-
SEWING BEE ASTONISHED.
That Ualaed Five Paaada
Day.
Vor many year the charitable
ajonien connected with Christ Chureb
Industrial school in Chicago have i
jaidc onr clay in holiday week for the
making of costumes to be vised tit
jh children selected to take part ill
the Christmas entertainment, save
the Inter Ocean of that city. At tfai
recent sewing be It hp,etied that j
there were several rather recently I
ninde grandmothers in the circle that
busily plied needles and cut out par- I
ouiij f a
mcnts. Mtn wan inflated with pride I
and the tales of infant cunning- they
told were numerous and astonishing ;
... uuu ,., n,.-
"My little granddaughter Catherine
it a wonderfully active child,1" said I
one woman. "She could go up and
down stairs before she was a vear old ;
"u . v. .VvT ,,
At ten months she walked as well ai
1 can. The feata of which this child !
it capable mast be seen tto be spore-
j i j 1
elated.
Mativ In the audience were excited i
ar.'! envious. Another grundmothei
then spoke:
"Our baby is gaining in such a
wonderful way we hardly know what
1o expect," she began, and then she
tslked at length upon the child's size
nd strength.
While all the boastful conversation
was going on, a quiet woman sat
sewing in silt nee. At last she lifted
up her voice and said:
"I heard of a marvelous thing the
stlirr day."
The grandmothers paused nnd
looked expectant, each, however, fully
convinced that no story could equal
her own recitals.
"And I know the storv is true,'
continued the quiet woman in a re-
flective tone. "I heard of a baby that
had to be fed on elephant's milk."
"What did you say?" cried tlve
grandmothers; "elephant's milk?"
"Yes, It is perfectly true, elephant's
milk, and the baby Is thriving in an
encouraging way. I wae given to un
derstand it gained five pounds a day."
The grandmother of the "increas
ing infant" held up both hands.
"You can't mean it," they all pro
tested. "Yes, I do," declared the quiet one
The baby was fed on elephant's milk
and it really gained nve posirrOs a
day, becaase" and she ami led a lit
tle, "it wm a baby elephant."
Then the grandmothers sewed wrtth
a veageenee, hut not one had word
to asy.
DRESS IN MISFITS.
laeaBeaeswe Be was eC Pi
la
Society women with smell purses
frequently find themselves at a loss
tar Batons with which to nsalntein
the style they aspire to among their
sestal peers and superiors. The re
quirements ef fashion that the same
dress shall not be seen twice makes
the matter an increasingly expensive
ds, says the Washington Star. Some
modlttee, however, are willing to take
back dresses that have only been
worn once if they are still quite
fresh snd good and to charge about
a third of the price for the loan ef
them This is done with ball dreseen.
For Instance, a frock that ooste f7s
le charged In the account t&S under
eueh circumstance. Again, numbers
and numbers of smart society folk
whose incomes are not colossal avail
themselves of the well-conducted snd
estimable exchangee and salesrooms
that ere to be found here and there !
In the large eltlea. To them go mis- !
fits, good and handsome clothes that
their purchasers have not found to
salt them, frocks that were bought
for some big function and are unlike
ly te be useful a second time, furs,
laees, hate, toques snd lingerie and
even boots and shoes. Sensationally
low prices are not affixed to these
things.
One of the beet dressed actresses
on the stage, whose dresses are ex
tolled and whose toques are copied
by alt the ladle i papers, accomplishes
her sartorial triumphs by means of
a maid a clsver dressmaker. The
result Is excellent and well repays
the trouble given to it. Indeed, this
I ens of the best possible ways in
which the heavy tax fashion imposes
oa her votaries can be adequately
all economically met. Very much
e done, too, by quick and frequent
changes. Toilets altered even by so
small an Item as the eieevee can be
nude to look Mke new, and this plan
has the sanction of royalty, for it Is
a favorite one with the princess of
Wale. The same idea is being found
profitable with regard to jewelry,
which some women here set and re
H with remarkable frequency.
Rot the Real Tain.
