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The Prussian Government lias been
squarely opposing the higher educa
tion of women and a manifesto to this
effect was issued not long ago. But
so much importunity has been brought
to bear on tho Government and 011 the
Senate of Berlin University that in the
one case of Erauleiu Elsa Neumann it !
has been decided to grant tho degrees
of master of arts and doctor of philos
ophy.
One of the little tilings that occupy
a brief paragraph in tho day's record
and mean much in a nation's history
is the vote of the British House of
Commons raising the ago at which a
child may be taken from school from
eleven to twelve years. So many
children taken from factory labor; so
many more allowed to grow toward an
unstunted manhood; so much added
to a nation's intelligence—that is the
meaning of the vote.
There is small reason why Ameri
cans-despite their enormous export
interest in cereals, should fail to be
gratified at the improved showing of
cereals in Russia for 1898, as against
1897. Tho improvement is indicated
in a harvest, exclusive of Poland and
the Caucasus, averaging for all the
cereals fifty-three pounds per acre, as
against forty-seven pounds in 1897.
The importance of this can be appre
ciated by those familiar with the heavy
tax burden in Russia, the indebted
ness of nearly all small farmers for
past Government aid, and the pitiable
distress among millions which invaria
bly follows the failure or serious cur
tailment of crops.
An eye specialist states that much
of the strain upon the eyes of school
children may be prevented by having
classrooms tinted with a restful and
suitable color. lie regards tliis as a
matter upon which far too little stress
is laid by the building and furnishing
committees of school boards. Clear
white walls are a menace to eyesight
thafrought not to be tolerated in any
schoolroom. It is in just these par
ticulars that the service of women on
school boards is efficient. Women
take pains and know from experience
iii tho furnishing of their houses how 5
much apparently trifling details con- \
tribute to comfort, as well as to effect. ,
Men as a rule are content to put this
particular kind of work in the hands
of tradesmen, who may or may not be
intelligent workmen.
San Francisco's File Hustler.
San Francisco has a hustler in
Dennis Sullivan, Chief of the Fire De
partment. There was a little lire in
the city the other day, which was
scarcely started before it was ex
tinguished. Chief Sullivau was in a
barber's chair when the alarm sounded
with one side of his face shaved. With
out even waiting to wipe the lather
from his chin, he made a flying leap
for his red-wheeled wagon, and after
ordering out all the fire engines avail
able, he galloped off to the fire.
It didn't take long for him to settle (
matters, and pretty soon he was back j
in the barber's shop, for the com- |
pletion of bis sliave. In the chair j
where bis scraping bad been begun, |
but not finished, reclined a stranger. j
The Chief scowled savagely at tho
interloper.
"Do you mean to say," he demanded
of the tousorial artist, "that a man j
lo3es his turn just because he turns '
bis back for a minute? This is a daisy
shop!"
Princeton's growth is remarkable.
Within ten years the university's en
dowments and the number of the dor- j
mitoi'ies have doubled.
Faster Than Hie Wind.
Waves travel faster than the wind i
which causes them, and in the Bay of ;
Biscay frequently during the autumn
and winter in calm weather a heavy j
eea gets up and rolls in r 'he coast 24
hours before the pale w I. .uses it
arrives, and of which : •' prelude.
Oh! > j
The Housewife— > v - nilk
pure? Dcn't try t< ■ now." j
The Milkman ma'am. |
It is not pure. It i ■ j
dianapoiis Join i "
"Maud ha pri become my !
wife." "W about it. my
lad. Women f: jrnt!. break their'
promises
SUCH IS THE DEATH THE SOLDIER DIES.
Such Is the death the soldier dies— A glimpse of far-borne flags, that fade
He falls—the column snoods away; Aud vanish in the rolling din.
Upon the dabbled grass he lies, He knows tho sweeping charge is inado,
His brave heart following, still, the fray. Tho cheering lines are closing in.
Tho smoke wraiths drift among tho trees. Unmindful of his mortal wound.
The"battle storms along tho hill; He faintly calls aud seeks to rise;
The glint of distant arms he sees. But weakness drags liim to tho ground-
He hears hii comrades shouting still. Such is the death the soldier dies,
—Robert Burns Wilson, in the Atlantic.
