Russian railways aro tlie most don geronn in tlio world. Thirty porsons im every million possengors nre Cither killed or hurt. Although thu sunny of tut: King of recce in four times gre-tter tlinn Hint etftho President of the United Stutes.it Sestid to bo smaller tlinn that of nny Ibcr Europonn monarch. Consul Du Belief, of Rhcims, Trance, any tlmt nbont 20,000 worn at homes aro shipped from England to the canning factories iu Holland very year. They aro thou sold in France ns f'mo American canned loef Queen Victoriii has beun Queen of Great Britain during thu ndministru tion of Vun Buren, Harrison, Tyier, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Fierce, Ru hnnan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grunt, Ilayes, G.irileld, Arthur, Harrison and Clcrelitmt. Tbo gentlemanly gnmo of golf seems to be almost ns dangerous ns footbnll. A death is reported from England in the person of a cuddy who was hit by brother currier of the clubs in the back of the hend while raising his lub before striking n bull. With a view to thu encouragement f tho British silk industry, thu l'rinco f Wales is returniug to tho fushion t the Georgian era in silk wuisteont. It is kuown in fashionable circles that the Prince has ordered some waist coats of n clinsto black pattern, with mall colored designs woven in it. Also one of black satin, waved and watered, the figuring being n small design of berries in black heliotrope. 3?or evening wear the rriuce's waist coat will be of rich gros-graiu silk, fignred with a whito rosebud device in satin. Loudou tailors, iu couse jnonco of tho news, are displaying tnffn of this kind and the "Johunies" re tuking to the fashion. It would nppeiir that nt length a remedy bus beon diHcoverod for lop . rosy, suys the New York Tribune. It aonsists of powder from the bnrk of n tree known as thu Hoang-Nun, which grows only on the mountains that sep arate thu kingdom of Annnm from the Chinese province of Laos. It is be ing used with much success and efficacy in the leper hospital of thu colony of Trinidnd, so mtu-h so thnt tho Eng lish government is taking steps to in troduce its ne in thu governmout hos pitals of Iudia ami other colonial de pendencies where leprosy prevail. Tho remedy was llrst brought to tho attention of Europo by tho Catholic missionary bishop of southern Chiun- Tho famous singing teacher, Mine. Marches!, has dealt n hurd blow to the bicycles. Not only has she pub licly declared that she regards the attitndu assumed in cycling as injuri ous to tho chest nnd lungs, but also the rapid jrogreon through the air as detrimental to tho vocal chords. The first objection coincides with thu verdict of a great London physician, ; who tells young people that cycling and skatiii nre highly dangerous, wing to thu rush of cold air that meets thu lungs. Mine. Marches! cur Ties her theory out to its logical se quence; shu forbids her pupils to cycle. Of course, adds thu New York Advertiser, we sliull now see how fur ber dictum carries weight against tho xauiplo of such shining lights ns Mmc. Melbu, Mine. Nordioa nud M. Joan de Rjskc, who are devoted to tbo wheel. Tho brutality of thu Turks has been a by word iu Christendom for nearly 800 yours. As far back ns thu four teenth cuntnry tho Mohammedans were fumed throughout tho world ui brutal murderers and ussassins. Not withstanding tho rapid progress that ttivilissution has mudu siuoa that time tbey hiive steadily ooutiiiued to dis- play the same churucteristios which belonged to them iu tho dark ages. That thu murderous spirit of the Turk bas not abated iu the least is shown by the record of the past coutury.' In 1821 batweou 40,000 . and 50,00(1 Greeks wero uinssaurcd by these bloodthirsty infidels, while in 1613 no ' less than 10,000 de Juqceloss Armenians fell a prey to the desolating sword of the Turkish empire. In 18G0 this reoord was still farther increased by the murder of 4.000 Syrians, and again in 1870 by the massacre of 10,000 Bulgarians, Binee mvi ttie lives of as muny as 100,000 Aruiouians huvo been ruthless' -ehatroyed, to say nothing of the aaaasuorea which huvd taken place on ihu island of Crete. In the light ol these figures