"After tho torpedo boat destroyer what?" asks a London paper. The Gloucester. t With a few battleships as interpre ters Admiral Dewey can make himself understood iu any language. It is perfectly sate to assume that the flag of the United States looks remarkably handsome floating over Santiago. The chief imports into ChiDa from the United States are cotton goods, cigars and cigarettes, flour, ginseng, machinery, medicines, kerosene oil and timber. Heroes are as thick as grasshop pers in the army and the navy. If the hand of authority is laid upon any common-place fellow unknown to fame, he responds with some start ling deed of valor. The aggregate of subscription for the war bonds was 51,365,000,000. It is interesting to compare this fine large sum of available cash with the scanty coins which were fished out of stock ings and old teapots by the people of Spain. The spectacle of Captain Glass be ing obliged to courteously inform the Governor of the Ladrone Islands that Spain and the United States were at war before demanding his surrender imparts tCat touch of humor which is rarely lacking in even tho most tragic occurrences. A little girl in Kansas City found a pocketbook containing $l5O in cash, and S6OO in promissory notes, and returned it to the owner. Instead of Bending her away with the usual thanks, accompanied with good ad vice, the owner presented her with a fine bicycle. This action was a tan gible acknowledgment of honesty. General Miles ordered veterinary surgeons to accompany troops into action, so that the sufferings of the horses and mules injured in battle might be ended. That may seem like a small matter, but it shows that in small things, as in great, Americans are kind hearted, and it helps to make the world understand that we are really capablo of carrying on a war of hu manity. According to conservative estimates, nearly one-third of the native popula tion of Cuba perished during the threo years that have elapsed since the in surrection was born. What does this mean to the Cubans? It means pre cisely what the loss of 20,000,000 Americans by battle, disease and star vation would mean to tho Republic. It is a blow equal iu proportion, tri fling as it may appear by comparison of figures. The New York Tribune observes: Some German missionaries went to China and got killed by a mob; where upon Germany, byway of indemnity, seized a Chinese port and the adja cent territory. And now a German Consul-General, in an official report, dwells upon the desirability of getting still more Chinese territory, and says the easiest way to do so is to send more missionaries! Talk about cold bloodedness! That suggestion is enough to send cold shivers down the tpine of the most heartless cyuic in the world. According to tho revised report of the Census Board of the Russian In terior Office, the Empire of the Czar has a population of 129,000,000 in habitants, of whom 91,000,000 are in European provinces. China alone sur passes this number, having from 350,- 000,000 to 100,000,000 of population. According to area, the provinces which have tho greater populations are Caucasia, with 9,000,000, and Poland, with 9,500,000. Since 1885 the population of the Russian Empire has increased from 108,000,000 to 129,000,000, or at the rate of over 1,500,000 a year. Learned men have been discussing the question for ages whether any thing in the way of hospitals was known to the ancients. Now it is an nounced that one has actually been discovered at Baden, Germany, con taining fourteen rooms, supplied with many kinds of medical, pharmaceuti cal and surgical apparatus, probes, tubes, pincers, cauterizing instru ments and even a collection of safety pins for bandaging wounds. There are also medicine spoons in bone and silver, measuring vessels, jars and pots for ointment, Borne still contain ing traces of the ointment used. The latest date of the coins found appears to be the reign of Hadrian, who was Emperor A. D. 117-138, from which it is inferred that it was a military hos pital. Verily there is nothing new under the sun. HE'S THE HIRED HAND. Jim Tflompson, tbehlred hand, He's with us clean from spring to fall, And through the winter, understand, Them cold days when the wood's to haul; He rousts out early, hitches up Theru clay-bank mules, and makes 'ein stand Till he climbs In and hollers "IIup!" Jim Thompson, he's the hired hand. Jim Thompson ho don't say much As some folks do—he's sorter slow— An' yit he's got an awful clutch v In them air hand o' his. you know; •Pears like they're iron, say, er steel, Au' come right down on you korslup! An' when they grip you, seems they feel bo mo tighter than a muskrat trap. |IN BALLAST. I }H Outwitting a Spanish Man-o'-War. i?* /b, £3y GEORGE F>. HAWTHY. W / < i\/4 v '♦ \/*\/* \ S<t\/4\s ?\P?