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BOOM IN ARIZONA BUILDING STONE,
Kid, the Apichc, Incurs the rinmlty of Ills
Kacc The Southern Cal.tornla
Orange Groves.
Arizona linn a boom In building stone
Orain is looking well all over Call
fornia.
The weather Inst week In Arizona was
the coldest for fifteen years.
An organised band of cattle thieve
has been discovered in Southern Arl.ona.
See, the Tonto I?ailn (A. T.) wl'e mur-
deer, lias made hit escape Into Mexico,
Arizona' new gold diggings at Treas
ure Gulch are attracting large numbers
of projectors.
The bodies of two horse thieves have
been found hanging to a tree near Cala
tanas, north of Nogales.
The papers are ready at l'lio-nix. A,
T for the transfer of the Itig Bonanza
mine to a Boston syndicate for $9iH),000,
The streams in and alwut Kiko and
Battle Mountain. Nev., have been fur-
n lulled witli 50,000 Vermont brook trout.
A Chinese Interpreter, Ah Tie, has
lieen arrehted at Sacramento and charged
with forging City Attorney Hart's name.
There is no Improvement In the salmon
outlook, l'ackers are generally inclined
to take a gloomy view of the situation
It has been discovered that more than
half the prisoners lu the Idaho peniten
tiary ara insane to a greater or less ex
tent. The planting of lobster eggs In Mon
terey Hay has proved to be successful.
Tht young lolxtters are making their ap
pearance. An application for a receiver for the
l'hu'iiix (A. T.) Electric Light Company
has been denied by Chief-Justice Uood
ing of Arizona.
Kid, the Apache, has incurred the en
mity of his race, and there is a chance
that the United States government will
rapture the outlaw.
Last winter's blow has proven a bless
ing to the orange groves in Southern
California. They are much cleaner and
brighter than before.
The Adams has seized the steamer
Jennie and the schooners Lottie and
Kodiac for killing otter in Behring Sea
The vessels were sent to Sitka.
Feeble and diseased Mexicans are call
ing on Saint Teresa Urrea at Nogales,
ifnd claim to have been greatly relieved
through her miraculous healing power.
Twelve Washoe and Piute IndianB left
Carson the other night for San Francisco
to take part in Carver's border drama.
They were gorgeously painted before
their departure.
The Governor of California wants more
facts in regard to the complaints of busi
ness being clogged for the want of extra
deputies, and has aBked the Boards of
Supervisors for them.
The wife of Mr. llanley, formerly a
member of the Nevada Legislature and
well known all over the Coast, killed
herself at Salt Lake by taking poison.
Insanity was the cause.
Tempe, A. T., is much exorcised over
the mysterious murder of Ed Kadeliffe,
whose body was found on the floor of a
dancing ball. The Coroner's jury said
that Radclife's death was from natural
causes, and the body was buried, but the
citizens were suspicious. They had the
body exhumed, and an examination
showed Radcliffe had received wounds
in the bead, which had produced death.
John Thomas, once a wealthy farmer
of Ada county, Idaho, has informed the
Assessor that he should hereafter refuse
to pay taxes on his ranch. Every win
ter for the past four or five years BoiBe
river has plxyed great pranks with Mr.
Thomas' land, and now he has but
twenty acres left from a whole half sec
tion. Surveyor-General Byars has been no
tified that the Commissioner of the gen
eral land office has made an apportion
ment of $4,700 out of the reserve fund
for surveying the public lands in Oregon.
The original $20,000 has all been ex-
f tended, and contracts are being entered
nto for using up the extra apportionment.
PURELY PERSONAL.
Mr. Gladstone the Only Surviving Mem
ber of the Peel Administration
Jules Simon's Views,
I'rof. Swjft thinks that Ids new comet
was 8,000,000 years getting here.
Chief-Justice Fuller has accepted an
Invitation to deliver the annual address
this full before the l.aw Academy of Phil
adelphia, Senator Blackburn Is one of the read
iest of Congressional sinkers, and can
reel off pretty thoughts and smart idea
by the hour.
Jay (iould carries In his pure a 10 rent
pli'ce which lie declares was at one time
all that stood between him and a dead
broke condition.
The Japanese Minister to Washington
wears in his i urban a magnificent opal
almost as big at a pigeon's egg, sat in a
irame oi sparkling diamonds.
Jules Hi nion, one ol the clearest-headed
statesmen in Europe, thus views the sit
uation over there: "Peace, barring ac
cidents. Hut accidents happen so easily."
