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MULL INS, THE AGNOSTIC. AS TOLD BY DEACON STILLWATKB. His name was William Muiiins, and He had a sneerin1 way Of turn in' his proboscis up At everything you'd say. "Wall, now, how do you know?" said he; "Humph, now, how do you know?" The way it closed the argument It wasn't by no means slow. You might be talking social liko With fellows at the store On war or polities and sich, And you might have the floor Anr) h*> n-trpttin' it down fine Prov in' that things was so, When Mullins would stick his long nose in With "Humph, now, how do you know?" I seen that critter set in church And take a sermon in, And turn his nose up in a sneer At death and grace and sin, With no regard for time or place Or realms of endless woe, He'd rise and bui-st the whole thing up With "Humph, now, how do you know?" He cut his grass whene'er it rained, He shocked Ills wheat up green, He cut his corn behind the frost, His hogs was alius lean. He built his stacks the big end up, His corn cribs big end down; "Crooked as Mullins' roadside fence" Was a proverb in our town. TIia nMr>r hr> frnt, the WHS he trrew. And crookeder day by da}-; The s<juint of his eyes would wind a clock, His toes turned out each way; His boots and shoes were both of them lefts; The rheumatiz twisted so; But if you said he didn't look well He'd growl: "Now, how do you know?" An?l that darned grit led to his death? Hp was on the railroad track, Crossin' a bridge: I heard the train And yelled: "Mullins, come back! The train is round the curve in sight!" Says he, "Humph, how do you know?" I helped to gather him up in a pail, The engine scattered him so. 1 think it's best to have more faith In everyday concerns Aim not oe anus a snoopm rouna To sit behind the returns, A plain statement will do for ma, A hint instead of a blow; A coroners jury may fetch out facta, But it's rather late to know. ?Chicago News. Stanley Brown's Romance. I The announcement of the engagement i Of Miss Mollie Gartield to J. Stanley Brown makes public a romance which has i for some time been known or suspected to the friends of both. If the sharp | eyes of watchful women are trustworthy j It is tnc culmination 01 a long auauurncnt oil the part of Mr. Brown. When Stanley Brown and General Garfield were first brought together Brown was a young stenographer, with whose expertness General Garfield was delighted. He was a very quiet, rather too modest young fellow of nineteen. General Garfield thought he had found a treasure in the young man, for his experience with some committee J clerks had been somewhat unpleasant. He found Brown punctual, quick, quiet, flljSf.* steady, and possessed of one qualification | that especially pleased Garfield. He I minded his own business. Garfield ap- I nnint. rl Viim rlcrlf of his pnmmitfcpfi. and ; ~?* ..? ? 3^ iii that capacity Brown was thrown very j much with the Garfield family. They were then living in Garfield's much- j mortgaged house, where General Garfield tlid a great deal of work. After his election to the Presidency Garfield was urged to appoint one of several young men as his private secretary. One of these was disposed to be a j politician 011 his own hook; another was 1 a bright but extremely voluble yonng j man, "and still another rather prided him- i self, somewhat to Garfield's amusement, > on his resemblance to the General. Garfield, however, said that he wanted | jss his private secretary in the White j House 110 politician who knew more than ' he did, and no amateur statesman. He j wanted simply a faithful young man ' who would attend to the duties of the j Executive oflice, who had a close mouth : and knew how to mind his own business, ] and he had just such a person in mind. NobodvJkn-.-w'who it was, and when sifter j his inauguration ns president it proved to | be young Stanley Brown,there was a good deal of surprise among the politicians. Brown was then only twenty-one years old. lie was wholly ignorant of politics, and knew very little of politicians, ex- ' cept what he had learned as Garfield's secretary As his taste did not run i to politics he paid little heed to political j matters, and this was exactly what Gar- | wnnf/wl in Prnci<lnnt'o t\ni?nfA on/*. I UC1U ?IUUI?V4 :ii a X iwivivuvfl -?vv- . retary. Brown was then a tall, slender young man. His hair was very light and curly, his eyes blue, his complexion rosy, ! and there ?as just a struggling hint of a i mustache growing. He seemed so youth- ! fill, immature and unaccustomed to the ' ways of the world, and especially such an innocent boy to put in front of subtle politicians who daily frequent the Secre- | tary's office in the White House, that! some of Garlield's friends feared he had 1 made a mistake. To these Garfield al- j ways replied that he knew the boy, and j that if he was immature he was discreet. Garfield treated Brown more like a rela- j live than like an employee, and with the ' rest of the family he was looked upon as one of them. When General Garfield went into the White House Mollis was a schoolgirl of j fourteen. She was a charming miss then. | She gave promise, not of groat beauty, but j of utmo-t attractiveness of lace and form, i and in disposition was called by all her i associates one of the sweetest of girls. Her father's place as President never af- j fccted her simplicity of manner or her cordiality with the humblest of her mates. ; Slio to o-o trinnmw un Fifteenth v,,v ?? m v n ~ ?ii ? o -r . | street to school with a lot of schoolmates, i dressc'l more plainly thun almost any one j of them. She was a merry irirl, possessed j of sonic of her father's playfulness and ^ love of fun,and even at tlmt time thoughtj Stanley Brown the most manly young | fellow whom she knew. At least so she I told her mat? s. It was simply the ad- i miration and liking of a school-girl, too ! young to have ever had a thought of se rinus affection for anyone beyond the family ci:c!e. Miss Mollie's most attractive featuies ' were remarkably expressive and beauti- i \ fill eyes and a most charming smile, j Those who were accusiumeu iu si-u utr m .v all moods said there were times when she Ior>kcd very like her father, and the resemblance "to Grandmother Garfield ws>s regarded !