THE REALM OF FASHION. k city-' "J10 01 "n"cc ' omiy becoming llinn Iho y " C.fmH Tim nvfml. , IIJ 11111".' Mniilnn design here lllus- inllaptiil to miiiiy materials, "Ivor in'""'' effective '". " taffeta win' applique ,M embroidery. The model " , ,h ti,r (hawing wn made Is ;!,flilrt of figured black silk 1 waist made of rend.v tucked r ...,nin while. The lln. MP 111 ' " " , ,m Mitlii. l't "10 rovers nro ,iih blnrk panne, which ndds 0 till1 ftll'C'l. MI1I K, antrlion the waist. Is finished -ii.. if henvv orentn lure. 'ri"4'!- - ,,,,,...,,, l, luted linn""" Uditwly attractive for gnrden .nd lufornini rirmun inn bint from l'nrls tells or taf ,iirlilil l.v embroidery Into nlJ and sliver Tiueiius nr iu luf beneath ninv he Lfcntrnstlug material, but Is ff et i VG 'I' 11 'il'i""""n alTi as chiffon, moussoiiiio nnu itJlts' WAIST Wllir BOLF.l'.O. it this bolero for n lady of me Ue three yards of material mdc luclies wide, or one mid ;(bth yards fifty Inches wide, m and three-quarter yards of tlglitwn Inches wide for tho iodouo and n half yards of lln ill be required. tdnl Coitiitoo For S.ilinnl. mfortnl)le, serviceable Monso always lu demand. It makes nl costume for school wear and be bows of play. During the months It has been popular from kliaki cloth, linen and jit ts cool weather approaches mil light-weight flannel will bo hind. The smart May Mnuton tones nml designs Interwoven with silver and gold will reign supreme. The soft, becoming pannes will be in favor, us will nlso the liberty sallu The summer of lnee will bo closely followed by 11 winter of lnee. In fact, lace will be so much in deinr.nd that It will be Impossible to get certain de sirable iitiallllcs. A Tail or t tnlnlnliy. I'cnilnhrily 1ms ftillen In love with tucks for lingerie ns well as for every thing else, so that some one facetious ly remarked that the next will be "tucks on stockings, spaced with hieo lnsortlngs." He that ns 11 may. tucks on everything and everywhere might well describe the newest undergar ments. The favorite skirts lit the hips quite smoothly, and have tucks stitched down flat for about six ot seven Inches and then fall Into fulness. As fnr as the trimming Is concerned, pettleonis are one and all finished with tl circular or flaring ruffle, and every mode that the mind ran conceive Is used in trimming these ruffles. Some of the lace Incrustatli ns nppllqned 011 the ruffles, and on the upper part, too, of the Imported underskirts, nro truly works or art. Just to give an Idea ot the elaboration and the quality of ma terials used on the French hand-made lingerie, n large New York shop has Just imported two three-piece suits foi the trousseau of tho daughter of a mulli-mllllonalt'o, one costing $150 nnd the other $18.". Rainy-Day Vnahntil rntlconn. Heady-nude washable petticoats for rainy day wear are shown at the re markable prices of nrty-nlne and sixty-nine cents. The miilcrin) of which they are mnde Is grass cloth, lawn, or seersucker, and they are trimmed will: corded flounces or nar row rubles of the same. The skirls are made adjustable to any .six by drawstrings ut the walct The Skirt 'Jlininlrc. The skirt chemise, lit ting like a glove, is steadily growing In favor, and promises to remain so while the snugly-fitting hip and Mured boMum skirl, which renders them so conve nient. Is 1:1 vogue. Terminate pt tho Wnl.t I.I no. The majority of the best corset cov ets terminate at tho waSt line, nnd the!r fronts are lu surplice form. The high-necked or half-corset cover Is no long':.' used by the best-dressed wnn'ou Slclrt With Inrerteit Plant In Ilnrfc, Skirls continue to be snug lit tins ibout the hips, but are cut to flare nl the feet and to allow till possible free dom. The smnrt ?Jay Mnutou mode! showu Is equally adapted to the heavy linens, d'.tcks nnd piques of warm weatherwear, and to the woolen stu.Ta GIRL'S JjLOUSE SUIT. In the lni-cn rli-nwlnir li lo all the materials men- tot tho model Is made from 'o liiies of red. the trlm 1 lna the ,i,.i,,, ,,1 i..,.i...i Nle hrni.1 j" U full and straight, gntb- - wva to a fitted waist that '"partite from the blouse. Tho ' 10 tVO tlleoeu nn.l .lni lit Kbaik. The fitting In acconi- 1 iiu or Blngle darts and t'uttin, but the darts can when tho figure makes It Tim fi1nuti.k 1.. wnUt, and the collar sewed 'I0f no,,), . . , 11 mint .