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Montana has chosen the bitter root
as tho State flo wor.
The London banks havo $1,150,
000,000 locked up at the present
time.
Berlin is one of the most cosmopol
itan of European cities. Though it
is the capital of Germany only thirty
seven per cent, of its inhabitants are
Germans by birth.
The army authorities are rapidly
getting rid of all Indian enlisted men.
At the present rate of discharging
them it is estimated that by the end
of 1895 there will be none in the serv
ice.
A Boston school committee h3
raised a great fuss by trying to pre
vent the boys' eating pie for lunch.
The boys held a meeting and adopted
resolutions that they wouhl rally
around pie to the death.
Judge Colt, of Boston, has decided
that the late George H. Corliss, the
inventor and builder of the famous
Corliss engine was a public man and
therefore declines to enjoin publish
ing liispioture in biographical sketches.
The London Mark Lane Express
says: "The only comparison to be
found to the present low level of the
price of cotton is by going back ex
actly forty-six years, when the prioo
of middling uplands cotton was six
and six-eighth cents. The cheapness
was then due to financial and political
disturbances—the present cause to
overproduction."
In the midst of the military crisis
the erection of new spinning plants is
serenely in progress in China. Some
of the mills are being provided with
the electric light, and thoro is every
probability of an attempt being made
to run the spindles themselves by
means of eleotro-motive power. In
these respects the Chinese are content
with nothing but the best and the
latest.
How the mighty are fallen, muse 9
the New York Observer. The oar of
Juggernant goes no longer forth in
triumphal but death-dealing proces
sion. This year, for the first on rec
ord, the Jagannath car at Serumpore,
India, failed to find devotees enough
to drag it over the usual route. On
three successive days attempts were
made which ended in failure. The per
suasions and threats of tho Brahmins
were in vain.
"Mr. Peabody, who was an Ameri
can," said Dean Hole the other day,
"'was one of the greatest benefactors
of London. His houses built for and
occupied by the workmen are models
which every great city would do well
to copy. At a flower and plant ex
hibition in London which I attended
four or five years ago I was surprised
and delighted to findthatalargo num
ber of tho prizes for the best plants
went to people who were dwellers in
Mr. Peabody's houses. That shows
what a better atmosphcro will do for
the working classes. Public gardens
and parks and workingmen's clubs, I
think, are always conducive to tem
perance. But people will never bo
made temperate by constraint. To
secure temperance is impossible by
mere human obligations and vows.
Force of common sense, conscience
and SDiritual influence are ueeessarv."
Police Methods in St. Louis.
A policeman in St. I,ouis encounter
ed u sleep-walker who was on the
street at night in liis night shirt, and
after arousing him took him to liis
room and made him dress. This done,
the citizen was marched to tho police
station, where he protested indignantly
against his arrest, offering as an excuse
for his appernnee when taken into cus
tody that he was a somnambulist. With
inuoli display of authority in ills voice,
the police official replied he didn't care
what church the prisoner belonged to,
it was against a city ordinance to walk
the streets without nny clothes on.
The somnambulist was finally allowed
to go without being fined.—Baltimore
Sun.
THE MERRY SIRE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BT THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.
The Hired Girl of the Orient—Good
Evidence—Getting Along Slowly
—His Treat, Etc., Ktc.
Japnn's the mortem hired girl,
A Nora or a Dinah ;
Whoso pnthwny, through tho work sho docs,
Is strewn with broken Chiun.
—Detroit Free Press.
GOOD EVIDENCE.
"Why do you think ho is a crank?"
"He says I am one."—Puck.
THE CREATURE AND THE CREATOR.
Poet—"Why is it you Jove my poetry
and do not love the poet?"
She—"Because you are poor and the
poetry is not."—Detroit Freo Press.
GETTINO ALONG SLOWLY.
Mrs. Dix—"Have you met the peo
ple yet who have moved in next door?"
Mrs. Hicks—"N—No; I don't oven
know yet how much rent they pay."
—Puck.
HOW HE GOT BLIND.
Tramp- "Pleaso holp tho blind."
