The Italians call iheir bunk
"Pauamino," the little Panama.
As shown by Bradstreot's figures,
1892 was the greatest year ever kuowu
in this country for batik clearances.
An old Arctic sailor, who has a
fund of good stories for (lie marines,
-:ays that in Labrador they mine ice
bergs for codfish as if it were coaL
The Canadian Pacific and its
branches up to date have received
126,500,000 in subsidies from the
Canadian Government, while the other
Dominion roads have received but
(9,695,108.
Trial by jury has been abrogated In
India aud the Hindus are kicking vig
orously against this action of their
British rulers. The government says
that it was literally impossible to get
twelve honest jurymen in the jury-box,
and the conviction of a Hindu, how
ever guilty, was not to be secured.
The longevity of members of the
Society of Friends is again shown by
the denominational obituary for the
last year. The deaths of members in
Great Britain and Ireland numbered
278. There were no fewer than
sixty-two at eighty years and above,
and the average ago at death was
about sixty-one years.
An Eastern towu some yeats ago
was in a bad way, relates the Atlanta
Constitution, but it offered a free site,
remission of taxes for a number of
years and assistance ill erecting a
building for a shoe factory. The fac
tory started with 25 hands and now
bus 1000. As there are generally three
inhabitants of a town for every work-
Ingman it will be seen that the factory
venture greatly increased population,
lo say nothing of the money they put
in circulation.
"Mental arithmetic" in East Indian
schools is a vastly more serious mat
ter than it is in the schools of the
United Suites. The Oriental mind is
fertile in the invention of catch ques
tions, and the multiplication table is
swelled into a mouutain of difficulty
by native teachers. Tiny, half-naked
brown creatures of ten years and
under are taught to carry the multi
plication table up to the forty times
forty, aud to complicate matters by
the introduction of fractional parts.
An Edinburgh actuary says that
forty out ol 1000 people who reach
seventy years are farmers. The aver
age mortality per 1000 is 29.2 among
liquor dealers, increasing from 12.2
between the ages of twenty and
twentv-uinc to 102.8 from seventy up
ward. Among 1000 gardeners he
finds the death-rate to be 10.6, carpen
ters 12.4, shoemakers 13.4, stone ma
sons 16.8, butchers 17.8, innkeepers
21.4, licensed grocers who sell liquors
18.9, hotel-keepers 26.8, bar-keepers
83.4. Among clergymen the lowest
death-rate is in the Church of Eng
land, 10.2, and the highest in the
Catholic Church, 15.7 The New York
Medical Record attributes the high
death-rate of the Catholic clergy to
celibacy.
The New York Times observes:
•' The world's working stock of genius
never is 60 large that tho downfall of
a commanding personality like Fer
dinand de Lesseps can be regarded
with cynicism. There is nothing in
modern anuals more pathetic than the
vicissitudes of fortune by which tho
pictnresquo and heroic figure, alike
the first citizen of the Empire aud the
Republic, has been transformed into a
sentenced convict. M.de Lesseps'
misfortunes may be attributed in large
degree to his extraordinary success.
At Suez he achieved what statesmen,
capitalists and engineers throughout
Europe had pronounced impossible
and chimerical. If M. do Les»eps
succeeded at Suez it was because he
was not an engineer. If he failed at
Panama it was because he was only a
speculative diplomatist and not a prac
tical man of business. Tho very
qualities which enabled him to over
come every obstacle at the Isthmus,
where a tide-level canal was to be cut
through desert levels and an ancient
sea-bed, disqualified him for taking a
sober view of the difficulties of rock
ribbed Pauama or for controlling the
flood of reckless financial waste and
corruption which swept everything
before it. In the end lie was like a
drowning man catching at straws, an
Oriental fatalist, paralyzed and dis
enchanted; but neither France nor the
world will ever believe that he was a
common BWindler, or that ho merited
when dying in hi* old age—the Grniul
Freuchmnn still at eighty-eight—the
grotesque and horrible sentence wbict
lias bcou pronounced against him."
The Children's Land.
