Fan* of Flsli Sciile*.
The tiny fans of peacocks', jays' and
guinea fowls' feathers are pretty, but a
newer idea is a fan made of simulated
fish scales in tissue, gold deepening to
copper for a carp, or silver to bronze
for a salmon. All in dull mother o'
pearl sequins, with a white gown, the
effect is fascinating.
To Ili'fiesh the Face.
When tired and weary after a day's
s. outing or traveling, it is a great rnis
.JJL take to plunge the faco into cold water,
which really acts as an irritant, where
as tepid water produces quite the con
§?.' trary effect. After washing off the
, dust on face and ears, a little butter
jL. milk, or, failing that, rose water, dab
bed on, will soothe and whiten the
skin, taking away tho feeling irrita
tion.
Pretty Pnrne* for Spending Money.
Bright purple, katydid green, vivid
yellow and scarlet are the gay hues in
which purses, cardcases and pocket
books are being made this season. The
smooth-surfaced leathers seem to be as
much in favor as the rough monkey
skin, rhinoceros hide, elephant skin,
etc., which have had such a long and
successful reign.
The silver or gold mountings of these
new leather goods are in a fanciful
new-art style; dragon flies with out
spread wings form the top of a pocket
book, while a nymph with golden hair
and a cap of cowslips on her head
forms the graceful mount of a purse of
green leather. The bright hues and the
fantastic designs of art novveau seem
bo suit each other admirably.
Until Now and Smart.
Do you know what causes the sleek,
trim effect of a smart hat and why the
smooth surface of the breast plumage,
which lies along the left side of the
brim remains smooth and unruffled? It
is because of the little cover of tulle
which covers the plumage like a close
fitting envelope. Very likely you have
not noticed it, but it is there, other
wise you could scarcely have been out
iu a sea breeze or high wind without
ruffling and distrubing tue short, soft
1 breast feathers. If the plumage is
white very likely the veil also is white.
But a fine black veil on a white breast
of feathers is sometimes used. When
the white plumage is speckled with
black, you notice it has a veil on. This
detail of millinery is called the plu
mage veil.
Name* of Spmilsli Women.
A conspicuous fashion paper, says
the London Chronicle, seems to have
1 j tried to give a feminine turn to the
name of two of our duchesses—Consu
elo, duchess of Manchester, and Consu
elo, duchess of Marlborough—by print
ing the name Consuela. This shows a
misunderstanding of the most charac
teristic of Spanish names. Consuelo is
"comfort" or "consolation," a mascu
line substantive, but a feminine name.
Nearly all Spanish women are chris
tened Mary, with some special invoca
tion; thus Mary of the Seven Sorrows
is Dolores; Mary of Mount Carmel (the
religious order of the national saint,
Theresa) is our wild friend Carmen
and our agile Carmencita; Mary of the
Immaculate Conception is Concepcion,
and Mary of Good Comfort is Consuelo.
Full Tlirontfl.
The plump matron with rounded con
tour and full throat often finds it diffi
cult to buy a silken stock ready made.
The stock may be low or high, it is
nearly always pinching tight, and not
k to be thought of save as an inducement
to apoplexy. Sometimes cutting away
j the upper edge enlarges the surface, so
as to make it fit. Sometimes a cliou or
rosette of tulle or ribbon bow with
loops is stitched to one end, and the
hooks that fasten the collar are then
moved forward under the bow. This
gives lee way. and the stock then fits
reasonably; but it lacks the style of a
smooth-oaeked stock. One must not
choke, and yet one would gladly be
smart in the matter of neck-dressing.
Perhaps the oealers in such pretty arti
cles of neckwear will begin to supply
extra long models.
The New Skirt..
One cannot touch upon waists with
-1 out mentioning the new skirts, for they
are so closely allied to the waists in
color and style as to pass for suits even
though purchased separately.
>The very latest skirts show the drop
skirt, which is an entire skirt made of
silk and and finished with an accordion
plaiting around the foot. This is the
universal style for the drop skirt,which
is not a scant skirt, but a very full one,
quite as full as the dress skirt under
which it drops.
