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I?m MUSIC CURE. ^?HE LATEST FAD OF GOTHAM'S SOCIETY WOMEN. ? a^Kurlag Ailments by Certain Strains H of Sound?Some Chat About New Gowns?>lale School W of Cooking. (Special New York Letter.) -w t ttw vonr- v.nq a tipw fad. \ This time it is the Music I \ Cure. Ever since the EmQ press of Austria was treated for her neuralgic ailments of long standing and cured bj* oertain strains of sound, repeated at frequent intervals, the music cure has grown steadily in favor. Now it is to be tried here. Society women turned out in large numbers the other day to hear an eminent European physician lecture on remedies for nervous diseases. The _ idea is to find the sympathetic chord on an instrument that strikes in harmony with one's nerves. Have this played to you over and over very softly; it will finally lull you to sleep, and sleep means cure for nervous dis orders. Emotional temperaments will, in all probability, turn to the soft contraltolike voice of the 'cello; and overstrung women who try to crowd the ^ duties of two days into <4ne, will un^Moubtedly choose the oboe, an instru* g^Bnent like a mellow human voice. A MBeery pretty idea indeed. Music hath ^^pbarms to soothe the savage breast, Ibrhy not a charm also to sootne nerves: J Miss Olga Nethersole, the greatest (emotional actress of the day, is particularly sensitive to sounds, and music plays on her nerves' heat-waves as on so many delicate filaments. Recently I met her, after a performance of "Camille;" her first words were, *'Have you come to see a poor dead woman?" (She dies in the last act). MADE OF SLATE GRV.Y DIAGONAL CLOTH. WITH A VlOLfclT BLOUSE. "No, indeed," I replied ; "I come to see a woman very much alive." She had changed her gown and her maid had vanished. So we chatted quietly and I had a good opportunity to study her. Very lovely she looked in an exquisite gown of a^fine dark green worsted. The three-button cutaway had a single cart from the shoulder holding the coat well into the figure in fiont, and the smart little sailor collar had a buttonhole on each side. At the neck and from the bottom button a very handsome waistcoat of ereen seeded wool and silk with a tinv speck of red was visible. She is as supple es a fawn; has large dreamy eyes and mahogany-colored hair. I met her some yeare ago in London before she had won her present hold on the public, and then I felt eure she wouid be a great actress one <K)WS OF A FIXE DARK OREEX WORSTED. day. Her personal magnetism and power to work on one's emotion is wonderful. She is indeed a woman oi temperament. At a professional matinee tendered by the "My Friend lrotn India" Company at Koyt's Theatre the other day, sat next me in the stalls, Miss Grace Kimball, who is a prominent member of Henry Miller's Company. She looked stunning in a toilet of elate gray diagonal with an invisible oheck, h The jacket had reverB and was open h from neck to waist. This showed off g a handsome violet silk blouse. A high f stock of violeb crushed velvet, with a d ^ ETON SUIT OF SCOTCH CHEVIOT. r_'ii _ e ri 1 ? ?????? * iV?/-? - iriil u: bun muo, was w jiu av/uuv buo j throat. And a oapote entirely of flowers with an aigrette made a stylish d head-dress. The quality of the cloth a and the fine finish of the sait were r noticeable enough to attract attention c anywhere. q In the foyer between the acts I met c ? I \ \ \ \ I \\ I \ \ \ X & \ \\\ I \ i 1? CHOCOLATE BROADCLOTH TRIMMED p WITH BLACK SILK BRAID. ? f Miss Pauline French, of Daly's com- n pany. She is a tall distingue-looking n girl, and was wearing an elegant gown o of chocolate broad-olotb., The trim Y little Eton was tight-fitting, with a braid in the popular militaxy fashion e and open just enough at the throat to w show a pale blue satin ribbon twisted c several times around the neck to form d a four-in-hand knot in front. The h sleeves were of the regulation coat cut, ana naa braia at tns wrist. iuiss it French, on the stage or off of it, is al- si ways a marked figure. b Poor lonely man! We are going to c have a male school of cookery. Now p that the new woman threatens to grad- tl ually forsake the