WHEN PIPINQ WINDS DO BLOW,
"W hen pining winds do blow,
And whistle loud end shrill,
And dancing feet o' tho snow
Gli le down the long wh'ite hill
'Tis then the world is gay, is gay
"With brave bright skies aglow,
For tho long, long play of tho winter day,
IVhen piping winds do blow!
'Tis then the- world is gay,
When naught to preach of gloom,
Nor ever a flower o' tho May
To push into bud and bloom;
With ni'ver a bl vie of grass of grass
To coax till its lances show
But the long, long play of the , winter day,
When piping winds do blowl
Never her scouts need run,
And to the skies complain
. Of scorching heat o' f ie sun,
Or dren .hing blight of the rain;
Never an apple to paint to paint,
Or an ear of corn to grow
But the long, long play of the winter day,
When piping winds do blow!
No bird in hMdm nest,
To woo to flight and song,
Or rock to sleep i' the breast
Of till pine, green an 1 strong;
No music to teach the wave the wave,
As it breaks o tho sand below
But tho long, long play of tho winter day,
When piping winds do blowl
She hath no care to heed
If autumn fails to roap
. Beautiful wealth o' the seed.
An 1 golden fleece of the sheep;
Whether tho stack be high be high,
Or whether the stack be low
What does sue care in tho winter fair,
. When piping winds do blow!
Ah! when tho winds do blow,
And whistle loud and shrill,
'Tis then the world may go
Wherever her fancy will!
'Tis then she can dance aud sing and sing,
With never a grief to know
But t l,a ionS, long play of the winter day,
When piping win. do blow!
IY: FREUD OHAYKE.
rk-nd Chaync was a refreshing fel
la nature was like his Comnlnvinn
nd bright and wholesome. There
blemishes on cither, and both
vtw luu ssvTiie at all hours of the
' Stan V t mr i I'. 4. ..I i-i , ,
farm, produces1 smile on his face, a second
try, mart, ant: i to ?n,d oue peeping out of
and art U-'Ur tIie least encouragement
or' "was unusually well informed for his years,
and could talk, pleasingly and intelli
gently on most current subjects. But he
was very -modest, and if he found it j
necessary to advance an opinion decidedly !
op oscd to.ithat he'd by any one else, did i
it always with a charmingly deprecatory j
manner, at which none could take olfea.se. !
I have spoken of my friend Chaync in
the past teuse. lie is not dead, however.
That is, not exactly. I did not f-es him
fcr several, months, during the summer
.and autumn. Ife strayed in the other
night at Wii lard's. '
I .scarcely - knew liim. The . springy
step was gone; the confident bearing,
the. cheerful look, were gone. . Only the
ghost of the smile was there, and that
seemed no longer to regard itself as a
permanent reaident of his line eye, but
came and went and flitted about in a ner
vous sort of -way that, bespoke dissatis-
faction with its quarters. Chayne wa3 a
fearfully changed, man. But, for some
occult reason, though I was shocked at
his appearance, I said nothing about it.
Nor did any of'the group with which I
stood, all of whom knew Chayne. The
ctmse of his ill looks soon came out,
however.
. Chayne's overcoat pockets bulged
with books. Under his arm he had a
bundle of books. A couple of pamphlets
protruded from the upper pocket of his
cutaway.
"Why, Chayne, old fellow," I said as
we shook hands, "are you. turning your
self into an itinerant circulating li
brary?" He laughed with a good deal of his
. old-time jolity, but did not explain
about the books. I saw an empty seat in
a retired corner, and led him toward it
to 'talk with him at my leisure.
1 "1 can't -stop but a few minutes,"
Lesaid; "I have an engagement at half
,past eight, and must leave these books
at home first." -
"Jh, .bother the engagement," I an
swered, "I haven't seen you in months
aud want to talk with vou."
j.ut u s wan a iaay. ana l must he
tbwciBjttiJhcaid, as if thaWet.
the matter. 1 '
"And if you weren't there promptly,
or not at all, would it be the first time
in the history of the world an engage
vmeiit with a lady was broken? You can
get up a good excuse." I continued, "and
if she is a sensible girl she'll accept it.
You know girls arc a good deal less
critical about excuses- than most other
people."
Chayne laid down his books and shut
his lips.
' I'll never do that," he said, determin
edly, and with some bitterness. "I told
on ci Te to her and I've sworn never to
tell anothcrto any woman."
Ilis manner " was so tragic that I
laughed at him. "Excuse my smiling,
Chaync." I said, and my unworthy ad
vice. Hut won't you tell me why you
ate doing the heavy tragic? What awful
consequences followed that one lie."
"Xow, don't guy me, and don't give
me away," he replied turning toward
me vvith hi? good natire somewhat re
stoied," and I'll teli you all about it."
"You remember Marie Miss lligh
giade?" he commenced. "Of course,
for I think yon introduced me to her
mother. Well, the old lady asked me
- to call. You know what a good, noble
soul the old lady is. I never met
woman who knew so much of the world
and had contracted fewer of its little
vices. Sh? won't hear of any compro
mise with deception, or lying, or scan
dal mongering. She detests people who
tell her little while lies for politeness'
sake, or in a joke. She s.iys they are
cowards as well as moral swindlers.
