In every school in Paris there is a restaurant where free meals are served to tho childron who are too poor to pay for them. An English has discovered that Cleopatra was a cyclist, lor did not Antony advise her: "Of Caesar seek your honor, with your safety?" Within the last eighteen months tho Spanish Generals have reported to the home Government something like 10,- 000 decisive victories, avers the At lantic Constitution. As a matter of fact, however, not a single decisive victory has been achieved. The Paris Academy of Science has lately revised Huxley's table on the "chemical composition of man." Tho new analysis shows that there aro 100 grains of iron—not sufficient to make a ten-penny nail, much less a plow share—in the average man's body. Since the first importation of draught horses from America by deal ers to Hamburg, over a year ago, fully 10,000 American horses havo arrived in Germany. They havo given such thorough satisfaction that dealers from Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen and other points have becomo enough in terested to import themselves. Tho State Assessors of Maine aro making their annual tour of tho wild lands. It is said the lands are so wild that in some sections the valuation has not gone up four cents an acre in forty years. Tho trees are so thick that they choke each other's growth. Maine's forests have only had their edges trimmed by the lumber con sumers in their rage for deforesting. John Hardy, tho inventor of tho ■vacuum brake, died in Vienna recently. He was born at Gatehead, England, and spent his early years us an appren tice to a locksmith. He subsequently worked under the renowned George Stevenson. At the age of twenty-one lgs left England for France. In 1800 he went to Austria to assume an im portant railroad position. He brought out his invention in 1878. Somo things aro very funny, but not half as funny as other things, lor example, relates the New York Herald, two men tried to break out of State Prison in Maine recently. One of them, James Buchanan by name, was unsuc cessful. Ho didn't have tho push and genius of his namesake. Tho other was called Oliver Cromwell, and of courso he got away, just as the great Oliver would have done under like circumstances. There are some little men with big names and some really great men with names as common as Brown or Robinson. The ofler by Marshall Field, of Chicago, of $2,000,000 as an endow ment of the Field Columbian Museum is a reminder to the World that in tho matter of gifts and bequests for public purposes Chicago has in recent years rather taken the lead from New York. "Apart from the direct gifts of Rocke feller, we believo that Chicago Uni versity has received a much larger aggregate of endowment from Chicago citizens that our Columbia College has received in the same time from the citizens of New York. This is not as it should be." Dr. Hopkins, of the agricultural ex periment station at Morgantown, W. Va., who has given the subject much study, says there is great danger of the early destruction of the Ohio as a navigable highway, and along with it the Potomac, James and Tennessee Rivers. To save those rivers, repre senting 2000 miles in the aggregate, it is necessary to save tho forests in small part of Pennsylvania and Maryland, and a considerable part of West Virginia and Vir ginia. From tho estimates given by Dr. Hopkins it appears that an area ■of about 1,000,000 ucres should be re served if we hope to save to posterity these immensely valuuble highways of commerce. Possibly one of tho reasons for tho low prices of wheat the past few years, suggests tho American Cultivator, is that so many substitutes have been found for it as human food. We still use a great deal of wheat, but in cities •especially wheaten bread is less the stalT of life that it used to be. Tho use of oat meal has increased, and it daily forms part of the nutritive ration, and very good nutrition it is, too. Wo use far more fruit thau formerly, and also more potatoes. The latter aie not so good in nutri tion as wheat, and for this reason their increased use is not for our ad vantage in health and strength. Like nil other starchy foods, potatoes aro difficult to digest, aud should only be eaten in moderation, except by those whose digestion is strong. ROMANCE OF SEA DIVING. MANY EXCITING EXPERIENCES FALL TO THE LOT OF DIVERS. One Diver Recovered a Girl's .Jewels and Married Their Owner—Lost liis Left But Won a Wife* SUBMARINE exploration has furnished material often enough for tho novelist and dramatist, but tho romantic developments which from time to time come into divers' actual experiences parallel anything told in works of fic tion. The deep sea diver trusts prov erbially to his luck; he never knows what he may have to contend against when tho sky has faded from 6ight and the waters have closed above him, and fascinating indeed are the stories that he occasionally brings to the sur face. Divers' romances, however, are net always unpleasantly sensational. The luck is sometimes of