THE MORNING BRHAXS. BY GRACK AI'IT.KTON. -fee morn inn lm-iik*. ' ll, d with it brings The tlrsl 1 aiiit i"<-> lb of spring, Ju 1 heart. lik< lmpey birds on wings, }%r joy arc enroling I A tfeth rim* thro* tho frozen earth, A tUr'Jl pervades the air ; Press* I '".' banishment of dearth, For&JingaU things fair I h sbfe-cring 1 tough en wreathed shall glow With wtulth of summer bloom, I Mioiuffu*of the blasts that blow, Forgetful>%f the gloom! And hearts bv w ed down by weight of wo, SOUIB shiver\ug in Fife's blast, Ik-neath Uod'B vmile shall radiant grow In summer-la ol at last! CANT ATFQKI) TO MARRY j BY L. i\ w. "When are you and Mildred going to be married ?" The speaker -at opposite the young man addressed, smoking a cigar. '•lf you mean Mildred Osborne, never. . It's all very wt 11 to dance with such a girl, but no poor man would think of marrying lier." "Why not. Ned? She's /andsome, accomplished, iu the best set dresses exquisitely, and will have a fortune when Mr. Osborne dies." "Look here, Grayson, do you think 1 lam a fool? 1 can't afford to marry Miss Osborne, and it is because sfce is in the fashionable set, dresses expen- ; sivelv. and has expectations from her father. 1 am only just, beginning t') succeed at tho bar. It is a long time, as you konw from your experience as a physician, before a large income can lie earned in a profession. As yet I am not earning such an income. Miss Osborne has been brought up luxu- j riously. Her father keeps a carriage, goes to a watering-place every sum mer, and entertains constantly when at home. Mildred's very dresses, my I dear fellow, would eat up half my earn- I ings." "I think you avo hard 011 her. Any true woman, if she marries tlie man I she loves, will cheerfully submit to i sacrifices for his sake." "Ho it is said, and so, in justice to the sex, most of them try to. But, I (Jraysou, old fellow, you and I know, | from our own experience, that habit is j stronger than good resolutions. A rich man's daughter is not the girl for a ] poor man's wife. It isn't her fault; it's her misfortune." "But you lose sight of the fact that Mildred will inherit a large share of j her father's property." "Not at all. Mr. Osborne is only fifty, hale and hearty. He will prob- j ably live for twenty years vet, and ! not till lie dies will his daughter get j one cent. At the end of twenty years, I yes, long before that, I should be ruined, or else broken down in health in consequence of being in debt and overworked." "Well, perhaps you are right. See what a scrape Harry Leonard got into!" "Yes, lie married the daughter of a man said to be worth a million. Old j Mr. Johnson did not give her a penny. ' She had lier wedding outfit, but that was all. On Harry's part there was nothing to support her with, only what lie made out of his business, and, being a young merchant, lie realized a very little wealth. Jessie Johnson was sty lish and fond of making a dash. Harry took her to the Chaplin House, for he had sense enough to know lie could not go to housekeeping in the way Jessie would want to go. In the summer tliev went to Saratoga, for Jess would not hear of a country boarding-house. There slic bad her pony phaeton, and a dozen or more Paris dresses. In the fall the hard times eamc, and Harry failed. I understand lie owes twice as much as he can pay. Now this, I ad mit, is an exceptional case; yet this is the type of a large class, and a class that frighten young men and keep them from marrying." "lint what's to be done? "We all expect to marry somo day, and there are 110 girls except girls like Mildred and Jess." "T beg your pardon. Thereare plenty of them, but, of course, to find them I fear you must go outside of the fash ionable sot, for it is only the daugh ters and wives of rich men who oau afford to bo fashionable. If you wish a wife you must look elsewhere for one, unless you expect to be a millionaire." "Wherewould you look?" "There are plenty of families where the daughters are well educated, and yet are able to help themselves. I know one daughter who makes all their hats and bonnets; another is a capital dressmaker. All attend to household affairs, making cake, des serts and good bread. They are quite as companionable as Mildred Osborne or Jess Johnson. No man with the right feeling wishes to make his wife a drudge; but men have to work, and why should not an able woman take lier share?" "Well, since you speak of it, I can recall such families also; but they don't go to public balls and dance the gernian." "No. The daughters of such fam ilies are taught that home virtues are better than surface accomplishments. Men want true women for wives, not mere butterflies." "I shall be curious, Ned, to