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Philadelphia in said to bave $15,000,.
000 invested in the South.
,The New York H'orM declares that
"the- monopolies in this country havo
rondo more millionaires in twenty year,
that all Europe ha made in BOO years."
It la estimated that cuchour in New
York City thruo thousand vrf ea find
themselves stranded, not only h. less,
penniless and without work, but also un
able to work.
It is now a well-settled fact, observes
the Atlauta Constitution, that during two
months of tho year tho crop-moving
season the country needs more money
than (luring the remaining ten months.
A Cincinnati railway official rises to
remark that tho timo will coma when
" there will be but four or fivo railway sys-
terns in this coutitry. Ho says that even,
)liiow tho BricoThomas syndicate control
Tactically nil tho railroads south of tho;
Hivcr except the Louisvillo and
ursch, Austriau millionaire,
1 of the Priuce of Wales, re
ed a stylish woman of rank to
of her horses, becauso he hap-
0 have ono exactly like it. Sho
1 rather curtly, whereupon the
ut her his horso with the message :
ugh I am disappointed, I am still
is that they should go in a pair."
i Cherokee Strip is now practically
.cd, announces tho St, Louis Star
tg, the Government order to tho
omen having being obeyed very
jrally. In a few months this bcautl
,..e. country will bo open to settlement.
It jis best described as possessing the
fertility aud resources said to exist in
Oklahoma, but which the boomer found,
to his sorrow, existed not.
When the barbers of Sudalia, Mo.,
sought to elevate prices by charging
eleven cents for n akiva that oeing tko
first step in a contemplated advance to
ward fifteen cents nearly every good
razor in town was bought up next day
and the male adult population proceoded
to scrape its own jaws. Tell you what,
exclaims tho New York Telegram, the
spirit of '70 is coursing again through
tho veins of the West and South.
Now York is soon to hnvo a secoud
hospital in which tho patients, tho gov-
. crning and tho medical staff nro to be
women. This, s'ates tho Chicago Her-
U, will be the seventh hospital of this
kind in tho United States in which not
even the gentleman mouse mentioned by
the Roman satirist will bo allowed to
pick up the smallest trille of tho larder.
The others are in Philadelphia, Boston
Chicago, San Francisco and Minneapo
lis. What John Kuox was pleased to
call "the monstrous regiment of women"
is moving'' on.
Japan now has on paper a complete
legal system, abreast of tho times. The
remaining portious of the Civil Code
have been promulgated, and the Criminal
Cedes, which went into eilect in 1882
have been revised. These latter take
effect at once, but tho Civil Code docs
not go into operation till January 1st,
1893. This appears to be a very snnplo
announcement; but the significance of it
u tremendous, when wo remember that
it is Japan, hardly a generation removed
from a policy of utter seclusion, shutting
out European civilization, which thus
comes to tho front.
No matter how high the rank of a
Chinese ofiiciul ho seldom recovers from
his greed or presents. A Canton man
darin is now bewailing this fact, for on
a recent visit of tho Viceroy Li to his
proviucohe presented that dignitary with
a pair of lions, cut in jade stone, of great
value. He imagined the Viceroy would
admire the work aud then return it, but
what was his auiuzemeut when he re
ceived a gracious letter accepting his
gift. It seems ho borrowed the jado
lions, and now he is negotiating with the
owuor, who demands a small fortuue for
the property. It will go hard with the
mandarin's subjects this winter, as it will
take many a "squeeze" of rich and poor
iu tho province to recoup his loss.
M. Freyciuet, tne French War Minis
ter, ijua retired a lot of old Generals, and
a number of daubing young Colouels will
soou tuko their places. Tho oldest
General iu France, aud probably iu the
world, is General Mauduit, who, on the
7th of December next, will be 100 years
old. He has never asked to bu retired
and he still figures among the officers ol
the reserve. Ho is very proud of his St.
Ilelotui medal. Three other old fellows
alio wear that medal General Melliuet,
'u 17'JS, who commanded a division
Imperial Guard at Magenta;
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WINTER WEATHER
When stems of elms may rise in row,
Dark-brown, from hillocks under snow,
And woods may reach as blank as night,
By sloping Mollis of cleanest white:
If shooters by the snowy rick
Where trees are lio-hr. anrl wno f.
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Can mark the tracks the game may prick.
i hey Iiko the winter weather.
Or where may spread the gray-blue sliest
Of ice, for skaters' gliding feet,
That they uplift, from side to side.
Long yards, and-elt them down to slide.
Of sliders, one that totters slack
Of limb; and one that's on his back;
And one upright that keeps his track,
Have fun in winter weather.
