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So many American clocks and
watches are being exported that it is
confidently asserted the whole world
will soon be regulated by Yankee
time.
Now that the Chinese Minister in
Oriental robes may be seen any day
in Washington in his automobile, it
is about time for Occidental fossils to
realize that the horseless vehicle is
here to stay as well as to go.
The Social Relief operations of tho
Salvation Army in tho United States
among the poor have made such rapid
advances during the past two years i
that they are now ahead of any other j
country in the world in point num
bers, and tho Salvation Army now J
provide nightly accommodation for j
about 10,000 persons, while about |
20,000 are actually reached and helped
each day.
In au appeal upon a recent damage !
suit against a street oar company, tho I
New York Supreme Court declared '
that street car conductors must givo j
passengers sufficient time to get on j
and of! the platform, and that "it is |
not negligence per so for a passenger j
to board or alight from a car without •
taking held of the railings to guard
against sudden movements of the car.' 1 |
This is considered one of tho most
important decisions of the kind that
has been made recently,
Following the lead of Superintend- i
ent Andrews, the Congregation of the j
University of Chicago has adopted the
following resolution: "Resolved, That !
the adoption by the Board of the Uni
versity Press for use in the official
publications and journals of the uni
versity of the list of words with
changed spelling accepted by the Na- j
tional Educational Association be ap- j
proved." The list of words thus "re- I
formed" is as follows:
Progrnm (programme), tho (though),
nltho (although), thorofaro (thorough- j
faro), thru (through), thruout (through- I
out), catalog (catalogue), prolog (pro- j
logue), docnlog (ilecaloguo), demagog 1
(demagogue), pedagog (pedagogue).
The vote by which tho university
was thus aligned with the so-called
word "reformers" was close, but the
new spelling carried the day. It is
said an effort will bo mado to induce
the leading universities to join hands
with Chicago and form a league —or
perhaps we should say a lecg.
(ioronimo a Prisoner of War.
The Chicago Tribune says: "Ger
onimo, the Apache, chief, in capturing
whom the late General Lawtou won
fame as an Indian fighter, still lives at
Fort Bill, I. T. Ever since he laid down
his tomahawk, thirteen years ago, in
obedience to the fearless Lawton tho
old chief has been a prisoner of war.
Immediately after their capture Ger
onimo and his band of warriors were
taken East, but the climate did not
agree with them, and many died. Then
they were removed to Alabama, finally
returning to the land of tho setting
sun in 1891. At Fort Sill Geronimo
and his once savage braves have set
tled down, and, under the watchful
eyes of the United States authorities,
have become at least partially civil
ized."
Charting Ocean Urdu,
The British Government keeps
eleven vessels at work sounding and
charting the ocean beds to find out
whore dangers lurk. East year 10,000
square miles were carefully chartered
in different parts of the world—Asia,
Africa and the South I'acifio.
Ilrouctlo and I.ncomntlve In Cnlllnlnn.
A balky broncho tried to dispute the
right ot way on the Santa Fe tracks
with a locomotive, or rather with two
locomotives, for there were two of
them coming into town together from
Falnier Lake. The broncho had
crossed the track, but considering the
railroad more to his liking returned
to the track and took up a position be
tween the rails. This position was as
senued oy the two locomotives, but
the broncho bravely stuck to his post
until It was too late to retreat. He
was knocked out of this world In about
half a Jiffy.—Colorado Springs Ga
rette
Mttwnt RurtlneM.
Chicago News: Maude—'Did Jack
kiss you when you accepted him?"
Clara—"Certainly. 1 wouldn't- consider
any but sealed proposals."
UNDOING OF A BUNKO.
The boom In the bunko market
caused by the easy separation of ex-
Ald. French of Brooklyn from $5,000 of
his good money by two expert youths
on Monday was severely offset yester
day by an occurrence in the Broad
way Central hotel in which a pair of
the brotherhood of bunko-steerers fig
ured respectively second and third to
John Kasser of Arizona. The pair in
vested a little cash and considerable
time and trouble in Mr. Kasser, and
though he didn't pan out, they still
have cause for thankfulness that they
are alive, though battered.
Mr. Kasser is superintendent of the
Live Oak Copper Mining and Smelting
company, with mines at Globe, Ariz.,
and he is here with his wife on busi
ness. They are at the Broadway Cen
tral. Mr. Kasser is of foreign extrac
tion. He is possessed of a slight ac
cent, a blandly quiet manner, a con
fiding smile, and a general aspect of
material but nonraetropolitan prosper
ity.
