NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Tue total crop of cotton in the
United States in 1791 was only 5,550
bales, and in 1795 85,5606 bales,
Last year's crop reached the enorm-
ous total of 9,476, 435 bales!
Tue fiscal year just passed has been
a bloody one for San Francisco.
More than thirty men and women
were murdered in this city between
the last of July, 1804, and the last
of June of 1895.
ExcrisH is taught after a fashion
in the public schools throughout
France.
a small Picardy village,
herself in a schoolboy’s
ercise, read as follows: ‘The bird
has a nest.” ‘The horse has a
nest.”” Substituting the word ‘‘mare’’
for ‘‘horse’’ the young woman passed
on the exercise as correct.
interesting
English ex-
THERE seems to be an extraordin-
ary craze for cycling in South Africa.
The Johannesburg Star stutes that
cycles are more generally used in
that town than probably in any
other town of similar size in the
worl There are, it adds, some
4,000 machines in use by all classes,
from the head of the mining industry
down to clerks and shop assistants.
One firm have sold 600 in e
two years.
*:
cycling
Ladies
freely, and so
are
are
Kaffirs,
GARDNER M
field, ; specimens
Indian relics that he himsell picked
up and one of the most remarkable
collections of these relics in New
England, if not outside of the Smith-
sonian Institution. Not only is Mr.
usiastic coiiectior,
Sherman an enth
indefatigable
been an
that pertains
pet study, for over a
a century. He is a me-
and has had to take the odds
>
1ds of his time for this work.
SHERMAN, of Sprin
of
»
-
{
Mass, hus 500
but also an explorer of
patience, and has
nivorous reader of all
to ti 3
he omi-
CIliS, 1:8
X .
the oats market, t
y
ing
dealers ats is ¢
siderably
This is «
that according
timates elect
at least
street railway systems
fal nate of the
iimals
More
Was 4 year ago.
hen we learn
to conservat.ve es.
assy
r +
ppianted
Various
ricity has
(000) horses on the
:
su
wil
f th untry.
grain «
is only 14,-
wer, we
©
estir i=
fair to presume
ghty thou-
e trolleys
ats owing
should be
vat shrewd
tial no
using
+
Lae
at
the summer
whiel
mm yaths
wooded
f
cathar
dasines
wy oy
= Po
RE
most as great
om = wy
oe
riTy
!
—
»
DEAr:y
tw
has eve
i
ilar attempted
such a gigantic scale, and, while
Artist Banvard as
the ““Mic Augelo America.”
he will long remer
lovers of the ions, in
or nature man wh
: :
largest painting ever Known.
sin on
t Known
ae.
be
cn
as the
i% a matter
y resuit o
f
of geography,
a transforma-
susceptible
Vous current
equally nervous
current. These facts may comfort
brunettes who the supreme
beauty cf the fair complexion. Dr.
Beddoe made some careful and elab-
orate inquiries, and his conclusions
were published in The British Med-
ical Journal. He examined
women—taking them haphazard from
various classes, Of these, had
ed, fair light brown hair; 361,
ack or dark brown. It proved that
60 per cent of the former were
married, against 70.5 of the latter
and 82 per cent unmarried, against
21.5 per The sum does not
work out correctly, but it must be
supposed that the deficit represents
those who, for one reason or another,
could not properly be reckoned. It
appears, therefore, that brunettes
have a very decided advantage in the
lottery of marriage
¢
’
ite bray the
ner
covet
oy
i 2)
a0
oat
or
is
ont
cen
Tue accounts of an eye-witness of
the hideous cruelty of Chinese to
men of their own race in Formosa
form one of the darkest pages in the
history of the oriental war. A big
powder magazine near Kelung ex-
ploded and scores of men were fatally
or dangerously injured. They were
thrown into the paddy fields, where
the growing rice is covered with
water. There they lay in the broil.
ing sun. and though their female
relatives wailed over them, not one
of the able-bodied Chinese men who
stood around lifted a hand to help
the suffering. In fact, they jeered
at the unfortunates and
when the poor wretches tried to call
The incident is typical of Chinese
concert shown by the nation in the
war with Japan. When neighbors
will not help one another, even when
such help calls for no outlay, what
can be expected of provinces, each
jealous of the other and bound by
none of the principles of patriotism
or honor?
new type of the new woman such as
| different parts of the country.
