President Eliot, of Harvard, op- j
poses military training in the echoola.
According to the Atchison Globe,
BO many men are wearing uniforms
now that the surest way to attract at
tention is not to wear one.
The drummer is a privileged being
in Great Britain, in addition to a
room specially sot apart for his com
fort iu every hotel, the leading rail
way companies bavo decided to let him
travel on return tickets for single fart
This is for tli3 purpose of letting him
eee his family over the week ends.
According to a report just made by
the Acting Secretary of the Navy, out
of a total of 11,550 bluejackets and
marines, more than halt (6289) are
natives. This will be gratifying news
to all patriotic Americans, exclaims
the New York Observer. National de
fence can hardly be carried on entire
ly by proxy.
The thorough loyalty of tho Boer
people is shown by the fact that in at
testing their regard for President
Ivreuger they are going to keep a
statue of Oom Fuul standing in a con
spicuous part of Pretoria. Observers
of Oom Paul's pictures are aware that
he is for use rather than for adorn
ment, adds the Chicago Record.
Dr. Joseph Parker, of London, de
scribes tho bicycle as "that sliouldor
coutracting, mischovicas, horrible
machine that will take tho manliness
out of auy Nation." The New Orleans
Picayune adds: Time was when
the worthy (lector's thunderings may
have had some weight. That time
was anterior to his invasion of this
country some years ago. Tho ex
perience which he then gained should
have borne fruit ere this.
Something is wrong, maintains tho
American Agriculturist, when straw
berries cost consumers in Now York
and New England cities from ten to
fifteen cents per quart, while the pro
ducer in Jersey and on tho Delaware
peninsula only nets from two to four
cents per basket. It does seem as
though this condition of affairs went
from bad to worso as the years roll on.
The more perishable tho fruit the
greater seems to be the cost of handling
and selling it.
A large insurance company has re
cently published returns for 17,375 |
deaths, covering a period of ten yearn
from 18S1 to 1893. Of this number
759 were the result of accident, in
cluding 70 homicides. This is an appall*
ing proportion of murders. No country
in the world, not even Sicily, could
match it. Elsewhere sober, respect
able, thrifty men who insure their
lives are tolerably safe against mur
der. Here in every 2000 who die nine
are murdered. Of these niueteen wero
shot in personal quarrels. Actually
of the class which insures in this
country for every 1000 who die one is
killed red-handed trying to kill some
one else. No such barbarism exists
on the piano' in any other laud calling
itself civilized.
One of the most remarkable mon in
public life at this time is Hon. H. W.
Thompson, of Indiana, ex-Secretary ol
the Navy. Mr. Thompson is now in
his eighty-seventh year, and Las been 1
in public life ever since 1830. This
year he presided over the Indiana
State Convention, and then visited St.
Louis as a delegate to the National Re
publican Convention. In spite of his
advanced years, his mind is still vig
orous and unimpaired, while his body
retains much of its former elasticity,
lie is to-day much stronger than hun
dreds of meu who are twenty and
thirty years his junior and is capable J
of doing more bar I work. As far back
as 1840, when William Henry Har
rison was a candidate lor President of
the United States, Mr. Thompson was
chosen us one of the electors from In
diana on the Whig ticket. Ever since
that time ho has been ft factor in
American politics, and has participat
ed in every political campaign. Mr.
Thompson is six months older than
Gladstone and six years older than
Bismarck, but while these veterans
have laid aside the cares of office Mr.
Thompson is still actively engaged in
public afFaiis. On being asked the
secret of his vigorous health at such n
patriarchal age, he replied that he had
never indulged in vicious habits or al
lowed himself to acquire a taste for in
toxicating drinks. If a man possesses
a good constitution at the beginning
of life and does nothing to impair or
diminish his physical birthright, in
the opinion of the Atlanta Constitu
tion, there is 110 rea:-:on why his days
should not be long in the laud ; nor
baß he any excuse, provided lie has 11
fair amount of brains, for not becom
ing a potential factor iu his day und
generation.
