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SUNDAY MORNING.
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ItPHH.
When X ray lust good-night tiave said,
AMien lights are low, ami I’m in heJ,
Then, oh. dear nr© !
1 always see
Bears.
I bang my clothes with nicest care,
As i ve teen told, upon a chair.
They always thru,
When low lights burn,
To bears.
If, then. I move to face the door
And rug lies rumpled on the floor,
'Vhy, I would know,
Should ihut rug grow
A bear?
" ben Bruno growls, though no one's near,
When sleeping puss awakes in fear,
Tis plain to me
1 hey also see
Those bears.
When I’m a man. how shnll I fight
•A hear that disappears with ligui?
While pondering deep
X fall asleep
To hears.
An Iron Mari.
A story-writer, who wrote for boys
13 or 20 years ago. built up many thrill
ing tales about a mechanical contriv
ance in the form of a man. Such a
machine—" Hercules, the Iron Man” —
was actually on exhibition last sum
mer at a Cleveland park.and The lead
er tells of one of the walks he tools.
Hercules is eight feet high; arul, when
the oi! fire inside him is lighted and
steam is generated, he walks about,
pushing a sort of iron-wheeled cart.
He wears a tall hat and a hideous
grin, and puffs exhaust steam through
his nostrils.
i.ate one night some of the camp
ers at the park lighted the lire in
Hercules after the resort was closed
and the owner of ihe figure had gone
away. The valve had been left open
when the fire was put out; and. when
steam was generated again, the man
began to walk about the park. No
one knew how to step him, and he
walked all over the park, through the
shallow lake, over the tents of the
campers and t’ur side-show tents.
Sleepers in his path had to be
awakened to get them out of the way,
for it was impossible to control the
steam man's movements. Inequalities
in the ground, trees, and other ob
structions turned him aside but did
not stop him. He terrorized the park
for an hour, but, like many a human
being, came to grief at rlie bar. He
marched up to it and knocked it over.
Hercules fell with the bar, and alight
ed on his head on ilie other side. He
stood there on his head, kicking Ids
feet in the air, until his steam went
down.
A White lioliin.
A few days ago Little Boy came
running into the house, calling ex
citedly; “Grandmamma, come quick!
It looks like a ehtekie, but it are a
bird! It flies.”
Now Little Boy has very sharp eyes,
and these same eyes are always finding
out something new and wonderful
about the birds and squirrels living in
tlie pines that Cluster about our home.
So, when grandmamma heard him
calling, she put down her sewing im
mediately, and went outdoors with
him.
“It's on the tennis-court, catchin'
worms,” said Little Boy, hurrying her
along. "There, see?”
Sure enough! Running back and
forth on the lawn was what looked, ai
a distance, like a tiny white bantam
hen.
Little Boy laid a finger on his lips,
and carefully, quietly crept nearer to
the strange little creature. Grand
mamma did the same.
Now they could see that the bird
had a black cap and a red breast like*
a robin, but the rest of its plumage
was white, it had a robin's way, tak
ing short, quick runs over the lawn,
stopping now and then to capture an
earth-worm. Catching sigh' of grand
mamma and Little Boy, it flew to a
nearby tree, uttering a robin's sharp
note of alarm.
"it must boa robbin,” said grand
mamma. And so it was, —a robin
freak.
Since then we have watched it every
day. Poor little freak. He has rather
a l ard time, for his robin relatives are
not at all kind lo him. They drive
him away whenever he comes any
whera near them, and seem to think
he has no right to the worms on the
iawn.
At first Little Boy wanted to inter
fere with these unfair quarrels, but
papa told him that it would do more
harm than good; for it would frighten
the white robin as much as the others.
But we are all for the little outcast,
and we admire his pluckines and dig
nity. He never picks a quarrel, but.
when attacked, he makes a spirited
tight, for his rights. He is never dis
heartened unless outnumbered. Then
he flies off with despairing cries, to a
tree-top, leaving his greedy relatives
in triumphant possession of the worm
field.
