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The crown heads of Europe are all in debt The author of “Tho Egg, from the Hen to the Table," states that New York city annually consumes eggs ralued at $12,000,000. Many Italians are leaving their country for Brazil, and in some provinces the population ■ is apprecia bly thinning out in consequence of the rapid emigration. Rev. A. W. Maun, the pioneer deaf mute preacher, writes, “The ratio of deaf mutes to the hearing is as one to 1600, so there are over 40,000 in the United States and about 1,000,000 in the world. After three minutes’ use of a scythe a Rockland, Me., lawyer’s back gave out, and he sat down on his steps to ponder, with this result: Every man or woman that came along was in* ▼ited to try his new scythe and “see how easy it works.” Within two hours the job was done, and the law yer was still seated. The New York cooking school had 1000 pupils iu the year just ended, half of whom were taught free. The school gives free instruction in plain cookery to the children of working people, and teaches them how to pre pare their food in a wholesome way,and how to market advantageously and economically. Instruction in higher cookery is given to those who pay for it. Ponoma Valley, California, expects to have the biggest fig orchard in the world. Over 700 acres will be planted with 73,000 trees, imported from Syria. T::e projectors expect to pro duce fruit equal to the best Smyrna varieties. At Vacaville a fruit raiser reports a profit of $225 an acre from apricots on ar. orchard of forty acres. London has a hospital for women which was established by a womau and is now officered by women and maintained by them. There is an out patients’ reception room, numerous wards for in-patients, rooms for pay ing patients and there are prettily fur nished suites for women doctors. The hospital was established through the indefatigable exertions of oue woman, Mrs. Garrett Anderson. Bonguereau, Vuillefroyes, Mme. Madelaiue Lamaire, the French artists, who sent examples of their brush to the International Exposition at Berlin, despite the protests of certain Freneh. men, are reaping the rewards of their temerity. Their photographs are to be seen in the show windows of the capital, with the legend: “Exposition ie Berlin.” “These names,” ends an article in L’Autorite. “must be nailed an the pillar of shame as those of the worst Frenchmen, unworthy to repre- sent French art. These artists should remain in Geimany. "We repudiate them. They are worthy of being Prussians.’’ The Matin and a number of other journals have printed the names of the “unpatriotic” artists in their most conspicuous columus. A new ghoul has made his appear ance, discovers the Boston Transcript. This is he who unceremoniously thrusts himself upon the mourners and the ifflicted, oy personal application 15r“by impertinent correspondence, at the in stant of the announcement of a death iu the family circle, offering to “col lect and mail all the newspaper notices, obituaries, etc., for a scrapbook to be handed down to the family. Conside ration $10, <rr its equivalent, to watch the papers for thirty days, etc., with sdvice, too, iu case of need to tele graph at once \o a certain address in New Jersey, U. S. A.” In some cases these missives, marked “important” snd “personal,” have been thrust upon families at thf hour of the funeral, with an assurance that is unmatched. The most careful foreign authorities ill agree, avers tin Boston Cultivator, that Europe must draw much larger mpplies of grain from this country the coming twelve months than usual. The Russian crop is so deficient that jrain must be imported, and iu some localities famine is threatened. The English crop is promising a little bet tor just now than it did one or two months ago. but England is always a large wheat buyer, and its crop, most rears, can only be used by mixing with 'he dryer wheat from the United States. India’s wheat crop is deficieut and it is always poor in quality. There need be no fear that all the wheat this country can grow, both the present year and in 1892 will be wanted at prices more than $1 per bushel. A leficiency like that which now exists will maintain good prices for two years, even should the next wheat crop be a large one. Statistics show the following to be the average size of families iu the dif- Europ^n countries: France, 3.03 members; Denmark, 3.61; Hungary, 3.70; Switzerland, 3.94; Austria and Belgium, 4.05; England, 4.08; Ger many, 4.10; Sweden, 4.12; Holland, 4.22; Scotland, 4.46; Italy, 4.56; Spain, 4.65; Russia, 4.83; Ireland, 5.20. Dallas, Texas, claims, taking that city as a center, that withiu a radius of one hundred miles there is not to be found on the globe a more produc tive soil nor a more healthful climate. Within that radius there is a thrifty population of more than a million