Thoro ia mora water than land with
in the boundary lines of Greater New
York. '
Professor Goldwin Smith, in a let
ter to the London Times, says that the
demand for the franchise for women
is dying out in the United States.
The bicycle, has come to the rescue
of the good roads movement at this
important Juncture and bids fair to
serve ass, powerful stimulus in arous
ing pnblio sentiment on this question.
It has been found that the policy
adopted in the State prison of Michi
gan of allowing prisoners to have
birds as pots, and to take care of them,
is exerting a refining influence even in
the case of hardened sinners.
The present military sctivity on the
Nile much disturbs the crocodiles.
Their numbers have already been
thinned by the bustle of tourist traffic,
and now the majority of the reptiles
are retreating still further np stream.
Interesting exercises were hold the
other day in the Knoxville (Tenn.)
Chamber of Commerco, when the peo
ple of Knox County presented to the
State of Tennessee a block of Ten
nessee marblo, to be presented by
Governor Tnrncy to the State of Ne
braska, for the purpose of erecting a
monnmont at Lincoln, in memory of
Abraham Lincoln. The presentation
speech was mndo by K. Forker, of
Knoxville, and was responded to, on
behalf of the State, by Adjutant-Gen-eral
Sykes, of Nashville.
A wonderful book has just been
issued by the office of pnblio works of
Paris, giving statistics of the industry
for which that city is without nny
doubt or rival the most important
place in the world clothes. There
are 9,500 dressmakers in Paris em
ploying about 50,000 workpeople. Xo
one oan even remotely calculate how
much money is made by these artists ;
bat the throe first bonnes in Paris "turn
over" about 81,000,000 a year enoli.
Their profit on this is about ten per
cent, or about $1,000,000 a year each.
In reality they make more than this,
for in calculating the net profit, all
personal expenses are deductod. On
tho other hand, an enormous nnmber
of bad debts have to be reckoned
with. One dressmaker alone has
f 500, 000 worth of debts on his books
which he considers to be irrecoverable
The Savaunab, (Ga.) Nows remarks:
"Even in a period not farther back
than five or six years ago, it appeared
that the South would continue to sudor
indefinitely the consequences of a
deeply seated prejudice and an ill
will on the part of almost numberless
individuals and journals whose main
efforts seem to be exercised in kocpiug
the tide of emigration turned or
rather kept away from the South.
Twenty-five years after the war
it appeared still to be almost hopeless,
this desire and effort to direct the at
tention of emigrants to our sunny' and
fertile land. But, presto! The long
wished for ohange occurred, and from
appearances now there is every rea
son to believe our hopes are
nearing frnition. We have cause
to be thankful that the influx of now
citizens is far more desirable than
those we would have reoeived fifteen
or twenty years ago. Then tho great
mass of comers wonld almost surely
have been of that fresh, inoongrnous,
nn-Amerioanized element that wonld
not, could not so readily fraternize
with our native population. Now,
after a restricted incoming of foreign
ers, it falls to our lot to be able to at
traot a far better class of settlers than
we possibly oould have induced to
come a few years ago. Now we are
getting a class that if not altogether
Amerioan born, have been, we may
aay, thoroughly Anierioauized. There
are few, or none who apeak other
than the English tongue, few
or none' that have not led lives
of steady industry, and so far
as wa know, are altogether free
of all sooialistio or communist doc
trines or sentimeute. We doubt if
any country, at any time in reoent
history, has been more blessed in the
eharsoter of its immigrants than in
the present instance. It is the only
class of new citizens that Georgia or
ny other Southern State has any
need to influe,. e to come. Only
those are wanted who are able to buy
nd establish homesteads, and as
oonsequenoe have a deep and abiding
interest in the maintenance of peace
Jul and good government For the
presentt considering the progress oi
labor-saving machinery, we have no
peed of those whose only capital it
Oeir musola. We have plenty of that
1 'nd. Surely, 'it is an ill wind thai
I '; good to none.' We have cans
'te thankful"
Sunshine and Shadow.
