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Washington has como to bo quito a
.honeymoon city.
Each of tho four British Australian
Colonies has a Scotchman nt tho head
of its government.
Statistics aro said to bIiow that tho
introduction of machinery into manu
factories hns decreased tho number of
the unemployed.
Our foreign visitors, now bo numer
ous nmong us, nro pleased to any wo
havo better and cheaper restaurants
thnu even rnris affords.
Moro factories for tlio making of
handles for implements liavo been
established in the South during tho
past year thnu in any five previous
years.
AVith no drunkenness, no crime, no
flres and no diHtitrhanccs of any sort
during tho past year tho Boston Her
ald adiuity that "Brattleboro, Vt. ,may
fairly lay claim to being tho Utopia of
America."
By a simple invention, just adopted,
every lighthouse on the count is to
identify itself hereafter by flashing out
its number. This will relievo mariners
from tho necessity of remembering
many combinations of colors and also
from uncertainty in ascertaining
whether a light Been dimly through the
fog is white or rod. Tho wonder is,
observes tho New Orleans Ficaynno,
that such a useful and simplo device
was not adopted long ago.
8yB tho New York Independent : If
tho United States of America hns no
name, neither hns it a definite National
air. Of course tho National air called
"America" is English and identical
with "God Saw tho Queen." "The
Star Spangled Banner" possibly should
bo considered our National air and
sung as snch at the Chicago Exhibition.
At Trinity College, Dublin, when tho
American candidates camo forward to
receive their doctorates the band played
"Yankee Doodlo" and set tho Ameri
cans in a titter.
Tho lato Doctor Agnew, of Phila
delphia, said that catarrhal affections
were almost unknown among the
Quakeresses whom ho attended, and ho
ascribed it to tho fact that the Quaker
bonnet protects tho back of the head
and tho nape of the neck from cold air.
He might havo gone further ami added
that the Quaker women havo como
nearer thnu any others of their sex to
discovering tho perpetual bloom of
youth. One meets in and about Phila
delphia scores of Quakeresses who re
tain in old age fresh, unwrinkled faces,
clear eyes, and erect figures. Tho
peace and health of their spirits seem
to conform face and figure.
In tho great momentum of tho wo
man movomeut, which gaius new re
cruits every day, the Chicago Herald
protests that one is inclined to over
look tho fact that woman was a power
morally, socially and iutcllectuully in
tho Fifteenth Century as well as the
nineteenth ; that tho doors of univers
ities were open to her not only to study
but to teach within their sacred pre
cincts. In the University of Salamanca
she has hud a place, ami when Isabella
of Spain desired to. acquire tho Latin
tongue, it was to a woman she turned
for a tutor. In Italy, even in the
Thirteenth Centr.ry, a noble Florentine
lady won tho palm of oratory in a pub
lic content in Florence with learned
doctors from all over the world.
It is said that the Austrian authori
ties are very much concerned about
the constant heavy immigration from
their territories, and are doing all they
can to check it by publishing harrow
ing accounts of the miseries undergone
by their emigrants in foreign countries.
They have lately published a state
ment to the effect that Austrian emi
grants in Brazil havo appealed to their
consul at Bio do Janeiro to request
tho Brazilian Government to givo
them work or assistance. As the re.
suit of this intervention, up to the
first harvest, they were provided with
fifteen days' work per mouth, at
nominal daily wages of two florins
eighty-four luvutzers, or about $1.18.
This, however, explains tho New
Orleans Picayune, was uot paid in
ready money, but in paper, which
shopkeepers would only accept at such
a heavy discount that the unfortunate
laborers were burely able to secure the
necessaries of life. Tho present
. Brazilian Government, moreover,
have not kept tho promise made by
their predecessors to assign laud to
settlers and fcdvance money for its
cultivation. Consequently, the im
migrants havfc been reduced to desti
tution through the increase in the
prL of provisions, the bad harvest,
tljUpJr"ition ' work on the roads
stoppage of cultivation.
MY QUEST,
Whan Tlma and I sot forth together
In April weather,
tender was the lllans' morning
For winter dead
'Iroen tassels, maple-tops adorning,
Tossed high o'arhend i
nd underneath a blue and sparkling sky
iVa journeyed Joyously, young Time and I.
