The continued and growing demand
for bicycles has had its effect on tho
hard wood lumber trade.
Greeks are asking Christians for tho
modest sum of 810,000,000 to help
them to buy out nil tho Mohammedan
land owners in the island of Crete.
It is beginning to bo believed that
the hated mole is really a friend of
tho farmer. Examination ot moles'
stomachs shows that they feed mostly
upon worms, grubs, beetles and other
enemies of tho husbandman.
The Chicago Board of Education has
ruled that Hebiew teachers be allowed
to abstain from work on their princi
pal church holidays, for which priv
ilege the pay of tho substitute teach
ers will bo deducted from tho salaries
of the absentees.
A nice penny the city of St. Louis
makes out of the telephone frauchise.
The Bell Telephono Company recently
deposited 810,405.85 in the city treas
ury, representing live per cent, of tho
gross receipts of the company for six
months ending June 30th, that tho
company is required to pay the city
in consideration of its franchise.
Footballists were wont to snicker at
pnblio opinion two years ago, the
Pathfinder recalls, when, outraged by
the brutality developed in a noble
eport, that mental consensus said
"stop it!" Obs rve the knights of
the gridiron to-day, brought under
the restraining aud civilizing force of
a greatly reformed and iron-clad code
of rules. Vivo la Public Opinion.
Family troubles are the great source
of suicide and insanity. In Germany,
during 1895, there were 2831 suicides
of men divorced or separated from
their wives, 9918 of widowers and only
286 of married men; with 313 of wo
men separated from their husbands,
121 of widows but only 61 of married
women, aud 87 of unmarried. Every
million inhabitants in Wurtenburg
had 1510 lunatics among women se
parated from their husbands and 1481
among men separated from their
wives, 338 among widows and 338
among widowers, but only 224 among
unmarried women and 236 among
bachelors.
It is commonly thought that tho in
stinct for new and striking advertising
is a trait more characteristic of Ameri
cans than of any foreign Nationalities.
But the Scotch are smart, too. Tho
British Medical Association met this
summer in Carlisle, and all the great
men in the medical world were present.
Now, an Englishman, no matter what
time of the year it may Vie—spring,
summer or winter—must always wear
a tall silk hat while in London. Out
of town it is diflerent. When the
great London doctors assembled in
Carlisle the hot weather mado a change
of headgear necessary. Tho chief hat
store had just introduced an American
"hat shaper" of the style familiar in
New York hat stores, but rare in Eng
land. This hat shaper makes little
diagrams of the shape of the customer's
head to guide tho hatter in shaping
the now hat. Tho hatter took the
"outlines" of the heads of all his medi
cal customers and mounted all the
figures in a frame and placed them in
his window to show to the passers by.
Attached to the deformed, irregular
shaped figures were Buch names as Sir
Augustus Playfair, Lawson Tait and
many others of international reputa
tion.
Although 1000 miles away, the Cape
of Gibraltar is of great importance to
England. Its value is that of a watch
tower from which the movements of
warships can be observed and tele
graphed as they pass into and out of tho
Mediterranean. Moreover, situated
as it is near our trade routes, says
the London Times, it is the
point at which vessels would naturally
call for news, orders, coal and protec
tion during the continuance of a war.
When you consider that in every sec
ond of time twenty tons of shipping
go out or come into our home ports,
and that, as a matter of fact, tho stream
is continuous and never ceases, and
tnat the value of the sea-borne trade
of the British empire is calculated at
84,650,000,000, of whichabout 81,250,-
000,000 neither comes to nor goes
from the United Kingdom, it seems
difficult to exaggerate tho valuo of the
fortress of Gibraltar or to realize tho
congestion of British shipping which
might Heek its protection in war. It
has at present no dry docks. Its gar
rison consists of seven companies of
artillery, four companies of engineers
and three companies of infantry. It
is the meeting place of our Channel and
Mediterranean squadrons. The roads
do not afford safe anchorage in all
winds, and an enemy eould conceiva
bly shell them if he mounted heavy
guns on Spanish soil.
AT DAWN.
When morning breaks
What ship shall rise from out tho bound
less sea
To bid mo greeting with tho break of
day,
Then float into tho blue forever free
Or linger with tho changing tides for
aye?
