Tho lato Lyman Trumbull, of Illi nois, was tho man who drafted tho the thirteenth nmeudmont to the Con stitution. In India telegraphic dispatohos aro headed "after oompliment," the ro ceiying operator writing out a set of complimentary formulo established by tho telographio oompany, wbioh is In dispensable in oriontal countries. A city auction house is soon to bo built by tho Berlin municipality as tho best means to do away with the pres ent abuses in tho auotion business. Tho ring of dealers now prevents any outsiders from buying, und tho thing has assumed tho proportions of a pub lic nuisance. The Chicago Timos-Horold romorks: A tax of 81 per year upon caoh wheel would yield nearly 8200,000 In Chicago olono and would bo opposed by vory few wheelmen if it were applied di. rectly to roadmaking. This is moreiy ouo of tbo numerous pluns suggested for inaugurating tho movomont in Ill inois. A doilar a wheel would build more highways than a thousand "good roads" planks iu National platforms. Tho latest educational agitation is to Institute sohools on wheels. It is pro posed to fit out railroad trains, fur nished with dining and sleeping ears, so that pupils can combine travel and study, halting at various Hidings for tho study of miuerology, botany, ge ology, and so on. Of course, only pupils having money could patronize this scliomo to sou tho wholo country and study its resources at tho samo time. This way of railroading knowl edge into pupils is an advanced theory of odueation. If it is proposed to tako the pupils in tho railroad schools out into tho rogion of train robbers, it will also bo necessary to teach tho young ideas how b*hoot. Ono pleas ing feature of the plan, suggests tho Now Orleans Pioayuuo, is that should tho scholars provo refractory it will bo very easy to switch them. "It is unneccssay to explain at lengtli why the South will oontinue during the next ton years to grow stoadily," declares the Financier, of New York. "Its destiny as a manu facturing section is as certain as any thing human can well bo. It has ovory idvantage that othor sections lay claim to, and the development of the South ern railroads will make it as accessible to market as New England is to-day. With mountains literally composed of rich iron ore, with ooal oropping out on every hillside in the minoral belt, with limestone and timber in abund ance, the Sonth oau manufacture iron at a price which no other prodncing region can meet. Pig iron is being made in Birmingham, Ala,, to day at a cost not exceeding 85 a ton, and the fact that the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company a few days sineo had orders booked fur noarly 270,000 tons of iron, nn inoroaso of 122,000 tons sineo March 14, is an indication of the trend of the market toward tho South. Eighty per cent, of tho iron mado in the Birmingham rogion is now being shipped to othor points for conver sion into stool and tho highor grades of the manufaotnrod product. This will not continue indefinitely. Tho loss on froight, which now has to be counted in estimating cost of prodao tion, offers a suffloiont profit to induce chango of location, and tho ceatro of iteel production ultimately must be within tho radius of tho cheapest market for tho primary material out of which steel is mado. Tho Tonnes- BCO Coal and Iron Company recog nizes this faot. as witness its deter mination to build a million dollar plant at Birmingham. With choip steel a faotor it is equally oertaiu that industries dopondont on this material as applied to highor uses will follow, and tho next dooade ought to bring about the creotion of now faotorios, or tho removal of older onos to the South. The climate, tho labor, and tho fuel Invite tho chango, aside from other considerations. And it is not alone in 'ron and steel that this chango will bo felt. Tho South is being dotted with now cotton mills, forood by tho same primary reason to desert tho East, and the exodus of industries, if suoh it may bo oallod, is bound to continuo, Shrowd obsorvors say that ootton man ufacturers havo not gono South far enough, and that tho mills might with oqnal advantago locato nearer tho fuol supply, sinoo the railroads at those points run through rich cotton coun try, und afford better facilities for reaching Northern and Western mar kets. Bearing all thoso facts