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jy/gs </ A D4NGER0US DROP citJ ' ,mdId ?“° ,c,re *f b,, “"‘f i THE RATTLESNAKE. rl I/rlil VJL<I\.A/U»J • out t0 gea> j n c i ear weather, orcren m i — the clouds, when one has taken proper t _ ^ Men Who Jump From Balloons precautions it is possible to choo&e the Some Peculiarities of this Ophi- With a Parachute. An American ventures Aeronaut’s in Holland. Ad- Professor Young, an American aero naut, who has been giving exhibitions abroad—ascending to a great height from a balloon and then jumping out and floating rapidly to earth by means of a parachute—said in an interview with a New York Sun represen tative at Cincinnati: "In America the hot-air ship is prac tically the only one known; on the other aide everybody, with the exception of Williams aid myself, uses the gas bag. On that account we commanded Irgher prices than the others and made money out of the venture. We con tracted with a dramatic and variety agency, with headquarters in London and branches in every city in Europe for twenty-one ascensions in May, June and July, to be paid for at the rate of $5000 for each sevea ascensions, or $15, 000 for the season, the ascensions in May to be in the provinces and Hol land, while during June and July we were to remain in London and show only at the Alexandra Palace. "The Hollan^pr does not take kindly to an exciting exhibition like ours. He wants a pleasure that he can sit down to, and which will not interfere with his quiet content. The first ascension 1 made there was at a summer garden on the borders of the Hague. It was with the greatest difficulty that I could get enough boys to take sufficient interest in the matter to help us to hold the balloon down while it was being inflat ed. In every other city the thing was such a novelty that we had to keep the overwiiling helpers away with clubs; but at the Hague they all sat about lit tle tables, with mugs of beer at their elbows, the women knitting, the men si..oking long pipes. And even when everything was ready, and taking my place at the mouth of the parachute, 1 yelled out the Dutch for ‘Let go, every body !’ and was jerked into the air at a mile a minute rate, nobody got up to run after me. Not a pulse in the party apparently, made an extra beat. Th<* people looked after me calmly, and as soon as a tree hid me from their view they went on with their talk and their knitting. It was the coolest reception I ever received. It broke me all up. For a little while I was the maddest man in Holland; but only for a little while. When I came down I found one who was a good deal madder, and who convinced me that the Hollander can get excited when he thinl^^jt is co’cRTsoT 1 "The country under me, from landing place; but when at last I pulled the cord and sent the knife through the rope which fastened me to the balloon I had not the remotest idea as to what was under me. As it happened, the shifting wind had carried me back al most to the starting place, and I came down on a pile of lumber in a lumber yard in Amsterdam. The parachute pulled me with it over the edge of the lumber pile and whipped mo against the | side of the next heap, but in two ot three days I had entirely recovered from the bruises.” dian Terror. When His Headless Tail is Pinched the Neck Strikes. From an article by Dr. 9. Weir Mitchell, on "The Poison of Serpents,” in the Century, we quote the following: ‘•Let us observe what happens when the rattlesnake means mischief. He throws himself into a spiral, and about one- third of his length, carrying the head, rises from the coil and stands upright. The attitude is flue and warlike, and ar- Private Ltfe of the Shaw. tists who attempt to portray it always With regard to the private life of the f aiL He does not pursue, but waits. ‘King of Kings,” the Shah of Persia, Little animals he scorns unless he is the hotel servants are strictly prohibited hungry, so that the mouse or toad he from entering the apartments occupied j loaves for days’ unnoticed in his cage. Larger or noisy creatures alarm him. Then his head and neck are thrown far back, his mouth is open very wide, the fang held firmly erect, and with an abrupt swiftness, for which his ordinary motions prepare one but little, he strikes once and is back on guard again, vigi lant and brave. The blow is a stab and is given by throwing the head forward while the half-coils below it are straightened out to lengthen the neck 1 and give power to the motions which drive the fangs into the opponent’s flesh; as. they enter, the temporal