{ There is a movement in the diree- tion of woman's suffrage in France, About $200,000,000 worth of regis. tered United States bonds are held by private individuals, In order to protect an invention all ovar the world no less than sixty-four patents are required at a cost of about $17,500. The railway mileage of Europe, Asia and Africa now aggregates 159, 6565 miles. The railways of the United States reach 168,507 miles. New Zealand is bent on preserving her remarkable wild birds and other animals, and has set apart two islands on which all hunting and trapping is forbidden. Scarcely a stream issues from the lower slopes of the Andes, either to the Amazon on the east or the Pacific on the west, the sands of not auriferons. which are The amount of gold in the country must ulous. be almost fab- Thomas Godbepraised, of England, Only about four per cent. of the sen-going vessels constructed at the present time are of wood. The development of college sports is indicated, thinks the Chicago Her- ald, by the fact that Harvard now has u salaried manager. In Canada positions in the Civil Ser- vice are obtainable after examination and are held during good behavior, which, as a rule, means life, In Japan a man can live like a gen- tleman for about 82560 a year. This sum will pay the rent of a house, the salaries of two servants and supply plenty of food. The Hungarian Government has re- cently passed a law providing for the payment of indemnities to prisoners innocently condemned to penal servi tude, and to their families in cases where such prisoners have been found | to have suffered capital punishment. i The Argentine Republic 1s rapidly becoming a prominent competitor in the business of supplying grain to the after the rush and excitement of the World's Fair, sought rest, Appropri- ately enough, observes the St. Louis Republic, in Philadelphia. But one of the live reporters of that city found him out and wrote him up. to Of conrse his name goes back Round-head days, A widower's association has been formed in Dresden, Germany. No man can join unless his wife is dead, and if he marries again he becomes an hon- of the chief purposes of the association is to ‘help newly-made widowers by looking after their wives’ funerals and for their children. orary member merely. One Caring Samory, the great Mohammedan chief of interior Africa, is about the last semi-savage of the dark country to the force of The French have been gradual- ly driving them into and now the British raids against his warriors. Samory is the greatest bandit king in the world. yield to civilization and Arms. closer quarters Metropolitan fashions have long pre- vailed throughout the country, In no ore thing is this more plainly ap- parent than in the uniforms of police- men. city brother, He may not have the city brother's repose of cool manner and | : jsuntiness of bearing, but his | clothes are strictly up to date, The railway companies of the United States have no as serts the New York News, to eomplain of their business for the fiscal Including all the bankrupt and non- reasonable CRUse, YOAr. paying lines the aggregate net earn ings were more than three hundred and fifty million This is equivalent to about three and dollars. one half per cent. of the capitalization, a very good rate of interest in view of the fact that the roads are generally capitalized at from two to five times their actual cost. It is estimated that there are 10,000 books of poetry in the National Library at Washington. The of the Jdibrary require the keeping of every copyrighted book, so that the collec- tion must include an enormous amount of trash. The San Francisco Chronicle believes it is safe to say that tenths of this which no publisher would issue with of which is absolutely worthless rules nine verse represents work | and Thera ought to be some provision for weed- out advance payment cost, ing out this trash, which is not worth shelf room. It illustrates the need of a Pacifie | cable that the news of the two most important events in the Hawaiian epi, sode passed between Washington and Honolulu only ward round the after traveling back 21,000 miles in order to compass a direct die tance of some HOOD miles. globe some The news of the decision of President Cleveland to attempt the restoration of the Queen reached Hawaii first by steamer from New Zealand, having traveled by telegraph under the North Atlantic are conducting | | to the testatrix. ] European markets, of Shipowner: | Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are | taking advantage of the trade and