A very successful French dressmaker,
one who designs gowns for the Coun
tess de Castcllane, who is considered
the best dressed woman in Paris, has a
way of making the drop skirt sepa
rately, fitting it as though it were the
dress skirt. It is just as full, just as
well fitted to the hips, just as perfect
In every way as the dress skirt. It is
also very long and touches the floor
in front. The back and sides are of
sweeping length. Over this the dress
i skirt is finally made.—The Pittsburg
Fress.
Stylish llnt*.
On millinery all sorts of flowers aro
/used, roses perhaps being the favorites,
from the tiny Banksia specimens to the
beautiful La France, while some exclu
sive models ooast largs sprays of hy-
drangea in various colorings. As a rule,
this latter flower disappears with the
early summer, but it has found great
popularity this summer and promises
to remain with us for some little time
to come.
The toreador hat has been revived
for traveling, but it shows very little
trimming, indeed —in fact, nothing
more than a rosette of very soft satin
and a couple of quills. This shape is
not universally becoming, but it is
really smart when properly adjusted.
The newest toque of all appears to be
a plateau shape folded in two, the prin
cipal trimming, generally a wreath of
flowers veiled in tulle, being found be
tween the two brims, with a bow of
velvet ribbon at the back resting on
the hair. The ordinary plateau shape
continues as popular as ever.—Wash
ington Star.
Two Odd Now Uamei,
In European fashionable circles two
new games wm soon become popular,
if one may judge by the enthusiasm
which greeted them when they were
played a few days ago, for the first
time, at a large festival given by a
wealthy landed proprietor.
One is known as "the necktie race."
The players are horsemen, and, as in
an ordinary race, each strives to be
first at a distant goal. Midway between
the starting point and goal, however,
are several ladies, and each horseman
as he reaches them is bound to dis
mount, hand the reins to a groom, have
His necktie tied by one of the ladies,
and then mount again and race for the
goal. Before the race begins each
horseman selects the lady whom he de
sires to favor him in this manner.
The second sport is known as "the
apple race." On the course over which
the horsemen are to go are placed four
basins filled with water and each con
taining a floating apple, and each
horseman on reaching the basins is re
quired to dismount, kneel and grasp, it
he can, one of the apples with his
teeth. That this is no easy task can
readily be seen. Furthermore, if he
succeeds in grasping the apple he must
keep it in his mouth until he reaches
the goal, for if he drops it while his
horse is galloping he cannot win the
prize.—New York Herald.
Women In the Profession*.
Sixty years ago no woman in Ameri
ca, so far as is known, had ever been
regularly accredited as an authoized
practitioner in law, medicine or theol
ogy. Indeed, it seemed then far more
unlikely that women would be allowed
to preach tnan to vote. When Antoin
ette L. Brown imparted to her class
mate. Lucy Stone, at Oberlin, her in
tention to become an ordained minis
ter, Lucy, who already aspired to be
come a voter, exclaimed: "You can
never do it!" Yet Antoinette was or
dained, and ministered to an orthodox
congregation some 50 years ago, while
Lucy, after a half-century of heroic
effort, died a disfranchised citizen.
Of the three learned professions,
medicine has proved the most gener
aly available for women. There are
now many thousand physicians of ev
ery school practising medicine success
fully in America and England, and
even to some extent in foreign coun
tries. Indeed, a medical diploma has
proved invaluable to many women mis
sionaries, giving them admission to the
harems of Turkey, India and China,
which would otherwise have been
closed to them.
While there are thousands of suc
cessful physicians, there are a few hun
dred successful clergytvomen, who have
ministered acceptably to congregations
and done credit to their pastorates.
But in law comparatively few women
have been able to support themselves
by the practice of the profession. In
exceptional cases they have done so.
—The Woman's Journal.
Low and flat is the word in the Pa
ris model hats.
Panne velvet is to be seen and miroir
velvet and satin.
