The remainder of the world owes Great Britain over SIO,O0 n ,O 03,000. j Wifcbin a year New Jersey lost four cx-Governors—Bedle, Abbott, Trico and Green. It is stated as an interesting socio logical fact that in London out of 100 widowers who marry again twelve ! marry their housekeepers. The Turks of New York City say that the Sultan is tired of trying to reform his empire, and means to ah- i dicate and give some other fellow a chance. The English Government never of fered a reward for tho discoyery of j perpetual motion, maintains tho New ; York Advertiser. Sir Isaac Newton proved tho utter fallacy of such a sup position. Eleven centuries is pretty old cvon j for a city, admits Farm, Field and I'ireside, but that is tho goodly ago which Kioto, capital city of Japan, ! has attained, and its eleven hundredth birthday is being celebrated. "Joe" Camp, of Scribner, Neb., went iuto the onico of tho Weekly j News with tho avowed purpose of thrashing tho oditor. 110 found no body at homo but tho office boy, who 1 promptly volunteered to take tho odi- \ tor's place for tho occasion, and knocked "Joe" out in one round. The latest explosive tested by tho Government is emmensite, and it blew j the gun to pieces "in a highly satis- : factory manner." If in tho next war j the enemy can bo induced to adopt emmensite, suggests the San Francisco Examiner, the prospect that victory will perch upon our banner without j much effort on our part is most cheer- j 1 Says the Springfield Bepublioan: j Immigration in the South seems to bo ! tailing the form of colonies rather j thnn individual arrivals. This is es- I pecially the ease with immigration from the North and Northwest to Georgia, and one or two other State). One colony from Indiana and nearby localities is said to number about 40,000 individu als of all ages, and to have bought surne two hundred thousand acres of land in the southern part of Georgia. Another Georgia colony is to como from Pennsylvania, and is to locate on tho Ocmulgee liiver, about twenty five miles from Macon. From Hod- j field, South Dakota, another coion.y j it to go to Hempstead County, Ar- j Uansns; there are said to bo 5000 j families in this Dakota colony, who ! nro already the owners of moro than ! 50,000 acres of land. — -rc- Dr. Mary Harris Thompson, who has just died in Chicago at the age of sixty-six, was regarded by mnny ns tho most eminent female surgeon in tho world. She was born on a farm in Washington County, Now York. After attending tho Fort Edward Institntc and the West Poultuey Academy 7 , ! she went to the Now England Female Medical Academy, and nfter- I ward to tho Now York Infirmary j for Women and Children, whero she ! worked and studied under the famons ' Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell. She began ' tho practico of surgery in Chicago in 1 18G3, and ever since sho has stood in i tho front rank of her profession. Sho \ was a prominent member of the ' American Medical Society, and was - once elected to tho chairmanship of ' tho division on tho diseases of chil dren. Sho was ono of tho promoters of tho Women's Medical College and i the founder of tho Chicago Hospital ' for Women and Children. Tho Now York Times observes: Statistics showing the effect of tho uso of diphtheria antitoxino in tho Ger man cities of Hallo and Altona were recently published. Between Novem- j bcr 11, 1894, and January 15 of this year lit cases were subjected to tho ' scrum treatment in Halle, and tho re- [ ports come from thirty physicians. There were only nine deaths, or a mortality of less than eight per cent. Of eighty-nine cases treated in privato houses, six had n fatal termination, and there were three deaths out of tho remaining twenty-fivo cases, which were treated in hospitals. In a hos- 1 pital at Altona antitoxino was used iu sixty-three COSCH between September I, 1894, and March 1, 1895. Eight of the putients died, so that tho mortality was 12.09 percent. In thirty-one of tho sixty-three cases tracheotomy was required, but only three of these pa tients, or less thau ten per cent., suc cumbed to tho disease. This is re- I garded as a remarkable record for a series of cases of this kind. Tho an nual mortality from diphthuriaiu this hospital during the preceding seven years had ranged from 29.23 to 37.27 per cent. THE WJULD'o NEED. Go many gods, so many creeds— So many paths that wind and wind, While just tho art of being kind Is all tho sad world needs. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in tho Century. MOBNINU IN"~TIIE PARK, I I' WILLIAM M'KENDHIC BANGS. .1 ENTRATj PA UK ; was ds beet, but 1 >sj| j it was evident y 'l' enough that Doug* } f \j kvs Gray, as he cu l' fva * ere( l tho park at V s * ower prin- I I ; w ' ,/fi\ \ v"1 nothing of what \<ft \ \ jT \ ever thero was of r<l I \ Stei" beauty in the scene f '*L-r Jl about him. Ap fj parently ho was not happy. lie walked along slowly, with his eyes upon tho path immedi ately before htm, and with his hands clasped together behind his back. There were but few people in the paths, and tho drives were almost empty, so that his attention tohis own thoughts was not diverted by any oc casion to observe others, or by any need to preservo himself from harm. Ho walked ou thus, almost without lilting his eyes, past tho sorry collec tion of caged animals which were to bo looked at later in the day by so many curious visitors; past tho pntieut donkeys, waiting tho coming of the nurse-girls with their charges; on through tho tree-lined mall and past the terrace, and HO came to a bridge crossing a narrow part of the lake, where ho paused for a few minutes and noticed, wondonngly, how clearly the trees and tho bluo sky, with the passing clouds, wero reflected in tho dull and almost muddy water. The fresh air and tho surroundings had soothed and rested him, and, though not conscious of tho reason, ho felt less weighted with sorrow, or stronger and better able to bear his burdens, whatever they might bo. Ho walked on more briskly now, and skirting the ramble, with its curiously successful imitation of nature's wildnoss, ho presently came to a secluded bench, and thero ho seated himself and, familiar though ho was with all tho park, looked about him as though the view was strange and now to him. In deed, the circumstances were novel and his mood ouo unusual to him. Almost at his'feet, or separated from him only by the width of tho foot walk, ran the bridle-path, and beyond was tho wide, smooth drive. He looked indifferently upon the few drive.*s with their equipages, and with little interest upou'the equestrians who passed before him. But within a few minutes there came along tho bridle-path, turning sharply a corner just below where he sat, a young woman ou horseback. As she eamo abreast of him and saw who it was silting there alone she checked her horse so suddenly that ho was thrown well back, to his manifest dis pleasure, while she herself was almost unseated. To avoid her and her horse the groom wlio followed close behind was forced to make a quick, sharp turn, but he did so adroitly, and then, stopping, ho waited as patiently as he could at a discreet and proper distance. And Douglas Gray, when the young lady stopped before him in so unwise a manner, he rose in aluriu unit hur ried toward her. "You should not have dono that," ho said in reproof. "Oh, good morning, Mr. Gray!" she responded, with an inflection which, to Gray's ears, perhaps then a little more sensitive and quick to hear offense than usual, had a sound of sarcasm. "Good morning, Miss Leith," he returned, though simply, and then repeated, "You should not have done that. It was not safe, lieally, Ethel, you are too reckless." "Thank you. You ore very kind," she answered, and then, with a quick change of manner, she added, impa tiently, "It was cruel in you to follow mo here." "Cruel?" ho relocated in astonish ment. "Yes, cruel. I did not think you would. I thought—" "But to follow?" he said, interrupt ing her. You are hardly fair. You arc on horseback ;I on foot. Ami I was hero first, you know. Surely I did not follow." Miss Leith looked at him quietly for u few minutes, making 110 response in words, a smile just showing upon her lips as though she was amused but did not wish to show it, hut the smile grew and then sho laughed un restrainedly, and so musically that the singing birds might have been silenced in listening envy. "Well?" Gray said, inquiringly. Ho was puzzled and a littlo hurt, too, but had ho been more acute ho would have perceived that her laughter was not in derison of him, and that it was not altogether joyous. The humor of tho situation she felt; but the situa- j tion itself hurt, too. "Well?" he repeated. "It is so absurd," sho answered, as she regained her