THE LADIES.
THE PRESIDENT'S WIFE IS HIS SECRETARY.
Mme. Curuot, wife of tho President of
France, acts us secretary to her husband,
has the cure of his private correspondence
alwuys, and, when he is over-pressed
with business or is desirous of taking
some little repose, as well as during his
absence, she tukes his place and transacts
all current affairs with a care and per
fect knowledge of business routine which
she owes to her early training; for in her
girlhood Mile. Dupont White was the
constant companion and also the amanu
ensis of her father, and had early to learn
to sacrifice her own tastes and amuse
ments that she might bo tho right hand of
the able political economist.—[New
York World.
PHYSICAL IMPROVEMENT OF THE SEX.
Sevoral English medical journals have
recently called attention to a fact, sus
tained by common observation, that the
young women of tho present day are bet
ter developed physically, taller, plumper,
stronger and healthier than the young
women of 50, 100, 150 or 200 yeurs ago,
and that in this continuous and percepti
ble improvement of condition and aspect
thero are no stops backward. One jour
nal has called attention to tho circum
stance that whereas a century ago a hand
some woman inspired sentiments of such
an admiring curiosity that her arrival or
departure drew vast crowds and rewarded
the patient waiting of hundreds; beauty
of the same sort is so general nowadays
as to ovoko no ripple of excitement. —
[Chicago Post.
THE NEW BODICES.
Tho now bodices aro all mado over a
fitted lining. Tho only places where the
matorial of tho bodice is united to the
lining and on the inside of the waist are
at tho two seams under the arm and ut
the shoulder seains. The now linings are
noteworthy for tho slender effect that
tboy give to the-corsage. Tho darts aro
brought as far forward as possible, leav
ing only about an inch between tho first
two darts, while tho second darts aro set
but a short distance further back. The
old-fashioned dart is an unknown thing
on tho outside of corsages, unless it is on
plain tailor dresses. Tho fulness neces
sary for tho figure is drawn up in the
centre of tho back and in the centro of
the front of bodices in a cluster of tiny
petals as doscribed, or is hold in and con
cealed undor a vest of embroidery and
velvet in front and a long slender point
of tho same at tho back. All tho new
waist forms are fully boned in every
seam.—[New York Tribune.
TEACHING FACTORY GIRLS.
Tho ladies of Elberfeld, Germany,
have adopted a practical system for
teaching factory girls how to become
good wives. It is well known that fac
tory girls are siugularly remiss in every
thing pertaining to good housewifery,
and that when they marry they know no
more about getting up a good dinner
than they do about sailing a yacht. Tho
plan of the Elberfeld women is to take
theso girls into their homes for a year of
servico previous to their marriage. So
now in Elborfold tho plan of teaching
factory girls how to live is something
like this: AS soon as a factory girl be
comes engagod to bo married she gives up
her position and tukes employment with
some woman who pledges herself to teach
tho girl all she knows about cooking,
baking, sweeping and all other house
wifely arts. At the end of tho year tho
girl is qualified to keep house properly
and economically. And if, by a mis
chance, thero should be a slip between
tho matrimonial cup and the lip, the
young woinau has learned so much that
ahe can go right on in domestic servico,
earning good wages, if she BO desires.—
[St. Louis Republic.
A GREEN BRONZE BOA.
I was told, writos a Paris correspon
dent, that boas a la 1830—that is to say,
the long ones—would bo abandoned this
season, but from the amount and variety
of its species noticeable, not only in
evory window, but moro especially around
evory mondaine's neck, I very naturally
como to the conclusion that my infor
mant's tip was of a very unccrtnin kind.
With regard to theso comforters I may
also add that fur, ostrich and cock s
foathorboas aro tho most fushionublo at
tho present momout, while long flatstolo
liko collarettes of sablo fall to tho feet,
and aro finished off by tho durk tails of
that expensive little animal. Theso flat
boas, I fancy, used to bo tormod in by
gone days Victorious. Tho ostrich
feather boas uro now built of a series of
tips ovorcurling, and not of ono unbroken
line of plume as horotoforo..
Tho latest novolty, howovcr, and
which I told you of sovoral weeks ago, is
tho green bronze boa of roosters' feath
ers, forming a vory thick ruohing of
curled feathers; others aro mudo of per
fectly flat and uncurled "plumes," and
although pretty, are not so light in ap
pearance as tho frißees.—[Lady's Pic
torial.