We hope that some day he will eon
mier and perhaps persuade the other
robins to take him into their commu
nity.—Christian Register.
The Mory of Bob.
Bob was a very uncommon yellow
dog. The Irish woman who presented
him to his mistress said, “That dog’s
a perfect gintieman. that's what he
is"; and Bob’s subsequent behavior j
fully justified this estimate of his char-
Kter. He was always the most ch.v
- "r ous of dogs, a pattern to bis own ;
kind and to his betters. Although he !
was an Immense animal, and never
hesitated to attack man or beast, even
if twice his size, all small and helpless
things seemed to know instinctively
that he would protect them.
A ca; which always was known as
“Bob's Friend thereafter, strayed cm
the place when she was but a timid
little kitten. She walked right up to
where the big dog iay. He bent over
and licked her face, and kitty purred,
and proceeded to lie down across his
big paws and go to sleep.
From his puppyhood days Bob con
stituted himself the champion of wo
men and children. A workman on
the place of whom he was l'ond, in
assisting some visitors from a car
riage, held the baby in his arms while
the mother was getting out. The child
cried, and Bob sprang at his friend
with a growl and had him by the leg.
not letting go until the mother took
the child and restored peace.
Bob's mistress lived in a lonely little
cottage near a wood, and to protect
her the dog lay on a mat inside the
bedroom door. No matter how much
barking might be going ou in the
neighborhood, however late his mis
tress slept. Bob invariably waited ~n
his mistress rose and let him out of
doors before barking his say. Some
times, when the barking became fran
tic and Bob could with difficulty re
strain himself, he would shut his
nuufh tight and "woof” under lA
breath.
With all his virtues Bob had one
disreputable trick. He loved to run
into pasture lets and annoy the grax
j ing cattle.
i One day. when his mistress started
for the village. Bob stopped at a neigh
; bor's and invited an old dog to ac-
I company him. Bob enticed poor old
I Jack into every pasture lot. and taught
| him how to jump up and bark at the
j poor beasts. Jack was an apt. pupil,
i and in spite of the efforts of Bob’s
i mistress, the two dogs soon had ter
| rorized cattle flying about in all di
; sections.
j Bob’s mistress was overtaken on the
! road by a friend with a horse and
[ buggy, and Bob rushed up to pay his
; respects to both horse and driver,
i whom he knew. Poor old Jack did not
know them, however, and, having been
warmed up to the sport of annoying
eaitle, he repeatedly jumped for the
j horse's head. Each time Bob jumped
up b tween Jack and the horse and
| bowled ills dog friend over, plainly in
j forming him that a horse which be-
I longed to a friend of his mistress was
not to be molested.
He kept looking back at his mistress
in the most shamefaced, hangdog
j manner, as if apologizing for lbs
1 friend’s -conduct.
Bub always drew a sharp line be
tween his friends and his foes.—Sa3
• Francisco Chronicle.
Five Black I’eta.
Does any child about six and a halit
years old want to hear of five black
i pets, which a little boy I know about
six and a old has? Any
j one who does can read this, but I
, think no one can guess what they are
| or where he keeps them. I told you
j they were black; now, where do you
suppose he found them, and how do
you think he brought them home?
I This much I will tell you—he found
j them when he was walking with his
i father and mother. No, indeed, they
are not wild beasts, lor he caught
them in the grass and brought; them
home in a sugar plum box! The little
| boy thinks they are very contented,
for they often make a pleasant, cheer*
1 fal sound, when, he says, they are "ex*
tremely happy.”
Once lie asked me if 1 knew how
; they mad * this pleasant sound, and
■ then told me he had watched them
; rub their wings together and that
i made their song. So you see they
have wings and yet are so small that
five of them live happily in a sugar
plum box, are black, arid make a
pleasant noise by rubbing their wings
together. Do you know what they
are? Of course, they must have some
f thing lo cat and drink, and of course,
if you care about the m at all. you
; would like to know what they cat and
I what they drink. It is not bread and
j butter, nor meat and potatoes which
j they eat, neither is it milk that they
; drink, but each morning while the
grass is wet with dew the little boy
I gathers a handful of it and then his
pets have both victuals and drink, for
they cat the grass ami drink the dew.