And iMaric, you know, is just like her
mother in this respect. Both of them
have spent years' in Europe and the East,
and, I think... could not only write first
rate guide-books for all the cities ever
heard of, but construct, oil-hand, fair
topographical maps of the entire conti
nent." "Vr.i T l-iinir " T R.iid. as Chayne
slopped for a moment and compressed
his lips and knit his brow?, as if over
come bv painful recollections. .."While
av. , -i J
Colonel Highgrade was United States
Minister .nt the Jourt or Jionaco, mey
spent most of their time roaming around
the old world. ;But go oa with your
story."
"Well, the first "thing I did the first
time I called 'was to fall hopelessly, des
perately, insanely in love with Marie,"
Chayne'hatf-Iaughingiy.half-passienate.y
continued; "ana me next ming, uouui-
less aa i result oi ra,
. nil .1 1 1 TT
was
to announce that I had spent three years
traveling all over Europe myself !"
I exclaimed : "Great Heavens !" He
shut his lips again, and looked at mo
for pilv. sympathy and wonder. I re
sponded, especially in the matter of
wonder, for I had really never known
Chayne to tell a deliberate cold-blooded
lie. " "And you have been -compelled to
avoid them ever since," I said, "for fear
they will find you out; and ycu are
slowly going into a decline between your
hopeless love for Marie and yur morbid
consciousness, or whatever you call it.
Is that h(,w things stand?"
" Worse than that," he answered, with
a bitter pathos that mads me pity him
while I inwardly laughed at hi3 superb
unsophitieation. "Jf I had had the
courage to take that course I might by
this time hive forgotten Marie and had
o:i my conscience only the first few dozen
lies wlreh I had to tell that night to
back up the great original lie. But no;
I didn't have the strength" of mind. I
called a second time in the course of a
week, deluding myself with the hone
that they would forget about Europe, or,
if they didnot, that I could ..turn the
current of talk into other channels.
.Madness! Of Europe, and Europe
alone, they would consent to talk that
night. It was natural enough, perhaps,
seeing that my insane lie "led them to
suppose they were taking me la?k over
pleasant scenes. Heavens ! how I got
through that night without betraying
n.y w: etched beciet I shall never kuow.
I sho del never have succeeded if Marie,
looking more beautiful than I have ever
seen her since, wasn't constantly before
me, goading me on to save myself. All
the wit and cunning in me came to my
rescue. I couldn't turn the conversation
off Europe, but I did suc ceed moderately
well in keeping it within areas with
which my reading had made me f im'liar.
I stuck mainly to Pari.? and the High
lands of Scotland. There I felt strong,
and whenever the old laly or Marie
showed a disposition to make an excur
sion down the lihinc or through Switzer
land I cunningly headed them oil and
started them afresh down the boulevards
or through the Boi4, or sent them tramp
ing over the moors or voyaging among
the lochs.' But, great heavens ! it was an
awful strain, and when at last it was
over and 1 nervously sail good night, I
knew that something must be done."
" And what did you do V I inquired
sympathetically.
"Dot See all these books! They are
all books . of European" travel guide
books, geographies, maps, plans of forti
fications, harbors, ruins, and so forth.
That's all I have lived on for the last six
months. When I left that second night
I at once began a systematic course of
European and oriental geography, his
tory and antiquities. I began with He
rodotus, Ptolemy, Xcnophon and Jose
plms. I re-read Plutarch's lives, and
nearly all the Greek and Latin historians.
Mythology and classical geography I de
voured a volume a day, or a night rather,
for I read most of the night. Every
book that in any way would add to my
knowledge of p!ace3 and things iri
Europe, Western Asia and Egypt I ha e
rea 1 again aud rgain. Eve y known
guide book . I have at my fingers' cm Is. I
can tell 3'ou just what any proposed trip
to any part of Europe will cost. I can
teli yrni the heights of all the mountains,
the length of all the river.?, the spans of
! all the bridges, the comparative size,
! with date and cost of coaslruction, of
all the great public buildings on the.co.i- j
! unent. it you want to Know wuere any
obscure work of any fourth class
- i
Oll i
muster i3 to be found, come to ine. If
you desire, at a moment's notice, to learn
precisely when and where any battle of
ancient or modern times was fought, who
commanded and how many men were
killed, let me know. I am a new specie
of maniac a Europeomaniac. I feel
that I am slowly going mad and into a
consumption at the same time. Which
I will strike first I don't know. I have
lost twenty-four pounds since last spring.
I only sleep four hours a night. My eyes
are getting weak. I am g, owing absent
minded. I have given up all my studies
but one. There is no longer any United
States, any America for me. There is
nothing in the universe but Europe and
Marie." . . - "
He got up, grabbed his books, and
held out his hand. "Grood night, old
fellow," he said.- "I have talked too
long and too much. I'll have to leave
my books here somewhere until 10
o'clock. I won't hay time to- go home
to-night. Come and see mo."
tie was on, ana i sat tncreTazed I
didn't know whetherbpJugh or -what
to do. Did anyiggfgver hear of such a
prcposterouir? I finally decided to
lau-es5T I did laugh, not loud but
deep. Pour old Chayne! YYlio ,woula
think such a nature as his could find
nourishment in the atmosphere of this
day and generation? f
But though I laughed, I saw that
something must be done. It was really
a serious matter for Chayne. - He was
evidently hard hit by the charms of
Marie; probably engaged to her, or as
good as engaged. If he kept on study
ing maps and guide-hooks of Europe he
would either die of dementia or con
sumption, as he himself said. I decided
to act at once and set matters right.
First I would ascertain how the High
grades felt toward Chayne.