When he comes to New York he
doesn't follow the example of some of
his western friends and cast himself
madly into the embraces of a ready
made frock coat, a silk hat, and a new
pair of tan shoes with white laces; he
wears the same clothes that he wears
at home and goes about his business,
and if people infer therefrom that he
is from the west, he makes no moan
over that. Globe he considers to be a
pretty good sort of place to come f>*om,
and he isn't ashamed of it.
For some time past there has been
hanging about the corridor of the
Broadway Central a gentleman pos
sessed of a certain appearance of slick
ness which has not commended him
to the favorable notice of the clerks.
So far as they were able to discover,
bis sole occupation seemed to be to
chew toothpicks, derived from the ho
tel's cigar stand, and watch the peo
ple in the lobby from the depths of
an easy chair. He was middle-aged,
plump and well-dressed. The hotel
would have been glad to get rid /,t him
had opportunity offered. However, he
only came occasionally, and his be
havior was not such as would warrant
his ejection.
On Tuesday morning this person ac
costed Mr. Kasser, who was standing
looking disconsolately out into the
rain.
"Bad weather we're having," said
the man. "Have much rain In your
part of the country?"
"Yes, I get used to pretty much all
kinds of weather," replied Mr. Kasser.
"BAY, MY FRIEND, DO YOU FLAY
CARDS?"
"Going out, I see," continued the
stranger, glancing at the other's um
brella. "Going uptown?"
Mr. Kasser turned upon him a beam
ing look, but made no answer.
"What's your line of business, any
way?" continued the q£her persua
sively.
"My business," responded the west
erner, with a gentle smile, "Is not
yours."
"Oh, well, you needn't be offended
just because I'm n stranger," persisted
the other, looking somewhat hurt.
"What have you got against strangers, i
any way?"
"Nothing In particular," answered j
the visitor, "but I come from the west,
you know, and I've heard that New
York was full of bunko men and
swindlers."
"Oh, ho-ho! Ha-ha-ha! That's
rich!" cried the other, slapping Mr.
Kasser on the back. "You took me for
a bunko man! Why, I live right here
In the hotel. They all know me. Ha
fca-ha! That's pretty good!"
"Pretty good," assented Mr. Kasser,
Bmiling at the other as if he were his
bosom friend.
"Well, if you're going uptown "
"1 ain't," said Mr. Kasser, and he
walked out chuckling.
Upon his return he saw nothing of
the effusive stranger, but when he
came down into the lobby the next
morning there stood the man, well
groomed and smiling.
"Ah!" said the stranger, as Mr. Kas
ser approached. "Just down? I'm just
through breakfast myself. Nice day."
To this proposition the westerner
agreed. Then his friend invited him
into the cafe to show there was no ill
feeling, and after some conversation
they went in together, the stranger
saying:
"After what you said about the
bunko business you can't do less than
have a drink with me. Ha, ha, ha!
That was a good one!"
"Yes, wasn't it?" responded Mr.
Kasser. "But I don't drink."
"Well, come sit down and have a
cigar," said the other, and led the
way to a table where sat a young man
with a protruding under jaw, a striped
shirt, a glass diamond, a long drink,
and certain other evidences that he
wasn't a minister of the gospel. The
friendly stranger gave no open intima
tion that he knew this man. but klckefl
him as he sat down. As the man
didn't rise up and wipe the floor with
the kicker Mr. Kasser decided that the
pair knew more about each other than
they seemed to know. Presently all
three were engaged in conversation,
Mr. Kasser answering all their ques
tions about himself with a confiding
smile and accepting gracefully his new
friend's Invitation to smoke a 25-cent
cigar. The other two men had drinks
and the friendly man paid for -them.
Then said he to Mr. Kasser:
"You don't drink anything, I see, but
I guess you're out for a good time,
eh?"
A slow, warm smile overspread the
westerner's placid face.
"I thought so," cried the other.
"There's a little game running uptown
very quietly and I can put you next.
Say, my friend," he added to the man
on the other side of the table, "do you
play cards?"
"W'y, shoo-err-rr!" growled he of
the protrusive law.
"Come on, then; we'll all go there
and have a little friendly game," said
the friendly man, blithely.
