FREELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED KVIRT MONDAY AND THURSDAY. 'RHOS. A. BUCKLEY, ; EDITOR A.\D PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. One Year K Six Months 7;, Four Months &Q Two Months o- Subscribers are requested to observe the date following the name on tho labels of their papers. By referring to this they can tell at a glance how they stand on the books in this office. For instance: Drover Cleveland CSJuneQ5 means that Grover Is paid up to June2S, 1805. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. Hcport promptly to this office when your paper is not received. All arrearages must bo paid when paper is discontinued, or collection will bp tnude in tho manner provided by law. Tlio pineapple ranks in: ; banana or fig anil not much bolov.- vlie I lemon in value as a domestic crop. | More than two thousand acres are de voted to its cultivation in Florida, and the estimates of the new crop from that State fix it at 5(1,001) crates. The i value of Inst year's crop was $500,000, j and an equal amount was imported. At llyde, on the Isle of Wight, 1 there is a small poster on the door of tho parish church which invites those j who wish to see "the finest views in ' Hyde" to ascend the tower," at a charge of sixpence per head or three for twenty-five cents. London Truth j says in commenting on this, "Hero is | a hint for distressed parsons. If they cannot get a living out of tho church perhaps they can out of tho steeple. ' i Dr. Good, a missionary in the in- j terior of Africa, says that the poverty ! of tho native languages is a serious j hindrance to missionary effort. In the Bule language, for instance, there is no word for "thanks" or "thauksgiv- ' ing." "To believe," "to trust," "to have faith," ate all expressed by one verb to which there is no correspond ing noun. There is no word for "spirit." The Bide have always be lieved in 1111 invisible god, but they have never given such a being a name. With the Bale 11 living man has a body and a shadow —tho literal shape i cast by the living person—which at death leaves tho body and becomes a disembodied spirit with a new name which cannot be used to apply to God and tho angels. So Dr. Good is driven to say that God is a "shallow," and that Christ will send his "holy shad- j ow" into men's hearts, etc. The amazing ignorance of the Eng lish people, as a whole, of American affairs, has often been commented j upon, and their ludicrous statements laughed at, but of every manifestation of it hitherto brought to light tho fid- j lowing is easily tho most extraordi nary. ft is taken from the Star ot Bethlehem, a religious paper publish c 1 ill Leeds: "A big revolution is 1 now going 011 in the United States ol America, and there is little doubt that ; tho government will bo defeated. The dictator, Debs, has been driven from his palace, and ho and his wife are \ now hiding in the mountains. The greatest trouble has boon experienced in the capital of Chicago, where Gro ver Cleveland has obtained complete control. The railroad at that plaoc haH been torn tip and thrown into the Mississippi liver, and the stock yard has been razed to the ground." 111 the opinion of tho Boston Culti- 1 vator, "one of tin: most important measures of tho last Congress was a bill, which became law, allotting to some of tho Western States certain arid lands within their limits, on the condition 'tint smii loads shall be im proved by irrigation. It is estimated that there are moro than u million square miles of laud that maybe made fit for cultivation when irrigated, but which are practically worthless now. It is not likely that the W, .tern States will undertake this work. It is far more probable that the Federal Gov- i ernmeut will be called to aid in pro viding irrigation. l'owerfttl lobbies, > both in State and national capital, will bo organized to secure the expen diture of State or Federal money, and after the work is done, the lands can probably be sold for moro than enough to repay the expense. Vet we are sure that this is a scheme whieh , tho Federal Government cannot en tertnin without injustice to older see- ] tions of the country. Free virgin soil j of the Wost has been competing with ; the products of Eastern farms. How much more fierce will this compoti- j tion be, if irrigation is to lie provided j at Government expense? Wo have in the lands now under cultivation ail the food producing capacity that this country