NOTES AND COMMENTS.
i
The Flemish philologists have in-
recognition of justice both to the re-
guage.
a snelpaardelooszoondeerspoorwegpe-
troolrijtuig. =
Saveral months ago a man attempted
to put a mustard plaster on a horse.
The man is nearly well now, but he
wants $25, 000 from the horse's owner.
There is a veterinary moral in this
item,
Chicago juries are continuing to
give verdicts for large amounts to
persons injured by street ears, One
has just awarded $12,600 to a woman
hurt by the car starting while she was
attempting to alight. Bhe
$40, 000,
The connection between bees and
silk may not be obvious to ordinary
mortals, but Germany has an associn-
tion called the Bienenund Seidenzucht
Verein, which has existed fifty years
and now has 6,135 members,
The Criminal Evidence Act, which
allows defendants in criminal cases to
give evidence on oath if they wish to
do 80, has now been in force for a
year in England. Those who opposed
this measure did so on the ground
that the innocent
witness
prisoner in the
box d *“‘hang himself.”
The prediction does not seem to have
been fultilled,
wi
Many weekly which
have heretofore been designated
religious papers have shown =a
cided tendency to abandon religion as
their distinctive feature and give pl
to a greater number and variety of
secular topics for discussion and com-
ment,
publications
as
de-
Trans-
that of
towns
The white population of the
vaal is about 250,000, or half
Boston, with
one of more
less than 10,000 inhabitants. The
annual revenue is $20,000, 000 in round
numbers, of
salaries a little over 86 000 UG,
18846, the year of the discove
two
*
important
than 50,000, the other of
which there 1s paid in
In
Of §1f
Rand goldfields, the salaries amount
to $250,000.
The f the year's
. ,
latest estimate «
corn
This alone wonld give
nearly 4} pounds of food per day for
a year to every one of our TU, 000,000
people !
while the
111 i
na
2.000, 000, OUD
rican
bushels,
crop 1s
i
nen,
women and
1 of
of
ntmost need
for three pounds a day.
Lewiston Me.
Carl Braun, of
try the experi
According the
Journal,
Bangor,
ment of
He is ex
000 egas ;
hatched
oak le AVES,
in Maine
with ili
this
Cesn
It
has g¢
ed regiments in th
the hands of arn
yoemen, The Hoyal
formerly kn
Royal Irish
two British
the eagles of tw ‘rench
The venth
feat at Barrosa in n., The O
cestershiis iormeny th
eighth
the Peninst
in one of
rear rank
Freuch charge
of weari
back of
Professor
about to
worm farm,
of 150,
rorms to be
fed
a silk
wii be
The
has been tried
BUCCOAs it may be
ove more
to raise silk
before and
tat
is that
tinguisn
a strange stroke of fate
.
iven two of
h army into
an
ne of the
captured
ress m
performed
Eighty-se
Twe
ng a
their shako
the usual ornament,
in front.
According to a dispatch
timore a method of muaking the
dry goods store furnish | gers
to the public has been discovered
savas the Dry Goods Econ ist, It
appears that in the Monumental City
young ladies visit the stores, accom-
panied by a friend with a kodak, try
on rich and elaborate costumes, and
after being ‘‘snapped” in this expen.
sive attire leave with the time-honored
remark, *'Only looking to-day,” The
merchants are said to be contemplat-
ing a fixed rate of charges for the use
of costumes for this purpose. Mavbe
we shall see ads. reading: “Lowest
prices in the city for use of our imn-
ported gowns for photograph pur-
poses.” Or possibly the cloak and
suit department may be required to
loan some of its goods as a stimulus
for the department
graphic gallery.
from Bal
new
Fee ioe
store's plioto-
Louis Windmuller in the November
issue of the North American
family. But it fails often in practice,
In many cases the complaining wife
repents when she sees her husband
it to the court. Under the law
she husband is then discharged and
wife receives back the money,
with which she repays the loan. She
ducts and food adulteration in
instructive manner. In the course of
his remarks he says:
of vitriol is often substituted for
ncetic acid to acidify vinegar; in short
that frauds by which nuserupulous
persons try to enrich themselves at
the expense of the ignorant poor are
too numerons to mention here, Ex-
ports recently have testified before
the Pure Food Investigating Com.
mittee of the United States Senate
that a large portion of all articles of
food and drink used in onr country
is adulterated. ‘They include butter
and cheese, coffee and spices, molasses
and honey. Fish and fowl, meat and
vegetables are more wholesome fresh
than preserved. Boracie acid gener:
ally used for preservation retards
digestion, and prevents it when too
much comes into a weak stomach.