muscle closes the lower jaw on the part struck, and thus forces the sharp fang deeper in. It is a. thrust aided by a bite. At this moment the poison duct is opened by the relaxation of the muscle which surrounds it, and the same muscle which shuts the jaw squeezes the gland, and drives its venom through the duct j and hollow fang into the bitten part. "In so complicated a series of acts there is often failure. The tooth * strikes on tough skin and doubles back or fails to enter, or the serpent mis judges distance and falls short and may j squirt the venom four or five feet in the by the Shah, and four Persian servants do all the waiting. The Shah always takes his meals in solitude. The meals are very simple, consisting early in the morning of a piece of bread and butter and a cup of tea. Toward noon he takes his luncheon, at 4 in the afternoon he again has tea, and at 8 he dines. His luncheon and dinner consist chiefly of European dishes, and are supplied from the hotel kitchen. The fish has always to be fried in butter, and the meat has to be very tender. Besides this the Shah has f( r dinner always one or two dishes prepared by his private cook. The other day it was a maize soup, with turnip leaves, and a couple of pullets roasted on the spit, and taken with an onion sauce strongly seasoned with pepper. The Persians use their swords as spits- as well as for killing their poultry. In the Shah’s suite arc several gentlemen who in the consumption of food can do marvelous things, according to Euro pean ideas. Belgian cooking and French wme seem to have suited the Per sians very well. They would not take kindly to the hotel be Is, however. They pull the bed clothes off in the evening, sjircad them on the floor, and lie down ; a i r » doing no harm. I had a curious on them. Nor docs their outward ap- j experience of this kind in which a pearance trouble them much, as may be ^ snake eight feet six inches long threw a 5 ' ’ * • ' somewhat indiffent- ! teaspoonful or more of poison athwart inferred from their ly-washed faces and the state of their clothes, which plainly shows that the sponge and brush are but rarely used. Their linen only is always perfectly clean, and is, apart from their jewelry, the only pleasing part of the apparel of the Persians. A yew Indrntry. Within a half mile radius of City Hall no less than a dozen big office and busi ness buildings are now in process of my forebead. It missed my eyes by an inch or two. I have hai many near escapes, but this was the grimmest of all. An inch lower would have cost me my sight and probably my life. "A snake will turn and strike from any posture, but the coil is the attitude always assumed when possible. The coil acts as an anchor and enables the animal to shake its fangs loose from the wound. A snake can rarely strike be yond half his length. If both fangs height of 2,000 feet, looked hollowed out like a ditch, the dikes forming the brim or edge, and, as the whole coun try is thickly settled, I chose the broad est stretch of unoccupied land that I could see in my path to fall upon. Un luckily it was a vegetable garden, and the owner—a short, stocky little Dutchman, with the waist of his trou sers coming up to his armpits—was waiting for me to come down. He made frantic motions for me to go away and to land in a canal on the bor ders of his place, or at least that was what I judged he wanted from his mo tions; but I came s raight down, almost on top of him, all the same, landing squarely on my feet in a celery patch. The pull of the parachute, before it dropped, dragged me through the field for several hundred feet, my boots ploughing up the soft ground and crushing the celery. When the ma chine came down finally it flattened out about fifty square yards of growing vegetables and broke the Dutch man’s heart. He stood perfectly still for three or four minutes, while I sat down on the parachute frame to catch my breath, with his hands clasped be fore him, an expression of the most hopeless misery on hu face. Then he gradually recovered, and for twenty minutes he alternately swore at me and cursed his fate in a stream of Dutch, which was only made intelligible by his actions. At the end of that time Henry Becker, the local agent of Ware & Son, came to the scene and quieted matter* down by promising to pay all the dam ages. Four hundred guilders (about $160) was the owner’s first estimate of his loss, but when Becker suggested that the better plan would be to count the injured celery stalks and pay for them at the rate of a stiver (two cents) apiece