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SERVANTS IN GERMANY.
Their L.ct is Not a Happy One—Poor
Pay and Long Hours.
Maid servants who complain of
their lot and pant forever to go out
walking with their young men, should
know what has just been elicited by
statistics about the condition of their
class in Germany. Wages in Germany
were always low. Then these women
have no rights; their employes may
do pretty well what they please. If
a girl leaves her place before the time
specified she risks a fine; if she re
fuses a plgce after having accepted
it, she is liable to be fined, and, per
haps, get five days' imprisonment.
Few of the servants have a room to
themselves: many of them sleep any
where—in the bath room, the passage,
or In the kitchen. Others inhabit gar
rets where the roof slopes so that
they cannot stand upright. Sometimes
the window only opens on to the stair
case or into another room. In some
places the sleeping apartments can
only he reached by a ladder. Occa
sionally two or more sleep in the
same room, which is also used for the
storing of old things, lumber, dirty
linen, etc. Certainly, the condition
of servants in the United States con
trasts very favorably with those of
Germany; in addition, the hours of
work are less, and no judge would
dare reply as a Prussian did to a
maid servant who complained she
was made to work 19 hours a day.
"The Great Frederick only indulged
in five hours' sleep, and his servant
6at up till 11 at night."
In I'raise of Insects as Food.
Admitting that it becomes argu
mentatively impossible to eat a cut
let, humanity may still be saved from
ihe extremes of a vegetarian diet. A
French entomologist, M. Dagin. has
discovered a half-way house, which
iie cordially recommends in the shape
of insect food. He speaks on the
subject with authority, "having tasted
peveral hundred species of raw. boiled,
fried, broiled, roasted and hashed in
sects." Regarding spiders as a side
dish, he finds two objections—"they
are not insects, and they live on ani
mal food." M. Dagin's recipe for cock
roach soup is as follows: "Pound
your cockroaches in a mortar; put in a
sieve and pour in boiling water or beef
stock. Connoisseurs prefer this to real
bisque." The perfect insect, he con
tinues, in most appetizing style, may
be shelled and eaten like a shrimp.
Caterpillars are pronounced a light
food, of easy digestion, and may be
paten "out of the hand," raw if pre
ferred. But the most popular insect
food of all is locust flour, which the
Bedouins take boiled in milk or fried
and served with rice. We remember a
pertain "Garibaldi biscuit," which al
ways suggested an inside layer of
squashed flies.
Ill* Miraculous Escape.
For four days and four nights in the
depths of the earth, wandering in abso
lute darkness through winding gorges,
crawling on hands and knees through
elimy passages in the jagged rocks,
halting at times on the brink of awful
precipices, growing faint from hunger
and almost crazy from hardships
which he was forced to endure —these
are u few of the experiences that befell
Capt Caleb Johnson, a Mississippi
river pilot, when he attempted recent
ly 10 explore the mysteries of Dead
Man's cave at St. Genevieve, just
across the river from Red Bud, 111.
But with all of Capt. Johnson's ex
periences the cave remains as much a
mystery as ever, for he was without
light for most of the way, and has no
idea to-day he far or where he wan
dered. He only knows that he entered
the cave in Slums' hollow, on the bank
of the river, on Monday morning, anil
that on Thursday afternoon a farmer
found him in a sinkhole on his farm
four miles from the entrance. Nothing
was, therefore, accomplished, save,
perhaps, to take away the superstition
that no one could go into the cave and
come out alive.
A Bottomless Oil Tank.
A primitive process that is a mar
vel of old-time ingenuity is the Rus
sian method of storing petroleum. Nc
strong and expensive iron tank i y
built; instead, a bottomless tank of
cheap sheet iron is suspended in water
on piles, the top projecting a foot or
so above water level. The tank is
filled through a pipe passing to its
center, the water sinking as the oil
enters. The plan has other advant
ages besides inexpensivenessj for if
the oil should take fire some- of it may
be drawn off from the bottom and as
there is only water at the bottom sand
and dirt do not accumulate in the
tank.
