Says tho Dallas (Texas) News: Tho Tennessee typewriter who rejected a poet and married a butcher ha J a level head. The poet could never have made a stake for her. Some physicians saylh.it people who ride up and down six or eight stories in an elevator two or throe times a day will invariably develop some ner vous trouble. They go so far as to say that the daily use of an elevator in" duces headache, heart trouble and even brain fever. The New York Tribune says: The foreign trade of the United States was greater in 1890 than in 1895. The foreign trade of New York was less in 189G than in 1895. In 1895 New York had considerably more than half the foreign trade of tho Nation, and in 1890 it had considerably less than half. Those are facts of serious im port, which New Yorkers will do well to take to heart. Dr. 1\ Peuta has studied tho fingers and toes of 4500 criminals, and finds a deficiency in the size of number of toes quite frequent among them, al- j though very rare among ordinary men. He has also observed that prehensile toes, marked by a wide space between the great too and tho second toe, is n condition quite common among crim- 1 iuals, also a webbed condition of tho toes, an approximation to the toeless feet of some savages. It often takes a season's profits at Coney Island to pay the damages j caused by one storm, learns the San j Francisco Chronicle. Austin Corbin, tho founder of the great New York watering place, said several years ago that he would have been better oil by j 8100,000 if he had never seen the j island. Once ho was compelled to employ four or live locomotives to haul ' his big hotel out of the way of the surf, i though when the building was put up it stood a thousand feet from the shore. This week has seen another inrush of | the waves, and there is danger that Coney Island will be cut in twain. It would be worth millions a year to At lantic coast watering places to have a sea like tho Pacific, which permits house-building within fifty feet of aver- 1 ago high-water mark. The Wool and Cotton Reporter states that of the 87 mills tho Southern States may lay claim to over 50 per j cent., as 51 will be operated south of ' the Mason and Dixon line. Of tho , remainder the Eastern States include 50, while the remaining half dozen are scattered through various parts of the middle West. Twenty-seven mills are located in the Carolinas, 15 in North and 12 in South Carolina, ranging in Hize from the largo Louise mill at j Charlotte, the centre of Southern tex- j tile manufacturing, t.* minor plants, representing a comparatively small in vestment. From this it may be seen that the experiment"entered upon dur ing the last decade is proving a suc cess, and that the North lias now ft rival in the field worthy of serious at" ! tention. While it is probable that in the manufacture of line goods the North has yet experienced little com- , petition, still in the production of tho coarser grades a large share of patron age has been transferred from the j North to the South. One of the Board of Inspectors re cently called attention to the fact that j if the collegiate and scientific schools j of the Greater New York should amal- j gamate, it would produce the largest, i greatest and richest university in the 1 world. Iti this aggregation there would be Columbia University, with 1900 students; New York University, with 1800 students; the College of the City of New York, with 1900; the Nor- J inal College, with 2000; Barnard, with j 200; the Teachers', with 400; tho Adel- j phi, of Brooklyn, 900; the Theological I Seminary, with 129; Manhattan Col- j lege, with 350; the Brooklyn Poly- j technic, with 750; St. Francis Xavier, j with 800; the Union Theological Sem- I inary, with 150; St. John's, ut Ford- j ham, with*22s; New York College of ! Pharmacy, New York College of Dentistry, New York Law School, the ! various separate medical schools, such j as those of Bellevuo Hospital, Long j Island College Hospital, the Woman's j Infirmary, the Woman's Hospital, the j Post-Graduate, the Polyclinic, the 1 Homeopathic, the Eclectic, the two colleges of veterinary surgery, the four great art schools, the leading con servatories of music, and the leading business colleges of this city. Those united would make a huge body of about 25,000 students, with property worth 850,000,000 and an income of $5,000,000 a year. Alongside of this Oxford and Cambridge, Goettingen and Heidelberg, Berlin and Leipzig, Munich and Zurich would besmull in stitutions. THE DAYS OF LONG AGO. In penstr© mon l T often sit through evening hours aglow And think of nil tho happy clays that pass • i in years ago: I love in fancy to re -all those joyous lroamaiiffrr. Artists are proverbially lacking in what people of coarser clay call horse sense. Seldom does it occur to these highly gifted persons to guard the scaffold on which they stand with a hand rail. Many times have artists fallen in consequence, aud frequently they have lost their lives in this man ner. Lord Leighton, who died a year or so ago, it has been stated recently, wa3 saved from such a fate only by the vigilance of his nssistaut. He almost stepped backward off the trestlo work in front of one of his frescoes at South Kensington Museum. Murillo was less fortunate, for he died from the effeotsof his fall. Among other painters who came to au untime ly end in this way wore Munoz, Perez, Gabbiana, Gambara, Coxcie, Bozzone, Cavedone and Stothard. Michael An gelo escaped with a broken leg, and Frederigo Zucchero after a frightful fall recovered 'in sui-prisingly short time.