-1.1. . .. . . f "iiu Miiouiuer ana un--, '""m ly- Tho sailor collar to tlm .,,...1. ... lit 11. "-, uiiu me uiouse r" He ennti-a -... .. J.. -v iiuui, iim luiuraa Mug arrang.nl In gathers, "wvei am .... j u r'noulders nna wrlst8 nnJ nre f'Oltndiuin n.-i .., ,i "iioioiuius or cuus. owu lg Wom n reguiaUon "acoMUU for n lrl ot e,,,t w three and a half yards of ""fty-two Inches wide, or a (lMnrl... , . tU "w j urns rorry-iour ,, with one-half ynrd or lln- waalred. 'it'lm" nbr'Nut Now. i e7 'n fttbrk'8 are not ai r: tk 1 """"""ere will number Ml ,,, ,ul,eu casiimeres win ' U " wl" l as much In Hf. au(1 tbo light weight XlenV0rU' mk MUVaS Will ll, ,! , v,,'y 'or simple frocks. rfcou, ",lalumu. silks will f ivt ' . 1 lu Louis XV, nnd "'octides in beautiful CUBAN SUPERSTITIONS. WIDE VARIETY OP OMENS AND CHARMS CHERISHED. that will be In demand before many weeks. As Illustrated tho material llf veiling in cniin reuse, (jiuai-. , be worn ns part of tin covtumo or with odd waists 83 occasion demands It Is cut lu three pieces, tho shapely front gore, and the two clrceir por tions. The inverted pleats at the foot of the front gore actually etfnd to the seam only, but as the seam Is stitched down flat the effcet l that of .the stitched pleat without the bun den of Its weight. The fulniss at 1'aft back Is also arranged In an laverted pleat, so carrying out the symmetry of the design. The skirt can b? mndu long for ludoor use, or short, to c'ni the ground, for the street, as p-erarred. To cut this skirt for a tody cf uio dluui sl.e seven yards of material limes' THREH riECE SKI11T. thirty-two Inches wide, four and ou? half yards forty-four Inchea wide, or four nnd one-quarter yards fifty inches wide, will bo required. riio Italn Wntcr of Mny tlplltivril In Ton ( IVrnllnrlr llinrnrlnl Ouiillllrn 1lrt Knlrtl n lllrillrlnr Mfionlljrlit Uiwlcn III Nimilinr I :i Alihnrrnl, liorothy Slanliope writes as follows :o the Xew York Times from 1 1 :i vim.-t : .Inst ns Americans have superstitions which are unknown iiinon the people C this Islnnil, so the Ciiliaus have lumy which are unknown among us. Among the educated people bete these nave no more weight tiitin among the 4iime class in the Stales. Hut among I lie lower flascs. there Is the greatest Importance attached to them. As Is natural, most of the omens are of sick ness or health and their religion em bodies much of superstition also. A belief Very prevalent among lh: .'ommoii people Is that the rain water )f May has peculiarly beuellclal qunl Hies which that of no other time pos sesses. Why the month of Mny Is favored Is not quite plain, although the fact that during that month the rainy season begins may have some bearing on the matter. Certainly. If its waters have any curative powers, every sick person lu the Island should have been helped this year, for the rain fell In torrenls during the greater part of tin1 month. Another belief that has n strong hold nil the same class of people Is that cer tain diseases can be cured by eating dlft, and so when one of these diseases manifests Itself, the believer does not .'onsult a physician, but instead gnlli-r-rs up n handful of dirt and eats It. If any relief Is obtained it. must be the result of faith cure, which the pa tient Is unconsciously trying. Why nl! kinds of germs are not taken In with the dirt Is 11 mystery possibly they are. Still another, means of relieving pain -lu this Instance, headache is by pressing a leaf from a tree ngiinst each temple, and leaving 11 there for ionic time. It does not seem nl nil necessary that the leaves should be from tiny particular kind of tree or hrub In order lo effect a cure. It U in I itiiiisunl to sec poor people going about with their foreheads so adorned. The moonlight seems particularly object liiinible, and strangers are warned not to go out lu It with uncov ered liri, (I, nnd not lo go out lu It at all, If It can be avoided. It Is thought that tills l.ght brings miiiiy evil effects, and not under