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MARRIAGE IN ASSYRIA. KatkM- Hon at Matter of Barter Tbtra Thin In tb Laud of the Free. Men live on six cents a day in Assyria. Assyrian women ore bought and sold, are made to work with oxen at the plow, and bare as little liberty as in the days of Cadmus. Men who pay six dollars a day to lire and ladies who ride to shops in victorias thought over these things as they left the Irfncoln Park church Sun day night. Amen Rasi, born on Mount Lebanon, told these things in broken English. Amen Rasi is a tall, handsome Assy- rian. with a skin as rich as the cinna mon silks made at the foot of the moun tain on which he was born. He looked into the curious, bright eyes of girls " and told them that, had they been born Assyrians in Assyria they conld not go npon the streets nnless their faces were concealed: that they could neither re ceive nor make a call among women without their husbands' consent, and that if at any time, even by accident, they vsre seen by any man or in any way recognized no one would marry them. He said that once two couples a tall man and a short woman, and a short ' man and a tall woman 6tood before a priest to be wed. .The priest placed the tall man and tall woman and the short man and short woman together, and uone of the four knew whether it was right or not, neither of them knowing the other. But the parents hastily ob jected, and placed the tall man by the short woman and the short man by the tall woman, as that was the way of the contracts. Then Mr. Rasi showed how these con- tracts were made. He left the pulpit, and presently a man wrapped np in rich Assyrian raiment went np and sat upon the floor,. Mr. Rasi came back and squatted beside him. . , "1 would very much like," he said, for a girl who is yours to be wife to my son Isaac.'" "1 would be honored," returned the man, with a very unmistakable Ameri can accent. , ...... "How many' have you? Three." " "How mnch years have they?" -"One is fifteen, one twenty and one twenty-five." "Don't talk to me about the twenty five nor the twenty; they are never fit to marry. How mnch do yon charge for the little oner . ilTl ' . 1 j, 1 ,, , utiuoiD, auilt uuraes. Luree sneep and fifty dollars." "Bah! I can buy 100 women for so much.'" "But no little one." "Oh, I think so." ' ."Well, you can't have mine for a cent "lpay." But even then Isaac did not get the little one, because a few minutes later Mr. Rasi returned as another man, and by. doubling the price secured the girl for his son Jacob. fTl r. - t , a, . , mas. wnose patent learners cose mem seven dollars, and told them that people in Assyria paid fifty cents for a suit of clothes. The common -people, he said, paid three cents for twenty-five pounds ' of cabbage and four cents for five pounds of turnips. Fifty loaves of bread were turned oat at a baking, and men some times ate four and five loayes at a meal. He waited ror a moment, and then, turn ing to a black boy behind him, said, "They are so big," and he drew circle that wonld inclose a Thanksgiving plat ter. Chicago Herald. '... It Looked Great. Mr. Q. Si. Clinton placed "Coventry, England," after his name on the Audi torium register the other morning. A , reporter asked him what he thought of thiscountry in general. " "Oh, I like it pretty well," he replied.' "Have yon traveled very extensively in the United StatesT "All over it. "Have yon been in Chicago before?" "Often." . "Do yon intend to remain in this coun try long?" or tiie resi oi my me. "Then you like it so well that you in tend to settle here?" "1 think I will. Tve been in the United States for twenty-seven years. It suits me first rate. . I register from Coventry because it looks better than Hell Creek, where 1 live, and so that 1 can remember to write letters to my people in England. Haven't seen Cov entry since 1 was a small boy and don't want to, 'but the name looks simply great on a hotel book. Don't you think so?" Chicago Inter-Ocean. , Tli Scales on m Flair. If yon look at a human hair under the microscope you aill find that its surface is formed of successive overlapping scales. The bristles of the hog bear mnch resembles to the human hair, though their diameter is greater and the tilelike, scales are much finer. Sheeps' hair has mnch coarser scales. It is owing to the existence of these scales that a schoolboy is able by a peculiar process to tell which is the tip and which the other end of a hair, rolling it be tween his finger and thumb. Thus manipulated, the hair always travels in the direction of the base, because the edges of the scales prevent it from going ton Star. ' V Tho Cultivated .Oyster. When your host places before you oysters that are plump and round and thick and deep and light colored and mantled "narrowly by a fringe quite thick to the very edge, then yon may be , sure that! they have not only lived with few distnrbances, but under a high state of cultivation. Edward - L. Wilson in 8cribners. . or Lit lie Faith.' , - . Mrs. Blink Dear mer it's raining.' How am I to jet this letter mailed? Friend Ilaiid it to the letter ck rrier. Mrs. ... Blink Hnh! He'd forget .all about . it , 1 He's a man. fev York Wwfciy. . v Box Office Queries. ' . ' Charley Metcalfe