Thursday, April 23. COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBT?r?c;. rA i r. DAYS LOST AND WON. M If w nil down Ht Ht,t (if ami. And count lha thliiK Hint wo have ilone. And riiiintlng llml Ono mff-'lnnylnv set, mis word I That caned the htmrt of lilm who hoard; (lno kIiiik' moot, kind, 1 That fell like miu-lilni- where it nrnt. Thou w luuy cuuiil tliul duy well pnt. " But If. thrniiKh nil the llvi-leim day, We're nasvd no I c irt, by yea or nay; If tlmim-li It nil We've done no tlilnu that we ran truce That brought th mihln to a face; No net mnit smnll. That helped emu mill mid tiotlilnii cunt, Thon count that d:iy in hum1 than lost." HIS 1WT WIFE. Cynthia regarded the flashing little circlet with evident delimit. It was one of many that sparkled on her deli cate white hand, but it boro a signifi canos beyond tlio other. It meant the clipping of buttei fly wings ; the waning of the homage due to a beautiful und marriageable heiress, and which, though often made the subject of scornful wit, was erer accepted and acceptable; it meant the ratification of a sweet and binding contract with the chosen one the man to whom wealth wua no ob ject, and rank no allurement, and. for that reason, it dazzled ryes familiar with the radiance of gems. The fingers that had just bestowed the gift still clasped hers with tender pressure, and, for the first titnf, the noticod their single ornament an oddly shaped gold ring, that found fault in her fastidious eyes. "Why do you wo;.r this?" she asked, with a curl of the lin. "Because I value ic," replied her lover, secretly relenting tl e little sneer. Her curiosity was roused. Though she felt that for some reason l.e would prefer not to talk about it, she per sisted. "Did you buy itt" "No; it was given to me," ; "By a friend?" "By the best friet.d I ever had." The laconic replies annoyed her. She dropped his hand, saying: "Well, I don't admire it." Ho aocopted the dismissal of the sub joot without a word, and the conversa tion drifted into another channel ono of the winding tributaries of love. Fu ture plans wero discussed, and dates were fixed, to a rnnuing uccompauiment of just and laughter. Suddenly the ring caught her careless glance again. "There," she said, pointing to it im patiently; "it fascinates me. I am sure it has a history. Tell me." Sho spoke as one who is used to com mand, and certain of compliance. Lean ing back she closed hur eyes languidly and waited. "Go on," she said at last with some surprise. And still ho hositated. "Is it a sad oue. You would not care to know it." She sat erect, intensely curious. "Indeed I would, now that you are so mysterious. Docs it contain poison? Is it a Masonic symbol? Or perhaps' some weird sign of witchery?" For once her gayety jarred on him, and ho was unable to answer in the same bantering strain. "My dear," he said, gently, it was given to me by oue who is dead." (She was momentarily silent, then be gan again : ' I have never noticed it before." "And yet I always wear it." "Why?" "Oh, Cynthia, you asked me that once. Because I value it more than anything I possess." "Well, I will give you one, quite as quaint, and with an original inscription will you wear it for mo?" Her pretty eagerness mude him smile, "Of course 1 will." She Hushed a liitle. "I meau, will you wear it instead of this?" "No; I cannot promise that." His answer startled her; it was so grave and resolute. Sho renewed the attack: "But, don't you seo, if 1 gave it you, it would be your most precious possession. Don't you caro for me bet tor than any oue in the world?" Ho drew her to hiui fondly. "Yes; I can answer that with truth, but you would not have me break my promise?" "Whut promisor I vowed to wear it as long as X live. If it be possible, it shall be buried with 1110," "The dying have no right to extort such promises from the living," she re marked, sententionsly. "Your friend was extremely selfish." "Oil, Cynthia, she was an angel !" There was more sorrow than auger in the tone. He did not look for much depth of feuliug in Cynthia sho had been too spoilt. It was his task to bring out the lovable points in her nature that her luxurious life had left unde veloped, uud iu which his love-dimmed eyes had foreseen groat uud noble possi bilities. "She was your first wife?" asked Cyuthia, slowly, and showing no dis position to retract her former opinion. "Yes; the ring had been in hir family for many generations. She considered it a kind of talisman, and wore it al