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RE REST 1 i L f Xrado journals aro noting llio fart Hint ilia price of wool is the lowest in its Listory. Tho "trusty" prisoner in a peni tentiary belongs, in tlio opinion of tlio Washington Star, to tho same general class as tho gun that nobody know was loaded. Tbero is one place where a woman, fact's a man's pay for doing n man's work. It ie tho Township of Marsh field, Maine, and any woman who wishes to work out her road tax can do so nnd have her day's work count for as imich an a mail's. As bu instance of the wondorfu growth of tho English language, it may bo noted, observes tho Detroit Free Press, that, whereas Noah Web ster could not find 80,000 words to put in his compilat ion, tho reoont Century Dictionary comprises moro than 200,- 000. At tho beginning of this year there, Were 110H submnrino cables-' in exist ence, of which 880 belonged to different dominions, nnd 288 to private com panies. Tlio former possessed a length of 16,052 miles aud the latter had a length of 144,743 miles, thus thctotal length was 161,305 miles. Thb Terra Haute (Ind.) Gazette cx claims : "Tako all tho notcj cathedrals ju publio buildings Bnd monuments . and colossal statunry of the ancient and modem world and group them in tho Elysisn liclland olio might seo tho tipinl in beauty nnd radiant splendor of tho magical Whito City as 'icwed from tho top of tho Manu factures nnd Liberal Arts Building. J But until thnt is done tho Whito City will stnud nlono a peerless gem in the dindeni of tho centuries." Tho annual loss of human life by lightning shock is very groat through out tho world. In European Russia, from 1885 to 1802, no Icsb than 2270 persons were killed 4n this way. In Austria during tho samo time the electric fluid killed 1700 persons. Ten thousand iiersous are reported as hav ing beeu struck by lightning during tha past twenty-niuo years, with 2252. deaths, iu France, while in tho United States 202 deaths from lightning were . recorded in 1802. Tho effects of light ning stroke nro usually shoFk and coma and mrtiul or completo loss of sight or hearing. Tho tissues aro often burned superficially or deeply. Vicc;Admirul ColoJhb, of the British Navy, who is regarded as one of the loading naval authorities of the world, has expressed an opinion rcgardimg tho most available types of war ships, particularly for the United States. Ho says tlmt wo should build battle shipM? armored cruisers aud torpedo boats, because they will be what wo shall need iu case of any wur we are likely to huvo. He says that if be had control of tho Navy Department of the United States ho would look at the Nations with whom this country might go to war, and would then provido enough battlo ships to bo. superior to the buttle ships of any one of thoso possible enemies, and continually keep up' this superiority. He would also build fast cruisers, many of which should d armored vessels like the New York for example and then, in . addition, fast torpedo boats as tt means of coast defense. Tho President of a life insurance, company has recently made publio somo interesting facts concerning sui cide. It said thut iu 1877, of the peo pie whoso lives were insured, 1.28 per ,ceut. died by their own hands. Since then tho life insurance companies have practieully discontinued the policy of refusing to puy iu case of suicide, and the result is that the ratio of suicides to the insured population has increased alarmingly. Tho President whose statements we hnvo nuoted soys: "It is passing straugo thut men will dclib erately contrive the means of their own destruction in order to get the best of a life insurance company and leave money to those who come after them. Perhaps there is nothing very strange in it, comments the Atlanta Constitution. In this country there are plenty of men who are afraid of nothing in this world or in the next. "Tho only good thing about them is the nutural affection they feel for their families. They belong to the utterly hopeless and desperate class. They see no chance of providing for the im mediate wants of their loved ones un less they insure their lives and step out of the world. Free-thinking in religion and our social conditions are largely