American ingenuity and industry are conquering the markets of th» earth. Boston is to have a restaurant mi on strictly vegetarian principles. There are said to be over a hundred persons in the city who never eat meat from choice. The government agricultural experi ment station in Florida has discovered a fungus disear.e which destroys the San Jose scale, that tree pest which has spread over the entire country in the last two or three years. There are, according to an eminent archaeologist, no less than from 120 to 130 absolutely distinct languages in South America. As the growth oi language is very slow, he thinks the fact of the existence of so great a variety of speech on the western con tinents proves that the native red men have inhabited them for mauy thou sands of years. Some Neenah (Wis.) men painted the face of a sleeping man with an In dian decoration in red and blue ani line colors. As nothing will remove nuiline dyes he will have to wear the color all his life, and if he' turns In dian and goes on the warpath for the scalps of the men who painted him no one will blame him greatly, observes the Lewiston Journal. According to the Indianapolis News 3ecided opposition is arising in inusi :al circles to encores. It is held, and rightly, that, as a rule, they are out of place. So frequently do some peo ple demand them that the compliment they would otherwise convey is lost, while programs are greatly lengthened, to the detriment of their artistic balance and the weariness of the nor mal part of the audience. Some peo ple seem to feel that they have a right ',o demand encores of an artist that pleases them, whereas they have got ell they are entitled to when the pro gram announced is carried out. Artists ; have a perfect right to refuse to grant encores,and they ought not to be con sidered ungracious if they do. The Germans have been notoriously indifferent to the interests of the mis sionaries of their race in China until i the receut riots occurred, but tliey tending their market. The use of petroleum is becoming common in China. As a result lamps and oil stoves are being imported heavily. Most of them come from Japan and Germany. Russia is strengthening her forces in the North Pacific,as she did during the Chinese war. Russia means tc control the destinies of northeast Asia. If Germany shall stay in China it will be because Russian policy per mits it. The United States is now regarded as the leading dairy country of the world. In 1889 the annual value of our dairy products was estimated to exceed $400,000,000, and the value of the milch cows about $370,000,000. There fare about 17,000,000 cows in this country, or one to every four in habitants; one cow, however, furnishes the milk, butter and cheese for more than four persons, as large quantities of our dairy products are exported. The Atchinson (Kan.) Globe says that "up iu Hiawatha the curfew will be rung twice—at 5 o'clock to call the women home from card parties to get supper and at 8 o'clock for all the chil dren to scamper home. This is not a bad idea, and Atchison should adopt it. If the whistle can be used but once a day, then let it be blown at 5 o'clock for the card-playing women. The women need a curfew worse than the children. They neglect no duties. By all means, blow the curfew at 5." Says the Louisville Courier-Journal: "A late phase of New York journal ism is the publication of twelve tele graphed interviews with murderers all over the country as to the guilt or innocence of Martin Thorn and Mrs. N'ack. A speicmen interview is with Lizzie Wong,a St. Louie white woman who married a Chinese gambler, and killed another woman through jealousy. This may be considered as going to extremes, but the readers of the New York papers must be in structed at an j- cost." The Chicago Times-Herald phil osophizes as follows: It was long since acknowledged that "care killed n cat" and that worry slays its tens of thousands where work kills its hun dreds. Science comes to the defence of his philosophy and produces actual proof that woiry kills as certainly, if not as suddenly, as typhoid or scarlet or yellow fever, and that many a dis ease that is attached to some other vital organ originates in the brain. Occasional anxiety or care and trouble nt intervals may do little harm. But incessant worry, disturbing the brain cells from day today and week to week, will injure the brain beyond repair. The brain being the nutritive centre of the body is thus unable to nurture the other organs some of which will give way, and the victim, though said to die of heart disease or lung trouble or disorder of the liver, is, is a matter of fact, killed by worry. So, if the brain is exposed to that