T ) Instruction la English has been added to tit oarrloulnm of the public school of Mexico. It take each year 200,000 ncroi of forost to supply crosstio for tin rail roads of tbe United State A proposition to roorgnnizo forty counties In Western Kinsas In four largo ouos is being ngitatoil in that Btnto. Icolnnd, in the North Atlnntio; tbo t do of Min, betweon England mitt Ireland; Pitcairn Inland, in tbo Bonth Paoiflo, have full woman suffrnjo. Ami now it it claimed that tbo jaw bones of civilioil peoples nro grnd nalljr becoming nttonmitcil, ehlofly owing to tbe prolonged uso of kuivos and folk". Tbo high bat nuisance in American tboatrcs is completely outdone in Japan. On paymeut of a email foe an auditor is allowed to stand tip dur ing tbo performance. Tenant farming in Great Britain is mush mors gcnoral than supposed ! many. Oit of nearly 33,000,000 acres of cultivated land in '03, nearly 28,000,000 were occupied by tonants. Not long ego the Uuitod States Government was askod to appropriate $1,000,000 for the suppression of tbo Russian tbistlo in tho northwest. Now t South Dakota mill owuor has offered 81.53 a ton for nil tbo thistles which may be delivered nt his factory. He says it is nearly as good as coal for fuel. One who has made a study of dys pepsia olaims that in a large number of oases tbo disturbance is due to the use of lard. Ho suggosts the liberal nse of beef tallow to tbe cxclnsiou of all pork fat as a remedy. He uys a porson who is fond of "grease" can saturate his food in this with no re sulting digestive disorder. Tbo officers of the Philadelphia pnblio library say that as this descrip tion of institution grows in nge tho domand for light litorattire decreases, tbore boing a corresponding increase in tho domand for a more substantial article. Tbe rule of tho Philadelphia library permits a reader to have two books out at one tuno, but only oue book of fiotion is allowed. A heraldic authority in tbo Satur day Review oruolly says that out of the 231 worthy man who form tbo London Common Council, only three ro legally "gentlemen." This must be a shook to the 223 who are accused of appropriating from old families, with whom tboy hava no oonncolion, tbe erosta, tho noblo mottoes, and the eompliouted quartering which tboy boar so proudly. Tbe Memphis Commoroial Appeal lays: The oo-looker in literature may well ask hlmsolf where" tho humor in the New Hnmor comes in. Certaiuly the distortions iu orthography havo long si n co ceased to possess tho risible clcmeuk There is nothing funny in saying "do" and "Jnt" for "the" and "that," nud tho man on the alert for a laugh has a right to domand that a joke shall have a point to it, and that there ahull be something essentially hnmorons in that which is lubelled humor. Writing in Soribuor'e on the tmb jcot of ill-ad visod Snoday-sohool liter ature. Miss Agnist Bcpplier observes, among other things, that nothing is moro uowholosomo for children than dtijeotion, which is especially porni cious wbon served out to young folks in tboir literary food. "It is time we admittod," she says, "even into religions fiction, noma of the eonsoious joys of not altogether miserable world," Miss Itcpplior instance tbo case of a little tiino-yoar-old house maid who was uoat, oupablo and good tampered, but so perpetually down cast that he threw n cloud over the spirits of all about her. Before long .the ouu8o of molanoboly was ' discovered, i'u tbe shape of i book purporting to give tbo expert - enoe of a missionary in a largor city. Tbe book wa made up of niue scpu rate stories, with titles. as follows: "The Infidel," "The Dying Banker," "The Drunkard's Death," "The Mi' er't Death," "Tbe Hospital," "Tb Wanderer' Death," "Thu Dying Shirt Maker," "Th Broken Heart," "The Destitute Poor-" No wonder tho lit t' bousomxid bad no spirit left after tarrying In snob litorary murtuury obtpel a that, admits the New York Observer, Children need to have their sympathies truiued, as well as their vita, bat their is no sense iu deluging then with the sorrows of- tho world. Nothing on make up to a boy or girl for the loss of its happy, txuberm: Childhood, A Pi'ctty Widow's Story. BY W. J. r.lMlTO!. The widow wa nut wearing weed-i, noither was sho plimgod in a gulf of dirk despair, nor did she show any signs of thoso othor dreadfully woe bigono conditions whioh nro soruo iracs attributed to tbe stato of widow hood, not only in Ainorica and its en virons, but protty goncrully over the cntiro earth's surface. On tbo contrary sho was as bright ami vivacious as a summor girl, and sho was talking to tho major iu seven toou languages all at ouco. At least, it so seemed to him, for ho hadn't the slightest opportunity of introducing a word into tho conversation sidewiso, oven much loss introducing it, ac cording to