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TOPICS OF THE TIMBS. China admits that In the door busi ness Russia practically has a cinch. Arbitrating arhltratlon la n now feature In connection with Industrial disputes. As n Rcnulno flshormnn Mr. Clove land hellovcs In speaking easy and carrying a long polo. Booker Washington might circum vent the Amalgamated Union of Cham ber Ladles by carrying a cot with him. Somo men have about as much chnnce to become president as they nave to wirn the fifty thousand a year In any other way. Dr. Italnsford, of New York, wants tho churches to combine. What does ho expect tho preachers to do when tho consolidation Is affected? A Chicago man had an otherwise fatal bullet stopped by a roll of bills In his pocket. A roll of bills Is one of the best life protectors there Is. Within the last twenty years at least sixteen J. Wilkes Booths havo told their secret to the world and died, usually In some distant and unobserv ed spot. There Is a certain promlaent politi cian or statesman, ho should be name less here, who is palpably suffering from foot and mouth disease, the form er being entangled In the latter. And now they say pigskin Is better than rubber for automobile tires. There Is also a certain fitness In its uso by those automoblllsts who tnke the whole streot and want more. The minister who wants women to aolve the servant girl problem by do ing tho housework themselves must be one of those unfortunato people who never have had a chance to know many women well. Miss M. E. Braddon has Just pub lished her sixty-fourth novel. It Is almost terrifying to think what might have happened If Miss Braddon had been the wife ' of Cyrus Townsend Brady. King Edward planted a tree'ln the grounds of the British embassy while on his recent visit to Paris. May the tree live forever, and tho new friendly feeling, between France and England be equally lasting! One of the lady doctors says men are more emotional than women. But perhaps she has merely drawn her conclusions from the actions of moth ers and fathers over the arrival of twins and triplets. Dr. Edward Everett Hale has been collecting opinions on the question, 'Should boys fight?" Most of his cor respondents answer in the negative, but they would probably admit that the other boy should be served with an injunction to restrain him from knocking off the chip. It is proposed in Stockholm to tax all adult persons weighing more than 125 pounds because fat Is an evidence of good living consequent upon pros perity. And yet we have seen million aires whose dyspepsia kept them as thin as Job's turkey. But what a de mand there would be for anti-fat nos trums under such a taxi Wireless telegraphy will have to compete with ocean cables for some time to come. A company has recent ly been organized to lay a cable from Beattle to Valdez, Alaska, and thence to Vladivostok. The cable will bring Asiatic Russia and the gold-fields of Alaska Into close communication with the markets of the United States, and expand the Interest of Americans in the Orient Some people will be astonished to bear that the ordnance department of the army has been obliged to con tract with the Erbardt company of Dusseldorf, Germany, to build fifty of the new tbrco-lnch field guns for the United States army, for the reason that the ordnance manufacturing es tablishments of this country are over crowded. These guns with carriages cost over 140,000 each and the total amount of money to be spent abroad on this contract is over $2,000,000. The London Lancet says that athle tics In England have developed too much Into gladiatorial displays by picked competitors struggling to win prizes or to earn wages before huge crowds of spectators, and can hardly be regarded as effective agents In tho development of the physical strength and physical activity of tbe people. There Is the samo tendency In this country, but the fact merely serves to make more Imperative tbe need of supporting and extending such sys tems of physical training as have for their chief aim strength and not fame. There Is too little elbow room on modern United States warships, espe cially In the general mess, and this is one reason for tbe discontent which causes many recruits to desert. Deser tions during tbe last month numbered more than 300. The general mess sys tem has resulted in a very well cooked and plentiful ration of considerable variety, but the spaco for the mess tables Is so small that tho men have to sit very close together and all their food Is placed on tbe table beforo mess call is sounded. This detracts from the neatness which could be obtained by moro roomy mess quarters. Tho extremely large batteries now being placed on shipboard necessitate larger complements on battleships and cruis ers, wbllo large