.)Fact§, Uy It is said that tho Tianlc of Franco lias an invisible studio in a gallery (behind the cashiers, so that at a given signal from one of them any suspected customer has his photograph taken Without his knowledge. With the exception of a few small j concerns in Warsaw there is ouly one ; large shoe factory in Russia. This ; concern does an enormous business, ! and is one of the most prosperous ' stock companies In the empire. L The skin of the whale is from two , inches to two feet thick, and the skin \ of a large specimen weighs thirty tons. ! The rhinoceros is the thickest skinned j , quadruped, with a hide so tougli as : I to resist the claws of a lion or tiger, j tho sword, or the balls of au old-fash- ' ioned musket. Women in China have the privilege of fighting In the wars. In the rebel- i lion of IS3O women did as much fight- ; ing as men. At Nankin in 1853, 500.- ! 000 women from various parts of the country were formed into brigades of 1 13,000 each, under female officers. Of these soldiers 10,000 were picked wom en, drilled and garrisoned In the city. A dwarf orange tree In a porcelain Jar of Oriental design Is the latest nov elty designed to replace the Jardiniere of ferns which has so long done duty on the dining room table. The Idea Is Frenehy, and It bids fair to take well here. It is said that the fashion was introduced by Count Bonl de Castol lane, who brought on the table a dwarf cherry tree with a dozen ripe cherries II depending from its branches. When s the fruit course was ill order each guest clipped Ills or her share with 6ilver fruit scissors. A queer annulment of marriage has Just been decided in Paris. A French man named Decourdemancho married a Turkish woman thirty-one years ago and settled a sum of money on her. j She went mad and was put In an asy- I lum, where a male lunatic named i Questel kept asserting that she was I his wife. No one paid any attention i to him. He died and recently the ; woman died. Her relatives demanded j the money settled on her, whereupon i tho husband discovered that his wife's mother ha 4 written a hook called "Thirty Years In a Harem," in which she spoke of her daughter's marriage to Questel. He hunted up the records in London and procured a certificate of marriage. The French courts havo granted him a post-mortem annul- ' ment. I A little Russian girl named Tyna I % Helmau became a pupil In the Wells ! Grammar School, of Boston, last au tumn. She did not know a word of English, but she could speak a little French and Spanish and her own na tive tongue fluently. She was placed in the lowest grade in the school, hut 1n a very few weeks her teacher thought that she would probably gain ' more in the next higher grade. This was repeated until the principal ad vanced her to the highest class in the school. When It came time for tho last examination and the diploma list was made out, the name of tills little girl, who entered the Wells School in the fall in the lowest grade, was among the list of graduates, and with ; honors, too. Thus she made the four j years' course in one. t Couldn't I.oso Him. It was late, and getting later. However, that did not stop the sound of muffled voices in the parlor. . Meantime the gas meter worked I * steadily. The pater endured it as long as ho 'could aud then resolved oa heroic measures. "Phyllis," he called from the head of tlie stairs, "has the moruiug paper come yet?" "No, sir," replied tho funny mnu on the Daily Bugle, "we are holding the form for an important decision." And the pater went back to bed wondering if they would keep house or live With him.—Colorado Springs Gazette. In Afthnntee. They do not kiss in Asliantec. There the suitor, in pledge of his love, in token of soul affinity, swlpos his ina morata with his club. Miore hygienic, this, but that is au other story. Where, in the silvery moonlight, the )< plantain easts Its deepest shadows, blows, fervent uud fast raining, may i he heard. "Oh, Mbwki, ain't yon turrible!" a 'sweet, maidenly voice falters. "They're about the spooulest couple ever!" exclaim the neighbors, in uo very good humor, for the hour is late. —Detroit Journal. A Friend to Horscn. A rarisieitue has opened a small office in I'uris, from which she dis tributes straw hats for the horses of all drivers who apply. They are all of the most approved model, with a Sponge for moisture In the crown. Last Bummer the philanthropist stood on the steps of the Madeleine and gave them to all who passed. One of JLlfe'ii Ivonle*. There is something horrifying In the way in which the city takes its annual toll of victims from the public schools, dumps them down on a high stool ami i sucks their blood. Why is It that the ' ? flowers of school athletics are