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WOMAN AND FASHION Tnekecl Shlrf IVnUt. Very many of the newest shirt waists are made with a vest, like the one here pictured, so that two materials may be coniMiu.il. I his waist is made without a Mains and Includes a plain black with a tucked front. There is fullness at the waist line only, which is drawn down trimly at the back and Is ieft to blouse at tha front. The vest is nr tUU WAIST WITH VKST. ranged under the fro- t and fastens on the left side. The collar is a plain stock that matches the vest aud fas tens at the back. The sleeves are plain. with a simple cuff linlsh. and may fas ten with buttons and buttonholes or links. The waist here shown is in one of the new shirtings. Lightweight sum aier flannels, silk and cotton fabrics will make up prettily after this ict tern. In Iltiytti:- Glove. There are more important considera tions than their color and the number of the buttons. 1 Slack gloves are gen erally less elastic than white or colored ones, aud cheap grades are dear at anf price. Dressed kid usually retains its freshness longer and is more durable than suede. The best and most serv iceable kid is soft, yielding and elastic. A glove so small that it cramps the hand and prevent grace of motion gives poor service short lingered gloves are ugly and certain to break soon between the lingers, if not at the tips. The way in which a irlovo is tlrt arawn on and shap.-d toalie hand has much to do with lth itXbeauty and - uurainnty. Powder I'aprr. An ingenious and convenient substi tute for the ordinary complexion pow der is simply a dainty booklet to be carried in one's chatt lalne and to be used wheu occasion rail, ami then with rapidity and without courting no tice. Are you at all eoaseions thai ynn. wmmmmmimmmmmmllinl your face is far from clear and drv. then all that Is necessary to eflcet the requisite im provement is to tear h leaf from this little volume, pa it over the cheeks and brow and consign it to the four winds. No puff, no pad, is needed. The whole operation is quietly ami uuScfclv uer formed. Conrornlns; Collar. Lace stock collars w ith ends to match or with lace lo- an worn on nil kinds of wants, whether they match the skirts or are quite separate. The yoke and collar in one. a chemi sette, in fad. of lace or lingerie and lace or embroider", is very attractive and is intended to wear with -all sorts of summer gowns. Again the' fashion prevails of the transparent collar and yoke. Then there are cuffs to match for those who do not care for elbow sleeves, and 3 inon charming and be coming effect Is given to the plainest of waists bythis dainty finish. For 11 Small :lrl. Many are the little dresses needed by the child in its continuous round of i.ui:- during the summer weather. Mother wetcomc mot ..irdially those frocks that are simple in design, easy GIKL'S FROCK. of construction and that give comfort and freedom to the child. Such is the one Illustrated here. A round neck and short puff sleeves add to the nlr of summer time comfort. The little dress can be made of any of the pretty wash goods, from gingham to dimity or Persian lawn. Twin l-'nrth(mtken. Earthquakes which consist of two shocks separated by a brief interval of quiet or of two maxima of intensity are known as twin earthquakes, in Great Britain one in about every twen ty earthquakes is a twin, and the stron gest shocks experienced In that coun try belong to this variety. It Is be lieved that twin earthquakes are due to impulses arising from two clenched foci, separated in different cases from four to more than twenty miles, but lying along the same fault In the earth's crust. t "BOY" n n 4" ft A A A A TV CHAPTER I. A LL the way from '52 to 'CO "the plaius" were scattered with eini- grants people going from what they knew to what they did not know. Between these points stretched a line strung with adventure with suffering by drought, starvation, the hot and cold of climate aud the poison tipped arrow; with smiles and tears ana tnrobs 01 tear and hope. As if one . 