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ET7SSTJM THE BEATJ.
Kow eocn on some soft snnriy morning
The first thins my neighbors-shall know.
Their ears will be ii?et 'with tho warning?
Como uury "Ola Kossum the Eeau."
ilj frienls then so neatly ?hnJ! dress mo
In linen as white as the snow?
And in my new coftln shall press me
And whisper, "Poor Kossum the Beau."
Aa.i when I am to b? buriel I reckon
The ladies will all like to go;
Let them form at the foo:. cf m7 cofEn,
Andlollow "Old Kossum tha Beau."
Then take yon a dcren goc 1 follows.
And let them ail stagserin? go,
And dig a deep hole in tho mea low,
And in It toss "Kossum tho Beau."
Then shape oat a couple of dornick3,
Place oae at the head and the toe,
And pray do sot fail to scratch on it
The mime of "Old Kossum tho Bean."
Then take these dozen good fellows,
And stani them all round in a row,
And drink from a big-bellied bottle,
Varewoll to "Old Kossum tho Beau."
Lost Lina;
-03.
THE BITTER AND THE SWEET.
A Tale of Two Continents.
BY MRS. SfOTA LAWSOW.
CHAPTER XXXI?Continued.
A scornful smile of triumph flitted
across her dark, fiendish face as she
threw the letter into Lenora's lap and
left the room to return to her own. Aa
she entered, a horrible vision appeared
before her and never left her until the
day of her death.
In the distance was an elevated
thrnno nf cmld and nnon that throne
v " "* O " ***? T *?
eat three angels of light that she could
easily recognize; to the right-sat Ray,
to the left Lenora, while in the center,
like a little dove, pcrehed upon their
shoulders, rested the little babe. On
one side of the throne stood the angel
form of the simpleton, and on the other
that of the nurse; they were ever looking
toward the throne, and pointing
with their fingers down toward a bottomless
pit, where the murderess saw
her own image, surrounded with dark,
horrible fiends, while in front of her
was a great hot fire, and those fiends
were dancing around it, all the while
beckoning her to follow.
At sight of this horrible vision-she
staggered to her bed, almost iifeless.
So she remained for weeks and weeks.
As Jeannette turned to leave the
nursery Lenora rose from the chair
with outstretched arms, as if she wottld
stop the retreating form, but she could
not move and speech seemed to ha>ve
leu ner, ior sue Bans tu uuui groping
for breath.
Lula -was by her side in a second, ani
drew the limp little form to a low
couch and laid her down.
"My poor little lady, I will always
be your friend, dp matter what may
happen. I know they accuse you
falsely."
Lenora as jet could not sreak, but
her eyes told how grateful she was for
those few words of comfort; she motioned
to her maid that she wanted
some water and Lula soon brought it.
The cool water somewhat refreshed
her, and the maid bathed the poor
wife's face and throbbing temples in It.
"I feel somewhat better now, Lula,"
she managed to say, "and you may go
and tell the cook to briDg me something
to eat, with some good, strong
"wine.
"I am so weak, jet I must not give
up, for there is much for me to do. I
cannot stay under this roof to-night.
No; I would not for the world, so
falsely accused.
"All this must be the work of my
old enemy, and Jeannette surely cannot
think me so low as to live so base
and false a life. Go, now, Lula, and
do as I told you."
A<? arinn as "Lenora was alone she
tore open Ray's letter and read it. It
was short, but the effect it produced
upon the poor, heartbrokon wife was
eo gTeat that Bhe never wholly recovered
from it.
The letter ran thus, and in Kay's
own handwriting, or one that exactly
resembled it:
Pacific Hotel, Chicago, EL.)
Nov. 25. 1876. [
My Deab Little Lina (for so I must call
you. even unto death)?We have both erred,
greatly. I am to blame as much as yourself.
I ought to have been stronger?more of a
man?and controlled my feelings better
than to have allowed myself to love a person
of your character. Not but that you
have acted properly since we first met do
J speak of your character; but I have had
{ our life reVealejJ to me, and it is such that
t even makes me shudder when I think of
It. and then think of tuo happy hours and
jlST? tbnt we have sgont together. I want
to leave all the past?to forgel It, fDr my
?ood name, which is ruined for ever?to
forget it all. To forget you, whom I so mad?
ly loved, will be to lose myself in death, and
resting-place will be the bed of the
lake.
I can't speak of the babe; my heart is too
fulL The pen drops from my fingers as I
write.
Good-by, Lina! You were my true heart's
mate- the only woman I ever loved?and if
I could take back my .heart, I would. Fare"well!
Wliy Jeannette Nathan -wrote that
letter, convinced as she was that Ray
had once loved her, remains a mystery.
