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BULLS AND BEARS. The farmer with the banker ranks; He's noVafraid of "bulls and bears;" He manages substantial banks. In which he holds "advancing"' shares. Tender his lambs, fit for the slaughter; "Lively'' the stock he has to water. His banks are banks of loam and clay, He shares his plough-shares in the mould. Nature he trusts, and gets his pay In dividends of .green and gold. Wig "margins'' are in fields grown over With crops, and he can "live in clover." His stock if "down" is sure to "rise'' ttt1 *- - ^jj ft lien IItJ valid wuii/t; iauc, spuu <*ixu "roan;" And ho is "cute" and worldly wiso "When speculators ask a loan. He prospers well at money-making E'en when his richest banks are breaking. The farmer with his "spanking" team, "Lightfoot" and "Swift" can sweep the plain. His "splendid sorrell" and his "cream" Will ,ltalo no dust," with might and mane; They speed in triumph fast and faster, Uphill and down without diaster. His face is bronzed, his hands are brown, But on his name there is no stain. He sleeps well when his stock is,down, For well he knows 'twill rise again. And when time brings fate's rainy weather He'll discount what he's "put" together. In field and orchard we behold The plowman's promissory notes. His green backs are redeemed with gold, And not-with "stuff* the broker floats. His best protection his good sense is, Nor bulls nor bears break down his fences. ?George W. Bungay, in Harper's Weekly. DEMY'S LUCK. ET WILLIAM G. PATTEN'. 1 Dennis Lowry was liis name, but every ! one "who knew him called him Denny. He was a tall, rather good-looking, yet Blouchy-appearing young fellow of twenty-two or three. He had always lived in the sleepy little country village of Newton and eveiy one for miles around knew' him. He was called lazy and shiftless, and it was true that he had never excited himself a great deal to prove the charge false. He was inclined to lay his poor circumstances to luck. "Worse than ^ being born poor, he had been unlucky. This was what he told himself, but peo- 2 pie who knew him, averred that he had s never made any. vigorous attempt to change his luck. Denny was a dreamcr.Jr^ It was his delight to wander away through 1 the woods or fields, and to lay all pXone ( amid the sweet-scented gra/S' nild watch 1 the clouds as they sailed along above, or ^ to follow the swiftjjight the swallows as they circled' ?nd whirled at dizzy * n heights. /33e would lie thus for hours * withmind filled with wild fancies of 1 / tbfcfuture when his luck had changed. 1 Denny had a poet's soul, but lacked a * poet's power of expression. Denny and Inza Porter grew up to- 1 gether. They were playmates whiie chil- ( dren, and their friendship seemed to 1 grow stronger as they became older. Denny was so kind and gentle that he I seemed much like a girl himself. Inza ^ was a little, dark-eyed, red-lipped witch, 1 whose very soul seemed always a-bubble ( with mirth. She was unlike Denny in 1 many respects, yet something seemed to * bind them together. * Denny never knew when he began to A love Inza. It seemed to him that he liad c 1 1 - .1 ni _ .1 1 r T lovea ner always, one seemca a part 01 t his life, and his dreams by night and by * day were colored by her presence. And * bo the days became weeks, the weeks ? months, and the months years, still 1 Denny was the same shiftless, dreaming, s unlucky fellow. s One night they wandered away across * the fields to an old moss-covered wall, 1 where they stopped to watch the sunset. Inza sat down upon a flat stone and Denny * flung himself at her feet. The sun had a just sunk behind the western hills, but * the purple and gray clouds were painted * . with ihe various colors of damask,c rimson a ^t and molten gold. A rich purple haze a ?0* hung about the distant hills,and stretched e down over the woodlands, growing a fainter and fainter as the distance became c less. A little stream wound through the ? hollow at their feet, from the farther side of which came the plaintive bleat of a f lamb. A slowly circling crow shouted hoarsely from away in a distant wood. * For several moments they sat there enraptured at the beautiful scene. Finally Inza spoke: 3 "Isn't it beautiful, Denny?" she breathed. He drew a Ion" breath as though a s sweet spell had been broken, and his eyes t sought hers. "Beautiful!" he whispered, in a soul- c thrilling way. "Yet the word does not " express it. Painter or poet cannot repro- * duce the beauty, the peace, the love of God there is in such a scene." ' "Denny," said Inza, in sudden conviction, "you should have been a poet; you ( have a poet's soul." c "I know it,"he replied, a touch of bit- s terness in his voice; "but I cannot put 1 my thoughts on paper. I have tried Inza, s but I cannot express a hundredth part of ( what there is within rne. It is my luck 1 to be thus unfortunate." For a long time after this they did not * ipeak, but feasted their eyes on the scene 1 before them. Finally Denny took Inza's 1 hand, and gazing into her dark eyes, said s earnestly: "Inza, I love you. You know this ( already. We have grown up together, * J r 1. ~i.T l i / uuu our mreunun rur earn orncx nns dbuh k no secret, yet now I -wish to tell you that it is not