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AIDS TO EOUCATION. An Ohio School-. HMIrrai Mallinil ol Trh lug IC.igllih OtMilMfi Whilo the leotllnir educators of DIs trlol No. 43, Sedgwick County. Kan., are engaged In an earnest effort to bring their bcIiooI to a higher point of effleienoy by the use of the slow matcli ami shotgun, some other pnru of the country are not Idla Jackson town ship, Hancock Count), O, has been heard from. The problom which the Ohio Instructor of youth located there ha been at work on Is that of com pulsory education. Thli subject Is one which, as we all know, Is far from being settled satisfactorily. Laws are passed that all children must attend gchoel, but evoa If they can be en forced, it docs not follow that all chil dren will study their lessons diligent ly and be able to make a showing sat isfactory to the conscientious and painstaking toacher. To accomplish this end has been left for tho Ohio In structor referred to. The advanced grammar class was on the floor and ho called on ono of tho boys to explain the exact relation which the panioiplo sustained to the various parts of speech. Tho slothful but unsuspect ing youth was free to admit that ho could not do so. On hearing this la mentable confossiontho Jackson town ship educator drew a slung-shot from his slocvo and struck tho mlsguldod young man a couple of light blows. With the slow match, the shotgun and the slung-shot well established among our educational appliances America may well make a now boost of her great public school system. What measure of popularity the common leather and lead slung-shot may obtain ns a means for Impressing English grammar upon tho lleklo mind of youth It Is too early yet to say. It certainly doos not look encouraging for It, when we learn In the course of the dispatch bringing tho Intolllgonco of the wholo alTalr that Its lirst user has had his llcenso to teach revoked by an unsympathetic board of examin ers to whom the bentitlos of the slung shot are as a sealed book. Hut its promoter, Mr. John Walters, has many things to console him as ho sees an or dinary teacher Installed in his place, (inllleo heard as good men as reside In Jackson township ridicule his tele scope. John Walter may yet live to conduct a gramm ir publishing houso and announce prominently in his ad vertisements a tine slung-Hhot with every volume Mr. Walters' Ideas on educational Subjects aro what may properly be called advanced. He thinks that the teachor should not only be able to offer the pupil instruction, but also be prepared to see that he takes it. It is all very well, he argues, to assign a pupil a lesson on thesubjeotof partici ples, but it is bettor to see that the lesson is impressed on him so that he will not forget it, oven If It takes a new slung-shot every day. Our Ohio friend's ideal teacher Is one who, while the scholars are at their bonks, throws his feet up on his desk, draws on a pair of brass knnokles and calmly uses a large jack-knife In the guise of a toothpick till recitation time. Then he calls tho class to the floor, gets out his text-book and oilier weapons and proc Is to drive the oh Idron In trusted to his care along tho flowery paths of learning on a fast run. (ilvo Prof John W. Walters a common school grammar and a good slung shot and ho will agree to carry the rules of syntax to the dul lost pupil. All Is novelty, all Is excltument with tho Walters' Method of Teaching En glish (irnmmnr. The ordinary Instruct or approaches tho weary student with the dry and uninteresting facts con cerning participles and their relation to other words; It Is true that IVof. Walters comes up to him with the same facts In oao hund, but he Is reaching Into his boot for a six-ounce slung-shot with the other. The effect of the Jackson township Idea of com pulsory education on our school sys tem will lie watched with Interest. Fred. H. Carruth, In Texas Sifting, m Romantic Heligoland's Doom. Oklahoma squatters are complain ing that the new land-office Is "pulling the ground from under their feet," but the literal meaning of that phrase is at present illustrated on the Island ol Heligoland, where a stormy sea re cently toppled over a largo cliff, to gether with its top. stratum of pas tures and cottages, 4j.ii I at the same time revenled tho existence of a cliff undermining at least one-third of the remaining scant area, which has now been minced to a little less than one third of an English square mile. Year by year the sea encroaches upon tho rocks of the west shore, but tho full extent of lis ravages was only lately ascertained by the discovery of an old map, showing not less than eighteen different villages, with castles, forts and monasteries, whero the water now covers the submarine rocks to a depth of lialf a hundred fathoms. I.Ike the island of St Helena, the cliffs of Heligoland rise abruptly from an ocean abyss, which moiethnn probably will swallow up tho last breakwater before the middle of tho next century. Albany (N. Y.) Journal. Light colored fruits, such ns pears, peaches and apples, should lie dropxd Into cold water as