it is not at all surprisiug to the Atlanta Constitution that Mr, Gladstone should be so earnest iu bit Vanociutiou of the Turks, aud that be aympatkies of all Christendom ttoald be with him. :.'lu''"":'nVi!';t'!P'ri. A PROFESSIONAL. lit CAROMNE SHELLY. She stood ly tho window looking through the straight-hanging laco cur tains long after the door had opened aud shut on Twyofort's form. "This is what I have dreamed of!" Shu sat down nt tho low writing ta ble iu the corner and drew a sheet of paper nud n pen toward her. "Sleep on it, think it over well," he had said, "aud write me tomorrow." What need to wait? lie should have his answer now. But she did not write nt once, she leaned her head on her hand while the pen idly truiled, quite dry, across tho blotting pad, and her happy cyos watched its progress Sho might have sat just so for her portrait. There were hundreds of photographs of her all over London iu that postion ; it was one she particularly affected ; a new packngo lay unopened nt her el bow ; taken in tho very violet velvet gown she was wearing, aud her name printed beueatli Maxima Sterling. Sho had not chnngod it when she went on the stage; she had no great family escutcheon to stain, nor any formid able connection to overshadow by her profession. Her father had boeu a circus owner, her mother the prettiest woman bare-back rider in the world, yet it could scarcely be said thnt shu inherited her histrionic talent, fur what is there in common between pirouetting on a horse's Lack to a cir cus band, nnd holding a Loudon au dience spell bound by the interpreta tion of a London heroine? "Maxima Sterling," she wrote noros-i tho blotting pud in a bis de termined hand, and then, "Maxims, Lady Twy. fort," and laughed aloud at the oddity or it. The little gilt clock on the chimney-piece chimed four, nnd a ray of cold sunlight flew through tho luce curtains over the for gotten letter sheet. She heaved a sigh, tho sigh of a mortal waking from fair dreams of Paradise to a reuliztiou of the world agaiu and begun her task. Wheu the sunlight had left tho writing table, aud crept out ut the window again and the band of the rmnll clock pointed to five, she scaled and directed it with her firm strong touch. There was a servant coming along the landing; he should mail it directly. Sho stood ihuro waiting tall, expectant wheu tho door opened. "Mr. Heathonte." "Ah I admit him," and she smil ingly laid the letter face dowuward on the writing table "It is good to see yon this bittdr day, Teddy," she said, holding out her hand. Her voice was soft and low and resonant; it hud been half her suc cess in hor professional carocr; it brought a clear light now into tho man's eyes as he cuiuo forward aud took a chair opposite to her at her hearthstone, "Always hospitable," ho said, grato fully, "but you Know I would bo hero, Mussio. H is ever moro than a day gone by thnt I huvo not managed to see you, sinoo we iirst started uphill together?" "Not so very uphill, dear boy; we've ahurod success, haven't wo?" "Next seasou wu must star together," be said, "I've a splendid plan ; when yon huvu given me some tea I'll un fold it." Miss Sterling lay back in her chair, with hands olusped behind hor head, staring at the shadows chasing one another across the tinted ceiling. "Ah! but lam tired of it all.Teddy, tired tired; I thought I was ambi tious; I am not. I don't on re a far ming tor lame or lootnguut or or nppluuse ; it is all so hollow. What am I but a a puppet" She arose aud walked the length of the room ouce or twios, and came bank to lean ber elbow on the ohimuey-pieoe, tow ering above biin. "I've heard itnll before, you know," he said quietly, good-huinoredly, "You're a bit fugged from the excite ment of last evocing, I fancy. A first night is terriulj trying, and then the mm supper that followed with my Lady Olundoii. nnd her gay company did yon enjoy it, Maxima? I beliovo you did, you vain littlo thing ; yon liked the adulation of all those titled women, knowing thoro was not ono in tho room that could claim n tithe of your benuty of your genius. Ah! I was proud of you. Yon looked a queen, licnd nndslioiilders uhovo them, with their tiaras nnd their waving plumes." "I hnted them," she enid, intensely. I hated them for their superiority nnd for their impertinence in giving n supper and inviting their fashion able friends to meet nn net less, a woman of the dny, for example ono not of themselves and therefore a divertissement. I went; I wns flattered by the noblo patronage, yon thought; what was I last night in thnt room, where every head was a titled one.but puppet, to bo met off the stage in order that they might obsorvo nt close range how thu trick is done?" Hho turned suddenly and looked at him with outstretched hands and a face all penitence. 