~ FOR THI LADIES, THE WOMEN IN FINLAND, in Finland, above all other countries, fo women eater into the business of life, They are clerks, dectors, dentists, build- ¢rs, managers of small companies and bank iy They are especially sought fw in the last capacity, on account of their reputation for honesty, = Pittsburg Dispatch. THE LEPER 8 ANGEL, Queen Victoria has presented a brooch to Miss Kate Marsden, the lady who devotes herself to the finding of leper rolonies in Siberia and other remote parts, and giving the lepers medical and other comforts. She is on her way to the United States to ask for help in her benevolent pursuits. The brooch is formed of a large pearl, on which stands an angel of gold. Across the angel's preast is a scroll with the words, “Vie foria Regina, "—[New Orleans Picayune. WIDOW'S WEAR, Among the English fashions that are gaining adherence in America is the widow's cap. Not the fright of a few slaited chiffon in dull white, with the | ong white veil rising from it and coming to the waist. It iz becoming to every face, adds a daintiness to the heavy, gloomy gowning of black, and is distinctive. A widow | ought to show that she is a widow; it prevents the necessity of explanations | io strangers. —([ St. Louis Republic GIFTRE OF AMERICAN WOMEN. The wealthy women the United | States have given some notable gifts to | the needy during the last decade. The | Maternity Hospital of New York, the | largest of its Kind in the world, is the gift of Mrs. W. H. Vanderbilt and re- presents in its building and endowment | the sum of #1,000,000, Mr, W, B Astor founded and endowed the Cancer | Hospital, and now the Seton Home for Consumptives, wich is the largest of its kind in Europe or America, is rapidly approaching completion. This hospital will be the realization of the benevolent ambition of Sister Irene, the projector and head of the New York Foundling Asylum, and is named after Elizabeth Seton. who founded the order of Sisters | of Charity in the United States and left | to the order an immense fortune, New York World. Ol THE OF THE Mink-tail rolls used rostumes until the combination, effective as it When the gazer at a fashion pageant reflects that each animal has but one tail, there a stern realization of the slaughter of the innocents that is going fn to gratify the costume artists, Women will wear anything the Paris artists decree, whether it be tails or heads But just think of it! One tail to an anima! and somewhere around 50) tails on one costume! Some costumes seem to have about that many Perhaps the | fuzrriers have a surplus of from | former years, : The poor little minks suffer most, as, SLAUGHTER MINK are on green becomes tiresome, mes | tremendons tails sable, nominally, if it were traced back ! o its origin, it would be found to be growing on amink. The moire Persian makes some pretiy combinations with purple, forming whole bodices, or vests, and trimmings. Astrakhan is ss much used as it can be with the brown {furs so much in favor. Bands of wolverine are a new trimming. It is a high-priced fur owing to the fact that the oftenest in Canada is very hard to cap ture. animal ~found It iz said to be one of two animals | that attack a man without provocation, i Wolverine ai 2200 Now York Times. robes come MRS PEARY S RIVAL. Much interest has been excited in San | Francisco by the experience of Mrs. F. 8M. Green, wife of the captain of the | whaler Sea Breeze, who has tust returned | from the Arctic regions, Mrs, Peary is not the only woman who enjoys life in the frozen seas. To a correspondent Mre. Green says: “We sighted ice in| latitude sixty-two north and we were | feked up six weeks. The bark Cal ifornin was packed in ten miles from us, | One dey the bark rescued one of our | boats that had just fastened a whale, My | husband was so delighted he gave the California his share ian the whale, predent worth $2,500. **Then we worked up north to seventy. three degrees thirty minutes, which we | pat on record as the farthest traveled by | a lady whaler in the Arctic. Our return | was the sadiiest part of the voyage, We! were alongside the Helen Mar the night she went dowe. She was cutting up | two whales and that delaved her, That was an awful night, aod 1 said then I'd | never go to sen again. But I guess | will when the time comes. [1 always enjoy it. 1 have nwde four separate cruises, counting thiv last, and now | hold the belt for the farthest distances traveled north, east and west by a woman. — New York Mail and Express. | SEARET OF MAKING BRM ADRES, Broowdes are fashionable. Likewise | they are a snare to the dressmaker, To | buy a beautiful fabric of this sort is one thing: to make a successful gown of it wite another, [tmust be managed with discretion. The dressmaker who says *ithis brocade is so beamiful it should be made perfectly plain, so as to show off the pattern,” is lost, So also is the woman who wears the gown so made, She bas become a manikin to show off a n. If you would have your bro- eade gown successful you must not make it smooth fitting, so that the pattern # the surface of the person. Why? Because by this means what was an or uament to the fabric has now become a decoration to the , and you have ‘made yourseif look like a tatooed savage, but worse, A pattern may enrich a texture, but it ‘will ovly demean your person. Fancy a : vase stamped over with a repeat. ttern! Now you understand, pw to avoid this? Look at oriental EE ri SD rs t not ma a matrix over the figure. It falls in loose drapery, in uncertain, shifting folds, ® veloped and the figure, instead of Lang decreased, is honored by its coveriay The form for a brocada dross mv gt be arefully chosen, and the woman who would buy a brocade because tt is un the fushion should first reflecs whetlior she can or will wear a gown desig sulted to it. [Chicago Herald. WORKINGWOMEN AY CREEDES Creede, Col, is undoubtedly a great place not only for men, but for the op- posite sex, as has beea demonstrated by four plucky women who, going there penniless in search of a living, have already amassed comfortable fortunes, One of this number, Miss Anna Mann, has personally accomplished the task of digging a tunnel 200 feet in length; can work a lode like an expert, and has sue- ceeded in getting a patent for two mines, of which she has the exclusive owner- ship. The first large hotel started at Creede was by a Mrs. Beebe, who, after looking the place well over, decided upon an advantageous position and has reaped a harvest from her venture, at the same time accumulating some valuable mining property. When the furor over the place first After listening carefully to all identi. fying her fortunes with the place, and so Her surmise was correct, in addition to a business, she now owns claims, Perhaps the most unusual attained in the mining camp is that of a German woman who before to several going doing housework and cooking. gathered together her camp Kit bliged to go in debt to au freighter, in to the place. Her natural thrift was which she staked off several lots, and on the most primitive plan started the plan of cooking for the miners at fifty cents a meal. Iu came evident that she had made a reckoning as to the restaurant, and a lawyer conclu try and her of the threatening as a blaff to erect al Without waiti ceremony, Mrs, Miller herself equal to the occasion by pointi intruder and inform first man to ; Possess f his life As her b jsiness prospered it location : A18possess Ouse on Iroperty t i . a pistol at the hiat the of interfere wy would doso a That undoubtedly es she meant busi was ident, but in view of superior miners. who rallied abput her, only too glad to protect the womsn whose kindly 3 with food out of work, if when they were trrtativser titokin lave he el, trusting to luckier days in the futur pay -{ Washington Post w ment FASHICN NOTES, Red gloves are the rage, Street gowns just clear the ground Magenta pink is one of the new shades for evening dress, Shnt serge is becoming and ser able Evers cloak in Moire 1 a revivad, id have Newmarket woman sho one lot the ulster of intique in shot effect * to replace sat FOWNnS, The will be much used for 3 3 i shot velve t satins now gowns = broad empire helt of folded silk The or n is giving wav to a deep corselet formed of inch-wide velvet ribbon A necklace that will serve as a brace of lace, are worn this season is fur-lined. A pew material is & velveteen with fine resembling corduroy, various colors and is much shirts and jackets, Hats and bonnets made of white cloth embroidered 1a gold with trim ming of white feathers and loops aud ends of white velvet, Cones liked in for arn Pretty and inexpensive evening dresses or colored net The edges of the net sre turned The fashion of trimming felis hats with every variety of material at once, whiie not specially artistic or in good taste, has obtained a certain amount of popuiarity. The latest empire tea gowns are fitted and have lace cascaded Watveau fashion curve about the arm size, The Russian pelisse, both in fur and ia cloth goods, is shown in new designs, t is a {ong semifitting garment, » with a It is made in serge, and lined with silk, Velvet and plush, trimmed elaborately with Joose, loog fur edges, are shown in They are made with box-plaited or full backs of bandsome embroidery each side of the pleats, The latest item from Paris is concern- ing a seamless dress skirt made from a double width of material just manufac. tured, The long heralded fuller and shorter walking skirt is also seen in the pew Parisian imported