>y old family friends as verv j f' great. I Even at that school-girl period Brown fond great pleasure in Miss Mollie's company, and though he was usually the most diffident of men in women's society, he was wholly at ease with Miss Mollie. He wa- f ind of her. a:?d the wise matrons ' of W ashington, who see everything with j El' i BSEl:; I r a womanly match-maker's eye, whispered among themselves that, before Garfield quitted the White House, there would be a match made between his daughter and his secretary. There was a good deal of love making reported as going on in the White House at the time. General Garfield's eldest son was quite attentive to his cousin, Miss Rockwell, the daughter of Colonel Rockwell, and the society papers announced their engagement, though jt was reported afterward that this announcement was premature. Mr. Brown x - -1- -- ?i- i- nf | iook part in uiu sutiui jm;a->un,o m ?.??<, i young1 people when he had opportunity, ! and if there were partners for games or j walks he was very apt to be found with Miss Mollie. By General Garfield's family Brown was regarded almost as one of them. Mrs. Garfield was especially fond of him. She thought him a most exemplary young man, and often said that his influence was for good. After General Garfield was shot Brown's relations with the family became very intimate, and by his most assiduous devotion to Garfield, which caused him many slceplesss nights ! and froat labor.besides carrying much of the burden of the Executive Office, he gained the esteem of Mrs. Garfield so I greatly that she said after Garfield's death that the young man had conic to seem to her almost like a sou. He practically became one of the family at that time, and during all of Garfield's sickncss,and afterwards at the funeral, his tenderncs and care for Miss Mollie were delicate and constant. There was no doubt then that the young girl had already won Brown's affection, though of course she was not then aware of it. And it was the opinion of many who were in position to see them that he would, when she became of proper a^e, ask iier to be his wife. There was a brief separation after the family had settled in Cleveland. Brown had been intrusted by Mrs. Garfield with much of the business of settling the estate, and while that was being done he was a member of her family. Miss Mollie returned to her school books and Brown went to Washington, where ht became a banker. But lie did. not remain in that business long. He sold out his interest and returned to Mrs. Garfield's family, becoming, it was said, hei confidential agent and assistant in the management of her fortune, which was more than hulf a million dollars. Since then he has been with the Garfields much of the time. But not until Miss Mollie had finished her school life did he permit his affection so show itself. Mrs. Garfield unquestionably knew long a?jo of his love for her daughter, and it is certain that no engagement would have been permitted which had not only her consent but her approval. JJrown is now twenty-eight and Miss Mollie is twenty, and when they are married there will be completed one of the most charming of romances. They will probably live in Cleveland, where Mr. Hrown, it is understood, has business interests.?New York Sun. Arctic Industries. It may not be generally known thai important mining operations are carried on within the Arctic Circle. Cryolite fmm rirAAnlnnd to Philadel iO inuu^uw liwm phia by the ship load to be used iu the making of candles. At Alten, near the North Cape inFiumark, extensive copper mines have been worked for a iong time. When it is remembered that most of the work has to be done under ground, and that heat is what the workmen suffer most from, it becomes apparent at once that mines may be almost as 2irofitable in those high latitudes as they would be on our coast. The main thing is to have communication open once a year foi bringing supplies and carrying away the ores. An engineer who visited the mines at Alten a few years ago, to study the condition in which they were worked, found that the climate interposed no obstacle. The mines, when fairly deep, are warmer in winter than in summer. T" iv/->rlr no lins to lip done above ground, there is scarcely any interruption. During the three dark months, when the sun does not shine, there is 110 lack of light to the eye accustomed to the conditions. The sky is clear and starry, and the aurora is playing most of the time, whatever light there is, the reflection from the snow increases and intensities. More than a hundred and fifty years ago mining was carried on extensively about the shores of the White Sea by Saxon workmen. Silver, copper, and lead were produced in quantities. Now that the whale fishery has declined, mining enterprise seems most likelv of anything to promote explora tion and settlement within the Arctic Circle.? Youth's Companion. A State Sold Tor $100,000. Only seventy years ago a large portion of the territory comprising the State of Wisconsin, with a section of Minnesota, was sold for $100,000, and the deed is recorded in the New York Register's office. The sale was made by Samuel Peters to a syndicate, for there were syndicates in those days as well as in this. The sale was made in January, 1817, and the syndicate was composed of Lewis Ayres and ninety-nine others. It is described as a large tract of land in the northwestern territorv. containing 8,000,000 acres and more. It comprised the greater portion of the land sold in 1767 