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WOMAN'S WORLD. THE FIRST ENGLISH WOMAN TO COM MAND HER OWN YACHT. . .. u l.ii. i. ui ' - """" r.r wnm--hin wwi i. fcoeM Kwv Wbol w Aboat-H.mphlll nautr Llnmln at AllsnU. , e , , , Udy (Spencer) Clifford, widow of Bir Robert Cavendish Saucer Clifford, Tul 01 oer owu. Aiwaya loud 01 a . si . . lifo nnder "white wiii(j." and Budinji in yachting the only aolace to a lovere ilonientio aillictiou, Lady Clifford made Mtvural crninea to Norway and Sicily in ber yacht, commanded by competent found in other eiroumatancea, the found LADV CLirroilD. the divided authority of the 'owner and the captain hardly worked welL Wheu , the got to any port beyond tbe regular track. Lady Clifford saw thut he waa i not nuenre aguinnt impcxiitiou aud iu obordiuatiou. Safe aa the roadwayi and waterways ; ootnparatively are for women iu thia nineteenth century, thero were timea ' wbon wine got in and wit uot iu the ! male autocrat, who thought a womnu j wan a "negligible quantity, "and when ! good were apt to be brought on board 1 coutrary to her approval and doniro this of ooume at tbe most inconvenient 1 itationa ; "If yon want a thing done, do it yourself, " reflected Lady Clifford, who was not a woman to put np with uon auusa She applied to ber conxnl, got ber wishes carried out and "sncked" ber insubordinate servants. But a brief eipurionuo of difficulties was sufficient, I and seeing what an immense advantage I it would be to her in her cruises to bavo I eutire command she set herself to study j uaviaation. After the reciuisite exami- 1 nations, which she modestly opines wero made very light for her at the board of trade, but of that we havo secret doubts, Lady Clifford obtained the position of captain, tho first woman iu England who has ever obtained it, and with a good sailing master under her navigat ed a 350 tou yacht iu the channel aud Mediterranean with such success that sbe proposes shortly to visit the east in the same manlier. Bufore her marriage Lady Cifford, then Miss Lowe, was already a pioneer. With hor mother, whose ouly child she was. Miss Lowe was the first lady to ex plore Norway in carrioles Norway was then almost a terra incognito, and wom en were less accustomed to travel any where and to travol in a similar way all over Sicily, where they mounted ttua on Duo. 21. Loudon Cjueon. - Suaaa II. Anthooj. Susan B. Anthony celebrated hersov-enty-Brst birthday ou Friday For over three yours, Biuce it was planned and given to her by some of ber snffrago ad mirers and friends, "Aunt" Susan has had hor own borne in Rochester. It is a pretty little uook, delightfully cozy and qnaiut and is it sonrcoof great pleasure to this much traveled woman. Latterly Miss Anthony has changed her austere ideas about dress. She de lights in rich, becoming raiment nnd is a picture iu her silks and lace. She like to have all ber fellow workers equally fastidious aud criticises radical attempts at "reform" dressing In their public meetings. It ruoy be added that Mia Anthony confidently expect to vote before she die. Mis Authouy has been Identified with the suffrage and temperance movements for nearly 60 years. She first spoke iu publio iu 184?, and from that timo took a prominent part iu organizing societies aud iu expounding from the platform her views upon the subject to which she has devoted hor life. In 1851 she called a temperance convention iu Al bauy after being refused admission to a previous convention on account of ber sex. In 1 854 the Woman's New York State Temperance society was organ ized. Through ber exertions and those of Mrs. E. C Stanton women rume to be admitted to educational and other conventions, with the right to speak, vote and serve on committees. In 1858 she inado a report in a teach ers' convontion at Troy iu favor of the coeducation of tbe sexes In 1854-5 she hold couvoutions iu each county in New York state in tho cause of female suf frage, and since then the has annually addressed appeal, and petition. ,0 the legislature. ; Law Lrctoraa For Woman. Amid the rouring whirlwind of po litical wrangliug and civio controversy as to the ultimate destiny of tho cap italized Wcuian of today, it is os refresh lug a it is surprising to find that a few dignified women have beeu calmly footing one of tbe most important move- j nietit cf the age, tbe Woman's Legal Education society of the University of ' the City of New York having prepared the way for a uew and most advanced plane for woman's ceaseless octivity in the study of law. Without stopping to , argue whether women can or cannot j sustain a strictly severo course of study, t whether or not they are fitted by nature ' with sufficient reasoning power to fol- j low a logical argument, this society founded a course of law lecture for women. j Tbe question has been often asked, hy should women study anything about law? The lawgivers of past ages bava given the best answer to tbe ques- j Uon, when tbey act upon the tusxim, long Pea wmn a woman with prop- I " !' ' ready to render practical help .mi. n.hl. A! tha IM....I. 1) .1 -1 -w as r.. .... --, .w jiruiCTnon w.y. cimer rKmonal or real, need have , 10 nien and women of affair, to save 1 for women by ling chartered "cap. a legal luminary at he, elbow to tell ber ! time and annoyance She pro- j "l? h. VilhT ,,, 1 ,lr Where ,0 "u Pl". Pially to ! P''o h the oppor- wblcli aue no ausoiuie command or a read it through h..f,,r .1.0 .;.... 