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Tho operations of (he marriage-li
conso bureau in San Francisco show
that though the population is increas
ing, tho number of marriages is de
creasing, reports the Argonaut.
It is proposed iu Kansas to adopt the
plan of sub-irrigation as far as prac
tical. One acre of land properly irri
gated in that drought-blighted Stnto
should be worth twenty not irrigated.
Tho Paris Figaro recommends an
international convention to forbid At
lantic steamships from crossing the
banks of Newfoundland during tlio
fishing season, with tho view of pre
venting collisions.
The Japanese are a small race phya
ically. The true Chinese, who form
iu this country the highbinder "tongs,"
are quite large. Cut (he Chinese aro
only a small element in what is called
China, whilo the population of Japan
is reasonably similar.
Thero i 3 a movement in New York
to establish a "spectacle fund" for
public school children who need
glasses but cannot afford them. Tho
money is raised by soliciting sub
scriptions of twenty-five cents to £1
each from 6chool children.
Agricultural Eiibjeets are lecture J
upon in some of the English schools,
and the result has been very satisfac
tory, admits the Home and Farm.
Children nro taught to read and learn
of many matters connected with farm
ing that nro different from the practi
cal teachings on the farm.
Having been often taunted with the
inconsistency of wearing boots made
of leather, English vegetarians have
determined to do their best to find a
substitute. A prize of §3O has been
offered for tho best pair of satisfactory
boots made without animal substances.
Tho contest will take place at the meet
ing of the congress of the Vegetarian
Federal UnioWin London.
A correspondent of tho Now York
Herald thinks that sonic undoubted
heroine ought to be secured to chrii
ten each new warship, an 1 have her
expenses paid by tho Government.
Why not carry out tho idea in full
keep a chronological list of heroines
nsthoy arise! have them christen tho
ships in their listed order, n'.low theai
to givo their own names to the ships,
and then retire on half pay? asks tho
New Orleans Picayune.
A bill which has for its object tho
formation of "tho Greater Pitts
burgU" has been introbuood into tho
Pennsylvania Legislature. It is pro
posed, states tho Now York Sun, to
incorporate in one municipality ull
tho cities and populous boroughs of
Allegheny County, and give the new
Pittsburg a radius of about fifteen
miles. In 1900 tho census gave this
territory a population of 331,117, but
it probably contains now half a mill
ion people. It supports seventy-coven
banks, with deposits a.rgregatm;
§122,800,00'), winch is a greater
financial strength than any of thirty
four States out of the forty-four. Ia
this territory is produced fifty per
cent, of all tho plate glass made in the
United States, thirty-live per cent, of
tho country's steel production, an 1
eighteen per cent, of tho country's
pig iron. Pittsburg is also a port of
entry, with 107 steamboats and 400,1
barges. with a tonnage of 500,000.
Women non't lent l-.nougn.
Mrs. Frances Fewer Cobbe maintains
that at present women are by no means
(he Intellectual equals of men; that If
the franchise were confined to people
passing a certain standard, there would
be at present 50 per cent, of men who
would obtain votes and only .",0 per
cent of women. At present women
have not a fair chance, if only because
they are not as well fed or us well edu
cated as men. She says that men
would lose half their superiority if tliey
were to he fed as badly as women, few
of whom have sufficient brain-sustain
ing, nourishing food.—November He
view of ltevlews.
HUNTING THE ELEPHANT.
WORRIED TO DEATH By A MULTI
TUDE OF WOUNDS.
How tlio Kufiles of South Africa
Kill the Jlig Game—Cutting Up
the Carcass.
Occasionally a number of
Kaffirs turu out for tho pur
pose of elephant hunting in
South Africa. By dint of
the wary caution which thoy can nl
i ways exerciso when in pursuit of
| game, thoy find out the animal which
possesses the finest tusks and mark all
his peculiarities; they then watch the
spot whero ho treads, and by moans of
, a lump of soft day they take an im
-1 pression of his foot-marks. Their rea
son for doing so is simplo enough,
viz., that if thoy should have to chaso
him thoy may not run the risk of con
founding his footmarks with thoao of
: ether elephants. The solo of dVcry
elephant's foot is traversod by a num*
bcr of indented liues, and in no two
specimens aro those linos alike. The
clay model of the footprints serves
thom as a guide whereby they may as
sure themselves that they nro on the
right track whenovor thoy come to tho
neighborhood of water, whero the
ground is soft, and where tho foot
prints of many elephants aro sure to
be found.
