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I>, UW & T 0&? te fight like sixty. Her ere* is only half a greet m that of the State of New York, bat every acre of it is dedicated to the mow of liberty end civilisa tion. g~J. I'.'SKHLi li-."! J ILJI‘ Tbat tho gentler sex is fast becom ing emancipated is shown by the feet that in 189 C there were in the United States 39 women woodchopper* 147 bartenders. 24 hostlers, 29 Bailors, 4 locomotive engineers, 98 plasterers, 99 blacksmiths and 6 boilermakers. A greet emigration movement of Bnssian Jews from the Vistulc provinces to Afrioa is taking place a* present. Tbe movement has raaehed saeh proportions in several districts of these provinces that the Jewish male population Is greatly diminished and business in shops is principally earned cm by women. Os the $200,000,000 war indemnity which Japan la Ip receive from China it is expected that nearly eighty per cent, will be expended in naval eon •traction. It is therefore in order, dedates tbe New York Mail and Ex press, to asoertein what portion of this vast earn can be acquired by the •enterprise of American shipbuilders, sted forgers, gttn makers and com petitors in other mechanical indus tries. A country with that amount of money to spend deserves to be looked after by American manufacturers who have things to sell. «snaasss-9===s99=9 Modern eoienoo is beginning to "throw sD the tales of Munchausen in to the shade. There la a rumor that Professor M&oKendrick, of Glasgow, has succeeded in devising an appar atus which will enable the deaf and dumb to hear operas. Ha uses tale* phones eoaneciUd with the stage at one end, end at the other with vessels filled with a saline solution,into which the deaf insert their hiutda. Ho sooner have they done so than their faces are illuminated with the joy of a new sensation. They ean hear the singers widths orchestra distinctly. This sounds “American,” at foreigners •ay, but after the Boeatgen rays and kiaetoeeope everything seems poesiUA Naturalists believe that insects have senses utterly different bom ours, end it is not impossible that with the aid of electricity sod Boentgen rays man may practically acquire e new sense or power to perceive the unseen world. There have been printed recently some astonishing facts shout tbe aban doned farm lands of SBi»gi»«d. Some of these him, although within an I hour or two of London city, go beg ging for tenants. Earl Barrington, who has for many years owned 28,000 acres of land in Backs and Liuconehire eoontiss and whose every dollar so in ms tad in agriculture, says tho de pression of tbe industry in England has been largely due to tho extrava gance and bad management of the land lords themselves hasping up costly country house* end neglecting repairs * and improvements, piling up mort gagee, driving away tenants, etc. When he took charge of his estates, they were burdened with a debt of $2,000,000. He disposed of tho great country house, with its tremendous expenses, repaired the buildings on el tbe farms, lowered rates one-third, and encouraged tenants to work small plots of, luff. In spite of almost constantly decreasing prises of farm prod nets, during ths past twenty years be has by this means paid oil but one-tenth Sf the original debt, and yet hie estates at# not as well situated as regards markets as era assay farms near Lon don that ars practically abandoned. While conditions are entirely different . In Amsrio* it is true that thousands sf Carmen In this country have, on a smaller scale, by prudent management, paid Cur their farms and are to-day comfortably writ fixed, as tbs remit sf food farming and good business •hi readjustment" of rapidly I changing condition*. MAY DAY. mn7Ali OF TUB FLOWS US, ITU ORIGIN AMD OBSERVANCE!. Mar Buy 4000 Team Ago—The Day In Kxypt, China, Mexico end Pens ’ . -OM Customs in Connection With the Holiday. ■ V >OB the origin of May Day with *=/ its joyous associations, we are ■ j compelled to go back to a time C when men personified the powers of nature and called them gods and goddesses. How far book the god dam of the flowers was adoxod at tbs Mason when the earth put on bar green mantle pith Ha floral spangles of every hue, we do not know, for the earlieat records speak of a spring festi val as an institution slroady well es tablished and erven than known from more ancient times. The Egyptians made pictures of everything, so it is ; not surprising that among the point ings on ths walla of their catacombs than should be found some which, from the aooompanimehta of flowers, garlands and wreaths, are judged by the antiquarians to be of a spring fes tival, a feast of flowers. May Day is therefore at least 4500 years ohL Whan traces of Hay Day are discov ered in tbe earliest ages of Egypt and at the dawn of history in Greece, among the Etruscans, among the Celts of the Bhone and the Germans of the Bhum, in Scandinavia and Wales and Ireland, among Ilia natives of the In i dian Peninsula and among the Abor igine* of America and Australia and Hew Guinea,- the oonoluaioa is safe that such a custom is of universal ob servance and remotest antiquity. So 1 it may be that ths Chlnara are not as extravagant as they seem when they claim that May Day originated in the Celestial Empire 90,000 years before MAT DAI DAJTCU OF DOSDON BOOTBLACK* the flood, being instituted by the never-to-be-enongh-praised Emperor Chi-Whee, who waa fond of flowers and employed exactly 1,000,000 men to take oars of his garden. Leaving, however, tits claims of the glorious Chi-Whee to be defended by bis own people, it Is worth remember ing that a festival, in many particu lars bearing a olose raeemblanoe to our May Day, was celebrated all over Italy and tbe south of Europe at the beginning of the Christian eta, when every one who oould spare the tlmo wont into the woods and fields for a day’s outiog, gathered