NEWS FOR
THE FAIR SEX.
FEMININE TOPICS.
kerchief Drapery Corner on Ostrich
Plumes Unusual
Walking Shoes.
It is doubtless very wise and sensible
~
i
to wear broad-toed, wide-soled
boots, but fashion now that
ghe shall only wear them at such times,
For ordinary wear the
rapidly disappearing. and the medium
toe. known as the “opera,” has taken
its place. Heels are perceptibly higher
than last :
cise
dictates
square toe Is
year.
An Expensive Fad.
A well-known leader of fashion
making a quaint little collection of tiny
dressed dolls that are medels of the
frocks wears herself. When the
dressmaker sends home a new garment,
tiny model on!
be perfect,
and
diamond
1 A
is
she
she duplicates it by a
a doll, Everything
even down the real
sliver or gold buttons
buckles. The dolls
glass in their
room, with Jue
underaeath,
must
lace
and
ranged It
to solid
are
dressing
awner's
f their
Of
CAse
date creation
Handkerchief Drapery.
How many waists one sees made up
with what handkerchief
drappery, most becoming to
wit)
i
known as
is
or
-
The drapery
and abont
the r
ill-developed chest,
comes from the shoulder the
whence i§
Che
chest exactly
armhole
like a
on fue
spreads something
bolero. fullness Is draped
in the middle, and
apparently tied there with a neat bow
knot. This
as the drape:
the end. |
the middle of
bow
firmly
place where the hooks and eves meet
“The amount of fullness in handkerchief
« not the case, however
ie « stitched at
in pleats
3
3 is tx fare . 14
doth Look foget . 1
ends
waist, and the neat
is made separately and stitched
on afterward 10 wmeeal
1 s i
guiated to mage
sel 1
ae
drapery ig carefully re
the best effect A
have profuse drapery al
meagre outline of Bet
development will require less fulness
Alas the wit
She is not allowed by her dressmaker
to wear the pretty “handkerchief drap
ery.” This is used in wash mater als as
well a= in woolen or silk good.
thin woman sh
to conceal
her breast,
for sister h embonpoint
Corner on Ostrich Plumes,
Women with their hearts sel oD
trich-feather boas and hats trimmed
with the plumage of the awkward Afri
can bird will grieve learn that at
the very time when the Boer British
war has shut off the African supply
plumes an American Ar
zona has contrived to effect corner”
on the ostrich-feather product the
United States, “The mean old thing’
has bought up all the purchasable
triches in the United
as
to
of
#
resident of
a
of
as
States and made
Contracts OW Dners
birds”
ery product at stated intervals. There
have been four profitable ostrich farms
in this country, and the Arizona specu
lator has bought all their birds, and
when he calls the roll on his ranch
near Phoenix for the spring picking
there will be S00 “feather factories”
present. Hitherto imporiation of
ostrich plumes from South Africa has
amounted to f350.000 annually. The
war brought the available supply down
ninety per cent. and the wary Amer
ican saw his chance for becoming a
sure enough ostrich-plume octopus,
What he will do to the prices remains
to be seen, but it is expected thai the
picture bat and the diaphanous boa
chiefly constructed of the curled and
dyed plumes of the big bird will be
3 ' ¢
with the 0X show
s0 that he is to get their feath
the
or ermine. Chicago Record,
Unusual Occupations for Women.
cupations for women. One is a
penter, the other a boss painter,
car
|
:
i
er Is It a flat lining, for
bon are superimposed one upon the
other, the ends pulled ont softly and
stretehed to hide the straw brim, as
well as to overlap the under loop, just
as a rose petal rests on petal, yet more
opened In a freshly-opening flower,
Two shades of a color or two colors
are combined
often a “hou
four pale
in the same bow,
quet”
Very
of tints is used, or
together. The tender,
and opalescent hues are used as under
combined
fully. Another advantage of using «ey
eral in this
mits the hat to with tolleties
of different hues, if the
ing were of a single color, espe ally if
thiz be a “pronounced”
same hat
match,
colors bow Is that it per
be worn
whereas,
the
color, then
cotnmits to
The stretehed-out
under-brim
you a
bow is
decoration,
those of former seasons, Taffeta rib-
for these
more modish than
now. Philadelphia
best medinm bows, being
satin ribbon just
Record,
A Story of the Stage.
