3 Advertising- Xta.tes. 111 . .v L 1 T at ...Re" " IA i km am eo amend It t tsa ItTtnkU consideration of advertisers whose Itnn wlU bs L,PB r m mi roucing low rates: lioeh.JUme. inca, months............. .. - 1,200 i iacn. a ttionthi . ..... . !DC -rr '.-l a. as ? . f"'.0,,u" - Inches, l year .. u oa H column, e months ...... . t tr J eoluma, i yea .'.1. B.M 1 M am, a months...... . ao.M 1 column. 1 yaar. Ik. as Boslnest Item, first inoarUoa. K. hc nae abseqnent rnsartloos, ae, per Hm Administrator's and imtnr's rintlnss tut Auditor's Motlcos Wy and similar Kotlcea. ....... ....... t aa -olutKn or proeeealngt at any corpora Hon or society and commaalcaUoaa daalrnes to call attention to any matter of limited or ladt vidaal Interest mnst be paid torasadTorUsmeata. Hook &nt IaS l-4...- .. . - bHP" Si. fife i mttiin 3 months. 1.7 "D"' ! ,iuliin6nionth. 2 ! 0,1 '".'.! i'.bin the year., a 4 t: n"' l'J ;Ai I er 3 atvive terms be de- OoDsail ineir Dot ex JAS. C. HASSON, Editor and Proprietor. 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Iddna MUSH as iv. 3til lironslwar. New .ra. . FRAZER AXLE Best in the World! Get the Genuine ! Sold Eienwhere! GREASE laAalTPn BY SAM'L WELLS A CO.. . 67VINE ST., CINCIRRAII, W. URCEST EXPORTERS OF C1ESEMG IH THE U. 1 a t re CANCER ami -i nmors CTTtm - no antiw ivyJi iroe. Prs. ORTH A Hvsa THE BABY'S FIRST SMILE. There's many a pleasure we meet with In life. Of Joy there Is many a thrill; There are transports that come in the midst of the strife. W'hfn the noise of the conflict Is still. But there's naught in this world so won d'rously sweet. From Greenland's white snows to the Nile. There's nothing so heavenly, pure and com plete As a dear little baby's first smile. The lover's first kiss we know It is flte; Its memory will haunt us for aye; Though the flowers may fade and the stars may decline. Its rapture will never decay. Yet not for a moment can we compare What may have a tincture of guile. In an Kden of blossoms so fragrant and fair. With an innocent baby's first smile. An angel, perhaps, is a beautiful sight, ltut an angel we never have seen. And far, far away on the regions of light. With their daisy-starred meadows sa green; Hut we are content when here we behold, fclncurubered with burdens the while, A gleam from the city whose streets are of gold. In a sweet little baby's first smile. George W. Crofts, in Chicago Inter Ocean. A SH1PWKECKED CKEW. BY UEOBUE IL COOMER. "That fine-looking loy who holds the bat," said the new master, indicutiug- a youny lad in the center of the play ground, "is one of my lest pupils. He is ICnolish. and was lrought here a year ufjo, after leLntf taken from n wreck." "Ah," I replied, "you like him, then. I am glad of that. As to his studies, ihere is certainly one in which he will be like ly to excel, and that is gvopraphy." "Ceotfraphy!" exclaimed the master. "It is really a pleasure to hear the little fellow recite it. He fairly devours it. 1 think he would be able to floor the com mittee in that branch of study." The new master was a frae, elderly mau, who, whenever 1 met him, seemed to take pleasure in talking- to me, th up;h our acquaintance had been only for a week or t wo. But now Arthur, the Enplish boy, catchiup; sipht of my calico bhirt end blue jacket, came eaperly to the spot where Ave stood; and then, for the first time, the teacher knew that his young pupil and myself were fast friends. "You must tell me the story, from first to Inst," he said, after listening to the greeting- letween Arthur and me, in which Ave had dropicd some remarks that aroused his curiosity. "I must hear it, for I feel a great interest in loth of you." We suited ourselves on the school house steps the master, Arthur Hid 1. ltut how difficult it seemed to realize the past and feel that this happy 'schoolboy had ever looked iion terrors so dreadful is those amid which I had once seen him, far out tion the grtit deep. How his bright eyes sparkled or mois tened, as I related the circuuistauces which had, a year before, brought us acquainted, and which I will repeat in f-ubstonce for the reader: .1 had sailed in the ship Altai, bound for Maranham, in Brazil, and on the equator Ave Avere becalmed for 23 days. There was from the first, a sail in sight. Avhich after n time was brought quite near us by those momentary puffs of air which will occnsionally ripple the water in such a calm; and ac at 1. ngth found her to lie the whaling brig Calh eriod. of London, Capt. lore. Her officers were several times on loard of us, while the A-esseJs !zily