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The Chronicle. I
Hi
WILKESBOItO. N. C
There are over 40,000 children attend
ing the schools in London who are insuf
ficiently fed. " ' '
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The Southern people are advised, states
the Chicago Sun, to raise hops as -being
the most profitable crop they could
raise. A great many nurseries have been
started this year.
The Chieago
thinks that "the
a new party that
farmers are creating
will absorb the best elements of the old
parties, and enter upon a career of pres-
tige and
power."
There is no end to the projections of
electric railroads in different parts of the
country, exclaims the Drovers' Journal.
The electricians are the busiest engineers
in the country.. The business is expand
ing even faster, than it can be conven
iently kept up with. j
Simultaneously with the taking of the
recent census, and under Government
, . i
- auspices,-though by a distinct process, a
religious enumeration was made From
approximate figures already announced it
appears that the total church membership
in the United States is about 22,000,000,
and is gaining at the rate of 1,000,000 a
year.' " ' : t
1 The Chicago Post is convinced that a
"fortune"a waits the inventor of an. auto--matic
dishwasher. It was thought the
problem would solve itself when a few
years ago some genius invented pa pet
basins, platters and bowls but neither
the paper nor the pine crockery filled the
bill, and half the world is still wearing
., her life away scraping pans, scouring
kettles , and washing and wiping glass-
I ware and plncelain.
. Iowa has passed a stringent tramp law.
It "declares that any male person sixteen
years of age or over, who is physically
able to work, who is wandering about
begging or idle and who cannot show
reasonable efforts to secure employment,
shall be deemed a tramp, sent to jail and
put at hard work. While in jail he shall
not be allowed tobacco, liquors,' sporting
or illustrated newspapers,-cards or any
other means of amusement. Tramps will
give Iowa a wide berth. ! !
' Women are coming to. the front in busi
ness life, says the Macon (Ga.) Tdegraph.
There are nearly 15,000 of them engaged
as commercial travelers in the United
States. The demand for women to do
clerical and office work increases all the
while, and they are better paid f on their
work now than ever before. The gradu- f
atcs of the Georgia Industrial School for
Girls will soon begin to increase the no
ble army of women who, from choice or
necessity, are striving to be self-support-ing.
' .
. That forestry pays in dollars and cents,
observes the Commercial Adtertiter, is
shown conclusively by the fact that vrhile
France is only twice as large as Colorado,
yet by taking care of her forests she wa7
able in 18S7 to export, besides rnoeting
the home needs of . 38,218,903 people,
$23,360,758 in value of the products of
the forest, or nearly as much : as the
United States, with fifteen times the area
outside of Alaska, the exports of the
United States, in 18S7 being $22,387,-"
787.
J
-The Ohio courts havo decided, avere
the Detroit Free Prat, that no damages
can be recovered from a railroad com- ;
pany for killing a cow if it can be shown
that there was in plain sight of the cow
a notice to look out for the locomotive.
Such at least M the effect of the decision
though not it3 precise wording. It was
really the converse of the proposition,
the court actually holding that the owner
of, ths cow could recover because there
'vas not a notice., of the character de
scribed. ' !
A striking proof of the unpopularity
of the English army among the Irish is
furnished by the" official army statement
that has just been p'ublishhd. This state
ment shows that twenty years ago out of
-168,910 non-cornmis&ioned officers and
privates in the' army 47,151 were Irish,
whereas to-day, although this, force has
been increased to 199,473, the Irish ele-
merit among it has dwindled to 28,712.
FQrther than Athis, the statement indi
cates a similar feeling among the Scotch,
where the decline, whilo not so marked
as in the case of the Irish, is , great. In
1870 out of every thousand men the pro
portion was 614 English or HVelsh, 97
Scotch and 28 Irish. This year the pro
portion per thousand Is 7G9 English ': or
Welsh, 83 Scotch and 145 Irish." j ! ,
Mother Johnny, you said you'd bet
Sunday-school., , i , .
Johnny (withjar-away look) Yea'm.