Their noxt ondoavor is to ereop near
enough to the olephant to inflict a se
vcro wound upon it, an object which
is generally attaiuod by a number of
the dark hunters gliding among tho
trees and simultaneously hurling their
spears at tho unsuspecting animal.
Tho wounded elephant is nearly cer
tain to chargo direotly at tho spot
from which ho fancies that tho assault
has been made, and his shriek of min
gled rago and alarm is sure to causo
tho rest of tho herd to rush off in ter
ror. The hunters then try by various
stratagems to isolato the wounded ani
mal from its comrades, and to prevent
him from rejoining them, whilo nt
every opportunity assagais aro
thrown, and the elephant is never
permittod to rest.
As a wounded elephant always makes
for the bush, it would bo quito safe
from white hunters, though not so
fr:>m the lithe Kaffirs, who glido
through the underwood and between
the trees faster thau the elephant can
push its way through them. Every
now and then it will turn and chargo
madly at its foes, but it expends its
strength in vain, us they escape by
nimbly jumping behind trees, or in
critical cases by climbing up them,
knowing that au elephant never seems
to comprehend that a foe can be any
where but on the ground.
Iu this kind of chaso thoy are much
assisted by their dogs, which bark in
cessantly at the animal aud serve to !
distract its attention from tho hun- I
tors. Tho elephant has a straugo ter- i
ror of small animals, and especially
dreads tho dog, so that wheu it is
making up its mind to charge in one
direction the barking of a contempti
ble little cur will divert it from its
purpose and enable its intended victim
either to secure himself bohiud a tree
or to become the assailant and add an
other spear to the number already
quivering in tho animal's vast body. |
Tho slaughter of au elephant by this
mode of hunting is always a long and
cruel process. However powerful may
be tho practised aim of a Kaffir, and
sharp as may be his weapon, he can
not drive it through tho inch-thick
hide iuto a vital part, and tho conse
quence is that the poor animal is liter
ary worried to death by a multitude
of wounds, singly iusignificaut, but
collectively fatal. At last tho huge
victim falls under the loss of blood,
aud great are the rejoicings if it should
happen to sink down in tho ordinary j
kneeling posture, as the tusks cau then |
bo extracted with comparative ease, i
and tlio grove of spears planted in its
body can be drawn out eutire, whereas
wheu the elephant falls on one side
all tho spears upon that side are shat
tered to pieces, and every ouo must
bo furnished with a shaft.
Tho first proceeding is to cut off the
tail, which is valued as a trophy, and
tho nest is to carve upon the tusks
tho name of tho hunter to whom they
belong, who is always the man who in
flicted tho first wound. The next pro
ceeding is to cut a largo hole in ouo
side, into which a number of Kaffirs
enter and busy themselves by taking
out tho most valuable parts of tho au
imal. The inner membrane of the
skin is saved for water sacks, which
are made in a very primitivo manner,
a large sheet cf tho merabrano being
gathered together and a sharp stick
thrust through the corners. The
heart is then taken out, cut into con
venient piece?, and each portion
wrapped in a picoo of the ear.
If tlio party can encamp for the
night on tlio spot, thoy prepare a
royal feast by baking ouo or two of
the foot in tho primitive but most ef
fective oven which is in use not only
in Southern Africa, but in many other
parts of tho world.
A separate oven is ma le for each
foot, aud formed thus: A hole is dug
iu (ho ground considerably larger than
tho foot which is to be cooked, and a
fire is built in it. As soon as it burns
up, a large heap of dry wood is piled
upon it aud suffered to burn down.
When tho heap is reduced to a mass of
glowing ashes tho Kaffirs scrape out
tlio embers by moans of a long polo,
each man talcing his turn to run to the
hole, scrape away until ho cau endure
the heat no longer, and then run away
again, leaving the pole for his succes
sor. Tho hole being freed from em
bers, the foot is rolled into it'and cov
ered with green leaves aud twigs.
