Immigrants are pouring Jute the
western part of Louisiana.
The population of N ew York is now
enlarging at the rate of about one
hundred thousand a year.
Te ———_ ~ —
Groenlund, the German political
economist, believes that socialism will
be tried during the next century.
Judge Arnold has decided in Penne
sylvania that a married womun who
gave a note in payment of her hus-
band’s debts is ipoasible therefor,
The cost of living in India increases
year by year simultaneously with the
depreciation of the currency. Every
important article of consumption is
considerably dearer than 25 years
ago.
The amount of precious metals that
£0 into the gold and silversmith’s arts
is enormous. Europe consumes up-
wards of $24,000,000 worth of gold
and silver annually for plate, jewsziry
and ornaments.
They are seriously discussing in
Euogland the project of building a
cantilever bridge 200 feet high, and
carrying two railway tracks, scrcss
the English Channel. The estimated
cost is £173,750,000,
According to the offic jal returns
published by the Ministry of Comuni-
cation, 12,000 persons have suffered
fcom railway nccidents in Russia dur.
ing the past ten years, Of this num.
ber 4500 were killed and 7500 wound.
ed.
San Francisco is the banner city for
saloons, declares the New Orleans
Picayune. It has one such institution
to every 93 persons. Albany, N. Y,,
comes next with one to every 110 per-
sons, and New Orleans one to every
121 persons.
philosophizes the Yankee Blade.
crime is so heinous that it
imitated. Firebugs
flocks. Burglars,
cals of all kinds
sheep.
usually fly
are as gregarious as
right to vote in municipal e
since 1877.
elections, provided the proposed
tion.
rails
Herald estimates. This
road
ally to Bebring Straits
If Brooklyn is a city of churches,
vana is a city of hospitala,
nearly all devoted
patients, and as the disease is not prev-
notil warm weather sets in,
itary Hospital is the largest,
said by those who have been quar-
tered there that it is also one of the
dirtiest. Every club—military, politi-
cal or social—has its own private hos.
pital, to which members are sent when
poverty or necessity for isolation ren
ders it impracticable for them to be
cared for at home.
and it is
The New York News observes,
‘The recent speech of Senator Dawes
on the growth of the United States
was necessarily interesting. In his
active political career the venerable
statesman Las witnessed wearily half a
century of his country’s advancement,
One feature upon which he dwelt is
worthy of special mention. It is the
fact that in the westward ovement
of the contre of population, the line
almost oxactly follows the old division
between the freo and the slave statos.
of Baltimore in i800, it has traveled
westward at an average of almost
exactly five miles a year. It has so
closely followed the 39th parallel of
Istitude that the extreme variation fis
only 25 miles, And now, afier hav-
ing traveled 500 miles to a point near
Columbus, Ind., it is six miles south
of the starting point. The salient fact
‘bere Geveloped is the steadiness with
share of population ‘in spite of the
fact that the great bulk of Immigrs
LADIES" DEPARTMENT.
VALUABLE AID TO TRAVELERS.
The Woman's Rest Tour Associa-
tion of Boston exists for the purpose
of enabling worien whose means ure
moderate to travel intelligently, and
to get the best and most out of their
wanderings, whether for rest or in-
formation. The annual fee of $1 en-
titles its members to a trustworthy
schedule of expenses, to a list of good
lodging houses on the
in England, and to various books pub.
lished throughout the year giving
valuable suggestions. Though this is
its first year, the association has 350
members.—[ New York Post,
GOWNS FOR THE EXPOSITION,
It is not advisable muke cotton
gowns for wear in Chicago, for very
often there are not five days in a
whole summer there when they could
be worn.
soft white wool-—crepon, or challie.
A white serge, with a blazer or jacket
and silk blouse, would be comfortable
and cool-looking; and if further
change be desired, add a heliotrope
crepon or a silk-and-wool novelty
goods, and a preity silk, one of the
satin-striped tuffetas or a changeable
surrah. These can be made as elabor-
ate as fancy dictates.— [Demorest.
to
SEEING MRS, CLEVELAND,
Mrs. Cieveland, wife of the Presi-
dent, sces a few people by appoint-
ment. In faet, any one can meet her
who takes the trouble to send a note
requesting the favor. The secretary,
who has charge of the matter, answers
the letter, appointing a time for the
visitor to call. Care is taken that
many engagements for one day are not
| arranged so as to bring a crowd to-
gether. Each person is shown into
the receiving-room gradually so that
{ every one has a chance (0 converse a
few moments with
wife before the next guest is
| nounced. These appointments
generally made between the hours of
12 aud 1.— [New York World.