any circumstances will n Cuban sleep in Its rays he thinks Hint, among other things, It will draw his mouth to one side of his face. To be sure he has never seen nny one whom It has alTeeted In this way, but (hat does not Interfere with his belief. He nlso thinks that the night air is very Injurious, and always closes h's room up tightly at. night, so that no air may come iu to work its evil. Many Americans followed this example when they first came here, thinking Hun, as the Cubans had lived here so long, they knew the best way ot liv ing In this climate. Now, however, the majority of our fellow-countrymen throw their shutters wide open whenever circumstances will permit, and leave only the Iron liars of the window lo oppose the entrance of fresh air. ?.ny Cubans go iibout at night with their handkerchiefs at mouth and nose to keep Hie air from entering the lungs. Among some the air near the sea Is looked on with dis favor, and strangers 11 1 advised not to linger on the shore. To ward off sicknesses of various kinds there are little siltvr or tin Images to wear suspended about the neck as a kind of charm. Images of the' same kind are offered as thanks giving or prayer, and so we find cases In which sire hundreds of these little trinkets, hands, feet, arms, babies, etc. Few American babies wear bracelets. Mothers seldom think of such n thing as adding one of tkese to the dress of n child of n few months, but the poor people Imv grave fears for nny child that does not wear one during the teething period. The child may have little other clothing, probably nothing but a llp, but invariably the Cuban baby wears a bracelet on Its left arm, even If that bracelet be nothing more than a bit of string. Speaking of babies. It Is the uulversal custom here to have the ears of baby girls pierced at a very tender age, usually before they are two mouths old. This 1m done among both rich and poor, and seems quite necessary. Often poor mothers Ho strings lu the ears or these baby girls for want of better earrings. Cubans, or nt least the poorer classes of Cubans, think that every American baby whose ears are uot pierced must be 11 boy. The number thirteen Is regarded as unlucky here, but It Is not referred to as often as It is among us. Friday Is not thought an unlucky day. In deed, It Is rather the contrary for the Cubans, since Columbus discovered the West Indies on that day. Tuesday Is supposed to be a very uupropltious day of the week for starting a Jour ney, beginning a piece of work or for doing any or those tilings which lu other places are connected with Fri day, The hooting or an owl is taken as h very bad sign. The superstitious Cuban kills any creature or this klud which ninltes weird sounds near hrs home. This Is supposed to break tho spell, and It Is uot then inevitable that a member of the family shall meet death In the uear future. Butterflies also are looked upon as omens. Among the Culm us, espeelully those llvtug at Key West, It Is thought very unlucky to continue to live iu a house Jp which a member of the family lias dlfd. Among those at Key West there is a prejudice against owning their homes on this account, and as Boon as possible arter a death the romlly moves to another house. Apropos or this subject, Cuban chlldreu, even If they be scarcely able to walk, wear deep mourning after the death or either parent. It Is quite pitiful to see some of these chlldreu, scarcely more than babies, dressed In, this sombre in 11 unci'. Another custom, to which I have never seeu uor heurd of an ex ception, Is that among tho friends ot a deceased person who accompany the body to the cemetery there Is never a woman; the line of carriages contains only men. Ladles go to the home to express their sympathy calls of this klud seem obligatory but never to tfie cemetery. The Cuban women are great heller era In tho efllcncy of various herbs In Klckness, and hnve a remedy for ab most every ailment. American phy sicians find that they have much more knowledge In this line than tho women of our own country, and more knowl edge of sickness In general, lu tunny hoines, even the poorest, there ts n thermometer, and