When we at night, in snow and gloom.
May seek some neighbor's lighted room;
Though snow may show no path before
The house, we still can find ths door;
And there, as round the brands may spread,
The creeping fire, of cheery red,
Our feet from snow, from wind our head,
Are warm in winter weather.
Wherever day may give our road,
By hills or hollows over snowed,
By windy gaps or sheltered nooks,
Or bridged ice of f rosen brooks.
Still may we all, as night may come,
Know where to And a peaceful home,
And glowing fire for fingers numb
With cold in winter weather.
William Darnel.
A WINTER'S CRUISE.
BY J. D. MII.MUAN.
"I have never regretted selling the
'Romance' to Wilbur."
"Yet you had to give him a pretty
stiff figure to get her in your possession
again," replied little Dick Freeman.
"I admit it, but I had good reasons
for selling her. You see it was this
way, 1 owned the yacht five years, and
between summer and winter cruising
and getting ready for both during the
interim, I was so constantly employed
that 1 hnd little or no time for society
duties.
"Just so!" said Dicky, shoking his
bead add lookiug wise.
"Now I am very fond of ladles' so
ciety and have always stood a great deal
of bantering because of my penchant,
when heaven knows I was simply en
deavoring to make myself agreeable.
Again, I was taken to task for beiu ;
'wedded to my yacht,' but that I couldm J
help, because, with tho very best
intentions in life I would commence a
summer's cruise with firm resolutions to
put tho yacht out of commission in tho
fall, and set to work to win a wife by
the most sedulous application and in
dustry "
"You're the only man I aver met who
had the courage to admit that looking
for a wile was hard work ; you deserve a
medal," said Dicky admiringly.
"Yet I couldn't do it, for something
or somebody was sure to turn up that
would compromise me, aud the winter's
cruise had to bo made; so I sold the
yacht to Wilbur."
"Weill what followed!"
"The natural consequence of being
invited to join "him in a wiuter's cruise
among the West India Islands, and my
acceptance of that invitation."
"That was consistency with a ven
geance," said Jack.
"Think eo listen ! As host I felt ob
liged to pay as much attention to one
guest as to another, but when I became
a guest that obligation ceased."
"Ahl I see; you could exerciso your
penchant for flirting with one lady with
out feeling that yu had slighted au
othcr. Quite clever of you, very."
"Will you bolay your interpolations
for a few moments! "Where was If Oh I
I accepted Wilbur's invitation, aud
agreed to meet him ut St. Augustine. I
kept my promise, and in boarding the
yacht found Wilbur and . his bride (the
latter acting as chaperoue), Lillie and
Violet Meserve, and Mr. Crayon, the
artist, who was engaged to Lillie Mes
ervo. "My traps were no sooner on board
than the auchor was aweigh, sails hoist
ted aud the yacht's head pointed sea
ward. As I had always directed the
Romance's movements in and out of port
I felt chagrin at being a witness of Wil
bur's complacent yet dignified authority,
and heaved a pretty big sigh.
" 'That was a wicked sigh, Mr. Dean,'
said a low and musical voice beside me,
I turned to see who the speaker was, aud
beheld Miss Violet Meserve.
" 'Wasn't it? yet I have an excellent
reason for its atiociousuess- I suppose
you know that I owned tho "Romance"
only a few weeks ago.'
"The young lady nodded her head af
firmatively. " 'Well! that sigh meant jealousy,
rank jealousy.'
" 'I knew intuitively that it was some
thing far, and away beyond an ordinary
sigh; of whom are you jealous Mr.
Wilbur?'
"I nodded my head affirmatively."
" 'Poor fellow! we must try and make
it up to you."
"'Do piny! I like nothing better than
being patronized.'
"Die young lady looked at me curi
ously as if to fathom my meaning; then
a mischievous gleam appeared in her eyes
as she said, 'There! I have unwittingly
displease! you, nud yet I thought I whs
saying something consoling. Surely '
" 'One moment please. I really meant
wbut I said. I want to be patronized.'
"She laughed merrily and unfeigueilly
for a few seconds and theu said 'I'm sine
you do. I yuh told to beware of you that
you were a dangerous man. I can well
believe it!' Theu the witch looked archly
into my face and repeated her last w ords,
'1 eau well believe it!'