MOURNING SILKS,
For summer
new semi-diaphanous silk and
fabrics crepons and Cl
crapes that are very handsome, also
imitating
silk veiling, or creped lustreless silk.
ilk canvas fabrics and etamines, a
silk for light
i
black and white surahs.
white flowers, and whitegrounds with
alleover will
equally fashionable with shot effects
in black and while, plain or with the
changeable ground dotted with black.
arabesque designs, be
| Yon, both in colors and in black and
white eflects, follow very closely the
— [New York Post.
BRUNETTES AND BLONDES,
The brunette type is becoming more
numerous in England snd on the Con
This is sad news for the
blonde. Mr. Gladstone, who observes
most things, said some years ago that
{ tinent.
| merous than in his youth. This state-
ment was borne out by the results of
the statistical inquiry undertaken by
Dr. Beddoe, who examined 726 women
and found that 569 were brunettes and
S67 blondes. Carrying the inquiry a
step further, Dr. Beddoe learned that
78.5 per cent. of the brunettes had
husbands, while only 68 per cent. of
the blondes were married. From this
it appears that in Eugland a brunette
has ten chances of being wedded to
the nine chances of the blonde; and
Dr. Beddoe went on to argue that
tthe English are becoming darker be-
cause the men persist in selecting the
dark-haired women as wives.”” The
same thing is happening in Germany,
in France, in Switzerland and else.
where on the Continent.~ [New York
Comamercial Advertiser.
ERIDAL GOWN OF A FUTURE DUCHESS,
At the wedding of Lord Arthur
Grosvenor, who will one day be the
Duke of Westminister, to Miss Shef-
fleld in London, the bridemaids were
all dressed in bengaline, with short
skirts and large, coarse, brown straw
hats, lined with Malmaison pink vel.
vet, bows, lined with pink.
The bride's dress was a rich ivory
satin with a deep flounce of old Flem.
ish laoe in front falling over a fringe
of orange flowers held by three
rouleanx of satin, and small bowsof
the latter with orange blossems placed
at short intervals along the beading
wee
6 narrow flounce. The bodice had
zouave fronts, tustelully trimmed in
the sume lace and trails of orsnge
flowers.
The sleeves were slashed at the top
with lace and finished at the wrist
with a pufling of satin and orange
buds. A long, squire court train fell
from the shoulders, trimmed with lnse
in deep points and ornamented with
trails of orange blossoms. A coronet
of orange blossoms with a long tulle
und tho
were a diamond and
with pendants.—~New
jewels worn
pearl necklace
York Press
CRINOLINE IN PARIS,
Discussing the chances of crinoline,
“The dressmuking world
i# divided on the subject. MM. Duchet
is dead against it, but in favor of
a modification of the present flat ekirt
falis formn of a
half-closed fan,and outlines (oo closely
behind in the
vent them trailing.
flounced under skirts to be worn with
ing out. The flounces thickly
than
are
higher
kneee, and when in white muslin
cotton, be stiffened with starch.
But I do not think that the crinoline,
taking
will
the form
revived in a general way.
short, chnging skirts
plusage are well suited for
tramacar amd other
100
cheap modes
locomotion which intro-
duced under the republic to be quietly
given up. The
have been
lady in the
omnibus. This would be impossible
with cumbers m ¢ underskirts. Tour
ing would, by reason of the many
trunks which the proposed change in
the fashion would necessitate,
much more difficult. This
and the
become
is an time
locomotion wealthy are
about over the world
the most.
WOMEN AT COLLEGE,
President Andrews of Brown
Dean of
Women's College adjunct to the uni.
