NEWSY GLEANINGS. CArIrorNia has female tramps, AUSTRALIA has 110,000,000 sheep, Iowa coal flelds are petering ont. West Vinoixia has 433 Alliance clubs, BRIGANDAGE is on the increase in Turkey. Norra CArovLINA has eight daily papers, Tre Census Offios has run short of money GUATEMALAN finances are ina very bad shape. BerriNy Hebrew bankers boycott Russian securities, Tue prolonged drought in Wisconsin has been broken, Tur prospects for the grain harvest are promising. YELLOW FEVER is causing many deaths in Vera Cruz, Mexico, A COLORED flre company is to be organ- ized at Chastanoogs, Tenn. ORLAROMA'S wheat yield is estimated at not less than twenty-five bushels to the acre. Canvassing for the World's Fair is in active progress in Central and South Ameri. on, THE costs in the baccarat suit amount in round numbers to something mors than $35, = 0, THe caterpillar is making fearful bavoe with the fruit trees in Southern New Eng- land CONTRACTS were awarded for the erection in Chicago, Hil, of the World's Fair Horti- cultural Building at a cost of $301,200, A Hexrico (Va) farmer has been sen. tenced to one year in the penitentiary for spreading poison on his premises to kill dogs, THE repairsto be made at the White House during the absence of the Harrisons at Cape May Point, N.J., will cost about SU3, XX), A SERVANT girl visitel the Zoological Gardens at Frankfort, Germany, and, un- seen by any one, took off her clothing and Jumped into the bear's pit. Her mangled vody was found in the pit next morn- ing, PHILADELPHIA after a long and heated struggle between the pros and antis, has de. cided to construct an elevated railway sys tem for street travel. The road 1s to pay the city one per cent. on its gros re ceipts THE garrison at Fort Sheridan, Chicago, is to be increased toa thousand men, The fort will then be equipped with all three arms of the Servic} artillery, cavalry and infantry-—and will De one of the largest posts in the country. PARNELL MARRIED. Privately Weds Mrs. O'Shea at Steyning, England, He It bas been learned that the marriage of the Home Rule O'Shea took place at Stewart Parnell, Mrs, wiand, at ten Charles agitator, and Steyning, Er o'clock cent morning Ceremony were on 8 re The only witnesses to the two servants from Mrs OU'Shea’s house at Walsingham Terrace, Brighton. The registrar strictly Joined not to give any information about the marriage, and he promised to preserve the closest secrecy in regard to the matter Mr. Parnell had passed the previous evening at Walsingham sy w An order was given to have a single one horse phaeton in readiness at 6 o'clock in the morning. instead of the usual order for horses or a carriage for exercise, as was cus tomary when Mr, Parnell was staying at Brighton. When the phaeton was ready Mr, Parnell and Mrs. O'Shea entered it an: orders were given to the coachman to drive to the westward. party bad left Brighton behind them the driver was directad to proceed to Steyning by a circuitous routs. Steyning was reached at 9 o'clock, at which time a heavy rain was falling Upon entering the town, Mrs O'Sben, who was familiar with the place, took the reins and drove direct to the regis trar's office, Mr. Parnell was dressed in dark clothes He appeared to be well and in cheerful spirits, But ocomsionally threw nervous glances around bim, apparently being sore what anxious lest the wedding party should be observed. Mrs. O'Shea had on a dark dress and a pink-trimmed bonnet. She, too, was in good spirits and was exceedingly vivacious, both before and after the cere mony Mrs was en Parnell was seen at Walsingham Terrace. She said she and Mr. Parnell were married this morning, but she declined to bave the ceremony performed in a church in London, there having been difficulty ia relation to the license Mr. Parnell himself procured a special license, setting forth that the marriage would occur within three months, TWO CONVIOTS ESCAPED. But the Lives of Five Men Were Lost in the Attempt, Fuller details from Coal City, the Georgia convict eamp where the uprising occurred on a recent morning, record one of the most daring breaks for liberty ever attempted in Georgia. At six o'clock Captain J, M, Moreland, Assistant Warden at Slope Camp, and Jesse Rankin went into the stockade, where two hundred cone icts were confined Seven asked to remain behind in order to be furnished with overalls, saying that they bad been working in a wet place in the mines, The seven were J. M. Lansiowne, 8. H. Lansdowne, father and son: Sam Green, Wilson Palmer, John Rutherford, Abe Wayman and George Ward, As the Assistant Warden started for the gate, Wilson Palmer, a burly white conviet, serving his term for safe-blowing, drew a revolver and ordered the jaller's bands up. After relieving the warden of his pistol, Palmer fired his pistol within a foot of his