M. Lsvisse. the newlv-elected member
of the French Academy, is a writer on
historical subjects and the first out-and-
out Kepublicsn yet raised to the honor
of membership in the academy.
Lieutenant Cavendish, nephew of the
Duke of Devonshire, will have a lovelv
bride In Lady Evelvn, the elde-t daugh
ter of the Marquis of Lansdowne, to
whom he will be married on July 25.
The educational exhibit from Wiscon
sin at the World's Fair, it Is estimated,
will require 0,000 square feet of space,
and application for that amount has
been made.
South Dakota will be creditably repre
sented at the exiKjditlon, having now
$22,000 In sight with which to prepare
its exhibit. 1 lie money has twen raised
by subscription.
St. John is still In front of the Prohi
bition purtv. lint does not aeem to male
as much progress with it as if he had it
on a street car which had a habit of run
ning oil the tracks.
Governor Foraker's younitest son has
been christened Arthur St. Clair after
the first Governor of Ohio, Governor
St. Clair was a uallnnt but bluff old sol
dier of the Revolution.
Kate Field believes that the moral and
temperate saloon system advocated by
Key. Dr. Kainsford would im a irreat im
provement upon the hard-drinking bar
trade as now countenanced.
K. Burd Grubb, American Minister to
Spain, has arranged the American Com
mission to ansist the Spanish Commis
sion having in charge the Columbian
celebration that is to be held in Spain.
large space is reserved for American
exhibits.
Messenger Stoddard of the Massachu
setts Stat House does not exactly own
the building; but, as he has been in
service in the place for fifty-two years,
le leeis that he has an extra claim upon
l lie old gentleman is 77 years old.
Mr. Gladstone is the only surviving
memner oi ine reel administration, lie
served as L rider Secretary of State for
the colonies in IMS. No American states
man now living was in active public life
when Mr. Gladstone had already taken
a prominent position in auairs.
THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
he Progress of Ship-Building From the
Earliest Times Up to the Pres
ent to be Shown.
The ethnological exhibit at the World's
Fair will include many curios from the
Charlotte Islands.
Tourist agents in London have con
tacted to bring large parties to this
country next summer to visit the Chi
cago World's Fair.
The progress of ship-building from
earliest times up to the present will be
tiown bv a very extensive exhibit.
which will be made by Laird Bros., the
big English ship-building tirnist Birken
head. The firm's exhibit of like char
acter at the recent English naval exhi
bition attracted a great deal of attention.
The United States patent office will
xhihit at the World's Fair as complete
collection as possible of the models oi
all the important American patented in
ventions, with a view of showina the
great advance in the several arts, which
is due in no small degree to the encour
agement and protection afforded by the
patent system.
Miss Cassatt and Mrs. McMonniea.
both American artists now at work in
Paris, have been commissioned by Mrs.
Potter Palmer to do the greater part of
the decorating work on the interior of
the woman's building at the World's
Fair. Both women by their work have
won favorable recognition in Paris art
circles.
From California is to be exhibited at
the World's Fair one of the famed huge
redwood trees or teauoia aiaantta. The
one selected is 300 feet high and more
than thirty feet in diameter at the base.
A specially constructed train will be nec
essary to carry the monster across the
continent. It is the intention to hollow
the base into booths, in which will be
sold California wines, fruits and curios
ities made of polished redwood.
A number of the far-famed Kerry cows
are to be taken from Ireland to Chicago
at the time of the World's Fair for the
purpose of presenting to the admiring
gaze of visitors the spectacle of real
Irish milkmaids and buttermakers
pretty ones, of course pursuing their
vocation. At the Irish industrial vil
lage, too, which will be one of the inter
esting features of the fair, will be seen
native Donegal peasant girls spinning
wool in genuine Irish cottages and dye
ing it in t he historic potato pot on a real
bog-peat fire.
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
The
Gambling Spirit Pervades
New Orleans, La.
NUMBER OF DIVORCES GRANTED.
The International Typographical Union In
Session at Philadelphia Repeals
the so-IIour Law.
Mississippi is threatened with a plague
of grass hopiers.
The negro population of the South Is
increasing rapidly.
A mountain of red paint has been dis
covered near Denver.
Michigan crop retorts indicate
yield of grain and fruits.
big
Judge Tourgee predicts a massacre by
negroes in the next ten years.
Newfoundland is rejoicing over the
catching of 400,0,0 seals by her fleet this
season.
