JfosU'SKIKTS AKK ON HIK WAY. The 'coming event" of crinoline and actual Loops is foreshadowed in the roun 1 skirt4 no-v worn which fashion able modiste? an: stiffening at the bot tom to stand out quite as if upheld by a small hoopskirt. It will be dreadful, to go about in a can'e again, but at least it will be cleaner than, the present fashion of -kirts lopping about the feet. St. Louis Republic. THE 8HALIjK.it VET. Quality ra,ther than quantity was the principle upon which a Washington bride planned her trousseau. The mirriage which could only be classed under the head of runaways was undoubtedly the subject of much deep thought before hand, inasmuch as the accessories of toilet to be carried upon the eventful trip were reduced to the minimum. The wedding took place in the summer, and the conventional traveling bag was re placed by a white lace parasol. This was carried furled, the flimy white flounces serving as a receptacle for the trouseuu-a pair of curling tongs and a tooth brush. Kite Field's Washington. NAMES OK KASniON'AIU.E COLORS. The fashionable colors, or rather the fashionable names for colon? now in VOgue, are: Angeliquc, a pale appie green. Beige, really a beige drab. Castor, a dark beige. Castile, a bright tu.iT yellow. ' ,.-. 'Coquelicot, a bright brick red. -. Diuvolo, a bright cinnamon. Emerande, n brilliant emerald green. Floxinc, a brilliant light crimson. Geranium, a pa'o geranium red. Mascotte, in1: liurn moss green. Murier, an indefinite moss green. Paradis, a bird of paradise yellow. PiVoirie, a deep metallic scarlet. Varcche,. a dark moss green. A C.IIU, lAMI.Ni:. A San Fr.mcico paper raises the alarm that ('ulilomU is sullenng "a girl famine. " In every large town in that State, with th" exception of Ala meda, there is a lamentable paucity of the gentler sex. In Los Angeles the male population exceeds the female by 2000, in San Jose and Stockton by 1000, in Fresno by 2(500, , in Sacramento by 4000, and in Sau -Francisco by the startling number of 10,000. Terhaps half of the excess in these cases is due to the Chi nese population, which consists mainly of adult males, but after making liberal allowance for this element, there still re mains an immense preponderance of Caucassians of the sterner sex. The same thing is true of all the new West ern States. Montana has two men to one woman.1 Unless this peculiar disparity in numbers is soon rectified, thousands of men in that section -of the couutry are doomed to lives ;f involuntary bachelor hood. New York Press. BE CT- VD IN CHEERFUL- COLORS. It a woman is growing old she need 'not emphasize the fact by. putting on heavy garments and dull things. Black is too depressing for any bright woman to wear at any time. It is well enough for palls, nuns and prison matrons, but wives and mothers and teachers to whom careworn mci: and troubled children "o for sympathy and sunshine should bo clad in cheerful if not "shining gar ments." 1 1. nigh faced stuffs, shaggy wools and those dress patterns picked up at special sales not only weigh a woman down but age her. A woman born fifty years ago can be thirty-niue in a pretty navy blue-cheviot,' for the polite world allows her to be only .as old as she looks. If you don't believe this, go to the pho tographer an. I have your picture taken in a silk w list and again with your big fur or cloth t-.Kit on. When you get the proofs you will know at a glance the one vour trienuV will like. New York "World. A UAII.KJAl) WOMAN'. ". Woman has succeed in journalism, law, medicine, theology and politics, so it is not surprising to learn that she has doue well in railroading.. Minnie C. Hush has attracted attention by her re--xnarkab!e-u;cfs a-' an organizer of ex cursions. She is the Vandalia . Line's agent at Lakcvillc, Ind. For three years she has h:id charge of the passen ger, freight and telegraph office.- The receipts in October auiouuted to more thau l0,tHH, and that is only slightly in excess of the avenge. Miss Kush w;ts born in Lakeville twenty -one years ago. After acquiring a common school education she learned telegraphy, and her proficiency led to her selection as agent. She is a worker jn the W. (.'. T. I'. and Methodist Church societies, ller latest success was the conception a:nl execution of Harvest Home" excursions, when she surprised the Vandalia magnates by sending several hundred people into neighboring States o:1 special trains, and thus netted profit for tne railroad. New York Advertiser. THE LENGTH OF PRE?. Concerning the length of strcot dresses, fashion-makers, like doctors, disagree. From Paris, the seat of Gov ernment, whence the Parliament of fashion issues its fiats, come such con flicting declarations that it is easy to perceive that 4 wo powerful fictions are at work, and that not fashion alone but the potent interests of trade are at the root of these vjtal Questions', One noted designer declas emphatically that very full dresses, and m iht likely hoopskirts, will appear simultaneously with the coming of the robin and the organ grinder. Atiother equally powerful aa -thority siihis derisively at this dreadful prophesy, and declares that the balloon s and hideous wiie cages