Every contract made by a farmer, 1 for tlie hire of a laborer, whether for a definite or indefinite time, in subject to the right of the farmer to discharge the laborer if he wilfully disobeys u lawful order. Greater New York is the greatest Irish city in the world, with a popula tion of 275,000. It is a greater Ger man city than any but three or four of the largest cities of the German Empire, with 325,000 Germans within its limits. It has a population greater than that of any single State in the Union, excepting only New York itself, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois. Speaking of the last achievement in India of the "gallant Gordons," Black and White says: "Not the least of the splendid anecdotes with which tho Gordons have enriched military history comes to their fellow-countrymen this morning, and the name of the pipei who, shot through both feet, sat and played his friends on to victory will long be a cherished memory. Let your boys hear that story; they will be the better for it." Much talk has been started at Louis ville among men interested in river navigation by the discovery that the dangers of the Ohio Falls, in the avoidance of which much money has been spent every year for nearly a century, were probably mere creations of the imagination. In all that time it lias been considered necessary for every boat descending tbe falls to hire a special pilot who knew just where among the rushing waters every dau gerous rock lay, ready to wreck any craft unfortunate enough to touch -it. The Government improvements now going on have laid bare the bed of the river at this point, and to the surprise of the boat owners it is revealed that none of the rocks about which they have been so apprehensive exist. Competent engineers say that any barge or steamboat could have run the falls in perfect safety, with no other help than that of their regular crews. Did the special pilots know this fact all the time? They deny it with great emphasis, but dark suspicions are afloat in many minds, and at all events, the glory—and profits—of the falls pilots have departed forever. A writer in the Nashville American, commenting upon the influence of the Presbyterian Church upon the early life of this country, makes the follow ing observation: "The Presbyterian Church in colonial days contained a large element of Scotch and Scotch- Irish, who were either forcibly ban ished from their homes or became voluntary exiles to escape intolerable oppressions. They brought with them hatred of despotism and an unquench able thirst for liberty. It is not sur prising, therefore, that, ns Eancroft says, 'the first voice publicly raised in America to dissolve all connection with Great Britain came from the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians.' The first body to declare for open resistance was the Presbyterian synod of Phila delphia, and the first declaration of independence was that put forth by the Presbyterians of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Having helped to precipitate the conflict, they helped to fight it out. In the battle of the Cowpens General Morgan, who commanded, and General Pickens, who made all the arrangements for the battle, were Presbyterian elders, 'and nearly all under their command,' says a trustworthy writer, 'were Presby terians. In the battle of King's Moun tain Colonels Campbell, Williams, Cleveland, Shelby, Sevier, Hamilton and Major James were all Presbyterian elders, and the body of their troops were collected from Presbyterian set tlements.' These two battles were of no mean importance, because they marked the turn in the tide of war. It would entitle the Presbyterians to some recognition on an occasion like this to mention the one fact that 'Old Hickory' ended his great career as an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He was a typical Scotch-Irishman, well fitted when once turned in the right direction to illustrate the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints." Aside from the active part which Presbyter ians took in the struggle for independ ence, adds the Atlanta Constitution, il is also a fact that our system of gov ernment is based largely upon the model of the Presbyterian Church. Thi3 is due, perhaps, to the command ing influence of Rev. John Wither spoon, who figured with conspicuous prominence in the early affairs of this country. The State of Tennessee since the beginning has been a strong and active centre of Presbyterianisni, and the splendid growth which the com monwealth has enjoyed during the past century of its Statehood is due in large measure to the sturdy character it iti Presbyterian citizenship. THE CREAT MYSTERY. Could wo but know The laud that ends our dark. uncertain travel, Where lies those happier hills and mea dows low. Ah! if beyond the spirit's inmost cavil, Aught of the country could we surely kuow, Who would not go? Might we but hear The hovering angels high, imagined, chorus, Or catch, betimes, witli wakeful eyes, and clear, One radiant vista of the realm