LITTLE PLEASURES.
Why Young Children Minutil 1 Tauflil
to A ppraolBtn Tlmm.
It h:tn been mild so many times, that
it ha become hackneyed, llmt It U riot
tho great trouble of life that wear one
out, but the petty annoyances that con
tinued di.v iif lor day, leave thiMi- mark
on tlie temper and character a drop
of water wear Into solid stone. At tin
In-ginning ofllfo nil seems well. Alost
jx'ople start out with good resolutions
Imt how ninny In middle life f;l that
they have been successful. This not
Imh'iiiio thi'y have been unable to bear
great trials, Imt because they have been
unable to meet tho littlo matter of
every day lifa with cool, dispassionate
judgment. It is especially necessary
to tui.ch children to tind enjoyment in
the littlo pleasure that form a part of
nil liven, go that they will not be
rendered unhappy by tho sea of
vexing things that also come. A child
that iikhh her pencil to draw mid loves
It, or tho child that loves music, or h
child that loves her needle-work will
not be likely to bo a prey to petty
jealousy or to envy. Let children go
out into tho fields mid learn about the
Mrd and flowers, bee and bntterllies,
mill whatever tendency there I in the
boy to coarso companions, to rough
ways, to cruelty to tho bird or insect
will be likely to bo checked. An in
telligent boy. who learns tho noblu
stories of natural history in the field
with his mother, will never forget it
mid will be ft better man. Uy learn
ing linn to notice beauty in little
things around him, he will Icaru to
pay no heed to little vexations. A girl
who Icarus to notice the beauty of life
iirouud her can never degenerate lnt
that abj.ict person a village gossip.
We have found Wordsworth' poetry
of (treat value in teaching children to
notice little beauties in nature.
Children tdiould never fail in court
esy to each other; this nhould be ex
acted as rigorously as courtesy totl.eii
elders. Children hhoiild early learn ti.
have things of their own, mid they
should have an exclusive right in these
nrlicles ami should learn to respect
each ether' lights, and their own
l ights Hhoiild be respected. Il Is nec
essary to watch very closely to find
out what ideas of life the child has
gained. Whether they have gained
impressions which are narrow and sel
fish or broad and noble. A Utile sug
gestion, a word now mid then, may
rave the child in after life from be
coming a worldly woman, a burden
mid not a helper in life.
It I the littlo rift w thin His luta
Tine. Iiy and liy will nuika the mmlo muto.
Or littlo ill tod hhrU In tho Rnrniir'il fruit,
Thut rolling Inward slowly moldoni ail."
-X Y. Tribune.
VIOLIN STRINGS.
Talualils fcugKtitlloui for Incipient
Fa.
(nii'iilit n4 Ola Hull.
In selecting violin strings it is cafe
to choose those of greatest transpar
ency, dullness of color indicates too
many threads or indifferent material.
The fourth string is covered with silver
or copper wire, or a mixture of metals
of great ductility. Silver is wound on
gut to gooil advantage. These cov
ered with copper wire give more pow
erful ('fleets. Strings bearing either
of these metals have a tendency to rise
in pilch from warmth of the lingers.
To obviate tills annoyance mixed wire
is t;ed, combining power and soft
ness, which is li.'ible to expansion.
Fourth strings us found In market,
are apt to be too heavy. It is best to
purchase all size as they are needed,
lis they M'ldont improve after season
ing. Old Itislriimei.ts do not ordinari
ly require heavy firings. Medium
sizes that develop rich, clear tones me
belter adapted to mood, mellowed by
a century' existence in the violin. Un
duly loading the bridge with coarse
hiring cheeks the more sensitive vi
bration mid tends to dismember the
slrueliire. Prices range from one dol
lar per bundle of thirty strings to six
dollars per iliiy.cn. roiirth strings turn
made in single lengths; other sizes usu
ally contain two to four lengths, A
catalogue al hand ipiotes them in thirty-seven
grades. I'lovulenei Jvurmd.
