MY DOLLY AND AUNTIE'S DOLLY. I have the dearest little doll; Her eyes are bright and blue; Her hair is old, her face and hands Are wax, quite clean and new, She ¢c un to me last Christmas Eves ail her Pretty Poll; You annot have the least (dea Of how I love that doll, But Auntie says she has a doll More wonderful than minag A doll whose cheeks turn white or red, A do'l with eyes that shine ft it A doll that eats nl drinks and sleeps, And ehnters, too, all day, I wish 7 had a toy hike that To help me with ny | lay Bu Auntie avs herdoll is not 5O good as mine, vou know ; It does not aways try to mind When Aunt says * cme’ or “go.” And now and then {t disobeys; That's wrong-—we're all agreed t Buh conduct is so very bag, 80 very tad in eed, Then, too, this doll is very vain, And fond of fine new things, And even grumbles at the clothes That this kind Auntie brings. And then—Oh, dear! Oh, Auntie, dear! 'ray what is that you say? That this strange doll you've talked about Is caled Jean Evelyn May? YY name! How queer! Why is it so? Oh, Auntie—now 1 see! Tamthe doll! It's all too trues! Poor, naughty little me. M. E. B. HAL'S ADVENTURES: “Hello, Jack. The very person above all others I wished most to see, ?® “What's up now?” asked Jack, in surp: ise, “Ihave a great favor to ask of you; two favors, in fact. Cne is great and the other is greater.” “Go ahead, ola fellow, I'm all in the dark, but if it is possible I will grant them. You know that, though, don’t vou?” “I am not certain, Dut let us retire to some place more private,” and the two friends strolled leisurely into the park, and lighting thelr fragrant Havanas, they seated themselves com- fortably on one of the many rustic benches, “I’m ready now, Hal; out with said Jack, as he lazily puffed out blue smoke, at it," the may as well own up that I am such a blockhead that I have to engage a guardian for a week, and not caring to confess as to anyone else, [have decided to ask you if you are willing to that terrible sibility,” .s much a ssume respon- A guardian, Hal? A guardian for what?’ ‘*Ab, thereby bangs a tale, which I will soon relate. That is the greater favor, ana on+ is to be ‘beast man’ for me in: tie affair that is to come off next Wednesday.” “A woman iu the case, as usual * sid i the I did not think that deep as that,” “Yes, I'min fori, and all I'm afraid of is that 1 will commit some egregious blunder before I get through with it. I have such confounded luck." *You confounded, luck when ven your name 1s Goodluck.” | **All the luck I have 1s my name. [I beliave [ would not curse my luck so often If it was rot for the name. Jut *‘what’s In a name?’ There is John Poor. If there is anything in a name be ought to Le submerged in proverty, and he was for awhile. He had an in - valid wifeand ten olive branches, rang. lng from atwig tt) a limb, when an uncie he had never more than heard of, died and left him a fortune. That was you were Rong So have good luck, and sil! his name was I’oor. Now I, bearing the sesmingly charmed | same of Goodluck, had all my ances- | tors ‘turn up their toes’ and leave me Goodluck plain, without a cent in shape of a legacy to back it." “Why, Hl, have you grown morbid over destiny?” “No, I don’t groan over desliny; its | good luck that I'm groaning over. | Things seem tobe growing brighter lately, though, and If I can get safely over the next four days I think I can sail to port, but you'll have to be pllos if I get there. This is not the first at- tack of the ‘tender passion’ I have had, You lgok surprised, but such 1s the ‘act. Here's the story: “Five years ago [ met the girl who iret inspired in me the fever called love. When I think of it I doubt if I'm over Itibut I've passed the crisis; ic don't matter. It was while I was at Belden visiting my colleges friend, reorge Walters, that I fra met Mary We became friends, and our fricudship fast ripened into love. Tuere 4 no use of prolong ing this part of the sory, for after love of course comes warriage. Dut my marriage did not come, It was to occur, though, as we ad a re d, in 1) camber, “I came home deliciously happy, and worked hard to get the nest ready. Ev rything went well, and December drew naar. The ceremony was to take plac? at three p, m, on the 18th. As it one hundred miles from here, I in tended starting the day before. But Lere the first of a series of misfortunes ‘etme, My tailor was to blame for that one. I did not get my outfit out of Lis shop till ten a. m, on the eve of teli h. The «ifMeulty looked small then, as I knew I could take the six a. ur, train and reach Delden in plenty of t me fur the event. 