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South Africa will Bgain essay coltou
manufacture.
Tho fitness of things is happily il
lustrated, the ChicBgo Herald thinks,
in the narao Sf Mr. Chinook Whiskers,
of Oregon.
M. Berry asks the French Chamber
to givo Parisians the right to roto by
mail, whon they are ont of town, or
too ill to come to tho polls.
A Kentucky woman rocontly bronght
suit against a railroad for killing her
horse and her husband. She got $150
for the horso and one cent for the hus
band. The ex-rresident ol tho Boyal Col-
lego of Veterinnry Surgeons of Eng
land condemns publio drinking troughs
for horses on the ground that they
propagate certain diseases peculiar to
horses.
Justico Wheeler, of Chicago, holds
that a bicycle rider has as much right
of way on public streets as the driver
of any vohicle. F. G. Nelson sued the
owners of a truck which rau into him
while he was riding his bicycle, and
has gained a judgment for $50 and
costs.
It has been estimated that 25,000
horses are employed in the London
carrying trade, that their value is a
million and a quarter, and that tho
cost is for food alone $4,000,000. A
rule prevails of foraging the horses on
threepence an inch per week that is,
horse costs as many shillings a weok
as it standH hands high.
Letters just published, written dur
ing the siege of Faris, show what high
prices wero paid for curious meals. A
certain M. Doboos bought up tho
Zoological Garden and sold the ani
mals at a profit. Tho cassowary was
old for $40 and the kangaroo for only
$20. Two camels bronght $1000 and
a wild boar $440. Elephants' 'flesh
was a luxury, ami the two were sold
as steaks for $5 46T).
In Ireland vsccination was made
compulsory in 180;). Since that time
the Irish Foor Law Commissioners
have onrried out the law and the whole
population has been vaccinated. From
1830 to 1840 the yearly average of
deaths from smallpox was 5800, in the
next deoade it was 3287 and in the
next 1272. In the year 1867 they were
twenty, in 1868 they were nineteen
and in the next year six.
Tho largest balloon in the world has
just been constructed at Hollowly,
near London, England. It is a sphere
of 57.24 feet diameter, has a capacity
of over 100,000 cubic feet, weighs one
and a quarter tons, and will lift an ad
ditional weight of a ton. It is to bo
used for the purpose of obtaining con
tinuous meteorological observations
for a period of six day without de
scending. It has been successfully
tested.
The annual report of the State
Geological Survey of Iowa shows that
the belt of coal extending across
Missouri from Keokuk to Kansas City
is more productive thau any other
portion of "the great interior coal
fielifS the American continent."
This field inoludos a largo portion of
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, . Kentucky,
Kansas, Indiun Teiritory, Arkansas
and Texas. Coal beds are found in
most other. States also, but they be
long to other fields and strata.
The St. Louis Republic says : Secre
tary Herbert is the only member of
the Cabinet who can be called a
specialist in his own department. Mr.
Herbert is fitted to bo Secretary of the
Navy, .and for no other place around
Mr.' Cleveland's council board. He
is a sailor, every inch of him ; he
(knows a ship from masthead to keel ;
he can box the compass like an old
salt, and could walk the' dj-'ck as an
Admiral or climb tho rigging as a
sailor. He has sailed before the mast,
nd baa been taught tho art of sea
manship in the school of experience.
Though the Chinese have been in
this country so long a time and have
become so numerous, it is said of them
that they do not and canuot 'compre
hend the status of the police, re
marks the New York Sun. Their first
idea is that a policeman is a sort of
feudal ruler, with the right to chop off
. their heads or levy on their property
or do as be pleases with them. They
have no fault to find with such ruler
They are used to them in China. In
faot, as soon as they find out that the
polioe are mere watchmen on salary
set to guard the publio peace they be
come disturbed and confused and end
the strain on their minds by deciding
that the policemen must be soldiers,
and that is what nearly every China,
man tLiuk they are to-day,
The Dakota Elver, with an estimated
length of COO miles, Is behoved by
many to be the longest unnavigable
stream in-the world.
If all the poople of the United States
were placed in Kansas, California and
Nebraska, those States would not be
so thickly eettlod as England is now.