1. tuuitv. to ai t as n v -fv uuvv Jl IIIM I'lW I n ti r w n.M.1 responsible for what Hie doe WIWitrilllMv. nr f... ...i... . .. J doe. not kuow at all. tl.,., the boar h,. eome when alio should know. i ue time h; 10 tiaSltewl U-lian lib. .1. - i juuhk woman, we U1y carefully tear np recti jited hills lyiug In our desk j Jnuse that show tiny are paid, or! 1,lie Ul6 new lady depositor, feel air gi,'T0, wb"u H8 bank Hotitie. nt of au overdrawn account, although onr check" book U uot yit used no The ti.n h.. Chlana t onra a Horlitt;. Although Vahington hun becorm omewhat accustomed to ae'lni Chinese women. ilm-M twn m.jn 1..:.. thorn to the legation here. Chiuose wo- j men are still object! of great curiosity in the city. ; A few daya ago there was musical reception at one of the most attractive 1 houses, and among the guests were two Chinese ladies. j They were the daughters of the Chi nese consul general at New York, and j tbey wero accompanied by their father. I The ladies entered the bonce with : heavy wraps over their house clothing, I aud having hobbled to the dressing apartments for they both had cramped ' feet they reappeared iu odd blouses of j figured silk anil with flowing dark blue 1 skirts that jnst revealed amplo trousers. 1 One of the ladies was decidsilly Mon 1 golinu iu features, but the other was ; small and decidedly pretty. Both wore their hair in a way common to a uative ! aud Inexplicable to Americuiis. Having greeted the elegantly gowned hostess with the fashionable high shake of the hand, they stopped long enough to chat a little, employing the inter preter to convey their message of cere mony. Then they found seats with the finely dressed ladies in one of tbe psrlors, lis tened to the tnuslo with attention and appluuded when tho others did so. Wheu they left, they told the hostess it is to be assumed that they were delighted to have had so pleasant an evening. They went away after a repe tition of the high shake. And they were not embarrassed for an iustanL New York Times. Kaaw What Bha Was About. Anion friend of mine who was snow bound in Philadelphia one night re cently says be saw the new woman over there, though between you and me Philadelphia is just about the lust place ou earth one would expect to And her in. "I win iu a shop iu Chestnut street where they sell men' belougings" he says, "and the now womnn came in. ho was tailor made and very well set op. She, too, was snowbound, and the trim linen collar sbe wore was anything but inimoenlate. It was Inte, aud all the dry goods stares had closed. The new woman walked up to the clerk and asked for a collar, size 13 ','. The clerk tried to tell ber that they didn't keep women's collars, but she looked right through him. She bonghtaoollur and a large white handkerchief. Then she walked to the mirror aud unconcerned ly took off her collar and tie. The band kerchief she folded about her neck, and when she had anchored that 13l collar to it with a pin you wouldn't have known that it wasn't a whut is it you call it? chomisctto. She tied her tio carefully, gave her hair a put and ber aloeves a pull. Then, taking the arm of a mun who had lingered somewhere in the background, she sailed oat toward tho nearest theater. She waa a genuine new woman, and sbe knew what she was about "Washington Post tlcmphlll Quot Lincoln. General Robert R. Hemphill of Ab beville, S. C, iu an address before the twenty-seventh anuunl convention of the N. A. W. & A. at Atlanta, said: I go for all sharing the privileges of government who assist iu bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admit ting all to the rights of suffrage who pay tuxes or bear arms, by no moans ex cluding the female.' "These were the words of Abraham Lincoln on June 13, 1856, to the voters of Sangamon county, 111. They express my sentiments today. I am in favor of equnl right and equal opportunities for womeu, and tliut is wny 1 am 100 ay in the gsd city of Atlanta and before this refined and distinguished audience to say a word upon the living issjie which has called this assemblage together. Is not the situation unique? Hure I am, a Sonth Carolinian, a disciple of John U. Calhoun, proud of the traditions of my beloved state, quoting from Abraham Lincolu in support of a proposition the mention of which a bnlf a century ago would have given tbe lenders of my peo ple tho horrors. Bat tbe world moves, and South Carolina is moving with it" Trilby Rhoa, Aud now we have Trilby shoes) Have them indeed. Perhaps the faddists fancy thut a Trilby shoe will give them a Triliiv foot. In point of fact, Miss iJ'Fei .