find- | ing employment for their vessels at remunerative rates between the River { Plate and Old World ports | The low price of wheat this vear is h | due, maintains the New York Witness, | to the fact that | was held over from a very large the surplus big Crops of | the past two VOATS, The farmers of | the world are producing more wheat i than the people of the world ean buy, | though not more than could be con sumed if all the fo need it pe ople who | were able for it pa) A curious lawsuit has just been con- clnded at Brussels, A widow nsmed | Moens died intestate, leaving large fortune. A dispute at once began among her relatives and a lawsnit to settle the various claims was institut ed. fewer than 3500 persons were related At the trial it was proved that no has been that is, Judgment! pronounced in their favor in javor of relatives, even twelve degrees removed. The reclamation of the arid wastes Ia th I " A | of southwestern desert lands proceeds e smaller cities, and even | in small towns, the policeman nows- | Se West t-Rat former that ori marvelously apace. Another reclama- tion company was incorporated at Ban Jernardino, Cal., s few days ago, with a capital stock of $2,500,000, A dam i% to be erected at Victor Narrows, on the Mojave River, in San Bernardino County, fifteen feet in height, which will make a lake nine miles long and about three wide, whose waters will be used to irrigate about 200,000 acres of land on the Mojave Desert, which will then be especially adapted for growing raisin grapes and alfalfa a St. Peters other En incorporates in the the men who are drafted every year when According to the Sviet, burg paper, Russia, unlike ropean countries, army only one-fourth of young they reach the legal age for military service, 1892 listed 260 2%) were The recruiting in ens 768.672 but into the Ortho M: conscripts, only actually sent Of thes: 16,000 ranks, de hammedans ; 196 000 were ix, Israelites and 9000 the Russian army therefore Com pose 1 of re longing There men to the National religion were also in the contingent called to service | in 1892 193,000 men of pure Russian 17.000 A000 (ie Poles, 168 origin, FMAns, 16,000 Jews, Jashkires, and a Fartars, be homogene small number of Lithuanians, ete., «0 that the Russian army can considered as being quite ons in regard to its nationality, Every little while the police arrest a man with a kit of burglars’ tools in his possession, and one naturally won- It is easy to buy a gun of any description, ders where they all come from and the most reputable citizen wonld not be ashamed to be seen purchasing the most wicked looking knife ever made ; but who would know where to get a slung-shot, or a jimmie, or a de: vice for drilling into a safe, or any of the many tools used by the profes. sional burglar in the of his There probably are places in pursuit ealling? and through the whole of Europe, Asia, and Australia to reach the port from which the steamer sailed. Simi larly, the first news that the Provie ional Goverment refused the President's demands resched Washington by steamer from Hono- lulu to New Zealand, and theueo ‘hy telegraph back over the same round. shout route. A cable 2600 miles long, from Honolulu to San Francisco, would have saved 21.000 miles of tole graphio and steamship travel, and about two weelis of time in each in to accede to many large cities where these things but in are made and sold to the nsers, such places are seaice Ouee while the police find such a factory, and then things go hard for the pro- prietors, It may seem a little strange to learn that most of the tools used in burglaries are made by mechanies who are looked upon as respectable men in the community, When s burglar wants any particular tool made he goes to n mechanic who ean do the job, ani pays him perhaps five times what it is actually worth for making the tool and stance. kerpiug still about it, HOW -DE-IVG, Bay “how-de-do,"” an’ say “geodby,” Moot an’ shake, an’ then pass by ; Ain't mueh difference twixt the two, Bay '‘goodby’’ or “how de-do." “How-de-do,” with chilly heart, Ain't much differance, mest or part ; Jes’ a look, an’ jes’ a bow, Sometimes only jes’ a ‘how Ain't much difference which they say, “How-de-do" or tother way, Moet a friend —yer grasp his hand, An’ jes’ stand, an’ stand, an’ stand « Ghd yer met an’ hate ter part, Kindyve trembly in the heart, Neighbor = ¥yed on “Moody Hil" He was ‘To. an’ you was “Bill,” Kinder stop an’ look an’ say “How-de-do?" an’ then ‘good day I" Been away from home a spell, or windows, two or three blearwyed