self-control. "Indeed, Miss Leith," ho returned, with a great assertion of diguity in his manner, "Y'ou will pardon me if I say that I caunot see what can be so absurd." "Well?" ho said again, as she paused. "I hope you will explain." "I have been so unhappy so long— ever since last night because—be cause—l so feared you might have been hurt—because I did not know what might have been tho effect upon you of my—my—" "Itefusal of me," Gray said, as she hesitated. "It was a refusal, you know —a very decided refusal; and I do not seo why —" "But you ought to see why," she interrupted. "I was about to say, only, that I did not see why you should bo afraid of tho word." "Oh!" "A refusal it was," ho repeated, and as to your reasons, of courso I would not ask. Who would, and for that matter, why should I euro to know?" he asked, bitterly. "Why, indeed?" she returned as bitterly, and then continued abrupt ly: "I am not heartless. I want you to know—l really do—all tho night long I worried and worried because I feared you had beeu so woundod. I was very unhappy, and yot—and yet," —she laughed agaiu beforo sho went on—"here you aro enjoying all this as if nothing had happened. It was absurd of me, was it not?" "Would it have gratified you had I —had I killed myself, say?" "Don't!" sho said earnestly. "Men have been known to do that, you know," he pursued ; "and for less cause than I have, too." "Oh, please do not speak so," she returned. "Promiso me—l know you will not —will not do that; but prom ise mo you will not do anything you should not." "I will do tho best I can," he re plied, seriously enough. "You are laughing at mo," sho re sponded, passionately. "You made me think you loved me, too." "I am very glad I did make you think you; hut it should not have been hard—l had only tho truth to tell." "And yot you are here?" "l'es, I am here, as you see." "And you don't mind at all?" sho said, petulantly. "Ah, yes, Ethel, but I do mind," he returned, gently. "Perhaps if I did not mind so much I would not be hero. I loved you, and—hut—" he said, interrupting himself, and then he continued with a sadness which sho, being busy with her horse, which had become restive, did not notice, al though she heard his words—"but I daro sav you do not wish I should sgo into all that again, do you?" "No," she answered, curtly, an noyed that ho should so ask her if he should speak of his love; and then, in her annoyance—an annoyance ho was conscious of, although ho could not understand it—sho struck her horse and urged him forward so that he be gan at once a hard run, which carried him and his rider quickly out of sight before she could check and turn him, as sho triod almost at once to do. When at last she succoodcd, and came back to where Gray had stood, ho had turned and was walking away, striking at tho plants along tho path with his cane, angry and hurt that his wound should have been so ruthlessly and so needlessly opened. But, in truth, it had not gone far, if at all, toward healing. "Mr. Gray!" Ethel called, for he was not yet out of lioaring. "Mr. Gray, you had not finished," she went on as he joined her. "Fiuished?" ho repeated. "I don't know. But lam sorry to have driven you away by speakiag of my lovo. I shall not so offend again." "Oh," she rospondod, demurely. "Besides." ho coutiuuod, at ouco breaking his promise, "you have told mo that I was able to make you be lievo that I loved you. Why should I speak of it again?" "I don't know, I am sure," was all she could find to say. "Of course it is all over now. I would like to assure you, though. You were good enough, you know," he explained, "to say that you had been worried. I can only thank you for your kindness and interest, and say,as I said before, that I moan to do tho best I can. I will not bo overcome," he added with determination, "or let my life be ruined." "It will all ho easy enough, I fancy," she returned. "Don't," ho pleaded. "Don't say anything so untruo. It will no be easy." "But you left mo so suddenly last night, and—and—" sho went on with hesitation and evident embarrassment, "and you began 60 soon to forget— and to bo here and interested in other things." "Oh, yes," ho assented as she paubed, "but, at all events, I did not begin to try to forget until you forced mo to. And," he continued, grimly, "I have not succeeded very well, either. But I will." "Ob, certaiuly you will. There is no