PEARLS WITHOUT PRICE.
Two Strings Owned by the Duchess
of Marlborough.
Casual mention has been made of
the beautiful pearls which Mrs. Wil
lam K. Vanderbilt gave her danghter,
Miss Consuelo, when she became
Duchess of Marlborough, but nothing
like justice has ever been done to a
coliection which is undoubtedly the
finest and most costly in the world.
The pearls originally consisted of
two strings, one these being his
toric and a part of the once glorious
strand of Catharine of Russia,
This string about two
long, and while the pearls are
matched, of great size and
of
yards
well
good
wis
of
which Mr. William K. Vanderbilt be-
their marriage.
This now the first
one designed to be close to the throat,
the second and third coils being long
comprises
of a dress, the whole string going
three times around the neck.
larger pearls are without
equals in the world, and measure fuily
a half inch in diameter. There are
These
valuation has recently fixed
making the
dollars,
Many years in
search for these beautiful gems, and
Europe and the Orient were ransacked
in an endeavor procure the
pearls in the world
Many of these larger pearls have also
an historic interest apart their
great purity and value the
choicest specimens of several great col
lections, the pride of many a
the despair of n
ouly parted
through necessity |
These pearls will undoubtedly make
a sensation when worn abroad by the
young Duchess of Marlborough, whose
graceful throat seems jus
be 80 adorned.
As they pass into the keeping of the
Marlboroughs pearls may
come an heirloom in that family. to be |
on
until
broken
were occupied
to finest
from
being
harem,
many an owner, who
with such treasures
or greed
t designed to
these he
passed from one generation
the great
another, once
more and
some other millionaire sets out to make
string
i=
up and dispersed,
another collection for his wife
Senator Quay's Mode! Farm.
Senator Quay
*ounty f;
Beaver from
tepublie
He had
fall, when
pany
then it hi
directi
Friday,
cent
Ings,
not
he
with
under ti
is improved
of eputy Auditor General
the addition
new barn,
mi
by of a
and
magnifi
fences outbuild
This
Lancaster
Commercial-(zazette
135 acres an
Lancaster an
way, midwa)
Mountville
south
One
is
Ou
nity,
by Pennsylvan
which h built a small
by, known Mano:
was taken up in 1741 by ¢
It ren #1 in ti
Hat family
tinuously
as (ilen
ber ain
until last October
was bought for
Friday
1 tit i ww
Mrge stone barn
Senator Quay by
hefare t sist lo
was destroved by fire
Shortly he
the finest and
It has
and a depth of
The
and
stand anywhere on
ace all the horses and
Each stall
with water
second
The new barn is
onvenient
frontage of ninety
ninety three
used
that
lower floor and
feeding
matically supplied
large spring. The
sufficient depth to admit of three four
most
in Pennsylvania
foot
feet basement
as a stable, is so arranged
one can the
is
from a
floor
cattle anton
is of
driven the
time. Two
horse wing on
wagons 1
floor at the
corn-cribs and
ent
same immense
agriculturm!l
in
imple
shed ar the barn
Tricks of Indian Jockeys.
The gambling par excellence among
Indians is in foot and racing
Every tribe of Indians possesses at
least one race pony. (Om this pony the
wealth of every member of the tribe
is squandered when he is pitted against
some other pony. It must not be sup
posed by this that the Indians depend
entirely upon the fleetness of their |
pouy. In fact, it is generally the swift
est pony that loses the race, especially |
If his owner depends upon his speed to |
win. The Indian jockey has more
tricks than were ever dreamed of
even at Guttenburg, and these
are constantly brought into
horse
play
other fellow. The writer
to be participated In by two of the
sorriest looking specimens of
equine family lmaginable.
Probably three hours were spent in
arranging the details of the race with
the various bets, Every Indian was
personally interested, for he had some-
thing bet on the result. The ponies
were brought to the scrateh, haggard
and worn out. The riders had great
difficulty in forcing them to the post,
The word was given, and, presto!
what a change! The ponies went off
with a bound that would have un-
seated the best white jockey that ever
rode a ruce. Over the course they
went, neither gaining until near the
end. As one began to draw a little
ahead, the rider of the other suddenly
let fly his blanket and completely
blinkled the gaining pony. It hesi-
tated and partially stumbled, The
other jockey flew ahead and was the
winner. No trouble ensued over this
sharp practice, but it was taken as n
legitimae piece of work in a ree, The
losing Indian was berated soundly for
allowing the blanket to be thrown, but
the bets were pald with a philosophic
air and another race was arranged for,
Health for Brain Workers.
