"SLATE HEAD-STONES.
Tiy Arp Superior to th Granite and
ftaml-HMpe Artlrlo.
Whoever visits Tho ccmolories of the
land and there aro tow of us who aro
not brought thithor from timo to time
' upon tho saddest of errands can not
bul lc struck by tho unfortunate re-
. stls which have attended tho efforts
of Sorrowing friends to do honor to tho
dead. Most cemeteries aro to the eye
mere collections of unhappy specimens
(iy tho stone-cutter's art, or rather of
his want of art. Thoy aro uncouth
where thoy should bo graceful, op
presfvo whoro they should be sooth
ing, aggressive and conspicuous where
they should bo simple and inconspicu
ous; thoy in one way or anothor vio
late all tho principles of symmetry and
of artistic propriety, and only too often
tflcv are vulgar monstrosities of stone,
which serve to advertise the stone-cutter
and to disfigure the graves of tho
dead. Indeed, it has como to tho place
khcro it is far more appropriate to
!penk of tho cometory as the monument-maker's
advertisement than in
the old sweet and homely phrase as
-(Sod's acre."
When one considers thnt all theso
tonot aro put hero to mark an affec
tion which death could not conquor;
that. Ihey stand-for, so much lovo and
sorrow, it makes, tho heart ache to
feel tho. incongruity botweou the hard,
tftilgtit- monuments and the thing thoy
fcre meant to signify. Thoro was novor
a stone which could bo more fitly
spoken of as unsympathetic than tho
mnrble which has served as tho com
mon material for grave tablets. It Is
cold in color and in texture; it is quick
ly discolored, so that it is unsightly
and offensive to tho eyo, tho cltcct of
imo being loss pleasing than in the
aso of almost any other stone that
could bo choson. Granite is course
and of uuploasatit texture if unpol
ished, while tho high looking-glass
surface that results from polishing it
is tho most vulgar in effect that the
ingenuity of tho stone cutter has thus
far been ablo to compass. Bronzo is
very expensive, and it doesi not well
stand tho climate, while it offers to the
thiof a temptation which there are too
many instances of his having yielded
U. Sandstone is pleasant to tho eye,
bnt it so quickly loses the words which
Jtffeotr.m has committed to its keeping
that it is hardly to be counted among
the materials available for this pur
pose. In view of those facts thoro seems
nothing better to do than to return to
tho custom of our fathers, and go buck
to the use of slate. There is nothing
Uvhich more satisfactorily stands our
climate, both in respect to durability
and to npiearance. To tho eyo the
soft, low tone of tho stone is always
pleasant, and tho material Is one
which has tho grout, merit of not
scorning to lend itself readidly to
thoso ornate and abtrusive structures,
of which tho State of Maine produces
some beautiful examples, tine and vel
vety in texture, are capable of receiv
ing carving- of delicacy and intricacy,
l and of preserving them through the
7 trying weather of our destructive win
ters. On the whole, there is no other
stone so satisfactory lor this use, and
it Is a pity that, it should not be more
generally adopted. There, is at some
cemeteries, of which w think Mount
Auburn is one. a foolish regulation for
bidding the erection of slate tablets,
but the rule i.- fortunately not a general
one, mid so thoriuighl vis the public tired
of the use of marble and granite that
there is every ron-oii to believe that it
will noon return to the old custom of
the early days of Now I'.uglaiid, when
necessity and common sense combined
to hold people to a fa-hion which was
the bent that ban ever obtained in the
matter of gravestones in this country.
Boston ( 'otirier.
NEW ENGLAND ENGLISH.
Omit of V.tmUeo .Sim'Ii, CoMim'I ml liy ,
Ito-tou l'nmr.
Your challenge reminds nie of a re
mark overheard by a visitor at a farm
house at early dawn on a summer
morning: "Ye ain't got a whetstone
you hain't a-goiu's to use to-day. be
ye?"
If this did not give the li-'iirer an ap-
petite for breakfast ho must have been:
beyond the reach of tonics.