SHE MISSED IT 80.
"It's an old trick of the trade with tho
novelists to toll how young women, whon
in love, never fail nt a certain juncture i
to double-lock their room doors, and j
with many flushes and heart-boatings i
write down their Christian name coupled j
with tho surname of the man whom they
have promised or hope to marry," com
mented a young married woman lately
wedded to a fine man of her choice.
"I supposo it is tho way of many sen
timental girls, though I uover did it my
solf; instead, I underwent a very differ
ent emotion, of which I don't think men
havo any comprehension, but which I
find is not peculiar in my cuse. I moan
grief of having to give up one's maiden
name.
"All tho timo I was engaged I novor
took any thought for the day on which I
was to drop my own nice surnamo and
title, for whioh I had such a deop affec
tion, and bo addressed by my family, my
friends and pooplo to whom I was intro
duced by an entirely different one.
"For tho first woek after my marriage
even, I scarcely noticed the change, but
ono day there suddenly came over me a
curious littlo loucsomo feeling. It soemod
so chilly and formal, so unlike myself to
be addressed as '.Mrs.' at every hand, and
never to hoar my own dear origina
name.
"Tho moro I thought ovor tho matter
the more despairing I became. Novor.
never could 1 hear the old familiar 'Miss'
when anybody spoke to mo.
"Thereupon 1 actually locked myself
in my room and wept so long und bitterly
from puro namesioknoss thut my hus
band besought mo tearfully through the
key-holo to tell him what was wrong.
"He was very inuch hurt when I first
explained the cause of my grief, but
when I brought him to a realization of
my loss, he grow sympathetic, and, do
you know, for a long time he called me
by my maiden name. That wore off
with the honeymoon, however, but even
to this day I think sadly of my lost
name."—[lllustruted American.
INDUSTRIES FOR WOMEN.
It is very grievous to notice how great
and various aro the difficulties in the way
of making new employments successful.
The first and really important difficulty
of men oknecting to admit women to new
spheres of work, is almost entirely over
come, but there is more fear of women
injuring their cause by their own petty
hecklings and wranglings than there ever
was from the opposition of men. Here,
for instance, aro the ludy market-gar
deners. A more excellent scheme than
that which Miss Grace llurrimun started a
little more than a year ago wus never de
vised for giving gentlewomen who had
not the abilities or the chunce of making
a living by what is called brain-work a
chance of congonial work and fuir re
muneration. Hut no sooner had the
pructicul work begun than the lady gar
deners becamo a house divided against
itself. Some of the novices had to bo
dismissed because they would not help to
sell things when they were ready for tho
market; thero were faultfindings and
backbitingß concerning minor matters,
and tho result of it all was not only much
annoyance to all concerned, but also in
evitable pecuniary losses. When will
women learn that it is absolutely no good
to enter upon any serious work so long
as thov cannot bo contented to sink their
fads, fancies and prejudices, and look at
their work from a broader point of view?
Why in the world aro not a few more
enterprising women, with a small capital
at their disposal, coming forward as
poultry farmers? There are one or two
already "in tho trade," and doing exceed
ingly well, and there aro hundrods and
thousands of women who "make a little
mouoy" by selling eggs and poultry in an
amateurish way. Hut while we have
such facts before us as tho following,
which comes from a reliable source, it is
not amateurs, but practical profession
als that are roquirod. During tiie last
eight months no less than 114,865,360
woro exported from Russia into
England. They represented a value of
#1,125,000. Tho conditions under which
poultry farming may be successfully
carried on are infinitely more fuvorablein
this country than in Russia. Why,
therefore, should not English eggs supply
the English market? Of course poultry
farming means something besides tho ac
quisition of a small "run" and the proper
placement of a few nests with nest-eggs,
but tho science of roaring chickens is
pretty well exact, and not very compli
cated, and thero is no doubt that if poul
try fanning is done in a practical and
businoss-like way it will havo practical
and satisfactory results.—[Pall Mall
Gazette.
FABIIION NOTES.
Short white fuco vails are of figured or
applique lace.
Jeweled portieres are at their best and
most effective under the gaslight.
Some of tho dyed fur rugs are found
very disagreeable in u warm house.