I could not tall you how it happened so,
But this I know,
flint some time 'twlxt bright dny and dark
some nlht,
Time slipped away,
Vanished this airy winged sprite
Who will not stay
Tho kings by suble art strive to unchain ,
And left mo only hope "Wo meet aRaln."
What should I do? Bend criers through the
town
To hunt him down?
Or should I pray tha clooks, "When next ye
chime
Rome passing hour,
With both hands seize this trunnt, Timet
Onee In my power
(d clip bla wing, he eould not fly so tost.
Already golden summer is o'erpast?" .
At length we mot, both gray and bont and
old,
With greetings eold ,
The snowflakos foil from out the leaden sky,
And in my ears
The wind's sad spirit seemed to sigh,
"Alas, tho years 1
Whuro are tha deeds thou promised in thy
prime,
Who now art old, but In thy youth lost
Timer
Nancy Maun Waddle, In the Independent.
A GRAND JUROR.
M ROBERT C. V. METERS.
1 ' '.HE day Mary Ham
1 i . ri mond aooepted
Joyce, her mother
handed her a thousand-dollar
b o nd,
her share of her
father's life insur
ance. She thought
of pretty gowns to
bo worn as a bride.
Then she sobered
up. David would
think her silly, he
was so practical. She
was sorry for David.
About a month after the engagement
John Alroy was made postmaster of
Garrett He was young, quick and
clever, and handsome.
Joyce was busy at tho store, so Mary
ofteu went to social gatherings without
him, he calling for her later on in the
evening. Ho did not dance ; Alroy did.
It gradually dawned upon him that
Mary danced a good deal with the post
master. Ho also found that the post
master often mot Mary by chance whon
she took sunny walks.
n April no made his usual spring
trip to buy goods. He bad been away
a week when he received a letter from
Mary. She asked to be absolved from
her engagement with him. The calm-:
ness with which Mary met him told him
bis doom.
"It is Alroy, of course?" ho said.
"It may seem to you that I treat you
badly," sho returned, "but I never
knew what love was till I met him ;"
and Jovce went away.
Throughout the summer he saw little
of the happy pair, invented business
excuses taking him much from home.
Winter came, and the store claimed
him. April loomed up tho anniver
sary of bis shattered hopes and he
heard that Mary would be married in
June. In June the marriage was put
oil till autumn.
This was the reason. The postoflice
at Garrett was third-class. Out of his
Bslary tho postmaster was expected to
defray all office expenses. In a second-class
office, clerk hire and other
liabilities were met by the Govern
went, while tho salary of tha master
was considerably increased. Alroy
proposod to raise his office to second
class, so as to be in a position to mar
ry. To do this he must prove that the
business of Ins olhce bad increased for
a year to such an extent that it
equalled existing second-class offices.
Late in the summer he said that this
was so. In September an expert dis'
covered that, while the sale of stamps
for a year equalled that of an office of
the higher grade ,it did not represent
a corresponding increase in mailed
matter. Alrov was accused of fraud,
In January Joyce was summoned to
net as grand juror on the 20th of Feb
ruary, in the city, more than a hun
dred miles awav.
The afternoon of the 18th brought
Garrett a blinding snow-storms: the
streets wero deserted, business was at
a standstill. About four o'clock and
nearly durk, a lady entered Joyce's
private room at tho store. It was
Mary Hammond.
"I have heard," she eaid at once,
"that you are a grand juror in the
February term. The postmaster's
case comes up before you. "
Joyce's heart gave a bound, ne
had not thought ot that.
"The grand jury, I am informed."
she went on, "docide if there is suffi
cient ground to make out a case to go
before the court. You will have a voice
in deciding whether or not there is a
case against the postmaster. "
Joyce's eyes were like coals of fire.
"If it were in your power, you would
convict the postmaster," she said.
Joyce found his voice.
"If I knew him to be guilty, yes,"
he said.
