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I FREE if C I flOO worth of lovely Music tor Forty Ctntl, COnSistlnc Of 100 rapes : run size aneet Music of tiie-1 id most popular -3f -ie-uun5f rx,tn vocal and instrumental, gotten up in the most elegant manner, In eluding four large size Portraits. CARMENGI7A, the Spanish Dancer, 5 ?ADEREW8KI, the Great PlanitL T AUUINA PATTI and 52 MINNIE 8UJGMAN CUTTlHQ. 1' ? ntf Lt Oaena to THE NEW YORK MUSICALECH0 C0.:- Broadway Theatre BM., New York Uiy. .j ti CINUlllarCQ Ufa " Arthur Htw'y ii nvsKkn for near wh:l hnnnpg in th rur uiitsins of I X. rleuti.il Clli.tv dub dsy lost Keek, aotl as shut ihrotiiiu the bo,l just obnvf he hip .ith a b:rg(nfl-. It i m..r, ban likely that ilr. Haw!t) j JrH "ill prove fatal. 00 tmm JsL INCBEASINO- LONGEVITY. Araerloana in Partioular Live Much Longs r Than In Past Agree. Remarkable Instances of Extreme Old Age Intellectual Activity Is Mo Bar to I.iiug Lite and tiood Health. a writer in tlie ashino-ton Post. calls attention to the many instances of remarkable longevity which from year to year have been renorted. Pass ing by the hundreds of years asserted to have been lived by the antediluvian heroes of Hebrew tradition, the appar- mT 01 lleb Aldrich, and Sarah ent numbers in which may mean some- 1)alme.V. widow of John Q. Dabney, thing entirely different from what bot wom were 93'j ears old at the they would mean in our decimal scale Pe.riod last rollcall. Mary iSnead, of enumeration, and down through the widow p' Uowdoin Snead, is the young Greek and subsequent ages, whose est' Dein8' only 77 years of age. It method of counting we do not under- seems almost beyond belief that a fe stand, we find a continuous record of male born thirty years after the war persons arriving at an advanced old was conulled is the widow of a soldier age. These, from one point of view. wno f?us"llt in it. Presuming that constitute a very small minority, and 1,0""llin Snead was 15 years of age yet, from another, form a considerable w,llun ?ne wur w'as concluded and that and important element. j br'dn was the same age when they The number of deceased persons who ; w.ere man'iL'd, there must have been a had attained an exceptional old age diseri'Parey of over fifty years in the was probably greater in the vr isua B?s of the two. than in any recent period. During the last three or four months of the venr the general public became familiar through a perusal of the daily papers with the remarkable obituaries of those who had departed, having lived to a great old age. A month or so since we read of a life thut had reached the extraordinary limit of one hundred and thirty-five years. We have since read of the death of a woman at Hart ford, Conn., who was old enough to give warning of the approach of tlie llritish fleet in 1812, and so saved the New England coast from threatened devastation. And still later we have been apprised of the death at Terre naute, Ind., of a man 104 vears old who attended the funeral of" Washing ton, cast, nis nrst vote for Madison and was a soldier in the war of 1812. 1 rom other data it is apparent that great longevity nas Deeu on the increase for muny years, particularly in America. Hut it may be remarked that the constitutions that carried these per sons up to the centennial mark or be yond were formed very many years be fore Americans began living at the present rate, and that the best part of most of those old lives was passed be fore the modern suicidal rush of t he so ciety and business worlds. To have a good chance for longevity it is almost unnecessary to say that an originally good constitution is of tlie first im portance, though to this primary ex cellence carefulness in the art of living must be added. The secret of long life is one of which nature alone holds pos session. A remarkable fact is that in tellectual activity and success have been no barriers to long life. Even deep philosophical studies have proved a help rather than a hindrance to men of literary pursuits. Voltaire, who at birth was put into a quart pot, could never have attained his eiirhtv-fourth year had he not followed the strict, sober, active life'-'ii"h h fW r.,. stone exercises the highest powers of successful statesmanship at an age of eighty-four years, after having under gone the constant turmoil of political contest for considerably more than half a century. Histnark is practically an octogenarian. Von