was telling some stories illustrative of the box office man's tribulations. "If it weren't for some people's flirty . thumbs," said he, T4 wish the Lord had made me in book form. I don't put in much time in the box office, but the few minutes I am there . is enough for - a lifetime. The average ticket buyer asks enough inane questions, but what do you think of a man who sticks his head .through the window and wants to know the name of a big teamer he saw going down the East river day before yesterday? Well, my boy, that's what happened this very mornings and that's not.' a marker' to the questions some people ask either. ' ' "There's the man who knows every thing and wants you to recognize it, the man who knows nothing and proves it. and the woman who is nothing more or less than a perpetually animated inter rogation mark. Why, two . days ago a man came in and told . me all about the piece then being played to the house,' After getting rid of him 1 had to choke off a long breath to -inform a fellow that the theater was neither a hotel nor a lodging house. He said he was sorry that he liked the location first rate. Be fore I had recovered from the fit he gave me, a man with three baskets, four chil dren and a woman walked into the lobby! ., . 'Be they a-actin or anything inside? asked the man. "'No, sir," said L 'Per formance at 8:15.' Then what do you suppose that man wanted? He actually had the stupendous gall to ask zne'if he and his family couldn't go inside and sit down for an' hour or so while they ate their luncheon!" New York World. Women and Mice. ' - 'I wish somebody would find some thing to' take the place of the exceed ingly stale and silly 'women and mice' paragraph which has been going . the rounds of the papers, with divers and sundry changes rung on it, ever since 1 can remember, and goodness knows how much longer," said a charming little woman as she opened ' the mousetrap and let two or three of its occupants out into the jaws of a number of hungry kit tens. "I wonder who started .it any way? Of course there are women who are afraid of mice, no doubt, but I never saw a woman make herself more ridicu lous over a mouse than a certain man did when one of these harmless little creatures scooted up the leg of his trou sers. . . ' ... . .. . -. : . .. '.'f don't imagine any one would ' feel especially comfortable with any such foreign element meandering around one's preserves; but why 'women and mice' in particular, is what 1 don't understand. I think there are very few housekeepers but what have frequent occasions to come in contact with ratsas well as mice, and. as far as 1 can see,' tney-seem-to survive at all events, I . never heard of anybody dying from fear of .them. , 1 suppose that the mouse paragraph must be near akin to that of the mother-in-law. - Be that ' as it may, both are so threadbare and faded and frayed out and bleached with time and hard serv ice that it would be a work of mercy for some benevolent and intelligent para grapher to get op a new Bupply of am munition." New York Liedger. . "JU 4sj r "Poor" (employees. To look after the city's standing army of dependents and delinquents requires a big official force. . There are three com missioners with- $3,000 a year -each, a secretary who gets $2,300 and a staff of eleven at the central office, besides the superintendent nf the outdoor poor and' six assistants. . . . , There are 45 employees at - the Tombs, including 4 physicians, and 4 matrons. There are 81 employees in the district prisons (Jefferson Market, Essex Market, Yorkville and Harlem), 72 employees at the Bellevue hospital, besides 54 trained female nurses, a chemist and 3 assist ants, and CS male nurses and employees. There is a staff of 13 at the Gouveraeur hospital, of 10 at the Harlem hospital, of 130 at the Charity hospital on Black well's island, of 83 at the penitentiary, of 42 in the almshouse, of 45 in the work house, of 250 in the city insane asylum, of 50 in the Ward's island hospital, of 300 on Randall's and Ward's islands, of 22 at the Hart's island workhouse, of 150 at the Hart's island asylum, of 75 at the Islip asylum and of 18 in the store house department on Blackwell's island. New York Sun. Remarkable Feat of Strength. - E. P. Kendall gave a remarkable ex hibition of his skill and strength with a ten-pound dumbbell at. noontime. He matched himself against eight strong men employed . upon , the grade work about : the county court house, and agreed to put up from shoulder to arm's length a ten-pound dumbbell more times than the eight men could. Kendall has a limb which makes it necessary for him to use crutches, and as he is of very slight build the result of the contest ap peared to be a foregone conclusion. One after another the eight men took their places, Kendall keeping time with each one, ,nn,d after the eighth had dropped his arm from sheer exhaustion Kendall smiled pleasantly and ran np his score of consecutive lifts to an even 1,000. His best score with a twelve-pound bell "is 2,600 lifts, and he has a brother who holds the world's championship. Seattle Press-Times. Living on Eighty-four Cents a Week. While on the subject- of abstinence in food, may I be pardoned for mentioning that many years