will need for ninny years to come. I A PROFESSIONAL SHARKER. A. CULIOUS INDUSTRY ON THE SOUTHERN COAST. Rfg School:* of Savage Fish— Catch ing Them in Seines—Man-Faters Towlag a Moat. ; 1 JHE old man lived on a little I bay that reaches into the isl- B and of Cataliua from the 2~~ southwest, and from where we sat 011 the nan Is, writes a Pasadea (Cal.) correspondent of the New York 1 Post, we could see tho tins of numerous j sharks moving here and there in the | shallow water. | "This a great place for sharks," , continued tin* old man, who was a ; character. "You don't have to hunt ! them up ; they just come in ready to I be caught. You see this is the : finest land-locked harbor of the roast; has a saiiuv bottom, an d Ihe sharks ! appear to fancy it. tor they come in here in big schools, and we take 'em , in nets, and on lines, and sometimes we get right in and spear 'em. .Some 1 time ago a big school set in hero, 1 and the water was fairly alive with j 'em, so that you couldn't step in the j shoal water without stepping 011 one. . There were too many for a net; we : couldn't have hauled it. I happened j to havo a ])air of old sabres, so I i rigged ono on tho end of a pole as a 1 spear and gave the other to a mate. | and we lit into 'em. I reckon they i never experienced a charge of cavalry j before, but wo soon had the beach covered. We walked out knee-deep into the water aud let em have it right and left; but, of course, a good many were only wounded, and bein' ; big fellows, they ran into us. A num- I ber of times I was kuoeked over and ' tell headlong into the school. "No, they didn'itryto bite. They're j what we call oil sharks, aud only reach j a matter of six or eight feet. We catch j 'em lor the oil, and the fins and tails 1 lor the Chinese. The junks stop in hero every once in a while and take ; wh it we get "We eateh several kinds of sharks j here, ' lie said, in reply to my ques tion. "There's the leopard shark, the blue shark, the bnsker, the bam - ! merhead, aud once in a while I've soe:i | a regular man eater off shore. They're : ugly brutes. You see 'em swimmiu' | along slow and looking big enough to i swallow a horse, and like enough they j could if they got tho chance. "The largest shark f. ever caught here was a ten-foot shovel nose, and j I've taken hammer heads nearly as , long. They're the chaps that give you a chase, and ugly faced creatures they are, too. I got one up to the ! boat once, and it took the cutwater j between its teeth and gave the boat a regular shake." When the tide was well up the old j man and his mate hauled out a dilapi- j dated seine, shoved it into a heavy : boat, and soon had it across the head ol the bay,then gradually worked it iu. The sharks irust have had a premoni tion oi what was going to happen, as they disappeared lrom view, but soon a boiling of the water in tho vicinity . of tho net told that they realized they were iu tho toil.*. In came tho seine, the commotion increasing until finally tho men leaped into tho water and be gan tugging tho big purse-like trap on the sands. The water which had been boiling now broke into foam; tails lashed the water, ugly scythe like lius cut it this way and that;' and occasionally a big fish would leap, | like a salmon, clear of the water aud | escape. Soon a number of splashing, ; beating tails and bodies were on the j edge of the sands in shallow water, and the men moved tearlcssly among them, dodging open mouths and snap | ping jaws, and tossing the lisii upon ; the beach. It was a varied collection ; big sharks and little; some six feet long, others two to three feet, all piled together—a mess of open mouths and flying tails. Here were several yellow 1 tails, caught in bad company, a sea j bass and a host of small fry thai had been swimming in the shore or feed- I ing at the rise of tho tide, and ail were rolled over into the sands, where they lay beating out their lives in the hot sun. "We try out the iivcrs of the sharks for oil," said one of tho men later, "cut off the Has, and sometimes there's a demand for skins. Tbey use the ! skin of young sharks in makin' boxes, sword-handles and the like, it makes good leather, too." Shark hunting to the old fisherman was a labor and directly in the line of hard work, but to the layman it is considered good sport. Among sharks taken bv the writer in various waters the white shark, so called, of the Gulf of Mexico, gave the most sport, and J onco caught one which L kept in an enclosure for six months. The sharks in these waters were all large, rarely being seen loss tLian twelve or fourteen feet 111 length, were extremely bulky tor their length, and made a most vigorous light, often requiring the j united strength of ten or twelve men I to run them up on the beach. The method of fishing there was to anchor on the edge of a coral reef and throw tho heavy line into the channel; then when a shark was hooked, to cast oil' the anchor and allow the fish to tow the boat. We often when lishin:?