flowers and re turning laid them on ths altars of Flora, it is also interesting to know, that on these occasions the goddess of floflers was personated by a young girt, the prettiest who oould be fonnd, who, during the day, received the homage of her friends end was crowned with the spoils of the fields, a genuine Queen of the May. As eiUsa grew, it became inconvenient to go far into the country, for the excursion steamers and railroad trains packed fall of pleasure seekers were not, and a snbstitnta was found by bringing a ties into town, setting it in ths ground in a public plaoe, decorating it with flower* which the country people, in the hop# of gaining shekels, or oboli or denarii, or whatever other coin was legal tender for debts publie and pri vate in ths neighborhood, wore easily • ■ ‘ - - * - - - THB DANCE OY THE MILKMAIDS IN PBOVSMOIt induced to bring in. Thaw, in the Maypole is seen thedesosadentof Iho green Iran, and the dudng about it in elrolee ia explained bp the feet that the only tor to dance axoand it at all i» in a oirote, and also, perhaps, the atoele bee always had a mystic signill eaeee, being much need ia efaamsaad incantations. From anthon of onr own tonguo we nay glean alteoal innumerable rsfer aaess sad attadeae to the pretty ana* tom of hollowing the May Day, and we alao leant that lees than *OO yaara ago the Hay pole was as Indispensable in every English village as the stocks or the pillory. When the Pnritans came into power ths May Bay dancing said flower gathering were tabooed and May poles were all est down. But after grim bid Oliver passed away the people began to amnia themselves A MAT U.T Ml THE DAW Os O*SAS. again, erected taller May poles than were ever known before, and danoed about them herder than ever. But, as often happens in suoh eases, when nobody wpoeed the May Day and its pole, bsth soon fall into “ionoonens desuetude,” and now there is hardly a May polo to be found in all England. The custom of remembering the day, however, still survive* and little girls wearing garlands, sad earning with them a doll deeomted with flower* termed the “Lady of ths May,” still go about the towns on this day, pre senting their doll to the pesset»-b? as a modest bint tot halfpenoe. It is a strange circumstance that the chimney sweeps and bootblacks of London should be the only poople in that great metropolis who now do honor to the May Day. When Pepys was keeping his journal the whole court used to go out at sunrise to gather flowers and wash their faoee in dew for good luck and look* bat the eon tom gradually foil in caste until finally it remains only among the drugs of soeisty. Every May Day, however, it is religiously observed by the street boy* who, with green branches or leaves in their hands, pa rade to the musioof a life and dram, attended by two or three figures fan tastically attired and a “jaok-in-the x,” whboo is indispensable to the oo esaion. Who the jack originally rep resented, or what was the significance of his presence on so joyous an occa sion, can not now, be ascertained, but he is always on hand, and in different countries assumes different forms. From street to street goes the little procession of ragged and dirty folk, halting hare and there to dance and caper about, while one of the number diligently peases the hat to collect each pennies as the spectators feel like contributing, but, poor and dingy as it may be, it is one of the survivals of tbe grand parades in honor of Flora, of which emperors and kings were proud to be a pork La France there are more remains of the old-time custom* and even to the present day the dance of the milk maids marching in procession with their cows ft seen in seores of villages at this season. That the danoe origi nated with dairy people is unques tioned, and it was probably once lim ited to their number* hut now it is participated in by any young woman wbo choose, the only requisite being that they shall wear a dairy maid’s hat. When Os pole was at the height of its glory in England it was also in great favor in the Low Oountrie* where May polaa aa high as the mast of a thrse-daoker ware often aet op. Soma, toned into flagstaff*, still re mein, end their former ase may often be aecertained from tho remains of the paint with whtoh they were formerly decorated, for the Dutch were arttotie, end, betides deoorating their May polea with atripaa of rad, white and bine, like berbera’ polaa, they often ornamented the top with an lion band, whtoh, at the time of tho annuel feeti tiL fM ooftf«d with flowers* thus making e wary praaantable wreath. A tab containing a tree or shrub was oe aasiobally substituted for the wreath, but ae the tub was bard to gst up and easy to fall down, it was not in much favor.' ; . In the qnlet country districts of France, Germany and Italy there are still quoene of the May, young girls who are on this- day crowned queens of the festivities. A little floral arbor is provided, in which the queen sits in state all day long, taking so- part in the festivities; no one speaks to her, save a bow or eoortesy in no one pays her any speoial attention, and the situation would' seem rather dreary, but the honor of the position has compensation* and at every May Day there is lively competition among tho various candidate* In many parts of Europe the May festival takes the form of games and athletic sports of various kind* La England there ware formerly the Bobin Hood games among the country peo ple, whioh kept alive the memory of the merry outlaw and hia companion* Various person* dressed in eharaoter, enacted in an open square a panto* aims representing some scene chosen from the ballads which are the princi pal literary survival* of the famous hunter. Every entertainment, at one time or another, hae a contest in arch ery as a special feature, a peculiarity of the Swiss gamca also, which have probably inherited this part of their programme from the exploits of Wil liam Tell. It is a singalar fact, as showing not only the university of the anatom, but also the fast that all the varieties probably had one origin, that many of the features of the celebration-in countries very (widely separated arc almost identical. The Chinese, !