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A WITHERED ROSE. Oniy a Rower-ana tho flower ls withered; Only a rose with thc color flown, . Liko one that a careless hand has gathered And loft to dio in the dust alonel ; Oulya-roscl Is it good to treasure . Dreams of Dreams that were dreamt in vain- . , A fugitive pang for an hour ol lelsure A thrill of pleasure, a throb of pain. From the Past that cannot return again? Who shall say? Rn t a magic lingers , > 'Round this colorless rose today Now, as then, when her soft whito Angers 'Plucked the bloom from the bending spray--" : j Now, as then, when thc summer splendor ^ Warmed tho land with its wealth of flowers And thc beautiful skies were>blne andtender. . And the bini songs sounded among the Dow ers Now, ns theo, in the'golden hours. 1 hav* kept tho rose, but Ita bloom has faded. Th?? leaves have withered, th* scent bas AnrfCfhf> skies are clouded,., thc world is shaded, , Thu summer is over, the flowers are dead; . ' And the beautiful love that was toir and pleasant ls buried deep 'neath the fallen snow?. And leaves no trace in the empty present Poor, perished l?ve^-of its long repose But this dusty relic-this withered rose! - -T. Ferguson in Once a Week. " ' c Amaron? in Review. Reviews or maneuvers of the Amazons .are held frequently during the-annual custom and are not the playful affairs that they are in civilized countries. In a space used as . a drill ground there is built a bank of thorny cactus bushes abolit 1,300 feet long, 20 feet broad and 7 feet high. Beyond and parallel with this heap is a honse representing a fort. The barefooted female warriors have to surmount three times the heap of thorns which represent the fortifications, de scend into the clear space like a ditch, escalade the house, which represents a citadel bristling with defenses, and take the town simulated by the hut. They are to be twice repulsed by the enemy, but at the third assault thoyare victo rious and drag the prisoners tot-he king's feet in token, of success. The first to surmount all the obstacles receives from his hand tho reward of bravery, foi. says the king, "We reckon military valor as the first of the virtues." The king places himself at the head of the column, harangues his women soldiers, inflames them, and at a given signal they throw themselves with the ulznost fury upon the bank of thorns which torture their naked feet. At the first asscult, "when the most intrepid had already gained the summit of the house, 1 saw a woman soldier, who was at one of the -ends, fall to the ground from a height of sixteen feet. She was wringing her hands and remained seated, though her comrades were try ing to reanimate her with courage, when the king himself came up and threw at her a glance and cry of indig nation. She sprang np then as if elec trified, continued the maneuvers and carried off the first prize. It is impos able to give an idea of the scene. Goldthwaite's Geographical Magazine. Woo?! That Paper Ii? Made From. Wood forms the basis of all modern paper. . Almost any kind can .be used, but spruce is regarded by manufacturers *s the most serviceable in. th? long run. Other kinds which may be used toa greater or less degree are white pine. Norway pine, white fir, pitch pine, pop lar, beech, birch, cypress, taiawack, sweet gum and hemlock. Under the rule and inspiration or tue art decorator, a curious confusion and '^*-rt\x7?,raiQ-n nf ir! ?as has come to pass. a par i ic auk. r KfrrjYP rO ?w^fffMB p?cTa;"c~~ ** .-?ut . _ Unfairly well. i A woman's room should be her frame, J which completes and perfects the picture of her individuality; but in the schemes of the art decorator she is a mere acci dent of no account, and he would design. a pompadour boudoir for Lady Macbeth or a Greek music room for Becky Sharp, wherein to sing Yvette Guilbert's latest success to the Marquis of Steyne, with out a qualm raffling his serene self sat isfaction. The genre atelier was one of the modes of this craze for domestic . decoraci?n, which was perhaps the most ludicrous, when estimable souls who knew no more of painting than a cat does of a case of pistols thought it neces sary to establish easels about their rooms, and even went so far as to hang palettes ready "set" for painting on their walls. -National Review. Tho Speed of Elevators. With the modern elevator almost any speed desired can bu obtained; it all de pends on the power used and the dis tance traveled. In a building which has a abaft of 250 feet a speed of from 850 to . 