- from a small boat landed thirteen-foot man-eaters single-handed by allowin" them to tow the boat about, tlmu taking them in foot J.y foot, and so towing them ashore. The sharks are not so worthless as they may appear. Whilo they have 110 value to Americans as food, tliev are eaten by the Chinese, as wo have seen, the Malay shark fisheries netting tho men $50,000 per year They are tho scavengers of the ocean and ar ? among the factors that keep tho ocean pure, in the South Pacific islands : the shark has an important economic value. Its skin is used ol) shields, and ' its teeth in the manufacture of swords ' and daggers—a weapon so formidable that a cocoanut-fibre armor is worn in the battles where the swords are em ployed. WISE "vVOIiD*. Sclf-confidcnco is rock bottom. ; Woman is woe tacked 011 to man. Luck is the encouragement of pluck. Man learns by tuition, woman by intuition. A woman's love is as blind as it is beautiful. The sun can't shine through a tor ; pid liver. The hardest worker isn't the great | est gainer. Those who commit iujusticc bear the j greatest burden. Commonly those whoso tongue is their weapon use their feet for defense. buy what thou hast no need of, and , ere long thou shalt sell thy neccssa- Time heals all wounds, but nothing ! short of a miracle can remove the I scars. The man who would have douo so and so if ho had been there never gets there. The truly generous is the truly wise ; ; and he who loves Uvt others live un -1 biest. A craving for sympathy is tho com [ 111011 boundary line between joy and ! sorrow. He who puts a bad construction on a good act reveals his own wickedness of heart. Truth should lie the first lesson ol the child, and the lust aspiration of manhood. Life appears to be too short to bo spent in nursing animosity or regis tering wrong. Tho manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than docs the gift itself. Language cannot express to any one much beyond what lie has lived or experienced. Be not afraid of enthusiasm; you need it; you can do nothing effec tually without it. Let the motive be in tho deed, and not iu the event. Bo not 0110 whose motive for action is the hope of reward. Memorize 1 Speeches. Thomas 13. lteed has never shown I that lie possessed the remarkablo pow -1 r of verbal memory that some of our i public men have hud. Consequently j it is not surprising to hear that the speech delivered at Old Orchard was quite different from the speech which he lud caused to bo printed in ad- j vauce for tho uso of the newspapers. | Probably Mr. Reed could not deliver | a long discourse from memory if he > trie.l to do it. Few men have this j power in the superlative degree which 1 Roscoe Conkling had it. No one equaled him iu feats of verbal recitation among our modern puulie men. When 1 he prepared a speech of 12,000 words ! with which to open a campaign, it was Lis habit to have to put it in typo in advance, to memorize it, and then to repeat it word for word before a great audience. Once he had a "campaign opener" in advance in the office, put iu type, on the New York Times. The l imes reporter took slips of the speech to tho Brooklyn Academy of Music, where the speech was delivered, and followed the great orator, lie discov ered that Mr. Conk ling was letter-per fect in tho recitation, but that he transposed ono passage of consider able length, uttering it at a later time than he had intended, yet not alter ing a word, and the speech was so di vided by topi *s that this was possible without affecting the force of the ar anient with the audience. Mr. Blaine had lei spt v ia! power of this kind, aud whenever ho spoke at much length on any formal occasion he always wrote out what lie had to say, aud read it from manuscript or from tho type proof. Among the men now promi nent there is no one who excels Mr. Cleveland in this power of verbal memory. Mr. Cleveland can prepare a long address