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VOL. XXVIII. NO, 30. TIONESTA, PA WEDNESDAY, DEC. 25, 1895.
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npua in aavaooa,
Job work -oaab oa dallvary.
There were 11.890 persons in penal
tforvilnde in Orent Britain and Aus
tralia in 1870 and only 4345 in 1895.
The flvo principal languages jn the
nr.lor of thoir importnnee, are English,
German, Frenob, Spanish and Italian.
A Berlin Judge recently hold that
nobody has a right to say anything
"gainst tho Emperor, booouse his per
son is laorod.
Milwnukeeeontnins211 square miles
of territory probably the smallest
urea of any city in tho Unitod States
of equal size.
Tho publication at this time of the
rumor that WaBhington played tho
fluto is doubtless duo, suggests the
!New York Recorder, to the mean in
tinnations of the surviving members
of tho Cornwallis family.
The city of South Bond, Orogon,
presents a novelty in American poli
tics and government, in that no city
office there will have any salary
attached to it during 1890, or prac
tically none, and also that there are
more place hunters than there are
Vlaccs. The city is in debt for im
provements that hove been mado, and
ihe Now York Sun states that the
Counoil voted to reduoe the salaries
of all city officers to 81 a year, and
-devote the proceeds of the tax levy to
paying off the debts. More than
enough citizens and taxpayers have
declared their willingnoss to take the
office?, and thus help to cloor the city
of debt. The State low providos that
tho Treasury shall recoive at least
825 a mouth, but the citizen who
takos that office will turn over tho
Mfriry to tho city.
This country has furnished so many
Temarkablo criminals that it is a relief
to the Atlanta Constitution to find
Europo coining to the front with a
similar exhibit. Tho latest monster
is claimed by Germany. He is named
Kpringstoin. a blacksmith residing at
Prenzlau. Within the past few months
he has poisoned his wife, mothor and
brother-in-law, the lattor's son, a
governess, ono of his apprentices and
neighbor's daughter. He is also
accused of drowning his own father.
His other victims were poisoned by
the administration of strychnine. The
case will rank with the most celebrated
trials iu tho oriminal annals of Ger
many. Spriugstein's motive for tho
commission of thoso murders is not
known and tho general opinion seoms
to bo that ho is simply ono of those,
exceptional monsters who appear from
time to time in the world's history.
It is safe to say that he will not be
acquitted on tho ground of insanity
nor will he receive any misplaced
sympathy. The Germans never make
pets of their big criminals and thoy
turn them over to tho exectiouer with
out any unnecessary delay.
Two of the most conspicuous signs
of civilization are newspapers and rail
roads, observes the Atlanta Journal.
When we claim to load tho march of
the world we may go far toward justi
fying the assertion by pointing to the
fact that we lead all other Nations
combinod in these two elements of
power. There are about 50,000 news
papers published in the world, and of
this number 20,109 aro in the Unitod
States and Canada. These American
newspapers printed last year 3,481,.
010,000 copies, which is far more than
the combinod circulation of all the
newspapers of other Nations. Of tho
20,100 newspapers in tho Unitod States
and Canada over 19,000 are published
in this country, and it is probably
.true that the newspapers of the
United States have a greater total cir
culation than all others combinod. No
other oouutry can show newspapers
which 'equal our great metropolitan
dailies either iu quantify ol uowj or
ju circulation. Compare any one of
tie great newspapers of Loudon or
Paris with any one of the leading
newspapers of New. York or Chicago
and the superiority of the American
journal as a newsgatheror will be evi
dent to the dullest reader. One of the
first things to be established iu any
Battlement in the United States is a
.newspaper, whereas in Europe they
are seldom published outside of cities
of considerable size. No Nation in
the world has so many newspaper
readers as the United States. Here
the masses read, and the proudest dis
tinction any journal cau have is to be
known as the people's paper. In the
number and extent of railroads the
United States also excels the rest of
tho world combinod. There are in
this country about 180,000 miles of
railway, and all the other railroads in
the world oombiued fall short of that
mileugo by many thousaud mile. A
Notion whioh leads the world in uows
pupers and ruilroa Is is in no duugor
vf losing its liberties.
Thfc
J
Across the hedge a scream I hoarJ,
And saw rrlscilla run.
Pursued by a glguntia bird
Out in the wlntorsun.
The gander flapped his wings in air
And, hissing, prossej tbe pace
Whllo slio with feelings of (Impair
Led tho unhappy chase.
