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A PICTUIiESQUE SPOT.
Fertility and Beauty of Straw
berry Point, Alaska.
The Bent IMace in the Northwestern Ter
ritory for Aericultaral I'arnuita A
rerr--t A lldernemt or l'lantu
utl Uranoni.
Tlio season that is just finished has
Invn most rtitaile in the matter
of tmrists ns well as jrold minors that
Alasktt has ever hail. Now fhat- it is
over, ami the regular iiihaliant.s tf the
territory have had a ehanee ti think
uljout it st little, they are lH-piniiinir to
t;ilk aloiit thi'. ";reat thinfs in store for
I hem. Alaska is jjorj;eoiis in slimmer.
Nowiiere else in the world is there sneh
seenery as aloijfj the island-tJottetl
ehannel from Port Tovns'iil to ,In
nean. Not only is nature dressed in
her ln'st to reeeive the tourists who are
join; tliere in ever-inereasinj, thronfrs,
lint the inhaltitants also fret on their
itimmI ( lollies and their -od In-havior,
and for four or five months the whole
territory is arrayed in its Sunday ln-st.
Hut this ;km clothes exhibition comes
only in streaks. It occurs for about
t wo days of each week, when t he steam
er from "down In-low" is in. The tour
ists come and ;jo with the steamers,
and rarely stay over from oni loat to
another. As the. steamers lie in each
rt only a day or h-ss. the tourists
have not much chance to make a last
injj impression. Now. however, there
is likely to te a change. Juneau men
are. notliino- jf they are not hustlers,
and with the recollection of this sea
son's profits and jiossibilities they are
iirraiyrintr to put up a biff hotel on
Straw berry l'oint, at the entrance to
(dacicr bay. in southeastern Alaska.
Strawlierry Point is one of the most
beautiful and picturesque spots in all
Alaslia. It lies U'twri'ii Juneau and
Sitka at the entrance to Idacier bay.
It is a frlaoial moraine, which extends
out into icy st raits about ten miles from
the mainland, anil separates the en
trance to (dacier bay on the east from
1 he little narrow strait lietween Pleas
ant island and the mainland on Ihe
west. The moraine has an elevation
of from .".! to loo feet aliove hiirh tide,
mid contains hundreds of acres of fer
ule level land. If then is a place in the
territory where afrricuItur;U pursuits
can Ik carried on it is at Strawlerry
Point. The soil is a rich, sandy loam,
and the lienehes are mostly free from
the marshy ground which character
izes most of the level land along the
coast in southeastern Alaska. The
whole Kuinsula is covered with a lux
urious prowth of blue joint and other
frras.ses, and many acres of it are dotted
with the strawlierry plants which
irive tiie Kint its name., They are so
thick that when they are in blossom
in the early summer the land resembles
a New York farmer's field of daisies,
and in Scptemlier, when the lcrries
riien, they fairly make the pre utid
red.
The climate of Strawlierry l'oint is
much ploasanter than at most other
places in Alaska. At Sitka, for instance,
the averape is 2-0 da s of rain, sno.v or
fop 111 a year. Juneau is about as bad.
it never pets very cold ttecause of the
intl iieni es of the warm Japan current,
but there are very few days of clear
skies and bripht sunshine. Hut at
Strawlierry Point the precipitation of
rain in summer, and the correspond
inp fall of snow in winter.aie much less
than at Juneau. This is liecaiisc across
tin bay in the west the lofty Fair
weather ranpe lowers iike an army of
pin nt sentinels stationed tliere to pro
tect this little parden sot from the
terribly icy winds that would sweep
across from the Pacific if these moun
tains did not hold them back. 'Ihe
rainfalls in summer are like tho-e of
the interior, and not like the lonp.
stc;u!y drizzles anil downpours of S'tka
and Juneau. Strawlierry Point is prob
ably the only place ip Alaska where the
iiplitninp plays and the thunder roars
in a typical summer shower. In places
on the ln-nches there are bunches of
oiinir cedar and spruce, with occasion
al thickets of alders, hut most of the
protmd is clear and rollinp.
The prandest scenery in Alaska i: on
view from Strawlierry Point. Uefdos
the piants of the Fairwcather ranpe.
there are the preat ice cathedrals of
she Muir and Pacilic placiers, which
loom up 2(1 miles away and send off a
continuous procession of tr niend ins
iceberps, which pass down by the p.iint
like a preat fleet of white warships in
review. The waters about the point
iii-iii with fish, and there ir. pame a
plenty in the iear-bv woods. Already
the enthusiastic Juneau men an plan
n;np their summer hotel and callinp
Strawlierry Point the "Saratopa of the
Northwest." N. V. Sinn.
