WEST INDIA BELLES, NOT AS CHARMING AS THEIR SISTERS OF THE TEMPERATE ZONE. Pretty Girls Among the Lower Classes Eyes Wondrous Black and Bewitoh- ing ~~ Plaster on the Face No Handsome Old Women. {Porto Rico Cor. Inter Ocean.) creoles, or “Sambos, ” citizens we call them in North America; the se ond Spanish blood, more or lese mixed; the third are remnants of the negro race, re duced by contact with their former mas ters to the shade of quadroons or octo roons. The Spaniards are supposed to be the aristocracy, at least they set up a claim that distinction, which the creoles earnes ly dispute. They are car pet-baggers they come from Spain to fill the offices and eat up the taxes which the creoles and others pay. They live at gov. ernment houses and put on airs, but the gentlemen usually end by marrying a creole or a ~umbo and settiing down into permanent citizenship In the country the negroes are black, but in the cies the mulatto, quadroon, and octoroon more common, but the social prejudice that exists in the state does not embarrass society bere. A Span fard can marry a “Sambo,” as all who have negro blood in their veins are seri ously ealled without losing caste, ust as an American can marry 8 German or an Irish girl. The male “Sambos” often find wives among the ereoles, but seldom among the :paniards Some of the best families in Cuban, as wel as Porto Kico, have “Sambo” blood in them. The presi dent of \encouels is a “rambo, ” as the president of Mexico is an Indian Are the ladies pretty? It is purely a matter of taste hose writers who have extolled the beauty of thet uban and other tropical belles have had very Hi edge of the girls of Amer fond of dolls he will There sre m snort to are plant am Porto ny pretty seen jolly, sylph lik supple as a panther but with all budding womat al d ] Linnie the c©ouett 1thood is always has been in all tH N\ Ts | 1 Witudes \ One i f them ever saw the with until of plasier with them i © opera iwokin cannot ue of them a r of Paris comp’exion ople, but why they think chalk i Fhe pec » ¢ t this plase de a myster woman is her vo low musica (8) that g'veet is not heard here, nor is the bold acceat of the English girl noticed anywhere in the West Indies The voice of the most re fined lady is usually as barsh and as the ery of a parrot, snd she talks very loud and in a high key They mature early and fade early, these tropical women, They either dry up and wither, or else become very obese There are no beautifu! old ladies 10 be seen, as in all parts of the [ pited States. When they reach 40 years of age they are either | unt and sour, like a crab apple, or else at and greasy. Their complexions are ruined by the use of the plaster | have described, and the lack of exercise in their awkwarduess, as well as their Joy sique The only exercise a West ndia woman ever takes is in a rocking chair American Designs In Glass, {Chicag» Herald In a letter about the g'ass factories of Bellaire, Ohio, where 25 per cent. of all the glass made in this country is said to be produced-—much of it selling in En land-—a New York Tribune roo ent writes: The English are not expert in labor-saving machines or devices, and they continue to work by hand. The American makes a mold with an original design upon it, often using for his de signs the furms of our grains or lowers or leaves, and the molten glass is pressed in these molds, and a good deal of the en graving on the glass Is done by machines the glass article being held in the hand aod the embellisher drawing the pattern from his mind This American glass undersells British glass st home, and many of our patterns are made es pecially 10 capture the British eye. A Very Bad Time. [New York Bun. | Itisn bad, a very bad time, for the American vovelist who has not already won his spurs: and were it not for the magazines and the foreign market, even the men of great reputation would fare pretty poorly. The annual salaries FA the sonatas in gongress goregate L000; for repre pow ne 000, . are natives of the island, of | one which is told about as | one of the attractions of Turkish beauties | rasping | AIWALS shows | | AT HOME AND ABROAD, The Financlers of England ~The Yankee Mind — Hanging On—Walting. |Ohjeago Tribune “Street Sand Drawing Room. | “If I were writing an Inaugural mes. sage for the president-elect I'd make an effort to get in something on this foreign | relations subject that might stir up the | animals—don't you see?” The upper classes are either Spanish or | reason for it The former are | those who come from Spain—naturalized | some | where “Yes, but the difficulty doesn’t appear | to be entirely diplomatic, ” said a gentle man sitting by. “It is commercial and | economic as well. “Yes, that is true, and I'll tell you one They know a mighty sight more over there than we do here—I mean with reference to the laws of trade, the great currents of traffic, and so on. The financiers of England, for instance, are heavy weight students in their way, Our American business man is more given to studying schemes. That is the bent of the Yankee mind. In England and Germany big business men study the laws and science of the thing, and they are so used to dealing in millions that they handle us for the most part, like children. I say what I know, for | have been there—only ny end ago, 100. Their conmere'al and financial magnates are men with great heads, great stomachs and great uppetites The think big, and eat big, and live big. | was interested and benefited in talking with some of them to see how they keep track of the development of the world { They know the conditions of the crop and much Australia you how equally well in America, india. They can tell coilee there is in Brazil, and they know