"Bah!" exclaimed the prospective
purchaser to the expectant book
dealer.
Being asked for an explanation of
bis ejaculation, he said:
"Yon call this book a Collection ef
Portraits of One Hundred Authors.
Why, only three in the bunch have
their heads resting on their right
hands, with a roll of manuscript In
the left."
Saying "Boh!" again, with the con
scious sir of one who has unearthed
fraud, he left the shop in high
dudgeon. Baltimore American.
There is only one train in the country
that exceeds SO miles an hous in speed
tor 100 miles' run, and that is the
Empire state express. Great Britain
has 12.
Ohio'g cities snd towns gained 486,
ttl in population during the last teu
years, or 792 more than the increase
the rest of the entire state.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
la the Intrmatlonal Krrlii
(ar Jalr HI. tml naa Saved
la tar Ark.
IPrr parti! by It. C. I.er.lr.tor
THE LEaVJON TKXT.
dentils I:1M.)
15. And Dod iptks unto Nuah, saying,
16. Go forth uf tbj ark. thu. and thy
'Ife, and thy sons, and thy IOAI wln
lth thee.
17. Bring forth with the evary llvlns
(line that ! with thee, of all nh, both
M thln, th errepe',h upoB the' rIn.
Jiat they may breed abundantly In the
arte, and be fruitful, ana multiply upun
",g M. . , .
is. And Noah went forth, and hl ions,
,nd hi wife, and hi sons' wlvea with him:
19. Every beast, every creeping thing,
nd ,ow; and whatstwver creepeth
Pn the earth, after their kinds, went
crtn out or tne ark
30. And Noah bulled an altar unto the
rd; and took of every clean fowl, and
ff.?r A1ri5ulr"t f"n' ,n 'he
And the I.ord smelltd a sweet saver;
md the lord said In Hli heart, I will not
"gain curse the ground any more for man's
'',k,;l,for the Imagination of man s heart
ev" from hl" outh; neither will I again
imlte any more every thing living, as 1
lava done.
K While the earth remalneth. Feed time
nd harvest, and cold and heat, and Sum
ner and winter, and day and night shall
Ot cease.
mOII TEXT.-Wa.il roaad Brae
eyes of the Lord Urn. OiK.
NOTK9 AND COMMENTS.
It was never intended thut the In
Kltiatlonal lesson series should set
part only a portion of the Ihble for
Itody, and leave all other portions
Untouched, Certain passages have
en selected for the express purpose
f being printed with the various les
ion helps and lieing read at the reg
ilar Sunday school sessions. But the
jassuge to be studied almost always
ncludes much more. The passage
Tor the present lesson takes In the
,re story of the flood, beginning
S'lth the sixth chanter. reudim-
ihrough the ninth. This omits so far
n the book of Genesis only the fifth
hapter, which is only a geaenlogicai
:able. An analysis of the passage
follows:
Wickedness of Men toi the Earty Ages
The Man Nosh .. 7:1 ; i at a
The Ark and the Flood :M-K- 7 2-M
K New Start In Life Chapters I and
Wiukedness of Men in the Kariy
ages. We have seen how the en
trance of sin into the heart of saa-n
J'ngurated nn age of crime. As tha
imputation of the earth increased, nn
:il "God saw that the wickedness ef
nan was great in the earth, and that
.very imagination of the thoughts of
lis heart was only evil continually.'
-Gen. 6:5. The earth was literally
llled with violence (verse 13). So God
laid: "The end of all flesh is some
before me, I will destroy
them with the earth." We are hee
rinning to see how "the wages ef sin
s death."
The Man Noah. The references
riven above will give glimpses of the
character of Noah. He was suxronnfl
td by wlokednees and violence on
tvery hand, but he found grace la the
yes of the Lord, because he was Jest,
oeoause he walked with God and he
Miuse he was righteous. The fact that
ss soon as he and his family were
tafely landed from the ark he built
an altar and offered a sacrifice, to
Bod shows that his nature was an es
sentially religious one. A
The Ark and the Flood Ihs ark
was built under the direction of God
snd into It were introduced species of
fvery living thing. Then came the
flood. There is every reason to be
lieve the flood to have been universal,
that is coextensive with the human
population of the world. Traditions
tb" eTnt oen handed down
through every known race of people.
