Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, March 08, 1897, Image 2
The averago duration of marriages la said to bo thirty years in Russia aud twenty-eeveu iu England. "Let's all get a move on us and meet the gool tunes wo are wishing for half way," exclaims the Silver Knight. Robinson Crusoe's island and cave aud inscription, instead of being at the bottom of tho Faoifie, are all right. Aud thcro isanotber good story spoiled by the hard antagonism of facts. In n speech at Aberdeen, Scotland, General Booth said he was thinking of a scheme of universal emigration by which men eould bo passod from ono part of tho world to another and sur plus labor brought to places where it was wanted. The Chicago Board of Health has been called upon to investigate a peculiar ease. A resident of that city complained that ho had out open a loaf of bread, bought from a baker, aud had found curled up mside a b'va mouse, apparently none tho worse for its experience. Tho Baltimore News says that John Hent'ield, of that city, now seventy seven years of age, is the oldest prac. ticing photographer iu tho United States. During tho gold fever in California he traveled through tho West in a prairie echooaer, fitted up as a photograph gallery, and made us much as if.H.j a day. Says the Boston Journal; The enrious .statement is mado that many of tho Italian prisoners in Abyssinia havo been so kindly treated, and are doing so much better there than they can hope to iu their own country, that they arc petitioning the Italian Gov ernment to allow them to remain. This does not agree with tho earlier tales of Abyssinian cruelty-. Tho total cost of maintaining tho Federal, State ami Municipal Govern ments of the United States for tho year 1803 was $915,!.'45,055. Among the disbursements wore the following: For charities, $148,905,1171; for edu cation, 8113,583,115; for roads, bridges and sewers, 872,282,000; for postal service, $08,000,000; for nrmy and militia, 835,500,000; for police, 824,000,000; for judiciary, $23,000,- 000; for prisons and reformatories, 812,000,000. Observes llio New York Press: "When we reflect that there are more farmers than there are laborers in all the manufacturing ami mechanical in dustries, that there are 8,000,00*) peo ple earning a livelihood by work iu the fields, more than one-third of all tho men nud women workiug in the United States, wo understand that tho pros perity of such it class means much for the prosperity of the whole country. This idea is emphasized whsu wo think that the two-thirds not nt work ou tho land are nevertheless quite as depend ent upon laud products for tho food necessary to sustain life as though they themselves were tillers of the soil." President Ilobbs, of tho Indiana Horticultural Society, lislioves that the day of extravagant prices for fruit has passed, never to return. Unusual ly low prices ruled last year, ho says, because spring opened simultaneously over a wide range of country, and be cause all kinds of fruit bore liberally. But he looks for a long period during which the happy conditions will pro vnii of plenty of fruit at reasonable prices for the consumer and at remun erative prices for tho producer. Tho reasouablo price to the consumer, he says, is brought about bv the cheap ened methods of growing an I hail 1- ling un-l cheaper transportation, while the grower is to profit through wider markets. Speaking of tho Postoilioo Depart ment regulation that ths letters "X. Y." must bo put after tho nstao of New York City iu addresses, tho Boston Transcript savs : "Of course everybody but tho postoflieo people knows that tho State of) Now Y'ork has its name from tho city of New Y'orlt, aud that a refereueo to tho State in something addressed to the city is superfluous and without reason. No doubt thert js a postoflieo named Now Y'ork iu K rasas, but that impertinent fact does not put on thereat New Y'ork the duty of identifying itself in any such super fluous way. Boston, Mass., is not quite so absurd as 'Now York, N. Y'.,' but it is, nevertheless, absurd. Eveu iu old England a lettor addressed sim ply to 'Boston' generally comes to Massachusetts, though there is an ancient and respoctablo town of thu name iu England ; aud a book which bears the name of Boston ou its title page is never supposed in England tc have been published