FOR THE CHILDREN, BC PRINCE. «Shake hands, Prince! Biack as a coal, and curly, too, Is the dog [ introduce to you, He gives ut once his right-hand paw, None a softer one ever saw, “Reg, Prince!” Up he rises on his hind legs, Flies both little fore-feet, and begs, Not for money, nor food, nor clothes, But merely to show how much he knows. “Speak, Prince!” note, He'd a bumble-bee inside his thrgat; “Tis not a bee, but only a bark; For answer, shrill and eager, hark! “Roll over, Prince!” He'll do all other things you ask; But this is a task, a dreadful task. He hates the dust on his silky hide And in the fringe of his ears beside. “Roll over, I say!” Such a struggle as he goes through; He wants to do it, and don’t want to! He rubs one black ear on the floor, Rubs a little and nothing more, “Ah, Prince! Ah, Prince!” Do you call that minding? Yet I find Yours is a common way to mind: Willing to do what you like to best, And only half-way doing the rest —{Clara Doty Bates, in Farm, Field and Fireside, LETTER (3et half a dozen wideawake people around the table and then put jetterbox in the hands of some steady head who can be trusted as umpire. He will throw a letter in the center of the table and the first one in the circle who can tell a geographical name beginning with the letter in sight takes the letter, and the one at the conclusion who can count the greatest number is the winner of the gome. Any name of any place under our sun which is of sufficient dignity to possess a post office is legiti mate to use, or that of any lake, river, mouatain or sea.—{ St. Louis Republic. A GAME. TWO "There are now in London, giving musi val recitals and exhibitions of their s two little Italian girls gamed Rosin Beatrice Cerasoli. They are aged thirteen and eleven respective iy. who is Rosina, the eldest, is 1s fine a pianist any one in i TIRY ROMANS MUSICIANS, comsideres London, a proucunces her name as ‘Bee-a-tree-chee'') only because her hands are she can not yet do as difficult pieces s were a8 i we is inferior t S00 wonld if bigger, When Rosina was only s conservatoire she her hands YOars © she took a medal at Rome, and her aying was so ple isi to the Queen of Italy that invited both sisters to the royal palace, and pre sented them wit with "plesh tae p! ne I sh h a beautiful silver box For a year Rosina and trict : been in Englar sting their musical said that the little musi in their studies already thoroag studies, fans are so brigl that they ily mastered the Er lancruage, — New York Ledger. other 3 WHERE CAN COM} FROM When the North German Lloyd steamer Herrmann unloaded at New York days ago, twenty large bundles shrouded in white cloth were carefully lifted from the hold and placed on the dock. From each came a of angry {witterings and chirpings and much flut tot a few bande chorus ans little wooden bird cages, each with a canary bird in it. Immediately 3 of the 5,040 birds stretched its little yellow throat in an effort to outsing his neighbe r. They carroled and trilled as merrily as if they were looking out on green heath and blue sky. The canaries £2.50 bide the 85 birds, and the $10 birds The ordinary birds worth $2.50. A large, fine bird, or one of rearticularly Bandsome coloring, brings twice that price, while yd raised vocalist will bring $10. singers, Ti o they Field and § Overs ons ‘re arc stir v come [rom Germany, where { in large numbers. Farm ckman RYE WHANGSTI WHING WWAKG Charice was very oranxe, and that beneath where he was stand It seemed almost that China should be so Charlie liked the Chinese very He had once seen a Chinaman, round hike nn was directly ing at that time, ron] to be true near, much fellow had made him laugh, they were set in so crooked. He was a little di appointed to find that Chinaman was not macle of china, but he soon got over that, tand of flowers himeeil, to dig. And, oh, hard work it was, euch a dreadful disappointment to him §t made his back ache, to give up; and then what do you sup sti Whing Whang, Emperor of China,’ much broken, the Emperor would send a teapot, Emperor that he him al things, which the Em did that very night! That is, the t camo home that evening marked, wi 0," by eC ie's papa sent them and the Bmparor, because it takes weeks and weeks for anything to eome to America from China, and besides that papa was very much afraid while Charlie was at work that the whole back yard would be dug up, 50 you see that there was some reason why he should try to make him stop. ; { At any rate, Charlie received all those ¢ beautiful things, and since then has not used his spade except as a new kind of a bat hit balls with.