6H0RTHAN0 UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
I'irklng l'p Ilia Principle of MUnographi
While In a Military Prison.
Punting dowu one of the aisle of tha ball
v of rvcnwiitutivui the oilier day I noticed
Congressman Holme, of Iowa, writing short
bumL "Are you a stenographcrf" I askuL
"Yea," lie rt-pliol ; " followed It ui pro-ft-aiou
for several years, w hile I was study
lug law. I was the resirter for two court
In my state."
"Then you muko tlie third member of tlie
present holme who la a shorthand writer l)y
profession."
"Yea; Hitt, of Illinois; Fonl, of Michigan,
... and myself answer to our name wbeu tba
' Ml of stenographer! In railed."
5 "How did you bup-n to learnl"
. "I picked up wbut I know of shorthand
j when I was a prisoner Ht Columbia, B. C,
':, during the war. I always had a fancy for
learning it, lint Dover got the time, and w hile
' I was in prison I thought it would not only
: be a useful thing to leani, but that the study
' would be a muck better mode of aaliig
, away time than playing cards or whittling
puzzles, I had great dilllculty in getting a
', book, however, and it cost me t-'jO iu green
. backs, all the money I had in the world I
llrst offered the guard 3 for a shorthand
Isxik, and Anally ruined bira to 10. It was
i au awful price to pay, as Confederate money
wus then worth about two rents on $1, aud
my IM in greenbacks made the guard rich;
f" but he said be would be shot if he waa dis
covered, as orders prohibiting the guards
from communicating with the prisoners were
very strict and rigidly enforced. Col.
Senimes, the brother of tlie Confederate aj.
niiral, was the conmiunduiu of the prison.
t "Well, when I got my book I studied six,
eight, ten houi a day, Any fool can leuru
shorthand by practice, but very few people
ever practiced as diligently as I did, and in a
few months I was a proficient writer. As
soon as I learned the signs I began reiorting
by taking down the conversation of the other
prisoners, and nearly every word that was
uttered in my presence for several months
was faithfully re)rted. It was the best sort
of practice, and it not only kept me from get
ting homesick, but furnished an interesting
diversion for the rest of the fellows. "
w "Where did you get your iier("
; "That was the greatest dilllculty. My
original supply I got by trading the buttons
on my couc for it. The paper was coarse
mtiuilla stuff, but it waa thick and strong,
and I got a rubber, so as to erase one day
what I hod written the day before. A few
sheets thus lusted mo a good w hile. I was
only 10 years old, so that it was a very use
ful exjicrience to mo; and when I came out
Of the war I bad a profession. Stenographers
were source in the west then, aud I went into
profitable busincsi i t o'.cc. Since I have
been practicing 1...,' i u.-o been of great
use to me, for 1 can take down the testiiumy
of witnesses, or tuck as I want of it, ver
batim, and use the system iu many other
ways." St. Louis Republican.
. Singular Trio on Broadway.
In upper Broadway is frequently seen a
singular trio, its most striking figure is a
man servant, of the English uttern, who
wears a high hat with a band of cloth around
it and a dark blue coat, reaching to his shins,
and doubtless covering a more emphatic liv
ery, lie is as stiff us though frozen by the
blizzard, and his countenance is utterly ex
pressionless, lie carries two umbrellas uudtr
one arm. The next person, taking them by
sine, Is a prim looking woman of 40, whose
plainness of dress is very careful when you
come to look at it critically. The third
aud importuut person is a girl of 10, juuuty
iu dress and air, and with a distressing
elf consciousness considering her youth.
Her bund rests in a proprietary manner
on the arm of the woman, while the man
servant walks deferentially yet pompously
behind them. The child is going to a fash
ionable dancing school for a privute lesson.
The woman is her governess, who instructs
her iu most of the bl anches of education, and
who is now escorting her to the duueing
master. The lackey goes along ostensibly to
protect the extra precious heiress, but really
to give impressiveness to the procession as a
sort of drum major. New York Sun.
Feuilnln Swells as Photographers.
The feminine swells of New York havegoue
into photography. Ho many a glass roofed
Bower room in Fifth avenue aud its neigh
borhood is tho resort of one or more fair
photographers, and ill several cases photo
graphing parties ure held by appointment
once a week. A practical man is hired to
manipulate the plates, and so the results are
reached at the time aud pluce of meeting.
Tha girls pose the human objects, aim the
camera, and within half an hour see the pho
tographs completely mounted on cards. The
pictures range from artistic prettiuess to
clumsy comicality. Comiiosite photographs,
showing the amalgamated faces of a whole
coterie, are a favorite fancy. Again, the
casual caller is liuble to be invited by his
young hostess into the conservatory, not for
a sentimental chat among tlie flowers, but to
sit before her Ions. If she be a beautiful and
bowitcbing creature, and she says, as she uu
cai the lens, "Look straight into my eyes,"
the "pleasant expression" oC the bewildered
and fascinated fellow is apt to be a singular
depiction of silliness and embarrassment
Perhaps thut is part of the enjoyment which
she obtuius from the instrument. New York
Letter.
Oyster for Chicago.
The pleasing intelligence is made public
here thut nearly all the oysters which Chicago
epicures and others have leen eating are sub
jected to such vigorous hydropathic treat
ment as to render them practically without
flavor. It is explained that the "shuckers"
iu the Baltimore patking houses in opening
the oysters throw off all the liquid, as they
are paid so much a gallon for "solid meats."
The oysters are then thrown into a larger
colander holding about a barrel, and as soon
as it is filled a stream of cold water in the
shape of a spray is turned Uon the oysters
for a considerable length of time, for the
purpose of bleaching them and bloat
ing them. The practical effect of this it
completely to deprive them of their original
" flavor; but, as if this was uotenovgh, a large
piece of ice is put in a barrel and the oysters
are then poured into the barrel and the
barrel headed up. In this condition they are
shipped to Chicago. Over 1,SW carloads of
oysters were shipjied to Chicago from Balti
more last year, and after being subjected to
the cheering process of an all rail ride to this
city their condition is in no wise improved.
Chicago Cor. New Y'ork Tribune.
The Dial Turned Baek.
Though not a believer in evolution, it is
aid the Rev. Robert Collyer tells an
amusing story of a trained troop of mon
keys he once saw in London on a stage.
They had been drilled carefully to go
through a aeries of military exercise in uni
torn, and were making a fine display of
their attainments when a man in the gallery
threw a handful of nuts on the stagehand
the simian soldiery at once broke ranks,
threw down their guns, and scrambled for
the bard shelled dainties. "That moment,"
sars Dr. Collyer, "the hand on the dial
of "time was turned back a thousand years!"
