1 THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAlt- NOVEMBER 13, 3891 : ' ' ,19 . Jf FUNNY PHaSES OF CURRENT EVENTS AS THE COMIC ARTISTS SEE THEM. ., Jj i - - ...... . s I XEEDICAMEST OF OCK DEMOCRATIC BROTHER OF BETTING TROCLIVITIES. C7itcaj0 TA-BA-BA-BOOM-DE-ATl TVE HATE MET THE ELEPHANT AND HE IS EATEN. Chi- , "... I Xeas Record. cago Herald. FOUR TEARS MOKE OF OltOTEK. Boston Globe. DON'T TALK .ABOUT SEALSKIN SACKS; I BET ON THE -WRONG MAN. Texas Siflmgs. " . i " "" " " ' it , f hi$ w ' - , ill :Ac ftr11 i Musical Intelligence The effect of Professor Bcmpenschlag's piano playing I THE TOWER OF TnE TOTE MAKES All MEN EQUAL. Judge. was so profound that not a whisper could be heard in the mom. Puck. rOLlTICAL rnASEf-WOMEN CAN ArrRECIATE A WARD nEALER, New York World. now cnAPriE "WEST r.lDTNQ. Exchangr. 2 -j - - - . ' , . - V GOSPEL AND KINGDOM. Two of the Essential Characteristics of Christian Work. GOOD TIDKGS FOR ALL PEOPLE Came With the Christmas Angels and Still Come Town to This Daj. IDE DUTI OP PASTOR AND CHARGE IWIUTTEX FOlt TIIE DISPATCH I Jesus Christ preached the gospel of the kingdom. He sent his ministers to preach the gospel of the kingdom. These two characteristics are essential in Christianity: That it is a gospel, and that it has to do with a kingdom. Now, the gospel, however much the word may be misinterpreted, means the "good tidings;" the good tidings, that is, first of all and including all, that God so loved the world that He sent his dearly beloved son into it that it might become, through Him, a world worth living in. That good news begins with the birth of Jesus Christ and it continues without cud thiotigh all the gracious blessings which God forever minis ters to us by His Holy Spirit "We hare the good authorHy'of the Christ mas angels for affirming of these good tid ings that they bring news of great joy, and that they are meant for all people. So that we are able to say with complete' assurance that the Christian religion is meant to make everybody happy. It is in tended to bring happiness into the world, and to bring it to eery inhabitant ot the world. Came In a Benighted Age. That was a dull world into which this great new happiness came at the beginning. All tbiugs were dark, sad, bad, disordered, and seemed hopeles". The old religions vhich had held theallegiance of the fathers were discredited by the sons, and in their place were superstitions, and idolatries, and witchcrafts, and hypocrisies, and crimes, end fears. Everywhere men looked with despair in their laces toward the black sky. .And with religion, the virtues had departed out of common life. The State was a des potism, administered without care for jus-tic-. Society was made up of a few wealthy and aristocratic people amidst unnumbered multitudes of slaves. And all that belongs to such a society existed. Even the pleas ures of men had no longer any pleasure in them, but were filled with cruelty and all uncleanness. There was no joy in life. The light ot life was gone. And then were heard those singingangels chanting carols over the fields ot Bethle hem, and bringinggood tidings of great joy. And presently there were discovered men and n omen walking about along the com mon roads, sharing in the common tasks, living the common life of the time, but in a new way, after a better fashion, and with quite a new spirit. These people were so diflerent from the other folk about them that they could be recognized by the lip ht in their'faces. They were happy, marvel ous, niiraculou. In this sad world there had somehow been discovered by these peo ple the lost secret of joy. Rejoicing the Kale of Their Lives. It made little difference what sort of lot came into-the lives of these new-fashioned men and women. They were always re joicing. That was their rule ot life. " They might be insulted, put upon, treated with injustice, smitten with fists, or stick, or stones, thrust into prisons, tied to stakes amidst the flames of martyrdom, nothing could daunt their unceasing happiness. These people were Christians. They had learned the Christian secret. They had heard the good tidings which came into the world with Jesus Christ, and tliev actually believed them with all their hearts. And j that made all that old world over new. Ifwearcnot as happy, I am afraid that the reason Ss that we are not as Christian. The purpose of Christianity is to make peo ple happy. The mission of the.minister of God which was written of old time in the book of Isaiah the prophet, and was re peated anew at the lips of Jesus Christ, and so comes to ns with the supremest of sanctions, is just this message of happiness, this good tidings of great joy. To preach the gospel to the poor, to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the