If any one Is ill his tempi rn litre Is taken before the phy sician arrives. UPS AND DOWNS IN DAILY WEIGHT. A ninn Mar ftnln TIii-oa I'nntHln nmt Six Onnrril In Ono Day. These are the days of "penny In the slot," pud possibly every one weighs very frequently for bis own amuse ment. F.von if the machines are not very accurate, the probability Is that if yon weigh regularly on tho same machine you can see correctly wheth er you Increase or diminish In weight. We are not concerned here with the steady Increase or diminution In weight at various (lines of the year or before and nfier an Illness, lmt I want to draw attention to the fact that In health we vary in weight from hour to hour, and that this does not seem to be recognized. It Is strange to see whnt absurd fallacies occupy the pop ular mind. Apropos of the subject of this paper. It has been seriously as serted by many people that you are naturally lighter nfter a meal, and Ihey have even gone the length of ex plaining this by the amount of gas that is developed from the food. These people must be very uncomfortable nfter meals! It reminds one rather of the famous fallacy said to have been submitted to the j'oynl Society, asking why a fish could be put Into a basin brimful of water without mak ing It run over. When It was tried nt some one's suggestion the water, of course, did run over. Supposing we want to find whether we do really vary In weight or not. (here are two ways to set about the In quiry. Wo can either sit In a weigh ing machine and live there which does not commend Itself to most of us-or we can weigh ourselves' at regular times during the day, which Is more feasible. Now common sense points out that we must vary iu weight un cord lug lo the amount of food we take In and th amount of material that we lose. In tin" following chart tho observations are arranged In such a way as, I think, will make them clear. Statistics are always painful, unless the writer has the wonderful power of Mr. Schooling, who certainly can make statistics attractive. I'.ut per haps tlu most convenient method is to look nt. the summary diagram llrst, and this shows what can be repre sented in figures without much difll euty : During Ninlit. Average. Hi. 07.. Hi. o. Hn.m. Itefore brenkfast, l.V H (lose 3 II) 10 a.m. After breakfast, 157 4 (gain 1 12) IJnoon liefore luncheon, I V) I) (lose 0 14) I p.m. After hmclienn, 1.T7 6 (gain 1 0) B p.m. Heloie dinner, 1"0 12 (lose n HI) It: 13 p.m. After dinner, 1"S 14 (gain 2 2) l!y these it will be seen that we lose three pounds six ounces between night and morning; that we gain one pound twelve ounces by breakfast. That we again lose about fourteen ounces be fore luncheon: that luncheon puts on an average of one pound; that we again lose during the afternoon an average of ten ounces; but that an ordinary dinner to healthy persons adds two pounds two ounces to their weight. What would be the result of 11 big dinner? It Is easier to Imagine than to describe. And yet on more than one day there was a difference of two pounds eight ounces; but this Is not very excessive considering Hint a pint of flu ill weighs about 11 pound. Knowledge. OPULAR SCIENCE. A given acreage of wheat will feed It least ten times as many people ns the same acreage employed In growing mutton. A Melancholy Itulldog. A bulldog committed suicide out in Falrmount l'ark a few days ago. l'ai k liiiard Marry Murray saw, but could not prevent, the tragic act, and l'ark liiiard MacKnlec burled, without tears, the crushed remains. The dog was young, white with brown spots, ami collarless. Murray drove him sev eral limes from off the liiiard avenue bridge. He was banging around there gloomily, pacing to and fro. now ami then pausing to look pensive ly down through the trefoil carvings lu the stone coping nt the river below. At a o'clock, having been driven away a little while before, the dog came rushing at full speed again out (llran avenue and over the bridge. Murray made for lilm. lie ran straight up and leaped through the first opening he found. It was a double trefoil, just large enough to admit his body, at the east end or the bridge. lie