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Re
China bos twenty times as niucli coal
at Europe.
The Detroit Free Press thinks "Ameri
can wheelmen are doing a groit work in
the interest of improved roads in this
country."
A well known educator has expressed
'he opinion that whilo university cxten
non is an excellent thiug, there is danger
if running it into tho ground.
The Railroad Gnzctto insists tbnt auto
matic couplers should not bo made obli
gatory until 1900, so that the reform
may only be applied to new cars that are
built.
'Western Australia is about eight times
the size of tho Unitod Kingdom. Iti
population, according to tho census of
1891, was 4'.),7S2. There are about
10,000 more males than females.
The cost of a woman's education in
various American colleges is as follows:
Cornell, $500; Michigan, $370; Wellos
ley, $350; Smith, 100, Hryn Mawr,
$i50; Vossar, $100; Harvard Annex,
$000.
A Sussex (Euglnnd) correspondent
announces, on the authority of his vicar,
that mno out of tea among tho humbler
brides swear to "lore and honor cherries
and a berry" instead of tho regular
"cherish and obey" of the niurriuge
service.
The Boston Transcript says that it was
Cyrus W. Field who more than any other,
man made the Berkshire Hills fashiona
ble. His father was for years the
minister in the Congregational Church in
Stockbridge, where Jonathan Edwards
preached, and when tho projector of tho
Atlantic cable becamo famous ho brought
, foreigners to setTtho beauties of his old
homo.
Several young men in New York
thought it a good joke, rclatos the At
lanta Constitution, to mako one of their
act tliiuk that he had inherited and
would soon receive a fortune of $14,
000,000 from an uncle in Europe. The
news got out and tho heir was flooded
with solicitations from tho merchants
and money-lenders. Ho began to live in
a the style of a Monto Cristo, aud now re
fuses to bclievo that ho has been de
ceived. The doctors say he will carry
bis delusion through life.
The disappearance of tho Jim Fisk
rcstaurunt recalls to au old New Yorker
that there were as cheap restaurants in
Now York forty years ago as uov.' In
. the fifties there was a famous cheap res
taurant on Chatham Sipiare. Here one
could buy -for Gfc cents a good slice of
beef with potatoes aud turnips. For
cents more one could have plum pud
ding with rich sauce. Thus one ob
tained for 12J- cents, the old York shil.
ling, a wholesome and satisfying uieal,
and not always in bad company.
Tho demolition of Heligoland is going
on apace. Five military watch towers
aio boing erected on tho island, which is
slowly but surely crumbling away. Oue
of them, a correspondent states, is just
beginning to appear at tho South Point,
tho rock which rises sheer and red above
the clour, green water. Ouly two short
years ago that point was the loneliest,
loveliest spot on the sunny, silent isl
and, and servo.l tho superannuated,
weather-beaten fishcrmou as a station,
whence they looked out when a storm
was brewing, or when, the Ashing fleet
was overdue. Now bricks and mortar
cover the deep grass; the primitive scats
have disappeared, and tho Uoriuau bluo
coat reigns supreme. Close to tho Gov
ernment House, in tho fluids, a powder
warehouse is being built, and over tho
graves of the old Frisian Kings tho wafts
of big barracks are rising.
Among tho very foremost agitators for
the building of better country roads is
ex-Governor James A. Beaver, of
Pennsylvania, who made this the subject
of an executive niessago during his term
of otlioe. Governor Beaver has written
for the Forum an explanation why most
communities Hud it so difficult to get
good roads. The school tax, he says,
we have become accustomed to; so we
have become accustomed to bo taxed for
charitable institutions and for the relief
of tho poor; but iu most Suites tho
habit of generations, so far as concerns
tho improvement of roads, has been tho
ineffective system of "Working the
roads," so that most men have not only
had it firmly fixed iu their minds that
roads are not proper subjects for direct
taxation, but that the highways might
be made by a small contribution of per
sonal labor. It is this long and deep
rooted hubit and unwillingness to pay a
direct suilicient tux that is the primary
cause of our National disgrace in having
so few good highways; and the remedy
lies iu such au agitation as is happily
now going on iu most States for a
keenci public appreciation of the direct
commercial bruedts of wull-Luilt roads.
PHILOSOPHY.