Tho hot earth and embers are then
piled over the hole and auother great
bonfire lighted. As soon as the wood
has entirely burned itself out tho op
eration of baking is considered as
complete, aud tho foot is lifted out by
several men furnished with long,
sharpened poles.
By means of this remarkable oven
tho meat is cooked more thoroughly
than could be achieved in any oven of
more eiaborato construction, tho wholo
of tho tendons, the fat, tho immaturo
bono, and similar substance being con
verted into a gelatinous mass, which
the African hunter seems to prefer to
all other dishes, excepting, perhaps,
tho marrow taken from tho leg bones
of the giraffe or the eland.
Sometimes the trunk is cut into
thick slices and baked at tho tamo
time with tho feet. Although this
part of the elephant may not bo re
markable for the excellence of its
flavor, it has, at all events, tho capa
bility of being made tender by cook
ing, which is by no moans the case
with tho meat that is usually obtained
from tho animals which inhabit South
ern Africa. Even tho skull itself is
broken up for tho sake of the oily fat
which fills the hoaey comb-like cells
which intervene between tho plates
of tho skull. The rest of the meat is
converted into "bietoague" by cut
ting it into strips and drying it iu tho
sun. As a general rule the Kaffirs do
not like to leave aq animal uutil they
have dried or consumed tho wholo of
tho meat. Under the ready spears and
powerful jaws of tho natives even an
elephant is soon reduced to a skeleton,
as may bo imagined from the fact that
five Kaflirs cau eat a buffalo in a day
and a half.
.The skull and tusks can gonorally
be left out on the spot for some time,
as tho hunters respect each other's
marks, and will not, as a rule, tako
the tusks from an elephant that has
been killed and marked by another.
Tho object iu allowing tho head to re
main untouched is that putrefaction
may tako placo and render tho task of
extracting the tusks easier than is tho
case when they are taken out at once.
—St. Louis Republic.
SELECT SIFTINRS.
Europe has 51,801 breweries.
Baltimore, Md., has a $25,000 mau
soleum.
Russia has twenty-two National flags
and Frnuco twenty-one.
Seven million miles of thread is an
nually used in tho United States.
Paul "Wilson, of Concord, Ky., un
able to cure au aching tooth, hanged
himself.
A white panther, an animal never
before seen in a menagerie, has just
arrived at tho Jardin des Plautes,
Paris.
Charles Ilouts, of Shelbina, Mo.,
picked recently eighty-six turkeys in
eight hours and twenty-six chickens
iu fifty-live minutes.
Yale Colloge was named after Gov- !
ernor Yale, who gave it iu early days
about SIOOO. No greater siuglo gift
came to it for a century.
The share of laud falling to each in
habitant of tho globe in the event of a
partition might be set down at twen
ty-three and one-half acres.
Many of tho pleasure gardens and
castles of tho Japanese nobles are now
turned into parks aud schools, and
used for other public purposes.
Tho Price family, of Shelby Couuty,
Kentucky, at present consists of eight i
brothers, ranging from sixty to
eiglity-one years old. Fivo of them
aro citizens of Shelby County and
three are residents of other States.
Perhaps the best general purpose
skiffs iu tho country aro those used iu
tho Thousand Islands. They aro tweu
ty-two feot long, rather narrow, but,
being heavy, arc quito steady, aud aro
rowed with long oars swung on out
riggers.
Tho huge ruff was brought from
Italy to France by Catharine do
Medici. Jt became so wide that
spoon?, with handles a foot long, were
provided for ladies at dinner, so they
could get their victuals to their
mouths.
Late discoveries indicate tho lofti
est mountain peak in North America
is Mount Logan, near tho boundary
between Alaska and Canada, which
reaches uu elevation of 19,500 feet.
The next highest is Orizaba, in Mexi
co, 18,31-1 feet.
Dr. W. F. Edmonds, of Gate City,
Va., owns tho shears with which Presi
dent Johnson worked at tho tailor's
trade at Greenville, Tenn., where tho
shop in which they were used still
stands, with tho sign* "A. Johnson,
Tailor," over tho door.
Au inquest has been held in Birm
ingham, England, on tho body of a
girl seventeen, whoso death was at
tributed to driuking vinegar and
other compounds for the purpose of
making herself thinner and paler.