An interesting story of the
just life
developed in the of
sister,
in
lost
heard
opportunity of
from
twenty-eight years,
The famous
engagement in
incident ocourred.
de
Years
meeting a
whom she had not
an
when
that
her mother,
Mme, Nevada
hind
ving which
glliing
Ohio
Sens
singer was
len eland,
it
of
the
ever since the pth
twenty-eight
AKO
has been keeping a diamond
from Ler mother on oer
th
older sister,
she received
deathbed, w the © hat it be
equest |
given her i.
Mme, Nevada's now
Laura leks, of West Brookfield,
I'he clerk tl hotel whe
Nevada
Ly three wornen, who asked
Ne was The
explained that of
Mme
to her
The singe i
Luo
to Ura.
Ars
hilo,
Mme
veated
Mme
finally
sisted =
of
Of i
$i. re
i rs
st ng Ww
niers
if
wis ay nx
aida n woman
number
Mrs,
one taser
Was Nevada's sister leks
yent infers rooins (Oo wir
ip
ise
nn
Ne
her ibaa ind
awersnl the
greeted aller without
$ wlan
an
Free
ihe!
of
idea the relationship existing
ween them Exp anations
made. and Doth sisters were mnch af
fected
of
Fight years before the death thet
n Michigan, M leks left
Mme, Nevada with
when died
was
hey
her
address
mother 5
Lae mae Was
The
known,
mother she
f the older sister fot but
pevertheless not
Mrs.
gave
aie Was
Wisom. the mother, died,
FEmma the diamond ring
which was received by Mrs
Before
she to
icks, Soon
Nevada
musical
Known
had
after her mother’s death Mme
went abroad to continue her
studies. She lost the last ad
of her beard
years, It
Mme. Nevada
eke, her
a
sister and
all
since
Mrs.
an
Years
dress
of
fifteen
nothing her in these
was Years
n Cleveland
lias
for
rer sis
ter, been living farm near
there many Several days
that
0 8 con
ale
read
Nevada
ago
Mme
cert, and she forthwith
call on her and effect
her came two «
in announcement
would appear
determined t
With
Atlan
ih
i reunion
sf her neighbors
ta (Ga) Constitution
About the Figure.
A woman who desires to make the
very most of herself should study her
figure Rhe find out
good points, its better points, its bad
I
own should
points and its very bad points.
She should then take it fn hand and
by means of exercise, diet, gymnastics,
a good tailor and a
maker, set herself up to t
sible advantage.
A woman can really with
her figure than she can with her face,
If inclined to be too stout she should
from
that encourages embonpoint, such as
late hours, overindulgeace at table and
leading in general a lazy, indolent ex-
first-class corset.
he Dest pos
do more
these sacrifices she must say
good-by to beauty of form. She will
then join the overflowing ranks of wo.
lives,
The father of the girls is a carpenter
and conceived the idea of bringing his
daughters up as though they
boys, giving them men's trades.
sides building bousex, hammering and
|
:
of 30 make no further pretension
to beauty of figure,
If on the contrary, her trouble be an
unsightly leanness of body and limb,
which makes it impossible for her ever
gown or smart tallor frock, she should,
Elizabeth Slocum plans every detail of
architecture,
|
sinm, set about developing her form to
the utmost. It is ber duty to cover with
built into the wall.
ers and closets on the other side are
hidden in lke manner, and It 1s a sime
ple matter to draw back the curtains
and transform the place into a com-
fortable bedroom.
hss
On the Under Brim.
