THE CARE OF GEMS.
Diamonds Require Gentle Treatment to
Continue Hound and Brilliant.
The best of all jewel boxes are not
the satin-lined, velvet-covered ones in
Which the jewelers alluringly display
their wares, but airtight eases simply
lined with wool. Even in such a re
ceptacle diamonds should be wrapped
I in silversmith's tissue paper to keep
then of exquisite brilliancy.
Diamond" in spite of their hardness,
must be treated with great care.
Though they can hardly be scratched,
they nevertheless chip, and when
roughly used are easily loosened in
their setting, and fall out at the most
unexpected moment. When they are
sent to be cleaned the expert first
tests the settings, and then dips the
ring or pin repeatedly into a little eau
de cologne. A powerful magnifying
glass is used to detect any "foreign"
bodies in the setting, and an ornament
that has an accumulation of dust,
grease or soap on Its under side, a
blemish that is often noticeable in
rings, is dipped alternately in soap
suds and eau de cologne, and a very
fine soft eamelhalr brush pointed like
a pencil is employed to reach delicate
ly between tho claws of the setting.
When the jewel is thoroughly clean
it is buried in a jar pf line sawdust to
dry. This is all done after the gold
or silver mounting has been carefully
rubbed with jewelers' rouge, dried and
polished with a tiny chamois-covered
pad.
When diamonds and turquoises are
set together the most exquisite care is
taken that alcohol only Is utilized with
whiting to clean both the setting and
the diamonds, and as little moisture
as possible is allowed to come near
the bine stones. If a turquoise has
been carelessly treated, and is turning
green from the effects of water, the
cleaner sets it to soak in stale beer,
which treatment will frequently re
store the pure azure color. But old
turquoises that are nearly green liave
a value of their own.
Pearls require a great deal of human
companionship, and that is why they
aro so constantly worn by their own
ers. When they are "sick" (to nse a
technical term) they are given, sun
bathß, and sometimes are sunk in the
.sea in perforated caskets to be re
stored to health and lustre. Pearls
held in a warm, dry hand and drawn
slowly backward and forward through
the half-closed member are benefited.
Some women have their pearls re
t strung every season, and when the
owner cannot arrange to wear a fine
string of these gems at least once a
fortnight the cleaner lays them in a
cup of warm flour or lukewarm fresh
milk to keep their skins In good order.
Experts test real diamonds by touch
lug them with the tip of their tongue.
Diamonds are icy cold; paste Is not.
Real pearls they can differentiate from
false, it Is said, by the touch of their
finger tips, for tho skin of the real
pearl has a feeling peculiar to Itself.
Tho Chicago Woman's Walk.
Did you ever notice her? She ts a
marvel. No trolley ear will ever run
over her. She moves, and she moves
with lightning rapidity. She darts in
between the pedestrians, dives through
a group that Is packed as closely as
sardines in a box, swings and swishes
as she scoots around the corner and
disappears like a blue streak. She is a
wonder. Now, the interesting thing
about it all is the fact that Chicago
methods aro responsible for the way
Chicago women walk. Take the street
cars. The average woman who strikes
an average gait could not catch a Chi
cago street car in a month's time with
out obstructing the track. The car
, stops. The bell rings and the car is
of.. But it never gets away from the
Chicago woman. She knows a few
things. She touches the pavement
once between the curbstone and the
ear. She pounces upon the ear, crawls
In between the seats, crawls over the
callous bodies of ungallant men, grabs
a strap and swings cn until she Is
ready to get off. But with it all she
lias lost nothing of that gracefulness
of motion which adds so much to the
cliarm of a woman's presence, and,
after all, the way they walk Is a good
thing and an Interesting phase of Chi
cago life.—New Orleans Tlmes-Demo
l crat.
Chlneae Women Leanilnc to Walk.
'According to a San Francisco spe
cial In the New York Herald, Mine.
