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li there some noble deed that youjaaylfo?
Some point to eflwnTorf high,
Act now, and thu3JiftWlhy-c]f be true,
JWHnorrow juu luuj uie.
^jg&^Jkrtfere some cheering word that you may
"While day is pas-sing by?
*> . Go, let that precious word tho silence break,
I . To-morrow you may die.
Ja there some grievous wrong "that you may I
jSS Or hu?.h some deep-drawn sigh,
MB ' Remember, while so swiftly conies the night,
gB To-morrow you may die.
? ?55 Go, pour 6weet balm into some wounded
<rJ~' Go. wipe some tearful eye;
m Let not the act tmdoue with day depart,
To-morrow you may die.
J j Yea go, and make your peace with God and
t*? ? /uMmV vnn lirt*
Bpjfc"- rr- Secure a crown of life, 'tis wisdom's plan,
To-morrow you may die.
ffflf G. IV. Crofts, in Inter-Ocean.
HOW THEY MANAGED.
Hi BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
ISP*** *'
'Pack up your things as soon as you
Bv please, my dear," said Mr. Chcsncy.
| '"We're going to move ou Saturday."
" Mr. and Mrs. Chcsney were a matrimonial
firm?there was no question about
i that?but Mrs. Chesney had always been
a silent partner in the same.
("If ever I get married," said Elrna, a
bright-eyed girl of seventeen, "I won't
be put upon as Mamma is!" ''Papa is a
rejrular despot?that's what papa is!" decided
Will, a tall stripling of fifteen.)
"Where, my dear?" asked Mrs. Chesney,
with a little start.
"Into the country," said the family autocrat.
"I'm tired of this city business.
It costs a great deal more than it comes
to. I'm told you can live at half the expense
in the country."
f|$V' "But," gasped Mrs. Chesney, "what
is to become of the children's education?"
"There's a very good district school in (
, the neighborhood, not more than a mile I
distant," explained her husband, "and j
r exercise will do them good."
. 4'And what are we to do for society?"
"Pshaw I" said Chesney. "I wouldn't
- ?ive a rap for people who can't be society
V themselves. . Thorc'll be the house^to
do, you know?nobody keeps a
gTrfin the country?and plenty of chores
about the place for Will and Spencer. I
shall keep ahorse, if I can get one cheap,
for. the station is half a mile from the |
plr je, and I've bargained for a couplc of i
cowi and some pigs."
an/f Srwncpr looked askance at i
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each other.
"ftl* do us good to walk a mile to
chool," muttered the elder; "but father
must havfe a-horse to carry him half a mile
to the station."
"That's father's logic all over," ob
-ifcfvedjjpencer.
While
wife the various advantages which were
to accrue from the promised move.
"It's unfortunate," said ho, "that
Elma and Rosie aren't boys. Such a lot i
*l'~ Of women folks are enough to swamp any !
family. Men, now, cau always earn their
bread. But we must try to make_everybody
useful inspisft *?lfy or other.' lis
so healtj)^'you know," added he. "And
thcr^nt won't be half of what we pay
"Are there any modern conveniences
about the place T' timidly inquired Mrs.
HL - Chesney.
Wp "There's & spring of excellent water
about a hundred yards from the house,"
W ?aid her husband.
Fv Mrs. Chcsncy grew pale,
p? " Have I got to walk a hundred yards
L for every drop of water I want ?" said
she.
"And a large rain-water hogshead
under the eaves of the house," added Mr.
Chesney. "And I've already got a
bargain in kerosene lamps. As for candles,
I am given to understand that the good
housekeepers thereabouts make 'em themselves
in tin molds. There's nothing
like economy. Now I do beg to know,
Abigail," he added, irritably, "wliatare
you looking so lackadaisical about ? Do
?>u expect to sit still aud fold your
hands, while I do all the work ? Give
?- - fnr natural lazi- !
Uiv a vrv/uicku. iV4 W4.W. ??
ness !"
" I am not lazy, George,"said the poor
wife, with a bewildered air; " but?allj
this is so new and strange at first. But
I'll try to get accustomed to it?I'll try
my very best."
Nevertheless, Rosie and Elma and their
mother shed many a salt tear into the
jr trunks and packing-boxes, on top of the
woolen blankets and rugs and piles of
domestic linen.
" I hate the country !" said Elma.
" I'd as soon go to prison and done with
it."
" Oh, Ellie, don't talk so," said Rose.
li There are wild-roses and robins there,
just as one sees on the painted plaques in ,
the store windows. And perhaps we can '
have a flower-bed, and some dear little
downy chickens !"
But the first sight of Mulleinstalk Farm
w" dianiritlnff in the exnreme. Between
rock and swamp, there was scarcely pas- i
ture for the two lean cows that Mr. Chesney
had bought at "a bargain," and the
hollow-backed horse, which stalked about
the premises like some phantom Bucephalus.
The apple-trees in the orchard were
three-quarters dead, and leaned sorrowfully
away from the last winds,until their
boughs touched the very ground; the
fences were all gone to ruiu, and the
front gate was tied yp with a hemp
string.
' Is this home?" said Elma, with an
indescribable intonation in her voice.
"We'll get things all straightened up,
after awhile," said Mr. G'hesney, bustling
to drive away the pigs, who had broken
out of their pen and were squealing dismally
under the window.
Mrs. Chcsney cricd herself to sleep that
night, and awakened the next morning
with every bone instinct with shooting
pains.
"And no wonder," said Spcncer.
*'There's afoot of water in the cellar."
