te oA *ey ek Lo > a And by a chair the kneld And thus began to pray: - #Jogus, my eyes 1 clos] Thy form I cannot see; I thou art near me, Lord, : 1 pray thee eprak to me.” : areall voles she heard yrithin her son): at is it, child? I Boar thee. Tell meall”™ “1 pray thee, Lord,” she said, “Phat thon wilt eondescend To tarry in my neart And ever be ny friend The path of life is dari, 1 wouid not g¢ astray; Ok, lot mie have thy hand To lead me in the wiy."” ®Poar nf. } will not leave : alow.’ fhe tion dL 0 he Wome, Lord, thas all The Livin PUSS AWAY, cand moon rest die, Amd even chikiren pay. Ok, ut iny pardnts Hye Ti 1 a worann grow, For if they Ca, what tan : A td: ovina AY Pear not, ty cbikd Wha! ¥'1 pot forsake thee till 1 brug thes heme.” thee, child, 1% a 207% hand press her own. fler little prayer was sald, “And from her chamber now Bhe passed forth with the hight Of heaven apn her brow. “Mother I've seen tho Lord, His hand in nine | fel, : Axl, oh, 1 heard him say ll fs -+ by my chair I knelt: : | wiqlegr no: my child. Whatever ills may coma, © EW not fares |» thee til I briag thee bowie.” © x £0 sh ~Hodges Beeld —— —— p————— ~~ ONE COINC'DENCE EXPLAINED. 4% Negr Advertisicg Trick Ta the Book Trade Which Had Iis Suceess. “Have yous nivel enlled . by i asg’” asked a young woman of an ar fondant in a city Library. “No, and we never heard of the? ymtil today, bot ws kave had at least sen applicanes for i sinc) 9 o'clock this morning. I beg your pardon, but womld © you please tell me how you heard of that book?" 1. 2.1 «Why,”' she replied besitatinziy. “1 smeeived a pote from a friend tell. me toread it.” Ba “Well,” be said with a ruiile, ‘the others who applied had heard of it in The young womnn looked surprised, ‘bat said nothing and passed out. A man “who had overheard the conversation spoke of it to his wife that evening as a curious coincidencs. : | “Coincidence, fiddlesticks!”" she said. “Wait a moment until I show you what I received this morning.’ And going to ‘her desk she brought this note for him torend: 2a ; My Dean—It you want a surprise read — we, Yom will immediately recognise the | “Well, I thonght over nll of the Ellas, Evas, Emmas and Elizabeths of my ac- gasintance, she went oa, *‘but I could recognize the handwriting. It was _. selear, round hand, but unformed, like _achild's. Coincidence, indeed! Itisa clever advertisemimt, new in the book trade, but I have seen similar letters. Four years azo a farnitare firm sent ont _ & clever imitation of a letter, written in = delicate feminine hiznd, dated at a _ oomntry villa and addressed ‘Ma chere - mma’ It was a gossipy, pleasant letter, "and at the end requested tie friend to A her two or three pieces of farnitare, litle pm and ink sketches of which . wege pinned to the corner. Of conrse the price and white to Loy them were | uot overlooked. ''--New York Sun . Beth Pled In Jerusalem, Monk Gerbert, ‘who astended the papal ~ fheome under the title of Sylvester II, ~ smficipating Roger Bacon, made a bronze head, which, like that owned hy the reputed inveutor of gunpowder, was | oN of answering him like an oracle From this bead be learned that be would mot die util he performed mass at Jern- salem, and so he determined to live for- ever, by taking cipecial care not to go to ‘ the Holy City. Unfortunately Gerbert soon found that lrazen heads, like other | faggling fiends, “but keep the word of | 2} to our er and break it to our hope,'’ for one dity he was taken serions- + ly i} just after lie had celebrated mass im ope of the churches at Rowse. On in- wqubig the nase of this particalar ‘wchmieh be heardl, much to his dismay, ‘ket it waa popularly known as “*Jeru- esis,” and he died in great agony a few bows afterward. Five bundred years 2fier this Master Robert Fabian gives us the story of the death cf King | . Henry IV, and tells ns how ** 1 a b's aa tif thes he tind the prophecy, a2 in the cna of Ceoert, was in a way falfillel Ly tle king dying in Als Jernenlea Alon er at Westminster welsndon Bandul : The Fonidation Stone of Success. © Tie one great rule of business is that “of honesty, sbsolute and unqualified “honesty, writes