Xife insurance i@ more popular ia {America than in amy other country, Almost five-eighths of the steamers in the world are under the British flag. | : An advoeate of electrical cooking clatrmg that of every 100 tons of coal need in a cooking stove ninety-six tone gO to waste, I'he Atlanta Constitution figures that Massachusetts produced 89,662 poems last year, New York, 49,827, and the country at large, 2,888 054, It appears that the detailing of offi- cers of the army as instructors in col- leges is growing iu popularity both with the educational with Congress. institutions and One hundred domestic servants are killed annually in England in the pro- An tion recently patented is a window of which the outside be without exposing ‘the cleaner tc chance of a tumble. cess of window cleaning. inven- may cleaned Any Dr. Bertillon, author of the French system for the identification of erimi- nals, says that, as a matter of fact, it is impossible among 100,000 individu- als to find two persons with ears exactly | the of This is one of the reasons alike, except brothers, why he was able to start a new era in in case police science. Robert Moore, a Water Works Com missioner of St. Louis, made some re marks at the the Engineers’ Club of Kansas City, whicl deserve recent meeting of more than passing sttention from the commercial men of New leans. He said: ‘You ask me Missouri River navigation. Or to talk on It reminds me very foreibly of the chapter snakes in souri and quently I know you will excuse me from expressing my views on the sub- ject.” He added that the traffic on the making river navigation even Mississippi almost a lost art. on Mis- conse Ireland. There is no River navigation, on the The polyglot character of the Auns- trian army was abundantly shown the other day when the ancient custom of solemnly swearing in the recruits in the presence of the troops was re Jived, after having been discontinued since 1868, In Vienna alone the for- mula of oath to the colors Sed to be i a Ald guages, to wit: ian, Croatian, henian, Roumanian, kish, while the : ceremony was conducted by Ro man Catholic, Greek snd Greek orthodox pastors, Hebrew rabbis and Mahome tan ulema. read out in nine Hun- Polish, Servian German, Bohemian, and religious part of Catholic priests, In answer to a recent inquiry made of the Secretary of the Interior by the Commissioner of Edneation in re gerd to a division of the fund to agri cultural the South, Becretary has decided that the division of the fund as already or hereafter be made by the tures shall be approved by the depart ment, unless it suggested division is colleges In various State legisha is apparent that such grossly 1nequit able and that in cases vere the State legislatures have not yet proposed av “equitable that the basic of division now in force shall re main till the legislative intent regard ing the matter is made known. In the case of South Carolina the act of Con apportionment | twin | i | ! freight | Southern railroads was | i i | : i Protestant | the | gross of July 26th, 1892, applies not | only to the sum due the State at the time, but to all snms becoming under the act of August 30th, 1800, A Washington letter says: Surpris Ane i ing news has reached the bureau ol | ethnology respecting the recent disen tmbment of the conqueror, Pizarro, in Peru. It seems that the corpse ex hibits certain abnormalities which are | extremely interesting from the point | The skul criminal of view of anthropologists, reveals all the marks of the type, as recognized by science to-day As shown by it the military hero, so | worshiped and revered even South America, was a murderous and bloodthirsty brute, even the broso,” which modern eriminologists have never discovered except in eon firmed and habitual enemies of society, The skull is abnormally broad. An other anatomieal peculiarity is the in step, which is extraordinarily high, The latter was a feature of quering race. It recalls the warrior indefatigable on the march, whether on the desert tracts of the const, or in the wilds of the Peruvian Cordilleras, As 10 his age, reliable evidence is to the effect that Pizarro was a little more than seveaty years old when he now i The eraninm ha so-called ‘Tossa of Lom his econ Seventeen cities in the United Stites sre oach of larger area than Berlin with its population of 1,579,000, Fired by the example of Dr. Thiv- rier, who