in writing, read it over j onco and then stand up before an aud- | ienco and read it without changing a I word. Since Mr. Coukling's time there has :i hardly anyone prominent in I public life who lias sought to excel in ; ibis wonderful mental accomplish- Mont, l'robably Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia, can do better at it than any other man in Congress. —Boston Her aid. _____ Enormous Deposits ot Nitrates. It lias been estimated that tho nitrate beds of Chile at present cod vain about 120,500,001) tons—an amount sufficient to supply tho world's uses for many centuries at the present rate of consumption. The conversion ot' the crude stuff into the commercial article is accomplished by means ot elaborate and costly machinery. Tho material as it comes from the deposits is dissolved in water at a high temperature, iu long tanks, from which the solution is carried in pipes to enormous shallow pans, the water being finally evaporated by artificial heat. The evaporated water is con densed again and put through a chemical process for the purpose of extracting tho valuable ioctiuu which it has taken up. The chief use to which the nitrate is applied in European countries is as fertilizer. In Germany and Franco it is • mployed largely 111 the cultiva tion of the sugar beet. Considerable quantities, however, us much as thirty percent, of the whole, perhaps, are consumed in the manufacture of nitric acid, nitro glycerine, dynamite, punpow icr, etc. The stuff is/the base oi nearly all known explosives.)— Was- ; iugtou Star. Santa Fc, New Mexico, ha 3 a V. oman's Board ol Trade. WHEAT FED TO ANIMALS. | ; SURPRISING FACTS COLLECTED IN KANSAS. Of tliA 189-t Crop More Than Million Bushels Will Go to Feed Cattle, Swine and Poultry. | fOK more than a 3'enr the press i of Kansas has contained refer- ' I ences to the fact that in many j (3 localities the farmers were feeding their surplus wheat, in lieu ol' ! corn, as a stock food. Early last summer F. I). Coburu, i Secretary ol the Kansas Department J of Agriculture, became satisfied that, : owing to the shortage and compara- i I tivoly high price of c iru and the con siderablo accumulation of wheat, its almost unprecedentedly low price and generally unquestioned worth as a nutritive ration, a much larger aggre gate of wheat was being withheld from the milling market and diverte I to the new and widely-differing pur poses of meat production than there were statistics to verifv. Appreciating the importance of this new phase of agriculture and the im portant bearing it has upon the future of bcth grain and animal production. Mr. Coburu undertook the collection of such helpful information as might bo furnished by the farmers who were making the practical test. Inquiries covering all the features of wheat feeding were sent to 100:) men who were best situated and equipped for discriminate observation. The forthcoming report will contain over 100 replies, which are of a character to make them very useful contribu tions to this investigation. With these reports will also be rep resented much other matter of au itn portant and interesting character, that oearing on iho average cost of the growing and binding of the wheat crop 3f Kansas being not the least im portant. From advance sheets of tnis report a correspondent of the New York limes has been able to get the follow ing facts : Of the 24,827,527 bushels of winter and spring wheat raised in Kansas in 1893, there have been 4,069,523 bush els, or 16.4 per cent., used as feed for farm animals, Cowley and Sumner Counties leading, with 297,041 and 407.606 bushels respectively. When fed whole, more especially to hogs, 25 per cent, isunassimilated and a shameful waste. Three-fourths of the reports, repre senting fifty counties, state that, pound for pound, wheat is superior to corn for fattening hogs, even with the 25 per cent, uumasticated, by from 7 to 35 per cent. The average of these reports indicates a superiority of 16 per cent., while the average of the other one-fourth indicates 12 per cent, inferiority. As to the quantity of live pork which may be expected from a bushel of wheat, the average of all reports gives eleven pounds. One report gives seven pounds, most of them over teu, and a few as high as twenty pounds. In a general way, these reports show that in Kansas, under the con ditions as to production and prices of wheat and corn existing in 1893 and 1891, wheat has become a very unusu