Edward W. Bok in The - Ladies’ Home Jiarnal. All the rules of * business aro worthless if they are not = foussded on that one and only founda “fiom stome to true conimehgial success Poursty is not plone the beg policy in ‘business. It is the one and only policy. | Upon it, and upon it aloe, cx youth it hud been pro. ‘world die .a Jerusa' wn, on. ¥ reputation be built, and a man in\pusi- ness without a reputation for .b * might just as well stop. Any deviat from the rule of honesty in business bring temporary gain, but it invariably | ©. means permanent loss. On the other i a strict dherence to an honest olicy may mean a temporary loss, but it is sure to result in a permanent gain. fly, “kep’ you sc late th’ night?" “Oi wnz down at Harrigan’s barroom _V disooosin questions av the coinage. In- © thereha oideas;, Oi may say, Mis thress Grogan, on free silver." “And fwin yes got t'rough yez had _ the oideas and Harrigan had th’ silver. is a foine statesman. ye are, Oi doin’t think "Indianapolis Jounal Jonathan Edwards had sharp, strident tenes that grated unpleasantly on the | total number of persons on i Ie . : | gainful occunations of the total popnia- ever (ils may come, | | These figures prove cemelnsively that | | wo are pot only making real progress | | toward a greater opportunity, but to-| | relative poverty but to piuperism. The WORKING FOR PAY. | ave We Making Progress’ T : : ty of Opportunity? Taking the whole number of persons engaged in all remunerative or gaint ul | § | oocapaticns, I find that in 1860 soch | persons constituted 16.19 pér cent of the + | age bad ineretsed to 32,43, in 15850 10 | 84.68, while in 1890 it was 30.31, an | increase of more than 10 per cent, rela- | | tively, in one generaticn, the period i from 1860 to 1850. it should be | borne in mind, is the pertentams of the sgzed In ey LDH ition. Hf we examine now the | age which this total number of persons | engaged in all gainful occupations is of i the persons 1H) year f age and over, { which is the truer poniparison, wo fir} | that the increase has ben as regmolar, bat a little greater, for 86.792 and in 1890 47.95, ur increases of over 11 per cent, relatively, in the 20 years named. This fact alone, it seems to me, mnswers conclusively apd de pitely the question wo are considerinz. If the total number of persons engaged in gainful occupations stood still relat to the populaticn, th: armment wonld not Be so clearly carried, but with a constant and persigtent incréase in the | relative proportions of this class of peo- ple to the whale namber of x pulation, and to the whole aumber 10 years of | age and over, there can be no cther an- gwer than an affirmative me. } WTI say 1803 3 vos ward a greater equality of opportunity | in social and industrial life; ahd they | * completaly kill all arguments made to ‘prove that machindry, the infinence of | inventicn, displaces labor, so fur as so- ciety 25 a whole is poncerned. kt would be absurd to argue for a single moment ‘that the introduction of machinery has not in many instances displaced indi- viduals and rednopd them pot only to answer cannot well be rade t) the in- dividual, but the facts cited prove that so far as the whole body of the people is concerned there is no such Jdisplace- ment, and a study of the expansive in- fluence of machinery and invention by the statistical method fo: Qc proves the value of the argnment. The vast num- ber of new openings, never before known, resalting from inventions, offers the best proof in this direction, and it offers, too, proof that one line of oppor- tanity will be abandoned when another of a mare profitable nature opens. —Car roll D. Wright in Forum. : LONG ISLAKD LOSING ITS TAIL Invoads of the Sea Causing Alarea to Prop- erty Owners st Orient Point. Long Island, which looks on the map like a big fish about to swallow New York city, is apparently being slowly swallowed by the ccean. Portions of its shores have disappearsd beneath the waves, and now the northern furk of its huge tail is vanishing: Abous two miles of Orkmt point, that formed a sandy beach two years ago, is now under 13 feet of water. The lighthouses