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THE AMERICAN IDEAL. An independent young man; A right kind of stuff young man; A deep, comprehensible, Plain spoken, sensible, Thoroughly self-made young man. A not-to-lo-leat;n young man; An up-to-the-front young man; A genuine, plucky, Happy-go lucky, Try it again young man. A knowledge seeking j*oung man; A real wide-awake young man; A working in season. Find out the reason, Kot too smart to learn young inan. A lock-out-for-others young man; A practice-not-preach young man; Kind, sympathetic, Not-at-ail-theoretic, One-in a-thousand young man. An affable, courteous young man; A Unow-w&at-to-suy young man; A knight of true chivalry; Frank in delivery, Making-his-mark youug man. A nowadays scarc? young man; A hard-to-be-found young man; A perfectly self-possassed, 2Jot always ovor-dressed, Kind that I like young man, ?Cincinnati Commercia', WHAT TIM ANDJESS DID BY EUEX K. KEXFOJtD. Tim was on his way toward home ono night when a "grand idea" came to him. j Be was thinking about his mother. Tim j was d:ffereut from a good many boy3 in ono way. He thought a good deal more about his mother thaa he did about I himself. lie was wishing that she du'n't have to work so hard, the took ( in sewing for a living. It was stitch, i 6titch. stitch all day, and more than once he had waked up at midnight aud found her still at work. ' Oh, mother, do stop sewing and go to bed," he would suy at such times." "Yo.i must be tired out." "Ves, Tim, I'm going to bed very i soon, now," she would answer. "I just want to finish this seam, lir9t." As I have said, Tim was thinking about his mother as he went homeward, j and just as he was wishing that he could ! do a great deal more that he was doing to make her work lighter and life less ' wearisome, he came to a place where eome men were unloading a lot of sewing-machines. "Must be going to start a shop herd," | he thought, and stopped to watch them at work. "My! don't I wish I could buy one of th m machines lor mother." thought Tim. "If she bad a machine she could : do more, work in four or live hours than , she can do now in all day, an' do it easier; an' Jess an' I could help her lots I o' times after we'd learned to run the ; thing. I wonder how much one of 'em j costs. 'Most a fortune, I s'pose,"with a little sigh. "Here, you boy, if you hain't any- i thing else to do, lead a liana an' noip us j get these machines inside before it be- j gins to rain," said the man who seemed j to be owner of the stock. "Vou can earn ten cents in next to no time." "All right, sir," said Tim, with alacrity. Ten cents would help a good deal j in a poor family, and he was just the lad | to no: let such chances slip. In a little while they had the machines j Insidii, and the drayman drove oil aud i left Tim with the machine man. "I s'pose, sir, one o' these machines costs a good deal, don't it?" asked Tim. j ot such a great sight," answered the man. "New ones como higher'n poor j folks like to pay, but second hand ones, j like this, now"?indicating a machine ; that looked about as well as any of the ! others as far as Tim was able to judge? ! 'this oue 1 could sell for fifteen dollars i an' warrant it to be est as good as a new ! one that joa'd have to pay double that for. (1 take old onts in trade, you see, i an* fix 'e 11 up so they're as good as ever, I bein' a tinker, an' I sell 'em cheap. ' Want to buy. "I'd like to," sain Tim, with longing ] in voice and eyes. "Tut I don't happen to have fifteen dollars." "Work an' earn it,"said the man. "I work an' earn all I can, now," said j Tim. "I sell ] a;,ers, you see, an' it i takes all raother'n I can rake an' scrapc | to live on, so I eou'dn't save anything to | buy a machine with. Hut I'd like to, ; all the same. .Mother, she sews,but she'd ' never'd run in debt for a raachiue. I just wish I cou'.d buy her one." "Do extra jobs an' save u;> what you get for 'em, an' you could pay for a inv chine,"said the man. "I?I don't s'pose you could give me jobs, could you?" asked Tim, eagerly "Well, I might, now an' then." was i the reply. "I'll tell you what I'll do. | I'm one o' them folks that's always j willin' to help folks that'll try to help themselves. I'll give you all the chorin' ' round i nave 10 uuvc uooc, at ten cents a job. I'll give you a credit-slip for each one, an1 if you pay in ten cents in cash i any time, I'll give you a slip for that, ! too, an' you can keep the slips till they oome to the price of a machine, an' when ; you've got fifteen dollars' worth of 'em, i you can have your pick of any secondhand machine in the store. What dv'c ay<" j "I?.'11 do it," said Tim, with a kind of gasp. The magnitude of the transac- | tion almost took his breath away. "All right, then," sa d the machine man. "Do you want a slip for the job you've done to-night, or the cash?" "I'll take a slip," s* id Tim. "If I'm going to buy a mach'ne I n;ight as well begin to pay for it on the start." "That's business," said the man. He wrote on a card: "Due to bearer ten cents on account," and Tim pocketed it j with a feeling of importance. It was almost like putting money in the bank. i "You can drop in when you come along, nights or mornin's. an' see if there s anything to do," said the man. "I will," said Tim, and started off home on a run. "Oh my, but ain't I in for it now, tho'." thought he. "I wonder what mother'd say if she knew? But I won't tell her a thing, for something might happen an' tho machine not come after all. I'ut I'll tell Jess, and let her keep the slips for mo." The lai had such a bright, excitcd look that his mother asked him what had happened to him as they sat down to supper. f "(,-h, nothin'," answered Tim, w'th a chuckle that made Jessie look at him with suspicion. I After supper he watched his