Yokes of fur are now applied to cloaks
of cloth, or to any of tho woolen cloak
ings.
It is truer now than ever before in the
history of fashion that "fine feathers do
not make fine birds."
Scurlet waistcoats, ombroidered with
fine gold braid, aro in high favor among
the women of fashion.
# Women who woar diamond rings out
side their gloves are, contrary to hope,
not all dead yet by any moans.
Purple, heliotrope, supphiro, corn
flower, apple green, and pinkish browns
are fashionublo colors for costumes.
Now effects in portrait photography aro
nothing if not startling. The head
looks to bo in u cloud of "cotton
suioko."
Somo of tho now skirts are made with
pocket slits on both sidos of tho front, j
and aro trimmed with passmontorio,
gimp, or velvet.
Faillo Francais, bcngalino, gross-grain,
ottoman, poau-de-soir, and serge-do-
Lyon silks will all continue fashionable
through tho winter.
Tho novelty in bodices just now is a
perfectly smooth, tight-fitting waist of
velvet or satin, without trimming of any
kind, and long sleeves made entirely of
feathers. \
Tho inufficr for full dress is of somo
solid, deoj) color, and is in tho form of an
enlarged handkcrchiof, to bo folded to a
width from four to five inches, placed
about tho neck under tho swallow tail
collar and folded ucross tho waistcoat
opening.
The new French skirt, or umbrella
skirt, as somo call it, on account of its
shapo, is tho very latest skirt for walk
ing costumes and house wear. It molds
the figure below tho wuist and around by
means of a few darts, tho entire fullness
being udjusted at the back.
Ihe seams on tho bodices and skirts
of silk or volvot evening gowns are being
overlaid with a narrow silk gimp or pus
semonterie. Silver or gold seems to bo
used for preference, although many
women think the ufo of metallic trim
mings makes a gown look tawdry. If
tho trimming bo good und not tiuselly,
however, it brightens a gown amazingly,
if not too froely employed.
Punishing Naval Cadets.
It is said that tho punishment inflicted
upon tho cadets at tho Navul Academy at
Annapolis aro carofully devised to have
as much influence as possible in prevent
ing a rocurrenoo of tho offense. Theso
regulations are tho fruit of years of ex
perience and are enforcod with undeviat
mg impartiality. Whon a cadet is guilty
of tardiness at any formation, he is re
quired for a given period subsoquent to
report to tho officer in chargo half an
hour before the tiino of tho formation,
standing by until it takes place. Those
who oversleep thomsolvos in tho morning
aro compelled for a month to turn out
ono hour boforo roveille, and at tho first
noto of tho bugle to report thomsclvos
and tho room ready for inspection. Visit
ing during study hours is punished by
solitary confinement on the prison ship
Sontco as a corrective for too great
sociability. liiuttontion at drill carries
with it tho ponalty of ono or moro extra
drills during recreation hours. Habitual
untidiness is curod by requiring the care
less cadet to roport for inspoction to the
officor in charge evory hour for a number
of days, usually a month. Should non
regulation clothing bo found in a cadet's
possession, it is seized by tho authorities
as contraband and not rostorod until the
offender loaves the academy. It is thus
difficult to appear out of uniform. —[Now
Orleans Picayune
QUEER ROADS IN CHINA.
Curiosities of Travel and Postal Ser
vice in the Flowery Land.
Minister Den by luis just sent to the
Department of Stato a very interesting
description of roads in China. Outside
of the cities they aro of the most primi
tive nature, being njcrely lines of ruts
across the Holds. lju summer they are
fathomless, impassable bogs, and travel,
except on foot, is practically suspended.
The pig-tailed orientals havo never taken
much trouble with rond-makiug, partly
because throughout their country the
plains are a network of waterways, nat
ural and artificial, while human labor for
carrying burdens has always beeu pre
ferred to that of boasts over the narrow
and circuitous mountain passes. Roads
for military purposes seem never to have
been thought of by the Chinese. The
groat campaigns of the Mongol and
Mancliu emperors were conducted with
hordes of flying cavalry along no fixed
routes.