Arrangements have been made for the
electrical illumination of Niagara Falls
at night.
One hundred bodies are now known to
have been stolen from the cemetery at
Hamburg, la.
The general deficiency bill provides no
money for the payment of bond-aided
Pacific railroads.
It is said that there are really 1,000,
000 more acres planted in corn in Kansas
this year than last,
A Michigan woman who was cured of
the morphine habit at a Keeley institute
became violently insane.
Suit is to be instituted for the land
upon which the cities of Dallas and Fort
Worth, Tex., are located.
The census returns show that in the
entire State of Virginia the surplus of
women is but thirty-nine.
The Cape Cod, ship canal bill was de
feated in the Massachusetts House lust
week by a vote of 50 to 09.
Governor Fifer'e appeal for aid from
the citizens of Illinois for flood BafTurers
has resulted in raising $11,000.
The International Typographical
Union repealed the 69-hour law by a
majority oi one in lorty-eight votes..
L. W. Haliercnrm has resigned as Fifth
Auditor of the Treasury, lie will prac
tice lu wand write for the German papers,
Of the 428,000 divorces granted in the
United States dnring the last twenty
years 3iu,i;isj were granted at too re
quest of wives.
In consequence of the McKinley bill
Johann Huff, the famous malt-extract
manufacturer at Berlin, is about to open
a mciory in .ew lortc.
Within three years 5,000 people have
lost their lives !n Western Pennsylvania
Decause ot weak dams originally con
strutted in a slovenly manner.
During May the exports of breadstuff's
from ttie United States were $19,410,349,
against ia,;i;o,a;ii in May, mil; of pro
visions, $10,501,592, against $7,063,016 in
1891.
The lady landlord of a Cincinnati ho
tel has demanded $100 damages on ac
count of a Texas banker committing
suicide in one of the rooms of her
house.
The gambling spirit eo thoroughly per
vades New Orleans that even the grand
jury is found recommending the passage
of a law under which gambling shall be
licensed.
A. Nelson and James Taylor, Creek
Indians, have been sentenced to death
for stealing, the statutory laws making
conviction for theft the third time puu-
lenanie witn death.
Edward S. Dunn, Secretary and Treas
urer of the National Savings Bank of
Buffalo, is a defaul ter for a heavy amount,
He was a trusted officer and a leading
financier oi tne city.
me isew lorn isoara oi Health re
ports that there are five schoolhouses in
that city in which the only method of
ventilating the rooms is the primitive
one of opening the windows.
The total number of regular trains of
all classes in and out of Chicago daily
via all railroad lines is 1,30 J. Twenty
eight railroad companies operate nearly
40,000 miles of railroad lines that center
there.
A statement is being circulated that
the vast lead and zinc industries of Mis
souri, including several smelters at St.
Louis and in Southwestern Missouri, are
about to pass under control of foreign
capital.
The good people of Philadelphia are
seriously disturbed. The use of soft coal
by the locomotives of the Pennsylvania
railroad is tilling the air with soot and
smutting the famous purity of the town
buildings..
Lotta Crabtree was defeated in a suit
in the Superior Court at Boston recently
by May Kobinson, who obtained a ver
dict for $5J0. The Buitwas for $4,000
for injuries sustained while passing the
Park Theater, which Lotta owns.
Considerable excitement was occa
sioned at Homestead, Pittsburg, by the
announcement that Manager Potter of
Carnegie's plant had signed a three
years' agreement with all skilled labor
except members 'of the Amalgamated
Association at the present wages.
The run of shad in the Hudson river
has been growing less and less for sev
eral years. The United States Fish Com
mission, fearing an eventful famine, has
just placed 500,000 two-day-old shad fry
in the river at Kincntnn. It, nanallvl
takes three years to develop them. !
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Yale University About to Add a Course
In Psychology to Its Cirriculum
and Fix Up Laboratory.
Dickinson College last week graduated
a class of twenty students.
Switzerland spends on education a sum
one-third larger than it spends upon its
army.
Edinburgh University is one of the
chief medical centers in the world. It
was founded in 1582.
The prescriled course of medical in
struction in the Mexican National Uni
versity is seven years.
As now constituted, the Chicago Board
of Education contains two ladies Mrs.
Flower and Miss Burt.
The elementary school statistics of
Hungary are thus reported: In 1892
2,0l.r.612 children attended school, while
in 1809 only 1,162.115.