in the town of St. Botolpb. THE HARBOR LIGHTS OF HOME. I set my shallop on youth's shilling soi That smiled up at tho sua. "Hurrah!" I cried. "From homo a rover j free, I'll breast life's waves alone." An 1 storm and night seemed faint and far away And old wivo.,' hints of wreck, Like fairy tales, tho while tho sunshine lay Like gold updfc the deck. Bui when upon the canvas of I ho cloud, Ink black in onward rush And hoarsely mounting of the thunder loud, The jagged lightning's brush Limned me my folly wiili each vivid stroke. Then, iu tho driving foam Aud stinging spindrift as the tempest broke, *Jlotno! Ilotnc!" I cried. "My home!" Aud through tho inky curtain of the gale There comes a thread of light, Aud o'er tho slitting or tho useless sail Home voices cheer tho night. For, seo! Across the outer bar that lies Smothered iu creamy foam There shines tho welcome of a woman's eyes, Till harbor lights of homo! —J, L. Hcaton, in tho Quilting 800. in rliin,. was night. I VN I • I Y *; was in my bod- Ij I room at tho Pera |il Hotel,listening to 1. I' lo silence, if you j® will allow me to A( lly} make a bull. It fel win but half-past I 111 111 * eD ' nm l the Turk \ I ||l ish city never ] ai very wide awako— Hiilii /r hail now none calmly fast to * blcq,; 1,11 1,8 ' jt3 were j'Ut out, ami no sound was to be beard, even ill Pern, but tho occaiion al bowl of a street dog that some bitten watchman bail beaten with bis stall; dervisbos bad ceased their holy waltzing aud their demoniac howling ; priests bad left their lofty minarets tor tba night; tho Sultan had sunk iutoatraneo; the bazaars, where no tions of all Nations are sold, were barred and bolted up ; tho oofl'oo shops lmd quenched their charcoal tiros; tho beggars ou tho bridge had dragged homo their Hlutnps aud sores, tho sol diers of tho Porte were iu their bar raoks, dreaming of n revolt; viziers laid their uneasy heads ou silken pil lows; tho "sick man's" dying city was dead asleep, and it mado ono sleepy to feel even near six hundred thousand sleepers. Human nature is imitative; when it sees eating it wants to eat, aud when it sees sleep ing it wants to sleep. 15.sides did 1 not know that niv countrymen iu Pera were wavering in their allegiance to tho pleasant king of midnight, and wcro half of them yawning and stretching over billiards and dominoes, and looking with nilrigbt at the two up-lifted clock hands. Turks, who have no amusements, go to bed early. 1 was sitting at the wiudow of my bedroom, meditative—ouo boot off, and one boot on—wondering if tkcro was ever a minute, day or night, since Constantino was placed iu his porphyry tomb, that nome wild dog had not barked iu Pera, when a tap came at my door. I put my boot ou, aud bade tho visitor open the door. It was Antonio, my dragoman or courier, whom I had hired that day, and thus lie spoke : "Monsieur, sare, nous avous—we 'ave got tho faroraan for the night." Firman, you must know, is an Asi atic word, signifying, iutius instance, a passport. "Oil, have you! All right, Antonio; I am ready," said I, buttoning no niv coat to the last button, and adjusting my hat before the mirror. "Vera good," returned my Albanian guide, who, by the way, bad Ibo most villainous lace imaginable; "come on, sare." I hat firman, the Saltan's gracious permission —graoio as, but expensive cost 1110 i piaster', or about twenty-eight dollars. Ha it known uuto yon, renter, that over so many C.reassi-ius, recently whipped by tl-o lius.-.iaus in spite of their devoted euiirig an I the genius of their leader, Bellamy!, had been offered a lew piasters per diem to join tho army of the Port , bad accepted tho offer readily, knowing that Tur key was the natural enemy of tho land of vermin and steppo , and had been apprised on arriving at Slauiboul, af ter many hungry days of forced march ing over countries innocent of bridges and oE roads, that the Porto was una ble to pay the native troops, lot alone foreign ones. That was enough to make the b'.iugry Circassians augry, was it not? A little way beyond tho Valley of the Sweet Waters, which is a place of fashionable resort, equiva lent or thereabouts, to our Central Park, those soldiers of a buudred pa triotic battles had located their camp, and wero muttering discontent in a way that was "Very disagreeable to the Turkish Government, it was