Patriotism and P ay.
in h a b ita n ts of them in reckoning then-
. • „ 0{ n a tio n a l e m b le m s th e
T
while c allin g on a frie n d , I tim e differ an en tire day every week.
T iie theory th a t th e deepest place in
^♦h o u cht ours th e m o st b e a u tifu l
th
e ocean w ill be found to correspond
■ the world, an d t h a t w h e n
the sight of th e s ta r s a n d s trip e s alm ost exactly w ith th e h e ig h t of th e
•^Phest m ountain has been disproved
heart ju m p fo r joy.
(frie n d ’s sea m stre ss, w ho w as I / J n , 1,11/ t l l e l a s t -v e a r ’ ocean d ep th s
in the room , re m a rk e d , sorae- 10.000 feet deeper th a n th e h e ig h t of
M ount Everest havinc been found
Uv
would lose som e o f y o u r pa-
A stylish Corpse.
' . L if vou m ade th o se sam e flags,
triotisu* ** j
M
“ She
wnnm° St Styli8h corPse’”
’ S i ? * den>»“ a c a
we heard
re m a rk th e o th e r
X « « ” w as “ ie rei lT ,„ “y ™ d lately -Pe
^ ° f a le a d e r of fashiou
- y deceased, and, prom pted by eu-
to live on b re a d an d s a lt. T h e
i t stars are se t on th e b lu e g ro u n d riosity,
sity, we inquired w hat w ent to m ake
n
ir i, ___
• •
I '¿hand There a re forty-five, I th in k , up a “ stylish corpse.1
Oh
replied the gusher, w ith no
¡i " are placed on b o th sides a lik e , so
hesitation,
“she w ore a black v elv et
to
be
b
a
s
te
d
an
d
,Ht makes ninety
Sed on, and it m u st be done n e a tly , gow n w ith point lace trim m ings, and
her eyebrow s penciled and cheek j an d
The pay is from s ix ty to sevent.y- ips rouged, besides having h er h a ir
,re cents for th a t p o rtio n of th e flag, done in the most delightful fashion
Positivelv, to be such a
, by working from m o rn in g till possible.
L t as hard as she can, m y p oor sis- beautiful corpse was w orth d y in - for
our prosaic mind the solem nity o f
who is a quick sew er, c a n ju s t fin- P To
ilt it
c o n r o n /l
4 -^
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»
. . .
death
seemed to
have ■ been
robbed
of _
“j/oDe in a day, fo r w h ic h she re ceiv es
all its g ran d eu r and force by the a r ti
dity c e n ts.
‘ ,,Si,e 8ays she c a n ’t say h u r r a h fo r ficial trappings and adornm ents of th e
thered, white an d b lu e w ith m uch complexion specialist; yet in th is age
of fads th e tim e is not far off w hen ju st
fervor. ”-N . Y. R ecorder.
such caprices may be expected, fo r if
A C o n g r e ssio n a l Count»
fashion sets the pace there w ill be, be
The four-year-old an d seven-year-old sides o th er modish follies, fads in
Was of a w estern c o n g re ssm a n w ere funerals th a t will probably be even
tiving with ‘a s e t of n u m e ra l blocks more ridiculous th an the o th ers.—P h ila
and their m other w as w a tc h in g th e ir delphia Times.
WARRIORS OF THE WORLD.
r r s s s :
« w« S
. 1“
e° ,ric‘ “
T w t 7 \ 5 . H^ RLES H* H®VL, of the
tailedtethlnl lnfantr-Vt has been de-
bit at T Sent, !he w ar ^ P a rtm e n t
exhibit at the world's fair.
e v e ^ b ! J i8? Pe8tilential in Siam th a t
cry soldier is compelled to assist in
reducing
reducing their
their number by catching
■ S f i * “ *'Vt'rJ' l'" y to 011 “
Ih a recently issued decree all sol
diers of the Russian empire must in
future use handkerchiefs, which have
heretofore been restricted to the officers.
T he Prussian army is said to contain
but one officer from the ranks—Col.
Ladeniann. who was promoted for acts
of exceptional bravery in the Schleswig-
Holstein campaign in 1864. lie has
just been gazetted commander of the
hl*tieth in/an try.
1 IIF .ÏÎF .
T
here 1»¿
is a t i population of 70,W ) in
Iceland, yet the only military force
employed consists of two policemen,
stationed at the capital. Rcykjavie. and
the only two lawyers in the island arc
the state's attoney, as lie may be called,
and another, who is on hand to defend
anybody th a t may be put on trial.