The oldest and largest medical school
in America is that of the University of
Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1705,
and lias graduated 10,408 men.
More than 1,400 girls applied for ad
mission to the New York Normal College
this year. The results of the examina
tions will be announced in a few days.
Seventy-seven of the 100 counties of
Kansas are represented at the Agricult
ural (kdlege this year. There are also
students from fourteen other States be
sides Kansas.
Yale University is about to add
course in psychology to its curriculum
and will fix up a laboratory for the pur
pose of experimenting upon and meas
uring mental processes.
Chicago is to have a new medical col
lege. It will be called the Clinical Col
lege of Medicine and Specialty Hospital,
Ground has been secured, ana it is ei
peeled that by next year the institution
win be opened to receive students.
Thirty years ago there was not a school
in ail the Southern States for colored
people, and of the 4,0X1,0X10 slaves set at
liberty only seven and one-half in each
thousand could read. To-day not less
than 2,250,000 colored people in the
Southern States ran read.
Naples has a Froebel Institute, man
aged by Mme. Schwabe and Mile. Baer
mann. It is twenty years in existence,
and began with two children. It has
now twentv-nine claflRea and 1 ftm) nn.
nils. All do not come nnder the head of
free students, as msnv are from well to-
do famines. Jetruh ilemnngtr.
CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS.
Dolph Secures the Passage of His Bill to
Increase the Limit of Cost of the
Portland Public Building.
By directioa of the President Adju
tant-General Kelton is retired from act
ive service. Major L. O. Overman, who
was recently tried atUleveland for irreg
ularity in ins accounts, has resigned
ine resignation is accepted, and goes
into euect September zu.
Senator Allen of the State of Wash
mgton has received from the Secretary
oi me ireasury lor transmission to
woman in his State a magnificent gold
medal, engraved around the face with
the words: "In testimony of heroic
deeds in saving life from the perils of
the sea," and on the face of the shield
with the words: "To Mrs. Martha
White, for heroic deeds in rescuing three
men trom drowning." Mrs. White saved
the lives of three sailors of the wrecked
ship f erndale at Long Beach last winter,
Senator Dolph is receiving a large
number of telegrams concerning the re
port of the engineers for the plans for
bridges acrosB the Willamette. It will
require several days to obtain a codv ot
t"he report and proceedings from the War
Department and nave it printed, and on
account of its voluminousness it cannot
be conveniently examined until that is
done. He believes the chief of enei
neers and Secretary of War will sign the
report. Action, however, will be post
poned until the people and city author
ities of Portland can be heard and the
matter thoroughly examined and ad
presented to the Secretary. All commu
nications received o far favor the loca
tion of a bridge at Burnside street.
Senator Dolph has secured the passage
ui ii ih uiu tu increase inn iimil 01 cost
f l I'll . : . i . i -
for the site and public building at Port
land to $1,000,000. His amenndment to
the sundry civil bill provided a little in
crease, which has been reported favor
ably by the Senate Committee on Public
buildings and Grounds, and is now be
fore the Uommittee on ADDroDnations.
In view of the certain opposition to the
amendment in the House the committee
hesitates about incorporating the amend
ment in the bill. Senator Dolph has been
assured mat, it a similar amendment in
troduced by Senator Mandeison for a
public building at Omaha received favor
able report, his bill will also.. The Sen
ator says the circumstances will be more
favorable at the next session of Congress
for the passage of the public-building
bill.
The census office has issued a bulletin
on the population of the United States
by color, sex and nativity. During the
decade from 1880 to 1890 males increased
from 25,518,820 to 32.067.K80 or 25.67 per
cent.; females from 24,636,9ti3 to 30,
554,370 or 24.02 per cent. Of the total
population 5J,32,703 are native born or
22 76 per cent., as against the increase
for the decade ended 1880 of SI. 78 per
cent. The increase of foreign born was
2,569,604 or 38.47 per cent., as against
49.99 per cent, in the previous decade.
According to the census there are in the
country 7,638,360 colored persons, mean
ing persons of African descent. Chinese.
Japanese and civilized IndianB. There
has been an increase in the white race
during the past decade of 26.68 per cent,
and in the colored race of 13.11 percent.
In the previous decade whites increased
29.22 per cent, and colored apparently
35.90. As explained in previous bulle
tins, however, that increase was to a
certain extent fictitious, particularly as
regards the colored population of the
South. - : - I
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Swarms of Locusts Reach Algeria
and Tunis From Sahara.