\/'4\ I HAVE often won-' S dered whether it • a would not be pos • B'T eible to tell a tale _ | J of marine adven ;,fr & ' J' turo in fairly in aAT telligible lan '&X\ bjifll It% K B uft 2 e - All the v> " sett stories that I *> hare ever read ■'4 hare been written in a kind of nau tieal jargon. So far as I know, it may be correct .nougb, though upon this point I con fess I have my doubts. Of course, we are all aware that every Englishman is a born sailor—a circumstance which is conclusively proved by the fact, so well established on the Channel boats, that no Englishman is ever seasick. But 1 question very much if even Britons can thoroughly understand nautical terjns, unless they have 'en joyed the benefit of a special educa tion, and I have, therefore, deter mined to tell my little Bea stories in plain, homely English. I am quite aware that to some of my readers this may come as a disap pointment. Only last night I told a lady, a great friend of mine, that I was going to make the attempt. Her face fell. "Oh," she said, "won't there be anything about a belaying-pin?" "Certainly not," I replied. "I'm sorry for that," she said. "I always attach so much importauco to a belaying-pin." "What is a belaying-pin?" I asked. "I'm not quite sure," she answered, with a little hesitation; "but I rather think that the captain uses it to stick in his neecktie." I don't pretend to know whether she was right iu her conjecture or not. But I shall not make use of the term. And I shall also avoid such expressions as "Avast!" aud "Ahoy!" which always strike me as being par ticularly offensive. I don't objectj to plain, oommonsense words, such as as mast aud deck; aud this, I think, should be accepted as a guarantee that the method which I propose to adopt is not the outcome of mere wriggishness; but an honest endeavor to make myself understood. Georgo Williams is a captain in the merchant service. I know him well. At the time of which I am writing he was a young officer, full of courage aud resource, aud, in spite of this, a great favorite with his employers, Messrs. Evans aud Harbison. He had lately beeu given the command of a ship called the Crocodile, and he therefore went to see the owners, at their officb in the city, in order that he might re :eive his instructions. "Morning, Williams," said Mr. Harrison. "Morning, sir," said Williams. Crocodile is to go to Naples with a cargo of "Well, it doesn't really matter what tho cargo was; it is sufficient for my 6tory that it was a cargo of something. George Williams was quite satisfied, so we need not trouble about it any further. Why should we be bothered about matters that do not concern us? Mr. Harri son continued: "I don't think that you will be able to find a cargo for the return journey at Naples; so you will have to como away from there in bal last." . lam obliged to use this term be cause I know of no other that exactly conveys the meaning that I wish to ex press. But it is a most ridiculous and misleading phrase. When a ship is without a cargo, it has to carry some dead weight to prevent it from being too high out of the water, and this dead weight is called ballast. And then the sailors tell you that the ship is in ballast. Of course, what they really mean is that the ballast is in the ship, not tho ship in the ballast. This I believe to bo the true explanation, though I know it is dreadfully confus ing. Mr. Harrison went on to say that Williams would have to look into one or two ports on his way homo on the chance of picking up a cargo. And he named the places at which he was to call. Then it was that a brilliant idea struck George Williams. Coal would be much more expensive out at tho foreign nations than it was in Lon don. Why not take out sufficient for the whole journey, and use it as bal last before consuming it? I cannot say that I think very highly of the no tion myself. It seems to me that the ship would be continually rising im perceptibly out of the water, squeezed np like an orange pip between one's finger and thumb. But, then, I know nothing whatever about such matters; so possibly my opinion is not entitled to much respect. Anyhow, the sug gestion commended itself to Mr. Har rison, and, between them, they de termined to adopt it. Jim Thompson's this way—can't b drove An' don't set much on clothes or style; Ho git's 'round by the kitchen stove 'Au smokes his old cob pipe a pile; When anyone talks politics Or how the 'lection's going to go, An' how the country's In a fix, Jim Thompson says: "D'ye reckon so?" Jim Thompson, lie's tho hired hand, Au' he can husk an' pitch an' plow, Er tell you what's tho best of laud, Er drive a team or milk a cow; And if youast him here some day Jist keerless-likc, you understand, 'Pout who ho was, he'd up and say, "Jim Thompson, I'm the hired bund." —Chicago Evening Post. "There i 3 one thing," said Will iams. "We shall not be able to put all the coal into the eoal