One of the worst impositions is the
admixture of alum in the manufacture
of yeast eakes and baking powders”
A Massachusetts law relative to
non-support cases provides for the
payment of the amount of the fine im-
pored on the husband to the wile,
when the court so dir Theoreti-
cally the law is a good one. in its
gains nothing for support, and the
farcical operation of the law leads to
the early return to the court of the
unwhipped and unreformed husband,
A very interesting instance of the
working of conscience in the vegetable
world 18 brought to the notice of
Harper's Weekly by a correspondent
in Eastport, Maine, who reports that
a neighboring farmer of his acquaint-
ance—Mr, Rice—in digging potatoes
the other day, found of an un
nsual Examining it more
closely, he dizeove red around it 5 most
part a little gold ring or
ented by a pair of hearts, This
it had been lost fifteen
before by the farmer's wife,
at the time had
she lost it in a straw bed.
presumably found its way
le, thence to the
finally
remained
one
:
suapo.
contracted
ain
BEQelns,
years
whose
Da
supposition
un that
1 0e 8
manure-
o the potato field,
for years, until
the attention of
t an conscientions
pie,
There
inaily cle
: 3 13 Vig
ywotato, who devoted bis ile to
mn to
it
tut: it
ti s lawful
owner,
Keen and general interest will be
felt in the party of Chicago University
students who are soon to seek sociolo
information in the mountain re
ns of Kentucky.
field is a ri
all
wisdom will be most impressive,
but we &
vestioat
v wy }
SICA
or
gt Bevond question
the
learn
thie
there is to be learned there
ir
ravely suspect that their in
be brief
exciling than proanetive,
ons will
The Ken-
intaineer knows and ob
tality: o
tality; o¢
tucky mor
serves | nd
Lg
her,
on of in-
students woni«
and genes
Ho
ss of
New
the
» of a saint, i the
not saint
Kentuck
company
preferably
ind hi
none
an
are
3 ;
tudent of
too sale
! BR
the publi
pris
aw
ners
1% experimented
inonth, i the
+ mile of rebuilt road
its are
th of » anew
eaching mo
sich lease
inty and kee ps the vYagr:
gh the publ
istastefnl
in Ve
® {
4
rR
dinoper.
ing clothes
tiireea
i t hha
milk, butter, and oth
cles not usnally fonnd in a prison
They are in charge of a deput
who works -as hard
who exergises no more authority tha
the average road-boss—very much
less than some pipe-line contractors,
This deputy is armed only with »
His prisoners are
shackled in any way. While enroute
from jail to place of duty they straggle
along in a crowd like other laborers,
as they do,
5 1)
an
Iver,
rev
or lock step,
people know that they are prisoners,
The Death's Head Mon.
1s ty 3
intterflies
mean much the
The variegated ones,
bright coloring, fortunate,
pecially if futtering near the wayfar
But the bronze butterfly, or moth,
is not Incky. Of all the race, however,
may
way of auguries,
of
ure oR
or
‘death's
a
cottage
Enown the
This moth is
flying Into
for the eandle,
which doubles
It ils worth recall
is commonly
head moth.”
and,
rooms, and making
often extinguishes it,
the terror of omen,
ix
guries which in many placeg accom:
pany this moth's appearance, the fear
it excited in parts of Poland in 1824
It swarmed in the potatoe fields—these
and jasmine plants being its favorite
haunts—and at dusk into open cottage
widows,
The noise peculiar to the moth be
came to the terrified peasantry a voice
of anguigh, and when it flew into the
Hight and extinguished it they antick
pated war, pestilence, hunger and
death to man and beast: in fact, the
wildest horror, as deseribed in con
temporary accounts, oversproad in that
year a very wide district. Even now,
however, so many decades later, and
in much less impressionable rural Eng.
land, the aspect of the moth and its
sound are geen and heard with dread.