8 TO COVENTRY AND BACK 1
SI
r.y W. T. NICHOLS. ||
EUPILS soon learned
to love it, yet there
is nothing very re
markable in Bly
ville Academy. It
is a reasonably
good school, in
which achievement
k'TlgfT * s ( l u^e U P 1° P re_
kJpyi and its
pjgf boys arc muoli like
MP if yjr 1 t' lo thousands of
n others who settle
>/'r V / down to their
books five days in
Hie week when the
town clocks of the land strike nine.
Some of them are bright fellows, quick
to learn aud slow to forget, aud sorno
acquire knowledge by the sweat of
their brow. In short, they are an
every-day lot, with every-day virtues
and failings, and the especially com
monplace habit of fads. Generally
the fad of tho moment is harmless
enough, but sometimes it goes too far.
There is still fresh in the memory of
tho school, for instance, the case of
Bob Jennings, who suffered sadly be
cause, ouce upon a time, ho failed to
be in the fashion.
A few pudgy boxing-gloves were at
the bottom of it all. liufe Henry's
brother at college sent him a set, and
after "Top" Brown's father had added
another, the Blyville stock grew
rapidly. Boxing soon became the
"rage" at the academy. One of the
teachers, youug, active and athletic,
volunteered to give tho boys lessons.
"Sound mind, sound body," said he,
and took the youngsters in hand one
after another.
So far it was all very well, butthefad
went farther. There was boxing in
plenty with no instructor's eye upon the
proceedings; next it came to bo the most
natural thing in the world for a littlo
grievance to be settled by a bout; and
after a time there were encounters
where the grievance, if any there were,
was of tho tiitnsiest nature that school
boys could devise.
And then, just when a "code of
houor" was in a fair way of develop
ment, Bob Jennings refused point
blank to face Tad Reynolds.
Older beads might have found ex
cuses. Bob hud been ailing a bit;
that luckless day he had a headache to
make him spiritless aud miserable. So
he walked away—"slumped," the
others declared—and thereupon the
school blithely sent him to Coventry.
The next day was Saturday, and the
skating was good. On the bank of the
mill-pond the academy lads chose sides
for a game of hockey. Boy after boy
was called and took his place in one of
the two groups, until Bob was left
standing alone.
"You'll have i-o take Jennings," said
one leader to the other.
"No, sir-ee!" was tho quick response.
1 "We'll play one short."
1 Bob did not tarry to watch the game.
! lie threw his skates over his shoulder
and walked up tho hill. Coward or *
no coward, there would have been vio- *
lenco had anybody told him that he 11
was crying. "It's the wind," he said i v
to himself half a dozen times. Near *
tho summit ho left the path and crossed '
a field to avoid a party of girls who f
were hurrying toward the pond, chat- h
toring and laughing so gaily that by '
comparison his dospondency seemed
deeper than ever.
Near his own honse Bob met a 1
neighbor, an elderly mau, who gave (
liini a nod, aud then called after him,
"What's the matter? Skating bad?" :
"No, Mr. Peck, it's all right," said
tlie boy, stopping reluctantly. "I—
I—well, I didn't care for it to-day."
"Something better to do, eh?"
"No, I've nothing to do."
Mr. Peck bad known many boys,
but oue who would not skate when ho
could was a novelty. With a rheu
matic limp he moved to his young i
neighbor, looked him over and
| whistled.
i "Maybe you'd like a kind of chore i
| job," be said. "Look here, Bob, I've |
■ promised to take the family over at the |
| East Village a couple of quarts of milk j
! a day ; and really, I'm not tit to do it.
, This weather—it get 3 me! I'm not so :
young as I was, by any manner of i
• means. If you'll take the contract off j
! my hands, I'll furnish the milk and '
I give you half the money. What do
j you say to that?"
"11l doit, Mr. Peck," said the boy,
I quickly. "I'll do it, and bo glad of i
the chance."
| The "East Village consisted cf three \
j small houses, only one of which was :
| habitable. Some years previously a j
! speculator lmd attempted a "boom" on
! the strength of a new railroad. Some j
' cottages were inn up, many big signs I
painted; and the railroad went by the
, new village—at tho bottom of a fifty- ,
i foot cutting. Whereupon tho project |
languished. One or two houses were i
moved away, another was burned, a i
few others fell down. For months no- 1
body had lived there, until a family
coming to tho town rented the best of
! the ruins.