I scaled tho hodgcrow double quick,
And as tho gamier came
In range I raised my walking stick
And with unerring aim
Landod upon his hnad a whnok
Which proved the maid's releaso
From harm for ho turned on his bn?k
And olosod his eyes in peace.
"Our Christmis bird Is ready quite
To dangle on tho peg,"
She murmured, "till with rare delight
We eat him wing and lo.''
"She smiled and said, "You'll eomo around
Oa Christmas Day to dino?"
I answered, with a bow profound,
"I'll be there snow or shine!"
In juicy prldo the gandor lay
Most luscious, brown and fat,
Upon the dish that Christmas Cay,
While wo about him sat.
Across the board upon me fell
Her smile, which was the spring's,
Till I was dnr.ed and couldn't tell
Tho drumsticks from the wings.
We ale him till ha was a wreck
A wreck of loveliness
And then unto hor fairy bock
And call, I must confess,
I went for love's most precious sake
(Lovo set my dreams nstlr)
Behind the flowered scren to break
The frail wish bone with her.
I won the Letter part, and wished
She seemed my wlsn to read.
While with her eye in mlna sho fished
With subtle skill indeed.
Just then tho Christmas chlinos with zest
Tremblod across the dell,
She blushod as If they did suggest
The merry wedding bell.
My golden wish, made on that day
Of revelry and mirth,
IIus been fulfilled perpetual May
For me bogilds tho eiirth.
That wish bone, like the horseshoo old.
That brings good luck galore,
Now, mended, hangs with chnrm untold
Above our cottage door.
It. K. Muukittrlck.
ON CHRISTMAS EVE.
BY J. I. HAHBOUll.
DUNNO what in
creation to pet
your ma for
Christinas,
Maudy," and
Jason Hogarth
lookod at his
daughter inquir
ingly as if expect
ing her to suggest
someBiiitablegift.
But she was busy
at that momeut
testing the condi
tion of a cake in
the oven b y
thrusting a broom
straw into it, and
when she had
risen to her foet
her father said :
lira.
JM. mr kill r 1 T
"i got her a nice silk timbrel' with
a silver handle las' Christmas; paid
four dollars an' seventy-nino cents for
it; an' I'll be switchod if she's had it
out o' the case it came iu but one
solitary time, an' theu she knoived it
wa'u't goin' to rain. Beats all how
savin' your ma is of things. There's
the silk dress pattern I got Yr two
years ago this Christmas, not even
made up yit. I want to git her some
thing this Christmas that shell have
to use an' enjoy. What kin you sug
gest, Maudy?"
His married duughter, Amanda Jen
nets, now stood at her molding board
rolliug out pie crust. She was a dumpy
little body with laughing bluo eyes
and a good-humored expression of
countenance. But now a look of de
termination came in her faoo and sho
turnod suddenly and faced her father,
with her baek to the table and the
rolling piu held in both hau ls across
her checked gingham apron.
"You want me to tell you what to
got for ma's Christmas gift, pa?"
"Yes; blatnod if I know what to
git?"
"I can tell vou iu ono word, pa."
"You kin?" Well, I'll git it if it
don't c 3ui6 at too high a tigger. Never
had better crops in my lilo thuu I had
this year. My onions au' tobacker '11
bring mo iu If 200 more'u I expected to
git for 'em, au' tho rozberry crop was
somethiug tremonjus au' I didn't have
to sell a quart for loss'n twenty cents.
Your ma douo her full share o' work
uu' I'm anxious to git hor something
real hansom for Christum. What
ahull it be?"
His duughter looked ut him steadily
for a moment aud then said slowly uud
dibtiuetly :
"Jenny 1"
A sullen frown took the place of th.
kindly smile ou his wriuklod faoo.
His eyes flashed ominously uud his
voice was harsh aud cold as he said :
"Haven't I told you, Maudy Jen
ne.'S never to mention that uame to
Illt'-" i i. i i
"1 know that you have, replied
Maudy with gathering courage ; "but
1 never said that 1 wouldu't do it, und
when you asked me what 1 thought
pia'd like beat fur Curatmu', I ju-t
told yon what I knew she'd liko best.
She'd rather have my sister Jenny
thnn anything money can buy."
Then sho added, undaunted by hor
father's frowning visage :
"I firmly believe, pa, that ma is
shortening her days grieving for Jen
ny. She just is I I'm going to say my
say while I'm at it, whether you like
it or not. I know that I owe you re
spect, but I owe my own and only sis
ter something, too, and one duty is
just as important as tho other. If I"
"Wait a minnit, Mandy," her father
said, riBiug and buttoning np his
overcoat. "When your sister Jenny
disgraced tho family by up an' running
away with that Will Martin an' mar
ryin' into that good-for-nothing
Martin family, I said that I'd never
own'her as my daughter a'in, an' I
never will. I said that she should
never cross my threshold ag'in, an' she
ucver shall."