he instantly acquiesced, as the market price at that time was only half as much. There were 193 stalks injur ed, and when the Dutchman found that le damage did not amount to lore than $4 he was ashamed of his linger and set up a lunch of Rhine wine ^nd a kin l of sweet cake with caraway eeds in it. "The next place where I ascended in [olland was at Amsterdam, and I was greatly incensed at the phlegm of the stives that I did not take my usual sution to look about and get my rings just before entering a cl -ud, the result was that I found myself ipletely lost I had noticed upon ig up that the current of air was car- |ng me toward the Zuyder Zee, but I no idea as to whether it had shifted lot when I entered the cloud. There nothing to be seen above, below or id me but fog. I did not want to dsc until I was entirely clear of the . . o ' — © demolition to give way to still bigger 1 enterf the hurt is doubly dangerous, be- and handsomer structure?. What is ‘ tiue of this district is true of the re tuararier of the city.VlF cause the dose of venort loubled. seem? a? if the! \ never was so much rebuilding in New York. And right hero is manufactured one of the peculiarities of New York. Not only is the vacant land in every quarter of the city being converted into improved property, but the old quarter of the city is constantly and rapidly un dergoing a transformation. In a few years it will scarcely be recognizable. There is so much rebuilding going on that within the last dozen years a new industry has come into being. There are, perhaps, a dozen a score of firms who make a business of tearing down old buildings and selling the building materials thus obtained. One of these firms will contract to tear down the building and leave the ground clear in a certain number of days, paying so much for the privilege of getting the old brick, timber and iron. A? the work is done by contract, it is performed with marvelous celerity, and every vestige of the average six or seven-story building is removed in a week or so after opera tion? are begun. The brick and other materials thus obtained are largely dis posed of to suburban or provincial builders, and the contractors make money hand over fist. Lenj does not trouble the serpent’s Egyptians Are Tobacco Fiends. Much of the "English tobacco” sold in Egypt is made in the United States. It is sent to England and from thence shipped there. A year or so ago Egypt made over 6, 000,000 pounds of tobacco a year. She now makes none, and the reason for this is that the Khedive ha? imposed a tax ot $157 an acre on all lands raising tobacco. This is done that the tobacco used will have to be imported and it will pay a big import duty. Egyptians are great smokers. You see the Turks iu the baazars with long hookahs or water pipes before them, and you seldom meet a man or a boy without a cigarette in his mouth. The women smoke as well as the men, and puffing at cigarettes makes up a large part of the occupation of the rich ladie? of the harems. lam told there are some women in Cairo who smoke regularly a hundred cigarettes a day, and I have seen women walking on the streets puffing at cigarettes. Neither the Khedive nor his wife smoke, but it is the custom in Egypt to offer a cigar- ette or a pipe to all visitors. The to. bacco used i? very light, and first class cigarettes cost about seventy cents a thousand. The tobacco trade is in the hands of the Greeks, who have cigai stores all over Cairo. There is no rea son why America should not send tobac co directly to Egypt. Mr. Cardwell says that the freight rates would not be over $5 a ton. T o T-* r■ la 111 "“y powers as a poisoner, since numberless teeth lie ready to become firmly fixed in its place, and both fangs are never lost to gether. The nervous mechanism which controls the act of striking seems to be in the spinal cord, for if we cut off a snake’s head and then pinch its tail, the stump of the neck returns and with some accuracy hits the hand of the ex perimenter—if he has the nerve to hold on. Few men have. I have not. A little Irishman who took care of my laboratory astonished me by coolly sus taining this test. He did it by closing : his eyes and so shutting out for a moment the too suggestive view of the returning stump. Snakes have always seemed to me averse to striking and O ’ they have been on the whole much maligned. "Any cool, quiet person moving slowly and steadily may pick up and handle gently most venomous serpents. I fancy, however, that the vipers and the copperhead? are uncertain pets. Mr. Thompson, the