I know a land, a beautiful land,
Fairer tban isles of the east,
Where the farthest hills are rainbow
spanned,
And mirth holds an endless feast;
Where tears are dried like the morning
dew,
And joys are many, and griefs are few;
Where the old each day grows glad and
new,
And life rings clear as a bell;
Ok! the land where the chimes speak sweet
and true
Is the land where the children dwell!
There are beautiful lands where the rivers
flow
Through valleys of ripened grain;
There are lauds where armies of worshipers
know
Js'o God but the God of Gain.
The chink of gold is tbe song they sing,
And all their life-time harvesting
Are the glittering joys that gold may bring,
In measures they buy and sell;
But the land where love is tbe coin and king
Is the laud where the children dwell.
They romp in troops through this beautiful
land
From morning till set of sun.
And the Drowsy Fairies have sweet dreams
planned
When the little tasks are done.
Here are no strivings for power and place,
The last are first In the mimic race,
All bearte are trusted, all life is grace,
And Teace sings "All goes well"—
For God walks daily with unveiled face
In the land where the children dwell.
[John Jerome Hoouey.
FAIRY'S SECRET.
"A trip to the Yellowstone! You
are too good to me, papa."
I took Jier in my arms, my own
child, from whose cheek the rose had
faded, and in whoso deep-brown eyes
sad shadows had grown.
She was of a nature peculiar to
those whose childhood days have been
spent with elderly people. She felt
deeply. Events that merely ruffled
lighter natures left lasting efliscts upon
her. I had watched her tenderly since
her mother had put her in my aims,
and left me alone. When she grew
listless and tfle sweet eyes drooped,
I laid as s de all cares and took her
away.
She looked so like her mother the
day we took the train at Chicago. IJor
brown dress, just matching her eyes,
lent a deeper shade to her chestnut
hair. As we ueared a city in North
ern Illinois Fairy exclaimed: "Oh,
papa, is this another Home? Surely
it is a city built on seven hills."
"Galena!" shouted the brakemun.
"What climbers the people must be
here," she continued, looking at some
of the long rows of stairs ascending
the steep hills.
The city seemed to bo laid out in
terraces. Wo stood at the foot of
Main Streot and looked up at two of
Ihese terraces, with trees of au im
mense height apparently on each.
I settled myself comfortably and
prepared togo to sleep. Fairy read u
while, but soon drow a locket from
her dress. Sne touched the spring,
and the sad look came again to her
sweet eyes. I had triei' to learn her
secret. Was she sighing for a moth
er's love ? Perhaps I lnd better get
married, I thought. I resolved to
jive the matter serious thought at
some future time. Unknown to
Fairy, I resolved to stop over at
Cheyenne, where she wa9 born, and
Ella, my wife, was called away-
Capt. Siorry had often asked mo to
visit tho old fort. It would bo like
old times to see the boyc. again.
"Do you remember Capt. Storrey,
Fairy?" I asked her. "Jle is an old
fellow like me, but a nobler o oul
never iuhabited a human body."
I did not think that Fairy heard.
She turned her head quickly and
caught her breath. "You wish to
stop and see him, papa?" she asucd
sweetly.
"How well I remember tho morning
he came two years ago—you were
nineteen. He asked for you as if you
were a two-year-old. Wo saw you
kneeling over a flowei bed, your white
| dress and flowing hair making a pretty
picture. Do you remember 1 told you
to come and kiss papa's friend? How
Hal went to kiss you and you drow
back so proudly. He rated me sound
ly for not telling him you were a lady
grown. Why, Fairy, it seems but
yesterday that you played upon our
knees at the old fort. Yon were such
good friends after that. Why, Ha'
was like a second father." Aud so I
rattled on, lost in old memories.
Hal had stayed at our house for six
j months and had left suddenly, 1
I thought. He smiled strangely, 1
j thought, when I, with a father's
I adoration, was enlarging upon Fairy's
charms.
I While 1 h«i been dreaming, we
had passed over the great plains, with
I their huge herds of cattle and pretty
Western cities. Cheyenno was reached
at last. How chauged it seemed 1
Some of the dear faces were the same-
They grasped my hands, these old
comrades, and I was youug agai».