Whfin we walk in gladsome sunshine,
When on mountain tops ws sing,
When the air Is full of music,
And the flowers are blossoming,
We may joy In birds and blossoms,
Yet when summer days have flown
Find that buds and birds have vanished
And we stand bereft, alone.
But when In some gloomy valley
With a fearsome step we grope,
Bearing not a sound of music,
Heelng not a ray of hope t
If then, through tho gathering darkness,
Bomo kind hand should meet our own,
And Its firm and kindly pressure
Tells n we are not alone,
Then tho step takes on new eonrsgn,
And the lightened heart can sing,
Knowing, even in the darkness,
Home bright flowers are blossoming.
Mnry Wood Allen, M. D., In Union Signal.
A FRIEND OF MINE.
We callod him Mnscot from the
time we first had him. You see, we
thought it was a great piece of good
luck, my getting hini, anyway. There
he is now, nosing tho oarth over a
boue at the root of that tall syringa.
Bright? Smart? Well, I should think
so; not that ho knows tricks; he
doesn't need any such superficial
knowledge It's goncral intelligence
and wit that yon want in a companion,
and a great tender heart; eh? Well,
I should sny so ; and I don't expect in
this world to find more intelligence or
a more loving heart than Mascot has.
You may laugh if you want to, but I
know whnt I'm talking about. Y'oti
think somo human being is having a
second existcuce in his form, pcrhnps.
Oh, no ; no more human being ever
loved in that way ; he's a dog, fast
enough. Come here, Mascot; give a
paw, sir.
Isn't ho an ugly-looking fellow, with
tho rough hair Btandiug np all over
him, not long enough to droop and
be graceful? lie's uno of the kind
that's so ugly he's interesting. Scotch
terrier with a few drops of bull-dog
blood, I fancy ; no thoroughbred, you
see. But look at his eyes strong and
true and loving that's enough.
We've beeu the closest of friends ever
since we met I'll tell you how that
was or Lave I ever told yon? No?
My wife says I tell everybody two or
three times over, and that she has no
ticed that all my friends are careful
not to mention the subject of canines
in general, lest I may begin on my
particular one.
Sit down, Mascot, and lean against
my knee. He likes to lie with his
head on my foot, and I like to have
him.
It's two years ago this spring. I
was going down Clark street almost on
a run to eaten a train. lucre hap
pened not to be many teams in tho
street, for it was not yet sevon o'olook
in the morning. I heard a sharp cry
serous the way. It was so slmrp and
agonized that I stopped involuntarily.
Ou the other side was a group of boys
with a dog in their midst. Though at
the first I couldn't Bee anything dis
tinctly, yet I knew directly that the
boys were infernal little scamps, and
that they were torturing the animal.
Another cry there was smoke rising
from the conter of the group, which
was in a sort of alcove formed by two
buildings. I forgot my train and ran
across, dashing right in among the
ruffians. When I see a cortnin kind
of boy I'm ashamed that I'm a'- man,
I swear I am I
They had this dog lie still, Mas
cot! they bad him muzzled, his juws
tied together so tightly that the rope
which bound them bad gnawed into
the flesh and was bloody, aud a boy
was at each side of his bead gripping
fast the cord ; two other boys held
him by hips and hind logs, and what
do yon, think a fifth was doing? Hold'
ing one of those kerosene torches un
der the dog'a body. Yes, and I smelt
the burning flesh as I jumped on the
pavement, The tortured creature
made a terrible effort, but he wonldn't
have esoaped if my coming hadn't
confused the villains as it was, the
dog dashed at me and leaped ou me,
What an agony of hope and appeal
there was in his wild eyes ! How be
cried in his throat; for he couldn't
open his jaws.
I wanted to kill every boy there was
there. I did knock one over ; the rest
ran away. The torch was left smok
ing on the aidewalk ; and then a po
lioeman oame along, aanntering from
somewhere, stared at the dog, and
asked it he was mad. I shook my
nesa ana wauea on, tue dog so
eagerly at my heels that I had to be
careful bow I moved.