men, among whom was Blinks, lurched lazily toward the place where the small, dirty figure had gone under the muddy water, giving it plenty of time to drown in the most leisurely way | before their arrival. Only thescreech (ing mother and the dog were really alive to the situation, Jags was weak from long fasting, but the instinet inherited from a long line of noble ancestors nerved him. In a flash, it seemed, his gaunt body was in the water and out, and Betsy had snatched her sosked ‘kid,’ drained the water out of him and ad ministered a ringing slap. “Ye spalpane? Will yez be kapin’ away from the wather— will yez? The child replied with a vicious squirm and an unchildlike curse. Betsy went back to her washtnb, while Bwing the gate back, stand, an’ well, Kinder don't know what ter do, Heart thumps like ‘twas bustin’ througls Bald “‘goodby” a year afore-- Betsy standing in the door Said ‘‘goodby.” but '‘how-de-do," Seems the strangest o' the two. Brace right up an’ waltz right in, Shake the tremble from yer chin, Betsy's waitin’ there for you, Waltz right in with “‘How-de.do?" I'he Housekeeper ——— THAT DOG JAGS BY EDXNA C, JACKSON, OOR Jags was hungry. Infact, he was almost starved, His ribs were sharply ont lined against his mangy hide and there was an un quenchable eray ing inside of them for bo nes 1s seems funny when one thinks of it, when ther was nothing to him bat bones He raised his from his paws and snapped eagerly at a great, bulgy bluefly that buzzed lazily around, and N a gulp But fly is not much when one has a hollow within that church. Those h common in Rat Row. It was the riverstreet of a larg: city, where squalid men, women and children fought, quarreled, cursed and stole their wretched lives long to keep that inner void just sufficiently filled to ward off the Potter's Field. ‘Stole, I said. The younger habitants, per haps, limited their achievements to this. As for their elders—well, if a man with a comfortably filled stomach strayed into their power and would give up his ‘ticker’ sand other valu ables like a gentleman and evince no disposition to “‘squeal,” all right, perhaps ; if he rebelled, the river was handy. Then a fresh flow of fire head swallowed it with on¢ him feels ns big 8% A Hows werd | water, more desperate fighting, curs | ing and gutting for a dey™er. - | Sometimes a rosh of patrol-wagon and | starvation, bRI Lis" master was filled to. | armed police, a bleeding body carried away, & living, sullen, horrible one or two to answer for it—it was an old story to the blue-coats Thus, of the slums, kicked, cuffed and starved, with good n him that once led an uptown to off the street when Jags inadvertently wandered, foraging, quarter For three days Jags was fed, petted and began handsome, The first hour of liberty found him fawn- ing joyfully at the feet of Blinks, the most brutal of all the Rat Row brutes, whom Jags followed with a worship jing fidelity only found in some women and dogs, He was ready to starve with his horrible idol rather than desert him for soft treatment and unlimited bones with mest on them “Here ; 1 ye enss? Thought ye'd mosey, did ye? Been feedin', has ve Thought ye'd sneak ! Take that nd that nd that!” “That” was a series of brutal kicks that made the dog yelp out In piteous agony When they ceased one of Jags's voautiful, loving brown wR knwcked out of its bleeding socket by the master for whom Jags wae 8 d Ww points} clubman coax him respectable a“ » grow most ve be. be ve, poor OVER gone, { thanking | with the lurid comparison, | dawg ! Jags crept patiently to the side of his { master who, with another, had dropped | from sheer exhaustion on the yellow earth. No one thought of praising or Jags. Such small, sweet courtesies were not customary in Rat | Row. Only Blinke's companion, who seemed more alive than his surround ings, looked approvingly st the dog. “Fetch 'n carry?” he said laconi | eally, nodding in Jags's direction. “Like !"" drawled his master, with a laziness strangely at variance “Hyar, Grit it!” ' looked up imploringly as = stick flew far into the water. He was willing enough, hesven knows! But Jags | when one has had only one fly to eat for twenty-four hours, and had just dragged a heavy squirming body from the water, he may be pardoned for feeling trembly and averse to unneces- BAry exertion Gita!” Ther kick Jags went meekly out into the turbid water and came trembling all over to lay the stick beside the tyrant Again it flew ont, farther than This time Jags was almost swept down the river “Let up! snarled his master Was 8 in the