He Couldn't Ba ttircd.
Hanker Your references are nil thai
could be desired. What salary do you
expect?
Coachina.t- Seventy-live dollars a
month.
11. That Is quite satisfactory to me,
and you can enter upon your duties as
mum as you desire.
C l!y the way, I forgot to in
ipiire if you had any marriageable
daughters?
H. I have, but what is the meaning
of such a preposterous (tiestion?
C Heemise your having such makes
it impossible for me to engage with
you. The fact is, 1 can not take the
risk of degenerating Into a horse-car
conductor or ho'el waiter. There' no
money in marrying employers'
daughters, nowadays. HmIm iludjet.
The Virginia (Nov.) VhronieU
Mrs. I.aiigtrv ha purchased a
lot in Corbel t' addition, Carson. She
is quoted as saying t a newspaper
man: "This is a delightful valley and
1 want a little spot 1 catt call my own
ti.iar Lake Tahoe, so that 1 can build
and come up here when I am at leis
ure and enjoy the bracing Nevada air,
and occasionally take a dip in the hot
springs which seem to me the most
wonderful curiosity in tho State."
The original .f a long lost letter
written by tiencral Washington la ue-
kiHiulcdiniicnt of an address from the
citizens of S'cwpoit has just Ixen
found In that city. U ia written on
Isith Miles of two quarto page of leilw
lHpcr and la aUll diaLuvt and read
able. , '
TERRIBLE TRAGEOT.
k Qoarrnl That MIkIiI ! Hnparatad
Lounle and Itmala forerer.
These lover' quarrels are ad, sad
iffair, resulting, a they so often do,
in the separation of young heart and
making withered leave out of all the
mid hope and golden dream mid
i.rli nsiiiration of 01111": lives. A
Stressing chso was made public re.
. eutly in Newark, f ho harrowing dc
nils biting iriven in tho words of
he estranged one, who sat in the
'ewark Opcra-Hotisu eating cannels
uid saying cruel things to each other
luring the play. Mm began It.
"You did. too, she said, with a
T-at sob. Jt wouldn't have been any
..iiid of u lovers' quarrel without tin
.neioiis "great sobs" brought into it.
"Now, Ilessio," moaned the agon-
.'zed ninety pounds of lover and high
collar.
"You needn't deny it," said Ilessie,
coldly.
"Ilessie, I never in all
"You did. Alamo Ulauk told 1110
thai she saw you.
"Saw mo what?
"Saw you Uirting with that horridly
lorrid Ilatlie Marsh."
"llatlie Marsh? Huh. Now, Bessie,
vou know perfectly well that 1 don't
jnro a snap of my linger for llattte
Marsh."
"No; it looks as if you didn't flirt
ing with her every time she crosses
your path."
"Now, Ilessie, you know just a well
is -"
"Oli, yes, I know ull about it, Air.
Lminie Marshall."
"Now, Ilessie, dm I talk that way."
"I will, too."
"Ilessie."
"I don't care. I.011; it isn't right, and
I'm not going to play second liddle to
ihiIioiIi." m
"Nobody wants you to, dearie."
"Xo! IttWi.i as if they didn't, 1
must say."
"Well, now. Ilessie, what if I got mad
tud said cruel things because you
llirted a little with Bonnie Dean or"
Hen I). Mit! I wouldn't wipe my
fe.rt on Ben Dean."
"1 011 used to like him.
"I.on Alarshall, I'll never speak to
you again as long as I live and breathe
f you ever mention that horrid affair
igain. 1 lade Ben Dean."
"I know it, darling, and I detest
llallie Alarsh."
"Yes you do."
"Indeed Io."
"Ye over your left shoulder."
"Now, Bessie."
"If you want your ring back again,
l.on Marshall, ull you've got to do is
ti) say so."
"O, Ilessio!"