to Jonathan Carver by the Nandowessies tribe of Indians. Carver received 100,000 acres. The description is as follows: Running from the Falls of St. Anthony from the east bank of the Mississippi nearly cast as far as the south end of Lake Pepin, where the Chippewa River joins the Mississippi; and from thence eastward five days'travel, accounting twenty English miles per day; and thence north six days' travel at twenty English miles per day, and from thence again to the Falls of St. Anthony. There is reserved to the Indians the sole right to iWh and hunt on unimproved land. There is a population of 1,315,497 in Wisconsin at tin's date, and the value of the farm products is $277,77G,490. ? Chicago Herald. Nickel. Nickel is an elementary metal. It was first obtained as n metal about 1751 in Germany. Rut the ore had been long known to miners, who called it Kupfer nickel, or Old Nick's copper, because though it looked like copper ore, no copper could be obtained from it. When iti/il'nl iu cilvppr wliifo on/1 rlnnc not oxidize or tarnish in the air. It can easily be hammered out into thin sheets or drawn into wire; it is stronger than iron, and almost as hard to melt. Its chief use is for plating other metals, as it gives them a beautiful, silverlike surface which is quite easily kept from rusting. It is also used in alloys. German silver is made by taking one part nickel, one part zinc, and two parts copper. Our five and three ccnt pieces are made of three parts copper and one part nickel. Nickel is found in many parts of the world, but the principal mines are in Russia, Sweden, Germany, Austria, England and Scotland. In this country it is found in the States of Pennsylvania and i CouLiecticut.?Inter-Ocean. A LONG LIFE. THE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF LOUIS CORNARO. Given Up by All the Doctors at Forty, He Lived to be 100? How it was Aicora plished. The common idea is that longevity depends entirely on inherited constitution, writes Richard A. Proctor in the Cosmopolitan. Probably there is much truth in this idea, but it is improbable, and that point seems worth careful study, that longevity is afTccted indirectly rather than directly by inheritance. It may well be that the descendant of long-lived folk is apt to be long-lived, not solely or chiefly because he inherits constitutional Eeculiarities tending to length of life, but ecause he inherits qualities leading to temperance and abstinence by which life is prolonged, or even simply because temperance and abstinence have beenencour aged during his youth by example and by precept. Considering the question of longevity from this point of view, the ease of Louis Cornaro, which has always been thought most instructive, becomes full also of encouragement. In the first place, it must be remembered that Cornaro (who was born at Venice about the year 14G7) was a man of weak constitution. Moreover, from the age of eighteen to that of thirty-five he pursued courses that would have seriously taxed the strongest constitution. Life at thirty-five was u burden to him because of the disorders brought on by riotous living and indulgence in every kind of excess. The next five years were JJU3*UU 111 UIJUUdL UI1IC11111 LvTvl dUUl'I lUg. He was told by his physicians, when forty years old, that nothing could prolong his life for more than two or three years, but that such life as remained to him might be less painful than the years he had recently lived if he would adopt more temperate habits. If ever there was a case where inherited consti tution ana an intemperate me tnrcutenect j an early death,this was one. But,as events befell, it turned out that, if ever there was a case where the life-preserving influence of wise regimen and abstemious habits was demonstrated, Cornaro's must be cited as especially significant. At the age of forty C'ornaro began gradually to reduce the quantity of food, both liquid and solid, which he took each day, till at length he only took what nature absolutely required. He tells us that at first he found this severe regimen very disagreeable, and confesses that "he relapsed from time to time to the fleshpots of Egypt." But by resuming his efforts after each failure he succeeded in less than a year in adopting permanently a spare and moderate system. By this time he was already restored to perfect health. But thus far he had only foly J i.L. i _ _ r X-L . .. 1 ? loweu tne counsels 01 ine pnysicians somewhat more steadily than they expected, or than is usual iu such cases, and therefore with unexpected good results. It was after he had recovered his health that he went on to those experiments by which he seemed to show how life may be extended far beyond the Psalmist's allowance. From temperanee he proceeded to abstemiousness. Undeterred by the doubts of his physicians as to the wisdom of his cour.sc, he diminished his daily allowance of food until at last the yolk of an egg sufficed him for a meal! Throughout the time when he was thus reducing his allowance of food his health and spirits kept improving. Nay, he tells us that even his enjoyment in eating had increased; for he says he could now "et more pleas urc iroin a small meal 01 ary orcaa man he had ever obtained in the days of bis excesses from the most exquisite dainties of the table. As regards regimen, Cornaro simply avoided extremes of heat and cold, over-fatigue, late hours, sexual excesses, and all violent passions of the mind;" he took moderate exercise in the open air, and his chief pleasures were those obtained from literary and artistic study, from the contemplation of tine, noble buildings, beautiful combinations of color, and sweet music. When Cornaro was within two years of four-score his diet was regulated, in quality and quantity, as follows: In four meals he took each day twelve ounces in all of solid food, consisting of bread (stale, of