PERSONAL GOSSIP.
The late John Gilbert, the actor, left an
Stato worth $41,000.
Lord Salisbury is one of the beet amateur
tisnnis players in fashionable London society.
It is said that Henry Irving has grown
fo stout that ho lias been obliged to resort to
boating.
Wagner is to have a statue in Munich, built
by funds obtained from ladies throughout all
Germany.
Barnum is counting upon the skeleton and
Wde of Jumbo as one of his chief attractions
m England.
Paolo Tosti, the famous song composer,
bfl= lately taken unto himself a wife, Mmo.
Bal'li, an opera singer.
i-utile Zola is opposed to tho guillotine, be
cause when he was a boy he witnessed its
operation and it sickened him.
A monument has been erected at Gosch
toen to tho memory of Louis Favre, who
Rimmed the St. Gothard tunnel.
Dan Lamont is at the head of a syndicate
in Mew York which is gathering in the street
railroads with a view of organising a trust.
Tho Protestant Episcopal bishop of North
pnkota is having a car mado for his official
traveling. It will be both chapel and hotel.
Professor Euglisch, the famous champion,
la'ely played thirty games of chess simulta
neously, and all were won within five hours.
Mr. Kendal, the famous English actor,
carries a typical English bathtub with him
i)u his travels. It is rubber, and is strapped
ix> his trunk while en route.
, Professor Todd, of Amherst, before sailing
for Africa to observe the solar eclipse, was
thoroughly "coached" on the general subject
qf Africa by his accomplished wife.
Tho Hon. L C. Lewis, of Meridou, Conn.,
(las given a line new block of buildings iu that
City, vulued at $73,000, to tho local City Mis
sion society. Thus lie celebrated his 77th
birthday anniversary.
Gen. Stewart Van Ylict is tho oldest gen
eral on the retired list iu the army. He is 74
years old, mid has been in the service fifty
two years. He served iu the Florida and the
Mexican wars and during the late reboilion.
Sir Julian Pauncefote reads every day ac
counts of baseball games. Ho lias not had
tin opportunity yot to learn the game by ob-
C vation, but ho takes a warm interest in the
irt and is anxious to become an expert as a
baseball crank.
Dr. Aveliug, tho socialist, who visited the
tJnitod Stutes not long ago and made lavish
Expenditures of cash at florists', livery stables,
#tc., to the scandal of some of tho weaker
brethren, has lately been brought to book in
point by a London type writer, to whom he
owed S2O for copying.
A. M. Bisbee, who arrived in Washington
fecently as a delegato frdtn China to the in
ternational maritime congress, is a transplant
ed Yankee from Cape Cod. Ho now holds
ibe rank of coast inspector iu tho imperial
jnaritime customs servico of China. There
qre only two officers in tho service who out
rank him.
Mr. Petrie, the Egyptian explorer, is de
scribed us of a good height and rather slender
build. His hair and coloring generally are
fiark—so durk that ho is mistaken for a for
eigner, which impression is aided by his sin
gularly eastern cast of features. But he is
English and of Scotch descent. The mode of
Ufo he is life in a tent with the sand
for carpet.
AGE OF ANIMALS.
A bear rarely exceeds 20 years.
A lion has been known to live to the age of
TO years.
A tortoise has beca known to live to the
ago of 107.
A dog lives 20 years; a wolf 20; a fox 14
or 16 years.
A squirrel or hare lives 7 or 8 years; rab
bits 7 years.
Camels sometimes live to tho age of 100.
Stags are long lived.
Elephants have been known to live to the
great age of 400 years.
A swan has attained tho ago of 200 years,
febcans are long lived.
Sheep seldom exceed the ago of 10, and
cows live about 15 years
Cuvier considers it, probable that whales
sometimes live 1,000 years.
Pigs have been known to live to tho age of
SO years; the rhinoceros to 20
A horse has been kn.> a to live to the age
of 02, but averages fro, . 20 to 80.
Insects, as a general rule, are short lived,
tli gh there aro a go i many exceptions to
th. rule. —Mail aud Express.
HOBBIES OF GREAT MEN.
Grover Cleveland yearns for hard work.
Henry Villard is an authority on comic
Opera.
Russell Sage prefers chess to the stock
market.
Tho historian, Bancroft, is an expert in rose
culture.
President Harrison collects bric-a-brac and
ancient coins.
Charles A Dana delights in chrysanthe
mum culture.