I Nobodj in the town seemed to know
' auytliingof the newcomers. Even Mr.
j Peek could only say that they kept
! within doors, aud that his bargain had
been made with a little girl, acting as
envoy from her mother.
By road—or rather by the abau-
I aoned route of a ouce projected high
-1 way—the East Village was nearly a
mile from where Bob Jennings lived.
Half the distance could be saved by
a short cut across tho fields and
through a neighboring bog, which
was frozen hard the first time Bob
crossed it.
Perhaps the walk in the clear, cold
air, and the climb up the little hill on
which tho cottage stood, did him
good; perhaps the mere fact of liaviug
something to do was a mental tonic.
At any rate, when 110 knocked at the
door of the shabby house bis spirits
were better than they had been for
hours. The girl responded to his
summons.
She was a thin, almost weazened
bit of humanity; very timid, Bob de
cided, for she opened tho door but a
few inches, and seemed 011 the point
of shutting it hastily when she saw a
stranger on the step.
"I'm going to bring the milk for a
while," he explained. Mr. Peck
asked me. He isn't well enough to
come every day."
"Oh!" said the girl, and then she
added, "Thank you, sir," as she took
the can which he held out.
As Bob trudged homeward the
words came to him over and over
again. "Thank you, sir," was a most
common expression, as he knew very
well, but the "sir" was as'balm to
bis wounded spirit. It was something
to be regarded respectfully even by a
girl who lived iu a ramshackle cottage
and looked us if she had not enough to
eat.
While the cold, clear weather con
tinued, Bob made his daily trips to
the East Village with something like
alacrity. With his schoolfellows
things were going worse than ever,
aud he was snubbed more offensively.
There had been a great excitement ou
the mill-pond while the Saturday's
game of hockey was in progress. A
boy bad broken through tho ice and
been gallantly rescued; and the school
had 11 hero. Everybody was talking
of Tad Reynold j's coolness and brav
ery.
As Tad rose in public esteem, Bob,
who was supposed to hate him, natur
ally lost the little favor that had been
left to him. No wonder he was glad
of the excuse which the daily errand
to tho cottage gave him for being out
of the way. Every day tae little girl
thanked him for the can of milk, aud
called him "sir." Poor Bob began to
get most of bis comfort in life from
that little word.
A heavy snow-storm increased the
■ difficulties of liis journey, but he res
olutely crossed the marsh to the cot
tage. Indeed, he bad almost broken
[ a path, when another fall of snow and
a following snap of bitter cold weather
at once undid his work, aud made the
tramp harder than ever. One day he
returned with a l'rost-bitten car; the
. ; next tho other oar was similarly af
. fected. Tnen came the great stovmof
tho winter, when the snow was heaped
up in enormous drifts, wbeu all the
roads were blocked and disappeared,
when people tunneled passages from
house to barn, and nobody thought of
going for tho mail. Yet oven when
storm was raging, Bob went to tho
East Village.
It took him a long time to reach
the cottage, and it was a half-frozen
boy whom tho girl greeted as sho
opened the door. This time she in
vited him to enter the house, and sat
in open-eyed silence, watching him as
ho under .vent tho painful process of
thawing out before the kitchen stove.
How he made the return journey ho
hardly knew, but made it ho did,
stumbling and falling, with aching
limbs and benumbed hands and feet.
He was badly frost-bitten, of course.
The next day's task was torture,
and so was the next. A fall lamed '
him so that ho hobbled as clumsily as I
Mr. Peek, but ho did not give in. In
some vague fashion he seemed to be
proving something to himself, and
with equal vagueness ho thought that
something would bo worth all his
paius.
A fortnight after the big storm Bob
found his occupation gone. The
[ family had left the cottage, and East
| Village was again deserted. So he
, was told one morning by Mr. Peek,
i who in return had liis information
from Squire Beecher, tho oldest law-
I yer in the town, who in some way had
| gained knowledge of the stranger's
i existence. Their departure was sud
| den, but they paid their bills; that
was tho limit of Mr. Peek's acquaiut
; aiica with tho incident. Bob heard
| the news with genuine regret,
j At the academy his existence was
I no pleasanter, and the weeks wore
i away with dismal slowness. The
I boy's isolation preyed upon him.