cellars." "Coal cellars" was not the expression which George nctually used. He said "bunkers." But such a word as that would convey nothing to people who had beeu carefully brought up, and I should not think of employing it my self. "We shall liavo to put some of it in to the hold," continued Williams. I am sorry to say you can only have lit tle slices cf this conversation at a time. It requires so muoh comment and ex planation. The hold is that part of the ship in which the cargo is put. It did not seem to me to have been quite the proper plaoe for coals. I only hope that George was careful to have the hold washed before the next cargo went in. It may have been fruit, you know, or ladies' hats. However, I have no wish to find faulk No doubt George Williams kuew his own busi ness. The Crocodile made a successful journey to Naples, and the cargo was landed there. As Mr. Harrison had foreseen, the Neapolitans had nothing which they wanted to send back, and so Georgo Williams begau the return journey with his ship in ballast. Ac cording to his instructions he called at Cartagena, a Spanish port, in the hope of finding a stray cargo there. As soon as he arrived he went to the custom house and explained that, as he had not brought any merchandise with him, there could not be any duty for him to pay. I think that this showed great politeness and good feeling on George's part, but I am sorry to say, the custom house offi cials did not meet him iu anything like a friendly spirit. They were not content to accept his word, but asked him to produce his papers. For tunately, George happened to have these with him, aud so ho very kindly allowed the chief custom house offi cer to look at them. A ship's papers givo a number of statistics as to cargo, destination aud so forth, calculated to satisfy even the most inquisitive mind. Iu the case of the Crocodile the papeis contained nothing that George Williams did not know by heart. So, after all, they might have taken his word. As it was, however, the chief custom house officer ex amined the papers with an eye keen to detect the slightest irregularity. Among the first things to attract his attention were those unlucky coals. The quantity carried wa3 evidently far more than the cleverest captain could have squeezed iu the ship's coal cellars. "Olio!" lio exclaimed, ia excellent Spanish. Many writers in recounting a con versation of this sort, would endeavor to heighten the description by putting in a number of Spanish words, and assuming that their unfortunate read ers understood the meaning of them. In my opinion this is bad art. I never assume that my readers understand anything. It is safer not to do so. Therefore, although the customhouse officer spoke in Spanish because he knew no other language, and George Williams got as near to it as he could, I shall not give the conversation as it was spoken, but carefully translate every word. "Oho!" said the cnstoru house officer. "What is this?" "Coals," said George. "You have large cellars." "Yes," said George. "But not large enough for all this coal." "No," said George. "Where, then, have you put it?" "In the hold," said George. "In the hold! Aha! Then it is merchandise. You are going to sell it. It is smuggled! Your must pay a fine." "A fine!" shouted George. "What for?" "You have endeavored to deceive the custom house. You are a smug gler! You will have to pay three times the value of the coal!" "I shall do nothing of the kind," said George. "Then I shall put your ship under arrest," said the custom honse officer. And, sure enough, when George went back to luncheon he found two Span ish officials in chargo of the vessel. The Crocodile was a prisoner until the fine should be paid. George Williams was annoyed. It was bad enough to be fined when you were guilty, but to be fined when you were innocent was simply disgusting. Besides, the fine was a heavy one, and if the owners had to pay it, their feel ings toward hint might undergo n change. This would be unpleasant. To pay the fine himself would be more unpleasant still. What was] to be done? There was a Spanish man-of war lying in the harbor, and George knew that any appeal for help on the part of the custom house officials would receive immediate attention in that quarter. So he determined to proceed with the utmost caution. He sent for the engineer, and asked him how soon he could get up steam. The engineer replied that he could be ready in about an hour's timo. You see this was really a most important matter. If a ship's boilers are once allowed to become cold, it takes, as a rule, a good four and twenty hours to get up steam again. But tiro Croco dile's iires had been banked up, so the engines could be made ready to start again at comparatively short notice. Having given his instruc tions to tho engineer and mate, Georgs turned to the custom house