relics of a be nighted -and demoralized a? will never agam t e tolerated ov a nation of wcaeri whose tastes have become so cultivated, and who-e personal ideas and opinions have become so marked and so decided, This bloodless war make3 it a racier puzzliDg time for the modiste. "Do not touch the pretty dip of your sweep ing, gracefully tiailing gown," says one of these in authority. The time for tubby skirts has not yet arrived; but if you must have something new just now, at this transition period, ,have all the flare possible on the skirt portion, and all the excrescences and elaboration pos sible about your neck and shoulders, and you will pass the best kind of muster on dres? parade, on this side the water 'at least." New York Post. FASHION XOTES. Silver brooches are in great favor. Silk-faced velvets are popular for fancy jackets. Buckles, plain and fancy, are used on all the latest hats. Box cloth is becoming a fashionable material for ladies' jackets and cloaks. Elegant black nets, for evening cos tumes, show a spangled border, and all over jet designs. "Why doesn't somebody devise a pli able asbestos dre3s braid or some other kind that will wear a season? Gloves to be fashionable mustiot be too tight. They are however growing longer, and we are told that sleeves are to be proportionately shorter. Enormous sleeves of shaded velvet are worn in outdoor and indoor garments. The effect is pretty for a girl, but awful when the arms inside belong to woman of prominence. Long cloaks of brocaded stuffs with very full trimmings of fur or feathers seem to be in perennial favor. Nobody knows the years that they have been fashionable. Shoes grow more aud more pointed, and foot doctors rejoice. Figures would fail to compute the misery and suffering and bad temper that are caused by narrow-toed shoes. Tiny bonnets of passementerie and embroidery or metal filagree are the favorites for dressy wear. Many of them have no strings, while others have strings of inch-wide velvet. Three-quarter-length cloaks are very generally worn even though they are voted unbecoming and ungraceful. They are convenient and stylish a far as they go and that seems to answer all pur poses. Wide collars and cuffs of rich lace, particularly Irish crochet in cream silk, heavy point de Gene, and white silk Spanish Guipure, are worn with many of the handsome day and evening cos tumes of the season. The girl who still wears the stiff shirt waist also assumes a long four-in-hand tie of heavy black satin, in which is stuck the fanciful pin that is her delight, but which on her brother would be counted as very loud. White petticoats of very thin, fine lawn are quite the rage. Some ot the newest are several inches shorter than the black silk petticoat. They are elab orately ruffled and pulled, and trimmed with lace and, embroidery. Considerable trimming is seen on skirts, and in all that is used for such decorations a return to the t1830' styles is noticeable, and is shown in the bands, festoons, flounces, etc., which bring back the mode of that period. Nine in twelve women met in the street wear their hair up on the top of their heads. Hats and bonnets that de pend on pins for position must have something-to pin to; hence the popular it of the high style of .hair dressing. The "Columbus" cape of cloth or velvet is quite popular this season. It has a sort of vest piece inside the fronts, which affords extra warmth and protec tion, and its broad collar and large neck ruff give it a very distinguished 'appear ance. In freshening up a black silk gown, full sleeves, collar and broad revers of shaded veivet are used by the best dress makers. The fashion is pretty, as the colored velvet has the effect of soften ing the somewhat trying framing of plain black silk. The association of the bell skirt with bodice? having sleeves either very large or of moderate dimensions is observed. The double shirt, which has an apron or tablier front, in which a second fabric of a color contrasting or harmonizing is seen, opens upon the tablier itself. - Death From Jiy, Fright, Grief, Etc. We read Livy that when Hannibal had vanquished the Romans in the battle of Canute, "two women, seeing their sons whom they had supposed dead return m good health, died immediately from ex cessive joy. A Freuchman who had by chance passed over a narrow plank lying across a deep gorge in the dark, on viewing the spot the next day fell down dead while contemplating the dangers of the previous night. . Montague relates the case of a German nobleman who died of excessive grief on discovering that his son had been killed in battle. 