A Pennsylvania court has decided
that to call a man a Mugwump is not
a libel, but a compliment.
Tho report of the Commissioner oF
Internal Reveuuo shows that thero
was a falling off last year of 20,000,-
000 gallons in tho consumption of
wlTsky in the United States.
Leap year is a fraud, maintains tho
Chicago Times-Herald. "There aro
now .'3,000,000 bachelors in this couu
try and tho surplus of matrimonial
raw material is constantly growing.
The new woman, matrimonially con
sidered, is not so effectivo as tho old
woman."
From 70,000 to 75,000 human
beings, or tho equivalent of one in
every twenty-six or twenty-seven of
tho 2,000,000 inhabitants of New York
City aro employed "after night," as a
Westerner would say, and they and
their families and those who supply
them would fill up a city of moro than
300,000.
College football in Ohio is evidently
growing too tame, concludes tho New
Orleans Picayune. With tho consent
of Warden Cofliu, of tho State Frison
at Columbus, Ohio, eight studouts ot
the law school of the State University
were recently initiatod into a Greek
letter fraternity, with experiences in
the methods of punishment used in
tho prison, including the ducking
tub, the padding machine, the thumb
chains and tho humming bird, after
being brought to the prison blind
folded in cabs.
A very curious point baa been sub
mitted to the Derbyshire (England)
Football Association for decision. It
is as to whether artificial limbs aro to
be permitted in the play. It seems
that the Buxton Football Club had
several members of its team seveiely
injured in consequence of a member
of the Matlock elevon having played
with an artificial arm. It was report •
ed that in Derbyshire alono there are
number of football players who, ow
ing to the loss of an arm, use artificial
limbs. They are described as "regu
lar terrors" on the football field, since
when onee they get "on" to the ball
they swing their dummy arms around
with suoh force as to either fracture
skulls or cause concussion of the
brain. It has now been determined
by the association that artificial limbs
are henceforth to be barred in all
football games.
Professor O. Stanley Hall, of Clark
University, has made a peculiarly in
teresting report on the results of a
long study of the various kinds ol
fear to which children are subject. It
eeems that thunder and lightning
oause terror to more children than
any other ouo thing, and following in
the order named come reptiles,
strangers, darkness, fire, death, do
mestic animals, disease, wild animals,
water, ghosts, insects, rats and mice,
robbers, and high winds. It is pleas
ant to notico that iho fear of ghosts
comes very low on the list. Homo
forms of dread arc to bo found in all
parts of the country. For instance,
the thought of high winds excitos no
alarm in the East, while in the cyclone
States it is n common cause of appre
hension. Still more narrowly local
ized is fear of the world's end. This
exists only where some little band oi
fanatics have been trying on their as
cension robos.
The Atlanta Constitution says : "Tho
political history of Indiana furnishes
a very interesting study. Although
the Hoosier State lias participated in
twenty Fresidential contests, since
first entering tho sisterhood of Aracri
con commonwealths, she has cast her
vote on tho losing side only four
times. Thero is no other State in tho
Union which cau boast of u similar
record. In 1824 the vote of Indiana
was given to the losing candidate, and
also in 1828, 1848 and 187(1, but with
these exceptions tho Stato has always
named the w lining caudidato. James
Monroe, Andrew Jackson, William
Henry Hairison, Jumo3 K. Folk and
James Buchanan all received the vote
of Indiana iu their respective races.
In 18G0 Mr. Lincoln captured the
State from the Democrats, and again
iu 18(31 secured tho electoral vote.
From that time until 187G tho Stato
remained in tho Republican column,
voting for General Grant in both of
his campaigns. Iu 187G, however,tho
Stato returned to its forraor Demo
cratic allegiance and voted for Samuel
J. Tilden by a handsome majority. In
1880 tho vote of tho State was cast
for Garfield; in 1881 for Cleveland;
in 1888 for Harrison; in 1892 for
Cleveland again, aud iu 189G for Mc-
Kinley. Siuco Indiana has been a
State it has voted twice with tho
Whigs, seven times with tho Republi
cans aud eleven times with the Demo
crats."
THE CROWN OF MISERY,
And ho whoso blessed wondering eyes
Have gazed upon Love's Faradi.se,
Whoso voice hath caught the strain divine,
Whose soul hath listened at the shrine,
What hath ho foun I
If love be bound?
