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MINORCHORD. The flowers have their bold beee to woo them ; The brooks have their fresh rains to feed them , The nights have their stars to o'erst row themt The dnw^s hnvo their pure dews to bead them , Yet my steps go darkling, With but the dim sparkling Of memory's lamp, !ov?, to lead iiieuaj The sea hath its waves to mnae sheen with ; The winds have their music to sigh with ; The groves have their boughs to be green with . The KU.I? U tt-l- rt a ?I i- " * AWO I'livn nrtvu uioir UWl wm^S \\J uy W U II ; But I, In my lonely Allngiaiu'O, linvo only This deep-woundotl heart, love, to ilio with ! ?Edgar Fnwcott, in the Century. UNCLE TEDDY'S MAVERICK. UY LESTER KET<'IH'M, AOEBRUSH anil m w sand?sand and ffl sagebrush?sagebrush and sand again, before, behind, on either wide, as far br the i 1U\\\ ?-ve cou'^ roach. /jjJjil All the afternoon 'JjjjjMjM the "overland" had been creeps ^ ing across the Band plains of the Great American Desert, and to the passengers in the Pnllmau cars ?especially to those who disliked cards, were too nervous to read, or who didn't care to drink?the journey was growing very tiresome. It really seemed to tho more imaginative ones, that the refrain of the carwheels was, ".Sagebrush and saud, sagebrush and sand?" The weary afternoon dragged slowi? i... ?i ii.. 1?? . > ij i>j, nun tut) i'uutiuuior oi iqo mning-car came through to nunouuco dinner?a diversion, at least. "Ah ["remarked one tourist, suddenly, in a gratified tone; "there's a typical scene for you, me boy." Against the red background made by the rays of the settiug sun, a short distance from the track s?t a solitary horseman, motionless, one hand resting ou the pommel of his saddle, the other in the act of pushing back from liis forehead his wide-brimmed white hat. Then, just as the rear cars of the train approached, he suddenly took off the list, waved it, jammed his spurn into his wiry little bronco, aud started to race with the train, yelling at the top of his lungs. At the eud of a quarter-mile or so, he slowed up, drew his revolver, and fired a parting salute into the ftir, accompanying the volley with more wild howls. The occupants of the Pullmans woro amused ; they had not seeu anything ho interesting for a long time. The tourist who had first observed the horeman sighed, and declared he envied the cowboy?he really did. "How they must enjoy it, this wild, free life of the plains, without a worry or a care?nothing to do but commune-witli nature?when they feel rest"? t<- be able to indulge in a wild, reckless gallop suitable to the mood --and--and?er--all that, don't you know?" But it did not strike Teddy MacLennau, cowboy, that?er?way at all, don't you know? He was just thinking how oppressively tiresome that wild, free life of his was getting to bo ?with "Nothing to do but work. Nothing to eat but food -* bud "Nowhere to go but out. Nowhere to eomo but in ?" Aud, for the rest, nothing to do but An,useoue'sself liken howling maniac, as he had just been doing for the delectation of the "tendorfoet." "Hit's slio' tiresome," ho reflected, as he continued beside the track, giving the "bronc" a "breather"?"hit sho' is, an' I'm good 'u' tired, I am; but what t' do? Seems liko weall gits shit'less, hit docs; jes' pluggiu' along an' workin' hard an' playin' hard likewise (ontell the stuff gives out), uu' no nirthly reason t'r bein' alive ? "Groat sacrificed VVash'n't'n!" lie cjaculateil suddenly, jerkiug up his horse, "I'll swaller a snake, I will!" T heard the story from Jerry Madden, Teddy's present partner in the cattle business, a couplo of years ago, as we sat in the shade of the ranchhouse one afternoon. "Why, Teddy don't drink, an' like wise swciiro quite few? ho asked, in response to a query of mine. "That 1 8ho\ lie hain't tuk nothin' f'r most twelve r thirteen year, 'count o' his kid. 'Married?' Oh, no, none whatever. They hain't no gal gits Teddy, not much. 