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R
ES
Mexico took over 0,000,000 bushels
of corn from this country last your.
In Atlanta, On., in Jannnry, 1873,
cotton brought twenty-one cents a
lotind. To-day it is about sewn
cents.
The Minister of Public Instruction
in Franco linn decided to establish 1000
moro experiment fields in addition to
tlin 000 that now exist in connoction
with the primary schools.
Oovernor Pnttison, of Pennsylvania,
has vetoed the compulsory educational
bill passed by tlio Logislntnre on the
ground that "freo attendance npon
free schools seems to most benefit freo
people. "
The Turks who aro on exhibition at
the World's Fair do not have a surfeit
of the luxurious esse of which their
Nut ion is proverbially foud. They are
employed most of the time in currying
people, about in pnianquins, and some
times the burden proves onerous. One
. who with a companion was thus trans
porting a corpulent woman was heard
to murmur: "Accursed am I, and I
kick my bones for the day that I ilrst
heard of Columbus."
Thorn bh A. Edison, the inventor, says
thnt no person can bo brought in close
connection with the mysteries of na
ture, or make a study of chemistry or
of tho law of growth without being
convinced thut behind it all there is a
Supremo Intelligence. He says thnt
he hopes to be able some time to dem
onstrate the existence of such Intelli
gence through the operation of these
mysterious laws with the certainty of a
demount rat ion in mathematics.
A Lowell (Mass.) man gave a sur
geon now practicing in Great Falls,
N. II., a deed some years ago, dispos
ing of his body for anntomical pur
poses, nt his denth, for $10 in hand.
Ho has sineo been iu South America,
lms made a great deal of money, and
is now auxioiiB to have a decent funeral
and interment when he dies, but coun
sid w hom he has consnlted, advises him
that tho deed holds good unless he
buys it from the holder. This he has
tried to do, but the doctor has refused
large offers.
There are 5552 benefices in England
and Wales affording a less income to
tho incumbents than $1000 a yeor.
There is great complaint at the poverty
of the clergy. It is almost as grievous
to-dny as iu Sydney Smith's time, and
the New Orleans Picayuno suggests
that the witty and snrenstio jibes of
t lint reverend satirist on tho policy
that permits such conditions might be
reproduced. If England is to have an
established church she should not give
princely incomes to bishops and lenvo
tho humbler clergy to abject poverty
and misery.
Tho other day a drummer on tho
Chicago and Northwestern Road pre
sented his milage book to tho conduc
tor, and the latter, after asking him a
few question, put tho book into his
pocket, saying, "Will see yon Inter."
After a while tho drummer asked for
his book, and the couductor refused to
surrender it. Thereupon the drummer
pot off at a station and t elegraphed
ahead for uu ofticer to arrest a thief.
The officer boarded the train and the
drummer pointed out the conductor,
who was arrested in spite of his pro
tests and taken before a magistrate,
who fined him $7 and costs, and re
turned tho book to its owner. As they
were both leaving court the conductor
said, "I'll smash your face for this !"
Thereupon the drummer immediately
had him rearrested and taken before
the same judge, who put him under
bonds to keep the peace at more costs.
That conductor met his match.
During the fishing Beason of 1892
tho United States Fish Commission,
which busies itself solely with the pro-
pagation of edible fish in the waters all
over the country, stocking rivers with
species new to the region, distributing
eggs and young fish to the lakes and
Boa coastB, and working in a vast num
ber of ways to the one end, distributed
a total of 800,580,432 eggs, fry and
yearlings of all kinds of fish. Tho
largest operations were in shad. O
this fish 69,000,000 fry, 1,000,000
yearlings and 9,000,000 eggs were dis
tributed. Cod is tho fish most dis
tributed next to shad, and of whitcfish,
lake trout, pike, perch, salmon, flat
fish and lobster the distribution of
eggs, fry and yearlings were away up
in the millions of each, every State and
Territory getting a share. The work
of tho Commission, which is of so great
importance and substantial value to
the w hole people, is done quietly, in a
thorough business way, without parade
of any kind, and the Coramission is a
by no means widely known department
by
of ti
e Government
HANDS OF LOVE,
Bands thnt woo and win you,
(None those hands oondemn
Till the heart within you
I Wring Its way to them I
Wrings Its way, and like a dovo,
Nestle In those bands of lova'
Llttlo hands too tender
For the thorns of life t
Back of all the splendor
Sheltered from the stiifo.
