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THREE KISSES OF FAREWELL Three, only three, my darling, Separate, solemn, slow; Hot like the swift und joyous ones We used to know, "When we kissed because we Io-ved each other, Simply to taste love's sweets. And lavished our kisses as summer Lavishes heats; But as they kiss whose hearts are wrung When hope and fear are spent. And nothing is left to give except a sacrament: First of the three, my darling. Is sacred unto j>ain; We have hurt each other often, We shall again. When we pine bec ause we miss each other, i And do not understand How the written words are so much colder Than eye and hand. I kiss thee, dear, for all such pain Whi 'h we may give or take; Buried, forgiven, before it comes, For our love's sake. The second kiss, my darling, Is full of joy's sweet thrill: We have blessed each other always, Wo oltffirc Trill We shall reach until we feel each other Past all of time and space: "We shall listen till we hear each other In every place. The eartli is lull of messengers Which love sends to and fro; I kiss thee, darling, for all joy Which we shall know! The last kiss, oh, my darling, My love?I cannot see Through my tears, as I reinamber What it may be. *We may die and never see each other, r Die with no time to give kAny sign that our hearts are faithful To die, as live. Token of what they may not sea 1 Who see our dying breath? This one last kiss, my darling, Seals the seal of death. ?Saxe Holm. j MYSTERIOUS MARKS. v*'" One day over thirty years ago, as o.ir r >hip, the Three Partners, was lying in the harbor at Rangoon, waiting to discharge cargo, a native boat in which were three people, met with au accident while drawing near us, and the occuw panta thrown into the water. I was at. the moment on the ship's bowsprit, and without taking a sccond thought I dropped into the water and seized an old man who had gone down for the second time and was almost done. A rope wa-> thrown me from the ship, and ftit a good deal of trouble the old chap was lifted over the rail and brought 1 a:-k to life. The two other men were swept away and drowned. But for the fact that the Captain of the ship was my brother, the mute would probably have Lroken my head as I regained the deck. A madder man I never saw. "Why, you infernil, good-for-noth'nij idiot ." lie roared as he dauced around me. ' The idea of your jumping overboard among the sharks and crocodiles to save the life of a contemptible heathen!" At that time, and I presume it is still the ease, the life of a common Siamese wa* of no more value than that of a dog in the eyes of white men. It was my fir?t voyage to those waters, and I was also young and impulsive. "See here, young man [''continued the mate after he had exhausted his stock of curses; and as I walke.l to the port quarter and looked over into the muddy waters the head of a crocodile was plaiu to be seen. ! The native whom T had ie>rtiprl wns an o!d man. at least sixty. He hud a venerable, dignified look, :ind was evidently a man of much intelligence. He tould speak Knglish fairly well, and, as oon as he was able to talk, he took me by the hand and sa:d: I "The white people are born brave: I would not have done it. had I been a young ma;i, for one of you. 1 can do nothing to reward y: u. I had wealth, .. but it went to the bottom of the harbor when the boat was wrecked." I told him that no reward was expected, or would have been received, if tendered,and that 1 would get the t'aptaiifs nprmission to null him to tlio shorn, lift I looked at me for a couple of minutes, itill holding my liaud, and finally asked if I had India ink aud needles. When I brought them to him he told me to bare my breast, and he s'owly and carefully pricked into my flesh, right over the breast-bone, a sign or token, of which the following is a copy: ' I ? A ? I The right and left hand figures may be capital "IV and the middle one an J invertel capital "V." He was won drously swift with his work, and was evidently an adept. When lie had completed his task he said: ' I offer you this as a reward. If ever you need help in India show this sign." It was four or five hours after the rescue that he was pulled ashore, and no one board the ship knew of the sign he had left behind. While I felt certain in my ewij mind that it wa? connected with native Free Masonry, and was given to me in all ewncstncss, to have shown it to the crew would have been to make me a butt of ridicule. The ink was pricked in so deeply that the punctures were much loDger in healing than those made in sai'or work, and when the wouuds ' were healed the siijns stood out as bold ! and plain as if put on wi:li black pnint. j In due time the ship was unloaded, re- j teived her cargo, and wailed for Boston, j at which port she arrived safety. I had , the misfortune to Dreas my ieg oeiore 1 we had reached our slip, and consequent- ' ]y did not make the next voyage. In- j ?tead, I made a voyage to Livepcol and j return, went back to Liverpool and was j paid off, wunt out to Singapore before i the mast, and there joined an Kngli?h Government surveying party, which was , recharting the northeast coast of Boruco and the islands ad ;acent. The schocner was called the Survey, and she carried a ! ^ crew of thirty-six men, and was aimed J with two nine-pounders on a side, I and a long Tom ou a swivel. In tnosc a ays xne v.u na sea was uie ? paradse of pirates, and the great ?aft of islands to the north of! Borneo offered them every security. These islands are strung along for a distance of one thousand miles, separating the Pacific Ocean from the China Sea, 1 ind from secure and unkno'vn harbors ! on the west side of the islands every pecies of native craft had a show to attack the commerce pass:ng up and down the great waterway. Th'.