responsible for this state of affairs. The life insurance companies will have to change their regulations when they find thut a very large per ceutage of their customers do not con sider life worth living. Moro children are born in Greece and in Spain, in proportion to popu lation, than in any other Caucasian Nations. From rocont revelations mndo after tho disaster to H. M. B. Victoria, it would seem to the Chicago Record that tho British navy is considerably moro powerful in picture books than on tho briny bob. Now Zealand's Labor Department has begum to publish tho Journal of Commerce and Labor, a monthly jour nal to contain official reports on tho stato of tho lobor markets throughout the colony and Australasia in general. It will be distributed free to publio bodies, trados unions, and all applicants. The mistletoe will be more difficult to find next winter. It comes almost exclusively from tho orchards of Nor mandy, where it flourished on tho apple tree. The French Government has decided that all tho mistletoe must be cut orf'tho trees at once, on tho ground that it sucks tho sap and . im poverishes them. The death of A. J. Drcxel, of Drexel, Morgan & Company, in no way affects the business of that great corporation, but it removes a millionaire who ranked with George W. Childs as a public benefactor. The two men wero like brothers, and thero was a gener ous rivalry between "them to see which could do the' most good with his money. Sunday . labor is prohibited in Europo, exsept in France and the Netherlands, where tho workmen aro given timo for devotional exercises. Night work is prohibited for women under twenty-one years of ngo in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands and Switzerland, except in cases whero factories run continuously all hours. The hours of labor are cloven daily, ex cept in Great Britain, where ten hours only are allowed. In unhealthy occu pations a doctor's certificate is re quired in all countries for both women and children. Judge Mobloy, of Greeno County, Alabama, received au appointment tho other day in one of the Washington departments, and he journeyed to the capital to qualify. But after looking over the ground, avers tho Now Or leans ricaynne, the judge returned home, declining the appointment iu a letter to his indorser, Congressman Bankhoad, in which ho said: "I give you the following reasons: (1) I have lived to bo moro than forty years old and have never been bossed by any body, and cun't begin that now. (2) I am making more than $2000 at homo and like to live there. (3) I have beeu elected President of the Greene County Fishing Club, and it is timo to assume tho duties of my office." This has not been a good year for railroad building and the reasons are apparent. During the six months endod July 1st only 1014 miles of rail road were built in tho United States, less than we have built during any six months since tho war. The now mile age is distributed as follows : State. 14dm. 11 Ilea. state. Llaot. Alabama. .1 l'i. Missouri 4 Arkansas. ..3 10. Nebraska 1 Mlll-9 99.1 22. 1. SS.15 4.7 00. 62.7 11.5 181.84 6. 7. 125.83 29.5 69.75 4. Arizona 1 42. N. Hump 1 California.. 8 SC. 25 New York. ..1 Colorado. ..1 6. N. Carolina .8 Florida..... S 50.5 N. Dakota .1 Idaho 1 3. Ohio 4 Indiana. ...3 9.6 Oregon J Illinois 4 37. Trnu. .. ..19 Kansas 1 6.3 It. Inland 1 Kentucky. .4 87. Tennessee. ... 1 Louisiana.. .3 4.25 Texas 5 Maine 1 5. Washington. .5 Massach'ts..l 1. W. Virginia . 7 Minnesota.. 8 22. Wyoming 1 It will be observed, says the Atluuta Journal, from which the above table is taken, that not a mile of new railroad has been built in Georgia this year, though Georgia year before lust led all the States of the Union in railroud construction. The fact that Georgia docs not appear in the list printed above is not to be regretted. Thero has been no recent need for new rail roads in this State, and money has been so tight that none of it has been found ready to go into experimental enter prises of this sort. A similar btute of affairs in the other States is the ex planation of the small new railway mileage. Bailroad building has beeu overdone in many States, aud it will be a long timo before some of the lines that have been