Passerby—"How did you becomo
blind?"
Tramp—"Looking for work, sir."
—Dallas (Texas) Times-Herald.
SHORTENING THE AGONY.
"What in thunder have you invited
Somers to speak at your dinner for?
He can't talk at all."
"That's just why we put him down
for a speech."—Chicago Record.
HIS THREAT.
Mama—"lt is no use; sho is de
termined to marry him."
Papa--"Very well; tell lrer that I
will support them in the style to which
he has been accustomed." —Puck.
AN ACCOMPLISHED ARTIST.
First Restaurateur—"How do you
like your new chef?"
Second Restaurateur—"Oh, he's a
daisy ! He can servo up hash uuder
seventeen different names."—Puck.
DEPENDS.
Herdso—"They say every hearty
laugh adds a day to one's life."
Saidso—"That depends; I had at
least a week kicked out of me for
laughing at a man who fell in the
mud."—Puck.
A WISHED-FOR OPPORTUNITY.
"What do you think of my daugh
ter's execution, professor?" ask the
fond mamma, as her fair daughter
pounded away at tho piano-keys.
"Think, madam?" was the reply,
"why, that T should like to be present
at it."—Tit-Bits.
A FINE OPPORTUNITY.
Modest Youth—"l have only 85000
a year, sir, but I think I can support
your daughter on that."
Father (enthusiastically) "Sup
port her, my dear boy? Why you can
support her entire family on it."—
Detroit Free Press.
HE KEPT HIS WORD.
4 1 tell you what it is," said the silly
little fish to his long-headed mother,
"I havo been following your advice,
and letting those nice, plump, juicy
worms alone, long enough. lam now
going off on my own hook."
And he did.—Life.
TnE REASON OF IT.
Fond Husband— 4 'Somehow, I don't
eeeni to be able to enjoy your pies as
I did those my mother made for me
when I was a boy."
Loving Wife—"Perhaps you wouhl,
if you hadn't ruinod your stomach by
eating so many of those same pies
when you were a boy."—Puck.
HOW THE PLANS ARE MADiE.
"What are you doing?" inquired
Hammerfest, as ho saw his friend tip
a dry-goods box on ond and proceed
to make a sketch of it.
"Attending to business," roplied his
friend, the architect. "I'm engaged
in making a design for a new modern
office building."—Chicago Record.
A GILDED 80RR0W.
Sympathetic Friend—"l am so sorry
you were disappointed in your mar
riage !"
The Countess—"My dear, don't
marry a foreign noble. If I could
only undo what I havo done I would
bo willing to give up all I have in the
world, except my title."—Puck.
COVERED BOTH CASES.
Theatrical Manager—"l regret,
gentlemen, that I cannot put your
productions on the stage."
First Author—"Why not, pray?"
Manager—"Your play, you see, is
so awfully siinplo."
Second Author—"And mine?"
Manager—"ls simply awful!" —
Fliegondo Blaetter.
AN ABUSED GIRL.
"Yes, I gave him up," eighod the
young woman.
"Did he provo unworthy of your
affection?" inquired her sympathetic
friend.
"He—ho became a spelling re
former," rejoined tho other, with a
shudder, "and signed his name SJorj.'
It took all the poetry and romance
out of the name. So wo parted."—
London Globe.
INFORMATION.
4 'Speak and you nro a dead man."
Tho pistol barrel gleamed under the
noso ot tho patient looking party who
was l ecliiungon tho combination sofa.
"Do your worst," he cried, leaping
to his feet. "I will speak. I demand
t> know how in thunder it is you walk
ail through this house without falling
over the rugs."
But the burglar only laughed mock
ingly in his faco and climbed out of
tho cellar window.—'Detroit Tribune*
A CANDID CONFESSION.
Father of tho Bridegroom—"Boforo
cementing this close relationship 1
think it but right to toll you that I
onco had a littlo unpleasantness which
involved the IORS of my liberty for n
considerable period. Both my daugh
ters are, I am sorry to say, rather
llighty; my dear wife is suffering from
kleptomania and my son was mixed
up in a littlo forgery affair. Won't
that make any difference?"
