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Favor with American (..iris.
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don Million, of a singular "card of in
vitation'' which he once received in
l liir1:!. V v'us -from n la:ly, intimutino;
h-r 1 !er.;-i to ei :.n:.'.r. sr.ieittt' on a
speeiiied datJ. f-ihe Mi ory young
a:il a'.lraetive, and helonjed to a
wealthy family, but the Chinese jen
t'.eutuu to whom she hud been affianced
from childhood having died jui;t before
the date fixed for their nuptials, sho
pave out that she deemed it her duty
to render her widowhood irrevocable
by dying with her betrothed. So she
Bent cards around to the local frentry
giving notice of her purpose. No at
tempt was made by her relatives or
the local authorities to frustrate her
design, though Mr. Medhurst appealed
to the mandarins, the general opinion
IiHut that she wa"- "bout to perforin a
meritorious act. Eventually, on the
day named, the woman did deliberate
ly sacrifice her life in the presence of
thousands of spectators. A stage was
erected in the open fields, with a tent
ed frame over it, from which was sus
pended a slip of scarlet crepe. One
end of this slip she fastened round her
neck, and then, umbracing a little boy
presented by one of the bystanders,
she mounted a chair and resolutely
jumped off, "her little clasped hands
saluting the assemblage as her body
twirled round with the tightening
cord." The woman was not hounded
on by a fanatic mob, as was the prac
tice at sut tees iu lndio. but immolation
appeared to be an entirely voluntary
act. StieriucoN of this kind, according
to Mr. Medhurst, are not xmeoininon in
certain parts of China, and, strange to
say. they are rewarded with monu
ments, sometimes erected by order of
the emperor.
REMARKABLE HELEN KELLAR.
The l ittle utrl Whose rase Parallels That
of Laura Urhliruoitt.
Helen Kellar, the remarkable child
who, although born blind and deaf and
dumb in Alabama, has accomplished so
much that is beautiful and inspiring,
numbers among her friends many per
sons of royal station in European courts
who never saw her. One of these, says
the Hoston Post, is the queen of Greece,
who learned of Helen through Michael
Anagnos, the director of the institution
for the blind, when he visited Greece
some time ago. The interest which the
queen took in Helen was so intense that
she exacted from Mr. Anagnos a promise
that he would let her read every letter
that Helen wrote to him while she was
at the Greek capital, and when he was
about to return to this country she iu
divcd him to permit her to r"Hii
eral of the letters that she had read,
which are treasured very highly at the
conr.t. The queen expressed on more
than fine occasion her surprise that
Helen, who is not yet in her teens,
should have so remarkable a command
of the purest English, and hinted that
the child might have had some assist
ance in the preparation of her wonder
ful letters. Hut Mr. Anagnos disposed
of that thought by informing her maj
esty that there was no person connect
ed with the institution who could write
English so faultlessly sweet and pure as
Helen wrote, since the little girl never
had had an opportunity to form ac
quaintance with any but the loftiest
models of the language. Helen has
learned to articulate and can speak as
freely and fully as any unafflicted per
son. When she wishes to hold a long
conversation with anybody dear to her
she places one linger across the lips of
the speaker and another on the throat
at the larynx. In this way she under
stands every word that is uttered as
rapidly as could be understood by a per
son with good eyesight and hearing.
INQUISITIVE FLOWERS.
lsotanlsts Now Affirm the Darwinian As
sertion That S nie l'lants Can See.
Now it is the botanists who bring us
a weird story calculated to send terror
to the hearts of bucolic lovers, by af
firming the assertion of Darwin, that
some plants can t-.ee. Only to think of
it! 1'hoibe and Phyllis and Daphne,
how your innocent confidences have
been violated irreverently and heart
lessly in all these bygone centuries!
