me
The Vacant Niche.
Ten years ago I lived for a number ol
months in the pleasant little city of
Johnstown, Pa., and although sine
that time I have traveled the wide, wide
world over, and thousands of places
have been illuminated by my graceful
presence, yet 1 have never forgotten
Johnstown and never shall, not while
memory holds her own, The reason
this city is a historic spot in my private
life is because there 1 enjoved that rare
oasis of happiness which one only meets
once in the desert of life, and that is, I
there enjoyed the delectable society of
that highly important and rose-colored
section of a young man’s existence. my
“first girl.” She was young, pretty,
poor and proud. After we became
very intimate, as is usuual under
circumstances, we became very
dential, She to tell
sweet, graceful way, what she intended
to have if thev—her father, mother and
the balance of them —ecould “ever afford
t."”
Her air castles were about as fol-
the
music
such
confi.
used me, in her
Jows:
‘I am going to buy
organ vou know I love
a dear Little lady's gold ws
handsome gold chain, and a
little canary bird that will
time. These four things
heart on and s g
ever get rich,” wit
And a husband, t
I used to frequently
speech, and then
deeply 1 1 with
add to her littl
she yuld blue
downcast £1
BAY
N
Well
ve ry
other
crowd
pletely
In a
and for
The i
Penn
Pitts
take
bered j
# thing
After mv arr
to :
scribbled so
envelopes
younger
Then
anxion
she
with
not te il
time,
chang
within
Messenger
addres
writing, ¥
for se
i
OUsiy
Wer
3
the same
was t
It said she wi
ditto (1
information ut
woul
empress,
with
and al
sonal
claimes ‘1f von think
me, yo under s
in y upper story.”
astonished I could have
there and died. Oh, what
~g change!
After we had conversed a while and
got acquainted again, I said: “Well,
Miss Annie, I see you have got what
you used to wish for 80.” “Yes.” “I see
you have an organ.” “Yes.” “Anda
canary.” “Yes” “And a gold watch
and chain.” “Yes.” ‘‘But you haven't
yet the last and most important thing
of all, a husband. Youn know in the
Jong ago, you used to silently acknowl
id down
what again
not saying a word when I said it was,
and you were then aware that silence
meant ves.” Then she tried to blush
some and exclaimed: “No, I haven't
got one vet or you would not have been
invited here,” and then she smiled in a
way I cannot describe.
1 left early; said I had to take the 10
Pp. m. train for Pittsburg; “important
business,” ete
I did not fill the vacant niche,
Rife in a Big City.
(Detroit Free Press. ]
The New York Hour wonders that so
many people want to live in that city,
Four small rooms, 100 feet above the
ground, it says, ‘divided amongst a
family of six or eight, command a
higher price in this city than a cheerful
three-story house with two large bath-
rooms, back kitchen and back stairs in
Baltimore or Philadelphia.”
Then the nuisances seem almost in-
tolerable. There are ‘‘the constant
rumble of the elevated railways, day
and night, the tinkle of horse-cars, and
flies, musquitoes, and the odors of
public and private stables.” What is
of these people are too restricted in
their means to partake of many of the
sleasures of the city.
segin to have the spending money of
#hose in a city like Detroit,
THE WOMEN OF BURMAH,
Their Fashions and Personal Habits
w=«The Burmese Girls,
[Chicago Tribune, |
The Burmese women before they be-
rome mothers are noted for their well-
proportioned though small figure To
one accustomed to seeing the regular
features so prevalent among the r
pretty Indian the M
features of their Burmese si
but after a
ofl:
girls, ngo
£
stops
while
the
and repellant,
10n
he country
WAYS
Their
and well
ymetrical, the head well
nave many
and hey are
hands and
shaped, arms
on the
they al-
'X Of pt
on ' it
luxuriant, and is taken the greatest care
f, tied up a la chinoise, wreath
wd of they
igure their ears which are naturally
and pretty,
put
their carriage 18 erect;
10 hair to grow anywhere «
heads, where 1t 18 mu
with a
4
flowers entwined:
The otl
ving thems Ives, an
man has told a story that a
very much; He t
poonful of mashed potatoes
up a forkful, he lets
n his embarrassment he upsets a
up of coffee, which the
vim makes no difference whatever, but
which he knows does make a difference
He finishes the meal im such an unsat-
sfactory manner that he suffers {rom
ndigestion during the entire evening.
