There are indications that the American woman is gradually growing taller and larger. Is suicide hereditary? The futher and grandfather of a recent suicide in Marceline, JIo., died in the same man ner before her. Had Shakespeare been more modern ho might not havo written of the ridiculous excess of ousting a perfume on tho violet, for n French paper prints a picture and description of elaborate apparatus used in artificially perfuming flowers for tho French market. A ten-foot "wind-wheel" in Ne braska raises a thousaud gallons of water daily to a height of seventy feet. These wind-wheels are coming more and more into use in the West, and it is thought that they will havo n very important bearing on the indus tries of the future. Mr. 11. Benjafleid, of Tasmania, in a recent address to the fruit-growers of that country, asserts that much of the illness in tho world is duo to a lack of fruit in the diet. Tho highest authorities on gout and rheumatism think that fruit helps to correct the tendency of these troublos. The cooler regions of tho globe are becoming depopulated, and every where, Dr. D. G. Briuton nssnres us, the arctic and sub aretio zones have fewer inhabitants than a half century ago. One cause is the destruction of native tribes by tho introduction of new modes of life, now diseases, alco hoi and idleness. Another influence is the fact that the arctic regions, like the mountains, were originally chosen as homes only by refugees of eon qucrod and dispersal bands, and all who can return to less severe climates are now doing so. The centre ol population tends more aud more to fix itself between forty-live and fifty-five degrees of latitude. A citizen of the United States whe haß recently been abroad says: "Im agine a city in which every street it well paved and every pavement kepi in perfect repair; every street and alley in the city sprinkled and swept every day ; nil ashes aud garbage re moved every day; street railroads carrying passengers for two cents,and and one line as low as one cent, and yet paying royalties to tho city suffi cient to maintain the pavements; gas furnished at snob lotv rates that the poorest tenements aro well lighted and many even heated with it, These things are so surprising that most the people will think that they can only be had in the end of tho next century, when tho world has grown much wiser and new inventions havo made all work easier and cheaper. Yet tho city of Glasgow has them all now. The explanation is that the city has 'a good and progressive government,' that the best men accept and hold of fice, and that tho affairs of the city are administered for the public good and not for private gain, or for the promotion of political ends." "Nothing can be more pernicious or corrupting," says the Chicago Times- Herald, "than tho confinement of youthful offenders in tho same prison with hardened criminals, where social intercourse cannot bo prevonted. From that moment nine out of ten boys are lost. Fascinated by tales of adventurous crime, ani with little if any moral sense, their dream thence forth is to emulate the career of the criminal heroes whose stories they havo heard. As for young girls, to send thom to tho house of correction or to the jail, even for an hour, is to ruin them forever. There might be hope for a boy, were it not for tho contamination received from men, but for girls thero is none." And yet here in New York, adds Homo aud Coun try, some of our now eity magistrates do not hesitate to send young persons of both sexes to prison on charges of but little consequence. A youu" wo man of respectable connections took probably by accident an overdose of some deadly drug. Sho was removed to hospital, and afterwards arraigned before a magistrate on a charge ot' at tempting suicide. She protested in nocence, and even offered to deposit 11 largo sum of money as bail, but was committed to jail in default of an amount that might justly havo been exacted in a case of burglary or high way robbery. Jail may have meant ruin for this young woman, as it un doubtedly does for thousands of others, either innocent or guilty of minor offences, who are railroaded to prison every year in the city of New York. First offenders should be leni ently treated, especially when they are young. The courts should be so conducted ns to reform anl not to manufacture orimiunls. SYMPATHY. I A falling of ilow iu tho night. Which nature can never one© miss; And a flower that's yielding to blight Oloweth brighter because of its kiss. i. ear shed for some breast in pain, Which cannot impoverish one; A d a heart may take courage again, Aud hope on till victory's won. - Will T. Hale, MUX'S FORTUNE, fjjgvSSJ WO men