INDIVIDUALISM.
Each man, a world—to other worlds half
known-
Turns on a tinv nxi9 of his own;
His full life orbit is a pathway dim
To brother planets that revolve with him.
—William 11. Hayne, in McCiure's.
I MISS KATE. {
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I BY JEAN E. SosinitTox.
Slender, but not slim, with soft,
hazel eyes and long lashes, pale com
plexion, light brown hair, with liero
and there a strand of gray, not pretty
but attractive looking, simple in man
ner, speech and dress —that was Miss
Kate.
That she was an old maid was be
yond dispute. Her most intimate friend
would not have denied it if he could;
though for the matter of that he
could not, belonging, as he did, to the
feline species, and not being blessed
with the power of speech. She was
"turned" 35 if she was a day, and the
most hopeful of that social scourge as
match makers had long since
scratched her name off their list of
possibilities.
Miss Kate lived in lier own cottage,
and the lawn in front of it was the
neatest in Grantley, as the little par
lor inside was tlio tidiest. The eat
that monopolized the hearth rug in the
parlor of evenings was as sleek as
could be, and exceptionally well be
haved. The furniture was old-fash
ioned, hut the easy chairs were com
fortable, and the room certainly had a
cozy appearance.
That Miss Kate had a good lipart
and a kind one I can vouch for, and so
could many a barefooted lad and many
an overworked factory girl. There
was no Sunday school teacher in
Grantley as beloved by her scholars,
and they all knew the flavor of her fa
mous cookies.
I was not surprised to hear one day
that Miss Kate had had a hit of ro
tnance in her life that the younger
generation had never heard of and the
older ones had nearly forgotten. There
had been a certain handsome young
man who l.ad courted her in the old
days and not unsuccessfully. He had
been practicing law for three or four
years and his prospects were bright.
He was genial in Ms manner, hut
proud to a fault. He was tall and
broad shouldered, had very-black hair
and eyes to match.
He had never been a lady's man, and
despite the fact that many jaunty caps
were set for him, ho had not responded
until he met Kate Morton at a church
festival. From that evening he war a
determined wooer ,and although she
did not apparently reciprocate at
first, his youth, good looks and a win
ning tongue were finally successful.
So at last she loved him in return —
and the gossips began to wonder when
the day would he set and to surmise
among themselves that it had been ser
and was still a secret. Whether it
really had or had not hen Seth Gray
knew and Miss Kate knew, hut the
gossips never found out.
Of the matrimonially inclined young
ladies who had set their caps for Seth
Gray before tue fateful church festi
val, none had set them so art
fully and hopefully as Barbara
Alartin. She was a pretty girl,
with sparkling black eyes and
wont to deck out in the gayest colors
and ribbons imaginable. She had
Spanish blood in her veins, and was
proud of it, and proud of her temper,
too. Although Seth had never paid
her any serious attention, she had ap
peared atraetive to him until he met
Kate. If it had not been tor that there
is no telling what might have hap
pened.
Miss Martin was not a young lady
to submit to a total eclipse calmly,
and one day, about the time that the
gossips had setled it satisfactorily,
among themselves that the day had
finally been set, she came to the con
ciusion that matters had progressed
far enough, and made an afternoon
call on her successful rival. She left
her pretty airs and graces at home
with her gay ribbons that day, and
was a sad enough figure when her
hostess ushered her into the parlor—
the same little parlor, although Miss
Kate's mother was living then, and it
was brighter to her then it was in
after years.
Barbara Martin told licr story well,
and wept seemingly hitter tears over
it. She told "now Seth Gray had wooed
and won and had promised to marry
her, and how the day had been named,
and how he had kept up the cruel de
ception ever after lie met Kate her
self, and how heartlessly ho had finally
thrown her over and laughed at her.
Then, when she saw that the girl at
her side appeared sorely troubled, she
became remorseful and vowed that she
ought not to have told her. Then sho
grew hysterical and railed against all
men, and despised herself for an idiot
to have trusted one qf them.