before tie vv *"h oue rapt moment given to 3e • uud heur, Ah! who would fear? Were we quite sure rp o find the peerless friend who le.'t us lonely, Or there, by some celestial stream, as pure. To gaze iu eyes that here were lovelit only— This weary mortal coil, were we quite sure, Who would endure? —Edmuud Clarence Stedman. | A WOMAN SCORNED. | tT was rather embarras sing for Maurice Con sidine that when he ar rived at the hotel at Point of Bocks, having come down there in order to be near his fian cee, who was spending the summer there, lie found that the girl who had been his fiancee and whom he had jilted, was also staying at the Point. For however he justi fied his conduct, and glossed thiugs over to himself, there can be no doubt that he had acted heartlessly to Bessie Minturn, and his knowledge of this and his knowledge of Miss Miu turn's ideas of him, did not tend to fill his mind with unalloyed pleasure. But he was agreeably surprised when the moment eame for him to meet his old love. She was not scorn ful, or theatrically cold to him; she was just as gracefully courteous to him as to the other men the hotel, and to all appearances had entirely gotteu over her attack of that dangerous dis ease of the brain which is called love, and which annually makes more fail ures and gibbering idiots than ever did the J)emou Drink. She had be come fast friends with his new love, little Violet Grantley, and they were well nigh inseparable; Bessie's man ner to the little girl was most tender uud even caressing, and, though Vio let knew that Maurice aud Bessie had been engaged and had parted, she could not help hut likelier, that is, as much as a girl can ever like the Other Woman, the one whom He liked first, and perhaps still likes better than you. Maurice was much in Bessie's com pany during the next month, and he even began to think that, perhaps he had made a mistake, for she had im proved wonderfully since he had seen her last; her beauty seemed to have acquired a richer, warmer type, she was jollier and more charming, and in every way fascinating. She puzzled him, she attracted him, and she an noyed him, for she did not seem to re gard him as material for flirting, though she flirted desperately with almost every one else, but when Maurice tried \ to awaken sentimental memories of; old times in her mind, she laughed at him. "I have quite got over that old fancy" she said, "and it is useless for you to try to revive it. There are no birds in last year's nests," and she laughed again and went down to the pier to look at her boat, the Fiy-by- Night. But, the truth was that though she carried a gay, smiling face, she hud never either forgotten or forgiven Maurice or the girl who had taken him from her. She did not make a show of herself as a deserted maiden wouriug the willow, for she had what is better than the Christian virtues, the old heathen gift of pride, so that she could dance and flirt and ]oke, while her heart was full of the blackness of des- ' pair and the fires of Tophet. Given a proud, high spirited and vindictive girl who has been thrown over by a mau, place her in the com pany of that man and his new love, and you have materials at baud for unusual things to happen; yet these three seemed to he the best friends iu the world, aud there seemed to be no happier girl at Point of Bocks than Bessie Minturn. There came u day too hot for any exertion, when one could only lie iu the shade and long for evening to come. Tho long, weary, blazing day came to an end at last, the stars rose up cool and sweet, the blinding white dust of tho roads was laid by the dew and the hotel guests began to stir and show signs of animation. Bessie came to Violet and Maurice in the dusk. "What do you say," saii\ she, "if we cut this place and its stupid hop this evening and go sailing? I will take 1 out my boat, and we will go out by ' moonlight. Have yon ever been out ? It is a pretty sight." Ho they went down to the pier, where the Fly-by Night lay, and Maurico ami Violet got in and sat for ward. Bessie oust loose the rope hold ing the boat and jumped in. Then she and Maurice pushed the boat from the pier with their hands, aud together hoisted the sails and the Fly-by-Night took the breeze, softly heeled over and creeping down the little bay, threading the crooked lanes of moon- lit water between the sea grass. They ' reached the outlet and swept through j into the broad sea, which was almost smooth, there being just enough breeze to fill the sails and carry them along. Bessie sat at the tiller and held the sheet. She managed her boat with perfect coininnnd, aud the Fly-by- Night seemed to obey her like a living j thing. She only moved slightly from time to time as she shifted the helm, • and in that light her white yachting i suit and cap made her look like a marble figure, except when the light sparkled ou her red-brown eyes or the coils of her red hair, which glittered ( like burnished copper. Theji passed Gallows Hill, where the English Governor hanged forty five pirates iu a row in tho