WE OWN TWO SHIPS
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With the incorporation of the Brazil
fan erniser Nietheroy into the United
Btates Navy under the name of the
Buffalo that branch of the service will
' have two ships that are unlike those
of any other navy in the world--de-
stroyers on a huge plan. These two
Josives whieh they throw do not de.
pend, as fo those thrown from the tor-
pedo tubes of ordinary warships or the
‘missile send from a torpedo boat, on
may
the miss
wir, and their propulsive force comes
_ from compressed air, which is stored
in a tabe that is more liké a gun than
~ mftube. The shots have ranges far su-
_ perior to those of the torpedo and ac
~ euracy which is almost perfect.
The one question is whether large
ships like these can get near enongh
$0 an enemy to resch him with their
or torpedo boat destroyers. They are
large and noticeable objects. and while
the Vesuvins is armored, the Buffalo
~ bas little defensive power.
do get near enough to an enemy to
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RANDY HOOK'S DYNAMITE BATTERY.
mechanical contrivances inside of |
missile, They travel through the |
ey are not like torpedo boats |
UNLIKE THOSE OF ANY
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«pre throwers of dynamite. The ex. |
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is different. Against this objeetion
the gan offers these adrantazes over
the submarine torpedo: [It bas
greater range, 18 almost alwolotedw
accurate, and the projectiles cannon
be stopped in its course by torpedo
The serial torpedo which is thrown
from the dynamite guns on theses two
ships is shaped like the bead of a
rocket and is about ten feet long.
FIPYEEN INCH FULL CALIRRE DYNAMITE
PROJECTILE,
Spiral vanes guide ite Hight and the
explosive charge, comsicting of from
200 to HO pounds of nmitro-glycerine,
is in the head and middle of the pro
jectile, When lowded the entire af-
fair weighs 1000 pounds. It can be
set to explode either on impact or by
A range of 2000 yards
Te an as wo a
As said before, the guestion is
whether a ship carrying these guns
RAS RE A NASSAU 3 tS
mingle vat there
{ Basch, who went, one at
: (Hivensville to teach, and when a see |
all handsome women who wish
the present i fa
F "gt will be well fitting,
Irae,
the superintendent of parses in 1861 |
franghier of a Japanese Noble,
One of the stadents of the College
of Music in Omnecinnsts, ¥nown as
C Rutherine Agnes Galick, ww smd to be
in reality Suwa Matsa Honjo, the
dangliter of sn Japanese noble, who
married an Amerzean, Mies Emma Ty-
Jur, 8 relative of the pressd-ut of that |
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name.
The St. Louis Republic says that
$a»
serve their country In
crisis will have to do it as spies, as
commanding officers invarialily prefer
plain and middle-aged women as
In a citenlar distributed by
women under 30 were informed that
they need not apply.
dato In Galina.
it womld seem to be
for women to go to the Klondike
fil hnsbands when women ave
mueh in demand in Idaho, [If i» smd
to be hard to keep a school teacher
An wnstanse of this
fin
wes
fact is found in
a time
ond term expired all three were m
ried, — New York Tribune.
No armor, no strength of
constreetion, no bulkheads can save
the warship that is struck by the tre
Se ottre chge BL em
exploni ive with which the aeri
t¢ Nictheroy originally was a
vessel owned by the Mor
sn line, and her name when she
wis in 8 peaceful oconpation, was El
Cid. B8he was bought by the Govern.
ent of Brazil in the time of the last
ivolution there, and was to be used
st the insurgents who had
the navy and were bombarding
8 forts in the harbor of Rio de
vEseviOw,
. She was refitied pretty thor-
as a cruiser, and her coal
d permitting a free motion on
80 that it can be trained
t or starboard. The air
the gun are in the lower
starboard side, dirsetly
emy. Toapproach an alert ship of war
close smongh to nse the dynamite gun
the Vesavias or the Baffalo mast steam
for several miles under fire, for the
ordinary powder guns of any warships
will throw shot at least three or four
miles, snd the big guns will carry
seven miles with fair accuracy. The
dynamite throwers must rash at the
enemy nnder a storm of shot, thre. |
fore, and this, st the rate of spend of
either these ships, wonld mean that
they wouid be exposed to it for fifteen |
minntes at the least before they conid |
reply. Bat if they survive this fire
and drop one projectile within fifty |
yards of the greatest battleship afloat,
the resnit will be the enemy's aanihil- |
ation. No craft ean withstand the
sliock of an explosion of the amount’
of gelatine or mitro-glycerine which
their projectiles can carry.