boru to blush unseen and waste their sweet ness on an office stool? London Public ' Magazine. Some Italic* of Calhoun* A sideboard made out of tho mahog any which once formed a part of the cabin of the old Constitution is one of the most prized possessions of John C. Calhoun, the grandson of the great stafesman of that name, and now resi | dent of the city of New York. This sideboard was presented to John C. Calhoun by Henry Clay, and, like the lamp under which the great South Carolinian wrote his work on the Con stitutional Government, the leather backed chair in which he sat and the gold pen with which he traced the | manuscript of that treatise—declared ! liy Gladstone to be one of the ablest | works upon the subject in existence— | is a cherished heirloom of his descend ant. It is no more highly valued than I a unique dinner-set which the Em i peror of China presented to John C. i Calhoun on the expiration of his term ! as Secretary of War, each piece of \ which lias upon it tho American eagle, j the original thirteen stars, aud the | motto E Pluribus Unura. Calhoun died in 1830 ill Washington. His eld i est son. Colonel Andrew Pickens C'al- I houn, was born in Alabama, where the I present bearer of the historic nnme j saw tlie light on the Fort Hill plan j tatiou in the Pickens district. A part of Calhoun's library is now in the State collection in the Agricultural Col lege which South Carolina prosperous ly maintains in tlie old Fort Hill man sion.—Harper's Weekly. The New Llfe-Savinjj Net. A new feature that attracts attcn j tiou on lire apparatus seen going through .he streets is tlie now life swing net, which is carried on trucks. It does not take actually much room, but it is nevertheless necessarily con spicuous, aud lis novelty now attracts attention to it. Tho net itself has often been de scribed. One part of It has a circular canvas sheet held all around at the edge to a stout steel hoop, which is perhaps six teen feet lu diameter. For greater _ convenience in the net's transportation the hoop is made ill two parts, tho ends of one part thrusting iuto sock ets in the ends of the other. The net, when not in use, is folded ■' like a doubled-up disk, and it is cur- I riod In that manner on tlie side of tho I truck. Holes are made in the l'oot j hoard to receive two ends of one of : the bows, and a little higher up the i net is secured by straps to tlie under frame of the truck. Thus carried it lias on tho side of the truck the appearance of a big, white half-moon, a striking novelty, than which could not fail to attract attention.—New York Sun. A Tiny Maple Tree's Narrow Kscape. "Tlie maple had one or two exciting adventures and narrow escapes during its babyhood," writes William Dav enport llulbert in "The Story of the i Maple Tree," in the Ladles' Home Journal. "Close beside it stood a tiny beech tree. One afternoon a deer eame by, lifting his feet and putting them down again as lightly as if he were afraid of stepping on eggs. 'There were no eggs there to lie stepped on, but there were other tilings Just as fragile and helpless. The two baby trees stood right In his path, and now his left forefoot came straight down toward tliem. One, at least, must surely perish. Which would it he? Or would It be both? They stood so close together that even that dainty little hoof could easily have covered both of them at once. Iu another second the deer had passed on. and the beecli lay iu the pointed hoof-print, its stem broken and its life i uslied out, while less than half an I inch away the baby maplo stood un | harmed." Kvcrett ill. Foreuio-t American Author, I j Edward Everett seems to me, on the [ whole, our best example of the orator, | pure aud simple. Webster was a great statesman, a great lawyer, a great I advocate, a great public teacher. To all these his matchless oratory was but au Instrument aud ineideut. But Everett is always the orator. He was a clergyman a little while. He was a Greek professor a little while, lie was a college president a little while. He was Minister to Englnnd a little while. He was Representative lu Congress and Senator. He was Governor of the Commonwealth. Iu these places he did good service enough to make a high reputation for any other man. Little of these things is remembered now. Ho was above nil tilings—l am tempted to say, above all men—the foremost American ora tor in one c'ass.—Senator lloar, lu ScribneFs. Era of Sport a Healthful Sign. This is tlie era of sport. Practically every man and boy, every woman and i girl, takes part, or wishes to take part, in some branch of It. And it is fortu nate that the field is broad enough for all. Aud in all this variety of sport, in all this eager devotion to it, there is nothing harmful, nothing that points a warning. On tlie contrary, It is for individual and national good. It gives health and tone to the system, it clears and freshens the mind by bright exercise and competition in the clear, open air, and It drives tlie cobwebs from wearied brains. And thus it is that tills era of enthusiastic devotion to sport is good.