'Why?' Give it up. Mebbe you c'n tell me? "Ted was ridin' along one day?'tis thirteen year ago?ridin* elost by th' railroad track one eveniu', feelin' kind o' sore an' disgusted-like, when, all of a suddent, ho sees sornethin' funny trottin' along th* track. Ted stops 'u' wipes 'is eyes aii' gazes a hull lot more, 'cause what he seen wa'n't nothin' like what he finds 'round this yere patch o' bresli; none whatever. Moreovermore, Ted 'd be'n tankin* up quite plenty that day, he had, an' was dead leary o' what might be th' matter of 'is peeps. Hut 'e rubs 'em quite a lot more, an* I liopo I may straddle th' 'ghost bron' ef there wa'n't th' purtiest little maverick ve ever see?little girl 'boat five year old, browsin' along th' track, look in' lost. "Course led rides up an' asts who she is an' what she's doin' there, ell alone, with 'or party face lian's an' elegant cIo'vh ; but she couldn't tVill Mm. bu'st out cryin' an' kep' a eryiu', hu' 'twa'n't t'r a day r bo wo c'tl even guess at Yr bein there, 'cMidf she was tongue tied r somethin' an' eouhln't sav but a few words, pore little thing. IJ.it we gits at it tb't Vr name's Norali, we does, an' th't she dr?]?s ofl strain jet." b'l'ore she Siyhts Ted ( r him, her;. 'That little heifer was a beaut', she ho' was, an' twa'n't. niore'n two days 'fore we-all was ready t' do 'most anything t'r her ?me 'n'Ted, 'n' ol' ladv Parry (tli* boss's wife), an' all th' rest ; an', 'f I don't b'lievo we wa'n't real glad, stead o" sorry, when we lin'soul they don't seem t' be no one lookin f'r sueh a maverick 'cause we advertised, o* course, 't git Yr folks. But we gits no word, uot a bloomin'shout, po Ted jeb' brau'b th* kid i'r Uib'n, uu pr'eeeds t' raise 'or (think o* Ted, 1 which th' Mime never raised nothiu' but rows b'fore raisin that little, tender gyurl!), Mrs. Parry tikin' cure of 'er f'r a while. "Well, Ted was jesViu* funniest cow hand t over bucks up ag'in. Ye wouldn't 'a' kuowed 'iiu. Ted was u howiin* wolf, ft reg'inr o* hyena b'fore that, but after th* kid conies, he braees light up an' gits good, none o' th' gang objecting 'cause they savvies why he does it. "After th' kid was 'bout nine 'r ten years old, wc-all don't get t' see much of 'er, 'cause Ted, haviu' laid up some dotigii, sends'er oft'V school. 'She's; a sho' 'nougli tlior'ughbred, slio is,' savs Teddy, 'an' sho gits no Bcrub train in'. SabeV' "That goes, course, an' th' kid JiKowine goes t school, conim back ouct h year, lookin' sweeter 'n' purtier 'n ever, nu' wc-all, mostly Teil, willin' t' lay right down nil' let 'er tromp on our measly ol' frames. Oh, she was jes like Ted prognosticates on th' jump?a slio' 'nougli thor-'ughbred. "Tell ye what she does one time 'bout two year ago. They was liviu* 't Ih' station, her, '11' Ted, 'n' Mrs. Bell, th' womau tli't give th' gvurl lessons, an" one day some l'instcrn folks gits oft' tli' train, lookin' l'r Mister MneLennnn, which is Ted senco he gits intuli business for 'isself. They was a real nicc-lookin', fat ol' girl with spectacles with handles to 'em, an* a dood with oue o'those ycro foolish little caps ye sees through th' winduhs o' th' sleepin'-cars. "Ted nil' Norah was at tli' dcepo lookin' f'r some school-fren's o' the gyurl'e, when these folks gits oft', an' some one points Ted out, an' th' dood braces 'ini. " 'Aw, me good man, says he, takiu' sight at Tod over tli' end of 'in nose ?'aw, are you Mister MncLeunau V "Ted's a good man?no discount on that -but e does sho' hate t' be called one, moreover, by a dood, which critter' is ?piite rousin' t' Ted's killin* iniustiue's?but 'e gives it out th't 'is brand is sech, an' tli' dood springs 'is game on 'ini, which is th't ho '11' th' cT lady is lookin' f'r Norah Sometliiu''r-other, which is th' name o' th' kid th't falls oft a train one day ten years 'r so i.'fore? our Norah, sho' 'nougli. "They was n su'i?rise all 'round, they was. Then Norah takes a hand au' llies 't th' ol' girl