I hurried into a street where, at this
time of day, there were atill fewer
people. I aat down on a step, took
out my pooket-knife and ont the rope
from the dog a mouth.
Hia gratitude was heart-breaking;
it almost seemed at first as if he would
die of it And I cried; I couldn't
help it, and you know very well I'm
not one of the snivelling kind. Yes,
Mascot, it's all right now; yon needn't
lick my face, and we're not going to
part There, lie down again.
Well, as soon aa be became a little
more calm, or I might say as soon as
we became more calm, I looked at my
watch. It was of no use to think of
the train now; I couldn't possibly
catch it The dog kept his gaze on
me as if he feared I shonld leave him.
We walked, he at my very heels, un
til we oame to a hack stand. I took a
carriage and I put Mascot I had al
ready named him in my mind on the
front seat; then I placed myself oppo
site, and told the driver to take us out
to Xorthrnp street that was a good
half-hour's drive.
So we started. Mascot didn't like to
be as far away from me as tho ilis
tnqce between the frout aud back
seat He was continually reach
ing out a pnw, and presently I lifted
him ovor besido mo. I hurt his poor
burned flesh as I did so, for he whinod,
then hurriedly licked my haud as if in
apology and to assure me that he
would allow me to hurt hiin if I
wished to do so.
We lived here then, and my wifo
was iu the garden when tho hack
stopped nt the gate. Sho saw me with
a smoooh of blood, the dog's blood, on
my fiico, and gave a little screnm as
she ran forward. Sho had believed
that I was already miles away on thot
train.
"I'm all right," I hastened to say,
"and I've como back because I ve
saved this fellow. I hope you'll like
him."
I stepped out, and Mascot stepped
out after me, or rather with me, in his
fenr lest he should get left
He was not a reassuring object His
hair was full of mud aud blood ; thero
was a gash in his under lip; and he
was now beginning to feol Btiff and
sore. He stood pressed against my
ankle while I paid the driver.
Fortunately my wife had had a dog
when she was a child, and if you have
ever been intimate with a good dog,
it makes all tho difference in your feel
ing toward tho whole canine race.
Having become convinced that I had
met with no accident, Margaret looked
at the new comer an instant, then she
held out her hand and said softly:
"Poor fellow I What a hard time
you've had I"
Mascot extended his head and licked
the tips of her fingers; then he
glanced up nt me aud said, "I'm goiug
to love her, too but not quite so
well."
We took him iuto the kitchen and
put him into the sink. We washed
him, we cleansed his wquuds with
warm water and custile soap.
How gentle he was, and how he
tried to bear it Thou we put an old
blanket iu the nornet'.aud he sat stiffly
down on it. Ha ate a basin of bread
and milk, and then we loft him. But
he wonld cry. I went back to him
three or four times, and ho seemed
ncrfectlv hnnnv while I remained. At
lust Marcaret suauosted that I leave
him something of mine. I dropped
my handkerchief beside him. He put
his chin on it, and when we loft him
alone he didu't whino again.
I was glad I called him Mascot, for
that verv iiicht one of the firm, to
whom I had sont word that I was de
tained from starting on my business
trip that morning, came out and said
they had decided to put mo in anothor
department with five hundred dollars
more salary. He said that he knew I
was able to fill that place, but ho so
knowlodged that ho shouldn't have
thought of promoting me just now if
his wife hadn't asked hiin if he couldn't
do something for me,
"And what do you think made her
ask ?" he inquired. "Why she was
in a carriage on Clark street early this
morning, and she saw you resoue that
dog. She was so thankful to see you
do it that she said she knew you oould
fill a higher position in our house.
That is a womau'a way of reasoning,
you know. " The Chap Book.
Extreme Praise.
She was a sweet-faced old woman,
but her clothes showed plainly that
she cam from a part of the country
where Sunday sown and bonnet are
bought but once in ten years or so.
She had cone into a fashionable
ohuroh and paid devout attention to
the aervice, but when the cougrega
tion was dismissed she went forward,
leaned on the ohanoel rail, and
looked long and admiringly at the
flowers. Finally the thoughts of her
heart found their way to her lips, aud
she murmured:
"Well, I never I Why, they're al
most as pooty as wax flowers I "Now
York Herald.