What myths my mind in happy fancy makes'
When morning breaks! _
When morning breaks!
Ah! Thou—what foundling hopes shall
come to me
To sook fulfillment ore Iho close of day?
What songster sweet shall rise from out
the lea
And pause to let mo list his roundelay
The while his sleeping mate ho gently wakes
As morning breaks?
When morning breaks!
Thy heart 1 pray from dulling care'll bo
free,
While mine—ah! had I only mine own
way
You'd ever dwell besido tho wave with rae
And see tho ships anl hear the rounde
lay.
Alas! such visions happy fancy makes
When morning breaks.
—J. Harvey .Lawrence.
A SINGULA 11 fill GST.
/* 7H. HENIIY API'S,
VfefeW of Hoxton, com-
Ifj'wx im Wi " xln 3
IH\V& IB tj Ihe wires ou
<ll VI //P\m the lawn of Has
ft v>} gif if leigh Court. Ho
f 5: \\V/ / /( looked P it the
111 / f I dim light in the
Vfl V\W I l l reSßiu ß room,
J| uud chuckled
tJtk / softly as ho bent
* the last yard of
(1 a j) "-'re-
Vr "A trip in
ft time," said Mr.
Apps, "sives nine."
Ho threw the ropo ladder gently in
the air, and at the iirst effort it caught
the projecting nail.
" 'Onco on board the lugger/quoted
Mr. Apps, facetiously, as he mounted
the rope ladder, " 'and the girl is
mine.'"
He opened the window very gently
and soon stood inside the dressing
room. Near the table in tho corner
of the room was an iron safe.
"Well, I'm jiggered!" exclaimed
Mr. Apps. He loosened the flaps of
his fur cap and mopped his brow with
the back of his hand. "Well, I'xu jig
gered ! If they 'aveu't been and left
the key in for me. I might have sived
myself a lot of trouble if I'd a
Unowed."
Mr. Apps swung open the heavy
door of the sate aud listened to the
music downstnirs. Young Lady Staple
burst was giving (as Mr. Apps very
well knew) a dauce, a fancy dress
dance, on her return from the Conti
nout, after her term of widowhood.
"I'll jest see, first of all," ho said,
"that the coast is abslootty clear, and
then—then for a bagful, "j
Mr. Henry Apps stepped out into
tho broad passage. He slouched, with
his jemmv sticking out of his capa
oious side pooket, a few steps toward
the stairs. Suddenly a girlish tiguro |
turned the corner.
"Llc-is my art!" cried Mr. Apps.
"Why how do yon do?" said tho
young lady, stepping forward. She
gave a soft laugh that was very pleas
ant. "This is really delightful. Do
you know, I recognized you at once,
in spite of the costume."
She held the hand of Mr. Apps for n
moment, causing that gentleman to
gasp for breath, and called ono of the
maids.
"Just bring me a pencil and a card,"
she said. "I must arrange for a car
riage to take Captain Norman hack to
his hotel in tho morning. I wasn't!
sure that he would come."
"I can walk," remarked Mr. Apps,
with restored self possession.
"I won't hear of it. When shall we
say, now?"
"Say in an hour's time," said Mr.
Apps. "I can go upstairs again alone,
change my togs, and do all I want to."
"And can't you stay longer?"
She gave the card to the maid, aud
ordered it to he despatched nt once.
"I've got a busy night before me,"
urged Mr. Apps exeusingly. He
thought of his dog waiting on the
lawn, aud feared it might give nn in
opportune bark. Besides, the safe
was still open and the diamonds were
waiting for him. He had noticed with
satisfaction Lady Staplehurst was
wearing none.
"You were always an active man,
Captain."
"Alwavs a-doing something," agreed
Mr. Apps. "if it isn't one thiug it's
another." Ho shook his head reflec
tively. "I of'en wonder I don't write
a book about it all."
"I don't believe yon will know any
body here, Captain Norman," she saiil,
as they walked downstairs, "hut 1
couldn't holp sending you a card, see
ing how friendly wo were on the
l'eshawur. Do you remember those
evenings on deck in tho lied Sea?"
She was really a very lino young
woman, anil iu her costume she looked
extremely well.
"Do 1 not?" said Mr. Apps, with
much .fervor. "Shall I ever forget
'em."