It is sovewhat misleading to wpesk
of dynamite guns when referring to
the dynamits battery on Bandy Hook. |
| What they are really is torpedo tubes |
that discharge aerial torpedoes instead
of the submarine variety. The tubes
are mounted like esunon, and to an
extent look like them: bat, exactly
speaking, they are torpedo tabes, and
nothing élse. Like the submarine tor- |
pedo, they are of use only at close
range, ot what is considered elose |
range in these days of high power steel |
cannon which throw shot ten miles. |
The dynamite battery has an extreme |
range of only 4300 yards, a little over
two miles.
The aconracy of fire of the dynamite
battery is great.
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This is due to the
he | absolute evenness of the propelling
force. Compressed sir projects the
torpedo, The best of powder varies
in pressure, while compressed air is
exact. The full ealibre projectile
{called full calibre in distinetion from |
the smaller projectiles, which sre made |
to fit the tabe by means of fingers)
{ weighs 1000 pounds, 500 pounds of it
being explosive gelatine, either nitro.
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CRUISER VESUVIUS. |
Mrs,
simpped by Mrs. Bafth, for which she
he :
C guently seen in the mew gowns
Flow te Press Embroidery Properly.
Io all cases of embroidery on lines
the work should be’ cwrefluily pressed
when finished, and it is important for |
every smbroiderer to kpow Dow thy |
| may be done in the simplest and saf-
= | ent manner. :
RAT t | the finished work 1 to lay the em.
use their dynamite guns properly the ecomld get near enongh to attack anen- ;
ship against which they operate is
The proper way to press
troidery face down on a clean cloth
spread over an ironing blanket or two
Piare |
a thin, dampened cloth on the back |
of the article to be pressed and then |
use & hot iron deftly on the wet sur.
face until it is perfectly dry. A steam- |
ing process is thas engendersd where. |
bry the embroidered linen is rendered
sooth, and the effectiveness of the
| talip beds and parterres of gay spring
| plossoms in a fourishiog garden. De-
| veloped in ordinary common Rid,
A case in which & woman was tried | berday nes would be unbearable, i
s | they come only in the bes: selected
or thres thicknesses of fanned
work much enhanced,
Women Jurors Try a Woman,
by a woman jury was beard in Weiser,
Idaho, » few days ago.
1. Smith had dove some sewing for
Mrs. Abmhire and was fo recpive some
jars in payment When she went for
them she was
herself! to some other property in lien,
Abshire protested
It was
jury shou id
had the latter arrested
termined that & woman
try the case, and the towy became
greatly excited over the matter, Mix
of the foremont ladies wern
wittal at 10 o'clock at sight —S4
Soi (rlobe- Democrat,
The Now Colors,
variety of materials,
Revres ix & new bine whieli ia mueh
i lighter than navy bine and sot so in
It is a croamy blue ; :
| be more in favor than ever
tense as deift
with a tonch of gray in it
Asother new eolor 1 oid
Bd ne,
““vienx bine,” as it is styiedl on the |
This bine has less gray in |
it and is almost ax deep as purple 1a |
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shaded lights,
A very pretty sea green ia volga, |
Cand others combined
whieh also partakes of gray.
choke green is a brighter,
green of spring that will be very popn-
lar.
Art
Argent is, as the name implies, a
rick gold.
yellow and sultan red both showy |
Nultan comes in two cologs—anitan
shades.
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rith it, using ‘‘dummy” pro-
and its accuracy was found
table. The gun was so new, how-
, the men were almost as
afraid of it as the enemy was
to
ief on board ‘when it was
arrival in Brazil that there
no need for firing it with
mite, as the revolution was
Since then the successful in-
es ‘necessary a special plant
course, means complica-
ind that every naval
oid. It is not in
| sleeping cars, hotels, churches and;
{other places where the practice wu!
be, and there was consid-
glycerine or guncotton, and it is fired
with an air pressure of 1000 pounds
to the square inch. This pressure is
exerted so evenly and gradually that
the explosive is not shocked icto pre
matare.detonation, and it is so steady
that the unwieldy torpedo or projec
tile hits with remarkable accurscy.
The enormous charge wonld wreck the |
bull of any battleship afloat, even if it |
did not strike the ship direcily, bat!
exploded anywhere within fifty feet of |
it under water.