—Philadelphia Satur day Evening Post, Orljrln of a Celebrated Jolt, When Mr. Evurts, who was my near relative and a man with whom 1 could take a liberty, came into the Senate, I said to him that we should have to amend the rules so that a motion to j adjourn would ho in order in the mid dle of a sentence, to which lie replied that he knew of nobody lu this coun- i try who objected to long sentences ex- \ cept the criminal classes. Senator I Hoar, In Scribner'a. ' I Economy of Good ltoadi. How shall we secure good roads 1 1 llow shall we savd the Immense sum now being worse than wasted? Man- 1 il'estly it will require a great outlay, hut the outlay will not be greater than we are now paying without receiving any benefits whatever. Take tho amount wo now pay by reason of bad roads and apply it to tho building of > good ones, nnd we will have an tnvest- ! ment that will yield greater returns | to the many than any other that can he made. This improvement of our i roads ought to be done by the | by the counties, by the districts, by i individuals, by the General Govern- j ment or by the united action of sev- [ eral or all of these agencies. If this I work is to be done by appropriations of the Legislature, these appropria tions must he made on a liberal scale. Mississippi appropriates nothing directly for this purpose, because pro h-bited by tlie Constitution, hut au thorizes the counties to do so. Some counties levy n few cents on the SIOO, about enough to pay the salaries of the officers Intrusted with the man agement of tlie fund. A certain nuni b'r of days' work is also levied, run ning from five to eight, and those upon whom this tax of labor Is levied usually have the least Interest lu the betterment of the roads, and work lu a perfunctory manner so as to dis charge as easily as possible the obli gation. Districts may not levy a tax under the Constitution of the State of Tennessee, however much they may desire to do so. Under the operation of our road laws there Is enough waste of time and money to build a section of good roads every year. If it was all levied lu money and its ex penditure properly directed by compe tent road builders. Rut It may be set down as certain that we will never get goodroads under Mississippi's laws unless these laws provide for a tax Dy the State, by the counties, by dis tricts and one tho individuals mostly benefited by tho construction of the roads. / Whero Wo Arc Lacking. In almost every material thing tho United States takes first rank except in the matter of roads. In this respect it is far behind the most enlightened nations. In all tho States some good roads have been built, hut would It not add immensely to tho growth nnd prosperity of this country to havo its highways Improved so as to bo In har mony with nil Its other great Improve ments? It Is the one thing lu which we are still lingering in the unrelieved darkness of the Middle Ages; it Is the one blot upon our escutcheon of mate rial progress; It Is the one thing that would benefit every man, woman and child 1n the United States, and yet we hesitate to do it Objections are made by many that It is not the duty of tho General Gov ernment to aid In building roads; that If It did It would placo upon the Gen eral Government the responsibility for the welfare of the people. But is not the General Government responsible for the welfare of the people? Tho Constitution gives authority to build i roads for postal service. Why not, j then, build them? The improvement of our rivers is done for tlie welfare i of tho people. Why should not roads | bo built for their greater welfare? Both are highways, one by water, tho ! other by land. How Now Jersey Docs It* The New Jersey law is well worth a i trial In the Southern States. It pro vides that'the roads of a township be placed under the management of the j township committee, and money he raised by township bonds for grading, | macadamizing and improving tho i same; bonds to be authorized by vote of the annual town meeting. The Board of Chosen Freeholders' of any county may designate certain roads as county roads, and Improve the same by the Issue of couuty bonds. The State shall pay one-third of all cost of road Improvement so authorized by the Chosen Freeholders, within certain limitations. I Whenever the owners of two-thirds of the lauds fronting on any public road will undertake to pay one-tenth