Two or three packages inclosing!
grammatical gems have also reached
me from down East. One brings the
tiomewhat familiar phrase: "He done
splendid," in Ibis case said to have
Inien spoken by a woman of "some
wealth and more protoiision," with re
gard to her son's proficiency at school.
The other specimen is thus presented
by my correspondent:
A woman called upon a friend who
was recovering Ironi a long illness and
tho following convocation ensued:
"Well, 'Gusta, how be you to-day?"
Hotter."
He? ;iad you is."
Other goms must stand over," as
editors say. until a more convenient
season, bul 1 shall find room for the'
following-also in tho form of a dia
logue: I
Scene, a farin-hoiiso by the roadside, :
1) - -, calling to Captain H , who:
is driving past:
"Captain B , stop! I wanted tor
have eon if I could hnvo got your
horse to have went to Fltohburg to
morrow:" Boston Post.
At the house of a family in Will
Inmsport. Pa., a largo extension table,
which had repeutodly baflled tho at
trfmpis of several men to get It through
i door in an adjoining room, was
found, nfuir the lato Hood had subsid
ed, to be all safe In tha other room.
.;iud how ll got through that. ioor U a
mywir-ry.
KILLINGS' PHILOSOPHY.
htn oftUn WU Sajrlacaot thf I.ruentd
Tho way to git onny thing Iz to ackt
jjust az tho yu did'nt karo whothor yu
got it or not.
It iznz dlffikult to deflno a sickness
az it Iz to nckount for tho mcazlos.
It is dredful cozy for a. man to dis
pize ritches who haz got about two
hundred and 50 thousand dollars well
invested.
If fortune haz enny favorites, it iz
not tho indifiront, but it iz thozo
whom we hav to pay to git rid ov their
teazing.
Luv iz llko tho monzles; if wo hav
really got them, thoy aro sure to sho.
Whon a man iz puffod up with a
harmless kind ov prido that don't do
any hurt. It Iz a krowol pieco of bizz
ness to take tho konsait out ov him; it
iz az krewel az to pull the fouthors out
ov a pekok's talo.
Every ono who trados with tho devil
expokts to git tho best ov him, but I
novor hav seeu it did yoL
Ono reason why adviso costs so little
iz bckauso every ono haz sum of it to
spare.
Wo are so avarishus that oven v. hen
wo trado with oursolfs wo go for git
ting tho best end ov tho burgain.
My philosophical kroed iz "Giv a
bear the wholo of tho road if ho will
tako it"
(The harto iz a mlstorioiis thing; wo
knn almost all ways find out what iz in
a man's hed, but the things that sloop
in tho heart are often unknown even to
the possessor.
My sentimental kreod iz "Straw
berries and kream if thoy aro handy;
if not, kream anyhow."
Itmny bo difllkult to decide which
men porsew tho most eagerly, interest
or fame.
Yu kan find men who will sumtimos
repent ov a sin, but seldum ov a blun
dor. Thoro iz nothing so natral az to lio.
and thon dodge behind lL
Mankind kan be divided into two
heaps, and not wrong them mutch
a heap ov geese und a heap ov gan
ders. I obsorvo more phools among tho
old men than i do among tho old v hu
man. I think I nm honest whon i say thare
iz no man who luvs to bo praised more
than i do, or who hates to be llattored
worse.
I would rather watch two ruskals
than one phool
ToknoioKto talk iz a grate art.
but to kno vihrn iz a grater.
The only suro way to keep a skoret
iz to forget It. N. Y. Weekly.
JAPAN'S CROWN PRINCE.
Tlie rli'Htunt Disposition of the Mlkutlo's
Oltlivtt son mill llrlr.
Compared to his imperial father,
oven at the prosont d y, 1'rinco Ham
is much more emancipated, and none
of the old traditions seem to have any
weight in regulating his conduct.