they are pared. Tb will preserve their color, but they must not bo kept there long, or the flavor will be destroyed. It is not o important to keep peaches a light color as It Is pears. la nil preserves there Is danger of the juice of the fruit reducing the sirup; it is well to lit It remain uncovered for twenty four hours, and then if the sirup Is ipd thin, pour It off and scald again. IttHvntly a negro woman near Can tenrille, Wilkes County, C.eorgla, hav ing her young babr In her lap at church, got to shouting nml poundln her child. She beat It so severely that several of it. ribs were broken and the child died la a f days from the (juries. The "teal red poppy" has recently been found to have the valuable power of binding with its root the soil la which It grows In such a mauner that It will prove most valuable In support ing embankment. Already several engineer have undertaken the towing Of railwajr Juban.kmeDla.vllh, popple HUvV FLIES MULTIPLE. lurioti lr InlnrMtlag ' Abol in., taneytag i ' Mr Alfred Kussell Wallace has re ntly published a book on Darwin. Mr. Wallace Is a Spiritualist and a iiormigh Darwinian, It seems that the iMiikoy scare about our ancestry Is nit so alarming after all. This I a nid i remark. To the point In which the fly figures. Mr. Wallace points ut some facts, or a groa many, rather, to show there u a continual aoapetitloa. struggle and war going on in nature. This itruggle Is ever acting over the whole field of nature, and no single species of- plant or ani mal can oscao from It. nays Mr. Wallace: "This results from tho fact of the rapid Increase. In a geometrical ratio, of all tho species of animals and plants. In the lower orders this in crease la especially rapid, a single flesh fly producing 20,000 larva), and these growing ao quickly that they reach their full size in five days; henco tho great Swedish nnturallst, Mn nseus, assorted that a dead horso would bo devoured by three of those flys as quickly as by a lion. Each of these larvas remains in tho pupa state about five or six days, so that each parent fly may bo incronsed ten thou sand fold In about a fortnight Sup posing they wonton Increasing at this rate during only three months of summer, there would result one hundred millions of millinna of rallllona for each fly at the commence ment of slimmer a number greater probably than oxlsta at any ono tlmo In tho wholo world. And this is only one spocles, while there are thousands of other specios Increasing also at an enormous rate; bo that, If they wcro unchocked, the whole atmosphore would be dense with flies, and nil ani mal food and much of animal life would bo dostroyed by them. To prevent this tremendous increase there must lis in cessant war against those Insects, by Insectivorous birds and reptiles, as woll as by other Insects, In tho larva as well as In tho porfect state, by tho action of tho elements in tho form of rain, hall or drought, and by other unknown causes; yet wo aoo nothing of this ever-present war, though by its means alone, perhaps, we are saved from famine and pestilence" So you see the fly, like every thing else, when made the subject of scien tific study Is a vory Interesting little nuisance. He has to light the whole world, and the world cornea vory nearly being boaton sometimes. 1 think it is nip and tuck now, with the fly a trifle in advance Is not the wholo matter strange? Without a fly we might have pestilence and with too much fly, and let nlono, we would have famine. Eat or be eaten is the law of nature, and somehow wo just eat enough not to lot any thing get an advantage. Chicago Journal. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. Ill,- I'mgri-ns of I In lil.nl In vrlitlnn- Leber-aavtssj u. ,i, .... An expeditious way to lower the temperature of a small vessel of water Is to drop into It a few crushed crys tals of nitrate of ammonia. The crystals will reduce the heat about 11 (ty dogroos. Prom experiments made in Blob mond, Va.. with electric heaters, It serins probable that a passenger coach can be kept warm at an expense of two cents an hour, tho current being supplied by u dynamo on the locomo tive or tendor. Inventor Edison Is nt work on a "far-sight" machine which he hopes to have perfected In time for tho world's fair in MM Ity Its aid tho Inventor snys it will bo possible for a man in New York to seo tho features of a friend in lloston. Seoul experiments at the Koynl Polytechnic school at Munich show that the strength of camel-hair belt ing reaches 0,815 pounds per square Inch, while that of ordinary boiling ranges between 2,230 and .V.'OO pound per square Inch. The camel-hair bolt Is unaffected by acids. A natural bed of substance resem bling shoe-blacking Is reported In Kush Valley, Utah. Analysis shows that it contains It! per cent carbon, ill per cent, aluminium, and f0 per cent clay. When properly applied to leather It produces a tine polish that is not easily destroyed. Hulldcrs are now making doors of two thick paper boards molded Into panels, glazed together with glue and potash, and put through a heavy roll lug process. Covered with a