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RE EST It is ettiinnted that tlio copt of ves Beta cow being bnilt at lake ship yards is about $3,000,000, as compared with $9,000,000 a year ago. According to the statistic of the JYentber Buronn, the property lose from tornadoes during the last ten years hns been live times as great ir Missouri as iu any other 'State. Greece has only 2,200,000 inhabi tants, butlfevcry mau of them is roacTy to fight like sixty. Her area is only half a great as that of the State of New York, but every aore of it in dedicated to tho cause of liberty and civiliza tion. That the gentler sex is fast becom ing emancipated is shown by the (act that in 1896 there were in the United States 82 women woodohoppers, 147 bartenders, 24 bostlors, 29 fcirs, i locomotive engineers, 28 plL. Vers, CO blacksmiths and 6 boilermatxrs. A great emigration movement of Russian Jowa from the Vistula provinces to Africa is taking plaoe at present. The movement has reached snch proportions in several districts of these provinces that tho Jewish male population is grout ly diminished and business iu shops is principally carried on by women. Roy. Miles Grant, of Boston, thinks he has solved tho problom of living. Ho is a strict vegetarian, and never uses meat, pics, cakes, tea, coOee. sugar, salt or spine.". Jli food is unleavcnod graha voge tables, cheese and mill , je Ba7a that he lives well at a cost of eighty seven cents a week, the result being that ho is healthy and strong. Of tho $200,000,000 war indemnity . which Japan is to rcooive from China it is expected that nearly eighty por oont. will be expended in naval oon- 6t ruction. It is therefore in order, deolares tho New York Mail and Ex press, to ascertain what portion of this vast sum cu be acquired by tho enterprise of Amorieau shipbuilders, . ' steel forgers, gun makers and com petitors in other mechanical indus tries. ' A oonntry with that amount of money to spond-desorves to be looked after by American manufacturers who have things to sell. Modern soienco is beginning to throw all tho talcs of Munchausen in- to tho shndo. Thcro is a rumor that rofessor MncKendrick, of Glasgow, as Euocecdod iu devising an appar atus whioh will enablo the deaf and dumb to hear operas. He uses tele phones conjSAcd with the ttago at one end, and at the othor with vessols filled with a ealino solution, into which the deaf insert thoir hands. No sooner have they done so than thoir faces are illuminated with tho joy of a new sensation. They can hear the singers and the orchestra distinctly, " This sounds "American," as foreigners say, but after the Roentgen rays and kinetoscopo everything seems possible. Naturalists believe that inseots have soVes utterly different from ours, and it uot impossible that with the aid of eleotrioity aud Roentgen rays man may practically aoquire a new sense or power to perceive tho unsoen world. There, have beeu printed recently somo astonishing fnotg about tho aban doned farm lands of England. Some of those farm;, although within an hour or two'of Loudon city, go bog ging for tenants. Earl Darrington, .who Ljjor many years owned 23,000 aercstaid in Rucks and Lincooshire counties and whose every dollar is in vgstsd in agriculture, soys the de pression of tho industry in England hns been largely due to the extrava gance and bad management of the land lords thcmsolves keeping up costly country houses, and neglecting repairs and improvements, piling up mort gages, driving away tenants, etc'. When be took charge of his estates, they were burdened with a debt of 1152,000,000. Ho disposed of the great country house, with its tremendous expenses, repaired the buildings'on all the farms, lowered jates one-third, and encouraged tenants to work small plots of land. In spite of almost constantly decreasing prices of farm product, during the past twenty years he bus by this means paid all but oue-tenth of the original debt, audyet his estates are not as well situated as regards markets as are many farms near Lon don that are practically abandoned, While conditions are entirely different iu America, it is true that thousands of farmers in this country have, on a smaller Bcale, by prudent management, paid for thoir farms and ure to day comfortably well fixed, as the .result of good farming aud good