merely as a friend that I love RffiKa you, but I want you for my wife. Will 1 KSg^bou marry meK RKHH^kfcza was startled. sunrise me! HH^MraBB|D8B|9|^99|^^kcaring such ] not things, HQUg^9BBaKgS|^HH|^^^MHi^such strctched his hand toward the sun-painted west. "There is gold there!" he cried. "Gold in the western land! You can see it reflected against the sky! Inza, I am going there to make my fortune. From this hour I am going to be a m3n, and, Dennis Lowry's luck shall change. I will cnmfi hark rir?h tn olnirn vnn Tn7n Vnn will wait for me, darling?" Words were not needed for his answer; one look into her dark eyes was enough. He clasped her in his arms, and for the first time their lips met in a kiss of true love. A week later Denny started on his journey. Soon she received letters from Denny ?hopeful, encouraging letters. She answered them all, trying to cheer him who was working for fortune?and her. He was in the mines, toiling*. sweating, hoping. Others were making big strikes and securing fortunes; it would be his turn soon. But slowly a year dragged by and still Denny was as far from fortune as ever. His old luck hung by him like a spectre. Finally lie cased to write. Inza was tortured by hope and fear. Had he made a fortunate strike and was coming home, or was he sick, perhaps dead? She could not tell. Another year wore away and then Inza was married. It was a match of her parents' making, and she consented, to please them. Her husband was a wellto-do young farmer, and he was really fond of her. Inza found him kind and affectionate, and she surrendered her life into his care, feeling that perhaps it was best that she should do so. One evening just at sunset, eight years after Inza's marriage to Joel Gray, a bewhiskered, footsore, weary-appearing tramp turned into 3Ir. Gray's dooryard. His clothes were ragged and his entire appearance was that of a man who had seen hard times, indeed. He came along the path with a slow, tired step. Near the door a little dark-eyed girl -was playing, and the tramp paused to gaze steadily at her for several minutes. Inza,-who svas standing by a window with a baby in her arms, regarding the stranger with >ome alarm, saw him dash a tear from his ;ye. Then she knew that there was lotliing to fear from him. Just then Joel came from the barn yard vith a brimming milk pail in either hand, rhe stranger turned toward him ?s'iie ipproached and asfcedLfit"he "could have iomething toe&rand a night's lodging. much, I know," said the ifJTuip, in an unsteady voice, ' 'but if I do lot find shelter, I must sleep beneath the jpen sky with only God's green grass for i bed. I have seen better days, sir, but iuck always was against me." Joel Gray had no particular love for ramps, yet there was something about his man that won his sympathy. As a esult, the stranger was given some supper md permission to stop at the farm house ;hat night. x The tramp ate his bread and milk in silence, but Inza was conscious that a pair >f sad blue eyes were watching her every novement. The man did not eat much for one who srofessed to be so hungry, and when inza spoke to him he replied in a low, ? "u* iiuiiiuiiu^ mauuci. uucu uvnnu iiuim'u ;ating and moved away from the table, ittle Lucy, Inza's oldest child, came to lim and deliberately climbed upon his cnee. He gathered her up in his arms, vhile his whole frame trembled with motion. The child lay there trustingly, massing hev fingers through the man's jeard and crooning to herself. And thus le held her while the twilight shadows gathered and she stopped her soft singng to close her eyes in slumber. The hadows concealed the tears that ran ilently down the man's face and were ost in his beard. No one saw him as he enderly kissed the sleeping child. That night Joel Gray's buildings were mrned to the ground. To this day it is l mystery how the fire caught, but someime in the night the family was aroused >y the smoke and flames. The fire had ilready seized the house in its fatal grasp, md with difficulty Mr. Gray and Inza scaped, the latter with the babe in her Tins. Close behind them the tramp :ame staggering out of the burning house, loel caught him fiercely by the throat. "This is your work!" shouted the armer, hoarsely. The stranger dashed aside his assailant's lands as he replied: "As God is my judge it is not!" Inza seized her husband's arm, as she hrieked: "Lucy! Lucy! Where is she?" "Great God!" groaned Joel, as he taggered as if about to fall. "She must m in there!" "I will save her," declared the tramp, luietly, as he turned, sprang up the steps _ J1 ; _T J j.1 1_ J ? mu vuuisneu lurougu me uuunva) uiiu he burning building. Every moment that followed seemed ike an age of suspense and horror to foel Gray and his wife. Suddenly a lark figure appeured at one of tlic winlows, and all about him the fierce flames eemed leaping and curling. He held a arge bundle in his arms. There was t crash of glass, a dark mass shooting lownward, a heavy thud, and the tramp ay at their feet. Joel sprang forward and unwrapped he blanket that enveloped the form of lis little daughter, and to his joy found lcr alive, though nearly smothered. The Granger lay quite still where he had fallen. The farmer bent over the brave rescuer )f his daughter, and