North Carolina Newspapers

Published hy Roanoke Publishing Oo4 F0R GOD,' for country and for truth.",. . W.IXKTCnERAUSrOIT.EBitc. V. V. V. AUisiiON, fctaiN. 4ABAt,EB. vol: nr.- " PLYMOUTH," N. G, "FRIDAY, 'JUNE 51891. J SO. 4- ' A PUZZLED .SOLDIER. EST CIUELEd DALY EOCQLAS. 1 , . Twenty -eight years have passed sine i tA ifa r tlin .-tttnrt.. I 1 i ui event is as ircsa m my memory as ' when I heard it described by the hero - of it. - . At the time our regiment was engaged la active service in Virginia. My lieu tenant met with an advehture which owas rather startling. u He told it at his own expense: ;-It happened jnst'at dark, after one of j our longest ana hardest marches in the , "valley. I saw the head of our column ' .,. filing into the fields near Berry ville, and knw that the army was about to lm.lt X v intolerably thirsty, and we had travel, this road so often before "that I " k1- t i T 1 1 ... j. 1 i ; .yuKJifc i otiw not oe misjianen aoouc 1 16 location of a sorm? over in the hoi- . I -.-.I 4.UA ... Y l.l 1.1... 1 X find it. But find it I could not - ; - ' ' Much vexed, at my ill luck, and con-. . 1. 1. T J.M i. 1 1. .1 . wuuing illOb A U.JU UUt JU1UW MUUM KUUUli the topography of Virginia alter all," I turned about to retrace iny steps, mean - lug to return to the road as soon as pos- . Bible. And here I was disappointed. I walked 15 mimitea withrHii, rafinhlnir t ' - -And then concluded that no length of -'walking? ' in that dirpofrinn. would v likely to bring mo to a 'road. ' . In plain English, I was lost; and as it .: naa now grown nark, 1 numbly acknowl edged to myself that I wished that I was with my regiment,' but that I did not ex actly know how to reach it. But not at all discouraged. J resolved to blunder round until I struck some part of our : ".' rhen I could ;get iny direction. inrtr 4Blkit Alt ev-jla 9a t f r erwna a-1 ' fields, I jumped tho fence. and alighted .with a loud crash in a heap of brutth. At - the same instant a voice about 15 feei be yond sternly shouted: - --. , . tT..,L " . J.1 1t e'- f ,.'. :'.. The click of a ihusi;et hammer accom panied the challenge.",4 ' ' " , i' 1 "Friend!" I answered. - 1 t "-' . . "Advance and be recognized." : .-. ."I reckon le's all right, Bill," I ovrr- r nearu anouier voice say in a low tone. , "Some straggler, I guesa, - Keep your gun' V- It V J J ...It M uu lain anu we u kj. . . ' ft cHiicHt out; iw, iiu Rii riirac, as i n , .ft.. .1 -..i.: a.. . t... li . . .. Tut f ; enow you in a minute.- Wlmt a your regi jnent?" , -' - ( '.'" Sfv infisUilA vw-o-viq "tilimilil not 1ith 1 ..i l .1" . ' .. . f rtj . i i ' neaiu, 10 my innuiw couuternauon nu alarm. " i . . ' r ' "Fifth Virginia." - v a smver ran tnrougn me. . i?ittn Vir ginia? Great Heaven, . was itpouiblc! Had I wandered ko far from our lints us -' to cucounler- Early ' pickeu? VJ know : tliat the armies hud been moving all day had no thought Uiat I was hazarding this - frightful danger in looking for the spring. I had more unpleasant thoughts' during that half minute tnan 1 1 ever did in a whole hour before. -- "Vell, mister, 1 the picket interrogated, "be ye stone or basswood? D'ye want to squat there all night? Now eouie,6ut o' there mighty lively, or you'll bo helped. Citf - . - . Just such talk as we ' heard from the ; Confederate prisoners ; . just such stylo of . : expression. " I tore myself out of the brush and walked forward. Before I had ' advanced five stops I was. again ordered to halt, and the number and style of my regiment was demanded. "With my mind made up for.Lihby IMson, I replied : - "I am lieutenant T , One Hundred . and Fourteenth, Now - York, Nineteenth Corps." . " , j- ' ( "An officer, by thunder I Stuff 1 More ' likely he's a spy. " "Ewp easy, Bill. I'll go out and see. " ' ... "A soldier in a blue blouse, with a cor poral's chevrona on Jhis arm and a blue: overcoat hanging from his shoulder, now s, jipprc iiLed mo &vA saluting me, he said : " iJ:'f-pardon, lieutenant; Bill couldn't eee who .you. was. r All right now, sir j you can pass. " y-- . -lUther doubting' the evilences of my mnntitt T ft l-iTiT wifli lii nnrnrtrn t A few steps mot s brougK me to Bill, a - 6turdy soldier in blue, witli his jaws full of toitficco, who was now striding hack -and forth, humming "John Brown." ""Where is Km Ninekvnth corps?" I ventured. ' i , , ' "- " . ' j - "On the left, I ti,!nk,HVoplied the cor- ; poral. "Tliis in pretty near the right. 