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FAMOUS STAGE DRESSES.
One of Thnn Was n Sealskin Costume,
Which Proved a failure.
Some of the stage dresses of the pres
ent epoch remain celebrated in the an
nals of Parisian toilet, such as the
white ball dress, embroidered with sil
ver, in which Mile. Crora'tte appeared
in "The Sphinx," and tho pnvn in seal
skin, which was one of her later dress
sensations, and which, according to
the Philadelphia Telegraph, proved a
failure. For the lady, when she donned
that cumbrous garb, hud reached the
period when she was growing very
stout, and her magnificent fur dress
was in consequence by no means be
coming. It would have suited the slim
proportions of Sarah llernhardt far
better than her own. Also nnforgotten
is the gold-yellnw bell ib-'s-;, embroid
ered with gold wV.'at ear . which was
one of the scries pr spared for the "Di
vine Sarah'' when .she lir '.t appeared in
Paris in "La Dame aux Camellia's." It
ought to be remembered if only on ac
count of its price, for it cost six hun
dred dollars. While Mile, liurtct was
at the Vaudeville ' he appeared in the
role oi! a young society girl in otic of
Sardou's plays in an evening dress
which used each evening to uivir.se a
deep, longmurmnrof ap:nibat;oj from
the audience. It had a ciriou.; u'idire
ei'r'ect. being a combination of waler
orcen .sill; and silvjr an.e and water
lilies and aquatic gras .es, all most
tastefully and art! Really arrangc l.
The dresses of the IvAiaa oi the
Come. lie Franeaise are always especial
ly "petiieoated" (to translate literall;:
the French word "jupannue-'') in view
ot the exigencies of the scene, so Ci::t
th 're can be no turning over the trains
or unJl'raeeful prominence in the folds,
no matter what vehemence of geshire
or movement is required by the stage
business. Anyone who lias seen Croi
.ette in the fourth act of "La Demi
Monde." half dragged by liaymond
across the stage, half crawling after
him, could only wonder tit the marvel
ous way in which her train of black
satin and jet followed her progress in
serpentine convolutions and never be
"ume ui:.arrunged in the slightest de
gree. Mine, Favart, while she was the
leading lady at La Comedie, used to
order her dresses of Worl !i, and could
then, on a Sunday, go down to his
home at Snvesnes arrayed in her new
eo.'-tvnne. and would recite her role1 be
foi'e h:::i. so that he might jadg'e of the
appropriateness of the cut and trim
ming i'a' the nioveinents and gestures
exacted by the part. She was a very
handsome woman in her prime, and a
very stylish and graceful one as well.
She has now retired from the stage,
having been swept intoohlivion by the
volcanolikr.,v;s;1t!;-'-:-- " " ' '
WOMEN OF ALASKA.
They Have n Hard Life In tile Arctic Por
tion of Hit! Territory.
''The reader can scarcely conceive of
greater hardships in life than the peo
ple who inhabit the Arctic coast, of
Alaska endure. Life is to them a seri
ous struggle. Their faces tell it.
Wot.ien twenty years old show
that they have borne exposure and
hardships which have already made
them prematurely old. The farther
south of the Arctic circle they live the
less they have to ensure. n the btrng
gle to maintain existence is less of a
sl.rr.in and effort, and the cold is not so
tlendiy in it work.
"The urst, Alaskan Esquimau woman
I met.'' says Herbert L. Aldrieh, in
(lodoy's, "was at Port Claivr.ee, a line
natural harbor about one hundred
miles south of llehring straits. So far
as cleanliness was concerned, she was
a uedcl of her kind, and outside of her
and her immediate family they were
almost the only Esquimaux I encoun
tered who appreciated the rudiments
of cleanliness. I a.-.lced her to permit
me to take a photograph of her and
her family, but she shook her head,
and, looking at her hands and c! ith
ing, said: 'Smoky,' then, ufli r a pause.
added, 'na-na-ho,' meaning sii:tie other
time. Although her face and hands
were comparatively clean, she was
dressed in well-worn and somewhat
tattered clothing, made of deerskins,
on navt of which the hair was M"o ;ca
and. won off, making her appear some
what shabby; but na-na-ho." which
frequently means the next day, as it
did in this case, she, her husband, son
and daughter came to the ship dressed
in their best, and asked t ) be
Vraphed. We used the top of lit
house ar. a photograph gallery. '
results were unsati laetovy. tl
sisted on facing av.ay from tl.;
and clo',i:rr their -'yes tij;ht so
to see the cai.iera."