RUMBLINGS ON THE RAILS.
of one's fath er’s books. One lucky man
is Dumas, who gets about 910,000 uyeur
from his g n at fa th e r’s novels.
T he birthplace of Ixird Tennyspn, in
Lincolnshire, England, has ju s t been
offered for sale.
T his b eau tifu l old
manor is said to be “ T he M oated
(•range which his poetic genius made
so famous.
1 iik p»x»t Rogers, whose hospitality
was proverbial, has the credit of e state
Hshing the breakfast party ns a link in
London society. The ''m ornings'* at
his house are famous among the lite ra ti
of Eugland.
A SOLDIER S CORNER.
T he oldest British soldier is Sir
Patrick G rant, aged eighty-eight years.
G i n caps wen» first used in 1824 In
the British army.
1 iik armies of the civilised nations of
the world num ber 3,600,000. Besides
the loss of th eir time and labor, they
cost a t least 91,000 a year for each sol
dier, and th a t am ounts to 93,600,000,000.
H enry P ackard , of Roeklund, Sul
livan county, N. Y„ a veteran of the
w ar of 1812, in which he served as a
drum m er lx>y, has ju st received from
the General Society of the W ar of 1812
a bronze medal. Mr. Puekanl is lame
to this day from a wound received in a
skirmish.
A M aine veteran who m arched in the
procession nt W ashington has forty-
eight sears, an em pty sleeve and an
artificial eye to prove th a t he was in
t he late unpleasantness. 11 is name Is
J. E. Chase, a m em ber of the old Fifth
battery of the Pine T ree state.
T rains in Russia run tw enty-tw o
miles an hour.
T oo ('h eap .
“Oh, mamma!”
e x c la im e d
th e
G reat B ritain is reported to have
Some
people
value a pet grievance 16,8(50 locomotives.
rounder one, “ I can co u n t; lis te n ;” and
he rattled off: “ One, tw o, th re e , four, far above money or any th in g which
Ox several of the railroads in Russia
five, six, seven, e ig h t, nin e, te n , ja c k , money can buy. A good many y ears iron telegraph poles are to be substi-
ago th ere lived in W ashington a"U nited
queen, king.”
i tuted for wooden ones.
WELL UP IN YEAR3.
The mother
w as
in e x p re ssib ly S tates naval officer who th o u g h t him- I M exico hus 22,500 miles of telegraph
self u n ju stly treated by the naval re- j
diocked, hut before sh e h a d tim e to
B vedinokh , In Ilesae, Germany, boasts
tirin g board and made incessant corn- and 0,000 of railroad. A district messen
say anything the o ld er boy p u t in:
ger
service
will
soon
be
introduced.
of
a laborer who haa celebrated his 101st
|
“Why, H arry,” he
said, “ t h a t ’s i plain t about it to his brother officers.
birthday.
I
T
he
life
of
a
locomotive
crank
pin,
j “ Well, Sam,’’ said one of his friends,
wrong."
which is almost the first thing about an
A mong Sir W illiam H arcourt's su p
"Very wrong; very w ro n g .” sighed w ho w as a little worn out by h earin g engine to wear out, is 00,000 miles, und porters ut Derby w ere tw o voters said
the sem e story over and over, “ why in
the mother.
the
w orld do you subm it to it, if it is the life of a 33-inch wheel is 00,733 Vo lx' 102 anti 103 y ea rs o f age.
"Cert,” went on th e o ld e r boy. “ T his
miles.
D avid W ade , of Enterprise, Ky., has
is the right w ay,” an d as th e m o th e r i so? T here is a man here who w ill in
T
he
Japanese
government
contem
been
m arried to Mrs. Elizubcth Garvin
waited for the co rrectio n by h e r older vestigate it for tw enty dollars, and may plates the construction of six lines of
a t W ellston, G. T h eir ages ag gregate
co
rrect
it.”
child he dashed in to th is: “ D uece, tra y ,
“ W hat!” ejaculated the com plaining railway,aggregating 800 miles in length. 182 years. T he bridegroom has passed
four, five, six, seven, e ig h t, nin e, te n ,
officer,
whose reasoning powers had The purchase of the private railw ays the century mark.
jack,queen, king, a c e .’
by the state is also projected.
