ng oe ET " 9 ar oy # & : \ : . Ses . z i Fr cq MSS, Tm men 1 Emcor nlE se Eb iv Fw THE ORIENT EXPRESS. A bold Bulgarian éepherd boy: who looked so like a sheep, Bo gentle yet wo ortive in Bis showy hep: erd’s dress, | Lay down upon the Failrond track and played he was asleep To fool the engian driver on the Ore nt ex press, 7 ne driver, who disdained to slay the ram upon the rail, Put on the brikes, reversed the wheels and turned his face away. The stoker stood beside him, for it scomed his heart would fail, Whereat the shepherd boy stood up and laughed and gan away. Then came the Irish section boss the day the train came back And poured abou’ a barrels’ tar between the ties that day; B80 when the shepherd boy liy down the tar | upcn the track Trickled throogh the whiskers of bis robe | and held him where he lay. The driver could nit hear the ery that swept the right of way, : The deathery of the shepherd, and his sonl was filled with mirth. He opened up the throttle valve snd turned | his face away The train bore down upon nthe boy and + ww ept him from ‘he earth. ~L%% Wirman in Now York San. MARVELOUS JENNY LIND. Interesting Reminiscences of the “Swedish Nightingale.” Among the most interesting of those of whom John Addington Symonds gives . reminiscences in his recently published | “antobiograph:y is Mme. Jenny Goldschmidt, of whom the image has | faded away for the present generation, like that of all whose power was dis: played on the ephemeral sphere of the c stage. He gives a very charming ao- ‘count of this simple minded, gracicns and womanly singer, who had the high- est devotion to her art, saying, ‘I sing | to God," and whose homo life and man- | ners were those of simple affection and | womanliness. Jenny Lind had passed | beyond the blooin of youth when Sy- monds saw her, snd ber marvelous voice | was beginning to lose its power, but her artistic method was as pure as ever, and her expression as magical. Tha fol lowing is his impression of her singing: "Mme. Goldschmidt came on second in ‘On Mighty Pieans.’ She was quite in black aud lookand to me an old, worn lady, with a large head and a small per- son. She wore no corinoline, and her dress, with its loose waist, reminded me of grandmamma 8. At the first tones of her voice I quivired all over. It was ‘mot her wondorful execation, her pathos, varying expression, subtle inflexibility, that surprised! 104, but the pore timbre, which so vibrated and thrilled my very "soul that tears cunme into my eyes. The volume of tone the threw out and then diminished to & whisper, which per- meated the room; the diminnendoes and crescendoes, the nightingale metallic strokes, brilliant accents and floods of swift, successive notes I expected, butl " had not realized such quality of voloe.”’ - He gives a charming’ pieture.of the home of the Goldschmidts at Oak Lee. and this account of the aging cantatrice singing to her bird is very graceful: “A blackbird hung in a cage outside "the door. Mme, Goldschmidt went up and talked to it ‘Come, pretty bird, pretty, pretyy little bird, do give us a little song. Wu want to hear you sing #0 much, you pretty, pretty little bird,’ in such a coazing way that the bird, who “had been shy at first, got down and came close to her and put its bead on one side to listen. Then Mma Gold- schmidt sang to it roulades and long shakes and high, sharp notes which made the bird most inquisitive. But he continued silent until she turned to go, and then he gave a loud, shrill chirrup, + a8 if tocall ber back. "’—Cincinnati En- quirer. : Preparing For mn Canine, Kit Alexander had been warned sev- eral times for breaches of school disci- ~ pline and was at length reported to the bead master, who gave him a final warning. One right not long after Kit was again caught in mischief, and he | {felt that this tone he was *‘in for 6." A flogging by the doctor was no joke, and Kit determined to make what prep- aration be could that the wind might . be tempered to the shorn lamb. On rising the next morning he put on first his undershirt, then a layer of stiff brown paper, then his jerseys, upon ‘these » sweater and over all a clean ‘white shirt, borrowed from his chum, whose clothing was two sizes larger than his own. Lastly he put on his coat and vest. : It was a very hot day in June, and at morning intermission Kit whispered to a friend: ‘‘I'm nearly stifled. I hope he'll give it to rae now.”’ But the doctar said nothing, and Kit went on stewing until dinner time. He felt half inclined to dispense at least with the sweater before afternoon school, * bus fear of the doctor’s cane deterred him. All through the afternoon he suffered untold misery, mopping his face until ~ his handkerchief would mop no more. ‘But at length, just before dismissal, came a messenger. ‘‘The doctor would like to see Alexunder in his study.’’ On entering the study the boy saw - the supple, snakelike cane lying on the table. “Well, Alexander," said the doctor, “J can go on warning yon no longer. You have brought this upon yourself. But as it is your first visit here for such a purpose I shall make your punish- ment somewhat milder. Hold out your band; four on each!”’—Youth’s Com- Dr. Johnson had an exceedingiy un- attractive face. His complexion was . ;meanisan red, his eyes, besides being bleared with sorofula, were to nearsighted that his expression w was that of intense duliness. Cowper always spoke in a diffident, hesitating way, as though afraid of the effect of his words on his auditors. ban dp o—— AY Blabber, the fat of sea animals, costs | 10 cents a pound in Lapland. ———— —— a 1 stn Sl rN HO The West Xndiss were so ealiod by Co ; ‘fambus, he belisving them to be a por ‘tion of the Indies which he Lid reached by sailing toward the west. Lind | Opts cs famous. $POOKS OF THE TOWN ON | THE © BIG MUDDY. The Original Ghost Is From n Care of Fratricide ~flow the Bunta Fe. Spook Was Laid flow a Mas With the “Jim- * Jams” Stirred Up a dail Fall of ( riminals. one make 3 sy berneranit It may be frone that con towards of us all, but wit h and BS erat torer i not a cir cumstance when compared to a vivid | imagination. The greatost ooward on | earth i8 the person who secs in every ! dark shadow, in each deserted house and | around every dismal building the rest- | Jess spirit of some departed sinner whose lerimes will not aliow him to enter ! heaven, whois doomed to wander around | | this earth until Gabriel's trampot is ! sounded, who must hover near the seéno (of his former misdeeds untis the last day. The place by popular consent most {adapted to ghost wan derings and the | place most fraitful in the production of {the bona fide artic naturally graveyard The drearier, gloomier and | more moarnfal the aspect t of the grave yard the mare ghosts, Bat the real be- i liever in spooks and gpirits does not deem it ncgessary to go among the tombs and graves of the dead to find a spirit Ghosts are pumerouns. They ean bo ‘found in all sections of tho country. | There is not a village nor a deserted country house nor a railroad biridgs bat | has its ghost. But the ghosts are not all | confined to the country by any means. : There have been several in Kunsas City { le 18 ! that have gained extensive notoriety on | account of their many visitati] MK, | and the parts of the city in which the y are wont to disport themselves aro still | {eyed with suspicion and looked upon | | askance by the inhabitants of Belvidere | | Hollow, Hick's Hollow and other por- tions of the city thickly settled by the | descendants of Ham. most vividly in the memory of the su- perstitions and is most often the topio | of grewsome whispers among the people | mentioned, walked the levee between Main street and Broadway 12 years ago. man was lying in wait for an enemy on the levee, In his hand he clntched loaded with nails and slags. man walking down the levee. In the dim, flickering light he thought ho rec- ognized his enemy. He raised his gun, fired and hurried away. The next day he read in the papers that his brother's body had been found on the levee, hor- ribly mangled and torn. The murderer wineed, but kept his secret. Then the dead brother's ghost began to walk. Ev- shooting, it could be seen on the levee Each time it would walk straight to the spot where the body bad fallen. Then the ghost would fall, go through a death struggle and disappear. It kept this up for years, and there are those who say it does it still The second healthy, well Seveloped - ghost disported itself in the ruins of the old Santa Fe Stage Coach company’s of fice at Second and Main streets in 1556. So generally known did it benomio that often large crowds would congregate and await the appearance of the nocturnal visitor. Early one evening a young man into the mina. When he emerged from them an hour crowd standing on the opposite side of ghost, threw a brick at the investigator, ‘since. et In 1887 there was a story afloat that at 12 o'clock cach night a ghostly cable train glided down the incline between Walnut and Main streets and disappear- ed into space. In the grip car, guiding the train, was the ghcet of a gripman who had died a short time before, after having been insane for some time, the had run down and killed a pedestrian Crowds congregated at the junction nightly to see the strange sight. For the most part they went away disappointed, although there was plenty who declared they had seen ‘‘it."’ Another story, in which a ghost was never seen, but which smacked strongly of spooks, was the Conway murder on East Eighteenth street, between Oak and Locust, in 1885. Mrs. Conway, a young woman, and her little girl were beaten to death with a coupling pin. The mur- derer or murderers were never caught. Suspicion pointed toward two men, but there was no evidence. Both of them the glanders and the other ¢f cancer The ghost of the victims never walked | openly, but that section of the city was given a wide berth by the trne believ- ers for many months afterwanl oe but not least, were the ghosts of | Clark and Jones, the men hung for mur- dering Mme. Wright in 1893 of - comparative quiet, a-drunken pris- oner, who had just been brought in, had an attack of “‘jimjams.' By some strange coincidence he was placed in the cell once occupied by Clark, and the | the unfortunate man. The negroes, not knowing that the cell was occupied, sup: posed that the noise was mads by a de- parted spirit, and all started to howling it can be described. Since the Clark ghost left the jail Kansas City has been bereft of spirits, and Belvidare Hollow is breathing more easily than it has for yoars. —Kanuas City Times. KANSAS CITY GHOSTS | the The oldest, the original ghost that is One winter's night, the story goes, a | a ponderous domble barreled shotgun | He saw a | : {people in whom I was greatly interested | ery night, at the same hour of the | who wished to investigate a little went | later, he found a large’ the street, near the jail, watching for | | ghosts. Some one in the crowd, thinking | that the young man had been playing | The Santa Fe ghost has not been seen | result of grief over the fact that his train afterward died horrible deathi—one of | {| prisoners soon located the groaning of | | selves casting a large vote for her. It is | with the ‘‘ghost.’’ The effect was some- thing that can be imagined better than | WHY POETRY. iS PLENTIFUL. Views of an. English Critie ‘on Ameri : me Minor Bards. With “*Trensatlantic Bardlets’’ i headline, a writer in the London Satur- | day Review prefaces some rather savage criticisin of several books of verse recent- ly piblished «1 in Amer Tow ing lve rks They are nx lish ps thi letz, but ther: Dit bee, Use the , #han the they have more people tare’ is generally held in higher there, and to appear In print 18 an un- donbted mark of having obtained it, just iy remiar ommonty like thie Eng firs, these 4 irlantie bard- vare more of them 3 are less poetical conntry, but because Moreover, eal: mother as a university degree is a proof, among | the English middle classes, of its proud possessor's right to be regarded as a |. scholar and a gentleman. | But if the authorship of a book ia a certificate of taste and reading it be- ‘comes 8 diploma in honors when that | book consists of metrical matter. Now, about ed persons can write lines times sean, ly make gonse, portion of these ar their characters in neighbors by the publi called. verses A little power ¢f deinding a publisher's reader, | a simple tribe, is all thar is needed. It must be added that at times the "poe ms’ are a genuine trade success, as aro in England, for instance, the innocent | maunderings of Sir Edwin Arnold and | Mr. lewis Morris, a fact which enconr- ages scores, nay, handreds, of other am: bitions and avaricions emulate the lucky men. In the States, too, they have their dear | | little oliques of mutual admirers, like | "our fair brotherhodd of the Rhymers' | clob and the Badley Head, who gener- | ously praise one another's songs—which | they read (or neglect to read) in presen. | tation copies-—and they thus maintain | one an ther’'s spirit on a little butter. | And then, of course, thera are always | {one’s aunts and sisters and wives and [that sort.of thing. There are more of | {theses in the Ur | hence there is more minor Pon try. which some- the eyes PAPA WAS Yoo LATE. anafacturer's Daaghter Did Not : Become My Lady. Some years ago I was acting as curate iin a large London parish. Two young {were to be married on a certain Wadnes- { day in April. Ce mtrary to custom, the bride nrrived before the bridegroom— indeed the bridegroom never arrived at all bridegroom had disappeared the previons evening and was nowhere to be found cause for his disappearance was over a- young bride succumbed to the shock, and it was my melancholy duty to offi- ciate at her burial some wecks later. One more case, and I have done. A curate, in receipt of little more than £100 a year, proposed to the danghter of a wealthy north country manufacturer and was accepted. Paterfamilias was ex- tremely angry at this and forbade the young fellow his house. Candor enmpels | inely fond of the girl, removed to a dis- tant parish. Two raonths after this event {into information, "Too late.” We may he certain that the good manufacturer's wife gave him a large ‘piece of her mind,!' as the saying goes —London Answers. rs vie repress ‘He Didn't Post the Letter. reader's mind to this effect as to throw him upon the defensive, if he be a man, sonal peril Variations