as he turned the ramp upon his back, the man's eyes >pened, and he murmured: "Inza!" There was something familiar in that roicc that seemed to touch the very depths )f the woman's soul. Quickly she bent >ver him. "Inza, don't you know me?" he murnured. "Denny!" she cried, wildly. "Denny, s it you? Have you come back after all :hese years?" "Yes, I have come back, and I brought ny old luck with me. I have come back ;o die! I am going to try my luck in other country, and with the Master to Bide me, I think it will turn for the tter. The gold that seemed to be rcBcted against the sunset sky was not for Kc. This life has been a failure, Inza, I hope to make amends up yonder." And while Joel Gray, the thrifty farBApvorked hard to save his cattle and ^Vt of his tools, Dennis Dowry, the ^&of hard luck and a poet's soul, lay with head resting in Inza's lap. He ^^Her all his sad talc, his struggles, his ^^^^s and failures. He whispered of the head that had deprived him HH^Kon for years, and how, when K?flB|Bmore himself, he had hastened He loved her still, and his that she migh^^Jiappy And so, with the red light of the burning house all about him, he breathed his last in Inza's arms, happy with her kiss upon his lips.?Yankee Blade. How Hot Water Saves China. The entire absence of sanitary arrangements in Chinese towns and villages being well known, it goes without saying that the laws of hygiene arc utterly and entirely neglected. There is no isolation of infectious diseases, and no attention is paid to causes of death unless there is supposition of violence. According to our ideas, therefore, Chinese cities ought to be hot beds of disease, subjected regularly to those terrible epidemics which, with us, are invariably associated with the neglect of sanitary laws. Strange to say, such is not the case. Epidemics come and go without any apparent reasons, appearing, perhaps, suddenly, causing a heavy mortality for a short time, and then as suddenly disappearing again, thus affording an endless field of speculation to the foreign savant. But, speaking generally, Chinese towns enjoy an immunity from these dangerous outbreaks almost as complete as that of well-drained European communities, and the cause of this puzzling and curious phenomenon has . been variously explained. The fact is all the more striking when taken in connection with the contaminated wjter supplies of Chinese towns, the effect of which on Europeans has been manifested over and over again, in the heavy mortality which overtook them previous to the adoption of precautions enjoined by modern sanitary science. The healthiness of Chinese cities has been ingeniously attributed by some people to the universal habit of fanning, a practice which is said to keep the atmosphere in constant circulation. How far this explanation can be deemed to suffice we must leave to experts to decide, but, so far as a contaminated water supply is concerned, we believe the real secret of immunity from its evil effects to lie in the universal custom of boiling all water intended for drinking. As a matter of fact, the Chinese never drink cold water. The national beverage, which, in a true sense, may be said to cheer but not inebriate, is tea, and this is always "on tap," even in the houses of the very poor. The native aversion to cold water is un; .. doubtcdly carriccj .to'extreme^, an^Certainly/ 'irfdcCe's diseases which might easily be avoided by a judicious system of outward application. In the matter of ablutions it must, however, be admitted that the Chinese enjoy facilities which, however little they are taken advantage of, are far in advance of anything within the reach of the poorer classes of our own favored land. Every little hamlet in China has a shop where hot water can be bought for a tri-* fling sum at any hour of the day or night. Even in a small fishing village on a remote island in the Gulf of Pechili, where the writer spent six weeks under very unpleasant circumstances during a. severe winter, this v. as the case, and a great convenience it proved.?National Review. Dairy Business of the United States. "There are $2,000,500,000 invested in the dairying business in this country," said a citizen with a predilec-. tion for statistics to a Philadelphia Press man. "That amount is almost double the money invested in banking and commercial industries. It is estimated that it requires 15,000.000 cows to supply at.- J j x? ?:11- J nit; uuiiiiiuu lur uiuiv nuu ita |iiuuuv,t3 xa the United States. To feed these cows 60,000,000 acres of land are under cultivation. The agricultural and dairy machinery and implements in use are worth over $200,000,000. The men employed in the business number 750,000 and the horses over 1,000,000. The cows and horses consume annually 30,000,000 tons of hay, nearly 90,000,000 bushels of corn-meal, about the same amount of oatmeal, 275,000,000 bushels of oats, 2,000,000 bushels of bran, and 30,000,000 bushels of corn, to say nothing of the brewery grains, sprouts and other questionable feed of various kinds that are used to a great extent. It costs $450,000,000 to feed these cows and horses. The average price paid to the labor necessary in the dairy business is probably $20 a month, amounting to $180,000,000 a year. "The average cow yields about 450 gallons of milk a year, which gives a total product of 6,750,000,000 gallons. Twelve cents a gallon is a fair price to estimate the value of this milk, a total return to the dairy farmer of $810,000,000, if he sold all his milk as milk. But 50 per cent, of the milk is made into cheese and butter. It takes 27 pounds of milk to make one pound of butter and about 10 pounds to make one of cheese. There is the, same amount of nutrition in S? pounds of; milk that there is in one pound of beef. A fat steer furnishes 50 per cent, of boneless beef, but it would require about 25,000,000 steers, weighing 1500 pounds each, to produce the same amount of nutrition as the annual milk product does." A AninfAt nf A n/tianf Tr?