John Wanamaker's Sunday school is the
apple of his eye.
Joe Jefferson, the artist, encroaches on the
time of Jefferson, tho actor.
Mr. Gladstone chops down trees, while Bis
marck prefers seitzor water.
John D. Rockefeller makes a hobby of
churches, especially the Baptist.
Jay Gould is passionately fond of flowers;
While his sou George prefers postage stamp :
Collections.
George W. Childs is fond of collecting nu- '
thoi's' manuscripts and tho letters of grout
men.—Philadelphia Republic.
ROYAL FLUSHES.
The queeu of Italy has been growing stout
er and stouter, much to her annoyance.
Emperor William of Germany recently
discharged an attendant who had been read
ing a French novel.
King Humbert of Italy has given fS.OOO to ,
tho sufferers by the recent storm in the prov
ince of Cagliari, Sardinia.
Speaking of Queen Victoria's literary tastes
£ recent writer sayst "She still finds pleasure
m Trollope's novels. Tennyson is her living
Mol."
The shah of Persia was so delighted with
Elo performance of "Excelsior," which ho
Witnessed at the Paris Eden theutro, t hat ha
determined on having a representation given
in his palace at Tehuran.
The emperor of Russia has ordered the
Mil known Russian artist, Professor llogyn
wt, to point a pcture after the style of
rtsliH)iano, rcprinen ting the entrance of Em
j&itf Will taw Into the harbor <<t Kronstadt.
R.wlll ha presented to the Germ]U emperor
THE LATEST IN JEWELS.
Bilk watch chains are much worn.
Watch ohains have appeared from which
dangle Eiffel tower seals.
A black pearl iu a cup of diamonds ooin
i prises a scarf pin much affected.
1 Studs are worn with full dress suits; three
small studs represent the correct style.
Sapphires and opals ore both fashionable.
' Hungarian opals are especially desirable.
Garnets'artistically grouped in scroll de
-1 signs form some very desirable brooches.
' Numbered among fauciful designs in scarf
pius is a gold crook with chased gold top.
Scarf rings are out in a variety of patterns
to meet a moderate but growing demand.
Scarf pins are worn quite large. A fine
pearl represents a vory desirable scarf pin.
Gold and platina, skillfully interwoven,
compose some exceedingly nice pencil cases.
, Sterling silver photo frames, pierced in
floral characters, ore a desirable acquisition.
, Half hoops of diamonds flud admirers, and
the same may be said of tho Marquise set
tings.
Fanciful designs in scarf pins are rendered
[ effective by the employment of fresh water
pearls.
A rich and tasty bonbon box, and a decided
novelty, is fashiouod as a tomato in a colored
crystal.
Flexible neckinces are fashionable, espe
cially those that simulate a chain of field
flowers.
Single pronged hairpins have flat tops,
made up of moonstone faces in burnished gold
! crescents.
Lockets aro making their appearance in
nugget fiuishod gold, diamond shaped, with
out jewels.
Decidedly unique are silk purses into which
are woven seed pearls. These purses have
gold mounts.
Pendants are much worn. Double stars of
diamonds and clusters of opals or other gems
are favorites.
Roman gold lovers' knots, fringed with
silver in imitation of lace, are brooches hav
ing a good sale.
An effective necklace is composed of fine
garnet hearts outlined with brilliants and
linked together.
Gems are set high or imbedded, as best ac
cords with the fashioning of the ring aud the
value of the stone.
Among the new comers in watches are the
open faced ones set in rough gold, in which
gems are imbedded.
Bracelets with flexible links afford pleasing
effects by the employment of different col
ored golds and enamels.
Quite new bonnet pins are in circular and
pear shapes ami of deep gold, iu close sot sec
tions, with crinkled edges.
For file patrons of sleeve links a new pat
tern lias been provided—little padlocks and
keys connected by small chains.
One of the prettiest bonbonnieres seen, had
set in its cover the miniature copy of a Gains
borough beauty iu picturesque costume.
The pea-pod ring, as the name suggests,
shows an opening on top, through which pro
trudes a line of granulated pea shaped stones.
Very dainty are the brooches that come in
the form of a gold buttercup with diamond
sparks tipping the stamens and a pearl in tho
center
Among the new watch bracelets are those
set in curb chain style in hammered gold.
This has a peculiar effect, the whole surface
being indented.