a brighter order, as in the case of a native of Cork last year. Employed as a diver by the Ocean Salvage Corporation, he was sent out to help lighten a passenger vessel that had gone down in tho vicinity of Sandy Hook. While hack ing away through some debris on the lower deck, his axe struck deoply in a metal casket, which he stuffed into his belt for subsequent examination. It turned out to be a case of valuable jewelry belonging to a young Ameri can lady, who had survived tho dis aster, and whose father counted his dollars by the thousand. Restoration being made, the diver received a handsome roward for his trouble. But the bit of romance began here ; there is a sequel that is uncommon out of novels. That chance meeting brought about a mutual liking between tho two, and, threo months later, heiress and lucky diver walked from tho altar arm-in-arm. Even more interesting, in a similar way, was tho experience of a diver, who, having the misfortune to lose a leg in one of his submarine exploit*, won a wife and a fortune as compen sation. The lady, a widow, was a resi dent of Ceylon, and a stock of very costly dresses had been ordered by her from a Parisian lirm. These were con veyed by steamship as far as Colombo and then transferred to a small trading vessel to be taken farther along the coast. On nearing its port, however, the trader collided and sank and tho lady was all but inconsolable. There happened to be a British transport waiting in the vicinity to repair dam ages, and a diver on board volunteered to make an attempt to recover the mourned apparel. Armed with axe and grappling hook, he went down and succeeded in extricating the chest and attaching the hook. Then he fastened the connecting cable to his waist, and prepared to ascend; and upon emerging from tho hatchway, was spellbound at seeing the dreaded form of a shark hovering expectantly in his path to the surface. The creature had evidently been attracted by an in stinctive idea that dead bodies would be released from tho wreck; and showed no intention of going away unsatisfied. The diver gave himself up for lost; to stay below much longer was impossible, and tho moment ho moved the shark might make a rush and sever air tubes and life line. Finally, desperation and exhaustion impelled him to give the signal, and ho was hauled swiftly toward the sur face. Not quite speedily enough, how ever ; the shark seized and snipped oil his leg at the thigh just as he went to scramble up tho ladder. The dresses were recovered, but the diver's life aud reason hung in the balance for a long time; and tho end of it was that the lady marked her appreciation of his loss and pluck by falling in love with and taking him for husband. A very thrilling submaiine romance was that which took place off tho coast of France a few years back. A cargo vessel bad foundered unaccount ably within sight of port, and a cou ple of divers were despatched below to report as to tho cause of the dis aster and tho prospect of raising the goods, A. representing tho lirm of insurance brokers who ha l insti tuted the investigation, and B. acting for the owners and captaiu. A. reached the bottom first and found himself on a bed of white sand. Pres ently, as ho flashed his electric light to and fro, he made out the ill fated mass of timber resting upon a cluster of crags, which he climbed at once. A conscientious inspection of the hull showed him what ho had half sus pected ; design had been at work, ami there was an auger hole through which the water had evidently rushed and brought destruction. He turned to point this out to his companion, when the latter suddenly clutched him by tho waist, dragged him down again to the sand and murderously tried to break the glass in his helmet. Believ ing that he had to cope with a mad man, A. made'a Jfierce fight for life; they rolled over and over on the white sand, which went up in clouds about them. However, he was worsted, aud lost hold upon his line ; it was cunning alone that saved him from an awlul death. He feigned a swoon ; then, as B. gave the signal and went to ascend, caught him by the legs in a fast grip, and so was hauled up with him. Once on deck he really lost his senses, and it was Home time before ho could tell his tale. Meanwhile B. hail gone ashore, and was attempting to leave the country when arrested. At the subsequent trial the infamous facts leaked out. It transpired that the ship owners had over-insured the cargo, arranged for the vessel to be scuttled at a certain time, and then, driven to extremity, had promised B. a share in tho profits if he took care that tho imminent discovery should never be allowed to roach the surface. The plot had failed, and speedy punish ment followed tor all concerned in it. —Household Words. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, Over 360,000 species of animals have been described by naturalists up to the present date. The new British army magazine rifle will throw a ballet to a distance of over 4000 yards. The law in England now compels every case of lead poisoning to be re ported at once to the authorities. A recently opened guano cave in Georgia was found to be inhabited by groat swarms of white flies having yel low legs and pale pink eyes. It is said that a woman's voice can bo heard in a balloon at a height of two miles, while a man's voice cannot be heard at a greater height than one mile. I Lawson Tait, the well known Bir mingham doctor, has designed an in strument whereby the electric current is applied for the surgical arrest of bleeding. The fifty-six largest towns of Austria have an aggregate population of 3,- 536,000. The death rate in 1895 varied from 1.22 per cent, at Weinberge to 3.67 per cent, at Tesohen. The wearing of corsets has been pro hibited in the electrical department of a California High School. The steels ware found to have an effect on the in struments, and in consequenco delicate sxperiments were found impossible. President Octave Chanute, of the American Society of Civil Engineers, has offered a special prize of 8100 for the best monograph on the kite, giv ing a full theory of its mechanics and stability, with quantitative computa tions appended. It has been discovered after numer ous experiments that a dark hair is much stronger than a light one. One dark hair can carry a weight of 113 grammes, while a light colored hair will break if a weight of 75 grammes is hung from it. A trial of what is known in electri cal science as "the third rail system" was made recently near Boston, with tho result that an open electric car, in the teeth of a breeze blowing fif teen miles an hour, ran several miles at the rate of eighty miles an hour. The Proctor Memorial Association contemplate erecting an international observatory on San Miguel Mountain, California, with a telescope constructed on a new principle, with a magnifying power four times greater than the now Yerkes lens recently set up in Chicago or the 30-inch lens in the famous Lick observatory. The lens is to be built on the sectional plan, the invention of Louis Gathmann, of Chicago. The site for the observatory has been dona ted by Mr. lehnm. New Way to Light Fires. This inventor may not get a monu ment in this generation, but in years to come the new women will be called upon to subscribe tho money that will in enduring bronze commemorate tho virtues of tho man who removed from their husbands' lives tho great bug bear of making a tire in the cold range or tho chilly or draughty grate, SUVB the New York Journal. The now fire lighting fan does away with tho treacheious kindling that gayly burns out and leaves no impression upon tho stubborn coal. It is a simple mechanical contriv ance this "fan," shaped as its name. It fits close to the stove front or the grate. Within its sheet-iron walls is a main spring and clook wheels to work it. It is wound up by turning a handle at the side and set going or stopped by a lever. When the apparatus 13 to bo used a small quantity of paraffins oil is poured into a cavity in tho blow pipe, which is filled with asbestos fiber. When the fiber is thoroughly soaked a light is applied, and the fan set to going, thus forcing from the outlet into the grato an oxidizing flame which quickly spreads through and thoroughly ignites tho coal with whioh the grate has already beon filled. The machine is also used for blowing up a dead fire, the spring being wound up, and the fan set in motion for from threo to ten minutes. Japs Are loud ol' a Joke. Tho skill of a Japanese juggler is illustrated by a recent incident at a Japanese dinner, where one of them was employed to entertain the com pany. A foreign guest determined to have no optical delusions about what the juggler did. He never let his glances be distracted, and was not once off his guard. Notic ing this, tho old juggler played to him entirely. An immense porcelain vase was brought in and set in the middle of the room, and tho juggler, crawling up, let himself down into it slowly. The skeptio then sat for half an hour without taking his eyes from the vase, which he had first been con vinced was sound and firm and stood on no trap door. After this prolonged watch, the rest of the company assailed him with laughter and jeers, and pointed to his side, where the old juggler wis seated fanning himself, and had been so seated for some minutes.