A white chiffon boa is edged with a
narrow ribbon in black and white.
Jet buckles and pins, as well as jetted
laces, are very good on hats, and but
tons of jet are used to finish straps in
mourning millinery.
Very brilliant colors appear in some
of the Paris hats, orange velvet and
rich crimson and chiffon frills are com
bined with velvet and fur.
How are reversible skirts in silk?
Black for one side and a black and
white plaid for the other. The econom
ical woman has two silk skirts in one.
New velvet ribbons are of velvet on
both sides and of a solid color in the
centre, with edges striped with the
color of the centre and white. It gives
a pretty shaded effect
Many jewels and pearl embroidery
will be seen upon the hats to match the
jewelled effects in gowns which will be
worn thi3 winter. Gold and silver lace
and embroidery appear with the jewels.
All-silk hats, taffetas, which"will be
worn this winter, are among the pret
tiest for children. They wear them to
match the coats. Blue with blue, red
with red, and black with anything.
They are chiefly worn in colors. Other
things are prettier in bla t.
A one-seam bishop sleeve model Is
being brought out for the season's uses.
It may be made in full-length style
with an Aiglon wristband or a flare
cuff —or, again, in three-quarter length
and finished with a frill. The lining
may be omitted if desired. The sleeve
Is particularly suitable for shirtwaists
of ellk or light wool.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Counsel that favors your desires
needs careful watching.
It is always easier to forget bad
habits than to forego them.
The laws of friendship are austere
and eternal, of one web with the laws
of nature.
A woman condemns faults in an
other woman's children which she par
dons in her own.
No man can be brave who think 3
pain the greatest evil, or temperate
who considers pleasure the highest
good.
He only is advancing in life whose
heart is getting softer, whose blood
warmer, whose brain quicker, whose
spirit is entering into living peace.
Right is rignt, in all simplicity, and
either the teachings of the great proph
ets are false, or they are to be reck
oned with daily in all the common
affairs of human life upon earth.
It is hard to believe that others can
not see what seems plain to us; but
we cannot see the sun at night; and
for all that it is quae plain to those
on the other side of the world. Every
thing is in the position one happens
to occupy.
The habit of concentrating all the
powers for a certain time upon a defi
nite object is not gained without dis
cipline and practice. Many persons
meaning conscientiously to perform the
work that falls to their lot have, for
want of that habit never learned how
to do it with thoroughness and dis
patch.
The safeguard against temptation is
not seclusion, but self-culture. As it
is not disinfectants which will most
certainly secure one against infection,
but a sound constitution, so it is not
rules of life which will strengthen one
against temptations, but a soul. One
must build up his moral deed and high
thinking, by fellowship with pure
women and honorable men. The chief
aids in this regimen are literature and
friendship.
THE COST OF WARS.
Conflicts of tho l'ast Century Have Cost
Nearly 820,000,000,000.
A writer in the Home Magazine es
estimated the cost of wars on the 19th
century to nearly reach the enormous
sum of $20,000,000,000. Just how much
is a billion? he asks. It is one thou
sand millions; but that fact is not ex
pressive. There are only 3,155,673,600
seconds in a century—that is, $6 have
been spent on war for every second
of the century. If we take Archbishop
Usher's chronology, and consider the
world to be 5904 years old, we find
that the nations have spent on war
during the 19th century at the rate of
$6 a minute since the creation.
The most costly building in the
world is the Church of San Pietro, in
Vaticano, known to us as St. Peter's
Rome. It has cost not ICSB than $70,-
000.000 since it 3 foundation stone was
laid, yet nearly 300 other churches
of equal cost could be built out of
what the world has spent on wars dur
ing the 19th century. The costliest
building in this country is the Phila
delphia building, which represents
nearly $30,000,000; yet nearly 700
copies of this great pile could bo
erected out of the money spent on war
during the last hundred years. The
world spends upward of $530,000,000 a
year on education. If it spent 37 times
as much it would not equal the war
expenses of the past century. The
population of the world is estimated
at 1,500,000,000; the money spent on
war between 1801 and 1900 would give
to each man, woman and child alive
today more than sl3 as pocket money.