water proof coating, they are hung like wooden doors, and are both beautiful and serviceable. They possess the additional recommendation of being comparatively noiseless. French stool-makers are manufact uring steel containing a variable por tion of copper, two to four per cent,, which is capable of far greater rcslst inir newer and Is more elastic and malleable than simplo steel. This allov is to be used in making artillery of largo caliber, armor plates, rifle barrels, and projectiles. It will also probably lie valuable for making gird crs for building purposes and ship ' plate-. The relative hardness of woods Is calculated by the hickory, which is the toughest Estimating that at 100, we get for pignut hickory t0, white oak M. white ash 77, dogwood 74, scrub oak 73. white haicl 7'.'. apple tree 70, red oak 09. white beech 05, black walnut 05. black birch 02. yel- j ow and black oak 00. white elm 58. hard maple 50, rod cedar 53. cherry i 55. yellow pine 53, chestnut 52. yellow poplar 51, butternut and white birch 41. and white plue 36- -Chicago News. Americans are grnuu.tlly being recognized as the greatest yachting j people In the world. Nowhere else I can one find so much enthusiasm and I Interest over a yacht race as here, and what Is more significant, this Is the ! only country In the world where the I manses have any Idea of the details of I sailing and the maneuver of yachts In ; a race. The yacht-raoe report In the great dally papers of the United states. ! which are read underslaodtngly aad 1 with great Interest here, would bo Greek to theavcrajre newspaper reader on the.other side of the water HISTORY OF GLOVES. Thrlr Intrmlu. lion lino KiigU.nl Dsllo It irk lo llm Mi-nth Ctntur. Gloves date back to a very remote period, the ancients not being stran gers to tholr use, and by the eleventh century they woro universally worn. In a tomb In Egypt a pair of striped linen mittons were found that hail boon worn by a lady. Xenophon alludes to DM Persians woarlng gloves, and gives It as a proof of tholr effeminacy; and Homer describes Laertes at work in his garden wearing gloves, to secure him from the thorns. The Romans were severely upbraided by tho philos ophers for wenring gloves; but those reproaches had no effect In diminish ing their use-they were too conven ient and comfortable to be lashed out of being by tho tonguo of philosophy. They do not appear to have been worn In England until the beginning f the eleventh century, and were of Herman manufacture In tho course of time, a great deal of ornamentation was used on tho gloves in England. Tho effigies of Henry II. and Klchnrd I. had gloves adorned with precious stones, and real gloves ornamented with jewels wero found upon tho hand! of King John and Edward ., when tiielr tombs wero opened during tho last contury. Gloves wore oven orna mented with crests and armorial hear ings. Tho occloslastical gloves woro al ways richly adorned They were made of silk or linen, embroidered and jew eled. A pair proservod at Now Col lego. Oxford, aro of rod silk, with tho sacred monogram surrounded by a glory, and embroidered in gold on tho backs. Tope Honifaco VII. had gloves of white silk embroidered very beauti fully and studded with pearls. About 1600. leather gloves appeared They wero embroidered, adorned with pearls and goms, and trimmed with lace. Perfumed gloves, too, made their appearance, and were vory popu lar w ith the ladies. We are told that Queen Mary Tilde.- had a pair of "BWete gloves" sent to her by a Mrs. Whellcrs. The college tenants of Ox ford had perfumed gloves presented to them, as well as distinguished guests. Tho custom went out soon after the reign of Charles I. Glovos wero prosentod on various occasions. They wero given at wed dings, funerals, as valentines, as Baiter gifts and Now Year's presents. At a maiden assi.es In Englnnd -that is, when no prisoner 1b arraigned for trial tho judge is presented with white glovos. Glovos have played an important part in various ceremonies, although originally Intended simply as a cover ing for the hand. In bestowing lands Of i ferrlng dignities, possession was given by tho presentation of a glove. Biltioi s were sometimes put in posses sion of their sees by tho delivery of a glove. To throw down a glove was a challenge to a duel, and to pick it up was to accept tho challenge. This nu t hud of challenging was in vogue down to the reign of Elizabeth. Fran 06 has UtC credit of making the best gloves and the cheapest, but (ieorge Augustus Sala says that the cheap gloves In Paris uro really dear; that you will give from eight to twelve francs for a pair with three to six but tons, and the same price In London, but while the latter aro good, the former are very bad. The French kid gloves formerly seen In this country were far superior to tho so-culled Crenel) of to day. They could he had from French importers as low as seventy-live cents and a dollar. Tho best gloves in Europe are said to be llio.se made in Grenoble Demorest's Monthly. t EQUINE INTELLIGENCE. It Can Not lli ('oniusrti.l With That ol hoic. I I. eli i"' - at rsrriits. There