—Now York Press. Theatre Fires, Since 1797 there have been 1100 theatre fires with 10,000 fatalities, ac cording to Mr. Sach's "Fires and Ptiblio Entertainments," just pub lished. Of these 462 took took place in the United States, 139 in Great Britain and 101 in Germany, France having nearly the same number. Lon don bus had thirty-five fires and Paris twenty-eight. Oat of 343 theatres,de stroyed by fire, one-half were burned within ten years after they were con structed, forty of thorn within tho first year. Upsets the litill by Twisting His Tall. When the Venezuelan cowboy wishes to catch a bull or cow for branding, or for any purpose, he rides alongside it and, with horse aud bovine on the dead-run, stoops from his saddle, BTasps the creature's tail, and, with a sharp, peculiar twist sends the animal rolling on his back. From the force with which. it falls, the creature's horns almost iuvariaby pin its head to the ground, giving tlio vaquero time to dismount and sit on its head, hold ing the animal helpless to rise, whilo a companion ties its legs. SOUTHERN ROAD-MAKING NORTH CAROLINA'S METHOD OF CON STRUCTING HICHWAYS. now Certain Classes of Convicts Arc Util ized With Little or No Exponas ty tile Counties—Under Tills System tile State is Getting llid of tlitf Tramps. The law in North Carolina permit ting the sentencing of offenders to work upon the roads has been in exis tence for six years, but as yet, says a Raleigh letter to the New York Post, only seventeen of the ninety-six conn ties have availed of it, and in the ma jority of the seventeen it is of compar atively recent application. Its good results, however, are manifest, and the plan having passed beyond the ex perimental stage, many additional counties are expected to avail them selves of the law's advantage at an early date. Several committees from other States have inspected the system with a v iew to its adoption. A mistaken impression has gone abroad that practically all the convicts in the State are thus employed, when, in reality, only the petty offenders, or those receiving sentences of less than five years, are sentenced "to the roads." The penitentiary convicts, ahout 2000 in number, are employed 011 the "State farms." These farms, three in number, are plantations of several thousand acres. As three fourths of the convicts have worked at agricultural pursuits, the force so ob tained is a very good one for farming purposes. At these farms the con victs raise cotton and corn principally. They are worked under the guard-sur veillance system, and are confined in strong stockades and prison-houses at night. The State has several thousand bales of cotton to sell every season and great quantities of corn and other farm produce. For a number of years the penitentiary has been self-support ing, the profits of the farms being suf ficient to feed and clothe all the in mates and guards and to meet the other expenses. The law gives Superior Court Judges the discretion of sentencing prisoners to "the roads" or to the penitentiary. But the main sources of supply of road-iunkers are the Mayors' courts and those of justices of the peace. The convicts from these courts, es pecially if they are residents of the locality where convicted, require little or no "guarding," one guard being ample for a squad of tweuty'to fifty of this class of workers. This fact probably accounts for the misstate ment going the sounds that the con victs require no guard and are allowed to go home and spend Sunday with their families. The latter privilege is not accorded to any of the convicts, though in some few cases it probably could be done with safety. This system of working petty offen ders not only assures good roads, but it has the effect of ridding North Carolina towns of the vast army of Northern tramps who make their way South every year with the beginning of cold weather. Whenever a tramp is arrested here, under the general vagrant laws or municipal ordinances, he is invariably given thirty days on the roads as an initial dose, at the end of which period ho is ordered to leave town. If he does not comply with this order within twenty-four hours he is sentenced to a sixty days' term, but it is seldom that u second dose is necessary. The tramps leave as soon as opportunity presents itself, and warn all of their stripe to beware of the State. These convict road makers do not come in contact with free labor, for the reason that they are not employed on the roads or streets inside the corporate limits, but on the country roads leading into towns which heretofore) have received little attention. For miles in every direction the roads leading into this city are now macadamized, and present a beautiful appearance. Homo of the countrv roads are better than the roadways of some of the streets within the corpora tion, nltliough the convict system has been in operation only a year or two. The work is now being extended farther into the country, and it will not be long before the country roads through out the counties where the system "is in force will be in splendid condition. The best roads in the State are to be seen in Mecklenburg County, of which the cotton manufacturing city of Char lotte is the county seat. There the system has been in operation longer than elsewhere. Even before the pres ent general law was enacted Mecklen burg hired the convicts from the Com missioners of neighboring counties to work its public loads. The result is that for twenty miles or more in every direction around Charlotte there are fine macadam and shell roads, a ride over which is a treat. One great point is that practically the only cost of the improved roads is the material, as it costs no more to feed the convicts when they are employed than when they were idle. With the good roads comes an agitation for wide tires, to the end that what has been gained may be re tained. Now, as to the profits in good roads. The towns nnd cities which have made entrance easy find that trade thereby comes to them. Farmers desert olil markets for the new ones, although the old markets may be nearer home, be ing influenced by tho knowledge of how much cheaper