From the yellow and brown tailed
moths, too, similar, though less terri
ble, omens are deduced. Possibly the
markings on the back of the death's
head moth, which are sufficiently start
ling to a nervous person or Invalid
when unexpectedly seen, account in
come degree for the ill omen which its
man's Magazine.
$50,000 a Year.
George Odom is only 16 years old,
but his earnlogs amount to many thou-
sand dollars a year, He is the light.
weight jockey who has been engaged
during the next three years,
aually, in addition to which there is
the regular $256 fee
landed and $10 for every loser.
at the same time, can
owners, and such is his skill
traing him, that George
make more than $50,000 a year,
Many a boy will envy jot of
George Odom, and, perchance, strive to
emulate him, but fet
such boys stop and think of life
this jockey leads, When, mounted on
a powerful race horse Mesmerist,
voung Odom canters the track
invariably a and
pity heard the gramd stand,
I'he eyes of every woman are turned
on this little fellow a baby face,
the
expects
the
doing wey
the
before
Hike
Ott
amazen
on
gasp of ft
in from
with
that
There
horses in the with «
of jockeys, led and un
whose object is to get Odom
gainst the
from
in
and wonder is he can even
maintain his seat, are, perhaps,
fifteen
binations
prin ipl ,
in a pocket
Hn
or crush |
i
ut th #4 Ix not to be
winning. 1}
timidated and
of persons
chance
the
any
over
often
Fhousands
country are betting on his horse,
tir + rider
he nt
ail
most
nes only because Odom |i
nstruct
hazards, the
il riding
to the
anger 1 turd
I'he jockey must gt his horse
1 ye iim on be
tail and if
mount
here
©“
IH
wooden
n boy often
days ane
Ol
George
£ ion
ig world Knows
He
York St
His Wealthy Wile.
$151 % BIL eT
After
¢
I was payil
tha i atten ana
their talk--that is, she
Her tong raitisd (ncessal
continued
ie ut
hed out
vanted to
boot ned 1
Jiked
her gloves
sha had
know he
at
if her
were no
"
small
to
little gnch a
hand
fitted,
Suddenly there an
ring: they had forgotten
fare, He hurriedly
pockethook and began to sean h
coin, but found pone, With a
movement she placed a ten
in his hand,
“It is a pity If my
my fare!” he exclaimed
he dropped it into the box
giggle. “That's
14 oer
aree
it was so hard for her
{00
be
perious
im
was
his
a
swift
produced
for
cent pried ©
wife has
pettishiy,
to pay
as
She gave a cogquettish
what you get by marrying a rich wo.
man, my dear fellow.” she said
had struck him and glanced up at me
was looking out of the window. Not
for the woman she
volubly,
As
chattering
punishment,
was again
ably not even aware of the stab she
had inflicted. New York Herald,
flaking an Impression.
“1 was much amused one day about
a year ago, when I was on my way to
Washington,” remarked a Detroiter
not long since. “1 had finished a good
meal in the dining car and was enjoy-
ing myself in the smoker. Pretty soon
two young fellows came in who ap.
peared to me to be college undergradu-
ates returning to their alma mater.
They began to talk of a visit they had
paid to Washington during the Christ
mas holidays a year before, and wege
recalling incidents and episodes of the
trip. They mentioned the name of a
Congressgaan from a Western State
and told of the good time they had
had at his house. One of them was in
especially good spirits when speaking
of the Congressman’s daughter,
“You know, 1 had a great time with
her,’ he sald, ‘and flatter myself that
1 made quite an impression. 1 guess
she hadn't seen much of society, for
1 just waded in and took her off her
feet. 1 didn’t do a thing but take her
to half-a-dozen “functions” and I guess
1 made her think she was the only
girl there was He sald a good deal
§
- RR -
more in the same sirain, all of w
I couldn't help hearing. The reason it
interested me was this. I knew the
Congressman and knew his daughter
quite well, She was about 30 years
old, almost ten years the senlor of the
| young fellow who had ‘taken her off
i her feet, She had spent four years in
| New York society, two years in Lon-
{ don, where she was a favorite, two
{ years In Chicago, and had been for
four years one of the most popular
| young ladies in Washington social cir-
{ eles, 1 rather imagine that there were
| two playing at the game of making the
gather think of being the ‘only one there
was. "~Detroit Free Press.