* A new method of facing the brim of
a dress hat, to be worn at a lawn or
garden party. is to do away with the
usual underbrim facing which was
once conventionally supplied in yelvet,
silk or lace. This new facing does not
go all the way around the brim, but
manages to frame the face in a manner
even more becoming than the old style
fiat facing. It Is nothing more nor less
than a ribbon bow, voluminous as to
loops, and stretched out sideways so as
to face the front and side of the hat,
always lntervening between the head
and the straw brim and crown, Neith.
not my nature Lo be fat” “They appear
never to have learned that it is of the
vory nature of a human belong to pos-
sess a healthy, well-developed body.
When they lack this gift of nature,
their birthright, there is something
wrong somewhere, They should find
out what it Is and remedy it
Bits of Femininity,
Coatees of white tucked taffeta are a
late luxury in carriage wraps,
Gold ribbon belts are In revival and
look very smart on pretty figures,
Yokes on skirts, or the simulated
yoke, 1s a fashion increasing in popu.
larity.
White crepe de chine over a colored
silk foundation 8 a uew effect in a
stock,
Pale blue Is bound to be the color of
| the ye
cloth to gauze,
White corded wash silk
with ont lining are taking
of the pigue stock,
made
place
ties
the
Fine beads, sewn on at regular inter
vals all silk waists, of
the Parisian fancies,
over are one
flowers are very artistic,
A and
of serim,
Inte fetching
regular
frock
OTM,
summer
curtain
tussian lace,
| is
| trimmed with
{ Flchus, berthas, boleros and chem-
igettes of duchesse lace, are again be
ing pushed to the fore of fashion.
Long coats of black net, lined with
| white chiffon, among
{tions which the new wraps suggest,
are the fascina
Nhirring for
skirt
is steadily
and
It is especially. in evidence in the new
thin gowns,
A particularly smart short waist Is
linen, trimmed bands of
he same, black or
advancing
{ both bodice ornamentation,
| of
jt
white stitching,
“orn with
coversd with either
Machine stitching has lost none of its
| popularity, and as a means of decora
| tion will
be more generally employed
!
| than ever before.
The daintiest of silk
| made up for summer wear are of peao
the waists
de sole. with hand-embroidered
gar
| lands or trailing vines in natural col
| ors,
The use of velvet ribbon as a form of
decoration continues to grow, and now
dea has also
tty eff ect
that the embroidery pet
vaded them, some pre %
are
thus obtained
LOST $10,000 BY SNEEZING
Detective ia a Closet Couldn't Keep It Back
snd the Robbers Fled.
While th
:
eo detective were sitting
on
“
“
arvumd we office wa for the
ithng
geant to issge assignments amd make
detail men, an old sleuth,
whose hair has grown white with sha
dowing eriminals, suddenly gave a
lond sneeze that made the incandescent
Hight
“tireal
vibrate
star.” exclaimed one of the
younger bromsd, “you are the most vo
1 ever heard”
tell
ciferous
“Yeu:
boys"
Slee rer
let
replied the
something,
“That
me Blois
me you
old deteetive,
| speeze of mine once cost
The expressions of incredulity apon
the faces of his hearers caused the old
detective to tell the story of the costly
SNe me,
“Mavhe
sald, “about the
notified back 'n
heading
robbes! a bank in the East,
going
and divide the spoils,
of vou remember he
pn Atlanta being
the SOx of two bank
this way. They had
and the re
t Atlanin
15
having
some
police
robbers
port was they were
16 eel
to avoid
work
the
detailed
wasn't
after
i
and
separa ted robbery
wns io on
§
suspicion.
he case, it davs
mans
fore 1 had spotted a suspicions strang
or stopping at a beanding-house in the
iy. a close watch on | and
x fe
I Kept iim,
another
and
1 knew
aml that to secur
w days later suspicions
character turis«l up went to the
house to board, the men
“ame
were only suspected ¢
i
nen
evidence upon which to conviet (hem
i :
{wonld have to see them together
divided money,
discuss their plans when they thought
they the or hear them
| themselves unnoticed,
“Re 1 arranged with the landlady of
| the boarding house,” continued the old
detective, lock me in the
opening into the room which my birds
{occupied, 1 was afrakl not to have the
closet locked, because the fellows might
pried
“10 closet
have around and opens the
to be sure they alone, |
| was to stay in the locked closet antil
| the men held their meting, and as soon
i ax they left the landlady was to harry
into the room and release me. The rest
| would have been plain sailing.
