A FANTASTIC EDIFICE.
The Strangest and Most Whimsical
Building in the World.
The history of the church of Vasili
Blagcnnoi is as strange its its aspect. It ]
was built by order of I\an the Terrible. !
at the expense of the priucipality of
Kazan, as an expression of gratitude to
God for the Czar's conquest of that
country. The name of the architect,
an Italian, is unknown, but tradition |
relates that his eyes were burnt out by i
order of Ivan to prevent him designing |
in future any more wonderful mouu- |
incnts. "It is my wish," said the ter-1
rible autocrat, " that this sanctuary re
main the unique and glorious mouu- j
ment of the genius of this man." In
the basement of the editice are two
chapels, and on the upper story nino !
chapels, surmounted by nine cupolas, !
onoh different in shape, dimensions, j
color, details, style and structural dis- i
position. The spire, too, is placed at
the east and not at the west, as ortho- !
doxy demands. The facades, again, are j
all different and without discernible \
plan, and the whole structure, with its
suggestions of Hindoo, Byzantine, j
Gothic and nondescript architecture, |
and its profusion of painted ornaments
and masses of crude yellow, blue, red
and green, forms nil admirable and
mysterious harmony, the secret of which
none can explain, and the charm of
which 110 words can describe. The
whole exterior, with its superimposed
arches, its profusion of color anil gild
ing, its painting of roses and other
flowers in panels all over the walls, is
strnngelv original. On the pedestal
formed by the nine chapels and their
basement arc placed belfries and cupolas
starting upward from masses of masonry
resembling the imbricated foliage of the
artichoke, the scales of the pine cone,
or the opening buds of the cnctus
flower. In the chief belfry the Italian
element is clearly perceptible in the
first three stories, above which is a story
resembling an Indian pagoda, which in
its turn is surmounted by a hexagonal
orockcted spire, on the summit of which
is a lantern and an onion-shaped gilt
cap. Another b lfry supports a cupola
in the shape of a pineapple all covered
with pointed facets; on another the
pineapple cupola is laced ovor with a
symmetrical network through whose i
meshes, the points alone are visible, i
Another .cupola imitates the ribbed
form of a melon; another, the twisted j
folds of a monumental turban; another,
the close scales of the sei pent. Let it
bo remembered, too, that each of these
cupolas is of a different color—one
orange, another sky-blue, another apple
green, another deep red; and that, be
sides ] nint in profusion, tho mou'dings,
cornices, consoles, panels, pinnacles, I
imbrications and tiers of arches are
lavishly decorated with brightly colored t
glazed faience. Of thisfanstostic arohi- |
toctural dream, suggestive of uncanny
sea monsters, half fish and half-flower,
of gigantic fruits, or of vegetables and
Oriental turbans of such capricious and
impossible proportions as one may con
ceive in a nightmare, Theophile
Gautier has given us a poet's descrip
tion, which we cannot do better than
cite:
"Tho Church of Vasili Blagennoi,"
he says, "is without doubt the most
original monument in the world; it re
calls nothing that one has over seen,
and belongs to uo known style One
might imagine it to be a gigantic madre
pore, oiystalizcd colossus, a stalactite
grotto turned upside down—a thing
which has neither prototype nor simili
tuile. It might be taken for a Hindoo,
Chinese or Thibetan pagoda. In look
ing at this impossible church one is
tempted to ask if it is not a whimsical
will o'-tho-wisp, 1111 edifice formed of
clouds fantastically colored by the sun,
which the movement of the air will
presently cause to change in form or
vanish "into nothingness." [Boston
Transcript.
(Superstition About Storms.
Caverns wore supposed by the Rom
ans to be secure places of refuge during
thunder storms, and they behoved that
lightning never penetrated more than
two yards into the earth. Acting on
this superstition, the Emperor Augustus
used to wiihdraw into some deep vault
of tho pala o whenever a tempest was
feared, and it is locorded by Suetonius
that lie always wore a skin of seal around
his body as a protection agaiust light
ning. That both precautions nro equally
unavailing needs scarcely to be men
tioned.