7 , fWell, but I don't un-Iribtand this at alt VHiat did the nwvn )p"u a moment ein--'' l-y teUirijT r-i that he belonged to 1 the rrth Virgiriia?" "... ! ; "fk) ho does, fcir; so da I," was the prompt rospcine. "The Fifth Virginia Infantry, Cqlon.-I " , j Vell, liaing it, sir, either you're drunk Mcn-izr. ; or I ara, . Who commands thia army, I'd like to know?" .. Th? corporal camecloM to me, nnd carefully exaroiued my fan, no doubt to ' nsii;.- IJmself t'r.'it I was r ct drunk cr ' crazy, before he r-piied : , " liberal BU.I !.'n I UV. -vc." " ".nddo'30u im an to U 'A v.i.i that t',? ri'-': Virginia U under hint'i1" ;: j 1. t. ill sou 51 rijimedJi ."-i-proiicii rt--." rnotigh t"' pie Cntt of our 'ioif, t : rke out i "Y.VJ, now, 1"" por:1,! don't yod t'T.:.:;t thinks v i 1 puzzled to hi, . -.ivrsat! ; and p.. j lou X ' 1 Ai. ''.I'd ri'''! Mypy((, c '-'' rvU a.i'n-n it" : tho cor tali ';ixcd into a suiue, i " na: ! -j now. Vou th- t 1h.it i tioj; 1 ..'.L-l be ij ...ilv's uut ttiat s a miatatce. tenerai uroot nas a doswm or more Viipinia regiments in his corpq, and about as good soldiers, too, as any in the old Eighth. No, we're not Confederates by a long shot. " ; - I was glad enough to hear it j and bid ding these two excellent soldiers good night, with thanks for. showing me the way, I bent my Bteps over toward the bivouac of the Nineteenth Corps Butas far as I could liear the voices of the men, Bill's loud guffaw reached my ears, coupled with the words : "Thought we wvs rebels! Now that's rich! Wonder has the Nineteenth many more like him?" - . Two good listeners may be friends, but two good talkers never. . - ' ElU( ATXOJTAl.. , , ' Savannah will have a . college for tlie colored. ' - . 1 Buffalo . unions oppose the manual 1 trainlrtg schools. - ' -:s , ; ,t -. : . .-The North. Carolina I legislature .lias provided for a nonnal and industrial college for white gixls. r : " - V ; It costs the city of Philadelphia f 1.19 per pupil to supply the schools with books and stationery for a year. ;. ..,,' Since theestabhshment in 1803 of West Point Military Academy 8,884 men have - received diplomas from, the institution. The department of - philosophy of -Mt Holyoke College loses a. much valued teacher in Miss Kles, who accepts a placo in Mills College, California. - . :. : ; . It cost Chicago $45 a head last year to educate her children ; or $35, leaving out the cost of new buildings and limiting ' the expense to that for instruction only. -.' A short time ago a lady, the first of her sex, graduated in medicine in Mex ico. As an appropriate compliment her fellow students of the other sex got up an amateur bull fight in honor of the oc Qision. -; ,: ' f VThe Arkansaa legislature has decided that girls shall hereafter bo excluded from tho State University, to which they have been admitted for tho past 13 years. ;Jfo trouble .has arisen from their pres ence, and the reason for this decision is not apparent - ; ' . s , - ; . : , Berlin; University faculties will. offer to; the 5,000 students- enrolled for-tho summer term 716 courses of lectures to choose froin." FoHy-six of these courses are ; thwlogicaL 77 legal, -237 medical, IttG philosophical. Professora Koch and Mommsen will not read. , . Tin1 interest felt in university exten clon rU becoming widespread, and it is . estimated - that in Philadelphia