"We must have it drained," said Mr.
Chesney, with an uneasy look; "but
there's plenty of things to do first."
And now began a reign of the strictest
economy. Mr. Chcsney himself paid for \
everything with checks, and not an arti- i
oh* came into the house or came out of it
without his cognizance. New dresses
> were frowned upon; spring bonnets were
strictly interdicted; orders were issued
that old carpets snouia ue reserved, anu
broken dishes repaired with cement and
quicklime.
"Save, save, save! That is the chief
thing," he kept repeating, briskly.
"Women-folks can't earn: they should try
their best to save."
"It's all very well for papa," growled
Will. "He goes to the city every day and
see* something besides the pigs and the
^ fleud apple-trees. He orders a new suit
< r?r?r^*f.
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wlierr^Heneeds it. Look at mamma's
[patchedgown and Rosic's dyed bonnet*
strings! Why, they can't even go :o
church, they are such objects! He gets
his lunch at a restaurant, and we cat cold
beans, and drink dandelion coffee and
sage tea!"
"Boys," fluttered Rosie, "I've an idea.
MaryPenn, who lives on the next farm' j
you know, came to see Elina and nie yesI
terday. Papa is earning his living; we'll
earn something, too."
"I should like to know how," muttered
Spencer. "I might hire out somewhere
as farm hand, if it was't forn that wretched
old horse, and the pigs, and the woodchopping,
and?"
"Oh, but there is something that won't
interfere with the chores, nor with
school!" said cheerful little Rosic. "Just
listen?all I ask of you is to listen!"
And the weeks grew into months, and
the red leaves eddied down in little
swirls from the maple trees, and "pigkilling
time" came, and, with the aid of a
lame, one-eyed man, Mr. Chcsney laid
down his own stock of pork and sausages
for the winter with the sense of being
t-InmnViontlff Dm5n.al
The family had left off complaining
now. Apparently they were resigned to
their doom. But there was some things
that Mr. Chesncy could not explain at
all.
A new rug brightened up the dismal
hues of the parlor carpet; Rosic had a
crimson merino dress, trimmed with black
velvet bars; Elma's fall jacket was edged
with substantial black fur; and?grand
grand climax of extravagance?Mrs.
Chesncy had new shawl, in place of the
old broche garment which had been her
mother's before her!
He looked over the housekeeping books
with renewed vigilance; he consulted the
stubs of his check-book with a glance
that nothing could cscapc.
"I ? don't?know?how?they?manage
it," said he, scratching his nose with
the lead-pencil that he always carried. "I
hate mysteries, and I mean to be at the
bottom of this before I'm an hour older."
He tODk his account-book under his
arm and marched into the kitchen, where
his wife was clearing away the late supper.
"Abigail," said he, "how is this? I've
given you no money. You've long left off
asking for money. How have you managed
to smarten yourself and the children
up so? I won't be cheated by own wife!"
Elma set down the pitcher which she
was wiping, and came and stood before
her father with glittering eyes and cheeks
stained with crimson, like a flag of battle.
4'Papa," she said, "you must not speak
to mamma so. Mamma would not cheat
you nor anybody else. It's money that
we have earned ourselves. There! Now!"
Mr. Chesney stared at the girl with incredulous
eyes.
"And if you don't,bftljp_v(? It., come and
see how," said Elma, flinging down her
towel. "Mary Penn showed us. She
told us everything, and gave us the first
swarm of bees.,' There are fourteen hives
down under /the south wall. Spencer
sold the hoiyey for us; and we planted all
the nice flowers that grow down in the
meadow, tlnat you said was too stony and
barren evan for the sheep to pasture upon:
audWiu dug anJjhoed atouad them
after the chores wer? all done, and we
sent boxes and bo'uquets of lilies and
verbenas to the citjr every day by Mr.
Perm's wagon. An 4 we gathered, wild
strawberries before ;he sun was up, and
got cherries out of .aod-themone.^.iiJaVi
ours?every cent of it I"
"Honey, eh?" said Mr. Chesney, staring
at the row of hives, for Elraa had
dragged him out into the November
moonlight to the scene of action. "Well,
I've seen these many a time, but I always
s'posed they belonged to Squire
Penn's folks. And flowers, and wild
berries! Didn't think there was so much
money in 'em. Guess I'll try the business
myself next year. Queer that the womenfolks
should have got the start of me 1"
And after that he regarded his family
with more respect. The mere fact that
they could earn money had elevated them
immensely in his sight.
But when spring came he lost his able
coadjutor.
Miss Elma incidentally announced to
him one day that she was goin g to be
married to Walter Penn the next weeK.
"And mamma is coming to live with
with us," added Elma. "She can't stand
the damp house and this hard work any
longer."
But Mrs. Chesney did not go to the
Penn Farm. Mr. Chesney hired a stout
serving-maid, and laid drain-pipes under
the kitchen stoop.
If his wife really understood her business
so well, it wa3 worth while to keep
her well and active, he considered.
"I couldn't well leave papa, you
know," said Mrs. Chesney to Elma. "He
means well, and now that Rebecca Beckel
is coming here, and the kitchen is dry, we
shall get along nicely. I wouldn't go
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DaCK 10 me City iur auyiuuig uu?>.
"Nor I, cither," said Elma. ."And oil,
mamma, I shall always love those beehives
under the holly-hocks, for it was
there that Walter asked me to be his
wife!"
And Mrs. Chesney tearfully kissed her
daughter. She, too, had been happy
once, and had her dreams.
