Three-fourths of the total population
of Russia aro farmers.
Britain brags that tho guns now used
T>y her array will send a bullet through
four ranks of man at a distanoo of 400
yards.
Tho Attorney-General of New Hamp
shire has decided that tho appoint
ment of women as notaries publio iu
that State is unconstitutional.
Tho horseless vehicle has taken root
in France and Germany. The steam
carriage brought out by M. Serpolefc
between 1892 aud 1893 is ruuniug in
oil parts of Franco.
By tho law of Scotland tho bushes
or shrubs planted in the garden bo
long to tho landlord, and tho tenant
cannot remove them at the end of his
tenancy. The English law is the sauio
on this point.
The trouble with the magazie poets,
the Chicago Times-Herald concludes,
is that they are writing from copies.
Good copies—but copies. "One gen
uine, original singer s like Frauk Stan
ton gets nearer to the people than tho
ivbole raft load of sonneteers."
Buddhism of late is gaining quito a
number of adherents among the intel
lectual leaders iu Germany, writes
Wolf von Schierbrand, such as George
Ebers, Gabriel Max, Julius Stiade, F.
Hurtmaun, and they have just begun
to issue a monthly at Bruuswick un
der the title "Sphinx."
The Referee, one of tho most influ
ential sporting papers iu England, de
clares that tho game of football there
is being ruined by professionalism.
Jerome J. Jerome's weekly paper in
dorses this opinion, editorially, and
says "football as played iu England
now is simply a trade. The sooner it
ceases to call itself sport tho better."
Potatoes were selling for two cents
a sack in San Francisco a week or so
ago, and sold slowly even at that
price. The potato crop all over the
couutry last season was enormous, and
most growers lost money on a consid
erable part of their crop. In some
regions the ,'potatoes were not takeu
out of the ground, the price got down
so low.
Tie Board of Education of Wiltning
tou, Dal., had a knotty problem to
solve the other day, but they were
equal to the situation, records the
Irenton (N. J.) American. It appears
that a Hindoo boy had been brought to
one of the public schools aud was ad
mitted under protect. Afterwards tho
parents of some of the other children
raised objections, claiming that the
Hindoo la l came under tho law in re
lation to colored schools. Tho Board
decided that tho boy was not a nogro,
and had ns much right to atteud a
white school as an Italiau or any oth
er foreigner.
An Omaha, letter to the New York
Tost says there is little doubt that
there Ims be?n u heavy emigration
from Nebraska, South Dakota, au 1
Kansas during the past two or three
years as a result of the three years of
dry weather. This is especially true
as regards Nebraska. Even a fair ap
proximation of the statistics of this
movement is possible. Most of these
people are farmers and most of them
have gone South. The past year was
a disappointing one for the Nebraska
farmers. The crops [were neither n
failure as in 1331 nor a big success as
in 189*2. They made a small yield
over the whole State, and the prices
which have obtaiuel have precluded
any idea of pioflt. With the record ol
three years in succession staring the
people in the fa?e, it is not at all won
derful that they should have becomo
discouraged.
Steel wagon roads, as advocated by
Martiu Dodge, State Road Commis
sioner of Otiio, are likely to have a
thorough trial in several States this
year, predicts the American Agricul
turist. These joads consist of two
rails made ot steel the thickness of
boiler plate, each formed in the shape
of a gutter live inches wide, with a
square perpendicular shoulder half an
inch high, then an angle of one inoh
outward slightly raised. The gutter
forms a conduit for the water, and
makes it easy for the wheels to enter
or leave the track. Such a double
track steel railroad,l6 feet wide, filled
in between with broken stone, macadam
size, would cost about $6OOll as against
87000 per mile for a macadam roadbed
of the same width, but the cost of u
rural one-track steel road would he
only about S2OOO a mile. It is claimed
that such a road would last much
longer than stone and that one horse
•will draw on a steel traok twenty times
as much as on a dirt road, and flvo
times as much as on macadam.
IT'S A WARLIKE LAN!)
ISLAND OF CRETE AGAIN FIGHT.
ING THE TURK.