Think of the treachery of the three
leaved clover, and the cold, calculating
iruelty of tho innocent-looking liver
wort: the cunning anil perfidy of the
hyacinth, and even the knowingness
of the demure primrose! Who after
this will wear a boutouniere, knowing
that every act, every innocent flirta
tion that may happen while it is being
worn, may be indelibly recorded upon
the floral retina? Science has shown
us monsters in our drinking-water, and
veatcd the undreamed terrors of the
bacilli in our fofnl; but now it cornea
lo rob sylvan sweetness of its sanctity,
urid to destroy the sweet illusion that,
when we left "the madding crowd" be
hind, and turned from our Mayfairs
and Murray Hills lo the unfrequented
ways of field and forest, we could shun
tho espionage which grows so weari-
irn to'.vrir Is t he season's end. Now
where shall we turn? Deductions ap
pal us with their suggestions. Plants
can see! Can they not hear as well,
like other forms of created life? If
ouly we knew what our dogs and our
buttercups said about us, what a shock
it uiltfht be to our impervious vanity.
Tiik rack, thumbscrew and other
nvWes of torture were used by Euro
pean eoui ls until 1550, not only as a
punishment, hut also as a means of ob
taining evide.iee.
Mmk. Modjeska carries in "Henry
VIII." a handkerchief which is said to
have been the property of Queen Isa
belle. The handkerchief is one of the
rarest pieoet of old Spanish lace in ex
istence. Jase Hading, the French actress, is
said to be more beautiful off the Btago
than on. She almost always wears
black on the street, being probably
qutt taell aware that it sets off bee
wood.! re4tM bi, (.MttWtlna
itW . -' "' -
A NOVEL OCEAN RACE.
The Steamers Fire I Till tlio Drart Alone
(.i;-V:s In Tons of C o:,l.
In these days of ocean racing the
speeding is nearly always done nifainst
time, hut there was a bat'Je royal
ended a few weeks ago between the
Anvri'.ntn steamships Carib Prince and
Muriel, says the Curdiil Mail, that
-A-ouM have started the goo ellcsh of
excitement on the most collected of
eainen. The Carib l'riuee left Dem
crara on November 17 and jogged
leisurely away on her journey north
ward. Three days later the Muriel set
sail for l:::)'h.':docs and journeyed in
the same direction. Both vessels were
about abreast at this time but sepa
rated by a wide patch of ocean. Three
days later, however, they narrowed
the angles of their eourses down to
the apox, and when they were in sight
of each other it was pull devil pull
lint-Mr for the lead.
Down in tlieir vessels' holds their en
gines bnnged and rattled in countless
r. 'Volutions, twisting their screws as
t!u-y were never twisted before, and
on', of '.he mouths of their smokestacks
came laky clouds. Seek and neck tliey
come up the coast, and every man
jici: auoio'd. in the parlance of the
sea. 'ro'.v.cd hard" for victory. In the
stokehold, according to one of the
firemen, they didn't have to shovel in
coa! -tiicy just opened the ftirnnce
door.1; luni tho draft licked in tons at
a time, l or seven days they were in
sight of each other, and the Muriel,
with a iiianiiicent burst of bpeed,
crawled upon iier rival and then quick
ly ran out of sight.
DON'T KNOW HOW TO EAT.
Too Many Amorlouna Woefully Deficient
In That Itrauch of Education.
"When my children get to the proper
age," said tho man wdio was sinoUIng a
briar pipe, "I intend to have them
taken in hand by some competent per
son and give them a thorough instruc
tion in the art of eating, and, further,
in the science of finding out what to
eat and ordering."
"What do you mean?" inquired a
liuflalo Express man who sat next to
him.
"I mean this: The average American
citizen is woefully deficient in knowl
edge of what he can get to eat. He
falls down when it comes to ordering
a dinner. The great majority of people
in this country are brought up frugally
at home and do not know anything but
the commonest dishes. The conse
quence is that when a man goes into
a restaurant for dinner or to a hotel he
gazes helplessly at the bill of faro and
sees many things of which he does not
know the coinponeut parts. He dares
not order anything that he is not sure
of for fear of ridicule, and he falls back
on roast beef and mashed potatoes.