ago, when a schoolboy, I tried bow- cheaply I could live, and found thai 1 was able to get, in summer, everything I required in the shape o good, wholesome food for three shillings six and a' half pence a week. Of course I had little meat, and kept principally to fruit and vegetables, which I could buy cheap, as 1 was near a large town. National Review The phrase, "castles in the air," has been attributed to Sir Philip Sydney. Swift. Fielding ' Churchill and Shen stone. It was first used more than 250 years age by .Robert" Burton in his "Anatomy of Melancholy." " ! PUFF! AND' OUT THEY GO. A Carom In Colorado That Kesents the Intrusion or Stranger. , There Is a cave near Rockwood, a sta tion on the Denver and Rio Urunde rail road, which has been visited by many persons. No particular mention of the cave has been made, as it seemed to be little worthy of notice. On Sunday last a number of pleasure seekers left this city to join a party at Rockwood who had planned to visit the cava "About 4 o'clock in the afternoon the members of the party, having disposed of their din ner, began to climb the hill. near, the top of which the month of the 'cave is located." , -. , ' - ., ' - ,: After mnch exertion the foremost of the party readied the mouth of the cave, and being in irlvance of his companions they were startled to see him fall back ward into the low oak brush as if he had been thrown from a catapult Bos com panions pushing forward more vigorous ly, soon came to His rescue and found him recovering, not "mnch, hurt, put slightly scratched and somewhat dazed He could give no explanation of his sud den removal from the opening to the cavern." "' . - Curious to know what the cause was the entire company in a body pushed up the hill, which has a particularly steep descent near the month; of the cave. To the. astonishment of the ..whole number the instant after stepping into the cave ; they found themselves nil piled together in a spot near where the first had landed, it took but a little while to recover from the entanglement, when they began to inquire the cause of this sudden excite ment. They.all agreed, that they bid seen nothing to cause such a thing, and they were curious, to know the reason for the phenomenon. "'.'But how to Jind out what they wished was -the thing .to- aeciae. . ... ..r. . ., . . ; At last it was determined , that the strongest gentleman of the party should gain a position, at the side, of the en trance, and,;-thnsprotect get an op portunity to reconnoiter. So. taking a circuitous route and avoiding a position directly in front of the opening, they soon found themselves ' close beside the entrance. Cautiously' putting bis head out beyond the protecting wall, the fore most peered it His hat. mi mediately took flight down the declivity, but 'he was thus nia'le aware of the exact state of affairs.-' .' .. ; .. ;. . The philosophy of the current of air in. caves suddenly dawned upon him. As is well known the air of .a warm day in summer is much, lighter' on tthe- out side of a caye or cellar than it is inside. Consequently the cold, heavy air rushes out with great violence enough in this case to cause the trouble' spoken of and throw the party down the hill. ' - -i Later, relating this tale, an old timer told your correspondent of former ads venture of his at the same place. Onc cold day in -the ; early winter be was tracking a deer along this liUside, when ne was astonisnea lo see. .tne cave open up before him, and he -noticed that.the snow, seeined to -.have -a been disturbed very recently,- a, though iai body vbad. been dragged into the entrance. - -, . Without thinking,, he stepped forward to -examine into the r cause -of . the.,, dia turbed condition of -the snow.'when.he felt himself violently-- pulled , into the cave, the forte pulling ; him - from Jiis feet. He felt a shock, and for awhile was oblivious to all around him. When his senses returned he found he was lying by and , partially .upon the body" of J a fleer. - lpon examination he found the body of the deer yet warm. This led to a still vcloser' examination.' He at last determined that the force of the current of air blowing into, .the pave had drawn the 4eer in. "killing it, but that when he was drawn in the shock was somewhat obviated, by his striking the ,deer, thus saving him from death. The explana tion is just the reverse of the-other, the air being, warmer inside the cave, than ont. vThe current flows' into the.: caye during the winter, rthus .accounting foe. the strange affair.. Denver Sun. v ' - Taming a ebra. Zebras can never be tamed, unless the process is begun while they are still very, young. ' BL A. Bryden gives an instance, of a tragic fate which befell one of them, captured when he was 7 or 8 years old : He had joined a troop of horses belong ing to one of the author's, friends, and finally allowed himself to be driven with them into a kraal or. inclosure.. It was. then determined to keep. him. and if pos sible to domesticate nim. , , For this purpose- he was lassoed and tied to a tree, but so ferocious was he in the presence of man .that 'the greatest precautions had to be . observed in ap proaching him. All possible' means were taken to induce him to feed... When