"And then the journey from Brin
disi, you know ; aud that funny little
German —you remember liim?"
"He was a knock out, that German
was."
"And the girl who played the banjo,
and—"
"It was great," agreed Mr. Apps—
"great."
The large ballroom was very full. A
small covey of brightly dressed young
people flew toward the young hostess
to complain of her temporary absence
from the room and a broad-nhoulderod
Gondolier shook bauds with her and
took up her card with something of an
air proprietorship.
"I thought I had left the key in tho
—excuse me." Tho young hostess
took her card from the Gondolier. "1
am engaged to Captain Norraau. You
don't know him? Allow rae."
"Please to meet you," said Mr.
Henry Appe. " 'Ow'sthe world using
you ?"
"That's an original costume of yours,
Captain Norman," remarked tho Gou
dolier. "I don't know that I've ever
seen anythiug so daringly ever be
fore."
"Well, wot of it?" demanded Mr.
Apps, with sudden aggressiveness—
"wot's tho odds to you wot I like to
wear? You needn't thiuk you're—"
"Captain Norman," interposed the
young hostess laughingly, "you
mustn't overdo the part. Look here.
I've put your name down for this
waltz, but if you like we'll sit it out—
that is, if you promiso to keep up that
diverting East End talk. I liko it.
J)o you thiuk you can manage to
do so?"
"Bather!" said Mr. Apps.
"And it is a capital make up, Cap
tain Norman," she went on. "Do you
know that at first, just for one mo
ment, I thought you were a real bur
glnr."
"Fancy that, now!" said Mr. Apps.
He was relieved at soeiug ail obvious
way out of his difficulty. 'There's
nothing like doing the thing in a
proper, striteforwaril w'v."
"And," said Lady Staplehurst, with
her fan ou his arm, as they walked
across the room, "you have got the
East End accent capitally."
" 'Taint so dusty, is it?"
She beckoned to the Gondolier.
"Captain Norman aud I are great
friends," she said, in an explanatory
way. "Ho has not l>ojn loug homo
from abroad, and be knows scarcely
any one."
"Not a blessed soul," echoed Mr.
Apps.
"You mu9t let me show you round a
bit, Captain Norman, said tho Gon
dolier, with determined geniality.
"Can you come round to my club one
night this week?"
"Whaffor?" demanded Mr. Apps
suspiciously.
"Why, to diue ! Say Thursday."
" 'Eavous knows where I shall be
on Thursday," said Mr. Apps. "T
don't."
"You must consider me at your dis
posal if you requiro any introduc
tions. |I know a good lot of people,
and any friend of L*dy Staple
hurst's—"
"Oh, come off tho roof," said Mr.
Apps, with much discontent, "wot's
tho use of torking?"
"Isn't it capital?" asked Lady
Staplehurst of the Gondolier, delight
edly. "How much more interesting it
would bo if every one would only talk
to mo iu their character."
Lady Scapleliurst rose with some
thing of hurry in her manner and
spoke to Henry VIII.
"What regiment do you belong to,
Captain Norman?" asked the Gon
dolier.
"Bind out," said Mr. Apps.
"Am I too curious? I know very
little of tho army, I'm afraid." The
Goudolier was resolved to be agree
able to Lady Staplehurst's frieni. "I
always dodge the army nights in the
House. I suppose you kuow soveral of
the Service members?"
"I kuow as many as I want to kuow,"
said Mr. Apps evasivoly. "A man iu
my position of life 'as to be a bit care
ful who ho mixes up with."
The hostess returned from Henry
Viir.
"I can rnnko nothing of this man,"
whispered tho Goudolier to her as he
rose. "I think he's silly."
"If you knew his qualitios yon
wouldn't speak of him like that." She
resumed her seat by the side of Mr.
Henry Apps.
"Well, blow me !" said Lady Staple
burst, screwing her pretty mouth in
her eflort to imitate the Cockney's
accent; "blow rno if this ain't a fair
take—l mean tike dahu," Bbe laughed.
"It's of no U3e, Captain Norman. 1
can't talk as you can."
"It's n gift," said Mr. Apps, "that's
what it is."
"Von don't want to bo introduced
to anybody here, I suppose?"