whirled through the air aud lauded on the river drive, seventy feet lielow. Over reeding was his troubl-. Munay thinks. Hlind staggers is the diagno sis or MacEntee. Hut surely, to the romantle-niiudeil, something more poetical thun this was the cause which led the young bulldog to take Ids lire. Philadelphia Itecoru. Mora Hold From Water, The new golcl-from-seii-water scheme or a Hrltlsh Inventor consists lu the construction or a shallow reservoir on a chalky coast, A ball-valve would open at high tide, allowing the water to enter with such force as to scour the bottom of the reservoir and stir up the sludge, and the discharge would be gradual through an outlet Just above low water mark. It is claimed that the gold would adhere to the sludge, set tling with It in the reservoir. As each ton of sea water is assumed to contain from two to live gridns of gold, it In easy to figure for such a reservoir a valuable accumulation of precious metal which would be ob tained periodically by fusion or dis solving the chalk lu acid. A 41 rim Kii(lnerln( Ka. A remarkable engineering feat was performed not long ago at the Strat ford works or the (treat Eastern Hall way. The euglneers hud set them selves the task or building a luggage engine and tender lu the quickest time on record. All the component parts had been carefully arranged aud placed at hand; aud when work commenced curly lu the uiorulng the euglno quickly began to assume shape. By dinner time It was practically completed, with the eavcptlou of painting, and within teu lmurs the engine nnd tender In till bia-j glory or new paint, aud perfect lu every detail, were taking a trial snlu nu the Hue. The chamois Is usually Identified with Switzerland, but the niilninl Is les common there than In nny oilier coun try which It Inhabits. Austria Is tho real homo of tho chamois, where they are most plentiful. Travelers In Australia complain that almost the only trees In the continent nre eucalyptus, unit they nfTord llltlo shade, as they have learned to turn their leaves edgewise to the sun. The botanical gardens in tho cities are, however, declared lo be dreams of beauty. Tho mileage of the blood circulation reveals some astonishing and un dreamed of truths. It Is estimated that, assuming the average speed of the heart to lie sixty-nine bents a min ute, the blood travels 'J07 yards In sixty seconds; lu other words, seven miles an hour, ltJJi a day, or IKJ'JO per year. The Arctic sparrow, among all nub mats, has the biggest brain in propor tion to Its sl.e. Holntlvely to bulk, the cnuary bird possesses a brain big ger than a man's, and the same is true of tho squirrel monkey of South America, which Is not nn exception ally Intelligent simian. Hulk, how ever, counts for little; the quality Is the thlug of Importance, and therefore It Is a mistake to nt tribute Inferiority to woman's brain ns compared to man's, merely oil the ground that it weighs eight ounces less. She Is a smaller creature, and hence the lesser weight of lier cerebral oqulpnfWit. It should be remembered, furthermore, that the brain Is not tho sole organ of mind; much of our thinking is done with the spinal cord nnd with Hie ganglia, which lire distributed all through the body. Astronomers say It would take liM), (Hit) observers, scattered fifty miles npart. all over the earth's surface, to record what is going 011 in (he atmos phere, as aerial phenomena cannot be observed nt a distance of more than twenty-live miles. Hundreds of thou sands or shooting stars enter the at mosphere every year that are not counted, aud very row or the target ones that reach the earth are recorded There are probably not a score or me teorites In museums or private 1 losses Hlou whose fall Is a matter of record. A very interesting instance of a me teor's flight nnd the recovery of a part of the meteor occurred lu Arizona oil February Ul, 1N!7. Its brilliant path through the air was seen by many per sons for twenty-Dve miles around St. David, near Tucson, where It fell. The noise of Its passage was described as terrific, and before reaching the earth It burst with a loud report, and the fragment that was