on the point was six rods from the wea a few years ago. It has since been toppled over by the sea, and only a small part of the surrounding beach is visible ‘The bluffs on both the sound and the bay side of Orient point have been sink- ing at the rate of about 10 or 13 feet a year. The same state of affairs is true of Montauk point, but there the bluffs jut up so abruptly and so high above the sen that the rising of the water is not so noticeable. A rise of a foot or two on the low shores pesr Peconic bay ‘will sobroerge acres of land. Mach of | the threatened lind on Orient point forms fertile farms, and the steady ad- vance of the shore line is causing no small concern to the owners. The water has in several places found its way across a low spot on the point from the sound to the bay. The result will be to ultimately divide the peninsula intoa peries of small islands, similar to Plum, Little Gull and Great Gull islands, all of which wore doabtlesa once a part of the mainland and were cut off by the, rise of the sca. The village of Orient is situated in a particularly narrow and low portion of the peninsula, and the next serious inrvad of the ocean willl re bolily ocenr there. In that case 2,000 acres of land and a village of 1,000 peo- ple will have to be abaadoned. —New York Sun. : : From very Clime. i Twenty-nine nationalities are repre- sented in a New York public grammar | | school. There are in the primary and gramiaar departments of this school | 1,800 children, und at the last census | there were represented amor them He- | brews, Italians, Ciermans, Irish, Greeks, | Russinna, Poles, French, Scotch, Eng- | lish, Welsh, Swiss, Chinese, Silesians, | Assyrians, Tunisians ‘Norh Africa), { Javanese, Kongo West Indians, Cubans, | Norwegians, Swedes, Austrians, Hun-| garians, Herzegovinians, Wallachians, | Moldavians, Egyptians, Danes and Ar-| menians. Not over 10 per cent of these children speak English in their homes, | the proportion in the primary being un- ; der and that in the grazomar department | over this estimate. | = Sunlight. | k the sunlight is the advice of all t day hygienists. Patients on the gunn side of the hospital ward recover The person who always walks i ay side of the street outlives seeking brother by ten years Sleep in Roms ‘where the sun has shed | its rays all\day, Bask in the sun all you | can, and your druggist’s and doctor's notes will go to protest.-—New York Times. be =] The Blacktone river, in Rhode Island, | was named in honor of Rev. William | i § his shad | early settler. The Indianscalled it Paw- | tacket, “‘the forks. '' ol aren es ot He op bea in England during beth ; Ce ativan 3 'BATING 3 { whole population. In 1870 this percent. | It is the height of 11 breea. | way to a man’s heart is down hus throat. | Hosts used to {esd their guests to pat ‘mon enough to have from 20 to 50. ean be served for, say, 30 persons at $10 Blackstone, an Episcopal clergyman and | like my new play? Handkerchief: came into crix especially the burglars in is! a ; reign of Elim { Even their dialogue is stolen. —Musical mi HS ———————— A ——— As EATERS. IT 18 NOT GOOD FORM TO DO MORE THAN TASTE AND SIP. z If Invited to a Smart Dinner, Dine Before You Go- How Dinners and Barquets of ¥abi:lots Cost Are Got Up sn Served by Oaterers. : told a queer little story the other day that ran like this: : i “Went to the opera; sat with two ladies and three men; swinl Jeaders: very swell; felt out of place; | heard nothing but talk and chatter; piissed all the gingi= and music; after the opera, supper at pected that, of course; went preparod— | very hungry: all thedainties of tha” gon on the table, | t nobody ate] wine ulons, nowmlaes, avd gossip: wouldn't eat starved; not polite to cat a morsel and talk; dem't like it; no more fashionable suppers for me!” remarked: of eating at & public diny 19 vored a bore and talk: that's all that is extosd to death.” Pérhaps something in recent years has altered the belief that the peat them in good humor, to make their vis- its agreeable. Eversbody at the table ate and drank and all went meri Better dinners than those provided today the world never