chance and whispered to Jess to "come out, he wanted to t-ll her something." in a low and mysterious tone that aroused all that young damsel's curiosity at once. , What is it, Tim?"' she asked, as soon as they were in the hall, out of anybody's hearing. "Have you got something for me?" "Yes; I've got something for you to keep," answered T.m, producing his slip. "You see, .Jess, I've made a bargain for a sewing-machine," looking at her keenly to see how she was impressed by the stupendous announcement "Ye3, sir," with an air of greater importance than Vanderbilt ever wore when he had completed the purchase of a railroad, ''I've agreed to take a machine. I'm to pay for it as fast as I can, an' the man's to give me a slip every time I pay in ten cents, or do a job for , him, an' I want you to keep 'em for mo. Here's the first one. I3e awful careful of it, and don't you let mother know the first thing of what's going on. You won't, now, will you?" "Xo, 1 won't,"answered .less, wonder- j ing, tho', as she promised, if it would j be possible for her to keep such a great j secret to 1 erself. "Say. maybe I can | do something to help, Tim! >'ext time j mother sends me to carry work home ! I'm going to ask if there ain't some job j I can do for the folks. Wou't it be nice if we can get a machine for mother? She was wishing yesterday that she had one." "She shall have one," said Tim. 'Til stick to it till 1 pay for one." "How long do you s'pose, it'll take?" asked .Jess. "uh. I don't know. A crood while. sure," answered Tim. "But we'll have j it some time. I mean business." "Two more slips," said Tim to Jessie, I next night, as they "went into consultation" in the hall. "That makes three. Onlv a huudrea and forty-seven more to , get," with a chuckle. "I'll tell you what, i Jess, I koci? an eye out for extra jobs ' now-a-days." "Only a hundred an' forty-six more to j1 get," said Jessie, proudly producing :i j slip from her pocket. "I've earned ; something to-day as well as you. Got ten cents lor taking care of the machine- i man's baby. They live up stairs over 1 the shop, an' he says I may come twice a week an' help his wife. The baby's awful cross, but I don't mind that's lonu'sl'm he'ping pay for the machine." "Hooray!" cried Tom, Hinging up h's old cap in delight. "We're in luck, ain't we? But mother'll mistrust somethin' if you keep a goiu' to take care of I thp h.ihv ; wnn't slie?" "I told her I was going to have something for it sometime," said Jessie. "She thinks I like to go." "I do wonder what those children are doing?" thought Mrs. Wylie, more than once, as the. weeks went by. "They're trying to keep something from me, I know; they look so knowing and mysterious, and "hold so many secret meetings in the hall. But it isn't any mischief, I'm sure, and I won't ask them to tell me if they don t waut to. I'll find out some time." As the clays passed into weeks the precious slips increased in number. Sometimes they came in slowly, then there would be a "streak of luck," and a do:en would come in a week. They were counted over and over, till some of them began to show sigus of wearing out. Jess kept them in an old cigar-box, hidden away under the stairs. Often in the night she woke up to wonder if they were safe from burglars. She went to see if they were there the first thing every morning. "What if we should lose them?" she often said to herself, with a catch in her breath, at the bare idea. "Wouldn't Tim feel just awful if we were to fail now {" IIow the bov and rrirl worked to make a success of their undertaking! They went about, on the alert for ''jobs;" and because their hearts were in their work they succeeded beyond -what they hud dared ho. e for. They did whatever was given them to do faithfully and well, and won the respect of those who emp'oyed them iu consequence. Some of the men and women who gave them job? lound out what they were working for and gave them extra obs to encourage them and help thorn along. "I iike to do it." said one ?f their employers, "nccause they're wili ng to work and earn their monty. They don't beg for it.and when they have anything to do they don't half do it, a; some children would. "W hat they dc they do as it ought to be done." From this you see that while Jess nnc Tim were making a success of their undertaking financaliy they were working up a good reputation for themselves. Perhaps the proudest day their lives will ever hold came when the last slip was added to the number in the old cigar-box, four months after they hud begun tc t rnllpf<t- thf>m ' Oh, Tim. it's paid for, isn't it?" cried .'ess. in a kind of solemn way. "Y?s, it's paid for," answered Tim, drawing a great breath of relief. "Can we I rimj it home to-morrow?' asked Jess. "You just bet it'll be brought honu to-morrow," said Tim. "-'ay, .less, what do you s'po-c mother '11 say?" "I don't know," answered .Te33: "bui I wouldn't wonder if she cried." "I've brought the slips, sir," said Tim, to the machine man, bright and earlj next morning. "Count 'em, an' you'l find there's a hundred an' fifty of 'em." "1 hit's business" said the man "You've done well. You've got th? sand. You'll get along, you will. Yes. there's a hundred an' fifty. Now wha' machine '11 you have, young man?" "I want the be*t one you've got fo; the price," said Tim. "I wantsomethin that runs easy, an' doe? good wor!:. I'l let vou pick it out for me." "All right," said the mnchine man. "Here's one now that's a leetle ex try? got more drawers an' such things, you see, than most of 'em. I'll warrant it a: ffood its the day it come from the factory. You can't get one for any more mone] that'll do better work." 