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Montana has chosen the bitter root
as the State flo wer.
The London banks have $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.
Tho army authorities are rapidly
getting rid of all Indian onlisted mon.
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 has
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 would 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 hispicture 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 price
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
sereDely in progress in China. Some
of the mills are being provided with
the electric light, and thore is every
probability of an attempt being made
to run the spindles themselves by
means of eleetro-motive power. In
these respects the Chinese are content
with nothing but the best and the
latest.
How tho mighty are fallen, muses
the New York Observer. The ear of
jßggernaut goes no longer forth in
triumphal but death-dealing proces
sion. This year, for tho first on rec
ord, the Jagannath car at Serampore,
India, failed to find devotees enough
to drag it over the usual route. On
three successive days attempts were
made which ended in failure. Tho 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 find that u largo num
ber of tho prizes for tho best plauts
went to people who were dwellers in
Mr. Peabody's houses. That shows
what a better atmosphero.will do for
the working classes. Public gardens
and parks and workingmen's clubs, I
think, are oiways conduoivo to tem
perance. But people will never be
made temperate by constraint. To
eecuro temperanco is impossible by
mere human obligations and vows.
Force of common sense, conscience
and sDiritual influence are neeessarv."
Police Methods in SI. I,ouis.
A policeman in St. Louis encounter
ed u sleep-walker who was on the
street, at night in his night shirt, and
after arousing him took him to his
room and made liim dress. This done,
the citizen was marched to the police
station, where he protested indignantly
against his arrest, offering as an excuse
for his npperanee when taken Into cus
tody that he was a somnambulist. With
much display of authority in his voice,
the police official replied lie didn't rare
what church the prisoner belonged to,
It was ngainst a city ordinance to walk
tho streets without any 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
PUNNT MEN OF THE PRESS.
J Tiie Hircil Girl of tlio Orient—flood
Evidence—Getting Along Slowly
—His Trent, Etc., Etc.
Japnn's the modern hired girl,
A Norn or n Dinah i
Whose pathway, through tbowork she does,
Is strewn with broken China.
—Detroit Froe Press.
GOOD EVIDENCE.
"Why do you think he is n crank?"
"He says I am one."—ruck.
THE CREATURE AND THE CREATOR.
I Poet—"Why is it you love my poetry
and do not love the poet?"
i She—"Because you are poor and the
poetry is not. "—Detroit Free Press.
GETTING ALONG SLOWLY.
Mrs. Dix—"Have you met the peo
ple yot who have moved in next door?"
Mrs. Hicks—"N—No; I don't even
know yet how much rent thoy pay."
—Puck.
HOW HE GOT BLIND.
Tramp- "Please help tho blind."
Passerby—"How did you become
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; she is de
termined to marry him."
Papa—"Very well; tell her 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 clief?"
Second Restaurateur—"Ok, he's a
daisy ! He can serve up bask under
seventeen different names."—Puck.
DEPENDS.
Herdso—"Tkey say every kearty
laugh adds a day to one's life."
Saidso—"That depends; I bad at
least a week kicked out of mo 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 the piano-keys.
"Think, madam?" was the reply,
"why, that I should like to be present
at it."—Tit-Bits.
A FINE OPPORTUNITY.
Modest Youth—"l have only §SOOO
a year, sir, but I think X can support
your daughter on that."
Father (enthusiastically) "Sup
port her, my dear boy ? Why you can
support her entire family on it."
Detroit I'ree Press.
HE KEPT HIS WORD.
"I tell you what it is," said the silly
little fish to his long-headed mother,
"I have 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.
THE REASON OF IT.
Fond Husband—"Somehow, T don't
seem 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 would,
if you hadn't ruined your stomach by
eating so many of those same pies
when you were a boy."—Puck.
HOW TnR PLANS ARE MADE.
"What ore you doing?" inquired
Hammerfest, as ho saw his friend tip
a dry-goods box on end and proceed
to make a sketch of it.
"Attending to business," replied his
friend, the architect. "I'm engaged
in making a design for a new modern
office building."—Chicago Record.
A GILDED SORROW.
Sympathetic Friend—"l amso 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 have 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 simple."
Second Author—"And mine?"