China lias telegraph lines now, but
previous to their introduction intelligence
was conveyed to the contor of govern
ment from outside provinces by an elab
orate system of post stations. Those
were plaoed about thirty miles apart, and
relays of horses wore constantly kept in
readiness for the imperial couriers. By
such means dispatohes wore sont to dis
tant provincial capitals at tho rate of 250
miles per day. lvulda Kahn. the Mongol
emperor, had moro than 10,0 K) post sta
tions, with 300, 0(H) horses, especially
kept for tho uso of messengers. In con
nection with the mounted couiiers an
elaborate system of foot messengers was
also maintained. The latter were swift
runners and their stations wore only
three miles apurt. By them the emperor
| is suid to have received news from pluces
ton days' journey distant in twenty-four
hours or informu|ion from points 100
days away within ton days. Fruit gath
ered in Peking in the morning was thus
transmitted to tho summer palace, distant
ten days' travel, arriving on the evening
of the next day.
Express couriers who carry imperial
messages between Gartok and L'llasa,
the capital of Thibet, make the entire
distance of 800 miles on horseback in
eight days without relief, riding night
und day. Dispatohes are placed inside
their robes, and the lattor are sealed
upon their bodies, s< that they cannot bo
removed until tho end of the journey,
when tho seal is broken by the proper
official. Theso messengers are lifted at
tho post stations from ono horse to an
other and arrive at their destination with
cracked faces and eves bloodshot and
sunken. They sometimes dio on tho wuy
from exposure and fatigue.
All private correspondence is trans
mitted by private post office's, of which
thero aro several rival establishments in
each city. These firms employ their
own couriers, who travel on horseback,
on foot or by stoamor whon possible.
Between cities, where tho business jus
tifies a regular mounted service, letters
and small parcels are carried at the rate
of soventy-fivo or eighty miles a day. i
The charges for small distances aro not
excessive, a letter being sent from Peking
to Tientsin for about 10 cents. For
long distunces, however, the postage is
disproportionately large. Tho United
States legation has frequent occasion to
communicato with missionaries in the in
terior, particularly in tho provinces of
Shantung. From Peking to Chinanfu,
the capital of Shantung, is about 225
miles, and tho usual charge for transmit
ting u lettor thither is 40 conts. Com
petition forcos the postal establishments
to be very careful und roliablo.
In North China, where waterways are
not so numerous as in the south, inter
communication has always presented
serious difficulties, which no nttompt has
booninado to overcome. The large rivers
are to bo crossed by ferries only, while
the smaller streams must be forded. At
tho forries tho ferry boats are intention
ally constructed with a high side board so
that, carts cannot be driven on without
unhitching. This gives employment to
a crowd of hangers-on in lifting on and
oft the carts for a compensation. In time
of flood thoro is apt to be no way of
crossing tho streams at all. Whore na
ture has afforded no convenient impedi
ment bad characters sometimes dig holes
in the road so as to obtain employment in I
helping carts through.
Bruin Faced the Music.
George Griswold, who lives on the
Loyulsock Creek, a mile and a half north
of Forksville, Tenn., plays the bass horn
in the Forksville brass band. On a re
cent Saturday evening, Griswold tucked
his big horn under his arm and Htrode
down to Forksville to practice with the
other members of the village organiza
tion. A little after 10 o'clock Griswold
started for homo in the bright light of
the full moon. When ho had gone nearly
a mile from tho villago, whore tho road
led through Andrew Harper's farm, ho
heard a noise in a field a short distance
to tho right, and looking that way ho saw
a boar pawing around and crunching nuts
undor u big chestnut tree.
Griswold watched tho greedy animal
for a moment, and then he stole up to tho
fence, squatted behind it, poked his bass
horn between the rails, und blew a single
blast that sont tho echoes flying among
the surrounding hills. Tho toot of the big
horn gave the bear an amazing start. In
his sudden fright be rolled over a number
of times and then ho jumped up and
legged it across the meadows at full tilt.
Griswold thought ho had scared tho bear
half to death, and he was about to pull
his horn out of the fenco, when ho saw
the boar turn about and slowly march
back toward the chestnut trco. Ho said
tho brute seemed to bo eager to find out
where tho noiso lmd come from and what
had made it, and so he left his horn in
the fenco and kept perfectly still.