domestic stove for k clubs and stump oratory, an academy n of cookery for the instruction of men ? is about to be opened. " The idea is to have a new dog every b night and try the food on him. If he h survives,that will be thg test of whether 1< the food prepared by the students will E be fit for human consumption. t Many beautiful gowns were seen at ti the reception tendered to Mrs. Julia b Marlowe-Taber, the actreos, by the Twelith Night Club (an organization composed of all the prominent actresses in New York.) Among those that a stood out prominently was one worn t-1 by Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, of the Lyceum 0 Theatre Company, who looked dignity 1 itself in a mixed Scotch cheviot of t: green, black and old rose, A pointed s open fronted Eton coat with broad b revers, stitched several times had three s buttons at the bottom, and the skirt ii hung faultlessly. A silk shirt of old t rose, and a high turn down linen col lar were worn. The hat waB a olose o shape, with bunches of violets at each v side and two tall black wings stioking t straight up in front. F A.n insurance company, in oalculat- v ing in its annual report the wisdom of I insurance, and seeking to confirm the f truth of the adage "Nothing is 60 cer- 1 tain to happen as the unexpected," c mentions a number of queer accidents v and the amount of mouetary consola- i: tion which the policy holder in each t case received. Part of the list was as follows: Lawyer fell over a pile of briefs, S'AOO. Gentleman missed dog when trying to kick him, struck sofa i instead, injuring gTeat toe, S100. But t the most noticeable item was: Literary C man (poet) pricked quick of finger c with pin, blood poisoning, $525. Who t says there is no more money in i poetry? t Very large hats called "flops," 2 trimmed with a simple wreath of roses, ( are much in vogue. t Black dressed kid gloves are taking 3 the place of white. 1 Eli Perkins, known throughout the a country as a lecturer and humorist, r ias Boven tiny Japanese poodles whioh ie brought from Japan. They are of 1 ;reat valae. Recently his particular avorite among them was taken ill; a i log doctor or hie assistant stayed with he brute for two days and nights, inally rescuing the pup from an unimely grave. Many human beings do lot get half such good care. The costumes illustrated herewith rere designed bv The National Cloak 3o., of New York. About the Ostrich. An ostrich will never go straight to ts nest, but always approaches it nth many windings and detours, in ! >rder, if possible, to conceal the local- J ty from observatien. A champion of the ostrich has arisen 1 md declares in a current magazine J hat for the last few thousand years ' hat bird has been horribly and pa- ' hetically misrepresented. It seems that the ostrich of reality, j ?linv and all other writers to the conrary, is neither stupid, cruel, coward- * y, savage nor especially fleet. He ' loes not hide his head and suppose i limself to be entirely concealed; c leither does his spouse allow the sun ' o hatch her eggs. In short, almost ( ill our time-hallowed beliefs about j his cruellv maliened bird are con 'incingly demonstrated to be merely airy tales. There are only three ostrich-raising arms in the United States. The argest is in California, near Los Lngeles, and contains nearly 200. naive birds, the original stock of Afripn ostriches having died off, nnable o survive the change of climate. The hickB from now on are expected to ncrease at the rate of abont 100 a rear. The breeding birds are very vicious Inring the laying season, and attend.nts who are obliged to enter the corals do so in fear of their lives. The sxricn nas at commauu a temuij laiok and very powerful forward and 1 lownward blow witli his feet, and has 1 ?een known to injure horses so severe- 1 y that they had to be shot. The average ostrich is over seven eet high, weight- between 250 and 300 >ounds and lives about seventy years, ts ordinary food is alfalfa hay and ugar beets, and its appetite is not rery large. The feed for one cow rould support ten ostriches. "The ligestion of an ostrich" is an allusion o the fact that the long-legged bird