He thinks that they ought to have
i something else, however, and one day
| he carried from the dinner table a
piece of nice sweet potatoe for them.
; Almofi as soon as it was put in the
j box one of them climbed on it and be-
I gan to eat, and they seemed to like it
very much. The idea of climbing on
a piece of sweet potato! Another day
he gave them some Bartlett pears, and
that also was good for them. They
are about an inch long, and jump out
of the box if the lid is left off; but
holes have been made in it, so they;
get air with the iid on. and they really'
seem very comfortable. Do you want
to know what they are? They are five
pretty little biack crickets. Which
would you rather have, a box filled
with sugar plums or crickets? —Wash-
ington Star.
Venice Cliecr* L’p.
Venice is recovering its gravity. The
bands, which had ceased playing in
the square of St. Mark’s since tire fall
of the Campanile, have resumed their
performances, and externally, at least,
the cLv again wears its accustomed
animation. Oayety too, once more pre
vails in the cafes, and in every direc
i tion the stream of the city’s life flows
on as if no disaster had happened,
though the fallen Campanile still lies
near to the popular heart. —London
Globe.
THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS.
A Trainin'* Homy* for Woman.
Fp at Cape Breton a Mrs Horsfall
has established what t;ne calls a Cana
dian home and scno.rl for English gen
tlewomen. The school offers a thor
ough training in English and French
as a preparation, but iis distinctive
business is the teaching of dressmak
ing, needlework, every kind of house
v-oik. including looking and fine laun
dry work, dairy work, poultry keeping,
lice tending and gar*!- aiag. Lat'-r a
co-operative farm and home carried nr
entirely by women is to be opened, ’the
idea is chat in England women have :io
opportunity to learn those arts which
may mike then, independent in the
I’iter atmosphere of this country, and
the Canadian woman l reposes to teach
her countrywomen hew to do some
thing to earn their living on their ur
inal here. —New York Commercial-Ad
vertiser.
A Petticoat Kink.
Though not new the silk petticoat
with a sher irmi! flounce is being tti.il
is.fd in anew way. It. came in as
merely a pretty novelty, but with -.he
avei increasing elaboration it has found
its true place.
Take one in pin u taffeta, for in
stance. It has a plaiting around the
foot. Over this is a very deep flounce
of white mull much adorned with line
tucks and dainty laces.
This may be worn with many dresses,
but it is at its very lest with a white
organdie over a delicate pink slip.
Then when the dress is held up the
petticoat is, to say the least, “in the
picture.”
It’s this thought (hat makes any get
up worth the wearing. Those who
think such painstaking beneath them
really waste most of the money they
put into dress. If one simply* desires
to be decent and clean, why buy frivols
at all?
Tim I's©# of Cold frpnm.
No matter how much tan the modern
alhletio girl acquiies during the
months that, she practically lives out
of doors, siie appears at the first, of
the winter’s dances with her complex
ion like a tinted rose petal.
This goes to show Hurt, however, re
gardless of appearances, she may seem,
she devotes time and patience to the
preservation of her complexion. Too
much cannot be said against the cus
tom of washing the face after a long
day on the water or a spin over the
country.
Pure cold cream should be applied
first and allowed to remain live or ten
minutes, thus giving It. time to absorb
' cleanse the pores.
This is then carefully wiped off with
1 a soft cloth, and the face ousted light
ly with a good powder.
The face should not bo washed be
; fore going out Into the air or sunshine;
it is much better to rub in a trifle o*
cold cream and then give It a dash of
powder.—Nev- York Journal.
On© Way lo Sittin I’in Money,
A young woman of my acquaintance
makes her pin money marking linen.
