'A BULGARIAN WEDDING. A ST. LOUIS LADY DESCRI3ES ONE WHICH SHE ATTENDED. How Party of Tourists Attended the Cer emotiy— .lotting of Travel In tile Iteglon of Ihe Halkana—Guillen Who Frightened And Intimidated the Traveler*. Wo were feeling pretty blue when we arrived here ut 10:30 o'clock bust night in a most furious storm of thunder and lightning and the rain pouring in tor rents. sky black us Egypt's night. The crowd of ruffians ut the depot add ed anything but a secure feeling, and they took us in as if we were so many savages taken around for exhibition. Our trunks lutil to lie gone through, like wise our hand baggage, and they actual ly insisted upon opening every small box and package inside our trunks They held a long discussion over a shawl in one of our trunks, but finally decided to stamp our trunks through v'.'hile our courier was attending to this the natives were taking us in, and 1 never saw such awful looking men. They looked as if tiiey wanted to kiii us a p.oman well. We spent the day very agreeably, first driving up to the barracks, where we had a good view of the ourroun<Ungs and saw quantities of solwiers, two pf which lovely specimen., of men insisted upon on" visiting an old well built by the Romans, anil we started down the steps by the light ola candle, the Servian leading the way and 'fousin und 1 following, nut keeping very close to our courier. We pcrsna.tr ' J"* other tueiii lier of our party not to attempt to come down, as it was so very damp and dark and so many steps, so left lior up top wkli another individual, who kept talk ing to her in his owrt language all the time ami pointing to the steps, and final ly assisting her down. So, to our sur prise, when half way down the winding stairs we heard her calling to us, and as sho'was very much frightened and ex cited we turned hack without reaching tile bottom of the 450 steps. These poor people are so wild to make a penny that they insist upon making you do things in order to reward ilrcm for their serv ices. From the barracks we drove to the museum, and then visited the palace of King Milan's son. then drove to the park. We left Belgrade at 10:50 p. m.. and as there are no sleepers en route we inade ourselves as comfortable as possi ble for the night, lull I cannot, say i rested much. The scenery along the road was very pretty. T.io Balkan moun tains looked quite bare after Switzerland and the train seemed to crawl. When we reached some little station a dozen soldiers jumped in am I entered the car, and began talking among themselves and to us. and as we could not understand we took it for granted that we had readied a new country, and opened our satchels for them to inspect. They opened evel-y box, more from curiosity. I suspect, than for any other reason, and emptied our fruit basket of all the grapes, which they divided among them selves, ami then stamped us through. TIIE IJUI.UAKIAN WEDDING We are to-night in Bulgaria, in a com fortable hotel and where we do not feel as if our lives were in peril. When we first landed our courier put us in a car riage and started us off by ourselves with a coachman dressed in a sheepskin coat, white shirt and loose white trous ers, with a broad licit. His costume might have been pretty when new. but was exceedingly soiled, and lie was very dark, with small, jet black eyes. As it was noon (Sunday), all the country peo ple were in for the day, and I never saw such a variety of costumes in my life. Some very fancy, with lots of coins, etc., worked stockings, with skin sandals laced up the legs, la fact, it reminded me of pictures I have seen of the Holy Land. lie inquired if we could be permitted to enter, and we soon found ourselves escorted into the country villa of the governor of Sophia, where the house was filled with guests, assembled at the mar riage of his sister. The bride came forward to meet us in her wedding gown, veil and orange blossoms. We also were presented to the groom, the bridesmaids and their beaux, the landlord and his wifo and to the mother of the bride, who spoke to us in French. One of the relatives of the bride spoke to Cousin in Herman. They insisted upon our remaining to the ceremony, and wo were presented seats of honor on beautiful blue satin furni ture. The ceremony was not in Bulgar ian, but Greek, with seven priests, can dles, incense and high mass. We wore kept standing just one hour. In the middle of the service their photographs were taken. They were crowned with orange blossoms and the men all embraced afterwards; also the ladies. One of the bridesmaids was very pretty and spoke English. She made herself very pleasant and wanted to know If i h d ever met a fried of hers, a Miss U.,'.v...' nitem.lug I in America. Now t.. i b.;v(< desce.oed l.ie wedding party, let t.ie give you an idea of