* well as the English, had a Queen of the May, while in Mexico and Fern, the crowning of a young girl with flowers at this season is a hint of the same thing. While there seems nothing so transient as a jovial custom like- this, nothing is, in reality, more perma nent, and the manner in which appar ently frivolous and meaningless cele brations are handed down from'patents to children, from race to race, consti tutes one of the bonds whichnusite us. to remote ages and countries-far dis tant from our own. A NATION OF BKA1IE8& That Is Why Many American Souses Ifow Have a Library. There may be one er two sous trice where the percentage of illiteracy is lower than in the United States, bnt (hero is no country more deeerviagtq be called a nation of reader* The peasantry of ether lands rarely make s practice of reading; bat in Ameriea the laborer, the artisan and the farmer arc ardent readers of the daily newspapers, and often of class publi cations, even if they do not venture into the field of general literature. The magazines owe their enormous circulation to their widespread love of reading, there being dozens of them that sell more than a hundred thou sand copies every month, thus proving that they most go into millions of households. The tremendous and ever-increasing output of books is another testimonial of the hsblt of the people. This growth of love for reading must to a great extent influence their lives for wiSVBS 34 JlMEgy gl EB _V : '- ' " ■ » t twi wuin vow, tbs hotter; and although il by'no moons follows that a library will make rsad era, there osn bo no denying the t ", w '■ fact that a convenient and comfortable • room, with something of artlatio tim -3 pHoity and finish about H, set apart “ snd dedicated as a library, encourages and fosters the habit of reading. That f this is generally known and appreci e ated is shown by the faot that of late s years# very large proportion of the . houses built contain a room set apart for that purpose. It is wall within the memory that whan a boose eon-, tained two rooms on the first floor in ’ addition to the dining-room, one was , called *front parlor” and the other “back parlor,” or, more euphoniously, perbap* parlor and reception room. At the preeent tun* however, one of the rooms is slmost invariably dabbed “the library,” even If it has only a beggarly array of book* It is meet and fitting that the Ü brary should baa general sitting room and the plaoe where the best of the horns life oentre* Most plans that are drawn now give the library one of the choieeet locations in tho bouse, and full advantage »taken of this fact in the fitting and furnishing of the loom. Bods and browns are tho most pleas ing color* but these may be shaded to light fawn color,, terra cott* or warm yellow if necessary. There may be a panelled ceiling and hardwood floor, the lattor ooversd with rich Oriental ruga, if means permit. Os oourae these ere not essential;some of the most de lightful libraries have merely papered oailing* and. floors oovered with cheaper carpets or dark matting* In a new noose where everything Is Slauned from the beginning, the pxob >m of fitting the library is compara tively simple. Instead of movable bookcase* whioh are always cumber xnarwoo* - seme, low shelves should be arranged around the walls as permanent- fix tures, or they may be carried up to the ceiling to fill odd corners. Dost is a great enemy of bdoks, audio keep thus out is the excuse many people; give for sticking to the old-fashioned way of having bookcases with glass: doors; bnt this and is just as well ob- | tained by placing esoalopod leather; valanoes on the shelves, or hanging at-1 « tractive India silk curtains in front Os - them. The central feature of the room: should bo an elegant library table for ;> books and magazines, a desk made for ; writing and not for mere display, onel or two straight-backed chairs, several< easy-chair* and a comfortable lounge; | The attached plan shows that the ardhiteot has provided a most attract-; ive library, finished in cherry, with flooring of maple, the whole room lending itself to the most artistic! furnishing, and that without a great outlay of money. , The arrangement and eizee of the rooms are shown by the floor plaarJ thp width pj the house being forty -1 (MK fed* I .1 ***** mcCOSIk FLQOB* four feet four inohee, and depth, in*, eluding veranda, twenty-five foot two* inches. This design can be built in the vicinity of New York for about three thousand five hundred dollars, though in many seotions of the eouutry the coat should be inuoh lest Copyright 1887. The Language of a Fet Eagle; Mr. 'W. Le 0. Beard writes In St, Nicholas of a pet eagle named Moses, which ha caught in the Arizona de sert, Mr. Beard says: Moses had s language of his own. wbiob, by the constant practice he gave us, we toon learned to understand. It consisted of a aeries of eries, all harsh and nerve-rasping, bnt perfectly distinct, each one expressing a different emo tion. Thus, rage, entreaty, excite mint and pleasure were each easily , distinguished by those who knew him well. Bis ons syllable note of greet ing was mors explosive and perhaps a shads lass disagreeable than the rest; and hehad also a low, nooning sort of murmur; but this ha used only in soliloquy, so (o use It expressed only the fact that Moms waa talking over thinga with himself. Heli Ohstslafn, the travel* in Africa, says that among the 800,000,*. 000 of people in tbs Desk Continent, 50,000,000 are slave* _ .. / »
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