1 made my way to tis depot that worming in a driving tom of sleet; but I didn’t mind that, Wor en ee for uw storm when he’s in he shannon Jove? The next misfortune was due to some one or something, no matter what. The real facts I don’tknow, but I do know that the train was two hours late, I must have walked more than half the distance to Belden in tramping up and down the platform waiting for it. At last, when I was almost bes side myself with impatience, it came pufling along and we were soon flying through the country at a good speed. “I knew that at such a rate I would reach Belden long enough before three o'clock, gratulate myself on my good luck when the whistle for ‘down brakes’ sounded, and our train began to slow up. Win. dows were hastily thrown up, and soon the cause of our stop was explained, We bad run into a big freight wreck. “Word had not reached the last sta- tion wo had left in time to prevent our startin .. Consequently there we were, out in the country, with a dozen cars, more or less, piled up and scattered over the track, while I was sixty miles from Belden. That was the third mis- fortune,” and Hal wiped the perspira- tion from his face, as if le were again living over the 1ucidents of that day. “Had I been yourguardian I could not have helped you through the diffi culties you have mentioned any better than you helped youself, could I?” asked Jack, ‘No, perhaps not. Butyou could bave prevented the fourth mistake and that was the one that lost me Mary, “The debris was cleared and our train pulled out again. after the appointed time for Away the As soon as I struck the ‘eabby,’ with did, I mean. platform I hatled a were soon whirling through the streets, Rain was coming down in torrents and the wind blew a hurricane. **Arrived at our destination I told the driver to walt till I gave him orders to go, as I did not know what might have in convincing could not help the delay. appearance of things seemed rather un- familiar but I laid that to th and hastily stepping to the door I The Ho and dark. thought I remembe house Mary lived in, to ti Were ranning whe The general @ slorm rang seemed strangely While yar the bell, 188 waiting I d to the al silent ‘hile t Ne Wis built up @ i hese thouglits » 14 nl TOougi ia Hoy m ly opened and Mary appeared. *:Did you thin] darling?’ I asked, i 14 in} one of her hand« in both I gallantly sto pd and my swept Ler face ** What are you?’ mnoustas do you mean, sir? and came In rin Mary r hand from “The strauge voica my supposed sunatete' hh and then I looked stiunge, 1 had come wroug house, "1 bumbly beg your pardon,’ sail *[ thou this was 440 Jefferson avenue.’ “rt is,” answered the ins iited wsltis2z TT live Liere ?' “No, be don't, know of.’ “ile did live and 440 was the number, or w last time I was in Be den.’ “ig This is Belton, not Del. Nor never did that 1 1 ’ o Oli J8 €rsou avenue, at hie elden? den,’ **Confoud the luck! Excuse me, Lt of it me for asecond. I wanted to go to Delden and have fa'len short ten miles. i sm sorry that I caused trouble, you I ops you wiil forgive me.’ * Certainly! mistake io the place,’ Thanking her for (which, by the way, did help much, when I remembered my first greeting with her), I got away some- how, and was driven back to the depot to find that it would be several hours before another traiu left for Balden, I decided then to rend a telegram and walt till morning. The telegram was sent, but if she got it. It must have been ater it was too late, “After doing all I could to help mat- ters, ‘cabby’ and 1 again faced the storm and wher he left me at the hotel door Le was two dollars richer and I that much poorer, “I passed a restless night and was glad when it was over, and I was again on my way to Belden. I didn't make any mistake that time, and when I reached the shannon house I received a warmer reception than I expected,” *Did you make it all right with her?” asked Jack, interestedly, “1 didn’t see her. Her rather met me and politely informed me that they had no use for such delinquents, when the delay was caused in the manner that it was; that I could go back to my other darling—the one I had left the night be fore in Belton. “I tried to explain, but he slammed the door in my face, and, of course, that ended the interview