The evidence showed that irritating
substances of this character had caused
death.
Tho Maryland Society of tho Sons
of tho American Revolution will place
a monument in Prospect Park, Brook
lyn, in honor of the Maryland regi
ment which took part in tho battle of
Long Island, August 27, 1773. The
monolith will stand ou tho ground
where the regiment made its gallant
charge.
The British Regular Army.
Returns of tho strength of (ho Brit
ish regular army nt tho close of the
year show that, there aro rather more
than 220,000 officers and men on tho
regimental rolls, a number in excess
of that provided for in tho army es
timates. Of theso about 100,000 are
quartered iu the United Kingdom—
-78,000 being iu Englaud and Wales,
88)0 in Scotland, 20,000 in Ireland
and the remainder in tho Channel Isl
ands—3B,oo9 iu tho colonies and j
Egypt and 78,000 in India and Bur- j
mah. Canada has tho services of
about 1500 imperial soldiers only.-■'
Chicago Herald.
THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP
THIS HDNTERS' PARADISE A MYS
TERY TO SCIEIITIBT3.
ft Kxtends Forty allies Along the
Coasts of Virglnln and North Car
olina—Weird Traditions.
THE great unexplored swamp
which extends for forty miles
along tho coast of Virginia
and North Carolina varies in
( width from a fow hundred yards to
I twenty-five miles. It is the paradiso
of hunters, a mystery to tho seicn
j tists, an inspiration to tho artists and
a terror to the superstitions.
About five miles from the villago of
Suffolk, where the Dismal Swamp bo
gins, is Lako Drumiuoud, named, some
say, for a hunter who was lost in the
swamp in the too ardent pursuit of a
wounded stag, that, led to the discov
ery of this beautiful sheet, of water.
| Others say it is named for Sir Will-
I iam Drummond of North Carolina.
This lake is an almost perfeot oval. It
! is seven miles long and fivo miles
j wide. Tho water is dark, almost black,
! hut perfectly transparent, reflecting
I every object with startling distinet
j ness. When held in a glass vessel it
looks like pure, strong coffee. This
| color is caused by the exudations
; from the cypress nnd juniper trees,
which form a thick forest throughout
the swamp. Gorgeously colorod wild
(lowers grow in profusion in the rich,
dark soil. Tho treos are garlaudod
with fostoons of gray moss from the
topmost boughs to tho water's edge.
The yellow jossamiuo, a brilliant and
most fragrant, but poisonous, wild
flower, wreathes its perfumed blos
soms over this drapery of moss. The
scarlet trumpet shaped flowor of tho
poison oak vies with the yellow jessa
mine in abundance of bloom uud
wealth of coloring.
The approach to Lako Drummond
is by a rndo canal, three miles of
which is a straight waterway into tho
lake. This forms an avenue, bordered
by cypress trees, which rise oroct out
of tho water 130 to 150 feet in height,
and as symmetrical in shape as the
masts of a ship. The boughs, densely
draped with moss, form an areh over
this canal, which in midsummer, is so
thick a sunbeam can scarcely pierce it.
Tho lako is surrounded by the same
tall, ereet cypress trees, iuterspor3ed
with monster junipers of white cedars.
The reflection of those straight, lofty,
sentinel like trees in the clour, black
water is peculiar. The mo3t unac
countable thing about tho Dismal
Swamp is it is higher than tho firm
autlying country, and increases in al
titude towards tho interior, where it
is twelve feet higher than tho sur
rounding land. This elevation of this
morass Ims been aeoouutod for on tho
hypothesis that where Lake Drum
mond now is was the crater of an ex
tinct volcano, and was fathomless.
This theory Ims exploded ; tho lake is
flfteen foot in depth, and every char
acteristic of tho soil disproves the idea
that its substratum is volcanic.
Sir Charles Lyeli and other scien
tists of the past and the present have
found layers of spongy decaying vege
table matter over tho better known
portions of the morass. Lord Lyell
made an especial study of the great
Dismal. His description of it and the
conjecture as to the future coal de
posits are of great scion tide value.