tho ordinary rules of collo quy. "Do you know, ronj ir," sho was ssyiug as fast as she could, and with little gasps for broath betweon, ns women do when their conversational locomotive begius to"rnu wild," "that I had a perfectly dreadful experience once in ray life?'' Tbo major wanted to say that he could not understand how such a charming woman could havo any kind of an experience that was not ns lovely as sho w, but he wasn't quick enough. "Well, I did," sho rattled away, "and, yon know, it was during dear Qeorgo's lifetime, and it was perfectly awful. My, my," this with half a sigh, "you wonldn't thiujc I hod been a widow ton year, would yon?" Tbe major was on tho point of say ing that she seomod to him more like a radiant suuboam, or something liko that, for tbe major has a flattering tongue; bnt beforo ho could carry his wish iuto execution tho widow was flvo lengths ahead. "Very few pooplo do," sho twit tcrod. "Do you think I look very old?" and she canted her head to ouo sido.nnd looked at tbo major as a bird looks at a bug it wants for dinner- The maj or was about to say that ho thought she was summer girl before some ono told him she was a widow, but, ns boforo, ho was left at tho post. "But, as I was saying," sho con tinued, "I had this perfectly awful oxpericnoo. Yon know that dear George during the last two years of bis life, was suffering with dome pe culiar brain trouble that quite cbangod him. His hallucination was that ho was somo othor person, and that while I was his wife, I was not tbo same wifo he had known in his sanity. This soemed to be tbo only peculiarity of his madness, for on all other point be was quite sano enough to deceivo even experts. Of courso, I had to watch him all the titno, for tbo phy sician said bis disorder might devolop at any moment, and ha might do something desporato, - though it was not probable that it would tako such a turn.. "Ono morning ho flipped away from hi attendant and escapod to a train that was just loaving tho station. Tho man had grown careless, because Goorgo was so rational all tbo tirao, but when he lost him he realized that he had boon neglectful, and at onoe caruo after me to know what to do. I was not at homo, and did not come in for two hours, and tho man was so silly, or something, that ho didn't go to tbe physician, but just waited for me. When he told me of George' e:ape I sent for tbe physi cian and a private doteotive, and as soon as possible thedetoctive followed my husband. The physician en couraged me groatly by saying that George wa perfeotly ablo to Jake care of himself, that bo had no suicidal tendeucy, and that he would very probubly find him at somo of the near by resorts, a it was summer, ud tbe hotels wdro all open, if ho did not re turn of his own free will in a few day. "He had quit a snug snin of money with him, and I felt ouy on that score, for bo eould meet all hi expanses,and knew very well how to handle money, Still, I was dreadfully nerrous, and exoited, nud, ns I OJiild not sit nt horn", I nsod to go out on short trips looking for him. The dotoctivo was also out constantly, but ho had mot with no succoas id his search ami at tbo cud of two weeks I dctormlnod to Hound a general alarm, so to speak, and givo tbe story to tho newspapers, when, on ono of my expeditions, I unexpectedly found him in o remoto little town, whore thoro were vory fow sii minor visitors. He had been there sinoohis departure from homo, and I soon discovered that be was on excel lent terms with everybody. Ha was very glad to see me at first, aud took me around to meet his now friend. Of courso, it wasn't customary for n lady to call first, but I was thinking about Georgo, and not soolal us.igo, and would have dono anythiug ho asked me. "The towuspooplo were extremely fond of him, and be had boon so gen erous in hi charitlos that ho was looked npon as a pnblio bouofnotor. To have told thorn that Goorgo was a Innntio, howevor mild, would havo ro suited in my being thought ono, and during tho afternoon of my arrival I kopt my own couuscl nod telcgraphod at onoe for tho physician aud attend ant. No'traiu was duo nntil next morning, and nil I could do was to wait aud keep quiet There was no trouble with Gdorgo until just after we had taken our supper at tho littlo hotel where he stopped, and had goue to his room. Tbcro is. something I said must havo indicated to him in some way that I had aomo. design against his liberty, or something, I don't know what, aud ho began to not quoerly and show that ho wa suspi cions of mc. "I had been under suoh a droadful strain for so long that I was completely unnerved, and now that I had found him I felt mysolf relaxing and vorg ing upon hysterics. I triad to con trol myself and get him to thinking nbont something else, but suddenly aud without