The bear cautiously approached the
tree, but ho didn't stop undo* it to paw
up moro nuts. Ho waddled directly to
ward tho fence, sniffed the air frequently
and had his eyes fixed on tho horn, the
big end of which glittered in tho moon
light in front of him. When tho inquis
itive animal was within a few yards of
the fence, Griswold blew another blast
with all tho lung power ho had, and the
beur rolled all over himself and wont
dancing across the lot as though ho had
been shot at. Before he had reached the
end of the field ho faced about, snorted
half a dozen times, and shambled back to
find out more about it. Griswold kopt
the curious brute capering across the lots
in this way for nearly half an hour, when
Charles Harper, a son of tho ownor of
the land, rati down the road to ascertain
what tho horn was being blown tor.
As Harper drew near Griswold pave
another blast, and the bear started oft'
again. Griswold told Harper in a whis
per how the bear had been acting, and
Harper began to lode around for some
thing with which to tackle the boar when
hocaine toward the fence the next time.
Ho soon found a rusty old ploughshare
near the roadside. By that time the bear
had turned buck onco more and was
tramping slowly toivurd the horn. Gris
wold promised not to toot the horn again,
and while the bear was marching back,
with his eyes bent on the shining brass,
Harper took the ploughshare, crawled
through the fence, crept along on his
stomach to the chestnut tree, and con
coaled himself behind the stump.
The bear appeared to be determined
to find out what kind of a machine the
big brass thing was, for ho slouched
toward it in a bee line, and he didn't
turn his head to either side as ho
neurod it. The moment he passed the
chestnut troo Harper tiptoed up bohiud
him, sprang to his side, and drove the
point of the ploughshare into the top of
the bear's skull with nil his might Tho
hour gave a roar, reared up on ins hind
legs und wheolod around, knocking Har
per off his feet. Harper rallied at onco,
and.beforo tho hour hud tuken ton steps,
he dealt him another blow on tho hoad
with tho ploughshare and felled him to
the ground. Griswold then jumped ovor
tho fonco with a large stone, but before
he got u chance to do anything Harper
had killoil the bear witli the ploughshare.
Farmer Hurpor was on his way to tho
spot when tho boar turnod up his toes,
and the three men luggod the carcass to
tho barn. The bear was hog fat, and
weighed 400 pounds.—[New York Sun.
METROPOLIS OF BRAZIL.
City of Rio do Janeiro, Where the
Revolution Occurred.
The rovoli ti m with which Rrazil was
ablaze for several months culminated in
the city of Rio do Janeiro, tho metropo
lis of tho country. This city is 0110 of
tho most beautiful in all South America.
It received its name of Rio do Janeiro
(river of January) from tho fact that
Martin Alfonso do Souza, who was ono
of tho first Europeans to enter tho bay
where it is located, supposed that he had
entorod the mouth of a mighty river
rivaling the Orinoco and tho Amazon, and
named it after the happy mouth in which
he made his imagined discovery. Tho
misnomer now clings not only to tho
magnificent bay with its circlet of moun
tains but also to the province in which it
is situated and to the populous city which
sits like a queen upon its bright tropical
shores.
This buy of Rio do Janeiro compels
the admiration of every traveler, says a
distinguished ono of it. "1 have again
and again entered and quitted tho Ray
of Rio do .Janeiro when tho billows were
surging and when tho calm mantled tho
deep, and whether in the purple light of
a tropic morning, in tho garish moon, or
in the too brief twilight of that Southern
clime, it hus always presented to mo
now glories and new churms. It hus boon
my privilege to look upon some of tho
most celebrated scenes of both hemi
spheres, but I have never found ono
which combined so much to bo admired
us the punoruinu presented in this bay.
"On the hoight of St. Elmo I have
drunk in us much beauty from that
curvilinear buy of Southern Italy, upon
whoso bosom float tho isles of Capri and
Ischia, and upon whoso margin nestle
tho gracefully shaped Vesuvius, tho
long arm of Sorrento and tho proverb
ially brilliant city of Naples. I have
yet to gaze upon a scene which surpasses
in combined boauty, variety and grandeur
those mountain-engirdled waters, poet
ically termed by tho Tamoyo Indians,
•Nithorohy' (hidden water)."
The city of Rio do Janeiro, or Sun Se
bastian, is at once tho commercial em
porium and the political capitul of Brazil.