Mother How does it happen that
your hands smell fi shy? ,
Johnny I carried home th' Bcnday
Echool paper, an' an' th'-Citside -paga
all about Jonah an' tli' whale. IN
rk Weekly. -'"' ;
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THE QCD FARM HOME.
If you've bee i a happy, rorer '
; Through the lelds of fragrant clovec, -:
Where life is & 1 a simple round of bliss, j .
When at eve the sun is sinking . ; .
An j the sta s are faintly winkins
You can call t mind a picture such as this:
Hark! The c 3ws are homeward roaming
Through the woodland pasture's gloaming,
I can hear the n gently lowing through the
' i dells, ' , ; ' ; V ': ,''.',''
And J from o it th3 bosky dingle
Comes tho s afUy tangled jingle
And the of t-n peated echo of the bclL?.
Strange ho r memory 'will fling her
Arms about the scenes we bring her.
And the Cet ting years' that make 'them
I stronger grow; f
Though I under far and sadly
From that lear old home, how gladly
recall tn daerisnea scenes ot long ago.
Hart! Thd
cows are homsward roaming
Through tie woodland pasture's gloaming,
I can' hear them gently lowing through the
dell, j - I ! ' . "
And from! out the bosky din jrla
Comes the! softly tangled jinglo
And the oft-repeated echo of the bells.
Chicago Posf.
A B
iVCHELOR'S FALL.
There
was general astonishment in
our little circle of friends when we learned
of the coming marriage of Valentin San-
ccrre.
WThat! lie. that hardened old
bachelor;
scolfed at
that Parisian skeptic, who
; every suggestion of matrimony;
, that jolly
'n aver, wno iiaa sworn a
hundred times that he 4 4 would never be
caught!" j Yes, Valentin was going to
enter the great fraternity, and whom was
he to many ? A widow. More than that,
a provincial. ' j
We could not understand it. So, the
first time I met him, I took him by the
arm and demanded an explanation!
f'lhavfe but little time,"hesaidi "and
have a great many things to do, I have
just come from the mayor's, and am going
to the printer's Passage des Panoramas
for thd invitations. If you care to come
with me rchat far "j j
'"Howj did it come about?" I asked
him, and! wc started down the boulevard,
arm in arm.
f "The story is quite brief," Valentin
said, "and very oommonplace; but since
you insist upon knowing it, here it is."
j In the month of February I went to
Nice foil the carnival, i I have a horror
of traveling by night, so I took the eight
fifty-fiva train in the mornincr: which
should land me in Marseilles at rive mm
utes after midnight. I would pass a day
in Marseilles, where my good friends, the
Kombauds, of the Rue Saint Ferreol, ex
pected jne to breakfast., The following
day I wAuld leave for Nice, where I would
arrive ibout two o clock in the after
noon, j
At the Lyons depot there was a
great
crowd, but, thanks to an obliging sta
tion master, I was able to find a place
.in a compartment. II was alone with
another! J traveler decorated, of severe
bearing' -with an official air whose only
baggado was a portfolio. Certainly he
would pot go far with that" equipment
and soln I should be alone alone, the
one thing that makes a railway journey
supportable.
.Everybody was settled ; thjt tram wa3
about to start. Suddenly, there were
sounds of a dispute at the door.
N
monsieur, no, said a iresniemi-
nine vbice, with an almost imperceptible
Doutnern accent; "i. ordered a sleeping
berth J T must have a sleeping berth 1"
"But, madame, we have none.'
i "B it I must have a "place."
"A id I offer you- two in .that conch."
"Ir there V' i .
"Yes, madame.") -
A little brown head was thrust in the
doorv ay, and hen withdrawn quickly, as
throu ;h frightened.! j j i
"T wo gentlemen are there." i
T 'ell, madame, 1 1 cannot give you a
coacl all to yourself." :
. "Very wellj . I shall not go." 1
s you please. Tho train is going
to start.- I hata given the signal,"
" top. Stop1 ! Ij absolutely must go.
