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
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■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
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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<ol except, what is used in the doors and
windows, being in consequence absolutely
lire-proof. It will bo furnished with thir
teen elevators, one for every two floors
above tho second, which will stop to ro
coive passengers ar no others than the ones
they serve.
It will be 350 fert in height, containing
nearly I.UJO rooms, and be perfect and
complete In all its appointments. The
DRIVEWAY SPIRAL TOWER.
plans tor tills striict-.sr 5 Uuv: D, en prepared,
and whether or not the architect is to bo
classed with cranks remain* to bo so* n.
To Western eyes tbo greatost crank- who
have thus fa - thrown down tho gaunt lot and
entered the arena, are found in tbo Now
York World's fair committee, who hope to
locate the wondorous prize in their metro
politan city by looking wise and holding
secret meetings.
However, it is difficult to tell who will ho
Governor until after tho election. Now York
may come out victorious, and all tho Span
ish castlos of the other cranks bo erected
according to the plans and specification*.
if so. as Cowper said of his own John
Gilpin, "may I bo there to see."
D WIOHTBALDWIN.
His Hoots Arc Number I<>.
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,