If a man counted 200 a minute for
10 hours a day, six days a week, he
would have counted 1,000,000 in eight
days three hours and 20 minutes. At
the same rate he would need 8333
days, three hours and 20 minutes to
count 1,000,000,000, or 26 years, 195
days, three hours and 20 minutes, not
counting Sundays. To count 20,000,-
000,000 would take 532 years I* - ** days
six hours and 40 minutes.
Fhilnntliropy in Softool Work,
Chicago has the distinction of be
ing the first city in the world to fur
nish free transportation for crippled
children of school age to a school of
their own. The superintendent of
compulsory education of the city in
investigating many cases of absence
found that a number of children re
mained from the school sessions both
on account of sensitiveness because of
their deformity and because, in many
instances, they were unable to reach
the school without an attendant, an
impossibility in families all the mem
bers of which had to be breadwinners.
The community had provided for the
schooling of these unfortunates, but
the cost of transportation fell mainly
upon the parents and guardians, ex
cept wl.en private charity furnished
the means. In a bullmng in the stock
yard district, where the larger pro
portion of these children live, a large
room has been set apart for them in
order that they may not be annoyed
and jostled by their healthy and bois
terous mates. A smooth running om
nibus with an attendant plies daily
between the school and the homes of
the children, and 18 crippled and com
paratively helpless children constitute
the first class. Similar schools are
contemplated in other parts of the
city. Thai the school boards of other
cities will turn their attention from
the jobbery in books and the traffic
in positions of which they are too of
ten accused, and enter into a noble
emulation in the humanities with Chi
cago is devoutly to be hoped, even
though their efforts should be crip
pled by the bartering of school and
hospital appropriations In political
corruption.—American Medicine.
ROOF-DWELLERS OF NEW YORK.
Cozy IIOIIIPH In the Tup Stories of Mod
ern Office Ituililing*.
Perched high up in mid-air, atop
the lofty office buildings of the city,
arc little homes as quiet and secluded
as though they stood beside some
country lane, instead of directly above
throbbing, hurrying, maddening
Broadway. Quaint little houses they
are, with ample door yards, many of
which are filled with brightly colored
flower beds. To one who is hungry
for a glimpse of country greenery
they are as oases in the great stone
desert that constitutes the business
section of New York. These are the
dwellings of the modern cliff men,
most of whom are the janitors and
superintendents of the gieat sky
scrapers. Several years ago some in
ventive architect devised the plan
of locating the caretakers and their
families on the roofs of the buildings
of which they have charge. The
plan was so satisfactory in every re
spect that it has been very general
ly followed. Within an area of a
few blocks in the down town district
dozens of families are living thus
above the eaves of the tallest build
ings in the world. They form a quaint
and interesting colony.
The little dwellings which form the
homes of the roof-dwellers are regu
lar cottages, quite separate and dis
tinct from the great structures on
which they are built. They are con
structed of wood or brick, and they
nestle on the great skyscrapers like
Swiss chalets on as many mountain
peaks.
At first thought it might seem that
the life of the roof dweller must be a
lonely one, but he has his own di
versions, and he enjoys many advan
tages not to be obtained by other res
idents of the city, not even by the
wealthy householders of fashionable
Fifth avenue. Sunlight and fresh air
—the nectar and ambrosia of city life
—are enjoyed by the residents of the
roofs in unstinted quantities. They
are not crowded by their neighbors;
they enjoy a delightful seclusion;
While at their feet is spread the vast
and ever-changing panorama of the
city and its glorious harbor.