an' asts why she dieln't find 'er then, an' they gives it out th't they never saw Ted's advertisement, an' all that, an' never learns 1 where she is oiitell thev latelv runs otituli Mrs. Parry soinewhcros out West. They likewise makes a. play til l Ted had stele til' ki?l. Th* ol' lady was go in' t' fall on Norah's neck an' weep i l<?t, but N'orah don't like that style o' plav, so she gives 'er a chill, nil' moreover gives it out cold tli't she don't move a step?tli't she stays with Ted, th't's be'n a reg'lar dad to 'or. "An* she stayed, you bet, an' Ted was th' ticklcdest ol' stiff in th' country, t' think she'd rather lloek with him th'n t' train \v' them howliu' swells. They makes 110 further play, thinkin', mebbe, tli't Norah's temper's pretty high up. "Ev'rvthing's real lovely ontell n a little while ago?last year it was. Tilings got a little oxeitin' 'round yere ?real exeitiu' l'r some folks, I may snv. They was a few gents in these parts was gettiu' quite frisky with bran 1 in'-irons, nu' was real careless 'bout drivin' off beef-critters. They was real retirin', modest kind o' people, they was, oven of they was talented in tli' brandin' line, an' we was quite anxious t' meet up with em, but they lays pretty low; we gits two 'r throe of 'em strayin' round ; but they keeps savin' woo l an' makiu' us real tired, so we goes t' work an' organizes a vigilance e'lnuiittee, with Te I as chairman. "They was a young feller't th' station then, named linrwood. He'd come fr'm somewheros, an' give it out 'e was a doctor, a little out o' health 'isself?he didn't look it, though, be ? 1 .* ? .1. . . If . in ii iug, (iiiHuy sori o euup. no hangs out 'is shingle un' gits a lectio acquainted, au' then makes a dead play f'r Norali, w'icli seems t' go all right; Norali lettin' on t' liketli* duck quite plenty. Oh, but ho was slio' spoony on her. Th' wust was, we was thinkiu' th' gyurl was stuck on hiin, too, an' it did sho' give us a pain, 'cause we didn't want no bloomin' chump friskiu' 'round Ted's corral cuttin' out Norali. An' still, this yore feller seems white an'decent, an' 'twas square onpossiblo t' hate 'im, none whatever. So, when he offers t' joiu th' c'mmittee, wo says yes, o' course. He wa'n't a real tenderfoot, ye know, ami acted like 'e had sand. "Well, we keeps up th' good work an' ropes a few gents, an' they gits quite a lot Careful, hut keeps on workin'. Then, ono night, when Ted was out yere, an' wo was settiu' up late, we hears a noise among th' homobosses in th'corral, an I says: 'Oho! they're goin' intuh th' lioss business, too, are tbey V' an' me n Ted breaks f'r the corral. "They was live of 'em ; but we was out f'r business an' outs loose, an' tliey don't wait t' pick up th' cuss we drapped, an' I'll eat a rawhite of it wa'n't Harwood ! "f was f'r killin' of 'iin clenn, right there; hut Toil wouldn't have it, he wouldn't, ho wo takes 'iin iiituh th' houRe an' brings 'in 'r >und, not ho bad hurt, after all. He wants us t' liniah th' job, 'fruid, inobbo, we're savin' of 'im t' string up Rome; but Ted only grins a little, sort o' sour, an' tells him t' keep quiet. "Next day me'n Ted hoi's a meetiu', we does, an' settles th' case, an' that night we goes t ' th' o'lnittee meet in' at Jeb Harlow's, "here Ted gets up an makes a game o' talk. Savs lie: " ''Gents, . an' my pardiier, Mr. Madden, has made a real tecliin' dis eoverv. i hain't no great talk'-r, but I jest wants t' say th t we timl th't Doe Harwood, a member o' this vere lion'r'ble bolv, is one o' th' gents we wants mostesl, an'?' "ltight vera thev gits excited, but Ted calls 'oib down an goes 011, tellin' I 'em how lie gits Doe an' so on. Then, ?av<i he " '[ wants i' a id, right yere, th't Doc Harwood is at iny house, hurt bad, an' as long hi he's there I stands over *iin an' keeps'iin fr'm harm. An' I adds further th't I don't do tiiis !