Pearl brooches and pearl necklaces aro
leading features in the accessions of a bride's
toilet, although pearls are not worn to the
exclusion of diamonds.
Double heart moonstone bracelets, heart
shajxi moonstone brooches, outlined with
brilliants, and crescent aud horcshoe pius,
are other popular gifts for bridesmaids.
A diamond set in gold, without bucking,
affords a fashionable scarf pin for day wed
dings and other occasions. A thin diamond
set glaco, as described, shows to advantage.
—Jewelers' Circular.
WOMAN'S WEAR.
Long cloaks are in great favor for both
large and small girls.
Dresses made low about tho throat have
rendered necklaces popular.
Petunia and Java browns are the favorite
colors for English street gowns.
Women of means now often wear sword
belts of gems crossing the bodice.
Check velveteens are new and are said to
trim woolen gowns very effectively.
Mousseline chiffon, a softly falling material,
is used a great deal for evening gowns.
Natural sealskin, plucked but undyed, is
used for vests and other fancy articlesof fur.
Buttons are either very small or very
large, and in the latter case are used as orna
ments.
A new feather trimming is known as
"shorn ostrich." It is very closo and looks
like fur.
Tho new laces are mostly arranged in dis
tinct points and aro very effective when used
as trimmings.
Accordion plaited skirts of cream net over
colored silks are very pretty, aud much iiked
for evening wear.
A new galloon is mado of silk cord, united
by crochet stitches, tho effect being similar to
that of point lace.
Cowboy hats for misses aro of gray, ecru,
or bright red felt, with wide, unwired brims
edged with fur felt.
Largo velvet crowns, liko those of studouts'
caps, are a feature of hats alike for misses,
j little girls and babies.
| A novelty in chantiliy iaco, sixty inches
deep, lias the pattern wrought iu silks of sub-
I dued colors instead of black.
Furs wiil lie again used the coming winter
to border the skirts aud edge the fronts of
tiio bodices of street costumes.
Velvet sleeves in mutton-leg shape are added
to wool cloaks for tiny girls, giving them a
warm aud picturesque appearance.
Serviceable school hats are Tarn o' Shunters
of plaid cloth, and plain felt caps in the same
shupe may be procured in ull colors.
Ruches of silk braid of different widths,
| intermixed with oblong drops and aiguil-
I lettes, are used to trim the new mantles.
! White" dresses for little girls under five
years aro considered most tasteful whan
trimmed with feather stitching and fine
tucks.
| Fur lined dolman wraps are less favored
than iu previous seasons, but are still oc
casionally made to order, to suit the taste of
purchasers.
I Muffs and boas of both red and blue fox
1 will be worn by young ladies. The red fox
is a very beautiful fur, aud especially be
coming to a certain type of blondes.
A handsome corsage ornament is in the
form of a spray of threo rosebuds composed
respectively of a black, pink and a white
pearl, with the steins aud leaves of diamonds.
—boinarvilh* Journal.
i
BRIC-A-BRAC.
Bronzes, both French and real, find ready
customers.
Quite new are the high lamps on artistical
ly wrought iron pedestals.
The China cactus and tulips for laying on
the tablecloth find purchasers.
• Terra ootla statuettes are out iu ew de
signs that will be sure to please.
Teto-a-tete sets in handsome cases are de
cidedly seasonable at the present time.
Coalport chin* -receptacles are attractive
from their pure whiteness and original forma
Marble figures and busts are favorites in
house decoration, notably the exquisite Car
rara marbles.
Real Berlin bronzes are imported in large
numbers to supply the increased demand for
this class of ornaments.
Wedding gifts of choice china and glass
are now in order; those iu satin lined plush
and velvet cases find ready sale.
Some of the 5 o'clock tea kettles are swung
from high standards that rest on the floor;
others swing over a spirit lamp, and rest on
the table.
Cut glass tableware now comes in suoh
unique shapes aud designs that in many din
ing rooms it has become a powerful rival to
silverware.
There are flower stands in basket work,
made on the same plan as the palm leaf table,
in three tiers, tho basket large enough to bold
a growing flower.
Tho Carlsbad ivory waro affords many
pleasing designs in vases, urns and mantel
pieces, with pierced handles and designs
wrought iu raised gold.
Vases of Bonn ware, in tapestry ornamen
tation, afford pleasing flower receptacles.
The same may be said for the jardinieres of
Bonn faience with gilt decorations.