/lin?c XT. VUUIIUI Ui AUVlbllv Aiiutuuo. Before a United States Commissioner in Chancery, at Los Angeles, Cal., evidence was taken recently in the suit of the United States with John Marengo and other Indians, as nominal plaintiffs, against John North and Richard Gird, over a tract of 40,000 acres in San Bernardino County. The Government claims the land belonged to the Potrero Indian Reservation, while the defendants hold the title through the Southern Pacific Company. For the purpose of establishing the Indian claim a number of ancient aborigines had been brought into court. Four had seen a century of life and all had outlived the Scriptural life-span. Erect, lithe and active these old warriors who had been unearthed after diligent search in Yuma Desert belied their extreme age. Juan Saberia, the eldest, whose chronoscript points at 125 years, saw the old mission church at San Gabriel built in 1783, when he was just emerging from boyhood. Juan Cahuilla, with a weight of 115 years, looked sharply and brightly about him. Next to him stood eighty-year-old Ilnrabasio Cahezon, the chief of the Mission Indians, and a son of the redoubtable former Chief, who got tired of life when 140 summers had rolled behind him. His neighbor, Francisco Apache, whose surname is due to his having secured a hide from the Apacho camp, with which tribe he had been on the warpath, keeps the others company with a record of 105 years, and perhaps more, as he insists on having seen the mission church go up. The last of the quintet, Ramon Largo, puts his years modestly at 104. The testimony of the Indians was that from their earliest recollection and from tradition the land in question had been in undisputed possession of their race.?Globe-Democrat. Wk WOMAN'S WORLD. PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR FEMININE READERS. PASTOKAL FREAK OF A COUNTESS. The Countess de la Torre, -who used to make herself somewhat obnoxious with her tribe of cats in Kensington, is now sojourning at a small inn at Gerard's Cross, England, with a flock "of goats. The noble lady, clad positively after the fashion of a herdswoman,in a full cotton skirt and blouse bodice, roams the coun try with her four-foot friends?sometimes, it is said, even sleeping among them at night, in truly pastoral fashion. She has not deserted her penchant for cats, of which she still keeps it large number.?Chicago News. THE CZARINA MAKES HERSELF SOLID. The Empress of Russia has been earning great popularity in the army by the following gracious act: On a recent morning last; every soldier in the Guards in Petersburg received a handsome briarwood pipe, silver mounted and engraved with the Czarina's initials, as a present from h<y Majesty. Nor were the soldiers' wives forgotteii, an& each received, an elegant kerchief or coiffure, such as Russian women wear, in the imperial colors. The acts of pure kindness on the part of the royal lady are, of course, being sneered at by the Radicals, who say "no Constitution, but a pipe for Michael or a kerchief for Michaela."? Times-Democrat. A FINE LADY REBUKES AN IMPERTINENCE. A Melbourne (Australia) newspaper is responsible for this story about the wife of the Governor of New South "Wales: "The other day a South Australian magnate called at Government House. He sent his card in, and waving the footman aside said he would 'go up and give his Lordship a surprise.' At the top of the stairs he met a nice looking young woman, and in a fine old gentlemanly. Yrjify chucked her under the ptna 'aui -pressed half a crown into h^hand, saying at the Game time: 'Stwiw me into the presence of his Uordship, my little dear.' The 'little dear, with an enigmatical smile, opened the door of Lord Carrington's study and said: 'Bob, here's a gentleman fr* con tTY\n onH * nnpninor lipr Tinnil. Oift'fl uv/ uvu JVU, & 7 given me half a crown to show him where you are.' Those who know Lady Carrington will not find it difficult to picture her confounding the impertinence of the wicked old South Australian by her ready wit." THE MILITARY GIRL. The military girl, who has been the theme of college verse and the admiration of the college student, is now a permanently established institution at the university. She is made so by the regulations published in the university catalogue issued this morning. "The course is to be compulsory during the Freshman year, for all students who enter the collegiate course in the future, and all are expected to provide themselves with uniforms." That is the