course, for he was not weak minded), light meat, yolk ot egg, and soup; of liquid food other thau pure water ho took fourteen ounces of light wine. Thus his solid food, equally divided among four meals, amounted only to three ounces per meal, while he took per meal about three and one-half ounces, or as nearly as possible one-third of a tumblerful of claret or some other wine of the kind. It must be noted, however, that this extreme abstemiousness, as well as the special nature of the food, solid and liquid, consumed by Cornaro, must not be regarded as absolutely essential parts of his experience, so far as longevity is concerned. We may reasonably attribute his exceeding sensitiveness in regard to tood to peculiarities of constitution. lie tells us that his medical friends, deeming his allowance too small, urged him to adu two ounces daily to his solid, and as many to his liquid food, a change which he adopted for a while but had presently to discontinue, because his vivacity was destroyed and he was be coming peevish and melancholy. But this, while it shows that Cornaro was exceptionally sensitive, and had probably a very weak constitution, only strengthens the evidence which his case | supplies as to the advantage of teinperI ance and even abstemiousness. If one so | weak could live the life of a v *ry strong and hearty man merely by reducing his food to what many would call "starva! tion point," what resources there must be in an abstemious life for those of strong constitution who shorten their lives by what most men call simply full and generous living. At the age of eighty-three Cornaro wrote his treatise on "The Advantage of a Temperate Life." adding later three other discourses on the same subject. His fourth and last discourse, whic h appeared in a letter addressed to Barbaro, natriaroh of Aciuileia. was written at the age of ninctv-five. In this he says 'iie finds himself still in possession of health aud vigor, and in perfect command of all his faculties." According to some accounts Cornaro lived to the age of 104. But comparing Cornaro's remarks in his discourses with the best information we have up to the time of his death, which appears to have occurred in 1566, it would seem that he was either in his ninety-ninth or 100th year when he died. How much Cornaro's abstemious and ascetic ways must have had to do with his remarkable vitality may be inferred irom me lact mat naving. wnen pymv years old, met with a terrible accident, by which his head and body were battered and a leg and an arm dislocated,he recovered?though (he physicians pronounced his injuries fata!?almo-t without medical treatment, aud without any feverish symptoms. Short Stories From the Chinese. A young tkjer met an old one an< said: "I cot hold of a man to-dav whos upper parts were so tasteless and hi nether parts so sour, that, hungry as was, I left him in disgust. I wonde what sort of man this could be?" student who has had to buy his degree, was the reply. Chang and Chung mutually agreed ti start a brewery. Said Chang to Chung ' Yousupply the rice and I will fumisl the water." "But," queried Chung, "i the profits are divided accordingly to th capital embarked. Iamafraid it will b difficult to apportion your share." "Oh I'm not afraid," said Chang; "when th brew is over, give me the water; yoi can have the remainder." A man was seized by a tiger. Th victim's son took his bow and pursued "Hit him in the leg," cried the father "else you'll spoil the market value of th skin." A bibulous individual, on entering restaurant, noticed that the wine cup were small. After seating himself, h gave vent to a most demoniacul series o howls and groans. "What is the mat ter?" asked the startled landlord. "Ah, answered the man, "my father, a hale hearty man, met his death at a friend' table by accidentally swallowing a smal wine cup, so whenever I see similar ones the memory of the sad event overcome me." It is needless to add that the cu] was replaced by a laigerone. A hard drinker dreamed that he hat become possessed of a bottle of genuin stuff, but, determined to enjoy i thoroughly, he had begun to heat it During the heating process he awoke "IIoo, lioo," he groaned. "If I hat known this was to happen, I would havi I driuik it cold." A servant did not fill a guest's cup t ! the brim. The latter, holding it up, re marked: "This cup is too deep, am broke a piece of. "How is that?"crie< the host. "If the upper part can't hol< liquor, of what use is it?" was the smar ; retort. ? Chinese Review. The First. Handkerchiefs were first manufacture* at Paisley, Kngland, in 1743. Cricket was first played apout the yea | 1300. It was then and for a long tim< 1 afterward known as "club ball." The first dictionary was compiled b; Pa-out-She, a Chinaman, who livec about 1,100 B. C. The first voyage around the world wa made in the Vittoria, a ship whicl I formed part of the expedition that sailei under Magellan in 151G. Woolen cloth was first made in Eng | land in 1331, though its making isoneo i the most ancient arts. It was not dyec I or dressed by Englishmen until 1067. Post Offices were first known in Eng I laud as early as 1581, and exactly a hun dred years later a penny post was in j troduced for London and its suburbs bj an upholsterer named Murray. Spectacles were first used in the latte part of the thirteenth century. There i no certainty as to who was the invento I of them, but the distinction is generally | claimed for Alessandro di 'Spina, who i j said to have made some about 1285. XIAil ? * I* A PArrnnfl I .reus were mat useu. iu iuc sctcuu century. They were,of course, quills,anc j steel pens did not come into use unti ! 