Father of the Bride—"Not the
slightest! From the fact that I am
quite in favor of our alliance you may
judge how matters stand in my fam
ily."—Dcr Schalk.
Steam as a Means ot Defense.
A simple and effectivo method of ro
pelling train robbers by discharging
jets of steam upon the attacking party
has recently been patented by William
H. Reeve, an old tugboatman, of New
York. The inventor lias enlarged
upon the plan long followed by rail
road companies of attaching a steam
jet to locomotives to scare cows and
other animals from the track. Tho
patent provides for running steam
pipes along tho boiler, ono on either
side from the cab forward. The ends
of tho pipes are supplied with small
nozzles so formed that jets of steam
may be projectod through them a dis
sance of fifty or sixty feet. It is
claimed that these would prevent any
person from approaching nearer than
this distance. Similar pipes could be
run to tho rear of the train and be
supplied with nozzles, rendering it
impossible for any one to reach tho
rear platform. Other pipes could bo
arranged at the car doors, whilo by
the use of flexible pipes or hose tho
steam could be carried and discharged
from the windows at will. These
pipes need not be so large as to bo un
sightly or inconvenient in any way.
A further use of steam as a means
of defense, tire inventor claims, would
be in protecting banks against thieves.
Since banks are usually heated with
steam, tho attachment could readily
bo made. Small jets of steam might
bo so arranged at tho windows of tho
tollers that they could be projected
into tho faces of tho robbers. These
jets might bo operated by hidden
levers or by electrical attachments.
A more nmbitious plan, however, is
to utilize steam in tho defenso of
forts, armories or arsenals. Powerful
jets of steam could bo discharged at i
doors and windows of arsenals. Forts
conld be protected in a similar man
ner, and as long as tho supply of
steam held out, tho inventor claims,
j they could not possibly bo carried by
I assault.—Scientific American.
Ho Never Served.
William Rufus King (born April 6,
1786 ; died April 18, 1853) was a Vice-
President of the United States who
never served in that capacity, and ono
who took tho oath of office on foreign
| soil—something which can bo said of
no other executive officer which lias
ever been elected by tho people of this
country. King was an invalid, but
his friends urged him to take second
place ou the ticket with Pierce in
1552. Both were elected, but Mr.
King's health failed so rapidly that ho
was forced to go to Cuba early in
1853, some two and a half months bo
fore inauguration day. Not having
returned to tho United States by
Mnrch 4, Congress passed a special act
authorizing tho United States Consul
at Mantanzas, Cuba, to swear fciui in
as Vice-Pregidont at about the hour
when Pierce was taking tho oath of
office at Washington. This arrange
ment was carried out to a dot, and on
the day appointed, at a plantation on
one of tho highest hills in the vicinity
of Mantanzas, Mr. King was made
Vice-President of the United States
amid the solemn "Vaya vol con Dios"
(God will be with you) of tho Creoles
who had assembled to witness the
unique spectacle. Vice-President
King returned to his homo at Culiuw
bn, Ala., arriving at that place April
17, 1853, and died tho following day.
His remains were laid to rest on his
plantation, known as Pine Hills.—
Chicago Times.
Remarkable Brand on a Horse.
Sometimes it takes about as much
ingenuity to read a brand on an ani
mal after it is written as it does to
think it up before hand. This is es
pecially tho caso when tho designer
gives up letters and figures and tries
to represent some object, for the
puncher is not always a strictly first
class artist. Not long since 1 saw a
horso that seemed so weighted down
with the burden of the letters orna
menting tho whole of one of his sides
that ho had littlo strength for any
thing else. Ho read as follows: U. S.
I. C. S. (X.)
This brand was a complete record of
his history. In his younger days he
had been bought for our cavalry serv
ice and branded U. H. After a while
ho was worn out, and then received
the additional 1. C. for "inspected
and condemned." When the Govern
ment sold him it was recordod by an
"S," and the man that bought him
added the (X). If he is sold any more
his next owner will liuvo to begin
branding him on the other side. Tho
United States army officials will not
purchase a horse that already has a
brand on it. Whether it is Mccuuse
they consider branding an inhuman,
devico, or because they do not want •
horse to disligured, or because tboy
need all tho space lor IIIPT own
brands, I do not kuow. —bt. Louie
Globe-Democrat.