Every member of the British cabi
net acts in threo capacities as admin
istrator of a department of state, as
momber of a legislative chamber and a
confidential adviser to the erown.
An agricultural writer figures that
the loss to the farmers of the conn
try by the use of narrow wagon
tiros, through the wear and tear of
horseflesh and the loss of time, amounts
to the enormous sum of $300,000,000
a year.'
Jonathan Hutchinson, to the aston
ishment of the New York Mail and
Express, is devoting the best years of
his life to studying the question, "Do
the sick ever sneeze?" He believes it
to be fully as important as the deter
mination of the problem, "Why are
black cats black?"
It appears as if the people of the
United States were steadily reducing
their consumption of quinine and
other cinchona alkaloids. Year after
year since 1887 the importations of
cinchona bark have been diminished.
In 1893 the amount imported was less
than half that of 1887.
Fine carriages with rubber tires are
said to be coming into use in the city
of New York. These tires cost about
$100 for a set of four,' and rarely last
more than one season, but they are a
great comfort to those who can afford
them,, making the motion of the car
riage easy and noisolcss.
Inis is an age of specialties, ex
claims, the Boston Cultivator. The
successful men of the world to-day are
those wha devote themselves to special
work. Every man has some liking or
possibility which is greater than anv
other, and which is in some way dif
ferent from those of other men. This
is his vocation, and he shonld devote
to it his best thought and endeavor
In this way he willtoncentrate his
energies and socure larger results.
A Philadelnhia nhvsinian think 1 that
a grefltdeal of nonsense has been writ
ten about hypnstism. "Any one," ho
says, "may hynotize himself in a few
minutes by closing his eyes, directing
them inward and downward, and then,
imagining his breath to be vapor,
watching its inhalation nnd expulsion
from the nostrils. Babies invariably
look cross-eyed before going to sleep,
iu this way producing what hypnotists
call 'transfixion.' Fisherinon often
hynotize themselves watching a cork
on a surface 0 shining water. An hour
passes by as if it wore a few minutes. "
The Swiss Government has, for the
last twenty years, caused observations
to be made through its forestry sta
tions on the temperature of the air, of
the trees and the soil iu the forests.
These observations show that the tem
perature in the forests is always below
the temperature outside. The tem
perature also varies according to the
trees composing the forests. A beech
forest is always cooler thau a forest
of larch. As, to the trunks of the
trees, they are always colde r than the
surrounding air. Regarding the tem
perature of the soil, it is found that
in the forest the temperature is in
variably below that of the air. Out
side tho forest the soil is always warmer
than the air iu summer and colder in
winter.
The popular idea of Siberia, accord
ing to the Chicago Beoord, is that it is
a barren desart extending from the
frozen ocean of the north to the burn
ing sands of the tropics, but this is a
great mistake. The population of Rus
sia in Asia is nearly 18,000,000. There
are several cities with a population ex
ceeding 50, 000. The agricultural pro
ducts reported, which constitute only
a very small portion of the whole, are
valued at an average of $30,000,000 a
year, the output of the mines exported
is valued at upward of $20,000,000
annually, and the furs, fish, skins
and other products that come into
European Russia from Siberia are
worth $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 more.
Hut this population is scatteaed over
an enormous area ; it is only partially
civilized; the greater portion' of the
country does not expect or aspire to
the production of anything more than
is necessary for local consumption ;
the means of communication and trans
portation are lacking, and, as pro
ductive industry is measured iu the
European countries and America, it
may be said that two-third, of the
people mo habitually idle.
THE SOLDIERS OF THE 6ON.
Along tho margin of the world
Tony march with their bright banners
furlod,
TTatll, In line of battle drown,
Tkey reaoh the boundaries of dawn.
Tboy cross the sous and rivers deep,
Tboy ellmb tho mountain high and Steep,
And hurry on until In sight
OI tholr blank enemy the Night.
Thon madly rush Into the fray
These armlos of the Night and Day.
Swiftly the shining arrows go,
While bngling W inds their warnings blow.
Btrlvo as lie will, the Night Is pressed .'
Farther and farther down the west.
With goldon spear end gloaming lance
The cohorts of the Day advanco.
Thus, dally, Is the battle won
By the brave soldiers of the Bun!
Frank D. Shorman, In Harper's Weekly.