RELIGIOUS EQUALITY IN HUNGARY.
Cotton Now Grown In Turkestan and the
Russian Provinces of Central
Asia Frog Lymph.
It is intended to lay a submarine cable
in ine Caspian hea.
Sued, the fater, is insane and now in
an asylum near Paris.
trench Imports showed for the last
year a gain over the exports.
fewer suicides occur In Ireland than
in any other country in Europe.
Tenders for the Canadian loan of 112.
ouv.uuv nave just cioseu in London.
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England has begun through its press
to bitterly bewail markets lost in Amer
ica.
Lord Salisbury's protection speech is
said to be still causing dissensions in the
urnisn cabinet.
foreign physicians are now experi
menting wiin irog lympn aa a preventive
of hydrophobia.
The year 1891 saw the first increase in
the export of Chinese tea that has oc
curred in tea years.
It is estimated that there are less than
10,0u0 paupers in the Japanese Empire,
with its population of 237,000,000.
Nathaniel Rothschild in retiring from
the turf announces that he wiil dispose
of his stud the biggest in Austria.
English nautical journals are not in
sympathy with the proposed Corbin line
of American Transatlantic steamships.
The associated railroads of Austria
have presented the Emperor with a
magnificent new special train of twelve
cars.
Dr. Newman Hall, the eminent Lon
don clergyman, expects to retire from
his pastorate in July. He is now 76
years of age.
Some French artists affect to be indif
ferent to the hill now before Conerees
asking for a reduction of the duty upon
worna oi art.
The consumption of coffee in France
has increased within thirtv vears from
one-half pound to three and one-half
pounds per head.
A resolution in favor of religions tonal
ity has just been adopted in the Hun
garian Lnamber after an agitation of
twenty-five years.
Heligolanders are bv no means recon
ciled to their lot since annexation to
Germany, and are full of grievances and
troubles of all kinds.
The King of Siam is ereatlv interested
in eiec-ricai progress. Throuzh his ef
fort Bangkok is to have an electric road
ot American manufacture.
Swarms of locusta have reached Al
geria and lunis on the Mediterranean
a'ter having crossed the Great Sahara
Desert and the Atlas Mountains.
ine overnow of the Danube and its
tributaries covers 240 sauare miles, of
wnicn one-naif is cultivated land and
the remainder forests and meadows.
It is possible to become a Prince In
Italy by the payment of 413.000 in fees
and other costs. The title of Duke may
be had for $10,000, and that of Baron for
$4,000.
London Truth says that Sir William
Hordon Cummmg, the principal in the
famous baccarat scandal, will stand for
the House of Commons in the Eighth
Dorougn.
Cotton is now crown in Turkestan and
the Russian provinces of Central Asia.
the quantity produced being 31,650,000
pounds, or say K0.000 bales, in 1888 and
02,660,000 pounds in 1889.
London has forty-four theaters, with a
capacity lor seating 70,000 spectators.
Its music halls and other places of en
tertainment number 475, with a capacity
of more than 500,000.
Not a single case of influenza is now
known to exist in Paris. The epidemic
is said to have cost 13,000 lives in 1892.
but in 189i) it was far more virulent, for
tu.wio people are men said to nave per
ished. in Airt t .i .
The Grand Trunk railwav of Uruimav
to Montevideo has been completed, and
opens out a vast tract of fertile land
nitherto comparative v worthless, the
area of which is only a little less than
Belgium.
Mummies taken from the Ecvntian
tombs, beaten into a fine powder and
mixed with oil for raint is one nf tha
latest industries at Cairo. The color of
this human-dust paint is a rich brown of
lively tone.
A wire-netting fence 500 miles lomr is
one of the late Australian wonders. The
fence separates the colonies of New
South Wales and Queensland, and its
object is to keep the rabbits out of the
latter country.
The drouth in France hardlv can hnva
failed to affect crops. In Mav the total
rainfall was only .27 inch up to the 25th
of the month. The Anril rainfall was
only .39 inch. The total for the two
months was the smallest in fifteen years
or more. The average May rainfall ex
ceeds iwo incnes.
The Work of laving a telppranh JH
all around the Island of Great Britain
has been begun, and it is expected that
it will be completed at the end of the
year. The coast guardsmen all along
the line will then be able to communi
cate with each other inetantaneously for
the purpose of offense or defense.
RACE HATRED IN EUROPE.
Neighbor WIiom IlUllka for Each Other
If Constantly Mnlretod.