drifted Avithin Isulf a mile of f ach o'her. and it teemed very pleasan? to meet such jK-isrhborly people Uxii theocenn. They laughed, however, Axhenwecom- Gained of the tediousness of our pas age, which had up to that time occu pied five or six Aveeks, and sai 1 they bad not st en land for seven months! It was then that I first saAv young Arthur, whom I found to Le the ca tain's son. Mrs. Dore, the lad's mother, Ava also making the voyage; and com ing on lioard with the others fairly charmed our crgw w ith her sweet face and manner. Seven months out from ort, the cap tain's wife and son Ave re hungry for books nul pajiers, and Ave were happy in lieing able to supply them, in ex change for the well-thumled reading matter which they brought us from their brig. Capt. Dore told us that as soon at the calm should le over, h would go north wardly, toward the West Indies, to give everybody a good run ashore; but that he did not wish to enter Maralfr'iam, near which we then were, as a vessel he had sKken had reported the yellow feA-er there, and he. feared for hia wife and loy. When the Avind again sprang up, we stood for the Bra.ilia.i coast, Avhile the Cathcrwood bore away t the nrth carrying away with her more domestic happiness than I had ever Injfore rtsso- ciatfil with the idea of a Avhjler. Arthur waved his handkerchief to us fr m t he maintop, and then dimmer and dimmer grew the white sails of the English brig, till even her main royal disappeared a demonstration, if any were needed, that thi world is a mere Irftll. We lay at Maranhan for a numlier of Aveeks, then started on the return jies sape. Once more at sea J speculated on the chances of again falling in Avith tlu CotherAVood; but the old. proverb of "a needle in a liaystack," naturally recurred to me, on I felt hovv improb able it was that we would meet Avith her. In the meantime, I had been much inter ested in the whaler's books, and won dered how Mrs. Dore and her boy :iked those which they had obtained from the big merchant ship. ltut Ave were fast sweeping to the northward. The West India islands Avere passed, and I ceased to think of the Knglish brig a hoA-ering any where near our path. One night, however, when we were almost up Avith Bermuda, I dreamed of going on loard the Catherwood, and seeing her crew in the most terrible distress. I have little faith in dreams, yet so vivid was the impression con veyed by the one in question, that dur ing all the following waUfi I felt my spirits oppressed by a melancholy which would iiermit nie to think only of ship wreck, starvation and death. It was early that forenoon, when one cf our men, at work aloft, reported an unusual object off the lee-bow. Upon standing in its direction, we discovered it to be a portion of a vessel's deck, on Avhich Avere five men. Yet they hardly seemed men. for their faces and fornis were those of frightful skeletons. They had almost lost the power of articula tion, and not one of them was able to rise upon his feet. After lieing carefully lifted to our deck, they showed an anxiety to in form us of others of their vessel's crew who were somewhere drifting in a like condition. Three or four of us ran aloft, away up to the royal mast heads. In a moment or two Ave hailed the deck, announcing a discovery, and the ship was headed for the forlcrd ob ject which Ave made out upon the dis tant waters. We came down from our lookout to find one of the five jioor sufferers al ready dying, and our kind-hearted tars doing all in their iiower to alleviate the misery of the others. That Krtion of t he Avreck fo which Ave Avere steering was soon visible to all hands, and as we hove-to and towed it alongside with our boat, it was seen that among the nine persons who lay upon it were a woman and a boy. I'ntil this moment I had not con nected the Catherwood with the tragic K4-ene, but the sight of these two in spired a sudden thought of her, and recalled my dream of the 'night be fore. Yet that they could lie Mrs. Dore and her son appeared almost imKssible this ghasVy woman and loy who re sembled nothing living that I had ever seen lie fore. The child appeared at the point of death, but the woman, although very Aveak, seemed to have borne up lietter than any other of the sufferers. She could Seak Avith no great difficulty, and her first words, upon lieing handed over the ship's side, were those of anxiety for her boy. "Do not mind me now," she said. "At tend to him. Oh, do not tell me that he is past help!" Still, we could not see in her Mrs. Iore, or in her son the little lad