MISS TIMBROOK'S 0PEN1SG.
T wasn't the first
time by Bny means
Miss Timbrook had
read her niece's let
ter ; nor was it the
first time that Miss
Cynthia Stone had,
figuratively speak
ing, stabbed her
stout, gentle old
friend by remark
i n g , oracularly,
"Ingratitude is the
crying sin of the age 1"
The crying sin of the age was a mov
able quantity with Miss Cynthia. Last
week, when the butcher's boy had un
intentionally given her the wrong
change, it bad been dishonesty; and
the week before, when a child had
timidly walked into the little mil
linery shop ami begged a low snip-
pings of velvet for her dolly, it nail
been boldness. On all other occasions
it was whatever happened to cross
Miss Cynthia's fixed ideas of the fit
ness of things.
Miss Timbrook gave a little sigh,
and returned to the bonnet sho was
trimming. As she tried to fasten a
pink roeo in what she hoped was
pertly correct fashion against some
very green bows, she said, with a great
effort at cheerfulness :
"Fink an' green is fit for the
queen."
"Humph 1" said Miss Cynthia, scorn
fullT.
Miss Cynthia was Miss Timbrook's
old-time friend, companion and assist
ant, and .was tho spioe of her placid
life.
"Sybilla Tim, you amaze mo!" de
dared Miss Cynthia, sternly. "Why
don't you show some spirit? Tell that
girl to pause before it's too late. Re
mind her how you've brought her np,
and even high-schooled her there in
New- York for three mortal years,
boarding her out afterward to a high
priced woman on account of her beiu
one of them highty-tity milliners, so
as to have her pick up utees, and you
all the time hoping that when 'twas
all over she'd come back here and ho
the prop of your old age and build up
the business.
Miss Cynthia stopped only long
enough to draw a full breath ami then
went on again :
And it's time twas built np. Look
at them bonnets, Svbilla Tim."
Miss Timbrook looked as she was
told, and beheld four bonnets perched
upon frames in the little shop window
They drooped dejectedly, and seemed
to shrink from the gaze of the passers-
by. And well they might.
Alls Timbrook quailed visibly at
the sight of her own handiwork.
I know it, Cynthy, she said
apologetically. "They Bren t just
what they ought to be. I hey re old'
style, like ourselves. And I know the
trade s failing. .But dearly as 1 Jove
to fuss with tho ribbons and the arti
fioiuls, I'll shut up the shop before I'll
say a word to hinder ltuthy from fol
lowing her own bent."
'Fudge ! said Miss Cynthia, sharp
ly. "She feels a drawing ain't that
what the letter says? to be an artist.
And now that some of her pa's kin has
left her a legacy, she thinks that in
stead of coming home for good, she'll
just make us a little visit, and then go
back to Now xorK ana study what sue
culls art. Sho thinks it s more uplift
ing than making bonnets. Laud!
don't like making bonnets myself, but
I don t intend being drawn away from
mv 'lotted duty by something that
looks more alluring. She says it's an
'openiug' to a higher life I 1 udge I
av.
"Speaking of openings, ventured
Miss Timbrook, timidly, "there's that
Bouton woman that's just set up a fine
shop on Flum street. They tell me
she's sent out cards to anuouuee her
spring millinery opening, n,l 18 Kolng
to serve tea to lolks; sue really is.
Suppose we have an opening, Cynthy?
At this rash suggestion, Miss
Cynthia burst out, "Are you crazy
Svbilla Tim? And what, for the
land's sake, would you open?' "
Giving a scathing glance at the four
limp bonnets in the window and be
stowing a final glare on her friend,
Miss Synthia flouncod out of tho room.
Miss Cynthia might storm and scold,
but she only used her temper to cloak
the sympathy and love which she was
ashamed to show. Ruthy's unexpected
desertion was a bitter disappointment
to her, first on account of the sorrow
of her friend, Sybilla, and secondly on
her own 1 ccouut.
Bonnets to her did not represent
any form of the ideal, ss they did to
good Miss Timbrook, but as she had
said to herself over and over aaiu
through the Jong winter,' "Siuce it
must be bonnets, I'd like 'em to be
tasty, such as Ruth'll know how to
fix." And now liuthy wasn't coming !