our sip pear; :te ■in such vii.st ir • guished coiupsiny. After sp.ling s;!l night in the smoky, dirty tr : n arid with no accommodation for toilet, we reached here at It! noon, hurried through some luncheon, brushed our head, mid, fortunately, put on clean gloves, 'jo we appeared amidst silks and satins, in traveling hats, dresses and the largest shoes we possessed, and feel ing like tramps—l think we attracted aa much attention as the bride. Afterwards we drove through the park and then w„ 'ked through the trading part of the city. Our courier is a native of Constanti nople, and says the Turks are a very dirty people and never kill any living thing, it being part of their belief that God created everything for a purpose, except the Christians. He says fleas are a natural pr-xluclion of the country und that we must not mind them. —Cor. St. Louis Republic, Thf Pamnpra A strange natural phenomenon la the pampero. u South American storm wind, which is described by the author of 'Hearts ol Oak. who llrst made its ac quaintance during a stay ut Montevideo A light breeze had heon blowing from I the northeast, hut liad steadily im teased in force, H i I brought with it the heaf- il air of the tropics, which, passing uvm a treeless painpa country. exposed to the burning sun rays of a clear sky, so warms up the atmosphere on the shores of the Rio de la Plata that its elfeet upon human beings ts exceedingly had This state of things generally lasts for a week, or longer, until lite stilling heat becomes unbe.irahlu ami (lie inhabitants are seen resting in grass hummocks or lying on bare boors, incapable of exer lion However, relief is close at band A little cloud "110 lugger than a man's hand" is first seen to rise above the ' water, then the heavens grow black with \ clouds, and the battle of opposing winds ■ begins The pampero advances with its artil lery well in front; forued Hashes of vivid lightning, followed by peals of thunder, bear down upon tiie foe. tvho, quite up to the moment of attack, is fiercely dis charging its fiery breath on thesiirround ing regions The inhabitants now climb on thea/.otcas. or fiat roots, to watch the struggle arid to lie the first to participate in the delicious relief brought by the paiupero to their fevered bodies Far out on the river a curious sight may he seen, the opposing waves, raised by the rival winds, meet like a rush of cavalry i:i wild career; their white horses with foaming crests dash themselves against each other and send clouds of dazzling spray high in the air; tins being trucked by an inky sky rentiers the scene most imposing Gradually the northeaster gives way followed closely by its enemy, the pam pero. which throws out skirmishing cur rents of ice cold wind in advance of its final onslaught '1 lien comes the roar of the elements, and a deluge such as no one would willingly encounter, and cooler weather is established for the time being Ill'tttlilHl OollH ill IliT I sill*. A physician of mv acquaintance was called in recently to see an old lady who resides in her own house n the Third ward It was his first call, and lie had never seen the lady before. She lay on a dottcli, neatly attired, with tier gray huh in a cluster of small curls ut ouch side of her head "Doctor," shoKuid. "I have sent to con sult you on a very serious matter 1 have for a long timosullerud ('rem pains in the head, and have consulted many physi cians without receiving any benefit. Yes terday I accidentally swallowed a fish bone, and while coughing it up felt a singular sensation in my left ear I put up my hand and drew this from my ear." She extended toward the doctor a small leaden statue of Napoleon, such as used to be sold on the streets years ago in a little glass bottle. "You drew this from your ear?" asked I he doctor "Yes, doctor, 1 did," was the reply, "and I have heen much easier ever since." The doctor examined her ear and found it perfectly natural He didn't know what to say, but he thought a good deal. "1 want you to do something for me," she continued, "for 1 am satisfied there is another heathen god like this in the other ear; for it is a heathen god. I liavp no doubt." "How do von suppose it got there?" the doctor asked. "1 think Enekielor one of the minor prophets must have put two of these heathen gpds in my ears when I was a child. Now. doctor, I want you to pre scribe something to bring out the heathen god from the right ear." "Swallow another fishbone," said the doctor, as he left the room in high dudgeon. —Brooklyn Citizen fortitude Itoru of Lore. It was in the year 1880, in a third rate city called Neufchateau, in the depart ment des Vosges, France, about noon, that we were passing, my father and myself, in front of a store where in ad dition to hardware a supply of ammuni tion was kept for the use