we had so petted as a most welcome vis itor only a few weeks lie fore. But presently she added: "We Wlong to the brig Catherwood. I remeiulier your faces. I came on tioard your ship off Brazil. Save my KKir loy! Oh, to lose him now, after all this suffering!" Her woeful, sunken eyes were wholly dry, as she spoke, but those of our hon est sailors Avere moist indeed. In the meantime, one of tJie unfortu nates had already breathed his last on our deck, aud most of the others looked as if they must soon follow him. There were now 13 remaining, five of whom died within three days; but Capt. Dore, Avith his Avife and loy, and five of the foremost hands, legan slow ly to mend. They told us that the Cat herwood had been caught in a hurricane to the south west of Bermuda. Her masts Avere swept by the board, and she liccame water-logged, but the oil she had lielow prevented her sinking. The casks, how ever, thumped so heavily as, after some days, to start the deck, which, break ing into two parts, floated with the crew, the remainder of the vessel go ing down. There had been 25 ersons on lioard. of Avhoin three Avere lost in the hurri cane, while eight had died of starvation before our ship Tiove in sight ; the only morsel of food tasted by the sufferers during their ordeal of 14 days having leen the carcass of a small dog belong ing to the captain. A week after the rescue, we placed the survivors safe on shore at our own port, where in a few months they re gained their former strength. Capt. Dore, being under no neces sity of returning to Kugland, accepted the command of a fine American whale man, Avhile Arthur, as intelligent as modest, became the most iiopular boy in the school of his suburban neighbor hood. By the time I had told the master the story, the boys had all gathered arounti ; and I left them standing, with looks of admiring sympathy, about their little marine associate, who hail seen and suf fered so much more than themarlvea. Golden Days. NURSERY HYGIENE. An infant's thirst is not quenched by milk; it needs clean water to drink with regularity. l'lain, lioiled Avater, given betwten feedings, will often aid the digestion, and satisfy the child when restless. Never put a bottle nipple into your mouth and then into the baby's mouth; this will often prove dangerous. Do not feed the baby because she cries; this may be due to pain, and it is harmful to fill au infant's stomach at such a time. An infant is a creature of habit, and usually resMnds to the wish of the mother, if the mother has or tier in her will. More infant's lives are taken by over feeding than by starvation; never liken an infant's digestion or diet to your own. Cholera infantum would be of rare occurrence if proper attention wits al- Avays given to the quality and quantity of the food. Kegular habits, proper food, and long hours of sleep are necessary conditions to a healthy infant. The three prime essentials in the nursery are fresh air, good food ,nd pure water. X. Y. Ledger. ABOUT ROYALTY. Henceforth the ameer of Afghanistan is to be known aa the "Light of the World." His majesty is having a gold coii. struck to commemorate his. new dignity. It is stated that the will of ex-Empress Eugenie, drawn recently, favors her namesake, Eugenie, the daughter of the late Prince Henry of Batten berg and Princess Beatrice. Kaiser Wilhelm offers a silver cup de signed by himself as the prize for a yacht race from Dover to Heligoland next year, after the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of his grandmoth er's accession to the throne. Miss Ella Collins, daughter of a Xpav York tailor, av'iII l.e the first woman of the I'nited States raised to a throne by marriage. She Avill shortly lieronie th wife of Col. John F. Hobbs, Avho, uimIc the name of Oumalea, reigns over th semi-barbarous people of the .Tilka islands, in the New Hebrides group asa bbh a a a a bb A DIBIcoHy Dlaeov.red la the Reotlng of Kkysrr.pers. The business and professional men who contemplate h.i ing au oft ice in the business end of the metropolis can, it they are not sucrst it ions, secure quarters at a comparatively low reutal. A few days ago rents on the thirteeuth floor of a recently built sky scraper were reduced a third. The cut was forced by the dread with which some folk of the class named regard the num ber 13. Other tall office buildings arc in the same predicament, and thi-teenth-fl.Mr offices are said to be a drug on the market. This is a new and uu exiiected problem for landlord an-1 agent to solve, and if the 13 hoodoo hits all the high