1,000 feet a minute can be obtained. On a rise of 150 feet it is easy to get a speed of 750 feet per minute with a weight of 1,000 pounds aboard the elevator. In New York the fastest elevators are in the Union Trust company's building on Broadway, near Wall street They shoot up or down, carrying 8,000 pounds, at a speed of 600 feet a minute. When tested with lighter weights they have traveled from 800 to 900 feet in a minute. But the average speed of elevators in office buildings in and around New York is 800 feet a minute. It is best adapted for work, and experience has demon- : s tra ted that more passengers can be car- J ried daily in a car going at that speed in ' the ordinary large building than any ' other. The increase in the size of ele ? vators is in keeping with improvement 1 in other directions.--Chicago Journal of ' Commerce. \ An Incident In an Engineer's Ute. | ] Far, far down the track is a dark spot, over which hovers a great cloud. The 1 engineer sees it, hauls out his watch, j - glances at it, then resumes the business of looking out of the window. He was to . meet an east bound freight at that point He did not know if the switches were in j place; he did not know but the passen- i "ger train would dash into that freight j and the death of many people follow. \ There was no way for him to know es- i cept that it was the duty of his fellow ( employees to see that the switches wero c right. He did not slacken his speed, c Rapidly tho huge mogul on the side j track loomed up. A roar and a dash \ and No. 57 flew past the waiting freight, 1 passing within three feet.--Chicago c Timor.. "The licgat?." 8 The late Mr. Conington, professor ? of Latin in the University of Oxford, s was noted for Ids prodigious memory, f At a very carly agonit began to show it a self. "Wheu he was a child of fc?? or ^ thereabouts he was sleeping ose night in the same room with a relative, when, at the dead of night, his voice was to be heard crying out in the darkness from d his little cot in the corner: v "Uncle! Uuole! I know the Begats. n Uncle-The what? Go to sleep, my " boy, you aro dreaming. q Child-I know the Begats. Listent d And ho began: "Abraham begat Isaac k and Isaac begat Jacob and Jacob begat r Judah," and so on to the end, some fl forty-two generations, without a mia- 3 take,-London Tit Bits, S " : Danger lu Crowding tho "RfcsV It is. well known that the costfeetion ?tween the nerves in the feet, an? espe :ially those in the great toe, and the >rain and general nervous organisation s strong. Dr. Brown-Sequard mentions i patient who, whenever he borer the weight of his body on the toes o? his right foot, became violently insane.. He ilso speaks of' another case where pres sure on the toe caused severe nervous paroxysms. These casca simply show the impor tance of a proper care of the feet, a por tion of the body that many-people neg lect. They think that they can crowd their l'2et into tight shoes and abuse them without serious results. " They can't do it, however. This crowding of five toes into a space not large enough for three, results in pressing the joints out of shape and sometimes making theminactiveand.powerless. No man, with his toes half paralyzed can walk properly. The control of the toes is necessary for a springy step. Broad soles and.low heels give room for all th? toes and allow perfect freedom of action to every muscle. People who havo false standards of beauty for the feet, however, insist on wearing a shod thai is not natural in shape, and the result i* great discomfort, and U* *Qme ??set death. ' As a consequence of these abuse* we are forgetting how to'walk properly. Perhaps you don't believe it, but just watch the parade on Broadway some fine afternoon and see how few men and women walk on the street as if they were not conscwus bf tight shoes and deformed feet.-Interview in New York Sun._ ' The Age of Coal Barning. I have heard that when King Hudson, in the zenith of his fame, was asked as to what his railways were to do when all the coal was burned out, he replied, that by that time we should have learned how to burn water. Those who are asked the same question now will Often reply that they will use electricity, and doubt less think that they have thus disposed of the question. Tho fallacy of such answers is obvious. A so called "water gas" may no doubt bo used for developing heat, but it ts not the water which supplies the energy. Trains may be run by electricity, but all that the electricity does ts to convey the energy from .the point where it ia generated to the train which w ^> mo tion. Electricity 1B itself-nd Wore a source of power than* is- the-rope with which a horse drags a boat along th? canal. The fact is that a very larg? part of fne boasted advance of civilization is merely the acquisition of an increased capability of squandering.; For what are