of a regiment there. Suddenly we heard a terrible PX plosion. and being either thrown or hav ing unconsciously ran, 1 know not which, we at any rate found ourselves about twenty yards from where the ex plosion occurred, and could see part of the roof in the street. We had hardly reached the building when a man came out of it covered with powder, his hair and beard burning, and large pieces of flesh hanging from his face and bare arms. Never will I forget the horror of the sight; his flesh was charred and his clothes partly burned. As lie reached the sidewalk he looked around ami called a name I did not catch. Receiving no answer lie went right hack into that burning furnace, and in a few seconds came out hearing in his arms his child, a girl of 0 or 7. Those nearer to him heard him say: "My darling, are you hurt? Oh, you aro hurt!" While the poor little thing kept saying: "No, papa, I am not hurt, not at all; you r.m burning, think of yourself," and yet toe blood was trickling from iiei fore lead where the dying debris in ij • a deep gash Both re covered. though disfigured for life At the time I thought there was not only one hero, oat two.—Cor Fhiladelphia Press One Way to Cook Ralitiit. A couple of Augusta disciples of Nim rod, while on a recent gunning trip, after a hard day's tramp succeeded in bagging a small rabbit. They knew that the ani mal was good eating, but as to how to cook him properly they were not as well posted They pondered long on the sub ject until t lie* pangs of hunger demanded immediate action of some sort, when they tieil bunny up by the hind legs and pickcV him as the good housewife does a he They said ho was good eating just the same, with the exception of an occasional tuft of fur which had escaped the picking process.—Kennebec Journal i THE BIBLE'S BISTORT WONDERFUL FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT THE DIVINE BOOK. •he Karl J Compilers— SI. Jerome lis J Ills Work—The Translators ami the Many Billies They I'll hi Ishetl—When the Divis ion Into Verses Took Plane. Two thousand one hundred and seven ty-four years ago. In tlw year 285 B. C., seventy of the wise men of Alexandria engaged themselves in compiling and collating the Hebrew Scriptures into their present united form and further simplifying the works by translating them into (Ireek for the benefit of tho Jews then in Egypt The resuitsof their labors have since bee*- known collective ly as the MeptiiagliU man the fact that it Is the work of the seventy translators. About 400 rears later, in the Second century A I'.. the books of the New Testament v.wo added and the whole translated mtse Latin itala. or Latin version, soon be en— the standard of the primitive ! -lin Mans ami was used to I lie exclu sion <>l liolh the Hebrew and (ireek ver sions lor two centuries, until the St. Jerome revision of A. I). 405 After St Jerome had finished his crowning work, a great dal of which he performed in the village of Bethlehem, almost in sight of the birthplace of Jesus, the Dalmatian and Pannonian monks bid away tliei? old lersions of the Bible and would us no other exeept the one which had heel given them by their patron. Jerome, him self The Jerome revision was as -uperior to •die work of tlie seventy as their work s'as to tiai old semi-barbaric work which *xiiitcd prior to tlie translation of 285 n. <: ST. JEKOMK. The most carefully written copies of the Bible obtainable were consulted by the scholarly saint and compared with the Arabic. Hebrew and Syrian versions, in ail of which he made emendations vn.l corrections which have stood tilt test of all subsequent lime. The hercu lean task undertaken by St. Jerome will be better understood when the reaiW has been informed that over 200 versions of tlie Evangelists, each differing from the other in many of its essential de tails. were presented for the considera tion ol the sages at tlie council of Nice, in 325 A. D. For hundreds of years copyists had added to and taken from ntu* Scriptures to such an extent as to make it extremely difficult for even the most learned o decide what should re main lor the edification of future gener ations or what should be eliminated from the sacred pages as apocryphal. The word "bible," meaning book, or as applied by the early writers, "the book." was first used by Chrysostom as early as the fifth century, where he speaks of the Tored writings collective ly as the Biiilia, or "the Books." Tlie infinite variations which occurred in the manuscripts written by the early Chris tian fathers have caused a great deal of contention among churchmen, some ad mitting certain books ascauonicai which are rejected by others as apocryphal Tliis you can find illustrated by compar ing a Douuy and a King James Bible of today; the former admits several books which the King James