sits in the in a blouse, French Chamber another Socialist, n pig merchant named Deloge, offers himself the understanding attend the boot. for election with that, if successful, he will sessions in blouse and sabots to The farmers in a Louisiaua parish met and with great unanimity resolved “that each and every member of the order hereby obligates himself to use the most rigid economy until we get out of debt, and thereby be financially independent of any man or set of men.” The San Francisco Examiner thinks The last steamer brings word that a Know- Japan is'getting too civilized. Nothing society has tried to blow up the the Government is accused of turning over 160,000 yen from the Secret Service fund for the election expenses of the Minister of Finance, while Liberal Party. Indicative of the efforts that must be to the of a single species of predatory beast isthe information that the State of Califor- nia has paid out $187,000 in bounties for coyote scalps, and has scalp claims of R118 000 made stay ravages against it to the amount still unpaid. Now a technical question has arisen as to where the money shall come from to pay for coyote killing The had a Berlin hard Vegetarian Society hae time lately disciplining some of 1ts members for breach of the laws. Ome of thom was found to be a dealer in poultry, who even a Am ther one went s far as personally slanghter the birds was found to he connected with a newspaper which ad nse of voeates the horseflesh by the poor, and a third for nsing fish-glue in his stamp collections that a single school district in San Bernar- dino County of the State is seven State of Rhode Island, and has more coyotes than the New “But would wager,” the Cultivator, “‘that the school A California paper boasts times as large as the whole of England. we comments Bosto children in Rhode Island are better taught thas the coyotes in that district, or the coyotes of New England than school children of that district the medieal world cannot be estimat ed, has just been New York physician, sanounces Herald morphine made known bya the Chicag It is an antidote for poisoning, and, judging by the result of an experiment conduct before a number of New York d however, against fellow physicians, who guine of its powers £> value liscovery, Dr discoverer, swallowed three grains morphine, a sufficient the with his quantity to kill most robust adult, following it antidote Ihe sual effects of morphine poisoning, languor, sleep, Dr ahd or death, did not appear Instead Moor was the most cheerful thusiastic participant in the discussion which followed his attempt te suicide The antidote ganate of potassium A recent monograph on the subject of Amerioan Concentration in by John Hyde, and read before the Inter- Statistical some curious facts ‘Geographical Agriculture,” written national Institute, gives cultiva In 1849 of hops in the 1,234 36.15 per cent. of which was produced in New York, and 40.28 New Forty years later the production had 26.546.878 pounds, New York contributing 81.48 of the total. In 1890 the hop production of the country was almost revolution New York still contained 73.08 per cent. of the total acreage devoted to hops, but her yield was only 47,16 per cent. of the total production. The esplanation of this phenomenal change is the remarkable productiveness of the hop lands of the Pacific Const States, the yield per acre, according to Mr. Hyde, being nearly three times ns great as that of the hop lands of the Btate of New York. The next ton yoars will prodoce a still greater change. The census of 2000 will prob. ably show the Pacific Const producing the major part of the hops consumed in the United States. If they do the production must be enormous, for no industry in this eonntry ix growing more rapidly than the brewing of beer, for whieh a supply of good Lops is in- dispensable, about the tion of hops in this conntry. the total United States was production Do pounds, cent per in Massachusetts and Hampshire increased to per sont ized. THE STORY OF LIFE ¥ SunMaht and the morning dew, And the dazeling dawn of youth, When fancy paints the boundiess Lius With promises of glorious hue, And the world seems walled with truth Sunlight and the noontide high And the wandering ways of men in search of pleasure far and nigh, They know not where its valleys lle, Nor how nor why, nor when Sunlight and the evening gale And the