is born, and its sobbing breath
‘tonched on the shores of life and death. :
to rest in a mother's arms,
‘hie world swings by with its lurking harms.
weet border-land of her love be 'his—
IVhat more have kings "mid their dynasties?
Youth comes apace as a day in June—
‘The song in his heart has love's low tune,
© He fees the nutter of passinz. wings,
hile he singing toils and toiling sings.
Tove beckons afar to flowery stands—
He dreams in thelight of its border-lands.
Now the man delves desp in mines of thought
#7311 Ambition’ssword with fame is wrought.
On the border-land mirages loom, ;
And his heart goes down in waves of gloom.
©, temple of love and tender youth,
Awake your altar with lipsof truth.
Return with lilies so white and rare
To twine on the feverad brow of care.
~~ Re-give the charm of your lotus-leaves;
While peace rebinds her glory sheaves;
© And hope with justice be interwoven
Til the race shall ken the joy of heaven,
Whose border land and its halo be
The lifeand 1ove of eternity,
~~Mary Baird Finch.
«tOpe-and-twenty,” said I.
‘Do you think,” said she, j
feeling of her chin,
to take care of the [
to do, you know, on om thi
Do you think you're up tothe work?”
meant.
she.
coffee and winking my eyes very hard,
“I'm married.”
“Can your wife make herself generally
useful about the place?” sharply de-
manded the old lady. :
‘Certainly she can,” said I, begin—
ning vaguely to see my way through the
mists of perplexity that had ‘heretofore
‘obscured my brain, ;
«How old 18 she?’ asked Mrs. Martin.
«‘Bighteen,” I answered. 5
Mrs. Martin frowned. :
«What does possess girls fo get mar.
ried nowadays,” said she, before they've
left off dolls and patchwork?” ;
I looked thoughtfully down at the
pattern of my plate—a pink Chinaman
| crdssing a carmine bridge, with two very
| red willows drooping at the far end of
it, and some impossible sfreaks of water
below—and made no direct answer. My
mother-in-law was doubtlessly laboring
under a misapprehension, but I did not,
«(Of course I think so,” said I, won. |
dering what on’esrth my mother-in-law
“You are married, 1 suppose?” sia |L
«Oh, yes,” said 1, swallowing the hot |
throwing both, hands
y's meck, ‘‘please forgive met!
ever, never elope again.
But your husband seems a Ear a
about the house, and I'm tired of living
here alone. 80 take off your things and
go to work getting supper. As for you,
Richard—"" : te
“Yes, ma'am, IT know,” said I. * “I've
been playing a double part and deceived
you all along. But I wanted you to like
me=-and you know.” I added, “all is
fair in love and war!” FE
“Well, I do like you--a little,” "ads
mitted my mother-in-law. “And now
that I have seen you, Dick, I don’tso
much wonder at the way Nettie be=
haved.” :
Afte} that, she never ‘scolded us any
more. And I honestly believe that this
is the only case on record - in which a
mother-in-law was conquered in so brief
a campaign. Nettie says she doesn't
know how I'did it. Infact, I don’t quite
__ BECIPE FOR BEAUTY: =
A pretty woman must first of all have
clearly cut, regular features. © She must
have full, clear eyes. She must havea
skin that is above reproach, uutouched
by rouge and powder. She must have
glossy hair that has never known the touch
of bleach or die. Shemust have a white,
expressive hand, preferably asmall one,
but not of necessity, if it is well kept
and white. . She must know how to put
on her clothes, or she loses half her beau-
ty. She must fully understand what
best suits her in the way of hair dressing,
and cling close to that. A woman may
have all these attractions, and unless her
own personality is charming, unless she
has tact, it dawns on you that after you
have seen her once or twice, that she is |
bining colors, sweeping aside piece after
piece of silk till the exact union of hues
that is at once the most effective and |
the most artistic has been reached. He |
‘studies the portraits of beauties and cele-
brated female personages of by-gone ages
| to glean ideas for new styles, as he ob-
serves the blending of colors in the
plumage of birds or the petals of flow-
ers or the accidental combination of the
pale green of young grass in the spring
with the warm red of the earth in a
freshly plowed field.
