IN THE SPRINGTIME THE YOUNG MAN'S FANCY TURNS TO A NEW SUIT CLOTHES. What Is Coin*; I,e Worn by the Mascu line Foilii ( " iableH This Season —Checks and Stripes Will He in Stylo—Many Varie ties of Suits. fWICE a year the stylish tailor abso lutely owns men who like to dress well. The tailor with taste, who keeps himself posted, really leads the fashions. AN hat is he going to do this year? This is the answer of a fash ionable tailor to the query: "The spring fashions are all out," said the artist. "In a general way it may he said that neat checks anil small stripes will he very popular, and occasionally a modest plaid will he in demand. The fashionable color will Certainly he a blue-grav. Theso plates show the latest," he said, pointing to a colored fashion-plate on the wall. In a general way it may he said that the styles in vogue last year are to he re produced for this season, hut in the matter of detail the new fashions are wholly unlike those of a year ago. Radical changes are not made sudden ly. Character is everything in clothes. The lengths for this spring are differ ent from those of last year, and there is a divergence also in the lines of cut ting. One of the most pronouuced effects is the straight, double-breasted Sack coat, which promises to bo a fa vorite with swell dressers. The ma terial for the coat is, as a rule, cheviot, in plain color, such as black, blue, electric gray, andi other quiet shades. The lapels are wide and roll low, and may be faced with silk or not, as the wearer elects. The coat is worn closed by three buttons. A double-breasted vest of the same material as the coat may be selected, or a single-breasted vest, or one of fancy material, single or double breasted, ac cording to taste. The trousers are of medium width, and may have a mili tary stripe of silk down the seam if de sired. There is wide play for the ex ercise of individual taste in that re gard. Another elegant design is the straight-front sack suit in striped cheviot. There is no rule as to the ex act pattern or color of the fabric, blue, however, being in the lead. The fronts of the coat are slightly rounded at the bottom, and the lapels are of medium fullness. A double row of stitching jTuns along the edges of the coat, and the bottoms of the sleeves are stitched to match. The pockets are all of the patch order. The trousers, owing to the lightness of the material, are full. Next in order as a fashionable fad, es pecially for young men, is the one-but ton cutaway sack suit. A stylish ma terial is a plaid cheviot, either quiet or loud in pattern, according to the whim Of the man who wears it. The coat opens low, with a low vest, and the trousers are of generous dimensions, but not baggy. The days of baggy trousers, by the way, are past, if not forever, at least for some time to come. The fronts of the coat are well cut away, and are rounded at the bottom. The breast pocket is finished with a welt, but the side pockets have (laps, which are always to be worn on the outside. The vest to go with this suit should have a notched collar and should open from fourteen to fifteen inches. It should also have five buttons. For men of a sporting turn and for politi cians, the suit most appropriate, and one which the fashion designers have brought into a high state of perfection this spring, is the single-breasted frock, or Prince Albert. It is fashioned on graceful lines, and for a man of impos ing physique is one of the most becom ing imaginable. The coat is essentially patterned after the double-breasted Prince Albert, but is somewhat shorter. The material of the suit should be of fancy worsted, mainly in light colors, gray or cream being preferable. Tho collar of the coat is full and lolls low, in order to allow ample sway to the vest, which has alow opening. Unlike the double-breasted Prince Albert coat this one lias an outside pocket, which Is finished with a welt. The edges are stitched and mo sleeves have imita- ' tion cuffs, closed with two buttons, i I lie lapels have a soft finish, so as to roll free when the cont is open. Com- i monly, however, it is kept buttoned 1 The trousers are of medium width, and have the faintest suspicion of spring at I the bottom. There are several distinct varieties of business suits, but the one intended to interest swell dressers who desire a relief from the straight, double-breast ed sack is the three-button cutaway sack. It is picturesque and graceful, and, if properly made, will adjust itself beautifully to tho curves of the human form. For the most part the fabric is of diagonal Cheviot, Dnt piiifdS ana soft check patterns are equally appropriate. If a fancy vest is worn, the one most fitting is" of Marseilles linen, although freedom of choice may be exercised on this point. The length of this coat is a trifle longer than obtains generally in the sack design. The roll of the collar should not he less than five