Her audlor was very quiet through
it all. but Barbara Martin knew that
her shaft had been a straight one, and
went home exulting. After she had
gone. Kate did what many another
girl in her place would have done; she
had a hard cry. She did not tell her
mother. She could not have told any
ime. She hated to think that even
Barbara Martin knew the man sho
loved, in such an altered light, but the
mere fact of thinking of him softened
her and she hoped—ay, in tho loyalty
of her heart she trusted —that Seth
had been misunderstood.
There suould be no misunderstand
ing between them. She determined to
tell him that evening, when he called,
all that she had heard. But tangled
through her trouble was a sore Reeling
of disappointment that Seth could
have even carelessly trifled with an
other girl, and the feeling - , too. of un
conscious jealously in the thought that
he had prolonged the farce after lie
had began wooing of herself. It was
a feeling akin to resentment against
him, in justice to herself.
When he entered the parlor a few
hours later, he knew at once that
something was wrong and Kate did
not leave him long in doubt. She told
him the whole story, only withholding
the name of her informant. She kept
back her tears, too, and the effort
made her voice hard. She waited for
him to speak when she had finished,
and if they had been siting nearer to
each other would have touched liis
hand.
I said that Seth Gray was proud, and
if ever a proud man was humiliated
that man was himself. No other proof
than her own voice could have mado
him think that this young woman
couhl believe for a moment such a
base falsehood against his manhood.
'l'll'' f< eling of deep injury and indig
nation was uppermost in his mind.
Without a word lie rose and turned
to go. At the door he paused an in
stant to look at her; then there was a
quick, firm step 011 the gravel walk,
the gate shut noisily, and he was gone.
From that night Kate never saw Seth
Gray again.
Never saw him again? How many
times she saw him in that, doorway,
when the cat was purring contentedly
on the rug and the little earthenware
teapot was singing cheerfully on the
hearth, only Miss Kate knew. How
many times that last reproachful
glance looked in upon her during the
lonely nights of the long years that
folowed, when the whole bitter truth
was hefoye her, only Miss Kate knew.
How utterly dreary the tidy little par
lor was at times during the long, long
hours when the thought of that last
night came back to her; how often the
soft gray eyes wept bitterly when she
thought of the wrong that she had
done him, and that she could never
undo now. Miss Kate and only Miss
Kate knew.
And that was the story of her ro
mance. A lato train, westbound, car
ried Scth Gray away that night. She
lived her life as best she could, and be
fore her little world the thorns in her
path were trodden unflinchingly.
Whenever a woman's hand was need
ed, there was Miss Kate; wherever
eliatirable duties was the hardest, in
the coldest winters, among the worst
class of people; there was Miss Kate;
and although her purse was not a
large one it was open constantly.
1 think that it was this constant do
ing of good, this never ceasing heal
ing of bodies, minds and hearts, that
kept the hat.l lines off her face, even
when the early gray strands glisten
ed in her brown hair.
If there was 0110 weakness for which
she had no compassion. It was tho
weakness of drunkenness. If there
were any medicants that left her door
epipty handed, they were those who
went there with the fumes of alcohol
on the breath. Truly the drunlmrd in
her eyes was detestable.
And so the summers and the win
ters pased until the time came when
Miss Kate had become an old maid be
yond dispute. New lives came into
the little town and old lives went out.
Girls in pinafores and small boys in
trousers grew to be women and men,
married and set up for themselves;
but to Miss Kate one year was but a
repetition of another and it sometimes
seemed to her that she was contin
ually going around in a circle that had
long since become monotonous.
If Mis Kate ever thought that she
might have made her life happier, she
guraded the thought well; and if the
smiling matrons ever occasioned the
slightest envy in her breast, they
could as easily have learned it from
the exterior of the neat cottage as
from its prime mistress.
One wintery March morning she
started out. with a basket on her arm,
to visit a sick family, and she noticed
a small crowd of men and boys a short
distance from her gate. The gibes
that reached her ears and the incoher
ent profanity that followed, told her
that a drunken man was the center of
tne group.