"I mean just exactly what I say, sir,
everr word of it."
"Bessie, Bessie!"
"I ean manage to Jive without you.
l.nn Marshall! And if you think I'm
alio of the 'Hough on Hats' kind of
iris yon'ro badly left"
"No, Bessie, you know I never"
"If you were a fen'teman, sir "
"Bessie, this is loo much."
"If you don't like it you ean lump
it, sir! I'll let you know that you
an't twist me, around your linger. Do
you want your ring?"
"1011 know I don t, Bessie.
"Well, voti could have it mighty
piick If you did."
At last the worm turns and says
teridlv: "Very well, Aliss Whitford,
just as you please about it."
" hy, Lou.
"1 havo done nil that a gentleman
could do to "
"Now, Lon, 1 was only joking."
"Il is no joking matter where one's
'iffection are concerned. I've tried to
he a gentleman of my word with you,
but"
"Oh. I on. Hush!"
"No, Bessie, wo had better under
ttaiid each other right here. If wo
ipiarrel so now, what would it be
when
"Oh, l.ounic, 1 was oidv "
"You were wounding me cruelly,
Bi'ssie, and 1 "
"Oh. I.oniiie!"
"If you really desire every thing to
come to an end between us, 1 hope I
urn too much of a yentleman to
The curtain dropped at this jiinet-
iire, wlnle those who saw this fright
ful scene were waiting with bated
breath for thelintl word that would
separate Loiinie and Bessie forever.
Detroit Free I'rens
A High Road to Wealth.
First Omaha Man Kureka! I've
struck it at last. It's a tiew invention.
Millions in it.
Second Omaha Alan 1 don't tako
luich stock in patents.
"Yes, but this one is a dead Hiiro
thing. It is a hand-organ modeled aft
er the automatic race tracks you see in
Hotels,"
"Won't pay."
"I'll have them everywhere, and will
''ake in thousands of dollars a day.
I'.xery body w ho come along will drop
4 nickel into it."
"Dropping a nickel Into it starts it to
playing, 1 suppose."
"No, that slops it," Omaha WorLt,
m a
There are occasional pr.nl of
time at which the entire course of his
tory and the fate of nations are de
eded by some event which docs not
jrow out of any previous events and
which a reasonable man can explaiu
alone by referring to the manifest in
tervention of (.nnl's providence. Ate
GuAr. When we are least worthy, most
'erupted, hardest, onkindest, let us yet
online nd our spirits Into His hand.
A'hither else da its we soud theuif
Uuirgt iAicJoHa.'ii.
BOTANY FOR CHILDREN.
A Btodr Whleh Darelop a Loa for Gar
dening and llortleultura.
What would do more for gardening
and horticulture, and be more bene
ficial to tho pupil, than to make hot
any one of the foundation studies in
our common schools instead of a fin
ishing study taken up by very few? A
knowledge of botany I of the highest
importance to every 0110 whose life ami
livincr are in tho country. Tho farmer
ha great need of botany; ho lias the
fruit cultiirist and the flower or vege
table gardener. Analytical botany i
well, but even more important are
structural and physiological botany.
Yet our boy mid girls are kept igno
rant of each of these branches until
tho school life is about to close until
the school life of tho majority has
closed. This i not right. Botany
can bo taken up before geography. I'
is especially well adapted to very young
pupils; for it is properly an object
study and Interest children niucn
more readily than mathematics, gram
mar or geography. It i an absorbing,
intensely-interesting study, ami when
once is is fairly begun the pupil is lotli
to give it up.
I believo the girls would receive tho
more benefit from making botany one
of the earliest studios of the schools
It 1 true that the fate of many of
them is to become farmers' wives; but
a woman is better fitted to be such a
"helpmeet" by tho acquisition of a
thorough knowledge of botany. Tho
farmer, naturally enough, takes more
interest in farm animals and feeding
problems. Upon these topics lie is best
informed. Henco hi wife's knowl
edge should supplement his. The larg
est sum of knowledge is made by the
coalescence of two quantities of di
verse lint lire, and, iriven the same
amount of knowledge in each case, that
couple is best equipped of which the
wife know most of those subjects on
which the husband is the least in
formed.