officials and commenced a fluent con versation with them in his best Span ish. Ho began by observing that he thought he had been foolish; and that it was useless to struggle against properly constituted authority, and so he had made up his mind to pay tho fine. He then remarked that the en gineer had discovered a leak in one of the boilers and had been busy re pairing it. Ho now wished to give the ship a short run just to see if everything was all right again. Pro bably they would not object to this. And he finished up by inviting them to step down stairs into his private sitting room and drink a bottle of wine with him. Whether it was that these poor Spaniards wero guileless souls, or that offer of a drink was one that could not be declined, I know not, but the invi tation was accepted with avidity. Hospitality is one of George's strong points, and it is needless to say that he spent a delightful time with his two new friends. After a while the steady, regular throb of the engines began to make itself felt, but this in no way interrupted tho harmony of the proceedings. Presently, however, the merry little party was startled by the boom of a gun. They all rushed up stairs on to the deck. The Crocodile was steaming as fast as she could toward the mouth of the harbor. George turned and looked at the Spanish warship. An angry puff of white smoke appeared on her side, and the screeching of the shot as it passed overhead told him that she was really in earnest this time. Ono of the unhappy custom house officers gave a yell and leaped into the sea, where he was presently rescued by a friendly boat. The other, having a distaste for cold water, ran down stairs and hid! George Williams at once made his way on to the bridge. This is another of those perplexing nautical terms. It means a sort of perch near the middle of tho ship, from which tho captain is accustomed to give his orders. An other gun from the warship, and this time the shot fell into the sea quite closo to them. "Steward," said George, "fetch me my glasses. You will find them on the table in my sitting-room." It was the binocular glasses that he meant, not the other ones. But there was no time to explain. Fortunately, the steward was a clever man and un derstood perfectly. He ran down stairs, found the glasses and came back ns quickly as ho could. While ho was making his way up on the bridge the warship fired again. The shot just whisked off the steward's cap, and passed on without doing further damage, A friend of mine has asked mo to suppress this fact on tho ground that in a story of this kind some such inci dent invariably occurs. There is a great deal of force in this criticism, but I cannot comply with my friend's request. I feel bound to tell the story as George Williams told it. And he assured me that it was true. The Crocodile had by this time got clear of the harbor and, though the man-of-war continued firing for some little time longer, none of the shots took effect. But George Williams knew very well that ns yet he was by no means out of his difficulty. He had seen that tho Spanish battleship was getting up steam as fast as she could, and he was quite aware that once started she would gain upon hiiu steadily. So he steamed away west ward as fast as his ship could carry him. It was all in vain. Far away in the distance a black smudge of smoke on the horizon told him that his enemy was in hot pursuit. Hour after hour passed, while the Spanish warship came gradually nearer and nearer, and George Williams was enabled to experience those delight ful aensations which all true sports men declare that the fox so thoroughly enjoys when he hears the hounds iu full cry. At length Gibraltar ap peared in sight. George, in his play ful way, told me that he "made the Rock." But, of course, this was only his humorous exaggeration. George is a high-minded gentleman, and in his more serious moments I have never known him to deviate from the truth—except when he wa3 talking Spanish. And that is a language which lends itself to allegory. When ho was within a mile or two of Gibraltar, George suddenly stopped and allowed all his steam to blow off through something which, I believe, is called the exhaust pipe. I have not an idea what this is, but I do know that tho noise was simply hideous. The captain of the Spanish battleship very naturally concluded that the Crocodile's engine had broken down and prepared iu triumph to seize upon his helpless victim. Meanwhile, George was making figns to the lookout station at Gibral tar. He asked for no sort of help. All he said was "Please make a note of the exact position of this ship, the Crocodile. And the officer in command of the lookout station very kindly signalled back to say that he had done so. Then tho Spanish man-of-war came up in all her majesty, and immediately took possession of the