large loads may be hauled over well-made roads. Of course they buy where they sell, and one consequent gratifying result is a competition between business cen tres in the matter of good roads. An English paper declares that at a recent concert Paderewski played the piano continuously for two hours and a half. The Prussian crown is very plain, the royal house of Prussia having been celebrated for its economy. HOW THE COLD 13 EXTRACTED. An Export Talks* Abcrat tlio Wonderful Klondike Gold Fields. Dr. William H. Dull, one of the cur* ators of the National Museum at Wash ington, is familiar with the region of country in which tho Klondike gold fields are situated through having been on several geological expeditions to the region iu Alaska adjourning the gold district, and says that in his opinion the reports from there prob ably are not exaggerated. He said: >' "When I was there I did not find gold, but knew of it being taken out iu profitable quantities for fifteen years or more. It was first discovered there in 18G6. In 1880, when I was in that country, my last trip having been made two years ago, the first party of prospectors who made the mining profit started out. The gold is found on tho various tributaries of the Yu kon, and I have been within a com paratively short distance of the Klon dike fields. I made one trip to Circle City, just over the boundary of Can ada. "The gold-bearing bolt of North western America contains all the gold fields extending into British Columbia, what is known as the Northwestern Territory and Alaska. Tho Yukon really runs along in that belt for 500 or COO miles. The bed of the main river is in the lowland of the valley. "Tho yellow metal is not found in paying quantity in the main river, but in the small streams which cut through the mountains on both sides. These practically wash out the gold. Tho mud and mineral matter are carried into tho main river, while the gold is left on the rough bottoms of these side streams. In most cases the gold lios at the bottom of thick gravel deposits. Tho gold is covered by frozen gravel in the winter. During the summer, until the snow is all melted, the sur face is covered by muddy torrents. When the snow is melted, and the springs begin to freeze, the streams dry up. At the approach of winter, in order to get at the gold, the miners find it necessary to dig into the gravel formation. "Formerly they stripped the gravel off until they came to the gold. Now they sink a shaft to tho bottom of the gravel, and tunnel along underneath, in the gold-bearing layer. The miners build tiros over the area where they wish to work, and keep them lighted over that territory for tho space of twenty-four hours. Then, at the ex piration of this period, the gravel will bo melted and softened to a depth of perhaps six inches. This is taken off, and other fires built, until the gold bearing layer is reached. When the shaft is down that far tires are built at the bottom, against tho sides of tho layer, and tunnels made in this man ner. Blasting would do 110 good, on account of the hard nature of the material, and would blow out, just as out of a gun. The matter taken out containing the gold is piled up until spring, when the torrents come down. It is certainly very hard labor. "I see many reasons why the gold fields should be particularly rich. The streams which cut through the moun tains have probably done so for cen turies, wearing them down several hundred feet and washing out the gold into tho beds and gravel. "It is a country in which it is very hard to find food, as there is practically 110 game. Beforo the whites went into the region there were not more than 305 natives. They have hard work to support themselves.—New York Times. er "* riiyalciiiiiH l'rono ft® Suicide. Statistics show that the medical profession is more prose to suicide than any other. During tho last three years tho number of suicides occurring among physicians has been respective ly forty-five, forty-nine and forty-seven per annum, an average of nearly one to 2000; or, as the death rate among pliysiciaus is about twenty-five to 1000, nearly one-fiftieth t\ v . all the deaths iu the profession havo been by suicide. It has been suggested that an ex planation of this tendency may be found in the development of morbid fancies in tho 111 iud of a doctor on ac count of his constant association with the sick and dying, or of an actual in difference to death, or because he has the requisite knowledge of how to die painlessly and conveniently. A medi cal journal dissents from all those views, and holds that the leading fac tor is the accessibility of the poison ous drugs, which are almost invariably used.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Migration of CunadluuH. 9 JThe migration of the French-speak ing people of Canada to the New Eng land States has assumed enormous proportions in recent years, and shows 110 signs of diminution. The French population of the Province of Quebec is 1,200,000, while, according to the census of 1890, the number of French Canadians and of persons of Canadian extraction in the United States was 840,000. The late M. Mercier pre dicted that by 1910 there would be more French Canadians by birth and descent in the United States than in Canada. —Boston Herald. Mrs. Stone's Stutue. Tlia bronze statue of Harriet Beeelier Stowe, which will soon be erected in Hartford, Conn., will be twelve feet high and will represent Mrs. Stowe seated with a suppliant figure of Uncle Torn stretching forth a pair of brawny arms, from which hang broken shackles. Tho statue is the work of W. Clark Noble. A Novel Industry. The hand-knitting industry which was organized by Lady Arrau in County Mayo, Ireland, to give em ployment to her husband's lias proved a success Seven thousand pairs of stockings were knitted last year and #3OOO spent in wages.