The next afternoon I called on the
llighgrades. Gradually I got around to
the subject of Chaync. It did not take
me long to discover that he was on the
most friendly footing in the family ; iu
, iact that he was almost considered one
of the family. The old lady soon be
came enthusiastic about r red, as sue
called him. His name is Wilfred. He
was so bright,so well educated. and well
bred, such a perfect character altogether.
Marie was more reserved' indeed, she
said little, telling the whole story by the
manner of her silence. .
My .course was at once decided on.
"Mrs. Highgrade," I said, "you don't
knowrChayne, although you are begin-
a i ning to know him, I find. He is all that
you have said, and a great deal more. I
know phases of his character that you
can't know, and I tell you he is one man
in fifty thousand. I think (you will
pardon me if I dm taking a liberty) that
you are deeply interested iu him. So
am I, and lso in you both. You have
noticed that he is not as robust looking
as he used to be?"
Both had, aud had repeatedly warned
him to take better care of his health.
"Well," I continued, "he is really in
worse condition than you suspect. His
trouble is more mental than anything
else. Do you want, to know what lh?!t
trouble is V They did, of course. "And
will you promise to forgive him and for-
get
aii about the matter and trv to make
him
forget it?' After some hesitation
they
promised. "WelL then, in til
j firSf tjlace." I continued." AYilfred
Chayne has never been any nearer Europe
thau Boston in his whole life. All his
talk about his three years' travels in
Europe has been pure lie from beginning
to end.
I thought the old lady would faint,
certainly, when she had finally after a
struggle gathered in the full meaning of
what I had said. Marie was tremcn-dou-lj
astonished but ssemcd less jailed.
Both soon rallied into a proper state of
indignation, accompanied by a free flow
of words.. I let them talk for awhile be
fore I entered oa my detailed explana
tion. .
I pleaded and apologized for Chayne,
of course making it clear that he knew
knew nothing of my visit. I told of his
noble character, his agony, and his de
spair at the fearful netwofk of falsehood
in which he had enmeshed h'ins'jif. I
hinted at the strength of hi3 love, and
lina'ly, plainly .declared that I really
thought that his life depended on the
success, of my mission. ri his carried the
day. Marie burst into tears and her
mother melted into tears. I began to
laugh quietly. Then it gradually dawned
on them how "supremely ridiculous the
hole thing had been, and they joined
in the laughter. So it was all over, and
already 1 pictured to myself Chayne
with the old smile back iu his eye and
the old springy conSdence in his walk.
I attempted to suggest rn:ansby which
they could let Chayne know at one full
swoon that his sin was discovered and
forgiven, but they silenced me; they
would attend to that.
And they did. I met Chaync two days
afterwards as he was rushing toward my
house at a tremendous rate. He did not
notice me until we were face to face.
Then he grabbed my hand wildly but
said not a word. He couldn't, for he
would have cried if he had attempted to
speak, for there were teais iu his eyes.
He dragged me lack to my house and
there unburdened to me his soul. He
was wild with joy aud gratitude.
I expect cards to the wedding any day
now. Chayne is fast getting back to be
his old self again, and has forgotten
that there is such a place as Europe.
Marie, however, I am sorry to say, shows
signs of a disposition to violate her pledge
about forgetting as v.-oil as forgiving. I
met her at the jeweler's a couple of days
ago: she was giving orders for a new
scarf-pin, the design to be a hatchet set
with diamonds. She wanted it done this
evening. She Slid it was for a birthday
present for Fred. Wash in ftm Star.
A Marvelous Clock.
A Waterbury company has completed
a wonderful clock, which, in mechanism,
is said to surpass the famous clock of
Strasburg. It will be on exhibition in
several of the leading cities of the United
States. The clock is eighteen feet high,
w'ith a base of seven feet; the width is
eight, and it is six and one-half feet
deep. Neariy all the choice and ex
pensive Varieties of wood enter into its
construction, also a numberless variety
of metals. The cabinet work through
out is a marvel of beauty. Five long
years have been consumed in its con
struction; sometimes four, at others five
men have been engaged in the work.
Time is indicated in the usual manner
by hours, minutes aud seconds; in addi-
tion half seconds,
eighths, sixteenths
and thirty-seconds. The day of the year,
month and week may also be taken from
the dial. The number of wheels, parts,
pin!oii3, springs, and olhcr parts of the
mechanism is legion, all of which con-
tribute to most wonderful and amusing"
exhibitions of historical events. The
several phases of the moon are indicated.
The entire system of the planets and
solar system, are-shown in perfect form
and in all the varied revolutions. A per
fect system of astronomy may be studied
from the ingenious machinery. Many
hunired figures represent distinguished
clergymen, lawyers, physicians, orators,
poets, musu lans, sculptors, arcisis, ac-
ri-j n!cn A jti n rniw1ff1 mpn rf nil 119.
tions. These figures are said to bo
carved in wood from correct likenesses,
and are most complete representatives.
The signers of the Declaration of Inde
pendence assemb'ed as represented in
history, the Cabinet of Lincoln when the
emancipation proclamation wa3 signed,
the surrender of Lee at Appomattox,
several scenes at the centennial at Phila
delphia in 1SCG, and noted scenes and
historical events as represented in the
Bible have a prominent place. Shake
spearean plays are set out with characters
true to the representations of the author
and modern setting at the theatres with
dress and costume to correspond. A
multitude of amusing scenes will rill out
the measure of this wonderful clock. . It
is safe to say it will jaurpas's' any other
mechanical structure of the kind ever
produced--rQicago Tunes.