recovered, weigh ing twenty-seven pounds, plowed up the ground for a considerable distance before burying Itself. Ths DlmruK Stats Department Cipher. It would probably astonish 11111 lo gout! citizens who have been reading the disciislous of the genuineness of the cipher dispatch received about a fortnight ago from I'ekln. purport lug to have come from Minister Conger, to know flint so clever and alert-minded a man as Secretary nay has not mastered the cipher iu use by the De partment of Stab1. On the other hand Ills soil Adelbert, who succeeded the redoubtable Macruiii as Consul ut 1're torla, can handle it with ease. Am bassador White, lu (iernuiliy, uses the cipher freely; as far ns known Anibas sailor Choale, lu Eugluud. lias never learned the art. And so It goes. Probably very few of our diplomatic 1'cprcscutiiilvcs can use the cipher themselves. As a rule, they have some minor functionary at each legation who has mastered the code, but lu nt least one case the cipher work Is all dime by au outside hire ling who has no direct connection witli the Federal service. This state of things does not necessarily argue neg lect or laziness on the purl of the Am bassadors and Minister.) concerned, or of the attaches of higher rank uor Is It an Inevitable fruit of the frequent changes of Hrsonel in our foreign service. To n large extent It Is merely 11 question of peculiar mental adapta tion dlfl'erentlutod In Individuals, and Involves the same principle which Is illustrated iu one man's talent fur ac quiring a foreign language in 11 mouth or the skill or another lu mathematical calculations almost without study. Boston Evening Transcript. Waahlng Coal. Increased attention is being paid to the process or washing coal. Under the direction or l'rorossor S. W. l'urr, or the I'nlverslly or Illinois, F. C. Koch, of the Department or Applied Chemistry of that Institution, Is curry ing on nn Investigation of Illinois coals, with especial reference lo this process. The process of washing or dinarily removes fifty per cent, of the slate und ash Ingredients, aud fifty per ceut. of the sulphur, the reduction In sulphur rendering them more fit for gus-maklug. There are 11 half-dozen established wnsherles in Southern Illinois Along the Susquehanna Itiver there aro to be seen whole fleet of boats In Which men are standing operating win. long poles 11s one rakes for oysters They are scraping the river Isittom for tho coal that has beeu washed down from the mines, and II Is said that quite a proportion ot the coal used by the river towns U supplied iu this way. A i'athetlc Portrait. In the old castle at Hamburg, where he has been lu resldeuce, thu German Emperor will bae the oppor tunlty or seeing a portrait or his great great - ."raudfather, tieorge III. o; (ireut Britain and Ireland, which In assuredly one or tho most pathetic pic tures In the world. It represents the octogenniluu king in his terrible con d it Ion of madness and blindness. He Is seated, clad In n purple dressing gown, with tho Star of the tlnrter, as If In Irony, on his breast. Ills sight less face Is lu profile, and ho wears n long white bard, which in his day must have seemed a distinguishes at tribute of madness. SCIENTIFIC AND INDU3TRIAL.'1 On a recent scientific test a worker In metals succeeded In dr.iwlng a coV pr cent out Into 5700 feet of wire. Plants hnve been rendered nrtlfl dally Alpine by M. Caston Bonnier by keeping 'n nn Ice box nt night and fully exposed to the sun by day. Tho leaves grow smaller nnd thicker, fre quently with a reddish coloration, nnd the flowers become relatively larger nnd more highly colored. A novel steam drier has been In vented by n Itusslnn. The steam Ik passed through n turbine fixed In a drum, centrifugal force throwing tho particles or water toward the outer part of the cylinder, while the lighter steam acquires n rotating motion In the middle part, and reaches ",p pn gine quite dry. The wafer descends through a tube to a boiler. litibber waste Is made again useful, nccordlng to n newly patented Gerninn process, by dissolving tho material and separating It from the solution. Suitable solvents prove