--[New York World, NOTES AND COMME to Tuene are more men than women in | South Dakota and several other Western | States, the melancholy result of which is that lots of the bachelors there are unable to get wives; and there are more women than men in Connecticut and sundry other New England States, the sad con- sequence of which is that some of the marriageable women there are without [ husbands. Yet, comments the New York { Sun, it is not the business of the Federal | Government to establish an inter-State Matrimonial Bureau for the Purpose of Properly Regulating the Proportion of Men and Women in the Respective States | of the American Union. In the long run | the law of supply and demand, if allowed | to operate freely and fairly under the | accordant principles of competition and | solidarity, will determine and i i ! i surely | of all the men and women of our country | who desire to enter into the holy bonds i of wedlock. CuarLes Contis, Representative-clect from the Fourth District of Volunteers, Fifteenth Regiment, His grandmother still lives on the reservation in the Indian Territory. He was born in North Topeka January 25, 1860. mother died when he was three year age. vear, and, commencing as soon could, rode horses summers Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, Iowa, and Missouri, attending school winters, thus securing an education. he drove a hack to going to school daytimes, 0 a law office and ed county attorney, Republican nomination for Con 8 of as he support himself, in 1884 was od recely { the or last June, and was elected by & majority of 3000 over a fusion candidate. Tuere are probably one hundred and fifty schools for cooking in Germany and Austria. the best of which are at Vienna, Berlin and Ls A man ef must insic, who wishes begin at the ve peel und by 1 hoolin fadder—at up A course of ns any polytec hnie school it followed for four ie student can a di vear competitive exhibitions are giver which many two hundred take part The chef who was employed it the White House by Grover (lev land. and who, it is rumored, may seain, has a gold medal which was pre sented to him by the Emj Frederick r excellence in cooking, a silver medal riven by the King of Saxony, a diploma the Queon of Austria and ns and hoo Wy ¥ = 1141 Lie ORTS ploma wird KEL } AR ns bye ITeSs from other marks of won in competitive contests in coo It is not to be wondered at that Europ cooks command e2traord ntry. Hesny Canpor Lobos sixth man who has bee State of Massachusetts with a seat United States Senate since © organized in 1780, It is an interes coincidence, by the wav, that the great rand father of Mr. 1 George Cabot, was a United States Senator from Mass achusetts just a century ago, been elected in 1701 to serve His grandson's term wi a6 that there will be three two centuries when the father and the great-grandson been wearing the same tury hetween then Mus. Mania In a French society f ad vat women, has founded an annual scholar ship to enable ¥ approbati i] inary this co n honored NZTess wa odge he having until 13 expire ved tos, BAIKM ES, wr tho oun girls of good con duct and slender means to go before the authorities for examination to qualifs them to dispense medicines and com pound prescriptions. Mme. Deraismes 1s of the opinion that the best means of | amleiorating the condition of women is | to increase the number of carvers open who are obliged to earn their living. and also that the work of drug ists is suited to women, to those A moor of husbandly virtue, patience, and tolerance is his imperial Majesty the | Emperor of Austria. His melancholy Empress wife is eft to follow her own way and will in making sudden and strange journeys, and to indulge in | eccentricities which must puzzle even this amiable spouse, Last year it was for a house in Corfu with magnificent environment, where she paced the garden walks conversing in Greek with her Grecian tutor, | and appetentiy indefiuite purpose. Mean while at home, attending to the court functions, through which he en tains the company his restless wife re. fuses to stay at home to receive, A comrasy has organized in New Jersey to utilize the accidental discovery of a student in chemistry —the discovery i that tile can be made of common icals the nature of which is kept secret, All that it is necessary to do is to empty | the wet sand into tile-shaped moulds, and in the morning there is your tile, glazed and hard, without the appiivation of either heat or pressure, It is said 1 that tile, drains, tubs, imitation terra cotta, statuettes, and so forth, become as firm as baked pottery and are much cheaper. Coloring matter can be stirred into the sand with the effect of perma. neatly tinting it, and marble can be fairly imitated by pouring the color unevenly through it, TE: Sih, Ta 8 Are unaersty than those of any othinr wection of the Union, Nevertheless they are slowly being developed. The scenic and other natural attractions of this far northern country draw a considerable