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Forest
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Washington lias come to bo qui to a
honeymoon city.
Each of the four British Australia,!!
colonies has n Scotchman et the head
of its government.
Statistics aro "aid to show tliat the
introduction of machinery into manu
fnctories 1ms decreased tho number of
the unemployed.
Our foreign visitors, now bo numer
ous among us, aro pleased to say wo
havo belter and cheaper restaurants
thnu even Fnria affords.
Moro factories for the making of
handles for implements have been
established in the South during tho
past, year than in any five previous
years.
With no drunkenness, no crime, 110"
fires and no disturbances of any sort
during tho past year tho Boston Her
ald admits that "Brattleboro, Vt.,may
fairly lay claim to being tho Utopia of
America."
By a simpln invention, just adopted,
every lighthouse on the coast is to
identify itself hereafter by flashing out
its number. This will relieve mariners
from tho necessity of remembering
many combinations of colors and also
from uncertainty in ascertaining
whether a light seen. dimly through the
fog is white or rod. The wonder is,
observes the New Orleans Picayune,
that such a useful and simple device
was not adopted long ago.
Says the New York Independent : If
tho United States of America has no
name, neither has it a dcfinitcNational
air. Of course the National air called
"America" is English and identical
with "God Kavo the Queen." "The
Star Spangled Banner" possibly should
be considered onr National air and
sung as such at tho Chicago Exhibition.
At Trinity College, Dublin, when tho
American candidates camo forward to
receive their doctorates the band played
"Yankee Dopdlo" and set the Ameri
cans in a titter.
The lato Doctor Agnew, of Phila
delphia, said that caturrhal affections
were almost unknown among the
Quakeresses whom he attended, and ho
ascribed it to the fact that the Quaker
bonnet protects tho back of the head
and the nape of the neck from cold air.
He might have gone further and added
that the Quaker women have come
nearer than any others of their sex to
discovering tho perpetual bloom of
youth. One moots in and about Phila
delphia scores of Quakeresses who re
tain in old age frosh, unwriukled faces,
clear eyes, and erect figures. The
peace aud health of their spirits seem
to conform faco and figure.
In tho great momentum of tho wo
man movement, which guins new re
cruits every day, the Chicago Herald
protests that one is inclined to over
look the fact that woman was a power
morally, socially and intellectually in
the, 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
the has had a place, and w hen Isabella
of Spain desired to. acquire the Latin
tonguo it was to a woman she turned
for a tutor. In Ituly, even in the
Thirteenth Century, a noble Florentine
Ituly won the palm of oratory in a pub
lic contest 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 cheek 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 hove appealed to their
consul at Rio do Janeiro to request
the Brazilian Government to give
them work or assistance. As the re.
suit of this intervention, up to the
first harvest, they were provided with
fifteen days' work per month, at
nominal daily wages of two florins
eighty-four ki-eutzers, or about $1.18.
This, however, explains the New
"Orleaus Picayune, was not paid in
ready money, but in paper, which
shopkeepers would only accept at such
a heavy discount that the unfortunate
laborers were barely able to secure the
necessaries of life. Tho present
Brazilian Government, moreover,
have not kept the promise made by
their produce lEors to assign land to
settlers au3 Advance money for its
cultivation. Consequently, the im
migrants have been reduoed to desti
tution through tho increase in the
pri of provisions, tho bad harvest,
Huiiou oi worn, on me roau
f
ttoppatfft of cultivation.
MY QUEST.
When Time and I set forth together
In April weather,
lh, tender was the Moos' morning
For winter doad
'Ireen teasels, maple-topt adorning,
Tossed high o'erhead
tnd nnderneath a blue and sparkling sky
iVe Journeyed joyously, young Tims and L
( could not tall you bow It happened so,
But this I know,
That some time twixt bright dny and dark'
some night,
Time slipped away,
Vanished this airy winged sprite
Who will not stay
Tho kings by subln art strive to unchain ,
and left ma only hope "We moot again."
What should I do? Bend criers through the
town
To hunt him down?
Or should I pray the clooks, "When next ye
chime
Some passing hour,
With both hands seize this truant, Tlmel
Onoe In my power "
I'd clip hit wings, he could not fly so fast,
already golden summer is o'erpost V"
at length we met, both gray and bent and
old,
With greetings eold ,
Fbe snowflakos fell from out the leaden sky,
And in my ears
The wind's sad spirit seemed to sigh,
"Alas, the years t
Where are the deeds thou promised in tby
prime,
Who now art old, but In thy youth lost
Timer
Nancy Mann Waddle, in tho Independent.