dull twilight of age The eyes grow dim, the pulses fail, While mournfully the damp winds wall That blur life's blotted page! Sunlight and the after glow On the cloudless brow of heaven Though dark and drear the earth bolow No pain of life his sou! shall know, His sins are all forgiven ! M. M. Folsom, in Atlanta Journal, ————— A BRAGGART IN LOVE. HE women had gone to the drawing room, and we when the conversa tion struck matrimony were all 11 haps ned, The other told httle story in the free confidence one feels at the 1 perfect dinner | guests in end of related turned to had romance, and we now host “Narlin, how wile: “It's a long Lory ing pass in the Arizona the water, Light ANd en fresh cigars Ink 1t was the ({eronimo was 1 had been chasing for lack of backs an were lagging tl pet Le vate! Simon, so 1€¢ Face, id we the alkali and wore water-holes 1n San polluted wit) arsenic o sensible savage wonld Lave shunned it, as my dyspepsia, which dates from that failed to do Somehow campaign, tells me 1 the Geronimo eampaigu always reminded fox-hunt; the Indian scouts keeping their noses close to the scent like dogs too slow to foree the Hush into the open while the various like different keld and place which promised first Arizoni ary 1vides me Of » troops, hunters lost the a! the fin at all, yon rox KY be ing lines in this land of deep erosion, they retain the sharp, jagged profile often seen i snow-ice of mountain drifts early summer 1D wind ish If vou know h Ww sh of the will recall the f most resistance Are crests ae tf disappears in Below these scoops lie broken numerons le vel MAO bowlder which, with | # the soft. pisin, and blend Me un ness, BRITON fades it arp both bas strike ; and ome roo them in the the next divide that balked the pure n ther while so ) rt p, th dent of locality uid tack and the the for a few days its dust 1 pursuing © ns, It a detour igh LL take trad, giving the other WAS a Weary chosen piace Jn performed under | stern chase irning skies of cloudless blue in & thirsty land of hest intolerabl ; We had brushed ti thre had and for pen seross the Madre : spurt Li fi fivide m wi Lh days led in th valley to the Sierr fresher horseflesk out in onr right and took fre the place of honor and left us, foot-sore and back pore and the of the rae red a the valley, near holes of month of where from Mn us winded, at base mountains, whers day's marel the border, t the San Simon nu the sullen August, The nights were getting bearable, but the day heat still held on with the stubborn insistence Sonthern summer happy-—-the water was bad: our shel ter-halves, but little thicker than cheesecloth, proved leaky sun-shades, and we reinforced them with our sad dle-blankets ; had amusement oxeept to growl, wish we were chase and wondering were back inte ganrd water ol a Our camp was not wi no w hose intellect had squatted us down among Gila monsters and sand -flise to wateh water fonl neither nor sun al] soil | wonld drink it Something was going to happen, for | the strain was telling on men's nerves. The weather was too hot for cam idleness, and we vore near the ‘line. I was first eergeant of L Troop then, and, next to a coward or a thief, 1 think [ loathed »n deserter. We were near the vorder of Mexico, where one . | must not cross, but where smuggling is permitted and vice possible, The mon were getting irritable. 1 knew the signs, the Lonsion was reach ing snapping point. I nad been think. ing of it all day Taugn was a corporal and Murray our blacksmith, who had been killed the wenk before on the day we pushed the Apaches off the divide. We were crowding them to ciosoly iu the lower pass, when a fow bucksslipped off into the canon and nipped our pack train in rear, We had to quit pressing in front to save our train, It was a it, killing two men for us, losing us our game just as we were bagging it. Leighton was company clerk, a talented, handsome fellow ; had served ont in Indie. { red-lines in # book where a life's freshness and facility of expression, and spoke with the quick, falling in flection and directness of the English in speech one so quickly learns to love. He was mfechanically ruling double ne count of services had been credited and closed, much as a bank-book is ruled when a statement is rendered from a balance struck. The words “Died” orgp**Deserted” placed in red ink in the space below showed the cause of closing for