He must be a keen Judge to
human nature. When a statemeu
of high renown registers his name
u >on the hotel book, this function
ary fondles him with attentions,
sees that he gets the best apart
ment in the house, aud when he
leaves arangcß that his bill shall
>e small. Big siatHinen ar-< adver
tisements to a publio hon«. We'
ow statesm m Hoc; ar >un 1 them
and buv wine.
Newspapers interview them
and publish s he name of the h >te
wh r* they am stayi'ig. Litt*
t - Ipolee in th > politic il pond
c irry their gripsacks to we e the
b g bullfrogs are crooking. The
a z r insures an ;li c >mf ct t > the
g -at man ih it he re’ums to the
h 41-1 ag >io an . agiin until it
fi in ly bicomei kn >wn a-i hi»
headquarters.
But s mi-'oi.e must pay for wha'
the greit statesman does not.
Tnis is generally the new y rich
fellow rnesiz rdem nitrates hie
ability by the ea'imate be p'aoo*
upon pe >p!e of this class, i’aere
is probably a popular i.npressian
t'theeff it that in all toe -wel
hotels in the large cit es the e s a
regular price sited forth) occu
pancy of each room, d p riding
upon its siz •, the fl >or it is o.i,
and wheth ir if has parlor and ba' h
room connec ions. There was nev
er a more mistaken idea.
Toe biz >r det <rslices what yon
shall pay. His eyes fathom not
..nly your pocket book, but your
disposition. M my m n, especially
the newly rich, although they may
not know bow to live at hom?, like
a princely estimate placed upon
their tasL s and habits when they
<r > (rave! ing.
To such as these the sizir says:
My dear sir, lamso g ad that we
have the bridal cham >ir vacant.
I know nothing Las would sat sfy
you. It h'B just been vacated by.
M-. Af-torbilt and I am delight'd
that J am enabl 4 to accomm >date
vou with that suite of apsrtmeuts.
Wnat is the result? Mr. M n,
bump of vanity b icom s expensive
ly swollen a id when he receives a
b 1 for SSO a day for a suit of
apartments, the customary price
of which is $lO, he pays it with
deligh\ glories in telling his
rieuds about it, and becomes a
walking, falsing advertisement of
the hotel waich aas sized him up.
That is no exaggeration.
A welt known I’niladelphlan, *
mini of a-ge means and of advanc
ed years, wi h his wife, ou bis way
homi from a trip to Europe, stay
ed at a New York hotel with the
intention of remaining there on*
day. The most accomplished sizer
living took him iu charge and
placed him in a suite of apart
ments for which he charged SIOO
a day. Did that alarm him?
He had be a n well sized up. His
mansion in Philadelphia was va
cant except for the servants who
<>a 1 him in charge. But the s!z ?r ’
had seized him and it is a matter I
record that he and his wife rem i t
ed in that hos eiri-e at that d.-uly
rate of expenditure, which di I n■>'
include me its, for fuliy one y -er.
R*ckoii that “s zer” earned b s
■•alary. Many a man has occupie.i
the same apartments since lor $lO
a diy.
It is this cleverness in the s‘udy of
mankind that blings enorrnou- in
comes to hotel proprietors, who, m
bei' lipe of work. pos-esS the ji’-
ributes of gsniu j . People wonder
how some of the Lading p bic
nouses of America, which are con
fessedly the finest in the wr>r d
can be so royally appoint d aud
yet. nrove profitable
They do not dream of the
amount of their money receipts.
During the New York Horse Show,
of a few w’eeks age, one hotel in
that city put into its coffers dm y
from the pocket-books of its p«»_
rons between $27,000 and $30,000.
Those continued through
out the year would mean mi an
nual income of over $10,000,000
but, of cou-rse, there are violent
fluctuations in the patronage *>f a
hotel. All ihese things the “riz-r’
watches.
He knows when to tell the $2 i
lay man that every room in tn
house is ta<en, knowing full wel,
that before the night is passed a
$5 a day man will take tie place
And this comparison grows stroiqr
er as the figures reach higher
The “sizer” is purely an Ameri
can institution.
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Gold in plenty may be found
in the sands of the Volauor River
—a stream <1 nv.deri t' volume
•h t falls from th" snow line of
Sierra de St Martha, iu S mth
Am -rica: *»ut tbr ugh the low laud
region sud th" riv*r hed whe-e the
ip-»cions me‘al pbour.ds i i fabuo-
Im.s quantities are e;'si y accessi
ble, the moequiioea are so thick
a d 'err.ble there that all attempts
to rfl » the Bind” o' t • i’ go’d
have so fir failed aoco'dii. 4t • a
Lo d n exchange.