provision of the calendar. The uniform, too, is prescribed. The material is to be dark navy-blue flannel, trimmed with light gray broadcloth. The skirt is to be plain, full, just five inches from the floor and gathered at the waist, "that the main fulness may fall behind." This is to compensate for losses in other directions. "Bustles, stiff waists and reeds are prohibited." The neck shall be finished with a sailor collar and the sleeves are to be straight and full enough to allow free movement. The military girl, with her majestic walk, unconventional costume and little wooden gun, is the latest innovation of the "West upon the old and moss-grown customs of the East. ?Minneapolis Journal. ' " " i ; AN INTERESTING WOMAN PREACHER. Miss Carrie J. Bartlett, the first womau to occupy a pulpit in Dakota, and who has been for three years minister of All fSouls' Chujch, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has recently accepted a call to the jUnitarian Church at Kalamazoo, Mich. Miss Bartlett, who was for about two years a member of the Minneapolis Tribune staff, is well known in this city. She resigned her charge in Sioux Falls a short time ago, and will be the first woman to occupy a pulpit in the State to which she 'goes. Miss Bartlett was born at Hudson, Wis., and was educated at the college at Carthage, 111., receiving the degree of A. B. in 1879 and carrying off the valedictory honors of her class. She spent the 'next year in special study, and later was honored with the degree of A. M. She taught a year as Principal of the schools ;at Montrose, Iowa, and was then, on account of an injury received, an invalid for two years. The last six mouths of ,this period was speut on a claim near Ellendale, in Dakota. So beneficial was ,'thc wonderful Dakota ozone, breathed ^constantly because of a life spent mainly out of doors, that the broken down young woman grew well and strong. About this time she sought and obtained employment on the Minneapolis Tribune and remained with the paper two years. Her work, whatever it was, was done thoroughly and well.?Minneapolis Tribiuie. i SHE, TOO, LIVED IN TIIE WniTE HOUSE. T ennr o lorlir ciffinor in t.hfi TMirlor of ? o?nv i* n.iij I ithc Ebbitt House the other morning that in her day was very much written about by the press all over the country. Her sixty-four years sit lightly,upon her She is tall for a woman, and her figUTC is still excellent; in her youth it^tnust have been admirable. Her hair/' originally brown, even now has Jrfv silvery threads in it, and the fact'that she is reading a paper without the aid of glasses indicates that the sight of her gentle blue eyes is still unimpaired. This lady was dressed all in black, a white lace collar fastened with a brooch containing a likeness of her late husband being the only relief to the sombre color. There was no jewelry to be seen about her except her wedding ring and its guard, which contained a single diamond. It was Mrs. President John Tyler, the first bride of the White House. When Mrs. Tyler, then Miss Gardner of New York, married Mr. Tyler,- in 1843, she was but a few months over eighteen years of age. Notwithstanding her youth, she made a most gracious mistress of the Executive Mansion, and proved herself fully equal to the exigencies of her high social position. Mr. Tyler died in Richmond in 1862 while a member of the Confederate Congress. Since then she has divided her time between Richmond and her plantation on the James River. Besides Mrs. Tyler there are six former mistresses of the White House living, Inamely, Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Johnson (Harriet Lane) Mrs. Grant Hayes, Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Cleveland.?Washington Frets. INDIAN WOMAN AND BEAR. Richard Powless, who spent his timo logging until a school could be given him, writes that he is "trying to roll the logs of knowledge into tbe c&uarens heads as well as he rolled the logs a few months ago into the river," and we have no doubt he will. He also encloses an article giving an account of the brave deed of one of his neighbors, an Oneida Indian woman, whose courage seems only equaled by her pride of race. Driving into the fields one day where her husband and others were at work, she encountered a log lying across the road in such a way that she could not pass. As there was no one near to help her, and the log was beyond her strength to move, she proceeded to cut it in two with an axe she had in the wagon. To her surprise she found she had disturbed a mother bear and her family of cute. The bear more frightened than hurt took to the woods, and the woman walked in search of the men and their firearms. Finding them, she conducted her relief party quickly back to the log, to find that the bear had also returned. When . all were stationed ready for action she again used her ax on the log and the bear made her second appearance, this time angry and vengeful. The man who stood ready for just this emergency, missed his aim, dropped the gun, and with all his other masculine companions took to his heels. Left alone with the infuriated beast, with only an ax for defense, the Indian woman coollv waited until the bear came near enough, and, letting the ax fall with all