We no longer need foreigners to tell
ti that our women are weakly and col
orless, anil that this comes of lack of
out-door exercise. When the wife or
daughter gets a little leisure, Instead
of spending it out of doors in the en
livening sunshine and invigorating air.
she sits down to do some fancy work,
injuring her lungs by bending over it,
injuring her eves bv close attention to
the colored wools, and rises from her
play " more tired than when she be
gan it. Ihere is enough evidence to
prove that if she had been taught bot
any in her youth she would havo be
come so interested in it that she would
spend her leisure in prosecuting botan
ical studies, or in gardening or fruit
culture; for it can not bo disputed suc
cessfully thut a knowledge of plants
always adds great zest to their cultiva
tion. Botany for girls means largely
health for women, and, more, it means
oseape from that narrowing view of
life, bounded finally by household du
ties, of which so many women are the
victims, or, what is yet worse, servi
tude to dress and gossip; for from tho
physiology of plants the transition to
the physiology of animals is almost in
evitable; from the chemistry of plants
the chemistry of other things is 11 short,
nn easy step; from the distribution of
plants to mivsical geography, geology,
zoology, is a natural progression. Who
ean doubt the importance of a study ol
botany to girls? Botany for girls is
more flower and fruits about the
home, more health for mother and chil
dren, more knowledge and happiness
for every member of the family.
Juhn M. SUdd, in American Garden.
CHEATING THE LAW.
A Iloailanlo Inclilent of Life In the Jumlio
Tcrrltnrjr of Ainerli-K.
A family recently moved into a Cen
tral Dakota county from the Last.
Three or four mornings after a lumber
wagon drove up and a man got out
mid rapped at the door. The woman
appeared, and the man said:
"(Jood-moruin', ma'am; 1 hope you
ain't fished him out vet?"
"What is it, sir?"
"1 say 1 hope every thing remains
just as it 'n that's tho law iu cases
of this kind, ye know."
"I don't understand you."
"I can't see why you don't yon
must know what's happened an' what
the law requires in such cases. This is
the jury out'n tho wagon and I'm cor
onerdon't delay ti 'cause we're all
anxious to earn our fees an' git back
an' git in a day' work harvestin'
grain's powerful ripe, ma'am."
"There hasn't been any death here,
sir!"
"There haint? Didn't your husband
fall down the well?"
"No, sit!"
"Didn't he git wanderin' 'round in
the night an' tutnble down 1111 old well
into four feet of water an' drown'd an'
break his neck both at the same time?''
"No, sir, ho didn't. He's out in tho
field nt work now. One of our calves
fell down an old well last night."
"D'ye" hear that, boys? that's how
the blame' yarn got started! Madam,
tell ycr husband to be very keerful in
the future if we come again we shall
hold the inquest whether he is dead or
not!" Then, as he turned and climbed
in the wagon, he added:"Bil, jes' keep
that verdick ye writ up tho darned
fool may drop down that well yet!"
JHIKOI'l liilU ,
A strolling photographer on West
ern avenue yesterday was taking the
picture of a mansion and asked a littlo
girl who stood by to stand on tho
stoop. She did so, and had her picture
"took." On her return to her homo
she informed her mother of the inci
dent, and garnished it with the jubi
lant remark: "And It didu t hur t rue
bit ' Atony Jaunutl
A RAILROAD INCIDENT.
Eiparlanra of. Vu.. UAf Who K.
lluwU Help HurMiir.
It was the first time "e had ever
traveled alone, and all the family came
downtolhesintiontosfloherolT.