A GRAND JUROR.
BI BOBKKT C. T, MEYERS.
HE day Mary Ham
i 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
be 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 eusracrement
John Alroy was made postmaster of
Uarrett He was young, quick and
clever, and handsome.
Joyce was busy at the store, so Mary
often wont to social gatherings without
him, hefcalling for her later on in the
evening. He 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 met Mary by chance whoa
she took sunny walks.
n. April he mado his usual spring
trip to buy goods. He had 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
his doom.
"It is Alroy, of course?" ho said.
"It may seem o you that I treat you
badly," she returned, "but I never
knew what love was till I met him ;"
and Joyce went away.
Throughout tho summer he saw littlo
of the happy pair, invented business
excuses taking him much from home.
Winter came, and the store claimed
him. April loomed up the anniver
sary of his shattered hopes and he
heard that Mary would be married in
June. In June the marriage was put
off till autumn.
This was the reason. The postoffice
at Garrett was third-class. Out of his
oalary tho postmaster was expected to
defray all oftico expenses. In a second-class
office, clerk hire and other
liabilities were met by the Govern
ment, while tho salary of the master
was considerably increased. Alroy
proposed 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 his office had 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 represont
a corresponding increase iu mailed
matter. Alroy was accused of fraud.
In January Joyce was summoned to
act as grand juror on the 20th of Feb
ruary, in the city, more than a hun
dred miles away.
The afternoon of the 18th brought
Garrett a bliuding snow-storms: the
streets were deserted, business was at
a standstill. About four o'clock and
nearly dark, a lady entered Joyce's
private room at tho store. It was
Mary Hammond.
"I have heard," she said 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. He
had not thought ot that.
"The grand jury, I am informed,"
she went on, "decide 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," Bho went on. "The
stamps were bought by me, with the
thousand dollars of my faUter's insur
ance. I proposed the fraud. Love
for lika 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 hiin wild. She knew that
he still loved her, and she called upon
that love to save Alroy even at the oost
of honor, The, outrage of it I Alroy
was guilty, and there was but one thing
to do. Love and honor contended
hopeless love, inalienable honor. There
oonld bo no question as to which would
win.
The following day, the outrage
the insnlt -gnawing at him, he went
on the hundred-mile journey, Ort the
rooming of the 20th he took bath that
ho would do his duty as a good and
loyal man in the matters to be placed
bofore the grand jury. In a few mia-
ntes more he waa sitting with twenty-
three other men round a Jong table
listening to detectives and others testi
fying against unseen people.
How many cases were disposed of he
hardly knew, when ho heard the name
he had waited for. Joyce raised his
head. Now would come the revenge
for all the pain he had silently suf
fered; and yet bis revenge would be
only his honest duty. His face grew
hard and grim.
A post-office expert testified among
other thing, that Alroy had openly
boasted that ho would- raise his office
to second grade so that the increase of
salary would warrant his marriage.
Two other witnesses testified as to the
facts already known.
"Well, gentlemen," said the fore
man of the jury.
. "I move that a true bill bo found,"
cried a juror.
"I second the motion," said another.
"All in favor of a tmo bill signify
their assent by saying 'Ayo.' "
Several "Ayes."
"Contray 'No.'"
Several "Nob."
Tho foreman and an officer of the
court looked round the table.
"He may, or may not, have thought
the sales legitimate," said one.
"Oughtn't ho 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 be above suspicion."
"Rather unfair to make hia wish to
be married tho cause for his rascality,"
said the youngest juryman.
"And to blame him for his ambition
in trying to raise his office," said a kind
voice.
"Gcntlometl," said the court offioer,
"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 up 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 true bill against
him, " said a juror. Another man stood
up, still another.
"Only seven. Ah, eight, nine, ton,
eleven. "
The 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 he had hoped when he could
give the casting vote to decide the
case against Alroy staightened his
knees to rise 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
have done ; love for me made him do
the rest." He glanced fearfully
around, almost expecting to see the
owner of that voioe the woman he
loved the woman who had treated
him. so badly the woman who had
gauged 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 were standing np.
"How is this gentlemen," said the
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 love
was? Did he know the power
Mary's love must have exercised over
the man she loved the man she had
ruined? Did he know her suffering
now that she realized what she done?