in mind t is not strange that far-seeing in vestors and manufacturers predict that within a circle fifty miles in diamoter, taking the contro of tho State of Ala bama as a starting point, will be locat od the future groat manufacturing oity of tho Houth, and, for that matter, of tho Nation,*' TIIE NEW WOMEN OP SPAIN. Women scorn to bo possessed alike all over tho world tc prove themselves equal to us many occupations of pos sible which naturally belong to inon. And qnit-o tho latest of ull is tho wo man bull-fighter, who has appeared in Spain. Two sisters aro touring tho country with this accomplishment for thoir capital, and that ono of thorn has lost au eye is nothing compared to tho glory of filling o man's place.— Now York World. 3IOTCLB OIELS' BANG. Tho bicyelo girl has deoldod that sho cuunot got along without, a curly bang. Wind and rain and boat havo combined, if not in removing tho bang, nt least in straightening it, but tho bioyelo girl is not to bo outdone by any caprices of tho elements. She has invented, therefore, what is known as tho "bicycle bang," and confesses that it brings hor infinite comfort and satisfaction. Tho bioye'o bang is of human hair matching that of tho wearer, and is fastened with numbor less diminutive pins. Tho ourl in tho bang lias been chemically treated and no ordinary experience will uncurl it. an. van d Kin jilt's onom. Miss Francos Egbert Alattison, agod twenty-seven, daughter of Dr. Matti sou, of Plainilold, N. J., has just boon selected an tho loading soloist for Georgo Vaudorbilt's Memorial Church at Biltniore, near Ashovillo, N. C. Miss .Muttisou mot the Vuaderbilts while at Ashovillo last winter with hor sister, .Tcaunctto, who was there re cuperating from a severe illness. Her voieo, a rich contralto of wido range and muoli sweetness, oroatod a marked impression in Ashovillo, and during the holidays Caryl Florio, orstwhilo tho head of the old Trinity Church choir, Now York, and who had been given carto blunclm by Mr. Vundor bilt to engage four soloists, a quartet and a chorus for tho new ehurch,. heard Miss Muttisou sing in a local entertainment, aud at onoo endeav ored to onguge her. Sho was invited to tho Vandorbilt mansion and, it is said, hor singing created such nn im pression that sho was immediately placed in ohargo of tho musioal do partmont of a private school at Bilt niore, and later signed a contract to sing iu tho church at a salary of 8250 per mouth ARMENIAN WOMEN. Mrs. Gertrude Eastman i'orkins, ono tho brightest of tho youngor literary womon of tho city, who made a long trip a short while ago through Eu rope, is convalescing from tho serious lilinoss which has kept hor from tho pen for soverul months. During hor stay abroad sho mado a careful Btudy of the conditions of Armenia, and proro especially of tho women of that Brushed aud unfortunate land. Her literary connections gave her the ao coss in London and olsowhoro to libra ries and archives bearing upon tho topic, and by good fortune as well as careful oudoavor sho managed to make tho acquaintance and win tho friend ship of Armenian colonies in London nud clsowhero. She took abundant notes and secured a largo amount of vory valuable literary matorial. Upon hor reoovery, sho will probably write a sorios of vory oxhaustivo articles upon tho topio with a view to thoir subsequent publication in book form. Tho opprossions practiced by tho Turks and Kurds iu Armonia have drivon thousands, and even tons of thousands, of poopla to othor lands. Tho expatriation has rosultod in the establishment of Armonian oolonies in uoarly ovcry largo European oity, and a very numerous colony iu London it self. Most of theso oxilos belong to the hotter classes of the raco, and in thoir flight took with thorn family records, church documents, anoiont archives and much of thoir National litoraturo. It is possible to-dav to obtain as much if not marc excollont matorial respecting Armenia at first hand in London than in Bassoon or Ezroroura. Mrs. Forkinß is vory for tunate in finding and utilizing this literary treasure trovo.