Perhaps she knew the depth of Lenora's
pure, loving nature, and knew
that just such accusation would cut
deeper than the most severe.
Whether this, or whatever was her
motive, nothing could have been more
cutting, or pierce tnat poor acmng,
bleeding heart more than those few
lines from Ray, her lost love.
As Lcnora finished reading this letter,
in her weakness she sprang from
her Sed, ana threw her arms up over
her head, in a strange, wild fashion.
still holding that strange missive
tight in her fingers.
"Oh, darling?darling?my lost, lost
darling! how could you have been so
cruel to your poor little wife ?
"Comeback to me?come back just a
few moments, that I may tell you that
it is all false, and then die at your
feet.
"If you wrote that cruel letter, some
one has blinded you to the truth, at
last.
"it seems tnat my aeart will breai
Sot the pain is so great."
Bhe sank down in a chair, and buried
her face in her lap, aud cried and
lobbed as if her heart was broken; if
ihere ever was a broken-hearted woman
1n the world, this poor little woman
was.
The maid had been standing foi
?ome time, waiting for Lenora to be;ame
quiet, that she might eat a little.
"My dear lady, do not weep so; I
fcave brought you your lunch."
At the sound "of Lula's Toioe, Leaora
raised her head and dried nei
;ears. She ate the lunch, and the wine
ecmed to strengthen her.
"I must go now, Lula, to my room,
ind prepare to lea Ye."
1
"Yon are not going to leave the manrion
this miserable night, madam ?"
"Ye9; I cannot remain here another
lour under any consideration; I will
lot stay near people who do not believe
in me, and so falsely accuse mo,"
Lenora then went to her room and
;ook from a drawer in her bureau a
ahotograph of Pay and a littlo gold
iocket, which contained two little curls
)f hair; one was pale gold, cut from
flie head of her babe; the other a rich
lark brown, that she had cut from
Ray's head.
The locket she hung round her neck
with a fine gold chain that her husband
had bought for her when she was
i happy bride", while they were in Caljutta,
India; the picture she lriseed
igaiu and again, and then hid away
ji the bosom of her dress.
"Lula, you have been goo? and kind
io me, anil I will divide what money I
.ave with yoo. Here is one hundred
? "? n .1.11 X -I.*? 11..
iiiu nuy uouars, just xiuj_l iu? oum my
poor darling gave me the other day for
jpending money, and I have not had
aeed for it yet"
"Oh, my lady, you must not. I do
lot want?it?you may need it?and
nust keep all yourself."
"No, no. I wish you to take half; il
t need more, there will be some way
provided, no doubt."
The maid was compelled to -take
iialf, and after Lenora had kissed again
md again the chair that Bay eat in
while in her room, she left the maniion,
alone, friendless and brokenlearted.
It was past midnight and very dark;
.t was still raining, damp mist was
rising from the earth, while the chilly
wind whistled round the corners of the
nansion, making & dreary, melan:holv
sound as it swept over the lawn
md tossed about the tall pine trees
;hat dotted it here and there.
Oh, the misery, the awful burden
that Lenora bore, as she slowly passed
lown the long, broad avenue, from the
nome where she and her lost love had
mce been so happy. She was going to
;he city, and intended to take the first
;rain for Chicago, t>mt as sne entereu i
:he thick, dark forest, 'her heart sank
lower and her weary, trembling limba
refused to carry her any farther.
An old log lay near the roadside, by
;he trank of a tree; she sank down up)n
that and rested her head against the
tree; she sat there for some time; by
md by it began to rain harder, and the
arge, cold drops fell thi?k and fast
ipon her pale, upturned face.
The cool rain drops seemed to revive
ler, for she again resumed her sad
ourney.
Occasionally in the distance she
jould see a dim light; she could not
Jell how far she had gone, but it
teemed miles and miles. On she went
*nd came nearer to that flickering light.
By and by she got so near that she
jould see that it was a lamp in the
Kdndow of a house; on she went
dawlv, step by step, until she stood at
Ko rrnta nf iTio hmiCA. ttfllftrA t.llfi llL'llt
' I~r*' v ? -^7 ?O
kad been placed in the window, itseemed,
for her, and ehe called it her
juiding star.
She went to the door and gently
rapped, but no one openod it. She
rapped again and again, and yet no rejpoase.
The rain began to pour down
aow and her clothes were dripping wet.
Just as she was going to rap again
;he door was opened and her little
Dody, weary and exhausted, fell into
ihe room.
CHAPTER XXXII.
Six months have elapsed since the
;lose of the last chapter. As time
changes all things, so did it make a
wonderful change at the Bristol manlion.
Raymond Bristol's strange disappearince
yet remained a mystery, and no
one knew where his wife had gone, 01
what had become of the babe.