face, joflicting a» fatal wound. Rankin, in the meantime, had been ov were!, but, struggling to his feet, m to escape by knocking down a conviet, Theseven men made a rush for Captain Moreland's office, where they knew secured a double bare was in Ratharti nats wucceedad in escaping. CAUSING A RAINFALL, Did the Government's Balloon Ex. bark in these expsriments, havi test actical the won Min Ty | one of the class of | 100 millionaires, whose total | up over $00,000,000 | the most niggardly man in En After the i PROMINENT PEOPLE. Grapsrone has suffered another relapse, Episox looks when at work like a boy ap. prentioe, BEORETARY Procorox is devotedly fond of whist and horses. GENERAL Boportenn is thirty six years older than his bride, THE cost of barying the Inte Grand Duke Nicholas of Russian was £200,000 Bion Arr, the Georgia humorist, is sixty | years old and the father of nine children, GENERAL Da Fosskca, President of Brazil, will shortly pay a visit to Europe. Count D'Annaz, the French consul at New York, has a neat little sa.ary of $11,000 a year, BARDOU, the great Frencu playright, writes a hand so fine that it almost requires a magnifying glass to read it, Ex-Exriess Evorxime left Paris a fow days ago for England, after an affecting in- terview with ex-Queen lsaabella, of Spain Doxarp G, Miron, “lk. Marvel,” was 1541 at Yale, and takes part in the semi-contenninl observance this | Year, JON D, ROCKEFELLER'S wealth is esti. | matad at $1:20,000,000, of which $63,000,000 is Standard Oil stock, His real estate is worth $10, 000, 000, A. J. Drexer phia rich men with #25 000,000 heals the list of Philadel. The city has holdings foot Tue Duke of Edinburgh is reported to be nd. Helis forty-seven years old, a confirmed miser, a fine violinist and a good sailor, GENERAL AnusTnONG, founder of the Hampton (Va.) School for Indians, was born on one of the Sandwich Islands, and is now upon a visit to his early home Tue Prince of Waies was born November 0, 1541, visited the United States in 1800 and married a daughter of the King of Denmark, March 10, 1865. He will be fifty s of age in November GENERAL Dox CArLos retired life on a farm in Kentucky, ocon- sionally shows himself in Louisville, His form is erect and well preserved, and be is an entertaining talker on military and othe ar topics, OxE of the Brrr, who lives a successful ovan. gelists Is William FPeun, who has Just finished a val in Mississippi, Ho is a man of sixty-three, and has 1 nstantiy night for six. Bouths me Evander bevy teen yours Tue young formed her fi the the « : will be a blessing to ly. She was black lace, Tus Ivte, is black complexion. the pure blacks, whose contaminated by Creoles, He t of Port-au-Prince able learning and « SEVEN PICKERS DRC vIED One of Them was Drunk and Upset a Rowboat by Stepping on Its Edge, roer-st a hospital : “IL hope this) Amsterdam, Haytian sOout wo intermare is the n A CORR and is a man of ptivation, A party of colored pickers went from the more, Md, in the bug Bower. Chairs farm to Halt eys Thomas B Upon their return, while the bugeye was beating up Curtis Creos, Samus! Barnes and Walter Caston, colored, met it in midstream ina rowboat and called 30 the pickers to Jump into the latter Nine of the party dil so. The tenth, whe attempted to leave the bugeye, was so drunk that he slipped upon the side of the rowboat, which upset. The strong breess had meantime carried the bugeyo quite a distance. The tug Mo bawk, which happened to be near by, res cued [Isaac and Richard Titu. and Samuel Barnes Georgiana Titus, Al Roaster, Lain Mason, John Houston, Walter Castor, & man nick. named ““Gidoey” and an uaknows man were drowned, —————.. ICELAND TO ALASKA. A Scheme to Transport All the Popn lation of the Island, Ludwig Von Doleke, the noted leelan ler, who has been practicing medicine in De troit, Mich., for the last year or two, left that city a fow days ago upon an important missicn, He is bound for his native coun try, and whoen he arrives there he will inter view the Government aathorities at Rivikia vek, the capital, on a scheme to transport the entire population of Iceland to Alaska, there to establish a colony under the Gov. ernment of the United States It is understood that Von Dolcke will re ceive substantial backing from a nunbyr of capitalists interested in the devalopmont of Alaska, and the United States Government looks favorably upon the scheme EE a, New Yourg millinery average 81.5) a wee; shirtmakers, #3; underwear inakers 84; cloakmakers, 88.00 boxmasers, #4; foalhoy workers, #4. men's clothing makers, #4 —— THE MARKETS. XEW YORK. Mileh Cows, com. to good... Calves, common to prime. .. EE EE Flour—City Mill Extra..... ! 