—Now York Mail and Express. A RENOWNED PIANISTB. Madame Clara Schumann, wifo of tho famous composer and herself a ro nowncd pianist, liaH just died nt Frank fort on-tlie-Main. She was tho daugh ter of Froilorick Wiock, who was a distinguished tcaclior of musio, and sho naturally inherited a great deal of her father's genius, nor first public appoaranoo as a performer on tbo piano was at Liopzig whon sho was only nine years of ago. Sho married Schumann whon she was twenty-one, and her mnrriod lifo was a singularly happy onc.cloudcd only tho uncertain health and mental disease of her hus band. She visited most of tho foreign courts of Enropo as a virtuoso; but sho novor cauio to America. Madame Schumann was a woman of rare per sonal charm and exalted character. Sho has always been widely lovod in Gormaiiy and England, and somo yoars ago a considerable amount of money was raised for hor by bcr l'rionds wbon a prospect arose of her boiug disabled by sickness. Tho compositions of tbo first half of her lifo wuro imbued with her characteristic earnestness, but lator bcr husband's influence can be discerned. Sho has always taken hor place in the front rank among pianists, j but her playing has been host known for its great warmth of feeling anil pootic appreciation of tho beautiful. She was a romarkablo interpreter of Chopin. Her death removes ono of the last remaining links with that, brilliant musioal period wbioh inado tho middle of this century remarkable. Now York Independent. aossm. Women are now rosponslblo foS about UOO patontod inventions pel year. . JSeventy-soven women havo taken the B. A. degree at Loudon Universi ty this term, in addition to thirty-six who wore prosonted for othor degrees. Mrs. Lucy Day Mnrtin, of Virginia, is tho youngest of tho Senators' wives.. , Sho has charming unaffected manners, | is a gifted conversationalist and a olover writer, Tho German Empress, has, during: the last year, grown much stouter, and sho is seriously thinking of trying some ouro, as she has a groat horror i of growing too fat. Tho lady goll ohampion of England for tho yoar Is Miss Pascoo, of Wim bledon. Lady Margaret Scott, who won tho championship in 181)4 and I 1805, did not outer tho list this year, I Miss Kate Fiold was fifty-six years old at tho time of her death. "This,"' ' says Miss Gilder, who was ono of the | distinguished woman's warmost I friends, writing in Tho Critic, "is not a very advanced ago, but if ono has i been in tlio harness without rost for I ovor thirty years, it is an ago at which \ one might woll wish to lay down ouo's j burdons." Truly. Mrs. Frances E, Bonoiliot, of Phila delphia, who has )U3t died at tho age ; of sixty, was for years a woll-known newspaper writer. Sho was ono of the first to make u business of writing ad vertisements for tho big dry goods bouses. Sho was a member of the famous '7O club of Philadelphia, and gave valuable ossistanoo to tho direc tors of the Oentounlal Exposition. Tho Now York World says that Mrs. Itutli McEuory Stuart and Mrs. Eliza beth B. Custor aro two of tho most popular parlor lecturoru iu this coun try. Mrs. Stuart locturos or roads from tho platform, but Mrs. Custer's talks aro moro informal. . Both ladies havo apartments in New' York on tho samo street, but tboy spend tho great er part of thoir winters "on tho road." Prlnooss Li, tho wiSo of Vioeroy Li- Hung-Ohang, is fifty yearn old, but looks to bo only thirty, llor foot hayo boon tortured to such smaUaoss that sho oannot walk, but )is to bo carried about in a obair—a nvigniflcont one, of oourso—yet sho owns 1000 pairs of shoes. Ilor husband's wnalth enables her to havo nearly 1000 silk dressos, and she onn noloet froru,soo furs in winter time. Mrs. Jauo L. Stanford's,devotion to tho California unryorsity'whicU boars her son's namo has boon shown iu a way so uncommon as.to attract special attention. Although,she was roooiv fng undor an ordor of court van allow ance of 810,000 a inonrtli pomllng tho sottliug of tho late BeiiiitorVi estate, sho has volnutarily turned over nearly all of it to tho institution to, pay tho running exponsos. Mme. Albaui, tho -Amerieamningor, is a great favorito with Queen Victo ria. Among hor many prosonts sho has rocoivod an autographcojry of tho Quoen'p, "Highland Journals," a por trait of Ilor Majesty, uud u superb model In gold of tho pcrHunilioil.figuio of "Victory," designed by tbo ' Coun tess Gloicbon, and bearing a • scroll wboroon tho word "Viotoriu" ( 'is in scribed in prooious stones. FASHION NOTES. Wires aro not required iu tbo latest shapod sleeves. Some of tho new