MEN ATTACKED GY MICE.
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RISE AND FALL OF AN ANIMAL
PLAQUE IN RUSSIA.
Fearful Ravages of the Rodents the
Past Three Years—Scientists Find
a Remedy for the Pests.
SOUTHERN RUSSIA and Si
beria in the last three years
have been the scene of the rise
and fall of a pest of mice. In
some places the destruction of prop
erty by rodents was a serious item in
the total of the general misery of the
peasant class. Great swarms of theso
wico would suddenly appear in gran
aries, ilour mills and storehouses, aud
in a few days little would be left ex
cept the barrels or sacks. The mice
seemed to have lost their ordinary fear
of cats and would oven rush at them,
relying on their force of numbers to
make up for the loss of a few of their
fellow mice.
All kinds of traps wore tried, but
seemed to make no diminution of the
numbers. Soino made their rendez
vous in churches, and fed oil the cau
dles and prayer books. In the fields
they were so numerous that the women,
who do the most of the farming iu
Russia, positively refused to go to
work, or, if they did, wore men's top
boots, with trousers boned tightly
around the knees or ankles.
The government of the province
most infested finally offered a largo
reward 'lor some means of extermina
ting the mice, and the bacteriological
laboratories undertook the task of dis
covering sorao infectious disease that
could be started among tlio mice that
would make them die rapidly. There
are a number of diseases which the
lowor animals at times develop which
they alone are liable to. There are a
number of human diseases which are
fatal to animals also.
Thus, tetanus, or lockjaw, affects
most animals as well as man, and mice
are especially susceptible to it. Pas
teur discovered a microbe, called the
bacillus of malignant oedema, which
can always be obtained by introducing
under the skin of a rabbit or mouse a
small quantity of ordinary garden
earth. Mice, guinea pigs aud rabbits,
and many large animals aro promptly 1
killed by it. There is a special bacil
lus causing cholera and blood poison
ing in chickens, rabbits and small
animals, which rapidly proves fatal to
mice. There is a bacillus of hog
cholera, which also affects mice. There
is a bacillus which is especially likely
to cause erysipelas and blood poison
ing iu mice. It kills rabbits, white
mice aud house mice, but docs not
affect field mice.
One of the laboratories obtained n
microbo from a guinea pig who died a
natural death, which proved to be
especially deadly to mice, who died at
the end of two or three days after
being inoculated. The trouble with
these microbes was that the mice had
to be caught first and iuoculatcd with
( a hypodermic syringe.
After much investigation the Russian
bacteriologists discovered a microbe
which not only killed mice when in
■ jected into them, but proved fatpl if
, placed in their food. The name is the
. bacillus typhi murium. It resembles
somowhat the bacillus of fcyph jid fever.
' Though deadly to mice it did not seem
r to affect rabbits, guinea pigs, pigeons
• or chickens.
3 To produce the new mice poison the
poisonous germs are cultivated in test
3 tubes of gelatine. Then they are
V mixed with bread and water and dis
tribute! where the mice abound.
The mice die rapidly, and the dead
mice seem to kill off more than the
poisoned food.
, s The people in the province were
3 ' overwhelmed with gratitude at ihe
success of the scientist*.
Ah mi illustration of the abundance
of mice before this method was tried,
the United States Consul at O bs.sa
writes that when the army of m'.oe,
swarmed over houses und huts through
tlie country, not only the dogs and
cats refused to molest them, but the
mice attacked men. While he himself
was wnitiug for a train 011 a branch
lino of the Southwestern Railway, a
clergyman with long hair, who was
walking up and down the platform,
stopped for a moment and raised the
end of a canvas which served as a cov
er for a large quantity of wheat, which
was awaiting shipment. Jn an instaul
an army of mice ran over bun, and hit
beard, hair and cloak w. re literally
alive with them. To brush them oil
took some time, and when he finally
thought himself free, he was dismayed
to find a mouse iu each of his trous
ers' pockets.