Jeannette Nathan still remained at
the mansion, but went nowhere and
received no callers; every one presumed
ihat she was still mourning for the
loss of her brother, as she had often
ivillpd him. and that she nreferred soli
iude to the presance of comforting
friends. She wrote the sad news and
the public's opinion to Mrs. Bristol,
?ud the shock was so great and sudden
that it almost killed the fond, loving
?other. As jet she was not able to
andertake the long voyage back to
Amcrica, and perhaps would never be
&ble t) return.
One night in the middle of April,
*377. a terrific storm arose about dusk,
and threatened to sweep everything
before it. The wind blew a perfect
hurricane and tore large trees up by
the roots as it pissed along; the lightning
finshed, while the heavens were in
a perfect blaze of electric fire; the
thunder rolled up from the distanoo
and fairly shook the foundation of the
.Bristol maiisiun.
The stoira seemed to hang for hours
ovc-r that once happy but now darkened
and dc solate home. Th 3 servants
were all gathered together in one room
and all shivering with fright, while
Jeannette's dark, wild-looking eyes
told only too plainly her thoughts and
feelings. Oa ragea that fierce storm
unceasingly; the wyid and thunder
still shook the mansion. By anil T>y
the servants sought their beds, too
frightened to leave each other, yet too
weary to wait for the storm to abate.
Jeannette lay dcwn upon her bed, undressed,
weary and exhausted from
fright. For some reason or other she
felt strangely oppress-ed that night;
whether it was the storm or not she
could not tell.
It grew late and all was still and
dark within the mansion, except the
vivid flashes of lightning that would
illumine the whole building every fe'v
moments. About midnight the alarm
bell rang again and again with such
force that the loud, thundering sounds
echoed and re-echoed through the halls
and corridors.
"Help! help! wake up! wake up!"
went ringing through the whole mansion
immediately after the ringing oJ
the belL
The voice was a man's voice, and
sounded strangely wild and painful. As
Jeannette could not sleep, she heard
the first tap of the bell, but did not
leave her room, thinking it nothing o)
any importance; bat when th.ise piteous
wails for help rang through the
mansion she thought there was something
strangely familiar in tliosa tones,
and immediately arose and turned up
the gas in hir room.
Presently the sounds came nearer,
and she could plainly hear footsteps
in the corridor near her room door.
The mansion was now filled with humming
sounds, as if many people were
talking and passing to and fro in the
halls.
Jeannette's door slowly opened, and '
she ca'me out, looking wild with fright,
while her face was ghastly white. Ae
she opened the door, a cold draught oi
wind fanned lisr cheeks^ bat shfi could
nee n< tiling: yet slu could 1
voices ai d foot-i'e^.s. .She cautiously
left the room and went down the long
coir.dor toward the farther end of the
building.
The lightning still flashed, while the
thunder roared even more fiercely; just
as she got opposite the room door that
the poor lost wife had occupied, a man
came rushing out, aud almost ran
against her. Old, faithful Tom closely
followed the man, who looked like a
raving maniac; to take a second look
at this frightful-looking man, yon
would think it was a skeleton, with the
skin of a human being stretched over
the bongs: ho.was hatless and shoeless,
while nothing but an old ragged
shirt and a pair of dirty, worn pants
covcred his body. The face, or all
that could be seen of it, -n as ghastly
pale, while two dark, sparkling eyes
were sunken far back in their sockets;
Ihe face was nearly covered with
beard that had been allowed to grow
for months unkempt, and the hair was
long and shaggy-looking; it was plastered
to the head by the rain,
and .great drops of water dripped to
" r
xne iiuot iruiu iuo uiua ui uuu
liung over the shoulder.
No wonder Jeannette shrank back,
:flightened still more; she did not
know who. he was, and in the dimly
lighted hall it would have been hard
to recognize any one, but frequently
the hall was illumined by a lurid flash
of electricity, and -then she could get a
better look at him.
There was nothing about this strange,
wild-looking man that any one could
identify him by, except the broad,
noble, white forehead, which b-longed
only to a_ Bristol?and this man standing
in front of Jeannette was none
other ihan Raymond Bristol.
"Where is my wife and babe?" Aa
these words rang clear and loud
through the hall, there came a continuous
blaae of bluish light, followed immediately
by a clashing peal of thunder.
Jeannette leaned against the wall,
j gasping for breath, as she saw what
she thought must be but the glio-t of
: Ray standing before'hex calling lor hi&
<wiie.
"She is g " but at that moment
there came coursing down the wall, but
a few feet from -where she stood, a
bright blue streak of electricity, and
Jeannette fell senseless at Ray's feet.
[to be continued. 1
H<nr Thej Make IToofcn Shoes.
One of the most interesting places in a
Holland Tillage is the "fclompen" maker's
shop, -where klompen, or wooden shoes,
are made.