Now, P.ieek" said her father, a ho
bellied her on. "don't let any of them
youn" feller come foolin' roun ; mind
what" 1.10 an' vour mother ha nIIiii
told you, an' don't have nothln' to say
to strangers."
"I won't, father," chirruped Pmebe.
"Where's the M with ' my best hat?
And tho bag with the dried raspberries
for Jim's wife? And the kitten? Oil,
where's tho poor littlo cat?''
-litre she be," said the mother,
ii,.,. in.r no with the rest of P.ui'be's
belongings; "and here' the six pair
of stockings I knit JWiben, and the
yarn towels, and the'
V ..1. ..... 1 1
"All aboard: yolieii mo conductor.
"God-bye, I'lunho! Dm't forget tho
now cheese in the hand basket! Till
Jim's wife to send mo the raceet for
dyeing cotton yarn a priniros.i cast
Tako care of Kitty, an' bo sure an' ,,
flood-bvo. P.ieeb! Don t maKe no
'oiiaintanees with ciinybody. As your
gran'father med to say. 'the Lord
helps them ns helps tliemsives.
There was a lot of them -brothers
sisters and cousins who watched lis
until the train and "Plied)" were out
of sight. Then the young traveler
settled down to business. And we all
watched her, for she was a very pretty
girl.
First, she heaped all her things In the
seat facing her. Then she concluded
to put somo of them in the bracket
alii ive.
Allow me." said the spruce travel
ing 111 m with a maslii'ig smile.
"Thank you, said Miss l'mi'tie,
coolly, "it's kind of inconvenient go
ing anywhere alone.
(f.iiu
far?'
sked
the traveling
man as be sat down, ami
we all
glanced at him 'with envy.
"Only to visit my brother Jim in
Newton Center. 1 get there after
dark, though, and am awfully afraid
tliev won't meet mo."
I'm roinr that way myself," haz
arded tho untruthful traveling man.
"Why, how nice! I wouldn t bo a
bit afraid of you."
"Alow! mew! mow! came from a
remote corner of the cnr. Aliss Pluube
niado a dive for her kitten' basket.
Oh, won't somebody catch the kit
ty for me? Oil, dear, it will lo lost.
and it i a real Maltese! Oil, whore s
tho conductor? Won't somebody
please ring for him?''
Wo all started to hunt the wicked
kitten, whilo its excited mistress p illed
the bell-cord and stop ped the train.
When neaee was restored, and lour
traveling men had returned the kitten
its owner, the conductor seated
himsolf by Aliss PluDbe to explain that
passenger must never under anv cir
cumstances touch the bell-cord.
Aleanwhile all the oneroiu duties of
answering question nmt reassuring
'isihionod old women devolved on the
brakemaii.
Then the boy with peanuts came in
and she snared him into irctliti!? soma
------ i-. n
milk for kitty from, the restaurant cir.
I he book'tiend drooped an armful of
burning novels into the seat at last loft
vacant by the conductor.
"Have you 'II iw II (Won II r, or
'Love on a Rail-car?' " she asked,
sweetly.
Ho sat down to explain that ho was
11st out of that, but had ' Divorced al
sight." or "A Romance of Chicago."
Then the onlv man in tho car who
had not been down on his knees, a cold,
haughty, soulless man, with a cynical
leer, opened his valise and handed
her
II w Hj Won Her."
When the train reached Newton
Center tho young lady left it, followed
iy a meek and submissive crowd, lho
'onductor carried the cat. Tho brake
nan had the sachel. Tho rest of her
luggage was apportioned to th t male
passengers, each of whom received a
sweet s idle, and a cordial "good-bye"
as Brother Jim hove in sight, to claim
his fair lvlatho. As wo scrambled
back to our train we heard Jim ask:
"How in the world Phceb did von tret
along with all those traps?"
An. I her musical laugh, as sho an
swered:
"Oil, you know, Jim. father brought
lis in) to help ourselves. Ddroil
Free frew.