When Miss Timbrook's niece really
did come for her little visit, it seemed
to the two ol . -fashioned, unsuccess
ful women that all the world urn,
. ff.
stand still and admire ) as for them,
the world must truly Btand still when
she left them.
"What is i- that it troubling Annty
Tim?" asked Ruthy, tho second night
after her arrival Mies Timbrook had
retired, and Miss Cynthia had Ruby
all to herself, She therefore snatched
at the opportunity of freeing her
mind.
"Yont" said Miss Cynthia, soloran
lv. "Svbilla Tim's just counted on
vou for comfort, to say nothing of
helping with the bonnets. And hor
spirit is broke now she knows you
ain't to bo deponded npou.
"Why, how so?" asked Ruthy, as
tonished at this personal criticism.
"How sol" echoed Miss Cynthia,
"You oan see for yourself that the
business has all gone to pieoos. Why,
the Kingsburys and the Lennoxes and
the Fairfiel Js haven't ordered a bonnet
from us for an age I Old Judge Peters's
widow is tho only one of the old cus
tomers that has stood by us. And
presume it's shoer pity that mokes hef .
Jiesides, it ain t possible to maKo 1
mourning bonnot homelier than it nat
urally in. Well, I guess to shut np
shop is about all that's left for Sybilla
Tim and me.
Miss Cynthia sighed and then van
ished, hoping her remarks would make
Ruthy unhappy.
Tho young girl sat still awhile, try
ibs to reconcile tne aesire 01 ner
heart with a growing sense of disagree
able duty. Sho was rather stunned
by the fact that Aunty Tim s need of
her and longing for her cad never 00
curred to her before. The stiffs old-
fashioned letters which had been re
coived from ber aunt with pathetic
regularity had conveyed to her no
idea of the yearning 01 tne loving
heart ; and Aunty Tim had permitted
the hopo of years to be dashed to the
ground without a murmcr.
Kuthy wont to bed very soberly,
Her darling ambition was far from
quenched, although she was deeply
touched by her aunt s nnseltiatmess,
On other nights she had lam atake
... . . . . , ,
picturing: to herself the resthetio side
of a life devoted to art. There were
livelv dreams of the "cute" httl
apartment in the tall Studio Building
In New lork which, sue was 10 snare
with Miss Dilloway, an elderly artist
friend, who was a successful illustrator
of magazines.
Ruthy meant to work like a Trojan
of course, but when one was not work
ing what a joy to inhabit such charm-
ini rooms with their gay artist trap
pings, where there was snoh a darling
of a tea-table with fairylike cups and
saucers, to say not.ung of a brass
kettle ready at any moment to brew
real Bohemian cup of ted I And
conch with such tremendous pillows,
and the funniest closets where all sorts
of things were artfully tucked away!
Makeshifts there might be, but the
odious ugliness of uncultured poverty
would, happily, be always missing.
jtJut to-night these fascinating
dreams were extinguished by the
homely details of Aunty Tim's forlorn
bonnet shop, and by that awtui gap
in "tli3 business'' which she knen
cou'd only be filled by herself.
That she was a born milliner she
.. 1 A A iff-.ll
was at trial moment too paiuiuuy
aware. Her artistic instincts would
serve hor in the making of a bonnet
as well as in the painting of a picture.
But how could she give np her hoart's
desire, which was tho "open door to
her of all things beautiful, just to add
a touch of beauty to two homely old
lives !
Ruthy turned restlessly on her. pil
low. The "open door which an
artistio career eeenied to offer her was
persistently flung back in her mind
by Charles Kingsley's imaginary old
lady, "Jurs. JJo-as-y ou-would-be-done-by,"
who had evidently come to stay
until matter were adjusted more to
her liking.
At lant, Ruthy could endure "jurs.
Do-as-you-would-be-done-by's" so
ciety no longer, and with an im
patient sigh she jumped out 01 bed and
carefully felt her way to the chamber
across the hall. A second later, Miss
Cynthia's blood ran cold "s she was
roused from peaceful dreams by a
sharp shake of hor shoulders.
"Lawful sakes !" chattered the good
lady, "Is the house afire, or has the
dam given away "
"Sh! no. It's 1," said Ruthy,
softly. ."I waut to talk to you"
"Aint the days long enough?" in
terrupted Miss Cynthia, crossly.
