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Insect« and X Kaye.
A writer in The American X Ray
Journal tells of some unusual experi
ments upon insects with Roentgen rays.
A box was made, half of wood and
half of sheet lead. In the wooden half
a numlier of larvie of Illes, bees, bee
tles and other Insects were placed, and
the box was then put In the Held of tlie
X rays. The insect colony at once be
came greatly excited, and after crawl
ing to and fro Anally emigrated to a
worm to the leaden half of the box,
where the rays could not penetrate.
The experiment was repeated many
times and always with the same result.
A similar experiment was tried with
the blind larvie of a certain species of
beetle. A number of them were placed
In an open cigar box, which also con
tained a metal box with an opening.
No sooner were tlie rays turned on
tliun the Insects showed signs of dis
tress. Their uneasiness Increased, and
in a little while they all sought refuge
In the metal box. As the larvie in the
second experiment were entirely sight
less their perception of the rays must
take place through the nerves of the
skin.
Getting « Day Off.
A certain government ottlcer was
noted for being a hard taskmaster to
those who were under 1dm, the serv
ants In his own establishment being
no exception. Ills valet was expected
to be on duty 365 full days in tlie year.
Being detailed to accompany a scien
tific expedition on an extended cruise,
the ottlcer unbent a little in communi
cating the news to bls personal attend
ant.
"Well, James,’’ he said, "how would
you like to go with me around the
world?”
"Do we go from east to west, sir?”
asked the valet.
"Yes."
“We lose a day In going that way,
don't we?”
"We do.”
"Well, sir. I'd like it first rate. It
would give me oue day off.”
Ills master was so pleased with the
aptness of the retort that he gave him
a week off to prepare for the trip.—
Youth's Companion.
The American Soldier.
That West Point Is the best military
school In the world Is conceded by all
impartial critics. Its methods trans
form the average taw youth Into the
honorable, refined and highly educated
officer of our army, lie Is pre-eminent
ly taught tlie "habit of command,”
which, as a rule, he uses without any
of the arrogance shown by officers of
some of the armies of Europe, notably
that of Germany. lie is made to realize
that he commands men wlio are as sen
sitive as they are brave and who ap
preciate and respect a character com
bining generosity, kindness, firmness
and, above all else, physical and moral
courage.
These traits of character are careful
ly cultivated nt West Point, witli a re
sult that, besides having the best en
listed personnel, we have in the United
States army, without question or doubt,
the best trained and most capable gen
tiemen as officers. — Army and Navy
Journal.
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How to .Mnke French Pickleft.
To make a French pickle that is ex
cellent with all kinds of meat, slice one
peck of green tomatoes and one-fourth
as many white onions and let them re
main In salt and water 24 hours. Then
drain and chop. Add three quarts of
vinegar, one tablespoonful of ground
cinnamon, three fourths of a table-
spismful of ground doves, one table
spoonful of allspice, three-fourths of a
tablespoonf. I < f black pepper and one
pound of brown sugar. Let the mix
ture cook slowly for three hours. When
It is cold, add one-half pound of white
mustard seed.
How to Male. Lemon nutter.
Put Into n saucepan three tablespoon
fuls of butter and a cup of granulated
sugar. Bent the yolks of three eggs
and the white of one egg very light and
add to them the grated peel and Juice
of a good sized lemon. When the sugar
anti butter have melted, add slowly the
eggs and lemon and stir over the tire
until thick, watching carefully that the
mixture does not scorch. When colth
spread upon cake layers. This is a de
licious cake filling and universally
liked.
CookI or n Mackerel.
Many a dainty nose with beauty and
fortune behind It lias been airily ele
vated at the mention of plain, old fash
ioned salt mackerel, but never nt the
salt mackerel us cooked by the famous
John Chamberlin of Washington His
testimony runs to this effect'.
"Take one or more mackerel and soak
about 48 hours, changing the water
once. Then put them in a pan large
enough to bold them, cover them with
cream or the nearest yon can get to it,
put In oven and cook until cream is
brown. This beats any mackerel cook
ing on earth.”—New York Herald.
A lìuftlnem» Tonic.
Advertising Is not a cure all for busi
ness Ills, but a pharmacopla of busi
ness tonics. All depends upon the pre
scribing. Magazine space Is good for
certain business diseases that will
never yield to billboards, while the
newspaper Is the quinine for business
chills that are beyond the power of
dodgers. Every remedy In the list has
Its uses, and the whole result of treat
ment depends upon the doctor.—Print
ers’ Ink.
