It is said that the people of Now Or
leans, La., maintain the most independ
ent attitude toward the dictates of
fashion of any city in the land.
In 1860 the average co3t of teaching
per annum for each pupil in the public
schools of Chicago was $3.40. In 1893
the average cost of teaching was $16.20.
The prices of valuable Russian furs
bavo been almost quadrupled in Ger
many in recent ycar3. Not all of them
are genuine, as may be inferred from the
fact that dead cats, which were worth
two ccnt3 apiece a few yearn ago, uo.v
cost twenty-five to thirty cents each.
Labouchere, of London Truth, acidly
observes that "tho British House of
Lords, it must be remembered, has only
survived thus far because tho majority of
its members have sufficient sense never
to show their faces, much less to let
their voices be heard, at Westminister."
Another bridge to connect New York
and Brooklyn has been begun. The
structure will be oa the cantilever sys
tem aud its spaas will be 150 feet high.
Its cost will be over $10,030,000. The
two great cities will soon be linked so
firmly together that, in the opinion of
the San Francisco Chronicle, a common
muuicapal government will be absolutely
necessary.
Sines tho great caves of this country
were turned into show placc3 a close
watch has boen kept on visitors to pre
vent their annexation of stalactite 3,
"cavo acorns," gypsum crystals, and
other curious and beautiful formations.
Not even tho broken stalactites lying
about the floor can bo appropriated, for
these are gathered and sold by the own
ers or lessees of these holes in the
ground.
Tho backward condition ot public in
struction in. provincial Russia may bo
gathered from a brief and well-authenti
cated a prominent newsoa
per, from which it appears that in the
Government of Pskoff, adjoining that of
Bt. Petersburg, there is to b9 found only
one elementary school In the whole area
of 500 square veists, and among more
than 200 villages, many of which con
tain several thousands of inhabitants.
The winter and wot weather of tho
East this year proved a great bonanza to
the rubber shoe manufacturers and deal
ers, who have sold out nearly all their
•book. So great has been tho consump
tion it is estimated that the output of
1893 will have to bo increasod by nearly
20,000,000 pairs. This, caloulate3 the
Chicago Herald, will tax the cipacity
of tho mills to the utmost aud insures to
tho operatives abundant work at good
wages during tho year.
Another steamship line is arranging to
put two 10,000-ton steamers under tho
American flag. Tno vessels will bo built
at Newport News, Va., and will ply be
tween Liverpool and New Oriean3. The
new liners, it is expected, will bo tho
nucleus of a full fleet of American
6teainers rivaling in speod and beauty
the fastest afloat. "Evidently the pros
pects of the American fl ig reappearing
on the ocean are brightening," exclaims
the San Franciscc Chronicle.
The other day two Chinese damsels
invaded the San Fraucisco Chronicle
building. They rode up and down tho
elevator, visitiny the different floors,
opening the doors of several offices, ap
parently for no other purpose than to
see what was inside, meanwhile all the
time jabbering aud lau;hiug as if they
were very much amused. When asked
who they were looking for ono of ihcm
answered: "We no look for auyboly—
we all.the same slumming."
Says the Detroit Free Press: "Silver
may be cheap—say eighty-three cents an
ounce—but its production is much
cheaper. Ia the three most prominent
mines at Creede, Col., silver has been
produced at twenty-five ceats an ouuee,
and the profits from these three mines
la3t year were $1,000,000 on a $200,000
investment. Two Creede mines can pro
duce 8,000,000 ouuees per annum. A
raiue at Aspen has been turning out 2,-
600,000 ounces per annum, at a co3t, it
is said, of less than fourteen cents per
ounce."
Tuo stories of the misused oyster
dredgers of the Chesapeake have excited
wide sympathy, and a nunbjr of influ
ential societies in Baltimore have lu mind
a headquarters where complaints can bo
lodged by the unfortunate and investi
gation made and prosecution conducted
by this headquarters against the wretches
who deceive and abuse tho men they
ship. In most cases, declares the Chicago
Ilcrald, the victims of these outrages are
too poor to prosecute the offenders, but
tho proposed plan will obviate this dif
ficulty aud iosurc u deserved punish*
meat-
TO HIM WHO WAITS.