4 'He stood," says Montague, "like a stock, with his eyes fixed on the corpse till the vehemency of hfe soirow having overwhelmed his vital spirits, he sank stone-dead to the ground." St. Louis Republic. Wall Papers aud Carpet?. I Many walls are rendered unwholesome by the paper that is supposed to adorn them. Either the paper itself contains copper or arsenic or some other injurious matter, or it has been on the wall so long that it is filled with disease germs enough to infect a whole family. - There is no doubt that contagious and other dis eases, mciuding consumption, have been extensively propagated in this way. Some old houses have walls with two, and even Viree, layers of paper on them, the dirt and filth of years bein covered i up and kept in store for successive oc- cunants. This i almost worsp than th. carpet nuisance; for though carpets mar ; become about the filthiest things that a j house contains, they - do wear out ia ; time, and are lifted from the floors. - . Denicc'St's Magazine. PECULIAUITirs oP KViri-l0TXG" IN 31IMXU CAMIVS. flow Mine Owner Are Swindled Lhe Law is Kay, Hut Horse Thieves Fare ..Madly Source ol a ? Itailroau s l uei. QP the crimes connected with an 1 growing out of theowner ihip of mines probably no re gion in the world, according to John II.. Spears' in the New York Sun. has had so many in proportion to the population. as the American desert. The t'vo valuable, mini; products thera are silver and borax. Of the thefts of silver the reader has learned something throu'm brief, reports of suits brought against certain mining superintendents at Vir ginia City. Stockholders charged that the superintendents stole part of the mice products. Tc prove this it was shown that while the reports of all the superintendents returned a certain sum as produced by the mines there, the re ' ''port of the Wells-Fargo Express Com pany showed that hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of the repoted mine product had been shipped. This differ ence had been pocketed by the thieves. There is an idle mine camp in Esmer alda County called Mariette. This camp grew up around a valuable vein of silver but it had to be abandoned because Mr. George W. Grayson, the owner in San Francisco, was unable to get a superin tendent who would not rob him. No crime is more common amoD" mining superintendents than .embezzlement, and none is so rarely punished. At the northern end of Fish Lake Valley in Nevada valuable borate of soda deposits were found some years ago. The deposits are what mining men call placer propositions. A lot of prospectors got claims staked off, but interferences were settled with the rifle. Even after the claims were surveyed out and patented there was a fight because one claim owner went deliberately over hia lines to steal the deposit of a neigh bor. Within two years or so the owner of claims on the Columbus marsh was driven from a neighbor's claim at the muzzle of a Winchester. And yet the crude stud! stolen was not worth a cent a pound where it was dug. Of the jumping of claims the taking of prospects from their rightful owners by superior force nothing more need be said save this, that every prospector must be always prepared to defend his claim with a rifle, and that no one but a teriuerfoot would calPthe stealing of a claim a crime. Ores are stolen, as well as bullion and borax. At Candelaria are two compan ies owning adjoining properties. One company has broken through and taken ore from the other gone beyond its line, and has done it deliberately. The case is how in court, but no one will ever be punished as a criminal in the case. At Candelaria is a teamster by the name of Elder, a great, hearty, jovial fellow, wno can look back to "the time when he could draw a certified check for many thousaL .3 of dollars. He was running with a partner the leading line of freight teams to Bodie, Cal. Rates were away up and the profits were im mense, but when apparently in the most prosperous condition the partner re ported no funds to pay a feed bill. The crash left Elder on the wagon bed to drive for wages. The partner did not even go through the form of walking out of camp; he went in style up north of the desert and straightway became the President and chief owner of a bank do ng a prosperous business. It was a per iectly clear case of embezzlement, a f sample of a crime met with more fre quently on the desert than elsewhere. Of the gambling and the stage rob bing nothing need be said, because the tourist would not think he was in a min ing region were there no such doings. They are a part of the wild life of the desert as of the other mining regions. Moreover, the agents of the Postoffice and the detectives of Wells-Fargo are making the stage robbing about the most dangerous business a man can go into. There is one kind of stealing on the desert, however, the stories of which astonish the tendertoot greatly when he hears them, fie sees a grave beside the desert trail, and the guide says : "That's So-and-so. He was a horse-thief. They overtook him right here." "Overtook kim" means shot him to death. What the tourist wants to know, then, is where the thief got his horses, how he happened to have them out there on the desert, and where he expected to land them eventually. It seems incredible that a horse thief should be found out there on the desert, where neither food nor fodder (save a little bunch grass at intervals apparently too wide to be available for a thief) can be found. Be sides, the physical discomfort of crossing such an inhospitable region seems enough to deter even a horse thief with vigilantes after. him. Nevertheless, there is a well-defined trail from Los Angelos and San Bernardino, Cal., across the Mojave desert