1 was surprised when, luruing sud
denly, 1 saw a tall, slender lady put
her arms arond Fairy aud kiss her
sadly. I knew her, Elinor, my wife's
frieud and the widow of our beloved
commander. She, too, was visiting
the fort At the hop the next evening
it dawned upon ine that Fairy was no
longer a child, and that she was as
lovely as Ella (my wife) was when I
llrst saw her and gavo her my whole
heart.
But why did the girl look so wistr
ful ? I went to where she stood.
"Fairy, Capt. Storrey left last
night for California. lam so sorry."
Elinor Aloe's arm tightened about
Fair y's waist. Although the dear
girl never flinched, yet her cheek
paled. Elinor knew then, I think,
what Fairy's secret was.
"Are you blind Captain ?" she
asked me oue day. To save my soul I
couldn't Bee what she meant.
She was a lovely woman of about
thirty-live, with a face sweet and sym
pathetic, aud a carriage like a queen.
She suggested that we pay a visit to
her horno in Santa Barbara, and see
Yellowstone on our way back. We
readily consented.
I cannot tell you of that trip over
the liockios. 1 was inspired,uplifted,
awed. When deep emotions pass
over us we are sometimes left speech
less.
Thus with me, I felt my disadvan
tage; but words failed to express the
grandeur of those snow-capped peaks,
as they raised their jutted Bides to the
blue sky. The deep canyons where
thousands of feet below flowed the
Colorado—ah, how clearly it showed
us that perseverance will wear away
the hardest obstacle, aye, even ada
mant. The Mexican costumes still
cling about Santa Barbara and seem
to instill the air with a vague, sweet
novelty. In this quaint city of roses,
so like beloved Italy, 1 left my darl
ing in Mrs. Aloe's tender care, while
I took a trip up the coast When 1
met Hal at 'Frisco, I tell you, 1 felt
my iorty-three years lightly.
llal went back to Santa Barbara
with me. I was telling him how in
the last year Fairy had drooped. She
was so dear to ine, and so was my
friend, and I could not keep the tears
back. Hal walked down to the beach
and back again.
"Bertie," he said at last, "I am an
old fool, but I lost my heart to Fairy
that summer I spent at your home."
"Why, man, you are old enough to
be her father!" I exclaimed.
"I am not yet forty, Bertie," he
said. "Of course, I know 1 can never
win her; she is as far abovo mo as the
staffs. But Ido love hor. It came to
me late, but it is real and earnest,
Bertie."
I looked at Hal. He did not look
old. The brown curls were untouched
by time's silver penciL The unlined
face, merry blue eyes and stalwart
figure showed a man in the fulness of
his prime. After Hal had spent a
few days iu Santa Barbara, he said to
to me:
"Why don't you marry Mrs. Aloe?
Sire is alone; so are you and Fairy.
She needs a womau's care; aud Mrs-
Aloe is such & perfect lady,"
I pondered over his words. As
Fairy seemed better, we tarried in
Santa Barbara until nearly five months
had passed. I was walking on the
beach one day wheu I saw Mrs. A'oe
coming towards me.
"Elinor," I said, "I am a blunt old
Soldier, aud I buried my heart in El
la's grave. But I have a deep, loyal
regard for you and you are alone.
Fairy and I need you. Will you be
my wife?"
Elinor placed her hand in mine, and
we we went to the old mission church
and were married there and then.
We saw Fairy as we came in, sitting
on the veranda, gazing out on the vast
Pacific.
"Fairy," I said, "this is my wife.''
•'My mother!" And I left the
two—dearest to me ou earth—to
gether.
We passed the summer iu the Yo
semite, where nature shows herself in
majestic beauty. Capt. Storrey was a
frequent visitor to our home. Never
by look or action did he betray his
secret. With pain I observed that
Fairy avoided him. I was on the
verge of telling Elinor more than
once, but could not betray my dear
friend's secret. Fairy seemed so
happy, aud yet at times there
came' that wistful look that so puz
zled me.