Do you remember that little ditty
that was going the rounds several years
ago, ’‘Shoo Fly, Don't Bodder Me!”
it was not elegant or very relined, but
it was a catchy little air and caught the
popular ear, for during its craze, ‘‘Shoo
Fly, Don't Bodder Me,” was sung by
high and low, rich and |ss>r, and it was
roundly denounced by some of the
clergy, as I’ve been told. The craze
was [sipular enough to have the name
bestowed on a low-cut shoe with wide
tongue and big steel buckles. Thealiove
is only preliminary to stating that the
“shoe-fly” shoe, or tie, is again in vogue,
under the name now of tlie “latest fad.”
It is not an attractive shoe, for as of
yore they give tlie foot a broad and
short effect. They are identical with
tlie old "shoo-ffy” tie. The tongues
are very broad, coming above the shoe,
with a broad steel buckle that covers
much of the upper surface of the tie,
and the toes are broad and rounding.
It may become popular, but Polly has
her doubts, for we have had the neat,
trim little tie and shoe too long to have
this ugly tie successfully compete with
it.
Talking about shoes reminds me of
the effort shoe dealers are making to
intnsluce the colored silk ties to replace
the always in good taste black ones.
They have been showing them for some
time and urging their customers to
adopt the latest style. But it has been
up-hill work up to this fall. Now the
bright, gaudy silk strings in pink, blue,
red and white are frequently seen on
the street, oftener with the black vel
vet uppers to the shoe than in any other
make. Children are even loth to adopt
them, but the tide lias turned in favor
of the gaudy laces and they are seen
much more frequently on the streets,
but children and young girls seem to
be more inclined to assist the ball roll
ing by their adoption than the older
people, who seem to think that their
frivolous age has passed. They may do
well enough in a child’s shoes, but to
the grown up population they make
the wearer look positively giddy. But
ton shoes seem to have had their day,
and they are the exception and not tlie
rule when they are displayed at all in
any of the show-windows of our shoe
stores.
According to some of our best mod
istes, the trim little jackets that have
been popular for several seasons are the
next thing to being out of date this
year. Tlie most stylish wraps are of
rich materials, appliqued and trimmed
very elaborately, and the sleeves are
quite large, and while they are very
much like the old“mutton-chop”sleeve
they don't lack much of it, merely
missing the point. They don’t elbow
the person oil' the seat who chances to
be sitting near the wearer either, but
one of the wearers of this new cloak for
fall styles, which, by the way, are long
enough to almost cover the owner from
iiead to foot, takes up more room than
the law should allow in a crowded
street car. The little ode that always
struck Polly as being about correct and
which was supposed to depict the lam
entations of the stronger sex in a few
well chosen verses under the heading
of “Oh, Big Sleeves,” will have to lie
resurrected again, although they don’t
liegin to be as bad as those great bal
loons that Dann* Fashion ordained that
the fair sex should wear, or be totally
out of the fashion, a few years ago.
That is where the fair sex draws the
line. They may be backward in their
music, in literary lines, etc., but they
draw the line at fashions, and no mat
ter how absurd the edict may be or into
what extremes it carries them, let I lame
Fashion set the pace and they will fol
low it. Nearly all of these long cloaks
exhibited are heavy and made of the
richest material and very handsomely
trimmed. They cover up tlie costume
almost entirely.
The sleeves of dresses and many of
the wraps are elaborate little affairs, a
great deal of trimming being used from
the elbow down. The most favored,
however, are the puffed sleeve of some
soft fluffy material with a band of vel
vet or some 11 lie embroidered little bands
that come prepared for the purpose. I
saw an elatsirate dress of white silk
with an overdress cf black lace and jet.
The sleeves were of white puffed silk
and lace with bands of jet at regular
intervalsand finished off’ with little jet
ornaments. The hat that went with
tills handsome reception costume was
of black silk velvet with broad black
velvet bows and black anil white os
trich tips. Tlie whole outfit was very
showy and in excellent taste, unless it
would have been Intended for some
matron who could not afford a change
of costumes as often as she would like.
Such a costume, as in the above in
stance, would be so striking at first
that it would soon become the same old
story and the wearer would s<s>n feel
that she had made a mistake unless she
could contrive to have the Jet over
dress made to wear over different colors.
Testimony of tlie Sone.
An eminent physician now proclaims
that the ancient and general oplnfon
that the nose Is an Index to charac
ter Is a fallacy. Am! It may be pro
claimed with fully ns much confidence
that there Is nothing which any emi
nent physician knows to lie so that
other eminent physicians do not know
to be "ain’t so.”—Louisville Courier-
Journal.