by the way of Pilot Butte, IJesting Springs, and Panrurnp, Southern Utah. The thieves stole in California to sell to the Moruions, and then stole from the Mormons to sell in California. The thieves stole feed as well as animals, and away they went. The springs are in some places fifty raile3 apart, but there is grass at some springs and bunch grass in places. The terrors of the desert usually prevent pursuit, especially in the warmer months. But not many horsts were taken over these trails not many in comparison with the number that went over the Teton River route to Jack son's Hole in Wyoming and so on to Laramie. . . There is one crime continuously and openly committed on the desert which nobody but a tenderfoot would call a crime, and that is the stealing of wood from Government lands. One of the most interesting trees m the United States is the nut pine. It is a stunted, busby, gnarled tree that can be found on the crests of the Excelsior, the White, the Panamint and some other Nevada and California mountains. According to experiments made at the instance of the Agricultural Department, the nut pine isthe best kind of wood for fuel. When thoroughly dried and heated to half the temperature of boiling water a log of any size will blaze up in a roaring name -on the application of a match. In the gulches and canons lie the mine camps. On the mountain tops grow the nut pine groves. The citizens of the mine, camps pay from $10 to $12 per cord for cut pine fueL The Caxson and -Colnradn TNn.-m3 bnrr; nn nTnt excla. The tonrist who visits the desert camps to examine the statistics of crime is com pelled to conclude that in no place in the Nation is crime of every degree so prevalent. The chief reason for this condition of affairs is illustrated by the eiiorts of certain citizens to bring a crim inal to justice in the valley of the Amar gosa. A teamster engaged in haulinir borax from the Amargo?a works (now abandoned) ws killed by his assistant in a quarreL The assistant came up be hind him and pounded him to death'with a shovel. The criminal at first told con flicting stories about his deed, and then confessed all. And yet he was never even arrested for it. The matter was brought to the attention of the District Attorney and the Cor aaer of San Ber nardino County and they were urged to bring the man to trial. Their reasons for refifsing to do so is interesting. Sara toga Spring, the spot where the crime was committed and the body buried, was 100 miles across the .desert from a railroad station, and the expense and trouble of a legal investigation would be too great. That is to say, the laws of Nevada and California, as administered on the desert, are a farce. . The aggressive, the strong, and the quick-on-the -trigger are there a law unto themselves and to the rest of the cpmmunity. Tcrils of Cro slug ice. An English artist, author of "Froir. the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea," re cords two exciting adventures in the crossing of rivers on the ice. In the firsl cae the tarantass a Russian vehicle, in. shape not unlike a very unwieldly ba rouche" broke through, but the water was not deep, and no great harm was done. The second experience was more trying, though it, too, was without any serious consequences. At my last station but one the post master did not like to have me go on. It would soon be dark, and the road was bad; and he added something which I did not catch. I ordered the fresh taran tass and horses, however, and was soon on the move again. It was quite dark when we came to what looked like an immense white plain. This, the driver told me, was the River Selenga. In the darkness, the op posite bank was scarcely visible. Oui road lay right across it. At the edge of the ice my driver got down, saying that he would go and look round before venturing on it, as a man who had that afternoon come in from the next station reported that the ice was beginning to break up. X remembered an adventure of my own shortly before this, and felt the least bit uncomfortable when the driver, after being gone some twenty minutes, came back and said he thought it would be all right. It may have been my fancy, but the lumbering vehicle seemed to weigh more than ever as it rattled over the ice. We had reached, I suppose, about the mid dle of the river, when suddenly the horse3 drew up of their 'own accord, snorting with fear. A large dark mass was in front of them. Nothing could induce them to go on. The driver got down to see what was the troub'e, and almost immediately re turned and, getting up, hastily drove in another direction, informing me in an awed whisper that it was water, I then made but that the dark mass was a huge gap in the ice." The intelligence of the horses had undoubtedly saved us. After a long circuit we reached what appeared to be the opposite bank, only to find that it was an island, and that there was another broad stretch of ice still to be crossed. The driver had now the greatest diffi culty in getting the terror striken ani mals to go on at all. It was only after much coaxing, and eventuaily leading them himself, that they could be per suaded to venture on the treacherous