Boston's new park system ia said to
t anporb; the boat in the world rery
likely."
A Chicngo paper thinks that "the
beat way to perpetuate the bloomer ia
to preach and write editorials against
it"
An Englishman in Japan com
plains of the "perpetual feast of
green tea and anails, with nothing but
rice and raw fish for a change."
The English Kennel Club lms passed
rulo that no crop-cared dog, born
since March 31, can win a prizo at a
ibenoh ahow. Not long ago a man and
woman were aontenced to imprison
ment at hard labor for a month for
cropping a dog'a ears.
Not long ago tho two-year-old child
of a Berlin day laborer died of star
vation. The frenzied father, to nave
his darling from tho potter's field,
took the body in his arms and went
begging wherewith to give, it a decent
burial. He was arrested as a mendi
cant, according to law, they said.
Science is spreading the knowledge
that an easy way to commit murder
would be by tlio use of disease germs.
Concerning the proper method of
prorogating the germs, however, in
formation is as yet withheld. Mean
while, cjucnlatcs the San Francisco
Examincr.tho simple layman of homi
cidal tendency seems to find tho old
methods availablo and snft
Professor Moore, the new head of
tho weather bureau, thinks that cap
live balloons can be of great use in
Solleoting meteorological data, states
the Louisville Courier-Journal. A
north polo expedition by means ol
balloons has been projected, and in
von tors are constantly struggling with
flying machines. The possibilities of
ballooning are just as attractive to
scientists now as they were a hundred
years ago, when Benjamin Franklin
was foremost in producing results, but
little of much value, has buou accom
plished. "It has boen estimated," says tho
"Elcotrioal Review, "that electric rail
ways have displaced in tho United
States no less than 275,000 horses,
tad the movement has not yet stopped.
It ia estimated by a Topeka paper that
that many horsca wonld require about
125,000 bushols of corn or oats a day.
K deorease of 125,000 bushels a day in
corn and oats consumption is enough
to appreciably affect prices of those
grains, it amounts to 4j,()im,i)Ul)
bushels a year. Furthermore, the
loss of this commercial demand for
these oonrse grains in the cities means
n enormous loss of tonnage for the
railroads about 62,500 carloads."
Argentina ia now pictured aa the
paradise for the foreigners, and large
numbers aro going there from every
country in Europe. Most of the
countries in Central and South Amer
ica are desirous of securing immigrants
and are taking mean to secure them.
No difficulty ia experienced in obtain
ing laud in all those countries, and
coffee raising in them has lately be
come ono of the most profitable in
dustries in the world. History shows
that the routes of migration change
ivory few decades and that the cur
rent once formed draws humanity into
'.t. This ootintry for many years re
ceived the overflow of Europo.bat the
lime"may soon oome whon the tide of
Dopnlation may flow in auother direc
tion. The death of the Princess of Bat-
tenburg recalls temporary attention '
to one of the most romantic family
histories of modern times, reminds
the New York Times. It ia said now
that she was of Polish noble descent,
but hor father, Count Huucko, was
first who ever bore the title. Hia
father was a teacher in Warsaw, of
Hebrew blood, who, being a man of
great cleverness and personal attrac
tions, got for pupils the pick of the
iaughtora of the Polish nobility, and
mvmn nrinneflsoa from the German
sourt. He married the beautiful Al
1 saoian governesa of one of the Ilea
nan families, and this olever couple,
through the interest of their influen
tial girl pupils, secured for their three
ton fat places at the Russian Court
or army, and importunt marriages.
Now two of their descendants aro hus
bands respectively of a daughter und
granddaughter of the queen of Eug
tand.and a third oouupied a European
throue and came within an aoe of
marrying a sister of the Gormau Em-
poror before he died. With the soli
., tary exoeptionof the Bonapartos,thoro
is no parallel to such swift advance
ment of a family in the whole Alinau'
oh de Gatha,nnd even there the prog
eny of the Hebrew tutor is much
more aueurely placed than that of the
great Corsiean'a brother and sisters.
The Harvest.
Tis a blessed toll from the teeming ioR
To garner a nation's bread.
Let the farmers sing at their harvesting,
For by them the world Is (od.
Though banks may fall, and In ruin's gale
Every speculator reel,
Tho fruitful and Is the bank of God.