Bcience confirms the possibility of
the event. Just at the close of the
rlacial period there were a "succes
sion of catastrophtes, startling in
their magnitude, and short in their
duration," which may well have cul
minated in the deluge.
A New Start in Life. With the pop
olatlon reduced to Noah and his chil
dren and his childern's families, there
was a splendid chance for a new start
in life. The earth was before 'them,
til history was to have been written
anew. But man needed a Redeemer,
men were still away from God, and
the story of sin and suffering began
anew. There was this one difference,
however, that God established His
covenant with His people. Noah had
built an altar and offered a sacrifice
In token of his safe delivery from
the flood. The fact was pleasing to
Qod, so He msde the distinot prom
ise that He would not send another
great flood upon the earth, and estab
lished a rainbow in the heavens as a
token. God realized that the "imag
ination of man's heart is evil from his
youth" (Gen. 8:21), so He would make
no more outward demonstrations of
his power, but aid man by an inward
force to rise above the sin that is In
his heart.
Nosh is one of the best examples
given us in the Bible of the truth that
righteousness pays, and it pays to be
right and to do right in the midst of
the great wickedness of others. If
any one lesson is more clearly taught
than another, it is that wickedness
and unrighteousness all around is no
excuse for ourselves being wrong.
Noah walked with God, and wus
saved when all others perished.
Rasa's Mora Blasts.
Policy is prudence prevailing over
principle.
To man's desperation came Qod'l
inspiration.
The softer the snow as it falls the
deeper it will sink.
When ability meets opportunity the
road of duty is plain.
The heretic hunter tries to make
the flowers of truth grow by blowing
the dirt from their roots.
When you keep your preacher wor
rying over his grocery bills you can
hardly expect him to feed you with
the bread of life Ram'! Horn.
A most cr.rlotis case, ihnwing how
the separate systems of the pou'ru-
Victim
clal
incut tuny take un
of .Inrtl-
con 'using shape,
Brvep,
has just route to
A man who has for
Itnt '1 In Jail, iit the
light in Indiana,
i 10 years bt . u
j fipeiise of the i
these vein s. In I
ttion. has. daring all
; . ; . c Ipt, or Inti i.d
consi lernble sum of
name nation. It Is
fought in the picat
ed receipt, of il
money from thl
because the mot
rivil war that the complication was
made possible, explain! the New York
Herald. At least, his service! in bat"
Ue were responsible, in part, for the
situation. It .once occurred to the man ;
that after havlna fouffht the rood tight
It once occurred to the man I
for freedom ami unification, it might
lie the graceful thing for the country
to recognize his worth by a money con
sideration, so he put in an app'icat ion
for a pension. It was allowed, and the j
man's name was written on the book
of fame, after which he was entitled
to dollars. Shortl) following this
period, another man passed on to the
great beyond, under circumstances
which the coroner's jury con; idcred
called for the t r ing of somebody n .i
capital punishment charge, it so hap-
pencd that the pensioner was the per-
son fixed upon as the active agent as
sisting in the earthly exit of the de
ceased. Although t he pensioner stout
ly maintained bis innocence, the proof
was so strong us to lead the jury to a
verdict of guilty, and the committing
judge to a sentence of life imprison
ment. This was in the year 1880, and
for 10 years the pensioner worked out
his destiny behind the bars. At. the
conclusion of this time, the man who
had committed the murder took to his
last bed, and il occurred to him to
make a confession. So t he pensioner is
free now. But he still has troubles.
There are some thousands of dollars in
pension money which the wardens
have failed to turn over to him, and he
is obliged to sue for their recovery.
Besides, there are the wasted 19 years,
because of the implicit judicial faith
in the infallibility of circumstantial
evidence.
