Tho consumption per head of Iron In Oront Britain is more than three times as much as in Riusia. North Carolina leads all the South ern States in cotton manufacturing. She has 158 mills nearly as many as tho whole Honth had in 1880743,299 spindles and 14,37(1 looms. Tho Boston Journal of Commerce thinks thnt New Englandcrs, who drenm that fine goods ennnot ho man ofnetnrod in tho South, aro likely to have a mdo awakening ere long. Tlie "now woman" in beginning to ask why tho titlo "Mr." may bo given to a man whether ho is married or sin gle, whilo tho equivalent titlo "Mrs." can only bo given to a married woman. Hhe thinks the discrimination is a badge of thraldom. Thcro aro about 1,300 Indians in the Osngo tribe, and tho government holds in trust for them the sum of BS.500,000 or over 80,500 per head. Nevertheless, to tho astonishment of theChicrgo Herald, they are supported at the public expense, like so many destitute persons. There aro over 300,000 totally deaf persons in the United States, and a much larger number whoso Louring is partially defective. It is now believed that oatnrrhal and other affections which ofton impair sight and hearing are frequently caused by tho presence in the month of "dead" teeth. Barbed wire fencing has interfered with hunting in Shrophhiro, England. Farmors claimed that this cheap form of fencing was forced upon thorn through agricultural depression, and at a meeting of persons connected with the county hunt a fund was raised to compensate them for taking up their wire fences during tho hunting season. According to a French military pa per, the small arm proj-'ctilo of tho future is the Hoblur-Kruka tubular bullet. It is made of steel, and has a tube open at both ends running through its centre. This tube seems to have the effect of diminishing tho resistance of the air and of increasing tho stondinoss of the projactilo, so that longer range and greater flatness of trajectory are obtained without any increase of muzzle velooity. It is said that a maximum range of 10,000 metres was obtained and that at C,OQ0 metres the bullet ponetratod 14 inches of pine wood. At Cornell University tho faculty have sottled the question of athletics and scholarship. It has been charged by many writers thnt the college men who go npon tho football teams and boating crews are poor students. Thoro is little ground for this asser tion,, declares the San Francisco Chroniclo, except in a few cises, but Presidont Sohurmsn of Cornell de clares that hereafter at his College no one will be allowed to take an active part in athletics who has not reached a certain grade of scholarship, and -only on a certain number of days will athletes be permitted to absent them isjlves from classes. This is a move in the right direction and other institu tions would do well to follow the ex ample of Cornell Both Chinese and Japanese have shown in the war the excellent results of American traimug, tho Now York Independent notes with pride. In 1872 thirty Chiueao boys, solocted from the best families, were sent to the United States to be eduoated, and others were sent later and put under the oharge of Yung Wing graduate of Yule Oollego. Subsequently it was reported to the Chinese Government that the boys wore losing or bad lost their patriotism, and in 1881 they were all recalled, and the system of educa tion was abandoned. Of ten Chinese recommended for houors ruuently, four were former America students. Oue of them Wo Ho, studied in the Bbefuold Soioutitlic School, New Ha von, and was brevcttod a o:iptain,witb red button of the second rauk for bravery. Tsao Kin Chioug, brevetted captain and deoorutod with a red buttou was graduated at Phillips Acad emy. Tbu Chung Tong was gradu ated from a Massachusetts college, aud Las a Hi'eoud rauk button aud a first lieutonaut's commission. Shun Son Quan, a graduate from a Connecticut academy, ban a moond rank buttou and a brevet of uaptuiu. Two ex American students wro killed iu the Iain unwie one una riu ijuei, a gradnato of Phillips Academy.Biid the other, Shuu Sow Chiioa-j, a graduate of a Huhsachuvtti no.ideiny.' Tho former was nu uflj.t on the ChhY-.eu und died from wounds, aud t'u) latter Chi-Yuen, of which he was an offioec. Summers. In summer when ths poppy-bed Lit all the lawn with glory, To shy, swesteyes anil down-bent head Ho told ths old woit story. In summer when the Joyful swing The bride-bells swept the land, Its drow a trillion wedding-ring Upon her trembling hand. In summer, when the sunshine mads A pRthwsy to the sky, I" pen his breast she laid hor head, And did not fenr to dlo. JosErmxi H. Nunon In tho Century. A HOTEL ROMANCE. Fnnnio Ti.ictor was very tiopnlar in the family hotel, and Will Branford or Willie, as many styled him, was envied. It seemed almost certain thnt Willio had captured tho girl. Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Colo thought so, and, as they enjoyed unlimited opportunities to observo what was going on nt tho hotel, their joint opinion carried weight with it. These estimable women were child less and burdened with leisure. It wns but natural thnt to relievo the tedium of hotel life thoy should spend much of their timo in tho first floor parlor, discussing their neighbors within the walls nnd gathering infor mation such as satisfies a motherly, or, perhaps, a sisterly curiosity. Thoy knew how to worm secrets out of the ploasnnt blondo who officiated ns clork. Whatever happened iu the lobby end parlor came under their placid ob servation. They had an indirect way of asking questions, nnd all informa tion coming to cither wns shnrod with out reserve Those two, putting this and thnt to gether, viowing ono circumstance in tho light of another and basing opin ions upon their own kuowlodgo of how matrimony is appronchod, con cluded that Fannie Proctor would bo come the wifo of Willie Branford. Having sottlod comfortably into this belief thoy wero amazed to learn that Fannie had accepted Al Maynard, a brond-shouldorod, "nice" young man whose characteristics had been an apparent indifference to the charms of the young womon nnd an undying aversion to whist and round dances. Albert Maynard, indeed I Had he ever hoverod around Fannio nt any of tho Saturday night dances in the main dining room? Had he sent flowers to her day after day and smiled at her every timo ho came in to breakfast? Had he como out in evsniug dress and tagged after her whon she went into tho pnrlor? Had Fannio over ad dressed him familiarly and sent him on errands? Had they organized theatre parties and played duets on the piano? No, to ovory question. Al Maynard had not figured as a possible candidate until the engage ment was announced. Mrs. Cole re membered that Fannio had onco apokon of Mr. Maynard as "a big thing who always lookod at girl as if she amused him." Mrs. Williams re called tho fact that she bad seen thorn talking together a fesv times, but Fannie didn't act toward him as she did toward Willio, not at all At the first opportunity thoy cor ralod hor in tho parlor. "Is it true?" asked Mrs. Williams, as she took hold of the band on which was tho ring. "Of coarse it's trne." "But wo always thought it wonld bo Willie." "I'm afraid Willio did, too, but pshawl" Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Cole spent two hours in nnalyzing that siguifioont "pshaw." It would appear that Bibbs was tho only one around the hotel who bad graspod the situation from the start Bibbs was the elovator boy; size, 12 years; snspectea age, 10 years; sen- assertion, 73 years. The buttoned English uniform in which they bad dressed him could not hide his largely American qualities. Ho was a servunt, but h id no servile trait. Without attempting to be pre sumptuous, ho plaoed himself on terms of easy equulity with every ono iu the hotel. He was abashed at nothing, Elderly gontlemon, dignified matrons, buds aud beaux it made no difference to him. At bo believed that a young woman's gown was becoming he told her frankly that she was a "poaoh" or "out of sight," aud she believed him. If the clerk had said the same thing there would have boon a vacancy. If the porter had said it someouo would have sent fur a polloenian. Bibbs was a privileged character. He received more Cbr:atmus presents than anyone else in the hotol. If the management had removed him there would have been a protest from every guest. Probably he had worked into the ruuH.li-uoe of so mm v persons tli't they were ia jus power, , It was nearly midnight on the second day after tho news of the en gagement had startled the hotel. Bibbs was seated outside tho open door of his elovator waiting for the stragglers, and two of the "night hawks" wore "drawing him out." "Did yon know, Bibbs, thnt Mr. Mnynsrd is going to mnrry tho Proc tor girl?" asked ono of them. "Did I know it? I haven't heard anything else since yesterday. You've got a sinnrt lot of peoplo around this hotel. I've been on to that for six weeks, and everybody else hero was picking Mr. Branford. He wasn't in it nt any stngo of tho gnmo. I re member tho day Miss Proctor enmo here with her father. I took them tip, nnd Mr. Mnynsrd went up tho next trip. lie says to me, 'Who's the new girl?' and I told him sho had como to Chicago to study music. Ho snys to mo: 'Sho's n dandy. That's the first imo I ever heard him sny anything about n girl in tho bouse. "Well, I s'pose it was a week after thnt, both of V-m got in tho elevntor ogether. Mr. Mnynard's a good- looker, yon know, but shy of women. Ho took off his hat und kind o' turned his back to her. I let him off at the second nnd I saw her looking at him, so I spoke up ami snys : 