doubt of that. There ore so many things a man can bo interested in." "Eortuuatoly,a man is compelled to bo—at least, I think fortunately. Ho has bi3 nlTairs." "That is just it!" sho interrupted, petulantly. "His aifairs, indeed 1" "Yes," Gray wont on, not heeding, apparently, tho interruption. "And it is fortunato for me that I am com pelled to bo interested in my affairs, is it not? If my way had all been inado fcr mo I could afford to nurse my grief and to make much of it, and I daro say I would. And that would not be good to do, surely." "No, I fancy not," she answered, doubtfully, and then with a quick chango of manner sho asked him: "But why did you leave mo so sud denly last night?" "There are times when a man can not retreat too quickly," ho returned, quietly, "and it seemed to mo that I had conio to one of them. It was all or nothing with me. I had been lover HO long—l was your lover, you know. Even though you did not know it, and whether you wanted me to bo or not, I was ; and you do know it now. When I could not bo that I could not bo anything. I have loved you—how can one tell? When did I first meet you? Ever since then I think I must have loved you, and looked forward, and hoped to win your love and you. 1 was blind, perhaps, and deluded, but my hope was very real to me. When that was killed, or gone, thero was nothing left for mo to do or say to you. And I would not urge you; I would not plead for your love; I i would not tell you that with it to help and encourago mo I might win | tho world. Pshaw ! Although I did I think it tho ono good thing which could come to mo in life, I still did not want you to give it to mo in pity, ( or because I wanted it and begged for it. No; I wanted it only if you could give it to me freely, and as a right. That is all." "Oh, that is—" "Except," ho interrupted, "I want you to know that bocauso you find me, as you said, trying to bo interested iu all this"—and with a comprehensive gesture ho indicatod all tho fair view beforo them—"that I love you any less or think your love any less good to have and to keep. But," he went on, grimly, "we know- I can remem ber how cruelly a child suffers wheu ho finds ho cannot havo tho moon. But ho lives through it. Ho has to, alas!" "Ob, I havo no pationcc," she be gan ; but interrupting herself, went on, abruptly: "If only you had been willing to trust me !" "Trust you!" he ropcated, is aston ishment. "I asked you to sharo all my hopes. Why, I asked you to bo my wife! What stronger evidenco of trust can a man give than that?" "Oh, that 1" siio said, contemptu ously. "Well, that is of some consequence, though you speak as if it was of none at all." "A man might ask a woman that because ho wanted a wife." "Yes, ho might." "Or because ho though he owed so much to her." "Yes, I suppose so; bub you know why I asked you," he returned, look ing at her curiously. "I know now—yes," she answered. "But you know," sho went on, im petuously, "you have spoken so ofton and so bitterly of woinon who—who hinder their husbands and aro drags upon them—of women who do not help their husbands. As if a woman's solo mission and solo aim should bo to help some mau!" sha added, contempt uously. "Wlmt—" ho began, but again sho interrupted him. "And I don't see why a man—men nro so strong I —l don't see why a man should need a woman's help. And yon havo told mo so many stories of men whoso lives have beeu ruined by bad or unwise marriagQ3. Oh, I re member everything you havo said everything." "But what has this—" "And you know you havo thought me frivolous," sho continued. "Surely—" "Oh, you have not rebuked mo in words, I kuow," sho wont on, inter rupting him again, relentlessly, "but your manner. As if a girl ought not to bo happy aud careless and free as long as sho can be. Troubles and cares come soon enough !" "Ethel, for heaven's sake do let mo speak! lam trying to understand." "Well?" "Do you mean to say that that ii why you declined? That you refused mo becauso you thought it would be better for me?" "Well—oh, don't! l r ou will frighten my horse." "Ob, bother your horse!" Gray said, warmly. "There is only ouo thing I ought to do and want to do." "Aud that?" Miss Leigh asked, as sho tried to sootho her horse, which had started aud become restless as 1 Gray had come closer to them. "Simply tako you, and keep you." "How that would look," sho re sponded, and contiuued : "It is very fortunate that I am up hero aud out of your reach—now." Then she gave her horse his head and, urging him forward, began again her long-interrupted ride; but beloro she camo even to whero her groom was waiting sho changed her intention and turned toward the city. As sho passed Gray, who still stood whero she had left him, sho called to him : "It is so late I should go home—and I am going." Aud with a long, easy strido her horse soon carried her out of Gray's sight. As the sun had risen higher a haze had come, softening tho outlines of tho distant trees, and giving promise that tho clay was to bo a warm one. It was indeod already much warmer, but, nevertheless, as Gray retracod his steps toward tho entrance ho walked rapidly and far moro vigorously than ho had in tho invigorating air of the earlier morning.—Leslie's Weekly. An American Flag Over Lalayctlc. "Whilo in Paris a short time ago," said a traveler recently, "it occurred to mo that it was a fitting act to make a pilgrimage to the tomb of that illus trious Frenchman, clear to tho hearts of American patriots. Marquis do La fayette. J asked a number of people beforo I could lin I anyono to en lighten met as to tho spot, but after repeated inquiry ascertained tho loca tion. Tho grave is situated in old Paris, within the grounds of a convent that tho ancestors of Lafayette found ed, and where repose tho remains of many of the French nobility. Tho first thing that attracted my atten tion with tho hero's tomb was that above it was lloatod a silken flag bear ing the stars and stripes. "It seems that a good many years ago an American gentlf?rnan left iu his will a sum of money to bo used for the special purpose of keeping an Ameri can flag forever flying over tho grave of Lafayette. It has clone so without intermissiou from tho day tho will went into effect, and whenever, through tho wear of the elements, one flag becomts unserviceable, a new one straightway takes its place. Through untold ceuturies tho em blem of the country which in its early struggles for liberty had his beu eficentaid, will wave above his ashes." —WaebiDgton Post. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. I RULES FOR SERVING VEGETABLES. I The usual rule for serving vegeta- ( hies is one green vegetable anil one starchy vegetable. It a green salad is | | used this olten takes the place of the green vegetable, and at certain seasons of the year it is difficult in rnauy places | ■to get more than one. An excess ol starchy vegetables should be avoided, ! as one also has starch in tho form ot bread and in potatoes. With fish vegetables of delicate flavor should be 1 used, either potatoes, tomatoes cooked , in many ways, cucumbers or green peas. With roast beef one may serve , sweet or white potatoes, or in theii ! place boiled rico or hominy, canli- | flower, Brussels sprouts, tomatoes, onions, okia, youug beets, beet greens, green pens and Lima beans. The same vegetables may be served with beefsteak as weli as salsify, asparagus or mushrooms. With boiled muttoc serve potatoes, cauliflower, young car rots, salsify, onions, spinach or any kind of beans that are green. With boiled mutton serve caper sauce, cur rant jelly or horseradish. With veal servo carrots, white tur nips, or spinach, lettuce, creamed cab bage, young beets or beet greens. With game servo a sauce and a salad Stewed celery with a white sauce. With goose when roasted serve apple sauce, onions and squash. When po tatoes are served as a vegetablo with meat, and only one vegetablo can bt afforded in addition, it is more appe tizing usually to have that one a greet vegetable. It is also more healthful as the potatoes furnish the starcl mcoded for tho diet. New York Post. now TO TELL GOOD BEEF. The best beef comes from a heifer 01 young steer anywhere from three tc seven or eight years of age. Aftei this ago tho animal is known as a com or an ox, and if it has been well careo for and is well fed it may for two 01 three years yet furnish fairly gooe meat, but not the best. According tc age tho meat becomes coarser, toughei and darker, until it is linally unfit foi use on a refined table. Good beef should be smooth grained, elastic and juicy, but nevei iVet. To tell whether it is fresh 01 not, press against it with the finger, aud if it is elastic and resumes iti place quickly it is frosh; if the denl made by tho finger