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His Slave e.uil Wile.
The story sent to the lloslun Tran
script from New Hampshire of the
free r.egro. Amos Lortur .', who eaine
to .latfecy riore than c.ie hiindred
years ago, and, though u ai'n .d oil' as a
possible pauper, setiljd there, leit one
quaint bit of hisL.ry connected with
him untold. This possible pan pi r left
the estate which lie and his wife accu
mulated to the town, anil part of it
bought a communion service still in
use. The wife herself is a pr-xif of
his industry, since he acquired her by
purchase. Her grave is in the Jalfrey
burying ground, marked:
; Sacred to the Memory of :
Vini.atk. :
' By Purchase, the Slave of Amos Fortune; :
; Hy Marriage, His Wife; ;
: By Fidoliiv. His Companion and Solace; :
; Uy IJi.s Death, Ilia Widow. :
Tlio Golden liose of Virtue.
The "golden rose of virtue" presented
by his holiness the pope each year to a
female member of some of the ruling
families of Europe, will be received this
year, it is said, by Archduchess Mar
garet of Austria, daughter of Archduke
Charles Louis and niece of the emperor.
The young princess was born in 1S70
and is abbess of the convent on the
Hradsclini, near Prague, to which only
members of noble families are admitted.
The archduchess is exceedingly clever
and is popular in Vienna. Last year
the. "golden rose" was given to the
queen of Portugal. The jewel is valued
at fifty thousand dollars and is always
made in Rome by a famous gol dsmith.
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AROUND THE GLOBE.
Tub great gold tieldsof South Africa
were discovered in 18U0 by an elephant
hunter named Hartley.
The largest estates in Austria are
those of Prince Schwai'zenbnrg, 510,000
acres; Prince Liehtenstein, 400,000, and
Archduke Albert, 305,000.
The greatest iish eaters in the world
are the Japanese. The eating of meat
is nearly entirely confined to the rich,
and even they use it sparingly.
The little island of Malta has a lan
guage of its own, derived from the
Carthagininn and Arabian tongues.
The nobility of the island speak Ital
ian. The Strom palace was a splendid
palace in Florence, Italy, erected to
wards the close of the fifteenth cen
tury after designs by Cronaca (L 154
15011). At the beginning of the last war (in
1HSH) the population of Paraguay was
reckoned 770.011(1; to-day it is less than
;!.")(). 000, and fully six-sevenths of that
n u tuber are women.
If.uat, in Afghanistan, is the city
which lias been most often destroyed.
I'ifty-six times have its walls been laid
in ruins, and the same number of times
have they been erected again.
A I, Any physician attends the queen
of Corea, and receives pay at the rate
of 1 5,000 a year. When the queen is
sicl; the salary stops; and of course the
physician at such times foelsulinostas
wretched as her noble patient.
At beautiful Wensleydalo village
the old custom of the blowing of a horn
each night in winter is still carried
out. Its purpose was to guide belated
travelers in tin; forest, just as the fog
horn guides the mariner who is Hear
ing the coast.
SAYINGS OF THE SAGES.
EvEItY
Hall.
day is a little life. fiishop
Pew love to hear the sins they love
to act. Shakespeare.
PuniK requires very costly food its
keeper's happiness. CoKon.
11oi.no nothing for others is the un
doing of one's self. H. Mann.
Poi.lTi-:7;ss is the result of good sense
and good nature. ( loldsmith.
l)i;r.AV has always been injurious to
those who are prepared. Liican.
A(.L cruelty springs from hard-hcart-ednoss
and weak character. Seneca.
It is a barren kind of criticism that
tells you what a thing is not. K. V.
firiswolil.