Tho sight but pterceth empty space,
Tho voice hatli lost its joyous grace,
Tho soul no melody doth find,
Though neither deaf nor dumb nor blind—
A misery yet moro profouu
It love be bound.
—3l. E. Ford, in tho Fonuy.
THE STORY
BY E. J. VEITY.
Lff HAD been in the
v FPf \ employ of the bank
-1 BBS 1 house of Day &
1 rail | Co. from a boy, and
I Brlf f wor l ;c( l ID .y way up-
I ward from one po
figja I sition to another
/j until I occupied tho
responsible post of
teller., Old Mr. Day
* - liked and trusted
J' me, and, as nu es
pecial mark of his favor, was in tho
habit of inviting me to diuner nu
Suudny afternoons, a favor 1 shared
with Jerome Naylor, the cashier and
junior partuer in the firm. Mr. l)ay
was a widower, and his onjy daughter
and heiress, Enid, did the honors of
his table.
13eautiful Enid Day ! I shall never
forget, nor do I wish to forget, while
I live, that afternoon of our first meet
ing. It was one of those dull, sound
less autumnal days, when the frowning
sky threatens storm aud yet withholds
it, oppressing the heart with a vague
sense of something evil to come, and a
profound melancholy which one eau
neither define nor shako oil'.
Yet as 1 outered that parlor a swift
change to inexplicable happiness came
over me, Standing there, whero the
warm hue from tho half-drawn crim
son curtains fell across her simply
clad figure, she seemed to mo like tho
embodiment of all tho song, perfume,
suushino aud exhilaration of early
spring. She was very young, but her
form, despite its girlish immaturity,
was nobly developed. Her face, with
its toft, oval outline, its pallor, deep
ening in the cheeks to the tints of a
rose's heart, the large, violet eyes—a
child's eyes in Jtheir innocence, aud
yet a woman's eyes in their depth aud
suggestion of stroug omotiou—her
face, I say, as 1 saw it at that moment,
never again faded from my soul. At
that first instant I loved her; and it
was with a voico that shook and a
hand that, touching her little palm,
trembled as if guilty of a sacrilege,
that I greeted her.
Jerome Naylor, standiug by, wit
nessed our first meeting; aud us, by
some intuition, I glance I asido at him,
I saw a look in his pale eyes that I re
called long afterward. Theu I was too
confused, too inexperienced in lore of
love, to comprehend its meaning. But
thero came P. day when I could inter
pret only too clearly, its bitter malice
and hateful resolve ; for Joromo Nay
lor had long loved Enid Day, as such
men love; had even ollered himself
and been refused, and his keen glance
had nlready detected a rival in the
blundering, stammering youth, whoso
eolo thought at tho moment was hum
ble, almost unconscious, adoration.
Yes, it wos more than simple love ; it
was wonder, reverence and devotion
such as, in the old time, the prostrate
worshiper felt for his divinity. As
timo went on, aiuj I saw her again
and again, my love grew upon me, uu
til it becamo the ruling principle oi
my life; and as I came to kuow my
own heart 1 also learned how wild a
hoi o it was that I nourished in my
breast. Even if so rare uu examplo
of God's handiwork could have stooped
to love EO unworthy a inau as I knew
myself to be, ho.v could a salaried
clerk of the rich banker pretend to
tho bund of his only daughter aud
heiress?
So day by day the gloom of a deep
despondency darkened upon my life.
I grew silent and übstracied. I per
formed my duties as faithfully as ever,
but I no longer laughed uud jestud
with my fellow clerks, nor joined in
the amusements of their leisure hours.
Jerome Naylor was invariably courte
ous in lis treatment ol me, but I
caught more thau one bidewise glance
of his eye, that, had I been less ab
sorbed in my own trouble, might
havo startled inc. But hopeless of
the ono thing which could havo made
existence valuable to me, what had I
to fear from the worst his malice
could devise?
Batterly I had absented myself from
the usual Sunday afternoon gathering
at my employer's table. One day ho
came to mo whero I bent over my
books, and clapping me upon the
shoulder, in his genial, kindly fash
ion, said;
"Treseott, ray boy, if you do not
diuo with us to-morrow afternoon, you
will make'auenomy of Enid."
I muttered something about not
having felt very well of late.