After a thorough study of the drink
question in Russia Stanislas Prosper,
a St. Petersburg editor, lies published
a book In which he seeks to prove that
the government monopoly and tlie cloa
Ing of saloons on Sunday have led to
a great diminution of the evil of lu
tein Derance.
This is wliat Polly heard in a street
car the other evening, and I was not
playing the eaveHdropper, either. Two
men varying in their opinion in regard
to the strike were giving vent to their
feelings in the matter without appar
ently any thought that there were
other passengers in the car. “You are
all wrong, John, I tell you,” said a
stalwart man. “If strikers don’t want
to work, that, is their lookout. They
shouldn’t i>e forced to work, and no
one wants to force them to do anything
of the kind. But I do claim that they
shall not act the ‘dog in the manger,’
and because they will not work prevent
others from doing so by force and bru
tality that passes all understanding in
this age of law and Justice. 1 got a
place for a seventeen-year-old boy who
wished to aid in helping his widowed
mother and several smaller children.
The first week he worked the strikers,
who never dare tackle a man or even a
frail ls»y single-handed, six in number
stopped him and tried to prevail upon
him to leave his wagon and team stand
ing where it was. The boy lias been
brought up witli a sense of honor that
would not allow him to treat his em
ployer in tliat manner, and beside that,
money waa a god-send to nis mother
und tlie wee folks at home. He re
fused, until Anally they became exas
perated and pulled him roughly oil’the
wagon. Then a burly brute Jerked his
hand out straight while another demon
struck him on tlie wrist with a piece of
iron, breuking it so badly that it will
be many months before he can use his
hand again. Then the cowardly lot of
wretches lied, leaving him unconscious
on tlie ground. This is only one of
many such incidents, but the papers
published very few of these cowardly
acts, and if they do,‘ they are placed in
some inconspicuous part of tlie paper,
and in the next column will lie articles
trying to mitigate the horrors of these
rapidly increasing deeds of inhumanity.
A third of these outrages are never
printed. On one day a paper printed a
string of about twenty deeds of violence
by tlie strikers, which did not begin to
cover tlie fatalities, anil in the next
column stated that the day was one of
unusual quiet. Heaven help us! There
have been a number of murders, and
there should lie a law enacted holding
the entire organization responsible un
less the perpetrators of these outrages
are given up to be dealt with by the
strong arm of the law. 1 was in sym
pathy with the strikers until I saw the
class of men that compose the dis
affected, who make life one continuous
broil and endanger the lives of bread
winners who must work. I’m done
with them.” There are plenty of good
men who had to walk out. They are
to be pitied. Polly said last week in
regard to “yellow journalism” that it
was a ease of the pot calling the kettle
black. I was mistaken, for there is one
of our leading morning papers that
dares to speak tlie truth on any subject
and comes out openly. Furthermore,
it does not crawfish in the next column
of (lie same paper and try to condone
the offense.
BRIEF REVIEW.
Great Floating Dock.
Down at Sparrow’s point, completed,
all but a few finishing touches, lies the
great steel floating dry dock built by
tlie Maryland Steel Company for the
United States Government, and which
is to be towed to Algiers, La., as soon as
the West India hurricane season has
passed. That will be shortly, and sev
eral powerful ocean-going tugs will con
vey the immense dock to its destina
tion. It is certain that this immense
piece of marine mechanism for lifting
great vessels out of water in order to
clean and repair them is without a su-
perioj in its line, and it is doubtful if it
lias an equal. It can raise a 15,000 ton
battle-ship and leave the floor of the
dock two feet above the water, which is
demanded by the Government for its
work, but with its floor even with the
water line It can lift an 18,000 ton ship.
CHOICE MISCELLANY
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I'annma.
"I made up my mind before I went
:iv. :iy,” said the Cincinnatian who bad
be. u dowu to the Isthmus, “that when
I got to Panama I'd have a genuine
panama hat at any cost. That was the
i>u'y thing 1 eared to buy, and I visited
the store having the largest stock and
took my time about the purchase.
“I planked down $15 for the hat and
was assured by the merchant that it
wan one of the finest ever made. It
was overhauled by a dozen different
people on the steamer, much admired
in New York, and It was rakishly cock
ed on my ear when I arrived borne.
"I hadn't yet reached my house when
I met a Florida friend of mine, and
lifter a little lie said:
'■ 'Been laying yourself on a new
hat, 1 see.’
" 'Yes. How do you like it?’
'“Oil. so so. Buy It In New York?'
“ ‘No. sir. 1 got this right where they
grow—In Panama.'