alone, Iuring tho last five months, the attend ance upon" lectures has been close to C0.0O0. - Although of such recent origin In this country, universityetcntion is no new thing in Grpat Britain, where tho system has .Ltsen in use for 20 years or "more. . ' . ' The o r eqiroduction of scholars In Germany is far f rom abating. Fifty "years ago" there were but 32 students to every 100,000' inhabitants. The number rose stwidily, till in 1875 it was 42.7 to the 100,000. -In 1881 the ratio was 51 to 100,000 ; in 1888, CO. 3 ;'and now it is 61.5. In 1872 there were but 15,784 students in "all - the universities. Now there , are CJ.000. ". ". - Tlie new professor of Greek at Colo rado College is to be Br. Augustus Mur ray, who received his degree at Johns Hopkins University last spring, and . has been upending this: year at Loipsig'and Berlin. Dr. Murray will begin his work at ; the "college next Septemlwr. ' The new building, -.IM itgomery Hall," will add very mucli to the working facilities of the institution. " v..l Iowa College is well sattefied with the results of coeducation.' 1' In tho fall of 1884 there were 6 y ung' women working In the 'degree courses and 85 in the "la dies' course;" there are now 03 in the degree courses and but 18 in the present So called ojd .litenry course.". That is, while there were then 14 per cent of the young women - regular students In the college doing full ullegiate work, there are now 79 per cent in': full collegiate work. In the first 40 years of the his tory of Iowa College but 10 women re ceived degrees. In the last four years 15 have received, degrees, and thin number will be increased next June by the 13 of the present senior class, who ara now in degree courses. ... riiOGItFJSS OF SCIEIVCB. ' - -The most unalterable of water coloi-s has been found to le yellow ocher, terra sienna, sepia, and blue. ; Men of science declare that ihe orange was originally a berry, and that its evo lution has been going on .more than a thousand years. x - - A nv'w process lias been invented fur aging wine by means of electricity, the novolly of the process consisting of the special apparatus employed. .,.., ' . There is a' great subjec t for study in Philudj'hia. Atwrgeon tlcre hasdia sccted and mounted the complete nervous system of a human being, something nevf-r L. foro accorwplihhed.- Gre'ifc interest ii being manifested by the x'A,oiB of .Washington inthesuo ce.U I tnai of the Edco elortric c;u which is moved by a .stora-re battery ciHol the "r.cviiiiulator. moi w-adily o-s.-r the liu Tlie enr and at a . ltWJll lion deii' -"tive A-r:- d in t:. OinpRFa A ba r!.:5 " Par tie si.y o piate rouinng rouna a vertical axis ana pressed against, it by suitable contriv ances. The wear is then eompared.with that of a standard material under the same conditions. ' In Frankfort experiments are shortly to be made to show the application of electricity to aerial navigation. The pul ley which controls the ascent and de scent of the balloon will be operated by an electric motor, and a telephone wire will enableconvcrsation to be carried on be tween those in the balloon and those at the starting point below. , The study of electricity continues, and the belief is almost universal that we havo only begun to apply, this wonderful agency to our own . uses. Experiments made in Baltimore are said to demon strate that a speed of 125 miles an hour can readily bo obtaiued by electric cars, if they have a satisfactory track on which to run. The track is inexpensive, but the thing can be done, $o they say.