"He is guilty," she went on. "The
stamps were bought by me, with the
thousand dollars of my father's insur
ance. 1 proposed the frifud. Love
for liua made me do as I have done ;
love for me made him do the rest."
Without another word she went from
the room out into the snow-storm.
Joyce trembled in every limb, The
insult drove him wild. She knew that
he still loved her, and she called upon
that love to save Alroy even at the cost
of honor. Tho outrage of it 1 Alroy
Mil
i
was guilty, and there was but one thing
to do. Love and honor coutended
hopeless love, inalienable honor. There
could bo no question aa to which would
win.
Tha following day, the outrage-
the insult gnawing at him( he went
on the hundred-mile journey. On the
morning of the 20th ho took oath that
ho would do hia duty as a good and
loyal man in the matters to be placed
before tho grand jury. In a few min
utes more he was sitting with twenty
three other men round a long table
listening to detectives and others testi
fying against unseen people.
How many cases were disposed of he
hardly knew, when he heard the name
ho had waited for. Jayco raised his
head. Now would come the revenge
for all the pain he had silently suf
fered; and yet his reveDge would be
only his honest duty. His face grew
hard and grim.
A postofTlee expert testified among
other thing, that Alroy had openly
boasted that ho would raise his office
to second grado so that tho increase of
salary would warrant his marriage.
Two other witnesses testified as to the
facts already known.
"Well, gentlemen," said the lore-
man of the jury.
I move that a truo bill be found,"
cried a juror.
"I second the motion, said another.
"All in favor of a truo bill signify
their assent by saying 'Aye.' "
Several "Ayes.
"Contray 'No.'"
Several "Nob."
The foreman and an officer of the
court looked round tho table.
He may, or may not, have thought
the saleB legitimate," said one.
Oughtn't he to have the benefit of
the doubt?" asked another. "It is
getting very easy to accuse men in of
fice of dishonesty.
"An official like a postmaster," said
a third, "should bo above suspicion."
"Bather urfair to make his wish to
bo married tho cause for his rascality,"
said the youngest juryman.
"And to blame him for his ambition
in tryiug to raise his office," said a kind
voice.
"Gentlemen," said the court officer,
"a majority of one is sufficient to make
out a true bill, and a liko majority of
one may ignore a bill. Those in favor
of a true bill will please rise."
The man next to Joyce sprang np to
his feet. Another got up. Joyce
counted three, four, five.
"If he knew the bare sale of the
stamps did not substantiate his, claim,
that would make a truo bill against
him, " said a juror. Another man stood
up, still another.
"Only seven. Ah, eight, nine, ton,
eleven."
Tho juror on the other side of Joyce
rose.
"Twelve."
Joyce with a feeling of exultation
that his revenge was to be even great
er than ho had hoped when he could
give the casting vote to decido the
case against Alroy staightened his
kuocs to riso and form the majority of
one. At that moment he heard a low,
tremulous voice: "I proposed the
fraud. Love for him made me do as I
havo done ; love for me made him do
the rest." He glanced fearfully
around, almost expecting to see the
owner of that voice the woman he
loved tho woman who had treated
him so badly the woman who had
gaugod his honor and his love.
"Your duty as a good and loyal
man "
"No majority," sang out the court
officer, "a tie. Let me try again an
other way. Those in favor of ignoring
the bill please to rise."
("Your duty as a good and loyal
may ")
Twelve men wero standing up.
"How is this geutlemen," said tho
court officer, "still a tie."
("I proposed the fraud," came that
low, tremulous voice. "Love for him
made me do as I have done.")
Love. Did Joyce know what lovo
was? Did ho know the power
Mary's lovo must have exercised over
the man she loved the man she had
ruined? Did he know her suffering
now that she realized what sho done?
And did he think of Alroy 'a love for
her; of his striving after hap
piness with her even at the
price of that which men hold
to be tho first principle of man
hoodhonor? Was there not yet a
chance for retrieving, a chance for
their peace, made purer by mistake
and Buffering? Was there nothing
higher than mere duty? Was it duty
to irretrievably ruin two lives which
might yet bo made better? Mary
would never be sure of the part her
discarded lover played in this case, de
spite her guessing, and oh, his honor,
his honor I and oh, his pain his hope
less love I
"Still a tie," impatiently said the
court officer.