>' cause I'm stuck on l>oe, but b'causa him'n my little girl is stuck on each other. Now, gents, I want t make h offer. Yo can't have l>oc 'thout ^'ittiu i me An' breakiu' little Norak's heart; but I agrees t' peek tk' galoot off t' th' State* an' guarantee he stay* there, ef you all let'e 'im go. Does that go?' ,4It went O; K. after some rag-chawiu'; so, in a few days, Doe glides back t' tli' State*. "Nope. Norah didn't go ?not any. Tod goes t' her an' gives it out th't Doc's bo'n hurt by kosa-thieves an' has got t' slide home?does she want t' gor "JKight yero Norah gives 'i:a th' merry 'ha-ha!' Not much, sho don'l wau't t' go. 'Not with no hoss-thief, ?nvi??v. IJnole Teddv.' she savs. " 'Hoss-ttiiofV says Tod. 'Whatd'ye mean b' that?' ' 'Moan what I say/ says Norah. 'Never mind, Uilcle Toddy, I know* what I'm 'Uudiu* at.' Ted sees slio's on, an' it sort o razzles'im. 'But, look yere,' says he, 'I be'n thiukin' you?you sort o'? well, liked th' cuss a bull lot.' '* rNono at alT, Undo Toddy/ sayi Norah, real promp'; 'I was jcs' onlj havin' a leetle fun with 'i;n?it's dull out yere sometimes, yo know.' 'This yere makes Tod fool a hull lot better, 'cause ? well, 'cause, ye see, th id' fool was (ho tolls me all about it" sort o' havin' aspirations 'isself.' About a week after JJoG lelt, Norah eomcs t' Teddy oaa moruiu', Kmiliu', ami blushiu', and kerrviu' a letter. Tod was settin* lookm' out th' winder, real solemn an' sad, wonderin'. jes* that minute, ef 'twas a squar' deal, an' right an' straight, f'r t' ask that leetle gyurl t' marry him. That there proposition was wliat'd be'n keepin' pore ol' Ted awake f'r nights 'u' nights, an' ho was sho' puzzled. 'oout yere Norah bounces iu on 'im an' makes 'im jump. * 'Oh, Uuclo Tcddv,' says she, 'I wants ye t* do somethin' f'r Norah.' 'Ted looks at 'er real solemn a minute, and then savs, more solemn: * 'Ve know they hain't nothin' t' ask fer tli't I won't do f'r ye," ho says. 'W'y, see yore, Norah, darliu', oan'l ye onderstaud th't I?' " 'Oh, T know, ye dear ol' goose,' says Norah, breakin' of 'is talk off short, 4ihit hain't this great? I've ju-t got a letter ir m Aiec? "'Who's Aloe?' says Ted, 'most broke up, nu' gittiu' out o' th' chair, tremhliu'. " 'W'y, Alec's?you know?Kalo Clark's brother, an' I met 'im at New V(irk when 1 was stay in' with Kate, nn' lie says ho loves me an' wants mo t' marry Tm, an', oh, Uncle Toddy, ye hain't cross, bo ye?' And she falls ton Ted's neck 'n' weeps a lot. "J'ed stan's an' lets 'or weep quite plenty, him ehokin' down a big swellin' in 'is throat all th' time. Then, says he, very quiet: "'Didn't I toll ye, darlin', they hain't nothin' ye can't have? T don't, know this yore Alec chap, but of ye wants 'im, ye alio' gits 'im, of I has t' rope 'nn myself.' " 'An' ho alio doos. Oli, them's nothin' Ted wouldn't do f'r that there jryurl."?Argonaut. L Losses in ureal Battles. At Mollwitz the Prussians lost eight en per cent., the Austrians twentyfight per cent. At Koliti, Frederick's orce sutlerod to tlie extent of thirty seven percent., while his victory cost iiis enemies only fourteen per cent. Vt /0111 lorf, the bloo liest h.ittle of vliich we liuve any record that we may rely upon, the proportion of loss to the totsl forces engaged rose to the mo* nous total of from one-half te one-third. Kunersvlorf was almost as lesiructivo to human life, and Frjderiek lost thirty-live per cent., ajaiust twenty-six per cent, of the allies. With the advent of Napoleon ami the loosened formation of the Revolutionary armies, losses were at first diminished ; hut at Aspern the Austrian^ left nearly twenty-eight per cent, of their men on the battlefield, and the French, although the bulletins denied it, are said to have been weaker by one-half after the battle. Borodino, too, deprived the Russians of thirtysix per cent, and the French of twentylive per cent. During the later Napoleonic wars we fin I the losses somewhat Iowit, although after Liguy tho Prussian were weaker by as many as twenty per cent., an l the victory of Waterloo eo.si