'Til take it," said Tim. "Will you lend me your wheelbarrow to take i< home with?" ' The idea," laughed the man, " 'c takin' that machine home on a wheelbarrcr. I'll send my m m 'round with il right away. lie's got the horse hitched up by this timn. You can ride along au show him where you live." "Wasn't that a happy ride for Tim, thoughlie felt as if he were riding out in state. He couldn't keep his eyes of) the machine. He thought it the pretties' thing he ever saw, and once or twice he patted it when the man wasn't looking. ' i)ear me, 1 wonder if he'll nevei come!" said Jess:e over and over again, as she waited in feverish impatience, "i don't see what keeps Lim. Maybe some thing's happened to the box." with 8 t ; . u - _1. t I T J. snivcr lit me uiuugui. nurn.; i uu b'leeve I hear somebody on the stairs. Yes, I do, an' ih^y're brini^in' us some thing. Oh. it's the machinc! Mother, mother?come here, quick." ' What ;s it?" asked Mrs. Wylie, coming to the door. ".t's a sewing machine. an' it'i your0," cried Tim, with a facc so full oj excitement that it was really pale; "au it'i paid for, every cent." "Mine?paid for?who?how?" Mrs. "Wylie looked at the children in ama/.e ment. "Yes, yours, paid for, Je3s an' me,' shouted Tim, concisely if not very clear ly, while hewalt/ed .'ess all around thi hall in his delight at his mother's surpr se. "Say, howd' you like the looki of it? A reg'lar beauty, ain't it?"' "Oh, Tim! oh, Jessie!" and then Mrs Wylie did just a3 Jessie had predicted she would. She sat down and cried. "But she don't cry as if she felt bad.' whispered Tim to his sisV.-; "does she, Jess?"?Veu> York Independent. EXPRESS PARCELS. QUEER PACKAGES THAT ARE SENT OVER THE RAILS. A View of the Cellar Storeroom of a liig Express Company?Human Freight ? Chinese Bones Sent Cheap. " Of the hundreds of mea I have met during the twenty-five years I have been here you are the first newspaper man who has ever been down these stairs," said the old janitor of the American Express Company's Building, on Broadway, as he showed a Star reporter the subcellar where the receipt books and vouchers of the company are kept. The cellar is merely an immense vault divided into ten aisles ^23 feet long, on both sides of which arc. piled from lloor to ceiling, millions of receipts and statements of the (ioUO different agents throughout the country arranged in alphabetical order. '4 There arc so t?c very queer things sent by express," .Agent Ilogers remarked, while wandering through these subter??> T Viavn enpn a human t il Li UU LI [/uooagw. A ?!? V WV.-W? ? being boxed up in n crate and shipped by express, lie was an in-ane man goin;: t'iom Staten Island to a lunatic asylum. Thiit was some years ago. For the past seven years we have not handled live people, but before that we used to ship men, women and children. It was too much bother to keep it up. We used to charge double first-c ass passenger rates, and frequently took a bright little girl from friends here and delivered her at the door of friends in Iowa or Dakota. ''Very few people,"' continued the agent, "have an adequate idea what the business of a large express company I comprises at the present day. "Is it not simply the handling of goods? .No, indeed. We pay men's taxes a thousand miles away, act as undertakers, do shopping for ladies, and attend to the marketing for entire families It was not long ago we had to exhume a body that had been in a cemotery at Sioux City, Iowa, for years, and bring it here. We got nothing for the work outside of the charge for transportation. Our agent at Sioux City received instructions from this oflire to open such a grave in a designated cemetery, have the remains of a certain person placed in a new casket, and shipped to New York. lie ordered the work performed and sent the body on with the vouchers of expenditures. It is part of our business. "What is the strangest thin? I have seen forwarded? Well, that is hard to answer. I have seen nearly everything shipped from a needle to an elephant. One of the strangest shipments probably was a dead woman ana ncr iwo live babies. The little things were twins ana very small. A nurse had to accompany them. You may remember the story of an elephant that otopped the train by pulling ihe bell cord. That is perfectly true. .Monkeys are also a great nuisance and create no end of bother to the messengers. There are only three things that cannot be sent by express to-day, and ihey are dynamite, gunpowder and live people. The easiest articles to handle are goods from a business house, and the meanest is honey. It leaks out and gets over things. 4Wc.\t lo honey are packages done up by ladies. They generally have to be done over again. When you handle from 10,000 to R',000 packages a day in the Sew York ollice a;oue, it becomes a nuisance." "The Chinese have a custom," said one of the heads of a department, who came up at this stage of the conversation, ''of exhuming the remains of ihcir dead and shippiug ihem back to I hina. ])id it uver strike you h >w they do it? Thoy forward them as merchandise and get freight rate-i. Ob, yes, it's against the rules of nil companies; but if a railway agent receives a Ijo.v said to contain cotton, for instance, ho has no right tc examine its contents. Chinamen frequently come here and get our rates tc San Francis o, but they never send a corpse. 