in order to SCO them that Antonio aud I loft the Pera Hotel at eleven o'clock at night. Hscapiug being torn to pieces by the tivnl boatmen of Tophuna, 1 tumbled down into the cradle of a neat caique, which, because it is a pattern boat, I will describe, it is loug, and sharp at both ends, and at both endsit is boarded over, to prevent shippiug seas, with varnished planks, crossed at the top with little crowning rails of gilt carving, very dainty aud very smart. The cradle where I laid my back against where tho coxswain would bo eeatod iu an Atnerioan gig, was lined with red cushions aud white lamb skins. There wero two boatmen, heeanse the Sweet Waters where we wero to land, was far up the Bosphorus, aud it was tolerably hard work, eveidsfor them, brawny and accustomed to row ing as they were. Antonio, ray scoundrel of a guide, held forth on the white minarets look ing ghostlike in the moonlight unit on tho dark cypress trees throwing their heavy shaking shadows athwart tho phosphorescent water. Ho bade me observe how tho eaiquejeo (boatman) fastens his oars by a leather loop to a peg ou tho side of the boat, which bad no rowlocks—a simple plan, that pro vents their ever being lost, unless they break in some of the whirling aud im petuous currents of the Bosphorus. Every time 1 looked the boatmen laughed with all their teeth, aud said, affirmatively, "Bono, Johnny," upou which I called out authoritatively, "Chnpuk!" (quick, quick!) and of which they iuvariably replied by say ing, "Yawash, yawash!" meaning, "No hurry, all in good time." Antonio, as wo progressed, gradu ally transferred his conversation from myself to the boatmen. At that time I knew very little of their sweet-sound jargon, and naturally feeling uninter ested, I closed my eyes and sank into a reverie, to be aroused therefrom by oue of the boatmen using a Turkish phrase, the meaning of which was known to me, in tones of tho deepest disgust. Their licree and furtive glances, together with the frequent use of that ono phrase, which might be translated thus: "Hog of an infi del," confirmed a sudden suspicion that I was in a serious scrape. I was so seated that, although ray fiioo was not seen by thcrn, I could discern their features aud gestures plainly, "Chnpuk!" I cried imperiously, knowing that it is generally bost to show no wliito feather. "Yawash, yawash !" returned the boatmen de fiantly. "No hurry, sare," said Antonio, lighting his chibouk and paiUug away complacently. How I regretted having left tho I'era Hotel nt that unseemly hour to sou a parcel of Circassian ragamuffins, who were perhaps not worth seeing! How ' roundly 1 swore that, if it wero per- ' mittod mo to issue seatheloss from that scrape, I would never bo out nguiu i after dark in Turkey. Fast tho Maiden's Tower, a sort of legendary lighthouse that stands ou a rock at tho entrance of tho Golden Horn, opposite Scutari; past long lines of vessels and rows of dark red wooden houses with broad brimmed flat roofs, aud collar-like boat houses; past piano trees and cy presses, silent caiques and cofl'ee houses, and here and there a dread lump of carrion, bobbing liko a float in the moonlight, swollen and horrible —wo reached at last tho Bweet Water meadows, where tho caiquos were gathered thick as carriages round the door of the Theatre Franeais. I had a mind to make lko3o two villainous boatmen row mo back again, because nu wo wero near ono of the Sultan's tiusolly Italian palaces, neither they nor the audacious Albanian dare attempt violouoe just then; but, unfortunately, 1 was troubled with n weakness called pride, which troublesome infirmity I should advise my readers, if ever they are placod in similar circumstances, to conquer right away. Although I folt I thereby placed my life iu jeopardy, I could not for the lifo of mo take the certain way of escape that offered it self, and determined to pursue at all hazards tho object for which I had set out. The two boatman jumped on land, ] and drawing tho caique almost lngh and dr.y, so that we should not wot our feel, stood with ready palms held out to receive their pay. I gave n few piasters to each and then an animated conversation ensued between my dragoman and them, conducted in Turkish, and in which the constant repetition of the phrase beforo trans lated again ooourro I. "Doy will