‘union of tints furnished him with an
‘idea for a strikingly effective toilette.
He comes to his establishment fromy his
home at nine o'clock in the morning,and
remains there always until six, seldom
leaving before seven in the height of the
“This last-named
; Truekee, Cal., has a baby with
black and one blue eye.
An ounce of turnip seed conta
tween 14,000 and 15,000 single |
A Maine boy of eight years 1s sald
be able to repeat forty chapters o
| Bible.
The Chinese christen their children
by shaving their heads preparatory for
pig tails. rsh :
* A dog should only be fed once daily,
.and should be allowed an ounce of
for every pound he weighs.
In certain parts of Russia people w
are hungry are forbidden by law from
being so indiscreet as to say so. i
~The longest mileage operated by
single railroad system is that of ti
Union Pacitic—10,928 miles. -
Flowers are worn {reely by the Gree
who, among other things, imagined
refreshed the thinking faculties.
A ricochet shot from: the new
zine rifle adopted in Eagland lbroke
cottage window four miles distant from
the firing point. a A
A man in Prospect, Me., has a rdos
that is as gool as any barome!
4 i know, myself.—New York Ledger. not a pretty woman. The most fascina- | season. . He is ably seconded by his | % storm is approaching the roos
HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW. SE hash oe ting La to men usually have less | younger son, John Worth, who has in. during the entire preceding
; a lired man, and took it for granted :'A Tramp’s Good Fortune. than half these regulation charms. —Bos- heritsd much of his father's alent. The | A Pontiac (Mich) man, = wk
that T was the personage in question. | Seven years ago Harry Schrader lived | fon Gazette. : eldest son, Gaston Worth, is the busi. for a pension. twelve years ag
«What can you do?’ she asked, |in Indiana. He is the son of Adam HE - ig manager of the house,—Harper's | postal card every day to. Presi
OT here, have you?” | abruptly. And with equal curtness I Schrader, of Water street, and is not yet | | THE GIRLS OF LISBON. BZAT., ag pba ¥izon and ihe Ooaamissionss 0 x
said my mother-in- | responded: ? thirty years of age. He entered the | Miss Batcheller, daughter of the] Fit ee irr be i Iu hier ie remind them he
law, in a deep voice, ¢ Anything.” bakery of C. U. Gessler, and after a | American Minister to Portugal, says thay © FASHION NOTES, Si 1 : ng for it. eh
as she stood on the| ' «Come, I like that,” said my mother- | year's work there he went to Philadel- { the Lisbon girls are beautiful and atirac- Bhort street costumes are in favor in | In Baersdor!, Bilesia,
threshold, urimly | in-law, rubbing her hands. (‘At least | phiaand completed his trade. Then he | tive, but are very closely guarded, never Paris. : Tat Beieag (od OWReE returned home late ;
surveying me with | you are not afraid of work. Do you un- took & notion there was room for him in | sppearing unattended in the street, and | Dahiia red is a pretty color for a loth | in the dark collided with an
eyes that shone like | derstand cows and horses?” ue far West 8g started hore jo aks fares, being seen on loot. Carriage | or silk dress. = GE Fhe blow Drokehis sriifcial se of
“hard, greenish-blue «Well__not much,” I owned. There | his fortung. ut fortune is fickle, an Iriving of a decorous kind is a favorite | Se ala a i. oo cin two, and in the shock he swa
. gooseberries behind ! were no cattle at my Yast place.” (Which often those who woo it ne’er so hard are em ot. but the girl who follows the ey 2 gansidered the PIOPSE both. They : stuck in his throat and
BY AMY RANDOLPH. .
guffecated.
her spectacles. For
«such modern trifles
‘as eye-glasses were
} as unsuited to my
mother-in-law's fine Romun nose as a
_ point-lace collar would be. to the Venus
di Milo. I cold feel her glances pene-
trite to the very marrow-of my: bones;
and yet I contrived to keep a bold front,
‘as 1 stood facing her.
It was rather a curious complication.
My mother-in-law had not the least idea
' who I was. I had cheerfully intended
to take her by surprise; but now that the
eventful moment bad arrived, my
courage, like that of Bob Acres, as
Jeiferson shows him, was cozing out at
the ends of my fingers.