-is York bun.
Women In Aslauo Lands.
A''k,H rirl Yxliif are scarcely con
sidered worth bringing up in China, the
women of the working classes there bold their
oa much better than in most Asiatic
count, and even some European eouutrie.
They work in the fields with their husbands.
Kit tha heaviest and most aisagromuio
are not imposed upon them. In Japan thai
peasant women take to the fields, road;
waking, etc, with their husbands, on terms
of perfect equality. There is nothing of slave
and master in the relations of wife and bus-,
baud there; if anything, th oua axB to
tie tha lead is tha affaire of Ufa Boston
MICROSCOPIC WONDERS.
CHAT WITH PRESIDENT COX, 01
THE NEW YORK SOCIETY.
Mtthmls of Mrtt.urlnt l Inula Objects
Work Don Iu llM. lln( alM tiinmliilii,
MlrrobrsMy.trrlr of III. "Hrownhu
Mavrnirut" alt Cry.uls.
President C. P. Cox, iu a very Intercatin,
conversational his home iu the Westmore
land, Sioke of the work of the New York
llicroseopicul society for 1W.
11 r. Cox first mentioned the vast improve
hieut in the methods of measuring micro
scopic object. This is done by rulings ot
gloss, which are pmdiiifd by complicated bill
wonderfully delicate machine. Tbev an
constructed no as to accurately divhle au inct !
or any other unit of measurement into any
desired numln-r of iarta, at, for Instance,
1-lOUof an Inch, l-limoof an inch, and even
1-10,000 of au inch. Only three of tbcat
machines, however, have produced auy note
worthy work. One is the invention of I'ro
feasor Roger, of llurvard college, anothet
that of Mr. Easoldt, of Albany, and a third
tliat of the professor of physic at Johns Hop
kins university. These three machine dt
different kiiiihi of work, though ruling parallel
lint by meaus of a tine diamond point upot
glass or metal, to lie used as micrometers,
which are to object under the inicrosoi)
siniiliar to the scale of Inches portrayed at
the bottom of maw and architectural plans.
The finest rulings thus fur produced by any
of the machine are at the rate of something
likellUu.OUUto the inch. Homo Idea of tin
closeness of tlie ruled line can be obtained
from considering thut l!,0O0 such line would
occupy only the stce included iu the thick
ness of a sheet of ordimtry letter paier.
With this explanation of the method ol
measuring object under the inicriHcie, Mr.
Cox started in to tell some of the thing
members of the society bad done in the last
year toward disserting and examining mi
crobci, which oause aud spread diseases like
cholera, diphtheria, yellow fever or malaria.
Iu every day English be explaiued thut tbt
microbe and tho bacillus, the inicrolat's twiu
brother, are name for exceedingly minute
organisms which exist in infinite Humbert
wherever they find their )iurticulur fowls,
either in the In pi ids of the human body in
both health ami diseuse, in the tissues of ani
mals, iu stagnant water and sewerage. In a
dried and dormant state they even float in
the air, from which they descend into theii
proper habitat. Thus they cause and spread
diseases like cholera, diphtheria, yellow
fever and malaria. Each disease baa a mi
crobe or germ Hvuliar to it, and which may
be easily distinguished by the luicroscoiie
from nearly all other microUw. Specimens
of all these microls have been collected by
a member of the society and sown Uon a
gelatine surface, Just as a farmer sows oats
or w heat. Tbey will grow tip us sort ot
fungus, and even to the nuked eye they will
theu be as distiuguisliahle, one sort from an
other, as oats are from wheat, or w beat from
rye, or rye from barley. Professor Cburle
E. Pellew, of Columbia, is the member of the
society who bos thus sown little field of
diphtheria, consumption, cholera, yellow
fever and other dangerous disease. Tbey
are under cultivation like grasses iu a
rockery. These little grass plots of the ter
rible diseuse are glass covered, uud whole
cemeteries are represented in them.
Mr. Cox referred to oue dilllculty the
microacopists bad experienced iuexiierimein
lug with the fungi of these terrible diseases.
At a certain stage, or rather iu the advanced
growth of the fungi, new microbes are shed,
which are infinitely smaller than the original
microbe. These microlirs have a shell like a
hazel nut, and about as bard, and even after
they are boiled at a great heat some micro
scopist differ as to w betber tlie diseuse germ
has lieen destroyed. Microbes are like jKituto
bugs. They encircle the globe. You can
scraie them off your tongue. Microbes de
stroy the teeth. They are with us and about
us morning, noon and night. Tbey are even
in the medicine bottles in the druggists'
shops. Mr, Cox then told of the discovery
of one of his brother luicroseopista who ex
amined a number of viols on the shelf of an
up town druggist. At the bottom of the
rials a sediment was found which, under the
powerful gaze of the microscoiie, turned out
to bo microlies, and auy prescription prepared
with the liquid iu the vials would harm in
stead of heul the patient. He referred to this
to show the care that all druggist should ex
ercise iu keeping fresh medicine in their
vials.
Mr. Cox then told how the microscope bad
shown w bat is known as the Browniau move
ment to be a mysterious trembling, or hulf
rotary motion, which seems to take place
incessantly in any sort of substance, if finely
enough divided and held in suspension iu a
liquid of suitable siieeiflo gravity. "Kor
example,'' he said, "a little gamboge rubbed
up iu water will exhibit au activity among
it microscopic particle which will give
them the apearaiice of being alive when
looked at through the microscoie. No one
knows the cause of this motion nor it limi
tations as to time. 1 have a specimen of this
sort which has been under observation for
thirteen and a half years, and, as far a
known, has never show n any sign of slacking
in all that time."
Speaking of tho microscope on minerals,
Mr. Cox said that many crystalline sub
stances, particularly quarts, abouud in small
cavities, or "bubbles," left when crystallisa
tion took place. Sometimes these are empty.
Sometimes they are filled withagus. Often
they are filled with brine, in which a cube of
tall is held in suspension. If the cavity and
its contained suit crystal are exceedingly
small, Browniau movement occur in the salt
particle aud afford a very interesting object
for the microscope. Tho quart of ordinary
granite is generally rich in such moving "in
clusions," aud thus a thing which is ordinarily
regarded as actually inert 1 aoea to be filled
with activity. This is one reason why gran
ite used in the construction of buildings goes
to piece iu a fire, for the beat expand the
liquid or gas contained In the cavities, and
causes such pressure a brooks the stone
asunder. The presence of the brine in these
cavities is regarded as evideneo that the
granite, which was formerly looked upon a
an igneous rock, 1 really sedimentary.