*To him who waits—" the wise old saying
runs;
Crooning it o'er while winged snow-shafts
dart
Athwart the gloomy light of shrouded suns,
With what a thrill it vivifies my heart.
Clear as a zither laughs the brook set free;
Soft as a lute I hear the robin sing;
Upon my ear bursts all the melody
That leaps from out the lyric lips of Spring.
—Clinton ScollarJ, in Youth's Companion.
A TALE OF A BROOM.
fu N T KITTY
stood, with the
broom in her hand,
at the parlor door.
A fit of gener
ous activity seized
ine.
"O, Aunt Kitty,
rlo let me sweep.
You don't know
how beautifully I
can 'fix up'a room.
Besides, I am
dying for want of exercise."
Aunt Kitty looked as if struck by a
small torpedo.
"Dear aunt, have you not heard of
Hcrcules's sweeping the Augean stable 3 in
one day? They contained three thou
sand head of cattle, which hadn't had
uny clean straw for thirty years. Well,
I daro say he began with his mother's
! parlor, and trained his muscles th is." I
caught the broom and performed a series
of g? mnastics, throwing it back of my
head, and twisting my neck in and out
of the loop, till the shade of the student
lamp began to tremble.
My aunt yielded with many cautions.
44 Don't break anything, but inovo out
the furniture, aud sweep tho corners,
and shake the table cover and the rug;
and don't lift tho broom high so as to
make a big dust."
44 Enough, madam, my aunt. You
will soon see how accomplished in such
matters I am. Wait a minute. Even at
such a trying lime, {esthetics must not
be forgotton."
I ran up stairs and reappeared with I
ray hair done up in a white mull fichu, |
fastened at the side with a bunch of
mignonette; my dress skirt pinned back,
and covered with a large apron, trimmed
with red bows.
"Beauty and tho Breom," said I, as I
saw my black eyes and dark cheeks un
der the soft white turban, in the small
mirror. "Grace Brown, I have seen you
with less bccomiug surroundings. Now,
aunt, exit please. The curtain rises
upon the first act."
My aunt well know that rambling in
tho woods after flowers and insects was
my delight, and that I regarded house
work as a necessary evil, which, like
duties in a custom house, let those shirk
who might. I spent weeks in this
charming country home every summer,
in preference to visiting any of the fash
ionable resorts, simply because I had
enough of fashion tho rest of tho year
—and because I was, with all my short
ing?, Aunt Kitty's favorite niece. Father
and I lived all alone; or, rather, he
lived with his grain elevators. lie was
very good to me. I might go anywhere
I liked, or stay at home and invite com
pany. So I joined a Shakspeare Ciu'o to
improve my mind, and took lessons in
free hand drawing. Ot course, I had to
go o great deal to the dressmaker's, for
a city girl's wardrobe takes time aud at
tention. I had a dog cart and pony,
and I took one of tho girls every pleas
ant day to drive in Central Park.
As for housekeeping, we had the best
of servants, and I only had to decide
whether it should be beef or mutton for
dinner. No wonder Aunt Kitty regarded I
this freak as a new and startling de
velopment of my character. But she
left mo with:
"Don't sweep the dust into the hall,
but to the hearth, aud— '*
I actually kissed her aud pushed the
dear soul out of the room, aud shut the
door iu her face.
Now I threw open all tho windows
and blinds. A flood of beautiful sun
shine came in. Dark rooms are an in
vention of the Prince of Darkness—but
then folks iu the country are awfully at
tached to them. Never mind, I have all
out doors to live. llow lovely those
roses are this morning! I climb over the
sill to the veranda, and pick a large
bunch of Baltimore Belles, which I pin
to my throat. A sparrow has her nc3t
in that honeysuckle vine. Oa, she is
sitting, and I will uot disturb her. I
almost wish I had gone for a walk.