-w j. r -d.a
' The New York Sun says that in tne
"bone room" of the College of Physi
cians and Surgeons a large number of
disarticulated skeletons are kept and
loaned out to the students in the same
manner that books are lent from a circu
lating library. It is a novel institution.
The bones are numbered, labeled and
placed in order upon shelves around the
room. An attendant is always on hand
acting in the same capacity as a libra-.
nan.
It is his duty to keep track of the
bones lant, to enter them upon books and
to see that they are returned uninjured.
During the day scores of students flock in
and out of the place carrying packages of
strange appearance in their hands or
sticking out of their pockets. They
contain human bone 5 of all shapes and
s'zes, which they are returning to or
taking from the "Bone Circulating Li
brary"" By this means they are enabled to
prose :v.te their studies at home. Some
of them may be seen going through the
streets carrying fragments of skeletons
uncovered in "their hinds. Every stu
dent is entitled to a complete skeleton
after having dissected an entire subject,
but during the prosecution of his stud
ies it is a great advantage to have sep
arate bones to study, and hence the es
tablishment of the circulating system.
Substitutes for Quinine and Vanilla.
I hear that a chemist has discovered a
substitute for -quinine, wnica can be
produced at much less cost than the arti
cle which now plays such an important
part in the meaicme of to day, ana tne
artificial production i3 said to possess all
the medicinal qualities of the famous
bark. This, if it indeed be so, will al
most certainly destroy the trade in India
and Ceylon, which has grown of late
years - to - such proportions that it has
practically stopped the export of the
bark from Peru. A substitute has also,
I believe, been found for vanilla, and
should this artificial production obtain
th.3 place in commerce whii h i3 predicted
for it, there can be little doubt that the
sugar planters of Mauritius and else
where, where the vanilla plant has
gradually been introduced in place of
the sugar-cine, will rind that their new
industry has been stricken with a blight
as sever? as that whhh has overtaken
the sugar industry. Sc-j's:na,i.
Curious Elects of Colors.
Curious effects are known to be often,
produced by co.ors on persons and ani
mals. The sight of an obnoxious color
may induce an attack of hysterics,
nausea, or a headache, or it may cause a
violent fit of ill-temper. The offending
color is sometimes blue, sometimes yel
low, but of tener red or scarlet. Scientific
attention is being directed to these phenomena.
ELECTRICITY.
3IAXY WONDEKS IX THE HOUSE
OF AN ELECTRIC CLUB.
Brilliant Incandescent Lamps
Shoes Polished By Klectricrty
-Boors Open as if By Invisible
Hands-Other Novelties..
''Ps.t your foot on the square to the
Is'i ;ind press lightly."
The direction was given to a Mail and
Ex pre reporter at early evening on the
steps of a handsome brownstone I uild
ing in East Twenty-third street. Ovcr
he.ud, brightly illuminating steps, walk
aud building, hung a lantern of fanciful
design. Stained glass, of curious pat
tern, through which light shone, was set
in the richdark wocd of the"door, while
above was a transom of brilliant coloi-3
and fantastic design, standing out in
the centre of which, and surrounded by
a representation of forked lightning,
was the word "Electric,"
It was the new hou.-re of the Electric
Club, just completed. The reporter
followed the direction quoted above,
which was given by an officer of the
club. Instantly the bolt of the door was
drawn automatically aud the reporter
was ushered into a wide hall, brilliantly
lighted from above by electricity, cm-
anaung
om a long bar ucid in tne
a bronze dragon. The re
claws of
porter's guide led the way down two
flights of stairs to the sub-basement.
This was a veritable storehouse of elec
tricity. The chief objects were two
dynamos of the power of 250 lights each
aud 120 cells of storage batteries, capable
of providing electricity, in an emergency,
sufficient for 300 lights. In an adjoining
room was a fine new sixty-five horse
power engine, notable for its noiseleis
nes3. Next to this was a big seventy
five horse-power boiler, supplying heat
and steam to the building.
At the back of the basement proper is
the kitchen, the novel feature of which
is an electric heater or range, which
radiates the electric current the same as
heat and with which can be done all
styles of light cooking. A few slep3
toward the front and you are in the bill
iard 100m. It is tastefully finished in
terracotta and is bright with electric
lights, arranged in a novel design, while
electric call bells connecting with all
parts of the hou-e are upon the walls at
convenient 'intervals.
"Perhaps you would like to have your
shoes published by electricity," remarks
the guide. The way is led to a corner
of the hall where there is a comfortable
chair and hanging beside it a round
piece of wood the shape of a policeman's
locust. Close inspection shows this to
be a flexible shal't, at the end of which is
a circular brush,
the wall which
motor, the brush
Touching a button in j
connects with a small
revolves rapidly, aud
as it does so an atteudaut
your shoes and thev are
moves it over
polished in a
jiffy, and in the ni .st svpprove I fashion.
But the real electrical wonders of this
novel and unique building are on the
main floor, which is' divided chiefly into
parlor and diuing room.,. The latter is
thirty by twenty feet in sh e. Handsome
carpets are on the floor, and the ceiling
is frescoed in fanciful designs m blue,
gold and bronze.' Suspended from the
center of the ceiling is a magnificent
electrolier. On the mantel is an electric
clock, handsomely cared and, of odd
design. In its case is concealed a bat
tery, which keeps the clock wound up
for a year without any attention. The
motive power of the clock is derived
from the action of a fine spring, as in
the ordinary clock, electricity acting in
the capacity of a key to wind up just as
much of the spring as has been required
to run the clock for sixty minutes.