MiiK-le in Hike Work.
It is st ranpe that so many people
should seem to think that hicyclinp de
velops only the muscles of the lop.
Criticisms of this kind, however, arc
usual! v heard from those who have
not tried this most fascinat inp means
of recreation and exercise. Kx-ioi-iciteo.
luis proved that bioyelinp brinps into
play and develops all t Ik important
muscles which help to build up the
ohvsical structure. Of course the lops
leceive the greatest amount of exer
cise, but the use of the arms, buck and
chest is erv imjiortaiit. When a steep
incline is encountered the leps alone
would Ik unable to supply sufficient
proulsive.Miwer. The handle bars n. 11st
be limily grasped, ami the strain on
them is very preat; in fact they might
lie broken if at all defective, which
gives a faint idea of the pnat strenptli
that must be put forth by the arms
and back.
Coldest Winter in w England.
The most memorable winter in New
Fiii'laiid of which we have a clear
record was that of 1710-41, says a cor
resHndent of the Stoninpton (Conn.)
Mirror. Then jieople passed ami n
passed from Providence to Newjiort
on the ice, and from the shores of Con
necticut to Montauk Point. One rec
ord says that a man drove a horse and
sleigh from Hurlpate. near New- York,
to Cape Cod. A sleighing party went
from Norwich to Fisher's island on
the ice the same year. In the winter
of 1 .'" the lioats en route for New Yor!:
wore ioeliound near Hart's island for
l'.i days, and for three weeks the mer
cury kept in the neighborhood of zero.
HiiiMnuiiu rujjiuiui 1 11-0. VULAPUK MAS A KIVAL. I . u at tuc wurri I I
Explorer ltrrhrrcvink Thinks There May
lie Future for Commerce There.
The recent antarctic exjieditioii was
a commercial one, and comuiercially it
was a failure, lxcause we did not find
the ripht whale, so valuable for its
whalelione. The Antarctic was fitted
out for the hunt of t hat part iculur kind
of whale; nevertheless, I have no
doubt that the commercial nsultof the
exK'dition would have lieen much 1 let
ter had we worked under more favora
ble auspices.
I do not- by any means consider the
fact of our not havinp niet with the
ripht whale in those sca-s as conclusive
proof of their nonexistence in the bay
at Victoria Iinil. The Antarct ic found
the ripht whale at Campliell island in
the winter time; the lioats fastened to
five of them, of which, however, only
one was caupht. Now, to me it does
not seem improbable that these whales
po south to the bay of Victoria IjiiuI,
where Ross saw theui, in the summer,
and then return north in the winter.
It would s-.-cm incredible that a man of
Sir James Koss' standinp, supMrted as
he was by able scientists and experi
enced whalers, should have made a
pravt- error when he said that, this
valuable whale was to lie found in
larpe numbers in these southern lati
tudes. The ilifTereiice in the apearaiice of
the blue whale, as we. found it there,
and the ripht whale, in the method of
sjMintinp. is so strikinp that even the
most casual observer could not easily
be deceived. Very jiossibly, had we
penet rated farther into the larpe o'ieii
bay discovered by Ross in the vicinity
of the" volcano peaks Erebus and Ter
ror, we. too, would have found the ripht
whale in pn'at numliers. We saw very
many blue whales, but had not the a
pliances to take them.
As I remarked at the international
peopraph'cal conpress, we found few
seals. They increased, however, in
nuinlKT as we worked eastward, and
seemed afraid of the land. All of the
seals that we met on the shore showed
much uneasiness and s'edily made for
the water, a fact which strenpthened
my lielief in the existence of a larpe
enemy of the seal on the continent. I
do not doubt t hat the seals conprepate
lopether in larper numliers at some
places on the bay.
I consider the pnano ImiIs which we
discovered of preat commercial ituior
tance. and they oupht to lie well worth
the attention of enterprising business
men. The secimen which I broupht
back with me contains a larpe iier
cciitape of ammonia.
Furthermore, from the analysis of
Ihe siM'cinicn of rock which I broupht
back with me, the Kssible anil rolt
able presence of valuable minerals on
the continent is proved, althouph the
lava and the volcanic nsjiect of the
coast liue do not sjieak favorably for
I lie presence ofCieavy metals near the
surface. C E. ISorchprevink, in Cen
tury. HOW LIGHTNING KILLS.
It Is the "l'p Stroke" That la Always
the Most Fatal.
A new theory as to how lightning
kills, but one which may well be held
in alieyance until a clearer solution of
it can be presented, is jiist now lieinp
urged by the scientists, says the St.