Five rivers lind their sources in this
swamp. Two canals now penetrate parts
of it. The tow paths are logs of wood,
on which the man who pulls the canoe
walks. Tho .e logs of wood in warm
weather aro literally covered with ter
rapin, water moccasin, copperhead
snakes, lizards and other reptiles,
which make walking over them some
times dangerous. Brawny meu usu
ally pull these canoes and lumber
rafts, and find good excuse to take
plenty of whisky along as an antidote
for the inevitable snake bite. Tho
raison d'oto of these canals is tho value
of the cypress shingles which are sold
in immense quantities along tho shoros
of tho swamp. Another singular fea
ture of tho great Dismal is tho growth
known as cypress knees. These are cone
shaped excrescences from the roots
of the cyprosstree, and look like min
iature pyramids rising up from tho
slimy ooze. 1
lu 172.3 Colonel Byrd, of Westovcr,
Va., made a survey of tho Dismal
Swamp at tho request of tho proprie
tary Governor, who was anxious to in
duce George 111 to have it drained.
Colonel Byrd's report was favorable,
and was forwarded to Eugland with a
strong petition from a number of Vir
ginia planters, who promised to boar
all the expenses of tho drainage if his
Majesty would give them the land free
of taxes. A copy of Colonel Byrd'B
report is now in the library of Con
gress. He loft his party in the swamp;
what became of them ho never told.
Colonel Byrd got out, however. Ex
tracts from his manuscript are inter
esting :
"March 13, 1723 —Early this morn
ing the chaplain repaired to us with
the men we hail left at Mr. Wilson's.
We had sent for them the evening be
,'oro to return those who had the labor
oar from Coratuck Inlet. But, greatly
to our surprise, they petitioned us no
to bo relieved, hoping to gain immor
tal reputation by being the fir3t of
mankind that ventured through the
great Dismal. Our day's work ended
withiu a quarter of a mile of the Dis
mal Swamp whou the ground began to
bo already full of sunken holes and
slashes.
"It is hardly credible how little the
bordering inhabitants aro acquainted
with this mighty swamp, notwith
standing they hail lived their whole
livss within smell of it. Yet, as great
strangers as they wore to it, they pro
tended to l)o very exact in their ac
count of its dimensions, and were
positive thnt it could not hoover seven
or eight miles wide, but never know
more of the matter than star-gazers
know of the distanco of tho fixed stars.
At tho seme time, they were simple
enough to tell our men idlo stories of
lions, panthers and alligators they
were to encounter in that dreadful
place. In short, we saw plainly that
no intelligence of this terra incognita
was to bo got but from our experience.
For that reason wo resolved to make
preparations to enter tho noxt morn
ing. Wo allotted each one of tho sur
veyors twelve men to attend in this
painful enterprise."
Tho "enterprise" provod too much
for Colonel Byrd and his party. After
terriblo experiences with wild beasts,
quagmires and snakes they abandoned
tho swamp.
Thoro are many weird traditions
connected with the Great Dismal.
One of tho most uucanny is of a
phantom ship said to bo a merchant
man captured by Captain ICidd, the
pirato. Tho ship was dismantled,
robbed, its crew murdered and then
towed up ono of the rivers ilowing
from Lake Drummond to tho sea. Tho
ship, covered with phosphorus, stands
near tho lako. Tho ghosts of the crow
still man it, and on moonlight nights
the hunter who sees it hears a bau
sheo wail, which moans disaster, sick
ness or death to him.
One of tho most romnntictrnditions
is of an Indian warrior, who loved tho
favorite daughter of his chiof. The
father looked higher for tho maiden,
but tho lovers ran off to tho shores of
Lake Drummoud, built a wigwam be
neath its cypresses and lived so hap
pily together until they wero both
very old that tho Great Spirit allowed
thorn to revisit tho earth every full
moon and ride on the lake in a boat
drawn by white swans. This Indian
mytli bears an analogy to Lohongrin,
ouo of tho most romautioof the Rhino
gold legends, the only instance of this
kind I recall among the traditions of
tho American aborigines. Another
story is of an Indian lover who was
driven insane by tho death of his
affianced bride. This was related to
Thomas Mooro when ho was in this
country, and by him embalmed in
verse. Tho Indian warrior ilo lto tho
lako of tho Dismal Swamp and dis
appeared forever, excepting nt mid
night, when he, too, crosses tho lako
with his sweetheart in a whito canoe.