dresses, A novelty in an evening dress is an accordion-plaited crepe made almost pre. cisely in the style of the old-fashioned Mother Hubbard, A corselet and very deep cufls of metal embroidery or passe. menterie relieve the wrapper-effect which might be otherwise objectionable, The present dainty fancy in handker- chiefs is to have a design made of one's Christian name rather thas the initials or monogram, This design may be in the owner's own handwriting, the work is done with fine cotton in the center, rather than the corner of the handker- chief. Those who have nouncing of the h are used on icted the re. sleeve seem to would be simply absurd that, untess a very plain otyle of corsage should be domed the high sleeve is a necessity. Very pretty portieres for white and gold or Pompudour rooms may be made of the small embroidered Turkish squares sold for mats and cushion covers. They are joined with strips of white velvet ribbon an inch wide, on which are wrought polka dots of yellow silk, The drapery is lined with thin yellow silk. The new hoods for children are very quaint, having three pinked.out frills around the face, large bows of ribbon a high, puffed crown at the back, beyond the place wheré a crown is properly slaced, which is to say, on the top of the ead ; and a deep eape, Matelasse having come in again for clonks and mantles, some very rich gar ments are seen in this goods, Where it is used with voke and sleeves of black velvet. One design just out is of double CAPES, the longest one of the matelasse, the upper of velvet, full, with revers on the shoulders edged with jet embroidery, A band of black Thibet hair around the neck and down the fronts, YAWN ALL YOU PLEASE. A Doctor Says It’s One of the Best of Nature's Remedies, According to current ideas yawning in good society is an improper sign of weari ness; according to the teachings of phy- 1 doctor, it | is a long-drawn, forcible inspiration, fol. | lowed by a shorter respiration ; accord ing to Dr. Naegeli, it natures many remedies, the proper application of | which depends upon good judgment, fr yawsing, notonly the muscles which { move the lower jaw are used, but also the | breathing museles of the chest, and he yawns content also extends theanns, In the deep est inspiration the chest remains extended for a short time, the eves are almost or entirely closed, the cars somew hat raised, | the nostrils dilated, loside the mouth, the tongue becomes rounnd and arched, the palate stiffly stretched, and the uvula is raised, almost entirely closing the space pose and the throat, At the { beainning of the cracki is heard in ears, a proof ths » duet leading to the hearing also suc | cumbs to this stretching noted German siology, savs a is one of who to his heart's raises and between the inspiration a the If the yawning has reached the deep est point it will require from one 4 half le to ¢ hearing. I this Say Crar § seconds for it to , let one place himself a distance from a clock, so ti will not be easily heard, During this deep | { the clock is careful simply goes to show that yawn a number of mus which sre most 6 wo ing sets and particularly re. § hse Ct to the will yawning does not pre Although very one vent a agreeable appearance, it | to himself, for the: streteh $ the musclos causes « omfort; itncts like massa; patuyral gymoastics of | imaginable Dr. Nacgeli, vises people not io with 3 ing and evening, and ax often as px the | most thetefore, concern themselves 14..1 : so-called decency, but every mon Es] and ble, to EXC eIs f Ie spiral stretching muscies o Yawning 1 troubles prevented Ii orders the patient troubled h wax in his ear, accompa | ied with pain, toy The pain will sos n the case of of the palate, soe awn often and des ply He nlso, arb, inflammatic pt snd often fn d wm disappear nasal cat i throa earache as during each day to yaw times successively, an terwards to swallow, orders the patient ne possible from #ix to ten immediatels The result will ts i surprising. If one looks Upon Yawn is #4 natural massage { he will reach a satisfactory explanation of its « powers Berlin Unserve Zeit, for certain organs urative On Skates, The average Dutchman of the though he can skate very well, looks rather foolish on the ice. His short legs and wide breeches are admirable ad. juncts to his nose, his thin cocked beard, and the lumpishness of hic expression, To be sure, this breadth makes him look important, but if he were less muscular it would be a sad hindrance to him in battling with the wind, which in winter ix apt to make skating in one direction | something of a trial. The Frieslander, however, taller, better proportioned, and in all respects {a handsome fellow, The yellow beard i he sometimes wears seems to put him at once on a footing of