Ixmis Republic. According to this
new-fangled idea, a person is never
"struck" by liphtuitip at all that is,
in t he pcneral sense of the word quoted.
The new theory is the result of deduc
tions that have 1hcii made along the
follow inp lines: All life is elect ric. In
the human body the stomach is the
generator and the brain the battery.
When a person is killed by lightning
he is not "struck" at all. but dies lo
calise of a sudden loss of electric jiower
which had been imclliip his physical
ii-rine. The loss of this vital fluid, if
such it may lie called, is broupht about
in this manner: A thunderstorm is
passing over. It is charged with posi
tive electricity- and the earth lu-neath
is charged ncpativcly. The human
electric battery is lietween. If the
cloud is charged heavily enough it saps
tin negative electricity from the earth,
using the human iieing as a conductor,
::nd finally leaves him lifeless by taking
his electricity- with that from the earth.
This theory is in line with that which
originated a few years ago and which
was to the clTeot-that it was the "up
stroke" that kills.
POTATOES WERE EXPENSIVE.
ItiK Hill Follow a llilslntnil'M Scheme to
lliile Cot of CitrnrM.
One of the funniest things that have
occurred in Joliet during the present
year, says the Joliet (111.) Republican,
was the mishap of a gentleman who
formerly lived on the west side, but is
now a resident of the city, and whose
wife ran the store bill and looked after
the household expenses. He was in the
habit, by agreement with hisprocer,of
havinp his cipars and occasionally
poods that were not exactly cipars
harped up as otatoos. One evil day
his wife took her pencil anil liepan 10
reckon up the accounts. She finally
found that the family had eaten over
three car loads of (antatocs in less than
a year, and she just diiln't In-lieve that
the account was correct. The smoker
anil the smoker's procer were between
the u ppcr and the nether millstone for
several days, and it was doubtful who
would lie pulverized the finest, but
finally an explanation was made that
mollified the wife, even if it didn't
satisfy her as to t he correctness of the
grocer's charge for potatoes.
t'an't Sec the .lo'ie.
Here is the serious-manner in which
a big Indon daily anil a sedate London
magistrate treatil on old-time Ameri
can joke: A stranpe society was
brought to light during the hearing of
a case In-fore the Thames magistrate.
Sevcial.nien were chargid with stealing
a watch from si sailor and were all dis
charged except Alexander I'ullcrton, on
w hom w en found a ost otlice sav ings
liank liook for t 49 and a card of meni
liership with a curious title. It liorethe
following Inscription: 'National Liars
association. Having Wen a memlierof
the above association, and finding you a
bigger liar than myself. I must con
gratulate you on relieving me of this
card. It must lie gratifying to the East
End community, as well as a tribute to
Fullcrton's ow n abilities, that he found
no one worthy of relieving him of the
card. The magistrate remanded hiin
for inquiries."
Enperanto la the Name of Thla New Cul
verHal Laiii'uaKr.
Esjieranto is not the name of a new
liquor or of a new appetizer, nor that
of a comie sting 'nu. it is the name of
an artificial language, which is fast
paining adherents in France, and that
is already able to boast of many fol
owers in Europe, '.he I idled States,
and even in some Kirts of Africa.
Among those most proficient in the
language is a Frenchman, liearing the
aristocratic name of D'Eyssauticr. He
6ays that Esjieranto is by 110 means a
new language, nor even a recent dis
covery. This intei nat ional language
lias been in existence nearly ten years,
and th-re are at least lu.OOtl adherents
in dilTerent parts of the world.
The author or originator of F.sieran
to is a Russian gentleman. Dr. Zamen
hof. of Warsaw. He says that one may
learn its grammar in an hour, anil all
its vocabulary of words in a few days.
The official organ of the language,
the Esperantisto, is utterly oposed to
the Volapuk organ, for it has literary
tendencies.
The fact is, Esjieranto hopes to tie
throne Volapuk altogether. Verses
may bo written in it, and translations
of the Iliad and Hamlet have been pul
lished. Like all artificial universal lan
guages, the roots of Esperanto are de
rived from the Ix'st known of modern
tongues English, French and (iYrtnan
these offering the least difficulty to
students.
CLEVER SHAMMING.
1'aria.Hottsekeepern Will, Now I .oi It Ankanre
at Sanitary Expert.
One of the "knights of industry w ho
aliound in I'tris accomplished a very
sharp theft recently, says a Paris 'ot
ter. He walked around to a newiy
eonst.'icted house on the Houlevaid
Henri tjiiatn, which had lately re
ceived some tenants, and ionipously
re present td himself as the sjiccial ai
chitect of the lioaril of health, sent
to inspect the sanitary arrangements
of the new dwellings. The concierge,
deeply impressed by the grand appear
ance tif the man, and lx-lioving in his
official character, admitted him. to the
rooms of one of the tenants, who ha-jM-ned
to lie connected with the Lyons
railway. Tii. occus.nt of the flat was
out. as the sham .irehitect took care
to ascertain bclorehand.
