THE LAVA FLOW. It found a valley young and fair And virgin of regret; That laughed away the amorous air, Nor dreamed of love as yet. It left a valley wan and old And outcast of desire, When through hot maiden heart had rolled Its passion flood of fire. Her springs are dry; and dry between Is ifcll her flowery jwiss, Save one wee strip of faithful green— The friendship of the grass. And black across her beauty's wreck— Poor wreck, that may not die! Lies dead tho flame she could not check, Nor can revivify. So, wan aud writheu in despair. So, frozen bluck in stone. They lie -the awful semblance there Of lives that I have known. —Charles F. Luminis in Frank Leslie'#. A Startling Prophecy. Nothing in tho future appears more probable than that within the lifetime of persons now living the industrial su premacy of Great Britain will pass away with the exhaustion of her coal fields. Switzerland, Italy and the Scandinavian peninsula are destined to become the great manufacturing districts of Europe. This extraordinary industrial revolution will he brought about by tho transmis sion and distribution by electrical means of the inexhaustible and permanent wa ter power in those countries. More than a year ago in Switzerland a woolen man ufactory with 36,000 spindles, with the usual complement of auxiliary machin ery, was operated wholly by electric power conveyed from a distant stream, deriving its never failing supply of wa ter from the melting of Alpine snows. In the new era the Swiss republic may not improbably become the foremost in dustrial nation of Europe,—Electrical Engineer. CoiicUtlon of Ifayti. The country is naturally rich, but not rich enough to support the hordes of shameless, self seeking politicians anx ious for their own enrichment. The cause for their appearance in such num bers is easily explained. The many revo lutions. with their concomitant murders, pillages and conflagrations, have de stroyed industry and labor, and have closed all the avenues to the attainment of a eouqietencc by honorable pursuits. Of what use is it to the peasant to plant cane or to cultivate coffee when at any moment the general of the arrondisse ment may force him to abandon his crops to bear arms in support of some one who, 111 tho set terms of tho usual proclama tion, has "raised the standard of revolu tion against the most odious of tyrants?" —Cor. New York Post. How Stanley I'liiiMteri Traitor. One anecdote told by Mr. Stevens of the way in which Stanley disposed of the Egyptian officer who was convicted of having plotted (<> hand the expedition over to the Mahdi, is worth repeating. Stanley, who was suffering with acute gastritis, had himself carried in a chair outside the tent. Turning to the incrim inated officer lie said: "We have come through a thousand difficulties to save you and yours. Mean while you have been plotting to destroy us. Depart to God." Saying these words, he pointed to a bough of a tree, where justice was done after the fashion of Judge Lynch.—Pail Mall Gazette. Circumstance. Alter Case.. Northern Man (down in Florida) — What's the price of that orange grove? Native—Ten thousand dollars, mister. Had the consumption long? "Consumption! I haven't consump tion." "Just weak lungs, maybe?" "My lungs are sound as a dollar. I am merely looking for a good place to locate; doesn't matter to me whether it's north or south, cast or west." "Oh! Well, I'll let you have that grove for s23o."— New York Weekly. Wliat Fog. Signify. Night or morning fogs, or in winter persistent fogs, often signify a calm and settled condition of the air and tlie prev alence of fair weather. Heavy dews, especially in the autumn, likewise por tend line weather, but usually of shorter duration. Fogs appear usually in one of two conditions—either the air is nearly saturated up to a considerable height, or else is unusually dry, except in a stratum immediately above the ground.—Ex change. Adulteration or Food. l'he total food consumption per year in the United States amounts to $4,500,- 000,000. It is estimated that !' per cent, of this is adulterated, or $90,000,000, of which 00 per cent, is harmlessly doctor ed. If the estimate be true, then there is an annual output of food containing poisonous adulteration to the amount of $9,000,000, while the portion that is harmless reaches a total of $81,000.000, — American Grocer. Weed. That Travel. Tho thistle and some other weeds have winged seeds, and these not unfrequently travel .'IOO miles in a day in a passenger ear and by rail, are swept out at the end of tho journey, find a suitable habitat, take root and grow. There are plants I growing in Kirk wood between the rail road tracks which are only found iu Kansas, the seeds being brought on the railway trains.—St. Louis Republic. A Good Memory. "How far back can you remember, Bobby?" asked his uncle. •Well," said Bob, "I can remember when 1 didn't know how to play mar bles." "No further back than that?" "Oh, yes; I can remember when I couldn't remember at all."