It was to be hoped that Walter Penn
was made of different metal from George
Chesney.
To Elma, however, all the world was
couleur de rose. Had she not the eternal
talisman of Youth and Love??Saturday
Night.
A Lerel Headed Chemist.
What might have proved a very tragical
occurrence was adroitly nipped in the
bud the other day by a Parisian chemist.
An elegantly dressed young woman,
wearing a thick veil over her face, went
into a pharmaceutical establishment at
Clichy and asked for a phial of vitriol.
The chemist, whose suspicions were
aroused by the mysterious n_anner of his
lall UU31ASU1U1, CVoJVvJVl ilL-I OULLIO l|UWUUUO,
to which she returned evasive replies..
He then gave her, instead of vitriol, a
bottle of perfumed water, and directed a
man to follow the fair damsel and to
watch her movements. The amateur detective
did so, and soon saw the woman
take up her position at a street
corner, phial in hand. After having carefully
uncorked the bottle, she waited,
and, as a young man well known in the
neighborhood passed by, she flung its
contents, with a yell of triumph, in his j
face. The man received the perfumed
water in his eyes, but, although it only
made him smart for a moment, he roared 1
like a bull of liashan, and cried out that !
he was blinded forever. Meanwhile, the '
emulator of Marie Beer, who thought she <
hud iuflicted a terrible punishment on her .
false-hearten Adonis, ran away with the '
speed of an Atalanta, vainly pursued by
some of the bystanders who had witnessed
the scene. The chemist's man, however,
set everybody's mind at ease by describing
the pious fraud employed by his master
for the prevention of another Parisian
drama.?Boston Post.
Green and heliotrope are a favorite
combination which is worn by fashionable
Paris. ?
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"PHILATELISTS." |
WHICH MEANS MEN WHO COLLECT
POSTAGE STAMPS.
A Mania With Which Many Persons
Have Been Seized?Biff Prices
Paid For Rare Postage
Stamps.
The man who has the mania for collecting
postage stamps is known, technically,
as u philatelist. The word is derived from
the Greek, and is translated, "love of a
tax." Mr. Bogert, President of the
National Philatelical Society of New
York, thinks the title is not the most
happy one that could be procured; but,
as it has gone into general use, both in
this and other countries, it is too late to
change it. mere is an impression among
the general public that stamp collecting
is confined to boys and eccentric men and
women. This impression, however, is
wrong. A great many bankers and brokers
in this and other cities, who have proved
by their business succcsses that they are
possessed of sound judgment, are enthusiastic
stamp collectors.
The postage stamps used in the world
run up into the thousands, and a book of
seventy-four pages, printed in fine type,
is required to catalogue them. .The
United States government issues at the
present time 201) stamps of different kinds
(not including revenue stamps), which
range in value from one to ninety cents
apiece. A complete collection of these
and other foreign stamps, of recent dates,
unused, is worth in the philatelic market
about twice their face value.
Just now stamp collecting is booming.
Never before in the w orld's history were
there so many engaged in it. There are
in Paris 180 wholesale dealers in stamps,
and a large number of periodicals. A
single wholesale dealer in the southern
part of France imported last year 3,000,000
foreign postage stamps. Three years
ago a son of the Duchess de Gallinapos
sessed a collection of stamps for which he
had paid ?70,000, and his library consisted
of nearly 300 volumes. M. de
Rothschild's collection is valued at ?10,000,
and it is shown only to special
friends. At the Paris Mint a large collection
of postage stamps is kept. M. Philip
Farran owns 1,500,000 stamps and he employs
two librarians to keep them in
order. The best collection of English
postage stamps belongs to Mr. Philbrick,
Q. C. The Duke of Edinburgh is a notable
collector of stamps.
The first postage stamp of which there
is any record was issued by the British
Government in 1840: Switzerland and
Brazil came next in 1843, and the fiist
postage stamp appeared in the United
States in 1847. In 1842, however^.th?
Postmaster^4ih;ft'cit\r'issueor a lew blue
colored oval stamps, bearing the inscription,
"U. S. City Despatch," and a picture
of Washington, for his own convenience.
A Ion in 1 R4.S a ln/^nl ctamn xxrns iocim/l of
the New York Post Office with a face
value of five cents. This latter stamp
can be bought now for $2.50. Those of
the issue of 1842 are worth $75.
" The first stamped, envelopes Issued by
Sardinia in 1818, if used and in good condition,
bring $30 each. Among the
rarest and most expensive French stamps
is the vermilion one-franc of 1840, worth
$50. Old jedJBraziJian stamps arc worth
to" fhe collector from $25 to $30. Hawaiis,
1852, are valued at $82, and rare Canadian
and Newfoundland stamps fetch $50 and
$55. An Island of Mauritius stamp issued
in 1847 readily yields its holder $80.
But they are scarcer than hen's teeth.
Stamps have recently been issued by
the Congo Free State of the denominations
of 5, 10, 25, and .50 centimes. They
are printed in a bright tint, and bear the
expressive features of King Leopold II.
In connection with these a very neat
postal card has also been issued.
Among American stamps those issued
by the postmaster at Brattleboro, Vt., in !
1840, are very rare, and readily bring j
$190 in this city. If attached to the
original envelope the fortunate possessor I
can get $250 for one of them. There are
less than a score of them in existence.