cap tives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord what is this but to seek out the sorrowful, and to stay their tears, and to put a new heart into the disheartened, and, in a word, to minister happiness in a world of sad ness? The Real Mission of Religion. Religion is not meant to come with a scowl, nor with a threat, on its errand to the sons of men. It is not meant to drive out any real pleasure. It was never sent to make the heaven black over onr heads, but to brighten it with all the sunrises of hope, and with all glory of faith and love. Its mission is to greet us with proclamations of delight. Religion has been made too somber. It has been used as a device for scaring people into goodness. It has been represented too often by men and women with long faces and grim voices, who have looked with dis approval upon pleasure, frowned at the smiles of youth, and dnne their best to make life disagreeable, whereas, religion ought to be synonomous with joy. It ought to be associated in everybody's mind with all holiest pleasures, with all worthiest ex periences, with the best of life, with litera ture and art and music, with all that is most interesting, most inspiring and most helpful. Be sure that something is the matter with the message wlien God our Father is represented as desiring anything but the most satisfying happiness for every child of man. Yes, for every child of man. For this gospel is of universal application. 'The good tidings of great joy are meant lor all people. Mind and Body as Well as Sonl. The gospel is intended to touch the planet at all points. It is meant for every race, for every generation, for every century. It is ns wide in its intention as the all-surrounding atmosphere, and is as new every day as the air we breathe. And as it is meant to touch all people, so is it meant also to touch all life; that is, to affect the being of all the people all the time. It is for the church; but for the home a well, and for the shop. It is for Sunday, but six times more for the rest of the week. It is concerned, indeed, with what is commonly called religion, but just as much with busi ness, and just as much with society, and just as much with politics. It has to do with rogation days and it has to do with election days; and one duty is as Christian as the other. We are blessedly aware now that this wonderful new message of good tidings which Jesus Christ brought into the world is a message of absolutely universal signifi cation. We no longer account that alone to be religious which relates to the soul We know that the body aud mind belong to God, and are to be considered by the people of God, and come within the responsibilities of the minister of God. Christianity, thus interpreted, is God's agency for the uplift ing of all life. The Christian church is set in the world to be the center of all manner ot uplifting influences. The church has discovered that men are not all soul. Hen Cave minds and bodies. Duty of the Christian Minister. Accordingly, the Christian minister to day, looking out into the world we live in, and trying to have some understanding of the times, endeavors to bring Christianity to bear upon every side of human lile. His mission is to persuade men not only to be lieve like Christians, and to pray like Christians, but to behave like Christians. He is to bring the common transactions of the market to the test of true religion. He is to remindipeople that there arc no vaca tions in Christianity, no times and no places in which it is permissible for Christians to be unchristian. He reminds his people, even to weariness, that the mission of re ligion is to help the people to be happy themselves, and to make other people happy; and that this joy is gained by Christian con straint upon the temper, by Christian speech, by Christian honesty ot'dealing and by the" constant exercise of Christian love. "The Christian minister feels himself per sonally concerned with the unhappiness of the world. For unhappiness is a condition of things which the Christian religion has come to banish out of human life. And, though the unhappiness be such as concerns the body, and only indirectly touches the sonl, that makes no difference. All the pain of life is within his province. Interested in Every Trouble. The Christian minister and every Chris tian citizen ought to be profoundly inter ested in the labor troubles, and in all other troubles which vex our generation: and ought to give interest and sympathy and help to all plans which look toward the bet terment of life, toward the good of the city, toward the bringing of more light, and "more knowledge, and more pleasure into tne hearts 01 men. a or an goou Happi ness is a chapter