There was les3, perhaps, of open
hostility displayed, but cool and care
fully studied neglect was quite as
marked as ever.
In Blyville Academy "the Fourth"
does not iiecsssarily imply Independ
ence Day. It may mean March the
fourth, fer every year upon that day
the pupils march in parade to the
Towq Hall, and recitations are given
and compositions read and bouquets
bestowed; all the wiso men of the
town make wise speeches, and some
times the Founder's Medal is bo- '
stowed.
Bu.a that does not always happen;
far film it. To win the medal one:
must have done something very brave.
By some of the boys it is held that
the mysterious deed, under which in j
some way proceeds the money to buy
the medal, requires that life must :
have been saved.
No medal had been bestowed for !
four years, but everybody felt com- j
fortably sura that the time had come
when Tad Reynolds's feat at the mill
pond was to be suitably acknowledged.
Bob himself, an attendant at the cere
mony against his will, aud stowed ,
in a corner of a bench, with a most 1
unfriendly space between him and his
next neighbor, felt convinced of it.
When the critical moment came, he j
fixed his eyes squarely on the rusty
brass of the Town Hall chandelier
and listened to the words of Squire
Beecher, chairman of the academy j
trustees and presiding officer on this ;
great occasion.
The squire's speech was smooth j
and ornate, and soulless and brief. To I
Tad was granted only a short space of !
delightful expectancy, and then his j
name had been pronounced, lie had I
marched forward to the platform, the
ribbon of the medal had been pinned j
upon his coat, and the boys wore
cheering and the girls were clapping j
their hands, while the galleries wore
white with waving handkerchiefs.
Bob kept his glance still fixed on
the chandelier,and listened confusedly. :
Tad had wou his honors fairly; he
knew it and did not begrudge him j
their enjoyment. Yet, after all, it
seemed a queer world where one boy
should have so much and another so
little, where if only a fellow's luck
were not
A stir of the sort an audience makes
when something not on the programme
seems about to happen, brought Bob
out of his meditations. Squire Beecher
was telling the people a story of suf
fering, of want, of starvation, or some
thing very near it; of biting winds and
nipping cold; of a family, poor and
proud, among strangers; of a mother [
stricken with illness, unable to help
herself, and cared for by a child bur- I
dened beyond her years; of long days
and nights of uncomplaining endur
ing; and at last of the coming of a
brother only too happy to end a long
feud, and to bear away with him the
mother and daughter to comfort if not
to plenty. The squire told his story
well, as if it thrilled him.
There was a moment's pause in the
squire's speech before he went on; but
now be was telling them the best of
liis story. Somebody, ho said, had
saved the lives of the two in the lonely
house; had done what few men would
have dared to undertake in the face of
the fiercest storm the region had seen
iu years; had carried the pair food,
winch had kept alight the spark oflife
and made possible the happy conclu
sion.
And, therefore, the trustees, exer
cising the discretion vested in them,
had voted without dissent to award,
for the first time since tho founding of
the fund, a second medal in a single
year, for bravery and faithfulness on
the part of a member of the school.
It was steadfast courage displayed in
u humble undertaking by one who
huilded better than he knew, and upon
whose efforts depended vastly more
more than he could possibly have
known.
"Robert Jennings!" rang the squire'a
deep voice,
The great event was over, the older
folks had gone their ways, discussing
it, while the school boys were grouped
about the Town Hall steps. Tad Rey
nolds was with them, but the glitter
of his medal no longer held their gaze.
All were looking with shamefaced
eagerness at a boy who stood hesita
ting as if in doubt whether to advance
or retreat. He, too, wore a medal,
but it was as disregarded as Tad's.
For bim, as for the others, tho last
half-liour had wrought a great revul
sion of feeling.
Glancing down at the faces upturned
to his, he seemed to see not the ene
mies of later days, but the friends of
the time that seemed years ago. Ee
made a few steps forward, faltered
aud halted. Tad Reynolds mounted
a step.
"Bob!" ho said, liusikly, "I —we-
al 1 of us, we "
Bob Jennings's hesitation vanished.