wait, sare," said tho Albauinn, at its conclusion. "All right," .1 returned, affecting more coolness than I felt, for I had no arms with mo bigger than a penknife, and I hid seen them produce, during tho palaver, bright, ugly-looking kuives from their voluminous sleeves. "Ohapuk ! I want to got back soon." Antonio uttered a valediction to In;—as I supposed them— accomplices, aud wc entered a detite whoso quickly highteuiug sidos wero topped with regular rows of cypress trees. In a littlo while, on either side, before aud behind, there was nothing but im penetrable darkness? visible, and above, the sky, now overcast 'with clouds, was starless aud gloomy. Tho dragoman led tho way, stealing 011 with a lithe, sure step, nud wafting clouds of perfume from his chibouk. Trying to divest myself of the con viction that d was about to become the victim of au already concocted plot, bringit- > forth a whole array of arguments to justify that attempt, and yet peering nervously into the dark ness right aud lo't, nuou in tho direc tion of the Albanian, and thou shrink iugly behind mo, I followed, without a protest, in his footsteps, just as a iamb goes to tbo slaughter bouse. Il o carried a lamp, such as all drago men carry 111 tbo night time, and sud denly bethinking myself of this, I asked him to light it. "X'rescntly, sare," ho said; "we shall corns into plenty light soon." To tho best of my belief wc had now gone about naif a mile. Once or twico I fancied i heard a footfall in our rear, aud with a contraction of the heart, half turned to face au anticipated as sailout, but nothing emerged from tho darkness, and I resumed rn.y journey, perturbed and painfully suspicions. Tho clouds suddenly thinned beforo the watery moon, aud the irregular walls of an old tumblo-down ruin for merly a mosque of much repute, but now a playfjonso for all the littlo Turks in tho villages round about, loomod directly before us, the dctiio abruptly endiug at, tbo mouth of a rude road 011 tbu right. The Albanian proposed lighting the lamp in this ruin, as, on account of a gusty wind, it would bo dilfiijttlfr light it outside. I thought his proposal rathor un called for, since we had tho moon, but acquiesced quietly, aud followed him iu the mosque, which had been built in that senii-Oriontal Byzantine style that, bade through Venice, spread throughout Europe, oven iu Canute ot England's time. I was interested in this rolic of another age, and momen tarily forgot my suspicions. Antonio stopped into a vault, which was still almost entire, and which had once, iu all probability, been tho refectory, where tho dervishes, or priests, par took moderately of food. He oponed tho door of the gaudy lautoru, which would havo reminded you of Aladdin's, and striking a match, lit Iho wick. "You wait, mo fill chibouk," said he, setting tho lantern down. I wah seized from behind aud thrown violently to the ground, falling with my hip on a sharp stouo that made mo lame lor weeks after. I turned round without risiug, being then unable on aecouut of tho wound I had received, and saw ouo stalwart assailant cover mo with a guu, aud tho other bctiind him grasp tho hilt of a disagreeablo knife. Antonio held iho lamp aloft, and seemed to regard tho whole affair as a capital joke. Tho boatman with tho guu spoko lioroely iu Turkish, and tho Albanian, turning to 1110, said: "Want money, sare, Givo 'em money, you go safe." It wa3 very unpleasant looking up the muzzle of that guu, and feeling that the slightest movemcut might en danger my life, but I WHS an American, and disliked tho cavalier mauncr of thoso Turkish dogs. I was just about to defy them to do their worst, when I heard the tread of men outside. I shouted out for help at tho top of my voice, and six Turkish soldiers,headed by an officer, eamo into tho ruin at a trot aud halted nt tho entranco of tho vault, covering us all with their matchlocks. That villainous Albauiau, as soon as ho saw how quickly tho tables were turned, ran forward and com menced a fierce denunciation of his ' accomplices. "Ingiish subjok?" asked tho Turk ish officer turning to me. The English, you must know, havo so bullied aud brow-beaten tho Turks that thoy would rather allow an Eug- j lish murderer to go scot free thau ! como into collision with them. "American subject," 1 answered, j succeeding iu a painful attempt to rise. Then I made him understand by suit- ! able gestures that tho Albanian and j tho two boatmen were all alike culpa ble, and they were presently deprived I of their knives and tho guu, each ono of them placed between two men, and marched off toward tho spot where wo had landed. Outside tho ruin tho road was full of Turkish soldiers, nil going in the direction of tho Circassian encamp ment, for purposo of overawing that brave aud turbulent people. Judgcsaro very corrupt in Tnrkov. The Albanian contrived to bribe himself out tho clutches of the law, but the two boat men were very properly punished.