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A feature of tlio House of tlio Fifty- !
fourth Congress is the number of
young men to take their seats. An j
old-time member said tho othor day j
that it was a "eongross of boys."
It is said in the New York Mail and i
Express that there is to be found in tho
old furniture and curiosity shops of
Boston enough furniture that was
taken out of tho Mayflower to fill a
whole fleet of such primitive craft.
Tho popular idea that Kentucky has
more distilleries than any other State
is a delusion, declares tho New York
World. Tho latest Government ab
stract of statistics gives New York
1310, against only 811 lor Kentucky.
Gladstono computes that the habit
ual speakers of tho English language
have increased from 15,000,009 to 101,-
000,000 during tho last 100 years, and
that they will number 120,000,000 by
the end of the year 1000. At that
rate of increase, which is seven-fold
each century, such speakers will in
clude not less than 810,000,000 by tho
end of tho year 2000.
According to a scientist who has
been looking iuto tho question, three
times as much rnin falls in Eastern
Kansas as is required for the growing
of bountiful crops. Tho problem is
to conserve this moisture by means of
deep plowing, mulching and pond
building in order to have it available
for unusually dry seasons. Ho finds
that it cau bo done and is being done
by a steadily increasing number of
farmers every year.
In tho last National election there
were cast 12,073,057 out of 15,137,880
eligibles. Out of tho ascertained
population in 1800 of G2,G22,250 the
number of church communicants was
only 20,613,307. Allowing 3,500,000
as the number of Protestant voting
communicants, and 2,000,000 Catho
lics, tho total church vote, as estimat
ed by tho Atlanta Constitution, is a
fraction over 5,000,000 out of 15,-
000,000 voters.
It is a most refreshing view of Qneen
life that wo are invited to by a foreign
correspondent, when Queen Victoria
is pictured ns seeking relief from tho
cares of state in "plaiD, humble knit
ting," and Queen Carol,a, of Saxony,
is described as "arrayed in a big apron
over her royal robes and engaged in
making jam." But these are not tho
only queen-like women who have de
lighted in these humble and useful oc
cupations, adds tho New York Mail
and Express. Woman nature is o
Same tho world over, whether in court
or cottage.
A Troy man now in Ojo C.iliente,
New Mexico, writes to tho Troy (N.
Y.) Times about tho remarkable cli
mate and powerful waters of that
place. On three successive mornings
the mercury at Ojo Caliente indicated
twenty degrees below zero, eighteen
degrees below and four degrees below,
yet by 0 o'clock on these mornings
tho thcrometer had risen to ten to
twenty degrees above, and during the
middle of tho day an overcoat was
superfluous. In fact, there have been
but four days in several weeks when
it was not possible to sit in the house
with tho door wide open and road or
write in comfort. Tho air is very dry
and crisp, and even when the mercury
sinks below zero tho cold is not felt.
But, while tlio climate is remarkable,
it is nothing compared with tho water*,
winch aro particularly recommended
to persons Htilferinj from locomotor
ataxia, paralysis ami rheumatic
trouhies. The Trojan writes, and
vouches for tho truth of tho state
ment, that a native placed a cowhide
in a tub and let tho water run on it
during tho night, and in tho morning
it was found that tho skin had com
pletely dissolved, loaviug nothing but
the hair. A person bathing iu tho
water must uso extrcmo care and can
not stay in tho tub more than fifteen
minutes, fur tho water softens the skin
BO that scratches and cuts are verj
easily received.
RINGING THE EASTER CHIMES IN TRINITY
CHURCH STEEPLE. NEW YORK.
Rejoice! rejoice! the jubilant bells
Clamor and clang in the morning gray,
Ripplo and break iu tho wave-long swells
Of tho wind that rises at dawn of day.
R?j icc! they peal from tho tail whitesteeple,
llt-j jieo! they call to tho listening people,
Further and nearer, higher and clearer,
Sweet with the message of hope and love,
They swing, they ring, unto men they bring
The tale of the life that came down from
HER EASTER GIFT.
BY ANSA E. IIAUS.
//\ BOUT everybody iu
// \\ our church will
//- \\ have a new suit foi
Knstcr i "i E,en Lee
jfx\ nssn 'ccl her cousin.
\ / "You must not
\f g'y think of wearing an
one Muriel."
y * 'Certainly not!"