Many peoplo who livo near believe
Lake Drummond to 1)8 tho rendez
vous for numerous other ghosts which
are supposed to haunt the swamp.
This supposition arose from tho num
ber of ignes fatui which are really
H'jen every night in almost every part
of tho Dismal Swamp.—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
WISE WORDS.
Envy is culpable selfishness.
Persevere against discouragement.
Tears aro no sign of a tender heart.
Ho who does most must bear most.
A man is known by tho money ho
keeps.
A woman's conscience lives in her
heart.
Thero is no slavery like tho servi
tude of pretenso.
True charity does not givo what is
asked but what is needed.
Wo loso more friends by our re
quests than by our refusals.
Only mile-stones should answer
questions without being asked.
A woman is not really beautiful un
til 3he is beautiful to a blind man.
Lawyers work in tho canse of jus
tice ; doctors in tho canso of meroy.
Tho world may owo yon a living,
hut you will have to work hard to col
lect it.
Wo must drink at tho fountain of
knowledge to quench tho thirst of
curiosity.
Time is that part of eternity al
lowed us. to mnko a fair showing in tho
remainder.
Too many7good peoplo expoot pio
when they say : "Give us this day our
daily bread."
It is not wrong to say what one
thinks. It is simply wicked to think
what ono cannot say.
Tho affections are liko lightning;
vdu cannot tell where thoy will strike
until they have fallen.
Humana instincts will lead one to
regard tho comfort of tho dumb crea
tures dependent upon them.
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread
of it every day, and at last it boeoraes
next to impossible to break it.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry
about what may never happen. Keep
in the sunlight, was Franklin's sensi
ble advice.
A man may not cat his cako nnd
havo it, but soruo men cat theirs and
then do what they can to havo that of
other people.
One talent well used gives its pos
sessor greater satisfaction than iivo
talents buried bouoath tho rust of idle
ness and sloth.
My friend onn never offend me;
for if ho injures mo unknowingly, I
caro not; and if knowingly ho is no
longer my friend.
She Roilc Off on the Robber's Bicycle.
A highwayman on a bicycle came
upon a young lady who was watching
the sunset on tho Cornice road, near
Mentone, lately, took her purse, and
demanded her watoh nnd chain. While
she was removing tho chain from her
neck he walked off from the bicycle to
light a cigarette, whereupon the young
woman jumped on tho machine and
tore down hill to Mentone. From
thero a telegram was sent to Vintimig
lin, and the robber was caught in a
trap, for tho perpendicular cliff on
tho one side and the precipice on the
other make it impossible to got out of
tbo Cornioo road.
Women as hotel cashiers and book
keepers are iuoreasiug everywhere.
Dresden china is the craze. Women
are collecting it regardless of the
price.
The eldest dnughtor of Goneral Phil.
Sheridan has recently mado her debut
in Washington.
Box-nailing contests for women are
tho newest entertainment at Massa
chusetts church fairs.
Of tlio women in tho professions
thero nro 2500 doctors, 275 preacheis,
and nu increasing numbor of lawyers.
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, having
reached tho ago of seventy-three
years, is to retire from tho lecture
platform.
Miss Rhuda Bronghton, tho novel
ist, has been described as "a snippy
lady with a girlish figuro and a fond
ness for tea."
Paris has only one apothecary shop
controlled by a woman, while Brussels
has five. London had 1340 female
chemists in 1891.
In Eastern Bengal, near tho Kasia
hills, a will caunot be mado in favor
of a man, and property only descends
through the woman.
There aro tweuty-fonr women tak
ing the graduate conrso at Yalo this
year. Among them is ono from Rod
cliffo College.
Thero is n crazo for red and black
plaids, or perhups they should be
called chcokH, as they are not in any
degree related to the clan plaids.
West Virginia has a girl hunter
whose aim is death to boars. Sho has a
record of seven large animals of the
bruin l'umily during tho past year.
lIuDUoh Adams was tho first woman
in America to publish a book over her
own name. It was called "A Review
of Religions," and came out in 1784.
A public library recently presentod
to the city of Galena, 111., carries
with it the very modern condition
that four of its nine /Trustees shall bo
women.