Not far from Rotterdam, surrounded
by high dikes, lies the little -village of
Rijsoord; in that village, beside the
Bkalkydijk River, is a shop in which an
old man and his son work early and late,
supplying the peasants (who never go
barefooted) with shoes. These are first
roughly 6haped from blocks of willow
wood, as a statue is first rudely outlined
by chipping the marble block, and afterward
the shoes are finished smoothly with
sand-paper and pumice-stone.
The willow trees aro grown for this
purpose, and when they attain the required
size, they are cut down, the
branches are trimmed off and only the
trunk is used, being divided into blocks,
each one of which is tho length of the
longest shoe.
The work goes on without interruption
through the morning.unless some friendly
neighbor looks in over the half-open
Dutch door; and this is the occasion
Via tita mAn VfifilltntV
DCUiCU U|A>U UJ MI9 * IT V uivu 4vt
and lighting their pipes, and drawing
few long whiffs, while they listen to a
little village gossip.
At 11 o'clock the good vrouw appears
at the door with "koffij, jongens" (coffee,
boys), and they iollow her into the
adjoining room. It has a low, thatched
roof of deep-yellow reeds, and contains
the great fire-place, where in damp
weather the newly-made shoes are placed
before the fire to dry.
All their food i9 cooked in the same
fireplace, excepting the bread, which in
every peasant's home is supplied by the
baker.
The shoes are piled round the smoldering
embers,often with the tea-kettle simmering
among them; and while the sap
dries out, they give little groans, and
Bighs, as if they knew the hard fate
awaiting them when the time shall come
for them to cover the feet of some sturdy
Dutch peasant or workman and to clatter
over the pavements of the town.
After this morning's refreshment.which
all peasants enjoy, they return to work.
?St. Nicholas. ,
| .. Drowned
by the " Sea Pass."
Heretofore one of the great cause9 of
danger to bathers in the surf at the seaBide
has been styled simply the "undertow,"
by which 13 understood that
6trong undercurrent of reflux which follows
the breaking of the waves on the
shore. In the disaster at Spring Lake,
j ^here a eentl^tQ a ]^dy lpstt^cir
livi?3 andmany otherlwere involved in a
series of exciting mishaps growing out
of attempts at rescue, the calamity is
ascribed to the "sea puss." Perhaps the
terms are synonymous, since the Spring
Lake bathing master says "the people
were caught in a 'sea puss' occasioned by
the outflowing water coming in contact
Ka tttottqo /trtminnf in nf nn
n*KU VUW TTATW^ IT U4\.Uj WUllU^ IU t. MU
angle, formed a whirlpool, into which
the bathers were drawn in their helpless
condition." All experience and observation
point to this cause, whatever it
may be called, as something to be
guarded against in every way and with
the utmost prudence, for it is a force
more of less strong alwa>3 present in the
Burf, and varying with wind and tide and
sometimes complicated by currents. It
is a danger to the most expert as to the
least experienced and safety lies only in
prudence?in not venturing out too fax
or getting beyond the reaij reach of
help,'?Baltimore Sun.
Gotham's Monkey Market.
une 01 iue attractions 01 ixew iortt
I is the monkey market, where hundreds
of sailors repair every week to dispose of
monkeys and parrots which they have
brought from tropical countries. The
Italians are amoung the principal buyers.
Five dollars will buy a parrot that will
talk in half a dozen different languages.
?Times-Democrat.
"Uxcle Dare," a oentenarian living
near Sheffield, Ala., has just died. He
was with Andrew Jackson iu the Indian
war and helped to plot Sheffield
over seventy years ago. His wife died
in 1842, and every day up to his death
he prayed at her grave. _ '
AN EMPEROR'S BOYS.
" f/
HOW THE YOUNG HOHEXZOI>
LERNS ARE REARED.
The Spartan Manners of Frederick
the GreatVHonsehold Are Still
in Fashion at the Schloss?
All Arc Early Risers.
Plain living carried "to the length of
affectation has always been a characteristic
of the^Royal IIousc of Prussia.
Frederick the Great, the domestic idol
of the'family, had a hard time of ifc
a hundred years ago. He often wasn't
able to eat his food, it was so bad, or
sleep in his bed becausc it was so hard.
His regal papa used to chase the Prince's
music teacher around the royal halls
with a big stick, driving the unhappy
man to take refuge, in his terror, up
chimneys and under beds.
The impression ever since has been
that because Frederick the Great turned
out such a swagger king, the sort of
training lie received mugt DC mc ucsu
WrMi
TUD QEBMAN PgEBIAL FAMILY, .