There are two dynamite batteries at
forts in this country. One is in Fort,
Beott in San Francisco Harbor and the |
other is in Fort Hancock, on Sandy |
Hook. The Fort Scott battery eon.
sists of three fifteen inch and the Fort!
Hancock battery has two fifteen inch |
and one eight-inch tabe or gun. The!
torpedo boat Vesuvius has fifteen ined |
guns, {
A Kansas genius introduced a bill |
in the legislature against sporing ir
‘more or less annoying. i
: dering on the blue
between cardinal and enimasos, and in
A popular color for either house or |
street in parme, which is violet, bur-
Iodine is a red
used a great deal for trimmings,
Porils of the Lace Veil,
The New York World's ilinstrations |
{of the ““deadly lace veil” might be cut |
out and pasted 10 every wouisn’s hat,
to her evesight's advantage. Bat
will foulish women ever abandon ther
spotted, meshed Ince veils kr so tn-
fing a cause as the preservation of
vision? What is blinduess to one a la
mode? The oenlist bugaboo bas failed
to frighten fashion, sad so every
woman says her eyes are not affected
by a veil. Some other woman's may
Le, but hers are strong, andl, besides,
how she looks without this coquettish
screen, which also serves to keep in
place the big, flower laden hat. One
of these days a pricking 1a the eyes
annoys her
jots of other sizns that
receives several hours in the day.
Oculist and optician profit by thess |
“hecoming’’ lace veils, but though |
their bills are large the hardest pay. |
o. | #ts and small pelerines mst brought
ment is made to vanity when eve
glasses, and even spectacles become
On
the whole it seems worse to be spec |
tacied than to go without the becom. |
the culy saviours of the sight
ing veil Bat where is the irl who
| and stitchings, showing oat
| colors, which might be tertae
$s = » > 3 ¥
| but for the fine tone and Hn
| skin,
ROGeCessAry |
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| gloves are stitched snd fins
the throes Misses |
to
; of a darker
| embroidery
; wrist bindines of wickins!
Mio. George Si
| skins of which a two-clasp glove sein
told they lad been |
given away, whereupon she helped
z
nnd was REL
with other hingorie
; rivhasns fade an
Impan |
elled. After being out three hours,
: Bi : Blok a . 5 %
they returned with a verdict of ac | ouiiity, and they are
, Figear before Wg.
i to give
; : fashionable garment,
There are ten new colors this sea | ®
son, each of which is produced a a
F | poplin grouad with a jacquard gure
It closely resembles crepon Dut is less
| expensive.
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happier |
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There is pain and dis- |
comfort when trying to read pristand | yoy snd bonnets
the optic |
nerve is kicking at the treatment 1t!
ean Lelieve what hor elders toll herd
Experience is the penaliy she pays
for iraoranes, and if 11 8 Suplemsad
experience it 1& the dearest tning 3
her possession. - Boston Herald
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Nery Bright Ki Gloves,
(loves are nn longer unocbirusiva
The hands are well out in the bre
Hand Ww - Nutsos Not Wanted | ground of color sud all the sobdoed
; wn : | polored gloves are putont in slacks on
the commonplace counters, 9 herd
people to whom a glove 1s 8 glove po
ay raake thelr
choave contenteadiy. Lae exclusive,
the high-priced, and the post soi ght
after gloves sre of nnmtakable fiuts
in down
right blaes and greens snd canary
i glaring
of the
flown y tid of a
blaoe, & ross be.
(ricvves in
bright, nabesighing
tween the sky bine and indigo bine,
have arnete stit hinge of cropm 5K to
aisl then aed bandiag
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VEFCER
apne
* aa dia 0 ¥ ds
{rat apoay the
A pair of asetaliie gre
& Marbishings, and
FEY PAiT ate ein
ralnecn pInk.
gloves have blac
mrplish piam oo
arated with (ne
Laght pearl gray and the
Bk
siiehing on the back snd
rect, Vivid
Lave #tariug
black stitehings and wo on all through
the calendar of contrasts aad eold¥a
However much popular opision may
have discountenanced bright |
gioven in the past, and no
jug the diefavor that the first advance
gard of thess heillinnt hand
ines met with in the winter when the
me of pray as well,
i
ared gloves
CRUBTY D4
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kid
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were frat foisted on the public, t
have edge! themselves 3 now to
stay. In a store thet hes to do with
setting the styios for a great majority
of discriminating shoppers, the dis.