Wn Ting-fang, wife of the Chinese
Minister, who returned a few days
ago from a visit to her native land,
gays small feet are no longer the fash
ion there. "The very llrst penetrat
ing Influence of exterior civilization
on the customs of my country has
touched the conditions of women,"
said Mme. Wu. "The emancipations
of women In China means, first of all,
the liberation of her feet, and this is
coming. Indeed, it has already come
In a measure, for the style in feet has
changed. Wee bits of feet, those no
longer than an infant's, are no longer
the fashion. When I went back home
I found thnt the rigid binding and
forcing back of the growth of the feet
was largely a thing of the past. China,
with other nations, has come to re
-1 gard that practice as barbarous, but
0 the small feet, those that enable a
' woman to walk a little and do not in
convenience her in getting nbout the
house, arc still favored by the Chinese
'J) ladles."
Tallor-Mado Hats.
Tailor-made lints hid fair to rival the
felt, and are extremely smart for street
wear with the tailored gown. They
are of medium size and have but lit
tle trimming outside of a wing, or quill,
or breasts, says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
A pretty hat of this kind worn with a
brown suit was of the same material as
the suit, and seemed to be nothing
but folds of cloth artistically caught
at the back by a handsome buckle.
Under tho brim of this semi-flat shape,
nestling against the hair of Its pretty
owner, were two brown wings; one on
each side. A mere millinery trifle;
but such style and chlcness as was
represented by thlo bauble of head
dress.
Pillow Ribbons.
ruiow ribbons, called by some
"skirting ribbons," are a novelty sure
to come into a long popularity. They
arc found in all the new colors, aro
from six and a half to seven Inches
wide, of soft taffeta, and have a wov
en-in card on one edge, which gathers
up a ruffle heading an inch and a half
in width. As the name "pillow" Indi
cates how prettily and quickly sofa
pillows can be trimmed with them,
the name skirt also suggests the ease
with which one may make with their
aid a ruffled silk petticoat. As a
liouse-wrapper trimming they would
go far toward a success. In price
they are ninety-eight cents per yard.
I)reHH Cllpjpinc; Fiend.
Ladies who go out of Paris just now,
says a special cable to the New York
Herald, in dresses they value should
keep a sharp lookout for a person
going about with scissors collecting
clippings of dress material. Instead
of adopting the usual method of get
ting these from a dressmaker tho per
son in question prefers them from
made-up material. Many smart ladies
who have been victimized in this man
ner are crying bitterly, and complaints
have been lodged with the police by
the indignant sufferers. Tue police
thus far are nonplussed.
Give the Girls R Chnnce.
Give the girls the best of education.
Let them have college education if
possible. The way to get at the boys
of the future Is by means of the girls
who are to be their mothers. Too
much attention has been given to tho
boys and not enough to the girls. If
the boys of a college woman are capa
ble of receiving a college education
they stand the best chance of getting
It The best side of the house is th 6
mother side of it.—Sioux City Journal.
gteel and Black.
Steel and black are combined fre
quently with good effect this year. In
some of the smart frocks the dots of
velvet which make a good trimming
for so many things are set upon a lace
or net foundation, and encircled with
heads, black and steel alternating.
Lines of black and steel beads are to
be seen In other combinations on
stocks.
NEWEST
Other flannel skirts have tho edge
finished with deep flounces and inser
tions of regular Hamburg.
Pretty handkerchiefs with hem
stitched liems have the inside, where
they are hemstitched, undulating.
All-Jet umbrella handles are stylish
this winter, some with straight ends
and others with a large hall for a han
dle.
There is a bit across the horseshoe
which forms the head of a hat pin.
Diamond horseshoes galore are to he
seen for ordinary pins.
Shaped flounces are on many of
these underskirts, two two-inch shaped
hands being all the cloth used, and
these put together with wide insertions
of lace.
Corset covers of fine lawn are oc
casionally trimmed with deep cream
lace insertions and edges, and are
pretty when worn with deep creum
colored petticoats.