And did he think of Alroy's love for
her; of his striving after hap
piness with her even at the
price of that which men hold
to be the first principle of man
hood honor? Was there not yet a
chance for retrieving, a chance for
their peace, made purer by mistake
and suffering? Was there nothing
higher than mere duty? Was it duty
to irretrievably ruin two lives which
might yet be mode 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 ! and oh, his paiu his hope
less love t
"Still a tie," impatiently said the
oourt officer.
Oh, his honor I and oh, his pain his
hopeless love I But oh, Mary's happi
ness! Joyce, the thirteenth juror, suddenly
shot up on his feet, making the ma
jority of one.
"Majority !" proclaimed the court
officer. "The bill is ignored. "
The thirteenth juror fell in a heap to
the floor. New York Storiettes.
Queer Matrimonial Method.
A convenient way they have in Hol
land and Batavia of tying the matri
monial knot when the lady is in ono
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. Tho marriage is af
fected by procuration. The watches
of the two parties the one Bay in Am
sterdam and the other in Batavia are
regulated to accord, or the difference
iu longitude allowed for. Then at the
same instant of time tho marriage cere
mony is performed in both places, and
the, thing is done,
THE PICTURESQUE COWBOY
Kb isj rafidlt passing away In
thh fab west,
liapld Decline of the Range Business
the Cause ot Ills IMsappearaneO
What He Was In His 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 tip from
Texas at a oost 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. The men who did the best
pushed into new territory as fast as
the Indians were crowded oil, and kept
finding new grass and plenty of it.
But the risks soon came, and multi
plied. If one man was careful not to
overstock a range, he could not be sure
that another cow outfit would not do
so 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 story 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 the greater part of
each year. They rodo 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-bat. Their
spurs were fit - for grandees, their
big broad felt sombreros cost more than
the Prince of Wales ever paid for a
pot-hat.
And then, alas t 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 to live.
From the cowboy stand-point it was
time for the business to languish.
Towns were 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 ;
ettlers 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
range 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 the 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 hunches
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, all 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 Ralph, in
Harper's Magazine.
A Papler.Mache Hospital.
Papier-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 accommodate twen
ty beds has been made of compressed
paper. Every part of the building is
numbered, and 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-shaped
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 walls
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 ceiling for
purposes of ventilation, aud the 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 aud strength it can be
made fireproof. New York Telegram.
Can Telegraph to China.
One can now telegraph from New
Orleaus 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 connections
with the Russian 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, aud 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.
New Orleans Picayune,
WISE WORDS.
Superstition render a man n fool,
and skepticism makes him tnad.
There is no substitute for thorough
going, ardent and sincere earnestness.
The less a marl thinks ot knows
about his virtues the better we liko
him.
Honorable industry always travels
the same road With enjoyment and
duty.
To love to preach is one thing to
love those to whom wo preach, quite
another.
Poets are the mirrors of the glgantio
shadows which futurity casts upon the
present,
The strokes of the pen need delibera
tion as much as those of the sword
need swiftness..
From the body ofpne guilty deed a
thousand ghostly fears and haunting
thoughts proceed.
Every burden has two handles ono
rmooth and 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.
Tho martyrs to vice fa 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 the many strange ways of bestow
ing charity which owe their origin to
the eccentric 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 tip sixpences
from a tombstone. This singular cus
tom has been observed for so many
years that the actual date ot itsMncep
tion is forgotten. Even the name of
the benefactor is unknown.
It is stated that a sum of money was
originally left by a lady to provide
masses each year for the repose of her
soul, but when the Reformation
dawned the trustees were puzzled how
to carry out the bequest without incit
ing hostile criticism. Eventually they
resolved to distribnte 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
the fact that the nave of the churh in
which the lady had been buried had
been demolished, and the 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 tho
churchyard, and upon this slab the
money was placed for the women en
titled to receive it. About the end of
the last century the fund which sup
ported the charity was diverted, aud
since that timo the custom has beeu
maintained by the generous donations
of wealthy people who are unwilling
that such a quaint charity should be
discontinued. The Million.
Frightful Slaughter of Oame Birds.
A clipping from a Texas paper uu
nonnces that an official of one of the
Panhaudle counties of that State has
made a contract with a Kansas City
firm to deliver 80,000 dozen prairie
chickens within the 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 tho whole time of the World's
Fair. It is hard to imagine that 300,
000 prairie chickens could be deliv
ered by any one contractor, but it is
certainly worth the while of the au
thorities of Texas to investigate this
matter and to endeavor to protect the
birds that still exist in the Loue Stur
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 onoe enormously abun
dant is still fresh iu the publio mind.
