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Woo Sung, III., is prc
town in the country that lu|
uaine. It was named by
tains who had been in the
and purchased land for
the new town about 1855.
The accumulation of wealth, esti
mated at fourteeu per cent of the
gross earnings of mankind, now ag
gregates $5,000,000,000 per annum
and is increasing, relatively-as well as
•jsolutely, from year to year.
An interesting investigation has
been made in Switzerland concerning
the heighth of men in the various
Classes of society. The results show
that on an average the students are
ihe tallest men, and the shortest the
tailors and workers in factories.
There arc now 19 states which have
itcel works w’ithin their boundaries,
states the St. Louis Star-Sayings, as
sgaiyst 14 in 1880, and the number of
plants has about doubled during the
decade. The increase in the produc.
lion is more lemarkablc still, being
nearly SOO per cent.
The Italian Government proposes to
spend about $15,000,000 toward the
new Navy during the current fiscal
year. It would seem, suggests the
New York Tribune that Italy has con
cluded best to make sure of her naval
position in the Mediterranean, and no
body can well blame her for this.
What would Lord Nelson have
thought of having telephone and elec
tric lights on board bis ships, marvels
the Detroit Free Press. For that mat
ter, what would he have thought of
iteam? Nowadays the captain may
ring up the central an 1 call the mate a
•iubber without leaving his state room.
The Emperor o^ Austria is repre
sented as deeply cast down by the
fate cf his' relative, the
^^Wnuukc John,the third great calami
ty during his reign in the family; his
brother Maximilian having been shot
in Mexico, and hU son and heir Ru
dolph having committed suicide. The
Emperor went one day recently to
’ pray on the spot where Prince Ru
dolph died.
The American Dairyman has learned
that one man has a dairy farm of
eight acres, near Chicago, out of
which he makes $1000 a year. An
other makes from $5000 to $6000 a
year oft' of 320 acres. They only
raise enough grain for their horses
and a few pigs, everything being in
hay and grass for their cows. Even
the calves are sold to save the milk
they would consume.
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The present Russian chancellor is a
swede; the late Persian ambassador
in London was a Scotchman; an Irish
man was three times prime minister
of Spain, and a Celt, MacMahon, was
president of France. The Russian
ambassador at Paris is a German, the
French ambassador in London is an
Englishman, and the Italian ambassa
dor in Berlin is a Frenchman. Tae
chief consulting admiral of the Turk
ish tLet is an Englishman, as was also
the late admiral of the fleet.
Gerhard Rohlfs, the African ex
plorer, expresses the opinion that the
Trans-Sahara Railway could be built
only after the complete disarming of
all the peoples through whose terri
tory the route would lie. For this
purpose 20,000 picked soldiers would
be necessary. One of the greatest ob
stacles in the way of the constructors,
Herr Rohlfs says, would be the
sand banks. The largest of these
banks might be funneled, he thinks,
while cuts might*be made through the
smaller ones. In many localities sand
sheds built after the plan of the
American snow sheds, would be
neccssarv.
The much-disputed stature of that
majesty among mountains, Mount St.
Elias, in A’aska, grows more interest
ing by reason of the fogs and clouds
of doubt and contradiction raised by
the scientists, and which encircle its
head. Professor William II. Dali, of
the L'ni cd $t.-;tcs Coast Survey, pub
lished his report in 1875, and now
comes that of Russell and Ken, and i
the latter insist upon taking oft' abou* |
• six thousand feet; or, in other words, i
the whole white-haired and snow-;
frosted scalp of the mountain. Pro
fessor Dali, in Science, contends that j
the top of the mountain is still there,
but he says that ihe matter is one really
to be discussed by expert surveyors, j
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Kith small roots, dc
kr crop of sugar.
ska is rejoicing over a new
)le industry,” announces the
Fireside. “The beet sugar
rrand Island is reported to
success. It has been turn-
jar at the rate of thirty tons
The success of this, the first
Eperimeutal season, assures the
Fe of the industry. The soil and
»ate of Nebraska are both adapted
to the sugar beet. The cool climate,
the nature of the soil, the spring mois
ture and the summer drought all favor
the production of beets rich iu sugar.
The success in Nebraska will stimulate
other states equally adapted to the
growth of the sugar beet.”