translators would not, us they considered them uucuneni sal. The several books as arranged and ac jepted at present are the results of years of labor and of countless councils and revision assemblages For 1,200 years after the Saviour of Men ended his brief career on the rugged heights of Calvary, the touching details of which are known to ever 700,000.000 of people and in every land on the globe, each hook of the Wide was one continued story, undivided into chapters, paragraphs or verses. DIVISIONS OF THE BIBLIt. Prior to the time of the Spanish rabbi, the Jew had employed a system of divid ing the chapters into verses in the Old Testament, a system which had never been adopted by the Christians, and which was discarded for that of the learned Spaniard by the Jews themselves. The New Testament was not divided \nto verses until after the invention of the art of printing, by the Robert Steph ens Greek edition in 1531. Of the early translations of the Bible the most important, aside from the Sept uagint and the St. Jerome versions, are the threefold Egyptian translation of t he fourth century. This remarkable work of the copyist was in three languages, and was intended for all parts of Egypt: tho Versio Figurat*, collated by Jacob, of Edessa, in the eighth century; that of Paul, bishop of Tela, in 017, and the eighth, ninth and tenth century transla tions, made respectively by Bede, Alfred and During the dark ages, and on down to the time Luther gave his masterpiece to the world, several translations were made, iucluding that of Notker-Labeo, 380 A. D.; that prepared under the super vision of Petrus Waldus, 1170; the im portant work of Louis the Pious, 1227; that of Charles the Wise, 1380; the Guyars version of 1280; tjie thirteenth century version in Spanish during the reign of Alphonso V, and tho two excel lent works of WickliiTe ami Huss, the iattcr for the Bohemians and the former lor ih • Eli' lish speaking people With the invention of printing evi rv person who had ever laid claim to literary abilities seemed to think that he had Seen specially commissioned from on nigh to retranslate tho Word of God, as one wouid naturally infer from tho fact tliut not less than seventeen German translations alone were given the public between the time of Guttenberg and Faust and that of Martin Luther. The early printed editions of the Bible I remind one of what the philosopher said about the human frame —they were "curiously and wonderfully made." The Wiekliffo (sometimes spelled Wycliffe) version of 11184 was the first English translation. John Wicltliffe, the trans lator, was condemned to lie burned for presuming to do such a thing without the consent of the clergy, but was finally allowed to die a natural death. His Bible was never printed; howover, there are many manuscript copies of it.— John W. Wright in St. bouis Republic. I Bluffed n a Sure Thing. There were two of the men in our gang of Pennsylvania oil well drillers and blasters who were constantly fooling wjtli the nitro-glycerine They would take chances to make your hair stand on end. and the trouble was they imperiled the safety of manv others One of their favorite pastimes was to get out after noonday lunch and toss a two pound tan of stuir as far as they could heave it. I more than once saw them stand fifty feet apart, and on three or four occasions saw the can miss their clutch and fall to the earth .Our foreman and all the other men did a great deal of swearing over this foolishness, and once the men were discharged for it. hut they were taken back after a time, and as we grew more used to the stulT we took more chances One day the men got out with their can. and as the fun was about to begin our foreman said "Boys, that nonsense will he the death of you yet " "Bet you ten to five it won't." replied one of them "Yes. and I'll bet ten to one it won't," blulTed the other, as lie shook his wallet at the foreman The latter failed to cover, and as he sauntered off down the hill I followed him We had walked about 200 feel when we were suddenly lifted up and thrown flat to the earth, and then fol lowed a crush which seemed to have rocked tho continent As soon as we could get up we ran back to the derrick or where the derrick was It had disap peared. as well as our shanty, and on the site was a hole into which you could have dumped a cottage Not the slight est scrap of the two can tossers could be found, and the foreman and 1 stood for several minutes staring into the cavity Then he suddenly slapped his teg. waved his hand in disgust and growled "What a Iwo story fool 1 was not to take those betsl"—New York Sun The French Angler. During the siege of Paris, in spite of the shells that sang overhead and of the Prussian sentinels on the lookout for a mark, a great many of these bold sports