Crocodile. There was nothing for George to do but to submit, and so he and his ship were taken back to Cartagena. But directly they arrived there, George telegraphed the British earn bassador at Madrid to say that the Crocodile had been illegally arrested by a Spanish man-of-war. For tho sea within three miles of the coast is held, by international law, to belong to the nation which owns that coast ; and, as George had been within three miles of Gibraltar at the timo when ho was caught, his ship had been seized in British waters. He also seut a similar one to Messrs Evans and Har rison in London. In matters of this kind the British foreign office acts with great prompti tude and firmness. They communi cated at once Ivith the authorities at Gibraltar, who confirmed George's statements in every particular, and in less than forty-eight hours the Croco dile was released. In addition to this, the Spanish government had the pleasure of paying twenty-five thou sand dollars' damages for illegal cap ture ans detention. And, fitrange to say, George Will iams is still a great favdrite with his employers, Messrs. Evans and Harri son.—To-Day, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The heart weighs nearly twelve ounces. Milk is not rendered less favorable to digestion by being sterilized. Fine coal or slack coal has proven very eflective in England as a filtering material for sewage. A person walking at the rate of four miles per hour consumes 2300 cubio inches of air per minute. Tho cost of fuel on steam railroads is about ten per cent, of the operating expenses and on electric roads it is about five per cent. The Austrian Government serutq factory in Yienna for the treatment of diphtheria disposed of 30,434 bottles of the remedy last year. In Germany, 50,000 acres are usefl for growing willows for basket-making, and in France willow culture is a still more important industry. A simple method of cleaning iron from rust, suggested by M. Carl Her ing, is to immerse it with a rod of zinc iu an acid bath, the two metals being electrically coupled. The tip of the tongue is chiefly sen sible to pungent and acid tastes, the middle portion of sweets or bitters, while the back is confined entirely to the flavors of roast meat and fatty sub stances. A French experimenter, Camillo Dareste, has found that the germ in the hen's egg is not destroyed by an electric current that would kill an adult fowl, but that the germ is so modified in mostcases that a monstros ity will bo hatched. Tho human system can endure heat of 212 degrees, the boiling point of water, because the skin is a bad con ductor and because the perspiration cools the body. Men have withstood without injury a heat of 300 degrees for several minutes. Was a Highly Esteemed Friend. ' "A Worcester man," says tho Wor cester Gazette, "who makes frequent trips to Europe fell in with a fascinating stranger the last time he was across. The stranger, who may be designated ns Ferguson, because that does not sound at all like his real name, was an American, his manners were those of a gentleman, and he seemed to be well supplied with money and to know a great many people worth knowing. Iu conversation with the Worcester man one day Ferguson said: 'Worcester is a charming city, and I have some very dear friends there. I presume you know Colonel E. J. Russell? Ho is an old and highly esteemed friend, to whom I am deeply indebted for many favors.' When the Worcester mau returned home he met Colonel Russell one day, and iu course of con versation remarked that he had met a man in Europe who said that ho was an old friend. Colonel Russell thought for n moment, and then he replied: 'Oh, yes, I remombor Ferguson very well. I ought to, for he lived with me for seven years onqe. It was when I was harden of the State prison at Char'o.itown, and I will say that Fer guson was one of the quietest and best behaved prisoners that I ever had.'" A Welsh Name Translated. A correspondent of a London paper says: "I met recently with a transla tion into English of the name of the village in Anglesey which boast the longest name in the United Kingdom. I send you a copy below, thinking it may interest your readers: Llan - fair - pwil - gwpn Church | Mary | a hollow | white | gyil - goger - y - chwyrt - hazel | near to | the | rapid | drobwll - Llan - Disilio whirlpool | church | (saint's name) | gogo - goch cave | red —that is, tho Church of Saint Mary in a hollow of white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool, and to St. Disilio near to a red cave." Snakes as Rat Catchers. They appear to be turning snakes to a good account in Brazil, for rats havo become so abundant there that a do mestic snake, the giboya, which has about the circumference of the arm, is sold in the market place in Rio Janeiro to be kept in the house as a protection ngainst