Moltke was nearing ninety when he died. It Reems that tiie review of these and numerous other instances would sufficiently es- larnisn the theory that continuous in tellectual activity is conducive to the perpetuation of good health and the prolongation of life. LOST HIS RED BUTTON. le Former Chinese Minister to This Country Degraded In Rank. In a telegram from Tekin, published by the Chinese Mail, it is said that an imperial edict lias been issued an nouncing the degradation of Tsui Kwo Yui, the former Chinese minister to the United States, Spain and l'eru. from the post of "Tso Shu Tsze" senior deputy supervisor of instruction to that of "Chung Wan" under secre taryship of the llanlin college as well as tiie deprivation of the red button of second rank, which he had been hon ored bv the Hmrb. rnr r,n Mliw .au.n .f his being accredited to tlie courts of the United States. Spain and l'eru. The issue of this edict has been the result of Yui's incompetency in the dis- charge of the duties of "Tso Shu Tsze," as well as of his failure in passing the , recent special examination for promo- tion among the members of the Hanli college. This special examination was instituted at the instance of the board of censors with a view to classifying the members of the llanlin college and to investigate their special conduct, and also for the purpose of recommand ing promotion. Consequently the per sons examined have, after due exaini n ation, been divided into three classes. Those of the first two classes have either received their promotion or ap propriate imperial rewards of silk pieces, but Tsui Kwo Yui, who stands first in the third class, has lost, his red button, and has suffered the above-mentioned degradation in his ofiicial rank. j VENERABLE PENSIONERS. Thirteen widows of Kerolutlonary Heroes Still Draw Pay from the Government. ' An interesting study on the subject of longevity is furnished by some of our pension lists. The most note. worthy, according to the Pittsburgh Dispatch, is that part comprisinir u . . . .. r the survivors of the war of 1812. Of the cightv-six American soldiers and sailors who took nnrt. in that memorable struggle who were still in the land of the living on June 30, 1Ki3, fifteen were centcnariaiit, namely: David H. Aite, Jerseyville, 111.; Zephanfah Kaoon. Patten a Y.; William S. Dennis. Katont.r, Oa.; Andrew Franklin, Burlington, Kan., and Anion Hoot, Whitewater, VU., each of whom was exactly 100 J age; ltosea Hrrwn, Drain, Ore., and Milea Scmnton, Merrill, N. U-, "ere 101; Austin Atehison, Spencer- ' port, N. Y., and Nathaniel Whitney, Franklin, 111, were 102; David McCoy, Redland, Col., and Nathaniel Smith, Hempsted, N. Y., were 103; John Sherer, East Paris, Mich., and John Dawson, Terre Haute, Ind., were 104; John W. Ireland, Ilamptonville, N. C, was 105, and'John Downey, Allen Fac tory, Ala., 1(H). The list of widows of revolutinnarv soldiers forms another interesting nnrt, i iK-utuon statistics. Although tlie wnr tlmt Ku-e us independence ended over 111 y"rs a(fo, no less than 13 widows ot tlie continental forces are still draw- mp a stipenil from the government. Of these the oldest are L,ovev Aldrirh. Aancy" must have been a favorite name in the old days, No less than three of the widows answer to it. "Mary" wasnthe next in favor, there being two of that name, and one each called Lovey, Sarah, Esther, Kebecca, Patty, Meridy, Asenath and Frances. Assuming that any one of tlie women may live to be a hundred years of age, .v ln puBKioiu mat tne united States government may be paving out pen sions to the widows of revolutionary soldiers twenty-five years from now. B'or the same reason, widows of veter ans of the late war may be living in Antiquity of Asparagus, Asparagus, deservedly a favorite vegetable, was extensively cultivated by the ancient Romans, but wns not introduced into England before HMO. u auuie purui oi nurope tne seeils ore used as a substitute for coffee, and a spirituous liquor is niude from the ripe berries. Asparagus is both lithic and diuretic, and its roots were once exten sively used in medicine. The young tnaer sprouts or stems, from six to ten inches long, are the edible parts, and those that are entirely green are the most tender and delicate. The white asparagus is, as a rule, very tough, the tips alone being eatable. In some old recipe books directions are given for boiling asparagus one hour, but this is a great