Brazil had in 1891. 7.610 miles of
ilwav in oneration and 4.341 in
course of construction.
Itoads in France. I
A traveler is especially struat with
iue nne roaus in rranoe, oi wnion tue
people are Justly proud. The govern
ment keeps up a porfeot system of care
aud inspection, and whorever one goes
he may be sure of finding the princi
pal roads in excellent condition. They
are often bordered with trees for miles,
and are in a' perfeot state for bicyolo
riders.
AH the nndorbrush, small twigs and
even the lower branches of the trees
have been cnt for firewood, and not a
twig is wasted. All are gathered and
tied up in bundles, ready for use.
Every foot of ground is cultivated, or
so it seems to strangers. There are
mountains and barren places where
nothing will grow, but every bit of
ground that can produce anything is
made to do so. The winter is so mild
south of the Loire that vegetables are
flourishing in the gardens at all times.
There are, of course, certain seasons
for the different ones, except the hari
cots verts (string benns) and the
dwarf rudishos. Those are always in
season, and the quantities eaten in
France must be euornions.
The fields are generally separated
by fences or hedges. The dividing
line is, however, clearly shown by the
sort of grain growing in them. As
most of the farmers keep sheep, the
absence of fences necessitates the
shepherd or sbepcrdoss.
Wherever one sees a small nnmber
of sheep there is also to be seen a
guardian with them. Alns! it is not
the beautiful shepherdess of poets and
pniutcrs! I suspect she never existed
except iu the fertilo brain of these
artists.
Iu reality, the shepherdess is often
nn old woman, who leads her flock
from one spot to another, tranquilly
knitting a stocking while her sheep
nibble the grass. Pittsburg Dis
patch. Eating a Menagerie.
During tho siege of Paris, after all
the supplies from without had been
cilt off (September 22, 1871), it was
decided to sacrifice the inmates of the
Zoological Garden, the Jardin des
Plantes,
The sold animals were slaughtered
aud eaten. A list was kept at the time,
and from this we learn that from Oc
tober 18 to the end of 1870 the follow
ing auimnls were sold and eaten in the
order given: Ono dwarf zebu, 11;
two buffaloes, 12; two sambur stags,
20; twelvo carp, 0; two yaks. 15
G-t; three geese, 2 8s: one small
zebra, 10; ono lot of hens, ducks,
etc., 31 10s; ono lot of ducks, l
12s; eleven rabbits, 4; four rein
deer, 32; two Nilgau nutolopes,i0 ;
one doe, 12; two wapiti stags, 100;
one antelope, 20; two camels, 100;
one yak calf, 3; two cumele, 200;
two elephants, 1,080.
Most of tho above wcro sold to an
English butcher, who kept his shop in
the Avenue tie Friodland well stocked
nil through tho seigo with all possible,
and previously impossible, kinds of
meat.
To killing of the elephants, Castor
and Pollux, presontod soma diflloulty.
The former was fired at three times,
and was at last dispatched by moans of
a steel bullet discharged from a Chas
scpot riflo. A singla shot behind the
ear brought Pollux to tho ground.
The flesh of the elopbauk was sold
at 50 to 60 francs a kilo; the trunk
fetched 30 francs a kilo.
Trunk aud foot were rogardod as
particular delicacies by the gourmands.
The same butcher sold tho flesh of a
young wolf at 21 francs a kilo.
The flesh of the cassowaries was
bought by Baron Hothsohild,who was
one of tho butchor's best customors.
London Mail.
A Joke on the Emperor.
One of the most amusing aneodotes
about tho German Emperor circulat
ing in Berlin just now is this one:
During his reoent stay in Kiel the
emperor wished to pay a visit to the
aunt of the empress, Fran Professor
von Esmarob, wife of the famous sur
geon, who is by birth Priuoess Hen
rietta of Sohleswi'g-Holstein. The
monarch desired to oall unceremoni
ously aud qnite en famillo, and henoe
had not announced his coming. He
rang the bell at the amall house, and
a raw servant girl, who had never
seen him before.opened and demanded
to know what he wanted. The em
peror said: "Announoe me, please; I
am the emperor," whereupon the girl,
thinking she had a madman to deal
with, abrleked with fright and
lammed the door in hia face.