Ffl rs * ,ee '
Yvy v v decision. "No
body in our set
goes to church on Easter Suuday with
out on entirely new dress. You should
know better than to think of wearing
an old one, Mariel. I will not have
my niece looking shabby on that day."
".And if you go with us," added
Elen, "you should be careful that tho
difference in our costumes is not suf
ficient to attraot attention."
Mariel Earl looked from a no to tno
other of the speakers with troubled
eyes.
"I did not plan to buy a new dress
while in tho city," she said, anxious
ly. "I still have part of the money I
brought with me, but I want to save it
for mamma's outing. She needs one,
and you know since she lost her money
through the failure of that bank, wo
are obliged to economize."
Mrs. Leo's face darkened visibly.
"You must know, Muriel,"she said,
sternly, "that I had nothing to do
with my sister-in-law's bad invest
ment, and it does not interest mo in
tho least. However, while you aro my
guest I expect you to dress ns becomes
your station as'my niece."
Muriel was much troubled by her
aunt's decision that a new dress was
an Easter necessity. When alone iu
her room, sho took from her purse all
that remained of tho littlo sum she
and her mother had scraped together
for her visit to her city aunt. There
were only a few of the bills loft, and
sho had meant to keep them for her
mother's summer outing.
"She needs an outing, too," mused
Mariel. "I'll do without a new dress,
and keep this money for iior, no mat
ter what aunt says. She knows noth
ing about economy and self-denial,
and will not forgive mamma for that
bad investment. But no matter what
Bhe or Elen may say, mamma shall
have her outing, and one of my old
dresses must do for Easter."
And going to her closet, sho brought
forth a dainty gray silk, showing traco
of more or less wear.
All that day and the next was spent
in pressing and remodeling, but, al
though the gray silk looked quite
fresh and pretty, it still had some
thing of a "made-over" appearance.
"It looks as if it had come from a
pawn-shop," declared Elen. "I cau
tell a made-over dress as far as I can
sco it. It is of no use, Marie). It
will not do for St. Paul's on Euster
Sunday."
Mariel looked at her cousin with
half-tearful, half-angry eyes.
"Very well, Elen," she said. "Then
I'll remain at home and not disgrace
tho congregation of St. Paul's on
Easter Sunday."
This decision relieved tho mind of
Elen, for, as sho confided to her
mother, she did not care to take Mariel
into society oftoncr than was neces
sary.
•' for baby face and rustic airs
please my gentlemen friends un
accountably," she said, enviously. "I
think her both nrfccted and design
ing; but they think her all artless
simplicity."
"Her visit will soon be over," con
soled Mrs. Loe. "It will bo a long
time, I fancy, before she is invited to
make us another."
Poor Mariel was not aware of the
real causo of her aunt's and cousin's
increasing cold nosß. Sho did notdroam
how it galled them to see wealthy and
handsome Captain Leland, for whom
they had long angled in vain, so at
tracted by her modest and pleasing
face and manner,
bho knew that her cousin was
IhOjoXco! rejoice! for (loath no moro
Shall hold ns captives and chain us hist;
The strain of the reign of (loath la o'er,
And tho tyrant of tyrants is slain at lost.
Rejoice, O sen that is brimmed from tho river!
Rejoice. O leaves that in sunlight quiver!
Farther and nearer, higher and clearer.
The glad bells ring in tho Easter morn;
And over the earth, in its dole and dearth,
The fulness of heaven's own life is born.
—Elizabeth Chlsholm, in Harper's bazar.
prematurely worn and faded by a fret
ful disjftisition and lunch fashionable
dissipation. Sho know, too, that her
own cheeks were fresh and dimpled,
her violet eyes like twin stars, and her
abundant tresses like burnished gold;
but she was too ignoraut of tho worth
of mere physical beauty to sot muoh
store by it.
Her mother had often talked about
beauty of mind and heart; bnt had
said little about physical beauty, ex
cept to quote tho old adage, "beauty
is only skin deep."
While Muriel thought little about
lier personal appearance during ber
visit, sho was delighted with tho
novelty of city life.
Her hearty and innocent enjoyment
of everything made her all the moro
pleasing in the critical eyes of Captain
Lelaud, who was weary of the design
ing butterflies of fashionable life.
Marial could not help wishing, as
sho sat alone in her room on Easter
Eve, that after nil sho might accom
pany her aunt and cousin to St. Paul's
on tho morrow.
She would have enjoyed the Easter
anthoms and decoration*. The new
costumes would also have been a pleas
iug sight, for she liked lino feathers
as heartily as any city belle.