A Baltimore stamp of 1840 recently
turned up in this city and was sent to
Europe, where it was sold for $400. The
most valuable stamps are usually sent to <
Europe because better prices are got
there. There are not more than three i
of the famous Alexandria, Va., five-cent!
black stamps (on a buff envelope) in ex- {
istence, and these three are valued at
$250 apiece. There is a Goliad, Texas,
stamp worth $95; a Baton Rouge worth
$50; St. Louis, $55; and several others j
valued at $50 each. At a recent auction j
sale the collection of the Rev. Mr. Hoeneckc,
of Milwaukee, brought upward of i
$1,500.
Eleven stamps, in denominations of j
from two to twenty cents, were issued by j
the Confederate States of America during I
wore r\C AT I
AVWA VV, lUUUOllb. V/l tUUdU
the most valuable is the ten-cent blue,
1863; an unused one is worth $2; used,
$2. An unarthenticated story is told to
the effect that previous to this issue by
the Confederates, a local postmaster made
a stamp for his own use from a stamp
used to impress the trade mark on the
soles of shoes.
From the nature of the mania for the !
collection of these little bits of paper, it j
is hard to estimate how many are engaged '
in it in this city, but Mr. Le Gary, an |
amateur collector who lives in Leonard j
street, and whom this passion has com-1
pletely absorbed, said that, speaking |
from an experience of twenty years, he j
thought there were at least 20,000 people 1
in this city engaged in chasing the j
philatelic butterfly. There were some I
twenty dealers, employing from two to |
twenty people, and almost innumerable
collectors who went around buying up
old paper and sorting it over for rare
stamps. Stamps issued by telegraph
companies, he said, had a commercial
value, and old stamps on medicine bottles
brought good prices. Some of the latter
were affixed to bottles worth only 25
cents, while the stamps were valued by
philatelists at $2.?New York Sun.
Edison May Still Hear Bcecher's Voice.
In the house of Thomas A. Edison, at
Llewellyn Park, is a remarkable memento
of Bcecher. The inventor's phonograph
for impressing on a soft metal sheet the
utterances of the human voice, and then
emitting it again by turning a crank,
has never been put to any very valuable
use, and Edison has only gained from it
a few thousand dollars in royalties from
exhibitors. But he utilized it to make a
collection of famous voices. Since he
became famous his visitors have included
hundreds of celebrities. Instead of asking
them for their autographs or photographs,
he has, in two or three hundred
instances, requested them to speak a few
sentences into a phonograph. He has
kept the plates in a cabinet,and occasionally
he runs some of them through the
machine, which sends out the words exactly
as uttered. Edison is probably the
only man who can revive the silenced
voice of the great preacher.?Philadelphia
Times.
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Tfl 'E DOCTOI~
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Curat , <er of Water.
There is no mJ of such general application
ancl none S3 easily obtainable as
water, and yet nine persons out of ten
will pass it by in an emergency, to seek
for something of less cflicacy. There are
but few rases of illness where water
should not h.n orii-en the highest place as i
a remedial agent. :
A strip of flannel or napkin folded j
lengthwise a nd wruug out of hot water i
and applied around the neck of a child ^
that has the croup will usually bring re- ;
lief in ten minutes. A towel folded sev- I (
cral times and quickly wrung out of hot ' <
water and applied over the seat of pain. <
in toothachc or neuralgia, will generally ]
afford prompt relief. This treatment in ]
colic works like magic. <
We have known cases that have re- i
sisted treatment for hours yield to this in ]
ten minutes. There is nothing that will i
so promptly cut short a congestion of the
lungs, sore throat or rheu Jtiatism, as hot
water when applied promptly and thoroughly.
Pieces of cotton batting dipped j
in hot water and kept applied to all sores j
and new cuts, bruises and sprains, is the |
treatment now adopted in hospitals.? ]
Health and Home. \
Wisdom in Eating. (
As a universal rule in health, and with t
very rurc exception in disease, that is best \
to be eaten which the appetite craves or j
the taste relishes. Persons rarely err in <
AV _ 1!i_ - e /..J
me quality ui iuuu euien, uaiun o instincts
are the wisest regulators in this
respect. Tlie great sources of mischief
from eating are three?quantity, frequency,
rapidity?and from these come the
horrible dyspepsias, which make of human
life a burden, a torture, a living
death. By eating fast, the stomach, like
a bottle being filled through a funnel, is
full and overflowing before we know it.
But the most important reason is, the
food is swallowed before time has been
allowed to divide it into sufficiently small
pieces with the teeth; for, like ice in a
tumbler of water, the smaller the bits are,
! the sooner are they dissolved. It has
been seen with the naked eye that if solid
j food is cut up in pieces small as half a
|-pea, it digests almost as soon without be- j
ing chewed at all as if it had been well g
masticated. The best plan, therefore,
is for all persons to thus comminute their j
food; for, even if it is well chewed, the <;
comminution is no injury, while it is of ^
great importance in case of hurry, forget- *
fulncsii, or bad teeth. Cheerful conver- ^
sation prevents rapid eating. It requires j
about five hours for a common meal to ?