eye, before, "onid Blinks's COMPANION “the dawg's nigh croaked.” “Lazy, cuss drawled Jags's im im energetic of almost owner Jags gave a whine human entreaty when the again, but tottered almost certain death Amicable relations turbed in Rat Row Jig Andy eaught Blinks by that part of his garment where the collar should have been snd shook him into a stupid protest “Blame hide!" "1m stick was thrown AWAY 1 11 are easily dis mizzable “Call I'll fling ye in arter "im!" Blinks fell imply to the ground and obeyed. But Jags had already turced to defend his master and bounded back with 8 grow] at his assailant “Cussed if the dawg wouldn't fight fer ye now, ye sneakin’ hound!” mut. tered Big Andy with sn admiring grin at Jags. He went into his own nest in the tenement houge and flung Jags » bone. ““Hyar, dawg! Pot that down your neck!" Jags sustchpd it with the fervor of Yer he shouted furiously. back or with a sullen spite aguicst the inno cent cause of his shaking, and, look ing to see that Big Andy was at a safe distance, Le called : “Hyar imp The dog came, clinging desperately to the precious food. “Drop it! The poor animal obeyed, eyeing it wistfully the “Now, come ve while git it!” forward to meet a kick that made him howl. peating this amusing performance no- til he was weary, the human brat finally threw the bone into the river started after it, but obeyed with something like tears In his one pathetic eye when commanded to lie down Well, he had hungry before, and if his master willed this, he must know best Jags bounded JOS fully le Jags weakly bes n long before this, that Jags was an ideal Christian Hours after this even Rat Row was wrapped in slumber—the heavy sleep of the drunkard or the leaden one of exhaustion and weakness. Blinks, af ter taking several more drinks from =» flat, black bottle, staggered into some | corner of the Old Mill, after ordering It has been seen, he had sacrificed wealth and comfort. | Jags in language savoring of brimstone That was merely a variation of the tortures that Jags's master habitually put upon him If it ever ocenrred to the dog that he had anything to for give he did so, freely, generously and lovingly, creeping sll the more adoringly to the feet that kicked him If he ever thought, wistfully, thet his master might have done a more mere: ful thing and relieved him of a! real trouble by kicking out his stomach, he never said so Just now he dragged his bony length | lights and trailing smoke making it the to stay ont, when the poor dog tried t« follow him in The stars shone as serenely down on the foul smelling city slums as upon the clover-sweet meadows far away The river murmured and gurgled along the black piers Sometimes the ‘‘ehug-chug” of a steamboat came clearly through the night; then its hoarse whistle one long-drawn, three short, another long-—woke the echoes and it puffed past, its high, colored | only he, Jags, on dumb, helpless ani- { mal, to know and save them! And he - his idolized tyrant, in there! Jugs throws himself against the door with a yell of agony. It falls open, A { thin puff of smoke wavers to meet him, Jarking, howling, fairly shrieking, Jags tears straight for the room where he and Blinks have their kennel. isn't there! Out again, against doors in his frantic search, choked with smoke, rushing through | curling tongues of flame, goes the dog, Are they all dead in there! ter, where is he? It is well in that vast hive is not too tired nor | too drunk to awaken. ig Andy rouses to realize that the dog is making | “a fuss,” takes in the situation in a | flash, and bounds out of the smoke. filled room. “Cireat God! “Fire, fire, fire! Somewhere a wire vibrates above the city streets, A great bell tolls out | on the night. Clang, clang, clang! Rattle, rattle, rush !| Streams of sparks in the wake of flying engines. Sharp | and clear the engine and patrol gongs | strike, in time with rattling hoofs and | wheels. Over all booms slowly and solemnly, with pauses the strokes, the great bell, All this time a dog was flying, with feet scorched now by the heated floor, from room to room, hunting object He finds him st last, in the second story, coiled up in a drunken heap on the floor. He springs upon him, tugs at his clothing, barks, whines and tries to drag him toward the door At last the man awakes, stolidly, stu- pidly, then to a vague terror and ab ject fright. He bounds to the door It ir & wall of flames. He reaches the window ; no thought of the creature saved him comes to the brutes He raises the sash and leaps It falls behind him prisoned in a tomb