in the Christian gospel. But this gospel is the gospel of the king dom. "What is the kingdom? The "kingdom of heaven" it is called in the New Testament; God's kingdom, for whose coming we pray in the Lord's Prayer. This, it will be noticed, means a blessed state of things in which God will be obeyed the whole world over, and in which all who obey God will be joined together in one great fellowship. The name ot this king dom is the church. The church, then, is first that company of those who have heard the gospel and "be lieved it, and in whose hearts abides that happiness which no kind of tribulation can destroy. It is the discipleship of Jesus Christ. And everybody belongs to it, or ought to belong to it, who loves Him, and tries to follow Him. The Heart of the Gospel. Christ is the heart of the gospel. Happi ness is possible in this hard world only by reason of Him. It is of Him we learn the secret of serenity. They who know Him, know happiness. And the church exists as the communion of all these people of kindred spirit,. Here these blessed souls draw daily nearer to Christ and to each other. There is no need to tell them the uses of the church, nor to show them how the gospel comes naturally to be the gospel of the kingdom. But this is only a part of the purpose of the Church. It is the church militant. It is a company of good people banded to gether to light the devil; and thus, banded together not only for the delights of associ ation one with another, but tor increase of strength against a common foe. The tangi ble enemies of the kingdom ot God are sin and pain. The purpose of the war is to vanquish every assailant of the happiness of man, every hinderer of the blessed gos pel of God. We need to stand together. "We are engaged in an undertaking which cannot be accomplished by individual ef fort It needs the help and strength or many laboring together. And this union of the many is the Church. It ought not to be necessary, upon this side of it, to ar gue at any length about the uses of the Church, or the need of having any church. The gospel, if it is to take hold of human life, and to be realized as good tidings, must be helped on by united effort. The Value of United Effort. The unhappinesses of mankind are so many, and so hard is it to. dislodge them out of Imuran lite, so entrenched are they in perverted afflictions, in sinful inclina tions, in vested interests, that it ought to be plain to everybody that one mau by him self here, and another man by himself there, can accomplish nothing. "When two men joiu hands there is a church. When all good men join hands the kingdom of God will not be far away. Thus Christianity is'not only a gospel, but it has to do with a kingdom. We can not get along without the kingdom. Chris tianity is not only a message, but it is a carrying the message into practical effect. First the gospel, the good tidings of great joy to all people of the world, the declara tion of the purpose to uplift all life and to make happiness universal; and then the kingdom, the fellowship of those who be lieve the gospel, the union of all people who desire to establish the universal reign of happiness, and who are willing to help in that divine undertaking. That is the kind of Christianity that Jesus Christ preached the gospel of the kingdom. George Hodges. , Had to Return the Deer. The trainmen on a Central Vermont rail road train found a deer caught in a wire fence near .Pittsford, Vt, a short time ago. They succeeded in capturing the animal un injured and brought it to Rutland, Vt As it is against the law to capture a deer in that State at this season of the year, the trainmen were forced to take the deer back on the return trip and set the animal af liberty. " FISHING FOB fcPOHGES. It Requires an Experienced Eye to Dis cover the Coveted Objects. Scrlbner's Magazine. The vessel has towed astern just half as many boats as she has men in her crew, and two men are assigned to each boat One of them stands well aft and sculls with a long oar, while the other bends low over one of the gunwales in a most constrained po sition, and with his head buried in a water glass eagerly scans the bottom as he is moved slowly over it The- water glass is simply a wooden bucket, having a glass bottom, that is held au inch or so below the ruffled surface, and in these clear waters plainly' reveals all submerged objects to a depth of 40 or 50 feet. As a further aid in overcoming ripples or moderate waves, each small boat is provided with a bottle of oil so hung over the bow as to slowly drip its contents into the water. Through his magic glass the observer sees darting fish, richly tinted.sea fans and feathers, branching coral, gorgeous anem ones, bristling sea porcupines, and