service abruptly terminated. The usual remark was service’ had | finished first cigars, on We married men explaining how had turn their | must in the ! blooming | i " “eompliontions | T was seated listening to the soft That evening John | Leighton and I were working under | hot camp I had just left, where were the orderly fly at the ‘‘records’..were | heard onl posting Vaugn and Murray's “finals” | snake or in the clothing and descriptive books, | lonel of “Discharged by expiration term in black ink. “Sergeant, and whose will be the { next bloody ‘D'?” | asked Leighton, without a ring of feeling. “There'll be plenty of ‘em, if this {| blooming heat continues and we re { main in this camp,” I replied. We were working at this official funeral in the sultry summer night by the unsteady light of lantern-candles, and not feeling impressed or reverent. Leighton was in his under shirt, open at his handsome throat. As he leaned over the books at work, a locket from his bosom fell the slack of its gold chain and struck the desk. I noticed it, and he handing it so me with indifference. He had opened the locket, revealing the portrait, which that of those were brown took it off WAS a fresh young girl, one of sweet Eng lish faces, whose charm is complexion and expression of confidence complets The eves pathetie, soft brown yes, so tender they seemed to re arrested vou proach, and, as you of view of the miniature their fall, ich affectionate hight of In hang i your point warm ligl Nesing my more thar of the portrait, Leight an old story rth not w» the $4 lon't know why I keep it Hq spoke with the same terval we were fe eling for the that in a romance absent dead. It struck me as peculiar nO omplishe d there should be no tvace either of bili rness or remorse, only weary indifference I was so quickly fascinated by the face that Leighton's manner snnoyed and I did not ask for the story. Pos sibly overbest makes men irritable, for somehow 1 resented this careless fellow wearing about him a face like that, with less interest than he wore I did not then notice the resemnblance of the face to Leighton’s I stopped abruptly and thought of desertion, changing the to this, ne ing. me, his spurs conversat) the subject of my day's mus “Leighton, something's got to be focis the pulse of this camp and knows the symptoms. But what can he do? his orders to remain here arg tive, and he can’t ‘pass’ ns acr Hapera ms the line laughed Leighton then, let 11 be, | 1 Hunting leave “Hunting leave, replied, to our tell imp! Te pass for six “with n juestions ask¢ Ax game or preserve, though I ean what yours will be, you voung morrow make out a hunting Leighton humming ballad that had a] peared in London music-halls the year before, and did not Next morning, i presented with the report four-days pass for six The lieutenant dipped his pen in the ink and held it in contemplation for a moment above the place for sig nature, looking thoughtfully scross plain Then, with quick de ““1 wish, sergeant, you and Leighton would take hunting and let no complications arise addirg our names Was a catchy service reply nunting men the level Cision pass, H+ signed the pass to the text The following evening found us all in Correlitos After dinner, while enoking fracrant Vuella Abajo of the “Zona Libra,” I strolled through the narrow streets of this old town, watohing the wealth of a west ern sunset, where the afterglow fast fading. High the moun tain-tops lay great billows of russet flame. with crests like the mane of a wind-fanned prairie fire. Lower in the madre spread the pure deep purple of southern twilight, while from the foot-hills came the soft evening breeze born afier the heat of day. Even sounds fell on the ear so gently yon thought that before reaching yon they have loitered to bathe in the ncequia and esught some of its mur On the plaza 1 passed two groups of comrades, one seeking solace in bran dy, the other, fortune in roulette pleasant pastimes that might lead to Spanish Was above and wonld bear light watching I walked on to the Jardin de Oro, | 8 small public park, where serenaders are inspired and listeners stroll or nest themselves on benches or the grass, Only those who have suffered the | heat and glare of a campaign in the desert can form any idea of the physi- onl luxury of groen trees and of whet. ne dian Spanish as it fell about me in slow chatter. From afar it