we doing every day but devising fresh appliances to exhaust with evor greater rapidity the hoard ?f coal. Robert B?H in Fortnightly Review. . When Finished, Busy persons, forced to defend them selves from interminable talkers, who have little to say, can appreciate a hint to which Henry IV of France once re sorted. A parliamentary deputy called upon him and made a long speech. The king listened patiently for a time, then he decided that his visitor would do well to condense his .remarks. He took him by the hand and led him to where they could see the gallery of the Louvre. "What do you think of that building? When it is finished it will bo a good thing, will it not?" """H the man of many j^^K?sTDle. xne 0 .: . carefully tended, and at length tne-niu? comes when they burst out into flower, and the fields look like a sheet of silver as the white petals of th?, flowers glisten in the morning dew. These beautiful petals are the first produce of the crop, for the women and children of the cultivators' families come forth and pick them off one .by one and carefully dry them, so that they may serve afterward, as the covering, of the manufactured cakes of opium. Thenl| the poppies, with their hare capsule heads, remain standing in the op?n field until it is considered that they are ripe for lancing. The cultivators., then come forth in the evening, and, with an. implement not unlike the knives of a cupping instrument, they scarify, the capsule on its sides with deep incisions, so that the juice may exude. ' lu the early morning the cultivators reappear with a scraping knife and their earthenware pots, and they scrape off the exuded juice and collect it in then pots. And this is crude opium.-Black wood's Magazine. A Tragic Kindergarten Episode.' A certain kindergarten is blessed with the attendance of a very original youth named Richard. He is a very honest: little boy and highly respected by his~ parents, but the other afternoon when he came home he acknowledged frankly to his mother that a punishment had been inflicted upon hirq at the kinder garten. - v flQi "Why, what have you doner "Well, you see," he answered, "John-i i ny and I got tired of being good, and wei made up our minds that we would just get our heads together and holler out the very naughtiest word we could think of, both together." The mother was inexpressibly shocked. Johnny was another very nice r.nd well bred boy. But she managed to ask: "Well, what did you say?" "We - ist screamed out 'Bedbug!' as loud as we could!" Probably this tragic episode has never liad its duplicate in the history of kin dar jartening.-Boston Transcript i. Snake That Is Found In Many Places. The common snake, which bears the icientific name of Tropidonotus natrix, s one species of a genus (Tropidonotus) vhich extends over Europe and North imerica, and from northern Asia to j ?orth Australia, there being seventeen >r eighteen Indian species alone. Our :ommon snake may serve as an example )f the largest family into which serpents ire divided-the family Colubridie-of vhich there are upward of 165 species in ndia alone. This family contains most ?f the harmless snakes, and it is also il lustrated by a small snake, Coronel?a Lustriaca, which some years ago was liscovered to be an inhabitant of Dorset hire and Hampshire. The Coronel?a eeds exclusively ou lizards, slow worms nd small snakes. Though harmless, it viii bite.-Quarterly Review. Ace orate. In a breach of promise case, the other lay, tho lady on the stand said that traen a friend suggested that she would aake him a good wife, he answered:. Hem!" "Did he really say 'Hem?' " in uires the counsel for the defense. "He id," she averred, "or something of thal ind." .This reminds one of the ac cu ate witness who swore that some, on? ad called over the banisters, "Tom, 'om," or words to that effect?-San 'rancisco Argonaut. LIZARDS IN SINGAPOft?L .The Cold, Clammy Creatures Get Into Bedrooms by Seores. There are heards in Singapore-large? scampering, suddenly dropping things, of all sorts of colors. You see-them on the walls of your hotel, in the sunshine,, and admire them. At evening, sitting with fan and iced drinks, one suddenly falls on you, and it is colder than your toddy. How can any organism bred in this seething spot be so cold? Ton go to bed, you and your wife. Each has a canopied couch, rods remote from the other, for sleeping apartments are ample. You stretch out on a light mattrass over which is one sheet. For upper covering pull up' the darkness and draw the mosquito nets. There is no need of a sheet over you any more than there is for a warming pan. The night orchestra, strange sounds of tropic insects and trees and airs outside, finally lulls you asleep. Presently plunk! and then a scampering of som? nimble clawed thing on the floor near your bed. My lady, over at the other gide of the vast waste of chamber, squeals, "A mouser' You assure her that it couldn't be mice. "Mice dont fall from the ceiling like a lump of mud. . Ifs only the lizards!" This cheerful information elicits no squeal. With mice out of the question, what woman would not be brave? There is a buch in the distant couch, a silence too still for sleep. You know your partner lies over, yonder listening hard {pr m.ore Usar?