And here is this carriage only? Well,
they will give kne a sleeping berth at the
next station?' j ;
"" lcs, madame, yes."
"You will telegraph?"
"Yes, yes, madame." " '
, The door opened; in plunged the lit
tle brown head, surrounded by a halo of
pacl ages andj rugs; a shrill whistle cut
the dr; we were off. j "
T :e official gentleman gallantly seated
himself near me, so as to leave the whole
sidd to the new arrival. ' Without so
,mudh as a glance toward us, all flurried
andj rosy with haste, sho arranged her
cages in the rack and about herself
the haste common to persons who
nave many long hours to pass in , a car.
Out of the corner of my eye I followed
hen little mancuvres, and I ascertained
with pleasure that she was charming.
I. say with pleasure; for however proper
on i's intentions may be, it is always
mc re agreeable to travel with a pretty
woman than with an old man in spec
'Mies.-... ; j.. ; i . i
jine cold was intense; the country,
covered with , snow, lighted by a pale
sub, seemed-to j tly rapidly by the two
sides of the coach. The fair traveler,
enveloped to the chin in her ni rr miTiH
oDstinately f rom the window on the left.
The official gentleman drew from hi3
pfertlolio
some large napers. vellow.
8t-CDi! blue'vit?1 Panted headings,
wuicix Aiojseiueu nimseii to read attcn-
VrF uu mJseiI comfortably in-
tKii-Ti?1 ,mI ;,feet.?P? tot-water
uww.ic, x wcKeo.ine pue oi newspapers,
nm-Tht ftt th , Rtnfinn tr noon Vio
t At eleven-twenty -one, Laroche. The
tram stopped. The official frentleman
arranged his papers, rose, bowed and got
ut. xareiy uaa ne stepped down when
lie was received py the station-master.
who called him "Monsieur l'lnspectenr."
me lauy traveler came to the door
f Station-master!" she called.
"Madame!",
"You have been tel
4x-aria-igr u Efjeping-DertlK"
Yes, madame ; I have forwarded the
dispatch." 1
What, forwarded it ! An I not to I
be 'riven that slcepbg-berth immediate-
Impossible, madame; we have no
coaches here. ; Xoa caa givea one
Lyons." - ;' " .
"At Lyons!"' At what hour!"
"Five-forty-five, madam.";
"The whole day, then I ' I cannot re
main in this coach until that; hour. .It's
impossible-J will nQt.". -v j
tTake cafe,'' madame, 'the t train is
starting." And the train drew .out.
She flung herself in -her. corner, furi
ous, without throwing a single glance in
my direction. I plunged into tho perusal
of my tenth newspaper. '.''
I should have liked very much to en
gage in conversation with her, but the
pretext, the opening subject, where was
was it to be found? Considering the
temperature, the threadbare pretext of
windows tc open or. close was not to be
thought of.- What then was to be done?
My neighbor, I had discovered imme
diately, with the scent of an' old Parisian,
was a woman of the world, and of the
best." To speak to her without knowing
her, would have made me appear in her
eyes as. the lowest of commercial travel
ers. The 'only way to solve the difficulty
was for me to find something strikingly
original to i say to her; But what? I
cudgeled my brain in vain.! '
I was still searching a! pretext
for
opening a conversation, when the train
stopped.
"Tonnerrel Twentv-five minutes for
refreshments I " cried the porter, open
ing the door. ' I
My. neighbor arose, relieved herself of
her rucrs. which she left in the coach
with her three little J bags, and de
scended. It was noon, and her hunger
evidently began to make itself felt.. She
went in the direction of the buffet, to
the left, - on the other side of the track.
I followed her. I could then admire, at
my case, her elegant figure, well out
lined in a long sealskin cloak. I also
remarked the pretty black ringlets at the
nape of her neck, her gfayfelt hat, and
her. tiny little feet.