'Thnt's Mr. Maynard.' Sho laughed and says to mo: 'Who's Mr. Maynard?' I told hor ho was a good fellow, nnd then. ust for a kid, I told her what ho had snid about her. She blushod nnd said: 'The idea,' You know how they can do it. I ain't been runniu' an elevator for two years for nothin'. If you want to stand in with woman just tell 'em anything yon bear real nice about 'em understand? It makes 'cm awful mad, but they remember you at Christmas. "Tho very first ball that Miss Troo- tor went to sho mado a big hit. That's tho night Mr. Branford got stuck. I could sco it. Ho marched hor all around tho first floor here aud nearly talked nn arm off her. We run the elovator Into that night and when I took her up sho asked mo if Mr. May nard ever went to tho Saturday night danoas. I told hor no, that ho didu't care much for girls. As soon as I got a chnnco I told Mr. M'lvuard what she had asked me, and ho wouldn't be lieve it at first. It was none of rav business, of courso, but ho's a nioo man and ain't stuck up over his money, and he's done mo a good turn, nn I I thought I'd put him on to this girl asking about him. Mr. Branford's all right, too, but ho makes mo kind of sick nt times. The first danco after I told Mr. Maynard ho camo down looking out of sight iu his full-dross suit aud loaf ed around tho olTioj like a chump, in stond of going iu where she was. Purty boou she came out with Mr. Branford and saw Mr. Maynard. I guess sho must have asked for an in troduction ; anyway thoy went over, and Mr. Branford gave her a knock down to Mr. M lynard. Mr. Miynard got as red as a beet, aud she had to do most of the talking. I s'pose he didu't ask her to dance; anyway, some one elss came after hor, aud ho went into the billiard room. 'That was about the timo that Willie (that's what sho culled him when she was with the girls) began to' make a hard play. I guess she had lots of fuu with him, nnd was ready enough to wear flowers if he wantod to send "em, but I know all the time that she wasn't stuck ou him. When she'd leave him and get on the elovator he'd grin at her aud say in that soft way ho has : 'Oood-by,' and she'd say 'Good by,' but as soon as we got past 1 the first floor sho'd laugh out loud, and I'd have to laugh, too. ' She know all tho time that I was on. "Mr. Maynard met her onco In n while in tho elevator, and she acted different with him. I ain't very keen, but I think I could have caught on quicker than ho did thnt sha liked him, but didn't want to tell him so in just so many words. He didn't really act like a Bucker. He's been around too much for that. But she'd throw out little hiuts, and ho didu't seem to understand wh it she meaut. "That inau didu't know how strong he was with the girl. She could see that he was all right if he'd only get his nerve. About two week ago says to him one day : 'Mr. Branford's rushin' Miss Proctor pretty hard.' He says: 'Yes, I s'pose thoy are en gaged.' 'Ratsl' I says; 'she don't care for him.' 'Well,' he says, 'shu's weariu' his flowers all the time.' I told him that was becmiso no ono else sjnt her any. Next evening sho oama to mo und said if I saw Mr. Maynard to tell him that Bhe wautud to seo him took him up in a litrle while, nnd nho met him iu tho hall weuriu' a b! bunch of rose ', and I saw her take oue aud p'u it on his en it. Thnt's somo things he'd never done for Willie, Mr. Maynard wns jollied up thnt evening, but tho next evening he came in from the billiard room and found Miss Proctor and Willio proinonadiu' around here, and I could see in a min ute he was sore. Then he done some thing that paralyzod me. He walked over to a sofa ami began to talk with that Miss Morrison that wears the glasses. I guess she wns surprised, too, but sho was tickled all right I'm here to tell yon there ain't a woman in this hotel that wouldn't have boon ticklod. I could see Mr. Maynard look at Miss Proctor when sho went by and then she'd look at him. Willio nnd Miss Morrisou didu't cut any figure nt nil. They thought they did, but they didn't "Now, tho rest of this on tho q. t., nnd Mr. Maynard would kill mo if ho thought I told anyone. Thnt snmo night when ho went up I snys: 'Mr. Maynard, excuse mo for saying it, but Miss Proctor's stuck on you.' Ho looked foolish nnd snys: 'Who told you that?' I snid I hnd my eyes open, nnd thnt she went around with Mr. Branford because sho couldn't get away from him. Next night ho faked up and went to call ou her, aud that's how he got her before he took her to a show or a dance or anything. Did you hear about Mr. Branford giving up his room?" Chicago Record. The Switzerland of Asia. Korea, says Frnuk G. Carpenter, may bo called the Switzerland of Asia. It is a land of mountains aud valleys, of crystal lakes aud trickling streams. Wo rodo for days through ono bounti ful vnlley after