Sufficiently Protected.
It is all to common to misunderstand
Ilia truo nature of a medicine, as any
one must confess, remembering the
story of the nurso who awoke her
patient in order to administer a sleep
ing portion.
Whoa shower-baths become nn active
fashion, a certain physician one day
met a neighbor, and inquired: "Well,
Jackson, how did your wife manage
her new shower-bath?"
"O.i, sho had real good luck. Airs
Smith told her how sha managed with
hern. Sho made an oiled silk hood,
with a big cape to it, that came down
over her shoulders
"She was a fool for 'her pains" said
the doctor, impatiently. -That's not
the way."
So my wife thought."
"And vour wife did nothing of the
kind, I hope."
"Oh no, no. My wifo sho used an
umbrelly." l'o'vfV Coiin ion.
"Mr. (loodhead is a splendid fel
low." "Yes; a wonderfully line fol
low. I never saw his match. So in
telligent and well-informed, and such
an excellent man every way. Uo is
from New York. I believe?" "Is he?
Well er it is evident that Nature in
tended that he should have been born
in Bjstgn." Bosh TrantcripL
MODERN JERUSALEM.
The I'overty and irntatLfatlurjr Condition
of 1U Inhabitant.
Jerusalem ha no wealth. F.fiy or
one hundred years ago. it could boast
of some wealthy families Their prop
erty has however, been scattered and
reduced, until their descendants of the
present generation are either poor, or
possessed of barely enough to support
them. The city to poor, the people are
impoverished, and half of lho inhabi
tants scarcely know from day to day
where they are going lo gut their daily
bread.
Bat, poor a people nnd city aro.
reins are exorbitantly high. Since
the house are built of stone, there 1
no danger of lo by fire. Hence fam
ilies having a little money on whleh
they are dependent for support will
build a house with It, becauso tho In
vestment is the bo it one they can make.
Th ro I no risks and tho high reuts
insure a good rate of interest.
Only a well-to-do family can occupy
an entire hous . In hundreds of cases a
family numbering four or eight persons
will occupy but a single room. In a
house of six or eight rooms, thero will
bo as many families They all cook
and wash in it largo open court, to
which each family has access. This
fact will give an idea of how crowdod
some of the houses are. The people are
obliged tolivo in this way, becatisa they
havo not money enough lo hire more
room.
It is very expensive building houses
in Jerusalem. The lirst step is to di
a cistern. This costs so much that the
owner will dig only a small cistern,
when he should bu ld one live times
the size. All the families in the house
use water from this cistern. Hiring
the rainy season there Is'siillicieut
water; but by Alay or the first of June
at tho least, the cistern is dry. Nc
rain falls uniil November or Decem
ber; consequently. these people
must buy water for four or live
mouths. Water is brought in skins
holding on nn average three pailfulls
each; and for a skin of water one must
pay from live to ten cents. For poor
peoplo this is a very great .hardship;
consequently, the least possible amount
of water is used, and it need hardly be
said 'that indescribable tilth abounds
House nro invariably built of stone
nnd are' much more expensive than one
would suppose. Stone have to be
quarried, transported on the backs of
camels cut into proper shape, and
finally built into walls. If the house
is two stories high, and the ro ms nro
large, the walls have to ba two, and
sometimes three foet thick, in order
to support the great weight resting
upon them. A vast amount of stone
and mortar is consumed in making the
arches that support tho upper floors or
the roof, and likewise in thn roof itself.
The amount of water used in prepar
ing tlie mortar sometimes costs alone
several hmdred dollars if the houso is
a large one. Dr Selah Merrill, lalt
U. is. Voting ul.
SWORDS OF INDIA.
Deadly Weapons Cnrrleil by the Scpnya,
l'ersliiw anil Af;lm.