One of the interesting sight is to see mem
bers of the society cut a fly, a beotlo, or house
roach into a thousand pieces, every ono of
winch is thinner than the finest hair. Thii
uoae by a knife, or rather a sort of plauing
machine, the edge of whose blade can only
be seen by a microscope. Too insect is
dro-incl into a sionful of hot parafflne,
which Is allowed to cooL It l then put la
place on the microscope and planed or shaved
by the machine until every thousandth part
of the insect is cut off, somewhat after tha
fashion of a Second avenue butcher operat
ing ou a bologna sausage. The wax contain
ing the specimeus is then floated in alcohol,
which f rues the -imen. It is then secured
by tho application of a drop of balsam and
laid ou a tiny bit of glass, upon which are
focused the powerful kiise of the micro
scope. Thus the thousandth part of a fly i
as discernible to the mVroscopist as a frisky
coif to a SulliTaa county farmer. New York
Knn
Lwllrs Who tan Talk.
There are some ladies who can hold tbelr
own In after dinner spew-be, u you please.
And should not every lady, as well as every
gentleman, be able to acquit herself credit
l.lv in this social field) Mua Kato Sanborn
is always capable of making a bright little
speech with a neat turn in it Mrs. M. Louise
Thomas, president of Sorosis, I a dignified
and serious speaker. Mrs. Eli Arc hard
Connor is a particularly pirating speaker,
mha nut eenuine humor into the work.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker can keep her
audience tittering with laugbtrr. Rev. I "be be
Hanaford bit her lirteoen upward. Sbei
always the same sweet spiritual soul, with a
jand above all foolishness. New York Presi
"Kvarj Da Talk"
rhONUNCIATION IN ENGLAND.
Proper Kame PUgulseil Bejron4 Reeof.
altlou.-A 1'anlaJ LI.U
Fersons who are entirely educated
through the eye without reference to the
or and ou whom sound has no effect are
content to pronounce names a tbey have
been accustomed to hear I hem pronounced,
without taking the trouble to observe or
even to notU-e how they are spelle.L So
what we call bad pronunciation of names
by those moving In good society that I
to say, the educated classes Is their good
pronunciation, and In almost every in
stance the change 1 for the worse to the
educated American critic; for Instance,
'Chuinley" for I'holmoudeley, 'Marsh
kauk" for Majoribanks. Bech'mp" for
Beauchaiupa, and so on. Nothing but
the fact that the people In Eng
land speak different dialects In dif
ferent couutiea, that they cannot
understand one another, must ac
count for the fact that Blythe is
pronounced "Illy." Main waring Is called
"Manneriug," so "liny Muniierlng" I
reallv Uuy Maiuwaring; "McLcod" la
Mci'unid. In Molyucux the x 1 sounded;
111 Vaux the final x is also sounded, but
in K vereux the final 1 1 not sounded;
In IVs Vaux tho llual x la dropped. Iu
Meux the x take the sound of "Mews."
Ker 1 pronounced "Kur," and Is would
be very bud at vie to call it "Cur." Cock
burn is calico Coburn." Cowper, the
poet of the "Sofa" aud "John Oilniu." la
called '"Cooper" always. In Waldegrave
the "do" bhoujd be dropped. It should
be called "Walgrave," a slight accent ou
the first syllable. lit Loudon always aay
"Burkley" for Berkeley. Only the Lou
don cabmeu call It what It la. They aay
"Berkeley square," but .my noble lord
savs "Burkley square."
Tho IVrby is the Durby. In Pillwgn
the "w" takes the sound of "u;" It is pro
nounced Dillun. Iveden Is called Uve-
deu. 1'cpys should be pronounced PepU,
the accent on the first syllable. Evelyn
is called Eveelyn, with tiie accent on the
first syllable. In Monson the o take the
sound of u, and it is pronounced Munsoii.
The aaino Iu I'onsouby, which is always
Puusutiby. Blotitit is always lilmit,
Brougham is Broom, Buchan should bo
pronounced Bureau. W'euiys is always
Weems, D'Eresby is always Dersby, St.
John I "Sin Jin," a a surname or a
Christian name, but as a locality or a
building It Is pronounced a spelled St.
John. Montgomery la Mungoinery. In
Elgin the g I hard and should be pro
nounced aa the g Iu give. The g in Clif
ford Is soft, a Jifford. Tlicy talk of
"Jifford's History of England," and the g
in Nigel la also soft, a the Fortunes of
Nigel. In Cony tighum the o takes the sound
of u and should bo pronounced Cunning
ham. In Johnstone the t should not be
sounded, Strachan should be pronounced
Strauu, Hrathcote is culled llethcut. Hert
ford is called Harford. Seymour is pro
nounced Semur, Albergruvenny Is culled
Abergeuny, Bourne is Burn, Colquhoun is
simply Koohonn, the accent on the last
syllable. Coutts is railed KootR, Du
chesne Is Dukaru, Eyro is called Air,
(loner is Uor, UeofTrey Is called Jefry,
Ilaino is Hume, and Kuollys Is Knowlos,
Lehigh is Lee, Menzies Is Myngies, Muc
Uemera Is pronounced Muciicuira, Sandys
Is pronounced Sands, St. Clair is Siukler,
Vaughan Is V'orn; but St. Maur Is culled
St. Muur. Villiers Is called Villers, Villo
bois is still pronounced liko a French
name, "Veulbox," Tyrwhit is Tiurret. In
all this one is reminded of the English
lord who gave his card to au expressman.
"Mr. Cohoou," said tho expressman.
When he looked at the card it read Col
quhoun. "That Is one of them adventurer fel
lers." said the expressman.
Beth line Is pronounced Beeton, Dalzlcl
Is pronounced " Decal, Cbarteris Is culled
Char-tors, licoghegan Is called Oaygon,
Ruthven Is called Uivven, Fildes is called
Filedes, Bicester is called Bister, Cireucis
ter Cisestcr, Belvolr Is Bever, I'ontreract
is simply Ijiufret, Kokcby is called
Itookby.