of people, and it is capable of sus taining a population of ten millions. Within this radius, adds the New York Independent, nearly one-half of the cotton in Texas is raised, more than half the oats and the wheat, and near ly one half the corn. Cloud mud Sunshine* Waiting In gloom and pain; Weary, oh! so weary l Steadily falls the rain. Dark the day and dreary. The bitterest winds are wailing loud. And the funeral sky is clothed in cloud; Will the sun ne'er shine again? Courage! in heart and brain, Though the day be dark’ning; Waiting is not iu vain, If for God thou'rt hark’ning. The dreariest weather will change some day, And never a cloud bat will pass away, And the sun must shine again. Be still, sad heart, nor mind. The heart of fiery-trying, The mystery entwined With sorrow and with crying. The costliest gold, by a method slow, Must lose its dross in the hottest glow. But it cometh forth refined. —fCaptain B. K. Carter, in New York Observer. AN EDGED TOOL BT AMT RANDOLPH. Californians are begiuuiug to bo stirred up over the Japanese invasion of that state. The Japanese emigra tion to California is in part due to the ovei flow from the Japanese colony in the Sandwich Islands, and in part due to the same causes that attracted theChi- nese. There are now several thousands of Japanese in California, enough to waken the jealousy of native labor. With this element the Japanese are even more unpopular than the Chinese* for the latter go home some time, while the Japanese are the cheapest of cheap laborers and have come to stay. Every steamer from Japan adds to their number, and before long they prom, ise to be numerous enough to force a collision with native labor. The inva sion of the Sandwich Islands, where the Japanese are already a menace to the rest of the population, and would dominate politics could they get the franchise, and their immigration to California will be reckoned by some observers as the beginning of the movement to push Asiatic populations into the Occident, of which Lord Wolseley claimed to see the premoni tory symptoms. “Success,” declares the New Y'ork Post, “is attending the experiment of mproving the quality of soldiers in the United States Army and prevent ing the numerous and hitherto unpre- yentable desertions by seeking recruits m tbo rural districts instead of the iities. An officer in the Adjutant, General’s department in Washington ;ays that the young farmers that have entered the service since the adoption af this policy make much better sol diers than the old and hardened city toughs that formerly constituted the jreat majority of the recruits. They do not join the army in the hope of getting a living for nothing, or to vary the monotony of an idle and semi, criminal existence; they enlist because they feel that they have a taste for the life *>f a soldier. Tii s being the case, it is but natural that they should not attempt on the first opportunity, as city recruits often do, to escape from a service that is not altogether a prolonged holiday. Towns as recruit ing fields have, therefore been aband- oned almost entirely, and agricultural districts will, so far as practicable, source of supply for depleted Dr. George M. Beard maintains that the dryness of our atmosphere causes an evaporation which produces in the American girl a look of refinement and spirituality not implanted on the features of the dwellers in moister climates. “The same influence,” he says, however, “that makes the Ameri can female more handsome, also causes her beauty to decay earlier than m Europe. The Englishwoman is less beautiful, less delicate and attractive between the ages of fifteen and twenty- five, yet she retains her beauty longer.” In his opinion, America is a modern Etruria, where the beauty of women is peerless. Yet here nervous diseases abound, because of the dry air and the violent changes of heat and cold. The male Amer ican does not profit so greatly from the climate as do the young ladies of his household. His leanness has been a source of wonder to Europeans for a century at least. A thousand Amer icans, according to an eminent author ity, if selected at random, would be found to weigh less than a thousand Englishmen or Germans of the same class selected in the same manner. The Americans have been partially dried up and blown away. But this is not all. Sir Charles W. Dilke thinks that ho has observed a tendency in the Caucasian native American to acquire the red Indian type of physi ognomy. W. Matthicu Williams agrees with Sir Charles in this surprising opinion, and thinks the process of desiccation due to the dry atmosphere is responsible for the change. Saltest Body of Water on Earth. LakeUrumiah, in Persia, 4100 feet above the sea, is. according to British Consul-General Stewart at Tabriz, the saltest body of water on earth, being salter than even the Dead Sea. It is eighty-seven miles long and twenty-four miles broad, and contains nearly twenty-two per cent, of salt. Its northern coasts are incrusted with a border of salt glistening white in the sun. It is said that no living thing can survive in it, but a small species of jelly-fish manages to maintain an existence in its waters. Chili’s Curious Currency. The money of Chili at present is peculiar. Mr. Hoffman has his pocket fnll of it. It consists of small tags of pasteboard, on which a man writes the value for which he is willing to re deem it, putting his name on the back. It then begins to circulate until it finally gets back to the source which it emanated.