A Young (jiirl anil a Little Hear.
A few days ago Miss Grace Duckelt
hal quite an adventure. While re
turning in tlio evening from 0110 of
her neighbors, Miss Grace met a bear.
Instead of screaming and runniug,
she, with the help of her dog, forced
bruin up a tree, whore she left him
till she could go to one of the neigh
bors for help. A. I>. McDougall wenl
with her to Jthe place where the hem
was treed. Miss Duckett herself cut
the tree down, and when it fell thoy
succeeded in capturing the bear alive.
It provod to bo a fine cub, and is very
lively.—Oolvillo (Washington) Index.
Hants the Color of Stones.
There are a few instances of protec
tive mimicry in plants, though in gen*
; oral plants protect themselves by
' spines, hairs, and poisonous eecre-
J tioiiH. The ".Stone Mesembryanlhe*
; emnm" of the Cape of [Good Hope re
-1 sembles the stones among which it
1 grows, and thus escapes the notice 01
: wild herbivorous animals. Mr. Woalo
has also observed that many plants
growing in the stony soil of Karoo
have their tubers so like the stones
around them that when not in leaf one
j cannot be distinguished from the olh
; er.—Loudon Globo.
THIRTY MILES AN HOUR. f
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That Is the Record Mnlc by Tom (
Linton, an KhrlUli Ricyclist.
Tom Linton, who has just created a ,
new cycle record for the hour by going ,
thirty miles and 214 yards at the Velo- |
drome de la Seine, In Paris, is an Eng- .
lislunau with a record. Many long
distance riders have been trying for
some time to crowd thirty miles into
owe hour's riding, but Linton is the
first to accomplish it. A. A. Chase was
the next nearest, lie having ridden
twenty-nine miles and 300 yards with
in the hour at the Wood Green track
in England on May lit. Linton's great
effort was paced, of course, and by
the celebrated English Gladiator team.
It was timed by A. Moore and E. Gir
ard, and was witnessed by such well
known cycling authorities as Leon
Hamello, President of the Union Cy
cllste; Paul Bernard, Spoke and Bad
uel, besides an army of enthusiasts.
Linton went at his task in a most de
termined manner and began record
breaking almost at the start. At the
seventh kilometer he had beaten Bar
den's record, and then fell the records
of Bouhours and Chase. During all
his ride lie kept up a furious pace.
His pacemakers could not go fast
enough to keep out of his way, and he
was ready for another hour's ride
when his first hour was completed.
Linton's ride all the way up to thirty
miles was remarkable, and the record
TOM I.INTON.
is interesting. lie did his first flvo
miles in 0:42. ton in 19:30 1-5, fifteen in
2!):33 2-5, twenty in 39:29 2-5, twenty
live in 40:34 3-5. and thirty in 59:40 1-5.
Chase, in his run at Wood Green, occu
pied 1:01:40 1-5 in going thirty miles,
his record for the hour being twonly
uiue miles and 300 yards.
HUNGARY'S MILLENNIUM.
A Brave People Celebrate Their
I,oooth Birthday.
Just a thounnnd years ago the fore
fathers of modern Hungary, who had
wandered westward from their origi
nal home in the region of the Altai
mountains, established themselves in
the country which has since home their
name and laid the foundations of the
Hungarian state. For some months to
come the Hungarian nation will be en
gaged in the appropriate celebration
of the I,oooth year of its history. Fetes
and congresses of all kinds are to be
held at all the chief centers of the coun
try at intervals throughout the next
few months, and great events of Hun
garian history are to be celebrated by
the erection of many monuments.