"I know that the Martius are a
poor, shiftless lot, an' that Will was
as triHiugas any of 'em. Liko enough
it was born in 'em to be so. But there
never was anything bad about 'era,
an' he's dead au' gone now. An' when
I thiuk of poor Jenny workiu' the way
she has to work over there in Hebron
to support herself au' her two little
children, an' you with plenty and to
spare, I know it isn't right. I can tell
you now, father, that I go to seo Jen
ny cv'ry time I go to Hebron, an' if
wo weren't so poor ourselves, an' if
ff i
It is the holy Christmas-time
That sheds a glow through nil the year.
Hark, how the bells, a sllv'ry chime,
King out their welcome fur aud near!
my husband's invalid mother didn't
have to live with us, I'd bring Jenny
an' her children right hero to live."
"I'd never darken your door ag'in
if you did."
"I guess ma would. It's a burning
shame, pa, that you won't even let her
go to Uebrou to seo Jenuy. It's kill
ing ma. To thiuk of her own daugh
ter liviug only fifteen miles away anil
her mother not seeing her for nearly
six years! It's wicked. If I was ma
I'd go no matter what you said."
"Your ma kuows very well that she'd
have to go for good if she went at all,"
replied her father, coldly. Theu ho
added :
"I must ba goiu', for I've got to go
'rouud by Job I'routy'a au Hoe if ho'll
lo tu me his light waou to go to He
bron with, Wednesday. I broke tha
tongues o" mine Sunday an' that pesky
wa;ontnaker dowu to the village aiu't
goiu' to git it fixed for a mouth, I
reokon. You an' Toni'll be over to
eat dinner with us Christmas, I
s'pose?"
"Yes, I s'poso so."
Thoy parted with manifest stiffness
of manner on both sides.
".Set! setl sot I" said Mrs. Jeuuess,
as her lather walked out of the yard
aud down the road toward his own
home. "Tho settest man that ever
walked the earth I I wouldn't stand
it about Jenuy if I was mother. She's
dvini? to seo Jeuuy's babies, an' I just
O'iccvu that father'il soften if he saw
'ein onco. Tho only grandchildren
he's got on earth, aud hu nor ma never
even saw them. If 1 dared I'd fix it
so he should seo thoso two dear littlo
tots onoe !"
It was dark when Jason Hogarth
reuehed his house. There were no
lights iu the front windows of tho big,
square farm house with au in"r ''My
loug L baek of it. Ho walked aioau.t
t3 the rear, where streams of cheery
liht shone Irom the kitchen windows.
A pleusunt odor of frying ham greeted
him us hu entered the kitchen, where
a table with a snowy cloth was set for
supper, e!o c to tliJ hhiuiiu kit-dieu
I ttjve.
"It was so chilly In the dining-room,
I thought we'd eat snnner nnt hor."
said his wife, a small, slight, gray-
haired woman.
"I eniov eatin' in thn Itilehon of a
cold night like this," said her hus
band. "It s gittin colder fast. Sup
per 'about ready?"
"Yos; I'll take it right up."
Thcv talked littlo while lliev nto.
Jason was inwardly rebellious over
what no called his daughter s "impu
dence," ami Mrs. Hogarth's thoughts
could not be given utterance, bocauso
they were of Jenny.
"I must go up to the attio an' git
out tho bull' lo robes," said Mr. Ho
garth, pushing his chair away from
the table. "I'll start so early in tho
raornin' I won't have time to git the
robes then. I guoss I'll put right off
for bod soon as I git the robes. I've
got to be off by 5 o'clock.
Five minutes later he was in his
musty, cobwebbed old attic, candle in
hand. When he had found the robes
he said to himself :
"Wonder if my big fur muffler ain't
np here in some o' them trunks?
I'll need it if it's cold as I think it'll
bo in the morning. Mobbo it's in this
ttuuk."
He dronned on ono lenpn hnfnra a
small, old, hair-covered trunk, with
brass-headed nails that ha 1 lost their
luster years ago. Throwing np the
trunk lid, ho held tho candlo lowor.
uis eyo fell on a big rag doll with a
O blessed season, angol-guest.