las a habit of picking up peDDies, ;round bones and other hard subtances, which are used to grind the ood in its stomach. About 300 feathers are plucked from ach full-grown bird in every eight or line months. The most valuable are hose long white plumes which grow >n the wings of the male. The rest ?lio fonfhora nro drAh nn fchft female ,nd black on the male. f he feathers rom each bird bring in about $30 a ear to the producer, and the cost of :eeping the birds iB comparatively mall. ' About Bibles. ^ The finest and largest collection of f libles in the world is said to be at the lible houee of the British and Foreign g Jible Society, in Queen Victoria a teeet, London. a One of the best manuscript bibles e chich have come down from ancient fc imes is a copy made by Thecla, a no- f >le Chistian lady of Alexandria, in the 1 ifth century. It was brought from t ilexandria to Constantinople, and s ;iven by the patriarch to the English Imbasaador to his sovereign, James I., a nd remained in'the possession of the t Inglish Kings until the royal library t ras presented to the nation by (Jeorge a I. v Bible printing in England is done v 'bv privilege of the Queen," a privil- i ge held by only three establishments t -the Oxford preas, the Cambridge t rese, and Messrs. Scottiswoode and b lyre, the Queen's printers. India t: aper,.which has revolutionized bible n laking, is said to be a mechanical m lystery and a trade secret, known o nly to three men. It is made at the tl ^olvercote mills of the Oxford press, ti nd in order to preserve the secret no a mployo is allowed to be in touch k rith more than one stage of the pro- F ess. The use of this paper has re- ft uced the thickness of the bible by one- d alf. t( A writer in a current magazine has lj itely visited this building and de- o sribessome of tho famous and curious p ibles he saw; there were sixteenth r< entury bibles, with columns and k ages daubed out with red ochre by L be hand of the censor; bibles of dead o ings and queens, containing the sig- atnres of their owners; the Wicked (ible, issued in 1632, which said, : 'Thou shalt commit adultery," and rought a fine of 1000 marks to its nnappy publisher for unintentionally jading a weak world astray, and the treeches Bible, of 1560, which said hat Adam and Eve "sewed leaves ncethfir and made themselves reeches. One in a Hundred Million. Traveling on American railways is ttended with little risk, according to ho tables compiled by the "Railroad iazette. One passenger was killed in 896 for every hundred million miles ; raveled, and but for two or three ! erious accidents the showing would iave been more favorable. The pasenger fatalities of 1896 were greatly n excess of those in 1895. Last year here were 128 deaths, largely due to tegligence in operating, while in 1895 >nly thirty-eight lives of passengers rere lost. There was an increase in he number of fatalities among employes. Three hundred and eighteen rere killed in 1896 and and 302 in 895, but as the train mileage went up rom 834,200,000 to 840,000,000 in, 896 the death rate was practically unhanged. The tables prove that, notwithstanding the killing of passengers n carload lots, it is safer to ride on rains than to handle them. Yearly Fir<! Losses. The average yearly loss from fires ^ n the United States during the past c wentv years has been about $100,- * 100,000. During the past year, ac:ording to the chronicled fire tables, " here have been 38,003 fires, destroy- * ug 33,96-1 pieces of property. The 11 otal loss entailed has been 8142,110,- * 133, with an insurance loss of $84,- r 189,030. In this tall column of disas- ^ ers there were 22,711 dwelling-house6, * i40 churches, 302 colleges and school- 8 louses, 502 theatres and public halls * ,nd 5281 manufacturing establish- 11 aents. ? t ALASKA'S REINDEER-! 1 ["HF.TR IMPORTATION HAS BEEN I A UKKA1' SUUUr.33. , low a Lapp Protects the Animals From Eskimo Dogs?Kelndeer Solved Alaska's Transportation Problem. THERE are reindeer in Alaska. So much has been known for three or four years, for the f Government bought them ? 