One-fourth of the land surface of the
globe is occupied by English -speaking
people.
The year 1803 began on a Sunday rod
/rill finish on a Sunday, so that it will
iontain fifty-three Sundays.
Indiana ha 9 more Germans than any
jther State. They constituc fifty-five
per cent, of the population.
Ex Secretary of War Elkins inclines
to the abolition of both the sword and
the saber, on the gr mud that they arc
ao longer of the slightest practic.il use
in actual warfare.
One of the most striking features in
connection with this age of electricity,
remarks the New York Independent,
is the wonderfully '.arge and rapid
growth of books and pamphlets bearing
upon the subject.
An electrical journal recently assure !
Its readers that within a comparatively
short time many trolley roads will be
constructed in country districts for the
express purpose of carrying farm pro
ducts to market.
The New England Farmer i 3 authority
for the statement that "the condition of
the average farmer in Now England, all
things considered, is much better than
that of the average farmer in most other
lections of the country.
Two car-loads of Boston girls have
gone to Texas to supply the demand
there for wives, which leads the Detroit
Free Press to exclaim that "the man who
seeks to escape from woman recklessly
tackles the impossible."
Fresh Government clerk 3 in Washing,
ton are tempted by offer 3 of credit on
all sides. This, explains the Atlanta
Constitution, is because persons cm
ployed by the Government must pay the
debts contracted while in oftice or suffer
dismissal. When a clerk is tardy in set
tlement the creditor can have the
amounnt of the debt deducted from the
debtor's salary.
During tho year 1892 England
published 4915 new book? and 1339 new
editions, or a total of 6254. Lust year
the figures were 5706. The increase has
been especially in the department ol
novels, namely 1147 as compared with
896 in 1891. Theology reports 528,
philosophy 579, medicine 127 new pub
lications, while law has only twenty-six,
altho poetry has 185, history 293, and
geography 250.
Chief Justice Fuller, haviug gone to
his doctor's house in Washington recent
ly in preference to sending tor the
physician, found that gentleman absent
and was invited into the library to await
his return. The attendant who ushered
the visitor in was ignorant of the latter'f
station, but recognized him as a man of
culture and kind impulses. This was
evident from the surprising request that
the Chief Justice should improve the
time by writing a love letter for the man
who let him in. Pens, ink, paper and
envelop were proffered, nnd without
hesitation the favor was granted, tin
missive being completed before the phy
sician's return.
It is 6aid that when a native of Hawai:
wishc3 to give evidence of his sorrow
at the loss of a kinsman he ?ocs to some
secluded spot and endeavors to knock out
one of his front teeth. In case it is his
maiden effort at mourning, relates the
Atlanta Constitution, the bereaved not
unfrequently bungles the job, and on
looking over the debris often finds that
be has knocked out a couple or more.
If the grief stricken party, however, lacks
the nerve or distrusts his prowess tc
accomplish the tooth's displacement, a
dear and obliging friend is always at
hand to offer his assistance. As a resu't
of this custom a man of middle age is
often short so many teeth that gastronom
ers are embarrassed in eating their
food. American dentists will do a land
office business in Hawaii if the United
States annexes the islands.
The New York Tribune maintains that
there has been no revolution in the pro
duction of cotton since Whitney in
rented the gin and took the "seeding"
of it out of the hands of the old women
and children. Now, however, there is
a proapect ot another great change.
Over 601) machines have been invented
in the last twenty years for picking tho
cotton from the boll, and all have failed
to give satisfaction. But still another is
to be tested, and cotton men believe it
will be successful. It will pick, it is
laid, 10,000 pounds a day. An ordin
ary field hand can pick of the short
staple about 150 pounds a day, an 1 of
the long staple about 350, so that the
lew machine will do the work of about
forty men. Fifty cents a hundred poua Is
is considered fair wages la the cotton
•elf. The machine, therefore, will eirn
|SJ a day.
PATIENCE.
Bp patient! Eisy words to speak
While plenty fills the cup of life.
While heilth brings ro?es to the cheek,
An 1 far removed are core and strife.
Falling so glibly from the tongus
Of those—l often think of this—
Whom suffering has nev?r wrun■
Who scarcely know what putienc3 is.
Bs patient! when the suflf'rer lies
Prostrate beneath some fell disease,
And longs, through torturing ngoniei,
Only for one short hour of ease.