" ‘I see. I believe they do sell some of
our goods dowu there, but of course
they add 50 per cent to the price.'
“‘What do you mean?’ I asked, as I
felt my lieart tunk ray ribs.
” ‘(Hi, nothing much.’ he replied, with
a laugh, and. running his fingers be
hind the band, he turned up the trade
murk of a Florida straw flat maker.”
Athletic Schoolboys In Later Lite.
A member of tlie Yale class of '54—
famous class, by the way. both phys
ically and intellectually—has compiled
some statistics showing that after the
lapse of almost a half century the sur
vivors number 46.20 per cent of the
whole, while of the twenty-seven stu
dents who took part in the first Yale-
IIarvard boat race 55.55 per cent sur-
vive. a very excellent showing consid
ering that these former athletes must
now average above the psalmist’s three
score and ten But The Sanitarian,
which discusses tills record, will not
admit that it affords Justification of
the training methods of today. It
m,vs that "in tlie earlier days college
athletics hail more bf nature and spon
taneity anil less of science and an Incl-
nli y. There were no hired trainers,
but the boys prepared for their races
In a sensible way and did not faint
in their boat or go to pieces through
nervous strain or curl up and cry hys
terically when beaten.” — Boston Tran
script.
A Community Pbyalclan.
'1 lie Swedisli residents of Ludington,
Midi., have Introduced a custom of
their fatherland namely, the employ
ment of n community physician. A
health association has been orgaulzeil
by tlie heads uf 300 families, each of
whom pays 50 cents a month toward
tlie salary of a physician whose serv
ices are at their command In case of
illness. Many doctors earn no more
than the $1.800 a year paid to the Lud
ington contract physician, but for that
sum l he organization had to be satis
fied witli a recent graduate from a
medical school, and the probability Is
that it will always have to be content
with a comparatively inexperienced
man. The doctor now engaged is sat
isfied, and lie should be. He Is gain
ing experience and lias a comfortable
salary in addition.
C.V.
FINICKY TURKISH LADIES.
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OF CHILDREN.
I’aby Should Be Trratei.
Things to Avoid.
They Are Very Careful About What
They Twke In Their Hands.
How
Our Constantinople correspondent
writes: .It is not generally known that
there exists among Turkish ladles of
high class a kind of caste feeling simi
lar to that prevailing among Hindoos.
It takes the form of a fear of contami
nation from the outer world and Is only
observed, as far as I know, by those
who cannot nfford to keep servants In
sufficient numbers. Before meals ladies
always wash their bands at a tap from
which the water runs into a marble
basin. They will turn on the tap when
they are just going to wash, but when
they have finished they let the water
run till somebody shuts it off, as to do
it themselves would make them un
clean. They cannot open or shut a door,
as the handle would be unclean, so a
slave Is generally kept handy for the
purpose.
One of these fastidious Indies was
talking to a small niece the other day
who had just received a present of a
beautiful doll from 1’arls. The child
presently laid the doll on the Indy's
lap, who was horrified and ordered the
child to take It away. As the little girj
would not move it and no servant was
near, and tlie lady would be defiled by
touching a doll that was brought from
abroad, tlie only thing she could think
<>f was to Jump up and let the doll fall,
which broke to pieces. The same lady
will not open a letter cotnjng by post,
tun a servant opens it and holds it
near her for her to read. If her hand
kerchief fulls to tlie ground, It Is imme
diately destroyed or given away, so
that she should not use It again". This
curious state of exclusiveness or fanati
cism exists, 1 am told, in many of tlie
large harems. Among men it is not
practiced.—London Telegraph.
Beware of trying to take the advice
und adopting the methods of all your
friends who have lately become ma
trons. Inexperienced mothers are apt
to try too many plans, to their child's
detriment.
Ben are of overfeeding the baby and
ruining the digestive organs early In
life by giving them too much work to
do.
Beware of underfeeding the baby by
sticking too closely to a system laid
down in some twok that dictates Just
so much food at so many stated pe
riods of the day. Many children have
grown puny and weak by being ruled
by the method tliat has happened to
prove successful for some other child.
Beware of breaking your promise to
children. They often remember better
than you do. and a breach of faltli Is a
great shock to them.
Beware of violent noises and rough
shakings or tossings in trying to amuse
the baby. They are hurtful to the
child and should be avoided as much as
possi ble.
Beware of putting Infants In a sitting
posture until they are at least 3 months
old, when they will probably sit up of
their own accord. They should be car
ried flat in the arms when very young,
for if the little back Is curved It may
lead to curvature of the spine or weak
chest.
