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Recently published statistics show that of the 199,473 noncommissioned officers and men in the British army, 137,973 belong to the Church of England and 37,278 to the Catholic Church. The Empress Frederick of Germany ' has purchased Kronberg Ca3tle at Kron- berg, in IIe3se -Nassau, celebrated as having been the residence of Martin Luther. She intends to convert it into a charitable institution in memory cf her husband. Superintendent Byrnes, of the New York police force, estimatas that 1000 men mysteriously disappear from public dew every year, but upon investigation being made it is found that 995 of them have either gotten into trouble with a woman or are short in their accounts. While an Austrian regiment was on dress parade recently, says the Detroit Free Press, a bug crawled into the ear of a sergeant. lie put up his right hand to remove the insect and a court-martial reduced him to the ranks, fined him $18 and obliged him to carry a weight of sixty pounds on his back for fourteen ) days. It is the big bugs who have the call over there. The Cossack troops of the Ural will celebrate in 1891 the 300th anniversary of their formation. The creation of this militia, the Russian military journal says. date3 from the year 1591, when the Cossacks of the Ural were first en rolled among the armed forces of the Russian Czar. For more than two cen turies they were known as the Cossacks of the Yaik a title which they lost dur ing the revolt of Puscachev. The Boston Culticator admits that "improved farm implements have un doubtedly enabled farmers to cultivate and harvest larger areas ; but it is not certain that crops by them cost less per bu3hel than they used to do. The more a man can do the bigger wages he claims, and this, with cost of machinery, its wear and tear, and the lower prices con sequent on increased production, have given to the worker rather than to the capitalist or owner of land the advan tages which improved machinery have conferred." It is reported that a colony of about twenty-five Northern farmers have pur chased 3000 acres of land in Cullanan County, Ala., and will begin co-operative farming. There is to be a joint stock; company with a capital of $200,000, limited to 200 shares, and no person can ha7e more than one share. The farm work is to be performed by the share holders themselves and their families, , and the profits are to be distributed as dividends. They expect to introduce manufacturing as soon as practicable, as .they have a forest of valuable timber, and an inexhaustible supply of coal. The German Emperor will shortly is gue an edict to the Prussian ministry di recting that teachera in national schools must be familiar with the principles of . political economy, to enable them to.' demonstrate the errors of socialistic teachings. In religion less attention must be paid to memonic exercises and more to the comprehension of the ethical 3ide of religion. In the higher schools recent modern history, especially of Prussia, must be taught, and the bene fits which Pruasian Kings have always conferred upon workingmen must be in culcated. It is stated that the edict wat drafted before Prince Bismarck re signed. It is proposed to erect in Chicago a $1,000,000 steel tower. At the base its dimensions will be on a colossal scale. The first story will be used for stores, and in a huge court there will be an exquis ite flower garden. A circular drive thirty feet in width, with so many curvingsthat before a carriage reaches the top, a dis tance of nearly three miles will have been traversed, is to be inclosed with the frame work. Foot passengers will be carried to the top in an electric car or elevators, as they choose. Another feature will be the restaurants, three of which will be at the top, conducted respective ly on the German, French and American plans. ' That the visitors to the conserv atory may view the city without crowd ing, a large boulevard is planned suffi ciently wide to" permit all carriages or pederianseasy access.'' CRADLE SONO.r UfcK&XS&msj baby. '-The bee ' has gone toj slep; ! The dew is on the clover and peace is on the deep. While mother sings SklxrmGm a Hittle shun-; ber sonf, And prays beneath her singing, God save, uy babe from wrong. ' O sleep, my) baby, Bleep. O lullaby, my baby. The stars thine over-; head To light the way of angels -ha come about thy hod To keep their watch above thea until the. morning breaks, And from the dreams they; brought him my little darling wakes. O sleep, my baby, sleep. i O lullaby, my baby; take thou this good-' night kiss, 1 And may it tell the?, darling, what love a mother's is. i Take thou this kiss to dream of the while I breathe a prayer That God Who gave shall have thee forever' in His care. O sleep, my baby, sleep. EdenE. Iiexford, in Youth's Companion. The Avenger of Her Sex. It was a day of perspiration. Heat and humidity had joined forces early in the morning, and