According to the Chicago Tribune the rnce between corn and coal for tha honor of being tha cheaper mute rial for f not in Interesting this your. A statistician report in tha Journal do Debats that 12,000,000,000 news papers are printod annually on this little planet of ours. The total num ber of paper mills is 3,085. Tha canned and corned horse in dustry is not so now ns is generally believed. For tho past three years nu establishment for killing and packing borses has been in operation near Hnmmond, Ind. All of the stntcs, kingdoms, princi palities, empires, etc., of Europe (except Russia) and nil of the United States, inoludiug Aliixkn, could be placed side by side in Siberia, and yet but little tnoro than cover that immense- country. M. Dupuy Dutems, French Minister of public works, impressed by the re cent railway accidents in that country has ordered a close inspection of the permanent way, especially at tho points and level crossings. Ho also proposes to put an end to tho system of lining engiue-drivers for unpunctu ality and rewarding them for making np lost time by greater speed. In Spain exemption front military aervice may be obtained by the pay ment of 1,500 pesetas, Tho othor day a worthy man presented a peti tion to the Queen Bigent, stating that he had already paid 15,000 pese tas for ten of his sons and requesting that he might be excused from paying for the other fourteen, as he had no money left. His request was granted. W. E. Curtis writes from Tokio that most of the bookkeepers and cashiers employed in Japanese business houses re Chinamen, who are given the pre ference for such positions because of their honesty. It is said that a Chinaman will cheat if ho gets a chance, but if intrusted with money be keeps it safely, and if in making a promise ho utters the words "enn do" those words are as good as a bond. The manager of a Hong Kong bnuk doclared recently, after forty years of active business life, that he had never known of a Chinoso de faulter. ."Says a London puper: Furious cycling may, as the doctors say, have a deleterious effect on tho spino, on the heart and on the nervous Nystom, but at loast it seems to leave the stomach nnirapared. There was a 21 hours' bicycle race at Astou the other day, and a local rider namod Wiu church oarriod off the prize in more ways than one. In the course of tho day he consumed, according to the local papers, "six chickens, two stewed shins of beef, two lG-onnce jars of bovril, six pounds tomatoes, five pounds grapos,fonr pounds pears, basket of apricots, fifty bananas, eggs, custards, jollies, a pint of port wine, a pint of sherry, champagne, milk and chocolate." Mr. Win ehurch's gastronomio feat overshad ow! the other. The Chicago News says that 100 years ago Dartmouth College con sisted of a wooden building 150 feet long, 50 feet wide and 36 feet high. English grammar and arithmetio were text books in the sophomore year. Princeton, tho greatest Presbyterian college, was a huge stone editico, its faculty consisting of a president, vice- president, one professor, two masters of languages and seventy students. Harvard University had four brick buildings; the faculty consisted of a president and six profossors, and in ita halls thronged one huudrod and thirty to one huudrod and sixty stu deuts. Tale boasted of one brick building and a chapel "with a steeple 125 feet high." The faculty was . president, a professor of divinity and three tutors. The groatest Episoopal college in the United Status was Wil ' liain and Mary's. It was under royal nd state patronage and was, there fore, more substantially favored than most of our Amerioan schools. At this time, it is said in a curious old tate report, tha college was a build ins of three stories, "like a brick kiln," aud had thirty gentlemen stu dents. The student lodged in dor mitories, ate at the "oomiuons" and vera satisfied with what we would con aider prison diet Breakfast, a small can of coffee, a biscuit, about an ounoe of batter. Dinuer, one pound meat, two potatoes and some vegeta bles. Supper, bread and milk. The ' only uuliuiited supply furnished was cider, whioh was passed in a oan from month to mouth. The days were poken of as boil day, roast day, stew Mlk to Silk and Flax to 1 1 ax. Tha wearer