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, . 4 ' *"W The Toss of A Copper.: " i Story of My Experience With Two Lovers. BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS, JR. LETTER >*0. 1. ADRlENJvE TO HER SCHOOL FRIEND BLANCHE I'm quite out of patience wiih you. You promised to spend a fortnight with mamma and me in the country, and you knew perfectly well that you wouldn't be able to keep your promise. Why ^ didn't you tell me the truth about it? I ] suppose you think a married woman , should not converse with a young girl j about such things. At least that's what ^ mamma has just told me. In the first f place, I'm no longer a little girl. I was v eighteen my last birthday, and it's years j. and years ago that I unlearned my notions concerning the usefulness of the ^ stork family. It would have been a r very simple thing for you to write me a ^ few lines explaining the situation to j me. Have we ceased to be friends, v then, because, forsooth, a married worn- d an is not supposed to have young girls n for her friends? Indeed, you take a r very serious view of life. How much D older are you than I? A year at the Qi most. But you are now a married worn- n an and must weigh your words lest you a dispel the illusions of the marriageable tj maiden. Trash! My poor father had t, no such silJy ideas, and that's another ^ reason why his death was a blow to me. t( Do you want to know my opinion on t( the subject of educating young girls? a They should be brought up by their t( father when that father is an honorable f( and intelligent man, as mine was. t] "Why do the mothers spurn the co- _ operation of the fathers in this matter? a "Why are they continually 6aying to the r( men: "You don't understand anything g. about educating girls." And then why do they, the very next u day, intrust not only the education t( but the very destiny of a daughter to a man whom she has just met?often a ^ mere boy, without any experience him- ^ aelf and completely ignorant of the character, aspirations and ideas of his intended? The change would be much less abrupt and dangerous were it from the hands of a father to the arms of a husband. Yes, I mean it, for I saw d how your husband put his arm aiound d< you when you wQt into the garden for h, a moonlight stroll! t>< Oh, that ridiculous moon, with its swollen mother-of-pearl Jack Pudding ai countenance! When I look at it?and I've been looking at it a great deal a J11 fews days past?I can't help sayinj? to myself what hasn't it seen and what j* hasn't it heard since the first love-scene In Eden? But how delightfully dis- 1 creet! It never tells tales out of school, but calmly continues to chase up the sun without ever catching him. How ?c patient! After we are gone it will continue to do so. Others will look at it ni and dream and hope, and hope and dream, and so on forever. Hnw proTOking it is not to amount to anythtng p< more! At times, dear Blanche, I've a great notion to betake me to a convent, to get into one of those big, white, woolen gowns, which never fit, to stop talking, 1D atop thinking, stop living, in fact, just let time wear me away. But unfortu- J: nately in convents they don't wash themselves from head to foot every morning. If it weren't for that I'd bury myself in one of them at once. I'd be willing "to give up my hair, which you may recollect i6 very beautiful, but I never could got accustomed to the idea 6t of not having feet daintily white and 61 scrupulously cared for. I go to see Sister Ursula sometimes, and while chatting with her the other day I made ^ known to her how my yearnings and hesitations were always grappling with ach other. I declared myself strong aenough to triumph over these moments w of weakness, nrovided the bishon would n< permit me to have next iny cell a dress- | lng room such as I have here. "1m- j 111 possible!" she exclaimed, "the rules | forbid it. And, besides, my daughter," I v he continued, "your thoughts^ should TOCB THOUGHTS BBOtTLD BE ON OTHER in THINGS. th be on other things than yoor beautiful body." "Buc, sister, don't you wash your ? body?" J "The fact is," she replied, as her eves r trightened with a smile, "by chance I 11 caught a glimpse of my knees the other P day, and they were so black that I was ashamed to stand in the presence of our ? dear Lord." * And think how praiseworthy this is, too, for