and increas. ing stream of travel to it every summor. of the Territory cannot long remain hid. Already a line of side-wheel steamers has been planned for service on ths Yukon. The first vessel is now build ing. If will connect with North Sound steamers and run 2,200 miles up this great Alaskan river, ~ No sooner have European aeronauls improved their balloons almost to the point of perfeetion for military uses than along comes an Russian scientist with an apparatus which captures the rays of the sun and employs them to burn the bal loons, somewhat on the principle by which Archimedes planned to destroy entire navies, We have not seen a de tailed explanation of the modus operandi, but n Russian paper states that the bal loons can be burned when at a distance of five kilometres from the person hand ling the apparatus, A aEnrMaN autharity says that almost a third of all humanity, that is, 400, 000,000, speak the Chinese language. The Hindoo language is spoken by more than 100,000,000, the Russian by more than 80.000.000, the German by more than 57,000,000, and the Spanish by 48, 000,000. Of the European languages the French is fifth in place. Tene are said to be 17,000 styles of women who has t« how. many styles there are, y wear six-cent prints How to Trap a Tiger. In trapping tigers for export the Ma lays dig a hole ten feet deep, making the bottom twice as large in as the top, to prevent the animal about areq § om The Il brushwood is whole completed, small and close mouth of a bullock is chained to a tree, On seed bullock the tiger springs for his ¢ pected prey, and alights in the pit. samboo cage i over the which is then filled with earth, the gradually coming to the by the it the placed surfing ©, lace bamboo and ratan under the Spring-guns are sometimes used, by dangerous to dogs and human beings, I once went on a ended in a buflalo-hunt five iger-hunt, 1 We organ Europeans and ten started on f« to ride thr On findi followed i party of 1 ot, beonuse im possibile nts, wi them pri tiger had been drinking took i heard we HTOoat from the tu WE Saw an normots man-eating dashing away through the brush, red farther, we dis Duis and more hi caught in r was was the same, for not found neara vil average lage at a Lime f 4 © - s four or five Wore road generally ople tigers this the seize thei after dusk, and fcr this rea safe to travel on thew o'clock at night it ft i tien selects Bis man year pres iy it ix never roads after that & the 1s said during s him dusk, + tlemen were neapple plantat home, guns for animal distand and he attempted to are constant snimals, and it is almost send them out after dark paid twenty dollars to an native taking a message to the Maharjah after six o'clock at night Century, the sam« they behind them al Wavy. reached home attack The terror of these fore iw natives in impossible to I have for fhe Lockjaw Bacillus, Kitasato. who discove ich lock jaw been trying the method of Pasteur in pre venting the disease by inoculation A number of guinea pigs nnd mice in fected the i by mesns of small $ of wood inserted under the skin. Some of these were subse quently inoculated with the prospective lymph from the disease while The earlier the prospective lymph was applied, the bet ter. and when the animals were inoculat and lymph simultaneou 3 no symptoms of tetanus developed them selves, The prospective lymph used was the serum of a horse which had been wh sises tetanus or has Wore wmeiiins wid recovered shin hhsvw 1 tonal the others died eel with virus nus. The bacillus of tetanus ean retain long time, A bit of wood extracted jock jaw was, after being Kept eleven years, forced under the skin of a rabbit, which afterward died of the dis {New York Commercial Adver tiser, ‘A Perfect Book. Having recently come across a para. perfect book has never yet been have to say upon the subject. By per: fect is meant free from any mistake, The notice I read went on to say that a Spanish firm of publishers once pro. duced a work in which one letter only ot misplaced thro a believed to have been the nearest ap. proach to perfection that has ever been attained in a book. It further stated that an English house had made a great effort to the same ead, and issued prool- sheets to the universities with an of £50 if any error was discovered in them; but in spite of this precaution several blunders remained undetected until the work issued from the press, do Ry ds Every housewife knows the vexation hat comes with the discovery of a frosh spot (caused by a man’s head or a child's mc iis Bhd i | SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDEN i's EVERY DAY LIFE. OF Adven~ is Queer Facts and Thrilling tures Which Show That Trath stranger Than Fletlon, A Fuexcu statistician, who has ben studying the military and other records with a view of determining