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6 The Philadelphia Record avers that j In the United Kingdom of Great “the Chine.se Restriction act has raised Britain the executions do not average the wages pa d to Chinamen on the Pacific coast almost double.” Nearly twenty thonsand patents are issued every year at Washington. This is four times as many as are taken 'ut in England. In Prussia inventors aspeur t; be rare birds, for the aver age number of patents issued there every year is only 100. A few weeks ago an Italian brigand chief, Domenico Nocchia, was released from the Naples prison, after having been shut up for sixty years. He is now eighty-three. After an unusally brilliant career of brigandage and $7000 had been set upon his head, he was condemned to prison for life in 1831. 15 yearly, while in India the average exceeds 700. Four years ago there were but six factories in the village of Mariou, and the value cf manutactured products of the region now known as the Indiana gas belt was said to be but $500,000. Today there are factories in the city of Marion, and the value of last year’s gas-belt factory products was more than $50,000,000. Professor Koch should not have al lowed his disappointment to carry him so far as a resignation of his public offi ces, thinks the Washington Star. A man of his attainments should know that the public never bears malice toward a man who has dallied with its credu lity. The public realizes with becom ing grace that that is what it is here for. Interesting results have been dis closed by the Massachusetts Labor Bureau’s investigation of the ready- made clothing industry in that state. Statistics were furnished by 2'402 es tablishments, of which 82G made re turns of their net profits. The average net profit shown by these returns is 33.05 per cent, a year on the amount of capital invested. A Geneva chemist claims that he cau make pure chloroform by a new process, in which one feature is the re duction of the gas to 130 degrees be low zero. As the greater part of deaths from chloroform are due to im purities, this, declares the San Fran cisco Chronicle, will greatly lessen the danger from using the drug and will probably diminish the vogue of co- •catne. New York Truth With commendable wisdom, ob serves the New York Post, the man agement cf the new University of Chicago have decided to fix on a gen eral plan for the buildings before be ginning the construction of any of them, making the structures to bo erected from time to time conform to this plan. This fall two large dormi tories, each capable of accommodating from 150 to 175 students, aud one large recitation building, will be start- ?d. They will hn_i*unf»bUfld in-OctO- year. The San Francisco B illctin admits that California, which is usually de scribed by its newspapers as an earthly paradise, complete in every detail, is singularly deficient in song birds. The English sparrow is charged with hav ing driven away the linnet, which is represented to have been abundant in the coast countries a few years ago. Associations have been formed for the importation and naturalization of sing ing birds^ It is a fact, not perhaps generally kuo^vn, that the leading institution for the education of the deaf, dumb aud bliud iu the world is right here in Washington, boasts the Star of that city. The approaching visit of its head, Dr. Gallaudet, to the Glasgow congress in Great Britain to provide a national system of education for these unfortunates is in the line of his ef forts to extend the benefits of educa tion to one of the most interesting of all classes of physically afflicted per sons. -TliAt Great Britain, so forward in many respect,?, to promote humane objects, should have been so far be hind her oldest daughter is quite re markable. The national institute at Kendall Green has been foremost of all similar schools in stimulating the education of mutes aud blind in for eign lands, and it is a fact vastly to the credit of this young country. The system for keeping houses cool about to be introduced in Kansas City is the invention of Daniel O’Keefe of that city, who has been at work on the problem since 1868. He argued that if heating houses by hot air could be successful, there was no reason why houses could not be refrigerated. Al though he does not describe his sys tem very lucidly in the Kansas City papers, he says (hat “at the central station there will be ammonia and air compressers, brine and vacuum pump^, briue and air-cooling tanks, and receiving and discharging connec- fions. The conduits first laid will be twenty-two inches in diameter with four separate chambers; the upper and larger one will contain cold air, the When Onr Ship Comes In. We all have ships on the wide, wide sea Of afterawhile; and we watch and wait; And we wonder what their stories will be; Or early or late. Some see their ships in the morning gray, When over the billows first breaks the