—Harper's Bazar. A Frog That Die. of Old Age. A frog in Nicaragua, colored red and blue, fearlessly hops about in the day time, it has perfect faith in its warning color. No snake or bird will touch it, for it is disgusting to the taste, and the sooner it is recognized the better.—Cath tilic World. THE BROADVvAY PARADE. % I'fivv Much About the Shopping District and the shopper?*. The Broadway of the proinenaders is divided into three parts. The fin; t part, the shopping district, readies from Eighth street north to Twenty-first, the second part stretches from Twenty-first to Thirty-third, and is the widely known "Tenderloin or Hoff man House district," and from Thirty third to Forty-second stretches the "sou brettes' parade." There is no other walk in this country to compare with Broadway on a sunny day. It begins to fill up with shoppers as early as 11, but it is in the afternoon that it is ati brightest and best. The shopping district is the least inter esting to the men. The women*who go there are in a hurry. They are preoccu pied; lliey have a mission to perform. They have heard that there is a place where they can get a piece of surah silk to match the stuff they bought last week at another place for fully three cents a yard cheaper; and they are looking for that place. They take time in their haste to look at each other, or rather at each other's garments. They also take time to look at what they themselves have on as they pass the impromptu mirrors of the plato glass windows. If the reflection is a strong one they will stop and walk up to it, keeping up an appearance of deep in terest in what is displayed in the shop window, but in reality seeing only their own pretty faces and bonnets. They are just as busy and earnest over their gloves and trimmings as are their husbands and big brothers over their "puts" and "calls" down town. You see very few men in the shopping district. They leave it to the enjoyment of their feminine relatives and walk fur ther up. From 3 to 5 o'clock the real prome nade begins on Broadway. It is a genu ine promenade, for the pedestrians are not there by accident; they walk there for the pleasure of walking and of see ing each other and being seen. Perhaps it would Ire more correct to say to be seen, and then incidentally to see others. You will see everybody who is any body on Broadway sometime if you wait long enough. But you will see very few of the swagger set, either men or women. They keep to Fifth avenue, and only strike Broadway where the avenue crosses it. Broadway is only for the less fashiona ble and perhaps less select citizens of Gotham. The women who are seen there are just a little too conspicuously dressed, and the men who saunter there stare at them more than is quite proper. This may bo because all the actors and ac tresses in New York walk on Broadway in the afternoon, and the non-profcssion als are always on the lookout for them. They are frequently rewarded by the sight of Sara Jewett, who dresses over much on the street and looks, for some reason, shorter and broader than she does on the stage, and Pauline Hall in sealskin and diamonds, Cora Tinnie in black, with a black boa, and generally accompanied by her mother, who is said to be a real mother and not a hired "stage mother," and sweet Annie Rus sell, who sees no one, but keeps straight ahead with eyes "front." The men who haunt Broadway are as well known by sight as the Worth mon ument or the clock in front of the Fifth Avenue hotel, and they are quite as hardened to the curious glances of the pedestrians.—New York Evening Sun. Slight Preparation. A young man well known in the city lately departed for Europe with the shortest notice on record. A few hours before the train left Buffalo that made connection with the steamer at New- York lie determined to join some friends on their European tour. He went home, told his family of his inten tion, and, of course, was met by the sur prised queries: "How can you get ready? You have got to prepare for an ocean voyage. What are you going to do?" "Nothing, hut black my boots," was the laconic reply. Who will assert that woman is superior to man after such an incident?— Buffalo Express. Pillars from Pompeii. Delmonico's old Beaver street building is probably the only one in America par tially erected from material found in the ruins of ancient Pompeii. The marble pillars of the portico over the entrance, and, in fact, nearly all the marble of which the porch is composed, were im ported from Pompeii in 1834. So well authenticated is the history of these marble pillars and slabs that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is making efforts to obtain them.