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? . f Mynhei I 999999991 BY ST. QEORQc 999999991 CorTRIGHTlSO", r.OBI X? i I. CHAPTER VII. ' * [Continued.] "Tt was be who sent nie. I have exhausted nearly four months in all. There remain eight more for you to show up in Philadelphia and prove your Identity. That done within a year from the date of tlie old man s death you fail heir to his vast estates." < "Well," with a steady "puff-puff," '(suppose 1 fail to show up?what then?" "Why, man, there's a cool million at stake in this matter?think of it, enough to lie out expeditious to the North Pole?to the centre of the earth ?money to squander in the most elaborate efforts to discover what even a Livingstone or a Doctor Kane has failed in." How artfully Mr. Grimes puts this, appealing to what he knows is the weak spot In the make-up of his strange companion. Was ever such a scene as this known before, when a man pleads with a fellow human to appear and claim a fortune that awaits his coming? Mynheer Joe seems to be weighing the whole affair in the invisible scales of his mind. When he speaks again it Is reflectively. ? "Eight months, you say. When did he die?" "On the 10th of October last." "Eight months?let me see?from Cairo I go direct to India?it is Impossible to give that Journey up, for even now I may be too late to accomplish what I seek to do. Then, if all goes well there, I have made up my mind to see something of China in a region foreigners have never yet been able to penetrate, making my way through to Persia and the Mediterranean. Eight months are a short time, but then if everything goes well there is a chance that I may turn up in Philadelphia before or on next October 10th. It all depends on how fortune handles me, you know." It would be impossible to portray the feelings that possess Mr. Grimes ; while he listens to these remarkable words. He has seen many types of men in his life, and looks upon the whole human race as gold-worshipers, yet here is a man who seems to have : an honest scorn for the dross. It is ; the most astonishing event Mr. Grimes has ever come across in all his life. He holds his cigar between finger and 1 thumb and surveys Mynheer Joe with amazement. ] "You are the first man I ever met In my range, sir, who would snap his ; fingers at a fortune which he could h?.ve by putting out his hand and grasping it," he mutters. "Perhaps so, Mr. Grimes. I know '' my own mind best, and as you per- ' haps are aware possess enough means for all the purposes of my business. A little money goes a long way when | In the bush, and I don't travel like ; Stanley with from one to five hundred . porters and fighting men. By the way, supposing I fail to turn up by the time ?pecified, does the property go to char- ' Ity?" 1 Mr. Grimes has been expecting this, and yet he twists uneasily in his chair, as though hardly willing to answer. "No. It goes to the other side of the house." , "Ah! The Bunners?" "A descendant of theirs, daughter . Of the last Miss Bunner. She married , and was lost sight of for a long time, , but her family turned up out West . somewhere." . "Do you know the name of this heiress, Mr. Grimes?" "Well, yes, sir, I have heard it," be ] replies. t "Let mo have it, please." remarks Mynheer Joe, taking out his note- ' book. "A man is bound to feel some j Interest in the party who will come j Into a million or not, according to his t whim. If you have seen this party? Bv the way. is she a spinster or mar- . ried woman?" "The former, by all means," with a , grin tnat Mynheer Joe takes note of J and presrmes is caused by the fact ^ that the party referred to is an antiquated old maid, with queer little , curls, blue jlasses and a pet cat?oh, , he can see her in imagination, just as , he pictured the Hon. Demosthenes Tanner?and as truly. "I trust she'll make good use of the money if through my failure to appear It falls to her," pursues Joe, thoughtfully. "No doubt of that, sir, no doubt of that," says the other, with something of a chuckle. "According to my idea of thinking that money is bound to go the isame way whether you get it or the other." "That's an enigma. Mr. Grimes, explain." ht'li, juu st'e, sues uutuiiiiuuijij fond of travel?bas been up Mount Blanc, partly sealed the Matterborn, cruised along the whole coast of Al* glers, and has any number of trips in contemplation which will consume money and add to