He started to rise, but felt Mr. Kas
ser'e hand on his shoulder, and saw
Mr. Kasser's beaming smile very close
to his own face.
"Have you got a pencil?" asked Mr.
Kasser.
"Pencil? Why, certainly. What do
you want of it?"
"I want you to write your name on
this piece of paper."
"What for? 1 won't do it."
The smile disappeared from the face
of Mr. Kasser. His hand slipped along
the shoulder of the friendly stranger
and settled on his collar. The friendly
stranger hastened across the floor to
ward the office, not because he particu
larly wished to, but because a very
muscular arm was propelling him. The
third member of the trio came behind,
caying hoarsely:
"Leave 'im go. He's me frent. Leave
'im go or I'll soak yer!"
Mr. Kasser landed his man In front
of the desk and addressed the clerk.
"Does this man live here?"
"No."
"You're a liar, then," said Mr. Kas
ser to his captive. The captive strug
gled.
"Ever see him here before?" Mr.
Kasser asked the clerk.
"Yes, he's been lftaflng around here
for some time."
"You're a bunko-steerer and thief,"
said Mr. Kasser to the stranger.
Then he relaxed his grip and his
fists made a plugging sound upon the
plump features of the stranger. That
friendly person lopped over the desk
and a conveniently placed inkwell
caught the life-blood that flowed from
his displaced nose.
. . .
Meantime the proprietor of the pro
truding jaw and the striped shirt was i
standing in the middle of the corridor '
looking uncertain as to what he had i
better do. He was quickly relieved of !
all uncertainty. Mr. Kasser reached
him in a jump, grabbed him by the |
shoulders, whirled him around, and ,
planted a heart-felt kick. Thereupon
the man solved for a fleeting moment
the problem of aerial navigation. He
rose and soared. When he landed and
got his feet going there was a current
of air in his wake that blew off the
hats of two men who stood near by
Upon returning for the other man Mr.
Kasser discovered only a crimson trail j
that led out byway of the cafe door. I
Borne two dozen men who were scat- j
tered about the lobby crowded around
Mr. Kasser and wanted to testify to
their appreciation by buying him
drinks and cigars, and the head clerk
came around to thank him for ridding
the hotel of the bunko man.
When a Sun reporter saw Mr. Kas
ser yesterday and asked him about his
adventure, that gentleman rubbed his
chin and said he shouldn't think a lit
tle thing like that would be of any in
terest in a big city like New York. He
admitted, however, that he had en-
Joyed himself, and said that the cigar
presented to him by his departed friend
was a very excellent one.
"I have got a little property of my
own," said he, "not very much, but a
little; and I suppose those two thought
they could get $5,000 or $6,000 out or
me. I am a simple-minded western
man," he added, and paused contem
platively. "A simple-minded western
man, but," he concluded, smiling be
nignantly at the toe of his right boot,
"I have been in New York before." —
New York Sun.
A Wasted Reprimand.
I From the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.—
Little Dorothy isn't quite two and a
half years old yet, but she has develop
ed some very mischievous tricks, ir
she isn't hungry she plays with her
food. Sometimes she surreptitiously
flings portions of it at. her brother
Occasionally she bathes her busy fin
gers in her bread and milk bowl. Of
course these naughty tricks displease
her mother, and Miss Dorothy gets a
severe talking to quite often. The other
day she tried to convert her bowl into
a head decoration and her mamma fav
ored her with a very warm opinion on
such breeches of table decorum. Dor
othy sat perfectly still during the
! scolding, staring at the wall above her
mother's head. When the reprimand
was ended Dorothy let her eyes drop
to the level of her mother's face and
mildly remarked: "I can't hear a
word you say, mamma." And that end
ed the incident.
When Mrs. 11. Was Absent.
Little Willy—"Papa, what is a pes
simist?" Mr. Hennypeck—"A married
man, my son."—Puck.
The whisper of a beautiful woman
can be heard farther than the loudest
call of duty.
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% FOR WOMEN. I
An Odd Combination in flats.
Chiffon was never worn more than
this winter. Chiffon hats multiply, j
and, combined with fur, they are
beautiful and stylish, though the com
bination seemed odd at first.
Slushed Cravats the I.atent.
Silk cravats, long enough to go
around the neck, cross behind and tie
in front with long ends, are new and
pretty where the ends are slashed
into strips about live inches long,
each strip being button-holed all
around with black silk, or of silk of a
darker shade of the same color as the
cravat. Some of these cravats are
slashed into five strips, some as many
as ten, according to the width of the
silk ribbon used for the purpose.