miffalo, and feels like a fool
he ladies ucl
and when
the mass
hostess 4 lis
A Race of Sallors,
Norway Letter in Ban Francisco Chronicle, )
Talking of ships, it is wonderful to
wee how the hereditary proclivity to get
nto a boat and sail somewhere is de-
reloped among the Norwegian youth
snd at what an early age. Yon see
parties of small boys in boats that are
miniature reproductions of the old Vi-
king ship, rowing end sailing about and
managing oars and sails like veteran
tars. A little fellow, apparently 9 or
10 years old, will sit in the stern sheets
sid handle his tiller and order
1bout his Crow, consisting of
three or fonr urching of the same
age or a year or two younger than
himself. with all the sang-froid and gelf-
possession of an old pilot. Sometimes
they come to grief and get drowned,
though it is wonderfully seldom, con-
ddering the number of almost infant.
ile sailors, that accidents oceur. As
for attempting to keep them away
from the water, I am sure a timid
in trying to keep her offspring of the
male sex on dry land as an old hen to
warn her brood of daek chicks from a
weighboring pond. Seeing the juven-
paddling about one
wonder that little Norway
should boast a commercial navy of
sailing ships second ouly to that of
{threat Britain.
THE PUEBLO INDIANS.
Pecutiarities of These Children of
Montezumn and Their Quaint Cus:
toms,
Taos (N. M.) Letter in Inter Ocean. |
Archivologists say that the Taos, or,
rally il d, the P=
eblo indians, of the territories of New
» and Arizona, are of the same
the Aztecs of old Mexico. i
The two J ople
any ol re
Their appearance is the same,
build their houses
heir habits of eating
5 lexic
iis
probable.
emblance
hey
'
LAY In points
both of mud;
t and drinking
nearly identical,
In New Mexico the largest
, situated
Taos
end of
Juan are located on
io Rio Grande, and ¢
IONE
No abode h
oms, but |
ym fe rtable,
ashed adobe,
f and the floor. In :
w strip of paint runs
ywer part of the four wal
roof exposes the heavy timb
support it. The rooms are vi
eight by ten feet in size and feet
in height, while in the topmost houses
the ceiling is too low to admit of
standing in an upright position
The vounger children of the pueblos
run naked, but the older ones
igle garment which but half lad
d «
teow
Cien
f
oae
Wear a
woman
over
BOTORA
wear a short skirt, reaching
about to the knees, and a jacket which
is caught one shoulder and is
drawn the breast under the
right arm, leaving the neck and one
shoulder and a good part of the bosom
exposed Over the bead they invari
ably wear a shawl, which is kept in
place in some dexterons manner, no
matter what occupation the woman
be engaged in. The men wear
hes and buckskin jackets, and are
sually wrapped up in a blanket of gay
colors. The breeches are ia two parts,
and are separated near the loins, a
“breechiclout” or piece of doth eling.
ing closoly to the body hiding the
otherw exposed person. Ducks wear
Moces , but the women indulge in
such lux es only on fete clay which
tine they also wear a mord elaborate
dress and ornaments
at
fy Wh
A
Ravens as Carriers,
[Chicago Times.)
ravens do the work of carrir-pigeons,
A few days ago three of these birds,
Fans and Fan- Making.
[Pall Mall Gazette. ]
For tsore than a thousand years fan-
making has been a principal industry
of Japan. In this branch of manufac~
ture sbout 100,000 persons are engnzed
out of a population of 1,600,000 in th-
three fan districts of Osaka, Kioto, m
Nagoya. Millions of fans mde
sry vear, of which there are many
varieties, differing in strength, Other
used for the fan-sticks
bone, and wood. Vv is
sometimes earved and
mother-of-pearl, gold and sil
wood un ticks is cbony
and chestnut, and is
quer wl, The tops of ti
are made of j
and silk
from boiling
to the
FICE Ar
are
materials
are
IVOrY
IVOry,
«i for
tree,
dist
also u
it 18
anese so-called pa
rare tree, and is favor
strength. The pric
the “tops,” 81 $ CO
a8 any other
palm leaf, or, ¢
the “oh ire
Most of
Fr AIOE,
has of |
ed for
The
ames {
more «
mach
mr I Tan
ition of black
dark shell.
¥ Nas
The Galite dea of Sport.
Ae in van ri
1 107 1ntosn
ood
Such little
rave the crowd great ;
WAS applanded
all these noi
ng men who went
GE
srformance i d ¥
va been some
would not have done it. What
heir motives were, they kept
v at work during every pause, and
mes, even daring the dancing.