built in Georgiu during the lost live or six years will pay. The general falling off in rail road construction is a healthful sign. In the first six mouths of lust year there were built in the United States 1367 miles of railway and the con struction for the year was 4200 miles. The same ratio of increase for the last six months of the year would give ijs about 3000 niiles of new railroad for 1803, THE GOLDEN DOORWAY. Boat loss man has trawled far, Peace and borne delight him not i O'er Strang, ways his Journeys are, Snows aud suds affright him not. . Ho the camel I Ho the sledge I, Ho the bateau 'mid the sedge ! And the surly Jog of the Esquimau dog along the glacier's edge I Bo he voyages up and down Hlldlng seas and deserts rudu, Ns And takes the wind on his forehead brown In all degrees of latitude. Ho to the sources of tho Nile 1 Ho to somo unknown Aretlo Isle Where tho grim lee pack shall lie at his back for many a frozen mile I Distance doth he laugh to scorn And the perils of the waste, And the storms beneath the horn Death Itself he hath outfaced. Ho the simoom ! Ho the shock ' When on reefs tall vessels knock ! And the poisoned spear and the serpent near nnd the avalanche from the rock I He belts the continents with steel, He pierces mountains through and through i On countless tracks the grinding whool Hurries him, thrusts him out ot view. . Ho the piston driving fast t Ho the race against the blast t And the ceaseless flight In dark and light that girdles the earth at last I Seo where shows the magic goal Of all Journeyings that are, Bright like tho noiseless gates that roll Black for Phccbus's golden oar. Ho tho traveler, patient, bold ! " Ho the doorway of crusted gold, And the wonders therein by which men win a new world from the old ! 81111 mnn rides on sea and shore, Pressing forward, turning never. Tells us now this golden door His sharp unrest and long endeavor. Ho the oar and rushing keel ! Ho the saddle ! Ho the wheel ! And the lord ot the rail, that doth not all In his tireless frame of stool. , Chloago Record. THE DAUGHTER'S MISTAKE BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES. HERE, put away tho things, do ; I'm tired to death!" Theodora Evelyn tossed her faded ball-bouquet on one side, and her white cashmere opera cloak on the other, while she herself sank with an air of Titter weariness upon a sofa drawn in front of the fire. Bho was a tall, brilliant-complex-ioned blonde, with big bluo eyes like a doll's, golden hair, and a lovely red month that put you in mind of a clus ter of dead-ripe scarlet cherries, and her dress was of white mist-like tulle, looped up by bouquets of bluo forget-me-nots, and floating blue ribbon. Mrs. Evelyn stood patiently by, pick ing up the flowers, folding tho opera cloak with the showy silk lining on the outside, and stirring the fire that it might blaze up with s moro cheery luster. ' "Will you have a oup of tea, love, before you go to bed?" eho asked, wistfully. "No, I won't I" answered tho young lady, undutifully. "Thank goodness I'm not such a bundle of whims as yon are, mamma. Why don't you take out my hair-pins, instead of standing stor ing there?" "I didn't knew yon were ready, dear," said the mother, advancing with nervous haste. "There I" ejaculated Theodora, tart ly; "you've torn my dress-trail with your clumsy feet. I've a great mind not to let you Qpine near me." "I'm very sorry, darling," apolo gized tho meek matron, turning red and pule, as she began to take down the luxuriant masses of Theodora's golden hair. "What good does it do to be sorry ?" snapped the girl. "It's what yoa al ways sry. Do make haste; didn't I tell you I was tired ?" "Did you have a pleasant evening, Theo?" ventured her mother, after a few minutes of silence, during which the beauty yawned Beveral times. "Pleasant enough," was the un gracious response. "Was Mr. St. Emil there?" "Yes," said Theo, roused intasome thiug like animation at the mention of that name; "and that piece of pink-and-whito wax, his lady-mamma. Oh, how anxious he was that I should make a fuvorablo impression ou tho old woman !" "And you?" "Oh, I played sweet simplicity to perfection said 'Yes, ma'am' and 'Mo, ma'am!' " and Theodora laughed boisterously