"Listen !" aud Rutby put her rosy
mouth to Miss Cynthia's wrinkled ear
and whispered mysteriously.
"Youdobeot all !" said Miss Cyn
thia, admiringly, when she at loot mas
tered the situation, and was capable
of doing Boine whispering ou her own
account. Then, like two conspirators,
they exchanged vows of secrecy, and
Ruthy stole buck to hor bed.
Next morning Miss Cynthia seemed
a trillo more acid than usual, and the
minute she had swallowed her break
fast she delivered herself of the follow
ing: "Seems to me, Sybilla Tim, you
haven't done your duty by 'Rustus's
folks. Here's 'Rustus been dead four
months, an' 'Rustus' widow probably
worn to a shadow through mourniu'
an' hard work, and that youngest
child having fits, and you, own oousiu
to 'Rastus. have never been to Pem
broke Corners to see his folks since
the funeral."
"Why, Cynthia! You know," began
Miss Timbrook, fixing her eyes re
proachfully on her friend. Then she
stopped from sheer astonishmeut.
Hadn't she urged the making of that
very visit ever since 'Rastus died? But
Miss Cynthia lad invariably flown
into a rage at vhe mention of it, say
inir that in her state of health it was
the foolishest piece of business that
she had ever heard of. "Just because
'Rustus had died, wus no reason why
a feeble woman need go tramping
round the country, when she oouldu't
mend mutters," Miss Cynthia h said.
But it seemed that Miss Cynthia
Was on the other side of tho fence. 80,
after much persuasion, and the assnr
anco that Ruthy Would extend hef
visit, Miss Timbrook limply resigned
herself to be made ready for an eight
dove' sojourn at Pembroke Corners.
ISO sooner had she set forth on nor
travels than Ruthy took a train for
Now York, a journey of several hours'
duration. . The fourth day sho rep
peafed just at nightfall. An expreBS-
mon followed her bearing several mys
tcrious boxes.
All of this kept the neighbors in b
feverish state of curiosity, but when
the next day they behold the blinds
tightly closed, and A huge plaoard an
nouncing a Grand Millinery Opening"
on Saturday, thon indeed they were
ichly furnished with a subject lor
gossip. in addition to this, caras
were sent out to the select few whom
Ruthy designated as the "F. F's."
Rohmd the blinds Kuthy and Aiiss
Cynthia worked liko boos. The money
which Ruthy had previously conse
crated to art had been exponded in
millinery goods. She had visited the
eading shops in New lork, and ner
quick eyes had taken in every now
wrinkle and fold.
The rugs, laoe curtains, and a few
other trinkets she had been hoarding
for the adornment of that artistio
apartment in New York now trans
formed tho ugly little shop into an at
tractive bower whore bonnets budded
and bloomed as if by majio under
Ruthy's skilful fingers.
Saturday morning, bright and early,
Miss Timbrook was driven in from
Pembrook Corners by a neighbor of
Rustus's widow, who was a milk ped
dler. Tho cans jingled merrily as
they drove np to the door.
"Good land 1 exclaimed mjbs Tim
brook, fearfully. "The shutters are
shut I" and she cast atragio look at the
wooden blinds that had never re
mained up after seven o'clock in the
mormutr since she had been in the
business. And now it was quite eight.
What could have happened 1
Just then Ruthy rushed out and
dragged the bewildered old lady into
the little shop where she sat down, her
knees "all of a shake," as she ex pressed
it, too astonished to speak.
"Yon see," explained Kuthy, "we
were determined that nobody should
get a peep at fhe 'Opening until you
did. yourself. I've given up painting,
vou know, and invested my capital in
millinery. How do you like your new.
partner. Aunty Tim ?
"Bless you, child!" quavered the
old lady, tenderly. "You're the Bible
Ruth- over again 'easy to be en
treated ; though 1 duln t mean you
should know how hard it waB to give
up. But I expect an old woman's eyes
are full of entreaty, and though it isn't
mentioned in the Beatitudes, still I
believo that those that see and yield to
the yearings of old folks shall some day
be truly blossod.