The shar-xT sent the innocent con
cierge downstairs for a measuring nnl,
and immediately set to work to force
ieii a safe, whence he look a packet
of railway shares and City of Paris
liontis, amounting in value to over
Clou. The safe was firmly closed tie
fore the return of the concierpe. who,
susectinp nothing, accompanied the
shaiMi around the apartment. After
the sham architect had finished his tour
of insMction. he jolitely departed.
When the official of the Lyons com
pany came home at noon he discovered
ids loss, and entered into immediate
communication with the jiolice, who
are now looking for the sham archi
tect. THIS IS A BIG COUNTRY.
If Too Don't Iteliete It Einten to This
Man's Kemarka.
"Few Americans appreciate the vast
extent of our national domain," said
Col. Charles C. MotTert. of Ik-uver, to
the Huffalo Courier. "I firmly believe
that some day in the near future we 1!
haveair linesof traiisjHirtation lietween
t.11 Kiints either up in the air or oth
erwise. Fin ImiiiiuI for New Yorx. and
I'd save 12 hours travel if I could travel
in a straight line from Denver to Nov
York. For instance, the air line lie
tween Chicago ind New York is To--miles;
by rail it is 'Mil miles. From Huf
falo to New York it is20."i miles in .111 a.i
line, 422 miles by rail. Why, our cou:.
try is so great that the public lam!..
here exceed in the mimlx-r of suar''
miles the whole of Russia in Euiope
The state of Texas is much larger than
Austria. Ceruiany or France; New Mex
ico is larger than England. Irelaud.
Scotland and Wales combined: Mon
tana is larper than Norway; Missouri
is larper than Turkey in Euroie, Ken
tucky is larper than Portugal, est Vir
ginia is larper than Creece, Arizona is
as larpe as Italy, Indiana is twice as
larpe as Switzerland, and Wyoming and
Orepon art as larpe as Spain. In th
event of a successful war of conquest
with tireat Hritain. or by annexation,
if the I'uited States should Ih'coiiio ks
f esseil of Canada, it would add Ci.-:il,31 J
square miles of territory to the preat
republic, and our total area would
then le t"i.s()7.371 square miles. We
would still lie one-third smaller than
the Russian empire, and one-third
larger than the Chinese empire."
PRETTY WOMEN "BUYERS.
Employed by Shrewd Merchant with
Never-Fail ins; Grand K exults.
"What won't merchants now adays do
in order to pain a business ad vantage?"
tusked the drummer from Ohio, who
then, says the Huffalo Express, partial
ly answered his own question by say
ing: "I went into a big department
store in Philadelphia last week. I found
that the buyer for my lineof good.s was
a woman, a mighty handsome woman.
I made an apjioiu.nient with her for the
next morning. When ! arrived with my
sa m pies, 1 found half a dozen salesmen
ahead of me, and had to wait my turn.
The buyer was busy just then with a
fellow who sold cheap jewelry. He was
a Fiisceptible. youth, and the girl was
stringing him for all he was worth.
You'd have sworn thr.l she was in love
with him. She called him by his first
II line, leaned her head confidingly
against hifi as they looked over the
samples and insisted ujioii pinning the
goods into his scarf and shirt front to
seo how they would look. A5 a result,
slur bought all she wanted f'-r a song.
That young fellow" employers an'
probably w ondering yet how he came to
sell so cheap.
Fie Crust.
If you wish your pie-crust to lie very
nice, fold it, lay it on a plate, and stand
in the refrigerator over night. This will
improve a good plain paste so that it
it almost as flaky as a puff paste. In
sealing a pie moisten the inside, but not
on the edge, with a imstry-brush
dipped in water or the white of an egg.
Put the upper crust in place and press
the two together with the thumb
dipped in flour. Press together, but
not oa the exact edge, or the pastry
will not rise. N. Y. Poet.
Home of the Ingenious Devices for Navi
gating m Great Steamer.