Sister Ursula is not forty-two r yet. She is still a beautiful woman, P and, as you may remember, was a born ? princess. It makes no difference. I v don't feel myself equal to such a sacri- P flee. I never could stand having black knees. And yet, Blanche, I can't remain as I e am. 1 have looked at the inoon for ! whole hours, and it hasn't helped me : out a bit. For this reason I'ye bt-en j booking forward with such great anxiety ; to lave you with me. to advise me, to i ^enlighten me. I wanted your judgment j on matters and men. You must be very | a n r> /*ttt tKof vnii 'ir/a n m/if Tc it . tT iwv) iiV'n jvu v ti iwvwijvi . * w -w j such an enrapturing thing for a woman j to clasp a babe to her bosem? Which ! do you lovo tho better, the father or the ! child? Or do you love them both the I name? l)o you commence to feel at home in this new walk of life' You ! may write freely to me. You may trust me as your other self. Mamma never i reads my letters. j No doubt you Fay to yourself: If j I Aarienne is so much in need ol' advice, (why dosn't she go to her mother or t< I Abbe Servan, her confessor? But. deal J Blanche, I'm not an ordinary girl. Mint i .is an exceptional case. Mamma would j think me moonstruck and Abbe Servan | , wouldn't understand me. Mamma woulcj 1 offer to take me awav for a short trir ! . somewhere and Ab'&p Servan would j "5 coursel me to seek aid and comfort in \ . prayer. The good Lord has other th'ngs j to attend to, and besides, although mj j ' case is a peculiar one, I don't think il . , hanlly serious enough to call for an in- j terposition of Providence. Possibly it's very natural and very ordinary, this case of mine, and only seems strange to me because it's new to me. Well, this is it: Mamiva wants me to g jtet married, and theoretically I have oo y objections. I suppose It Is* absolutely necessary to get married, and the younger the, better. I'm speaking of women. I wouldn t like to marry a man of my own age. A difference in iges of six or 6even year6 seems to me M be called for. Papa has been dead :wo years, and mamma left off mournng the beginning of last winter, and ilthough she kept 6trictly to violets and rravs. vet she had her afternoons at lome and her evenings. She was quiety bringing me out. Everybody understood it. I'm in the market and somewhat of a catch, too. I'm neither ugly, )oor, stupid, nor consumptive. My parents are of good family and stand ligh. There's nothing of the fortunelunter about me, nor Bhall 1 be influsnced by vanity in making choice of a lusband. Our securities are all giltsdged; there will be no danger of a rash. I haven't the slightest ambition o move in any higher grade of society, o hear myself announced as Duch'jss or 5rinceBS at receptions to which a title vould be a passport. Besides, my dear 31anche, haven't we a "de" already? ^.m I not Mademoiselle Adrienne de tfarias? How old it is I don't know, >ut it'6 quite sufficient to distinguish us rom tradespeople. Everybody treats is as if we were entitled to it; no lolding up of hands, no sly grimaces. Now as to my notion as to what a husiand should be, let me say that I have io silly ideals, no scnooi-giri dreams. I lon't want any phenomenon, any hero, want him to be in good health and rith something to occupy his time up to inner hour. After that he must love le, must be mine, And my idea of mariage, too, i6 that the wife 6hould have luch more liberty than is usually acorded her. Wherever I go, when lamma isn't with me, my governess is t my heels. It's beginning to be a litle tiresome, this business! I would ake an airing all alone by myself. I ear certain books talked about. I want a read them. I hear them pronounced d be masterpieces and they hide them way from me. How can a book be a m&sL-rpiece and yet a young girl of my age be :>rbidden to read it? Perhaps one of tiese books might enlighten me as to ly peculiar situation! I don't think I sk too much. In fact, I think I'm a very ?asonable person, and I should have ucceeded very easily in being quite appy if something which was quite as nespected as it has become complicaid hadn't happened to me. I'll tell you about it in another letter, ear Blanche. Meanwhile, little mother, ye-bye. "Wholly thine, Adkiexxe. LETTER JfO. 2. sake to BA31E. Last winter you recoHect meeting M. e Villelong at our house, don't you, ev Blanche? Madame de