It is becoming the style in London,
notices the New Orleans Picayune, for
the rising generation to shave clean,
which shows that fashions repeat
themselves. It is only very recently
that the English barristers and clergy
men permitted mustaches among
them, and no judge or bishop would
think of having one without beard for
company. In the Queen’s navy the
rule is whiskers without mustache, to
tal clean shaving, or the whole of the
hair on the face. The mustache is al
so forbidden in the army, the chap
lains being excepted. The police were
only lately relieved from the prohibi
tion, and an actor with mustache was
unknown twenty years ago. “Lord
Dundreary” Southern was one of the
first to wear it regularly.
Says the Chicago Herald: Many
people have a way of sneering at sci
ence and scientific men. But they are
useful after all. 'Ihe biological sur
vey of the San Francisco mountain re
gion has shown that mammals, birds,
reptiles, insects and plants so coincide
in distribution that a map showing the
boundaries of an area inhabited by an
association of species in one group
serves equally well for other groups.
This is important to the agriculturist
because it shows that what is true of
animals and plants iu a state of nature
is true also of animals and plants as
modified by the voluntary acts of man.
Every race or breed of sheep, cattle or
swine, and every variety of guain or
vtgetableAhrives best under peculiar
conditions of temperature, moi
exposure, etc. Hence a map dJ
natural-life areas of a country will
tell the farmer what he can expect to
produce most profitably on his own
farm and what crops will not thrive in
his neighborhood, thus saving a great
deal of the time and cost of experi
ments, which aggregate hundreds of
thousand* of dollars each year.
and that another set of observations
will be needed to determine which of :
those already taken is most correct.
Sheep-Eating Parrots.
Curiously enough there seems never
to have been any animals in New Zea
land in early days, save a sort of bat
that presumably flew across Australia.-
There was a parrot which could never
in those times have had any opportuni
ties for flesh feeding on this account,
and its diet was composed of fruits
and seeds. ‘When the country became
settled by the whites and sheep herd
ing was made a big industry there,
something happened that puzzled and
worried the shepherds greatly. • They
found many of their sheep wounded
or dying from unaccountable sores in
their backs, and it was not for a long
time that they discovered the cause.
It stems that during one winter,
which was very unusually severe, most
of the fruits and seeds upon which the
parrots had been accustomed to de
pend were destroyed, and the birds
were driven to seek other means of
sustenance. This was discovered by
those of them which survived in the
carcasses of slaughtered sheep. They
found certain parts of the meat to
their taste and acquired a liking for it
so thoroughly that they never cared to
go back to the vegetable diet.
Consequently, they made a business
in subsequent seasons of attacking the
living flocks and biting out the flesh
of the beasts with their s rong beaks,
choosing the portions in the neighbor
hood of the small of the back, where
the fat about the kidneys was espec
ially succulent. When this was found
out a bounty was set on these parrots,
and it still remains at a liberal figure
iu the colony today.
Iu New Guinea and certain outlying
islands there are small ‘bat parrokeets,’
which sleep hanging by the feet, head
downward. Our Carolina parokeets
do just the opposite, hanging at night
by the hooks on the ends of their bills,
which they stick into crevices or
wherever may be convenient.—£Wash-
ingtou Star.
Catseyes in Ceylon,
The gemming industry in Ceylon if
reported to have good prospects befort
it. According to the Ceylon Obser
ver, a Colombo merchant recently
•aw some very fine and valuable stones
in the h^«d of a Moorman dealer.
Tte fiiicst was a splendid specimen of
caFseyo, for which $5,000 was paid in
Colombo, and it was believed that the
stone must have been quite recently
found.
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'Land,
inti groe» we see,
ik e'er the mists expand,
|ho wind-swept lea.
our wishes are all made true,
»wns may not mar the brow,
torms never mutter the whole year
through,
Where Then is transformed to Now,
And only the dreamer who idly halts
With a pencil and brush in hand,
Can travel the path to the mystic vaults,
And the treasures of Maybe Land.
— [Philander Johnson in Washington Post.
A Tale of Pioneer Life.