light; While others, longing, wait till the day Fades into the night. Still others wait through the longalway, And wait where the fortunate ones have been, For their absent ships. Alack-a-day, They never come in. — [W. J. Lampton, in Detroit Free Press. “TO BE A LADY." BY AMY RANDOLPH. ‘Tve brung her up to be a lady,” Mrs. Saville disconsolately said. “French lessons and music, and good ness knows what all. I never wanted no girl of mine to work as hard as i have done. Aud this ’ere’s the end on it!” Mrs. Saville wrung her hands in despair. “I s’posc,” said Uncle Brom (the local abbreviation for “Abraham”), “she ain’t none too good to work. We’ve all of us good Bible authority for earning our bread iu the sweat of our brows. There’s Lo-i-sy Hall, she’s made a nice livin’ scllin’ eggs aud spring-chickens to the boarders in Jacksonville, and—” “Lo-i-sy never had no boardiu’- scbool education,” whimpered Mrs. Saville. “P’r’aps she ain’t none the wus for it,” said Uncle Brom, closing his snuff box with a significant click. “Aud Eb- cnezer Laight’s darters earn twelve dollars a month doin’ housework at the Beckwith Hotel.” “Alice ain’t no hired gal.” “Hump! Where is she now?” “Upstairs a-wrixin’. She’s read in papers how them New York editors pays big prices for poems and stories, and she’s a mind to try her luck at the business.” “Oh!” L'ncle Brom said. “Postage is cheap, lucky for you. But 1 guess Alice won’t make her fortune outen no such work as that. Call her down. I want to speak to her.” # So Alice Saville was called, and came down-stairs—a pale, pretty girl with wistful brown eyes, sunny imir* and red sensitive lips. The bright hair was rumpled over her forehead; there was a troubled expression in the brown eyes, and the pretty middle finger of her left hand was steeped to the bone in ink. Evidently, literature did uot agree with her. “Pretty hard work?” said Uncle Brom, with a chuckle. Alice laughed and nodded. elect Com the District, who brougli his daughters to Jacksonville to accelerate of the slow con- Fanny, the youngest, just up from scarlet fever, rladys is always discovering treasures. I wouldn’t like to number of times that her have been transformed back se before her very eyes; eh, Alice is really a gem, papa,” Fanny, siding audaciously sister. ch is Alice? The little girl t|i6 curly hair?” asked Colonel iu ordc valesce^ce who w “But hidden count tpe swans into g( Fan ?” “Bu declare l with iu “Wi with Ayraul “Ye papa. Do be kind to ber; won’t jou? She is some relation of Mrs. I idgitt’s, and she’s certainly a lady by manner and education.” “I t r to be kind to everybody; don’t I, Fan?” archly asked the colonel. “Yes papa; but Alice is so sensi tive.” | “I’m sorry for her, then,” said Col onel A] ranlt. “If she has her own way to nake in the world, a sensitive nature s a sorrry endowment. And now G1 Jys, get your peu aud ink. I want y< i to write some business let ters for Rath down h| her de Alice towels the sol i to write some me.” unwillingly, Gladys laid novel and wont to look for In the bedroom beyond, ic was just hanging clean the rack and replenishing old ewers with fresh water. “Oh J Alice,” said she, “can't you spare .4 few minutes, to write some letters for papa? You write such a beautifA', clear hand, aud—” Alict Colored a little, but answered “Ccrta nly,” with all due promptness, and Git lys brought her triumphantly into the fitting room. There was a mischievous twinkle uuder the grave eyelashes of the mem ber of Congress, as he answered: “Give me a little more time, and I’ll see if I can’t oblige you.” “Papa,” gasped Gladys, “is it really—’’ “It is really Alice,” said Colonel Ayrault. “Where is the child? Go and capture her and bring her here to hear her seuteuce of step-motherdom pronounced.” Gladys clapped her hands. Fanny, who was solemnly listening clo e by, brightened into radiant happiness, and in another moment Alice Saville was brought into the presence of the na tional law-giver and forced to plead guilty to the soft impeachment. After that the secret was a secret no longer. Everybody in Jacksouvi.Ie knew that the wealthy widower. Col onel Ayrault, was about to contract a second marriage, and that his young daughters were delighted at the idea. Alice was very, very happy. The member of Congress, in his grave, quiet way, was not less satisfied; and Mrs. Saville said, contentedly: “It’s just as it orter be. I’ve always brung my darter up to be a lady, and a lady she’s goin’ to be.”—[The Led ger. PEARLS V* THOCOnT. Carnivorous Parrots. The kea, or mountain-parrot, of •Her t's an amanuensis, papa,” said she, “t at will bring you a deal more credit t lau I can ever do.” It wa Alice Saville’s first lesson in writing from dictation, but she ac quitted* herself nobly, and Colonel Ayrault\expressed himself as entirely satisfied.! But when the work was fiuished/and she had blushingly with drawn, ihe member of Congress looked laughingly across the table at Gladys. “My daughter,” said he, “here is the key jio the riddle.” -“Whantkcy, papa?” said Gladys. “Whdffyiddlo?” “Don^ you remember,” said he, “the ffiysterious manuscript?” Fanny jumped up and clapped her hands. “What!