Its position and scenery and internul de
velopments render it a metropolis worthy
of tho grout country. It is tho largest
city in Sonth America and boasts un an
tiquity greater than that of any city in
tho United States. The harbor commu
nicates with the wide-rolling Atluntic by
a deep and narrow passage between two
granite mountains. Tho entrance is so
safe us to render the services of a pilot
entirely unnecessary. So commanding,
| however, is tho position'of the fortresses
jat the mouth of tho harbor upon its
islands and surrounding heights that if
eftciontly manned by a body of deter
mined men they might defy tho hostilo
ingress of tho proudest navies in the
world.
Rio's streets are noted for their nar
rowness. Many of the principal ones
are exceedingly well paved. Tho
houses soldoin excoed three or four
stories, but uro higher than those of a
similar number of stories in this city. It
has nil immense foreign trade, us may bo
estimated from tho fact that fully two
thirds of tho coft'eo product of ull Brazil
pass through its port, while numerous
other articles aro handled for foreign ex
portation from tho ontirj country. —
[Vail and Express.
Pepsin.
The pepsin sold in tho drug stores is
tho veritablo product of an animal
stomach, and generally of the stomuch of
the hog. One factory in New York has
tho oldest method of preparing the articlo
that ever entered into the humun mind.
A number of perfectly healthy hogs uro
fattened for market, and for thirty-six
hours beforo killing time urodenrivedof
ull food, not even being allowed a drop
of water. Then tho trough from which
they are accustomed to oat is covered
with strong wire netting, and tho most
appetizing slops and hog delicacies,
smoking hot, are poured into tho trough.
Tho fumes ascend with grateful fragrance
to tho porcine nostrils, the hogs all run
squeuling and lighting with each other
for a chaneo to get at tho slops. The iron
netting prevents them from tasting the
food, and while thoy aro still thinking
about tho matter they are killed, ana
their stomachs being taken out are
found perfectly full of gastric juice,
from which the pepsin is prepared. Now
if it was not tho hog's imagination that
made the gastric juice How into his
stomach in anticipation of a feast, what
was it? —[St. Louis G!obc-I)omocrut.
Official Bed Tape.
Tho new extradition treaty with
Englund is said to show by its practical
workings one of the finest exemplifi
cations in tho world of the rod tapo
process of how not to do it. A man
wanted in Boston was known to bo in
London. The Boston police cabled to
Scotland Yard a description of tho man,
with particulars of his crimo. After
more than a month tho Socrotary of tho
Governor of Massachusetts camo to see
the Boston chief, to inquire if ho wanted
such a man from London. Ho said yes.
Tho answer was then carried to tho
Governor, who communicated it to Wash
ington, whence it was forwardod to
Minister Lincoln, who waited on tho
British Foreign Oftico with the infor
mation. Thence it was communicated
to tho Homo Oftico, which notified Sect
land Yard to arrest the culprit. Scot
land Yard replied that ho had gone to
Antwerp a month before. —[New Orleans
Picayune.
Tee Siberian Railroad.
A report has just been submitted
by Colonel Nicolai VoloshinolT, of the
Russian army, discussing in detail the
possible routes for the projected trans-
Siberian railway, and giving ex
tremely valuable data respecting the
navigability of the various Siberian
rivers. Three are singled out as most
feasible. The first is an all-rail
route, 4,90-1 miles long, from Slatust
to Vladivostok, estimated to cost
341,000,000 roubles, equivalent to
about $] 70,000,000. A second route
is from Tomsk to Stretenzk, utilizing
sixty miles of navigable water across
Lake Baikal, thus saving nearly 200
miles of railroad. From Stretensk
the line would continue to Vladi
vostok, making a total of 1,912 miles
of track, costing 122,000,000 roubles
or $10,000,000. The third line would
coincide with the second, except that
it involves the construction of tho
road around the southern end of Lake
Baikal, and in addition an extension
down the Amur to Jernaycva, 480
miles, and from the Amur to Vladi
vostok, making 2,900 miles, estimated
at 218,000,000 roubles, or $109,000,-
000. The two latter routes would be
open on an average during six months
of the year, while the first, being in
dependent of navigation would be
available at all seasons. The esti
mated time for passengers by this
line from Vladivostok to Moscow is
fifteen days. The importance of an
early construction of this road, in
spite of its enormous cost, is urged
with great emphasis in Col. Voloshin
off's report. The losses which Russia
would sustain in the event of war
without such a communication with
the Pacific would unquestionably so
far exceed this llrst cost as to render
it insignificant in comparison. It is
fortunate that the military needs of
the empire will in this case coincide
with those of commerce, and the
trans-Siberian road will do infinitely
more than the Suez Canal toward de
veloping Asia as a whole, and bring
Asiatic commercial life into touch
with that of European centres in the
west. Goldthwaite's Geographical
Magazine.