Manager—"ls simply awful!"—
Fliegonde Blaetter.
AN ABUSED GIRL.
"Yes, I gave him up," sighed tbo
young woman.
"Did he provo unworthy of your
affection?" inquired her sympathetic
friend.
"Ho—he became a spelling re
former," rejoined the other, with a
shudder, "ami signed his name 'Jorj.'
It took all the poetry and romance
out of the name. Ho wo parted."—
London Globe.
INFORMATION.
"Speak and you are a dead man."
Thu pistol barrel gleamed under the
nose ot Ujo patient looking party who
was recliuiugon the combination sofa.
"Do your worst," he cried, leaping
i. to his feet. "I will speak. I demand
t> know how in thunder it is you walk
ail through this houso without falling
® over tho rugs."
But the burglar only laughed mock
ingly in his face and climbed out of
1 tho cellar window.—Detroit Tribuno.
A CANDID CONFESSION.
Father of tho Bridegroom—"Before
, cementing this close relationship I
think it but right to tell you that I
once had a little unpleasantness which
involved the loss of my liberty for n
considerable period. Both ray (laugh
' ters are, I am sorry to say, rather
flighty; my dear wife is suffering from
kleptomania and my son was mixed
up in a little forgery affair. Won't
r that mako 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. " —Der Schalk.
Steam as a Means ot Defense.
A simple and effective method of re
pelling train robbers by discharging
jets of steam upon the attaoking party
has recently been patented by William
H. Reeve, an old tugboatman, of New
York. The inventor has enlarged
i upon the plan long followed by rail
road companies of attaching a stoam
jet to locomotives to scaro cows and
other animals from the track. The
patent provides for running steam j
pipes along the boiler, ono on either I
side from the cab forward. The ends
i of the pipes are supplied with small
nozzles so formed that jets of steam j
may be projected through them a dis
sance of fifty or sixty feet. It is
claimed that these would prevent any j
person from approaching nearer than [
this distance. Similar pipes could bo
run to the rear of the train and bo
supplied with nozzles, rendering it
impossible for any one to reach tho |
rear platform. Other pipes could bo !
arranged at the car doors, while by
the use of flexible pipes or hose the
steam could be carried and discharged
from the windows at will. These
pipes need not be so large as to be un
sightly or inconvenient in nny way.
A further use of steam as a means
of defense, the inventor claims, would
be in protecting banks against thieves.
Since banks are usually boated with
steam, the attachment could readily
be made. Small jets of steam might
be so arranged at the windows of the
tellers that they could be projected
into the faces of the robbers. These
jets might be operated by hidden j
levers or by electrical attachments.
A more ambitious plan, however, is
to utilize steam in the defense of
forts, armories or arsenals. Powerful
jets of steam could be discharged at
doors and windows of arsenals. Forts
conld be protected in a similar man- j
nor, and as long as tho supply of
steam held out, tho inventor claims,
they could not possibly bo curried by |
assault.—Scientific American.
—
He Never Served.
William Rufus King (born April C,
1786; died April 18, 1853) was a Vice-
President of the United States who
never served in that capacity, and one I
who took the oath of oilico on foreign I
soil—something which can bo said of
no other executive officer which has
ever been elected by the people of this
country. King was an invalid, bnt
his friends urged him to take second
place on the ticket with Pierce in j
1852. Both were elected, but Mr. [
King's health failed so rapidly that he
was forced to go to Cuba early in j
1853, some two and a half months be
fore inauguration day. Not having
returned to the United States by
March 4, Congress passed a special act
authorizing the United States Consul
at Mantanzas, Cuba, to swear him in
as Vice-President at about the hour
when Pierce was taking the 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 the 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 the Creoles
who had assembled to witness the
unique spectacle. Vice-President
King returned to his homo at Cahaw |
ba, Ala., arriving at that place April
17, 1853, and died tho following day. j
His remains were laid to rest on his j
plantation, known as Pino 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 the case when tho designer
gives up letters and figures and tries j
to represent some object, for the |
puncher is not always a strictly first- j
class artist. Not long since 1 saw a
horse that seemed so weighted down
with the burden of tho letters orna
menting the whole of one of his sidos
that ho had little strength for any
thing else. He read as follows: U. b.