There is a long range of inexpensive but
attractive articles in bamboo, such as the
bamboo easels for fireplaces, and the tubas
for the corners of rooms and for laying on
dinner tables.
One of the handsomest piano lamps seen
this month rested on a Mexican onyx column.
Others were mounted ou Mexican onyx jied
estals elaborately curved and furthermore
decorated with gilt trimmings.
The French porcelain plates decorated with
hand painted portraits of celebrated French
beauties are almost as popular in their way
as are the French miniatures of court beauties
that are mounted on brooches and bracelets.
A novelty in standing lamps is one having
a telescopic standard, by which the light may
be raised or lowered at pleasure. One seen'
bad a stuffed bird perched on the standard.
This bird apparently supported the lamp with
its decorative shade of silk and lace.—Jew
elers' Circular.
BIG THINGS IN THE WORLD.
Tho largest empire in the world is that of
Great Britain.
The most extensive cavern is the Mam
moth cave, in Eduionsou county, Ky.
Tho Chinese wall is the largest wall in the
world. It was built by the first emperor of
the Tain dynasty, about 330 B. c., as a pro
tection against Tartars.
The largest body of fresh water on the
glolie is Lake Superior. It is -100 miles long,
100 miles wide at its greatest breadth, and
has an area of 33,000 square miles.
The largest inland sea is the Caspian, lying
between Europe and Asia. Its greatest
length is 700 miles, its greatest breadth 370
miles and its area 150,800 square miles.
The largest suspeusiou bridge in the world
is the one between Brooklyn aud New York.
The leugth of the main span is 1,595 feet, 6
inches. The entire length of the bridge is
5,989 feet.
The largest bell in the world is the great
bell of Moscow, at the foot of the Kremlin.
Its circumference at the bottom is nearly (18
feet and its height is 21 feet. Its weight has
been computed to bo 4-13,772 pounds.
The largest tunnel iu the world is that of
St. Gothurd, on the line of railroad between
Lucerne and Milan. The summit of the tun
nel is tiOO feet beneath the surface at Auder
matt and 0,(100 feet beneath tho peak of Kas
telhoru, of the St. Gothard group.
The largest library is the Bibliotheque Na
tional, in Paris, founded by Louis XIV. It
contains 1,400,000 volumes, 300,000 pamphlets,
177),000 manuscripts, 300,000 maps aud charts,
and 150,000 coins and medals. The collection
of engravings exceeds 1,300,000, contained iu
some 10,000 volumes.
A cast steel gun weighing 235 tons has just
been shipped by Messrs. Krupp from Ham
burg for Oronstadt. Tho caliber of the gun
is inches, the barrel is 40 feet in length,
its greutest diameter being oj-£ feet. The
range of tho gun is over eleven tnilos, and it
will fire two shots per minute, each shot cost
ing between £250 aud £3oo.—Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette.
PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES.
A good method for making a quicksilver
print without toning is to wash thoroughly
after printing, soak in a solution of common
salt, and then fix in hyposulphite of sodium,
as usual.
Capt. de Abney states that, out of 25,000
people who take photographs, scarcely 1 per
cent, know or care anything for the "why
and wherefore," or investigate it as an ap
plied science.
From a recent paper on flash light photog
raphy' by Mr. F. W. Hart, of Loudon, the
following (mints of interest are giveu: "In
photographing by magnesium light, the prin
cipal object should be to produce breadth of
lighting, so as to give as near as possible tho
effect of the parallel rays of daylight."
A correspondent of The Britisli Journal of
Photography, having found by a twenty
minutes' exposure in photographing the moon,
that tho image traveled nearly the length of
his plate during tho exposure, suggests that
photography might be made a means of
measuring tho movement of the heavenly
bodies.
SCIENTIFIC SQUIBS.
Iron can be coppered by dipping it into
melted copper, tho surface of which is pro
tected by a melted layer of cryolite ami
phosphoric acid, tho articles thus treated
being heated to the same temperature as tho
melted copper.
In experiments made iu France, where
plates of celluloid wero used for sheathing
ships' bottoms instead of copper, it was found
that the plates were intact aud free from
marine growth, which was abundant on parts
not protected by the celluloid.
Watch springs, piano strings aud similar
articles have been successfully tempered by
electricity. The steel is wound on a spool,
placed in an oil bath, and by the electric cur
rent kept at the exact degree of redness
necessary for the temper required.