business methods during the past ten or twonty years of increasing competition, lower prices and readjustment of rapidly chnugiug conditions. HEMEMBERINQ. It may lio years s Ineo one muoh lovod Was locked in death's mysterious sloop; It may bo tlint thn (lowers we keep Because of them, Are no inoro wet with tear. Our lives ko on without thorns Tho aching void that Death has loft, Is Illlod by othor lovos, And we are less boron Than wh.a wo hoard the dull thud-thud That orasorl us with Its uttor hopoloasnos; Dut when we ton a certain shade of hair, Or tone of voice, or cvou bul tho lifting of a linn. I, It all comes baok As something we have known before, Aud wo, remembering, understand. EJua Ilealil, In Womankind. ON A JAUNTING CAB. BY ANNIB F. JOHNSTON. I was a June morning in Cork. Miss Briggs and her niece had left the rest of their party at the ho tel, to reoover from the effects of a rough pas sage, and had started out to explore the quaint old tows. The jauntiug car rattled along through the crooked street?, and turned into a wide, smooth avenue, whose hawthorn hedges were white with blossoms, and whose wayside trees covered it with a cool, deep shade; then back again into the crooked streets, where a detachment of. soldiers passed them. "Look I" cried Emily with girlish enthusiasm, "there are some Highlanders I" A band came next, followed by sev eral carriages, while a noisy rabble of hooting, barefoot children and bois terous men and women struggled after. "What is the matter?" she asked of the driver, who bad stopped his horse to let tho procession pass. "It's O'Brien, miss," he explained. "He'll be after spakin' in the park, the day, and they're fearful av a riot, miss." The procession was a long one, and they waited several minutes for it to pass. Just as they started on again, Emily, .happening to look across the street, saw a man, evidently a tourist, hastily shutting up a small camera. "Auntie," ehe almost gasped, "1 fiolnally boliere that man has beou taking a photograph of ail" Miss Briggs looked quickly, but they had turned a corner, and he was out of sight. "Well, it con't be helped," she said laughingly, but with an indignant pink flushing up into her obeeks. "It serves us right for making a speotaolo of ourselves by getting on to such an outlandish conveyance." On the following day, while Miss Briggs sat alone in the parlor of tho Imperial Holol, busily engaged with her journal, Emily entered, her hat awry aud her face glowing. "Look I" she cried breathlessly, "Here is a sketch I mado this after noon, auntie. I did it in sepia. And oh, I've had snch an interesting ex perience! We all went opto Shan don churchyard, .ud old Mr. Lumb took me up in the tower to read the inscription on tho bells. When wo camo down again, you couldn't guess who was standing in the churchyard, by Father Front's tomb." Miss Briggs held the sketch off at arm's length, surveying it critioally, and shook her head. "Well, it was that man who took our picture yesterday. As soou as he saw me, ho came directly towards me. He took off his hat with as friendly a smile as if we had always known eaoh other, and said, 'Pardon me, miss, are you not the youug lady whom I saw yesterday on a jaunting car while the procession was crossing the bridge ?' I was so amazed I did not know what to say, and he began at onco to apolo gize aud explain. He said he was out with his camera, taking pictures of interesting types of Irish cbaraoter, and was attracted by our coachman's face. He paid no attention to us un til we were driving away. Then he saw me, but did not notice you par ticularly. While he was developing I he picture, that afternoon, be was al most startled, he told me, as your fea tures gradually appeared on the plate. He said : 'They bear suoh a striking re semblance to one I knew years ago. Will you allow me to ask if the lady with you was a Miss Briggs? Miss Caroline Briggs?' " Emily paused to noto the effect of her words, aud Miss Briggs looked up with lively interest depicted on every feature. "Go on V ehe demanded. "Just tb?u Mr. Lumb came hurry ing up aud slapped him ou the back, and suid, 'Hullo, Fritzie, old boy I Is it really yon?' It must have been 'Fritzie, old boy, for they began talk ing about old times, and forgot my existence ever so long. Then Mr. I. umb introduced