"Not me."
"You havo heard of—"
She pointed iu the direction of the
Gondolier.
"All I want to."
"He's really making a big name in
the House, you know. I watch his
career with great interest."
"Thinks a jolly lot of hisself."
"Oh, I thiuk a lot of him, too," re
marked Lady Staplehurst pleasantly.
"And is that a jemmy sticking out of
yonr jacket pocket? This is, indeed,
realism. You know how it works, I
suppose?"
"Well, l'vo got a kind of hides,"
said Mr. Apps. "Look 'ere. You put
this end in and—"
Mr. Appa found himself getting
quite excitod in the explanations that
ho gave. It was a new sensation to
meet one who showed an intelligent
interest iu his profession, and he
could not help feeling flattered. Look
ing up ho saw the Gondolier gazing at
him.
"He don't look 'appy, that chap,"
said Mr. Apps.
"Will you excuso me for one mo
mont?"
"Wot are you goiug up to, miss?"
he said apprehensively.
"I want to speak to him."
"Wh 1" (with relief) "I dou't mind
that."
Whilo Lady Stoplehurst was making
the Gondolier resume his ordinary ex
pression, Mr. Apps thought and
though. The couples promenading
after tho waltz looked curiously at
him.
"It's the rnmmießt show you was
over in, 'Enery," said Mr. Apps;
"you're a 'aving 'em on toast, you are ;
but you'll he glad to get upstuirs ageu.
You want them dimonds, that's wot
you want. Time means money to you,
Minery,"
Lady Staplehurst hurried to tbo
doorway. A murmur of amusement
went tbrougb the room as tbo guests
saw a new arrival in tbo costume of a
police constable, accompanied by a
man in plain clothes. Mr. Apps,
thinking over bis exploits, gazing
abstractedly at bis boots, regretting
their want of polish, did not see them
until tbo plain clothos man tapped him
on tbo shoulder.
"What, Apps again?" exclaimed tbo
man.
"Yus," said the burglar,
tcntedly, "Yus, it is Apps agine, Mr.
Walker. And vurry glad you aro to
see liim, I've no daht."
"Always a pleasure to mcotagentlo
man like you," said Mr. Walker ckeer
lully, as be conducted him to the door
way. "I've wanted to run up against
you before."
Much commotion in the ballroom at
tbo diverting little scene. General
agreement that Lady Staplehurst was
a perfect genius at entertaining.
"But, loveliest girl," said the Gon
dolier, confidently, to Lady Staple
burst, "isn't ibis carryiug a joke
rather too far? That's a real detec
tive."
"I know," said tbo loveliest girl, i
trembling now a little. "That's u 1
real burglar, too."
"A real—"
"Yes, yes. Don't mako a fuss. 1 '
don't want the dance spoilt. Take
me down to supper, like a good fel-'
low."—Tit-Bits.
A Demand for Better Horses.
So much has beeu said about the in
roads of the bicycle on the profits of
horse-breeders and livery stable keep
ers that it is quite worth while to con
sider, from a strictly commercial stand
point, and leaving all sentiment cut of
tbo question, what i 9 tbo future of the
horse,just bow nearly we can dispense
with his services, and what 6ort of
substitute for this faitb'ul of
man inventors and scientists muy offer
to us.
Far seeing and intelligent breeders
of horses have already come to the
conclusion that it does not pay to
raiso colts which will not bring a re
munerative price when old enough to
bo marketable. Western horsemen
who have been handling these cheaper
horses are looking for better grades.
They have been dealing in auiinals fit
only for street-car service, light truck
ing and the most ordinary kind of
road work. A few of tbo better ani
mals of this class can be made avail
able for farm work and breeding farm
stock. Men who havo a real love for
and appreciation of the horse, and who
have made a thorough study of its
breeding and management, havo for
years tried to convince Western stock
men that it costs no more to raise a
good horse than a poor one, outside
of the cost of tbo sire. The few men
who have come to a realizing sonse of
the true state of the horse find that
by adopting this wiser course they are
obtaining better prices for whatever
borsec they send to market. But they
never ship "scrubs." These aro the
men who lill the steady demand for
heavy dralt animals,high-class carriage
teams or roadsters for men who care
more for stylo than speed.