“Well, the fellows met, and [ was in
| the closet all right. | heard them talk
| and discuss the division of the money.
| Then at a most (tical moment 1 felt
that 1 was going to speeze. 1 did every:
thing in my power to keep the sneene
| down, but the dust in the closet had got
| in its work. and I gave one of my reg-
| ulation sneezes, greatly Intensified be-
cause 1 had attempted to suppress it,
The jig was up. I heard two men flee.
ing down the steps, I knocked on the
door and the landlady let me ont after
what 1 thought was an interminable
wait. The men escaped from the city,
and so far as 1 Know were never
caught. There was a reward of $10,000
for them.” Atlanta Constitution.
closet were
The “ Dresser” and ~ Barker.”
Newsboys and the unoccupied ur
chins of the street ply a profitabie
trade by calling carriage numbers for
tips after evening performances at the
Metropolitan Opera House. All men in
conventional evening dress, or “dress.
ore.’ as the carriage-calling cult terms
them, are open to attack,
“Here you go, mister,” said a youth-
ful “barker” to a “dresser” on a re
cont evening. “lemme call your car
riage. Gimme your number, and I'll
have your cabby here in two minutes,
Aw, g'wan. Lemme do it." he plead
wl,
“i have no carriage,” answered ihe
“dresser.”
The barker was disgusted.
“Lost me good wind on you, sure”
he sald. “Why don’t you wear jump-
ers, or how is a feller goin’ to tell
who's good and who ain't?’ New York
Commercial Advertiser,
A monthly German periodical is now
issued in Japan.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
A
cussed
dis
ques
in Brookiyn
meeting the
demoralizing.
church society
at a recent
“Which 12 more
fashion or tobacco?’
tion,
The total number of men available
for military duty in the United States,
but unorganized, is 10,845,150, and the
strength 1045,
aggregate organized is
Sui,
Russia. It 1s sald, will fall to Dieces
of her erities seem
to teach her
feat,
inclined, however,
the lesson of a great ue
he State Superintendent of Schools
lowa says that the lowa
teachers are paid lower salaries than
in any other of the States of the Middle
in school
West, excepting lio,
The farmers of India are
to adopt new An English plow
firm
heavy
ideas,
sent seni
all
but did not succeed in selling a single
implement,
i"
over
recently
CX pense the country.
ad
Ai
though two Americans who held such
There is no demand for foreign
visers to the Korean government
posit on have recently led, their places
have been filled and there is no further
demand for assistance of that Kind,
utilized
Bilbao to 1
for the generation of 2.800 horse power
near Spain, are "oe
g a rallway
wiles long, te ld built
Zamarragsa
to be employed in operatin
thirty-seven wr
the
Yumsgn
wr
tween towns of and
Old pain is
and
real
The higher classes of machinery
v4 |
{
tools xed n Russ are from
Britain and the nite
3
HON ROTTS ie
jie]
oevele factories
' $
SHOT, iC
A
lent livine in
fay or
ing
Vermont girl
New
girls
Yi ity Dy
how
teach
ether make bread
if the girls taught will only con
to make bread after ter
matrons 1
thes
come tie it} have
been mutual
It
newspaper correspondents have either
is said in London that twenty.one
died by disease or been killed in South
Africa since the war bgan, and that as
many more are disabled ax the result
of wounds or sickness. News {rom the
firing Hoe costs life as well asx money.