re iterated hammering of an unpleasant fear it will finally succumb, and the human structure which it inhabits will tumble into ruins. The micro scope is even able to detect this de generation of the brain cells from week to week. Don't worry. The special report of the agricul tural department, Washington, that Austria-Hungary from being a great grain-exporting country is becoming an importing nation, is another as surance that the American farmer is going to get better prices for farm produce during the next few years. The empire has ranked fifth among wheat producers, coming after the United States, Russia, Frauce and British India; but its tendency is to a smaller production year after year. Mr. Frank H. Hitchcock, chief of the section of foreign markets in the de partment, who has made a careful study of the matter, says that the acreage is steadily diminishing, while the consumptive requirements of the country are increasing. This applies also to the milling industry. The mills of Buda-Pesth are said to be the finest and largest in the world, and hitherto have exported a great part of their output. The annual average for the five years, 1886-90, was 1,775,- 827 barrels, but for 1891-95 the an nual exports amounted to but 500,- 667 barrels. The grain which Austria imports has heretofore been almost entirely from Roumania, Servia and Russia, but the cessation of exports removes that much of competing nup plies fron the worlds markets and the exporting nations,of which \>« are the greatest, must reap the benefits. LONG ACQ. I once knew all tbe birds that came And pining for the joys of youth, And nested in our orchard trees ; I tread the old familiar spot, For every flower I had a name— Only to learn this solemn truth : My friends were woodchucks, toads and i have forgotten, am forgot. bees. Yet, here's this youngster at my knc-4 1 a: d ."(sL"b„,„d T *,»»"» «»""«■ i »"»* > to {j_ To think I once n as wise as he— O, I was very learned then, But that was very long ago. But that was very long ago. J compMn I knew the spot upon the hill Of whatsoe'er the Fates deoree^ Where eheekerberries could be found ; Yet were not wishes all in vain, I knew the rushes near the mill I tell you what my wish would be: Where the pickerel lay that weighed a rd w ' igh to be boy aKalu I knew the wood-the very tree „ B \ ck wlU \the friends I used to know ; Where lived the poaching, saucy crow, * or I was, Oh. so happy then And ail the woods and cjows knew me— But that was very long ago. But that was very long ago. —Eugene Field. ; A Gat and Dog Life for Tioo. \ Aunts are often odiously eccentric persons. The idea had ocourred to me even while Aunt Maria Markham \vu« alive. After her death I was convinced of it. So was poor,dear Julia, though cir cumstances (thanks to Aunt Markham) withheld her from informing me of the fact. By Aunt Maria's will I was to have the brute of a bulldog and Julia the eat. The conditions were that with each quadruped the legatee was to re ceive #SOO per annum. This sum to be jjaid as long as the cat and dog re spectively enjoyed life in this terres trial sphere, aud afterwards also for our respective lives (Julia's and mine) if the said quadrupeds eventually died natural deaths. It was simply iniquitous—for sev eral reasons. To begin with, Strong, as the bull dog was called,had frightful teeth and a yet more frightful temper. I should think aunt had paid hundreds of dol lars in hush-money to folks whose flesh and blood the brute had tasted— to say nothing of trousers,dress skirts and hose. Sweet, as the cat was named, was an enormous object, with enormous claws. Its temper was really not bail. But once aroused, Sweet was a demon; nothing less. In aunt's time I had seen this great tigerof acat stroll care lessly into the yard where Strong was chained and there lay itself down to rest just three feet from the limit of Strong's tether. The sight of the dog when it happened was pathetic. But it didn't trouble Sweet. The cat lay half curled, with its green eyes oil Strong,and I would not have put odds on the bulldog if they could have had a straight set-to without any favor. Visitors loathed Sweet. She pos sessed a lazy, cool way of clawing up a fellow's legs aud yawning while she hung onto the skin. And no lady was safe from her. Be the dress ma terial what it. might—from cambric to satin—Sweet was bound to assault it on the sly. But all this was comparatively noth ing to the g:eat hardship of all. In jest I had more than once told Julia that I had told Aunt Maria that she (Julia) was the only person fit to take charge of such a dear treasure as Sweet in case of sad happenings. Really, I had done no such thing, but Julia now disbelieved my solemn as severations. "I will accept Aunt Markliam's charge," she said,"but we must never see each other again, you and I." We were cousins, you know, and rather better than engaged, I imagined. I could (previous t.