The present Emperor is a regular mar4-**sf\4
ttr\ 1\aliflttoo flm oai4 nf mill lifl
IIUCIm XXV/ WUWf WO iu ?uv yvtv w* mm m?
himself was put through, and thinks
there is nothing like it. His little sona,
two of them not yet out of long clothes,
are literally spoon-fed by military rules.
The royal nursery is a small barrack
room, where everything is done witi
iron discipline and regularity.
The children rise at dawn and go to
bed at about <5 o'clock. The three eldest
are under the care of a still and
starched military tutor of the most Prussian
type. His orders must be obeyed
with military alacrity. Disobedience
would be looked on by the Emperor as
mutiny and punished accordingly.
' sALxnrrae nons iAXQEB*
The little Crown Prince "William has
never been told that there is any difference
between himself and his brothers
in rank or prospects. This is by his
father's orders, yet being a youth of an
inquiring turn of mind, he has found out
that he is to be an Emperor some day.
The knowledge has given him a great
sense of his own importance, and he now
struts about trailing his small sword
with considerable.self complacency.
BtTEBOB A5D CHOTfa PIOTTCS. _^i
Prince Eitel Frederick, when he is not
at his lessons or taking csercise, passes
nis umc conducting extensive military
nnemt.inns with hnce nrmiea of tin sol
diers, and whenever part of them are
slain the dead are always Prussia's enemies.
If the Emperor "William doesn't spare
his children he doesn't spare himself or
the Empress, either. He doesn't hold
the ordinary German view of the restricted
sphere of the Hausfrau. She is Colonel
of a regiment, has a uniform, and, -what
is more, wears it on review days. Perhaps,
though, the fact she is proudest of
is that 6he has borne five sons to Germany
who able one day to fight for the
Fatherland.
She and her husband have begun the
multifarious duties of the day at 6 o'clock
ih tiie morning. They can be seen walking
in the Thiergarten, even in midwinter,
at 8 o'clock.
During the day the Empress, in addition
to all the important court functions
and engagements which she has to at"
* ' n - l
tena to, assists xue .tmperor us u sort ui
private confidential secretary. As her
husband has to a very great extent taken
the reins of the Empire into his own
hands, and is very fond of putting his
fingers into a great many pies, she has
plenty to do.
The young princes are dressed and
brought up in a plainer fashion than the
families of ordinary well-to-do people.
There isn't a "Little Lord Fauntlcroy" in
the family.?Xcw York Sun.
New Musical Invention.
A new invention in musical instruments
is a violin piano. A case
containing six violins, two violas and
two violoncellos resembles a pianoforte
fVomn Tim incfrii.iifints are connected
by circular bands, which arc brought
into contact with the strings by means jf
the keyboards, the hammers of which bear
upon the bands with varying pressure.
A rcccnt Government report state3 that
at the close of 1S89 there were 108
cotton mills at work in India. They
contained 22,15G looms, 2,669,992 spindles,
and worked up 347,000,000 pounds
of cotton during the year, employing
12,120 mcD, women and children.
The blight of the potato crop in Ireland
is spreading, and there are fears of
a famine.
Iowa's Coal Palace. *' ,r^,
Corn and culture have for a long time
been staple products in Iowa. Ha zing,
become foremost in the production of
the former, Iowa is now about to take a
step in another direction and exhibit to
the States her recources for "light, heat
and power"?in a word, her vast store of
bituminous product. The palace idea
just now is the prevalent one, and so
while her corn pulace has been built in
the region of her great corn belt, and
her blue glass palace located in the centre
of her best meadows, it is natural that
Ottumwa, being in the centre of the coal
fields, should te chosen as the site for
her coal palace, a unique and massive
structure which has just been constructed.
Primarily the coal palace represents the
counties adjacent to it so productive of
cheap fuel. Secondarily, but of no less
importance, it represents the best of the
numerous manufactories of the Hawkeye
State, for it is uThc Iowa Coal Palace
and Industrial Exhibit." The coal
region of Iowa is not extensively men
tiQUQa iq tae geographies, perhaps, ana
A PALACE MADE OV COAL.
yet ten counties in the State last year
mined over three and one-half million
tons of coal, employed in the mines
nearly eight thousand men and paid for
labor alone more than a million and a
balf dollars. It is not so startling then,
that Iowa, so well known as an agricultural
State, can build a palace of coal
taken from her own borders, and thus
prove to the sisterhood her wonderful
variety resources.
The "palace is an imposing structure
230 feet in length and 130 in width, the
main tower being 200 feet in height.
The architecture is a compromise between
the gothic and the Byzantine. The
palace is two stories in height, the first
being about 20 feet to the ceiling, the
nthPT rp?rh?nc7 to the ton of the structure.
varying from 40 to 60 feet. The main
?ntrance is on Main street, through the
grand arches in the tower to the right,
whose summit Is near the grand tower.