This is ono of the birds whose ex
termination over a vast territory has
been oomplete, and nuless measures for
its preservation are soon taken 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, the heath hen
ofNaushou; that as, may exist only iu
little colonies which are always grow
ing fewer in numbers and are speedily
to die out. Forest and Stream.
.
Two Mammoth Apple Trees.
The two largest apple trees in the
State of New York are both near the
town of Wilson. The largest was
planted in 1 HI 5, aud thirty-three full
barrels of apples were once picked
from its branches in a single season.
The other is on the farm of J. G. O.
Brown, aud yielded twenty barrels of
"choice" fruit aud five barrels of
"culls" in the aeaoou of 1891. St,
Louis Republic,
3CIEMIFIC AXD INDUSTRIAL.
An electrio railroad is one of th
lights of Biam.
The Greenwich clock was electrically
connected with several London rail
way clocks in I860.
Scientists affirm that ice frozen at
f ero temperature is more durable than
that which forms when tho mercury is
above that point.
The Lancet says that Egypt as re
gards sanitation is now about on a
level with what Kngland 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 electrio aro light re
mains constant at about 3500 degrees.
This temperature cannot be inoreased
or diminished by changing the size or
amperage of tho aro.
It has long been known to architects
that the perpendicularity of monu
ments is affected by the rays of the
sun. This phenomenon is due to the
greater expansion of the side upon
which the sun's rays fall.
A remarkable increase in the nse of
oil as a fuel on Russian railroads is
shown by recent statistics. In 1861
there were used 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. This drilling 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 ia estimated that too Mississippi
River annnally 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
annnally deposits alone into the Gulf
of Mexico sufficient mud to cover a
square mile 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 fonnd in the ex
perience of March, when no fewer than
eighteen small planets were detected
photographically. Twelve of these
were discovered by M. Charlois, at
Nice.
Dr. E. Hutchinson said, in a recent
lecture before the Royal Institution, at
London, that with an electrio motor a
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 ot 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 the time in four countries.
Trains run into or depart from the
station every fifteen minutes. Station
agents, telegraphers, ticket sellers,
with lines of passengers, are seen in
action, and the usual bustle and tumult
of a station are heard and seen, bells
ringing, whistles blowing, eto.
The (Jarden Way.
In a littlo village in Sussex, England,
there is a veritable milky way of lilies,
where thousands of white blossoms
shed their perfume and where women
gardeners tend and pack and ship the
fragrant products. Twenty-five years
ago a single lily bulb was given to Mrs.
Bates, a larmer's daughter, who tended
the gift with the care women bestow
on flowers, and when sixteen bulbs
had resulted from the original one,
and Mrs. Bates, finding that her chil
dren, as she called them, had outgrown
the sunny window where they grew,
she planted them in the corner of the
garden. Ten years ago a daughter of
Mrs. Bates, inspired by the enterprise
of the time, sent some blossoms to the
Loudon market, and now. iu associa
tion with her sisters, has made the
Bates lilies famous for their beauty
and perfection. The daughters are
keen business women, interviewing
their buyers at the six o'clock market,
selling without interference of agent
to private customers, florists and com
mission merchants. The average pro
duct is 000 dozens a week, which are
packed by women iu the gardens.
Women are taking up floriculture to a
considerable extent in England, and
at the Horicultural College landscape
and kitchen gardening aro taught by
lectures, demonstrations aud practical
work. If is an interesting fact that
applications are received at the college
faster than the women can be trained.
Prairie Farmer.
How to Secure t'unlldcuee.
This from an authority: "Don't
ask questions, don't mention names,
listen occasionally, and you will find
yourself a society favorite." Tho first
"don't" seems to have been most cor
rectly placed. There is nothing which
creates a pleasanter impression, aud
which really leads to the most complete
confidence thau the tact which listens
sympathetically t all a companion
will say, but uever proltea deeper by
au impulsive interrogation. One learns
to trust such au acquaintuce, aud feels
iu her company a peculiar sense of se
curity that is veuy btttUiyiiig. Brovk
lyu Citizen,
THE VALUE OF ADVERTISINGS,
A wealthy man endeavored once to show,1' .
That Fortune conies to those who advert)
A poor man said, Twas money tbrowa
away,"
and seemed the other's loglo to despise. v
flicy argued long, till each to his own view,
Dnknowtng, had the other one converted.