My name is Richard Dalton. I was
{hen just twenty-one, with a face that was
not absolutely ugly, a sublime audacity
antl pockets not particularly well:lined,
and I had just distinguished myself by
rugning away with a pretty girl from
boarding school.
«But, Dick,” she had remonustrated,
4swe've nothing to live on.”
“:Don’t be a goose, darling,’ had been
my reply. ‘What do people need to
live on? ~All the wants of this world,
nore or less, are factitions. = A crust of
© bread and a glass of water three times a
diy, and now and then a suit of clothes
— we must be poor, indeed, if we can’t
manage to compass that.”
Nettie had looked admiringly upon
me, and acquiesced in my argument.
We had taken board at the Angel Hill
Hotel, and began our honeymoon royally.
At the end of a month, mine host had
Decome a little importunate on the sub-
ject of his bill, and Nettie’s mother had
written a letter to her, signifying that
sbe wanted nothing whatever to'do with
us. We had made our own bed, she
sicnified, and now we might lie on it.
+»Oh, Dick,” cried Nettie,clasping her
Lands, “What are we to do?”
_ ‘“Hanged if I know?” was my rather
blank response. ‘‘But don’t cry, dar-
din, TIL go and see her myself.”
You, Dick!”
“1, myself.”
“«She’ll have nothing to say to you.”
+She can't help herself.”
_ %She'll turn you ont of doors.”
«We'll see about that.”
«But, Dick, you don’t know--you
can't have any idea—how terrible she
is,” sighed Nettie. Finiy
“48aint George conquered the dragon,
my love,” 1 asserted, cheerfully, ‘and I
mean to conquer your mother! So pack
my valise, there's a’ darling, and I'll be
off before the landlord comes back from
Boston!”
«But Dick, if he's trondlesome, what
can I say to him?” appealed poor little
frightened Nettie. :
“Tell him I've gone out of town, and
shall be back in a few days," said I,con-
fidentially.
Bnt, valiantly as Tspoke, my ‘mental
sensations by no. means corresponded
with tiais bold part. I was beginning
dimly to realize what a very unwise step
I had taken, and also persuaded poor
! Nettie to take. And I was secretly mak-
ing up my mind that if Nettie's mother
refused to receive us, I would ship my-
geld off as second . mate or third
purser, or something of that sort,
‘send my advance wages to my poor little
| ‘wite,and commence the world over again
in this irregnlar fashion.
But when; I walked resolutely up to
my mother-in-law’s door,she greeted ‘me
a if I had been expected for the last
week or so.
: “You've come, have you?’ was the
salutation, :
¢ Well, yes,” 1 admitted, “I've come.”
«What on earth detained yout” said
she. gu
In my mind Icast about what to say,
and settled down on the first convenient
excuse that came into my head.”
"4¢The train was delayed at Bogle-
2 said I at
ell, come ‘in, now that you're
said she, *‘and get warm. It’s
| eold weather for this time o’ year,
MEE
Lp
was very true, for I had been a clerk in
| a bank at three hundred dollars a year.)
! «But I have not the least doubt that 1
fond soon learn, if you would kindly
show me what is expected of me.”
«Can you cut wood?” she asked.
¢sCertainly,” said I, reflecting to my
self that any fool might do that,
She asked one or two questions more,
which I answered with the blind fatuity
which attends youth and confidence. She
seemed pleased with my willingness to
undertake anything and everything.
«And now about wages,” said she,
briskly. “What will you ask—for your
own services and those of your wife—
by the month" : :
I fitted ithe tips of my fingers reflec-
tively together. :
¢#As we are both rather inexperi-
enced,” said I, “we'll agree to work the
first month for our board. After that
you shall pay us what you think we are
both worth.” i :
~ ¢‘Hum—hum!” said my mother-in-
jaw. “That’su sensible proposition—a
very sensible one, indeed. Well, send
meantime I'llshow you over the place,
and explain to you the nature of your
duties.” i,
So I hired myself outto my mother-
in-law as farm hand without further zere-
mony, and immediataly wrote and posted
the postoffice I met a burly young man
meditating at a spot where four roads
meet. !