the knowledge of geographers. Bless you, sir, she's got a medal already from the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain in connection with certain features concerning some daring work she did in the Alps." "Phew! A regular female discoverer! An adventurer in petticoats. I've met a number of such. They're all alike. And while admiring their grit in daring perils in unkuowu lands I am free to confess, Mr. Grimes, that I was never struck with their persoual charms. It is a business that only the most determined characters take to?women who partake more of the man in their nature. You've seen 'ein often." Mr. Grimes is shaking nil over with some emotion. He coughs as though it is a little tobacco smoke that has gotten into his windpipe ami choked him. "Of course, my dear fellow. But you do wrong to condemn the whole I er Joe.] *9999999 J : pATHBORNE. I *9999999 E :ut Bonker'b Sons. J class. I've always found there were exceptions to every rule." "Come, don't think I'm throwing out inuendoes against female travelers. I've met several wonderful women who accompanied their husbands into danger and threatening death. I'm only stating a fact that all with whom I am acquainted are strong characters, with plain, resolute features. I presume the life they lead makes them look so mannish." "Yet, they, too, may have been lovely once," murmurs the pseudo silver king. "The name, Mr. Grimes?the name' Perhaps I have met the lady somewhere." "And I am sure of it. It is now less tnan nair an tiour since you Kiiociieu her dear old governor out in one round." Mynheer Joe drops book and pencil and springs to his feet as if made the recipient of a galvanic shock from one of the electric eels he is so fond of telling about. "Why, man, you don't mean to tell me that it 1b Molly Tanner?" he bursts out with, whereupon his companion begs him to remember that others are not far away, and one scene of an evening is quite enough. By this time Mynheer Joe, the erstwhile cool messenger from Khartoom, has picked up his book and seats himself close beside Mr. Grimes, upon whose arm he fastens a clutch, while with a voice full of eagerness he asks: "Tell me the exact truth, my friend. There is no reason for concealment between us. You say Molly Tanner will come in for that million If I fail to turn up?" "That is the whole of it, my dear Joe." "Of course she knows the nature of the will?" "Word for word." "I am puzzled." "How so?" "She met me. heard mv name, and yet did not recognize me as the party who could step between her and this fortune." "Bah! You forget something. You assumed your uncle's name, which, it seems, for reasons best known to yourself, you have thrown off again." "True, sir." "The document speaks of Joseph M. Carringford as the coming man. IIow was she to know Mynheer Joe as that pariy ?" "Ah! You are right, Mr. Grimes, you are right!" "This young woman, as I told you, is an enthusiast In the work of seeing unknown countries, climbing mountains that have never yet been scaled, and, in fact, accomplishing deeds that you men love so dearly." "I remember she spoke of being fond of travel," he mutters thoughtfully. This surprise has taken his breath away, and for the time , being Mynheer Joe Is not himself. "Just at present she has an object in her travel beyond mere adventure ar sight-seeing. She Is searching for a man." "An:" "By name Joseph M. Carringford." "On deck. What will she do when she finds this same personage?" "Endeavor to send him home to Philadelphia in time to secure his inheritance. She believes the old man's will is unjust, and desires to set matters right. No one looks for the missing Carringford more earnestly than this girl who would most profit by his ibsence." "Then Molly Tanner is one in a thousand. I knew I could not be mistaken In her face. Here is another peculiar tie that draws us together. Make up your mind, Mr. Grimes," as tie tosses his cigar away and jumps to tiis feet, "I go to India from here, and the chance is now one in a thousand that I turn up in Quakerdom in time to secure the conditions of the will." Mr. Grimes does not rise, but puffs away at his Havana, brought across the water, while he looks after Myntieer Joe's retreating form. "Well," he says, with a chuckle, r?r?