We know of few circumstances in
modern Europe more disheartening
than the depth of the distaste felt by
its different races for one another.
Their growth in civilization, which
certainly goes on, though it is very
slow, seems only to deepen their dis
like, which, again, is increased by their
propinquity. Theso Germans and
Czechs of Bohemia cannot tolerate
each other, though they are not only
intermixed but know that, whatever
happens, they must remain intermixed
r the end of time.
The Spaniards and Portuguese are
lodged side by side in the same penin
sula, under circumstances which would
make fusion enormously advantageous
to both, Spain gaining her natural cap
ital and trading river, and Portugal
gaining the force to keep and to utilize
her colonies. Yet the keenest observers
report that fusion is impossible, because
Spaniards despise Portuguese and Por
tuguese at once dread and detest Span
iards. The Germans and Slavs in the
east of Europe can hardly be compelled
to keep the peace of Europe, while the
German loathing for a Dane is as in
tense, and, we may add. as unintelli
gible, as the loathing of a Dutchman
for the Germans. The Italians and the
French, though their frontiers touch,
despise each other heartily, and when,
a3 in Marseilles, they are forced into
industrial competition, they can hardly
keen from blows.
Tne Slavs and the Greeks living in
the same Turkish provinces, though
they have the bond of a common servi
tude, confess to a repulsion they can
not conquer; and the Poles and the
Germans of Prussia, subjects of the
same crown and invested with the
same rights, regard one another, age
after age, with the same angry sus
picion, li the distaste were dvwe
away, we might say, as so many say
about Ireland, that it was produced by
historic causes only, but we see no evi
dence that it is dying away.
Vn tne contrary, lt.tr-ptars to deepen
as the superincumbent pressure be
comes less, until, in a free and en
lightened city like Berlin, there is a
positive danger lest, if authority were
paralyzed for a few days, the "edu
cated" German population would
spring at the throats of all Hebrews
and bid all Poles depart And all this
wnue the ditterence between the races
is often less than the difference be
tween the families or individuals of
the same race, and is manifested in ac
tion mainly as a difference in tempera
ment and ideals. London Spectator.
Electrical Eels.
These creatures are well known as
among the curiosities of the streams of
tropical South America. A more par
ticular account of them, by an Eng
lish naturalist who had much experi
ence of their nature and iiabits, will
be of interest
They are of all sizes, from a foot to
six feet in length, and are frequently
caught on lines which are set forother
fishes, ihey are sometimes eaten, but
cot often, though their flesh is said to
be good.
Horses as well as men, on coming in
contact with them in the water, are
not unf requently thrown down by the
shock. They are called by the inhab
itants "treme-treme." In rainy weath
er those who fish in these rivers often
receive a shock, which is communi
cated along the moisture upon the rod
and line, when one of them happens
to seize the hook.
I saw one in a state of captivity. It
was about six feet long, and was so
tame that it would allow any one to
put his hand upon it, and would even
slide for its whole length through the
fingers. If it was irritated in the
smallest degree, however, by no mat
ter how slight a pinch, it "instantly
communicated a smart shock. Youth s
Companion.
How Do Ton Wear Oat Shoes?
The nature of a person can be told
by the way he or she wears the soles
of his or her shoes. A sole and heel
that are badly worn on the outsides
toward the rear corners indicate a very
passionate person, who is generally
enthusiastic and believes in perform
ing his duties very rapidly. Such
persons proceed up the ladder of fame
by jumps, filling the highest positions
or the profession which they follow.
Not working for money, they only
care for glory, which want is never
satisfied. Such men were Alexander
the Great, Grant, Bonaparte and
others.
An even worn sole indicates an even
going person, who climbs up the lad
der of fame very slowly, accumulat
ing a fortune as he climbs. Such men
become our millionaires, but are sel
dom noted for their valorous deeds.
A sole of which the toe end is badly
worn often indicates a crook or other
criminal. A sole worn on the inside
indicates a person with very little am
bition. Such a person is contented
w hatever his lot in life may be, and he
cares very little for the outside world.
Toronto Mail.
No Improvement.
An old ladv who witnessed a tiro.
duction of "The Merchant of Venice"
many years ago went again recently
so see tne story or oiiylock enacted
upon tne stage, upon her return
home she was asked how she liked it
"Wall," said she, "Venice seemed to
have been spruced up some since the
first time I saw it, but Shylock' a just
the same moan, ordinary thing he was
forty years ago." Harper's Magazine
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