good old Colony times; they skirted the Haunt ed Beach, where they say Captain Ividd's spirit walks o' stormy nights, and they drew up abreast with Point Goodbye. To the east they saw u brightly lighted bulk eomiug up swiftly. "The Fall River boat, City of Glo'ster, coming up," said Bessie, and shifted her helm, holding her boat tc ! the wind to let tho steamer pass. The steamer came up at speed; they could see the brightly lighted portholes, and the green side lights, hear the rumb ling, pulsing thunder of the engines and the steady "cur-ur-ur-urr," of the , paddles. It was close- at hand, and 1 the little boat swung to the surge ol the steamer. "Violet," said Bessie, suddenly and sharply," do you two people love each other?" "What a question" said Maui ice, with an awkward laugh. "No, but do you?" said Bessie again, j The steamer was so near now that the deck lights shone on their boat. Then jealousy raised its head iu Vio let's mind. "Of course we do," said she and gloried in tho pang she thought j she inflicted on the other woman's heart. "Then," said Bessie, and her voice rang like a bell, "kiss each other, for you are about to die." She swung the tiller hard over, and the Fly-by-Night swung as a girl swings in a waltz, the sails filled anil the boat rushed clear into the track of tho oncoming steamer. There was no time to speak, to rise, to cry out; it happened in a Hash, in a moment, j For one breathless instant the steaui- i er's lights shone on Bessie's face, marble white, her eyes shining and her teeth glistening between her part- i ed lips. Then there came one shout i from the steamer's lookout man, and the thirty-foot stem of the City of Glo'ster struck the side of the boat a crashing blow that smashed it as a paper box crumbles when you step on it, the must flow over und whipped the water and the iron keel of the steamer rode on, over and through the boat, j while the "bat-bat-bat-bat" of tho paddle wheels ground it to pieces. The City of Glo'ster ran on a qunr- j ter of a mile, stopped, reversed and came back nearly to the spot. With I a few short orders and some stifled ' exclamations some of the deck hands ; lowered a boat, an officer took the helm and said, "Give way," and they rowed out past the circle of the steamer's lights. A little group of passengers and deck bands clustered at the rail, and watched the boat as it swept to anil , fro over the water; no one spoke, and 1 an awe-struck silence rested over the | men. At last the boat returned, was made j fast and hoisted, and the officer in charge scrambled up to the deck. Did you find anyone?" asked a quiet voice from tho upper deck. "No one, sir." "No one swimming or floating?" j "Nothing but a few boards; their j boat was smashed to toothpicks. They : must have gone clean under us and been cut to bits by the paddles." The same quiet voice said "Go ahead," a hell jingled in the engine room, ami the City of Glo'ster tore on its way up the coast, while a few pieces of wreckage tumbled in the wake.—New York East Side News. Kxperlin<?iit in liuria). Experiments in surface burial have been made by Mr. F. Seymour Haden, the pioneer burial reformer, at his estate at Alresford, Hants, the results of which he communicates to the Times. Laying the body of a calf, pig or dog on the ground, he "covers j .it iu every direction with a single foot of earth," aud finds at the end of a year that only the bones remain. The whole process is without effect on the purity of the earth beneath, or the sweetness of the air around. Deep burial, he demonstrates, retards the complete resolution of the animal tissue. Ho lias found that bodies buried two feet deep take two years to disappear, while at three feet they 1 take three years and so on. He in vites those interested to make the pilgrimage to his experimental burial i ground. Famous lliltle Distributor. Perhaps the moat famous distribn tor of Billies in the world was Deacon 1 William Brown, of New Hampshire. He began the work in 1819, and kept it up till his death, a few years ago, at the age of seventy-six. During that time 110 fewer than 120,000 copies of j the Scriptures were given out by him, ! j and despite his age in the two years j preceding his death he canvassed 239 j towns and visited over 80,000 fauii- i lies. Twelve Years Dead and Unburled. The late King Alfonso, of Spain, who died twelve years ago, is still un buried. His remains lie covered in a winding sheet on a marble slab in the j vault of tho Esourial. It is to be hoped that disinfectants are used. He will be interred when the present King ikies, according to the Spanish custom, which dates hpek to 1700. Dri'sMiif- ami Parkin;; Gome ami Duck*. An Illinois subscriber asks the best way to dress geese so as to have all the down nicely oft'. The subscriber ilso asks how to pack so as to get a good price for them. Kill by bleeding in the mouth or opening the veins of the neck; hang by i the feet until properly bled. Leave feet and head on; do not remove intes ; tines nor crop. For scalding the water should be