Yet they hold the heaven above
Lightly and a mother's love I
Bo, they woo and win you
In the dark and dny
And the heart within you
Flutters beats away,
Till It nestles like a dove,
Gently, In those hands of lovo 1
-F. L. Btnnton, In Atlnnts Constitution.
CHRISTINA."
HE was a German
girl who landed in
New Orleans from
an amiirrarit vejuud.
ei I ftl friendless and deso-
nan uieu on tuo
voyage, and her
brother, Hans Her
kel, who had come
to New Orlcnns
three years before,
to make a home for
them, had gone, no one knew where.
The woman with whom he had board
ed, and whose address Christina had,
knew nothing of his whereabouts.
Ach, Gott!" Frau Werlcm ex
claimed. "But nans said you would
come not for two year."
No, Christina answered, trying to
choke down her sobs. ' 'But the mt ther
wanted to see him, oh, so much, and
she got weaker and sicker all tho time.
Then tho mother says, 'I must see my
boy before I die, and the good neigh
bors, oh, they feel so sorry. They sell
our things for us, and they give much
money to pay our way hero. And tho
mother is at the bottom of the sea, and
uans is gone, and I am alone.
The poor girl burst into a passion of
tenrs, while Frau Werlein sat much
troubled in mind, between sympathy
for her countrywoman s grief and pru
dential considerations. She was not
an unwind woman, but a long struggle
with poverty had blunted all delicacy
of feeling, and in trouble or not, she
could not afford an unprofitable lodger.
Sho had found out that Christina was
penniless and friendless, and she must
be made to understand that she, xrau
Werlein, could not give her a home
without some equivalent
"But then, what will yon do? she
cried. "I am poor, and I can keep
Vou not without the money, linns will
come not back, perhaps, and how will
you live?
Christina took her hands from her
eyes and looked up. She had been too
much stunned tiy grief and disappoint
ment to have given a thought to her
own situation. But she was practical
and sensible, and it did not take her a
minute to meet the emergency.
"I can cook, I can wash, I can nurse
children, I can embroider, and I muko
fine lace. Ach ! 1 can do many things,
and in this great city there must bo
plenty of work. And then when Hans
oomes back."
Ah, yes, yes," Frau Werlein said,
much relieved. "If yon can do all those
things you will not starve. Wo will go
to-morrow to tho intelligeuce-oflice,
and you may get a fine place."
I happened to go to the same office
that day iu search of a nurse, and heard
Fran Werlein's voluble enumeration of
Christina's accomplishments.
I saw a short, stout girl with largo
features and pule blue eyes. Her cos
tume, a short blue skirt, velvet jacket
with innumerable silver buttons, long
earrings, silver rings on her red,
stumpy fingers, only seemed to in
tensify her remarkable ugliness. Bnt
she was clean, strong-limbed and
healthy, and there was a frank, good
humored expression in her pale eyes
that took my fncy. I thought I
could safely trust baby Ruth to her
care.
Her English was almost unintelli
gle, but that would improve every
day, so then and there I made arrange
ments with her, or rather with the
frau, that her protegee was to enter
npon her duties the next day.
"Upoa my word, Helen," my hus
band said to mo when the new nurse
arrived, "where did you pick up that
frightful specimen? Thut girl is as
clumsy as she is ugly. She looks like
the old woman of Bunbnry Cross, with
rings on her fingers, and I suspect she
has bells on her toes as well. "
"I never said she was handsome," I
answered. "But I do think, Paul, she
has a good open countenance."
"Open, indeed," he laughed. "Very
open! Nose, mouth, eyes stretched
to their widest. Well, my dear, we
can only hope she will do better than
she looks."
And she did. In her strong capable
hands the work of the nursery became
a trifle. My children were carefully
dressed and systematically cared for.
But it was on baby Buth that all the
treasures of her love were poured. It
was pathetio to watch her strain the
child to her bosom, and kiss it, with
little tender German love words on her
lips. She spoke to me often of Huns
but the baby had brought healing to
her sore heart.