Elisee R'cu l , the cele'rited
Franc Iga igrapher, w.i* the fi st
to exp’ore th ) p tin abo it rhe
Votad >r’s m mt'i. He hid tn >ug’nt
pf establishing ai ag-ica 'an
c< Imy i 1 th' f rtile ’.owl mds, but
f un ! the plague of injects ao un
be irable that ‘ie was forc'd to beat
a retreat aud aband n his project.
H) was th 1 disc ivefer of this won
derful stream w’hosi water s veep
over sands which an literary’
golden
He t >ld the no vs to ta* French
Vce Consul at Rio Hacha, and
this offi :.al ob iiii d the cme >s
si >u of this E d > a 1 >. The d uig Ts
he was to eocou rer ho k ,ew per
fec ly Tell. H t))k with him
when he set out an ing-n ously
C instructed gmz • tent o‘ la go
dimensions.
For tv (days ho tried to live
U der its shelter and wa'ch the
opoor/ti ms 0" bio vor m n, who
pi ’ <1 up am nt by the h>n iful.
H Mt d 'Ut with a pa-ty of
six, b > shar d with him 1 i
belief, «ud so they took along 110
spici il p • )tect on against the
ins cis. T iey eu lur d ior less t ian
ha f in h iur th • awiul tortur .
and the 1 left. Tauy found th-.ir
way back to Rio H ioh 1 with diffi
cu’fy, forth ) eyes of five were so
badly swollen Ihi’ they we n blind.
Yet there are hu na 1 h logs who
ciu venture with impunity into
this g>l i m io wan 3 g.i»rdixu
d> '0 ir ; m >54 i t >n. aul there
are so u-r of ttn ai/ag' ua v<s o '
the ni ?uutaias from waose roexy
steep tuerivei ful *. Those savag s,
who are mssq 1 t> proof, are ren
dered so by thnr bodies being
covered with /scales ot lepr >sy.
S.range to 8 iy, the m-sq litoes
wi.l not trneb them. But neither
g> d nor th > fasoiuai o s of oivi.i
zati »a will tempt them to ab >r.
It is an old an i true saving t lat
oie a g;i nvii cr ro % along
wicho.it fur* in ‘at A s io 'epjos
»swi;h>ot m >sq iit<o ue.s ia tis
tropics.
-
Alter Thirty Years.
THE BUCKEYE STATE CONTRI
BUTES THE -STORY OF A
VETERAN’S SEARCH
How Fred Taylor, n Member of the
Gallant 189th N. Y., V. 1., Finally
Found What He Has Sought
Since tile War Clotted.
the Ashtabula, Ohio, Jleacon.)
| Mr. Fred Taylor was born and brought
up near Elmira, N. Y. and from there en
listed in the 189th regiment, N. Y., V. 1.,
j with which he went through the war, and
i saw much hardyerviee. Owing to exposure
ami hardships during the service, Mr. Tay
i lor contracted chronic diarrhoea from which
j he has sutfered now over 30 years, with
absolutely no help from physicians. By
| nature he wonderfully vigorous man.
i Had he not been, his disease and the exper
iments of the doctors liad killed him long
ago. Laudanum was the only thing which
afforded him .elief. He had terrible head-
; aches, his nerves were shattered, he could
not sleep an hour a day on an average, and
I he was reduced to a skeleton. A year ago,
he and his wife sought relief in a change of
i climate and removed to Geneva, Ohio ; but
’ the change in health came not. Finally on
the recommendation of F. J. Hoffner, the
leading druggist bf Geneva, who was cogniz
ant of similar cases which Pink Pills had
i cured, Mr. Taylor was persuaded to try a
box. ‘‘As a drowning man grasps a straw
so I took the pills,” says Mr. Taylor, " but
with no more hope of rescue. But after
I thirty years of suffering and fruitless search
I for relief lat last found it in Dr. Williams’
Pink Pills. The day after I took the first
pills I commenced to feel better and when
I had taken the first box I was in fact a new
[ man.” That was two months ago. Mr. Tay
lor has since taken more of the pills and his
I progress is steady' and he has the utmost con
fidence in them. He has regained full con- '
i trol of his nerves and sleeps as well as in his
youth. Color is coming back to his parched
{ veins and he is gaining flesh and strength
! rapidly. He is now able to do considerable
' outdoor work. ,
As he concluded narrating his sufferings,
| experience and cure to a Beacon reporter 1
Mrs. Taylor, who has been his faithful help- i
I meet these many yeais. said she wished to
i add her testimony in fnror of Pink Pills.