The Little Territory HUH Had N Stormy
History Since It Passed Under tho
Moslem Yoke—lias a Rebellion Al
most Kvery Y'enr,
Key to the ACjxenn,
One of the interesting islands of the
world is the Island of Crete or Candia,
now in Insurrection against Turkish
rule. It is situated at the mouth of
the Aegean Sea and embraces an area
of 3.800 square miles. It has several
excellent natural harbors, but owing
A GHEEK CHRISTIAN'
to t he Turkish system of letting every
thing go to ruin, they are almost chok
ed up witli sand. The towns of Crete,
like other Ottoman towns, are not bad
looking from a distance, for, from sums
strange freak of human nature, the
Turks religiously whitewash every
house and wall once or twice a year,
so that a Turkish town looks as though
built of marble. But that is as far ab
tlie Moslems ever go in the direction ol
public cleanliness, and on entrance into
the narrow, dirty streets, filled with
all manner of offal and refuse from the
houses, with homeless and ownerless
dogs sleeping everywhere in the street,
•ill impressions of fairyland are instant
ly dissipated.
The Moslems and foreigners generally
live in the cities and towns; the Greek
Christians in the; villages and country,
iml the latter are, as a matter of course,
expected and compelled to bear tin
greatest part of the burden of taxation
It has always been so ever since tin
Turk came on the island, and it wil
continue to be so until the Turk liai
been expelled. Hut time has not a ecus
tomed the native Cretans to the yoke
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A SI'II A KIOTIC IIARVESTKit,
and, indeed, every year they find 11
harder to bear, because every year the
Increasing poverty of the Ottoman Gov
eminent and of its local ollieinls make*
the demand for money more merciless
There is, however, constant friction
between the Cretans and their brutal
masters, and hardly a twelvemontk
passes without insurrections breaking
out in one or another part of the island
Generally they are easily and quick It
subdued, for the Porte keeps nearly
30,000 troops on the island, and every
man is needed, too, in order to over
awe the native population of 250,000
As soon as signs of rebellion appear Ir
any quarter, au overwhelming force
from the nearest garrison is inarched
ito the scene, the insurrectionists, it
caught, are put to death, and the dis
trict assessed a heavy fine, whlcl)
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A MOI XTAI.V MONASTERY
means the confiscation of all property
belonging to the Christian population
Hut the rebels are not always caught
T'p in the mountains of the Island there
Is a hardy tribe of hills men known n
the Sphaklotes, who arc to the rest oi
Crete what the Berbers arc to Morocco
br tie mountaineers of Afghanistan arc
to the dwellers in Indian plains. They
have never been subdued by the Turks,
hnd after waging a war with tlieni that
lasted the greater part of two centu
ries, the Moslems finally contented
themselves with building forts and
block houses here and there at well
known roads from the mountains to
the plains of Crete, in order measurably
to repress the warlike descents of the
Sphakiotes from their almost inaccessi
ble hills. Centuries of warfare have
developed an undying hatred between
the Sphakiotes and the Turks, and any
enemy of the oppressors is always wel
come in the Bpliakiote Mountains. The
Cretan who, from any cause, is obliged
to flee from the Turks is certain to find
security in the mountain villages. He
will not be given up. No matter what
threats are denounced against those
who harbor him, no matter what prom
ises or rewards are held out to those
ivho betray him, in the Sphakiote Moun
tains he is safe.
The Cretans have had a stormy his
tory since the conquest of the island by
the Turks. As already intimated, in
surrections have been very numerous,
but the last serious one, involving the
population of the whole island, broke
put in 18(5(1. Like every other move
ment of the kind, it began in a protest
against excessive taxation, and in a
few days from its first appearance the
whole island was in arms. Women
and children were hurried off into the
mountain caves, while tho men organ
ized themselves into bauds and began a
relentless warfare against tho Turks.
Large bodies of Turkish troops were
dispatched to tho island under tho
command of no less a leader than tho
celebrated Osmnr Pasha, and from
April to September a number of desper
ate battles were fought between the in
surgents and the Turkish regulars.
Sometimes the advantage remained
with one, sometimes with the other
fide, but the Turks were signally beaten
at every attempt to penetrate the
mountains, and an armistice was de
clared pending the arrival of of the
Grand Vizier, All Pasha, who proclaim
ed a general amnesty. But the Insur
gents did not want amnesty, they want
ed independence, or, at the least, tho
right of self-government, and the war
began again and raged until 18(19, when
it was closed by the Intervention of the
powers, the unfortunate Cretans gain
ing little but reputation of being des
perate fighters.