— New York News. Antiseptic Ouuliiics of Cains, It is a well-known fact that paper money is liable to transfer bacteria from one person to another, and thus to spread contagious diseases It is also supposed that coins, | which are more 111 circulation thau uotes, might similarly act as agents lor spreading disease, and investiga tions in that direction were mado at tho Vicuua University when Austria chaugcd its currency to the gold basis. A report about his observations was recently published by Dr. Vincent in the Vienna Medical Gazette, iu which he states that metals act, so to speak, ns antiseptics iu regard to bucteriu, or micioboe, tho fact being that these microscopic organisms havo but a very short lease of life while on metals, i'ho destroying iulluoucos of metals iu crease with their temperature, and also with tho close touch of the micro organisms with tho metal. At a temperature of ninety-five to 100 de grees Fahrenheit, which is common iu the pockets where mcnoy is carried, tho destruction of microbes occurs within three hours. The various metals used for coins aro somewhat different iu tbis rospccfc, silver being tho most antiseptic, and gold tho least. Copper and bronze hold about tho. middle between tho two more precious in etuis,—St, Louis Giobj- Democrat. A Silent Club, A club lias just been organized at Aif-una in which the occasionally de lightful luxury of silence can be eu joyed whenever tho members desire, Ibis privilege is secured by u consti tution which consists chiefly of a rule that under no pretext is a word to bo spoken in any part of the clubhouse. All necessary communications includ ing t'uo giving of orders to waiters, must be mado in writing,tho mombers aro forbidden even by nodding to recognize each other's presence. Ap plications for membership arc eoming in rapidly. A(t ickeil by an Eagle. Carl Holzhausor, a farmer of Rush ville, Kan., carried to Atchison a bald caglo which he had captured after a battle with it near Lake Contrary, whore ho was hunting, no had left his horse, and when he returned to it found tho eaglo on the animal's back, fighting it. When ho boat it off tho bird attacked him and tore his clothing and face before he could shoot it. Tile Kaiser's Silver Cup. Tho German Emperor proposes to eelobrato the sixtieth year of his grandmother's reign in a very hand some way, says the Illustrated London News. Ho will give a silver cup three feet high to the winner of a race of | British yachts from Dover to Heligo land aud will present the cup himself ! at Kiel. MAY BIRDS ON PRETTY^HEADS. Peacock green and blue and gold breast feather?, yellowish green and bluo green birds' heads, quills and wings aro much used on black, dark green, grey and golden brown hats and bonnets, and wido watered silk bows with large buckles of Irish dia monds iu tho confer, are used with good effect on black and green hats iu Kubens, Sir Peter Lely and Duchess of Devonshire shapes—all largo and spreading in contour. WOMEN AND PAIN, Dr. Ottoleugbi, a European phy sician, has been conducting experi ments with an instrument colled a faradimeter to determine sensitiveness to pain as betweeu men and women. ! He tried it upon Gi>;l women with re markable results. Ho finds that womou are less sensi tive to pain than men, and that this sensitiveness is less iu early life, in creases to tho twenty-fourth year, and decreases alter that. Tho higher classes aro most sensitive"' and the de generate Jcast. 