"But, Grace Brown, you shall not
be fickle. You are going to sweep
this room; so climb in again. This
small round table shall be the starting
point. 4 A good beginning is work half
done."' The carpet is a modest tapestry.
I will take it, one breadth at a time,
□arrowing ever the horizon of dust and
dirt, the hearth rny radiating point, en
larging tho area of brightness, till all is
clean—when, Enter Dust Pan, and per
form thy menial but usetul office!
The table is pretty and quaint, cov
ered with an embroidered cloth that I
worked and sent last Christmas. Oa it
lie a handsome pieco of coral under
plass, some rare aud beautiful shells,
and an illustrated book, 4 'Poems of the
Bea."
Well do I know the sad story en
shrined here. Fifteen years ago, Arnold
Wood sailed on his last voyage. 11c was
Aunt Kitty's lover, and a fiue seaman.
But Aunt Kitty would have no sailor for
a huaband, and he agreed that after one
more voyage—ho hail just been pro
moted to bo second mate—be would
settle down to farming. She could not
bear that he should go, but
he was jubilant. Now lands
to Fee—rare and pretty thing 3
to bring back to the prettiest bride in
town—it was but right that he should
have ono more taste of tho wild, free
life; aud sadly she let him go. For
teveral weeks letters came regularly.
The last was from Calcutta. No one ever
heard of that ship again. As months
passed, Aunt Kitty grew pale and silent,
with u wistful look vu he;- fucp, Popple
stopped talking \vhett she went by, and
said under their breath, "Poor things 1"
At last she took to her bed with a slow
fewer.- That's what they always
tlieso broken heart troubles. But she had
a strong physique, and did not die, as
seemed likely, but after weeks of illness
took up the burden of her life again.
Well for her, perhaps, that her father
was growing too old to look after the
farm, and, as he died soon with a stroke
of apoplexy, she assumed entire control'
of the business. Then her mother grew
feeble, and they cared for her like an
infant. She could only help herself a
little by rolling her chair about. On
warm days she enjoyed sitting on the
veranda, but that was the only change
she knew till she took the last long
dreadful journey. Aunt Kitty's success
as a farmer is wonderlul. The men
obey her, or else they go. Her cabbages
are the finest, and her chickens the tat
test in the neighborhood. She wages
relentless persecution upon worms and
insects, aud it seems as if the things
didn't dare to try to eat her cucumber
plants. If the eurculio attacks one of
her plum trees, she cuts the tree down
before the other 3 suifer. "Better one
dead tree than a lot of sickly ones," she
says. With an eye, perhaps, to Aunt
Kitty's swelling bank accouut, a very
nice man asked her to marry him. She
replied that her life was, indeed, for any
who needed her, but for no husband.
Her heart, she said, lay at the bottom of
the ocean.
In the table is a small drawer which I
ought to open and dust. Ah! the
only thing hero is a painted ambfo
type of Arnold in a blue velvet case.
I take it reverently from its folds
of tissue paper and open it. On
the inside cover is pinned a curl of rud
dy brown hair. It is a boyish face,
laughing, pure and sweet. Till tho last
he must have bounded over tho crests of
life's ways—happy, fearless. If only
they could have been married, and had
their pretty children about them I
But, Grace Brown, I thought you
were sweeping! I push back tho drawer,
move tho table, and ply my broom with
vigor.
Here are some dry leave? and flowers,
dropped in the shadow of the door.
They are botanical specimens which the
doctor and I were studying last night.
We found a purple Ghsrardia, yellow
Trefoil and Polygala along the roadside
on our drive. We examined them
through the doctor's big microscope.