A large aud very important discovery of
uranium is reported in Cornwall. It is a true
Assure vein, the ore containing an average of
I per cunt, of the pure metal, going up as
high in many places as 30-per cent. The
market price of uranium is $12,000 a ton.
STRAY BITS
Qilbert & Sullivan's new opera will have a
thumb-twiddling chorus.
Egypt is exceedingly anxious to eucourage
trade with the United States.
A crazy negro in the Milwaukee jail labors
under the impression that he is a telephone.
It is estimated that bad roads have depre
ciated Illinois farms in value over $160,-
000,000.
Thirteen cords of wood were sawed from a
single tree in Coleraiu township, Lancaster
county, Pa.
Newtown, Pa., has a Presbyterian church
erected iu 1700. It is a quaint, old fashioned
stoue edifice.
Umbrellas are being imported into India in
great numbers. Last year 370,000 arrived in
Calcutta alone.
San Salvador is the first of the Central
American republics to establish telephone
service throughout its territory.
Lofoten, in Norway, is the principal fish
ing district of that country. Last year the
fishermen took 20,000,000 cod, worth
*1,000,000.
Tho Piemonte, an English built vessel for
the Italian navy, has made 22.3 knots, which
is the highest speed ever attained by a sea
going ship.
Several stones, forming one ball-like mass,
twelve inches iu circumference, were found
in tho stomach of a Hallertown horse wiiicb
dropped dead.
A curious wedding ceremony recently took
place in Dublin, when the clergyman, the
son of a well known Dublin artist, married
liis father to a second wife.
Recent statistics from Japau tell us that in
187!) 10,000 cattle were slaughtered there; iu
1885 the number had reached 110,000, and in
1880 it had got up to 200,000.
The dictionary of fossils, issued by the
state of Pennsylvania, contains thirty-four
pages in small print correcting statemeuts
found on the other 405 pages.
The oldest active printer in Connecticut is
William D. Manning of Norwich. He re
cently celebrated his seventieth birthday.
He is still u skillful workman.
The newly selected capital of South Da
kota got its name of Pierre from Pierre Chou
teau, one of the St. Louis Chouteaus iu the
days when all that region traded extensively
iu furs with St. Louis.
A Washington lady recently purchased in
Winchester a mahogany sideboard over 100
years old and shipped it to the wife of ex-
Presideut Cleveland as a present.
Judge Leeper once owned 100 acres of land
adjoining Pierre, the new capital of Dakota,
and thought he had struck it rich when he
sold out for $3,000. Today, at the ruling
prices, his quarter section is worth over $250,-
1)00.
A Sioux Indian named Henry Hokixina
Lyman, 33 years old, lias entered tho Yule
law school, uml intends to practice among his
tribe when lie has graduated. He entered on
the recommendation of the Indian college, ut
Hampton, Va.
In the entrance to the dining room of one
of the fluest hotel restaurants of Vienna is
the photograph of the unfortunate Priuce
Rudolph, spleudidly framed, and surrounded
by the menus of t he dinners which the prince
partook of iu this establishment.
Mr. Andrew Quiutin, of Trenton, N. J., is
undoubtedly the oldest railway conductor in
the United States, beiug 73 years old. When
he entered the railway service the cars were
entered from the side and planks ran along
side the car on which the conductor took the
fares.
At South Paris, Me., recently, Robert Gray,
87 years old, harnessed his horse Dick, 34
years old, and, accompanied by his (Robert's)
wife, 85 years old, drove to North Paris,
meeting while tbero Mrs. Edward Andrews,
80 years old, who had just returned from
Europe, aud Mr. Pottle, 83 years old.
The most valuable cat's-eye in the world
comes from Ceylon, which ami Madras are
the only two places where these jewels are
found. The finder was a laborer, who dis
covered it in some earth with which he was
j lilting his wagon; it weighed 474 carats, and
I he sold it for tiiirty rupees. It changed hands
| several times, was recently cut, and weighs
jat present 170 carats. It is insured for 30,000
rupees. The stone omits four rays of light,
, which unite into one.
WISE WORDS ABOUT WOMEN.
j Men make laws; women make manners. —
| De Segur.
Asa husband is, the wife is, if mated with
i a clown.—Tennyson.
A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the
j most worthless offspring.—ilosea Ballou.
j But one thing on earth is better than the
i wife—that is, tho mother.—Leopold Schefer.
j A house is no home unless it contains food
S and fire for tho mind as well as the body.—
| Margaret Fuller Ossoli.
i Can inau or woman choose duties! No
j more than they can choose their birthplace,
| or their father aud mother.—George Eliot.