"But I could not enjoy a new dress
procured at the expense of mamma's
visit." she mused. "Poor, self-deny
ing mamma ! She plans for my pleas
ure, and I must plan for hers."
Presently the door-bell ran?, and
sho heard tho voice of Captain Leland
in the parlor. Sho listened gladly,
expecting every moment to be sum
moned down to meet him ; but when a
half-hour's waiting brought no sum
mons, sho could not repress toars of
disappointment.
".Sure, miss, and it's not crying ye
are, I hope!" cried the kind-hearted
maid, enteriug with lights. "Faith
now, and are ye homesick this blessed
Easter Eve?"
"A little homesick and a little lone
some, too, Maggie. But doi't mind
me. I shall feel better presently."
"Ye ought to be in tho parlor with
the company," declared sympathetic
Maggie. "Xo wonder you're home
sick, all alono by yourself. Didn't
Miss Elen send for you?"
"I'm afraid sho has forgotten me.
But no matter. I'm not much lone
some, Maggie."
"Miss Elen has a trick of forget
ting her cousin when the captain's
around," grumbled Maggie, going
down the stairs. "But never mind, my
lady; it's myself will remind tho cap
tain of Miss Mariel."
And sho stationed herself in the hall
to await Captain Leland's departure.
Presently ho made his appearance,
and smiled at Maggie as sho officiously
opened tho door for him.
"Miss Mariel knew you were in tho
parlor, captain," sho said, glibly.
"But sho couldn't come down—poor
dear—because sho wasn't sent for.
I She's a bit lonesome, too, this blessed
! Easter Eve, and can't go to church to
morrow."
"Can't go to church?" echoe.l tho
! captain. "Why not, Maggie? She is
1 not ill, I hope?"
I "No, indeed! But she's worn all
| her dresses—poor thing—and her aunt
; and cousin Hit 3 nobody goes to St.
i Paul's ou Easter Sunday savo them an
i has bran new ones."
"Ah—indeed!" stammered tho cap*
lain.
I Then he went down tho steps, whist-
I ling soft'.y.
I Half an hour later he again rang at
I .lie Lee's door, and was ulmitted by
; officious Maggie.
I "Heie are some flowers for Miss
Mariel. Take them right up to her,
my good girl, and tell her there are
I more churches in tho city than St.
Paul's. There is oue just around the
corner here, where new Easter suits
are not deemed a necessity. Toll her
to try that to-morrow. It is rather
plain, to-be-sure, but fashionable
churches aro not always the best."
And ho departed without more ado,
leaving delighted Maggie beaming
over a basket of violets.
"A basket of Easter flowers for you,
Miss Mariel!" she announced, a mo
ment later, standing almost breath
less in that yonng lady's room. "Ele
gant violets, smelling like the country
and the blessed spring. Captain lie
land, miss."
"Oh, the lovely, purple things 1"
cried Mariel. - "They remind me of
my mother and my country home.
How thoughtful of Captain Loland to
remember that I'm a country girl,
exiled here among brick walls!"
"And he bade me to tell you, miss,
that St. Paul's is not the only church
in the city, but that there's one around
the corner here where they don't need
new drosses for Easter. You might
try that to-morrow."
"What an odd message! Why did
ho send it, Maggie?"
"I'm sure I don't know, miss!" de
clared Maggie.
But she chuckled audibly as she
went down stairs.
"Deceivin's a gamo two can play at,
Miss Elen," she muttered mysteri
ously.
On Sunday morning Mariel watched
bcr aunt and cousin sail forth to
church in their beautiful new cos
tumes and "perfect loves of bonuets,''
and found it difficult to repress a sigh
of envy. However, she did repress it.
"Fine feathers aro only for those
who can ofl'ord them," she said consol
ingly. "The Lees aro rich and can
dress as they please, but wo Earls are
poor and must govern ourselves ac
cordingly. 1 huvo always been con
tented with my humble lot, and will
be so still. There is nothing gained
by envy and discontent. I will do tho
best I can and be satisfied."
Then she remembered Captaiu Lo
land's quaint assurance that thero
were churches in the city where new
Easter dresses were not deemed a ne
cessity.
"I have been acting as if fashiona
ble St. Paul's were the only church in
the city," she said, reproachfudy. * "I
will cling to my old faith in simplic
ity and contentment, and cclebrato
Easter by utteuding tho plain church
around the corner."
