a eve yh
Marriages are proportionately about
wice as numerous in small Western
wities as in New York.
The Paris Siecle says that England
acts as though it owned the world,
and that it is about time for an ex-
planation.
An English newspaper asked for
opinions on the most popular name
for a girl and a boy. “Harold” and
“Dorothy” got most votes.
The scarlet tanager, by many cons
sidered the most beautiful bird
America, has within a few years be-
come so rare that
The milliners have almost exterminat-
in
it is seldom seen.
ed them.
One of the curiosities of trade is
shown in the fact that a large Nor-
wegian steamship has been chartered
to carry thirteen hundred tons of pa-
per pulp to Fleetwood, England, from
a wood pulp factory in Maine. For
the year ending December 31, 1893,
we imported 55,504 tons of wood pulp. |
An ironical but timely application |
of a phrase away from its customary |
. 3p . | one chance in 2560 more of dvi on |
significance is the command *‘‘hold up | ying on
your hands,” directed by the city
police to tramps who attempt to abide |
in El Paso, Texas, relates the Atlanta |
Constitution. This town of agreeable |
winter temperature, lying as it does |
on the southern railroad route from |
California, was becoming overrun, as
other
ruffian
Texas towns have been, by the |
that months |
The
put in |
mendicants for
have been thronging eastward.
evil abated when the rule was
force. Now whenever a tramp applies
hold up
If the palms do not fur-
for relief he is compelled t
his hands.
nish evidence that he isa genuine work-
ingman he is promptly set to cleaning
the streets, As the
forcing ordinances in El Paso empha-
methods for en-
gize prompitude with plenty of force
and fireworks it strange that |
tramps hold aloof from that city and |
bestow their unwelcome visitations on |
‘other places.
18 not
Women's colleges, in sundry places,
says the Philadelphia Public Ledger, |
have broadened out wonderfully since |
the early days of Vassar. Not to speak
of Smith and Tufts in Massachusetts, |
Mr. Henry F. Durant, by his ex-
JMraordinary gift of $1,000,000, made |
possible the establishment of Wellesley |
College. In addition to this princely |
gift, Boston University, with its mil- |
sd te soope-thnt it
ripened its doors to women, being en- |
abled to do so by the generosity of |
In Baltimore the
liberality of Mr. Goucher provided the
Ie proaaane
Jacob Sleeper.
women's college ; also, Miss Mary Gar
rett founded a preparatory school,
which
liminary education ; while Johns Hop
is worth everything in pre
kins has granted entrance to some of
For Philadelphia, Dr
Taylor established in the suburb of |
its courses,
Bryn Mawr & splendid college at an
expenditure of 81,000,000, New
Orleans exists the Sophie Newcomb
Qollege, in connection with Tulane
University.
doors of the Washington University, |
stand the
same footing with men, thanks to John |
D. Rockefeller, in the great University |
of Chicago.
In
St. Louis has opened the |
and women members on
For several years past and probably |
for several years to come, predicts the |
New York the
which will tell most in the world’s fu-
Independent,
tare history is that which comes from | growing effsiency of the Fire Depart
Africa. During the past week there
has been an
added to this
history.
neighborhood. France proposes to
control the whole of this territory,
and she reaches Timbuetoo from the
north by way of Algeria and from the
west by way of Senegal. Timbuetoo
bas been an almost miknown oity,
visited very rarely, and generally 1
Europeans only in disguise. The in-
formation is too meagre as yet for us
to understand the full caning of this
occupation,
force ix n small one, and a small force
oould have no chance in case of oppo-
mition. We have no question that
France intends to make Timbuetoo a
groat centre for its influence and
power, nor that Northwest Africa will
be finally under French control. It is
often said, and truly said, thet France
has shown no great aptitude for eolo-
nial enterprises owing to u lack of sur
plus population. But she has put
Algeria ander civilized conditions,
and Frenchmen may multiply more
rapidly in the colonies than they do
in their own country. The partition
lof Africa will afford a great outlet for
So far ns we know the
| Orleans
news |
important new chapter |
A French |
military force has entered Timbuetoo |
in the very interior and most inae- |
| cent. of the amount placed.
cessible part of the South Sahara | y
Since 1840 the world's production
of meat has increased fifty-seven per
cent., that of grain 420 per cent.