dissolve and pass out of the stomach, du- ^
ring which time thi3 organ is incessantly c
at work, when it must have repose, as B
any other muscle or set of muscles, after c
sucn a lcngtn 01 enort. nence persons i ..ahaulji'i^QQt
eat within^ lgas
hours' interval*. ^FEe heart itself is at |
rest more than one-third of its time. The
brain perishes without repose. Never
force food upon the stomach. All are
tired when night comes. Every muscle
of the body is weary and looks l:o the bed;
but just as we lie down to resit every
other part of the body, if we, by & hearty
meal, give the store ach fire houis work,
which in its weak state reqaiitos ft ouch
longer time to perform than at an earlier
hour of the day, it is like imposing upon
a servant a full day's labor just at the
close of a hard ds.y's work. Hence the
unwisdom of eating heartily late in the
day or evening; a ad no wonder it has
cost many a man hi:} life. Ahv ays break- ]
fast before work or exercise. JS'q laborers ^
or active persons should cat an atom late;
than sundown, and then it should not be
over half the midday meal. Persons of
sedentary habits, or who are at all ailing, |
should take absolutely nothing for sup- (
per beyond a single piece of cold stale j
bread and butter or a ship biscuit, with a }
single cup of warm drink. Such a supper
will always give better sleep and prepare
for a heartier breakfast, with the advantage
of having the exercise of the
whole day to grind it up and extract its
nutriment. Never eat without an inclination.?Haifa
Journal of Health.
The Old Woman's Fan.
S. S. Prentiss used to narrate an anecdote
located at Natchez, Miss., when
Prof. Maftit, the great revivalist, was
about to preach there. The fame of tne
gifted oral or had preceded him, and
every person in the City of Bluffs was
anxious to hear him. Somehow the news
happened to rcach the hovel of an old
woman, who, perhaps, had not heard a
sermon for a quarter of a century, and
very Beldoin went out into the world.
She determi ned to hear the stranger. It
being exceedingly warm weather at the
time, and having no fan, she started out
to purchase one. She got to a store where
they happened to know her, and, aware
of her ignorance, they determined to
have some fun. They tola her tney naa
just received a new -fashioned fan, a very 1
beautiful article, and handed her a com- 1
mon gilt bellows! She tried its power to ?
oaise a breeze and was perfectly delighted
with it. To church she went; the house
being crowded she took her seat near the
pulpit. The text was selected, and the i
speaker progressed and warmed with his c
subject, and so did the old woman, who c
now brought her fan to her face and 1
commenced blowing away as if her salva- c
tion depended upon her keeping cool. J
This attracted the attention of the audi- I
erne, and the speaker looked down to see 1
what was the matter. His eye caught c
the old woman; he stopped and smiled \
at the ridiculous figure she cut. The old 1
woman observed him looking at her and 1
cried out "Go it, my magnolia! bress I
God, I'se ail attention." The audience a
roared, and Prof. Maffit, bringing his re- c
marks to an abrupt conclusion, com- t
moniWl sinirinor a hvmn to restore order, r
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A $200 Coflln for a Pf.rrot. ^
What is piooably the smallest burial 2
caskct ever manufactured was exhibited
at the salerooms of a New York concern ?
recently. !lt was ordered- by a wealthy ?
widow residing in the city, to contain
the remains of a parrot of which she was P
particularly fond. The casket is sixteen a
inches long and six inches deep outside measurement.
It was made out of a solid .
piece of rosewood and is most ex- j
(juisitclv carved. The inside is lined '
with tufted pink satin, and the parrot's ,l
head rests upon g. pillow of the same .
material, richly embroidered, the whole
costing over $200. An incident in the ,
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While the family were residing in India
burglars entered the house. Near the j
door a cord was suspended, which, when ^
pulled, rang a gong in the servant's
quarters. The parrot saw the burglars j|
enter and immediately commenced pulling
the cord, thereby alarming the household ^
and in all probability saving the master's
life, as burglars in that locality have a ^
playful habit of taking a life or two before
completing their work.
The monks of St. Bernard, who devote
themselves as ardently to the study of
science as to the rescue of wayfaring men, a
have brought the telephone into their j
service of mercy. j
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
Charles X. pink, Japanese red "pale helio;rope,
or "wistaria," chamois, and peachjlow.
The same tints appear in straw
ind braid hats as in bonnets. Fancy head
joverings show odd effects produced by
:ombining materials, thus beaded velvet
s made into a canvas pattern by a dianond
mixture of colored straw or looped
n shingle style one above the other,
rhere are numberless odd conceits in
itraw gimps, willow, and rush bonnets,
ind in silk scrim and fine straw matting,
,vhich are created for the erratic young
features who sigh for novelty and aim at
>ddity. Trimmings will be massed upon
he top of the bonnet in front. The quanity
of these garnitures will be limited
mly by the extent of space allowed by the
lize of the bonnet and the length of purse
>f its buyer.?New York Post.
Style in Drsssing Hair.
While the majority of ladies wear the
lair dressed high on the head, there is no
;et rule as to how it shall be arranged;
ind the more irregular the disposition of
t and unstudied the effect, the better.
Jmall combs are in high vogue and are
jlaced according to the fancy of the
vearer, but where they will apparently
lo the most good. Sometimes the hair
s parted down the middle of the back,
ind each strand is twisted separately and
lisposed high on the head, making a sort
if double French twist effect; or one
trand is carried over the other, and a
:omb with square top ornaments the
)lace of crossing. The front is disposed
short.,,
.hading the forehead only slightly. For
iressy wear, bows and pompons and
feathers and aigrettes are placed well forward
and a little to one side. Very beautiful
ornaments in these styles for the hair
mn be found ready made; clusters of
ihort tips, cream or pink, or pale blue,
jurling over like the leaves of a lily, with
bristling aigrettes standin^ln the center,
rosettes 01 narrow, picoi eugeu nouun, m
dark as well as light colors, with the inevitable
aigrette in the middle, sometimes
)f silver and gold; pompons made of
picot ribbon, with upright loops of wider
ribbon used as an aigrette; a cluster of
roses surrounded with foliage of jetted,
leaves; and in some flowers, tips and ribsons
are combined.?DemoresVs.