A SELF-BAKING SECT.
The Begonuy Religion insures a Hot! Time in
Life to lis Vofaries,
themselves
the
thusiasm and self
sect of Russi:
and
Tiernowo,
They
thou
Baking
is
in huge, roar
Ovens climax of emotional
§ iT
siaerilio
They
in
of nn siran
+ the |
poceg
11K,
they liv
ny,
near T
are pot
gh they hav
a religious movi
in Russia,
amd economical
The Boer and His Rifle
In the war of 1ST0.80 the Boer
played deadly accurn
but their
ferent from the arm
The rifle of 3
built on the lines of the Bi
It was a han
pounds
half.octagon barrel and a shotgun butt
The ealibin 45,
weighing from 405 to 450 grains,
iwi
wenpo
twenty
8 5 1 & ¥ Pe] ne
ni. imeriess arm of about
nine weight, with a 30-inch
stock with a
bullet
Ihe powder charge nines in
ia drawn The
| rifle was sighted ap to 2.000 yards, Be
was
ry
Bi
was
brass cartridge case
| sides the usual xtationary sight it had a
i reversible front
| ble of being used as an ordinary front
that Is, a sight capa.
and by a single motion it was
ad
ered with a ring to keep it from being
knocked off. On an casxion where
| particularly fine shooting was demand
| od this front globe was further cover.
sight
changed into a fine pinks ight
gist OY
Li
lod with a thimble-shaped hood, shad.
ing it perfectly, The usual standing
rear or fixed sighte were on the bar.
rel, while on the gun's grip was a
turndown peep that was regulated by
a side screw to an elevation of 2,000
yards, The peep and globe were
sever used under 700 or S00 yards,
Date-tirowing in the Southwest
If present advices are correct anoth-
or important industry, that of date
growing, will shortly be inaugurated
in this country. Through the efforts
of our Agricultural Department the
date tree of Algiers has been suctess-
fully transplanted and successfully ac
climated In Arizona, and the beginning
of another profitable industry has thus
been made, It is predicted that in a
few years American orchards will
supply the entire home demand for
dates. It would seen that not only
Arizona, but New Mexico, the “staked
plain” region of Texas, and consider.
able patches in California and the In.
dian Territory afford the peculiar con-
ditions of soll and climate necessary
for the date. It does not appear to
thrive In regions where the humidity
Is so great as in our Gulf states. A
single tree yields from 100 to 400
pounds of dates per annum.—~Brad.
street's, :
{
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. |
grow, 1
They hang by their tails in a row,
If they happen to fall
They don’t mind it at all
For they land on their feet, as you
know,
{
Ihe fish swim around in the sky
With pollywogs woggling by,
While frogs hep around
On the clouds to the sound
Of the lobsters devouring mince pie.
I'he birdies all swim in the ses
And the wasp and the bungleiug bee, |
If yon dangle a worm
With a wiggly squirm
You might catch a chickadee-dee,
[t's strange, but the apples and pears
Live In
houses with earpetsand eligirs,
Ther go rolling around
With or
And
i
£ sound
thum
oO lick i
umping Hii
Alhert W, Smith,
“——
AR ELEVHRART
fitted ving
had a strang
Her il
in the
the morning.
ere!
Rrew
Yery
and
Arm
took
would have been a nuisanes but for
Tramp, who kept as good watch over
him as the stray balls and missing
hints, shoes and coats,
Twice Tramp just escaped the
ponodman’s wagon, and it was then
the boys clubbed their pocket-money
for him, and gave him his
name of Tramp During school
hours Tramp played with Curly, or
found him waiting at the steps where
the boys left the street-car coming
from school.