play of colors, when the high-priced
walking gloves ure openad out on the
connter, can only be duplicated in th
skins, ax the saleswomen will teil you,
for 82.10, and the soft lastre recon
: cilex vou to the brillant hue — New
York Sua,
Fauelhion Notes,
The fachionalies garter harmonizes
Parple is one of the colorsmost fre-
On BAITOW
tromeaeg
Artificial Bvmers sowed
effective
for evening Juv ns
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da
Chateizines conhinge fo grow
to oe
Grange hairsloth is now being need
the stability necessary ua
(ine of the new dress fabrics has a
Costumes with jacket! bodices will
The blows will stl
and the bolero will probably be ropa
lar.
Ribbons ars in
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changeable colors,
: gray shot with red, ete, wiripes and
plards, some of them entirely of ganze
wits wsilk and
salina, Veivet ribbons are aise 1a
Striped velvets are coming in,
stripes being speall, dark o siored vel.
wet, altermating with light colored |
Printed velvet 1 also seen, and
is employed in trinuning woolen gowns |
i and in making entire waists.
Lace gowns will be mach worn this
| season, and lace will be in great de-
i mand 1a ail
departments of
Lace accessories will be minch nsed
In lace and net dresses an inferiiuiog |
I of silk will be fotrodaess] hetwesn the |
gy Oy ny i aan . x Bea RH foams |
| principal material and the suk fogs | carpenters who hud been at work had |
| heeoms engaged in an siterention, sud
dation,
The
reed skirts which Paris
adopted to a limited extent last vear |
wiil be a boon when one has an old or |
rather shabby skirt. Be its color what |
it way, it peed only be rufled from |
hems to waistline with roles of black
net, edged with sarrow satin or vel-
vet nbhon.
Violets, velvet
pets and toques worn in
sent to this country, that
seven-tenths of the headgear wora
here, they are likely to be elected by
| a large porucn of our best dressed |
women as garnitares far their spring
Brarding nn vermiesill,
floral and parely conventional devices,
appears on muany of
imported garments, redingotes, jack.
to view; and the new affects produeed
by this graceful form of deeuration
rose quite as great a degree of wld:
tis were the imitial
miration as if
season of its vogue
twithstand. |
thase :
this sea |
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dress, |
aud Venetian lace!
trimmings are so fashionable va bon. |
Paris, and |
notwith- |
standing that these flowers decorate |
Freach
| arabesque, Greek key, trefoil, clover,
the very siviish
STIRRING RIVER DUEIS. |
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STRANGE AFFAIRS AND THRILLING
GICHTS SEEN FROM A STEAMBOAT,
rl cs hl
& Pight to the Death Between Teo
Brothers Whe Varied Their Carvers as
Fad Men by Wosdchopping Strange
Encaanter 7 Twa Men on i Treosie,
Onl timers slong the Masser will
doit recat! the two duels that
were fought in the enrly days,” said
am old man whe
smployed in the palmy days in steams.
bosting alung the river. ‘Near
{hamberlain, % DD. a god many
vonra ago there Lived two hrothers,
Jim and Lafayette Sunderland They
were typical hal men of the frontier
and dangerous characters iy an en-
connter. Tall, lean, setive, sure
ighted and quick of mim, they were
ugly customers. Their reputation
was general slong the Missouri river,
Fach of them had one or mors notohes
on the handle of his revolver, indicst-
ing that some hinman belag had fallen
to his sim. No man cared wo offend
either of them unless he was looking
for tronble and prepared for Dattle, ax
tronble was sare to follow when either
of them felt that bis dignity had suf-
fered insmit It was peculiarly ap
propriate that these two bad charac
ters should have seen fit to rid the
world of easel other, which they 434
effectually in consequence of a quarral
beteess them
“When stepmbosiing was ia iis
glory along the Missonr: the owner of
a woosdyard along the stream drove s
profitatie business in supplying the
passing boats with foel.
“The Sunderland brothers varied
their careers as bad men hy wood.
chopping, snd they had established a
yurd aboat ten to twelve miles from
the present site of Chamberlain. The
yard was a partoership concern, the
brothers being supposed to divide the
proceeds of whatever sales were made,
But as usasl with such characters,
there was not even common honesty
between thew, and if either man was
able to make a sale withont the kaowl-
edges of the other be desmnl it the
part of wisdom and good Soance to
pocket the entire proceeds and say
noting.