—New York Tele gram. Different from Her Treatment. Bobby (looking out of the window) — What's the matter with that horse, mamma? Mother—The horse is balky, Bobby; he won't obey his driver. Bobby—Well, what's the man patting him for? Mother—lie is coaxing him. Bobby (with an injured air)— That ain't the way you treat me when I'm balky. —London Tit-Bits. Decorated with Drown Taper. When the late Cornelius Vanderbilt built his summer residence at Hartford at an expense of over SIOO,OOO the deco rators covered the walls of his dining room with ordinary brown paper, sucli as is used by butchers to wrap meat in. There was a cherry wood dado anil a rich frescoed frieze. This room was con sidered one of the handsomest in the wealthy town. —New York Sun. A Hew Way to Do It. An Indianapolis bookkeeper made some changes in figures to look suspicious, asked for and got a week's leave, and after the linn Iriad published him as an embezzler ho returned, proved that he was O. K. and got $5,000 to poultice his wounded feelings with. There is more than one way for an honest bookkeeper to make mom v.—Detroit Free Press. OLDEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD. A NogreB Who Han Documents .Showing That She Wiw Born in 1745. In the northeastern portion of Dallas, Tex., between Bryan and Live Oak streets, and fronting the Houston and Texas Central railway, lives Aunt July Cole, who has but recently grown too old to take in washing. The cabin in which she lives is a rude hovel, and yet it is kept as neat as a pin. It is sur rounded by a dozen huts of the same kind, though not so well kept, all hud dled together in an irregular colony. The railway people have forced their right of way with barbed wire to keep the horde of pickaninnies off the track, hut in vain. Tiiey crawl through the fangs of the fence and gather upon the road in such numbers that the cautious engineer finds it necessary on passing through Freedmantown to use both hell and whistle. After the train had passed tile other day The Republic man crawled through the wire fence, and with difficulty found the cabin of the "Ole Furginny Aunty." She sat in a low chair andsmoked a blue clay pipe. As she raised her face slowly and her wrinkled features were first seen the writer involuntarily asked him self: "Is it alive?" When she spoke her tremulous and cracked voice increased his astonishment. But it was not only alive, but it smoked and talked. "My name is July Cole," she said. "I belonged to Col. Cole in Furginny, and he (it de Britishers wid Ger,. Washing ton. Norfolk was my home, sir; right on de sea. My mammy come from de Cape in Afriky, and my daddy went back dere. My mammy was named Lucretia, and was give to Col. Cole by Gen. Washington's lady, who had many servants. I was brought to Henry county, Tennessee, and sold to Thomas Waters. 1 had great-grandchillun don. After I helped to settle Tennessee I was sold to William Ralih for lan'. Mars Jef come to take me home to Tennessee, but ole mail Rabb wouldn't let me go wid him. Den 1 lived on Rabb's Creek, below La Grange, Tex. I was took away from my husband and two chillun in Tennessee, and my ole man he run away and followed me till dey caught him wid dogs right on de banks of do Mississippi river. Yes, sir, right dar in de bed of de river, wliar de hill is and de high trees, and right down by de boat in de dark—fur he was ruiinin' to git on de boat wid me. But dey caught 'im and I never saw 'im any more'" On being asked her age the old woman began to rise slowly, holding, in the meantime, to the chair for support. "I doesn't know by de iiggers, but I knows by happeniu's," she said. She moved to ail old trunk, which was cov ered with rawhide with the hair on and tacked with big headed brass tacks. From this she drew an old letter on bluo paper, which she says was "de paper" given to Mars Waters by Mars Cole when she was sold. Only the lower half of the sheet remains, theother having evidently been taken off by time, and the only legi ble portion of the writing purports to give the date of Aunt July's birth. The only words are "was born Dec. 10, 1745." The writer had heard that she was 145 years old. hut of course lie believed noth ing of the kind. The appearance of the old negro and t lie evidence produced by her to prove her age were astonishing. "Dey says 1 is or hundred and forty five year ole, an", honey, I spec' it is so." | "What is your earliest; remembrance, aunty? l)o you remember Gen. Wash ton?" "I never seed liitn," she said, "but I knows when lie was general, and I knows when he was president, too. I heerd Mars Cole say when de tea was tlung outen de Boston ship. I lias seed do Tories, an' my brother was wid Mars Cole when he went intode war wid de Britishers. Dat war was seven years, and Mars Cole he got shot in de arm. I 'members when dey lit de French an' In juns. too, sir." It took quite a while to get all this out of the aged creature, who is very feeble. She laid only one want—smoking tobacco —and that was supplied, after which the writer left her at her low, hairy trunk putting aw y her documents. —Cor. St. Louis Republic. Love for Hornet*. Once in the horse business always in the horse business might be put down us a proverb. I have known a good many men to get tired of race horses and sell out, lint unless they sold out on account of age or infirmity they have always gone back to it. Look at Will Barnes. He sold bis stables a few years ago and swore lie would never own another horse. He is now in the market buying a lot of yearlings, showing that lie means tostay in the business. I could name a num ber of others who have done just what Barnes has done. There is a fascination about racing that sticks to a man through life.