- schooner was officered from the navy, and naval discipline prevailed aboard. She was fitted out to fight as well as to survey, and a better crew could not have been selected, j "With few excep.ioas all were young , men, full of physical strength and daredevil spirit, and the knowledge that the voyage was a dangerous one had made them the more eager to go. We had been out six weeks and had been making soundings and surveys along the west co:v?t of Loug Island to the north of Borneo, when we had our first trouble. We had been surveying a bay about six miles long by three in width, and deep enough to float a man-of-war. While we had failed to make out any inhabitants on the shores, several small native crafts had visited us and engaged in fishing in our neighborhood. While they seemed to be poverty-stricken fellows, with nothing more than a natural curiosity to know why wo were takiug so much trouble for nothing, our Quartermaster, who had spent years on the coast, put tnern nowu ior sp:es suut uui by a near colony of pirates, and he advised every man to keep a weather eye opej. Wc had been in fhe bay three days, anchored in tli'rty feet of water, and withiu half a mile of the beach, when it camc on a dead cairn. Some of our men had seen nati cs in the tops of trees ashore, and there was no doubt they had climed up with spyglasses to look down upon our decks and discover our strength. We had one more day's work to accomplish, and, therefore, instead of getting out the boats and towing the schooner out of the bay, we got spring on our cables, loaded the guns with grape aad cannistcr, and made everything ready for the night attack which the quartermaster scented from afar otf. He was sure that lv nrduio-ht we would be beset by a dozen native craft manned b} desperate fellows intcut on our capture. A more unfavorable uiglit for us could not have been made. i\"ot a breath of air was moving, aud the suq had no sooner gone down than a mist rose from the still waters of the bny, and by nine o'clock we could not see the length of the schooner. Although half a mile from the shore, we heard all the sounds of a tropical night, and after ten no one was allowed to speak above a whisper. There was nothing serious about the situation to us young fellows. All we had to do was to open on the pirates if attacked and drive them olf. The officers took a diltcrcut view of it, however. There were no more desperate meu at that time than the pirate? of Borneo and adjacent islands, and if they earac down on us, they would come live to one. After eleven o'clock everybody was on deck and ai his station. Wc lay broadside to the entrance to the bay, with the schooner lazily riding to the ground swell, and swinging her head this way and that by turns. This was thought to be an unfavorable position, a?, if atta'ked from the entrance, we could bring only the two port cannon to b:ar. It proved, however, to be our salvation. It was a little past midnight, and every man on deck wa9 listening for signs of the enemy, when we were suddenly attacked on all sides at once. We had scarcely got the alarm when a full dozen native craft of all sorts burst through the fog and were upon us. It J was a < le er piece of work. All had come into the b.ty from the sea, our. position had been exactly loiated, and ' the fleet had separated to take us on all | sides and to attack at the same moment. The best white naval officer could not! have lai.l his plains more pe; feci I v. A | merchant vessel would have been in the J hands of the pirates in five minutes, eveu \ ------ - i\: I II C\] e ling IUVU1. lyi.tuipuuu :avvu u-i. , There was no confusion. Every man ' knew his station, and sprang to it. We : gave them a couple of broadsides inside of half a minute, and it was these which j paved the srliooncr. The guns were; depressed and tired at just the right I moment, and the havoc created was simply awful. The recoil of the guns j gave the sihoonor a sheer which upset two or three craft, and the only attempts ; .to board were at the bow and stern. I was on the bow with others, and we each i had a musket and cutlass I blew the whole top of a native's head off as he raised it above the rail in front of me, j and then used my cutlass. The fellows ; just swarmed up the chains, and th?y ! had ropes, with hooks attache:!, which j they threw over the rails and came j />liinl>irt<r iin Tn snili* of the wav we w,mO ""I" ~I - j laid abo;it us tliev kept gaining on us, I and I had just split a fellow's heiid open I when a hook thrown from below caught' in my clothing a:id I wa* jerked to the ' mil and over it in three snaps of your . finger. I fell upon the heads of several natives and rolled oS into the sea; but i almo-t as soon as I struck the water a ' rough hand puilpd me on to the raft or catamaran, and in thirty seconds my j hands aud feet were tied and a pirate took charge of mc. Although dazed and confused by my ; sudden change of position, I knew all j that was go'ug on. I hadn't been on the , raft two minute; when she was backed I away from the schooner, and as she j moved a dose ofcannister from one of the [ guns killed five or six natives, who stood j over and just bchiud ine. Again, after , we were concealed by the fog, another 1 discharge tore off a corner of the raft and killed two more tn?n. I could hear the shout3 and cheers of my shipmates, and I knew we were one of the la>:t parlies to withdraw from the attack. Thej schooner had conic out of it very handsomely. having, as I s>oon learned, inflicted terrible damage on the pirates. After i:ettin<jr away from the vessel we were joined by boats and rafts carrying j nearly a kindred men, and a good third ! nf these were wouuded. All made for I the entrance of the !