of tho cost of improving such road. It Is tho drfty of the Board of Chosen Freeholders to cause such improve ments to be rnado. All road taxes are paid In money. i Under the operations of this law New Jersey has built more good roads In proportion to population than any other State in the Union. Convict Labor Utilized D. P. Hutchinson, President of tho Board of Trustees of Charlotte, N. C., | testified before the Industrial Com- j mission In Washington concerning the ; suceossful effort made by Charlotte' to establish good roads in the stir-1 rounding country. He said that ninety ; miles of mncadam roadbed had been established at a probable cost of $250,- ooa | Convict labor, ho said. Is used In constructing the roadbed, as free la- 1 bor would cost from thirty to sixty per cent. more. The saving in cost (o rolling stock was mora than equal to the cost of the roads, and tlie value of farming and other lands lying upon the improved highways Ims been en hanced fifty per cent, by the new roads. A celebrated English physician as- I sorts that the increased height and weight of English and Americans in 1 the last halt century are chiefly due , to the increased consumption of sugar. Coughing j " I was given up to die with ! quick consumption. I then began 1 to use Ayef's Cherry Pectoral. I improved at once, and am now in perfect health."—Chas. E. Hart | man, Gibbstown, N. Y. " """"" " '" , l" It's too risky, playing with your cough. The first thing you know it will be down deep in your lungs and the play will be over. Be gin early with Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and stop the cough. f ■ Three .ties: 25c. 50c., St. All Orontitc f Consult your drtctor. If he •*tb take ifc, I then do as ho says. If he tells you not | to take It, then don't, tako It. He knows. I ; Leavo it with htm. Wo are willing. I A Bad Breath [ A bad breath means a bad stomach, a bad digestion, a bad liver. Ayer's Pills are liver pills. They cure con stipation, biliousness, dys pepsia, sick headache. 25c. All druggists. Want your moustache or l>card a beautiful brown or rich Mack? Then use BUCKINGHAM'S BYE„ r s Steam a Hundred Yoars Ago. On July 5 the London Times printed the following item from its issuo of corresponding dato in 1801: "An ox periment took place on the It Iyer Thames Inst Wednesday for the pur pose of work inn a barge or other heavy craft uguinst the lido by meaus of a steam engine on a very simple contraction. The moment the engine was set to work tho bargo was brought about, answering tue helm quickly, at the rate of two and a half miles an hour." This wns six years before Fulton's construction of a prac tical steam vessel which went from New York to Albany in 21 hours. The crude experiments of a century ago gave but tlie faintest forecast of the marvelous mechanical developments of the present day; and the story from llie London Times moves the New York Commercial Advertiser to sug gest that "perhaps 100 years from now the accounts of the successful venture of M. Santos-Dumout's airship over the roofs of Paris will sound as strangely antiquated as this experi ment with a steamboat which preced ed the all-ship by a century nnd two weeks." Tills is not an Improbable forecast .except In Its Intimation that 100 years may elapse before Its veri fication. It will be surprising, In this Inventive age, if the Paris experiment does not seem antiquated within the life of the present young generation. Gilbcrtian Brlganfagi. Slgnor Rosario Ruffnlino, who has been In prison for a number of crimes, but succeeded in escaping, lias writ ten to the "Glornale dl Slcilla" that be has Just formed n baud of brigands , who have elected htm tlioir chief, j writes a Rome correspondent. Chief I Buffallno Informs the public that the : new band of brigands proposes to be | glu business In the New Year, and to administer Justice according to llie ! teachings of Holy Writ. The letter j concludes with an appeal to all those who are suffering from injustice, or want a wrong avenged, to apply to | Signer Iluffalinoo, who will consider | each case on its merits and mete out I | the death punishment where he deems lit. Enclosed in tlie letter were 111 I francs to pay for the Insertion of the 1 letter In the "Glornale di Slcilla" as i an advertisement should the editor not I , think fit to Insert tt In the ootrospon i j deuoe column. Science Reveals the Past, i To construct a whole animal from a thigh txine or toe Joint has been the achievement of archacolojgists 1n many eases. Hut to learn tlie habits and food of stone-nge gentlemen from tho tartar on their teeth Is comparative ly a new feat of science. An English Journal gives an Interesting account of tlio experiments of the ex-Presi ' dent