ways, till, dying, she bequeathed it to mo. There is my story." "It seems impossible that you can fail nio in so suiull a sacrifice," she rejoined, with a bitter little laugh; "still, you oo, such things may happen." Her uir of culm resolution was mad dening, yet ho felt instinctively that no word ol reproach or anger would help. Assent was dishonorable, denial was difficult; there was no way out of the dilemma. "A little time," he pleaded. "Till to-night," she said, hurriedly. "You must let ine know your decision by then. liuiuember, nothing can alter mine. I only claim my right. But," Bhe added, persuasively, "you can easily deoide now. Let me have my way. Ah, do, und eud our hist and lust quar rel I" luore was a subtl fandntsa la her tone, aa ttadefhMWe gow la her iwif t, upward glance that swayed his waver ing heat I. but the golden token on his linger pressed him under her ilingin;: hand, and he Hhook his head. I "No, dear, such n vew is not to be i lightly broken. I must earnestly con ! sider your request. 1 wish you had I asked me anything but this," he went j on. wistTiilIy, seeking sympathy in her soft, dark eyes. ! But Cynthia's tenderness had vanished. ! Sho drew back, piqued, ill at rase, in hor suppliant, attitude; an ominous I frown darkening her fair forehead as ! she turned away. I "As you will." sho said, coldly. Memories that Cynthia's preseneo had chased for many months crowded vivid ly into tin) widower's mind as ho strolled on, heedless of din or traffic or the di rection to be pursued. Her words of anger and opposition had invested the ring he had almost grown to regard with Ihe. unthinking gazo of custom with new and startling significance. It simply riveted Uim to the past. He might discard it, still holding its pur poso in his lioart; but the thought was a base one; ho know that his dead wife would have borne such a vow to the gates of Heaven, and that no sacrifice would have alivted tho strength and cndurdiico of the love which ho dared not weigh with Cynthia's impulsive ptis.don. Ho had hardly dwelt on it sine.') sho had bo 'it taken from him at iirst because it meant hopeless hearts ache, latterly because it seemed disloyal to his betrothed ; but now, at, this turn ing point, ho realized his loss afresh and wondered that the - remembrance had laded ever so little iu the radiance of Cynthia's smiles. iet allegiance to the beloved ileau meant the lacing of tho old homeless life, the return of that morbid depres sion which Cynlhia.s infectious gayety and pretty, petulant ways alone had power to dispel. llo had walked on, dreaming, far be pond his original destination the cosey set of rooms presided over by his faith ful valet. Suddenly ho Mopped, with an involuntary exclamation, for ho stood at tho very threshold of his old home. Whut impulse had led his unconscious foot -tops along tho often traversed road ho knew not, or how ho camo to look upoli tho house ho had shunned since the day of mourning. But luvi.ig come, he was glad, for the wrench of parting was not tho present pain; he was able to recall tho grim old mansion! joyful, as well as sorrowful, associations. For the first timo since his bereavement he felt the desire and strength to seek tho room within that had been hers, unal tered, as she had 1 1 t it, till Cynthia, rosolute in her banishment of rivalling recolloctions, should carelessly scatter and rearrange. - Tho old housekeeper, started from her lethargy of idle caretaking. answered his summons with clumsy alacrity, and soon he stood at tho bedside where some years ago he had Hung himself in an agony of grief and sobbed out a last farewell. A melancholy light struggled through the curtained window, revealing the dainty, familiar furnituro; the knick knacks they had purchased together in odd corners of the world; the pictures sho had chosen ; ht-r favorite chair; the couch on which sho had lain to please him, with a thought of recovery. Ilo saw through a mi st of tears, for a gnaw- ing hunger had crept into his heart in the chill and utter loneliness oi the room onco brightened by her dear presence, j How happy they had been! There was j no death for such a love as theirs. It i walked and throbbed in him again iu j this room, where sho had breathed out her blameless life, and all that had como between thum seemed to him liko a dream. Cynthia was right; he'niust always be making useless comparisons, for some thing must ever bo wunting in his life something that never could bo re placed. His