And Its wealth no knave can steal.
When the rain and snn tlmlr good work have
done
In the grain-fields far and wldo,
I.o! tho reaper bands, with armed hands,
Through the toppling harvests glide.
And the swaths of gold from the "cradles"
rolled
(111. I the toll by tho scythes laid bare.
As a ridge of mist, by the sunlight kissed,
Olid tho broader Holds of air.
The blndnrs lithe who follow the seytlw
For the treasures It erops and leaves.
As with laugh and song fhey hurry along,
Leave a wako of yellow sheaves.
But the happiest scene Is tho last, I ween,
When over tho yielding loam
Tho last load Is borne from the fields close
shorn,
For then Is tho "Harvest Homo."
O were I tho lore of aeres broad,
With tho strength my Inml to till,
I'd follow tho plow with a beaded brow,
And renounee tho "gray gooso-culll," '
For of fields of thoughts, though with
tleneo wrought,
Tho harvest oft is spurned,
Hut tho soeiled field, with a solid yield,
Tav for every furrow turned.
W. It. Dahdku, in tho Ledger.
pa-
LONE HAND DIOR',
BY OWEN It ALU
lie was a queer, lonely chap, was
Dick, though he was neither old nor
ugly. Many a fellow , among us at
Lulu flat would liavo been glad enough
to chum with Dick, for he was as
steady as a file and ns hardworking as
they mako 'em, but somehow nobody
ever proposed it. Thoro was some
thing, I don't know what, about him
thnt Bort of cliokod yon oil' before
you could get alongside to do busi
ness. He went by the name of '-Lone
Hand Dick" not that his name was
Dick particularly, bnt, bless you !
that don't matter on tho flat. Some
body called him "Lono Hand" be
cause ho workod by himself and said
nothing, and I reckon somebody else
called him Dick because you can't go
on acoiug a man every day aud not
call htm something.
Dick waa ono of tho first, if he
wasn't the very first, on tho fiat.
When I got thero he was fossicking
about in a corner all by himsolf, and
there were not half a dozen more
within five miles. He waa friendly
enough, too, for the matter of that,
Dick was always friendly. It was
Dick that showed me where to got
water, nod laid me on to the run of
the stuff when I asked him, but out
aide of that he wouldn't go.
He was a young follow, not more
than thirty anyhow ; tall, active and
middling strong, too. There was
something about his faoe yon couldn't
help liking whon you got to know it.
None of your laughing, touch-and-go
faces, that don't mean anything when
you do know them ; no, nor yet, your
soowling, yellow-dog faces that mean
no good, but a quiet face real quiet
a face with a lot of meaning kind of
drainod out of it. The flat wasn't to
aay rich, not at first anyhow, till Jim
Stokes dropped on to tho deep lead,
but thoro was always tucker and more
in it So far as I could guess, Dick
had about hia share and no more. If
he hud picked up a fortuno, mind you
ho wouldn't have said anything with
out ho was asked, but I don't think ho
did.
Stokes struck the deep lead on Fri
day, and by tho middle, of the next
week Lulu flat waa a gold Sold. Whero
they sprung from I'm blest if I know,
but come they did, wagons full of
them, traps, conches, bullock drays,
horsca and donkeys, and one or two,
though they didn't hardly count, be
ing off color, on camels. In a week
tbo flat was like a town ; in a month
we hud two backs and were talking
about a town hall and a member of
Parliament.
It didn't suit Dick, Long before
the end of the first week he had
struck his tent an unoommon one-
horse tent it waa, too, at that aud
made tracks. After a day or two I
missed him. He hadn't gone very
far, though, and after a bit I came
aoroaa a man that had soeu him work
iug by himself in a little corner of i
gully just about big onough for one
over tho nearest range. It wasn't more
than a week or two after that ono day,
just aa I had knockod off work, a
young chap cornea up to me a quill
driving lookiug chap at that and,
says he: "Mute, do yon happon to
kuow a chap by the came of For
reater? They say he was on the flat
from the first."
"Can't say as I do, mute," says
"What's he like?"
"Like? Well, he ought to be like
that," and ha palls out a photograph
and passes it along to me.
I looks at it "Dick," says L
"Yon know him, mate?" he says,
looking at me sharp like.