see youi wife." "If you will come with mo to-mor- ! row evening 1 will introduce you to the: - young ladv who has promised to till that position. She is the daughter ol H refined widow, and brought up like the girls 1 have beeu describing to von. She does not go out in society much, for she cannot afford it. As for hoi real accomplishments, her knowledge of literature, music and art are as far ahove Miss Osborne as heaven isahovt the earth. With the fashionable girl it's chatter, chatter, chatter, and noth ing else; dance and gossip!" "Come, come, you are too severe; a good many of them are brilliant talk ers. at least I find them so." Yes, the champagne foams for the public; for vou the stale wine only is left." 80 the conversation ends. Ned married the girl to whom he intro duced his friend, and (1 ray son, after a few months, married her sister. They certainly are suprcmcL happy'in cosy, modest homes of their own -happier than if either had married Miss Os borne or ono of her class. Wo wonder sometimes, i r mothers are not more to blame than the daughters tor the frivolous, fashionable life. But wo will let them decide. keeping Hants in Winter. Doors oponing into the room in which you keep flowers should have strips of fisting tacked about them in such a way as to close all cracks through which the wind can enter. A strong wind will blow more cold into a room in moderate weather than will be likelv to penetrate in still mgtits wnen tne thermometer is down to zero. There- I fore he sure to fortify against the ad- | mission of air through these inlets. It , is si good plan to take a day for doing this work, and begiu at one corner of the room, and go over it thoroughly, I finishing up each part as you go along. By systematizing the work iu this way, YOU are sure to have it well done; but if you stop a crack here and there, and now and then, as it happens to be dis covered, you will be pretty sure to have a poor job of it. taken as a whole. If your plants should freeze, as soot | as you discover what has been done put ' them in a dark room, or the cellar, i where the temperature is but little above freezing, and sprinkle, or ratliar, shower them with cold water. In most cases, such plants as Abutilons, Ger aniums, and others of similar charae- J tcr, can, if taken in time, before al- j lowed to thaw, be saved, aud I have i had quite tender plants come through I the ordeal with comparatively little in- I jury. The frost must be extracted j gradually, and with the application of > as little heat as possible. Keep thorn away from the light and warmth for two or three days. If the tops wilt , after the frost has been extracted you may feel sure that the wilted portion cannot he saved, so cut it off at once, and be sure to cut below that part which appears affected by the frost. If some of the frosted part is left on, very often decay sots in which extends to the stalks below. Should the whole top seem killed, it does not follow that the roots have not vitality enough left to send up new shoots, so do not throw them out till you have given them a trial.— Eben E. lieu-ford, in Ladies' Home Journal. A VISIT TO GRANDPA'S* BY ANNA OLDFIELD WIG OS. j,—^ ——'UK dreamy tones of an instrument, coming to me |j|K through a latticed win ( dow, have conspired with nature's charms to tempt me to disregard my fatli er's injunction that I should do 110 literary work during my sojourn of a few weeks at his home. I These trees, with their tender leaves and lithesome boughs swaying to and fro; this emerald-lmed plat of grass, j stretching broadly before me; the gar 1 den, green and airy, the cherry buds. | apple blossoms and May flowers, arc responsible for the transgression. They peep at me so coquettislily that I am 1 quite convinced they are laughing be cause this invigorating breeze, which I enhances their complexion, makes such 1 pitiful havoc of mine, j I noticed how caressingly the dew I lay on the bosom of every leaf and ov ! cry blade of grass, and nestled within the folds of the fair young flowers. There was love in everything; beauty everywhere. Even the cow-hells, con demned for their discordant jingle, had music in them this morning. Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, so far away that the rustle of my garm.nts drowned their voices. The larks, alarmed and indignant at my trespassing, put their little heads together and scolded me pitilessly; and Old Sol, patiently bid ing his time to rise, lay hidden be neath a coverlet of red aud yellow clouds. The situation was peculiarly novel to me. The wind and the motion of the hammock intoxicated me, aud I fell into a lialf-wakeful revery, con sisting mainly of a review of my sunny childhood, not a day of which 1 would fain forget. In this retrospection I saw myself from a little girl of live sum mers, with tousled curls about a brown face, through all the stages of my life, permitting my mind to follow the chain of years, link by link, to this time, and 1 was still five years old, I realized, however, that others, who hud played a part in the melodrama of my life, had grown older and changed with time's progress, while I remained the same; the expanse of years were but days in my fancy. And thus, envel oped in a misty dream, I felt the touch of a soft hand on my face, and a real child voice lisped: "Fivekitheth, mammal I am five yearth old to-day." That familiar voice, with its childish inflection, was all that was needed to break the spell, and when I opened my eyes I looked into a pair as blue as hyacinths, and remembered that I am a woman now, and mv successor is the least of the "three little maids,"dressed as fantastically for their "make b'lieve" calls, whicli are received with becoming meekness by every member of the household. With my awakening comes the rather unpleasant reality that I am but a guest in my father's house, and, being a grown up one, am presumably to put. away childish things, and also, the in dulgent reign which 1 had, by juniori ty, believed to be my own, had been transferred to the little maid who sup planted me therein five years ago. But since 1 have outgrown the char acteristics of childhood, 1 am still young enough at heart to enter into them and teaeli tho three little, maids how to enjoy them at their fullest. If we could improvise a play-house, it would be a variation iu tho routine of dolls and long dresses; so I straight way set my precocious fancy to work, and with the help of willing hands anil plenty of good-liuiuor, not to mention architectural skill, we were soon re warded by loud expressions of appre ciation from the juvenile trio. You know at grandpa's there are inexhaus tible resources of pleasure; and it is gratifying to see with what relish the three little maids enter into the spirit of every new device. "What care they for the sun and wind? The fact that when a few weeks later they shall re turn homo, bearing on hands and face j unmistakable signs of exposure, has not a feather's weight with them now. There is a charm in these bits of crockery and remnants of grandma's china, which she has been stowing away for months in anticipation of the rustic j>alaoe which adorns her spacious lawn in the form of a muslin tent. This fragmentary dinner service, em bracing every conci ivable shape and design, is arranged in painful precision 011 the crude pine shelves which serve for both china closet and butler's pan try. A pair of bricks supporting a block of wood personates a range. It is seldom that these little culinary art ists seek rest from their manifold du ties, but when they do so they fling themselves in the most uneorafotable attitudes upon a divan, which is posing as a late pattern of mahogany and brocatelle; but which is, entre noun, only a pine box covered with carpet, and of home manufacture as well. let. the shapeless dishes, rude stove and impromptu furnitue, homely as they are, do not become monotonous, as do the toy services, miniature range and tapestried furniture, which they frequently abandon at home- Their vehicles are the swings, oi which there are three, due to grandma's con sideration, and the hammocks that hang well screened from the range o) a friendly sun; and at the edge of the prettiest lake lios a boat waiting foi nimble fingers to loose it from it s moor ings. Now swiftly through Tim morning dew Their dimpled feet come, two by two ; And from each throat There comes by rote, "I choose to bo first in the boat." Tho boat holds four. "We want one more," Cries Stella, as she grasps the oar ; "Oh, let's take Jet, The shaggy pet Merle thinks he'll make the boat upset." A bonnet fain Tlioy would disdain; Their cheeks arocrimson with health's stain, With eyes as bright As morning light, Tlioy hoist their sail a paper kite! For sailors' creeds They have no needs, Hut push their boat among tho reeds; And glide- along. Tho ripples throng Around them, as Pan pipes his song. Now smooth and slow, Their boat they tow, To grandpa's bound with their cargo ; Where brightest scenes Are lit with gleams, And sunshine kisses limpid streams. The lords arc only marsh grasses, and our I 'an, which is necessary to the delusion, is only a big frog, that croaks and leaps and croaks again. The children arc not selfish in their efforts to reap pleasure, hut they very graciously contribute their mite toward the entertainment of the elders. Sometimes, after a day's frolic out of doors, they give us a Liliputiau the atrical entertainment or musicale. 