That tower is 36 feet wide and of the
same proportions as the one to the left,
which faces a unique and beautiful sunken
garden on Washington street. The rear
end is beautified by twin semi-circular
turrets, one of which can be seen at the
extreme right. A couple of similar
towers, somewhat more elongated, just
out from the other .side toward the opposite
or Washington end of the palace,
while a similar tower to that first described,
forming the Main street entrance,
symmetrizes the palace on the opposite
side. In this tower is the stage, 30x36,
and main hall, with the balconies ascending
direct from the stage, gives the
building an auditorium with a seating
capacity of from 4000 to 60C0. On
either side of the main room or nave of
the building are the spaces above and
below for the exhibits of the nine surrounding
counties and from abroad.
... Sparrows as Nurses.
In the Jersey City ferry-house of the
Pavonia Perry, a few days ago, the passengers
watched with much interest a
. flock of sparrows taking care of one of
iitm's TMimt-vof Tulm wm nvidentlv verv
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sick. There -was much chippering
among the birds, until it was finally settled
to put the patient behind the top
cornice of a pillar. The sick bird was
then carried between three of its companions
and deftly dropped into the
chosen place. Then a dozen sparrows
perched on the telegraph wire and chippered
loudly at the passengers beneath.
When last 6een the sick sparrow was
bundled up in some straw.?New TorJ/
World.
A Bflbj'sTra'edy.
Night. *
Sfominff.
There are at present 1300 beet sugai
factories in Europe, and they consume
24,000,000 tons of beets every year.
Their annual output of sugar amounts to
2,000,000 tons. It is said that over
$30,000,000 are expended for labor and
fuel, and that $100,000,000 are paid to
farmers for beets.
During the last financial year closing
tho Ocrmau Government received a surplus
of $S, 000,000 from the imperial
postal and telegraphic department, and
>f $350,000 from the imperial printing
office.
A Uaieo bachelor, who. tha advertiser
said, was "eighty-seven years old,
but rich," haa received 250 application!
from ladies willing to be his wife?and
risk his dying pretty soon,
. $25,000 A TRIP.
THE COST OP RUNNING A BIG
OCEAN STEAMSHIP.
The Receipts Are Considerably
Greater, ancl the Great Ships Undoubtedly
Pay?Details That
TVill Astonish People.
The magnificent steamship Nort&annia
is not quite as big as the twin-screw
boats of the White Star and Inman
line3, but her expense account, owing to
the greater length of her voyage, is just
as formidable. The cost of running her
from her dock in the New Jersey town
of Hoboken to her dock in the German
town of Hamburg, is about the same as
the'cost of running the City of Paris
from New York to Liverpool.
"When the Normannia starts on an
eastward voyage she carries nearly 3000
tons of coal in her protected bunkers.
Some of this is American and some tor
eign soft coal, and it costs about ?3.50 a
too. The sooty stokere daily shovel into
her roaring red furnaces between 250 and
300 tons. The expenditure for coal runs
just short of $1000 a day, or nearly
$8000 for the voyage. The cost of the
gallons and gallons of oil used to keep
her ponderous triple-expansion engines,
her dynamos, her numerous smaller engines,
her pumps, and so on, running
smoothly, combined with the coal bill, is
$8500.
The salaries of the big ship's company
are not an unimportant factor in the expense
account. Among the 300 persons
who look after the. working of the racer
and the comfort of her passengers are,
besides cool-headed Captain Hebich,
eight officers, one surgeon, twenty-five
onorinopra and machinists, two nursera.
1 JT ?
five boatswains, twenty-eight seamen,
114 firemen, sixty-five waiters and waitresses,
twenty-two cooks, bakers and assistants,
two carpenters, one barber and
fourteen skilled musicians. The total
wages of these for a trip of eight days is
about $2000, not counting perquisites.
Captain Hebich receives the highest
salary. It varies between ?3000 and
$4000 a year, and depends somewhat on
the earnings of the ship, of which he receives
a small percentage. This is the
way the skippers of all the colossal racing
craft are paid, and it is not likely
that any of them are going to cease racing,
or to be censured for It, as long as
a fast trip means money in their pockets
and in tne coffers of their company.
Every hour the Captain of tho City of
New York saves means a saving in coal
alone of $50.
Next in importance to the Captain of
an ocean speeder is tbe chief engineer.