as near the boiling point as possible, without boiling; hold the bird by the head and legs and immerse and lift up Four or five times, as it requires more time to penetrate and loosen the leathers than in chickens. Some parties advise after scalding ; to wrap them in a blanket for the pur pose of steaming, but they must not be left in this condition long enough to cook the flesh. Two or three min i utes is the time recommended. Do not undertake to dry pick geese and ducks just before killing for the sake of saving the feathers, as it causes the skin to be very much inflamed, and ,is a great injury to the sale. Do not pick the feathers off the head; leave the feathers on for two or three inches on the neck. Do not singe the bodies to remove down or hair, as the heat from the flames will give them an oily and uusightly appearance. After they are picked cleau they should be held in scalding water about ten seconds for the purpose of plump ing, then rinsed off in cleau cold water and hung in a cool place until the ani mal heat is entirely out of the body, for they should be thoroughly dry and cold, but not frozen, before packing for shipment. Pack snugly in boxes or barrels, but use great care to avoid brnisiug the flesh or breaking any bones; boxes holding 100 to 200 pounds are prefera ble; straighten out the body and legs, so that they will not arrive very much ; bent and twisted out of shape; fill the packages as full as possible to prevent moving about on the way; barrels an swer better for chickens and ducks than for turkeys or geese; weigh the package before packiug; when con venient. avoid putting more than one kind in a package; if more than one kind in a package, mark kind and weight of each description on the pack age; if but one kind in the package mark in plain figures on the cover the tiumber and kind of birds within, the total weight of package and net weight; mark shipping directions, your name I and address, plainly on the cover. They are then ready for transport ing. Mark name and address of firm to which they are to go plainly on cover, and send full advice and invoice by first mail after the goods are shipped. Fat, heavy stock is always preferred. ! —Farm, Field and Fireside. Cultivation of Ura&soH. v. F. Lamsou-Scribner, agroslologist of the Department of Agriculture, has | submitted his third annual report for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1897. The work of this division; as au thorized by Congress, is the investiga tion of grasses and forage plants, em bracing all points relating to the nat ural history, geographic distribution, uses and adaptability to special soils and climates. The law also author izes the establishment aud mainte nance of experimental grass stations and the employment of necessary labor aud purchase of supplies for carrying them on. There are at present two grass gar lens maintained by the division—one on the grounds of the Agricultural Department and the other at Knox -1 ville, Tenu. The one on the depart ment grounds covers less than an acre. During the past year seeds of between 400 and 500 varieties have been sown ' in this garden, the greater proportion Df which germinated and atti acted public attention, particularly in the ex hibition of grasses suitable for lawns, i The seeds used were procured through the collectious of field agents .and by exchanges of foreign countries. The grass garden at Knoxville, Tenn., embraces about seven acres of ground. More than 200 varieties of seeds were grown there during the past year, a considerable portion of which are perennials, and their further development will be watched with in terest. The field work authorized during the past year embraced an investiga tion, first, of the grasses and forage plants of the Southwest; second, of the Northwest, and third, of the Gulf States. Assistants were sent, to these sections to secure information in re gard to the existing forage condition of the cattle ranges by direct observa tion and by consulting with the vari ous raisers of that section. The demand for new and improved forage plants which will grow and thrive on Western farms is constantly increasing, and it is of importance, the report states, that the valuable ' grasses which are disappearing from the prairies, meadows and pastures, as the result from over-stocking, should be given a fair trial with the Foreign species which are constantly being introduced in order to show i what they will do under cultivation. I There are many valuable grasses among the several hundred indigenous species. With a view of carrying on the in vestigation along this Hue, by testing the qualities of native grasses and forage plants, tlie seeds which were collected during the season of 189G were put up in small packages and di vided into sets, which were distributed to agricultural experimental stations and individuals who expressed a will ingness to co-operate with the de partment in this work. There were in each of the ten first sets seeds of 185 species, and the first thirty sets contained