In the seventeenth century another
desperate struggle was waged and dur
ing tho siege of tin? city of Candia 30,-
000 Christians and 70,000 Turks were
killed.
The Work logman's Day
Sunday is the workingman's day—a
day for well-earned rest at home. At
the recent English Church Congress tin
Sunday question was discussed, and
the strongest advocate of its religious
observance was a worklngman. Says
the New York Churchman:
With remarkable effect, lie challenged
those speakers who had advocated a
modified observance of the Sunday to
produce the workingman who would
defend the modern inroads upon the
keeping of the Sunday as a day of rest.
It is worthy of notice that as a rule
the son of toil is in favor of the Ameri
can Sunday. Even when lie is not a
church-goer, the steady and sober work
ingman finds his chief recreation in the
peaceful pleasures of the home.
lie does not seek the riotous beer
garden, he does not frequent the Sun
day concert hall, nor does lie care to
break in upon his Sunday rest by the
noise and turmoil of a railway ride. A
careful investigation of the manner in
which the workingman prefers to spend
his Sunday will prove that such is the
case.
ENGLISH MAP OF S. AMERICA.
'
If they continue, the present map—
Will bo made to look like this.
NIAGARA'S GIANT PALACE,
A STUPENDOUS STEUCTUEE TO
SPAN THE MIGHT'S" CATAEAOT.
The $40,000,000 Edifice Will He
Half a >1 110 Long, 1000 Feet Wide
uud 000 Feet lllgli.
NIAGABA harnessed would, it
is claimed, have the energy
to furnish the motivo power
;, for all the machinery in the
world. And Mr. Leonard Henkle, of
Kockester, N. Y., has a project, says
the New Y'ork World, to utilize the
10,000,000 horse-power that the
mighty falls generates every sooond
and, that too, without marring their
natural beauty, but even enhancing it
by a wonderful structure that is to bo
a work of art in itself.
His scheme also has tho advantage
of diverting no wator from tho river
and it is regarded as so thoroughly
feasible that Now York aud Torouto
capitalists havo guaranteed tho inter
est on $40,000,000 and tho work will
begin in July next. Mr. Henkle pro
proses nothing less than the erection
of a stupendous structure,to bo called
"The Great Dynamic Paloeo aud In
ternational Hall," which will bridge
tho great cataract.
This palace, located about fifty feet
aboyo the brink of the Horseshoe
Falls, will bo at least half a mile long,
and in width 1600 feet; the height
will bo COG feot, tho centre, however,
rising to about 1000 feet above the
river. The lower part of the buildiug
will average forty-six stories, and in
tho centro something moro than fifty
stories. Tho struoture will be sup
ported and anchored by two massive
stone towers, fixed with heavy steel
girdors, each placed 900 feet froui tho
bank. These towers will be each forty
eight feet in thickness, 1600 feet wido,
420 feet high aud will woigh nearly
600,000 tons apiece.
The materials of construction pro
vided in tho specifications aro stone,
granite, Mexican onyx, black and
white marblo, alumiuum, copper,
steel, iron and glass.
The structure will bo divided into
parts, tho east and west wings
and tho main building. The wings
will each bo 902 feet in length and
the central portion 830 feet long.
Tho exterior will consist of block I
stone, fretted and ornamented. The
building will be supported by forty
huge columns, which are to be pre
sented by the Nations of the world.
Promises have already been obtained
from some of them that the columns
will be furnished. They will bo rich
ly sculptured aud the motto of tho
Nation presenting each will bo in
scribed at its base. They will also
have the name of the Nation set in
gold, silver or aluminum letters at tho
top. Eight hundred smaller columns,
composed of Mexican onyx and alu
minum, will also be used.
At tho Americauend of tho building,
above tho main entrance, will bo in
scribed : "United States of America,"
and at the Canadian entrance, "Onta
rio, Dominion of Canada." Above tho
central entranco will bo the word
"Unitarius." Inside tho buildiug
steel girders will bo used for the pur
pose of support; iron column? will
also be placed between the floors.