Beware of a rough comb in caring for
the tender scalps. A proper comb for
the baby’s head is oue the teeth of
which are even and regular, with
points not too sharp, but smoothly
rounded. In selecting it. It should be
held up to the light to detect any
roughening or splitting of the teeth at
the sides.
ANIMAL LIFE.
The camphor tree (Cinnamomum cam-
phorn) Is an evergreen, a member of
the laurel family, belonging to the
name genus as the tree whose bark fur
nishes the spice called cinnamon, and
is related to the bay and to the sassa
fras of the United States. Of sym
metrical proportions. It Is one of the no
blest objects In the forests of eastern
subtropical Asia. In its native habitat
It attains gigantic dimensions, notably
in girth of trunk, some specimens
measuring 10 to 15 feet In diameter. It
Is said they have been known to reach
as much as 20 feet, and they may lie 60
to over 100 feet high, and live to a
great age.
As a rule, they rise 20 or 30 feet with
out limbs and tlien branch out in all
directions, becoming a mass of splen
did anil luxuriant foliage.
Their
l ines, broadly lanceolate In form, are
of a I.gilt green color, smooth and shin
ing aliove nnd whitish or glaucous
on tlie undersurface. Small white or
greenish white flowers are borne from
February to April and by October ripen
into liei'iyllkc, one seeded fruits about
three-eighths of an ineli In diameter.—
Good Words.
IMe Camphor Tree.
In Maryland sparrows have been
known to raise six broods in one year.
In England there are seldom more than
i lire® broods.
Ostrich farms are profitable. Birds
are worth $100 apiece, and a good spec
imen yields about $25 worth of feath
ers at a plucking.
Cats evince, r.s is well known, a cu
rious emotional disturbance when in
tlie neighborhood of vnlerlan plant, of
which they are very fond. It apparent
ly produces in them a species of Intoxi
cation.
There are records of elephants that
have lived for 200 years, and an age
ef 150 years is not regalili d as so very
old for an elephant. It takes about a
quarter of a century to get the elephant
to full maturity.
A French anatomist has analyzed tlie
skeletons of 86 chimpanzees, gorillas
ami orang outnngs and asserts that he
Las found in them bone diseases like
filose which aillict mankind and in
about the same proportion.
He Wns Satlufled.
A farmer entered an office in central
New York and sent this message to a
woman in Canada: “Will you be my
wife? Please answer quick by tele
graph.” Although lie waited tlie rest
uf tlie day. lie got no answer, but tlie
next morning lie got a night dispatch,
sent eolleet. tint favorable. The opera
An IntereatlnK Discovery.
tor In expressing ills sympathy said,
A discovery of much interest and Im "Little rough to keep you in suspense
portance has just been made In the so long.”
Paris Garde-Meuble. In a corner of
"Look a-bere, sonny,” the farmer re
the building, which no one has entered marked. "1'11 stand all tlie suspense.
for thirty years, has been found a val Any woman that'll hold back her an
uable collection, formerly belonging to swer nil day to a proposal of marriage.
the old museum of the kings of France. Jest so tliet she kin send it half rate at
Among the relies brought to light are night, is economical enough to mnke
one of the crowns of Charles X. and up after I git her for all the loss of
that used nt tlie funeral of Louis time and Injury to feelin’s I've suffered
XVIII., tlie complete costume of a waitin!”—Exchange.
chevalier, tlie gold cloth robe worn by
Girls With a Twang Are Barred.
When girls are chosen for the new tlie dauphin at tlie last sacrament of
Itlielms. the bureau armchair and the
A Woodertul Cure.
Government telephone service in Lon Tuileries throne of Napoleon I., the
Some charitable women were recent
don the educational examination sinks sedan chair of Marie Antoinette, tlie ly inspecting tlie wards of a Baltimore
into insignificance before the physio cradles of tlie king of Rome and Comte hospital win a they chanced to see a
logical test. No girl will be employed de Chamliourd and a bell of Louis poor fellow, the expression of whose
if she be below 5 feet 2 inches high in XVIII.. along with many other pre face melted their hearts
"My poor man." said one of the wom
her stocking soles. She must possess cious curiosities.—London Post.
en sympathetically, “you seem to suf
good hearing, have no defect of speech,
A Fortune In n Stamp.
for agonies."
and must be tested by viva voco ex
Among tlie stamps recently sold in
"Sure, mum,” lie answered. “I have
amination, in which particular atten- London by Messrs. Puttleli & Simpson
rheumatism."
t ent Ion is “to be paid to articulation, one i'll re specimen was disposed of for the
"Is tin re anything I could do for
pitch of voice and general self-posses tlie high figure of $1.135. which Is you?" asked tlie kind hearted woman.
sion. Any candidate showing any in among the best prices ever realized In
"We-1-1,” slowly muttered the patient,
dication of nervoursness, hysteria, want a public salesroom for any one stamp. “I would like to have my face shaved,
of self-possession or a strongly marked Tills particular gem Is tlie first issue of but 1 haven't the coin.”