Be patient! whon the weary brain
Is raked with thought an 1 anxious care,
And troubles in an en I less train
Seem almost more than it can bear.
To feel the torture o! delay.
The agony of hope deferred;
To labor still from day to day,
The prize unwon, the prayer unheard.
And still to hope and strife and wait
The due reward of fortune's kiss;
This is to almost conquer fatp,
This is to learn what patienc3 is.
Despair not! though the clou Is are dark,
And storin and dnnger veil the sky;
Lst fate and courage guide thy barque,
The storm is pas\ the port is nigh.
Be patient, and the tide will turn.
Shadows will flea before the tun;
These are the hopes that live and burn
To light us till our work is done.
—All the Year Houud.
OLD BARNABY'S HESS.
BY TOM HALL.
ESS bad been put
to a great deal of
Jf - yv VV 1 rouble this day.
jk fer v V was always
Z&J plenty to do at
jf Freshwater Ranch,
K s ' le to l '°
I or nian
I swa3ffßl 1 Barn aby hnd ceased
I Scuw tRJ I t0 ° f any P nrt >-
J world long before
/ Geronimo had be
r m* comc t h e xvar e^jef
of the Chiricahua Apaches. Bess, his
daughcr, ran the ranch, milked the
cows, cooked tbc food, did the washing,
attended to the modest little garden
that she had managed to coax from the
arid Arizona soil, and even gave the two
cayuso ponies that belonged to her
father all the grooming they ever got.
Besides that, she had to attend to the
selling of water from the artesian well
that was the only excuse for Freshwa
ter Ranch's exister.ee.
There was not so very much (ravel on i
the road thnt ran by Alt. Graham dowu !
to tl-e dusty Gdn Valley, but there were
forty miles at a stretch of ir, and Fresh- I
water Ranch had the only water that
was to be found upon it. And so, when S
the freight teams and the army ambu
lances made the trip from Fort Grant to i
Fort Thomas the teamsters were very
glad to pay twenty-five cents a bucket
ful for waler and double rates for forage.
And this is how Bess made a living," a
wretched, lonely, almost outcast livinw, !
for her father and herself.
But there was plenty to do tlii3 day
and plenty of excitement. For the first
time in all her memory, a whole troop of
handsome cavalrymen, with a bright
cheeked and still handsomer lieuteuant
at its head, had come to Freshwater
Ranch to actually camp over night and
perhaps stay even longerr A bunch of |
White River Apaches, getting over the I
elfccts of at s.vio drunk, had jumped
the reservation, and started, on a murder
ing nnd thicviug raid after their usuil
manner. Quite after their usual man
ner, also, two troops of cavalry had
started in pursuit, following their trail
with the faint hope of catching up with I
the fleet-footed Apaches; while the re
maindcrof two regiments of cavalry and !
twice as many of infantry had been put [
at patrol duty at the guarding of water
holes, springs and mountain passes.
It is the youug lieutenant that is sent j
on this patrol duty, as a rule. The more
experienced officers are sent in pursuit.
And it is a hard grind, indeed, on the
nerves of the impatient young lieuteuant
to sit for days in his camp watching the
surrounding country through his field
glass and receiving tho reports of his
scouts, always the same monotonous:
"Didn't see no signs of'em, sir." It is
bis ambition to get uuder fire. It is
tho height of a young lieutenant's
wildest dream to capture or kill a rai ding
Apache. His heart burns with envy
when he hears big Bailey, of his regi
ment, who, but a few years before, was '
himself but a green lieutenant, talk in an i
off-hand way about that time "we had |
the fight with old Gerouimo dowuiu the 1
San Samoane Valley." Bailey looks in
to the camp-fire as ho speaks, and does
net appear to care whether any one is j
listening. There is n tantalizing tilt to !
Bailey's forage-cap, and the youngster j
swears that if he ever dees, by any good !
luck, happen to come across a hostile I
Apache, he will cut off his head forth
with and send it to Bailey, and do a
little talking himself. He would hate
Bailey if he wasn't such a jolly good fel
low and so infernally kind when one I
discovers that one is a little short of
ready cash on one's stripling pay, and so j
deuccdly clever about getting one's I
mount in good trim when one has lamed j
the poor beast with unskillful riding; '
all of which Bailey unfortunately is.