the height of me: at different periods, has reached some wonderful results, He has only solved some perplexing problems in regard to the past of the human race, but is also enabled to calculate its future and to determine the exact period when man will disappear from the earth. The recorded facts extend over nearly three centuries. It is found that in 1610 the average height of man in Europe was 1.75 meters, or say five fect pine inches, In 1790 it was five feet six inches. In 1820 it was five feet five inches and a fraction. At the present time it is five feet three and three-fourths inches, It is easy to deduce from these a rate of regular and gradual decline in human stature, and then apply this, working backward and forward to the past and to the future. By this calcula tion it is determined that the stature of the first men attained the surprising average of sixteen feet, nine inches, Truly, there were giants on the earth in those days. The race had already de- teriorated in the days of Og, aud Goliath was a quite degenerate offspring of the giants, Coming down to later time we find that at the beginning of our era the average height of man was nine feet, and in the time of Charlemagne it was eight feet eight Bat the most aston ishing result of this scientific study comes from the aj ion of the same inexor- law of diminution to the future, The ealculation shows that by the year $000 A. D. man will be At that tians on the igures inches, able re of the statu reducea to fifteen bi there will be only Lillipu And the TH istician is irresistible; the average 0 inches Pr conclusi the world will certainly itar iil have be will finally dis disappesring,” as French resses it--Ylrom the terrestrial g Mn Warren Iannis, who has just i m Ta ‘ return t d to : letter h secms existence of the Mount Atlas i written of uttered : ng writes a imber prygmies Lihat SACL, mere iy a certain Cid. Shich tribes throuzh hi 5 they and who h t climate ery the i bad quality of such food as thes able to collect, have, turies, becon extrordinarily stunted hen 3 not been seen by 14] re : altitudes at of to, from their ¥ WH ive, exXiremoes are subiect bility to grow crops, Aare the Iapse of cen have they The J eT h al answer is Sir Ho most 4 visited sker and Thomson. t the only the entirely nting proximity the ‘small people’ who would never on any Eur pH ans who have travels whl ics ery rive repress to » distance, scoount visit it is for this reason alone that the existence of a stunted race stich people must have failed to have ittracted their notice castios their f O58 Frascis W. Jauns of Port Townsend, Wash., who, with J. B. Webster of Ouk- land, was of the pioneer population of that Territory thirty odd years ago, stated in a letter to Mr. Webster recently the Makah tribe of Indians at Cape ery, just south of Vagcouver island, Are increasin which un- usual. and that they are as wealthy a community of Indians as exists in the United States, made so by their industry, also unusual and the increased value of sealskins. These Indians now have their own schooners, and cruise, with a white captain of course, as far north as Alaska, and very successful. They also are noted wha'emen, and engage extensively in the end, halibut and salmon fisheries, there being very extensive halibut banks a few miles seaward from Cape Flattery, which are now annually visited by a numerous fishing fleet. These banks were discovered by Mr. Webster and two other white men in 1830 and quantities of the fish caught and cured for market during the next few vears by his com- pany. Port Angeles is sixty miles from Cape Flattery and was thirty years ago without inhabitants, but is now a flourish- ing city of 5,000 inhabitants, with a grand future before it, Ox Christmas Day, when the four- wasted American ship Cyrus Wakefield was in a gale, First Mate William Mit. chell was knocked overboard and swept far astern, He had climbed to the poop deck and had taken a firm hold of a life line to steady himself, when tHe spanker boom got adrift, and swinging around struck him and hurled him over the star- board quarter. One of the crew tied the deep-sea lead line to a life preserver and cast it overboard. Suddenly the lead: line tightened as though a monster fish had, seized it. “I have him! He's caught the line!” yelled the seaman. As the line threatened to part, a heavier one attached to a life preserver was allowed to drift down to Mitchell, The lead lige indicated his distance astern to a yard, The last of its 160 fathoms had been payed out when Mitchel grabbed it. The second line he also caught, and the crew started to haul him aboard. This was finally accomplished, but the first mate was more than alive when taken out of the water, A most extraordinary story comes from Boise City, Idaho, which is said to