Forty-seven million, live hundred and
twenty thousand feet of lire-proof
flooring will bo required, which, it is
estimated, will cost at least $173,200,
The structure will have 11,932 win
dows and a correspondingly large
number of doors.
Tho lir3t ten stories will be used for
dynamos and other uppara'u* for gen
erating electricity.
At the extremo lower front of the
building proper there will bo 552
twin turbine wheels, capable of devel
oping about 3,300,000 horse power a
minute, which will run over 7000 dy
namos.
Immediately below the first story,
an immense arcade will furnish a pas
sago from tlio United States to Canada
for the Grand Trunk, West Shore and
other railways. This will be lighted
with thousands of arc and incandes
cent lights.
Above the tenth story and up to tlio
forty-fifth, the building will be used
for commercial purposes, among tho
most important that of grinding tho
Western wheat which comes down
from the lakes.
The interior of tho building will bo
chiefly of carved stone aud Mexican
onyx.
The forty-sixth story will be an
enormous ball, extending the length
of the building, with a seating capa
city of 70,000, who may be addressed
by ono speaker by tho use of electrical
intonutors. This hall will bo the most
beautiful in the world, and will bo do
voted exclusively to international re
ligious and social meetings and con
ventions. It is expected that each of
tho Nations of tho world will furnish
a design for a wiudow, aud it i 3 esti
mated that the furnishings of tho hall
will cost $5,000,000.
Mr. Henkle, who is responsible for
this gigantic undertaking, was born in
Ohio, but spent his boyhood in lowa,
whither his family moved in 1810. His
playmates were little Indian boys,
nnd ho still speaks their language
fluently. His days of rchooliug were
limited to three months in all. He
served in the Union Army, which ho
entered as a private and left at its
close a Colonel.
Mr. Henkle has invented, ainoug
other thiugs, tho tubular lanterns for
street illumination, a time-lock for
safes, the Rochester lamp, model
buildings and an improvod oil-boating
and cooking stove. He concoived his
presoufc design for the palace us far
back as 1881, With regard to the
practicability of his scheme, he soys:
"After disposing of 200,000 horso
power at tho Falls at $lO per horse
power per unuum, fivo i3er cent, is
assured on $40,000,000, which leaves
3,100,000j horse-power, which, at $lO
fcier horse power, would insure an in
como of such vast proportions as to
pay an annual ancl perpetual interest
on a sum of money sufficient to build
railways from California to Maine,
and from British Columbia to the St.
Lawrence, each touching at Niagara
Falls, also to build a line of steam
ships from the outlet of the St. Law
rence to every port of the world."
This Man llail Courage.
Half a dozen men were relating ex
periences of college days when a young
physician said that in cases where
students were obliged to eke out their
expenses in a professional career by
every possible means there often oc
curred pitiful examples of their cour
age. "Suppose, for example," said
he, "a case of skin grafting comes to
the clinic, any student who will give
up his skin is paid five dollars for each
bit. I remember one instanoe in par
ticular, that of a hard working young
man who gave ten bits of flesh to graft
u new face on a badly burued baby.
As tho flesh must bo healthy and fresh
nothing can he used to deaden the
pain and it is cut from the inside of
the upper arm, the most sensitive
part. Slices the size of a silver dime
are taken and laid quivering on the
wounded part where a new skin is to
be grown. This fellow stood there
several days and allowed tho surgeon
to slice off pieces from both arms,
each piece bringing tho amount stip
ulate, which paid for extra hooks,
clothing or food, and tho poor fellow
minded neither the pain at the time
of the operation nor tho lameness
with which he was afflicted for weeks
after, neither did ho fear tho risk of
blood poisoning or other difficulties
which might ensue.
He had the satisfaction, however, of
seeing a buby lace resume its healthy
form and his examinations were passed
with brilliancy. He is to day a man
well known and honored in the pro
fession. —New Y'-rk Herald.
The Hand Upon Hie Wall.
Upon the wall of cell No. 7, in tho
County Jail at Mauch Chunk, Penn. #
is tho imprint of a man's haul, which
would not attract attention were it not
for the strauge story connected with
it—a story which can bo vouched for
by many o? tho town's citizeus.