U nie
and Snow the
the
what
intended.
bave issued a circular in
interest of the
versity,
college, show ing
The corporation of the university
i831, to open all
its examinations to women. In June,
1892, it voted to open all
In the
women
its degrees
to women. t
it
already holding
same mont
opened to
bachelors’ degrees and to other women
of liberal eduneation sccuring special
permission, all the courses of instruce
tion intended for graduate stndents on
the same terms as to men. So far as
its graduoate department is concerned,
the university now places women on
In
instruction, examinations,
ly the same fooling as men.
respect to
substantially, expenses,
The
university also offers to examine all
undergraduate
studies, and to confer its
those who are successful in
aminations. The circular says:
aminations has induced a number of
gentlemen in the faculty to institate
inations.
the branches elected, and are
into existence a women’s college, tech-
only so far as
are examinations with the
FASHION NOTES.
Neapolitan straw hats wiil again be
worn this summer.
The leading color for outdoor wear
is undoubtedly purple.
Kid gloves with gauntlets of the
finest lage have appeared.
What ia called “'white wool grena-
dine” is a new material for evening
dresses,
The fancy in jewelry is the making
over of old-fashioned earrings into
stickpins.
Among the newer things is the
Egyptian bangle of silver, from which
miniature mummies hang.
Plain materials are employed more
largely than they would otherwise be,
because of the many beautiful trim
mings. :
Cuffs worn outside the siceves are
among the new fancies, and are shown
FOR ™E HOUSEWIFE.
HOME-MADE TOILET BOAP,
A thrifty housewife who has plenty
of time makes » very pure and agree-
able toilet soap for chapped hands
from white Castile soap. The soap is
sliced very thin and put in a double
boiler with glycerine equal to one
twentieth of iw weight. After the
soap has melted and mixed with the
glycerine, let it partly cool, then stir
in enough oil of cassia to give a deli-
cate odor and monld. If essence of
orris root is used instead of cassia the
soap will have the fragrance of violets,
TO CAN DAMBON PLUMS,
These ure a small, dark plum, and a
great favorite for canning. Pick of
the stems and wipe the plums; pre-
pare a sirup in proportion to half a
cupful of walter to one of sugar, when
it boils, put in your plums and cook
slowly, from five to ten minutes; have
your glass jars hot and clean, especi-
ally see that the have been
scalded, dip into jars and screw covers
on, stand them on the head awhile, to
be sure they are air tight. Keep
canned fruit in a cool, dry and dark
place.— [New York Observer.
covers
all
KCALLOPED ONIONS,
Onions may be easily and
without discomfort if they first
covered with boiling walgr.
they are pecied boil them for an hour
in salted water, changing the water at
peeled
are
that time. Drain
the onions from the walter,
in quarters (if they are large divide
them ip eighths) and arrange them in
a baking-dish that can
ble. Then sauce
them, sprinkle with butter
#oned bread-crumbs and set
to Lrown. This
very toothsome and sustaining
for hot weather.
least twice during
cut then
be sent to ta-
pour white
aud sen
them in
the oven makes =a
A SOT
A souffle of spinach is especially
nice. Wash two of
It is a little difficult to give
FFLE OF SPINACH
abont quarts
spinach,
this measure, becanse of the liberality
this
of green-grocers in giving out
- » ?
quantity. There should be consider-
ably over a cup of spinach when it is
Cook tl
of LOIN,
cooked, iw spinach in sbun-
dance salied water
drain it and
When it
about 20 minutes; then
plunge it into cold water,
has become a Jittle cold press out all
the moisture and rub it through a fi
Add the
pepper, a
tablespoonfuls of whipped cream and
sicve. ‘0 ks of three eggs 8
pinch of liitde sall, two
the whites of four eggs whipped to a
stifl froth.
as delicately and
Stir the cream and eggs n
ightly
them
As YOu oan,
rather ‘folding’
Fill
3 epar
in than stirring
souffl
and
them, battered dishics
with the ation bake shout
15 minutes. Mashed parsnips 1
fe, and
vegelabies may be ased for
pose.— [New York World
yery delicate soi many
HOUSENOLD HINTA,
may be taken out by scouring
then rinse with soda water.
monia to kill the acid; then
chioroform to restore the color.
The fine Japanesc cement is made by
mixing rice flour a sufficient
quantity of coll water and then boils
ing gently, with constant stirring.
with
Pine tar is excellent barned in a sick
room ss 8 disinfectant: it indncey
sleep. A cnp of hot milk flavored
with orange flower water, or one of
beef tea, is excellent for an juvalid
just before retiring.