remains, or if it U slippery or wet, avoid it, for it ii already in tho first stages of decay and is unwholesome. The mistake of get ting meat that is too old is often made by those who like what wo call a liigt flavor. As a matter of fact, beef thai j has a very high flavor has begun tc decay, anil is not only poisonous anc unfit to eat, but the idea of it is dis agreeable to people of fastidious tastes, 01 would bo if it were called by its right name. Tho color as well as tho texture o) beef varies with age. A good young beef should have tho lean a dark aud rather dingy red when lirst cut, changing in u few minutes to a bright, clear red, as red as a cherry. The older the animal was when killed the darker and less clear the lean meal will bo. When it is pale and pinkish it is immature. The fat should bo u light straw-color, tho suet or kiduey fat being somewhat brighter thau tho fat of tho muscles. Tho texture of good beef is smooth and close-grained, and when cold should appear marbled with fat. When it is very Jean-looking, or stringy, 01 rough, it is too old. The fat should not be solid and hard like that ol mutton, but should bo flaky, and the suet fat should bo so dry that it will crumble. When the fat is oily or dull in color, tho beef is sure to bo of bad quality. —Demorest's Magazine. RECIPES. French Mustard—Slico an onion aud cover with vinegar and let staud two or three days; pour off the vino gar and add ono tcaspoouful of pop per, one tablespoon of salt, ono ol brown sugar and mustard to thicken, let come to a boil aud bottle. Ginger Nuts—One pound sugar, ont and a quarter pouuds of butter, ont pint of molasses, two and a half poundi of flour, one teacupful of strong ginger, ono nutmeg, a few cloves, a little cinnamon, four eggs, leaving i out ono white, ono teaqoouful ol pearlask. i Egg Sauce—Make a white s-vuoo with one-half pint of milk, a lump ol butter, salt, and flour to thicken. Take three hard boiled eggs, remove tho shells aud cut them up when the sauco is cooked. Stir in the eggs and 1 serve. This sauce is delicious with boiled fish. 1 Popovers—Make of equal propor tions, say two cups of milk and flour, two eggs, a little salt and butter tho size of an egg. Mix the salt into the 1 flour, add the eggs, mix well, melt the butter and add to tho other ingredi ents. Grease and half lill tho tins. ' Bake quickly. Pudding Pulls—Nine tablespoonfuh of flour; pour into that a pint and a half of milk, a little salt, nine eggs well beaten; then butter nine large teacups, lill them half full aud bake iifteou minutes. Serve with a sauct of butter and sugar beaten together with cinnamon, i French Honey—Ono pound of sugar, , put into a pan tho yolks of six eggs , and tho beaten whites and add the juice of four lemons; grate the rind* , of two add one-quarter poun 1 butter, j Stir all together over tho lire until as 1 thick as honey. Seal it up and yon can keep it as long as six months. Value ot a (lira He's Hi U\ For tho hide of a full-grown giraffe, greatly sought after in Afriet for whip and sandal making, the native huntei's get from. sls tos2s. —Chicago Times-Herald SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL. Tosla, tho electrician, is reported to have made a discovery which will rev olutionize electrical traction. The only dyes impervious to the bleaching power of the sun's rays are Prussian blue and chromo ycllcw. Electric foot warmers for railway travel havo been invented iu England. They are made of three layers of as bestos cloth. An authority on microscopy states that the hair of a woman can bo dis tinguished, by its constitution, from that of a man. Doctor Laine says that rocking chair exercise is good for dyspeptics, as tho "oscillations stimulato gastro intestinal peristilism." The manufacture of razors by ma chinery has now become a fixed fact in Germauy, and the quality of the article is said to comparo favorably with tho best SholHeld product, tho process being also upplicablo to scis sors making. An electric dovico has just been in vented by which steam whistles are to be blown by electricity, tho current passing through tho electric clock. By this device every factory whistle iu tho city or throughout tho land can bo sounded simultaneously. The whistle may be sot to blow at any hour desired. It is reported that experiments are being raado in London with water pipes made of paper pulp, tho