A house is never perfectly furnished for en
joyment unless there is a child in it rising
I 3 years old and a kitten rising three weeks.—
| Southey.
I A mother's first ministration for her infant
| is to enter, as it were, the valley of the
j shadow of death, and win its life at the peril
jof her own! How different must an uffection
j thus founded bo from all others.—Mrs. Si-
I gournoy.
It is curious to see how a self willed,
| haughty girl, who sets her father aud mother
j and all at defiance, and caunot be managed
\ by anybody, at ouco finds her master in a
I baby. Her sister's child will strike the rock
aud set all her affections flowing.—Charles
Buxton.—Chicago Herald.
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.
! A C'uliforuiau who carried a horned toad
to England and sold it for (50, lias sent
iiome for 500 toads, and says that he proposes
i to remain iu England uutil he lias supplied
. very family with one of these delightful
i pets.
Squirrels have u passion for founding a
iioaie of their own, aud after they have been
provided with the warmest possible nest cage
continue to steal rags and scraps of paper, as
if their lives depended on their efforts to
| forestall tho rigor of the coming winter.
One of the most wonderful of fishes is the
one bearing the liuiue of chinsmodou niger,
I or the great swallower. The body is elonga
ted, of nearly uniform thickness most of the
I length of the fish. The jaws are very long
i and fitted with sharp teeth, some of which
seem to he reversible. The maimer of feed
| ing is to grasp a fish by the tail and proceed
to climb over it with its jaws.
During a summer tour in the Austrian
, Alps an American gentleman bought a young
; shepherd dug aud brought him to a suburb
| of Cincinnati, where sheep ure seen only iu
the form of mutton; but every little while
tho young herder would try to earn his board
by collecting a troop of stray geese, and, in
spite of their hissing protest, drive them
| along th? street like a flock of restless sheep.
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.
Mine. Martin, editor of La Citoyenne, Paris,
is an Englishwoman by birth.
Rosa Boubeur, the aged artist, says that she
has painted ber best pictures since she was 50.
Miss Amye Reade, a niece of the late Charles
ReadC, is about to make her debut as a nov
elist.
Mi-s. Humphrey Ward's "Robert Elsmere"
was read not once but twice by the queen of
England.
The only make up Mrs. Kendal resorts to is
a bit of paint for her ear- -ml Egyptian black
for ber lashes
Sir Julian Pauncofote's four daughters
have blooraingly brilliant complexions anil
dress iti the ex f i rmest of English manner.
Miss Hammcrsley steers a ladies "eight,"
manned entirely by tier sisters and cousins,
who have been rowing a great ileal this year
on the Thames.
Main. Modjeska Is said to entertain more
than any other woman ou the stage. Her
favorite form of entertainment is to give a
quiet dinner to a half dozen particular friends.
Ellen Terry has just shocked all England
by observing that, li' girls liken cigarette and
it does not harm them, (hero is no reason why
they should not enjoy "their quiet little puff."
Annie Peru, an actress of Ijostou, bus be
come a champion swimmer, and is now giving
exhibitions there. One of her performances
is a correct imitation of a dead body under
the water
Miss Addie Hamilton, just appointed a
notary public in Washington by tho presi
dent, it is said, is the second of her sex ever
appointed to a similar position in Washing
ton, the other lady being Miss Emma Gil
letty.
Mrs. Augusta Evans-Wilson, the southern
novelist, is short and stout, with a good na
tural, intelligent face, having mi expression
of happy contentment, showing that she is on
good terms with her husband and the rest of
the world.
Christine Xilsson is the real name of a
young Norwegian singer who is attracting
some attention. The new and young Mile.
Christine Xilsson has a soprano voice shaded
with a timbre similar to Lucca's, and sang
with great success at Copenhagen lately.
Mix Cleveland is anxious to engage in
somo line of endeavor which will raise her
above the average society woman. She has
thought of literature, but has decided to keep
out of the Held of letters so long as another
of her uumo remains therein. It is probable
that Mrs. Cleveland will devote a good deal
of study to oil painting.
Mrs. Harrison is the lirst mistress of the
White House since Mrs. Hayes' time who
really supervises the entire domestic machin
ery. She lias the whole of it iu hand, from
the cellars to the attic. She goes over the
most of it every day. Both the president
and Mix Harrison are early risers, and the
day's work gets started by 8 o'clock.