snake keeper at the Philadelphia Zoological, handle? his serpents wi*h impunity; but one day having dropped some little moccasins a few days old down his sleeve while he carried their mamma in his hand, one of the babies bit him and made an ugly wound. At present the snake staff is used to handle snakes. "I saw one October, in Tangicrs, what I had long desired to observe—a snake charmer. Most of hi? snakes were harmless; but he refused, with well-acted horror, to permit me to take hold of them. He had also two large brown vipers; these he handled with care, but I saw at once that they were kept exhausted of their venom by hav ing been daily teasel into biting on a bundle of rags tied to a stick. They were too tired to be dangerous. I have often seen snakes in this state. After three or four fruitless acts of instinctive use of their venom they give up, and seem to become ind ffjrent to ap proaches and even to rough hand ling..” Water gas is being manufactured on a large scale in England. A Pretty Cashier Draws Trade. "If you want trade,” said a restau rant man, ‘ ‘you want to hire a pretty girl cashier. That’s the secret of thrif ty business with restaurants, particular ly with the lunch-counter class. It mat ters little the kind of bill of fare you put up i! you have a beautiful creature behind the cashier’s desk. How do I know this? Why, I’m in the business, and so far I have been successful, and I’ll tell you how I discovered it. I had a girl whose face, poor thing, would stop a ball-game, and my business was not satisfactory. This girl got sick and wanted to take a rest. I let her go on a three months’ vacation and got another girl to take her place. She was as pretty as t] the end of had increase I had mad of fare, turned I t name and ad girL At the poor homely-fa| luck and had t 1 sized up my it had droppe fifty per Cent, for and I kept h one that this last be permanent, about six months ried. I got anot days she is going t' ness and get ma branch out in the myself and marry then I’ll have a But it’s a. fact go to a place e homely, and at onths my business per cent., although in the bill [ aick girl re but kept the 0he pretty-faced six months my fgot down on her another leave, -'found that thirty five to y girl was sent dvised the sick uld have to this girl until she got mar- w in a few the busi- guess I’ll ial business ttle girl and her for cashier, he boys will ut up with FOR THE HOUSEWIFE clC V b id fare if the cniei^S^pretty and nice and j rkey. Tl here’s a feature I’ll bet never occu|d to you to look at. A young man,rill' come in with his friend?, eat a tecent lunch if the cashier is homely and twenty-five cent lunch if she is' handsne. The young man* has no vanity bfore an ugly girl, but will he ffcmd a te-cent check over to a pretty little giij” Not much, unless he is on the raled edge or close on to the end of thekvcck. But the prettiest girl of the three is the one who will take the plrA to be vacated in a few days by the |on-tc-be bride. I tell you she is a :orker, and if she don’t increase my busies? per cent, in six months I am ba<ijr mistaken. ESC A I.LOPED POTATOES. A favorite dish in our family, says a lady in the New York World, is escal- loped potatoes, or potatoes hashed in cream, which are prepared as follows: For one quart of potatoes cut very small, allow a large cupful of milk. Make the milk into a cream with one tcaspoonful of flour and one tablespoonful of butter. When it is thick put a layer of potato in the baking dbh, season with suit and pepper and pour on the cream; continue until all is used. Cover the top with rolled cracker crumbs and bits of butter. Bake twenty minutes and serve in the baking dish. PREPARING pig’s FEET. Prepare pigs’ feet for cooking by washing and scraping the feet and legs well. With a sharp knife peel off the horney covering to the toes, then boil in clear water till they become tender. If you like the onion flavor cut up two or three good sized onions and boil soft with the feet; add salt enough to season well, and a large teaspoonful of black pepper. When quite tender pick the meat up in a collender to drain, saving the drip. If you wish to remove the bones they will slip out easily when warm, but some prefer to serve them up with the bone? left in; when drained put into a stone jar or crock and pour over enough sharp vinegar to cover the meat. In two days they will be ready for the table. Eat cold. Fine Shots, shots in !