> aunt's demise) have conceived th-? collapse of the heavens, but not Julia's repudiation of our joint future. And so she fetched Sweet and in stalied the slick demon in her dear studio, and I was left to console my self with that morethan demon, Strong, the bulldog. It was under stress of this treatment by Julia that I did a thing that now seems to me superhuman. "Please,sir," said my aunt's house keeper, when I contemplated the dog that was mine, "I don't know how you'll get him to your rooms, nor what you'll do with him when you get him there. Since the poor missus' death he has been something awful." "Oh, he has,has he?" said I,staring like one fascinated at his awkward, broad chest. I walked off there and then—driven by rage and the thought of Julia—and came to an old curiosity shop. Here there was a complete suit of rusty ar mor, not too heavy for an athlete of my build. I arranged to borrow that armor, put it on in aunt's own parlor and then with my rhinoceros hide stick walked up to the lair of the dog. Mean it may have been. I care not. For 20 minutes I smote Strong until there was no bite left in him. He bestowed many tooth marks and scratches on the armor,but that didn't hurt me. And when the 20 minutes were past he rolled over on liis ugly, great back and wagged liis short tail. Then did I slip off my armor and go boldly up to the dog. 'lt licked my hands. I had conquered, and I knew that Strong would thenceforward, if need were, die for me. But I hated it more than ever, for never more than at this moment did I feel like wanting a smile from my dear Julia. Thus began the miserable three months of our estrangement. Julia was madly devoted to art. She wore "new" garments and "new" modes of hair; but they all became her, though hideous on any other girl. With aunt's SSOO a year, she had money to scrape along on. Literature was my rope of fortune. I had enough to keep myself in bread and cheese and the dog in bones. But a fellow requires other things than mere necessaries. I yearned for Julia. Thrice I made an effort to see her, and thrice I wrote. All in Tain. I had the wretched bulldog as com" pensation and nothing mo: e. Now in the third or fourth week I began to experience the joys of being master of such a brute as Strong. He had to be kept in my own room, if you please,because there was no yard. While I was in it was all right; he would sit watching me as humble as a dog could be. But the moment I was free of the house he would bark and rave and keep it up until I returned. Of course I got served with sum monses on behalf of the nuisance. All this time I was without explicit intelligence of Julia. It was madden ing. To think of this poor, dear way ward child alone, as it were (though not quite) in a great city, consuming her own pride. For I felt, you see, that she really still loved me as I loved her. And yet not one word could I get from the worthy, devoted old housekeeper who looked after her. But one evening, when many weeks had passed and I had bred a wrinkle on my brow, who should come to see me but Mrs. Green herself—this same good housekeeper. "'Tis no good talking, Mr. Wil loughby," she burst forth, "and for nobody that lives will I see my dear Miss Julia breaking her precious heart —least of all a cat." "Goon, Mis. Green," I urged, and she went on. "The times we've had, sir, I'd never have believed possible, and all along of that Sweet wretch. You're ac quainted with the animal, Mr. Wil longhbv, but not ar, she's grown up of late. There's an evil spirit in that beast not tit for a decent person to live with—and least of all a tender young lady like Miss Julia." "You ure extremely right, Mrs. Green,extremely," I remarked. "Tell me more." "The very last thing, sir, was the scratching of the "King of Scotland" from head to foot and him ready to be sent to the academy. 