parasols havo very nnique handles of crystal. Iu jowolry tho emerald is at prosent tho quoon of prooious stones. Petunia and applo green aro tho predominating shades in ovorything. Gronadiuos aro mostly mado up over oolorod silks and usod for drossy oo cosions. Qnantitios of fiowors and foliage aro usod, and the ambition is to get as many kinds of flowers on a hat as pos sible. In millinery two contrasting shades of tullo, ono laid ovor tho othor, aro oftou used fcto givo tho ohangcablo effoot. Jowolod passemontorios and trirn iniugs of all sorts find thoir place on almost ovory gowD, and also on man tles and hats. American beauty roses, intersporsed with lilies of tho vulloy, inaku tho combination for a summer bat that is mnoh admired. White gowns aro to bo worn more thnn eyor this season for informal as well as dressy occasions, and these are accompanied by white hats, shoos and parasols. Some of the leading dressmakers are dirocting their efforts for change in fashion toward the dreaded bustle, and Bomo of the newest gowns aro padded on tho hips and at tho back. Knife plaiting lias oomo around again. Narrow rallies of this sort ap i pour on skirts, up auil down tho edges 1 of tho box plaits ou tho waists, and tho batiste blouse has a basque mndg i of a double trill of knife plaiting. WISE WOBDS. Laugh and be fat., Bottcr late than never. * Curtain lectures'are free.' Tho end must justify tho moans," Handsome us that handsome does. Lifo 1b not altogether a jar of honey. Ono of the eublimest things is plain truth. An honost man is tho noblest work of God. A coward novcr forgave. It is not in his nature. It costs more to gain an hour than to lose n day. There is nothing little to tho rculi/ groat in spirit. Cows don't givo milk—but it can bo taken from them. Thoy aro happy whoso natures sort with their vocation. If thou faint in tho day of adversity, thy strength is small. Prematuro consolation is but tho ro mombrancos of sorrow. Tho more somo mou owe, tho moro thoy want to buy on credit. A man who denies everything and assorts nothing is an infldel. Evory loan man thinks it would bo easy to got rid of oxcossivo fat Politoness is an easy virtue,costs lit tlo and has groat purchasing power. Tho readiest and surost way to got rid of oonsnro is to correct ourselves. Whoso koopotk his mouth and his tonguo, keopotti his soul from trouble. It is loss dishonor to abridge petty charges than to stoop to potty get tings. Whon o woman wants to be in bod by ton o'clock sho begins getting roady at nino. Dost thou lovo life? then do not eqnnndcr timo, for that is tho stud that life is mado of. Work is not a man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his ploasaro. All men wero not made of dust. Dust sottlos sometimes and thoro aro lots of men who uovor do. Lot it bo your constant maxim, that no man can bo good enough to ne glect tho rulo of prudence.—Tho South-West. Cannibal Fish oi tho Tropics. This is a fish in tropical wators which can Bwallow o finny friond twelvo timos his own sizo. It is eallod by studonts of iothyology chaismodus nigor, but its plain, every-day name is tho "black swallowor." It is a small fish about six to eight inches long, without sealos, unliko most fishes, but with two great fins on its baok. Thoso are somotimos throo inohoshigh. Tho chaismodus inhabits tho coast wators of South Amoriea and Africa and livos at a depth of about 1500 fathoms or 9000 foot. It is an expert swimmer, Using able to catch tho fast est fich. In sovoral ways this fish is similar to snakos. Its jaws aro vory loosely hingod and aro capable of groat distention. Tho tooth all point back ward, so that whon a victim onoo starts down his throat it seldom re turns to toll tho talc, Tho stomach can bo expanded to an almost unlimit ed oxtont. This quoor fish is a groat glutton. Swiinmiug quietly np behind a fish many times larger than itsolf, it opons his groat jaws and smilingly takes in its largor friond, slowly drawing itsolf ovor its victim by moans of its tooth. At this point its troubles begin. Tho swallowor is not ablo to digest such a gront qnantity of food. Tho food in timo decomposes, and tho gas, goneratod by decomposition, causes the fish to riso to the surfaoo, in spite of all offorts to romain down. These fish havo boon found in this condition, floating on tho