mistake. Twenty or thirty minutes is long enough to eook it suf ficiently. A Heroic Medlrul lOipcrlmeiit. A German pathological journal re cords a recent experiment of llrs. Sawtschenko and Sobolotny which seems to border on tlie heroic. They vaccinated themselves with a prepara tion made from cultures of tlie cholera bacillus, and afterward swallowed vir ulent cholera germs with entire impu nity. Then, with serum from their own blood, tliev inoculated trninna pigs, and found that those animals could thus be protected against chol era. Usually it is the guinea pig who has first to face the chances of life or death in experiments of this kind, but in tins case the doctors were so sure they were right that they shouldered the risk themselves. A Wonderful Violin. David Johnson, of Alliance, ()., has in his possession probably the oldest vio lin in America. The instrument has been a family relic for many years, having been tlie prox-rty of Johnson's father, Ellis N. Johnson, the centen arian who died a few years ago. The violin is a very handsome piece of woodwork, the rim uround it having been cut from thick wood and richly carved. On the stem is carved a bust of one of the old-time masters. On the back, in inlaid work, is a design repre senting one of the ancient towns of Italy, while the keys are mounted with pearls. The instrument has a very rich, deep tone, but cannot be tuned to any of the violins now manu factured. It is almost an exact coun terpart of the famous Moji-tta violin, and has been handled by some of the finest musicians of the land. Armiml f "'??,'' '.N a "iHcription signify- 'Uhllst "ving I was in the woods ,",t dy'"f ' Paweil wuy into a.8"Pe' death." The exact, age of tlie n is "t k'iwn, but exceeds two centur";s and possibly four. GREAT ENGINEERING FEAT. Height of a Chimney Increased Without "topping Factory Work. A remarkable feat has been recently accomplished at the Itonsecour spin ning works at Nancy, says Industries and Iron, namely.increasing the height of a chimney about one hundred feet high by about thirty feet, without stop ping the work for a single day. Owing to the power being increased, the existing chimney did not have suf ficient draught for the existing num ber of boilers, ami one of two altera tions had to be faced cither tn build a newchimney alongside the old one, or to increase the height of the latter. Augustus Ilartling, of licrubcrg (An halt), offered to increase the height of the old chimney without interfering with the work of the mills. Aided by another man, whose agil ity and nerve were equal to his own, Mr. liartling fixed a series of liifht stel ladders to tlie chimney by means "' iron l'ookl driven i between the u I. - ,, u,m hi nii; m ii-Kft, eiecven a pilll"y at the top of the chimney and a flight of scaffolding all round, and then hav- ing lowered the cornice surmounting the chimney, they built on to the top at the rale of about four to Ave feet per day. Thcwhola work occupied eight days, and was perfectly successful. While this is the first chimney dealt with in this manner in i'runce, Mr. Jiartling states that he has carried out similar operations in (icrmany, at the chemical at Thann, and 'tthe works at the Mul- 1,OUM G" cons Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report Absolutely pure LIVING IN A TREE. The Singular Abode of an Ohio Hermit. Old For Fifty Vears He Has Been Domiciled In the Hollow Interior of a Syca more His Romantic Hut torr. During the early years of the present century one Joshua Dillaplanes came to eastern Ohio from Pennsylvania and settled on five hundred acres of ground mat now constitutes a portion of Han over and St. Clair townships. The land was clothed in a rich growth of primeval forest, watered by a rivulet now known as the Two-mile. On the west bank of this stream grew a majestic sycamore that towered many feet above its am bitious companions. The tree Dillu planes discovered to be hollow, and it is said that the settler took up his abode m the hollow and began clear ing the land which now constitutes representative farms of the Miami valley. In the meantime, savs tlie Cincinnati Enquirer, a family named Mustard, soon followed by another named O'Malley, settled near the vicin ity of the Millville pike. In tho Mus tard family was a boy whose name was William. The youth found a compan ion and playmate in the person of Anna i ni alley, a daughter of the near est neighbor. The