In Burdett, Kennaird and Pttrnell the
last syllabblo is emphasized. Iu Trede
gar, Bredalbano, Clunricurde, only the
middle syllable is emphasized. For Tra
falgar square the old Londoner says Tra
falgar square. This dillereuce of nomen
clature reaches also to tho very different
names of things, as uo oue iu London asks
fur an "apothecary shop;" lie asks for the
"chemist's" if he wants a dose of medi
cine. Apothecaries existed iu Shak
spere's time, as we learn from "Romeo
aud Juliet," but they are "gone out"
siuce. As soon as an American can divest
himself of saying "bag(?ngo" and learn to
say "luggage" the sooner will lie be un
derstood. Mrs. M. E. W. Sherwood's
Letter.
Gold Washing In California.
Wlinf an earth ararrlnir. devastating Pro
cess that whole system of gold washing
has been to a portion oi lamoriiiai n uus
torn down hills and mountains, filled up
lnvulv vnllnva nmt ravine with ris'k and
mud and left only bare rock and piles of
bowlders wuere wcro oeiore Biiaueu aim
fertile littlo plains. Tills bus taken place
nvor hundreds of miles of territory. But
nature repairs such ravages very quickly,
especially In California, where vegetation,
wild or cuuivaieu, grows aueru rapiu
transit, fnsblon. There it soon binds u n
these earth scars with wild vine and
bushes. I have seen saplings growing
through the roofs and burring the doorsj
nf tha cabin In a caniD which had not been
deserted more than ten years.
So fur as outwaru "inuiraiions went,
no set or perfect rule will work In finding
milil Aa tn nliim nr manner of denosit.
the diggings In one locality would lo a
contrauicllon to inose in aiioiner. ins
heaviest gold was generally found deepest.
But sometimes the heaviest gold waa
found on the top in the very grass roots.
Old miners finally droniied ou an adnge
that developed Itself like many other
tlilnmt nut f tlm lifn and luck of the dig
gings. That aduge was: "Oold Is goner-
any wuere you una u. mis woriteu.
There I no getting outside of it. The
Mexicans say: "It take a mine to work
mine." I would recommend these two
texts to all who are disposed to am bark in
mining ventures. Prentice Mulford in
New York Star.
A Novelty In Watche.
English cavalry officers have been the
means of furnishing people from the states
with a novelty In watches. The cavalry
men have found It convenient while on
horseback to carry their timepieces on a
strap around their wrists to save them
selves the trouble of unbuttoning their
coats whenever they want to know the
time of day. Some one turned np at the
Metro pole a few days ago with a watch
worn aa a bracelet, and now nearly every
American who wants to be in style carries
his timepiece in this manner. 'They are
really of value to men on horseback.
London Cor. New York Press.
A Bit Bock less
A man In Cincinnati has tnatle afH
davit that he colled upon acq uaintai.c
by telephone and had a five minutes'
ctiut, and then learned that the man
had been dead two hours when ha hel
loed him op. It la hoped the dead
man got satisfaction over the wire.
That if more than any live one will
ever get Detroit Free I'res.
The direct action of steam at 213 degs.
la nffiz-ient in rii-atmv all frerm in from
' five to fifteen minutes. The efficacy of
beatea ary sir is uncenaia.
The nondurbvn government La ordered
a scientific survey to be uada of tha ruins
of Copau.
TIIE ETERNAL CITY.
MODERN NOTIONS CROWDING OUT
THE OLD AND PICTURESQUE.
lirowlng IMreNM-t for III Sabliatlk A
Vat limine Taken I'luee The I'rlrsl
hiMMl and Hi Military I'orrlaiivr.
Hie Human Cowboy Maidens lair.
Rome is unquestionably the hih school of
art, but iu its e e: dny assvt it i a disnp
poiiitinent. The city ha lost it individu
ality, lioveriiuieiit employe pave the
lireetx on Sunday, and men saw wood in
public on the same day, Kvervthin is done
left handed, literally or M(ruralively. Cal
men run their vchicl at a furious rate with
a stumpy horse ami withering curses, always
manuring to keep to tiie left; the knob ot
doors turn in that direction, and men who
cut limlicr for fire purosc put their left
foot ou one rim of a wood saw w ith the blade
ill a erMidicuhir position, and ruu the
stick over the t.vth.
Business is ublust on Sundays. Boy begin
early in the morning tosereiuutheirdisinter
estodnes in the wealth of this world by an
nouncing the low prices they ask for bur
onion they curry with them ou a long
string; greasy looking men, with fish on
philters, cry out tho excellence of their
slin k, w hile others, with huge bunches of cel
ery balanced on their head, desecrate the
festival with their noise and grimaces. The
shopkeeiers pull down their shutters and
bang on the outside w all siecimen article.
The butcher will iu this way display side of
meat and the shoemaker rope of Imyts. A
tailor, tape measure iu baud, is at bis door
ready to execute an order for a suit of
clothe, Tho sight of thousands, prayer book
In band, en route to thu churches, ha uo
elfect on those who violate tho day. Once a
rarity indeed, uow to be seen frequently ou
Suudays, intoxicated men go along tho
street staggering or singing aloud from
hired carnage. Others, with their backs to
walls, where sunshine will keep them aglow,
Iouiil'O for hours, relieving tlie time by quulTs
from their long necked bottle, held ou a
finger by a loop of braided straw.
MODEIIN NOTIONS.
A vast change toward modern notions has
arrived. A street railway skirt the Coli
seum, and omnibuses chose one another into
the fuiuous precinct of the city. The silo ot
a grand whice, reared in is uow a beer
gurden, w ith tho beverage nt three cent a
glass, and the walls of the building altered to
suit the purswcs ot the business conducted
therein, l'uliliu life lias lost much of the
traditional picturesqucuess and romantic
appearance. To la) sure, the brown hooded,
long bearded Benedictine monks, the bare
footed Capuchins, witli their hair cut into a
topknot, tlie white robed priest ot tlie Kcd
Cross, the Christian brothers, in their black
gowns and immaculate collars, clergy iu
knee breeches, black stockings and silver
buckled shoe, and students iu flowing rohef
and w ide brimmed, low crowned felt huts,
are met ut every turn; but they are dwarfed
iu uumlier ami novelty by the uniforms of
the military, for Koine is Hliccd by 1-1,0410
troops, in ull the glory of infantry, engineer,
riflemen, cavalry, Held artillery, grenadier
and gendarmes dress. They lino the street
aud till the houses. To their uses, as well as
those ot the civil authorities, the oldest of
buildings are being appropriated. Eligible
locutions for private or governmental use
are selected, without regard to the antiquity
of the surroundings, and structure of the
living era crectt-d. Here and there on street
corner strapping young fellow iu blue
jackets, breeches of tho sumo color, red vest
and blue stockings, with their feet in huge
hobnailed shoe or sandals, and swathed at
the ankles, loiter iu the conqiauy ot gray
beards, in rags hidden benealh a cloak thut
reaches to the ground, who kiu with artistic
elTcct on an umbrella ot blue stuff.