"That is what I told my girl,*' re
plied Mr. Day. "I said you wero
looking thin and pale nnd generally
out of sorts. Whereupon sho aston
ished me by getting very nugry and
accusing you of—what was it?—ogo
tism, I holiovc, though why, why, I
do not quite understand. Any way,
she made it a condition of her future
favor that you should tako dinner
wilk us to morrow. Ho 1 have doliv
cre 1 my message. You'll come, of
course, Naylor?"
Theu I saw that the cashier had
beeu standing behind Mr. Day and
had overheard our conversation.
"I shall be delighted," responded
Naylor, with a peculiar glance at me.
"And surely our young friend cannot
resist an invitation couched in such
terms and emanating from such a
source?"
"I will come," I said briefly, for tho
cashier's mauner affected mc with an
inexplicably unpleasant sensation, and
turned again to my work.
I reached tho Day mansion at an
early hour tho next afternoon, and, as
1 had hoped, yet feared, found Enid
alone in tho drawing room. Slio did
not turn to meet mo as I entered, but
remained standing near tho window,
partly enfolded by tho curtain. I
advanced toward her and timidly of
fered my hand, which sko did not
seem to notice. Resentful, and yet
loving her—ob, moro than ever —I
drew back, and said :
"Your father invited me, Miss Enid ;
I—T thought you wished mo to come,
or J should not have troubled you. It
is not too lute now. You might con
vey my excusos to 'your father, and I
will go—"
I paused, hoping sko would answer,
but, with her face averted, she re
raaiued silent. I waited a moment,
looking at her graceful liguro with a
foolish mist risiug in my eyes. Thon
I turned softly about unci was making
my way out of tho room, when there
was a sudden swinh of skirts, a quick
tap of little feet upou the carpet, and
my arm was caught aud held. I
paused at once, ami looking down
caught tho gleam of two violet eyes
lifted to mine—eves that at oncn
smiled nnd reproached, promised and
reproved. i turned and caught both
the warm little bauds in mine, and,
scarcely conscious of what I did, lifted
them to my lips aud kissed them in
turn. Her namo seamed to tear it
self from the depths of my bosom with
an accent of passion aud pleading
that must have told her my whole
story, bad she been ignorant of it be
fore.
"Enid! Beautiful Enid!"
A wave of delicious color swept over
her face and throat. For a second her
hands trembled in miuo, nay, cluugto
thorn; bcr beautiful head drooped;
her eyes sought my eager gaze, and
fell; then, with a quick gesture, she
withdrew herself, and in cool, even
toues welcomed Mr. Jerome Naylor,
who pushed aside the portiere and
walked quietly into the room.
Hud ho seen, had ho overboard any
portion of our iuterview? It was im
possible to judge. He was gallantly
respectful toward Enid, and frank and
friendly toward me. During the din
ner ho conversed llueutly, touching,
as it appeared, casually, upon certain
defalcations of a trusted clerk in a
bank with which we hold intimate
business relatious. Once, and only
one?, I thought 1 detected that male
volent glauco fixed upou mc; but if T
was right it passed like a Hash, and
was not repeated.
I left the Day mansion with a heart
that saug like a joyous bird. I was at
pence with the whole world. Life was
a glorious, gorgeousJtking. Tho pur
ple bud of hope seemed to be upon the
poiut of unfolding into splendid
llowcr. Rut I was reckoning without
Jerome Naylor.
As the days went by I bocamo cog
nizant of a whisper, whoso sourco no
oue could trace—a whisper ol some
thing wrong in tho accounts of the
bank; of money unappropriated, of
books falsified. Absorbed in my
dreams I gave no heed to tho change
iu tho demeanor of iny fellow clerks,
oi the coldness of my employer, of tho
glee of the cashier, Jerome Naylor,
uutil, without preparation, without ;
warniug, the blow fell! I was accused
of robbing the bank of funds en
trusted to my care.
For tho moment I was utterly
stunned, prostrate, helpless! When
the charge was thing into my teeth I
stared, stammered, stood thunder
struck, unable to defend myself, or to
comprehend tho magnitude of the
crime of which I was declared guilty.
I was commanded to appear before
my employer, at his resideuce, to un
dergo jiu examination. When I en
tered the room, Mr. Day, looking sad
and grave, was seated before a email
table covered with books and papers.