him Howe, or rower, or tome such name. He's stopping at our hotel, and is going to join our party till we reach Belfast." Emily paused to observe the effect. Miss Briggs opened her mouth as if to bay something, gave a little gasp and closed it again. "It's Frederick Powelll" she de clared with an air of conviction. "I know It I Yes, I knew him fifteen years ago." She looked out of the window a moment as if considering, nud then we ft on in her concise, mat-ter-of-fuot way, "We were to have beeu married then, but we had a quar rel and the enueuieut was broken off. It was a good thing. We were both high strung aud obstinate, and never could have learned to agree." Miss Briggs gave this little bit of personal history as unoonoernedly as if wero speaking of the auoient Greek, aud bcuu to gather up her mm, rliii writing material. Emily looked at her curiously, wondering if there could have been a spark of eentimeot in such a severely practical Dature. "He showed me the photograph," said Emily, as they climbed tho stairs together. "It was bad, even for an amateur. Only the baok of my head was taken, but you were in a strong light that made you squint and wrinkle up your face, aud your lect looked im mense." When Miss Briggs wont down stairs to dinner that evening, she had laid aside her customary gray serge dress, as homely as it was serviceable, and wore a dark blue, tailor-made mit. Remembering that Emily had said her feet looked immense in the photo graph, she had carefully changed her heavy, broad-soled boots for dainty, low-out shoe?. She stopped a moment in the hall, hearing a familiar laugh. She remembered that the last time she had heard that voice it bad bidden her good-by in hot anger. Then she pushed the door ajar and entered the parlor, where the party had congre gated to wait for dinner. Dr. Frederiok Powell was standing by a window in animated conversation with Emily. He scarcely noticed her aunt's entrance, so engrossed was be with the fair niece. Miss Briggs had been a pretty eirl in her day, but the photograph he had taken, and which was still fresh in his mind, was that of a wrinkled, faded woman, careless of her attire. He looked up with sur prise as she advanced toward them. The brnsk independence of manner he had expeoted to see bad given place to a Btately dignity. She was one of those women for whom a becoming dress docs wonders. "I'm glad to see you !" they both said in the same breath, and shook hands as if the moat platonio of friend ships had always existed between them. Miss Briggs was not so well pleased with her survey. "He's getting stout," she thought critioally, "and a trifle bald. He's not the handsome man he used to be." Emily was charmed with Dr. Powell. She found him entertaining and agree able. He praised her sketches. He told her interesting incidents of his trave's in many lands, and amusing anecdotes of his professional life. When the party went sight-seeing, he was her tete-a-tete if they rode. When they walked, he was always at her side to bold her umbrella. Seeing this, Miss Briggs calmly ro volved iu her solitary orbit a trifle more independent in manner, perhaps, and if possible more outspoken in her radical opinions. Emily tried in rain to persuade her aunt that the old serge was too unbecoming for further use fulness. Every morning she put it on with tho grim satisfaction of carrying her point, and looking her worst. The days went by too fast in the old town. Night and morning and noon, they listened to the chiming of the bells in the ivy grown Shandon tower, and then it was night and morning and noon again. Still the little party lin gered. One day, after lunch, they started out to make a farewell visit to Blarney Castle. Dr. Powell and Emily gaily led the way on jauuting car. Sev eral of the party followed on horse baok, and the rear was brought up by a light wagonette. Miss Briggs rodo in this, net being an excellent horse woman, and having a mortal antipathy to jaunting cari. It was a drive none of them eould ever forgot. But by the time they had readied the cattle, the sunshine had faded out, the landscape was gray and blurred, and the rain began to pour in torrents. There was nothing to do but sit down and wait for it to stop, but they had grown acoustomed to this peculiarity of the weather in Ire land. An