The women held a hasty consulta
twang shall be rejected. The majority Rounianla used for the province of
will probabaly pass in self-possession, Moldavia In 1854. blue on blue paper, tion, and oue of them finally drew a
with tlie arms of the province and the crisp $2 bill from her purse. Turning
but dialect is a severe test.
value 81 paras, equal to about 14 cents to tlie patient, she said, “There, take
In our money. In the possession of the tills, and may you soon'get better.”
Russia a Land of Uniforms.
firm which had tlie sale In charge is
Iler wisli was evidently gratified, for
if anything Russia excels even Ger nnother copy of this rare stamp. It Is the next day when she called at the
many in the matter of uniforms, writes In unused condition and Is expected to hospital to see the good effects of a
a correspondent in tlie Chicago Tribune. bring upward of $2.000 when offered shave on the rheumatic patient she was
On the sidewalks of any of the large for sale. Stamps of still greater value told that shortly nfter she had left on
cities, and more especially at railway are believed to be In the hands of the previous day he had shown such
marked improvement tliat he said lie
stations, it is safe to assert that at least Messrs. 1’utticli & Simpson.
was able to get up and hurriedly left
25 per cent of all male adults are in uni
Rifle Shoot Ing In Japan.
form. It is a puzzle to the tourist to Great efforts are being made In Ja the hospital before a barber had been
summoned. It wus evident that tlie $2
identify tlie bearers of such distinctive pan to develop a taste for rille shoot bill had wrought tlie wonder.—Balti
garbs, consequently all of the different ing among tin1 people. Rifle clubs have more Sun.
branches of the (Government service are I eon formed after the European model,
often wrongly interpreted. The gaudy most of them closely resembling those
Icebergs.
The captain of an ocean steamer is
uniform does not always indicate a high existing In Switzerland. A marked Im
official, as an officer of high rank may provement Iti the general shooting Is often warned of the proximity of Ice
already shown. Tlie emperor takes
appear in a plain uniform and one of tlie greatest Interest in the movement bergs by the men in the engine room.
low rank not infrequently parades tlie and subscribes large stuns for prizes. When a ship enters water considerably
colder than that through which It has
streets witli more fuse and feathers than Japan lias introduced tlie bicycle into been going Its propeller runs faster,
Ids commander.
Its army, l.ast year a number of ma and as such water surrounds the vi
chines were purchased in Belgium, and cinity of Icebergs for many miles the
Over 2000 sailor men and marines of on these Japanese soldiers have been engineers know when the propeller’s
tlie United States Navy have Joined exercised In orderly and reconnoiter nctlon Is greatly accelerated without
any increase of the steam power Ice
tlie temperance league of the Naval ing duties.
bergs may be exjiected. Of course the
Young Men’s Christian Association.
The Rill He Had.
thermometer Is the most useful indi
Borroughs You haven’t got a five cator
of Icebergs.
In New Yorks’ zoo at Bronx Park dollar bill about you. have you?
tlie flying cage for birds is as high as an Jenkins— Yes.
Two (alninltoas Fires.
office building and covers an acre of Borroughs Let me have It, will you?
The two most calamitous tires ever
Jenkins
It
would
only
put
you
in
ground.
debt. It reads. "To A. Taylor, Dr., one known anywhere In the world occurred
In many of the perfume factories of pnlr trot'«'-«. v.”—Philadelphia Rec In the United States within 13 months
of each other. In the first of those. In
South Europe only the purest of olive ard.
Chicago, on (let. 8. 1871. the property
oil is used in fixing tlie perfumes of the
loss was $206.060,000, and In the sec
Folding Line i In Holland.
flowers.
Folding linen Is an accomplishment ond. In Boston. Nov. 0, 1872. $80.000.000
of property was consumed. In Chicago
On level pavements pull of33 pounds In which < aeli one of the women in 100,000 persons were left without homes i
Holland
Is
expecteil
to
be
proficient
will draw a ton, on mecadam it takes
and 200 were killed. Chicago's beads,
46 jMiunds and on rough gravel 147 lieforc she becomes mistress of a borne. the list of the world's destructive con- i
In
Holland
especially
tlie
folding
of
pounds.
flagrat ions.
linen requires considerable skill mid
training.