Pontlouis ad introduced him to us. She made no ecret of the motive which induced her > present the Baron, for he is a baron ad a real one, too. She admitted to lamma that the matchmaker's mania ad come upon her, and that she was >oking out for me. I had already met lis young man, had often danced* with im. I rather liked him, and the moment saw him at the house I knew what it CttiJ v, AUjnoj, uiaiuuiu nao vpcu uuu x>veboard in the matter. She told mo i look upon him as a suitor for my md. Said mamma, with faultless proinciation and admirable intonation: "His position, ^iy darling, his age, his 'tt.uno, his family, his antecedents are irfectly satisfactory to me, but it's for >u to decide. You are not suppo8edxto low anything about the man. Study m at your leisure. I don't want to ifluenceyou in the least." You remember him, don't you, dear lanche? You met him just about the me you were married. I think you ust have noticed him?tall, thin, onde, a good head of hair and a tine ?ard, handsome teeth, rather small ;ad, broad shoulders, in a word, every dication of physical strength. A lover lould be strong, shouldn't he? It's ich a delightful feeling to know that >u have a protector by your side, one iat doesn't fear man or demon, fire or ater. His feet do very well. He aiavs keeps them perfectly dressed, and i's very carefnl with his hands, too, though they're a little hard. He ride6 ell, he is witty and full of fun, and I ;ed scarcely add belongs to several of e swell clubs. They say he has had any first-rate chances, and I don't onder at it. How I came to know? hy, I have heard mamma's friends ieak of him just as they do of any >ung man in society when they don't resee his presentation as a suitor, f course, they spoke in enigmas, but I iderstood well enough. The simple ct is, dear Blanche, that it is utterly ^possible to bring up a girl nowadays complete ignorance of the affairs of *tual life. The morning journals are led with these topic? which becomo ibjccts of discourse at the 6mall inccF. A young girl hears the names her partners coupled with the first tmes of certain ladies whose carages pass and repass ours on the hamps Elysees, in the Bois and elsehere. We meet them in the shops, we in against them in the establishments ?r?2.t ,H??n milliners. They set lr fashions for us, they furnish us with iTRbanrifi When thev bar-ome ours do I tey give up the old set or does the old it give up them? In short, we girls of lis day and generation are initiated to a thousand and one things of which ie Rirl6 of the good old times didn't jen suspect the existence. If we live i Pans we soon learn to know that all arriages are not made In heaven aud hat the "contracting parties," as the ivorce courts call them, don't always ehave themselves with perfect proriety. It's shameful when you come to think f it. And sometimes it even happens hat we make our boast of the fact that he young man who asks for us in mariage ie no milksop, that he has sown a lentiful crop of wild oats, etc., instead f shrinking from him in disgust as we rould if we respected ourselves! Supose for an instant, little mother, that : were possible for a young man to scape all this contamination, with a ingle purpose to remain faithful and ~ I I r-2??I'T1 Ti oAii^ r''ff VE JC6T BEEN HE-READING MrACL AND VIRQIinA^ ti<5 to hfe beloved, and suppose Hi bould present himself 6ome fine dar ill of ignorance and lofty ideals an& 3k for?say?my hand, do you suppose lamma would encourage him? Not a it of it. She'd refuse him at first; anyay, Bhe'd say that he didn't know lough of life. And to judge from the ttle I have overheard of 6uch conversaon, 6he and her friends would have a )od laugh over the poor fellow. Why? I've just been re-reading "Paul and ' irginia." Oh, who wiU set me down beneath the glowing eky of the isle of France, on the shores of the Hiver des Latanier, in the Allee des Pamplemousees? Why is not Madame de La Tour, or oven Marguerite, not my mother? Where are the cabins in which in ? i j t roieori? Tn tinvo run r <tui auu jl wnc ~ barefoot since childhood in those very paths with this chosen brother, to have gone astray innocently in those vast forests, to have been shielded from the storm by the same skirt turned up over both our head6, to have crossed the streams carried in his arms without fear, rocked by the gentle rise and fall of his breast, never