110 found tho later class very obtuse in the sensation of pain,—New York Journal. A PRINCESS AND A OOVERNOR. It is announced in London that in her capacity as Governor of tho Isle of Wight, Princess Beatrice will next 6ummer publicly uu\oil the memorial of the late Lord Teuuyson. to bo erected on the cliffs at Farringford. It gives tho inhabitants of tho island gloat delight and satisfaction for tho Princess to appear in lior official role, and furthermore sho is, like the Queen, a passiouato admirer of Teunysou's poetry, so that her unveiling of this memorial to the late Laureate will be something much more thau a porfunc tory duty. rriuocs3 Beatrice herself frequently reads Tennyson aloud to the Quecu. RED THE RACE.' Tied iu every tono and eemitono is iu high fashion this sea-ou, uot only as a promineut accessory, but forming entire gowns, wraps ami head cover ings. Formerly American women em ployed this color with greatest caution, and left rod to bo lavishly and nrtis- | tieally used by Iho French. All that is changed, and tho gay Parisienne is no more prodigal with aggressive colors than wc—only a French wo man knows intuitively how to mix and miuglo her tones. Who never adopts a color for a very long time, and sho never wears tho samo gown long enough to lmvo it bear its date or tiro tho eyos of her contemporaries. A French woman keeps alert, vigiluut, interested pace with fashion in all her Might.?, but many of our country-wo men and nearly all English women arc apt to toil in tho work of that erratic deity, ITARMONY IN FOOTWEAR. It is difficult to say what is the cor rect slipper for this season's wear, so bewitching is tho variety from which the dancing maid may ohoose. Thoy couio in satin, kid aud patent leather, and are as correct when beaded clear down to tho toe as when plain, sometimes one, sometimes two or even three straps aro worn. Buckles either of jewels or beads are seen both with and without bows. The well shaped Oxford tie, so long as it is in harmony with tho frock, looks very smart. The edict has gone forth that the slipper must match tho color of the gowu exactly. Black sliopers are only worn with black gowns, and white shoes with white frocks. To havo tho footgear out of harmony with tho exact color-scheme of the dancing dross is considered particu larly bad taste this season.—Now York Telegram. THE DAYS OF LA VICTORINB. The days of la Victoriuo aro being revived, and we Hud ourselves sub merged in the most Kussian of coats, really nothing more than tho old, fa miliar redingote, with its skirt reach ing nearly to tho foot of tho dress skirt, and giving one a curious look ot soparatodness not at all becoming to nil figures. There is a snugnoss and symmetry about those half-long wraps which mako thorn very fascinating in deed, especially so for wintry weath er. Beauties in this stylo aro being built of all kiuds of stuffs, velvets, brocades, matolasses and heavy cloths of all kinds. A striking cloak of this sort is built of soal-brown melton, heavy with braidiug a la hussar, and showing a wido collar, cuffs and an ac companying rauli of stone marten fur, togother with huge horn buttons. The cloak is lined throughout with goldcu yellow and white brocaded 6atin. | This garment is iutended for driving wear, and with it goes a smart Virot hat of dark brown beaver, with a high crown and narrow, straight brim, draped softly with creamy lace, and two float ing ospreys of grass-green. Another smart Russian coat is built of black velours aud finished at the bottom with a wide band of Kussian sable, while a wide collar and cuffs finish throat and wrists. Tho muffs carried aro of tho largest size and look wou derfully cozy. Coats entirely envel oping tho gown aro built in all sorts of heavy materials, and mado rich by trimmings of fancy furs and huge, richly carved buttons. A fetching model is mado up in the softest gray shade of melton, topped off by a flar ing collarette, cuffs ami rauff of silver ohinchilla. —Chicago Times-Herald, Gossir. Out of 08,000 school teachers in Prussia only 9000 are women. Snrdou says thai Sarah Bernhardt talks entirely too fast while on tho stage. The woman tennis champion of Now Zealand has only one hand, and that the left one. It has been learned that the gowns of a certain Now York society belle coat 825,000 a year. Mrs. Annie Honahoe, of San Fran cisco, has bequeathed §200,000 to va rious charitable organizations. According to tho Gazette do France tbore are in that country 2150 femalo authors and journalists and about 700 femalo artists. Tho Housekeepers' League of New