were sit [J W ting iu tho smok- |jj iug-room ofLanes hold, tlio seat—as Mb, 4lio 8W books gCS/f7/ tell us—of Daniel #// Esq., whose F - ] ancestors owned VI-T'be island of Soar tha long before the English took over the Orkneys. The house is an old, weather-worn, stone building that stands under the hill at tho head of a little bay, and from tho smoking-room window one looks across n well-kept though storm driven garden to the blue sea, and then to a cluster ot distant islands. Tho room was furnished as a smok ing-room, yet there were signs of a woman's use, as there was a piano with a litter of music on it and a work-basket. Tho room, as well it might be, from tho charm of its look out, seemed to be tho most lived in in the house. "Yon need not tell mo her story, Uncle Dan," said the younger of the two men, Georgo Lane, a lieutenant in the navy and just the rnuu one likes to think is typical of the service. "I know enough when 1 know that Nelly has promised to bo my wife, and that I am tho luckiest man on earth." "That is truo enough, young one," said tho other, a gray-bearded man of about sixty. "Still, you must bear her story. I wish I had told it to you before. But it is an ugly story to tell, though her life has been happy enough. You know tliat she is my adopted daughter, aud that I brought her from Africa. You know that was her mother." He pointed to a picture on tho wall, an enlarged photograph crudely col ored and inartistic, and yet evidently of a sweetly beautiful young woman. "When I know her first she was liv ing with kor father, an Irish Austral ian digger, Tom O'Brien, 0110 of a family of brothers who, from the ear liest days of tho diamond liclds, were largo claiuaholdcrs in tho Kimburly mine. It was a bad day for her when sho fell iu love with Dick Johnson, a young fellow who, like most of us, had come out to the diamond fields to seek his fortune, but he never did much to iind it until he married Tom O'Brien's daughter. "He managed to get over O'Brien, and got sorno claims iu one of the mines for him. But that was no good. In a few years ho was sol I up. Then he persuaded his father-in-law to give him a billot under O'Brien Brothers. He was made secretary, and for some time was supposed to have turned over a now leaf; but ho was always a bad lot, aud in a year or two ho and the floor manager of tho company were caught stealing a big diamond, | and they were bothsontencod to seven years. Nelly knows nothing about this. Sho was a child at the time." "Why should she over know it? It will only pain her," answered George. "But, of course, it makes no differ ence to me. I would consider myself tho luckiest man on earth toj have gained her love, even if she had fifty convict fathers. By the bye, what happened to him? Will ho give any more trouble?" "Ho never will, but his story may. Two years after his sentence, there was a rising among tho eonviets on tho breakwater at Cape Town, where he was sent. He was in it; in fact, he was the ringleader. It was an at tempt to escape, and in the light he killed a warder, and for this he was tried, sentenced and hung." Line looker curiously into his nephew's fnco ns said Ibis, but if he were afraid that what he had told would make the other unwilling to marry tho daughter of n man with such a history, he was at once reas sured. "Nelly knows nothing about this, I suppose. Well, she never need. Not that I think so much of it. How ever just a man's punishment is, ono can understand his fighting for his liberty," he said. "Well, that is tho story," continued Lane. "The year that Johnson was hung his wife died. That year was tho beginning of the depression on tho diamond fields, which lasted for some time and ruined a great many men. The firm of O'Brien Bros, came to an end, the bank taking over their claims for money advanced on tliern. "Tom O'Brien died, 111010 of {the bad times than anything else. The othir brothers sailed for Australia, and tho ship they were iu went down. Nelly, who had been boru the grand daughter of tho riehtjs-t digger 011 the fields, was left an orphan, with no means aud without ft relation in the world that anyone knew of. Now, I had .been a boarder at the Johnson's, going there when they were hard up. 1 1 had taken n spell at the civil service about that time, but wbcu my office was abolished, had gone down the river, putting the money tho Government [gave me into n digging spec. It camo off pretty well. I don't suppose nuyouo ever found better in tho bed of the river than I did. I worked a patch of ground right out, and by the time the river came down again, as it does iu the summer, I had made some £15,000 and everyone was I silking about my good lucit. I