TO CIVILIZE INDIANS.
QUEEREST NEWSPAPER ISSUED
IN AMERICA.
Published in n System of Shortlinnd
In British Columbia by a Missionary
—lndians Readily Learn to Read the
Characters—lts Circulation.
Work of u Priest
One of the most wonderful achieve
ments of any age is the invention or
provision of some means or language
by which a com
mon education,and
lnore especially the
teachings of Christ,
lnay be conveyed
to an ignorant and
semi-heathen face.
Ever since the days
missionaries have
I Ens LB JEUNE. bCOU SCUt fOl'th for
this purpose, and, strange as it may
com, while we are dispatching miss
ionaries to foreign, unenlightened
lands, foreign missionaries take up
their habitation among the Indians of
North and Northwestern Canada.
In the year 1879 Pere Jean Marie
Raphael Le Jeune came to British Co
lumbia as missionary priest, and iu a
few short years he has accomplished
what might have taken civilization in
her generally impeded progress in this
thinly inhabited province a half cen
tury to bring about the same effect.
Pore Le Jeune made his first acquaint
ance with the Thompson Indians in
Juno, 1880, and has lived with them
iver since. A man gifted with a keen,
sparkling intellect, and reared with
refinement and education in Plcybcrt
Christ, Finistere, Franco.he takes tip
NORTH BENO INDIAN WOMEN,
and was able to express himself in
these tongues in a very short time. All
the elements of education he found
when he first came to this forlorn coun
try was that a dozen or more Indians
knew a few prayers and the catechism
in tlie Thompson language. Beyond
lliis they were us ignorant as brutes.
Henceforth ho took up his great phil
anthropic work.
From 1880 to ISS2 he traveled only j
tils abode in a lonely, cheerless country
among a tribe of Indians who know
aothlng outside their provincial jar
gon of Chinook language to devote the
remainder of his life toward lifting lip
a hopeless and down trodden race and
to establish between these brethren
iml their Maker a divine faith.
Pere Le Jeune at once began to study
the Chinook and Salishan languages,
between Yale and Lytton, a distance
of fifty-two miles, trying to make ac
rpiaintance with as many Indians as
would receive a white man into their
habitations. Ilis struggles and efforts
were many, for it is well known that
those Indians are both stubborn and
superstitious, aud to this day there ex
ists between the reds and the whites
that smouldering enmity which may
it any moment break out in treachery
and foul play. To reach their hearts
was to become one of them—learn their
languages and advance civilization
among them through the comprehen
sion of their own tongue. This of course
required untiring patience and energy,
but Pore Le Jeune is at last rewarded
for his sacrifices, for now hundreds
of Indians look up to him as the means
of bringing into their narrow settle
ments news of tlie great outside world.
Since 3882 his mission has extended
to tlie Nicola Indians, who also speak
the Thompson language, and to the
Douglass Lake Indians, who are a
branch of the Okunagan family, where
lie copied and revised most of the pray
ers they have 111 use up to the present
day. Since June, 1891, he has had to
deal with the Shushwap tribe, and as
their language is slmular to tlmt used
by other Indians, he very soon became
familiar with it. In 1892, the Fraser
Indians and sea-coast Indians came un
der his notice. lie tried several years
ago to teach the natives to read and
write in the English language, but
without avail. He soon found the race
very Impatient and Impetuous, and it
[ was an utter impossibility to teach
them to speak, read or write, or even
to write their own language in English
characters. Everything they did
learn, they were required to memorize
by repeating it over and over again,
and as soon as their instructor was out
of sight the Indians either neglected
their lessons altogether, or, in sheer in
ability to learn forgot the first
rudiments taught them. As Pere Lo
Jeune's district was so extensive and
as he could only visit each tribe threo
or four times a year, one can see how
difficult it was to impart any solid in
struction. It took years after years to
make them understand a few instruc
tions, only to be forgotten as soon as ho
was gone.