amounts of auxiliary machinery take up a great deal of deck ,pacc' 11 Our friends, the Keformed Episco palians, havo decided that, while tnoy expect to go on reforming to tho end of time, they will leave the marriage iervlce Intact for the present. There was a disposition to cut out the word "obey" from tho bride's response, pre sumably on tho theory that It Is a dead letter nnd should be transferred to tho masculine part of the ceremony, but It was llnally ngreed that It might be left untouched, Inasmuch as women rntlstder It a matter of no Importance, nnd they "needn't mean It, you know." As Dr. Bishop says: "Wliara me onus as long ns we do the Lord's will?" By which Is meant that woman, as nn excellent Judge of the lord's will, may bo rolled on to obey according to tho impressions received from on high, a very sensible and convincing view of the case. America, being a big country and a rich one. Is nblo to spend on Its pleas ures sums which reach enormous totals each year. There are plenty of amuse ments which havo a place on the country's balance sheet In tho hundred million class, but most of them are of n kind In wbich all or nearly nil of the people participate to a great ex tent. One form of pleasure, however, which comparatively few people can enjoy, and which yet ranks high In tho total amount spent on It, Is for eign travel. An expert In the naviga tion business has been recently mak ing an estimate of what our tourists will spend abroad this year, and ho places the amount nt $100,000,000. From the port of New York there win be sixty-seven sailings of first-class steamships for Europe each month. They will carry approximately 21,000 cabin passengers a month, or su,uw in tho four months of the season. Enough tourists will sail earlier or later. It Is estimated, to bring the total to 125.- 000. For their passage this army of travel will pay J31,000,000, and for their living and other expenses a good $70,000,000 more, or a total of at least $100,000,000. As the steamship lines are owned almost entirely by foreign ers. It Is near the truth to say that this sum goes Into foreign pockets where It becomes nn important factor in the settlement of the balances of foreign trade. Latterly the United States has been sending abroad each year goods to the value of $400,000,000 or $300,000,000 more than the value of tho goods It buys abroad. Foreign nations have, therefore, Just this large a balance to settle for In some other way than by sending us manufactures In exchange. The $100,000,000 worth of services they give to our tourists helps them out materially In the set tlement It Is a critical period In a boy's life when be reaches the age when he con skiers it manly to call his mother "the old woman." All boys may feel proud when they can prove by the almanac that they are old enough and wise enough to guide themselves. They may well rejoice when they have out grown the maternal petticoat We can forgive the premature youth who exultantly exclaims, "I'm my own boss." It Is the spirit of 1770 come borne again, and we admire Independ ence In all Us phases. But there Is no excuse for the boy who belittles his parents by calling them names which "smart boys" invent Smoke cigaret tes, stay out nights or swear like a teamster If you consider It manly, but never fall to treat your mother with the respect due her. Ilonor the dear old mother. It Is hom age which the president In his chair and the convict in his cell arc not too high or low to deny without everlasting remorse. Time may nave strewn snow flakes In her hair, may have plowed furrows In her brow, but she Is sweet and pretty to-day. The marks of time which have sunken her Hps should sink Into your memory bow those Hps kissed many a hot tear from a childish cheek. Though per baps dimmed with age, the same de voted eyes are sending forth rays of love. The weight of many years may have enfeebled her step, yet she will go further to carry you aid when need. ed than all others in the world. In firm nnd crippled, yet her love has triumphed over age and there Is no cloud dark enough to keep her from your side. With a love kindled at tho cradle side ner arms will follow you to the scaffold's awful brink. When the world forsakes you, and your feilowmen leave you at the roadside to die reviled and scorned your mother will find you. She will lift you up in tenderness, nurse you and comfort you till you forget the bitterness of life. The grandest religion on earth Is tbe love for mother; the greatest sin Is to dishonor her. Corn Breeding. Corn breeding Is a modification of live-stock breeding, and follows the same general laws and principles. It Is tho application of principles of plant and animal breeding to tbe corn plant The per cent of sugar In tbe sugar beet has been Increased