A few bronchos will bo required for
polo use, but the day of the California
"oayoose," the Mexican "plug" and
the Eastern "crowbait" is past. The
jingle of the bicycle bell has rung
their knell, and their requiem will bo
sung by buzzing electric motors and
a full orchestra of clatteriug cable
cars, overhead trolleys aud the whir
ring of horseless carriages.—The Led
ger,
A Giant Swing.
E. B. Zimmerman, of Warren, has
what is probably the highest swing in
Texas. Tho frame is made of pine
logs seventy eight feet long, which are
set in the ground eight feet, making
tho swing seventy feet high. The
cross-pieoe is GxG inche*, and is fas
tened to tho top of the upright pieces
iu such away as to be as strong as if
tbo frame was all one piece. On the
rorth side of the swing is a pole forty
two feet high, at the top of which is a
pulley. Tho persou who wishes to be
swung is strapped in (if he or she
desires), aud then takes hold of oue
end of a rope, the other end of which
is run through the pulley and fastened
to a team of horses.
Tho horses are started off and the
swinger is pulled to the top of the
pole. Wheu the top is reached he j
drops the rope aud is at once launched I
into space, sometimes going as high as
100 feet on the opposite side from the
pole. One turn at tho swing is gener
ally enough to satisfy one for that
evening. Since the erection of the
swing Mr. Zimmerinau's house has be
come a resort every evening for the
young people of Warren, and parties
frequently come from Hyatt and other
neighboring towns to enjoy an even
ing in "the swing."—Dallas News.
Smallest Voting List.
Does anybody know what town has
the smallest voting list of any in the
United States? it is Glastonbury, a
picturesque little place among the hills
of Vermont. Its present population,
which is tho largest it has ever had,
and of which it is most proud, is only
241.
At the Presidential electiou in 1892
only six votes were cast, five Demo
cratic and one Republican. Yet, in
spite of its small voting list, it always
sends its representative to the General
Assembly. It has no postoffice, and
ono of its most prominent townsmen
holds no less than seven different
offices. The town has often sent a
State Senator from its people, and
more than once a County Judge has
been choHeu from Glastonbury.—New
York Recorder.
Postal Cards.
Moro than 300,000,000 postal cards
are used annually iu the United States,
and it requires nodes* than 720 toui
! of paper to make them.
A MINIATURE FARM.
I Queen Wilhelmiua, of Holland, has
a miniature farm, the produce of
which she gives to tho poor and to the
hospitals. Her Swiss chalet is stocked
with the accumulated toys of twelve
years or more, and here she has
learned to "keep house" in tho most
approved Dutoh style.
THE NEW COLLAR BANDS.
The collar bauds on the new gowns
are one of the special points of deco
ration, and frills of some sort aro in
variably set in on the edge to stand up
around the neck, commencing a little
distance apart on either side of the
front. They arc made of knife-plaited
silk, ribbon, lace or chiflon, and one
very effective trimming is lace in Van
dyko points, outliued with a tiny
ruche of colored ribbon and gathered
into the neck. PJain velvet collars,
with plaitiugs of ribbon set iu fan
shape at the book, aro very pretty,and
cellars made of bias folds of light vel
vet or satin, with narrow black poarl
sdged ribbon edging each fold, aro
mother fancy.
A PICTURESQUE SMITHY.
A Kansas girl of seventeen not long
ago won tho prize in an unusual con
test in competition with two men,
3he had learned to turn a horseshoe
in a blacksmith's shop, and at an en
tertainment for tho benefit of the
church, she matched herself against
two of the most expert blacksmiths in
the city. Three portable forges were
placed on tho stage, and each contest
ant was allowed a helper to blow his
bellows. Both men and tho girl wore
leather aprons peculiar to their call
ing. Tho men smiled indulgently at
their rival as thoy waited for titnu to
00 called, but becatno anxious, then
ilarined, then discomfited, when she
turned a perfect horseshoe before the
iudieuce and judges in less than four
minutes. Tho curtain dropped on a
pretty tableau of glowing forges and
the smiling girl victor, who speedily
ippeared among her friends daintily
clad in white.
A REMARKABLE PRINCESS.