"Oh, fellows!" he cried, and sprang
toward Tad with outstretched baud. —
Youth's Companion.
Aromul the World Huckwttrd.
It is anuouueed t'aat an enthusias
tic sportsman has just left Brussels,
Belgium, with tho avowed intention
of walking around the world back
ward. The feat of going around the
world without a sou iu one's pocket
has become au everday matter —bicy-
-1 cle tours of the world are au old
story—therefore, there must be some
' new invention by which the publio,
' craving for notoriety may be grati
-1 fled. The man who walks backward
" is bound to bo safe from accidents, a3
' the automobile aud other vehicles of
5 locomotion, if not out of common hu
" inanity, at least out of admiration for
' a creature of such absolute daring,
" must give him right of way. We may
' next hear of some fanatic who has
started out to make tho tour of the
5 world walking on his bauds. Truly,
3 the possibilities of globe-trotting aro
3 innumerable. —New York Herald.
The Superior English I'lckpocket.
Pocket picking is an occupation
? ! that admits of a vast display of ia-
I gonuity. While disclaiming any par
' | ticulnr merit for that country, says a
- | Loudon paper, it is au indisputable
a j fact that again England is iu tho van
y of all nations in that her piokpockets
b hold their own against all foreign corn
-1 petition. In London u'.cne over ono
s hundred thousand men. women and
e children gain the*. bread by
!- thu Unscrupulous mo-it of living.
Whole vs. Piece Hoot Grafts.
In testing the comparative value of
I these two methods of grafting, the
j Alabama Experiment Station found
that at the end of one year the trees
grafted on whole roots were slightly
j smaller than those grafted on piece
roots. The difference sas very slight,
indeed, but the results seem to indi
cate that tho extravagant claims ad
-1 vocatcd by the admirers of tho whole
root system are not well founded.
Carina For Ferns.
I A good many ferns that live in
j rooms during tho winter come to grief
! becauso they are kept warmer than is
good for them. The atmosphere is
dry and arid, and quite opposite to
the natural conditions under which
i most ferns live. A very little thought
1 would show us how different are the
conditions wc are providing. Ferns
greatly enjoy the slight relief afforded
by an hour or two in a luointer atmos
phere thau we aim at iu our living
j rooms, and will be improved and
j freshened by such a change.
Many ferns that are cultivated in
I the ordinary greenhouse will grow
| well in rooms if they get a good share
| of light aud are not too parched. They
cannot be grown in a room in which
there is a tire daily all through tho
i winter and spring. Ferns are also
much spoiled by over watering at the
roots. Although we lind them, both
at home and abroad, in fairly moist
positions, their roots are almost al
ways upon a bank and beneath trees
or hedges that would threw showers
aud absorb the greater part of the
moisture. None of our ferus will grow
in a sodden soil. Nor is it well to
j hnve them in a pealy soil alone.
\ If we cannot sponge over the fronds
I of our feathery growing ferus, wo can
give them an occasional wash with
the syringe and tepid water. Once
allow them to get dusty and dry, their
pores choked and kept in an arid at
mosphero for n long time, they will
soon show a thin and unhealthy con
dition.—New England Florist.
Kvporatlnj* lluxvhorries.
A taste can be cultivated among peo
plo which will create a deinaud for
evaporated raspberries, or tho oppo
site, no demand at all. As raspber
ries are generally taken to tho evapo
rator they are comparatively worthless
so far as quality of tho fruit is con
cerned. Tho reason for this is that
they aro allowed to dry up on tho
bushes 160 much before they are
picked, often being knocked off when
they are part dry. thus leaving a con
siderable amount of pieces of dry
leaves, hulls, worms, etc.. amonfl
thorn. A raspberry, to be iu tho best
condition for evaporating, should bt
well cultivated during picking season,
and the cultivator run as shallow as
possible, stirring all the surface so as
to keep the moisture in tho soil, that
large, plump and juicy berries maybe
obtained. They should be picked
when fully ripe, but not let stay on tho
| bushes any longer. Then all the juices
( which are so valuable to a first-class
article of evaporated fruit aro retained.