Colored handkerchiefs have a broad
hand of white inside the hem. There
are floral designs in white on the cen
tre of the handkerchief, with perhaps
the flower embroidered. There Is a
combination of printing and embroid
ery in most of these.
One Interesting style of colored
handkerchiefs bus the centre and hem
of white, and Inside this forming a
narrow border around the edge, llght
ning-like lines of color, free hand
d shes, with a flower embroidered in
white rearing Its head here and there.
Fancy silks are exceedingly pretty
in petticoats. Some of these are made
of a dotted silk, and others in a bro
cade of a delicate pattern. The silks
are all In one tone. One petticoat of
brocade is of a deep cream, and is
trimmed with a pretty fine lace of a
pale coffee shade. It is a beautiful
skirt.
A peculiar design Is after the stylo
to be seen In tapestries and wall
papers this year, tteld flowers and
stems forming long, straight perpen
dicular lines. In the handkerchiefs
a cluster of the long-stemmed flowers
aro set In one corner, extending up
nearly to the centre of the handker
chief at the side.
Flannel underskirts, skirts of alba
tross and various raaterlnls In which
these skirts come, have many of them
embroidered figures scattered over
them, these lu colors. In some In
stances a flounce Is made around the
skirt of satin ribbon to match the color
ot the embroidery, made with Inser
tions of laeo ,the ribbon and lace put
together horizontally, entre deux.
HOW IT IMPRESSED COLDBERC.
Lectures on Pergonal Hygiene Tliat TVere
Almost Too Successful.
Any one who comes in contact with
the most ignorant of the immigrant
class in this city soon realizes that the
education that is derived from uooks
is only a very small part of what they
need. Teach them to read and write
English, and they are little changed,
except to become rather more self-im
portant; but tench them to wash, and
they are different beings. One teacher
of immigrants had this so firmly im
printed on her mind that she would
look at her large English class and
sigh hopelessly as she tried to plan
how grammar and the art of bathing
could be taught together.
One day she had an inspiration. She
made a little speech to her class on elo
cution. She saitl that to speak good
English a clear pronunciation was in
dispensable, and a clear pronunciation
necessitated a good deal of care of the
teeth and so on. Then she wound up
by saying that she would like to have
the whole class come up to her house
to listen to lectures on elocution.
This done, she secured n lively young
elocutionist and explained her purpose.
"I don't care," she said, "whether you
teach elocution or not. At least three
out of the six lectures I want you to
give must deal entirely with personal
cleanliness. Drag it in by the hair of
its head, but get it in somehow."
The elocutionist Bleed tho idea. The
audience of thirty or forty foreigners
was most attentive. This was to them
a new gate to success. It appeared
that to speak good English and get on
in life one must have a clear enuncia
tion, which required good teeth, which
required daily brushing and general
good health, which in turn required
washing and exercise and open win
dows. By this simple but effective
house-that-Jack-built system the con
spirators could reach anything they
wished to say, and hurt nobody's feel
ings by doing it. The whole thing
was, to the eyes of the class, a part of
the teaching of English composition.
Now, the most attentive listener was,
to the tencher's great content, the dirt,
lest member of the class. Not that he,
poor fellow, was much to blame, or
that teacher or elocutionist felt that
they would hnve been much better
had they his pnst life behind them.
Still, Goldberg was facing Ills opportu
nity now, and, so far as washing of
body or teeth went, he hadn't seized
it.
The class returned to its lessons on
grammar much Improved. Handswere
cleaner, teeth brighter; so the teacher
felt repaid. But Goldberg did not
come back—patient, Industrious, cheer
ful Goldberg—and she wondered what
had happened. Some two or three
weeks later he appeared, still patient,
but with an nir of subdued triumph
and somehow oddly changed. Tho
teacher welcomed him, and asked why
he had not appeared before.
"I vas busy," he explained.
"Too busy to learn English?" she
queried,
"Vas trying to be able to speak good
English," he explained, and suddenly
showed by an expansive smile what
was the change that the teacher had
noted. Ills teeth were simply ag
gressive in their brilliancy.