On tho third day of May,' 1807, a
pioneer on the Solomon River, Kan
sas, heard the reports of rifies to the
west of him just as he had finished
breakfast. His name was Cherry, and
his family consisted of a wife and two
boys. Only one of the boys was a
home at the time. He was a lad of
12, named John. The Indians had
been surly and menacing all winter,
and every white man knew that an
outbreak was likely to occur in the
spring. Believing that the blow was
about to fall, Cherry closed and barri
caded the doors, and made ready to
hold out as long as possible.
Two hours passed quietly, and then
the settler argued that the firing must
have come from a party of hunters.
In order to satisfy himself on this
point he slipped out of the back door
into the brush, intending to go up the
river to tho other cabin. He had gone
only a quarter of a mile when five In
dians fired on him from an ambush.
Every bullet, as they afterward rela
ted, inflicted a mortal wound. Cherry
fell to the earth, but as they rushed
forward to scalp him he killed the
foremost man with a shot, and then
drawing his knife, lie attacked the
others and cut two of them badly be
fore ho fell down and died.
The reports of the rilles warned Mrs.
Cherry of what had happened to her
husband. Ho had taken the rille,
while she had a shotgun and Johnny
had a single-barrelled pistol. They
did not have long to wait. A band of
nine warriors came toward tho front
of the house waving a white shirt as a
flag of truce, and when within ten
feet of the door the leader called to
the occupants of tho house:
“4Ve no hurt you if you open the
door!”
“If you try to get in we shall
shoot!” replied Mrs. Cherry.
Tl^^^^^^^Jaughcd in d
and
door, hoping to get clear of the house,
but as they opened it two warriors
were found there on guard. Mother
and son fired together, and the two
men fell, but before the fugitives had
run a hundred yards they were over
taken.
Mrs. Cherry and Johnnie were
taken to the other settler’s, whoso
name was Robinson. He had been
shot down in his door, and his wife
and sisters were prisoners. The house
had been ransacked and set afire, and
one of the Indians had Robinson's
scalp at his girdle; Tho prisoners,
who now numbered four, and were
guarded by only two men, were con
ducted along a s.nall creek which emp
tied into the Solomon, and after
marching about seven miles were
halted in a grove.
The grove had been named as a ren
dezvous, and the four prisoners were
the first to reach it. One of tho guards
had an qld wound in the side, and
about an hour after reaching the grove
he pulled off his shirt to dress it. Mrs.
Cherry’s arms were so securely bound
that she could not release them. They
had been more careless in the case of
the boy. As the two Indians were
employed with the wound the lad
worked his arms loose, and with an
encouraging nod from his mo'her he
made a rush for the rifles. Wi'h one
of them he shot the wounded Indian
dead. The other was wrested from
him before he could tire,but he turned
and ran and got clear away, dodging
the bullet sc:;t after him, and the sur
viving Indian did not dare to pursue
him for fear the women would get
away. This brought the dead up to
four. What happened to the lad after
his escape no one will over know, as
no trace was ever discovered. I my
self was employed for nearly six
mouths searching for him after peace
came, but nothing came of it. He
was not killed as he wandered about;
neither was he retaken. I believe be
perished on the plains from exhaus
tion.
The remaining Indian sat with hi* -
rifle across his knees and guarded the
women until a hand of seven or eight
of his companions came in. They had
as prisoners two children belonging to
a family named Hascall, a woman
named Deering, and a boy, 10 years
old, named Lawton. This boy had
been living with an uncle named
Thomas, and both his aunt and uncle
had been killed. In the raid on the
settlers quite a number of Indians had
been killed and many wounded. But
for the efforts of the sub-chiefs all the
prisoners would have been toma
hawked. About 5 o’clock iu the after
noon the party left the grove and
headed to the northwest.
swarmed wi
ast off to en-
ove faster and
Ton of starting Mrs.
managed to pick up and secrete
unting kniffc which had belonged
to the Indian her boy shot. After
traveling four hours the Indians made
a camp without fire, food or water.
Here one of the Indie is attempted to
strike Mrs. Cherry and she gave him
such a blow across the throat with
the keen-edged knife that his head was
almost severed from his body. She
was disarmed and tied hand and foot,
and the Indians promised that she
should be tortured for three w'hole
days before death camo to her relief.