1 have made inquiries at the other o llces, and find they have never forwarded one. The rates are the satiu ; and are too high to suit tnein; so thej box them up and let then: go by freight at less than half the expense. I do not see how the practice cau be slopped, foi the vciy box that maybe suspe ted is liable to be all right." A Picnic in Samoa. The Samoaas arc as fond of picnics as any p >litieal or social club in New York A ae:cct party of about u hundred people in all will arrange an event of this kind, inviting friendR to participate, and often the o Iit'crs or men oi' the foreign vessels in the harbor are included (imong the guests. The picnic grounds, or waters rather, aro in the mountains, about four miles back of the Apia. The central range of mountains in the island 01 I'polu, which is the principal island of the group and the one upon which Apia is situated, reaches a height of about four thousand feet above the level of th? sea. The foot-hills, which riso gradually, one above the other, from a short distance back from the shore, are covered with verdure the year around, and here, in the cool forest, are found mountain pools of clear water, where the amphibious natives can enjoy theuiselvei to their heart's content. Over the bare, precipitous rocks on the shore the mountain streams have poured their waters lor ages, until the surface of the rocks is worn as smooth a9 polished marble. Some of the male picnickers precede the main body of revelers to one of these pools, carrying the provisions, which include a bounteous supply of fresh pork, chicken and Msh. When all have arrived they enter the water and amuse themselves by swimming, diving and skylarking, ducking each other's heads, or rising unexpectedly beneath somo one whose attention is divericd elsewhere. There is an upset, a scream of laughter and an escape. They ? "? rrnnd-nfitured and merrv. U1 O L AV.\. v'i ? i-A 0 J ^ vw ? ? ? ? ^ , uever taking offence at the pranks and practical jokes of their companions. After about two hours of this sport they gather on the shore and partake of a luncheon, and then again into the water they go like sporting seals. Food for Reflection. There is food for reflection in a couple of advertisements which appear s de by side in a contemporary, which icad, with the omission of address, as follows! WANTED?Young Jatly in publishing office: quick writer; $4 par wo<*k. WANTED ? An experienced girl for gensral housework in a family of seven; assisted ubout washing; wa^es .?4. It will be observed that the rato of compensation is the same in both cases, but that while the "lady:' receives simply $4 per week the "experienced giri" gets in addition her board and lodging. Whether gentility?the word most beautifully expresses the thing!?-is worth what it costs must seem at least au open question when the rate is so high. ? Bjston Courier. Scarcity of suitable firing ranges is complained of in England. ? i xr'/Tx-" " - " - .50^^ "Comanche JackV' Record. In the Indian Territory there are employed a large number of brave and hardy men as Deputy United States Marshals who appear periodically in the largest city most convenient to their working place, so that Wichita is often called upon to entertain visitors of aimost as much notoriety as "Billy, the Kid," or Jesse James. 'Chief among this number is Teputy United State3 Marshal Jack Still well, now stationed at l'ort lieno, I. T. Jack, or rather "Comanche Jack." as he is familiarly known, is a handsome looking chap, with a laughing blue eye, curly hair, slightly ting(.d with gray, for this noted borderman is just fifty years of age, about 5 feet JO or 11 inches in height, and of massive build. He is also the acknowledged crack pistol shot of the West, and even in the days of that I' ansas cyclone, known as "Wild Bill," who never missed a shot, Jack Stillwell ranked h'gti. The number of men killed by Jack is variously estimated at from twenty-live to thirty one, and it is known that in addition he lias aided in send ng sevenfmnn nvflp flip v.illflv of death by means of the hangman's noose. Only a few weeks ago .!a k sprung the trap in Wichita, which sent to their death the two noted Cieck Indian murderers, ) Jack and .Joe Tobler. Even in that country, where "killers'' aie to be met with every day, "Comanche Jack" Stillwell is a curiosity, and is pointed out to strangers with a strange mixture of awe and pride. By this it must not be und erstood that this gallant Deputy tinted States Marshal is a desperado who goes about ylorying in his bloody work. On the contrary, he is rather retiring in his disposition, and only when he has been drinking boasts of his deeds. When desperate work is to be done or a bad desperado is to be taken, irtillwcll is always the man who is detailed to accomplish it. The Territory desperadoes and cut-throats all know and fear the intrepid ollicer, and are aware of the f?ct that if he goes after them he will get them, dead or alive. Many are the traps that have been laid to kill him, but he is as cunning as hu is brave, and has always managed to evade the snares that would have caused the death of a less accomplished plainsman. lironorht tin as he was amonc the Co- | ? ?-3? r ?- - - w manche Indians, .?ack has never exercised the right of franchise, and at the age of fifty has never cast a vote. He speaks the Comanche and several other Indian languages as well ns the Indiaus do themselves, and during the sitting of the United states Court in Wichita It ia always an amusing sight to see the Indians, dressed in their primitive way, following the great "White Chief," as 'they ca'l Jack, about the streets. He calls them his 4'menagerie," and says .they are a lot of dirty,thieving wretches for the most part, as well as the mo3t accomplished liars in the world.?PodDifpatch. Inns and Innkeepers oT Norway. The chief reads through the cor.ntrj have been built by the Ooverument, and they arc invariably good, being kept in order by the farmers along the route. This is a requirement of the laws. '1 h post or road houses arc likewise good, both as to bed and board. Without exception, at all of these houses no plated still! of any description is used; only purely solid silver is to be found on any of these tables, and these are public house?. Strangers come and go, doors are open, diawers unlocked, spoons, forks, bowls, cream