- Hartford Courant -. Aluminium at $1.25 . per pound is In the market A price list sent out to the trade by the Cowlea Electric, Smelting and Aluminium Company, of Lockpovt, Kil Y,, gives the" following figures; In lots of more than 1,000 pounds, $1.25 per" pound, lees 20 per cent 'discount; and in 1,500, 1,000; and 500 pound lots, $1.25 per pound, with ' 17, 10, and 5 per' cent dis count In 50 to 500 pounds the price is $1.25 net; 10. to 50 pounds $1.50, and lesa,than 10 oounds. tl.75 per pound. - "' MAIilSO ItAIN TO ORDER. ' , i Tliery n Wkleh'a Co(rtilMl Ap - lrprlitl la Bmm. ..,?:-.; ' That heavy cannonadingproduces rain is a belief which has been slowly grow ing out of unscientific ? obsevations and confused recollections of the state of tlie weather before, during, and after battles. Among soldiers there is a general " im pression that the floi -igates of the heav--ens were opened slv'rtly after eacn en gagement in which ttiey took part, and from them tlie idea has spread that the roar of guns shakes the atmosphere and precipitates the water in it1 - ' . . Of late men of scientific training have come to attach some importance to this belief, and Congress was induced to apr propriate $2,000 for making experiment? under the direction of the Department of Agriculture. This was done largely at the instigation of Senator Charles Farwell, of Illinois, who was greatly impressed by a book published by Edward Powers, a civil engineer of D la van, .Wk , ' - . In this little vol ime, entitled, War and ; tho Weather,. 5Ir. , : rowers . has gathered such data as were accessible vo current histories. They are by no mean complete, the ' atmospheric conditions being' mentioned by the writers-of ac counts of battles only casually and with no thought 6f their scientific value. The records on the loglooks of gunboats and warships engaged in the late rebellion furnish valuable material, but even this is too fragmentary to be conclusive. Tho facts brought together form, however,' Btrong presumptive evidence that, rain does, as a rule, follow extensive gun powder explosions. . k Bain fell early on the day after tho first Bull Run; in July 1861, and the en-: gagemnts in West Virginia during tlie same month, by which McCIellun made the reputation which secured lum tho command . of . the army of the Potomac, were all followed by violent downpours.' Tho peninsular campaign in the following year, which ended with , the battle of Malvern Hill, was a succession of can nonading and of rain. The second Bull Run, Chautilly, Antietara, Fredericks-" burg, Chancellors iile, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness engagements were all fol-, lowed by rain, as were likewise the great conflicts in the West and , the bombard ments along the eoasts.7 : ' - - f . ' Tlmt it did rain after each battlo is, of coursenot proof positive that the filing brought on the rain; but' it decidedly lends color to the theory that the two had some connection. ' The proof would be stronger did we know in each caso what the condition of the atmosphere was before the firing began or what were tho chances under ordi"iry circumstances of rain falling. . . The days on which the bat tles were begun seem to have been bright . and clear, but although the weather has r a tendency to perretuate itself the probabilities of its being on one day what it was the day before being stronger than that it will be different it does not fol low that the change to rain would not . have come anyhow. - If Mr. Powers's statments about tho weather prevailing at some of the battles of our war with M xico are correct, that war furnishes, perl-ps, the strongest evi dence in favor of his theory. He says that for months before the battle of Buena.VLsta, and for months thereafter, no rain fell in that "region, it being tho i dry season, while showers were notable . all through the second and last' day's ! fighting. At Moh -rey tlie cannonading was carried on during a dry month and was followed by rain also, as were sev eral other engagements at tho same period of the year; Here, if tho facta are as stated, no min was expected for a long period thereafter, buft rain came directly after artillery reverberations had ceased. The theory that rain can bt made to fall by exploding gunpowder in largo quantities rests to some extent on Profes sor Maury's couch w-.n that the I'rinciial portion of the aqueous vaix)r 1 ailing in i the UrU'd States h brought atmos ! pheric ci:: rents fivi the PfCi'i "! On-an j la a pe:':!'vn prrs'T-f. d to Con-.