At his elbow, with an evil smile upon
his dark features, eat Jerome Naylor.
Iu a loud, angry voice I denied tho
charge of a long aud systematic course
of peculation, *iud demanded the pro
duction of evidence. Mr. Day looked
hesitatingly at Naylor, who, drawing
his chair nearer Iho table, and clear
ing bis throat, began :
"I am sorry to see our youug friond
adopting this unwise course, know
ing, us he must, that I havo a confes
sion of his wrong doing, under his
own hand and signature."
I stared at him opeu-mouthed. Tho
infernal imprudence of the man abso
lutely bewildered mo.
"Yes," ho continued, in a tone of
profouud melancholy, "more than five
years ago 1 detected this uufortuuato
young man stealing money from the
bank. 1 charged him with his crime,
anil in tho agony of his remorso he
wrote a fu'l confession, begging mo to
spare him aud to givo him aaotbor
chance. Considering his years, and
the fearful consequences of such an
exposure, I consented to condone his
ollonce, making good his peculations
from my own slender means."
"Noblo fellow!" murmured Mr.
Day, graspiug his cashier's baud
warmly, while I romaiuod mute, chok
ing with rage, incapable of uttering a
word in my own defence.
"Rut iu view of those latter develop
ments," went on tho cashier, "I feel
that 1 should do wrong to withhold
tho truth any longor."
"Surely! surely!" ejaculated Mr.
Day, gazing at me sadly. "But I
would never have believed it of you,
Trescott. Never!"
"May I see that paper purporting
to be iny confession?" I asked, finding
i my voice at last.
i "Do not let it pass out of voui
| baud, Mr. Day," iuterposed Naylor,
, hastily.
"i do not desire to touch it," I said.
••If Mr. Day will adow me to look ut
it us it lies upon the table beforo him,
it will bullion."
Tlieu I beut over and read ; aud as
I read the letters swam before ray
eyes, and a thrill of utter torror seized
my limbs, for there, in ray own hnml
writing, was a shameful confession of
sin and degradation. My own hand
writing? No! a thousund times, no !
I knew that it was not, that ray lingers
had never penned those damning
words. But who could detect the dif
ference? Who would nail the foul
forgery? No one, no one! For the
moment I felt crushed and wholly
lost.
As I stood hiding my fnoo in my
hands, fooling that in another moment
I must sink to tho floor, thoro was a
light, quick step behind me, the rus
tle of skirts, a soft touchjou my arm.
"I do not—l oannot think wrong of
yon, ltcginaid," murmured a voico
that thrilled every uervo in my frame.
"Father, let me look at that paper."
Mr. Day would havo objooted ; Jer
oruo ?ay lor, with a white face, at
tempted to snatoh the paper from her
grasp, but she was too quick for him,
and taking the written sheet to the
window she stood studying it long aud
attentively.
I watched her breathlessly. It
seemed to me that life, love, honor,
tho whole future, lay in the next
words she should utter ; and Naylor,
with his drawn, ghastly face, and the
old man, with his sorrowful, benig
nant aspect, watched her too.
l'rescnlly she enmo toward us again,
and the look she cast upon me]was one
of mingled love, pifide and triumph.
Sbo went to her father's side, opposite
tho cashier, and bonding a cold, con
temptuous glance upon his white face,
said in BIOW, even tones:
"Mr. Naylor, I have been an uuseen
auditor of this iutcrview—au eavos
dropper, if you like—and I heard you
tell my father that this paper is a con
fession of dishonesty, written |by Mr.
Reginald Trescott, iivo years ago, and
confided to your hands. Am I right?"
Naylor bowed siloutly. His dry
lips would not givo egress to the
words.
"Well, IkeD, Jerome Naylor, you
lied!"
Her voice rang out with tho clear
ness of a bell. For au instant thero
was dead silcnco in tho room; then
Mr. Day made a gesture of protest.
"My daughter—" he began, but she
checked him.
"Let me speak, fathor," she said.
"I know you wish to do justice be
tween those two. This man," sho
pointed at Naylor, "is false-hearted,
unworthy of your confidence, a liar
and a forger. This man," touching
mo upon the arm, "is innocent, hon
orable and incapable of falsehood. I
will prove it." Looking Naylor, who
seemed scarcely ablo to stand, straight
in tho face, sho continuod in tho same
bell-like tonus. "Here is a confession
which purports to kava boon writtou
in May, 1881, but it is on papor that
was not mado until 1887 ! Will Mr.