Remember, O remember, while years are
floating by,
While springtime scones of joyous youth are
measuring the sky,
To garner in for lator years, when life may
lose iU zest,
That treasure which of treasures all is ever,
ever blest
A brave Philosophy I
Remember, O remember, while manhood's
summer grows,
While striving 'mid the piercing thorns to
pluck ambition's rose,
Tbough failure, pain and sacrifice may mar
thy daily path,
That these do sheath their keener pang for
him who always hath
A wiso Philosophy I
Remember, O remember, when youth is far
behind,
With only mem'ry's cloak to shield from
autumn's chilling wind.
That tbou may'st purchase refuge with the
treasure thou has won.
And fairer, warmer radiance than shed by
summer mm,
With tby Philosopbyl
Remember, O remember, when winter's Icy
hand
Draws tighter and yet tighter life's slender,
golden band.
That there is hope and peace and joy and
happiness indeed,
And confluence beyond despa'r, whatever be
thy creed,
In true Philosophy I
Carlyle Harris, In New York World.
THE SNAKE BROOCH.
HAD settled myself
in my corner and the
train was already
swinging at a good
pace down the "Gold
en valley" before I
noticed, first, that I
was not alone, and
second, that I was
not in a smoking com
partment. My fellow traveler
was a lady, clothed
from head to foot in a traveling ulster
with a deep cape, and closely veiled. I
wanted a smoke very badly, and so I
ventured to ask her if she had any objec
tion. Imagine my astonishment when, in
stead of replying to my question, she
sobbed out something utterly incoherent
and burst into tears. This was startling
enough, but when I saw that she made
no attempt to take out a handkerchief to
dry her eyes, but simply sat still with
her hands folded under her cape, surprise
very quickly gave place to bewilderment.
In such a situation a man does not
reason; ho simply acts on instinct.
In a moment I was at the other end of
tho carriage, begging her in a clumsy,
masculine fashion to tell me what was
tho matter with her. For an answer she
suddenly parted her cape and held up
two tiny clasped and daintily gloved
bands. As she did so I heard the clink
of iteel, andsomething bright bU,owq in
the lamplight.
My fair companion was handcuffed 1
Before she attempted any explanations
she opened her right hand aud showed
me one of the regulation screw keys
which alone will open the steel bracelets
that restrain the exuberance of the unruly
or dangerous criminal.
"Please unlock these horriblo things
for me and then I will tell you every
thing," she said, and the rcquost was
supplemented by a beseeching glauco
from a pair of tear-dewed eyes, to whoso
witchery many an older man than my
self would havo succumbed.
I took tho key, aud, after a little fum
bling about the strangely contrived locks,
set free the dainty little hands that were
stretched so appealingly toward me.
Not knowing exactly what to do with
the handcuffs, I slipped them tor the
time being into the sido pocket of my
ulster.
As soon as she got her hands free sho
unbuttoned her ulster and threw it back
a little. As she did so I noticed that she
wore a strikingly curious brooch at tho
neck of her dress. It was formed of
two thick gold serpeuts, coiled as if
ready to Bpnng, with their heads thrust
forward side by side and their emerald
eyes gleaming with an unpleasantly life
like expression.
It was a pitiful tale aud to a great ex
tent one which the newspapers have of
late years made too commonplace.
Forced by social and pecuniary consid
erations into a marriage with a man old
enough to be her father, and possessing
no single taste in comueu with her, she
had, under sore temp' .tion, broken hoc
forced troth and tied from his house.
Too proud to follow her himself, and
yet mean enough to punish her by sub.
mitting her to an unheard-of ludignity,
he had put a private detective upon her
track, told him she was tainted with a
dangerous mania, and given him strict
orders to briug her back to London
when caught, hundeuffed like a felou.
The detective, wheu he overtook her
at Hereford, had given her a letter from
her husband iu which he told her that if
she did not submit to his instructions ho
would prosecute her for stealing one or
two articles of jewelry the brooch that
she was wearing among them which
she had unwittingly taken away with
her in the hurry of her flight. To avoid
the disgrace aud public shame sho had
submitted to the brutal but private
tyranny of his revenge.
At Gloucester her escort had got out
to telegraph to her husband to meet them
and had lost the train through a porter
telling him that the stop was five minutes
instead of three, and she had just seeu
him run on to the platform as the train
left the station.