And she put on her mado over gray
silk and pinned a cluster of violets on
tho lace at her throat.
~"Even aunt would admit that violet
and gray look well together," eho
said, Binding, as eho set out lor tho
plain church around the corner.
Whether her aunt would make tho
admission or not, tho violet and gray
were very becoming; and as she eat in
tho plain church, listeniug to the
Easter authein, she reminded a cer
tain observer of tho Easter angels ho
had onee seen in a rare old painting.
Tho observer felt a thrill of gladness
when ho saw the purple flowers at her
throat, and thou a thrill of tenderness
as he noted tho violet eyes and hair of
burnished gold curling abovo the
white brow. He marveled, too, at
the earnest eyos and thoughtful brow.
"3ho i 3 much interested in the
Easter sermou," bethought. How at
tentively sho watches the minister."
But Marie'l's thoughts were not all
on tho sermon ; they turned sometimes
to her mother, who was now probably
sitting in the country church, clad in
hor well-worn black merino.
Poor mother, so patient and solf
denyiug! How good Mariel was that
sho had not been selfish and spent for
finery the money that wcfuld give h?r
a much-needed rest aud outing!
She would bo tho housekeeper the
coming summer, and her mother
should have a vacation. It was more
these thoughts than tho Easter sermon
that gave tho fair young face anil vio
let eyes tho angelic expression eo ad
mired by the observer.
As Mariel moved slowly down the
crowded aisle after tho sermon, 6omo
one stepped to her side.
"You have lost something, Miss
Earl," said Captain Lelaud, holding
up the cluster of violets.
Mariel put her hand to her throat,
and finding her violets gone, blushed
bewitchingly.
"I am glad you thought my violets
worth wearing," continued Captain
Leland. "Your cousin told me that
you did uot care for flowers and music,
and that even tho Easter anthems and
decorations could not tempt you to
St. Paul's this morning."
Mnriol blushed agaiu.
"My cousin's mistake was quito ex
cusable," she said, quietly. "She has
not known me long enough to be ac
quainted with my likes or dislikes.
Indeed, I had a good and sufficient
reason for not going to St. Paul's this
morning."
"May I inquire what your reason
was?" usked the Captain, geutly.
And then Mariel told him Low now
; Easter suits were a necessity at St.
I Paul's, and how, if she emptied her
i purse for finery, her mother could
I not have the milch*needed summer
outing.
"Somebody had to do without some
j thing," she concluded, "andof course
I when the choice lay between my new
' gown aijd mamma's summer vacation,
! tho gown had to go. Now you seo
I just how poor we are, Captain Lo
! land."
j And Captaiu Leland assured hiro-
I self that tho girl who was such a
| thoughttul, hopeful daughter would
make a most excellent wife.
| "Poor or not," said he, "you are
| nearer my ideal than any woman I
I ever met. Do uot turn away, Mariel,
j but look at me with your truthful eyes
I and tell me that the foud hopes I have
j cherished since I first met you aro not
i iu vain."
Mariel lifted her violet eyes to hie
for a moment, aud a 1 though she spoke
no word, he was quite satisfied.
They walked slowly home through
the bland Easter sunshine, and when
they reached Mrs. Lee's house, Cap
tain Leland went in aud asked that
astonished lady's permission to marry
her niece.
And that was Mariel'e Easter gift—
au honest man's loyal and loving
heart.
Her aunt and cousin wondered how
such an inexperienced little country
girl could win such a prize. It did
not occur to them that Mariel's sweet
unselfishness and self-denial and her
thoughtful consideration for others
could havo anything to do with the
matter.
They were right in saying that it
was her beauty that caused handsome
and wealthy Captain Leland to choose
her for his wife, but they did not
know thnt it was the beauty of her
mind and heart that charmod him
even more than did that of her face
and form.
Thoughts Inspired by Easier.