They took him inke fora
swim Saturdays, when they
were too busy Tramp went by him-
gelf, Now { lake, althoug
lovely to look at, had ite dangers like
i i t lnkes
nade
he bay, and
ocean, When
if around the
3 1
vroad, slippery
to the
On or
iis jittle i
iw
y 341
} keey
Re
it,
! Bo
were
ff, and
: was bring-
rat
ras,
Eome
wien ha
sre them,
tie boy.
him
y deep 1n the
tried
Hey
CANES AGAIN IN FAVOR
JENNIE CREEK.
sud . y
ALeEn YOAre of |
emer ol
iety of Fran
, of Mill
lage i
ford-Del- |
3 1
he Black
fusing all over-
‘
esides within
where her
prevented a dis
She was then
vered
ge burning, snd hear
s of a passenger engine,
She disc
ing the whis
whipped off her little red petticoat,
and running up the track,
ing it. The stopped the
train right on the brink of the chasm
awaiting him and The
little girl was overwhelmed with at-
tentions. Several French noblemen
touring the country were passengers
on the train, They her name,
and through them the five-pointed |
solid gold star, which she now wears, |
was conferred upon her by the French
Legion of Honor, and she temporarily
became the best know: little girl in
the world, She and her foster par-
ents were entertained at the world’s
fair by the French people, and they
have received invitations to be the |
guest of France at the Paris show |
next year, but will not go. They are |
common village folks, modest and
honest, and they do not care to be-
come conspicuona The little girl is
very proud of her distinction and her |
star. She has received many presenta
from France, where she is better
known than here.
Ean
Way.
engineer
his charge.
%
100K
.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD DOG.
Following the boys on the heights
of Ashland yon will always see a mon-
grel dog of a dirty no color, but wear-
ing a beaatifal silver collar,
The boys cannot remember just
when they began to notice the dog
ever at their heels, He was neither
big nor little, light or dark, smooth
nor carly, Lut just betwixt and be-
tween in all things bat his disposition
which was perfect
When the stranger first joined them
he was driven off with many a kick,
cuff and cross word; but soon made
himsel! so useful in finding lost balls
and ing ages that the boys
grew {ond of him, and were Yeudy to
quarrel for the privilege of taking
him home for dinner and the night.
But “Tramp” was so impartial there
could be no quarrels. If the boys
forgot whom he sjayed with last, he
never did, but went frisking home
with a different boy each night.
The boys had another follower,
‘Ourly” Wilson, aged five, who
, i= regarded as al-
ispensable feature of gen-
both young and old. Some
think of carrying
lays would feel ill
ninus the walking
pars ago there ex-
Everybody carried
e eraze died away. Of course,
there who continued the
use of the cane, but the comparison in
point of numbers was striking.
Large international events
seems to stimulate the popularity of
The Centennial Exposition at
Philadelphia, in 1876, and the Colum
bian World's Fir ai Chicago in 18585
bootaed the use of walking sticks con-
The Paris Exposition is
probably responsible for the revival of
the fashion. Dealers attribute
the increase in business to the fact that
a large majority of men attending ex-
hibitions of the character mentioned
fnvariably provide themselves with
Ag a souvenir the walking:
stick i& generally a large seller.
A cane much favored this season is
made of either penang or partridge
wood. These glender, rigid sticks
promise to supplant the popularity ac
corded bamboo and whangee canes last
spring. Penang and partridge woods
are of fine grain, of dark brown color
and are highly polished. Silver and
gun-metal trimmings are quite effec
tive. Inlaid work is preferred to ap
plied ornamentation. Curved natural
bandies are the mode for canes made
of penang, partridge and congo woods,
The Euglish furze is a heavy cane,
and is, as a rule, expensive. Rhinoce-
ros horn and ivory handles show to
good advantage when banded with ine
laid silver,
A novelty furse cane has a handle
resembling the head of a golf stick, but
made of ebony and rimmed with gold,
reproducing in effect the brass-rimmed
golf club,
Black nnd white thorns share popu:
larity with the welchsel canes. Hick
ory sticks are also winning some atten
tion.
Light.colored flexible canes are done
for, at least for this season. The vogue
rim to Wear a
1 "® Yaa
HH Who
would not
canes on business
at ease
stick
isted
Ghee
on Sunday
About
A CAN Craze
Th
wire
y
1
hve ¥
#0 Me
scale
canes,
Cane
CANesS