her might upon its head, killed it with that one stroke. The same weapon applied to three of the little orphans effectively prevented their ever realizing their loss, and the other she kindly adopted and carried home with her. Reaching her home she found her husband, son, and others assembled there, anxiously speculating as to what could V.oira Vin^v. nnf>rmntpr tViPV watered ribbon. Some of the new leg-o'-mutton sleeves are buttoned closely at the wrist. Six buttons are used. London's fancy turns to white hats and caps, with colored mantles, both for ladies and children. Rich velvet bodices are trimmed with; fine gold passementric, with Empire vests of gold-wrought net. The newest fabric for little girls' wear is plaited mohair, light in texture and artistic in color combinations. Accept the grateful fact, headgear is lower, not only in shape but in the arrangement of the trimming. The Greek bonnet is a recent introduction, and when worn with the Empire gown the effect is decidedly classic. A late fancy in neck lingerie is tho deep, falling plisse and the narrow, up-' right ruche of sulphur-yellow gauze. The summer stocking par excellence is of fine black lisle thread, with toes, heeld j and upper half of the leg all in white. Gray, drab and fawn, with white 01 ; black trimmings, will be as popular as . last year for spring promenade costumes. A magnificent new silk is called damask matlasse, and has the flowers in high relief as though heavily embroidered upon it. The new mohairs come in all shades of | color in "shot" effects and in bars, plaidJ j and checks of great beauty and effective* | ness. The handsomest of new costumes aro ! macle of plain fine wool, sparingly trimmed with the richest possible garni-i tures. Seme new rich gowns for afternoon oi reception wear have trained skirts undei trained polonaises that open all down tho front. ' Atf effective finish to a cloth costume il produced by binding the revers, collai and cuffs with ribbon an infeliacd 3 quarter wide. ? Next >n favor to green come shades o| red-brown, dull brick, terra-cotta and Eg}'ption rod, which are seen in both dark and light shades. The use of fine inohair alpaca is no longer confined to raglans and dust cloaks. Very elegant costumes are mad J of the improved qualifies. Bodice and belt clasps, with smalleJ ones to hold ribbons, straps, etc., arc in great demand,and are very effective upon Empire and Greek toilets. The rage for vool dress resulted in the endless of sheer rial, suitable even for There is a rage just now^^BHHHH tral tints, and when relievec^^^^^^fl dark, contrasting shade the^^^HH| made becoming to women of complexion. Among soft artistic corsage drapelH|^ sent home by fashionable dressmakel^B with gowns that are made with unV trimmed bodices are the Marie Antoinette ' fichu, the Sir Joshua Reynolds and Martha Washington kerchiefs, and the Queen Mar^erftas. r , CUBIOUS FACTS. ! The "watermelon center* of the world? is Quitman, 6a. I The first shoe was patented in 1811,by 1 two Massachusetts men. | A three-legged afiigator was shot the bther day near Albany, Ga. Conemaugh is pronounced Kon-e-maw With accent on the first syllable. The rattles off rattlesnakes fetch $1 a j fctring in the snake centers of Pennsyl- | Vania. There is a man in Hart County, Ga., who spells his entire name with two letters, Bob Bobo. Srnv>ncrf>r /?nmniil-oa tliof. rlnpiTirr t.hft _ ~x"7"o? w-r?w- ? ?o ? Chnstian era no fewer than nine million witches were immolated. A Selma (Ala.) paper says there are y222 girls, 222 boys, and one Chinese boy" in that school district. , Another portion of the old city wall by; which London was surrounded has justi been brought to light in the neighborhood of Luds^te Hill. George Shank, a Philadelphian, has spent $6000 trying to find a way to preserve watermelons the year through, and he hasn't struck it yet. A boy twelve years of age has been sentenced to one month's imprisonment at Mil town, Ireland, for inciting the 'people to boycott a sale of cattle. A Canadian paper figures that in the event of a war between England and the United States it would last at least five years, and that 1,500,000 men would be killed. . Little No Heart is the name of a Sioux' Indian at Cheyenne Agency who always wears tailor-made suite, and is said to be as dudish as the Little No Brains tribe found the larger cities. The proceedings of the Japanese Parliament are reported verbatim by means of a stenographic system original to Japan. The characters are written in ^wjvc&cd-cular rows from right izo left. ^"ftJreign paragraph announces the establishment of a " subscription" bar, in [Europe, where a man by payment of a fee of 8150 per annum can obtain all he wishes to drink without further cost. ' A grocer at Lexington, Ky., had a [picture of the prettiest girl in town painted on the cover of his delivery iwagon, and her brother shot it off with a iu& igouwv^vtf.v v-vw ?.? ? h&'d failed to see ended. Standing, before them, with the cub in her arms, sTie scornfully surveyed them from head to foot and exclaimed. "Cowards, you have no Indian blood in your veins!"