rodents. It would Becm that the serpent pnrsues its prey more for the pleasure there is in it than from a sense of hunger, since it is said it rare ly eats the rats caught. Similar in its habits and attachments to the domes tic cat of our more Northern latitudes, the giboya will, it is said, find tho way back to the house of its master eveu if transported to a considerable distance. roekottiooks Of Monitor Shin. The fashionable leather for pocket books and bags is monkey skin. A Novelty in Taffeta. A charming novelty is the use of regular clan plaids in taffeta for shirt waists. These waists are worn with a linen color, gold studs, and a black ribbon belt with a gold buckle. The skirt is usually of navy, black or darh greeii serge. Tho Autumn Jacket. Jackets for fall wear are to be made longer tliau last year. Flat bands are the most appropriate trimmings for heavy goods. Costumes are made of two shades of cashmere, cloth and other heavy goods; tho darker color forms the side seams and upper part of skirt. Tho jacket may be finished with bands of velvet or fancy goods. Tho rest is of satin or brocade. Shirt Waists Tor Little Girls. Shirt waists are now part of every little girl's wardrobe, and certainly they look much better on children than they do on older women, who have the shirt waist habit to an alarm ing extent. It is a mistake to have too elaborate shirt waists for children. The prettiest are really very simple, and look best worn with a ribbon around the throat instead of a collar. Cycling to Church at Eighty-four. Mrs. Badle, a widow eighty-four years old,living in the eastern suburbs of tho town, purchased a bicycle re cently, and it is said that she has been making rapid progress in learning to ride. For years she has walked to North Dorr to attend church services, bat on account of her declining strength, she has now adopted the wheel as tho easier means to get to church.—Dorr (Mich.) Becord. Woman's Work in Prague. Mme. Peskovn, of Prague, was re cently decorated by the Emperor of Austria in acknowledgment of her great work among women. It is said that she is the second Austrian woman to be thus honored. She is a poet, editor and writer on educational mat ters, but her chief work has been the building in Prague of a magnificent woman's building, which cost 3200,000, and which is the centre of woman's activities in the Austrian Empire. Hero two thousand young Bohemian women are prepared each year for tho University of Prague. A Stylish Dress. A dress in a stylo which promises to bo very popular in the autumn is of softest tan color. Tho short jacket, which opens in front to display a vest of white laco over pink silk, has six pieco3, one placed over the other liko so many little square boleros. The belt is of the lace and silk, but a tiny basque formed by two frills of the cloth gives breadth to tho top of the skirt. The skirt has the same effect as the jacket, opening in front to show a panel of pink silk under laco and having five overskirts, the top one at about tho height of the knee. The neck is finished by a Medici collar and a soft cravat of pink and white mous selino de soie. Tho Graceful Sash. Nearly all the dressy toilets this season display a sash worn at the left side, directly in front, or in tho centre at the back. Chiffon sashes accom pany many of the chiffon-trimmed evening gowns, but the worst of these niry and graceful sashes of transparent textiles is, that after short wear, especially at the seashore, they get into a stringy condition that is any thing but decorative. Sashes of Swiss, organdie, and other muslins, as well as those of sheer grass-linen, are open to the same objection. In their per fect lies all the charm of such materials, and much greater caro is neoessary to keep these in an unrumpled condition than the more familiar sashes of satin moire and faille ribbon. ■ v * American Engagement.. The American custom of a purely sentimental engagement frequently discourages all considerations of the everyday needs and conditions of life that young people must meet after marriage. The mention of finances is too frequently ignored. After tho betrothal the young wom an finds herself an idol in the eyes of her fiance, and unless she has a firm mental equipoise aud great common sense there is danger that this adula tion will turn her head and that she will become affected and conceited. The result, if she is a weak woman, will be that all the selfishness that lies within her will come to the sur face, aud that in the wedded life she will be unwilling to assume the euer getio housewifery duties, and all probability will sink into a complain ing, petulant woman, who missing the constantly expressed adoration of her engagement days secretly blames her husband for tho result. There is no doubt that a great deal of tho unhappiness of married life is a result of the selfish bathos of senti ment and self-adulation into which the woman allows herself to sink during the engagement. If she is naturally inclined to indolence, this tendency will be greatly fostered, for sho will see her life smoothly mapped out be fore her by another and herself de livered from the neoessity of exertion —her entire future painted in the at tractive but evanescent "couleur de rose." Because alio is nble to sink into a state of inaction she does so, and thus lets herself drift toward the saddest and most hopeless of a s- an empty life.