Oh, his honor! and oh, his pain his
hopeless love 1 But oh, Mary's happi
ness I
Joyce, the thirteonth juror, suddenly
shot up on his feet, making the ma
jority of one.
"JNIajority !" proclaimed tho conrt
officer. "The bill is ignored."
The thirteenth juror fell in a heap to
tho floor. New York Storiettes.
(Juwr Matrimonial Methods.
A convenient way they have in Hol
land and Batavia of tying tho matri
monial knot when the lady is in one
country and the gentleman in thn
other. For the Hollanders are such a
thrifty industrious people that they
like not to lose time even over the most
solemn services. The marriage is af
fected by procuration. The watches
of the two parties-the one suy in Am
sterdam and the other in Batavia are
regulated to accord, or the difference
in longitndo allowed for. Then at the
same instant of time the marriage cere
mony is performed in both places, and
thj thing in done,
THE PICTURESQUE COWBOY
sb is jtapidlt pab8ino a wat in
Tub far west.
Rapid Decline of the Kange Business
the Cause nt Ills Disappearance
What He Was In Ills Prime.
THE rapid decline of the range
business of Wyoming began
six years ago. Before that it
had been of a character to
tempt even tho rich. At one time men
paid two per cent, a month for money,
and made 100 per cent, profits a year.
That was when cows came np from
Texas at a cost of $7 each, sold in two
years for $22, and in three years for
$40 and more, when the ranges were
not overstocked, the pasturage was
good, and all the conditions, including
boom" prices at the stockyards, were
favorable. Tho men who did the best
pushed into new territory as fast as
the Indians were crowdod off, and kept
finding new grass and plenty of it.
But the risks Boon came, and multi
plied. If one man was careful not to
overstock a range, he could not be Bure
that another cow outfit would not do
bo precisely where he had put his cattle.
Prices fell, fences cut up the ranges
and shut off the water, winter losses
became heavier and heavier, and the
"good old days" of this inhuman,
devil-may-care, primitive, and clumsy
business came to an end. The cowboys
of picture and Btory existed in the
brilliant days. At first they had come
from Texas, but in the zenith of their
romantic glory they came from every
where and from every class. They in
cluded young Englishmen, college
graduates from the East, well-born
Americans all sorts who did not
"strike luck" at anything else,- and
who were full of vim and love of ad
venture. They got $40 a month and
good keep during tho greater part of
each year. They rode good horses,
that had as much of the devil in them
as the "boys" themselves. They bought
hand-stamped Cheyenne saddles and
California bits that were as ornate as
jewelry, and stuck their feet in grand
tapaderos, or hooded stirrups, richly
ornamented, padded with lamb s wool,
and each as big as a fire-hat. Their
spurs were fit - for grandees, their
big broad felt sombreros cost more than
tho Prince of Wales ever paid for a
pot-hat. .
And then, alas 1 the cow-men began
to economize in men, food, wages
everything. The best of the old kind
of cowboys, who had not become own
ers or foreman, saloon-keepers or
gamblers, or had not been shot, drifted
away. Some of the smartest among
them became "rustlers" those cattle
thieves whose depredations resulted in
what almost came to be a war in Wy
oming last year. They insisted that
they had to do it t? live.
From the cowboy stand-point it was
time for the business to languish.
Towns wero springing up every here
and there, each with its ordinance that
cowboys must take off their side-arms
before they entered the villages ; wages
were low down ; men had to cart hay
and dump it around for winter food ;
settlers fenced in the streams, and
others stood guard over them with
guns; it was time such a business
languished. From tho stand-point of
Nineteenth Century civilization the
same conclusion was reached the
rango business was an obstruction to
civilization, a bar to the development
of the State, a thing only to be toler
ated in a new and wild country. And
now I am assured that there is not an
intelligent cow-man who does not
know that tho business is doomed in
Wyoming, and that the last free-roving
herds must move on. There is not one
who does not know that small bunches
of cattle, held in connection with agri
culture, must take the places of the
range cattle, because better grades of
cattle can be bred, better meat can be
produced, nil risks will nearly disap
pear, and the expenses of the care-of
the cattle will not be a tithe of those
of the old plan. Julian Balph, in
Harper's Maguzine.