us rauior more man tlmt proportion. Whoa, however, we turn to the camunions which succeeded the lull of oxiinstioii following the downfall of the irtt empire, we are confronted with 10 such bloody records, in spite of the 11 vent ion of percussion caps, rifles and veil rilled caution. The allios of tin Vim i only lost some six per cout., an I he Russians fourteen per cent. Inkern inn, however, was as bloody as Vaterloo, but it was a struggle in .vliieli tactics ]?layo 1 a very small sirt. I'll3 losses at Magenta and Solferino v to comparatively slight. Although In c >m '(jueuces of KouiggraU were in n -use, they were cheaply purchasod ?y the victors; while in 1870, not* vithstan ling that both sides were ir ii I with breech-loaders, the losses i ver approashod the huge totals of .? m of tin battles of th i early con* try or of those of the Seven Years' A'.tr. At Worth, it is true, one-sixth ?f t il i tot ?1 forces engage'! wore either silled or wounded, hut at Oruvelotte the proportion was only one eleventh, ml at Weissenbnrg one-twelfth.? Sou York Ledger. I ,'ipseopic i.ensps. Alvin ('larko, the great telescope m'itu-, in a recent. lecture before tho M i'Mitilic Society of Boston, gave koido iitercsting facts about the manufaelure of tho big lenses, which bring the l.irs near us. lie said that it was ilic invention of the nchroniatic lens, ; coinbination of a crown glass lens, With a Hint glass lens, which male the big telescope a possibility. Til? greatest obstacle that the maker ot lenses h\s t<> eonten 1 against is the varying density of the glass in the .same piece, lb sail tli it he thought it douhtful whether a piece of glass could he male n'even density. hut the kilfti! ivoik* nan, if lie goes at it right, can s> \ork the glass a-> < > get a perfect im. g . He sii l that when tho great iie'.< telescope was tir.st tested it now,i I an image, which wa? neither > in 1 ner oblong, but In 1 inor the i ij.e of a horse's ii -.a I than anything i c. ?-Se w (trie ins I bca v nne. The firs great victory won by the I'.ii; .sri i.iivy was the defeat of the l ie iicn oil':?luys by the tliips of li l' wura ILL i KEnS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. The latest fad am)ng the pretty girls is to talk woman suffrage. Lilly Langtry, the Actress, claims to be only forty-oho jears old; Women gardeners nro in groat demand in England aud Germany. Butterfly very popujar thil season, and aro so^-? in almost everything. In Holland au attempt is being made to pass a bill allowing women tc be elected to Parliament. Mrs. Cleveland, wife of the President, dresses her h lir in tho stylo known as the "Diana knot." The Baroness Emma Sporri, of Nor way, is saul to ne tuo uest known woman painter in northern Europe. Queen Victoria lion sixty pianos at Osborne, Windsor and Buckingham Palace. Many of them arc hired. A useful noveliy in the way of a powder puff is mounted on a long ivory stick so as to enable one to powder the back of the neck when without a maid. Bos a Youuor, a direct descendant of one of the Piteairu mutineers an 1 a woman of more than usual intelligence, is writing a history of the Piteairu colony. The first woman to be elected a member of the Yacht, Racing Association of Great Britain is Miss Mabel Cot, of .SonliiftiiijlCou, who owns the cutter Ficra. Madam Mnrchesi. of Palis, is the most famous vocal teacher in the world. Biie lias trained nearly all the great singers of this generation, inclu ling Melba, Calve and Fames. The jewels of Mine. Tetraz/.ine, the most famous prima donua iu South j America, were recently seized for debt, when it was found that all the gems were made of paste. Toques ftre greater favorites with the Parisicnnes than ever, but they , a'so are larger and sit down more eloseVy on the head. Tko prettiest , are entirely covered with flowers. Miss Baker, who is professor of | Greek and Lint in at Simpson College, j Indiana, is only thirl v-t'.vo, an 1 it is said