the myriad othir curious tenants of these tropic waters. While seeing these he made no sign until a small dark object that, to the untrained eve, differs in no respect from the loggerheads surrounding it, comes within his range ot vision. Then, without remov ing his gaze, he reaches for the long-handled sponge hook or rake ling behind him, and, using it with one hand, quickly tears from the bottom a black, slimy mass, that he triumphantly pronounces to be a sheep's wool or grass sponge of the first quality. THE CLIMATE OF BBAZIL. It Is Very Unfavorable to People From the Northern Countries, So not be induced to go to Brazil, is the advice contained in the new number of the London Board of Trade Journal. The board has received from her majesty's charge d'affaires at Bio de Janeiro a copy of a contract between the Brazilian Govern ment and a private company the Compan hia Metropolltana for the supply of 1,000 000 emigrants from Europe and the colonial possessions of Spain and Portugal. In case Englishmen should think of going the Board of Trade gives a solemn and impressive warning in the following words: "The cli mate in most, if not in all, parts ot that country is wholly unsuited to British emi grants, and the population, the language, the laws, the babits. and the mode of life and work are all strango to many artisans or farm laborers from Great Britain or Ire land. However great may be the natural resources of Brazil, it has been abundantly shown that the conditions ot life are wholly unsuited to the ordinary British workmen, and intending emigrants are, therefore, most earnestly cautioned not to be induced by any offer of free or assisted .passage or grant of land to go out to the country." Negroes are almost the only race fit to work in Brazil. Even the negroes do not or cannot work much, and their emancipa tion has removed the legal force which used to compel them to work. THE. K0ETH SEA. CAHAL. It Will Start at Kiel and Cat Through Sohleswlg-Holstein. Engineering Magazine. J During the approaching autumn and win ter several large undertakings in connection with this canal will be commenced at the Kiel Firth. They will complete the build ing of two harbors, an inner and an outer. Threc'Kiel contractors have taken over the matter for 1,000,000 marks (50,000). The inner harbor will be surrounded by a wall of granite and concrete 295 meters long, which has to be completed on July 1, 1893. The outer harbor has to be ready by Aug ust 1, 1893. The piei" will, in this instance, have a length of 280 meters, and its height is to be 1J4 meters above ordinary water level. The course of the old Elb Canal will to some ex tent be used for the outer harbor. A long pier for steamers is to proceed from tie outer harbor." The earth from the excava tions will to a considerable extent be used for the making of a hill, on whioh will be built a lighthouse capable of ihowing at a great distance the entrance'to the North Sea Baltic CanaL TELEPHONES AT SEA. A Practical Method of Signaling Between Vessels in Fogs. DELICATE FIRE-DAMP DETECTOR. II. I.ippman's Achievements in Color Photography by ilectrlcity. HEW APPLICATIONS OP THE CURRENT rwniTTXx ron the dispatch.! Prof. W. W. Jacques, who is sanguine of the early adoption of electrical si ;naling between vessels, ha3 shown how ."imply such a system could be carried out He pictures two ocean grayhounds approaching each other with a combined velocity of 40 miles an hour throngh a heavy fog. The lights are useless, even on a dark night, for in foggy weather even an electric search light will not be visible a mile away. The steamer's whistle is useless, for the fog soon absorbs the sound. Yet, although the ves sels may be approaching each other with a force that) in case they meet, shall mean total annihilation, there is no danger if the ships nre already fitted with electrical sig naling apparatus. Thus provided the ships will signal to each other when miles apart Prof Jacques proposes to equip each vessel with an insulated wire rnnning from bow to stern, but dipping into the ocean at each end. In connection with this wire, one vessel is provided with means for pro ducing strong and rapidly alternating cur rents of electricity, and the second vesel bas its wire connected to an ordinary tele- phone. Electrical undulations will be radi ated from the first vessel through the water in all directions, until, reaching the second vessel many miles away, they will be heard in the telephone, with the telephone can be connected an alarm bell, so that any sound received will automatically call the notice ot the attendant. By thus equipping each vessel both with means for sending out electrical undulations and for listening for any that might be received, each