Thou contest alike to nil on earth,
Bearing sweot gifts of lovo aud rest,
Of precious hone and hoartfeit mirth.
china head. He pickod it up and
stared at it a momeut.
His mind went back to a Christmas
long years ago. Ho was a poor young
married man thon, and he had worked
nearly all day at husking corn for a
neighbor, to earn money to buy that
doll head, au 1 his wife had sot up un
til midnight to make the clumsy body
stull'ed with sawdust. He remembered
how his little Jenny had shrieked with
joy when she found tho doll in her
stocking tho next moruiug. And what
is this? A tiny, faded, blue merino
baby uaoque. His wife had wade it
before Jenny had yet come into the
world. It was the very first tiny gar
ment she had made, aud her husband
recalled how sho had blushed and tried
to hide it under her apron when ho
had found her at work ou it. He re
membered that he had taken it from
her aud kissed her, aud then ho had
kisted the tiny garment itself.
The candle iu his hand shook
straugoly us he bent lower over the
truuk aud brought forth a tiny china
cup with "From l'apa,"' on it, and a
littlo sampler with "Uod bless futher
aud mother" worked in rather uncer
tain letters by a littlo baud.
i'uoro was a string of bluo glass
beads that he bus given her on her
fifth birthday aud iu a heavy black
caso was a daguerreotype of her with
tho beads urouud her neck. The lit
tlo pictured Iujo smiled up at him
Irom the fraiue and there was a mist
before his eyes wheu he thought ol
how many, many times those bare lit
tle arms had tightened in a warm em
brace urouud bis neck, and of how
many times thoso smiling lips had
kissed him and suid :
"I love you best of anybody in ull
tho world, furver. "
Everything iu the truuk was a re
minder ot her iu her baby duys, of his
little Jenny. He sat down on the
iloor besido tho truuk aud took the
things out one by one, the stern look
iu his faoo soUeuiug and his heart
rowing warmer.
; Jle nulled when ho cume to a Utile
t white suubouui't uud remembered juat
how Jenny had lookod when she cam
toddling out to meet him, wearing it
for the first time.
It was 9 o'olock when ho wont back
to tho kitchen. His wife looked up
from the weekly paper she was read
ing and said :
"Why, Jason, you ain't been np in
the attic all this time? I s'poscd you'd
come down an' gone to bed long ago."
"I'm goin' right away. Set me out
some breakfast on the table and fix
the coffee so I kin make me a cup
'fore I start."
"I shall get np on get yon a good
hot breakfast myself, Jason."
"You needn't to, Marthv, it'll be so
early."
"I shall get up just the samo. now
husky your voice is, Jason. I'm 'fraid
you took cold up there in the attic
What ever were you doing np there
all this time?"
"Oh, just lookin' ovor some old
things. I didn't take any cold. Bet
tor go to bed, Marthy, if you're bent
on gittin' up at 4 in the mornin'."
Why, JasoD, how'd you happen to
come in at the front door?"
It was 9 o'clock at night, bitterly
cold and stormy, aud Christmas Eve.
Jasou had just come homo from He
bron. His wife had heard him drive
into the barnyard and had made haste
with her Btipper that it might be
ready and hot when he came iu. She
had also bathed her eyes hastily iu
King, Christmas bells, an I tell again
The good old truth for ever new!
There is no heart so dull with pain
But will rejoice aud slug with you.
cold water that ho might not know
that she had been crying. But he
would know if he had any discernment
at all, for she hud been crying nearly
all day. Her heart had been 89 heavy
with thoughts of Jenny.
"How'd you happen to come iu at
the frout door?" she askel.
"You mustn't ask questions so near
Christmas time," he said iu a voice so
light and joyous thit sho looked up
quickly. Ho pickod up a lamp and
said :
"I want to go iuto tha parlor a min
ute boforo supper."
A moment later he called out
cheerily :
"Come in hero au' see your Christ
mas gift, ma. It's suoli a beauty I
oan't wait until morning."
"Better wait until altt r supper any
how. It's all ou the table."
"No; coma in here first."
Whou sho reached thj opn door of
the parlor sho saw her husbau 1 on his
knees between a littlo boy of about
four years aud a littlo girl of two, his
arms urouud thoir waists. A little wo
man with a thiu, pule, tear stained
face showing beneath her cheap littlo
mouruiug buuuet, was standing be
hind Jason.
"And this h Walter Jas in, named
for me, aud this is Marthy Isabulle,
named for you," siid Jason, joyously.