'I heir selections, when accompanied by the piano or guitar, are quite refresh ing. and pleasantly while away the hour between daylight and dark, when one is apt to imagine, in the country especially, that "the goblins 'll get you ef you don't watch out." Grandpa's eyes sparkle, and grandma's feet keep time to the movement of little feet skimming across the floor. Who would exchange this visit for the seashore or the mountains? Surely not the three little maids who are so happy here: and I may add tlie con tagion has affected us all, for are we not together? Kacli presence affords ft joy, even though every hour did not call forth an act of unselfish love. But 'midst the sunniest hours of our union comes the chilling recollection that when these happy weeks are ended, months shall grow into years before we shall group together in the big square parlor at eventide, and listen to each other's song and merry jest, or sur round the long table where grandma lias endeavored to tempt each individ ual appetite, and where we have lis tened with suppressed amusement to the magnified woes and adventures, re lated by the little girls, who have not become acquainted with the name of the farm appurtenances, and are fre quently arousing our risibilities by re ferring to the hay cart as the "spring buggy with holes in it," or to the milk which is not "nice and white as that which we buy in town." Can sons and daughters serve a higher ambition than to bring blos soms of love and plant tliem at the dear old hearthstone, where they may bloom and exhale sweetest fragrance around the forms of father and mother, so that their last days may seem tho best, and that we may deem ourselves worthy to imitate them, in precept and practice, not only in acknowledgment of tho tenderness with which they have crowned our lives, but that we may profit by their example, and till our place worthily as grandpas and grand mas of the future. Ami when at last the old folks dio, Could love bo changed to blooming flowers i And strewed above them where they lie, Their paves should seem exotic bowers. Ami so I think, my blue-eyed liortio, you shall receive birthday kisses, to the number of many times five, before you shall see happier days than these of our visit at grandpa's. AMERICAN FAUCES. THK BANANA PEEL. A BANANA poel £ rp&b /~\ " m ' ; '" v 0,1 smiled 'I/11/WI, '° itself and ac rt coated an applo 1 y.zV A' core Nv •" 1 • "Jlist fc y JV wut ' ( '' l 1,11111 yonder. When ho J i.; / stepson me he will ifmt fSitt think there is an jjJw 4 ' earthquake. ! ' y walk hard enough to break the crystal out of his watch." "But how will that heneiit you?" in quired the apple core. "It will attract attention to me. At present the man ignores your humble servant entirely, but after I throw him he will recognize my existence." "Yes, ho will recognize your exist ence to the extent of swearing about you and probably kicking you into the gutter." MORAL. Notoriety is not always a good thing. THE SICK HORSE. A horse that had been sick for two years finally went to a doctor and was cured. He felt that ho was now in luck. While he had been ill he had not worked any, but had been turned loose into the pasture. When he went hack homo bis master found that he was well and hitched him to the plow the next morning. "I wish I had not paid that doctor four dollars to cure me, as it takes me from a life of case and makes mo toil. There is evidently some sort of skullduggery here." MORAL. It is better to be a Hick horse. Chi cago Ledger. Movable birthdays. There lives, or there did a few years ago, an old lady in this country who has a movable birthday. She had the good fortune to be born on Easter Sun day, and she insists on receiving pres ents and congratulations on that festi val, no matter when it occurs. Lots of people have tried to reason with the aid lady, calendar in hand, but she re plies to them all, "I was born on Easter Sunday morn fifty-six years ngo, and till I die Easter Sunday will bo my birthday." And this reminds mo of the very loy il Englishman, horn in tin; shadow of Wineresto Cathedral, on the 24th day if August —the birthday of William I V. who, when tlunt neutral tinted moii irch died, changed his birthday to May 21, in order to still enjoy the coinci dence of a birthday with ids sovereign. A RECENT death from hydrophobia is supposed to have resulted from allow ing a dog to lick a razor cut on the face. ODDLY ODOUR ti, if tbeu i n • plo.oo in the world where a young lady won't do the fair thing irt is at the fair. WORLD'S FAIR CRANKS. NIK CRANK ANTEDATES THE FLOOD, AND ANNOVEI) NOAH. Circul Events