men risked their lives outside the city fortifications and went taquinerlegoujon on the banks of the Seine. Those are the enthusiastic anglers who count the days and nights to the opening day, and who pass the off season in a state of Bettled melancholy These are the men who know every inch of the river's bunks and the boles in which the quarry lies hid, and wiio stand motionless hour after hour, holding their breath, heedless of rain, wind and sun, half mesmerized by Hie gentle bobbing of the float on which their eyes are fixed They will pass the night under a haystack in order to se cure at the lirst streak of dawn a good place where some legendary bite had oc curred and which tiiey have carefully ground-baited over night. Though a careful man. the French fisherman never sells the contents of his basket; lie fishes for his family, and the proudest hour of the day. second only to the rapturous moment of capture, is when lie sees the "friture" placed upon the table The gudgeon, the roach, the eel. the tench, the barbel, the carp, the perch and the pike are all welcome to the angler's paste or maggot, for fly fishing he considers frivolous and as requiring a skill that is out of place in so serious a pursuit. But although the net has almost swept the French rivers clear of fisli.it is against the modest angler that tho law has ful minated its edicts Tlie fisherman may not make use of more than one line, and may only have one hook at the end ni that line; he may not put his rod on the ground, but must hold it in his hand; lie is botind to leave the river at sunset and may not begin to fish till sunrise.—All tlie Year liound. Dyeing Hair. Hair dyeing is not entirely a feminine fad or vice, whichever you like tocall it. It is exceptional for men to take the trouble and suffer the annoyance and even pain which continual bleaching and dyeing entail But some men are guilty of the weakness, and they are not ail actors or men who live by their wits and personal appearance. Ladies generally prefer gold, but men who are dissatisfied with the natural color of their hair almost in variably go in for black. To keep up the deception, two if not three applica tions a week are necessary, and one cus tomer of mine had me visit him every alternate day for over three years. Dye ing the hair kills it in time and makes it brittle and thin during the process, while the number of scalp diseases sacrificed at the shrine of vanity is legion. Several barbers now decline all dyeing business, and 1 am one of the number But in years gqne by 1 did my share, and ad mit having made a quantity of money at it. The acids used aro so strong that they positively make the fingers sore, and as the scalp is much more sensitive than the fingers, the tortures endured by those who subject their heads to con stant irritation in this matuier can be more easily imagined than described.— Interview in 8t Louis (1 lobe-Democrat. The Printer Did It. A well known Australian writer —a very bad penman—in mentioning the name of a certain lady in an article, said she was "renowned for her graciousness and charity." For "charity" the com positor road ••chastity." The author, o:i seeing a proof, recognized at once that there was an error; but, unable to re member the word he had used in place of "chastity." marked the proof with what is called a "query"—?—to refer the printer to his MS When the article ap peared, the v. ritcr—who had intended to pay a pretty compliment to the lady —was surprised to read that she was "renowned for her graciousness and chastity (?)." Verdict for plaintiff, £2,- 500 sterling, with costs.—San Francisco Argonaut. The housekeepers who in former years were wont to put up whole ranks of jars of preserves are contenting themselves with a rpry moderate store of sweets this season, anil their remarks about the sugar trust would pain the Trustees to hear. SOME CURIOUS THINGS*. ODD ANO BEAUTIFUL OBJECTS FOUND IN THE FAR EAST. The Forent Dweller'* Method of Starting Fire*—Cunibr*nie "Coin*" of the Dvak People*—Many and Interesting Kind* of Dead*. The forest dwelling peoples of the fur ther east have an odd instrument for making lire. Very seldom, so far as we observed, do they employ the proverbial method of "rubbing" two sticks—which is not rubbing at all. Near the coast every man carries a hit of pitcher in the siri liox or bamboo slung at his waist, a chip of a plate, English or Dutch, and a handful of dry fungus. Holding this tinder under Ins thumb upon the frag ment of earthenware, lie strikes the side of the siri box sharply, and it takes fire. But this method can only be used by trilies which have such communication with the foreigner as supplies them with European goods. The inland peoples use a more singular process. They carry a short cylinder of lead, hollowed