before noon humanity was routed, and waved the wilted handker chief of capitulation. A young man entered a down-town elevated station as though he owned it. No one who watched him would have been surprised had he displayed a night key to the ticket peddler's booth; but he did not. He haughtily cast down the half-dime of passage and joined the limp and draggled wayfarers without. Had he not been so aggressive in his bearing, he would have ibeen insignifi cant. He was very slight he was short; he was narrow-chested. .His shoulders were drooping continuations of his arms. Sparse light hair tanned Itus upper lip, which was bracketed by. a supercilious smile. Through go'd-rimmed glasses his little eyes squinted inouisitively. Hit light summer coat floated fcunbuttoued in the breeze, as if enlarging' his presence. His waist was girded by'a broad, black sash. Arthur Chumpney was hisfname Mr. Chumpney, of New York f City, as he often proudly proclaimed it. ) Time had been, and not four years r since, when Artie Chumpney, Deacon Chumpney's lad, at Chumpney's Four -Corners, Dela ware County, had sufiicierrtlyiindividual ized him. But a maternal uncle had wrought a wondrous change. He had transplanted this rural squash, and behold ! a city pickle had come forth. A real estate agent's clerk has to be spry ; and ere the warts had faded from his hands Arthur thought that he "knew it all." No one could "do" him; he was playing ball every! time! Yet at the "Corners' he had been deemed "a poresperited coot that never could donuthin' an'never would." "He's af eard of his own shadder ; an if you speak up peart or auddent to him, he blushes awful, he's so ashamed of his self." Strange, that environment should eo affect one's nature. And yet, in the menagerie trade, a leopard Is a leopard the world over, and must be sold for spot cash. Arthur entered a car and took the only unoccupied seat. It was beside a wo man who was nearer to caps than to frizzes, and who knew it. There was no artificial girlishness about her. She was gaunt and dark and sharp featured. Her nose was long and piercing, like a double barreled probe; her eyes asked a ques tion, and then answered it definitely ; her firms were anthropoid in length and ar ticulation; her hands, which mittens caressed, made one crawl to look at them. In one of them she bore a reti cule. Her brow was bound by a green veil. She alone seemed unconscious of the weather, neat and humidity, when they had encountered her, had shrugged their shoulders dubiously, and had passed by on the ether side. She gave Arthur one penetrating glance, which her nose seemed to say was quite sufficient. "Humph!" she ejacu lated, and it wrinkled contemptuously. So, too, he had looked but once to be satisfied. "A curious old jay," he mut tered to himself, as he twirled the sparse hairs into skeleton shape. He lolled as comfortably and as indolently as the sticky seat would permit, his back half turned against her, his legs outstretched in the aisle, his open coat flapping upon either side. He adjusted his glasses,and taking a newspaper from his pocket began to aimjlatelthe goggip of foe cUy. The traia'rolled,it"rattled,it squeaked, it stopped. There was an influx of femininity; heated, wearied, glowing f ennninity, clad ia the calico of labor and hearing the basket of economy. They swayed and jolted through the aisle; they hung on thestrap3,as the squeaking ceased and the rolling and rattling re commenced. Here and there men, keen and alert in expression, yet whose eyes said that business and kindliness were not antagonistic, sprang to their feet with natural chivalry. But Arthur did nol "move. One glance he cast, to see if he might detect the bonnet of luxury. One glance sufficed. He stretched himseli yet more arrogantly and continued bii educational process. "Mind your eyes!" he angrily squealed at a wan woman, with a shawl and a baby mutually involved, who had stumbled over his feet. "Do you think that patent leathers grow on trees?" The wan woman clung more closely tc the indeterminate bundle, but answered not a word. She was used to unkind speech; it reminded her of home anc husband. But she of the gaunt elbow upon his left flushed and bustled as though heat and humidity had regained courage, and had actually attacked her. She prolonged a finger; 6he tapped Arthur on tht shoulder. "Young man," she cried in buzz-saw tones, "aren't you going to give this poor woman jour seat?" ne stared in amazement over his glasses. ' "I never do," he drawled; "not if I know myself. What do you take me for? Stand yourself, if you want to; you ought to know how by this time. Ah, no; I've cut my eye-teeth, old lady." He lolled more extendedly than before ; bis coat flapped more widely. His eyes and nose and chin were eagerly engaged with the details of a fashionable wedding. He saw, he heard nothing. The indignant female gave a snort of 'lessee, it may be of warning. "He never does!" she muttered. "I couldn't