There la little doubt that farm la
bor offers a surer subsistence than the
average labor of the cities. ISut it
holds out no such daxzliag prizes, and
what is probably the most powerful
reason, very truly observes the Pitts
burgh Dispatch, U offers au such in
ducements to the gregarious instincts
of humanity. To the average young
men the lights of city streets, the so
ciety, sven of the street corners, the
occasional ehsnee ef a theater per
formance are hotter than the loneliness
of secluded farm. On aw other the
ory eaa the desertion of the farms for
the uncertainties of city life be ade
quately explained.
Once.iayaaNew York contemporary,
when an enthusiastic young chairman
at a large meeting in Harlem, was
making an earnest and sincere, but
very flattering speech in introducing
the late Henry George, the latter, sud
denly leaned forward and poked the
chairman in the back with a Walking
stick he had found beside him. The
chairman chopped off in the middle of
a word, looked behind him, had a whis
pered conference with the philsophrr,
turned hack to the audience and said,
quietly: "Mr. George don't want me
to get the rest of that off," which
tickled the astemblsgs into spasms of
langhter.
A tsble, published in the annual re
port of the department of agriculture,
is enllghenlng ss to ths amount of
money the people of the United States
spent In purchasing favorite flowers
at retail in 1890 roses, $6,000,090; ear
nations, $4,000,000; violets, $750,000;
chrysanthemums, $500,000; miscel
laneous, including lilies, $1,250,000.
These vast sure foundheir way into
the pockets of nesrly 100,000 producers
and dealers.
"We were jollied Isst week," lays the
Goodiand (Kan.) News, "because we
said the climatic conditions were
changing in this country. Do you re
member how dry It was in 18MT Well,
a man has been drowned in Beaver
creek slnoe then. Do yeu remember
how the people received aid in the year
1804? Well, there is a man just now
getting over a case of the gout here
in Goodiand. Isn't that something of
a change?"
Last season 4,000 car loads of citrous
fruit were shipped from the town of
ltiverside, Cal. In 1870 this place
started as a sheep pasture, and was as
sessed under protest at T6 cents per
acre; to-day It supports a population
of 10,000, which might be increased
fifty or one hundredfold. The growth
of ltiverside furnishes a suggestive
example of the good results of scien
tific irrigation.
A socialistic colony is to be set up
in New Hampshire. Religion, nor
clergy, nor lawyers will be allowed In
it. Everyone in the colony will be
forced to work for a uniform rate of
wages and those who are lazy or
prove themselves morally unfit will
be expelled.
A Philadelphia doctor has been ad
vising people "not to go out imme
diately after taking off their heavy
underwear," and the Clifton News
savs: "We don't know how it ia in
Philadelphia, but if anyone tried it In
this town he surely would be ar-
rested."
A contribution to a periodical that
makes a pretension of catering to the
slander I pan
good tastes of the
best American fam
sunn .Mm.
ilies is gtliltV Of
the untruthful a ! utterly absurd as
sertion iliat "the average young awn
won't work.
This slanderous state
ment is follow,-, 1 by the declaration
that "the average young man pendi
his substance in riotous living." It is
very doubtful, says the Chicago In
ter Ocean, if the person guilty of put
ting these Wantonly false assertions
Into manuscript! or the periodical
guilty of putting them into
type,
knows anything whatever of
Know s any ining whatever oi the
average young man." It must occur
to the intelligent reader that "the av
erage young man" alluded to is the
exceptional and, in reality, the degen
erate young man such as may be found
In certain, or rather uncertain, circles
of American society. 1 he important
Interests of this nation to-day a re very
largely In the hands of young men
who made up the average a few yean
ago. The vital interests of this repub
lic are constantly passing into the
hands of those who const it ute t he av
erage young manhood of the land. The
average young man who leaves sen.
or college is quickly swallowed up by
the machinery ol commerce, and eon
tributes to American industry the
young brains, young blood, the young
brawn without which it could miik;
no progress. The statement that any
consiaerame percentage of the young
men of this nation will not work, or
that any considerable percentage of
them spend t heir .substance in riot oils
living, is so palpably fulse as hardly
to requiro a refutation, The only
pnnse oi me article winch can do any
real harm is that which is lilcely to
leave upon the minds of American
boys the impression that if they be
come idle or dissolute in their habits
they Wfll only be following the exam
ample of the average young man, an
impression which will be at once us
dangerous as it is false. Of the mil
lions of young men in this country only
a small number are either unwilling
or unable to meet the duties and re
sponsibilities in store for them. There
are certain circles of society to which
the exceptions flock, and because a
superficial observer has been thrown
into association with these depraved
and degenerate youths the conclusion
is jumped st that the average young
man ia a debased and debauched crea
turn.