York is perfecting the details of tho plan to introduce cooking into the public schools. Gladstone's liltlo granddaughter, Dorothy Drew, never wears shoes and stookings at all, either in the house or out of doors, except in town. Some enterprising young women in tho West have established a business tirm to supply speakers with sermons and ossays on current topics. "Carmen Sylva" has received tho decoration for Arts and Science from tho Emperor of Austria. Sno is tho first woman to win this distinction. Tho Countess of Derby recently laid the eoruorstono of a Liverpool hospi tal, toward tho building of which the David Lewis trust is said to havo given $:i00 ; 000. Miss ,7 uliet Corson, who has been called "The Mother of Cookery," is ill in New York City from an incurable ailment, and is without means. She may live, in pain, for some years. Lady Arran is managing a hand knitting industry in County Mayo, Ireland. Although desigued to give work to such of her husband's tenants as needed emplovmcut, tho venture has proved profitable financially, 7000 pairs of stockings having been knitted last year and S3OOO spent in wages, FASHION NOTE?. Neck ruches are indispensable. It seems as though modistes had gone embroidery mad. Tho latost fashion in flowers is to have them match tho gown in color. There is no use talking, tho small sleeve is certainly depressing to look upon. Silver haudles for toothbrushes are arranged so that tho brushes fit into them, and can bo renewed whenever necessary. Borne of the new evening, gowns have a sash whioli is simply two long ends without loop or bows, sewn in at the belt at the back. The bronze shoe, prettily doeorated with a beaded butterfly, which has a large oaboehon for tho body, is a fa vorite for evening wear. Tho llower muff, as a substitute for the bridesmaid's bouquet, is a pretty feature at some of tho recent wed dings, and white chrysanthemums, tied with wlnto ribbon, aro effective. Elastic corsets are a new invention for roducing superfluous adipose tis sue, and producing a long, slim waist withoutany harmful results. A French doctor is authority for tho statement that they are effeotive. lints malo entirely of fur nro very fashionable, and often match the cape or muff. Some of them nro made of heads and tails of auimals, tho latter coiled to form tho shape, aud tho heads being used as docoratiou. For bathiug purposes long mittens made of Turkish toweling nro iuuob more convenient than a washcloth or sponge. At night put them in a wash bowl of salt water, aud in the morning wring them out, put them on aud rub the body with them. Tho old superstition against opals is slowly but surely passing awav, and these lovely gems, with their evor changing colors and opalescent effects, aro in tho front rank of popularity amoug fashionable women. The opal has an 'advantage, too, over all tho othei gems, as it cannot bo imitated. The woman who possesses n quan tity of old laco lias a treasure this sea son, for fashion roquircs a very lavish use of real lace. Laco we must have, and if wo cannot have roal there are lovely imitations not to bo ignored; Italian ' point, rose point, Brussels, Ilonitou, Mechlin, point Anglais, and Flemish laee3 are all worn. It is a mistake to wear a shoo too small for you, flunking it will make your foot look prettier. It causes your foot to look cramped, heavy and olubby, and will effectually prevent you from walking well, comtortably or gracefully. Flat hoels are the only sensible heels to shoes, aud tho only heels that will euable one to become an easy, light walker. In city apartments, whero space is limited, beds aro frequently covered with embroidered tapestries, or Bilk crotonnes, the pill nv3 being (flowed away iu some oouveuiont place and replaced by an upholstered bolster. Whero parlors adjoin tho . sleeping rooms and beds are exposed to view, the fashion is a couvemont one, but it is hardly to bo recommended other i wise. ... . .. WHAT TIME IS IT f Time to do well, Time to live better- To give up that grudge, To answer that lotter, To speak the kind word That may sweeten some sorrow; To do now tho good You would leave till to-morrow. —Philadelphia Inquirer. HUMOR OF THE DAT. She "You seem to forget yourself, sir." He —"Howcould Ido otherwise in your presence?"