>ay, and it was only when out of cannon shot tlint the fury of j the pirates over their b'o?dy repulse broke loose. My presence seeni^l to be ; forgot'en for the time, and it was lu< ky fnr mo (>vit Tv>w Hip I were several fights among the survivors j on our raft, and it appeared that all those , iu authority had been killed. In about an hour after getting out of the bay, and all the time progressing slowly to the north,under paddle, we ran into the mouth of the creek and landed in a viiirtg..-, the inhabitants of which were awake and alert. My feet were untied and I was roughly jerked to a stand ing position, and when it became known \ through the village that a prisoner had : be-n taken the cxcitemcnt increased to | fever heat. But for a very old man, who j was probably a superannuated chief, I | should have been cut to fell reds at the i first rush. Kvervbodv but this old mm I seemed to have an insatiate desire to kill me, and why he should try to prevent I them was ? mystery to mc. However, by voice ai:d arm lie kept them off until j cooled down, and then made them a spoecli. After that I was conducted to a hut, and guards were placed at the opening. Next morning it was made plain to mc why my life wa9 spared the ni^ht before. An hour after daylight a stout crotehed l:mb was driven into the ground a few yards in front of my hut. Then a long, stoul po!e was laid in the crotch. It worked exactly like an old-fashioned well sweep, but instead of the bucket they were to use my I ody. Fuel was gathered and a fire kindled, and I figured it out that the men at the other en 1 of the sweep or lever were to hold me suspended o- cr the flame, taking due care that my sufferings were drawn out aa ' Ti% long as possible. When I came to see the villagers by daylight I had no hope whatever of ray life being spared. They were not only the most villainous lot a white man ever saw collected together, but many of those who returned from the attack were grievously wounded and bent on vengeance. It was about two hours after daybreak that I was pulled out of tlie hut and loughly jerked along toward the fire, i Kvery man, woman and child in the village was in the circle around me, and the benign old man of the night before now licked his chops like a hungry tiger and approached to give directions. My hands were uutied, and two natives helped me off with my clothes. As my shirt came off the old man, who stood in front of me, flung up his hands and cried: "Onna! Onna!" at the same time pointing to the mark on my breast. j His exclaimation was taken up by others, j /i.civ nf +Vir> nldnst men Pflinfi (UIU int ui W4 w.?v ? forward to inspect the mark. A miuute later they signed to me to resume my clothing, and I was no sooner dressed than I was taken to the old man's hat, and a hearty breakfast was given to me. He not only smiled at me as soft as molasses, but patted me on the back many times. After I had eaten I was taken out on the open ground, and every person in the village filed past and touched one of my hands. Then every wouuded man came and touched my shirt over the mark, and I was asked by signs to remain in the village and become a head man. I replied in the negative, adding that I desired to return to the schooner right away. There was a kindly attempt to induce me to reinaiu. and when it was seen that I would not, I was conducted through the woods by au easy j path to the bay, got a farewell all around, I and was then paddled off to the schooner { by a single native in a canoe. I do not I j know to this day tne sigmncauce o: tnose queer marks ia India ink, but suspsct they rela'.e to some Indian superstition. The awe and the servility of the piiates could not have been greater had I been a native king.?Neio Toi'k Hun. Novel Sand Cylinders. Joseph Grandlemeyer, a mining expert j from Nevada, gives the following description of what is called the dance of the giant: "Great cylinders of sand, from 6 to 20 feet in diameter, and sometimes immensely tall, comc careening . across the desert with a whirling motion th:it is very graceful. I have often seen | them when they must have been two 01 j three mile3 high, for their tops reached | up into the cloud3. But oftener there will be one big column, with a lot of little columns attending it, ail waltzing along together. The effect is the strangest thing imaginable. It is both sublime and grotesque. It inspires you with awe, and at the same time fills you with the desire to laugh at the odd per- j forrnance. And if the man is superstitious the weird, fantastic sight can make | him feel mighty uncomfortable. They are : ! neversccn except in thesummer time, and are most frequent in .July. They have their beginning in some little, incipient ! whirlwind, which snatchcs up a handful j of saud while the surrounding air is still, I aud then they keep on growing and mov- j ing onward. ''They are not like the 1 cyclones further east, for they move with j very litt e noise, and instead of being j funnel shaped, are of the tame size from ! top to bottom. The motion is the sam *, being both circular and advancing. They '? ir.fr, f'tllinil/ir folllllrhMQ rtllnn. i u;u yt vi j; laiu vuv vjuuuvt iuvu>uuv^uwu | titics of sand, tons of sage brush, and sometimes good-sized stones, ilow far they travel nobody can tell. The very big ones must have waltzed aloug in their ' silent majesty over the lonely deserts for along distance. They must travel the j whole of the White Pine Valley, 350 j miles, anl sometimes they come down through Spring Valley from Idaho to tho < Peranegat Valley. "Joe Cann, one of the pioneers of White Pine, solemnly declares that he 1 owed his richest strike to one of these waltzing giants. He was plodding ! through the valley, leading a pack mule i laden with h's prospecting outfit, when ; half a dozen sand columns came dancing silently along. Joe tried to dodge one : of them, and got right in the way of