I. C. 8. (X.)
This brand was a complete record of
his history. In his younger days ho
had been bought for our cavalry serv
ice and branded U. H. Alter a while
i ho was worn out, and then received
tho additional I. C. for "inspected ,
and condemned." When the Govern- ,
ment sold him it was recorded by an
"S," and the man that bought "him
added the (X). If he is sold any more
his next owner will have to begin
branding him on the other side. The
United btates army ofiioiuls will not ]
purchase a horse that already has a i
brand on it. Whether it is because
they consider branding an inhuman -
device, or because they do not want i ]
horse so disfigured, or because they -
need all the space tor lh.or tr.v.i
brands, I do not know.—bt. Loui.i
Globe-Democrat.
TO CIVILIZE INDIANS.
QUEEREST NEWSPAPER ISSUED
IN AMERICA.
j Published in n System of Shorthand
in British Columbia by a Missionary
J lmliaiiM Readily Learn to Head the
| Characters—lts Circulation.
Work of u Priest
! One of the most wonderful achleve
i eioniM of any age Is the invention or
I provision ol' some means or language
by which a com
\ num education,and
more especially the
teachings of Christ,
fe/ may be conveyed
to an ignorant and
semi-heathen race.
Ever since the days
of early Scripture
* - missionaries have
VERB LE JEUNE. 1)0011 SCUt foi'tll for
Ibis purpose, and, strange as it may
poem, 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 3570 Pere Jean Marie
i Knphacl Le Jeune came to British Co-
Aimbia as missionary priest, and in a
j few short years lie lias accomplished
what might have taken civilization in
I .ier generally impeded progress in this
thinly inhabited province a half cen
tury to bring about the same effect.
| I'ere Le Jeune made his first acquaint
; nice with the Thompson Indians in
| 111110, 1880, and lias lived with them
I wor since. A man gifted with a keen,
sparkling intellect, and reared with
refinement and education in IMoybort
Christ, Finistere, France.lie takes tin
* -
NORTH BENO INDIAN WOMEN.
and was able to express himself in
these tongues "in a very short time. All
the elements of education lie 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
this they were as ignorant as brutes.
Henceforth he took up his great phil
anthropic work.
From ISSU to ISS2 he traveled only
tils abodo in a lonely, cheerless country
among a tribe of Indians who know
nothing outside their provincial jar
gon of Chinook language to devote tlie
remainder of his life toward lifting up
a hopeless and down trodden race and
to establish between these brethren
and their Maker a divine faith.
Pere Le Jeune at once began to study
the Chinook and Salishau languages,
between Yale and Lytton, a distance
of fifty-two uilles, trying to make ac
quaintance with as many Indians as
would receive a white man into their
habitations. His struggles and efforts
were many, for it Is well known that
these 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
tvas to become oue of them—learn their
languages and advance civilization
among them through the comprehen
sion of their own tongue. This of course
required untiring patience aud energy,
but l'ere 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 the great outside world.
Since ISB2 his mission lias extended
to the Nicola Indians, who also speak
the Thompson language, and to the
Douglass Lake Indians, who are a
branch of the Okanagan family, where
tie copied and revised most of the pray-
ers they have In use up to the present
day. Since June, 1891, he has had to
deal with the Shushwap tribe, and as
their language is siinular to that used
by other Indians, he very soon became
familiar with it. In 1892, the Eraser
Indians aud 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. lie soon found tlie 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 ns soon as their instructor was out
of sight the Indians either neglected
their lessons altogether, or, in sheer in
ability to learn forgot tlie first
rudiments taught them. As Pere La
Jeune's district was so extensive and
as lie could only visit each tribo throe
or four times a year, one can see how
ditlicult 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 he
was goue.
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 invent a system by which
tiie most simple miud might bo taught
to read aud write?
When, In 18G7, Pere Le Jeune was
a hoy of IG, in Prance, he learned a
system of shorthand. This ho now re
sumed, and by simplifying it to meet
his own requirements, undertook to
teach it to the Indians. The first trial
was an instant success. This short
hand is an easy phonetic writing, and
can be learned thoroughly in a few
weeks. Le Jeune himself was surprised
at the eagerness displayed by the na
tives to learn it.
