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It is no longer proper to speak of
the people who started a revolution a
while ago in Colombia as rebels.
They have won out and are patriots
now.
Cremation is becoming increasingly
popular in Paris, and the cremator
ium erected at the cemetery of Pere
Lachaise has already been found to
be too small.
The Detroit House of Correction
duriug the past twenty-one years has
turned over to the city 3021,578, earn
ing, iu addition. 3125,000 more, which
was expeuded in construction and re
pairs. This was a yearlv average of
over 305,000. It is not believed that
this record can be maintained.
Hitherto many of the iuuiates have
been United States prisoners serving
long terms, who became proficient iu
the work given them, and were able
to finish large quantities of well-made
goods.
The government of Liberia has
offered to lease one of its harbors to
the United States for a coaling statiou.
This will give the United States navy
% harbor of refuge aud repair on the
other side of the Atlantic that will be
of great convenience if we should ever
become iutolvod iu another war. If
you will look at the map, also, you
will see that a naval station iu Liberia
will be quite as convenient for opera
tions ou the east coast of South Amer
ica as for Africa aud Europe. The
two coutineuts come very uear togethei
at this point.
The tendency of the present day tc
make ocean steamships larger and
larger is emphasized by the plans of
the new vessel which is to be built for
the North German Lloyd line. This
ship when completed will be forty
eight feet longer than the Oceanic,
which measures 704 feet. The Deutsch
laud, the big ship of the Hamburg-
American lino, measures GBS feet.
The now steamer will also be the
fastest ship afloat, beating the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Grosse, whose average
daily record is a fraction over twenty
two knots. Tlio new ship will also
have 5000 more horse power thau the
Deutschland. It would seem that the
size of ocean steamships must soon
reach its limit, otherwise we shall
have to enlarge our harbors.
A town in Wisconsin has recently
passed an ordinance regulating the
speed of street cars within city limits
at not to exceed eight miles an hour
ou single track and ten miles an
hour ou doublo track. It was claimed
by the local polico that the street
railway company had boon violating
the ordinance and a test was ar
ranged Two city ollicials quietly
took their seats as passengers ou a
car, and a third official, mounting a
bicycle provided with a cyclometer,
pedaled alongside, the two officials
inside tlie ear acting as timekeepers
for liirn. The general speed of the
car between stops was never less
than twelve miles an hour. At sev
02a) places it reached twenty miles
an hour, aud iu one instance it went
as high as twenty-six miles an hour.
Warrants were issued against all mo
tor men running cars above speed, and
the city trolley is now vying with tho
old horse service in speed and tho
disgusted citizens are talking of re
scinding their foolish limitations and
thus prevent their town from, drifting
iuto a back number.
Uncle Sam's Rope-Walk.
Nearly all the rope used by the Unit
ed States navy is manufactured in the
government ropewalk at the Charles- :
town navy yard. The plant has just
been thoroughly overhauled and elec
trical motive power has been installed
tliere. At the time of the outbreak ol 1
the Spanish war the governnetot rope- ]
walk had been allowed to deteriorate,
and the navy department was obliged to
buy large quantities of supplies outside,
but the improvements made since then
have so increased the capacity of the
plant that it is now one of the largest
in the v/orld
France consumer Q-" 000.000 gallons
of wine annu.-ll). equal to 24.25 gallons
ncr capita of population.
FOREVER.
BT ANNETTE KOHN.
Every golden beam of light
Leaves a shadow to the sight;
Every dewdrop on the ro9e
To the ocean's bosom goes.
Every 9tar that ever shone
Somewhere has a gladness thrown.
All that lives goes on forever,
Forever und forever.
Never yet a spoken word
but in echo it was heard;
Never was a living thought
But some magic it has wrought.
And no deed was ever done
That bus died from under sun.
All t%at lives goes on forever,
Forever and forever.