Among some military trophies I
once saw a very rude, rusty teghar
locally worth a shilling which had
cleanly decapitated a raw recruit,
severing coat collar, brass bucklo and
caste necklet of hard enamel beads
lire nimble village rebel had sprung
on the Sepoy from ambush while trim
ming his lliutlock after a mislirc.
This a id all the low-priced teghars
and tulwars are of very soft metal,
capable of being bout nnd straightened
across tho blade, whilo the arch or
cutting portion, with razor-edge,
o tiers immense resistance in the hands
of nn expert, who, behind hi shield,
can watch and measure his opportun
ity. Only tho straight thrust of Brit
ish bayonets or dragoon blades can
reach them.
The metal nnd finish of cutting arms
improve when wo enter North India.
Hard steel of line temper and high
workmanship used to bo common un
til two Sikh wars and the great mu
tiny abolished tho demand for such
deadly wares. Ihu skilful Moham
medan craftsman ha 1 to emigrate for
a livelihood, or to often dwindled into
a blacksmith of harmless occupation.
1 remember in tho good old times of
tho East India Company itinerant
sword peddlers Persians and Afghans
of great stature and big turbans
"Do you want any swords?"
' Yes; but whore are they?"
"Here;" and the vendor's hands
were lifted to his head-cloth, where
they groped awhile. O.it sprang
throe or four shining steel s. lakes
elastic blades, tinhandlod a la mode,
'20 to 50 each iu valuo, sometime
more. Then the dealer put them
through various severe tests to satisfy
his customer, packing them awav
again iu their hiding place should
there bo no sale, and going on hi
road. 15 it thero were many shapes
and sizi and sorts of limeter of
great price, harder and les flexible
botn plain and damascened. The
tiiack steel or rv iorassan, very rare n
the market, reputed to cut off the
neck of a 1 anvil an Eastern anvil,
of course; the Parisian and Central
Asian specimens elegantly watered in
circular veins, seem o light that a
girl could use them, others so heavy
that height and length of arm, with
breadth of chest, were needful gifis
of nature to utilize them men like
"R.bRov" or "Mihmud Ghttzni.
whoso hands hung 'below their knees
The latter notable earned an awful
steel 111 ace in preference to a sword.
and smashed idols and idolators with
bis own arms on all oecasious En
g utt Mechanic
ENGINES OF
Th. Woniarrm l'7o ,. .t
The death of II..e. v
prictorof tho g,-Bft, stee
sen, remove from the ru J
great et fame was won in N
.1... i.:.i.. . ... . " ui Cai:.
ii.rui, point of dnvelr.
manufacture of tle lninl,m M -man
destruction. Am ... .1, ?'",
have for ceiim-mi. h .H
business of making Bt(1,. p H
tINeH.til-l.ll ni.nl.... 1 1 ' frl-.
business
uses, tin
hundred
the com)
mnnufac
" ....tio
. '. ' "6'os, slum. ,,, ., 1
" .uqJ
tlltinilf'IfltlltMlm
by tho efftlve irtlB,.r
liished to the armies ,. .M
armies ami
tho world. To tho lover
Krimnii ai.i.n. 1. ...... 1 . rVvJ
" y"i"-u ro 1 y 1
nenco nmonz those ! v...
the machines f .1 . ePrJ
u t; 7 """'surer jea
by the IitanicniHlimU nt J..
rary
Win-fun.. i.l -. """
And
have only relatively ,, W
others to make modern .... H
Vet il..
dreadful than the war of the
'"j "v ucveionwt n..
cannon makinir bevon.l .1,.. 1
by their cotnnetitoM i.n. ,. i
The wonderful modern pro,,
tho arts of slaughtering djmJ
battle-field be ran about o.: '
ago. and in this dreadful devi
the United Ktutna
ers The Dahlgren etui. in.
-'-"' IIO IHIH (If ll,t
the late Admiral of that namn
nuno. i iu lliu Hniiiurintj o a.
