NOTES AND COMMENTS. ¥ In all Africa there are 727 white missionaries, 1,096 native preschars, 776,960 adult native Christians snd 225.000 schoo! children, a grand total of 1,004,788 Christians, Ax Ohio judge has just refused a divorce to a woman whose complaint against her husband was that he “ob- jected to building the morning fire, and did refuse, without love or just cause, to take her to the World's Fair.”' Wisconsin ought to be in a happy frame of mind. Her debt is wholly einen | various institutions, her property of various kinds amounts to more than $15,000,000, the assessed value of taxable property is $654,000,000, and she had in the treasury in the last | County. The little road is forty-four miles in length, and parallels the Rio Grande Western for almost half the | distance, This narrow gauge is owned and operated by an English syndicate, independent of the Union Pacific sys- tem. It costsomething near $1,000, 000, with one engine, a combination coach and a few freight cars in opera- tion. The road has been sold or bar- | gained twice to the Union Pacific and | once to the Rio Grande Western for prices ranging from $100,000 to $250, - | 000. A sixteen-mile extension has just | been completed at a cost of $250,000, | Since the line was completed to its | present terminus all passenger and freight traffic has been absolutely | free over the entire line. This is done for the purpose of freezing out the Rio Grande Western or probably FourTEEN women known Grey Ladies of London have dedicated their lives to working among the poor of Blackheath. The this district amounts to over and the Grey Ladies, called from the habit they wear, visit the sick and try to educate the well. They have one day a week for rest, but with that devote them- selves entirely to the people around them. as =O) exception ACCORDING to a recent issue of The Lendon and China Telegraph, the cotton interest in Japan going ahead in a most remarkable way. In 1888 the production of yarns in Japan was than 1,000,000 pounds weight 1802 it had risen to Imore 64,000,000 pounds. This result to the cheapness of which renders © even less than in AT a recen burgh, Miss touched on barmaid. licensed houses mated at 120, 000 164, and 184 per day, and l month. TI from varicose the constant largely subject is an cotton Sq In than of course, labor in Japan, st of production India. is due Lhe Edin- London, work of women onference in of AMosc the which the with him on hi amber which f{ homet’'s time and invulnerable, a makes him | star whi ators instantly But that tali morals, the not he has vial which | h-tub, the In place Araby odors witl +5 his royal care Shah does CArry thereof 1& per ass, CHARLES cupriss, of Breath- edsville Maryviand, was induced raiting officer at Booneville t enlist it i ‘nited States army tern by peared two wee ville, and a ton, after as a deserter arrested him and hel when thare o fr yn Ww shir not a de suit {or d: IS nrisoner over night ond despate ha 3 his capto = i awarded him 2850 A GOVERNMENT | two Alaskan familie civilized, the other latter are clad in skins ang appear in her garments and were evidently alive to the presence photographer Perhaps the mo 2 ntrast however, lies in th BB of the civilized Eskimos are well opened while those of are mere slits. Doubtless this difference tells the story of differing household con- ditions The uneivilized Eskimo dwells in a dim, smoky hut; his civ. ilized fellow has learned to live in the light. ra the 1s others Tue Atlantic coast below the mouth of Delaware Bay, and at least as far south as the Sea Islands that fringe the shore line of South Carolina and Georgia, has many shooting lodges and club houses belonging to wealthy Northerners. The land in its usually wild state, save where it is suitable for cotton growing, fetches very low prices, and a great domain may be had at trifling outlay. The chief ex- pense is for building and mainte- nance. It is said that Northern sportsmen have invested $1,000,000 the little road. INA PEANUT FACTORY. How the Peanuts are Prepared for the Market at Norfolk. the they are rough and earth- stained, and of all sizes and qualities, jumbled together, says the Blue and Gray Magazine in deseribing the pre- | parations of peanuts at Norfolk, Va., for the Northern market. The bags are first taken up by iron arms pro- jeeting from an endless chain to the fifth story of the factory. Here they are weighed and emptied into large bins. From these bins they fall to the next story into large eylinders fourteen feet long, idly, and by frict cleansed from the earth which cling to them, and polished, they come out white and From this through shoots floor. Imagine When which revolve rap- ion the nuts are story, rd ane to the thi interesting NArrow thwise in inch-high strips of hin, i ind the Nis ng tables each nor to three sed wood. edge Sef strips also si n the Each of a stripof heavy white can- ITTY table. floored