>ted des- havo figured innals of the [story of Wild tol that is not surest shot lillei nearly f counting In- bad men Desperadoes Who W^e There never were fine’ the world than many of peradoes and killers wh in the romantic criminal west. There is scarcely Bill’ sproficiency with a p: trite. He was the quick ever in t he west. He ha* forty men in his time, "n dians and greasers,” a u ed pleasantly to say. It was the rar est thing that he shot his victim more than once. His favorite spot in which to plant his deadly bullet was between the eyes. He occasionally shot his man through the heart by way of varia tion. It is said that he coVild. throw an oyster can into the air and; put twelve bullets into it from his ow^ navies be • forq it reached the ground.^ He could also send six bullets through the hole made by the first ball in a ty yards away. While never appeared to take aim leadeiLjnesseQgers flying on The Shape of the Skull. Is a man stupid, or brilliant or wise; Surpassingly able or dull; It all depends on his cranial bnmps, Depends on the shape of his skull; And there are some things that some men cannot do, Let them struggle and try till they’re dead. Unless they can build a big L on their brain And alter the shape of their head. Then do not attempt those imprssible feats* And straggle until you are gray. On tasks for which you were never designed For your skull isn’t shape! th? right way. Shape the shape ot your life by the shape of your skull; Build your life to the mould of your brain; Run your cars on the track that was built for your U5e. ’ Unless you would wreck the whole train. A chnrch is not used for a storehouse, a shed Ls not used for a home or hotel; By the shape of the house, as by shape of the head. Its various uses we tell. Then don’t try to fight against nature’s- design. You’ll find it hard work and small pay. Don’t squander your strength on impossible feats When yonr skull isn’t shaped the right way, For the world is filled up with irrational men Who struggle and try to attain The cloud-bannered peaks of impossible heights, Without the right bulge of the brain. For the plastic skull of the man is shaped By a fate that is greater than he, And he must judge by the shape of hi? head The trend of his destiny. Then judge by the fit of your cranium case, Don’t squander your powers, I pray, In reaching for unattainable things When your skull isn’t shaped the right A WHITE STEW OF CHICKEN. Clean and cut a tender chicken into neat joints removing all or nearly all the fat. Put the pieces into a stew pan, season them with pepper and salt, add a little grated nutmeg and a slice of lemon cut from the end and thick enough to take up a little of the pulp. Now pour in enough water to cover the chicken, close the stew pan and let the contents stew very gently for half an hour. While this is cooking mince one-half pound tender veal cutlet and one-half pound suet to gether very finely, and add pepper and salt, a little grated nutmeg and sweet majoram. Mix well together and bind the mixture with the beaten whites of two eggs; then form it into two balls about the size of a walnut, roll them in. flour and drop them in the stew pan with the chicken after the latter ha? been cooking a half an hour. Again cover the pan and let the whole simmer for half an hour longer; then to thicken rget seven- I the lauce mix the yolk of two eggs, hooting ha4'one-half cupful of milk and a table- spognful of corn-starch together; then .ke .the nieces of chicken from t ly imaginable. AU^i^^tillers with big re^^s an< private graveyards shot in K?ch the same manner. Billy the Kid, j'JIay Al lison, Bit Masters on, Sam Hotjj ay, the Earp brothers, "Commanclfr” Jack Stillwell, and other worthier of the frontier all shot with no appa&nt aim. All of them were professional killers, and in their later days, when abundance of practice had made them dexterous in the art of murder, most of them shot their victims always between the eyes, in imitation of Wild Bill. / Taking a Philosophical View. It is told of a prominent business man of the city that he bought through a broker bonds to the amount of $10,009, and on receiving them put them into the outside pocket of his 'overcoat, walked to the head of Milk street, where he became entangled iu a crowd and had the bond? stolen. AU this was only a somewhat exaggerated case of carelessness, but what follovrcd showed that the man was a philosopher. The usual steps were tal^cn to dis cover and recover the missing securi ties, but when some days had passed without any clew the owner began to conclude that he should never hear of them. 1 "Well,” he remarked io his broker one day, when he had dropped in to in quire whether anything had been heard of the stolen securities, and his ques tion had been answered in the nega tive, "there’s one thing about it; all 1 lose is the interest of the money.” ‘‘The interest of the mmey?” repeat ed the broker; "why, you have lost the principal, too, haven’t youf ’ "Oh, not at all,” was the reply; ‘‘my heirs lose that.”