There was no precedent to follow in
tho education of a Japanese Prince in
tho modern way, and Prince Itnru has
made many laws for himsolf. Ho is a
wonderfully bright and precocious
little fellow, and his small, twinkling
black eyes are full of mischief and see
every thing. He is hardly tailor than
an American boy of six years of r.ge,
but ho has at times the dignity, the
pride of birth, and consciousness of
station and powor, of a man of sixty.
His eyes are not slanting, nor indeed
does one often see in u Japanese faco
tho wonderfully oblique eyes beloved
(If the caricaturists. The peculiarity
in the expression of their eyes is given
by the eyelids lieing fastened in oithor
corner, as if a few stitches had boon
taken there. This makes it impossi
ble for them to lift tho eyelids as high
as we do, and gives tho narrower
slits, through which thoy gaze, tho
peculiar Oriental look. One often soos
Japanese with as round, wide-open
eyes as those of our race, and it givos
an especial beauty to their counte
nances. Prince Haru has the exquisitely
smooth, fine yellow skin that Is ono of
the points of grontest beauty in Japa
nese children, and a brighteolor some
times shows in the pale-yellow of his
little cheeks. He has the rank of a
Colonel in . the Japanese army, and
wears his military uniform and his cap
with the gold star all the time, his
clothes being dark-blue cloth in winter
and white duck in hummer. He Is fond
of riding, and. when mounted, tho
miniature Colonel trot.s along at a tine
gait, giving and returning the military
salute as lie pns-cs an officer or a sen
try, like a young mnrtiuet. Eliza
Kuhumah Scidmoto, in St. Nicholas.
-
The Cases Different.
"Mr. .Skinuphlint." exclaimed the
driver of that gentleman's delivery
wagon, as he rushed into the store ex
citedly, "my wagon was run into by a
heavy-loaded truck a little while ago
at a strewt crossing, and"
"If my property has been injured in
consequence of your carelessness,
Jnuios," said Air. Skiiinplilliit, sternly,
"I shall, of course, expect you to make
the loss good."
"Injured," replied the driver, "my
wagon wasn't hurt a hit. Tho truck
just grazed iL Hut the follow that
was drlvln' it turned so short that a
box of fancy candies tumble off his
load into my wagon and 1 didn't find
it out till ho got out of my slghL I
don't know who ho was, and the box
ain't marked. In u case like this I
siippo-o there would In no hiirin If I
kept -"
Jhiimis." unid Mr. Sklnnphlint,',you
may give mu that box of onudlo."
Chicago Trlbnnu.
MRS. DRUMMUP'S LIST.
It CoTerrl roiullnbl Oronnd, Hat Ont
of llrr Victim Didn't Know It.
It seems thnt the business of collect
ing subscriptions is no exception to tho
rule that there aro tricks in every
trade. A man or woman with a gift,
for tho business may collect of the
same ratn at least twice as much as
another would. A little incident will
illustrate.
They wore getting .in a subscription
aUttle while ago for the tlome for De
cayed Applo Women. There Is no more
deserving institution, as every body
knows, than tho Homo for Decayed
Applo Women; and moreover, nn in
fluential coterie of Hack Hay women,
headed by Mrs. Charity Drummup,
had becomo interested in the home,
and were pushing tho subscription.
When Mrs. Charity Drummup sails
into a counting-room with a subscrip
tion paper in her hnnd. the hankers
and men of business know jierfectly
well that It is of no jwsslble avail for
them to turn her a cold shoulder, un
less they aro anxious to lose caste or
custom among the wealthy circle which
revolves around her
Down town there ore two solid men,
in business, one as a retailer in a largo
way. ami the other as a financier, who
are very good friends. Tho financier
is mercurial, excitable, and passes for
a free-handed, generous sort of per
son, The merchant is phlegmatic and
slow, and has the reputation of being
very shrewd and close in money mat
ters. Well, when Mrs. Charity Drummup
came down in behalf of tho Home for
Decayed Apple Women, she made one
of her calls upon the financier and
promptly showed him a paper, already
signed by at least a dozen banker-,
merchants and other wealthy men; and
tiiKin this paper there was not a single
sul-criptiou for a le.-s amount than
$50.