One of the most remarkable features
of Iho Czarina's suite, according to
the Vienna correspondent of the Lon
don News, is Princess Galitziu, who
personifies the mistress of the robes of
past centuries. Bhe is as tall as a
grenadier, drosses rao3t gorgeously,
ind wears six ostrich feathers in her
bonnet. Her hair, in plaiu bauds,
jurrouuds a large faco with remark
able teeth. She dominates tho whole
scene iu which she is placed, and the
Empress Elizabeth's mistro-s of the
robes, little Countos3 Goes, with her
■movvy hair and her simple back dress,
worn to please her imperial mistress,
offered a straugo coutrast to tho Rus
sian court lady. Tho court and tho
suites drove in procession of twenty
six carriages so perfectly appointed
that they aro the pride of Prince
Liechtenstein. So perfectly alike are
they that the saying is that the only
difference is the color of the coach
men's eyes.
NEWEST ROUND IIAT3.
The conical crown continues to ap
pear on the newest round hats of the 1
season. It was hoped that this shapo*
would coino up only to disappear, as
do many other erratic and exaggerated
styles, but it seems to gain ground as
tho autumn advances. It is a style, as !
a whole—laden with its weight of
superfluous garnitures —that is cer
tainly not in accordance with the pres
ent elaborate spreading effects in
diess. The steeple-crowned hat of
tho typical Welsh woman looks in
unison with the rest of her National
garb—tho aspiring hat making up by
its height for tho shortness of her
scant skirts, so that proportion is duly
maintained. Some of the new Mother
Goose stylos of bats for dress wear
have sucrar-loaf crowns and immense
brims, flat all around, or curved at
the sides. These shapes would prove
trying to the most beautiful face or
tho most regular features. Many are
of cream-white felt, over decorated
with white plumes, tips, breast feath
ers, beaded galloons, or black and
white effects iu ribbon, luce and
plumage. —New York Post.
SEEN IN MY LADY'S CHAMBER,
Every well regulated bod-room
which has moro than one occupant
has two single beds nowadays. They
are fitted up iu what is culled tho
Italian style. Tho biass back which
is draped, is iu one piece, and has tho
regulation movable arms, on which
tho curtains are hung. Tho high foot
piece of each bedstead is separate,
save for a still higher arch, made of
ornamented brass, which connects the
two draperies aud ia rather more elab
orate. The full hack is still used, but
over it are arranged deep festoons
aud long drooping ends, bordered
with narrow lriuge.
The sentimental damsel may now
sleep with her bend upon "his" let
ters, for the latest health fad is the
paper pillow. The paper is torn into
very small pieces aud tlion fput into a
pillow sack of drilling or light tick
ing. The pillows are very cooling in
hot weather, and are said to bo supe
rior to feather ones. Newspapers are
not used as thoy have a disagreeable
odor of printer's ink, but brown or
white paper aud old letters and en
-1 velopes are the best. The liner the
paper is out or toru tho lighter 11
makes the pillow.
If a piece of camphor gum is placed
in tho drawer where aro kept dress
waists that aro trimmed with stoel it
will prevent tho steel from tarnish
ing.
If you live- in a mosquito infested
spot you may be interested to know
that a drop or two of pennyroyal in
the bedtime bath will keep tho plagues
off. A saucer of oil or pennyroyal left
standing in the bedroom will help to
banish them.
Powdered borax sprinkled around
the spots where roaches or water bags
abound or a dose of boiling Lot water
for them to swim iD, or, better still, a
dinner of molasses and hellebore, will
furnish occasion for crape on tho door
of many overburdened kitchens.—
Philadelphia Times.
GOSSIP.
The Countess of Dunraven sings in
the village choir.
AVilliam Stoiber, tho newest Colora
do millionaire, has his wife for a busi
ness partner.
Borne of the French railway com
panies not only employ women as
clerks, but also in thesignai bosos.
Mis 3 Braddon, the novelist, is so
opposed to being photographed that
she recently refused §IOO in cash and
a royalty on all photographs of her
that might be sold.
Miss Muriel AVilsou, tho daughter
of "Tranhy Croft" AVilson, is ono of
the beauties of tho London season.
Sho has jet black hair, glorious eyes
to match and olive skin.