The Chicago Evening Post says that
“Chicago policemen do less work for
more pay than any other class of the
unemployed.”
Professor Riley, the bug man of the
Agricultural Department, says that
some bugs have all the five senses
that man has, and one or two more.
An illustration of the severity of the
times is found by the New York Inde
pendent in the fact that two physicians
lately advertised in a daily paper, of
fering 85000 to & man who would sub-
mit to an experimental surgical opera-
risk. One
hundred and forty-two answers were
received.
tion involving some
After a careful calenlation of the
risks from all possible data the Lon-
don life insurance companies have
fixed the ‘‘war risks” to be paid extra
by their patrons ordered
service at $2.16 per $500,
active
That ie to
on
say, the British soldier has but about
active service, than if he staid quietly
at horae in London.
Chicago is worried over the
that so many of its streets and avenues
have the
Orleans Picayune,
sixty-five names have to do duty for
the
wholly satisfactory.
result
It
Ashland
720 streets, and not
has twelve
Centre streets, seven ave.
nues, seven Chestnut streets, ten Lin-
den streets, thirteen Oak streets, thir-
teen Park streets and fourteen Wash
ington streets, besides =a
which are less redaplicated
the
Mikado
A few years ago, relates
Picayune, the
"
ol
.Japan determined to ask his people to
them, and with »
flourish of trumpets called for an elec- |
help him govern
tion and organized a parliament. Late |
reports from that country say that |
now he is having a hard time to man-
Not |
long ago the conservative majority ex- |
age the popular representatives:
pelled the President, Hoshi, because |
he insisted in keeping faith with for- |
eign powers. Then Foreign
Mitsu made them an address, showing |
that the course of the majority would |
result in losing everything that Japan
had gained in thirty years, but they
would not listen to reason, and the
session was suspended for ten days. It
is said that the doings of the Japanese
parliament would furnish first rate ms- |
terial for a comie The
Ipera. minis
ters attend the sessions with orders for |
the suspension of parliament ready |
signed and sealed by the Emperor in
their pockets, and when the body be
comes unruly the orders are produced,
and the session suspended for ten days
the
or a fortnight. The majority of
members are intensely Japanese,
posed to everything foreign, and they |
have no idea of parliamentary
It is
pro.
ceedure.
timately.
The annual
Board of
York City, contains some interesting
report of fires of the
Fire Underwriters,
statistical information. Several tables
set forth the number of alarms sad |
| maid-of -all-work had been summoned
From to the sick bed
the amount of losses for thirty-nine
years up to April 36, 1898,
these may be gathered an idea of the
ment, as well as the rate of increase
of fires due to the growth of the city. |
The insurance money paid in 1855 | send little Polly up to stay all night
in adjustment of losses was 32.87 per
For the
succeeding years until 1870, when the |
paid department was adopted, this
percentage was not reduced--in fact,
rose in the last few years of this
period. But since, snd including
1890, there has been a conutant al-
though not steady reduction. The first
year the paid firemen took hold it wes
22.28 per cent. In the year ending
April 80, 1898, it was 13.10 per cont,
the lowest inall but two years in the
history of the city. This is telling
testimony to the valne of the paid de-
partment. In 1845 there were 355 fire
alarms, in 1808 2060, a steady ascent,
excepting the years 1863 and 1862,
when the number was exactly the
same, that is, 700, Fires are most nu
merous in January snd after that io
December. They are fowest in Bey:
tember and August. The aggregate
for the Januarys since 1854 was 4847,
for December 4749, July 4460,
March 4828, April 4159, February
4094, November 3867, May 3624, June
3585, October 3392, Anguet 3162, and
September 8150. As may be seen, the
winter months bring the most visita.
tions of fire, except July, whos large
number ia sccounted for by Fourth of
July fires,
fact
same names, notes the New |
One hundred and |
number
New |
Minister
op- |
said that the Mikado |
has started a movement whioh is sure |
| swered.