Such was the precise situation of |
young Mr. Bristow, second lieutenant of j
the —th Regiment of United States Cav- j
airy, on this day wheu Bess was at her
wits' end with work and excitement. !
Chilcauno and his band had jumped the
reservation at San Carlrs after murder- j
ing a freighter and sealing his hoisss, |
and all Southern Ariz ma was in a state
of excitement. To be ordered out to
guard a watering station is bad enough;
but when you are quite persuaded that
the miscreants have gone in another
direction aud that you have no chance j
whatever of being in or near at the
death, the situation is almost uuboara- !
ble. 1
And that was why Lieutenant Bars
tow fumed and fretted, and walked up
and down in front of the half log, half
adobe house called Freshwater Ranch,
nil the long afternoon, and did nothing
more importaut than to swear at a trooper
much after the manner of several cap
tain he knew; and then to apologize to
the trcoper and make himself ridiculous
just.because he had some of those higher
ideas of the soldier, even though he were
but a few months cut of West Poiut.
And so Bess caught hut a few glimpses
of the lieutenant as he occasionally
parsed the door, but she saw that he was
young and handsome, and her woman's
lieatt was in a flutter. It was all she
could do to think up something uuusu
ally good to eat for supper. Besides the
regular menu of biscuits, bacon, beef
and potatoes she had some carefully
treasured canned corn and some canned
peaches. She wished to make some
peach pic 3 with those peaches, but in her
present state of excitement she was quite
sure she would make an utter failure of
ir, and she did not dare risk thcattcmpt.
She got out her very brightest and new
est calico dress and braidc l her unruly
hair for the first time in months. She
did not even scold the sly trooper, whom
she caught stealing some milk, for fear
the young lieutenant would come around
fo that side of the house—which would
he dreadfully embarrassing. And yet
she wanted to see the lieutenant and
hear him talk—oh, so much! She had
road in novels some mysterious thiugs
about how young people fell in love
with c.ich other and married—and—
well, cvreything is possible in this world.
It was at supper time that they really
met. The lieutenant made a polite bow.
lie was a little bit surprised. lie had
heard some of the other officers of the
garrison say laughingly that the only
pretty woman in Arizona was Bainaby's
Bess, excepting always, from regimental
courtesy, the ladies of the regiment.
Bui 1 he had forgotten all about it in the
excitement of his first trip in the field.
It occurred to him now, but she was
prettier than he had imagined she could
be. His iden9 of beauty were framed in
a West Poiut landscape, and his divin
ities had been dressed in costly stulTs
and wore diamonds, and were buds from
mature New York family trees. But he
had not seen a pretty woman in several
months, and he was just a little bit em
barrassed, himself. He hardly noticed
the calico. He was quite charmed by
the white apron. Heconclu led at once
that, perhaps, this first scout of hi 3
would not he so awfully dull after all.
He would flirt a little—only in fun, of
course. It would be rather a reliof from
the dullness of the post. So he ate in
silence, and stared so hard at Bess that
j her cheeks flushed a deeper crimson than
, they had over known before. And to her
j amazement and delight he insisted on
I calling her SI ss Barnaby. In her day
dreams she had often imagined some
| handsome young man addressing her re
i spectfully as Miss Barnaby. Here was
I the delightful reality. She spilled the
coffee, and could not cat a mouthful ot
supper, although she was tired and hun
gry-
And after supper the youug lieutenant
insisted on helping her wash the dishes.
He said it would be great fun, and quite
a relief from the rough life of a soldier.
Poor youngster, he had become so used
to war's aturms. In fact they had be
come quite a bore. And it seemed to
Bess that he stood awfully close to her.
Once o.' twice their hands touched—an
accident, she wis quite sure. And, then,
when all her work was finished, the
dishes cleaned, the cows and horses fed
(in all of which duties the young lieu
tenant helped)—delight of delights!
he actually asked her to tako a little
walk with him. Next to taking her to
a real ball, where people danced and ate
i ice cream, as ahe had read in thp books
j and story papers, ho could have done
nothing more to make her absolutely
| happy.