"Why, how fine your teeth look!" ex
claimed the teacher.
"Dentist, he fix 'em," explained Gold
berg, complacently. "Dat vas why I
stayed away."
"He took a fortnight to polish them!"
cried the teacher.
"Pulled 'em all out," said Goldberg.
"All but four in the back!"
He had -been so impressed by the elo
cutionist that he had really had every
tooth in his head but four extracted,
and a complete false set put in.—New
York Tribune.
The Jews' Services to Mankind.
In religion, In philisophy, in com
merce, in the arts, and—let it not be
forgotten by the thoughtless who are
accustomed to regard the Jews as un
patriotic money getters merely —in
every struggle that man has even
made, in any land, under any sun,
since Abram tended Ills (locks, the
Jews liave contributed their full share
to the advancement and the enfran
chisement of mankind. A people with
out a country .they have made all
countries their own. Thay hnve
thriven on persecution and survived
the despotism of blind hatred. They
have, with a tenacity unprecedented,
preserved their racial Integrity while
keeping pace intellectually, morally
and In material prosperity, with man's
utmost progress. In "The Jewish En
cyclopedia," which is the Joint pro
duet of more than 400 scholars, they
have for the first time had full and
fitting representation as a people.—
Frank Putnam, in National Magazine.
School Children as Gardeners.
Scientific gardening is taught in tho
national schools of Sweden and in the
seminaries for the education of na
tional school teachers. There is a
school garden in nearly every rurul
school district in the Kingdom. The
garden Is placed near the schoolhouse,
and the children receive practical in
struction In the cultivation of pluuts,
berries, flowers, herbs, and fruits, the
management of hotbeds, greenhouses,
and so forth. The parishes are re
quired to furnish the necessary ground
for the gardens, and trees and shrubs
are annually given to the children to
bo planted at their homes.
A Peculiar Custom.
In Venice when anyone dies It hi the
custom to fix a placard before the dead
person's house, as well as In adjacent
streets, as a sort of public notice, stat
ing his name, age, place of blrtli and
the illness from which he died; af
firming also that he received the Holy
Sacraments, died a good Christian and
requesting the prayers of the faith
ful.
WHEN CINDA SWEEPS;
When Cinda sews, within the lamp's clear
beam.
Just mellowed by a shade of porcelain
white,
Around her chestnut head soft shadows
dream.
Spun bv the elfin fingers of the night.
The moths, with silvery wings, come wa
vering in
The open door, through which some late
red rose
Pours fragrance rich; and all is calm and
fair
When Cinda sews.
When Cinda bakes, what odors as from
isles
Of clove and citron float unon the air.
And in the pantry—Oh, what witching
piles
Of crusty rolls and frosted tarts arc
there!
A dream of far-off eastern light and
warmth
In some strange wise, she mingles in her
calces;
Some subtle atmosphere th kitchen fills
When Cinda bakes.
When Cinda sweeps—Ah me! The dismal
tale
Is almost more than my poor pen can
tell.
The cloudy waves and billows that do sail
About my ears, my spirits crush and
quell.
Poor Cupid drops his arrows right and
left
Distractedly; the muse turns blue and
weeps,
And sniffing, flies away to dry her eyes.
When Cinda sweeps.
—Hattie Whitney, in Good Housekeeping.
■Ji rimes
omm I
Hook—"I hear you were quite tnkeu
with Molly." Nye—"Well, we were
photographed together."
.Were I the weather prophet
When the storms began to brew,
I'd keep predicting sunshine
Till it finally came true.
—Washington Star.
He—"They say, dear, that people
who live together get to look alike."
She—"Then you must consider my re
fusal as final."—Tit-Bils.
The Bishop—"Wouldn't you like to be
boru again, little girl?" The Child—
"No, ther; I wath born in Botbton the
very firth time!"— Puck.