stay his shntttln's moan To rend tha alien thread, That ruins with Its fatal tons Tho beauty of the red. Its ooarse, discordant, URly track No rIom nor (tlasie oan somen, 811k to silk and flax to flax. Clown may not mate with queen, And lives am marred when two shall tread With Ill-assorted fnt Tho wnys thmiiith life's dense narrows led, And stops Jar a they meet. Ruch heart-lieacamlnir, soulless tracks No outward Kims can somen,- flllk to silk ami flax to flax, Clowu may nnt mnte with queen. Mae Kt. John tlramholl In Demorest's. il ABIT 0' MEADER." IIY I.OtTtSF. n. fiAKEtl. Old Davy King stood in his door way laughing. To look at the broad wheat fields anrronndiug the farm house, to take in a sweep of the corn waving in the summer breeze, to wateU tho flock of turkeys sunning themselves in the lane all theso hings were enough to make nn old man laugh, but Davy King was look ing inside the house as he stood iu the kitchen doorwnv. 'They're thinkin' about bringiu' tho suli'ct up in moetiu' ; what you think o' that, mother? Hotter be conccntratiu' their thoughts on git tin' the wheat crop stacked he fore tho rain, hah? Howsomever, they got plenty o' timo a-Sundaya." Again tho old man laughod. Home una insido the kitchen auglioil, too, a surill, contagious littlo Inugh. "Ha, ha, ha!" roared tho old man. "He, ho, ho I" shouted little Davy. Mrs. King did not apeak until little Davy's laugh had died away in the kitchen; then she said decidedly, as she took two apple pies from the cupboard and laid them upon tho brown table cloth spread for the mid day meal: "I don't seo the sonso o' neighbors continually peckin' an' bickerin' at one another for nothin', and it don't do no good, fur's I can nee, to learn a little feller Ave years Id ter like sech things. Koine folks say as it'll be all the same in a hun dred yoars, anyways." "Wal," romarkod old Davy, dryly, I rockon even in a hundted years once upon a time JJavy King win hiivo had tho biggest right a-goiu' iu tho bit o' meader yonder, hah?" " 'Twouldu't hurt to give 'em the oad," said Mrs. King. "They can drive through it; I ain't hinderin' ; but the gates is got to stand. " "Sam Dovo, he's willin' to give tho road through tho whole of bis farm, didn't you say ?" inquired Mrs. King. Yes," replied old Davy, "Ham's ready to act tho big man all round. Ho liod on me up to tho polls; give it out as I was thinkin' one way and votin' t'othor for spite. I reckon as 'm thinkin' and aotin' one way about tho road ; I'm thiukin' they will run no publio road through tho meader, and I'm ftxin' up the gates ; them two things correspond purty good to gether. " "You uin t goin to give cm the road, are you, grandpapa?" cried littlo Davy's shrill voice. "You hear that!" exclaimed Mrs. King. He's a chip o' the old block, sure, the boy is," said the old man proud ly. "After my time you ain't gunno lot 'em have it neither, air you, honey?" "You bet I ain't, said little Davy, "The neighbors is a God-fearin' lot of customers, little Davy," said the old man, solomnly; "and they've got a prominont matter to bring up at the next meotin. Has a old fool numed King a right to prevent a publio road from goiu' through his bit o' meader? The county ain't much bent on pa- tronizin' such a road, but they're thinkin', no doubt, about kickin' old King ont o tho meotin' house ; they're wantin' a lively time a-Sabbath woll as on a Saturday night." "Now, to come to the pint under discussion," contiuued tho old man Your grandmother thar, little Duvr, think as the old fool ought to hand over the land and run a fenoa on to t'other side to keep the stock off the new publio road. What do yon think of Hr" "I'd keep my bit o' meader," said mall Davy, bringing hi bands to gether with an enthusiastic, clap. wouldn't let the cap'n ride over me, grandpap." Tha old man bad shoved book bis chair from tha table ; be was standing in the door again ; tha expussion of bis faoo bad changed somewhat; it it bad assumed that gentleness thut oue one like to sea in sa old man. "Wal, I dunno, Davy," be said, "a I'd b o hard on tha folk if Ssm Dove weren't in it I'vo lived among 'em all my lit and ! of 'em's gunno carry me to tha grave. But they're tort o' took up Ham Dove as a leader. Hullo, thar, yon shet that gate I" Tho