1820. when the first gross of them wa | sold wholesale for ?7 4s. The quality o I these pens was greatly inferior to that o I those for which we now pay sixpence i i gross. j The first coining of money is attributa to Pheidon, King of Argos, in 895 B. C I Coined money was first used in tha: I country twenty-five years before tin | Christian era, but gold was not coinet there till the eleventh century, and mone.1 was not given the round form to whicf we are accustomed until the lapse o another hundred years or so. A Rabbit Whips a Big Snake. The keeper of Springdale Cemetery just north of Peoria, 111., while attending t ' the graves the other day, was attractec : by the strange antics of a rabbit. I ; seemed to be jumping up in the air auc i acting altogether in a crazy manner. Pro ! reeding to the spot, he saw that the rab bit was giving battle to a black stiaki about five feet in length. The rabbit hue i a nest near by, and in it were its tw< J young. The serpent was several fee1 from the nest, and as it tried to approach, the rabbit would jump directly on th< I snake, biting it near the head, aud ther jump back before the black sr.ake coulc get it in its coil. When the snake showec a disposition to remain coiled, the rabbi would make a feint and get it to strike ! and then, <piick as lightning, would jumj j on the snake's body. The rabbit had ap patently lost all lear 01 tne presence o man, as the witness of the strange battl< stood within a few feet of it. After : few minutes the snake made up its mine to get away badly worsted, and fount, safety in a brush pile into which the rab bit could not penetrate, although it mad< j ctlorts to do so. It is the opinion of thi j keeper that if the fight had occurred ir I the open ground, where the snake coult I not have sought concealment, the rabbi would have killed it.?Chicago Tribune, Where They were Born. Some time after the war General Crit tenden met three ex-Confederate officer! at dinner, and they became very friendly "Major," said General Crittenden t( one of them, "where were you born?" "Well,"' said the Major, getting a little red, "I was born, sir, in Nantucket, Mass., but you see I lived ten years ir the South and I married a Southern lady and, as all my interests were in the South of course 1 fought for them." "And where were you born?" he askcc the second. "Well, sir, I was born in Nantucket, M a?s., but I'd lived in the South twcutj ; years, and of course " j "I see " said the General, turning tc I the third. "Colonel, where were yoi i born?" I "I was born in Nantucket. Mas*, too, i but I'd been thirty years in the South, and " "That's curious, isn't it?" "Toll me, (tcneral," said one of them, "where were you horn?"' "Well, I was horn in Iluntwcll. Ala., but I lived in the North for many years, and I fought for the Union."?San Francisco Chronic1 e. Women ns Conntcrreitcr>. Women counterfeiters are of all nge.< and styles. Some arc very pretty and others so homely that the witch of Endoi would look like Venus beside them, i Counterfeiting often runs in families, | nntl Colonel Brooks, the head of the secret service, once to!d me that lit thought it somewhat hereditary. These women are more successful than men in getting rid of the counterfeit money, and they can pass it where men would fail. Nearly every gang of counterfeiters has one or two women passers in it, and in families where the counterfeiting is done the women or wives ol the counterfeiters often attempt to i ul thespuriou* money in circulation. ? Civnhi nd Ix-ider. ' / ,1 WOMAN'S WORLD. i i 3 PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR I FEMININE READERS. r ? ^ Whfir nn Rmnress Eats. j The empress of Russia lias quite as ! vigorous au appetite as any member of 5 her family could boast of. But she is au : indefatigable dancer, often tiring down all the aids-de-camp admitted to her * dancing parties, and she accompanies the e I czar in bis walks and rides. This keeps 0 ! her in health. If one eats heartily and ' | does not take it out in strong physical c , exertion, the ills to which flesh is heir 11, break out and have it till their own way. j A breaktast, with meat and eggs, taken e j in bed in the morning, a refection later on, a dinner, followed at five by a "high" '? j German tea, and then a cold tray supper e j of an essentially meaty kind, served at I Li. _ i? i . ? A. - i. ? i mgni in ncr oouuoir, arc iou iuucn mi u a , fragile woman, whether of royal or 110113 j royal lineage, and only serve, if she he ? sedentary, to nourish gouty and other * j affections. ' j Why She Wouldn't Marry Then. j She was an extremely pretty girl, even 3 I for a St. Paulitc, and her name?well, ' society has ''got it on the list." She '? I was trying on the three-story-and-base3 ! ruent hats now in vogue and chatting with a friend who happened in the milliner's at the same time. "Dear,"said the * friend, "I thought you were to be mare ried this June." "Well, I was to have 1 been; but, you see, Earl's so abominably * j short, and we look so absurd together I with all my swell hats. So I just told ~ i mm lllllt i iovcu nun ;is uiui'iiuacvcr, uut 5 he really must wait till lower hats come iu. Yes, he was very unreasonable, but 3 I was firm. I told him I was really very " sorry, but there would be sure to be a rej action against the high hats by next ij spring?any way, willy uilly, I wouldn't * marry him "till they went out."?fit. Paul ' Pioneer-Prest. At the Reins. ftew York is brilliant when on wheels. 