-all's footgear was anything but commendable. She gave her preference, if I have not altogether forgotten that ol.wsic feature, to men's bedroom slip pers, in a comfortable state of dilapida tion, but if the Trilby shoe now coming in is designed to release women'" feet m 1 1 nn.Hl1 ttAininaf Intii tetoHZ ...nKiblnnersou onirht toaive them godspeed. As I understand it, to have your feet iu tho vogue that K Trilbyized yon must wear shoes very square toed, broad wiled and flat heeled and two inchi too long for yonr foot Your pixjr tortured toe moy thus re same their natural relation to each oth er, if any vitality is left them, and you need not spend all your substance ou the chiropodist All bail to the Trilby shoe, which places women ou a common sense footing. Chicago Tost Mnrchlonma LL Marchioness LI of China la becoming known, now that the dethronement of her husband, Li Hung Chang, is on ev erybody' tongue. She is described as a very beautiful, and. for China, a learned woman, who looks 85 aud is 55. Her husband's wealth is fabulous, and she spends royally, though she keeps accu rate account of every item. In ber mag nificent home on the banks of tbe Pel- Ho the live in great spleuaor. surrouun 111 the (DiipuM iiu 1 :V.r "lu"- " airs, fcdwnrd Oreeley. "uuaiii. uml servant. She hail couts, 1,200 uuirs of "troumr- ettcs" and 500 fur rotie. Her feot are so mall that she is nualile to walk more than a few ttcp, but twice a day she bathe iu oil of orange and acacia bloonia ami tale an airiug in a cooIt sedan. Finally fhe dresses her hair in 60 ways, her favorite coiffure being a la griffin. Aa r.ntr rprltlug Wi An enterprising vounn woman who haa lutely opened an ofiico announce aecrutary and iiittrmediary where ilia c return, diplomacy and good imlk'Mient ! re rmiaired; a a pnrcbaiiing agent for 11)6 ''OUKeliold. buying anything from groceric to weiuiuig outllta aud bric a brae; aa a lineuer of charity where iuTivtigation in required in fact, pro fifwlonally to fill the ufllce of a "eapa bio perHou" iu the community. An in every largo city them in acountant de mand for juiit the airvicva that thii yonng woman propose to render, there seems to bo uo reason why she should j not succeed. Now York Pwt. j Ths Advanced Woman. Canon du Muliu cf Toronto I in preached a sermon against the "ud vunced woman," in which ho told her that slio. must totter to her fall, for she is uu-Scriptural, has forsaken her house hold duties nnd has become a keen rival of man. "The time is not far distant, cried the Toronto canon, "wheu womnu will be deposed from the throno sho has usmped and be driven back to ber owu domes tio domaiu. " We shall look on quietly whiio this canon of the Episco pal faith drives her back. Torouto Cor respondent. "A Conipnarr Who ! a Woman." Cecile Chum inade, whose concettstuek was played recently by the Chicago or chestra, was born in Palis and is the only woman composer who stand on equal footing with uniny i:f the imH prominent comHiscrs of tho day. After tho first performance, of this comirt stuck Amhroise Thomus asserted, "This is uot a womnn who comjHises, but a cmipos r who is a woman." Miss Chuminuilo has written a symphony, "The Amazons" also beautiful bullet music, and a quantity of roug and pi ano pieces. PcltlraaU of a rortru. Ella Wheeler Wilcox is having her pettieouts inado on a peculiar pattern in vented by herself, or, as sho says, by ber husband and herself together. She dotes 011 whittt petticoats, and so docs be (for her; it is uot meant that he wears them himself), but sho conelmh d thut she paid for a great deal of niniec essary laundering. So the new garment is made of two pieces a top und a deep flounce that buttons on toil. The flounce cnu be changed as many times us you liko and buttoned ou to the tup piece. Tha QdMtlon. It is uot a question ni lo tho womeu who do not want to vote; it is a ques tion ns to withholding tho ballot from tho.10 who oluim tho right to have it And no legislator has any moral right to say to any woman who cares to exer cise the right of franchise, "Yon shall not" Haverhill Bulletin. Mrs. Surah B. Cooper, president of tho Golden Gate Kindergarten associa tion of Sun Francisco, recently ad dressed the students of Stanford uni versity on practical Christianity. The chnpel was full, and much interest was manifested. Miss Kato Crawford, who for many years wus a teacher in tho Simmons school, St Louis, is studying medicino in Ann Arbor, Mich. Miss Crawford was the first colored graduate from the Ann Arbor high school. Mrs. Mary A." Ahrcus wns lately ad mitted to practice law in the United Stutes court In Chicago. Mrs. Ahrcus might have beeu admitted some years ngu, but waited uutil ber business re quired it Miss Bertha E. Tomlinson, who re cently graduated with high honors from the ElmiraiN. Y.) college, is connected with the Elmira Telegram and with The Argosy. Miss Hannah F. Mace, Vasaar, '00, is now an assistant of Professor Newcomb iu the United State naval observatory at Washington. Olio of the most successful tobacco planters in Kentucky is a woman, Mrs. L. Cntzingor. On Jan. I, 18U5, there were 8,035 regular women physicians in the United States. A Chavky Llttt Lauib. The Rev. Dr. Meredith, a well kuown clergyman, trie to cultivate friendly re- lutions with tho younger member of his flock. In a recent tulk to bi Sunday school he urged tho children to speuk to him whenever they met ' Tbe next day a dirty faced urchin, smoking a ciguretto and having a gen erally disreputuble apianiuce, accosted bim iu the street with: "Hello, doctor!" The clergyman stopped aud cordially inquired : "And who are you, sir?" "I'm one of your little lands'. " re plied" tho boy affuMy. "Fine diiy." And tilting his hut on his lieail lie swupgrred off, leuviug the worthy divine speechless with amazement. Pearson's Weekly. In tha Art t.allarr. "I wonder what they call thut pio ture," raid Mr. (JuswelL "Don't ynn know': responded Mrs. Gaswell pityingly. "That's Venus and Pondeuiiis. "Chicago Tribune. lair t-lar. ($1 ' Comment by Referee Youse felleys make me tired. Thi ain't no waits qnad'ille. and I sin'l callin no fancy figures neither. If yon don't fight i i,... , IHTKAL SKSHTSEERS. THEIR ENTERTAINING EXPERIENCES AT THE ATLANTA EXPOSITION. Thrr rui l orala la lh Midway tad M'r rnrml to kolam TIwumIim With 1 .MorftJat KihiblU-Atlntrtluasof At- I lauU - Sight aatl Ikfon an th Urmia da. I If it were Christian 1 1 laugh at the 1 micfortumw mid disappointments of onr ; neighbors, one could have a luirrel if fun with the delayed exhibitors aud 1 their somewhat too npr vihiturs. It was natural that most of the tlrstccmers I hould be rural Georgians and their fel low grangers from tho adjacent states, lor this is the aeusou w hen they have leisure if they ever da And it so bap IM'iied that they were uut eager to st the very features which were nijst do- ON TIIK I'LAlSAN'i :. luyed, espeoiully the Midway pluisauce. They had ull hciird of that. The verv I l . .. 1... 1 1 . ... fi. I W. W .V, K,,l ,., VK - K.u ii,um I'll iiieiu ink iiuiu 01 me weiu- j derful foreign displays and nothing ut ' all about the still im.ro wonderful Art 1 : hull und its 7,01)0 picture nnd statues, but they could tell all about C'siro street and the Algerian dunce, and the tier- j mini village, aud the ostriches and In dian and wild Dulioincyun and con- irufcii of lir.'Mv WimiAti K11 llin rnrnlii.ta ' r.. .. - - rushed to the plaisuiK-etoeucounter sour I looks, hear st range oaths iu nine luii : guoges ami see confusion, i The Mexican amphitheater they found empty sod unfinished, but the couccs j kionnalresi.nl sweurs he w ill haveabull j fight or big duimiges. Where they look I ed for graceful bouri of the orient in j voluptuous pose they found grimy work I meu hammering und pniuting, and in I the bazuar u negress, who looked as if 1 she might weigh 2."0 pounds, sewing on j the last decoration. As a spectator put if, "They went to tee Futimu mid found fat Amy." And wi 011 arouud most of thut section, which is but now reully ready for visitors. Of course they swore und received us gisid us they gave, esicli party fortunutely ignorant of the other's full meaning. Such phrases ss "su pristi," "curuliu," "sucr-r e," "gott-vertainu"nud"kellur-r hismilhih" flew alsiiit with reckless vigor und were pleasantly varied at intervals by a gsd, healthy Georgian "damn!" In the end the rumlists were all the letter for it, as they put in their time bsiking ut Is-tter tilings und gained impressions to last them for life. In the (Jovernment build ing they saw an exhibit worth crsing the continent to see. In the California building they found un array of fruits, flowers und woods which iinuizi'd even the Iswt informed. Iu machinery, trans portation and electricity they wete equally chutmcd und instructed, but ill the Art hull they gave but a passing glance, as a rule. It is "caviare to the general. " ' Ten days liefore the opening it was evident that tho population of Atlanta was increasing. Exhibitors and visitors cauio in increasing numbers, fakirs und cheap Johns of all vurieties set up on tho vacant lots, the popular evening re sorts were thronged, und the principal streets were crowded like lower Broad way. A little Inter visitors seemed in no hurry for the exposition grounds, bnt looked at Atlanta aud its surroundings. Aud they suw a great denl. Not only is this vicinity most agreeably diversified with hill und dnlo, park and native woodbind, us Chicago is uot, but his torically it is ns fur ahead of thut city in interest as (Quebec is alirud of Omahu. The greut crowd from the Urund Army eiicumpment nt Loiiisvillo and the dedication of Cliickuuisuga park wont chiefly to the battlefield, which are all easy of access. The longest ride, but a delightful one by the frequent ex MKT WALKKtl, OIUNT PARK oursion truius from the Union depot, is to tbe Peaclitree creek fields. There, on July 19, 1804, the Federals shoved a division across the crock which was driven buck with the loss of 150 men and two flags, aud the next duy Hood made hf desperate attack and, wus bud ly defeated. A very easy aud breezy rid on the electric line tukes one to the field of Ju ly 21, where Wheeler's cavalry and Cleburne's infantry made such a heroic itund aud held back - the Federal In a way thut seems incredible, bnt at the tame time McPherson gained the hill which gnve bis artillery command of Atlanta. The same ground aud a great deal more, but all reached by the same electric linn, is the field of the truly des- 1 perate battle of July 32, w hen the whole ' Confederate army assaulted the Federul iutrnnchuieiit. This field is marked off with care and pro-rly oranmeuted. the chief point of interest being thut where Mcllierson fell. I Another hard fight t'k place July 28 , with Ezra Church as the center, and aftei that there was the ordinary siege fighting liU Sept. 4, when theConfed- ' orate gave np the contest, and all those fields urn within a few minutes' pleasant riding of thn central part of the city aud in no cae at greater expense than 10 cent. I Battlefields, though of great historio J interert, are but a small port of the many attractive plwe around Atlanta. There is, to start on, the much praised Ponce de Leon spring, and if yon come here be sure to pronounce it in tiie bnsidtwt English yon can month, as if it were tjsdled Pont d'Leeun. And so if all other f'jreigu name hereabout Frill in pronunciation art bad form ber. Plaiu English U good tuotigb far l I, e!$ tdimh Atlanta. Thou there 'are parks and groves of every size aud variety. Fort Walker is kept just an the war left it, with the old cannon ami ammunition wagon standing as iu 1M.-I, save that it is rather badly weathered. The old city reservoir is turned into a great lake, with steam lanneli, pleaMire biKits aud a bnthiug bench. And the city itnclf is on the highivt gu und Is'tweeu the Miwis sippi and At hint 10 of any place) of its site, Diiiver Ix ing the only city of it size which is higher, ho (K toU r is al ways a ileligthful month hete. A short rldo will take one among the wilder mountain scenery of north Ooorgia, and it Isn't very far to Dahlonegu and the center of tho old goldticlds which De Soto sought an long and never found. But when the original engineers sur veyed Ibis place und vicinity tbe timber wus very thick, uud whisky very cheap, tho result being a set of lines which muke one think of Euclid iu a fit of de lirium tremens. The visitor from places liko Indianiiixilis and Philadelphia will therefore find that geography here is an inexact seieucn uud must cultivate the direction sense anew. But this is getting a long way from the exposition. Despite the many and vexatious delays, every day, ut almost every hour, h some department com pleted and the tinriuhtlv litter remov ed. It was onlv five duvsln fore owning duv that the tlrst box of foreign exhibit was unpacked, a delur due. tho foreign- ers said, to tho failure of the govern- ! incut to have custom insis ctors here, for I such Is the kiudnessof our paternal gov- eminent that cvervthiim the'foreiuiier , bring here must be classified und enter- jUirHirt The heathen Chinese, u, ,... 1. , .,1:,.. , HIII1I IVII IO HIIMIWI .', Mill. Ilia. IIV dark and Iiim played it on the govern ment iu a wny that at this late day will be hard to beat The concession granted by a little act cf congress suspending the exclusion act so far as Chinese em ployed iu this exposition were concern ed failed to specify the number, so the cuicrsslounuire bipsd iu 85 womiui UWTA KlI'A Bt'll.lllNU. ami about !!0 men, and ou the duy the main putt of them arrived Atlanta wus almost us much excited as if the celestial emjicror himself had come. It would be worth $1 to heur my vigorous friend Ucury, author of the exclusion act, ex press himself concerning this trick. It was a wonderful sight when thn customs inspee-tor got their books ready and the foreigners began to unpack. Four hundred nnd forty-five big boxes und paukiug ruses in cue duy were dis charged into the Manufactures and Lils'rnl Art building. Venetian gluss ware, Italian Mutuary, hand carved fur niture, curio) of almost endless variety and 200 sorts of Milanese speciult ies, 60 kinds of silk nnd a ninny vuried mix tures of silk, wool and linen, and thn long liues of articles classed by Mrs. Puul Potiphar a "bigotry nnd virtue." Ou the name day several of tho state and minor bnildings had not an ar ticle iu place, and all around tha gronnd the big "Trilby" nnd graces, cupiiU and fauns, with For tuna, Columbia, Don Georgia) aud all the Oreck goddesses iu metal which were to ornament the high fronts, still luy iu the dirt iu most nngisldes. like attitude. It is really wonderful that m tunch was done in time. Costa Rica had all her exhibits in place lu less 1 than three days after they were opened. Arkansas hud nearly all her stuff so artistically pocked that it went to the right place und was ready to look nt a fast as tiupuckcd. The fanciful and ar tistio desigiiK wrought of the oer puis and grasses of the state are much finer than any it exhibited at Chicago. All these are iu her part of the Agricultural building. Iu the aiirue building are many other unique designs to represent certain sec tions of the south. Thn Seubourd Air Liua railroad has a relief unip exhibit ing the country through which the roud runs from Portsmouth, Vu., here, and a miniature train traverse the field and run Into a facsimile of tho Union depot the suiiie that surcustio paragraph ers refer to as (he "Atlanta cur shod. " An Interesting little thing iu this neighbor IicsmI is the liiiuiuturo cotton gin, from which tho lint 1 seen falling into a gluss cose, aei the visitor can see the en tire process. It seems a little odd that the finest, at any rate the most unique, booth in thia building should le thut of a Cincinnati distilling compunv, and thut tho designer of it is a ludy of that city. Yet wi it is, uud though tbe accoa suries of whisky are mude prominent in the finishing the geuuiul effect is ex tremely pretty. A to tho mere amuse ments, thisH) on the inside linger behind the general i-how, bnt on the outside, oh, my I In truth, they are so numerous thut a man can very easily spend ull bis money without going inside the gates. J. B. Pakkk. Atlunta. Tha NrT llarbar. I struck a nervy barber down in southern California once. You kuow they have earthquuke down there so often that they don't mind a terrestrial hake up any more than we do a thun derstorm. Hut for strangers thn sensa tion of having thn earth do a sand jig under you I fur from pleasant. It make you 1'me confidence in the stability of things. j I was sitting iu a burber' chuir one day when tbe windows begun to rattle and the floor to heave like the dis k of a j ship. The barber was a dago of some j kind, but he had nerve. I started to 1 jump and rnn, bnt he held my bead down firm ly and said . --eipairi.-iiy sun. -.-, ..r.ui.K." huvo zo tin-esfortDiiu to cut yon." And, ding me, if he didn't keep right along shaving, with th shunty rocking liko a cradle, and he never even scratch ed me. Hut it scared mo so my beard hasn't grown well since. Washington Post lull Mya and rani M. Potior. It will be ple asant to h am that Mr. Potter's next venture is to be iu collabo ration with Hill Nye. They are busy at work oti cnudy, which, with Mr. Potter' enlturcd talent for dramatic cmstractioti und his experience in stage : literature, Nye's crude and inexhansti- ble humor, his w it and philosophical turn, ought to be a (rent (a Chicago j News, AAa THE FRENCH WILL REMAIN. RmwbI Stall.llra I'pM-l th ralcnUllans of Vruiaa ami KnglUli fruphala. It would bo u misfortune for tho world if tho Fr.-uca ptniple were to disajipeur from it Wo have beard for a good while (f tho small birth rate in France, nnder which the births per year were less numerous than the deuths, and we have turn computations by statisticians that if this disproportion between the births ami deaths wire kept tip for certain period of years there would not be a Frenchman on the faco of thoeurth at the end of that period. We would 1 ,v r this pnwpeet if we had believed it could ever 1st realized, for the world would ho flutter than it is if the French wero not iu it A crowd of Germans or Englishmen or even Irishmen could never make np for the lost French. We are happy to he able to relieve any apprehension which tuuy have been crcutcd by thostutistieiiins. Franco her self, ever ready for any emergency, ha come to the relief of the world. The French government bus just issued the population return of IHIM ( wo ought to have those of 1MU by this time), and they are joyful. Thero was an excess of birth over deuths in the year sv:i, uot a heavy excess, but still encouraging. j Tl,e mmler of French In Franco al the I W"l f the year was greuter by 7.1411 I '""a beginning. Tho record look ! u 11,0 lx,1,r v.en we compare it with ,"nt " ," previous three years, .luring ! w,,u' llir"' f" 80.0l) kdilud ,llB I death. It i a record which give evi dence mm inn line 11 as lurneii, ami, 11 last year was as good a year as the pre vious one, tho growth of populatiou must be such as to knock ont all the computations of tho pessimistic statisti cians, most of whom, by the way, are either Ocrmnii or l'.nglislimen. It is first rule new fof France. The army must be kept up. It is good new for the world. W could not afford to lose tho French. How dull old F.urojw would ke without French politics and playwriters and president ami artists and novelist and womeu, without French esprit or penseo or eluu or fa tigue or other things that belong almost exclusively to France I France and tho French ara great. The Germans, English, Italians, West Af ricans uud others had Is'tter not indulge iu any hope of tho disappearance of the French. Now York Sun. AN ABSURD OLD LAW. It Stood In tha Way of tha Korovary of tha Hotly of Oua of tha 1:1 Isa Vlrllma. Dickens, who ao often studied with delighted interest the applications of English law to particular coses, would have found a subject worthy of his grimmest humor in tbe fact, cabled the other day from Loudon, thut when the master pf a fishing smack, cruising near where the Ellss went down, saw floating iu tha water a dead body, which wns doubtless that of a victim of the great disaster, he made no effort to rescne it from the waves nnd carry it ashore for identification aud buriul. Instead ho sailed past and away from the doleful bit of flotsam as quickly as oircumstanrsHi would permit, not, a one might suppose, because he Wus a pnrtio nlnrly hard hearted and cold bloislod mariner, but Ik'cihiho "recently, after lauding a body, he hud beeu forced to pay the fiinnrul expenses." Curinns ns that experience hud beeu aud delight fully illustrative as it waa of "crow n or's quest" wisdom, thoenpfuiu hud no inclination to repeat it Ono lesson hud been enough to teach him the great principle that common wnse cannot be allowed to interfere with consistency in the enforcement of a parliamentary not, and what iu comparison with thut Is the continued agouized uncertainly of somo (icrmau wife or mother? Now, York Time. What Hid O. P. O. Mann? "Ono of the linstt curious blunder of in author was thut made by Thacknray, when collecting mnteriul for his 'Irish Sketch HiHik.' Driving uloiig a loud, he saw nt due iutervuls posts act up with tho letters 'O. P. ().' upon them. Over taking a iH'iisunt, he inquired the mean ing of these initials aud was gravely informed thut they stixsl for 'Uod Ire serve O'Coiinelll' Out came tho tour ist's notebook, iu which a memorandum wns at once jotted dowu of the curious statement In the first edition of the sketches the fact wa duly mentioned, bnt it wa suppressed in all the subse queut issue, owing to the tardy discov ery that the initials stissl for 'Ucnerul Post Office,' indicating thut tho high way wus a post road. " It is duo to the memory of William Makepeace Thackeray to say that the above happened not to him, bnt to Lord Haddington when riding into Dublin from Kingstown in 1884. See "Privute CorroeKmIfiice of Duulol O'Connell," by W. J. Fitzputrick (London, J. Mur ray), volume 1, page 604. Note cud Queries. A a 1 0,000 llarhrlor INuioa, Of course everybody 1 tulklng about the Hitcbooxdc-Bulkhy dunce. It is suld to have oust those young bachelors about f 10,000, and, as there were only about 200 people present, each person had to absorb about (50 worth of pleasute and refreshment It was annonnoodlbat every on could order what he or she chose for supper. It was uot surprising then to see terra pin and oauvasbttck ducks washed down with rure old clarets and champagnes ousting (8 a bottle. Some of the dudes either deliberately or stnpuiiy DilsuunersiiKXi tna carte blanche idea of supper, aud, when the waiter came to them for orders, asked for now dros suits or diamond scarf pin. 1 should think that one dance like this ou such an eluhorute scale would lost society for a long time. Like everything else remarkable. II.JJIh'. I .... . I ..... n n,,ta Mi-a. ,, when swung around too prouiiscu- ..,. Knickerbocker in New York Recorder. I Workad at Or .ley's Klbow. Undo Joshua Barstow, undoubtedly tho oldest activc.couiDiwit'jr iu the conn try, celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday in Norwich. Conn., recently. Hi eye is oiidimmed by ago, and he rends read ily without glasses. Uncle Joshua wo one of Horace Ureeley's most intimate friends. He set type at Mr. Greeley's elbow all through the Harrison and Ty ler campaign aud recalls with pride tbe many times the two raced to the copy hook for a particularly "fat" take. At the recent U. A. H. encampment Uncle Joshua was the secoud oldest veteran in Una. New York Herald. A MEAN PIECE OF BUSINESS. An Incident That khaar Ona's faith In tha Chivalry of lb Modvra afaa. This is a bit of genuine scandaL Ev erybody like scandal. It is always such a comfort 10 find oneself a little better than one's neighbor. This bit of scandal is true too. There is a young man now living in Cbicngo who osud to live in Washington. He wa engaged to a Washington girl, but rumors concerning ber reached him out in Chicago. Tboy laid, theso rumors, thut sbe had gone out to supper after the theater, and looking 011 thn wine when it was red bud become just a little boisterous. Her immaculate fiance came to Wash ington. Ho diil not say a word to hor of the rumors which bad filled his soul with horror, but he took her to the the ater and to sapper afterward Tbe Widow Cliquot waa the third purty al the supper, and the girl, like every other woman on earth, liktsi ohanipugno. Her iwoethnart urged ber to drink, assuring her it would do her uo barm whatever. She drauk. In fact, he conjugated the verb to drink in more than one teusu. She became un mistakably iutoxicuted. Then tho gal lant young man slipped ber engagement ring off, bundled hir into a carriage and took her homo. She hasn't wen him sinca Of course ho couldn't think of marrying thnt sort of a girl, yon know It Is things liko that that keep one's belli f in tho innate chivalry of tha modern gentleman from dying I un derstand tho man considers it a tremen dous joke, and you may be able o .nv where tha laugh come iu. I am uot Washington Punt No Tur Ealalra of lha lUalm." For all pmclicul purpose there were only two estate in the English parlia ment, lords and commons. Thus the phrase of the three estates, which had a meaning iu Prance, becumo meaning less in KiiglaniL For cent iiricspust them bus been 110 separate estate of the cler gy; some of their highest member have belonged to the estatn of the lord uud the rest o tho estuto of he com mon. Hence has oris, n a common but tot unnatural misconception, as old a Jin long parliament, us to tho uiealiiug of the three estate. Meu constantly use those words a if they meant the three element umong which the legislative power is divided, king, lords und commons. But un estate mean a rank, an order or class of meu, like the lords, the clergy or the com mons. Thn king I not an estatn, be cause there Is 110 class or order of kings, the king being one Jierson alone by him self. The pnHT phruso Is the king und the three estute of the realm. But In England, a I have already shown, tbe phrase 1 meaningless, as we have, in truth, two estate eiuly." E. A. FToe uiuu's "Growth of the English Consti tution." Samarl J, TllnVn's Vmbrvlla. Abriim S. Hewitt, who wu a gToat friend of Samuel J. Tlldcn, one day brought into hi office un old cotton um brella, with a broken rib or two aud a few holes. It could not have cost over flO wots. He placed it in the accustomed corner, beside a flue f 10 silk umbtulm belonging to J. L. llaigh, his puvturr. When starting home iu the uftcrnoou ho walked off with Haigh's umbrella, leav ing his owu, which Hiilgh had to nse, as it was raining bard. On opening tha old cotton affair Halgh noticed a piece of white tiqsa sowed oil tho lusido neur tho top, and ou going to a light rchd, "Samuel J, Tilden, Gramcrcy purk, New York." The next duy he returned It to the wime corner and suld to Mr. Hewitt, "Thi is Mr. Tlldcn's umbrella yon forgot last night. " "Oh, yon," said Hewitt, rising and going after it, "I am veryglud to get t buck. Mr. Tilden is extremely careful about hi umbrel la." "But where la my silk one that you tisik away lust night?" Halgh asked. "Oh, 'I don't know anything about that," was the reply, and thut was all the satisfaction that Huigh ever got Now York I'rc. Aluminium Coaling. Now that the aluminium coating 011 tbe tower of the pnhliu building begin to make a showing some Idea can b gained of what the great-pile of iron work will look like wheu entirely cov ered with thi substance. It is evident that It will differ considerably iu color from th beautiful white of the morblo portion of the tower, and it is question able whether it will harmonize pleas antly. Whou the tower waa first plnu ned, It waa proposed to paint the iron work white, so a to give the impression that the entire tower was of warbla. This idea wa abandoned, however, ou account of tho expense that would be forever entailed iu paiutlng the strno ture and the great risk that would at tend the 0sTut!on. Tbe Introduction of aluminium wa hailed ns a solution of the trouble, bnt it Is yet doubtful w bother It will really prove so. Tha coating of tho Ironwork with aluminium, whiuh is all done at Tooony, Is the biggest job In which Hint Interesting metal haa ever been put to commercial use. Phila delphia Record. Itantlot. M. Duudvt, the eminent French au thor, was for a long time an usher in a second rate school tin a pittance which scarcely sufficed to keep body and soul together. After a time be grew sick of tins bard and uuremunerativ kind of work, and then made his way to Paris, where he arrived with only a capital of two shillings aud a bundlu of poems. Ha wu foj,uiiiite enough to find a pub lisher for the hitter almost at once, aud it wu uot very long before he obtained journalistic employment, which kept him going until he found uovel writing sufficiently lucrative to provide him with a living. Now he run command almost any price he like to ask for hia book and article, and must be a very weu It by man. Puri Letter. M mm. Ilanry UooomoU Mm. Henry of Paris, the superin tendent of the Paris Maternity hospital, ho had h"r nam added to tho list of I.ady Knight of Ihe Legion of Honor. This high distinction is awarded to her for the excellent service rendered to the Important aud useful institution ut which she is the guiding spirit afty Kldlac Sklrta. The necessity for a snfoty rldlngtkirt haa brought various kind to light, but tbe latest line Invented 1 practically a large apruu iu the euddle and a complete walking skirt when It is buttoned lo gethur. It does away with the disfigur ing bulge al the kuee, and the wearer au walk and ride with equal 00m fort