American and English are such numerous
visitors that the influence of their customs,
manners and habits is crowding the typical
resident out of existence. They have now
their doctors, their dentists, patent medicine
and tailors, and one mim tho announcement
in all quarter that English is sjiokeii. The
peasant who comos to town with his team of
three horse, resplendent in flaming trap
pings, plumes and tinkling bells, and driven
tandem to his cart, has to pull to ono side to
allow stylish broughams, couK3S and family
carriages, with prancing animals aud clean
shaven coachmen and footmen with the
asparagus bunch looking tuft on one side of
their shining high hats, to pass.
TUB ROHAN COWBOY.
In this day tlie Koiiian cow boy is looked
upon curiously enough by even those who
speak his own tongue when he come to the
city for the holidays. A veritable "bull
pusher" he is indued, with his short stick and
its iron point in hand to goud the cuttle.
The sombrero of bis North American con
temporary dilfcrs only in color from his black
felt hat, while the accoutermenta of leather
leggings and spurs are alike.
Deserted, save with occasional exceptions,
is the publio square around whose massive
stein Neapolitan girls ot rare beauty and
bright bued dress ware wont to congregate
to hire their charms for the artist's guidance
in bis work. A few are still left, und a strik
ing conqiarison they make with their sisters
in bonnet, sealskin sucquc, velvet jacket
and silk dresses. No bustle or padding serve
to fill out their highly colored dresses, uor
bangs to sot off the classic arrangement of
their hair, parted in the center and falling in
even propitious on each side ot the bead.
Tajiering from shoulders to the biM, their
waists are symliol of healthful ease and
good twenty-four incline in circumference.
No corsets mar the outline of the graceful
figures. Their swuu-like necks are bare al
most to the shoulder blade. Theirs are the
"eyes black as sloes and bulr the color of the
raven's wing." In one particular only do
they resemble the lloman girl In modern
dress: they love high heel on their siiaiely
low cut shoes, and oftentimes have them four
inches in length. Women in Home have a
passion in this direction, for thereby the foot
i arched, it size curtailed to the eye aud the
instep gracefully turned.
The glory of Home has well nig'.: departed;
the tag end of its once every day self is alone
determinedly preserved in it bad cigar and
leathery bread made without yeast. The for
mer burn as if comjKMvd of brown par
wrapper and pine shavings for fillings. For
the latter, the sarcasm of Hawthorne that
the most lusting monument of the memory
of the bakers of Home w ould be a pile of
their own loaves is a applicable now a it
was in his day. Home Cor. Baltimore Sun.
Capacity nt the Churches,
6b Peter's, in Rome, will accommodate
64,000 persons; Dome of Milan, a7,000; St.
Paul's, in Home, 2-1,000; St. Sophia, Con
stantinople, iryiOO; Notre Dome de Paris,
81,000; the Dome of Florence, aoJOO; the
Cathedral of Pisa, 1:),("I0; St, Mure, in Ven
ice, 7,000. Public Opinion,
Care ot an Oil I'alntln.
"Never roll up an oil minting with the re
verse side out," said an artirt, recmtly. "If
It I raining or snowing tlie wetting of the
reverw side will make the punt In front
peel oft Dool be afraid to have the paint
outside if you must roil. "Chicago News,
Wait Ccntnrr aeleneo Prinwr.
"What would one not give," asked Lob
bock, "for a science primer of the next cen
tury f for to paraphrase a well known saying,
even the boy at the plow will then know
more of science than the wisest philosopher!
do now." Arkansaw Traveler.
Tha Tta of Ability.
"That young Simkins is a very charming
(eUow. lis was talking to ma all tha mors
tug, and be wa so clever."
What did he sayf"
"Oh. be didn't ear anything, out n m a
so wau.' uus.
KEEPING UP "THE B0V.
Uow to Clear Hie iilmrli llul of the
Itru I n Keen V h I laral Ion.
Nowadays, elderly mm, in gnvtlnjj one
aiiotln r, are very foinl of the phrase, "How
do yo'i do, old Isiy!" It Ik a good sign that
tlie Idle is so npulur. There ha been too
much fooli-h discussion iu hook of physi
ology n to the date at which one cease to to
a l'V and Ixxvnie a num. Pub's can Hover
settle the qui-stiou, it is settled by t'.lo fur
more s-rtiuent query, bow long in life ran
you conl nine to enjoy dancing, rowing, run
ning, swimming, coasting, etc. I Now, care
ful investigation establish the fact thut tba
AiiH-ricun of today can keep up his keen in
terest iu these tiling Just alsiut twenty yisurs
longer than the fathers did. Fifty yenr ago
the average man of 4 was ashamed ot not
looking old. Cutaway routs and derby lints
would have swuml a unlltting for sucli a
stage of existence as the motley garb of a
harlequin. If lie did not stand on his dig
nity aud abjure childish spirts he felt lie
would lose ull authority oer his children.
One dash with them on a Amble runner down
a hillside would, he believed, finish him for
ever iu their eyes. So, of course, tho boy
dies young in him.
What a change nf scene is witnessed to
day, particularly in the newer sections of the
country. I. "I any one take, for example, a
winter run out to tho great northwest, aud
see what is going ou in cities like St Paul
and Minncaiohs, No matter what bis aire,
inevitably wilt he fall m with some middle
aged Judge or colonel who will say: "I want
you to go out with mo to-night to the tottog
gun slide; it's grand fun, I tell you." Ho out
he got, and iu due time finds himself on the
very edge of a diwy precipice of glare ice.
The first invitation to go dowu be decline as
ressK't fully as ho would an Invitation from
a maniac to jump olT Hunker Hill monument
with him. Noon, however, the contagion
grows irresistible. The judge's wife ami the
roloiH'l mint tell him what a glorious sensa
tion it is, and, almoMt before he knows it, he
is ou the tolsiggun and w hining like rifle
bullet through empty iuice. Losing his
breath for a moment, he recover it a the
tolsiggun strikm the level Ice of the lake at
the tsittom, and then, as be flies acrom the
smooth moonlit surface, the boy of 10
1cam to life in him once more, and ho will
not U-lieve he is a day older. Then, when
at lust the party get imck home agr.iu, ex
hilarated with the wild motion, the laugh
ter, the glowing exercise of the pull up bill
and the exsiire to a tine tciiiemturo of
tero or under, he says: "This Is the way to
clear the cobwebs out ot the brain and get
into fine working trim against to-morrow."