'Six weeks' hard work and all for nothing!' ray young lady sobbed and said,a-pointing at the cat, which lay purrin' like the evil hypocrite she is. There's nothin' safe from the false great object. And the milk it drinks and the dainty bits it does steal—why, it's $5 a week damage it does one way or another, if you'll be'ieve me, Mr. Willoughby." "1 believe every word you say, my dear Mrs. Green," I replied. "Look at that other object." I pointed at Strong as I spoke and made a click with my tongue. Strong obeyed that click. He stole,growling towards Mrs. Green, who jumped up, screamed and lied. But I arrested her outside and took lier by the arm and whispered in her large red ear and was so glad that I could have kissed her, though she carries much hair on her upper lip and unequivocal down on her chin. "We will go in a cab," said I at length, when I had soothed her. And on the way I convinced her that my plan was a reasonable one and that she (Mrs. Green) would be far more comfortable and opulent as house keeper to two souls than as house keeper to one soul aud a demon cat. And in the street, where Julia gives consecration to the atmosphere, I first pressed a dollar into the dear creature's palm and then set her on the pave ment. Then back I drove to my rooms to find that Strong had, in a playful fit, reached down my collection of foreign stamps (in a 820 album) and divided it into an incalculable number of partß. But for once I did not curse the pretty creature. "Good old dog," I said, as I patted him on the head. Aud he wagged his ugly tail and straightway proved his goodness by swallowing a British Guinea stamp of 1855 worth $5 and scraping to morsels its fellow worth §lO. That night I dreamed many dreams in which Julia, Mrs. Green, the dog Strong and the cat Sweet were strange ly mingled. But I awoke refreshed, nevertheless, for I was full of hope. Xor had I any compunctions, for I felt that the happiness of two linmiw to Us was better than the happiness of a couple of demoniacal quadrupeds. In the moruing an insurance agent called and, speaking in a high voice that seemed menacing (though of course was not), got mauled at the ankle. "The law, my friend, will give me my revenge," said this gentleman, when I had escorted him in safety downsttiirs. Yon see, I had not wanted to insure my life. But at half past three I uprose and, taking Strong by the chain, led him into the street. Thus to the studio. Here Mrs. Green received me with a pale face. "Miss Julia is not in," she said; and I, dissembling, remarked that it was a pity. "If I might rest awhile," I pro ceeded. "Oh, certainly, sir," replied the astute creature. "Perhaps you would i like to leave the dose in the kitchen?" The good soul onened the door. Then I slipped Strong's chain,pushed liim in and shut the door. Immediately afterwards I invaded Julia's stndio and Mrs. Green with me. We shut ourselves in and dis cussed the weather, the last cure for colds (Julia having one) and much else. We talked without ceasing, in deed, for many minutes. But in spite of everything the riot in the kitchen reached our ears. Ter rific at times it was, with fateful lulls, followed afresh by piercing cries, now of a cat and now of a dog. I opened the door an inch and peeped in. At length, by half-past four, utter peace reigned. Mrs. Green and I looked at each other and started for the kitchen. On the landing, however, whom should we meet but Julia. "James!" she exclaimed, blushing divinely. "I—brought the dog with me," I murmured. "I aui going now. I only wanted to know that you were well. He is in the kitchen." Her eyes brightened when I men tioned Strong. Hatred of Sweet pos sessed her—she said so afterwards. Then lo] c icd the door, and in a moment I saw that we were saved. "Oh, Miss Julia!" cried Mrs.Green, running to the lifeless body of Sweet. "Strong, what have you been doing?" said I. But I expected no answer,for side by side with the cat lay the life less dog. For many seconds we contemplated the dead warriors. Then I turned to Julia. Tears were in her eyes, Mrs. Green considerately went away. "Dearest," I said,"there ip nothing now between us," and I opened my arms to her. She hesitated for a moment, then came to me, and I kissed away her tears. The death of Strong and Sweet was, after due legal debate, reckoned ex ceedingly natural, The quadrupeds slumber in one grave.—St. Lonis Star. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Infant schools begau in New Lanark, Scotland, in 1815; in England not till 1818. To improve her complexion, a young lady in Worcester, Englaud, was in the habit of eating about two wax candles every week. Chinese brides of high station fre quently do not see their husbands until the red veils are lifted at the marriage ceremony. The long tails of the Shah of Per sia's horses are dyed crimson for six inches at their tips—a jealously guarded privilege of the ruler and his sons. In order to raise church funds, a Georgia minister charged admission to an eutertainuent where the contestants engaged in a giuger cake eating com petition. Detectives detailed to look after pro fessional shoplifters always look to see if their suspects are wearing gloves. A professional, it is declared, never works with gloves on. The ginger plant grows wild in some parts of Mexico, and its cultiva