As a proof that brain activity com-
bined with juliclous exercise and not
and vigorous even beyond the alloted
time, one need only observe the numer-
ous known in the ranks of the
literary world, where both men and
women are bright and active, and
capable of producing work be
| yond T0 and even up to 80 years of
It would be difficult to find
instances in the ranks of
workers such these,
noted, however, that
old brain workers
as have prodded
brains extra efforts
Ci Ses
good
nge.
many
| museniar
should
{ hale, hearty
not been such
| goaded their
i
It
these
is
he
to
of which is growing common
famong all classes of professional peo-
use BO
| other classes, Just as soon as one
| feels the necessity of artificial stimula
tion to keep up with the usual
the discovery has been made, whether
that
{ to extremes in the use of either body
brain. To such the
should be understood
| means of recuperation, and pure, fresh
air, in oxygen, and
possible tonic which
consciously or not, one has been
or importance of
| rest as. 1 nrst
other words,
the only
mbitually
Ozone
can be taken | with safety
Currency of Kora,
At Fusan one sees droves of coolies
coming into the town from adiacent
rurnl
liar
currency
paying
money
villages, carrying on the
th backs
the real
Deen
chairs on loads of the
Of used in
for reli
similar to the Chinese “en
Is strung on a stout straw cord, and
it would require as the
strongest coolle can carry to
3 pay for
an ordinary luncheon at Delmonico's
Bullocks are employed in transport
{ barba
from one section of the country to the
other. A
spend
Ng
® ric medi of exchange
1
common day laborer must
some hours in
off i
nethod of pas
hited the
counting his
wage when
paid
TO See thie
was
coolies who
tossed
received
hit
narked on
handed
of stick wi
Ax
wooden
and f
copper
Iii
quatting agent rom
side received a
African Soap Trees.
I'nlimited prospects of vegetarian
cleanliness are opened up by a report
armed
} professor Viglers sends to
country respecting
Hiss
practically
speculator could indues
fruil
his fortune
Zrow with his name stampes
would be assured
them
An Ingenious Mog.
int
farm
Kenzie, in | win township.
McKenzie turned a
orchard to
ined several times his
A most remarkable exhibition of .
of
Re.
bunch of
eat the fallen
attention was
attracted by the peculiar antics of a large
porker, which stood up on his hind legs
under a particular tree, a limb of which
reached close to the ground with a heavy
burden of fine apples. MeKenzie sought
a position for better observation and dis-
covered that she hog was in the habit of
standing on its hind legs, and. grasping
the limb of the tree between his front feet,
giv.ng it a vigorous shaking until the cov-
eted fruit fell to the ground, when it would
scamper off to secure the reward of its
ingenious efforts,
in a hog 14 shown « the
Frank Mq«
ntiy Mr
} > nt
hogs int
Fence nn
ce
an
fruit
Management of a Husband.
A novel plan for regulating a husband
is that of an ingenious bride. The engage.
ment was a long one; the love letters ex.
changed legion. With
has papered her boudoir.
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ODD PLACE FOR A CHAPEL
OHice Building.
visitor may wander for hours
the wide expanse of the great
Presbyterian Building just finished at
avenue and Twentieth street,
The
over
the en
chapel,
ground
the
the
structure, This Is
which Is situated on
the corridor that opens on Twentieth
street, The chapel extends across the
end of the building, and at the
street end Is a superb gallery. It has
They are
Like the build
ing itself, the room is a fine interpreta
How could be scold about the
| butcher's bill or be sulky even if she did
| give his pet lounging coat to the old
clothes man or put her pug to sleep in his
Sunday hat or cry because he stayed at
the club and forgot to come in until mid-
night, as in his bachelor days?
Aptly Quoted.
“No,” sald the linguist, “we have no
equivalent in the English language for
au revoir. This phmse expresses the
hope of meeting you again, Our good
hye does not. In my opinion, the
French is the better phrase,
leaves it to be inferred that there is a
prospect of meeting yon again
“In other words.” sald a student,
“I'l see you Inter!”