Let us spend an hour with ('apt. Ran
dall, of the American .iner St. liiis.on
the bridge in midooean. He first takes
t's into the wheelhouse. It is 1 room
ten feet wide with a curved fwnk A
heel altout three feet in diameter is
I laced in the center of the room, and
you are .surprised to see that the quar
termaster keeps turning it almost con
stantly. You liavealwaystlioupiitthat
he had simply to keep his eye on the
floating compass in the lio.x directly in
front of him and hold the ship steady
on her course. As you look at t ho com
ulss you see the ship veering now this
way and now that, as slie rolls and
plunges, or as one screw turns faster
than the other, and thus pulls the ship
around. It is hard to make two inde
pendent screws go exactly at the same
speed, and so this man at. the wheel is
busy ill 1 the time turning tl ship
straight. He has to fight th waves
anil the screws anil the w inds .at the
same tine, and he is a busy man.
This steering w heel controls the ship
by means of a small column of oil in a
little tulie. Hy turning the wheel this
v.ay or that the oil in the tulie is forced
up and down, and that oeiis or closes
certain valves in the steam-stccring
gear 4!U feet away, and the rudder is
turned as easiiy as if a child had done
it. In must steamships the steam
steering gear is controlled by hydraulic
power that is by water but the use
ol a column of oil is an improvement.
As you look alwut you see fastened to
the cornice directly in front of the
wheelman a little scale in black with
white lines marked off on it. Tliere is
a dial on it. and as the ship rolls yon set
that this is a device to mark the depree
-f the roll. You may notice that it
takes aliout a second for every degree
a roll. On each side of the room is
another lonp black paupe, and thedials
point to cerain figures, generally lie
tween HO and 0.1. These dials arc little
electrical devices, sliowinp exactly how
many revolutions the screws are mak
ing. The captain at a glance knows
what is going on in the engine-rooms.
Over in the corner of the room is an
other curious electrical device. It is a
bttle 1kx with a dock in it. The cap
tain tells you it is the machine that
contmls the whistle in time of fog. The
law requires a long blast of the w histle
nt such times every two minutes. Im
pressing a button 011 this little clock
Jpiaratus. and by sotting the clock in
a certain manner, the whistle is blow 11
a .ltomti tically for seven seconds every
iiiinute. There can lie no error of man
;n that work. Just as sun as everv
minute comes around that whistle
will blow- seven sconds. I'nder the old
way, when a man pulled the whistle
coid, there was 110 exactness in the
work. When the fog is over the button
is released and t he w hist le stops. Har
per's Round Table.
ROMEO AND JULIET AGAIN.
A Montague-Capulet Eove Tragedy in Keal
Life in Au-trla.
An extraonlinary love tragedy, re
calling the story of Romeo and Juliet,
is reported from Altfoldt. Irma. says
a Vienna letter to the Iyonilou News.
Some time ago the daughter of a high
ly respected family made the acquain
tance of an employe of the local ad
ministration, whose uncle is one of the
princes of the Hungarian church. Tin
two fell deeply in love and often met by
stealth, as the young m.in's parents
could not forget a lawsuit they had had
with the girl's family and which was
decided against thcin. The pirl's fa
llier, who was once a millionaire, but
whom speculation had reduced, tried
to jM'i-suade his daughter to marry a
rich land owner who was anxious to
make her his wife. The young man
sueeei-ded. however, in getting a ilis
peiisation through his clerical uncle,
ami a secret marriage wa-s Mrformcd.
The girl's parents again made a vio
lent scene to induce her to marry the
land owner. She took their words so
much to her.rt that she took a larpe
dose of opium and next morning was
found unconscious in her Ixil. The
young husband, hearing the news, ran
to the house and in the general confu
sion entered the room. Seeing her pale
and motionless and believinp her to be
dead, he blew bis brains out w ith a re
volver he had broupht with him. The
re'iort awoke the young woman, whom
the opium had held in a trance. When
she saw her lover lifeless on the ground
near her she took the revolver from his
dead hand and shot herself.
QUEEN AND THE "ORB."
How the Itrave Girl Suffered Silently at
the Coronation.
In the coronal ion the ceremonies last
ed more than four hours, and through
out the queen played her part with
wonderful coni'iosuro. Care, says a
writer in the Westminster Hudpet. had
Iwen taken to provide a crown suitable
for her small bead, but no one ha I
.bought alxiut reducing- She size of the
orb which she wan requin-d to carry
i.i her tiny hand.
"What am I to do with it?" she asked
in concern.
"Carry it, your majesty, replied
lird John Thy line.
"Am I? It is very heavy, the queen
answered in a tone of amazement. How ever,
it was too late to protest, and she
olioyod the exigencies of t lie sit nut ion.
A worse mistake had liei-n made with
l-eparil to the ruby coronation rinp.