Ww vas, whiel ith moves ino the mi an leading 31 31 at the end of the ing canvas bar called ’ ‘pon the outer aprons of These slow! fant POH ds, about a are the ‘‘picking apron dribbles down from the shoo der stream of peanuts side of the table, RO CLOSE to y Yo } - SCArcely nave nds seine ning they pass and throwi the wends move at 10t see what they are east a handful of nu it $iedwt dle division. th Lae central section i passed hands may be quite certain ) icle f Of eight Of class nrt ing on simils forming the sec grade of after the turned int the the SNelis and sens kernels nufacturers ma oh are ground horse bedding. : tle fruits vegetable ors it may turn out to be ed. but pose. Curiosities About Cats. shells =O n all serves some The ancient Egyptians worshipped the Goddess Bechet, a creature with # human body and a chet’s shrine was at t city of Bubastis. Hither ar of 700.000 devotees resorted annual i He once (aMmMous average ly, each district delegation taking all the dead cats which had “‘quitted the sphere of action ” in their respective localities during the year. These dead cats, all of which were carefully at the celebrated ‘Cat Cemetery,’ on the plains of Zakazik, that being the place where the image of Sechet was set up. One of the greatest cu- riosities of present-day Egypt is the catacombs, where the remain of these countless thousands of cats are to be seen, each wrapped in linen and sealed up in a red earthenware jar. The domestic cat of Europe and America is believed to be a descend- | alone, and there are many thousands of dollars in such investments from that point northward to Cape Henlo- pen. known as the ‘Cattle King,’ for his herd of buffalo. He secured permis- sion from the Government to fence in all the Government land that he re-’ quired and it has also offered him any other assistance he may need in pre- serving the herd. This is the largest hetd of buffalo in the world at pres. ert, and the preservation and increas. itg of it are very essential to prevent the breed from becoming extinct in a tew years. He now pats the buffalo in a corral each night, and is getting them tame, so they are now much like domestic stock. Ose of the peculiarities of railroad construction is found in San Pete County, Utah. It is that of the San Pete valley, a little narrow-gauge line extending from Nephi, where it con nects with the Union Pacific to Manti, the county seat of San Pete blindly worshipped by the ancients, | One of the chief men in a Moham- | medan caravan making a Mecca pil- | grimage is the ‘‘Cat Sheik,”’ or} “Father of Cats,” an individual who | i i kets filled with cats of all ages, sizes | and colors. i Acrording to an old British law | (passed in the year U88) a person found guilty of stealing a cat was to forfeit ‘‘a milch ewe, with her fleece and her lamb.”’—{8t. Louis Repub lie. Squelohing the Barrel -Organs. It is told of Verdi, the eminent composer, that when he was spend- ing a summer at Moncalieri a friend found him occupying a small room for eating, sleeping and receiving his friends, and Verdi observed that he had two large rooms, but he had filled them with certain articles he had hired. And he opened a door and showed him ninety-five barrel-organs, ‘* When 14 Sie hares! : anid ihe com- poser, ese played, ‘Rigoletto,’ ‘Il Trovatore' uy similar rubbish from morning tonight. I hired them for the season for 1,500 lire, and am os at pean CURIOUS INDIAN GAMES. Aboriginal Sports Described by an Educated Sioux Indian. We had some quiet plays which we ones. Among them were the winter we coasted much. We had no ‘‘double-rippers’’ nor tobog- or seven of the long ribs of a buffalo, fastened together at the larger end, answered all practical purposes. Sometimes a strip of bass- wood bark, four feet long and half a foot wide, was used with much skill. We stood on one end and held the other, using the inside of the bark for the outside, and thus coasted down long hills with remarkable speed, Sometimes we played This to us was almost is among Our people think it an act of irreverence ate these but we ’ “Medicine what white to to imi- seemed dances, t f frequently enjoyed in secret one of these performances. We 11 the important and customs attending it, and it serve a ceremon actor to re- v the dramatic features of the The real dances i day and a wram was long and varied quired something of an produ dunce, cupied a pr it wis not easy to executs perfectly: but the imitators. are born often selected as cho { for I of the an apt mimic GOeCRasions, had nap | INANnY medic and was quite randmother, who was . on hearing as she us acts » that if anv of them with slow ly we also plaved our people excha: merchandise and N at Uses of Aluminum. ompliete arm 3 in : y appears ag Lohen 1 . 