old man's voice rose into a por fcot roar ns he uttered the last words ; bis eyes grow furiously angry. "You shot that gate," he called again, "or go round by tho pike ; that ain't no publio road." "He's done shut it," said tho small boy, peering down toward the meadow. "Can you make him out, honey?" aiked old Davoy. "Una o' tha cap'n's men, worn't he?" "No" said tho small boy, truthful ly; "'twam't nobody but a colored boy." "I thought yon was gunno raise the root off tho house, the way you hoi lorod," remarked Mrs. King even- 1 y. "if Cap n JJove can snare n wo-milo road I should think yon could lot t lie bit o' mendow go J bo sides, folks is feared to pass through ii nccoimt o' the Durni. " "The Dunn ain't gunno hurt no- mdy," said old Davy, "thar ain't no inoro hnrm in him than in a colt. If they set down on tho Dunn at the meotin' I'll have my say about Dove's dogs." Tho old man was sitting in tho door way now, tho small boy closo beside him. -"Wal," ho said, speaking to himself, "leavin' the cap'ii out, thoy ain't ft bad not o folks. Ef they'd )een satisfied with the fust arrange ment, and takon nothin' but the strip o' woods from Dovo, they could n bad the bit o' meader. Hut I ain't gunno give a piece o' road that's as necessary as the wlinlo big bit, and havo it said that Dovo give the pooplo tho road. "He's mighty littlo and peaked ; is that what you're thinkin' of father?" Mrs. King's calm voice somehow seemed to startle the old man. "No," he cried roughly; "I ain't thinkin o' uothiu' o' the kind. He's big enough for flvo year old." 'Johnny were bigger," sold Mrs. King, "He had stouter limbs an' weren't so puny in tho body. Davy most skeers me when ho' undressed. Johnny wore bigger in overy way." Mrs. King gathered the littlo boy uto her arms, the old man bolpin g her tenderly, "lie's a mighty light weight," she said anxiously ; "inebbe as Benjamin Htone wero thisaways ; I duuno; I think of I was you, and wanted to raiso tho boy, I'd lot 'em have the bit o' meader." Tho old man closed his lips tightly for an instant; thou ho spoke gravely. 'You've got a loto' foolish notions in or head, mother," ho said. "I humored you moio'u once, but it lidu't do no good. I lot Jim Coombes have them seed titters, when I kuowed he weren't gunuo pay for em, and I got that there colored man off without a trial. But yon didn't raiso Johnny." "Ho woren't so littlo and peaked ns this'n, said Mrs. King unreasonably. "Wal, mother, I ain't gunno do no manner o' foolish things skeorin' my self about tho boy," said the old man inpationtly. "Tho Lord's give him to us, whether to keep or not I can't say; but I know for one thing Sam Doveaiu't gunno pint no fun at me about tha moader road on account o' little feller like that. No, thoy ain't gunno git tho bit o' moader that away through littlo D.ivy. Mobbe after awhile they can put in a good flyiu' machine to carry 'em over an' the cap'n can give the whole o' the road sura enough an' run the flyin' machine into the bargain." "You're bound fer to koop the Durra in the meador?" To this question old Davy answered testily: "The Dunn's got as good a right to the meader as you aud I have to tho house. I don't buy animals to pen 'em up in the barn or stake 'em round the plaoe. Tho meader' a mile long aud if thar ain't room in it fer the Durra and tho road, too, why, the road oan go. I ain't too much for ac commodation anyhow. Them dogs o' Dove's '11 worry the bull mud some day. I'd a shot the hound dead if he'd a bit Davy." He weru't thinkin' o' bitin' tha child," repeated Mrs. King, "John Peter say a ha b'lievea tha dog wore laughin. The following morning old Davy busied himself measuring the bit of meadow iu order to satisfy himself in regard to the exact araouut of laud that hi neighbors coveted, us was vastly amused by the gracious "Oood mornings" of tha passing neighbors, their gay remarks about the weather aud the glorious promise in the wav jug wheat. "They think as I'm measuriu' it fer tha use o' the publio, jest to see how much I'm ahandin' over," said old Davy to the little white-haired boy, who kept close at hi heel. "It ain't such a bit aftor all, Davy ; tbar'a two hill in it an' a holler." "And a oriole," cried Davy, en thnsisstioally. "Yas, and a crick that can rise