The jeweler had made it to lit her maj
esfy's little linger, whereas Ihe arch
bishop declared that accorilin- to the
rubric it must lie put tqion the larper
iiiper, and acconlingly forced it into
that Ksition. The queen lore her
iainftilly swelling finger with the same
heroism that she carriiil the weighty
orb. Afterward the finger was so much
swollen that it hail tit In liathcd in ice
water before the ring could lie drawn
off.
Vitality of Dlaeaae Germs.
During the summer of 1'J4 the noted
bacteriologists of Europe. Koch, of Cer
many, Pasteur, of France, Ewart, of
Scotland, and Carpenter, of England,
made exjiorinients on the vitality of the
germ which causes splenic fever in
animals. The facts thus deduced prove
that earth worms may bring up the
germs fnm places where such animals
have been buried after a lapse of 2t
years, and that the dried and pulverized
blood of such diseased animals wili
produce the disease after 50 years.
SCHEMES TO WIN AT POKER.
Device That While Not Open Cheating
Are Ouite as I'.ail.
There are more simple ways than one
to win at a game of -hiker, without
oK'idy cheating, as is evidenced by a
couple of young nn-n who licloi-o-cil to
a Jmker club recently broken up ;:i:d
w ho played t he panic to w in. They had
various schemes, the first, licingas fol
lows: They would po into a game w it h
plenty of money. Iieggod or lmrrowed
if necessary; they would play in every
good-sized stake and let thesniail ones
alone; they would liegiu to In-t. each
raising t he other and t heir companions
at the table, irrespective of the size of
hands; whether the others held enor
mous hands or not they wen- bound
to poout in time, and then the partners
would divide the sjkuIs, in this wav
managing to turn many an honest or
dishonest eiiiiy, as the opinion mav
1k. The second panic was not so fair,
says the Syracuse Post. The two con
spirators sat next to one another.
They would look into one anot.lier's
hand, and the lowest man would drop
out at the appropriate time. Then
he would take every occasion to look
into the other's hands. If they- were
hipher than his companion's he would
nudge the companion and the latter
w ould drop out ; ot lierw ise he would re
main with the certainty of winning
the money. The two rogues hail nu
merousot her w ay sof Ix-at iny the iraine.
but these were Ihe plain, unvarnished
inundations for many a case of high
way mbla-ry on their iart.
ORDERED A TIN PETTICOAT.
The rope Insisted That a Nude Statue lie
Drafted.
One cf the most curious instances
of the strurf.-le In-tween art and pro
priety is .shown in St. Peter's. Tin
writer, says the Troy Press, was ram
bling through the great cat hedral one
day w h-n he snddetilv came upon an
enormity. It was the superbly si-ulj-turcd
form of a Ix-autiful woman, the
head, hands, neck, ankles and feet s-j-arat
inasterworks of art. The wold
separate is used advi-edly. for t he tcrso
ind legs wen modestly hidden under a
tin petticoat painted to represent mar
ble, but so ili in color and drapery line
tli.it tin en tin stat ue seemed il isjoi nt
d and at war in its component pans.
"Si sig nor." said the guide. :qilopet
ically. "It is the ini-iossililc. Very
li-ue. Hut what can lie hel-ied? The
sculptoi he make 1 K-a ill if ill mode! nude.
It w ill not do. It is on the po;e"s tomb.
The ioie, he comes lo see his tomb
two, three hundred years ago. He sav
no. We will not have such thing. .'Ie
toll the sculptor to put on tbedrapcrv.
The artist, he say no it is ini possihio.
Then the joe call a workman ami he
say put on the clothes on the figure.
'Ihe worknir; 1 not :.n artist, only a
woikman. lie put on 1 he t in jM-t t icoat
and paint it. The pijM satisfied. He
die .111J is buried in the tomb. Put
every liody wonder two. three hundred
tears at the ligure."
THE BLENHEIM SPANIEL.
Most Eovatile of the 1'our-Footed Iets of
Womankind.
Of all the i-ts of womankind, babies
alone excepted, there is nothing more
lovable than the tiny Hleuheim spaniel,
says an exchange.
Why this breed of dogs have the
r.anie of the palace of the duke of Marl
borouph 110 one seems to know. The
story poos, however, that the first due
hail the brood, and that, on a ft-i.-ml's
requesting a puppy, he refused to part
with one, but, at the same time, took
two or tlint- blind whelps and threw
them to tame eagles.
Hut in the year 1 ' his grace, the
duke of Marl ixirough. was reputed Jo
jMissess the smallest and lic..t breed
of cockers (woodcock spaniels in Hrit
ain. They were invariably 11 d and
white, with very long ears, snort noses,
and black eyes. They wen evidentlv
the ancestors of the present I'.leiihciins.
which are still hn-d by the kcpcrs of
the lodges at nienhoitn and some of the
inhabitants of Woodstock.
