MADE OF GLASS.
Many Odd Artioles Now Fashion d
from This Material
FRENCH LOSSES IN WAR.
MX HUllon told to Have Porl.hed IB
the Wan uf the X.iut Couturr.
nr. Tagoneuu of tho French ncajomv
of raeuicino has been making; ail esti
mate of llie deutlis by the wars of
neertm. Apparel, CofllM, tUk sh ad France for tho past century. He finds,
according 10 me new lurit sua, hum
i ParnUlilnfiTA Among ihm Ham-
b Glass Hoaw a Moxm
FoaalbUllj.
There is an inventor who it known at
the patent office in W ashington u the
Glass Man. His name is C. W. McLean,
of New Berne, X. C. and during; the last
few years he has obtained patents for
a surprising number of devices in glass.
Among; these is a glass coffin, which
is guaranteed proof against decay and
rata. So long us no deliberate attempt
is made to smash it, it ought to last for
ever. Another contrivance is a atair
. ase mode wholly of frlnss steps, Innd
nps and newel posts being all of that
material. Yet another is a glass barrel,
ilut perhaps the most remarkable in
vention of the Glass Man is a billiard
table of glass.
The day may yet arrive when people
will live hi glass houses. A patent has
been secured by other inventors for
"lass bricks of a peculiar pattern. The
material of which they are composed
being a first-rate non-conductor, these
bricks will keep the cold out of adwell
ing built of them, while admitting the
light It is claimed that they will ex
clude noise, being hollow. Further
more, the inmates of a glass house need
not be afraid of being under too close
observation by neighbors, inasmuch as
it is not requisite that the bricks shall
be transparent. They may be opaque
ground glass, or of any color that may
be suitable for decorative effect.
Thus before many years have passed
it will be considered the height of lux
ury, perhaps, to occupy a dwelling of
glass. Glass bricks, of course, are ex
pensive. People who live in glass
houses will be able to afford to wear
clothes of glass. Nearly 20 years ago
there was shown at the Centennial ex
position in Philadelphia a bonnet com
posed entirely of glass. It was a love
of a bonnet. The flowers on it were
glass, and so were the ribbons, which
looked like the finest satin. The
patentee of this process describes it as
suitable for the manufacture of neck
ties, shawls, table covers, etc.
In fabrics of this kind a very fine qual
ity of glass is used. It is spun in threads
of exceeding delicacy, and of these
several colors may be produced at the
same time. They are woven in a loom
of ordinary pattern. Anybody may
observe that a thin sheet of glass is
somewhat elastic The threads em
ployed in weaving are of such fineness as
to be perfectly pliable and not at all
brittle. With a gown of glass would
naturally go a pair of glass slippers.
Not like Cinderella's. Oh, no! Cinder
ella did not wear glass slippers. Her
slippers in the original French story
were of "vair," which means fur. Voir
and "verre," meaning glass, are pro
nounced exactly alike. Hence the cor
ruption. A Pittsburgh man named Smith has
invented a process for making glass
slippers in molds. They would not do
very well for dancing. There is no
reason why glass gown should not be
woven of iridescent glass, and its
wearer would look like an animated
rainbow on a ballroom floor one daz
zling shimmer of ever-changing hues.
Lntil recently the manufacture of
the civil wan of the cud of the eight
eenth century and of tlia republic up
to and including the year ISO!) cost the
lives of more than 3,l:!0,ooo Frenchmen.
From the yenr 1801 to W aterloo, when
France was fighting Europe In arms,
mora than 3,150,000 Frenchmen were
engaged and nearly 3,000,000 perished.
Under the restoration, Louis Phillips,
and the second republic, when there
campaigns in bpain, Ureece,
and Algiers, tho army included leas
than 919.000 men, and the loss in battle
was .only twenty-two par thousand.
Even in the brilliant African campaigns
the mean annual lass was less than 150
men.
Next came an era of frequent and
bloody wars, the war ia the Crimea,
the war in Italy, Die war in Chma, the
war in Mexico, and finally the war with
Prussia. Out of rather less than 810.
000 French soldiers sent to the Crimea
06.615 perished. Of the 500,000 that
took part in the Italiaa war nearly
10,000 perished. Nearly 1,000 perished
in the expedition to China. The med
ical statistics of the Freneh in the war
of 1870 have not been published, nor
have those of the Mexican undertaking.
The effective strength of the French in
1870-71 was 1,400,000 men. The number
lost is not positively known, but it is
believed that the wars of the second
empire cost 1,600,000 lives. Dr. Lage
neau estimates that the small wars of
the third republic have been fought at
comparatively small coat of human life.
He estimates the total loss for the cen
tury to have been 0,00,(KW ef men,
mostly young. ,
HE REMEMBERED!
Bat Bis Prospective Hastea Set Baek at
HUB Jut Mm asm.
Washington society has been da-
scribed in so many different ways that
people in general have no definitely
correct idea of it; but that there are
many bright people there is abundantly
proved in a little book called "The
Show in Washington," in which the fol
lowing story is given:
Mavroyeni Bey, tafc young Turkish
minister, aspires to be a soeisty leader.
A young hostess was issuing verbal in
vitations to her friends for an informal
five-o'clock tea.
The minister, overhearfcg her, smil
ingly begged that he might be included
in the list, and at the same time called
out to his secretary, who entered the
room: "Monsieur Effendi, mademoiselle
has asked me to tea with her at five
o'clock to-morrow. Remember the en
gagement for ms."
The following day the party met
-early in the afternoon at the white
house, and, upon seemg his hostess-to-
be, he crossed the room, saying:
"Is it not this afternoon at five that I
am to have the pleasure of taking tea
with you?"