find a better subject if I went to Harlem." One deft, rapid motion did that spatu lated hand make from the reticule to the side-pocket of the flapping coat of the unconscious Arthur, who was mentally personating the best man. Then she sprang to her feet and gave her seat to the wan woman, the shawl and the baby. More jostlings, more scramblings, more rollings. Heat and humidity returned' from the pursuit and ravaged the bodies . of the vanquished. Arthur still stretched himself and read. The keen, alert busi ness men swayed easily with the motion ; the wearied women exhibited the cen-; trilugal force of each curve. The gaunt and angular female, with one hand up raised grasping the strap, stood as rigid as the Goddess of Liberty enlightening; the world. 1 But as the rolling intermittently slack-: ened and the squeaking increased, she suddenly released her hold and fumbled through her reticule; then she uttered a series of shrill screams, which startled the alert business men, the baby in the shawl, the gyrating women, and the locomotive, which hitherto had deemed itself proficient in that line. It recalled Arthur from the wedding breakfast,' where he had been doing the elegant to an American duchess. "Oh, I'm robbed, I'm robbed 1" she cried. "And by that bold, bad man." And she pointed full the doubly-articulated finger of accusation at the agitated Mr. Chumpney. Immediately there was a confused din which drowned the squeaking of a stop ping at a station. The alert business men, the guards, the station-men pressed forward. The debilitated women screamed surprisingly, and dropped their baskets. The beshawled baby doubled its fists, grew red in the face, like the sun, and yelled. The angular female still vociferated in tin -horn tones ; "It's him! Don't let him escape ! Catch him, kill him, the rascal, the thief! Oh, my precious earnings !" "What have you lost, madam?" in quired one of the aforesaid representa tives of commercial activity. "3Iy all! My pocket-book? Ob, don't let him escape!" she incessantly piped, like a siren in a fog. "Come out of this!" shouted the guard, laying a heavy hand on Arthur's shoulder. "Oh, the rascal," "the blackguard," the thievish jude!" "Search him!" "Oh, he's a slick article!" resounded upon all sides. Despite heat and humidity the excited i crowd surged through the aisle3 and out j upon the platform, following the impor- tant guard, the trembling Arthur, the I spare, swarthy, and sibilant female, and ! unanimously crying, "Search him!, Search him!" " - " I The guard plunged his grimy hand i Into the pocket of the widely-flapping ! coat and drew forth a purse. He held it ! above the pressing throng. "That's mine; my all!" the virgin ac cuser cried, reaching her simian finger an amazing distance toward it. "Excuse me, madam," interposed the guard. "That must go with this 'ere bloke to court, and you with him. There' will be a perlice along presently. I seed one come out of the saloon bey ant." And sure enough, a blue-coated refugee from English tyranny now forced his vigorous shoulders through the crowd. "Phat's this? ThavhV, is it? I know yez well," he ejaculated, grasping the collar of the widely-flappiug coat. "Come along wid me!" He took the purse in his other hand, which flourished the club of authority, nc dragged his victim through the jeer ing throng, down the stairs, followed by the angular female, who stalked after them like one of the Fates released tem porarily from the thread factory. The squeaking increased and dwindled, the rolling began. Attended by heat and humidity, the alert business men, the wan woman, the baby and the shawl hastened away, as if dreading the ven geance of a score of irate trains, which had been thus delayed by crime and its punishment. In the meantime, what had become of the arrogance which had so completely envoloped Arthur upon his entrance intc the train? At the first word of accusa tion it had faded away like a tissue paper suit in a tropical storm. The four year rolled back. Again he was a barefootod boy at the corners, afraid of his own shadow, blushing for very shame of his own existence. He could not speak; hi teeth chattered from trembling; hif face flamed as though those fork -like fingers had raked it; the horns of his im maculate collar drooped, starchless like his backbone. His broad, black sash seemed an emblem of mourning for his own demise. He shrank in terror frorr the crowd. Would they kill him? Wel come the Tmbs, the Island, Sing Sing, electrocution, if ho might only escape from those horrible, threatening faces. But though he was thus passive, Policeman X, who had him ia charge, did not choose that he should appear so, No! He had a record to make, anc here was his opportunity. So once anc again he gave him a forward thrust, and then ejaculating, "Ye wud, wud yez?' a mighty drag back again, to the ad miration of the passers-by, who after ward astonished dinner tables bj accounts of a terrific struggle which the