‘Can you tell me, sir,” said he,
ttwhere Mrs, Abel Martin lives?’
“Qh yes, sir; I can tell you,” I re-
spended, affably. <‘But if you're look-
ing for the situation of hired man I may
as well tell you thatit’s filled.”
The burly young man made some re-
marks, indicative in a general way of his
opinion of the fickleness of womankind
apd departed, whilst 1 returned rejoic-
ing, to the old farmhouse. :
«Here's a very nice beginning,” said I
to myself. ¢Itis now my business to
give as much satisfaction as possible.”
Fortune favored me, in more ways
than one. My mether-in-law sprained
her ankle on the second day, and I
played cook as well as man-of-all-work
with distinguished success, and I had
the satisfaction of hearing her say to
old Miss Priscslla Perkins that *‘she
didn’t know when she'd taken such a
notion to anyone as she had to the new
hired man!”
‘He's too young and good-looking to
suit me,” observed Miss Priscilla purs-
ing up her steel-trap of a mouth.
“tHe is good-looking, ain't he?” said
handy ‘about the house, and he ain't one
bit atraid of work. ' And you'd ought
to have seen the oysters he stewed for
my supper last night; and the cup of tea
he made... Why, I don’t miss Jemima
Stiles one bit. If only .Nettie could
have stayed single till she met sucha
man ag thisl” :
1 smiled to myself asI laid out the
kindling for the breakfast fire. My. .ac—
complishments as *‘Jack-of-all-trades”
had never done me much good before,
But now they were certainly winning me
some credit in the world. ;
At the end of the third day she had
told me the whole story of her daugh-
ter's runaway match with “a good-for-
nothing young ‘city chap.” © On the
fourth day she had consulted with me
as to whether it was better to put the
forty-acre lot into oats ormye, and I had
won her heart 'by taking to pieces the
old hall:clock, which had not gone for
ten years, and restoring it to running or-
der once again,
And on the evening ofdhe same day
Nottie arrived, all blushing and trem-
bling. Ba :
«Oh, Dick,” said she, *'is she very
angry? :
+My. dear,” said I, ‘‘she hasn’t an
idea who Iam.” = :
4 But, Diek—"
. ¢No. ‘buts,’ my darling,” said I,
cheerfully, *‘Let us be Julius Cesar
for the young woman ab once. In the'
a letter to Nettie. On my return from.
my mother-in-law. ‘‘But he's dreadful
doamed to disappointment. In his jour-
neyings toward the sunset one misfortune
after another overtook and sometimes
nearly overwhelmed our Harry, until cne
day he thought he had gotten to the bot-
tom rusg of misery's ladder. Thisevent-
ful day was some seven years ago, when,
‘as the shades of night were falling fast,
he entered the city of Darango, Col.,
barefooted, hungry, unkempt and sorely
‘disheartened, and with only a few
hoarded dollars in his clothes. He
‘hunted up'a bakery and was promptly
given employment.
At the end of the tenth day his boss
took the silver fever and sold out“to
Harry, and he found himself in the pos-
session of an oven, along handled feel,
half a dozen puns, two sacks of flour and
enough yeast to set one bawch. In a
month he was fairly prospering, and at
the enn of a year he was looking around
for something to invest his surplus cap-
ital in. This materialized in the shape:
of a tract of fifty-five acres of land just
outside the then city limits, and was not
considered particularly valuable. . He
bought it and waited. Silver mining
became a great pursuit in the surround-
ing mountains. Durango grew and be-
“| came the seat of supplies: for the thou.
sands of prospectors hunting for silver
lodes. The growth of the town was
phenomenal, ‘and grew over Harry's
fifty-five acres, and the chapparal farm
increased in value. He builc a balf doz-
en brick houses, and. a fine three-story
brick for his;bakery business, and for a
wife he took about the time of the boom.
He now controls the entire bakery trade
of the city and handles vast quantities
of flour and mercantile breadware.
Fifty thousand dollars would not induce
him to part with his possessions to-day,
and the barefooted tramp who entered
Durango ‘seven years ago is now. recog-
nized @s one of the city's most sub-
stantial and progressive citizen.~In-
diana (Penn.) Messenger.
Mine Hero Meern.