A Papler.Maclie Hospital,
rapier-mache, which can be com
pressed almost to the solidity of iron,
promises to come into vogue as a
building material. A portable hospi
tal large enough to aocouimodate twen
ty beds has been made of compressed
paper. Every part of the building is
numbered, anil the whole can be
packed up in such a way as to be car
ried by three transference trucks.
These trucks are Bo planned as to form
the bases of the hospital, T-shuped
joists of iron keeping the foundation
steadily in place. Over this comes a
flooring of compressed and varnished
paper boards, which adapt themselves
admirably to cleanliness. The walla
and ceiling are of the same material,
while the beams, composed of thin
galvanized iron wire, connect the
parallel walls. Holes are bored be
tween the walls and tho eeiliry; for
purposes of ventilation, and tho win
dows are made of wire gauze with a
transparent coating. Such a building
would be of great service in tropical
countries, especially if in addition to
its lightness and strength it can be
uiado fireproof. New York Telegram.
Can Telegraph to China.
One can now telegraph from New
Orleans to any of the principal cities
of China direct, if he wants to, and is
willing to pay the charges. The Chi
nese land system has made connect ions
with the Kussian system and the Celes
tial empire is now no further away than
across the street. The charge for tele
graphing to China is said to be $2 a
word, plus the cable rates across tho
ocean, and the service is rapid and
satisfactory. Hunan is the only pro
vince of China that is not reached by
telegraph. It remains indomitably
opposed to all foreign innovations.
NVw Orleans Picayune.
WISE WORDS.
Superstition tenders a man a fool,
fcud skepticism makes him triad.
There is no substitute for thorough
going, ardent and sincere earnestness.
Tho less A mail thinks or knows
about his virtues the better wo liko
him.
Honorable industry always travels
tho same road With enjoyment and
duty.
To love to preach is one thing', to
love those to whom wo pTeach, quito
another.
Poets are the mirrors of the gigantio
shadows which fntnrity cants upon the
present.
The strokes of the pen need delibera
tion as much as those of the sword
need Bwiftness. .
From the body ofpne gnilfy deed a
thousand ghostly fears and haunting
thoughts proceed.
Every burden has two handles one
rmooth Bnd easy to grasp, one rough
and hard to hold.
The wealth of a man is the number
of things he loves and blesses and by
which he is loved and blessed.
He that honors his neighbor on ac
count of his money will in the end part
company with him in disgrace.
Long customs are not easily broken ;
he that attempts to change the course
of his life very often labors in vain.
The world is seldom what it seems.
To man, who dimly sees, realities ap
pear as dreams, and dreams realities.
The martyrs to vice fajj exceed the
martyrs to virtue, both in endurance
and in number. So blinded are we by
our passions that we suffer more to be
lost than to be saved.
Offer to the world a large, generous,
true, sympathetic nature and, rich or
poor, you will have friends, and will
never be friendless, no matter what
catastrophes may befall you.
A Strange Charity.
Of tho many strange ways of bestow
ing charity which owe their origin to
the eccentrio whims of wealthy testa
tors there are few more peculiar than
that which takes place at the Priory
Church, West Smithfield, every Good
Friday. This is the Money Dole. On
that day twenty-one widows might
have been seen picking up sixpences
from a tombstone. This singular cus
tom has been observed for so many
years that the actual date of itsMncep-
tion is forgotten. Even the name of
the benefactor is unknown.
It is stated that a Bum of money was
originally left by a lady to provide
masses each vesr for the repose of her
soul, but when the Beformation
dawned the trustees were puzzled how
to carry out the bequest without incit
iug hostilo criticism. Eventually they
resolved to distribute the interest
which accrued each year from the
fund to a certain number of poor wid
ows, who should be obliged to kneel
over tho tomb, and pick up the money
from the stone which covered it. In
this way it was hoped that the recip
ients would involuntarily offer a prayer
for the welfare of her soul.