at tho reoolloction. "llow delighted bt. Emil was !" "Then he is really interested?" "Interested? Of course he is. Mark my words, mamma, I shall be Mrs. St. Emil yet." Mrs. Evelyn's eyes sparkled at the alluring prospect. "Only," went on Theodoro, languid ly, surveying her pretty face in a cheval glass, "the idea of such a mother-in-luw almost daunts me. lie thinks so much of due reverence being paid her, and I, for one, cuu't full down and worship any old woman alive. Hut it's just as well, I suppose, to keep up the illusion until utter we're married." "Oh, certainly, certainly," said the discreet mother, eagerly. "How St. Emil would stare if he heard me hauling you over the coals sometimes," cried Theodora, with a laugh. "He thinks one's mother is next door to oue's guardian angel, the fool!" "Theo, don't talk so," said Mrs. Evelyn, a contraction as if of puiu pnMijig over Lcr pujv, m viu fact). "I'm sure I've heard you call papa a fool." "No, Theo, yon haven't. " "Then tho moro gooso von," said Thoo, yawning fearfully. "Do make haste. Arcn t you most through? "Just through now, darling." And Theodora Eveleyn, dismissing her mother just as she might hove dis missed any hired and pensioned slave, lay down to her prayerless pillow to dream of wedding rings and a bridal altar wreathed with white blossoms. For she was quite sure of Gront Kt. Emil now. "Mamma," called Thoo, tho next morning, nnd Mrs. kvelyn meekly obeyed the summons, coming from tho back room, whero sho was busily en gaged in ripping apart the breadths of a rose-colored dress belonging to Iheo, which that yonng lady had taken a fancy to have altered. "Mamma, hero aro two tickets to tho private mas querade at Mrs. Almy's, with Mr. St. Emil'a coniplimouts one for you and ono for mo. How ridiculous ! The idea of you at a masquerade !" Mrs. Evelyn's faco had lighted up. "I should really like to go for once, Theo," she said, hesitatingly. "I have never had an opportunity of see ing you in society, darling,' and " "Oh, bother!" interrupted Theo, "as if that made any difference. But Grant thinks a young lady shouldn't attend a masquerade, of all places in tho world, without her mother's chap cronage, and I suppose I must humor him. What Bhall I personate, mam ma? I should like to go as Diana with her bow and arrows, if you can squeeze enough money out of papa for a decent costume." "I will see what papa can spare yon, love." "He's awfully stingy of late," ob served Theo, with a shrug. "You shouldn't speak so of your papa, Theo," remonstrated Mrs. Eve lyn. "Business is very dull just now, and our expenses are heavy." "That's the very reason you shouldn't bo tagging after mo to all the masquerades in town," grumbled Theo. "But I suppose we can t very well slip aside of it. Any old black dress and a eatin domino mask will do for you." "Yes," assented Mrs. Evelyn, who had learned through the long tutelage of dire experience to think very littlo of her own wants and requirements; "anything will do for me." "It's such a bore, your going at all," muttered Theodore, with an un gracious toss of her beautiful blondo head. "I'll teach St. Emil a thing or two w hen I have him eafo under my wing." Miss Evelyn's costume as that of Diana, for the private masquerade ball, was a decided success. Her silver-green tunic, trimmed with gold fringe, the fillet that bound her lovoly yellow hair and the Grecian draperies that revealed even whilo they hid the oontour of her perfect arms, made her look even more beautiful than her or dinary self, and Mrs. Evelyn gazed with pride upon the transformation which had been for the most part wrought over by skillful and industrious fingers. For poor, harassed Mr. Eve lyn had absolutely declined to "shell out," as his daughter gracefully ex pressed it. "It's Out of the question, Mary utterly and entirely out of the ques tion," he had answered when she had applied to him for "a little money. " "I have to steer carefully to avohl sheer bankruptcy, and I cannot spare. a single cent from my business just now I" So Mrs. Evelyn, having Bold a pair of opal ear-rings, her husband's gift in their courting days, to buy tho costly material, had herself eat up night after night, and day after day, to make