1 The care that is lavished on the stables of thousands of men and women here r makes the east drive in the park the 3 most brilliant and showy place in New York, fifth avenue is lined with har j ness shoj>3 and the salesrooms of big cari riage factories, and no man achieves eminence so quickly ki society as the one g who shines through the perfection of his stable. The American girl is pushiug j herself forward on the east drive of the park, as she is everywhere else. She is not content to loll in a Victoria, like her * sister in Paris, or sit primly in the corner I of a British brougham. She drives. * Nothing fazes her, and occasionally she is what the vulgar call "a sight." For - instance, yesterday I saw a big T-cart - rolling down the drive with an amount - of pomposity, noise and show that would J shame an old-time circus band-wagon. It was a magnificent cart. The wheels r were red and very big and heavy, the i _ i_ i 1 g uuuy IJUlllC-grtriMI, UUU LUC ouuo uiguci r than the top of the average closed carj riage. There was a magnificent team of 3 bays to the cart, groomed till their coats shone like satin. They were .j about seventeen hands high, perfectly j matched, and they pounded the earth j with their giant hoofs like so many anig mated pile-driver*. The big steel chains f that run from their collars to the pole of f the cart clanged and rattled as they , rushed along the drive, the very personification of power and force. , On the box-seat high above their heads, X J l.:~ ..SKknnc. in I ilUU IIUIUIU^ tliu UJSJ v> u j to iAi/i/v/ua ?u * her tiny bauds, sat a girl of perhaps 19 years, with slim arms, dclicatc fcat5 urcs and a fragile waist. She held her hands well up, with the whip hanging ^ crosswise, and her feet were braced l( firmly. IJy her side sat a serene and plaeid young woman of about the same age, who lolled back gracefully under a crimson parasol, and who seemed to regard her driver with the most serene con> ndenee. On the rear seat wa3 a big Eng> lish groom, with his hands clasped on ' his knees and his eyes half starting from t his head. There were 10,000 carriages 1 whirling along the park, and the girl on * the box seat-missed about 9,000 of them " by nothing less than a miracle. She was * able to guide the horses by a mighty tug I on one rein or the other, but all the rest } had to be left to their training. It was c evident that they scarcely knew that she > was at the other end of the rein.? Nevo 5 York letter. 1 I J A Turkish Lady's Drive. J I The afternnon drive is also an imagin" : ary contact with the world, though as a ? | matter of fact the Indies might almost as } j well be at home. At 4 o'clock, or there" ' abouts, a natty little brougham, drawn ' by a pair of long-tailed Russian horses, 3 drives up to the door, and [the ladies, for | they almost invariably drive two and two . ?a great lady accompanied by a friend 1 or a slave girl?are assisted into the car' riagc with as much care as if they were i | made of snow. The more scrupulous J ' ones will even hold a parasol between j their faces and the coachman, to prevent f contamination from side glances. Most of them, however, start with full intent ' to be seen as much as possible, and after settling themselves down on the satin cusions, and assuring themselves that the " mirror is well dusted, the cigarettes and J ; matches in their places, the chocolate i orAnino nr Tinncrnt. fresh from the > bakery, and the bouquet sweet and properly arranged, slip off the ! habaruh, and are ready to front ? the gaze of the curious. The thinnest 1 of yuahmaks covers the reddest of lips ' and the chin, and well-kohled eyes keep a smart look-out for exchar.ges of compliments by passers-by. The wives of ' the Pashas do not wear the Turkish transparent yashmak, but cover their mouths and the lower part of the face r with a cambric or cotton burghoo tied round the bark of the head. The * Shoobra and Gezirch drives are to Cairo 1 much what the How is to London, and all the young Beys and Pashas don their < best, and either caracole forth on pranc- j > ing steeds. or, more luxuriously, arc i driven in the train of the harems. If the lady is inclined to exchange flowers, 1 notes, cigarettes or even conversation, no hindrance is likely to be offered by the | black janitor on the box-scat of the driver. But talking must be done in private, and some sidewalk, or otherwise secluded spot, must be chosen for anyI thing more th in a flying passing coniplij mcnt. For in the east every man is the i j guardian not only of his own harem but 1 , also of everybody else's. A man may j thrash his own wife to rlcath with very j doubt ful chances of anybody intervening. I but he may not look at his neighbor's ( ' harem.?tint unlay lleciew. : | > I A Housekeeping Experiment, t | "'Eliza Putnam lleaton. i:i the Brook| lyn Times, is authority for the following 1 j history of the beginning (*f ''a new in j dustry for women i A new industry for women is begin1 ning to evolve itself in New York, which : * - >- - -.1 ?i,? i ! may yci uo uiucu iu>vmu oumiuS mu : j vexed servant girl question. Some three | months ago a woman of good old New j York fumily, educated and capable, left a widow without money, and having served no apprenticeship to any of the industries by which women earn bread and butter, began to think of putting her pride in her pocket and turning her notable housekeeping talents to account by looking for service in a family as cook. Considering the matter further, it occurred to her that she could do better. Securing with some little effort, the project being a novel one, a clientage of half a dozen families in her immediate no?rrliKnrVi/~?r*rl fliof rtrnrn irmn ni n rr ?ivj0u.yviiivv/u Bivuuiue UM^*V* dyspepsia, induccd by "light housekccping," she began to send out, three times a day, delicately cooked and daintily served meals. Her venture was so immediately successful that she looked up a New England housekeeper and a couple of stout-armed Swedish girls to help her, and her business sprang, in a single night, to the utmost dimensions that she could handle. Families that had tried the frizzled steak broiled by the green girl, families that were starving on meals elaborated over the flickering gas-jet, families that had eaten 1'table board" in the basement dining-room around the corner, families whose pocket-books groaned at the expense of the waiter-load sent in from hotel or restaurant, families whose heads were business