After one becomes accustomed to the
brightness of the two thirty-light elec
troliers and the eight four light brackets
of the parlor, the first object that at
tracts the visitor's eye is a figure in
bronze called the goddess of electricity.
It stands at the front end of the parlor.
With its pedestal it i3 about eight feet
h:gh.
It is the hgure of a woman of
graceful proportions,
represented as
standing above the clouds aad
grasping
the lishtninsr with one hand while dis
tributing it to the earth with the other.
The furniture of the parlors is richly up
holstered with red plush, aud the ceiling
is beautifully frescoed, the design being
electrical.
At one side of the parlor stands one of
the newest of electrical novelties an
electric piano. In this a series of levers,
one for each key, are placed under the
keyboard. Small rods project through
the bottom of the instrument, resting
also on a lever and each touching a key.
When the circuit closes the armature is
drawn down, the rod strikes the bottom
of a key, and this makes full action.
The circuit is closed by the positive
pole of the battery being connected
with a revolving cylinder, disc or mov
ing plane. The projections on this
cylinder or disc come in contact with
sireuit breakers representing each note
or pair of magnets, which are connected
to the negative pole of the battery, thus
closing the current and producing the
desired tone in the piano. The cylinder
used is somewhat like that of a music
box, but there the resemblance ceases.
A spring
weight
or motor is used to
make the cylinder revolve. Nd sign of
this mechanism is visible on the surface
of the piano, and, while the cylinder is
in motion, the keys of ths piano move
.the same as when a person is playing.
As the visitor steps from the front
parlor into the hail he observes a new
iron safe at one corner. To all outward
appearance it is exactly like those in
common use. But this, too, is an elec
trical novelty, in that it3 combination
lock is worked by electricity.
Tlie second noor or tne ciuo nouse is
arranged very conveniently and furnished
handsomely. In front is the manager's
room and library. At the back is a
commodious lecture room with wires
connecting with batteries and other ap
pliances for experiments, including elec
trical currents of different degrees of
strength. On the next floor are bed
rooms, and in each there is a new style
of electrical call or dial. Handsome
electroliers light up each bedroom, and
water for the rooms is supplied by means
of an electric pump.
These descriptions give only a few
ideas of the "home of electricity" it is
proposed to make of this unique club
house. The club, too, has a definite
aim. This is to ra:se the standard of elec
tiical work. In the lecture room there
v.iil be monthly lectures by eminent
electricians, accompanied by interesting
experiments of the latest discoveries in
the science. It will be made a special
feature of the library management to
obtain the most complete collection pos
sible of electrical literature. Later, a
room will be set aside as a museum of the
most curious and important electrical
inventions. 2ew fork Mad and .jrets..
The longest street railway in the coun
try is now" in operation between Eliza
beth and Newark, N. J., the round
trip being nearly thirty milesr for which
the fare i3 twenty cents.
Trees for Plantation Around' Houses.
Dr. Charles Roberts, considering tht
sub'ect from ihe sanitary point of view,
advises that while belts "of trees may be
planted on the northern and eastern as
pects of houses, on the east side tht
trees should not be so near nor so higL
as to keep the morning suu from tht
bedroom windows in the shorter days.
On th& southern and wc-tern aspects oi
the house iso'a'e l trees only should be
permitted, so that there may be free
access of the sunshine and the west
winds to the house and grounds. Pins
trees are the best cf all tree3 to plant
near the house, as they collect the great
est amount of rainfall and permit the
ireest evaporation
from the eround.
Acacias, oaks and birches are late to
burst into leaf, and therefore allow the
ground to be warmed ty the sun's ra; s
in early spring. The elm, lime and
chestnut are the least desirable trees to
plant near houses, although they are the
most common. They both come into
leaf and cast their leaves early, so that
they exclude the spring suu and do not
afford much shade in the hot autumn
months, when it is most required. Trees
are often useful guides, to the selection
of residences. Numerous trees with rich
foliage and a rank growth of ferns or
mo33 indicate a damp, stagnant atmos
phere; while abundance of flowers and
fruit imply a dry, sunny climate. Pines
and birches indicate a dry, rocky, sandy
or gravelly soil;bceches, a dryish, chalky
or gravelly soil; elms and limes, a rich
and somewhat damp soil; oaks and
ashes, a heavy clay soil; and poplars
ancl willows, a low, damp or marshy soil.
M-fciy of these trees are found growing
together and it is only when one species
predominates in number and vigor that
it is truly characteristic of the soil and
that part of the atmosphere in connection
with it. Popular Science Monthly.
A Japaue.se Julius Ctesar.
The Japanese arc nothing if not pro
gressive, and they have exidently waked
up to the fact that all America has an
accentuated interest in Shakespeare just
now. Members of a local society of
young Japanese, known as the "D11 Shi;
Kai,' have been rehearsing "Julius
Ca?sar"' for several weeks, and they gave
a performance of the Roman tragedy at
the residence occupied by the society,
No. 1125 Ellis street. It is not probable
that anything just like their representa
tion of the play has ever been recorded
in its history, but certainly "Julius
Ca?sar' has never been given before a
more delighted audience than the mem
bers of the society and their friends
furnished. As in the time of Shakespeare
himself, the women's part3 were taken
by young men, and their costumes were
very elaborate affaiis. Pretty scenery
had been painted for the p'ay, and hand
some curtains of Japanese silk separated
e sf;1ge iQ 0Re parlor from the crowded
audience in the other. There were dec
orations of flowers and foliage, arranged
with the artistic f.euse which nearly all
the Japanese possess, and'on the wails oi
the hallway we:e the greetings, "Merry
Christmas," in a.tumn leaves, and
Welcome,"' in
leave?, under a
cross of the same.