to have seen the face of any other young man, to wonder together at the meaning of those delightful and indefinable emotions which they increased by questioning eact other as to their cause; finally to have but one roof, one bower, one grave, ono eternity?6uch, such is the dream of every young girl, isn't it, dearest Blanche? Why may it not be realized? "Why must we be satisfied with these society Pauls who have been in love with a whole string of Virginias before they met us? Well, as men and marriage go now-a-days, M. de Yillelong seemed to me to be a very desirable catch, and Beveral of my girl friends made haste to tell me, which naturally set him up in my estimation not a little. I soon became accustomed to seeing him, yes, even longed for it! I got in the way of expecting him on the days he was to call and if I was to meet him in society I had him in my thoughts while was dressing. One fine day I said to mamma: "After thinking it well over, I'm convinced I love M. de Villelong, and I should ba perfectly satisfied to marry him!" You know mamma. Blanche. She abominates eagerness in anything. "You love bim, do you?" she replied. "Love is a big word. We'll talk about it in a j month or two. That will be time I enough. I suppose, of course, that he ! is in earnest. You may continue to meet him, but I have entered into no compact with him or his family. Let things go of their own accord. He tiaan't, nrnnoKPrf vet. Wait till hn does. unci then we'll ace about It. The happiest hours of married life are .those in which we long impatiently for it to begin!" From this time on, however. I considered myself as engaged, although I didn't pronounce the actual words, and more's the pity. J used often to discuss marriage with Ca9imir?that's his first name, and I don't like it any too much. But mine were glittering generalities, such as: "It would appear to me;" "if I should marry, I would insist," etc.; or "I should indulge the hope." I took good care that these elastlo views 6hould be very vaguely expressed. He always agreed with me; ho does still. Xo more to-day, little mother. Lovingly, Adbienne. LETTER NO. 3. SAME TO SaME. Fancy our surprise, dear Blanche, at this juncture to receive a letter from an uunt of mine, or rather from the sister of the husband of the sister of my uncle (do you follow me?), a letter announcing her return to France after a sojourn of several years in Algiers, and askincr if 1a. a Vva o rrrAAn Y7)o fnr Kor onH nor Ib VYVUiU L/C? aglCQUUit AVi U\/A WUU UVi 6on to spend a few weeks with us. She's a charming woman, and I had been very iond of her. The son is a young officer, and having had an attack of fever had been granted a furlough and was to spend it in France. His mother was delighted to get back to France to see her old friends and to show off her boy, who wears a decoration of which she is very proud. But he has no title and no "de"; he's plain Bene Caulon, lieutenant of the Third Zouaves. I rememberod him as a chubby-cheeked boy. not very wide-awake, awful bashful, in fact, quite ordinary. Well, I was Medusaed! In walked a tall, slender, graceful fellow, very thin and pale from the attack of fever, browned up by an African sun, with large, sea-green eyes, black lashes, black eyeorows. black mustaehe, black tuft of beard, cheek bone6 sticking out, Adam's apple in bold relief, the head of a defiant consumptive, for he had the 6houlders of a Hercules. But all this pallor and this emaciation were the effect of a mere accident, a few weeks' rest would cure them. With the con flding and expansive manner 01 a person who feels sure of her happiness, I welcomed my aunt with a hearty kiss and held out my hand to her son. "How do you do, cousin?" I said with unaffected gayety. "How do you do, my dear cousin?" he replied, kissing my hand with a charmingly easy grace. i*to be co.vtimvbd. i PROFESSOR MOORE'S SCHEME. Will Use Kites to Assist in Predicting tho the Fall of Kair. The weather bureau at Washington under the direction of Professor Moore, is now engaged in experimenting in the management of aeroplanes, or kites, that promise to be ol high scientific value. For some time past these experiments have be^n made in a small way, but preparations were made to have a test on a larger scale of several forms of ki*es at the Fort Myer military reservation, and a company of scientists were