"Our friend Butely over there says
Nature intended him for a poet."
"Oh, pshaw! Nature never had such
bad intentions as that."—Judge.
Nell—"She carries her passion for
remnants to an absurd extreme."
Belle—"Yes, she has even married a
widower."—Philadelphia Record.
If at first you don't succeed,
Try, try again;
There are other friends to bleed
For five or ten.
—Philadelphia Record.
"Blanche's papa paid a round million
for her count," said Miss Flypp. "She
always said she wouldn't marry a
cheap man," udded Miss Kittish.—De
troit Free Press.
Tess—"l accepted Jaek Timmid last
night!" Jess—"O! I'm so glad." Tess
—"Are you, really?" Jess—"Yes, I bet
him a box of gloves that you would."—
Philadelphia Press.
Wigg—"l hear your friend the under
taker has been adjudged Insane."
Wagg—"Yes, poor fellow; I'm afraid
his case Is hopeless. He Is trying to
discover an elixir of life."
Consulting Physician—"Do you
think the patient can stand an opera
tion?" Fumily Doctor—"Can he stand
it? Why, my dear sir, the man is a
millionaire."—Town Topics.
Mistress—"Now, remember, Bridget,
the Joneses are coming for dinner to
night." Cook—"Leave it to me, mum.
I'll do me worst! They'll never trouble
yea again!"— Harper's Bazar.
Wigg—"Bjones would rather argue
tliuu eat." Wagg—"Yes; and the most
surprising part of it is that he can
make the other fellow believe he un
derstands his own arguments."
Impecunious Lover—"Be mine,
Amanda, and you will be treated like
au angel." Wealthy Maiden—"Yes, I
suppose so. Nothing to eat and less
to wear. No, thank you."—Tit-Bits.
Grntu From Semi-Arid Region.
Eiuuier is the name of a species of
wheat which tho Department of Agri
culture is recommending for introduc
tion in this country, particularly for
cultivation in the semi-arid regions
of the West. The seeds are being ob
tained from Russia, where several
provinces raise large quantities of this
graiu. In Abyssinia several varieties
ure grown at au altitude of OUOO to
POOL) feet. Almost all varieties of ('tu
rner are drough-resißtent, and equally
winter hardy. The uses of etnmer are
yet in an experimental stage in this
country, but the Judications so far are
that it will become a regular and val
uable crop for stock feeding. Emrner
is being used extensively ut the ag
ricultural experiment stntious for im
proving ordinary wheat. General
vigor and hardiness are inbred by its
use. These features ure exhibited iu
resistance to fungus attacks, drought
resistance, luereased fertility of tho
head, nou-shutteriug, stiffness of the
Gtraw and increase of gluten content
of the graiu.
To Itlako Usury a Cilitis.
The Judielnry Committee of tho
Georgia House of Delegates has decid
ed to report favorably a bill providing
that it sbull be a misedeunor to charge
more thun twenty-five per cent, per an
num on any loan whatever. A number
of pawnbrokers uud money lenders
appeared before the committee in op
position to the bill, but it was decided
unanimously to report it favorably.
Two of the members of the commit
tee made strong arguments in favor of
the bill, showing how some of the
money lenders are charging from 100
to 1000 per cent, on loans to the poor
people.—Baltimore Sun.
OLD HIDDEN TREASURE FOUND.
Gold Worth 87000 In n Shanty Near Roy
niton, N. ¥.
Gold nuggets and fine gold dust
Worth $"000 were found a few days
ago by 77enry Freeshe, a farm hand,
in the attic of an old shanty on the
Barker Pond, north of Royalton, N.
Y. The building was being remod
eled to be used as a barn. The gold
was stored in an old wooden box
about two feet square. Mice had
made a nest in the chest, the side of
which had become rotten long ago.