"Now if that wasn't a challenge for a
flirting match, what was itl To tell the
truth I was surprised into silence, lor I
knew that Miss Violet Meserve was not a
dirt, she was too geuernus, too uice, tou
gentle for any such work us that ; besido ,
she believed thut I was unfiling but a unl"
ii,tt.u i-.j , amuse myself wi.b
- ' is
"The silenco was broken by. one of the
crew forward, singing a shanty, or song
used by sailors when a strong combined
pull is needed on a rope. The shanty
man had n marvellously clear bass voice,
and showed his cleverness in the quirks,
variations, and quavers in his rendition
of the simple music of his song.
" 'Listen I Miss Meserve,' I whispered;
'listen to that mau's shanty, low-voiced,
yet clear and sweet. They aro hoisting
the foresail. Listen I '
" We're outward bound this very day,
Good-by, fare you well, good-by, fore you
well.
We're outward bound this very day.
Hurrah I my boys, we're outward bound.'
" 'Oh! Mr. Dean. Is that not grand !
and what a flexible voice tie singer hast
Do you know I have always Uad the idea
that a fine bass singer was ever a manly
man, loyal, true and brave?'
" 'There! There! Miss Meserve,' for
you, see, I had discerned another mis
chievous gleam in her eyes you know,
too thut I have a pretty good bass voico
'There I give ir, let us declare a truce;
no more compliments, no more .
" 'Flirting!' she said naively.
" 'Yes,' flirting, if you call our con
versation and actions so far a flirta
tion. . Some one has given you a most
unjust account of me, or you wouldn't
have endeavored to fore-stall me so pre
emptorily. Now I want you to trust me,
to take me as you find me; to judge me
in fact by my conduct with you, not by
tho misdirected opinion you have formed
of me. Is it a compact? '
" 'She put her little hand in mine,
and said, sweetly: 'Yes; we must be
friends, or rather, not refuse your friend
ship, for the others are absoibed in each
other, and I have been quite louely until
you came. Yes,' she said, and I noticed
tears in her beautiful blue eyes, 'I'm sure
we shall bo friends.' Then she left my
side and went into the cabin. Thus it
was, Dicky, that I met my wife."
"Is that all? no love-making no de
scription of the lady no proposal?"
"Oh! you want tho whole of it, do
you? You have met my wife? No?
Well, Violet is a trifle above the average
stature of women, with the noblest figure
I ever saw. Her eyes are of a violet
color, full of spirit, yet tender and melt
ing, and fringed with long, coquettish
lashes. Her complexion is of exquisite
softness and purity, with a few flecks of
freckles that add measurably to the
charm of her face, more beautiful than I
con describe; while her hair, of a dark
gold and .naturally curly, outlines her
features admirably. Her mind is in har
mony with her beautiful exterior, and,
although njt posted in the 'isms, 'olo
gies and dogmas of the day, she is well
educated, and is a sensible wife, just the
woman I've been lookiug for nil these
years.
"We were naturally much together,
and in onr visits ashore at Havana, St.
Thomas and elsewhere in the West In
dies she proved a most entertaining trav
eler and the sweetest, nicest companion
man ever had. I fell head over ears in
love with her, but I couldn't see that I
had made tho slightest impression on her
heart. At last we were homeward
bound, makiug a long stretch from Trini-
I dad to the mouth of tho Mississippi.
i ivo days out we were engaged. It hap
pened thus:
"A heavy squall struck the yacht,
about ten o';lock in tho eveuing. We
had been expecting it, so were in a man
ner prepared lor it. I had just left Vio-
: let standing by the main rigging over to
windward to get a light -for my cigar,
when tho yacht gave a sudden lurch that
sent the lee rail under water, so furious
I was the first gust of the squall. I had
i been tuken by surprise, but managed to
Keep my feet only to be caught by some
body who ran against me; both of ua
weut flying to the lee rail, where we
were brought up with heavy thumps, ond
hearing my companion moan, I lifted her
it), caught her in my arms and pressed
her to my breast, 'Violet, dearest,' was
all I could say.
" 'Jack, dearest,' was the responso of
my fair love, and then she fainted.
"The squall bad spent its fury, though
it had kicked up a pretty lively sea, but
I managed to get Violet to the cabin,
whero her sister and Mrs. Wilbur, to
gether with the maids, took care of her.
She bad hurt her side aud dicta t leave
her room for three days. When she did
appear, lookiug so pale, yet so lovely
aud winsome, I had great difficulty in re
strauiug myself from tukiug her in my
arms and kissing her.
"To my surprise she culled me Mr.
Dean, and something occurring to vex
me I showed more animus than my wont,
whereat Violet came to me and said,
'Don't be angry with the steward. It
wasn't his fault.'
'"My dear,' I replied, taking her
hand between mine, 'I am not angry
with him, but with you.'