pi:chers, coffce and tea pots, all real silver, watches, family jewelry, etc, all lie about in perfect safety. The traveler may leave his watch under the piilow or drop his wallet with all bis surplus cash upon the floor at any one of the>o "stations," and before he reac hes the next, or second one at furthest, a man cr boy, mounted, and in hot pursuit, arrives on the scene witb the missing, but maybe not yet missed, chattel, allimact. Would that more of Norwegian spirit were broadcast over 'the wide wofld. Now the reader would naturally inquire why well-to-do people, retaining such heirlooms as old fanii'y silver, would yet follow the lowly calling of wayside innkeepers. It does seem paradoxical, Dill in ,\orway ail chsii: uismuuuuu*, aa expressed by inherited title?, have been done away with by act of the Storthing (Parliament) or royal decree. The keepers of these stations a:e generally in government service, and this means more than with us?sometimes in connection with the magisterial, but frequently the postal branch, these funct.ons being such that the upper classes alone can meet all government requirements, among others a good service on the post road, which a poor man could not furnish. t^o the owner of broad acres figures as landlord of the country inn. At Tafteman, at ihe head of flic Cudhrandsal, where we stopped for a change of horse3, the station-master traces his descent from Harold Ilaarfager. He posscs*e3 a number of interesting old curiosities, silverware, etc., said to be worth as much a? $.">0,000. Two or three stations to the south of this is the rude stone plate over the grave of Col. George Sinclair, who, on August 2(5, 1??12, with his i.'OO Scotch troops, were ambushed aud all put to the sword by the Norwegian peasants near this place. Sinclair was trying to iorce ms way 10 a ;,uncnon with the Swedes, then at war with Norway. A narrow road, bounded on one side by River Longen and a precipice on the other, tell* the story of the ill-fated Scots, who found here another Thermopylae. Filibuster though he was, Sinclair's lonely wayside tomb touches none but our better and gentler recollections.? Detroit Free lJnat. Lir?e>t Dam in the World. The Bear Yuiley dam wa? built some four years ago in the mountains of San Bernardino, Cal., at an altitude of -JOOO feet, in a narrow gorge at the outlet of Bear Valley, which by means of the dam has been converted into an euormous storage reservoir for the supply of extensive irrigation works in the San Bernardino \ alley. This dam is of most startling dimensions. Its e\treme height is 04 feet: thickness at top :i feet: at o point 48 feet from the top it is but Kfeet, where a stjuarc o set of about two feet is made 011 each side. Tlic thickness at bottom is 2'.' to L'l feet. I have not the exact dimensions, but I understand it is about 400 feat long on the crest,and is built in a curve whose radius 19 some :;00 feet. It is vertical on the back, and is built of granite, cut in blocks and laid in Portland cement. Here is a dam that is without a parallel in the civilized world, so far as [ have been able to learn?the most ultra radical of the pure arch type?and yet it has stood wiih a reservoir brimming lull every year back of it for nearly five years, waiting for the earth iiiake that i9 to efTect its tuin. For the lessons which thi3 daring experiment may teach I think it is worthy of more attention than it has received at the hands of the profession. Its remoteness and difficulty of access accounts for the meagre information obtainable regarding it.?jSr/no York Oraphi:. " ; " > ) WOMAN'S WORLD. PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR FEMININE READERS. Beadwork Aprons for Royalty. The most expensive of the many extravagances recently produced in the line of beadwork are the aprons which were lately mado in Paris for the wardrobe of some ladies of the royalty. They are of white silk, with pearl and metalic beads, in various combinations, each stripe adorned with a shower o? beads I hanging at the ends of threads and moving and glittering with each step, j These beaded showers shade from light j to dark, the sides of the dress are of silk j and velvet, repeating the same effect, and the train is of the darkest shade of the velvet Chicago News. An E'evator Girl. There is nothing surprising nowadays in seeing a woman undertake a task usually performed by men, but a New l V* Aflf m rvnrfor WOO BAmAvhftt UlIT- I prised, a few days ago, at seeing a young woman, of perhaps eighteen years, handle the ropes of a passenger elevator like an old timer. ' It was in a certain uptown institution. The girl wore a neat, close-fitting costume?all except the sleeves; they were loose. The girl opened and closed the doors with a bang, and jerked tho rope up aud down just as the janitors do when ! the regular elevator boys are at lunch. The young woman had good muscles, as she said, and seemed to enioy her work. She told the reporter that she got good pay and was perfectly satisfied. There was more i:a it, she 9aid, than she could earn measuring tape in a drygoods store. To Preserve Natural Flowers. It is a curious fact, defying explanation, that oue woman can wear natural j flowers much longer without their fad- I ing than another who is equally fond of I them and give9 them the same care and j attention. A bunch of roses will do duty on more than one occasion for one , lady and will most ungraciously fade and i droop very soon after another lady pins them in her corsagc. Ladies who find it difficult to preserve the blossoms and leaves they delight so much in wearing as a garniture to evening dress, will be able to wear them much longer without fadinjj if they surround the stems with moistened powdered willow charcoal, which may be wrapped in a little bed of mess, and