women without time for cooking, families tired of the annoyonce of servants in a small flat, -were glad to lie supplied with honest home cooking, palatable, and at a reasonable price. She has twenty-one families on her list at present, I think, to whom she supplies just that wholesome round of breakfast, lunches and dinners that the average housemother would offer to husband and little folks. Fruit in season, in the morning, oatmeal or wheaten grits, fish, steak, or chops; a side di*h, such as stuweil kidneys, sausage, liver and bacon, eggs; coffee, tea or cliocalate, bread and butter, milk and s igar. Soup, fish, a roast, three vegetables, dessert and coffee make up the dinner, all of which is sent out at a. cost oi a wcc*. lu aiugii; [jltsons, each to members of families, though as what is supplied for two is sufficient for three, the cost per thousand is not reckoned in multiplies of that sum, In a way the experiment is one in co' operative housekeeping: for practically, | the cost of everyday living is divided ! among a number of families, purchases for all being made together, the labor for all systematized and simplified, and the waste all minimized, the result being that each family saves nearly the full amount of the cook's wages, and is freed ! from the tyranny of Castle Garden be! sides. Fashion Xotes. Scotch plaids are the furor in Paris. Short-sleeved mantles are much in j vogue. Very large fans of painted gauze are fashionable. rlri-ih ie tlio noriiilnr r>rtlnr for I i ? ? ? r~r ? ? ? ! ing tailor suits. i Tinsel is again used as a material for liats and bonnets. | Lustrous mohairs are much employed as traveling dresses. Violet and corn color are very elegant I in combination and very stylish this seaj sou. Odd and pretty are the eolored wool ! berges made up over a lighter shade of the color. Maltese gray is a favorite color for combining with bright red and green of new shades. j Embroidered tulle makes very dainty | costumes for young ladies for any evenI ing purposes. Drab and mauve are found to be a good j combination in a dress street toilet or for carriage wear. The dress form is an invention which has the advantage of being graceful as well as comfortable. Coarse braides are more stylish than any of finer weave for dressy hats, either in black or in color. A jet trimmed parasol is one of this season's fancies, and is appropriate for a middle-aged person. For home wear we now have tea erowns, morning gowns, chamber robes | and lounging gowns. Chatelaine chains with all sorts of ! dangles forms a part of a young girl's | costume for the street. Gauze turbans, with an aigrette on the side, are a revival of a very old fashion for evening head-dresses. There is quite a rage for dull jet just now. It is considered much more stylish than the glistening variety. Satins are going out of favor,and therej fore are very chcap, but they make lovely I uudcrdresses for lace frocks. C'rapeline is a popular fabric and ! promises to be generally worn for afteri noon occasions instead of India silk. Pale rose and pearl gray are admirably J romined in dressed toilettes de visiteaud home frocks of silk and wool mixture, i Bustles of steel hoops are covered with white or scarlet English morocco, cut out j in the scollops and stitched in rows, i The coat sleeve is modified. It is I made looser above the elbow, and at the inner, not the outer, seam at the wrist. Broad bands of white stitching on the black kid gloves arc de rigneur with white and black toilets of high ceremony. Scarlet and poppy red India silks api pear among the solar drabs and delicate i tinted blues, greens aud mauves this season. The burnouse shawl drapery and the jabot folds arc the favorite arrangement ! for the back of the skirts of summer ; dresses. j When the Parisians wear a catogan ; loop of hair in the nape of the neck they j still dress the top hair high and ban? the I front locks. Black muslin edged with black footing | makes an appropriate thin costume for mourning, ;ind may be worn on almost any occasion, provided it has a wide sash of gros grain ribbon. Dojs That Hunt Wolves. The pack of st:)g-hotmds recently brought from Colorado and in use by the Sun Kiver Range Association is reported doing good service in the wolf-killing business, for which industry the dogs were purchased. Six of the hounds recently brought to bay double their number of wolves and engaged them in battle, doing to the death all but two of the sheep and calf destroyers. Not a few single combats have oecnred, resulting in uniform victory for the dog, which liiis the advantage of flectness, pluck and strength. A pair of hounds tan <lo up a wo It in pretty short order. One will | toss the wolf in the air, and before the as ton idled animal is again on the ground i lie is caught at neek and loin and torn asunder. The hounds are fed no meat, j their diet beiny confined to corn bread I and buttermilk in most part. The Ranije Association are satisfied they have made a good investment in these wolf-extermi' nators.?Helena (Montana) Herald. i i San Francisco now receives mail in I thirteen days from London. .::-r. . WORDS OF WISDOM. Cleverness is a sort of genius for instrumentality. It is the brain of the hand. Judged by profession, there are no sinners, and judged bv pr.icticc there are no saints. - rf Modesty and the dew love the shade. Each shine in the open day only to be exhaled in heaven. Advice is like snow; the softer it faTls, the longer it dwells upon, andtkedeepei it sinks into, the mind. lie whose only claim to the title "gentleman" is in his clothes, must necessarily be careful as to what he wears. Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he makes his wings shorter. The wise prove, and the foolish confess, by their conduct, that a life of employment is the only life worth living. Reason and kindness are the great promoters of that harmony and hilarity which generate friendship and affection. The aspirations of the race for further and higher development nerve the arm which strikes down the barriers of an ignorant past. Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less. A Michigan Millionaire's Career. A little bit of a man, not five feet ' 1 - " ' * * ? e - r .LI? $ I nign, stood on tiptoe in ironi vi uusmet . i Kelcey's window at the West End Hotel, Long Branch, and timidly asked him for a pair of scissors. When they were handed to him he pulled a roll of national bank bills from his coat pocket. They were in sheet form, just as postage stamps come, and he clipped off a $100 bill. ' He wrote his name across its face, in the space reserved for the President's auto- * graph, and then coolly asked Cashier Kelcey to change it for him. Mr. Kelcey accommodated this maker of currency after carefully inspecting it and seeing that it was a bona tide note of a national bank in Michigan. The little man, with this enviable power as a money maker, was % Mr. Jacob Seligman, who is known all through Michigan as k'I,itt!e Jake." He was the leading clothing merchant of the State until he became a banker and railmad financier, as well as one of the biflT gest lumber merchants in that region, fcfe is now a millionaire, a director in nine banks and four railroads, and the owner of considerable real estate in the Sault Ste. Marie region. Some people say he will be the richest man in the State if he lives to realize on his investments. Yet he went out to Michigan twenty-five years a?0 with only $100 in his pockets. He made his fortune in a strange way.In order to start in the clothing business / he obtained credit for $200 worth of goods. He spent the $100 cash he had in hiring a wagjn, a brass band, andfoar horses, and investing in circular and advertising. He made it known that Little Jake would reach town at a certain hour ' and distribute socks and overalls free from ; his wagon in the public square. He told me to-day that he emptied liis wagon V load to a throng of people, scattering "i over their heads at the same time a per-, feet cloud of dodgers stating that he was going to sell them all sorts of clothing for the next month. For fifteen years Little Jalce followed this quaint scheme for making himself known, traveling from town to town until he had a store established in every important city in the State. He was not only the biggest clothing dealer, but the biggest newspaper advertiser as well. Since then he has made rapid strides toward becoming the biggest banker, but he is still the smallest man in the State in size.? Philadelphia Press. Green Cadets at West Point "Fall in!" the command was, sharply. You should have seen those green boys trying to get in rauks. There were now about 100 "beasts,"' and they looked like a herd of Texas steers, though more subdued. After a while the "beasts," including ray trembling self, were strung out into a long, wavering line, and a cadet corporal commenced to call the roll of candidates. Each one was instructed to answer, '-Here!" Some who answered, "Present," were nipped in the bud, and taught a lesson in cadet discipline. Ona poor fellow who was rather tardy in replying to his name, was commanded to ' step out" and answer to his name." " Step out " is the West Point slang for "make haste," and when the "beast" actually did step out of rank, he waa surprised at the celerity with which he was made to step back. The formation was for dinner, and we were retained until the battalion of cadets had started. They marched off, headed by the drum corps, with all the accuracy and beauty of a vast machiae. Finally our time came. The plebes at the head of the column interpreted the meaning of the command: "Forward, march," and the procession started for the large granite structure known as the mess hall. It was like running the gauntlet. One cadet in the rear of the liue hollered at me in a voicc of special envy: 4,Drag in your chin about a yard, mister! I want to see less slouching among you beasts; stand up; sir!'' I tried to obey. Each plebe had his coat buttoned full up, the palms of his hands to the front, and all the while his toes digging up the gravel of the area.?Philadelphia Times. Discipline 3Iust I>c Preserved. A cadet at West Point was recently arrested aud confined three days in the guard house for brushing a fly oil his nose while on parade. And that same day the Indians came up to a small fort 1 1 ta.. i?<-> /-3 f Ka in IN ortnwestern i^aivoui auu uikeu wuu man on picket duty a mile and a balf and then run oil twelve head of horses and yelled so loudly that the hair of the commanding officer, who recently came out from Washington,turned white. And the Government never said a word?not a whisper. You wouldn't have known it was anywhere around. In facf.it wasn't. It was bock at West Point running that - J J poor cailct all over me gruunu* uuu whooping at him till it was hoarse and asking him what he meant by insulting the flag by brushing that fly off his nose. ?Dakota Dell. Big Beer Drinkers. "What is the average consumption of beer a day per man among your employes?" was asked the other day of the secretary of a large brewing company. "One gallon," was the reply. "Impossible!" exclaimed the reporter. The'secretary smiled. "That is only thirty glasses a man, and we have two men who I average sixty glasses a day and perhaps more. There is no restriction on their 1 * ?:ii ~ | urinKing; mcy maj ?wm ? uuuui?? <> they can." "-Isn't it rather costly?" "Nearly $100 a day, but we can't help J ourselves. It is a tradition of the trade, j It would pay us and the men to iuerease j their wages twenty-live cents a flay and : shut of the beer, "but they wouldn't ea; tertain the proposition a single minute." j ?Philadelphia Call. . We commonly slander more througk I vanity than malice. I ^ i