anothir; now going for miles through fields of rico lauds, lnid out in terraces and covered with water, out of whoso glassy whito sur faco tho emerald green sprouts wero just peeping. Such volleys lie right in ths mountains, and the hills which riso from them are as ragged and as bare ns the silvery mountains of Greece. They change iu their hues with every change of thi heavens, and they now look like silver, aud again turn to masses of velvet and gold, spotted hero and thero with navy blue pines. The clouds nestle in their hol lows, aud their tops, iu tho ever-vary ing air of Koren, assuiuo at the odge of the evening oil sorts of fnntastio shapes. Our first day's rido wns through a valley which was as rich as gnnuo and as black as your hat It wns cut up with creeks, some of which were a half mile wide, nnd at those wo found rough men clnd in white, with their pantaloons pulled up to their thighs. As we camo up thoso men bent their backs aud our grooms crawled up them, and clasping them around tho nock they were carried through the water. The porters re ceived ono cent for each trip, and Genoral Pak told mo thnt this work is sometime done by men out of charity, aud that the gods estoom it a good aot, and the water which washes thoir legs at tho same timo carries away thoir sins and gives thorn a clean road to heaven. Othor devotees stand with cold water in the streets and givo drink to all that thirst Pneumatic Stone-cutting. Tho dressing of stone by machinery has not hitherto been an easy task, al though somo tools have been bolt driven with fair success, says th Phil adelphia Inquiror. The use of tho pneumatic stone-dressing machine has of late, it is said, given great satisfac tion. The pneumntio tool is mounted on a movable carriage, upon which it can be swung around on . horizontal axis, while it can also be shitted back ward and forward on runners, . giviug it a playing area twenty foot in dia meter at any time without moving tho oarriuge. The power is' 'conveyed to the tool through a gospipe terminating in a flexiblo hose, with which con nection to the tool is made. Steam cun be used, but compressed air at seventy-five pounds pressure is pre ferred. The tool takes granite from a rougn point or at least one men above the level and reduces it to the finest six, eight, ten or twelve cut work with great rapidity and cheapness, whilo the quality of the work is improved, showing that oue stoue-drenser will, with his machine, easily reduce sixty suporflaiul feet iu uinu hours. Amoug tho work done with it may be men tioned some of that on the Iowa State Soldiers' monument. Iu The Operating- Room. "Great guns, how that razor hurts 1" cried the pationt. The barber paused and ran a thumb nail critically along tho instrument's edge. "Aw no," he cheerfully nuswgred. "it is not ze razzur zut hurts, it is go face." And ho passed on to the uo;t opsr- atiug tub!o, leaving the head burse to complete tho dressings. Rockland Tribune. srniNo FASHIONS, PARISIAN HTYLES NOT CLOSELY FOLLOWED IN AMEItlCA. Skirts Growing Wider for Warm Weather Wenr Organdy the Coming Craae Decided Change In Sleeves. T T ERE is an item, culled from celebrated l rencu au- II thor d Insbi riir. thnt will, says a inshion writer in tho Wash ington Star, crento some little con sternation in 1a mode circles: "it will take American women the usual six months to discover thnt tho pre eminently huge sleeves aud the im mense flaring skirts they bear snrh fairy stories about are not, and have not been, the vogue in Paris. Moder ately large sleeves and gracefully flar ing skirts, not excessively wide, have prevailed and aro still la mode, and are likely to conlinno also to be favored by tho most celebrated ateliers in France for months to come." American modistes are telling their deluded customers that skirts are growing yet wider for spring and summer war, and that eight yards around will bo n modest limit. Tho text of this celebrated trench au thority and its illustrations do not agree, however, aud the women are pictured in petticoats that flare like those of a ballet dancer. Truth to toll, women do not pay a great deal of j i ii FASHIONABLE CLOAK AND COSTUME. attention to the letter of fashion any how. Thoy take the suggestion and dress it up to suit their individual needs, and thnt makes American womon the best dressed in the world. American women, ns a class, have not worn the excessively wide skirts com plained of by the French authority. The well-groomed woman has too tuuoh seuse to go to the extreme in aaything. It is trno that the skirts are going to bo wider, but hnvo you soon the fabrics that they will bo made of? Why, they are so sheer and fine that you will be able to draw the whole skirt through your linger ring. The stores are full of the new sum mer goods. Organdy will be the