A London journal calls attention to
the fact that tho Princess of Wales at
tended tho Bayreuth festival, incog
nita, and that she is one of tho most
ardent AVagnerites in England.
There are now 110 oooking rooms
connected with London Bchools, for
the instruction of pupils, and 30,000
girls are receiving instruction in culi
nary and other domestic affairs.
The most recently organized society
in Atchison, Ivan., is one among the
girls, wherein each member is com
pelled to take an oath that she will not
marry a man whoso salary is less than
hers.
Lady Louise Tighe, the daughter of
the fourth Duke of Kiohmond, is tho
solo surviving lady who took part iu
the ball that her mother gave on tho
evo ot Waterloo. She is now ninety
three, and writes a firm, clear hand.
The Countess Tolstoi is aa excep
tionally refined and beautiful womaD,
and is naturally extremely fond of so
ciety, but to pleaso her husband sho
lives secluded and devotes herself to
being his amauuensis unci secretary.
The Episcopal diocese of Michigan
has declared women eligible to vote
for vestrymen in parish elections.
Twenty-five other dioceses and four
missionary jurisdictions of tho Epis
copal Church allow women to vote for
vestrymen.
One of the wedding gifts presented
to Princess Maud, who is an expert
bicyclist, was a baud of white leather,
studded with turquoises. Oa it wero
Bix little belis of gold aud silver al
ternately, and it is to be attached to
the haadlo b.ir of her bicyolo.
Mrs. Ilobecca Keener, eighty-four
years old, residing near White Oak,
Penn., has never seen a locomotive or
train of cars, although she oau hear
tho whistle of the engiuo iroin her
home. She is an active woman aud
does all the work about her home.
She and her husband recently cele
brated the sixtieth anniver3ury of
their marriage.
The prosent Dowager Empress of
China has often been compared to
Catherine the Great. AVhether the
lady deserves EO merciless a compari
son is not certain, but there seems to
be little denial that stormy saeues not
infrequently disturb the palaco wheu
tho ex-Empress and her royal son hap
pened to disagree on some polioy of
state. Matters have even gono eo far
that recently a philippic against
"petticoat" Government was issued iu
the oapital of the Flowery Kingdom.
FASHION NOrES.
Braiding will be one of tho now
fashions.
Blaok corded silks and plain satins
will be fashionable.
Fancy jackets, suoh as tho bolero,
Figaro and Eton, are to be worn.
The flowered Bilks that wore so pop
ulnr oarly in tho summer will bo worn
until late.
The cloth waists for winter will have
tho body of the waist braided aud the
sleeves plaiu.
One of the most fashionable bodioes
now worn is tho short bolero or zouave
jacket, of which there are many tvpes.
Miniature golf sticks iu gold are de
signs in the newest scarf pins made by
the representative jewelers. They aro
certainly up to date.
The recognized finish to every well
made skirt is a narrow inside foot-frill,
(jinked at cither edge, whioh should
be caught to tho facing every few
inches.
Women who wear on a wido satin
ribbon their badges, pins, buttons and
insignias of the various societies and
associations to which they belong, are
eritioised as seekers after notoriety.
The badges, pins, buttons and in
signias wore not made, however, to
put away in bureau drawers.
WHEN POLLY SMILE 3,
When Polly smiles the grayest skies
Take on a heavenly blue;
And O, the light in Polly's eyes—
Ilow bright it isi How true!
And from his perch, on her sedato
Young shoulders you onn see
Love shoot his arrows swift and straight,
Wiion Polly smiles at mo
But, O, my soul! whon Polly frowns,
How black and fierce tho skies!
And, oftentimes, n raindrop drowns
The light in Polly's eyes.
• But when I kiss her all tho rain
And storm clouds quickly flee,
And happy skies are blue again,
Por—Polly smiles at mo.
—Anna 'fczioE,
JIUMOIt OF THE DAY.
When in the brassy skies abova
No hope nor help I see,
1 gladly seek tho girl I love-
She's always cool to me.
—Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
Little Elsie—"Ain't thoso cows
small, ma?" Ma—"Yes, dear."
Little Elsie—"l guess them's the kind,
they gets condensed milk from, ain't
they?"— Philadelphia Becord.
Canny—"ls Miss Wilbur at home?"