When matiresses are stained (ake
starch wet into a paste with cold
water. Spread this on the stains, first
putting the mattress in the sun. In
an hour or two rub this off, and if not
clean repeat the process.
Bonbon dishes of gold are made
more beautiful by the little Dresden
panels with copies of celebrated paints
ings upon them. They can be almost
a monopoly only for the rich, as they
metal
To remove specks of dirt from the
eye, immerse the oye in cool water,
then wink and roll the eyeball until
the desired effect is obtained. To re.
move a cinder, draw the upper eyelid
over the lower one and blow the nose
with sufficient effort to force the tears
to flow.
To wash a muslin dress. Make »
good lather and wash the muslin in
cold water, never putting it in warm
walter, even to rinse it. If the muslin
ju green, add a wineglass of vinegar
i
PEARLS OF THOUGHT,
He who foresees never sets,
The busy have no time for tears.
Wise men never attempt anything,
Nature and wisdom always say the
sane,
Cheerfulness may be an admirable
clouk,
Without trampling the cleverest can-
not get rich.
The greatest things are done by the
greatest fools.
There may be pride even in
fessing mistakes.
col
Observe moderation in all
especially in virtues,
things—
There 18 no grace in a benefit that
sticks to the flugers,
Men's motives are mercifolly hidden
by their shirt fronts.
Zeal without knowledge is
pedition to a man iu the dark.
like ex-
When you lose a leg begin at once
to practice with a wooden one.
There is no calamity which right
words will net begia to redress.
to depreciate those who succeed.
If you cannot become rich, remem-
ber the many miseries of the rich.
The most
atiribute of
friendship is the right of candor,
charming
Dives is never an example, because
nobody considers himself really rich.
An extraordinary haste to discharge
an obligation is a sort of ingratitade.
Out of ten men
work for the tenth
Seuth,
The veil which
faturity is
merey.
nine are bora to
Resoive to be the
covers the face of
woven by the band of
Tae Lest way to make a man Lonest
is to make
found cut.
him ashamed of being
The power to do great things gen-
erally arises from the willingness to
do small things.
Everybody says that gentle birth i.
nnd everybody
as an achievement,
an scerdent, treats it
snc m——— ssa—
Can't Stop “Tipping.”
“] see,” remarked a known
“that
we are in the midst of soother of those
wel
man about town the other day,
periodic outbreaks againet tipping, but
it won't make a bit of diflerence;
ping will
few people
Hip=
go on just the same. Some
conceive
of they
onglht to refrain from tipping and they
will try it for
will conclude that for the
will the notion
that as 5 maticr principle
a few days and then
sake of their
own peacs of mind they'd betier tip.
They ii confirmed
conlinue ‘uppers’
for the rest of
“The
1
age to rebel against
their days,
fact is it requires more
the tipping
revolt agaitst ale
I know
whereof 1 speak. for I've “beets there,’
and I'l jast tell how it works
When you withibold the usual up you
COrs
VR.
tem than it does to
most any oiber social custom.
Ton
become painfully aware that the wai
ter thinks you are frightfally mean.
You would hike to explain to him that
you are only making a noble and be-
roic fight for principle, but of course
that is ont of the question. Now,
nothing hurts a man’s pride so much
as 10 feel that somebody thinks him
mean. [He conld better endure being
thought a gambler or a bunco steerer,
or 5 man who didn't pay Lis debts
You become afraid 10 look thal waiter
in the face. Next time you dine some-
where else and again incur the odium
of undeserved contempt. You don't
get hardened to it; you hate it worse
each time, and after it has gone on
three or four days you just say to
yourself, ‘Hang it'—or something
else~*this thing bas got to stop. 1
can’t stand having people think I am
mean when 1 know I ain't ; devil take
the principle of the thing.” Then you
resume tipping and are happy once
more.” [New York Herald,
Anmsthesia from Torture,
An extraordinary thing happened
daring Mr. Seney's last illness. Whale
a fiiend was with him he was smitten
with a violent attack of angina peeto-
ris. It seemed as though his sufferings
were more than the body could stand
and survive, The paroxysm lasted for
more than an hour. After it had passed
he opened his eyes ns one who awakes
from a sound sleep and said to his
friends: “Why, I have beon asleep,
haven't I 7 So that it seemed the ex-
coss of pain snd struggle had really
produced a sort of anmsthesia, and the
case will be discussed at a meeting of
onoof the medical faculties. [Phila
delpaia Proes.