- nii-e i lime P" 1 ; r an h;1;- vi.iiloa i tki"r-v ;thC' ! '" M-t-i : Mr i1 vM-.f ; tnat "it is contenaeatnattnegrenr soucii east trade wind of the Pacific, 'which meets the northeast trade wind near the equator, after rising there,' flows over that trade wind to the belt of calms near the Tropic of Cancer, where .it descends and becomes a great southwest rain bear ing current above the United States, ex tending from the surface of the ocean, it is supposed, to a height of about three miles. " Tliis current, it is argued, blows over the Pacific for about 2,000 miles and takes up enough water In the form of va por during the year to depress the whole surface of the ocean 8 or 10 feet Some of it falls hack into the ocean, but the bulk' of it is supposed to be carried over tho continent, to the Atlantic, to north ern Europe, and the Polar regions. This view was confirmed by the obser vations of the United States Signal Serv ice to this extent tliat nearly all the great storms come from the west or the south west': ; Balloonist likewise are agreed that there is a constant' current running to the east over this continent - It follows from this that if there is any thing in tlie. belief that cannonading causes rain the rain must fall either from directly overhead or to the east of tlie place of firing, and. never , to the west On this point nothing is, however, defi nitely known. - Rain is of course the re-' suit of condensation. The vapor will continue to float in the air until it meeta . a colder stratum, when it -is forced to-' gather into drops that are too heavy to bo held in suspension, and then they fall to the ground.' ! ' - . 7 f - How artillery firing is to produce ' the cold necessary to condense the watery vapor into rain Is not so clear. Suppose, however, that above the warm equatorial current charged with moisture from the Pacific Ocean there is a cold current flow-!, ing from the North . Pole. Then, if the lower current can be so agitated by con cussion that it will mount up into the uppor current, where it will be refriger ated and condensed, the whole' phenome non is understood. ' But the existence of the polar current is an assumption, pure and simple, and its existence can not be proved. ' As a hypothesis it may be worth accepting and experimenting on if artifi cial rain production is desirablo. ' ; . Mr. Powers figures that the two first experiments, will cost, even, with - tho guns obtainable for nothing.. $200,000, wlule subsequent experiments will cost $20,000 each. Tlie sum appropriated by Congress is .therefore ridiculously small, and little can be expected from its ex penditure. - If rain is worth having to order at all, it is worth, more tlian this. But the trouble is, there is no guarantee at all that tlie rain will come, no matter how much money bo spent,, . . 'v '.'-cr'v'r '. Ctwmtjr Finger.'.."',: ' . It is of no use my trying to sew,"said a girl in her late teens ; "I am so thnusy . with a needle. My stitches are an'inch longL v Mamma' does my mendimTv..' She says when I do it myself my things look bo that she is ashamed to let mo wear them." - But if - the mother were less self sacri ficing it is probable that a , few hours' priictice under her direction would easily reduce those clumsy stitches to a respect ably small fraction of an inch in length. ; ', ' Another young lady admitted the other day, with a laugh, that she alwajTS darned her stockings by drawing tlie edsfesof the holes together with the thread, because weaving it in and out as her mother did took so much more time and care. . : Girls of