'rom the Siberian deermen and put ;hem there. And the reindeer are j Nourishing and multiplying. That is * the report that comes from the far > Korth from the men who were put in .1 e iL. j j i?U U/./.), ;uar^u ui tue ueer suit iuiu iu nam the Eskimo how to nee and raise them. This verdict of suocess with the rein- 1 leer is thought, to mean great things e or Alaska. Just now there's little to ?at in the biggest part of tha't big sountry up North. Get up above the Aleutian chain of islands that make stepping stones for giants half way icross to Asia, or go over the mountain wall that faces the coast of Southern Alaska, and food must be got fiom ;he outside, if it's to be had at all. Little >r nothing can be raised, wild animals ire soarce and cattle couldn't live 'there imr\ if iViero wm anvthinir for fcham o eat. i Bat the reindeer pastures?they're j mmenseJ There are 400,000 square < niles of land covered with the fibrous 1 vhite moss, and all on earth it is good t or is to l'eed reindeer. The pauture t ands run back a thousand mile* or i ;wo fr^m Bristol bay and stretch across 1 he Yukon and far to the north?even i :o the ever frozen region of Point Bar- \ :off. According to thci calculations of t Sheldon Jaokson, there is pasturage c 'or 9,200,000 reindeer on the Bad t uands of Alaska, and as reindeer are . rorth 89 or $10 apioce there is a e ihance to do a very respeotable busi- i less in the stock-raising line in that f DEFENDING BK1NDEJ lesolate country, if only the reindeer v lourish and multiply. t But there hf.ve been great times in o getting the reindeer his footing in Al- I .ska. He was an assisted immigrant a nd had to be protected against all I orts of dangers besides those founi in r ? < ?%4MM TU/. ?MAim i^An/?A?a . 119 uavivc UUUUUjr. mo maiu uau^oio y eared were from the Eskimo doge, the e inngry Eskimo himself and the loss r hat would come from neglect of an- v killfal or careless herders. t The Eskimo is little removed from fi wolf. He is hungry and savage and j he roindeer ia eatable. Consequently o here was trouble. The Eskimo dogs 0 re thick about the station and Eskimo ^ Ulagee. Doge are a part of Eskimo fli realth, aa the only 'pack animals of t: tie frozen norti up to the arrival of gi he reindeer, but are easier to get than d feed. So whsn the reindeer were 1 rought to the Teller Beindeer Sta- d inn ftt Port, fllftrannft thfi Eskimo doers n lade an attaok on the held. They s: ere ont for gam 9 and had to be driven b ff again and again before they learned tl be lesson that it was not good to at- a ick the herd. Then they gave their c ttention to the sled deer that were n ept abont the station for hanling. M 'or a time even the presence of men t] liled to restrain them. One or two 0 eer driven bv themselves were too ;mpting, and for weeks they were a able to be assailed by a bowling paok t; f ki-yis. The station had brought a arty of Lapps to take charge of the b aindeer, however, and the Lapp n nows how to deal with dogs. The iapp carries a knife with a blade ten ^ r twelve inches long,and has a handy ? I I ^ t LOADING BEIKOEEB. t ? . labit of using it. A witness to the onilict tells how tho Lapp deals with f he dogs: "The Lapp wits driving a pair of ? leer. A dozen great Eskimo dogs ' hought tho time had come for fresh ' neat and gave chase. Before the | * japp knew what was coming, eled and eindeer were surrounded and the logs were leaping and barking before ho frightened creatures. The Lapp s ;ave a series of shouts that frightened a he dogs for a moment. Then in the I ooment of respite he leaped from the 1 led, ran to the heads of the deer and i hrew them with their backs on the t [round. Then ttraddling them anc loldiog their heads ereot with his left innd he drew his great knife in hie ight. The reindeer could not rise. trrr rrrv^n mrm ttt?t aiumuiu iaL xvai.ii/c?ut? !n their position they coald hardly itrnggle, and the Lapp was ready foj >attle. He had hardly got into posi ion, though the operation had takei >ut a moment, when the dogs were 01 lim again, eager for reindeer meat tfitb one sweep the Lapp out at th< irsfc two dogs. There was a wild how >f pain, a dripping of blood and th< wo leaders lost interest in the tight, Che other dogs were nothing