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.