"She stared ut me with her big blue
eyes for a moment, and said, 'With
mel' why what have I done?'
" 'When the squall struck tho yacht a
few nights ago, und you came tumbling
into my arms do you remember what
you said?'
"'Yes,' she answered, raising her
eyes and looking earnestly and yet coyly
iuto mine 'Yc8, I remember.'
" 'Well, then, dearest, I object to tho
formal Mr. Dcau ; you must call me Jack !
for you havo kuown for weeks that I
love you; that night you told me pluinly
you loved me, and '
" 'Jack, dear, you may '
" 'Yes, love, I must kiss you ' and
that, Dicky, is all there is to tell of a
Wiuter's Cruise." Yankee Blade.
Manufacturing Buss Voices.
Luigi Cherubiui, the creator of "The
Water-Carrier," was rather ecceutiic.
One winter uficruoou, a caller on Cheru
biui was surprised to find him in au un
heated room in company with three full
beaidcd men, who had their feet in tubs
of ice water. "In the name of heaven,
what ure you doing?" aaked his friend.
"To-morrow we shall give it new mass,"
auswvml Cheruliiiii, "and I need a
couple of very heavy bassos. None of
the meu here has a voice heuvy enough,
- so 1 am trying tu ('.ccpeu thfki uoUs
Zululand and Celewayo.
Zululand is situated on tho eastern
toast of Africa, north of Natal. Its
area is about 10,000 square miles, and
its population before tho war with Eng.
land, in 1879, was about 250(000. This
war, which brought the Zulus and their
king, Cetewayo, into prominent notice,
was forced upon them by the representa
tives of the British Government in Natal,
who had long been anxious to annex the
country. In order to havo some pre
tense for a forcible occupation of tho
land, Sir Bartle Frcre demanded of
Cetewayo that large fines in cattle should
be paid for offenses of the Zulus on tho
border; that he should disband his
army, and not attempt to form it again;
and that he should allow a British officer
to live in Zululand and assist him in ad
ministering the government. This,
naturally, brought about tho desired
war.
At first the Zulu army, which num
bered about 42,000 men, was successful
in every battle, and had Cetewayo de
sired to push his advantage after the
battle at Isandlwana he could havo
crossed tho border and completely anni
hilated the English; but from the first
he insisted that ho was lighting on the
defensive only, and his soldiers were
under strict orders not to go over into
Natal to fight. The final battle in tho
war was fought on July 4, 1879, result
ing in a total defeat of the Zulu army,
and on August 13 Cetewayo was taken to
Cape Town as a prisoner. Subsequently
he was taken to England, but in Decem
ber, 1882, he was reinstated King of
Zu'uland, to rule it as a vassal .of Eng
land. In 1883 he was wounded in a
battle with one of the subordinate chiefs,
who had been left in possession of a
large tract of country at the north, and
died at Natal in March, 1884. It was
in the Zulu war that tho young Prince
Imperial of France was killed, he having
joined the English army in search of
renown. Brooklyn Citizen.
Bone Grafting.
A. G. Miller, in the Lancet, reports the
history of a case in which he used de
calcified bone chits successfully to fill
up a large cavity in the head of the
tibia. A piece of tho rib of an ox was
used, being first scraped and then de
calcified iu a weak solution of hydro
chloric acid. After cleansing, by pres
sure, it was placed for forty-eight hours
in carbolic acid solution, one to twenty,
then removed, and cut iuto small pieces.
During the scraping out of tho cavity in
the knee, preparatory to the grafting, a
number of small pieces of bone were rc
mov. d. These were placed in a solu
tion i boric acid for use later in the
operation. Tho cavity was then stuffed
with the decalcified bone shavings, the
pieces of fresh bono being added last.
The cavity thus filled was about two
inches in diameter. Granulation ond
healing took place rapidly; the only
pieces of bone that became necrosed woro
from the patient's own body. The author
is convinced, from his observation of
this case, that the hculing of largo bone
cavities, tho result of injury or disease,
is greatly facilitated by stuffing them
with dccalciticd-bone chips, that these
are superior to fresh bone, and that
fresh bone not only is of no use, but
actually kiudcrs the process of granulation.
Petroleum as Hair Persuader.
Not a suspicion of hair remained on
the cranium of a Pennsylvania engineer.
He had heard of petroleum as a hair
restorer, and, as he ran into the oil re
gions, daily, decided to try it. Procur
ing a felt skull-cap he lined it with cotton
waste from tho cab and contiunally kept
it moist with the crude oil. His duties
occupied his attention aud he soon be
came accustomed to the odor. In a few
weeks ho was surprised by a silky down
which made kis head feel soft to tho
touch, and in a few mouths astonished
bis friends with a beautiful crop of short
curly hair.