and spilo tho whole road for a spoil," said the old man, cheerfully, "'Tain't scch a little thing nohow. Tho road commissioners would have to put up a bridge, the county a-payin' for it. Wal, wal, the cap'n may help along his man rnnnin for office, but I'll keep tho county from a-lnyin' out a pile o' money on tho new publio road." Two hills and a hollow creek were, indeed, to be found in the bit of meadow land that the church people were talking over in mooting with the minister not on the side of a now pub lio road. Old King got in tho habit of paying daily visits to tho meadow; ho liked to make out who the people were who ipiarreled every timo they hud to shut the gates, and he liked to sea them staro nbout to see if the Durm was in sight, for tales had been growing in regard to the Durm. 'Jest nbout as playful as a calf rnnuiti' 'rougd its mother," solilo quizod Davy Sr., watching his proper ty down in the meadow enveloped in a cloud of dust of his own raising. 'He ain't old enough yet to turn into mil meat. Uut Dove best keep his logs from worrying the crittor if ho don't wnnt 'em tore to plecos. Tho ittlo feller wero goin' into tho hound with n stick ; he ain't nfcered o nothin', but thar' won't bo nobody fer to keep tho Durm back ef the dogs is n bis way. Them dogs is wuth a heap o' money, the Cap'n brngs, but the Dunn ain't gunno stand back fer that. I reckon ho thinks ho's wuth tnorc'n a onery dog." The old man was standing at the outer gate one day when he beheld his enemy lead his horse through the other gate, pause a minute, thon pull n rail from off the fence, loavo the gate open behind bim, his horse stauding loose, and run full speed to ward the creek. Then up the meadow, flying along at breakneck speed, now pausing an instant to born tho sod, Dnvy King behold tho Dunn. "Ono o' them dogs," he muttered, and then ho raised his voice and yelled, "Yon shet that gate, will on 1" But the Cap'u did not hoed if ho heard. "That bull's wnth moro'n a onery dog. You teteh the Durm, and I'll have the law on you." Old King's trembling bauds toro a rail off tho fence beside hi in, and he, too rushed for the hollow, shouting furiously that he'd kill tho dog at tho first lick. Half way down the hill bo stood still us if something bad caught him aud held him fast. Below him in' the hollow ho saw a tall figuro standing waving a littlo red coat at tho Durm. They brought tho puny littlo grand son home in triumph to his grand mother, a number of neighbors pass ing through the bit of meadow in time to witnoss tha cap'n's victory. Tbe boy hud not a scratch upon his smnll person. Ho was declaring, through his tears, that ho would have hit tho Durm if he'd hud oome any nearer. He watt furiously angry with Cap'n Dove for killing tho Durm. They brought the old man more slow and carefully, the cap'n teudorly hold ing up his head. The sadden shock hud made him faint. He had had a bud ahuko-up, the cap'n Slid. "Yos," muttered old Davy, febly, while mothor stroked his clammy hands. "I hollered to him that I'd have tho law on him of ho struck the Durm, and then I soon the little ful ler. Yes," he added, with a woak smilo, "they'll git tho road after all through tho littlo fuller. You'll be pleased to have it thittaway, I reckon.' Washington Star. it York is a Big Place. Two men who had been schoolmate in Kentucky met in Broadway on a recent morning. "Hello I" suid one, "I haven't seen vou in ten years, doing to be here long? I'd liko to talk over old times with you." "Going to bo here long?" repeated the other. "I've lived here for eight years. My offloe is in Broadway here. Are you just here on a visit?" "Great Soott, no. This ha been mv home for six yerrs. I've bee n here all that time. Funny we never met before, isn't it?" And they agreed that New York waa a big place. New York Tribune. Peculiarity of Russian Depots. It is a pcouliarity of Russian rail way that their station are generally two miles distant from the towns and village whioh they serve. This is said to be on aooount of the danger of Are, the house in small places generally being thatoUed with atrtw. Detroit Tribune.. LADIES DEFARTMEXT, ftTTLtftft ItAIB imEsftlNO, Tha tendency in hair dressing la towards extrcmo simplicity. It is considered bad taste to ranke