brimming eyes sought tho spot whore the coffin rested. Ho could seo her now, lying there, us ho hud looked for the last time, white and serene, her folded hands lull of flowers: the eyes that had reflected his loving gaze piti lessly sealed ; a strange smile on the lips that often met his in yielding sweet ness. Ah! if ho might hear that low and gentle voice again; if he might pil low that weary, golden head on his breast, and, asking forgiveness for a rloetiug fancy, repeat his vow with all the fervor of the past ! He sat down, hiding his face in his hands. With the reopening of this un healed wound came a revulsion of feel ing, reproach for tho self sought forget fulness his want of fortitude had made desirable, remorse for the shrinking from pain that made him swerve from so dear a memory, and for the wrong he did Cynthia in clinging to it. But ho hesitated no longer. Tho silent hour of retrospect had brought him very near to his first love, and with tho bitter ache of longing came a strange sense of security and rest. Unchanged she awaited hi in, fair and lovely as ho had known hor, this dear angei. speaking through the silence of Heaven, to hold him to his vow. For Cynthia ho had no fears. That sho had been able to mako their engag mont condition on this breach of trust led him to hope its dissolution would cause her little suffering. A parting pang assailed him as he penned the brief message of farewell, u dread of the creeping, gloojuy years be yond whicli his brightest Hope beckon ed, but he lifted the talisman that wed .i.ui Viitn in bis dead bride. Dressing it softly to his lips, and the shadow fled. Cyuthia crushed the noto iu her hand. Sho was hurt ; she was indignant ; she was scornful; a hundred sensations, ! mingled with no thoughts of surrender, ; struggled for mastery in her breast. But the faint, unooiifossed regret that i struggled beneath tho angry tumult, the 1 feeling that lies so deep in somo souls thut only ugony may wring it forth, the . deudonod wailing of love thut will not 1 1 stilled those were among the bitter- I J.,....., cVw m1,.,.1 Uuda Newmau, in ,li.(li.mtJ I . . ' MANY ROYAL WI DOWS THEME ARE FOUR IN THE ENGLISH ROYAL FAMILY ALONE. Ylctorlii Im l-'lrnl In IitifHirtiinrr. F.mprrs KtiKcnln ami thn Widow Left by Mm Trii;tilli'ii of A ml rln iiml iMixliu. Two Vuvmift ltCB'iit It is just a thought astonishing to rneknn the number of royal widows, regnant or uncrowned, now morn or loss in public view. First, of course, comes Her Majesty Victoria, Empress of India. Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Next to her one must rank hor eldest chil l, Victoria, Ihnpress Dowager of Prussia., more commonly known as Empress Frederick. Then, In tho same family circle, there are the Duchess of Albany, born Princess of Wnldock-Pyrmont. and widow of the English Queen's youngest son, and tho lately bereaved I'riiuvss of Batfonberg, who is to be tho Duchess of Kent in her own right. Upon tho Continent there are a pair of widowed queens regent Christine of Spain and Emma of Holland. Both havo won golden opinions from those they govern, no less than from impar tial onlooker. Queen Emma is. by tho way, sister to the Duchess of Albany, who is said to havo hern tho first choice; of tho gay old reprobate. King William oi Holland. Sho ret ,ised him, buthor sister threw herself into the broach, inspired doubtless by the knowl edge that reigning sovereigns, even though somewhat battered and worse for wear, wero not likely to come often iv wooing in starveling if princely house holds. So they were married, and there is a little Queen of Holland to cheat the anticipations of tho house of Cumber laud. But none of the queens or empresses can put out of court Dagiuar, some time of Denmark, now the widowed Czarina, Mario Feodorowna. It must havo gone hard with her, in suite of the splendors tho change implied, to give over her Spanish name, which means "daydawn," for an appellation so cum brous. Feodorowna means, by tho way, "daughter of Theodore,' as does Puul ovna "daughter of Paul." The termi nation "o vim" or ' owna" has in all cases that s'gncanco in Russian names, just as the milix "vitch" means always "son of"; thus Alexandrovitch is "the son of Alexander." Austrian royalty has two widows out right, between whom it is hard to say which has the more tragic story. All tho world still remembers tho tragedy of Meyerling how tho Crown Prince Kndolph shot himself, and the beautiful Mario Vectsera, leaving his wile, Sto