Is an Immense deal of super stition about the Intelligence of horses I stopped to-day at the curb stone to chat with an cxprossmnn. I said to him: "How much does your horse know?'' "That horse, sir," he replied, "knows just exactly as much as a man." This is the way every body talks who owns a horse, or tends bOnee, and it seems to me to be er fect nonsense. I have seen horses walk around a post until they bad wound the bridle all up, and then atand for hours with tholr heads up against the hitching post, simply be cause they didn't have sense enough to walk the other way, and unwind themselves. I have seen them, when hitched to a ring In the pavement, get their feet over the bridle, and then go Into tits because they didn't have sense enough to lift their feet back over the bridle again I have seen them dance around in a burning barn with their manes and tails on tire, simply because they didn't have sense enough to run out. Anybody can steal a horse with out any objection from the horse A horse will stand still and starve or freeze to death, with nothing between tt i in and a comfortable stall and a plenty of oats except an old door that he could kick down with one foot, and that could bo opened by removing a pin with bis teeth. If this shows a high degree of intelligence, even for a brute. I can not see It. Compared with the dog. the elephant, or even the parrot, the horse seems to me to bo a perfect fool ---Chicago Journal. Statistics", if sloop may not prove any thing of importance, but they are interesting. According lo statistics prepared In Kussta, the need of sleep is greater in women than in men. the duration of sleep being longer and the. percentage of tired morning and even ing and of not tired being 3 to 2 and 2 to 3 respectively as compared to the men. Students sleep longer and are le-s tird than other men. The time ucoded to fall asleep is about the same In all three classes-20.8 minutes for the men, 17.1 minute for students and HI.'.' minutes for women. In each case, however, it lake longer 'or thoae who are frequent dreamers and light sleep er to fall asleep than persou of oppo site cburactcrUlioB. A lingy man of BurllngUJi. W drew up some valuable paper and used Ink of hi own make to save ex pense The other day he found that the riling had all faded out. involv ing bjm In a Ions of li.VJKJ, . A VALLEY OF DEATH. 4. tt , v mi' In Yellowiioiis National Para vv 1 1 . ii (isinc Is Asphyilstnl. "In Yellowstone Park there ii a ravine that proves as deadly to animal life as that Death Valley of Java, where wild beasts perish by the score," said Henry W. Mclntyre The gentle man was connected with the party who surveyed the reservation, under the leadership of Arnold Hague, the park Joolofflet While following the streams 0 trace tho extinct hot springs the xplorcrs reached a ravine In whieh he bones of many animals, boars, deer, abblts and squirrels, wore found. Ihe presence of the remains caused the party much wonder, and a solution of the strango affair was found only when a crow that had been seen to fly from tho sido of tho valley to a carcass that was yet fresh lit on its proy, and almost Immediately fell to the ground. "The death of the bird," continued Mr. Mclntyre, "was caused by gaseous exhalations, whose presence in the park had been before unsuspected. The larger game also met Hb death by inhaling the deadly gas. The ravine Is In the northeastern part of the park, in the vicinity of the mining camp of Cooke Crock, and not far from tho lino of tho mail route All about this re gion gaseous exhalations are given off. which form sulphurous deposits. In the almost extinct hot-spring areas of Soda Butte, Lamar river and Cache and Millercreeks the ravine was found. This region is raroly visited, atthuugh It is an admirable spot for game, which, however, goe9 unmolested by man, tho laws against hunting being vory sovoro. Tho road to the valley has few attractions, and tho visitors to tho Fossil forests and Hindoo basin selil. mi mako tho trip. "In tho center of a meadow, reochod by an old elk trail, is a shallow de pression that was once the bed of a hot-spring pool. This is now dry and is covered with a slight deposit of salt, and that Is the bait that at tracts tho elk and other game of tho region. Tho 'lick' extends for seventy flvo yards up tho ravine and Is thicker and more palpable towards the upper end. The "creek runs past along the sldo of tho valley and boils and bub bles as if it woro the outlet of a hot spring. Hut the water is cold and the disturbance in its surface Is caused by the omissions of gas, mainly carbonic acid. It also contains sulphur, as particles of that are seen on tho sidoa of tho croek. As we went up the stream the odor of sulphur became vory strong and caused Irritation of the bronchial passagos. About eighty yards above Cache creek wero the bODM of n large bear and nearby was a smaller grizzly decomposed, but with tho skin and hair yet fresh. Only a short distance farther on were the skeletons of many moro nnimnls, such as elk and deer and other large game. Squirrels, rabbits, birds and