surfaoo containing fishes of at least twolvo timos thoir own sizo. The skin of tho stomach of tho fish is transparent. Painted 8000 Pictures. Abol Hold, of Brookhouse, Caw thorno, tho veteran artist who in Sop tombor last attainod tho ago of eighty years, and who diod reoontly, had, whon a boy, a fondness for drawing animals and birds from nature. When only seventeen years of age ho was earning scanty wages by pointing sliow-oloths, depicting wild nnimnh and sham soones for showmen, ne began to paint portraits whon ho was oighteon. With fow oxooptions, be tween tho yoars 1849 and 1871 Mr. Hold was an oxhibitor at the Royal Aoademv, and it was his boast that ho novor had a picture rojocted. By fat the largest portion of Mr. Hold's works aro game and still-life pioturos. It is estimated that decoasod painted some thing liko 3000 pioturos.—Liverpool Courier. tiftln In Church Membership. H. IC Carroll, in tho Forum, com paros tho religious oonsusos of 1890 and 1895. Acoording to the former tboro woro 20,018,307 communicants in tho United States, and up to last year tho totals had beon increased to 24,040,58-1, a gain of 4,028,277 in five yours. During tho samo poriod there was a gain of 23,075 ohurohes aud 21,- 040 ministers. Tho gain in now mem bers is not fully represented in tho nbovo flgnros, because tho 1,500,000 lossos by death had first to bo made np boforo a not increase oould bo shown. Tho value of church buildings, lots and furnituro in 1890 waß about $080,000,000, and now is thought to bo fully 8800,000,000. Curious Leafless Trees. Thoro aro forosts of loallcss troos in somo parts of Australia, They respire, so thoy say, through a littlo atom, ap parently answering tho purpose of a loaf. Tho troo is known as "the loaf less ocaoia." BIG FARJIS IN AUSTRALIA. ONE "SQUATTER" WHO OOCUPIE3 THREE MILLION ACRES. A Drought Klllivl 800,000 of IIIb Sheep, and lie Had Onlv 1,000,- 000 Left—Lifo on tho **81011008." IN tho East, Middle, and Southern States of Amerioa she-op oro raised on tho "farm," in tho West thoy aro raisod on tho "ranoh," whilo in Australia thoy aro raisod on tho "station." As tho "ranoh" of our great West is but tho extended past i uro of tho Eastorn, Middlo Stato, or Southern farm, so the "station" is roally but an onlargod ranoh, though tho social and business importanoo of tho groat "station" owner of Australia is noither sharod nor ovon dreamed of by tho aoti-ve, intelligent, and indus trious sheep raiser of any portion of tho United States. Of courso, tho wholo "estate," or land dovotod to pastoral uso by tho head or manage ment, comprisoa tho "station," and yet the idoa convoyed in tho word "station" is tbo oontral point or what may bo regarded as tho copital. Tho "stations" in Australia aro as largo as tho priuoipalities of tho mid die ages, or 03 many modorn duke doms. 1 inolino to think that ton of tho . largest Australian stations, if united, would equal tho whole of Bol gium. Ono Jamos Tyson has about 2,000,- 000 acres, or a territory noarly as largo as tliroo States like llhodo Island, ono and ono-half Delaware.-, or even one third tho size of Vermont, or ono sevontoenth tho size of lowa. 110 has noarly 1,000,000 shoep or tho equival ent in cattlo. Ono Mr. MoOaughoy has ono station of 1,214,877 acres, with somo 500,000 shoop. Jamos Wil son has 010,000 acres, or Just 1000 square milos, in ono station, and over 400,000 shoop. I havo a friond in tho interior, whom I visited reoontly, who has 500,000 acres and 800,000 sheep. One can drivo 100 milos on a straight lino on his 03tate. Of this 500,000 acres, 70,000 are freehold, and the rest is loused from the Government of Now South Walcson long time, for a doflnito annual rontal. All theso stations, like tho potty dukedoms of Europe, aro named, and tho names, when prouonuceablo, aro not easily forgotten. But thoir names sorvo a bettor purposo thun mcro orna ment. As thoro is a considerable dif ference in altitudo, lutitude, soil, vege tation, brood or oaro of shoop, thoro is a very notioonblo difference in tho wool, and tho reputation on tho station has no little jnflnonoo on tho price of tho roepootivo clips. In tho English trado reviews, or prices ourrout, tho names of tho stations of Australia bo como as familiar to a largo businoss olasa us aro tho names of tho Nations of tho globo to tho