Much
of
their
fabric
Is
of
Steam motor wagons have now com
A Maluprop.
menced to run regularly between Lon the flne-t texture and quality, and they
Miss Windstraw — What a wheezy |
fnlilon
the
vnrlous
pieces
In
Irouing
don and Tumbridge Wells.
Into birds, animals, flowers anil nil pinched little thing that baby of Mr*.
manner
of artistic shapes. Their I nen Puffprond's I*, to be sure!
Publication of New York city’s salary
Mrs. Blazer (contemptuously)—Yes
list showed that salaries had increased closets are often shown to visitor.', with and to bear her talk you’d thing she
the same pi ide Hint china closets are
$500,000 in the first half of 1901.
bad a progeny.—Lealle'a Weekly.
shown elsewhere.
Tlie Inquisitive Antelope.
An a in lope Is us curious as a wom
an. If the hunter will lie down In the
grass and wave a red handkerchief, a
band of antelope will keep circling
around until within reasonable distance
for n sale shot. After completing a
circle the antelope halt suddenly and
bring down one fore foot with a vigor
ous stamp cii the ground, and at the
same I::. t:mt they make a sort of snort
that sound* like a half whistle. That
Is tlie propitious moment for peppering
them with rifle balls.
I learned this trick when il frontiers
man came along and found me crawl
ing for miles on the level prairie en
deavoring to get a shot at one of the
timid creatures. The man asked me If
1 thought 1 could get him. I answered:
"Get him! I've got to get him. I'm
out of meat.” He then posted me
about lying still nnd flirting with the
handkerchief, and 1 found they liked
that better than chasing, n.id I made
an entry right there that an antelope
possessed some of the characteristics
of a woman.—Exchange.
MnnqnrrullnK In the Past.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries V< nice set the fashion In all
matters of amusement and was a sort
of combination of our Monte Carlo and
Paris. Throughout the eighteenth cen
tury tlie Venetians were seized with a
perfect mania for masquerading and
gambling. Purls anil London followed
suit, and tlie two most populnr amuse
moots, both public and private, were
ir.asquerades and gambling saloons.
People not only wore their masks or
visors at balls, but In the Mall nnd the
parks and the theaters. At length
matters got to sue1' a pass that when
a police raid was made on a certain
low dancing place lu Soho and an
order was given for every one to un
mask what was the amazement of tlie
polin' to find tliat at least a third of
the company consisted of ladles and
gentlemen of the highest aristocracy,
some of whom hail even brought their
daughters.- Saturday Review.
Catchina a Feminine Fish.
“Do you really think there are nier
maids In the sea?”
"Certainly.” snid the dime museum
man.
“Then why hasn't anybody beside«
you succeeded In catching oue?”
“Because nobody else was sninri
enough to bait a hook with the latest
style of Paris lint." was the auswer.-
Washlngton Star.
A Chinese Trick of War.
A curious artifice of war was adopt
ed by a Chinese Junk when attacked by
a man-of-war. The crew threw cocoa
nuts overlioard into the sen nnd then
Jumped In among them. Nearly all
escaped, for it was Impossible to tell
which were heads nnd which were
nuts.
Coffee Drinking Denounced.
As early us 1663 coffee was satirized
In England, aud on every band the bit
terest invectives were applied to It by
tlie press and pulpit. In one Instance a
preacher hurled anathemas at the
heads of those who used a* n beverage
"a sirup of soot aud essence of old
shoes!” Probably he bad good grounds
for this statement, having sampled
some Iraileil coffee. Another divine de
nominated It “a (raison which God
made black that It might bear the dev
il’s color!” The women also took up
the cudgels against IL
LINES OF THE FACE.
THEIR RELATION TO THE BEARD ANO
THE MUSTACHE.
A Knowledge at Drawing oa the
Part of M m , Bay* ■ Woman Artist,
Would Have the Effect of H.li.nc-
Ian Masculine Good Look*.
"A knowledge of drawing on the
part of men would have the effect of
Increasing their good looks," said a
lady teacher of that art recently, "and
It would make presentable many a
man whose appearance is not calculat
ed to excite admiration. It sounds an
odd combination, drawing and beauty,
does it not? Nevertheless it is a fact.”
To the natural request fur an expla
nation she replied:
"The first principles of drawing are
geometrical lines und curves. These
lines and curves occur in everything.