Such fanciful ties, of course, are more
suitable worn with open-work em
broidery or mousseline collars than
with the mannish linen band
A Genial Star-Gazer.
Maria Mitchell,who has been called
the "Mother of the Stars," when pro
fessor of astronomy and director of
tho observatory at Vassar was an in
spiring teacher, and, in spite of her
brusque manner and severity, was
adored by her pupils. Every spring,
jU3t before the commencement, she
gave a "dome party" to the girls.
Small tables were placed around the
large telescope in the observatory,
and roses from Miss Mitchell's own
garden brightened the atmosphere.
Nonsense poems were a feature of
these breakfasts, and the astronomer
was proud of her skill iu writing
them. She was not without a keen
sense of fun, in spite of her constnnt
and absorbing studies, as was shown
by her dryly consoling observation to
an awe-stricken student whom she
was leaving one day iu charge of the
instruments of the observatory. Look
ing back at the worried face of the
girl, Miss Mitchell said: "Aud re
member, if the chronometer stops and
the sidereal clock stops, the universe
wen't stop."
A GuoHKing Came.
Each guest is given a numbered en
velope containing a certain number of
slips on which iH a letter of the alpha
bet. These letters spell two or three
words, and the guest is to guess the
correct word, according to a list which
is reserved by the hostess. Tho words
on the list are uumbered to corre
spond with the numbers on the enve
lopes. For example, one envelope
contains the letters G A T,which spell
both cat and act, and another contains
the letters PEAK, which also spells
pare and reap, and so on; the ques
tion is, Which is the correct word,
according to the hostess's list?
After envelopes are handed in bear
ing the names of the guests and the
answers, the latter are read and the
correct words also given. Thoso hav
ing answered correctly receive prizes.
One can also place in envelopes let
ters spelling the name of some noted
book or piny. It is better to choose
rather short words, for, if too long,
it requires too much time and thongnc
to place letters correctly. Other avail
able words are rat, stud, heart, net
and tea.
Children and Tlieir Studies.
The cramming system and its
accompanying evils are characterized
as "A National Crime at the Feet of
American Parents" by Edward Bok,
in the Ladies' Homo Journal. "No
child under fifteen years of age," he
contends, "should be given any home
study whatever by his teachers. He
should have not more than from one
hour to four of schooling each day,
tho hours increasing with his years.
Outside of school hours he Bhould
have at least three hours of play.
After fifteen the brain has another
period of rapid development, with
special increase of the higher faculties.
Four hours of schooling, then, is not
too much, provided the child's
physical boing is capable of it, and in
time an hour of isolated study may be
added. But that iB enough. Five
hours of brain work a day is the most
that we should ask of our children,
and the child should pass at least two
hours a day in the open air. Our
boys and girls do not get enough
fresh air and sunshine into their
bodies and natures. The higher in
stitutions of learning understand the
need of physical development for brain
growth far hotter than do our lesser
schools aud our homes—sad as it is to
admit it."
A Group of Beautiful Hats*
The bats this season are enough to
rejoice the heart of any woman, or
mun either, for what man is not glad
to see a pretty face crowned by a be
coming and beautiful hat? The toques
for afternoon and evening wear are of
the most delicate shades, aud being
I often combined with lace they have
an exquisite airy effect. One of the
lovliest recently made by a fashion
able milliner has a soft, full crown of
i rose pink miroir velvet, over which a
| delicate yellow scarf is draped. The
: small flaring brim is of ermine, double
! laced, and a snowy white plume start
i iug in front sweeps over the pink vel
| vet until it rests on the hair at side
| and back.
A very dainty toque for evening
I wear is of blush roses, which form
j both crown and brim. Several
cut steel buckles are run through
I with pink velvet rosettes, aud a white
paradise plume gives a very dainty
| effect.
Several shades of red are exquisite
ly combined in a small Spanish tur
ban, which has a brim of black se
quins and crown of cerise velvet
. shaded from deep to light. A cluster
'of velvet roses with ragged petals
stands at the side,and is shaded in like
manner from crimson to rose pink,
combined with green velvet leaves.
• * *
Pink is a favorite color for hats. It
is seen more than any other shade ex
cept white, and a combination of the
two Jis frequent. Another Spanish
shape has a brim of ermine, a crown
of white moire and a cluster of shaded
pink roses at the side. The latest
roses have rather ragged petals and
are shaded exquisitely.