The chief feature of the commemora
tion is the great Millennial exhibition
wldch was opened at Budapest recent
ly by the Bmporor-King Francis Jo
seph, and which forms an elaborately
faithful presentment of the gradual
development of the Hungarian race
from a state of barbaric simplicity to
the complex civilization of the present
time. Most of the great historical
buildings are reproduced on an exten
sive scale in a rich medley of different
architectural styles Romanesque,
Oothle. Renaissance, and their sticces-
RAILROAD COLLISION MADE A PUBLIC EXHIBITION.
Unique Show Given at Columbus, Ohio.—Engines Under n Full Head of
Steam Danli Into Kach Other,
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At Columbus, Ohio, twenty-five thou
sand people saw two monster locomotives
deliberately put in terrific collision. The
collision was arranged by the llocking
Valley Uailroml Company as a means of
drawing people to their new park. The
machines were old-fashioned and worn
out. Neither had been used for some time
nml both were early candidates for the
scrap pile. A small expense put them
in safe condition for the purpose. A spe
cial side track a mile long had .been pre
pared and the locomotives, with four old
freight cars attached to each and under
mil steam, were started, one from each
end. It is estimated that they were going
at the rate >f tifty miles an hour when
they met. The crash was heard for miles.
The two monsters were of'about equal
weight and when they struck they mount
ed up in the air fully twenty-five feet.
sors. The Sultan of Turkey has con
tributed n particularly flue collection
of treasures associated with his prede
cessors ou the Turkish throne, whose
sovereignty was acknowledged in Hun
gary. Side by side with this rich dis
play of bygone times is a no less extcn-
sive illustration of the chief features
In the life of modern Hungary. More
than 170 different pavilions of spacious
size are devoted to the exhibition of all
mat is most representative of tho coun
try, and. indeed, of its whole social and
political life.
High Woods of Tropical America.
Of tho High Woods, the dense prime
val forests of tropical America, many,
from Humboldt downward, have writ
ton, and written well; yet mere words
can never adequately render their
grand, mysterious beauty. The brush,
in the hand of genius, might succeed;
the pen must inevitably fall. It is of
little service to tell of giant stems ris
ing to a height of 200 feet or more he
fore they put forth their strong, inter
lacing branches. The bare statement,
of the fact conveys no idea of the mas
sive nobility, the columnar dignity and
grace of their trunks. They shoot
straight upward in grand and crowded
array, the pillars of a dense roof of
dark-green foliage; and from their
branches hang festoons of bush rope,
in strenuous though invisible combat,
one with the other, to reach the soil,
even as the great trees are in similar
combat to force their way up into the
sunlight and the air So thickly matted
is tho roof of branch and leaf, of pendu
lous rope and ivy, that the light is dim.
You may travel for days aiul never
see the sun save for slanting shafts
and burnished gold that pierce the in
terstices of this natural ceiling; or for
occasional clearances where some old
giant of the forest has fallen, crushing
down all the weaker trees that could
not withstand its weight. The atmos
phere is almost intolerably hot and
dank. The ground is encumbered with
n dense undergrowth of hush, making ;
progress painfully slow, even over an
Indian trail. The silence, too. Is as
oppressive as the heat. Just before day
break. in the ton minutes or so of half
light, the forest will resound with the
cries of monkeys and the notes of birds.
Time to <*<>.
The late Sir Richard Burton was ex
ploring an unknown corner of Afghan
istan once, and had adopted the dis
guise of a Mohammedan fakir. He
played his part so well in one village
that the inhabitants formed a very high
idea of his sanctity. Naturally, he
was pluming himself on his success,
when the elders came privately to him
one night and begged him to go away
at once.
"I>o not the people like me?" asked
Burton, in great surprise.
"Indeed they do," was the reply;
"they were considering whether it
would not he a good thing to possess
1 your tomb, tliey are so enchanted with
your holiness." Sir Richard made the
' best of his speed away.
Don't let your troubles blind you to
the fact that your neighbor's sympathy
- I is two thirds curiosity.
The freight cnrs pileil up in n wreck nn
der them ami the wreck of the entities fell
hack upon them, a hissing, smoking mass.