the biggest one of the whole gang. It i picked up him and the mule as though ! they were feathers" and packed them ! across roe vauey jl uie liveliest >Yiuw Joe ever shook a leg in. lie got so dizzy that he couldn't tell where he ; was going, and he had just about made j up his mind to be smothered in. J sand aud carried to heaven by this dancing dervish of the desert when r his feet struck solid ground, and after ! whirling about a few times he fell into j the bed of a creek that was almost dry. I When he pickcd himself up' there was i the mule kicking solemnly and mcthodi- i Cillv at a shower of sand that was fulliug j around him. The waltzing column had struck a side hill and collapsed, as they ! often do, and the upper part of the j column was just coming down. Where the foot of the column struck the bed of the creek it had torn up the gravel to ! the depth of three cr four feet, and ex posed some of the richest pockets of I II .l._i T?? ???? Tin I sniaii nujifieis niut ijut c*ui sun. m. stayed with the claim about two months, . aud cleaned up nearlv $00,000. A Chinese-American Belle. In Grass Valley the Chinese New Year j week wa3 celebrated with lots of fire crackers, bombs and festivities. Tin Lor, the boss Chinaman there, had charge I of the celebration and rushed things in j tiue shape. Tin Loy talks English l'airly i and is supposed to be wealthy. He be- j lieves in newspapers and gets himself noticed as a "goody-good Chinama.i-' oc- , casionally. '1 hose who know him best, j however, claim that he is as intense in his Mongolianism as any Chinaman in i China, aud that his habits and ideas arc : stroug proof that a Chiuamau never i changes. But his 14-year-old daughter, Mi?s T.ilv, j is altogether of a diffeieut sty'e. She i was born in Grass Valley and proudly in- | sists that she i3 a "native Amcruatf' j ? ? '? i - x.: ? .11 cj.. I gill. JQ U11S sue issusiaiuuu uy inv ^u- j ]>rcmc Court of the United States, whirh 1 declares that ail of every color, bo.n in ! the United States nre native born citizens. Mi-is Lily has shown her Americanism in 1 many ways. She dresses like American girls, talks Knglish only, and goes to the ! public school. She is an adept scholar, j reads and writes well, plays n'uelyonthe i pia-io. and paints handsomely. Recently i nor father took her to China and endcav- ! ored to ha-e her feet "squeezed" China I fashion. The young lady fought against | this barbarity and triumphed. She at- | tended the Chinese school for a while, ! and fairly ''broke up'" the tftichcr with j her American independence. T n Loy insisted that his daughter ! should adopt the Chinese mode of dress ! and worship, at least for their New Year festival. Being coerced into this barbarity, the young lady^ locked herself in her room and refused to see any one. She boldly denounced the China gods as mere homemade devils. Tin Loy is proud of his girl, and supplies her with an abund. ance of pocket money to satisfy her American proclivities.?Nevada Transcript. 1 -"Vf" WOMAN'S WORLD?" PLEASANT LITERATURR FOR FEMININE READERS. The Gray-Hair Puller. Possibly the most unique method of earning a living kuown is that adopted by a big, rosy, twenty-year-old blonde, who finds engagements with women just lamenting their first gray hairs to weed out, so to speak, those obnoxious reminders of advancing years. The grayhair puller is genlle in her methods of treatment and makes periodic visits at intervals of a few weeks, spending from half an hour to two or three hours, letting down the hair, combing it out and spying for tell-tale silver-threads. She carries an innocent looking little reticulc which contains various glycerine | and rose water preparations for a heal[ ing applicatiou when the work of torture [ has been done. It is not especially dis! agreeable work and it is said to pay.? New York Mail and Express. ? j? --3?22' . Pearls. Pearls were never before so fashionable, and outrank diamonds. They are Queen Victoria's favorite gems, and she has made it a point to give each of her daughters a pearl necklace. The pearls of the Queen of Italy and her j assion for them are well known. As only one pearl of value is found in about 1000 shells, hunting them is not a very profiiable^ industry. They are rarely round and rarer still true white. They are i mostly pink or bluish, often iridescent, and in form usually button-shaped or flat on the back. A nearly round white pearl as big as a pea easily brings or more. TUe ainicuity in reuuemng | them makes necklaces so expensive. I More than half the so-called pearl necklaces worn even by fashionable ladies are j what are known as Roman pearls, or artificial. The finest are now found in the west, in the rivers of Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas. The finest pearl necklace in Philadelphia is owned by Mrs. Elliott, the youug married daughter of Mrs. Charles Wheeler. Their Favorite Flowers. Patti?The Jacqueminot rose, rich clusters of which are occasionally thrown her by admirers who know her weakness for this regal flower. Lady Randolph Churchill?The eglan tine or wild rose, which she occasionally wears in her hair with evening dress. Mrs. Cleveland?The pan3j, to which she gives the preference on all occasions, and not long Ago had it embroidered into one of her most succcssful gowns. The Princess of Wales?The"violet, which in hue matches exactly her eyes. Modjeska?The Mermet rose, groups of which she carries with her even when traveling in the cars. Queen Marguerite of Italy?The daisy, which she wears iu diamonds in her hair and has embroidered in her court and ball dresses. Ellen Terry?The daffodil, whose jocund yellow she copies in her gowns, and of whi.h Wordsworth sang: In vacant or in pensive mood They flash npon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude. And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils. Flower