"Tell me," I said one day, drawing
hor to my knee. She laid her head
on my shoulder, aud sobs such as on
ly well forth when long suppressed
shook her form. She had never keyl
a secret from me before, and 1 was
pained. When she felt better she told
me that there was one presence she
longed for, and who, though perhaps
ato loved not more than she did ne.
yet one who, when awny, seemed to
take some of the sunshine with him.
This from my Fairy, whom I had
guarded so carefully and so well.
Who could he be? Ah, poor Storrey!
His chances were gone, indeed. If
Fairy loved line this, she would never
love again. '•ls it unreturned, dear?"
I asked her.
"Yes, father, he is far above me.
lie thinks me a child."
How my heart ached. My Fairy
was a woman with a woman's doom
upon her. I told her then of her
mother—how she had left me and how
dark the world all looked. "But,
dear," I said, "you are a soldier's
daughter." Then she kissed me and
understood.
She was no longer listless. She
grew more thoughtful, more unselfish
and more beautiful. She told us one
day she wanted togo to Italy. I
never could deny her anything; so she
went Ah, my Fairy, that sorrow has
moulded your character—made you
the woman you are today.
After Fairy had gone a little boy
came to us. It once seemed that my
heart contained no room for another
than Fairy, but the little fellow with
his eyes soou won his place in my
heart. When Robbie was two the
longing for Fairy was so great that 1
could live without her no longer. So
one day Elinor, Robbie aud I set 6ail
for lialy.
We did not tell her we were coining
we dropped in upou her. Shall I ever
forgot that day? We entered unan
nounced. A tall lady, her bronze
hair in a classic knot, her brown eyes
sparkling, her sweeted lips parted,
turned to us. It was our Fairy.
When the greeting were over she led
us to a room, and there we saw what
had detained her in Italy.
There in white marble was a per
fect form in loose drapery. Tho
figure was gracefully posed on one
foot, one arm was upraised, the beau
tiful head thrown slightly back. The
expression on the cold, marble face
was one of the sweetest patience. It
was my Fairy's work. I took her in
my arms and silently looked at her,
while Elinor softly whispered:
"Fear not in a world like this, for
you will know ere long, how sublime
a thing it is to sutler and be 6trong."
Wo went to Venice, tho city in the
sea. Unexpectedly I met Storry. 1
took him home with me. As we en
tered our apartments wo heard voices.
"Nay, Elinor," Fairy said. "I am
a soldier's daughter and must goon to
the eud with this locked in my heart.
Forget it, Elinor. Harry Storrey
cares for me only as his friend's
daughter. lain wcak,mymother. Leave
me to tight it out alone. Forget the
weak words. Let no other hear them.
Would that they were not beyond re
call!"
Elinor arose and left her. What an
idiot I had been. Fairy had loved him
all the time. 1 went out, leaving Stor
rey standing there.
Fairy lay upon the couch motion
less. Storrey went to her aud stood
looking at her.
She raised her head and then stood
up. "Capt. Storrey." She was the
self-possessed woman again.
But before she could speak he took
her in his arms.
••Nay, Fairy, your confession is be
yond recall.''—[Chicago New*.
Hawaii's Immense Sugar Plantation.
Fifty miles from l'ala, in the north
ern part of Maul Island, is the planta
tion of the Hawaiian Commercial
Company—ono of the largest sugar
estates in tho world, Dr. J. Mott
Smith says. On the sandy isthmus
connecting East and West Maui, aud
on a plain which was formerly an arid
desert, where not a tree or scarcely a
blade of grass ten years ago could be
found, can now be seen green pastures,
beautiful flower gardens, avenues of
trees and 12,000 acres of growing
sugarcane. On this extensive planta
tion is a sugar mill capable of manu
facturing 120 tons of sugar a day.
This great change waa brought
about by storing the raiu gifts of the
clouds, which for ages had fallen »u
barren rocks forty miles distant and
run to waste into the sea. The work
of transferring the rainfall from the
mountains to the sugar plantation is
oue of the greatest piece* of engineer
ing in the Pacific. Twenty-eight tun
nels, 3xß feet, cut through solid rock,
some of them 600 feet through, had to
be dug beforo good results were ob
tained. The wator is brought through
pipes, aud they deliver 8,000,000 cubic
feet of water a day. The Commercial
Company owns 25,000 acres of land
in this valley, aud 12,000 acres of the
tract are constantly under cultivation.