"I do not remember," was the re
sponse of the young ladf. "Ask yaur
secretary."
list of the lost arts. But in 1878 it was
rediscovered, and now it iB a common
commercial article. It is made by ex
posing the melted glass to the vapors of
salts of sodium. At the Metropolitan
museum of art are exhibited great num
bers of bottles, plates and other articles
of glass which were made and used
long before Christ was born. They were
dug up in Cypress and elsewhere. Many
of them have a beautiful Iridescence,
but it is the result of decay. Glass will
rot like anything else, and decay has
split the structure of this ancient glass
.into laminae or flakes, which interrupt
the light so ns to produce brilliant red,
green, purple and other rainbow colors.
The window-blinds of the glass house
of the future will be of glass, of course.
That in another patent, and the in
ventor suggests that such blinds may
be made of whatever colors are desired.
Uaby in the nursery perhaps will play
with glass building blocks, and at a
suitable age he will receive a Christ
mas gift of a pair of roller skates with
glass rollers. Both of these ideas have
been patented. . .
When he is old enough to go fishing
he will not dig worms in the garden,
but will be provided with artificial bait
in tbe shape of a hollow minnow of
glass, coated on the inside pertly with
a solution of gold or silver and partly
with a luminous paint. The originator
of this minnow says that it is a brilliant
object in the water and calculated to
compel the attention of any fish that
has a particle of appetite.
Glass bedsteads may be proof against
lightning and bugs, but it is hardly to
be expected that glass houses should
be free from mice. The inmates could
hardly do better than to employ glass
traps for tbe capture of such vermin.
The great advantage of theglassmouse
: trap, according to the statement of the
inventor, ia that "if a mouse should
enter the trap, he may be seen by others
who chance to come that way, and they
will be inclined to join the one inside,
especially when they observe that lie is
nibbling a choice morsel." "
Up to date the gloat mousetrap baa
not mode itself popular, notwithstand
ing the important argument jn Us
favor, and of the moat of the other
devices described it is unfortunately
.true that they have not proved profit
able to the persons who have contrived
them. This remark however, by no
means applies to the glass lemon
squeezer, which ia already a familiar
household utensil. Tbe inventor of it
is said to have sold his rights for ISO,.
000,-M. World.
WOMEN'S
POSTSCRIPTS.
to Writ
wns Why They Arc So Pi
Them.
"Why women writ postscripts" Is a
problem that has been engaging the
attention of one of the London woman's
weeklies. The answers betrav that the
iridescent glass was set down is thei,, understands itself, and does not
mini exposing its amiable weaknesses.
All are from women who ascribe.
among others, these reasons: "Because
they seek to rectify want of thought by
an afterthought;" "Because they are
fond of having a last word;" "Because
they write before they think, and think
after they have written." Our corre
spondent puts down the feminine P. 8.
to the same cause "which leads women
to prolonged leave-taking in omnibuses,
namely," and rather profoundly it ap
pears to the casual observer, "that
they lack organization of thought."
Another woman comes to the de
fense of her sisters with the
suggestion "that when women have
anything special to communicate
they know that their r. a. is equiva
lent to N. B.," and yet another friendly
soul turns a neat compliment in her
reason: "Probably because woman her
self is the embodiment of tbe P. S. in
the scale of creation, she the indispen
sable was added last."
Tired Women
Host have strength or thtf will be in tnt
ttffArlnv rlMDsir of nervous nroetrstlon.
The true way to win vigorous health is to
take Hood's Saresparitla which will build
up strength by making pure, rich blood;
thus it will also fed the nerves upon their
proper nourishment, create sn appetite,
;oue ins aioniaca mviavniM erer; urgu.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
gwhst tired women need the one True
loud Purifier prominent in thepubllo eye.
Bread Makers,
Attention! . .
CRICKET FIGHTING.
One of the Vavorlt Sparta af CUneee
Gamblers.
The Chinese are inveterate gamblers,
and never lose an apportunity to bet,
no matter how trivial the eause may
be. One of their great institutions is
cricket fighting, the crickets being
caught, fed and trained carefully as a
blooded horse.
There is a fixed diet for them, part of
the food consisting of honey and boiled
chestnuts. If they get sick they are fed
with mosquitoes. Prior to fighting
their weight is ascertained and duly re
corded, there being a fixed regulation
as to their size and weight.
On the door of the house in which the
fight is to take place the record of each
cricket is pasted up, and the owner ef
the winner gets ten per cent, of all the
bets.
The cricket pit is a low tub placed on
a table, and, after weighing, the com
batants are put in it and tinkled with
straws until they rush at each other
with loud chirrups ana fight until ona
of them is killed.
w wrW"tli!".i.s M AMttalii,
He Would Oat It,
Lord Cockburn, though a successful
defender of prisoners, failed on one oc
casion to get an acquittal for a mm'
derer. "The culprit," Mr. Croak James
tells us, in his "Curiosities of Law and
Lawyers," "after the sentence fixing
his execution for the 20th of the
month, had not been removed from the
dock when his counsel passed him, and
was then seized by tbe gown. The
prisoner said: 'I have not got justice,
Mr. Cockburn.' To this counsel grave-
. ly replied! 'Perhaps not, bat yM'tt fat
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The root of the Liverine
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TANGENT,
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and strawberries. I will take in exchange for trees 300
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Tried and True Novelties.
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Blackberry, The Rathbun.
Tomato, Vick's Early Leader,
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) NEW DOUBLE SWEET PEA Brida of Nlamm
3j 1 rue to name, racket 25 cents, half Packet 15 cents.
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