"You see what they're all doing."
said Mrs Charity Drummup, with an
engaging smile.
The financier gave a low whistle.
"Nothing but fifty dollar subscrip
tions, eh?" he said. ' "Well. I'm afraid
this is a little too steep for me. You
are quite right, Mrs. Drummup. in as
suming that 1 should not care to lead
the break-off into smaller figures: but,
see here, is this the only paper you
have got. Mrs. Drummup?"
The only one." said tho lady, with
ii little confusion. "Why, this is the
subscription paper, sir."
"Hut is it the only one you have
got?"
Pres-od for an answer, Mrs. Drumm
up produced from her reticule a pa
per, upon which there were several
r25, $10 and even $5 subscriptions.
"Ah! this looks more like it," snid
the financier. "You may put mo down
there, if you please, for $25." And ho
went down there, high up on the list.
That night the. financier and tho mer
chant mot at the club.
"Well." said the merchant, "did
you have a call from Mrs. Drummup
to-day?"
"Yes."
"Stuck you for $50, I suppose?"
"Oh, no: I only gave $''5."
"What? Why, thoro wasn't n single
subscription on hor list for le-s than
50!"
"Not on the list sho showed you. my
friend; but you should have called for
her other paper."
Ho explained the scheme to tho
close-fisted merchant, who became
fairly black in the face with chagrin.
He felt that he had been overreached;
and the financier, who seemed to have
come in for a share of his wrath, is of
the opinion that ho did not sleep that
night, and that it was, indeed, several
days before h regained his usual
calm. - Boston Transcript.
THE RATTLESNAKE'S BITE.
No "Miro t'nir Tor to Vpiioiii Kiiotnt In
tlm .MedlcH1 t'ruturillt.v.
Speaking of poop'o bltton by rattle
snake. Mr. .1. H. Ivstill, of the Savan
nah News, says: "Out of a thousand
peoplo bitten by rattlesnakes I do not
think a do.on recover. There is no
known euro, in spite .'if the fact that
many people hnvo said that thoy were
cured by whisky. You may depend on
It when a man says ho was cured of a
rattlesnake bite, though ntsiessarily
not a liar, he is at least, laboring under
I misapprehension of tho'acts. There
is a small snake similar to a rattle
snake in appearance. who.o poison is
not so venomous, and negroes bitten
by it place line upon tho spot or less
drink enough whisky to coun
teract the poison. Whisky if
taken In u large quantity,
goes directly Into the blood
and counteracts tho poison of the
snake. Hut the regular Georgia rat
tler, from five to seven feet in length,
Is a deadly customer to meet. It does
not give any warning bul strikes the
moment it Is disturbed, and It can
strike an object as far distant as it Is
long. A triond of mine was rilling
along in the saddle one day and a big
rattler lying in the road leaped at him
us he passed. It closed to his boot
leg, driving one of its frangs clear
through the thick leather of his boot
and throiieh his trousers, just escaping
tho tlesh. It required considerable
kicking to shake that snniic off, and
when lie was finally got rid of he
started in pursuit. My friend (need
bullets in tho army with nonchalance,
but his hair stood on end when he saw
that snake coming, and ho Jammed
-pur- to his nag ami didn't stop until
lie had gone a quarter slroteh. .My
plantation Is full of nttloMinkn. mid
iiuly hint week my bunds killed twenty
ii.x ill a field of Iwontv aero"
A COURAGEOUS WOMAN.
How Sh Got th llMt of Vltllan Wit
Wan lirnt on Roliberx.
One day recently, in tho rotunda of
tho Fifth Avenue Hotel, a number of
moil were discussing the question of
pluck and bravery frequently exhibit
ed by persons advanced in years. Gen
eral Dan Mucaulcy, now a resident of
this city, but formerly of Indiana, re
lated the most remarkable instance, as
follows:
'Dr. Walker, about sixty years of
age, and his wife, a few years younger,
togothor with two grown sons, resided
in Indianapolis after the war. Ono
night Mrs. Walker retired late, but
not to sleep, for she expected her hus
band to como in from tho next room
every moment. A light was burning,
nnd lying on "tier bed she could sot) tho
tloor nt certain angles. Instead of her
husband coining in sho saw a villainous-looking
man. with a bowio-knlfo
between his teoth, crawling through
the door on his all fours. In a second
ho disappeared under tho bed. Her
husbnnd then came in, blew out tho
light and got into bed.