inches, with full lapels and a general appearance of freedom and ease. As to the bottom corners of the coat, or what would he the corners if not cut away, they should recede from an inch below the lower button. All the pockets should have flaps, with the discretion of having the upper pocket made with a welt. Ivory buttons are considered the very proper form, and the edges should be double stitclied, narrow. The vest is supposed to bo notched and to close with five but tons. What manner of overcoat should a man wear this season ? The creators of fashion haven't been so fastidious in j this respect as in others, and, in a gen eral way, it may be said that the spring i overcoat of last year is appropriate I now. The fly-front oversack or Ches ; terfield is the common favorite. Soft worsteds are the correct material, and the length for the average man is from thirty -six to tliirty-Beven inches. There is one important change, however, j As a matter of course the three-but ! ton cutaway will still he tho uonular garment, and will lead all others" this season, as for several in the past. For half-dress and for general style, well-mado appearance, they can not bo surpassed. Tho favorite shade will be blue-gray, with either fiat braided edge or narrow stitching. The coat may be worn with a vest of the same ma terial, or as fancy as the wearer de- Bires, and the trousers should be just n triflo narrower than last year, with tho suspicion of a spring at tho bottom. This makes about as swell an outfit as is in the market. I A very stylish conceit for men of [ middle age, especially for those of tall and slender build, is tho two-button ] cutaway morning suit. As the name j implies, the coat closes with two but tons, set wide apart, and the whole effect is most graceful. Cheviots, in j any chaste pattern, is the proper ma terial for the coat. The vest may be of fancy goods, and the trousers in checks, plaids, or stripes, as preferred. For trousers, this season, the patterns run almost entirely to plaids and j stripes, the latter being the most fa ' vored. When the entire suit -a cut | from the same piece, soft plaids are in i good grCJe, but by all odds the most 1 popular effect is diagonal of rather j broad wale. For vests there is an end | less variety of fancy designs in light materials, such as silk pique, linen, j mohair, and so on. A (load Man. ! A ragged man applied to the super intendent for a position. I "Are you thoroughly acquainted with the business?" the superintendent j asked. | "Yes." I "Have you ever been employed on a j railroad ? "Yes." " Have you ever been conductor of a J passenger train ?" j "Yes." "I suppose you turned in all the money which you took in ? " | "Yes." | "What?" j "I said yes." "Look here, my friend, you are the man whom this road has been trying to shun. Y'ou don't need any creden tials. Wo don't want you."— Arkan- I saw Traveler. 1 THOSE fellows who dote on their 1 girls sometimes find matrimony a powerful antidote. IiSTXEBS FItOM THE CORNERS. NECK OR NOTHIN' HAEI,, I KILHRNUR CORNERS. ( JOS? A M I!EI)IT UR: When *r , W Mwo tole little Hes /#/■'! or A ml ' s man, Ca i <lfjlp ,e ' n r °bl>ed, hoses: 11 had place fur ! of all kinds, an you'l liev to keep wether eye V-badly tuck in." W An he laffed. Willam Ilonery rote to Ben to send liim sum more munny, an the widder wrote to her folks to do the same. "1 gess I'll give a crazy tee while youre here, maw," ses little Hester Ann, "an then yon kin git acquainted with every buddy frum Zion's hill to Shinlione alley," an so she begin to fix 1 h*r it. Laws what beeps of pies an cakes an bred an sich, not to mention I j' an preserves an so forth, her an I her sarvent did make, j Haint you a goin to liev a mizzle toe a r';K m 1° aampthiu," arsked Sally. I 'They haint nun now," ses little Hester Ann. "Well, I'm a goin to hang sum sweet brire up fur a mizzle toe, ef you don't jkeor," ses Sally, an little Hester Ann didn't keer, an so she squirmmislied ' around an got sum, an tide it to the I hangin lamp. ! "Now, then, the fust feller thet gits in under thet I'ma goin to kiss," ses she. "Well, you needn't he afecred of cnny I )of 'em a gittin enny wayse neer it ef they no what's a cumin," ses William Henery, a keepin cleer out of her reecli. Well, when the appinted time kim, every buddy an his brother or sister, |es the case mite be, wus tliare. Sally managed to git a boy about 15 or niebby he mite hev bin 16, but not lennv more then thet. Well, es I wus a sa'yin, Sally managed to git him way off to one side, an she did jist talk to him. "I do hope she wunt invaggle Julian into enny thing rash," ses little Hester Ann, kindy anxious. An then we all went out to supper. Wus you over to a crazy tee, Mr. Editur ? Ef you never wus you don't no how silly "it makes a pussen feal to reech fur the bred an dab yure hand into the cole chicking, or to take yure inife to git sum butter, an find the