mingled with tho murmur of the fountsin. What a contrast this scene to the the whirr of the rattle. insistent cooing of the turtle-dove -~monrnful sounds which seem to add to the vibrant heat. Above the mountains lay a zone of troubled white, from which the moon had now risen into the full, wu blue, the leaves over to onset shadows in arabesque on the grass He had a cheering | mur. 4 {dents to st my feet, where, as thy night breeze stirred the foliage, i% wove marvelous figures in trefoil and tracery for fancy clever bit of work, and five bucks did | to play with as with those made by | flames in a grate. Now it was the lines | of a Gothic window, seen in an old eathedral almost forgotten, and row, on grander scale, the design of deli cate drawn-work recalled from Indy's chamber, | Leighton was there, mantilla beside (him, I eould only half | vealed oval of the face, but the figure was slight and pretty, for 1 caught its | graceful ontline later when they passed me, ’ my nv Next evening, at a baile, Leighton | presented me to Panchita. they were dancing animal, with Together he and this pretty eyes for him alone. Iu the desert so rapid is love's kindling, #0 quick and full its flame, no charred or hall-burned brands are here left on love's altar. survives from fire After Wns must spring, phoenix-like, descend from heaven. the danza ended, stariding in shirt sleeves near Panchita, with the collar of hie jersey open at the throat--a trick of his that made me suspect that he had seen service in the navy. As he leaned over her, Panchita's eve caught sight of the locket and he removed the locket, opened it, and handed it t« her; this time not indifferently, but with all the pride of prized conquest. OF 21846 chain, I was watching Panchita closely as she gazed fascinated by the portrait, and I saw her tremble. Only as I read her face then by what I now know, can I tell well it expressed all that hopeless f which eo how BCTISe 03 loss es with the abandonment of things loved For TAge # or desired showed the feels for an instant child inanimate her OV es that objec hart it she woul the locket woman conquered, and she retutned it From that she ment her abandon is 011 mpi ve | and sKippe CARSCArOn«s and her eyes never | ig intoxrated with | OVC nts bright Juke they danced, s« cing and she looks forever At length Leighton RO, and hypnotized or ignoring her gether, og - » - 3 » The next ruled Leighton's official epitaph in the L Troop records thus: “Deserted from August 18, 1886 He Was becomar wn ’ cheeks w fins fever stars her hed wit} spots, eves shone On and on { nly each other. wld 1 as if she eo dance proposed they wish as if impelled to do it they she beved his Aha, left duenua, to week | hunting pass —he-night ol the. baile pe had been stabbed in the park. I found his body there, and mrades were about to string up Morales, Panchita’s 4 {or my « local admirer the stabbing, whet I stopped them “Hold fi. bovs ber | pron I said ised the heatenas plications na I kept m) I 4d been abt 3 stringing Morals Leightor's body Ket was lying On ths it. The clasp = blood-stained and fair ground beside A& Open AD 1 the 8 rirant mutilated, as if by the pe int of a dagpe r I think Leightor when he hall knew what hie s WAS doing fisun trait at that por Panchita he " lov Pt | 3 CAYe 108s to YOu son dang Tr woman's heart nt chap, and A way win ANY it was his first affair in this land, and he was mistaken in their ter How could 1 let his rece sO Well mld 1 do Leighton was not his right found out afterward when reading his home letters to get his relatives’ ad dress His name was Jack Langhorn, and that locket the rascal showed me contained a portrait of his youngest sister I found that ont in writing t« his family, whom I told that Langhorn was kitled by the Apaches in the fight at Chirachuea Fass that occurred tw weeks before his death Three years later Jack's sister came to the States, where I met her in Col orado, the year after I left the service and maae the strike at Harqua Hala She is Mrs. Narlin now, and you met her at dinner But remember, she knows only half the story of her por trait, and Jack Langhorn was killed by the Apaches. Let us join the ladies. ~(!, Overton, in Argonaut, C———— Saw the Stomach Work, The stadents of the Baltimore Col lege of : per rd re WMmin what ¢ Besides name, as I view of a man's stomach at work, and it is said to be the first