al and important factor in the grain feeding of all classes of farm stock. It is superior to corn, pound for pound, as a grain to produce health I ful, well-balanced growth in young animals. Mixed with corn, oats, or brau, it is much superior to either alone for work horses. Feed to cows, it is au exceptional milk producer, and for that purpose corn is scarcely to be compared with it. For swine of all ages it is a health ful and agreeable food, giving gener ous returns in both framework and 1 flesh, but fed whole, especially with out soaking, it is used at a disadvan tage. Ground and made into slops, it is invaluable for suckling cows, and for pigs, both before and after wean ing. For cattle it ha?, at least as a pnr of their grain ration, a very high value, which is very much enhanced in the lino of needed variety by mix ing with corn, and in a still greater degree by mixing judiciously with bran, oil cake, or other albuminous foods, tending to balauce the too car bonaceous nature of the clear wheat. With corn and wheat approximating the same price per bushel, it is noc unprofitable nor wicked to feed wheat; yet, it it can be ground, rolled, crushed, or in some way broken at a cost not exceeding five to seven cents a bushel, to feed it whole and dry is unwise. It can be ground at a cost of live cents a bushel, and on a majority of Kansas farms for very much less. If grinding is impracticable, soaking from twenty-four to thirty-six hours, the length of time dependiug some what on the weather and season, is for various reasons desirable, but is in judicious in that its beiug moist facilitates swallowing without masti cation or the proper mixing with saliva. Any system of feeding by which the grain is delivered in such a way lhat the animal can eat but slowly, will largely overcome this defect. It is a superior food for fowis, and as a promoter of maximum egg produc tion is surpassed by no other grain. Maine is justly proud of the fact that only a native can pronounce the names of her lakes trippingly on the tongue, but the names of Maine are easy beside these and others from the Canadian Province of Ontario : Lake Misquabonish, Lake Kashagawigamog and Lake Kahwcambejewag amog. The Pueblo Indians are on the point of establishing an independent terri tory. On their vast reservation they boast of 800,000 sheep, 250,000 horses and 300,000 goats. Their wool aver ages 800,000 pounds annually. I SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL. | Tho brain of an idiot contains much lees phosphorus than that of a person ; of average mental power. | Clouds that move in a direction op | posite to that of tho surface currents ! indicato a change of weather. ! Recent experiments indicate that the normal eye can discriminate fif teen separate tints in tho spectrum. Paving stones of compressed hay have been tried in Salt Lake City, Utah, and arc said to make a good road bed. At a depth of 2500 fathoms the pressure of the water is, roughly I speaking, two and one-half tons to the square inch. "N ieuna, Austria, is to have a novel elevated railway. The cars arc to be i suspended instead' of running on or ; dinary rails. Several of the same species of crea tures inhabit tho Arctic that have been fished up from great depths in the Antarctic seas. Do not approach cont..gic us dis eased with an empty stomach, nor sit between the sick and the fire, because the heat attracts the vapor. The skeleton of a prehistoric bird has been found in a mound in Idaho. It must have measured forty feet be tween the tips of the wings during its life time. Experiments on 101) women le.l to the conclusion that they wero not nioro thaii one-half as sensitive to pain at tho top of tho forefinger as the average man. Tho death rate in Italy was in 18S8 as high as twenty-seven per 1990, whereas in Englaud it was only seven teen—a difference attributable chiefly to sanitary arrangements. Seasoned timber is but little liable to decay under tho influence of a dry atmosphere, and will resist composition for an indefinite period whcii kept totally submerged in water. The great Yuma desert, Arizona, was formerly a salt sea. Hcasholls and oyatois fourteen feet in diameter have frequently been found at from tea inches to two feet in tho sand in va rious parts of tho desert. Clarence S. Bement, of Philadel phia, has the finest collection of min erals in America, the value of which is at least 8125,000. Ho buys the best to be had, and