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FOREIGN, GOSSIP. The Inspector of Butcherlos In Pari report that the consumption of hone noHh has Increased to an extra- ordinary extent King Humbert's palace In Rome, the (juirinal, contains 2,000 rooms only 125 of which are occupied by the King; and hla household. The North China Herald says that agents of the Panama canal made ar rangements to kidnap 80,000 An namese coolies to work at Panama, but the enterprise failed. Jiint before soiling the furniture of an old lady at Rydo, England, the executor examined an ancient bureau and dlHcovered a boo rot drawer, in which wore upward of 1,000 sovereigns, cloudy packed. The average time taken to put two pontons in telephonic communication In Glasgow 1h thirty-five seconds, In Birmingham forty, in Liverpool thirty two and In Dundee twenty. This was aMcortained from the results of ton calls in each town. A popular superstition In Naples is that of offering a charm to a horse's head or neck for the purpose of warding off the evil eye. This usually consists of a piece of horn; but occasionally a Madonna may be observed, and occa sionally a small bag of sand fulfilling tho same purpose The Mexican woman who Is obliged to earn her own living has a hard time of it. Seamstresses can not earn more than fifty cents per day. cigarette-makers from thirty-two to thirty-eight cents, and match-makers thirty to forty cents, and those are the only employments that are open to women in tho City of Mexico. Prince Jlismarck recently re marked to a friend that in tho course of his long and eventful life he had never met but ono thing that really my stifled him. "I can not," ho said "account for the fact that a group of wax-figures never by any chance look at an object they are supposed to be interested in, or at each other. Queen Victoria has of lato fallen Into the habit of taking little -catnaps" In her chair, even when visitors are present. At such times the royal lady goes through the sumo routine followed by tho most humble of her tubjects. Her head falls a little for ward, Bwaylng slightly from sldo to side; then she sits bolt upright, opens her eyes wide, and assumes an appear ance of great Intelligence and alort ness. Ellon Manning, a fashionable and wealthy woman of SUipoley, England, was recently arraigned on a charge of having stolen sixty pounds of straw fiom hor neighbor, Mr. Hornby, tho famous crlckuter. She pleaded not guilty, but a boy employed by her testified that tho fodder running short dim had directed him to go at night to tho yards of various neighbors and steal something for tho cattle to eat, and that when he told her he had dono so she laughed. Tho case was ad jirned to give a chanco for settle ment. , Ex-Empress Victoria of Germany and the Queen of 1 1 til y are said to be the two cleverest and most highly edu cated women In Europe. The ex-Empress is a brilliant conversationalist, but Is not as witty as Queen Murgho rita. The former, however, Is pos sessed of a knowledge of scientific sub jects most remarkable for a woman. She is able to converse learnedly with such men as Vlrchow and Von Holm holz, and her comprehension of her husband's case awakened wonder among his physicians. The increasing severity of tho pass port regulations will make It necessary for all Americans going to Germany to bring passports from America, and that tho personal descriptions, etc., therein shall be exact enough to satisfy a Russian policeman in search of Nihil ists. Passports must be stamped by a Gorman Ambassador at Purls, but tho passport regulations do not apply to travelers by the common route from Paris via Helglum to Berlin, but only along direct routes on tho Alsace-Lorraine frontier. GARNETS OF ALASKA. llruut ITuI mul Ormtuirntul Curiosities roiiml at II. Wrmicell, The extensive garnet ledges at Fort Wrangell are tin inexhaustible source of beautiful and ornamental curiosi ties. The cropping of the lodge Is about ten feet wide, standing perpen dicularly and running northeast and southwest several miles in length; tho depth of it no limn has ever found out. The rock Is of a mica slute formation, and contains from two to four dozen garnets to tho cubic foot The gems are regular polygons, beautiful In color, and when fresh from the mines have a dashing and brilliant luster; but when exposed for a time they become dull and opaque. The crystal varies In dimensions from the sUe of a pea to that of a hen's egg, and to the novice are quite fascinating and have the appearance of much value for ornamental and other purposes. Tho lnpldurlcs, however, have failed to utilize them for any purpose whatever, except as a curio and to demonstrate the certainty of tho unerring law of nature which governs every phenomenon. Every piano of the polygon Is of tho same form, every angle of the same degree, and every gem is the equal and like of it fellow. The miuing and shipment of the rock has become quite a business. It is worth J0 per ton on the wharf at Fort Wrangell, and is shipM'd to all parts of the country to fill the cabinets of tho wealthy and the wolliH'tions In public institutions Jtwtkrt Htciiw. , DANGER IN MICROBES. Fitraet from trot. Hint's Lecture on ' Disease-Hreeding Germs. Dr. Hirst said the