"She do make me to forget," she
aid.
The hot June had prostrated me as
it usually did, aud Paul proposed thut
I should take the children and spend
the summer at Last Isluud. There was
fine surf-bathing, aud it was near
enough to the city for him to run
down for a holiday every fortnight.
The island was little else than a long,
narrow strip of sandy sand extending
into the sea. Looking at the slight
tlevatioa of the land from the water,
I ' W si
A
H gave mo rntlior an uneasy feeling,
for tho island was evidently of rocent
formation, and who could say but
what it might be submerged again
during some storm. But Paul laughed
at my fears.
"For fifty years Last Island has held
its own against wind and waves," he
said. "It isn't likely you're going to
play the Jonah and sink it."
As for Christina, she looked at the
strango country with dread and sur
prise. "Ach Gott," she cried, "but it is do
wasser all round, and do erf no higher
ns dat. When do waves come, what to
do?"
"They have neveeome over as yet,"
I answered. She shook her head, but
day after day she took her way to tho
beach. Tho sceno seemed to have a
fascination for her, but the fascination
of terror, for she was always measur
ing the height of the tide on the sand.
It became a common thing to hear her
daily report.
"De wasser come two fingers moro
high dan yes'day," or "De wasBer go
down bo far."
"That girl has water on the brain,"
Panl said, impatiently. "If a mighty
'lagre should come and sweep ns into
the gulf sho wouldn't be a bit sur
prised." Meantime lifo went on as it usually
does at those seaside resorts, but pleas
ant as it all was I was not sorry when
the 15th of September, tho time de
cided upon for our return to the city,
arrived.
Paul had como for ns, but tho fif
teenth was ushered in by such a storm
of wind and rain that the daily steamer
did not arrive. Tho mainland was not
at a great distance, but in a storm the
sea between it and tho island was ex
tremely rough.
Toward noon the gale increased. I
noticed that Paul became restless,
hurrying out to the beach and examin
ing one or two little fishing skiffs
moored there. One of them he drew
up and fastened near our cottage, Bay
ing: "I suppoBO there is not a bit of dan
ger, but it's well to bo prepared, you
know. I think," trying to speak in
differently, "I might as well knock to
gether those old shutters lying in the
yard ; make a kind of raft. Not that
there's the least danger, but it's rain
ing and storming so that I want some
thing to poss away the time."
I watched him with a sinking heart.
Bnt Christina was alert in assisting,
and, in fact, did more than half the
work on tho raft. She seemed sudden
ly to have lost all fear in the presence
of real danger and looked brighter
than I had ever seen her.
Night came black and starless, but
when supper time arrived, Paul in
sisted upon my going to the dining
room. We were in a small cottage,
about two hundred yards from the main
building, but the wind was so high, it
was with difficulty I traversed the short
distance.
You can imagine that I had little ap
petite for supper that night. I heard
musio in tho ball room, where the
young people were dancing, as they
did every night, but my one object
wits to got back to my baby, whom 1
had left with Christina. The two elder
children were with us.
Suddenly the utmost fury of the
storm burst upon tho island, as wo
reached the door.
"My God," cried Paul, "tho wind
has gone round to tho north! Hold
on to me, Helen, lake one of the
children; I have Mary."
Our first step was in water above the
ankles. Another tremendous gust,
and we heard a crash behind ns, mixed
with' piercing shrieks, and knew the
hotel was gone. Half fainting, I was
drugged through the water. I knew
not where or how. When I revived, I
was tossing iu a skiff with my husband
aud children.
"My buby, whero is my baby?" I
cried.
"Vou have two children, Helen,"
raul said in a choking voice. "The
cottage was swept away with the hotel.
If it hadn't been for tho quick flashes
of lightning, I never could have found
the bout, and we would all have been
drowned. "
"My baby, my babyl" I cried,
wringing my hands.
"Her chances aro as good as ours,"
Paul said Badly. "If this boat is
driven out to sea, it won't live an
hour. I think the wind is lulling a
little, though. Oh, if daylight would
only come."
I do not know how that night
passed ; that horrible night that even
now haunts my dreams. By daylight
the storm was over, and wo found our
selves in comparatively culm water.