surface. This time, nevertheless, we got across without further incident, and it was with a feeling of genuine relief that I felt the tarantass once more rolling ovei the grass. St. Louis Republic. A Chance fur Inventors. The Government of India is offering a number of prizes for the best designs oi models of a cart suitable for military re quirements, to wit, a mule cart for th transport use of the British army in India. The prizes offered are five in number, and are respectively 3759, $2500, $1875, $1250, $625, or $10,000 in all. Industries says : The award will be intrusted to a jury consisting of three military and three technical ex perts. The question of cost beicg of the highest importance, ths designs should give the estimated price in pounds sterling or rupees of a single cart delivered free on board in London or' at Bombay, Calcutta, or Allahabad. As a guarantee of good faith on the part of the competitor as regards estimated cost, he will, if recommended for a premium, receive, in the first instance, only one-half of such premium immedia tely on its award. He will, however, only receive the same proportion by which he may have under-estimated the actual cost of the cart. It is left to the jury to ascertain by tender in the open market, or by such other means as it considers suitable, the cost ot the cart to Government, and to make its award accordingly. The object desired to be attained by this competition is the pro duction of a design, accompanied in all clses by a working model, for a military transport cart adapted to conditions whirK mcV fVia nco i-if ?ntfrp.han(?eable metal parts for all important portions ot the cart absolutely indispensable. The designs and models should reach the Secretary to the Government of India, Military Department. Calcutta, not later than June 30, 1S93. From Half penny to 3facAlpin. An amusing account is given of the evolution of a name. A mm named Halfpenny lived in Dublin at the end of the last century. Having been quite successful ;n business, his children per suaded him to change his name to a more dignified one, which he 1 did by dropping the last letter. In the course of time the orthography was also changed, and when the man died he was buried as Mr. Halpesl. The fortunes of the family increased still fur ther, and the son toon dropped the "H." The next transition was an equally easy one, and "he who had ran the streets as little Kenny Halfpenny came out as Kenneth MacAlpin, the descend ant of a hundred kings. Boston Globe, , . . Tf p u r a on -. , , m e are going on ircai gracs lo grao to perfection. The world is much misled by somo o! its best maxims. To be avoided professing cream aa 1 living sour milk. Wall street has not enoja spa;e ta bury its suicides. We have the record of many a good rich man oa eaith. Every man laughs when he wins aal 3wears when he loses. How long will this metallic seatimsat crush out all manly feeling? As long as a good man is good he will be continually growing better. Some people are afraid to become good for fear their joys will all be lost. Beware of the man who puts hU p1: ket above country and his party above conscience. Make it a constant habit to be kind to everybody, and you will do more good than if you went about scattering aaoney. No man ever meets with shipwreck because he finds out that he is weak, but :housands are lost because they feel that ;hey are strong. How many a man has lie! to save ap pearances, especially to his wife, when le might have told the truth and gone ibout his business. Worldly men are like sour apples. Outwardly they present a fair appear ance, but the nearer the core you get the more acrid the flavor. Long: Hides In Australia. In Australia, where population is sparce and distances are great, some re markable feats of endurance in horse riding are credited to the mounted police feats more remarkable in some instances, taking into account all the circumstances, than those accomplished by the winnners in the military ride be tween Vienna and Berlin. Trooper Power in February, 1880, undertook an arduous journey across most inhospitable country in pursuit of a horse-stealer named John Smith. This zealous officer traveled 766 miles in twenty-six days without changing horses. For one stage of eighty miles he was wholly without water, and the country was in such a bad state tor 130 miles that his two horses had nothing to eat. His powers of en durance may be judged from the state ment that he did thirty miles a day on worn-out horses, along long dry stages and, with bad water or no water at all to drink. Trooper Willshire on another occa sion rode eighty-five miles in twenty hours on one horse. This was on May 28, 1887, two days after the natives had "stuck up" Eriduna Station. This same man traveled 200 miles in four days when he heard that a comrade named Shirley had died of thirst. He did not have macadamized roads and plenty of fresh water, like the German officers, but he had a broiling sun to endure, sand hills to climb, "mulga'' scrub to penetrate, and was sometimes compelled to take dead animals out of native wells before he could use the water. London News. The Po;mlarily of Metal