microscope of a power to increaso objects a thousand fold would be required to distinguish a disease germ, and the number of germs could not be told. It has been demon strated that one single germ or microbe inoculated into a porson will, in a few minutes, multiply with incredible ra pidity. The gorra broods every sec ond, and in course of an hour millions have boon known to be born. To know something about the germs that causes the infufilious diseases, uuch as small-pox, typhoid fover, diphtheria, yollow fover and all other contagious dlseasos, we must look for a di.Torent germ for each disease, which has its own poculiar and differ ent germ. Though they resemble each jther in appearance and in their man ner of work, they are very hard to dis tinguish apart, and this can only be lone by a competent chemist. 1 here are very fow families that have not folt, with sorrow, the power oi these dreadful microbes, and no mat tor how much cleanliness is preserved .here is always danger. All Infectious Uncases originate from these small Tiicrobos. The action of a germ is usually the tamo, ihey enter tho body through l :nt, the nose, the air wo breathe and ho water we drink. They go until hey reach the right side of the heart lero they are halted or a tlmo, but ;radually forco thoir way through to ho lungs. They continue, and enter tho intostinos, next then the spleen. rem there into tho blood-vessels, and hen a clear path to t'.vj heart, which toon forces them tin lugi, tho whole ystem. People ought not to broatho In a dck-rooin moro than Is absolutely noe- ssary, and should abstain from being onnocted with any disease to which forms belong. A room In which a person with a contagious disease Is ly ing should bo thoroughly disaffected by tho burning of sulphur. Putrifloa- lon or decomposition springs forth as leadly as any germ. If a ploce of do jomposed moat, which has boon ex posed to the air, should bo taken and ilocod over a cut, it would result in lood poison and a speedy death. "You are aware," said the doctor, that in making wine the bottle Is to bo thoroughly air tight, and if not so the wine will soon begin to work and turn sour. Well, if you should take a fow drops of this sour wine and place thorn in a bottlo of good wine by the aid of tho microscope the germs could bo plainly soon doing their lestructlvo work, and it would not bo long before the good wino would bo turned into another hemlcal, vinegar. These germs are always floating In the air until they and some ono who has not the propor hemlcal proportions to combat against Ihem. An experiment was mado on forty-eight rabbits with one drop of locomposed blood, which was a pecu- lu, substance resembling the alkaloids, Mich as morphia, opium, nlcotlno. It ,vas injected into tho rabbits, and bo- fore twenty-four hours had passed half A them had died, and ten drops caused tho death of tho others in a few hours. 'What an effect It must have upon tho human race! W are subject to jxposuro constantly; every breath we take is filled with germs of various liseases. Tho water especially that Is furnished by the city of Philadelphia Is not lit to drink, but this cun bo ovor- omo by thoroughly boiling it and using weak preparation of bl-carbonato of mercury." Philadelphia Press. WHANG DOODLE BAXTER. rim Mllvrr-TniiRurd Colored Orator Lect ure on Ilia Mutdert of Worry. HKiti.riiitKi Awjiknck: Do subjeo' b mv discuss on dis heah ercashuu im "Worry." Man am do cwatnre ob sorrer. IV hen he am In do heydey ob his youf is perseshuns consist mostly ob a few marbles and a sore toe. When ho rows older ho am weighed down wid ares and he am tilled wld patent modi iues, and when ho am done got old all lut he has am a will and do rheumatlz. Yes, berlubbed breddoren and sis I'll, man walketh forth for pleasure and jiijoyment, and behold! he steps on do bnuniicr peel ob disappointment, and e sidewalk tlies up and smites him on io small ob his back. Hit's not work what makes 'era curl up In do corner and die. Hit's do worry what makes men dio young. My iilwico teryer am ter do like a man hat I read about. Whenebber ho ate berries ho put on a par ob inagnifyln' glasses so dat dey would look bigger ind more temptln'. Dat's do way yer ants ter do wid yer pleasures, but yer on't wanter to put on no magnlfyln' if lasses when yer looks at yer troubles. Yer wants ter look atdem fru de wrong end ob a spy-glass, so dat dey will seem ter be a long way off. Dar am seberal remedies for worry. Pashlence am a good one. I knows dat puxhienee am mightily like castor lie hit's easier to prescribe hit den ter take hit but you will be better for hit fterward .1 has read iu do Good Hook dat Job was de most pashicnt man, but he didn't hab no cause ter brag. Ho nebber had ter wait till his wife put her bonnet. Dat's what tries a man's pasohience. I'so had four wives, and so I knows what I'so talkln' about. Wo am all more or less wicked, but de man what kin eat his dinner during fly time widout sweat-in', he has more pnschionco In il mlnit den Job had in a eek. IK' pusson who sets upon de gs ob borrowed trouble will some ob ese days hatch out do genuine chick ens, n title singin ue sockdoiogv l n- lo Mos will take up do kerlevshuu. Tuus itijttnjs. FINE DECORATIVE WARE. now Rom