1 might make a bouquet of such tilings, here a purple greed of gold, and here a crimson joy, and yet again a pas sion posy, pied and specked, and changing o'er with color, the whole re membered today like a clot of experi ence lying upon the breast of memory. An emigrant ox train of '5S, then, gee. Buck, and haw. Barley! Tramp ing feet and creaking yokes qnd groan ing wheels; drivers with faces set to the west; a laughing child, climbing in and out' of wagons; unbounded women knitting or sewing or idling the time away; the captain, riding up and down, like a king pacing his domin ions, ilow. blithe, how gav, such a life! "Senor, take the Beale and Whipple route. New, route, se-ior. No cattle yet travel this way and eat all the grass." urged the eonrnandante at Al buquerque, his heart s-et on having as many traveb.il roads as possible lead ing from the citv. "No lighting In dians, capita'u. Navajo ver good Just now. and no Apache at all." "What do' yon say. Boy;" laughed Captain Robinson, bestowing a fond glance ou the bare legged, crop haired girl at his side. Her lace had the shifting lire of opals gleaming in lips and cheeks aud eyes- just a little four teen-year-old. raised on the hog and :orn of the Iowa rive- bottoms. hatever you sa. paw," she an swered, her teeth tla-diiug white be tween the parted lips "I'll go with you. no matter which way you take, you know." Ah. will you:" laugh, d the captain, pinching her ear. When r.e rode out of town to I he camp her two bare feet were in the stirrup he hat: given up to her and her hands clasp. I his arm. Sometimes she rode behind him. and often half upon the neck of the roan horse. Lucy, who was well accustomed to wild iiK-ui-ts. On the outskirts of the town they galloped into "t'amp Comfort." as they had called it all along the way. Vari ous conveniences, such as camp-? did not" usually boast, were scattered round- an old fashioned rocking chair, with arms, stood by a cast iron stove; 1 young woman Just budding into co quetry knitted a bit of bright worsted, with one fool displayed on a flowered footstool; the smallest child, in antici pation of .n-iit tQ rune, tiirted about in a pair of idealized moccasins. They had seen no Indians yet. and the real moccasin was a thing of the pal pitating future. The white hooded wagons, tongues inward, were drawn about the center in a circle, aud a restless, low and long drawn, composite bellow, which was suggestive of great things in hoofs and horns, drifted in from an elusive point of compass from overhead or underneath, as far as the unaccustom ed listener could judge. The captain adjusted his ear critical ly to the sound. "All's well with the cattle." he thought. "My fortune will be banked c'-r laid out In leagues of land by another year. Five hundred head of blooded cattle, and in Califor nia nothing lut miserable, big horned, wild things that roam the valleys and mesas: I shall quadruple my money 1" Boy sprang to the ground as lightly as a rubber ball. and. dropping the reins on old Luey neck, the captain outing down 'from the saddle. "Father." reprcr-d his wife, "don't you see we have visitors? As near as I can make out they are the wife and daughter of that Mexican who was out here yesterday trying to make terms as guide." Two Mexican women sat smilingly by the camp stove. t'ie one yellowing into a withe "ed middle age, the other with a rich adolescence creaming her cheeks. "Senor capitau," eacli murmured as the captain took their hands. The stains of their corn husk cigarritos frankly clung to their soft fingers, but to Iowa people they were "foreigners," and amiable allowances must be made. Boy looked curiously at the two wom en, her long,- bare legs giving her the appearance of a turkey hen, and they returned smljes as soft and meaning less as cotton batting. "Shake hands, Boy," said her father. "Muchacho?" repeated the elder woman inquiringly. "Ah, muehacha. si. si:" she corrected, in a puzzled tone. "How old?" "I'm fourtijen," said Boy, with cam araderie in the bend of her cropped head and the pressure of her weather beaten hand.- "Oh: Thi one fourteen, tool" re turned the older woman in surprise." "This one married one year; at home, one little-little" Then, hesitating, with a quick movement she rolled up the reboso off her head and placed it in the other's yielding arms. "A baby!" exclaimed the astonished group that h:d formed about them, and the young mother looked up and nod ded and smiled. The elder laid her hand on Boy's shoulder. "In MeJIco, this one senorita; next monf senora too." Somehow Boy wished she could cover herself with calico from crown to sole, ttad she pulled at her skirts as if to lengthen them indefinitely. "Scvadra aiiucha bueno," continued the politic Mexican woman, patting Boy's mortified aud shrinking shoulder iipn:i. "Hanged l she ain't out here can lltlilHlU IP. (till 1 uui iivi v .tw j ass:ug for scvadra!" said the captain. I s ::d he burst out laughing and turned ! on his heel i Nete.