Lightning has been known to strike
ten feet into tho earth ; but not oven
tlio marvellous accuracy of modem
science oan determine at what distance
from the surface a safe retreat may bo
fomul from tho descending fluid; and
even wore this ascertained, tho dangers
from ascending electric currents remain
the samo. With regard to Boul-skin, wo
find that tho Romaus attached so nraoli
faith to tlieni us non-coniluotors that
tent's were made of tlimn, beneath which
(the timid used to take refuge.
It is a curious fact that in tho neigh
borhood of Mount Covennes, in theLan
guedoc, where anciently somo Roman
colonics were known to liavo existed,
tlio shepherds cherish a similar snper
etituf jon respecting the skinsnf serpents.
These they carefully collect, and, hav
ing covered their hats withal, believe
themselves secure against the danger of
flu, storm. M. Lubossicro is disposed
to see a link of interesting analogy be
tween tho legend which yet lingers in
the mind of tho peasant of C'eveunos,
and tho more costly superstition held in
roference by his Latiu ancestors.
The Emperors of Japan retire into n
deep grotto during the tempests whioh
rage in sueli severity in their latitude;
twt, not satisfied with the profnudity of
the excavation, or tho strengh of the
stones ol which it is built, they complete
their precautions by having a reservoir
of water sunk in their retreat. Tho
water is intended to extinguish the
lightning—a measure equally futile,
since manv instances have boon pre
served in which the liuid Ims fallen upon
tho water with the same destructive of
feet as upon land. —[Now York Mail and
Express.
Hypnotism and Surgery.
The other day n young woman suffer
ing with a tumor presented herself at
tho operating room of Dr. Tillany, a
French surgeon.
Instead of using chloroform or ether
he managed to throw her into a pro
found hypnotic sleep. She even placeu
herself on the table where tho operation
was to he performed.
For twenty minutes tho surgeon plied
tho knife, the patient showing no signs
of pain. At tho end of that time she
was awakened and declared that she had
not suffered in the least or known that
anything was taking place. This is,
however, a rare misc. Not every ono
can be affeeteil in that way. Still it is
an interesting fact that under certain
favorable conditions a hypnotic sleep,
(perfect and complete, can bo induced.
—[N. Y. Herald.
REARING REINDEER.
An Important Occupation in tno
Steppes of Siberia.
Bearing and tending reindeer is par
excellence the profession of a Hamoyede.
If not rich enough to possess a herd of
his own he enters the seivice of the
owner of a large herd, who keeps him
and his family in food nnd clothes and
gives him a certain number of reindeer
calves per annum in return for his ser
vices. The servant thus lays the foun- j
dation of a herd of his own, and, if
lucky, can, after a few years' service,
set up on his own account. Luck, how- I
ever, plays a great part in this means
of livlihood, for " reindeering" isa great
lottery. Tho animals are very liable to
a disease which corresponds to the
rinderpest in cattle, and which in a day
or two will kill off a herd of COD or 71M)
deer. If this happens in the middle of
the Tundra, the local liarno for these
great, hare arctic steppes, it pr bab'y
means death to the owner and his en
tire family, as they are left possibly
hundreds of versts from any human help,
without food and without means of lo
comotion. In my subsequent journey
I came npou the scene of ono of those
not uncommon tragedies, and I have al
ready witnessed n more pathetic sight
than the half-standing cliooms sur
rounded by a few sledges and the other
poor possessions of the ill-fated owners
and scattered ail around tho bones and
and horns of the pest-stricken herd, j
The ownors themselves hail been subse
quently buried by some native passing
by, as we found tlioir wooden box-liko
graves on a bill a short way off. Though
tho loss of the herd does not often prove
as fatal as this, to the owner it always
means material ruin, and I saw a good
instanoo of this at Obdorsk, where I
came a ross a Samoyede, at one time
the owner of a herd of 7,000 deer, rep- :
resenting roughly a i apital of £3, ">OO,
content to work as a laborer at 40 cop
ecks a week. When successful, on the
other linnd, the rearing of reindeer is a
most profitable occnpa'.ion. When
clear of disease the horil is almost sure
to dunblo in number year by year.
Their cost of miiintanence is nil,
while they supply their owner with all
his essential wants, and with the pecun- 1
iary means for obtaining such luxuries
as are witnin his reach. Their hides
provide him with clothing and shelter
in the shape of his hide-covered clioom;
their meat forms tho staple of his food.