the dress which Theodora loudly declared she must have to ap pear as the impersonation of Diana the Huntress! And she reaped a mother's sweet, unselfish reward when she saw how surpassingly lovely Theodora looked in the exquisite Greek dress ! Mr. St. Emil had selected "Hamlet" as his character, and very handsome he was in the plumed cap and velvet doublet of the young Prince of Den mark, but Mrs. St. Emil preferred no more attractive costume than a plain black silk domino wrapper aud mask. "I am past my acting days," she said, with a sweet, pleasant laugh when Theo smilingly demanded why she, too, was not in character, "und I shall derive my greatest pleasure to night from watching others !" "Darling mamma!" cried Theo, turning with ostentatious tenderness toward her mother, "you see you are in the fashion after all! I tried my best, Mrs. St. Emil, to induce this mother of mino to don a character dress, but bho would not consent. Oh, Mrs. St. Emil, is it time for the wultz already? Mamma, if you're quite sure it wouldn't tire you too much to hold my bouquet !" Aud Theodora floated away on Grant St. Emil's arm. Once, during an interval in the dancing, Grant came to his mother's side. "Does she not look beautiful to night?" "Who? Miss Evelyn?" "Of course. Whom else could I possibly mean?" "Yes, she is beautiful; and you, Grant," Mrs. St. Emil added, with a hulf smile, "you uro falling deeper and deeper iu lovo with her. All tlio arrows in her quiver are piercing your heart through and through, my dear boy." "Mother, you don't like her." "I shall try to do so for your sake, Grant," said the lttdy sighing softly. "You still persist iu tliinkiug that she is not amiable. I am sure she is." "I like her manner toward her mother, Grant," said Mrs. St. Emil ; "it ia very HlTeetionutu and devoted. Now go they are waiting for you to take your place in tho second set of tho loucers. And as he hastened away she thought almost sodly to herself : ' I must learn to love her, for Grant's heart is set upon her, and ho is too good a son to marry without my. cordial consent." "Mamma," whifipercd Theo, toward the close of the evening, "you'll have to romo upstairs and help me take off my tunic. Tho St. Emils have gone, aud there's no fun in staying any longer. Hurry up I" Mrs. Evelyn nodded obedience, but she could not explain to Theodora that she would probably bo detained a few minutes longer by tho talk of gossiping friends who sat bcBido her. "Theo will wait for mo," she thought. Theodora, however, was also de tained a minnto or two, murmuring soft aideus to somo of her gontlomen friends, and when ot length she flow into tho drcBsing-room she was breath less with linsto. "I am tired to death," she said, petulantly, as her eye caught the figure iu the black domino standing at the window. "Mamma, why couldn't you havo come after me, instead of chat ting away among those old fools by the door. You might as well have- staid at homo and minded your own business, if you couldn't be a less clumsy chaperon, I'm tired of your stupidity." No answer but Theo never turned her head from tho glass whero she was contemplating her curls with the golden fillet banded through them. "You're sulking now, I suppose," she said, shrugging one alabaster-white shoulder. "Well, sulk away to your heart's content. I don't care ! I Bhall get rid of these airs and graces when I am Mrs. St. Emil, and " She stopped short, for in tho glass sho saw another domino-draped figure entering the door back of her her mother's figure. "Mamma!" she shrieked. The other domino advanced quietly from the recess of the window, and, to her inexpressible dismay, Theo recog nized tho slender figure and aristo cratic, bearing of Mrs. St. Emil. ' 'There has been somo mistako here ," said that lady, composedly. "Miss Evelyn lias mistaken me for her mother. I am ndt her mother, and" she spoke with quiet emphasis "I hope I nover shall be." She left the room, and never saw Miss Theodora Evelyn again. Grant St. Emil, thus unexpectedly enlightened as to the character of his lovely divinity, loft town within a week or two, and when next Theo heard of him, ho was married to a fair littlo damsel, more liko a human snowdrop than aught else. And Thoo