Gowns. Latest among the novelties in evening gowns there comes almost picturesque ' -?T * 4-V.A nnwnn/vA?MOnf norm luvcunuu. n ia LUC uuuu^tiuvui. of flower gowns for dinners and receptions. A certain flower is taken as the leading notion of the dress, the rest of the toilet being then carricd out scrupulously en suite. Thus a poppy gown of this description has the whole of the front of the skirt, from waist to hem, formed of large loose poppy leaves made in crinkled crimson silk, e: act counterparts of nature and shaded like the real leaves to a deeper crimson toward the centre. Here and there near the hem were some carelessly arranged clusters of poppy flowers and buds, with their peculiar gray-green foliage. The back of the skirt was made with wide sash draperies of poppy and red tul!c. A silk decolletc bodice of the same color, with - II 1 J ^ a vest 01 srainer poppy leaves iuiu u suu bertha of tulle, completed this ideal little gown. Similar ideas for the present season will be simply lovely for young girls, carried out in snow drop?, lilac, daffodils or violets.?Philadelphia Time*. A Woman Doctor in China. We stand in jeopardy of our lives at every operation, writes a woman physician from China, to the Sacramento (Cal.) Bee: liecentiy a man died here aftar an operation had been performed on him by one of my associate physicians. We all came near being killed iu consequence. The natives came out in large numbers and tried to storm the hospital. They threw sticks and stones and threatened to burn it down. We were onlv saved bv crood fortune. A messenger, a converted native, managed to get out unobserved, and rau a3 fast as pojssble to a settlement some distance away, where he brought tidings of our dangerous position. A Land of devout converts was at once organized an 1 camc over as fast as possible to our rescue. We thought at tirst there would be va conflict between them and the indignant natives, but fortunately the latter were altogether unorganized and frightened by the determined front presented by our friends. The lady who performed the operation was escortcd to a place of safety, and we j then breathed more freely. For more j than two weeks afterward, however, we ' were compelled to suspend all operations, | and thereafter found it very difficult to j get the consent of the natives to our at- j tending upon their sick. In fact we find it very rarely that we can operate at all upoD a heathen chinaman. Even the 1 Christian Chinaman appears to he reluc- \ tant to accept our services, though they are usually free. Her First Pair of Earrings. A ooriespondcnt write-! to the Jeireltr's Weekly: "An epoch in a girl's life is [ when she has her cars pierced for the ! first pair of earrings. I'm the father of i a family myself, and I know. The first question always is how to get the cars punched. "The elder sister volunteers to under take it. and the entire family gathers to 1 witness the operation. The mother' holds the trembling hand-? of the willing victim. One of the boy* gets an auger j and is dri en from the room with re ' Hi ... ????? I ]>rOOI.g. men 3IMCI wuito nuu out. | needle, fche is shaking from head to i foot. She sets the point of the little instrument in the velvet flesh. lets out a little spurt of bloud and quietly fa:nts. It is evident that the operation will have to be conducted by some one of less . tender sensibilities. "At last a happy thought strikes the futher, and he calls upon a jeweler with his daughter. " 'I would like to get my daughter a j pair of solitaires,' he says to the alerk, 1 4but, unfortunately, her ears are not pierced.' "The clerk smiles, stands behind her, and pinches each little ear till it is white. Then he runs a sharp steel needle through both lobes and wipes off the half drop of blood with a bit of muslin. " lDo up your ears for a week when you go out,' he says, in a business-like way, and then: '.Now, sir, what sized solitaires would you like to look at?' " Women as Rulers of Men. History docs not encourage U3 to consigu the State to female rule. England owes one civil war to the temper of Margaret of Anjou, and another to that of Henrietta Maria. Mary was an impersonation of liability to clerical influence. Anne overturned not only a Ministry but the policy of the country, and robbed the nation of the fruits of its victories to gratify the spleen of a favorite waiting woman. Under the results of recent researches the repu tatioa of Jtli/.aDetn for statesmansnip has co'lapsed. It was her good luck to give her name to aa era of national greatness, but her own political character, as it nowstatds revealed to us, is that of a false and heartless coquette, iler ill treatment of her servants, such as Walsiugham, wa* not less conspicuous than her partiality for handsome scoundrels like Leicester, or dancers like Hatton. Her neglect of the national de_fenses on the eve of the Spanish invasion was little short of treasonable, and the nation saved itself in Its sovereign's despite. Caroline, the Queen of George II., did good service by upholding \Valpo!ef but she did it in n Tx-/mn nlrr tvo v Tf w P Irtnk to the history of other countries we shall find its testimony the same. In France the Kegent Anne did pretty well, because she put herself into the hands of Mazarine; but Catherine de Mcdicis and the Pompadour did far from well. That female rule is not essentially favorable to peace, the exploits of three nearly contemporary Que^is, Elizabeth of Spain, Maria Theresa of Austria, and Catherine of Russia, are proofs enough. Female ambition or passion, if it takes a warlike turn, is likely to be rendered more dangerous by the iriesposibility of sei. Isabella of Castile is the pamgon of female government; but she had Ferdinand at her side, and she