She writes a. fine hand and her dainty
chirography on pretty gift handker
chief gives to them an additional
value. She does the work to suit her
own convenience, not being at tile
“beck and call” of an employer. The
nicety of her work is well under;:.ood,
and so it comes about that much of
the household linen, napkins, towels,
handkerchiefs, bridal outfits in that
little city bear the print of her deli
cate touch. For weeks before the hol
idays she is kept busy marking the
hundreds of articles to be given away.
For weeks after, her nimble fingers
are no less busily employed marking
the hundreds that, have been received.
In tiie fall the wardrobes of the young
girls going off to college and seminary
must be marki I. and so this young
woman with the deft fingers reaps
another harvest. Shi- stiffens the cor
ner of each handkerchief crosswise a
space just large enough to take in the
name—with cold .starch and presses
with a very hot iron, thus making the
fabric like paper to write upon.—Good
Housekeeping.
Ouoen Ali'T-intlra.
Queen Alexandra has a deep rooted
tasie for art, and discerns tho great,
part that art is called upon to play in
modern society. She not only encour
ages artists, but also explains to them
how much she relies on their talent,
and their help in hours of depression,
how much she is awake to every new
manifestation of thought and labor.
Her hands are as skilful as her smile
to adorn a home and make every one
who crosses the threshold of her Lon
don palace or summer abode feel at
ease. Music is one of her great de
lights. She insists upon hearing all
the celebrated pianists and singers
who swarm in London during the sea
son, and afterward, when she speaks
of ;.ho pleasure she has derived from
their skill and inspiration, one can
see to what an extent her attention is
awakened and her faculties keenly
bent on comparing the various dilet
tanti and virtuosi, and bestowing
upon them such criticism and praise
as best suit them. But poetry „ie
queen may be said to prefer to every
thing else, and poets are to her a
source of perpetual study. Their sen
sibilities and imaginative impulses
strike her whenever she is able to
give some of her time to reading and
reciting aloud, which she does' in clear
harmonious tones, provided she be
quite by herself—Contemporary Re
view.
A* to Color#.
Fashion sometimes imposes what, is
false to true principles of art in its
combinations of colors and it3 disre
gard of graceful lines. The average
woman will be "in the fashion," even
if she knows that it does not suit her
style. ‘"Style” is such a potent influ
ence that when it is secured, some af
front lo a fundamental principle of
taste is mitigated. Getting accustomed
to some unbeautiful fashion will soften
the aversion to it until one almost gets
to like it. Thus what was regarded
with rapture in one period as a stun
ning mode of costume, excites the
Piirthfuluess of a later one by its fan
tasticality. But good taste about dress
never gets to the point of being insen
sible. or resigned, to the exhibition of
lad taste : u it.
Write is a very beautiful color for
gowns, and quite safe. It is nearly al
ways becoming, and, as a rule, very
charming. There aro numerous shades
of white, ami the quality of it in dif
ferent fabrics affords many effectively
contrasting nuances, while the trim
ming may soften it with distinction.
A toilette in white may he the perfec
tion of elegant simplicity, exquisite
refinement, and aristocratic charac
ter. It is possible to impart to its
daintiness a sumptuous brilliancy by
the garniture till it is appropriate for
the most impressive function in point
of richness and splendor. For a cer
tain coloring and type, scarcely any
thing sets oft better the grace and
beaut} of the wearer.—Harper’s Ba
zar.
On College Thinking?.
Curtent opinion lias it that the col
lege girl spends much time in think
ing—in deciding what stand she shall
take upon various abstract anu abs
truse questions, when the time comes
for her to go out into the world. X
< undid confession, and estimate from
an upper class student in one of the
large colleges for women gives a fair
statement of the real state of things.
“There are two declensions of Ihe
theme college woman —that of the ac
tual living girl and that of the exalted
being who exists, somewhat vaguely
defined, in the imagination of the out
side world. One of the most common
delusions produced by the existence
in popular conception of this ideal col
lege girl is the fallacy that thinking
constitutes one of her everyday hab
its. People imagine that, the college
girl exercise:: Iter brain as a man does
his horses; that siie gives each partic
ular faculty of her mind (speaking
unsciontiflb ally), a daily constitution
al.