Alexander Campbell, of LansforJ,
was an occupant of the cell in June,
1877. Tho Mollie Maguires were hold
ing their reign of ttrror throughout
the coal regions at that time aud ho
was arrested and sentenced to be
hauged in connection with the mur
der of Johu P. Jones, lie stoutly as
serted his innocence, aud it was only
through tlio confessions of his com
rades iu crime that ho was convicted.
Tho night before he was hanged he
stood on his coi, and, it is said, plac
ing his hand upon tho wall, ho de
clared that in proof of his innocence
tho iinpriut would remain upon the
wall forever. Tho impression of tho
hand can be as plainly Been new as if
placed there yesterday, though the
walls have been whitewashed often.
The phenomenon hos been viewed
by many, but none of thorn has been
able to suggest a plausible solution of
the mystery.
The coll is regarded with awe by tbo
prisoners in the jail, and if any of thorn
become unruly the warden has only to
threaten them with a night in coll No.
7.—Now York Herald.
Commerce of the Ureal Likes,
The commerce of the great lakes is
rapidly exceeding the American com
mc-rco on the ocean. The number of
vessels now contracted for or building
for 1898 is sixty-live, with a valuation
o" $8,549,000. Of those forty-two are
freight boats with a capacity of 136,-
630 gross tons. The coast fchip build
ing for the year will bo only 105 ves
sel-*, with a total valuation of $6,010,-
•100, and most of these are passenger
and pleasure boats. In the river yards
twenty-four vessels are being con
structed, to cost $536,650. The largest
vessel planned in the coast yards is
280 feet long, whilo the smallest of
the lake freighters is 326 feet in length.
Theso figures, of course, do not iu
cludo the work in the Navy Yards.
It is evident that the great lakes are
to furnish the traffic route of the
future* from the interior and with a
ship canal to the Atlantic coast which
must eventually bo constructed the
next geneiation will eeo their waters
covered by a ileet whoso numbers are
beyond the reach of imagination at
present.—St. Paul Pioneer Press,
The Mikado'* lVntclirs,
Military men hive been discussing
the novel idea of tiio Japanese Govern
ment, who have ordered 18,000 watches
from a Swiss firm at a cost of $'2.50
apiece. These watches are to bo dis
tributed among the officers and men
who took part in the war against China
and distinguished themselves. They
are to be worn on the breast instead
of medals. It is not considered, how
ever, that European soldiers would
prefer watches. The medal might OQly
be worth a few pennies, like the Vic
toria Cross, the] intrinsic value of
which is exactly eight cents, but a
medal is at least a decoration, while a
watch is only nn article of ordinary
use.—New York Mail and Express.
Something ol a Rainfall.
Cherra Poonjee, or Cherapunji, is
on the southern verge of the Khasi
hills of Assam, about 250 miles north
east of the Calcutta, longitude ninotv
one degrees forty minutes, latitude
twenty-live degrees fourteen minutes,
N., altitude 4.100 feet, says Notes and
Queries. The rainfall varies greatly
in different parts of tho station, the
average fall of the year being over
fifty inches, and for June and July
about 116 and 181 inches respectively;
twenty inches in one day is not uu
nsaal, and on tho 14th and 15th of
dune, 1876, tho reported fall was 63.04
inohos— i. e., 40.80 and 22,81 inches.
TO INSURE A GOOD COMPLEXION,
A first and imporativo condition for
a good complexion and skin of fino
texture is that oil the excretory organs
bo kept in an active, hoalthful state.
Many people do not drink sufficient
water to enoouragethe kidneys to per
form their duty, and are painfully
ignorant of the dangers which lurk in
a habit of constipation. With those
organs in a torpid stato nndue labor
is forced upon the skin, the pores of
which becomes coarsened by their
onorous work and clogged in thoir
effects to throw off all the waste pro
ducts of the body, and hence arise un
sightly blotchos and pimples.
The lungs, too, must not be over
looked in enumerating the sources of
evil, for they are Nature's first and
principal agent in purifying the blood.