The skin of a calf in raw condition
yields about three ruhlos; when very
young and dark, as much as five. The
skins of the older deer fetch about two.
With this circulating medium in his
pouch, the Samoyede buy the vodka anil
other creature comforts his soul delights
in, or adorns his wife with the spangles
anil strips of colored cloth she so highly
prizes. But over and above all these
gifts whioh the mild reindeer presents
to his lord is the one which to the nomad
dominates and determines all the rest— ;
that of locomotion. This industry, if so
it may be termed, necessarily implies j
the nomad life pure and simple, the '
Samoyedes pitching their tents where
ever reindeer moss is abundant, and
moving off as soon as their herds have
cropped the surrounding district bare.
In Winter the Samoyedes prefer to be in
the vicinity of forests, partly for the sake
of the wood which they nee 1 for fuel
and for making new and tinkering up ,
old sledges, partly because tlio snow
here is not so deep as in the open Tun- |
dra, and the deer can thus get more
easily at tho moss. Here also they trap
the white fox and ptarmigan, the wings
of which have a groat sale. In Summer
they drive their nerds into the Tundra, |
over whioh a large portion of my journoy
lay, and which I may hero take the op
portunity to describe. The Tundra is a
messv marsh, slightly accentuated here
and there with low hills, and sprinkled
with numerous shallow lakes not con
nected with each other. For milos ami
inilev the ground is so marshy that ono
runs the risk of sinking up to one's mid
dle if one attempts to walk over it.
Now nnd again one comes upon a spot
whore tho ground resembles a Scotch
moor minus the lioather, a very
moss with an occasional dump of low
willow brushwood. These spots tho na
tive makes for when, after his day's
journey, ho wishes to pitch his clioom,
as the moss here grows thick anil rich
and the brushwood affords tlio little fuel
he requires. Not a tree, not a rock,
breaks tho monotony of the soeno, and
the greenish-brown color of tho Tundra, i
losing itself in a dull, gray sky, is nS
dreary a picture as the human eye can
well rost upon.—[Murray's Magazino.
What a Girl Should Learn.
To sew.
To cook.
To mend.
To bo gputle.
To vuluo time.
To dress neatly.
To keep a secret.
To be self-reliant.
To avoid idleness.
To mind the baby.
To darn stookings.
To respect old age.
To make good bread.
To keep a house tidy,
To oontrol her temper,
To b- above gossiping.
To make a home happy.
To take care of the sick.
To humor a cress old man.
To marry a man for his worth.
To bo a helpmate to a husband.
To take plenty of active exercise.
To see a mouse without screaming.
To read some books besides novels.
To be light hearted anil Heet footed.
To wear a shoe that won't ernmp the
feet.
To ha a womanly woman under al)
circumstances.
A Sturdy Centenarian.
The guardians of the Eiffel Tower, in
Paris, were lntely surprised to receive a
visit from a man one hundred and two
years old, who wished to ascend the great
tower.
He was quite willing, however, to
avail himself of tho elevator, for, though
he is able to walk sovornl miles a day on
level ground, and carries his cane as a
"switch," and not as a support, he did
not feel equal to a walk up a flight ol
stairs nearly 1,000 feet high.
This old man, whoso name is Hordnin,
and who was formerly o harness makei
by trade, lias had a somewhat interest
ing experience ill his last years. About
thirty years ago, when past seventy, lis
granted all his property to n nephew in
oonßiderntion of a rogular year y income
to bo paid to him. Tho day ho was a
century old he called tho nephew and
said to him:
"Well, my boy, I think you have
made me an allowance long enough. 1
shall not be a charge on you any longer,
because, you see, I ve saved up enough
to live on."—[Youth's Companion,
A CURIOUS COUNTY.
A Section of Kentucky Where For
eigners Are Rarely Seen.
People in the East will hardly be
lieve it when they aro told that Ken
tucky has a county in which only one
man was ever killed; but it is a fact,
notwithstanding. A number of years
ago two intoxi ated men fought in this
town and one was shot to death. That
was the only serious crime ever commit
ted in Trimble county.