No death hiiH occurred in the family
That night th e m o th e r h a d a confer- evidently become a little confused
through m editation on his wrongs, (U* Dx foggy w inter days English^ rail of Rev. Samuel Wakefield, of Lutrotx»,
«ce jvith the c o n g re ssm a n .—D e tro it
“do you suppose for one in stan t th a t I ways employ thousands of extra hands I‘a., in 61 years. He is in hia 04th year;
Free Press.
would tak e tw enty dollars for a griev to plaee detonating signals on rails, the his wife is a few years his junior; they
D y e in g B u r g la r s .
ance like this? You don’t know me!'’ ordinary semaphores being invisible. A were murried in 1821, and have ten chil
new method of signalling is by an elec dren.
Burglars broke one n ig h t in to th e —Y outh’s Companion.
tric
bell on the locomotive, a eontaet
M rs . E lizahrtii S tanton died a few
workshop of a d y e r in K oslin, an d had
device
causing each signal station to days ago in P atto n tow nship, Center
B
a
b
y
J
a
c
k
's
T
h
e
o
lo
g
y
.
got together a p re tty la rg e sized pack-
The doctrine of o rig in a l sin is a diffi sound automatically the number of county, Pa., n t tiie age of 117 years,
ve of valuable d y e-stu ffs w h e n th e
cult
one to controvert, taking the beats required to tell whether to stop i sh e was of Ainoricun-1 utiiun stock, ami
dyer, awakened by th e noise, a p p e a re d
was fumed for feats of s tre n g th and en
world
a t large into consideration, but or proceed.__________
on the scene, arm ed w ith a double-
durance
in her old age.
it
is
one
which
Baby
Jack,
nctat
twen
footer. As he e n te re d th e door he
SPARKS AND FLASHES.
ty-three
months,
steadily
and
sturdily
«pied two men s k u rry in g off to th e
O F ROYAL B IR T H .
P lowing by electricity is in contem
other end of th e dye-house. A t th e refuses to adm it into his theology, lie
plation
for
a
large
property
in
Central
says:
“
Now
1
lay
m
e,”
w
ith
the
utmost
suomons, “Stand, o r I fire!” th e y both
D vctiers da M ontuensikr , sister of
jumped into a v a t w hich th e y th o u g h t fervor and in a language of his own, Spain.
Queen Isabella, is a g re a t grand-m other
T he Pennsylvania railroad is equip n t 55.
empty, but w hich w as filled w ith som e which only the. audacity of a mother
would
claim
to
m
ean
anything,
lie
ping
its anthracite collieries with elec
color liquid. S ta n d in g in th e bine
Q ueen V ictoria ’« new dining-room a t
tric
light
plants, and will cut coal Oslx>rne cost 9100,000. Mhe paid for it
asks:
“
Dod”
to
“
b’ess”
every
one
of
ath, they both cried fo r m ercy. T he
oyer, however, to o k aim , an d th ey his relativ es to the forty-fourth de tw enty-four hours a day.
herself.
T he importance of electricity on
^eked under, b u t soon cam e up ag ain gree, n o t fo rg ettin g his pet cat and
Amr H ukar . the su ltan of Johore,
| earnestly e n tre a te d p ard o n . B ut “ Iloo-Polly.” the unclean rag-doll, but modern steamships is shown by the fact who will visit the world s fair next sea
o relentless d y e r gave th e m th e bene- w hen m am m a prom pts: “ Please make th a t the new English battlesliip. Royal son, is nlstu t 65 yeur^ of age, a mail of
htof a few e x tra dips, a n d th e n tu rn e d Ja c k a good boy,” M aster Jack says. Sovereign, has no less than eight progressive views and w orth ubout
them out into th e s tr e e t w ith o u t g iv in g “ Das” in response as earn est as that of hundred electric lights and thirty miles 920,000,000.
‘Das’ 'of wire.
- ’dee to the police. T h e s to ry g o t any good M ethodist brother.
M arquis G uiccioi . i , |h a new Italian
he
is . a
v .............
A C
anadian electrician states that smbuxsudor a t Berlin, Is a
’ •d in koslin, an d e v e ry b o d y k now s m eans “y es,” and Jack thinks
gram!
indigo-tlyed sco u n d rels. T h e y are good boy, and no m oral suasion can in- el4Jctrj(.jty causeB the tides s and demon- nephew of the b eau tifu l Countess
ducc him to suggest to Providence iat ________by
gtratcg ¡t b electrifying
electrifying a a rublx-r comb Guiccioll, th e friend of Ilyron. Tiie
■ to rem ain m en of m a rk fo r som e
th e re is th e slig h test necessity for mak by nibbing it through the hair and then m arquis was form erly m ayor of Rome.
oeto come.—V erm isch tes.
draw ing it over the top of a glass filled
ing over.—N. Y. Recorder.