is still husband hunting, and treats her poor mother moro disdainfully than ever. "For," she says, with moro acrimony than logic, "it was all mamma's fault that I lost Grant St Emil." New York Weekly. The Fascinating Fisheries Exhibit. In no structure within the Fair grounds is the outward expression so sympathetically reflective of its ar chitectural purpose as in the Fisheries Building. Itself reflected in the bluo lagoon, in its architectural functions and sculptural ornament it in turn re flects the lacustrine life of the waters, which not only almost lave its founda tion walls but actually pour into its in terior in fountain and cascade and gigantic aquaria. As we follow around these green translucent walls within, our passage lit only from the diffused light transmitted from above the water, we can almost fancy ourselves walking on the actual river bed, ogled by fa miliar forms of sun-fish, perch or pickerel ; or perhaps wandering as in a dream among fair ocean caves abloom with brilliunt sea-anemones, and embowered with miniio groves of branching corals and all manner of softly swaying sea weed graceful crimson lamiuaria reaching to the sur face of the water, responding in ser peutino grace to the soft invasion of waving fin. Rare living gems of fishes, very butterflies of the deep, float past Hashing in iridescence with every subtilo turn of their painted bodies. Star-fish, at first apparently stationary, as though in midwater, glide across the illusive piano of glass, with their thousand friugy disks of feet. Strange crabs and mollusks and bivalves sport on tho pebbly bottoms, and portentous monsters, with great gaping moutliB, threaten us as they emerge from their nebulous obscurity and steal to within a (ew inches of our faces. Scribner. A Perfumed Lake. On the Mangishlak Peninsula, iu the C'tispiun Keu, there are five Hinull lakes. One of them is covered with salt crys tals strong enough to allow man and beast to ?ross the luko on foot; an other is as round as uny circle and a lovely rose color. Its banks of salt cry ul form a setting, white us the driven snow, to tlio water, which nut only shows till the colors from violet to rosy red, but from which rises a per fume as of violets. Both tho perfume und tho color uro tho result of the presence of seaweeds, tho violet and tho pink. Chumbers's Jouruul. The Dnurf Palm. dwarf lialiu, which furnishes Tho considerable quantities of fibre, prows iu great profusion iu Algeria, aud is one of the principal obstacles to the clearing of the land, so thickly does it grow, ami so diilicult is it to pull up; its roots, in shape resembling carrots, peiietritto into the ground to the depth of a yard or inure, aud when its stem is only cut it sprouts out ugaiu almost immediately. As its iiumu indicutes, this palm is very small, and can only attain a certain height, when pro tected, as in the Arab cemeteries, for txauiple. New York Vorid, LEATHER AT THE FAIR. tTNiaUE EXHIBITS OF Alt IMPOR TANT INDU8TRT. Everything Pertaining to Shofs and leather Shown In One Iarge Building An Elephant Hide. ON Ihe Lake Front, in the southern extremity of the Fair grounds, the Leather Building is located. It is 170x625 in dimensions, nnd cost over $100,000, but by reason of its nnfavor. able location has not attracted as many visitors as some of the other exhibits, though all who enter its doors are amply repaid for their trip. Beneath the roof of this great struc ture everything pertaining to the shoe and leather industry is shown. The fact that this industry has lcen for years one of the most important in onr country seems never to have been taken into consideration, and the representa tion heretofore has not been worthy a business of snch magnitude. In the exhibit within the Leather Building now, however, nothing has been omitted which properly belongs to the trade. There are prepared hides and skins in hundreds of varie ties and an almost endless list of arti cles which are made from the tanned skins of animals. Though tanned leather cjiters into tho manufacture of a thousand and one different articles, such as harness, valises, trunks and the like, the shoe industry consumes over three-fifths of the leather used. And in the manu facture of