5 we appearance of being mad¢ but % no heavie of silver being ade of aluminum, i ordinary suit of winter underwear, besides more durable than if it were of While aluminum will take eq of silver, it neither a or blackens uding noi { to that nor is it easily af only about one-fourth that of an equal volume of silver. The difficul- ties in obtaining it are chemical ones, of its general employment in manu- facture. Within the past few tl have from time to time there been of various methods promises by from common clay at a cost suffici- on a large scale. The commemyial re- sults, however, appear to be still in- considerable, than jewelry-—{ Courier Journal. A A 130 The Obelisk of Orsotasen. The Obelisk of Orsotasen, one of the earliest and finest of the Egypt- ian obelisks, is still standing at Heliopolis. It is inscribed with the name of Orsotasen, one of the great eat rulers of the twelfth dynasty. It is sixty-seven feet four inches in height, without the pyramidion which erowns it, and is a splendid block of granite, weighing 217 tons. It must have required immense skill to quarry it, to transport it from Syene, and finally, after finishing it, to erect it where it now stands and has stood for 4500 years.—{ Boston Cultivator. Genesis of Chimneys in England. Prior to the year 1,200 A. D. there wns scarcely a score of chimneys in all England. A queer law which regulated the matter allowed but one in each “religious house visited on the Sabbath by over HO people, and one in each hall of Lord aor Duke.” In the houses of all others the smoke escaped through holes cut in the roofs for purpose, —{ St. Louls Republic, ae THE KING OF BEASTS FRIENDLY WITH TINY CREATURES. Professor Darling's Story of Leo's Fondnegs For a Rat-~Other Pecu- | liar Things About Lions. The way lions treat the tiny crea-| tures of animal life is a study. It! may be that there is some animal! language, and that the legend of the little mouse which saved the lion's life by gnawing the net has bacome known to the denizens of the fungle and handed down as animal folZz-lore, of it may be that the king of beasts Han » positive contempt for an sthing extvemely small, but it is neverthe-! less a fact that lions will not attack tiny animals when they are put to gether. Professor Edward Darling, now playing at Hagenbeck’'s, than whom there is no more profound stu- dent of a lion's life and character in the country, has made many curious experiments with his five big beasts. I never 4 lion kill a rat or a mouse.’’ said Professor Darling and I have had many of them put in the cage with my five | My atten: tion was first drawn to this when | Was On mj ay from London to Ba- tavia, in ship Rotundo, I had my five lions with and in the quarter y which they were house rats. One lay 1 rorite lic i ing HS BAW ions, 3 me SAW : and holding betwee: 3 aown i am paws very loosely onster ship I thought stinet in the lion bh it, and that he with it a while, then watched. Imagin when I saw hin and the Dut ran ug 2 perhaps that the n prise : rat AWAY tic paws and pl We were a trip IRturaiiy Id have however, was ni $i tiger plaved with th before he would touch Rilied and ate it Now, my the a tiger, or kept alone grows very their run in pairs ry i= this: a lion or in fact, any wild animal lonesome in natural state wild beasts always They love companion- brs al fione they animal, even though it is a rabbit, is . . t in the same cage with them, they Pi refrain from killing it so its companionship. We have of many instances of men alone, shipwrecked, if you Why not a lion? ' as to have heard being ike It always made me feel rather bad to think of this tiger in Hamburg killing his little friend; still even men at times tarn on their friends, Now, there is another peculiar thing about lions,” added Professor Darling, “‘and that is that they will not eat the flesh of a fowl. - You might tempt them with a eanvasback duck or the daintiest squab, but they refuse it. This a scientific fact. I have tried it many times, 1 remember once having a swan which | had broken its wing. We killed it, dressed it carefully and threw it into the cage of the lions, but they would not touch it, and it finally had to be taken out and thrown away. is eage, just to see what they would do. 1 have thrown grain down among the lions, and the pigeons have actually got down and hopped around the big brutes, even hopping on their backs, the lions making no attempt to dis. turb them, even seeming to enjoy their companionship. “Now, there is something strange about this which is rather difficult to explain. To my mind, it argues that a lion is not brutal in his instinets, Savage, he undoubtedly is. Fierce at all times, but flerce with justice, 1 believe every one of my lions hag a conscience; I know every one of them knows the difference between right and wrong; they know their wondrous power, and are charitable, They would never attempt to injure something which in no way could do them harm. The study of a lion, his habits, character and capabilities, is one of the most interesting I know. It offers a field ns yet comparatively