A potter In criticising an ugly shaped
Jug will most probably tell you that its
'lines’ are bad. Most of those who dab
ble in drawing and gain certificates
merely learn to make these lines and
curves without acquiring the slightest
knowledge of their effect.
“Here is an example. Just take this
pencil and draw a face. Oh, anything
will do! But be sure to make two
straight lines over the eyes for eye
brows. That’s It. See how serious that
expression is?
"Now rub out those straight lines and
In their places make two curves with
the ends upward. That face has an ex
pression of Intense surprise, hasn’t It?
If you had made curved eyebrows with
the ends down In tlie first instance, the
difference between the two would have
been more striking.
“Well, the human face has Its ‘lines,’
and by studying them our men could
Improve tbeir appearance. The most
elementary expedient Is to adapt the
mustache and beard to the lines of the
face, and 1 must here tell you tliat
‘lines’ In technical language iuelude
both straights and curves. Such an ex
pedient Is within tlie reach of all, and
there Is no need for me to remind you
tliat the whiskers make a tremendous
difference In a man’s appearance.
“Take a man witli an aquiline nose,
clear cut features and broad brow,
then Imagine this Individual with a
long, drooping mustache; why. it accen
tuates the whole ‘droop’ of the face
and spoils It. Such a man should have
a small (minted beard and a mustache
with ends pointing slightly upward.
"The exact opposite is also frequently
met with. A man with features that
have a distinct upward tendency will
wear a mustache with ends that are
turned up and so long that they seem
to be thinking of Joining the eyebrows.
Men with mustaches that display an
inclination to grow long ends think that
these ends should be permitted to grow
anil that they must be trained upward.
That strikes them as the only proper
way. But to suit the lines of the face
those ends should iu many eases be
cut off. and in others they ought to be
trained downward.
“Whiskers, again, are allowed to
grow whether they suit the face or not.
Often a fine, vigorous, manly face is
contradicted by an insipid little mus
tache worn over a firm, clear cut
mouth, the expression of which It does
much to alter. It Is quite a pity to see
such fine lines spoilt In that way. The
wearer cultivates the hirsute append
age merely because it is the fashion for
men to have a muBtache. You talk
about women being slaves to Dame
Fashion, but in the matter of your
whiskers you men are worse slaves
than we are to dress!
“Now don't run away with the uotlon
that I advocate general shaving. Some
men who are clean shaved ought not to
be. The lines of their faces simply de
mand that of which they are depriving
their countenance every morning. It
requires a strong, very intellectual face
to do without beard or mustache. The
latter Is an absolute necessity for bid
ing the bad lines of some mouths that
would if left totally uncovered spoil the
whole face.
"Women as a rule are more careful of
their lines and choose hats and other
things to match. Men also study their
dress more than the hair on their faces,
but a knowledge of drawing would cor
rect many mistakes In hats, collars and
other masculine accessories.
"In the matter of color we rather
pas3 from the domain of drawing and
mere ‘lines' and tresonss Into the realm
of painting, but I cannot resist saying
that both men and women, especially
the former, would be nil the better
looking If they knew more nbout the
blending of colors, because they would
not then choose hues which do not har
monize with tbeir complexions. 1 have
known a man with red hair to wear a
red tie because red ties were fasblona-
able!
"We are all going In for art and the
beautiful nowadays, and you men are
not handsouie as a body. You could
make yourselves more handsome by at
tending to such easily managed details
as I have (minted out See that your
sons learn di n wing.”—Pearson's Week
ly.
________
Applied Christianity.
Tommy had been quiet for fully five
minutes. He seemed to be engaged
with some deep problem.
“Papa,” he said.
"Well?*’
“ ‘Do unto others as you would have
others do unto you’—that’s the golden
rule. Isn’t it. papa?”
"Yes, my son.”
"And It’s puffickly right to follow the
golden rule. Isn't IL papa?”
"Yes, Indeed."
Tommy rose, went to the cupboard
and returned with a knife and a large
apple pie. The latter he placed before
bls astonished sire with great solem
nity.
“Eat It. papa!” he said.-San Fran
cisco Bulletin.
How to Remove Paint Odor.
To take away the smell from a room
that has been newly painted slice up
three or four on'ons into a dish and let
It stand overnight in the room, with
tlie doors aud windows closed. Next
morning the odor will have disappear
ed.
How to Make Chiekrn Potpie.
Boll two large chickens, jointed, till
tender, season with salt and pepper.
Twenty-five minutes before taking off
add biscuit made of one quart of flour,
two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar,
one teaspoonful of soda and a little salt