Wedding Rings in the Olden Times.
It was a pretty custom, long ago, for
lovers to exchange rings. The gentleman
lid not have to spend a month's income
for a pretty trinket for which he got no
return, but he also wore and cherished
i souvenir from his sweetheart. Chaucer
lescribes a heroine as giving her lover a
ring on which were engraved suitable
;ove-mottoes, and receiving a like one in
return* Shakespeare makes more than
me allusion to this custom. In the "Two
Grentleraen of Verona," Julia gives Por:eus
a ring, saying: -'Keep you this re
1 t oolro II
iiiCIliUIUlllc iUl iiij u una o ooat. x u
which he replies: "Why, then, we'll
nake exchange; here, take you this."
A "gimmal" or linked ring was then
invented which gave still greater force
ind significance to the custom. It was
made of a double and often triple link,
which turned upon a pivot. It could be
jpened, showing three rings. A small
[land was attached to each outer ring,
which, when closed, caused the hands to
slasp, inclosing a heart which was affixed
to the central notched ring. It was customary
to break these rings asunder in a
jolemn manner over the Bible. It was
ilways done in the presence of a witness,
who kept the centre ring, the betrothed
xmplc reserving the two outside links.
When the marriage contract was fulfilled
it the altar the three portions were united
ind the ring used in the ceremony.?
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Romance of a Pcrftime.
A Lahore (India) letter to the Baltimore
??7i says: "The story of the building of
>nc of the tombs here is sufficiently interring
to bear repetition. When only
leir-appaient, Jehanjir fell in love with
me of his mother's attendants named Noor
rchan, and wished to marry her, but Ak>ar
married her to one of his Afghan folowers
with her willing consent. Jehanjir
letcrmined to have her, and her husband
vas shortly afterward murdered, by Jelanjir's
orders, it was believed. For a
ong time she refused to become his wife,
>ut finally capitulated about the time he
scendcd the throne. Jehanjir was then a
:oarse, brutal drunkard, who delighted in I
orturing those who came under his dis)lcasure.
But Noor Jehan, besides having
,rreat beauty?she was credited with beng
the most beautiful and fascinating
k'oman in the empire?possessed remarkble
talents and great force of character,
ler influence over the Emperor was so
freat that she made him less cruel and
requently kept him from drink. Iler inluence
was always for good, but she is
irincipally remembered as the inventor of
ttar of roses.
Jehanjir raised her to honors which no
ilohammcdan woman had ever enjoyed. 1
le went so far as to order that all coins 1
earing her name should be considered of 1
value 100 times greater than their actual ]
orth. Notwithstanding that slic must 1
avc known that her first husband was J
mrdered at the .Emperor's instigation, J
.er attachment for him toward the end <
eemed to know no bounds. lie called ?
er "Noor Nahal" (Light of the World). <
ehanjir had often expressed a wish to be i
1 T MiliioU VAAI* Tnhon pnm_ (
lineil ill Liilliuiu, nuita iiuwi uvuu?4 w>i>
lied with, building the beautiful tomb >
lentioned above and then retiring from <
tie world,vowing to Dover wear anything <
ut spotless white as a token of inconsol- <
ble widowhood. She lived many years 1
fterward and in comparative comfort, we i
lay suppose, from the fact that she had >
n annuity of over $1,000,000. 1
Babies' Photographs. .?
The majority of women have but one 1
nxiety about their babies' phto^raphs. 1
t is the same they evince about their own. i
t is to have the picture pretty, no matter
FEMININE READERS.
A "Wife's Bright Reply.
I heard yesterday a bright reply by a
eoung wife to an old husband. lie is a
fcT tr 1 t 1 MAn.?
LNCW IOTK proiessiuiliu juauui uiguiujjutation.
Some time after his marriage he
was foolish enough to think that his wife,
tvho is a most beautiful woman, was not
mfficiently educated and laid out a course
jf reading for her. A month later he inquired
about her progress and found that
she had not opened a book. He set up
lis eyebrows after the manner of old
lusbands when their young wives have
lispleased them. Whereupon with a bewitching
smile she said to him: "I was
nadeto be loved, not to be learned." She
ivon the day.?New York Tribune.
New Straw Bonnets.
The new straw bonnets are exquisitely
inc and shapely. They are brought out
n all the prevailing spring and summer
;ints, noticeably, many shades of golden
jrown, beige, and ecru, gray, and the natlral
straw and wood colors. More novel
colors are those of the English rose,
how homely or ill-featured the child.
Photographers are in the habit continually
of making lovely pictures of exceedingly
ugly babies. If they are cross-eyed their
eyes are straightened. If their noses are
crooked or their mouths one-sided they
correct that error, too. Women are usually
very sensitive about the physical deficiencies
of their offspring, and seem to
try to reach the ideal or wnat tney wish
the child might be through the skill of a j
negative retoucher. He can convert a i
child as ill-favored as the one which j
turned into a pig in "Alice in "Wonderland,"
into a beauteous infant.
A woman brought a very ugly child to
a photographer the other day, with small
eyes and a most pronounced turned-up
nose. "I know it's awful humbly," she ,
said, "and hain't got eyes bigger than a
pig, but I want you to make the picture
of a lovely baby, for it will make my sister
madder than hons."
The work of making pretty photographs
of children is comparatively easy,
for there are no lines to deal with nor
wrinkles to mark out. Up to ten months
or one year old a baby is not apt to be
burdened with expression, and shows to
better advantage divested of its garments.