People Cm Afford to Iof Uems In China and Olnss. Not all the bargains in the city, nor even the most attractive ones in the wares that delight women and brlc-a-brao hunters, are to be found on the bargain counters of the up-town bazars. Those who have accidentally or out of curios ity visited the wholesale stores in the glass, crockery and decorative goods districts on the sido streets west? of Broadway, from Barclay street to Chambers and above, if they have nosed around in the out-of-tho-way corners under stair-ways, or poked about the dust-covered stock shoved away on back shelves In odd corners, have found a mine of valuable pieces of ornamen tal and useful ware that can be worked at a more tithe of the cost involved in transactions In the same goods over up town counters. These are "sample lots," In the language of the trade, and the principal interost of the whole- alors in them is to got them out of the way with as little trouble as possible. The choicest pieces obtainable in this way are of Imported goods, and they are lying around loose becauso flno china and glassware is sold usually by the wholesalers by tho dozen. Tho difllculty of replacing a broken one in a dozen of foreign good has led to the custom of thirteen pieces being packed for a dozen by the manufacturers abroad. Then if one piece in a dozen Is broken the sot is still complete. If there is no broakage the importer has an extra pioeo on his hands for which he has no use. In a large business a great number of such pieces, no half dozen of them alike, accumulate in a short time in this and other similar ways. Tho buyers of the up-town houses take many of them for the bar gain counters, especially where there happen to bo enough of any sort to make a small sot, but many are not available for this trade, and are left to bo shoved off into corners out of the way until resurrected by some bargain hunter. By a little diligence in going around from place to place a cabinet can be Qllcd with choice pieces, or a break fast or a lunchoon set of odd pieces be made up at a ridiculously small cost. Slightly-damaged pieces, but available for decorative purposes, are found in the same dusty corners, and can be se cured even more cheaply than the per fect samples. The genuine bric-a-brac crank takes a reiii enthusiasm in hunt ing through the wholesale warehouses for thoso neglected specimens, and en joys tho sensation of finding a rare bit of glass or a dainty piece of china, hidden under the dust and cobwebs of years, as much as he does the getting of it for a song, and the knowing that It can not be duplicated for loss than Qve or six timos what it costs him. At least one woman in New York found this bargain mine years ago, and has boon working it, groatly to her orofit, ever since. She has a little store, fifteen or twenty foot square, on a small sido street near Canal. A lot of cheap crockery marked at phonomenally low prices, but not other wise attractive, llttors trays in front of tho store. Tho show window has a somewhat more protontious appear ance, but the real treasures of the place are In a cose Inside. It is filled with pieces of royal Worcester, Dres den, Vienna, Carlsbad and other fine wares, even Sevres, all genuine and most of them porfoct. They are for sale for from ten to fifty per cent, less than they would bo sold for in the reg ular stores. Resides this the shop on every sldo is filled from floor to ceiling with chinawiire, much of it of the best makers, and the floor is so heaped with it that only a narrow space is left In which to move about. Some of thoso goods she sells at nearly their full value, but most of them go for halt or even loss. Her customers wonder how she can do it, and she smiles and says nothing; but the fact Is that tho stock Is entirely made up of tho odds and ends, "samplo lots," and other debris of tho wholesalers. Sho spends much of her tlmo in going about from ono house to another picking up bargains. The place Is well known among the ceramic crazy, not only in this city but elsewhere. At least one Governor, when ho has wedding presents or other usually expensive things to buy, comes to it. It is said that the woman has acquired a comfortable fortune out of tho business. A'. Y. Sun. Making Colored Glass. Where throe colors are desired, poU containing each color are made. A blow-pipe Is dipped first in one, and then a coating of another is put on, and finally tho third layer put on. The glass Is then blown into tho desired shape. At first the different colors of glass all present tho appearance of crystal glass; but, upon being heated, their respective colors are developed. Then a cut Is made in the glass of whatever form or shape that may be desired, and extends Into the layer of the color that is wanted, and the figure appears In precisely the form and color wished. A small quantity of ruby glass can be so blown as to cover a large piece of crystal glass, and though it is but a mere skin over the surface, yet It will give the whole a perfect color. Then the skim of ruby glass may be cut through, and the fine effect of ruby and cysuU in the same pieco given. Tho colored glass In or dinary tableware is nearly all stained, save one or two cheap shades of amber. Manufacturers say that