! As for him, it seemed like old days in
camp at West Poiut. Bho was a girl,
and she wns pietty. Her calic) dress in
the moonlight looked very well, aud she
j had taken off the apron. They strolled
up the road a little distance and then
branched off on a winding trail that led
down to a little valley that was flooded
with the rich moonlight that broke
through the clear Arizona atmosphere.
There was an intersecting tiail at the
foot, and when they reached it, Bess
gave a little start, and the lieutenant,
with all his old West Point promptness,
took advantage ol the opportunity to
place his arm around her waist.
"Don't be afraid," he whispered very
manfully.
' "Oh, lam not," she answered, dc
i murely.
| And thon she stooped down quickly
| and seemed to pick something up from
j tho trail.
1 "Did you drop auything?" he asked
| with mock politeness. "Why didn't you
: tell me? It was my duty to pick it up,
| you know."
j "I did not drop anything," she an-
I swered. "Let's sit down on this rock."
I They sat down on the rock, and tho
young lieutenant, with his heart beating
i very fast, pit his arm around her waist
j again and took hold of her hands aud
j found himself unconsciously looking for
lings, in the manner of young men who
j wish to hold a young lady's hand and
feel in duty bound to offer some slight
j excuse to the fair oue. They did not
tall; very much. There was not much to
, talk about. Tueir mutual friends svere
| few, aud therefore there could be no
gossip. The theatre, hooks, stylos—
| about everything was barred, from ne
j cessity. Nevertheless, it was not long
before the lieuteuant's brown moustache
drew gradually near ffc Bess's pretty lips,
and, not long after that, Bess received
| the first kiss she had ever had from a
young man. She did not struggle. Shu
was utterly unaware of the arts of her
fair sisters in the Eist. But she did thru
squarely around and look the lieutenant
very earnestly in the face.
1 "Do you mean anything by that?" she
asked bim.
He was surprised at the question, and
I he was ceutleinaa enough to perceive
that what was a mere evening's diversion
to him might be something infinitely
more serious to a lonely girl on almost a
Western desert. Ho took his hand from
her waist and m oved away a little.
4t No," he answered fraukly, 44 0n1y
that you are pretty—and I didn't think
you'd mind."
* 4 I didn't mind," answered Bess, "and
I wouldn't mind if I thought you cared
for me. In fact,"she added, with alarm
ing candor, 4 *l would like it if I were
sure you were not making fun of me."
The lieutenant wa3 silent.
44 Te1l me," she said, clasping his hand
excitedly, 44 if I should do something
that would be a great benefit to you—
would you thiuk more of me—would you
love me?"
- t4 No," he auswered quickly, standing
up and lookiug at her a little curiously.
44 You arc too serious. I want to be fair.
Too fact is, I am engaged—to a young
lady in New York. We are going to be
married iu a ycur or two, when I gel
more pay. And perhaps sooner. If 1
could-only do something to distinguish
myself, you know. Her father has
enough iufiucnce to get rac promoted to
the stall or something like that, so wo
could live in the East and have more
pay. Perhaps I owe you an apology."
She was clutching the rough edges of
the rock.
44 1s she very beautiful?" she asked.
<4 I think so," ho answerod. 44 53 C,
here is a picture of her. You can see
what she looks like in the moonlight."
She looked at the photograph a long
time.
"Does she always drc33 like that?"
she asked.
44 N0," lie answered laughingly.
"That is a ball dress—an evening dress.
It would hardly do for her to go out
doors in a dress like that. She might
catch cold. But she is just as pretty in
other dresses; and I love her very
much."
Bess handed back the photograph and
looked for a long time at the yellow
trail. She had tb bite her lip to repress
a sigh, but she had beeu too long aloue
and friendless to lo9e her self-controi.
4, L00k here," she suddenly a9ked,
4, if you were to catch these Indians,
would that be what you wanted to do to
be able to get your promotion and marry
her?"
4< l should say it would," he answered
bitterly. 4, But that isn't my luck."
4t ltis! it is!" she cried, falling upon
her knees by the trail. <4 Seo, I give her
to you. See there—and there—and
there! Those are pony tracks 1 See
here I" She held up to liirn the thing
she had picked up wheu he was mock
ingly polite. 44 1t is the lash of an In
dian quirt—worn through. They are
riding hard and their horses are tired.
They were in a hurry to get by here
without being discovered by you, cr
they would have stopped to pick it up.
Run, run, I tell you! I can read the
trail better than you or any of your men.