; To (, le pills alone is due the credit of rais- I
i ing Mr. Taylor from a helpless invalid to
the man ho i < to-day,” said Mrs. Taylor. 1
Both Mr.and Mrs. Tavlor cannot find words i
■ to express th ■ gratitude th.ev fe -1 or recoin- '
mend too highly Pin': Piils to sufi'ering hu- '
man.'ty. Any inept l rie . addressed to them at
• <eneva, <>.. regard,pg Mr. Taylor's case they
will cheerfuil v nn^« rns they are anxious
i that the win I.* world shall know what Pink
Pdls have don • for them and that suffering
humanitv may be benefited thereby.
Dr. Williams' pink Pills contain all the '
i elements necessary to give new life and rich- I
j uess to the blood and restore shattered
; nerves. They are for sale bv all druggists
' or may be had by mail from Dr. Williams’ I
I Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y for '
160 cents per box. or six boxes for J2.5t). ’ 1
FDR WOMEN FOLKS
WOMEN AIHLETEB.
O-of the fields in whlch ’ .
Hggrt.s ve and progre PBIVe yoUhr
'wnmsnoftodavigwiuninn reu *
i io of physical culture
ibstm msy tar di •
* h “i) Dr.Snrg'Dr w i|| ha , o , 0
to his laurels or they win be
ed from him. Already there are fi ve
women gj mnasium insiruc'ors who
have more than local reputation
Pernepa the best-known o f th B
group 18 Mias Ellen L'Gards, f., r
she, in addition to having charge
ot th* physical training ni the
Providence («. I.) sch .01, has
written od the subject. Sb e has al
-8) invented rhe only gymnasium
apparatus which ow>'a existence to
a woman—the musical dunih-bell s
She is an entbuß ; ast on the subject
of physical training, and has visit
ed all the important gymnasium,
in Europe.
Miss Lucile Hall is the inatruc’-
or in physical training at Weller
*ey, and Wellesley hoasts of having
a bett a r physical training depart
ment than any o'her woman’scol
lege in the country. In addition to
all her gymnastic work, Mi»s Hall
manages the outdoor club’s crews
and teams which form so prominent
a featuie of Welles'ey life.
Mrs. miry H. Ludlum is the in
istuctor under whom theyoungper-
I sous of St.L 'uis are developed in
grace and etreught. For six ie rs
she has taught in the high and
Normal echo'ls in thatci'v. Chi
cago University has placed thews]
being of i s women under the care
of Miss Kate Anderson, si-Lr oi
Dr. Anderson of Yale. Miss Ander
son re eived her appointment as
bead of tbe gymnasium last fall.
A' {Bryn M iwr, Dr. Ali © Fc-s er
has charge of the gymnasium,
which the 330 students are requir
ed to a teud.
A'l the</e women have to be all
round” athletes, for, in addition
to be able to diagonse every ill to
which a pupil is entitled hy here
dity, or which she may have de
tailed in the stifling h«at clothed
in thick garment© and protected
by heavy bao's, gleves aud veils.
At tbe end of the second day both
employes gave up the s'r iggle i*nl
retreated.
The next who tried to wring
fortunes frjm these auriferous
eaiids was an Italian, who obtained
permission from the Vice Consul.
The Italian laughed at the idea of
mjsq litoes driving any one away
from a place wli3re gold could be
veloped on h«r own account, they
mu*t fie ablet) instruct a girl in
! c>" art of vaulting, turning back
somersaults, military drill, swim
ming owing, sprinting and even.
I fuo'.btill.—Cincinnati Fnqutrer.
I’he Flower Bonnet.
The flower bonnet is this season
avored in the form of a turban.
'J 1 e main portion is of amour straw
di soar* odd shade, while blossoms
or leaves d'fine the edge or are
thrown up into little aigrtte clus
ters at the sides. These are mar
velously dainty an 1 with a couple
>f spreading lace wings would look
ever so mich more expensive than
i L< y really ar*.
As a hint for spring dress buy
er- I want to tell them that th»
eston jacket is again tbe rage-
With wide revers and giant sleeves
it is but natural that so jaunty a
a rment should win such great
popularity. It is the result largely,
»00, of the fmey for fur jacket s
of this cut that have bean worn so
much tnis winter.
Mrs. Sidney Lanier, the poet
widow, who is giving readings ii»
various cities from her. husband*
verse, is described as a fine exam
pie of the Southern lady of ol
times. Iler hair, once raven black
but now streaked with silver, is
brushed back from the forehead,
aid she wears an old-fashion
comb in the chignoa- Her dress is
black, relieved only by a whtf fc
ruffle at the throat. Her voics ia
the true Southern intonation
which is a pleasing thing to
ern ears “ '*“**