The class tittered and the linguist
did his best to frown, but failed,
Valdos, the great Spanish novelist, 1s a
bachelor of 50 and leads a very simple,
retiring life.
The sentiment of it is purely
the working out being based
The celling is
ing broken below by the heavily bal
ustraded gallery, and from the gallery
two adorned
pure to the
hedght, itself
divided into heavily
moulded in ornamental plaster, and in
the Of
columns
Ionic pilasters
The ecelling
saunre panels
Grecian
rise
is
centre each Is a rosette carry
the sides of the
lamp. Col
walls into im
ing in its heart an elect
room, separating the
mense panels, which are to be the sub
Of off ects inter
Around rans a
highly J ust
in
ject decorative on
he entire room base
finished marble now
the entire white,
the
room is a study
with exception of this massive
marble addition
Att]
the
in
we end Opposite the
gallery and
plat
and
in contre recessed
for
panelled + the rest 1
only
left
ceiling
room
the
plat
The
and
Of
of
form
nstr
two stops and stop col
not counting the ond
between he Keyboards
solo stops eptionally
ps are ex
ve l wondering
MA) Bg
which ti
roblem
nvolved Overcome,
ground
and
ry HUD
S11
rut ! in
stood |
Ings of the
ise] only
various Presbs
the question of permittin
heen
baer
for concerts hns
It would certalt
IM sie
properties
about perfect
Petrifying the Human Form.
¢
+ ©"
il
VEurs
perfect oxidin his ski
been i . r sixty
an extremely
had
tw
young woman who
lied
w heren lvats
of pulmonary tuberculosis
hind wen for some time
unknown, but the descendants of this
reat ft inaster in petrification
it
and
ite
been searching diligently for
found
have
it
restored to
Bavaria
of
has been in
8 OWHers as one the
treasnres of italian anatomical
science, Nixty venrs' use seems to
injnry
hae
wavy
mye caused it no appreciable
fas it is described by a writer as
Inxurious blonde hair
like that of a
ing quite
and soft living person
Died from a Spider's Bite.
Henry Moore, a well.known Maryland
farmer, living near Hedd's Corner, Prine?
George's County, Md., was bitten by a
spider and died from the effects of the
bite. Moore was at his wood pile collect.
ing wood. A large spider ran across his
haods and ran inside his clothes. Moore
feit the sharp sting, but nothing wes
thought of it at the time. Soon after the
flesh around the bite began to swell, and
Dr. Warren was called in. He could do
nothing, however, and the swelling ex.
tended until death resulted. Moore was
sixty years of age
Electric Locomotives.
Several expert engineers connected with
declared that
the recent trial of electric locomotives at
Nantasket Beach clearly proves the su
periority of the system over steam for
short hauls. A speed of sixty miles an
hour has been attained in the testa. A
i
12,000 tons at
the rate of thirty miles an hour. The
system has been in operation near Boston
for some months,
Gi
New Bread Healthful.
ii.
New bread and the morning hot roll
difficult of digestion. However true this
charge may be, the use of new bread ap.
pears, even frog the hyglenic point of
view, 10 have some compensating advan
tages. Dr. Trottzke states that he has
found that new and nnent bread containg
no micro-organisms, as the heat necessa-
rily destroys them, while soon after expo-
sure many microbes, not infrequently pa.
thogenie, are to be found on the loaves,
A MERRY FLOOK.
When the robins and the red-wings are
trooping all together
From out the empty northern woods, in
search of summer wenther,
Then grandma's birds, the children, from
the Enst and from the West,
Come flocking on Thanksgiving day into
the old home-nest.
A THANKSGIVING CLASS.
“Now all of you stand in a row same
as a spelling-class,” said Susie, as they
gathered about her toward dinnertime,
‘Carrie'll be the head and Tommy'll be
the foot. We'll call it a Thanksgiving
class, and I'll give out things and vou
must tell why we're thankful about ‘em.
I'hink of all the reasons you can,
raise as many fingers as you have reasons,
Now, first you can take school.”
fingers.
“Oh, we'll never have time for so many
reasons,” said Susie. ‘Let's uy whoop-
ing-cough."
That was much harder, for the cousins
bad just been baviog it, ail but Tommy
the lucky rogue! Bo one raised
a finger.