American coin does not circulate in
Silver dollars sell by weight as
bulk silver, and gold dollars are bought
hy jewelers at the metal value. Banks
pay less owing to risk in shipping the
Americas
Pri at
to less
China
to Greenbacks bring a
the than
cost
coin
higher banks gold
owing {
of transportation
»
L
iver
one
faizaran,
the
puilding this
Ihe waterfalls of the
West
$
ite
Virginia of most
wu
ne States in railroad
here twenty
ier
ng
fear are non wine
and the mileage under
to SHH
railroads
roads build
constroct miles
About 22M
of
ion amounts
#
miles of
h X55 have
are in
operation Ww hie wenn add
el in the last nine years
It was observed at the first perform
ance of Boase’s band in the American
that
audience
of
section the Paris Exposition
the enthusiasm of the great
of Americans that gathered to hear it
did not Lreak all until the
“take Walk” and other rag-time pieces
were played. Then the American col
ony became delirious
whooped and demanded encores unad
the band was exhausted, The French
men present couldn't understand it
bounds
Glasgow, Scotland, bas erected =a
a cost of SK5.000, for the accommoda
tion of motherless families or for small
labor and must leave their dependent
offspring at home, It i= not an orphan
sense of the word, since the working
receive
in a recent article in the New York
Herald Dr. James J, Walsh of the city,
makes the assertion that the wide.
spread use of automobiles as substi
ure to the general health of the city.
Much contagion is spread, he says, by
the blowing about of «dry manure,
which in its moist state is used by all
sorts of insects as a receptacle for
their eggs. The bacilli of tetanus is
often carried to cities in bay, which is
te basis of all equine food. Numerous
other disease bringing microbes wer
traced by the worthy doctor directly to
the erstwhile “best friend of man.”
———-——
Tae Juvenile Court of Chicago, dur
ing its nine months of operation, has
considered the cases of 1.285 delin-
quent children, 765 of whom have been
paroled and placed In charge of proba
tion officers. To give a boy another
chance in hix own home, to help him
begin again a normal boy's life is the
work of a probation officer. To this
end the officer seeks to establish cor
dial relations with the parents of the
paroled boy, to slip into the position of
a family friend, to check the recur
rence of lawlessness on the part of the
boy with as littie exercise as possible
of the authority which the court con-
ters. *
preme Court the Queen's museum io
Honolulu, founded by the late Queen
Emma, loses practically all its endow.
ment, turned on the mean
ing of Queen Emma's father,
Englishman, her a large for.
| tune, with condition that if she
{died tae estate should
revert to his nephew in England, Em-
ma bad a son, but the child died years
the Yet this was re
the provisions of
Court holds that
The case
juste,
nn laff
the
without Issue
mother
garded fulfilling
the will, Now the
{ the testator meant living issue at the
Queen Emma's death ai. it
| awards the estate 10 the English heir.