1 THE 60IN TELLER'S ATOREMENT. 1
_ TT T was quite re
markable that any
f —II one could be vexed
.V at Thornton—be
was such a thor
ongbly congenial
fellow. Bnt vexed
at him I certainly
was, as I sat regarding him through
the smoke wreatk3 that drifted up
ward from oar after-dinner cigars. It
was not merely his having refused me
the S3 loan I desired of him that ac
counted for my resentment, but the
absurdness of bis excuse that I took
most seriously to heart. Had be con
tented himself with pleading tempor
ary financial destitution, it had been
amply sufficient and entiroly above
criticism. But when my companion
nonchalantly appended his declara
tion of bankruptcy with the statement
that he had that same evening util
ized his last S3 in the payment of his
quarterly contribution to a foreign
missionary fund it was too much.
"It's a i traight tip, Joe. Fact is,
I've been d-in ; that sort of
six years steady now."
Seeing that I looked incredulous,
he added: "My interest in foreign
missions is a simple obligation, quite
as essential to my own mental equan
imity as to the spiritual welfare of the
heathen. Besides, my donations are
restricted to a single country."
I was quite iu the humor to hear
one of Thornton's stories. Where
fore, I lighted another of my friend's
good cigais, settled myself oomfort
ably iu the big stuffed chair I bad
pre-emptied aud graciously observed:
"Go ahead, old chap; I'm listening."
"It happened somewhere about six
years ago," began Thornton. "I was
at that time employed as coin-teller
in the United States sub-treasury in a <
large Western city. The duties of
my position brought me in contact
with people of every nationality.
"Most popular of all our cosmopol- ]
itan clientage was the Chinese con- I
tingent. Hardly a week passed with- i
out one or more of those Celestials 1
putting iu an appearance before my
window. Though intensely ignorant 1
as to business methods, they were
crafty, aud a3 time went by their ir- 1
relevant pigeon English, coupled with 1
an inveterate tendency toward de- I
ceitfulnes3, aroused in myself aud as- 1
sistants a cordial dislike for the race, i
"Their busiue33 was invariably the i
exchanging of specie for gold certifi- i
cates, which they wero accustomed 1
either to send away to China or take I
with them upon leaving the States for I
their uativo realm. In negotiating i
the exchange for these certificates i
they made it a rule to turn over their :
money in paper rolls of miscellaneous 1
amounts and denominations. I
"And the provoking part of it was
that each and every one of the rogues 1
would mark fictitious values upon I
their various packages, with the rosult :
that ou counting the money the ng- :
gregato would invariably fall short of !
the amount their figures represented, s
Expostulations ou my part were per
sistently ignored, aud the deception i
was attempted with exasperatingregu
larity. Finally, having endured the t
annoyance for over a year, I deter- i
mined to use heroic measures in order <
to extirpate it.
" 'Jack,'said lin sheer desperation i
to my chief assistant, one day, 'this
bunco business bas continued quite I
long enough, and has got to stop. The t
next Mongolian that tries to work 1
this department will hear things from
me that'll make his queue curl at the <
end.' .
"I hadn't long to wait. The very
next morning in walked a dapper lit- 1
tie Chinaman carrying a sack of coin. ! i
Approaching my window, the celestial
deposited his funds on tho counter. j i
" 'Catehee clitifieate,' he said iu his I
picturesque dialect.
" 'You want a certificate?' I re- ' I
joiuod with a preliminary survey o! |
the money rolls. 'How much you got, s
John?' ,
"'Thlee huu'od fi'ty dollah,'
promptly returned the celestial. i
" 'All right, John, I look see,' I re- '
joined, not a little skeptically, as I
transferred the sack to the computing f
table. Having emptied the contents
thereon, I tossed the canvas recep- ]
taclo into my office chair, which stood
conveniently at hand, aud proceeded | 1
with my calculations. As usual, the :
result failed to correspond with tho '
Chinaman's statement. The amount i
was exactly $lO short. Hurriedly i
dashing oil' a certificate in accordance ;
with my figures, I turned to the wait
ing customer. i
'".See here, you yellow scoundrel!' ]
said I, roughly, 'what for you t.jl mo
yon got $350, when yon got only i
$340? Yon think 'Merican man fool
to let Chinaman cheat him that way?' !
"With this rebuke I thrust the i
document under the window guards
toward the Celestial, but to my sur- ]
prise be pushed it back, protesting
excitedly. i
" 'No—no! Catcheo tblee huu'od
fl'ty doll ill! Chinaman no cheatue! j
'Meliean man nocouuteelight—catcheo !
ten dollab mo'!