I have no doubt that if evaporators
would insist on their berries being
, picked as described above, it would
j not be long before tho demand for their
particular brand of berries would be
doubled, as thi3 a point commission
men aud dealers are being more care
ful about now than at any time in the
past. Ido not understand how an
) honest man can place his berries on
tho market in an evaporated form after
letting tho most of tliem dry up on tho
. i bushes heforo running through the
[ evaporator, thus leaving them in a
seedy and chippy condition. —Charles
[ 0. Nash, in Agricultural Epitomist.
Flowers 011 tlio Farm.
s Farm life may often be made more
1 attractive by the use of taste iu the
1 growing of flowers and shrubs around
the hoitße. When we wont out of
. ; town upon our form i. fow years ago
wo set out a purple clamntis. As wo
j intended to make some changes in the
. ' house, we at first gavo the plant a
I place in the yard, putting up a ladder
for its .support. The shrub blos
somed the very first year, and bow
beautiful it was. When wo hod tiu
" ished the chauges in the house, we
> took the clematis up and set it out at
1 the side of tho porch, with a wire net
" ting to climb upon; there it has since
a grown. Evety year it has blossomed
' profusely, I do'not think there was
' another plant of the kind for miles
' around. People passing by would
5 stop to admire the beautiful thing and
> ask what it was. Iu a short time o
number of such plants wore intro
' ducsd in tho neighborhood, so that
3 now many homes are made more at
■' 1 tractive by its lovely blossoms.
Nothing adds more to the beauty of
' j a lawn in summer than a few growing
• I plants. They do not require a great
y ileal of time, but they return tenfold
s j for all labor expended on them. They
9 | speak volumes for the taste and good
> | ness of heart of those who rear them.
9 | We have all passed by many places
1 where the only ornament about tho
| house was a long row of weeds or un
n j sightly bushes along the dooryard
J feuce, sure refuge for worms aud in
_ sects of various kinds. Why not cnl
| these out and put in their stead a few
0 flowers? Wo must learn to do all wo
u | can to make the home attractive if we
9 i would keep our boys aud girls on the
i farm, and flowers will go a good ways
u | toward doing this. For the money
q j and time expended upon them, noth
, i ing will return greater reward thau
I flowers.—E. h. Vinoont, in the Epit
| omist.
COINS OF BIBLE LANDS.
An Interesting Collection In the Na
tional Museum nt Washington.
In the National Museum at Wash
ington is an interesting collection of
coins of Bible lands. Coined money
did not circulate among tlie Israelites j
previous to their return from the
Bahyloniau captivity, but specific
weights of gold and silver were used
in commercial transactions from n
very early period and the term
"shekel," which is the name of the
piece of money most frequently oc
curring in the Bible, literally means
"weight." Some historians attribute
the first coinage to Ecra, but the
earliest Jewish coins known were
struck by Simon Maccabams abcut
146 B. C. Greek and Homan money
was current in Palestine.
Among the coins in tho museum
are shekels of silver of the first issue
attributed to Simon Maccabams. The
design represents on one side a cup
of manna, with a legend: "Shekel of
Israel." On tho reverse is the bud
ding rod of Aaron, with the legend:
"Jerusalem the Holy." The value
of the coin in our currency is about
sixty-four cents.
"The "widow's mite" is a coin of
copper issued by Alexander Jannams
(105 to 178 13. C.), bearing a wreath
of olives, with the instription: "Jon
athan the High Priest and the Con
federation of the Jews." On tho re
verse are two cornucopias and the
head of poppy. The mite was the
smallest current coin in the time of
Jesus, and its value was about one
eighth of ono-^cent.
There is also a coin issued by Herod
Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee, who be
headed John the Baptist and to whom
Jesus was sent for examination by
Pilate. Aggrippa, tho last Jewish
king, issued a bronze coin, of which
there is an example. It was he with
whom the apostle Paul had an inter
view in the presence of the Roman
Governor, Festus.
The coin found by Peter in tho
mouth of a fish and used to pay the
temple tribute for Jesus and himself
was a "starter," of which there ore !
two specimens in silver issued at
Antioch, bearing tho words "Cream*
Augustus," under the head of
tho Roman Emperor, and on
the reverse a figure of Tyche, the
genias of Antioch, with her foot on
the river god Orontes.