affinity with tne other members of that respectable An- | glo-Saxon familygto which we ourselves belong quite as much as his provincial speech and his blue eyes. He is a most | masterful creature when once he has put on those quaint old-fashioned skates of | his, and thinks nothing of making = { score of miles from one village to another | before you and I are out of bed. As for | the cold, what cares he for it? He knows ! he must rely on that lusty circulation of | his to keep him from being beaumbed, { though he clothe ever so lightly, and | seems more regardful of his head which | a sealgkin cap takes care of than of his well-shaped body. A Friesland canal | lively as anything can be. The jee may not be very gor or of unquestionable strength: but no sooner are the boats penned in, and the broken pieces of ice Sarsth, is in winter is nas between them, then his sport begins, It is a feat of honor to be the first in the district to cross the canal when the wintry season is in its youth, The name of the bold lad is remembered for a week or two, and 1 have no doubt his pluck stands Jim in good stead in the esteem of the cherry-cheeked Jamsels of his rovince, whose eyes dance past one so’ tly when he ive Jeatival is in full swing, an rrieying is all done wu ners ournal, pou Ni Y., Mra. Charles Petit was lyin .in her casket in the front room, Her eleven-month-old daughter escaped her attepdants, and while creep- ing about the floor and Playing with supports of its mother's n found a sup of embalming fluid, which it drank, was found under the coffin a few minutes later, Ar Byracu NOTES AND COMMENTS, Wien the gaia of what is termed a whole nation under arms is estimated, the exaggeration, says the Fortnightly nakedness of the fact that large numbers of young men are lost to their country by the mews to which they resort to escape military service, Iu Italy and Germany these may be counted in France men are jess nu. because mon are more wedded to the native soil, and take to service more gayviy and more naturally, but in italy and Germany thousands flock to immigrant ships, thus choosing life-long self-expatriation, anid every year, us the military and fiscal burdens grow heavier, will lads go nway by preference to lands where, however hard be the work, the VO Co the drill sergeant Patriotism is a fine juality, no doubt, but it does not accord with the chill and supercilious apathy of and teaching of this age, and a young i § love than a cruel and unworthy step mother, when she demands three of the fiirest vears of his life to be spent in a enough A AURAL in Michigan bias provided itself with a telegraph eight miles in aumber r shift his feet quickly enough, farming district line length, or farms with the proprietor f % a8 lelegraph ator, express it, postmaster and so on. The | ish expenditure for the outfit i have been only some £200, RCHLLere ol sore, which Ou total to the ex said while of maintenance, which is Hens trifling sam, ti Tha of the opinion that CROrmons &% this In country more ji Especially telephone patents HM ointetcommunication is nesessed equally IWRers, Magazine is small and COBY Onis sich a system listricts ought to lead neral adoption of the plan, r the expiration i in 1804, Engineering the Cont aoe to a #UChHh 5 stem possible wrhout “xX pense ship thro the counts ividual roid be almost in ould save 076.902 acy first RAT5.000 acres, i by Fru ‘ in 012.500, Austria Hungary with and with 300.000 slowed vith 4,592 500, Spais i with 4 1.637, 500, Thue Lsermae SOTO £8 Ein iin nd Soares; 6597 000 GOD ane 4 Hungar O00 (1) wall BRIN FIN EMME NM) SON (HH THM) SE wine An) 8 0,000 gtd ind it is estimated the value of exports ad from much, Italy of 45.000 000 £3 800 000 hiefly common wine, £12. 000 000, while 56 000 000 gallons as w hile ported oni 16. 0040 1 To (nH pr Slates, men recently ybtained emples t slice a » is, and at : red places under the 1 in Sweden and in Vi ted in ts ot) tha - ut in the Department nts t Antwerp have nographer shall In the latter « selected for stenog Parliaments Of ts Ouniry Tig w ho 18 Ont of Mf th women s suffrage movement that country She i} ae edits in Kyinden v Samfundet, which is the organ of of Women Suffragists of the Samfondet she expresses the hope that having at last reached the stenographiers’ tables the of Denmark may not have to wait so long to s Parliment benches, hn Danish League recent ssue in a women the Dune the reign missionary, was the only physician in the city. who were sick, even the men, for in the extremity the rile had to be broken. Necessity Knows no law, the Armenian Bishop and benefiting him so much drew forth his gratitude and that of the Armenians, of the Russian consul charge of the case before his death, the people would say: “Would that