structures as hard as it ha hit one on Nassau street, the architect of the future will have to scratch the thirteenth floor off his plans or put th' roof on at the twelfth story. The agent of this tall and elegantly equiped pile couldiC for the life of him imagine Avhy the thirteenth floor remained va cant. Business men, lawyers, all kinds of professional men were anxious to take offices on every floor save the thir teenth. Those above it were full, like tliose lielow it; but up to a few weeks ago not a soul would venture into the handsome suites on that floor. Finally, the thirteenth floor liegan to Ins reganled with some degree of mys tery, even by the superintendent and his staff. It was noticed that all who came to look at the offices there were delighted Avith them until they hap pened to discover that they were on the thirteeuth floor. Then they gracefully, though mysteriously, transferred their insiection to some other floor. Then it dawned Uon the heads of the hifc'i house that the suerstitious aversion to No. 13 Avas the secret, and the agent finally decided to balance the supersti tions of would-be tenants against their cupidity by reducing thiiteenth-Hoor rents on-third. This action has broken the hMdoo, for to-day some of the of fices of the suposed-to-le unlucky floor are occupied. Some of the older sky-sera Krs that are supposed to lie overcrowded with tenants have vacant thirteenth-story rooms, but so far no attempt has been made to overcome the folly by lowering rents. When the giant St. Paul building, now faraliovc its thirteenth story, is ready for occu pancy, the siierintendent and others connected with its management will utilize the unlucky floor. At least this is hovv the agent expects to get around the hoodoo that , men Avho seem to lie sound mentally attach to the tricky 13. In strange contrast is the fact that dar ing aerial artists now filliig an en gagement at a music hall here are X . 13 on the programme and laugh at the bad luck which some of their admirei s declare is lound to come before they leave town. The Thirteen club doesn't seem to be fulfilling its mission here. N. Y. Correspondent Pittsburgh Dis patch. AN UNASSORTED LOT. If you should go to Greenland you would be surprised at the size of the otatoes there, for they grow no larger than a marble. The w idows of Presidents Crant and Garfield are now the only private er sons in the United States who are m t it led to the franking privilege. The higihest spot inhabited by human lieings on this gloiie is the Buddhist cJoister of Hanle, Thiliet, where 21 monks live at an altitude of 1 ".,( Ml feet. Having a motherly disposition, 15 months old Jersey heifer, owned by Frank Casterline, of Bazetta, O., adopt ed a pig, und continues to tie.tow lx st attentions upon it. To hive a swarm of bees, it isn't tec essary to have a full brass band. A gudewife on Caje Elizalieth brought a swaim into a hive the othe. day by Wating a vigorous tattoo ou a disbpan with a fiewter ladle. The musical in stincts of liees are Chinese. Five gallons of spirits four of w his ky and one of bmndy were forced down the throat of a horse le long ing to Frank Corliett, of New A;iguslme, Fla. The animal had been bitten on the nostril by a rattlesnake, and its head had swelled alarming'y. The horse recovered, but was s'apgeiing drunk all of the next day. The distinction among animals of requiring least sleep Wrongs to the elephant. In spite of its cajMcit y for hard work, the elephant seldom, if ever, sleeps more than four, or occasionally five, hours. For two hours before mid night, and again for two hours after one o'clock, thee misborn mountains sleep. MECHANICAL INSECTS. There is an English insect something like, our bee, except that, it is a rich violet in color, which well deserves its name of carenU-r bee. By hive aid of a chisel provided by nature this I we ex cavates a home in. any piece of timltcr that suits its pur (lose. Not. only do wasps make pajier, but even cardboard. In South America there is a speciei of wasp that wanii faot urns a cardlioard sv smooth and (firm that it may be. written or drawn Uon, and it is in oie way suier'ior to the article made by man, as it is water proof. Some large beetles are as good as cir cular saws. They seize a branch or twig Avirh. their deeply-toothed jaws and whirl around and around until the. twig is sawed off. They have been known to saw a twig aa large as an ordinary walking-stick in this manner. There are other insects that use saws which are much better made, finished and sharpened than