ichow-chow into the butter dish, an the jsuger into the pepper box an salt into the suger bole, an cake into the big tureen, gravy into the creem picher, [cheese into the pickle dish, an so on. ievery thing so mixed up It wus euuf to .make a pussen crazy, a'most. An .every buddy a laffeu fit to kill at the mistakes they keep a makin. When we hod all of us ett es mutch cs we cood we went back to the frunt room, an I seon tho widder wus a mak ;in fur the mizzle toe. "Now thet pore boy is a goin to ketch jit," thinksos I. An shore enuff he did, she kissed him tell he squirmed out uv her reech, ail he wus jest reddy to cry, he wus thet plugged, j "Youd (better take one o yure own age," ses a gray heddod feller steppin up an kissin her. "Thet is Widower Crnekshiu," whis ipered a woman to me, "an he hes ben niarryed G times an hes 19 livin chil ' dern." | The widder run an' screeched, an' ! wus kindy plagged herself; an then the yung folks begin to danee, an' every whoop-stitch sum yung feller 'ud git liia pardner under the mizzle toe an' kiss her. "O, if I coud only dance," sithed Miss Hoggs, whon Mister Cpickshiu kim an' arsked her to; but she* couldn't, an' so tliay promenaded, an' when he got her under the mizzle toe he kissed her again. ■ "It don't hurt me nun," ses sho, a laflin', an' she couldn't talk about nothin' next day but that man an' his lovely whuskers, an' so forth. We started away from there 2 days after. I tell you, I wus thankful Wm. Henry didn't git into no scrimmage like he did to Tillie's. So, good-by. HESTER ANN SCOOPEH. I THE English sparrows have almost exterminated the wrens, orioles and meadow larks, and in five years more the keno gooso will be about the only native bird left. Appropriate. It occasionally happens that hymns are selected for a church servico which sound ludicrously appropriate in tho cars of an amused congregation. The custom has prevailed within a certain church in California of present ing each member of the Sabbath , school with an egg, during the exer cises at the celebration of Easter. On one occasion of the kind, when the in teresting ceremony was at hand, tho assistant clergyman rose, and made the announcement: "Hymn four hundred nineteen, 'Bo gin, my soul, the exalted lay,' after which the eggs will be distributed."— Harper's Drawer. A Clearer Idea Wanted. "Well, sir, what is it?" said the pro prietor of the store to the young man who had onterod his office. "It just occurred to me that a largo proportion of my daily work consisted in hollering 'cash!'" "No doubt." "And $7 a week is the extent of my income from this establishment?" "Yes." "Well, I wanted to know whether yon couldn't arrange it and give me a little clearer idea of what I am talking about during the course of my duties." Washington I'ost. A NEW albuminous poison, of one hun dred times the power of strychnine, has been described by Prof. Kobert to the Society of Naturalists of Dorpat. It is extracted from the seeds of Abrus pr&atoria, which have long been used as irritants and anti-hemorrliage reme dies, in Brazil for ophthalmia and in India as a poison. Entire English colo nies are said to have been murdered in India by pricks from sharp points rolled j up in the seeds, tho mark left being uo j more than that from the sting of an in- j sect. The poisonous principle causes doath by coagulation of the blood cor puscles. ON THE UPPER AMAZON. EXPLORER ERRENREICH'S REMARK ABLE DISCOVERIES. ftrazillan Aborigines In a State of Savage IlarbarlHin—A Strange People Who Wear Very .Little Clothing The Men Are Brave and Warlike, and the Women Wear Bangs. H the great in rgfTta surance compa- W' I nies of New I ' WAM York insure tU* V\ many lives in & I'ttfT B South and Cen tral America, at r- son d medical in not having re mained long enough, of course, to be come acclimated, his company feels Bafo in presuming that its rbtts down there are tolerably safe. One of these medical inspectors, who has been the means of securing for the Sim's readers the unique pict ures of Brazilian aborigines presented in tlri* article, has just returned from Bio, w here he met a remarkable young German explorer named Ehrenreich. The names of Wissman and Schnitzeu may some day shine no more illus triously than that of Ehrenreich, if this intrepid fellow succeeds in putting be fore the world the results of his ex plorations on the upper Amazon, along its groat tributaries, and in the dense primeval forests, tho Brazilian "back woods," where no white man had pre ceded him. "I was sitting in a cafe at Bio one evening just before I sailed," says the; medical inspector, "when I saw at a table not far away a gentleman wlio seemed much interested in some photo graphs spread out before him. At a second glance I recognized him as the man I had seen that morning with a camera near Dom Pedro's palace, evi dently bent on getting some new views of it. I myself had been fortunate enough to get some views of the in terior of the palace, which few stran gers at that time at least succeeded in getting a glimpse of, and I felt inter ested enough in my rival's success to ask him what fortuno had been his. He had not succeeded in penetrating tlio interior of the palace. 