The snlo of oleomargarine, wllon Colored to imitate butler, is now pro hibited by tUa laws of thirty-two states, It is ft noticeable fact tli ut tho girl who play the piano in tlio worst ion nible fashion in tlio one most rendy to yield to persuasion whou "some music" in requested. A curious pxrini of tlio vicissi tudes of fortune is thnt of tbo Into Mr. Pattison, who recently (licit nt llnckhnmplon, in Queensland, lie was a butcher, who struck gold, bo came very rich, wont into polities, was made Postmuster-Uoncral, lost his money, mid returned to bin butcher hop again, dying it poor mini. Turkey' mililnry system makes trained soldiers, of Hourly nil its able bodied men. The standing finny numbers 18;),0;)0 men, nnd the soldi em who have servod nix years and passed into the reserves would rniso tlio forces thnt could be plnood iu the Hold to 300,000. The Turkish navy cou ists of iiinotoon iroti-olnds, frigates nnd corvettes, with about 2t) wooden ves sels stationed at dilToront points ou the const. Here nro men nnd ships enough to make n determined resid ence, but tlio treasury is in no condi tion to mnintnin them during n long war. Discord among the powers in till the sultnn's best defeiiHo nnd the Armenians' greatest cnhiiuity. A clerk in tlio redemption division of the Treasury Department say tlnit tlio "cleanest" paper money iu circu lation is tlmt which circulates in Wash ington, while tlio dirtiest is thnt which Comes from Chicago for redemption, says the Washington Slur. St. Louis is a close second to Chicago, nnd Cin cinnati next. New York is next to Washington in tlio record for clcuu money. Philud dphia next, while Bal timore ranks next to Cincinnati for having dirty money. The money that comes in from Chicago, besides being dirty, is always much inutilnted ; ho much so, he mid, that there is twice as much timo consumed in patching it tip prior to cancellation as thure is in Counting it. Statistics cited nt the recent meet ing iu Biifl'ulo, N. Y., of tho National Association of Stationary Engineers, in support of the proposition that suoU enginoors bo licensed, showed that the boiler explosions in this country for the last live years aver aged twenty-six a month, or one for each working day. It nppcared also from reports of the nccident insurance conipanios of this country that they hnvo boon interested during the last sixteen years in 3,580 cases of boiler explosions, a yearly average of 2'Jl,in which 4,503 people wore killed and 6,318 injured. Commenting on theso figuros, a committoe roportod to the association that, in their judgment, licensing engineers would tend to pro mote pnblio safety, nnd would cause engineers to study and pay more at tention to the nicotics of their busi ness. ll is pointed out as a singular phase of the manufacture of ioe-milking machinery that while abundant provision has been made for large consumers, requiring an ontpnt of say fifty or 100 tons, no attempt has been serionsly made to torn out small out fits, ranging upwards from a one-ton capaoity. There are many relatively mall oonsnmera who would gladly avail themselves of the advantages whioh a small plant would offer, and who, in the aggregate, wonld probably mount to considerably more than the limited nnmber of establishments that need and oan afford to pay for ma chines of ponderous sizs. Few ioo-ma-cbino companies have apparently given this aspect of the matter any particular attention. It is noted that the large manufacturers have boen obliged in many esses to oast about for other kinds of business to help them keep their shops at work, and have thus drifted into linos quite foreign to their equipment. The turning of these surplus resouroes into branch de voted to a miniature class of the produot for whioh they were desigued should oommend itself to the trade. Small ioe msohinea are clearly des tined to beoome more aud more im portant aooessories to modern con veniences, and the firm that will be first to offer them will reap good business reward. A striking proof of this wasreoently afforded when a New Turk paper gave a description of an ioe machine iuteuded for domestio nse that would supply a whole family with ioe for a year for the insignifi- oaut sum of 1 1.40. Thousands of in quiries rained