You cau catch them beforo morning I
Hun !' v
He had started betore she had finished,
and was bounding up the trail with long,
athletic strides, leaving her alone on her
knees at the intersection of the trails.
She was still there when the troop
rode silently by with the anxious but
silent young lieutenant at its head. Ho
bowed to her as he passed, but she did
not sec him. After the last pack-mule
had passed out of sight down the valley,
she rose and walked slowly up the moun
tain.
"I was very foolish," she said. "He
has kuo.vn her u long time, and he never
saw me before. Besides, she wears silk
dresses and is rich. But that should not
make any difference in love. He kissed
me! Why should he kiss me if he did
not care for me? It is queer. She is a
great lady, and I—"
She hurst into tears and cried for a
long time as she sat ou the yellow trail
at the top of the hill. It was far into
the night when she arose to go. She
hoard, far off in tho distance, through
the clear air, tho faint pepping of car
bines anil rilies.
"I have given her to him," she mut
tered, as she made her way uncertainly
to the ranch. "Sue is a lady and wears
silk; and she will never know about me,
for he will he ashamed to tell her; and
audi am going to ask Father Jose,
when he corues here next year with his
little Mcxicrn donkeys and his candles
and his white robes, why it is that God
has never sent any one to love inc."—
The Ledger.
The Afghans.
I Of all the races with which the Eng
| lish havo come in close contact, tho
1 Afghans are tho most uncivilized in
uaturo and grain. They aro tierce,
bloodthirsty, fanatical and treacherous;
their good qualities are of the elementary,
domestic kind, and their highest virtuo
is courage, which they possess in a con
spicuous degree. Tney are uncivilized
in the sense that they are without any
nntional cohesion or responsibility. Each
man is independent of his fellows, and
rejects the authority of even tribal chiefs.
No doubt there aro in every clan or tribe
men of prominence for their wealth or
prowess or cunning, who command a
certain following. But their lnlluonco
is personal and temporary, and vanishes
as quickly as it has sprung up. In aomo
quiet Utopia where tho individual might
be allowed to develop in peace, this in
tense individuality might be no disad
vantage. But it is otherwise in a country
like Afghanistan, torn with intestine
discord and jealously regarded by power
ful neighbors.—Fortnightly Review.
Hens' Eggs As Coin'.
In the province of Jauja, Peru, hens'
eggs are circulated a3 small coin, forty
eight or fifty being counted for a dollar.
In the market place and in the shops the
Indians make mo3t of their purchases
with this brittle sort of money; 003 will
give two or three for brandy, another
for cigars, and a third for indigo. Tne
eggs are packed in boxes by the store
keepers and sent to London. From
Jauja alone several thousand loads of
eggs are annually forwarded to the capi
tal— New Yolk Dispatch.
CHICAGO LAN DM AH KS.
SOME NEW ONES THAT AT
TRACT ATTENTION.
Heaviest Tower and Largest Front Poor in
the World - Farts About the Great Sky-
Scrapern—A Fort Turned Into a Temple
of Music.
limit on Made Ground.
Charles E. Nixon, writing of Chi
cago in the Inter Ocean, says: Thers
Is something magnetic in the growth;
In the flashing spirit of this prairie
metropolis—the Indian trading post
of 1812, a plain of ashes in 1871, the
sixth city of the world to-day.
It almost seems like some story of j
Aladdin to look down its broad boule
vards, lined with immense buildings I
that tower into the daikcning sky, j
and believe it all rests as a firm basis ;
upon the site of a marshy border land |
that half a century ago was almost
on a level with the great lake that
overflowed its front.
Let us glance at some of the archi
tectural wonders that "o'crtop the
topless towers of Troy" or the pyra
mids of old Egypt. One can hardly
credit that c'ayey and uncertain soil
could be made to sustain on a com
paratively small foundation a. tower
X r
ill
THE HIT,BEST AND HEAVIEST TO. KR IN THE
CITV NOHIHEKN PACIFIC RAILWAY STA
TI N.
250 fect high, such as ornaments the
Northern Pacific Hallway Station,
each pile in its foundation supporting
tons. This tower is 28x28x250, and
weighs 0,082 tons. Eew people are
familiar with the fact that the tower
of the Auditorium weighs twice as
much as the famous Eiffel Tower of
Paris, and is on an area of founda
tion fractional compared with that
of the Parisian wonder, standing firm
as a rock on floats of steel rails an
chored far below the level of the
lake, that is only a stone's throw
distant.