There are also in the museum col
lections of coins struck by Alexander
the Great, King of Macedonia, who is
mentioned by Daniel; also coins of
Babylon, Damascus, Tyre, Sidon and
other ancient cities, and one of the
most interesting objects is a child's
savings bank made of pottery, with n
slit in the top, through which money
was dropped. It was found by Dr.
Thomas Wilson, of the Smithsonian
Institution, while excavating in the
ruins of Ostia, a seaport of ancient
Rome, in 1860, and contained 145
silver coius issued from 200 to 111
B. C., so that it is presumed that the
hank was buried a short time before
tho Christian era, —Chicago Record.
Celebrated I'alr of Glove*.
Olio of tho mo3t fatuous pairs of
gloves known to tho world is tho pail
worn by Mary Queen of Scots on tho
morning of her execution, February,
1587, which she presented to a gentle
man of the Dayrell family, who wasiu
attendance upon her at Fotheringay
Castle. These are of generous pro
portions, and are described aa being
mado of a light, cool, bull-colored
leather, the elaborate embroidery of
tho gauntlet being worked with silver
wire and silk of various colors. The
roses are of pale and dark blue, and
two shades of very pale crimson. Tho
foliage represents trees, and is worked
in green. A bird in lligbt, with a
long tail, figures conspicuously among
the work. That part of the glove
which forms the gauntlet is lined with
crimson satin, n narrow band being
turned outward as a binding to the
gauntlet, on to which is sewn the gold
1 fringe or lace, on the points of winch
aro fastened groups of small pendant
steel or silver spaugles. The opening
nt the sido of the gauntlet is connect
ed by two broad bands of crimson silk,
faded now almost to a pale pink color,
and each band is decorated with
pieoes of tarnished silver lace on both
sides.—Chicago ltecord.
A nrltlflli Cruiser's Narrow K.cupe,
Her Majesty's ship Eclipse narrowly
escaped the experience of the Ameri
can cruiser Maine during her stay at
Bombay recently. It appears that
while the officers were at dinner in
the ward-room an explosion oecnrred
beneath them, followed by sounds of
numerous slighter ooneussions. The
sounds were located in the shell-room
of the twelve-pounder quick-firing
, gun. This was at once flooded, and,
[ after pumping out, the inspection
] showed that three twelve-pounder
, shells from the top tier had oxploded,
. the fragments being scattered all over
[ the room, though little damage was
. done to the room fittings or to other
shells. These shells are of a highly ex
; plosive character,but no others showed
, signs of injury. A court of iuquiry
j was ordered, but uo information be'
1 yond that already known was elicited,
, the only explanation of the mystory
. being a theory of spontaneous explo
sion.—Advocate of India (Bombay).
A New Sight For the Army.
Lieutenant T. C. Dickson, United
[ States Army, of the Springfield Ar
. senal, has invented a sight whioh has
i been accepted by the Ordnance Do
i p-rtment. This sight has a wind
i gauge and is so constructed that the
3 drift is automatically made for all
3 rauges up to 1200 yards, no matter in
s what direction tho wind is blowing.
f As fast as the sights can be mannfao
- tured they will be supplied to the
i troops to replace those now in use.
The official designation of • these
sights will be "Model of 1898."
"He Who Pursues Two
Hares Catches Neither."
Said a well known young
man about town, "I tried
for years to burn the candle
at both ends, in the pursuit
of pleasure while trying to
attend to business. My blood,
stomach and kidneys got into
a wretched state and it
seemed that I could not carry
the burden any longer.
But now my rhmnnutlsm has gone, ray
oourago bus returned, and fill on account
of tbiit marvel, Hood's SarsapurlUa, whieb
has made rae u picture of health. Now
I'm in for business pure and simple."
w p Dl^e-*9*—"l had running sores for
eight, years on my hips. I was confined to
my bed at times and at others used cratches.
Hood's SarsttpirUla cured my hip and gave
me permanent health." OLLIE J. ARCHER,
139 Dudley Street, Dayton, Ooio.
Indigestion "I now have a good appe
tite. eat well, sleep well and my dyspepsia
aud indigestion have left me. The ieason is
I took Mood's Sarsaparilla which entirely
cured roe. iam Baggage Master on the B. v
(). Kail road." THOMAS COL.ES, 111) Carr St.,
Sandusky, Ohio.
llnnil's I'!" - cure liver t..-, th<- HOI: irritating uurl
l)ie only cathartic to take with Hood's Saraaparilial
How'i This?