-tl.elcss. when, a week later, the j cavalcade took up Its march. Scvadra. I tvlil. :.leri eve and frintres on his S ------ - C7 mule stirrups, rode at the head. v3 4 By JULIA B. FOSTER. tT AA CvptiriohK 90i. by Julia 1). Fomtr XT n "its the intlueuce ot them women, father." accused .Mrs. Robinson. "You'd never hired that guide If it hadn't been for them. I've thought that ever since J they was here that day, lookin' at you so cute." "Well, they did 'lectioneer some, didn't they, mother?" admitted the captain. "But I'd never taken him if he hadn't been otherwise recommend ed. Why, he went over this rond with Beale and Whipple when thwr survey ' ed it." And, straddling the saddle, ho rode off down the trail. Away behind a cloud of dust kept him in touch wtith his drove of cattle, and now he gallop ed off more for the sake of "being a-do- Ing" than from necessity. His heart swelled with pride at his plethoric wagons, at his well conditioned ox teams, at Boy, just now running along side Buck and Barley and guiding them with a stick laid over their yokes; at Tige, the faithful dog who lay every night on watch at his wagon tongue; at the big cloud of dust, be tokening the size or his herd. That day the Robinson train began to string adventure upon the line that stretched from the Iowa bottoms to the Rio Colorado. Hitherto the road had led through comparative civilization, but now all was uncertainty. The first indication of the change was the chancier of the soil and the tendency of vegetation to ward tlwarf growth. These grew more noticeable day by day. Ihcn came real camp fare, though the herd kept them supplied with milk, and fresh, sweet butter, churned Itself I y the mo tion of travel. Days and days the oxen slowly tramped and turned their cutis, and the sun grew hotter aud hot ter and the desert nearer. Whatever there was of Irritability in individual temper no began to show itself. Two of the men quarreled; another shoul dered his pack and set off alone; the captain swore once, he who had never bet ore used an oath, lhe crove grew .... 0 . uneasy, with wayward htifers and straying steers, and there was trouble about the night watch. One day Boy found a tarantula, a great swelled, poisonous creature, which ran after her on the tips of his hairy toes. All these were signs of what should come. Then Zuni and the Navajo country. Still in Its large provision a: d equip ment the train was aristocrat y a-trav-el. How kind the Zuni, how wary and taciturn the Navajo! Also wl ite wom en were scarce, very scarce, and one day as they stopped at the Z ;ni pueb lo for a ten days' rest anil recupera tion a young American trader came down to the camp. Robinson s eldest da tighter, Adelaide, brought out the dowered footstool, and in spirit he knell upon It with his hand upon his heart. Who could blame him, young and lonely as he was? Yet how ocltlsh and thoughtless is youth that, for the sake of its own yearning, it could biud a woman down to life like that as if with thongs. The captain swore again, and the blond trader sighed and took the hint, yet gave a lingering, back ward glance as he retired. Adelaide threw her worsted over her hook and made another loop in her crochet. The child who wore moccasins ahead of time got cactus thorns in her feet and cried for shoes. Every heart In some unexplained way began to look back to Iowa and to love the old friends and neighbors left there. "Hoops were just coming In, and I never had a set," said Adelaide regret fully. It was like the children In the wilderness remembering Egyptian deshpots. One morning at breakfast of slap jacks and baconthey were in the des ert now Boy listened to the conver sation with attentiou. "I'aw, what Is a comet?" she asked, afterward striving to keep step with his strides. "Watch tonight, and it's that thing you'll see in the sky," he answered. So she lay awake and saw a strange pres ence. It was round, like a face, with ilery hair strained off Its