of fire The people have swarmed out, dirty, dazed, half-dressed The thrown out; the engines The firemen werk quietly, streams of perspiration dripping be neath their helmets. Floods of water glitter like liguid fi 11 His mas- | that one | The house is on fire!” between for one who mind out. Jags is un cordon is throb and SCTeAID. { {firein the red flames The Old Mill 1s doomed ut! up “Is & Very ons asks RAZILg tering furnace As if breaking low snd pitifal, the Chief brusque ly, toward the tot f in answer there is a crash of glass at a second-story win a hiving thing appears thers ablaze with little It whines implor pleading tongues of flame, ingly. Big Andy has private reasons of his own for preferring to remain smong a swarm of policemen the full dashes forward, 1IRCOR ng now into blaze of light he “The dawg, the dawg that saved all our lives! Git im, boys; git "im out ! My God! 1 hain’t got no money, boys, but look hyar! They's a re ward of 8500 out fer I'm Big Andy, the safe-cracker. You know me! I'll give myself up to anybody that'll save thst dewg. I mean it, boys!” There was good in was sobbing aloud me! Jig Andy; he For the credit of human nature be it said, no one claimed that reward. A quiet order through the trumpet, stream the hose the crazy window in The dog sprang to the sill and tottered weakly, A fireman ran lightly up the ladder and earried him down to the cool earth. There he fe bleeding and scorched. He ro himself to gaze longingly around, dragged his mangled body to where Blinks stood, staring stupidly, and laid his head, with a faint moan, against his master’s feet “Speak to him!" bawled Big Andy furiously. ‘Pet ‘im, or I'll kill ye! Perhaps something human stirred in the heart of the lower brute He stooped and laid a not ungentle hand on the bleeding head, “W'y, w'y, Jags, ole fel!” But with a rapturous look of grati tude from his loving, beautiful eye, the dog had gone Where? If there is no dog heaven, what will the Creator do with the faithful, martyr soul of Jags ?-—-The Voice — A Snake Story, aver Chief's and s of water from drove oll, ned on one “I never realized the strength of the instinct of self-preservation in man,” said John F. Thompson to the corridor man at the Laclede, ‘until 1 witnessed a test of it on a steamboat, Among the passengers was a man who had a black rattlesnake mn a box with | glass top. The snake was a very | vicious one, and wonld strike the glass whevever any one approached. The | owner of the reptile challenged any one in the erowd to hold his finger on glass and let the snake strike at it to the side of Blinks, keeping a watch | look through the darkness like some | pp o0 sould not be any danger, and | ful eye for kicks, and breathed along, | sobbing sigh of relief when he got | close to his idol without awakening! him. The man wax seated on a broken chair outside the tottering tenement | tions of his wretched life and empty it, and, after repeated attempts gave house where he and Jags had a kennel. His bloated red face was turned np- | ward to the sun, his breath reeked bad | whisky, the soft summer breeze stirred his loathsome rags Biinks was happy. He was “full,” not | of that unnecessary luxury, food, but | of vile whisky. His slumber was soon disturbed by | a splash, a chorus of yells from the | gnmins on the river bank, and with! bare, red arms dripping with soap | sods, her frowsy hair flying in the | wind, Betsy O'Riley rushed from her | wash tab, } “The babby | The darlint! It's | drowndid he is intoirely! Howly | Mary! Run, ye murtherin' divils! | Save ‘im! Hilp!” . i It would not have created much of | s sousation in Rat Row society if a bal! dozen little “‘rets” had been swept away altogether by the river, A few drifgled women lounged to doors fiery-eyed demon of the mists, Jags, lying prone on the rickety steps of the Old Mill, moans and cries a little in his sleep as vague realize stomach visit his dream. i Suddenly hs starts up, nose in air, and listens, There is nothing unusual, | Jage! The river gurgles on softly, | One wonders | the stars twinkle undimmed, there is | reason and will power combined." —St, how oven the breeze could touch him. | no variation of sight or sound that hu- Louis (lobe-Demoorat. man mind ean detect. Not human | mind, perhaps, but dog instinct i Jags quivers, he sniffs the air and | walks abont uneasily, He stops and | whines, tries to push in the barred | door and fails, Then he breaks into a | long, pinintive howl. Surely that will awaken some one in that narrow street, that erowded house! But there comes