When every means had been ex
hausted and the priest was discouraged
almost to complete dejection, a happy
thought struck him, and by that
thought hundreds of Indians in Brit
ish Columbia to-day have profited and
taken their first step toward education.
Why not ftivent a system by which
the most simple mind might be taught
to read and write?
When, In 18(37, Pere Le Jeuue was
a boy of 10, In France, he learned a
system of shorthand. This he now re
sumed, and by simplifying It to meet
his own requirements, undertook to
tench It to the Indians. The first trial
was nu instant success. This short
hand is an easy phonetic writing, and
can be learned thoroughly in a few
weeks. Le Jetine himself was surprised
fit the eagerness displayed by the na
tives to learn it.
Four years ago, a poor Indiuu crip
ple named Charlie Alexis Mnyoos, from
the lower Nicola tribe, saw the writing
for the llrst time and got the Intuition
of the system at first sight, lie set to
work to decipher a few Indian prayers,
and in less than two months had
learned the whole method thoroughly,
lie soon began to help the priests by
communicating his learning to his
friends and relatives. From this time
on the Indians took up the system and
were anxious to learn 011 all sides.
They have now become aware of the
priceless benefits derived from an as
siduous attendance to their school, and
are as eager to receive an education as
any white pupil. When on.ee a few In
dians know the system in one camp,
their ambition is to teach it to others
During the summer the progress is
slow, but when winter comes they
spend whole nights at it. One young
Indian, especially bright, took interest
in the writing as soon as lie saw It He
spent the whole night in repeating the
lesson over and over again with two or
threo companions, and in two or throe
days more completed his studies. In
less than a mouth he could read the
Indian language as well as the Chi
nook, and soon was able to read and
write English in shorthand. Not only
do little children learn to read and
write readily, but even old people
study with success.
The more advanced Indians under
stand the value of the letters and the
spelling of the words, but the greatest
number begin by reading the words,
then the syllables by comparing the
words together, and at last come to
die letters. They learn by analysis
much quicker than by synthesis.
After GOO or 800 Indians had learned
the system, it became necessary that
their interest should be kept up by
placing instructive matter before them.
As Pere Le Jeune was always ou the
go, visiting each camp at intervals
only, it occurred to him to edit the
Ivamloops Wawa, the strangest little
newspaper in America.
The Wawa is really a full-fledged
newspaper, and it first saw the light
of day in the month of May, 1891.
"Wawa is an Indian word moaning
"talk, speak or echo." Hence the title
signifies "Ivamloops Echoes." "Ivam
loops," the name of the town in which
it was inaugurated, is a Shusliwap
word, meaning "the forking together
of rivers, in this instance the north and
south forks of the Thompson ltlver.
The accompanying reproduction is the
fac-slmile of the original paper, which
proves to be a curiosity in itself. It
contains four pages, and is about five
by seven inches in size. At present
over 1,050 subscribers look forward to
their paper. The Ivamloops Wawa is
Issued weekly. At the start, when
funds were scarce, Pere Le .Teune
printed the news on any kind of paper
donated for the purpose, and some
times the Indians received their news
on blue, red, yellow, and again on white
material.
Tlie printing of the paper Is marvel
ous. It is all done by hand, Pere Le
Jeune doiug the work originally all
himself. At first the news was auto
graphed, then duplicated on the mime
ograph by the priest during the leisure
hours of his missionary labors. As the
subscriptions grew larger, a few In
dian women were called In to help with
the printing, but this did not last
long, as the funds were still so low that
they had to be discharged, and the
work all fell back on the priest again.