cheeks and forehead and streaming away across the heavens. "Adelaide, are you afraid?" she whis pered, her nose just above the covers. "Well, a little. They say It means things." "Means what?" "Some say trouble; some say the end of the world." "I ain't afraid of It; paw and maw'll take tare of us," returned Boy boldly. Thus do fathers and mothers seem to children to stand between them and even the end of the world. What a pedestal of confidence for a human be ing to occupy! Yet, In spite of her boldness, Avheu night came again Boy shuddered. TO UK ('ONTIMJKI).J MOViNG ON FRIDAY. There Si'i'iiiN In lie n Lot of SiiperMi t to ti liout It. "Friday is a kind of holiday in out business," saiil the professional mover. "There is a big lot of superstition in this matter, and. except in cases of actual necessity, it is hard to get any body to move on Friday. If a few families that intend to change quar ters soon could only be induced to put aside their foolish prejudice againM the sixth day of the week they could be set up in "their new home with half the trouble and inconvenience they will experience on any other day. I have explained that to many prospective customers, but the chances are that most of them will vote to join lhe rush rather than tempt bad luck by moving on Friday. Iot of our movers dislike Friday as much as the customers. Whatever jobs are assigned to them they attend to. of course, but every last man in our employ will be glad if not a sin 1 S,L' ,-,l,r U!ls l'okl for Friday. They c,a,, thul every sniashup they figure j m eV0I'y "ccldent to the furniture tf?IIsh ,oss or breakage, occurs on a I'day so for their own sake they up- 1,01,1 ,1h 'tomors in their fight against Friday." New York Press. 4.4. f new short stories An Unit tin hed Hero. Colonel Henry Wattersou tells with gusto of the eccentricities of a quaint character In Frankfort, Ky., named Ezekiel Hopkins. Zeke once gained the admiration of his fellow townsmen by saving the lives of ninny excursionists on a train coining into Frankfort. There had been a washout, resulting in a spread ing of the rails. Zeke, discovering the danger, tlagged the train in time to prevent a disaster. Some weeks thereafter a committee of Frankfort citizens called upon Zeke for the purpose of presenting to him ns a testimonial of regard and esteem a 111 zi:ici: nxAMiNKD the watch. gold watch that had been purchased by the contributions of the townspeople. i'he head of the committee, with a grave bow, approached Zeke and said: "Mr. Hopkins, it is the desire of the good people of Frankfort that you shall, in recognition of your vai r and merit, be presented with this v.atch, which, they trust, will ever remind you of their undying friendship." Without the least eaiotiou Zeke !illte,l frmil llic lllnnlll n l.i?nr ctnviin ,,r .,,, ,, , . v , . of tobacco Juice, took the watch from its handsome case, turned it over and over in his wrinkled ban 1 ami finally asked with the utmost naivete: "Where's the chain?" Weather I)eliiv u Wold 1 11 nr. Representative Livings! jii of Geor gia arrived in Washington the other day. bringing with him a typical story of the south. "A friend of mine down in one of the small college towns of Ceorgia." said Mr. Livingston, "has many pro teges among the people in the moun tain country near. Several years ago there was a long dry spell in Georgia. At about the beginning of it the wife of one of the mountaineers died. The disconsolate husband followed her Jo the grave and was the last to leave the burying ground. Ills footprints re gained, large and distinct in the clay beside the grave. Six weeks afterward my friend drove out to see how the widower was doing. He was found hitting In the door of his cabin, star ing hopelessly at the cloudless sky. ' "El" hit would only turn in an rain, he said, I wouldn't ask nothin' of no body.' " "The dry weather Is bail for the crops, the visitor remarktil. " ' 'Tain't crops.' said the widower. 