object being to provide a pipe which will be unaffected by electrolysis from elec tric railway return currents. There is said to be some promise of success, but all the requirements havo not yet been met. A vitrified material, to which the name "opaline laminee" has been given, is made from silica fifty-four per cent., baryta thirty-nine per cent, and soda seveu per cent. It is stated that tbo material can be made into plates of any required dimensions, and pan bo' used for all purposes to which glazed tiles are commonly ap plied. A new plant for treating diamond blue ground has been invented and is now in process of construction in Eugland. Tho principal value of tho new process consists in the reduction of the cost of production, which is calculated at less than one-half. An other important point is that it will euablo tho mi no mauager to test daily tho diamondiferous quality of the ground he is working. One of the latest theories—which is said to bo receiving general accept tance—concerning tho moon's face, assumes that tho material constituting that luminary once surrounded tho earth in tho form of a Saturuian ring, and that the small bodies of this ring coalesced, first gathering around a largo number of nuclei and finally all uniting in a singlo sphere, tho moon, tho lunar craters being the scars re sulting from tho collision of the "moonlets." S.iw It in aTletiiiw Mrs. Vonderkar, of 180 Dearborn avenue, has been showing tho local po lico the proper method of doiug de tective work aud of recovering stolen property in a neat and expeditious manner. September 20, 1894, Mrs. Vonder kar was robbed of S2OO worth of jew elry, consisting of a gold watch aud a number of gold chains and lockets. The loss was reported to tho police, who did nothing more than to look mysterious whenever she mentioned the subject. The sleuths finally gavo up tho mystery as unsolvable. But not so Mrs. Vonderkar. She kept her loss constantly in mind, and one day a photograph that stood on tier cook's dresser caught her eye. She examined it closely and decided that the subject of tho picture was wearing ono of her missing lockets. When asked about tho picture tho cook said it was that of a man named Peter de Hose, an actor at a museum. Mrs. Vonderkar went at onco to see the man, and secured a seat iu tho front row, where she easily satisfied herself that it washer jewelry that was impressing tho patrons of tho place. De Hose was placed under arrest and said lio had obtained tho triuklets from Frank ltice, who was formerly a waiter in Mrs. Voiulerkar's boarding-house. Iu Justice Kersten's court Itico con fessed that ho had stolen tho jewelry, and endeavored also to implicate Do Rose. Tho latter was discharged and Bice was held to tho Criminal Court in bonds of SGOO. AU the property has not as yet been recovered, but a search is boing made for it.—Chicago News. An Aztec Human Sacrifice. Nothing could bo more dreadful than tho extent to which human sacri fice entered into tho religious observ ance of the Aztecs before their con quest by the Spanish pioneers. The chronicles of tho Conquistadores abound in ghastly descriptions of the huge teocallis or sacrificial pyramids on which human lives were offered up by thousands to appease the cruel gods—ferocious looking idols invent ed by the crafty priest. Iu some of them they found vast piles of skulls and bones, mute evidence of tho bloody tragedies which had been en acted no ono knows how mauy desolato centuries beforo the light of civiliza tion dawned. In the narrative of Bernai Diaz del Castillo, one of Cortez's soldiers, he speaks of seeing such things in the teocallis in tho City of Mexico as were simply appalling. On the sacrificial stones he saw human hearts and piles of bones, and clotted blood was every where. As many as 500 victims iu a day aro said to have fallen beneath the knives of the priests with indescriba ble atrocities of mutilation.