I must now continue the story from
a different experience. Twenty days
after the party of prisoners had disap
peared into the Indian country I was
engaged by the father of the Lawton
boy and by a brother of Mrs. Cherry
to make an effort to find and rescue
them. The northern and western parts
of Kansas were then in the hands of
the hostiles, many of the forts and
posts besieged, and there were no rail,
roads to transport troops. Indeed*
the lethargy of the Government in re
inforcing the troops occupying stations
greatly encouraged the Indians, and
prolonged the war.
When I cut loose from the frontier
I had as comrade a scout and Indian
fighter named Reid. We were mount
ed on fine and speedy mules, had
Winchester rifles and revolvers, and
the pair of us were put up against
four or five la; go tribes of Indians-
Scores of prisoners had been carried
off along tho entire frontier, and to
look for any particular one seemed a
hopeless task. We knew, however,
that the two we wanted had made
their start from the grove on Mink
Creek, and we decided to make that
our point of departure. It was then
forty miles from tho nearest military
post, but we reached it without acci
dent. We had not yet unsaddled our
horses when Tom made a discovery
that furnished us with a clue. He
picked up an Indian tobacco pouch
which had belonged to a Sioux.
Up to this time we did not know
whether the pair we were after had
been captured by the Sioux or Chey
ennes. This gave us a big start in the
right direction. We must bear more
to the west and search among the
Sioux.
It must not be ifTingined that we
went riding*boldly around the country
on our errand. There were days and
days that we lay in hiding. If we
moved at all "it was by night, and then
only short distances. The country
tfHuns, and there was
:tr that we w'efB^nc^i^
^verc gradually working
lages on the. Smoky HiU
Ford an(Tits~ierritories. and our game
was to play hide and seek.
Wc had one close call as wc neared
the villages. We had advanced about
five miles during the night over
ground so hard as to leave no trail,
and wo were lying in for tho day in a
dry ravine. About 9 in the morning,
as I was on watch, I espied ft couple
of Indians to the east. They had been
sent from some war party with a mes
sage to one of the villages. They
were riding at a gallop when I first
saw them, but of a sudden they halted,
held a council, and both rode into the
ravine about eighty rods above our
position. They could not have seen
our trail, nor had they reason to sus
pect our presence, and I never could
fathom their action. They were com
ing right down upon us, and I had
Tom awoke in a jiffy.
Just above us was a sharp bend,
and bore wc took our stations, revol
vers in hand. The ponies of the In
dians came scrambling along the rough
patli, one closely following the other,
and the first rider never knew what
hit him. The second saw us but was
dead live seconds after, and wc at once
secured the ponies. This was the
fourteenth day of our advance, and
the thirty-fourth day of Mrs. Cherry’s
capture. Let us now return to her.
The prisoners were marched across
the county to the villages on the
Smoky Hill Fork. The first idea was
to put all of them to the torture, but
the chiefs finally decided to hold them
for a while and see how even's would
shape. Two sons of prominent chiefs
and a great medicine man had been
captured by the whites, and it might
be that they would have to be ransomed
by giving up prisoners. Mrs. Cherry
and the Lawton boy were kept in one
village, while all others captured with
them were sent to another. They
were made to carry wood and water,
live on the food thrown to the dogs,
and every hour in the day were told of
the fate in store for them. Both were
beaten by Indian women and boys,
but they . did not feel their lives in
peril. They slept in a tepee, with an
Indian boy about 18 years of age and
an old hag of a squaw.
On the afternoon of the day we
killed the two Indians in the ravine
Mrs. Cherry secreted a tomahawk
under the dried grass composing her
bed. It belonged to the Indian boy,
but he djd not miss it. She heard them
talking ^hat day about moving camp,
ling was done, because no
came. At midnight, when
' g was quiet, Mrs. Cherry
crept o\¥r to the Indian boy and sunk
the blale of the tomahawk in his
skull. Me raised his arms but made
no outcnl, and was dead iu two or
three minutes. She disposed of the
old woman in the same way, and then
waking up young Lawton she took
him by the hand and walked out of
the village.
At 1 o’clock in the morning, as I (
was scouting on foot to locate the
village anil was within a mile of it, I
met Mrs. Cherry and the boy. She
had the Indian boy’s bow and quiver, !
and Lawton carried the blood-stained
tomahawk. We pushed back to tho 1
ravine as fast as we could go, and ,
after reaching it we lost no time in
mounting and heading to tho south.