the demand for colored glass Is fast dying out and that pure crystal ware Is mostly called fo. Pittsburgh Dispatch. ELECTRICAL STORM. A Tourist's Kiperieoee, In the Mountain Keglons of Colorado. Mr. J. F. Young, of Vinton, la., communicates an account of what ho and his son experienced in a storm last ter. They were climbing Mt. Elberi, i.ake County. Col., on June 6, 1887. About noon, when they were at a height of between twelve thousand and thirteen thousand feet, the storm came upon thorn. The circumstance that heavy peals of thunder were heard while the storm was approaching the mountain, and again as it went off, but that no reports were hoard so long as they were enveloped in the cloud, sug gest that contact became sufficiently close to allow an unbroken current. That the two men folt themselves to be electrical conductors while they were standing, but not such while lying flat on the ground, is of curious interost. The latter position would naturally bo expected to afford less discomfort, but not necessarily free from all electrical influence. Is it the case that there Is repulsion for slight distances between tho mountain and the cloud? Altogether the state ment furnishes a number of problems for the expert In natural science to solve. While ascending the range, says Mr. Young, a small, black cloud appeared In the distance. Soon vivid lightning flashed from the cloud, and heavy peals of thunder broke upon the air, while in the distance we saw snow failing. Tho thunder ceased when the cloud was about two miles from us, and was heard no more until It had passed some distance beyond. When tho cloud reached us, the snow that foil was round and not in flakes. Tho balls were about tho size of marrowfat peas, but it was snow, not hail. I had a pick hanging over my arm, while my son had his gun. Shortly after the cloud reached us, we noticed oloctriclty passing from the pick and gun to the ground, and simultaneously we found ourselves enveloped, as it were, with electricity. The current seemed to pass from our bodios up ward. Tho passage of the electricity from our hair was accompanied by a continuous crackling, snapping sound, giving us a very unpleasant sensation as though each hair were a fine noodle. There was sufficient power in the oloc tricity to raise my son's hat, his hair being very thick. The noise from the region of our pockets, which contained metal in tho form of knives and keys, was sufficiently loud to be heard from one to the othor, above the noise of tho wind, and the balls of snow falling on the rocks, although we were more than thirty foet apart. The dropping of the pick and gun produced no change. Both of us had previously re ceived heavy charges from a battery without experiencing the least incon venionce, but this sensation was very different. It was not a shock, but a continuous Btream of electrlcty, liko millions of noedles puncturing us at every pore. As the storm continued, and the situ ation was becoming decidedly unpleas ant, we determined to seek a lower piano. After descending fully three hundred foet without finding any relief, we threw ourselves prone upon the ground, when the sensation instantly ceased. We remained for some min utes in that position. WThen we arose all signs of unpleasantness had van- shed. After dinner we retraced our steps, and secured tho pick and gun. I should mention that we both noticed a strong sulphurous smell before we were affected by the electricity. I in quired of many persons in that region, some of whom have spent years upon thoso mountains, but could find none who had encountered any thing like this. Several hod been in slight elec tric showers, as was also the case with myself, but none had exporiencod any thing like this last Youth's Compan ion. Popularity of Etchings. Etchings are the demand in the art world, and for tho time, oil, pastel and other works are cast into tho shade by the number of etchings to bo seen in the stores. Public taste has increased in this direction, and, of course, tho art trade has turned its attention to supplying it. A dealer must carry a costly stock and liberality in the dis- !luy of tho number of valuable goods s tho feature of art dealing in these days. A five thousand dollar caso of unframed etchings is not uncommon toow. rot only has this class of pict ures come widely into use for orna ment, but the custom of collecting them for portfolios has grown. Many of these are now marked artist proofs of tho best workers, American and foreign. Energetic Eastern concerns have pushed tho business until the most exeelent etchings are now ob tained. This branch of art has mado more progress in the last few years than any other. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He Wanted One Bad. A small boy was following and nag ging a big boy on Columbia street the other day when the big boy halted and stud: "Say, boy. If you foller me any fur ther I'll black your eye!" "Will you?" "You bet!" "Real black?" 