From a New York exchange we learn
that the employment agency that deals
with the most cowtly servants in New
York is situated in an uptown butcher
shop which shows no outward Indica
tion uf this phase of its work. It is
patronized by the wealthiest New
Yorkers, who engage their cooks there
As these cooks draw salaries ranging
from $2,000 to $3,000 the engagement of
one of them is a more or less important
matter. No fees ure paid by the serv
ants or by the master, but nobody
doubts that the proprietor makes his
profit out of the arrangement. It Is
not to be thought thut the grateful
cook who received through his Instru
mentality employment that brings him
several thousund dollars a year will
forget the butcher shop over which
this man presides, and he thusreseives
assurance of profitable custom.
Amongst the current Items running
through the press of the country Is
this amusing though improbable lit
tie yarnlet: An unsophisticated
young minister in rural Pennsylvania,
recently ordained, nut long ago wrote
to u theological professor in I'hilsdel
pliiu as follows : "1 am a poor speaker
and find it hard to utter my thoughts
clearly and forcibly. I have decided,
therefore, to take a course of instruc
tion in speaking, and, learning from
the papers that there are a great many
sprak-easies in your city, 1 would be
obliged If you would recommend m
to one." The professor broke the
news to him as euphemistically as pos
sible that a "speak-easy" Is merely an
unlicensed drinking plsce.
It is reported that George F. Gil
man, the millionaire, who has just
died at Black Kock, Conn., was noted
for his eccentricities. His house hud
neither bells nor knockers, snd there
wss not a clock in it. His aversion to
the thought of death was suoh that he
would neither talk nor read about it,
and rather than meet a funeral he
would turn around and drive back.
One of his business methods wss to
require each of his 2H5 tea stores
throughout the country to send him
one dollar daily.
A recruiting officer who was in Iowa
recently says that the percentage of
men accepted in that state on offering
themselves for army service is con
siderably above the average in any
other state. Enlistments in Iowu are
fergcly from the farms, and the vast
majority of the young fellows who
offer themselves are young, strong
and hardy.
A sister of Gen. Eunston is sn art
student in ' Chicago. The achieve
ment! of her brother fill her soul
with kindnsss, and she says she longs
to be in Kansas, where she can
"whoop; of course it wouldn't do
here."
The latest new building in New
York. besides extending 15 stories
into the air, will have four atoriaa
underground.
MAKING A HOTBED.
tlthouah Must (ardeirrikRoif Haw
let a Pew Ueaeral Mint. Will
Kat 1'vsae Aaalea,
The making of hotbeds is a matter
so commonly understood us perhaps
scarcely to require going into at this
time, et the following from Vick,
lealing as it does principally with the
proper heating of the beds, may not
come tmlll to those interested in
starting cabbage, celery, lettuce, etc.,
m early spring:
The ordinary hotbed consists of a
pile of fermenting stable immure, cov
ered with u frame and glazed sashes, in
which is u layer of fertile soil. The
bed should be located where it will be
easy of access, but it should be on dry
ground uud not w here w liter could flow
over the ground and about its base,
even in wet weather. It .should also
be .sheltered from heavy winds, and
with a full exposure to the sun. In
preparation for a bed the fresh
manure and long litter are collected
from stables and drawn together to
the locution of the bed, where it ia
placed in u conical pile. As t he manure
is thus thrown together it II packed
down by trcuding on it, the treading
being repeated as the bed is raised u
few inches at a time, until the pile is
finished off to a point at the top.