The Easter fcstivnl has como again
and I thank God it has permitted mo
to again address you on this day. It
is a day whioh to mo, you and to all
mankind, should open a new kingdom
for the following of God's commands
nnd the discovery of God's truths. We
do not believe any truth simply be
cause it is so called ; wo believo it be
cause wo realize it is so. Thus each
year this festival becomes a richer
thing to us, and wo realize more the
truth of our own immortality. We
must realize this immortality. Christ
knew Himself, and in His personality,
His immortality. He felt throbbing
nnd beating out from His life that
immortal, God-given gift which makes
itself known in the cry, "Beforo
Abraham was, I am." Christ's work
was not a work of tho past—it was a
work whioh will ever bo that of tho
present, of this century, year and day
—of the omnipresent. "Now." That
"Now" which binds us all, in which
we are born, in which we shall die;
which identifies me and you with this
day and year, with this country, with
the modern world, and with that
spirit of Christian humanity which
should unite us nil. I thank God lam
living to-day; that lam here in this
dear old church, with all its associa
tions ; that I am here in this city,
State, in America and finally in this
great world. You are here with me,
and from this broad life is an im
mediate life, and, with it, a Christian
one, from whoso good element is that
divine influence which is permeating
humanity. Immortality is nothing
less than an admitted relation with the
infiniteness of God. Aud this, our
presout life, spreads itself over vast
regions of existence and comes that
great now which embracos all of
heroism, of good, of fellowship, of
soulful union and of life. Physical
existence amounts to nothing. Now
it is impossible for us worldlings to
kDow the beauty, the restfulness of
that divine and celestial now, which
is the true immortality.—From Phil
ips Brooke's last Easter sermon.
A Juvenile View.
"Tell me, mamma," Dolly prays—
At my kuoo3 she sweetly begs—
"ls it tho Welsh rabbit lays
All tho3o yellow Easter eggs?"
Wlmt It All Means.
Each eve she inoets me at tho gate—
Her brow has roses ou it;
And for one kiss she gives mo eight.
(That means an Easter bonnet!)
Each dish that most delights my eyes
The table has upon it
And, "Dear, try this, and this!" she cries.
(That moans an Eastor bonnet!)
My slippers always are in sight;
My smoking cap—l don it;
She strokes my hair: "You're tired to-night!"
(That moans an Easter bonnet!)
Such kind attention! Never saw
The like! Heaven's blessing ou It!
God bless both wife and mother-in-law,
(That moans an Eastor bonnet!)
—Atlanta Constitution.
A New Cure lor Consumption.
Dr. Viquerat, of Goneva, after a
long study of tuberculosis, has reached
Rome extraordinary results. Twenty
seven tuberculous patients of tho sec
ond or third degree have undergone
his treatment (subcutaneous injections
of the serum of asses), and twenty-five,
who had been given up by their phy
sicians as lost, are to-day entirely
cured. An authoritative report gives
tho names aud addresses of the twenty
five patients treated. As a result of
this success a philanthropic Genevan
has founded in Geneva the Viquerat
Institute for tho treatment of persons
whose case is looked upou as hopeless.
—New York Advertiser.
Early I)ib!o Printing in This Country,
The history of Bible publishing in
America discloses the feet that Phila
delphia lias played a most important
part in this braujh or bookmaking.
The first Hebrew Bible published in
this country was printed by William
Fry, of Philadelphia, in 1814. This
was tho second American book in He
brew characters, the Press of KarTard
College having issued in 1809 an edi
tion of tho Psalms. The Hauor Bible,
of which reprints are still in existence,
was printed in Germautown in 1743,
and tho first Donay Bible reprinted in
America was published in Philadelphia
in 1790.—Philadelphia Record.
Natural gas has been piped into
Salt Lake City.
A RATTLESNAKE FARMER.
WHERE REPTILES PAY BETTER
THAN ANY OTHER CROP.
Only the Poison Is Harvested—Cer
tain Medicines Prepared From It
—The Fang and Venom Bag.
/ ERTAIN medicines aro pro*
J / pared from ratfclesnako poison.
J It belongs to tho non-assimi
lativo animal rabftance*—
that is to say, tho stomach of the
healthy man will not tako it np, and
upon this fact has been built tho the
ory that it is effective in killing cer
tain organisms in tho stomach while
not aftocting the patient.
Tho writer of this article became
aware of this fact some years ago
when traveling across the State of
lowa on horseback, trying to locate
a section of land. In the course of
his prospecting in several directions
from the Land Ollice, which was then
ntDesMoines, he came to an initial set
tlement in Tama County, and, while
stopping there, heard of a "rattle
snnko ledge" about four miles north
east of tho town that had been-pre
empted by a man from Ohio.
Old Burnison's ledge turned out to
be all it was painted, and something
more. It was a mile and a half of rot
tou limestono stratum turned on edge
and sticking out of tho prairie sixty
feet high, like a big quarry that had
got snnggod in the middle of a lake.