) ear.-, ago. It was the niont ...
of guns until Louis XapolMndevdJ
too iiica 01 ruling caution. IV..
close of the Crimean wur the fc
ci;;iu-Moinuer was 1110 Heaviest Vj
biiiii uini 111 use, mm 1 in m,!,.-.
meii-oi-war still carried thirty-;,
pommer 111 nieir tiatterics. Out
u-iiv lil'noirlif fiiiii-.ti.,l n 1
i-arroi guns, mm ten una ti,.;
piece frowned 11 wnrniiigfromey'
rets of monitors to the iiowowrf
wiu t ortu nor 10 meddle in thf
mint it. . . . ,, . . - 1
ol the United Mutes At tlu. i.
the war of the rebellion the D.iL',
Rod mull nnd Parrot gnus mAj
united Mate the most potr.
armed of nations. England WJ
Armstrong gun ami tue Whin
but possessed of these shehadnofc
to try conclusions with Anii-rica r
nanco.
"Our war was th? last great w,
fought with muzzle-loatlingjiMllfi'
Ihe war of 18G6 demonstrate jj
great superiority that breeib-kt!
gavo their possessors The iy
gun, now regarded as a very pi.
tive weapon, destroyed Austria '
ership in Germany. Then cut j
dreadful slaughtering mitrhei
France in 1870, when both lidwi
armed with breech-loadcn iti
mitraillenso came into play. TV.
was supposed that the very higw
velopment of arms making hidu
reached, but since then cannot J
smnll arms have been uianmVtH
but happily not much used in the
which made tho contemplation d;
ure battle simply dreadful H01-1
is this competition among the nt:
111 arming to continue? A'osw
a ship launched by one of the p-1
sheathed with plates deemed 11:
liable and equipped with gmu
surpass in power of penetratioi
heretofore known, than anotherp-i
puts into the water a vessel tw
reed tho lirst in both tliepowmii
iurv and resistance. Nosoonerr
army of Frauce furnished witkitf
ld-liring rifle, than that of wrnm
equipped with tho Alauser, the
which can be thickened at will.
Men to-dav can bo shot drt
ranges which twenty years o-
not be covered by the must pn
rifles then known. Where it
were pvorwded for military pnif
by tlie great European powers, U
centurv ago, pounds are pu"
dnv. "Meanwhile the strain ol -
vism on the ldivsical vitality
foreiirn nations is something of
we fortunate Americans cattfcr
a faint realization. France prTl
to svreen into the army the only
r,f i,i a 11 i-lnss heretofore M
substitutes arc to be no longer A
nnd the richest and poorest f
,),.. N,iU In the m-
yni inn iiiu iikii' 1;
ti. .t.,.,,..!..!.! ,.f militarism m"5"
themselves. The dragon .wil.lbiu
K..lf iii hid tim-v rare. and die.
simply impossible for hiinian nr
endure for another generation t
hausting process now in P'P
the continental .iiror
t'ni.wj ,iw.irni,mipnt is sooner
about' by the shuddering rem
ilrosdllll "
the nations, niter some
clysm. it must be reached b.r Jl
exhaustion ol treasons
Boston Transcript
A Mighty Stupid Cle
Dealer (to clerk)-Wlit
young lady want, .lain''-
" Clerk -She asked for
Brussels carpets, and I tul
hadn't such a thing
Dealer Creat Scott,
Jam
. . . , Il..jtnll
. Ck,f
voting lady is jiom
"1 1... 1.. n....,,..U and we '
overstock of 'em
.V. V. s,n-
A volume, entitled
terre." after the style 'f tw .
Dorking." has been l"l jllV
It is another account of .;
vasion of England. l,e '
land at Hastings after ,
British squadron at
transporting one hnndn
thousand men I)ldl-Y ' jl
the telegraph cable. AT
fought southwest of Tim"" .
mklphia tress.
"How does j-our wife
dresses cut?" "V-V
Judging from the number
bilb she requires for BlD"