She knew that she would be obliged
to pass them, but with the determina
tion not to be detered from her pur
pose by such an unworthy cause, she
held her head a trifle higher, involun
tarily di'ew her skirts closer about her.
and walked on. As she neared the
gioup she saw that the man was reel
ing; he was a wretched looking creat
ure, with unkempt, beard and much
worn clothing. She gave him one look
and the basket dropped from her arm.
She walked straight up to him, laid
her hand on his frayed sleeve and led
him to her own gate, up the gravel
walk and into the old parlor, which
was looking very comfortable this cold
morning.
She cried over him and bathed his
face with cold water, and finally cook
ed him the daintiest breakfast imagin
able. Who would have thonght it cf
Miss Kate? And what would the peo
ple say? Little she cared for Mrs.
Grundy then! Notwithstanding her
tears, there was not a lighter heart in
the world that day than hers.
If there had been one bright spot in
her lonely life, it had been the hope of
this return; and as the years came
and went she havl sometimes felt that
sho > was hoping against hope. And
now he had come back. What did it
matter how he had come? lie had
come and that was enough.
At first Seth was dazed and insen
sible to his suroundlngs, but when the
breakfast was brought into him he
ate like a hungry man. Miss Kate,
wise woman that she was. had boiled
some black coffee, so strong that Us
very aroma might have had a sobering
influence, and when Seth had drank
two big cups of it, he began to look
around him. The little parlor had not
changed so very much in all those
years, and remembering how he had
landed in Grantly the night before, it
began to dawn upon him where he
really was. Then his eyes rested on
Miss Kate and he knew it all.
He buried his face in his hands and
sobbed. But the arms of a woman
were about the worn coat, and the
tired head was on her breast, and the
uncombed hair was anointed with her
tears.
• Did they marry? What a question!
Of eoijrse they did! Seth Gray was
not a habitual drunkard. He reform
ed, and with reiormation came health
and success. There never was a bet
ter husband, and the happiest wife ia
Grantly is—Miss Kate. Waverley
Magazine.
FARMING IN JAPAN.
Crude Implement* Still I*©U in Cltl
ratl n? tlie Soil'
Twenty-seven hundred b ears before
Christ the Emperor of China intro
duced a system of agriculture into his
country. The soil had always been
cultivated in an inferior way,
but this enterprising ruler saw
the need of other methods, and
made every effort to enforce their
general adoption. In order to
impress the matter upon the peas
ants he plowed a small plot of land
and sowed it with the five most im
portant cereals. For this 110 was de
fied after his death and made god of
the crops. For more than 4,000 years
the rulers of the empire have followed
his example in the matter of plowing
and sowing.
When these new modes of cultiva
tion had been well established, and
every hillside and valley were smiling
ready lor harvest, the islands of Japan
became known to China and they sent
their missionary priest over to tills
country. They took with them the
entire civilization of China —the ir arts,
sciences, philosophy, industries, and
among the later their well-tested
methods of 'enriching the soil.
The Japanese farmer had many dis
advantages that made the process of
better cultivation very difficult. The
entire country is of volcanic forma
tion, and only one-twelfth of the land
is sufficiently flat to admit of farming.
Added to this the soil itself is natu
ually of a very poor quality amj re
quires special treatment both by ways
of enriching and irrigation. The great
est advantage of the farmer is the
fact that he has divided the land into
very small sections. Perhaps it
would be more accurate to say that
extreme poverty makes it impossible
for a farmer to possess more than a
good-sized potato patch. At any rate,
the smallness of the farm 3 has its
advantages, and the toil of the farmer
of today is not to be mentioned when
compared with that of his ancestors,
who took the virgin soil in all its pov
erty and lavished no end of energy
and strength to bring it up to its pres
ent producing capacity. Yes, the
farmer of today has entered Into a
rich heritage of hills already terraced
and plains finely irrigated, represent
ing the patient, steady toil of many
centuries.