The first volumes of this wonderful
little paper have been bound, copies
being sent to the Smithsonian Insti
tution; also librariost In the East hold
copies as premiums. Some of the
original papers were lost or destroyed
by the Indians, but as many as could
be collected were bound. Many of the
pages of the little volume I have in
hand and from which the accompany
ing cut is taken have been badly torn
and soiled by the Indians as they stud
ied its text. Pere Le Jeune informs
SOME MEMBERS OF THE BKWAMISII
BRASS BAND.
me lie still lias iu bis possession copies
of tbe original volumes for distribu
tion. These in a few years, as well
as in the present, may be considered
valuable curiosities, for now tbe old
process mimeographing bas been aban
doned and electrotyplng ou a small
scale, by which three times as much
material appears weekly, bas been sub
stituted. Tlie new Ivamloops Wawa
contains sixteen pages. Its contents
eonscist chiefly of news from the sur
rounding towns and wigwams, notices
of births, deaths, and marriages of tlie
Indians, with a new lesson or two of
the system, while a special feature Is
made of tlie bible stories and religious
instruction. The white settlers ill
Kamloops take little or no interest in
tlie paper, and the means with which
l'ere LeJeune carries on his noble work
are either donated or procured by sub
scriptions to the little weekly. During
tbe winter Indians take infinite delight
In sending letters from camp to camp.
Kamloops Is situated on the north
and south branches of the Thompson
Itiver, and the scenery around the
quiet little town makes it one of the
garden spots of the earth, especially
In the summer. In summer, the even
ing sunsets are gorgeous, and as far
as one can see down the broad, mir
rored surface of the Thompson, noth
ing meets the eye but the most mag
nificent glorious scenes of nature's
painting. In this little known region
which reaches far away to the lands
where perpetual night and everlasting
snow are common sights, there Is a
touch of romance ami mysticism
which cannot be described. The coun
try is thinly settled yet. and many a
landmark remains which speaks with
thrilling vividness of an earlier race.
It is a now occupation for them, who
till a few years ago did not know
what it was to read another man's
"talk oil paper," and the idea is so
novel that they resort to many amus
ing schemes ill order to get correspond
ents. Seventy-five to luo natives sent
out letters to correspondents whom
they never saw or knew.
Civilisation, however, has made
rapid progress, and those North Am
erican Indians are losing much of the
®fil v
GROUP OP SIIUSINVAP INDIANS. V
primitive savageness, and the early be
liefs of idolatry and paganism are
giving way to the Christian religion.
Customs, manners, and even dress are
becoming modern, and in half a cent
ury, or long before, every trace of ear
lier barbarism will be swept away en
tirely. Kamloops of to-day has some
2,000 inhabitants, and is the business
center of the surrounding country from
twenty-five to fifty miles distant. The
town was formerly a Hudson Bay fort
or trading post. It began to grow
after the construction of the Canadian
Pacific Railway.—Maibelle Justice, in
Chicago Herald.
PUSS AND THE SCIENTISTS.
Why Does a Cat Always Manage to
Land on Its Feet? ~
What, mechanical power makes a eat
fall on its feet lias been puzzling the
French Academy of Sciences. A series
of sixty instantaneous pluotographs ex
hibited before it showed the complete
process in very stage, and demon
f
strated scientifically that the cat does
turn in the air and does land 011 its
feet, but did not betray the motive
power. The general impression was
that it was due to the leverage obtain
ed by contact with the surface from
which the cat dropped; so to decide
this point a new set of photographs will
be taken of a cat dropped from a string
suspended in the air.
Dr. Marey, the inventor of an ap
paratus for making series of photo
graphs of nnimals in motion, conducted
tile experiment with the French cat
in question. Do not fail to observe the
expression of the cat's tail in the last
photograph. It is eloquent of triumph
and of rejoicing after a dauger past.
THE busier a man is the harder it
is for the devil to get into conversa
tion with him.
si!lli
Bryn Mawr's Freeman class is hard
at work on the basket ball field.
Mrs. Astor gave a Thanksgiving;
dinner to 800 New York newsboys.
Ribbons aro profusely used as gar
niture for corsages as well as skirts.
Susan B. Anthony wants to start a.
big daily newspaper exclusively for
women.
Mrs. P. T. Barnum complains that
$40,000 a year does not pay her living
expenses.
The court plaster patch on chin or,
cheek has boon revived by modom
"grand dames."