Call Out Vast Numhor* ol Tliem—The Forthcoming Columbian Ex position Has Already llml That Kfl'oct- Nutnerous Tall Towers I'roposeil. a KADITION tells us J 1 v *' l ° ' "given the "Know iust exacUy .lon, but human to be. Rom age to ago. essentiaUy the Hamo, the pne nbovo noted smacks strongly of the probable, and may safely bo regarded as ouuded in truth. Beyond a doubt, l ather Noah was "pos xn ed." not only with scorners an J ridicul irs, but. by a horde of men with "idous" on the subject of hewing timbers, boiling pitch, picking oakum, sotting sails, and various jther important matters. Had the Hebrew tongue possessed the •ichness and adaptability of our modern r.nglish, ho would no doubt have denomtn ited them "cranks." and sent them oiT to it tend to their own affairs. Like the poor, cranks are over present. Some are erratic, and distorted mentally to i fancied resemblance to the handle of a '.•inning-mill, to which circumstance, and the habit of "blowing." the peculiar appli cation of the word seems to have origin- THK WOULD ON AN AXIH. fttect, only in one particular, and uro in other regards well balanced men. With some, "fool ideas" prevail in the main, while vour simon-pure crank makes no pretense of acting like tho sane members of his species. The expectation of unusual events always lovelops and brings to tho front a large 3rop of cranks. Tho World's Fair, In commemoration ol :he landing of Columbus, will not be open i\f x X ■JHIS THHKK-AItCH PLAN. 3d at Chicago for more titan two years, but notwithstanding this the first installment of men bursting with groat ideas has arrived, ind is proceeding to make tho welkin fairly ring with plans and scheme*. The inspiration of tho first, batch seoms to have been d awn principally from tne I'.iffel Tower, which, more than any other feature of the Paris Exposition, lias riveted tho attention not only of visitors to that famous capital, but reuders in all parts of tho world as well. This tower of Iron fairly dwarfs our t -numont to Washington, until recently HORIZONTAL VIEW OV BWINQINO TOWER, A— Truss work baso. 11 largo >ihel taking tho main cablo. C—Hwineiug arm of tower. I) Passenger plat form. E—Largo pivot axle. tho tullest of earthly structures, and, ns n reference to tho illustration of our artist will show* makes the great cathedrals ol Europe and tho pyramids of Egypt tippoat insignificant, while tho famous Column of July and tho Opera House of Paris beoomo veritable pigmies in comparison to its tow ering height. Groat as is tho elevation attained by this wondoriul structure, tho cranks of Chicago :inl tho West propos tto out-do the French and fairly pierce tho clouds. Tliov design to rival, if not surpass, their ancestors who furnished tho plans and specifications from which tho Tower ol Babel was constructed, tho only dilTerenco being that in the modern instance tho "con fusion of tongues" seems to have unto datod tho beginning of thei* work. There is no scheme so wildo extravagant that it does not find advocates. One man gravely proposes to construct an arch that shall reach to nr. elevation of 2,000 feet, and span tho city for the distance of a mile or two. The proposition is to build it of wrought Iron, on tho cantilever-bridge principle. Once in place. It could put the Brooklyn bridge into its vest pocket, and cause tiro mythical Colossus of Rhodes to turn green with envy. Tho only trouble Is tho utter impossibility of its construction. Absurd as the scheme is, it finds numer ous suppoiters, and a war of words is be ing fought over it. on tho streets and in ?uch ot tho newspapers as have columns for the use of crunks. AI surd arpl grotesque as tho colossal arch idea is, an enterprising crank has seen and gone it two bettor—that is. in arches — with a tower attachment calculated to out babel Babel. It Is callod tho throe-arch plan. Tho father of this idea, a seeming com bination lbuou Munchausen and .lack o 'he Beanstalk narrative, proposes to eroct if iron and stool a substantial arch one nllo in lougth, and rising in the center to > help it of 1,000 feet from the ground. Li redly boneuth tho center ho lays tho foun dation lor tho tower. This ho constructs until tho arch Is reached, a distance o 1,000 feet 'ihen 110 builds a socond arch, having tho sumo foundations as tho ilrs one, rising above it a distance of 900 feet. , Tho tower is then carried up to this arch nnU loTt tor the tlnio. while iho enterpris ing architect builds n third and similar , arch, which rises 80.) feet above the sec ond. The tower is then continued so as to furnish a central support, at a height of 2,700 feet from the ground, i This would seem to lili the bill and sur- VIEW OP SWINGING TOWER IN