"Well, mate, and suppose I did I
what o' that?" for it comes into my
mind about the trouble as we thought
Dick might have been in. What of
that, stranger?" says I.
"Come along up to the bnnk. We
wan' to find him."
"Ob ye do," says L "Got a for
tune for him, mate?"
"Well, no, not thnt I know of.nny
how, but there's a party come in that
wonts to see him wants to sec him
bad, too."
I looks at him. "What for?" says
I, taking a draw of my pipe. "What
for, mate?"
"Ob, you needn't be auspicious, it's
a gentleman and a lady," a.iya he.
"Why didn't you any there was a
lady before?" I says, "I might know
the party, and again I mightn't, bnt
Indies ain't common. I'll see the
lady, mnto, anyhow."
I went along with him, though after
nil I wasn't sure. It was Dick in the
picture right enough, bnt wasn't our
Dick ; the picture wasn't to say a
"Hhevvy devry" como to that, but it
had boen meant for Dick once.
It was after bank hours and the
door was shut, but he took me rouud
by the aide into tho manager's office.
Thero was a man thore and a girl
yea, alio was only a girl, I could see
thnt, although she hud a thick veil
over her face. The man was a swell.
'Di) you know Mr. Forrester, my
man?" Bays he.
"Not much," says I short
Ho turns round on the clerk angrily.
"He doesn't know him by that namo,
but ho seemed to know the photograph
you gave me, air," the clerk said.
The girl stirred uneasily in her seat;
tho man turned to mo hastily. "Von
know somebody like the picture?" he
said.
I looked at the girl ; she seemod to
bo listening eagorly. "Well," I aaid,
'I hnve aeen somebody it might have
beon ment for ouce. "
"We want to soe him."
"Yes," says I. "What fo.-?"
The man lookod at ma angrily.
'What for, my man, aud how docs
that concern you?"
'Well," aaya I, "I don't rightly
know, nor I don't know how it con
cerns you to see him."
The man lookod at mo as fierce aa a
Goanuer in a tight placo, but he didn't
apeak. And with that tho girl rose
aud took a stop forward. "Oh, Bir,"
she said, in a soft, low voice that shiv
ered a bit as she spoke. "Oh, air,
you will tell us, I'm Hiiro. I must
know; I must aeo him!" She had
claspod her two hands togotlior; they
were small hands and vory white, and
they shook aa she spoko. It waa for
no harm, anyway, I could have sworn
that much. "Yes, miss," guys L "It
might be the party, or again it
mightn't, for he's changed if it is, but
I'll find him for yon in the morning."
It waa a lonely spot where we found
Dick, and not anotbor soul was in
Bight. Ho was working in the bot
tom, the same steady, dogged, hope
lees work thut hu'd always douo.
"Thore," I said, stopping short
and pointiug to him, "is thnt tho man
your looking for, miss ?"
We wore standing at tho odgo of
the trees, and dick was below ns, and
it might be thirty yards away. She
had suid nothing us we came along,
but she had trembled so much thut
tho mun had given her his arm to help
ber. Now she seemed to pull herself
together all in a moment as she threw
buck the veil to look. I looked at
her then, aud I tell you I could have
gone on looking. Ab, that was some
thing like a face a face to think on in
the dark, that was. She just gave ono
look and then a sob. "Stay here,"
she said, motioniug the man back with
hor hand. "Stay here. Oh, George 1"
Then she went down the slope, and
with a quick, smooth sort of walk,
She didn't seem rightly to walk, only
to go, aud to go quick at that In
minute she was close to Diok.
"George," she said ouly the one
word, "George 1" The word came up
to where we were standing, and I tell
you it sounded sweeter than music.
Dick lifted himself from his work
and stared stupidly rouud, as if he
didn't rightly know what it waa. Then
he sues her, and with that he falls
back a step, like a man dazed.
"Oh, George!" and she held out
both of her bauds to him aorosa the
heap of white cluy. "Come back
George, Come b ick. It ia all fouud
out They all believe you now,
You're cleared at lust cleared at last.
Come back, George back to mo."
He stood for u moment or two like
a inuu thut had been turned to stone.