from 3 per cent to 10 per cent. The ordinary beet was Improved by seed selection, so that an enormous Industry has been built up and a new source of sugar given to the world. This has been done with a plant which seeds once In two years. Corn produces n crop every year; a single seed producing a return of over a thousandfold. From this great cumber ot offspring, vary ing In size, shape, color, and compo sition, a selection can be made which will develop any feature of the seed or plant. By continued selection, these valuable attributes can be fixed In the characteristics of tbe plant, and In the usefulness and Importance of tbe crop Increased. To Illustrate tbe point, wo have been able, by select ing ears having long shanks to In crease the length of the shank nearly two feet In five years" selection. By selecting ears with tall stalks, we have been able to Increase tho height of tbe stalk almost three feet In five yeans. By selecting ears 'from plants having wide leaves, we have been able to Increase the average width of tbe leaf, and by selecting ears from stalks having narrow leaves, we have been able to decrease tho width of tbe leaf, Cosmopolitan. Missed the Curtain taoture. "What did your wife say when you came home so late?" "I really don't know. I can Just remember that I woke up throe times and she waa still talking." Cleveland Plain Dealer, Too many people mistake a polite acknowledgment for an encore. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS About Appendicitis. APPENDICITIS Is no new disease. An examlnatlou of an Kgyptlau mummy over 2.000 years old. showed that death must have been caused by that Illness. II. .ft allt.nlli.il tltrt llldtUlA,. occurred thus early. It was probably never frequent until the latest decades. Three .i.. t ..,(., i,.iti nMmrt clvn the number of appen dicitis cases treated In 1SP0 as 33, while operations were performed, it is connoruiig iu uuie mm all but 10 of tho patients recovered. Sir Frederick Treves, the most noted nuthorlty on tho subject, has performed successfully more than 100 consecutive operations. It Is said that appendicitis mny bo caused ny i fM.i. n -. msiKililr i-esnonslblo according to Dr. II. C. Howard, of Champaign, 111. Until the trade demanded nn exceedingly wuuo H'lmM f.virn luvnda were wns unknown, as Iu mrnl communities, where people se cured their flour from small, old-fashioned mills. Tho mal ady did not Increase until tlio smaller mills woro crowueu out by the larger ones nnd the farmers had to buy the tine flour.' Southern negroes, as long as they ato corn bread, were exempt Germans had appendicitis tittle or not at all until they began to eat our new-process flour. Dr. Howard says that prior to 1S73, In twenty-rtvo years' practice among tho peoplo of this section, ho did not meet with more than forty cases. Now tbey are common. ...-..,ro i i,r i.n.l t!iirt,Mi came through all without an operation. food to corn lireau aim coarse ureaus in general, mm. vegetables nnd very little meat, be had no further trouble. Sprlngileld Republican. Tho labor Problem. IT will bo strange If the many and powerful Influences which are now so actively engaged In tho solution of the labor problem upon an equitable basis should result In failure, some or me oesi minus oi iuc vuuuiry on w considering the question more seriously nnd oaruestly than they have ever done. It will be commonly recognized that this activity Is not only desirable, but necessary. The dis sensions of capital and labor are unusually numerous, and some of them are being fought out with and bitterness. There are obvious causes for the exist ing conditions In the labor world. One labor that It Is not receiving a fair snare or tne wealth which It contends It creates. Another Is that the cost of the necessaries of life has been so largely Increased during the last three or four years as to rendor an advanco of wages essential to comfortable living. It Is not bread, fuel and shelter alone that labor doumnda as Its due; It asks that Its children of tender age shall be sent to school, not to the factory or mine, to the end that they may havo a chance to achieve surh material success as education as sures or promises. Labor similarly demands that It shall be paid something over nnd above the price of comforta ble living; It wants a wage from which put by for tbe proverbial rainy day and for old age. In which no man can work, but still must lire. Philadelphia Ledger. Jsttlsh Immigration to Palestine JEWISH Immigration to Palestine continuous apace under the auspices of the Alliance Israelite, which alone spends 1.000,000 francs a year on tho Hebrew colonies and schools in Turkey, and other philanthropic societies. The latest phase of this migration, known ns the Zionist movement, has for Its object