As sho looked round tho carriage iu
which she now lound herself free, un
shackled, she saw the key of her haud
cuffs, which must have fallen from his
ticket pocket as he jerked his overcoat
on, She tried hard to open the locks,
but, of course, had been uuable to do so.
pidcyt, aud Swludou we pabi u
lit
sho told her tale; we conversed upon
the strange occurrences of tho night, and
the only stop before Paddington was
now Heading. Here my traveling com
panion decided to leave the train, s by
no means could she avoid running into
her husband's arms at the tcrmiuus.
Despite her gcntlo winning manner, I
felt instinctively that persuasions would
be useless, and so I opened the door,
got out, and helped her to alight from
the carriage, and with a few murmured
words of repeated thanks she was gone.
When I got back into the carriage I
lit a cigar and lay back on the cushions
to think over my adventure By the
time the train drew into Paddington I
had exalted my beautiful unknown into
a heroine of romance, and, I regret to
say, myself into something like a
knight errant of the days of chivalry.
'This is it, twelve-ninety. Are you
there, Fred?" The train had stopped,
and a lamp flashing into the carriage
woke me up from my day dream to hear
these strange words, aDd to see a couple
of men in police uniform and a railway
inspector peering into tho compartment.
"Hullo I this must be wrong. They
aren't here, and yet this is the right
number. Excuse me, sir, how far havo
you come In this carriage?"
"From Stroud," I replied, a bit dazed
by drowsiness and my strange reception.
"Have you como all tho way alce?"
Some mad idea connected in a con
fused way with tho beautiful woman
whose soft, clinging clasp I could still
feel on my hand, stopped the truth that
rose to my lips, and instead uttered the
foolish lie:
"Yes, I have been alone in the carriage
all the way."
A moment later I would have given all
I possessed to have recalled my words,
for as I uttered them the' railway inspec.
tor turned his lamp under the seat
opposite to me and said in a hoarse
whisper:
"Good Heavens I what's that l'
My eyes followed the glare of the
lamp, and I saw the toe of a man's boot
on the floor of the carriage a few inches
back from the front of the seat.
A minute later and the corpse of a
somewhat undersized man, whose face
was still drawn in the agony of a violent
death, was dragged out, lifted up and
laid upon the seat.
Of course I spent the night in the
cells, for if I could have procured bail to
any amount it would not have been
accepted.
Not only was I charged with the most
terrible of all crimes, but the charge was
supported by prima facie evidence that
looked practically conclusive. The
handcuffs had been found in my pocket,
and I was accused of procuring the
escape from justice of tho notorious
Maria S , tho wife of a member of
the Nihilist Inucr Circle, then serving a
life sentenco in Siberia.
No fewer than four murders had been
traced to her, and now I was charged
with complicity in a fifth, that of a
well known English detective who had
sought to make a brilliant coup by taking
her alone.
She seemed to have the power of fas
cinating men with her beauty till they
became her slaves, and then striking
them dead by some terrible aud myster
ious agency that left no trace savo death
behind it.
There is no need to dwell on the hor
rors of the time that followed my arrest.
Everything that money and skill could
do for me was done, but I was com
mitted for trial on the circumstantial
evideuce to auswer the charge of mur
der. Whilo I lay iu jail awaiting my trial
the search for Marie 8 became an
absolute hunt to death.
Despite all this, so perfect was her
skill iu disguise, and so unlimited her
fertility of resource, that she might have
evaded pursuit after all, had it not been
for oue of those slips that the cleverest
of criminals seem to muke sooner or
later.
A smart young chemist's assistant, at
a fashionable watering place, one cveu
iog on the pier made the acquaintance
of a very pretty girl, who said that she
was studying chemistry for tho science
and art examinations.
This turned the conversation on chem
icals, aud she ended by asking h tm to
get her a quantity of a very poisonous
substance which she wanted fur an ex
periment, aud which she could not buy
because sho was a stranger 'iu the town.
Tho chemist's assistant was .a sharp
young fellow, aud he saw the chemical
she asked tor was not in tho syllabus of
tho science and art department.
He told his employer of the occurrence
tho next day, aud iu tho evening took
the girl some crystals of a harmless salt
which resembled what she had wautcd
somewhat closely.
"This is not what I asked for," she
said, as she looked into the packet.
"No, you cun't mske prussio acid out
of that.mhs, but it's sifer to play with,"
coolly replied the youth, aud as bespoke
a man who had been leaning over tho
rail of the pier a few yards away moved
silently up behind tho girl, pinioned her
arms to her side aud held her down to
tho seat.
The detective called a cab on tho es
plcnadc, aud the three got iu and drove
to the police station, pulling up the win
dows to avoid any possible obsevatiou
as they went through the streets.