Sforah—"No, sorr." Canny "Woll
—go upstairs and ask her when she
vill beat home." Norah (going)
"Yis, sorr."—Harper's Bazar.
The orator tiie air makes blue,
While getting in his licks,
And as tho days grow cooler —whew!
How hot grows politics t
—Boston Courier.
"What in thunder are you epeakin*
to the school children for?" asked tho
voter. "Just keep quiet," roplied the
sandidate; "they'll all bo old enough
io vote beforo I'm elected."—Atlanta
Constitution.
"How did you daro toll father that
you had a prospect of a hundred
thousand dollars a year?" sho asked.
"Why," ho answered, in righteous in
dignation, "I have, if I marry you."—
Washington Star.
It is talk wasted for an unmarriod
woman to boast of her economy to nn
unmarriod man. A man never ajipro
ciates economy in a woman nulil after
he hat married a woman who doesn't
praotico it. —Atchison Globe.
Hendricks—"Say, if wo can't get
this crowd in front of us out of tho
way, we are going to miss our train.
What shall wo do?" Carr—"l have it.
Let's start a discussion on tho coinage
question."— Cincinnati Enquirer,
lie rails in long and tedious prose
About the drama's dearth;
Yet he pays and goes
To see 1 he shows
And he laughs his money's worth.
—Washington Star.
Mr. Frankstown (admiringly)
"How fresh you look this morniDg,
Miss Homewood!" Miss Homewood
(who detests the young man) "How
fresh you talk this morning, Mr.
Frankstown."—Pittsburg Chronicle.
"What did the crowd gather nt the
corner for a few minutes ago!" "A
woman's wheel collapsed." "I sup
poso they wanted to see how badly she
was hurt." "No, they were trying to
find out the name ol' tho wheel."—
Judge.
"I want you to understand," roared
Beefly, "that the sun never sets on the
British Empire." "That's right,"
quietly remarked Yank E. Doodle,
"but Uncle Sam has found it necessary
to set on her once in a while."—De
troit Free Press.
Coronor—"ls this man whom you
found dead on the 1 abroad iraok a
total stranger?" Wituess (who had
been told by the company to bo care
ful iu bis statements) "No, sir. His
leg was gone intoirely. Ho was a
partial stranger."—Texas Sittings.
Mrs. Spooner—"Charles, do you
think you would over marry agaiu?"
Mr. Spooner—"What, alter having
lived with you for ten years I Never!"
Mrs. Spooner says she would give
something handsome if she only knew
what he meant by that.—Boston Tran
script.
Fixing His Idenlity: Attorney—
"Well, now, you say you saw tho man
who did tho stabbing?" Witness—
"Yis, sor." Attorney—"And would
yon kuow tbo culprit again if you saw
him?" AVituoss—"Ho wasn't no cul
prit, sor; ho was a Eyotalinu."—•
Cleveland Leader.'
Bees Stop Hallway Work.
Bees recently stopped tho construc
tion on tho Butler (l'ouu.) and Pitts
burg Bnilroad, Andrew Carnegie's
now freight lino from Pittsburg to the
great lakes.
Near Butler the road passes through
a two-aero field where bees aro kepi
by tho owuor, George Beibor. Mr.
Beiber refused to give tho railway
company tho right of way through the
beo field. Mr. Beiber rofusod to move
tho bees, hut ofiered to sell them to
tho railroad company. Tho company
declined to buy them, and ordered the
workmen to remove them.
AVhen this was attempted the beei
resisted tho invasion of their bomoi
so violently that the invaders were
compelled to flee. Tho bee 3 are there
yet, and tho workmen on tho road will
not touch them. —Now York Press.
A Deadly Venom.
Tho question has been asked which
is tho most powerful poison. So far
as is known, snake poison consists of
a peptone whioh produces local ulcera
tion, an unknown virulent substance,
which causes infiltration of blood when
injected into the tissues, and nn albu
men which is not apparently poison
ous.
AVhen snake venom is concentrated
by removing the third substance and
retaining tho other two, what is left
constitutes the moat powerful poison
known to toxicology. It is forty times
moro powerful than the original snake
venom. It has been reokoned that a
single thimbleful of it suitably applied
would be enough to kill 25,000 people,
—New York Journal.