Another difficulty, however, arose in
tho fact that the nave of the churh in
which the lady had been buried h
been demolished, and tho site con
verted into a graveyard. Utterly un
able to decide where the lady actually
was buried, the trustees selected a
rude, unlettered gravestone in the
churchyard, and upon this slab the
money was placed for the women en
titled to receive it. About the end of
the last century tho fund which Blip
ported the charity was diverted, and
since that timo the custom has been
maintained by the generous donations
of wealthy people who are unwilling
that sneh a quaint charity should be
discontinued. The Million.
Frightful Slaughter of (.ame Birds,
A clipping from a Texas paper u.i
nounces that an official of one of fie
Panhandle counties of that State li:w
made a contract with a Kansus City
firm to deliver 30,000 dozen prairie
chickens within tho next five months.
These birds, it is said, are to be sent
to Chicago to fill a contract made with
parties in that city, so that Chicago
may have a supply of these hens dur
ing the whole time of the World's
Fair. It is hard to imagine that 3t0,
000 prairie chickens could be deliv
ered by any one contractor, but it is
certainly worth the while of tho au
thorities of Texas to investigate this
matter and to endeavor to protect the
birds that still oxint in the Lone Star
State.
The game of Texas, like that of
other plains States, has been ruthlessly
slaughtered, and to-day there is little
of it left in comparison with what
there used to be. This little should be
preserved by every legitimate means.
The destruction of the prairie chicken
over so large a portion of tho territory
where it was once enormously abun
ilimt is still fresh in the public mind.
This is one of tho birds whose ex
termination over a vast territory has
been complete, and unless measures for
its preservation are soon tukeu in sec
tions where it still exists, it seems
likely that in the course of a few years
it will stand in the same position now
occupied by its relative, tho heath hen
of Naushou; that is, rnuy exist only iu
little colonies which are always grow
ing fowerin numbers aud are speedily
to die out. Forest and Stream.
Two Mammoth Apple Trees.
The two largest apple trees in tho
State of New York are both near the
town of Wilson. The largest was
plmited in 1H15, and thirty-three full
barrels of apples wero once picked
from its branches in a single season.
The other is ou the farm of J. (1. O.
Brown, ami yielded twenty hum-Is of
"choice" fruit and five barn-la of
"culls" in tho season of 18U1, St,
Louis Republic
SUE.YflHC AM) INDUSTRIAL.
An electric railroad is one of tha
nights of Siam.
The Greenwich clock was electrically
connected with several London rail
way clocks in 1 8f0.
Scientist affirm that ice frozen at
tcro temperature is more durable than
that which forms when tho mercury ia
above that point.
The Lancet says that Egypt as re
gards sanitation is now about on a
level with what England was in tne
days of Queen Elizabeth, when the
mortality of London was forty-five per
1000.
It has been determined that the tem
perature of an electric aro light re
mains constant at about 3500 degrees.
This temperature cannot be increased
or diminished by changing tho size or
amperage of tho arc.
It has long been known to architects
that the perpendicularity of monu
ments is affected by the rays of the
sun. This phenomenon ifl due to the
greater expansion of the side upon
which the sun's rays fall.
A remarkable increase in the nso of
oil as a fuel on Russian railroads is
shown by recent statistics. In 1881
there were nsod 1914 tons of naphtha,
while in 1890 there were used 291,307
tons of naphtha and naphtha residues.
A French novelty in the way of a
timepiece is a floral clock, the long
hands of which sweep above twelve
flower beds, each bed being different
from all the others in color and varie
ty of flower. The hands are moved by
subterranean mechanism.
The smallest holes pierced by mod
ern machinery are one-thousandth' of
an inch 1n diameter. Thisdrilliug ap
paratus, which was the invention of
one John Wennstrom, is designed to
make 22,000 revolutions per minute
and is used in boring sapphires, rubies,
diamonds and other gems.
It is estimated that tno Mississippi
River annually discharges into the
Gulf of Mexico 19,500,000,000,000
cnbio feet of water. Of this prodig
ious quantity the l-200th part will be
sediment. Thus the Mississippi River
annually deposits alone into tho Gulf
of Mexico sufficient mud to cover a
square milo of surface to a height of
240 feet.