Dummy hrakemen ami engineers had
been placed on the trains to make it all
the more realistic, and many women faint
ed, supposing they were real men and
could not get off. As the clouds of dust
ami steam obscured the wreck there was
a tremendous shout, then, when the es
caping steam subsided the people clam
bered over the wreckage and every loose
piece of iron that could be found was
carried away as n relic. Kinetoscopic and
eidoloscopic views of the wreck were
taken by experts. Chief Clerk Thomas
Peck, of the general ticket agent's office
was tho victim of the only accident. A
bolt from the wrecked engine Hew about
100 yards to where he was standing and,
striking him on the leg, breaking It iu two
! places.
A DOVE COLORED GOWN.
A very dainty dress that comes from
Paris is of the soft gray blue that you j
Fee on a riug-dove's neck. The bodice |
is slit up twice in front, and from !
either slit emerges a fan-like pleating ;
of deep lace, which hangs loose to be- |
low the waist. Above these slits the
bodice is fastened together on either i
side by two onamel buttons. The
foldo i collar is of cerise velvet, and i
the usual inside frill of cream lace j
falls over it, forming a pretty frill- |
like expansion below each ear. The j
sleeve, very full above and tight be- :
low the elbow, expands in a sort of j
sheath over the hand, and this sheath •
is slit up in front to show an inside j
pleating of black chiffon. The soft j
belt of cerise velvet matches the col- j
lar, end tho toque of soft gray straw, I
niched with bluish gray tullo, has an !
erect panache, just over the right eye, ;
of black ostrich feathers. Anemones, i
primroses and tuberoses are the favor- |
ito millinery flowers in Paris.—St.
James's Gazette.
FIRST AMONG GIRL COWBOYS.
Jessie Findley is the champion girl j
cowboy of the West. She is ouly j
seventeen years oiu, but as a horse- i
breaker she has no rivals among her |
own rex, and but few among tho 1
sterner sex. She is a product of Okla- '
homa. She has lived an outdoor lifo |
always,and tho broncho does not buck ;
that she lours to tackle.
On ono occasion she rode 250 miles i
in live days, and wore out tho men who j
accompanied her. At another time j
she rodo her pony into tho North |
Canadian River when it was bank full, !
and swam across. Not one of her male j
companions dared to follow her lead.
She has great success ic taming buck
ing ponies which male riders can do
nothing with. Slio seems to have a
hypnotic intluenco over them they
cannot resist.
Although possessing all tho reckless
• taring of tho cowboy, Miss Findley
lakes delight in feminine fancies
natural to a girl of her age, dresses
tastily, nud is not averse to frills and
pretty ribbons.—St. Louis Post-Dis
patch.
KATE FIELD'S ROMANCE.
Miss Field's death recalls a story of
her youth that was first given public
ity in tho World's Congress of Jour
nalists in 1893, and may contain the
secret of her having never married. Tho
story, us told by ono who claimed to
know, was that in tho beginning of
her journalistic career Miss Field
worked on the Cincinnati Commercial
in collaboration with Wbitolaw Reid,
who was at that time hor accepted
lover. When Reid became an editorial
writer on tho Now York Tribuno he
sent for his old sweetheart to come
and take a position on tho paper. Un
til after the defeat of Horace Greeley
for tho Presidency tho pleasant rela
tion between Mr. Reid and Miss Field
continued.
When Greeley returned to his old
desk, defeated and broken-hearted,
the stock of the Tribune was put upon
the market at a very low price. By
the advise of Mr. Iteid the majority of
the stock was purchased by I). O.
Mills, and Beid was Riven full control
of the paper. As a result of the rela
tions thus established Whitelaw Keid
married Miss Elizabeth Mills, the
daughter of D. O. Mills, and became
the owner of a majority of the stock
of the Tribune. When the news of
the eugagomont of Mr. Reid to Miss
Mills became known Kate Field sev
ered her connection with the Tribune,
and left the office never to enter it
again.—Chicago News.