*. Presently there aa more little dull thuds. The lizards seem to be falling in several places. They seem to be chasing ea?h. other or some venomous prey or possibly making awaj with your shoes. When ?ne is fagged out with sight geeing, to be awake in inky darkness in rho midst of a lizard carnival is a little hard on .the nerves. Ah, something is pulling at the canopy pf your bed, as if a young kitten were trying to climb it! There comes a very subdued voice from the distant corner: "This is awful. Won't you get up and strike a.light?" "And step on the bloomin, cold beasts with raj bare feet! You try it; you'r nearer thu matches than I!" "But we can't lie hero like this. Call somebody^' * And one of the omnipresent "boys." who seems to have been on guard at the threshold, comes softly in. "The lizard* will not hurt you, lady. They catch the mosquitoes .and spiders. Sometimes they get under tho nets on the bed; but dori't you mind." Reassuring, very; but madame was ready for ono tron?o, dawn hours before it came.-Buffalo Expresa .. . Ml?. -V .1- - 1 .' 1 r A Juggler'? Trick. The wonderful feats of East Indian jugglers have formed the theme of many a letter from travelers in the orient, but none aro more surprising than that for which an old sea dog, now lying at Oe water front, vouches. While he was an officer on board the P. and 0. steam ships . two natives came aboard at Mad ras, he says. They were " juggler and his assistant After they ha? performed a number of minor feats and gathered quite a crowd around them they called for a sack and a piece of sailcloth. These having beenTprovided the chic! juggle? made a small tentlike structure with the canvas and some stools. He then placed his assistant in ibo sack and allowed a sailor to tie the knot which bound him a fast prisoner. This done, the chief carried the sack into an open space, warning the people to stand back some distance, and then carried on an animated conversation wi th.. his ' assist-" ~ Lr *?hnfifl replies could be distinctly j r . liar " ? O^AAemly . -?-i'f ???Rfc* -<*:. , ; - - up : .'. : ..?...!'::: ii ?..'.\ riv-.;-.. vvjwsre, ' ! squatting on the deck, bo realistic naa I been the throwing overboard, however, that it was some time before the sur I prised passengers could realize a murder had not been committed.-Now York Evening Sun, Individuality Ia Toar Belongings. The daintiest perfume lor one's ward robe and bureau drawer?, and the ona that is least Iii ely to pall, or, worse yet, grow oppressive, is lavender. Big, com fortable, fat looking bags of this clean, sweet perfume can be bought at any druggist's for very little, and half a dozen scattered among your belongings will xnako them.dainty and sweet It is never well to use much perfume, still less is it advisable to use the new ones as they come out in .rotation, but select one that is not heavy and make it by ? constant use so much a part of your per sonality that a whiff of it blown across a room or a street will suggest you at once. This idea of individuality in your small belongings is a pretty vanity. There is a sweet woman who nevei uses any note paper but a peculiar gray shade, so thai, all her friends seeing per haps only the : corner of an envelope peeping from under a pile of correspond en ca know it once they have a letter from her. A certain much admired so ciety authoress uses a deep shade oi pink paper for the sam? reason, carry ing the fancy so far as even her manu script These women are all clevei enough, however, to .see and avoid the Uno which clivides the individual and "the bizarre.-liew York Press. Mot Quito rhe eame. Slight mistakes in speaking a foreign language, or in understanding it when some one else speaks it, are commonly nothing more than amusing, but a mem ber of the Alpine club mentions an in stance of a more serious nature.. He was climbing one of the Alps with a guide, who persisted in talking bad Eng lish instead of indifferent French. "My guide," he says, "had just crossed a snow bridge over a wide crevasse, and turned to await me on the farther side I asked him if it was weak; he an swered, 'No strong.' "Naturally I attempted to walk across it instead of crawling. I had almost reached the other side when the bridge gave way, and after a delirious scramble to save myself I subsided helplessly into the crevasse. "However, I did not go far, and when [ had crawled out, with snow down my neck and up my arms and in all my pockets, I discovered that my friend bad meant 'Not strong.' I strongly en joined him to reserve his English hence forth for use in the valleys."