tion on the elevated plateaus is to be encouraged. An estimate of the value of the crop may be gleaned from the fact that one acre's yield brings in'about S3OO in gold. Showers of blood—bona fide, genu ine blood, or at any rate, having the same properties—are by no means un common on the Mediterranean coast, and in some parts of Italy. The rain has been analyzed, and undoubtedly contains several of the mineral con stituents of human blood. Alderman Backer of Brooklyn is a philanthropist —also a real estate dealer. He has offered to the first family that is blessed with twins in his district a house, rent free, as long as they want to occupy it. To the first family that registers triplets he offers to give a house and lot. It was not until 1878 that the mann facture of hairpins began in the United States. Previous to 'that time those used in this country were brought from England or France. Now the trade is such a large one that it takes 50,000 packages, each containing twenty-four pins, to supply the whole sale demand daily in New York alone. There died the other day at Ells worth, Ohio, a mau who remembers with vivid distinctiveness the battle of Waterloo, of which he was an eye witness. James R. Green was born at Bolton, England, in 1798. In 1815 he was doing service on the Royal George and he got permission togo to the front with a brother, who was in the Forty-fifth regiment. O. C. Schulte, a member of the California Swimming club, was called upon to take the place of another diver who had been announced to jump from the balcony of the Cliff house, San Francisco, into the sea, but who re fused to take the leap of eighty-five feet. Schulte promptly undertook the feat and made a successful dive in the presence of ten thousand spectators. A very economical farmer in Mars Hill, Me., who is worth thousauds ol dollars, had the misfortune to lose his wife by sudden death. Her loss grieved him very much, occurring, as it did, in the midst of his fall Vvork. He very reluctantly gave up his duties on the farm long enough to dig his wife's grave with his own hands, and then hastily returned to his more yjn'o fitable labor. j Utterly Hop*le»». I "It'B all off, darling," groaned/ the disconsolate lover. ) "No? Did papa refuse his/ con sent?" I "Practically. He said that I fcnigbt have you when X had earned and/saved SI OOO. He's a monster, Amie. j A TEMPERANCE COLUMN THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFES" IN MANY WAYS. The Trauip'a Speech—When Invited t Make an Address In the llarroom, H Described the Cause of All His Wretch edness—A Courageous Business Mai It was growing late, says the Now O) leans Picayune. The tide of humautt that earlier in the eyening had ebbed an Bowed through the streets of the great clt; had swept onward, leaving the strange ac almost appalling sense of desolation thi comes when the noises of the town ai hushed. In front of a saloon whose ligh shone out bright across the pavemet stood a tramp, unshorn, ragged, dirty, dif gustlng. He watched with envious eyi the men who passed in and ont throug the swinging doors, and then he turned h eyes toward two young fellows In ovenln dress who were oomlng down the stre< towards him. They had been drinkln deeply, and they stopped before the saloo door and looked curiously at him. "Say," said one, "let's give the tramp drink." The other hilariously consented, nnd tl tramp slouched into the saloon nt tl heels of the two gilded youths. The ba keeper set beforo them glasses and liquor and with a hand that shook the tram poured out a brimming glass and raised to his lips. "Stop," cried one of the young mc jlrunkenly, "make us a speech. It is poc IKjuor that doesn't loosen a man's tongue. The tramp hastily swallowed down tl drink, and as tho liquor coursed throug his blood he straightened himself an stood before them with a graoe and dii city that ull his rags and dirt could n< obscure. "Gentlemen," ho said, "I look to-night i you and at myself, and it seems to me look upon the picture of my lost manhoot This bloated face was once as young an handsome as yours. This shambling tlgur once walked as proudly as yours, a man i a world of men. I, too, once had a horn and friends and position. I had a wifef beautiful as an artist's dream, and dropped the priceless pearl of her hone and respect in the wide cup, and, Clec patra-like, saw it dissolve and quaffed down in tho brimming draught. Iha cliildron as sweet and lovely as the flowei of spring, and I saw them fade and die ui der the blighting curse of a drunkar father. I had a home where loTe lit th flame upon the altar and ministered befor It.and I put out tho holy Are, and darkne! and desolation reigned in its