"Look, look, Helen !" Paul cried,
don't you see that stunted orange tree?
Don't you remember it grew on a
mound to tho left of tho hotel? We
have been on the island all night."
I looked. With tho exception of
that little green tuft above tho waves,
not a vestige remained of Lust Island.
We could see bluek specks on the
water, but whether they were boats or
the debris of buildings, we could not
tell. Later wo were told that out of
over one hundred people who were on
tho duy before, not moro than twenty
were rescued.
"Steamers and vessels will soon be
coming to our rescue now," snid Paul.
"Of course they kuow what has hap
pened. Here comes a steamer now,
thank God!"
I did not echo his words. I was
numbed by grief and exposure, and
even when we were taken up by tho
steamer, and in the midst of kind, sym
pathizing friends, I sat there unable to
feel grateful, when I thought of my
little drowned buby aud her poor nurse.
I heard my husband ask one of the of
ficers of tho boat :
"Have luuuy been rescued?"
"The schooner Gem out yonder
picked up several," he answered. "I
saw them tuke up t woman and child
a lew minutes ayo. "
I think I was wild when I heard thnt.
I can just remember entreating tho
captain to take us to the Gem. It might
be Christina and my baby. And then
lor honrs 1 knew nothing distinctly,
until the voice of my faithful nurse
was in my ears, and baby Ruth in my
arms.
"Ach, bnt when do wasser como I
pnt baby on do raft, and I hold it
tight, tight all de time, and do wind
blow as never was, and do waves come,
but I hold it tight, tight."
A man with staring eyes came rush
ing np to Christina as she spoke.
"Christina! Christina I he cried.
"Mein brudder!" she screamed, and
then there was a scene I have no space
to relate. I had found my baby, and
Christina had found Hans, who was
employed as second engineer on the
steamer.
Paul's gratitude to Christina took a
substantial form, in the shape of a nent
little cottage just out of the city, where
she has made a pretty home for Hans,
who, through his new friends, secured
a position in a manufacturing estab
lishment. We often see each other,
for the "heavenly sweet baby," whose
life she saved, is tho darling of Chris
tina's heart.
I have heard that a hotel has been
rebuilt at Last Island, and that people
go there. But one tragedy satisfied
me of its insecurity. The island has
too recently come up out of the sea not
to be reclaimed by it time and again
until many years have passed. Tho
Household.
Russia In the Pamirs.
Close upon the announcement that
Great Britain has lately practically
recognized the Chinese claim to sov
ereignty in the Pamir country, in
Central Asia, comes the news that Rus
sia has already established a garrison
in the disputed territory, and that she
is preparing to move a large number of
troops into the region during tho com
ing summer.
The Pamir strip is generally recog
nized as being without tho Russian
sphere of action in Asia, and it is oom
monly accepted as certain that neither
China nor the Government of Greot
Britain can assent to the occupation of
the territory by Russian troops.
Threatened raids into the country have
already been the subject of urgent
protests on tho part of Great Britain,
and once already this same subject hns
been the cause of seriously strained re
lations between the two countries.
Theclaimof theChinese Government
to sovereignty in the disputed territory
would seem to point to trouble between
China and Russia should tho report
of the Russian occupation be confirmed,
and as Grent Britain has practically
assented to the Chinese claim, and has
herself already protested against the
advance of Russia into the Pamirs, any
trouble that may grow out of the affair
is sure to involve that power.
The news from Central Asia will,
therefore, be watched with interest,
tho more particularly ns there is a
deep-Beated conviction that the next
war is likely to arise from Russian ag
gression in that part of tho world.
New Orleans Picayune.
Chalcedony.
"Here is something new and neat
and sure to be popular," said a denier
in crockery ware and china to a Mail
and Expressman.
"It is called chalcedony, and is tho
latest product of the kiln."
It was a beautiful piece of waro and
looked as if it was cut from agate.
There were the same pretty veininge,
fractures aud seeming cracks with
gold moulding.
"The manufacturers are turning it
out in all sorts of shapes and for every
kind of use," continued the man, "and
it is finding considerable favor.