covered with a bit of green tissue paper to prevent I tho charcoal from sifting through the ! moss. A teaspoonful of powdered charcoal j put in a ewer of water will preserve a ! oouquet of cut fowers for several days if I the stems of the llowera are cut each day, j as the broken end of the flower stem j withers and closes the openings through which the blossom receives its nourishment. Heroio Miss Lawrence. A herd of wild cattle was being driven through the town of San Diego, Cal. A little child was playing in the street near j whsre the cattle were passing, when one | of the bulls-a huye creature with large ; horns?made a sudden rush at the poor I bairn. To add to the tercor of the! sccno, the drover was tipsy, and in try- i ink to fcuro the lurious animal, fell off j his horse. "Warning yells arose from the j spectators as thoy beheld the fate from ! which, as it seemed, nothing could save I the child. At tais very moment a lady j happened to como iuto the street, and ! the noise of the tumult at once attracted ; her attention. She saw tho child's appalling danger nt a glance, and immediately spraDg into the empty saddle. a pnooon/1 ar? in r?nt/?Vnnrr nn wUh tViA MUW OUWIVV-UVU ' * f ?w j wild bull and threw her shawl over it's head just as it was about to charge the i child. She then, without leaving the saddle, lifted the child to her lap and j tnok it to a place of safety. This brilliant act of bravery awoke round after round i of applause from every one who wit-} nessed it. As was sa:d at the time, this 1 gallant deed of Miss Lawrence?for such was the lady's name?was not only heroic, but a featol horsemanship which few people can equal. Women fn the Corean Capital. As rcspcctablc women are never seen in public in Corca, comparatively few ' are met on tho streets of Seoul, and 1 those are low coolie women, with face ! fuliy exposed, or respectable poor ] women?who are compelled to go out on business, but who go very closely veiled j with only an ejre exposed. The veil is j a sort of gown, which in its turn possesses , a history. It is usually made of green ; silk nftcr the pattern of a man's outer gown, with sleevc3 lined on the under I 9ido with red. These wero originally so made that they mipht serve a double purpose, ns ia the time of sudden war ' they were to be given to the patiiotic 1 husbands, sons ana brothers to wear to battle, the red lining under the sleeves i serving to wipe the gory sword upon. It1 is most amusing for a foreigner to watch a little group of these timid, veiled women as they approach, huddled together like chickons. When they chance modo tly to glance up and see the strange object in dark clothes, perhaps red beard, uncannv pale skins, and eyes some other j color than the orthodox black, with J to them ridiculously short coats and a shocking expanse of limb cased in vul- j gar trousers, they invariably hudd!e close j to the nearest wall to let the apparition j pass by, hiding their eyes as a rule, while j some old hag cautiously stares with one eye, in a vein endeavor to answer the one ! exclamatory inquiry of: 4,I declare! What sort of a thing is it?"?San Francisco Chronicle. Galway Fish Wives. Among the 309 or 400 fish wives of ' Galway are a hundred women of frame, ! face, complexion and unconscious race | manner, who are precise types of those jou will find in the same vocation in all j the seaport cities of Spain. There arc j not half a do'.en distinctively typical ; Irish faces among the saucy lot. It is only when you hear their wild, shrill j voices, catch their luscious brogue, or t become a hapless victim of their merci- i less billingsgate, that this wonderful J ' ' ?^ ' ? 11.. .3 H'U?* ? f Kn r> htn I. on I semuiance is uispcucu. iucu i.uc ?i>a>^U' ingisso startling that one wonders if he has been dreaming, or in what grotesque guise these folk will rext be masking. Wherever one turns in the quaint city the race likeness is met. Out of that spacious mansion comes a digni- i lied old man. He is an Irishman, but he has the manner and very look of a Span- j ish grandee. Here at the -window you j modestly peer into the face of a lady, J young or old. The broad forehead, deep set, luminous eyes, the wide arching j eyebrows?truiy a gift in Irish beauty, | but never so marked aa here?the oval j face, the large, half-open lips, and the square-round chin, will greet you. These j belong to Irish women. But Spanish face | and form surely enfold the Irish! heart and soul. On this j huge arched bridge gather loitering peasant women from far Connemara wilds, looking longingly at the myriads of salmon in the Corrib beneath. See N/' V' >f-,? "t: ' . the red, black and yellow in their coarse raiment. You cannot find such striking colors north of the Tyrol. Under thU arch; by the edge of this park, which you think of as a plaza; in wide, huge doorways; at crumbling church porches where lanes and alleys tangle and lose themselves in mazes of picturesque angles ; see the fashing of these barbaric Oriental colors. See the lithe, supple forms; the free, generous gesture; the head-carried burden, the cloaking of exquisite natural grace under the old black braideens; the universal draping of raiment or ornament from the wonderfill coal-black hair; the uncousciously daring, straighforward, half-wondering, half-pathetic look out of those great black or dark-blue eyes, which so entrances iu women of the tropics; the long, drooping eyelashes, far more marked than with Irish beauties, so distinguished in this respect, as well as innumerable other touches and traces of similitude?all a heritage of the warm and passionate South, and the student of ethnology has before him most extraordinary proof of the marvelous impress left by Spanish domination of fully a thousand years ago upon this isolate