THE WALK OP WOMEN.
"How women walk" has recently
been the subject of discussion in a
Parisian journal. According to this
authority, the palm must bo awarded
to French women. The English wo
man, it states, does not walk; she
travels. Her limbs appear to be moved
by the engine of a steamer, and her
feet havo tlio proportions of an At
lantic liner 1 Concerning the gait of
women of other countries, this inter
esting journal goes on to remark that
the Gorman is heavy, ono feels tho
earth tremble beneath her tread; the
Spanish woman "prances," the Ameri
can resemblesthe pendulum ola clock,
the Italian "skips," tho Russian
"skates," tho Dutch woman "rolls,"
and the Belgian tramps about.
| Now* although those remarks are
I uugallant and uncompliraeutary to
our own Nation particularly, we oau
j not but own that there is a certain
I amount of truth in them. Numbers
1 itf women do not seem to ciro bow
i they walk so long as thoy cover tho
' dist inoe they wish to traverse some
j how. But if they could only seothom
' selves ns thoy appear to the casual on
looker, how very differently they
would comport themselves I How often
is a pretty face and figure sjjoiled by a
stoop of tho shoulders and a wriggling,
bustling walk I
Corsicau women aro models of
queenly grace, and tho roason i 3 plain.
They have a curious custom of carry
ing burdens, waterpots, etc., on their
heads. I notiood a Corsicau womau
going ou board a oteamer at Mar
seilles not long ago carrying her baby
in her arms and her portmanteau ou
her head. As nearly all tho water in
Corsica is carried from wells by wo
men in waterpots, tho women ncquiro
from youth tho prnctioe of carrying
burdens on their heads. An, hour's
practice of this exercise a day with,
for instance, a book or a pillow on our
head, would do wonders in tho way of
making us into types of grace and
case, when before we were tho exact
opposite.—London Figaro.
GOSSIP.
Pearls are the latest craze in Lon
don .
Adelina Patti has oarned $5,000,000
as a vocalist.
The woman tennis champion of New
Zealand has but one hand, and that is
the left one, but sho can servo a ball
that is very hard, indeed, to get at.
The fashionable wedding gift for
bridegroom to make to tho bridemaids
ie a pendant watch in enamel, of a
hue to correspond with the tone of tho
toilet.
Mrs. Martin, the wife of the ex-Sena
tor, has a collection of 500 pitchers of
which only two aro duplicates. One
is of gold, an inch high, set with six
Rowels; another is made of S3OOO worth
of hank notes.
The popularity of billiards among
i French society women is of compar
atively recent date. It is now very
i pronounced, and almost as much of
lan indoor crazo as wheeling is an
| open-air pleasure.
j Mrs.|Lydia Bradley, of Peoria, 111.,
I proposes to build that city a poly
; technic institute and endow it at a
' cost of $1,000,000. Sho has already
j given tho city a hospital, a church, a
| largo park and a homo for aged
! women.
Mile. TiUcio Faure, daughter of tho
President of France, launched, at
Havre, a chip bearing her father's
name. All Havro turned out to givo
an ovation to the President's daugh
ter, who was surrounded by a group
of former school friends.
Mrs. Jcsso Seligman is making a
collection of fans, while Mrs. Ogden
Goeljjt has an odd fancy for handker
chiefs. Sho has many hundred, and
one cost no ICBB than 8200. It is an
airy, fairy nothing. It is made of
lace, but it looks liko a cobweb.
Mies Mabel Kennedy, a woman not
yet twenty years of iige, is tho cashier
of tho Merchant's Hank of Forsytho,
Montana. Sho pasEes on the securi
ties offored, makes tho loans, receives
tho deposits, draws tho exchange, and
does all tho important work of tho es
tablishment.
The accomplished wife of tho Spanish
Premier, Cauovnv del Castillo, was
born in Washington, D. C., where her
father was tho Peruvian Minister. She
and'her sister Anita (now tho Countess
Casa Valencia), wero known in thoso
days as tho litilo Isma girls. They
oarried great fortunes to their hus
bands.