TRANSIT. [Lottera indicate the same part,a aa in the pre vious cut.] pass anvthing that Marco io!o saw It c hina, but "Our Baron" is tar from bein satisfied. He has more "suds" left in his basin and will blow a bigger bubble, if ho bursts for it. ... Above the third and last "arch ho erects the fourth, and. so far as heard from, the final section or the grout central tower. Tills rises to the modest height of 2,Uoii leet. and terminates in an observatory ol vast proportions. This makes a total alti tude of 4,700 leet, or übout eight-ninths of a mile. "The tower." as Its inventor naively re mai ks, "will bo fitted with a porfoct system of electric cars, which will convey passen gers to any part of the struct uro." The cost of the work is not given, but to the uninlti uted in the art of "castle building," would seem to bo "considerable." A New York man has furnished a contri bution which, though not rivaling th three-arch scheme in vastness of propor tions. makes up for its seeming modesty in that direction in the novelty of its operation. lie proposes to construct an enormous swinging tower, 1,00 ) feet long, which wi 1 describe a complete semicircle, passing from a horizontal to a vertical position, an 1 continuing its course till it again re sumes a horizontal position. At the ex treme end of the tower will ho a platform or car, capable of accommodating 1,000 people, and swung on an axis in such ; manner as to constantly retain an upright position. , Thus, in its course, tho passengers in the car will describe the half of a circle having a diamotor of 2,000 loot, o -3.141 feet This may. without indulg ing in any flight or fancy, bo tt rim d "a thrillh g aerial flight." When tho tower reaches a vortical position, it will be brought to a stop to enable Its numerous passengers to tuko observations from a ffOtni consiuoraoty luglior than can bo reached in the EifTol Tower. In u word: This will not only raise tho visitor to a greater attitude, than the fam ous French tower, but give him a ride that will make all previously constructed swings and "merry-go-rounds seoin trivial in com parison. The swinging tower will also serve as a moans of transporting peoplo from one portion of tho grounds to another. Tho modest inventor proposes to construct two of them, one turning oast and west, and tho other north and south. In the line of transporting pooplo front plaoo to place, tho suggestion of an enor mous morry*go*round, something like a mile in diameter, has boon made. 1! is proposed to have it on u lovol with tho ground, and to bo kept constantly in motion* at BO low a rate <>t sp-'i-d as to en able people to stop on and oil' without dun- F—Counterbalance cylinder. a -Continuous cable governing equilibrium o'. platform. b—Wheel for continuous cablo. o—Main cable. gor or injury. Now York wants not only tho World's Fair but the world itself, and a Now-Yorker has ombodicd tho idou in a design for a gigantic emblematic statue. JIo proposes to construct a vast hollow sphere, having a diameter of KUO feet. This will bo suspended between two enormous towers 000 foot in height, with a spacious terrace and aa approp into building on each side tor restaurants, drawing-rooms, build ing and club-housos. or other liko pur p ises. The towers will be connected by enor mous arches passing over tho suspended globe, and surmounted by an observatory. This will bo 970 loot high, 175 fout wide, and 450 feet. long. It will bo reached by el va tors in tho logs of tho towers, and will bo used as a grand promenade. The globo will bo reached by eight ele vators from a central suppoit below its c< nter, and also by two in each leg of the towor. making sixteen in all. Tho towers are built in tho form ot tho letter A, tile in itial of America. The interior of the globo will bo used for a number of cyeloraraio views, tepresent ingtho landing of Columbus and various other events in his career; also a repre sentation of tho various countries of the world. One of the most elaborate and costly o' all the scheraos propos il em-mates also from New York, and is called the Oriwvuy Spiral Tower. This is to be I.o'lofeet in height. 