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 ,
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