The finding of the treasure recalls
the interesting history of the late ec
centric eld hermit, George Hoffman,
who left Niagara County back in the
fifties to seek the precious yellow met
al in California. According to old
residents he went to the gold fields
soon after he was married. His bride
remained in the East. He was in Cal
ifornia for three years, and during that
time he did not write to his wife, who,
believing he had perished, left Nia
gara and went back to her home in
Ohio. It is said that she is still liv
ing near Cleveland, and an effort is
being made to find her.
Hoffman cam 3 back in 1850 with a
fortune. No one knew at the time that
he had found the gold he sought, but
it is supposed that the new-found
treasure was brought back from Cal
ifornia by him. Its existence can bo
accounted for in no other way.
When Hoffman returned he sought
out his wife in the Buckeye State,
but she would not come back to West
em New York with him, probably ow
ing to his eccentricities. It is said
that ho told her he had met with no
luck in the West. Until his death he
lived in the old sliauty on the Barker
Road, a hermit and a miser, tilling a
small farm for a living. He died in
ISO", and since then the shanty has
been deserted. The property belonged
to the Freeshes, Hoffman having
rented it for fifty bushels of potatoes
a year.
The old hermit was known for miles
around as the "bogie man," and his
name was used to strike terror to the
hearts of disobedient children in the
town. It is said that he gained a rep
utation in the West as a bad man who
was altogether too handy with a gun.
Many of the stories concerning his
past, however, consist merely of gos
sip, and are the products of the imag
ination of these who knew him. The
Freeshes are well-to-do farmers. They
declare they will not make an effort
to keep the gold if Hoffman's legal
representatives claim it. So, if Mrs.
Hoffman can be found, she will not
have to carry the matter into court.—
Hew York Times.
Little Elsie's Vlov.
Little Elsie, aged three, is ever on
the lookout fcr a chance to add to her
vocabulary by listening- to the remarks
of her elders.
Not far from that place in the Cats
kills where she and her mother spent
the summer months was a point of
rocks Jutting out from the mountain
side, easy enough of access from the
rear, but in front a sheer precipice of
200 or 3CO feet. Elsie had been to the
spot several times, and while her pro
tectors looked off in the distance and
pointed here and there she always
heard them say something about "the
view."
When her father came up for one of
his over-Sunday visits, he, of course,
had to be taken around to see the va
rious attractions of the locality, and
finally came to the point of rocks. He
ventured out pretty close to the edge,
when Elsie, a few feet behind him,
piped up, in a tone of warning and
with not a little pride in grasping the
opportunity for her new word: "Look
out, papa. Don't det too close or
you'll fail off into the view."—New
York Times.
Earl I.! the Richest Mnl ,
Li Hung Chang was called the rich
est man in the world. This assertion
is easier made than proved, for nobody
knows lirw rich he was. His fortune
may certainly bo counted by millions
cf dollars, but how many millions Is
purely conjectural. It is enough to
say that he was very wealthy, and he
accumulated nearly the whole of his
fortune by taking advantage of his
opportunities and making opportuni
ties during his long service as Viceroy
of Nanking and Pe-Chl-Li.
One way in which Li for many years
made an enormous sum of money was
to use thousands of soldiers in his own
private enterprise without paying
them a cent for their labor. In the
course of time he purchased extensive
estates in the rice growing regions,
and raised more bushels of rice every
year than the bonanza farmers of
North Dakota used to raise of wheat.
He got his labor for nothing, and Ills
great crop of rice was almost clear
profit. He simply turned his soldiers
loose in :;he rice fields and they had
to be content with the rations and the
miserable pittance paid to them by
the Government.—New York Tribune.
Our Unit of Valne.
The real, actual unit of value in the
United States is the silver quarter.
The dime is out of place. In the bar
you get two drink for a quarter. One
ciga.r for ten cents seems plebian, so
you take two for a quarter. In tho res
taurant you are ashamed to give the
waiter a ten-cent tip and cannot afford
to give hi- j a quarter, but moral cow
ardice drives you to let him have the
quarter. The quarter is the most beau
tiful silver coin in the world. It is of
the most convenient size. Mix up a lot
of dimes, nickels and copper cents in
your pocket and your sense of touch
balks at distinguishing between them.