the finest ones of teel. With these the little workers undertake jobs that, proportionately, no man. would dream of attempting. The saw-fly, AvhicJi owns the neatest in strument of tliis sort, cuts a perfect groove in wood. Electricity oa Alamlnam Wire. It has been ascertained by experi ments that an electric current sent through an aluminum wire heated it to a temperature of 400 degrees aliove its melting point. The marvel was that it did not drop. This Avas accounted for by the fact that the oxidized film on its surface was sufficiently strong to lceep it together. A magnet moved gently about in its neighborhood caused, it to wave and curve, and to coil and twist and almost tie itself into knots. X. Y. Ledger. - LITERARY LONDON. A Strong Attraction for Americans Who Write. No Aristocracy In the Field of Letters In the Knglish Capital ster ling Dtmocrary Is the Kale. During the last half-century the Im portance of Ixintlon as a great literary and artistic center of English-speaking jieople has licen steadily increasing. Not only have Edinburgh ;nd Dublin, in the old Avorld, lost that literary char acter which once attached to tlu-;r names, but Boston, Philadelphia and Uichmond, in America, have in like manner failed to maintain the promi-e of earlier days. New York has fot some years ust lieen the real literary center of the United States, but it is now a little doubtful whether this dis tinction tan long lie hers. Half a century ago American au thors Avere content to abide in their own country, and to find inspiration there. Ttnlay it is to England th:t most of the prominent literary work ers are turning for the recognition which is denied them here, and wlii! Besant, Ilarrie, I'.lackmore. Du Maurier, William Black. Anthony lloM, Oman Doyle and other Englishmen are writ ing for American iieriiMlii-als. llenrv James, Bret Harte. Uobert ISiirr. llenrv Harland. W. L. Aldeii and a score of younger American authors have maiie Ionilon their residence r-d rank anions the most, popular of t he .uitributors to E n g I ish r io 1 u-a Is. The reason for this state of things is obvious to all persons who are in tnucli with the liteiary and artistic circles of lioth England and America. In the United Slates Eterary workers and artists have lung felt the want of prop er organization. The little coteries al ready formed are too exclusixc. In England, literary men. artists and journalists live in a world of their own. When once a man has d monst rat-.-d true literary ability, no matter what his eeuniary or social jiosition may be. he meets all his fellow workers on a common ground. An introduction fror.i a literary friend or some iditor with whom his manuscripts have found favor will secure him an entree to soiiu "literary at home." and from that tiine on his social advancement is a question of cither jiersonal Mipula"-it y or lit erary success. Every week he meels new faces and makes new friends. ll soon numbers among his acquaintances some of the liest known exponents of contemporary literature, and it is no! long before he lwgms to experience a feeling vf comradeship with men who have won high standing. One of the most striking features of London literary life is its sterling de mocracy. 1'liere is no aristocracy in the field of London letters. The wealth v author may have a secret preference for the atmosphere of the exclusive Athenaeum club, but hc never disdain -to mingie at times with the rank anil file at the "New Yagrilionds." or at tl.r numerous "at homes." whe.v the strug gling literary tenants of Bloomsbiiry. Camlerwell and Brixton attics drink tea and "talk shop" with young illus trators rind embryo journalists. The London literary "at home" ha, unfortunately, no equivalent in AnifJ ca. It is usually held from four In seven o'clock in the afternvn. or from nine to twelve at night. The "at home" of Ildy .leune and IViuglass Sladeti are proliably the liest known in London, and are deservedly popul.ir with all those who are fortunate enough to have the entree. Many of the younger literary men w hose success has enabled I lu in to change lodgings for chanilicrs are to lie found domiciled in the picturesque old inns of court Gray's. Fiitnival's. Lit - coin and others. Here each v.- m .y sets aside some night in the week for the entertainment of his friends. T'se informal functions are as delight ml as they are numerous, and there is usually no night in the week that a writer who is fairly well acquainted cntinot. after a short stroll or a bus ride, find himself in a circle of kindred spirits. In IOinlon. artists. iio-.clists and journalists lielong to the same club.