Right on top of it, in a grove of wild
fern and dwarf sycamore, lived old
Buruison, in a log cabin he had built
for himself about threo years before,
when ho had pre-empted tho quarter
eectiou.
This whole bed of rock, lying in
slanting and crumbling layers, much
of it as crumbly as old checso was lit
erally alive with rattlesnakes. When
I reached tho place old Burniston had
settled down to snake-killing ns a busi
ness. Ho had fgradually given up nIJ
attempts to work tho farm and devo
ted himself to the ceaseless war of ex
termination. 11c said ho had killed
as many as fifty rattlers iu a day, but
they wore "gettin' scary of him now"
and knew his step. Besides, said he :
"I ain't ns anxious to kill as I was,
seein' as how snakes is a better payin'
ciop than corn."
He and his boy must havo been at
this about a year, it appeared, when
some ono wrote to him from Des
Moines and offered to pay him for all
tho rattlesnake poison he could col
lect. This set him to work pulling
tho fangs of the dend snakes. It was
difficult and tedious work, but he suc
ceeded in getting together a vial of
tho venom and sent it to his corre
spondent, with a complaint that it
didn't pay to "gether it."
What was his surpriso to receive in
answer a lengthy letter from a Chi
cago firm, for which tho Des Moines
correspondent was only an agent,
thanking him for tho virus aud re
mitting $lO, with specific instructions
how to "gether" tho poison without
so much trouble. Ho was to pull the
fang before tho snake was killed and
while his mouth was open. "Of
course," said tho letter, "you can't
very well do it after tho snake is dead,
because tho faug is folded back and
hidden in tho folds of tho maxillary
gland. Wo send you by express to
our Des Moiues agent a pair of for
ceps specially constructed for this
work, which wo furnish to our agents."
Hero tho old mau got up and
brought mo a long-handled steel in
strument of the most delicate work
manship, and I accompanied him and
his boy to see how it worked. We
had not gone a hundred feit through
the plum grove before we heard the
rattlo of a snake, and his boy, turn
ing aside into tho bush, found his
victim coiled, with his head up, and
in half a minute ho had his forked
stick over the ueck of tho animal, and
tho old man had tho instrument fast
on tho little white fang that hung
down visibly in his open mouth.
With a dexterous jerk tho faug and
the venom bag came out together un
broken, and after crushing the head
of tho serpent with his boot he laid
the trophy in tho palm of his hand for
mo to look at.
Afterwards he showed me a little
box with glass-stoppered vials laid in
cotton, which tho Chicago firm hnd
also sent him. He told me that he
was making a good deal more money
by tho snakes than ho could get
"outen" his crops.
I bought a vial of tho viscid fluid
from old Buruison aud kept it for a
long timo for experiments, ultimately
passing it over to Dr. Doremuo.—
New York World.
Health in Japan.
In common with most primitive Na
tions, Japnn was until recently almost
, without anything that could be called
' medical science, superstition taking
tho place of it. Driving out dovils
iu various ways was the accepted mode
of curing all diseases, and the treat
ment of the sick was often uninten
tionally barbarous; as when receut
mothers were compelled to get up
from their beds for certain ceremoni
als. Now, in most of tho largo cities,
thero are physicians of fully qualified
skill, equal, in many instances, to
those of New York or London.
Tho Japanese war hospitals are the
admiration of the foreign visitors.
Tho staff is composed of Japanese
doctors, graduates iu America or Eng
land, and tho methods are prompt,
modern and safe, tho antiseptic meth
od being in all surgical cases em
ployed.
Tokio is a city of about tho same
size as New York, aud in a climate
not greatly dissimilar ; its death rate
is about the Rame, being less than
twenty. This is a better rate than
that of Vienna, St. Petersburg or New
Orieans, and vastly better than that of
any Chinese, or even Turkish, city.—
New York Recorder.
WISE WORDS.
Tell tho truth or tell nothing.
Most peoplo who claim to be liberal
are only loose.
Only consciousness should cause
sorrow to the believer.
Grumbling church members are like
lean pigs—always sqnaling.
No man ever worked honestly with
out giving some help to his race.
Unbelief is a hostile state of heart
more than an unconvinced reason.
How few there are who hart rather
bo hurt by the truth than tickled by
flattery.
He is the rriuco of cowards who
knows ho is m the wrong and is afraid
to say so.
A pure heart with liltlo or no in
come is far bettei than a broken heart
with big bank dividends.