"Come, come mi; st-, huiu' au'
cryiu' over Jenny uu' t ike a look ut
your grau'-ohildron. What do you say
to them for aChristmis gift?"
She kuelt dowu uud took them iu
her arms, aayiu-j itiooheroutly :
"Jenny Jasou--oh, dear 1 I
you dour, little things I (irau'iua's
babies I You darlings! You darlings!
You'ro the best gift, the sweetest gift,
tho dearest gift iu all the world! Tho
littlo peace child that cume to Beth
lehem was not dearer to his mother
than you uro to me. Kneel right dowu
here by me, Jenny uu' Jaoii, uu' let
me thank tho Christ who was boru ou
Christmas Day for this uu' for tho
beautiful Christmas there will bo uu
ib r this roof to-morrow !"---l,trwit
Freo l'ress.
CHRISTMAS TOYS.
MOST OF TIIRM AKH MA OK IN
ONK ( Kit MAN I'ROVINCK.
Nearly Every Thurlnglan Is a Maker
of Playthings Turning Out Dolls
Where Anierlran Manu
facturers K.xcel.
DEALER in toyi
was crossing the At
lantic a few years
ago on his way to
Thuringia, Oof
many, where most
of the world's play
things for children
are made. Among
the passengers on
shipboard, says the
Chicago Beoord.was
an American lady
with her daughter,
a bright-eved, curly-
headed four-year-old. As the child
skipped merrily about the deck on
pleasant days tho dealer thought how
much more beautiful and attractive
his dolls could be made if they were
modeled after such a type of the
American child instead of aftor little
Germans and Italians and Parisians.
For two or three days the idea kept
growing upon him until he finally
sought out the American lady and
succeeded in obtaining her permission
to make a number of photographs of
the little girl, showing her curls and
her big, laughing eyes. With these
he went np into the Thuringian moun
tains, and it was not long before a
clever artist had molded the face in
clay and sent it to one of the queer
little factories where toys are manu
factured. In course of time the dolls'
heads wore made and shipped across
tho water, reaching this country only
a few weeks before Christmas.
The dealer unpacked his treasures
and displayed them in his windows
scores of bisque and china reproduc
tions of the luce of his little acquaint
ance on shipboard. When the chil
dren saw that the doll really looked
like an Amorican girl tbe windows
BISQUE DOLL FltOM A LIVING MODEL.
were quickly emptied, and by Christ
mas every ono of tho heads had been
sold. Sinoe that time the dealer has
had most of his dolls modeled from
real boys and girls, and he could, if
he ohose, give thoir names. A pic
ture of the doll's hea 1 modeled aftor
the child on shipboard accompanies
this article.
For some reason American manufac
turers have been nnable to mako. toys
that please the children of this coun
try half as well as those whioh come
from Thuringia. PerhapB they haven't
the art of the Gorman peasants, whose
fathers and grauduthers before them
were toymakors; or, perhaps, the
necessary materials tire not at hand ;
or it may be that thoy simply lack the
patience. But, whatever tho reaaon,
American wholesale toy dealers are
compelled to send to Europo for their
dolls' heads, and almost everything
else except oertain iron aud mechani
cal toys.
Almost everybody in tho proviuoe
of Ihuringia is a maker of playthings,
there are twenty
faotories or more,
all of them small
and quaint, in which
dolls' heads alono
are manufactured.
They employ from
150 lo 500 workmen
each, the best paid
of whom tho ur
tints who muko the
clay molds receive!,
only from $15 to
$25 a week, while
some of tho girls
who paint eyebrows
aud rouge the dolls'
cheeks druw only
tweuty-fiveor thirty
cents a day.
When un Ameri
can dealer sends KXIT wL
over the photograph of tho child
whose fuco ho wishes repro
duced tho artist takes it uud molds
a head ot the proper size iu clay.
Theu two plaster casts ure made, one
of the face of tho mold uud ono of tho
back, tho dividiug lino running from
tho center of tho top of tho head
through tho point of tuo shoulders. A
core of piaster ubout half uu inch
su'ullcr iu diameter thuu tho mold is
thou constructed, to ba used iu making
the cavity lusidu of the doll's head.
The molds being now completed, they
uro taken to tho factory, and a work
muu presses iuto oue ol the halves a
piece of potter's clay. Into this he
forces the core until it is wituiu u
quarter of uu inch or less of the mold,
uoeordiug to the desired thickness of
the shell of tho head. Theu a thiu
layer of cluy is spread over tho ex
posed portiou of tho core and tho
other half of the mold is pressed dow n
over this and weighted, so that every
lino und chink is tho molds will be
filled.