Naylor plcaso to explain?"
"What do you moan?" cried Mr.
Day, in amazement.
"Look, father 1" said Enid, holding
the sheet up before tho light. "Do
you sco that water-mark? 'Amoskcag
Mills, 1887."'
Mr. Day gavo but a glance, then
turned a darkly frowning face upon
Naylor.
"Can you explain this?" he asked.
Once, twice, Jerome Naylor essayed
to speak, but could not. Then, at
length, u hoarse murmur escaped his
lips:
"I lovod her, and 1 know sho loved
him!"
That was all. Staggering like a man
stricken blind, pitifully groping to
ward the door, ho loft tho room and
tho house.
Ho never returned to his desk at the
bank, and in duo course 1 becamo
cashier in his place. I hold tho water
mark beyond price, both beoausu it
saved mo from ruin and disgrace, and
because it aided mo to win the sweet
est and noblest wife that ever fell to
tho lot of undesorving man.
Caught a Big Owl.
Tho largest owl over seen in Indi
ana was exhibited in Greousburg by
Conductor John Carley, of the Cin
cinnati division of tho Big Four road.
The circumstances of its capture were
very peculiar.
Engineer Bovington, who captured
the bird, said that shortly after pass
ing Batesville, twouty miles out, he
heard what ho took to ho tho "toot
ing" of a locomotive whistle. As no
train was duo ho could not account
for the whistling, but when it con
tinuod he became alarmed aud stopped
bis engine. The "tooting" stili con
tinued, aud, walking tojho front ol
his locomotive, ho discovered the huge
owl perched upon the cowcatcher aud
hooting in deep tones that sounded
like the whistle of a passenger engine.
It is the largest owl ever known in the
State. It was learned that the owl
had oaptured a ten pound lamb and
bad dragged it out of tho pasturo to
tho track, when overtaken by the
train. —New York Mail and Express.
Au Aged Reldllsli.
The goldfish is not as tender au ani
mal as is imagined, soys tho Indianap
olis Journal, for in handling and mov
ing them from one pond to another
they are dipped up in nets and car
ried about in baskets much like corn
or potatoes. Sometimes they nro out
of tho water thirty minutes, aud sel
dom is it that thoy aro iDjured. How
long they will live depends altogether
on their treatment. In tho Govern
ment Aquarium at Washington is a
: goldfish that is known to bo lilty years
of age, nn 1 it is not perceptibly larger
than when firit palced there. Thero
is said to be in the lloyal Aquarium at
Rome, Italy, a fish that is more than
100 years of age, but it has grown
slightly in the last twenty-five years,
ils color is the same except a slight
' change with the seasons.
' 'SUN-PLAITING."
"Sun-plaiting" is n new Parisian
fashion of widening and "fulling out"
skirts. It is new uud vory stylish.
Instead of accordion plaiting a skirt,
tho plaits are put in nt tho waist in
tiny laps, widening out to the bottom
until nt tho hem thoy are from an inch
to nn inch and a half wido. This holds
the toji skirt out bountifully.—Chicago
Record.
Tltl! ODDEST NECKLACE.
Mrs. William E. Curtis, the wifo of
a Chicago journalist, has what is prob
ably the oddest necklace ever worn in
a civilized city. It is composed of
three rows of liumau eyes in a perfect
state of preservation, polished and
mounted in gold. Tho eyes were pro
cured from Peru, where tho dead are
buried in n silting posture and the
hot, dry air acts more effectively than
any embalming iluid in preserving
them. A mummy there can bo ob
tained for from four to five dollars,
and tho eyes alone, of course, aro
much cheaper. Polished and mounted
as they are in tliis necklace, they
make n very striking ornament. Rut
Mrs. Curtis has had the temerity to
wear them only onco. They wore
greatly admired until her friends were
told that the stonu3 were not gems,
but potrilied human eyes. Then the
admiration turned to horrified repul
sion, and Mrs. Curtis has not since
taken them from her jewel case.—Ar
gonaut.
FASHIONABLE DIG BUCKLES.