“The college woman herself knows
that this is not true. She realizes
that she differs widely from the ideal
of herself held by the world at large,
and particularly is she conscious that
her brain processes arc by no means
of the superior order generally ima
gined. The college girl—speaking
with all deference to her power of ac
quiring knowledge- loos not know
how to think. Learning, laying up a
store of facts, is not thinking.
“Perhaps it is the very multiplicity
of her interests that crowds out of
her life the power of original thought.
Jn the hurry of college work, the
ceaseless round of recitations, lectures
and laboratory hours, who can stop to
think? A girl may have perfect com
mand of her subject in so far aH it re
lates to Lie material that sity gains
from outside sources, but of wedding
j these scattered facts into a unified
; whole through the power of her per-
I somrl thought she knows VI it lo or
! nothing. Site broadens her mental
| life, but does she deepen it? A cross
I section of the mind of some old Puri-
I tan disputant would be an extremely
: interesting study for the average col
lege girl. Sin- does not know how to
think, even when at, rare intervals she
finds the time. Into the realm of orig
inal thinking she gazes as into some
fair but forbidden land of promise,
and how, in the continual whirl of her
college life, shall she learn the way
thither? Thinking is a fine art —it
requires time and concentration, but
the obtaining of thin power is worth
all a girl’s college course, and the lack
of it is it loss she can never retrieve.
—New York Tribune
MW
Under sleeves continue to flourish.
Every costume has some sort of a
sash.
Breast pockets distinguish many
outing suits.
Heavily shirred dresses are not for
stout women.
Plaid bands cut bias are effective
on plain materials.
Broad chantiily applique in cream
adorn? a lovely pink applique.
Lace-edged fichus are a’very pretty
touch. Chantilly is a good choice.
Buttons v/ith loops catch Van Dykes
together over a contrasting under fab
ric.
Hats of heavy laee arc stunning fin
ishes to laee dresses or rigs trimmed
with laee.
A flat collar and narrow turnback
cuffs of black broadcloth are effective
on outing jackets of cream-colored
sijjfge.
Silver tissue is the best possible
background for beautiful lace, with a
layer of tulle between, often edged
witn shaded cmrfon.
The tassel is much in evidence ami
dangles from scarf, sash, belt arid
coat. The tassels made of trie same
materials as the dress of taffeta, or
foulard, or chiffon, have lately yielded
place to those of passementerie and
silken fringe.
poigJimLD HINTS
< loan in" I ©llento Lnc.
Here is a recipe for cleansing deli
cate laces which an old lace-maker
who'has woven many a gossamer web
for the great connoisseur and lover of
laces, Madame Modjeska, gave to her
pupil and patron: Spread the lace out
on paper, cover with calcined mag
nesia. place another paper over it. and
put it away between the leaves of a
book for two or thre days. Then all
that it needs is a skillful little shake
to scatter the powder, and us delicate
threads are as fresh and clean as when
first woven. This being a lace season,
"he who runs may read.” Good
Housekeeping. .
A l*rncticnl Suggestion.
A suggestion to prevent the slipping
of rugs on polished floors is worth
passing on, as this is often a source
not only of annoyance, but of positive
danger by causing falls. A man who
sells rugs at one of the large shops in
New York says that if a rug is thor
oughly wet on the wrong side and put
face downward until dry, it will not
clip. The explanation is that the wet
ting moistens usefully the slightly
gummy substance with which the
wrong side of the rug is dressed, and
which, becoming dry, causes it to slip.
Obviously this suggestion is only of
value in ease of rugs that have a
wrong side.—Harper’s Bazar.
Up-to- Datn Hulls and Boddin”;.
The selection of beds and the detail
of their equipment, says The Deline
ator. is one of the most important
items of modern house furnishing.