—London I Tit-Bits. Tlio Palestine Railway. It is proposed to extend the railway between Jerusalem and Jaffa to Port Said, a distanoe of about 220 miles from the former city. This would ad mit of tourists now passing through the Suez Canal visiting the early scenes of the Christian religion with out delay. Great itritain's Ships, The number of vessels which en tered the ports of Great Britain last year was 348,330, and their total ton nage was ovor 04,000,000. Of these ships 357,289 were sailing under the British flag, and no less,than 217,029 were steamers. THE FIELD OF ADVEiNTURE. THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DAR ING DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. Awful Experience With a Centipede —The Hero of an Albert Medal- He Saved His Child. ** ~T ATTLESNAKES, scorpions, I tarantulas, gila monsters— -1 \ they are all good things 6 to keep away from," said a mining engineer, recently returned from the West, "but for all-around hatefnlness they simply aren't in it with a centipede. No, they are not necessarily fatal. No poisonous in sects are, notwithstanding the stories one hears to the contrary. But they are bad enough. Did you ever see one? They are not pretiy, and they don't look in the least like those thou sand legged worms which we call cent ipedes here. The genuine thing may be anywhere from one to six inches long. I killed two, eight inches in length, but that is not common. Their bodies consist of a lot of joints, some thing like a string of flattened beads. Each joint has two legs connected with it, and in the ends of these lies the poison. There are nineteen joints, so that, although he hasn't a hundred feet, as his name implies, he is still very well provided with them. jThirty eight legs, and every leg a sting? Tie can't attack you from the ground, of course. He doesn't have to, for it is ftt night when there is the greatest danger from these pests. "Ho is of an investigating turn of mind, and is fond of exploring one's body as one lies asleep. Scorpions or any of the other creatures sting only when they wish to, and only wish to in self defense; but with a centipede it is different. He may simply walk over one, with each step making some thing over three dozen foot print?, and each of these will leave a running sore, around which tho flesh will Anal ly slough off—a horrible scar being the result. If the creature is angered or sturtled—and it takes very little to anger him—every claw is instantly driven deep into the flesh, and tho re sult is ten times worse. "So far as speed of traveling goes, the centipede would be lost in the turn by many smaller insects; but in this clinching specialty of his, I think ho must be the quickest creature that lives. "There was a remarkable case in point which took place during this last trip of mine," continued the en gineer. "We were camped somewhere near' the southern end of tho line dividing New Mexico from Arizona. It was just dawn when something woke me. My instrument man and a rodinan lay on the opposite side of the little opeu tent. The rodman wns also awake, and was gnzing silently, with an ex pression of horror on his face, at tho bare chest of his companion. Thon, from under the arm of the sleeping man, appeared tho linked body of u big centipede, fully six iuohes long. "It went forward a little way and stopped; then crawled leisurely on again. There was nothing to do that I could think of. A sudden move ment, a sound, or even a shadow, would at once cause the brute to fast en himself. "The warmth of the body seemod to please him, and he stopped again, j Luckily the trnnsitmau never stirred. The inaction was ghastly, and I saw ' the rodman's hand gradually—very gradually—move toward the saddle which served him as a pillow, disap pearing under it. Then it slowly emerged, grasping a heavy pistol, cooked. A! whys with tho same delib eration, tho muzzle was brought to within a few inohes of the centipede; tho barrel carefully pointed so that it would just miss the man's breast, and the trigger pulled. The sleeper awoke with a scream, starting up and trying to clutch at the place, but before he oould do so, we had pinioned his hands and forced him back. The centi pede, naturally, was blown to dußt, but between tho time that bullet loft the pistol, two inohes away, aud reached the end of his six-inch body, the creature had found time to bury seven of his thirty-eight legs. "We never thought the injured man would survive, but after weeks of de lirium, he began slowly to recover. When the obstinate wound had healed the scar was as though a red not ladle had boon laid across tho man's body ; the path of the centipede forming the handlo, and tho bowl, a placo as large as one's hnnd, made by tho dying clinch. I'll take my scorpions straight, if I have choice. No oenti pedes in mine." The Hero of an Albert Medal. Most extraordinary are the details of the gallant action for which an Albert medal of tho first class was conferred on Thomas Averett Whist ler, first mate of tho ship Ennerdale, of Liverpool. Early in the morning of Docember 17, 1885, when the Ennerdale was rounding Capo Horn, on apprentico named Dnncan McCallum was sent alolt to looso the sky6ail. The Enner dale, I should mention, was one of Messrs. J. D. Newton's Dale Line of steamers. Presently, as the Captain was de scending from tho poop, he saw a heavy body strike the main rigging a little abovo the bulwark, and rebound into the sea. That "heavy body" was Mc- Callum, and tho ship being almost under lull sail at tho time, he was car ried rapidly astern. Immediately after this tragic occur rence, H. S. Pochin, an able seaman, leaped overboard after the apprentice, but the latter sank before Pochin could reach him. All things