That Polygala was hard stu lying, and
there he sat, enjoying ray poking with
his needles, trying to count stamens aud
cells too small almost to be seen with
the microscope. He would not help
one bit, and I felt moro aud more
3tupid. He says I will make a fair
botanist if I persevere. The doc
tor knows everything about plants,
but then he had to learn, so as to dis
pense sarsaparilla, and all his other vege
table stuffs. Bitanical names do so
dignify medicines I No v I should hate
to get well of a fever on Monkshood or
one of the Deadly Nightshades. Bat
call them Aconitum and Belladonna and
I shouldn't mind in the least. Out hero,
where I have a few companions, the doc
tor is very agreeable. Ho began practic
ing iu New York, but it was up-hill
work. So when the old physician of
Ibis place wauted to retire, and invite !
this young doctor to take his practice,
he was glad to come. Some of his pa
tients live off quite a distance, and he
says I may as well enjoy the ride with
him on tine days. II: calls, quite ui
profcssionally, of course, oa Aunt Kitty
very often. Bat come—my little dried
up Garardia, you and the rest must
share a com non fate aud go to the dust
heap.
A few white hairi are caught on
the broom. I take one gently off and
draw it through my lingers. Aunt
Kitty's hair turn e i white in tin
fever. I love white hairs. Too in'sad
stage suggests tno struggle between
youth and age; but the hvr softened
and whitened at last means the triumph
of wisdom, purity and peace over irrita
bility, passion, vanity, ambition and
those other tempestuous attributes of
youth and middle age. I cannot associ
ate white hair with any but good people
like Aunt Uebekahand Aunt Kitty. The
bad ought to use dye 3 and keep their
locks, like their hearts, a dirty yellow
black.
I have come to the what-not, and I
regard it with dismay. What not, in
deed 1 Heaps of knick-kuack, shells,
vases, daguerrotype3. picture cirds,
boxes, s null china figures, all waiting to
be dusted. On the top shelf peacock
feathers and dried grass wave from an
antique vase. Hero is my mother's pic
ture in a small frame made of pine cones.
There arc hair FLOWERS under a glass. DJ
let us look at these ancient dagucrro
types. This is Uncle Amos, more sol
emn even than his portrait. That is
father's cousin who lives in
Austrailia, and send 3me something
rare and pretty every Christmas.
I- have never setu him, hut
ho thought a great deal cf mother, who
died when I was four years old. It is
for her sake, I suppose, that he sends me
things. Here is a group of my own
cousins, five light-haired, prett}', delicate
children. Only one live 3 now. Their
mother died of consumption, leaving a
baby three months old. Uncle John, a
brother of ray father's and Aunt Kitty's,
knew a Massachusetts girl, strong and
sweet tempered, who was teaching
school, lie went to her and said:
"You were my wife's best frieud. Iler
children have her constitution. You
know their doom. Come and make their
short lives happy. She would be pleased.
I will give you money and aho ne. All
your wants shall be gratified. And for
the care 30U give my children our grati
tude will be your recompense."
She went, and took up her task, de
termined to conquer those fatal seeds of
death which were the mother's heritage.
She struggled, and did indeed give them
happiness, but she could not give them
health. Waat a fearful fact hereditary
isl They lived from sixteen to twenty
years, then one by one they drooped and
died, . /Ml tfiW out div 4iu ber aruw,
He, singularly, ©scaped. As a forlorn !
hope, he was sent a9 common seauiau on
a sailing vessel. Being weak and un
used to climbing, ho fell to the deck and
broke hia hip. He was taken to the
hospital, where he lay for a year, hia
wound suppurating and refusing to heal.
When he aid recover ho walked with a
crutch, but the blood taint was gone,
and his lungs were sound. lie married
and lives in St. Louis. Hero is a photo
graph of Charley, junior, a mischievous,
sturdy-looking three-year-old, booked
for a long life. On one shelf is a
curiously carved cup which Cousin
Charles did in the hospital. It was one
of his ways of passing the time.