any ad dition to the natural hair, and false frlzottes, puff and switches are very little used. Tho most striking inno vation of tha season is a distinct part ing of the hair in tho middlo from the forehead to the crown of the head. This may undoubtedly bo traced to the influence of 18:10 styles. For morning tho hair is worn in some soft, fluffy way round tha face. There in a slight fringe of hair over the forohoitd, but this fringe is parted in the middlo, curling in on each side. New York World. A CALIFORNIA 1'ltoDC CT. Miss Edith Dadiiml of California is only seventeen years old, Ave feet one and a quarter inches high, and weighs only 123 pounds, but this don't pre vent her from being ablo to pick up a enck of barley woighing 123 pounds and toss it into tbe farm wagon just by the way of amiisomont, be it un derstood, for Miss Edith Padaml.wheii she is not breaking a wild mustang or driving a gnng-plow team, sings and plays tho piano with any drawing-room belle of them all. Hho is not a little of nn artist, and is n noedle-woiuan of great skill. She can Ihhso a steer or a wild or unbroken horso like a regu lar cowboy; she can toll a horse's age and valuo by looking at him, can milk and make butter, doubtless, and can beat A Philadelphia cooking school graduate at tho mystorie of tho cuisine. With all these accomplish ments she has committed tho folly of falling in love. AWOMMODATINU FASHIONS. Attention has frequently beeu drawn to the very accommodating nature of prevailing fashion. All sorts of no tions and ct cotcras which provide great variety without corresponding outlay are not only pormittod us, but Fashion herself has gone out of her way to deviso such notions, as, for in stance, tho sleeve with its hugo over hanging puff at tho top, and the close fitting shnpe from elbow to wrist, which is so constructed that tho lower half can bo easily removed, and when a long glovo replaces that half a very smart appoarauce is imparted to the gown. A dress of handsome black crepon, with bodico of black satin, looked a very simplo toilot, but with tho lower half of tho sloevo removed and rcplaood with long white kid gloves stitched black, and worn with whito satin sailor collar with im mense revcrs trimmed with jot laeo nsortion bands, dark crimson roses being thrust iuto tho folded bolt, tho gown was completely metamorphosed. This samo dross did duty on another occasion. Tins timo tuo gloves wore oft almond-oolored Suodo, tho bodioo was decorated buck aud front with ad just ablo Btrapsof willow-groon satin ribbon ooverod with black guipure insertion. There was also a remov able neokbuud of satin and guipure with rosettes, aud at the waist the rib bon was passed through a buckle of French brilliants, tiod at the back on long loops, tho ends falling quite to the hem of the gown. New York Post. PROFESSIONAL BEAUTIES NO KORR. Mine. Dttse is preserving in London the privacy of her sojouriiings in all othor cities. She walks down Piccadil ly without any recognition, nud she avoids all largo social functions. At one or two little "at homos" she has been conspioious by her ailonoo, even when surrounded by sworu admirers. In hotels sho avoids making acquaint ances with her fellow-guests, but if the porter has a child Mine. Duse de lightedly secures a playmate and com 1 anion for hours. No portrait of Mmc. Duse is anything like au ado likoncss of her ; so she safely comes and goes without recognition. As hor tempermeut hue always been against publicity off the stage, aud bur present health makes any society obligations too great a fatigue for hor this is fortunate. She might other wise have oome in for somo of that Etiglitb mania for lionizing, which, by tha ordinary law of recurrence, must be now about duo. The Cun nings, in the last odutury, outlived their wonderful popularity, to their own relief, one supposes; for it must have beon awkward to have a crowd waiting all night under your bedroom .wiudows, and humiliating to see tho boots you ent to bj soled exhibited by an enterprising snoeraaKer to an enthuslastio populace at a fee. The professional beauty, too, of ton or twenty year ago i a deserted deity, Few thought go to Mr. Wheeler in illnaw l the. photograph of ilea. Corn wall Is West la never seen ( and even