con sidered, the rescuer's position was now pretty serious, and fearing lest he should bo seized with crump before a bout could come to his assistance be hailed the ship, asking for a lifebuoy to be thrown to him; at the samo moment the master, Captain Gunson, called all hands to man a boat. The fust mate, Mr. Whistler, who had been asleep in his berth, ran on deck and hoard Pochtn's hail. Calling to the boatswain to heave him a lifebuoy, he at once sprang overboard, secured the lifebuoy which was thrown to him, and succeeded in reaching Tochin. This poor man was already on the point of sinking, but with the help of the lifebuoy Whistler was able to keep him up. Meanwhile, considerable delay had occurred in the dispatch of the boat— for one thing, her lashings had been secured very firmly for the passage round Cape Horn, and when she was launched so many men crowded into her that sho capsized, which savs much for the popularity of Whistler. The boat was soon righted, however, and dispatched in search of the third mate and two seamen. All this time the two men in the water were rapidly becoming exhausted, and they had made up their minds to abandon the lifebuoy mid strike out side by side for the ship, when they were confront ed by a new, weird danger. An immense albatross swept down majestically on Pochin and Whistler, aud, after hovering round close to their heads, alighted on the water just beyond arm's length. There the great bird remained, staring them in the face and only waiting until they had become a littlo more exhausted. In a few minutes, however, the boat reached the spot, and its crew drew their perishing shipmates out of the water. Directly they were lifted into the boat both men became insensible, and Whistler was delirious for some time afterward. Amazing as it may seem, the two men had remained in the piercingly cold water for upward of forty minutes. Tho expectant al batross was greatly disappointed at the turn events had taken, aud had to be driven oil with a boathook. It was a remarkable fact that the attack of this bird contributed not a little to the saving of the lives of both Whist ler and Pochin. This wns because their vigorous efforts to beat off the bird materially helped to keep their blood in circulation, theroby averting the fatal cramp.—Strand Magazine. lie Saved His Child. The Brooklyn Times tells of the narrow escapo from drowning of a littlo daughter of Mr. Bankin, builder of Brooklyn, in a mill dam at Huntington, L. I. Mr. llaultin took his wife, daughter and a woman friend out rowing. Unconscious of danger, Mr. llankin nllowod tho boat to drift along directly toward tho mill race. Mrs. Bankin hoard tho sound of tho rushing water, and remarked to her husband thnt there might bo danger near at hand. He quieted her fears and took lip tho oars to row along faster, when the bow of tho boat reached into the current which shot across tho opening of the sluiceway. Instantly tho boat was whirled about in away that nearly npset it, and in spite of the efforts of Bankin to hold on to the corner of the stone wall, the boat was drawn under the bridge toward tho gates. Bealiziug that nothing could prevent the boat from being turned over when it struck tho gates ltankin told the others to seize hold of the gates and hold on. When tho boat struck it was upset, and all were thrown into the water. Mr. Bankin and the ladies succeeded in catching hold of tho gates, but the child missed, and was swept out of eight. She had been carried under the gates. The distracted father was preparing to dive into the tideway to look for his child whon ho struck his foot against a moving object under tho gatos. He let go and was carried down. lie found the girl hold under water by her hair, which had caught in the woodwork of the gatos. He seized hold of her braid and tore it loose, and the tide swept them out into the mill pond. Baukin is an expert swim mer, and after being carried out into the pond some distance he managed to get out of the tideway aud brought the half drowned child to the shore. He then assisted tho ladies to the bridge above tho gates. They were nearly exhausted and could not have held on much longer. A .Sailor's Buttle With a Shark. A short time ago the Italian Govern ment sent a torpedo boat to a bay near Genoa, to blow up a wreck which hin dered navigation. Arriving there, the first thing the Captain saw was a tremendous shark, and realized that operations could not safely bo com menced so long as the shark was pres ent. So he tired a rifle at the fish, but only slightly wounded it. Then a sailor, named Giuseppe Bo mano, stepped forward and offered to kill it. Having obtained permission to do so, he jumped into the sea and, armed with nothing but a dagger, swam straight toward the monster Hah. For fifteen minutes the battlo happily ending with the victory of the reckless sailor. Fourteen times he sank his dagger deep into the body of his vicious", antagonist, and then clam bered on deck again, wholly unharmed. The Government rewarded Bomano with a medal for bravery. A Pet Shark. G. W. Fife, of Tacoma, Wash., has a curious pet tied up to his boatbouse by n chain cable. The collar is not passed around the pet's neek, as might be supposed, but is about its tail. Mr. Fife wns 011 the bay, off Tacoma, in a boat whon he saw a shark, and he har pooned it and towed it to the pier. The shark was not seriously injured, so he passed the collar around its tail, fastening tho chain to tho pier. The oreature is now feeding heartily, and seems accustomed to its stern fasten ing.