Hut there is little doubt that t hoy
have liecn crossed with the pug to give
them the very short t.nub nos t w hieh
they now possess. Moreover, t he breed
has "iM-eoin.- very delicate and ililli, lilt
to rear. They suffer from brain dis
ease, and are 11a 'ie li kely than s.n ol lit r
dog to tlie in piqvyhtod. "id -tone."
the celebrated writer on dog--, iciuciii-l-ors
t he t i nit w hen t he I Ion he in i w orw
mainly bred in the vicinity of thcial-:u-e.
lie suggests as a probable orig
inal of the Hleiilii'im the Japaccsc toy
spaniel. The surmise seems . ry prob
able. LIVED HIS LIFE ALONE.
Spent Years at a Hotel Without Speaking
to Anyone.
A year or two ago a well-to-do pent Io
nian died in a New Yolk hotel. Ho had
lived in the hostelry lor years, and ye
not a soul knew him h rsoiiaWy or any
thing aliout him lnyi.nd the fact that
he jiaid his bills pnunptly and icpular
ly. He chose to make no acq na iuta m-es,
says the New York Advertiser, and was
satisfi-d to apj-ear to tin hotel maoagcr
as "No. 01, K." or by whatever nuiiilx-r
hi. 4 room designated. The hotel man
agement had changed several times, but
he lived on tliere. a calm. unrulHcd ex
istence. As a guest such .t 111:111 is a
jewel, and. as may n-asonab'y lc suje
-osed, be was not likely to lie barrasstl
by unnecessary at tetn ions. W hen be
died and it was found tha ho was a
pent Ionian of independent fortune the
new si- K-rs. of course, making the dis
covery some eoplo marveled for a day
or two. and then forgot him. I n-oall
the incident now only to illustrate that
in a pn-at city like this what ap-ars
to lie the most public life may in reality
lie the most exelrsivc.
Haw and Why It Kalna.
Rain is the accumulation of the tiny
particles of the vaKir of the atmos
phere into drops. These drops, first
small of size, attract others of their
kind and become dnqs of such magni
tude that they fall to the earth Ik
cause of their weight. There is a limit
to the quantity of water which the air
is capable of alisorbing and n-taining
as invisible vapor. Warm air is able to
hold more than cold air. Hence, when
the air which is saturated with mois
ture liecomes cold for any reason what
ever, it can no longer n-tain its mois
ture. A jiortion must, uudcr such con
dition, accumulate into drops. These
fall to the earth in the shaie of rain.
SIMPLE SAVAGES.
How They lionkoed a Whisky I'lrate Out
of a Sloop liailed with 1 .lij Dor.
The Indians of the w est coat cf Van
couver island have adopted a mrvel and
decidedly effective method of dealing
with while whisky pirates who fre-
0 ue lit t heir v ii lapes. as James John sou.
of Victoria, formerly master of the
scaling schooner Kilmsuiy, knows lo
l.is cost, remarks the San Francisco
I .XMiiiner. lie has come to the con
clusion that there was big money fur
the man who made a systematic tour
1 f the west coast with IxJttle'd samples
ot gill and whisky.
Accordingly he pun-hased a small
t'-ading si. nip, loaded her with a cargo
ot stimulants, and sailed for Hari-lay
souud some time ago. There, for a
few days, he did a rushing business re
tailing his low grade intoxicants at
live to ten dollars er 1 Hit tie. The In
dians knew they wore lieing roblwd
ami remonstrated, but no reduction in
t ho price w as made.
Then t hoy held a -ouiicil and a great
plan was evolved. The aid of the 1 11
di:.i o!ioo was scon re 1. and while tlie
master of the sloop slumli-rid he was
surioiindcil, mude prisoner. hand
oiilTod. and led in triumph to the vil
lage. In vain ho pleaded for release.
!le was told he would lie held until the
coming of tlie M!in- patiol and ''.eii
: livercd to the officers for supply inn"
h.pior to Indians. This meant a li:-e
f at least 5-i'" l and the oontisoa-ion of
his craft, so he determined to suggest
t'-rnis. and his o-Tcr of the sloop and its
argo for his freedom was quickly ac
cepted. 1 :e cargo was consumed in a
single night by t he d iisky d i piomats in
oelc'.irat ing the success of their Na
jioleoiiie stroke of generalship.
AN ACTRESS WEEPS.
She Sheds Keal Tear During the S-ene
She Create.
According to I'ootlights there never
v us an act ress w ho i-ou Id eon una 111 1 her
lachrymal plan-Is hs Adelaide Neilsott
could. Several of her leading nu n
found out her peculiar faculty to their
cost, line of th -ni was "Jack" Haines.