Tho cluy in tho mold having dried
thoroughly, th) heal is takeu out an I
set iuto a litt'e lire-cluy reccotaelo
much resembling u cheese-box. vVhou
this is full of heuds, it is ready for thu
3 -f.rt'a
kiln. The process of burning the clay
is the most important in the whole
work. Only the most skilled nion are
employed, men who can tell almost by
instinct how hot tho tires should bo
and when tho heads have been suf
ficiently burned. Tho kiln itself is a
great fire-clay apartment, which opens
oft from tho factory and is entered
through a number of small doors.
When the fire-clay boxes containing
all tho way from ten to forty "raw"
doll's heads have been piled inside tho
kiln, sometimes to the number of
several hnndred, the doors aro all
closed and the heat is started aud kept
going steadily for about threo days
and then the fnrnoce is allowed to cool
for two days more. If the heat is not -kept
absolutely even tho dolls bocome
stoop shouldered or have twisted
countenances liko thoso frequently
sold on the bargain counters of depart
ment stores. When the heads are
taken from the kiln they are of a faint
amber color and aro known as bisque
ware.
For ordinary china dolls a coarser
quality of clay is used, and after
being taken from the furnace the first
time they aro dipped iuto a glazing
solution and then baked again.
comic: masks.
When the heads are thoroughly
cooled they are conveyed to a long
table at which scores of girls, nil gayly
dressed aud all -chattering, aro sitting.
They range from thirteen years of ago
upward, the laws of the land not per
mitting the employment of younger
children. Tho first girl takes tho
head, and with a deft movement of a
brush which she holds in her hands,
paints the eyebrows and thon slips it
along to the next girl, who puts the'
blushes on the doll's cheeks. A third
girl colors tbe hair, another the lips,
and then the head is turned over to a
more experienced girl, who is charged
with the duty of putting in the eyes. '
She has before her a miniuture mor
tar box full of moist plaster of paris
and scores of eyes of different lizes
and shapes. When Bhe has found a
pair that fits, she fastens them in,
chinking in the gaping spaces with
plaster of paris, whioh is subsequent
ly colored. For tho "go-to-sleop"
doll the eyes are attached by littlo
wires and operated by a simple weight
of lead. Long experience has made
all the girls extremely deft and rapid
in their work, and whore they, work by
the piece they sometimes make as
high us fifty cents a day.
The foet and huuds of tho dolls are
molded and baked just like the heads.
Tho cloth 'or tho bodies is cut by a
groat mochine, tho knives of which
are fashioned iu tho exact shape of thu
pieces desired. Tho sewing is ull dono
by girls, a small place being loft iu
oue end of the body for stnlliug. Tho
contents are sometimes oork, some
times sawdust and s iiuetimes hay.
l'apier maehe dolls aro pressed into
form by a hydraulic machine and
afterward baked ami painted liko oth
er dolls. Tho peasants iu the sur
rounding country also make groat
numbers of knit dolls of a hundred
shapes and hues, aud they are sold for
a few murks a dozen to tho factory
managers. Tho hair of dolls for tho
most purt comes from England, where
it is manufactured from a variety of
flux known as mohair flux. Some of
tho more expensive dolls aro provided
with real hair.
Most of tho ordinary woodeu toys,
such us the animals for Noah's ark,
aro whittled out by tho boys uud men
iu the littlo inouutaiu homes of
Thuringia. The whole family often
works at tho business, ono member
always making au elephant, another a
camel, nuother u horse, year in aud
year out. Of course they becouio
very expert, but tho puy whioh thoy
receive is small.
Tho ordiuury pnpier-macho masks
sold by cost u no rs ure ma.lo iu molds
similar to those prepared for dolls,
uud, while there bus beeu some uttempt
ou the purt of American manufactur
ers to luuko them, tho greatest number
still comes from over the waier.
But the Americans have driven out .
all competitors iu oue branch of tho
toy trade. No artisans iu the world
huvo been able to iuveut such wonder
ful mtchuuicul toys of iron uud tin,
aud the exports of this class of work
to Europe every year are exceedingly
h.rge. All the clever devices sold by
street peddlers uro tho work of iugeu
ious Yankees.
The Night Itelore l'lir;sliiiiis.
Billy I lr .iks --Thai stocking game
mn't 1 irgi' i uough for me ; 1 guess I'll
spfiug soutrtli uig u ou S. in tu t Mails. "
Flunk Leslie's Wt'cMv.