At the entrance to the hall stood the
steward. 1 Bedecked with a velvet skull
cap, he indicated with his hand and a
napkin a long table to be stormed. I
entered with the tide of unkempt, un
gloved, flurried travelers, and hastily
swallowed the succession of dishes served
to me: the lady traveler! took some broth
at a separate table.
I got up among the first and went out
to smoke a cigar on the platform. The
twenty-five minutes would soon be
passed. The travelers! in groups, came
out of the eating-room
their coaches.
I also reinstalled myself in mine. My
lady traveler had not
saw her in the little station book-stall on
the other side of the tnck. looking at
the books displayed. Though I saw her
from the back, I recognized her easily by
her pretty style, her sealskin cloak and
her gray hat. Her hair seemed to me
tp be a little lighter, but that was owing
to the distance, no doubt.
Everybody had re-entered tho coaches;
the porter shut the doors tumultuously.
"She is trolnrr to be left." I thought.
and I threw open the winddw.
o O I ' - '
Jdaaatnei Madame v i cried. l
was tooiarou; sue
did not hear me.
The whistle blew, i
done?
What was to be
An idea flashed through my
brain
miick as lightning. Sue was going to
stay there, in that horrible cold, without
ba""a-e. Sue should have at least her
small . belongings tho poor little
woman! I made an armful of the three
bag3 and the rugs, and throwing it all to
a man in uniform, who was near the
coach upon tho roadi I cried out: "To
that lady yonder!"
i
The man in uniform took the thmg3
and went toward tho, lady of the book
stall. At .the same moment, at the op
posite side of the coach the side of the
platform the door opened and my lady
traveler, perturbed, hustled by a gran
bling conductor, plunged into the coach,
and the train went oil.
Ilorror I I had mistaken tho traveler
the woman of the j book -stall was not
tho one ; the same cloak, same- hat, same
stylo, but not she, I had played a pret
ty trick.
She was barely in the coach, when she
cried out: "My packages they have
stolen my packages 17 And for the "first
time, she looked at, me with what a
look. Heavens ! that look I shall never
forget it.
"No, madame," I said to her, "your
bundles 8 re not stolen; they have been
left at Tonnerre." ! '
"At Tonnerre? now?"
I explained all to her. The second
glance she shot at me I think I shall re
member longer than the other.
I am disconsolate, madame," I stam
mered; "absolutely disconsolate. But
the motive was good ; I thought you were
going to miss the train, that you would
be cold I did not want you to be cold
I beg you will pardon me. Fear nothing
for your things; they are in safe hands
a man in uniform. . At the next station
you will telegraph I will telegraph
we will telegraph; they will send them
to you right awayr You shall have them,
I swear it to you, 'even if I should have
to return myself to Tonnerre to get
them." -
"Enough, sir," she said; "I . know
what I have to do," and she returned to
her corner, twisting her gloves with an
thought of the cold.
ger. But, poor. little thing, Bhe had not
She no
longer had
-warm ruos. r
At the end of about ten minutes she
began to shiver. Well might she draw
her sealskin about her pretty figure; posi
I t
tively she chattered.
.Tvaiaaame, isaid, ! Deg you, upon
roy knees, accept my rug; you -will be
ill, it will be my fault, and never in my
life shall I console myself." ' -;
"I am not speaking to you. sir." she
said, dryly.. ,. I -.' . .
X was very nervous, very exciti
pegin wiiu, l lound her charmu
. 1 1 v
it M .
iuku a was lunous over ray n
uiunuer. iu snort. 1 nad arnvi
M. AO
5g, , and
JJCUIOUS
Ed at a
jjxsat resolution. - . (
1 "Madame," I said, 1 'accept this rutf,
or, X swear to you, l wiu precipitate my
self from the window." And throwing
the rug between her and me, I Uf ted the
wmaow ana seizeu iuo uuwwo a.uww v
the door.
Was 1 determined to throw myself
out? Between you and mc, not aito-
.tioi -t thinir? hnt it appears I looked
as if I were, for she criea immediately ;
"You are crazy, sir, to think of such a
thing! . '
"The nig, or I jumpl" .