— Judy. Friend—"l suppose everything yon writo now goes?" Author—"Yes, but most of it comes back."—Harlem Life, "1 know now," remarked the young man who was sued for breaoh of promise, "why fbey cull it " 'court ing?' "—Tit Bits. Editor—"Your story is flat." Author—"Yes?" Editor—"l wish to compliment you. Most stories we got are rolled up."—Puok. Clark (excitedly) -"I tell you sir, this town isu't big enough to hold us both I" Fuller (calmly) —' Why don't you start a suburb?"—l'uck. She—"l think I might love you more if you were uot so extravagant." He—"lt's my extravagant liuturo that makes mo love you so."—Life. She boasts a pretty, gold-lrimmod purse, The envy or the host. But shopping leads from had to worse. It is au empty boast. —Washington Star. "Uncle Simon, what is a phenom enon?" "A phenomenon is a man who gets so rich that ho won't accept a pass on a railroad."—Chicago Re cord. Tagloigh—"Balloon sleeves were bouud to go up in tho cud." Wag leigh—"Sure. That is why they were named balloon sleeves."—Boston Traveler. Arthur—"l would marry that girl but for one thing." Chester— "Afraid to pop the question?" Ar thur— "No. Afraid to question the pop."—Brooklyn Life. "I'll wager that woman submariuo diver doesu't stay under the water more than ten minutes at a time." "Why?" "Nobody ilowu thore to talk to."—Chicago Record. Mrs. Newiywed (iu tears)—" You used to say that you would be glad to die for me." Mr. Newly wed—"Well, I would now." Mrp. Newiywed— "Well, you may now."—Judge. Reporter—"Three men fell on live trolley wires to day." City Editor— "Run 'em in the current events col umn." Chorus of groans from tho foiee.—Cincinnati Commercial Tri bune. "Wby do people take so much in terest iu what they call Darkest Africa anyhow?" "I presume they have a kind of idea it would be a good thing to go there aud gropo with tba country."—Chicago Tribune. Jngsoc—"l tried to pay the new woman a compliment last night in my speech, but it didn't scorn to bo appre ciated." Bagsou—"What did you say?" Jagson —"I said that the new woman would leave largo footprints on tho sands ot time."—Tit-Bits. The Horse In History. As late as the niutb century Euro pean horses were shod only iu tho winter time. The first horses in Now England wero introduced iu Massachusetts iu 1629 or 1630. Tho horse iu th i art of the lloma i Catacombs is au e .lbleiu of the swift ness of life. Queen Elizabeti bad the roputation of being the most accomplished oquoi trieune of her timj, It is said by eoi ipeteut persons tlmt over 103,033 ho lus are every year killed for fool in Paiis. The first King of England lo estab lish a royal stable low breeding pur poses was Heury VIII. Btudeuts of the oquitie race declare that the mule has all tho faults of both his aucestral lines. It is a tradition amoug the Hobrowe that Solomou bad 40,000 chariot horses aud 12,003 cavalry. Tho Arabian horses have, from tho earliest times, been noted for their Uoetncss and endurance. World's Greatest Fortification. The most extensive fortification iu the world, as every ono knows, is tho Chinese wall. According to roceut surveys, this wall is 1723 miles in length, reaching from the gulf of Pocheleo to the eonfiuesof Turkestan. This remarkahlu structure passes up steep mountains, down into gorges and ravines, crosses rivers, valleys aud plains, seemingly regardless of obstacles. It is 25 feet thick at the bottom, and 15 at the top, aud from 25 to 00 feet in height, with flaukiug turrets or towers 35 to 40 feet high, every 200 or 300 yards during its on tiro length. The exterior walls are of well-cut granito blocks; the intorior is lillod with earth nud stone, aud tins passageway is paved with bricks oua foot square. Its erection was beguu in 211 B. C., nnd it was assigned to protect the northern frontier of China against the Bavage tribes of Siberia. Avoid Extremes. Subjecting children to extremes of temperature is a common cause of their taking cold. It does not seem to be generally understood that colds can be caught by going suddenly from a very cold temperature that has chilled the body, into a very warm room ; but this is the ease. A chit / who has been out in very severe weather, and who is chilled through, should not be taken directly to the fire, but be kppt qway from it until , . lie has been iu the room for awhile, and the extreme chilliness has disap peared,—Home Queeu.