IflseOtl were lying about in quantities and tho ravine looked as if it hud been the 'scoop' of a drive Into which the animals of the park bad been hunted and had there been loft to dio of hun ger out of mere wantonness. There woro no wounds apparent on the bodies before us; all the animals had been asphyxiated by the (leiully gnsos that hung a few feot from tho surface of the gulch in a dense, palpable cur tain. "Tho first bear wo saw wns a good way dow n the gulch, where a neck is formed. To that point the gas must have been driven by the w ind, and its deadly nature may bo easily guessed when it is remembered that tho slight est motion cau-cs a diffusion of the ether that would tend to decrease its noxious properties. Hero is tho ex planation of the oft-repeated assertion that game was being oxtormlnntod by hunters in the Yellowstone, notwith standing the stringent laws that had boon passed for the protection of ani mals there. I had seen It noted that each year bears, deer, mountain tigers and other wild animals wore disap pearing from the reservation, and it was asserted that friends of tho people who had charge of the park woro al lowed to hunt thero in defiance of tho law. There wero probably 150 bodies of wild animals In the guloh when I wns there. Hut, although there wero skeletons entire and single bones, it must not he supposed these woro tho remains of all the game that had found death In the ravine. They had ac cumulated only since tho last rain storm. Through this gulch a mount ain torrent runs when tho snows have melted from the mountains or after a hard rain. Then all things, stones, bones and bodies, aro tumbled together on their way down to the mouth of the gulch, whence they are carried away in the creeks or are left to mark tho course of the stream and bleach on the table lands. I had noticed near the Mammoth hot springs tho bodies of mice and bugs, but had never at tributed their presence to the deadly gases that were so rapidly killing off the largo game of tho park." San Francisco Chronicle Tommy was at Sunday school in his tlrst pair of trousers, and a picture of a lot of little angels was before tho class. "Tommy, would you like to bo in little angel?" asked the teacher, i "No, ma'am." replied Tommy, after a 1 careful inspection of the picture : "No. Tommy? why not?" inquired the teacher, in surprise. "Cause, ma'am. I'd have to give up my new trousers. "What Is a fool-killer, ma," asked 1 little Johnny. "Go and ask your ! father, my dear; he knows every Ovdy." "A fool-kit' dr. my boy," returned Mr. Drown, "U a little thing called a cigar ette" j A reading Presbyterian riftntster of ', Chattanooga, states that on the top of j White Mountain, in Western North Carolina, are three tree of the cachoin ! specie growing close together and each beingabouta foot in dlameterand I about fifteen feet In height The top oi savj ireo i snout twenty feet in di ameter and perfectly flat, being so completely Interwoven that ! of persons can walk on them with ease. Twelve persons can lie down on the top oi me tree without danger of fall ing. Indeed, so close are these top that hole had to be cut iu the middle for person to get on top. A BLIND MAN'S INDUSTRY. It Prorurss For lllm Thorough Collegia! Kiluistlon. For a man totally blind, and. male orer. without the advantages which wealth can give, to attempt to obtain a collegiate education would, at flrt thought, seem to be a well-nigh Im possible task. That it is a rare thing Is demonstrated by the fact that, up to the present time, there have been but two blind men who have gradu ated from any of the American col leges. The first of these, now dead, graduated some twelve or fifteen years ago from Harvard. Tho second, Arthur Elmer Hatch, of this city, graduated from Bates Collogo this year. As an example of a plucky struggle for an education In tho face of almost Insurmountable obstacles, the career of young Hatch has rarely been equaled or excelled. Ho was born of poor parents, about twenty seven years ago, in Franklin County, Me When about two years old ho was deprived of his sight by disease In 1870, at tho ago of eight years, ho was sent to the school for tho blind at South Boston. His parents wero too poor to accompany him. Mid, young and helpless as ho was, ho made the trip alone Ho went by boat, nud on arrival at Boston he asked a bystander to call a police man to aid him in getting across tho city, and to bo certain that ho was not being deceived, made tho officer lift him up until ho could feel of his shield, and thus bo certain that it was an officer. Ho remained at the South Boston instituto for ten years, taking a com mon English course and learning tho trade of chalr-bottomlng. Ho did not, as most of the pupils did, tako a mu sical course. He loft the school and returned homo in 1880. Soon after hlB return, as ho expresses It, "I con ceived the idea that a blind man ought to have u college education as much as any ono else, and I determined to have ono if possible." In tho fall of that year ho entered Y ilton Academy of which Prof. L C. Phillips, a Bates graduate, was