'"Not on year li'el' I rejoined. I
Every link In friendship's cliatn
Forged another ttuk again;
Every throb that love has cost,
Made a heaven and was not tost.
Every look aud every tone
Has a seed tn memory sown.
Alt that lives goes on forever,
Forever and forever.
So, O soul, there's no farewell
Where souls once together dwell;
Have no fears 11 beating heart,
There is no such word as part.
Hands that meet and closely clasp.
Shall forever feel the grasp.
All that lives goes on forever,
Forever and forevsr.
—New York Independent,
'You've got every cent you're entitled
to. Now clear out!'
"This served only to augment the
Celestial's perturbation, and wild ges
ticulating. So vehement was his in
sistence that I went so far as to re
explore the interier of his canvas
money bag, in questof a possibly over
looked note or gold piece. The in
spection, however, was unavailing,
aud as to any miscalculation ou my
part, I felt that to be out of the ques
tion, for, in view of the circumstances
I bad been mora thau usually careful
iu my counting.
"The final conviction that my orig
inal conclusions were correct had any
thing but a mollifying effect ou my
temper, and turning agaiu to the
Chinaman, I berated him roundly,
and finally ordered the porter to eject
him. The lust I saw of hiin ho was
| tearfully relating his hapless venture
to an uusympathetio policeman.
I dropped into my big chair to in
dulge in a laugh over the affair, but
in the midst of my hilarity I all at
once became aware that some hard
substauee was pressing against my
right hip, aud reaching down I found
wedged between the cushion aud scroll
work of the chair a roll of silver coins.
With a sickening certainty the truth
flashed upon me. It was tho China
man's missing money, which I had
I carelessly thrown, together with the
canvas sack, into the chair seat, where,
partially hidden by the upholstering
it had until now wholly escaped my
notice.
"For a moment I was quite over
whelmed by the awkwardness of the
situation, I recalled all too vividly the
helpless celestial's efforts to convince
me that his claims were accurate, and
my heart smote me as I pictured his
opinion regarding my motives for sub
jecting him to the disgraceful treat
ment he had received. Then a wild
impulse dominated me to overtake the
poor fellow and restore his money iuto
his hands. I thrust the package of
coin iuto my pocket, caught up my
hat and hurriedly left the treasury.
"I think the world never seemed so
large or so densely populated as when
I got out iuto the street. Though I
followed the same direction which I
had observed the Chinaman to take, I
knew that with his ten minutes' start
there was little chance of immediately
overhauling him. My chief hope lay
iu finding him in tho wretched little
slum familiarly known as 'Dope' Al
ley, where tli9 major portion of tho
local Chinese colony lived. While I
hurried along I strove to recall his
name as I had written it iu the certifi
cate. The first part thereof I felt
sure was 'Ah,' but whether it were Ah
Sing, All Foy or Ah Sam I could not
for tho life of me have told.
"In this bewildered state of mind I
found tile Chinese quarter. A solemn
faced Mongol, whoso corpulent
anatomy entirely filled the doorway of
a dingy, evil-smelling den, was the
only visible inhabitant of the district,
so I went up and spoke to him.
" 'I say, John, you know China
man, him first name "Ah?" '
"At my question tho Celestial's
erstwhile stolid countenance relaxed
iuto an expansive grin,and he chuckled
gleefully for a full minute before an
swering my query, whereupon he
said:
" 'Ch, yes, I navy heap Chinaman
fusnem Ah. Bailee near all Chinamen
catehee that nam. My ueui,' he added,
byway of example, 'him Ah Fat.'
" 'But tlio Chiuaman I want,' I
explained, 'he buy certificate to-day—
send China. Y'ou savy him''
" 'Catehee clitifieate thlee huu'ed
fi'ty dollah?' inquired tho Ce,'.nstiul
astutely.
" 'Yes, yes! lie's the chap,' I eagerly
rejoined. 'Do you know where he is?'
" 'Oh, yes; ho go China!'
" 'Gone to China! Why, man, he
buy certificate only ball boor ago.'
" 'I savv,' was the comfortless as
surance. 'Ha go China bou' ten
secon' ago.'