Ono of tho most famous folklorists.
of tho world is Miss Mary Alicia Owens,
of St. Joseph, Mo.
About sixty foreign womon liavo
been naturalized in New York during
the last three years.
There aro about 170,000 women in
Connecticut. At the recent elections
less than two per cent, voted.
The wise father of marriageablo
maidens will insist on a cozy recessed
window seat in his new house.
Mrs. Bradley Martin, a New York
society leader, has bought the dia
mond crown of Mario Autoinottc.
Princess Louise, of Denmark, sister
of the King, is dead. Blio was abbess
of the convent of Itzehol, Ilolsteiu.
The Czarina of Russia is an accom
plished typewriter. All her family
correspondence is indited on that ma
chine.
Tho Young Women's Christian As
sociation of Michigan includes nine
teen associations, with a membershii>
of 2000.
Mrs. Gladstone is cighty-ono years
old and she possesses that vigor and
vitality which is so remarkable in her
husband.
Carolus Duran, tho French portrait
painter, is to visit New York this
Winter to paint the picture of Mrs.
George Gould.
The Turkish fez for little boys has
become fashionable to tho extent of
being common. Now mammas look for
something new.
Twenty-four young womon aro
taking graduate courses at Yalo Col
lego this term. Tho number is in
creasing each year.
Velvety collars in all shades and
shapes aro very popular this season.
Some of these stocks have one largo
or two tiny buckles.
Miss Isabella Lockwood has been ap
pointed Deputy County Recorder at
Muuioc, Ind., and tho courts will
decide as to her eligibility.
Lena McClollan, of St. Paul, Minn.,
is the youngest stamp collector. She
is four years old and pursues her fad
with untiring energy and iutorest.
Tho women's clubs in and about
Waelitngton liavo federated under tho
title of "Tho Federation of Women's
Clubs of tho District of Columbia."
Tho nowest laco pins liavo bullet
heads, either iridosseut, green, mauve
or deep blue, sold in pairs, unitod by
a chain—an old fashion which revisits
us.
Washington will have among its per
manent residents this winter a coterio
of not less than a dozon widows of
social celebrity and apoplectic bank
account.
Tha class of '97 at Wollesley is tho
most athletic class in the college. Its
mombers excol in every kind of sport,
and havo earned honors both at homo
and abroad.
Lillian Russell, tho opera singer,
instead of bonbons, keejis a dish of
boiled carrots constantly on her dress
ing table, and doclaros that they aro
fine for tho complexion.
Countess Giannoti, who is men
tioned as ono of tho favorites among
tho ladies in waiting to tho Queen of
Italy, in an American, daughter of a
cigaretto maker of Newark, N. J.
Misses Judson and Lamson, of
wealthy Cleveland (Ohio) families,
tho former the daughter of a judge,
havo joined the Salvation Army, and
aro living in the army barracks in that
city.
Mrs. Oscar Beringer, ono of tho
leaders of London literary society, was
born in Amorica, and, as she says, can
boast of a mixture of English, Irish,
Spanish and French blood. Her child
hood was patsod in California and
Mexico.
At a recont bazaar of all Nations,
the clover thought was carried out of
showing the time all over the world.
Above every booth a clock was set
that was regulated to tho hour then
passing in tho placo represented by
the stall.
A Miss Storliug, at Avlesford, Nova
Scotia, has an industrial farm and
schools, established at her own ex
pense, where she brings waifs from
Scotland, and teaches them how to
make a living. She has something
like 100 of tho unfortunate children
there now.
An enterprising organizer has
formed a foot-ball team of women in
north London. Tho players will bo
"professionals" and receive a share of
the gate money. It has not been de
cided whether the referee shall bo a
man or a woman. Tho novel team
has already bookod a number of games.
The custom of having women pall
bearers at funerals will probably bo
permanently established here, says the
Louisville Courior-Journal. There
havo been several of that kind in tho
last year. At a recent fuueral the
pallbearers were eight young girls,
dressed from head to foot in white.
The young Indies wore white cups,
gloves, dresses and shoes.