From his aerial home the new cliff
man can look down upon the streets
below, with their swarming crowds of
what, from his lofty perch, look like
scurrying ants. He can see the ele
vated trains pulling along, looking al
most like toys. Around him rise the
rival sky-scrapers—modern towers of
Babel, pulsating with the hurrying
life within. The great metropolis
stretches away to tho northward, be
tween its confining rivers, as far as
the eye can reach. Here and there
Its uniformity is relieved by some
great building looming high above its
fellows. Southward the harbor's
broad expanse, alive with craft of
every sort, invites his eye. The roof
dwellers. too, can see the tremendous
forces of nature at work in their mag
nificence. When a summer thunder
storm sweeps the city they can ob
serve the full beauty of its display;
the black clouds veiling the sky, tho
great curtain of rain walling out
everything around and the blinding
glare of lightning, with perhaps some
huge building outlined against it; or,
again, they can watch the fog steal
ing down to veil the city and harbor
in gray.
The enterprising housewife among
these denizens of the roof is able to
brighten her home with many de
lightful features. She may have her
flower gardens, and even a little patch
of vegetables reared in soil brought
from below. Trailing vines may be
trained along the cottage walls, and
with shrubs and plants disposed about
the borders of the roof it is possible
to transform the whole into a charm
ing hanging garden. In the long sum
mer evenings the tables can be moved
out Into the yard, and here the roof
dwellers can sit and take tea ainid
the coolness and quiet. Here, too,
they can entertain their loss fortunate
friends who are condemned to live in
stuffy flats or apartments. Ham
mocks may be swung to give added
comfort and pleasure to life, and awn
ings put up in summer to keep the
place cool through the mid-day hours.
—Ledger Monthly.
I.oiiellnetift ttntl Health.
A medical journal has of late been
discoursing on tho indigestion of lone
liness. says the Baltimore Sun. By this
title Is meant to be indicated the dis
orders of digestion which are believed
to follow the practice of taking one's
meals in solitary state. The topic is
by no means an uninteresting one.
Thousands of men and women living
alone are compelled to take their meals
for the most part without company.
Week in and week out they feed them
selves without a soul to talk to. and the
medical journal devotes its energies
to showing that the practice is not one
that is likely to be conducive to di
gestion, to proper bodily nourishment
or to health. The solitary man soon
tires of merely eating, and if he is not
of a literary turn of mind his tendency
i 3 to hurry through his meal to escape
from his loneliness into the society of
his fellow-men. Herein, it is held,
lies a danger to health.
TJOTO Letter* Hurled with Her.
Before the Empress Frederick's cof
fin was finally closed all the love let
ters she received from her late hus
band, the Emperor Frederick, togeth
er with his last written messages, in
scribed after he had lost his power of
speech, were placed In the coffin over
her heart.
The famous eagles which used to
haunt the lakes of Killarney, making
their home in the Eagle's Nest moun
tains, have been exterminated with
in the last three years.
ME. M'KINLEY'S DESCENT
HIS ANCESTRY AS TRACED BY THE
REV. A. STAPLETON.
Tho Martyred President Sprang from the
Scotch Irish Itace Head of the Clan
Came to America in 1743—Great Grand
father Wan a Revolutionary Soldier.
The following genealogical sketch of
President McKinley was prepared by
the Rev. A Stapleton of Carlisle, Pa.:
"It should be a matter of regret to
all true historians that the campaign
histories of President McKinley were
erroneous in several Important genea
logical details. The data herein given
may be relied on as correct, as they
are the result of researches in the
court records and other autnorities
still extant.
"The ancestors of President McKin
ley belonged to that sturdy race of
people calleu the Scotch Irish, so
called because in 1607 King James I.
located a large number of Scots in the
northern part oi Ireland on lands from
which the Irish had been evicted.
These settlements were gradually aug
mented by immigration until eventu
ally the Scotch-Irish element predom<-
inated in this region. They were
staunch Presbyterians in faith and in
course of time developed traits and
peculiarities so marked as to almost
stamp them as a distinct race.
"In course of time this noble people
were overtaken by many hardships,
such as the successive failure of crops,
besides very unsatisfactory civil and
religious conditions. Their only source
of relief was in immigration to Amer
ica. in which they were encouraged by
agents of the American colonies. After
1715 the immigration became very ex
tensive. the chief port of arrival be
ing New Castle on the Delaware, below
Philadelphia.