The first turning of the soil on a
woll-conductcd plot is done by a crule
plow harnessed to a bullock or horse, j
usually the former. A crooked piece |
of wood forms the central feature of 1
this ancient •structure. To one end is j
attached a sharp blade, ana 10 tne
other a crossbeam, used for the double
purpose of tethering the bullock,
which is harnessed with indescribable
rope trappings, and also furnishing a
means by which the farmer may guide*
the plow. After this sort of plowing
the soil is loosened by a long-handled
spade and the process of planting be
gins.
The crude manner r.f the prepara
tion of the soil is of little moment
when compared with the harvesting.
The sickle is scarcely larger than a
curved breadknife, and upon this the
farmer depends for gathering every
thing that is not uprooted.—Spring
field (Ohio) Farm and Fireside.
Fpp<l of tlio Carrier Pigeon.
Some years ago Griffit made some j
observations (recorded in the Field.
February 19. 1§87.) in a closed gallery |
on the speed atained by "blue-rock" |
pigeons and English pheasants and
partridges. The two first mentioned j
flew at the rate of only 32.8 miles per j
hour, while the partridge made but 25.4 ;
miles, and these rates were all con |
siderably in excess of what they made I
in the open. The carrier pigeon is ;
rather a fast-flying bird, yet the aver
age speed is not very great. Thus, the |
average made in eighteen matches,
(The Field, January 22, 1857,) was I
only 3G English miles an hour, al j
though in two of these trials a speed ;
of about 53 miles was maintained for .
four successive hours. In this coun-1
try the average racing speed is appar ]
ently about 35 miles an hour, although j
a few exceptionally rapid birds have
made short distance flights at the rate j
of at from 45 to 52 miles an hour. The ■
longest record flight of a carrier pig !
eon was from Pensacola. Florida, to 1
Fall River, Mass., an air-line distance j
of 1,1 S3 miles, made in 15 1-2 days, or 1
only about 70 miles a day.
The Exploration of Kentucky.
The country now called Kentucky
was well known to the Indian traders,'
many years before its settlement. It.
fanvever, remained unexplored by the
\lrginians till the year 1709, when:
Colonel Daniel Boone and a few oth j
ers, who conceived it to be an inter- I
esting object, undertook a journey for
that purpose. After a long, fatiguing
march over a mountain wilderness In
a westerly direction, they at length ar- i
rived upon its borders, and from the
top of an eminei.ee "saw with pleasure
the beautiful level of Kentucke."
GRANDER WASHINGTON.
CAPITAL TO BECOME THE WORLD'S
MOST BEAUTIFUL CITY.
Tlio Attainment of tlio Idenl* of the
foundcm at La*t in Sight Projects
for t ike ( Development of Every PIIHHO
of tlio I eiieral Capital's Equipment*
When a little less than a year ago
tlio senate directed its district com
mittee to consider the question of de
veloping the park system of the cap
ital the hope was born in the breasts
of progressive Washingtonians who
had labored for years for the attain
ment of the ideals of the founders of
the Federal city that at last achieve
ment was within sight. As the scope
of te work undertaken by the commit
tee and the personnel of the commis
sion of experts it created became
known this hope was brightened into
a belief.
Now that the commission has fin
ished its task and its report has been
laid before the senate with the warm
approval of the committee itself there
is no longer reason to fear that, the
old hap-hazard, hit-or-miss methods
of capita] making will be followed.
These reports, though not yet adopted
by congress,* or, given form in legis
lation even in part, may be regarded
as the new foundation stones of the
Washington that is to become the
world's most beautiful city.
Broad and comprehensive, respect
ful of the principles underlying the
original plans of the founders yet dar
ing in the proposal of new projects in
harmony with the old, regardful of
only the single precept to make the
most of Washington's opportunities
for beauty and impressiveness, the
plans contemplate a treatment of
parks, buildings, driveways, memori
als, water front and lakes which can
not be duplicated elsewhere in the
world with the same splendid effect.