Before the play
oegan
there was a
clever exhibition of Japanese jugglery,
which followed several speeches in Jap
anese and English. A prayer began the
programme, and a supper of ice cream
and cake finished it. The young men
who took part iu the play were the heroes
of the hour, and, considering the inev
itable difficulties under which they la
bored, their performance was a very re
markable one. San Fnmcizco Ex-vminer.
Bismarck's Narrow Escape.
According to private correspondence
from Berlin, Prince Bismarck has been
considerably troubled of late by the
cTect of the bullet wound he received sc
many years ago from the revolver of t
would-be assassin. Many people have
forgotten even the circumstance that th
great German Chancellor was so murder
ously attacked by the youth Blind, bul
as a matter of fact five shots were dis
charged at him, and it' was simply owing
to the sturdy way in which he grasped
his assailant's arm that only one of them
took effect. The bullet glanced off one
of the Chancellor's lower ribs, and s
bonyjexcrescence which developed in con
sequence," still marks the place. As it
turned out, too, Bismarck's risk was nc
means at an end "when he grapphd with
and seized his assailant. A military
guard hurried up on hearing the Chan
cellor's shouts, and the impulse of the
foremost of these stalwart Prussian gren
adiers on seeing a comps ratively feeble
stripling being held and seemingly mal-
! treated by a ponderous man with a bald
head for Bismarck's uat had fallen oil
was to club his rivSe and bring it down
on the hitter's hire pate. Luckily fot
Germany, however, the Chancelloi
warded off his impending fate by shout
ing out: "Hold on; I am Bismarck!" on
which, as the latter himself tells the
story, the soldier dropped his weapon in
a much greater fright than that of his
escaped victim. London Figaro.
A Mania Tor Bells.
Johnny Martin, the office boy of a San
Francisco firm, has a great liking for
bells, and never tires listening to them.
It is a positive mania with him. Some
weeks aero he sent a type-written letter
on the letter-head of the firm to a well
known bell manufactory in , this State,
asking the price of bells, particularly
large church bells, weighing from 20,000
to 30,000 pounds. In reply he rec eived
a circular and price list, and a polite let
ter earnestly asking his patronage. He
acknowledged its receipt, saying that he
thought their prices too high, and that
he could do better in San Francisco.
The bell makers at once sent their best
salesman to California, with instructions
to secure the contract at any price, and a'
few days ago he walked into the San
Francisco house and courteously asked
for Mr. John Martin. No one knew him
until the agent showed the letters, and
then the bookkeeper said: "That must
be our Johnny." It was. He was called
in and confessed. The agent was very
wroth, and demanded the instant dis
charge of the lad, but the-linn said "No."
They said a boy who could write such
good business letters was the kind of the
boy they wanted, and they promoted
him. He says that when he gets rich
he is going to build a church, and haug
in it the biggest bell that this Eastern
firm can cast. yew. York Sun.
Seedless Raisins.
"What is a 'seedless' raisin, and how
ia it produced!"' was asked of an im
porter of fruits. "The next time you
eat a piece of mince pie," he replied,
"you will find the seedless raisin in it,
if the 'meat' has been properly made. It
is a smallish, crtfam-colored fruit, about
the size of a gooseberry, and is used with
an unbroken skin. It comes from Smyrna,
and is called the 'Sultana.' It i3 grown
seedless, simply by arresting one of the
laws of nature. When the grape is about
half ripe the end of the vine is bent and
buried in the ground. This prevents
the formation of seed agd the full de
velopment of the fruit, but it .ripens all
the same, and ha3 a delicious flavor."
Philadelphia Time?,
C011EAN EMBASSY.
AX
ACCOUNT OF OUU FRIEXDIiY
2U6XGOLIAX VISITORS.
Their Gigantic Hats and Gaudy
Raiment A Xatio-i 0" Gour-
liiantls :orao of their
Peculiar CusJo'iis.
A Washington correspondent of the
cw 1 OIK
the Coreaa
;-v, wrr.ing concerning
Embassy to this
cour-i
says:
It is the first time
Corel his been
represented here as a fixture, and the
Coreaus came direct from San Francisco.
They registered their mimes as a legation,
spelling Corea v. i:h a K.
But where aud what is Corc-a? It is
a peninsula, of the shape of Florida or
Italy, aud of a size not larger than Kai
s.13. It runs from the continent of Asia
down between China r.nd .Japan. The
cd in try is mountainous and its climate
Js like that of Ohio. It is well watere s.
and wooded, and it has, Dr. Allen tells
me, 1 ",600,000 people, or more than
three times as many as the htate of New
York. It is not twice the size of New
York in area, and it has seme large cities
Seoul, the capital, is twe:ity-ceren miles
from the seaport and it contains 300,000
people. It is here that tho King lives,
and he has a grand palace, aad his power
is almost despotic.
There are ten Coreans in the Legation,
and seven of these have blue blood in
their veins. There are distinctive marks
about their dress which tell their rank,
and the Minister has a gold button on the
side of his head.
Pak Chung Yang, the Minister, is about
five feet live, and his frame is slight
rather than portly. His skin is a pale
orange, or rather lemon color, and his
eyes v;st verge upon almond shape. They
are black eyes, and the forehead above
them is broad and intelligent. He has
a straight and rather fat "nose, and his
beard is a very sparse imperial. Ills head
is never se n undressed except by his
servants, aad ho braids his long hair
and fastens it on top of his head. This
he first covers with a skull-cap of finely
woven silk and birds a silk baud around
his foreherd. On the top of this skull-cap
rests the gigantic Corean hat which the
rest of the legation wear. Its crown is
of horsehair made over bamboo and silk.