what ho does not want is sent to the British Museum. Dr. Kingsetl, the chemist, recogniz ing that ozone, the natural purifier ol the air, is produced in nature by bal ham trees—tho pine, fir, larch and eucalyptus—uges that such trees be planted and cherished on farms, and in town and villages. Cinnamon tea is recommended by a Southern physician as a valuable drink in fever affected districts. It possesses an especial virtue against typhoid fever, and essence of cinnamon is said to be one of the best disinfectants to use in the sickroom of a typhoid pa tient. Fish Catch Turtles. "Turtle fishing is carried on to a considerable extent in the vicinity of the Gulf of Mexico," said O. L. Davidson, of Atlanta, at tho Laclede last night, according to the S. Louis Globe-Deuiocrat. "The turtles that are most sought for are tho ordinary green turtle and the hawk's bill turtle, lu the neigh borhood of Cuba a most peculiar method of securing the turtles is pur sued. They train, or at least take ad vantage of tho instincts of u certain species of fish. The fish is called by iiie Spaniards revo (meaning reversed), fiecause it. back is usually taken for its underside. It has au oval plate attached to its head, whose surface is traversed by parallel ridges. By this jdate it can firmly adhere to any solid body it may choose. The boats which go in quest of turtles each carry a tub containing some of these reves. When the sleeping turtles are hoou they are cautiously approached, and as soon as they are judged near enough, a rove is thrown into tho sen. "Upon perceiving tho turtle, its in stinct teaches it to swim right toward it and fix itself firmly upon the crea ture by its sucking disk. Sooner would the rove allow itself to be pulled to pieces than give up its grip. A ring which was attached to the tail of tho fish, in which a string was fastened, allows the fisherman to 'pull in his prize. By a peculiar manipu lation the revo is pulled off, and re turned to the tub, to be ready for use again when the next turtle is sighted." A Japanese Ulock. Ihereal Japanese clock, one of the kind in usoamong that brown-skinned, almond-eyed race of Orientals before tney came in contact with time keep ers of European pattern, is the oldest horological instrument imaginable. They aro of many kinds and patterns, of course, but are all alike in one re spect, viz., in recording the flight ol • time without that seeming indispensa ble adjunct, the pointer rotating on an axis. In these queer Japanese timekeepers the scale and figures (characters) are arranged in a fashion more resembiiug a .Fahrenheit ther mometer than anything else, the pointer or "haud" being attached to a rod, which is continually sliding down tho "time tube, ' thus pointing to the hour and minutes as it slowly, but im perceptibly, falls toward the "bulb" or "weight-house." A square-linked chain is attached to tho upper end of the rod, to which the time pointer is affixed, and when the clock is "wound up" it is done by simply coiling the chain around the toothed wheel. A heavy weight fastened at tho other end of the rod continually pulls rod and pointer downward, thus plainly and .simply recording the flight of time.— Louis Republic. THE OLD CLO' EXCHANGE. A UKIGtUE AND LITTLE KNOWN NEW ?OKK INSTITUTION. A Place Where Cast-Of! Garments of Men Arc Sold or Exchanged—A Busy Scene. OF course everybody in New York knows of the Stock Ex change, the Produce Ex change, the Cotton, Ileal Es tate, Petroleum and a dozen other ex changes, where merchants and brokers meet to dicker and trade, grow rich and become impoverished. But there is one exchange in town that few peo ple know anything about. It is a populous and busy one, too. There is scrambling and yelling, hot and high words, ami sometimes fights, just as there are now and then down on Broad Btreet. How many of you ever heard of the Old Clo' Exchange? It inny seem a trifle absurd to say that there is such a thing, but five minutes' leisurely walk from tiie News office will convince tlie skeptical of tju.