old woman came to the door, begging. They tolled her in with a shilling, and she entertained them with gruesome tales of the banshees and witches that inhabit the bat haunted ruins of Blarney at night. The doctor handed Emily a pencil and a leaf torn from his memorandum book, and she began to sketoh the old peas ant, wich quick, effectivestrokes. Miss Briggs sat baok in a dim corner, listen ing carefully, for the woman's brogue was almost unintelligible to ber. Twioe she glanoed up, to And Dr. Powell looking at her. Presently iu a piue of the story telling, he walked over and stood be side her. "What does this remind you of, Caroline?" he 'asked abruptly. "Nothing," she answered. "Why?" "It reminds me of a gypsy camp we visited one time. You have not for gotten It, I hope. It was the last day of August, tixteen years ago. The soeno comes baok to me very plainly. An old hag told our fortunes. Some how, you look just as you did then." He walked over to Emily again. Miss Briggs drow back a little farther into tho dim corner, and listened no more to the legends of Blarney. She heard, instead, the crackling of a oump fire, tho stamping of horses tied iu the background, the whining tones of the old gypsy who pretended to look into the future, when in reality she had only to look into the faces be fore her to guess their fate. Then she heard the laughter of the young folks rambling slowly along in the moonlight behind them, Then tho low, earnest voice of the one beside her no, she would not listen t She would not recall a single word. The old love had lain buried deeply too long for its ghost to trouble her now. She turned resolutely to the old wom an, although she couldn't help remem bering, now and then, that he 1 ad said she looked just as she did that night aud that night ho had called her beautiful. "I know that isn't sol" ehe kept telling herself, to quiet the little thrill of pleased vauity. "He's got an axe to grind. He wants mo to use my in fluence with Emily." It was nearly dark when the rain finally stopped, and they started back to tho hotel. There was a shifting of seats. The wagonette led the way, followed by those on horses, and when Miss Briggs came through the gate, Dr. Powell was waiting to help her on to the jaunting car. They drove along in silonoe some time, before tho doctor remarked un easily, "Tho drivers have been drink ing. I hope they'll not get us into trouble." "I have nover been in any kind of an aocidont," answered Miss Briggs. "I have always thought I should like to be, just for the sensation." For a short distance thoy enter tained each other by recounting the most dreadful aooidents of which they had ever beard both on land and sea. They roaohed the climax at last. They could recall no supremer horror than had already been related. Just thou the half intoxicated driver, having fallen behind the others, took np his whip and lashed the horse furi ously. The frightened animal leared and broke into a run. Now was Miss Briggs' opportuuity for a sensation. They were running away. She gripped the seat firmly and held on with all her might. She would have stuck on valiantly to the end, had not the horse veered suddenly to one side, and then plunged on more madly than bo fore. Both she and the dootor were thrown violently out. When the dootor picked himself up and looked around in a dazed way, she was standing etect as ever, vigorously brushing, tho mud from her drees. She had experienced an accident and had come out of it, as Ehe had oome out of everything else, unscathed. The party on ahead, alarmed at tho sight of the runaway horse dashing past, despatched Mr. Lumb, who was ou horsobaok, to investigate. As they were near town, it was not long be fore he had sent a cab to thoir assist nnoe. "Caroline," said tho dootor, as they drove baok in the twilight, "I have always been impressed with the rapid ity with which the brain acts, Man thinks at lightning speed." "That depends on the man," Miss Briggs interposed laconically. "When we went flying through the air," he went on, without notioiug the interruption, "it Hashed across my mind that I should find you lying stunned and insensible that I would pick you up tenderly in my arms, and kiss you, as I did long ago that I would claim you for my own again." "Well," she answered provokingly, "I suppose