To the eye accustomed to harmoni
ous proportion, these great buildings
naturally impress more by their mag
nitude than their artistic grace; but
connoisseurs will involuntarily admire
the new Woman's Temple or the
Pullman Building as graceful and
artistic massive compositions in gran
ite and brick. Then there Is the
plain, classic facade of the Loiter
Building, the largest store In the
world, surpassing in size the famous
Bon Manhe of Paris. There Is the
great Home Insurance, the imposing
Rookery, having rooms for 4,000 and
6,000 tenants; or, looking to t-he north,
behold the Masonic Temple, the larg
est otlice building ever constructed,
with its 5,000 tons of steel welded to
gether, towering 200 feet in the air,
surmounted by a crystal garden, filled
with exotics of the tropics; indeed,
there are so many of these architect
oral giants recently sprung into life
In this city that it is difficult to dis
criminate in describing them.
Pcihaps some of the lesser build-
W
rnE i.aeiiie-t front noon in the world.
lugs that would be wonders elscr
where more likely satisfy the artistic
critical canon of taste. But the
field is prolific in this line and adds
to the pcrp'exity. Our foreign
friends and native visiting brotfyeje
w ill pause in admiration before oi r
Art Institute, or the imposing col
umned frontofthc Studebaker Build
ing: get a glimpse of the Alharabra
In Kinsley's Moorish front in brick
and gold, or the sturdy Norman
spirit of Richardson in the dark-red
walls of Field's wholesale store.
One conspicuous structure on
Michigan bonlfivard that would ini- I
press the critical John lluskln, and
as most unique and interesting, is !
the First Regiment Armory, now the !
Trocadero. It is in dignity strongly j
suggestive of a fortress, picturesque
ly Indicating the conditions that led :
to the building of mediaeval castles, i
It is generous in dimensions, cover
ing an area of 164 by 174 feet. To
the height of ,75 feet the exterior
walls are heavy masses of brown
stone, unbroken by any apeiture, ex
cepting by the 40 foot wide dooiway
on Michigan boulevard, which is the
regimental sallyport, and through
whioh the command can march out
In fu'l company front. This opening
is barred by a heavy oak and steel
door, swung like a portcullis, and ly
ing back of Ihc embrasures in tlie
thickness of the walls. It is pro
tected by firing-slots in the heavy
reveals on either side (think of a
front door 40 by 40 feet, weighing
tons). The lowest window sill is 35
fe"t from the ground, and six feet
from the floor within. They are
barred by heavy iron grills, being
narrow ports, for tiring, and on the
outer and inner jamb to give greater
range, and when not In use arc closed
by heavy steel plates. The whole
exterior mass is crowned by heavily
corbeled co-nice forming both breast
works and firing ports, through which
latter the face of the wall is com
manded. Each corner of the build
ing is marked by a heavy round tur.
ret, from which an enfilading Are can
bo maintained along the outer face
of the main walls. For the
nonce this remarkable building will
be thrown open to the public as a
temple of amusement: the shrill fife
and the call of the war drum will be
silent to the music of peace. The
architects of the Auditorium are
converting the great drill hall and
Its winding galleries into an audi
torium that will have a seating ca
pacity for about 5,000 people. Th's
great room Is 10 by 175 feet, with
out a pillar or partition, the three
stories above being suspended by
great rods from the steel trusses thai
suppo.t the roof. Asa place of en
tertainment it will worthy of its
famous namesake, the Trocadero ol
Paris. It will be furnished with [a
complete and beautiful stage; and
the ventilation, electric lighting, and
acoustics will incorporate all the
latest and best devices. The great
banquet hall will be utilized as a
restaurant, from which the music
can be heard.
If Chicago's great buildings will
attract attention by day they will
take a new interest with the shining
lamps of nightfall; the great boule
vards thronging with a restless
multitude will blaze with light; the
huge buildings, seemingly towering
up among the stars, will cast strange
fantastic shadows; circles of light
will Illumine the tower of the. North
ern; the Trocadcro will appear like
some grand old feudal castle, whose
outlines blaze with electric lights;
powerful flash lights will Hash from
the lop of the Masonic Temple miles
out over the scintillating waves ot
the lake, and every great archi
tectural wonder will serve as the
basis of some bright beacon and show
that the spirit of Chicago never
sleeps, and that the witchery of the
night will outcharm the day in pre
senting attractions outside the walls
of the White City.