The people of Trimble county are one
big family, and they form such a re
markable community that tho readers
of The Hun, says a correspondent of tho
New York paper, should make this ad
dition to their knowledge. Trimble is
a real Acadia, Bedford, the county
seat, being situated almost midway be
tween two large cities, forty miles from
Louisville and sixty miles from Cincin
nati, fifteen miles from the nearest rail
road. Yet the strife of tho outer world
has never reached here. Crime of any
kind is practically unknown. The people
are all small farmers and fruit growers,
descendants of Virginians and Mary
landers who settled here a hundred
years ago, nnd are scrupulously honest.
The last lawyer who settled in Bedford
came near starving to death, and wont
to Kansas a half dozen years ago. There
is a court house in this town, but it is
needed only for the preservation of
the county records, title deeds, and
such things. At the last term of the
criminal court there was only one case
to be tried, and that was on a charge of
petty larceny. But it \\ as proven that
the man was not guilty.
Every resident of this county is of
pure English or Scotch descent. There
is not a foreign-born person in Trimble.
Although so close to Louisville nnd
Cincinnati, a German or Irishman
would be a curiosity in Bedford. Last
spring an Irishman, Alike Rafferty,
from Louisville, came to Bedford. How
be ever got hero or why ho eame no one
knows, but soon after his arrival word
was circulated that a foreigner had come
to town. Rafferty went into the gro
cery to buy 15 cents' worth of cheese for
dinuer. Tho proprietor stared curi
ously at him, but gnve him the elieese,
and lie sat down in a chair to eat it In
a few minutes a crowd of small boys en
tered, and ranging themselves in n
straight line in front of the Irishman
gazed at him with tho most evident cu
riosity. Rafferty thought there must
he something tho matter with his per
sonal appoaran e, and asked tho pro
prietor if there was anything wrong.
The latter replied in the negative. Alike
i then wanted to know why all the boys
: were looking at him.
"Why, don't you understand?" said
tho merchant. "As soon ns you bought
that cheese I sent out word that there
was an Irishman here. All Irishman
don't come to Bedford every day. In
I fact, it's heou ton years since one was
I nere until you caino. Y'ou aro the first
Irishman tho e boys over saw, and, of
rourse, yon are a show to them."
Ea'Terty wliist'ed, and then grew 111-
li quant. He said ho was neither a
Heat lien Chinee, nor did ho belong to a
museum. He left the store, followed
by an increasing crowd of small boys
ind some rather large one. At the
itreet corner he met a little girl carry
ing a bucket of water. The weather
ivas warm, and ho asked her for a
irink. She looked up, for the first
time in her life saw a stranger's faco,
shrieked, dropped the bucket of water,
ind lied in dismay. That was enough
tor tho Irishman. Ho set out for the
sparest railroad station, liftecp miles
iway, and never stopped tramping until
he got there. For o\oramilo a crowd
followed him at a respectful distanco.
Since then Bedford has not been
troubled with strangers.
No Man's Land.
In Euglaml, that strip of land along
the edge of the sea which is covered at
high tide, but is left bare at tho ebb,
has boon called "No Man's Land ' from
an early date. This strip varies in width
according to tho shelving of the shores.
It is of peculiar charaoter, and the apt
ness of its name is evident from tne fol- j
lowing description, furnished by the
author of "A Sea-Painter's Log:"
There is nearly always 0110 figure to bo
seen upon No Man's Land, working his
way to and fro along the windings of
the smaller creeks and over the mud,
walking with careful, measured tread,
and never resting long upon either foot.
This js the eel-speurer, who, with mud
pattens— or mud-shoes —firmly laced to
[li feet, tows behind him a box abend
two feet six inches long, and slightly
rounded at the bottom. Lie works care
fully over the ground before him with
his spear, like a pointer in stubblo.
This man knows every square yard of
the mud for miles, and has earned a
Hying upon it, and on nothing else, for
the last forty years, his whole stock in
trade being his mud pattens, his spear,
fipd the hex that slips after limp Wlipn
his tide is oyer, hp slings this box, >vith
twenty or thirty pounds of eels in it,
upon His spear across his shoulder, —his
pattens hanging in front, —and so
trudges to market.