saw, but they are pot eaten. Now York dippers ars smpe prior in muny respects to those of anu other city inthe world The people hav money and are willing to. pay for th best the market affords, and there is 1 doubt that the New York market is mw surpassed. There are more refinement. too, at fn American entertainment tha elsewhere, more varisty. Still it is we to dine at your own fable before goir | to the house of a fashionable frilmd. At : the lattar you are expected to entertain, Tae iN not to partake of what is set before you. Leave that to the servants or to the ca terer. ‘Rich folk used to have their own servants prepare the dinner when guests were expected, but nowadays every- | thing is left to the caterer. It is mo much less trouble, you know. Why! worry for days arranging a dinner for a dozen or two of one’s friends when it ¢an be better done by the caterer? We have plenty of caterers Some have grown rich and proud on the feasts and banquets given by the fashionable set. When a millionaire wants to givea | dinner he sends for his favorite, tells him the number of guests expected, ad- vances a few ideas on the genersl style | of the entertainment, names the day and hour, and says, ‘'[ leave everything to you.” The menu is submitted, and, if satisfactory, both as to price and dish as, the preparation goes on. The entire dinner is prepared at the establishment of the caterer, after which, on the day appointed; it is care fally packed in hanpers and boxes and conveyed to the house where it is to be eaten. - Most private houses are fitted with excellent ranges, and on hem the caterer’s chefs do the cooking. Positive ly nothing is left to the homes cook. The caterer takes entire charge of the kitchen. Hecould not be responsible for the dinner otherwise. The dining room also is turned over to him, for the din- ner itself is scarcely more important thas the arrangement of the table or ta- . Certain unwritten rules are followed in this respect. When there are less than 20 persons they are usually seated at one large table, rectangular or round ; but when that number is exceeded it is the enstom to use small tables, as they can be better served. Mix per na to a gable is the rule. The expanaii of 80- prety in New York in she last 12 years has bem very great, and the size of the private dinner has increased snormonsly. It used to be considered a big thing to have 10 or 12 gnests, but now it is com- ey and Where receptions a few years. ago num- bered from 300 to 400 guests, they now number from 600 to 1,000. The cost of a dinner depends on the wines and flowers. An excellent dinner a plate, the flowers will cost about $15 and the wines from #4 to £13 a head At Mrs. Astor’s famous ball, in the win- ter Gf 1589-00, the finest entertainment she ever guve, the wines on the supper table were very select. Her Steinberges Cabinet cost $15 a bottle The dinner to Charles O’Conor was ane of the finest ever given in this city. It was managed by Sam Ward and cost over £30 a plate. The menus alone cost $6 apiece. The decorations wers fnost slaborate, the tables being literally cov- ered with rare flowers. The wines were the costliest that could be had. Some of Sam Ward's priceless Madeira was handed around. The guests numbered 50. | The dinner to President Andrew John- son on the occasion of his visit to New York, in 1866, cost $100 a plate. Leland Stanford's dinner to Mrs Grant, about years ago, caused a great deal of talk all over the country. It was be- lieved that the 18 guests ate from plates ‘of gold and silver; that the’ tablecloth was edged with point dochess lace; that under each wineglass there was a napkin of the same costly fabric, and under each finger bowl a Japanese mat that cost $50, and that the terrapin were served in individnal silver tureens. —XNew York Press. : Realism. Author—Well, profussir, how do you Critic—Splendid! Wonderful! So ; a 1 that be sends yoa to sleep and then An American author and musician | Lambkin. Then, ina box | | they were ut the opera last evening and the Waldorf; ex- | jin abnndanes, all drinking; more talk | #0 | | opera is in town. I'm told; proper to mines along, taste | i » | you like to call at your mothers tis [ ovening?'’ : Another man, an habitual diner out, | i : * pe .% 2 : be at home, But of course they wil 24 +f invariably eat my dinner at boma | before going ou todine.. Neh =" onig “| this is church evening. Suppose we go | v pba | vito dinners with ladies he who ¢ Ws | He must sip and taste | i of} him. If I didn't eat at home 1'd starve | § | | i i | i i long evening at bh | for every living soul i the opera.” | here with ma a m0 | have no gars, aud 1 don’t want to have. i to ro out for anytiing tonight. Yonsee, | I don't keep many cigars on hand now | that memey is so scarce. ’’ | fT WAS THE IROKY OF FATE. Clerk's Lond Veoios Male Trotible In the Lambikin Family. : +. *T don’t see why we can’t jo to the opera like other people,’ pouted Mra | Lambkin, ss she and her spouso viire’| | walking home together. ““Weconld, I'm | gure, if you didn’t look upon Wagner as ¢ a mortal erémy."’ }: “My only objection to him is the fact ——— | won't let yon stay there,” replied Xr. basely anxions to change the subject, he remarked, “1 do believe that is Mrs Fitzjones in another {pew gown.’ “No doabt. ' eros to her. Her hushard in so gon- Why, she tells me that ——————————— | expect to go again tomorrow.” “Intsd. Ah, by the way, didn 't yom 31+ that yon thought Dick Niorocks and Mia Fda) rroled ?" “Very likely. 1 notice that Dick is particularly touchy whenever grand | “Ah, indeed. By the way, how shold “Very much, if anybody was likel™ to rn"? go to the J “Um—al | I've just remembered that We havens hon to evening church since wo wera first married.’ = “Impossidls, George. I sho ashamed 16. have atiy one know that 1 was well (nongh to be ont and not at tha opero. People sure to sy that vy 1 are stingy, and 1 wonld rather die marks,’ : ; | “Pao is, Fader, T'm as anxions a8 ‘you are to go to the opera, but money is too tight. I had t5 make a payment to. day and 1 doubt if I have a dollar in my pocket. Never mind, we can have a pio 36 alone, can’t wor’ =» gare to be aldne, | nld bo after night womld he | “*Huraph! We x know will be at | vv dear. Just step in nent, will yon? 1 ““ All the better, : They went into the store, and Mr. Lambkin selected his cigurs, while his ‘wife stood by. He felt anxionsly in his ockets for small change, and finding sone took a bill ont of his notebook, and glancing warily at Mra. Lambkin hand- od it, all crumpled up, to the clerk After all that it did seem the izony of fate which msde that individual call wit in stentorian tones to the cashier, “Parenty five from 20, please!”’ And Mrs Lambkin was still talking about it when they reached home — Chicago Times-Herald. to mani ri, THE NEW WOMAN'S WAY. How fhe Will Propese to the Innocent Young Male Creature. : The room was in confusion. That is the way the books say it. An ordinary man with good eyes would have said confusion was in the room. : “At last!" : Her hands trembled as she attempted to fix her tie. Thirteen collar. have been ined. She took a photograph from a drawer. It was the sweat, inno cent face of a young man. Ah; little George! 1 can no longer doosive myself 1 love you. The strong is about to Le cema the weak, How far we women will go for the bright eyes of a silly man' Fut enongh! 1 shall ask yon to be mine this night, come what may.” » * ® * » * “Mr. Nicely will be down in a mo- ment. Pray; be seated.’ : Bat her heart beat too wildly. She} peced the foer. ‘The dear, dear; little boy! How I love him!" : The curtains parted, and the world’s greatest treasnro—a true heartad, inno cent young man—entered. * - * » (An ordinary, everyday conversation | for a few minutes. She attempts to take the hand of Gearge, who blushes and locks startled. ) : : .. .» » . * * . $ { of Trinity church, inelog The gross 3 $ . BaD DesovRe Cian. canse such re- | have boon i the eongregut +1 must explain myself! Heur me! 1) can ne longer act this hateful part! I must speak! I love you with ihe great love of o brave woman. [V— “Bus this is so" '— ; “Ir 8. But will you band #'’ : There wus a great milf of pity in the young man's gentle eyed But lw spoke Tena Bet 1 will a brother