Being almost bald myself last May,
writes ono who subscribes himself as
"Experience," and rapidly losing what
hair wns left I began to use kcroseao.
Every time my hair lost its gloss I would
agaiu rub a kulf-thiiubleful on the scalp,
and soon it ceased to fall. After six
weeks of kerosene I changed to vaseline,
not, however, before short, fine hair had
appeared. I am still oiling my poll with
this odorless by-product of tho crude oil,
and still docs the covering continue to
thicken aud refuse to full. To bare tho
head to sun and. wind is also unobjection
able. Ari York Tribune.
Blue Jackets Are .Mostly Americana.
"There is a general impression that
our naval servico is full ol foreigners,"
said Lieutenant Simousou to me. Tho
lieutenant was formerly iu the navy, but
is now engaged in private' enterprises.
He cootiuued: "I often hear gentlemen
say with great assurance thut our navy
is recruited largely from natives of Nor
way and Sweden, who aro good sailors.
This is only true in so far as it imputes
sailorlike qualities to the Scandinavian
race. The facts are that about one-half
the men in the naval service of the United
States are native born Americans. 1 was
at the navy yard iu Brooklyn when tho
Maine was launched, and ran over the
roster of her men. She bus a total of
477, not rouuting officers. Of these 1 98
were uativo Americans. The next high
est nationality was Irish, 89; Hun tho
Scandinavians, 73; and after that I did
not explore any further. I have no doubt
but the men on the Maine ure a fair ex
ample of the entire navy. Nearly all of
tho suitors uro naturalized Americans,
whether boru iu Fiance, Germany or
Great Britain." -Ye York l'rcts.
A Feuco of Swords.
A man at Small Point is to have a fence
next summer that would please Rider
Haggard, though it will not be made of
elephants' tusks but of tho swords of
swordtish. The u.aii, Mr. Hylvauus
Wallace, of the Life Saving Station, lias
enough of these swords, leathered during
his fishing voyages, to build a picket
fi-imu forty feet iu 'ugth JJaUi lift. J
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WHERE MISTLETOE GROWS
FLORIDA BLACK-JACK! FORESTS
FESTOONED WITH IT.
Seeds Disseminated by Birds Take
Jloot ontlie Hark of Oak Trees
Curious Process of Growth.
Florida deserves its- name of "Land
of Flowers" not so much for the leauty
and luxuriance of its plant life as for the
strange and unique varieties of blooms
and blossoms that grow in the hummocks
and pine woods. It is tho land of "air
plants," and every cypress tree presents
a picturesque appearance, with the "air
pines," mosses, and wild specimens of
orchids clinging to the limbs and trunks
fifty feet above the ground, until they
look like the veritable hanging walls of
Babylon. Plants here, says a letter from
Fort Mead, Flo., to the New York Time,
seem to thrive on air and moisture, soil
being a superfluous accompaniment, and
leaves plucked from the parent stem will
sprout and grow if they aro nailed to the
side of the house or even hung up by a
string.
But far more interesting than any of
these at the holiday season of theycar is the
famous mistletoe, which in the Southern
woods covers tho bnfiches of large trees so
as tojnake them present the appearance of
magnificent evergreens. The novel effect
of these trees, covered with mistletoe, is
greatly heightened by thje numerous trans
parent berries which brighten every
branch of the plant.
Florida divides itself up into several
kinds of landscape. The high hummock
land is the best for horticultural purposes ;
low hummock land is good for gardening
If it is not covered over with water; high
pine land, rolling and flat, is suitable fot
orange and lemon groves, and, finally,
tho black-jack land. This black jack is
a species of black oak, with such enormous
roots that a forest of the trees will soon
drive out aud kill every other kind ot
plant life. The soil in the forest of black
jack is good, but so much labor is re
quired to grub out tho big tap roots that
such land is rarely cleared for cultivation.
It is on these black jacks that the mistle
toe abounds in certain sections of the
land . The plant is also found occasion
ally on the pine and cedar, and it has
been discovered in the South growing on
the persimmon and honey locust, but it
is on the oak family where it finds its best
growth.
The curious mistletoe is known only
in the North as it is sent from warmer
Scutes, and its historical recollections,
the rich poetical and legendary allusions
concerning it, make it a sort of plant to
be coveted every Christmas timo. The
custom of hanging mistletoe boughs over
tho hall door on Christmas Eve dates
back almost to tha time of the Druids in
Britain, when the oaks covered with
mistletoe were consecrated in their eyes.