-, attend the same social functions ant' patroni.e the same restaurants. The English tavern, or "public house, as it is now called, is no longer the rendez vous for Englishmen of letters that it was in the preceding centuries, but there are still places that may lie re garded as the legitimate successors of "The Cheshire Cheese" and "The Cock." which, though still in existence, have lost much of their former fascination for idle Avriters. In the Press club, just off Fleet st rcet.and in several modest drink ing houses in the vicinity of Coven t Garden and Soho. one may find at al most any hour in the day men of more or less celebrity who earn their bread by means of their ens. X. Y. Sun. Abbot Isllp'a Rebus. One of the greatest of the many al bots who have ruled th abliey was Islip, who held ollice in the sixteenth century. He had a genius for archi tecture, and did so much toward the building of Westminster and other ca thedrals throughout the kingdom that be is known in history as "the great builder." II is liody lies buried at West minster in a littlle chacl called by his name, near the west entrance. In de signing and building this chapel the abbot made the room itself a monti ment to his memory by rejieating over and over again in the elaliorate carved stone frieze which adorns the wall his favorite rebus or name sign an eye. Avith the branch, or "slip," of a tree, grasjied by a hand; and, as a second form, a man slipping from the branch of a tree to the ground. Max Bennett Thrasher, in St. Nicholas. Valuable Hoot. A fresh example of legal acumen comes from a French police court. "You say you have been robbed of a pair of boots," said the magistrate. "How much Avere they worth?" "Well," said the complainant, "they cost me originally 12 francs. But I have hal them resold four times at an ex pense of three francs each time; so that makes altogether 24 francs." "Clerk," said the judge, "write: 'One pair of boots worth 24 francs." Youth's Companion. ALL KINDS OF PICKUPS. In the IVrniuilas rats often build their nests in trees, like birds and squir rels. At Margate, an English watering place, men and women are not per mitted to bathe in company. A brilliant signal light at Atlantic City is visible 10 miles at sea. Each year it bums 2.2IHI gallons of oil. The world is crowded only in spots. There are si ill 20.(M0,(Mt0 square miles of the earth's surface that have not been explored. Waterhyacinths.which cause so much trouble by choking navigable streams in Florida, afford good sustenance for cattle, it has lieen found. Degane wood is imjiorted from South America and is used in making iight trout, and bass nvls. It is much like lanccwood. but lighter in weight, anil is sold generally by tiie roil and tackle men. Buddhists lielieA-e that hell is a place of eight, divisions, each with a form of punishment somewhat different from the other seven. In the first division, which is Ihe easiest, the sipner walks eterinlly in his bare fn't over red-hot needles. xints upward. More than 250 young ladies have availed themselves of the privileges of the Iifayelte home, founded in Paris by Dr. T." W. Evans, of Philadelphia, for the Im-ih fit of his young countrywomen who came to Paris as students. Daid Crockett's masonic apron is now in the Kssession of Mrs. E. M. Taylor, of Paducah. Ky. It is in excel lent condition and treasured highly. It was given to Mr. Taylor by a descend ant of a. friend, one of the old-time set tlers, and an associate of Crockett. BICYCLE AND WILD ANIMALS. A Comic Paper's I'orrnpin Joke Nearly Realized In the Woods. A comic paper printed a picturesome time ago that showed ti man riding along on his bicycle with a jMircupMie in the middle of the road In-fore him. The front wheel went into the riorcii pine's quills, ami the tire was punc tured many times. Only those who l.ave ridden over country roads and have s-en the various animals tlunt escape the wheel by a narrow margin realize how ea-sily the jest migiit come true. lu t.lie immediate vicinity of New York a good many small animals have lieen killed rats, mie. s parrow s, prol -ably gray squirrels ami snakes hut in the woods on a good frail the wheelman finds oddid Ksiibilities that are not entirely pleuant. Tlie porcupine joke Avas almost a reality on' Sunday night recently to a woodsman Avho h:id li-eii up to Morehousevillc, 22 miles from Northwood. The woodsman left More hoiiseville at 1 1 o'clock, and went spin ning down grade to NortliAvood. A five-mil"- portch