When all ray poor cousins were laid
in Greenwood, my uncle looked at the
lady who had spent the best part of her
life in his children's sick room, and saw
that she was old before her time. Too
late he began to value her life,aad hoped
by making her his wife to restore some of
her lost youth and energy. He took
her traveling; physicians sa*v her; but in
spite of all, sho gradually settled into a
quaint melancholy. She preferred to
stay in a darkened room, and move 9
noiselessly about, as if she were tending
the 9ick. Is there a nervous, vital force ,
which those who are ill draw from those 1
who care for them? It seems so in Aunt '
Mary's case. She may yet recover My J
friend the doctor has seen her and gives j
hope; but it will take time.
The door suddenly opens.
4 'My stars I what a picture I" says a j
voice in dismay. This was tho picture: j
Chairs and tables were moved into the j
middle of tho room. Flies nud dust di
vided the airy spaces between them. The >
former, joyously swarming and buzzing,
showed absolute delight over such au
unprecedented invitation as this—to
Aunt Kitty's be3t room. Tho what-not
was partly dismantled. Peacock feathers
and dried grasses lay on t'he floor among
a dozen or two daguerreotypes. I, Miss
Brown, sat in the midst, while my broom
lay on the centre table, dangerously neat
thestudent lamp. The dust-pan reposed
upon tho mantelpiece between Aunt
Kitty's Royal Worcester vases. No won
der my aunt was in a state of mind. Her
words came in little gasps:
"Child alive I Did I ever see—since
I was born? I was an idiot—ye 3, I was
—to think you could sweep a room.
You are all right to tell th& name of a
flower or a butterfly, but if you are fit
for a single thing about a house, Grace
Brown, I haven't found it out I"
I heard a smothered laugh in tho hall,
and looking up from my confusion, saw
—oh, heavens and earth I the doctor's
oyes twinkling with amusement, while
his face was red with suppressed mirth.
"My horse and buggy are here, at
your service. Miss Brown." (Why
didn't I hear him drive up?) "I am
going after some pitcher-plant and sun
dew, and you may like to gather somo
specimens. Sinco the pitcher-plant
grows in a swamp, you might put on
your rubbers. Otherwise your pro3ont
costume is appropriate, as well as charm
ing."
After the ride:
T.io doctor, that is, Henry, says I
must assume tho direction of hia house
hold affairs. lie will bo perfectly dis
consolate if I don't. He wants mo to be
married with lots of white, soft stuff
about my head—l will pucker up tho
veil a little, just to humor him—with
rosebuds everywhere on ray dre3S. Ho
said that the picture of that half-swopt
room, the flies, the dust, myself a poor
little, beautiful culprit seated on the floor
with thing 3 all about me, my irate aunt,
and the broom, was one in which lights
and shadc3 were exquisitely blended, and
one that he can never forget.
It was a good long ride, and wo did
not once think of tho pitcher-plant; but
it was very sweet to be thought so much
of by .such a splendid fellow as my
Ilonry. And as lam to live here all the
time, I can get specimens any day.
Meanwhile, I will humbly petition Aunt
Kitty to give me lessons in housekeep
ing.—Romance.
Why Icelanders Emigrate.
The iuterior of Iceland is a howling
wasto of saud aud ice, traversed by
darting glacial rivers, and uttorly in
capable of supporting more than a few
scattered inhabitants. Grass is tho only
considerable crop. The hills and the
valleys are treeless and afford at best but
scanty pasturage for horses, cows and
sheep. Itoads and bridges scarcely ex
ist. The backs of horses ara the only
means ot transportation across country.
Small boats carry travelers over
daugerous river 3, while the horses swim
on ahead. Hardly auything that minis
tera to comfort, to say nothing of luxury,
is produced in Iceland. Every nail in an
Iceland house, every pane of glass, every
bit of wooden flooriug, every insignifi
cant bit of furniture, has to ba train
ported laboriously from one of tho sea
ports to its destination.
That the 70,00Q inhabitants of Icalan l
aro poor goes without sayiug. There is
little or no homo market, for every Ice
lander has the same products to sell as
his neighbor. Money circulation is small
and the farmer barters a certain number
of horses or shesp or rolls of dried fish
or bales ot hay for a supply of groceries
aud other necessaries of life.—Ne.v York
Advertiser.