She took the rug, and, in a tone more
softened,' said : ' "But, sir, you will
perish with cold." v v - ,
Do not disturb yourseu about me.
madame; I am not chilly, and even if I
should be cold, it will only be the just
punishment ; of my ' . unpardonable stu
pidity." j.; '
"Say of your too great haste, tor you
. ...i? a. t i
are rignt, tne mienuon was goou; uiu
how couid iyou have taken that lady for
mel" - . '
Because she i appeared to be charm-
She smiled; the ice was broken the
ice oi tne conversation, De it unaer-
stoodr for, otherwise, I shivered. But
how quickly I forgot the cold and the
journey and all! She was delicious, ex
quisite, adorable.
.She loved travel, like myself; she had
been In Italy, like myself; in Spain, 'like
myself; she dreamed of going to Egypt,
still like myself; -in literature, in music,,
in , everything, the -'same tastes as my
own. And then, think of. this'
A crowd of general connections. She
was intimate with the Saint-Chamas,
with the Savnoys, with the Montbacpns,
above all. ! To think that T had, per
haps; met her twenty times in those
salons, and that I never noticed her I
She spoke naively, amiably, with the
charming simplicity that I admired so
much. A slight very slight provin
cial accent, imperceptible a warble
rather gave to her words the light skip
ping of a bird. We conversed, natural
ly, with keen pleasure.
Though I did everything m the world
to conceal it, heavens, how cold I was!
At Dijon (two-twenty), my right foot
was seized; we telegraphed to Tonnerre
for the things left behind.
At Macon (four-forty-five), it was the
turnof the left foot; we received a dis
patch from Tonnerre, saying the bag
gage would arrive at Marseilles the fol
lowing day.
At Lyon-Perrache (five-forty-eight),
my left hand became insensible; she for-
got ner sleeping-berth.
At Valence (eight-three), my right
hand followed the example of the left ; I
learned that she was a widow and with
out children.
Marseilles at last (twelve-five), I
sneezed three times; she handed me .my
rug and said, graciously: "Au revoir."
Au revoir ! Ah, I was wild I
I passed the night at the Hotel de
Noailles an agitated night, full of
thoughts of her.
The following morning, when I awoke,
I had the most horrible cold in the head
imaginable. Would I dare present my
self in that state to my friends the Kom
bauds? Bah I 'Travelers must take
travelers' chances. They would take me
as l was, and tne next day l would cure
myself in the "sun at Nice.
That excellent Rombaud had invited
several friends in my honor, and among
the persons there was my traveler my
cnarmer. .
When I was presented to her, an im
perceptible smile played about "her lips.
I bowed and said : " And Tonnerre?"
"I have tiem," she whispered.
We sat down at table.
"What a cold, my good fellow I" cried
Rombaud; "where did.you get it? In
the cars,' perhaps?"
"Possibly," I replied; "but, to tell
the truth, I do not regret it."
Nobody understood this odd remark,
but I felt the soft and. friendly glance of
my traveler glide toward me across the
table.
What morn shall T tell vnu? The fol-
iowing day I did not leave Nice, and I
am to bo married in a fortnight. From
the French in Argonaut.
Tho Trne Irish Shamrock.
In Ireland only one shamrock is known,
says the American Notes and Queries. It
is an indigenous species of clover, which
trails along the ground among the grass
in meadows. The trefoil leaves are not
more than one -fourth the size of the
smallest clover I have seen in America,
and are pure green in color, without any
of the brown shading of white and pink
clovers. The creeping stem is hard. and
fibrous, and is difficult to dislodge from
the ! earth. On " St. Patrick s Day the
true; shamrock has to be searched out
among the grass, for, though compara
tively plentiful at that season, it grows
close to the ground. Later it bears a
tiny "whitey-brown" blossom. The in
formation that shamrakh is the Arabic
word for trefoil may be of service, to
those interested in the origin of the Irish
race. The word could have been intro
duced by the Milesians, Or it may. furnish
an argument in support of the conten
tention that one of the lost ten tribes of
Israel settled in Ireland, which has been
revived by the publication of a recent
book.