'Forgive me; it was childish. Yenrs ngo I would have broken my toy into piece, nnd screamed my fnco purple. Now I keep it bottled up for you you gunerons martyr. Ho held her bauds in his, still look ing at the fire. "Maxinin, do not let these people turn your head from your life work. There is nothing in the world like hav ing a life work; it ennobles you nud lifts you up ; it c.irries you beyond nud above nil such feelings at en gulfed you last night. Little woman, wo were boy nnd girl together; we begun nt the foot of the ladder nud we have risen iu thu ranks, hand iu bund; where your name goes iu our profes sion there mine) goes too, as its shad ow. We have both sneoeedud. Dou't you be thu ono to let this wave of dis content wash you overboard into the ocean of fashiouablo frivolity that menus death to tho worker." Ho released her hands uud regarded her steadily. Some of tho light went out of his eyes. "Is it possible, Maxima, thnt it is a question with you now, which makes life worth living?" "I am afraid it is," she answered softly. Shu sullied as sho remembered the letter lying f.ico dowuward oil thu writing table. "Sol" said llenthcote. He leaned forward in his chair with his hand some head bout down, aud his eyes Btill on thu lire. "While I have been steadily working upward, growing more und more intorestud iu my career, not realizing all tho wlnlo it was because it was keeping my road in l i to running smoothly along beside yours, you huvo beon dinting away from mu dty by day. I have strug gled with you for tho world's favor, and now tho world has coino botwuou us I You nro fasciuated by thu luxuri ous uaso of suoii womou us my Lidy Glandon and tho tiouorubla Sibly Cruveu ; such man as Cavendish aud my Lord Twyofort, who never gavo their livos u serious thought, have" "Wait a moiuuut, Toddy," Sho raised her hand, still standing on the hearth rug before him, tall aud pale, in her velvet gowu. "Today my Lord Twyofort has done mo tho honor to usk me to marry him." Hunthaote rose to his feat; thelittle table with its burden of silver tea things glitterod aud twinkled between them. After a moment he spoke, steady ing himself by tho muutul on which she also had laid her baud. "And you have accepted him?" "I have not given him my answer why?" staring at his sut whito face. "It would make no dilfurenoe in our friendship; because I beo.imo Lady Twyofort you would not oease to be my frieud, would you? Oh, Teddy, I oould not givo you up; I havu known you all my,lifel" The man lost his head a little at that break in the well-known voioe. "Lady Twyefort aud Edward Huatb- oote, of the Priuoe of Wales' Theatre, oould scarcely be friends," he said trying to smile. "1 cuuigratulute y-,u on seouriug one of the fiuett titles iu Euglaad!" Ho was sorry the next moment for the bitterness in his tones. Why ouuld he not rejoico with bur iu this triumph as he had in all the others? Ahl then they hud gone haud in baud before the footlights, nnd it bad been his baud that raised and presented the flowers flung at ber feet ""a pit t gallery ; but in this hour he had' no share; ho rose nnd took his hat and stick. "Yon ennnot expect me to be vory glad," ha said fnlteritigly, looking down. "It mniina the end of every thing for mo." "But I do not understand at nil," ho oried pituonsly. That llenthcote should cense to be hor chum, hor con soler, her ndviser, wns as if the hoof ens had fallen. "Teddy, you don't mean ?" "That I love yon? You nro blind ifyoudidnot know it. It is too ate, but you hnvo forced me to say it now. 1 lo