/ cried she, “the stray leaves aWut Sir Alexis and the beau tiful Qgjaldine Aubrey that were ^ xrr rtojwTjp ^ orchard “may I im- it -j. “And this handwriting is same.” |pa,” cried Gladys, ite her on being able to fcautiful a story—to turu Lsquisite language?” [id Colonel Ayrault. “Say ill. Don’t you see how it jarrass her?” ie really must be a genius, the opiuion of Gladys, hero-aud-heroine worship, laughed Fan. “How about New Zealand, a greenish-brown bird, formerly as harmless as others of his class, has developed a carnivorous habit as fastidious as that of epicures. It used to feed on the berries that grew luxuriantly on the hills, but it has changed that simple diet since the multiplication of sheep; perhaps fires, too, made that natural food scarce. It now takes a terrible revenge on its un conscious enemy. Fastening itself on the back of a poor sheep, perhaps stuck iu a snow-drift, and savagely tearing away wool, skin and flesh, it plunges its powerful beak into the kidney fat, which it devours, and then, leaving one victim to die in agony, goes off in search of another. Though it is as difficult to feel individual affection for sheep where they are slaughtered by the millions as it would be to care for hogs in Chicago, the most unsenti mental shepherd cannot refr: in from pitying one of his own flock that he finds in such a condition, and from in voking maledictions on the whole race of keas. How they found out that kidney fat was such a delicacy can only be conjectured—perhaps in the same indirect manner iu which Charles Lamb’s Chinaman discovered that young roast pig was good; a kea saw a sheep devouring his regular supply of food, and defending his property hia tongue came in contact accidentally with kidney fat. From that moment the satisfaction of appetite and the ^ratification of vendetta were united. The value of time depends on the man who uses it. It is as easy to rest too much as it is to work too much. There are a good many men who think they are religious when they are only scared to death. It won’t help your own crop any to sit on the fence and count the weeds in your neighbor’s field. As long as a woman never marries a man the is in ignorance of how lit tle she can coax out of him by a smile. When a man does his best he is sure to succeed, but one of the hardest things iu the world is for a man to do his best. One of the first indications that a woman is in love is that she will deny any suggestion tha she ever cared for any one before. Misfortunes never come singly, for the reason that when a man has had one he t:o often sits down iu despair and invites another. After you have fallen into a pit you begin to hear from your friends of the many paths you might have taken that would have led you safely around it. As they grow older a man’s nose grows fatter and a woman’s grows sharper and thinner—a good sign that it is the woman whose nose is kept to the grindstone. wagon- First Use of Horseshoes. No date cau be fixed for the first use of shoes on horses. Horses were not shod in Egypt, Assyria or Pales tine. Aristotle and Pliny give us to understand that horses doing service in stony places had their hoofs pro tected from breakage aud wear, but lav* now? Isn’t aho r e a »y jn“ thi8 Jon<! “ ” ot ,ta ed ’ ily a white swan? Whiter Suetonina refers to the dismounting I of Vespasian’s muleteer to shoe his this, Alice Saville was the fompanion aud favorite of the of Congress’s two daughters, by means of twisted straw. lo the surprise and critical re seal of an iron )f the other boarders. |n’t a bit surprised,” said Uncle “She was brought up to be a id a lady she’ll be to the end of lapter, uo matter if she was in’ floors or scourin' tins.” one day Gladys forgot her words of caution and un lly reveald to Alice Saville and Fan had found the miss- jes all blown about the orchard, surprise Alice burst into tears, fladys, iu her panic and uncer- ran into the other room where Lryault was writing as usual. |pa!” she cried, “papa, do come re and see if you can corn- dice. ” [girls’ tears were dried in an But Colonel Ayrault rallied [little after a playful fashion, >wed her the very rain-stained ^that he had found. >n have no cause to blush for Miss Saville,” said he. “The arc exquisite and clothed in mules. The horses of Japan are, or have been until quite recently, shod The first mention of shoes nailed to the hoof is in the works of the Emperor Leo, Ninth century; and the practice of shoeing horses is said to have been in troduced into England by William I., the practice having, of course, beeu in use in his own country previously. Much remains to be done before horse shoeing generally is anything like what it