'Hut these,' said ho, pointing to the photographs before him, 'are far more valuable than any photographs I could ever take in ltio.' "Dr. Ehrenreicli—that was his namo —was tall and slight. He wore a red dish beard, had blue eyes, and the de termined insouciance of a veteran traveler. I should take him to be about 85 years of ago and inferred from what he said that he was on a special mission of exploration for the German government, who paid all his expenses " 'This Caraja tribe of native Hra zilians,' said Dr. Ehrenreicli, 'I found on both banks of the Araguaya River. I believe no white man has ever studied them carefully before; certainly to my knowledge they have never been de scribed. They present many points oi interest for the student of antliropolo gy. Their manners are primitive to a remarkable degreo and their customi unique. At the same time the men ar< a hardy, light-footed, and fairly intclli gent set; and the women, who do the bulk of the work of the family and the community, while less intelligent, are nono the loss well formed. They all have coarse, black hair, which the men keep short. " 'The women wear bangs,.striking ly suggestive of those affected by the Caucasian ladies. Their hair is a glossy color and their oyes are so bright and black that they shine like beads. Their skin is a very dark coffee color. The men wear no clothing, the women a breech-clout only. Their ornaments aro of bone and shells, worn around the neck, in the upper lip, lower lip, and ears. Men and womon alike wear necklaces, and the former wear oagle fcathors in their hair and on their war caps, as befit warriors. Their weapons nro quite formidable, consisting of bone and stono tipped spears eight to ten feet long and a long bow, from which five-foot arrows, bone-tipped and feath ered, are shot with great accuracy. " 'The Cararja live in thatched huts, the corner-posts and roof-beams of which are made of roughly cut trees, the walls and roofs of reeds" and pampa grass. They have a notably heavy jaw and a rather dogged expression of determination. They seem to be a brave and rather thrifty race. The men's faces are notably more pleasing than those of the women. Both have w ell-proportioned shoulders and limbs and are capable of great exertion.' " French and English. Mr. Hamerton, in his comparison of French and English manners, says the English way of behavior stands for dignity, the French for grace. The Englishman wishes to convey the idea that he is a dignified gentleman; the Frenchman that he is a witty and ac complished man of the world. An Englishman does not care about a rep utation for politeness, but he does greatly care about his dignity, and is afraid of compromising it by being in cautiously amiable. A Frenchman's manners represent his ambition to be thought brilliant; he is therefore lively and amusing. He takes trouble to make his conversation interesting. To an Englishman he seems to lay himself out too much for admiration, while to a Frenchman an Englishman appears to be destitute of manners. The Englishman is anxions not to be troublesome; the Frenchman tries not to be dull. Mr. Hamerton says the best popular English manners are to be found in certain rural districts, the worst in thriving and energetic Lancashire, where the mill-hands are aggressive toward well-dressed ladies and gentle men. A lady, a neighbor of Mr. Hamer ton's, happened to be walking in a muddy street in Lancashire. She lifted her skirts a little, while near a group of factory girls, and their sharp : eyes noticed her stockings, which were | of some unbleached material. "Well,'' cried out one, "afore Oi'd don stockin's no better washed nur them theere!" (Well, before I'd put 011 stockings no better washed than those!) The general explosion of laughter caused the lady to drop her skirts. One day Mr. Hamerton, while wear ing a new overcoat, passed near a house on which several masons were at work. One of them shouted out some coarse remark about the overcoat, and Mr. Hamerton replied: "Why can't you let my coat alone ? I came by it honestly; it is paid for." "Paid for, is't?" he sneered. "It waddn't 'a' bin if th' 'ad 'ad t' addle th' brass." (It would not have been if thou liadst had to earn the money.) So Mr. Hamerton walked away de feated, nmidst the jeers of the other workmen. Mr. Hamerton has long resided in France, where he is known to hundreds of poor people, but he has never once been insulted, nor jeered by them be cause he had a good coat on his back. Gn the contrary, numbers of people, whose names he did not know, kabitu ally lifted their hats on meeting him. Driving out