| heroine of Plymouth Township
Mrs. Frank Freas, who,
{ herself of her gown, leaped
| water fifty feet deep and saved a little
girl from drowning.
ing, she heard screams. These,
found, came from the abandoned
| quarry, where, in water fifty feet
| deep, she found a young Polish girl
struggling for her life. There
no fence rail, rope or anything of the
gort which she could throw to the
Mrs. Freas hesitated but a moment,
and then, divesting herself of her tea
gown, she threw it toward the
drowning girl, but it was not of
sufficient length to reach her.
was not long in considering what
next to do. for she sprang into the
water and swam close to the child
She kept far enough away te prevent
the latter from grasping her, but
just near enough to throw the gown
to the girl to reach it. The almost
exhausted one seized dress,
hen Mrs. Freas swam
oirl trailing
the
ashore
ho
i
the advantage
her civil
of thi
, is by no means
to follow. During
Enghish elections Rider
Haggard was stoned by & mob for no
other offense than his candidacy for
an unpopular side. For the same
reason the wife of a peer was
in her carriage by a ruf
who struck her inthe fi
But ning exhib
brutality com: from Bulgaria.
that the funeral of tl
minister,
Enuwore has
and exp
ization, | ie estimation
lanta Consti
an examrie for us
in age rience, but
tution
tue
| 1, 4
saulted Han,
fist,
seems
Stambulof!
most d
idow
ronsole myself.
to his rotting
funeral was i
ated people o
wut the
Lil
in my own i
I send my eu
body. W hile
progress many
reos
the
rabble to
Stam-
y that the
er were rescued
1
nave iis
Iaw-
"SHE'S PLANTED, BOYS."
The Old Farmer's Object Lesson to
the Newboys.
Hoeorat od
sSURRess
ware
sl
Lite
the ba
1 faded
: A
SWO pe d down
ore }
i 10 Al
to attract Lis attention
neckties, spectacles, collar
lowers and matches.
The old man was
wildered fora time, b he
naturedly and shook the
When they found he was
profitable started in to
# amusement at his expense,
Reuben and asked
about the little bunch whiskers.
Another addressed him as Jasper,
and inquired about the folks.
“Get into the hayseed!
one. :
The old man had retaines
nature through it all
beamed on the boys.
“Come here,
sat down trunk, placed
carpet bag his feet and
picked a wild oat straw off his sleeve
The youngest gathered
and stood in «
The old man placed a wild oat
the palm of his hand and said
“1 may be a hayseed,
learn you boys something.
see that?’
with his
hayseced.
that has been in the country have
ont man
h i
He ol
1
coat tails and pulliy
tuceineg
completely be-
at | smiled
boys
Ull=
they have
ome
One called him
of
boys,’ he said, as he
on on
be tween
in
Do
and he prodded the
finger. ‘‘Well, that
you
Now I'll tell you. The sun
and makes cracks in it.
the oat falls off,
one of the
I'll show you.
Pretty soon
and plants itself in
cracks. How? Well,
looks like the hairspring of a watch?
Well, when the rain comes it wets
that like this,’”’ and the old man
moistened his finger in his mouth
and applied it to the oat. “Now
we'll play this crack in the floor is
the crack the sun makes in the
ground.”
. The old man laid the oat down,
and the boys watched breathlessly.
The little spiral spring commenced
to unwind slowly and in doing so
| rolled the ont over and over till it
| fell into the crack,
| *She's planted, boys,” exclaimed
| the old man, and they cheered him
| lustily as he walked up Market
street,
The avern . rice of pariots in Sout
Americals ) ponte. : b
SUBURBAN ARCHITECTURE.
A Light, Airy and Convenient House
for Small Cost,
(Copyright 1503 by the Co-operative Build
ing Plan Association, N. Y.)