in from all parts of the oonntry, and there was widespread disappointment when it ti'anspired that the maohiue was not yet en the marks! .' Temptation. With vlsorod brow Temptation came, I did not know lilm by his name, But cried aloud, "llegone, O Hlinmo!" tie turned away, and going erled, "Many thy peers have opened wide Their arms anil begged nin to nlilde. "Itlre.es was t to them, nnd health. Honor nnd prldn that watt on wealth, And all fair things that coma by stealth. "Many lliy peers have smiled on me, Fair dames and lords ot lilitli degree They name mo 'Opportunity.'" "Hoft name," I erled, "for such asthmii Take the (trim mask from thy dark brow, And lot thy face declare thee now!" "Not so for thee t havo no name I was Temptation ere I came llia then hast killed mn, calling 'Hliamn !'" Ida W. O, llenham, III Youth's t'ompanlon. A FACTORY ROMANCE. nv t.t i.u n. n a sim, I' "Yes, I've boen a factory gill," ffiid A ii ii i o Holmes, in response to my question. "It seems queer, don't it, but folks kind o' look down on factory girls. Now, some o' tho girls at Dniinleys' was nice ns nny girls. Of course some of 'cm was dressy, nil' talked nil' laughed loud, all' liked to promenade the ntrcets evenings to show off their finery ; but they never meant no barm by it, as I could see." "Homo o' 'em, too, used to leave the shop iu work hours, or stand an' look out o' tho windows nu' gossip; nnd Driimloy Bros, didn't like that. They wanted tint machines in use nil the work hours. They had n cross little Dutchman, named Yoelker.for a fore man nu' limchiuist, nu' whenever he'd come in from the eiigine-rooni nu' ketch 'em nt the windows, he'd scold 'em ; nu' though the girls laughed nt him, an' jawed buck sometimes, they'd always go back to their machines. "lint when it come to locking 'em into tho building iu work hours, to keep 'cm there, the girls didn't like it n bit. Drumley Bros, had n high picket gate lnudo nn fixed in the street doorway, nn' that was kept locked from qnnrter-pnut 7 till 12 an' from quarter-past 1 till 0. An' myl wasn't the girls mad! "Of course the quioter girls did'i't say much ; but tho others did. They'd sing, nn' you could hear it plain nbovo tho hum of 150 machines or so : .'We'll hang Drnmley's gate ou the sour npplo tree;' an' so on. That niado Voelker mad. He'd stop the machines (you soo they was nil run by stenm, an' throwiu' off a belt 'ud stop 'cm nil) an' it 'ud get still all nt ouce, nu' 1... l.-l 1 1 . l ovcryuutTy u 10011 up just as innocent to soe what was tlio matter. An' thou he d scold, an tho more ho said tho madder he'd get But they'd sing it again. "Finally, some of the bolder girls went to Drumley Bros, nn' com plained about it. They said they wasn't cattle to be shut in with a high gate, an' i(it wuau't took down they'd go out on a strike. So the firm agreed to tnke the gate down, but kept the door locked instead. That didn't seem quite so aggravutin', but soino folks said, what if there'd be a fire, the girls 'ud all be crushed to death in that narrer stairway before the door oould be opened; an' I expect it wasn't safe. "You seem to like to listen, so I'll tell you all about Willie, if you like ; I never told nobody before, an' you mustn't ever tell it again, will you? Well, if you won't give no names. But they'll think somebody was awful silly, tbougb. Willie was tho clerk that used to give out the work, an' keep couut o' what we took an' what we brought back. All the girls liked him, he was so bright aud kind, an' baudsome, too; be was most always jokin' an' luughin' with 'em, and makiu' the strange ones feel at home right away. Ho was business, too wbeu you'd fetch back your work he'd stand behind his desk an' say, 'Number, please?' (nu' I knew he must a known mine by heart) an' he'd put everything dowu just as careful. I nsed to so like to look over the top of his book an' watoh him mark it down with his sharp penoil he wrote so true an' pretty, an' made suoh beautiful fig ures, prettier'n print He was a good boy, too he went to chnroh reg'lar, him an' his sister. Sometimes he took somebody else no, you needu't look at me thut a'way 'twasn't me. It was Frunk Beutou. She was girl that worked there, too, pressing stays 'n straps. Did yon ever see