When five minutes later, the aunt
of the empress in person opened the
door, the emperor was stilt standing
patiently on the threshold, grinuing
with the fun of the aituation and anx
ious to be admitted, - Cuioago Reo-ord,
rnsBRiKs.
tender the tree the farmer said,
Smiling, and shaking his wise old head i
"Cherries are ripe! but then, you know,
There's the grass to out, and the earn to
hoe i
We can gather the ehorrles any day,
But when the sun shines we must make our
hay.
Tonight, when the work has all been done,
We'll muster the boys for fruit and fun.".
Up In the tree a robin said,
Ferklng and coeklng his saucy head I
"Cherries are ripe ! and so today
We'll gather them while yon make the bay )
For we are the boys with no corn to hoe i
Mo cows to milk, and no grass to mow."
At night the farmer said i "Here's a trick t
Those rouglth robins have had their pick."
Detroit Free l'ress.
KITE FLYING A SCIENCE.
Kite flying is not purely a sport
nowadays, for scientists have learned
that a kite is a very valuable aid to
thoir investigations. If you see a mnn
out with a great arraugoment, which
is like two boxes of cloth without top
or bottom, fastened together on tho
same frame a little diBtnnoe apart, you
will know this is a scientillo kite, aud
its flyer, who has to have two or three
men to help him hold the stout line
attached to it, is intent on serious
business. These scientific kites are
tailless and are used to investigate the
force and direction of nir currents and
to illustrate other conditions of the
atmosphere. New York Times.
A millionaire's first dollar.
Among the millionaires of America
there is nouo more eccentric than
John I. Blair of Blairstown, N. J.,
who has built nt his own coBt over a
hundred churches aud yet limits his
personal expenses to the last cent,
This gentleman is "riiuety-tbrea years
old now, but he still recalls the first
money ho earned.
He earned this first money when ho
was eight years old by snaring rabbits.
The snares were bent down saplings
with an apple fastened to them. When
a rabbit bit at the npplo tho sapling
would fly up, strangling tho little an
imal as it caught him by the throat.
"Xjittle Joliu I. s first eaten was six
teen rabbits. Ho sold tho skins for
a dollar,and carried home the money,
nearly all in big copper cents.
A cat's funeral, i
A dog and a cat belonging to the
samo master were tho best friends in
the world, and spent their time iu
frolicking together. One day, whilo
playing as usual, tho cat died sudden
ly, falling at the dog's feet.
Tho latter at first did not realize
what bad happened, but ountinuod
his playful pulling, pushing and ca
ressing his companion, but with evi
dent astonishment nt her inertness.
After somo time ho appeared to under
stand the situntiou, and his grief
fonnd vent in prolonged howls.
Presently he was seized with the
idea of burying tho cot. Ho pulled
her into the garden, where he soon
dug a bole with his paws. Ho then
rofilled the hole with dirt and stretch
ing himself out on the grave, resumed
his mournful howling.
NATIONAL FLOWKB OF JAPAN.
The cherry blossom ia the national
flower of Japan, as the rose is of Eng
land, the lily of Franos, the thistle of
Scotland and the shamrook of Ireland,
Ou the mikado's flags, papers and car
riages, and on the soldiers' caps and
uniform, yon will see the open ohrya
anthemum. But the flower of the peo
ple and of the nation is the flower of
the blossoming cherry tree.
"Do not all cherry trees blossom?"
you will ask.