The fact is, he doesn't know anything
but roast beef. 8aine way in a restaur
ant. When a waiter shoves a bill of
fare under a man's nose nine times out
of ten he will look it over and then say:
'Gimme a steak and some fried pota
toes.' Now, the man who does this
day after day doesn't want roast beef.
He is sick unto death of steaks and
fried potatoes. He loathes ham and
eggs, and yet he keeps on ordering
them in dreary and dyspeptic succes
sion, because he doesn't know any
better and he is too proud to confess
his ignorance. It's that way with mo,
and I'll bet it's that way with most of
you. I am gotng to relieve my children
of all these things. They're going to
know what's what when it comes to
eating. 'No roast beef domiuationl'
shall bo my household slogan."
A CRUSHED INSURANCE AGENT.
His Intended Victim Led Htm to a I'laoe
W here a Human Voice Was Useless.
"The toughest experience I ever had
in my life," said a solicitor of life in
surance to a New York Herald man,
"was with an iron manufacturer in
Troy. I had been informed that he
was a hard customer, but a wealthy
man and one who had carelessly neg
lected to provide himself with insur
ance, and so I resolved to tackle him.
Upon entering his office and explain
ing the nature of my business I was
surprised at his greeting. It was
friendly, even cordial. 'Life insur
ance.' said he. 'Well, now, that's a
subject that interests me. Come with
me to the shop; I've got to go there,
and you can tell me all about the su
periority of your company over all oth
ers.' Then he took up his hat and
bade me follow him. As we went out
of the office I noticed a smile on the
faces of all the clerks, and though I
didn't understand it I smiled in return,
for I thought possibly they knew my
errand and were congratulating me on
my success. The proprietor walked
hurriedly and I after him, until at last
he flung open a door. It was the ma
chine shop. The din was terrible. A
thousand hammers, I think, were all at
work beating iron at once. Involun
tarily I put my hands to my ears.
I.ookingatmyman I saw his lips move,
and lowering my hands I just managed
to catch his words, shouted above the
deafening racket: 'Now, tell me all
about it!' Ho smiled sardonically as
ho said this, and I could have mur
dered him. It was impossible to say a
word, and so I went right out It was
a darn mean trick."
A llusy Household.
Busy-handed must have been the
women-folk of a century and a half
ago. It is recorded that one family in
Newport, R. I., made in the space of
eighteen months four hundred and
eighty-seven yards of cloth-carding,
spinning, dyeing and weaving every
inch of material used, and also accom
plished the knitting of thirty-six pairs
of stockings not the thin, delicate
and often tiimsy hosiery seen nowa
days, but tuch as would bear much
icavy use and even be "handed down
o posterity." It is added that another
.V.vport family distinguished them
elves by mnkiiiT. in the space of foui
yenrs, nine hundred r,nd eighty yards
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OBEYED ORDERS STFIICTLY.
How a Collector secured a His Weeks'
Holiday and a Partnership.
"When 1 was a youngster of seven
teen," said a successful business man
to a Det roit Free Press reporter, "I got
a job as collector with a man who was
about as strict a martinet as I oversaw.
He insisted on everything being done
just as he said, and there were times
when life was verily a burden, but I
stuck to him for six months, then we
had a difference. It was this wav:
One morning he called me up and
handed me a bill on a man knew and
said for me to take it around and col
lect it.
"'It's one of our staudbys,' he said,
'and every collector I ever sent to him
reported him absent or not findable or
something. Now you go and don't come
back here till you see him.'
" 'Do you mean that?" J asked, as two
or three clerks looked up.
" 'You know me,' was all he said in
reply and I went out after my man.
"He wasn't at home, the people said,
and wouldn't be for six weeks. So I
stuck the bill in my pocket and went
off up the country on a visit. The old
man sent after me half a dozen times,
but my folks could only tell 1 was out
of town, and I never paid any atten
tion to a letter I got from the boss, but
went on enjoying myself. Then I
came back and had a visit with some
other friends and at the end of six
weeks I called on my man again with
the bill. I found him at home and told
him what I had done, and he paralyzed
me by paying the bill with interest.