/l twA innlro fniir Thp mn? net draws?he goes to meet her. I may be beaten in one sense, but there lire more ways of accomplishing a thing than enter into your philosophy, Horatio. Kismet! It is, indeed, fate!" CHAPTER VIII. SANDY. Mynheer Joe enters the nearest room and finds a few of the guests scattered about. His eye seeks one form alone ?and finds it not. It is uncertain how 'Molly will receive him, as he cannot tell whether her father will relate the circumstances of the affair to her or not. Conscious that a pair of eyes have fastened upon him, he looks across the room to see the small man whom Grimes designated as the wily baron, the secret emissary of the Russian Government, smiling and nodding in a condescending way that is irritating, to say the least. Just then Mynheer Joe has a peculiar sensation sweep over him; he is conscious of a deep dislike toward this man. lie does not attempt to exnlain the feeling. Perhaps it is rival ry that brings these two together?n striving after the smiles of a beautiful girl. Molly Tanner brushes past the baron at this moment, having been able tc leave her parent, who is not badly injured in any way. The Itussian puts out a hand to stay her passage, but she heeds him not. advancing straight as the home flight of a bee for the spot where the explorer stands. Iu another moment she is at his side. "How is your father?" he manages to ask. feeling like a hypocrite: and but for the fact of his face being al ready tanned, the blood mounting upward would betray him. "He feels no effect from his fall, 'J ' >' ?' l'.' .'-ytj . . .. but Is full of deep anger," Molly re-' plies. "Against?the man who struck him?" "No, singularly enough he doesn't soem to feel that way toward the wretch. His anger is wholly directed against the man who throw the banana skin upon the flags on which he slipped at the time he was struck." I "Oh I" says Joe, witn a gurgling smuc, as ho grasps the defeated gladiator's ruse to excuse his downfall. "Singular how incidents will happen. I've had as strange things occur to me at timps. But, Miss Molly, how is it with you? If your father does not bear ! malice toward the uulucky offender who was so rash asto measure strength > with him, do you also forgive him?" "Not I?the wretch. It was my dear old governor he struck. If I had been 1 present I'm afraid I might have done something desperate." 1 And her flashing eyes give Joe an ? idea that this is no mere idle threat on her part. ' He shrugs his shoulders and continues: "I believe it was a fair, stand-up ' business. But we will not discuss It further, Miss Molly." 1 "Pardon me, but?" she stammers. "What can I do for you?" seeing she is about to ask some favor at i which she hesitates. 1 "I don't know why I speak to you in this way, since I have known you for so short a time. I have numerous frionrts hprp?aenunintancps. I should 1 call them?but you saved my life, and, i somehow I feel that I can say to you 1 what I should hesitate to speak to others." "Yes," he utters encouragingly, feeli ing deeply flattered by her words, and i yet conscious of an uneasy sensation, ; for the baron is glaring at him from across the room, and there is something baleful in that diplomat's frown. "Will you help me?" she asks bluntly. "I promise you, to the best of my ability," he replies without a second ! thought. "A thousand thanks. I knew I could depend upon you," she murmurs. Mynheer Joe does not dream the nature of the request she is about to make. "What can I do for you," he finally asks. "Do not hesitate. Speak out." "You may think me vindictive, perhaps." "Never!" "But when I think of the dear old governor being so badly used, my blood fairly boils." "Ah!" "Do you think you could find the wretch who beat my governor, Mynheer Joe?" "I am sure of it," stoutly. "Will you do this?for me?'* "Assuredly." "And bring him before me?" "I will drag him there by the neck nnii thn hppis thnusrh he has the strength of a Samson." This wonderful speech receives its reward, of course, in the shape of a sweet smile; but It is still too enrlj to tell what the designs of the explorer may be. "You are very kind, Mynheer Joe When this fellow is before me, I am in doubt what to do?whether to give him, a piece of my mind or use a whip on him, as I have read of energetic women doing. In some way I must show him that he cannot beat my dear governor with impunity." Joe almost smiles as he thinks of having need of such a defender as this. But the situation is so extremely delicate and desperate that he has no heart to