? Hampton (Fa.) School Record. FASHION NOTES. The latest of the new Oriental lacei; are mixed in ecru and white. Saxony piece lace, white,. is made* up over skirts of colored silk. Epaulets made of flowers grace some of the summer ball costumes. Bracelets are often used to decorate the head instead of the arms. The sleeves of bodices made of thick stuff are only slightly puffed. Very broad-brimmed, nearly flat hats are worn with muslin gowns. The white cotton dresses arc gayly decorated with white ribb<Jns. Gloves worn en voyage are loose fitting mousquetaires without buttons. Ecru, blue and gray are the colors selected for taffeta silk underskirts. Cotton dresses are not unfrequently made up over a foundation of silk. Japanese cottons arc used for entire costumes?the dress, hat and parasol. Charming house dresses are finished with watteaus of black and white lace. The flower bonnets are the prettiest of the novelties in dainty French millinery. Sashes of surah can now be obtained i complete,even to the knotted,silk-fringed j ends. The newast accordion-plaited skirts are bordered with many rows of very narrow isnot-gun. me grocer tuuppcu. iu uuv 'hint. The Emperor of Chiha is seldom disturbed in his sleep. A Pekin paper announces that "strict surveillance is kept by the gendarmerie iround the palace to prevent the imperial repose being broken by firing of crackers, street zries or wrangling voices, the blowing of horns or noisy marriage or funeral processions." Clerks in the postal service say: Never use a square envelope. Women are more in the habit of using them than men. A square envelope, large or small, but especially large, is anathema in'the eyes of a postal clerk. He likes an oblong envelope of a moderately large size?a government number 4-J- or 5, corresponding to the stationer's number 6. A prominent citizen of Parsons, Kan., determined to sup with a party of friends against the will of his wife. He was resolved that he would, and she that he < should not go. His friends missed him, I and just for fun envaded his residence, where they found him and his wife sitting ; in their chairs fast asleep. He had given j her an opiate that he might slip away, . and she had given him one that he ( might not. Tlie Sarsrasso Sea. The name Sargasso Sea is applied to a region of the Atlantic covered by a peculiar floating seaweed, sometimes in tangled masses of wide extent and sometimes only in scattered plants, says the Chicago Intir-Ocean. These fields of seaweed were; j noticed by Columbus on his first voyage, to the alarm and amazement of his companions. Since that time observation has shown that the number of these plants and their geographical position are practically unchanged. The principal bank of these plants, as located by Captain Leps, of the French navy, one of the most accurate of observers, is between latitude 21 degrees and 23 degrees north and longitude 29 degrees and 45 degrees west. A smaller bank lies between the Bahamas and the Bermudas. The Sargasso Sea corresponds to the great centre or eddy of the Jfortb Atlan-' tic system of currents, of which the Gulf Stream forms so important a part. Concerning the plant which is found growing in this curious manner, it may be noted that it is usually four or five inches in length, with a main stem branching into secondary ones, and there is no trace of root in the plant. Between the long, pointed leaves there are small round air vessels about as large as currents, supported on short stems. These air vessels were at first thought to be fruits, and the plant thus received its name from a Portuguese word meaning grapes, but investigation has shown that these small bubbles are meant to serve the purpose of floats, as when they arc cut off the plant siuks. Examination of several thousand specimens under a microscope also shows the plant to be as absolutely destitute oi' fruajUpation as of roots, and it is now acceptor as a fact that the plant propagates only by division. There is a Sargasso sea in the Pacific Ocean, north of the Sandwich Islands, but very little is known nlmnt- if- J Ton Thousand Quarts of Air. The following anatomical and physiologican memorandum will be of interest to our readers and serve a useful purpo.se as a reference: "In each respiration inhales one pint of air. 3Ian respires times a minute, or 20,000 times tu u child, 25 to 35 times a minute. \S.."ai^anding the adult ; respiration is 22, whily lying 13. The superhcial surface of the lungs, i. c., of their alyeolar space, is 200 square yards. The amount of air inspired in 2-1 hours is j about 10,000 quarts. "The amount of oxygen absorbed in 24 hours is 500 litres (744 grams;, and the amount of carbonic acid expired in the same tiuie^iO litres (911.5 grains). gw^thirdscJ^fc oxygen absorbed in 24 HBj^yf^^Hduring the night hours, ^^^^B^^HHH^^^^lircc-iifths of nHHnKs ojp ; HM^HnnHGo raaingH^^Mof exre lants. The fourteeotl^BHnaj|^BHH| 'm-Afocmifl 1 r\n nr.riAl' i had been extended by fash^^HHH 'that in the days of Richard II. t^JEMM .'secured to the knee by little cHH The church thundered against -,th^^H| 'surd and useless fashion,but almost out avail, for it held sway for 200 HBH or more. ! In 1463, however, so much h?Waj had been gained against the mod^/that a decree of the English Parliament /was obtained to oppose the decree of/ifashioo. An act was passed prohibiting- 'shoemakers from making