with him. But 1 stald in town all that day hoping to see Mary. Is the afternoon I wrote her a letter of explanation and gave a boy half a dollar to deliver It 1n a Lialf hour the letter was returned to me un. opened, Then, for the first time, was I angry, My pride rose up in arms and her not sympathy I boarded the next train back home anc 1 have never seen her since,” But how did they know, Hal, about the Belton girl-—your other during?” “I didn’t know then, but found oui] afterward. It was the cab driver gave me away. IIe was a distant rela | tive of Mary’s, and I knew he was’ sweet on her, but as I had never met] him I didn’t know him while he know! me, How he got word fo her that night Idon’t kn.w. But Iam sure that he did not tell facts or she would not have treated me so shabbily, His story whatever it was was a guce 83 to him, for afew months afterward they wer married, “That enled that romance. I hope this one will have a happier ending, but I want to be sure that I will have somebody along with me to put me off at the right place and see that I don’t kiss any other girl but the future Mrs Goodluck, Now, you know why I want your help, Will you go?’ “With all my heart,’ answered Jack. “But you haven't told me yet who is tl unfortunate lady?" ‘Nellie Gwynn. The girl I kissed by mistake on my other marrage eve.” » * * 4 . » that | Lase week I surprised Hal and Nellie In their plearant Lome, having a jolly romp with their two-year-old boy, who, by the the way, they call Jack. —————————— A Brazlilan Delicacy “Talking of centipedes,” said 0 New Yorker io the Trdune, ‘reminds we of a dish I ate onco in Branl. I went away op the Amazon one winter among the wretched Indiave there, buying up raw rubber. Seversd of us left the boet one day and made our way into the decose forest to sco if we could shoot any toncans. We got lost in short order, sad, wandered about for a day aad s night before we found the little creek in which our boat lay, and we were only brought back then by some Indians | whom we met carrying rubber to the What ts Good aud What tv Bad Porm 9 Mourning Costumes. There is no moro glaring violation of good tastes in dross possible than an elaborate or muoch-trimmod mourning gown. Itstamps its woaror ot onco ag cortainly ignorant, very wetatbly vals ger. Tho style follows closely the quietest shapes of the day. Thus fev tho street a long-walsted bodice, vory plainly gatherod in front instead of bo. ing confined with ribbon or bucks), and 6 skirt with undraped back snd having the fromt either straight also or with long Grock apron, slightly. caught up on the left side. Such a skirt may be bordered, {f wished, with 8 -doop orape band. At any fashionablo milliner's will ba found a variety of mourning bats and bonnets, and the straining affer offecy In them quite as markod as In gayer plemage. This does not apply, of course, to the first bonnst worn by the widow, which carries the vail. This vail, the doctors say, is a moet une wholesome plece of drapery, snd nse surodly it 4s wearisome because eo beavy. Its lemgth in fashionable cir« cles is carefully grafiuated according to whether it is worn by. 8 widow ore wother who bas lost a child “The tendency at present is to substitute nun's valling for crape es fts material, end Tor summer, certainly, 8 change is commendable. A bonnet that is to be vailod must have a low, flag crown, and ia spite of the fact that 8 few black-hoaded pins and a fold bets and there are all that is pocossary, the arrangement of . a vall to form a becom ing back-ghound for the face ise good deal of an art and one to which is given more and more attontion, only the bost williners in good establishments being allowed to touch the drapory. Stings for - the mourning bonnet, {f. of are siikdined. Sometimes broad fib bons aie used and sometimes narrow bridlos Mourning for. young giris ebogld bo of tho simplest always and ‘pod tso heavy. It injures the health and epir- its, and no one has a right to keep thom under a cloud For toddling children mourning-dress Is nothing sheers of river to sell. Wo met them just as they were about to camp for the might, as as ¥y promised to show us the way out of the forest we camped with them. “We had some tioned beef left. an some whisky, but ss [ had lived tinned | i fre? ne time thaw ey OL wns i Yo X . and was gla some native snd ‘gr but I cot said and walter. the favo puiverizse prusiicd bodies of white ants, *‘I