‘You're thankful if you don't
cried he, and marched to the
no else
catch it’
other end of
the class
Then they
them dinner, Tommy ran to tell
grandpa that he “was bead in
all lnughed, and auntie called
10 and
the Thanks.
158,
giving Cis
DOTTY THANKSGIVING,
“Oh, ]
Dotty, standing on tipt
cannot wait
We
‘1 want to do w
» spend Fi
“It is not Thanks siving.-day vet, D
aid b “After supper vou
and have a nic
wien
the window,
fo ganma's house 1
:r mother.
¢
0 beg
morning. YOill Wake
hanksgiving.day, and
WaZOD
‘To.morrow is too long
hy don't you mmke it
now?’ :
“Why, I can't make Thanksgziving-aay
suid her mother “Don
1 fe rovernor
Dotty,
girl
RNG TO ei
said Dotty,
He w
mamimnna,
fe
aT |
pone
“hd be
On HT CAH
her litle
ie
B !
fi, came int
it find Miss Dotty
I MAY sup
Ih n
wnt
ise,
he jun
mamma
frightened She
isobedient litt
yoysend
t off
supj
hind es
grandma's hou but she koew
mild never {here
for between the village where they
ind grandpa’s farm were three long miles
ind very thick woods, where it was vasy
ran
thes
fice, and
and
and
¢
His
four
$07
get lost h, how they all aby
king for the child How
papa to come home from his «
papa jumped
AWHY Across hie
sent
y
his b
calling
shouted
OW upon rae
WOKS,
ooking How
the dreadful pews to grandpa that Dotty
who went out with all his hired
nen to help the searchers!
All day long they hunted vain
Ml ow ght lanterns and torches could be
wen in all directions through the woods
and in the meadows. Everybody who
ould out helped, even joung
Poor grandma was not able to
She stayed at home and waited for
ews, and often said afterward that she
wondered how she lived until morning.
There was no thought of dinper., or
urkey, or cranberry sauce, or any other
good thing in grandma's bonse that day,
but as they all ale their breakfasts before
going out to search for Dotty, and, as
grandpa said, perhaps only to find ber
dead somewhere, grandma said
‘For my part, since I cannot do any-
thing else, 1 shall go to church and pray.
It seems as if I must do what I can, and
I believe in prayer.”
So grandma got into a wagon and drove
away all by herself; and people in the
hurch who knew what had bappened
same and shook hands with her, but had
uo comforting words 10 say.
By and by,
were in their seats, they saw a young man
ome in from the pastor's private room
wd walk up into the pulpit. Evidently
the young minister had something to tell
them before services began. And indeed
ne had. It was this:
“My friends, | have something to say
shich must be off my mind before | can
my anything else: You know that I have
some here to-day to preach in place of
rour own pastor, and 1 will say that [ am
rom New York City, and only arrived
ere at five o'clock this morning. It was
wt yet light, but as we drove along the
‘ond I heard un child erying, snd, jump.
ng down, bearl it yet plainer, but saw
10 one until we took the lantern from the
vagon, and then, down in a deep hole,
juite over her head, we found a hittle
wmby girl. She had fallen in, but she was
ot hurt, only Srignensd. She could not
«ll where she lived, nor her parents
mmes, but she said her name was Dotty,
nd she was going to grandma's and was
ost. We took care of her, and she is
wieep in bed now, quite rosy and com.
ortable. 1 speak of her, hoping that
ome of the friends may be abie to tell
vhere she beiongs.”
But there was no need for him to say
aother word, for grandma had erled out:
ole
everywhere he
was lost,
in and
be the
women
Tes,
~
I “It is our Dottyl Thank God for all His
| mercies!” And they were all so glad
that almost everybody was crying, and
| never had there been such a Thanksgiving
service before,
Aud now | leave you to
grandma took Dotty home in
fancy how
the
sound asleep all the way, and how every.
body and how they ull helped
cook the dinner; and whatever they had
to eat, you may be very sure that in that
| house it was a true Thanks zivinzy feast
wHgon,
re oioed,
Written in the Sky.