" 'Ten seconds ago!' I echoed, gaz
ing wildly down the street. 'Which
way him gone?'
" 'Pa' way to laiiload, pa' may go
ste'mboat.'
"'Yes, lint which one railroad?' I
persisted desperately.
" 'No navy him. One laiiload—two
luilload, alie sem Chinee.'
My hopes of overtaking the wronged
Celestial were rapidly dissipated.
One chance only of returning his
money to him now seemed open to
me.
" 'See here, Fat,' said I confiden
tially, depositing a coin iu his yellow
palm, byway of holding his interest.
'You tell me all you know 'bout this
Cuina boy, will you?'
"He scrutinized the coin critically
for a moment as if to satisfy himself
as to its genuineness, then thrusting
it into some hiddeu pocket within the
folds of his baggy pantaloons, he ran
his little eyes suspiciously over me
and asked:
" 'WUalla matta China boy? You
detective, like catcbee fo' get China—
eh?'
" 'No, no; not that!' I protested
aversely. 'I China boy's friend—got
mouey belong him—like pay him—
savy?'
" 'Wy yon no pay To* him gone?'
was the still skeptical rejoinder.
"Whereupon I told him the story
of the certificate, explaining that I
wished to send the amount in my
possession to the owner's address in
China. The suggestion, however,
elicited co enthusiasm from Ah Fat.
4 4 4 No can do,* he declared with con
vincing brevity.
4 4 4 But why not,' I persisted. 4 You
know China boy's name aud where
he's gone, don't you?'
4 4 4 Oh, yes; him riem Ah Sin, an* he
go Chiua. Bat China not sern like
Melican town. Chiua alle sein big
couutlee.'
44 1 accepted this latter statement as
incontrovertible and went back to the
treasury. What to do with that $lO
was the most difficult problem I ever
wrestled with.
"Finally an idea struck me. I would
put auother $lO with that of
the Chiuamau's aud take the entire
subtreasury force out to dinner. It
was the only way I could conceive
whereby to rid myself of that beastly
roll of silver.
"So I gave the diuuer, but every
dish ou the board seemed branded
with the accusatory legeud 4 Ah Sin.'
4 'That night I had a dream. I
thought I had been cast among many
tribes, whose manners and religious
were alike perplexing aud diverse,but
none were so viie as tho Chiistian.
Ho it was who had reviled me without
cause and robbed me of my earnings.
Aud when I bad returned to my own
laud aud found that tho Christiuu was
seeking to sow the a oeds of his relig
ion among my people I was wroth in
my heart, aud made p. vow that while
I lived my baud should be raised
against him aud my voice against his
teachings.
4 'Early the next day I communicated
with a foreign missionary association
and pledged myself to pay each quar
ter throughout the remainder of my
life au interest of ten per cent, per
mouth on that $lO deficit, the amount
to be applied solely to Chinese mis
sions. Therein lies my ono hope of
some day reaching my unintentional
victim and of convincing him that all
Christians are not like the one he may
have mistaken for an example of the
creod."—St Louis Globe-Democrat.
SUED FOR A SHOCK.
An Amusing C:ise That Has Just
Washington Laugh.
There was a funny case tried in the
Washington courts recently. A
butcher of the name of Nealon had au
electric fan in his stall at tho market
to cool the atmosphere and drive away
the Hies. It was manipulated by a
small thumbscrew beneath the coun
ter, and when Nealon discovered that
he could charge his body with elec
tricity by placing his hand or his foot
against the thumbscrew he indulged
iu practical jokes upou such of his
customers as lie thought were amiable
enough to eudure them. When some
handsome young girl or jolly house
wife would pick up a leg of lamb or
a roast of beef to examine it Nealon
would place his hands upon it, close
the circuit, and she would receive au
electric shock. Nobody was hurt or
badly frightened and Nealon made a
good deal of fun for his customers.
Oue day, however, a man of the name
of William Sohultz, who has no sense
of humor and hates practical jokes,
picked up a piece of corned beef from
the counter of Nicholas Auth, who
had the adjoining stall. Mr. Auth
had left his place in charge of Neigh
bor Nealon for a few moments while
he went to do an errand. When ho
returned Mr. Hchultz, who was one of
his regular customers, was dancing
around like a wild man and crying for
vengeance. It seems that Nealon.
with his hunger for fun, had taken
hold of the chunk of corned beef
which Schultz had picked oil Mr.