One of the most remarkable acts of
bravery ever shown in a mine or any-
where else’ was that ot H. P. Meern at
the Alleghany mine, thirteen miles from
Cumberland, Md., August 31, 1889, On
that day forty-five men went down into
the mines to their work as
usual. Everything went well for a few
hours, but suddenly a thin wall which
separated the Alleghany from an old
mine, long disused and full of water,
collapsed. The flood rushed into the
passages of the Alleghany with a great
roar that told those above its level what
had happened. It was ascertained that
there was a possibility that the miners
had climbed to places of safety and es-
caped the flood, but hour after passed
and no tidings came from them to the
frantic crowd = of relatives and friends
above. No one could suggest 4 way of
reaching the entombed men until H. P.
Meern volunteered to. find them or die.
Many protested against his decision, bub
he insisted. upon being lowered into the
mine. : wa
At the bottom of the shaft the water
was a8 high as his neck; but, undaunted,
he struck out, swimming toward the
place where he knew the miners were.
The water was full of debris. Once’ or
twice the lonely swimmer came suddenly
the darkness, and his fingers, a8 he
bravely struck out, constantly felt the
wriggling, slimy bodies of mine rats in
the water. But he never faltered. Af
last he reached the chamber where the
miners had been at work, and. found
pearched on ledges projecting from the
side of the mine. Their lamps had gone
‘out and they were hoplessly Waiting for
death, } : ag
In the excitement which followed Mr.
Meern’s arrival a boy fell from his perch
til he found him, placed him on his
shoulders, and shouted to ‘the men to
foilow him, started back toward the bot-
swim werd helped by those who could,
on the floating body of a dead mule in
them—every one alive. They were
{ the caprices of any one of them, he will
into the water. Meern felt about un-
tom of the shaft. Those who could not
Queen's example, and appears on horse-} rio .q cloths are much
present, being tailor-made... 1
Double-breasted jackots = with large |
pearl buttons are among favored styles. x
Blue serge pulls, but it makes a very
serviceable and ladylike dr
back, is regarded as very advanced in
her ideas, The girls play a little tennis
{in summer, dance and play cards for
unusement in winter. They are rarely
invited to formal dinners a8 their parents
ire, but appear at the opera. The chief
delight of these delicately bred and care- |
fully guarded maidens is the great bull
fight at Cinira, which a most unconyen-
tional American girl, who carries her own
latch key and travels alone in the plebe-
lan street car, would scarcely have the
erve to witness, much less to enjoy, the
orrible spectacle. —New York Sun.
TRIMMING WITHOUT HATS.
Women have a great many ways of |
“nossing”’ the impossible,but oge of the
things that is denied to most of them is
io make a home-trimmed hat that will
ook like the work of a _milliner. They
anderstand just how it ought to look,
but when they come to work out their
inderstanding through their fingers the
ingers show their lack of education and
lail to give those deft airy touches that
‘end the proper air of distinction to head-
géar. A shrewd milliner of New York
nas put forward the first bit of real help-
lulness to women who must do their own
iat trimming, but are, nevertheless, not
desirous of having that fact proclaimed
io the world. y In his showcases he has
lor sale knots of ribbons and velvets of
wll hues made up with the very newess
twirl and twist, securely stitched and
ready to be fastened on the hat or bon-
aet. Some of them are designed for the
only decoration, and some need feathers
pr other ornaments to complete them,—
New York Suan.
WORTH, THE DRESSMAKER.
‘Worth has made dresses not only for
the royal ladies of Xurope, but for the
queens of society both in Europe and the
United States, and for the queens of the
foot-lights as well... His first royal cus-
tomer was Donna Maria de Gloria,
Queen Regnaunt of Portugal. = There is
scarcely a princess married in all Europe
—outside of the ladies of the imper-
ial family of Germany, whose principles
forbid them: from ever ordering anything
to be made in Paris—that does not have
a aroup of Worth toilettes included in
her trousseau. The Empress of Russia
and the Queens of Italy and of Portugal
are his constant customers. One of the
rooms in his beantiful home at Suresnes
has been fitted up as a small theatre,
with .a tiny stage, and: there Mesdames
Favart and Croizette, and others of the
great actresses of France, bave come to
go through before him the new roles that
they were about to create, so that he
might design for them dresses suited to
the attitudes and the gestures required,
by the characters they were fo imperson-
ate. The first to consult him in this
way was the great Rachel when she was
preparing to appear in the only modern
society play in which she ever acted,
namely, Lady. Tartuffe. = The esfablish-
ment. of the republic in: France has;
wrought no change in. the prosperity of
his house, ~ There are always courts to
be adorned and queens and princesses 10
be dressed throughout the rest of Europe.