avorago educated man. Tho Minister of Lands has boon making a tour through tho interior. In his party thoro wero several relia ble newspaper men, and tho following is an extract from tho Sidney Daily Tclograph. Tho communication was sont from tho headquarters of ono of Mr. MoOaughey's stations, and fol lows : "Air. MoOaughoy Is a loviathan among squatters, tho king of shoep owners, the largost shoaror of shoop in tho wholo world. Including fioehold and leasehold, he has 3,000,000 aoros of land. This big Btation in tho Rivor ina ho oalls a more stud farm. It is only a trifle of 40,000 acres of freehold and 5000 of loasohold. Tho rost of his land is on tho Darling, whoro ho has two stations, Toaralio and Dun lop. A million of tho aoros aro near HnghondoD, in Queensland. In the last drought of oightoen months in the wost his losses in shoop and lambs totalled no fowor than 800,000. All tho same, ho can still boast that ho shears his 1,000,000 a yonr. This is tho record, not only for Australia, but for tho world. Air. AleCoughoy can claim to bo tbo greatest singlo shoop ownor on oarth. Out of his wealth ho has beautiflod his homo, cultivated tho brooding stock, and ox porimoutod In irrigation on his sta tion. Ho has spent £20,000 in testing what water will do in tho western country. Tho visitors woro takon round tho station, and wore shown tho splondid Vormont slicop that Mr. AIo- Cnughey imported somo years ago, at a oost of thousands of pounds storting, for brooding purposes. Tho party woro also shown tho irrigation plant that pumps tho water from Coonong Crook, which has boon dammed for tho purpose." Tho area of MoCaughoy's estates, as dosoribod, almost oquals tho aroa of Connootiout, or noarly ono-half the entire aroa of Bolgium, tho lattor of which supports a population of ovor 6,000,000 of highly civilized and well providod-for pooplo. But the report says—and truthfully— that Mr. Me- Caughey "sheared 1,000,000 shoop, though tho samo Booson ho lost 800,000 hoad." As tho drought oamo oarly, most of theso shoop must havo por isliod boforo shoaring, so tbo normal number of shoop kept by this "xnodost grazior" must bo fully 1,250,000, Thus, about as many shoop aro kopt by this ono Australian as aro kept in oithor of the groat "wool-raising" States of Pennsylvania, Now York, Kentucky, or Colorado, and tho num bor of this AlcCaughoy's shoep is ox oeoded by but seven States in the Union. Tho wholo of Vermont, whonce ' oamo Mr, AloGaughoy's fine merinoef, haH not iporo than ono-third as many shoop as this shoop king of Australia. In Australia tlio stations of shoep runs, or tlio land of wliicli they arc comprised, are called "equattages," anil the owner or master ta called a "squattor." There are many interesting foataros and ovor varying charms eonnooted with tV- i e', ri' lives. Of course, with eiivu uuurmous holdings, the "cottages," or managerial residences, are far apart, usually from ton to fifty miles. These cottages arc almost al ways largo, low buildings, of but one story, with sovoral good-sized rooms, with broad verandas on two or three sidos, and thoy are roofed with COP rugatod or galvanized iron. Save during the oxeessivo heat of midsum raor, December, January and Febru ary, those homos are models of com fort and ease. In all save the barbarism of the armo<l rotainors and symbols of war faro, thoso station homos resemble the bnronial rotiromont, luxury and solf satisfaotion of tbo old feudal agos. No prince over offered a more generous and splendid hospitality to friends ol oqual position than theso squattors of fer to tho intelligent and worthy trav eler or to their invitod or ooceptod guest. Thoy do not livo like farmers, evon of the most wealthy olass, but like petty princos, Tho family is sur roundod with troops of servants, gov* eruoseos, companions and visitors. Tho "eooial set" is as scrupulously or ganized among many of those "world holdors" as among tlio most fastidious snobs of Europo and America, the "shopkeeper"—which moans all retail doalors—tradesmen and tho common hord beiug given the cold shoulder, or tho tips of tho fingers. As enter tainers, theso squatters aro lavish in oxponso and scrupulous in forms and and ooromonios. What would the woalthy farmer think to drivo up to a choap looking habitation, "twenty milos from no whoro," and, if eutertainod