When the cab reached tho station
there was no sign or souud of movement
Insido it. The cabman got down and
opened the door, and as ho did so he
staggered buck and fell gasping for
breath to tho pavement.
Inside the cab Mary S sat with
her two would-becuptors dead, and on
the face of each corpse there was the
same expression that there was on the
features of the dead man who was takeu
out of the carriage at Paddington.
When the clothing of Mu.ie S
came to be searched the mystnry was
solved by the discovery of oue of the
most infernally ingcuious contrivances
that have ever served the purpose of
murder. Inside the dress, just abovj the
waitb4ud on the right baud sidty. were
found two small rubber ball pumps, such
as are used for ordinary snray producers.
From these two tubes led up to a bottla
suspended round tho neck.
This had two compartments and two
necks closed by rubber corks, through
which ran thin tubes, which ended in
tho mouths of tho two golden serpents
coiled in the form of a brooch.
Tho horrible apparatus was so arranged
that, on working tho ball pumps by
pressing the right arm against the sido
two sets of vapors could be ejected from
the serpents' mouths. Theso jets when
united formed what was practically a
vapor of prussio acid, which would bo
blown directly in the face of any one
within a couple of foot of the brooch,
and would of course kill them almost in
stantly. To the wearer of the brooch there
would be little or no danger, provided
she held her breath for a couple of min
utes and moved quickly away, as tho
gas mixes very rapidly with the air aud
is soon lost. In a confined space like tho
cab the atmosphere would soon bo so
saturated that - it would be death to
breathe it.
All this was, of course, told to mo
after my release, which was effected im
mediately after the mystery was cleared
up. Sheffield Telegraph.
Detecting Bad Coins.
"Here's tho way we test coins in tho
Treasury." And the expert swiftly
poisod the dollar piece horizontally ou
the top of his forefinger, holding tho
thumb a quarter of an inch away from
it and gave it a brisk tap with another
coin. A clear, silvery ring sounded out.
"Good, but here; listen;" and he re
peated the operation with another coin
that gave out a dull, hcuvy cliuk that
ceased almost as soon as it began.
"Type metal and lead; moulded, too.
That is a wretched counterfeit." "How
do you tell that it was moulded?" He
held tho two coins so that the light
struck on their edges. "Just compare
the recdiug, will you, or milling, as
most people call it. In this genuine
coin this is very clear and sharp cut; in
tho counterfeit it is coarse and dull.
That is because moulded instead of be
ing stamped in cold metal, like tho
Government coins." Why do the coun
terfeiters not use the same cold process?"
"It costs too much and makes too much
noise. With a mould, you see, a coun
terfeiter can carry on his work in a gar
ret, and if a policeman comes in he can
sby the whole outfit out of the window.
But it takes great power to run a die.
Still some high-flying counterfeiters do
use them, and their work is usually
harder to detect, though it is never so
perfect as that of the Government Mint."
"What is the surest tost for counterfeit
coin for popular use?" "Tho looks of
the reeding, as I was telling you tho
milling, by t'ao way, is on tho face of
the coin, aud not on tho edge, as most
people think. That's the surest aad
easiest thing, but of course other tests
have to bo used, especially for weight
and thickness. A little scalo for weight
and measure is the handiest thing to set
tle that. Then, for platod oiu, a drop
of add squirted on the edge where the
plating wears most will chew up the
base metal in a hurry." "What acid do
you use?" "For gold coin a mixture of
strong nitric acid drams, muriatic
acid fifteen drops, and water live drams,
is used; for silver, twenty-four grains of
nitrate of silver and thirty drops of ni
tric acid, with oue ounce of water. One
drop is sufficient. If the coin is heavily
plated wo scrape it a little before put
ting on the acid." Spriugfield ltepub.
licau.
Ho Makes I'j clones.
Professor Douglass has succeeded in
manufacturing miniature cyclones and
tornadoes by means of electricity, thus
proving the electrical character of tho
"prairie terrors." In carrying out his
plans he suspended a large copper pluto
by silken threads and charged it from a
battery. He then used arsenious acid
gas, whereupon the combination of gas
and electricity could be seen hanging
from the underside of the plate iu the
form of a perfect funnel-shaped cyclone
cloud. When everything was ready,
the Professor swung tho plate and the
miuiature cyclone to aud fro across a
tablo litered with matches, pieces of
paper, pens, pencils, etc. The lighter
objects wero instantly sucked up, tho
heavier scattered in alt directions. The
effects wore exactly tlioso of destructive
cyclones. These curious experiments
explain cyclonic plieuomeua. Low
clouds become charged with electricity,
descend and form a connection with the
eaith. Then a violent electrical com
motion ensues, dually settling into a
whirl which continues until an electric
equilibrium is established. St. Louis
Republic.