established the Inquisition. Mr. Mill thinks that Charles V. showed his high appreciation of female statesmanship by setting women of his family to goveru the Netherlands; I I Vin*?1nc nn mnn nf hia fnrmltr available for the appointment, and the result of these female Regencies, though little of tiie blame may be due to the liegents, can scarcely be said to have set ! the seal of success upon the experiment. > It is childish to talk of the good government of Kings or Queens who reign, but do not govern.?National Review. Fashion Notes. Both hats and bonnets grow larger. Immense sashes are worn more and more. Green, greener, greenest are the tints of the future. New parasols arc larger and longer than those of last year. Stiaw is the wear par excellence for I fiisli'nnahle bonnets. Unhemmed draperies are coming into general use upon silk dresses. The white cloth petticoat is one of the novel styles which seems destined to be most popular. Tips are worn a trifle longer, and even ' half fe ithers circle the deep brims of ! some new hats. ' Many fashionable bonnets for summer ; are made simple of tulle or lace without ; other trimming. Striped ribbons from hairlines to halfI inch widths of white and a color are very new and very ugly. ..Velvet flowers on summer hats and bonnets seem rather an unnatural com uiiiauuu, jtu iucj ait oiuiou. 1'eal blues worn this season, and some with a changeable effcct, have a cross thread of cream color or white. The fashion for trimmiug hats from behind still continues and if not very artistic or becoming, it is the mode. I The hat or bonnet that escapes a green bow, upholding a spray of flowers, will be something in the nature of a rarity. Bloou orange and primrose are the names of two very fashionable new shades iu kid gloves, both dressed and undressed. lilack lace dresses are now made up over slips of shot silk, either moss green with rose, pink with gray, or red with blue. Spangled lace and colored crapes starred or figured in tinsel are very much used in making summer millinery at I tractive. Close wreaths of roses, without leaves, either quite upon the edge, or half-way the brim, will be immensely stylish upon j lace bonnets. Peasant waists are still seen in the I cotton or woolen costumes lor growing j girls, and add a pretty trimming to a i simple costume. i English waists have simply a point i front and back stiffly whale boned, and j as may be supposed are only becoming ; to slender figures. French lace appears in large quantities I nn fVia npw nnd an effort is be I ing made to introduce the art laces, par! ticularly old guipure. | Chuddahs and other new woolen3 have wide fancy selvages which arc intended to be a conspicuous feature of the costume when made up. A favorite bodicc is round waisted, and is arranged with loops of ribbon which taper to a point on one side, and with a scarf fichu on the other. Mahogany browns arc among the most! stylish tints for costumes and take as a I trimming black or metal braids as being ! the most harmonious colors. Striped wool jerseys having sailor [ blouse fronts, fitted backs und deep sailor collars are favorite corsages for finishing up skirts which are partly worn. Bright re.1 i3 not seen in the same profusion as last season as a hat or bonnet trimming, and bids fair to pass out of vogue in due time, having ruu its race. The fancy checked summer silks are preit ly used as petticoats under plain silk or woolen stuffs for summer wear :his season, ami make very pretty eiTects. llibbons are likely to be used in great profusion upon the summer mantles, and are arranged in rows of loops, in pointed tabs forming fringe, and iii rosettes and bows. The half open sleeve is ft favorite mode for outer gaiments. and is particularly graceful on the loose fronted jackets, which are very stylish this season. Zig/ag stripes and clusters of light lines, forming wide stripes, which alternate with plain twilled stripes, are showu in copper colo , china and Gobelin blue, golden brown, Suede and bronze. "White and copper promises to become even more the rage than white and gold, many gowns of copper Bengaline having lull vests of white silk, mulle China crape or India silk, and a further enrichment of copperheads. I " - :c- .\"v* *w '. V -* _ Topical spices." HOW SOME WELL KNOWN AIDS TO COOKERY ARE GROWN. Tapioca in its Crude State?A Spice that is Cultivated by Birds? Nutmeg and Mace?The Cocoa Plant, Etc. "Do spices grow in that manner?" asked a reporter for the New York Mail and Exprea of a leading importer who called his attention to several large, hermetically sealed glass jars, in which there were many specimens of different plants with their flowers, fruit and leaves, preserved in alcohol. "Ye?," was the answer, "and few in this city know anything about it. They see the different .spices either whole or ground, ana are no more acquamua with the method of their production than was the Londoner who thought cucumbers grew in ready-made slices. Would you like to know something about them? Well, that is tapioca in its crude state. You see it is a loot, and nat unlike a parsnip. In that condition it is a deadly poison when fresh gathered. It is i production of the warm regions of this hemisphere, and was known to the natives as manioc, mandioc or cassava. Before Brazil and Mexico were discovered by Europeans the natives used this root as food, after properly preparing it. You see it is a shrubby plant, with slender, woodyknotted stems and palmated leaves. The juice of the plant, and even of its tubers, from which the tapioca is made, is very acrid and poisonous. After the juice is removed a nutritious article of food can be produced. Some of the tubers, or roots, weigh thirty pounds. After the rind is removed the remainder is reduced to a pulp by a grindstone, then washed with