Men of earnest thought and quiet
contemplation exerciso a wonderful
influence over men of action.
Deliberate with caution, but not
with decision, and yield with gracious
ness, or expose with firmness.
There is considerable diverenee be
tween making religion a business and
making a business of religion.
Great virtues must be accompanied
by great humility, othrwiso they be
come fuel to feed the flames of pride.
Deal not roughly with him that is
tempted, but give him comfort, as
thou wouldst wish to bo done to thy
self.
A homo without children is a parlor
without furniture, a sleighing party
without belis, a summer without sun
shine.
Self-conceit is like tho measles—
very dangerous if it remains in, but
comparatively harmless if it is en
couraged to como out.—Ram's Horn.
Curiosities ol Words.
Thero aro two words in tho whole
range of tho English lauguage con
taining all tho vowels in their regular
order. They aro abstemious and face
tious. The following words each have
them in irregular order: Authorita
tive, disadvantageous, encouraging,
eflicp.cicus, instantaneous, importu
nate, mendacious, nefarious, precari
ous, pertinacious, sacriligious, simul
taneous, tenacious, unintentional, un
objectionable, unequivocal, undiscov
erablc and vexatious. A search through
tho dictionary might bring several
others to light. It is usually said that
there are but seven nine-lettered
monosyllable words in English, viz :
►Scratched, stretched, * crunched,
Fcrauched, screeched, squelched and
staunched.
Here are some of tho shortest sen
tences into which the alphabet can be
compressed: "J. Gray, pack with my
box fivo dozen quills," thirty-three
letters. "Quack, glad zephyr, waft
my javelin box," thirty-one letters.
"Phiz, styx, wrong, buck flame, quib,"
twenty-two letters. "I, quartz pyz,
who fling muckbeds," twenty-six let
ters. "Fritz 1 Quick! Land! Hew
gypsum box," twenty-six letters.
"Dumpty quiz! Whirl back fogs
next," twenty-seven letters. "Export
my fund. Quiz black whigs," tweuty
six letters. "Get nymph, quiz and
brow, fix luck," twenty-six letters.
11l more sober English the last one
would be, "Marry, bo cheerful, watch
your business." These sentences
would make excellent writing-copies,
for they secure attention to every lot
tor, and profitable exercises for learn
ers of tho typewriters, as they take in
all the keys, and thus familiarize ono
readily with all combinations. By
changing from capitals to lower case,
the value of the exercises is increased,
—London Tit-Bits.
Heredity in Suicide.
"Probably the believers in tho he
reditary transmission of traits from
parents to children will liud cguclu-'
sive argument in their favor in a re-j
cent tragedy in St. Louis," said Ed->
ward Turner of that city ut tho Metro
politan. "Five years ago the city was
shocked by the news that John Jack
sou, one of tho leading citizens and a
man who had stood in tho front of
commercial life for thirty years, had
committed suicide. Ho was found]
dead in the St. Louis Elevator Corns
pany office with a small rope around]
his neok. It was seen that he had tiecT
the rope to tho ceiling and had gotten
on a chair, arranged tho noose aud
stepped oil. His feet had touched tho
lloor, because tho rope was too long,
and he had evidently slid down delib
erately and formed tho noose to choke
him. Last week his son, George
Rowse JaoksoD, a young man just
passed thirty, was found dead with a
half-inch rope around his nock. His
position was exactly that in which liis
father had been found. Ho was stand
ing flat on tho lloor and his body in
clined forward, showing he had
strangled himself to death, like his
father boforo him. The mental and
physical troubles of father and ton
had been tho same for somo tiino pre
ceding t heir respective deeds. "—Wash
ington Star.
A Great Fruit Market.
It is not generally known that Balti
more is one of tho greatest fruit dis
tributing points for domestic fruits iu
this couutry. During tho peach har
vest the daily arrival of 50,000 to GO,-
bushel is not uncommon. Tho ship
ment by rail to northern and eastern
cities of tweutv-livo to thirty carloads
of strawberries is of daily occurrence
during the season. A fruit growers' ex
change has been incorporated with a
capital stock of $50,000 in shares of
twenty-five each. Tho incorporators
aro receivers of fruit and fruit buyers.
Walter Snyder is President, B. Schall,
Secretary and Treasurer, and 0. I.
Hotchkiss auctioneer. The exchango
building is located at tho corner of
South and Wood streets aud Bowly'a
J wharf.—American Agriculturist.