Trieli ifir /-if TVihpa NetJi PioTvfc Graphic, Fashion Notes. Black .silk underwear is a3 much in favor as ever. Modifications of the typical Empire gown are numerous. Gauze fans with narrow ribbons run in and out are popular. Coats and cloaks of Russian red are a feature of recent outdoor wraps. The newest belt buckles are of silver, ornamented with figure work. A single Rhinestone stud is now the correct thing on black satin slippers. Attractive Orient*! and Japanese effects are a feature of the new satines. Recently made pocket-handkerchiefs are very pretty and highly ornamented. Morning dresses and tea gowns are now made with a band of fur down the front Among the new lace pins are seen little rough gold lizards with bright stoces for eyes. A favorite ring with the lad es is a large square emerald set around with diamonus. Oxidized silver bracelets in link patterns, and set with colored stones, are again in vogue. A string of perfectly matched pearls is now preferred by many ladies to a neck lace of diamonds. New muslin underwear i3 rjmarkable for the profusion of rich laces and tucks which decorate it. Japanese crepe is a new material whicn is fast superseding India silk as a material for fine underwear. Tortoise shell combs are gaining in popular favor, and the tops of them aie bometimes set with diamonds. There is nothing starfclingly new in styles of millinery. Old styles are recopied without much change. New wooden writing sets now come in shape of a seal with the pen stuck through in place of a harpoon. Redingotes of rich fabrics are trimmed with a border of fur at the foot, from twelve to sixteen inches in depth. The deep borders of the winter reappear in spring goods, and are supplemented by woven cornur pieces as well. Very pronounced plaids In all fashionable colors will be much used for the costumes of girls and very young women. Louis Quinze heels, which are very low and usually black, are a feature of house and evening slippers of Suede kid. The combination of soft gray and shell pink will be almost as mucn in favor for spring toilets as it has teen for winter ones. Metal and fancy buttons are only suited to woolen gowns, silk?especially black silk?requires a crochet or jet fastening. Alpacas and mohairs are being imported for spring and summer wear, and are in a greater variety of colors than last year. Gay redingo'.es and jackets of red cloth a:e made with a vest of white cloth, which is nearly covered with gold embroidery. "What are known as India silk patterns are reproduced in the new satincs, which rival the strike in beauty and effectiveness. Many ladies who have begun to pre pare tneir summer ouiuss arc usmg iuu .Empire model for percales, ginghams and satjnes. A very porgeoiu bonnet now worn is made up in brilliant red touched with gold. The combination is very striking and most women are chary of wearing, it. The visiting card used in England is steadily decreasing in size, although our usage sanctions largo square patterns. Cards with gilt edges are quite common in London. The Streets of Brussels. Clean, gay, and brilliant are the streets of Brussels in the upper town on a tine day, with their leisurely well-dressed crowds of promenades, theeouipages of royalty, and the beau monde, the galloping officers and companies of soldiers always marching somewhere or other to the strains of most excellent bands or the spirited fanfare of trumpet or roll of J??- A riii^Hirpaimn t'n fltrana uruuis. auu vij ?0 era' eyes are the groupi of while-bio used commissionaires aud biue-bioused ouvries, and flower venders with huge baskets of violet and roses, and Ca^ melite monks in russet gewn.1, with naked sandaled feet and the rope of selfflaggelation dangling from their waists, and the handsome homan and Neapolitan girls in veritable Italian costumes? artists' models during the week and organ-grinders of a Sunday?and the famous milk women, sturdy, fresh-laced peasants, striding along by their little aog carts, where, in beds of clean straw, are reposing brass cans polished to a dazzling brightness. It is all very pretty and enlivening, if one's eyes are open to catch its novel features.?Providenca Journal. A Woman or Business. 51rs. Ellla F. Braman, of this city, holds more olHces than auy other woman | in the country. She is a Boston woman, j and was formerly .Miss Collins. Her bus' 1 '' /\f fap I Dana is a tonnuissiuuci m >Ui every State aud Territory, and for Canada and foreign countries, too. Five years ago, in Boston, he needed a clcrk," so he got Governor Long to recommend his wife, aud the btaten of Kansas, Connecticut and Illinois each appointed her Commissioner of Deeds. Then they moved here, and Governor Hill gave her more recommendations, and she has finally got appointments for States and Territories to the number of thirty-three. So her husband now stays down town while Mrs. Braman keeps an office uptown. Besides attending to business >Irs. Braman has managed to keep house and raise a family of four children, the oldest a girl of eighteen.? New York Sun. J POFULAB SCIENCE. Street cars in Chicago are to be heated by gasoline. Oxygen is a substance which exists only in a gaseous or aeriform state. Carbon is the name given by chemists to the substance of wood charcoal in it* purest form. Several ca3es of blindness are reported -f among observers of the sun during the eclipse in California. __ % In the St. Louis Kailroad the power is derived from a central station and distributed on overhead wires. The projected underground electrical railway in J ondon is "opposed on the ground of being dangerous. The epidemic of typhoid fever in ~ BrooKlyn, in 1885, was traced to fault/ connections between houses and sewers. The non-rusting property of aluminium bronze had led the Austrian Government to