nearly 4000 packages. Ten of these sets were sent to foreign countries from which valuable material has been received in exchange. These countries embraced New South Wales, Victoria, Algeria, Cape Colony, Natal, Northwest India, the Royal Botanical Gardens of Kew, England, and the ex perimental station in Switzerland. A total of 2500 # packages was sent to ex perimental stations in this country west of the Mississippi River. Total distribution amounted to over 6000 packages of seed. It is expected that the reports of the cultivations result ing from this seed distribution will lie of much practical value. It is believed that much good may be done and the work of the division greatly promoted, if means are pro vided for furnishing its correspond ents, who will report the results ob tained, with trial samples of seeds of the grasses and forage plants in ques tion. By this means the adaptability of these plants to special soils and climates, as provided for by law in the establishment of the division, may be determined in a practical manner, and in away which will be most help ful to all concerned. It is further suggested that special experiments be undertaken in selected localities where the work, if success ful, may prove immediately useful in the propagation of sand-and-soil bind ing grasses, and those best suited for the formation of turf. Many letters have been received requesting infor mation as to the varieties of grasses to plant on embankments of steam and street railroads, and work might be undertaken directly upon such slopes by the planting of those grasses thought best to meet the eud in view in a given latitude. Along the seaboard and the shores of the great lakes there are numerous places where much valuable property could be saved from destruction by judicious planting of grasses which would prevent the drifting of the mov ing sands. The State of Massachu setts has already done much in this line near Provincetowu, ou Cape Cod. In order to accomplish all that is desired in the investigations iu the West, the report states, it will be nec essary to establish grass gardens in those regions where the work is now being carried on, and it is recom mended that grass experimental sta tions of practical extent be established in the northern part through the Pan Handle of Texas aud in central or western Montana, and that special ap propaiations be made for that pur pose.—Washington Star. Message on n Banknote. Some years ago the cashier of a Liverpool merchant received a Bank of England note, which he held up to the light to make sure it was genuine. In so doing, he noticed some very indistinct red marks, as if words had been traced on the frout of the note and on the margin, and out of curiosity he tried to decipher them. At length he made out the following sentence: *'lf this note should fall into the hands of John Dean of Longhillinar, he will learn thereby that liis brother is languishing a prisoner in Algiers." Mr. Dean, on being shown the note, lost no time in asking the Government for assistance, aud finally secured the freedom of his brother on payment of a ransom to the Bey. The unfortu nate man had been a prisoner for eleven years, and had traced, with a piece of wood for pen, and his own blood for ink, the message on the bank note, in the hope of its being seen sooner or latter.—The Gentleman. To Driven Needle Through n Copper Coin. "An apparent mechanical impossi bility may be accomplished by simple means- using a copper cent, and a cork, with a common cambric needle as accessories," writes magician Harry Kellar, describing "How I Do My Tricks" in the Ladies' Home Journal. "Announce that you will drive a small needle tin ough a coin, and few will be ready to accept your statement, yet it is very simple and any one can do it. Take a copper coin, place it upon two small blocks of wood, leav iug a very narrow open space between the blocks. Now, having selected a good, sound cork, force the needle through it until the point just appears at the other end. Break off' the por tion of the head of the needle showing above the top of the cork. Place the cork upon the coin and strike it a fair, smart blow with a hammer. The needle will be driven entii sly through the penny by a single blow." Koitnd the lOiirth, The time required for a journey rouuil the earth by a man walking day and night without resting would be 428 days; an express traiu, 40 days; eound, at a medium temperature, 82 J hours; a cannon hall, 21 j hours; light, a little over one-tenth of a second; and electricity, passing over a copper wire, a little undet one-tenth of a second. PEOPLE OF PATAGONIA. STRANGE CUSTOMS OF A COMPARA. TIVELY UNKNOWN RACE. KeinutiiM of Gigantic Bird*— Savage Trlben of the West Coast—A Low Scale of If uinanlty—Tallest People in the AVorld Are the Teliuelches—Fine Family Tents Professor J. B. Hatcher, of Prince ton University, has newly returned from a remarkable trip of exploration in a hitherto unknown region of South America—uiunely, the wild interior of Patagonia. The various