on hand to witness the experiments, which, however, were postponed because of the prevalence of an almost absolute calm. It is the purpose of Professor Moore to de vise a systemil kites that can be relied upon to carry a corsiderableweight, six or eight pounde, perhaps two miles above the surface of tbe earth. The kite adopted for the purpose is of celluhir construction, without th't old-fashioned tail, and has remarkable power for lifting. It is intended to carry up to this great altitude various observation instruments, barometers, thermometers, hygrometers and other like instruments, which will automatically record tho conditions of the atmosphere above. Professor Moore leels that the weather so.-vice has now reached a satisfactory state s;< far as concerns predictions o; wiuds, their violences and temperatures, but tho weak spot that remains is in the prediction of rainfalls. According to bis theory, a vast improvement in accuracy in this reipect can bo obtained by a full knowledge of what i:j going on in the air far above tho earth, ami this he expects to ascertain by r.iciuis of his kites. TOO MUCH HOPS. Growers Sell for S4t)G What It SIOOO to 1'rotluce. The nmisuallv low r.rice of hoD? is exeit ing attention here and abroad. Matters are worse now than they were a month ago. ana the growers are suffering heavy losses. Exceptionally fine hops bring only eight cents a pound, while other hops range as low as two cents a pound. Business is being done anywhere from 3>< to cents, or on an average of 4} j cents a pound, a rate that is less than one-third the cost of production. But growers on the Pacific Coast and in New York are making preparations for even a larger crop. Some growers have sold their crops for live years to come at about five cents a pound. Dealers in New York City are much exercised over the situation, and are urging their principal shippers to reduce their acreuge. Why growers in New York State and on the racific Coast should continue raising full crops is an enigma to dealers. The crop of 1885 was twice as large as the demand for consumption, and the stock of old hops carried over was large, too. it is estimated that afterthe next crop is harvested the accumulation of stock will be the largest in the history of hop growing. The Pacific Const produces mere hops than are consumed in this country. A factor in hop raising which prevents any shortage in crops is the vine-washing machine, and the records of previous years, wnen tno upms blight destroyed the vines. Short crops used to give dealers an opportunity to get rid of old stocks. Growers are selling for ?41K) Whaj it cost th@m $1000 to produce. ' ' . ii MIGHTY WARSHIPS, IMMENSE FIGHTING ENGINES FOR THE NEW NAVY. The Kentucky and the Kearsarge Will Have the Biggest Guns Afloat? Fiuer Than Any European Battleship. T l | HE United States, says the ^ I f New York World, has xhe greatest seaboard of any NaU tiou. The American people, in iheir numerous large and flourishing cities, have more wealth directly upon the edge of the sea than any other. An invasion of this country by any European Power or combination of Powers being out of the question for the same reason that the United States could not invade a European country, there remains for the American Navy the mam purpose of defense* With this object our new men-of-war are peculiarly constructed. They are designed more for protection of the seaboard cities than for offensive war at long range, and coal carrying capacity, which so reduces the power of British vessels, has in many of them been utilized for increased destructiveness. Additional guns, armor and ammunition take the place in an American battleship of thousands of tons of mere coal in her Br'ti9h counterpart. At the same time our battleships, whose appearance has convinced Eu- : rope that America is not a mere name, have an immense steaming radius, great speed and a latent aggressive i power that commands respect. ] There is another feature of the 1 American Navy that gives it superior ity. That is the fact that every i American officer is a scientifically 1 trained naval fighter, graduated from I Annapolis, where, under rigid disci- ] pline, he must have spent the forma- I tive years of his life. < The British naval officer, following i the traditions of Nelson's day, goes to i sea, where he is supposed to pick up i his