Dr. Bradford had continued to treat him.” She has saved many fives and many hearts toward hey the country—Libhy Prison and John Brown's fort are already there, and now the enterprising collectors of architectural antiquities employed by the Fair Com. missioners have discovered the only original Uncle Tom's cabin and begun negotiations for its purchase, This cabin, a diminutive structure of logs, stands on a Red River plantation in Louisiana. It is 16x18 feet in dimensions, nine logs high and bas a patch roof of rude cypress boards, It has not been used for twenty-five years, “Ir a comet,” suye Professor Wiggin, of Ottawa, Canada, ‘should run between us and sur moon, ax Lexell’'s comet ran among the moons of Jupiter in 1778, its powerful attraction would so coutract the earth as to cause the waters of our oceans to overflow our continents, as no doubt happened at the Noachian deluge. i don’t think they ever cause disease, tor universal death would happen should our atmos absorb the poisonous carbon nf which the tail of a comet is known that the somposed. : Ge a Ah he it is pretty World's Fair , but it is doubtful if anybody who has not seen the buildi has the slightest conce either of their mg wivude or of artistic beauty that the present, a. Schuyler been able to see since the fall Roman empire, Tur eoities that claiss to be the birth- | place of Columbus outnumber those ancient cities that claimed Homer-—Italy, England, Ireland and Spain, all having | their advocates. Only two or three, however, iosist that they have his remains, A mine in thirty seven seconds is the latest record breaking speed, the dis- | tance having been 0 in that time on the Reading system, between West. field and Crawford Railroad, the engioe being attached to a heavy express train, 40.000 little children in London who break fastless to school every morning, This the saddest feature of the great unemployed probdom which agitates the metropolis, Tune are go is A Swedish bride always distributes bread to the children who line her path way on her road to church. It is a child prevents a future misfortune from overtaking the happy bride, POPLAR SCIENCE NOTES, Woop PAvEMESTRE. A writer in En his inves-igations into the character of wood pavement in large cities, the con- this description have usally been laid a method is by no means the most de sirable, as, in effect, it produces a sur entirely ir « ructure, strength and wesr- Under these circum- grouting is friable and voyvielding. The grouting becomes rapidly pulverized by the traffic and its sarfnce soon falls below thie general level of the wood; the un to away, becoming round. slight depression above B I qin wear : the and dirt; further, the rumbling noise of traffic passing over wood blocks is almost THE SCIENCE OF SUCCESS. Been Hustlers, In the edition of the “Life of Lincoln,” by William H. Herndon, the martyr President's law partoer, there is an intro Mr. Horace White, whiel gunificant comment, net “The Abrahaun Lin Mr. White, “that people have pictured to themselves ting in his dingy office, working aver his cases till the voice of duty coin,” says gOIme law ron him, never existed, IH this had been his + he never would have been ealied all, It was precis he neessant « beenuse WHS up Leif petition with his fellows carthly honors that the public eye became fixed upon him and the public car to aftuned words, Fort: t for all of pate was it no shrinking was moved as other that his fellows him and know him fit to bx patriot, that are moved, take heed of of iu mi aD Hg bt ns themselves O14 us their | in a crisis,’ There js a strong sermon io this com ment, and there could be no better for the iy ing oof moray i the idolized Lin ally recognized a. the ms eristic type of the best that is From his earii wa BRiwavs Oi £3 the that the coln, univers: clhiaract ur civilization ext harmanguing « we kind DEVE IIssd 1 OF 253 3 1 a platform of = Fup he WOT velop Lhe of $ th present remarkable friendship of presence, the cu i political progress was cxtrao All that Lind Vv sessed and made use of the this Is to sav marked He did asked, available power but of mind that have leader men f 0: IN or waitin ’ rren great ar sind or to bx only cultivated vertised it He not only made hb wding but he demanded imsel capable of biographies, which Ore mistaken hose who ieaa (reat ap from a ship Guns makes it his id Wi Aas though highly deserving ob to the fierce light of when the truth is that My strog wise sfter the event pear that } snrinKing “ealled o popular Erreat ging, inter Be 4 urity in honor, runs has been planning, ewing, collecting influence and pulling wires for fifteen the There are nforced, licited honors, but it is not possible to find them among great leaders It is not possible to imagine