You must haul out a handful of "chick
en feed'" for visual identification. A
quarter you can tell from anything
\by the "feel." A half-dollar Is too
much like the gold eagle.—New York
Press.
ARMY POST AN ISSUE.
Des Moines Citizens Provide a Site,
but Council Blocks It.
It is probable that the question of a
United Statets army post may be a
considerable factor in the Des Moines
city election campaign next spring.
The business men of the city nearly
a year ago contributed the funds nec
essary to purchase a site for the post,
but the city council dallies. One condi
tion the government insists on before
establishing the post is that the city
shall annex the territory comprising
the proposed site. It is generally de
sired that the post bo inside the city,
in order that the more stringent mu
nicipal authorities may prevent the
gathering of resorts about the govern
ment property.
The Glasgow Student.
His life is plain and hard, and rath
er poor in color. His class at Ba. m.
calls him early from Ills bed —how
early he who comes to It by train
from the suburbs will tell you. And
what, after all, comes he out for to
see? The tardy moon lighting him
up the college hill, the windy quad
rangle all dark, the lighted class room
windows, a brisk janitor selling the
college nugazlne, the college bell, clat
tering for five short minutes after the
hour has struck, its suddon stop, the
scramble of men to enter while yet
there is time, the roll call, the lecture,
the bent heads of the note takers, the
scraping their anxious feet lest a
word be missed, the rustling of a
sporting paper, the smell of wet water
proof in the hot air, the intoler:-i'>lo
dreichness of (let us Bay) the con
veyancing statutes, and then —happy
release! —the college clock booming
out the hour, and once more the rain
and wind in the quadrangle. No hand
some reward this for early rising!
Classes meet all day long from 8 a.
m. till 5:30 p. m.; and, if our friend
has a spare hour, and is eager for
work, he goes across to the gaunt,
warm reading room, where a comnidq
with a "call" may invite him to defend
everlasting as against eternal punish
ment, or another with a foible for
jokes, may, in absent-mindedness tell
him the same story thrice in 60 min
utes.
Porto Rico's Library Plans.
According to recommended plans
the Carnegie Library building for San
Juan, P. R., which is to cost $60,000,
will be two stories high, 75 feet wide,
fronting on Piaza Colon ai/.l 50 feet
deep. The second iloor will be de
signeed as an assembly hall, the first
floor will be provided with shelves
for 100,000 books, and in the basement
it is designed to arrange two reading
rooms, one of which shall be for chil
dren.
ENCKE'S COMET A HERALD.
Has Appeared Before the Assassina
tion of Three Presidents.
Encko's comet has heralded the
death by assassination of three Presi
dents of the United States. President
Lincoln was assassinated on April 15,
1865; Eneke's comet appeared Janu
-25, 1865, and was visible five months.
President Garfield was the victim of
the assassin's onslaught on July 2,
1881, and died September 19; Enr! e's
comet appeared August 20, 1881, and
was visible to the naked eye. Presi
dent McKinley was attacked on Sep
tember 6, and died September 14,
1901; Eneke's comet appeared on Au
gust 15, 1901, and was visible for sev
eral weeks.
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The Japanese earthquake of 1703 was
the most destructive on record. It killed
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There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put togethor,
and until tho last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For a great many years doctor#
pronounced it a local disease and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced it in
curable. Science has proven catarrh to bo a
constitutional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney ,V Co., Toledo,
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on tho
market. It is taken internally in doses from
10 drops to u teaspoonful. It acts directly on
tho blood and mncous surfaces of the system.
They offer ono hundred dollars for any cas®
It fails to euro. Send for circulars and testi
monials. Address F.J.CHENEY A Co.,Toledo,o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are tho best.
There are 165,000 Britons living in
the United Kingdom at present who
were born in the colonies.
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est cough remedy ever
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