They recognize the exceptional facili
ties for adornment afforded by the
site of the capital flanked by two large
streams and buttressed by noble hills.
The marvel is that the progressive,
patriotic men who have been coming
to the halls of congress for the past
century have not more clearly recog
nized the possibilities lying in the way
of the capital makers, have not turned
their energies resolutely to the task
of utilizing thera to the full, have not
rescured the grand original plan from
its repressive, inharmonious setting
which the negligence and indifferent
"practicality" of generations has pro
duced. But many great questions have
demanded solution during the trying
decades of national building and pres
ervation and expansion, and the capi
tal. regarded as the mere house ac
commodating the developing machin
ery of the government, has had to
grow hap hazard, caring for itself in
infancy and in youth and middle age.
Now the Washington of ripe years
is to he at last recognized by the na
tion. Its character as the centre cf
national activity, the expression of
national thought and ideals, is to be
established. It must be grand and
beautiful, else it will fall short of tlio
American standards. Where now it
is tawdry and shows the signs of the
make shift expediency of the past, it
must be given artistic strength. Where
neglect has permitted incongruities to
crowd the very shadows of the great
structures of governmental need, it
must he made harmoniously true in
every detail and in all places.
The park commission has wisely
conceived its mission one of more than
mere landscape gardening. It has
proposed projects for the develop
ment of every phase of the capital's
equipment. The mall is to be cleared
of its incumbrances and given new
and beautiful features of artistic
adornment. A great memorial to Lin
coin is to stand at an axial point,-com
manding the approaches to the me
morial bridge. Potomac Park and a
great park driveway leading into the
Rock Creek valley. This valley is to
be reclaimed from its deplorable state,
to become a beauty spot and a means
of access to the two great parks above.
Series of driveways wil permit con
tinuous communication between a
chain of large public reservations,
along scenes of artistic landscape gar
dening and passing handsome public
structures. The miasmatic Anacostia
is to become a water and land park,
affording pleasure and recreation tothe
people where now it poisons them. Po
tomac park is to blossom into a place
of beauty and public enjoyment. The
river fropt, now disgracefully shabby,
wil become neat and attractive. Tho
city will be girdled by drives an.l
parks which cannot be elsewhere ap
proached for extent or utility, or beau
ty, or accessibility. At the very doors
of all the people will lie expanses cf
space filled with trees and flowers and
lawns to delight the eye and lefresh
I. he soul and body.
011 this great system of parks a
comprehensive scheme of public build
ings will be based, permitting practi- j
tally endless extension and unlimited I
development as the government's j
needs increase. The capitol grounds ;
are to be flanked only by public build- i
lugs, while around Lafayette square '
will arise a great series of beautiful j
structures, giving in themselves a dis- 1
tinctive character to Washington as a j
centre of American art and architec
ture. The great triangle between
Pennsylvania avenue and the mall
will be eventually ocupied in part by
buildings of national and municipal
uses, surrounded by park approaches
and giving a new character to the
southern side of the capital's grandest
street and great historic parade
ground. Recreation grounds are to be
provided near the water, where mod
ern public bathing facilities will be
afforded. Places are designated for
structures of memorial art which pos
terity may plan as occasions arise, the
general scheme to be harmonious and
effective.
Two chief points are to be borne in
mind in appraising the work of tho
park commission. It was instrumen
tal in securing an ideal solution of the
railroad problem to give Washington
a monumental union station in a place
where it will blond with Ihe other
great public improvements, find it lias
established the principle of mcantain
ing artistic as well as a practical rela
tionship between the architectural and
the landscape features of the capital.
The new plan, modernizing and sup
plementing the original project of
L'Enfant, wil become the guide to all
future improvements. By adopting
this scheme now, leaving its compo
nents to be worked out in detail as
necessities and opportunities arise,
congress will demonstrate its foresight
and its wisdom as well as its intelli
gent pride in the national capital.- 1
Washington Evening Star.
THE TINT OF THE PEARL.
•*..
How tlio Venetian* Put It Upon the
Clan* Heads Tliey Make.