"The .Scotch-irish being citizens of
the British realm their arrival is not
a matter of record like that of the Ger
mans, Swiss, Dutch, etc., who are des
ignated as foreigners in the colonial
records, and were required to suuscribe
to an oath of auegiance upon arrival,
besides a subsequent naturalization.
Hence It follows that citizens of the
realm are more difficult to identify
than foreigners by the historian. Our
only recourse is in tax lists, land war
rants, court records, etc.
"In the case of President McKinley
we have an undisputed retrograde rec
ord to his great-grandfather, David
McKinley. We know that he was a
revolutionary soldier mat he was born
in, York county, Pa., that he removed
to Westmoreland county afterthe rev
olution, and in 1814 to Ohio, where he
died. In the cemetery of the Chat
field Lutheran church in Crawford
county, Ohio, may be seen two modest
granite markers with the following
inscriptions: 'David McKinley, Revo
lutionary soldier. Born. 1775; died,
1840,' and 'Hannah C. Rose, born, 1757;
died, 1840.'
"David McKinley was the father of
James, bom Sept. 19, 1783, married
Mary Rose of Mercer county, Pa., and
removed thence to Chatfield. where he
purchased a farm, on which he died.
He was the father of William McKin
ley, Sr., born in 1807, and died in Can
ton, 0., in 1592. The latter was the
father of President McKinley. Han
nah C. Rose, buried by the side of Da
vid McKinley, was the great-grand
mother of the president. She was also
the great grandmother of former May
or Rose of Cleveland.
"For the history of the family prior
to David the soldier, we must rely
on the courthouse records at Lancas
ter and York, Pa. From various docu
ments and entries we think the evi
dence incontrovertible that David Mc-
Kinley, the head of the clan McKin
ley in America, landed at New Castle
and located in (now) Chanceford
township, York county, Pa., in 1743.
At that time he was well along in life.
He was accompanied by his wife, Es
ther, and three sons, John, David.
Stephen, and a daughter, Mary. There
are frequent references to these sons
in the county archives.
"The immigrant was a weaver by
trade, but, like all thrifty artisans of
that day, he secured a gcod homestead.
It is possible, bu tnot probable, that
he arrived in the province earlier than
174a, but in this year his name first
appears on the records in a warrant
for 16 acres of land on a beautiful ele
vation overlooking the Susquehanna
river in the distance.
"That he was a man of enterprise
is shoiwn in the fact that in 1794 he
circulated a petition for a public high
way, which he also presented to the
court. The following year he was
made supervisor and doubtless had the
task imposed on himself to engineer
his road to a comp'.et'OD. His name
occurs frequently in the most honora
ble way, showing him to have been a
man of unusual probity and worth as
a citizen.
"David McKinley, the Immigrant,
died intestate in 1757, leaving his wife
and children as already named. His
daughter was intermarried with Sam
uel Gordon. The settlement of the es
tate shows personal property to the
value of £220, or $llOO, besides the
plantation, which was divided. Later,
however, the son John (who with his
mother, was the executor) purchased
the entire estate.
"This leads us to the consideration
of the second generation, viz., 'John
McKinley, eldest son of the emigrant.
Before entering upon details we here
throw out the precautionary state
ment that the names McKinley and
McGinley are both contemporaneous
and interchangeable in our early rec
ords. to the carelessness of
scribes. They were, however, sepa
rate families in York county. The
McGinleys proper came from James
McGinley, who died in York county In
1755, leaving an only son John. No re
lationship is known to have existed
between the families, although remote
ly it might have been the case. The
president's ancestors, so far as we have
ascertained, always wrote their name
as now.
"Resuming our narrative of the Mc-
Kinleys, John, son of the immigrant,
was born about 1728 and in his day
was one of the foremost men of Yorto
county. He became a large land own
er and frequently figures in important
business transactions. When hostili
ties broke out with the mother country
he staunchly supported the revolution
and was made a wagon master for
Chanceford township by the committee
of safety. He died on his estates Feb.