Then she dried her eyes and took
another delighted' look around. Such
shapes, such curious combinations of
color and material, such dazzling, in
describable millinery well, tho like
of it she had never even dreamed of
before !
Tho "Opening" was a groat success.
Miss Timbrook's little Bhop soon ac
quired a famo which traveled fur and
wide, and everybody who was any
body, according to Miss Cynthia,
"bought bonnots of Sybilla Tim."
As for Ruthy, her heart's desire died
hard. She would never paint a pict
ure, maybe, but she had touched with
glowing colors the grayness of two hu
man lives.
And she would sometimes say to her
self, whimsically : "Have I not routed
Mrs. Do-as-you-would-be-done-by,
and made it quite impossible for that
less amiable person, 'Mr. JJe-done-by-as-you-did,'
even to show her face?
Besides, it must be higher art to trim
a bonnet beautifully than to paint a
poor picture, which I might have
done." Youth's Companion.
(jlgantio Leaves.
What trecB bear the largest leave?
An English botanist tells us that it is
those that belong to the palm family.
First must bo mentioned the Inaja
pulm, of the bunks of the Amazons,
the leaves' of which are no less than
fifty feet in length by ten to twelve in
width. Certain leaves of the Ceylon
palm attain a length of twenty feet
and the remarkable width of sixteen.
Tho natives use them for making tents.
Afterward comes the oocoanut palm,
tho usual length of whose leaves is
about thirty feet. The umbrella mag
nolia, of Ceylon, bears leaves that are
so lurgo that a singlo one may some
times serve as a shelter for fifteen or
twenty persons. One of these leaves
curried to Englund as a specimen was
neurly thirty-six feet in width. Ihe
plant whose leaves attain the greatest
dimensions in our temperate climate
is tho Victoria regia. A specimen of
this truly magnificent plant exists in
the gurden of the Royal Botanical So
ciety of Edinburgh. Its leuf, which
is about seven feet in diameter, is
cupublo of supporting a weight of 3U5
pounds. Soientifio American.
Yell Comity His Monument.
Yell County, Arkansas, bears the
name of a hero. It was named after
Archibald Yell, who was once a Fed
eral Judge iu the Territory of Arkan
sas, says the Arkansas Gazette, and
was elected to Congress the year the
Territory was admitted into the Union
us a Stute. The year James H. Berry
wus born Yell wus inaugurated Gover
nor f Arkansas. Wheu Berry was
learning in Alabama how to speak that
sweet Southern accented luuguage,
Yell was aguin elected to Cougress.
After serving one year of this term iu
Congress he resigned to fight for his
country iu its war with Mexico. He
led the First Arkuusus Cavalry at the
buttle of Bueutt Vista, and while en
gaged in a charge at the (lead of his
column he w killed, ...
HOUSEKEEPING IN CHINA.
CHINESE SERVANTS. MALE AND
FEMALE, AND HOW THET WORK.
Their Ways Are Peculiar, But, After
All, They Make Ideal Servants
One Woman's Kxperlenee.
HOUSEKEEPING in Chins, or
rather in Hong Kong, differs
materially from housekcep-
(T ing in Japan. A multiplicity
of servants must be employed in the
one as in the other country, but the
great difference consists in the fact
that in Hong Kong nothing can be
bought for the house save through the
compradore. A compradore, generally
speaking, in places of business is the
cashier i in this case he is tho middle
man, and it is useless to rebel against
his rule ; nothing can be done without
him.
Master" himself occasionally grows
weary of the compradore' yoke, and
declares he will market for himself;
it would be worse than useless for the
mistress to do so, for the Celestials
have no sort of respect for their own
or other women folk, says the rail
Mall Gazette.
To market "master" goes; he finds
the shops full of meats and vegetables,
but not a penny worth can he buy.
No amount of expostulation avails
him ; a thousand and one polite but
diaphanous excuses are given him
why the goods cannot be sold, and he
is perforce obliged to have recourse
to the compradores again. One com
pradore usually servos several families,
and as a rule serves them well.
The "boy" is at the head of tho
servants, as in Japau, and is paid
about the same wages $10 per month.
In most households he hires the re
mainder of the servants. After him
come the cook, the house coolie, and
one or two small boys, "lam pidgins"
who serve as apprentices, without pay ;
then there is a scullion in tho kitchen
and the marketf coolie if the family
live at the Peak.