Be Meads. The demand for metal bedsteads has increased very rapidly during the last few years, and more especially the last few months, and the West is changing its reputation in this line ot goods. Formerly the demand was almost exclu sively for wooden bedsteads, and very few iron, and still fewer brass beds were sold west of the Mississippi. Now, how ever, there is a steady call for good iron and brass bedsteads, as well as for lower priced grades. St. Louis is making a large quantity of furniture of every kind, and for some time has been manufactur ing iron bedsteads of very durable and popular pattern. Now, to meet, the de mand for artisticbrass bedsteads, a plant is being put in and another important addition made to the already extensive manufacturing facilities of the city One of the reasons of the great growth in the furniture business of the city is the increased friendly relations between St. Louis and Mexico. Some people think there is not much scope for trade with Spanish-American countries, but this sentiment 13 confined exclusively to those who have never been to Mexico or to any other of the republics in which the Spanish language is spoken exclu sively or extensively. One month spent in any of these countries will convince the most sceptical that the United States ought to have nine-tenths of the trade of these prosperous communities, and that it can have it for little mors than the logical asking. St. liouis Globe Democrat. Carious Xornresian Le??nd. Thorghutten, the famous Norwegian mountain, has a hole extending entirely through it from one side to the other. According to a Norwegian legend this same Mount Thorghatten was once a bat, and belonged to one Thorg, hence the name Thorghatten. It seems that in the mythical ages a giant an I giantess fell violently in love with each other. They were forced to part for a time, but vowed that they would marry in the near future. Soon after, however, the fickle woman pledged her troth to an other. This angered her giant lover to a degree unknown to modern men of smaller stature. He was seventy miles from her when the elfs brought the news, but, selecting a good arrow, he shot it in her direction. Now it happened that her brother, Thorg, was standing in di rect line of the arrow's flight. It went through his hat and skull, killing him instantly, and he fell harmless ai the feet of the fathless giantess. She had the power of turning all objects into stone, and forthwith willed that her brother's hat become a stone monument to the tragedy. The cruel lover was turned to stone, where he sat astride his horse at Hestmando, and the giantess herself petrified at Lecko. The two latter ob jects have disappeared, bat Thorg's hat (Thorghatten) is still the object of many curious pilgrimages. St. Louis Repub lic. Increase In Gold 1'roJaction. Tear by year the gold production of the world is increasing, and the results for 1831 were the lax jest on record. In round numbers the production for the Ust five years was as follows: 1837, 5,097,600 ounces; 185S. 5,251,000 ounces; 1S39, 5,641,000 ounce; 190, 5,586,000 ounces, and 1S91, 6,033,000 ounces. For the first time in many vean there was a tlijrht set-back in 1590." DE LHI, THE I SrblASTCllf' TTF TUUOXES ANI PALiAClSS. A Chair ot State Worth $3,000,000 Tho Venerated Pillar ot Asoka An Ancient Prince's Torab Guar Jed by His Ancestors. ONE of the most historic cities in India is the old and far famed mogul city of Delhi or Indraprestba. It was the Rome of Asia for many centuries, ruling aver millions long before the dawn of the Christian era. Delhi was from time immemorial' the city of Indian poten tates, a seat of great strength and power whose treasures were at once the pride and envy of the oriental world. It was a city of thrones and palaces, containing the famous glittering peacock throne i chair of state which in its gorgeous dis play of eotd, silver and precious stones surpassed, probably, anything of its kind ever known before or since. . Its value is placed at $0,000,000. Upon this maguificent throne, placed on a carved and .inlaid marble platform in the magnificent marble audience chamber, sat the most powerful rulers of the ori ent, dealing out favors and penalties to their subjects as they lay prostrate be fore the august sovereigns. The fame of this chair alone eventually created cu pidity enoush to wreck the kingdom. Delhi, with its wonderful fort, mosque? and temples and the ruins of ancient tombs, gardens, serais and palaces, covers an area of about forty-five square miles, and presents a remarkable con trast between the old and the new Delhi. Here on the banks of the sacred Jumns are the remains of seven great cities, built in the olden times by as many powerful rulers. The Hindu scripture? declare that a city inhabited for a longer period than a thousand years s sure tc be visited by disaster if not destruction, hence the invariable practice of building new cities and forsaking the-old about each ten centuries. According to this computation Delhi, or ancient Indraprestba, should be 700C years old, and perhaps it is, for we find that Yudhishthira, one of tne first King; of whom we have any