to} you. '— Boston Post. be my hos De : Fixing » Watch. “I dropped my watch today, and it has been gaining ten minntes an hour,” said a man, at the same time banding the watch to a jeweler. The jeweler stuck a glass in his eye, looked into the interior of the watch, poked something with a small inctrument, set the watch by a mgmlator, and. handing 1t back, said, “It's all right now, and I've set it by the correct time." “How much?’ said the customer, relieved. ** Nothing,” was the answer. ‘But Ican't let you work for me without pay.”” “We never charge any one for such a service; why should we charge you? The hairspring was donbled, and that made the watch pun fast. A single toch set is right.” New York Sun. : Nei jhborly Curiosity. Mrs. Merkton was standing on the front doors op when her husband came home, . : : “Henry, she said in a load tone, “there's your income tax blank. You'd better fil it out right away.’ “(ireat Scott, Maria!’ he exclaimed, “what do I want with an ingome tax blank?’ : ; “Ixm't talk so loud,’ was the admo- nitica in asubdued but stern key. ‘It’s a sunmons to serve cn the jury. The next door neighbors on both sides of us have been sitting behind the closed win- dow blinds waiting for you to come home so they could find out what the officer was here for. ’— Washington Star. we w Be the Advance of Business Interests. Three landmarks on Broadway occu py Sites so valuable that their retenticn confounds every calculation of real es tate speculators. They are the only three clinrchea on Broadway below Forty-sée- | ond street, aad each has ooms to be part of the popular distinetion of that thor onghfare. - They are Trinity, St. Panl’s and Grace. iil three have high claims to architeetnral oninence, and all three are of one denomin. tion the Protestant | Epises spal : i; The #ite of Trinity chu ~h, on Broad. way at the wl of Wall set, 182 praised officially at $4,060,000 ; that of Si. Panl's church, at Proadway and Fulton street, at 81,750,000, gel that of Grace chnrch, Broadway oppoeite Elex- nth ptreet at R350 064 The frontage tiew thechinren- yard, is 406 feet, of St. Priul's church 167 feet and of Grace chitirch 150 foot. ‘yalrstion. of these ‘three churches is &6 197 (000, and as the usnal rato of asseranicat on real estate is about #0 per cons the actual market vane of these three Drxseway plots is 11} OX00ES of $10,000 0600. In European cities it is thing fr public fhorongh- ating with venerable edi. foes erected for ecele iaewonl, military or governmental purposes, dot in-Now York, wi he p- no Aran fares to Ue Wry LITE IS LO ne chnrely and. state, sre, more utilftarion v alroed, tho seemdy #2: han vaines Dos been religions oorporations a enough of fedi them- to withstand the Oy the present site of inztaree, Broadway and is and E TR of zeal ww a neh that few wyon Al ves Hing on temntation to sell Tiffany's, for Fifteenth fir i street, 1 ry "5 13 pe Ar nem 23a the « 41 with the gtonoul rk heel But brosinest Intorosts 5 trod Clandanacks nanwed gromnd, wd It seins at they will cauntiaue to do Y PE Vovslriorir of RI a gite of itr wr ivert mrt} eintantiy away. The ra have proveb 50. a ym $id stovud the In th &t.. Pagl’s chnreh 2 the coldest reli- gious edifice in this city! It was bail in 1764. and it was the church which George Washington and his associntes attended immadiately following the in- anguration ceremonies in 1789. Trinity church is the third of that mune on the present site, and was erected in 1546. Grace church was erected in 1845, one year before Trinity, and the site, at the head of Broadway where it turns an angle at Tenth street, was carefully cho-. sen. All threo buildings enjoy the ad- vantage of being kept in excellent re- pair, and are improved from tims to time by the liberal contributions of bene- factors. This is especially troe of Trin- ity and Grace church, which may al- mest be said to improve year by year. It is a peenliarity of these three land- marks of New York that those who ate tend them come, in nearly every case,’ from sections of tha eity far up town, “80 that they are, if each an exjressiin may be wud, the thes chorehes to be resched by Very