determined to go home, and as thero seemed to by no one in the world to look after little Nelly, I took her with me, aud you know the rest." "Yes; how she grew up the sweet est girl who ever lived, and how she has promised a fellow who is not half good enough for her, but who would give his life to make her happy, to bo his wife," answered George Lane. "Yes, I suppose you were right to keep the story from her, and yet I hate a secret; thero is always tho chance that, like an old spent she!; it may explode." "You are right," said Lane, "and the mischief of it is that I think the secret may come out soon. When I was dowQ at tho landing waiting for you this morning, I saw a stranger, who had come by the steamer yester day, hanging about by the iun. They told me ho said ho was from the dia mond fields, and he had been asking all about me. I had thought that I remembered his face, and when I heard that, it came across mo that he was Sam Dredge, the floor manager of O'Brien Brothers, who was run in with Nellie's father. If ho knew who Nolly was he might try and trade 011 his seerot." "Ho would be an infernal villian, and he would find tho island of Scar tli.a rather close quarters if ho tried on that game." "Well, seeing him has made mo feel uneasy, but let's forget him. Thero is ono thing, in marrying Nellie yon are taking a penniless bride. I havo spent all I got out of tho Vaal Paver in restoring the house, and in doing a bit of improvement about the place, building aseawall here and putting up some decent houses for tile crofters there. The place comes to you, ns it must; all my money has gone into it, but thero is still 11 drain of debt and charges on it. You had better have married an heiress." "I love the old place where our peo ple havo lived so long,but I love Nellie a thousand times more," replied George. "I don't blame yon, though I would like to havo thought that there was a little money to go on the prop erty," said Daniel. Just then tho door was opened, and a girl of about twenty came in, whose bluo eyes and dark eyebrows bore wit ness to tho strain of irish'.blood in her vein?, while her bright radiant beauty was out of keeping with the story that had just been told. "What a lot of business you must have talked over," sho said, with a blush, as sho remembered what the business would bo. "Tea is ready, and, dear, there is a man waiting at tho gale who wants to seo yon." "What is he like?" asked Lane. "I havo never Been him before on this island. Ho is a tallisli man, with a red hpard." "He is tho man I talked to you about," Lane said to his nephew. "I will seo him here. I would liko you to bo present. Don't wait tea for us, Nelly, but go and h-avo yours." Walking to the window, which opened to the ground, he went out, and soon came back followed by a tall man whose shaved face was set off ;by a red chin board. Ho had rather a colored nose, and a pair of little eyes that wandered restlessly nbout the room, though after some time they fixed 'themselves on tho picture of Nolly's mother. "Well, what do you want?" said Daniel Lane. "I suppose you have come to see about something." "Yer right, but I think it would be best lor me to say what I've got to say alone—meaning no offense to this young gentleman, only wo knew each other out yonder whero they find diamonds." "I have no secrets from this gentlo man. If you have anything to say, you cau say it before him. Who are you and what do you want?" "You know who I am, mister—Sam Dredge, who was run in along with Dick Johnson, and who has done his seven years, and ain't ashamed to talk of it. Now, I say, hadn't you better listen to what I have to say without any gont being present?" "You can talk before this gentle man, or you can hold your tongue," answered Lane. "What havo you come about?" 'I. have come to havo a little talk, about my mate, poor Dick Johnson, which ain't a very pleasant subject, and what I have to say relates to that." And ho pointed with his thumb at tho picture on tho wall. "Say what you havo to say, or clear out without saying it," said Daniel Lane, as he faced round at tho other, looking—for ail his sixty years—very big and powerful. "You're going to carry it oft'with a bounce, but I say now it's 'ard. I comes out of doiug my seven year, and what do I hhar? Why, that a month or two after Diok Johnson was run in, you goes to the river and finds £15,000 worth of stuff in tho bed of tho river. Ain't that a treat? Other poor beggars down the river livo on mealy meal, nud don't find nothing, but. you got 'em all. Ain't I a right to something? Don't yon think that if 1 was to open my mouth there'd be a deal of talk ail over these blessed bilands where you go