The Queer Japs.
The Japanese books begin where ours
end, the word finis coming where we put
the title page ; the foot notes are printed
at tho top of the page and the reader:
puts in his marker at the bottom. In.
Japan men make themselves merry with
wine before dinner, not after; the sweets
precede the roasts. A Japanese mounts
his horse on the right side instead of on
the left. The mane of tho animal hangs
on the left side instead of On the right ;
the horse stands in the stable with his
head where his tail ought to .be. Boats
are hauled upon the beaches stern first.
The Japanese saw snd plane toward them
instead of away . from them., - Keys turn
in instead of out. The best rooms of a
Japanese house are always at the back
end architects, when building, ; begin
with the roof. .. r - -
KBITS: ANU OS X?
have sup
erseded greerti
Blue seems so
Adrian, Mich. has three thriving lad jl
doctors. ; i;:. . j
Jackets are . somewhat 4ongi
formerly. ; '.
I .-n rr lip-ht-weight garments
than
will be
much worn.
'1
All sleeves seen upon the ne west wrapt
are extra full.
Marquetryj davenport
adorn; 'manj
tasteful homes. r i ; j ; I
Gold and silver slippers are in demand
for evening wear i j ' , 1 ;
Worsteds of a the celebratetl make
are in high favor. . !
Capes are longer and more elaborately
embellished that ever. j
England has 45,000 women who eara
a livelihood as printers.
Bannockburnl cheviots with plain or
rough surfaces a"re worn 4 , .
Fine passementerie points play an im
portlnt part in millinerV. j
Bismarck's wife Js expert wjth the
needle, and is a good cook. j
A New Torkjj city dentist employs
lady assistant at 5G a week.
- i L '
Mary Anderson Jias the la
largest feet of
any stage beauty.
She
wears
No. 5j
shoes. . s f ' i i
Juc
Single roses having
ds, foliage, and
a long stem are the
bouquet, j -jf: .
preferred corsage
All the rough
woolen textures,
dress material.! r
stuffs will be worn in
both as cloaking and
New suede ties have a large tongue
and pointed toe of patent leather and a
huge gilt buckle. ! '.
A permanent! library, composed, solely
of books written by wjomen, is . to be es
tablished in Paris. I j
The town i5f Kniazeff, Russia, him
elected a woman, JImi. Alexandra Elyne
to the office of Mayor " j
A lady) at Benton Harbor, Mich,, has
10,000 silkworms in. her house, busily a
work spinning cocoons. . f
Miss Jane iDetheridge of Kingston-
Jamaica,! worth $1,000,000, has refused
thirty-seven offers of marriage.
i Mrs. Oscar -Wild s said to be the
most picturesque woman in" England in
the matter of toilet and posing.
Mr. Henry M. Stanley's wedding cake
served as one of the ("side shows" at. a
bazaar held in London, recently. ;
A bbek of admirably arranged houses
for working .women is being erected at
Bedford Park, a suburb of London. .
Miniatures for brooches are being set
invisibly with a circle of small diamond!
and turquoises arranged alternately.
Mrs. Elliott Shepard is building, at
her own expense, a lodging i house for
self supporting women in NewYork
city. j - j rV -
An announcement comes j from the
other side of the Atf antic that hoop
skirts will come into fashion by and, by
again.-! . - " ' '
The revival of bengaline is a charming
fact for which lady
f ul . and adoptive
grateful, ji
lovers of Ithis beauti-
dress material are
Tho resident physician Iof the New
York Infant Asylum is Lucy Davis,
daughter of the President of the W. C.
T. U. of that State. ' . j .-
Mrs Elizabeth PeaboHy, who first
brought to this country from Germany tho
kindergarten method, of j teaching, is
eighty-seven years old. I i
There is no daintier house-gown for a
girl than a nainsook empire belted high
up Iwith a three-yard sash of rose, green
or brown china crepe.