Tho late Mrs. Polly Bruce, of Leavenworth
Kan., was born a slave in 1801, at Charlotte,
Va., and enjoyed perfect health until two
years ago, when she was stricken with pa
ralysis, from which she never recovered.
She had ten children, of whom nine uro yet
living. The best kuown of them is the Hon.
Blanche K. Bruce, formerly United States
senator.
ABOUT OYSTERS.
Oysters will quickly freeze iu cold weather.
You cannot feed oysters by any urtilleial
means.
What people call the eye of the oyster is
scientifically known as the abductor muscle.
George Washington was very fond of the
little red oyster crab, so numerous in south
era oysters.
The eggs of the female oyster, one author
ity says, number 138,000,000, but Professor
Rice said that 50,000,000 was as many as he
cared to estimate.
In analyzing the contents of the stomnch of
an oyster nothing but vegetable matter has
ever been found.
Tho food of an oyster consists of such micro
scopic organisms aud organic particles as
float freely in the water.
There are thirty oyster buds iu Tangier
sound, whose united area is 17,07l!squarenau
tical miles, with twice as much additional
bottom where oysters are occasionally caught.
A gloss of light Chablis hock or Sauterne,
Chambertin or white Bordeaux (dry), Bur
gundy, lthiue, Hungarian or Moselle, chilled
colored glasses, are ull first rate to drink with
the luscious oyster.—St. Louis Republic.
Oysters should be piled up or stacked in a
heap, with the bottom shell or left valve at
the bottom, as the deep shell holds the liquid
on which the auiuial lives. Good stock, if
packed nicely this way, will keep for a long
time.
Wherever the water is fresh enough to
grow oysters aud wherever the marsh lauds
also exist, the construction of ponds for oyster
culture is feasible on just as grand a scale as
is now practiced on some parts of the coast of
France.
To cool shell oysters nicely for immediate
use, or to serve parties at restaurant or at
home, cut u square hole (about six inches)
from the bottom end stave of a flour barrel,
fill the barrel half full of oysters, place apiece
of old carpet or cloth over the oysters, and
set a large lump of ice on tho cloth. Then
cover the top of the barrel securely with any
other cloth or woolen covering, and after a
little while every oyster taken out from the
bottom of the - barrel will be us cold as you
want it.
HOMELY PHILOSOPHY.
The ring of coin is often the knell of friend
ship.
Insincerity is often mistaken for a luck of
houesty.
Adversity undermines many a structure of
prosperity.
They never need fear a fall who never scale
the heights.
He who wisely uses his wealth need not
leave it for his tombstone.
True genius lurketh under cover, while ar
rogance stalks abroad in the full light of day.
The sight of a man's money is ofteutinies
the antidote for the odor of a very bad char
acter.
Prosperity awaits all men, and even pur
sues some, but it is never found in the haunts
of vice.
If you would avoid the suspicion of your
neighbors, never carry your molasses in a
demijohn.
The wisest flsh long escapes the most dan
gerous hooks, and is finally caught with a
bent-up pin.
The ambition of youth looks forward to the
triumphs of age, vyhile sated age turns buck a
wistful oye along the rosy path of .youth.
It is well the book of life is opened to us
page by page. Were all the bard lines bared
at once' the task would be too hard to master.
Not only should careless statements regard
ing our neighbors bo ignored, but facts them
selves should often be subdued in tire iuterest
of right thinking and fairness to our fallows.
—Frank B. Welch in Arkansaw Traveler.
A<lr|>U lit St<!ullii|[.
The native races along the southern
coast of South America nre described as
professional wreckers nnd thieves. Their
practices are told by the author of "The
Cruise of the Falcon," not for commend
ation, of course, but to warn sailors who
may bo cast away on those shores.
One sailor is sitting half asleep on his
sea chest. A gaucho comos up and taps
him on the back.
"Bueno. Johnny; bueno, Johnny."
"If you are not oiT I will send a bullet
into you," says Jack.
"Bueno. Johnny: buono; til! to-mor
row;" and off skulks the gaucho to his
horse, which he mounts. With a sar
donic smile lie iakcs off his l :.l to Jack,
bids him farewell, and dipgit. : bis spurs
into the itauksof his wiry lilt!.' horse,
leans over bis nerd; and i s off :.t full gal
lop over the short grass of the sandy
plains.