400 foot In dinmotor at tho base, tapering gradually to 225 feet at the lop. Jt is to be built of a lattice work of iron, as open us possible to allow for the free pass ago of tho wind. thu> reducing to a minimum tho danger or its blowing down. Inside the tower will bo constructed a double spi' ul ro uhvay extoiidjn r li oin the ground to the observatory, or platfoi m, a< the top. Tl.e grade of these circular road ways will be but 8 fout in 1,000, which wil enable toams to bo driven up and down on a trot This would make a drive of nearly four miles, or almost eight for the round trip. The olhor spiral will bo for ears, which will b • run on what is called tho "thread less screw" system, whatever that may be. Tho pars uro to bo run once a mluuto und ro attain quite ft nifffi 1 ate or speed. The observatory will bo 000 leet hitrhor than the loftiest point of the Eiffel Tower, and very nearly throe times the height of the Wash ington Monument. The estimated cost of this vast ftnd solid struoturo Is $2,500.000-a tritie when aNew- Yorker is figuring. It is unnecessary to say that it is proposed to muko it a perma nent institution. But the toil structures suggested for the World's Fair are not all in the nature of ' | TWENTY-EIGHT STORY HOTEL. towers. Chicago has very tull building* now. and. if the fair is located there, will rect some veritable "sky-scrapers." One, of which a sketch is given, will be of twou ty-eight stories. It will bo built of Iron, and contain no w
    . Mr. Arnold, of Thompson, is inl * sixteen years old. but 110 is r.v six feet tall and his foot are vffites a Connecticut correspondent. They are bigger than any other feet iu Windham County, and perhaps in tho New En gland States. Young Thompson step ped into Eli Tracy's shoe shop e.t Cen tzM Village the other day and said lit would like to have the shoeman make him n pair of boots. "All right," said Eli, "just put youi foot on this measuro, and I'll get youi size." Thompson tried to do as he had been bidden, but found it impossible to com ply with the request. Although Tracy slipped the marker out to the jump ing off place 011 the measure, tin "vwas not nearly room enough to ac( v u >- date the young man's extrao* fry foot. "Well," said lie looking up agi.nAt, "I never! You heat the record. What size boot do you usually wear?" "Ob, generally 1 can got 011 sixteens," replied the youth, with ingenious com placency, "but latterly they've pinched my feet some, and I guess I'll take a size or two larger this time." Tracy then made an approximate es timate of the big foot, and found that it called for a boot one inch and a half longer than his measure. "I can't, fill the bill for you," said he, "for you take a boot bigger thau any last that is made." ►So young Thompson had to go away without hope, and ho is in a dilemma. The prospect is that he will have to go unshod during the remainder of his life unless he can persuade some liberal-soled contractor to make a last especially for his use, which , will he expensive. Thompson- is not the only six-footer and big-footer in his family AII incompeieni iirivei. Western man (in street car, blocked by a crush on Broadway)—l don't want to sit here all day. Why don't this 'ere street car company hire competent drivers?—that's what I'd like to know ? Kesidont—But what can the driver do? Western man Wall, I dunno, but he miglit act as if he took some interest in the oecarion, anyhow. Look at him! Kitt-in' there mum as an oyster! Why don't he stand up, an' rare around and swear ?— New York Weekly, The Best lie Could Do. Small Hoy—"Say, dad, I wish you'd get me a bicycle." Old Mau—"Can't afford it, my son. Bent too high, coal too dear. Besides, I don't want you to break your neck." Small Boy- "Well, then, u tricycle." Old Man—"Can't doit. But I'll tell you what you can have. When winter comes I'll try and get you a nice long icicle." [The youngster is pacified.J— drip. WRITERS OF FICTION. BY WM. ALEXANDER BO WEN. | — nil ACKER AY'S ] IT" Vanity Fair" is rV/~ _T Bp® undoubtedly a 6F3novel without a £ JEXTYT] jihero. Its only heavy villain is jfr Becky Sharp, if fi we except Lord Stavne, who is really a secondary character. While the novel, taken as a whole, is the most terrible satire in the English language, not excepting Swift's works,it is also true. This makes it all the more forcible. Thackeray was more than an artist. He wrote not only to produce something inter esting and valuable, but to give vent to his acorn and hatred of the shams and hypocrisy and snobbery and time serving mammon-worshiping age in which ho lived. Our own novelists treat love temper ately, depending on what the critics call 44 realism " for that absorbing in terest which was formerly thought to be found only in making love the pre dominant theme. Thus Howells, in i:is best novel. 