"Here yon see is a complete dinner
set from soup to coffee. These whito
and gold pieces are for soup and meat
and then, of course, these plates with
the fish designs aro for tho llsh. The
same idea, you see, is carried out with
the plates for game, all of them bciug
decorated with birds and things of that
kind, and then hero we have the salad
dish like a cabbage lettuce leaf and
little lettuce leaf plates to match.
"Makes a very duinty set, doesn't
it ! Oh, there are coustuut novelties
iu our business as in all others and
changes oeour continuously. Glass
ware is being decorated now, too, with
garlands and wreaths aud other things,
but it will never crowd out cut glass.
That has a field entirely its own. "
New York Mail and Express.
A Quick Reply.
In one of the kindergartens the teacher
was endeavoring to familiarize tho
children with the words "cold" aud
"hot" at sight without spelling them
by letters. When sho asked them what
they would get if they went out of
doors in winter without their coats and
pointed at tho word, they caught tho
cue at once and answered "cold" in
stantly, but "hot" proved a puzzler
for a moment.
"Now, Mary," snid tho teacher to
the little girl iu the end sent, "suppose
that you were standing right close up
in front of a great big lire, justflumiug
and flaring and burning und blazing
away what would you get?"
"I'd get right away from there," re
plied the child in a matter of fact tone
thut upset the instructor for the after
noon. Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette. Alive With Snakety.
The Isles of Shoals, mere rocks
standing ten miles from New Hump
shire coast iu a cold sea, ure alive
with snakes. On a warm duy one will
see dozens of thorn running iu and out
of the boggy places or sunning them
selves on the bare ridges. They are
nothing to be afraid of, however, for
they are of only one variety the com
mon little greeu snake, that seldom
grows to a length of two feet,
THE FATAL GOLD MINE.
CHEROKKB INDIANS CAREFT3XLT
GUARD ITS SECRET.
Only One White Man Kver 8aw It,
and He Paid for the Sight With
Ills Mfe.
IT appears from a dispatch which
was sent out from Wichita tho
other day that there is to be
another attempt to locate what
are sometimes characterized as the
fabled gold mines of the Indian Terri
tory. Many people have faith in the
existence of these mines, while many
more smile when the subject is
broached, and are inclined to think
that they have no existence ontsido of
the fertile imaginations of the space
writers. But I belong to tho first
mentioned class, and feel thnt I have
the best reasons for my belief, says a
Pueblo (Col.) correspondent of tho St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Many years ago a white man, whose
name has been long ago forgotten, an
adventurer with more daring than pru
dence, stumbled npon the mine, when
there was not a white settlement within
hundreds of miles. He was not a
miner, but had found the quartz, filled
with native gold, cropping out of the
ground in a most unexpected location,
and although he was entirely alone
and without facilities for mining, as it
is usually conducted, had taken out
and separated from the quartz within
the course of a few days more of tho
precious metal than he could carry.
Realizing that he had made a dis
covery that would give him wealth be
yond the wildest dreams of avarice, ho
determined to retrace bis steps to a
settlement, organize a small party and
return, fully equipped for working the
lead and taking away tho gold. Ho
filled his pockets and his hunting
pouch with the virgin metal Bnd
started for civlizntion, first carefully
noting the landmarks, that he might
have no troublo in guiding his party
to the spot upon his return.
He had got some twenty miles away
from the locality when he was dis
covered by a party of Indians, some
ten or fifteen in number. They took
him in charge and conducted him ito
the presence of one of their principal
chiefs, to whom ho told the story of
his discovery. The old chief listened
patiently, and, realizing that this was
an important matter, culled certain of
the sub-chiefs into council. He made
the first speech to them, and called
their attention to what had first oc
curred to him that if tho gold-hunter
were allowed to return to the haunts
of white men with his precious burden
their country would immediately bo
overrun with miners, their hnnting
spoiled and their tribe eventually
forced to vacate their accustomed
range.