to revive tbe Jewish State by purchasing Palestine from Turkey. Tbe move ment, though condemned by some ns Utopian, and ridiculed by others as sentimental In origin, possesses considerable Interest for the unprejudiced observer of Eastern affairs. No one who has watched Its growth can doubt Its practical Importance. Although the Sultan Is not prepared to grant nil that Dr. Ilerzl demanded, there is sufllelent ground to believe, with Dr. Ilerzl. that the negotiations will most probably, at no distant time, lend to a conclusion satisfactory to tbe Sultan and the Zionists alike. This hope Is strengthened by the Sultan's attitude toward the Jews, which In Its benevo lence contrasts curiously with the treatment meted out to his Christian subjects. Two years ago, he appointed mem bers of tbe Hebrew community to Important posts In the Turkish army, while he attached two entourage. On another occasion his lively interest on behalf of tbe same I ORIGIN OF THE I VICTORIA CROSS. Thursday, Jan. 20, Is the anniversary of the Institution of the soldier's tm.st precious decoration perhaps the most precious decoration In the world the Victoria cross, for It was Instituted by ber Majesty, the late Quesn Victoria, on the 20th day of January, 1830, and so is not quite fifty years old. While It Is most prized of all tbe decorations and orders nn Englishman can win, It Is also the most democratic decoration In the world, for, although It Is tho official badge of an act of personnl courage and daring, It has no concern with rank, long service or wounds, nnd It may be wom by one who has been only a few months or weeks hi the army, while others who have spent their lives In the serrlco and gained rank and other decorations may not possess It. It may be worn by a pri vate soldier or a field marshal, and on tbe roll of tbe heroes' names arc to be found almost every rank In both tbe services, for the winning of tbe cross la possible to any one, as It was grant ed "as a reward for conspicuous brav ery or devotion to the country In the presence of tho enemy," or as the In scription upon It records, "For Valorl" Tbe Victoria cross had Its birth dur ing the Crimean war, when Queen Vic toria felt that some recognition of the personal daring nnd heroism of ber sol diers In that terrlblo struggle was needed. Tbe royal warrant clearly lays down tbo conditions under which tbe cross may be won, but tho whole of them may be summarized In tbo one sentence, "For conspicuous bravery or devotion to the country in the presence of the enemy." There are not many who nre unfa miliar with tho appearance of the cross, but for tbe benefit of those who have only seen It In photographs or Pictures, It may be said that It Is about an Inch and a half wide and baa In tbe obverse center a crowujd Hon, under neath which Is nn escroll bearing the vords, "For Valor." It Is attached to a bar on which Is a spray of laurel leaves and Is suspended by a broad rib bon, which Is blue for the naval ser vice and dark red for the military. Both tbo cross and the bar are made from bronze which formerly formed tiart of some of the Russian guns cap tured during the Crimean war, and complete with the ribbon and pin weighs Just under an ounce, or 402 grains, to be exact. It Is engraved with the name ana regiment oi ine rccipi- pute was sullied by ono of the blood accusations period ically brought ngalnst tho Jews by the Christians of the East, and caused tho local authorities to take steps to prove Its groundlessness, thereby earning the thanks of the Anglo-Jewish Association. Perhaps It Is to this increasing favor of tho Jows In the eyes of the Sultan, and the consequent fear of opposi tion to Russia's dojtlgns In Palestine, that wo must attribute a step Intely taken by tho Russian government. Tho Min ister of Finance Is reported to have forbidden (he sale of the Jewish Colonial Trust shares In the Czar's dominions, a step which has created great perturbation In the enmp of Polish Zionists, the most deeply Interested Iu the couccin. Edlnburgh Review. In 1000 nearly 400 imagination, um for most cases. nour mo unease used the disease Tho Ago of Pol tlcnl Success. OF tho members of tlio House of Representatives s.p proximately two-thirds had when first elected reached or passed the nge of 40 years. What an amusing con trast Is presented by the British House of Commons, where, according to the Springfield Republican, only two members out of 070 woro past 40 when elected! How does that contrast affect Mr. Clevulaud's "key of success," as furnished by determination, persistence nud courage? Tho typical success In American politics Is won by a man who has shown himself In some degree possessed ot thoso qualities and who In business or In a professluu has commanded attention. Tho typical British