vessel would be made aware of the approach of the other, and the danger of collision would be avoided. This principle is not by any means new and experiments in ship signal ing have already demonstrated its feasibility- Color of Incandescent Carbon. A most interesting discussion has recent ly been carried on on the subject of the first visible color of incandescent iron. T. C. Porter now describes how he tried a similar experiment with the carbon filament of an ordinary incandescent electric lamp. Using an 80-voIt, 16-candle power lamp, lie passed current from a storage battery, through the lamp and a water resistance, which was gradually reduced by the addition of sul phuric acid. The room in which the exper iment was performed was carefully dark ened, and the observers w ere kept in dark ness some minutes before the current was switched on. As the current was increased by regular stages, the '.observers (25 iu number) carelully inspected the lump in rotation, and everyone wrote down his im pressions ot the color of the filament in the dark, so that the eyes were not affected by extraneous light. It was unanimously de cided that the color ot the filament was at first very pale. Thirteen called it a very pale yellow, three look It for white, seven for a faint pink, two for a bluish white. All agreed that as the temperature rose, the color grew deeper and redder, passing through orange before-arriving at crimson. The wprds used to designate the final tint reached in .he experiment varied from deep reddish orange to copper color, dark red, blood red and crimson. In diffused daylight this would be a dull red. Making Ozone by Electricity. Mr. Ernest Faurig, who carried out in London a most successful series of tests in the commercial manufactured, ozone, has transferred his operations on an extended scale to this country. The Fahrig process consists in the manufacture of oxygen from peroxide of maganese and hydrate of soda j and lime, and its ozonization by electricity. Ozone is found a much stronger and far less harmful bleacher than chlorine, and it is now used for the bleaching of spices, kill ing the germs of table water preservation of canned meats, fish and milk, the ageing of wines, 'oxidation of oils, destruction of malodorous, decaying or objectionable mat ter, bleaching of "linen, silk, ivory, bones, sponges and other materials. The ozone industry, iu fact, promises to become an important one in America, and is an exam ple both of the usefulness of electricity and of the way in which special industrial "fields can now be opened out by electrical appli ances, and even a demand created where none before existed. Converting Coal Directly Into Energy. The solution of the problem of convert ing coal directly into electricity, which is being grappled with by some of the first in ventors of the day, is estimated to mean the opening up to mankind of benefits equal to twenty times' those following in the wake of the steam engine, and the steam engines of the world to-day are doing work that would require the labor of 1.000, 000,000 men. At present coal is burned under a boiler for the production of steam; the steam is passed through an engine and power is produced; then the power of the engine turns a dynamo and electricity is created. In the course of this long and elaborate process there is a clear loss of 95 per cent of power, so that only 5 per cent is really available An electrician who has faith in the ultimate devising of an electric generator in which coal is shoveled in at the bottom and electricity taken out at the top, aud the enormous waste of pres ent methods saved, has calculated that among the results ot this change would be the possibility of a transatlantic steamship that now burns 300 tons of coal per dar, doing a day's work with hut 15; or, with the present coal consumption being able to cross the ocean in less than two days. In the same way, an electric locomotive car rying its otrn supply of coal and generating its own electricity, "would be able to haul a train of cars from Boston to New York iu less than two hours. Furthermore, the machinery of our great manufactories, which now requires to move it power equal to the labor ot 2,000,000 men, could then be operated for one-twentieth of the present cost Electric Fire Damp Detector. An instrument of great value in mining has been invented in the shape of a thermo electric fire damp detector. The danger to miners from nre damp has never been effect ually provided against, the safety lamp having been fonnd carable of mitigating rather than obviating the perils of foul gas in mines. The action of the instrument de pends on two fine platinum wires connected with levers and a pointer in the foim of a differential