that, when she was fourteen she , translated one of the plays of ."Eichylus. j Miss Charlotte M. Yonge, the En.j iisii writer, is t tu an i ineiiir.M t ? stoutness. ller hair is white?she is ^ now in her seventies?ami she his large dark brown eves that are full of expression. Tt, is sai<l th it th? Kha live's mother has picked out as a bride for her son the Princess N'aiinc, daughter of the Sultan of Turkey, who was born in ] 1870, and is said to be beautiful and ! highly cultured. The new grades in swivel silks are in great use for afternoon dresses for the coming season. They are of handsome quality, they quickly shed dust, do not wrinkle, and are pronounced absolutely fast color. The Empress of Austria lias a pathetic delusion. She fancies that her unhappy son, the Crown Prince Rudolph, iH still a baby. A big doll has been given her, winch she fondles an I keeps constantly by'her. Satin ribbon, throe inches wide, folded to the width of the ordinary collar and fastened at the si le in a saucy butterfly bow, is a change from the shirred velvet collar, that has received the approval of Mamado la Mode. Miss Alice E. Havden, of Madison, Wis., has distinguished herself au I surprised her neighbors by shooting a bitr wildcat. Mitn Havden. althou^li a fragile Kistern girl, handles a rille with the case au I skill of nti old liuaI or. The Princess Bcntriec closely follows all the topic ?l songs, an l after dinner at Balmoral the Queen frei|iiently listens to a medley of popular airs played l?y the Princess, who in all theatrical matters is thoroughly up to date. The estate of "Princess" Kaiulani, according tc a 1k P report of her trustee, is not very e>:fe-uisive. It consists of something lino a bushel of jewels, some sugar sto'-k a little real estate and a small interest in the property left l>y her mother, "A Coldest of Silence." is the novel entertainment to be given by the members of a woman's sewiug society in Indianapolis. East year the first woman to speak was <piiet for only three minutes. The winner held her tongue for nineteen miuutos an 1 twenty seconds. Mrs. Susan Stewart Fraekletou, of Milwaukee, Wis., lias attaiuel great distinction as a potter. Slio is President of the National League of Mineral Painters, ami is the author of a work which 14 HNtsil us a text hook at 1 lie South Kensington Art Museum, Jiowlon. Tlie Empress Frederick lias induced Berlin societies of amitotic photographers to eo-opcr.ite in bringing about an international exhibition of photographs by amateurs in 183.">. Her Majesty has undertaken t > bo a patroness, and has requested Princess Henry to act as her substitute 0:1 the committee. A blonde requires a softer shade of green than the brunette. Too bright a hue would give to the fair-Haired, fair skinned woman a swallow washed out look. But it is well to know that this color, as well as all others, can bo softened and rendered v/earablo by either type of beauty if judiciously combined with white. Jjittb> Kitty blank, aged four, painted her doll's ehecka with brick dust and water and blackened dolly's eyebrows with ink. An aunt in tho family, who rouged her checks and pencilled her eyebrows, believing that jxntj ??n in icings i nj^ ii uanriiuirt!, ut'Ut her cruelly. ljh<- people of Stillwater, Mich.. y?iucT aunt to leave town. The woil(li',g cako of Princess Victoria Melila w(is of a royal height. It was niixed( baked, deeoratod and shipped t ? Cohurg l?y Messrs. Oun* tor. A pli ttograph is appended. It stands five feet Bjx iuehes in height, and weighs a hundred and fifty pounds, b'.jng, therefore, a littlo bigger and a little heavier than the bride herself. Twice as niAiiy women as men arc ftillicled with ucuralgiu. f t, / <4 . SELECT SIFTINGS. Greek honey ranks ahead of all others. December is the most fatal month in the year for asthma. Wheat was first exported from the United States abont 1750. Until the year 1800 the English kiugs were also oalled kings of France./ A Liogansport (IucL) policeman was held up the other night and robbed of his star. The world's coal flolds already i i ........ ~i. to last for a thousand years. Goldfish are of Chinose origin. The first seeu in Frauco wore brought as a presont to Mine. Pompadour. In a West Indian village there is a sentinel whose sole duty is to strike the hour of the day on a gong. The cotton cloth made in Lowell, Mass., every year would oxtend 145,000 miles, it is said, if stretched out at length. There aro in England and Wales 787,545 public paupers?that is, persons who aro either inmates of the alms houses or who receive outdoor assistance. From 1781 to 1780 the Btylo of hairdressing in Paris changed seventeen times, aud went from the extreme ol short curls aud a skull cap to a hit three feet broad. Pamphlets owe their nami to Painphela, a Greok lady, who left bcliind her a number of scrap books containing notes, recipes, anecdotes aud memorau la. There is a vessel that was built o:i the Clyde, is ownod in Boston, hails 1 from Honolulu, nul was nam i1 after a Chinaman who lives in Hawaii. She is the bark Fooling Suey. Whilo Miss Lucy Atkiuson, of Farley, Mo., was riiliugn young horse tin auimal retired and fell on her. Tin pommel of the saddle penetrate I her breast. Sue died almost instantly. | Sets of admission tickets to Iho late lamento I World's Fair an now being hawked about iu New York City by street merchants us souvenirs, an 1 are also sold in a goo 1 man}' small shops. Princo Burhuned Eflfeudi, son of tho 1 Sultan of Tnrkoy, is a musician of no mean part?. He lias recently coin posed a march, which is to bo a bled to the repertoire of the military bauds. Sherman Bainsborger had his hand nearly severed fro n the arm by a mill saw, at Oarrollton, Ohio. He picked up an axe, completed tho amputation and walked three miles to see a sur! gcou. The daughter of 0. .T. Burwell, ? | Kansas safe rohbor, got 50 ) signatures to a petition for her father's pardon and then raised money by washing and scrubbing to pay railroal fare ! from her home iu Norton County to Topeka. Thoro she saw the Governor and secured his pardon. It is said that Burwell will live honestly heroafter. The red coral, which is used in jewelry and which i3 known as precious coral, is mostly obtained in the Mediterranean, the ltarbary coast furnishing the dark rod, Sardinia the yellow or salmon color ami the coist of Itily the rose pink. It is also found in th ? lied Sea. None is found in American waters. George Brown, for thirty years train bearer to the speaker of the House of Commons, will retire next month. He is seventy-two years of age and was appointed to the position iu 1801. The work is very hard now and Mr. Browne confesses to having frequently passed three whole davt and nights without changing his clothes. Curiosities iu Plants. TjinnnMiR had a ll over clock, n circular plot planted with lloivera that opened at dirt'-rent hours of tho day The "Irish potato" grows wil-l in tiio mountains of uiiiio and i'er<>, whore it is uiiloubtodly iudigenous. The English evening priinroso is n' night llower ami opens its petals at sunset with a snap like a vegetable torpedo. The tallest troe^ in the world grow in Australia. They are a speeio.i of marsh gum, ami home are sanl to exceed 1100 feet in height. Over lifty speeies of plants are included among the hrealfruit trees, ami over 200 speeies of palms are known to the botanist. Jt is estimated that there are upward of 70,000 different kinds of plants, nnd additions nio constantly being made to this number. Names ol Fruits. The very names of mauy of our fruits at. once suggest their foreign origin. Corinth was the sponsor of "currants," ami Damascus of "damsons;" wo have borrowed the word "gooseberry" from tho French "groseillc," "apricot." is derived from Arabic, "peach" from the French or the Italian, and ''to inato" from the Mexican Aztec "toniotelwhile the word "cauliflower" is almost comically close in its derivation from tho Spanish "col-y-llor," cabbago ami flower.