- existence of the Old Clo' Exchange. It is located on Bayard and Eliza beth streets. Within a few yards of the junctiou of Elizabeth street with Bayard street there are seven saloons. The green lamps in front of the Eliza beth street police station arc in full view. Here, -in these saloons, is the Old Clo' Exchange of New York and the near-by towns. Here, every day in the week, from early till late, hun dreds of men congregate to trade cast off clothing. The bargains are sharp, the margins are small, and the aggre gate of a day's business may not foot up over a hundred dollars. Yet the trading is attended with as much ex citement ordinnrdy us a panicky day in the precincts of Wall street. The traders are queer looking men. Seldom, if ever, is there seen a starched shirt or a clean, still' collar, not a pair of trousers worn is fashionably creased —all bug at the knees, and the bot toms are frayed with long usage. Shaggy beards predominate. SUabbi ness in this place seems to have at tained its perfection. Manifestly, the incongruity of a decently dressed man among the Old Clo' dealers would bo so marked ks to precipitato trouble. The saloons are turned into the trading-rooms. The exchange, there fore, has no rent to pay. There are no membership dues, no assessments and no license. The sidewalks and the entire street would doubtless be used if the police did not interfere. But as the sales tire uot permitted in the street the brokers are compelled to re sort to the saloons. These siro so crowded during business hours that trom the sidewalk it would seem im possible for another person to foreo an entrance. Every man has some sort of garment in his hands. And every man there is an expert. He turns the old coats inside out, exam ines the linings, scrutinizes the seams and the binding, lingers the buttons, weighs it in his hands and makes an offer. Ola hats and old shoes, too ;in fact, every article of wearing apparel lor men is in evidence hero for sale or exchange, Nothing seems to no too aged or faded for bartering in the Old Clo' Ex change. How in the world these deal ers manage to rejuvenate some of the garments they expose for sale or trade is beyond th; comprehension of ordin ary mortals, but tliev evidently do it. They are not in the business for fun. or the love of the antique. Money and a good sized profit is the only aim. Clothes bought and sold hero find the way to many of the dealers iu old clothes who maintain regular stores. A coat sold here one day may the uext month decorate the back ot' a hardy sailor on board ship bound for the An tipodes. It is the man who has a store and can afford to wait for the right cus tomer who makes the big profit. The first middleman or purchaser from the producer, us it were, must bo content with only a reasonable margin of profit. He makes a tip-top bargaiu with the original owner of the goods, but in the exchange lie has to sell to a man just as sharp au I wide-nwako as he is. Every man there has the price and value of cast-off apparel down to the finest point, and 110 such thing as a swindle by doctored goods, or lack of business acuteness, is possible.— New York News. bunch Counters ot Paris. There is a boulangerio and patis eerie in the line Royal, Paris, which is crowded between the hours of -4 and 5.30 o'clock. Elegant ladies and gen tlemen come in, take a plate and tea spoon or small fork from the counter, walk about and select the sandwiches, cakes or tarts they may desire and oat them while walking about. Those who have something to drink generally sit at the little tables. As these hot. drinks are made to order, they are always good. In nearly all the shop ping districts delicate ham and foie gras sandwiches are sold in the patis series. The ham sandwiches are made with English bread cut as thin us a wafer. Delicate little rolls, about one-third of an inch thick, are split and spread with foie gras. In all quarters the bakeries are well patron ized. Littie children come iu with their mothers, the workiugmuu and workingwoman come, as well as to do the men and women of the leisure class.—St. Louis Star-Sayings. Recently, when a very young couple were being married in Hungary, the priest, instead of the usual nuptial benediction, offered up the appropriate prayer, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." 'The population of Italy is very den-e, there being 270 people to every iquare mile of territory, Belvn Lociiwood is about to bogim tbo practice of law in Virginia. In Delaware suffrage is exercised by women in several municipalities. Among Yassar College's forty-seven instructors are fourteen of licr own alumnae. Women are less sensitive to pain than men, and actually feel less of it in given operations. The day of severity and angularity is past, and the simplest dress must now have its touch of beauty. Miss Ella Knowles, of Montana, has recently received a fee of SIO,OOO for her services in a mining lawsuit. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is laconically described in an article on women writers, as "the mother of two sous and twenty-two novels." Of the nine candidates successful in the late examination in the art, theory and history of teaching at the London University, eight are women. The Princess of Wales has a groat fondness for having her picture taken in "groups. ' The Prince dislikes the ceremony as much as his spouse en joys it. Mrs. Daniel McDonald in First Vice- President of tbo Northern Indiana Editoral Association. She helps her husband edit the Plymouth (lud.) Democrat. Thirty-three Parisian physicians ad vocato the use of the bicycle for women, and ten are opposed to it. The forty-three arc the most eminent practitioners in France. Kosa Bonhcur, the French painter, is not afraid of work. Though ovei seventy years of age she spends a long, busy day at her easel. Her only recreation is photography. In Korea a woman is a poor beast of burden, to whom is given not even a name. She is designated as the "first daughter of X,"or the second or the third, or as the "first wife of If the fleshy women should follow all the "don'fcs," or adopt any propor tion of the Spartan suggestions to train down their weight, there would be really nothing left for them to live for. Queen Victoria is described by a re cent writer as rather a comfortable, motherly looking old woman in a plain black dress, from beneath which is visible the toe of a broad, easy-fitting shoe. -Tho King of Italy has shown an al most feminine instinct in his choice of punishment by forbidding the Duchess of Aosta from appearing at court lor two months, because she lode a bicycle. Brooklyn is tlm only city in thy United Slates which can boast of a female Deputy Collector of Internal ltevenue. Miss Lucy E. Hull has just been promoted to thut position in the City of Churches. the question has been raiseil in Indiu whether it is proper for women to baptize converts of their own sex. It has special reference to the work ol the Zenana missions, which is largely carried ou by women. Ladies chalets are to bo a new fea turo in Loudon. They will provide at various points of the metropolis ir little cottage buildings the advau tages oi a lady s waiting room in con junction with a millinery shop. There are now three women physi cians on the Sanitary Corps of the New York Hoard of Health—Drs. Alice Mitchell, Helen Knight and Francos G. Dean. Thov arc under the same rules and are required do the same amount of hard work as their mascu line associates. The latest bicycle suits for women are made of wool, mohair, serge and silk, in all the darker aud mixed shades. Braids ami buttons to match the goods are used in trimming. An enthusiastic rider needs several changes in a season, as the dust aud lient cause a suit to become shabby very soon. This is bad news for the girl that visits the winter resort: A crusade it being started against the engagement ring. One of the reasons given for its proposed abolition is that many girls become engaged for 110 other purpose than to add unother ring to their collection and break off the eon tract as soon as it becomes convenient. New York buys more laces than any other city in the world. It has a least a score of women whose laces exceed $50,000 in value, and probaby a hun dred whose collections would sell for $20,000. Five hundred dollar fichus, S2OO handkerchiefs, S3OO scarfs, and a SIOOO over-dress are mere bagatelles in the wardrobes of the wives of mill ionaires. „ Ernestine Seiutflfner, of Now \ork, known us tho "Tombs Angel," has been doing for nearly ten years her good work of seeking to freo from jail innocent persons who are falsely accused. Although she is most of tho time on about $20,000 bail bonds she has not in nil her experience lost moro than SIOOO, and she was cheated out of a large part of thut sum by a dis honest lawyer. When Mrs. Hetty Green, of New York, who is said to be worth SOO,- 000,000, entered the TifFt House at Buffalo, the other day, the clerks thought she was a beggar and were disinclined to let her register. She wore a rusty old black dross and car ried the dilapidated handbag that has been her trusty companion for years. She walked with the aid oU caue. The room given her was the cheapest and most secluded in the hotel.
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