ought to be. Most of those now engaged in this business are no better than cobblers of the most or dinary sort, the result of their service being no end of horses with ruined feet, that otherwise are sound aud all right. — [Courier-Journal. [appropriate bis sketch I words. should Had I writ he proud of E d then, cheered by bis words of ragement, she told him aK her and fears, the dreaming aspira- and the blighting fulfillment, [week afterward Gladys Ayrault to her father with flushed cheeks tear-sparkling eyes, s it true, papa?” said she. “Arc o have a—step-mother?” ie member of Congress looked ly up from the piles of manuals records. Ah!” said he. “Who has been ing to you on this subject? Everybody is talking 1” said Gladys, ken Alice Saville knows about it ; she is sorry for me, I know she for she began to cry and hurried wheu I told her about my lubles. Oh, papa, papa, Fan says, I think so, too, if you wanted to I r anybody, why couldn’t you married Alice?” Hats and Heads. It has been noticed by Henry Heath, who sends hats all over the world from Calcutta to Peru, that diflorent nation alities possess heads of distinctive sizes and shapes. For instance, Ger mans have very round heads, a peculi arity shared by our own royal family. The average English head is what hat ters call a good shape—that is, rather long. The Scotch, one is not surprised to learn, are very long-headed. Canadians are distinguished by excep tionally large heads, South Americans by very small ones. Australians, ao’ain, have rather small heads. The subject is an interesting one and worth pursuing further if space allowed. The heads of individuals also vary a good deal from time to time, shrink ing during illness or mental worry, and generally becoming smaller with advancing years. As to shape, there is such a thing as fashion, but it only affects mashers; men stick to much the same shape year after year. —[Pall Mall Gazette. A 5ew Farm Ballad. When I start my plough a-runnin’ in the black aud meller ground And the land is growin’ smaller that my horses tramps around; When the white-oak buds are openin’ and the grass a growin* green, Makes a feller think of summer as he gazes on the scene; When the chipmunk runs and chatters, ’cause the plough his den ’as torn. An’ the crows are loudly scoldin’ ’bout the plantin’ of the corn; When the bluebird hollers out a rail and starts to build a nest, Then I think that that’s the time o’ year I kind o’ lik? the best; But it's mighty nice, I tell you, when the summer time is here, With the wheat a-growin* yeller and the har vest drawin’ near; With the timothy iu blossom an’ the hayin’ just at hand, An’ the mother quail a-callin’ to her peepin’ little band. Oh, I like to watch the woolly clouds a-floatr in’ far away As I’m riding on the mower or rakin' up the hay. Then I somehow seem acquainted with each bird or bumblebee, An’ I think the go'den summer Is the time o’ year for me. —[Ohio State Journal. HUMOROUS. The filail Dog. The little daughter of a United States mail inspector tells of a favor ite dog, a fox tenier, that seems to have been foreordained to travel in a postal car and sit on piles of mail-bags. His name is Ownie—probably because nobody owns him—and his home is ou the mail trains and in the postoffiecs anywhere along the line of the Boston & Albany and the New London North ern Railroad. He keeps watch of the mail-bags, and at whichever of the great termini of the roads he happens to be, he rides with the boys from the cars to the office and from the office to the cars. This is his business; during his four years of life lie has never done any other. An idea of the kind of dog Ownie is may be gathered from this specimen incident: One night, in Albany, after the un loading of the mail car, he started to ride, as usual, on the bags iu the wagon, but when the postoffice was reached he was not on board. This was strange, for no temptation had ever been strong enough to 1 from his post. The sacks were deliv< JLh*-****** ~«*hed the found to be missing. The driver hurried back to look along the streets. After searching over a good part of his route he caught sight of Ownie iu the gutter, wagging his stump of a tail and sn ezing iu his queer way to be recognized. The lost mail-bag was there, and he was sit ting on it. The treasury department “Fidelity” is the picture of safe and a watch-dog with his paw on the key. Somewhere in the postoffice department there ought to be a picture of Ownie sitting on a mail-bag.