did not cat any more.” —————i— Chinese Pottery Snindlea The Chiness potters are guilty gros sest swindies in the prog bogus old pore — of the wction of slaion. What are known as single col porcelains, that is, pot. tery {a one tint, like tho beefs bi i. liver, blus, peach, apple graen and other colors command slme fabulous prices from collectors. value ancient Chincss ware in their estimation rests on iis perfect color and its age. Ths modern potters China imilats colors snd the 1:2 rks of the anc potters the | as of aw ih ee rey HR of on Doe » in Chinas the lookout for ¥ great piece . of hina in the forgeries, : | to detect, | false from the | the sound of ti rapped rather than { though the sinfu! Ce! | day can imitate old ¢ | batures, he cannot, iti the peculiar quality of clay o the ancient pottery was riog of his productions is ha fess musical than theirs. Nt that the experts detect his dishoneat New York Net -—— ed Bya Fl. Mru, Anna Beatty, who lived with + | family in Bay View, Wia, died a =» | horrible death the other evening. Ab two weeks before a ny got into one of her nostrils, and it was some time before sho was able to removes it, and when she did an icning seusation remained and her nose and throat began toswell. Ehe became alarmed, and a week ago Sunday 8 physician was called. Since that time Mm. Beatty had been suffering in a man. ner almost indescribable, and the doe. tors say a similar case Is unknown to m science. It is étated that soon rss | heathenish | The mourning gloves ere undressed | kids, but theso seldom woar well, and | dressed kids aro frequently substituted. | A bandkerchief with a of plo bla | monogram is botter than the borde: i i m varietios, whilo as for.the woman = | sends black-bordered papor and onvel i opos through the mall, sho cought to bo opp by am injunction. To | black corsets and lingerie is overste | ping tho mark altogether, and suggosts a luxury of grief that is as far remdved | from genuine afMiction as possible One i : called on to believe in hoart- ax when a woman finds her tearful ros relieved if they rost on mou gs in ber boudoir. Jt less - it aN: woLr » rain: she Lo er Dea Heard Riding. “tes alur During the iast ce y when ong joun joys, called riding posts, were muc in Europe among the sristocrac {od wealthy snd sporting men, a matck {ras made between Mr. Shafts and Mr, {faywell for 1,000 guineas, Mr. Shafts to lind & man who would ride 109 miles per | lay for twenty consecutive days | There was 8 great deal of mony bet oo { his thing, priocipally egsivst it being It was well koown, however, that stances of 800 to 1,200 or even 1,500 giles had frequently Leen covered at the atc of from 100 to 120 or even 150 miles tm, Lut the kvowisg orcs { Opus io ne i ii i wr Gi %, 500 miles at 100 per day would be like- to break apy hurseman down, Ne eo helesa Mr. John Shafts perlprmed the eat without any extra fatigue or punish. neat, He used thirty horses, and rode hirec or four of them cach day, in Turkey the Sultas’s mails sad des. satches from outiving provinces uscd to se carried by Tartars riding post, with elays of horses changed every twenty or hirty miles, and are now in some parts sf the country where telegmphs have not | seen established man in charge | went the whole distance: these couriers iil often perform great feats of en- From Dagdad to Constanti- « ia 1,000 miles, not overs level or crossing noutlain ranges, along precipices, across orrents, &¢., aud there is nota mile of road the whole way, yet the nary time the Tartan took to perform istapee was a fortnight, and on ur- gent veesafons it has been doneln twelve dnys, and even io eleven days There if no doubt whatever about this, oceause this route through Asia Minor, from the Persian Gulf, was, in former t:ys, before the Red Bea route was ese tablished, often wused by officers and thers who did not ming rough travel sod were in a hurry to get home or to get wt to India, and they often rode with the Tortars from end to end, besides which the British resident st Bagdad, sr, mther the residency, was for more than a century in the habit of trassmit- ting despatches from Jadia to Constanti. cople and Europe by these same carriers, As much as 150 miles per day bas often been done for eight or ten days by the Tuitars, They ‘only rested four hours out of the twenty four, nnd pushed on the rest of the time at a rate of six to teg miles au liour, «| Galveston News rr on i BE Lu made