of woods Avas soon reaclil. and in tli is lie came upon a or cupine while going at a 2:30 gait. His lamp showed the le:sst- just in time for hint to turn out. and go jist. less than two feet from the. prickly lieast. This same woodsman was one day rilling up a trail when he saw five part ridges ahead. One of these birds did not see him until it Avas so cIomi that tilie wind from its Avings fanned his face. Between Car thage and Low vi lie. N. Y recently, a skunk av:ls found dead in the road. It had lieen killed the night ln-fore by a bicycle. Curiously enough t lier"lr prol ably did not useet w ith disaster, a hia Avhecl hod broken the skunk's ltack. X. Y. Sun. WRITERS AND FICTION. Sir Walter B-int, in collaliorat ion Avith Mr. II. Pollock, is aliout to publish a volume of eight draw itig-ruuin plays. A French author. M. J. I Vest-am is Irving to find out how far the charac ter of modern French fiction hasaiTWt ed the marriage rate. Hector Malot. tlie French novelist, is going to make himself disagreeable by publishing in his autobiography a key to his romances, all of which, lie de clares, he tHk from actual events. W. A. Cragie has produced a volume of Scandinavian folk-lore. In ginning with the nioM amusing and interesting of Ihe early sages ami legends and com ing down by groups into the field .f t'.odern writings of the same character. Will Carletoti. w ho has recently gone into story writing, continues to lie tJie industrial worker. Though he is now recognized as an eastern man. he Avon his fame in tlie Aest. He wa.s reared anil il ilea till in Michigan, lint now lias a connection Avith a Brooklyn monthly called Everywhere. All his w ritings arc now first published in that magazine. Apples for the Complexion. "The .secret of a bad complexion. raid a woll-know n physician, recently, "is a lad digestion, and we generally trace that to a liad liver. One of the liest remedies for a sluggish liver is cheap ami pleasant. Dieting is the se cret of the cure. The liest liver regula tor for persons of sedentary habit.s and those are the ones w hose complex ions are muddy is to le found in ap ples, eaten baked if they are not well di gested when eaten raw. I attended the pupils at a well-known lioatding school. and among them was a country girl Ahose complexion whs the envy .f all her associates. I found that she was a very light, eater at her meals, but she had a ix-culiar custom of taking a plate of apples to her room at nightand eating them slowly as she studied her lessons. Thrs Avas her regular prac tice. Some of the other girls in the in stitution took it up, and I know, as a re sult of rry iiersonal investigation, that the apple-rating girls had the liest com plexions of any in the school." Life and Health. WHIRR OF THE WHEEL At the funeral of Linton, the profes sional bicjclist of London, his Avhel, draKd in hktek, Avas led behind the hen rse. It is estimated that during the last five years $ 1 1 tO.000,000 have lieen spent in the United States in the purchase of bicycles. Prof. Huliert TTerkomer, the painter, was thrown from his bicycle, getting a severe shaking and a cut in his baud, while riding down a hill near Conway, in Wales: without a brake. The empress of Japan and her ladies Imve taken to the steel horse, and cvcle on a maze of walks made on purpose for them in a secluded part of the im perial gardens. STRANGE THINGS ABROAD. The "Giants club" in Berlin admits to mcmlietship no one who is less than six feet in height. Bed socks lsave just killed a hostler ut Stamford, England. The dye entered a cut in his foot, causing blood poiou ing. In Hamburg a dog is taxed accord ing to his size; a little tax for a littl dog, and a big tax for a big dog. In the city of Brurwels here is a clock w hich is wound up-by the wind, and never by human hands. (lobular lightning set fire to a wom an's dress near Argers, in France, cur ing a recent storm, the burns causing her death soon after. Some of the towns of Germany bve their water pqies made of glas. pro tected av ith an asphalt covering, to pre vent fracture. A fire at a farmhouse near A v. minster, England, was put out recently by pump ing on it cider from hogsheads, as tluro was no water to lie had. , Blondin's. the tight-rope walker's, stock in trade is offered for ale in, I"uris. Besides the tri-colored w heel I tar row, the harmonium, cornet and coMumes, it includes the cable on which he crossed the river above the falls of Niagara. Tiny, the smallest toy terrier in tha world, died recently in Ixmdon. He was h-ss than four inches