the shock of such a fall, to a man of your weight, would natu rally bring him to his senses." "It was not that," he said, a little confused and nettled by her cool re ply, "but the situation was not as ro muntio as I had imagined as I hoped it would be." "Yon had hoped, then, that I should be stunned?" "Oh, Caroline," he remonstrated, "is there never to be anything but misunderstandings between us? You must listen to me, for it is fate that has brought us across the sea to find each other at last. I was sure of it when I first met you, although you seemed so stolid and indifferent. Think of the time :hen we were all in all to each other." "I thought Emily" began Miss Briggj. The doctor laughed happily. "No ! No t Emily is not as blind as her aunt. She has known what I wanted from the first. Yon have not said no," he added presently, as thoy rode on through the darkness, "and I shall not let you say it now. You aro mine and a thousand times dearer than wheu you were the sweetheart of my boyhood." lie Blipped his arm around her, and felt ber shaking with suppressed sobs. "Why, what's the matter?" he asked. "1 dou't know," she answered. For Miss Briggs had met with an experi ence she could not fathom. The ten der undercurrents of her nature,frozen so long that she doubtod their exist onoes, melted as in a February thaw, and found vent in tears. At the hotel entrance they found the druukeu driver awaiting them, hat in hand, "I'm sorry to be troublin' yez, sorr, but ther's the two shillin' Bixpenoe for the journey out, and two shillin' Bixpenoe for the journey baok. An' the same shud be more, for it broke me vehicle an' lamed me haste." The dootor smiled down into the face beside bim, where his food eyes saw blooming agaiu the beauty of girl hood, and said, "The rascal knows the acoident was all bis own fault, but if it had not been for him, I might never have found you as I did, ou a jaunting car." He dropped a shower of silver pieces into the outstretched hand. ".Shure an' ye'ro fit for a prince, sorr I" cried the man, delighted at the unexpected generosity, aud shrewdly guessing its cause. "Good luck to ye an' the swate leddy I" And as thoy walked on down the corridor, his voioa followed them, in voking the blessing of all the saiuts in his calondar. The Puritan. Ago of tho Premiers, Care aud worry do not seem to shorten the lives of the British Pre miers. Gladstone by completing his 87th year has brokeu the record whioh was held by Lord Sidmouth, who died past 80. Earl Russell died at the same ugo; the Duke of Wel lington at 82, Lord Palmerston and Earl Grey at 81, Earl of Bcaoousneld 77, Earl oT Aberdeou 70, Earl of Derby SO, Sir ll;bort Peel 02. Glad stone and Sir Robert aro the only two J'remiers who were net peers and did not accept a peerage from the (jueun. Expert Thieves. Thieves threw a hoo'c and lino through an open window of a house at Monterey, Mexico, and stole tho bed clothes, under which tho owner of tho bouse was bleeping. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BT THB FUN NT MEN OF THE PRESS. It Does Satisfy Illm Same Old Styles Used to It The Supreme Test No Distinction, Ktc, ICtc, This is a quonr old world of ours, For alwaya it has been, The time a man fuels most put out Is whoa bo's taken In. Judgo. SAMR ODD STYLES, "Has your wife gone iu for dress reform?" "Iguossnot; hor bills aro as big as ever." Chicago Record. THB BtTPRBMB TRST. "Do you think he really loves her?" "I am sure of it. He exchanged his wheel for the kind she rides." Brook lyn Life. NO DIBTIXCTIOX. He "I don't think very muoh of Jaok's manners, Miss Sweet." She "No, they are like his calls, they laek finish." A FOBEION AUTICIiB. Proud Pops "My daughter studied painting abroad." Friend "I thought so. I never aw a sunset like that in this country." C6ED to m Mr. Newman "You're a nice little boy, Tommy." Tommy "That's what they all say when thoy first meet sister." Tit Bite. TUB LINE OF LEAST RESISTANCE. "Why do so many modern writers seem to prefer notoriety to fame?'' "Because a man has to olimb for fame, but he can get notoriety by an easy tumble." A GENTLE HINT. "Nice dog I Have you taught him any tricks siuce 1 was here last ?" "Ob, yes; he will fetch your hat if you whistle," sail she sweetly. Dublin World. SOME MEN TOO CkV. Brown "Da you think you can judge