roughly to a cuplike form at one end, which fits a joint of bamboo. Blueing this cylinder in the palm of the left hand, they fill the cup with tinder, adjust the bamboo over it. strike sharply, remove the covering as quickly, and the tinder is alight. Ob servers who take a narrow view have de clared that tlie earliest art practiced by human livings ufter they escape from mere barbarism is pottery. These races have long passed that stage, but we do not recall any evidence that they use the art. The fact is that, in countries which produce the bamboo, earthenware is hardly needed except for luxury. They make charms and fetiches of dried clay. MEASURING VALUES. But in Borneo the Dyak peoples iiave a class of foreign earthen ware singu larly interesting. As Malays employ brass guns for their currency, so the Dyaks employ antique vases. In neither instance do the actual "coins" pass from hand to hand, since by brass gun a Malay signifies a cannon, twenty feet long, perhaps, and a Dyak signifies a vessel eighteen inches high or more. These tilings are measures of value, divided into imaginary fractions. There are three varieties of this earthenware— the gusi, which represents about £SOO sterling, the naga and rusa, much less valuable. The first is certainly Chinese, and the last probably, but perhaps they never came from the continent. At some date unknown the north of Borneo was occupied by a Chinese colony which must have numbered millions. This great time, w hen a third part of the isl and was cultivated and densely peopled, may have been 800 years ago. But the first paragraph in the "Annals of Bruni" recognizes a powerful Chinese kingdom of Butangan in the Fifteenth century— we are not to digress into that fascinat ing theme, however. Tho Celestials were exterminated about two genera tions ago; an old friend of ours, tho great Chief Casing, still carried ten pig tails attached to his sword of state— trophies of his father's valor, probably. Chinese merchants have tried again and again to counterfeit the old jars, as have tho Dutch, but they never succeeded in passing oIF their imitations. Tiie Naga may lie Hindoo or Japanese, of very re mote antiquity; both peoples bad great settlements in the island at soma time beyond human memory. They have left Buddhist remains of importanco here and there. We secured no samples of these curi ous things, for reasons that have been suggested. But the recollection calls to mind some extraordinary objects of the same class, in a sense, which are, treas ured on the other side of tiie world. WONDERFUL BEADS. The Aggry and the Popo beads, which serve for jewels in West Africa, are glass resembling earthenware of unknown manufacture, of immemorial antiquity, and beyond modern skill to counterfeit. Most European nations, probably, have tried their hand at imitating the Aggry bead. The shrewdest chemists and the cleverest artificers of Venice and Bir mingham have done their best; the pot ters of England, France and Germany have exhausted their resources, but in vain. It does not seem such a difficult enterprise, however. The heads aro ir regular in shape and size; many have been sawn in two. They have an opaque ground—ochre yellow in the most valu able species—but so various that this point gives no trouble. A rough orna ment of circles in another hue runs through the material from side to side or end to end. Here, again, imitation seems easy, to the craftsmen of Venice in par ticular; but appearances are deceptive, evidently. The Popo bead. less valuable, but valuable enough, is blue glass, trans parent, but so manufactured that it shows a dull yellow against the light. These tilings are all found in the earth; but, so far as can bo ascertained, they never turn up in company with bones or other signs of burial, which, topur mind, is the most curious fact of all. That they are ancient Egyptian is a certainty. Many hundreds, if not thousands,were taken in the sack of tfto palace at Coo wassie, strung, in general, upon that very pretty cord whicli we mentioned, with gold nuggets beaten flat, and cubes uf coral and tufts of colored silk inter spersed. Very handsome they looked, no doubt, upon the smooth brown skin of the royal dames A pretty bracelet from Coomassie is made of triangular pieces cut from the rib of a shell, snow white, strung in groups alternately with these small flattened nuggets. But the curiosities saved in that loot bear only a miserable proportion to those which men of taste admired in the palace and the big houses of the caboceers. But one stool was carried away—as ti memorial for the Princess of Wales—among the hundreds adorned with silver which lay in all di rections. Very charming were many of these—the Ashantee artist seemed to de vote his best attention to the stools. Seven were piled, as if for removal, in the courtyard of a great house, each plated with repousse work, showing much tasto ana ingenuity of design. These people have "gifts."