be amused at its ridiculous side. "Will you leave the decision with me?" he asks having a bold Idea. "With pleasure," she replies, "And abide by the result?" "Yes, indeed. It will take a load off my mind to have you decide my course." "Then, if I were you, I would not think of doing anything with a whip In the first place it will get your name ill tne papers?news gaujerersj uie ??. ready to seize upon a sensation and make the most of it. Thus you would find people turning to look at you iD the street, not because you had done anything noble, but because you had horse-whipped a man who for some reason was powerless to resist." "Say no more; I really did not dream of it." "Besides," he goes on, quietly, "1 have an idea the poor devil will suffer worse at words of reproach from youi lips than he would under the tortures or El Mahdi." [To be Continued.] Spaniard!) In Florida. Florida was originally settled by the Spaniards, and in the same way that the Old Swedes' Church in Delaware recalls its pioneer settlers and French names in Wisconsin recall the French settlement of tnat State, St. Augustine, Tampa, Fernandina and othei Spanish geograpnieai names recur the fact that the Peninsula State war under Spanish rule for a great numbei of years. But there are not many Spaniards in Florida. The last census returned the number of such as 3b'i only, a very small total when one considers the proximity of Florida to the former Spanish possessions in the West Indies. There are, of course, a ffreat many Cubans in Florida, particularly in and about Key West, but their presence there was in no wise due to the Spanish traditions of Florida; on the contrary, many, if not most, of the Key West Cubans went there as refugees from Spanish misgovernment in their own country. I A Sliark Story. 1 The Hawaiian bark Willscott ar rived from Newcastle, England, yesterday, making the passage in li?5 days. She met with light winds, and calms throughout the run and the only excitement was shark fishins. On i July 11 half a dozen tigers of the deep > were captured. One weighed 2H0 pounds and measured nine feet from '< nose to tip of tail. A capstan bar was ' shoved down his throat and the ship's ' name branded on his hide. After that ' tlio shark was dumped over the side I again. An hour later the same shark witii tiie snips umoe pjamiy visioie i was swimming astern and smelling al , a piece of pork attached to the hook ?San Francisco Call. The custom of throwing rice al wed, dings originated in China. ifj Abusing Trifles || IS **_ =(_ _r n D??l %& i gj IfjaDB D1 f tcl jg i wmmmmammk j IT is related that a Chinese artisan of Canton, named Lim-Kao-Poung, . who lived 200 years before Christ, , made a minute junk out of a dry bean pod. It was a masterpiece of skill and precision. The junk was pro- . vided with a rudder, cabins in the rear, , a mast with its rigging, and a crew. Upon the exterior of the hull were engraved several sentences from Confucius. In order to recompense the ! maker, the Emperor, Tsi-Fou, awarded him 1,000 taels. ^ A number of objects, of which the manufacture docs not require as much t patience as the junk did, nevertheless , resemble it in one respect, that is to say, in the abundance of the material of which they are constructed and the | skill that has to be put to the test. ?5n<?h nro collars of carved filberts, ^ __ ' -ll t charms of cherry pits metamorphosed into cocks' or parrots' heads, baskets " made of borsecbestnuts, etc. I Small and very interesting objects r can also be made of orange peel. The s materials for the purpose are simple, and consist merely of a very sharp x penknife and a few splints of wood of c different length?; <3 Let us take an orange, says Lec- a tures pour Tous, our French contem- t FRIGATE PRI (Cnptured from us in the War of 1812, porary, and make four incisions in it at right angles, starting from near the s base. With the thumb nail inserted ii under the rind, Jet us separate the lat- I ter from the fruit without tearing it. A We thus obtain four quarters or peei united at the base. Now let us cut these quarters into thin strips by strokes of the knife blade given al- ( ternately from the free summit of the A quarters to their point of junction, and from this point to the summit, in tak- c ing care each time to stop at a short t< distance from the extremity. We thus c form a ribbon interrupted by four fi small lozenges, and