At the linn the English actor was
voni.g ami sleielor and mtlier fancied
b ! 11: ! f in such parts as Romeo, going
li. considerable ox'iise in dressing.
For Romeo he had some lovely 011s-ti.nn-s.
all silk, satin and laoes. A deli
cate al" bine Jaol.ct was his favorite
ii one of the scenes l-tviin Romeo
an I Juliit. but h" was awfully sorry
:e had it licforo the season was over.
After a few H-rft maini-s Ramos no
ticed that the li-aiitiiul pale I ! ue silk
ill the front of the jacket was stained
11 someway. I "here w ere long st reaks
in it. which he could not account lor.
That night Miss Ni ilsou and he v. ere.
in one of their pathetic love si-cnes.
!!ir head rested on his breast. Shei
looked up. turned her face to the audi-
nce a moment, which at once burst,
into most tumult uoiis applause. When
sj.e turned her face toward Ha rues
ipnin he saw the tears stn-aii.ing dow u
her checks. He glanced at his cost nine
and saw the cause of t he stains. There
wire several fresh wet streaks tin the
handsome lale blue silk made by
.lulict's tears. Ramos tried to hold
her head away from him. but t he cos
tume had to lie saeritied to art. and
v. hen the season was over his cost tunc
was a striped instead of a plain bine
silk, the change having lieon caused
ly .1 uliet's too realist io wi-ops.
MEERSCHAUM.
Methods That Are I ed to I'renare It for
.Market.
Meerschaum is extracted in the same
way as eoal. The stone ils extracted
is calhd "hr.in tash" (rough block I
and is soft ciionuh 1 be cut ea.-ily w it Ii
a knife. It is w h:1c. w ii h a y eilow ish
tint, and is covered with a red clayey
soil aliout one inch thick. In this
state t he blocks an purchased by deal
ers on the sjmt. not liy weight nor by
mcasun-inent. These rough 1.1 icksure
dried and subjected to a ce:f:vt) prep
aration I m fon- being convoy i d to Eski
Sherliir. Some of thm are as small
as a w ain ut. w Idle ot hers t tain t he size
of a i uiiie foot. Tin. si- which eon. Line
i-ogularity of surface and s.izo an- the
U-st. The manipulation req-iircd bo
fon thev arc ready for ex j irtat ion
is ioiig and costly. The clayey soil
attached is removed and the in. -er-M-hauni
dried. In summer t xj.osure
tor live or six day s in t he sun's ray s suf
fices, bi.t in winter a room heat-d 1
the ii-quiriil temperature is n-quin-d.
and the drying process takes eight or
ten davs. When well dried the b!.cks
are well clean, d and olish-'d. Then
thev are sorted into .ilut 12 classes,
each class lieing packiil with preat
can- in searale cases and each bl.M-k
liciiig wrapjied in cotton wool.
SAFETY FOR PASSENGERS.
How It Is Secured on Eatern Excursion
Steamer.
Those of our readers who have had
the curiosity to examine the ap'miii!
ineiits and equipments of excursion
Ixiats such as ply aliout the iiays and
ha rl Kirs of the At hint iccnail. says Husi
! less, may have noticed 011 the main
dock a weighted and siis-ponded joini r,
so arrangtl as lo indicate by its sw ing-ii-g
movements the deviation of the
Ixsit front even I.ccl. Some weights on
wheels. commonly termed "chain
1mxos." an- at hand for use in evening
the load of tlie lKtt. As the lioat lists
to one side, when t he eager sight-scci s
I llsh pell-mell to secun some sjh-cuU
view, the chain Ihixos are quickly loiiid
in the opisite ilini-tioii. and when, by
nason of a change in point of intenst,
the enwd runs to the opjxisite side of
the Ixtat. the chain lxjxes in turn are
heeled to the contrary direction. The.
ixiintcr or indicator, hanging against a
xst r.car the n-nter of the Ixiat, serves
to direct the movements of tlie deck
hands with the Ixixes.
Slaeo I , 111. aMunrn.
Inoneof the leading journals of Mon
tevideo, the following advertisement
apjx-anil recently: "A very rrehyou'ig
woman wouM I'ke to marry a yo-irg
man of p.xl tamily. If nee ssary,
slie will pay the debts of her future
hiisliatiil. Send answer with photo
graph to I. P., at the office of the jour-l-nl."
The ins. rter of this announce
ment was 110 other than one Isaac
Mcierstein, a merchatit tailor, who had
just set up an establishment in Mon
tevilo. Hy this plan he pnici-rod pho
tographs of many undesirable custo
mors.