After a few days it may be noticed
that the pile is heating by seeing
steam rise from it. It is then custom
ary to handle over the manure, shak
ing it out and again making it Into a
pile mid tramping it down us before.
In two or three day! the signs of heat
ing will nguiii be evident, and it is then
ready to lie made into u bed. The bed
should be made large enough to ex
tend at least n foot outside of the
frame at the sides and ends. In throw
ing the manure into shne ns the pile
rises in height every few inches It
should be brutrn down with the back
of the fork so that the material will
be of uniform density. The bed should
PLAN Kult HOTBED.
be two feet or two and one-hslf feet in
depth. The deeper it is the stesdler
and longer continued will be the heat.
Who the bed is finish ad evenly on
top the frame can he set on and cov
ered with the sashes. In a few days a
strong heat will rise, and when this
abates somewhat, so that the ther
mometer throat into the manure indi
cates only 85 or IK) degrees, a layer of
rich, mellow soil that hae been pre
viously prepsred should be placed In
ths frame and spread evenly ever the
bed to a depth of about six laches.
The bed Is now ready for use, and
ssed sowing in It ran commence. In
the management of a hotbed constant
reference must be msde to a shaded
thermometer kept Inside, and air
must he given sufficiently to keep the
temperature down to about 70 degrees.
THE FAMILY ORCHARD.
Apple Taeee Nsi Beat Re Plaatrd la
the Sprlaaand Afterward Ciltl
vsltd with Cart.
Something of my experience may
be of benefit to some one like myself
who is trying to have a family or
chard and succeed in raising apple
trees. I havs found that it does not
pay to set a tree that is not thrifty
and vigorous, no matter whnt the age
may be. I have had good success
with foor-year-old trees and also with
two and three year trees. In setting
the tree I dig the hob' large enough
to accommodate all the roots, throw
in enough weH pulverized soil to
cover the roots well, and then pour
in about one-hslf gallon of water to
settle the dirt firmly around the
roots and exclude all the air, then
fill up with soil. My trees never fail
to grow. I think spring the proper
time to plant. The greatest trouble
with me has been to keep the borers
from killing the trees. To prevent
this I wrap them with paper, letting
it extend an inch or two below the
surface of the ground. 1 do this
early in the spring offer examining
tree to see that no borer remains in
there to be wrapped up for the sum
mer. A young fruit tree must be
cultivated. Don't expect a tree set
in sod to grow snd bear fruit. If
left to shift for itself the result will
be a stunted dwarf that will drop out
about the time it should begin o
bear if properly taken care of. Go
through the young orchard some time
during the winter and pick off and
burn all those little bunches of lenves
seen hanging to the twigs. Euch one
contains an egg that as soon as arm
weather comes, and the tree begins
to bud, will hatch into a worm that
will eat the leaves off your tree
faster than they can grow. Remem
ber that in raising an orchard, ns in
a great many other things, untiring
vigilance is the price of success. J.
I.. Smith, in Prairie Farmer.
Heplantln an Old Ore-hard.
It is probable that the land on
which an old apple orchard stood is
not very rich, and has been iu sod
for a long time. It would almost
certainly be well lo have the soil
thoroughly plowed and cultivated in
some such crop as potatoes for n
year before planting to orchard
again. Of course fertilizers should
be applied. Stable manure is very
good, and so are such commercial
manures ss contain plenty of potash.
phosphorio acid anfl nitrogen. Good
winter apples will probably pay bet
ter than pears. Sural New Yorker.