"You would hardly think," said a
dealer in fancy goods as he held up a
string of glass heads, each as big as a
cherry, made in imitation pearls, says
the New York Times, "that to put tho
pearl tint and luster on each one of
these little globes tlio lives of at least
15 beautiful fish had to he sacrificed,
would you? But such is the fact, and
although the heads are made in Ven
ice and this string of them represents
a catch of at least 500 of these fish and
the exhaustion of a good many cubic
feet of glass blowers' breath, i can sell
it to you for 25 cents and make a
fair profit.
"They have been turning out beads
such as these in Venice for nearly two
centuries and a half. In the Adriatic
lives a fish called the bleak, but why
they named it bleak I can't see, for
there is certainly nothing bleak about
its appearance.
"It is a graceful fish, probably of
the carp family, and has a glistening
armor of silver scales. The fish ar®
more prolific than the herring, which
has been a good thing for them. One
day in 165G an observant citizen of
Venice, with a turn for investigating
things, his name Salvador 'Jacquin,
placed a number of bleak in an acqua
rium that he might take note of their
habits. After they had been in the ac
quarium some time bo saw that the
water took on a pearly hue.
"Believing that this was communi
cated by washings from the scales of
the fish, the Venetian observer experi
mented. He found that water could .
be so densely charged with tho tint
from the fish scales that glass, when
dipped into it and allowed to dry, had
al! the outward hues of a pearl. He
coated glass beads with the substance,
and the counterfeits were readily ac- -i
cepted as genuine pearls.
"The coating of these beads, it was
found, though, had but slight resist
ance to friction and soon disappeared
from the surface of tho beads. As
sured that a large and profitable de
mand for them would result if he could
fix the pearly lustre on the beads so it
would defy friction, Jaequin conceived
the idea of having the globes blown
hollow and then attaching the fish
scale solution to the inner surface.
This was a success from the start, and
the glass pearl business got its first
boom.
"It requires tho scales of -1000 bleaic
to make half a pint of the liquid pearl.
The fish are more easily caught than
our menhaden. The scales are re
moved and soaked in tepid water.
"Tho utility of the liquid was im
proved some years ago by the addition
of a small quantity of sal ammoniac
and isingless to it. These gave it a
closer and firmer sot to the glass and
increased the lustre. The liquid is
introduced inside the hollow glass
bead by means of a small tube, and
when it is dry a coating of transpar
ent wax is inn over it.
"Fortunately for the race of bleaks,
the trade in these beads, pretty and
cheap as they are, is not so alarmingly
large that extinction pf the yieiders of
the pearl tint is imminent. There are
apparently just as many bleak in the
Adriatic now as there were two cen
turies and a half ago, and more than
likely there will be just as many two
cenluries hence as now."
O v real i tig and Morality.
At a recent purity congress held in
Chicago a vegetarian delegate read a
curious paper on diet. He stated luat
much of the immorality in the world
was due to the eating of animal food: ■m
"The cook." he said, "often leads to
more drunkenness and excess tnan the
saloon keeper. Highly seasoned, rich *
animal foods lead to indigestion and
ill health. 11l health weakens the
will, and a weak will breaks down the
moral character. Total eapravity :s
often nothing but total indigestion."
This reasoning reminds one of the
old conundrum, "Why is home like a
baby?" the answer being, "Because
borne is where the heart is; the heart
is in the chest: a chest is a box, box
is a small shrub, A smart snruu is a
growing plant, a growing plant Is a
beautiful thing, a beaunru! thing is a
primrose, a primrose N a. pronounced
'yeller,' and a pronounced 'yelier' Is a
bah.-."
ri> l'oSit <>r ti> world.
The highest point in the world—that
is to say, the highest mountain top
ever reached by a human being—rests
now upon the writing desk of the King
of llngland. It is a letter weight, .
made of a piece of stone taken from < y
the summit of Mr. Gaurlsankar. the "y
highest mountain on the globe. It was
presented to his majos-y by a British
c flicsr.