He is not as frequently visible to the
cabin passengers as his gold-laced superior,
and nobody makes much fuss over
him, but he is, in the opinion of his employers,
a very big man indeed. He is
the man who makes the great ship "git
up and git." He submits daily reports
of how things are going on down below
to the Captain. He tells how many tons
of coal he is using, how much indicated
horse power he obtains, and the number
of revolutions the ship's propellers make
a minute. If he doesn't get as much
speed out of the clanking twin giants as
the Captain thinks he ought to, the Captain
pats him on the back and tells him
to whoop her up, like a good fellow. It
is essential to the Captain's interest that
be should be friendly wltb the Doss 01
the mighty machines. For his great
work the chief engineer receives $160 a
month and his board, which is equal to
that of the cabin passengers. The chief
officer reoeives $80 a month, which is
more than the captains of many steamships
of the second class get.
The food and drink consumed by
passengers and crew during a recent trip
of the Normannia cost about $16,000.
| This is the complete list of the things
that were necessary to make life aboard
the luxurious floating hotel something
like a dream: Two thousand five hundred
bottles of red wine, 2000 bottles oi
Rhine wine, 2000 bottles of champagne,
1200 bottles of cordials, 15,000 bottles
of beer, eighty kegs of beer, 400 bottles
of ale and porter, 2500 bottles of mineral
renter 37 000 cnllnnq of drinkincr water.
70,000 pounds of potatoes, 16,000
pounds of beans, peas, and so on, 2500
cans of fruit, 1500 poundsjof jellies, tarts
and biscuits, forty-five baskets of vegetables,
7000 pounds of butter, 1200
pounds of cheese, 10,000 eggs, 3500
pounds of sugar, 1500 pounds of coffee,
1000 pounds of tea, 250 pounds of
chocolate, 150 gallons of milk, 10,000
apples, 1200 oranges, 1000 lemons, 400
glasses of preserved fruits, 120 barrels of
flour, sixty-five gallons of loe cream, 17,000
pounds of beef, 12,000 pounds of
mutton, 1800 pounds of ham, smoked
beef and bolognas, 1000 potinds of veal,
700 pounds of baco%, 600 pounds of
pork, t>uu pounds 01 game, ouu pouuus
of canned meat, 250 pounds of lamb,
thirty barrels of preserved meat, twenty
barrels of salt pork, 16,000 pounds of
fish, 450 chickens, ISO ducks, sixty
"turkeys, sixty partridges, and fifty geese.
From the foregoing facts and figures
it may be safely said that one trip of the
Normannia costs the Hamburg-American
line not less than $25,000. To offset
this expenditure, which does not include
the cost of insurance, the Normannia must
carry many passengers and some freight.
The number of her passengers varies, of
rivirse anr.ordincr to the season. She
carries ia midsummer sometimes nearly
500 first and second cabin and about
300 steerage voyagers. The average
price of a first cabin passage is abcut
$110, and that of a second cabin about
860. The average prico of steerage accommodations
is ?22. Tho [receipts
from all classes of passengers on a good
midsummer trip are over $50,000.
Usually the Normannia carries 800 tons
of freight, which, at the transportation
rate of $10 a ton, amounts to $S000.
The cost of loading and unloading is
borne by the company. In the dull season
theb ig tvrin-serew ships de not make
much, but their receipts throughout the
I year are large enough to warrant the dec
j laration that they are great successes unan!
daily, and that they are the passenger
ships of the future.?New York San.
A Lunatic's Curious Gun.
A curious gun has been made by a lunatic
on Robben Island, the leper settlement
at Cape Colony, South Africa. The barrels
are portions of the hollow legs of an
iron bedstead, attached to a rudely cut
wooden 6tock by a sciap of iron and two
twists of wire, strengthened by lead and
cobbler's wax. The maker was much annoyed
at having his treasure taken away,
as he declared it was most useful to shoot
the lions which prowled around.?New
Tori Telegram. \ r
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A LYRIC FROM THE JAPANESEj^^B
The maple lifts her head, flfl
Crowned with autumnal red, H
While I, who love the girl, jHE
Piunge for the biggest pearl, BH
Under tho waves,
And up in the caves,
Where stormy billows curl,
And the angry waters whirl!
"Wert thou a pearl," she cried,
As I hurried to her side,
"I would clasp thee on my arm,
For a magical charm,
That like the glowing sun
When the summer day is done, IBB
And rises the cold white moon,
We might port?but not too soonf MSB
"For like a stream that finds ^Dfl
The way it must retrace;
Or like the pathless winds
That have no abiding place, j^H
Upon my lonely bed,
With the bride-wreath on my head,
I wait thy first embrace! r
?B. H. Stoddard, in N. Y. Independent?
PITH ANT POEKL*
No news is bad news?to editors.^
The English race?After AmericaQ^H
Every dog has his day and the
seem to* bo quarreling over the nighfs.?
The bears are probably responsible fojfln
the squeezes on the Stock Exchange.
The man who marries a widow knowi^H
he isn't marrying amiss.?Detroit
"And that stout son of yours, wh|ti^H|
he doing?" "He's a hammock tes^^^MH
Nee York Bun.