for tho night, ho should 800 tho ludios at din ner in full ovouiug dross and the gon tlomen with swallow-tailed coats, ex pansive Bhirt bosoms and "white ohokors," with tho waitors aud flunk eys in tho toggery of tho ovening luokoy at a Washington beer garden? At those lnxurious homoe thero is tho "host of ovorything" not only of solids, but of fluids as well. But of luto yoars many of those orst-whilo princely squatters have booomo "man agers," as tho bunks buvo olosod tho old order of things, and if I should venturo to suggest that iu no small number of failures this "stylo," waste and extravagance had boou a potent factor I would offend only by speaking disagreeable truths.—Portland Or egonian. A Typical Hungarian Village. Imagino a very broad, uupnvod road, liko a dusty, plowed field, aud wild gardens trailing round aud ovor whito thatched cottages. Euch cottage is ono-etoriod, with Old World eaves and a veranda whioh runs along tho whole front; tho thatched roof seoms to lean with all Its strength upou n toy-sliapod oolonnade, while tho croopors afford a ooutrastto iho white washed walls. If you walk down tho road at dusk, yon will find at oaob door one of tho household vigorously brushing olouds of dust nwuy from tho footpath, while long files of clean, curly pigs arc trotting swiftly homo ward, and lean mongrels "bay tbo whisporing wind" unceasingly. Tho mon wear linen shirts and kilts. On work days tho costume has the ap ponrunco of a long, dingy nightdross, tied with a leather girdle ; on heydays tho kilt is whito and stiff, with accor dion plouting, while the shirt is of dainty embroidery, and sets off an elaborate worstod waistcoat. Tbo girls' full drees Is still more pioturesque, owing to the harmonious blending of tbo brightost prints—all shades aud dopihs of blue and rod and pink ; no other oolora—and to tho graceful fall of tho short petticoats, whioh do not roaoh tho anklo, und are inflatod by a slight suspicion of crinoline, —Sat- urday Roviow. Wlint Might Have Been. Stopbonson's olaim to bo tho invon tor of tho modern looomotivo is based upou tho fact that ho was tho first to combino tho sovoral footuros of hori zontal oylindors, tho vortical blast uozzlo iu tho smokestnok nnd a tubular boiler, and that by this combination reproduced tbo typo whioh is practi cally tho same that we uso to-day. Stophonson woe not tho author of tho iron rail, nor of tho idea of a stoam driven vohiolo running upon iron rails and carrying its own water and fuel. Theso loading features woro presout iu tho oarlior ongino of l'rovithiok. Ilad Trovithiek laborod to remedy tho de fects of his looomotivo with tho por soveranoo which was so stong a ohar aotoristio in his suooossor, it is likely that he, and not Stophonson, would havo beon named tho father of tho modern looomotivo. Intelligence of llccs. An instance of tho intelligence of boos amounting nlmost to roasoning, is related by a mining man, Malcolm MoTjoish. Ho is ongngod at an aban doned mino in this county oyaniding the old tailings, tho plant including several tankß of water stroDgly im proguatod with oynnido of potassium. On the beginning of operations, bees, of swarms that had loft tho volley, came in from tho mountains to tho water. For three days thoy diod by thousauds of tho wator'from the tauks. There was one tank of frosh water, however, that was untainted. Aftor three days tho boes ooutinuo to oomo in largo numbers, but thoy nil avoidod tho oyauido tanks. Not ono would go thoro, and, of oourso, no moro died. Their doad oomrados proved a lesson, and thus thoy score another on tho in telligence of bees.—Los Angeles (Cal.) Times. Nebraska "Tide Wells." Out in Polk County, Nebraska, and in sumo of tho adjoining oouutios thov huvo a queer lot of wells. They are oollod "tide wolls," beoauso of a peculiar liabit their wators have of obbiug and flowing, just as if thoy woro connootod with a grout under ground ooean. Polk County alone has between twolvo uud twonty of these queer roaring wells. The presidential candidate Doth now seem small beside The pitcher for the baseball nine, Who is the city's pride. —Baltimore .News. When it begins to get real summery hot, can't wo manago to have the weath er man arrestod for scorching?— Phi ladelphia North American. Brlggs—Docs your wifo laugh when you tell her u fuuuy story? Brnggs— Oh, yes. I always tell her beforehand that It Is funny.