Hro IH a QuoHtlon!
The fact that so many of lis, like
Mr. Wegg, decline and fall pretty
steadily through life, tells for pessim
ism, but it is still overbalanced by the
optimistic sign given us in the spirit
ual height from which some of us
start; and this sign is none the less
impressive for being so mysterious. I
do not allow myself to be cast down
because these angel faces are often
borne by babies who need spanking
much oftener than they arc likely to
get it, for there is a great deal in the
richest ore besides gold; but, I admit,
it is sadly depressing to see so many
children who give little sign of a
birthright ivf grace. How can any
one declare he adores them in the
lump, after the centiniental manner
when the very infant in arms so often
shows a soul-sickening, self-evident
likeness to an aggressive, stupid
father, or a sharp, vulgar little fool
of a mother? Still I believe the case
is not then so bad as it looks to the
casual but sensitive observer. A wise
woman tells me that it is not the
sheer fatuity of folly that enchants
people with the most unprepossessing
young one when it happens to be their
own, but that truly it is only its own
family who can ever really know a
baby's charms, and it is her belief that
if we could have all the evidence be
fore us in even the most unaccounta
ble case, we should sec that the wor-
Bhipcrs were wiser than the scoiling
world.
We all know that the tiresomest
' brat can present wonderfully appeal
ing aspects—say when only the little
back is seen, and its sleepy wee head
has fallen trustfully on a grown-up
shoulder. Science may account for
the pull tho sight makes on your
heart-strings, but in some way, after
you have duly informed yourself as to
the evolution of tho emotions, it is
still apt i,n experience, like childhood's
own gaze, to carry tidings to your
deeper, perhaps all but unconscious,
self of precious undiscovered posses
sions and kinships in the universal
sources.—Viola Uoscboro' on "Child
hood," in Century.
Flying; Spirit*.
Now Year's day at the capital city
of Thibet, Lh'asa, there begins a sea
son of festivity. One of the enter
tainments is called the "Spectacle of
Flying Spirits." The performers
stretch an enormously largo rope
made of hide all the way from the top
to the bottom of Mount Potala; then
they fasten grooved blocks of wood U
their chests and sail down the line
like so many swallows.
Chronic
Rheumatism
And serious disorder of the liver aud stomach, have
troubled me for more than ten years, during which
time I have used almost every medicine recommend
ed, without finding any relief whatever, until I tried
flood's Rarsaparllla. This has done me more good
than auythlng else that I have ever taken, aud I take
pleasure In recommending it In the highest terms. It
has been worth Its weight In gold to me." FRKDWUCit
1111.licit. Limerick Centre, Pa.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Bold by nil druggists. 01; si* for sr>. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Ix>well, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
Ely's Cream Balmgifer;^
Istho bost remedy for children
suffering from lSSsf- D,N * l
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TWO TEAMS THE POOR MAR'S FRIEND
will plow &5 h oSJ£'KA£S. n "w'i; -m-
AN ACRE La farlppe, Ac., In half of DOING THIS.
Uhual tlme.bccanne theHvr
!N HALF THE WHO IS HE?
TIME OP Almont a &1 Hl*e bottle and a .
___ _ _ __ 25c. PlsHtcr, In one wrapper, AHK
ON Ei TEA Ml ■ day* longer. °"" ™ YOUR DEALER.
roooiSHTsii'iirSS&re^Srl^^^
A male swan is a cob, a female one
alien. The term "cygnet" is applica
ble to the bird during the first year of
its life only, a "gray bird" being the
proper term for it until the maturity
of a white swan is attained.
Boston policemen now carry their club, in
their pockets.
'the locust plague in Algeria is playing
hnvoc with the crops.
if afflict o"l with sore eyes use Dr.lsaac Thomp
son's Kye-wuter.Druggittttt sell at kSc.per bottle
The Japanese language contains 60,0j0
words.