One of the daintiest hats' worn this
season has just been sent home to a
beautiful blonde society bud. It is
of pink tulle, tucked and shirred into
toque shape and turning back from
the face with a rather wide brim
which is covered with a lovely design
in silver to give the wheat effect so
popular this season.
One more hat which deserves a de
scription has a Spanish brim of chin
chilla with a soft tucked crown of lav
ender chiffon. A large cluster of silk
and velvet fleur-de-lis in exquisite
shades of purple with touches of yel
low gives distinction to this bit of
millinery.
Wliat Women Are Doing.
Florence Nightingale now spends
all her time in bed or on a couch.
Mrs. Humphry Ward does much
philanthropic work in addition to her
literary labors.
The Suffrage Bazar just held in Bos
ton by the Massachusetts Woman Suf
frage Association cleared S2OOO.
Miss Florence E. Wood is the first
woman licensed to run an automobile
in Central Park in New York City.
The Empress of Germany has taken
a sudden fancy to green, and may be
seen in every shade from Nile to em
erald.
Miss Sylvia nowland Green, daugh
ter of Mrs. Hetty Green, has become
interested in automobilism and has
purchased a machine which she is
learning to operate.
Miss Pauline Johnson, through
whose veins runs the blood of Mohawk
chieftains, has been startling London
recently with the composition and rec
itation of Indian poems.
The Female Society for the Relief
and Employment of the Poor is prob
ably the oldest woman's association
in America. It was founded in Phila
delphia over 104 years ago.
The Canadian Women's Council is
planning to help the women of the
Doukhobors, or Russian Quakers, who
migrated to Canada to escape the
persecution they had to endure in
Russia.
Mrs. James R. McKee, daughter of
former President Harrison, is taking
great interest in the woman's work in
connection with the Paris Exposition.
She has arranged for an exhibit of
glass pottery and embroideries.
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, who was
Miss Eudicott, of Boston, daughter or
Judge Endicott, former Secretary of
War, is extremely popular in English
society. She is pronounced as decid
edly attractive in appearance, and has
noticeably pretty coloring.
Miss Alice Rollins Crane, who holds
the place of prison inspector in the
employ of the Government, recently
returned from Alaska, where she was
sent by the Bureau of Ethnology of
the Smithsonian Institution to study
and report on the prison life.
Gleanings From tho Shop*.
Fancy neckwear in various com
binations of white and black.
Dainty muffs made of plaited chiffon
in three shades of one color.
Watch chains set with rubies, opals
or diamonds with and without slides.
Many walking coats having high
Medici collars and revers covered
with fur.
Full lines of single figures, busts
and groups of delicate white French
bisque.
Stock collars made of white satin
overlaid with cream lace aud edged
irith fur.
Many varieties of richly figured
paune showiug all the beautiful even
ing shades.
Jaunty little boleros of broadtail
with revers and bands of black
stitched velvet.
White and bright-colored collars,
vests and revers effectively striped
with narrow black vel vet ribbon.
Dotted nets showing pretty arrange
ments of white chenille in combina
tion with narrow ruffled ribbon.
Fine quality Arabian laces in all
overs, bands and variously Bhaped
pieces suitablo for applique purposes.
Heavy laees on which are repre
sented hand-j)aiuted flowers of cloth,
velvet or satin outlined with gold
cord.
Many styles of small gilt buttons,
with or without jewel settings, for
decorated stock collars or some por
tion of the bodice.
Severely simple eloth gowns in
which waved laees or Grecian pat
terns carried out in machine stitching
form the only trimming.
Flowers fashioned from hand
painted gauze, ns well as jeweled
aigrettes and wired bows of either
black or white laco for the hair.
Long scarfs *of tulle or chiffon
which fasten in front with rosette
bows of jianne, satin or velvet, termi
nating in pointed fringed ends.
A broad range of coiffure ornaments
of gauze or net effectively dotted with
jet, steel, spangles or rhinestones in
the form of butterflies, dragons or
i bows.
I Elaborato trimmings for evening
j gowns made of padded chiffon flowers
I in combination with lace appliques,
| jewels and silk embroidery.—Dry
, Goods Economist.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.
Unnecessary—'Tlie Voice of Experience—
Evidence or Courage—Not Forgotten—
Quite Surprising—Out For His Daily
Dread—The Light of Love, Etc., Etc.