treachery of In- uians ann tne scarcity of students pre vented the inauguration of a district school, so the two grew to man and womanhood in the blissful ignorance of books. The boy, however, became marvelottsly proficient with the violin thus making up in one particular that which lie so sadly lacked in othoru The young folks fell in love and in the course of time tHe wedding day was iixeu. About two weeks prior to the wed aing uay a stranger who said his name was Shay appeared upon the scene, llie newcomer appeared to be an onject, of wonder to the simple minded country folk. His dress was elegant, his manner genteel and his talk entertaining, lie claimed to be a civil engineer and boarded for awhile at the O M alleys. In herenvironments tne girl had known only Hilly and liilly's violin. This new specimen of manhood was to her like a new and i..;.-.i.iK uieaiii. noon her manner toward Mustard grew cold, but the lover was unsuspicious, and finally the w,-,iiiuJ!f Hy oawned. One of the O'Malleys then informed Mustard that Anna and the stranger had disappeared sometime during the night. Then be gan a search that lasted far into the. night and ceased only after a traveler had said he saw the couple riding on one horse the night before along the lonely forest path. Mustard's reason Slowly lied. Ills aged parents grieveil into the grave. The O'Mnlleys drifted to the same destiny and by the same path, for a few months after Anna's sudden departure vague rumors came from the east that Anna, deserted and friendless, had died a maniac in an asvluin. IMSOMNIA PARTIES THE LATEST. A lluffalo Ilelle's Caique Plan of Wooing the Drowsy God. A society young woman of lluffalo has devised a novel entertainment, which is shortly to be made public It is to be a reception for people who can't sleep at night. Among her friends, says the Medical Iteeord, are a great many delightful people who are troubled with insomnia, and who con fess that they spend many frightful, wakeful hours walking the floor, look ing out of the window, rocking in ea.' y chairs, trying to read or write and in other useless and tiresome occupations. When her plans are fully matured this original young women intends, on at least two nights in every week, to be at home to tfiose distressed female friends from midnight until morning. The guests are requested to appear in any unique, respectable bedroom gown, bath robes not excluded; the lights are to be dim, nothing music and stupid conversation will be the only diver sions permitted, hot chocolate anil light wafers will be served, couches and easy chairs will be provided in abundance, and the insomnia victims are earnestly desired to fall asleep as soon as possible. It is whispered that prizes will be offered for the first snore, but this detail is not authentically an nounced. The reception is to be a fact, however, and an eager expec tancy as to invitations is in the, air. Kusslau Doctor's Fees. An interesting regulation is just an nounced from autocratic Russia, by which the government hopes to prevent over-charges of physieions. lly the new ruk; cities are divided in three classes according to size, and the pa-1 tients in three grades, as follows: The first, capitalists, proprietors and manu facturers; the Micond, members of pro fessions, and the rest of the population is included in the third. Fees are then named according to the grades. First class, five roubles; second, three roubles anil thirty kopeks for the third. Kvcry Man Ills Own Doctor. The liritish war office is considering a proposition that all aoldiers should be instructed In Urn' elements of anatomy and physiology in order that they might be able immediately to stop the flow 'if bhxid fri-m a leading artery. The pmpo .-.er of the scheme albo oilers the unpleasant suggestion that every soldier should have the leoding arteries mapped out on his body by dotted lines tattooed in India ink. . 