recorJ, was suc ceeded by thirty generations ot his family; the next dynasty held the throne for 5UU years; then came the Gautamas, who ruled through the lifetime of fifteen sovereigns. These were followed by the Mayuras until nine of them hai occupied the throne, the last of whom, he Rijah Pala. was conquered by Vikramaditya, of Ujjain, in Maliva, nfty-se7en years before the birth of Christ. How old the first city of Delhi really is ha3 not been determined. The fourtli or fifth city contains the famous pillar of Asoka, upon which is an authentic inscription dated the third century before Christ. It is of interest to note how well pre served these ancient tomb3 and temples are in Delhi. Tuq dry atmosphere seems to preserve the faintest trace on the chiseled stone. Remarkable Hindu sculp turing several thousands of years old seems as fresh as though it were finished but a few years ago. Many of the in scriptions in Sanscrit are legible to this day. The ancient pillar of Asoka stands in the middle of what was once a magoili cent three story building, rising nearly forty-five feet. It wa3 brought from Tophar, at the foot of the Siwalik hill?, where the Jumna enters the plains. It is a monolith of pink sandstone, now broken at the top in a serrated manner, and measures nearly eleven feet in cir cumference, where it issues from the third story roof. Tts great .value lies in the fact that it bears the oldest Pali inscrip tion and the oldest written character? found in India, dating as they do from the middle of the third century B. C. The characters are clearly cut and per fectly legible to this day. The inscrip tions are noteworthy, a3 they contain the edict of Asoka, which prohibits the tak ing of life. To think tha. this great and good, man, living neatly twenty-three centuriea ago, should have been so far in advance of our boasted civilization as to prohibit the taking of life under and all circumstances seems a remark able commentary upon civilization. We are wont to look back 6000 years upon the people of India and pity their sav age state and untutored minds. We may well look back admiringly. Among these ancient ruins at Delhi is the Kadam Sharif or "Holy Footstep.' It is near the tomb of Prince Fatcb Khan, built in 1374. The "Holy Foot step"' consists of a piece of marble with the miraculous impress of MohammeJ's foot. It is about eighteen inches long by six inches wide, and was brought from the holy city of Mecca by the Prince's tutor. This piece of marble is bowed to, prayed to, kissed and wor shiped as have been other pieces of marble in Christian lands with Christian enlightenment. The tomb of Mirzi Jehangir is pecu liarly interesting, from the fact that it is guarded by his descendant;. Mirzi Jehangir was the son of Albar II, and is now a saint. In and about his sacred tomb one encounters fifty descendants of the saint's sister, for he never married. The family are Sufis, and guard the sa cred resting place of their sainted rela tive as reverently and constantly as liej within human power. For mmy hun dred 'Tears these descendants have guarded thb tomb night and day, and it is probable that they will continue to do so for many hundred years to come. There is something touching in the self sacrifice of these peopIe. San Francisco Chronicle. War by a Blunder. According to the account of the King of Dahomey, the war between him and the French was the outcome of a stupid blunder, or was thrust upon him by the French in a most high handed manner, tie says that the French resident at Porto Novo complained to him of the conduct of some of the tribes on the river Qaeme, and that he tent his army to punish them. The French, hearing the firing, proceeded up the river and, without stopping to look into the mat ter, opened fire on the Dahomey troop, ulliag a number ol them. Tne troops returned the fire, for which, when they returned to Aoomey, he punished them "everely. He then ent an embassage of j ;-eice to the French resident, but hi I vtrturea were rejected. He cite the iact that he permitted the French mer chant to leave Why dan at the opening of hostilities, as an evidence of his peaceable attentions. He maintains that he did all that he conld to keep out of the trouble. New Orleans Picayuae. In the city of New York. Corn (maize) never rows unevenly; supposed to be because of its having op posite radials of 'growth from the cob center. A German savant propo3C3 to disinfect the Elbe and other rivers by means of electricity. He says that sewers can be disinfected in a similar way. Women require one hour of sleep more a day than meu. -Fewer of the latter reach the aje of fifty than the former, but afterward the sterner se has the best of it. The comet medal of the Astronomical Soeiety of the Pacific Coast has been awarded to Edwin- Holmes; of London, England, for his discovery of the un expected comet on Noveuber C. Luzj finds that when porcelain is heated to a very high temperature and then held in smoky gra flime for tea to fifteen minutes, a peculiar deposifof carbon is obtained, which appears to be a new allotropic form of this remarkable element. It hs - been discovered by the milk 1 condensing factory