success Is won by a bright young man not long out of nn expensive university, who Is rich enough to sit In Parliament without pay. Sometimes be cause ot his ability, oftenor because of family Influence, he Is selected by party lenders to "mako tho race" In n district frequently far from his home, where nil assistance possible Is given to enable him at least to seem to understand tho Issues of tho campaign. Now York World. Cost ot Ocean Speed. WHAT It costs to Increase the speed of a ship by ono knot has lately been determined with great accuracy In the steam trials of the British ar mored cruiser Cupu of Good Hope. On her full power trial this vessel, of 14,100 tons displacement, attain ed a mean speed of 23 05 knots an hour. By the speed curves plotted from tho trial rosults, It appears that to go from half speed 11.05 knots to full speed-23.03 kuots needed. roughly, 20.000 additional horse power, of which tho last knot alone absorbed 8,201 horse powor. In other words, to Increase the speed of this cruiser from 22 to 23 knots consumed nsmuch power as was needed to propel her at 10 knots: or, to put It In still another way, the power required to propol her at full speed would hare propelled two vessels of the same slzo at an average speed of 10 knots an hour. At full speed her coal consumption wns 20 tons per hour; at 10 knots It was about 11 tons per hour. This means that at full speed she would more .85 knots for each ton of coal burned under her boilers, while at 10 knots the distance would bu doubled for the snme coal con sumption. This Illustrated very clearly the price paid for high speeds afloat Applying the ratios thus established to steamers of the Atlantic merchant fleet. It will bo readily understood why the "greyhounds" earn more applause than dividends. New York Times. v ery smau cuuurcu well-dotlned attacks, but After changing his both determination Is the conviction of a portion can be As to Growing Old. A FOREIGN writer undertakes to answer the question as to whether It Is sad to grow old, and trtats tbe subject most felicitously. He says tbe art of grow ing old Is a dltllcult one, but he asks If the under standing bow to be young Is not difficult also, a question that will readily find au affirmative answer. It Is the same with tbe possession of wealth. Do the rich know how to bo rich? Even as to health, the secret of graciously bearing health Is as difficult to acquire as that of carrying off gracefully Illness. Yet nothing can be Oner than a placid and amlablo old age. Tills writer remarks that "one of the most beautiful things In tho world Is an old person who, made better by experience, more Indulgent more charitable, loves mankind In spite of Its wretchedness and adores youth without the slightest tendency to mimic It Such a person Is like an old Stradlrarlus whose tone has become so sweet that Its value Is Increased a hundred fold, and It "seems almost to have a soul." This "adoring youth without the slightest tendency to inlinlc It" Is a fine touch Indeed. Boston Herald. more to his personal Majesty evinced a race whose good re ent, as well as the date on which be won It, and as so-jii as this Is done It Is dispatched from the makers to the sovereign to bestow upon tbe hero. It Is strange to bare to record that tbe first Victoria cross was won by a sailor, for It has come to be looked upon as almost entirely a military dec oration, yet such Is the case and It Is still stranger that the deed which gain ed It was performed a year and seven months prior to the Institution of tbo decoration. Another feature Is that at tbe time of winning It he was a boy serving bis time as n midshipman on board H. M. S. Heeln, and the story of bow Charles Davis Lucas, now an admiral, won the cross ns a middy will always form one of the most glorious stories among the many In Its history. It was at the bombardment of Romnr sund, In tbe Baltic, on June 21, 1851. that a live shell dropped In the midst of a group of men of whom young Lucas was In command. The fuse was almost burned away, and an explosion seemed Imminent, but without a mo ment's hesitation tbe young midship man sprang forward, grasped the sput tering shell In his hands and, rushing to the side of the vessel, hurled It over board, where It exploded before It reached the water. Such an act as this displays tbe subllmest courage, for It combines Intelligence and Instantane ous action, and In a boy It was espe cially meritorious, and so young Lucas was chosen as tbe first recipient of the decoration eighteen months afterward, Tbe winning of a cross, It may bo ex plained, carries with It an annuity of 10, which may be Increased to 50, payable quarterly, to all excepting commissioned officers, but Including those who have risen from the ranks, while for each