orab-spple blossoms that is, kind o' blushin' an' bright, and not large enough to seem coarse. I do think they're the pret tiest blossoms that is. Well, Frank Benton always .'minded me o' them, i She was a little slip of a thing, o fluttery, now here, now there, never still, with her brows bail a-bobbin' an' that pretty flush com in' an coin' on her face. But thon, she wasn't very sonslblo tlmt is, she was that easy scared, like n rabbit, nn' then she was perfectly wild. But Willie liked her, I didn't know how much I jest snid to myself, J He's jest amused with her, she's such a pwtty littlo thing. Why sho's only a lialiy.' "There was a big building going up in the saiim block. There was one between it nu' Drumlejs, or I expect I wouldn't bn here to tell yott nliout it. Somebody wiid, when they wore diggiu' for the ouinlnlioti : 'It looks awful close to that other building, look tint you don't undermine It,' But nobody paid nny attention, they ust went on diggiti. "ISarinun coma to town that sum mer, nn' nil the girls was crazy to go see Jumbo. H , for a wonder, Drum- ely Bros, unlocked the door nt 10 that morning so's we oould go see the pro cession. Most of tlio girls went, only a few of us staid to sew, uti' snw it from the windows. Frank Benton strtid. 'Twasn't like her, but I'd noticed alio was kind o' down all the morning, nu' didn't go round iu that hippity-hoppity way o' burs. Her evils was swelled an' red, too, nu' I noticed her nnd Willie didn't speak, an' didn't hardly look nt each other, only w hen the nt hut 's back was turned, I knew it was mean, but I couldn't help feel in' kind o' glad. '"l'was just ten minutes to ll, for I mind lookiu' at tho clock. Tho per- cession had just gone by, nn' tho music was ilyiu' away up tho street, an' we'd all left, tin) win lows, when all at once count tho ttwfulcst crnshiii' nu' tlmihl . rill' nn' griudiii' t over heard iu my life I The bnildiii' wo was iu shook, nu' we could soj tho w ills ou the east cud u eniokin'. ".Most of tin) prirs ruu nu' screamed Fire I' an' made for tho utairwuy. But it come over me, all ntouue, how it was, seciu' tho floor was solid. It was tho other biiildin',tiot Drnmley's, a-fnllin' ; but, of course. bi.iu' s near nu' higher, the timbers nu' brick fell onto an' Vniust it and jarred it a heap. An' jest as I'd thuiiiht that, I sea Frank Benton a-ruuuiii'iiiid scream in', Tho door's locked I' (but it wasn't) nu' in in' for a window. I kuowud iu a minute what she'd do, poor girl I I was there most as quick as hor.cryiu' ns I run. 'Frank 1 Frunk I don't jump! loii't jump! It's all right! Help! Help!' I says. For that silly girl, crazy as she w is with tho fright, was goiu' to jump out o' that three-story wiudow. I reached her jest iu time to ketch her dress us she wont over the lodge. An' I held ou she may thank her lucky slurs her dress was stout euougu out sho was a lignt nine thing. "But, oh! didu't she gut heavy bo- fore anybody come I I kep' talkiu' to her, but sho would struggle, nu' uindo it bo hard to bold her. Seemed liko's my nails was cumin' off, uu' the blood 'ud start from my mouth and finger ends. I couldn't draw her iu ; it was jost all I could do to koep her from falliu' down ont' that hard pavement. At lust it was only few minutes of course one of the cutters got there, nn' reaehiu' over me, pulled bar up, an' jost as I turned I see Willie oomiu' ou the run, with a look liko death on his fitoe. An' thinks I, 'I'll soe, I'll know for sure whether he does love her, or not. 'Willie,' says I, (the others was busy sttendiu' to Frank, for she'd fainted), 'I saved her for you.' "Annie," say he, takia' hold both o' my hands an' his face Wiis white, an' his voioo kiud o' husky liko, 'you know bnt no, you can't know how much I thauk you. God bless you, Annie,' he says. Theu be lot go my hands nnd turnod away qtiiok. I ex pect he had to, or he'd a-oriod. So then I know." Annie sighed a little and bunt lower over her sewing. "Did he marry hor?" I asked. "0 yes. They wis married about a year nfter that. Willie's partner in i drug store now." After a little silonoo, I said: "You must be nearly 30, Annie Shall you never marry?" "Oh, yes!" she replied cheerfully. "When I find somebody I somebody as nioe as Willie." Omaha World, An Aut's Lifetime. Sir Johu Lubbock, the naturalist, has been experimenting to find out how long the common aut would live if kept out ot harm's way. On Aug 8, 188S, an ant whioh hud baen kept and teuderly cared for died at the age ot 15 years, which is the greatest age uuy species of insect has yet been known to attain. Another individual of the same apeoioa of ant lived to the advanced age of 13 years, and the queen of another kind laid fertile eggs after she had passed the age of nine years. Tronlnienl, of Iloadnclie. 