dauntec )y the fate of the first and still pressec orward. The Lapp swung his knif< >aok and forth with load cries, and a< (very swing some dog was yelping witl >ain and retiring to give his comradei i chance. By the end of a minute here were bat two or three dogs ot he active list, and with a final whoop he Lapp frightened them into retir ng to a respectful distance. Th< japp stepped aside and released th< 'eindeer*' heads; in an instant the] rere on tneir feet. He leaped intc he sled onoe more and in a few sec mds only a cloud of snow flying int< he air told where he had gone." In case the dogs pluok up spirit fox i pursuit after a first failure, the Lap; epeats the process of disposing of hie oes until enough have been killed oi ?? 1 i : J JK AGAINST D0Q3. rounded to put an end to further stacks. In the Port Clarence region mly one dog was killed, though the iakimo village looked for a while like hospital for wounded dogs. The japps were always victorious, and no eindeer were killed. After a round f battles and a proper amount ol lashed skins had taught the dogs that eindeer were private property there ras no more trouble. The dogs around he present reindeer station pay no artber attention to tnem. as tne eindeer enlarge their oircle to reach ther Tillages, however, the process f education has to be repeated. It rill take some years and a good many ore hides to teaoh the canine populaion of Alaska that there is a olose eauon for reindeer. The herds are safe from the natives, 'he only reindeer meat that has gone own their throats has come from a nmber of reindeer that died from ickness. The Eskimo apprentices, not eing particular about such trifles aa He cause 01 aeatu, prompiy appropri' ted the flesh and all else that was bewable about the deceased deer, and lade a holiday feast. Five reindeei -ere killed for food for the whites and tie Lapps in the first winter. The thers fared well. The danger of lack of food melted way on the test. There is plenty for be increase of centuries. The troubles bat come from untrained herders ie eing gradually lessened. The Eskiios are skillful enough, but they learo rom the Lapps. Milking, however, ras a trick that the Eskimos had some ifficulty in acquiring. Before the japps came some experiments had een made, and the first time that the japps anempieu tu ut^iu iuo uptut*ion on a cow ebe started like a tlasb, japed the fence, knocked down a erder and ran av<ay. On inquiry it ras learned that the oustomary way f milking had been to lasso the sejcted cow, throw her down and while hree men held her on the ground the ourth drew the milk. The cows had pparently acquired a prejudice against he operation, and it took nearly a year o convince them that milking was a armless, pleasant exeroise in no way o be regarded as a signal for a riot. According to the enthusiasts the omestic reindeer are going to solve he transportation problem for Alaska s well as the food problem for the Eskimo. The dog teams are expensive arriers and not efficient either. Alska is a land of magnificent distances, rith settlements hundreds of miles part. The dog teams can travel only .fteen to twenty-five miles a day, can arry only a few hundred pounds, and s food for their support mutt be lacked, they cannot make very long aurneys. Reindeer can travel farther a a day, draw much heavier loads, nd in camp can forage for themselves, lo the reindeer team, the sled and the japland harness will soon become as ypical of Alaska in the front pages of ho school geography as of Lapland. 5ut just now there is a call for a few housand more reindeer. If they caD >e secured the herd will increase at o apid rate. Just now it is slow, as here are only five or six hundred cows t the stations. Bo it will be some ime before the 9,200,000 reindeer will larken the Alaskan snows and strain he capacities of the Alaskan moss pas> ures.?San Francisco Examiner. Boston has a society of direct de cendants of passengers on the memorble trip of the Mayflower to Plymouth, t has already 118 members and nearlj 00 other persons have been author' zed to file their proofs of eligibility o membership. I [ THE MODERN PARLOR. fstoi t I I stoi