phanio of Belgium, by no means dis consolate, ns the pair had been on the point of judicial separation. Still tho shock and shadow of it all for a timo overwhelmed her. But sho has no con tinuing sorrow such as has driven to madness Carlotta, once Empress of Mexico, who missed seeing her husband, Maximilian, shot only because sho had gono to Europe asking for help for him, whero no help was. Yet it is a ques tion if, in spite of all, she is not less unhappy than her sister, tho Empress Elisabeth of Austria, who lias been for long years widowed in all but name. Besides Empress Eugenie, widowed. childless, a widowed shadow ot hur iK.autjfui if, Franco has a Duchess of Orleans, whom tho Legitimists rank as Queen Dowager not to mention tho wife of her murdered President, Car not. And there is more than a Gallic traco in tho youngi st of royal widows, tho Bonaparte Princes.!, who married her uncle, the Duko D'Aosta, and since his death has sot the Italian court wild with hor freaks. LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL. Sho May roHNlltly lleiraiu Her I'll hieinthlp ly MurryiiiK William Waldni'l' Antor. Lady Kandolph Churchill, formerly Miss Jennie Jerome, of New York, and widow of the immortal English states man, by tho Loeds Mercury is reported to bo engaged to marry William Wal dorf Astor. Ludy Kandolph was married to the second son of the Duke of Marlborough in 1874. She is a woman of rotuarkablo boauty, who has gained ii very promi nent position in London society. She has taken groat interest in English ioli ties, und was of great assistance to her LADY KAXDOLPII CHURCHILL. husband in his Parliamentary career. Lord Randolph Churchill died a little over a year ago, leaving two sons, the oldor of whom is an otlicor in tho Eng lish army. William Waldorf Astor was born in 1833, and was graduated at Columbia Law School. He was a Stato Senator in 1880, and was appointed United States Minister to Italy by President Arthur. Ho married Miss Paul, of Philadelphia. Sho died in December, 18U4, at Cluer den, tho beautiful seat of the tirosven ors on tho Rivor Thames, whicli Mrs. Astor had purchased from the Duke of Westminster. Mr. Astor owns the Pall Mull Gazette, which Is a stroug supporter of the Tory party la England. pi ACORIOIN-'.L INTOXICANTS. i.Ii'.llc i I.mls lii t'ne Among vie A i"'-irm ffidlnnn. It is a romc-lrnMe fact, that np to the ' timo nf the coming of tho whites o North American Indiana generally hod no knowled-jo of intoxicant. A 'or tohiicco, He y did not. smoke Has wodo, ' apparently, Ivi-. merely for ceremonial purposes. doing foiiMiward into Mexico in those days, however, tho traveler might have found uleoholio stimulants In , om mon us.?. Even at tho present time tho natives in that part of tho world mako an odd sort o beer out of corn. Thoy wet. a woolen blanket, lay it, in tho Fun, and spread wholo grains of maize npon it. Tho gr.vns germinate, sprouting and sending out rootlets through the b xturo of tho blanket, which is kept moist. They are t ien parched and ground o a coarse iucjJ. To this meal u little yeast, made hy chewing pome corn mid allowing it to ferment, is added. Then the Muff is mixed with water, and put away in jure. Fermenl at.ion follows, and as it diiuini' lies. th: liquor becomes as clear as yel'-nv ai.i'i "r, in which con dition it is drv.ulr. It is quito intoxi cating. Several vur:oti of grasses, herb and flowers, tho ro : of sundry plants, the juices of the si";a- cane and aloe, and even beets, ai r u cd by various tribes and peoples as a basis ot drinks. In ear lier times somen tree", fir trees, birch tr.?s and iish trees weio tapped for their sap. which was fermented to make stimulating beverages. Tho willow, poplar, sycamore' and walnut are s iii; to yield palatable dri.i";s. The Japaue ". obtain intoxicating bev erages Ironi plums and from the flow ers of the motherwort tind peach. The Chineso acto.i'.iv produce an alcoholic drink from mutt.ui, Tho Abnaki Indians of New England n.sud to manufacture u kind of liquor from tho tops of fir trees, which they boiled and put into casl;s with mollis, es, Tho contents of tho casks wero allowed to ferment for a little more than three days. Tho Esquimaux were entirely unac quainted with tho art, of getting drunk until they came into contact with the whites. HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD. A chef will navor allow an omelet pan to be wu.