Autk's counter aud had given tho
nervous man a shock from which he
claims to have suffered both iu body
au<l mind. The butcher tried to
soothe him, but he would uot bo con
soled, and went straightway to a law
yer and brought suit for SIO,OOO dam
ages against Mr. Auth. The case was
tried this week, but the jury found
for tho defendant on the ground that
Mr. Auth had nothing whatever to do
with the case. While it was his corned
beef it was Nealou's electricity, aud
the latter was responsible for what
ever damage Mr. Schultzhad suffered.
Schultz had sued tho wrong man.—
Chicago Becord.
Fiuntl-Liko Atrocity.
On July 26, 1764, there was per
petrated about ten miles from Chaui
bersbnrg, I'eun., what Parkman, tho
great historian of Colonial times,
pronounces "an outrage unmatched
in fiend-like atrocity, through all tlia
annals of the war." It was the mas
sacre of Enoch Brown, a kind-hearted
exemplary Christian schoolmaster,
and ten pupils, eight hoys aud two
girls. There were eleven children
in the school, hut one boy escaped
death, although horribly butchered. 1
Ou the above date, during the j
Pontine war, the children, under tho 1
care of the teacher, were pursuing ;
their studies in tho little log cabin,
when suddenly from the pine forest,
emerged a number of Indians, who
fell upon the master and his pupils.
Tho teacher offered his life and scalp
in a spirit of self-sacrificing devotion
if the savages would only spare tho
lives of the little ones under his charge
and eare.
The school house was located ou a
ravine, near a spring. Down this
raviue the savages fled, after having
committed their fiendish work and,
coming to the Couooocheagno Creek,
they traveled aloug its bod to conceal
their tracks as far as the mountain,
and made their escape eastward to
their village iu Ohio.—Philadelphia
Press.
Tlio Origin of Confectionery.
Tlie modern confectionery business
is a very large one, and it is of old
standing. If we wished to trace it to
its origin we might have to go back
not far short of five hundred years.
It is about five centuries since sugar
was first imported into this country,
and it is probably not much less than
that since "confections" began to be
! concocted. They first appeared in a
medical form. Apothecaries, whose
potions were at one time very gener
ally supposed to be efficacious just iu
proportion as they were horribly nasty,
took to the newly imported sugar as a
means of mitigating the nauseousness
of their doses. They mixed their
drugs with it and coated their boluses.
That seems to have been tho origin of
the syrups and medicated candies,the
cough drops and lozenges of one sort
and another that are now so largely
iu demand. They were originally
concocted by the doctors, and for
many long years all sorts of "lolli
pops" were medicinal only. Sugar
was too dear and the generality of
people were too poor to permit of its
being eaten for its own sake alone and
as a mere luxury.
Somewhere about a couple of cen
turies ago, however, there began to
appear a new development of the
apothecary's art. "Confections" be
gan to be made more or less apart
from any medicinal purpose, and
merely because people liked them.
The confectioner's business begau to
evolve as an offshoot from the profes
sion of the apothecary, and eventually
became altogether a separate thing,
though the common origin of the two
is still indicated by the syrups and
pastilles and troches prescribed by
the doctors, and the "drops" aud
lozenges and other things sold among
the sweet stuff of the confectioner.— ;
Chambers's Journal.
Siiialteat Sheep In the World.
The very smallest of alt the kinds of
sheep is the tiuy Breton sheep. It is
too small to be very profitable to raise
for, of course, it cannot have much
wool, and, as for eating, why, a hun
gry man could eat almost a whole one
at a meal. It is so small when full
grown that it can hide behind a good
sized bucket.
It takes its name from the part ol
France where it is most raised. But,
if not a profitable sheep it is n dear
little creature for a pet, for it is very
gentle, and because it is so small, it is
not such a nuisance about the house
as was the celebrated lamb which be
longed to a little girl named Mary.
Any little girl could find room in
her lap for a Breton sheep.