'I II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 MM II M Ml 1 1 1 II III! Kllu! CHICAGO'S FISH SUPPLY. How It la Affected by the Flaan. olal Stringency. Hard Times Have Caused the People to Economise on Their Moat Bills Where the Flsb Are Prln. clpally Obtalnsd. The report of a shortage of 12,000,000 bushels in the oyster crop of Chesa peake bay does not disturb the equa nimity of the Chicago dealers. "Our business is mostly in fish this winter," one of them declares. "Hard times have caused people to econo mize on high-priced oysters and meats and turn to fish as the staple food. Fish are very cheap and plentiful. Chicago eats 20,000,000 pounds of lain? fish and 5,000,000 pounds of ocean fish annually. The lake fish were caught and frozen last fall, and so long as they remain in ice continue as fresh as when taken from the water. How ever, if anyone demands a newly caught fish, the Mackinaw fishermen are sending down choice trout daily taken from the straits. "As to oysters, the crop of Haiti more and New York might totally fail without embarrassing the public in the least or raising the price of the bivalve. "The Gulf of Mexico produces fully as fine flavored oysters as are taken anywhere. Many people like the gulf oyster best. New Orleans could easily supply the world with oysters, as its coast environment is enormously pro lific in oysters, delicious crustaceans, and fishes. These gulf edibles are sent north in refrigerator cars which have conveyed dressed beef south. They also come by express. The fail ure of the fish and oyster crop would be a great boon to the gulf coast trade." "' ' " The fishmonger mentioned that tho Pacific codfish had invaded the Chi cago market to the detriment of the Maine-Massachusetts' namesake. There is no difference in the appearance of the rivals, but epicures think the Pa cific cod the choicer. The Pacific cod is now shipped to Massachusetts, salted and sent out as Atlantic cod. No one can tell the difference. A popular fish in Chicago is the red snapper taken In the (itilf of Mexico, and called by many the gulf cod. It is a handsomer fish than the cod and of much finer flavor, barge fleets engage in the catch of this fish and it is forc ing its way into all the markets of the World. Brook trout weighing from two to five pounds are plentiful in the local markets. They come from private fish ponds where they were taken out and frozen last fall. The finest yellow perch are taken in the Detroit river at the St. Clair Flats. Muscallonge reach the market from the interior lakes of Wisconsin. 1 he lake trout vanes In color, both of skin and flesh. The flesh is yellow from the southern to the northern waters of Lake Superior. In the northwest corner of Lake Superior the flesh becomes red and the skin a fac simile of the brook trout. This latter variety, which is the finest of trout, is believed by some to ho a brook trout from the Nipigon river, which in times past left the stream and bred a deep water variety of itself. It is scarce in the local market. There Is a suspicion that the local dealer sells it as a large brook trout. Eels mostly come from Fulton, N. Y.. where, on tho Oswego river, is the largest eel industry in the world. Ocean fish are not popular in the west, nor are lake fish popular in the cast. The condition is natural. Crawfish come from New Orleans. where they are the staple food of the French people. The crawfish makes the most delicious bisque known to the epicure. A good story is told about a transac tion in pigeons in which a crafty dealer overreached himself. A Philadelphia man went to a dealer to purchase a dozen homing pigeons, and was both surprised and delighted at the ex tremely low price asked for the birds. The bargain was finally concluded, and the pigeons delivered. Two weeks later the gentlemun hanpeu.d to be passing, when the dealer stopped hlin and asked how the birds were getting on. "I don't know," replied the gen tleman. "I have not ytst heard from my friend." "Your friend?" "Yes; I bought them for a man in San Fran cisco." The dealer's jaw fell in dismay, and then, with a rueful laugh, ho ad mitted that ho had sold the birds so cheaply because he knew that on bc- ng released they would immediately return to their old home. But from San Franciscol It was a clear case of the biter being bit. WITH THE AUTHORS. Julias Hawtiioh.vk, who lives In a pleasant cottage at Sag Harbor, with his seven children, has christened his home "The House of the Seven Gab blers." Dr. Oliver Wf.mikli. Holjiks is rare ly seen in society this winter, owing to necessuiy precautious for his health. When he does appear he is surrounded by admirers, aud his presence is cuusid (ucd an eveut. Bill Nte propose to write a history of the United States. "It will contain a few facts," he says, "as it is almost Impossible to keep them out, but there will be only enough for a spinal col umn. It will be the fin t mil book I have written."