'Hit's Miss Seliny Johnson. She swears she won't marry me till it rains." ' 'Why not?' the visitor asked. " 'She 'lows hit wouldit be showlu' proper respect for my first wife to marry before my tracks In the grave yard is washed out. I shore do wish hit would turn in an' rain. I been courtln' her six weeks. Good Lord, a man kain't wait on the weather forever!' " - Brooklyn Eagle. An Kocentrlc Verdict. A most unusual verdict was rendered In a murder case In which the late E. J. I'helps, formerly m. ulster to the court of St. James, was Interested. A small farmer In the western part of ahead of them by picking the flow New York state was the defendant. t''" before the winged pests get a charged with accidentally killing his wife. He had been able to get a jury com posed entirely of married men, and he then testified that the deceased, who was n habitual drunkard, had used the must Insulting language at the time of the fatal occurrence. Tills appeal came so completely home to the business and the bosoms of his auditors that It only took the Jury a few minutes to reach a verdict, and when the foreman an nounced It he said with great energy: "Please, your honor, our verdict Is, Served her right.' "New York Her ald. JfewH From Venice. George .Ado recently heard that an old lady from the neighborhood down In Indiana where he was born was in town on a visit to a granddaughter. Mr. Ado thought that theater tickets would be a fitting attention, and on consuuing uer us iu tier cuoicu 01 mhjs i ...... itfi.i !.. ' Mie I'AiMuiuvu uiiu nut; iiiui aci-ii tut: "Merchant loi of Venice" over thirty years ago and had always had a strong desire to witness It again. He ac cordingly looked to It that her wish was gratified. Calling the next day, he asked her how she thought the performance com pared with the one of long ago. "Well," she replied, "Venice seems to have spruced up a rl'ht smnrt bit, but that Shylock La the same mean, grasping critter that he used to be." Harper's Weekly. ForRlvIncr. Constance was three, ner mother, having forgotten to do something for her which she had promised, said: "Oh. darling. I forgot it! Wasn't It naughty of me?" Constance replied consolingly. "Oh, no, mother, dear; not naughty, only stupidT Lucky. Stubb No. I can't get along with my wife. To everything I say she retorts "I beg to differ with you!" Penn You are lucky, old man. My wife Just dif fers without taking time to beg. CHOICE MISCELLANY Koiitniice of n Hnnk Xotc. A man who walked into the Bank of England the other day and laid a ten pound note on the counter was surpris ed to hear the clerk say: "We can't cash this. The note was stopped twenty-three years ago " Over twenty years back the note was stopped by a clerk then in the employ of one of the provincial branches of the London and ( utility bank. It had been brought in by au employee of one of the bank's clients in order to be paid into the client's account with some loose ( '-.ange. By a strange oversight the clerk, aft er Jotting down the number of the note and after counting the change, omitted to take the bank note. When he dis covered his error, note and messenger had disappeared. Neither was seen again. The clerk took counsel with a col league at the counter, and for the sake of their own prospects the two young men determined to say nothing about t rtV.f-. 1 .... 1 me juiair, nut 10 near tue loss them selves. Each paid ." to make good the loss and stopped the number. The man who presented the note for payment the othei day had found it among the papers of his father, who re cently died. The two clerks nstrumental In stop ping the note were traced, and, though both had left tin- employ of the Lon don and County bank long ago. each has received back his ."i after the lapse of twenty-three years. London Mail. Street Ice Cream. Typhoid fever has been traced to va rious causes, and for lung Ice cream has been regarded as a means of conveying this tlisease. In the Lancet some time ago an account was given by Ir. W. G. Barras of an alarming outbreak of en teric fever which occurred in Septem ber last at Govan. Scotland, and which was clearly traced to infected ice cream. It has been conclusively p lin ed that the tlisease may be spread by the use of ice and ice cream by the fact that its micro-organism has been culti vated after having been frozen in ice for a very considerable period. There are so many agencies by which typhoid fever may be spread that it behooves the health departments of cities to keep a watchful eye on ail suspected sources of infection and means of dis semination. The ice cream sen ton is fast approaching, ami it would be well to exercise vigilance over the iiiethols employed in its manufacture bv the lorde of peripatetic venders of this popular summer delicacy in New York. Medical Record. IIoiiurUoiiKT Klr.st. The importance of the far cast in the commerce of the world at the present time is strikingly illustrated by this statement, made by the bureau of sta tistics; The port at which in l!u; was the largest vessel tonnage movement was Iongkong. The total amount of the tonnage of the vessels entering and clearing from it was about !!