Leflhauded Suddenly.
Three years ago a young lady of Fall
liiver, Mass., was hit ou the left sido of
the head by a fulling sign as she was
wulkiug uloug a street iu Boston. This
was followed by a bruin fever.
After some weeks she wus as well in
mind aud body as ever, but fr )ui a right
handed persou she had become so left
handed that sho could neither cut, suw
nor write with her ri,'ht hand, but
found it easy to dc all tiieso things witl
her left.
Her right baud was just about as us
ful as her left had been before, she was
hurt. What is strange is that, with so
recent a chauge iu the use of her hands,
she never makes au awkward motiou,
and is as graceful iu the use of her left
hand as if she had been bora lefthaudo J.
Boston Post.
To Utilize Icebergs.
A company has beeu organized in
Newfoundland to gather ice from ice
bergs for the use of icu consumer, ila
chiuery has beeu perfected for cutHug
ice from bergs, aud the airivul of a
steamer load is reported at Pilley's Isl
and. The ice is suid to be much purer
and harder than that harvested fsAni
streams and ponds, and a large deniuui
fur it is expected. Nvw Vorn WurlJ, j
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The solar system has twenty moons.
A Cincinnati doctor recommends eat
ing lemons for rheumatism.
Chewing gum's main component, gum
chicle, is the sap of sapodilla, a Mexican
tice.
The great Italian warships are 400
feet long, with a beam of seventy-five
feet.
A man obtains bis miximuin weight at
forty years of age, and a woman at fifty
yeurs.
The human skin is exactly like that
of a fish, as It is covered with minute
scales overlapping each other.
The right sido of the body perspires
more than the left, and the palm of tho
hand four times moro than the skin of
the chest.
A spermaceti candle consuming 120
grains per hour, or at the rate of two
grains per minute, will give an illumina
tion of one standard candle.
M. Dameny has takou successive
photographs of the lips of a speaker, so
that on arranging them a deaf mute,
able to real from tho motion of tho lips,
can understand them.
A new islet has been pushed above tho
surface of tho Caspian, near Baku, Rus
sia. It is three and a half miles from
shore, measures 175 by 100 feet, and
rises about twenty feet above the water.
There is said to be a volcanic area
forty miles square in extent in Lower
California that is a veritable fire land.
Every square rod of tho territory is
pierced by a boiling spring or spouting
geyser.
The soldering of aluminium, which
has long been a difficult problem, has
been recently solved. By sprinkling the
surfaces to bo soldered with chloiido of
Bilver, and molting down, tho soldering
is effected simply and satisfactorily.
Dr. Peters, the African explorer, has
discovered tuormous saltpeter beds be
tween Mount Kilima-Njaro and the vol
cano Donjo Ngai. Tho whole great ter
ritory betweon Kilima-Njaro anl Donjo
Ngai is said to be one great salt petet
bed.
Food for cattle is scarce in Norway
and a winter diet of cows in some parts
of the country is said to be a mash of
cod fish heads. The milk of cows so to i
has an uupleasant taste of co i-liver oil,
but is thought to be a valuiblo drink for
consumptive patients.
When alternating currents aro sent
through tho human body the physio
logical effects increase in severity with
au increase in the current strength, ac
cording to Professor Edwin J. Houston.
AVith current strengths greatly in excoss
of those employed in electrotherapy, addi
tional effects are produced, and a tonic
contraction of tho muscles follows.
Moreover, in such cases the ssverity of
the physiological effects is increased by
the high potential of the break-induce 1
discharge.
The World's Largest Active Volcano.
Hawaii is chiefly famous for its volca
noes, says the Ariatic Quarterly. Kil
auea, tho largest active volcsno in tho
world, lies ou the side of the mountain
Mauna Loa, at au elevation of four thou
sand feet. We usually think of au ele
vation as a cono, but Kilauca is rather a
great sunken pit, in the midst of a vast
desolate plain which slopes up gently to
the summit of the mountain. It is a pit
of no less than nino miles in circumferance
and the area of its lowest level is six
square miles. Tho level varies; but it
is at present six hundred feet below tho
surrounding country, and is reached by
a steep descent dowu the sheer face of a
precipice, which extends right uround
the crater, aud, as it were, walls it in.