hefore
is
{time of
The revival in immigration, which is
at the rate of one hundred thou
a year, Is one of the most strik-
of development of the
It the fortune of
| the I'nited States to be the recipient of
| the best manbood of older
{ tries Iti slways strong and
| sturdy man, able to take care of him
self. adventurous enough to carve out
his own who leaves the old
| homestead for new Such a
a dollar In his pocket i»
a great deal to any community
Atlan
His brawn, added to
the working force, creator
wealth, and helps to
build up new enter
I now
i wand
the
ing
signs
country. has been
the coun
8 the
Career,
counéries,
man withont
| worth
Lim, thinks the
which receives
ta Constitution
DeCoes a8
of nig
industry
pew homes and
Drises
-
A shortage In Inmber and consequent
pre
The
higher prices for this season are
dicted West
shortage is ascribed to the forest fires
the drought Ih
Northwest
by dealers in the
mm ber produc
it
advanced
1m
this
the
we
and in the
ing section of thse
tend
values
wie
of
tion
© X [re on account
that the produ for
would overcome a large part of
shortage for the Dresent
Nees WOE
wt lation of t. but
of
thers
i log outpu MAL
conditions
¢ . 1
unfavoraiie
i resulted an {itional short
is
age of log presfuction
BOW
Inmber district
with the haul
wink, and low water the rivers
reventxd the delivery to
oh tie tim
There is
idl
@ mds
the
of reliet
th
of beer shelled to
hood
Vers wo liked
in this respect. as the season of noods
Added fo in
are the losses of millions of feet
ix pest the shrinkage
supply
by forest fires, and the loss by the fre
in Ottawa. coupled with the fact that
baer this
there
Can no output
from the mills burned in that fire
weRSOD
ities quite a trade
has grown up in the sale of little metal
disks of the size and weight of nickels
and dimes, which are gsed for defraud
ing the slot machines. They are sold
by the dozen or wore for ten cents, So
general has become the fraud in some
that are rarely
stationed is not enough
business to pay expense of an at
{he companies
have been hit the worst, and are al 8
to do it. Thus far
Lave heen no prosecutions, owing
difficulty of The
sfory recalls a similar trick in a small
ago,
ont
in some Western
cities slot machines
there
the
where
tendant telephone
joss what about
there
to the detection,
Connecticut town a few
mill
years
where a brass was cutting
blanks for nickels for the government,
the overworked Philadelpoia
Barrels of blanks stood
03
in younger
tO ease
mint, these
mill, and the
employees helped themselves to hand
in
around the
ful. and for a week revelled stolen
g At the
end of that time the collector for the
slot had a
x to dispose of.
chocolates, and the like
11
1m
machine companies over
of
ished nickel dis
A
shatters
Lancet
mots COminon
British doctors, 1t
| seems, have been In the habit of pre
soribing custard as food for thelr
patients in many cases. In doing so
they naturally suppose that the in
valids were consuming eggs and milk,
the London
one
in
tT
in
complaint
faith
arv.cle of food,
and that over there custard i made
Lancet has looked into the matter and
reports: “The eastard without eggs Is
| usually a powder consisting of little
iin one case
aniline dre) to give it the color of
yelk of egg.
[eustand powder is thick
starch, whereas a true
thick with the albumen of
It is troe that it is usually sug
i=
This sounds unpleas
chemical analysis of the mixture and
its groesome suggestions as to the ef
fect of the substitution In specific dis
eases. It would seem, however, that a
taste not unduly vitiated should be
able to distinguish between the true
and false in custard, particularly JA»
taste of an invalid. To the Lancet,
however, it seems important that there
should be legal definition of the mean.
ing of custard.
—————— SS ST STAD Yi.
Americans in the Lead.
If there is one lesson which 1 have
tearned better than another during
my American lecture tour, it is this:
The people of this country are growing
more intelligent as a whole, keeping
step with the great march of material
wealth, It is, therefore, necessary for
a lecturer to walk up to hix audience,
not down to it, as was the rule in form
er years, There Is hardly a stupid face
to be seen from Maine to California.
How 1 wish that I could say the same
of Europe! Americans are not all
beautiful, but are all intelligent
looking. ~Max O'Rell iu Success,
MR. WU'S INOUISITIVENESS,
He Would Run Old Lia Hard Race in Asking
Questions.
the Chinese minister to this
rescmbles LI Huong
in for pushing
home pointed questions, and this pro
elivity was well Hustrated io an amos
in
after-
New
Mr. Wu,
pountry, closely
i Chang his fondness
ing little colloquy which occurred
his parlor at the 8t, Charles one
uoon during Lis in
A
recent slay
Orleans, mun present was incau
§
tioux enough to remark bad no
for
3
pou
that ie
GY feminine charios,
Wu
he demanded
fustantly
ses] upon him How that?”
inn biz odd, abrupt fash-
on, I
yf
that
LMA
peering at the other tae
1
i
aver Lop
“How
“Well,
a4
any
married?” inter
“No, I'm a
again?’