-hod. The pan should l8 wiped with faeces of paper until clean, and then rubbed with a dry cloth and kept in a warm place. If tho pan is treatod in this way tho omelets aro ret so apt to stick or burn. White slippers may bo cleaned w'th equal parts c" -iowderod alum and full er's earth. ...tily to the slippers with a dry brush aad rub them until clean. For glace kid slippers use gasoline, tir.J apply it with a f! innel cloth. Meat and fowls may bo made more tender if, wh"n they are boiling a tea spoonful of vinegar bo added to the water. Tho addition cF a littlo salt to swe.it foods helps b bi :u out tho flavor, an 1 acid things u'" improved by tho add"' tion of a little sugar. If tho batter for Yorkshire puddings, fritters, or batter cakes is made several hours before it is wanted, tho flour will have a chance to s v -.'11 and render tho batter much lighter. Kerosene oil may bo entirely removed from light carpets, rugs or woolen goods by covering the oil spot thickly with buckwheat und letting it remain twelve hours; then brushing it off and apply ing fresh flour until the oil has disap peared. A polish for shirt bosoms is mudo by molting together ono ounce of white wax und two ounces of spermaceti. Heat gently and turn into a clean shal low pan. When cold break iuto pieces about tho size of a chestnut and put in a box until required. When making boiled starch add a piece of the wax. When ironing first smooth tho bosom very carefully, then place a clean cloth ovor it and iron lightly; remove the cloth, and with a clean, smooth, hot iron rub it rapidly: when about dry take a cloth wrung dry in cold water and pass lightly over the bosom, follow ing with the hot iron immediately. NAPOLEON'S GOLDEN SHOWERS. 1IU Geiitti-aW Krci-lvtst! KuornioiiH Income! Iv Hid Favor. The marshals wero showered with ' gold. Bertier had 1,000,000; Ney, Da vout, Soult and Besieres 600,000 each ; Massena. Angerean, Boniadotto, Mor tier and Victor 4)0,000 apiece, and the rost 200,000. But even this was noth ing to what some of them secured later by holding several offices at the same timo. At ono time Berthler had a yearly in como of l.Sfi.V'l'O francs; Davout 010. 000; Ney of 7 :H,000; Massenu of Gsj;l, 000. The ministers were able to secure salaries averaging about 200,000 frar. .' , and ambassadors had incomes corre sponding to their dignity. Caulain court, the ablest of them all, had K00, 000 francs at St. Petersburg wherewith to support the imperial state of France. It is interesting to note from Napoleon's letters that ho h id occasionally to ad monish somo of these gentlemen to make use of their titles. Century Magazine. Very Cheap Lubur. Of all countries of the world, save ! China, labor is probably cheapest in India, where tho wages of the laboring i classes average something like throe j and a half pei:e a day. A fairly skill ful journoyia can earn about twolvo shillings a month, und a good mechanic about sixteen shillings, or twice the pay of a native soldier. Foru Tnijyuii Mumorlul. The subscriptions for the beacon which is to bo erected on Freshwater Down, Isle of Wight, as a memorial to Lord Ttnnyton, now amount to 3-1,750, of which $1,800 came from the United States. The sum iu hand is sufficient for the work. . ) T1II0 DESEIIT I'KAl'.b. THE BISKRAN OASIS IS THE KEY TO THE SAHARA DESERT. The Ml tin (?iil Una 150,000 Trorn mid a I'riicl llyliiK Illver. It Oriental Town Hull, Finn 0 l no and Poetic Arabian Niimeii. The Biskrnn oasis, with its l-IO.onO tree's, is only about two miles long, and extends in half a dozen little villages by tho Ouod stream. The Arabs, in their poetic phraseology, stylo it variously tho "Desert Queen," tho "Queen of the Oases," and the "Pearl of the Desert." Seen nfter two days' journey through barren, treeless wastes, with its waving i palms and brilliant verdure, it is ft sight difficult to rival. Biskra 1ms- several fine buildings, of which the, town hall, built in the Oriental style, with gleam ing cupola and a forest of dainty pil lars, is tho gem. It cost ifi.OOO, and is cheap at that figure, but. of course, la bor hero is had for a song. The Oued Biskra flows through the oasis, and causes much of its prosperity. Tho chief industry is date raising, and nearly all tho inhabitants own a littlo plot of ground devoted to this purpose, and generally their only source of rev enuo. Biskra owes much to tho Com pagnio do l'Ouod el R'irh, who bored artesian wells and laid out vast date plantations. They also orected a fine Casino, und constructed a tramway to the celebrated Hamman