It is a well-known fact that heavenly
bodies invisible to tho human eye,
even when assisted by the most power
ful telescope, may be detected by the
photograpio plate. A practical illus
tration of the value of photography in
this connection is found in the ex
perience of March, when no fewer than
eighteen small planets were detected
photographically. Twelve of these
were discovered by M. CharloiB, at
Nice.
Dr. E. Hutchinson said, in a recent
lecture before the Royal Institution, at
London, that with an electric motor
speed of 1000 miles an hour could be
obtained "though beyond that point
they perhaps entered the region of
projectiles rather than of locomotives.
This remarkable speed is obtainable
because of the great advantage of the
purely rotary motion of an electrical
motor over the reciprocal motion of
the piston and connecting rod of the
steam locomotive.
Something wonderful in tho clock
line has been constructed by a mechan
ic in Warsaw, Poland. It represents a
railway station with a clock tower
giving tho time in four countries.
Truins run into or depart from the
station every fifteen minutes. Station
agents, telegraphers, ticket Hellers,
with lines of passengers, are seen in
action, and the usual bustle and tumult
of a station are hesrd and seen, bells
ringing, whistles blowing, etc.
The (iarUi-n Way.
In a little village in Sussex, England,
there is a veritable milky way of lilies,
whero thousands ot white blossoms
shed their perfume aud whero women
gardeners tend and pack and ship the
fragrant products. Twenty-five years
ago a single lily bulb was given to Mrs.
Bates, a farmer's daughter, who tended
tho gift with the euro women bestow
on flowers, and when sixteen bulbs
had resulted from the original one,
and Mrs. Bates, finding that her chil
dren, as she culled them, had outgrown
the sunny window where they grew,
sho planted them iu the corner of the
garden. Ten years ago a daughter of
Mrs. Bates, inspired by the enterprise
of the time, scut some blossoms to the
Loudon market, and now. in associa
tion with her sisters, has made the
Bates lilies famous for their beauty
and perfection. Tho daughters are
keen business women, interviewing
their buyers at the six o'clock market,
selling without interference of agctitt
to private customers, florists and com
mission merchants. The average pro
duct is liOlt do.eus a week, which are
packed by women iu the gardens.
Women are taking up floriculture to a
considerable extent in England, aud
at the Horieiiltural College luudscupe
and kitchen gardening aro taught by
lectures, demonstrations aud practical
work. It is an interesting fact that
applications are received at the college
faster than tho women can be trained.
Prairie Farmer.
Bow to Secure Confidence.
This from an authority: "Don't
ask questions, don't mention mimes,
listen occasionally, and you will find
yourself a society fuvorite. " The first
"don't" seems to havo been most cor
rectly placed. There is uothing which
creates a plcasttnter impression, and
which really leads to the most complete
confidence than the tact which listens
sympathetically to all a companion
will cay, but never probes deeper by
au impulsive interrogation. One learns
to trust such an aeipiaintace, and feels
iu her company a pn-ulnii- seii.se of be
ourity that is veuy satiaiying. Brovk
lyu Citiaeu,
THE VALUE OF ADVERTISING
A woalthy man endeavored once to show,
That Fortune roar's to those who advert!
k poor man said, ' 'Twas monoy throwa
away,"
And seemed tho othor's loi?lo to despisw.
Picy argued long, till each to his own view,
CJnknoWtng, had the othpr one converted.
rhe rich man hastened to withdraw his ads,
rhc poor man rushed to have an ad. Inserted.
A year ago or moro is it, I trow.
Since those two men thus argued and con
versed.
One rich, one poor, they still exist to-day-
But Fortune their positions have reversed.
Yankoe Blado.
nUMOR OF THE DAY.
Headquarters Hats. Puck. V"
A rakish craft Tho gardner's. y
Slight of hand A refusal to marry. '
An open secret The combination
to your safe. Truth.
Cupid beats all Congress as an intro
ducer of house bills. Puck.
Like nnto a woman, tho beauty of a
cheek is seen in its face and figure.
Life.