to give him a good deal of trouble ul- |
{ and there's
| Besides,
{ should I be?”
of New |
MOTHER'S
‘When the babe les on tho heart
Cares depart ;
Heavenly peace, heavenly rest
Fill the breast,
When the babe Jes on the heart,
PAY,
When I look on baby's face
In baby's place,
Yexing snarls to smoothness run
Maglio spun,
When 1 see that peaceful face,
Than queen to people. more to theo
I joy to be;
Thau people to their queen thou'rt more
Told o'er and o'er
In every breath of thine to ma,
When thou liest on my heart
Hatred's smart
Turns to sweet ;: love's soft spell
The wa / knows well
Through baby's lips to mother’s heart,
O'er responsive eyes and lips
Sloeep's sclipse
Boftly falls, breathing bliss
As I kiss
The tiny, rosy flagertips,
While with theo sweet tryst 1 keep,
Hall nsloap,
In thy silver, dream-world boat
Soft I float
O'er slumber’'s sacred deep,
All the wild world's maddening fray
Melts away
Gladly all the world to lose
I would choose
Could I take this heavenly pay.
Lesser duty's strident scream
Drops its theme
Joy and duty are (
ne code,
Heaven-bhestowed,
While I wateh
my baby dream,
As I gaze on baby
Angel's g
Falls around
Cares t
White she sees
the
When my |
abe lies on nn
babe lies on
Martha Fools
my heart,
Crow, in Independent
STORY.
GRAVES,
MRS. ARDENS
BY HELEX POOREST
UESS your man
won't be home to- |
night,” said Seth
Shapley.
I was standing st
the gate, where the
Norway spruces
cast long shadows
on the snow,
watching the crim
son dyes of the
sunset, when Seth's
cumbrous sled,
drawn by two
sleepy oxen, creak-
ed past,
os “Why, what do
you mean?" said L
“Bridge is broke,” declared Seth,
“ain't no way of fixin' it before to- |
| morrow noon!”
“Can't he come around by way of
| Millville?” I asked.
Seth shook his head.
“They've took off the night train,”
said he. ‘““Warn't enough passengers
to pay this winter
Seth looked at
looked at Seth.
“All alone np there, ain't yon?”
said he, abruptly
“Yes,” I acknowledged, “I am all
alone.”
“Better jest git aboard the sled and
come down to our place to stay all
night," suggested Seth.
“Oh, 1 couldn't do that?” I an.
“l expect Bafus's mother
down from Montreal at any time now ;
the house to look after
not wll afraid, Why
his oxen's ears, 1
I'm
“Oh, I donno!” said Seth, entting a
fresh plug of tobacco. ‘It's kind o
| spooky up there, ain't it, with Betsey
gone?’
And then I remembered that my
of some ancient rela
give, a few miles away.
My perturbed face must have ap-
| pealed to honest Seth's sense of chiv-
| alry, for he burst out all of a sndden:
‘I'll tell ye what, Mrs. Arden, I'll
with you. Polly's only a slip of a
| thing, but she’s a deal o' company,
| and I'm pretty sartin she
wouldn't
like nothin’ no better,”
“Oh, thank you!” said I. “It will
be very kind of you, Mr. Shapely."”
And I strolled back to the house,
the crisp wind blowing my hair back,
and the red sunset gleams lighting up
the frozen landscape as with bars of
blood.
I was an artist's wife. We had not
been married » year yei, and Rufus
had gone to the city to see about some
pirotures that he was placing on sale in
a great art room.
fe had been able to hire Raquette
House, as this fine old mansion was
ealled, at » merely nominal rate, as
the wealthy pork-packer who built it
was tired of the loneliness of the sitn-
ation and had moved to Atlantic City,
where his money wonld make more
show. And Rofus had the option of
paying the rent by paicting a set of
panel pictures for his seaside dining:
room.
It was a larger house than we need
ed, but the grounds and gardens were
delightfal, and after all, as Rafa snd
1 reasoned, it didn’t cost us any more
than a smaller honse would, and was a
deal more artistic.