The fashions of the first years of Queen
Victoria's reign have served for models
to thei designers of many of "the French
gowns worn this year. ' ' .
Miss Minnie Tr aeblodd. President of
the Equal Suffragi Association, of Ko
komoj Ind., is one of the chief dry goods
merchants of that city. t ;
There are several women real estate
brokers in Chicago. Probably the most
successful! of them all lis Miss Emma:
Case, who makes
an income of i $5000 a
year. . , ( , . : j
I Mrs. Emily Pfe Ser, . the English po4
etess,1 who died re cently,! bequeathed ali
most her entire festate of $350,000 to;
charitable and educational establishments
for women. ; '
Rev. Sarah German,
of Boston, the
first licensed woman preacher of the Af ri;
can Methodist Episcopal Church, has re
signed her pastorate and gone to Ethiopia
to savo souls. s . : j " j .
The first colored graduate from the de
partment of music of the University oi
Pennsylvania is Sliss Ida E. Bowser. , Shk
is . an accomplished violinist and has
written several siort sonatas.!" ! ;
-Purcapes will continue in fav6r dur
ing j the winter. Astrakhan, Persian,
lamb, lynx, mai ten and " monkey pelts
vie with costlier skins, and wool seal will
come inMor a fiif proportion . of regard.
Miss Tait,: ths daughter of the late
Archbishop of Canterbury, devotes her
whole life to tho poor of London, mak
ing her home id one of the poor streets
In the vicinity of the
ecclesiastical pal-
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now modeling a
ace.
Princess .Louise is
statue of the Queen . of England as a
joung girl, intended for the Kensington
people as a j me norial of Her Majesty's
residence in th district during her earlj
life.. j-; ;i ; . j J:-- ;
. One 'of the successful1 stock brokers: in
London is Missj Amy. E. Bell, a pretty
young woman with yellow ' curls, who
has an. attractive office! near the stock
exchange. ' Her clients are for the most
part women, although she numbers some
men among them. - - - ? 1;
'Ah nventoty . of the - wardrobe ( of
Queen Elizabeth, made in the year 1609,
shows that "dueen Bess" had ninety-
nine robes. 126 kirtles. 269 gowns, 136.
"fore
fans
guards
parts, 125 petticoats, twenty-setren
, nmety-six cloaks, eighty-three sife-
, eighty-five doublets and eighteen
lap mantles
TSXlHc AKD INDUSTIIIAL.
. irhe Falla of Nisgara carry down .10.;
OOOTOOO cubic feet per minute, equal to
aboit 3,000,000 horse-powen -f
A Swede has invented a steam raft fox
transportation of horses and cattle
an hour . ' ; . . , "
Physicians claim that they have. ob--sciveSess
hay fever, which is a kindred
everibefoie. . - - '
The mechanical ; appliances for hand
ling the monster guns aboard English
battle ships have lately developed most
ominous defects. ' :
- An enormous flow of natural gas was
struck recently at Summerland three -miles
from Santa Barbara, ;Cal.f - The .
-flow is estimated at three million feet per
day! . . . : : - ,
The experiment of tanning leather
with palmetto roots has been successfully
tried at Apalachicola, Fla. The leatner
wai as soft and pliable as the finest calf f
skin. . . . . '
The copper mines of ; the whole world
are; being taxed to their utmost to supply ,
the : demand for copper wire and the
other apparatus used in the application of
electricity. :: '. ' ' : '
jt has been suggested that the phono
graph shall be used as a cash register.
Every sum the cashier receives might be
called in the phonograph and there re-
corded, as a check on the accounts.
(Apiarists maiintairi that bees do not-in-jure
growing or fair fruit. The juice of
the sound fruit is inimical to their wel
fare; but though they will ndt attack
sound fruit, they settle upon bruised and
blemished fruit. '
Experience has shown that an electric
street car can be comfortably heated bj
the expenditure of one horse power ol
electrical energy. The electrical heaters
do not reduce the seating capacity of the
car, which is kept clear of coal dust and
cinders. ; ', .. ..