—Boston Courier. >by. Hard to Suit Mr. Gesso (at window) come Mr. and Mrs. Go coming here, I suppose? j Mrs. Gesso—They arej! idea, to call at this time / of Why, I Mr. Gesso—They’ve g<ine by. Mrs. Gesso—They havi? Well, very strange. I shouljd think Goby might be friendly lenough to call when she’s passing righi by the door.— Puck. Beds Were Bundles of Straw. In the early period o ’ modern history beds were almost unive 'sally in Europe nothing but bundles qjff straw. As late Hello! here They ’re What an the day. that’s Mrs. ^dish, arrangitt^-tlMI Tforcer balls around them. Stir the mixture eggs, milk and corn-starch into th^ sauce, then add a tablespoonful of chopped parsley, pour the sauce over the chicken and forcemeat balls and serve immediately. in England as the time beth no carpets were were strewn with nisi were hardly anything! bench or any rudel lifted it above the fle ' of Queen Eliza- and the floors and the beds itter than a tude framework which HOUSEHOLD HINTS. When dress silk become? w r et pat it between the hands to dry quickly. Tissue or printing paper is the best thing for polishing glass or tinware. Hang a small bag of charcoal in the rain-water barrel to purify the water. The best of tea makes but an indiffer ent concoction unless the water is fresh. Salt and vinegar brighten brasses as well as any more modern and expensive potions. Bi d and table linen is now being marked with the full name, instead of the initials. Charcoal ground to powder will be found to be a very good thing for pol ishing knives. Gum camphor is offensive to mice and will keep them away trom places where it is scattered about. Damp salt will remove the discolora tion of cups and saucers caused by tea and careless washing. Hard-wood floors are being put in most of our modern houses, especially in the library and dining room. To prevent lamps from smoking, dip the wick in strong, hot vinegar, and dry before putting it in the lamp. Artificial flowers are used in decorat ing houses, and when artistically ar ranged deceive the most critical ob server. Beat half a teaspoon of powdered alum to a curd, with the white of an egg, for inflamed eyelids; it is very soothing. Use squares of felt, pinked on the edges, under statuary, or any heavy ornaments, to prevent marring a polished table or mantel. If the eyes arc glued together on wak ing up, do not forcibly open them, but apply saliva with the finger; it is the speediest dilutant in the world. Then wash your eyes and face in warm water. Many housekeepers need warning against the frequent use of feather dusters; these dusters simply chase the particles from the furniture into the air, where they are inhaled. A soft cloth is [ good and a chamois skin is sometimes better for a duster. 3e*Ty pickers get can what they get. it they can and Natural Selection. Dude: "Miss Lu, if you’ll bounce that pet poodle of yours, I’ll marry you. I’ve $10,000 a year.” Lu: "Much obliged. Fll make m, own choice of puppies.-Epoch way. —<S. W. Fo.vt, in Yankee Blade. HUMOROUS. Calling a halt—"Hi, there, you crip ple!” The road to ruin leads through the wicket gate. Why had a poor singer better sing to an organ than a piano accompaniment? Because of the frequent stop*. Dairyman’s Son—A mouse has fallen into the milk. His Mother—Did you take it out? Boy—No; I have thrown the cat in. The man ing to get who is in the habit of try- to the bottom of things should beware of falling overboard in mid-ocean. Teacher—Samnre, how many bones are there in the human body—your fa ther’s, for instance!'' Sammic—One; he’s the ossified man at khe museum. Young Lady—"That parrot you sold me lost week doesn’t talk at all.” Dealer—‘‘Yes’m; you said you wanted one that wouldn't be a nuisance to the neighborajlrt e palm leal was in a great flutter. "Because I have teason to believe that you are about to get drunk.” A musician brought to de?pair by the poor playing of a lady in a room above his own meets her one day in the hall with her three-year-old child and says in a most friendly manner: "Your little one there plays quite well for her age! I hear her practice every day!" The Value of Soapstone. One of the valuable minerals of this country of