Bat it did seem rather
glowmy in the gathering d as 1
came in that might, more y
I had never before been aloue in it mere
than a fow hours at a time,
Consequently T was not a fow
minutes afterward to hes Sap
Joy's voice as I sat by the fire,
and
Polly, flushed with the haste she hind
made, **Did you know, Mis’ Arden,
the west door warn't bolted?”
Polly was a tail fourteen-year-older,
voiee,
“Betsy was
doors,” said I,
careless about the
remembering with a
ises in his absence,
“Because,” he had said,
that money Welford wanted
bank for him in the
drawer, and the diamond
the cabinet.”
And then, with a sodden after.
gleam of recollection it flashed across
me just where Rufus had stood, by the
depot stove, when he spoke the words,
and how a stout, short men, in a
| slouched fur cape and a ragged over
cont, had watched us as he waited for
a ticket and chewed tobacco.
Could he have heard the word? And
how was he to kfiow that ‘the dia-
mond necklace” was only as state
trinket of cut glass, borrowed of an
artist friend for the decoration of the
lay figure, or that Welford's money
was only a few dollars,
ment of something he
from Rufus?
Upon the whole, T was glad that
Polly Shapely had come to bear me
during that long, solitary
winter night. Of course there was no
danger, but that
“We'll go back and bolt it, P«
said I,
“Oh, 1
“Gracious!
me
necklace in
sent in repay
had borrowed
company
ily,
done that! said Polly
ain't them hails dark | |
eae through the study
“Studio Polly,” 1 gently corrected
her
“Studio, then,” Polly accepted the
“The fire ain't quite
Ain't no danger o' fire,
| emandeation,
out, here.
there?”
“Perhaps it
with ashes
to it,
tea
18
had better be covered
saad “Run and attend
Polly, and 4 ¢ about the
“I've got some apples and chestnuts
eried Polly,
mother's riz doughnuts
mebbe you hadn't nothin
| Betsey was gone,
| candle, Miss Arden 1
| through them halls in the dark agin
{ for nothin’. 1 could swear ther
spooks a-rushin’ arter me
“What nonsense, Polly!" said L
| But, nevertheless, I handed her the
brass candlestick that Rufus had
bought at a sale on sccount of its an
tiquity.
“an i some oO
She thought
baked up,
Gimme a
wouldn't go
in my bag,’
seein
Ws
1
{| 1 was just hanging over the tea-ket
tle when the scuffle of Polly 8 footsteps
was heard once more, this time at rail
| road rate,
i “1 wouldn't be hired to go through
that there study ag'in, Mis’ Arden,
said she, slamming down the candle
stick on the table.
| “Why, Polly, what's the matter?”
| “Them portraits a starin’ down at |
“Their eyes a |
i me!" gasped the girl.
{ follerin®' me all round |
[a start it gimme!”
“That's the way portraits always do,
| Polly,” explained. *“You'rea goose!”
{| “ can't help it,” panted Polly. “It
| fa'rly makes mecreep. An’the woman
in white, standin’ up on the platform
she turned her an’ looked at
me, she did."
“What, Polly—-a wooden figure,
dressed like the Lady of Avenel?” and
I burst out laughing. “Why, it's
jointed, like a doll!”
“Well, i can't help it
its head. And I wouldn't go back
there ag'in, Mis’ Arden, not if you
wae Yo give me a silver dollar!”
“Well, Polly, yon needn't.” 1
soothed her, perceiving that she was
| really nervous and frightened. “We'll
have tea here by the fire, and after
ward we'll roast the apples and the
chestnuts, There are no portraits here
to follow yon with their eyes.”
And Polly soon forgot her tribula
tions in the tea, the raspberry jam
and the tales I told her of lifein beau
tiful, ice-girdled Montreal.
1 made her up an impromptu bed on
a sofa in my own room opening from
this cheerful, fire-lighted apartment;
but when she was asleep and snoring,
I quietly threw a shawl over my
shoulders and relighted the candle,
| “1 will see after that fire myself,”
thought I. ‘There's no telling woat
accidents might happen, and we are
| not insured.”