Two hours later I stepped into the boss'
office.
" 'There,' I said, before he had time
to gather his wits, 'is the amount of
your bill and interest. He was out of
town for six weeks and I couldn't see
him before. You told me not to come
back till I did see him, and I was obey
ing your instructions. I bail a rattling
good time and the house owes me six
weeks' salary.'
"The old man gasped, got blue in the
face and I thought lie was going to ex
plode, but he didn't; he gulped it all
down and stuck out his hand.
" 'Young man,' he said, 'you ought
to have been a soldier: I'm going to
put you in charge of the collection de
partment and doubleyour salary, and,'
concluded the merchant, 'when I was
twenty-five I was a partner.
THE TALLOW TREE.
It Produ.ee the Famous Itlc. Paper and
Kl.h Oil.
Our foreign consuls quite frequent
ly send home curious and interesting
accounts of the things which come
under their observation while in line
of duty. These articles, valuable from
several points of view, are never seen
by one in each ten thousand of our
population, because the documents in
which they appear, being classed with
other "government publications," are
seldom consulted.
In this way, says the Detroit Free
Press, much that is interesting and
valuable to the scientist and general
reader is overlooked. For an instance
the descriptions of the curious vegeta
tion of China, especially the "tallow
tree." This tree is the stillingia scbi
fera of the botanist, the root of which
produces oil, the bark the famous "rice
paper," and the berries tallow. The
greasy berries are of a light scarlet
and resemble those of the coffee of
nrvimoren. both In size and color. In
preparing the tallow the beans or ber
ries are first steamed and then pounded
in order to separate the mesocarp from
the kernels.
This pulp is then placed in a bamboo
seine and the mealy portions separated
from the hulls, the tallowy substance
having the oil expressed from it in
large, primitive wooden presses, while
the chaff or hulls Is converted into
fuel. The oil thus obtained is used for
oil stoves, lighting purposes, etc. Tho
whole tree from root to leaf is sur
charged with oleaginous matter, and
broken limbs and abrasions in the bark
have been known to exude pure oil for
days in succession.
MEDICAL SCIENCE.
The average weight of the Chinese
brain is said to le heavier than the
average weight of the brain in any
other race.
A llnrriHH scientist recently stated
that if a man weighing one hundred
and forty pounds were placed under a
hydraulic press and squeezed Hat, the
result would be one hundred and five
pounds of water and thirty-five pounds
of dry residue.
Kkcicnt studies of cancer not only in
dicate that it is an organic, growth, but
almost certainly prove that it is itself
liable to the attack of another parasite.
Better acquaintance with the relations
of these parasites may possibly bring
the long-sought method of arresting
cancer.
Dr. Francis Dowlino, of Cincinnati,
has published the rcsultof his examina
tion into the effect of tobacco chewing
on the eyes. The experiments covered
three thousand cases, and showed that
ninety-five per cent, suffered with vis
ual troubles, and nearly os many ex
hibited muscular deterioration.
Swaw was formerly a man who kept
hogs, and his descendants are the
Swaines, Swaynes, and perhaps also
Swaims, Swinncrts and Hoggarts.
Hill comes from an old English verb
meaning to cover, or put u roof on;
hence the Hills, Hil'.yurs, llolllers,
ilefciw, &4 rvift 'laiftn and; lle;.
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IMPROVING THE EYES.
Country Lire Is the Ilest Antidote for
Nearsightedness.
It is satisfactory to be told by Mr.