which the output is largely increasing is talc or soapstone. It is used for dressing skins, leather gloves and similar purposes, but its greatest use is as an adulterant. For this it is pe culiarly fitted on account of its lightness, being employed as a filler chiefly in the manufacture of soap paper and rubber, and to a certain extent as a lubricant with other substances. It is also used for making slate pencil, crayons, stoves, ovens, lime-kiln linings and hearths, and also, being acid proof, for sizing rollers in cotton factories. In Alabama it is used for headstones. The Ameri can aborigine? used it for culinary arti cles, and the Chinese for the carving of their idols. Its lightness and its fibrous character admit of its almost entire in corporation (90 per cent.) with paper stock, while clay and other materials which it replaces are only available to the extent of thirty or forty per cent. It is known to commerce by such names as pulp, mineral pulp, agalite asbestine pulp and others of the same character. Asleep on the Track. A weary tramp crawled under a flat car at Tenth and Broadway, on a recent night, and laid down to rest. Taking one of the rails for a pillow, and resting his feet on the opposite one, he was soon sound asleep. By the merest acci dent a man passed that way, and seeing the imminent danger the man wa? in notified a polic.-man. The latter started to the place, but before he could get there a heavy freight train backed in to pick up the flat car, which afforded the tramp a temporary shelter. The policeman callel to the engineer to stop the engine, which wa? done,but one of the wheels of the flat car was found resting against the tramp’s neck, who was still sleeping as soundly as if he was a mile away from danger. He was pulled out and asked his name, but, with a grunt, he shuffled away and was lost in the darkness. A Stumbling Block, Rev. Primrose — "Your mother doesn’t seem as fond of you as she might be.” Little Johnnie—"No, sir. She says if it hadn’t been for me she’d have had sister married years ago.”—Harper's Bazar. THE LABOR WOBLD. Detroit is getting to be a great town. The last of the Western iron mills has signsd the scale. At San Francisco union cooks and wait get S2.50 per day. Several large iron works are to be built! on the Pacific coast. Five large iron corporations have ad-) vanoed wages lately. Farmers’ unions, with 1,500,000 took of amalgamating. London cabmen collectively earn about! $11,250,000 per annum. The Iron Moulders’ Union of North] America is thirty years old. A San Franciscd cable company haal raised wages to $2.50 per day. The Pennsylvania. Railroad has in its re-* lief association treasury $170,700. It takes 300 men to harvest the wheat crop; of one ranch in Colusa County, Col. The iron-workers in South Wales have de manded a ten per cent, increase in wages. A great coal strike was recently averted; in England by a- majority of one vote against it. New England factory operatives worked from 4:30 a. M. to 7:45 F. M_, thirty years' ago. One of the growing industries of San Diego County, Cal.,Is the-manufacture of asbestos goods. None under sixteen can work in Belgium without obtaining a physician’s certificate of fitness. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is taking steps to pension its superannuated employes. The National Association of Stationary Engineers has 1S5 branches, with 10,000 members. The Sultan of Turkey has a small electric • railway, constructed entirely by native< workmen. Within a short time there has beeneomv. important labor legislation in Belgium, Hol land and Germany. There is a general revolt against the lead ers of the trade unions in England opposed to an eight-hour law. In Glasgow, Scotland, there are more fac tories to the square i mile than in any other city in the United Kingdom. English moulders work nine Lours, and their average life is fifty-one years. In Ohio they work ten and die at forty. Michigan has a ten hour law for women and those under eighteen. An hour for din ner makes the day nine hours long. In Belgium there is now a law for the es tablishment of councils of industry or arbi tration boards, in which trade disputes may be settled. The Reading (Penn. ) Railroad officialsare about to place an order for 1500 hopper gon dola cars of sixty thousand pounds capacity for use in the coal trade. r A war is being carried on in. St. Louis be tween the laundry girls and the Chinese laon- drymen. Parades are being held to arouse sympathy for the women. North Dakota, was the first State, as a State, to