One of this little creature's pecu
liarities is its extreme sympathy with
the feelings of its human friends,
when it has been brought up a pet iu
the house, and has learned to distin
guish between happiness and unhap
piuess.
If any person whom it likes is very
much pleased about anything, aud
shows it by laughing, the little sheep
will frisk about with every sign of joy;
but if, on the contrary, the persons
shed tears, the sympathetic friend
will evince its sorrow in an equally ]
unmistakable way.—Stray Stories.
A Chinese Wonder.
Eliza Buhauiah Scidmore describes
iu tho Century a great national phe
nomenon which she has observed on
oue of her many visits to the long
lived Chinese Empire.
"There are three wonders iu the
history of China," she writes, "the j
Demons at Taug-cliuu, the Thunder at j
Luug-chau, aud the Great Tide at j
Hang-chau, tho last tho greatest of
all, aud a living wonder to this day j
of 'the open door,' while its rivals are ,
lost in myth aud oblivion. On tho 1
eighteenth night of the secoud moon,
and ou the eighteenth night of tho
eighth aud ninth moons of the Chi
nese year the greatest llood-tides from
the into the funnel month
of Hang-chau Bay to the bars and fiats
at the mouth of the swift-flowing
Tsieu-tang. The river current op
poses for a while, until the angry sea
rises up and rides ou, iu a great,
whito, roaring, bubbling wave, ten,
twelve, fifteen, and even twenty feet
iu height. The Great Bore, the White
Thing, charges up the narrowing river j
at a speed of ten and thirteen miles i
an hour, with a roar that can be heard |
for an hour before it arrives, the most j
sensational, spectacular, fascinating !
tidal phenomenon—a real wonder of
the whole world, worth going far and
waiting long to see."
Thn ISoat Policy Put to the Tent.
A certain woman, who is fond of
soeiug her smart frocks described iu
the "society columns," advertised for
a servant the other day. Among tho
applicants was a neat, prepossessing j
young persou, armed with references. }
Among the former employers whose |
names she gave was Mine. O'Flaherty,
tho modiste, for whom she had worked
as "confidential maid." The woman
of many froeks sent a note to the great
gown builder, iu which she said: "Is
Suzanne Binet, who says she has been j
in your employ, honest?" time.
O'Flaherty's reply was brief aud to
the point: "Suzanne was in my em
ploy; as to her honesty I am not cer- j
tain. I have sent her to you with my j
bill half a dozen times, but she has i
never yet given methemoney."—New
York Commercial Advertiser.
A Verv Serious Cuao,
Mrs. Briske—"Johnuy, did the doc*
tor call while I was out?"
Little Jobuuy (stopping his play)
"YoJViu. Ho felt my pulse an'
looked at my tongue, aud §hook his
head, aud said it was u very serious
case, and he left this paper, aud said
he'd call again before night."
Mrs. Briske—"Gracious me! It
wasn't you I sent him to see; it was
tho baby."—Tit-Bits.
Twelve thousand people in the
Missouri-Kansas mineral district live
iu teuts the year round.
/P^WOIWKIND
WOMEN IN INDUSTRY.
Tliolr Opportunity in the Pontage Stamp
lluilness.
Women appear as particularly
adapted to the identification and
classification of postage stamps, neo
essary in the stamp dealer's business,
and are to he found in the employ of
leading dealers. They also some
times do business us philatelists on
their own account. Girls are largely
preferred as clerks by dealers of ex
perience, as they are said to be more
trustworthy than boys, who will
sometimes steal stamps when nothing
else would tempt them. Possibly
the collecting mania or instinct is
stronger with boya thaD with girls.
For most boys collect stamps as they
have the mumps or the measles, but
the girl collector is more rare, al
though not by any means entirely un
known.