The Indians were at that time peace
able, and were extremely averse to
taking an action which would precipi
tate trouble with tho whites, who wero
just commencing to plnut feeble settle
ments in the lower Kansas counties,
just north of tho Osage and Cherokee
Nations. Yet it wns a serious matter,
for it seemed almost impossible to
allow tha white man to return to
civilization and spread the news of his
wonderful find, of which every one
else, even the Indians themselves, had
been in utter ignorance up to that
time. It meant all manner of evil for
the red men, and tho matter was care
fully discussed pro and con by the
heads of the tribe, the council lusting
far into the night. The decision was
at last arrived at thnt it was better
that one lifo should be taken than that
the peace of the whole tribe be
destroyed. And bo, for none other
than prudential reasons, the council
passed the sentence of death upon the
hapless discoverer of tho mine. Tho
result of the deliberation was, how
ever, kept from him at first, and ho
was induced to guide a small party to
the locality of his find. Three of tho
leading chiefs of the tribe wero of the
party, and under their direction all
traces of the lead were covered up, lest
soiuo other white men straying through
tho country in search of pelts might re
discover it. Then the unfortunate
white man was executed on the spot
not by torture, however, but in tho
most merciful manner und tho party,
being far from home, struck camp for
the night. Far in tho night, when all
the others wero asleep, the three chiefs
arose, having secretly determined upon
the course before leaving tho council,
and with their keen hunting knives
treacherously took the lives of thoir
brothers, also, lest iu an unguarded
moment one of them might divulge
tho fact that such an enormously rich
mine existed, aud all tho ills which it
was bo earnestly desired to avoid be
thus precipitated. Tho bodies were
buried near the mine, und tho three
chiefs, after taking upon themselves
an oath of secrecy, returned to tho
tribe, telling 1 kuow not what story to
account for the non-uppcurance of
their companions.
By this course the secret of tho
locution was left with tho three lead
ing chiefs, who, upon their deathbeds,
transmitted it to their eldest sous.
And so it bus been passed down ever
since, never more thuii three being in
Ksbessiou of tho knowledge at one
time. But no one of them has ever
dared to attempt to work tho mine or
profit by their knowledge.
One girl is kept partly employed in
shelling and skinning walnuts for
Queen Victoria's table. The nuts have
to bo extracted and peeled whole ; any
broken ones aro discarded. Hei
Majesty is ulso very fond of bluuehed
almonds, and a largo dish is ulwuys
provided for the Kovul dessert.
Bourbon County, Kentucky, elects
her county judgos for life or good be
havior. She has had only four judges
siuce 1850, and each Las been re-elected
till be died iu office,
SCIENTIFIC AXO INDUSTRIAL.
Tho diamond drill is pointed with
black diamonds.
A whale develops 145 horse power
when it flops its tail.
Intense melancholy amounting to
mania is sometimes caused by intense
heat.
Tho condor, when rising from tho
earth, always describes circles in tho
air and can rise in no other way.
Some of tho Comstock mines are so
deep that no means have as yet been
devised to overcome the excessive heat.
England reports a ten-ton cutter
about to be built of the new metal.
The theory is that an aluminum hull,
with the usual lead keel, ought to be
light and stable.
Comfort for tho fat and the lean can
be derived from some recent medical
statistics which show that nt the age
of thirty-six lean men become fatter
and fat men leaner.
Cocoanut butter is now being made
at Manheim, Germany. The method
of manufacture was discovered by
Doctor Schluk, a chemist, at Ludwigg
hafen. It is said thnt the butter is
very nourishing and will soon be placed
in the London market.
It has been estimated that the firing
of a small pistol sets free about 600
foot-pounds of energy, while a watch
consumes only about 1-54,000,000 of a
horse power. The energy of a bullet
would be sufficient, therefore, to keep
tho time for two years.
Tho Government of Queensland has
decided to establish a bacteriological
and pathological institute in Brisbane
for the special study of diseases pe
culiar to stock in that colony, and an
effort is being made to secure as di
rector a member of tho Pasteur Insti
tute. There is a demand for n type writer
for travelers, tho machine to be of the
better class, or two-handed, and not to
weigh over eight or ten pounds. The
type writer hns bocomo a necessity for
many traveling men, and a light, por
table machine would find many pur
chasers. A scieutifio paper describes how to
make ice on a small scale. Touch the
convex side of a watch crystal upon
water so as to leave a drop hanging on
the glass. Pour a little ether into the
convex, and blow npon it. The rapid
evaporation of the ether wiil render
the glass so cold that the drop of water
will be frozen.