1 A hoiidaaho should be treated si a symptom nnd not as a disease. Noth ing Is more harmful than to give suffer from headache drugs to ease the psin. The cause of the hosdaohe. instead, should bo treated. Headaches may be caused by dis eased conditions of tho blood, by nervous Irritation and by inflamma tion of the nurvos of tlio head or adjacent tissues, this last lining in frequent. Livor torpidity and catarr hal troubles hnvo much to do with headaches, as they affect the blood. Nurve irritation comes in many forms. Tho nerves terminate through out the body, in the inusetes and ou mucous surfaces, in il'licnto filnmetits and littlo round bodies. Contiuueil irritation of these terminals will cause headache. An eminent physician says the best treatment for headache is preventive, and if wo would allot night hours for work, eight for piny nnd eight for sleep wo would rnrcly suffer from this cause. For nervous hendnohn n hot bath, a stroll iu tho cool air, or n nap in n cool, quiet room will often bo found successful. A headache from fatigue may bo helped by pressing a sponge wet with hot water on tho liapa of the neck and on tho temples. Neuralgia is caused not only by cool air, but by acidity of tho stom ach, starved nerves or impnrfiot dint Heat is its best remedy and mustard plasters applied to the Hlnuiucli nnd egs will ilo moro good than any medicine. Cold water applied to the nerves in front of the ear has been known to work mnglo iu chasing nwuy neuralgic pains. Bilious or sick headaches nro com mon to the llrst half of life and sometimes stop of their own uncord when one reaches mid lie age. They comet when a person has eaten food w hieh does not digest readily nnd a careful diet is imperative, sweet meals nnd pastry being especially danger- Oils, Tho headache which conies from diseased eves is most common and least recogni.ed. Its symptoms are pain in the eyes und temples and over the brows. Hot water is a very val uable stimulant for tho eyes. New York Kecord. 1'uy or Foreign Oigitaist. Tho average pay of all organists iu England appears to bo only 8" week, if computations of a curtain English musical critio nro to bo relied ou ; but it is said that placos at this compensa tion are so much in demand that there is not likely to lie any iucroise iu the remuneration. Iu Italy tho pay is comparatively grcator and the op portunities for outside cm ploy incut nro more frequent. A cathedral in a small Italian town offers the organist the Hum of 8280 annually, and for this be is expected to play for ut Icust two services every day and spend some of his spsretitne in teaching tho children iu tho chin oh school. Three hundrod dollars is the salary which an E ig- lish church advertises for an organist for a daily service. Some of the churches in towns of average size pay only 8200 and others offer as lit tle as 8100. The host of the English salaries are thoso paid at the cathe drals, and sometimes a residence is furnished also. These places are worth from 81,000 to 81,400 year, aud are source. In comparison with the psy of good organists here these salaries seem absurdly small, and it is a cur ious thing tbat England should com pensate its cburou musician at a lower rate than Italy. The actual figures may not be lower than the Italian salaries, but the oost of liv ing is so muuh less iu Italy that the pay there is proportionully higher. Sun Francisco Chronicle, A Flouting Feast. In sailing along the coast north of Cape Hutteras the crew of the steamer Earndule say the vessel passed the carcass of a deud whale about 00 foot long. Cuptnin Lougharne, who was on watoh st the time, noticed a black objeot several miles ahead, directly in line with his course. When he looked