Men are apt to fret ii'ml worry,
But what's the u*:e?
When too late they always hurry.
But what's the use?
Just to keep business boom In'
Men do lots of things inhuman—
Uven argue with a woman.
But what's the use?
—Chicago News.
The Voice of Experience.
Young Wife—"Tom presented me
with a lovely pair of tliamoud earrings
thia morning."
Her Mother—"lndeed! I wonder
what he's boon up to now?
Evidence of Courage.
"That photographer is a bravo,
heroic man, Clara."
"What do you mean, David?"
"Why, he told you to look pleasant
—and I never dare to."—Detroit Free
Press.
Net Forgotten*
"Did your grandmother remember
you in her will?"
"Yea, she had a clause iu there in
structing the ex9eutcrs to collect all
the loans she had made me."—Balti
more News.
Quito Surprising.
Belbctte—"You are the only girl I
ever loved!"
Mir.a Haddum—"l don't believe |
you!"
Delbette—"That's funuy! All the j
rest of 'em did."—Puck.
Out For His Dally Dread.
Mr. Bansby—"lf that young man's
coming here to see you every day iu
the week, you had better give him a
hint to come after supper."
Miss Bunsby—"J. don't think it's
necessary, Pa. That's what he comes
after."
The Light of Love.
"Omed," whispered the dark, ro
mantic maiden, "what is the light of
love?"
"The light of love," murmured
Omed, with a faraway look, "is gen
erally the gas turned down to a mere
blue spark."
The I.fTst Straw.
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(£rCv
"What's tho matter, old man?
Won't the king laugh at your jokes?"
"Worse than that! lie expects me
to laugh at his."—New York Journal.
Change in DaincH.
Tho Old One "There used to be a
good deal mora kicking in football
when I was a boy than there is now."
The Young One —"Well, the 'kick
ing' is dono in baseball now."—You
kers Statesman.
Tli© Weary, Weary Sleeper.
"My wife seldom cats breakfast
with mo."
"Why is that?"
"By tho time she has succeeded iu
making mo get up she is so woru out
she has to go back to bod," —Indian-
apolis Journal.
Tl© Secret Out.
"It is wonderful how you catch the
child spirit in your stories," said the
lion hunter. "You scorn to under
stand the child nature perfectly. Tell
me how you do it."
"Well,you know," replied the great
nuthor, "I was a child once myself."
—Philadelphia North American.
Unquestioned Seriousnesp.
Lilian—"Mr. Waverly has been call
ing 011 you regularly for some time,
hasn't he?"
Lucy—"Yes, indeed!"
Lilian—"Do you think his inten
tions are serious?"
Lucy—"Serious? Why, I never
experienced anything more serious in
my life; he doesn't seem any nearer
proposing now than on the occasion
of his very first visit."—Boston Cou
rier.
Deliiml Their Duck*.
"Yon have moved three times this
winter."
| "Yes," answered young Mrs. Tor-
I kins with a sigh. "It was a dreadful
lot of work, but we had to do it. Wo
have had so much trouble witli ser
vants. When I discharged them they
got angry nud when Charley dis
charged them they just laughed. So
the only thing to do wan to wait till
their aftornoons out and move to an
other neighborhood."
Those Inquisitive XToungxtorß.
"Papa, you took tho scientific
course iu college, didn't you?"
"Yes, dear; I spent two years on
science.''
"Whsn yea look iu a mirror tho
left side of your face appears to be
the right side, and the right side
seems to be the left. The looking
glass revorses it, doesn't it?"
"Yec."
"Then why doesn't it reverse the
(op and bottom of your face the samo
way?"
"Why—er—ah I"—Trained Mother
hood.
FRESH TRADE DEVELOPMENTS.
Graphite is being mined near Cran
ston, K. 1., and some parts of the de
posit yield anora with from fifty-three
to fifty-eight per cent, of graphite.
Packers of fruits, vegetables and
other foodstuffs say that owing to tho
iucreased prices of tin for cans they
will be obliged to mark up the pack of
1900.
It is predicted the souvenir spoon
craze, which raged a few years ago, is to
be equalled by the popularity of souve
nir pius. The fashion was started by
Louisiana jewelers, who off ered a prize
for the host design.