A; the first stride of the home, to
jack's intense surprise, ids taut is
wrenched violently front under htm. lie
juiups up, rulm his eves and Isinrc he
can recover his senses lie sees lit ' prop
erty rolling and bumping away over the
sand hills at the heels of tile ". urlie's
steed: for this clever 'gentleman had
managed to make one end of his lasso
fast to the handle of Jack's box while
engaged in eon vernation with him.—
Youth's C Companion
For Adoption.
A gentleman living near Allegan,
Mich., relates an intere-ting story of
feline sagacity Some person owning a
cat with three kittens, and desiring to
lie rid of them, took them in a hag to a
wood near the gentleman's house, and
dropped them.
lii a short tiiuc the mother cat was
seen to approach too house with a kitten
in her mouth. Reaching the door, she
dropped the kitten and retreated to the
woods, from whence she soon returned
witli another kitten, but instead of leav
ing it where the first was left, she took
it to n neighboring nouse, then return
ing to the woods brought out the third
and last kitten, and left it at still an
other neighbor's
The old cat then disappeared, and was
not seen again until it was time for the
kittens to lie fed. when she visited each
house, nursed the kittens, and then dis
appeared again.
This course of procedure she followed
until the kittens were weaned, when she
disappeared, and has not been seen since.
Was it reason or instinct that caused the
mother cat to distribute the kittens to
different homes, so that all might be
adopted and the lives of all spared?—
Youth's Companion.
Itiieitli on n Haiti Head.
Dr. Sayiuonne claims to have isolated
a bacillus, called by him "bacillus crini
vorax," which is t lie cause of alopecia.
It is. he says, found only on the scalp of
man, other hirsute parts of the body,
and also tlm fur of animals, beftig free
from it. The bacilli invade the hair
follicles and make the hair very brittle,
so t hat they break off to the skin. Then
the roots themselves are attacked. If
the microbes can be destroyed early in
the disease the vitality of the hairs may
be preserved, hut after the follicles are
invaded and all their structures injured
the baldness is incurable. The follow
ing is Dr. Saymonne's remedy to pre
vent baldness: Ten parts crude cod liver
oil, ten parts of the expressed juice of
onions and five parts of mucilage or the
yolk of an egg are thoroughly shaken
together and the mixture applied to the
scalp and well rubbed in once a week.
This, he asserts, will certainly bring
hack the hair if*ho roots are not already
destroyed, hut the application of the
remedy must lie very distressing to the
patient's friends and neighbors.—Medi
cal Record.
A Sweot Proposal* .
"The sweetest proposal ever dreamed
of," said Eli Perkins, "1 think is from. $
Austin Dobson."
"Mar 1 call you Paula?" ho asked
modestly.
"Yes." she said faintly.
"Dear Paula—may I call you that?"
"I suppose so."
"Do you know 1 love you?"
"Yes."
"And shall I love you always?"
"If you wish to."
"And will you love me?"
Paula did not reply.
"Will you. Paula?" he repeated.
"You may love mo," she said again. ,
"But don't you love mo iu return?"
"1 lovo you to love me."
"Won't you say anything more ex
plicit?"
"I would rather not."
They were married and happy within
three months. —Exchange.
kariu His Tax.
West Gardiner l/oasts of a dog that
earns enough to pay his poll tax. He is
a big mastiff and does a big churning
every week, the churn being fitted up
with a sort of threshing machine treadle
on which the dog walks. The most re- '
markable part of the transaction is that
the dog enjoys the business so well or has *
such a sense of responsibility that no in
ducement can entice him from the work
during business hours.—Fairfield (Me.)
Journal.
Wuiitrd It Good.
"Are you fond of music?" asked Mrs.
Symphony of an elderly relative from
the country.
"Well, yes, I am," was the careful re
ply; "that is, when it's good music,
Lutiry. Now you take a good accordeum
an' a fiddle an' a pairo' bones an' a flute,!
an' let 'em all play 'Old Nicodemus' all'
at the same time, and I tell you it's
sweet!"— Harper's Bazar.
American Preference in Travel.
Somebody has said that if a cannon
were devised which would fire a load of
passengers from New York to Chicago
in ten minutes and land four loads out
of five successfully, the fact of the fifth
load being pretty regularly smashed
would not deter the bulk of the traffic!
freui going that way, if the price were'
uot too high.—Railway Age.