Within tho crater, toward its southern
end, is an iuuer crater, with one or more
hikes of fire, called ilutomuumuu, or
House of Everlasting Burnings, which
constitute the true chimney of tho vol
cano. Hero Kilauca exhibits its cease
less activity. In the outer crater occa
sional grand eruptions occur, but signs
of the slu nbering forces below are ever
present iu the form of blowing coues aud
steam cracks, varying iu size from nar
row clefts to great fissures, from which
issue puffs and clouds of steam, fumes of
hot poisouous gases, and, from some,
liquid lava. The general bed is made
up of countless lava news, of a variety of
forms aud contortions difficult to de
scribe. At times it is surrounded by a
circle of crags, thrown up from thu lake
in a molten state and solidified as they
rose. They tower above tho level of tho
outer basin to the height of 100 to 600
feet. From thu top oue gazes down
ward into a sea of liquid fire. Boston
Transcript.
Coreuu Hospitality.
In the matter of hospitality wo might
learn much from the Corcuns, who ap
pear in the following story to keep alive
the ancient notion that uothiug should
be too good for the stringer within their
gates. When Admiral Shufeldt went to
the hermit Nation to arrange for a treaty,
Mias Shufeldt missed a valuable bracelet,
the theft of which wus duly reported to
the proper authorities. Suspicion rested
ou two uutives, who weio taken before
tho tribunal ami subjected to a rigorous
examination. The olliciuls found that
no incriminating evideuce could bo ob
tained agaiust the suspected culprits, and
iulormed Miss Shufeldt of thu fuot, but
added, iu a spirit of courtesy, "If madam
wishes, however, wo will at once cut oil
the heads of both men." Boston Tran
script. How Eur Pulling lliiran.
Aucieiitly, iu many parts of France,
wheu a mlu of laud took place, it was
the custom to have twelve adult wit
nesses uccouipuuied by twelve little boys,
aud when the price of the luud was paid,
and its surrender took place, the ears of
the boys were pulled, aud they wero
beaten severely, so that the puin thus iu
f.ictcd should make au impression upou
their memory, aud, if requited after
ward, they might bear witness to thy
tale. New Yurit H'tirld,
THEAIAKKETS OF HAVANA.
TJNIQUK SIGHTS IN TUB METROP
OLIS OF CUBA.
rroflnce Carried to Market on Male
Hack The Hucksters and Their
Wares Milk Dealers.
-JV MONO the most interesting
sights of a unique and intcr
eating city are the markets o(
Havana. A visit to them helps
the stranger to the better understanding
of the methods of life not only of the
city people but of the country dweller."
as well, and shows strikingly the curious
mixture of races that goes to make up
the population. There aro three largo
markets, each one occupying a huge low
stone building plustcrod on tho outside,
tho manucr in which, most of the build
ings of Havana aro constructed, and
constituting a block by itself. Ap
proaching the market during the busy
hours of tho morning we find the streets
on every side almost blocked by heavily
ladcucd mules, just iu from thu country,
carrying produco of every sort. Tho
roads throughout the island are so bad
that almost all heavy load), except sugar
cuno and the huge casks of sugar and
molasses, are carried in this way.
Panniers made of very course bagging,
or woven from straw, or of palm fiber,
are fastened upon cither sido of the
mule, uud theu filled with merchandiso
until tho mule is almost hidden from
sight. In this way almost every sort of
fruit and vcgctttblo is carried, also
cocoanuts, corn-fodder, livo chickens,
livo pigs, cans ofmilk au d whatever else
the couutry may send to supply the
town. Corn-fodder is oue of the prin
cipal articles of this ommercc, as it is
almost tho ouly feed that is used for
tho horses and cows kept in tho city. It
grows all the year through, rarely attains
a height of more than four feet, and is
cut when the grain if hardening. Thon
it is tied in bundles and bound on mules
until nothing but tho nose and tail of
tho animal can bo seeu, and so brought
in to market.