Nevertheless, I could but remember
Polly's idea of the “spooks” ws 1
passed along the silent, moounlighted
| hall to the studio door.
Opening it suddenly, the draught
| blew out my candle; but the moon il-
| luminated the room with a faint silver
| radiance, and one or two live embers
| yet glimmered on the deep hearth, the
| last remanins of Rufus's cherished Yule-
log.
Gracious, what
head
It did turn
i
i
I Just in the line of the big mullioned |
| man was not seriously hurt, but the |
:
customed place on a earpeted dais | shock had been groat.
| to his home, in Dublin Gulch
| window the lay figure occupied its ao-
| olose to Rufus's easel, and chancing to
| glance in that direction my blood
| froze chill,
| From beneath the white hood of the |
| “Lady of Avenel,” which had been
| Rufus’s last historical study, a pair of |
real, human eyes seemed to flash a
it only a memory of Polly's panic, a
mere fronk of my disordered imagina-
| tion, or did the figure really move a
| little?
With electric swiftness, the whole
thing rushed across my mind--Rufus's
onreless words at the railway station,
the stout stranger in the fur cap, the
fact of my being alone and defenseless
in this soli wpot--
Yet, afte The Tres fright, my senses
seomed to ally themselves into a
strange oalm. I relighted my candle
at the last Yule ember, covered it with
a bod of ashes, composedly walked
aoroms the Soor as if unusual
had and softly the
door
me.
“He's weloome to the stage neck:
with a curly crop of hair and a nasal |
guilty pang Rufus had bidden me be |
very careful about securing the prem. |
“there's |
to i
studio desk- |
! him, safely
wd
ed.
| the shaft,
| feet of water,
| found that,
sudden furtive look at me, snd-—was |
| nothing less than a mackerel with a
| band had been put on the fish when
“1 eame in the west door,” breathed | 1ace if he wants it.” thought 1; “‘and
the money is safe in a Branal-locked
desk. The studio window is a deal
| too high for him to escape that way,
| besides being guarded with a
strong
wire netting ; and I don’t see how else
he can escape, unless he goes up the
chimney.”
Then I west back to my own rom,
where the fire crackled cheerily, and
Polly snored with soothing monotony ; |
but the reader can easily imagine that
there was no sleep for me that night,
With the erimson flush of daybreak, |
to rouse Polly up sand |
| send her down to summon her father,
| when =
| startled me.
I was abont
loud knocking at the door
ft was Rufus himself!
“Well, pussy,” said he, ‘were yon
nervous about being left alone? 1got
Sam Penny to row me over the river,
and came across country in & cutter.
Here's Seth Shapley, with his ox team,
to take his girl home. Got any fire?
I'm half frozen to death.”
“Rufus—Mr. Shapley!” I gasped,
“don’t stop here! Come right to the
studio. Here's the key. I don't
know, but I think--I'm almost sure
there's a man locked up there!”
Without psusing to answer their
eager questions, I hurried them along
the wide, tile-paved hall, and in al-
most less time than it takes to relate
the incidents the door was unlocked
and sturdy Seth had got the stoat,
red-faced man by the throst, while
Rufus was pinioning his arms.
“It's you, is it, Ben Frowley?"'
shouted Beth. ‘Just out o' Danne
more Jail for offense, an’ now
you're qualifyin’ for another term,
bay? Ye shif'less, thievin', drunken
gr
one
scamp, I know ye
And minute or two they had
secured with ropes, lying
panting and breathless on the floor
The necklace
in a
stage Was in Dis
pocket, and he had contrived to pick
the Branal lock in spite of everything
and possess himself of the few bills in
the desk drawer, while the actual
jointed substratum of the White Lady
of Avenel, garments he
taken to identity,
the semblance of a draped lay figure,
- La
whose had
conceal his under
was pushed beneath the dais in wooden
confusion
All of a sudden we heard the ve
of Polly behind ns
“1 knowed the
hi ad lige said shi "
Mis’ Arden?
And that was the
allowed myself to
Raquette House,
“Not that I'm afraid, said 1. “but
but every one knows that discretion
Saturday
100
moved
1 tell
critter
“Didn't
1s
vi
time I ever
left alone in
last
be
is the better part of valor.’