country cousins tarn no heads to look after Mrs. Langtry in tha park. So the times are ripe for new goddesses; and Mine, Duse, had she cared, might have beon one of those The New Budget, WOMBS AS INVENTORS, A phamptct recently published by the United States patent office gives a list of tho patents issued to women by the government. The pnmphlet i supplementary to those published h crotoforc, and brings tha list of such issue np to March 1 Inst. The olllee was established in 1700 and the first patent issued to a womau in 1809 to Mury Kles, for a method of weav ing straw with silk or thread. Six year later ono was issued to Marv Brush for a corset. It wns not until 1828 that more than ono patent pet year was issued to women. Iu 18G2 ouly fourteen patient were issued to women, that being the largest iu any year up to that time. The war how ever developed the inventive genius of. women, and the annual number oi patents issued to them increasod rap idly. Many of thorn were for inven tions for either fighting or nursing devises. Tho annual issue increasod steadily year by yenr. Iu 1870, it wa sixty, in 1880 over ninety-two, in 1890 over 200, and in 1893 over 800. From 1809 to 1888 womoiis inventions aver aged thirty a year ; from 1888 to 1892 230 a year, and since 1802, 280 a year. The pnmphlet gives a classification, of women's inventions. This ahows that woaring npparel loads the list, with 16!) different patents in thirty mouths. Then come cooking utensils with 100 inventions, furniture with thirty-five, heating and washing or cleaning npparatus with forty odd each, sowing aud spinning devices and building apparatus with about thirty each; educational, modiciual appara tus, toys and trunks about twenty each. Other things in which women havo tried their inventive faculties are buby carriages, barrel aud bioyole attachments, priuting and bottling appuratus, boxes aud baskets, clooks, flowers, horseshoes, motors, musical instruments, plumbing and preserving devices, screens, stationery, theatrical apparatus, toilet articles aud type writer attachments, Faw of tho patents issuod to women were for outirely now creations. Ex cluding those especially concerning women's work, nearly nil of the other patents were for attachments to some previously existing device. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. FASHION NOTES. Stripod aud gluoe velvets will be used for baudsoiue waists and fitted blouses. Shot velvet and rich wide ribbons peail do soie will bo very fashionable on winter hats. Among the black crepons for niituuiu are those having tiny stripe iu a brilliant color. Among tha- new fashionable gray blue dyes the shado named Napoleon finds greatest favor. Opal and fiao gold beads are inter mixed with jot on trimmings used for' vlugaut evening toilets. Chaugeablo and Dresden effect ia ribbons both for dross ami millinery uses Continue to be highly favored. Very often tho new couts, in blazer fashion, and' with strapped seams open over blouse vests, of onookedaillc like that which trims the coats. Some of the elegant taffeta silka havo green uudgold shot background patterned with small brilliant Persian or chine figures in shaded effects, The latest fancy is to brash the hair straight back from the forhead and wave it into a soft flat knot at tha buck of the bead tho kind of a knot that does not protrude, but seoms to follow the shape of the head. A sleove that is wide enough for a smuirchild's petticoat is none too large for present demands, aud the newest sleeves aro uothing less thau startling as regards size even to eye accus tomed to tho exaggerated style of seasons past. A very . handsome Frenoh orepon just completod for tha wife of a United States senator i in pale cro cus yellow, tha trimming of wide bluck velvet ribbon overlaid with very elegant cream-colored Venetian gui pure lace insertion about an inch less in width than the ribbon. The pointed rever and deep oollars on some of tha new cloth jackets are faced with ihepherdVoheuk taffeta silks, cream and brown oheok are on tan-oolored box coats, ,and black and white mixture on blaok diagonal jackets. Green and gray combina tion are also seen aud blue tad white or cream and violet. t '--r. to
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