iu for beiug sueli a toll? Come ! you know what I f know, and if I hold my tongue i ] want it made up to me." | "Now, listen to me, Sam Dredge. I J know what you know, and if you [ think you can do auy good by talking I and letting Dick Johnson's daughter J kuow what you kuow, and if you think | you can do any good by talking nud j letting Dick Johnson's daughter know [ of the shameful end of her father, you \ make a great mistake. I won't pay j you blackmail, and this gentleman, | who is going to marry her, never will. I But if you ever do talk, I shall most likely hear of it before you have left the islands. If so, I will hammer you till yon wish I would kill you out ! right; and if you have left those isl 1 audn, we will find you out, wherever you are, and thrash you. Ay! won't we, George, my lail?" "Oar friend here can depend 011 n thrashing from me," said George. "In fact, perhaps it. would bo as well if I gave him something on account." There was no doubt that these speeches had a considerable effect on the respectable Mr. Sam Dredge, but they seemed rather to puzzle than to frighten him. ; He stared into Daniel Lane's face lasif he wero trying to read its cx i pressioD. "I want to tell Dick Johnson's daughter about her father's shameful cud? Well, I never! Yes, of course; perhaps it would 'urdly bo the thing. Well, yes, 1 will say good evening. The days lengthen out wonderful for the time of year in thoso Inlands, don't they, Mr. Daniel Lane? Oh, I nm your way of thinking, only I have been misunderstood." And Sam Dredge, with his wander ing eye again and again coming to au anchor on the picture, bowed himself out of the room to the window. When ho got outside ho walked vory ; slowly, and kept taking furtive glances at the open window. The steamer left that evening for Kirkwall, but Dredge did not leave by her. He was in comfortable quart ers, he said, as he drank his whisky j and water and talked to the landloard i of tlie little inn. "Yes," said the latter, in answer to something Dredge had said, "I think j ono might say that the people here ' are as well behave I as on any of tho j islands. 1 am an old man, but I never i heard of any one f rom hero being sent i to prison. On the mainland of Ork ney sometimes tho fishermen will take a drop of grog, and then they will fight; and I once hoard of a man on the mainlaud who got into a house at night and stole whisky. Here if peo ple look up their doors at night it is all they think of doing. There are no thieves on tho ishiud." "No boltingor barring up of houses, ay," said Dredge. "It's to your credit, that is what 1 say." In the mean time the Lanes had not I wasted many thoughts about their j visitor. From the way he behaved ' when he left they began to doubt | whether ho was quite right in his hea l. Ho had gone off like a man who was perfectly provoked and be wildered, and yet thero was no deny ing that they had both expressed themselves very clearly. George Lane, however, put liim and the painful story with which ho was ! associated out of his mind, and ho de termined that the past should throw no shadow over him. Very often when he is at sea far away l'rom all ho loves best, will he think ot that evening ho spent at tho old home of his race after Nelly had promised to be his wife. When he got to his room ho found he could not sleep, and after some time ho gave up this attempt and sat at tho open window smoking and look ing out to sea. It. was that sort of twilight which is all the night one gets when tho days are at their longest at Orkney. Everything was still,except tho faint splash of the sen. After a while he saw tho figure of a man walking on the path that led from tho sea shore up to his house. "A strange hour for a visitor," lie thought, but even thou tho idea of a thief never occurred to him. The thing was so out of keeping with his surroundings. But tho man seemed to be coming up to the house, and he passed under neath his window. Walking stealthily on tho grass, he went on till ho got to tho smoking-room window. Then George recognized tho man. Ho was their friend of the afternoon, Sam Dredge. For some minutes lio stood at tho window which had been shut up, tumbling at the lock. Jt appeared to give way without much difficulty. As tho mail went into tho smoking room George dropped from his win dow on to tho grass—it was only a fall of a few feet—then he silently fol lowed in the other's footsteps. But he came to a stop at tho window. The man had lit a candle,and when George came up, he was in the act of taking down the picture of Nellie's mother that hung on tho wall. "Now what can his little game be?" thought George as tho ec centric burglar take the picture