(.( (OO.OOO. or. If Chinese junks engaged In the for eign tratle be Included, more than 21,- 000.000. London is second, with 10,- OOo.uoi). followed closely by Antwerp. ine tonnage or .New York In V.HH was S.OOO.ooo. Hongkong, It may be re- meiiibenil. is a free port at which many vessels engaged In the Chinese, Japa nese and Australasian tratle call. Lon don would head the list but for the fact that often its vessels take part of their cargo from another British port. as Cardiff, and receive their foreign clearance at It. IIccn l'olftou Some Flowera. At the Kennebec conservatory a gen tleman was looking over the show of plants and dowers when he asked Sti- perintendent OI111 If he ever had trou ble with bees in his glass houses. "Yes." replied Mr. Olm. "In the early spring and through the spring months I have a great deal of bother with bees. They dodge into one dow er, then Into another. In which by sprinkling the pollen of the lirst dower they destroy the second." For example, a pink bloom into which a pollen covered bee had down would close over night, and the only remedy, ns Mr. Olm remarked, was to keep a sharp lookout for the bees and chance nt them. Lewiston Journal. Gothlu Type to IHame. According to the Berliner Tageblatt, the shortsightedness of recruits Is be ginning to cause anxiety to the Ger man war otiice. "Bismarck himself," comments the London Chronicle, "who had to take to glasses long before he was out of otiice, was strongly of this opinion, though, from motives of pa triotism, he would not hear of the abo lition of the gothlc type and Invariably refused the gift of any book printed in roman characters. But the antl gotlilc party Is now gaining ground, and several newspapers and numerous scientific works are printed In roman type, which the emperor himself Is said to favor." A Sivan'n Mourn Iiijc. A swan about which a curious story 1 Is told In Cumberland has just return- , , u . - r . cd for Its summer visit to Moorhouse tarn. Originally tle sw an took up his abode on the lakelet In company with his mate, but their nest was robbed, and the female bird died, apparently iro ken hearted. The bereaved consort cov ered the body with leaves and reeds ami departed. Every spring since he has regularly returned to the grave, alwnj-s alone, and, with the water hens for company, swims disconsolately about the tarn throughout the summer. London Ex press. It's DifTercnt When If Your Own. "Young Dr. Keelhyme always Im pressed me as having nerves of iron. Judging by the cool way he perforins the most serious operations." remark ed his friend, "but yesterday when I met him in consultation he was the most excited and rattled man I have seen in a long while." "It must have been a most unusual aud extraordinary case." "No; one of the doctor's own children had a mild attack of measles." New York Times. HUMOR OF THE HOUR Ttto Dcnnltloim. vuat is a Dacnelor, pa?" asked the Inquisitive small boy. "A bachelor, my son," replied the parent, "Is a man who has resisted all endeavors on the part of woman to ren der his life miserable through mar rlage." "Aud what is a bachelor girl, then, pa? It says something In this news paper about bachelor girls." bachelor girl, my child." answered 'eight boy's mother, looking up u.e loon she was reading. "Is a h) has resisted all endavors on ; t of man to render her life mis through marriage." The small boy looked puzzled, and well he might.-Modern Society Some "VInli It nid. A little four-year-old was watelilng his mother as she climbed on a cluir to wind the big. old fashioned clock. It had stopped, and as she kept on Tim ing the key the boy grew very serious, as If a great thought had struck him. Presently he asked: "Mamma, when the clock stops does time stop too?"