Pour years ago, a poor Indian crip
ple named Charlie Alexis Muyoos, from
the lower Nicola tribe, saw the writing
for the iirst time and got tile Intuition
of the system at lirst sight, lie set to
work to decipher a few Indian prayers,
and in less than two months had
learned the whole method thoroughly.
He soon began to help the priests by
communicating his learning to his
friends and relatives. Prom this time
on the Indians took up the system and
were anxious to learn on all sides.
They nave 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 once 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 he saw It He
spent the whole night in repeating the
lesson over and over again with two or
three companions, and in two or three
days more completed ids studies. In
less than a month lie 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 tlie words, but ilie greatest
number begin by reading the words,
then the syllables by comparing the
words together, and at last come to
the letters. They learn by analysis
much quicker than by synthesis.
After GOO or 800 Indians hud learned
tlie system, it became necessary that
their interest should be kept up by
placing instructive matter before them.
As I'ere Le Jeune was alwuys on the
go, visiting each camp at intervals
only, it occurred to hint to edit the
Katuloops Wawa, tlie strangest little
newspaper in America.
The Wawa is really a full-fledged
newspaper, and it lirst saw the light
of day in tlie month of May, 1801.
"Wawa is an Indian word moaning
"talk, speak or echo." Ilenco the title
signiflos "Kamloops Helloes." "ICnm
loops," tlie name of the town in which
it was inaugurated, is a Sliusliwap
word, meaning "the forking together
of rivers, in this instance the north and
south forks of the Thompson River.
The accompanying reproduction is the
fac-similc of tlie original paper, which
proves to lie a curiosity in Itself. It
contains four pages, and Is about Ave
by seven inches 111 size. At present
over 1,050 subscribers look forward to
their paper. Tlie Kamloops Wawa Is
issued weekly. At tlie start, when
funds wore scarce, I'ere Le Jeune
printed the news on any kind of paper
donated for tlie purpose, and some
times tlie Indians received their news
mi blue, red, yellow, nnd again on white
material.
The printing of the paper Is mnrvei
ous. It is all done by hand, Pere Le
Jeune doing 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 ills missionary labors. As the
subscriptions grew larger, a few In
dian women were called in to help with
the printing, hut tills did not last
long, as tlie 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 tills wonderful
little paper have been bound, copies
being sent to the Smithsonian Insti
tution; also librarlest in the East hold
copies as premiums. Somo 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
led its text. Pere Le Jeune informs
SOME MEMBERS OF THE BKWAMIBII
It It ASS BAND.
tno he still has in his possession copies
of the original volumes for distribu
tion. These in a few years, as well
as in the present, may be considered
valuable curiosities, for now the old
process mimeographing has been aban-.
doned and electrotyping on a small
scale, by which three times as much
material appears weekly, has been sub
stituted. The new Ivamloops Wawa
contains sixteen pages. Its contents
consclst chiefly of news from the sur
rounding towns and wigwams, notices
of births, deaths, and marriages of the
Indians, with a new lesson or two of
the system, while a special feature is
made of the bible stories and religious
instruction. The white settlers in
Ivamloops take little or no interest in
the paper, and the means with which
Pere LeJeune carries on his noble work
are either donated or procured by sub
scriptions to the little weekly. During
the winter Indians take inlinite delight
In sending letters from camp to catnp.
Ivamloops Is situateti onytiio north
and south branches ot the Thompson
Itiver, and the scenery artmnd the
quiet little town makes it one of the
garden spots of the earth, especially
in the summer. In summer, the even
ing suusets nro 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
niticent 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 and mysticism
which cannot be described. The coun
try is thinly settled yet, and many a
landmark remains which speaks witli
thrilling vividness of an earlier race.
It is a new 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 in order to get correspond
ents. Seventy-live to 10(1 natives sent
out letters to correspondents whom
they never saw or knew.
Civilization, however, lias made
rapid progress, and these North Am
erican Indians are losing much of the
GROUP OF HKUBHWAP 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,(MX) Inhabitants, and is the business
center of the surrounding country from
tweirty-flve to fifty miles distant. The
town was formerly a Hudson liny 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 Docs a Cat Alwuys Manage to
I.and on Its Feet?