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INTERNATIONAL LESSON JULY Bb, Lesson Texit ‘The ‘Word Made Flesh,” John |, 1-18-Golden Text: John i, 14-Com- mentary, FOR We now enter upon the sim lest, and yot the highest and deepest of al the gospels, The writer is he who is so often spoken of ax “that disciple whom Jesus loved.” (xiii, 28; xix, 30; xx., 2; xxi, 7, 90 Three of his great words are Love, Light Life, and he tells us that he wrote this gospel that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Bon of God, and that, believing, we might bave life through His name (xx , 31). Here is no record of His birth in Bethlehem or His lowly life at Nazareth, but we are taken at ance into a past eternity before the world Was, Ll. “In the beginning was the Word.” We are hore introduced to the Son of God as “The Ward.” the telling out of the Father's heart by whom we are to know the Father, By people’ words, if they are honest, we | kuow their hearts, »0 by the Son as the Word of God we shail know our Heavenly Father's heart toward us, But not until in power and glory as “The Ward of God” (Rev, xix. 13), bringing His saints with Him, shall we know the fullness of the Fathers | heart concerning Hix elect church, His elect | | larael and the world | 2. “The samo was in the beginning with | God.” The words “in the beginning” in this verse and the last take us to Gen. i, who can tell when “the beginning” 4. “All things were made by without Him was not anything made that was made.” See how full the statement in Col, § 16, 17, which closes with these words, “All things were created by Him and for Him, and He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.” See Him, © be lever, whom you love to think of as having died for you on the that your sins mighs be forgiven; see Him as the creator and possessor of all things in heaven and on earth 4. “In Him was Life; and the Life was the Light of men Apart from Him no one, however good morally or even religiously, bas what the Scriptures call Life. “He that hath the Son hath fe: and be that bath not the son of God hath Johnv, 12 sins" ’ one wh has » was’ Cross “Dead in of every And the Light and the Adar Men love darkness rather than ght, thelr deeds are evil LL} they do not wish to be separated from their evil deads they will not come to nor receive the Light. Spiritual things ssem foolish to ral men (1 Cor, §i., 14), and they will nos CAnDOL reosive them y kness comprehended LeCatss because nat here was a man sent from God whose We now turn for a few moments from the Light to the herald of the Light. The history of Gabriel's message to Zacharias, and all the incidents of the birth of the most wonderful man, are fo Luke L, 5-2 5 vii, 80 name was Johr Him wight beliove.” The Spirit said through Malachi, * Behold, 1 will send my messenger, and be stall prepare the way before me” (Mal, iii, 1). This §s now the business of every beilever, to bear witness to the Light by letting the through them 5. “He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witoess of that Light” He bore wis. pees by the Spirit in Him, by whom He was filled trom Eis birth (Lake 1, 15, aod wecan only be witnesses by the same Spirit (Acts i, 8. Because we do not seek to be filled daily with the Hpirit there is little of Christ seen in us, and God is not glorified ta us Gal, 4, ! 24) as He should be ¥. "That was the true Light which Nght. eth every man that cometh into the world.” Soe His own oft repeated, “1 am the Light of the world” (John vidi, 19; ix. 5; xii. 46, and give good heed to the fact tual there is Bo need to walk in darkness 10. “He was in the works, and was made by Him, and the world knew Him not Think of yourself as denied admission to your own home or business by your own family or ew; Think of yourself as going in love to help some afMicted cone, and you sie refused admission to the howe 0 which you are anxious to bring light and joy and gladness, Seek, by fn some faint mess wre putting yourself in His place, to realize somewhat the state of things bere described 1 He came unto His own, and His owa received Him not.” “A stranger to His breth- ren snd an alien unto His mother's children (Pe Izix . # Even experience when brethren were far {rom him, ac jerimiances tranged, kinsfolk fatled familiar friends A stranger in his own house, wife servants all against him Job xix, HR Was not “qual to the expr. rience of God manifest in the flesh was only man, but Jens Christ was Gol from Heaven condescending to man's estate to restore him to his inheritance 12. “But as many as receive Him, to them ave He power (or the right or privilege to woome the sons of God, even to them that believe in His name While the nation re joctad Him a few believed on Him, and this was their privilege And so it continnes, He stil] comes by Yi word and spirit to ali who bear of Him, asking a reception in their hearts, Each hearer has it in his or her power to keep Him out or Jet Him in, and