"Mrs. Walker said nothing for a fow
minutes, for she was thinking of a
scheme to capture the robber and savo
herself and husband from bolngniur
dored. Finnllys he said aloud to hor
husband: '1 am thirsty; I'll go and
get a drink of water.1 Sho got out of
bed and went to tho room whore her
two sons wore sleeping. Putting hor
hands over the mouth of ono sho
whispered in his oar that a man wna
under hor bed and that she wanted his
pistol. The son told her that ho gavo
her tho pistol a few days ago. because
sho objected to having ono around
loaded. Then she remembered that
she had hid it in the basement-room,
on top of a shelf. 'Wait, boys. I'll got
it,' sho said. Going down stairs she
passed another robber, the pal of tho
ono under her bed, though sho was un
aware of it at that time.
"After stumbling around in tho dark
sho managed to find tho pistol and
hastily rushed up stairs withk iL In
the meautimo hor husband suspected
that something was tho matter, be
cause sho had consumed too much
time in getting a drink of water. Tho
robber became suspicious also and was
pulling himsolf from undor the bed,
and had almost assumed a sitting posi
tion, his face toward tho bed and tho
knife still clutchod botwoon his teeth,
whon the old doctor was in tho act of
springing to tho door. Without a mo
ment's hesitation tho doctor tumblod
right on tho robber and at the same
time dealt him a powerful blow in tho
fnce. They both fell on the tloor, tho
doctor on top und gamely punching
him at ovory opportunity. It was a
short and desperate struggle. Tho
robber attempted to cut tho doctor, but
tho latter knocked the knife out of his
hand. In tumbling around tho robber
got out his pistol and pulled tho trig
ger, but the old doctor seized his wrist
in time and the ball struck tho colling.
With a strong effort the robber extri
cated himself from tho doctor and ran
tor tho door.
"Tho son, who had the pistol his
mother brought him, thought that his
father was dead and rosolvod to kill
the murderer at all hazards. Ho mot
tho robber faco to face in the door and
tired point blank at his breast. In
stead of falling the robber rushed ouL
Tho doctor, hearing the report of his
son's pistol thought tho robbor had
shot his wife in going out In a few
seconds tho brave old couple worosafo
in each other's arms, and tho next
morning the body of the notorious
robbor and desperado, 'Hoosier' BUI
Kodifcr, was found in the back yard
with a bullet through his breast. Now.
gontlemon, don't you think that old
woman had pluck in a wonderful de
gree, and that hor husband was worthy
in every way to be hor mate?" N. Y.
Mall and Kxprcss,
PUNISHING A THIEF.
Ilotr llr IVito ('uniit'lii In Ittiturii mi
I'lnlirrllH to 114 OfTiifr.
"I saw an attempt to steal an um
brella, that amused mo tho other day."
wild a gentleman last evening. "I was
coming home on Die train and got Into
conveinatian with a friend in a seat op
posite mo. To make It more pleasant
ho crossed the aisle and sat with mo,
leaving his umbrella, a very beautiful
ono, standing in the sent ho vacated.