THE ATTRACTIVE ACE.
Opinion* a* to When a Ii Mont
Intore*'
Benedict, Bob, and I eat around a
smoothly polished fable, discussing
matters and things, including ludics on
dress pa-ade on the avenue. Benedict
hnß married within the last twelve
months. Bob, if rumor be correct, is
looking for a second wife. Of course,
I otli mon feol entirely competent to
give me points.
"At what ago is a woman most at
tractive?" I submitted, reflectively.
"Just before she is a woman," replied
Bob, promptly, the touch of Irish in him
betraying itself, as it always does,
when ho is particular;}' interested ill his
subjoct. "When she is on the border
land of possibilities, but has not yet ex
changed the arthssness of a child for
the artfulness of a woman. When she
is unspoiled by flattery and contact
with the world; when she has enthusi
asms and loves or hates with her whole
heart, undaunted by policy and Mis.
Grundy; before she lias read Tolstoi and
Ibsen, and before she lias begun to feel
lier power. Then is the time when a
mail may tako her to his heart and mold
her to his ideal!"
"Oh, nonsense!" broke in Benedict,
impatiently. (Boh Is 47, and his Tr ends
don't like to see lilin making a fool ot
himself over infants.) "Why do you
want to take a girl to raise? Youth is
very pretty in pictures and verse, but
innocence, with its attendant Ignorance
and shallowness, would give marital
dyspepsia! Deliver mo from the child
woman, who is neither one thing nor
the other; who is talanclng between a
spanking ot one and the scepter of the
other! She cannot be comfort, com
panion, counselor, or friend. At best,
she Is a pretty plaything, to be petted,
coaxed, humored, and waited upon.
Now and Ihen she is bright, never
clever; occasionally witty, but usually
port; she does things that nro foolish
and rash, considering herself original
and independent; she has seen the
surface of things, and trios to make
deep remarks, ending with a lot of silly
nothings that men smile at an-l make
allowance for, because the little lady
doce not know herself.
"With her a thing is perfectly lovely
or perfectly droadiul, and there ends
her conversational powers or her appre
ciation. Give me the woman who
knows a thing or two; the woman who
is a woman; who is intelligent, strong,
and helpful, and who knows a bit of the
world as it is. When such a womnn is
kind, a man gets his reward for living.
But deliver me from the raw material!"
,'aok Straw, in New York Becorder.
future of Cast le Garden.
Castle Garden, in the Battery, New
ork City, nn-e the home of grand
opera, and the place of a national ex
hibition. and afterward the landing
place of millions of immigrants, is
nov to become an aquarium. The
Park Board has approved a bill to bo
introduced in the Legislature appro
priating $150,000 for the e tablish
went of the aquarium.
Schema for a New State.
Some tireless Fastern genius has
eonceived the scheme of forming a
new State out of tne northern section
of Michigan. Wisconsin and Minne
sota. To this he would give the
name of Superior, not because of the
peculiar character which would bo
supposed to attach to the district,
hut because it forms the lower fringe
of Lake Superior.
UNCLE SAM'iS GREAT SEAL
ITS TRUE HISTORY AS PREPARED
BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT.
It Is Contained in a Massive Mahog
any Box and Is Carefully Guard
ed by the Clerks.
Y I J" HE great seal of the United
I i States, which is contained in a
I massive mahogany box in the
5" State Department and carefully
guarded by the clerks, whose dutiei are
to see that its impress ia properly affixed
to State papers, is of much interest to
visitors to the department, but its truo
history was never written until a few
months ago, when, under orders from
the Cabinet, an account of it was pre
pared by one of the historians of the de
partment and printed at the Govern
ment's expense for distribution among
State libraries and prominent persons.
The pamphlet was prepared with all the
care that its importance carried, baun 1
in rich covering, with the stamp of the
seal imprinted upon the outside. It tell;
that the final nttompt to perfect a seal
was made by order of the Continental
Congress, which appointed a committee,
consisting of Thomas JefTeraon, John
Adams and Benjamin Franklin, who
were told to go ahead and prepare a de.
vice for the National seal nnd coat of
arms. After several months' labor the
committee suggested a disign most
elaborate in execution, but which did
not meet with very general approval.