gold
large
Why
your excelieney,”
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minister
“Ah
no,”
his Bpeciacies
don’t care?”
yon
plied the caller,
I
little xtartied, un not young
lounger, and
rupted: the
widower
“Why
gemtlemnan
i
Lip ih {hie
Wu's ey
1 hile it
wii
You marry
embarrassed
“NO,
“1 said he
hig forehead,
mopping
sir have no such intentions.”
of a
face
Was
ghost stnile about
es, but his
wus otherwise
inser impossible 10 tell
fun or satisfy
and what made
dis
them was upon
heels of an answer was no
time sb “Not marry
aga
Viy wii
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to e310 ODE
§
1n'" he ech
\
of “OUT.
children
sone
I suppose
then”
brow
dis
Wao
you a
i hope.”
ninister shut Li * for a
snd reflect ;
jropping bis inquisitor al man
pariy.
a
he said
the entire
and addressing
{
ner
“In
tinue
is never
all.” While be
tleman who had
ily retired to the rear and bad nothing
dur i
idreh ™
married ch
s%
nina the
LA
to There
home for
the gen
live Ww
any «i
i paren
abt about a
was speaking
been catechised Last
further (Oo say ng ss ¥
ironcisd Fever.
the mst
striking event In
Probably
f 8 he
the history of naval architecture
substitution of al
material hi The
the days « WHT,
wood
Monitor,
not only de
iron over
or Ax 8
for =
in
if the Civil
monstrated the advantages of
wood for purposes of war, and revolu
»
ticnized the methods of naval archited
ture
ample of bo in ship
building have had their birth in
fight Monitor and Merr
mac it that there Was hot
sufficient air in turreted steainer
and that the suffocating
by
but alse furnished 8 marked ex
Ww sanitary ideas
{he
between the
was found
the
Ww,
gases generated the explosion of
unpowder found their way below and
tically impossible for
Necessity, 1 herefore.
&
I ondered i
PE
i pra
men to work
$i
compelled the introduction of some ap
paratus for artificial ventilation. The
old methods, in vogue for hundreds of
years. had been retained, even under
the new conditions, and but for the
of direct interfer
capacity would
nany vears longer.
ronclads that a
which, be
exhibition
fighting
have remained for 1
It n
peculiar developed
ing confined to those vessels, Was soon
designated ironclad fever. In this af
fection the initial symploms were
much like those of typhus but in a
short time severe occipital pain was
followed by complete apbonia, and this
by coma and death. The introduction
of ventilating appliances caused the
disappearance of this singoiar disease,
and in time these metal boxes, almost
entirely submerged, came to be regard.
ed as probably the most salubrious
Cassier's Magazine
striking
ence with
was the earls
1
(line.
| vessels afloat.
Deg Mail Carrier.
Out in Kansas, where so many things
are different, there is a big St. Bernard
| mail carrier. He lives in one of the
| little “cross roads” towns, where the
| only store, which is also the postoffice,
is thirty rods from the railroad track.
The train always goes whizzing by at
a good rate of speed, whistling as it ap-
proaches. Nep hears the whistle and
| hurries to the crossing and waits for
| {he coming of the mail. The mail clerk
kicks the leather bag ont of the ear
door and it falls somewhere in the vi
clnity of the road. Nep at oboe goes 10
the sack and carefully taking it by the
middle, so that neither end will drag
| on the ground, walks sedately to the
| store, where be deposits his burden in
| a safe place.
He does this every day, in spite of the
weather, and the whole country knows
and is proud of the dog mail carrier.
Nep is four years old, is two feet sev.
sn inches in height and weighs 250
pounds. He has no difficulty in carry.
Ing the sack, though the mall is often
very heavy, with the weekly papers
from the county seat, for his teeth are
strong and he has carried over 100
pounds as a test of his strength.
000 annually, and that is one-third o
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