water, pressed and baked, forming cassava' bread. The starch which floats is collected and prepared, then sold either as Brazilian arrowroot or tapioca. The poison, being volatile, passes off without heat or washing. It i3 s-.ipposed to te hydrocyanic or prussij acid. Animals eating the fresh root would soon die, and the Indians used this juice with which to poiion their arrows." "What is that}" "That i-j the papaw, an American tropical plant. It grows on a tree, so that the specimen here is only of the leaves, flowers and fruit. The tree is twenty feet high, has a hollow stem and j is crowned with leaf stalks like the palm. Jt has male and female flowers on different trees, and the fruit is the size of a small melon. When ripe it is eaten with sugar and pepper, and the h&lfgrown fruit is much esteemed all over the world as a pickle. The next is the mango, used for making chutney. It is a tropical fruit, rs large as an apple, oval in chape, full of a sweetish, acrid juice, with a rich, peculiar flavor. It can also be made iuto jellies, preserves or p'ckles. The plant is exogenous, and the tree grows sometimes fifty feet high." "What are those bright red thingsi" pointing to another jar, filled with leaves, from which peeped out several brilliant looking pods not unlike "peppers?" "They are tamarinds. The tree grows j in the tropics, from forty to sixty feet high, with a spreading top. The leaves, as you see, are pinnate, like the mountain ash. The flowers are produced loosely, and the fruit is in those ted pods, of which five or six grow in & bunch, from t^ree to six inches in length, the orh'Mo nnrtinn hein<r the nuln. Thev are usually preserved in sugar and thus ! exported for use as food or medicine, I being both laxative and refrigerant, and when infused in water form a grateful drink in fevers.'' "Bat you can hardly call these specimens spices?" ' Perhaps not, in the strict sense of the word, yet they come from the spice regions. Here are two, however (pointing to two other jars), which show a spice in the flowering and fruit-bearing conditions. They are the pimento or allspicc. It grows on the hills of Jamaica, and is cultivated by the parrots and cockatoos. The natives never interfere with the birds w hen thus engaged. You know what noisy birds they are; yet when in the pimento grounds they are quiet as mice. The I plant is very prolific, and the spice is I formed in the base of the flower, after the leaves have dropped off. It is the seed of the plant and when growing forms Jf pretty shrub. Do you know what this is ?" The questioner pointed to another jar, containing what appeared to be a numI l wVJfa rtAOAliaa linmrinor An UtJl U1 VI L.11U ^V<UVilV>J VM branches. "That is both the nutmeg and mace. The first grows in the way you see it, on i a stalk. When ripe it bursts open and the nut or kernel drops out. The nut is something like the pit of a peach, with the exception that around the pit is a kind of hard lacework of yellowish wood. That is the mace, to well known in commerce. Thus you see two spices are produced from the kernel of the same fruit of a plant." The next jar contained what appeared to be yellow cucumbers, somewhat | swolleD, one which had burst open, I showing a lot of seeds enclosed in a j pinkish"white, jelly-like substance. "That is the cocoa plant, from the seeds of which chocolate is produced. The seeds nre enclosed in the pinkish pulp, and when taken thonce and dried become cocoa nibs, as the term is. You i see the plant differs from the cocoanut, j which is iu the next jar. That "rows on the palm tree, and the fruit hangs in clusters on the top. In that jar you see the flower and bud, the fruit ju9t forming and the half-grown nut. That is one of the best collections of the kind in the country. A Novel Shell for Steamboat Warfare. ' The coming weapon of civilized warfare will not be an explosive bullet, but a chemical one,'' remarked a scientific gentleman a day or so ago. "31any suggestions of this sort have been made and some p!au will be adopted before lon<r, unless I am greatly mistaken/' "What is the best plan?" "I am inclined to favor the suggestion of Westoo, the electrician. He suggssts j the use of nitrite of amyl. It is well j thi? dm" possesses the dow- i er of causing insensibility very quickly in a human being breathing' its fumes. The effe t is equivalent, temporarily, to a paralytic stroke. Now, nitrite of i amyl is very cheap and plentiful. He I proposes to tire shells tilled with the i chemical instead of gunpowder. It will : not be necessary to penetrate a ship. A few gallons of this nitrite dashed on the deck of a war ship would soon render her crew helpless. The most powerful ironclads would be even more vulnerable than the light cruisers, for they would be sucking down great draughts of air through their artificial ventilators and the odor would thus rapidly permeate the whole ship. The whole crew ; being rendered helpless for an hour or two, the ship could, of course, be towed ' into a safe spot, while the captors ven- . tilated her and removed the insensible men."?New Y?rk Mail and IUxjrrejs. MRU ! I'l ?> ' , , -.. - |g? v . . CURIOUS FACTS. , ? . ^ J V Coache3 were first used in England in 1659. 1 City Park, Philadelphia, is the largest in the world. The lato3t discovery is that seltzer water is a cure for burns. The highest recorded price for a Stradr ivariu3 violin is said to be $8,000. A hunter in Arkansas found a jaw bone with teeth twenty inches long. Zalediscoffokenonischi is the name of a man who is working in the Schuylkill coal regions. j The longest suspension bridge in the world is at Freibourg; then come those at Pesth and Bourdeaux. ; It is 1395 years since the death of St. Patrick, the renowned apostle of the ' ril <.:a !