--[Boston “Miss Morel wanted, immediately, in the show-room!” Shrill and sharp and clear the mes sage came through the speaking-tube into the great room where all Mrs. Cavendish’s young women were at work—the great, bare-floored echoing room, which was lighted only from a skylight of frosted glass above. Valencia Morel rose at once, her pale olive cheeks suddenly suffused with scarlet, to obey the summons. She felt sure she was to be scolded for slighting the pipings on the skirt of old Mrs. Mickel’s blue satin dress. But Mrs. Cavendish, sitting at her desk, received her graciously. “ Miss Morel,” said she, “ on se< ond thoughts, you .may trim Mj| Vavasa’s moire antique with lace l stead of velvet. Miss Gay, the woman, will give you all uec^ instructions.” After a moment she added: “My dear, you know that interfere in the private and affairs of my young womei am informed that you ar< home every night by a gen must certainly be above Miss Morel, I am not yoi □either do I possess any you. But I do know so] world, and I bid you Valencia Morel was. Mrs. Cavendish hadj supposed that her f; was going to confi; mistaken. Half an hour 1 swarmed out of rooms at the so bell, Valeoci little behind the rest, so that it was quite dark when she reached the cor ner of the street, and a quick, silent shadow, with the fiery end of a cigar burning in front of it, moved up to her side quite as a matter of course. “Valencia!” sofily spoke the phan tom. “Yes; it’s I,” said Valencia Morel, coquettishly pulling the blue vail a little farther over her face. “And Mrs. Cavendish has somenow found out that you walk home with me eve nings. “Well, what then,” demanded the owner of the fire-tipped cigar, in a debonnaire and defiant sort of way. “Is it a capital crime?” “N-no; I suppose not,” said Valen cia, dubiously. “But, Hector—” “Well?” “1 do wish I knew what the end of all this was to be.” Captain Hector Maurice lifted his primrose-kidded hands deprecatingly. “So like a woman,” said he. “Bless their dear little hearts, they never can be contented to let well enough alone.” “Well, if you must know,” inter rupted the gallant captain, “we are nearer ‘the end of all this' than you’ve any idea of.” “What do you mean?” Valencia stood still, with a face as white as j marble. “I mean simply that I’m to be mar ried in three months." “Married!” “Yes, married. Why not? She is not as pretty as you are, Valencia,” with a sigh and a shrug; “in fact, she’s as old and ugly as Medusa, if you know who that classical character was; but she’s rich, and I never was one of the kind that could live on love and poetry. Now don’t turn crusty, Va lencia!” as she involuntarily drew back. “Y’ou know I’m desperately fond cf you and all that sort of thing, but I must marry money or it is all up with me! And you must have known that we couldn’t go on philandering like this forever!” Valencia looked at him with eyes that shone dangerously. “ Hector Maurice,” said she, “ you have been playing with me all this time. Beware I do not turn out au edged tool!” “My darling, only listen to me.” He took both her hands by main force and renewed his caressing pro testations while he walked along at her side. Presently she turned, with a short, harsh laugh. “ Don’t mind me, Hector,” said s “ I was a little oi^. of tem came so sjiddenlr ^pu kuo s I have quil tore withol ject now.” “Is she pr “Was Me “Is she ric “If she w marry her?” “Is she yc “Well, si mother.” “Oh, name?” “Aurora of the dat “But hej Valencia. “That I earnest, words, yoi tool.” Valencia^ only corai were a me she came! workroom! tie paler tl “I don’t Cavendish, “Don’tl Gay, the^ That ishly all th| send Mon; alloj exf at oii about widows “Very widow, “Well! lencia. *1 fully old. of his moll “Oh, dead “that is diej But l| and sat and dovJ looking | “Andj “He call “ Hat| Dorrancd has she t4 her time “But “ The Dorranc “Oh, ] account “Yoi | tion hei Dorrancl “ Oh,[ encia. fer the “I res feel anj interruf ficially; isn’t a sd “Oh, “It is I Mauricel “Good dropping ing sIkm “Youj know hi| iu well-J “ ‘Kud fanningl very ma| won’t will!” Valend ally. “Oh!’ Please, foolish “If II widow, to be shall nei money?’! 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