to be aniline, tohildlne nnd xyliillue. at 140 to ISO degrees Centigrade, nnd dilute acid added to the solution causes the or ganic bases to remain dissolved as salts while the rubber separates as a tough mass. This Is washed and dried. The cauotchouo Is recovered for new uses without deviilennlzatlon, nnd the solvents may be removed by alcohol. Mr. I.. M. I.oomls, the Cnlifornla or nlthloglst, who lias been studying the question of bird migration on the Pa cific const, concludes flint those which he has observed shape their course by landmarks, nnd possess no mysterious superhuman faculty for determining direction, such ns some persons hnve Imagined that birds nre endowed with. When n fog prevails the birds are be wildered ami lose their way. In brief, Mr. I.oomls thinks that bird migration Is n habit evolved by education and In heritance, and owing Its origin to tho failure of food lu winter. After an Investigation Into the ef fect upon the eyesight of the Incandes cent electric and the incandescent gas lamp, the University or Heidelberg has decided that neither light, if pro erly placed, has any bad effect upon tlie eyes. On the question of lighting, the committee In charge decided that for the lighting of rooms, especially concert rooms nnd lecture halls, where many people remain for long periods at a time, the electric light Is without doubt to be preferred to all' others from n hygienic point of view. An Indian Cereal. A cereal which Is not upon the mar ket, aud can only be obtained directly from the Indians or the missionaries at some of the Arlzoua reservations. Is piuohi. This, too. Is a preparation of wheat, which Is held In the highest repute by all who have been much among the Indians. With a little pack ago or the pluola, a few strips of jerked beer and 11 cask of water, civil engineers and others whoso duty calls them to long trips oil the beaten trull, declare themselves well provisioned for u number of days. It is claimed that years when the wheat harvest ts plentiful there Is little or 110 Illness among the Plmns nnd Pnpngoos. whose staple article of food it Is. In preparing It, the women soak thu wheat until it swells, then spread it on clothes on top of the wlckups, or brush sheds, to dry in tho hot Arizona sun. Beforo it Is entirely dry they parch It over the coals until browu, but not scorched, nnd lastly grind It In their stone metalas or mortals until ns flue us meal. It has the delicious, sweet, nutty tnsto of parched corn, and Is oaten by the Indians raw or mixed wiih water. It lias been or late years In great demand by the Invalids, who pour Into the Salt lllver Valley, the American Blvlera, by tho thous ands, each winter. Cooked as other cereals are, or simply eaten in Its nat ural state with cream, or cream and sugar, it Is a dish well worth a gen eral Introduction Washington Slur. Chlna'a Lettered Mm. There is no Senior Wrangler In China unless the Downger Empress possesses that qualification In another sense, but there arc tens or thousands or Chinese students who try every year ror the bachelor degree awarded by the seats or learning' in the Celestial Empire. There nre only a certain number of degrees awarded. Many men do not get the coveted letters until they nre eighty or ninety years of age, aud their final success is hailed with great er delight than If they obtained the honor lu their youth. Only a short time ago an official re port stated that at an autumnal exam ination In Foo-Choo there were nine candidates over eighty years of age, and two over ninety, and these aged students sent lu essays the composi tion of which was good aud the hand writing firm aud distinct. Quite re cently the Governor or Ho-Nan nlso published a report concerning nn ex amination lu which thirteen candidates over eighty years of. age and one over ninety weut through the whole nine days' ordeul, writing essays which were perfectly accurate' In diction, and showed 110 sl;,-i of falling years. The province of Anliul, however, beat both these records by providing thirty five competitors who were octogena rlaus and eighteen who wero ovur ninety years ot age, ('lilneee Bed