whether it will be more profitable to ship woolen goods to Mexico or to lower Africa » month as compared with last. ’ “Yes,” said the other, “but there are among them, so I'm told. who tand ready to take stock in Wabash eh?" “0, yes, the fools are not all dead in England any more than elsewhere, but as y rule they know pretty well in England to make their investments, an hey re not making many of them here { not at preseat, just you bear in mind dovetail in t in business it is ger what the “How does that idea your notion th ry good thing to pick up fellow dros roudanese are negroes some mixed with other wt the negroes of wari Faces the Congo, bu aad fierce IK® Tact For a Wedd ng Break a Ex Ang It appears the latest wrinkle in the way of ornamentation for a wedding break fast table is to have the the bride and groom inclosed in a block of transparent ice. This display of ness between them would be much appropriate about a year later ’ Cool more A Host of Shining Marks. In‘er Ocean An English astrologer having predicted the death io the autumn of the foremost American statesman, it is understood vis ions of the grim destroyer disturb the multitude, and insomnia {5 again becom ing a fashionable malady in Washington A Tire on the Gold The English chaocellor of the ex chequer is considering the propriety of placing a thin, stee! tire on the gold coins of the realm, to prevent loss by detrition It is alleged that £225 000 is annually rubbed away from the coin in circulation f Another Yiew of It. The Cu It Is well that the millionaire’s daugh ter, who married the coachman, and who sought a position upon the concert stage by virtue of the fact, should have failed Such adventurers bring art into disrepute rent A Man's Growth, Investigations made by a committee of the British association show that 4 man really grows in stature up to his 50th year, although the growth is very slow after 20 Heavy Laden, The fully equipped Swiss (nfan tr soldier is the ort heavily loaded of Aoi] nation. He lugs enough «n his back to weary a camel . Kansas City Times: In America all doctrines and shades of belief live side by side. In the effete civilizations of the east there is always the telumph of one belief, one religion, or one ides of govern: ment, | not | magnet the | phot graphs of | “IN THe TURRET. ABOARD THE IMONITOR yp YHILE SHE FOUGHT THE MERRIMAC, A Novel Situation and a Desperate Com- bat Imperfections of the Machin. ery—Shut Up in a Revolving Drum-— Damage Done, —————— (Com, 8. D. Greene in The Century.) The drawbacks to the position of the pilot-house were soon realized. We could not fire ahead nor within several points of the bow, since the blast from our own guns would have Injured the people in the pilot-house, only a few yards off Keeler and Tolley passed the captain's orders and messages to me, and my in quiries and answers to him, the speaking tube from the pilot house to the turret having been broken early in the action. They performed their work with zeal and alacrity, but, both being landsmen, our technical com. munications sometimes miscarried situation was cogaged In desperate combat powerful foe; the captain, commanding and guiding all, was inclosed in one place, and the exe. tive fighting the guns, was shut up in another, snd communication between them was dificult and uncertain, perience which caused Engineer Newton, The | novel; a vessel of war was | with a | officer, working and | It was this ex. | immediately after the engagement, 10 sug- | gest the clever plan of putting the pilot house on top of the turret, and cylindrical instead of square; and his sug gestions were subse juently adopted in this type of vessel As the engagement continued the work ing of the turret was not altogether satis factory. It was dificult to start it re volving, or, when once started, to stop it, on sccount of the imperfections of the novel machinery, whch was now under going its first Stimers was an active, muscular and did his utmost o control the ni of the turret; but n spite of his efforts, it difficult if impossible to secure accurate firing different from broadside gu wns I'he conditlons were ve ry ri ports by a few runs were run in th Mortgages en Farms New ¥ kd The Earth ss a Magnet, Sedontify ] nal Gaus, illustrious German mer, has computed (taking as a 14 inches log Kg. inch ith inch thick weighing pound, made of the hai dest and strongest magnetic foros possible the earth's magnetic force as equal to 8 464, O00 QO, 000 O00) (KX) (0) such magnels the astrono unit = one wide one fo one slew] magnet is about ten pounds, which would make the attractive power of the carth 42,310,000, 000, 000, 000, 200 tons, For Medicine- Takers Exchange. A New Orleans doctor ealls attention to a very simple fact which merits attention from medicine takers mixed with very cold water, and a few swallows of the water be taken as a pre paratory dose, the nerves of “the organ of taste become sulliciently beuumbed to make the medicine nearly tasteless. The method will not disguise bitter tastes, but ncts well in oils snd salines Wood Will Sink. Chicago Herald ) It is common to suppose that a ship loaded with wood cannot sink. Yet ae cording to the latest returns of the British board of trade it appears that during the past three years no fewer 140 ships laden with timber were totally lost, with 45; human lives A Profitable Paper, [Chicago Herald | The London Daily Telegraph nets its owners £1,000,000 a year, and runs ten Hoe presses. Of the four original pro prietors the sole survivor is the owner of a country weekly and another died ina poorhouse. A Straw Mouse, [Inter Ocean.) An Indiana man has patented a model for a straw house. 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