on a market-ilay, he had to keep his right hand free to return the salutations of peasants returning to their homes. Frenchmen are often excessively po lite as a defense against intimacy; an Englishman, on the contrary, defends himself by a chilling reserve. Bessie Miller's Utile Game. Bessie Miller lives at Carondelet, Mo. She was taken with pneumonia and was awful sick. Delirium set in and the burden of the girl's cry was for "John," that being the surname of the young man who had been keeping com pany with her for several months. The mother telegraphed to the fntlier that their darling daughter was dying. In the meantime Johu was sent for, and on his arrival the lacerated lungs seemed to heal up as though manipu lated by a faith-curist. Her delirium passed away like a mist before the morning sun and she was bright and chipper as a lark. John remained at her side all day, and on leaving in the evening promised to return next morn ing. Being out of a job, it was an easy thing for him to do, and that second day's companionship entirely cured the girl. She is now in perfect health and the wedding cards have been sent out. Bessie's father, who paid good money to go home, hasn't fathomed the mys tery yet, but when he hears the story ho winks slyly to himself.— Detroit .Journal. The Spread or Leprosy. According to Dr. Morell Mackenzie, leprosy, the scourge of the middle ages, has not become practically ex tinct among Europeans, but is really spreading. It has between ten and twelve hundred victims in Norway, is found also in Portugal, Greece and Italy, and is rapidly spreading in Sici ly, in the Baltio provinces of Russia and in France, while the British Isl ands are not exempt from it. In the United States cases have been found in California, in some of the States of the Northwest, in Utah and Louisiana. Many cases exist in New Brunswick. In the Sandwich Islands the disease first broke out in 1853 and there are now 1,100 lepers in the Molokai settle ment alone. The disease is extending in the West Indies. Walked Across the River in n Kettle. As a syrup maker was peacefully preparing for work among the maples he became aware that Indians were stealing upon him and were already in possession of his canoe. Whatever was to be done had to he done quicklv, and frontier wit was equal to the emergency. Snatching up his deep kettle he inverted it over his head and boldly waded into the river. The in verted kettle acted, of course, as a diving bell, and with his head in this air chamber he walked across the river, which in tho middle was many feet over his head, to tho utter amazement of tho Indians.— Philadelphia Times ISN'T the mnn who paints a fence* huo or of wood ? PLANTS IN PROFUSION. CHE NATIONAL BOTANICAL GARDENS AT WASHINGTON, clare Plants from Many Climes— Flow©™ Galore Object of the Garden One of the Most Attractive and Alluring Places ol Public Resort in the Land. t. HE National Bo- Garden is an institution that is little heard of, except in a general way, outside of Washington, and yet it is one of the most interesting and beautiful of the many magnifi cent enterprises carried on by the aid of the govern ment in and around the capi tal. Now that win ter has passed away, and the flowers that bloom Bpin the spring have | come again, this most instructive and alluring place of public resort is the one place which most attracts the beauty and fashion of the continent. It is situated at the foot of Capitol Hill, and covers many acres of ground. There are two main en trances, magnificent in design, consisting of four marble-aud-brick gate-piers with hinge iron gates. Visitors are permitted to enter these gardens and wander about through the numerous and winding walks, magnificently paved, but no wheeled vehi cles are allowed within the gates. In the center of the garden is the conservatory, which in itself is a wonderful structure. North of the conservatory is the famous Bnrtholdi fountain, with a marble basin ninety feet in diameter. Besides these there are ten small conservatories, with a lecture or botanical class-room, with ac commodations for one hundred students. Object of tlio Garden. The object of the garden is education and distribution of rare plants. For this purpose four conservatories are devoted exclusively to propagation. The disposi tion of plants is made according to geo graphical distribution. The stiictly trop ioal productions are in the center, semi tropical, requiring protection and lying toward the north j>oie, aro in the wost wing, and the indigenous plants are in the east wing. In these various depart ments may bo found the most rare plants of the world. Among the most attractive will be noticed the sacred palm tree spoken of HO often in Scripture, aud the fig-tree, which was used so effectively by our illustrious ancestors as wearing ap parel in the Garden of Eden. All varie ties of palm—the fan, royal, sago, oil, wine, coco