Tho fourth woman to obtain tho
doctor's degruo at tho University of
Gottingen is Miss Alion TJUCO, a grad
uate of Wellesley. She has boon made
doctor of philosophy, cum multa
loude, by Gottingen. Sho had spont
two years in philological studies at
Leipsio and has been at Gottingen
through one semester.
Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop, tho
famous traveler, is tho gueit of tho
British Consul at Seoul, Korea.
Although an invalid, sho is preparing
for a solitary winter trip across to
Pokin. The passion for travel which
distinguishes this woman, and her en
duranoo, though always ill, may bo
said to bo littlo short of marvellous.
Mrs. Nuucy McKeon, of West Stouo
bam, Mo., has tko honor ol having
killed tho largest bear ever captured
iu that region. Tho bear was chasing
her sheep, when she attacked him with
a club, nn,l, after a hard fought bat
tle, succeeded in lnjinghim out. Mrs.
McKeon is eighty-three years ot age,
iu good health, nnd bays sho is ready
for another bear.
FASHION NOTES.
Some of tho new parasols havo very
unique handles of orystil.
In jowolry tho emerald is at present
tho queen of precious stones.
Pearl, yellow nnd pink tan shades
are tho correct colors in gloves.
Tortoise-shell Bpectaclo cases aro
made with chased silver mouths.
Petunia nud apple green aro tho
predominating shades in everything.
Fearls aro in greater demand than
ever, and are largely used for neck
laces.
Grenadines aro mostly made up over
colored silks and used for dressy oc
casions.
The peculiar greens nnd blues that
provail in dross fabrics aro shown in
enamels on gold and silver.
Fans aro in order aud jewelers have
made them moro or less gorgeous with
miniature medallions and gold aud
gems.
In millinery two contrasting shades
of tulle, one laid over t.he other, are
often used to givo tho ohaugeablo
effect.
Quantities of flowers nud foliage
are used, and tho ambition is to get
as many kinds of flowers on a hat as
possible.
Jewoled pnssemonterio3 nnd trim
mings of all sorts find their placo on
almost overy gown, and also on man
tles and hats.
Araerioan beauty ro3es, intersperse,,
with lilies of tko valley, make the
combination for a summer hat that
;! is much ndmirod.
DAY-BREAK.
How pule the moonbeams, (ailing on the
fountains!
How soft tho murmurs from the wood bo
yond!
How vague tho shadowy outlines of tho
mountains!
How faint tho lilies' perfumo from tho
pond! _ ,
Tot not so soft as sweet young oyos' faint
luster;
And not so pale as fnncv's piotures are;
And not so vaguo as wnvering thoughts that
cluster
In maidens' hearts when love is yet afnr_
The day is born, and twilight's trembling
glimmer
Gives over when tho sun comes forth in
glory.
foung love is born, and haif-felt doubts
grow dimmer
When he begins to lisp his wondrous
story.
—David A Curtis, in Truth.
HUMOR OF TIIE DAY.
He—"Miss Gonyng lis rather coy,
sn't she?" She—"Yes; decoy."—
Puck.
The world is like a bike—it will
ihrow down tho people who don't keep
moving. —Puck.
"Got your new tandem?" "Yes."
"Tried |it yet?" "Sh! - no; wo've
piarreled."—Chicago Record.
.Tones —"Good morning, Benson.
How.do you fin 1 business?" Benson—
"By judicious advertising."—Harlem
Life.
Diner—"Here, waiter; this water
is dirty—there's been milk in the
tumbler." Waiter—"Why, boss, dat
is milk."—Judge.
Tired Tatters—"Yes, sir, pard, it
pays ter be honest." Weary Wrng
-310S —"l know now why yo'r so durn
poor."—"Louisville Truth.