be well authenticated. It is said that three travelers wero at the upper end of Lake Chelan recently and one of them went in bathing, when he was seized foot ‘by a marine monster that g in numbers, is Rre came fo his rescue It had legs and a body like an acd hind legs The men tried hard to tear the monster from the foot of their companion apd finally tried fire, Between its fore the victim along and finally landing io where both disappeared from Jouxs Hopxixs University still gossips of Professor Sylvester, the marvellous mathematician who came over from Eng- land to teach the science in which all his interests centped., His mind was ever occupied with mathematical problems, and all sorts of odd things happened to of Daltimore, The most amusing episode of his life on this grew out of a voyage to Europe. While abroad he made some highly important calculations, but reaching Baltimore he found that the paper on which he had figured was mis sing. Boimportant were the aleulati that he took a steamer back to England in order to look up the papers, He did not find them, and started back to the United States deeply disappointed; | streets however, on " iis but during the voyave over he accidentally discovered in a pocket of the overcoat he bad worn on the previous voyage the very thing he was in search of, i n Shensi, of North of wolves | a China, Tur plague mountainous province is described as becoming more and more alarming. A correspondent in that part writes that in the village in which he i they had heard of persons being carried off by these animals Most of the victims we the rest young persons of six is sojourning eleven ro children teen, nineteen and twenty years of age “They says the writer, *'to our village every night just now Men are tirrine then out large numbers to hunt them wover, To-nigh ive put poisoned mutton in two not far off, hoping to find at least They besides entering off helpless little a few days ago cone, here ies welves, oolong in we vet. ho nnsuccessiully t we | plac Ld one dead i wolf to-morrow, roam in vilinges open di and ones, CAITYIngG Thre i nt we of the reaming 0d no Ip Came a her hes the § with s IBID Mek Kniie He comp left an vase the hs { Lhe irl hin his hand and hel i with the « close to the A ing RATHER § 8 French Coun miile Flammarion One OUCas; he fr beaut (ATTRS, of her died directic nd a book was remove hor person, and gracefully ask f enough skin from this pa Flam: ing him 4 for a volume of the next work he should m It said that skilful tanner had been employ memento, it was ac tually devoted to the use prescribed ; and upon the cover was inscribed, in gilt letlers, d'une morte sent to NAT: Tae As 8 cover wa, after a is i to prepare this strange Souvenir Tue picturesque little village of Pay- erne in Switzerland, not far from Lake Neubourg, possesses a unique curiosity in the shape of a saddle which belonged to Queen the founder of the Benedictine Abbey, which has since been | transformed intoone of the best educa tional institutes of Europe This saddle, which is more than 900 years old, is of peculiar antique shape, having an aper ture for the knee in the pommel. Queen Bertha was noted for her zeal and indus try, and in order to set a good example to her subjects she always rode {rom one place to another to gain time Jertha, A queen mbbit story, which beast “Unele Remus” at his best, comes from Davidson, N. C. John HedB®ck Killed a | very large rabbit during the snow It had a large raised place on the inside of { the left hind leg which he cut into and | found between the flesh and hide two i leather-winged bats, which were full | grown. The bats were fastened to the { flesh of the rabbit by a leader or some | thing similar, There was not a broken | place in the hide until Mr. Hedrick cut {it | Ax extraordinary case of suicide is re- ported in the Berlin papers. A sixteen year-old boy, feeling himself humiliated by a severe reprimand that had been ad- ministered by his self in a chair, and after loading a the shooting, one shot, killing his brother instantly. Tue monomaniac who, in 1839, stopped proposed marriage to her has recently died in Bedlam, the celebrated insane asylum of London, He seemed to be perfectly sound on every other subject, was well edueated, and wrote very sen. sible letters relating to insanc asylums and the reforms which could be made in them, He was cighty-four years old, Mex cutting ice at Buxton, Me, found a half-blown water lilly imbedded in one of the cakes. It was thawed out, ut in a suany window, and soon Dhoom d out as handsomely as any lily of July. Oxe enthusiastic or of the World's Fair estimates that foreign visi. tors will bring to this country $300,. break. this ye i i WL A A NSAI: SCENE. Tle a ad A LA ROCIEXCE NOTES, AGCIICULTURE ¥ ius beep successfully applied it