‘Poor, commonplace, pennrious Madame
tirevy never dreamed, IL suppose, of such
an extrayagence as a Worth toilette in
all her life, but the wives of all the other
Presidents of France—Mesdames Thiers,
Macmahon, and Carnot—have all been
‘numbered among his clients...
Despite his long career, Mr. Worth is
now: but little past middle age. He is a
stout, genial, pleasant-looking. gentle-
man, with a peculiarly low-toned - voice,
and very quiet manners. He has never.
been known to lose his patience with
even the most exacting and unreasonable
of -customers; but if pressed too hard by
glide quietly away and leave her. to find.
out'what she wants before trying to satis-
fy her. He is not only the head of that’
vast establishment, but its soul and brain
‘and sinews as well, He creates the pat-
tern dresses, orders materials and trim-
"ing minute do
© Bangs will soon beout of
who have high foreheads are ‘brushing
their bair plainly back, and it is very
require neither dro
in voge at
ess for general
The Victoria chain rivals the queen |®
chain. The Victoria has a bar as well as |
Beautiful silk crepe in plain and. :
swivel weaving are fit for a Queed to
wear at her coronation. : ;
cottons are shown, hav-
of black, white or colors
‘| on striped and colored grounds.
Draperies ave fast coming in. = We
shall soon see as many draped skirts ‘as
we have before noticed plain ones.
The Cleopatra hairpin is a gold serpent
with a decorative fold in his body, an
ornamental head and'a waving tail. ©
The prevailing fashion of wearing broad
velvet strings knotted under the chin
pleases the milliners and the patrons as
Small cups of pale greenish onyx in
which are rose diamonds are the settings
of rings, not so expensive as they are
date. Many
r ball hatpins are among
the best selling articles, so say jewelers. :
The balls are formed of crossbars; scrolls
or flower-de-luce.
Small turbans generally have facings
of velvet, with a bunch of cogue feathers
e bird perched onthe side, and
tail loops of ribbon. 3
Cream lambskin is an uncommon ma- |
terial for bonnets, but it has beea made
into a most becoming one, scalloped all
around and edged with gold. -
Chiffon plastrons, white aad colored,
are finished with deep falls of white Irish
lace and its imitations, which are almost
pretty, though less costly than the
al. ny :
The toque is either hat or bonnet, ac-
cording to the way ip which it is worn.
If a bonnet, it is furnished . with wide
rivbon strings, tied ‘in a butterfly bow
A pretty novelty in jewelry is a spray
of thistles which 18 used ‘as a lace pin.
The round base of the blossoms are a sin-
gle large pearl and the filaments are of
A novel fancy of the moment is the
trimming of damask and brocade cos-
tumes for grand dinners and receptions
with artificial flowers of the same kind
with which the fabric is figured.
Among the rather striking costumes
are those with skirts and sleeves of dark
India-red cloth trimmed with black pas-
sementerie vandykes, with Louis coat
and cuffs and black watered silk.
1a making calls it is now the custom,
both in Paris and New York, to wear a
long cloak which is dropped in! the re-
‘ception-room, and the drawing-room is
entered in | a pretty visiting costume
without wrap of any sort.” b
To a woman with graceful, « regular
features the softly braided Grecian coif-
ed a little below’ the center!
of the head, with alittle'cluster of zephyr
curla not more than three inches long
escaping from it, is very ‘becoming.’
What is know as Russian'sergeis a
heavy, all-wool fabric. which will be
fashonable for utility dresses this spring.
It i's durable goods and so firm and
woven that skirts’ made of it
p skirt nor founda-
The bodice made with half-low waisi
sleeves, similar to the
y Hannah Moore in her
various receptions and
grand dinners. Bill they are not prom-.