de Chili, sugar, and cradle palms—contribute to swell the beautiful j collection of this species. Then there I are the East India bamboo, tree i fern of New Zealand, astrapea of j Madagascar, screw pine of Austra lia, with corkscrew leaves and roots I in mid-air; maiden's-hair fern, banana; i mango, a most delicious fruit found only in tlio West Indies; the groat stag and elk-horn ferns, of Australia; dumb cane, of South America; this latter plant is wonderful in that it has the power of rendering speechless any one who tastes i of it. Humboldt tasted of the sap and I was speechless for eight days. And these | are only a tithe of the grand accumula tion in this wonderful garden. An enum i eration of the different species of rare j plants here grown would fill a largo vol- I ume. Almost every country in the world !is represented. The rarest productions i of the South Sea islands, Cape of Good Hope, Australia, New Zealand, India, China, Japan, Mexico, Egypt, and every country of Europe are carefully nursed. I Besides those, the management" is nego | tiating to secure valuable additions from ! the interior of Africa. The Autocrat of the Garden, j Those who aro supposed to derive the most direct benefit from the gardens art our Senators, Bepreseutatives, and Cabi net officers and their families. When floral decorations are wanted it is to the i superintendent of this propagating es tablishment they send. This superin. | tendent is a perfect autocrat in his way, With unlimited control in his particulai sphere, he accedes to the requestor not afl he sees fit. At this seasou of the yeai he is the most courted personage in th city. Public parties and receptions are n failure without his knife. It is amus ing to attend one of these swell affairs. One can tell the instant he enters tho house to what extent the hostess has gone to seoure tho good-will of the botanical garden. If the spacious roointf are tinctured with the delicious odor of luxuriant plants and festooned with beau tiful rich bouquets, we can at once con elude with safety that the gay manage ment of the National Botanical Museum is an honored guest. If only misty flower-pots, with niches in tho side and half-withered plants, or Swampoodle morning-glories laboring under the dis ; advantages of a hard winter, are exposed to view, it is fair to presume that the lady of the house has unintentionally omitted from her calling list one of the most important personages of the gay and festive capital. So who can blame the spoiled favorites of fashion and for tune, when the first invitation penned | reads "Mr. Smith, Botanical Gardens." " Exceeding Obliged." i The wife of a well-known Senator gave an afternoon reception during the holi j days last winter, and desiring to make ■ the affair as pleasant as possible for her i guests, sent a polite note to the conser vatory requesting that some plants and flowers be sent to her home. At 11 o'clook j the covered delivery wagon drove up to | the door and handed out a single, solitary moss-covered pot containing a plant that in the language of the chagrimed lady re sembled a "California stink weed." She sent it b ck with a still more polite note stating that she was "exceeding obliged, but that her reception being an informal one she was loath to rob the conservatory of so rare a treasure, and would he be so kind as to send in his bill for his trouble." It is safe to say that there is one Senator's wife who doesn't decorate her rooms with flowers from the national garden. JAMES C. MOODY. WASHINGTON, D. C. Somewhat Different. Note the difference, however. Mrs. NVhite, sister of Senator Sawyer and his housekeeper, gave an elaborate enter tainment during the Lenten season, and. with the aid of these beautiful floral decorations the Senator's house was made absolutely bewildering. It was like wan dering in fairy land to pans through the house, from one room to another, so magnificently ariayed in the splendor of rare and costly plants and breathing the sweet fragrance of Oriental perfume. No one but an enthusiast with wonderful power of description would attempt to convey an idea of the magnificence lent tho average Washington dwelling by a liberal display of plants from the na tional conservatory. An adjunct of the national botanical gardens is Vhe White House conservatory, situated on tho west side of the building. It contains also many rare and beautiful plants, mostly gifts to tho occupants of the White House from foreign countries. From here aro taken the floral decora tions so lavishly used on public reception days by the President's wifo. George Washington Perk. George W. Peck, humorist, author, editor, publisher, and gentleman, has at one leap jumped into national prom inence as a politician, by his successful campaign as the candidate of the Democratic party for Mayor of the city of Milwaukee. As th§ publisher of Peck's Sun , he accumulated a fortune