The glory of the Uiy is that he likes fun,
and woe be to the mull who cease to like it,
or, at any rate, to tool that his own cao'ity
for keen exhilaration is dead and gone. As
tlie care ot life inci-ease, and the spirits be
gin to flag, then comes the time when some
external stimulus should lie on hainl. No
old fellow can do the thing alouu, Ho would
bo ashamed, moreover, to go out with a troop
of schoollsjys, and lie treated, 'i lui, as the
bald heudisl prophet was, without a single
bear ou duty to cull Ukui for redress. No,
ho must have grown up noplo to enjoy the
fun with him. Hive liini such for coiiixniy,
set his blood tingling with the wintry air
und the lightning sw il't motion, light up the
sccuo with tho brilliant colors ot the ilrtMHe
ot tho tolsiggun club, and fifteen minute will
be enough to persuade him that the ug;o at
which the boy need degenerate into the hum
drum, dried up, old iiiuii must lie somewhere
far out of sight of tSU. Huston Herald.
The Knu-lluli l aiigusgs Headline; Out.
We cannot think that Volapuk solves the
problem of a universal language, The sys
tem will nuturally meet with tho lurgvet uo
ceptunco in countriea which already ponsem
au lullecbHl language; for the uuiuifoHt su
periority of the Vohipuk inflections, in reg
ularity und simplicity, can not but Impress
those accustomed to the coinplexltios and
anomalies of in!lictiou. Speaker of English
are happily f ree from this source of dilllculty
and to them Volapuk cannot Is) acceptable.
The English language is itself reaching out
toward universality, under the iuHiiciicw of
commercial and social ncccKsitic. The pres
ent form of the language may be considered
as claasiiMil, and must be allowed to remain
substantially what it Is, Hut English ia un
doubtedly susceptible of modifying simplifi
cations which won Id easily ami 'l'fcetly lit
it for I liter national use, It a committee lie
apKiiutsl, consisting of one Ilrltish and one
American meiulwr, to Investigate the sule
joct and suggest such change as would re
move unomitlie, and I feel convinced that
they would readily create a new and simple
tongue in the form of what may 13 called
"word English." This seems to be the most
hopeful direction In which to look for uni
versal language. Alex. Molvllle Uoll in
Science.
Tha Jew of Cochin.
At the time of lord Cnnucmara's visit the
white and black Jew of Cochin, who pretend
to have settled there since the destruction of
the temple of Jerusalem, were holding the
Feast ot Tabernacles. "The women of the
white Jews are extremely fuir and their skins
look duzzllngly white by contrast with the
black and bainlsio colored imputation around
them, Tbey dress In fantastic rolwa with
gay cloths alsiut their heads and golden
coins alsiut theU necks, and look like a cer
tain class of Hiigdadis and of Aralis of mixed
blood, such as you muy sue at llussorah or
the City of tlie Callplu. Their apn;arunce
is must striking aud can hardly be likened to
any mora well known class of womankind,
They keen up some sort of connection with
Jerusalem. Two men from the holy city -sat
close beside us while the sacred book of
Moses were being unwound from the interior
of silver cylinders enpiail by erections like
lmieriul crowns. The walls wore hung with
yellow satin, and hundred of cocounutoil
light burned In the small synagogue, inten
sifying a thousandfold the hot, steamy and
oppressive atmosphere with which the
MhIuImu- coast pay for "the fatal gift of
beauty." New York Star,
Advertising "llraiilllliW
One method of advertising, which the hor
riflers, alio tlie "beautillers," adopt, is to
have small boys giveaway small hottlea of
deadly red liquid, duly labeled aith all its
claims, use and iiroiwrtle. llauy women
who never thought of coloring themselves
UP before immediately began the disgusting
practice after receiving one of these bottle,
excusing theiiim lve ou the plea that "it waa
a pity to waste it." Immediately after the
llrst distribution of bottle a noticeable red
ness appeared on a large percentage of the
face ot the promenaders. Now, when the
hoy with the bottles is soon be is at ouoe sur
rounded by an eager crowd of women, who
crab at the bottles aa though they eontained
the essence of life, and jostl each other like
a gang ot scrambling tramps. New York
Press " Every Day Talk."
A Tropical Climate,
Perspiring B Granger (to policeman) I say,
officer, can Junr direct m to a clothlnf
toref
Foliceman There Is on just around th
corner.
Persplrlnj Stranger Thank. Pm Just Id
from Dakota, and I want to get a linen
auster. lor Bun.
IJnluua Kind of Torture,
In certain large west end shop the female
assistant are all doomed to a uniform aias in
waist, varying from eighteen to twenty
inches. Tail (iris and stout girls, all must
coniform to a measure six inches at leaf
below the natural sixe. Pall Mall OaxetU.
Bnso-(hinM Hallways.
F naiian newsoauers state that neffOtlair
are being Initiated fur the construction of
three great Husso-Cbines railways, ooe t
tween Semlpslatinsk and Shanghai, anotbo
betwesa Chita and rm
Vfsfraolml Wsu-rnrooC
An oiled silk linin is a new fad for
I bathing dm. Inter Ocean,
ANIMALS AND MUSIC.
THE TUNEFULNESS OF TINY LOITER
ERS OF A SUMMER'S DAY.
Musical Taat of nirdl-Orrhe.tr of aa
August Afternoon Soft toxoid lo II
Heard In Hi llnyflrld Crlrkrti and
Kaljdlils.
Some animalt abhor music, at least
somo music; but most animals love music
A cow likes nothing better than singing
and whistling, and her uillk Hows gladly
for a chap that will sing tn her. as she
turns her head and kisses him with her
tongue. A dog, so far as I know, hates
music, except singing and whistling. A
piano sets him ou edge, and adrum or fife
makes him howl. Horses, I believe, love
martial music best. Every horse is nut
urally a w ar horse, and likes parade and
the dash of military life. Next to this
he Is In his element running with a
lire engine. I know of uo decent inuslo
that he dislikes. Cuts, unlike dogs, like
pianos and organs. Of course, we un
derstand that nearly all birds have some
musical taste, although few have real
skill. I know of but two real masters of
song In our northern states, the bobolink
and catbird; although there are many
more really sweet singers. The liquid,
silvery notes nf the bobolink are like the
dew of the early, pure morning Due al
ways associates them with waterfalls and
the music of silver instruments. Hut the
catbird Is the marvel of all musicians.