of the the ‘‘cursed sometimes, the shrew herself to death. What a tolerant, because ignorant, hus- band may be ready to excuse as passing petulancemay be acockatriceegg. *Con- | tinunal streams of scolding, lasting three | may await him in the * i or four hours ! future unless heroic measures are adopt- {ed without delay. | ready to ‘kiss and make up’’ the next time he is chidden for carrying an im- | portant letter in his pocket for a week These | ghosts materialized in the jails, one at | Independence and cne in. Kansas City. | The scare lasted for some weeks, and | the negro prisoners were thrown ‘into a | state of terror by any strange sontds | One night, when the jail was in a state | after it was given. to him to Marion Harlind in North American Re- new post. — Mary I. Dyer. Mrs. Mary E Dyq has twa elected school | the First ward, Thow desired to have her to r a director, and | she oktatned the PEepublican nomina. tion. She was supp reked by the best part of thy city press and was elected by a | handsome majority, the women them- the first time that any woman has been chosen to such a position in Winona | ascetic, | fasting, with sharp features, worn with wate hing and ry ayer Lord Bacon had a voice desc rit bed by one of his contemporaries as smooth and oily.” ica with the fol-! This is | esteem 75 per cent of moderately edacat- | often rhyme and occasivnal- | and a painfully large pro | ¢ impelled to establish | of their ation of these go | MONEY or the | rhymesters to vitad Htates than hers; | It “subsequently transpired that the | He has not been found to this dag. No | signed, nor has any clew to his where- | abouts ever been discovered. Tho poor | me to state that the danghfer offered | very little resistance to her father's ob- | jectiona, and the cnrate, who was genn- | he fell | a baronetey and rather more-than | £3,000 a year. The manufacturer saw | that hi had made a mistake and opened | up pegotiations in a letter. By return | ho received a telegram with the laconic striking him on the bead. He fell sense. | Jess with a gaping wound in his nead. | Without. asserting in so many words | that ‘the woman who ceaselessly com- | plains and scolds, and generally makes a nuisance of herself to every one who! is cursed by being brought into contact | with her,’ represents a large propartion | of her vex, our essayist, Dr. Cyrus Edi- | son, so far succeeds in impressing the by quickening his apprehensions of per- | temper | thermometer he has passed over as com-| mon to all classes and conditions of | women may be the incipient stages of | shrewishness'' that drives! men to madness and murders love, and | in scorpion fashion, stings | Nagging grows by what it feeds upon. He wili not be 80 | r of Winona, Minn. , | director from | nen of the town | Ignatius J. Loyola had the face of an! very | | 4 WAX FIGURE MILL. ey pil? : g : | THE PLACE WHERE IMITATIONS OF | as his THE HUMAN FORM ARE MADE. Fashioned In Clay From Living Models. Figures Used For Displaying Articles af Wearing Apparel The Beattiful Fenoar | Needed 84 Worth of Repairs. let me unlace yon.’ A customer in ona of the Sixth avenue shops was startled | by the above remark, and turning saw one of the clerks removing a dainty | black corset from the wax. bust that stands all day in the shop window look: ed road The clerk explained that she and tha | other girls in that department had given _pames to each of these waxen figures | “They stem almost alive to us,’ she. Most of the wax Sivaron ased for thie purpose are no longer imported, bot ; { made in this city. The manufac a has his workrooms in Canal street. A reporter who visited the place at first fancied he had entered the dressing room of some living pictures Directly opposite the door sat a figure clothed only in a suit of woven underwear and | ® pair of high heeled slippera In a fur | ooymer sat another figure clad in black | tights. There were several other figuras i in wax standing about the room, but the | long lashes never quivered over the | bright eyes, nor. did the smiling lips ro- | lax, nor the pink flush on the cheeks deepen at the coming of a stranger in. their midst. The proprietor gave an interesting ae- count of how a wax figure is born into the world, be it an Indian warrior aor a society belle wearing a riding habit and seated on a horse's back. He has made over 800 wax models in eight years. He gays that a beautiful arm is abont the most diffienit thing to find in a model | There was a dimpled wax one, with a tiny, flowerlike hand, fastened to one of | the ladies in tights. It was not molded from the cast of a professional model's | arm, but from thatof a girl who worked op stairs. When she found she had an | arm that could earn more. money from being beautiful than it coulg by its skill in work, she went away to become a ‘professional model as to arms. Bug this artist in wax has six models of the per- fect arm, so it isn’t likely that his waten women will ever be ‘Venus de Milos." In making a wax figure the pose of the living model is first arranged. Then a clay model is made from the living one. Over the clay model ia formed the | plaster cast. When this is hard, the colored the desired flesh tint, is ponred DEOs’s. | has not yet cooled, 13 poured ont, the proper thickness is given t ter cast shaped like the living The hair 18 put cn «ue and with due regmrd th (ha ve ov it hr al grow. This work is dome by foes vo women. The delice : ¢ " Then the superfluons wax, which and vi Voy 3 . fait the wax cut of the “ between the lips, tuting te Lins cheeks and fastenirz in the eves teeth 18 left for the artic, The are mach iike (hoe ea wi the teeth ars as natural ns the skill can m tion ‘When a figure is orde a corset, the nueiod | one of tho corsets to be advertised as | tightly as women pieter ~~} in a fashion paper. It is therefore nec RaEATY that the model shall be built on different lines from those vho ust ers. The price of a Life size figure 13 $100 to £2009. 1ur a bust the price is $10. Repairscost 86 or $7 a year, for, anlike real flesh and blood beanties wis thrive on admiration, these big wax dolls become worn and faded fron be exhibited. At such times they are ae aud ves ned - 1. Iyyse x dail, bat ntist's rev to advertise "| back to the artist in a box to be fresh | ened up. corner of the workroom the other day Inside was a beautiful figure in fencing | costume. Her head was thrown boo her arched foot was thrown fom and her lovely arms held in prorer [« L tion for a bout with the foils. The ist will mend the broken finger, fix hair, touch up the flesh tins w | the costume and give the figure | like poise. Then she will be | | box and sent to her owner, wiih for $6. If you ask the artist where ha the model for his cherubs, he will oo) . smile and say, ‘I never five the nates of my models," but it would be ud to conclude that his favorite for that bit of dimpled wirk is his uo. i child -New York W World, Worth's Predecessor, Worth was not Earope's first distin guished man millinef, a3 has bee posed. In the reign of Louis XV i varian pamed Robmbeng becarnu { fashion in Paris as a maker of lal. { habita He gained the reputation | ing skillfal in hiding little defornut {in the figure, and his vogue was mense. When he died, at the ant age of 40, he left a fortune of $250 | a vast sum for a tradesman to acdniia { late in those days. In the first empire . Leruy dressed all the princesses of tie i imperial court. Sesing ‘Doutle. The two eyes really see two object's { If the two forefingers be held, one at the. | distance of a foot, the other two fut 1 | frout of the eyes, and the former lonk | at, two phantoms of the latter wilt i observed, one on each side. If the fatto: | finger be regarded, two thantows of t i ‘nearer finger will be chserved mounting ‘guard, cue on either side. Denmark was at first Danmark. or 1 ha mark or limit set by Dan, a Scand ad vian chief who claimed Jurisdy 10m Over its territories : * Over 70 tas Have Fels found ranged | around the walls of one Etruscan tomb. “Come down here, Sweet Marie, aod | ing ont at the passengers on the elevat- | said melted wax, which has previously been in and left to harden to a certain thick- | . tears the buck from an envelope and pro- “anked Mr. must lace herself in { been freed from air, and on the third wally pose for paint. | from’ Ome of these great boxes stood in the tears over that before eating it also, THE ANGEL/C HUSBAND. There ave hrsbaids wlio are pretty, Theres are husbands who are witty, There are husbands who in public are as stu} ing as thie morn, - There are husbands who are healthy, There are famous ones and yoalthy, But the rest nngelic hustund—weoll, he's never yet been born. for strength o Who wre really so den That where or their wi : inn me an os fortorn, And while ne and then you’ Wha's a ito ard ind : But the real angelic husband- Fy he's pover yout beer horn Bere ary nates, 4 aro i sent they are find one Bo the waman who 14 mated To a man who muy i As ‘pretty fair’ should and a doy, For the road angelic creature, Peirfodt quite n dvery fealitire, | He has never Leen diseovered, amd he won't Le, i so they say -T Ib Allrie hin I wton Budget « ratsed ’ cherish hin HARDWARE SHOP TALK, as | ! i The Balesmen Recount Their Amusing Ex- | periences With Various Customers. One morning, when by mistake had arrived at the store ten minutes be- | fore the arrival of the boss with the | keys, the men were amusing themselves | relating their experience with various customers : : “Why is it,” . ked the Tool Man, “that so many people get twisted’ With | coriscrews and screwdrivers?’ “Nature of the tool,’ sugested the Cutlery Man. “Whatever the reason,’ continued the Tool Man, “I hava observed the almost | aniversal confusion of a screwdriver and corkscrew. It is an evervday occur- rence with ladies as well as men, only a lady asks for a oo rkscrew and a man for a scrowdriver and then look at you 80 surprised. ; “Or when they want a ‘lid lifter,’ we said the Stove Man, ‘nine people out of | ten ask for a ‘stove lifter.’ “Did you ever notice,”’ remarked the Cutlery Man, “how a man or a woman express themselves when at a loss fora ame?’ “What's in a name anyway?'’ inter- rupted the Tool Man, “The woman who asked for ‘clear’ tacks got what she wanted as quickly as though she had ask- ’ ed for ‘tinned’ tacks. Such requests give | opportunities for mental gymnastics, and thus relieve the lethargic tenden- cies incident to continuous routine work. "’ Without apparently observing the in- terruption the Cutlery Man continued : “The other day a lady came rustling into the store. She was one of those nervous, bustling little women, and she wanted a pair of ‘twinchers’ Noticing my blank look, she said, ‘ You know, like this,’ making a motion with her thumb and forefinger that at once suggested ‘tweezers.’ When a man wants an ar ticle he can't name, he gets out a pencil, ceeds to give an ‘idea’ “A lady gavo me an idea,’ again re- marked the Stove Man; ‘‘on selling gas stoves. While showing them to her she asked some question to which I eonfessed ignorance. To my surprise she said ‘Well, you may send me this one. | (naming a competitor) that question, and he told me so much I did not know what to believe, but I do believe you. ''—Hardware. ‘Nataral Gas. . An experiment of some importance is reported, made with a view to deter mine, if possible, tho origin of natural gas, irrespective of theories hitherto prevalent. For this purpose dried sea weed was steeped in water which had day gas oppearsd, continuing to be evolved in diminishing quantity until the tenth day, when some 503 cubic cen- timeters had been collected. The evolu- tion had evidently ceased, though after standing two years and a half 80 cubic centimeters more of gas collected in the apparatus; the second gas differed from the first, consisting, it is recorded, al- most entirely of methane—the chief con- stituent of natural gas—from which it is inferred that this slow secondary de- composition of vegetable matter has some relation to the origin of natural gas —New York Sun. SE. a He Will Be an Innocent Thing. The sun beat. hotly upon the parched earth. ‘‘(h, I see,” he exclaimed joyously. “That woman who throws the ball is trying to hit the woman with the bat. Oh, dear, why doesn’t she run the other way? Are those women out yonder the bases? How stupid in me! You told me that before, didn’t you? Is our side go- ing out without a run? Isn't that lovely, after the other side had to run so much.” rer | gaged by bath Lo eammpany, Ib Laabard street | & passage THE KODAK CAN ue. Por Tustance, It Can Transform a —— Fish Into s Big Owe. The amateur photographer who is also an angler is well aware that his camers will hack him up when boasting of his piscatorial prowesi, One photo I saw represented a huge fish, the length of which appeared 10 equal that of a 2 food rule; which was also shown, In reality the ‘take’ was a little dace, or carp, and while being photographed it had beens held very close to the lems. The rule, of conrse, was taken some distance BWAY, : Oue of my anthorizies was once fo sides in a law case, which I will call the City Lands lmprovement company, wanted to abolish a corfaip court leading from to King William street and wore willing to ostiublish in its stead through ce of their own tmildings. The company's ples was that the court was a gy. not to say dirty, ene, and, furthermore, that it was haunt- ed by loafers of que eionuble character. Counse ol for the other side, representing merchants having offices in. the cours, stoutly maintained that the passage vas well lighted and eminently respectable. Photographs were handed in from both sides. The first photo showed a narrow, disreputable looking alley, strewn with rubbish and fallan hoarding. The other picture, however, showed the court if dispute to be a fairly broad, well lighted city ‘thoroughfare, frequented by mer- chants of thriving appearance. These photographs were taken for the house ef lords committee, bunt the matter was amicably settlad. Here is another case: The Shuttle Machine eompany vacated their prem- ises in Cheapside, and another sewing machine dealer moved in. In order to trade upon the established reputation of the company the second tenant left the old name on the windows and over the door, but added the word “late” in very minuts characters for his own protec- tion. The Shuttle company waxed wroth, brought an dction and engaged a photographer to take a view of the of- fending shop. front from a tailor’s win- dow opposite. When this photograph was produced in court, it was handed to \ the presiding judge with a powerful ‘glass, whereupon his lordship was able to perceive that what appeared to the aye to be a mere ornamental dash was in reality the protecting word ‘late.’ The photographer himself, by the way, was not aware ¢f thiz The aggrieved sewing machine company secured an in- Junction, —Strand Maganine. KILLED BY THEIR Y ARMOR. It Weighed Too Mach For the Stountest Romdun Soldiers. One of the interesting features of the late czar’s funeral was, as nsual, the two men clad in medimval armor, one on horseback and the other on foot. The mounted knight had his visor open, apd his armor was of burnished gold, which glittered in the sun. He symbolized life. : The other wns on foot. His armor was coal black steel His visor was closed, and in his hand he bore a drawn two handed sword, the blade of which was shrouded in cruape. He symbolised death. The weight of these two suits of ar- mor i so greas that, notwithstanding the most gigantic men of the imperial guard being selected to don them, the one on foot who officiated at the obse- quies of Emperor Nicholas I fell dead from exhaustion on reaching thé church of SS. Peter and Paul, where the inmpe- rial mansolenm is sitnated While at the funeral of Aleaunder II the black knight fainted during the march from the Winter palace to the place of intarment and was carried to the hospital, where he died the same night. A similar fate overtook the ‘black knight at the recent czar’s funeral It was observed that he could scarcely drag “himself along during the latter part of the procession through the capital, and on reaching the fortress he sank uncon- scious to the ground and has since died. —New York Advertiser. The Tallahassee Nadseue. The most famous southern madstone belongs in the family’ of ex-Governor Walker of Tallubhassee, Fla. The stone was presented to the governor several years ago by the person who took it from the stomach of a deer. The valuable lit- tle concretion is oblong in shape, about 114 inches in length and of a bluish gray color. One end tapers to a blunt point; the other is flattened and has an aper- ture through which the spongy, porous interior may be plainly seen. When in use, the opening is applied directly over the wound, and the pithy substance which forms the interior of the stone is Thas the pretty young man with the blua veil grattled on and on, seemingly obl.vivus that the tall lady in the chee i ed suit sat silent and preoccupied beside | him. — Detroit Tribune. New York's Reputatiom. Mr. Gotham—No, I never have a par- ticle of fear on the ocean. Don’t you know, sir, that one is safer on a trans | atlantic flier than on a. city street? Mr. Lakeside (of Chicago -—~Humph! Well, to tell the truth, I believe if I had to choose between an ocean steamer and | a New York street, I'd do as take the steamer. —New York Weekly. Women's Endurance. While men have more strength, wom. | en have more endurance and a greater | capacity for protracted and monotonous labor. In those countries where women work .in the flelds side by side with their husbands and brothers, the latter may accowplish more work, the former can labor a greater number of hours, .* A tears'' are alluded to by several Latin and Greek authors, it be- ing a supprstition among the ancients that the |crocodile, after killing a man, ate all his body but his head and shed [EP ———— a) In Corinth, A. D. 201, 0 figs were sold for 2 cents + | supposed to | poisonous venom, whether injected by a you do— | ‘‘spck out’’ aud absorb the. deadly serpent or a rabid dog. Persons who have seen the stone applied declare | that it adhered firmly to the wound as | long as there wus a particle of venom in i the system. —=St. Louis Republic Alpaca For Traveling Gowns. "Silk alpaca is a fabric much in faves at present. It bears: but little resem- blance to the material known by that name some years ago. This season al- paca is shown in all the new colors and in a variety of charmiag patterns. I$ is | a pliable material, graceful and service- | able and one especially suited for a trae- { eling gown. It sheds the dust and scorns wrinkles. —New York News One True Admirer. “Mr. Timmins,’ said the old fash- foned girl, ‘I hope you are not an ad- mirer of the ne'w woman.’ “Oh, but I am, ’" confessed Tunis. “She is good for at least three jokes and 8 poem every week '' Indianapolis Journal : Discournging to Forestry. A rifle that will go through 24 inches of oak and a human body at 1, 500 yards, - such as the new army rifle will do, de- stroys the previously existing high pre- minum on trees in time of battle. —Roch~ ester Union and Advertiser. 2 2 i
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