Tho provision for comfort in sleeping
rooms would perhaps receive more at
tention if one realized that fully one
third of a life-time is spent there. In
the course of three score years fully
twenty, even with only moderate sleep
ing, are passed in bed. White iron
bedsteads are so generally used now
that, they may be found even in the
tenement districts, where their neat,
durable and simple construction means
even more than in the homes of more
pretension and wealth. While the
adornment of the bed is of moment,
the foundations of comfort depend on
the choice of mattresses and springs.
Here the quality should be of the best
that can be afforded. A first expense
in good materials is likely to be the
last.
Too Mill'll I*'iimil ure.
“Have nothing in your house that
you do not know to be useful and be
lieve to be beautiful." was one of the
sane precepts of William Morris. Have
you applied it to your own house? If
not; begin with Ihe sitting room and
carefully consider each article. How
few things here are really useful?
We need enough comfortable chairs,
and each one should be a thing of
beauty—not necessarily expensive, but i
well made, of good proportion, and
with no sham carving. Each should ;
be a self-respecting object, proud to j
show itself: not the beribboned, be
tidied, nondescript article which some- j
times takes its place.
Many a room suffers from a super
abundance of tables which invite all
kinds of ornamental nothings to come
and repose on their tops. Indeed, it
often requires skilful navigation to
sail about this archipelago of furniture
in such a manner as to avoid catas
; rophe.
What have you on the mantelpiece?
Are the things there from choice or
iiabit? it is better to have nothing
than nothing beautiful. —New York
News.
jTWK KS€/P£S
° * ° °
Tea Frappe—Pul one te.-.cooon of tea
into one quart of milk and boil up
once; stand aside for five minutes and
strain; sweeten to taste; when cold
P it in the freezer; do not freeze quite
to a mush; serve v/ith whipped cream.
Spaghetti with Tomatoes- But in a
saucepan one pint of white broth am! i
one (tint of tomato sauce; let these
simmer for ten minutes; add to this
two cupfuls of cooked spaghetti cut
in inch pieces; cook for live minim
servo very hot.
Frozen Peach Pudding—Chop six j
peaches very fine; beat one pint or i
cream stiff; then add one cup of sifted !
powdered sugar, then the chopped I
peaches; mix carefully and thoroughly •
and turn into a melon mould; pack in
no and salt., and let stand lor four
hours.
Potato Salad-—One pint of cold boil
ed dried potatoes, or potatoes cut in
Inin slices; season with sail and pep
per; sprinkle over the top a coat of
cold boiled boots; cut in cubes the yo!L ;
of one hard boiled egg rubbed through
a strainer; add one tablespoon of
chopped parsley; pour over a French
dressing.
Cold Huckleberry Pudding - Cu*
slices of bread one-third of an inch f
thick, and enough to fill the dish or
bowl it is to he served in; bit,ter the
msecs of bread: steam enough hi; JUe
berries to fill the howl; put a layer of '
bread in the dish, then pour over some !
huckleberries, then another layer of ;
bread and berries; have tho top layer
berries, and pour the remaining juice |
over all; make the berries quite sweat, )
and serve with sweetened whipped !
cream.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.' ,
President Jordan of Stanford univer-
Kity. who has been -xnloring the South,
mas for several months to get speci
mens of fish from the coral reefs, re
ports that hi the bay of Apia, Samoa,
132 distinct varieties of fish have been
found, many of them previously un
known to scientists.
Professor Birksland is at the head of
e expedition trout Copenhagen for
Neva Zetnbla. Ke has six companions
and tlie object of the expedition is to
study tae phenomena connected with
auroral displays. The party will win
ter at Matolshkin Shar, in a house
built some years ago by the Russian
government and occupied in recent
summers by a Russian painter.
A lightship burning gas from a stor
age tank night and day for months
without attention has proved a great
success. Before the gas reaches the
burner it passes through a device
which rings a bell automatically throe
time a minute. Even when it is
rr.hn, ships in ft fog are warned. The<
lonely iigbtsmp men may all come
■re before long.