He is able to do about whut be will.
Put what led me to sit down to write
was the music of tho insects "tiny
loiterers of a summer's day." It is a mis
take to suppose tho chief1 occupation of
these diploma and livuienopteraa Is eating
and working it Is making music. You
should go out In haying time and sit down
ou a cork of hay Iu the middle of the day;
and theu again Iu the evening, and you
will, If you glvo yourself to listening,
havo roveuledto you a new world.
you must not bo tlilukingof other things.
Close your eyes and lay your head back on
the sweet hay. Therel Are you uot now
conscious of several stratus of music,
reaching far up Into the sky) Tho upper
air is full of bees hornets in part. It may
be aud there are millions of them. Ihou
lower dowu are all sorts of tiles aud work-
lug bees, while In tho trees and grass
there Is fully as vast a number of crickets,
katydids and other inuslo makers. Now
you must open your ears as carefully as
you close your eyes, and listen attentively;
for I assure you there are myriads or
sounds close by you that you never heard.
Is It not sol t on are surprised. Indeed,
we live Inside a big music box; and you
never knew it.
The fact Is these musical notes blend
together about us In a vast harmony,
that lulls our sense of heating Instead of
quickening It. I am sure our hearing
needs a great deul more education than it
generally gets. If you try you cau sep
arate the sounds that now you discover,
aud pick out the different Instrument Iu
tho orchestra. Plainly enough I was
rlght, that working and eating do not
predominate as employments of the Insect
world. Here Is a cluster or humble or
bumble bees, bent ou siiort, as you ran
see. r lies dance about Iu circles under
that smile limb, and are iiluvlnir at some
game, quite like tag. There Is a very
soft aud gentle murmur of their wings,
hardly audible. Ihey have no other
musical Instruments, but I am qulto sure
they enjoy not only tho motion, but the
sound. Crickets, however, are real musi
cians, using their wing covers as Instru
ments. lieu he wishes to pipe the
cricket raises these covers and moves
them together lengthwise, so that they
work as a boy's cornstalk fiddle- works. 1
confess the music- Is not sweet, but it is
better than a Scotlsh bagpipe or a Imnly
f;urdy hut the fun nf a cricket's music
s In Its element of ventriloquism I
should like to see you select one of these
fellows just now aud go directly to him,
f llowliig up his music. You will go hulf
a dozen ways before you Und him. fuiariy
all the Insects have this power, and It is
uo doubt used In self protection.
The handsome green katydid plays an
Instrument more like the sheepskin drums
of the Africans, or a primitive tuboret.
In each wing cover there is a triangular
space, over which Is situated a thlu mem
brane. The 0ening and shutting of the
wing covers, more or less rapidly, pro
duces the notes that sound like kuty did.
Only once In awhilo there is as distinct a
katy didn't. Perhaps both are true.
Crickets aud katydids of both soxes are
musicians, and all night long are to be
heard calling and responding like the
shepherd boys of eastern lands. The
cicada are musical only in me male sex,
and that Is quite enough; for If both sexes
could beat tlie kettle drums we should be
dinned deaf with the noise. On their
sides are membranes plaited over each
other and covering hollows. These are
beaten with cords that relax and contract
aa boys pull rubber band In contact with
a resounding material. These follows
keen It up all day, however, and as they
are abuudaut there Is no luck of their
music.
I have by no means recounted all the
musical instruments one can near ai mm
duy or -f eveuliigs Iu July or August.
Many of the tiny bugs have power to
emit alnirliiff sounds. From the irreatest
to the least forma of Ufa there Is some
way of expressing emotion. Bo I like to
sit on these uiiiocKs or nay ana listen
just listen. It Is love that, after all, fills
nature and gives voice to It. Only when
love fulls some harsh shriek Indicates the
presence of hate. Have I forgotten the
frog aud the tree toad? Uy no means;
and you need not recall them with a
sneer. A rrog is a gentleman every way.
aud his music Is fur from being desptrablo.
Iu early spring it Is truly delightful to
hear the first cry from the pools. It Is
thin and watery and full of inquiry, but
It mean spring and green grass and
flowers. Mary E. Hpeucer lit uiobe
Democrat The Edueatloa of t'hlldra.
Children In Kentucky are precocious,
fond of studv. and brighter fur than the
much to be pitied boys and girls of the
north, whose parents are more desirous of
their learning French than English, and
who Inculcate in their Infant minds a
eonteniDt for their country and history,
with a corresponding admiration for
everything foreign. 1 know of two boya
In Washington both or whose parents
are native Americans who have had their
ions taught Ueruian from their infancy
and who speak only German to each other
and to their mamma. Tbey are to be
more thoroughly Germanized when thev
are old enough to be educated at Heidel
berg. Cor. Courier-Journal.
What Rhsrman lay of firant.
I aald to Oen. Sherman : "General, was not
Orant, after all, on of the moat remarkable
characters which bav come across your
orbit r
"Yes," said Sherman, "Orant was simply
a wonder. To tbink of that man in his sim
plicity, in bis want ot pretention and in hit
great sucee, stagger all of the example
yon can get out of the book. I wsa at West
Point, in what you might call Ui senior class,
when Grant came in there as pleb. II
might be said with truthfulness that he mad
no impression at all as a cadet, except a a
good writer. As a student be was not effec
tive. But be mad a military policy ot his
own, apparently derived upon observation,
taking advantage of the simple things which
occurred to blm, and be figured ia on of lb
great wars of history as a man almost Soli
Ury and akjo.-"Oatli" in boston Glob.
THE DEAD.
Only to touch one more th "tsnlshed hand,"
Only oue more Ui silenced vole to bear,
Only Ui know the hovering sluels I aearl
Though tli blank veil, no man can understand,
1'alls between us, sail Ilia niysn-iiou land
Wliere Ils-y are il wcllliiK hum we bold so dear.
Our granted prayer wuuld crush lb duufjt, Ua)
fear,
That mine la sorrow's cord the bitterest strand)
Bo, from th vigil of the sins-ted la-ad,
Bo, from I lie grave w it li all Iu tended flower,
The wailiug from the heart uro-omforUxl,
Ui up n heaven through ull life's lonely hours;
A "ft a dew Hi answer from above:
t or thee 1 lived, I died, him name I U.'
All Hi Year hound.
RUSSELL SAGE THINKS
That III Ton of Ilia I'rea I Not lm-
proving INilntrd Hiiugestlous.