Yet a plant that grows wild hero and is
in such universal demand has never been
cultivated with much success in North
ern hothouses.
Failures to transplant the mistletoe
have led to the belief that the seeds had
to be passed through the stomach of the
birds that feed on them in order to un
dergo some chemical change preparatory
to germination. The seeds of the plant
aro deposited by birds on the bark of the
trunks aud branches of trees, and the
rootlets which they send out insinuate
themselves though the crevices of the
bark and thus become incorporated with
the wood. Thrushes are among the prin
cipal birds that help to disseminate the
seeds, aud they may be seen gathering
ine sccus almost any day. 1 no viscous
nature of the seeds causes them to adhere
to the beak of birds, and in
order to get rid of them they
occasionally rub their beaks against
a tree, thereby leaving some tf
the seeds fixed to the bark, where they
stick last ana vegetate. They also.
when ripe, drop from tho plant, and in
tneir descent sometimes come in contact
with other branches, ami the vis:oug
matter causes them to adhere in lik?o
manner till they germinate. New forests
of black jack will thus often be planted
with the mistletoe iu this wuy, nud after
the plants have once got a good start
they spread rapidly.
The young mistletoe plant seems read
ily to imbibe the ascending sap from the
wood of the tree upon which it grows.
aud tliis it converts into a proper juice
adapted to nourish its own structure by
tho aid of its leaves. Jt is sometimes
grafted here on trees for ornamental pur
poses, and it has been made to grow upon
the apple, pear, poplar and willow. After
the seed of tho parasite is put on the bark
germination tikes place s ujout two
months. The first appearance of the
plant is two horn-like processes (resem
bling the horns of the common snail)
rising from opposite sides of tho seed.
They first shoot out straight, aud uftor
waid recurve buck till their extremities
touch tho burk in opposite directions.
They remain iu this position for tho first
year, bent like a bow, with one end fast
ened to the seed and the other to tho
bark. f
Tho second year the seeds ... . from
the burk, wluu the seed leaves belonging
to each radicle separate, aud each be
comes a separate plant, whether there be
two or three, as sometimes occurs. The
plants are firmly established at this time,
but they do uot make much growth un
til the third year. Theu they grow rapid
ly aud begin covering the black juck3
with their green boughs. No prettier
sight can be iinagiued thau a forest of
bluek jack covered with the bright mistle
toe, hanging in great festoons aud boughs
over the head, while the trees themselves
are perfectly leafless. The birds of the
North, enjoying their brief Southern
trip, flock to the trees in numbers, where
they pluck the berries in grea1. eagerness.
Like Florida orange blossoms, many
of these mistletoe boughs ure shipped to
the cities about the holidays to brighten
the iusidu of the homes, and not a few of
them sell for handsome prices. A small
spray of mistletoe in the North is woith
half a dollar, but. down here bushels ol
them limy be hud for the plucking.
A railroad is tube built from Ouiuha,
Neb., to Galveston, Texas,
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Scientists say the earth in her revolu
tions has three motions.
An Allegheny (Penn.) man has discov
ered a method of fusing steel and nickel.
. Some gentlemen at Newport, Ky., an
nounce that they can make alumniurn for
nine cents per pound.
Somebody has coined the word, "mo
torneer," to designate the person who
manages the motor on an electric car.
The telephone across tho English
Channel will contain four copper con
ductors, each a strand of seven wires.
Electricity has just been applied to tho
reeling, weighing and making up into
balls of silk and similar woven fabrics.
The newest street cleaning wagon
works on the principle of a patent parlor
broom dustlcss, and gathers up the dirt
as it goes.
The selection by plants of food and
rejection of injurious substances, though
not always performed without errors, in
dicates the presence of Sensation.
An English inventor offers a system by
which coal gas compressed to one-eighth
its natural bulk can be earned about and
utilized as an illuminant when desired.
The dynamo is replacing the battery to
such an extent in telegraphy that its use
will, it is thought, be universal in a few
years. It is both cheaper and niuro effi
cient. A London paper suggests that the
Government should send out some war
ships to blow up with dynamite the ice
bergs which are now very plentiful on
the Atlantic.
After exhaustive experiments, the
French Postoffice has decided to sub
stitute a copper-coated steel wiro in
place of the ordiuary iron wire for tele
graphic and telephonic service.
The fastest vessel afloat is said to be
the 3200-ton English built warship in
tended for the Argentine Government.
She made 21.2 knots under ordinary
draft, and 22.4 knots with forced draft.