i Wherein It Differs From That of the I; Past?Its Proper Furnishings. bar The improvement in public taste in in8 this country during the pa6t few years s'ai is 6ho^n in few ways more strikingly 8ra than in furnishing of the parlor. In var: the oldon times, when houses were ^ hented with difficulty by open fire- P1"1 places or littlo wood stovep, it became arc' the custom in winter time to shut off tioi the portions of the house that were ^ not needed for living purposes for C'U( economy of fuel. The parlor was not aPP n ueces^ary place for family use, as the _ household generally gathered for comfort in the kitchen or dining-room. Therefore the parlor was the first room to be closed on the Qui .approach ot winter, and the last to be opened on the advent of j, summer. It is scarcely a generation ai>o, and rell within the memory of persons of moderate age, that the parlor was darkened day and night, hold- ^ 3 ^EBSPBOTITE VIBW. P*a r mie 3 ing no attractions for members of the ous household. The most crying fault in pell ) the Ajneric&D house of moderate di- dau meneions is still that the parlor is sew made too formal, and is not given the fro( > true home atmosphere. ? ? From the architectural arrangement Wil r of most detached houses the parlor is viet rarely one of the best lighted rooms? Wil nor is there any need that it should be ? ?nor is it generally as well provided with artificial heat. For these reasons it is a mistake to furnish in oold tones, such as white and gold. Delightful as the contemplation of suoh a room is, it is not comfortable nor homelike, nor is it'worth the time and patienoe it requires to preserve it in the midst of a full-fledged nest of young Americans. i The color soheme is the most im- I portant part of furnishing; there (' should be a certain warmth in color- V ing, and this will rarely be fonnd in \ gilt papers or moquette carpets. If / the rest of the house be simply fur* j. nithed the parlor can still be elegant t'ff a. l. ii: j ' a j wim maiuijg uuu ru;<H uu tuo uuvc, ? rattan or bamboo furniture and mus- II lin curtains. The only important i thing is to the different pieces of fur- ill niture in one room of similar style il and effect, and to have the decora- V tions correspond with the furniture so ^ as to give a good general effect?t he details are a matter of preference. As U 1 most houses are laid out the parlor \ 1 has at leasi one long, blank wall, and 1 perhaps two?to make these attraotive 1 is the supreme test of furnishing. A 1 few large piotures hung several feet 1 above the line of vision is the usual treatment?and the result is depresssing to a degree. The wall should be 1 covered as fully as possible with pio- ; . [ _ tori mal B an i m ' - ? S ond V ban 1 U'XIfc . b I I am: ? p^*]} l[ci| beei , f ' "1? t "e ( ?r/CJu-y ss I BE| prei \ w a 1 utFi tor; rrr i ao *?j I?ii! 'H "'OTP! Bau If*v f*r'*r HhaU i.u.i? 1 J a a'Cxiy ?3aus^ f 1 ' 8 the 1 Ver^ndA w. 7'wide B 8ra' 1 Lad % pass n wffr rtooR. fest tr?ron and nlnntv nf small ones should 'fj be interspersed in order to give diversity and informality. The mantels should be well filled with objects of art, and none of them should be trivial. Above all there should be plenty ill of books in the book case; not pondercms gift books, blazing with gilt and jfflL stamped leather, but books to read ^ and books that ar9 talked about. It should be remembered that there are ^ no better aids to furnishing any living room, than a supply of prettily bound ^ books. ? The accompanying plan provides a Js parlor of attractive shape and size that lends itself to the treatment indicated above. The wood work is painted a deep cream and the walls, coral; the floor is stained a deep red! brown, or cov- feet, ered with "old rose" or "dark copper" i '_1 are fu ' masi i .... '?1I bl?c Bed R. I 1 Lik< ytixis fl | I earil . flj sand /r* 1 n1 * az? f J I nass | ~ I: O. \)b . n ^ suit Ickj ldab I "at } ;* ;I / O " '7 A <* then I * t tlwMWMMBpfasaBMmoaJ^ri Eng V /\ the V / ! uu^e iy sued , (_ for, , tailc SECOND FLOOhi lliftU felt, which helps to lighten or soften 1 the eflect of the decoration, and can be overlaid with rugs. T1 The general