through the glass a seonnd time he saw it was a moving objeot, aud as be olosed upon it he was surprised to see tbousauds of birds, including turkey buzzards, hen hawks, vultures, aea suinos. water eagles und crows, feast ing upon the putrefying enrosss. Thu birds, the crew say, were so numerous thut they resembled a uiov ingoloud close to the sou's surface. Hundreds were foediug at a time, and occasionally they would leave the oar cass and fly away a distance, only to return again and gorge themselves. The sailors were of the opinion that it was a sperm whale, killed iu northern waters by whaler Philadelphia .Press. - - tiik kaiiit s oirrs. I.nt night when I was siiiik In bed, A fairy came to ma and said I "Dear ehlld, three gifts to you I bring A box, a mirror mid a ring. "Kueli morning use the mirror bright To bring your Utile faults to light "When you havo found lliein, every one, Open thin liex as I have done, "And puek them iilekly out of slitlit. HeMieinlier shut thu Ud down tight. "We call thnye, best of gifts to youth, On, Helf-eontrol, the other, Truth. "This golden ring, Hliwerlty, Wins friends wherever you may bo." I never spoke, I ill I hot stir, I only lay and looked at her. And where she went I tin not know -Khe melted like a Hake of snow. The door wss barnd, the window, too -llw do you s'pose that she got through? I'm sure she came so real It seemed, Hut Mamma says I must have dreamed. J. Torrey Ooiuior In Homo Queen. nKNNVM rilKKIlFttli (IIFT. "Here, Benny," snid the falhor, as Beimv started to church, "is n fl vo ce it picci nnd a quarter. You can put which you ploaso into the contri bution box." Benny thanked liitn nnd went to church. Curious to know which Bon ny hud given, bis papa asked him, and Benny replied : "Well, papa, it was this way: The preacher said the Tiord loved a cheer ful givor, mid 1 I Uiiv I could givo a nickel u good deal more cheerfully than I oould givo a qunrte(, so I put thu nickel iu." tub nrrro! tviiti.r. Tho buttifli turtle is well named, ns its size is very small. When full grown it is about thu size) of a silver quarter, and has a convex shell of a dull black color and a horny texture. A KUake-lilio head shrinks under thu shell if the intelligence coutniued therein consid rs uu approaching linger too intrusiv) or dangerous- Four littlo Hat flippers also sack sufctv buiieatli tho shull should tho turtle be lifted iu thu fingers, nnd a loiiuil, snaky littlo tail curls ovor them beneath tho sumo shultor. Sharp claws are on tho ilippors, aud black, beady eyes iu the head, these last be ing protected by a doiiblo set of eye lids. Tho little roptile is gifted with so in o tnot and discrimination. Mnsio, if near, will cause its bead to be lifted iu a alow manner, ns if tod heavy for its neck, and gnutly turned in the di reotiou from which the sound pro ceeds. With old frionds, too, it is much loss timid than with stranger. The button turtle is eminently a boast of prey. A few of those ani malcules known as water fleas, or tad pole plaood in its saucer of water, will perceptibly quicken its movements, enticing it to engage in a lively and generally a successful hunt, while its manner of peeking and tearing at any choioe morsel makes one think of what might happen if a vulture's bond oould bo grufted ou a tiger's body. AUEniCAX CAOB BIRDS. In a state of nature small birds flit about aud sing only during daylight, aud they always retire to rest at sun down. You must look out for this if you koep your birds in ouges. Tbey do uot understand that they bad bet ter keep silent uftor tbo lamps are lighted. Tbey iustiuctively keep ou singing, as if it wore still daylight The immediate effect of this is that the birds beoome over-futigued ; they are apt to moult, grow thin, suffer from exhaustion, und quickly perish. The osge should be removed to a darkened room at nightfall ; or, if this is not oouveuieut, cover up the cage with a dark cloth before lighting the lamps. In covering the cage care should be taken so to arrange the cloth that the bird oan have plonty of air. In removing birds from one room to anothor it is important to see that there is no change in temperature. If removed to a differ ent temperature there is strong chance tbat they will boglu to monlt, which