—Phila delphia Press, rgWlßli The Paris Figaro calls Mrs. Potter Palmer the "Queen of Chicago." There is only one sadden death among women to eight among men. Bloomers have becomo so numerous in the cities that they no longer pro voke comment. In the town of Howard, Kan., is a girl only eleven years old, who is a successful teacher of music. Some young woman are wearing their watches set like a large button on tbo lapel of their jackets. Miss Lizzie Buckwalter, of West Lebanon, Ohio, is defendant in slan der suits aggregating $114,000. Queen Victoria has signed the bill making full woman suffrage in South Australia an accomplished fact. Among the inventors of trolley fenders iH a Brooklyn young woman named Miss Marguerita Maidhof. Queen Victoria onco said of the women of Ireland that every third Irish woman she saw was beautiful. The Gospel, according to the new woman, seems likoly to be one of the latest products of the nineteenth cen tury. A magenta silk has the flaring skirt adorned with bauds of lace in sertion, edged with ruffles of narrow black lace. A certain Peruvian heiress once paid the lato M. Worth $24,000 for a costume, which contained nearly $23,- 000 worth of lace. The Princess of Bulgaria goes to market afoot at Sofia, walking about from stall to stall unattended and lay ing in her family supplies. Two illustrious English women who celebrate this year the seventy-fifth anniversary of their birth are Flor ence Nightingale and Jean Ingelow. Twenty bicycle girls, attired .in bloomers, turned out the other day with picks and shovels at East Lynn, Conn., and mended the worst placos in the roads. The old Ameer of Afghanistan has been pulled through a serious illness by tho medical aid of Miss L. Hamil ton, a young woman doctor, from Ayer, Scotland. Tho first woman to bo graduated from St. Andrew's University, Scot land, is said to be Miss Blackadder, the daughter of a Dundee architcot. She is nineteen years old. Tho wifo of Ho Yen Suing, the Chi nese Cousul-General to Washington, is a attractive little woman, who, with her maid, attracts great attention when she appears in public. Euglish women are showing an in clination to bedeck themselves with jewels iu daytime, which they admit is bad taste, and to which little failing they have long accused Americans of giving way. Mary Moore Davis, who became well known in tho litorary world through her charming story, "Under the Man Fig," is the wife of Major Davis, political editor of tho New Or leans Picayune. Mrs. Frederic T. Greenhalge, the wife of tho Massachusetts Governor, is at tho head of a committeo which is busy getting together au exhibit of historical portraits and relics to send to the Atlanta Exposition, The "now woman's" bounet is "a trifle light as air." It is a crownloss, stringless, brimless bit of French nothingness and lace, and yet it is gloried in, raved over, paraded, en vied, and sells at auywhero from $7 to $25. In Holland tho peasant girls who are swainless at fair time hire young men for tho occasion. A handsome man, who is a good dancer, has a high value, so much eo that sometimes three girls have to club together to hire cno young man. Though tho Empress of Austria can procure anything edible that a most fastidious palate can desiro she relies mainly for sustenance on milk. Her taste for that seems exacting enough, for she will not take auy kind but that furnished by a cow from Corfu. Tho extent to which women carry dress-suit casos nowadays was illus trated tho other day by a group of three young women who stood at tho curbstone in Broadway, New York City, waiting for an opportunity to cross. Each carried a dress-suit case. Small checked taffeta, plain or with changeable grouuds, are being made up iuto pretty summer gowns. Tho checks are never over half an inch in size, and usually much smallor, though somewhat larger than tho fa miliar piuhead patterns of other sea sons. Hosiery is . changing in fashion. While black remains the standard, there is a decided call for fancy styles of all sorts. Some extremely hand some samples in fancies are shown, and the indications are that costumes will bo matched in all shades from black to white. Miss Philbrook, of Jersey City, N. J., will probably bo tho first woman in New Jersey to enjoy the privileges of the recent act of Governor Werts, by which women are made eligible for admission to the bar of tho State. Miss Philbrook has made a plucky fight for her rights. One has to guar l against the ten dency to overtrim which is so very manifest just now. The fashion is iep rehensible on the score of extrava gance, and is likewise objectionable as tending to vulgar ostentation, with out tho compensating Advantage of improving tho appearance of those who wear garments aud millinery that are excessively decorated.
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