dimensions of this de- popi sigu are: taut Width, through library and kitchen eigh thirty-three feet ten inches; depth, opei , forty-six feet 6ix inches, including duri ' veranda. Heights of stories: Cellar, buri seven feet; first floor, nine feet six rate inches; eecond floor, nine feet. opei Exterior materials; Foundation, $42C V le; first story, clapboards; second j, gables and roofs, shingles, aterior finish: Two coats plaster, d white finisb ; mapie wood noon ; trimming, North Carolina pinef * rcase, ash. All interior woodwork in filled and finished in hard oil aieb. . careful selection of colors fo* ating have been selected by the bitects, the plan and acoommoda* 1 being one of unusual merit. 'he cost to build is 84000, sot inling mantels, range and heating 1 aratus. -Copyright 1897. A JIO'JEL HAESFRAU. ct Tastes and Domesticity of th* Empress of Germany. :tti b is 6tated by a writer who is in a ition to know, that there is no bbishness about Augusta Victoria, press of Germany. All through German Empire the Empres9 is id as a model hausfrau. She never srests herself in matters of State, * gives her whole attention to her je family of ohildren. About the 7 affairs outside of the royal home vhich she interests herself are her ritable works, whioh she person attends to. Augusta Victoria waa accustomed to luxury when she a girl, and it is all the more cred)le to her that Bhe has not been iled by her change in circumices. Her father was Duke Fredik of Schleswig-Holatein Sonder* g. It was an obscure and shabby ie court there, and Augusta and three sisters well knew how to otice all the little domestic econos which the families of impeonniGerman nobles are so often cornled to reeort to. Although a duke's ghter, she learned to bake and and darn and make oyer her own. Jks. ' tut, the day arrived when Prinoo' liam, destined to become kaiser,( ed the coart of Primkenaa. Prino? liam looked with admiration on ' ' POBTBAIT OF THE GERMAN EMPEBSS. * M modest and comely Augnefti Vica. It took him a short time to ce up his mind that she would make ZJoal nrifa TTfl i?fltnrnfld for a sec visit, and was a suitor for he.'j cL They were married at Berlin "u ; d pomp and display. She has now a married about sixteen yean.' le of the more brilliant women of royal German family, such as the peror's sister, Charlotte of Saxeningen, and his mother, the i?in> js Frederick, regard Augusta Vio- . < a as dull and stupid. But her >ition is only to be a devoted wife mother. 1 ' $22 Highest Hotel id the World. ' it- !3 J- 1^' he highest notei in ue worm m m Himalayas of Western Thibet. It hat is known as the Sevai at Zin1 located in<the Chang-la, a pass in. ak or Western Thibet. The baildis over 16.000 feet above the level he sea. The extreme height of the i in which it is located is 18,36$ . Villages are situated at either of the pass, Chimary on the one is 12,400 feet above the oea level, la Dni-ffn on the other side is 14,500 ^ ?* ' ^ 16,000 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL. T / "43 The building is a square block) l a oentral courtyard. The wallf of great thickness and built of iive rough-hewn and irregular ks of stone quarried in the vioinity.i 5 most Oriental dwellings the roof at. Its surroundings are neoeo4 y cheerless, for it stands thon^ Is of feet above the timber line in . ne of perpetual cold and barren' A Costly Suit of Clothes. ae hundred thousand dollars for of clothes is the latest yarn from to. Five years ago Morris Yenzel, lor in Moscow, in that State, made it of clothes for a miner, taking iq ncnt 5000 shares of Leroi stock, . quoted at a cent a share. An / . lish syndicate now wants to buy Leori mine, but refused to do so ss it could get all the stock is. The 5000 shares were advertised and suddenly it dawned on the ir that he had them. He has datied $20 a share for his holding. Cost of Garbage Burning. le city of Lowell, Mass., with a llation ot about 80,000 inhabis, burns its garbage for about ty cents a toD. The cost of ating its plant for one week,) ng which 100 tons of garbage waa xed, was 3S0.75. burning at the of 100 tons per week, the cost ofi ating such a furnace is about >0 per year.