Nobody ever tries to whisper in the
preseuco of Queen Victoria. It would
only bo in bad taste, but useless. The
old lady's ears are supernaturally
sharp.
The coming summer bonnet is to be
A small, flat affair, worn well back OD
tho head, similar to tho extreme evon
ing bonnet occasionally seen at tho
theatre.
A now pnrso is mado of woven gold
threads, mado Binall at the top by a
patent gold spring, and finished with
a gold knob Bet with jewels or holding
a tiny watch.
At tho dances of one of tho wealth
lost hostesses in London printed cards
are hung on tho walls with these words
engraved on thorn, "No introductions
aro uoedod."
Miss Isabel Darlington, daughter of
tho late Congressman Darlington, of
Pennsylvania, has an elegantly fur
aished office and a growing medical
practice at West Chester.
Miss Ellen Dorich has been ap
pointed Assistant State Librarian of
Georgia. She is a "newspaper fol
low," and ber appointment is warmly
commended by tho Georgia press.
Miss Volutirino de Cloyre, of Phila
delphia, is the leading feminine ex
ponent of anarchy in tho Now World.
She is personally attractive, moves in
good sooiety anil has a cultured home.
Miss Cora Bennoson, a graduate of
the Michigan Univorsity law school,
who has been already admitted to
praetico in Illinois and Michigan, has
boen admitted to tho bar in Massa
chusetts.
Ex-Empress Eugonie is said to bo
the most begged woman in Europe.
Tho big postbag, which arrives weekly
it her residence, is stuffed with ap
peals from France, anil mostly in the
aamo of religion.
Tho Grand Duclioss of Baden has thu
reputation of kuowing enough about
cookery to keep ber three obefs up to
tho mark, and as a consequence the
best of all tho royal tables of Europe
is said to ho found at the court of
Baden.
Bcatrioo Harrailon thinks tho wo
men of the United States have few
things to complain of, and she admires
their frankness, honesty, cleverness
and lack of 'affectation. She particu
larly "likes the way American girls
behavo abont men."
The Grand Duchess Vera Constan
tinova, of Wurtemburg, enjoys the
exclusive distinction among European
princely houses ot having twin daugh
ters. Her children, tho Duchesses
Elsa and Olga, arc nearly nineteen,
and arc charming, wholesome young
women.
Miss Helen Gould is not ono of the
women who find only picturesque
charity attractive. With the check
that goC3 yearly to the Babies' Shel
ter of tho Church of tho Holy Com
munion goes, too, the coudition;
"Beservo tho eots for tho two most
uninteresting babies."
To clean jet bonnets and jet trim
mings use a pieco of black velvet or a
bit of plush to rub lightly over tho
dusty beuds, and rhinostono buckles
and ornaments can as well bo cleaned
by this means, whilo feather-trimmed
headgear is freshened greatly by shak
ing gently near an open fire.
Tho voluminous sleeve seems about
io bo cut down in its career of expan
sion, for tho Princess of Wales and
tho Duchess of York havo declared in
favor of ouo of moro modest propor
tions. At a recent wedding their
sleeves were perceptibly smaller, and
as the English bridegroom had the
courage to request a similar reduction
in tho sizo of tho wedding gown, it
was granted.
ANOTHER SPRING.
If I might see Another spring
I'd not plant summer flowera nnd wait
I'd have my crocuses at oucc,
My leafless pink numerous,
My ohlll-velned snowdrops, choicer yet,
My white or azuro violet,
Leaf-nested primrose \ anything
! To blow at once, not late.
If I might see another spring
I'd listen to the daylight birds
That build their nests nni pair and slug,
Nor wait for mateless nightingale ;
I'd listen to the lusty herds,
The ewes with lambs as white cs snow,
I'd find out rnuslo In tho hall
| And all the winds that blow.
It I might see another spring—
Oh, stinging comment on my past
That all my past results In "if—
If I might see another spring
I'd laugh to- lay—to-day is brief r
I would not wait for uuytbing;
I'd use to-day that cannot last—
lie glntl to-day and sing.
Christina Kossctll
lIUMOIt 0* TIIE lI.VV.