knowledge. The American naval i officer, in accordance with modern conditions, goes to a naval academy 1 and then to sea, being not a mere < nailor, but a scientifically educated 1 sea fighter. < The significance of this will be ap- 1 predated when the two'newest vessels I' in the navy, the Kentucky and the [ i GREAT MAN-OF-i (Most powerful battleship in the world, n News, Kearsarge, are considered. The cpn- j stmction of these battleships has new j been began, and is to be folio if ed by ( that of others. , They are not ships at all, but im* ] mense fighting engines, npon which an old-fasbioned sailor would be almost useless. The problems which they involve belong to engineering, ^ and not to seamanship. With every such ship which she possesses the United States can reach out and strike a ter- J rific blow with quickness and certainJy under conditions undreamed of by 3 Nelson or even by Farragut. The Kentucky and the Kearsarge are to cost $2,250,000 apiece. These two new battleships belong to the class of the Massachusetts and the Indiana. The Kearsarge has been nf.med by special order of Congress so .as to perpetuate the memories of the ship that sunk the Alabama. The Kentucky has been so named as a tribute to the South, and because all the veasels of her class are to be named after States. New England now stands sponsor for one ship of this kind, the Massachusetts, the Middle West two, ^ Indiana and Iowa, and the Pacific Coast one, the Oregon. The Kentucky, however, will pos- j sess many features that differentiate I" her from these ships, and make her | ^ with her sister ship really the first of { a new and improved type, and finer j than any battleship in Europe. Among these are double turrets, a new conning tower and thirteen-inch guns. There is no battleship afloat to-day and hardly any fleet that could strike a single blow so terrific as the Kentucky or the Kearsarge. The reason s for this is that each carries on the for ward and after deck a double turret, , each turret carrying two thirteen-inch ^ guns. No European Power has placed guns larger than twelve-inch on any new vessels. The Kentucky, therefore, can con- | centrate the fire of two thirteen-inch i guns and two eigbt-inch guns simul- jc taneouslv upon any antagnonist. This ? is a blow which all ordnance authori- : tieB agree in stating no ship afloat |; could resist. * A 6ingle blow of this kind would j' disable, if it did not instantly sink, i1 the greatest warship on the seas. No j1 armor now made for naval purposes i " rrm l/I nrnt.pnt r shin ftcflinst these four I 3 guns simultaneously fired, the impact 11 of whoso shots would, it is thought, ? be even greater than a direct blow } from the heaviest ram. Either from J bow or stern the Kentucky or the J Kearsarge could deliver this irresistible force which nothing could withstand. The contract for building these ships was recently given to the New- s nnrf Naive S'nin-'RllildinQ' ComcaDY. I Although tho contractors have three i years in which to complete them, it is i not probable that itjrill require that 1 length of time. Wk will be car- ? tied on simultaneously oiT both the 1 HABBUB DEFENDE & i* ?|j ^ w/jjimA y ? tan. 'rf/4u*<+ i r <m i ir ? JM0N8TEB GU The two gnn6 shown at the left c after having been under construction f< ten miles with accuracy, and at short which is slightly smaller, will be moun Kentucky and the Kear6arge, and it is probable that they will be ready for launching at nearly the same time. Each of the ships will carry a complement of 600 men and officers. In general appearance both ships will seem rather short for their great beam, their length being 368 feet, extreme beam seventy-two feet two inches, freeboard forward fourteen feet three inches, freeboard aft twelve feet four inches and mean draught twenty-three feet six inches, which means a displacement of 11,500 tons. One of the requirements laid down by the Secretary was that these vessels shori Id draw less water when fully loaded than any other first-class battleship either in this country or elsewhere. The largest foreign ship draws about twenty-eight feet, while bhe ships of the Indiana class will draw but one foot less. The new ships, however, have been designed to draw but twenty-five feet, with 1200 tons of ;oal aboard. They thus will be enabled to reach all of the principal navy-yards and ports oi tne