In their efforts to prevent snd sti
out various tiruleul diseases scientifle
. men are ncoav
War oa Hiaraae
mending that eer
""" tuin animals and
Insects tie exterminated. For a year
or two relentless wur bus been waged
on mosquitoes, at least in the pages
of medical and other scientitic jour
Sals. Mosquitoes, it is declined, are
responsible for malaria, yellow fever,
and other kindred diseases. and
should be destroyed. Now, on the au
thority of a Japaneee scientist, hie
government is about to propose a
world-wide war on rats. They are
blamed with spreading the bubonic
plague, and the Japanese savant de
clares thai if the rodents be ex
terminated the plague will disappear
with them. Within the Inst few weeks
botli eats and dogs liuve been charged
with spreading the smallpox, and a
movement to wipe out these mail
would not be surprising. The greatest
difficulty in the hui of exterminating
eit her mosquitoes or rats, observes the
Chicago Tribune, lies in the fact that
both are exceedingly prolific, As a
rule, the smaller the animal the great
er Its power of reproduction, Thus.it
would be easy enough to extel initiate
the elephant, and, in fact, that process
is already Well under way, while the
American bison anil other liirjv nnl
mals have already been sent to joia
the dodo. But u mosquito reproduces
its kind by the million, uud rats mul
tiply with astonishing rapidity, as any
housewife will testify. Again, in un
dertaking to destroy ruts or uny other
Specie! of living creatures, science il
taking a step in the dark. The rut is,
to u certain extent, a scaveneger, and
iu the economy of nuture every living
thing is supposed to have its plaee.
What would be the rssull if rati were
destroyed no man can tell with cer
tainty. However, there is small re
son to worry ubout such a reuiote con
tingency, us, in the nuture of things,
it will take a century or two to ac
complish cither of the objects at which
scientists are timing,
A type manufacturers' journal in
forms us that the first font of type
known ns "type writer" was east Au
gust 3, 1883. It wus originated by the
( Central type foundry, St. Louis, Ma.
i This type is but 17 years old and has
hud a larger sule than any face before
produced. An immense demand
: aprang up for it as soon as the first
, specimen sheets were sent out te .
printers. Forty-three foundries ha
different parts of the world are to-day
making typewriter type, and it has
been turned out iu nearly S00 different
styles, sizes and languages. The
standard process for making circular
letters to imitate original typewriter
work was patented iu 1889. To-day
there are 0b known processes fi i tls
purpose.
Th Philadelphia Kecord tells a story
of a hen with one leg that wns iu tho
halut of following its mistress, a kind
Lrurted Irishwoman, wherever she
, went. The Irish w oman died tho oth
er day and the fuitbful fowl hopped on
; one leg alongside the funeral proces
sion two miles to the Baptist church,
and dropped dead on the church .steps.
borne said it died of a broken heart,
others thought that the great exertion,
of hopping so far oa oue leg and the
small amount of food it had eaten
caused the vital exhaustion. At any
rule, kindly hands buried it just out
side of the church fence, by '.he road
side. j he condensing or crystallization ef
. eggs has grown into a considerable In
dustry. They are broken and emptied,
thousands at u time, into a machine,
j where they are churned. When they
j are thoroughly mixed, the liquid is
I dropped slowly ou to stone cylindera,
j ever which currents of warm, dry air
! are passed. This evaporates the moitt
i ure, and when the mixture is thorough
j ly dry it is scraped off us crystals olid
packed in air-tight cans. To prepare
the "crystals" for use they arc simply
souked in water. They ure much used
00 ships, and to some extent by bak
ers. The heaviest mini in America, if not
In the world, is Lee Trickey, of Clcn
wood, Wi,., who tips tho beam at 560
pounds. A few years ago he weighed
710, but has fallen uwuy to tho for
mer figure. Trickey follows the oc
cupation of a teamster for a living,
having a 188-pound wife to .support.
He is a light euter.
It is proposed to Illuminate the Y one
mite falls, ',000 feet in heigh' by use
of iO arc lights in connection with
means for producing color i ffecta.
Borne of the roads are also to be
lighted with electricity.
So many complnints are made o.
the breakage of fragile urtieles sent
through the mails thut the postal utt
thoritiei have issued a warning to the
public to use more cure iu preparing
packages.
A woman advertised iu a liuffale
Sunday paper for a position as gov
erness for "u family of children
those heads will bu ubsent during
the summer."
A woman at Parsons who suid she
wanted to go to Osteopathy, Kan,
had the whole depot force puzzled un
til some one guessed Osawatomie.
It is estimated that since the war
began 53,000 natives have been killed
in the Philippine islands. .