generally leads to something serious. Remember that Nature sup plies a coat to suit heat or cold in whioh her oreatures are placed, and that sudden and frequent changes in tL2 .w-W. .si is '" tempers! tire are a severe tax upon a bird's vitality. Tbo object in the construction ot a bird's cage should be to furnish plenty of light and air, and the oage should always be kept perfectly clean. It is will to have a night covering of dark cloth, whioh should oovor the top of the cage nud extend half -way down the sitles, as in nny birds are likely to take cold, Harper's Hound Table. qur.p.n wats op Tr.i,r,ma timm. One of our boys who doesn't own watch writes about how he tells the time of day. He works iu a wheat elevator iu an Iowa town. A b'ig wiu dow almost tills one side of his little oflloo. Into n corner of the window creeps the sunlight esrly in tho morn ing nnd it shines in all day long end creeps out of the other corner iu the evening. On the floor whore the edge of tho shadow from the window sash falls just nt noon our boy has placed a lung cliulk mark and a little further away there is nnoHior mark for 1 o'clock nnd so ou up to 0. Tlio furs noon in similarly divided on tho floor. Feioh dny by simply looking at the edge of tho sun's light he onn tell what timo it Is. Onoe in two weeks lie changes nil these murks because tbo shadows change ns the sun got higher iu the spring or lower in the fall. This olever tlevicn- any of you may use It suggests the way that tho na tives of Liberia iu Africa, who have no clocks, tell the time. They take tho kernels from llin nuts of tho can dle tree nnd wash nnd string them ou ' tho rib or a palm leaf. The ilrstor top kernel is then lighted. All or the kernels are or the same size and sub stance, and each will burn a certain number of minutes and thon sot lire to the one next below. Tho natives lie pieces of black cloth at regular In tervals ulniig tho string to mark the divisions of timo. Among thu natives of Hingar, in the Malay archipelago, niiolber peculiar device is used. Two bottles nro plsoed neok nnd neck, and sand is put in one of them, which pours itself into tho othor every half hour, when tho bottles nro reversed. Chicago Huoord. AUSTIN VAUUilM'tt PUnCH ASS. Austin Vaughn was the proud owner of a bright fifty-cent pie'oe. Fifty-cent pieces didu't often tingle in" his fingers, and this was his, to do what he pleased with. Didn't uncle Ebou suy s "Etiy what you liko with it?" Thut was two days ngo, and every hour when he was awsko his hand weut down into his trousers pocket to fuel it. The things it had bought in imagination, would cost some hundreds iu reulity. Pretty much every boy in reboot knew about it, and it wasn't in boy nuture not to feel envious. "Halloo! Aust', spent that money o' yourn yet?" Andrew Knox greeted him on the tbird morniug. "'Causo ef you ain't I've got authiu' mebbe you'd like to buy. Don't get chanoo like this every day." He hold np a new knifo, two-bladed, both blades open and glittering in the sun. "My oousin he sont it from New York, an' I 'xpeot it oost more'n dollar ivory bundle, see? Bat I had a pretty good knife afore, an' I 'druther have the money, even if I do sell it at a sacrifice, as the newspapers say." Now the only thing that rattled against the half-dollar in Austin'e pocket was a battered old knife with one broken blade. A new knife was one of the imaginary things his bright coin had purchased. This chance was not to be lost Thnt night he showed the treasure to his father. Mr. Vaughn looked at it, felt the edges of the blades, and said; "You paid bow much?" "The fifty cents uncle Eben gave me." ' "Well, well. Better have consulted me. 'A fool and his money soon part ed.' You gave at least twioe what it's worth. Andy Euoz is a tricky youngster. The handle isn't ivory, it is bone, and the atoel isn't hard. The bladei'U be battered in no time. Worth just about twenty-five cents. Never mind now, my boy. Live and learn, that's what we all have to do." Austin felt rather crestfallen, for experience is a severe teacher. New York Observer. Too Literal Customer I would like to have a nioe gown to wear around the houte. Salesman Size of the house, please?
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