Ellis that blindness in England is
"slowly decreasing." says the Specta
tor, though Great Britain still stands
in this respect behind two other Euro
pean countries, and three more come
before Ireland. Shortsightedness,
however, appears to be increasing
everywhere, Germany paving a signal
and sinister preeminence in this re
spect. A French doctor has noted the re
markable fact that wild beasts caught
quite young or born in captivity become
shortsighted, the conclusion being that
the eye adapts itself to its habitual
sphere of vision, and unless "educat
ed," to use Mr. Ellis' term, to see ob
jects at a distance, loses the capacity
of so doing. Even in after Hie the eye
may be, to some extent, so educated,
though probably only when the myopia
is not considerable.
It is thus within tho experience of
the present writer that his sight irreat
ly improved in days gone by, when he
became a volunteer, by practice at the
butts, so that while at first he could
not see the target to shoot at without
spectacles at the three-hundred-yard
range, after a twelvemonth or so he
only needed to put on spectacles at
four hundred yards. But beyond that
range he was never able to dispense
with them.
Country excursions are therefore ex
tremely valuable as means of strength
ening the sight of town-bred children;
and the conductors of such excursions
should take pains to direct the eyes of
the children to distant objects to the
furthest hill, church tower or other
landmark, noting, if possible, any in
capacity to discern the selected object,
and then selecting some nearer one for
the weaker-sighted.
FREE MAIL DELIVERY.
Curious Result of an Kxperlmenk by the
Postal Authorities.
The difference between city and
country ways have been illustrated in
a curious manner by an experiment of
the post otlice department, says the
New York Evening Post. Under the
last administration about fifty villages
and small towns, ranging in population
from eight hundred to four thousand
inhabitants, were picked out for a
trial of the system of distributing
mail matter by carrier, as in large
cities. At first general satisfaction
was manifested, and the receipts of
many of the olllees for awhile showed
an increase, indicating that the con
venience "stimulated correspondence,
but as tho novelty wore off the resi
dents very generally tired of the
change and returned to tho old prac
tice of going to the office themselves
for their mail. A majority of the peo
ple would apparently rather have their
letters lie in the otlice until they call
for them and thus have an excuse for
frequent visits to the center of local
activity than have their mail delivered
every day at their houses. The carrier
in such places is really a foe to social
activity, as "going to the post office"
has always been a recognized means of
mixing with men, and its occasional
inconvenience is preferable to the loss
of what is often only a pretext for
making a break in the monotony of a
retired life. In view of tho evidence
that there is not "a long-felt want" to
be met by this system of free delivery
in small communities, and of the fact
that its general adoption would in
volve an annual expense of at least ten
million dollars, the llrst assistant post
master general wisely advises a sus
pension of the experiment.
The MouJIk Csar.
Alexander III. seems determined to
live up to his sobriquet of "the moujik
czar." lie has just alfixed his signa
ture to a project of law now being
elaborated by the council of the em
oire. which is destined to render in
alienable the landed allotments of the
peasants. The object of this measure
is, of course, to prevent the seizure of
the land for debt by the money lenders,
whom he regards as the principal cause
of the presentdistressand agricultural
depression in his dominions. For the
peasants, when once deprived of their
lands, lone every Interest in the wel
fare of their "ruir,"or community, and
drift away to the towns and cities in
search of work, where they help to
swell the ranks of the unemployed,
who constitute a permanent Bource of
embarrassment to the authorities.
KroYABD Kipi.iso has applied for
membership to the Society of American
Authors. Kipling is democratic enough
when it comes to pocketing all the roy
alties in sight.
The Only Tune Harrison Like..
During the darkest days of the war,
when military tunes and ballads were
ung everywhere till people were about
sick of them, there was played in New
York, says the Press of that town, a
soldier's march which was immediately
popular all over the country. It was
the late Charles tlounod'B "The Sol
diers' Chorus," from "Faust," and after
a year or so America got as tired of it
as it recently did of "Annie Rooney."
Ex-I'resident Harrison first heard it
played by one of the army bands in
Sherman's army. It is the only air he
ever liked. In tho case of most tunes
he did not know one t-,ne from tlQ
OtUet', and lie is probacy tho only pcr-
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