clasp an extra annuity of 0 Is awarded. St James Qazette. A QUALITY TO CULTIVATE. Characteristic Incidents Illustrating American Kindness. A little boy went up Chestnut street In Philadelphia tbe other day, carry ing a bag containing 8,500 pennies from a bank to his employer's office. The bag burst, tbe coppers were strewn about tbe street, and tbe boy set up a wall for help. Traffic was suspended In that block. Scores of people stopped to help the boy find the pennies, and motormen checked their cars to aid. A good many must have gone Into their own pockets rather than search tbo pave ment When tbe boy finally delivered his charge he bad not only the 8,500 pennies with which be started, but 108 more. A building was being torn down on Monroe streot In Chicago. An old wo man came, with others, to gather up the broken and discarded lumber. She made up a huge bundle, so large that she could not lift It upon her head to carry It away. As she stood looking about for help, a man, who from his dress seemed to bo a prosperous merchant or lawyer, enmo along and saw her difficulty. At the same time a truckman saw It, and descended from bis seat The two men lifted the bundle, helped the old woman to balance It, nnd then went their wnys while she went hers. It wns dine as a matter of course, with no posing or professions, Just as the search for tbe boy's lost ponnlcs wns undoubtedly conducted tu Phila delphia. There was tbe need, and It was met by the first coiners .In tbe prompt nnd kindly American way. Prlnco Henry of Prussia and other foreign observers, whose stations ana duties have given them opportunities to note the conduct of street crowds In many nations, have said that tbe American crowd Is the most good-hu mored nnd kindliest In tbo world. Such Incidents as those recited above prove the accuracy of tbe observation. This kindness Is a quality of which the American people may well be proud, and which we ought to culti vate even more. If It were deliber ately extended there would be less heckling of employers by trade unions, less vituperation of unions by employ ers, fewer strikes nnd lockouts, less In dustrial strlfe-ttonkqm'..e0., ..6 .,0 dustrlal warfare, less danger to pros perity and more peace and profit for us nil. Chicago Inter Ocean. Its Natural Oalt "Walter!" called tbe Impatient guest "Yes, sir;" said the obsequious ser vant "Seems to mo that soup I ordered Is a mighty long tlmo getting to mo." "Yes, sir," snld tho waller with much respect; "but (deferentially) you will pardon me, I trust, If I remind you that you ordered turtle soup." Judge As It Hounds. Mrs. Nowrlcb Marie's trip abroad bas given her quite a smattering of French Mr. Nowrlch (disgustedly) quite a sputtering, I should call It Judge. Knew Her Power. , He I'm sure If you accepted me I'd make you a good husband. ' She That's Impossible, but I'm suro I'd make you a good husband If I ac cepted you. Philadelphia Press. Sivention! Recent observers huvo found Ihnt plumb lines for nccurnto woik should bo of copper or bronze. A steel who Iu n deep shaft wns slightly dellecled by tho earth's magnetism. tu his Intent researches Professor Curie bus found that nullum keeps Its own temperature at 1.5 degrees 0. iibovo that of the atmosphere. This paradoxical substance emits more than enough bent to melt Its own weight of lee, yet there Is no combus tion nor chemical nor molecular change. Pent fuel In freight locomotives In Sweden has hauled tho maximum loud, tho cost being about tho sumo as with English eonl. To nvuld the expense of nn exlia llieiiiHii, however, tho pent Is now mixed with an equal weight of coal, nud the mixture has proven so satisfactory that It Is to bo tiled on passenger trains. A new form of safety lamp, giving no heat nud possessing no tliimo, bus bceu Invented by Professor linns Mo llseh. and descilbcd before tho Vienna Academy of Sciences, but It n..iy not prove commercially successful. It con sists of a glass Jnr lined with u com pound of saltpeter and gelatine, In which a colony of luminous bncterln Is caused to develop. Such a tump gives u bluish green light, sufficient to render course print legible, and to make faces recognisable nt two yards' distance, nud the luminosity lasts for several days. An English Invention for the uso of a current of electricity Instead of steiim to bent a rndlntlug surfuco con sists of n layer of powdered cnrlioii, placed between enameled Iron plates, and kept In position with asbestos cardboard. This constitutes the ra diator, Into which are led three cop per strips, ouc at the center nnd one nt each end. nnd a continuous current of electricity Is passed from tho cen ter strip to the end strips. N It Is a current of eight nmperes, at 200 volts, a heating surface of 25 square feet can be kept nt an