[New York Tribune.
A recent novel says of one of tho
characters: "He was as gaudy as a
red mau with tho blues."
(|LAIM AND CURIOUS.
A watch ticks 160,144,000 times a
pear.
Kansas is tbe only state in the Union
that produces reeled silk.
It is related that Charlemagne used
to wear a robe that was worth SBOOO.
A murderer hanged in Alabamn
paid to his lawyer his last nickel on
the scaffold.
The first king to whom the tittle of
"Majesty" was applied was Louis XI.,
in France, in 14C3.
The excavated temples near Bom
bay, in India, would require the labor
of 40,000 men for forty years to com
plete.
Mandalay is crowded with monas
teries. There are in Upper Burmah
11,894 professed monks aud about
14,000 novices.
Two Confederate stamps recently
carried a package from Granby, Mass.,
to Boston. They were not deiected
in the postoflice.
Ferterze Irnchzizkowskclowski is a
San Francisco cabinet maker, and
Perterje Zmnchzizkomskekowlowski is
a Buffalo boiler maker.
England received about 10,057,600
letters from the United States last
year. Germany received from us
5,858,040 letters, and France, 1,884,-
040.
In Sitka, Alaska, when an Indian
wife has lost her husband by death
she goes into mourning by painting:
the upper part of her face a deep
black.
Men cutting ice at Buxton, Me.,
found a half-blown water lilly imbed
ded in one of the cakes. It was
thawed out, putin a 6unny window
aud soon bloomed out as handsomely
as any lily iu July.
The Swiss '"Canton and Republic of
Obwalden," which contains fewer
thun 15,000 inhabitants, most of them
agriculturists, prohibits snuff-taking
or smoking by any Obwaldener who
has not reached adult age.
The number of languages spoken
by mankind at the present is esti
mated at 8000. The Bible has been
trans ated into 200 only, but these 200
are spoken by about two-thirds of the
whole population of the globe.
Our English ancestors, in the Thir
teenth and Fourteenth centuries, had
four meals a day, breakfast at 7, din
ner at 10, tea at 4 and supper at 8 or
9, soon after which they went to bed.
The tradespeople aud laboring men
had only three meals; breakfast at 8,
dinner at 12 aud supper at 6.
There is one way of telling the
speed of a railway train which old
travelers claim is almost infallible.
Every time the car passes over a joint
in the truck there is a distinct click;
count ilie number of these clicks in 20
seconds, and it is said you have the
number of miles the train is going per
hour, as the length of the rail is uni
form.
Kissing is Dangerous to Health.
Doctor C. O. Probst, Secretary oi
the State Board of Health of Ohio, ap
peared before the association of pus
tors of Columbus to urge their co
operation in two much needed sani
tary reforms. One is to stop the cus
tom of indiscriminate kissing and the
other to abolish the uSe of the same
cup in the administration of the sacra
ment by several hundied persons.
Doctor Probst explained that the most
certain and most dangerous transmis
sion of the germs of disease is by the
mouth to mouth method. He cited
the almost universal habit among
ladies of kissing friends on greeting
them or bidding them good-by; ol
kissing babies and children and urging
babies and children to kiss each other.
Pastors, too, consider it a part of their
duty to Kiss the babies of their parish
ioners.
All this was well meant, but it
was as dangerous a 9 it was perfuuc
tory in many cases. He quoted Moset
ns a sanitarian on this subject and
said the greater law-giver would not
have tolerated cither thekissiug or the
common cup custom in sacramental
administrations. The clergymen asked
for some practical suggestions as
how to obviate the danger pointed out
in the coinmuniou service. Several
were given, but the only ono con
sidered practical was that racii com
municant liavo his own cup. A reso
lution to do all iti their powor to bring
about these reforms was adopted. -
[Chicago Herald.
One View of Forgery.
"Did you write James Skidmore's
name on this nolo"'said the Judgo to
a prisoner accused of forgery.
'"Ps like to know, .fudge," replied
the culprit, "if Jim Skidmore has a
eopywright cn the letters as happens
to form lii« nam#?''—[Savannah
Press.