—lndianapolis Journal. She—Do you know anything worse than a mnn taking a kiss without asking for it? lje—l do. "What, for In stance?" "Asking for It without taking It." Mrs. Winks—l don't sec how you could afford to pay SIOO for a wheel. Mr. Winks—l couldn't. That's why I bovo got to pay $lO3 for It.—Somervlllo Journal. Tommy—Paw, what Is a designing villain? Mr. Flgg—Ob, the description would apply to one of these poster ur tlsts about as well as anything.—ln diauupollH Journal. Sweet Is the suuimer breeze that goes To gladden tolling man— Especially the one that flows From an electric fun. —Washington Star. She—l would not marry you If I were to live to be a hundred years old. llo—Well, I should say you wouldn't, If I had anything to say In tho matter. —lndianapolis Journal. "Look hero, Bawl Barings, I've a proposition to mulco." "What Is It, Noopops?" "You stop talking about your bicycle und I'll not say another word about my smnrt baby."—Truth. Justice—You arc charged with steal lug Colouel Julep's chickens. Have you any witnesses? Uncle Moses—l hob not. I don't steul chickens bofu' witnesses.—Amusing Journal. , Young Husband—Are you In favor of free silver or the gold stuudurd, my tovo? Young wifo—Oh, I don't care, m.v dear, so long us you have plenty of It.—Philadelphia North American. "Say, Dobbs, all your family are away; what do you keep your alarm clock going for?" "I want to wako up every hour and realize that I don't have to walk the baby."—Chicago Record. "We cannot find a place to go this summer." "What's the trouble?" "Wo want a summer resort from which we won't have to write home that wo sleep under blankets."—Chicago Itooord. "Mamma, were those stories Uncle George was telling us about the big fishes he caught fairy stories?" "I dou'l kuow, my child; I wasn't listening, hut I imagine they were."—Brooklyn Life. Edith and Mabel had Just put their dollies In tholrjlttle crib. Said Edith, with a sigh of relief, "There, I'm thank ful we've got the children to bed. We shall have a little peace now."—Boston Transcript. Wheeler—l see by tho papers that u Chicago bicycler was held up by two men. Sprocket (feeling If the court plaster was lu place on his face—l wish to gracious It had been mo!—Yonkers Statesman. Rugby—Our "landlady Is one of the most expert calculators lu town. Wil kin*—la she? Rugby—Yep. We had beans for dinner to-day, and she asked mc how many I would have. —Cleveland Plalndealer. George—How do you like It, Cora? Cera—lt's perfectly lovely. But what do thoy have all these policemen at tho game for? Oh, I know; It Is to keep the men from stealing bases.—Somer ville Journal. "It Is the Intention to collect about SII,OOO for Pittsburg's Fourth of July celebration this year," remarked tho Horse Editor. "Ah," replied the Snako EdltoY, "Money to burn!"—Pittsburg Cli rontcle-Tclegra ph. "How Is .Tenny See getting along with her bicycle lessons?" "Oh, nicely," re plied the young enthusiast. "She has only taken six now, and, do you know, I never saw any one fall off a wheel so graccfullyl"—Buffalo Times. .Tllson—ls Jubbs sick or traveling? Jabson—Neither. What makes you think so? .Tllson—l've been looking out of the window the last ten minutes and I haven't 6oen him playing a hose on his lawn.—Roxbury Gazette. Clear Case.—"Do you ride a wheel?" asked the oldest of the doctors on the Insanity Commission. "Yep," answer ed the subject. "What make?" "I never noticed." The verdict was unani mous—dementia.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Reginald—Time brings about sonio odd changes, doesn't It? Ilarold—l should Bay It did. Look at the matter of costumes. Why, when we played tennis, we turned our trousers up at the bottom, and now that we play golf we turn our stockings down from the top.—Woonsocltet Reporter. "If this Mistlier llauna gets to bo the groat man ho promises now," said Mr. Dolan, "there'll be twice tire num ber av babies named afthcr him as Is named aftber most celebrities." "01 see no rnyson fur It," replied .Mrs. Do lan. "It's plain as day, though. He's naturally qualified fur the distinction. They kin name all the b'y babies 'Mark' an all the girl babies 'Hanna,' an' tliere y'are."— Washington Slur.
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