Terrors of the Awful Fans?.
We usually talk about the weather
when there isn't anything else to talk
about. This fact may tend to rob tho
subject of its importance, yet it should
not. In fact it ought to be greatly in
its favor, as it is ever ready and efficient
in breaking the "awful pause." Have
you ever been overtaken by the awful
pause? Fortunate, indeed, if you havo
not, and entitled to heartiest sympathy
if you have. It is truly awful, especially
if courtesy demands that you should
break it. It settles upon tho best rugu
lated companies like a nightmare, and
seerai to paralyze tho tongue an I put
thought to flight. No one can think of
auything to say, or ieari to attempt to
flay it. Then,if ever, a fool is welcome,
because ho doesn't think before ho
BQ©akg,-—PHtobqrsr Go-nifiyroial Giotto,
HOMES OF THE CABINET.'
ABODES OF MR. CLEVELAND'S
POLITICAL FAMILY.
Something: of tho Domestic I.lfe of the
Advisor* Who in tho FrrHldeut Has
Chosen to Aid Him in Administering
l'ublio Adair*.
• How They I.lve.
From the public live? of the men
whom President Cleveland has ap
pointed to his Cabinet it is interest
ing to turn and note their domestic
habits.
The gentleman who holds the port
folio of State, Hon. Walter Q. Gresh
am, finds the chief delight in life in
the bosom of his family. His home
is one of a series of brown stone
buildings on Prairie avenue, Chicago,
and here he dispenses royal hospital
ity to his friends. In 1858 he mar
ried Miss Matilda McGrain, of Harri
son County, Ind. Judge Gresham's
figure is tall and slender and his
handshake warm. He prides himself
on his ability to read character. Ho
is very democratic in his tastes and
JUDGE GRESHAM'S noUSX, CHICAGO.
rides to and from his business in tho
street cars.
The home of Hoke Smith, Secre
tery of tho Interior, is a largo but un
ostentatious dwelling on West Peach
tree street, Atlanta, Ga. It has
broad piazzas and an extensive lawn
In front, and here during the long
summer afternoons Mr. Smith may
be seen playing with his children.
There aro three children, Marion, the
RESIDENCE Of IIOKE SMITH, ATLANTA.
eldest, aged 8; Mary Brent, aged 4;
and Lucy, a babe of 8 months. Mr.
Smith is but 38 years old and is fond
of outdoor exercise.
The home of Hilary A. Herbert,
tho new Secretary of the Navy, is at
Montgomery, Ala. His long life in
Washington renders him better
known there than in the South, and
at the capital he lives with his fam
ily at the Richmond. Mr. Herbert
is a widower. Ho has three children,
two daughters and a son.
Wilson Shannon Bissell. who has
WILSON B. BISSBI.L'B HOUSE. BUFFALO.
been a resident of Buffalo for forty
years, lives at 295 Delaware avenue.
Like his former law partner, the
President, he led a bachelor's life un
til his friends thought he would die
one, but four years ago he married
Miss Louise Sturgis, of Geneva, New
York, and is now tho father of a
little girl about the age of Ruth
Cleveland. Mrs. Bissell is an accom
plished musician and was music
teacher at the Buffalo Seminary when
she married. She is a charming lady.
John Griffin Carlisle, the famous
Kentucky statesman, is as demo
cratic to-day as when in his early
years he followed the plow in Ken-
MR. CARLISLE'S IIOCHE IN WASHINGTON.
tucky. He is adored by newspaper
men and is uniformly courteous and
polite. He has been known to give
his scat to a colored girl in the street
cars with as much grace as though he
were offering his place to a!■ coaler's
wife. His wife, who presides over
bis liorae lp Wfstiiagton, Is a uiosfc
F 'radons and accomplished lady. She
s litho as a school girl and very
young in appearance, although she If
the mother of two grown-up sons.