tribes of aborigines in that part of the world, writes Rene Baclio in the Detroit Free Press, are among the strangest and most picturesque savages in exist ence, some of them being described as representing almost the lowest stage in the scale of human development. Their country, too, is more than ordinarily interesting, being associated since the earliest times with rumors of gigantic human inhabitants and an astonishiug fauna. Quite recently | some skeletons of birds that had heads as big as those of horses have actually been dug up. They stood at least nine feet high, and had short wings, claws like an eagle's and a beak like a condor's. It is likely that they at tacked with success the largest mam mals contemporary with them, being the biggest fowls of prey that ever lived; but they became extinct long ago, and so there was no opportunity for Professor Hatcher to secure a living specimen. The professor male several trips, during one of which—through the desert interior—he did not see a human being for over four months, except Mr. O. A. Peterson, of Prince ton, who accompanied him. He dis covered a river never before heard of, which is one of the largest in Pata gonia, very swift and deep. But his most interesting observations related to the aboriginal tribes, respecting some of which almost nothing was known. Of these not the least no table were the savages of the west coast, who are an aquatic people, liv ing almost entirely in small open boats, which they construct with much skill out of largo pieces of beech bark sewn together with sinew and flexible whalebone. Of the latter considerable quantities are thrown up along shore. These natives feed almost exclusive ly on shellfish, which they pick up along shore, while the remains of an occasional seal or sea otter cast up by the waves or killed with spears, serve to vary the monotony of the diet. Probably among no other people in the world are the actual necessities of life so few. With no constant habita tion—no place of residence that can properly be called a home—they move about from one sheltered cove to an other. Their occupation of any parti cular locality is entirely dependent upon the abundance of edible mol lusks and upon the weather, which during inclement periods may render a well-sheltered spot desirable as a temporary village site. On a few earthen sods iii the bottom of the family canoe is kept constantly burn ing a small fire, which always seems just on the point of going out. About this lire they huddle when not engaged in collecting food. The climate is extremely cold, and fierce storms are constantly raging; yet these strange people, instead of wrapping themselves in furs, go al most naked. Borne of them aro clad in scraps of cheap calico, obtained by barter from the whites, which aro fashioned iuto rude garments, the cos tume of the women being u loose skirt suspended from the shoulders and falling below the knees. For shelter on land, notwithstanding the severe weather that prevails most of the time, these aborigines erect structures scarce worthy to be called huts, consisting of a few branches of trees, the lower ends of which avo stuck iu the ground in a circle, while the upper ends are bent ovor toward the middle aud carelessly thatched to gether. Such a house, together with a canoe, a couple of paddles, one or two spears or harpoons of bono for the capture of seals, aud one or more bas kets made of rushes for use in gather ing mollusks, fulfill all the domestic requirements of a family. From the great accumulation of shell heaps in many places periodically occupied, it is evident that the people desoribod have inhabited the region for a long period, during which their habits and customs have undergone little change. Of very different character are the tribes to the east of the Cordilleras. They belong to Araucanian stock, and are a very superior race. The Teliuelches —as they call themselves —of southern and eastern Patagonia are the people whose unusual stature gave rise to the fables of early days, to the effect that the natives of this region were giants, averaging nine or ton feet iu bight. It is a faot that they are the tallest huniau beings in the world, the men averaging hut slightly less than six feot, while indi viduals of four to six inches above that mark are not uncommon. They are in reality by no moans savages, but somewhat civilized barbarians. They are almost unacquainted with the use of firearms, notwithstanding some contact with the whites, but they have plenty of horses aud dogs. Un surpassed hunters, they capture the guauaco aud the rhep, or South American ostrich, and from the skins of these and other animals they make clothes and coverings for their tents. They make beautiful "capes" or man tles, of fur and foatlier3, which are highly prized by Europeans and find a ready market, most of the proceeds being spont for bad whisky, which is brought into the country in quantities by traders. Profesor Hatcher reports that the Tehuelches are superior in one re-' speot to any other