down and lay it face downwards on tho table, and then proceeds with his knife to cut away the card board back. Then ho stooped forward, and from the expression of his face George felt suro that ho had found what ho was looking for. Just then George sprang into tlio room. Tho man turned around fiercely, and with an oath rushed at him, making a stab at him with the knife. But George was too quick for him, and got hold of his wrist with his left hand, while ho let out with his right, hitting him on tho point of his chin and sending him staggering into the corner of the room. The knifo had dropped out of his hand, and the first thing that George did was to secure it. Then ho nlood watching his prostrato foe, ready enough for him in case ho should think lii to get up and recommence proceedings. As ho began to rise, there was a sound of footsteps along the passage, and Daniel Lane came into the room. "Hullo, George, my boy, what's tho meaning of this? Why, hero is our friend again." "I don't know what it is, but what ho came after is there," answered George, as ho pointed at the picture on tho table. Daniel Lane took up tho candle and walked to the picture, and us ho did so he gavo an exclammation of cur prise. •'And enough to come after, too," ho said. "Why by Jove, I 'never saw a nicer parcel of diamonds all tho time I was on tho fields." Well he might say so, for the back • of tho photograph, from which the ; cardboard had been stripped off, was ! covered with rough diamonds, all of < them from ten to twenty carats. By this time Sam Dredge had got on his legs again, Ho made, however, no attempt to escape or interfere, but stood looking at the other two out of his ugly little eyes. "Now, look here, let's bo reason able. That thero parcel of stuff is mine by rights, 'causo Dick Johnson and I got 'em, and wo hid 'em there; and, Dick being out of it, I take his share. I have done my time for tho diamonds, and ought to havo 'em. When 1 heard, after I came out, how you'd found down the river, I made sure as tlio diamonds you got camo from behind that picture, where wo put all wo took from O'Brien Brothers' Hoor. You wouldn't be tho first by a long bit who went off to tho river with the diamonds ready found. This after noon, when I was here, it camo over me all of a sudden that you knew nothing about the diamonds, and they still were where Dick Johnsou an .l I had hid 'cm behind the picture. "Well, I came for 'em, but you've been too many for mo. Whoever they belong to, they dou'fc belong to you. Now I says, halves, or they go back to O'Brien Brothers' representative. Gome, thero is plenty for us both an 1 I says halves." "Halves, you rascal. Do you think I would go halves in plunder with you? Go back to their rightful own ers, they shall," said Daniel Lane, and though tlio idea did force itself into his thoughts tint tho price of thoso diamonds he saw glittering ou the table would help to pay off the debts on his property, he never, to do him justice, let it stay there. "You are a fool, Dan Line. A bigger fool than I thought you," sai I tho disgusted Sam Dredge, "letting this parcel go to you don't kuov who." "I don't care wh>s3 limy are, they are not miue or yours," sal 1 Liu •. "By the Lord Harry, though, I clj know, George they arc Nelly's. She is tho only real descendant of the O'Brien Brothers loft alive that I ever heard of. That is Nelly's fortune, and after all you will marry an heiress." Auk so it turned out. Daniel Lane kicked Dredge out of doors. The next day he wrote to the High Court at Kirnberley, who hud administered the estate of Tom O'Brieu, tolling how ho had found a parcel of diamonds that belonged to tlio O'Brien Brothers. There wore a good many difficulties and legal formulas, but in the end tho diamonds wero sold and the price went to Nelly as the heiress of her grandfather and great-uncles. They realized some twelve thousand pounds, for they were all picked stones. Nelly never knew how they had beeu found. Her only trouble seems to be that her sailor husband has often lobe away from her, and her life will not be darkened by the kuowledge of her father's crimes and fate.