At the first station a man came In
nud, though there were other vacant
scats, seated himself lu the one whore
the umbrella was standing. My friend
quietly nudged mo and wo kept on talk
ing. Pretty soon that umbrollu lost
Its upright position in tho coruur and
leaned affectionately against tho well,
dressed stranger, who felt the texture
of its silk and the carving of tho handle
with evident relish. Another station
was reached and the stranger rose to
leave the train. Under his arm tho
umbrella found a resting place, and as
ho walked down tho aisle my friend
followed close at his heels. Ho hud
reached the depot platform when the
owner of the umbrollu tupped him
quietly on the shoulder nud said:
"Please netum my umbrella to tho
seat you took It from "
"One gjanco at the HK'uker'H oyos
convinced the would-be-thief that he
meant what ho was saying, and ho
mounted the couch steps and walked
to the sent and sot the umbrella in tho
corner without a word. Thoso in tho
car had by this time becomo aware of
the mi tu re of the difficulty, and, as tho
follow turned shauic-facedly to leave,
ho was aided on his nay by lively hand
clapping and roars of laughter. 1
think it will bo aovural days at least
before ho makes u similar ultteniut
Utlea (W. Y.) Obdjrfer.
UNCERTAINTY OF WEALTH.
In Wall Strrt a Man Mar l'B met To-lf
and Poor To.Morrow.
Istltnatos of wealth based o.i manner
of living and habits of jKsrsonal expen
diture aro by tho way, uncertain.
Some men spend ovory dollar thoy
make as fast as thoy make it. and never
have a dollar laid by. To info there
fore, thabeeauso they live nt the rate
of say $20,000 a year they are worth an
nmount, which at 5 per cent, would
yield an incomo ot $20,000 would evi
dently lie fallacious. On tho other
hand, many thrifty and successful
monoy getters, from their thrift, spend
no more on themselves and families
after thoy have accumulated millions
than when they had next to nothing.
They have become fixed in the habits
they acquired in their leas pro-ierous
days, nud can not got out of tboni.
Every year some man of this kind dies,
nnd astonishes his iwst Intimate friends
by the iinmonso estato he leaves behind
him. This Is especially the casn with
old men, who in their later years re
tiro from society, and are, as It were,
forgotten. Whilo thoy aro vogotatlng
in obscurity their t.noy is rolling
over and ovor like a snow ball. In
creasing In geometrical ratio. On this
point Mueller's weekly advorttsomenW
of executors' sales of stocks ami bonds
and real estate aro most suggostlvo
reading. Tho qunntity of stuff that
Is poured out upon purchasers from
this sourco is something wondorful.
Tho executors of tho Into Joshua Jonos,
for example, who was not supposed to
bo immonsly rich, havo just distributed
among his legatees, as tho proceeds ol
a series of such sales, nearly $8,000,
000. and thoso of tho lato Samuol Wll
lets, who lived in a modest way, sold
through tho samo auctioneers about
thrco years ago $5,000,000 worth of tho
best kind of scourltlos.
For another reason, too, men of
groat fortunos, who do not ostentatious
ly display them, aro much bettor pro
tected ngainst public knowledge of tholr
affairs than those who have small onos.
A man ot modorato means hiu often
nood to ask for credit, especially If he
Is carrying on an active buslnoss. and,
thorefore, must make statements of hla
financial condition. Those statomonts
aro presorvod and rowomborod, nnd
thus, in his particular circle, the
amount of his fortuno Is tolorably woH
known. But a lnrgo capitalist, or oven
a small one, out of buslnoss, lends
monoy and does not borrow it, or, if ho
borrows IL borrows upon collaterals,
which obviates tho necessity of further
Inquiry, and thus leads to no estimate
of his condition. I do not seo how the
fortuno of a man llko Jupiter Morgan,
for instance, cau be appraised. Ho lias
certainly novor told its amount to me,
nor to any ono that I know. I doubt
much whothor he knows it himself
within several millions. When ho
comos to die, to bo sure, his oxecutors
will find out, but that ovont, let us
hope, Is yet far off. Mr. Jay Gould a
fow years ngo did, indeed, make what
ho declared was a full and frank ex
hibition ot his stock investments, and
it was cortitlod to by men of unim
peachable integrity, but, unfortunately,
from tho fact that it was made so
frankly, nobody accepted tho statement
as strictly correct. Mr. Kussoll Sago
is reputed to Ve woalthy, and probably
is so, but whether ho has one, live, ten
or twenty millions I would not dare to
affirm. Besides, many groat fortunes,
ospoclally thoso which aro nourished
conspicuously before tho eyes of tho
public in well-trumpeted stock opera
tions, aro as unsubstantial and evan
escent as soap bubbles. Ten years ago
Mr. Cyrus Field was reputed to bo
worth tlvo millions of dollars. Ho got
to speculating in .Manhattan Filovntod
nnd wont on nntil in a single day he
was reduced to comparative poverty.