had witnessed between a burly ruffian and one of our city's defenders. The grim and gaunt female stalked behind this tableau of justice for several blocks; then she slackened her pace, and finally she stopped short. But her de sertion was unnoticed. She watched the pair as they struggled forward into the distance. A sardonic smile revealed the artificiality of her teeth as she did so. "A good morning's work!" she ex claimed. "I must go and report pro gress." She hailed a convenient cab. She gave instructions, in which possibly the word "Sorosis" might have been dis tinguished. Sho was rapidly driven away. Arthur and his exultant captor, un suspicious that this "dea ex machina" had thus eloped, reached the court house. A roundsman fctood upon the stoop. "What hev ye there, Mike?" h familiarly asked the officer. 41 A snake teef. Waa of the wust of em. 1 ve oeen on to mm this twelve mont'." 4,ne looks it," was the consob'ng com ment. They went before the commuting magistrate. He was a red-faced, squatty man, seated behind a yellow-grained desk, and enveloped as to the neck with a smudgy handkerchief. Upon the de3k, beside his feet, were an ink-stand and a sticky book. "What is it, officer!" he queried, un winding the handkerchief. "A case of larceny from the pusson, sor." "Are you the complainant!" "Oi am, sor." "Then you were present at the coiq mission of this offence!". . -?r r' . . A "No yet ahnor, no more thinfjerself J How cud I be? ' JTwas on the illevated train, jer ahaor, above me bate. Shure I'm no thrack-walker." - "Silence, sirl Where is tha persjoni from whom the property was taken V9 "Ob, shure, a long, lane faniale in' black, for all the wurruld like the Witch of Endy, was f oHowing us but a moment sence. 'Twas she it was from he tuk it." "I must discharge this man. The is no evidence on which to hold him." "Phat, yer ahnor! Whin he 6azed kcr by the two wrists and wratled it from her like the thavin' blaggird that ho ity." shure!" "Did you see him do it?" "Av coorse not, yer ahnor; I was not there." "Young man," said tht magistrate,' turning to the stricken Arthur, 4 ' what? have you got to say for yourself?" "If you please, sir, if you please," ho faltered, with trembling lips, "I want to go home. Do let me. I know nothing about anything. I was sitting quietly, in my seat on the train when a crazf woman yelled at me, and then they a rushed for me, and some one pulled u purse from my pocket, and then this offi cer threw me about the street as if I were act uge on a string. Look at my new, clothes, sir! And I'm sore all over." " 'Tis a loy, sor. He was tryin' to: escape. I mak' the charge agia him, sor." "Let me see that purse." Policeman X handed this corpus deU' to the magistrate. He opened it. 1 "Why, there's nothing in it!" he ex claimed, in disappointed tones. But hold! In the innermost com partment he found a roll of paper. He unfolded it, and read aloud as follows ; : 1 "To Whom It May Concern: This young man is not a thief, lie's a hog. He did not take the purse, ha took a scat an4 kept it.; He was thus guilty of rudeness and lack of consideration toward frail womankind. Ii have punished biai for it as I shall punish I others. Hereafter I trust that this expe rience will teach him that to a true man every woman is a lady, and entitled to hischivalria service. Place nux dames? "(Sijutd) The Avenger ok Ilea Sex.' I "You are discharged, sir," said tho magistrate to Arthur. "But let this bo a warning to you." And his feet re sumed their extra-judicial position upon the desk. j From that day Arthur Chumpney was, a changed man. He was scrupulously', polite to wan women with babies and1 shawls; he was obsequious to females of gaunt visage and long hands. He seldom rides on elevated train3. When he does,f like a traveled trunk, he uses a strap. As he says himself, standing is good enough for him every time. Frank Leslie's. - Grapes Fnm Spain. A trade that has developed wonder fully m recent years is the importation of grapes from Spain. Twenty years ago not more than five hundred barrels were imported here. This year the importa tions from the city of Almcria, Andula sia, alone will be 180,000 barrels, repre senting 9,000,000 pounds of grapes. The consignees are chiefly Spanish houses, but the whole of this amount of fruit is sold by auction by Brown & Sec comb, and despite this year's great grapo crop of the Western States prices have never been better than no Recently barrels sold at from $3.50 to $16, tho grapes, owing to the dry summer in Spain, being in exceptionally good con dition. In tho next two weeks fully 100,000 barrels will be landed at this' port. As the grapes are packed in cork-; dust they keep in good condition through the winter. New York Tribune. 'mm P0HDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of all in leavening strength.. T. S:GoerTimfnt Report, A ugutt 17 19S9. 1 ) o I. - t I 0-4 s ! i -.1 hi t v 1
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