What mechanical power makes a cat
fail on Its feet has been puzzling tho
French Academy of Sciences. A series
of sixty instantaneous photographs ex
hibited before it showed the complete
process In very stage, and demon
strnted scientifically that the cat does
turn in the air and does land on Its
feet, but did not betray the motive
power. The general impression was
Ihat It was due to tho 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 animals in motion, conducted
the experiment with the French cat
in question. I)o not fail to observe the
expression of the cat's tall In the last
photograph. It Is eloquent of triumph
and of rejoicing after a danger past.
Tun busier a mau is the harder it
is fur the devil to get into conversa
tion with him.
Bryn Mawr's Freshman class is hard
at work on the basket ball field.
Mrs. Astor gave a Thanksgiving
dinner to 800 Now York newsboys.
Ribbons are 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 been revived by modorn.
"grand dames."
One of the most famous folklorista
of the world is Miss Mary Alicia Owens,
of St. Joseph, Mo.
About sixty foreign women havo
been naturalized in New York during
the last three years.
Tiicro aro about 170,000 women in
Connecticut. At the recent elections
less than two per cent, voted.
The wiso father of marriageable
maidens will insist on a cozy recessed
window seat in his new house.
Mrs. Bradley Ma rtin, a New York
socit?ty leader, has bought the dia
mond crown of Mario Antoinette.
Princess Louise, of Denmark, sister
of the King, is dead. She was abbess
of the convent of Itzehol, Ilolstein.
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 membership
of 2000.
Mrs. Gladstone is eighty-ono years
old and she possesses that vigor and
vitality which is no 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
becomo fashionable to the extent of
being common. Now mammas look for
something new.
Twenty-four, young women aro
taking graduate courses at Yale Col
lege this term. Tho number is in
creasing each year.
Velvet collars in all shades and
shapes aro very popular this season.
Some of these stocks havo one largo
or two tiny buckles.
Miss Isabella Lockwood has been ap
pointed Deputy County Recorder at
Munioc, Ind., and tbe courts will
decide as to her eligibility.
, Lena McClellan, of St. Paul, Minn.,
is tho youngest stamp collector. She
is four years old and pursuos her fad
with untiring energy and intorest.
Tho women's clubs in and about
Wuehtngton havo federated under tho
title of "The Federation of Women's
Clubs of the District of Columbia."
Tho newest lace pins havo bullet
heads, oither irido33ent, green, mauve
or deep blue, sold in pairs, unitod by
a chain—an old fashion which revisits
us.
Washington will havo among its per
manent residents this winter a coterie
of not less than a dozen widows of
social celebrity and apoplectic bank
account.
Tha class of '97 at Wellesley is tho
most athletic class in the college. Its
members excel in every kind of sport,
and havo earned honors both at homo
and abroad.
Lillian Russell, tho opera singor,
instead of bonbons, keeps a dish of
(boiled carrots constantly on her dress
ing table, and declares that they aro
lino for tho complexion.
Countess Giannoti, who is men
tioned as one of the favorites among
the ladies in waiting to tho of
Italy, in an American, daughter of u
cigarette maker of Newark, N. J.
Misses Judson and Lamson, of
wealthy Clovoland (Ohio) families,
tho former the daughter of a judge,
havo joined tho Salvation Army, and
are living in the army barracks in that
city.
Mrs. Oscar Beringer, ono of the
leaders of London literary society, was
born in America, and, as she says, can
boast of a mixture of English, Irish,
Spanish and French blood. Her child
hood was parsed in California aud
Mexico.
At a recent bazaar of all Nations,
the clover thought was carriod out of
showing the time all over tho world.
Above every booth a clock was set
that, was regulated to the hour then
passing in tho place represented by
the stall.
A Miss Sterling, at Avlesford, Nova
Scotin, 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 be
"professionals" and receive a share of
the gate money. It has not been de
cided whether the referee shall be a
man or a woman. The novel team
has already booked a number of games.
The custom of having women pall
bearers ut funerals will probably bo
permanently established here, says the
Louisville Courier-Journal. There
have been several of that kind in the
last year. At a recent funeral the
pallbearers were eight young girls,
dressed from head to foot in white.
Tho young ladies wore white caps,
gloves, dresses aud shoes.