18, 1799, being survived by his widow,
Margaret, an only son David, great
grandfatner of the president, and
daughters Esther, Jean, Elisabeth and
Susan. The widow subsequently mar
ried Thomas McCulloch. She died in
the winter of 1781.
"This leads us down to David Mc-
Kinley, grandson of the immigrant and
great-grandfather of the president. He
was born on the old homestead in
Chanceford township May 16, 1755.
In 1776 he enlisted in Capt. Reed's
company of Ferrymen in the war of
the revolution. This was the Seventh
company of the Eighth battalion of
York county militia. The militiamen,
it should be remembered, were called
out in emergencies and were drafted
in sections for active service, making
what were then called tours of ser
vice. In this way nearly all the mili
tia of Pennsylvania saw many tours of
service, much hard fighting and the
most perilous kind of military life.
"The local historians of York county
had been in correspondence with the
president respecting his York county
antecedents. He had expressed him
self as much gratified by their re
searches and interest in his ancestry,
and faithfully promised at an oppor
tune time to visit the scenes of his
ancestral abode. Several dates for the
proposed visit were partly agreed on,
and great preparations for the visit
were in prospect, when the Spanish
war compelled successive postpone
ments of the visit.
"As a matter of interest we may add
that a muster roll of the company of
which his great-grandfather was a
member, and ever since the revolution
in the possession of the descendants of
Col. John Hay, was some years ago
presented to the president and re
ceived by him with many expressions
of delight and satisfaction."
QUAINT AND CURIOUS,
The oldest inhabited house in Eng
land is on the River Ver, close to St.
Alban's abbey. It is octagonal in
shape, and supposed to be 11 centuries
old.
The first English postage stamp was
black, but the postmarks were hardly
visible on it, and this tone was fol
lowed by red, with the familiar por
trait of Queen Victoria.
In the picturesque village of Alles
ley, Warwickshire, Eng., an ancient
custom which is found to linger here
and there, is still observed. The
church bell is rung at 5 o'clock every
morning in the summer and at 6
o'clock in the winter, in order to
arouse sleeping villagers and enable
them to start to work in good time.
The curfew is also tolled at 8 o'clock
each evening.
A German farmer named Obermayer,
had, unfortunately for himself,
taken the fancy of a strapping lass
who worked in his fields. Finding lan
guishing look and bashful advance of
no avail, the girl who was gifted with
almost herculean strength, repaired to
the farmer's house at a time when ho
was sure to be alone and on prayer
and entreaty proving futile bound him
with a rope which she had the fore
thought to bring with her, and haviug
gagged him drove him off in one of
his carts to her own cottage, whence,
brow beaten and cowed he departed
only for the village church.
An American railway company re
ceived a letter from an eccentric in
dividual he offered a consid
erable sum of money for the privilege
of being permitteu to ride 1000 miles
on the cowcatcher of a famous express.
Probably the queer application arose
out of a wager, but, in any case, it
was refused without hesitation, and
the would-be perpetrator of the ex
traordinary freak was compelled to
travel in the more conventional man
ner at the rear of the locomotive in
stead of in front of it, a mode of pro
gress which would hardly commend it
self to prudent minded passengers.
The members of the Osterlout family
of Susquenanna are the most famous
wildcat and rattlesnake hunters in
northern Pennsylvania. For years
Herman Osterlout has tramped
over the hills of Susquehanna, Wayne
and Pike counties, catching rattle
snakes for New York and Philadelphia
museums. He has been bitten by rat
tlesnakes innumerable times. He has
killed more wildcats than any other
man in the state. His record is 127
cats. Mrs. Osterlout is an experienced
huntress, and she accompanies her hus
band on many of his trips. She has
captured and killed scores of rattle
snakes and wildcats.
Tito Only Cliltnre.
"Do you think the north pole will
ever be discovered?" asked the scien
tist.
"I couldn't Shy," answered the cap
italist. "Possibly a trust may some
time be persuaded that there is money
In it,"