—Saturdav Review, * "little brown, h/> jn- They drive home the cows from tb* .cvuire Up through t he long shady lane. Where the quail wills*.! loud in the . J -kl. All fellow wiLh r!penin(t tfiaiii They find. In the Chick waving • Where the Hcurlrl lipi* <1 tftrawt* . They gather the -arlhvr And the first crimson luls of tin- • They ton* the liny l*i the i:i< .Jow They gather the elder blooms win. They ftnd where the dl -sy . : fe In the soft tinted October light They kuow where < ea; ;; s hang • L And are Rweefcr thatrti.iiy't wriu They know where the fruit ix the i -4 On the long, thorny blackberry * j They gather the delicate sea wreed.s And build tiny cost Icm of Hand; | They pick up the beautiful sea Hlic'.e FailT harks that have drifted l*> • They wave from rhetall. rocking i -a. Where the oriole's ham mock ihs • ,„A And at night time ure folded in hli: By a song that a fond mother hi.. Those who toil bravely are strong. The humble an.! poor become gr- And from those brown hum led clu. ui Shall grow mighly rulers of slat.- The pen of the author ami Htatesm The uohleaud wise of our land The sword and chisel aud palette Shall he hold in the little brown t t -New .. ■ m >V*ir Victoria's Crown Queen Victoria's crown i other royal regalia under at the old tower, and worn • • j occasions, is one of the tie . - now in existence. " there are twenty diamond*- circlet or headband, each v\' or $150,000 for the set. 1 ; -tr twenty there are two extra diamonds each valued at $!• • .:* $20,000 more, fifty-four - i , monds, placed at the angles, each valued at $500; four worth SOO,OOO, and compos.* .\ five diamonds; four large - . top of crosses, each hav value of $5,000; twelve diu r fleur-de-lis, $50,000, eigl. diamonds contained in tho> pearls, diamonds and ruhic and circlets not mentioned 000; also 141 small diamor roses and monograms, $25. six diamonds in upper two circles of pearls abo\ the headpiece, $15,000 eai money value of this relic in • % ■ * market in the world woui a . . SOOO,OOO, metal and all i --d. su Loui9 Republic. Mr. Blenkins* It. Farmer Blenkins, .vim • ;* Jane, is noted for never . with anything that she sci dom has a chance to admi: of her disagreeably critical . : day his opportunity cam. : .:*• not miss it. They had been to Boston on their return home one bors drop] ed in and beg.: •. tion. "Ben to Boston, hev ye. .' 1.*,." "Yes." "Miss Blenkins go 'long''" "Um—hum." "How'd ye like it, Mis' i "Laws sake!" snapped • kins, "Everythin'l see t, - f, •■. frightful!" "I believe ye, Mary Jn: ■ t'c Farmer Blenkins. "Ye i a , , • nothin the whole day bv front of lookin' glasses!"-- . ... o,; pan ion. IT© Recover*- One of Chicago's old rc.. r... ~*• '. en sick the other day, an .' ously ill, too. He was in and he asked that a leadi. summoned. When this j in tho old settler told him was going to die. After a > nation the physician stniU ly and tried to dissipate hi tuary ideas. "Why," he are all right. You think to die, but your feet are V> ought to know that an. i feet is not going to dio." regarded his physician . for a few moments, and . v. s disgust in his voice: "Wn; that got to do with it? Rogersl lie died with .v: he was burned at the stak with me on the question < ture!" Tho physician s:.. ; . the old settler recovered. . i aid. A Nev Way to Earn < . Scholl tells a good stor ... singer who called the < t„ manager's ofiice of one .i cafe chantants in Pari.* l> t„ e getting an engagement t w see," said tlie manager, uno" your face. "Did you no: ..i • Vej non theatre last season?' .. -l\ti my poor fellow, you v. .. > . a rf; frost." "Yes; on purpi /..v purpose?" "You see, the; I •. pay us. If I had sung .1 sk -oi. have got nothing but : As t sang as wretchedly as 1 r.i., e , uj >- bombarded me,with a;., : .. c..ui i ; i something to eat at le.. ..." ?all iuut tiaaette. Not a Matter of < ./'.-v. Aunty—l cannot und: i .w act tho way they do now. ... .-k>j ply awful. You spent !■*<'.■ Newport last 6ummer, v." I time you were engaged " a >'eawi different men Sweet Girl—But, au: • > I el •• could 1 do? I'd hardly, . ;.t . one young man before hi i win i he over, and he'd have I .... no city, and that's the way . ...t t > . horrid.—New York We. Pomposity "I see some men in t'v" 1 cW • themselves mighty hlg', . I can't tell! They are <n r . • :>. w, i made us all. And we're. '! . creatures when it comes ■ •>> i i;>. viduals. Individually <,• ■ Y. much in tho world. No m,. a> • ; i a great deal by himself. II ;• .h;.*:. ~h <i on the others. Thereto; it • a in ••*..- sion to feel better than j;. .] < i ..j.' Detroit Free Press.
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