“Wa were making the trip ap the
river late in the season with a beavy
jad of freight, and put in at the Sun-
| Jeriand wood. yard to repletisk our
| stock of fael, which had been beavily
drawn apon by our plowing against
the swift carrent of the river. One
of the owners, Jim Sunderland, wes
present st the yard, and we made
known our needs and sent ‘roosters’
ashore to carry the wood upon the
deck. We bought about ten cords of
wood, and the clerk pmad Sunderland
ten crisp 35 balls in settiement of the
scoount. Just ax we wers preparing
to take up the gang-plank snd push
ont nto the streaos again, Lafayette
Sanderland made lun spprarunce from
a neighboring copse of woods and m-
quired as to the settlement for the
wood that had been taken,
“By this time we had swung ont mm
fo the stream, and the clerk called
| seross the intervening stretels of water
that be had paid Jim for the wood
From ibe deek of the boat we sould
discern a heated controversy between
the brothers. The reputation of the
two men war such as to crate a gen:
eral interest su board the host ax in
the ontoome of the guarrel, bat noms
of os was prepared for the treagio de.
nonement. After perhaps Sv mingled
of altercation we saw Jim suddenly
spring to the end of a hare eotion-
wood log which lay near and seize
rifle which rested upon the end of the
log. Bat quick as he was the other
man was even quicker, and, aithough
Jim was the first to move, Lafayette
sprang to the other end of the Jog,
where bis rifle rested, and seized it
before Jim could take aim.
slight pate of smoke from thie barrels
of the weapons, two short, sharp re-
ports, and the two men fell simost
simnltanecusly, each whery he had
| stood, without moving a step. Each
| of the men was & dead shot, aud there
. soaid be but one resalt to such » duel.
The brothers were stone demd, each
killed by the other, and over the divi-
sion of $30.
| “The otiser duel took place on the
trestie of the big Missouri bridge be
tween Bismarck and Maadan in 1881,
Several of uy were sitting on the up
per deck of 4 steamboat at the Bn
marck landisig when our sitention was
| attracted by the confusion of the work.
! men on the trestle, which was on the
opposite side of the river and perhaps
‘a mile away. We watched the men
| for a few moments, and sean we saw
ney
fans Segateigl
to the rocks, seventy feet below.
vestigation disclosed that two of the
| hard words were followed by blows,
with » hammer and the other defended
himself with a batehet.
“These two belligerent workmen
| grappled with each other anil swayed
from side to side of the trestle. Back-
| ward and forward they reeled sad
strageied, each sealing to overcome
the other and east him from the dizzy
height. Finally they battind to the
Cover the sdge
doomed. he cinng to the other with a
loose himself frome the grasp of the
i fading an. the second of the men
"a
ede, and with a wild ery both mes
were precipitated to the rocks below,
The rest of the workmen were horror
stricken and peered over the edge
see the two unfortunates, lying pron
on the rocks below, still clasped each
in the vise-hike grip of the other and
stone dead. Hardly a bowe in the
body of either was broken.”
Sceiety smiles are counterfeit,
was
| parapets of sand, which Ne
| batteries, rendered harmless the huge
Arabi Pashia, pined to a
Two |
| some dark object fall from the trestie |
In- ;
antil coe of them attacked the other |
very edge of the trestle and ome of
them lost his balance and swang oat
Realizing that he was ©
frenzy of despair, and, unable to
slipped, swayed and fell over the-
Ter Hour Shelling of Alevandrie
amd the Siege of Paris.
| The most remarkable instances of
nmbardments of recent years were
{hews of Alerandria and Paris. In
beth pases the afteck prevailed over
the defenwe, notwithstanding that the
| fortifications of those cifies were ime
Dmmenesly strong, :
The contest at Alexandria was short,
but desisive. Within ten hours the
British fleet, ander Admiral Seymour,
bad effectually silenced every gun on
{fhe whore, Ten thousand shell and
(anid slp were poured Ju on the
Egvptians, and a complete aveens-
(tiom of the forte was the result. Yet
very Little execution was done by this
; veritable hail of pon, for the neat
} the
13nd projectiles, snd 6 was only
| becatise of the havoe esused by the
| fragments of shells whieh flew around
| everywhere and accomplished o fright-
ful slanghter among the sdberents of
knowledge
{that their want of sconrsey inuiming
left the feet practically anharmed,
[that the defences were relinquished
[to the British Admiral. As every one
i knows, the guns wers mostly ofl
{spiked or blown to pisces by s land-
fing party of marines, bat outside of
the forte themselves, the destraction
fwas very small. The pre of
friends se well as foen in the eity for
| bade an extensive shelling of say but
Lthe resgoized Dative guarier, yet
su Mainnt damage was done by the in.
| cendiary shells to start a fre thet dee
strayed almost the entire tows
| In this engagement the enormous
power of the Sl-tou guns, the projec.