—Sportsman's Beview. A NEW GEM. Within the past twenty years a new and very beautiful stone has been introduced in jewelry. It ib the green garnet, sometimes called the "Uralian emerald," being found in the Ural Mountains. George F. Kunz, the gem expert, says of it: "It varies in color from yellowish-green to an in tense emerald color, and has such a power of refracting light that it shows a distinct fire like the diamond of zircon, and in the evening has almost the appearance of a green diamond." WOMEN TO BE PROUD OF. Tho two American women who have roceived the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from German universities this year are Miss Georgians Lee Mor rell and Miss Alice Luce. Miss Mor l-ell is a graduate of Vassar, and be fore going to Germany was a teacher in the Girls' High School in Brooklyn. Sho was the first woman at Heidelberg admitted to the English lectures, and she won her degree by translating a poem from the Auohinleck manuscript in Edinburgh from Middle English into German and editing it. Miss Luce is tho fourth woman upon whom Gottingen has bestowed a doctor's de gree. Wellesle.y was her alma mater, and between her graduation and her term at Gottingen she spent two years in the study of philology at Leipzig. - -New York Independent. SAND PIES IN PLACE OF MUD PIE 3, "They will play in the dirt!"ex claimsd a horrified mother to her fine lady callers, when two neatly dressed young hopefuls came into the recep tion room with mud-bedaubed hands and dresses n perfect sight from tho dirt ground into them. "Of course they will," responded the daintiest of tho callers. "Aline have a mania for dirt that is appalling; but I had sev eral loads of olean, white sand put in our scrap of a back yard, and the de light of it to my babios is worth wit nessing. I can put their pretty white dresses on them and send them to that sand pile, knowing that all I will have to do to make them presentable is to shake them down a little aDd empty their shoes. Of course they are not permitted to have water after thoy are freshly dressed. Just try my plan." —New Orleans Picayune. SHALL WE WEAK EARRINGS AGAIN? The statement that earrings are again coming into fashion has brought tho subject of piercing the ears to tho attention of physicians, and has evoked a good deal of comment on tho future of this practice. For reasons too scientific for ordinary discussion, so tho doctors tell us, tho conditions of tho system of tho human family has grown mora susoeptible within the past few leaves, and numbers of cases of blood-poisoning from piercing the ears have been reported. Whether this will restrain anybody from wear ing earrings is a question that it is hardly worth while to discuss. Battlo and murder and sudden death havo no terrors for people who desire to follow the fashion. What a pity it is that some one could not set tho fashion for goodness, clean liness, amiability and health, and have it followed with such oagerncss us that bestowed upon some sonseless and silly fad 1 It would be of infinite advan tage to the human family if such could be the case. As to the subject of earrings, they are positively unbecoming to the ma jority of women. Besides, the ears get urawn out of shape and their sym metry is entirely destroyed. This, however, counts for nothing, and it is too much to expeot that any impres sion will be mado on tho rank and file of women by tho statement that they may lose their lives from blood poison ing if thoy set out to follow this re vived fad.—New York Ledger. BIG SLEEVES DEPLORED. Most women will deplore the pass ing of the huge sleeve. It has its drawbacks, but with all its faults wo men love it still, and tho propheoy that the tight sleeve will return next winter is not pleasing to us. The news from London is that the Princess of Wales is wearing extremely small, al most closely-fitting sleeves; indeed, she never seemod to favor the great pulls that won the admiration of Paris and New York. They say, too, that the Duko of York so disliked large sleeves that he asked his wife not to wear thegi, and the obedient Duchess did as slid was bid. One of the new sleeves fits quite tightly to the shoulder, although they havo full epaulets. Tho sleeve that wrinkles like a gant de suede is ex tremely popular. Over those a small puff reaches half way to the elbow. The majority ol women, however, still oling to the more generously propor tioned sleeve. Noxt winter, perhaps, will be the time of rejoicing for the woman whose