No asiiks are lighter than those of
incense, and few thing's burn out
sooner. Lnndor.
Sll.EM i:is the safest course for any
man to udopt who distrusts himself.
Uocbel'oueailld.
A clean mouth and an honest hand
will take a man through any land.
(ierman Proverb.
L' character, in manners, in style, in
all things, the supreme excellence is
simplicity. Longfellow.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.-
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ABOUT EELS.
Queer Facts Concerning a Myste
rious Animal
Why the Fish Commissioner Does Nat
Give Away Their Kggs Some In
teresting; Things Learned by
Scientist.
Every now and then some one applies
to the fish commission at Washington
for a consignment of eels' eggs where
with to stock a pond or stream. The
request is invariably refused, not be
cause there is any intention to be diso
bliging, but for the reason that nobody
in this world knows whether eels lay
eggs or not. If they do man has never
beheld them, and to get hold of any is
quite out of the question. In case you
want to establish eels in your water
preserves you can buy young ones by
the pailful at a cheap rate, and they
will grow big enough to eat or send to
the market within three years.
It may fairly be said that the eel, as
to its breeding, is the most mysterious
animal in existence. The New York
Sun says its method of propagation has
puzzled science for centuries, and has
been a subject of more or less supersti
tious speculation among many people
for thousands of years. The ancient
Egyptians had their own theories re
specting the matter. Some authorities
have contended that eels grow up from
horse hair, which iu some strange man
ner became vitalized. Others have held
that they were generated sponta
neously from slime, while others still
have gravely advanced the belief that
they came from the skins of old
eels, or similar exuviiu of water snakes.
That eels mate with water snakes is
very generally accepted as truth. Most
popular among people who get their liv
ing from the water, however, is the
theory that eels tire the progeny of va-
rimi.- i,H... t!..u.w- ...a ro,.-i..wet ay
a certain kind of water beetle, wliicil
for this reason is called "mother of
eels." The Greek poets, who fathered
all children otherwise unaccounted for
upon Jupiter, declared that this god was
the progenitor of the eel.
All this mystery about the eel, as
science has learned in the last few
years, is due to the fact that it lays its
eggs or brings forth its young alive in
the sea, where no one has a chance to
observe the process. Other lishes, like
the shad, leave the ocean to spawn iu
fresh water .streams, but this curious
and slippery customer does precisely the
reverse. The young eels, newly born
or hatched, leave the salt water and
make their way in armies up the rivers
inland. Obstacles apparently insur
mountable they use the utmost ingenu
ity in passing, even traveling consider
able distances on dry land in order to
get around an obstruction. In the
spring and summer any visitor at Niag
ara Pal Is who descends beneath the great
sheet of water at the foot of the falls
will see literally hundreds of cartloads
of small eels wriggling over the rock
and squirming in the whirlpools. Of
course it is impossible for them to get
over the falls, and thus it happens that
although eels have always been plenti
ful in Lake Ontario there were none in
Lake lOrie until they were planted in
the latter body of water artificially.
Inasmuch as eels must go to the sea
iu order to propagate their species
they are found not to multiply at all
.viien placed in ponds that are land
locked, although in such places they
will grow rapidly and be healthy. It
costs so little to purchase young ones
by the quantity that this is no obstacle
to 1 lie usefulness of stocking inland
waters with these fish. They have
many very important advantages from
the economic point of view, inasmuch
as they will feed on anything dead or
ilivo, will thrive in water clear or mild
ly and at any temperature, and will re
quire no looking out for. However, in
rivers like the Susquehanna, where
.fid-nets are. used, eels are very unde
sirable. It is not unusual, upon hauling
the nets in that stream and others
farther south, to find that the catch has
been entirely eaten up by myriads of
the squirming robbers, which have left
little beside heads and backbones. It
has been found advantageous by the
Iish commission to plant eels in the up
per great lakes and the Mississippi.
They have also been introduced very
'iuccessfully in California.