Average temperature of 1IHJ degrees Fahrenheit. A new kind of glass that resists great heat as well as sudden changes of temperature Is made from Brazilian quartz pebbles. The pebbles are heat ed roil hot and then thrown Into dis tilled water. Tbe purest pieces are next selected, nnd welded with tho uxyhydrogeu blow pipe Into long stems like kulttlugiiccdlos. from which glass vessels of any shape can bo made. At present tho quartz glass Is chiefly em ployed for making laboratory appara tus. Into n tcst-tubo made in this way a white-hot coal can bo dropped without breaking It. Vessels of other forms can bo heated white-hot and then plunged Into cold water without cracking. Records are now being searched for notices of tho rare white water, or phosphorescent fog, of tho Indian Ocean nud other sens. This appears ns a weird hnze. but proves to be a luminosity without mist, nnd It bns been encountered ns an ocean river n mllo wide ami as a brand area through which a vessel sailed Iirty miles with out touching the limits. One observer found the sen to tho depth of a foot to bo densely packed with luminous fishes nn Inch long, whllo nt another tlmo microscopic nnliunls were obtain ed In chains three Inches long. The phenomenon has been seen before vio lent storms, nnd It has been suggested Hint some unusual atmospheric condi tions may drive tho luminous ocean animals In shoals to tho surface. BUTTONS ON BUSHES. Rtraiise Nut from Which Buttons Art Mario In Grant Numliara. No, the Ivory buttons you wear do uot represent the death of an elephant In tho wilds of Africa; your pearl but tons were probably never nearer than you took them to the shell of a bivalve mollusk, and the probabilities nre that no rubber tree wns ever lapped to pro duce tho hard rubber buttons that adorn your overcoat Down In Cen tral America there Is a fruit produc ing palm that has qulto metamorphos ed tho button business nnd formed tbo nucleus for one of tbe most Im portant Industries In the United States. Tho seed of this fruit contains n milk that Is sweet to the taste and retlshrd by tho nntlves. The milk when allow ed to remain In the nut long enough becomes Indurated nnd turn Into sub stance us brittle and hard as tho Ivory from the elephant's tusk. Tho plant Hint produces theso nuts Is called the Ivory plant Most of tbo buttons now used In America, whether termed Ivory, penrl, rubber, horn or bone, come from this Ivory plant Thus the probabilities are that your buttons nre made from a vegetable milk, and they grow on bushes. Tho Ivory plant Is one of the mar vels of the nge, and Is rewarding Its growers with vast fortunes. The nuts I.r,,..l,l tn the Illlllnil Rlnlna liv ' the shipload and hauled across the continent to the big button factories, from which they Issuo forth Iu every conceivable- doslgn, color, grade and classification of button. Tbo Ivory plant has recently been discovered In California, but tho nut It produces In Its wild state Is of In ferior quullty nnd will not mako good buttons. It Is believed though, that with tho proper cultivation the fruit would, bo as valuable as the Central American. If so tho growing of but tons In America would become nn In dustry of Importance second only to tho growing of com, wheat nnd cotton, for everybody wears buttons, Tbo best Ivory nut for commercial purposes Is found on tho banks of tbe River Mngdnlcrla, In the United States of Colombia, where by some It Is called tbo Tngun palm, Tho fruit forms a globular head about twlco tho slzo of a man's bead and weighs from twenty to twenty-eight pounds. The bead Is a kind of cluster of bulbs, and In all contains from fifty to sixty seeds, The seeds are allowed to dry and are hat vested several times a year by tho natives. Tbe Apparel Gazelle, tho great deal eta' authority on ivoij llillin: Unit peo ple wear, says: "Tlio Ivory mil I" used almost solely In I he liiiiliurai'luiv of bullous, though some factories also mako poker chips from tlii'iu, Tlio nut, however, bns superseded tin) nrchnle mud, rubber nnd bone button In vogue formerly. II mliiills of wid er nud more varied Irantiui'iil for this purpose tlinii any other known sub stance, and Is easily worked, Tho United Htitlcs consumes mure limn one half of tho wmld's product nt Ivory nuts and nine-tenths of the vegetable Ivory Is manufactured Into ImtMia. "When tho nut reaches the button factory It Is cut into throe slabs. In the process of cutting out. Hi" liulloli Is partially shaped. Afterwards Ihu thread holes are drilled and counter, sunk. Tho button Is thin sent In the polisher, who uses the shavings ami powder made In drilling In polish them In their while state. Aflcnviiid they nre sent to tho designer, who traces on the buttons In Indelible dyes the designs needed to make tlu-in match the various