any warning, ho caught me and began to choko mo. Of oourso, I acroamod, and screamod with all ray might, and iu a minute or two peoplo oamo rushing to tbo room, in quiring what was tho matter. A they came in George held me struggling in his arms, but bo was cooler than any one in tho party, and was talking to mo like a mother to a fretful or fright ened child, and doing all ho could to soothe me. But by this timo I was so wrought up that I could not keep still, and whon Goorgo very qniotly told thorn that I was dementod, nud be came cxtromoly violout nt times, last ing for months, tboy believed him and asked what could bo done. "Ho aBked that n physician and a poliaaman bo sent for, and a mosson ger went flying, and ion camo baok with them. Thoy hold a council over mo, and upon Goorgo' suggestion that I be put in a aafo placo for tbo night, I was taken to tho woman' cell in the town prison and lockod tip in ohargo of woman nurse, who bad volunteered hor services, as sbo bad had oxporienco with lunation. Wasn't that porfectly awful? I, a sano woman, to be locked up on a chnrgo of lunaoy, brought by a lunatic?" Tbe major wa anxious to say that bo hud neVer heard of suo'a an out rage porpetratud in a civilized land, but tbo widow ran over him and wont on. "Well, it was awful, aud tho more I tried to convinoo tho woman that it wasmy busbaud who was crazy, the moro she shook her bond kindly and told mo sho knew it, and that I was put iu tboir only to protect mo from him. That mado mo worse, and I would go off into hysterics again, aud I never slept a wiuk all night. When morning came I was more nearly n raving maniaa than tho roal lunatio was, and wbon George came to seo me, his emotion wcro painful to see, and bo cried like a baby over me, the nurse all tbe time trylug to cheer him up by tolling him that I bad been quiet most of tbe uight, and I would soon recover from tbe fit. "He shook hi head sadly and went away to return in an hour with the physician. f hoy talked ovor me a if I could not understand auytbiug they were saying, and on George' earnest rooommendation tbe pbysioian agreed i bnt tho best thing to bo done was to commit me to an asylum until it wa thought safe to release me. There was a private asylum not far away.aud it wag decided to tnke me thero at once. It wa now 0 o'clock, and George' pbysioian and attendant would not reach the town until 10, by I which time I would bo on my way to! tbe Asylum, if not on my way to per mnncl lunaoy, for tbe strain was then all I coild bear. I told the physician lo walr.ind triad to explain to him the situation, and nil ho did was to say hoi understood porfeotly, and that we wcro only going for n drive into tho country to visit some ol Georgo's friends who were noxious to ontortnin ns for a few d iva. All this time tho nttrso was getting me ready for my trip, nnd I was doing nil 1 could to gain a delay of nil hour until tho train suould come, nnd I prayed that it would not bo late. "Despite all efforts to tho contrary, the nurse reported mo ready for the carriage whioh was iu waiting at tho prison door, and they picked mo up nud carried me out to it, There was quito a crowd around tho place nil curious, of course, and it had a good t'ffeot upon me, for instead of creat ing any disturbance, I submitted quietly in ordor not to mako a scone. Tbe physician, Georgo and tho nurse got into the carriage after mc, and wo started away for tho horrid asylum. I composed myself for whatevor might como now, and snt silent, gazing out of tho carriage wiudow, when, as wo turned iuto tho open spuca at the rail road station, which wo bad to pass, 1 saw my own physioiun and Georgo's attendant. In a second I had smashed the carriage window, nnd thrusting out my head eareainod for help, call ing tho doctor by name. Thoy were ouly tbo width of a utreot away, and as the driver of the carriage did not know anything nbont what wa going on, ho stopped to seo what was wrong nnd tho next minnto I was out of tho carriogo and had fuiutod iu the physi cian's arms." The major was nbont to remark that tho ono regret of his lifo was that he was not that physician, bnt tho widow had her mind and bcr tongue on bor story, and onco moro flew awnr from the major. "Of course, explanations were in order, and it wa not long before the true state of the caso was made known, groatly to tbo astonishment of every body except Georgo. Ho took it ns a matter of course, and laughed ovor it as n great j tlte, without apparently understanding what he had done, nnd ho went back to towu with ns a sub missivoly ns could be, never losing his temper in tbo slightest degroo. Within a coiiplo of mouths after tbnt ho grow rapidly worse, and death soon brought him a blessed relief." Here tbe widow hesitated and sighed, "And I may say a