Many modest women suffer rather than ap
py to a physician; Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
taby Compound has saved thousauds of such
from lives of misery and car.y graves.
It is "eared that n corn famine is iifminent
in tie many.
WHO BUFFERS with his liver, constipation,
hi.ions ills, poor blood or dizzine-s take
Beech am'* Pills. Of druggists. 25 cents.
S 3111 1 > Noble soys "intrudera" in the
ndi nn country must go.
DN. SWAN'S PARTII.ES Cure female ireaTcnrvte*;
his T-Tablet s cure chronic constipation. Sam
ples free. Dr. Swau, Beaver Dam, Wis.
Newfoundland's 200,000 inhabitants sub*
sist on fisheries.
FITS stopped free by DR. KI.LVK'h OTMAT
NEUVK RESTORER. NO fits after first day's use.
Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial bottle
free. Dr. Kline. 101 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
The gross income of the Church of England
is §27.500,000.
Mothers should watch carofully those signs
of ill health In their daughters.and at once use
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It
will prove a lasting blessing.
in London it IH estimated that one woman
in every twenty is a pauper.
Wise Mother*
Use Dr. Iloxsio's Certain Crouo Cnre,the only
remedy in the world that will cure a violent
cs'iso of croup in half an hour. No opium,
i Sold by druggists or mailed on reeeintof 50ct3.
| Address A. P. lloxsic, Huffuio, N. Y.
A delegation of French firemen visited
London to study the system of the English ,
Si 00 Reward. Si 00.
The readers of this paper will he pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh 1
Cure Is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity Catarrh being a con
stitutional disease, requires A constitutional
treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon tlie blood and
mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de
stroying the foundation of the disease, and
giving the patient strength by building up tlie
constitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much faith in
its curative powers that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials. Address
F. J CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
PT Sola by Druggists. 75c.
Swiss capitalists are investing near Kan "
BUS City, Mo. TJ63
Many a life has been lost
because of the taste of cod
liver oil. *
If Scott's Emulsion did
nothing more than take that
taste away, it would save the
lives of some at least of those
that put off too long the
means of recovery.
It does more. It is half
digested already. It slips
through the stomach as if by
stealth. It goes to make
strength when cod-liver oil
would be a burden.
Scott ft Bownb, Chemists, i is South sth Arcnue,
New York.
Your druggist keeps Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver
•ll—all druggists everywhere do, fi.
M
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If you fo u*.
Wo mail olio park 2V. FfvoSl. A 8 1-1 lb. tori SI ::j. Sit.
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An cany way to raise money for charity work. Scud
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Tbit depends, madam, upon how
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functional disturbances, irregulari
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" look it." And Dr. Pierce's Fa
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It builds up and invigorates th,
6ystem, regulates and promotes the
proper functions, and restores health
and strength. It's a legitimate
medicine, not a beverage j purely
vegetable, perfectly harmless, ana
made especially for woman's needfi.
In the cure of all " female com
plaints," it's guaranteed to give sat
isfaction, or the money is refunded.
No other medicine for nen is
sold so. Think of that, when the
dealer says something else (which
pays him better) is "just as good."
"Times have changed." So hav®
methods. The modern improve
ments in pills are Dr. Pierce's Pleas
ant Pellets. They help Nature, in
stead of fighting with her. Sick
and nervous headache, biliousness,,
costiveness, and all derangements
of the liver, stomach and bowels
aro prevented, relieved, and curecL
I "German
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" I have been a great
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ma and severe Colds
every Winter, and last Fall my
friends as well as myself thought
because of my feeble condition, and
great distress from constant cough
ing, and inability to raise any of the
accumulated matter from my lungs,
that til}' time was close at hand.
When nearly worn out for want of
sleep and rest, a friend recommend
ed me to try thy valuable medicine,
Boschee's German,
Gentle, Syrup. I am con-
D f fident it saved my
Refreshing life Almostthefir £
Sleep. dose gave me great
relief and a gentle re
freshing sleep, such as I had not had
for weeks. My cough began immedi
ately to loosen and pass away, and
I found myself rapidly gaining in
health and weight. I am pleased
to inform thee—unsolicited—that I
am in excellent health and do cer
tainly attribute it to thy Boschee's
German Syrup. C. B. STICKNEY,
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