a man by the kind of shoes he wears?" De Flyppo "I always judge a girl's father that way." flyixowedoe's practice. Smith "Is young Flyingwedge practicing law?" Williams "I think not. He was oallcd to the bar, but I think he's practicing economy." Illustrated Bits. BIOnXY PROGRESSIVE. "Is Soryrasor progressive?" "Progressive? Why, that fellow can tell when his wifo is going to make minoe-pie ; he always has the nightmare the night bofore." Chi cago Record, CONVERSION BY FORCB. "Do you thiuk, Harry, you could induce one or two boys to come to Sunday-school?" "I could bring one," ho replied. "De udder fellers in our alloy kin liok mo." Dublin World. IHRESISTIULB ELOQUENCE. "We had a unique proposal contest and Madge got the prize." "How did the young man propose to her?" "He just walked in 'and threw a big aolitaire diamond ring into her lap. " IX CUBA. "The insurgents," reported tho officer who had mado the reoonnois cance, "are enoamped about two miles to the north." "Good I" exclaimed General Wey ler. "We will march at onco." And he did march to the south. LOTS OF FUN. "Do you really enjoy shooting?" "Why, yes, of courso," said the dear girl, who had lately bought a light ritle and a lovely pair of huntiug bloomers. "Every time I mauage to kill a rabbit cr a poor little bird I have just the loveliest ory imaginable." Indianapolis Journal. A PROMISE. "It is customary to remember the waiter, sir," said tho waiter, as the guest was about to take his leave without feeing him. "Oh, rest easy," said tho guest. "I shall not forget you. Next time I oome I shall have another waiter, or I shall lunch elsewhere." Philadelphia Press. PROOF POSITIVE. Miss Grace "They say that men think only of themselves, but it isn't so. I'm sure Charles is tho most un seltich of mortals." Mrs. Blaze "As for example?" Mrs. Grace "Why, he says he is never happy but when ho is with me; and he stays out eveniugaftereveuing. There, isn't that self-denial for you?" Boston Transcript. A DIKMAL OUTLOOK. "I don't see much oliuuco for me any way you take it," remarked the prisoner iu a disconsolate tone. "But no decision has yet been ren dered," said a bystander. "I know that.' But if the court be lieves what the prosecuting attorney says, I'll go to jail a heap longer thau I deserve. And if I get turued loose on tho community with the reputation for lumb -like innocence giveu me by the lawyer for the defense, it'll keep me miserable the rest of my days try ing to live up to it," Washington Star. SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL, It is estimated that 2,000,000 toM ef pure silver are held in solution by all tho waters of the earth. The banks of Newfoundland are formed by the sand, ice and stone brought from tho north by the ice bergs. Within the last fifty years the rate of speed of ocean steamers has trebled, and the usual horao power inoroasod from 700 to 10,000. According to tho deductions of a well-known astronomer, we reoeive as muoh light from the sun as could be emitted by 680,000 full moons. Nicola Tesla says that the cause of tho curious sunburn olfects upon the hands by the X-rays is not tho rays themselves, but tho ozouo generated by them in contact with the skin. The hands may be protected by immersing them in oil beforehand, and thus pre venting an access of air. Gypsum has been dif-ooveredin large quantities in Big Horn County, Wyom ing, and is being used by the settlerf for roofing their houses. Mixed with a thin mortar and spread upon tho roof it soon beoomes as hard as adam ant and makes a most excellent pro tection against the eloments. A company has been formed at San Antonio, Texas, for tho purpose of de veloping the wonderful asphalt de posits situated in the state of Tamaa lipas, Mexico, which was recently de scribed by United States Vice Consul Von Vileuberg, of Matamoras, Mexioo. The company has sooured a leaso for fifty years on the property. A Kansas man has been granted a patent on a devico for fastening houses together and holding them on thoir foundations, whioh is simply a series of rods fastened to opposite sides of the house and to foundation walls and roof, and fastened by means of turn buckles, the idea being to prevent houses from blowing away in cyolones. Telephone wires seem to have au important inducnoe in preventing lightning from