—lllus trated Bits. WISE WORDS. A small tree may bear good fruit, What science says is man's best guess. History is what character ha 3 writ ten. If we knew more we could forgive more. There is still a lion's den for every Daniel. Do to-day what you would do ou your last day. Weeds grow fast when a lazy man hoes the coru. An hour spent in bad company cau never be blotted out. Kill off tho fools, and you will throw tho lawyers out of work. A chorus m which many love to join "Didu't I tell you so?' Holf-assertivo men often do a large business on a small capital. The man who would go to heaven alone if ho could, isn't fit to go. So many people aro not at homo when a golden opportunity knocks, A civil touguo is a better protection than steel armor an inch thick. Fray for your enemy, no matter whether he is trying to kill you with his tonguo or n gun. The man who cau pay his debts and won t do it, would steal, if hecould-do it without being locked up. Some people show that they aro not on the way to heaven by what they tell others they must do to get there. —Ham's Hoi n. Stimulating Horses With Whisky. "It has been the custom among cav alry troops to stimulate the horses with whisky," said Colonel A. D. Gate, "and I havo always thought that it was a good thing to do. In fact, I have done it a great deal my solf and with seemingly good results, but I have been reading some reports of experiments made in Germany, where the custom has been followed for a long time, and they seemed to provo that horses so stimulated are much more ant to die from over ex ertion than those that are not treated in auy way. It is a fact that 1 havo noticed myself that horse 3 frequently becomo drunkards, the appetite grow ing until it becomes uncontrollable." —Boston Cultivator. Never (Jsed the Passes, A gentleman called on President Lincoln and solicited a pass for Rich i montl. "Well, said tho President, "I would be very happy to oblige you , if my passes were respected ; but the fact in, sir, I havo, within the last two years, given passes to 200,000 men to i go to Richmond, and not one has got • there yet."—Louisville Courier-Jour ' ual. OUR BOYS AND GIRLS THIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT OF THE PAPER. Quaint Snyiiißß and Cute Doings of the Little Folks Everywhere, Gathered and Printed Here for All Other Lit tle Ones to Read. The Trouble with a Tutor. "Do you go to school, Willie?" in quired the visitor. "No," said Willie, who has a tutor. "School comes to me. I wish it didn't, too. Some days are too wet for me to go out, but there ain't any too wet for Mr. Diggins." Flower Ghosts. Any child who wishes to see the ghost of a flower lias only to make a very sim ple experiment. Let liini go up to a cluster of blossoms and look very in tently for several minutes at oue side of it. Then very suddenly lie must turn Ids gaze upon the other side of the same cluster. He will at once dis tinctly see a faint and delicate circle of colored light around this second half of the cluster. The light is always in the hue which is "complimentary" to that of the flower. The specter of the scarlet poppy is of a greenish white. The ghost of the primrose is purple. The ghost of the blue fringed gentian Is of a pale gold tint. In these circles of color the shapes of tho flower's pet als are always faintly but clearly seen. —Chicago Inter Ocean. Rover the Dude. % How Many Apples Did They Eat? "Can you tell me," said Will to Bob, "how many apples Adam and Eve ate in the garden of Eden?" "That's a chestnut!" Bob answered. "Eve ate one and Adam ate, too; that makes three." "You don't add correctly, Bob. The total is 103." "llow do you make that out?" "Why, as you said, Eve ate one (81) :ml Adam ate, too (82). Add 81 and 82 together, and you get 103, don't you?" Bob thought a moment and then ex claimed: "I guess they ate more, after all. Eve ate, for one (841), and Adam ate, too (82). Total, 1)23." "Oh, I can do better than that," said Will. "Eve, for one. ate one (4181). and Adam, too. ate one (281). That makes a total of 4,302. Can you beat that?" "Yes, Indeed! How is this? Eve ate one. for one (8,141), and Adam ate one, too (812). That is a total of 8,953. Now it's your turn." "I'll quit," said Will. "They must have ealen the whole crop."—New York Recorder. The Obedient Eiru. Some curious tricks can be performed with eggs prepared in the following way: IMerce an egg with a pin, and empty the contents of the shell. When the interior is quite dry, pour into it. some line sand until a fourth of the shell Is filled. Then seal the hole with n drop of white wax. You can then place the egg on the edge of a knife or the margin of the decanter, and it will stay where you put It. Take care to shake the egg well before placing it in any of these positions, and thus bring THE OBEDIENT EGO. the center of gravity to the place where you desire it to ho. To make a dis obedient egg introduce into an empty egg shell some grains of shot and seal ing wax: Close the hole, and hold the shell over a flame until the wax inside has melted. The shot, and wax will then adhere to the bottom of the egg. When cool place the egg on the table, and it will stand upright like the one shown in our illustration. The egg will he a