"Cleared 1" he exclaimed, hoarsely,
"Cleared I Oh, my God!" then he
clutched wildly at his throat, stag'
gered aud full fell at ber very feet
seusleaa.
She waa on her knees at his side. I
started to run down the slope, and I
was at her aide in half a minute, but
she didn't want me. She had raised
his head and leaned it against her
breast, and she would let nobody
touch him but herself. And thero she
knelt among the wet clay, holding
Dick in her arms, the tears running
down hor face and fulling on his. I
got a littlo water and poured it on his
head, and at last he began to come to.
I lays my hand on the man's arm. "I
reckon, mate, you and mo'i not
wanted here, not much," I saya, aud
I pulls him away.
We got a cart and we moved Dick
to the bank, but it was another week
afore they could move him any further.
Then they left
It might hnve been a couplo of
mouths later that I got a Melbourne
paper through the post. There was a
mark at one aide, and opposite to thnt
au advertisement
"At St. Mark's Church, Toorak, on
December 1, by the Right Rovcrond
tho Bishop of Melbourne, Mary, ouly
laughter of tho Hon. John Lester, of
Toornk and Dnngalln Station, to
Oeorgo Wingfield Forrester, eldest
on of Albert Forrester, M. V.. of
Wingfield Hall, Herefordshire, Eng
land."
By nnd by I came ncross another
paragraph. "The fashionable wed-
ing that took place yesterday nt
Toorak had all the special intercut
which attaches to the last act in a voiy
sensational drama. The circumstan
ces of tho celebrated Dungnlla murder
trial, although now two years old are
still fresh in the memory of the public.
The confession of tho real criminal,
while it happily restores Mr. Forrest
er to his friends aud to society, affords
remarkable instance of the unreli"
ability of even the strongest cirenm
stautinl evidence. The refusal of tho
nry to agree upon what seemed un
questionable evidence of guilt appeared
to ua at the timo.we confess, a lament
able failure of justice, and wo said so.
It affords us great pleasure now that
we are able to offer both to Mr. For
rester and tho publio our hearty con
gratulations.
A Queer dork.
Among tho effects of the late J, F.
Davios, which are to be sold by J. S.
Pitt next month, is a curtotia form of
night clock, which ia not described in
any of tho histories of clockmaking,
and is believed to be altogether
unique. Witter clocks and sand clocks
are known to have proooded more me
chanical timepieces, and Asser attrib
utes to king Alfred the Great the
adoption of candle clocks, with wax
candles twelve inches long, which
burned all day at tho rate of an inch
in twenty minutos, aud were put in
horn lanterns to provent draught.
This clock ia more modern render
ing of tho aaino idea. It consists of a
light stand oast iu lead in tho form of
acandlcatick on the top of a glass
cylinder usod as a reservoir tor tho
oil, tho wick being placed in a littlo
projection at the bottom, vory muoh
like the Isobath inkstands which are
now in use, and, of course approxi
mating to tho very earliost form of oil
lamp. Passing vertically over tho oil
reservoir, immediately behind tho
wick, so as to bo lighted by it, ia a
band of metal, on which are marked
tho hours from four to twelve, and
then on to five, presumably with the
idea thut it does not got dark before
four, aud that by five everybody
ought to bo up and about. Tho stock
of oil was no doubt calculatud to last
the requisite number of hours. The
relic, presumed by tho British Museum
authorities to belong to the lust cou-
tury, ia quite perfect end is likely to
excite a good dual of interest among
antiquaries. Bristol, England, Mer
cury.
A Text of Love.
This tale is told iu the Orient: A
lady one day found a man following
hor, aud she asked him why he did so.
His reply was, "You are very beautl
ful, and I am in love with you." ''Oh,
you think me beautiful, do you?
There is my bister over there. You
will find ber much more beautiful
than I am. Go and make love to hor."
On hearing this the man went to see
the sister, but found she was vory
ugly, so he came baok in an angry
mood and asked the lady why she bad
told him a falsehood. She then an
swered, "Why did you toll me a false
hood?" The man was surprised at
this accusation aud asked when bo
had done so. Her answer was : "You
said you loved me. If that had boon
true, you would not have gone to
make love to another woman," Sun
Fruucisoo Argonaut
"Admiral Dot," the well-known
dwarf, now runs a hotel at White
riains, N. Y.