The virtues of an electrie monogram
signal have always been referred to in
columns. The
typewriter delivering its
by letter, in
these device a sort
message
midalr, or at any
distant point in gigantic characters of
{ light, The
is
Of
miles
‘
ith
observer may be
Message w
euse,
The keyboard
cisely as in an
and its function
direct, the current
distributing
is manipulated
ordinary
is
ty pew
to
through
wires, whi i
in a enable to the monogram or display
frame According to a pr
keys
function, and each one swit
ch
MOTH
alpl
represents
determined
scheme the exercise an selective
leading wires only, whi
ti of
letter of the
i members the m
tuting the
that
By
particular key
reference tHe monogram
lasses tog
Hg qualities
3
roads
cement
» f wu it % £1
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rom sugar
heen
it
stroeessinlly tries
is not all unlikely
i 1
DIreR
Pt
make nu
roads leading factory
molasses ' ® a ten
3 1
(ga Duan grave
up the
the application of
nvel
an extira coat
* i
a5 Ri
and
and
ing romusliod this
the
bard as pavement
ft
road as smooth as a door
The Reindeer's Endurance.
F'. ;. Jackson has marvelous tales
to tell of the reindeer
endurance as animals of draft
velous, indeed, that he must forgive us
for suggesting that he has made a
mistake in his figures
“1 have myself,” he writes, “driven
three reindeer a distance of 120 versts
within twelve hours without feeding
them, and I heard of a case where a
Zirian drove three from Ishma,
on the Pechora River, to Obdorsk, on
the Obi, a distance of 300 versts, with
in twenty-four hours. A reindeer, or
|0 mar
deer
four Russian versts.”
In other words, Mr. Jackson says he
has driven three deer for twelve hours
And the Zirian, with a similar team,
710 miles in twenty-four
hours, The latter, by the way, must
have crossed fhe Ural Mountains and
or two rivers in the bargain.
there must be some mistake,
tradition of a reindeer which once
about 1700, we believe—carried im
portant dispatches for the King of
Sweden 800 miles in fofty-eight hours,
and dying in the service of its King,
is still preserved-—in skeleton form-in
& Northern museum. Bat that, after
all, is only a tradition. Better authen.
ticated records do not give a higher
rte of speed than 150 miles to nine
teen hours, which is considerably
other animal,
Coral, both white and red, is found on
the Florida coast,
ROARED AT BY A WHALE.
Strangs Experience of an Oregon
Sea Captain,
Captain J, A
Portland
the
had an strange ex
NO" maid
of Routh
didn’t
we
wii le,
~yer
(rogsman
last evening, “we
“nconuter sea serpent, but
pert with n
and |
thie
nnd
and |
we
don’t bells anybody
had like before been at
0 nine
like of
never
didn’t
but it
wil.”
since | i
the
ountersd i
the whale be
man bay
years old HOV pr
the whale ere
fore that
t didn't,
four that we a
blow but tHe one we ine
give a
The
Wood Island
under
HOOLIETr WHS miles
making good
FOssn
when
ead,
in
mn sudden comm
rons
board but
in long
known by
quale dress,
he dons the
he
jacka
when yet another change
3 tendd fe ments i%
form of a
monkey” or “a
and
at
“a man.”
taken on
form, moulting takes place
frequently for a the
rapid grown of the body demands ex
pansion in the carapace, A new shel)
within the old and by a
terrible effort which sometimes proves
fatal the crustacean the soft
body through the lower opening of the
shell and retires into some retreat un
til the new suit is hardened, a process
which may last several days, When a
considerable size has been attained the
moults become fewer, for large crabs
have been caught having oysters not
less than three years old attached to
the cavapace. [It just so among
the older specimens of humanity
when a certain age has ben reached
the taste for changes of suits decreases
and we make the same hat and over
coat last beyond one season, amd have
a real affection for an antiquated pair
of shoes,
ofs garb takes place he becomes
hig own estimat
the young
ion
least in
crab has
After
the adult
tine cause
forms one
drags
is
Surgery With a Whip Handle.
—
A piece of cornob lodged In the
throat of a valuable horse in Wik
mington, Del. recently, and during an
attempt to dislodge it with a whip the
latter broke and a plece of it also be.
came fastens) in the throat of the
beast. While endeavoring to. with
draw the piece of whip the attending
doctor had a hand and wrist badly
poisoned by the saliva in the horse's
moth, Efforts to remove the obstrae
tions proved futile, and the horse had
to be Killed.
The Christian Endeavor Society is .
posing to take s hand in politica. e