lew porinns who sttend » her Trinity or St. Paal’s roi de . and the number of sach par his roast sucht year. Grace ¢haroh potaiss its high rank ar chitectarally, notwithstanding the pum- ber of new church bail York, and it bok the additiomal discine- fem of hein pooner for fashionable wid dings, — Now York Sun serine: in lier vanney y aagz ¥ Ey A FREAK OF NATURE. Me Navel Orange and Hew It Came fe . : This Country. : The first pave] orange was doubtless a freak or “‘sport,’’ as horticulturists say. would be impossible It is abwermal even in the bud The navel shows in the bad as carly as the latter can be ox- amined under the micrcecopa. 1% may even be traced back to the flower, which is double—though that word does not express the idea very well, sach blossom having a secondary blossom within ft In the developed fruit the navel is itself a secondary orange, in sotae specimens having a distinet skin surrounding it The two story orange i no novelty. A book on horticulture published mm 1842 gives a picture of the navel arange and calls it “‘pomum Adami fostum This is the earliest reference known The blossoms rarely have say pollen, and the fruit is usually, though not always, seedless The variety is wepgoduced by Where it originated is nok known with certainty, bat it was prob- ably in southern Asia ‘Themon it was | brought to the region of the Mediterra: | nean and eventually diffosed over the ' world. A lady who had traveled in Brazil told Mr. Saunders, chief gardener of the department of agrisaltars, about the orange, which she had seen in that country. Acting on this information, Mr. Saunders told a Star reporter that he sent to Bahia and secured a dozen young budded trees. These reached the United States in 1870, being the first navel orange troes known here, From these trees others were propa. gated. One of the fst batch thus ob- | tained is now in the orange house of the department of agriculture. In 1873 two of the trees were sent to Mrs. IL. €. Tib- bets of Riverside, Cal At the same time others were sent to Florida But those planted in Calif orzia frutbed more quick: ly and were the first to attract attention. It soon became evident that the climate | of that state was better suited to the cultivation of this variety. In Florida it is not sufficiently productive—i e., does put bear freely enough to be profitable. Nevertheless the finest navel oranges come from Florida, though they are not so handsome as those fram California —Washington Star. An “iach of rain’ means a gallon of water spread over a. surface of nearly two square feet or a fall of about 100 tons upon an acre. ———— om tm in The lamp used by Epictetus, the philosopher, sold for 3,000 draclimas soon afr his death, in the year 181 A. IM. ranterial partons church | Lai opposite thd | dings in New | To make such a frait by artifice 8 Primitive Tnstravsent In 1860, With Iw The banjo was in use long before the day of Joe Sweeney. It was ‘played by the negroes, and was inieed » ‘rode and simple instrument. The first ove I ever sw wos made in this way! A large goard covered with 8 raw sheep skin served for the drum, snd the strings wre of horsehair, pulled from a white horse's tail. It had only four strings I sn confident. that Sweeney addod the | buss string. My futher’s carriage drives | was a banjo player. He played two or | threa chargrless tunes on omsoed I | saw Joe Sweeney for the first time abont 1342, while I was at school st Prines | Edward Court House. He and his teother Sum were together. Joe led on the vio- lin and Sam played the banjo. Both had good voloes, repecially Sam, a rich, full baritone of great sweetness and power Bven 7: this distant day I can recall some of tLe tunes they sang—!'Old Dan Tucker,” "Jo Juminie Booker, ™ ““JInli- anna Johnson,” "OY, Sesame”! “The Blue Tailnd Fly,” “Jim Crock Cum," and “I Den't Coa” : : When ‘J ssw the brother: soain, the character of the nm@ao vas somewhat changed, nnd was munch riore sertimin- tal and sympathetie. They renderad such pieces as “Dearest May,” “Ross Lee,” “Annie of the Vale,” “Nellie Wax 8 Lady” anil “Ellen Bavne,' with wo derful effect. These airs were melodiias