love you, 1 always shall ovo yon never any ono olso as long ns I live but yon, nud " Ho cnught her iu his arms and kissed her once, pnssionntoly, where tho deep bronze hair fell awny in rip ples from her temples; tho Uext mill litd he was gone, nud the woman ho had left stood staring at tho spot where ho had been, just as she had stared at him speechless iu hor as touishuiout as he stood there. After a moment a groat wave of color flashed iu her white chocks; hor breath enmo in short gasps that wore half sobs from her trembling lips. She pushed open the door and rushed out into the hall. "Teddy! Teddy!" she called; but thoro was no answer, only the decisive sound of the closing door, and tho little cold gust of wind floating up- ward thut told of his departure. She walked slowly back into ber shadowy drawing room ; the fire was dying, and the room was growing dnrk. Sho went over to the writing table nud picked up the letter lying there face dowuward. Sho looked at it a moment and smiled; the next it wns nbluze in the hottest pnrt of tho embers, lighting up every corner of the pretty apartment, ns the little gold cluck on tho mantel struck tho hour. New York Truth. The Buffalo and tho Indian. Not many yenrs ago General Sber- man made uu oillcial trip through the Northwestern country. He traveled on horseback all over the bench lands about the cjnrse of the Upper Mis1 sunri. Wherever ho rode ucross the widu brown plains ho found strewn the bleaching bones of the buffalo, aud throughout the section his utteution wus directed to former camping grounds of tho Indians thut had been abandoned wheu tho buffalo failed to appear upon tho ancient trails. The ludinns deprived of the game upon which they had principally relied to keep them supplied with food aud which had also encouraged them occa siouully to defy tho Government, hud clustered upon reservations to bo con venient to tho regular supplies of beef and blankets. General Sherman was not moved to compassion for tho Indian by tho sight of tho bleaching bones aud tho disappearance of tho buffalo. Ho thought and said, with his characters tio positiveiiiBs, that the extinction of tho buffalo would bo n small loss if that was to be the price tho country must pay to secure the safety of while set tlers aud the subjugation of thu sav- uge. New York Times. Color Blindness on tlio Increase. "Color blindness is on tho increase," said Dr. D. L. Bliss of New York at the Metropolitan. "The cuusos of this defect iu vision that may be othorwiso perfect are not ull very well under stood. It would soem that the uso of tobacco had a good deal to do with it. I huve exuiuiued a great many for color blindness, having ou several occasions been employed by ruilroad ooinpanios to do so, and iu every in stance where tlio mail examined wus found to bu color blind, he was a user of tobacco. Women uru seldom af flicted in this way, bunco it must be caused by something that men do which women do not. What oases ex ist among women will be found to be inherited from male ancestors. I have never known a woman to bu color hlind whoso father wis free from the defect, Iain a smoker, and my per ceptious of color are unusually good, so that it is not impossible that a man may use tobacco without such au ef fect, but, but I beiievo a large pro portion of the oases aro oaused by to baoco." Washington Star. A Curious Cow, A thoroughbred Jorsoy oow belong' inn to J. L. Euglnb, of Hartford, Coun.. has ait lined notoriety this sea son bv eiviug birth to two oi'Vxs, not twins, but born at au interval of more than three weeks apart. Tho eow is registered as Oua's Griuuull. The first of the two calves was born June 29. It is a heifer, and bus every mark of a Holstein. Tueseoou l oalf, which a tiure Jersey bull. w born July 23, three weeks and two days alter the CHEERED AND SANG. hrilling Scene at the Sinking of ft German Gunbaat, Officers and Crew Gave Three Cheers for the Emparor. The China papers give long ac counts of tho wreck of the German guubout litis, already briefly reported by telegraph. It appears from theso that the litis left Chifii at four a. in. ou July 23, the weather being good and the barometer