country ind can be docked with less difficulty bhan those now building. The feature of the vessels whioh makes them notably different from other battleships is the new form of turrets, about which there is still some iifferenc9 of opinion. Their advantages are said to be a large' saving in weight, which permits of more guns and more powerful machinery for the iVAll KENTUCKY. oV in course of construction at Newport Va.) propulsion, a better concentration of Sire, and the ability of the vessel to deliver all four guns in either forwardjor ifter turret almost simultaneously, with the result of hitting a terrific blow to the target. No battleship, the ordnance officers jontend, could withstand the blow if ;very shot took effect. The introduc;ion of the double turret system was opposed oy tne constructors ou me jroand that it was too great a depar;ure in the methods of mounting guns, md that there was danger of both turrets being placed out of action by a jingle shot hitting either. The objections advanced, however, vere met by the Ordnanc6 Bureau, ind Secretary Herbert finally decided :o place the new tuiTets on ;he two ships and have them nounted with the heaviest guns made ror the navy?heavier even than the -iflcs adopted for the battleships now Duilding for other Governments. The conning tower, from which joint the ships will be^ fought when n action, will be protected by ten nohes of armor, and inside will be a :ube with seven inches of armor, leadng down to the armor deck, for the protection of voice pipes, telegraphs, iteering rods, etc. The Kentucky. and the Kearsarge vill carry their full coal supply of 1210 ons with the greatest ease, their junker room being so ample that the :oal can 6imply be dumped into it vithout the labor of trimming. This quantity will be ample for all ordinary :ontingencies of cruising and for serrice in time of war along the coast, as it cmi6ing speed of teD knots it will suable them to steam 6000 miles, and it thirteen knots nearly 4000, or at till speed to cross from New York to ^neenstown. One of Germany's Fine Institutions. Among the most interesting instituions in Germany is that at St. Chris- ! :hona. At one time it sent ont mis- j iionaries, especially to the Soudan, J >ut of late years it has confined its vork to the training of mission work ;rs for home as well as foreign fields. ! it present it if full, having seventy wo students, mostly Swiss and Ger- ; nans, though there are seven Russian?:: md two Italians. Sixteen left las; fear, most of whom are engaged in ictive work as pastors, evangelists, itc. A considerable evangelistic work s carried on chiefly by the graduates n Slavonia with gratifying results.-STew York Independent. Midgets Make a Matc'i. Tommy Rice and Annie Price, "the | ;mallest midgets in the world," have TV,n io fr.fniir I uai l icu. xuu w* 1UU V? vmvj - w _ rears of age, exceedingly prepossessng, and thirty inches high, while the )ridegroom is fifty-nine years of age ind twenty-nine inches. ?New York Vlail and Express. I IRS, UKDEB. C0K8TBUCTI0N FOB X . \ NS FOR THE UNITED STATES MONITOE >f the picture are intended for the great ha ir twenty years. Each is capable of send range ot driving it tnrougn two leet or fced on board the monitor Terror. A Bicycle Lawn Mower. The uses of the horse are becoming more and more circumscribed, and all tt the powers of the inventor seem taxed hi to find an acceptible substitute. A ^ lawn mower run by steam was recently 01 exhibited abroad. The machine, b which was of the size usually drawn oi by a horse, consisted of a small engine w mounted on low, broad wheels, and so ai arranged as to cut the grass and roll a< the lawn at the same time. tl This invention is, however, only g, oi BICYCLE MO^KB* g^ re useful to the owner of very extensive p, lawns. Ordinary mortals will be more n interested in the invention of an in- ? genious Yankee who has succeeded in turning hard work into a pastime. Henceforth the boys and girls will compete eagerly for the privilege of cutting and rolling the iawn with the 31 bicycle lawn mower. This machine, e< which is shown in the illustration, is w reported to work very easily and to be n< about three times as fast as the ordin- m ary lawn mower. The idea is said to oi have been suggested by a lazy boy fa who fastened a common lawn mower 0( to the hind wheel of his bicycle and te