nomadic tribe in America. Their tents, which are of skins utitohed together to fit a frame* work of poles, are carried with them wherever they wander, and are so constructed as to be divided by com partments into living and sleeping quarters. There is one large living room in the family tent, and a rear portion is divided into a series of sleeping rooms four to six feet wide. The tent is shaped like a huge box, open at one side; ordinarily it is twen ty feet long by twelve feet in widlA. The whole affair is a great improve ment on the transportable habitations of other nomadic peoples. FACTS ABOUT FURS. Skin of lite Ordinary Hoimo Oat is Known as "ltoof Sable." Fur garments in this country are lower in price and better in quality than abroad, and their linish, as well as style, is faultless. Fine furs, such as foxes, chinchil las, sables, ermine and sea otter, are brought to this country free of duty, so that even if those furs are purchasod abroad no duty is saved. These furs are dressed and prepared by Ameri can workmen in so superior a manner that European furriers intrust their curing to American firms. Seal garments are cheaper to-day than for a long time, notwithstanding the scarcity of seals. Babies of all descriptions and from all countries will form an important part of the far business during the present season, and a little common sense, practical information on this, the noblest of furs, will not come amiss. Babies lead for fashionable fur trade. All is not sable that is so called. Ba bies from $2 to 3250 apiece are entitled to that name. Japanese sable is of greenish gray color and has a bright yellow throat. It is worth about $2.50. The next in price, Hudson I3ay sables, are light brown in color and have a pinkish brown throat. According to color and lustre they range in price from $2.50 4 to s'3o, and more for silvery specimens. The skin of the Persian lamb is dyed in this country as lustrously and well as abroad, and garments of it are purchased cheaper in this country than anywhere else in the world. Persian lamb for garment purposes began to find popularity with the ap pearance of electric seal, or brown dyed rabbit fur, from which the hair had been eliminated by machinery. It takes a good furrier to tell at a glance the difference between the real seal and its imitation, whereas the real Persinn lamb garment is easily recognized by even inexperienced eyes. The American skunk, one of the most reliable furs, is sold under the name of Alaska sable. The skin of the ordinary black house cat, figuring under the cogno men of genet, is humorously termed "roof sable" by the trade.—Cloaks and Furs. WISE WORDS. Chairs are choaper than backbones. No true woman is either a man war* shiper or a man hater. On the shoulders of the young and hale Poverty sits but lightly. He who knows the weakness of his own wings is sure of successful flight. Before submitting to the inevitable it is wise to be sure it is the inevitable. In giving thanks for your blessings, don't forget the criticisms you have received. The world is full of human mile stones, since it is more easy to point than to plod. It is bettor to say a little worse tha* you meau than to moan a little worse than you say. One song sung amid a storm is bet ter than a whole concert when the sun is shining. Anyone can start an organization, but it requires skill and patience to keep it growing. People whose eloquence reveals ras cality are always said, by the rascals, to "talk too much." Experieuce is a hard block to whit tie, but every shaving is of priceless value to the whittler. Like a fair and symmetrical face, behind which there is no heart, is a beautiful flower that lacks perfume. When one knows that he doesn't know anything, it is worth more to him than all the rest that he does know. There aro human beings who are proof against both commands and per suasions, and we call them mulish; but this is libelous, for even a mule can be persuaded sometimes.—New York Independent. Hot Water Slots. Boiling water from street lamps is the latest scheme to which the slot system has been applied. The machine takes the form of a handsome street lamp,'with a large base, which contains a cistern holding forty gallons of water. Cold water is fed into a spiral coil and pre-heating chamber above the that, and is there converted into steam by the heat. The steam is thon expelled by its own expansive force down the base, where it heats the water in the cistern by circulation through an iron coil, so that the steam does not actual ly oome into contact with the water to be j supplied to the public. The directors of the company claim that not only could they utilize the waste heat of the lamp iu London, but that at 1 cent a gallon they could pay for the gas and for the water used, aud thon leave a large margin for profit. Bogn* Butter In Germany. There are fifty mauufaoturers of imitation butter in Germany. A factory in Mannheim produces daily COOO pounds from a preparation of COOOAUUt.,
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