We were not followed from the camp,
as an order reached it at daylight to
move to a distant point and we dodged
the war parties until another two hours
would have cairicd us into a post.
We were then suddenly confronted
by a band of thirty warriors, but af
ter a race of two miles we beat them
in securing possession of a grove, and
for three hours we held them at bay.
Troops from the post then came to
our rescue. I had been hit in the
arm, Tom in the shoulder, Mrs Cherry
in the cheek, and the boy lost two fin
gers by a bullet. We had killed throe
warriors, wounded two or three more,
and knocked over four ponies. The
Indians were scared away from the
post very soon. What they did with
the captives among them we never
learned. —[New York Sun.
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
Hott the Russians Eat.
“The Chaumiere” in Moscow is cer
tainly the most luxurious and elegant
ly appointed restaurant in Europe.
The large dining hall is a huge Win
ter garden with feathery and blooming
mimoso as a background for the ex
quisitely served tables. In the middle
of this unique restaurant-garden is a
great marble fountain wherein trout
and other delicately-flavored members
of the finny tribe swim in deep clear
water. When a guest orders a fish
for his dinner, he is forthwith con
ducted by the head butler to this novel
aquarium ami is requested to select the
fish most likely to tempt his fancy-
A long-handled silk net is then given
to him and he can, if he pleases, catch
his fish with sportsmanlike zest and
dexterity, a feat which materially adds
to his enjoyment and general apprecia
tion of the dinner he is about to eat.
Russians, who are very fond of
flowers, do not relish a repast when
tho table is not one mass of fragrant
blossoms, and nowhere else in Europe
does one see such gorgeous table dec"
orations as in St. Petersburg or Mos*
cow. Thousands of rubles are often
spent for orchids to adorn the board of
some wealthy Boyard*. and at the d.li
ner given some time ago by Prince
Narishkiire to the Diplomatic Corps at
St. Petersburg the flowers in the din
ing hall cost over 20,000 rubles.—
[Kansas City Times.
PINE BATHS.
One of the newest fads among the
feminine portion of New York is that
of taking the new pine bath. The
majority of the ladies of the upper
crust indulge in them about three
times a week. They lay in the tank
and have the tepid extract of pine
poured in upon them. They find it
very exhilarating, and you will hear
the expression often: “Take your
pine this week?”—[New Orleans
Picayune.
WHITE BRIDESMAIDS.
If you have set your eyes and heart
on a young man who is slow in re
turning the affection and the gaze,
suppose you ask a friend who- is on
the eve of marriage to suffer you to
be a bridesmaid. Then may you—
must you if you follow fashion—wear
a white silk frock and cover your
head with a tulle veil. You will not
put on lacc and diamonds like her wh i
is entering into matrimony, but you
will look more pretty and equally bri
dal, and the passage of a thought will
be facilitated into the brain of the
young man. — [New York Commercial
Bulletin.
EVANESCENT ECUADORIAN BEAUTY.
The females cf Ecuador are proverb
ial for beauty, those among the aris
tocracy being said to have the fairest
complexion of any in South America,
while all possess large, soft and ex
pressive dark eyes and the blackest
and most abundant hair, the whitest
teeth, well-rounded figures and small
hands and feet. Like all women in
the tropics they mature early and fad-*
quickly but perhaps their average span
of forty years includes more heart-
happiness than comes to women of
colder climates iu three score years
and ten, for these are harrassed by no
“carking cares” or high ambitions.—
[Chicago Herald.
Old-Time California Hospitality.
The kindness and hospitality of the
native Californians have not been
overstated. Up to the time the Mexi
can regime ceased in California they
had a custom of never charging for
anything; that is to say, for entertain
ment—food, use of horses, etc. You
were supposed, even if invited to visit
a friend, to bring your blankets with
you, and one would be very thought
less if he traveled ami did not take a
kuife with him to cut his meat.
When you had eaten, the invariable
custom was to rise, deliver to the wo
man or hostess the plate on which you
hud eaten the meat and beans—for that
was all they had—and say, “Muchas
gracias Senora” (“Many thanks,
madame”) ; and the hostess as invari
ably replied, “Bueii provecho” (“May
it do you much good”). The Missions
in California invariably had gardens
with grapes, olives, figs, pomegran
ates. pears, and apples, but the ranches
scarcely ever had any fruit.