Tho enormous waist buckles which
nro at present so much in favor in
Paris arc direct descendants of tho
hrobdingnagian d'Artois shoo buckles,
named after the famous Comte d'Ar
tois, hrother of the French King,
Louis IX. In fact, all waist buckles
are descendants of shoe buckles, not
only in Franco but in England—in
London as uracil as in Paris. When
shoo buckles died out, waist buektes
caino in. Fashion cbangod the loca
tion of these articles of adornment
from the extremities ol tho gentlemen
of King Charles If.'s couit to the
waists of their attendant ladies.
But shoo buckles lasted long enough
to become, in the hands of the rich
and frivolous, au excuse for ex
travagances. Their price rose from
twenty-five cents to upward of SSO u
pair, aud varied between tbataud very
innch larger amounts. Two nnd a
half millions of them were being mado
every year, when, for some inexplica
ble reason, the demand dwindled and
died.
A vigorous but unsuccessful attempt
was made to revive the fashion. Four
tliousaud buekleraakers of Birming
ham appeared 1o the Prinos of Wales.
The obliging Prince promised to as
sist them by every means in his power.
Ho wore Duckies himself, aud enjoined
their use upon the members of bis
housohold ; but the dictates of fasWbn
were not to be overruled. Probably
eorao old makers aro engaged in the
recently revived trade in waist
buckles, which, however, nourishes
principally in France. In Paris to
day tho well-dressed bonievardieres
aro on the high road to rival tho old
magnificence aud extravagance in tho
matter of these petty trinkets. Home
that are worn resemble a mass of ser
pents intcrtwiced, with joweled heads
and long, protruding jeweled htngs.—
Chicago News.
SOCIAL DETECTIVE WOTIK,
Last year a Chicago girl visiting
friends in St. Louis attended a recep
tion in that city. There was a big
crush of St. Louis social lights, and
when tho fair Chioagoaii prepared to
depart she was unable to find her
valuable sealskin saeque anywhere. In
its place was an old sealskin worn aud
dilapidated.
The hostess regretted tho mistake
exceedingly. It seemed certain that
801110 thoughtless guest had worn away
tho missiug garment by mistake. Sho
felt turo that tho see-quo would ho re
turned tho uoxt day with an apology.
In tho moan time tho suggested that
tho Chicago girl wear tho old garment
that had been left in its place, uud
this was done.
But the sealskin was not forthcom
ing the next day or tho next week.
The hostess iva3 annoyed almost to the
verge of distraction uud offered to pay
for tho missiug saoque, but of courso
this proposition was deoliued.
At length tho Chicagoan's visit wa"k
terminated and sho returned homo.
Duo day she stepped iuto a big storo
in State street where sho had pur
chased the lost sealskin to inquire if
tho firm could suggest auy way by
which ttt identify the garment posi
tively if her St. Louis friends Bliould
chanco to see it again.
"It would bo pretty difficult to
identify it by a casual inspection,"
said the furrier, "but evory garment
which wo make is marked on tbo in
side of tho skin with our firm name,
the name of the purchaser and tho
date. By removing tho lining this
can be seen."
"Do nil furriers mark their gar
ments in that way?" nsked the caller.
"I don't kuow ; Ipresume thoy do,"
wns the reply.
"Then 1 wish you would examinu
this saoque," she said, removing the
Did one that bad been left upon her
hands, "and see if you can find out
Who made it."
It was the work of a minute to rip a
teair in the lining. Upon the back of
cne of the skins was tho name of a St.
Louis furrier and tho unrao of the pur
chaser of tho garment—it was that of
tho hostess herself.
Tho Chicago girl mado another Hy
ing visit to St. Louis. When sho re
turned sho ordered a now sealskin from
the Stato street firm and paid for it
with a St. Louis chock. —Now York
Tribune.
GOSSIP.
New York has a Women's Chess
Club.
There aro over -1500 female physi
cians in tho United States.
The only woman who has over asked
lor an oliico in Daviess County, Mis
souri, is seeking a Postmaster ship.
Iu Minnesota thei?c is a girls' school
of agriculture which is, so fur as
known, tho only ono in the country.
An unmarried woman has mado a
reputation in Gage Couuty, Nobraskn,
as a corn husker, doing seventy-five
bushels a day.
Tho Queen of Greeco is an accom
plished yachtswomau, holds a master's
certificate and is an honorary admiral
in the Russian navy.