A ———
The United States exported during
QUAIN AND CURIOUS.
The first papermakers were the
wasps,
Petroleum was first utilized by the
Indians,
The Japanese name for bicycle is
jetensha.
The largest cave is the Mammoth
cave of Kentucky.
The first cosl mining was done in
Pennsylvania, 1791.
ihe
The only fresh water fish in
Canary Islands is the eel,
The largest mammoth tusk yet dis-
covered was sixteen feet,
Two Philadelphians are in jail fo
counterfeiting one-cent piecee.
There are 122 different varicties of
roses in a garden at Lexington, Fis
by the Emperor
1530 weighs tween y-
A walch carried
Charles V. in
seven pounds,
The tomb of Mohammed is covered
with diamonds, sapphires
valued at $10,000,000,
and rubies,
The diamond, if lad in the 3an and
then carried into a dark room, shows
distinet phosphorescence.
Excessive rope-jumping cinsed the
of Bessie
girl of Washington, DD. (
The diamond mines of Brazil
15,000,000
at £150
death Woodward, a litte
have
yielded over carats of
stones, valued
A third set of natural
to bless Mrs.
Kingston, Canada.
O00 DOO,
ys VU,
taoyiy
lias
come John Bmith of
Her age is 99,
Thc Roman army
B. . 5 y
25,000
under Augustus,
45
37,000 light-armed
comprised
Lorse
reguaiars,
legions, with
and
The misericorde was a small dagger
with thin blade made to reach the vials
of an antagonist between the joints of
the armor.
Doiling oil, hot water, meited piich
and sulphur were always in readiness
during a medieval
ing forces.
siege to repel storms.
The battle-ax was originally a Celtic
The
sxes as the men of
weapon. aucient Irish carried
i.
other natious car
3 #
ried swords,
A bumpback
ashore in Cr
whale which went
uke's Bay, California, the
other day measured seveuty-eigh. feet
Jong and nive wide.
The Pelew Islands have about 10,000
fertile.
Their situation between the Philipp
inhabitants and are verry
ine
Islands and the Caroline Islands, both
Spanish colonies,
is regarded 28 a sign
that Japan intends to encroach
Spanish posse ssions in the Pacific.
Captain John Cliristianson has made
of
He plunged
Wasktington,
minutes returned with
aud a bucket
the deepest dives on record.
of El
afer
the Je
one
into the waters iot
Jay, and twenty
ad line
from one cof the haiches
of the tug Majestic, lying at a depth
at half flood tide of 196 feet.
parently soflered no grest inconvens
fence,
He ap
People who have taken the Lake
Superior steamers at Port Arthar have
noticed the high, long dike of basalt
that pushes into to water from the
northern limit of Thander bay. The
Indians believe that this ridge is the
pass the spot without dropping a few
beads or a pipeful of tobacco in the
water as an oblation to his spirit.
i seta
He Was a Little Dull.
A Penobscot County farmer. speak.
ing of a former hired man in Lis em-
ploy, remarked quietly: ue's a
pretty good sort of a fellow, John is,
bul he's a little dalla Jittle dali,”
After a moment's further thought he
continued. “It may Lo necessary to
explain that a bit. I'll tell you how
‘tis withhim. I had a pretty nice
field of onions growing, but they
stood a little thick together and need.
ed thinning out. So 1 told John he
might do it. Ho worked away at
them for a day or two and then I wen,
out to see how he was getting on. I
found he had pulled up all the biggest
ones and thrown them away, leaving
only the smallest plants in the rows. I
ssked him what in creation he had
pulled out all the best ones for, and he
said "twas lo give the little fellows a
chance, ‘cos the big ones had crowded
them and they couldn’t grow.’ A little
dull, John is, a little dull. *~ [Lewis-
ton (Me. ) Journal.
A ro I SRR BRA,
He Was Answered,
He~Well, what have you there?
aie TWe ot your eld letters, my
lia —vmoht What's the fen ove