In Boston, Mass., the other duy, a
motor under an electric car exploded,
and tho wood work of tho car caught
fire. One of the passengers, a voung
gir', was iujurcd, aud a lire engine had
o be called out to extinguish the flames.
A new alloy consists of 100 parts of
aluminum, and ten parts of tiu, and is
especially suitable for instruments intend
ed to be very light. Tho alloy, which
is a trifle paler than aluminum, is a littlo
heavier than tho pure metal, but is not
so easily corroded, can be worked nioro
readily, and could be soldered as easily
as bronze.
Dr. Kabierski, of Breslau, Germany,
has invented a novel percussor in the
form of a tuning fork with a cylindrical
stem, which is held between the finger
and thumb, with thin prongs with
rounded free extremities for striking tho
surface of tho body. Ho has mapped
out by its means the varying movements
of the apices of the luugs, and believes
that he has shown that results heretofore
obtained should be considerably modi
fied.
Slavonic Customs.
It is customary in Polish villages to
strew straw over the Christinas Eve sup
per tables, and for the youug people,
blindfolded or in tho dark, to pick out
each a straw therefrom. Should the
straw be green, the lucky maiden ex
pects to wear a bridal wreath or the
youth to lead l bride to tho altar during
the approaching year; but a dried straw
foretells either long waiting, possibly
even until death.
"In other rural Polish districts, on the
'Christ's Eve,' wine, beer and water are
placed by a girl between two caudles on
a table, one tlien retires into a corner
or an adjoining room to watch the re
sult reflected in a mirror hung for this
purpose. If, as the clock strikes mid
night, a man enters und drinks the wine,
sho is huppy, for her wooer will bo
rich. Should ho drink the beer, sho
may be content, for the wooer will be
'well-to-do.' If tho water bo chosen,
her husband will be very poor. But if,
as the clock strikes, mi man comes to
her table, the anxious maiden shivers
with more than midnight terror, believ
ing that she is doomed to be early the
bride of death.
"Poland is peculiarly rich iu these ob
eervances, spreading themselves through
out the year, both sexes being equally
superstitious iu this respect. On New
Year's Eve the young unmarried men
place themselves before a lire, aud.betid
iugdowu, look beneath their legs. Should
a woman uppeor iu the back ground, it
is the one they will marry; but if they
see a shape us of a coffin, it forbodes for
them death during the year close at
hand." Chamber Journal,
All Ocean Paradise.
The Island of Hogolen, in tho Poly
nesia, is uu immense corn! utotl, I'M
miles iu circuinfereuee, having four en
trance passages. Ou tho reef and w ith
in it are seventy islands, four of which,
near the middle, are high basal tic masses
about thirty miles each in circumference,
magniliceutly fertile, yielding spontan
eously muuy vuluable products, situ
uted in the midst of u rookboiind lake
ninety miles long by half that width.
This uukuown uceau paradise has been
for uges an arena of combat between two
hostile races, one copper colored, inhab
iting the two western of the great inte
rior isles, the other upon the two eastern,
a darker people with long, straight hair.
The two tribes ure supposed to iiumbet
over 20,000. Aniatie (Jiiartery llevittc.
Cats Wit'i Human Ways.
An English writer tells of two cats
which advanced daily from opposite ends
of u long and lofty wall, aud, meeting iu
the middle, fought with great fury until
one or both were precipitated to (lie
grouud below, upou which the tilit
ceased immediately,' the combatants re
mounting the wall ami basking peace-
nlly side by bide in tho sunshine,-.
V tiotton (Jlobe.
THE RCCv
To live Is but to nobly strive-
To strive against the savago earth.V '
Against the tireless days that drive
Men death ward from their hours of birth,'
Hope, love and prayer thpse thinsare real,'
More sweat and precious than we know;
Yet, like Rtar-glimpses, they reveal
The sombre skies above, below.
And what if some cry: God, forliearl
And othors still: Why livo atj all?
Life moves through triumph or despair
To its Creator's deathless call.
Though one man falters on his way, '
And ono stands railing to the end,
Thpre is no hand nor will to stay
That purpose which is foo or friend.
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That purpose whieh exalts n soul, ,
Even while it robs a soul of graco,
Which sinks the atom in t'ns whole.
The individual in the raco.
Ceo. E. Mont yomrru.i ii the Cosmopolitan.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
"Brings down tho house" A Western
cyclone.
The man who is "waiting for some
thing to turn up," might turn up his
sleeves and go to work. Pm-k.
If the lungs contain 75, 000,000 cells,
as a contemporary informs us, why not
ue them for a penitentiary? M'eit
Shore.