Some of the hats areas black as though
made of papier-mache, and the Min
ister's looks like one of Oliver Crom
well's time, though it is made about
three sizes too small for his head. All
of these Corean hats are too small, and
that is the fashion, I suppose, in Corea.
On the top of the Minister's hat is a
little button of gold, in which there is
a white feather, and his hat seems to
be
. , n-o nai occult .iu :
held on by a band of gold beads
ich runs around his chin.
which
The Corean never cuts his hair, and he
wears it in a braid down his back until he
is married, when he has the right to curl
it oa the lop of his head. A man is not
supposed to be a man until he can wear
his hair on the top of his hr ad.
These Coreans eat with their hats on.
They have good manners, and they use
their knives and their forks as .though
they had never known any other me'.hod
of eating. They wipe their lips with
napkins and apprec iate the use of finger
bowls. The dresses of allthe Legation seem to
be bellied out at the front. IndeeJ, in
Corea a capacious stoma h is an honor
and a sign that the
full.
To eat much there is de risrueur.
and the merit of the feast lies in the
quantity, rather than in "the quality, of
the food served. There is little talking
while eating, and mothers take pains to
develop the size of the stomachs of their
children in infancy. They will take
their babies on their knees, says Critlis,
who Dr. Allen tells me, is the best au
thority on Corea, and, after stuffing them
with rice like the wad of a gun, will tap
them from time to time with a ladle on
the stomach to see that it is fully spread
out or rammed home, and they only
cease gorging when it is physically im
possible for the child to swell up more.
The Coreans eat everything, and
eating-matches are common. A quart
of rice is the ordinary portion of a la
borer, and this, when boiled with milk,
makes a big bulk. Dog meat is com
mon, and peaches and small melons are
devoured without peeling. A good sized
Corean thinks thirty peaches an ordinary
allowance, and beef is only eaten by the
Dercer classes, me Coreans are not fas
tidious m tneir eating or cooking. -The
lower classes devour raw fish, and even
the intestines pass for delicate viands.
Fishers carry with them a jar of diluted
pepper, and, when they hook a good
catch, they seize it between the two
fingers, clip it in the salt and eat it while
squirming. Ihe better classes, however,
live well, but where wages are not over
fifteen cents a day; what can you expect
9f the poor?
The Corean race is Mongolian, and it
jeems to partake of the character of that
Df China and Japan. Its people are more
pjogressive than the Chinese, and less
inimated with the spirit of progress than
the Japanese. A fair average of intelli
gence prevails among them, and nearly
all the people write the- Corean. The
Corean language is pollysyllabic, and it
is of a bigger grade than the Chinese.
Every year the King of Corea sends a
present to the Emperor of China, and
the Emperor of China responds by send
ing one back to Corea.
There are some warriors among this
Corean Legation, and there are over
1,000,000 soldiers in Corea. The dress
of the warrior consists of a long silk
tunic of pale blue or pink, with deep
pendent sleeves of a bright red. This
j represents the blood of war, and in his
uciuie nun ueuina, on urease
and on back, he has embroidered two
tigers.
It is now nearlv
six years since we
signed our treaty of peace and friendship
with Corea, aud I am told that the Kin"
of Corea feels very friendly to the United
States. The To-ntios v. v
. bn-npa
of the future of their country, and they
me progress 13 only .begnn.
A Cheap Place to Lire.
Greater progress has been made in
agriculture, spice and fruit raising in the
Island of Ceylon during the past few
years than m any period since it has been
under the control of the English. It is
said to be the cheapest place in the world
to live in. Unhulled rice sells in some
districts for ten cents a bushel, and fruit
commands only a nominal price Chicago
Times.
Didn't Know.
With jaunty step he walked along,
And proud and manly bearing ;
He seemed while mingling with the thronz
J ust out to take an airing. -
The snow slide came as suddenly
As comes a clap of thunder.
And came just at the moment he
Alone was passing under.
'Twaa with a fierce, a swage air
He rose and thus exploded:
IJcne?r bv the roof was there,
But chan t know 'twas loaded 1"
Boston Courier.
How The SiortxT Indian Iie.-s. -In
1S31 I was hunting some lost horses
in the broken country - west of the Big
Horn River, says a Washington Sirr cor
respondent. 1 had rid 'en all morning
over a t-oua'.ry that was strange to rae.
Aoout eleven o'clock I crossed a plateau
and was surprise 1 to come sudde:dv"to
the edge of a canyon, the cxUtcnce of
which I had not even supsctc.l. In the
canyon was a stream with clumps of C ot
tonwood timber along its banks, and ia
one of the open spaces was an Indian -lodge..
The Indians that hunted in that
country were peaceable, but ths var wis
just over, and the Sioux were feeling
rather sore. If they were Crows or
Arapihoes I might get some information
about my horses. I lay down and watched.