this sort, belong to tho un trained or laxy class. But tlie carejess are quite as common, and perhaps mOre ex asperating. - " Oh , I'm very sorry ; hut you know I always was' a butter fingers," explains calmly the dreamy young person who 'spills gravy in a lady's lap at dinner, be cause she is passing the gravy boat .with her mind on the last chapter of a story, and does not notice that she is tipping it y Presently she helps to butter, with tho came vague expression , in her eyes, and sends the bit, which she attempts,, to cut from the hard pat without looking at it, flying across the table, " - : - . "Did it spot, your dress?" she asks her sister ; " I hope not ; but of course I could not help its flying off. I'm very sorry." But tlie trouble is precisely, that she is not very sorry ; - at least, not sorry enough to prevent the same thing from happening, again.- V 1 .: It is worth while to remember that there is such a thing as being stupid with one's fingers. There should be direct communication., between the. hand and tlie brain; but some people, with other wise excellent brains, do not seem to real ize this fact, and allow their hands a kind of helpless liberty, which works dis aster among bric-a-brac, and makes many simple tasks absurdly formidable. - f WlllUm II IUrIiIm In Dlsnl. , People who ima inj that his imperial majesty passe all his time in christening new born sons, meditating on tho wicked ness of Prince Bismarck, and quarreling with Count von Waldorsee are very much - mistaken, lie likes his fun alflo and takes it. There is a certain miuic hall iu . Berlin whtre the emjwuor enjoys adver . tures worthy of thn Caliph Hirouu.M i ItitodJ. A htMiH" bo in roeoguizod tr not I can not say, ai his majesty- in - a adept in rite art cf " maldiv uj. " How ever, policemen, detrctive:,, and otlieis are , f.ir too.wi- e to evpiv- st'--plcin's in crw they havo s'Mf ibn ihoy ure ia th; j.-t. ctic" of the I r! of i' riir.t-v. " It h rou- luientiMii i',U!', of i h-;-i th.it II, ! i,-y oewisn community in nis capital ana ais cussetl with a number of working Israel ites the condition of their race in his own dominions and tlie effect of the harsh measures recently promulgated against them in Russia. , ' On another occasion the emperor is said to have passed many hours of the night wandering among the saloons used by sailors and common soldiers, arguing and inviting criticism on the life of a private in his anny or an A. B. seaman in his navy. All these things doubtless assist the young sovereign in his endeavors to act as the father of his people ; . but oc casionally the fact that he is a young man bursts upon him, and he is apt to join in vigorous " dancing and play high jinks generally as enthusiastically as- the . latest Jack ashore. Then, in the middle of a can-can or schoppeu, comes tho memory, "Ich bin der Kaiser, " and his temporary boon companions are surprised to see their new comrade suddenly draw" him self up, turn on his heel, and leave tho place, followed by a couple of, till that moment, supposed to be drunken chums. :..-. -A Blemovy f Gramt. . :' '"It was along in 1801-" .d Mr, Will Clark, of Edmund Place, " that I was liv insr in Dubnoue. Ia.'. emrag-eti in tha rpw. ing macliine business, ; I wanted, some- one ; to represent us In Galena, and was ' directed to the firm of Grant and Perkins and went over to see them. ' . ' , The ' father of the general was the head of tlie firm and Orville and U. S. Grant were clerk ing for htm. I stated my business and they were willing to try it . U. ' S. was Bitting by the stove. He' wore' a rough suit and a slouch hat . I was introduced to him by Orville, and he said he thought they could sell some heavy machines for leather work. ' I thought him .more in teresting in conversation than the others. He had seen something of tho' world then and was out of his place. At the close of the