thus continue in darkness and death, or pass from death to life, 15. “Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” Born of God means a real work of God by His word and spirit in a 's heart, A receiving and resting in ous Christ alone for salvation (Nt iil. 5 Rom, iv. 5; Eph ii, 8 ® 4, “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we beheld His A the world ves Job's | the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth glory of God was conosaled from the 20 the glory was concealed from natural eyes while He was hore in humiliation, 15. ‘John bare witoss of Him, and cried saying, This was He of whom [| spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.” Bo long as we have any ambitious desires for our own glor our own will we have neither the oirft of Christ nor of John, his falthinl witness. ‘Not Mine own will" ‘nat Mine own glory” wore two of the great words of Christ which we would do well to make our own John vi, 38; vili., 80, 16, “And of His fullness have all we re esived, and Aaya i ii 4 vill, § 8. “No man hath seen God at the bagotten 59% sE5el fe comes | 1: but Him; and | und in | 7. “The same came for a witness to bear witness of the Light, that all men through | Light fill them and shine | | when half | sugar for | slowly until thick. As the i glam | people | in the Holy of Hollies, within the veil, fn the | { | tabernacle and in the temple, »o in the body of the Lord Jesus, as within a veil (Heb. x, | d " " little water; boil until a rich syrup; pour HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, RAISING CREAM IN THE WARM WEATHER. When ice is not to be procured or is too dear, & good substitute for ita use in raising cream is cold water, added to th milk in the proportion of owve-third, This additivn of water thins the milk and thus facilitates the separation of the cream quite as much, and in as short a time, as the increase of the density of the milk by cooling it with ice, The cream rises in twelve hours. If the milk is to be fed to calves or pigs the addi- tion of some oatmeal or cornmeal, fed dry, will make up for the cxcess of water.—New York Times. MAKING A TOUGH The chicken may be a year-old bird, and if tough it can be gently boiled be- fore baking in enough water to cover it, ouly until tender, after earclully dressed and stuffed with part of the rice. The broth can be used for the soup, two cupfuls of the boiled rice being boiled to 8 pulp and then enough of the sauce added the soup of a creamy consistency. After palatable seasoning with salt, white pe snd a very little nutmeg, can be served at once ; or the saucepan containing it can be placed in a pan of hot water on the back of the stove to keep hot. If CHICKEN TENDER. being cream to make pper thickens by standing, it can be to the proper consistency by adding bot milk, TI being boiled tender, can be br & hot oven. yWhed Chicago News. A NOVEL HAT RB The wheel wheel, or a formed part yi link into a handsome hat wheel hall, by first rubbing it thoroughly equal parts of turpe and polishing it handkerchief or a to bring out the fine g From the h ms BpOKe ard wan 5 fan y in the » end wheel is | will be plumb, the hub with a very nail, curia bud fas ancy hooks, 10 hold If desired 8 row of headed nalls—can be dr the outer edge wheel and the hub, giving a very ornamental When complete the wheel should be suspended by a brass ring fastened into the rim, or by small brass chains, and will make s useful oroament for we Farm, Field and Stockman. or small upper part of finish any hall, HOW TO PRESERVE SMALL PRUITS. Small fruits require more care serving than large firm varieties. writes Mr. E. R. Parker in the Courier-Journal. They should be carefully selected, only the firm, perfect ones and then cooked slowly in the syrup for half an hour or more. in pre- used Damson Preserves—Cut a slit ia each damson : spread on dishes, and set in the sun until the make syrup, put in fruit and boil Pick stems, seeds come out readily; Currant Preserves currants from the pound of sugar to a 8 syrup of half a pis nd Dos hd i ANG t of wa 1 of « Onin of sugar; add the currants until slowly clear Preserves — Select Gooseberry ripe, perfect gooseberries, weigh, allow a pound of sugar to a pound of fruit ; make syrup, drop the berries in, thick; when cook slow 4 until clear and done take up, put io jars. taspberry Preserves—Take ripe, firm raspberries, allow a pound of sugar to every pound of fruit, Put in a preserve kettle together, cook slowly until ten der; take up the fruit; boil the syrup | thick, return the fruit to the kettle, let heat, and take up Grape Preserves Pick grapes from the stems, skin and put in a kettle, stir until the seeds are loose; thea strain, weigh with skins, and to every pound allow a pound of sugar. Pour the | grapes in the Kettle; let come to a