The girl who enters upon employ
ment with a stamp dealer without any
knowledge of stamps is first instructed
by her employer iu the identification
of the more common varieties, but
when stamps are pnrohased by him iu
hulk, as i 3 often the case, the first
thing to be done is to sort thein and
to gather together all of those belong
ing to the Argentine Republic, Aus
tria, the Azores, aud the other A
countries. Those of B countries are
plnced by themselves, and so on
through the rest of the alphabet, un
til this classification is finished. With
experience the girl's knowledge, of
course, increases, aud from the iden
tification of such stamps as those of
Baden, Canada, Cape of Good Hope,
aud ethers, upon which the name of
the country of issuance appears in
English, she passes at last to famili
arity with aud comprehension of such
stamps as those of Afghanistan, Al
wur, Bulgaria, Cashmere, Corea,
Russia, Turkey nnd others priuted iu
strange characters. When once the
certain knowledge of the stamp's
point of origin has become fixed iu
the girl's miud, there then arises the
perplexing questions of roulettes and
their variations, perforates or imper
forates, water marks, grills, inverts,
surcharges, errors, essays, trial or
experimental stamps, measurements
in millimetres, the perforation gauge
and a host of other items that are
dear to the hearts of collectors.
The stamp business is well adapted
for women. There is always a chance
of finding overlooked rare stamps in
purchased collections, or among old
aud castaway letters, frequently
offered to dealers. Several stamps
among the United States issues are
individually worth a thousand dol
lars, while a certain one of the British
Guiana stumps of the face value of
one cent has a catalogue price of sl,-
eoo.
Noveltie* In Uremi.
The high corselet of satin, velvet or
panne promises to be a popular dress
accessory throughout the summer.
Panne is the favorite material, and it
is fastened with haudsome buttons of
paste or of art-nouveau.
Embroidered effects in silk, in com
bination with open-work patterns, are
steadily gaining in favor. Tho ma
terial most used is satin or crepe, and
the open work is filled in with tulle,
either plain or figured, and bordered
or surrounded with embroidered ef
fect. All styles of embroidery are
seen, with a slight preference for
chenille.
It is no longer an open question as
to who's got the button. Every
smartly gowned woman can answer
the puzzle. Satin buttons of small
size, covered with a spidery net work,
are used iu great quantities. Some
costumes require as many as six dozen
to trim thorn, according to the mode.
Paste, metal aud euamel buttous are
also used on many new costumes.
Draped berthes, narrow Vemse lace
yokes, pieces at the tops of decollete
bodices, accordion-pleated fronts of
diaphanous fabrics, Greek draperies
brought from the right shoulder to tho
waist and terminating in long scarf
ends, fichus of lace or chiffon, are all
in favor for evening dresses.
A novelty is canvas veiling. It is
usually plaiu, hutone variety is striped
with fine, white cord 3 half an inch
apart.
Composer of tlie Iloer National Anthem.
The national anthom of the Boers
was written by an old lady who is at
present living a peaceful, obscure life
in Holland. She is Miss Catherine
Felecia A'nu Rees, aud was born iu
Holland, at Zutphen, in 1831.'jtSheis
an excellent musician, and in her
youth sho composed several operettas,
which were performed by the Choral
Society, Utrecht. At one of these
performances she made the acquaint
ance of Mr. Burgers, a member of the
society, who was at that time studying
theology in the University of Utrecht.
In 1875 Burgers, who in the meantime
bad been President of the South Afri
can Republic, went back to Europe
and renewed the acquaintance of his
old friend, Miss Van Rees. One day
he begged her to write a national
hymn for tho Transvaal, and within a
few hours sho wrote both words and
music for what is now the Boers'
national hymn. The burghers were
so pleased with the composition that
the Volksraad of Pretoria officially ac
cepted the work, and sent Miss Van
Rees a letter of thanks and congratu
lations. The hymn is very popular
among the Boers, and it is said that
the British soldiers in South Africa
have heard it so often that many of
them now sing and whistle it.—Chi
cago Times-Herald.
Summer lint*.
Pink and blue hats with short chif
foil capes to match are among the lat
est novelties. Tliey are shown in
different shades of color, of tulle,
chiffon, and even fancy straw, and
are all on the picturesque order, and
suitable only for midsummer. Many
of the hats are without trimming of
flowers or feathers, while others
again are heavily trimmed with arti
ficial fruit—a late and very popular
fashion. A pale green hat of this sort
is in the toque shape trimmed with
bunches of purple aud green grapes,
and the cape designed to be worn
with it is an absurd affair in green
chiffon tied with purple rihbons.
These fashions are decidedly con
spicuous, and bound to be short
lived, but as they are among the novel
ties of the season call for comment.