Salahine, about six miles distant springs well known to the Romans, whence Biskra was called Ad Piscinam. In consideration of all these benefits tho company was granted various privileges. They nro to enjoy for ninety-nine years the profits arising from the sp-ings and from iluO acres of land, besides a large town plot. Biskra is practically the "key to the Sahara," and bonce ever since tho French entered, in 1841,' has been an important military station. The lover of Orientalism will liud it here in a much purer form than in semi-Euro-peanizod Algiers, and can also enjoy an almost perfect climate. The district, however, is not ruinloss. as is often sup posed; on the contrary, in winter there is a fair share of rain, though not so much u.s in Algiers, whero this is the weak point in the climate. Liko Al giers, it is beautifully mild, there is no snow, and for the majority of the win tor there is brilliant sunshine und a very even temperature In the sum mer, however, it is almost uninhabit able. No ono dreams of stayitig there unless military or other duty compels them. The heat is intense, tho water noxious, uud snakes and scorpions abound, whoso bito often proves deadly in an hour. Tho country ut this period is subject to plagues of grasshoppers, the ruination of all verduro and pro duce. A very annoying malady called "clou do Binkra," Biskra piniplo, pre vails, which is said to resist most treat ment except change of air. ' THE TRAMP'S MISTAKE. lie iKiiorunlly Tin kli d Itiirlulo's Strong Man. j Buffalo has a professional strong man, named Bert B urtrum, who is a genial sort of a giant, tipping tho scales at 210 pounds, while, as is the case with Sandow, his appoaranco does not giro the idea of unusual strength to the cas ual observer. lUrtrd.ni was on his way homo late last Monday night, and had reached a secluded thoroughfare along his route when a big and burly tramp suddenly stepped from behind a tree ami demanded money. "I haven't a cent." said Bartrum. I The tramp took Bartram by the shoul- . dor. "Now, see here, young feller," ho be gan, "you just" Ho didn't get any further. Bartram took the other by both elbows and tossed him up in the air. Then he stood him on his head and then turned him over his kneo and spanked him, afterward tossing him over a seven-foot board fence into a vacant lot. The tramp did not follow Bartram us ho proceeded on his homeward way. A I'lny Kolilior Klllu.l. A dispatch from Marion, Ohio, pub lished recently, contained tho following story : Orlando Dewoiss was out walking with a young ludy last night. While j passing a dark place he was stopped by a man, who ordered him to throw np his hands, Deweiss responded by pull ing a revolver und firing at the sup posed highwayman. Tho bull struck tho man, and ho fell to tho ground. When ho was picked up Doweiss was dumfounded and horrorstrickeu to find the injured man to be his chum, Vorgo Everly. Everly, in a spirit of fun, had sought to scare Deweiss by playing highwayman. Tho bullet, struck Everly in tho breast. He cunnot recover. An OM l'i'"ilii' Club. Lexington, Ky., has an old people's club, of which the youngest member is eighty nine years old. There are three members ninety years old, ono ninety one, two ninety-three, and two iiinety four. Tho club meets at the house of one of the members each week for pleasure and mutual improvement. l'l t-pHt ln HU W euiimi. "(Joing to shave, Sam?" "No, suh; dance." Judge. THOUGHT TWAS CONSIDERABLE. She Tho sleighing isn't much, is it? He Isn't much I It's a dollur and a hulf ait hour." KING MENELEK'S QUEEN. hu Uourl the KIiik und Is it Vludlotlr Knemy, In a letter on affairs in Abyssinia the Romecorrespondentof the Paris Figaro givos the description of King Meiielek's helpmato: "Queen Taitou was spoken of recently as wanting to lead hor troops to the as sault of Makalle. 