This device represented Puaroah sittin •
in an open chariot, with n cro.vu on his
head and a sword in his hand, passing
through the waters of the Red Sea in
pursuit of the Israelites. It lys from a
pillar of fire in a cloud, expressive of the
Divine presence and command, beimed
upon Hoses, who stood on the shore and
extended a hand over the sea, which
caused it to overwhelm Paaroah. Ujder
neath was the motto, "Rebellion to ty
rants is obedience to God." ..
Later on another attempt was made to
arrange a dcvico by a second committee,
which resulted in one not quite so ela
borate and pretentiou. fiiis design
contained a constellation of thirteen stars,
with the same number of alti mate stripes.
This, too, met with disapproval, and the
matter was let alone for some yesr3.
Then, after some experiments, a device
•was submitted that suited, and was
adopted on June 20, 1782. The first
seal was cut out o( brass, and was first
used upon the commission granting full
power and authority to Washington to
arrange with the British for an cxchango
of prisoners. This device was in use for
fifty years, and varies little from the pres
ent seal except in detail of execution.
Tho second seal was cut in Philadel
phia in 1841, and, by some mistake, seven
of the thirteen nrrows which it should
have had were left out. The prcsentseal
was made by TiffaDyin 1885 by order of
Secretary Frcylinghtiyscn alter the de
-1 sigu had been passed upon by a commit
tee of historical scholars and authorities
on hernldry. It is not true, as goncrally
supposed, that the seal is nlfixed to all
appointments made by the President, us
its impress is put only upon commissions
of Cabinet officers, ceremonious commu
nications from the President to heads of
foreign Governments, conventions, treat
ies, and formal agreements of the Pres.
ident with foreign powers, pnrdous, or
commutations of sentence, warrants and
miscellaneous commissions of civil of
ficers, whose appointments are not now
especially directed to be signed under a
different seal. All treaties to which the
seal is affixed have the impression made
also with a wax wafer, with a red, white
and blue cord runuing through it. Tho
treaties are then packed in boxc3 of
highly-polished and expensivu woods, to
be sent to the country negotiating them
with us. The treaties of some foreign
G avert inents have been sent iu boxes of
gold and silver, richly ornamented, in
some instances, svith valuable stones.
These boxes are carefully stored in the
archievcs of the department.—New Yorx
Sun.
The Courage ol Elephnit?.
They will submit day day after day ti
have painful wounds dressed in obedi
ence to their keeper, and meet danger in
obedience to orders, though their inte'-
ligence is sufficient to understand the
peril, and far ton great for man to trick
them into a belief that it is uon ex stent.
No animal will face danger more readily
at man's bidding. As an instance take
the following incideut, which recently
occurred in India an I was communicated
to the writer. A small female elephant
was charged by u buffalo in high grass,
and hoi rider, in the hurry of the mo
ment and perhaps owing to the sudden
..oppiug of the elephant, fired nn ex
plosive shell from his rifle, not iuto thu
buffalo, but into the elephant's shoulder.
The wound was BO severe that it had not
healed a year later. Yet the elephant
stood firm, although it was gored by tho
buffalo, which was then killed by an
other gun. What is even more strango
is that the elephant was not "gun-shy"'
afterward.—Loudon Spectator.
Frozen ill a Hospital.
It seems to be a tacitly understood ""
principle in Euglnnd that one who is not
robust enough to resist the efl'x'.sof cold
is not fit to survive, and any attempt to
keep public places reasonably warm in
the winter is seldom made. A public
hospital is the last place in the world,
oue would think, that could do without
beat, but it is reported that a child was
actually frozen to death the other day in
the waiting room of Guy's Hospital, one
of the most famous institutions of Lon
don. The child was sick with teething,
and the mother took it to the hospital
to Eee the doctor. She had to wait five
hours in the cold till her turn cane, an 1
when the doctor finally did sec the baby,
he found it in the last stages of freeziag
to death. An inquest was held, and
there has been much talk about cold y
waiting rooms, but so far as heard from
no stove has been put up in that one.—
New Orleans Picayune.