Tho hucksters and traffickers who
come with the mules are as varied and
curious as the wares they bring. There
are Cubans and Spaniards of tho poorer
cluss, Indians, Coolies and Ginjivos
tho native men of the mountains. They
area ragged, dirty, uncouth lot, shoeless
and hatless, sometimes tramping along
besido their loads, and again mounted
upon the very apex of tho crowded pan
niers. It may be seen at a glance, not
only from their own poverty-stricken
look but also from the leanness of their
beasts, that they are wretchedly poor.
A visit to their homes would still further
emphasize this fact, as there are few
poorer habitations kuown to civilized
man than the palm-bark cabins of these
Cuban small-farmers. But they are
good-natured and apparently happy. Ou
arriving at the market they are noisily
busy for an hour unloading their mules
and arranging their wares for sale. Or
anges are poured from tho panniers into
large, flat baskets, until one wonders
that they could havo held so many. The
baskets, holding perhaps a bushel and a
half, are lifted upou the head tho fa
vorito way here of carrying all burdeus
aud takeu into the market. Thou there
aro piueapples and plantains aud ban
anas, as plentiful as apples or potatoes
with ui at home; these ate all ridicu
lously cheap, a dozen line oranges for a
dime, a good pineapple for five cents, oi
tho very best for teu, and in many bau
unas as you care to c.rry for a dime.
1 he potatoes here are quite as fine ai
one would see in auy Northern market.
Thcia are also those other tropical fruits,
sapotas, sapodillm, and some whose
names 1 could not easily ascertaiu, curi
ous looking, many of them with rough
brown coats, all of them sweet and, to a
Northern palate, somewhat insipid. Iu
midwiuter there is iu thu vegetable
booths everything thut we havo iu mid
summer, new corn, celery, lettuce, oni
ons, tomatoes, artichokes, etc., aud there
are some curious looking messes, ready
cooked, uf which tho odor is uuotigh for
us. It goes without saying thut there is
dirt every whero, for these people aro not
at all cleanly, when judged from the
American standpoint.
The interior of the market is given up
mainly to the sale ef things eatabio. Tho
outer portions, fronting upon tho streets,
are filled witii booths of various sorts
where one may buy a thousand things of
little value, uud hardly anything of real
worth. One may buy poor cuudies,
flowers made into gaudy bouquets, imi
tation jewelry, cheap toys, brilliantly
colored pictures and books with strik
ingly illustrated covers, deculcomuuiu
supplies this seems to bo a favorite
decorative art cheap little woodeu
statuettes of the saints, in fact anything
and everything thai is calculated to catch
the eye aud the money of the iguoraut
aud unwary. There is much noise aud
chattering wherever two or moro are
gathered together, or where even the
smallest commercial transaction is being
conducted. The people, though most
of them are t'resse 1 in rags, show some
bit of color thut helps to euliveu tho
sceuo. Did crone-, perfect wifmes iu
form und feature, hobblu about selling
herbs, charms and lottery tickets. Chi
namen sit stolidly behind counters
whereon are shown delicately carved bits
of ivory uud finely worked boxes of
scented woods.
T.ie milk dealer is about the ouly
merchant of any sort who cannot bo
found iu thu market. Bui hu is just
now going uloug tho slreet outside,
urvitig his herd before him aud stopping
at each door to draw, direct from tho
( ow, such u supply us may be wanted.
Most uf 'he milk used iu the city is
procured iu this way, and almost ut any
hour a hurdsmuu may be seeu iu thu street
drivings l.ulf dozeu covj ur .i be
fore bun from houe to house. Ameri
can Agriculturist.
The oldest and laigest ine lic il schocl
In America is thut ot the Lti'vers u oi
Pennsylvania. It was Intitule I in J 703
ud ti4 ,'luJunteJ, l'J,iJ.- uit'U,
I WOULDN'T, VOUNO MAN.
Yon can marry a woman with plenty of
gold
I wouldn't if I were yon
She is haughty and proud, and her lips are
cold
1 wouldn't if I were yon .
True love alone can the heart assuage, .-
And to live one's yoars in a gilded cage
Would make of life a lontr, dull page
I wouldn't if 1 wore yovi.
You can do all sorts of foolish things
I wouldn't if I were you
For a lying part no pleasure brings
I wouldn't if I wore you. -r
Ob, who would forfeit the depth of bliss 1
That always comes in an honest kiss
'Tween a faithful youth and a trusting
miss
I wouldn't if I wore you.
You can cheat, and ta', and grasp, and
clutch
I wouldn't if t were you
For wealth bring never a joy to such
I wouldn't it I wore you.