completed his task to his own satis- ai faction and the mingled disgust and as- 01 tonishment of his irate parent. ti mm' ai Social Aspects of Colorado Life. hi The residents are Eastern people of considerable wealth, in spending which they strive to please themsolves at least, and their sobeme of life is intended to take in such means of enjoyment as they have been acoustomed to at home. It is Eastern life in a Western environment. They, therefore, have built a oountry club house called the Cheyenne Mountain Country Club, at Broadmoor, three miles from town, so as to have some place to drive to. It is an unpreten- h' tious but attractive honse, with large grounds (there seems always to be more ground stretching away in every J11 direction in Colorado than elsewhere), in which are set up all the appliances h< of country club sports. There is pigeon-shooting on many afternoons, i and polo when the team does not play nearer town. There are "meets" under club direction, to chase the coy- ri ote, or a live fox, or sometimes an ani- gi seed-bag only. Baces and some native b? horseback sports are held at certain ci time in the teason, and luncheons and pi dinner-parties are popular.?Scrib- n: ner'e. The number of police in England Is h: as one to every 730 inhabitants, one b to 923 in Scotland, and one to 311 in w Ireland. si A $5000 BAG} ?????? Size an? snape 01 ine uuncu oiatcg iuun From the United States Treasury J/*f_ VZE!? $?33 ARE ABOUT 1MZW IN I " ?J} ' "v* '.V" WESTY TEARS. |HH I PURITAN. MB rbor defender now nearly completed, ;^Hff ing a projectile weighing 850 pounijlaaHN solid steeL The gun on the right, _1 A Bed. Headed Mummy. A number of mummy remains from ie mummy pit at Manroloot. Egypt,; I ive just been received at Professor! fnw/l'o nafnsnl a??amAA AO^AVI1?HK?Mo?i>l r am d uuvui Ol ouicuwc gDMiwuouiuvttiri a College avenue. There were uoj odies in this particular assortment,bufc; 11 looking over the invoice a discovery! HB as made recently by Henry L. Wardj id a reporter which will set Profes-i >r Howard Osgood and the rest of j 10 Egvytological Exploration Fund aciety to thinking. Bfl A skull was being, examined and it HE as suggested that the inspeotors re- flB ove the incrustation oyer the top of| Hj 10 head and discover what colored air was possessed by the deceased. he crust was removed and straight right red locks were discovered beeath. A red-headed Egyptian! Who 1 ?er heard of such a thing? Every, ae imagines anJEgyptian as of b war thy >mplexion with straight, black; HH air. The red hair was straight when ?und, but certainly it has gone trough enough to spoil the effeots of le last crimping. Of course it doea ot follow that becanse this skull was iund in a mummy pit it is the sknU KB F a liotiwA RorntUn. Soma n obi ft ' ? ' - ?Orff iicn of Egjpt may have married some ^M| id-headed Northern', beauty |or the HH irty may have been a Greek?bnt HH le fact of the red hair remains.-ochester Post-Express. M ?***1?' 91 English Recruits. English army statistics state that H| 5,000 of the 50,000 men who present1 themselves for enlistment last year ere accepted Of the remaining early 15,000 were rejected by the edical officers. As regards the ages ,^H| I the recruits of 1895 the following cts are given : Of those attested 17,)0 were between eighteen and nineien years, 11,000 between nineteen id twenty-one, G000 between twentyle and twenty-three and 3000 between renty-three and twenty-five. England id Wales supplied the greater num- I a of recruits.? New York Sun. Bfl A Youug Man With a Future, "Jimmy, far de love o' heaven-what' is you got dere?" "Hush! Not a word on yer life 1 I laved our old billy goat and 8triped~-^BH im with black, an' I'm a taken him' ito town ter try an' sell him,for a ^HK jrned zebry to some dime* mamm!"?Truth. Salest Place From Lightning. ^H| According to Professor McAflie, the sk from lightning stroke is five times HBfl reuter in the country than in cities, ecauee ordinary dwelling houses in '^^9 iy blocks receive a very considerable rotection from the tin roofing, cor- HEN ices, gutters and so on. ' A storekeeper of Kokoma, IncL, is HJH ighly indignant over the action of a HH arglar who broke a $100 plate glass indow to get at about $10- worth of lver plated ware. OF ?0LD. fgjfl t Poaches In Which Gold U Shipped 7 to the European Steam'?;. CHES IN HEIGHT WHEN FILLED. 1