striking, aooording to the investigations of the Gar mau tele- I graph department. Three hundred and forty towns with telephone sys tems and G50 towns without them were nnder observation. In the former the lightning struck three times for every hour of storm, in the latter five times. Moreover, the violence of the light ning was much less in the formor case. A Child's Pica. A pretty little golden-haired girl of seven years walked timidly into a New Jersey police court room the other day and asked for "the man who sent my mamma to jail." The judge hap peped to overbear hor remark and asked tho little miss what sho wanted. Tears came into her eyes as she turned to the judge and asked, "Did you send my mamma to jail?" Whon told her name, the judge recalled that a short time before he had sonteuoed a woman to jail for sixty days for drunkeuuess and told tho child so. Looking up into the kindly faco of the judge sho asked : "Judge, did you ever have a mam ma?" aud then, chokiug with sobs, sho could control her feelings no longer aud begged piteously for hor mother's release. "Your mamma has been very naughty," said tho judge. "She gets drunk and abuses ber neighbors." "But she is so good to me, and I love her," sobbed tho goldon haired plead er, "and if you'll let her go I I won't let her be naughty auy more I love hor so. Please, please, oh.ploaso let hor go." That was too much for the gray-haired, kind heartod magis trate, and as he turned away to ordor the roloisoof the mother, ho used his bandkorohiof vigorously and his vtioo was husky from a "bad cold," whioh had suddenly developed. Netilo Plant Fiber. The nettle plant has long been known to have a fiber finer and better than hemp. In 18(19 tho sum of $25,000 was offered to tbo discoverer of a ma chine to separate tho bark from tho fiber. It seems that while no machine has been found the chemists have had good success. Tho fiber was used bo fore the art of writing books; Rhoa cloth is usod to wrap arouud tho mum mies iu Egypt; for nets aud lines it is the best thing known ; it is sometimes called "China grass;" it is well known to the Chinese, Malays, and Hindoos. It has beeu worked up into ropes, canvas, aud eveu clothing. An English chemist, a Mr. Go moss, uses zincato of soda to take out the gums that aro in the liber; the fiber comes out white aud strong ; it can be vnrlrnil infrt nnv lrin:l r 9 ttlV und fnl exceeds linen for luces, handkerohiefs, I eta. It is vory light, too. One thou sand yards of Rhea weighs as muoh as 000 yards of linen. It will probably beoomo one of the prominent produc tions of India. Tho common wild nettle that grows lurgely on the road sidos in tho t'nited States is a variety of the Rhea plant, aud it may be that it is susceptible of like treatment. Big Orchid Collectors. Thero is an idea abroad that Mr. Chamberluin is the greatest amateur orohid grower iu the world, but this is not tho case, the collection of the Empress Frederick of Germauy being worth nearly double that of Mr. Cham berlainprobably about 8200,000. Miss Alice Rothschild is an enthusias tic lover of flowers ; her collection ot roses uloiio is said to bo worth $50, 000. W. W. Astor paid $0000 the other duy lor tho stuck of a siuglo variety of rose tree. Riviera Flower Culture. Tho cultivation of (lowers for export and for the perfumery factories at Grasse is au luiportuut industry on tho Riviera, it is ollioiully estimated that the value of Dowers annually ex ported from Nice, Cuuuus, Bcaulieu j sud Muutouo is 5uuu,uuj. CLOSE TO NINETY John ITnwnr 1 Bryant, nn only surviving brother ol William Cullen Ilrvunt, apwd about nlnnty years, re-.d.y, In Prlnoeton, 111, J tin KorhnHtcr (S. Y.) Times myt of blmi IIo Is unknown to famn, but not for want ol native ability which, Jn.lR iu? from tho fol-lowlnnfreshly-written Rem, might havemadi him as Illustrious as his brother. Tb llnei are entitled, "Close to Ninety," and wer evoked by the action of a Uellefontaln. (Ohio) Bryant literary society In maklna him an honorary member: Hero now I staoJ, upon life's outor vetno, Close at my feet su oooan wide and deep, Dark, sullen, sllont, and without a surge, Whore earth's past myriads lie In dream less steep. 