source of mystery to your friends, as it will refuse to assume any other po sition. Faved Forty-Six Lives. An instance of noble adherence to duty to save the lives of others was re cently recorded, which is worthy a place in the school books beside John Maynard's famous deed: Shortly after 11 o'clock the engineer, Thomas Lloyd, discovered that the en gine house was on tire. He made au effort to extinguish the flames with a few buckets of water, hut was unsuc cessful. Lloyd was alone In the build ing at the time, and he remembered that there were forty six meu iu the iniuc. Without losing any time, lie ran to the telephone and gave the alarm in the mine. The footman at the bottom of the shaft told the miners to throw down their tools and get on the cage as quick ly as possible. By this time the flames had surround ed the engineer on all sides. He pa tiently awaited the signal to hoist the men to the surface. At last he got tho signal and brought up the cage with lightning speed. Eighteen men were aboard. The carriage was then return ed to the mine for the second load of human freight. On this trip tor. men were brought up. The side of the build ing now collanserl. and the burning itmber fell all around the brave engi neer, who still held the lever. At last the remaining men got on the cage, and In a few minutes all were brought to the surface safely. The engineer was badly burned, but will recover.—Ham's Ilqjai. USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL. Handy mid Convenient Scats Which Are Easily Made. One of the most useful phases of fur niture in a well-equipped bed room is a shoe box, a clothes box, or a recep tacle for the children's toys. Every family has tlieni. They're as popular as sofa cushions, and yet very few FOR CNILDRKX'B TOYS. business stores keep them, and the car penter has to be looked to for their manufacture. A simple and neat box is shown in the first picture. It is tho size of an ordinary wooden shoe box, arranged with tho lid on hinges and covered with some light, fancy material, such as cretonne, silkoline or denim The HOC BOX FOP. SHOES. ond illustration represents a box with the lid raised, showing 011 its under side a series of pockets for slippers, overshoes, etc., and also a pocket for button liook, shoe horn and other sun dries pertaining to footwear. Another suggestion for a combined shoe box and window seat is shown in picture number three, which makes a very attractive and comfortable piece snoE nox AND WINDOW SEAT. of furniture. It can be made of two small boxes and one long box, or other equally good boxes of about these pro portions, made of strong boards; the proportions should be carefully pre served. Remove one side from each small box, leaving the ends, top, bot tom and one side; place them on the FRAME WORK FOR NO. 3. floor a distance apart, with the open end at the front; between these place the long box, having a lid fastened on at the back with hinges; screw the sides of the end boxes fast to the sides of the middle box, and across the back of the three boxes fasten a board to act as a back to the scat. Surprise All Around. There was grief in a South Side household one day when a careless ser vant allowed a valuable piece of stat uary to fall and break in a dozen pieces. The girl had a good cry and offered to pay for tho marble, but this was out of the question. The man servant, who was also coach man and landscape gardener, was in structed to take the fragments of the art treasure and dispose of them. It happened that he knew a thing or two. Instead of dumping the pieces into an ash barrel ho took them to a repair shop, where they were carefully glued together by an expert workman. When the job was completed the servant took the marble to a dealer In antiquities and objects of art, explained how lie came into possession of it and received au equivalent of two weeks' pay above the cost of repairs. Some weeks later the original owner came upon the marble in the show win dow. lie could hardly believe his senses, as lie had bought his marble as an origiual and here was another original. He went into the shop and priced the ngure. "That's very cheap," lie remarked. "I must explain to you," said -the dealer, "Hint it has been broken and repaired." lie pointed out the faint Hues show ing where the pieces had been joined, and then the former owner recognized his property. He couldn't claim It, as lie had once ordered it thrown away. Neither could he accuse the servant of theft. He bought the marble and took It home with liini, and the mail servant nearly fainted when lie saw It in Its old place on the mantel.—Chicago Rec ord.
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