Since the price of photographs has
dropped, most people who possess a baby
get it photographed about once a month
after it is a month old.?Boston Herald.
Fashion Notes.
Roman sashes have again come into
vogue.
Buttons covered with goods matching
the dress are once more in order.
Two shades of lilac are worn in the
street costume as well as in the evening.
Tassel stitch embroidery is something
new and very easy to accomplish.
Russian cross stitch is a very stylish
trimming for the cotton fabrics.
Collars and cuffs of velvet are seen on
all sorts of thin fabrics, even mulls.
Ruchings of baby ribbon are seen on
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I^mbroderies of all sorts are very stylish
on both spring and summer suits.
The India shawl is being imported in
large numbers again and has become
fashionable.
Tan shades in gloves are no longer so
fashionable as grays and the new pearl
shades.
Jubilee blue is a new shade in honor
of Queen Victoria. It is a bright and
becoming color.
Flamant is the name riven to the new
shades of terra cotta and light flame like
brown.
Pompadour designs are seen on some
of the new silk, and are in most charmin<*
nnlnnnmi
AUg WIViAUgWl
Angora cloths are most attractive fry;
and wear
wonderfully.
Coat cloth in all the popular Suede,
tan and biscuit shades is for short jackets
for spring wear.
Russet shades will be used for street
wear, and already Tie with the stylish
biscuit shades,
Chuddah cloths are in exquisite colon,
and are equally well adapted for botn
house and street wear.
Ribbon is having its day, and every
available spot on the costume shows a
bow or a group of loops.
The new corded ginghams are in
charming colorings, and will be very stylish
the coming season.
The fashion of wearing sparkling
stones in the rosettes for the house shoes
of kid or satin iTa pretty one.
Renaissance green has blue tints, and
is quite different from the past season's
shades in trie popular coior.
Scarlet or English pink will continue a
favorite color for spring wear, and every
young girl must have a "pink coat."
Illuminated cloths which have interleavings
of bright colored silk threads
are very stylish for tailor-made costumes.
Spring woolens are in great variety and
of beautiful quality and finish and in
rather more distinctive coloring than last
season.
Cress green with pink is still a very
fashionable and becoming combination,
and one which is particularly suited to
evening fabrics.
Hvmalaya cloth is so soft and pliable
that it is very much used for morning
frowns and wrnDDere. It is in the soft
o f
and natural wool shades.
Spangled fnns are quite the rage, and
the more they are spangled the more
fashionable they are. Silver and gilt
spangles both are used.
A new shape in the sailor hat promises
to be popular. It has the same brim, but
the crown is higher in front than at the
back, and is slightly peaked at the front
of the crown.
Combination is even more than ever
before the order of the day. Sometimes
the front of a dress is of one material
ntul the back of another. Great care,
however, must be -taken in the formation
of such a dress, that the effect may be
graceful, the object being to simulate a
garment of one material worn over one
of another.
Windows Decorated With Family Portraits.
Some months ago a lady who lives in
one of the big houses on Fifth avenue
took it into her head to have her windows
decorated with portraits. She chose
the library as a convenient room for experiment
and summoned one of La Farge's
most successful pupils to exQeute her
commission. She presented him to her
children and ordered that their portraits
be placed in the windows. Three windows,
three children, three pictures?the
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1UUU WH3 lUYCijr auu xu ituiaiucu iv
see how well art would utilize it. Alas!
in spite of the fact that the artist was
most fuithful, that he held sitting after
sitting with the young subjects, that the
glass work when complete was essentially
beautiful, the pictures were no more portraits
than poems. The mother and father
looked long and anxiously at the brilliant
wiudows and had to turu away, admitting
that had they not known that it was
their children who were there represented
they would not have been able to recognize
their faces. Still they cherished the
hope that other people might have better
fortune. Alas! again. Not one of their
quests failed to say pleasant thiugs about
the excellent quality of the worK, its
soothing influence and the like, and not
sue failed to admit cautiously that he or
;he could not precisely remember what
lassie or mythological scene was dcpicted
n the window painting. Not one hinted
ihat the three cherubs might be the chilJreu
playing about them. It is now a
question how long the father and mother
will keep the windows in place, and if the
innocent queries of friends relative to the
intiquity of the subject continue, it is to
be feared that the library will be lighted
throuirh nlain trlass onna mnrfi hrfnrfi
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summer. But there is just the chance
that patience may last till winter and in
that case new experiments may be made
and a craze put fairly on its way.?Xeie
York Letter.
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FACTS FOE THE CURIOUS.
~
L magnet placed under the feet of par'
alytica baa been observed to warm
them, although a good fire failed to
do so.
The Vedas, the sacred books of the
Brahminic relicrinn. arp bplipvpd tn ? -
8900 y?ars old, ?that is, to date back as "
far as 2000 B. C.
What is now known as Plymouth waa
called Accomack by the natives, Port St.
Louis by Champ'ain, and later received
the name it at present bears from King
Charles. I
The Scandinavians, one of the chief
branches of the Teutonic people, do not ?
figure in history until the ninth and
tenth centuries when they appear as the
Norsemen.