metallic thermometer. The ar rangement of the instrument is such that the presence of gas is shown on the electric heating of the wires, one of which is in closed in an airtight cylinder, while the other is placed within a cylinder of w,ire gauze. The instrument is claimed to be 25 to 30 times more sensitive to fire damp than the Bafety lamps at present in use for examin ing mine workings. It will indicate the presence of less than a tenth of 1 per cent, or about one one-hundredth part of the amount of fire damp requisite to form an explosive mixture. In the event of the in strument being used in an explosive mix ture, there is not the rlightest danger of ignition, as the platinum wires are inclosed in a double casing of wire gauze. The object of the apparatus .is, however, not to indicate the percentages near the ex plosive point, but to show the existence of quantities much too small to affect ordinary safety lamps. In this invention the idea has been to provide an instrument whioh may be used under all circumstances, and by anyone without aprevious knowledge of its working. It can be placed in any part of the mine where coal gas is either present or expected, and connected to a recording arrangement with alarm in the manager's office above ground. Any undue accumula tion of fire damp in the neighbornooJ of the apparatus would thus at once be in dicated to the officials automatically. The Force of Imagination.. An amusing incident is related by a Lon don electrical journal. Preparatory , to the proposed visit of one of the royal princesses to open a new infirmary at Aberdeen, the consulting engineer had requested that the storage cells for lighting the building might be thoroughly charged by a continuous run of one set of the engines and dynamos for 30 consecutive hours. On the evening of the completion of the charge a. very brill-, iant aurora b'orealis took place, causing frequent momentary reflections from the glass roof of the dynamo room, which so terrified the hospital authorities that they attribnted the phenomena to the surcharg ing of the accumulators.'- They accordingly proceeded without delay to turn on the lamps as fast as possible" to the cells with the view of lessening, as they thought, the excessive amoun t of stored electrical energy. They at the same- time telephoned to their electrician to come instantly and stop the lightning. Expensive Telephone Abase. TJsets of the telephone are apt' not only to be impatient at the apparent slowness of the "central," which is often unavoidable in the press of business at the exchange, especially at certain times of the day, but to express their sentiments on the subject with uncompromising vigor. In Austria such an indulgence may prove more expen sive than it would be in this country. Kecently in Vienna a merchant who was anxious to connect speedily with the cen tral was detained by a temporary block on the line. Without waiting to find the cause of the detention, he vented bis ire by speaking in uncomplimentary terms of the slowness of tbe operator at the exchange, who, of cSnrse, heard it all. She said nothing then, bnt a day or two after tbe merchant received a summons for having used "abusive and defamatory language" respecting the young lady, and on the case being brought before the court he was fined 750. These facts, however, ought not to encourage the diiatoriness often compiained ot in Pittsburg. Color Photography Js Coming. Jf. Lippman has not rested on the laurels he has already achieved in color photog raphy, but is pursuing his investigation with energy. Some of his latest experi ments are very beautiful. On layers of albumino-bromide ot silver rendered ortho chromatic bj azaline and cyan in a, he has obtained most brilliant photographs of spectra. All the colors came out at onee, even the red, without the usual interpo sition of colored screens, and after an ex posure of iron 5 to 30 seconds. Among other illustrations of the progress recently made in-color photography M. Lippman has submitted pictures of stained-glass windows, draperies, oranges and van-colored birds, taken by electric ljgbt with five to ten minutes' exposure, 'iu which the color as well as the form Is clearly defined. HOUSEHOLDS 15 ITJEKEY. The Selamlik and the Jlarem Constitute the Two Divisions. Pearson's Weekly. Turkish households are always divided into two parts, tbe first being the selamlik, or men's part, and the other the harem. If a man marries a 'Turkish girl this 'division will be more marked than when he takes a Circassian; in the latter case his wife, being naturally without any means but those he gives her, cannot possess a sovereign right over her slaves, who, being bought by him, can hardly be said to belong to