—lnterview in St. Louis Globe-Dem ocrat. Social Opportunities Arc Kcpia!. There is no good reason why the me chanic should not play the piano or the banjo if he is so inclined; none why he should not keep himself clean and re- j speotable and go into society; none why tin) doors of mansions should not open as wide to him as to the salesman in a store. If the daughters of Squire Tinsel look down upon a mechanic and smile upon a counter jumper, the former may console himself that he is no lospr by the preference, and that lie may save the money tlm latter expends upon concert tickets and carriages.—Oliver Optic's Letter. A Peculiar Ballot ISox. Probably the most extraordinary sys tem of voting was in Hungary, where the ballot boxes were immense casks and ' tin) ballot poles from four to six feet j long, which the citizen carried and de- 1 posited for his favorite candidate with peculiar pride.—Detroit News. Ralph Disraeli, a brother of Lord | Beacons field, retired at the age of 80, : after fifty years of public service, from I the office of deputy clerk of the parlia- j ments, to whom he was appointed by | Lord Beaconsfield. Ofottiii f I'Hlcoti inland. In 1867 11. I. S. Falcon reported a shoal in a position about thirty miles west of Nttmuku island, of the Friendly or Tonga group. Ten years later smoke was reported by H. M. S. Sappho to he rising frotn the sea at this spot, and eight later, in 1885, a volcanic island was re ported by a passing steaiuer, the Janet Nicliol, to have risen from the sea. In 1886 the United States -steamer Mohican visited the new islands—which had emerged from the ocean during a sub marine) eruption on Oct. 14 of the previ ous year—when its length was found to ho one and four-tenths of a mile and its height 165 feet. In 1889 the island was thoroughly ex amined, and the surrounding sea sounded by her majesty's surveying ship Egeria, when it was found to be one and one tenth of a mile long and nine-tenths of a mile wide. • A little steam issuing from cracks in the southern cliff was tiic sole sign of ac tivity, but there were mauy proofs ex isting that the island still retains consid erable heat near the surface. From the condition of the fiat, it is apparent that it has neither risen nor subsided during the past two or three years. Unless there be a hard core it seems probable that its existence as an island will be short. It has been named Falcon island, and sound ings between it and Namuka show that they are separated by a valley 6,000 feet deep.—Newcastle Chronicle. Tlio Colon* in Stiver*. The colors of rivers differ widely. The Rhone is blue, and so is the Danube, while the Rhine is green. Anybody who has traversed the wonderful Adirondack region and fished in its waters must.liave noticed the remarkable difference in the color of its rivers and smaller streams which radiate in every direction from tho central group of mountains. The waters of tho Saeondaga are yellowish, while those of the Canada creeks and of the Mohawk are clear, with perhaps a bluish tint in deep holes. Fish creek is black or deep brown, and its neighbor, Salmon river, is colorless. Next comes the Black river, whose color is indicated by its name, but between it and the Grasse, which is also black or brown, is the Os wegatchie, with clear white waters. The St. Regis, again, is black, but the Ra quette is white. The St. Lawrence is blue. —Nature. Ancient Voting Methods. The Syracusans used at one time olive leaves for ballots. Rome, at an early day after democracy was introduced, borrowed the ballot box system of the Greeks, but never took kindly to it. The Australian system of today is a revival of the practice in Rome 2,000 years ago. Tho voting classification in Greece in olden times was both social and terri torial, not unlike the arrangement in this country in presidential elections. Many of the ancient systems of voting were corrupted by extravagant favorit ism and bribery was not uncommon.— Detroit News. Many .)u. & 13. Ar. Advantageous Trade. It is to your advantage to trade with us. You may not have thought so here tofore. But here arc n few points for your consideration: The assortments in the tifty-two depart ments of these large stores is the largest. The qualities are the best, as we handle no low grade, trashy goods, and The prices are reliable, just and lowest —always the lowest. We want, you to hold us to a strict ac counting for all these claims. SILKS. At 90 cents, 24 inch, extra quality Black Gros Grain Dress Silks. 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