of tho Royal Odontological Soci ety of Groat Rt-itnln in this direction. Upon the teeth of ancient skulls he noticed a thick coating of tartar, and dissolving this In acid, he discovered minute cornhusks paptlcloa, vegeta ble substances, particles of starch, tlie polut of a fish tooth, oval cells from fruit and portions of wool; nlso miner al fragments probably left by the rough stones used in grinding the corn. Thus the mode of life mid sus tenance of people living some 4,000 years ago were clearly laid bare to the Investigator and archaeology eouhl achieve what not all the priuted rec ords of history could unfold to us. Boar's lack of Ethics His Strength. Tho Iloer cares loss for his reputa tion than lie does for his native's soul. He husbands life and lets his reputa tion take care of Itself. If he does that which we would call disgraceful ho Is not kicked out or his club, be cause be has not got a club. Ho won't be cut in the Row, because he has no Row, and his friends have not yet ac quired the gentle art of cutting. If he Is riding along in the vicinity or a railway line with a few pounds of dynamite In Ills holsters he docs not "have the honor to request" the per mission of the Hoofd-Coinmandant to blow up tho next troop train that pass es. ne Just blows it up and casually mention's the fact the next time he meets his chief. The butter output of Minnesota this year will exceed that of any previous year. Books Are Man's Bos* Frtamfe. The very company of books Is edu cating. As ono gits before the book cases and glances at his favorite vol umes it is as if each said a word or two or suggested a thought. Thus n boy's eye may fall upon hit) copy of "Tom Brown at Rugby." and in bis mind rises the remembrance of the great hare and hounds run in which Tom and East and the Tadpole strug gled so pluckily, and at last held that delightful little interview with £>r.\ Arnold: or visions of cast's tricks on old Martin. There is no need to open the hook—ono breathes its healthful air at the mere sight of its title. So from each old favorite there comes a friendly greeting, and we recall the pleasant hours spent in its company. A great orator said: "Books are tlia windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up children without surrounding them with books if he has the means to buy books." Tho Fiction Sid a of Golf. One of the latest lost golf ball stories is that one afternoon a couple of players were on the Penartli links, when a mighty drive by one of them sent the ball away out of sight, and it couid not be found. Next morning, whilst taking his ante-matutinal stroll, the golfer was attracted by the pite ous cries of a small bird that kept Hy ing backward and forward in front of him. lie followed the bird until he was led to a small bush, in which he found a nest. The biru flew into it and appeared to bo trying to scratch something out, hopping in and out, repeating the action two or three times, in a state of acute excitement all the time. The golfer raised him self to look Into the nest and there was his lost golf ball! Lake Vessels Launched Broadsid? On. Shipbuilders on the great lakes have devised the most ingenious scheme in use anywhere for shoving a great, ponderous fi/teel vessel Into the water when she Is well-nigh completed. The shipyards of tho great lakes are not located 011 t:he banks of the fresh wa ter seas, hut upon contributary rivers 011 artificial None of these waterways are more than ball as wide as a modem lake cargo carrier Is long, and so, instead of sliding the vessel into the water endwise, as is the custom all over the world, these giant leviathans toboggan down a monster slide and take the water broadside 011. Thrco Londons. building the London Ex change the workmen came upon a gravel pit full of oyster shells, bones of cattle, old saudals and shattered pottery. Two pavements were dug up under the Trench church in Thread needle street, and other pavements have been cut through in several parts of the city. Authorities 011 the sub ject say that all the soil seems to have risen over Roman London at the rate of nearly a foot in a century. Still farther must the searcher dig to find the third London, the earlier London of the Britons. It is supposed to be buried under the London of Roman days. Ail goodfl are nliko to Pin NASI FADELESS DVES, ay they color all fibers at one boiling. Bold by ull druggists. Two electric mountain railroads havo been constructed to operate Oa the French slope of the Pyrenees. The favorite flower of the fortune hunt er is marigold. H#w*i 'I filfl ? We offer Ono Hundred Dollars Toward for iny caae of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. 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