stead. Iha aspirations and ambitions that soared a high as the morning star, and I broke an bruised their beautiful wings, and, at las strangled them that I might be torture with their cries no more. To-day I am husband without n wlfo, a father without child, a tramp with no homo to call h own. a man in whom every good Impulse dead. All, all swallowed up in tl maelstrom of drink." Tho tramp ceased speaking. The gla: fell from his nerveless fingers and shiver? into a thousand fragments on the floo The swinging doors pushed open and shi again, and when the little group about tt bar looked up the tramp was gone. A Courageous Business Ainu. A New York correspondent of the Pub! Ledger, in commenting upon the Chambi ot Commerce annual dinner, which cos the diners each 820, which, the writer say is mora than is usually taxod upon th subscribers to a public dinner, und ! instances the New England dinner, whic costs $lO a plate, but this Is without ton! He then adds: "Bight here let me quote what a distil glllshod New York business man said ton to-day in regard to this question of wim 'I do not,' he said, 'use wine myself, an some time ago I made up my mind that would not serve It at any of my dinner In my position I am obliged to give maj; formal dinners. I make them as line i money can provide, but no wine. It toe courage to »!o this. It was setting one Belt against asocial custom which has t most the same authority as that whi< compels the wearing of evening dres But, strange to say, I have succeeded arousing no criticism, and muny of n. guests have taken occasion to thank n for my courage. I was moved to do th because it has been my experience the where wine is free as water, too much drunk. One of the foremost bualne organizations of this country, which holt a meeting every year, is actually In dang of going to pieces because tho annual r unions have become occasions for the i tempcrnte use of wine. My rule, whenev I have anything to do with subscripts dinners, Is to have the subscription cov only the meal without wine. Then, if ni diner desires wine, lot him order and pi for it extra. With champaign at $8 to • a bottle it is not as likely that there w be as intemperate a use of It as when can be ordered without limit as being i eluded in the subscription price.'" A Pathetic Lecture. "It is breaking my heart," wore the p thetic words of a widowed mother wl was called to the witness stand to swear a painful oomplaintshe was forced to ma against her son. He was her only ehil and it should have been his delight work for and make happy his good mothi his best earthly friend. Instead of wor ing and providing a good home for her, squandered ut the saloon the little that enrnod; she had to work hard to give h a home. His habits grew so bad that last she determined to have him committ as an habitual drunkard, hoping that would then reform. When called to the witness stand to t< tlfy against him, she said, "It is break! my heart," and fell dead with the words her lips. What a lecture for any inotl to deliver! Boys, don't let it ever be said of you tl you are bringing grief to your mothe heart. Let it be your aim to make I happy. You can do it by little loving n every day of your life.—Youth's Temp nneo Banner. A Good Plan. Tho plan ndopted by the Prussian St: Bailway Department is one which the mi ugers of our American railways might w inaugurate on their lines. The Pruss*. State Department has issued instruct!; tostatlon masters to urrango that in railway restaurnnts a good cup of cod with milk and sugar, is to be supplied ten pfennlge (two cents) and that an ex large supply of this beverage Is to be hund during tho time of the departuro n arrival of early trains, when lnrge bod of working people are traveling. Hav forbidden their employes visiting saloo on or off duty, our American manag might provide for the sule at 'the prlnoi; depots, particularly at terminal points, good coffee and tea at an equally mod ate rato. They could give tho trainn and traveling public a first-class cup pure coffee for two cents and not 1' money. ••The Best Men on Earth." If saloon keepers are indeed "the b men on earth," as the Mayor of India polis. h'imself one of thom, asserts, shall have to revise our ethical systems as to represent the worst as the best t the best as the worst. It would Boem to nobler to make a man drunk than to h him to keep sober; to minister to the dulgence of his appetites than to Indue; him to control them; to start him on road to the almshouse or State's pri; than to encourage him to thrift, Inilut and uprightness. If saloons are the V places on earth, homes nnd school hou and churches must be the worst, they so widely different.— Independent.