T he czar is said, on w h a t Ixmdon
w ith water, the result being th a t the papers quote as th e au th o rity of Ids
FATHERS OF GREAT MEN.
tidal wave follows the comb.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
English physician u t Mt. Petersburg,
N apoleon ’ s fath er was a citizen of
I t is said (hat a man in Columbus, O., to have lately grow n th in and nervous.
h the head of th e g u lf of B o th n ia
has patented an electric device intended There is n othing bracing and fa tte n
is a m ountain on th e su m m it of very hum ble means.
Asn.MOLE, th e g reat anti«?” *’*»“ » was to autom atically lower and raise rail ing ab o u t Itcing tiie ezar of Russia.
’ 'h the sun shin es p e rp e tu a lly d u i-
road gates ut grade crossings at tiie ap
;i?the five days J u n e 19, 20, 21, 22 a saddler's son.
proach and after the passing of trains.
TH E FIR ST.
M
arshal
B
ernadotto
was
the
son
ttd23.
The apparatus is expected to entirely
provincial notary.
T he B abylonians first divided th e
is a c ertain isla n d in th e B altic of T a he
fa th e r of llarry, the h,«Wr.«l supplant flagmen and gatetenders.
hour and m inute in to sixty parts.
^1° whose in h a b ita n ts th e body o f
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AUTHOR’S CHAT.
^ 5un is clearly v isible in th e m o rn in g pain ter, w as a sailor,
T he first book Im ported from Europe
a cooper’s son,
was
b ro u g h t over by Jo h n Mabin, of
M arshal N ey was
he arises, a n d lik e w ise in th e
WlLHELMINE IIENREL, a relative of
n'D1Dg after he is set.
Philadelphia.
and
him
self
a
notary
o f soim-
son»» r.~
re-
.no
™
icpon- Mendelssohn, and a woman ox
A u e z ik i A i . hamhai . i says coffee was
T he fa th e r of Adrian, the a.
I
*
celebrnU-d her ninetieth
. ; central S a h a ra re g is te rs a m ean
n
Inlvirpr
.
.
.
A
I__
_
U
fgtfl
first
m ade know n as a beverage in 870
¿
degrees
in
. . -- ....... J u ly . C e n tra l A u stra- tiff, was a laborer.
birthday nt Potsdam a few days ago.
of
the
Hegira.
S
ausrurk
.
the
naturalist,
was
>asts of 94 d e g re es in J a n u a r y —a
O itd a . the novelist, is distinguished
A
iihaiiam
p rearn ted his son’s wife
___
f()r for the exquisite lieauty of her hands
iti
*s a tta in e d in S o u th Car- of a Swiss farm er.
w
ith
a
pair
of earrings, th e first of
VlR0n/8
fath er was a porter,
and inner A rab ia in m idsum m er.
.......
and feet. She constantly wears thin,
which
th
ere
is
historic m ention.
slave.
. dainty slippers and abbreviated sleeves.
j 8 a c e rta in v illag e in th e king- J m any years a slave,
MASS.U.ON.
the
g
reat
French
pn-^h-
T
he
first
railroad
to use the steam
n'l ^ aP^es s itu a te d in a very low
W hen Lord Tennyson was ask.-d to
locomotive
regularly
in th is country
tka read his works aloud he alm<mt invarl-
*7' and y et th e su n is n e a re r to th e er, was a no tary s son.
was
was
th
e
Mouth
Carolina
railroad in 1831.
1 ' tants th e re o f every noon by 3,000
i ably selected the “Ode on the Death of
W yatt , th e great architect,
T
he
first
French
new
spaper, th e
' than when he rrs e th o r s e tte th to son of a farm laborer.
historian» I the Duke of W ellington” and after th a t G azette dc France, was started in 1631
^ e said v illage.
T he fa th e r of Niebuhr, th
“ M aud.”
T here is one form of inheritance th a t by T heophraste Renaodot. He also
hire are tw o o b serv ab le places be- w as a farm laborer,
P lautus , the Latin Shakespeare, was
enj<>y BQ(1 ÜUit Is lhe fruitM established the first .Mont de Plete.
to Asia, b o th ly in g u n d e r th e
aaT*^nin an d in a sm all d istan ce th e son of a freedman.
“ other, an d y e t th e respective
innocent s p o r t .