principal. Prof. Phillips took much Interest In young Hatch and aided him materially in fitting for collide His lessons wero learned by the aid of his mother and his fellow studonts. His mother road his En glish studies to him until he had them firmly fixed in his memory, and his Latin and Greek he learned with tho assistance of tho other boys. When his turn came to recite, instead of reading tho text from the book him self, tho teacher would read a passago and he would then translate and giv. its grammatical construction. Goom- etry ho mastered by means of a cush Ion upon which ho outlined the propo sitions with pins and twine. Some times his mother would draw the geo metrical figures, reversed upon a sheet of paper, and then prick them through so that he could feel tho figure in its propor form upon tho back of the paper. Ho was also aided in tho study of goometry by the use of kin dergarten blocks. At tho academy he also undertook the study of French and German, as it was still uncer tain whether he would be able to got through college His expenses he mot by working nt his trade of chair bottoming, getting work from the New Sharon chair factory in 1884, and after remaining out a year to earn money, entered Bates Collogo in tho fall of 1885. with tho class of '89. with which he graduated. His studies at college woro pursued in tho same manner us at the fitting school. Tho expenses of his course ho has met himself, obtefly by lecturing upon educa'ional and temperance subjects in different parts of tho State A year ago ho issued a volumo of original essays and poems, entitled "Tho Pro gressive Annual," tho sale of which added somewhat to his income On one of his lecture tours in Northern Maine ho met with an adventure which might well have proven disastrous, but from which, with his usual pluck, ho extricated himself safely. Travel ing alono through the woods, he acci dentally turned off from the main road on to nil unused wood road which penetrated for miles Into that Maine forest of which it has boon said: "Tho whole State of Massachusetts might be set down in tho middle of it and it would take her people a day's journey to make their way out through the surrounding forest" Hatch Wandered Into this woods for a distance of six or seven miles, but finally discovered his error, und after much difficulty succeeded in retracing his stops and getting out into civilization again. - Lewiston (Mo.) Cor. Boston Globe. Reliable Antido for Ants. I tried several methods to prevent ants molesting bees and found the fol lowing far the most satisfactory: By the use of crow bar make a hole in the center of tho nnt hill down to tho bot tom, which is easily found by the more open or less compact earth. Then turn into this hole a gill of bisulphide of carbon, and fill and crowd down with earth. As the liquid is very vol atile and can not p ss out of tho now compactly tilled hole, it quickly evap orates and kills all the ants, "if clay be near always use this to crowd into i me note, as it is more Impervious than i sand, though by firmly pressing with ! the foot the sand can bo made to hold the liquid Kerosene may be used in ' 'ead of the carbon, but it is far less j effective. So. too, of carbolic acid, j By mean of sirup, so covered by gauze that bees are excluded the ants can be trapped in great numbers and destroyed. 1 have often done this, and by adding Paris green have poisoned i the ants. -Prof. A. J. Cook, in N. Y ! Tribune --Man is "hot the only victim of the combination crate. Even ducks as soon as ibey hatch their eggs start at ; once to pool their issues. -Baltimore American. The Empress of Russia always carrie. a large fan when sh- goes out to screen her race from those who tare at her. If all of the Indians ln"the United States were congregated in one village it would not be as large as St I.oula FoUl Indian population In United State. 247.761. THE DIRECTOIRt STYLE. fhs Muni lltrifnlr IteWM Thai ON B Wurii Hy Woman. The present style of the dlrectolre suit Is probably the most hygienic dress that has ever been worn by women The absence of full drapery and tho plain skirts prevent it from In cumbering the limbs and relieve it from the unnecessary weight which has boon so serious un objoctlon to tho old Styles. Tho custom of ranking many of these dresses without pockets is not a no cossity. Tho dross with seven pookets is of the dlrectolre style Four ol these pockets are Inserted In the vest in tho saino manner as pookets are made in gentlemen's vests. Two are in the upper part of the vest one for a watch and tho other for a pencil. Tho owner of this dross has had occa sion many times to exclaim: "Oh, what a comfort that poncil-pockot Is to mo. I never before could find my pencil." Two of the pockets referred to are placed in tho lower part of the vest, to bo used for car tickets and small articles. In the back drapery are Inserted two oblong pockets, the openings of which are drawn together by elastic cord. One of these is found most useful as a roceptuclo for a mem orandum book; the other for a card case Under one of tho panels on the