Mr. Jay Gould, even, hits repeatedly in
the course of his life been brought to
tho verge of financial ruin. Tho oxpe
rlenco of Jas. H. Kovno is still fresh lu
tho recollection of most frequenters of
Wall street. I know that ho once ex
hibited to his lawyer a Now Year's
statement showing a balance lu his fa
vor or $Ui.OOO,000. Tho next New
Year's tho $15,000,000 hod all been lost
nud more, too. Kvcu the lato Governor
E. D. Morgan, who every body said was
worth $20,000,000. actually left at his
death only about $a.(XK),000. and it ho
had lived few years longer ho would
probably not hnvo loft that. Hundreds
of such illustrations will occur to every
one who has been lu financial circles
hero for nny lenctli of time. If a mon
ument were set up in Trinity church
yard to every man who has made and
lost a fortune in Wall street, since 18(50,
the gravestones there would W mighty
crowded. - N. Y. Sun.
The First Chinese Railway.
The fiiMt railway in China was con
structed by the shrewd and progressive
Prince I, In Ming Cliiiau as a nilnhiluro
affair, carrying lb" peoplo on a circle
of two or lliren mlhM for a small utim
In order to fiiinlliarlze them with the
snorting monster. Thin being accom
plished, a road is now laid of about
seventy-live inllci-, on which the Vice
roy makes fours without exciting tho
prejudices of the natives, "'l.'lio rail
way Is coming," is the proihcy of a
high official at Podu. It Is the only
way to mcot the pressuro of outside
nations. But what is most Interesting
is tho roiult In tho way of unifying tho
dialects spoken lu Chins. Tliuro lire
now not less than three hundred dln
locts, and thoy differ as much as French
from German. There are also five dlf
foront weights, or scales of weights, mid
In Pckln alone, while no standard of
lltnu whatever exists, foreign clocks
aro sometimes found. Thu first slop la
to facilitate Intercourse, In order to
unify tho vubl ueoplo. Gbibo-Dowo-craL
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Tho highest peak In New Guinea
is to bo natnod nfter William E. Glad
stone. Undor tho laws of China tho adull
who loses his temper in a discussion,
is sent to jail for fivo days to cool off.
Tho Husslan military authorities
state that thoy can in twenty-lour
hours put 180.000 soldlors in tho Hold
prepared for war.
Tho Princo of Wales, desplto bis
rank nnd Income, doesn't disdain to
turn an honest penny by breeding
short-horned cattle, which uro sold at
private sale-
Hussla hns fixed doctors' charges.
Pliyslclans making $150 per yoar will
get forty-flvo cents por visit; others
twenty-flvo cents. In country towns,
ten cents Is tho usual charge.
Taking all London's food to
gether tho fish, tho mcaL tho poultry,
tho vegetables, tho fruit, tho grocerios.
and tho bread thoro Is an annual
consumption of olose on a million antl
a half tons a yoar.
At tho top of tho Kiffol tower, for
a fee, specially prepared note papor.
dated from tho Hiimmltof tho towor, ia
provided, and tho wrltor can havo tho
letter posted on tho soL
Presldont Cnrnot of France Is
strongly in favor of capital punish
ment. Ho is a greater bollevor In it
than was M. Grovy, and tho gulllotlno
is much more nctlvo In Paris than it
was some years ago. '
In Grooco it Is not yot recognized
that womon havo tho privilege ot
working. An enormous petition baa
been uddressod to tho llouso nskinp;
for socoudry education for women nnd.
for tho foundation of lyceums for girlH.