--Loudon Telegraph. Chronic Indigestion Kept imp in vary poor health for flv years. I Ix'Kua to take Hood's Kursaparill.i and my digestion was helped l?y tin- llrsl fhreodos, < . H ood's s 8 parillu I have now taken over S ^ ^ four liottl) Hand I llrni- M | |i | ly believe it Iiuh curi11 hip, and also saved my life. Miim. IE. I'hinck, ltuslivilli*. N. V, Hood's Pills ate purely vegetable. Do Yoi the Fine and C It is conceded. that the the purest and strongest o The purest baking povvd est, most delicious food. 'I der makes the lightest fooi That baking powder v strongest makes the most food. Why should not every of the baking powder whi food with the least trouble Avoid all baking or prize, or at a low a 8 they invariably c< phuric acid, and rend Certain protection from be had by declining to ac< Royal, which is absolutely Discovery ol Aztec Relics. Moses Thatcher, a noted nud exceedingly wealthy Mormon leader, lias returned to Sail Francisco from an exploring trip in Mexico. Referring to a tract of country in the Sierra Mad re Mountain district o" the State of Chihuahua, where u Mormon colony has recently been established, Mr. Thatcher said : "In a radius of 100 miles t'uere. is enough masonry to build v.vo cities the size of San Francisco, and this tells the iale of a great civilization that once flourished there. Near by I purchased a tract of land. Oil part of this land I discovered about half a dozen caves. The out ranees were walled up with cement two and a half feet thick, with only port holes and a narrow aperture lott sutlieieiitly wide to allow one person to outer. These caves were provided with oil is, in which water and provisions were stored, and were formed of long sacation grass, mixed with cement, and wore usually about twelve feet high and eight or nine feet in width. One was in per feet preservation. "The caves were divided int.) apartments, and 0110 of their, c.mtainc I seventeen rooms. t'pon the walls arc still fresh character writings of the ancient inhabitants, of the same class ns ?l?\\ riV>n,l in the *.Mexican Antiquities' 1 'V J.crd .Kingsbury. Thj caves .in the lnuil referred to will accommodate l'ully 1)0) persons, nud :i oelohr ited J5el??iff:i scientist u ?t long ng-? found m?>re relic. i:i t thmi he 11* I in ii seiircli of 15 miles elsewu.io. >.e'.Y York Advertiser. A (Juoer Idiom. The other day t heard a queer idiom which I herewith present to collectors of linguistic curiosities. The speaker was one of the ladies in the family of a Government official who had been serving his country abroad for a short time. "No," she said, "We did not care for Europe; wo thought it very dull. We were not bunched once durin.; our whole stay abroad." The expression was so uir usual that an enterprising listener, bolder than the others, asked what it might moan. " What do 1 mean by "bunched?" repented tho first speaker in surprise. "Why, no one sent its any flowers. What else could I mean?" ? l\ate Field's Washington. 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Against this view may be mentioned that during the sixteenth and oven the beginning of seventeenth century tho usage seems doubtful, since we see Katlierine Parr so signing herself after she had been twice married, and wa always hear of Lady Jane Grey (nui Dudley) ami Arabella Stuart (not Seymour). Some persons think that the custom originated froui the Scriptural teaching that husband and wife are one. It was decided in the case ot Ron vs. Smith, in the reign of Elizabeth, that a woman by marriago loses her former name and legally recoivoi that of her husband.?New York Tolegram. A Now Yorlc life savor, after a series of observations extending over a period of twenty years, says that the superstition that a drowning person rises to tiic surface three times is entirely unfounded. 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