a" -y Bliaring With Vaseline, A frientl of mine o few months age told mo Bow to shave emily sod pain. lasly, nod I have never shaved ina Uor's shop sioce. Tho plan is to uso or grease instead of soap to prepare cirim and soften tho beand. Yaiaiine ia tie most convenient, and it be eoap alter the vaseline had been a But the soap in Susy unnecessary, and | shaviog with oll or vasclioe is cleaner, me well sa ter, and what ls more TULERZITIU END INDUSTEIAL. The sun yields 800,000 times tho light of thé moon, Babbitt metal consists of eighty-nine parts of tia, thres of copper and sighs of eutinony, Athens, Greece, now boasts of possess. Ing the largest electric-light plast fin eastern Hurope, Burope add America electricity Is now largely erdployed for the electrolytic de- position of copper, A hundred laying hens produce fo erg shells about 137 pounds of chalk or limestone anoually, The corporation of London has mada a contract for supplying electric lights toa large portion of the city, , Military med ard very lighly (leased with thé new repeating carbine which lias béed adopted for the Freach cavalry, A Professor Adametz has discovered thet w soft cheese, near the periphery, tontains fram: 8,000,000 to 5,000,000 microbes, A luminous buoy has been invested, the light for which is produced by phos- phuret of ‘calcium, and is visible two and ® half miles away. Electrically deposited copper is ‘so ductile that itcaa be drawn down until it resembles the finest Lair, and this, too, without sanesling, I's application of electricity to the testing and worldag of metals goes on direction, During the last two or thres pears the | “eas of electric welding has sprung Eto promisence, aod it is now being em. plese in a variety of ways, such, for co; a8 the making of wheel tires, boiler tubes, chain links, shells for large Buns, oto, | In the process of photographing ool. prs, lately discovered, the photographs fe taken on glass and paper, snd the thts ranges from a deep red, thorugh yel- oy, a bright blue, but green is absent | the tives. Verylong ex re Brod oy veg pow The mrophor is @ new invention from Germany of great importance fa textile factories, and is being introduced into the factories of England as well gs Ger- many, It Is an apparatus to diffuse moist. ure necessary for spluning without injury to health or machinery, A school of modern agriculture is to bo established on a Government farm in ono of the provinces of Bpain. Lessons are 0 be given in plowing, drilling, threshing grain, ete., and the implementa will be let at moderate price to farmers who have learned their use, Amo JOR the most important subjects by our scientists i experiment stations are the discovery and propagation of friendly iusects or para- may hold in check some of the many insect foes which infest the field, the garden and the orchard, BOG Weldless tubes of steel are now made in Germasy by the Manngsman process out of solid bars. A pair of rolls revolve at tho rate of 200 or 300 revolutions a minute. A bar of hot snd therefore plastic steel is delivered to them, snd by their action it is stretched and a hollow is made in the centre. The tubes made by this process are peculiarly strong sad So —————iois Numbering Thread When 840 yards of yarn weigh 7000 ins, a pound of cotton, the thread. Eno Lk Dla weigh a pound, it is marked os No. 2. For No. 80 yarn, it would take fifty mal. tiplied by 840 to weigh o pound, This is the whole cxplacstion of the yard measurement cs uscd by the spool cotton manufacturers. The early manufactured thread was of three instead of six-cord, the number being derived from the num. ber of yards to the pound, just as it is to-day. No. 80 yarn made No. €0 thread, though in point of {act the actual calibre of No. 60 thread would equal No. 20 yarn, being made of three No. 20 strands tevisted together. When the sewing machize camo info the market as the great thread consumer, unrcasoniog in its work and loezorable in its demands for mechanical sccumey, six-cord cotton Lad to be made ia place of the old and rougher three-cord, it bo- ing much smoother. As thread numbers were already established, they were not altered for the now article, snd No. 60 six-cord snd No. 60 threc-cord were jeft identical ia both size sad number. To effect this the six-cord has to be made of yarn twice os fine as that demanded im making the three-cord variety. The No. €0 six-cord ja made of six strands of No. 120 