I A patent was issued in Washington re
cently for a steel fence post. It is to be
pade of steel tubing, seven feet high,
with a neat cap and with bands to hold
the barbed wire. It is said that these
posts can be furnished complete for
placing in position at twenty-four cents
each. . '
j ' Experiments have been made at Havre,
iFrance, with a luminous buoy, the in- .
jvention of M. Dibos. The buoy emits
jthe light, which is produced by phos- ,
jphide of calcium, on reaching -the water,
and as it is veiy powerful, the sea is illu
minated for a considerable distance
around. Spectators in the lighthouses at
Havre saw the glare distinctly at a dis
tance of five miles. ' ,
Perhaps in no branch of industry have
the benefits of electric welding been real- !
Jzed to a greater extent than in the weld
ing of pipes for artificial ice machines,
sugar refineries and general refrigerating
purposes. I In the old system, fifteen min
utes was required for each weld, which
entailed the work of two blacksmiths and
a dozen helpers, and frequently a serious
loss of ammonia from imperfect welding.
Now the weld is made in two minutes by '
a man and a boy, and costs two cents in
stead of fifteen,, as formerly.
A fireman's electric hand lamp is being
introduced in England. The battery
.and lamp tre contained in a copper case,
similar to a fireman's ordinary lamp, and
fitted with a handle for convenience ' in
carrying. 'Very powerful parabolic re
flectors are provided, and the lamp,
which has a duration of from two to three
hours, after which it can be easily re
charged, forms an important adjunct to
the outfit of a fire brigade. The lamp is
also suitable lor use in mines, gas works,
gunpowder and chemical factories. The,
advantages claimed for it are portability,
facility in charging, capability of resting
the battery when the light is not re
quired, and extremesafety.
f Talmasre's Encomium on Books.
: A good book who can exaggerate its
power? Benjamin Franklin said that his
reading of Cotton Mather's "Essays to
Do Good" in childhood gave nim holy
inspiration for all the resf'of his, life.
George, Law, the millionaire, declared that
a biography he read in childhood gave
him ali his subsequent prosperity. Oh,
the power of a good book 1 But , alas,
for the influence of a bad book ! John
Angel James, than whom England never
had a holier minister, stood in his pulpi&
at Birmingham, andlsaid: "Twenty-five
years ago a lad loaned me an infamous
book. He would loan it only fifteen
minutes, and then T gave it back; but
that book has haunted me like a spectre
ever since. 3 I shall carry the damage of
it until the day of my death." The assas
sin of Sir William Russell declared that
he got ' the inspiration for his crime by
reading what was then a new and popu
lar novel, "Jack Sheppard." Homer's
'Iliad" "made Alexander " the warrior. ;
Alexander said so. The story of Alex
ander made Julius Cassar and. Charles"
XII. both men of blood. Have you in
your pocket, or in your trunk, or in your
desk at business a bad book, a bad pam
phlet? In God's name, ! warn you to
destroy it. T. DaWttt Talmage.
The Mysterious "Sixth' Sense.
Dr. H. J. Bertrand, of Antwerp, ha
recorded the results of experiments which
seem to leave it doubtful if the bat is this
only possessor of the mysterious "sixth
sense,? manifested in the faculty of dodg
ing obstacles without the aid of vision."
Blind birds, lizards and several species of
rodents appear to be endowed with a
similar: "gift, which to some degree is
shared by blind, and even by blindfolded
men. A person groping his way in aj
dark cllar may be'unabte to distinguisb
a black patch on a .white cloth held up at
a distance of two-feet from his eyes, but
somehow or other wilt manage to avoid
collision with " pillars and projeciin
thelves,' even "without the assistance ot
his hands. Just before bumping his heac.
against a . wall a "pressure of ' air," a
some ef the experimenters described it
somehow betrays the perilous proxiciitv
cf solid obstacle. 2r. CiiicaU. I
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