An European dentist is said to have
had great suocess in curing toothache
within five or six minutes, and often in
less time, by applying one polo of an
elcctrostactio machmo to the trouble
some tooth and the other pole to the
body of the patient. In eeventv-six
cases thus treated by him only three
are said to have been unsatisfactory.
now water, commonly called sap,
necessary to the life of a tree, passes
from the roots to the topmost leaf and
evaporates is a problem not yet solved
by botanists. It is known that the as
cent is made chiefly in cavities in tho
sap-wood only, the heart aud bark serv
ing other purposes. That is the extent
of our knowledge of the matter, Bo
yond 1b mere conjecturo, and every
theory yet advanced has failed to stand
the test of experiment.
Split Cane With Their Teeth.
There is one booth in Jnckson Park
thnt escapes tho collector of tho de
partment of concessions. Because its
profits aro devoted to entertainments
in woman's building the salesroom
conducted by the board of lady man
agers escapes the twenty-five per cent,
tax. The booth did a rushing busi
ness last woek, selling over $1000 worth
of goods. Thoy are sent by the
woman's exchanges of ull largo towns
and cities, and ttrticles ure replaced us
fust as sold.
Some "nests" of baskets mndo by
two Attakpas Indian women are at
tracting much uttciitiou. These two
old women, who are both over eighty
years, are tho only full-blood survivors
of tho Attukpas tribe, which many
years ago was numerous and powerful
in Southern Louisiana, whero these
women live. Thoy found much ditli
culty in makiug these "nests" each
basket growing smaller as it ap
proaches tho center because they
have lost most of their teeth, by meuns
of which the cano is split. The work
is exquisitely fine, distinctly Egyptian
in dosign, aud each "nest'' represents
two years' patient labor. Chicago
Herald.
An English Artist's Luck.
Lee Stanton, an English painter,
bought a leather valine nt tho (iran.l
Trunk Railroad Sale of unclaimed bag
gnge for two dollars. On opening it
he found 107 shares iu tho Western
tins Improvement Compuuy, of Chica
go, fully paid up and worth $107,(100.
The valise was tho property of Louis
Halbetstudt, who died in Broekville,
Cuuuda, iu October, IStll, of alcohol
ism. He wont to Brock villo from Nu
piersville, 111. A lurge sum of money
and sonre jewelry, which he was known
to hnve had just prior to his death,
were missing and it was believed at
tho time thnt he hud been robbed.
Atluuta Constitution.
A Painter's Unique Monument.
Above tho grave in New Bedford,
Mass., of William Bradford, the (Junker
painter who first shotted the world
whut color wus in Arctic ico and how
impressive wero the bergs an I the
skies and tho ships, h-is beeu place. I a
great granite boulder. Tho boulder
has rested for ages on the shore m ar
Fort Phouix, undtvusu landmark where
tho puiuter used b stroll; it lies
rough as it wus over the grave, with
the barnacles still clinging to it, save
for the face, where the urtint's name is
cut, with dates of birth nn 1 death, uu 1
two lines from Whittier's dedie itiou to
Lim of hid pyem, "Amy Wcut worth."
TWILIGHT.
Plowly dies tli long June dny, -Boftly
rolls the earth away, '
Lovelier light nt length divining,
All a dronm of misty bloom,
Trombllng stars, and golden gloom,
Larger heavons and sweeter shining
Which Is dearer, dunk or day ?
Where the glory died the dark,
Lost In light the ruby spnrk,
Violot gleam, ami saffron splendor,
Molt and mlnglo Into one,
When the long .Tun" dny Is done.
All the depths throb closo and tondor
Is It day, or Is it dnrk?
bove ! the long June day had life,
Silver showers nnd sunny strife
Now Its rosy wntlth fndi o'er ns I
Eld's vast twilight fills our eyos,
Yet whnt freedom of the skies
Tarts the stnr-eowu way bofora 113
Is It denth, or Is it life?
Harriet F. BpofTord, iu Ilarper's Bnzor.
HUMOR OF THE BAY.
A call to arms "Come, John,
and
take tho baby." Troy Press.
Even the worm will turn. If given
time, into a butterfly. Puck.