— [Youth’s Companion. ^ a . . - —^— How a Spider Ruined a Nation. When the French Quartermaster, Disjonval, was confinrd iu prison by the Dutch at Utrecht ho sought to be guile the tedium of his prison life by attentively studying the habits of the spiders which frequented his cell; and eight years of imprisonment gave him leasure to be well versed in their ways. In December of 1794 the French Army, on whose victoy over the Dutch depended Disjonval’s res toration to liberty, were in Holland, and the victory seemed certain if the frost,which was then of unprecedented severity, continued. The Dutch envoys had failed to negotiate a peace, and Holland was dispairing when the frost suddenly broke. The Dutch were now exult ing and the French Generals prepared to retreat; but the spiders of Disjou- val’s cell forewarned him that the thaw would be cf short duration, and he knew that his little insect weather monitor never deceived him. Accord ingly he contrived to coir manicatc his weather knowledge to tbe army of his countrymen, and its Generals who duly cs i mated his (Disjouval’s) char acter, relied upon his assurance that within a few days the waters would a"-ain be frozen so as to be passable to French troops. They delayed their retreat; within twelve days a sharp freeze set in, and the French Army triumphed. Disjonval was released, and a spider had brought ruin to the Dutch nation. — [St. Louis Republic. High tied—weddings of nobility. How to got fat—Go to the butcher and buy it. Perspiration has the drop ou the public at large. If tastes didn’t differ restaurants would have an easy time. The assessors tax a man aud theu the collector “nails” him. The scholar who takes the first prize in arithmetic is ouly a figure head. The more the girls pine for some young man the more spruce they be come. A sailor is a lightning change man. Iu a twiukliug ho cau turu into a hammock. Maud—Is it true that you are in love with Mr. Bullion? Clara—Mercy, no! Pm only engaged to him. Quericus—What have you being do ing up in the country? Citicus—Oh, just fishin’ and lyiu’ around. “Didn’t get no pwizc climbin’ de greased pole, did ye, Eph?” “No, but I got ’bout a poun’ o’ tol’able lard. Out West they judge an expert hangman as they do a ship—by the number of kuots ho can make iu an hour. Mrs. hours. JuTIgS^^B^, I’ll give 3 days. “Gertrude refused Tom four times before she married him,” said a girl to her friends at the seaside. “Ah, I see. It was a case of well shaken be fore taken.” She (fishing for a compliment)—Do you think my voice needs cultivation? He (anxious to pay her a compliment) —Not at all, not at all. Cultivation couldn’t improve a voice like yours. “And you say you would die fot me? I’m afraid you’re not as brave as that.” “Am I not? Why, I show my fearlessuess of death every time 1 come into your presence.” “How is that?” “Because you always look so killing.” That settled the business. “Doctor,” said a grateful patient, seizing the physician’s hand, “I shall never forget that to you I owe my life.” “You exaggerate,” returned the doctor mildly; “you owe mo tot only 15 visits. That is the point which I hope you will not fail to remember.” A Modest Request. Condemned—Do you usually grant the last requests of the condemned? Executioner—Y es. Condemned—Will you do some thing for me? Executioner—I’ll try old fellow. Condemned—Change places with me. _ . - Royal Kitaes. When the royal family of England received their royal relatives, the Em peror and Empress of Germany, they kissed as affectionately as if they were ordinary people. Kissing is a notice able feature in the reign of Victoria the Good. And the custom is marked by a sad fact—the death of the Prin cess Alice, daughter of the queen, who could not deny the request of her child dying of diphtheria aud kissed him, inhaling the poison and dying herself within a few days.—[Detroit Free Press. — Last of the Norridgeweeks. For many years John Sabattus, the last of the Norridgewock tribe of In dians, lived at Vasselboro. There he spent the latter portion of his days, and acquired the high esteem of the white men far and wide. He was a tall man, over six feet in height, and possessed of great strength and power of endurance. W hen General Arnold marched his army on his celebrated expedition northward through the woods of Maine, John Sabattus was his guide. The services he thus ren dered arc by no means slight. When the expedition was over he made Vasselboro las home, and here is his grave. No stone marks hia resting place, and it is only a few oi the oldest people around that can identify the spot. Had some James Fennirnorc Cooper written of him aa Cooper did of the “Last of the Mohi cans,” doubtless an imposing monu ment would have towered above hia remains.—[Fairfield (Me.) Journal. Speed in Tunnel Building. The speed with which a tunnel can be made now, when the conditions are favorable, is remarkable. The Vauxhall and Southwark Water Com pany of London has just built a tun nel, nine feet in diameter, beneath the Thames at Kingston. There are two ! noteworthy points about this subway; the first that the roof of it is only three feet below the water in the rivet bed, and the second that it was con structed in nine weeks. The material pierced was clay, and the system em ployed wtts that of laying iron platea behind a circular shield.—[Boston Transcript.