King. His late owner, Lieut. Gen. Sir ArvhiWild iac laine, has lwd the body stuffed and has presented it to the London Zoolog ical garden. At Persian fur-erals the mourners are supplied w ith wads of cotton, w h.ch. they use to w iie aw ay their teurs. The cotton is afterward collected and squeezed, and the tears are Im'tled and preserved. They are .supposed to jios sess restorative qualities in fainting fits. Bicycle ri Tidings are the latest Eng lish novelty. They are a sort of Chau tauqua on wheels. Clubs of literary young ladies are formed to read upon various subjects, and the rue-rulers wheel away to the Avoods Avith their lunches and notdiooks at stated times to hold their meet ings under t he trees. There is no international copyright oa the idea, and it w ill liear importation, t CROWNED HEADS OF EUROPE. Queen Victoria purchases almost every new lunik of note published, and l.e r ex tend it ure on literature of all sorts is over $i1,ihmi pi r annum. - Czar Nicholas has presented to the Magyar national museum at Budapest the sword of George Kakoczy I -, prince of TraiK-y lvania, w horn they have made, one of their national heroes. The king of Greece delights in taking recreation 'm the fields. He caa plow, cut and bind corn, milk cows, and. in short, could at. a pinch keep a farm going singl" hamled. Einjieror William's latest fad. is tel egraph, and he is sjiendiiig several houra a week learning to send messages by dots and da-slies. He ltus already made considerable progress as an operator of the key. ' Queen Willtelmina of Holland has a miniature farm, tlie produce of which slie gives to the poor and to the hos 'itaJs. Her Sw iss chalet is stocked wiuh, the accumulated toys of 12 years or more, and here slie learned to "keep house" in the moot approved Dutch style. For the first time since 1S57 the queen of 1 lie lielgians lias gone oa a lotig visit to France. She is at Chantillj-, the guest of the Ducd'Aumale. Chantilly is a place w In-re training of horses for race courses, is Uie staple business, and the queen has a iassioii for horses. The queen of Na4ts lias a racing stud at this place. GLEANED FROM HISTORY. Tlie Assyrians first introduced the heel for security and comfort in walk ing. The first religious journal in, this country was the Kccorder at Chilli cot he. )., in 1S14. The first temierance society in the United States was organized in Sara toga. N. Y in los. Cardinal Iliehelieu is said to have ln-en the first chocolate drinker of any fame, and to have set the fashion of using it- The sugar cane was introduced into America soon after the discovery, and its cultivation rapidly spread over all t hose parts of the new world adapted to it growth. The Hessian fly is so called from the fact that it was brought to this court ry in straw, used in 177C, when tlie Hessian cavalry was imported to fight tho Americans. It made its first appearance on Staten island, near the stables of the Hessian troops, and soon traveled over Connecticut. spreading throughout New England and the west, at the rate of 20 miles a year. The first mention of coffee in England statute l-ooks is in the year 1660. when a duty of four jn-nce was laid on every gallon of coffee made and Mold; and in 17o5 King Charles issued a proclama tion to shut up the coffee houses lie cause they were seminaries of sedition. The French first conveyed some plan Ls to Martinique in 1727. whence they prohahly spread to the neighboring islands. Save! from the Cakllotlae. During the. reign of terror, David had Hotidon. the sculptor, arrested, and wished to have him guillotined, as he hail declared war against all the artists, his colleagues. Mme. Houdon went to liar re re and urged him to save her hus tmnd. "I see no way," Barrere said, "but tell me, for which, of his works has. he ln-en imprisoned?" "For a statue of St, Scolastiea," said Mme. Houdon. "What does jdie look like?" A flue worr.an, w ith a scrap of pajn?r in her hand. At that moment entered Collot inierbois. Barrere said to him: "Hou don has made a statue, of philosophy meditating t n the revolution; you must have it Intught by the ajbembly and placed in tlie room in front of the as-serably-room. and declare that Houdon has deserved well of the country." This Avas done and Houdon was saved. Chi cago Chronicle. It may be said of the theater hat. like some other dagreeable things, that there is likely to be a woman at the bottom of it. Texas Sifter. Ii7v it'-,. wan!. I 'ii CLNHHiM.y. f tat Kirn rX. minilaassl r uV
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