Those writers who take every oc
casion to deplore the tendencies ol
the times, often without any basis
for the complaints, are fond of erying
about the crowding of the cities and
filling of the slums by those who are
lured away from the country. It
preems to be the general impression
that the country fast becoming
depopulated, whiln the slums and
tenements are steadily filling up.
is
Official figures that
however, show that
sas, for while it
ulation
is dwindling, it
slowly, buildin
More
fart
are available,
not the
is true that the |
y
tiiis 1s
in
is steadily
hers.
all
in ot
than
ilding up
important
under beneficient
laws and regulations, slums
1g purified and over crowding
Ss prevented.
tL significant
thin t far 0»
LilAR Snn.Ln
ns, the
decade,
this has been ir
+} '
shown a d
A h«
tration
roomy and
and still within cos t
afforded by avers
brief description is
General dimensions
cluding veranda, 89 ft
use
hat
A350 53
hat cou
person,
ows
Wid
th ro
wile Ke
f
us 10:
th
including veranda, 40 ft
Height of
ax
ado ber
irst Floor
Exterior materials Found
and
over staircase bay, tin
Two coat plaster
soft wood floorir
at ash: bath
kitchen, wainscoted: a
work finished with hard
gables
ie walls,
roof
Interior fini
hard white finish
and trim:
room and
wr wood
shingles;
sh
main airs
inter
oil,
All shi
and gables to be left un
weather stain. All ro
lipped and brush coated moss ;
stain; trim, blinds
white: veranda and
oiled.
I'he principal rooms, their
closets, ete. , are shown by the
plan. Cellar under whole house with
inside and outside entrances:
room with fall nlumbing in see
story; open fireplaces in parlor and
dining room. Numerous and large
closets.
Colors ngles o
sashes and
an
Hoor
81208
'
floor
NG
Hecond Moor
Cost $2,500, not including mantels,
based on New York prices for mate.
A laundry could be introduced in
the collar with set tubs at a very
cost. Bathroom
may be omitted on the second floor
and the space thrown into the rear
room.
Lar~est Clock in England.
The clock in tho tower of St, Paul's
Cathedral, London, is the largest in
the British Isles. The dials, three in
number, are ench seventeen feet in
diameter, and the figures on them
are two feet long.
The project to build an @rial tram.
way at Niagara Falls is likely to be
carried out the coming summer. The
plan is to run a cage like car ona
huge cable, strung across the river
immediately over the falls. It will
be operated by electricity.
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
THE LARD OF MARE BELIEV]
I know of a dear, delizhtful land
Which is not so far away
That may not to its
strand
No matter how short the day
Al, there the skies are always
And hearts forget to grieve
For there's never a dream but
true
wo pail sunlit
Ling
Liue,
coma
In the Land of Make-Belie
Ve.
There every laddie becomes a knig
And a fairy queen each lass
And lips learn laughter, and
grow bright
As the dewdrog
For there's nothing beautiful
and bold
That one may not achieve
% in the grass
prave
reac
r forth |
his a
ainst the
never felt co:
d afterward
animal dropped dead ;
AWS closed Conwy 1iaively
' 8nd
iis
ex and tendons of
Lord Hast
hurried
the
BRE
crushing the 1
majors t
and his brother
ward to congratulate
his coolness and lucky
for the injury to his thigh
ght lameness
the worse for
nus
gh
officers
ings
for.
on
Save
maior
which
Major
his ugly
NS. was none
HOW TO AIM.
Although few boys possess a shot.
gun, and only a small portion of
those are crack shots, doubtless
every boy thinks he knows how to
aima gun. Bring the piece to your
right shoulder. shut your left eye,
take a sight with the right eye, and
blaze away .
But that is wrong; at least Sir
Ralph Galway save so, and he is ac-
knowledged authority. He main-
tains that the use of both optics
open in aiming is by all odds the |
most advantageous, and, indeed,
nocessary to the shooters.
He by no means asserts that only
those who shoot with both eyes open |
are sure and accurate shots, but he
claims advantage for this method |
which are lost in the other.
Among other merits, he says that |
shooting with both eyes open en.
ables the hunter to see on all sides |
at the moment of firing. Even in the |
act of pulling the trigger a shooter
ean realize the presence of another
bird or rabbit close by to his left, or |
coming from that direction, and so |
fire his second barrel far more quick |
ly than he could did he close his left |
eve on aiming. and as a result shut
out all the landscape on that side of
his face from his view.
Te e2nnot also notice if the effect
his first barrel is good. especially
if the game is crossing left,
and whether neces
sary.
iO Bin
to his
another shot is
He can it his
quickly with both eyes open than if
he merely hit, which
principally employed in aiming, and
apt to consider nothing for the mo-
ment but the part it is performing.
It must use but one
eye ir let him bring his gun
up to his game with both eyes open,
and then ¢l left just at the in-
stant of pull trigger.