Nos'moke came from the tepee; no one
moved around : half a dozen ponies grazed
a few bundled yards distant. There was
not even a dog, which looked rather sus
picious. After waiting five minutes I knew no
more than at first. Suddenly three white
tail deer came from the timber and walked
leisurely across the opening. Then I '
knew that. the camp was deserted, and
the strangeness of it startled me. I
mounted and rode to the creek and
straight to the tepee. I threw back the
Hap, and I shall remember what I saw un
til death. In thcccntie of the tepee was
spread a buffalo robe, and on the robe
were guns aud scalps and many arrows;
and there was also food done up as for a
journey; and, sitting cross-legged ina
circle around the robe, were six braves "of
the Sioux Nation. All were in their
prime all decked out in war paint, and
each one held a bow and arrow in his
hand. On every fac was an expression
of calm indifference, a3 of ons who neither
suffers nor enjoys, neither hopes nor fears.
The faces were those of dead men, and
the small-pox had marked them with its -awful
mark. They took their misery
with their heads up, and even the horrors'
of this ui cue could leave upon their
hearts no stain of fear, upon their brows
no maik of suffering. And this that
their God might judge them men, and
fit them to pitch their camps forever in
the groves and green fields of Paradise.
Counterfeiting Cuius.
The closest imitations of diamonds and
other precious stones can be made out of
a mixture of violin-glass and borax. A
London lapidary once testified in com!
that he made all his imitations out oi
real stones, by taking pale, cheap stones,
splitting them, introducing a deepei
tone of color, and joining them again,
whereby the salable value of .the stonct
was considerable increased. Diamonds
are often split, and each half of the gem
is made to do duty on a paste foundation
on which it has been carefully mounted.
The operator then has two gem, at two
price. One Zocolind was accustomed tc
i i . r
VT0Cnrf avery thin flake of an inferioi
example of the stone he wished to "im-
prove, ciioosing tno.se wnremia.u 1.1 mis
color. As a bottom for his '"make up''
he took a bit of crystal whiet
he had shaped for his purpose:
covering this with a a transparent gl im
properly colored,, he fixed on the flake,
and then concealed the joining so well
in the setting that customers could be
deceived into believing that they had
very fine stones. Varieties of the topaz
0id other stones are often cut and
polished and palmed off as diamonds;
but this material is costly. A composi
tion for rubies is made of five hundred
parts of strass a specially manufactured
glass twenty parts of jgla s of antimon),
and a half-part' each or purple of Cassius
and gold. Mock pearls are sometimes
very deceptive in appearance, but they
can usually be detected with comparison
with the real gem, by their brittleness,
or by the' clumsy and'' blunt-edged ajr
pearance of the drill-holes, which' aro
usually perfect in the real pearls. Tho
scales of a small fish known as the bleak,
have been used in the formation of false,
pearls; but a3 it requires some eighteen
thousand of these hsh to provide one
pound weight of the - pearl-making ma
terial, the manufacture is not likely to
become extensive. Popular Science
Monthly.
Telegraphic Construction In Mexico.
Travelers on horseback in northern
Mexico traversing these vast, treeless,
and melancholy plains stop at night for
camp, and, finding the telegraph poles
accessible and admirably seasoned, cut
them down for firewood. And this is
not all. The humble ranchero, desiring
a stock of wire with which to fence in
an inclosure, goes with his peon servants
and cuts down a mile or two for use,
leaving poles oftentimes prostrate. I
have myself seen poles wire' ess, and also
long stretches of wire without poles. A
scarcely less formidable antagonist is .
found in the monkey tribe which inhab
its the jungles and chaparal of Tabasco.
Literally,, "the woods are full of them."
Their favorite diversion, when not in
quest of food, is to betake thepH&lves to
the telegraph line for gymnastic exer
cises, and linemen assert that often 100
able-bodied monkevs may be seen swing
ing on the wire, festooned, monkey fash- -ion,
by looping their tails. The con
tinuous vibration of these forest gym
nasts start3 the iron nails used on tho
cross arms, and these often come down,
bringing the wire with them.
And it is not a fafe matter to under
take to disperse these robust monkeys
who play the d'ekens-with the telegraph
lines in the sparely inhabited State of
Tabasco. Linemen have found that on
shooting a monkev swinging on the.wirc
they have been pursued by a whole regi
ment of monkeys. "It is no joke (no es
broma)," said a lineman, recently, "to
have a tribe of monkeys pursue one ;
they are very strong (may fuertes) and
can hit with a stone or a stick in a fash
inn to make a man howl with pain, a
thing that the monkey3 enjoy hugely.
Scientific Ameri&in.
The Doll Doctor or Leipslc.
The denizens of Leipsic, young and
old. mourn the loss of one of the most
! modest and retiring, yet most skilful
rnnerators. Frau Emma Friederike Schnei-
der, better known as the "doll-doctor,"
who died there last week. For more
than half a century; ever since the death
of her husband and child, thi3 quaint,
quiet and indefatigable woman has de
voted her life and skiil to the repairing
and freshening up of dolls, in which oc
cupation she had attained an incredible
dexterity not only, but also won the
hearts of the growing, as well as the
grown generations of Leipdc. A visit
to her atelier was one of the sights of the
city. Those who were permitted to en
ter" the sacred precincts, could only do sc
standing chairs, tables, the floor, the
walls, in fact every available place wa3
covered with "cripples" of both sexes,
boys and rirl3 in rasrs or entirely with
out habiliments, that lacked ono or both
eyes, one or both arms, or leg3 or feet,
the "innards," a nose, a wig, or the hall
or whole of a head, &c, and that wer
turned out as good as new by the quiet,
almost dwarfed little woman, to the de-.
light of tho juvenile possessors. He!
sphere of usefulness was confined to Leip
sic only no outsiders need apply.
Hex lose will indeed be "irreparable" foi
j a long time to come. Berlin Tage wet.