war his friends furnished a house. ' tor him in Galena and gave it to him.1 was very glad to contribute one of our best machines. . I never lost my first im pression of the simple honesty of tho man's character. After events justified me when, in his old age, he went in tho night to give up his property, a victim to the duplicity of tlioso who had betrayed him.". ---.' , - t ; The Pleeaaat "Earthy 8mH. ; The agreeable odor of the soil, tho "earthy smell," has been traced by M. Berthelot, ' the distinguished French chemist, to a minute trace of camphor ated body. He also concludes that tho occasional presence of alcohol is duo to exceptional cases of "spontaneous fer mentation of vegetable matter. Chonld the Earth. Stop It Woaild Writ. ' Mayer bas'calcuhtted that if tlie motion of the earth were suddenly arrested the temperature produced would be suffi cient to melt and even volatilize it'- A Kcpresalve Measure. -Prom Puck. ' English touriat Tbe Irish give yon great deal of trouble here, don't thejt New Yorker Yea i they are trying to get tbe appor hand. ' ' ' ! ,. English tourist To what are yon re sorting to suppress themf New Yorker Well, we are cultivating Anglomania. -.. FOHEIGN UEWS ASD GOSSIP. Italy thinks the conversation and tone of the American press most execrable, Russian peasants will be prohibited by law shortly from selling-or mortgaging their lands. . English lawyers are suffering from a ' lack of business. Tlie Law Times says:- , Crime and, contention are both decun-! ing In England they have established a wo man's agricultural school. Tlie granger is to have competition in the grangeress. - The palace and the park of the empress of Austria at Corfu will when com pleted, be one of tlie wonders of tlie Med iterranean.' ; The heaviest gambler at Monte Carlo says he has lost $325,000 there in the last 10 years, and .has given up the baneful practice. , - . , ' A company has been formed in London to purchase and develop the petroleum wells of Mancora, extending along the coast of Peru from Talara to Tumbez. ' :, Tlie bust of Dr. Henry Schliemann w to ornament the main room of the city hall in Berlin, and the bu-st of Leopold Ranke the great historian, is to be added. . One German school - child in every 100 is a stutterer. Hie boys are more liable to this defect than the girla. . Erxwc Kell, who has collected statistics from tlie Ger man schools, finds that there are 5,335 stuttering boys. to 2,233 stuttering girls. Europe's population on January 1 was 230,200,000. Tho populatioa of .each oi the other continents was estimated to bo as follows: Asia, 850,000.000; . Africa, 137,000,000; Australia, 4,730,000; 'North America, - 89,250,000 r South . America; 80,420,000; polir regions, iW),000. -".Tlio total would then be 1,787,000,000. The latest calculation of tha African possessions of tJw European frveatpowci. isss fjllows: Fiance, 7t400.f.t")juait' Ul ometcrs, with. 54,000,000 inhabitants: England, including E:t pt, 5,003,'' . sau-.M-e kilometers, with 82,hX),000 inhab itant; Oormanr, 2,SOO,0v njare kil mtterfi, with T.'I.OOO inh-.! 4wnts: V tugrj, 2.200,OO) fjnare ki! 'W.-krv vi'h IOTkM inhabitants; l'-'y, 1,2"'." t-..iui ktlome'.- -3, with V 0'K ii' ' VUST TM 1'IIOFKI! XHIXO. ; A Few Idea In Ht urA to Dress firul From th CTotfclM mad FuraUbe. .;. .: : ' A high-class novelty la canes is tha , bent Mb tbe handle belnr formed in a ' natural crook. ' The bark la Uft on, anil the wood Is onvaralahed. Upon the cua of the handle Is a, silver tip. -Very fetching Is this design. , Gomethf nc had to be done to counter act the influence of tbe sash and wis5 belt for wear la the warm seaion, ana tbe new summer gttilusea are e!l that In gannity. having la mind a regard of Sracticailty aod prsentibii!tyt cma mates lem. - .... There was a certain shrewd savast cf swajrerdom that last season anatalned , his reputation for style and his