—Chicago Times-Herald. Gossip. In Maryland in 1820 women who were property owners and had no lnjs- t bands were entitled to vote. According to tho registrar-general's latest blue book, Scotland still con tains many more women than men. Spain has only seventy-fonr women classed as literary writers and only seventy-eight women physicians. Mrs. L. P. Johnson, a leading busi ness woman of Idaho Falls, has been nominated for Governor by the Pro hibitionists of Idaho. ; Anywhere from 300 to 350 women journalists and authors of London meet once a year at some popular re sort for a swell dinner. The Army and Navy League of At lauta, Ua., Mrs. William Y. Atkinson, President, has raised a fund to bo ap plied for the relief of soldiers and saflors and their families. It is reported that of the eighty four women admitted to tho St. Louis (Mo.) Insane Asylum last year, sixty eight were those who had been en gaged in domestic service. At the University of Berlin, Ger many, female students are not per mitted to wear their hair in braids down the back. The young ladies who persisted in doing so were dis missed. Miss Anna E. Mitchener is the superintendent 'of the Tuscarawas Electric Boad, which is ten miles long and connects tho twin cities of Ulirich ville and Deunison with New Phila delphia, Penn. In tho five years since Yale Uni versity opened its graduate depart ment to women 170 have availed them selves of tho opportunity and nine teen have taken the degree of Ph.D., for which the requirements are becom ing more stringent each year. Mrs. Henry Nash, of Slado End, Wallingford, England, has been elect ed church warden of tho parish of Sot well, Berks, for the seventh time. Mrs. Nash i 3 an active member of the parish council, a supporter of woman suffrage and an earnest philanthro pist. Tho first kindergarten school was founded in 1833 by Miss Caroline Louise Frankeuberg, at Columbus, Ohio. Ten years later, Miss Eliza beth Peabody, of Boston, who is gen erally regarded as tho founder of tho American kindergarten system, went to Germany to etady tho system un der Froebel. The London School Board has de cided that one of the two medical practitioners to bo provisionally ap pointed for <sho year to examine de fective children shall be a woman, who, as part of her dnties shall be ex pected to examine such of tho Board's women applicants for teaching posts as prefer the services of one of their own sex. Fashion's Fancies. The apron-front effect in trimming is still the correct thing. A pretty way of making blacA shirt waists is to cross-tuck them. Extremely large white chenille dots aro seen on colored veilings. Many of the new coats have the re- J vers turned back and covered with lace. Cloth walking gowns are being np pliqued with ribbon in bowkuot ef fects. Embroidered chiffons are being much used for veils and hat trim mings. Long sashes with lace edging are to be worn in all colors with white gowns. Cloth gowns trimmed with straps of the same material are still stylish and pretty. Beading with ribbons run through it makos a nice trimming for gowns of wash material. Standing collars for dressy waists have a fall of silk and open in the back, and are ornamented with lace. Waists trimmed with ribbon-velvet are pretty with steel buttons at regu lar intervals on the velvet. Exoen- . sive waists have a yoke of contrasting \ color. Hats of mixed straw, prettily trimmed with loops of net and jaunty wings, and the sailor shape, with a plain black baud, are much in favor, for both bicycle and street wear. j Wash silks nre great favorites for children's dressy costumes. Blue i and pink, pink and green and yellow and black aro pretty and effective! combinations when trimmed with nar row velvet or lace. The new blouse waists have large rovers, edged with narrow lace inser tion over a foundation of chiffon puff ing. Silk waist, veiled with chiffon of the same color, have the waist body, basque ami epaulets decorated in this manner or with baby ribbon. Sweethearts' Trial* in Borneo. All the suitors for a girl's hand in Borneo tuu expected to be generous in their presents to her. These presents are never returned; therefore the wily young lady defers as long as possible a positive selection of the happy man.
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