However, ns nine-tenths of people are
accustomod to breathe thoy are not
allowed to perform half their neces
sary work ; and if, in addition to bad
habits indulged through the day,
while cngagod in ordinary indoor avo
cations, a person sleeps in a room
without ventilation, the action of tho
lungs becomos so sluggish from the
reduced amount of oxygen in the air,
that with every pulsation the blood
grows heavier, more impure, and tho
nutural result is morning headaches,
sloop that brings no rest, and a fatigue
of mind as well as body that makes
the facing of the daily duties a burden.
—Demorest's Mngaziuo.
inn "ELECTRIC GIRI," IN THE ORIENT.
Miss Annie May Abbott, the Georgia
girl whoso prodigious feats of strength
created suoh a sensation in this coun
try a few years ago, aud gave her the
name of "The Electric Magnet," isnow
in China after having made a tour of
Japan. In the latter couutry the
strongest of the wrostlers wore unable
to lift her little body from the floor,
or even push her over, whilo with tho
tips of her fingers she neutralized their
mo3t vigorous efforts to raise other
objects, which, under ordinary cir
cumstances, would have been the
merest trifle. When she placed her
baud upon the arm of tho champion
wrestler he was unable to lift an
ordinary cane from a table. The
Japaneso scientists, however, repu
diated tho electrical theory whioh Miss
Abbott's manager usually suggests to
the newspapers, and attributed her
romnrkablo feat to hypnotio powers,
clniming that it was tho force of hor
will instead of the strength of her
musolcs that interfered with tho notion
of those who ore engaged in tho ex
periments. In China she is creating
an even greater sensation, and tho
native scholars accuse her ol receiving
aid from superhuman agencies. Such
a feeling has been excited among the
literal that it is feared it may have an
unfortunate effect in stimulating antl
foreigu mid anti-missionary prejudices.
Chou Han, nn educated Cbiuaman,
writes to a Shanghai paper asking:
"Do not such exhibitions, as viewed
by Chinese, fully corroborate what
the nntives have alleged against mis
sionaries possessing uncanny powers,
and therefore confirm them in the be
lief of tho ability of foreign men and
womon to stupefy children aud bring
them under their influence for good
or evil? Tho Chinese will certainly
conclude that if foreigners practice
this mystic power to make money thoy
will do so for the far higher object of
gaining converts and saving souls.
Natives who havo witnessed Miss
Abbott's powers will nevor be per
suaded to believe that among mission
aries there are not both men aud wo
men who possess the same power of
rendering others subject to their will."
—Chicago ltecord.
GOSSIP.
A ghost in bloomors has appeared in
Alameda, Cal.
Originality is tho thing to be most
sought after just now iu dress.
Hardly a woman iu the smart set
but belongs to some literary class.
Pew luncheons ordered by the up
to-dute woman are other thau sensible.
A Ohioago woman Hilled herself be
cause her husband did not like her
cooking.
Miss Kitty Reed, the Speaker's nine
toen-year-old daughter, is said to be a
great favorite in Washington society.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe will deliver a
lecture in Syracuse, N. Y., on "Per
sonal Remiuiscenoes of the Mew Eng
land Poets."
Mrs. Sarah F. Dick, cashier of the
First National Bank of Huntington,
Ind., is one of the mo3t successful
financiers in that State.
Miss Agnes Bello Steele, daughter
of Mayor Steele, of Helena, Montana,
christened the now gunboat City of
Helena at Newport News.
Mrs. Catherine Parr Traill, the only
living sister of Agnes Strickland, now
in her ninety-third year, is one of the
host amateur naturalists in Canada.
Mies Emma Batos, the now editor of
Weßtern Womanhood, tho organ of the
Wcstorn suffragists, is said to be nu
exceptionally clever and forcible
writer.
Mrs. Chilton, wife of the Texas
Senator, is a toll and strikingly hand
some brunette, a typical well-bred
Southern woman of very domestic
tastes.
Mrs. Joy, of Missouri, is noted
among tho Representatives' wives in
Washington for her exquisite taste in
dress and hor charming social accom
plishments.
Queen Victoria has fivo maids to at
tond to hor wardrobe and toilette—
three dressers and two wardrobo wo
mon. The senior dresser iB specially
charged with all hor royal mistress's
shopping.