‘inently popular, nor, asa rule, especially
| gested and the throa nlargy
| ulcerated, while firmly fastened
A bright halt-dollar of the coinage ot
a
1876 was found in a cow's stom:
cently in Texas. It seems a little
by the acids of the animal's stomach
‘was a good silver half-dollar. The
was about ten years old. When, wher
or how she came to swallow it isa m.
character bearing that name
ter Scott's ¢*Guy Mannering.’
Dan, the male 03
oh of Bo
Circus, died the other day at Cincin
Ohio, pf the grip, with which he
seized some days before. A post mor
was held. . The lungs were found
enlargefl and
counting of the stomach the $800 diam
that Dan picked last summer. fr
x!
.
| eighteen inches in diameter. |
In Canon Diablo, Arizona, a hole
feet dedp, supposed to have been mx
by a meteor, has been found. ' It is tw
and one-eighth miles in circumfrance.
The theory is that from the appea
‘of the walls and the. fact that they have
found many pieces’ of meteoric
ard the hole the meteor penetrated
the earth to a depth of 700 or 800 feet
before it exploded, and this acco
the strange phenomena. Three p
‘of the meteor, weighing 300, 60
850 pounds resgectively, were found on
the mesa ‘within two miles of the ¢ &
Cleaning Rubber Blankeis. =
The use of turpentine for removing
ink, fat, oil, and colors from the rubber =
blankets has spread of late to such anex- .
tent that a few remarks on the subject
may not be amiss. As little turpentine =
as possible should be employed when its
use seems advisable, and it is necessary.
to be careful that the cleaned blankets
are thoroughly dry before they are used
‘again. This is a very important point,
as otherwise the surface of the rubber =
would be softened and the impression of
the cylinder would spoil the blanket by
cracking or corrugating the surface.
The best way is to clean the blankets an
the evening, after the day’s work is over;
this will allow plenty of time for §
drying of the turpentine and the return
of the blankets to their natural eon-
dition, which would not be the caseit
the cleaning were done during the day, =
when the blankets may be required any =
amoment, ; ; pi
As a very effective substitute for tur-
pentine, spirits of hartshorn is highly
recommended, It cleans more quickly
“and thoroughly, and offers less dang
of spoiling the blankets. The spirits of ,
hartshorn should be diluted until it has
a strength of about, six or nine deg oo
it can easily be obtained of a strengthof
eighteen degrees, and be diluted by add-
ing one to two equal parts of water.
After cleaning the blankets they should -
be dried with the useof pulverized mag-
nesia or chalk. If treated in this way,
the spirits of hartshorn dries very quick—
‘much ‘quicker than turpentine—and |
nothing prevents its use without the
slightest danger of deterioration. —Litho-
graphic Art Journal, PE
Wonderful Cycloramie Itinsion.
A good storyis related of a cat
Portland, Me., that wandered in
cyclorama building some days ago. Th
man in charge ‘atfempted to chase the
trespassing feline through the d
the caf evidently thought « there w
better way of escaping the rising tem
of the irate man. ' It looked cautious}
about, as if to ‘avoid ‘stepping on
prostrate forms of heroes slain in the
Finally its eyes caught si
tree. ' A projeéctin ng v
As hi tory repeats itself, so does Tosh and here the cat thought to
and, at last, piloted by this brave man, | mings to be mannfactared, very. often ETT
they reached safety. Not n was | from his own A signs, and superintends ‘ion. Dresses and bonnets are getting to | 2%
bh roacholl sft, _ ot 4 man, wd | 5% Ul EEE, Cn fg dot | ook sachyea mors ks dose worn. by |
MEE Te TON TGR] of a tilette,.such as the pena ig oun greadmothen; Bd WEAN A
Fh trams Bas fenchad the hag:day of | ming of a corsage, the tying of scarfs or | tobe the same, fOF bie PHUR 91 1 o,f. m0
his uli when he howe "to | of 1ibbons, and the placing of SRifcial ‘shawl is becoming very stylish among the
| steep in the barn,—Texas Siftings, | flowers on the skirt. “He fashion leaders of Euro
r,” said 1, with an _assenting