Like the heron, the eel-spearer is
nearly always alone, and only those who
have spent an hour or two upon the
mud ip pattens, a mile or more from
yeal land, can form an idea of how very
nmoh alone ho is.
I have spent many an hour in a boat
far out at sea, and know that the small
est boat in such a situation is as a house
compared with the eel-spearer's two bits
of elm plank fourteen in lies square.
At every step they sink and suck in the
mud, and tug at the lashings which se
cure them to thp fpet, so that both the
quality of these cords and the way they
are made fast become quite ipiportunt
matters.
The pattens are fastened ip a particu
lar mapper, which is seldom deviated
from, for the sa'pty of thp eel spearer
depends too much op his footbvmr Is lor
him to venture 011 rash experiments
with tliem.
The special skill, the local knowledge,
required to travel Rafely over these
mud-lands is not unlike thot needed by
the mouutain guide. There is mud
which, though too soft to go upon in
winter, will carry wo'.l enough in sum
mer, wlion the long sea-grass is tough,
and forms a upon it left
spread by the tide. And there are pits,
deep and soft, like crevasses hidden by
snow, into which you may sink at one
step up to the waist or dee; pr.
To get out of one of these a man must,
by cutting the lanyard or untying the
knot that fastens them, first get rid of
his pattens, which suck him down: and
then, extending himself horizontally,
with his spear held across in both linpds,
as one would extend an oar in water, he
.nay find it possible todraw himself out.
But it is only a chance, and when out,
he has but his eel-box and spear left him
to regain the shore with. Experienced
mud-walkers, however, by carefully
sounding before them with the spoar or
an oar, for the most part avoid falling
into such traps,
THE DIME MUSEUM.
BY T. P. CRANE.
Twliero. We
If 4-a always feel a
sensation of relief after leaving the
[place. The woman with the Heavy
beard repels us, and we thank fortune
that our own lady friends and kin are
toot heavily bearded as this one. Any
woman afflicted with a large growth of
beard can find a lucrative position as a
monstrosity in a dime museum, but
will find herself tabooed by her friends,
•and especially her gentleman friends,
'if she does.
! Living skeletons, fat men and fat
women, midgets, dwarfs, and giants,
•'wild men from Borneo, and other un
fortunate people, are the stock in trade
of dime museums. This stock in trade
! never varies. It is always in fashion.
; Those who visit a dime museum for
ftlie first time are struck by the plebe
ian aspect of the people who throng
its galleries and its chamber of lior-
Tors, and they may probably be struck
[by the man who runs the electric bat
fery to try the machine. A placard is
acked up on the wall with the follow
ing equivocating remark printed there
jon : "Electricity free. Only ten cents."
rElectricity free" being printed iu
[heavier type you are naturally fooled,
because you only see that clause by a
hasty ami casual glance. If you have
no conscientious scruples or strange
antipathies to electricity, you "go tho
lnaciiino one if you lose," as a sport
would say. If you have ten conts about
you it is all right. If you have not
you will suddenly feel a yearning sen
sation, as if you would like to have ten
cents or sink through the floor, while
the suave and refined electricity man
politely informs you that ten cents is
due him. 'Mid tho jeering and sar
castic remarks of the crowd you try to
explain, as meekly and sheepishly as
you can, that you thought ho was run
ning his machine for sweet charity's
sake, and not for the filthy and con
taminating root of all evil.
In your promenade through the gal
lery of wonders you frequently come
across "fakes" lilco tho following. A
placard reads thus: "Draw tho curtain
and see the homeliest person in town."
You draw tho curtain, and see your
own reflection in a mirror. At least
you do so if you are not pretty cute
and knowing. You are astonished and
awed by the "human salamander"—
the man who drinks molten lead and
boiling oil and rubs red-hot pokers
across his tongue, and winds up his
performance by indulging in a dessert
of burning charcoal. You wonder how
Sio does it, but ho does not offer to ex
>lain when you ask him about it.
I People who \isit dime museums
should ask no questions and they will
hear no lies. If you see anything there
that baffles vour keen intellect and
causes a Heavy sensation, as tnougn
you had a great weight on your mind,
go to the manager and ask for an ex
planation, and do not question tlio
freaks. AY hen inspecting the bop
yors of the Inquisition, which
is done up so artistically, and
painfully lifelike, in wax, do not
lot your emotions overcome you.