Casar, Napoleon, Washington, Lincoln waiting to be sought. Unintelligeat years to win justances of « 4 i hero worship generally o conceal this fact. But there is no reason why it should be disguised. Human nature be. ing what it is, the competitive necessity being in the very fibre of our human organization, success not merely in lead. ! tellectual leadership, will always result minority of one against history and the world. It is on this basis that the and become the same A failure to recognize the fact that suc and even religious mug- who hold aloof from the nothing: who give an hour a year to the physical exertion of registering and vol- | ng and then have the gall to ask a con- | sulship; who moan at the iniquity of | election expenses, but who never chipped | in a dollar to hear an election address | that is costing somebody something: | who denounce saloons, but have bottled | wine in their cellars: whe preach equal. | ity, but label their impertinent charity | stations “for the poor.” It thus hap- ns that the reading class is often arthest away from the real scoret of | success in the moving of men. Only a class without the knowledge brought by contact could ever desounce ‘‘parties” or preach the elevation of politics by let ting it alone. A tical illustration like that furnished by Mr. White's com- ment on Lincoln is for this reason of in. caleulabie value, — [Brooklyn Daily Times. Covey, Bevy, Flight and Flock. Different terms are applied to different groups of animals. following are examples: A covey of a nide of 18, AW cleaned, although it may present = smooth surface to the eve, 11 will be found that the interstices have been filled pulverized wood-—a surface obviously DevLicacy or Measvrise Ixsrev MENTS, -~ The adjustment of measuring instruments has been brought to a peint of such accuracy as to give almost in credible results, Scales now made { weigh the a candle, or plucked from These scales are triumphs winism and are ionclosed in # the slightest breath would pair their record The gl 4 sliding door, and as soon as the weight are flame of allest strand of hair brow, inns un is AER CRECS bay © door slides i ATO 8 pia eid balances the down. s balances are of again g. ive) y tay 1 iv for further use by the pressing of a button, which slightly raises the beams weight auto x of paper 110 the 8 an piece end, and he divisions nth part » from its containing wed and proved mes, of the Gf part of an 'r Aan iputations, savs the Prof ESOT Samuel Califor. ling and nozzle of " Ler throw a siream 3 #1! were a wrical 1 000 pounds, iywhere from would be diminished velocity upward of quartz wei against or 2 vertical head to 150 feet, the i up until the stream est There would hich the upward pressure lished an equilibrium | : point atl * fiream pres boulder, hol ing 2 he half- be 1.1 3.01 . would exact paiance the suspended i to cut pend Professor Pe streams Christy says drive a giream and, the point of the for perhaps half yw forward with often tried to i he bar of iron, feel almost impossible An ax swung th live could not 41 a! oy n TOs POW rial man penetrate the str , yet it might be cut by the finger of a cl child were seated on a railroad train moving parallel with the stream Ia the same direction and with the velogity, That velocity would be considerable more than a mile a minute. The late Judge Bradley, of the Supremae Court, has also tried his intellect upon the mathmeties of the problem sub. mitted by Judge Field. He delivered this opinion : “I can well believe all you say with regard to the tremendous force of streams iseuing from the pipes of the Of course they would produce instant death id, if the &AIme and would probably cut his body in two.” The statements here presented in sum- The average citizen, however, is accustomed to regard water as the least destructive fluid that ean be putin motion, A Female Blacksmith, The Cogswell Polytechnic School of California has a girl student in ite black smithing department, who has taken up making ornamental forge work, at which a small girl with original ideas un. usual physical strength for a woman. And one of these ideas is that in design- ing attractive iron ornaments a woman's fancy will prove more alert and dainty than a man's, To perfect herself in her art she is studying designing, drawing snd modeling, as well as doing “tical wears in the shop a dress of heavy wool material, suspended from her shoulders with regular suspenders, and an apron of leather to shield her clothing from the fying sparks. She wields a twelve-pound hammer, and keeps her forge fire glowing herself with a blast engine. A EASE 0 A House-Building In Lake Nyassa, Africa, there is a cur ous little black fabs whieh builds a bread. i n Fish,
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