-Exchange. A Loving Jay. Olive Thome Miller tells of a jay thia she once tamed, and that repaid hur kindness with every mark of gentle re gard. The jay never squawked at bur as he would at others, but whistled gen tly and cooingly. He always got ns near her as possible, and did as near kissing as a bird can; that is, he laid his beak on her cheek. Cabmen's Examination*. Cabmen have to poss an examination in knowledge of London' streets before they can obtain a license, and ?his is far more necessary than might be supposed, for 691 men in the year 1889 failed in th? examination, and not a severe one at that, while 1,911 were passed.-London Kt-Bit& The -bust a?ape for tl e wood is ?i-M?gs tour to tea inches in diameter, free f^oui knots and nsed as'sewn after felling as possible. The next best form is in'?3the shape pf deal ends from sawmills, fi In feriorqualities of paper are made f^rom ?labs and edgings of wood. ?! A great deal depends on the qnalitjy of the wood. If the wood is poor. and^-??B> ing rn fiber, then'the paper made; i^rom it will be weak and lacking in tough ness. The wood which can be -oaeJ: for paper making costs all the wary ?from $7.50 to $10 a cord in the easfc. an;d as low as $3.50 a cord in the west. In Michigan the lowest pri?es of all prevail.-New York Eveaxng Sun. jj ----- - i* Paciflo COM? Crabs. jj There are two resaarkable speci es of crabs on the Pacific coast, more plenti ful there than any other kinds, which are called respectively the yellow? and purple .?shore crabs." Their bodiffes are nearly square and their claws very j large for the size of the animals.-Philadel phia Ledger. Many Ways of Mali lng raper/. Waste paper can be worked overjagain into good stock. Even if printjed or written upon there are processes ?or re moving the ink and making the.;paper as white as ever. There ara countless processes for making the. thousand and one varieties, of paper.-New York; Even ing Sun, - ._j, Pidgin English. ' ? gentleman bf many/years* experi ence, in China 6ays that the right 'word is "Pidgin," not "Pigeon" English. "Pidgin" is the Chinese pronuntiation of "business," and it is=in*the "business" of - the Chinese ports that this peculiar, dialect is used.--Boston Journal.7. "Pollies" are strange birds, /One be longing to a French lady w^s-good friends with everybody until-'some one whistled the "Marseillaise"'in' ita hear ing, and then it went mad and! bit the whistler._ } In some parts of New Guinea whole towns are built "in the . sea." 'The in habitants live in constant fear bf, the bush tribes, and as a protection] against them construct their houses just off the shore. : f " The uewly discovered . coal/ mines in the Argentine Ropnblic have caused a canqellation of the contracts with. Engr tan d for coal for the railroads in th st country, _ j - During pur war .with Mexico Genera! Taylor's command boasted-a soldier of 7 feet 1 }4 inches in height- and . one of seventy-four years of age; Ampere declared that he wa? only in bred while standing and in motion. Descartes required perfect stillness. The Timmi) RH Index to Character. The way in which the thumb is held is a true sign of character. The man who turns it in under his fingers is al ways weak. That is the position in which it is always held by a child. The thumbs of great men are large and point out conspicuously from their fel low members,-Interview in St. Louis Globo-Demoorat. Too Previous. "And yon won't many Lie, ?it?" "I won't" "No use talking ahou 111 any mot ??" . "Not ft bit. lt won't do auv good. Hank," j Th?^Okl?homa youth, l?nrkand angry, reached under his chair for his hat. . " "It's my own fault, I s'pose," he , %jjt -t*T-1.-?_' i. .... u.,.t i:ix ---.j-u - Trfl maybe said of John Morley and Mr. Chamberlain. Sir Charles Russell, the leader of the English bar, on the occa sion Of his two days' speech before the Pareil commission, drank tothing but hot' coffee, which he declared was not only good for the voice but an excellent itimnlant.-Exchange. BU DI ur Table Amenities. Youn% Van Sprawl-I.believe in be ing above board in ali that I do. Old De Goute-Then I wish you would stop kicking me under the table.-Kate Field's Washington. 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