unknown, \ into but the more one goes one takes to find the he is convinced that he has rightly been named the king of beasts.” —f Now York Tribune, . it, the more time more JUVENILE DEPRAVITY. Sister's Herbarium. “Seems to me I ain't ever goin’ to be able to sit down again with real he lowered himself cautiously into a chair ‘rach! There is some folss ue can wever take a joke nohow Yar see, say mother 'n sister took iL tne their he'ds to start a herberryvisa—: guess that’s what they called it, ub filled it with dirt and planted seeds. “Well, I thot I'd put in a seeds too. So 1 got ear of and shelled it and planted six of corn the all the other seeds, ‘Bynby, sies and that sort of stuf to grow poked their way up and when my! wasn't thro’ the dirt, my sister she seen theme shed! She be mother 10 come sie aston tickled. 100 as could an went an’ called 100K. Well t} ¥ they used ‘uz both so tickled to watch wonder #0 fast. They was pl 14 that every day and what made them grow ensed too use they =aid Mother is boy went and and \* 5 3 York Herald The Decline of Beards. i] of smoot feu have been noticing the number 3 in men who have en- during the past two R \ f Morgan, of one-ha waved tered the hotel hours York have Wi rapidly It more than in any other section of the country, but it in the west also It said L. Neafly if of beards, The out of fashion noticeable in the v 4 1 ’ rn no beard is going is east be can seen Then custom tect themselves from the cold. there came a revolution ir early days of the existence of the men of the day, beards were worn principally by the middle and lower classes. Forty years ago, however, they began to come in fashion, and beards bevame almost universal, The custom is on the decline again, and men of all pursuits and callings beginning to appear smooth shaven, '={ 8t. Louis Globe-Demo- crat. hs —— Buried in Mis Boots. One of the characters of Birming- He Stern. He was ninety-ecight years old and had never been twenty miles from his birthplace, nor ever ridden on a railroad train. In 1855 his master gave him a pair of boots, of which he was very proud, and which he has worn to church every Sunday since. His dying request was that he might be buri with those boots on, and it is needless to say that he had his wish. He scorned the freedom which the war brought him, and continued to live with the family to which he had belonged to the day of his death. His funeral was attended by a | concourse of the best Roope of the eans Pioa- neighborhocd. «(New yune, Mantua makers with skill and ex WOZS OF CATTLEMEN. in Old Days the Buffalo Stampede Was One of the Chief Dangers. It was not always human agencies that made life on the prairie a bur- ttiemen, says the Globe. ng over the prairies of buffalo, and the driver with his cattle stretehed out in gth might consider himself fortunate if none of the shaggy-coated beasts came near the way from ranch to ship- ping station. The coming of a hera of buffalo was usually foretold by the like the thunder. At made to con. den to the of Demoorat Roam were great herds more in ler a line a mile or him on sound of thousands of hoofs the sound of rattling every effort was herd into The herders then edge of the herd and endeavored to keep the animals quie It the the closest possi Pt COM DAss Whit ies TO at np ipt to move buffalo {for if Was 118d apect. bu be hooked cattle rancl ular business : as safely as a I store. Its would not know how to their pre- Managers 4 te then j= ia nilder age. is be. small ares of country in Jelierson county, Florida. ] original bush, whieh - } miestead, near the county and is still strong of a The so-cal lieved to & State mentioned above igorous, and light glossy green. The petals of the flower curve slightly inward, and are of the exact color of bright, healthy The odor of the flower and sickening One of the most peculiar facts concerning the flower is that the dew which drops from it is of a bright pink color, a character. istic unknown in other flowers, no odds how brilliant the colors. In Jefferson county it is known &s the ‘‘GGrant rose .’’ and its origin is one of the mysteries of nature. Its entire habitat is only in an area of five miles in diameter.—{St. Louis Republic. DAs Jeaves Cost of a Pair of Shoes. A Haverhill, Mass, shoeworker reasons it out that ‘a pairof lady's medium kid boots costs, as they leave the factory, about $1. After passing through the hands of the middlemen, jobbers, wholesalers, retailers, and other cor- nerers ana grabbers, the man or woman at the other end of the line buys them at $2; the consumer thus pays $2 for a commodity worth #1, he labor cost of Khe shoes is about twenty-five cents; the other seventy-five cents represents stock, profit, risk, Insurance, superintend- ence, ete., so that the $1 which the manufacturer gets, covers the whole So, except the of passing shoes alofig to the wearer.—{De-
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