cap tured he was in splendid condition, and his coat shone in the sun. Herbage was brought from the mountain tops where he had been used to graze, and every conceivable food placed before him, but in vain; he steadily refused to eat. Water he drank greedily,1 and would dispose of three bncketf uls at a time. At length, after three weeks of vain endeavor to tame ,the noble creature, during which time he subsisted entirely on water, he died. Youth's Companion. -The Use of the Word Telepathy. The term telepathy must not be In troduced without . explanation. Some term not yet in common use must be employed when mental phenomena in fluences of mind on mind not generally seen to be closely related have to be classed . together ' and. if possible, brought under one law. ' The familiar term "though transference" has much too limited a meaning. And ''telep athy" is already in use. '' It has been adopted by the Society for ' Psychical Research, and among othjir -writers, es pecially by Mr. Edmund" (i'urney. Blackwood's Magazine. - ' ' ' ' Met, Loved. l el and l.'ii-:--'.r.'.- j -. Albert Tolbert is one of tin best known young men abont town. He was em ployed in the. Southern iiaiKvay'bffice and also in the Fidelity bank.' -TO his friends he was known as u' confirmed bachelor. Great was tijoir surprise whed' lie returni'il t tlie city two wefks vago with a pretty lady whom he introaucea as his wife. She was a resident of the neighborhood of Georgetown. Her father is a rich Blue Grass stpekman. The happy couple after their marriage visited Florida and contemplated atrip to California, when all of a sudden they agreed to disagree. ' ., Mr. Tolbert magnaninonsly says, that he cannot make her happy.. Mrs! Tol bert, so far as appearances are concern ed, seems to be willing to proceed in the old lines, but Albert called a halt They consulted counsel. 1 " -: Tolbert gave his bride $1,000 in jewelry and $3,500 in United States liondsyfind, as a measure of arood luck, ho laffc at tached thereto, the coupons which are 1 T, a no. To .... . - mi . j.i . - - - vauuai . j.iit;ii iixcy jtisseu, embraced, took one more look into each other's eyes and parted. She returned to Georgetown.. He is in this cijty. Cincinnati Jor. e biiadelphia Record. a 1 fs (CillVwS J. V. 8.' Is tlio only Srsair:!l.i tliat. !.! or feeblo pcoplo should take, ni liio mineral Hitao!i Which is In every otlicr.Sari:a;a:-illu limt v. c kiunr of, is under certain conditions knimu to lie emaciating, JV- S, on the roulmir in purely TCgetable aud stimulates ui-estioii nod creates new blood, '.the very thins fi-r old, Oclicate or broken dbivn. people. It luiilils tl-m tip and prolongs their lives. . A case in iinl: Mrs. BcIdeR an estimable and elderly lady of 610 Jlnso-.i St.'S. F. w as for months declining so rapidly as to seriously alarm l.cr family. It got o bad that she vras filially aillii ted with faiutine spells." She Writes: "While in ttralU dangerous condition I taw some of the -testimonials con ceruing J.V.S. and sent forabottle. That marked the turning point-.-: I regained rayjost flesh aau strength and;, bare not felt to well in years." That was two"yeaxs ago and Mis. Belden is well aad hearty to-day. and still taking J. V. 8. 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Unpleasant as the fact may be, it is nevertheless artificial; : mineral coloring matter being used. . for this purpose. The effect is- two fold. It not only makes the ' tea a bright, shiny green, but slo permits ti e . mae of " off-eolor " and worthless teas, which, once nder the green cloak, are readily worked off as a good quality of tea. An eminent authority writes on. this sub ject: The manipulation of poor teas, to give them a finer appearance, is carried on exten sively. Green teas, being in this country especially popular, are produced to meet the demand by coloring cheaper b'ack chid by glaslng or facing with Prussian blue, tumeric, gypsum, and indigo. Thit method U so pew rai that eery Utile genuine uaeolored green tea '. st offered for tale." " - -x . Jt was the knowledge ef this condition i l affairs that prompted the placing of Beech's - Tea before the public. It is absolutely pure and without color. Did you ever, see any genuine ancolored. Japan tea? Ask youj grocer to open a package of Beech's, and yon will see it, and probably for the very first time. It will be found in color to be just be tween the artificial green tea, that you have been accustomed to and the black teas. ' It drawsadelightfol canary color, and is so fragrant that It will be a revelation to tea oMnkera,. Its parity-makes it also more -economical than the artificial tt.-a.i, for lew of it Is required per cup. Soldouly iu pound, packages bearing this trade-mark:. , , BEECH'? TEft :Pure:AsWdhood: S.B j mm SUM , - If your grocer does not have it, he will gel . It for you. Price GOo per poand. i"or sale al, X3j3X0 B.'f-i.iJlOX'jEI, : - :y V THE DAtt-Ef, ORF?OX..V. i THE DflliliES .. . - '. - - .... is here and has come to stay. It hopes to win its way to public favor by ener gy, industry and merit; and to this end we ask that you give it a fair trial, and if satisfied with its course a generous support. 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