craze, if the counters will tell the truth, and anything prettier than organdy can soaroely be mentioned. It comes in all the daintiest and most delicate shades, and is driftod over with bouquets of blossoms that are so real looking you almost think you can smell them. Most of the designs are large, but a few are small and deli cate. A single violet, or a long stemmed crocus with a leaf or two. The purple iris is one of the favor ites, and an exquisite half-blown moss rose is another that attraoted universal attention. These organdies are to be worn over colored slips, and will have a great deal of ribbon garniture, and Eld SI.EEVKS AXD CBKPOM. quantities of lace. By the way, lace will be more worn during the summer than ever before. The always favor ite Cbantilly will be in the fore front For the organdies and molls, some delicate white laces are exhibited, which have net tops, with borders of Milanese, Spanish and Pompadour batterns interwoven iu bewitching do signs. The Vandyke laces will be as much in demand as ever, but will come in the soft Chsntilly patterns. Tho new French lawns are as charm ing as can possibly be imagined. They oomo in very Una quality una at reiv sonablo piioes. The flower traoings take one baok to great-grandmother's day, and it seems as though there ought to oomo from the lavender nud saudal wood sceuts that used to cling around her garments. Delioate shades , 0 greeu predominate, and pink, real 1 plush rose pink, comes next. Hello trope in its varying shades will be as much worn as ever, and blue seems to have taken a new lease on life, too. Of oonrse the silk mulls and dotted Swisses are out in force. They will rill!t RTTLES JX DATS. have colored slips also, to match the ribbons worn with them, or can be worn in all their virgin purity, if so desired. To wear with these organdios nnd lawns, and with sheer white goods, are ribbons with bouquets of flowers em broidered on them. At least, they look to bo, and some others look as though they had been done in water colors they are so exquisitely lovely. If it were possible to make ribbons any more the vogue, these pretty flower sprinkled dosigns would accomplish it. but as ribbons are already worn ou everything everywhere, one can only sar that a new phase of them has been (Mod. There is a decided ohangs in sleeves. They drop or they droop just as you like to stato it. For ball gowns, thoy simply slide right oil the shoul der, as in the dosign, whioh represents a bowknot sleeve of lisse caught in the ceuter, with a flower or any fancy thing yon like to put there. Some bodioes have straps or velvet or ribbon passiug over tho shoulder well to the front The "drooping sleeve" has not mnoh in its favor, unless yon have a very flue pair of shoulders. Its effect, as will be seen, is to lengthen the shoulder effect by showing the upper srm, and to broaden one aoross the bust by making the puff widen out at the elbow. This puff in some of the very latest sleeves is three ysrds around. This sleeve, on a woman who csuld wear saokoloth and graoe it, will, of course, make a stylish appearanoe ; but on a woman who gets hor ideas of what is stylish from the magazines of her modiste, and makes no effort at adaptation, this sleeve will look like the mischief, till we get used to it. Crepon is the gown goods of the present moment, and unless there is a rapid chauge in sontiment it will be worn all the spring, it comes in wool. silk and cotton. It costs a fortune for the finest, and a few cents for the cheapest, and it all has a singularly distinguished air. They oome in plain aud fanoy weaves, in colors aud in plain black. The fiat Dutoh bonnet is hideous, but it is here. It looks like a pan cake on a spree. It squats down on the head behind, just above the knot of hair, and suddenly bulges out an tho sides in rosettes or bows or arti ficial flowers, and sprouts up in front iu a surprising and very disconcerting manner. Another phase of it is a gigantic bow with rows of immense half-blown roses along, baok of and above the ears. There is nothing else of it worth mentioning. One of the spring shapes in awalkiug hat is rather obio. It has a rosette right iu front and a row of loops drooping a little over the brim above with a rosette of velvet above each ear. Anns-no buttons. Very haudsoine and artistio bnttont are sold both for costs, vastf, fanoy waists aud for fastening the sides or frout breadths of gorod skirts, redio gotes aud oyole oostumes. Many of the new jaunty street jackets aud jacket bodioes ou tailor powus, that are to take the plaao of the three quarter couts, aro finished with vesU that buttou visibly from neck to lower edge. , , ' Auother case of typhoid fever con traded from euting raw oysters is re ported bom Englttua.
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