Remember that you paid your dimo
expressly to see these horrors, and you
should appear as if you were enjoying
yourself. It is not considered "good
form" in Bridgeport, the "swell" and
I .smell district of Chicago, to evince any
pmotion, either of pleasure or pain, at
! the dark side of life in a museum.
YVlien you have wearied of the curi
| ositics, you visit the auditorium. Tho
players are quite amusing iu their
poor, weak way, and those who have
been there frequently in the past can
readily recognize them as the same
players they had often seen there be
fore. —C h ten go Ledger.
Yale's Famous Coxswain.
Ralph Thompson, who had been cox
i swain of the Y ale crew for throe years,
; has announced that lie shall not con-
I tinue next year. "Shorty," as ho is
familiarly known, has a great record as
a coxswain. In all he has steered
twelve eight-oared crews, including
fhreo Yale eights, six class eights and
fliree eights at St. Paul's preparatory
school. Of these races ten have been
victorious for his side, and in three in
stances, as it has been asserted by com
petent judges, tho victories have been
; due to Thompson's superior steering.—
Hartford Courant.
MORE OR LESS AMUSING.
A PAPER weight—dead heads waiting
for the curtain to rise,
j WHEN a man is hung the evening
i papers gets out a necks-tra edition.
MANY a woman becomes some man's
better half merely for a change of quar
ters.
AUTHORITY is Jike dried apples. A
j few cents' worth will puff a small mail
up astonishingly.
THE young King of Spain's nurses
probably have little trouble in keeping
him clean since ho is himself tlio Cas
tile's hope.
WHEN a man starts out to lecture ho
puts on a dross suit. A woman with
the same purpose in view puts on her
night-gown.
QUEEN OF SPAIN— Moi Gracia! The
babv king has the stomach ache. Lord
Chamberlain (excitedly)—Woo-o 1 Call
tliu "* '
Pha3es of Economic Entomology.
Nature seems always endeavoring to
maintain a balance. When destructive
insect pests increase greatly in number,
parasites which prey on them also in
crease and finally reduce their number
to a normal point. It is estimated that
parasites now destroy over ninety per
cent, of the Hessian flies before they get
a chance to damage the wheat crop. Jt
is hard to say what the farmer and fruit !
grower would do were it not for the b-'ii
e icient work done by the parasites of in
sect foesinkeejung thorn in check. An im
portant discovery in this line of economic
entomology Ims recently been made.
For several years the clover seed crop
in New York and other Stales has been
greatly damaged by the lavages lof the
little orange-colored midge. Sometimes
the seed crop would be a total failure,
owing to its ravage?. Of late yea s the
trouble has grown loss, and the cause of
this is now known. While studying the
midge, Professor Lintner discovered
that it was being attached and destroyed
byji microscopic pardtofce. This natural
enemy of the clovey midge the professor
identities as one of the ohaloid llies,
which are so useful in keeping down de
structive insects. —[Farm and Fireside.
Alice Licbmann, ngeil nine, is astonishing
Loudon critics with her skill on the violin.
Musicians more than ten years old are be
coming quite rare.
"Mamma'i filttln' Better.**
There is gladness in the household; '
The shadow fades away
That darkened ail the sunshine
Of ma y a summer day.
"O, mummVs getting better,'*
The happy children cry.
And t ho l gut of hone shines bright again
In the loving husbanu's eye.
In thousands of homes women are "sick
unto death*' w.th the terrible diseases so com
mon to their s.-x, and it would seem as if all
the happir ess had gone out of iL'e aud the
household in c n equcnce. For when the wif
and mother suffers all the family suffers with
her. This ought not to ho, ami it need not bo,
for a novur-fuiling romedy for woman's ail
ments is at huiu. Many a home has been
made happy because tlio shadow of disease
bus been banished from i l>y the potent power
of l)r. Pierce's Favorite Prescription—the un
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SSOO Howard offo od f- r an incurable caso of
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Over 6S people were forced to leave their
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The most prominent physicians in the city
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