Usually an amah is kept who waits
upon her mistress and does the house
hold mending ; her pay averages from
ten to twelve dollars. If there ere
children one or more nurses are em
ployed, according to the number. At
least four chair coolies are kept, at
from six to seven dollars a month ; if
the household is a large one, and off
the lino of the tram, a double number
must be employed.
Some ladies keep a Chinese tailor
the year round, instead of an amah.
He costs no more, and he can make
dresses and many of the liuen nnd
coltou clothes of the men folk, wmch
is a great advantage in that clime,
where so many changes are necessary.
Some families who are very particu
lar keep a "washman," others send all
of the linen out of the house to be
done ; this costs but little compared
to London or New York pricop. Tho
ordinary lauudry work done iu Hong
Kong is very poor; shirts and collars
are passably laundried, but other
things are badly done compared with
the work of the Chinese out of China.
Chinese servants are peculiar, and
one must spend some time iu learning
their ways and habits, for they imitate
many things without trouble, and, as
a rule, do exactly as they are told;
still they will persist in doing somo
things in their own way. They can
never be persuaded to do a thing
which they do not wish to ; they will
always take refuge in the laconic
auswer, "nosavey," whieh mean they
do not understand; and, having once
said they do not understand, nothing
will ever make them confess they do.
As in all Eastern countries, the lines
of caste are strongly drawn, and tho
European women all white women
are called Europeans who asks one of
her servants to perform a bit of work
not belonging to him soon discovers
this fact. "This no bloug my
pidgin" is a refusal as unalterable as
the law of the Modes and fjrsians.
An amah will refuse to cairy even a
small parcel for a block, and lose her
place rather than do it. The chair
coolies will carry "chits" and parcels.
but it is beneath tho dignity of a boy
or an amah to do so.
As a race the Chinese have no re
spect for women in general, and an un
mitigated contempt for any one in
particular who chooses to wait upon
herself. They much more admire
woman who lies ou the veranda all
day reading novels and occasionally
calls. "Boy, bring uie my huudker
till .... ..... 1..W.L- "
than they have for one who does these
things for herself.
A boy who has lived in a bachelor's
house dislikes very much to go to live
where tho household is controlled by
a woman, and iu many cases an old and
devoted servant will take his leave if
the muster brings home a wife. They
cuuuot stuud to be looked after iu the
careful way which so IE any women
think necessary, aud it is my opinion
that they will tuke advantage of a wo
man twice as often as of a man.
A Very Hare Whale.
Some days ago there was found
stranded ou tho Ueach neur Corson's
Inlet, N. J.j lurgo mammal, which
was at first supposed to bo a porpoise,
but has since been found -to be some
thing more rare. Dr. Greenmuu, of
the University of Pennsylvania, went
dowu to look at the luckless monster,
and after examination pronounced it a
pygmy, or Japanese whule. Ho was
very much surprised to see this speci
men iu the Atlantic, us these whales
are rare even in their natu-al habitat,
tho sea of Japan. The whulo wuc
nine feet long and weighed about lit
jiounds. This is the second specimen
found on the Jersey coast, the other
having been found ut Spring Luke in
lo7o, und seemed by the Smithsonian
Institution. Pieavuue.
The "four o'clock" open regularly
at i o'clock, rum or shiue.
MIDNIGHT SONO.
Tho star that in tho midnight ky
Above the heaving foam
Shines brightly when tho storm Is nigh
To guide the sailor homo j
That peerless light no glomn oanblUf
Shines not more pare above "
Than lnnooency booms In her
The little loss I love.
Btar of my heart, O dreaming Star,
From balmy sleep arise t
Hhed ono soft ray
To bless my lay
Before tho darkness Ilia.
The roso that In tho night Wind iWayS
80 flawless and so pare
'Tie fit to charm a seraph's gazo,
A hermit's glance to lure.
0 not more fair Is that white rose
In spotless grace divine,
Than Is the lass whoso bosom know
The love that burns In mine.
Boss of my heart, 0 rare, white Bose,'
la song my love I pour I
O come and rest
Upon my broost
White Rose that I adore.