in a comparatively short time from the profits of his paper and the publication in book form of his humorous writings that appeared in its columns. It was his weekly humorous sketches of "The Bad Boy and His Pa" that attracted the largest attention. The whole na tion was put to laughing over them, with the result that the Sun very sud denly acquired an enormous circuH tion. These sketches were afterward printed in book form, and the work was successfully dramatized. Then a vol ume, made up of humorous selections from the Sun, was published under the title of "Peck's Fun." Both of these books had a tremendous sale, and netted the genial author many thou sands of dollars, which, together with the profits from the paper, was judi ciously invested in Milwaukee real es tate. As a result, Milwaukee's new Mai ror is not, as some people imagine, au impecunious newspaper paragrapli er, but a man of solid wealth, endowed with a big brain and a level bead. ' Hitherto George W. Peek has enjoy ed the reputation of being an honest man. It is to be hoped his new asso ciations in the political realm will not cause him to loso this priceless posses sion.— Chicago Ledger. A Monster Itinl. Where conld be found anything of the sort prettier than the square before the great white cathedral of San Jose, Costa Pica? They call it Central Park. It is inclosed by a high iron fence, with gates at each corner. Huge old trees afford suflicieut shnde at midday. Near the center of the park stands a dainty kiosk,decorated artistically with | the blue, white, and red of the nation's ' colors. Horo the 1 Government band plays twice a week of an afternoon, while all the world comes to parade in silk attire. The soldiers also drill every morning at eight, in the broad path at the eastern end. Here, too, they come for review at six of the afternoon, the officers passing the line while the band plays "La Oracion," a sweetly solemn hymn. This little picture of vivid coloring VOTING ZOPILOTE. is one which can never l>e forgotten. The scarlet of the band's uniform is like a flame against the emerald and deeper green of the foliage. And on every side the rarest flowers, carefully tended and always in full bloom, are j seen. Birds of all kinds sing or chatter in the tree-tops. Seven gorgeous macaws —huge creatures of splendid scarlet plumago—wander, unhindered by cord or cage, aliout the park. Half a dozen wonderful green parrots of similar freedom carry on intelligent conversa tions with each other and with the people who approach them. A huge king of Zopilotes, an uncanny-looking bird, occupies a spacious cage not far from the central fountain. Power of Silver as an Attraction. | A story is told of a man who once lived in a town about Ave miles from here. He was one of those men who didn't care any more for a dollar than he did for his left eye. He dropped into a saw-mill and stood watching the buzz saw. It was revolving so swiftly that it was impossible to see but that it stood motionless, so he put his linger on it to find out. A yell of pain an nounced that he had found out, and the owner rushed to tho scene. "What's the matter?" he asked. "Why," said Mr. 8., "I just put my finger out so," suiting the action to tho word, and zip! off went a second finger, which flew into a distant pile of sawdust. A hunt was made for a pair of fingers, but they were not to be found. They searched high and low, but with no success, until some one who knew of Mr. B.'s "nearnoss" threw a half-dollar down on the floor. The fingers imme diately ran out and clutched it.— Berkshire News. SILENCE for ten days, speakiug only in whispers for ten days more, then gradual return to the ordinary voice, is a recommendation for stammerers. He was a quiet individual of a very pronounced type, and as he entered a well-known "sample-room" he placed a pack of cards on the counter and mumbled some indistinot words to the sampler behind tho counter, who im mediately produced a sample of a red looking liquid and a colorless one, which the silent man mixed and then swallowed. This seemed to choer him somewhat. "You can pick any card out of that pack," ho exclaimed, in a tremulous voice, "and I can tell the card every time for tho drinks. Shuffle the pack as often as you please, draw the card anywhere you please." The offer was accepted, drinks for the crowd put up, and one of the party— the mau who made tho wager—drew a card. "Jnck o' hearts," said the stran ger huskily, and the jack of hearts it was. As the mysterious unknown swallowed his poison he deftly scat tered tho pack face up on tho counter. It was made up of fifty two jacks of hearts. A BAD habit broken away from is a 'good day's work. The earlier a habit is formed the stronger tho hold it has. Private personal habits are more diffi cult to get rid of and have a more de moralizing effect than public ones.
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