these shoes what a variety of patterns ono can see there illus trated. The evolution of the shoe is one of the marks of civilization ; the earth has been searched and history and the museums ransacked from ono end to the other in order that jtvery style and form of shoe known, or of which record was had, might find its proper representation in this World's Fair exhibit. How well tho origina tors of the enterprise have succeeded is amply shown by a study of the dis play in the cases along the walls of the interior of the Leather Building. The most unique and odd iu design and pattern are those from Tangiers, Africa, made from turtle claws, which enablo tho wearer to climb a tree or scratch his antagonist with the same effect and advantage possessed by tho bear or panther. There is such an innumerable dis play of odd and ancient styles as to bewilder the most ardent admirer of footwear. Tho straw sandal, scarcely larger than a baby's slipper, comes from Kioto, Japan, where the young ladies wear them, and the flat cloth shoes with no soles or heels, which protect tho water carrier's feet, are from Alexandria, Egypt. The wooden clogs with stilts attached are tho prido of tho Japanese tea packers in wet weather, and the straw mats worn on the feet when the sun blisters tho pavement belong to the natives of Shotean, India. A pair of boots purchased by Prince Shouisski of Kussia in Faris for 3000 francs have a section in the case all to themselves. The foot is of white un dressed kid, tho loot legs of white velvet embroidered with gold, whilo precious stones glitter in the open pieces of tho design. Leather for decorativo purposes of all shades of color and thickness has au important place in tho display. There aro tanned skins of makes, alligators, lizards and specimens of leather tanned by all kinds of pro cesses. There is an elephant hide, the largest ever tanned, which is tweuty feet iu length from tip of trunk to end of tail, sixteen feet in width, and itc greatest thickness three inches. It weighs nOO pounds, and is used to polish leather. Two years' timo is ro quired to tan a hide of this character. Tho longest belt ever made it? another exhibit iu this collection. It is twelve inches wide nnd 10,000 feet in length, being the longest continuous piece of leather ever uianufacrured. Then there are tho finest and most modern designs of ingenuity and in ventivo genius displayed by tho largei manufacturers of America. These dis plays aro unequalled, for every man working ou the designs put forth hi best effort with a view to excel, not tc pattern after any other. The result if tho grandest, most superb and most costly lino of footwear every seen iu ono building before. In tho line of i-lippers the result have been obtained iu the same man ner, and the person whose tnstei could not bo suited from this display would have to study up some design nut known to the thousands of design ers and dealers and would bo rewarded a premium for a novelty. In the gallery tho machinery used in tho shoe industry forms a most iu terestiug study. Every single pro cess from the first format ion of the shoe to the finishing and packing in the box is illustrated. Pyrumitls of shoe dressing, of polish, blacking and all that is necessary tu the care and protection us well as t lit beautifying of leather is displayed it) various parts of the buildiug until out begins to realize that there are more things about tho shoo industry ami trade tltau h-i ever dreamed of. St. Louis Kepublic. Precocious (ieuiiis. Dante composed verse at ; Tbsko ami Mirubenu at 10; C'omte, Voltaire and Pascal were thinkers at 11; Nie btilir ut 7; Jonathan Edward?, i'os suet nml Pope, at 1J; Goethe lufoit 10; Vi'-t r llii.fi ali i l'Viielou at l.i; Handel aud l!eet!i-ven compose.) at M ; Mozart gave eoucerts at L Oil the other hand, such men as Wellington, Ualzai Humboldt. Hnitc.ic-.'io, Newt u und Wulter Scott wery backward pujals. THE OLD LOVE SONO, riay It slowly, sing it lowly, Old familiar Hine! Once It ran in dance and dlmplo, ' Like a brook In June ; Now It sotis along the measures With a sound of tears ; pear old voices echo through It, Vanished with the yoars. Blpple, ripple goes tho love song Till, In slowing time, Early