right side is Inserted a long pockot to be used for tho handkerchief and purse; und on tho other side, hidden also by one of the panels, can be placed another pocket for keys nnd other articles that aro not needed tor immediate uso. It is to bo hopod that this style of dress, thodirectoiro, will not bo of tho ephemeral nature of many others, but will bo generally adopted by business women, with the improvement In the way of pockots which wo hivo sug gested. Thero is a cry going out through tho land Irom tho lips of self supporting women against the bond age of fashlonablo dross. It is, in deed, a matter of great Importance that a dress shall bo worn by business women which shell combine all tho artistic features of a fashlonablo dress with tho comforts and conveniences required. Tho annoyances that have been caused by non-hygienic dresses here tofore in vogue aro only fully appre ciated by tho self-supporting woman who generally finds herself constantly hampered by them. That women have been successful while struggling with such difficulties is an unanswerable argument in favor of their physical endurance; but whntever success those of remarkable intellect can attain un der such circumstances tho ordinary woman can not expect to go tilting on tho road to success with shoes which give her tho appearanceof having club feet, with wnists reduced to two-thirds their natural proportions, and without pockets in which to carry the articles which business life requires. Busi ness Woman's Journal. SAMOAN CUSTOMS. linn lirnli s Are Won, Houses lluilt and flrnves Murkeil, Lieutenant Charles II. Ripley, In a talk on Samoa, gavo a most interest ing account of tho mnrringo customs of tho Samoans. After ascertaining tho amount of dowry tho maiden Is carried off by n party of the friends of the groom, who never marries in his own village The natives vie with each othor in collecting bottle9, which arc a great rarity in that country, and aro used after death to encirclo the graves, which are level with the ground, two or threo rows of bottles indicating superiority. The beverage of tho Samoans and tho process, of manufacture is moro curious than in viting. A substanco resembling liq uorice is chewed by girls until it be comes soft and pulpy, when it is mixed with water, and must bo used soon nftcr being prepared. If too much is taken a slight paralysis of tho limbs follows, but soon passes off. It is used Inrgely at entertainments, and people who indulge in it properly seem to bo benefited. Tho occupation of tho people comos down from gener ation to generation. Tho son of a carpenter can not bo any thing but a carpenter, nnd no other fnmily can follow that occupation. The process of house-building was described. A man needs a new house, talks with his relatives, sounds them ns to whether thoy think ho needs one and will bo likely to contribute, visits tho house-builder with many compli ments upon tho fine houses ho hears ho builds, and leavos a present Af ter n time ho repeats his visit. Later a relative goes with a present and sim ilar compliments, and so on until at last tho builder signifies his intention of building the man a houso and sends word ho is coming. A house is put at his disposal in the village, his ex penses are met by the man for whom the house is to bo built, and when the house is finished the relatives assem ble and presents are given to the house-builder. Very little money is exchanged. Although a gentle peo ple, in war the Samoans are quite bar barous, going over tho field and cut ting off the heads of the wounded af ter i battle. Tho enemies show great consideration for each other in nrmnir. Ing for a battle, sending word that if perfectly convenient ono will meet the other with so many men at such a place at such a time, never varying from the number of mon agreed upon. Lieutenant Ripley closed with an in teresting account of a picnic given by a Samoan prince?, several hundred servants being in attendance and the chief entertainment for the natives consisting in sliding down a waterfall about thirty feet high. -Springfield (Mass.) Union. -a Had nickel, easily identified by certain marks, ha. worri.nl the street car drivers of Rome. Ga.. for two years. -"Well what you wearin' glasses fur. Mr. Johnsing?" , my Nigger: did you s'pose I wui wearin' em fur de oolie."-Once a Week. -Education without experience is of about as much uae to a man as a laco petticoat t would be to the wife of an taalmr. fisherman. --Boston Courier. -Eiffel i. ,a,d to have gained the first idea of the tower which bears hit name from sitting behind an American woman in an Amejicap.thea.ter. -Life HOW TO Grow "cm. rath.r Clarkso. 1,77 w tar on Tru. " r' In early life We f- young man Inquire of a YLrNt tlemau. who had WcumulT! estate, what the secret gJiT'Ni wae He aatd It WS4. J. earn seventy-flve cent aJ , M only fifty cents of it and k debt" That Information 1H was. has had an imports ?'e,M upon life's transaction,, .""N were lived up to by , ,J7M laborers, mechanics anil .n ." wage-workers the worM . aJ great blessing. oulj KM nuklatt. , ing riches and consequent .1 wicked extravagance of t of our population is' corru minds and misleading Uie JJJj ! the great mass of worker, lS the rlchos are Increaiii j ..wi..i..i.. l . rvt. ii.iiinpijriiiu uuoo taster. K twice as manv. acemsii . latioii, of those who ft celvo aid now ago. And yet es did f.. s dl the receives twice nu ..-i then. I ho articles of (ooj I more, and clothing not half u? then. Wage-workers of all J! both male and female, are nut g!j ing as formerly. They are not T monthly und yearly laying up 1 lion of thoir wages us then. Th more extravagantly, spend monj lessly, and foolishly ape their ad bors In fashionable follies. Mt3 " uiucn .... appoar, i least a large propartU thorn, not In ati.Mni.t 1,. , l , , , mWv aij vision for the future. When thej Vl M5 or $1K per week, instead lit oanently investing at least one-tbt ;i ine amount, uiey spend itall. Tkn if work falls, or the man is uir,.. nr any member ol his family, w JJz loop him from work. th9 jsail once becomes an object of cbariit t reinn uro uiijmiu, me Dtltclli-r . 1 neglected. The man 1 oium ft, aged at the accumulated debt, unt" begins to debate with himself he ought to try to pay the old j.i So soon as ho does that when be gins to study how to forfeit his ho repudiate his obligations, he U , He no longer has that keen ' honor which teaches him to rtnri laored bis debts. Then hoisDoliiiMi man. His pride, his ambition, and t tho impulses which nerve and a man in life's conflicts, are cone. L lias not confidence in hiiu-e.f w his neighbors have loss. But i4 lives by rule, uses the plain k suries of life, and scorns to follies and corrupt practices -.TOW HIT C sseillless el h, ... ties n I el cell V' a eist .in... what he earns, soon he will tec fa aro better duys for him. A lit iveekly and annually saved, the i creasing accumulation of iuten-U increasing ambition, and the mm energy will soon build or buy a hum Then the expense of living deem .inn inn nm ni iuii uv uiurr, uuu. perceptibly the man with bis lisii, Und themselves In comfortable cirms stances, respected by the world, u I..I ......lit nl.,l.l!ol,J iu enabled lo enter oilier enterprise Ik as a day laborer. We have seen these things torn): .,nl niwl il nnii ill st imi t eil a 'Oui.it ii, '., the last Bixtv-tivo years. Ihe m wlni -.lien, s lis lie imcs -una :n mi; i ' ' Dliuiiu, u.iv ia u, ,ui, uj.i. -nit-it., credit and character: but 'ill ....... ... nr. ii-...ii e uii-.ic ii I ii in . i' .1 III. II I1UU ,. V. .... 1 I t-...-. u j,....-. less, soon iiuces uimsrii muims Honored una respeeieu, is :..i tin. ....in uitn. .in... ti.ii ii' . ,iu'., i' in snti'it. on ft-iir st. a in i it I.... II. , an, it. l.,. nines tn.i 1 nil, net.. work and not too proud tu beg. ... irim. . .in n ns fast as -ri-nvilaiatn ako him. trust no mini 'vnoutw egularly save and lay up a eerum out. of his wages, there is no .., htm It,, url lei'llllllt Mill.. hose who prosper by savlDJ and live a miserable life. Dating HI mnaii and d villi' a beinar, tarn seventy-five cents pe" day, mlv liftv cents of it."-Iowa s fegister. BLACK IS WHITE. v Kremlnglr Incontrovertible Ml"" from gUr mulsff. Tho word black (Anglo-Siijool iltec bleak.) is fundamentally thesaam is tho old German blnek, now juiji . iu-.,., jsiinuirjaa tie louuu in inn ui mim vr is Hlaehfold. a lovel or plain: nahl, the scum which lloals on u .i n1 si vet' is iiiciie i. .ui" n 1 1... 1 ..... Kiu'i and it meant original I y "level. "t , 3 j ... I liniaM 1 1 hi was nseti to ueuoie .-.- aiise i a i k 1 1 ess S a i IMI -- co or. Hut l no nasauzeu " . . ... ..!!.. . .1 f ..... H is tunnx. wnicu uiso inc.... --- .. !-! -I ... ml iirlL'l nare, ami was use w ncimi . . i . . ... ,, of co or. The same woru . .. . . iMmra i emit.. Hie two nil OOslie uii.-s WHICH 11 V'OUIU sec III vnui .'-- I'oanv one who shall point "ut, . . ... .1.... 1 ...... I.f - . in nils etymological ai-u.. in I., ivnr ill nt i I .in ii... r-- .iocs not iiisuirn ine ' ,,, cone iisioii. inis i simm- - I. 1...1.. I. ml tit H 1 J .. lii.'tlll'r Sill. ..... i.. ii. i n mil u". . ..ii- niMas(l L ..1.1...1, " -.that it is Ita mmIIma form Mil w mini is bui J'loj c w r ...m .1.1 ... ,1.1. mi ess lli.i. - WIlllS. ft 11 UI Him ll primitive mind Doin -L. j. . i.. Itnt' np appearcu to agree". ""-,1 voui oi color, anu km "'" , deserve the same name? Atw can not help harboring ""Cj eiggest.nl by the Old (.crown frost (which appears to bey solete, or only used in sOaTtWajJ that our "black frost" meant" , a frost bare of aocoiupauw"j boar, rime, and it is a corneal- 1 that it should be black in ' blackeu the vegetation, "f1 13 long lost hold of the origin and believe it to refer U) 1 Notes and (Queries. Drougnti are not o'g"'4' LJ it.. aw v.. ll-l..uns Pk!j .i-.i"i me .icw as poor farming and poor nnlinu... ' ... ,U hsrdl ticed if alKarms were skillf"11? aged on the Intensive plan. t I- i, .L... ,'.. iinrttl 11 IS SaiU MSB , un Ala . is th ....Ir level araMs nit irae oi iadm in inr d in whi.h tko-o m virtiittllT ll - ... . . .i ..ithPT I. .f rtf assaW 1 ii census popuiaw'" 4 1 1 Aiu a a nt iClff ' quare mil, there are oclj neyroe,.