At a marriage curious people watcnrMM
the church door to see the tied go outfl|
?New Orleans Picayune.
It is well to make the best of th^^J
world, for you'll never get out of it alfoj^m
?Great Barrinqton News. RH
"Why do they call Africa the 'Dark^H
Continent?'" "Because there's 90 mucfa^H
black ink shed over it."?Puck. ^Bj
When a man says he has nothing td^H
say, it is safe to say that there is a barreflH
full of facts back of his teeth.?Pucl. HI
"What makes Billings look so-proud?'!^H
"His wife is the only member of tb^^fl
cooking school who didn't receive
prize."?Bazar.
No, sir; we do not believe that
1 tomatoes produces cancers, but we
seen many a can,sir,that contained
toes.?Lncdl Courier.
Strangs as it may senm, it is the
who has lost his voice that makes
loudest and most disagreeable noise in SHH
choir.?Detroit Free Press.
"There is an art in putting on glov^HH
Bays a fashion paper. Come to thinb^^^H
it you have to get your hand in bcl^H^H
you can master the art.?Boston
Some men have a notion .
That it is their born right
To imitate their kitchen fir&
And go oat every night.
?Dansxille Brees^^^^m
Art must always get its iuspirati^HH
from nature. The zebra gave us oar
idea of striped clothing,ani the elepti^^^J
was the inventor of loose trousen^^^H
The information that - property i^H
"just a stone's throw from the cars" iaHH
very frequently calculated to impress on^Hj
with intense admiration for the man whqjj
threw the stone.?Washington Pott. i
Dumps^y?"Blabson's wife is ver^j^H
email, isn'tshet" Popinjay?"Yes; yoq^H
would hardly believe it, but I
heard it eaid that she goes through hi^H^
pockets every night."?Burlington
Edith (soliloquizing)?"I'm so glad ha^H
proposes by letter. No fuss?no
ing him on?and plenty of time
down to papa's office and look him^'
Bradstreet before I give him an answ
?Judge.
"I am in charge of the whole de^^^J
ment. As the boss says, I am the
of the house." "Well, as I have
grudge against the house I think I shs
take this opportunity to give it a bla<
eye.11?Bazar. ^
Lawyer?"Well, sir, we won th^^^^H
but it was a pretty narrow vicrcjMjBfi
Client?"Yes, I thought the other sie^^B
had us, until you showed that tJK
principal witness was a fishermar '
Mun&ey\ WeeUy.
Boarding-house Mistress?"How
you like that water, Mr. York?" Mr.^H
York?"It has a milky taste to me.}j^|
Mistress?"Excuse mej^|
Mr. York, that is the milk you are tast^J^H
ing. Try the glass to the left."?
hers Statesman.
Never waste time telling people
a lot of good things you have done.
the first place they won't believe y^^H
and in the second place they arc wai?sflH|
for a chance to tell you what a lot
good things they have done themselv^l^B
" T-?7 Tin
?aomerciuo ovunmi,. ,
Mrs. Brown?"Bridget, I don't underg^f
stand. You said you paid ten cents
a glass of soda-water for Master Edwardl^H
and yet he tells me did not have any.'lHj
"That's all right, mum; I bought it fon^H
him, but he was so warm I thought
might hurt him, so I drank it myselfJ^B
mum."?Fliegende Blaetter.
"Williams," said the proprietor of thgHH
restaurant, "don't throw away the corkq^H
of those soda-pep bottles." "What goodl^f
are they?" inquired the new waiter;
"There's a market lor them," replied thd^H
proprietor. "Owners of excursion steam^^H
boats buy them to mis with the straw ia^|
their life-preservers."?Chicago Tribune J
I love you well, my sweetheart shy,
I'm true. 99
The maiden blushing answered, I HH
Love you. ,
Why do you love me, my adored??
' A pause,
And then she answered with a word,
"Because."
?Boston Courier. ,
Witness?"He looked me straightjjjl^B
the eye and " Lawyer?"There, sir,;^H
you've flatly contradicted your 'forme^^B
I etrttflment."' Witness?"How so?",H
Lawyer?"You said before that he bentH|
his gaze on you, and now you'll please
explain how he could look you straight
in the eye with a bent gaze." ("Witness
faints)? The Jester.
According to a telegram, "lightningj^B
struck a man in Springfield, Ohio, kille<|j^|
him, burned the sign of a cross on hro^|
back, and then dug a hole in the ground^H
behind him, the exact size and shape of
a grave." It is also rumored that thej^H
etectric bolt paid all the funeral expenses,
ordered a monument for his grave andj^f
ofiered to marry his widow, but this
port lacks confirmation.?iVbrratotwj^B