'Taitou' nnlitis light, or sunlight. She is descended from an ancient and noble family, originally from Sutnien. She is well formed, with regular features, except for a little de fect of inouth, which sho wndeavors to concnal when she speaks. Hr skin is A clear brown. Her eyes are black, largo and expressive. Her feet are small, and, hor hands are aristocratic, just as are her manners in general. Sho dresses in the Ethiopan fashion, with a great deal of taste and elegance. Sho wears on her neck, hor wrists, and around her ankles, ornaments of gold, artistically worked. According to cir cumstances, the expression of her eye is benevolent or scornful or fiendish. She belongs to that class of woman with whom it is well to bo on good terms. Woe to him who becomes hor enemy or doesn't know how to appreciate lut pro tection. Even the King himself would not risk the defense of a friend against tho resentment or vengeance of this proud and stubborn woman. Wearing all the outside appeurance of a wouk and submissive creature, she knows how to impose her will, and when she wishes toobtain anything, sho works for it with passion. She would spend days, month-:, and even years, in tho pur suit of her object, and sho always gurus hor point. She is thoroughly acquainted with all tho state secrets, and iusisn upon knowing everything that tho King does and everything that ho wiiies. Sho gives counsel and dictates impor taut letters. The Queen's pride and her mania fi r meddling with everything havo made numerous ouemies for her, and slej might bo an object of pity if the king should die before her ; because in thai event sho would bo in danger of being stoned to death. Sho knows this very well, and. as a precautionary measure, sho has accumulated much riches iu the country of (.iodjam, whero she intends to take refuge iu case sho becomes u widow. THEY ARE HARD TO STOP. TreaiutloiiK Momniituiii r tho Ur-:it Ocean MtraniHlilim. The motion of a s camship on a calm sea is so smooth and steady that one hardly realizes tho tremendous momen tum of tho vessel under his feet. A collision, even ufter tho engines hr.vo been slowed down, gives a startling revelation of the en. rgy of motion. The timo required to arrest the motion of a ship and bring it to a standstill can be accurately determined by calculation's. These calculations have been recently made for several well known ships. To stop the Etruria, whoso displace ment is 0,080 tons, horse power 14,3'l, and speed 20.18 knots an hour, two min utes and forty-seven seconds are re quired, and during the process of stop ping the ship will forge ahead 2,464 feet, or nearly one-hulf a mile. The United States cruiser Columbia, with a dis placement of 7,350 tons, 17,091 horse power, and a speed of 22.8 knots, can be stopped in two minutes and fifteen sec onds, and within a space of 2,147 feet. Good Story of Thaddeu-) Stevens. Congressman Brofius of Pennsylvania tells this story of Thaddeus Stevens, ac cording to the Washington Post : "Stevens was championing some bill in Congress which aroused tho opposi tion of the combined Southern members. Ho made a brilliant speech in favor of it, und equally brilliant speeches were made on the othor side, and the upshot of it was that Ste veus was outvoted after a very bitter and passionato parti san debate. Stevens was still boiling with disap pointment and bitterness when Tombs of Georgia, in a taunting way, asked him: "Well, Stevens, how do you feel over your defeat?" "Feel." snapped back Stevens, "feolt I feel like the poor man ut the rich man's gate, who was licked by the dogs." llulletn that Don't Hurt. Seeel coated rifle bullets for tho new magazine guns cause very littlo pain, says Dr. Delornio, surgeon-in-chief of the French army. During the riots in Fourmies one man was wounded so bad ly as to bo paralyzed, but did not sus- I pect that he had been shot until he saw DlooU stains on nis cioiumg; one snoi through the leg only felt a slight shiver ; another, shot through the arm, felt his elbow twitch and closed his fist mechan ically. At short range, 100 to 150 yards the bullets are apt to explode and to do serious mischief. In a Prohibition Land. "Yes," admitted tho wayfarer, "there was lots of ague in that country. They voted Prohibition, you know, and peo ple got in the way of shuking for the drinks, " Nothing was heard for the space of several minutes save a dull, booming noiso, which might have proceeded from tho explosion of a distant aerolite, or from the impact of a bung starter upon a devoted heud. Detroit Tribune. Euunl' Whit FearU Gouu. What bus become of tho white pearls of the Empress Eugenie, sold at the close of the Franco-Prussian war, had never been made known. The value of these was some $150,000, and they wore gathered togother in a beautiful uock luce that frequently gruced the neck of that uafcirtmiute (jueeu. W hat Mr. Lvuie Think. Mrs. Leuse, the Western agitator, says sho thinks the time is ripe for gen eral reformation. She asserts that there are many thiugs of to-day suggesting the sixteenth csutury that should be done awy irilU. .
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