44 A Modern Instance," makes the interest center, not in the love-making of his hero, but in the de velopment of the character of Bartley Hubbard, a man without principle, but who is smart in the American sense. Mr. Henry .Tames, whose name is al ways thought of in connection with that of Mr. Howells, rarely permits his lovers to exhibit much emotion. He ilso deals in the same calm manner with the other feelings. It may bo for this reason that neither of the novel ists is popular with any except that .'lass which claims to bo more intel lectual than their neighbors. But, nev ertheless, no novelist of any age has ever been more careful in sketching his characters, or has given us stronger touches of human nature and action than Mr. James. In "The Bostonians" he pictures to us the real and the sham philanthropists of the city of culture, its charlatanry, its fads and its genuine enthusiasms. Mrs. Burnett and Miss Woolson are more intense than either of the latter uamed, and more impressed with the importance of love as a factor in human life. Being women, they could not be otherwise. "Through One Adminis tration" is a love story, and, at the same time, a study of manners and characters at the national capital. Mrs. Burnett and Miss Woolson both award the palm to duty whore they picture a struggle in their stories be tween love and ditty. In this they differ from the old school of love-story novelists. Miss Murfree (Charles Egbert (haddock) is equally powerful in depicting the passions of the heart. It may be set down as a fact that stories without love as the strongest passion in them will never bo popular with any class of readers. Love is the strongest passion in life, and must bo so in, stories of human life, to he popu lar with readers who love, or have loved. Many peoplo think they have reached the summit of criticism wlieu they complain that there is too much love in novels and stories. It will, perhaps, be enough to say, before ex amining this charge, that any story which did not deal with lovo at all would not be a story of life in this world. Love is the great motive power which spurs men and w omen 011 to ac tivity. This and its wicked sister spirit, hatred, are the two great con trolling forces of humanity. But the charge mentioned was for merly more just than now. Only the fewest, comparatively, of readers would tolerate a novel which did not have .ovo as the prime factor of life; lovo and the most thrilling experiences of :hose actuated by that passion must orm the basis of any story which is to be popular with the masses. And, after all, writers toil only that they may become popular, because this Achievement means wealth as well as fame. But Balzac and Thackeray, in writ ing novels without love in them, un dertook what some critics call a broader treatment of human life than making love the foundation of their novels. Ihey saw clearly that to havo no other key than love to unlock the secrets of life they could never lead to an under standing of history, public or private, or the sciences and common affairs ol I i I Balzac had a mind to study all the passions all the strong, controlling motives of life. He was assiduous in investigating all those abnormal devel opments of character which may be safely classed on the harmless side ol insanity, but which result, neverthe less, in the deformity of moral charac ter. Tn the old-stylo novel the villain serve d simply to complicate the plot rod to act as a foil to the virtues of the aero until the last act, or chapter, when virtue invariably triumphed. Balzac found that this was seldom the result in real life, and that the villain could bo made interesting on his own account; and that ho could be made to serve a higher purpose, and be at the same time more interesting, if shown in a novel just as he is in real life,— Chicago Ledger. A Name that Puzzled the Priest. Not long since there came to a priest in Connecticut, in whoso parish are a number of French Canadians, a man who wished to arrange for his approach ing marriage, and the priest, who did not recognize him, asked his name. "My-glory-by-night," replied the .man, with every appearance of good faith. He did not speak English very flu ently and the priest supposed that lie ; must have misunderstood, j "Your name, I said," he repeated, ."What is your name?" "My-glory-by-night," the man said again. "You can't liavo such a name as that," the priest said; "somebody has translated it wrongly for you. "What ia it in French V" I "Magloire Benoit," the man an swered. It was easy to see how the extraordi nary combination with which the man 'announced himself had been come at. The good people of Connecticut had pronounced "Benoit" phonetically, and translation had done the rest. AN emigrant cartographer declares that the map of Africa is changed by every mail. Fresh geographical news from the dark continent twice made'ne cessary changes of parts of the great globe of tjie Paris Exhibition during its construction; and two years ago some map-makers were five times com pelled to take from the press a largo map of the Congo Stato for addition* and corrections,