With Daniel Scott Lamont the
public is fairly well acquainted, lie
Is the intimate of the President.
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I P
DANIEL I.AMONT'S NEW YOKE HOUSE
Mr. Larnont's home in New York is
on West 72d street and is gracefully
presided over by Mrs. Lamont, who
is a bosom friend of Mrs. Cleveland.
The family consists of three children,
tho oldest of whom is 11 and the
youngest 4.
llichard Olney, tho new Attorney
General, is ono of tho leading law
years of Now England, and for along
time has drawn a princely fortune
from his legal profession. His homo
Is on Commonwealth avenue, where
he resides In winter. The summer
home is at Falmouth. His wife is
a daughter of the late Beniamln F.
Thomas and their two daughters aro
married, one in Boston and the other
to a physician in Berlin, Germany.
Arbor Lodge is the name of the
place where J. Sterling Morton, Sec
retary of Agriculture, watched the
growth of Nebraska City. Ho Is a
pioneer in Nebraska, having gone
there two years ahead of the govern
ment surveyor. His home is one of
the most charming places in tho
country. In 1881 his wife died and
on the tombstone he carved his own
wb 11
J&4"
i mmw
RESIDENCE OF RICHARD OLNEY, HUSTON.
name and those of bis three sons.
One day he pointed out tho names to
his sons, saying: "If either of you
does a dishonorable thing I will havo
his namo chiseled oil that stone."
ARBOR LODGE, MR MOBTON'S HOME.
The disgrace is never likely to occur,
for Mr. Morton's sons are exception,
ally bright young men.
STRURELON OF THO POTATO.
The way of tho potato was said to
havo been barred by tho Presbyterian
prejudice that it was never mentioned
in the Bible, says Blackwood's Maga
zine. In tho Lothians It cumo about
1740, the year of dearth, from Ireland,
but was confined to gardens till about
1751, when it was planted In fields about
Aberlady. By tho closo of tho conturv
it was a general article of diet.
I amsay says that George Henderson
went about 1750 for a bag of potatoes to
Kilsyth, where the Irish method of field
culture had lately been tried,and lntio
duced the potato into Mentieth, where a
few had been known, but only in kalo
yards. The old folks, however, did not
lake kindly to tho newfoo 1. Old George
Bachop, one of tho Ochtertyre tenants,
when told by his wife that she had po
tatoos for tupper. said: "Tattles' lai
ties! I never supped cn them a' my day s
and winna (he nicht. Gie them to the
herd and get me 6owens." It Is sig
nificant that Burns,who sang tho prais< s
of kalo and porridge and haggis, has
nothing to say of the potato.
A HORRIBLE MESFT TO EAT.
Being a princess has its disadvantages
at times. The newly married Princess
Mario, into of Edinburgh, now of Itou
niania, will have to meet a deputation
of pousants when E ho goes to lluchnrest
noxt work. They will offer her a loaf
of welcome, and custom demands thnt
she shall cat a big slice of It In their
presence. This wonderful loaf Is made
up of pig's bloo I, garlic, lionoy and
ground tymns, It U baked over wood
embers,
Greek girl* are generally dressed la
•shite. ~ ......
The women Jf Hawaii aro addicted to
the violin habit.
A well-cared-for hand is a fine point
m a beautiful woman.
Miss Ellen Terry, tho actress, Is aa
imateur photographer.
Tho Maine Federation of Women's
Club 3 has 1100 members.
In these days the art of fine needlo
work is in danger of decay.
Steaming the face and then rubbing in
olive or almond oil is a good thing.
The statement is made that women
who lido bicycles ace not graceful
walkers.
The Queen of Italy seldom appears iu
a hat, and hor bonnets are small and
close-fitting.
Mrs. Astor, the New York leader of
fashion, never pays less than $25 for a
pair of shoes.
Queen Victoria, of England, is very
fond of making omelettes, and it seems
has several receipts.