When you wanted a horse to ride,
you would take it to the next ranch—
it might be twenty, thirty or fifty
miles—and turn it out there, and some
time or other in reclaiming his stock
the owner would get it back. In this
way you might travel from one end of
California to the other.—[Century.
MARVELOUS HEAD ORNAMENTS.
What woman would go to the trou
ble of having an ornament for her
hair made after the fashion of that
worn by the Duchess of Orleans dur
ing the reign of Louis Le Grand on
her first appearance at court after the
birth of her sou and heir? She had
on her high pouf a representation, in
gold and enamel, of the entire nursery,
the nurse, infant, cradle, and play
things being most conspicuous.
Another marvellous head ornament
was that worn by Mine. d’Egrcmont,
daughter of the Due de Richelieu,
after her father had successfully taken
Port Mahon by a series of strategems.
She wore a little diamond foiTress,
with the sentinels keeping guard, and,
wonderfully enough, they could be
made to walk up and down the minia
ture ramparts! And yet women of
to-day think they spend much money
and much ingenuity in getting up new
devices and in using their costly jewels
to make themselves beautiful. They
don t know until they read what wo
men used to do 200 years ago whaj
extravagance really is—[New York
Sun.
but no!
orders
everytl
A Lake of Pitch.
‘‘Near where we live,” said William
Creig of Trinidad, West Indies, “is a
pitch lake. It’s at La Brea. It covers
about ninety acres aiul it is soft enough
to take the impression of your shoes i
as you walk over it, but take up a bit
of it and strike it sharply and it breaks
off with a conchoidal fracture like a
lump of anthracite. I dont know
where it comes from, but I do know
that it’s most awfully hot there. Tho
sun pelts down like fun, and the black
pitch absorbs all the heat. All down
to the coast and under the sea and
across in Vcnesuela there is a streak
of this same formation. The British
Government owns the lake, and a
monopoly pays a royalty of not less
than £20,000 a year.”—[Chicago
Tribune.
A Last Resort.
“You had a narrow escape on the
lakes I understand?”
“Yes, indeed, the coal ran out and
the captain had to split up the ship’s
log to keep the fires going.”—[Muu-
sey’s Weekly.
The Report or the Head.
Algie—I heard a report that Chappie
fell last night and hurt his head.
Gus—Well, there’s nothing in it.
THE SHINING NAIL.
The nails of a fashionable woman
are often—to put it strongly—a posi
tive abomination. They are vulgar,
just as anything that is overdone and
pronounced is vulgar. And they are
altogether “agin natur’,” quite as
much as if they were stained with
henna like those of her East India sis
ter.
To conform to nature the nail
should be trimmed round to follow
the line of the finger tip instead of
being slanted up In a long, sharp
point, which is supposed to add a
tapering look to the finger, but which
really suggests the claws of a bird.
And then they are polished too high
ly.
To a fastidious mind the over
wrought glistening of the nail is as of
fensive—because it is as unnatural—
as the painted cheek or the darkened
eyes. Artifice in the finger-tips is no
less vulgar than artifice in the face.
And it is not beautiful. Nature is an
artist who does not make mistakes. If
the beauty of the nail were really en
hanced by laying a hard, glistening
polish upon it, she would have known
how to do so. — [New York Journal.
latter that the intensest misery
abounds. Those who have studied tho
subject assert that it is absolutely im
possible for the Paris working girl to
live upon her earnings, and the fate
which too commonly overtakes her is
a striking comfirmation of the state
ment. Needlework brings in only
from forty to sixty cents a day, the
plainer sort loss.
It is said that from fifteen pence to
eighteen pence represents the'average
daily earnings of working girls, a sum
on which it is hardly possible for them
to exist. Many die of slow starva
tion, many more, putting scruples
aside, sieze the readiest avenue of es
cape from their lot and a residum, to
whom life is one manner or the other
has become unbearable, seek in tljj
Seine a rest that cannot tJc'"TitstIIfued.
— [New York Press.
SUFFERING PARISIAN SHOP-GIRLS.