aad conéordant, and often brooght tas : to the eyes of the audience. Joe Sweeney was above the medinm wae, and of fine proportions ‘He had Bzht batr said a ruddy eseaplexica. He bad wonderful facisl posrers Elo conid change his ox pression in a moment from grave © gomic. - Sweeney 0s a negro delineator was 2- imitable. He kuow the negro well, and was perfectly wstoral, and, like. Polk Miller, never overdid his work. . One of kis performances always excited ap- placse. His old Virginia breakiiown. a jig tane, ho danced, and made ais ows music with his banjo hang around his nec: with # string. Sweeney was entire. ly eneducated, but he was maturally bright, and he often made smart local hits that. bromght down the home Sweeney gavs notoriety to the banjo and Isroughs it into popular favor. His habits were improvident, and he was the sab- ject of rnany temptations. He lived a life of unselfish rosity and died in v. Ha spent his last days in the sounty of Appomattox I have heard this story sbout him. 1 do not vouch for its truth: : ar Before he died, his mind wandering. he said to his sister: “Come here. The old banjc is ont of tune, the screws are slipping, and the Lridge is sbout © fall ”* These were the last words of the old fellow, who had charmed two con- tinents with his melody and song = His ‘trother lum was in the cavalry service during the war. He often pliyed for (General Stuart, and the brave troopers would danee to his merry music as be Sang: : “If you want a happy cavalry.’ : 1 never heard of him after the war. — Richmond Dispateh | mio Sech Is Life. : Yesterday a lady in a Broadway cable car addressed me, and everbody listened and was amused She yas young end pretty and well dressed As wo rolled down Uriion square a cab passed the car. My neighbor craned her neck, and point- ing her finger ut the cab d to me, ‘That's Jadge Hilton in thateah.™ Every one in the car dd at the ooen- ‘pant of the cab. Then : ' ber confidence and vetai | abont tlie judge as have been time, jine the is | from timo to time in the papers. ~~ As tho car tore around the Hroadway curve her attention was diverted, and she hadn't done scolding about the speed and the carves when we passed a Broad. way shop window on which wns an- nounced. in white enamel letters, “Col- lus and Cuffs Laundried.’ “If they don’t correct that misspelled word soon,’ she excliimed, “I shall scremn.”* - Everybody tursed and looked at the froak in: « phy. Then a man who wns watching the woman from: the reas platforta came in and tapped her on the shoulder, and she arose and followed him. As she passed out the men opposite smiled, and ono said to his companion, “(‘raxy as a loon.’ But how could they tell? All she said was true. —New York World. : Cardinal DI Rende. : Speculation on his seconssor by the pope himself is hnmorons ami intesest- ing. Leo XIII smilingly told some oax- dinals recently that Cardinal Di Reade, archiishop of Benevr=to, would be the next wearer of the On being ask: ed why he thought so, Joachim Peos looked roand slyly at the cardinals and said: “ Becansy he is the youngest. The mortality among aged members of the sacred college is so great.” Curdinal Di Rend» is one of the pope's favirites He speaks English perfectly aml was tor some time attached to a church “in the Marylebone road, London, and a pro- fessor it the Westminster diocesan semi pary of St. Edmund's, Ware He was afterward nuncio in Paria He belongs to the Odescalchi family. The mention of his name by Leo XIII makes him top- teal —Now Yirk Advertiser. * Ee We See All of the Sus. ie The inhabitants of this earth never get a glimpse of but one side of the moon, but in the course of & year every portion: of the sun's surface is tarned to- ward vs. This is because the sun's equa. tor is almost coincident with. the plane of the auliptio, the inclination being only Sho suven degrees. —St. Louis Repub- [A . . chet face, with a cold, blue eye, that, as | ane of his contemporaries said, ‘‘gleam- | od like a reflection of light from a bay- | onet. In 1564 a pair of shoes made in Eng | land cost 30 cents :
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