"I understand, Pat, tlfht you have a
big family dependeut upoa you?" "Yis,
sor, tiu chihlers, siven pigs and tho old
'oinun."
"Terrapin," says n writer "is on ac
quired taste." So it is. A taste of ter
rapin is among the most difficult things
to acquire known. ll'((.7itc,,'"s-'V4.
The slang that from her lips Ml pat, 1
Oft ma de her English hazy;
She once was heard to inunmir, "that
Chrysanthemum's a daisy."
Washington Vo&t.
Crawford "Time is money, you
know." Merritt "And yet I would
sooner have a girl who has forty millions
than ono who has forty years." Chicago
Liijht.
"Doesn't that man look sheepish?"
asked Mrs. Keedick. "Yes, but per
haps ho has had the wool pulled over hU
eyes," replied Keedick. Chicago Inter
Ocean. Watts "Potts shaves here sometimes,
doesn't he?" Barber "Yes; Mr. Potts
is one of my regular clients." Potts
"Clients! Don't you mean patieuts?"
Indianajwlit Journal.
Brown "Fcnderson is a very enter
taining fellow; don't you think so?"
Fogg "Yes, but tho deuco of it is you
can't begin to laugh until after he has
gone." Boston Transcript.
Somo wag recently started the ory
that Mrs. Stanley is about to v t
book entitled "How I Found Sliiey,"
and she is rcceiviug letters from peoplo
who think it is true. Keio York Tribune.
His Fiancee "Arc you sure you
would lovo mo just us tenderly if our
conditions were reversed if you wcio
rich aud I were poor?" lie "Iteversa
our conditions aud try inc." Brooklyn
Life.
"What is tho name of the other vaga
bond who was with you?" asked tho
magistrate. "Jimmy the Calico." "How
did ho ever get a name like that?" "Be
causu ho won't wash." l','tilaihtjhit
Time.
"Look here! You Just jabbe I mo in
the eye with your umbrella." f'Too bad
Here's my father's card, lie's an eyo
doctor, and if you'll use my name ho'll
give you bottom rates." I'hihttviylim
Itecord.
Johnny "Mr. Haiikiuson, ain't you
shaped just like other aieu ? " Mr. Han.
kinson "I suppose so, Johnny; why?'
"Papa says you ain't exactly square, and
Irene says you seem to be always rouud."
Chicago Tribune.
Dealer "I um sure, madifme,
could look the city through and uot (iu
a handsomer carriage thau this." Mrs.
D'Avnoo "Oh, it's handsome enough,
but it looks too couifort.ablo to bo styl
ish." Xtto York Weekly.
"I am going to be indiscreet, Miss
Chicago." "Oh, vou can't bo with me,
Mr. Boston." "No? Well, I was just
going to say how elegantly that big
diamond ring does harmonize with your
ban Is. " Philadelphia Timet.
Mrs. Bingo "Clara has been shopping
all day. Oh, here is the delivery wagou
with some of the things sho has or
dered." Bingo "But where is Clara?"
Mrs. Bingo "She is probably waiting
for the change." JVVie York Sua.
The only thing that mars tho dandy's
peace of mind is the fact that, he isn't
imported, like everything he uses.
Me auwhile, trom his lofty place in the
menagerie, tho imported monkey looks
down on him, and marvels. J'uck.
"Do you find enough to keep you
busy these days?" "You bet. I'm put
ting in a bigger day's work these days
thau I ever did before." "Why, I
thought you'd given up yoTir job."
"So I did I'm looking for another."
Buffalo Ivrjn-titn. , f
Jack "Why aro you lo. king o sad'."
Tom "I saw .Maud throwing ly
glances ut Hurry to-night." Jack
"Cheer up. It was doubtless for jou
sho meant thciu, though Harry got tlium.
Women can never throw straight you
kuo ,v." --limy ,' BMr.
Son i li t .iroliiiu's- Ucilhiiiics.
There is u -iugular raeo of pcooid in
South Carolina catted tiv llcdoonc-v
Their origin is iiuknuwn. Tm-y icseiii.
blc iu appearance t ic gip-rc-, Inn iu
complexion they are red. Tl.ci haw ac
cumulated considerable piopc.iy and ura
industrious and pcaceelilc. Tuev K.viu
small sUttcmcuis at the (,: f tho
mountains ami a--nia'.' hiih,:c hut
their own race. Who tu.- Civil W-n-
bloke out several oi tlx-m culi-!,- i o, tlij
Hampton l.- ion, and iicu i:,,. ; u n.
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