{tiles off which weigh over i700 pounds,
was demonstrated; bat it was also
‘ made evident that the guickiy-thrown.
‘up and nespensive embankments of
sand form an iovaloerable defense
lagminxt sven these terrible n
and there can be littie donbt that, in
the hands of experienced gunners, the
{gans of the harbor batteries would
Chave given a much better seconnt of
| thempoives. It is even an ques
| tion whether the feet would sot have
been repuisad under such cireum-
stances. Herein lies an example and
| moral which those who oppose all
proposals to increase the artilk
| branch of our army might well pouder,
for the success of the ships ander Ad-
miral Seymour's command showed
conclusively that it is useless to ex-
pect that the magnificent engines of
modern warfare san be masipulsted
even moderately well by men, however
brave and willing, who have sot an.
dergimie the long and arduous ronree
of training secoessary to turn oat
s properiy-quaiiied gaaper. :
The hombardment of Paris i= yet
worthy of notice ss illustrating what
| measures can be takes to reduce sn
| anwilling city to subjection. Daring
the moath of January, 1871, the Prus
sian guus Hterally rained on the fortic
| Seations of the capital the seemingly
jmpossilie namber of 10,000 shells
| each day, and of these more than 500
[fell ou wu daily average isto the enty
| proper; the devastation cansed by the
latter in some parts sas frightfal, and
| the fires in consequence often threat-
iemed to ram whole districts, Man
| bouses and walls were throws down
by the garrison, so as to leave large
| pen ypaces where the shells sonid do
| little sr no damage, yet many & ane
i whe had endured the pangs of hanger
in siienve, and submitted withoat com.
| plaint to the severs regulations of the
| Commissary General, for the boner
| and snkes of “La P=le Frances,” found
it hard to restrain tears snd indigns-
{ tion when, on returning from the front
{after a long sad hopeless straggle
{agminst an appsrently invincible foe,
‘he comld discover nothing save the
rains of his former tome.
§
3
SS ALL HSA SS
“To Cure Low Spirits.”
Take ne ounce of the seeds of reso
lation, properly mixed with the oil of
good conscience; infuse wto it s large "ge
spoonfal of the balsam of patisaoe.
| Distil carefully a composing pisat
| called others’ woes, which you will
find wu every part of the garden of hife.
Father a handfal of the blossoms of
| hope, sweeten them properly with a
| syrap made of the balm of Providence,
‘and if you can get say seeds of tras
| friendship, you will then have the
| most rainable medicine that can be
| administered. But you must be care
| fal to get the seeds of trae friendnhap,
as thers is a weed that much resem.
| bles it, ealied self interest, whizh will
| spoil the whole composition.
ingredients, well mixad and faithfully
| takien, soon complete the cure.
i ir pe
| Expiatend,
! tyre yom a native of this towa?”
asked a traveler.
| “Am I» what?"
| “Are you a native of this town?”
{ “Her
{| “f asked if you were a native of
this place
| At thst moment his wife, tail “a
! sallow and gaunt, appeared st
open door of the cabin, and, taking
| her pipe from between her teeth, said,
aernily. :
“'fim't ve got no sense, Jim? He
means wai ye livin’ bere when you
was horn, or waz ye bora before you
re. Now answer him. *
Factories That Make Only Girdles.
“The Little Japanese at Home" is
the title of an ariele in the St. Nicho-
fas. The anther says:
The child's obi, or girdle, is at Sess
asrrawer than her mother's, bat in
wade wider and loager ax she grows
sider. Sometimes it in a foot brosd,
Theres are factories devoted exeln.
sively to obi-weaving, amd master
pieces of beanty and ciegudce are
produced. It is wonnd around the
waist and made into» large butterfly
ok
bow in the bask, the loops of whiclagy
are, for state oecasious. sastenad
| to the shoulders, while the e wide end»
‘float gracefaliv over the hips
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