And better than gold is a loving fri n 1,
Whose heart will a ray ot sunshine lend.
You may strive, it you will, for a eolflsh
end
I wouldn't If I were you.
You may, bBtimea, grow strangely blind
I wouldn't if I were you
To the debt you owe to alt mankind
I wouldn't if I were you.
For all who breast life's troubled wave
Have a common birth an 1 a common grive;
You may praise the king aud spurn the
slave
I wouldn't if I were you.
You may be tempted to quit the truth
I wouldn't if I were you
That a mother's love has taught your
youth
I wouldn't if I were you.
And the ongols will bless you whilo you
sleep,
And they'll kiss your honest lips and keep
Sweet watch o'er your slumher soft and
deep
I wouldn't if I wero you.
Nixon Waterman, in Chicago Tribuno.
HUM 0ft OF THE DAY.
A check mate The stub.
A green grocer Tho one who trusts.
Puck.
Tho handle to our name is the thing
by which pride lifts us up.
It doesn't take a bit of meanness out
of a rascal to polish him. Ham's Horn.
In the bright lexicon of matrimony,
the base ball player is not always a good
catch. Puck.
A woman's glory is in her hair, but it
Is a good plan to tie it up when cooking.
Texas Siftings.
The man who never attempts to sing
at any other time will break out in a
picnic wagon. Atchison Globe.
'I've lost five pounds of flesh ou youl
account," sighed tho butcher, as a dog
ran off with a steak. Texas Siftiugs.
Every man's ideal woman is one who
would believe he caught whales in the
river if he told her so. Atchison Globe.
It was a much too sudden movj;
For just before ho spoke
The words that told her of his lovj
The hammock broke.
Judge.
"There goes Blobski, tho boomerang
poet." "How did he get that name!"
"By his verses always coming back to
him." Philadelphia Record.
A contemporary lays down a number
of rules of action iu caso of one's cloth
ing taking fire. Ono of tlteiu is "to keep
as cool as possible. Tit Bits.
He "That's that ass, 11 mud erson,
isn't it Ho should havo. been drowned
as a puppy." She "Tnere's tituo
enough yet, isn't thert?" Punch.
Do uot judgo from outside appear
ances. Tho football looks plump aud
fair proportioned, but there is nothiug
iu it but wiud. Boston Transcript.
A victim o'erworkeJ
Kir whom hearts should grow temljl
Is the louion that's used
by the lemonade vender.
V usltiugtoii t-'tar.
Hudson Rivors "Chicago has soma
very tail buildiugs, has it not?" "C. B.
Axque "Has it I You have to lie Hut
on your back to seo out of towu." New
York Herald.
Dog Fancier "I tell you, gents, that
dog o' mine is nil intelligent critter."
Syunek "Possibly; but you wouldu't
think it, judging Iro n tho company ho
keeps." Bostou Tiauscript.
A mystery on a siuru ut a South End
provision store: "Beef Is very high,
our prices are the same." The question
i.s, tloes the sign attract or repel cus
tomers? Boston Transcript.
Ho "I never heard a conundrum yet
that could trouble me for a moment."
She (admiringly) "Can you always
answer them, then?" He "Oit, no! I
always give them up." Soiuervillo
Juuruul.
Fred "Tnere seems to be a lot more
fuss made of Miss A.'s sinking than Miss
K.'s, and I am sure .Miss IC. has by far
tho richer voice." Jack "Oh, yes, but
Miss A. has by fur the richer lather."
Pick Me Up.
Paterfamilias "What have you to
show us the means of supporting my
daughter if you wed her, Mr. Snippy?"
Mr. Snippy (with obvious embarrass
ment; "Er ah I could tell better if
er I had seen your latest will."
Chicago News-Record.
Seedy Party (contemplating himself iu
a pocket mirror; "Hero I am w.iriug
thu boots of a bunk muuugcr, tho
trousers of a lauded proprietor, a liarou's
coat aud vest, uud even a count's hut,
und iu spite of all that I look bko a
trump." Plicguudo Blaelter.
Nellie Sutuuiergirl "We've beeu en
gaged over a week, George, dear! Don't
you tliiuk we ought to break iti" Goorgo
Indenittiid "lireak the engagement I
Why, love, aro you tired of mo so soon?"
"N-no; but don't you think I ouyht to
give the other girls some chance ut you,
teing you're ib ouly uiaa heiof"-
jXUU .N'cAi,