Little dogs bnrk tho most because
that is all they can do. Texas Sitt
ings. Wo don't envy tho alligator, al
though ho hns a grent o inp. Elmira
Gazette.
The perpetually irascible man is
known by his standing choler. Boston
Courier.
How wo all admire tho wisdom of
those who como to us for advice.
Ram's Horn.
Luck may be defined as that which
enables our neighbors to-surpass our
selves. Puck.
He "Do you know, darling, I have
never kissed any one before?" She
"Well, this is no kindergarten."
Life.
Herdso "Do you believe in tho
faith cure?" Saidso "Yes; one treut
ment cured all the faith I had."
Vogue.
There aro more than a thousand dif
ferent things made from petroleum,
including angels. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"With all her money there is ono
thing Mrs. Oldgirl doesn't own."
"What's thnt?" "Her ago." Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
"How about this now neighbor is
she agreeable?" "No ; sho had three
new dresses insido of a month." Chi
cago Inter-Ocean.
He "Now, dnrlinp, what kind of
an engagement ring shall I give you?"
She "One that won't fit any other
girl's finger." Detroit Free I'ress.
"Poor fellow. Did ho lose his eyes
in the war?" "Oh, no. Ho tried to
pass a woman on tho street when she
had her umbrella up. "Detroit Tri
bune. "Does yon teacher get out of temper
easily?" "Goodness gracious, no ; sho
has enough to lust her if she lives to
be 100 year old." Chicugo Inter
Ocean. "Why is it," she asked, "that stolen
kisses aro always tho sweetest?" "I
guess," he replied, "it is because they
aro taken Byrup-titiously." BoBton
Courier.
Stranger (addressing nn old brick
layer) "Uncle, who's building this
house?" "Mr. Hirschbug, he build
de house, but Queen Anne bIio drawed
de plan." Reformed Messenger.
First Tramp "I found this hero
bottle o' spring bitters iu a bnr'l this
morniu'." Second Tramp "T'row it
away, Fitzey. S'posen iley was to onre
you of that tired feeling' ! You might
want to work. " Puck.
Officer Flynn "Como, now, if yez
don't get away from there I'll rnn yez
iu. " Boy (peeping through fence)
"Say, cap', if you'll lo' me see dig
double play out I'll let ye tidso me to
do islau' for lifo." Puck.
"Is Diggins an old baseball player?
I see that he has a musk hanging in his
library." "No. He puts thut on when
ever he wants to have n talk with his
wife about cutting down household ex
penses." Detroit Free Press.
"Is ho a young man of good ad
dress?" asked the proprietor when tho
applicant for a position had left. "I
should say so," replied the bookkeeper ;
"he lives in one of tho swellcst parts of
the city." Washington Star.
Mrs. Neversee "Whnt, made you toll
mo he was the carver of his own for
tune, when ho got every dollar lie hag
by marrying an heiress." Neversee
"Hump! He had to cut out half a dozen
fellows to get her, didn't he?" Buffalo
Courier.
Out of Place: "Of course, yon have
somebody to clean the boots ami knives
aud somebody to do tho kitchen "
"Oh, of course, und 1 send tho beds
out to bo made. 1 wanted somebody
only to be looked at but you won't
do. Good nioruii'g. "--Judy.
"I tell you," said the proud father
as he replaced a letter iu its envelope,
"thut youngster of mine is (;oing to
make his mark in literature." "Whr.t
mukes you think so?" "U-j's only live
years old nnd ho writes to mo iu
diuleet." Washington Star.
Mrs. Hiehureh (as she gazes oat of
the window on a rainy Sunday morn
ing) "Yes ; it's true. Providence does
temper the wind to the shorn hil."
Mr. Hiehureh 'What makes you fay
so?" Mrs. Hiehureh --"Why, my new
bonnet didn't como homo ht niht !"
Puck.
Fond Mother "Here's romething
about a buby w hose In ad nnMovd
twelity-tivo inches iu ciiv.lail'civnce.
Is there any danger of our darling bit
ing so deformed? " Skeptical Fut In r
"No, dear; 'lot uiilesH he could under
tand and believe nil the tlaio yon
say to him." Tit-BiH.
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