LADIES' DEPARTMENT
snn scclpm.
Mrs. Theodore Alice Buggies Kit
son, wife of H. H. Kitson, tho well
known Boston scuIptor,hss completed
with hor own hands a number of
stattios, statttottes and busts, several
of which have been exhibited in Eu
ropean aalons with great credit She
is undor twenty-flvo years old and first
oxhibilod her works in the Paris salon
of 1888. New York Tribune.
WOMEN AMD THE LAW.
It cannot perhaps be said with
truth that wheclwomen on the publio
roads take rather too much advantage
of tho privileges r their sex. Of
course, it goos without saying that no
decent man will run down a woman if
ho can help himself, but if tho woman
is on tho wrong side of tho road and
going as fast as sho can the decont
man's best way of helping himself is
not always clear. Both for her own
safety nnd tho conveuiunce of nil con-
! eerned wo ndvico every woman rider
id learn ine inw ol tno roaii and tbou
live up to it precisoty as sho would be
expected to do wcro sho a man.
American Cyclist
A GLOVE INNOVATION.
Tho women of this country are the
only ones who iusist on having thuir
hands tightly bound in thuir gloves,
for English and French women all
wear looso ono. Fronch gloves lit
ruly without a wrinkle, but thnt is
because they aro perfectly cut and
oose. When a hand so incased is
ukon it can bo felt ; whon an Ameri
can woman's hand, trussed up in tight
kid, is grasped, it feels more like a
ittlo foot in a shoo then n hand. The
English glove docs wrinkle and the
English woman hns large hands, too.
It doea seem aa if tho American
woman might submit to the two ex-.
amples, nnd dealers aro going to try
her. New York World.
MR "NEW OIRL" AS) LITIGANT.
A bright specimen of tho "now
girl" made her appoaranco beforo a
magistrate rooeutly. The top of hor
head, Bays tho L mdon Telegraph, was'
just on a revel with the rail of the
witness-box, and Mr. Dickinson was
considerably surprised to hoar a small
piping voice issue from somo one he
could uot see, and say : "Please, air I
want n summons for abuse." "What's
that?" asked the learned goutluiuuu.
'Stand up!" cried the usher of tlyi
court. The applicant stood on her
tiptoes, which enublod tho magistrate
to aeo her eyes and half her noso.and
repeated: "Please sir 1 want a sum
mons of abuse." "Certaiuly not," re
plied Mr. Dickiuaon promptly. "If
grown-up peoplo are foolish enough
to take out summonses for more vul
gar abuse, I iioi not going to enoour
ago children to do tho same. Ge away
home." Tho litigious girl frowned and
wout away.
THE CZARINA A NEW WOMAN.
The ranks of now womanhood hnve
boon rcoruitod from tho roost uuex
pectud quarter, namely, the Czarina of
Russia. So, ntloust, writoa a Vien
nese correspondent from St. Peter
burg. It uppears that the Empress
has beon interested iu the woman
question for some time, and, bearing
thnt a mimbor of women wuro iu tho
habit of mooting in St Petersburg for
tho discussion of their rights, she wus
anxious to kuow what they said aud
did. Sho made inquiries among tho
Court officials, but no ouu was ablo to
give ii uy information at least, so they
said. Which, by tho way docs not
tally with the stories of tho vigilance
of tho Russian police. The Czar at
once commanded that a full report of
all such meutings should bo prepared
for the perusal of the Empress. Sinoe
than one of tho Czar's secretaries has
attended o very debate in tho capucity of
reporter and takes down every word
in shorthand. It must certuinly be very
fluttering to these woinon to have the
Empress so interested in their efforts
at reformation. Now York World.