Bracer—"Say, can you lend mo ten
till next week?" Pacer—"Like to,
old boy; but, fact is, I'm so short."
Brnoer—"All right; so long!"
"I pin my faith to tho Mayflower,"
Criod tho colloge maiden neat.
"Audi, b'gosh," said hor father,
"Pin mine to October wheat."
—Washington Times.
Father —"Did you notice how the
lieutennut enjoyed our lunoh? He
took a littlo of everything." "Yes,
but none of our daughters."—FJio
gendo Blaetter.
Wallace—"Doyou beliovo in signs?"
Ferry—"Some. When you seo a wo
man driving south nud looking east,
it is a pretty sure sign that nhe means
to turn to tho west at tho first cor
ner."—Cincinnati Enquirer.
"1 am very much aTraid that Jimmy
is in mischief," said Mrs. Snnggs to
her husband. "I can't hear him,"
1 replied Mr. Bnaggs. "That's why 1
think ho must bo doing something ho
night not."—Pittsburg Chroniole.
"What do you think of tho bicyolo
1 jrazo?" "Great thiug ! I never took so
1 much good exercise boforo in all my
: life."."Why I didn't know you worerid
-1 ng." "lam not, but 1 have to cross tho
' street onco in a while."—Chicago
' Record.
Customer (howlingly) —"This tooth
loho stuff you giramo is the rankest
kind of a fraud. And you warranted
; it to work like a charm." Druggist
(blandly)—" Well, dul you over know
t charm to work?"—lndianapolis
5 lournal.
| "Sweet one, I love you," lie whis
: pered to his partner at tho masquerade.
"I should think you would," sho rc
-1 plied, "seeing that lam your wife,"
"Didn't I know it, darling? What
0 other woman do yon thiuk I would
0 say that to?" Boston Courier.
Wiggins—"Thoso railway tracks nt
' tho Pittsburg crossing will surely bavo
0 to be sunk below tho street level right
J away." Briggs—"What makes you
think so?" Wiggins—"Three wheol
-0 men have protested against being <lo
layed by thesaloty gates."—Cloveland
Plain Dealer.
<j Ho priileil himself on speaking twolvo
1 tongues;
g Ho couiil trace to its root any word you
h might name;
, Eut he read twlco through a baseball re
port,
1. And then couldn't toll what thoy did in
> tho game!
—Chicago Record.
"I might as well pload guilty, your
Honor," owned up tho penitent pris
oner at the bar. "If it had been laco
or diamonds you might havo called it
' kloptomania and let me go, but I
don't B'pose that would work in this
ease. I stole the hog, your Honor."
—Boston Traveler.
!8
Ravages ol' a Hookworm,
:o An ancient, parehmoat-bound vol
ume on the shelves of tho dean of Co
lo lumbia College is the sarcophagus of a
withered specimen of that rnro and in
teresting borrower, the bookworm.
Tho discovery was made last week,
while a student was turning over tho
pages of a history of tho Frisians, cu
-51 titlod "Return Frisearum Historia,"
The book is au Elzevir, aud was pub
lished in Holland in 1040.
at From tho appeuranco of tho volume
ill it has been many a day since tho book
worm, in its predatory pursuit of
re knowledge, began to devour its cou
th touts. The little fellow opened opera
h] tions on the inside of the back cover.
Thence he plowed a path through sev
,g oral of the adjacent pages. Ho died
iu the harness, and his mortal shell, a
j„ more thumb nail sketch, lies along the
groove in which ho prosecuted his in
vestigations. PerhapsUbbnis Emmons,
tho author of the book, never had an
other so devoted a reader.—New York
0,8 Mail and Express.
n- A Royal I'lunie.
:,n The Priuee of Wales, when ho at
tends a state function iu full dress,
wears ouo of tho most costly orna
im monts kuowixto the British Court. It
hi: is a plume of feathers pulled from tha
i'it tails of the feriwah, the rarest aud
most beautiful of Indian birds