The terrible condition of the work
ing women in Paris has at last attract
ed the attention of the French Govcrn-
Hient, and inquiries are being unde
with a view of alleviating some of
their sufferings The working wo
men’s lot is not an easy one in any
great city, but iu Paris it is excessively
hard. The statistics being brought
out by the investigation referred to
show that only three or four of the
many trades in which women arc en
gaged are fairly well paid, and these
require not only natural talent, but an
expensive training as well. In the
china manufactory at Sevres, for in
stance, only two women artists earn
as much as $400 a year; tho rest earn
not more than $250 or $300 and the
posts are hard to get.
The men employed receive a retiring
pension; the women do not. The
reason is said to be that tho latter are
inferior to the men in originality, and
do not make good designers. Such
trades as china painting are, however,
far above the level of ordinary work
ing women, and it U among these
FASHION NOTES.
Some of the new dresses are fes
tooned very prettily about tho hem.
Pocketbooks are small and nearly
square, and are made to hold car.ls.
Black corsets, with pink or gray
points, have come greatly into favor.
Newly decorated bedrooms have been
hung with chintz after the English
model.
The Cleopatra belt is a novelty made
of gold embroidery studded with
colored stones.
The Pompadour clement asserts it
self in most of the frail, filmy stuffs
for evening wear.
Fashionable women spend more
money on perfumes for tho bath than
for other purposes.
One reed is .still used in the skirt
foundation of dresses to hold the
gathers in the back.
A freak in the ivay of a muff is
three-quarters of a yard long, but not
wider than ordinary.
Little girls w’ear ividc rimmed felt
hats of light color, trimmed with rib
bon or velvet or birds’ wings.
Carriage cloaks and evening wraps
remain very long, and are more amolo
than they have been for many years.
Finger rings with marquise medal
lions are of a length which would not
formerly have been considered good
taste.
Some new arrangements for the
drawing room in copper or wrought
iron are lamps by night and flower
stands by day.
If you cannot afford a hat or bonnet
for every gown or every occasion, se
lect a black felt and have a dash of
gold introduced iu tho black trim-
Either starched linen cor
cuffs are to be worn with wool dresses
this winter, crosswise pieces of ba
tiste or something white to relieve
the unbecoming straight band so long
in favor.
The novelty in ornaments for bon
nets is turquoise studding in jet, gilt,
silver or steel, in passementerie, but
terflies, heads of pins and bandeaus.
Pink coral, amethyst, rubies and em
eralds are also employed, but pale tur
quoise are most favored by Paris mil
liners.
Heartless Meanness of a Forger.
It was related to me that when tho
crimes of Smith the forger, were
made public by a gentleman who re
sided opposite to where the artful
banker dwelt, that every morning at 8
o’clock promptly his carriage was
driven up to tlie door with a groat
flourish. The coachman, all liveried,
had then to sit on the box until 9.30
o’clock, when his gracious master ap
peared with a bustle, jumped into the
coach and was driven oft* to Now
York. This operation had been the
custom for years. R in, hail and snow
the coachman was compelled to sit
there for a mortal hour and a half and
wait for his liege lord to come out.
Now, this same coachman, who had
been in Smith’s employ for over 12
years would like to know what has
become of the $2700 which he says ho
has given his master in all that time
to speculate for him. His cook also,
as well as a position, wants to know
where the $300 is which he gave him.
Alas for human frailty! the horrible
greed of gain, the fever to become
rich seizes the humble in its mad grip
as well as the lordly.— [Brooklyn
Citizen.
Persia's Handsome Shah.
The Shah lives in Teheran in great
style. He has a large palace and as
many as seventy-five wives. He is a
very good-looking man—part Tartar,
Turk and Koord—which is the finest
specimen of physical manhood found
in Asia. He is not very tall, has very
black eyes and a fine black mustache.
His dress is both of European and
Asiatic style. He wears the shirt Und
pantaloons of the European, a coat
with a waist like a Prince Albert coat,
but it has a very full skirt gathered on.
He wears European shoes and a Per
sian cap of astrakan. His outer robe
is of Persian silk and lined with sable
fur. He is a very liberal man in re
gard to opinions, for a Mahometan.
He is very progressive, but can do
nothing without the consent of the
mullahs, as he is bound entirely to
them. He is very liberal to his peo
ple, and he gave the Christians money
to establish a church. Herds obliged
to show the Christians tome favors.—