Loudon papers announce that the
orders given to home manufacturers of
locomotives has steadily increased this
year, in spite of the business that
went abroad. The chief builders aro
now so Bituated that they can take no
further orders for delivery iu less
than fifteen months.
From Anderson, Ind., a chain of
local trolley roads haR been formed
that affords a route thirty-four miles
long, not counting numerous branches
to towns off" tho main lino. Another
chain is about to be formed between
Anderson and Indianapolis, thirty-five
miles in length. The whole system,
including local linos, embraces 133
miles.
Steps have been taken to establish
iu Saxony an industry hitherto known
only in Southern France aud North
em Italy. This is the removal of wool
from tho skins of slaughterod sheep
by purely mechauieal means (scrap
ing) and without auy chemical ageut
to looscu its hold. The product of
tho new method is called "skin wool,"
as distinguised from "glover's wool"
aud "pulled wool." It is regarded
equal or superior to sheared wool.
A long, thin sea grass, found in
large quantities ou the fiats of tho
lower St. Lawrence, especially on tho
south shores of Gaspo aud Bonaveu
tura bays, is said to mako good ma
terial for carriage cushions and other
upholstery. When dried it is strong,
curly and elastic. A considerable
amount of it ia being sent to Chicago
and Cincinnati, and its averago prico
in those cities is $5 a ton. It is be
lievod that as soon os this stuff be
comes knuwn iu the East it will prove
equally popular there.
Coinparative Distances.
The distanco in the South Africau
scoues of operations can bo better
estimated if they are compared with
those between New York City aud
outlying places. Taking the route of
tho British from Durban, their laud
ing placo, to go to Pietermaritzburg,
seventy milos, would he approximately
the same as to go to Poughkeepsia
from New York. From Durban to
Ladysmith, 189 miles, is about the
distance from Now York to Baltimore;
from Durban to Laing's Nek, the Boer
frontier ou tho Natal side, is 301
miles, or New York to Concord, N.
II.; Durban to Johannesburg or Pre
toria is about 500 miles, or Now York
to AVheeling, W. Va.
Ou the western side the distance
from Cape Town to Kimberley is 017
miles, New York to Springfield, O.;
from Cape Town to Vryburg is 771
miles, Now York to Ann Arbor, Mich.;
from Cape Town to Mafeking is 870
miles, New York to Atlanta, Oa.;
from Cape Town to Johannesburg
and Pretoria, 1011 miles. New York to
St. Louis, Mo. —Army nud Navy
Journal.
Prophetic of Lawtou'ft Dcnth.
The following letter seems almost
prophetic iu view of the news of tho
death of General Lawtou tho day after
tho letter was received in Washing
ton. The writer is Lieutenant Cald
well, of Kentucky, who has boon in the
Philippines for somo months. He was
a friend of the Lawton family. He
says: "I have seen a good deal of
tho Lawtons recently, especially dur
ing a protracted illness, when they
wore especially kind to me. The next
news which will shock old frionds in
the; United states will be General
Lawton's death. He has had thou
sands of narrow escapos, but one of
these days a bullet will fiud its mark
in the breast of the bravest and most
popular officer here. Such indiffer
ence to danger I have never seen.
His wife fully understands the risks
ho runs, and I feel deeply for hor
when he is on'tho firing line."—Wash-'
ington Correspondence New York
Mail and Express.
A Dirl of Paradifle.
Their parrot had died, and young
Master Tommy, with his little sister
Jennie, had justconcluded the funeral
services over the grave of theii
feathered pet. "I s'pose Polly is in
heaven now," remarked Jennie, tear
fully. "Yes," returned Master
Tommy; "I s'posehois." "He—he's
got wings, but ho wouldn't be an
angel up there, would he?" inquired
the little maid, auxious about his
present status. "Oh!" cried Tommy,
"he wouldn't be an angel; only peo
ple is that." "Then what do you
s'pose he is now?" persisted his sister.
Tommy thought for a moment. Then
the light of inspiration dawned on his
beaming countenance. "I guess Polly
is a bird of paradise now," he an
nounced joyfully.—Crypt.
Hritisii mid Doer Oflloera.
We should bear in mind that there
is probably not an officer in South
Africa lighting on our side who ever
took part in campaigns prosecuted
against white men according to mod
ern tactics. On tho side of the Boers
there are scores of trained European
afficers who kuow from military edu
cation, aud many from experience un
der great captains, what the authori
ties recommond and admonish.—Lon
don Shipping World.