at Newport, Me., that the long-keeping qualities ot Maine milk are due to the fact that it contains silica and lime incident to a granite soil, while milk from other factories contains iron and alkali, showing iron in the soil. A number of authorities believe that the galls on an oak by attracting ants lead to the slaughter of quantities of caterpillar! and other insects which are its natural enemies. It illustrates the value of this protection by the statement that the inhabitants of a single ant's nest may destroy in a single day upwards of 100,000 insects. By the recent discovery of a fossil hemipterous insect in the uptjer beds of the Lower bilurian formation of scania in Sweden, the horizon of insect life is lewered very considerably. Heretofore the honor of being the most ancient of insects has been ascribed to the cock roach, one having occurred in the Upper Silurian of France. Dr. Sheldon Jackson Jackson tells us that it is impossible that the salmon berry of Alaska should get its name from its being put up in salmon oil. Thero is, he says, no such thing as salmon oil In use there. The only oil used is made from the dogfish, the herring and tho Uliuan fish. It gets its name, say Dr. Jackson, from the color of the berry. There are two varieties of berries, one of which is reddish and the other a pure lalmon color. Tlie Digger Iiidinu?. A few weeks ago I had my Grst infro- : -duction to a tribe of Digger Indians, living as they have lived for ccuturie-, in huts made of tulcs, which oiler about as much protection as a hut male of Columbia County cornstalks, writes a correspondent of the Troy (N. Y.) T.mes from San Diego, Cal. Having read -1 Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson's "Itmuona," I hoped to see some idealistic dusky maidens of the Rimona type maidens beautiful, both mehtallv and physically. The damsel first introduced was one hun dred and twenty-eight years old. She was gnawing a hunk of raw meat as she sat on straw beside her hut. This scnor ita was too much interested in beef jusi then to talk much. Her blac'c eye was full of fire, but the skiu of face and body resembled shriveled leather and beto kened great age. They were all ot a kind, these men and women. In body they resemble Australian bushmen. They have flat noses, thick lips, dark skin?, and less mental development than Ethi opians. Their natutal way of life before missionaries came was to eat vermin, live ia boles and incase themselves ia mud. For the sake of the country honor it is gratifying that ethnologicts class these people apart from the North American Indian. Humboldt included them in the dregs of humanity 3uch as the inhabitants of Van D.emen's Lind. The Catholic priests, however, navo accomplished excellent results educating the young Indians. Lw as the Digger are they believe in a superior being end revered a phantom called ChinigcLinich, believing that this upecter lived a.nong the star and dispensed justice. He was their creator and guide. In earlier days every village had a rough temple, in which the god was represented by a coyote skin stuffed with feathers, talons, claws and beaks. Tuc Diggers steal and Irink fire water. Whisky is killing tho Diggers. The white men have wrested ;heir lands from them, introduced de ily riccy, and as a rule care naught for these aativee. In this connection it was I I most ludicrous last Decoration Day to watch a party of Indian school children, with flowers in hand, standing bcVi le a veteran's grave, at a signal from the good priest in charge sjng: My country, HU of taee. Ln i ot the noble ire, tc. And from another point of view it was extremely pathetic. ' The Faimu (iruyere Cliese. The famous Grujere cheese it made it the isolated chalets perched on the crets of ravine or nestled io the heart of the valleys of the Jura, France. A soon as the snow melt, the herds ate Set loose from their barns in the lowland below, and so well do they know their way that each find it familiar pastute ground without need of guidance. This cheese i all made in co-operative factories, w here the spirit of honor to prevails tb it an associate who should put water in tha milk would be at once expeileJ. TLa cheeses are stamped with the name of the association and of the qualitv of the milk supplied by each member. They a sold half yearly, and meanwhile arc ar ranged in the cellars precisely after t h fashion of book on shelves, o re turned and rubbed with salt every day. American Agriculturist. t Jio.s8 Accident Prevent! an Soeletv. In London there is a Horse Accident Prevention Society to which nearly all horse owners btlong. It kesp Hppery pavements sanded or graveled and strives constantly toward the deired end of uniforaynTeai8Qtj in the drivin? dis tricts. 7A New York woman said re cently that her hors, "d to the tooe pavements, became almost unmanageable wbeathevatruckablockof the NicjoI on paving. It wa the marked , differ ence between the two whici txpert said frightened the hor. Doubtless other have exprienced the-same trouble m driving, a trouble which unifor any of pavements would obviate. -Atlanta Jtyi , naL ' ' i

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