POPULAR ELecrnicrry 1% tricity agricultural operations at the Polytechnis Institute Alabang, at which place motor has been at work since last spring threshing wheat, rye and barley cutting ensilage, grinding corn and gin ping and pressing cotton. And this writes Franklin LL. Pone, in the curren number Engineering Migazine is on in a State where less tha fifty years ago hundreds of telegraph lines were destroyed by a mol of farmers, because the wires were sup of OLS, of the LON miles o posed to have superinduced a distressing drought which shortly their ercetion, Verily, the world moves SiLk Fro Woop Poip —A reviva of interest is noted in the attempts started BONE Years particularly in France, to manufacture silk from woud pulp, and by methods, as proposed by M. ( hardon ner, similar in principle to that employed for converting into paper. It is well known that, a few years ago, large works were it Desadeon, and pre parations fo facturing silk in this way were projected and carried out on the result was satisfactory 1 after oceurred afte ayo wood ait In somewhat 2 Xtensive i that, though remarkably specimens of ilk made by the process i wns found that manufactured could not ix in large pieces y question were shown, it the fabric so Woven sucee that it ture To over ough experiments past been ANG inflammable a na great danger ome these difficulties very thor have for some time and way, and with sach re ompany having the indus laim to be able to furnis silk possessing all th was of wo hig as to be a source of silts that the « try in charge « oO a substitute for characterizing that ar expeoted to be pat one the article, dress pie 5, juded in the pros essential quail ticle, and which ¢ upon the m iret at renin ete., being abont half cost of the ribbons, inc pective goods, We May Nor Hess —An that are inaudib sounds that nimals seldom capab We HOow . course, that sounds may be too ; too high—that the vibrations may in i to be the | an ear: but it does thnt SOUNDS mals may he Certainly 10 us, zis the keenest cats, for examph o many a of giving pleasure lo us OW Ww OF audible t not fo ‘ inaudible to differ {he udibie VATiatne the 1 100 sl limits of a even in istly hear two hiche friend i his friend hoard The 4 sane Thing mas 3 possessing it known as Galton nd made bry this whis re and m i to be heard by most some can =0ll it: but by raising Lh sound still higher even 1 The sound i the whistle vibrate, but » no longer recog existence of thes is detected by o was first shown by Chamber's Jour (3 mo Pe T®O3 hey Cease cansing the =i ill to rapidly that ou it, th vibrations nize though inaudible sensitive flame.’ Prof. Barrett 1877 Bas 4% A Well Ventilated Toma The most peculiar and eccenirk character that es ved in Alabama was Thomas Banks, who died at Montgomers during the year 1830 Phy sicians say that he would have lived years than he did had it pot been for the fact that he was continually brood. ing over the danger of being buried alive He was ns man of considerabls property, being rated at about $200,002 but to of looking at the matter money vould not prov ide against the horrors of a premature burial, Awa: back in the "50s he had a mausoleun Sailt io the Montgomery Cemetery, and directed that he aad his only brother should be laid there together after death In 1883 the other died and was carciully and tenderly laid away in one of the niches of the mmuso eum. After this solemn event Thomas had his bedroom furnitare moved to the tomb and ever after reguitrly made his toilet there, As mentioned above Thomas also died in 1800, and now the two brothers lie within handy reach of {resh air should cither wake fromm his dreamiess sleep. The Banks brothers were natives of North Carolina, and weat to Moatgomery some time about the year 1856. [St Louis Republic some lime lonoer onger his was sh i in ie Cruelties of Nurses. Servants emploved to look after the little folks are as a rule, s0 anxious for their own pleasure that they frequently slap their charges into yes in order to be free to gossip with their con freres below stairs. This course of ac tion usually takes place at bedtime, and any frolicsome disposition on the part of little “‘wide awake” is, according to the personal observation of our informant, speedily reduced to a condition of sob- bing and sleep, owing to the employment of methods known only to these : fans of these treasures of the home. There are other atrocities also sed on children by their nurses, which savor of actual cruelty, If these cases are nu. merous, ean it be possible mothers are unaware of them? Is it that the duties time and attention that the doings of the nursery are unknown to the mothers of the little dwellers therein? Motherhood is a far nobler office than social leader.
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