no other sound but the rippling | river, the roar of the far away, sleep- lena streets, Again and again he howls, Silunce! What is that? A mere shadow of a sound, faint, stealthy, as if some one had stepped lightly on a dry twig and snapped it. Tt rouses Jags to frenzy. Scores of human beings, men, womon, little children, sleeping eslmly in » there was not a man who did not think | it an easy thing to do. “One big fellow, who looked as if he never knew what nerves were, tried it up. Then every passenger on the boat attempted, and failure followed in each ease. It simply could not be Jone. Iustinet was stronger than EE cm— Increased Use of Mulion, It is not altogether the cheapness of mutton that is leading people to use it more freely. They have learned that it is an excellent and healthful ment and the consumption of mutton in the United Slates is six times as great in 1808 ns it was in 1887, We are undoubtedly killing off sheep faster than their natural increase. . must lead to increasing soarcity of fat sheep for mutton, and higher prices for the mutton when marketed. Sheep cannot be increased very rapidly st the best, and if our stock becomes de- leted it takes several to build t up again. — Boston Cultivator, : ’ tinder-box, that tinder-box on fire and He | jumping { mm — A BONG OF LOVE WAY, What, sweet mistress, should there be "Twixt thy heart and Thers no barrier 1 sec mine this day? Which Love may not kiss sway Do the tu walt one smile 10 ine Love will find his way to thee ! If a rose should bar his pst} Th Love sueh ruy, with a jealous fre wer, winning isvor hath He would quickly kiss it de wu Then would sweetly, tenderly Bear it on his breast to thes, - Love will come his own to greet Though uo light his day adorns, Through a world of roses, swe Through a wilderness of thorns ! Do thou waft one smile to me, Love shall find his way to thee! «Frank L. Stanton, iu Atlants Constitution. ——— HUMOR OF THE DAY. The A spark of genius I'ruth. A backslider Hallo. Winning an crab. heir- CRE, The man who agrees with us doesn’ around near tam ws Horn. come often enough, ~~ The stock exchange is where hope ig exchanged for Florida Times-Union, A man with an elaciic imagination 1# too liable to nse it for a conscience, - Rochester Democrat experience, { This is a world of men who Le E174 compensations lnck long heads generally faces. — Truth. of BOE HINES are Dave The which worst the rosy colors panied 1s U they wre not fast Puck “How “I really the pr The sword pen may be but t's the young womes “Johnny log's Kg been bec 11 5¢ prot Bimghan (Une resasor Ww 3 " ICAL 18 des i the hs the Cleveland Plain Dealer. ng Amerionn RIFE ns wrots wed “Da vou believe we al frst ertainly. not Transcript. liscover Hungry Higgins right nowadays--t'ank you, tanks?” Weary Watkins de tanks wonld hit us about right. Indianap- olis Journal. The man wiho keep ont of supplied with f life ws gress i debt & seldom so the wi ¢ slways esreful to well ouveni- erate Cnces oO Ons fol I were “Wi Boston eT She Traveler nakes no diff the m a tad « ia NOEIAL, ut of the , Newport In the cannibal “What the =On Have You disagreed with v« 1. why 1 ate bum Tommy best dentist in toy he hurt yon? / did he give ) and he told me « New York Press, Ihe sonrcity of lied the beseiged wort canines d 1 here Wal she iy “8 logs of ie Iphia Ledger First Belle “Then Schulze and Herr Len her an offer of mariage the Ineky man? Int Schuize, Herr Lehmann 1 Oberiander Bots Necond “Have yon had your new sured, Mra. Dwight? “You.' husband afraid of fire, “Merey, yos | he will lonve the house any time before he will y. Chicago Inter-Ocean, EL] minke one, “How do you know that DeVere is not in love with Mabel Swoeetoriar?” “Because I heard him tell her the other evening, when they came from church, that he knew an short ont home," -<Detroit Free Pros “Did you know that Miss Bjones was going to marry young Smith?” “1 know it; but 1 esnuot understand how a girl ax intelligent as she ix cap cone went to marry a man stapid enough to want to merry her.” Brooklyn Life “Angels have wing, haven't they, grendma?’ “I've alvays heard so." “I heard Uncle Gerald tell Mademois selle she was an angel iu the shrab- bery this mourning and she busn’t got wings.” “No, bat she'll have to fy.” we Punch, An’ is your man workin® sow, Mea, Mulloy?” “He is that, Mrs. Tooloy.” “Phwat do lio be doin’, Mrs. Mullay?® “Coachin' couviets, Mrs, Tooley.” “Phowat's tint, Mra, Molloy" “Drive in’ the Diack Maris, shure, Meg, Tooley." = Elmira Gazette,
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