In contrast to them are the hats made
of light fancy straw and chiffon com
bined, and three or four small buds.
While on the subjeot of hats there
must be included the poke bonnet of
small size in fine straw that has white
ribbon around the crowu, and white
ribbon strings. The brim inside is
faced with chiffon caught down with
one small bunch of flowers.—Harper's
Bazar.
The Size of the WiiUt.
It will be a relief to some girls with
athletio proclivities to know the ex
treme limit which they may attain in
waist size without being considered
"out of fashion." For there is a
"fashion in waists" as in everything
else.
Years ago, before girls were allowod
to engage in open-air recreations, a
tiny, slim waist was considered correct
and children at an early age began
to wear corsets which were laced
tightly.
A girl of seventeen or eighteen
would endure agonies in order to re
duce her waist. It is now considered
very bourgeois to lace tightly, aud
the waist of a full-grown girl should
not be smaller than twenty-four
inches. /The proper measurement
for the chest of a girl whose waist i 3
of that size is thirty-eight iuches.
Thus it will be seeu that the modern
beauty must be solid aud uearly ap
proach the proportions of the heroic
age.
Tho present age is an athletio one,
and as long as girls continue healthful
exeroises—lawn tenuis, rowing, rid
[ ing, bicycling, fencing and vaulting—
bright eyes, good complexion and
firm, well-knit aud muscular figures
will be found.
For the Utile Cout of Tweed.
The jaunty little tweed and frieze
coats worn by the athletic woman,
who walks and drives a great deal
in the country at this season, are con
sidered smartest when they have re
vers faced with pique woven in faintly
colored lines. A coat of blae tweed
has a simulated bolero carried out in
stitchings and held with old silver
buttons. A short coat of scarlet—
beg pardon—huntiu' pink—has the
revers faced with stripod pique, the
ground of which is creamy white, the
stripes pale pink, blue aud amber.
Women ad Surgeon*.
That for women women surgeons
are the best, auil that nature has
especially adaptod them for the work
by bestowing ou them peculiar gifts
aud qualities, is the opiniou of Sir
Thomas Smith. "Their small hau ls,
deftness aud dextrous use of the
needle aud thread," he says, "are no
small advantages, now that surgery is
becoming more constructive."
Brctty 2,
THINGS /#
TO
Sleeves arc larger at the top, and
are trimmed with tucks or lace inser
tions.
Organdies on which the design i<
paiutod on the under side aro thi
prettiest examples of pastel colorings.
Black net, well covered with appli
cations of black taffeta, makes a very
pretty short cape, finished with frills
of lace and chiffon. This sort of gar
ment is made in orearn tints as well,
and also in gray aud beige.
Faucy lace neckwear i 3 receiving
some new development every day. A
long lace scarf to carry several times
around the neck aud tie in a large
bow in front is one of the popular
styles.
Long wraps of laoo are the proper
summer covering for dress occasions.
These are made long in the back and
sloping up to the waist, or a little be
low in front, aud there coming to
gether all the way to the throat.
Embroidery iu chiffou aud other
thiu materials is a great feature of the
new trimmings. Open embroidery"
laeo beads, gold and silver thread aud
silk are all employed aud variously
combined iu these pretty novelties.
An entirely new idea is the use of
voluminous scarfs of tulle, carried
twice around tho neck and tied iu a
large bow at the back. This undoubt
edly may be accepted as a precursor
of tho ribbon tied at the hack, so
popular a few years ago.
The silky effect added to the great
of mulls, batistes, canvas fab
rics, zephyr.-, organdies, and other
summer fabrics renders them more
tlmu ever desirable aud attractivo.
Many of tho cotton materials thus
treated, either iu plain or faucy pat- -
terns, have all tho lustrous and dainty
effect of an India silk or satin foulard.
Some effective now waists that are
just in are of a heavy coarse linen
though in delicate shades, aud are
trimmed with heavy embroidered lineu
iu colors. It is evidently Russian
peasant work, it is very similar at any
rate, is stylish, aud will be durable.
The embroidery is in the form of in
sertions that are put in lengthwise in
the bodice, around the sleeves, aud to
outliuo yokes.