Hie rich man hastened to withdraw his ads,
The poor man rushed to have an .id. Inserted.
A year ago or more Is It, I trow.
81nce those two men thus argued and eon
versed. One rich, one poor, they still exist to-day
But Fortune their positions have reversed.
Yankee Blade.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Headquarters Hats. Puck.
A rakish craft The gardner's.
Slight of hand A refusal to marry. 1
An open secret The combination
to your safe. Truth.
Cnpid beats all Congress as an intro
ducer of honse bills. Puck.
Liko nnto a woman, the beauty of a
cheek is seen in its face and figure.
Life.
Tho matrimonial race is often begun
at a rattling gate. Chicago Inter
Ocoan. "He's an ideal ladies' man." "But
he never says a word." "Precisely."
Detroit Tribune. '
It is a strong boarder who can eat
three plates of hash without turning a
hair. Boston Courier.
Few men are driven to drink in com
parison to those who walk there vol
untarily. Troy Frees.
Millions aro striving for wealth,
thousands for fame, a dozen to be
good. Chicago Tribune. .
Originality is the ability to present
old things in a new form that meets
popular approval. Puck.
At tho Midway Ploisance a man can
have a fight in forty languages.
Memphis Apeal-Avalunche.
Life is no joke, but we refuse to give
it np, 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" the most partial. Boston"
Courier.
People who "would give tho world
for" something seem to forget that thef
desired object is a part of that world;1
they give np. Truth. ,
Miss Grostesque "Do you know .
te-he-no man has ever kissed me.'j
Calloway "Most men are cowards."
New York Herald.
Rose "Does Mr. Very dull know
anything?" Lillian "Know any
thing? Ho doesn't even suspect any
thing." Life's Calendar.
What wondering eyas on him will turn
What e'er may le his track !
He is the borrower who gives I
His neighbor's pencil back.
Washington Star.
"Miss Billion looked as if sho felt"
awfully cheap when she was intro
duced to Savepenny." "Sho knew how
to appear attractive to him." Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
Sympathizing Friend "Yon ought
to ask old Skinflint to keep oue thing
in mind " Discouraged Debtor
"He'd charge mo for storage." De-'
troit Tribune. '
There are said by statisticians to be
about 420,000,000 Christians in the
world. Nevertheless, it isn't Bafo to
lose sight of your umbrella even for at
moment. Shoe aud Leather Reporter J
Merchant (to applicant) "Do you
think you know enough to assist me
in the office?" Boy "Know enough?
Why, I left my last place because the
boss said I knew more than ho did."
Society Journal.
Son (who is stndying bookkeeping)
"What is double entry?" Absent
minded Father (who has had experi
ence) "Putting half the money in the
drawer and half in your own pocket."
Harvard Lampoon.
Doctor "Well, my fine fellow, yorj
have got quite well again I I was sure
that the pills I left for yon would oure
you. How did you take them in
water or cake?" "Oh, I UEed them in
my pog-gun. " Tid-Bits.
Bride (just after the wedding)
"Fred, you promised to give me
grand surprise after wo were married.
What is it?" Bridegroom (who is
widower) "I have sTx children, my
pet all boys." Bride "How de
lightful, dear ! I have four daughters.
Shan't we all bo happy together,'
love?" Tid-Bits. ,
A Itomaullc Story, V
A wedding recently took place in St.j
Petersburg, Russia, which excited vory
general interest. It wua tho marriage
of tho daughter of tho Semenvoskv
Regiment of the Imperial Guard with!
Lieutenant Alexander Ilcdausky of the
Eighty-sixth Infantry Regimcut. The
young lady, who is now eighteen yenre
of age, aud has always gone by the
name of Semenovskaia, taking her
patronymic from tho regiment, wo
found as a baby, lying in a ditch, by
the men of the Scmeuovsky Regiment
as they were marching from Plevna'
upon Constantinople iu Deceinler,
lb78. Tho littlo Turkish foundling?
was tenderly cared for, aud after tl
time baptized into the Russian Ortho
dox religion, her godfather being the
Surgoon of the regiment and her god
mother the Princess Eugenie of Old
enburg. The regiment intrusted her
education to qualified persons, and the
bride now brings to her husband
a handsome dowry, provided by
her military guardians St. James'a
Uuzette.
Carthago was forty-live miles in cir
jumference, situuted oil a peninsula.
On the laud side there were triplo wa lls.i
retarded by towers so large that the
iMMtemeut of each contained stalls for
JCW elephant.