Ralph further
Galway iu
brilliant marksman generally
game more
uses his right is
a4 sportsman
aiming
ing the
Nir
that a
shoots with both eyesopen, and con-
gequen 1 i Quick thought
:
firine
n rin
if i at
rabbits
California Fruit.
Bequests of Hearts.
8
ugias,
promised to ful-
his soy st, and
i“ vr
iia ered
alter Bri
Ast req ud
having received
yf goid,
an tro
1 + 1 v
He Jed in
il a casket «
his missic
hows
ight with the Moors
his ial
Bruce from his
whe he carried it into the
ranks of the inf crying, ,
ward as thou wont, Douglas
will follow thee! Bruce's heart
afterward recovered by Sir
Lockhart, by whom it was
brought to Scotland and buried along
with the bones of Douglas in the
Abbey of Melrose. When the re-
mains of Bruce were disinterred at
Dunfermline, in 1819, the breastbone
was found sawn through so as to
permit of the removal of the heart.
ver
the thick
having previou
cast t
§ € 1a » {3
it charge
ne hes
breast
Geis Une
% 4
wert
was
Simon
Eating Crow.
“To eat crow’’ is a phrase whose
unpleasant significance has been de-
finitely annihilated. Two
ago plovers being unusually scarce
the woods around Wittenberg,
sands of these delicious birds are
snared for the gourmets in the large
crows as a substitute. It was found
that crow, when young, Iinexperi-
enced and well fed, is a dainty
the flesh white and tender
and of fine flavor. During the last
six weeks this dealer and others who
followed in his wake have been sup-
piying hotel and private tables in
Berlin and elsewhere with young
crows, under the name of plover,
and nobody found out the difference
until somebody told the secret. It
is the rival bird dealer who exposes
the substitute who Is disagreeable,
Sparrows on toast go very well until
are not quail,
VAST HERDS OF CARIBOU.
In the Far North They Are as Thick
as Ever Buffaloes Were,
The Barren-Ground Caribou now
inhabits the Great Slave Lake coun-
and just eastward thereof, not
only in thousands, but tens of thous-
it is almost sal SAY
hundreds of thousands In 1581,
when Mr. Warburton Pike found
himself in the very midst he vast
throng of Caribou that migrat-
southward, he i to
whether the aver
existed In greater number
of it! Vast her
e to
of t
31
were
Wis mov
ing e
tq a% 1
buffalo had
doubt
¢
Ji
fi
te
glaugh
the Lor
id army of gr
Barren Gu
ers Jad
at
BAYE ID
agrourton
ner they keer
ner Laey x i
were
the
that
gome
r passage
th
starvation
a hasty retreq
a commo
the Carib
Barren
vast herd
till they
Caribou,
r
re
Gr
. The
when
were vers
rea
Ass
they 1 in large
tame, and on
found n if right in
with =a
several
VEE
a 3
pick ou
"
san cd itd
conaision
glories
th
tha
tail
numbers
lieve that
Caribou
Beet Sugar Industry.
According to official reports the
production of beet sugar is one of the
ordinarily profitable branches of ag-
ricuaiture. The returns are double
wheat and many olher
crops An acre of beets properly
cultivated will yield about
tons. Eight hundred and six pounds
of beets widl produce hundred
There is a great
deal of sirup residuum, which may
eieven
one
It said that aleohol
can be made ata high profit, which
will add largely to the average net
results from this source. Imperfect
and undesirable portions of the crop
may be fed with great advantage to
domestic animals. According to care.
ful computation it costs thirty dol-
is
the crop into the ground and up to
harvesting point, then something
like eight dollars additional is neces-
gary to gather the crop. Itis hard
work to grow beets. A gentleman
who has made a study of their cul.
ture gives the following facts about
them: *‘This is a peculiar crop. It
eannot be raised in a slovenly
fashion, Itmeans work; it means
intelligent, painstaking labor. It re-
quires a much higher order of invelli-
gence to grow beets than it does for
wheat or corn. Every acre planted
in beets means twenty days’ labor
for one man. If two million acres of
land are needed to supply this coun-
try with sugar, it follows that forty
million days’ labor could thus be
iven to the laborers of the United
tates. It would also mean the trans.
rtation of twenty-six million
pounds freight for the industry,”
¥