Ilooina. Chinese bed rooms, oven In the homes of the wealthy, are usually dark aud poorly ventilated, and nre like In side cupboards. The bed Is a canopied eluborate affair, heavy and benutirully carved, and this piece ot furniture Is often ha tided dowu rom father tc sou through many generations. But there Is nothing elaborate about Hit bed covering. Iu place of a limitless there Is n mat aud tho covering Is the occupant's clothing, or, possibly, a wadded quilt. Extra clothing Is pro vided for cold weather, and In Hie north, where the weather Is extreme ly cold, the carved, wood bedstead l uot used. There, In the house of every well-to-do citizen and lu the Inns, therf are divans or masonry beneath which thero are fireplaces, and on these tli vn un tho people sleep, nml the fire is utilized Tor cooking purposes. Loudun Muil. THE NATIONAL CAME. The Brooklyn team lins stolen twlc lis ninny bases as the Bostons. This Is snld to be the most disas trous season for baseball lu the history of the big league. Pittsburg has loaned ritcher Wad dell to Milwaukee and relensed Jouett Meekln outright. The latter will re tire. v Shecbnn Is ngaln back with the New York Club. He was farmed out to Syracuse of tho Eastern League re cently, but was sent back as not being gmid enough. The remarkable reverses sustained this season by visiting teams In tin) 1-engtie mny be largely explained bj the undeniable fact that home umpir ing Is systematically pursued by ths League umpires. Neither Dunn nor Nops has given satisfaction to the Brooklyn manage ment this year, aud both men hare been released outright. Dunn Injure his arm In the spring and has not been able to get In condition again. Ted Sullivan rises to remark: 'Tltch ers nowadays do not seem to have the staying power that they had back In the early days of baseball. Trobahly It Is because they use more curves now, nnd thereby cripple their arms." MoGraw receives about two posses to first In each game, and forces tho pitchers to put the ball closer to the centre of the pinto than any other man In the business, with perhaps the ex ception or "Billy" Hamilton, of Bos ton. , In Pitcher Scott's opinion, the Brook lyn tenm Is the greatest In modern baseball. He says "the Brooklyn players thoroughly understand each other, always work together, know what to expect or each other under all circumstances, and never overlook a point." Third Baseman Tamsett and Bight Fielder Jones, of the Home, N. Y.. baseball team, have been sold to Cleveland. NEWSY CLEANINGS. A cement trust Is organizing tn Ger many. A new cool nnd oil field of fiTsX) acres lias been discovered In Oregon. The entire south sldi of Long Isl- nud lins become a prey to pestiferous liens nnd red ants. Germany has begun the direct Im portation of Hon th African wool, ow ing to the Boer war. Ktenm power Is to be superseded by electricity in the Government dock: yards nt Kiel, Germany. Denver, Col., has a population of lrw.fviD. bs against 10it.7i;i In isix, on Increase of 25.4-4 per cent. Tho Sultan lias ordered a commit tee to Investigate tho recent nmssacro of Armenians In the Sussam district of Asiatic Turkey. Governor Tingree. of Michigan, baa Issued a signed statement to tho effect that be will vote for tho re-election of President McKluley. Koumanla. In a note to Bulgaria, de manded punishment for alleged black mailers and expressed docbt of the latter country's good faith. The commander of the Colombian Government forces accused tbe for eign consuls of favoring tbe rebels In the recent tronbles on the Isthmus. At a recent Cabinet meeting King Victor of Italy Intimated to the Min isters that he did not desire that any special laws against tbe anarchists should be enacted. Representative George Ilenry White.' of North Carolina, the omy colored man In Congress, has announced that he would not be a candidate for re election and declared thnt be would leave that State and take up his resi dence in some Northern State. By a recent court decision, all squat ters on the sixty-foot strip along Nome Bench. Alaska, must vacate. j MARKETS. rii.Tiunna, Fl.OPn Bnlto. 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