Mrs. Smith, a 100-year-old lady, of
Grantham, England, does all her own
housework, nurses an invalid nephew
and sells potatoes, which sho has
planted and dug up herself.
Many English noblewomen aro of
literary habits. Threo duchesses
those of Cleveland, Sutherland and
Bedford—havo at one time or another
contributed articles to magazines.
Tho Woman's Work
in New York City, at 12 East Thirtieth
street, has sold nearly $50,000 worth
of goods tho ,'past year. Its object is
to help women to help themselvos.
Miss C. 11. Lippiucott, of Minneap
olis, Minn,, has the largest exclusively
flower seed business in tho United
States. She is the pioneer woman in
tho business, which she entered ten
years ago.
Lady Jano Ilonrietia Swinburno,
mother of Algernon Charles Swin
burne, tho poet, died recently. Sho
was the widow of Admiral Charles
Henry Swinburno aud daughter of
George, the third Earl of Ashburu
ham.
The Rainy Day Club, of Now York,
composed of ladies, has declared it
self. Ono of tho members presented
lor consideration the picture of a wo
man in abbreviated skirts. It now
"draws the liuo at skirts eight inches
from tho ground."
About fifty women, most of whom
aro Americans, havo registered at tho
University of Berlin, and 150 aro reg
istered at Zurich. Thoy aro not ac
corded tho Siimo rights that are givou
to the men, aud aro thiukiug of begin
ning to agitate for them.
Mrs. Barney Barnato, wife of tho
multi-millionaire of South Africa, lit
erally blazes with jewels. Sho has
some of tho most superb diamonds
that ever dazzled tho eyes of London,
and wenis nearly every gem she pos
sesses at ono and tho same time.
Congressman-elect Vincent, of the
Fifth Kansas District, auuuuucos the
sokclion of his private secretary in
tho person of his young duugiiter.
Miss Vincent is now in Topeka learn
ing shorthand nnil in other ways
equipping herself for her Washington
duties.
About thirty fivo girls of Stauford
University, Palo Alto, (Jal., are prac
ticing regularly threo days a week on
tho basket ball field. After the holi
days, the practice work will be redou
bted in anticipation of u challenge
from tho girls' team of tho University
of California.
FASHION NOTES,
Tho newest curd cases arc of mam
moth proportions.
Hod still promises to bo the favorite
color of the coming spring.
Buckles six inches wide, and bout to
fit the figure, are usod tor tho backs oi
ribbon belts.
Jewels worn with a black and whito
costume should be diamonds or pearls,
whito enamel, onyx or cats-eyes.
Parly gowns lor small girls are made
of taffeta silk with nn overdress of
kilted chifTon of the same color, or one
of fine lawn trimmed with lace inser
tion and edging.
A good habit to got into is that of
hanging up one's gowns whou they are
taken otf. They will look new much
longer if they are not loft to reposo
indefinitely on tho most convenient
chair. .
Fur trimmed gowns, an oxponsive as
well as elegant mode, will bo seen
among the smartest visiting costumes.
They are so lined and wadded that
they may bo worn on tlio coldest day
with no wrap but tho becoming many
tailed boa.
Joweled buttons and enameled but
tons, so carefully done that thoy re
semble Florentine mosiacs, are used
on both afternoon and evening dresses.
Added to those are some novelties in
colluloid, imitating old gold and silver
in rococo designs.
The largest vagary of fashion is the
addition of padding around tho hips
of dress skirts anil tho promise of
bustles in the near future. A little
bustle at tho back is generally an im
provement, but let us hope that the
large one of some years ago may never
return.
PARTNERS.
Lovo took chambers on our street
Opposite to mino;
Ou his door he taoko 1 a uc.it.
Clearly lettered sign.
Straightway grew his custom qroat
For his sign read so:
"Hearts united while you wait,
Stop in. Lovo and Co."
Much I wondered who was "Co,"
In Love's partnership; •
Thought across the street I'd go-
Learn from Love's own lip.
So I went; and singe that day
Life is hard for mo.
1 was buncoe l! (Dy '.lie way,
"Co." is Jealousy.)
—Edis Parker Bailor, in Century.
11UM011 OF THE DAY.
"Why do you always carry your
umbrella wit if* you?" "Because it
can't walk."—Truth.
When you turn over a now loaf it is
just as well not to mcution the uum
bcr of the page.—Life.