sweetness grows completeness Floods its every rhyme ; " Who together learn tho mujla Life and death unfold ; Know that love Is just beginning Until lovo Is old. Tlay It slowly, It Is holy,. As an evening hymn ; , r,. Vorning gladness hushed to sadness Fills it to tho brim. Memories home within tho music, Stealing through the bars j Thoughts within its quiet spaces v Rise and set like stars. x Tho CamiiusV 7 4 IIUMOK OF THE DAY. 1 Weeds of woo Two for five.' v(. A noted composer Chloroform. Court martial A soldier's wooing." A green-goods man The vegetable vender. Truth. A man is known by tho company that blackballs him. Katn's Horn. A secret is a plant that waits to bear the leaves of gossip. Ham's Horn. The still watches of the night Those which have not been wound. Truth. An escaping prisoner seldom begs pardon for the liberty he takes. Troy Press. You can't tell by tho blossoms which of tho apples will bo wormy. Texas Sittings. It takes cither a goori deal of push or a pull to get through tho doors of life. Truth. Tho Toy Pistol "I'm loaded." Tho Trigger "Don't get gay or I'll firo you. " Chicago Record. A man attempting to I've in style on a small salary is like a dog fighting without front teeth. Puck. Miss Elderly "What would yon do if I told you my age?" Ee "Multiply it by two." Brooklyn Life. Thero is a language of flowers, as, for instance, when a barefooted boy steps on a thistle. Minneapolis Journal. "What's tho matter with the horned horse?" asked the tiger. "It has the gnu-monia," replied tho lion. Puck. There is a tied in the affairs of the men which, if taken at tlio knot, leads to strangulation. Thomasvillo Times. "How mueh do you lovo me, my pretty maid?" "How much Is your fortune, kind sir?" she said. Chicago Iteoord. Young Author "Don't you like to see yourself iu print?" Debutante "No ; I prefer silk." New York Jour nal. These aro tho times when a goed, many of us have to sit down nnd think to find out whero we stand. Troy Press. Van Wither "Miss G.adys is a lovely girl, but she has no heart." Von Miner "Yes, sho has mine." Vogue. "Has man a perfect orgr n of speech ?" "Yes." "Has woman, also?" "No; hers is made without stops. " Harvard Lampoon. "Why diil they name that paper The Ladies' Friend?" "I suppose be cause it makes such good curl papers." Statesman. Why express surpriso Inat a young mau should get giddy wjeu a pretty girl violently turns his heud." Phila delphia Times. "Ho is flippant. Ho can't bo serious if he tries;" "Yes, ho cun. Heisvery serious when ho tries to be fuuny." Brooklyn Life. Money may bo tho root of nil evil ; but it is a root, ueverU'elcss, thut bears many flowers of everlasting beauty. Puck. Tlio fitness of things is well main tained when tlio impatient diner is served with food prepared in a chafing dish. Buffalo Courier. "Falser sings liear.tif uily, but they tell me ho cuu't tell tjo truth." "That's right. He's the most truth ful 'lyre' in the State." Detroit Free Press. Diukle "It's a strange tlnnj; to nio bow a short man always wants u tail girl." Duukle "Humph! P.'s a strange thing to mo how a short men wants any girl. I'm blamed if 1 do when I'm short." Buffalo Courier. Colonel Wellington do Boots- "l'i is almost impossible for ;ou, Misd Kprytcly, to imagine what a lingo amount of work I have to do, for I am not only commandi r t f tho regiment, but also its Major, Adjutant, and good ness knows what !" Miss Sp'vtelv---"Your our trumpeter, too, Colonel?" Judy. Why Car Wheels Wear Out. A car-wheel wears out becauso the metal of which it is composed comes away iu thin scales. A mic robcopio examination shows that the continual jarring has a tendency to destroy tlio coherence of the particles, aud thus gradually disintegrates tho whole. Car-wheels long iu use become so brittle that a stout blow with a heavy hummer will sometimes causo then to rly iuto fragments us though they were uiudo of glass. New York Journal. Bullets of Precious St.mt -i. Bullets made of precious stones nro rarities in warfare. I!ut during thu recent lighting on tlio Kashmir fron tier, when tho British troops defeated, tho rebellious Huiiiis, the natives uct'i bullvts vf gitruvW cucaevJ in kud. r
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