equaa- lmltT at the same time by wearing bis snapenders under ills . outlay ; ahirs throngh which alits 'at each aide vers - made at the tromer bnttons that wera r veiled by tbe snxnptuoa sash which affected. v'- . The sporting shoes ' in the 'various types of rasset leather, undressed -dew skin and other tan ahades, will set U utilized for town wear by men ot tL best discretion ' In - dress, despite tha generously circulated and not altosrethf-r dlaiareetedsutemonte to that eBacl. .There should baa marked diV.inctiou .between the patent leather, of ordinary and fall dreas wear. The fnll dreas ahc-o Is a eonerew pal er, plain smooth leather, and plain black cloth tops. T5 lace work uppers are a -wretched Idea, for, sarely no man of any "s&lf - reap:' ; would care to give oat the idea?vtnjv' wore open work hoiery. v Oneof the allUest snbterfajres ot tie -disordered mentalities tbat soetc to be 'dlIrnt, ' tot the sake 01 Delng noticed , Is the little bow placed at the interseo : tion upon the lnetep of the black cloth and the patent leather, which gave tha . Idea that tbe ahoea. were pumps, when, as a matter of fact, pamps are tabooed. i Soma of tbe fashion plates of summer wear a bow the yachting cap worn with a . salt of striped tennis iUnnela. "This Is or coarse incongraons. The shape- of thayaobtingeap Is dealgnatory and 16 should only be worn with the doable oreaeiea reenng coat at the seasbora or ' " aboard ship. Despite lbs extraordinary tendenc? to ward high-class fabrics and the increased competition growing Out of the educa tion of the public to an appreciation thereof, there ia evidently a belief in tha phrase tbat there ia always room at the top. 1 As a result there hava recently" been pat oat several new devices in fine neok woar. O ia la in (oar-In-hand - shops with one end narrow and tbe other wide; the) narrow end makes the knot' and the other forms a wide apron. Tho Idea ia a novel one, not altogether grso ful bat it has the merit of looking UJtci what it ia a self-tied scarf. . . . -- i' - A Compressible Mew Torlter, Brown Why dont yon lUd fa Jersey. Bmiley, and avoid the elevated roads? Smiley Oh, X don't mind thern. I'rj the Rubber Man at tha World Dime ma- wam. 1 Slim Hr In. - ' The story is told -of a -coa itry editor who had met with an accil v.it : Wlicn he recovered consciousness his rival wjh present and veiled in hia ezii uttcy$r sorry for yon, sir." "You are, eh; whu; for?" "They say you've broken your spinal column! . "Confound that lxy! He's dropped ' tho fonn.a.'Un. . Fill it with slugs and slam her in. (Amcricau, Grocer. ' - - ;.,-. '; v .' -f: : 1, : - 2 ' . , .t - Att Applleil Xieeson'. ' . ' A littla giii weit: shopping the? other "day with her mot or, who, making pur- ' chases at various stores; gave as the part ing word, "Please charge them to rny husband, 26 street? At night the little girl, half sleeping and tired out, said in conclusion : -UI pray God to bless my mother and my father ar.d my littlo brother, and send bills to papa,f28 street" - , . - ' ' Why He Claimed a XUdwc.ttem "Isay, doctor, isn't, this bill a litlhi L eteep? Can't you knock off a V?" "No ; . why should 1?" well, you must re member that it was" me who introduced this scarlet fever in this town.. Ain't that worth something? i I get 10 per cei.t on every scarlet fevor'victtni from1 tivt undertaker on the corner. "Texas ti'Ji ings. . " ' ; I Cast Thy Breml t'pon t!ie Water. TJie girls in tlio nortliern pirt of Connecticut 1 Valley are h-nmini? !- Derate. It is becoming a cor.moa thin for fisliennen in central ?d.-. and -Connecticut to find tA bottles floating d 1 n fetrcn i tain notes written by up v. qiKtim.r tho yowji man wu write them a letter. , - -hu- hi At Tooumpeh, orders to arret-1 : year! of ae f ." 9 o'clo' k t nir!' a pare! t or n.. K;-.n., V v 1 y f i .m t A VIci . 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