NOVELTIES IN. SILKS,
Tho newest silks show a blending of
many bright colors in brilliaut brocad'
ed and chine effects upon chumeleon
grounds. Tuffutaa are handsomer and
iu butter quality than heretofore, be
ing heavier but not so stiff as those o
lust sousoii. A pattern produced in
inuny colorings shows a ground of
oruugo and bluok, with half-inch
stripes of black satin at wido iuter
vulu, over which are thrown clusters
of ohiuu flowers iu all tho ruiubow
oolors, so subdued by the changeable
background, which ahimmers aud
shades with every movement, that
not a pore color nor a flower form la
distiuot, and the whole effect, though
showy, is not gandv. A great deal of
green is mingled with blue and with -
purplo, and there are many fancy
brocaded stripes in which the atripe is
formed by conventionalized flower
and leaf designs; thus a vine of white
satin loaves runs over a changeable
ground of red and green which is
Htrown with seed-like dots of green
and yellow. Grounds of rich peau de
soics are cross-hatched by flnegeomet-
ical lines of broe ide in the ground
color, while a contrasting color pat
tern is thrown over all. Demorest
Magazine.
Maine's feminine miller.
In a littlo hollow, just below Maple
atreot, iu Monmouth village, Me., and
pon tho best water power that the
Cochnewngan stream affords, is one of
tho oldest buildings in the county.
And, although doubtless it has had
many and varied repairs, it ia undis
puted that this old structure, erected
before 1792 by such early settlers at
General Henry Dearborn, John Welab
and Captain James Blossom, for a
grist mill, and ever sinoe used as such,
is olio of the oldest, if not, indeed,
the oldest mill in the Keuneboo val
ley. For over half a contury the mill
property has romainod the property of
no family the Metcalfs and is now
managed by Editor Loreltus S. Mot
calf of the Jacksonville (Flo.) Citizen,
formerly editor of the Forum and
North American Review.
Thirty-seven years ago Oscar F. Frost
egau his duties hero as a miller, and
ho has beon in attendance ever since.
For more thnu thirty years, says the
Boston Globe, Mr. Frost's wifo has
more or less assisted her husband in
his duties about the mill.
Naturally observant nnd invent
ive gonitis, it was not long bofore she .
had fully mnstored the details of the
mill and could operato all the macbin-
ry ns skillfully and as snfoly as her
husband, who, many times a weok,
caves her in solo charge.
Left to herself, she studied the
machinery. There is a flour mill at
tached and ia ono of tho best cornoob
mills iu the state. The prosent capac
ity of tho plant is about a carload of
corn per weok, while tbo amonnt of
daily custom grinding is nor far from
100 bushuls per day.
It is to this mill that the buckwheat,
barley, corn aud oata of the western
Kecnuhoo valloy find their way, and
for many days at a time it is entiroly
under the direct charge of probably
the ouly woman miller iu the country.
FASHION NOTES.
Many of the rough cloth jackets are
nadu in reefer shape.
Some of the new fur capos are fin
ished with vesta of contrasting fur.
The smart white mohair gowns of
the summer servo admirably as demi
Bnison dinner toilets.
New bolts are of soft gay plaid silk,
knotted undur a metal olusp at one
side, and aro suggestively named tor
eador. Among tho novelties for cool wetbor
wour ure fur Bailor collars finished
around the entire edge and long
pointed frouts with n doen frince of
sable tails.
All browns with a reddish tingo are
in especial favor for the coming cool
soaaon, though no wardrobe will be
complete without ono good bluck gown
for the street
Many groeu and blaok-and-red and
black color-mixtures appear among
autumn dress goods aud uurrow striped
tailor mixtures in li'oathor colore are
used for full traveling uud shopping
costumes.
The long feather boa is appearing
again, aud is being worn this soaaon
in very striking oolors pale blue, red,
amber browu, green and deep yollow.
These are startling and unoommon, but
in very questionable taste.
The women who came baok to town
with blaok mohair gowns lined in
colored silk to mutch tho bodioe worn
with them need only a small, full
cape of bluck velvet, trimmed with
jut Vandykes, to have haudsome early
toilets.
Nothing takes the pluoe of rich pat
terns in cut jut where a blaok color
note is demundod on wraps and gowns
and with the advent of full and win
ter costumes trimmed with velvot or
silk comes the call for a finish to these
accessories, which is only to be found
iu jut, pussamenturius aud edgings.
Among tho new fabrics are silk
figured Frenoh crepous, Jaoquard,
Sioiliun, lustre Mutulusso, shadow
figured mohair, novel golf suitiqgs,
silk-warp blaok moreens for outside
aa well as underskirts, and rope diag
onal a silk and wool muterial in
which silky mohair is brought to tba
surtaee in rope-like ridges that im
part a novel effeot to the goods,