yarn, © The three-cord spool colton is the same number as the yarn Is made of. Bix-cord spool cotton is slwaye made from yarn double ita number. Thread in a simple thing, but, simple as it is, there are 2000 kinds of it, and each kind goes through hundreds of different processes. | wivew York Stor mest ET ———————— A Romarkable Arctic Explorer. Dr. Nausen, the explorer, isa splendid | vimen of the Viking, being ziz-foot | high, of fair complexion, ih gw blue eyes and speaks Eaglish adm . He has already been: across Greonland, aod bas somo thrilling experiences to relate; how his bouts, yess vouly tho cold was eo iotense (seventy or i i The largest Larometer yet made ha put in working order at the Sg It is forty-om JOLERS BUDGET. TROTS AND YARNS BY FUNN, MER OFTHE PRESA Laslly Remedied Original Paczages ~ A Bongitive Ear- £4 Family Mas tor, Blc., Rta «UE BUTCHER WOOr ¢3ly Beart is yours,” hie di ‘Tm in ag awful stew, Liver dle, 1 care not ‘less You give we promise trua ‘Td steak my very life on Aud whee I'm kept saws I'll send a tenderloin or tw Professing love for aye nrwer you beetors [ or our favor welll ; '1 love, vou suet ou Lis eioulder fell ~i La Mou Ebe ot And EASILY BEMED ‘Took lere, Davis” manager of the dime mu “'you bave made a mistak: an Esqoimau girl I wanted | partment. It was a Circassiz “That's all right, Colonel ; braveliog agent. ““Ulga,” he | face and friz your hair."— CL | bune, ORIGINAL PACKAG] “What is this ‘original pa ess?” she asked, ‘‘What does it mean? Well,” Le begas explainiog, ‘‘we'll eay you are 1H unds of Boney in a silk sud gold and iamond-mounted case. * “Yes,™ “Well, 80 ioag as you are i | insl wrapper,” be contin bis arms sbout ber, “'you— ‘I'sce pow,” sha interrupted can't understand how you | nal wrapper.” — (Philadel; A PTAMILY MATTE! ' busi Rumorist—: guess I'l] Las rive ug my position as funny man on paper Editor Why, what's the matter Humorist— Well, my wife wou't han any more jokes about her side of the fam ily, my mother-in-law is with us now, s I can’t mention her; my daughler mad when I write about ber Leaux and her little brother, and the hired girl say she'll strike if I drag her into print again Bo you sce there's nothing icft for me te write about, FO ALIASES, His Honer—~H'm, drunk and <sorder ¢h?! What's your pame/’ “Pat, sore.” “Your full zame™ “Shure and "tis Pat wh in or whin Oi am sober just th 1 “Thirty days. ""—[ Puck. iy, full THE POLITE PREXCH) When Geoers Urited States, he was at onc of a rather droll misundersts was prescott at a concert was sung by the ehoir, with “To-morrow, tom Having a very imperfect k: Eaglish, be fancied it to given in bis honor, and the tiaguished the words: “To Moreau, to Moreau.* Each time the refrain was rr pested be rose 0 his feet and gracefully bowed on sll sides, to the great astonishment of the sudience, who did not koow what to make of it. — [Le Figaro. COULDN'T ESCAPE. “Have you boarded long at this house !™ inquired the new boarder of the sour, de- jected man sitting pext Ww him, “About ton vears. ™ “1 doo’ sec how you can stana wm Whi havent you left long ago?” "No other place to go to,” wid the stber dismally. “The landladv's my wide. "~~ {Chi- Tribuge AT THE WENAGERIT. "That's the porcupine, isntit! Whee st ugly-looking ereaturel” “Yes. It isnt what yon would an attractive aoimal. Still it has & great maoy fine paints about it, <{Eche de Pars, Moreau ros wicdge of ight he dis “rn EE DID NOT 00. “No,” sad she. “JT can be omiys sister to you.” “Yery well, "said he, “IT must be xing! I bad expected a different answer, but ~well, good-nigl “George,” she faltered, as he started out into the night. *“‘George'™ “What is it?" he asked “Aren't you going to Kiss your sister good-pight!” A PIOUS HOPE. Tou must be as quiot as possible aight, Johony,” said his mother, we are to bave the minister for su “Have him for *upper. eh? bope he'll taste good. {Ashland A SLIGET MISTAKE. Wickwiro—Is Modge resily going wmarry that girl?! Why, he is as poor on: Yabsiey—vou are wrong (here. front name is Rose.~{Terre Haute presa » A JEALOUS LOVE. He—1I love the very ground you tread She—Then you can't Baseme. I io be loved for mmalf alone. [Now MOST LIXELY, WifeWhat do aaa you suppose baby fe The Breton #'pose bet thinking what 0 ery about to-night. —{ Life. TURY ARE ENCAGED, Cornelia t address me Mr. Lovell, Maude; it is so formal, know, ha More than 800 wo!
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