her. The latter, then, look up to him as their only master, and only obey her because he orders it, while a Turkish girl possessed of a private fortune of her own, and bringing her slaves from her father's house, reigns over the harem as supremely as he does oyer the selamlik. The slaves also in the latter case depend entirely on her, and she is obliged to furnish them with every neces sary without applying-to her husband "for means to do it. . Toe harem is her own peculiar sphere, iind it is oil her that devolves the duty of seeing that everyone in it is comfortable. She is free to sell her slave", marry them, or send them away without his being able to do more than remonstrate with her gently, and he would no more think of selling or buying a slave without her con sent than she would of sending away a man servant. .The furnishing ot the harem also talis on her, and cannot'be touched by her husband, nor caa hemeddle with any detail of her expenditure, which is left entirely to her own discretion. . ' PEIZES FOR BEAUTY Gorgeons Chrysanthemums Will With Each Other This .Week A GOOD EXHIBITION ASSURED. How to Obtain and Name Xew Varieties of the Popular i lowers. CULTIVATING TIIE1I FROM SPORTS The second annual chrysanthemum show of the Pittsburg and Allegheny Florists' and Gardeners' Club will be held at the Auditorium, opposite the Duquesno Theater, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of thi3 week. The club offers a handsome list of premiums which will probably be augmented by do nations ot local amateurs and connoisseurs in the oriental flower. Only three distinct species of the original chrysanthemums of China and Japan are now recognized by botanists, but as garden ers every year raise types of all three from seed saved from some one plant, it leaves them much in doubt if there- is moid than one original species. On the other hand the centuries ot natural and artificial cross ing and mixing may have eliminated in the plants of to-day their original specific identity. The chrysanthemum is the national badge of Japan a nd is grown there in rare perfec tion. But from recorded measurements be fore ns of some of their finest flowers, and photographs of their show plants, says Gardening, we are inclined to believe that I in the case ot individual oiossoms anyway, it would require the very best efforts of Japan to surpass those of some of our flor ist. If one wishes chrysanthemums he may raise them from seeds, import them from Japan or Europe or secure them from "sports." A sport is an offshoot of a differ ent variety from a plant For instance, a white blooming variety may have a twig bearing a yellow flower. This twig is a "sport," and can be propagated from a cut ting. Should you raise a new variety irom. seed, and you are sure it Is worth saying and naming, and that it is perfectly distinct from any other kind in cultivation, you have a right to call it what yon please, pro vided that name has not already been ap propriated by any other sort The Ameri can Chrysanthemum Society keeps a record of all the new names given to these flowers, and you can find out from it whether the name you wish to use has already been given to some other sort or not Don't use a name in defiance of this society, for in the trade its nomenclature is law. Chrysanthemums are very easily grafted in early summer, and by this means you may have two, or as many as twenty varieties if you wish, growing on one plant The Japanese are experts in this line. While grafting adds to the oddness of the plants in bloom, it does not in any way benefit the The best shelter for chrysanthemums If, when in bloom is the greenhouse, and this ; should be a cool house and very thinly shaded from warm sunshine, but it is easy and inexpensive toMuplicate the conditions. Baising-chrysanthemums is one of thenost enjoyable of fads, and will continue to h popular in spite of the late dictum of N York society that the oriental flower passe. Two Fnzzllng Questions An English magazine asks the followin questions: "Would you rather marry a ma whom you entirely love but whose love foi you,you are not sure of.or a man who entirely loves you but whose love you do not thor-u oughlv reciprocate.' And tbe editor of the Woman i Tribune answers it by pro- poundiug another: "Would you rather lie or steaiV" The Hat Peg in Church. The church hat peg is a brass peg, with a. gimlet-pointed screw, so that it can be fixed to the under side of a seat or bench quite-' easily. The hat can be suspended from tliis peg and the owner is able to direct histaU; tention to the service, feeling that "lis best top hat is'in safety from the feet of biil neighbors.- - '- .-..---'.,. . - - ' , "- V
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