There is a tendency in tho new silver
ware to a return of the straight fluted
patterns of tbo Seventeenth Century. ~
Iu these days of cheap stuffs the poor
est housemaid may wear a dress fine!
than thnt Justinian refused to his Queen.
Henrietta Herschfield, the first woman
graduate of tho Philadelphia College of
Dental Surgery, is assistant court dentist
in Germany.
A scientific authority has Just given
nut that a woman's beauty arrives at its
maximum only after sho has passed her
thirtieth year.
Florence Nightingale, the famous war
nurse, has started a health crusado
among the villages of Buckingham
shire, England.
Miss Marguerite Gumbert has won her
degree of Doctor of Philosophy and
Letters at Brussels, Belgium. Sho Is tho
first woman to do so.
On the authority of Miss Humans, a
professor of gymnastics, the muscular
young women of Boston discard corseta
and high heeled boots.
A sewing machine was included
among tho presents the ex-Empress of
Germany gavo her daughter, Princess
Margarethe, on her recent marriage.
Mrs. Olive Thorno Miller, the welK*
known ornithologist, has gone on a trip
to Utah, California and the Yellowstone
Park in pursuit of her favorite study.
Oolf is going to bo a fashionable game
at Newport, 11. 1., this year. Among
the ladies who are now studying up the
subject are Mrs. Burkc-Kocho and Mine.
Lanza.
Princess Kniulani of Hawaii is sa(d to
havo much musical taste and to 'JO fond
of playing tho ukilili, an instrument that
Is described as "a cross *"*twceu tho
guitar and mandolin." 4
The latest club for women fa London
is one tor the use of c'.erks, bookkeepers,
stenographers, telephone girls and others
who earn their daily bread in this city,
but live in tho suburbs.
Miss Martha Jordan, of Dallas, Texas,
Is tho first colored woman to prepare
herself for practicing dentistry. Bho Is
attending the Dental Department of
Denver (Col.) University.
Lady Haberton, tho originator of the
English Short Skirt League, is making
thousands of converts to her opinion that
walking dresses should be at least five
inches btf the ground all around.
The Duchess of Marlborough is espe
cially given to gray of the shade of the
inside of doves' wings. Gray velvet is
quite a favorite of her grace, and with
it sho wears her wonderful pearls.
The purple or cardinal veil is now
supplanted by a new favorite, the veil w
which cornea in dark shades of green.
This color is said to bo becoming to all,
while the purple can only be worn by a
tew.
The fashionable violet known as "emi
nence," or "pontifical" purple, is by no
means a universally becoming color, aul
women who have not really very good
complexions should eschew it in all its
ramifications.
The prettiest women in tho world are
said to be tho women of Northern Italy.
Tney are a mixture of the French gentry
and the old Italian nobility and inherit
the vivacity of one country and Oriental
beauty of the other.
Secretary of State Gre3ham, like many
other men in public life, has a wife who
attends to a great deal of his corre
spondence for him. Mrs. Gresham is
fond of Washington, but likei it best
when it is most deserted.
Tho old-fashioned gray haircloth is
offered at Nctv York for dress linings at
twenty-five cants to thirty-five cents in
narrow widths. Its stickly, prickly
edges suggest any amount of discomfort V
for thoso who handle or wear it.
Miss Enily Faithfull, the noted E lg
lish social reformer, is endeavoring to
organize in London a suburban homo in
which working women and girls can
each havo a small private room at a low
rent, with the use of common reception
and dicing rooms.
The ex-Empress Frederick worked a
bit of carpet on which ail her chitdreu
knelt when confirmed; the late Emper
or's coffin rested upon it; the present
German Emperor and the Priucesses
Charlotte, Sophia and Victoria were
married standing on it.
The young Uawaiian Princess, while
in Washington, introduced a decidedly
pretty fashion in voguo in her native
islands. Sho wore about her neck a
wreath of roses. In tropic lands these
wruaths are used ail the yoar round.
Hero they would embellish beauty in
summer, being taken from the gardens. .
Iu winter tho hot-houses would havo t<)
iuiui*U them, -