-LIppIncott's Maga zine. Took It an I'cmonal. Daisy Why was Maude Oldgirl so angry ubout her photographs? Didn't they flatter her? Maisle Oh, they were as pretty as the artist could make them, but on the back of each one it said, "The original of this picture Is carefully preserved." Cleveland Leader. Mix Little Joke. Mr. Peck (reading) Miss Strongmind has decided not to wear dresses any longer. Mrs. Peck--My goodness! What Is she going to wear? Mr. Peck Dresses; but she says they are long enough now. Chicago News. She OiiRht to Know. "Good evening, Bud. Is your sls in?" "No, Mr. Dennis. She Is not at home." "You are mistaken. My name isn't Dennis." "Sister said It was." Houston Post. She Hnd Dusted. Mrs. Tldlnlce Wonder if Jane dusted the rooms downstairs this morning? Mr. Tidinice Guess j-ou wouldn't ask if you had been downstairs. Why, you can't see across the dining room for dust. Boston Transcript. A Prophecy. Percy But if you quarrel with me about nothing before we are married, what may I expect afterward? Corlnne From what I hear few wives ever have to quarrel about noth ing. Comparison. "Mr. Bllgglns Insists on telling all the bright things his children say." "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne, "and even at that he is more entertaining than when he tries to be original." Washington Star. Explained. "I think." said the reporter. i"that the public would like to know how you managed to live to such a great age." "By perseverance," replied the cen tenarian. "I jest kept on livln'." Phil adelphia Press. Accounted For. "Life Is getting to be an awful bur den," said the man with the crimson beak. "No wonder," rejoined his good wife. "You are nearly always loaded." De troit Tribune. Anked and Answered. "Pa," said little Willie, who had been reading a treatise ou phrenology, "what Is n bump of destructiveness?" "Why er a railroad collision, I sup pose." Philadelphia Ledger. An Anticipation. Now comes the tlmo when linen sulta The populace will don. And truly, new. they will be "beauU" And comforts every one! But thn the laundryman will get HIa (Tip upon the prize And soon convert the father's pet To little Willie's size! New Orleans Times-Democrat Unsentimental. Miss Fluffy-What do you think Is the most Important part of a woman's dress? Married Man-The cost.-Detroit I ree Press. Not Unique. He Crowded, were you? I thought you went early to avoid the rush? She So I did, but about 5.000 other people did the same thing. Town and Count rv Iceland Mall. When the wind blows from the south and one of the Islanders of south Ice land wishes to communicate with the mainland he puts his letters into a well corked bottle, and to insure their de livery he incloses nt the same time a plug of twist tobacco or a cigar. The wind speedily Impels the bottle to the shore of the mother Island, where peo ple are generally on the lookout. Avoid multiplicity of business. The man of one thing Is the man of suc cess. Edwards. p FACTS IN FEW LINES Sweden's biggest export Is timber, lhe sells ?2".000,J00 worth a year. When reconstructed the Erie canal tvill be four times as long as the Suez i-anal. San Francisco's fire chiefs now use three automobiles when answering alarms. A statue of General Lew Wallace Is to be placed in the national gallery of statues by the state of Indiana. The municipality of Amsterdam plnns the erection of an anatomical. labora tory on the most improved style. King Kdward has given the head of his famous horse. Ambush IL, to the Natural History museum of London. The rate at which the Zulus can ran in an emergency Is astonishing. Some will cover as much as fifty miles In sir hours. Fight miles an hour Is common. Fra lice's wine harvest In 1004 was LT-l.t.n.'P.Jjr.o gallons. A mathematician las estimated that this Is the equiva ent of a canal of wine 10 feet deep. 100 feet wide and -14 miles long. Twenty years ago Watertown, Conn., was known widely because of the splen did cattle raised within its limits, but now few farmers raise cattle, aud the quality is not up to the old standards. Japan remembers Its friends even in wartime. On the occasion of his sev entieth birthday Professor .7. J. ein of Bonn, Germany, received a cable gram of congratulation from the Uni versity of Tokyo. Owing to the climatic deterioration and insect destruction of the wooden poles the eightj- miles of telephone line In Abyssinia have to be constantly pa trolled by special police to Insure con tinuous operation. Staten