time that the spectacle was over seen, By means of a flexible rubber tabe a diminutive, but powerful electric light was intro duced into the patient's stomach, and the lights in the room being lowered, the darkness permitted over 2000 sta. soe the workings of the stomach, The experiment was con dneted by Professor Julius Frieden wald. << New Orleans Picayune. - CL ———— - Different Tastes in Guns, In gans the oldwtyle flint looks, with stocks oarved and painted in colors end with barrels painted in pe- online lyphios, are sold to the Arabs and Afrioan tribes in quantitios. The South American takes a dainty barrel of the smallest gauge, with the stocks also elaborately oarved and ornamented. The European buys a gun exqn finishod and inlaid in tracings of «Chicago Herald the re- | It is consumed, and what | Leigiaton | done to relieve a. I know | You sec, the case was an awkward | jscovery, thexnlug. of hich tout SI of ronnie foothulie sacede tH TROON ita to 0 Ro Farr GLE. ing ands i less until they end in No add Physicians and Surgeons the | while money lasted, | other day were treated to an inside A MODERN LYRIC, If you could only always know, When the doorbell rings, Just who it is that stands below, Making the door-bell Jingle so, Quite frequently you wonldu't gO When the door-bell rings. It isn't sure to be a friend, When the door-bell rings It may be “Umbrellas to mend?” Or some one with fine shoes to vend, ¥ hose flow of language has no end, Wheh the door-bell rings. It's always at your busiest time, When the door-bell rings, Your hands may be are black with grimey fu such a ease your language I'm Quite sure I'd pever put in rhyme, hen the door-bell rings, { to the door you always go, hen the door-bell rings urious to know n the porti i 80 outsiders get a show BAS YOU re ( Fust who is ¢ N hen the door-bell rings, Romerville Journal. . c————— HUMOR OF THE DAY, Truth. The good hackman is known by hg Florida Times-Union. A kiss is 8 song that should always be encored. —Florida Times-Union, nosd Hallo, Cut rates—SBurgeons’ foes CArTIAge belle Putting a wn Kafir we The pawnbroker takes no Mmterd n Transcript. Ringing = [} rpament on mau that he talks al Chromel The woman who can mirror it hes the heroism made Florida pass J without Jo of which martyrs are Fimes-Union, Ring into looal desler sdvertises ‘‘a new gentlemen Phila- f walking-stieks for arved wooden hes is Mrs pper — “Why are old Shopkeeper but then vou know new, \ all these toys Yes, madam, 4 ] most Ol the babies Aare Oogue An ounce of prevention is worth a of thre ; that “le"t8 TY, the likely to charge just as Pn k druggist CRsADL. you faults and eciathers Bostor 1 he CRI market LIRCaverY i! : Who has charge nmal Can't tell he next strip woods 5 ind Plaindesler eve that practice al it hasnt ever sinee “Jo you bei WAVE makes pe rect “Ne made anything bat a row that idiot his flute Chien; commen ed o Inter Oceoar npstairs wit} Byers What Was ¥ etling vaccinated LF) ir Seller . Ooms { make the ar an WOR it did already I'ribune aes 1D rhenmatx arm pain. It midn't than w Flison is quite ature, don't vou think?” She “That young wid 1 ht vy A dashing right dashed effectually indisnapo- “I ruess you are my most when 1 asked her to IUAITY ne lis Journal. he pes with Dollie for bowing to Charlie Saiffers (out Dimple) — "Pardon me that shabby old codger, but I feel ob- liged to do it." Dollie Who ie he, Charlie?” Charlie— "He is the head of our firm.” —Sprre Moments Nell “Row do with Jack?” she told me he was and if she mm my pince she wouldn't have anything to do with him, "Philadelphia Record, Footman—*‘Say, Jeems, what would we do if we found a po ‘ketbook with £20,000 that the boss had loft in the carriage?" Coachman ~~ “Do? We wouldn't do nothing at all. We'd live on our income.” Texas Siftings. Customer ‘Why is it you things as much for & wix-pound pig as you do for a sixteen-ponnd pig?” Batoher-- “The smallor the pig, mum, the worse it hurts us to kill it. Got to ebarge somethin’ fur our feelin's, mum." Chiesgo Tribune, Miss Beare ‘‘Jack Marblehead gave me a great reception yesterday. He has a eannon on his yacht and when 1 onme on bourd he fired a salute of ever 0 ny~forty nine, I think it waa Bmarte-«*‘Onc for every your of your age, I suppose. "Vogue. von know she is in Belle — * Beoanse pecrfectiy horrid, love were
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