Miss Clara Barton, President of tha
Red Cros, was sixty-eight on Christ
mas Day, but she is still able to work
more hours out of tho twenty-four
than most young women, or young
men either.
Berlin schoolgirls seem to bo grow
ing very emancipated. They now have
thoir "salamanders," or drinking
bouts, just like tho university stu
dents, but content thcmsolvos with
coffee instead of beor.
A Mrs. Humphreys, of New York,
has been refused admission to the So
ciety of Colonial Dames, though de
scended from Benjamin Frunklin, bo
causo his morals were not considered
all that they should havo been.
Mrs. Ellen Henrotin, President of
the Federation of Women's Clnbs, has
been presented with a chnir aud a gavel
by the womon of Tennessee and Georgia.
The gavel is made of wood that grew
on the Konesaw Mountain battlefield.
Grand Duchess Mario Valerie, the
youngest daughter of Emperor Franois
Joseph, has, according to a European
rumor, a chance to become Empress of
Austria upou the death of her father.
It is said that the Emporor desires to
make hor his heiress.
The first female lawyer has just hung
out her shinglo in Berlin, and signifi
cantly enough she is an American,
Mrs. Emily Kempin, formerly of New
York. Her specialty will be looking
after the interests ol German clients
in cases pending in Amerioan or Eng
lish courts.
The most prominent "new woman"
in Japan is Mms. Batoyama. When
her husband was running lor Parlia
ment recently she took the stump and
made spoeches in his behalf, nn un
precedented thing for a woman to do
in Jnpan. Sho is now a teacher in an
academy, of which her husband is tho
principal.
FASHION NOTES.
Silk sales are tho rulo of the hour.
Some table linen looks like fine laoe.
Blaok orepon promises to outdo silk
in popularity.
Weo tots iu scarlet coats malco the
streets look gay.
Barkario effects will bo much iu'favor
among passementeries.
A bat with long satiu strcamors was
seen at the theater lately.
Summer organdies in black and white
combinations ore lovely.
The modernized poke bonnet is tho
new model par excellence.
India dimity looks shivery now, but
it will bo all right in June.
A rattle for tho baby to bo quite an
fait must have solid silver handle aud
bells.
Narrow black satiu ribbons add
much to all gowns supposed to be up
to date.
Anythiug Huffy aud beoomiug is
worn JS a neck piece by the up-to-date
young womau.
A returned foreign dross goods buyer
says that brocados in the silk and wool
combinations are the latest.
Black beads interspersed with a few
dots of culor a la pompadour mark the
latest Parisian piS3emeuteries.
Not a fow bridesmaids carry, in ad
dition to the indisponsab'e bouquet,
muffs made ontirolv of flowers.
Artificial roses mixed with real fern
or asparagus vine make nu economical
and deoeptivo table center piece.
If yon have n gown trimmed with
steel put a lump of camphor in its
folds and the steel will not tarnish.
Two-toned basket weaves of doinos
tio manufacture will be used for inex
pensive walking and travoliug cos
tumes.
Push your hat well up in the buck,
stuff in us many roses in tha space next
your hair, and you will have achieved
the latest Parisian agony.
Embroidery is still a mark of exclu
sive elegauco, particularly the superb
French work wrought iu special de
signs directly on the bodice, sleeves
or skirt.
Black and white striped and flow
ered taffeta silk makes a handsome ad
dition to a black dress for a matron,
with white silk gimp laid over black
velvet ribbon as a finish.
The knitted jersey blouse so much
worn when golfing, cyo'iug, skating or
taking any other form of vigorous ox
ercise is now made iu a score of dif
ferent colors and patterns.
Some of the sleevo puffs aro tuckod
their entire length, others are slashed
aud finishod with puffed insertions of
contrasting materia', oopying tho pio
turesquo Huguenot sleeve in style.
It is true that a groat many of tho
ooat [style's developments neocssitato
the plentiful use of costly materials,
but, on the other hand, this fashion of
fers many opportunities for dressiness
at small outlay.
Tho gown that is of good wool ma
terial, a dark shale and made with a
skirt of full out and perfeotly plain,
with bodice fitting ciosely, except for
the invariable loose or open effect,
oannot fail to oe sij iisb and effective