A woman at Butler, Ga., buried $110 , ^
in bills in the woodyard for safe keeping, p.-|
and when she dug them up for use, iouna. <;
that they were so badly eaten by wood- ?
lice as to render them almost beyond rec- \
ognuion. "
There are 20,000 miles of telegraph \
wire underground in England and 22,000 '
Germany. It is said that underground wires
diminish the speedy signalling ? ,
from twenty-five to seventy-five per cent.
over long distances. . J
The oldest person in France, perhaps In J
the world, is said to be a woman wno J
lives in the -village of Auberive, in M
Royans. She was born March 16,1761,
and is therefore 125 years old. The , fl
authentic record of her birth is toba
found in the parish register of St. Just V
de Claix, in the Department of the M
Isere. r Mr.
Denny, an Englishman, described a
purious visitation of the "wasp" beetle in ,7
his museum. He had a case of stuffed
birds, in which the birds had been made
[ to perch on oak branches. These branches
bad been nrst carefully dried and then
baked, and yet, after the lapse of three
years, three specimens of the "wasp"
beetle emerged from the branches, having
survived the very unpleasant prd&se
to which they had been subjected. s
Sound is much increased by the echoei ~
in a closed vault.-- In- a care of the
Pantheon, the guide by striking a flap of
his great coat makes a noise like the report
of a cannon. The same phenomenon
is found in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky.
In the cave of Smellin, near
Viborg, Finland, by throwing in a live
animal terrible noises are heard. Pliny
tells of a similar cave in Dalmatia where-^
the falling of a stone raised a perfeet
storm. Fingal's Cave, in the
Island of Staffa, presents another remarkable
phenomenon. The end of this cave
is dark and gloomy, and may be com*
pared to the chancel of a church, while
the basaltic columns may be
4fetTorga~fi pipes/ ' Atthe enSCremity of
I the grotto, and near the level of the.
water, is a small opening whence come
harmonious sounds which are produce*!" '
by the sea rising and falling.
U Lire irthWgW
poUtorit bowit is that sorarpeMte^^m
animals can get &Tbtig without Too a:
Auto-suggestion, or belief that one li-'X.;.;*
nourished when one is not, is a- great
thing, and accounts for many phenomena
otherwise inexplicable. Secullot re- U
lates an incident to prove its existence in
the animal kingdom as well: "A tortoise
weighing one kilogramme and a 1
half had been captured, and permitted j
; during several weeks' to wander around' '
the garden, subsisting on flics and other 1 ;
insects.. When weighing two kilogram- /- \
mes the creature was recaptured and eviscerated
from behind, its head, members, ,
and shell being left intact. It was "then ?3
restored to its liberty weighincr fifteen
grammes less-than at the time of its first - J
capture, and although entirely hollow and . . j
open on its posterior aspect, it roamed *"' |
about as before, snapping up flies that, ?J
being swallowed, readily escaped from J
behind. After two weeks the animal wa? - ]
taken and again weighed, when it was I
found to be nve grammes heavier than at
the period immediately after its evisceration.
The creature was a croyant; that U
is, it believed it was taking into its sji- j
tcm an abundance of aliment; It was J
growing fat. What was this mysterious |
energy that worked an apparent impofl- I
sibihty, if not auto-suggestion f" I
On" the other hand, this sensation of I
hunger is, at least, in a certain measure,
independent of the state of inanition. In I
ntVipr wnrfJs in rasM nf nprroiiB rlisPASftS I
hanger may be felt acutely, with all its
distressing effects, in a body sufficiently
nourished. In support of this distinction
M. de Parville says: "We are acquainted
with a lean lawyer and a fat engineer,
both of them neurasthenic. If the law- ^ <
yer docs not take a glass of Madeira and
a sandwich at Ave o'clock, he becomes r.-~
livid and has au attack of vertigo. The
engineer is tougher. For about a year he
guarded himself pretty well against his
idiosyncracy by smoking; but toward
half-past seven, when he came home and
smelled the odor of the dishes, if he was
not served on the instant, he could not
control himself and went into a veritablo
fury. He beeame positively and in spit#
of himself furiously ravenous. And yet,
he was fat, and had no need to repair the
losses of the organism that was already
too wen nounsnea. * ?
So also numerous stories are found in '
all ancient medical dictionaries relative fl
to those great eaters whose insatisble H
8tomaclis engulfed euormous masses of .S
solids and liquids. Such was the case of H
Tararus, who went so far as to drink the ,
blood of his patients and eat the flesh of
cad&vers, ana who rfas suspected of hav- IS
ing devoured a four-year-old child; yet H
he had a most sweet disposition when he H
wasn't hungry. H
A Peculiarity or the Insane. |H
In a paper entitled "The Handwriting fl|
of the Insane," recently read in Philadel- jj^D
phia, Mrs. Henry Hazlehurst said that the
giving away of the mind in an educated II
person was often shown in bad spelling. \ HI
blotting, frequent erasures, the absurd
use of parentheses, italicization, and underscoring
in exccss. Insane pride and gj
obstinacy take to capitals, and, it is said, ^9
make frequent use of the letter "P,"
which becomes perfectly enormous. Many
of these indicia were to be found in the
handwriting of ex-Sheriff ltowan, who
recently became insane. In him, too, was HB
noted another peculiarity, a tendency to
commence at the right instead of the left |H|
hand side of the paper, this being carried
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self room on the paper to complete even
his signature.
llis Choice.
A teacher in the primary department
of a village school asked the children to
name the fruit each one liked best.
One liked peaches, another pears, a
third grapes, and so on until a little fel- BUfl
low at the foot of the class was reached. flH|
Almost every kind of fruit known to j*
venile minds had been named two ot BBB
three times, but Tommy, with a smack of .9H
his lips, indicated his choice by saying:
"Mashed taters, ma'am I"