obtain an entan- o glement of narrow strips. Let us ar- n range these upon the orange and wind & a strip of the rind into a spiral and a support it by a splint of wood thrust 1 into the top of the orange. In this tj way we obtain an object that has is somewhat the aspect of a pile of rocks upon which formidable serpents are erecting themselves in menacing attitudes. If it be desired to obtain an animal less frightful than a serpent, carve the top of an orange, and here and there raise up a few bits of the rind, so ns tn fnrin two nointed ears, four legs, and a little twisted tail; and, be- I hold, we have a young porker that appears to be upon the point of grunt- | iug. Not content with being a carver of animals, the artist in orange peel may raise himself to the dignity of a portraitist. See this simple fellow who { comes into ueing in measure as the ^ knife indicates his two round eyes, I his flat nose, his widely spaced ears, and his thick lips. It would be possible in two minutes to form in this way the portrait of an old woman 0 with her cap and spectacles, a clown c with toupet and wig, or an old be- 0] whiskered sailor smoking his pipe. " If a bouquet be desired, there is nothing easier than to make it. Place 11 w ? CJ A Hot/! overrun *v/.'<4 Ser/ienfs tl tl sin orange upon a vase, and, in the tl entanglement of the strips of rind, in- a sort here aud there a few pansies, the beautiful, velvety tints of which liar- ft nionize well with the warm colors of t; the orange. p h Henr<lin a Bag. ^ If the gossip writer of a Taris paper 0 is to be believed, the King of the Bel- n gians is very vain in his personal ap- tl pearance. IIis beard particularly is t, the object of much attention, for at night before retiring his majesty en- j> velopes it in a silk bag, which keeps it in curl. ~ re At Muleje and Santa Rosalie, in q Lower California, there are some GO,- jn 000 bearing date trees, the fruit from which is exported in riiwhide packages containing about fifty pounds w each. y< V . I 3NCE OURS. NOW CREAT BRITAIN'S [Vhy the Frigate PreMdent Files th? Koyal Naval linsijjn. Do you know, says a writer in the *Jew York Herald, that the British jave one of our war ships tied up at i dock in London, flying the British lag and regularly commissioned in the British navy? What is more, she is :alled the President, and on her how s the figurehead of John Adams, j rai'ved out of a huge hunk of Ameri:an wood and handsomely gilded. For t quarter of a century she has been ying at her present berth near the Sast India docks, most of the time tuck in the mud. There is some doubt vhether she would float, and it is probibly true that she would go to pieces f sent as far out to sea as the mouth if the Thames. She was captured by he British in the War of 1812. The lines of the President are still >eautiful. She must have been a very landsome ship under sail. Although me of the largest ships in the world it the time c. her launch, she would le a mere pigmy beside rue of the :reat war ships of the present day. fet she is more picturesque even in ler present dismantled condition than he Brooklyn, Oregon or Kearsarge. The President is now used as a drill hip for the Royal Naval Reserve, havng been fitted up for this purpose in 8(11 nt Phnfh.im. Until I87fi she lav t the City Canal, River Thames, and vas then moved to her present berth. Neclected His Opportunity. He wanted to try his hand at hyp lotism and she consented. "I wonder," she said to lyjrself, what the bold thing would do if he ;ot me under his Influence?" Being naturally curious, she decided o experiment. "But," she added, still to herself, 'if he tries to kiss me I'll give him a esson that he won't forget." This oerely by the way of squaring berelf with her conscience. But he didn't try to kiss her. He ras most respectful in his treatment f her, when she made a pretence of [rifting into the land where all things re possible and protests and objecions are unknown. 3SIDENT. . and now in the Thames, England.) He is still wondering why 6he has uddenly become so cold and distant i her treatment of him. Poor fellow! Ie has much to learn.?Wa^erley lagazine. A Hawk Trap. In this part of the country, writes T. J. K., of Tennessee, in the American Lgriculturist, I find in use an ingen>us and very effective hawk trap. It onsists of an ordinary steel trap, not jo large, mounted on the top of a ommon fence rail or a large pole, set rmly in the ground. It is best located n some moderately high point in the liddle of a wide field, where there are 0 trcs or other objects upon which bird may light. No bait is needed. 