'Tis here I stand without a thrill of fear, la lonellniws nllled to the sublime; Tho broken links of lovo that bound me here, Llo shattered on this treacherous shoal ol time. But still I oling to friends who yet remain, Cling to the glorious scones that round ma He, Striving to stay tho haste-ef yoars In vain As swifter yot the winded moments fly. Idly, I seek tho future to explore, I partly know what Is, but naught that Is boforo, John Howard Bryaat. HUMOR OP THE DAY. He "Her fuse is her fortune." She 'Then she is a self made woman." Vale Record. Edith "Did ho whispor swoet noth ings when he proposed?" Ethel "Oh, yes! sworo he'd bo ever true, and all that."-Puok. Young Solioitor "Make yourself easy, my dear sir ; the sncoessful man tgomont of your case shall be the task if my life." Tit-Bits. "What U 'pronunciation, Uncle Tim?" "It is something you hunt np in a dictionary one day and forget the aext" Chicago Record. Ada "Which was the most serious engagement Captain Slasher was ever in?" Jaok "fhe ono that led to his marriago, I presume." Larks. "Now, they Bpenk of hor as an up-to-dato girl. What do you understand by that?" "My boy, a girl that is up-to-date is up to anything." Puck. Mrs. Gray "Do vou like steam beat?" Mrs. Brown "Ueolly, I don't know. Yon tee, we only have steam cold in our flat." Boston Transoript. "8pring Is hore," the poot said, Aud as the storm door hitolie 1 its belt, And slammed him down ten llltfhts of stairs, Tho force of his remark he felt! Ulnulnuntl Tribune. A sportive youth will fcol compli mented if you call him "a gay young dog," but not if yon refer to hirn as "afresh young puppy." Philadelphia Record. Dorathca "There goes Jack with his wealthy bride, girls." Thoodosia "Yes ; aren't men fickle? To think that only last summer he wai engaged to us!" Truth. First Artist (patronizingly) "Van, Dike is a good fellow, but he never will bo a finished paint r." Sjoond Artist "No; all of his figures are en tirely too life-like." Judge. Thero are over sixty millions of peo ple in this country, and at least fifty millions of them have been cured of somothing at one time or another. West Union (fowa) Gazjtte. Cumso "Why don't Mr. Gilgaland Miss Perkasie get married i" U iwker "Shyness on both sides." "How do you make that out?" ".She is a shy little thing by nature and ho is shy of cash." "Do you see anything ooming our way?" asked tho morning tlT of companion. "Not yot," ww the re ply ; "but I see n servant below there who is about to light hor kitoheu fire with kerosene." "That Willio Feathers is the most impudent man lover mot." "Really?" "lie is. I told him I had never beeu kissed by a muu in all my life, and he said 'I oan well believe you.'" Cin cinnati Enquirer. Tommy "Paw, what is adding in sult to injury?" Mr. Figg "Well, I once had a dentist at work on uy teeth for half a day, aud when he got through he said he hoped I had a pleasaut time." Iudiuuapolis Jour nal. She "You are always talking about the fashions. Now, honestly, do you think you would know tho latest fash ion in hats if you were to enter a mil liner's?" He "Certuinly." Hue "How?" Ho (ruefully) "By looking at the prioos." Comio Cuts. Tho thoosophist gazed at tho op posite wall with a far away smile. "We become what we eat," sho murmured. That is a great truth." "Groat Je hosophat I" exclaimed a voioe in the corner ; "what kiud of a menagerie do I become when I eat hujhV Wash ington Capital. Chumpley "That hypnotist is a fraud. He couldn't coutrol my mind at all last night." Pokley "Of course, he had some excuse." Chump ley "Yes, he taid there was do ma terial to work ou. You ought to have beard tho audience give him the luugh." Detroit Freo Press. Slaking an Artificial Skin. A process has been patented in Ger mauy for making a substitute for the natural skin for use in wounds. The muscular coatiug of the iutustiues of animals is divested of mucous mem brane and then treated iu a pepsin foiutiou until tho muscular fibers are bid! digested. After a second treat ment with tan nia uu l gallic aoid a tissue is produced which tuko the plucu ot the natural skiu, and which, wheu luid ou the wound, is entirely absorbed during tho healing procets. lairopettu population. Europo has iucjii'c-d its population by sixly-two per cent, within the last sixtv-two years, but in the same time IM.OO.llllJ of its iuhuliitouts have emi grated to otlier couutrie.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers