WOMAN'S WORLD.
THE FIRST ENGLISH WOMAN TO COM
MAND HER OWN YACHT.
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Udy (Spencer) Clifford, widow of
Bir Robert Cavendish Saucer Clifford,
Tul 01 oer owu. Aiwaya loud 01 a
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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
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w n.M.1 responsible for what
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doe. not kuow at all. tl.,., the boar h,.
eome when alio should know.
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10 tiaSltewl U-lian lib. .1.
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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.
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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
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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
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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 '
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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,
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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