blessod relief to mo as woll, for I would hare lost my miud, I nm sure." At this point the widow stopped long enough to givo tho major nu op portunity to mako a fuw remarks, which he did advisodly, soeing that the major, on general principles, 10 gards widows pretty muuh as did the fathor of tho Iuto Hum Woller. Washington Blur. "Tnr nnd Feat hers" Not American. "Thoro is a gonoral impression in this country nt least, that tho institu tion know n ns 'lar nnd featbors' is dis tinctively American. Nothing could bo further from tbo mark," obsorved Judge Riley of the Virglulu bar. "Tbo fact is, what wo understand to bo a coating of tar nnd feather I of an cient origiu. There is also nn idea afloat that tar nnd featbors i a sort of southern celebration, that it was in vented tbcre.and that it is of common oconrronco iu that seotion of our lovod contitry. I assure you that both those ideas are wrong all the way through. In tho first pine, while tbcro is plenty of tar in the South, tbo stock of featbors ia not so largo. And again they aro too valuable to use in such a way. "Wboro a person dosorvos such a treatmont it is numb ensior aud bettor to give him a thorough cowhidiug. A cowhiding sticks ns woll as a oouting of tar, if it is woll appliod. Tar and feathers originated in tho days of Richard Coeur-do Lion, ovor eight hundred year ago, as is ovldonoed by ono of his ordiunncos for Heamen, as follows: 'That if any man is takon with theft or piokery, nnd thereof oonviotnd, he. shall have hi head polled, and hot pitob poured upon hi pate, and upon that the feather of ome pillow or cushion shakou aloft that he may thereby be known for a thief.'" Washington Star. Remarkable Jehu. The most remarkable Jehu ia Paris ha just died. Ha wa six foet six inches in heigbt.nnd was of herculean strength. It is said tbut "he could easily lift hi oab from tho ground with ono arm." Tbo causo of his death was hi heavy drinking. Over sixteen quart of wiuo was hi daily average. AM AMERICAN QUKKS. Min Ella Collins will bo tho first American woman rnisod to a tbrono by marriage, Her fiance, Colonel John Hobbs, reigus over tho pooplo of tho Jilka Islands in tho New Hebrides group. Colonel Hobbs has hail a lifo full of strange adventure, nnd is nov king over 1,200 people under tho nanio of Oumaulca. pbave p,trm'.ss. Tho Queen of Portugal and Queen It 'gout of Spain hava distinguished themselves by saving lifA Tho form er threw herself into tho Tuguj on oue occasion to snvo her children from drowning and reocived a medal iu recognition of hor bravery ; the Quoon Regent of Spnin roscuod n littlo girl not long ago from a railway train that was bearing down on tbo spot whero the child was heedlessly playing. a TnviNO coiFFcnn. To meet tho requirements of tbe new stylo of hairdrcssing many bats bavo strings which cross nt the back aud tie at the loft Bide. Flowers nnd rosottes aro not so gonornlly seen bo neath tbo brim, but rest on strings nt tbe back midway betwoen tbo neck nnd tbo lint. Tho prominent jug-handle stylo of coiffure is now wholly posse. Tbo contor coil comos closer to tho head, aud often the hair is car ried to tho top of the hoad, and ar ranged en pompadour iu a series of soft puff, braids or coils, arranged in somo original fashion that best suits tho fuce. It is quite tbe stylo to again part tho hnir on the lcftsido and wavo it on both sides of the parting. A fow women who admire classic modes nro arranging their treBse a la Grecque. This is always a most trying coiffure. Chicago Times Horald. A TACTFUIi WOM.lt. Gonoral Sir Henry Normau, who has just boon appoiuted official agont in London for tho Australian oolony of Queensland, has until recently boon governor of that oolony, and it is ex tremely unusual for an oflloer who has held so high a rank to ncoept so mb ordiuuto an ofOoe. Sir Henry, it may be remembered, was appointed by Mr. G.udstono to the officio of viceroy of India, but after having ncoopted it, was compelled to duclino a few days Inter on nttcntiou boing called to tho fact that, owing to Lidy Norman being n Eurasian that is to say, tho offspring of a union betweon an Indian and a Europoan bor option at CuI cutta would not only bo intolerable, but absolutely impossble. It wa in conscqueuoo tbcroof that theEirlof Elgin was appoiuted viceroy, nhilo tbe gallant old genoral wus appointod to tho governorship of Queensland, where pooplo are loss particular, and whore tbe many charming qualities of Lady Norman wore npprooiatod at thoir true worth. Now Orlonna Picay une. QCKER DBAVTT FADS. In Spain oven tbo youngest girls paint nnd powder absurdly, while in Venice tbe celebrated Titian rod hair is still tho rngo and is obtained by chemical means. Tho womon of the Island of Natal, when young, aro dec orated with a cap of six to ten iuobes