rising. Owing to an interruption in tho Chinese telegraph lines, it was, unfortunately, not known at Chifu that a typhoon was approach ing from tho direction of the For mosa Channel, nnd it was not till the afternoon thnt signs of bud weather gnu to appear. As the night came on the wind nnd sea rose nud the storm incrensed. The vessel labored heavily, but not moro so thnn on previous occasions, and, though the watch of duty was called on deck nt ten p. m. to assist in furl ing the sails, no danger wns anticipat ed. Half nn hour Inter there was a severe shock, nud it was found that the vessel was hard nnd fust ou a i ocli. Leaks immediately showed themselves, and before long the engine-room nud stokeholo were flooded. The heavy son dashed tho voisel against the jag ged edges of the rock upon which she had struck, nnd her plates were smashed nnd stove iu. By this time must of tho crow woro gathered aft, tho com mander aud tho officer of tho watch still keeping their stations on tho bridge. Buckets wero scut up iu the hope of attracting attention from a lighthouse not far off, but it was soon seen thnt all such efforts wero hopeless. Heavy seas continued to dash over the vessel, which noon showed signs of giving way under tho strain, and it was at this moment that thu com mander, abandoning hope, gathered the doomed mou together nnd called for three cheers for the Emperor. The men responded with enthusiasm, aud almost immediately afterwards the ship broke iu two forward of the stokehole, and tho innsts went over board. Most of tho men aud officers were on tho nfter pnrt of the ship,nud, in response to a suggestion of one of tho gtiuuci'H, the officers and crew joined in singing the very appropriate "Flagglied," a patriotic song which winds up by asserting that should their vessel be driven on reefs tho men will go down singing: "Der Kaiser und dio Flaggo-Uoch ! Die Fluggo sohwurz, weiss, roth!" The after part of the ship then be gau to heel over nnd sank, uud upon it save two were drowned, nil tho exceptions being two men who inanr ngud to swim through the boiling surf and reneh the shore safely. Tho for ward portion tin ned on its side, with tho keel towards the shore, mid there the men managed to cling until morn iug brolie, when nn attempt was made to construct n raft, Ono niiiu wus washed off tho wreck during tho day, but he readied the shore safely, nnd tho construction of a raft being found impossible, tho others woro forced to remain on board thirty-six hours without food, wheu a Chinese bout caino to lueir assistance and iook them off tho wreck. The Chinese inhabitants of tho villugo near by buhuvod very kindly to the shipwrouked men, providing thorn with food aud clothing, und an English missionary attended to the men who had boeu injured, whilo the koepor of thu lighthouse nt thu south east promontory, a German nunied Sen w ilp, came overland to tho ussist- unco of his distressed fellow-country men. Only twelve meu Hi ull were saved, thero not being one officer among them. Great symputhv has been expressed in all thu foreign com muuities of tho fur E ist, where the officers nud men of tho litis were well kuown, and subscription lists huve beeu opened nt Kobe, Yokohama, Nu gusuki, us well us the various China ports, for the assistance of the rela tives of the drowned, who number iu all some seventy -five men. London Times. School Gordons in ltussla. A very interesting feature of prima ry education iu Russia is the estab lishment aud rapid development of small farms, orchards, and kitchen gardeus in oouneotion with many pri mary schools, e'peoiully in the vil logos. The land for such model gar deus, or farms on a small scale, was mostly obtained through free grants from the village communes, and, occasionally, from the neighbor ing landlords ; while the expenses are oovered by very small money grants from the eouutry and distriot Coun oils (suuistvos). To take one province In South Russia, namely, Ekntcrlnos lav, we see from the bluuninl report, ust issued, that not only has utmost every fchnol an orchard nd kitchen garden for the use of tho schoolmaster, but thnt nenrly one-half of the schools in the provinoj (2:27 out of G04) nro alrendy iu pos sesion of small model kitchen gardens, orchards, tree plantations, or farms, at which gardening, sylviculture, nnd sericulture nro regularly taught. Tho touching in mostly given by the school masters, who themselves receive in struction in these branches at courses voluntarily attended iu tho summer or occasionally by some practical special ist of thu neighborhood. Tho prov ince of Ekutorinoslav being mostly treeless, special attention is given to tree plantations and, next, to silkworm ulture. Tho nggregnto nrea of tho 227 sehool farms or gardens attains 283 Hcrcs, nud thoy contained, in 1895, 111,000 fruit trees trees nud 238,000 planted forest tieurly 14.0U0 of tho former, and 42,000 of the lattor having been dis tributed free among thu pupils during the sauio year. Tho money grouts for theso 227 gardens wore very small i.e., a little over threu . hundred pounds (314). Besides, over a thou sand beehives are kept, pnrtly by the schoolmaster nnd partly by the chil dren; and somo schools hud vineyards in connection with them. The move ment has widely spread over different provinces of central Russia, where the culturo of cerenls dominates at tho pchool farms ; whilo in Caucasia at tention is especially given to the silk worm culture and the culture of the vine. Nature. load for Soldiers. An officer of the United States Army has recently complied some in teresting figures on the food allow ances mudu to the soldiery of different nations, and argues that tho better tho rations, it naturally follows, the better tho fighters. For instance, tho enso of tho victo rious Japs in the reotnt Chinese-Jap anese war is cited- lho Uluueso troops subsisted on ricc,togethor with what they could pilfer, while the Jap anese soldiers had rice, tinned nnd fresh meats, fish and vegetables. The meat allowance of a Japanese soldier is seven ounces. The Russian standard is 10 ounces, tho English 12, tho Itnlinn 11, French, Belgian, Turkish and German 0; Austrinu aud Spanish 8. Tho allowance to the soldiers of the United States is higher than any of thu others, and is twenty ounces. Tho daily allowance of bread is highest nmong thu Austrian troops, who receivo thirty-two ounces und tho lowest is tho English army, where each man is allowed sixteen ounces. Iu thu United States Army, the Fronch Army and tho Italian Army the allow ance is twenty-two ounce)', Iu the German Army it is twenty-eight; iu the Russian seventeen. All modern soldiers, except the Russians, have a daily allowance of rioe. The Ameri can is tho only one iu the commissar iat of which beans nre an article of diet, New York Journal. 1'oynl Horoscopes, One of tho London papers has been figuring out tho horoscopes of various European rulers by means of physi ognomy viewed iu tho light of the planets. Kaiser William, for exam ple, is described as being active, cun ning, inventive, unscrupulous, reck less of danger, ungovernable of tem per, and oblivious of sin. With such a fine assortment of characteristics there cunuot be the slightest doubt that their possessor would make one of tho most succ ,'8ful bandits or highway men that the globe has ever soon. King Humbert of Italy is almost tho reverse, for ho is said to bo of the' "happy luuariuu" sort, jeulous and afraid of death. M. Felix Fuure, the president of France, say the stars, is overfond of tho table, but has much sense. Ho may go to prison evoutuully, however. Theso indications are drawn from a study of M. Fan re's cranium, in addi tion to the diotum of Jupiter, Murs and Saturn. The ozar is of the "Venetian type," and the outlook for domestic broils in his own family is extremely good. He is iustiuotively honest, easily led, but not courageous, and it is quite likely that ho will end bis days in ex ile, if thu stars do not lie. TUVSewinir Les-iOii. Mamma (regarding au elaborate tangle iu Ethel's bauds) What are you making, dear? Ethel I doss I' making a mistake, Harper's Bazar, Mrs. Lougermau of North Adams, eighty-throe years old, on u visit to Whitticgham, Yt., reooguizud a horse whioh she had sold as a oolt tweuty-llve years before.
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