Samuel M. Peck, In Atlanta Journal.
HUMOR OF THE DAY,
The burglar's friend His faithful
Jimmy.
A host in himself The cannibal
who devours his entertainer. Grip.
The trood measure of the vegetable
peddler always appears at the top.
I'uok. 1
One of the most strining things you
can place in a parlor is a clock. Hart
ford Journal.
When vou loso the power to enjoy
yourself, people no longer like you.
Atchison Globe.
"He has 110 more influence," said a
Hartford wit, "than 'p' in pneumo
nia." Hartford Couraut.
would be more truth
ful but for their uncontrollable desire
to talk. Atchison Globe.
We dream great things of to-mor-
row ; Dnt an 11 ever oeuouit-o
yesterday. Atchison Globe.
The onlv obictionablo feature BDont
the violet is that so many people writa
poetry about it. Atchison Globe.
The popular idea of a good business
man is one wno can meei. nun
BComndrel at his own game. 1 uck. .
Some men have such confidence in
their ability that they would start a
sun-umbrella business in Jjondon.
Puck.
There would be no great objection
to the anarchist if his exploded bomba
were only as harmless as his explodod
theories. Washington Star..
There's nothln' liko tho weddln'
For to make a fuller learn ;
For ho thinks that she is hls'n.
But finds out that ho Is her'n.
Indianapolis Journal.
Tassonger "I say, conductor,
thore' an old gentleman falling offtho.
bus." Conductor "That's all right ;l
he's paid his faro." Pearson's Weekly-
'
"Are you sure Miss Oldtimo keops
np the study of ancient history?"
Madge "Oh, dear me, yes. I saw her
reading in her diury to-doy." Inter
Ocean. "Are there any more jurymen who
have o prejudice against you?" in
quired the lawyer. "No, sah, de jury
am all right, but I want to challenge
the judge." The Green Bag.
La Fiancee "I am awfully sorry,'
Jack, but those rose you sent me
don't match my gown. " Le Fiance
(who paid $9 a dozen) "Can't you
change your gown, dear?" Vogue.
"I think 1 understand now," said)
Iliggs, "why they speak of MissWel
luby's new Paris-made gown as a 'cre
ation.' It looks almost us if it were
made of nothing." Chicugo Tribune.
Men cannot consistently deride wo
men for wasting so much cloth in
making their sleeves, so long as they
themselves aro wearing the long-tailed
coats that are in fashion. Somervilla
Journal.
Author "I am troubled with in
somnia. I lie awake at night, hour
after hour, thinking about ray literary
work." Frieud- "Why don't you get
up aud read portions of it ?" Brook
lyn Life.
"If, as the Bible says, 'all flesh U
grass,' " said the star boarder at tha
breakfust table yesterday, "this steak
must bo tho kiud-of stull those tougb.
Mexican hammocks are mudo of."
Philadelphia Record.
Jess "Miss Fitz gives her age aa
tweuty-nino, but she menus thirty."
Hess "Then why don't sho say thir
ty?" Jess "Oh, that's tho way mer
chants murk their goods, nowadays."
Kate Field's Washington.
Duel Up.to Date: "I challenge you
to a duel." "Accepted." "l'our
choice of weapons dagger or pittols?"
"Neither. Winter ascent of Mont
Blanc rottou rope threo feet dis
tance." Flie,e,cude BUetter.
"I dou't know whether I liko thoso
pictures! or not," said the young
woman. "They seem rather indis
tinct." "But yon must remember,
niadame," said the wily photographer,
"that your face is not ut ull plaiu."
Indianapolis Journal.
"I no.id a new umbrella, and I'm
going to buy one," declared Mrs. Mc
Mridi. "Let me ;ive you a pieeo of
advice about buying umbrellas,"
added her husband. ' "Never buy on
a ruiuy day." 'I'd like to know why
lot?" "Because they uro always up
tuem." Detroit Freo Press.
"Dour,' asked Mrs. Wickwire, look
ing up from her paper, "what does
this puper mean by referring to 'tho
superfluous woman?' What is tho
superfluous woman?" "In our eu
i;ngemuut days," answered Mr. Wiok
wire, "the. superiluous woman wan
your younger si.-ter. " Judittuupolh
thjurual.