The matrimonial race is often begun
at a rattling gate. Chicago intcr
Ocean. "He's an ideal ladies' man." "But
ho never says a word." "Precisely."
Detroit Tribune. 1
It is a strong boarder who can eat
three plates of hash without turning o,
hair. Boston Courier.
Few men are driven to drink in com
parison to those who walk thero vol
untarily. Troy Press.
Millions aro striving for wealth,
thousands for fame, a dozen to be
good. Chicago Tribune. .
Originality is the ability to present
old thiugs in a new form that meets
popular approval. ruck.
At tho Midway Plaisance a man can
have a fight in forty languages.
Memphis Apeal-Avahiuche.
Life is no joke, but we refuso to give
it up, even when it becomes tho oldest
kind of a chestnut. Truth.
In the household the children usually
find that "pa" is the most martial an
"ma" tho most partial. Boston
Courier.
People who "would give tho world!
for" something seem to forget that the
desired object is a part of that world,
they give up. Truth. ,
Miss Grostesque "Do you know
te-he-no man has ever kissed me."
Calloway "Most men are cowards.''
New York Herald.
Rose "Does Mr. Yerydull know
anything?" Lillian "Know any
thing? Ho doesn't even suspect any
thing." Life's Calendar.
Wlmt wondering eyes on him will turn
Whnt e'er may he ills track !
lie is the borrower who gives I
His neighbor's pencil back. v
Washington Star.
"Miss Billion looked as if sho felt
awfully cheap when she was intro
duced to Suvepcnny." "She knew how,
to appear attractive to him." Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
Sympathizing Friend "You ought
to ask old Skinflint to keep one thing
in mind " Discouraged Debtor
"He'd charge mo for storage. "-De-'
troit Tribune.
Thero aro said by statisticians to bo
about 420,000,0011 Christians ill the
world. Nevertheless, it isn't sufo to
lose sight of your umbrella even for tt
moment. Shoe aud Leather Reporter.'
Merchant (to applicant) "Do you
think you know enough to assist me
in tho office?" Boy "Know enough?
Why, 1 left my last place because tha
boss said I knew moro than ho did."
Society Journal.
Son (who is studying bookkeeping)
"Whnt is double entry?" Absent
minded Father (who hns had experi
ence) "Putting half the money iu tha
drawer and half in your own pocket."
Harvard Lampoon.
Doctor "Well, my fine fellow, you
havo got quite well again ! 1 was sure
that tho pills I left for you would onre
you. How did you take them in
water or cake?" "Oh, I used them in
my pog-guu. " Tid-Bits.
Brido (just after tho wedding)
"Fred, you promised to give me
grand surprise alter wo were married.
Whut is it ?" Bridegroom (who is
widower) "I havo six children, my
pet all boys." Bride "flow de
lightful, dear! I have four daughters.
Shan't we all be huppy together,
love?" Tid-Bits. , i
A Itoniuiitlc Story. V
A wedding recently took place in St.1
Petersburg, Russia, which excited vorji
general interest. It wus tho marriage
of tho daughter of tho Semenvoskr
Regiment of tho Imperial Guard with
Lieutenant Alexander lieilunsK y of the
Eighty-sixth Infantry Rcgiincur. Tht
young lady, who is now eighteen yeare
of age, and has always gone by the
namo of Suiueliovskaia, taking hex
patronymic from tho regiment, wa
found as u baby, lying iu a ditch, by
the men of the Sciiienovsky Regiment
as they were inarching from Plevna
upon Constantinople in December,
1K78. The little Turkish foundling'
was tenderly cared for, aud after a!
time baptized into the Russian Ortho
dox religion, her godfather being tho
Surgeon of the regiment and her god
mother tho Princess Eugenie of Old
enburg. The regiment intrusted her
education to qualified persons, audtlio
bride now brings to her husband
handsome dowry, provided by
her military guardians St. James's
iJuzette.
Carthage was forty-live miles in cir
cumference, situated on a pcuins iila.
the laud side there were triple wu lis.,
uurded by towers so lutvo that the
jtSHeiuunt of each contained stalls for
100 elephuuta.