'he trap is simply opened on top of tie pole, where the bird sets it off and 1 caught in the act of alighting, a. ^ A GOOD HAWK TBAP. f course the trap must be firmly seured to the pole. The device is based q the principle that birds of prey baitually light on prominent objects in irgv; open spaces, where they will ave a good outlook for game. A trap 'ell placed will, during one season, itch all the hawks within a radius f several miles. Owls and other large irds are also frequently found in the ap. The longer and tbe more sub:antial the polo, the better it is. Killed by Flying; Knife. A peculiar incident resulted in the istant death of Charles Huhn in the aoperage of J. Sehwarzwnlder itSons. [e was passing within a yard of a laning machine, which held a knife lade six inches long, when the bolt iiat held the knife was loosened and le force of the whirling machine sent 30 knife straight into Huhn*s heart, nd he fell to the floor dead. T)>n nlmiinir lrtflfhinp is used for ( nishing the heads of barrels, and con lins a razor-like blade with a sharp oint. It was late in the morning when [uhu came np-srairs and started t? ross the room to see some one on the ther side of the room. He had to pass ' ear the planing machine, and just at ' iie instant he was in front of it the I olt gave way. The man fell dead i ithout a groan.?New York Evening i ost. I I Timothy McGrath, a beggar, died I .'cently from starvation in New York i ity, and it was found he had $15,000 | i a savings bank. i There is a rauroaci in me soutij liieh has been operated for thirty f ;ars without killing a passenger. i A LESSON IN COMPARAT PLAINS SOME CLIP Here is a map which shows the size and position in latitude of southwest Europe as compared with the Eastern States. Europe is so placed in longitude that any point in it is six hours .'ast of the same point regarded as bei a?? ?? j ^'j" a5. ^^^oRo^cj ' A M* j ^ ins in the States or Canada. When. for instance, it is three P. M. at Paris it is nine A. M. at the corresponding point on tlie north shore of Lake Superior, or anywhere along tue meridian of that point. Owing to their comparatively cold winters we are apt to look upon the Northwestern States as occupying a higher latitude than they do. but a glance at the map shows them to be lo further north than the & | Louisiana Purchase Fair. 1 ill One of tfje Novel Plans Suggested For the ? & St. Louis Exposition. % T""TT HE people of St. Louis are ] very energetically working j for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which it is proposed to hold there. The accompanying cut shows a plan for the fair, which has been submitted by Edward W. Furrell, a mecnanical engineer of that city. For the purpose of securing the greatest possible concentration, he proposes to group all the buildings within a circle having a diameter of one and two-fifths miles, containing 970 acres, or less, as may be found necessary, arranged as follows, as described in Mr. Furrell's proposal: Having a circular lafce emoracing zao acres of water, an interior plateau being reserved for State and official buildings, being seven-eighths of a mile in diameter and containing 365 acres; the central pavilion to consist of an immense dome (say, 450 feet in diameter, with a proportionate height), supported on a circular wall, having archways all around, surrounded by double or treble colonnades, or polystyles about 100 feet wide, surmounted by appropriate statuary, the upper portion of which could be used as the "capital building." This pavilion to have a large central fountain and all the accessories for the delectation, refreshment aud comfort of the patrons. An observatory to be built over the dome, from which the entire grounds and buildings could be seen. From this pavilion the ground falls by easy or rolling grade to the building plateau, having broad promenades leading to all portions thereof, embellished with shrubberies and flowers, in accordance with the topography of the land. Surrounding the circular lake it is proposed to have a 200-feet continuous promenade, along the outer side of which is to be locatcd the foreign exhibit buildings, arranged in plots of appropriate sizes, and having a