From a report of tho Belgian Con-3ul-Genoral
in tho Congo State, it ap-,
pears that tho efforts mado to intro
duce European vogotablos nud frulla
in that district havo been awarded
with great succoss.
Thoro Is a woman in a Wost-ot-England
town who initkos a good liv
ing by killing cats. She advertises
that if people who aro about to go
away for tho summer will send thoir
cats to hor sho will kill them with,
chloroform.
"Hesldontiul chambers" for ladiort
havo been built in Ixindon, consisting
of two, three or four rooms, which
rent from ten shillings to twonty-fivo
shillings, unfurnished. Only thoso
womon who earn thoir own livelihood
aro permit ted to becomo occupants.
The City of Berlin Is far ahead oC
London In lelophonie progress, thoro
being 10,000 subscribers. The entiro
net of wires in tho Gorman capital luvt
reached a length of 17,801 kilomutors.
and the average tiumbor ot calls
amount to I'JtJ.C'Jl dally. -
That swallows are disappearing
from Franco is shown by u report laid
bofore tho Zoological Society, whioli.
also reveals tho cause of this decrease,
and indicates tho remedy. Tho authors
of tho death of millions of thoso pret
ty birds nro tho ladles, who wear tho
feathers, wings and even the bodies ot
swallows in thuir bats and bonnets.
Tho number ol building societies
in England and Wales is, according tc
a recent report, abmit'.lll, having n
membership of over !120,000 and c
share capital of $H.1J.(R)0. Tho re
ceipts for one year wore ovor $80,
000,000, and tho societies held securi
ties valued at $150,000,000. In Scot
land tho societies are reported to ham
a membership of over 11,000, with
share list valued nt ovor $1,015,000,
while thoy hold securities to tho valuo
of $(!,,'" 1, 105. In Ireland such socie
ties hnvo made loss progress, nnd n.
innmlxirshlp of only (i,5M Is reported.-
PERFUMES OF FLOWERS.
How to ruxluro unci Klorn Hwcut Oiturif
lor I'nrlors unci Itcnulnlr.
Boxes of heliotrope, mignonette ami
pansies, placed in windows, wilL
sweeten tlioalrof all dwellings.
Tho seamstress and all of the labor
ing classes should havo Kwcol-scentcd.
plants blooming lu their windows to
keep tho atmosphere fresh and pure,
and net us a disinfectant. Wo can also
use the petals of roses, violets, pinks,
tuberoses, etc, to produce a sweet per
fume for tho pnrlor or boudoir; nnd b.y
the uld of modern science it can be.
very easily done.
Fill u small, wido-inouthed jar witii
ether, and use a gln.ts stopper, dipped
in glycerine, to thoroughly oxcludo
the n'lr. Fill this jar with the fresh
polnle of any fragrant phiul, cut after
tho dew Is dry; nnd only tho petals
should bo used; but. clusters of helio
trope can bo cut off close to ilio stem.
Hther possesses tho proporty of taking
up the fragrant particles from thu
Mowers, nud every dny the old' petalK
must bo taken out and now ones added.
Quantities of (lowers nro required, but
when the other is nlL evaporated it
will leave an osseu'flal oil of the
flower, and three or four drops or it,
udded to deodorized alcohol, will givo
a delicious extract
All delicious odors can be imprisoned
in deodorized nb-'ohol, which Is nindo
by filtering pure sptrlls through nnl
niul charcoal or bouo-black In powder.
It can be used over ninny times, nnd a.
thick lliiiinel bag, with a wire run
around the top, will iiiuko a good filter.
Fill It with hono-black nnd pour lutlnr
ulcohol, hanging tho hag over a bowl,
so that the liquid will drop Into iL
Take jars us described iibovo and &l
half roll with alcohol, and then fill up
with peach leaves, lemon pool, sllcea
nf jiluoupplo, nispborrloH, cherries,
f,ru wherries - Indeed, any thing from .
"Mch you may desire to extract ca
k ice, nud you will hnvo uh duo tin ua
oi'tmeut of essences as tho maim
acturcr om furnish you. Household.