Gossip puts two and two together
and tuokos whatever sum it desires.
Cobblers report that business with
thorn is mending.—Hartford Journal.
A man's second love is generally
worth more money than his first.—
fuck.
In striving to get nhoa I,of others
look to it that you do not lull over
yourself.—l'uok.
When Cupid breaks tho ioo botweon
two people, ho never puts up the dan
ger signal.—l'uck.
Nobody can help noticing tho short
comings of tho man who is always bo
hind time. —Dallas News.
Tho man who "has his prion" will
be very careful about showing his cost
mark.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Thoy sell water in Cairo." "How
interesting 1 And do thoy liavo tho
milk tiokot system, too?" Puck.
Tho would-bo meddler with "green
goods" js remitidod of his youthful ex
periences with tho sour apple.—Pack.
Tho difference between a man and a
horse is that tho latter never goes on
a raoo track until after he's broko.—
Statesman.
Tho older a man is-when he gets
married the sooner ho commences tak
ing his lunch at noon downtown.—
Atchison Globe.
Fred—"Was that a Boston girl yon
were talking to a minute ago?" Ar
thur—"Yes. Didn't yon hear me
suoezmg?"—Life.
A drop of ink may command tho at
tention of huudieds. Particularly if
it is on your polishod shirt,front.—
Rookland(Me.) Tribune.
Weary Waggles—"Dero sev'ral
courses I'd like topersoo." Tiredy—
"Wot er dey like?" Weary Waggles
—"Dinner courses."—Syracuse Post.
"Does your daughter sing?" asked
Mrs. Jinglegilt. "No," roplied Mrs.
Oldfau. "Wo havo taken great pains
in educating hor not to."—Washing
ton Star.
Customer—"What in tho world is
that unearthly howling overhead?"
Clerk—(smiling) "There is a pain
less dentistry establishment upstairs,
sir."—Statesman.
Tough—"l want a dozen eggs, on' I
wants 'em bad, soe?" Grocer—"Go
to that grocer across tho street.
Everything he keops is bad."—Phila
delphia Inquirer.
Editor—"ln writing tip the foot
ball game why do you say it was hotlr
contested?" Reporter—"l don't see
how it could bo otherwiso, when it
was played on a gridiron."—Norris
towu Herald.
"Hore," said tho ~now missionary,
"here nro some tracts and sermons,
translated into your notivo language."
•Thanks," yawned the King of
Eliwpka. "By the way, have you a
translation of 'Trilby?'"—lndian
apolis Journal.
"This may be justioe," said tho de
feated defendant, "but it strikes mo
as being a pretty fishy verdict." "That
shows that it is justioe," retorted tha
plaintiff. "Ono oi' tho most conspicu
ous features of justice is her scalos."
—Harper's Bazar.
"It is wonderful what progress has
boon made in tlio way of maohinery,"
remarked Mr. Figg. "I ceo that thero
has been a machine invented that can
make a complete pair of shoes in six
teen minutes. Why, that is ovon fast
er than Tommy cau wear them oat."
—lndianapolis Journal.
A Omu-n's Curious Ways.
Madagascar's Queen, aeeordingto all
accounts, lias muny. curious ways and
traits of character. Bho is always
dressed in tho latest Parisian style.
Iler private expenses nro mot by a
fund called tho "hasiun,"' to which
all who eomo into the presence of her
Majesty are required to coutiibuto a
fivo-frano pieco. It is tho duty of the
youngest member of the royal family
to present a liat, into which the coin is
droppod. Moreover, whenever the
Queen travels tho inhabitants of all
tho towns e.uil villages she visits nro
expected to ooutributo to the same
fund either in money or kind. She is
very fond of games, particularly of
lotto and billiards, and sho (lattcra
liorsolf sho cau lly n kito higher than
anyone of her subjects.—Chicago
Herald.
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Wood Pulp Tubing.
Tubing ma-.10 from wood pulp is
coming into use for nndcrground
purposes, owing to its high electrical
resistnuoo and its freedom from the
notion of oarth-rotnrn currents wbieh
seriously iujnro gas nud water pipes
in cities where electric ears use tho
ground to complete their cirouits. It
is also free from difficulties dne to
expansion and contract-ion.—Chicago
Herald.