In all probabilities eels lay eggs, just
as do nearly all other fishes. The only
difference is that they deposit them in
the sea, instead of in fresh water. It is
believed that the mother eel dies soon
after she has spawned. For a couple
nf centuries past efforts have been
made by eminent scientific men to dis
r,ver the organs of treneration in male
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aim lomalo eels. It is only possible
now to discover the difference between
the sexes by microscopic examination.
A boot fifteen years ago the celebrated
lb-. Yirchow, of Berlin, published an
a h ertisement for a female eel bearing
e. 'gs, offering a considerable pri2e for
the specimen. Within a short tune the
.idvertisemeut was copied all over
Europe, and the Herr Dqctor received
such enormous quantities of eels In
packages that the affair became quite
serious. So many thousand pounds of
the very perishable article were con
ified to him that it was an important
question how to get rid of the material,
and one of the most comical papers sug
gesied that perhaps it would be well
ihat he should make a retrUlation re
pining an samples to De sent smoKea.
the best way to cook eels is to cut
th.'iu into sections, after they have been
skinned properly, dip them in egg, roll
!l;e pieces in crumbs, and fry them.
Hut there is no point more important
Hum that the backbone should be
taken out before the attempt is made to
bite them through, .rii.,. .
THE
HAWAIIAN'S " POV
They
F.at It with Their ringer
Catch It on the Ply.
In an article on the Sandwich island!
a writer in Fnuik Leslie's Mo7itjhly says
We saw the natives eating "poi
Poi is something like cornstarch and is
made from the "taro," the Ilawaiiar
potato, wliieh is first mashed into a kind
of Hour and then cooked until it is a
thick paste. Their manner of eating it
is peculiar, and I will describe it as 1
Four or five persons (natives) werf
seated on the forward deck around an
open earthen jar containing this poi.
Putting their two forefingers togethei
they would dip them into this jar; a
little twist of the wrist would collect a
fair mouthful, which was lifted rapidly
to the mouth (no dripping allowed);
tomary for several to eat from the
same dish it rather went against my
American prejudice. If I was very
much in love, and "she" had very pretty
lingers and was very particular about
her hands, I might be willing to eat poi
. with her.
Throe Lotos Plants
1 Three lotos plants, set out three years
ago in the small lake near tho north
western corner of Central park, New
York, have increased hundreds and
pread over an area of many square
yards. Scores of great pink blossoms
are now tossing their heads in air and
thousands of large cup-like leaves rise
above the surface of the water. With
in a year or two the lake itself is likely
to be invisible beneath its mass oi
think green leaves. The sight now,
says the Sun, is one of the finest in the
park. "Curiously enough the attempt
to domesticate the lotos iu the lower
lake has been almost a failure. The
American lotos nourishes finely in the
lily pond, just east of the so-called coll
servatory lake."
WILD HORSES.
Why Tlioy Aro Tougher Than the
Do-
iiicstic liqulno.
"Rest and fat are the greatest ene
mies of the horse," is a saying of the
Arabs, and, if every horse owner would
embody its truth in his practice, there
would be little need to write anything
further on the subject, says the Kidci
and Driver. Its observances would be
potent to improve the. horse iu health,
strength, vitality, endurance and lon
gevity, and, by "holding up the glass to
nature," correct the irrational treat
ment and abnormal condition under
which ho is often reared.
Not that the. conditions .surrounding
the horse in a state of nature should be
wholly imitated, for they do not all tend
to his improvement in the quantities
adapted to man's use. Hut it is worthy
to note that the wild horse is tough,
sound and healthy; and, making due al
lowance for the inlluence of natural se
lection of the survival of the iittest,
when it is observed that hu is seldom in
a state of rest, that he lives unconfined
in the open air, upon natural food, it
may reasonably connect these as cause
and effect, and safely consider exercise,
pure air and simple diet the funda
mental conditions upon which to build
up, by skill in breeding and training,
the highest and most perfect equiue
t.voo.
A ScicHtilic Problem.
One of the greatest problems of tin
future, is thought to be the transforma
tion of carbon energy into light upon
the same principle that the glow
worm and lire-ily give their light, and
when a single pound of combustible
material will furnish as much light al
is now obtained from a ton of coal.
Honora, World's Fair.