points more than two inches long for the unprivileged classes. Henceforth the long point became a badge of the criminal class. But a reaction came, the long point went out of fashion, and people went to the opposite extreme. The toes of shoes were made of grotesque width. This absurdity was carried so far that Queen Mary felt called upon to issue a proclamation restricting the width of toea to six inches. If there were any of he? subjects who had a natural spread of tfc* toes greater than six inches they had to go barefooted. In the sixteenth century boots were generally worn in England and France, and the boots of the cavaliers were made with enormously yidjp taT^-^feat. wera "liflied or folded over. After the Be&O.ration the tops of the boots were oriSi mented, at least by the fops of the dayj with lace. The simple form of shoe which has held its own among Europeans and Americans to the present day made its appearance in the seventeenth century. Thia shoe has undergone several modifications. ? Washington Star. The Eoicance of Chess. The great game of chess has its tended its romantic, side, as no game can have at which more than two people can play. It smiles on lovers, and can even be thi cause of love. Only a few years ago i chess player condemned to live in the country solaced his solitude by playing games by correspondence. Post cardi daily brought or daily took his fliove. His antagonist was a lady; before thi contest was over he had got to knowthii lady, and their acquaintance ripenet into intimacy, intimacy into love, aiU love was crowned with marriage. An* this couple, not unmindful of the kindlj influence which had brought them .together, determined that the very rites ol their marrriage should' 'something savor1 of the game. So they invited fronit Lon don a certain clergyman whose genia face?"the front of Mars himself"?i well known in chess circles; none but i chess player of his eminence should celebrate their union. And when bridegrooni and bride rose from the wedding break' fast it was only to sit down to a game ol chess?the first of their wedded ,life Ah! happy, happy pair, under whal happy auspices did you start on the high way of marriage! What a fine air of fo mance, of sweet tenderness, lingersj*oun< these lines of Lord Lytton: "My little love, do you remember, Ere we were grown so sadly wise, Those evenings in tbe bleak December, Curtained warm from the snowy weather, When you and I played chess together, Checkmated by each other's eyes! Ah I still I see your soft white hand Hovering warm o'er queen and knight." And so on to the sad close, when thi poet laments: "That never, never, never more, As in those old still nights of yore, Ere we were grown so sadly wise, I Can you and I shut out the skies; I Shut out the world and wintry* weather, I And eyes exchanging warmth with eyes,. I Play chess as then we played together.* fl \TnAh9*1*0, - VTG/t C/C*/ //?** /? O ? Ancient Laws Abont Suicide.* I The Grecian Areopagus and thexnagisJ trates of the Island of Ceos had dispel tionary power to pern.it suicide. I Justinian said it was lawful to commifl suicide, provided the State or publifl treasury was not affected {hereby. I In Thebes no funeral rights vrerm granted the felo de se, and Ms memorv was branded with infamy. g In Athens the hand of the self murg derer was cut off and buried apart froog his body, which was also immediately buried without being burned. ' . During the reign of Tarquin, the Rofl man authorities exposed the bodies of auifl cidcs upon crosses for birds of prey t<fl feast on. I A standard authority on ancient Jew! ish law says: "If any one shall commifl suicide, there shall be no -mourning1 nofl keriah (rending of garments), nor any offl fice performed in honor of the dead. H The rtrst Bridges. I The first bridges were of wood, and thfl earliest of which we have any accounfl was built in Rome 500 year B. C. Th(fl next was erected by Julius Caesar for thfl passage of his array across the Rriinel Trajan's great bridge over the Danube J 4770 feet long, was made of timber,witM stone piers. The Romans also built thfl first stone bridge, which crossed thfl Tiber. Suspension bridges are of remot? origin. A Chinese one mentioned bfl Kirchen was made of chains supporting^ roadway 83U leet in lengtn, was duub A. D. 65, and is still to be seen. Thfl first large iron bridge was erectcd over thfl Severn in 1777. The age of railway? has brought a remarkable development uH this branch of engineering, especially ifl the construction of bridges of iron antfl steel.?Mail and Express. n "Home Sweet Home's" Birthplace. I One by one our cherished traditions arfl destroyed. Among the latest to go is thfl beautiful legend that John Howard Paynfl wrote "Home, Sweet Home" inaLondoB garret as he pined for his beloved America? It turns out that the immortal song waH composed on the bank of the PotoqiacH in the suburbs of "Washington, and thai Payne reclined on a rustic bench, beneatfl a chestnut tree with a mint julep by hifl side. The tree still stands, though it hafl been severely hacked by relic-hunteraB the bench is preserved in a WashingtoB residence, but there is no trace of thfl julep. It probably disappeared beforl the poem was half done.?Macon ((7a.fl Tdegraph.