"A man is foolish to bet on elec
tions, isn't he?" "How much havo
you lost?"—Roxbury Gazette.
He—"l dreamed last night that you
promised to marry me." She—"Did
you? Dream oguiu,"—Somervillo
Journal.
Souio people aro so engrossed in
thoughts of a possible rainy day that
they cannot appreciate the suushino of
the present.—Truth.
Deserted Wife (in conversation with
sympathetic grocer) —"And I trusted
him so?" Grocer —"Coufouud it; so
did I."—Boston Transcript.
She —"ls it not true that two pcoplo
can livo as choiply us oue?" Ho
"Yes, if they are married. Not if
thoy aro eugaged."—Puck.
Sho rosr, agitated. "Jauitor," sho
cried through tho speaking tube,
"we must have some fresh air. Sup
pose I should wish to intlate my bi
cycle."
"I want to order this suit," said
Chuinpey, "but I can't pay foe it till
tho end of six months." "All right,
sir ; it will be ready for you by that
time."—Detroit Free Press.
Minister—"Why is it, Bobby, that
your father never comes to church
anymore?" "Bobby—"Oh, it turned
out that he didn't lmvo the consump
tion, after all."—Cleveland Lender.
Mrs. Brown—"Sh-h! I hear n
burglar iu tho pautry. I believo he
is going to steal tho eako I copkod to
day." Mr. Brown—"Poor devil! 110
may haven family, too."—Up-to-Date.
Edith—"Ho told mo I was so inter
esting and so beautiful." Maude—
"Ami yet you will trust yourself for
life with u man who begins decoiving
you even at tho commencement of his
courtship."—Boston Transcript.
"What chumps those old-timo fel
lows must have been. They usod to
write and talk by the hour aboitt tho
value of a college eduoatiou."
"Woll?" "And they never heard of
football." —Clcvelaud Plain Dealer.
"What kind of goods, ma'am?"
iskod tho salesman. "I think," re
plied the young woman who hud just
oought a wheel aud was about to order
aer lirst ruling suit, "you may show
3io some of your early fall styles."—
CJhicago Tribune."
Johnny—"Oh, I like my new gov
erness ever so nmoh." "1 am so
2;lad my little boy has a nice teaohor."
"Oh, she's awful nice. Sho says sho
don't care whether i learn nothing
or not, so long as pop pays hor salary."
—Now York Weekly,
"What a wide-awake young fellow
Barter is I" said Alice. "Altogether
too wide-awake," rospouded Edith.
"The last evening ho callod at our
house ho stayod till one, aud then
papa had to get tho burglar alarm go
ing."—Detroit Free Press.
The Long Polar Night,
Generally speaking, wo figure
Europo asbeiug wholly withiu tho tem
perate zone, but when wo come to in
vestigate matters wo find that North
Capo (tho most northerly point of
Norway) is in tho shadow of the North
Pole. At that poipt you cau see tho
"midnight sun" iu all its ghastliues?,
the great luminary being constantly
above the horizon from May sth to
August 9th, or just 000 day over threo
months. But the loug wiutry nights
make up for this 101) days of constatfc
sunshine. It begius on September 22d
and constantly increases iu leugth until
November Gth, when tho "polar night"
I commences in earnest, the suu never
appearing above the horizon from tho
last mentioned date until February
stb, ono day less than threo months.
Origin ol J Hie Thimble.
A thimble was originally a thumb
bell, because it was woru on tho
thumbs, as sailors still wear their
thimbles. It is a Dutch invention
and, in 1881, in Amsterdam, tho bi
centennial of tho thimble was cele
brated with a great deal of formality.
This very valuable addition to my
lady's work basket was first made by
a goldsmith named Nicholas van Ben
schoten. Aud it may further interest
Colonial dames to know that tho first
thimble made was presented in 1081
to Ann van Wedv, tho second wife of
Kiliaen van Rensselaer.
Shipping Perishable Products.
There isno limit iotlie ingenuity dis
played in shipping perishable products
long distances to the English market.
Butter is sent from Australia to South
Africa, and then 700 miles to Kiiuber
ley, and received as fre.-h as when it
started. It is packed iu glass
sealed with paper aud tho case in
closed in plaster of paris, which i 9 a
bad conductor of heat and will pre
serve an oven temperature in theglar®
box throughout tho whole journey.