The German navy has been experi
menting with a process invented by
Herr I tuelsberg, a Russian chemist,for
treating wood in such a manner as to
make it fireproof. The "salting” pro
cess, as it is called, proved capable of
v. Upstanding a fierce blaze from pe
troleum-soaked fagots for an hour be
foie taking fire. The official report
pronounces it the most superior fire
■ toting system yet discovered.
M. Lannelongt.e has just communi
entedto the Paris Academy of Sciences
a long history of appendicitis. lie
shows that it is by no means anew
oi:ease. The medical records of Ihe
last century in France contain many
instances. Egypt in the time of tho
Pharaohs was not exempt,for lie shows
that the mummy of a young woman of
the eleventh dynasty (some 3000 years
ago) exhibits every indication that the
death was due to a peritonitis having
its origin in a diseased appendix. This
mummy has beer put (o anew use It
was in Sir Thomas Browne’s time that.
Mizraim cured wounds and Pharaoh
was sold for balsams.
The announcement made that Earn
est Ruhmer, of Berlin had succeeded in
carrying ori a telephonic conversation
transmitted by means of a beam pro
jected by a scan blight, calls attention
to the fact that the facility of a light
beam for this purpose was first discov
ered in this country by Prof. Alexander
Graham Beil. The apparatus construct
ed by Mr. Bell proved conclusively
that Bound could he carried along a
ray of light, hut the experiments were
abandoned, as the thing seemed to
have little If any practical value. It
may be said on behalf of the German,
however, that lie has sttcceded in send
ing articulated sounds over distances
of two miles, which is a step further
than anv of the former experiments
Lave succeeded in reaching.
THE OX-HORN INDUSTRY,
How a Trail© Wliicli I! ha Beached Bare©
Hiopnrtions Originated.
A familiar sight in the business
quarter of this city is the Russian
horn-peddler. The man himself is pic
turesque, having the strong features,
dark skin, long heard, and ill-fitting
clothes which mark the Slovak, while
liis wares arc always noticeable for
their oddity. Sometimes it is the hat
rack consisting of two ox-horns beau
tifully polished and fitted together at
the butts upon a small wooden board
ready for hanging in a hailway. At
another time it is a small three-legged
stool, of which each leg is a great
horn. Again, it is a gun rack, where
the hooks are horns, yellow, white,
gray, brown and black. If you desire
it he will supply you with easy chairs,
arm-chairs and rockers, of which the
entire frames are made of horns. Of
similar construction are easels, music
racks, picture frames, wall trophies
and baby cribs.
The industry was started about 15
years ago by some poor Russian Jews
near the kosher slaughter-house. Be
fore that lime tlie horns were sold
with the hoofs lo the glue-makers and
button manufacturers. They brought
but a few cenls a pound, and the glue
buyers had r.o trouble in getting all
the raw material they needed.
The manufacturers first prepared
the horns by boiling and using alka
lies. Afterwards they found they could
secure better results by treatment with
cold alkaline solutions followed by
antiseptics. After the horns have
been cleaned, they are scraped and
polished until they gleam like bur
nished metal. A few are varnished,
but the practice is not recommended
by the trade. —New York Evening
Post.
Ksirli©#! - IlumHii Being;.
Recent speculation regarding the or
igin of the human race has led to more
careful study of some of the earliest
known remains, including the so
called “man of spy,” the Neanderthal
skeleton and the creature- —human or
semi-human—some of whose bones
were discovered several years ago in
Java. The German anatomists, who
have given much attention to the sub
ject, are confident, says Success, that
the first mentioned skeletons must be
ascribed to a distinct species of man
which tiiey have named Homo Neau
derthaliensis. The Javanese skele
ton, which its discoverer calls pithe
canthropus (monkey-man), is lower
down in the evolutionary scale, and
the direct ancestor of both, who may
be regarded as the earliest man, must
have lived, they think, as far back as
the Pliocene period of geological tin*.
OCTOBER 1*