'Awful black!" "Then I'll foller. If I can get a black eye I won't have to go to school for a week!" Iktroil Free Press. A pound of pennies is worth $142. a pound of live-cent pieces is worth 1 1.50. EDUCATED WOMEN. DoejThelr Learning Decrease Their Mat rlutonlal Chances, The disco vory has lately been made that but a small per cent, of the women who have graduated from colleges in this country are married, and the question of the effect of college loarnlng upon domestio life seems about to be as gravely discussed as was tho now doad one of its effect upon feminine health. The Vassar catalogue is the text oftonest quoted, but Vassar is only one college, and it is better to take the register of the Associated Collegiate Alumna, which contains the names of 659 women, graduates of the 14 lead ing women's colleges and co-educatlon-al colleges in this country, Of these women, 117 are married, less than 27 per cent of the whole. Any extended personal acquaintance witn eaucawa women, as with educated men, shows that the emotional nature tends to grow with the cultivation of the intel lectual, but at the same time to be como less hasty and uncontroled. Feelings are deeper, but based more upon sound judgment Partly for this reason, and partly because the college graduate Is necessarily not a very young girl, reckless marriagos, or njnrriages iu which the woman is totally Imposed upon as to the charac ter of hor love, are particularly un known among them. Again, personal acquaintance can give but one answer to the question whether college life re places the domestic disposition in worn in by ambition; and that is, that on the contrary the quiet aud earnest pursuits of college develop to unusual strength In them the taste and fitness for home life and for the occupations and companionship of a happy marriage; that any influence toward the losing of domesticity and drying up of unselfish affection through a student's ambition seems to be in finitesimal as compared with the same Influences through the ambitions of society and display, which the student escapes. But this very disposition toward re fined home life and worthy companion ship makes them more fastidious in, their choice of a companion, and would seem by that much to lessen tho prob ability of their marrying. The ability to "got along" without marriage, pro vided none that is for its own sake de sirable offers, seems, in actual obser vation, to give full effect to this fastidiousness. It seems evident, too, that many men dread or dislike the idea of college women; but we doubt if this affects their opportunities of marriage perceptibly, for it regu lates itself the men who seek their society are the ones who do not like col lege women; and in any case, so far as we have been able to observe, the dis like is far more to college women in gonoral than to Portia or Aspasia in particular, and does not seem to inter fere especially with falling in love with her. It is common enough to see intellectual men choosing wives of lit tle mind or knowledge; but it is also common to see thom, when older, wearying of the insufficient companion ihip, and consciously or unconsciously seeking the friendship of intellectual men and women outside to supplement it Overland Monthly. NIGHT-ROBE SACHETS. Perfumed Packets of Kverjr Description for the Bedroom. Night-robe sachets are among the useful fancy articles which it is just now the fashion to have. They are made in almost any material and in many shapes. Some are , in the form of little square pillow slips, and are in tended to be placed during the day time before the bed pillow. They are provided with a flap like an envelope, and are edged with lace, braided, em broidered with the initials in mono gram or left plain. These little bags are especially pretty for children's beds and are generally made of white pique, although muslin and Bilk are used. More fanciful ones are made out of surah or sateen in pink, blue, yellow or other furnishings to match the room, and are then covered with a slip of white Swiss, either plain or dotted, and edged with lace, a bow of ribbon the color of the underslip ornamenting the outside. , For a handsomely-furnished bed room little sachets, mado of soft silk, thickly wadded with cotton, and in the form of a round bolster, are in favor. These are made about eighteen inches long and are richly embroidered in silk in a floral design. The lining is thickly sprinkled with sachet powder and the cover opens out flat The night-dress is folded and placed in it, and then the pretty silken square is rolled about it and tied with a satin ribbon. The ends are caught snug with a draw ribbon. A garment kept in such a receptacle is sure to be ex quisitely perfumed. But all of the sachets are provided with little pock ets, into which a silken bag of the sweet powder is placed. Fastidious housewives now make lit tle slip pockets in the hems of skirts and pillow cases, into which are placed small linen bags holding lavender or violet powder, and so keep their sleep ing rooms sweet with perfume. K. Y. Journal. A medical correspondent of the Lancet, writing from Bombay, de scribes a goat that has a horn five inches long growing from the middle of its right ear. The horn curls slightly at its tip; its growth is in concentrio rings, and its texture is fibrous, but less regular than ordinary horns. The correspondent says "the animal would appear to have a tendency to such growths, as there Is also an irregular horn on one of its limbs. " I CONCERNING OLIVE Where They Are