experiment with it as a material : for gun barrels. :Yf Dnrinof thn mat four veara London has I had a Society of Amateur Geologists, I which studies geology on Saturday afternoon excursions. A Belgian has invented a yacht, the propeller of which is operated by water power. The economy in fuel oucjht to bo something enormous. Miss Hattie Proctor, of Defiance, Penn., is said to have devised a method of producing ga9 from crude oil at a cost jf only five cents per 10 J0 feet. Hydrogen is only known to us in a state of gas and when perfectly pure agrees with oxygen and common air in being without taste, color or smell. The New York Experimental Station says that there is 12.2i> per cent, less digestible albuminoids in hay that h(i3 been kept over one year as compared with new hay. An examination of 200 houses in Chicago, in which diphtheria existed, showed that but four of the whole number were perfect in their sanitary arrangements. Late researches tend to show that persons short of food in mid-ocean might support life indefinitely if provided with appliances for capturing the small marine fauna which is very abundant in the Atlantic, and prob'ably in all tem peraiu buu. waiui marine notcia. The new pencils introduced by Faber . for writing upon glass, porcelain and metals in red, white and blue are made by melting together four parts of spermacetic, three parts tallow and two parts wax, this mixture being colored with -j while lead, red lead or Prussian blue, as desired. Capitalists and scientists are interested in a schemo to utilize the great waterpower of the Lachine Rapids, seven miles from Montreal, where the 8k 4 Lawrence pours its whole body of water over the rocks. It is said that Mr. Edison is at work preparing a plan for conducting the operation. A new remedy for skin diseases is a continual bath, the patient eating, drinking and sleeping there until cured. Cne ' ' patient has been kept in such a bath for 8S5 days, tie is ilea up always at mgns to prevent him from slipping so as to b? drowned. The palms and toes become much shriveled, but the rest of the skin is unchanged. The water is kept at ninety-eight degrees. A London physician is of opinion thai a turpentine bath is good for rheumatism, gout, insomnia, laryngitis acd bronchitis, and recommends the following method of preparing it: Make a saturated solution of six ounces of yellow soap and add to it three or four ounces of oil ol turpentine, Shake well and then put it - into the bath, which should be filled with warm water. After fifteen minutes' immersion the patient should be put to bed. Electricity cut up some queer capen with a tree in Vew Orleans. A guj cable was attached to the tree from an electric light. In some unaccouutable way the cable became crossed with a live wire, and on wet days electricity ran down the former. Several times it sel' the tree afire, and eventually started a blaze which destroyed that part of the tree above the wire. The trunk wai examined, and its heart was found to have been entirely eaten out by the elec incity, ieaviug a wuic 3u?i. Baggage llules for Globe Trotters. Globe trotters should take a warning from a decision rendered by .!udg? Nebrbas, in the City Court, New York. It was in the case of Downey against the Inman Steamship Company. The suit was one to recover for loss ot baggage by the burning of the Inman steamship City of Montreal. Louis J. Grant appeared for the plaintiff and Henry G. Ward for the company. The plaintiff proved that he had lost $500 worth of baggage. The 5efens? wa9 that the company was only liable to the extent of $.50, as on the ticket itwai stipulated that it accepted no further responsibility. Sure enough, the tickets of the romDauv did bear such stipula tion. To strengthen the defence a de> cision of the Court of Appeals, in the I case of Steers against the Liverpool, New I York and Philadelphia Steamship Com- m pany was found, in which it was said I concerning such tickets: 4 'In absence of I fraud, concealment or improper practice, the passenger is supposed to have read I the terms of the ticket and acquiesced fl therein." The plaintiff argued that in M his case there had been concealment, as H the stipulation was printed in small type I on the back, and his attention was not I called to it, but the ticket was given to him in an envelope. Judge Nehrbas, fl however, charged the jury to find a ver- B diet in strict accordance to the law, fl which they did, and Mr. Downey will fl get but I It is a fact well worthy of notice that this ruling applies not only to steamship tickets, but to aoy contract which may be printed on railway tickets, express or I telegraph blanks. In England this I question has been agitated and settled B by a law providing that any company H wishing to put such a contract on its H tickets or blanks must secure the signa- 9 ture of the purchaser to the same or it is I not biuding. ? Washington Star. I M? ? irhr o Hio-h Tnwnr Wasn't Built. 8 Mr. Trevitln'ck, the inventor of the piston pumn, the steam dredge and other useful articles, who died halt' a century or more ago, wanted England to put up a tower ol)5 meters high, which would have been a little over 1600 feet. Happily the people of England had too raucb sense, and the tower was never built except on paper. This tower was to commemorate the passing of the reform bill. The hight of these things was verj aptly expressed by a era <y man who lived in Glasgow about the same time Mr. Trevithick did?that is, the Glasgow people of that day said he was crazy, but the chances are that he was the one wisfl man in the town. They had put up a fine triumphal arch to celebrate some occasion, and one Glasgow man asked tha so-called lunatic what the hlght of il was. "The hight of?nonsense," was th? rc'/lv.?JMroit Fret P. tit.