boil; add the sugar and cook slowly until | done. Strawberry Jam-—Pick ripe strawber. ries, that are too ripe to preserve; put in | n kettle with a very little water, to keep from sticking. Boil slowly and stir; done add balf a pound of every pound of fruit; cook When cool put in Plum Preserves—Take perfect fruit, allow equal quantities of sugar and plums; put in a sugar kettle with very over the plums and let stand over night. In the morning draw off the syrup, boil, put in the plums, let enok half an hour, or until done, Blackberry Proserves— Pick ripe black. berries, weigh, allow a pound of sugar to a pound cf fruit; sprinkle the sugar over, and let stand over night; in the morning drain off the ayrup; put in a kettle, and let boil; add the berries, cook slowly until they are done and the syrup is thick, Cherry Preserves—Stone ripe cherries, and save the juice, allow a pound of sugar to a pound of fruit, Boil the juice and sugar together to make the syrup; the cherries in, and cook ay at done; take the cherries up with a skim. wer; boil the syrup thick and low, and pour over the cherries, Btrawberry Prostyes Pio firm, not overripe strawberries, woigh, allowing a Borink of sugar toa pound of im Jy kilo the over and { busy to manufacture | headlights and | are used in this country. ‘The | ies give employment to I M———— ts rope SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, # Blasting is done by electricity, Electric cranes are increasing in use, The brain of man exceeds twice that of any other animal. A man breathes about twenty times a minute, or 1200 times an hour. One dollar a minute is the charge for using the new London.Paris telephone line. The great telescope of Lord Rosse, in Ireland, has a speculum six fect diame- ter, fifty-five feet focus. Pennsylvania makes fifty-two out of every 100 tons of rolied iron in the United States, and sixty-nine out of every 100 steel rails, It keops three large Chicago factories the iocomotive railroad that factor. lanterns 1100 men an i | boys. | Back Bay section of will carry two or three persons at residences in the Bostor A number of fine ae Ot ing equipped with elevators by electric motors. The machinery is very simple and compact, and the elevators operated good speed An English firm manufac bined oil engine aull dynamo pumber of these engines and sent throughout nies, where thev are ated with especial plants Phosphorus is electricity in Eagla: phosphoric acid the heat of an electri the mass, This local is sad to be more economics ing in large ret process, ris by Electricity has sug power at the royal burg, the large turbine water whe furni from wrseded steam anedry at Warts dyauamo bein driven bv a The stream the waler the couduct twenty chines ive A Warsaw engineer new harness by which the ing horses is averted that by pulling & string tached tothe Ld at once unhitched and the wehicle is brought to a standstill, The invention was tried by the best horsemen in the city and found perfectly successful. A taodel of it has been sent to St. Peters. burg with an application for a patent. M. Mareelhacy has made some addi. tional improvements in diving apparatus which have received the app roviog in. dorsement of the Freoch suthorities. In this arrangemement, iastead of the heavy cleric hand lamp, employed ordinarily bydipers, the plas is to affix powerfal Griver s sea Lae horses are | glow lumps at the top of the helmet, so that the diver's hands are at all times free for work, The lamp is connected by a conductor with a battery either on shore or in a vessel above as the case may be. The practicability telegraphin without wires has recently been demon strated by the success of several experi. ments Not loag ago Mr the head electrician of the postal telegraph of Preece, system in Engiand, succeeded in estab. lishing communication across the Solent to the Isle of Wight, telegraphed also across the River Severn, without wires, merely using earth-plates st a sul. and ficient distance apart. It is now proposed to make practical use of this system in communication with lightships, ——. c— A Canine Hero. A correspondent of an writes: *‘l recently the fol. lowing little incident on the Thames, near Twickenham, when the river wes full of land water, and therefore, very swift and dangerous. Two dogs, one a large animal, the other a little terrier. were enjoying a swim near the bank, but soon the little one was carried out some distance and was unable to get to shore. By this time the big dog had regained the shore, and, seeing what was happen. ing to his companion, began running backward and forward in the most ex. citing manner, at the same time whim: Eaglish paper witnessed | pering and barking, and evidently not | aithough swimming knowing for the moment what to do The terrier was fast losing strength, and, bard, being