Raised and th . . Which Thef Are Iwd, " Within certain latitudes the ol will grow anywhere and serve for ? most any purpose. On a dry and ston elevation that would starve out ' thistle, the plant luxuriates; and If th sea breezes may but fan the y0Un! shoots, so much more of promise i there for the olive harvest. Pron, gated chiefly by cuttings, the . lowy" looking twigs take root with i proud defiance of ordinary rules, and there is a whimsically planted grot, of olive trees of unusual size and beauty near the town of Mossa in M. rocco, which il 'ustrates this truth In a remarkable way. Ono of the King,0f the dynasty of Saddla, being oa a nilitary expedition, encamped here with his army. The pegs with which -he cavalry picketed their hor, were cut from olives in the neighbor, hood, and some suddon cause of alarm leading to the abandonment of the po. sttion, the pegs were left in the ground and making the best of the situation developed into the handsomest group of olives in the district. Olives are mentioned in the earliest records of Egypt, and their introduction Into Greece took place at least as early a, fifteen hundred years before Our en Thence thoir cultivation naturally passed into Italy, the Romans especial, ly prizing them, while Virgil men tions three distinct varieties, each of which hud its own fastidious support, ers in the ancient conflict of tastes. Pliny also tells us that they also grew in the heart of Spain and France, though he awards the palm to the Bmallor olive of Syria, the olive of which was at least more delicate than that producod in the Western countries. So far as regards the oil of Spain, and to some extent that of Italy, this judgment stands good to the present hour, for the reason that the Spanish olive is a larger and coarser fruit, while the Italian growers are too apt to detract from tho limpid delicacy of the virgin oil by the sacri fice of quality to quantity. For the olive, like all generous givers, demands that you Bhouli "squeeze" him gently. Tho oil is ex pressed from the entire pulp and bod; of the fruit, and its quality stands in inverse proportion to the quantity pro duced. The first pressure yields a thin, pure liquid, almost colorless; and with this even the most fastidious of English palates rarely makes ac quaintance. As the pressure is in creased a loss delicate product is the result; while if it is still further pro longed a rank and unwholesome residum is obtained, .wholly unfit for edible purposes. It should be men tioned that virgin oil does not main tain its freshness for more than i few weoks without the addition of s little salt and sugar, and it is impos sible for any one to realize the exquis ite delicacy of this fivst expression of the freshly-gathered olive, unless he has sojourned in such a district as that of which, say, Avignon is tho center. The oil of Aramont, in Provence, was formerly supposed to have no equal in Europe. Both the olive and the manufactured oil of the south east of France are, indeed, still un rivaled by those of any other country. The Italians pay more respect to the commercial aspect of their production,, and among them the number of olive farmers and merchants is very large. They have a proverb: "If you wish to leave a competency to your grand children, plant an olive." Doubtless the advice is sound enough, for the trees often flourish for more than a century, and bear heavy crops to the last. But to the pleasant south of France the olive is almost what the pig Is to the English laborer. Prudent housewives there are as averse to the introduction of a new fruit at table their thrifty English sisters are to the "new loaf." In fact, they habitually preserve the darker berries for every day use; for these, not being so agree able to the taste, "go" so much further a necessary consideration when they oftener form the staple than the accom paniment to the meal. Olives intended for eating are gath ered while still green, usually in the month of September. They are soaked for some hours in the strongest possi ble "lye" to got rid of their bitterne. and are afterward allowed to stand for a fortnight in frequently-changed fresh water, in order to bo perfectly purified of the lye. It only then re mains to preserve them in common salt and water, when they are ready for export. Among the Romans the olive held the privileged position of being equally respected as a dainty accessory and an ordinary food. was eaten at the table of the temperate and the luxuriouslilike; and. while dividing the highly-flavored dishes of their extravagant suppers, formed constituent of Horace's pastoral me "Of olive, endive, simple tastes and mallow. "A merica n A nahjst. A Chicago insurance agent say' that several of the large dry S houses of that city have each a specie employe who does nothing but attcn to their insurance. And it keeps him busy, too, for the average lino of in surance carried by one company 00 any ono risk is five thousand dollar while many of the dry goods firm have an insurance of one million doi lars or over. -John Ruskin, in a recent lecture Oxford, declared that "the w"'1" meaning and power of true court-nir is probation, acd it ought not to M shorter than three -years at Jc seven being the more orthodox U"10-