We offer One Hundred Dollar* Reward for
any ca-e of Catarrh that cannot bj cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cute.
F. J. CHK.NKV jjr Co., Rrops., Toledo, O.
We, tho undersigned, have known F.J. Che
ney lor the la-t lo years, and believe hint per
fectly honor <blo in all business Dan-actions
and financially able to carry out any obliga
tion m de by their firm.
WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
<)h o.
WALDINO, KINNAN SS MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall > Catarrh Cure isiaken internally, act
ing dir. ctly upon the blood aud mucous sur
taces of th s\ stent, p. ic-, 75c. Pc bottle. Sold
by nil D'Uggists. Testimonials free.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
; Fits i ein• cured. >'ofit.** or rervons
! res alter tiirt tine's in* of Dr. Kline's Groat
Nerve r-liter. trial bottle and treat! so
lice. Di-.H.H.Kunf. Ltd. KM Arch St.Phila.Pa
Mrs Wirs'ov.'sSoi thingSyrun forohildren
teething, sol tens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic.:lsc a bottle.
After six years' suffering I was cured by Pi
go's Cure. .MAIIV THOMSON. Ohio Ave.,
Alleghany, l'a., March 19, 1891.
In every city or town in the Nether
lands you will find a Rosemary street.
In olden days only undertakers lived
on them, the rosemary being, in tho
language of flowers, specially dedicated
to the dead.
To fur® a Cold In On® Hay.
Take Laxntlva Bromo Quinine Tablet*. All
Prnpplfts refund money If It falls to cure. 25c.
The Siamese have so strong a super
stition against even numbers that
they will have none of them. The
number of the rooms in a house, of
windows or doors in a room, even of
rungs of a ladder, must always bj
odd.
Dennly Is Illood Deep.
Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, —beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c.
A well-dressed young woman In Buf
falo recently entered the police .sta
tion. having in charge a drunken In
dian, whom she had found on the
street, and whose hands had been se
cured with her belt.
To Care Constipation Forever,
Take Cuscarots Canilv Cathartic. 100 or 25c,
It C. C. C. fail to cerc, druggists rcfuud money.
Thought lie Was Satan.
Upon one of his professional visits
to Washington, the late lamented Her
mann, the magician and prestidigita
tor, almost caused a stampede among
the ignorant colored people. To this
day some of them think that Satan
himself was present in person upon
that occasion. One afternoon Hermann
visited the Center Market. On the
pavement outside of the market it is
customary for several hundred aged
colored people from the surrounding
country in Virginia and Maryland to
gather on market days and display
their little stocks of dried herb 3 for
medicinal purposes, wild fruits, a few
eggs, or an ancient chicken. These are
the genuine Virginia negroes, every
one of them an ex-slave. They are
quaint and picturesque, and as they sit
behind their baskets and trays the old
women smoke their pipe 3of home
grown tobacco, and on cold days light
' them with a "chunk of flah" from the
pans of glowing coals by which they
warm themselves. These ignorant and
f simple minded folk had never heard
) of Hermann or any other slelght-of
j hand performer. When he appeared
, among them in his long cloak, his
' pointed beard, and general Mephisto
| phelian appearance, he attracted their
whole attention. When he took a sil
ver dollar out of the lighted pipe of
one of the old mammies, he created a
, sensation; and when he began to lift
live rabbits, pigeons, suits of linen
underwear, and other articles from
[ their pockets, he created consternation.
Many of the old men and women
i gathered up their "truck" and fled with
loud cries, and for once there was no
! market day profits for the old folk.—
New York Press.
Peasant, .nil Pope,
Two peasants, man and wife, lately
made their appearance at tho Vati
| can, bearing a letter of introduction
to an official. As soon as it was pro
i sented they found themselves the ob
jects of the "most distinguished con
| sideratlon," as the French have it, and
i with good reason. They brought with
I them £3,200 as an offering from a
i donor who did not wish to he known,
and distrusted ordinary moans of con
veying cash. It was to he delivered
j into his holiness' own hands, and all
obstacles Imposed by etiquette were
j speedily set aside In favor of such valu.,
able visitors.