high, made from the solidified fat of oxen; Over this their hair is trained to grow aud affixed by more greuso. This arrangement remains for lifo. Tbe Mgnntses havo an cvon moro ab surd hair dress. They carry ou their hoad a piece of board a foot in length nnd six inches wide, Thoi hair is trainod over this and fustenod with wax, Tboy can neither loan buck ward nor He down without koeping their neck in one position. Twico n year the wax is melted and tho hair taken down, combed, washed nnd put up again- Painting the eyes and eyelids is considered great aid to the fascin ation of tbo female orbs, A Circas sian to bo really lovely must, in. addi tion to boing vory oorpuleut, have golden hair aud jut black luhea. Ala stiffened will) kahl kohl is also used by the Persian and Armenian women to lougthou their eyes, Tho bazar women aud Naitcb girl of most east ern countries djV tboir Ungor uaiU with honna.and wit tire tboy wish to bo thought great ladiei tboy allow their finger nails to grow to immenso length nnd koep them in finely wrought gold sheaths. THICKS nil AMERICAN WIFE. A weird tula comes from Paris ol the tricks resorted to by the titled husband of n wealthy girl ia ordr lo raiso tho wind. Tho brido wa show ing a friend of hers over her gorgeous ly furnished hotel, and in tho drawing-room drow her attention to tbo magnificent obaudolier. Piqued by bcr lack of enthusiasm, the brido ro markod : "Woll, yon don't seem io say much about my twenty-thousand-dollar chandelier I'' "Twonty-thon-sand dollars T' said tbo friend, with n polite sneer; "isn't that piling it up rather high? That very chandelier was offered to me for eleven thousand flvo hundred dollars." That afternoon the bride drove to tbo shop from which the chandelier came, and began an indignant spaeoh about the wickedness of charging bor ono hun dred thousand francs for a cbandolier offered lo somo ono else for littlo mora than half. The dealer interrupted her: "Madam, you aremistakcu) that chandelior wu chosen by your hus band, was it not?" "Yes," alio re plied, "I never saw it till it was put up." "And you gave him ono hun dred thousand francs to pay for it with?" "Certaiuly." "We offered it t j him for fifty-five thonsand franos.bnt ho beat n down to fifty thousand, and that's all we got Yoa had bettor ask bira to show yon the receipt. I think you will find bo has lost it." Shortly after tho bride received a bill for forty fiousnud franos for a pearl necklace. Tbo husband had given it to her as n birthday present, and sho was pleased by tho kindly thought, although sho know well she would have to pny. Sho was rathor startled by tbe price, since, though tho pearls were flno, two row did not seem to represent anything like so large a sum J so she went to tho j iweler's to roinonstrato with him for cheating her husband. "But ma dainc," said tbe jeweler, "really, tbe price is vory fair; five rows of suoh poarls, and very fair pearl, are not dear at forty-four thousand franc." "But there are only twol" "Pardon mo, madamo, five when we sold tbj necklace. I can show you our book, with tho description and number of p juris." Ho showed her the book, and sho is now thoughtful over hor husband' kind attentions. Argonaut, FASUtOX NOTB3. Tbe correct walking boot is to havo a broad solo this winter. Sailor hats, trimmed with plaid taffeta ribbon, are very popular for fall wear. A dress of spotted taffeta is one of the most useful additions to a woman' wardrobe Given a silk of good qual ity and there are few more satisfactory investments. Very largo hats' of tnn-oolorod foit are trimmed with a profusion of black plumes and black velvet ribbon. A very largo bat of tan felt ha n brim of silvery beuvor and trimming of Iu-dian-red volvet and velvet autumn leuvea. Ladies who hava become, weary of rcnewiug silk potticoats will find it to thoir advantngu to try tboo mado of alpaca, Mido up with nifilon of tho snmo material or of silk, aud odgod with laoe or velvet, thoy nro oxoeoit ingly pretty nud stylish, n Wi.ll a very duruble. Bright rod waist aro fashiouabhi and becoming to brunettes. Thoy ni speoiully pretty for dull and gloomy weathor, and wheu worn with black skirt make very serviceable an 1 prac tical costume, The brightest of thoin may bo somewhat . subdued by full front of luao mixed with black velvet ribbon- Tbe wealthy sooioty girl U enjoyiug a new and aparkliug gurmeut kuowu a tbo jewelled jnoket. It i bolero iu shape, aud cousixt of a foundation of courso cream laoe, so thickly studded and incrusted with jawul it is impos sible to sou the lace lhrt la. Thoy coat anywhere from $1,000 up, and are far to. expeusivo eveir to beooine ooiu uiou. They aro vory rich nud Qiioii tul looking, woru with handsome vel vet aud silk gowus.
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