make provision of a system of man ual training. Forty thousand acres of land' are set apart for that purpose. _ NEWSY GLEANINGS. j Hog cholera is raging in Indiana. i Reports of potato rot are general. * This is to be a great oyster season. ! Hong-Kong has 3,000,000 inhabitants. Eight bishoprics are now vacant in France.; France has imported 10,000 horses this year. Natural gas has been discovered in Dal4 ton, Ga. Bismarck is to be the capital of North! Dakota. Codfish planting has proved successful ini Narragansett Bay. A ring in Spain has fleeced Madrid out of) twenty million dollars. Thebe have been more seizures of illegal * ' ’ " * ing f’ citv Russia is said Kimudly^ the extent of $123,000,000. Building and Loan Associations arel springing up in the South. The appearance of cotton worms is causing! apprehension in Arkansas. Creston, Iowa, has built a palace com-* posed entirely of native blue grass. Over one thousand Chinamen arrived in! the City of Mexico one day last month. St. Louis is to have seventeen miles of! elevated railroad at a cost of $6,000,000. Two years ago there were two banks in! Chattanooga, Tenn., now there are nine. Of the 16,000 Postmasters appointed since! March 4, over one-half are Union soldiers. The value of the Columbia River salmon! catch this season is estimated at $2,100,000. Russia has demanded imperatively that! Turkish outrages in Macedonia shall cease. Four Chinamen have been married to< white women in Chicago daring the last three weeks. Oats and hay have both been more or less damaged by ram, although large crops were secured. It is proposed by the South Fork Fishing; Club to rebuild the Conemaugh dam, which! gave way last spring. The Senate Investigating Committee claims tliat irrigation by art practicable in Dakota. The present strength of the Grand Army.' of the Republic is 413,258, an increase of 50,- 000 during the past year. Cotton goods manufacturers have formed a combination. The purpose is to purchase cotton only in the United States. Large quantified of merchandise are said to be smuggled into Florida from Cuba, the coast not being property guarded. The convention at Olympia, Washington, has adopted as the State sea! a vingette of Washington with the words ‘‘Seal of Wash-j ington, 1889.” A year ago, Florence, Ala., had 1090 in habitants; now there are 8000 hustling around there. A cotton mill, a jean factory, a ging - ham factory and a woolen mill are being built. The richest diamond beds have been dis covered, by the merest chance, in the Sierra Coronille, near the village of Tepantitlan, in the mina district of the State of Guerrero, Mexico. There are nearly 700 totally blind veter ans of the late war who are pensioners at $72 per month. These veterans are known at the Pension Office as "the sightless brigade.” The English Government has intimated to the United States Government its willing ness to negotiate a settlement of the Behring Sea matter and now awaits the American Government’s reply. The supply of sponges in the Bahamas is limited, owing to the approach of the hurri cane season, and prices are consequently high. Turtle shell is realizing very high pnees. The supply is not equal to the de mand. Sy artesian wells is As the result of mining by electricity, it has been proved that ten men can accom plish with the electrical drill what it requires 100 men to do with other methods. The shoe salesmen of New York city are organized to the number of 600. The work of organizing more thoroughly has been be gun and a federation will be formed. No one in Great Britain under eighteen, and no woman of any age, can work more than sixty hours a week in factory or store, and only fifty-six r.ud a half hours in textile factories. In Germany, the law enacted by the Reich stag for pensioning aged and infirm workmen provides for assessing the wages of labor and the incomes of employers to raise a fund for this purpose. Mrs. Gill, of Mulberry street, is the only woman shoemaker in New York city. She made a pair of shoes before she was fourteen years old, and has worked at the cobbler’s qench for the last ten years. Many farmers in the north of Ireland grow tired of farming, sell out and start grocery stores in the towns and cities. Of late num bers of them are emigrating to America with the object of starting stores in Western cities. The percentage of wages paid for food by American workingmen, as shown bya recent return from various countries, is much leas than is paid by the workmen of either Ger many, Spain, Great Britain, Franca, Italy or Belgium,