Clumsy Farming in England,
(Cor. Boston Commercial Balletin,)
In New England, two
runn a farm of eighty acres would do
about all the work themselves
only time to hint at the
Ex h farming methods and
nery, as often, though of course
BIWAYS, ¢ x ibited.
the roadside an
ment and
three horses
ma-
not
I have stopped by
looked with astonish-
dragging a heavy
y man
polding plows moving at a snail's pace,
turning the furrows
Now England farmer would
SLOW Ono
horse
reins over hia neck. Bo
round-—-two or three men to a single
roan's work, and teams of horses out of
grovortion to the labor reguired
Their Petting Propensition,
The New York Journal has been as
certnining the petting propensities of a
number of leading actresses, from
which it is learned that Mrs. MeKee
Rankin's favorite is a Mevican dog, Ada
monkey, Mme. Ponisi's a cat ealled
her in California; Ada Dyas cultivates
lose Coghlan divides her
terrier, Fanny Davenport keeps fish in
that purposs, were thrown tp at Cob-
lenty, and all three arrived st Thurant,
a distance of about thirteen miles, in
eighteen minutes. Their fight issome-
what slower than that of pireons, but
thoy are safer as carriers, hs thoy are
lows exposed to hostile attacks,
i
passion for flowers and curious shrubs,
and Sarali Jewett Lan po pet but ber
"Ne Vacation.
W. D. Howells, the novelist, says
vacations are not necessary. Ho is under
tremendous mental strain from one
year's end to another aud never rests,
i
i
i
The Forvestd of the Gulf Mtrenm,
{Philadelphia Times.)
face,” said Prof Rothrock, in his new
know next to nothing with
r of
certainty
concerning the interic We
inhabit. What we that the
sea, ever changing in its surface, should
withhold her seerets from us?”
the belief of the lecturer
revenled
seicntific res
means
knowledge
Hn
the ey
oe
the earth
y 5
naer, then,
Mtl, in
' 1
had been
f 41 4
Of tha wonders o i deen
NNELNOW]
growths
science |
structural
of the ocear
could
Chinese Maggie,
armed.
SOOT wel i
crowd, and the boy ran o
his wondering companions.’
The "Oil Mpot”™ of the Nea.
(Milwaukee Wisconsin.)
“Ko much bas been said of late re
3
of om
storms,’
by vesselmen
heavy said Lieut
of the itter Andy
Johnson, “that n any pH ople are led to
}
reyYepinue o©
curling, smashing
sea to a liquid mound. t does not ex-
way, but its use causes good results,
And
speak.
described.
“The “oil spot’ is situated about ten
miles south of Sabine Pass, into which
flows the Sabine river to the gulf of
The river forms the boundary
the states of Louisiana and
The ‘cil spot’ estends two
between
Texas,
A storm from
ast to south
300 to TOO
gulf of Mexico into
this ni stio haven. During a gale this
spot wonderfully defined. Looking
seaward, the scene is grand. An acre
of towering foam marks the abrapt dis
solution of the lashing seas as they
thunder towards the shore. This oo
curs in about three fathoms, or eighteen
feot of water, from which the storm-
driven craft, creaking and straining in
every timber, emerges and suddenly
finds herself reposing like a child
rocked in ite mother's arts, hammed in
by a wall of wrath, where the weary
mariners can be lulled to rest by the
roar of the winds, The place is termed
the ‘oil spot,’ not from any known analy-
sis of its nature, but simply from its
It
is to be hoped that some scientist will
three-quartersof a mile.
£
it
is
pared,
(New Y
Something light ar
most of the
ork Letter.)
d gent
VOuLr
vant
y
i
wotlld rather
=n week tl
LC Ea
SKETCHING.
The Artistic Work that Can be
with a Red-Hot Poker.
¥
Done
In d
of ‘barn
nis-fonch of
rains the board; ere
is no or S13
4 is il
no wiping out board so spoiled t
only
A
yy remedy ti rin on
t
fie
another
and do the
“1
shades and eolors which mas pro-
duced by this burning process. After
the application of the varnish it more
resembles oil work than anything els
nd the deception is so complete that
a fouch of the finger is required to re-
move it. The indentares may be plainly
felt with the hand. 1t may seem
that this art has mever developed, but
probably there are few people who
would care to sit over a fire poi all day
and continually suffer from burned
fingers for the sake of art alone
whole agam.
variety of
In
18 wonderful to see th
strange
The Preacher of the Fature,
[Christian at Work.)
Wo believe the preacher of the future
will sever rustle the leaves of his sere
monic manuscript in the pulpit, or read
off from the written page his invitation
to sinners to forsake ther sins and be
reconciled to God. And
this will be accomnlishad,
not by writing the sermon and the
committing it—~which is simpl
ing the candies at both ends :
by a return to the practice of the
times when written sermons were uns
known, This method involves one's sate
urating himself with his snbject- cloth
ing a thought here and there in partica-
lar form if he please-—and then delivers
ing his sermon aller the fashion of the
great orators and speakers. Webster
pronounced spontaneity to be one of
the chief characteristion of true elo-
quence. We believe it {6 be reasonably
characteristio of the powerfnl sermon
as well as that it is Ton wholly lost
sight of in the close reatling met iu 50
many of the pulpits to-day.
COIne we bios