Tourquerle in relation to "Newspaiwrs
as they are and ought to be," I have thought
over a good deal, and will eudeavor to an
swer as you put them.
1. I think that tho tone of the modern
i ires I uot improving aa the years roll by.
do not think that an editorial column, or
any u t of it, should be given up to prize
fighter how they live, what they cut and
drink, who they in the uit have whipped
and who in the misty future they are going
to whip. I do uot think that Journalism
should make bens of murderers and then
blume "sentimentalists" for taking Interest
in the idols Journalism has erected, I do not
think thut four or live columns of a aier
should be filled with the details of a dog,
cock, bull or priie fight, or with a scauduL
I dn not think that a rcsticctuhle family
should bo humiliated because one ot the
bi'sda ot that family wa found deul in a
liouw ot ill-repute by thu publication of the
HKr, weak creature's numn. The moral ot
the story was quite plain, and no one single
Individual wus served when that family
namu was dragged through the waste pls
of journalism; on the contrary, to many It
brought shame, blighUsl pross-t and self
Imposed ostracism, I do uot think that th
benils of our great dailies should wield rapier
er bludgeon uwu each other in their reswo-
tive ii)rs. It the bead of the bouse act
like a rowdy, wbut cau oue expect of the
rest of the family I
'J. I think that tho "tomr of the modem
press can be improved by every one iu it
acting like a lady or a gentleman in publio
place and with pen in hand; by uo writer
penning a vicious lino anonymously or a lie;
by no writer penning anything about any
ludividtiid be or alio would not lie willing to
be held responsible for: by writers realizing
that the "freedom ot the press" should not
degenerate luto the "lioenso of the pre" by,
Iu a few words, living up to the good old
golden rule.
U. My ideal of a good newspaper is, on
that shall lie (1) clean, f-'l able, flhonest, (4)
brilliant. One that shall devote a much
iee to literature a to "sport" (of the dog
fighting, rut bating kind): oue that shall giv
a doud "plug ugly" a line (if it I in th way
ot news) and a dead man who has done some
thing in the world, for the world, uiuny lines;
ono that shall uot wrong It readers to pleas
iu advertiser; one with some reverence,
torn resset for good and great men and
thing. Very truly yours, llussell huge.
liiwton Globe.
Old Valentine's Day Customs.
Notwithstanding the old time practice of
relievingor changing valentine wbeu some
one wa drawn that wa not quite so pleasant
to the one who drew that name, there seems
to have been a disositloii to believe that th
person drawn as a valentine had some con
siderable) likelihood of becoming the associate
ot that rty In wedlock. At least, we may
suppose that this idea would be gladly and
easily arrived at, w her the party so drawn
wss at all eligible from other consideration.
There was, it appears, a prevalent notion
among the common eople that thil was th
day on which the birds selected their mute.
Tbey seem to have imagined that au influence
wa Inherent in the day, which rendered in
some degree binding the lot or chance by
which any youth or maid was now led to fix
his attention ou a Hrson of the opposite sex.
It was supKMul, for instance, that the first
unmarried person of the other sex whom one
met on St. Valentino's morning in walking
abroad was a destined wife or a destined hus
band. Thus Gay makes a rural dome re
mark: last Valentine, ths day when birds of kind
Their paramours with mutual chirpiug and,
I early rose Just at the break ot day
Before the sua bad chased tha stars away.
Afield 1 went, amid the morning dew,
To milk my klne, (for so should housewives list,
Thee I first spied iukI tlie first swain we sue
la spile of fortuue shall our true love b.
Discovery in (lilna Tainting,
The present manufacture ot porcelain Is
comwratively recent industry, and Is con.
itantly reaching fresh result. The under
glaze treatment of china, for example, was
not known her twenty-five year ago; It
wa a secret guarded most carefully, and
confined to a few Eurowun and eastern too
toriea and workers. It was a girl who dis
covered lt Miss Mclaughlin and now It
has become the pnrty ot all expert china
decorators. Her success was not alone im
portant to china painting as an art; it was
Nicially valuable in raising the estimate put
upon the work ot her own sex, and has per
haps done more than aught else to stimulate
to good result the work of women hi this
branch of industrial art Jenny June ia
American Magazine.
Peculiarity of Illlllard l'layers.
I have noticed as a peculiarity of profes
sional billiard players their remarkably high
foreheoils. Take George Slosson and Juke
Bcboefer, for Instance, both have very broad
and high foreheads, aud the other are th
soma. Thus Vigiuux, Carter, Thatcher,
Maggloll and others, go right through the list,
and you will notice this peculiarity among
allot them. The possible exception to the
lot is Billy Cotton. He has the lowest fore
head of any billiard player I ever saw. Can
it be that a high forehead is necessary to ac
quire great skill at billiards! It may not be
so, but It Is a fact that all the champion bii
tlardist of the world have bad this peculiar
Ity. Uauk Wider in Globe-Democrat.
Would Hake No Dlffurenc,
Tombstone Dealer (to widow) I have ft
second hand stone, madam, which I can
make quite a reduction on.
Widow Any Inscription on It)
Tombstone Dealer Simply, "The good die
young."
Widow (contemplatively) Let me ee
William wa nigh on to 80, but I don't s'pose
th inscription would make any difference it
you fix the price right The Epoch.
Water Haiti by Wood.
The proportion of water held by different
wood varies greatly. According to Scbeu
bier and Hartig, freshly cut horn bean con
tains 1B.0 per cent of water; willow, '.U per
cent; ash, S&7 per cent; birch, 30.8 per
eent ; oak, iM.7 per cent ; pine, 3U.T per cent ;
red beech, 3V.T per cent ; elm, 44.9 per cent ;
larch, 4M per cent ; and white poplar, 60.0
par cent Arkansaw Traveler.
Oyslor la Australia.
Oyster are very alaindnnt in Australia,
and ot very good quality. The government
controls them, and the law forbids their
tnlnir tadenn from the water till thev reach a
' certain size. A license is required for tb
' fishermen, and holders are required to pay
j thirty -six cent for every three bushel of ...
! oysters. Th annual license fee ia j0. '
Chicago ilerald. -
A Craal and Vnn.ual Punishmant.
HNow, mv son," said a Rondout man to his
! youthful offspring, "you have di-sobeyed me
' again, and you must be punUbed. Take tins
- Waterbury watch and wind it up. Huid, do
aot stop winding until the spring is ti.hL"
"Oh, father," sobbed trie boy, "I'll saw tba
whole cord ot wood if you'll not punish m
uk that" Kington Free tuna