Yes ; but the Japanese oultivate all
over Japan, by the millions, the sakura
tree wbioh is valued only for the
beauty of its blossoms. Botanists oall
it Prnnus pseudooerasu. From an
entire tree you could not get ripe
cherries enough to make a pie ; but
the blooms are massed together on the
boughs like clouds, and the blooms
are often as large a arose. Picnic in
Japan are called "Going to see the
flowers." In June million of the peo
ple go out to sing and sport and laugh
and play nnder the cherry tree, or to
catch "the snow-shower that do not
fall from the skies." There are tens
I
Mum
of thousands of stanzas of poetry
about the cherry tree. Some of the
people become so enchanted with the
ovely blossoms that they sotually say
their prayers under them, or even
worship the famous old trees.
CRirrLB won trc race, too.
On one of the uptown cross street
five young girls were enjoying them
selves on a recent morning. They
were girls of a dozen or more years,
and four of, them wore on bioyoles.
The fifth girl rode a tricyole
which is propelled by handles at the
side. She was pale and thin of feature.
an invalid and a cripple. - The other
girls were ronnd and rosy, the pic
tures of health. They were all in the
roadway, the four girls skimming
about the little cripple like so many
light-winged birds.
"Wait Julia," cried one of them,
as she wheeled along the tricycle:
"you're going too fast for Elizabeth?"
"Are you gotting tired Elizabeth?"
cried Julia, as she foil back.
"Not a bit," said a hoarse little
voice. It's just lovelv out here."
"Ain't it nico that Elizabeth can
come ont and ride with us?" said one
of the girls. "Sho is getting so strong
she enn keep up with us as well as not " "
"No I can't," cried the hoarse little
voice, "on' you know it."
Tho thin, white hands gripped the
handles tightly aud the gray eyes filled
with tears. ,
"Why Elizabeth !" cried the other
girls.
"But you're awful good to me, any-
way, said the cripple, as a faint
smile ran about the pinched month.
"Lot's have a race, girls," oried
Julia, "aud mind we don't give Eliza
beth nny head start."
And they fluttered about until pres
ently thut race began, with the cripple
girl very much in the lead and the
other girls laughing merrily as 'they
held back their too eager wheels.
Cleveland Pluin Dealer.
A DOO IRON WORKER,
Keys, the canine employe of tho
Union Iron Works, met with an acci
dent recently by which his front right
leg was brokeu, says the San Francis
co Exnminer. Keys has been looked
npon by the officers of tho iron works
as ono of the regular workmen for
about four years. He is a dog of nov
particular beauty, and his pedigree
would not be oonsidorod by dog fan
cier, but ho possesses wondorful in
telligence. Ho makes the Potrero
Police Station his home, and he is the
pet of Lieutenant Bennet, but nearly
every workman in tho ship building
concern claims the friendship of the
dog.
At the first tap of the gong every morn
ing Keys has reported for duty at the
gates of the Union Iron Works, and
he has never left until a full day's
work had been accomplished. He was
particularly useful in the ship yard
aud in the boiler shop, aud the fore
men of these departments say ho was
more valuable to thorn than a man for
doing curtain kinds of work. He
could crawl through small holes in
boilers and about ships, and hi par
ticular work was to carry tools, bolts,
nuts, rivets and other small artiolea
needed by workmen who had crawled
into suoh plaoes, and to have them
creep back and forth for which
would have caused considerable loss of
time. Koys thoroughly understood
hia work, and he was always on hand
whon needod. Recently a steamer was
placed on the dry dock for repair,
and the dog, realizing that his ser
vices might be needed by the work
men, was climbing a ladder to the
deok when he slipped and fell abont
twenty feet The men picked him up,
and making a stretcher of some pieoe
of canvas carried him to the police
station, and sent for a pbysioian to set
the broken limb.
A Faithful Dog.
The fidelity of a dog ha an illus
trator near Elmwood station, on the
Chester branoh of the Philadelphia k
Reading railroad. Recently a train
passing Elmwood struck and killed
black dog. After the train passed a
oompanion of the dead dog pulled the
body off the track and dragged it into
the woods. The animal ha been'
standing guard ever sinoe. Effort
have been made to coax him away hot
they have been unavailing. Boston
Globe.
Express train bave been placed
between Berlin and St. Petersburg,
Russia, which make the distance in
thirty hours.