- r i.. V_/ LI 113 L1UUL lUltil 1U II UIOUU. Ad ancient Japanese coat of mail was recently unearthed in the vicinity of Victoria, British Columbia. A Montreal butcher named Desmarchois was arrested and fined $100 recently for kissing a woman against her will. He decided to go to jail rather than pay the fine. < The venerable American Philosophical Society, of Philadelphia, still possesses the chair in which Thomas Jefieraonsat when he wrote the Declaration of Independence. In an appeal from a justice's court in Ohio the lawyer couldn't find any particular technicality, and sc he based the appeal on the ground that court was not opened with prayer. T he mascot black cat of a Washington theater walked out on the stage during a performance the other night and took a good look at the President, who sat in a box with a party. _ I Tbere is a legend current among the peasants of Bavaria that the long life of Kaiser Wilhelm was due to mysterious philter of which His Imperial Majesty alone possessed the secret. Robert McCrone, of Thompsonville, Conn., is the most consistent vegetarian in the Nutmeg State. He has eaten no' animal food for over forty years. He is now sixty-five and in perfect health. | Vienna must be a jolly place to live in.' On one Saturday night, in a single dis-J trict of the city, 240 public balls were' held, and there are about twenty such' districts included in that gay metropo-J ? lis. a 771 !J. 1.1..... OUII1U I luuua tauuu^ca mrja?uic nvoj feet across the top and weigh twenty-fire pounds, so the Florida papers say. They} also tell of a potato twenty-seven pounds in weight and a turnip weighing tea1 pounds. j> A new rule for removing a cinder in. i the eye is given by an engineer. It is "Eet the injured eye alono and rub the other one, nnd the cinder will be out in two minutes." It is a simple remedy' and worth trying. {. An English judge recently commuted the sentence of a prisoner to five years', imprisonment at hard labor instead of six months' imprisonment and two fiog-j ging3. He thought the former sentence was more merciful. I ? The Alexandran era fixes the creation at 5502 B. C. This computation con-! tinned till A. D. 28% but the following year ten years were subtracted, and 5787j became 5777. This coincided with the Mundane era of Antioch, Bob and Ben Day, of Conyers, Ga.,| have trapped sixty-four bearers and four! otters on Georgia streams during the last three months, besides a number of smaller] animals. They will realize $400 from' the furs which the animals yielded. Mrs. Nancy Miller, who died at Cum-, berland, Md., recently, at the age of 108( years, remembered well the day she saw( General George Washington review his troops at Fort Cumberland on October 19, 1794, and had many interesting . reminiscences to tell of the first American President. At Birmingham, Ala., Doctor Jones discovered a racoon in a yard back of ?' J 1- A ?~-l- ? urug UIC UUU. IUU.V a uwxjI uiciuvu vk capturing it. He procured a fishpole, a' sponge and chloroform. Standing at a distance he lowered the sponge to the nose of the sleeping animal and held it there until the coon was stupefied. Then' feariug that he might be bitten, he arranged a lasso and caught the coon without difficulty. The Use of Qninine. "What drug has the largest sale of auy( in this country?" repeated a wholesale, drug dealer in response to a New York] ifaU and Express reporter's ' inquiry.] "Quinine without any question. It seems to have been provided as the' great specific of nature. Even to the] physician who over and over again hasj witnessed its mastery it is little less: than miraculous how the shaking ague' will yield to its control unless there are! anecial complications, or unless a habit' of malarial subjection has been estab-J lished. It has even extended its domain] far beyond this. In other forms of fever! and in certain conditions of innervation' or want of general tonicity, it is largely' available, although needing to be usedi with great discernment. There probably! never was a time in which the use of some form of Peruvian bark, under the, name of cinchona, quinidin, etc., has been so extensive as at present." "Is it not used to excess?" "Undoubtedly, and surely it should, not be used at random, and the medical, adviser may need often to be consulted as to the indications and contra-indica-' tions for its use. But it can safely b^ said that it is less abused than most! medicines, and that we may easily rank! it as among the most valuable of Ameri-! can discoveries. While there is no such danger of acquiring a quinine habit as a morphine habit, the abuse of the drug is not uncommon." "Business Is Business." You know that in Washington a cat may look at a king. That is, any resident or visitor, however humble, is permitte l to call upon the ladies or members of the Cabinet, Supreme Judges and Senators on any reception day, and the call must be returned, at least by a card. Some try to return all such calls in person. I Last week the conscicntious wife of a Cabinet Minister halted her carriage in: an unfamiliar neighborhood, and soon found herself climbing stairs to the third, floor, where the lady whose card she' i It.CU/a wrto uore wiw saiu tu mi*. ous; nt*o with an obsequious cordiality, and tivt minutes later, just as she was retreating,' the lady brought forth a box of beautifully painted fans and embroidered parasols. "I make these," she said. "I cannot call upon rich people to sell them, for the servants win not let me in; so I call on them and get them to return my call, and that gives me ray chance. Now, I want to show you this." The surprised lady rose and took her leave. "I forgive you," she said. "I shall not buy anything; but I will give you a piece of advice: If you arc going to carry on business of this kind in thia way, you might at least live on the first Q.QOT/'?IknocT Republican. . . * . !