weaves, coloring and textures of fubrlcs. After receiv ing these outlines, If the ImltuliH lire to reninln smooth and receive nuolhcr runt of coloring, they are put Into dye. If they nre to lie slumped with a wr rated pattern, they uie put lulu it pressing machine fitted Willi dies nt tho pattern desired." Popular Me chanics. CROWNING 18 UNNECC88AIIY. I'ltntr at Monarch Itsluu 1'omfiirta. lily Without the Caramon?. The suggestion Is made In eerlnlli high quarters that the coronation un less privately performed should In future be discontinued altogether. There nre various potent reasons for this. In the first place, the sovereign In these days does not require corona tion. The fact of Ills being on Ihu throne Is sufficient Justification for his sovereignty. Iu the old days, before the ceremony beenme n mere religious function, ns at present, It was regarded us rsscutlal to crown the king before bis right and title could bo looked upon as unquestioned. lie wns then nclil- ally accepted by the nolilllly nud tho people as the rightful sovereign, ngatnst whom all protciulcis had ever after no legal claim. Nowadays tbe roioiintloil dors nut even serve the purpose of syinhullzlm; kingship. That fact Is nssuillid by the secession ceremony following the death of a predecessor. That tho cor onation ceremony Is not now regarded Iu the same light as heretofore Is at tested by the fact that most ot the reigning kings of Europo havo never been crowned. The kaiser, who tins now been an the throne for over twelve years, will probably never have the crown, either of Prussia or Germany, placid up n his Imperial bend. There Is a story prevalent on the continent that Hit bishop of Poseli, whose predecessors Imvo crowned Prussian kings for many generations, Is persona uon grain with tho knlstr, and that as long as the present bishop lives the sovereign will not nllovvlilm to perform the ceremony; lint there U also a belief that the kaiser Is not particular whether ho Is rrovvnid or not, so long as ho Is on the throuo firmly and Irrevocably. Victor Emmanuel, king of Italy, lias not been crowned; nor has Quoin Wll belmlnn of Holland, who, though her coming of ago was generally mistaken for n coronation, has not yet had her crown placed on her head. The samo Is true of I he king of Spain, whose coming of nge nnd ac cession were not nn actual coronation. Tbe sultan, who Is now one of thu longest-relgntng mounrchs In Europe, tins never bad tbo ceremony perform ed, and It Is certain that ho never will be crowned. There Is no crown sym bolic of Ottoman sovereignty. Lou don Express. Tolstoi's Utile Juke. An old frbnd of Leo Tolstoi, writing to tho "Novoe Vremyn," related nn In- cldcut which occurred In tho novelist's recent visit to the Crimen, says an ex change, A rich American arrived In his yacht, accompanied by a party of friends, and nsked permission to see the great Russian, who wns III, prom ising that they would be content with a glimpse and would not (rouble, him with tnlk. Leave was granted. Tobitot sat upon bis balcony, "llko n Buddhist Idol," as he said, and the wholo party of Americans defiled slow ly nnd silently before him, taking their gaze as they passed. One lady, however, refused to bo bound by tbo contract. She stood ntlli for a minute, nnd shouted: "Leo Tol stoi, Leo Tolstoi, all your noble writings have had a profound liifluenco upon my life, but tho one which bus taught mo tho most Is your." Hero she forgot the name of tbo work, Tho sick author leaned over tho rail of the balcony, and whispered with a smile, "The Dead HotilsV" "Yes, yes," sbo replied. "That book," said Tolstoi, "was written by Gogol, not by me." Worn-out Mtinojr, "Instead ot tho old-fashioned 'Good by,' tbo blnso youth now suys, 'Don't take any bad money,' " snld an official of tho Chicago mihtrc-nsury the other day. "Well, wo go on tho proposition, 'Tako anything that looks like money,' nnd those chaps that nre so afraid of the bogus money should not bo partic ular. "Thero Is money brought to this window that resembles anything ex cept tho legal tender of tho United States. Torn greenbacks nnd brown backs, and even yellowbacks, are com mon, but they do not cause any dis comfort. " 'Take anything tbnt looks, llko mon ey' Is my advice. After that, If you don't llko tho looks of It, bring It here, and wo will either give you something better-looking or stamp It full of boles, which spell, 'Counterfeit'" Good lteaaons Air Passing By. Weary Wraggles Hcyl you won't git uothln' decent In dero, Dom peo plo Is vegetarians. Hungry Hank Is dot right? Weary Wruggles Ycb, nn' doy got a dog wa't ain't Philadelphia Press, Their Idantlty. Inquisitive Party What nro those peculiar-looking things? Dealer Pressed family skeletons , the closets .of flat dwellers. Judge, -1