Kissing the Children.
Kisses in tbe morning
Make the day Beem bright,
Filling every corner
With a gleam of light;
And what happiness be missel,
AVho, affection's impulse scorning.
Departs, and gives no kisses
To the children in tbe morning.
Many think it folly;
Many say it's bliss;
Very much depending
On whose lips you kiss.
But the truth I am confessing,
And I'd have you all take win.iug.
If you covet any blessing,
Kiss the children in tbe morning.
Kisses in the evening
When tbe lights are low,
Set two hearts a-flaming
With affection's glow.
And tbe angels swarm in numbers
Round the pillow tbey are pressing,
AVho are wooed to peaceful slumbers
By a dear one's fond caressing.
Kisses in tbe morning
Are not out of place;
Kisses In the evening
Have a spicial grace;
And it seems to me tbat this is
For indulgence, lawful reason;
Sweetest tulips—l mean kisses
Ye are never out of season !
[The Ledger.
HUMOROUS.
Love may be blind, but he knows
when the parlor lamp is too lugb.
A revolver is 110 large weapon, but
it can be made to cover a very large
man.
About the hardest crop to raise on a
farm nowadays is tho boys in the
family.
She—You know you broke your
pronise to me. lie—Never mind, I can
make another just as good.
When a man inherits a portion of
a goodly estate lie Las no trouble in
finding people ready to take liis part.
"Today was prize day at my school,"
said Jimmie. "And did my little boy
get anything?" asked papa. "Yep.
Got kept in."
Banks—Rivers, how do you suppose
that wonderful bird, the phoenix, ever
caught fire? ltivers —probably from
a defective flew.
A bird in the band is worth two In the
bush,
Though gorgeous their plumage and re
gal;
Put, instead of an oriole, robin or thrush,
Let the bird be a bright, golden eagle.
Mr, Slowthink —I—er —you have
noticed how the days are getting
longer aud Miss Pertly—lt seems
to meas though it's tho evenings.
"You have been in iny mind all
day. Miss Angie," he cooed sweetly.
"Great mercy!" groand the girl in
agony; can it be that 1 am as small as
that ?"
"Well, mademoiselle, isn't he a
handsome fellow?" "Yes, he is, but
certainly one of his legs is too short,'*
"Too short? Quite the contrary; on®
of his legs is too long."
"Why are you so naughty, Johnnie!
It seems with mamma worn out and
papa with a broken arm, von might
try to be good." "Hohl" said
Johnnie. "That's just tho time to be
b:»d. No one can lick me."
Rushed With Business.
He was a big, strong, healthy-look
ing fellow, and when he knocked at
a kitchen door on Antoine street and
asked for something to eat, the woman
was not charitably disposed.
"Want something to eat?" she
snapped.
"I'm very hungry, ma'am," he re
sponded.
"You ought to be."
"I am," he admitted humbly.
"Why don't you goto work?"
"1 haven't time, ma'am."
"Haven't time?" she asked in sur
prise.
"No ma'am, I'm busy."
"Busy, indeed!" she 6aid sarcasti
cally. "I'd like to know what keeps
you busy?"
"Ilustlin' around from houso to
house, ma'am."
••What?"
"Ilustlin' around from house to
house, ma'am, tryin' to git something
to cat, takes up all my timo, so I don't
have any left to work in. That's tbe
gospel truth, ma'ain; aud if you don't
give me a bite, I'll have to waste two
or threo precious hours, ma'am, look
in up somebody that will," and his
ucrve saved him. [Detroit Free Pross.
Why Turtles Cannot Bite.
Very few people know that ncither
a turtle, nor a tortoise, uor a toad, is
provided with teeth. There is a gen
eral superstition that a turtle can bito
off a man's finger, but tho turtle can
do nothing of the kind. Its jaws aro
very strong, and the horny uiembrano
that runs around the jaw, where, i»
other animals, teeth arc found, is so
hard and tough that the turtlo can
erusk.tbo bones of tho hand to pulp,
but as for biting off even a linger, tho
feat is, to tho turtle, an impossibility.