rapidly carried down stream dog could contain himsell no longer. Running some yards ahead of his strug. gling friend, he plunged into the water and swam vigorously straight out until Was | he got in a line with the little head just | appearing behind | first, until he got next him. Then he al lowed himself to be carried down, tail to the terrier, this being accomplished in the cleverest manver, sod began to swim hard, gradu. ally pushing the little one nearer and nearer to the shore, which was gained after a most exciting time, The fact of this canine hero going so far ahead to allow for the strong current, and the judgment shown in getting alongside, and then the pushing, certainly seemed to me to betoken instinct of a very high order.” A Solomon Come to Judgment, A famous Chicago lawyer once had & singular cose to seitle, A Popuieiag cuts to him in great distress. Two wssters, |] in the samo house, had babies of | tralia, are | Traction Road for a i miles, The big | | work," — SELECT SIPTINGS. A—— b———iir The day on shipboard begins at noon. The largest war-ship afloat is the Italia, of the Italian navy, Iowa produces more corn than any | other Btate in the Union, A 105-year old eolored woman works : in a Marshallville (Ga.) cotton field. The coffee palaces of Melboutne, Aus- said to be the finest in the world, A boy in Washington State caught | fifty-four wild pigeons with one swoop | of his net. The cheapest cer fare known is said to be the three cents fare on the Pittsburg distance of six In Sydney, Australis, there fs a kan- | garoo which stands up and fights with boxing-gloves on his paws. He never talks through his hat, A piano manufacturing concern cently paid 815,000 for three mabogany loge, all cut from one tree. Each log was about fifteen feet long and about three feet square on the ends. re. The color adopted by the royal family The royal house- Prussia, Sweden and color is aud yel- of England is scarlet. holds of Portuzal, Germany are dark green snd Austria's blue, Russia's lack low. con‘aining about £12. 000 wo and other preci dre aged up from the bott of the bay at San Francisco the sttings of the jewelry are in the sixteenth century style. The am of coloring matter stored in coal ch that the mineral yields magenta sufficient to color 500 yards of flannel, surnine for 120 for 2500 and red A small monas is ston one pound of vermin each two fox for possession Mebanes, uneasiness the of a hard lump that bad worked toward the surface. He in- vestigated and found that the lump was & wad of greenbacks amounting to $1011. A manufacturer of ancient Egyptian mummies bas been severely sentenced by the courts of Alexandria. He made his articles with carefully prepared asses’ skins, and had a good trade. Everything went well so long as he made kings only, but when he tried the production of high priests he committed archaeological errors that led to his detection. A one legged man, with his crutch strapped to his leg and shoulder, in the field plowing behind an ox. That was 8 scene witnessed the other afternoon. On making inquiry it was found that the man’s name was John Lacy, a Con- federate soldier, belonging to the "ifty-second Georgia. He has just pur. chased him a little home in Gainesville, Ga., and works by the day plowing or whatever he can do order to make A second-hand mattress, which two months had | of its purchaser N.C other nurht, een in the , & resident of caused him n sGme because ili an honest living. ‘“‘John, the orangeman,” is the most popular member of the under faculty at Harvard College. He has sold fruit to the students since 1856, and has a valua- ble acquaintance among the tinguished alumni of the universi- ty. Sometimes the students take him with them as a mascot when they go away to play an important foot. ball or base bali game, and on such occa- sions it is hardly necessary to say, John receives all the honors due his position. a ————— Lost Stitches. A party of ladies and gentiemen wer> shown through a large carpet establish ment in Broadway a few days ago. They were permitted to look into every nook and corver of the building except one, At the bottom of the stairway leading to the top floor they came upon a closed door, upon which were the words **Posi- tively No Admittance.” The curiosity of the ladies were awakened at once. “What is up there!” inquired une eag- erly. “That is our workship,” explained the representative of the firm. “We have 150 women on thst floor sewing carpets.” “Oh, I should so like to see them at said the fair questioner with a playfully besseching look. “I am sorry that I cannot take you up there,” replied the firm's represents. tive, “but the rules are very strict. Really, there is nothing worth looking at, and there are no trade secrets there. dis-
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