Night.
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the Soap Bubble Film.
#40
Thickness of
The most powerful of
%
render a
{
modern
point ons
hundred thousandth part of au inch in
diameter perfectly visible. While
this is true beyond a doubt, there are
reasons for believing that a single
microscopes will
even than that. One reason for this
| belief has been deduced from calenls |
bubble. |
tions made on the soap
Scientists have made measurements of
the thickness of the envelope of soapy
water inclosing the air of the bubble
when it had become so thin as to pro-
duce rainbow tints. At the appear-
ance of the shade of violet it was one-
fourth of ths f the length
of an ordinary violet of light
thousandth of an inch),
thus making the thickness equal to
one-two hundsued thousandth of an
inch.
As the bubble continues to expand
a black patch formed near the end of
the pipe from which the bubble was
being Measurements
then taken to ascertain the thickness
of the black portion of the bubble,
and the experimenters were astonished
beyond measure when they found the
thickness (or thinness) to be only
one-fifty millionth of an inch ! St,
Louis Ropublie,
thickness
Wav
one-sixty
blown were
This Miner Was Lucky.
Michael O'Reilly's Incky star must
have shone over him, for he had about
as narrow an escape from instant death
ut the Rarus Mine as was ever record-
He was ascending the ladder way
in the pumping shaft above the 400,
when one of the ladder rounds broke,
and fell into
He dropped about fifty feet,
and in some manner managed to grasp
hold of a water-pipe or something of
the kind and clung to it. Otherwise,
he wonld have fallen 200 feet to the
six-hundred level and into seventy-five |
He managed to swing
to the ladd ir again. Another miner |
assisted him to a level, He was raised |
to the surface, and Drs. Wells and Me- |
Crimmon were summoned. They |
side from an fractured
ankle and some painful bruises, the
and he lost his balance
He was oarried
Mr.
O'Reilly has a wife and one child, ~
Butte (Montana) Inter-Mountain,
—- ——— “
A Fish With a Rubber Band,
Forest and Stream spesks of a
curious find in the Cape Ann fish mar.
ket, at Gloucester, Mass. It was
rubber band around the body. The
quite small, and stayed there in spite
of the rapid growth of the wearer.
The fish's body under the band did not
ow, which caused a Supreios in
gro ut three
fusion wad
# healthy skin in no
unlike that on the rest of the body.
pay the price of success
| they will snatch defent
| you. I shall take good eare of it."
———— fi
LOVE THE MAGICIAN,
Bing bird, ripple riil
Purple is the distant hill ;
8ky is bright, and day is clear,
Love is bere,
Frown sky, vanish hill ;
Mute the bird, and dry the rill -
All the day is drear and dead,
Love is fied,
wCheorge B, Gallup, in Munsey.'s
-— ee— -
HUMOR OF THE DAY,
Books of travel — Thousand -milg
| pickets, — Truth
Consistency 15 a) wel often sold to
Puck.
A mistake is apt to attract more ste
tention to us than a virtue — Ram's
Horn.
The trouble with many men is that
from victory.
- Puck.
“I always did enjoy an intellectual
fount,” said the cannibal, as he ate the
Yale man, — Life,
When a man pawns his honor he
finds that the legal interest on perjury
is tremendously high. — Truth.
to tramp prisoner
or thirty
Judge. Gi'me thirty
Judge
dollars
money,
‘Fifty
“Time's
’
days. 3
ays.’
A newly discovered weather prophet
says that '
sign of an
nal
A Kensington d
a good thing for the Cramps is
tract for a new warship, -~Philad«
Record.
an icy pavement is a sure
early fall. — Hartford Jour-
Mr
does:
Christic—*“That young
talks just like a book
Kathryn— “Yes, a blank
troit Free Press.
He “There goes Hattor
overcoat. What do you
She ‘““He is simply out
Washington News.
“Goodine
was 1t for
book
thinl
RIWAYE
ng £4) i
“First rate
of the things
Record
Husband
kn Ww
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