background of shrubbery, surrounding the grounds. There are four main entrances, as shown, one at each quarter, bisecting the grounds at right angles. thereby assuring to exhibitors equal desirability and eligibility for the respective buildings. The east and west approach to be a boulevard 300 feet wide, and continuing the "midway"' of the fair, whilst the other, north and south, boulevard, being 200 feet wide, to be used for such purposes as may be deemed proper. The lake to be crossed in the four roadways by highly-ornamented steel bridges of classic architectural designs, the \/Q /3 9 <3 /-HC NOVEL TLAN SUGGESTED FOR rosr svliole forming an elegant, compact scheme of easy acccss to all portions thereof from the four entrances. Iu connection with this plan an oval form ;ould he made in lieu of the circle, if ^referred, if it were found nccessary to conform to the land selected, and he same plau could be put in effect fvith slight modifications. Under this ilau the very best of sewerage could je obtained at a minimum cost. The easiest way for a promoter to jet money back of him Is to lean tgainst a bauk. : S3??--V"' : < * v^->v; a<<^ 'V' IVE GEOGRAPHY---IT EX/IATIC MYSTERIES. balmy region of the Mediterranean. Spain, the Land of the Bullfight, is la its south portion no nearer the equator than Kansas or Missouri. France o?? cupies the upper lake region. Eng? land is, like its islanders, too mack io love with the higher latitudes to b wholly visible on the map. Italy, "the garden of the world, the home of alf art yields and nature can decree,1! stretches up into Canada. Rome an<| Naples are no nearer the vertical sup than are Chicago and New York, Sicily itself is but little south of Masoi; and Dixon's line, while Morocco, AI? geria and Tunis are in the same lati tude as the Southeastern States. A Good Golf Story. Mr. Carnegie will go away all daj to play golf, which he jokingly de4 clares to be the only "serious business of life." A correspondent once went to Cumberland Island, his' sister** ' home, on the Georgia coast, to inter* view him on some event of tremendous importance in the world of steel. He found him on the golf links, and llre<? at him, point blank, a long list of carej fully prepared questions concerning this matter. Mr. Carnegie listened with patience till the newspaper ma^ had finished, then he broke out: "Ofy I don't know anything about all that) but yesterday I . broke my record. 1 just went around this course in five strokes less than ever before."?Th? World's Work. ^""""""Gloves For the Kitchen.^' Here is a woman's invention thaf should prove practical for the purpose for which it was designed, namely, tc protect the fingers while kneading dough or applying any polishing sulk stance to dtoves, woodwork, furniture, etc. It consists of a set of finger tlpi of rubber or any other flexible material suspended by elastic cords from a whist band. These tips are preferably larger than the average-sized finger and are adapted to be gathered at tne large euus uy uucbub vi vuc ouiugg passing through the eyelets, as showD. Heretofore various devices have been j?i'i _J M-_? ? ....... '' ? lvN I ' _ - - II I? PB0TECT8 THE HAND -WHILE WOEKING, made in the form of gloves for polishing purposes, but in all the others the serious objection has been the tendency of the hands to perspire within the glove, causing great inconvenience to the user. This objection is obviated 1 by the new glove, as it does not entirely inclose the hand, but affords only i a covering for the fingers, leaving the rest of the hand free to the atmosphere. The patent for this invention has been granted to Annie T. Rogers. Dake of Rutland ft Hero. The Duke of Rutland, to whom attention has been specially drawn by the sad death of his daughter, is one of the very few men now living?if THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXHON. not the only one?who figure in Disraeli's novels. He is in "Coningsby" and 'Tailored." As a young man th* duke was."one of the dandiest of the dandles," and his favorite attire was a blue frock coat, light gray trousers, patent boots, with white gaiters, a white vest, an abnormally shiny hat, and an eyeglass. The duke, who wa8 born just before the battle of Water loo. has sat in seven euoiners?mree ! times under Lord Derby, twice under Ix>rd Beaconstiold and twice under the present Premier.?Chicago TimesHerald. S ! I , " I . J