Island will soon have a natu ral history museum in which will be displayed the collection of specimens and the library of the Natural Science association of Staten Island and make that body a semlpubllc institution. Japan has 4,507 postofllces and 51,347 letter boxes. It ranks In this matter next to Germany, the United States, France and Great Britain. The num ber of letters forwarded last year was J0.j,000,000; of postal cards, 4S3.000, 000. The shortest will on record in Bucks county. Pa., has been probated by Reg ister of Wills Badcllffe. It disposes of the property of John D. Dugan, late of Bristol, and reads, "Mary, from my day out everything belongs to you that I own." Five presidents of the United States have tiled In otiice and have been suc ceeded under the provisions of the con stitution by vice presidents. Three of these met death at the hands of as sassins, the other two expiring from natural causes. The largest electrical sign in the world is on the North river In New York harbor, the Individual letters be ing sixty-eight feet high, yet its opera tion for five hours a day costs only ?3 for power. The lamps of which lt composed ar of four cantllepower. lMiysiclans in Loudon ascribe the In creasing Insanity among women to liv ing in flats. The conveniences are such that fiat dwellers have nothing to do but tlo nothing, and the theory Is that many women lose their minds because there is nothing to occupy their minds. The oldest outstanding deposit book issued by the savings bank at Middle-tou-n". Conn., was presented a few days since for payment. The account was opened In 1833 with a deposit of $2. and this was the only money deposited on the account. The bank paid the owner J('.:7. Thenew tunnel to be built by the Michigan Central Hallway company under the Detroit river at Detroit will be of steel, re-enforced and strengthen ed ou the inside by cement ana wen ventilated and lltwith electricity. There will be two steel tubes built side by side crossing the river. The tunnel will rest on rock or clay. Fancy dress balls are becoming very popular in London. At n big one the other night In Chelsea one married cou ple appeared as a pair of poodles. The get-up was from Paris and so marvel ously realistic that report does say that one nnlraal lover flew to pat the crea tures and was rewarded by being bit ten in the small of the leg. The record for getting married and settled in short order went all to smash In Bangor, Me., recently when Frank Reeves, an ex-pollceman of Ma chias, and Mrs. Laura Mace of Ells worth bought a house, furniture to fur nish it. were married and ate their first meal In their new house Inside of five hours from the time they arrived In Bangor. A task begun fifty years ago has just been completed by Miss Susie Stonesi fer of Hanover, Pa. In 1ST.5 she began making a patch quilt, and after sewing for half a century she has finished the household article, which is a model of neatness and beauty. It is a nine square quilt. by 7 feet in size, and contains patches of fabrics made scores of years ago. New South Wales owns more than 00 per cent of the entire number of sheep pastured in the provinces of Australia. Since 1S0O the wool clip has brought to New South Wales alone the enormous ! sum of ?l,:':'0,0tMUO0. Nearly 250.000.- IKMJ pounds of wool are yearly exported from New South Wales. Angora goats have also been bred In the colony, and there are at present nearly 40,000 of them In the country. The Minneapolis Tribune tells or a family of nine children, all of whom were born previous to 1S50 and whose ranks were never invaded by death un til last March. They are referred to as "a typical sturdy Minnesota family" in spite of the fact that the parents were natives of Maine and that all of the nine children were born iu Bangor pre vious to the migration of the family to the west nearly half a century ngo. Businesslike. Here lies Jane White, wife of Thom as White, stonemason. This monu ment was put up out of respect for her memory and ns n specimen of his work manship. Tombs In the same style. 50. Loudon Tit-Bits. iTorr Congratulations. A very famous American dentist met the English husband of an American friend of mine with the genial congrat ulation: "My dear sir, I wish you joy! You have married a first rate set of teeth." Fortnightly Review.