plump arms look will in covering devoid of furbelows. Sleeveless jackets continue to hold their own, in spite of the changes in the creations they cover. They are very appropriate for summer wraps, since the beauty of sumpier gowns de pends so entirely on their freshness. Ono odd littlo sleeveless jacket is of seeded white duck, trimmed along the edges with black volvet. A quaint little cape flnres out over tho sleeves and is caught up over the breast with enormous pearl buttons. The flaring Marie Antoinette collar is edged with black velvet ribbon. This oape is very pretty when the material used is white broadcloth, and the trimming can, of course, be varied. Gold braid gives it a very stylish air,—New York Mail and Express. GOSSIP. Queen Victoria's eyesight has be come so impaired that she finds much difficulty in reading. The Queen of Denmark, although seventy-eight years of age, is still pretty and retains her vivacity and charm. By a vote of 13 to 5 the Directors of the Melbourne (Australia) Hospital recently appointed two female physi cians as assistants. Miss Ella Hepworth Dixon declaros that cigarette Bmoking is enormously on the increase among well bred women in England. One of Jane Hading's regal gowns, which cost her S2OOO, was of rich tur quoise blue velvet, embroidered with white and yellow silk poppies. Two Chinese girls have recently graduated from the medical depart ment of the University of Michigan. Both have a fine record for scholar ship. The late Clara Schumann, the pian ist, left a diary extending over half a century and containing much valuable material for the history of music dur ing that period. Miss Mary French Field, the eldest daughter of the late Eugene Field, is about to make her first appearance as a public reader. She is said to possess considerable histronic ability. A ladv has been appointed registrar of births, marriages and deaths by the city of London. Miss Kemm, the lady in question, has for some time acted as assistant to her father. Nearly 400 of the Queen Viotoria Jubilee Institute nurses went by special train to Windsor the other evening, ana were inspected by the Queen in the grounds of the castle. Dr. Sarah I. Shuey has been elected President of the Oakland (Cal.J Board of Health. She is the first woman in the city who has ever been elected to a prominent office on any of the mu nicipal boards. Tho Duchess of Cleveland, mother of Lord Bosebery, although in her seventy-eighth year, is nn inveterate globe trotter. She has just returned to London from the Cape of Good Hope and the Transvaal. Miss May Abraham, recently ap pointed superintendent of factory in spectors in England, is a very beauti ful woman of the most refined Jewish type. She wa3 formerly private secretary to Lady Dilke. Queen Amalie of Portugal has been devoting much of her time to an attempt to discover an autl-fat pill, in order to stay tilt? tendency to ex treme corpulence which has been threatening to disfigure her husband. Miss Daisy Barbco, of Atchison, Kan., was graduated recently with the highest honors from the law depart ment of Washington University at St. Louis, having captured the thesis prize over thirty-eight competitors. She was tho only young womun in tho oluss. Miss Amy Beade, a nieco of Charles Beade, is making a short sojourn in Oakland, Cal., where sho is engaged in writing a work upon the United States. Miss Beade, who is a great traveler, and has just completed a tour of the Southorn and Central American countries, like her gifted uncle, writes novels "with a purpose." A pretty compliment was paid to the Princess of Wales by a little child during her recent visit to tho Mar chioness of Salisbury at Hatfield House. The little girl had been promised that she should see the Princess of Wales soon ; the Princess entered the room, and after staring at her for a while the child turned to her mother, saying: "Mamma, I've seen the young Princess, but where is the Princess of Wales?" FASHION NOTES. White duck portfolios, with clasns of sterling silver, are tho latest nov elty. Dainty roso bowls are seen in green or red and white combinations of cut glass, A primrose bedroom is a dainty npartment seen reoently in a country house. A new veiling is of pale pink with black dots. Its effeot on the face is startling. Once it was her bonnet that con cerned the woman traveler, now it is her bicycle. White dresses are fashionable; in deed, it is many a year since white has been in such favor. Lace is used even on crash gowns, an incongruous combination that is only sanctioned for its oddity. A novel use for lace is tho making of full plaitings of straight-edged in sertions, which are employed both as edgings for ilounces and for founda tion skirts. The craze for wearing white kid gloveß on all occasions is now over, and peoplo of good taste and style now wear the pale shades of straw, pearl gray, or mastic. White gloves make the hand look large, and give the effect of those worn at a village wedding.
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