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i WOMEN IN MASSACHl SEfTS. It is not only in recent times that women have outnumbered the men in Massachusetts. This condition ot af fairs has obtained for 130 years. Ten years ago the excess was so great that there were 8000 more unmarried women than men. VIOLET A FASHIONABLE COLOB. Violet remains one of the fashiona ble colors of the season. Every imag inable tint and tone of the deep, rich shade is worn, and it is wonderfully becoming to clear, fair, rosy com plexions, and the soft brown and golden hair one is always ready to admire. It is said to be the young Czarina’s favorite flower, and during her recent visit to London and Paris she wore them on almost every occa sion. The fragrant blossoms are as fashionable as the color, and the reign of violets is one of the loveliest Dame Fashion has ever given. COLD WATER AND PLUMPNESS. It is more than probable that the women who long most earnestly for a more ample fitting or firm, smooth flesh over the nock and arms do not know the efficacy there is in simple cold water. It should be applied not less than twice a day, and i* faithfully adhered to will bo found a wonderful restorer of rounded contours. In the morning and at night draw a large basin of cold water and with one hand dash it lightly and rapidly over the portions of the body which it is desirable to strengthen and improve. Keep this up about ten minutes, use no soap, and do not attempt to make a bath of it; massage with the hand, and endeavor to draw the blood to the surface and establish a regular circu lation. THE REVIVAL OF THE BI« MUFF. The little round mnfl that we have been accustomed to carry for so many years is fast disappearing. In its place wo have a huge aiTair like those the Kate Greenaway toddlers were pic tured as carrying; or else a very small muff with wide flaring ruffles at either end. The latter model often combines two furs—one being used in the mufl proper, and another for the ruffles. A pretty caprice is to pin a nosegay of violets,pansies, or mignon- nelto on the front of these frilled mnlfs, and they are often farther orna mented by a bow of ribbon or lace. However, one’s old fashioned muff may be altogether too good to lay aside. In that case some of the wad ding may be taken ont, leaving the fur looser, so that it may be puckered a little in front, and then ornamented with a small fur head, I saw one in sealskin, with a gathering thread run obliquely through the front, and three tiny seal heads set diagonally on this puckered line. Heads of another fur might be used, if desired; and of course, if the coat is of two furs, the heads on the muff would correspond with the coat trimming.—The Puritac. anco in New York, but it has been ac companied by certain of the tiaras which have made the new coiffure necessary. One of these was worn by a prominent New York woman at the opera last week. It was a fan shaped tiara, composed almost entirely of pearls, and was magnificent both in size and design. Pearl sticks, com posed of strings and gems, radiate from a scroll wrought in gold and pearls. From the centre of the scroll rises a tall white aigrette dslightfally soft and feathery and sprinkled with diamond dust. It is a regal ornament, and wonld in crease the beauty of any stately yonng dame. As lor its cost, it is probably the most expensive hair ornament of the season, and its value would suffice to buy dozens of ordinary opera out fits.—New York World. HOW TWO GIRLS MADE MONET. “A country girl who is determined to go to Paris to study art is laying aside for this purpose each dollar she has earned,” writes Ruth Ashmore in an article on “The Girl in the Conn- try,” in the Ladies’ Homo Journal. “She found that there was no one else in the village who could make as good bread and biscuit as the; that those who had to buy complained of the baker’s bread. She made no effort at sending her bread to a woman’s ex change, as she knew that snch places were always overstocked, but she went through her own town—a very small one—and asked for orders. She is making money because there has never been a sad loaf of bread or a heavy bisenit sent out from her kitchen. She will supply a neighbor with hot bis cuits at tea time, and she has learned to make dainty rusk, especially for in valids, who enjoy these light, sweet dainties. Her prices are reasonable. “Another girl, ambitious to gain something, got her father to let her have a bit of ground, and to give her the money that he would otherwise have bestowed upon her for a wedding dress. With this she was able to buy plants and to hire a boy to help her, and daring the summer, while the boarding booses around demanded them, she served the freshest of rad ishes, the crispest of lettuce, the ear liest corn and the largest tomatoes, and she says now that she will doable the size of her garden next summer.” Gotham’s latest coiffure. New York has seen the revival of the tiara this winter in particularly emphatic form, bat Paris also has been concerned with the reappearance of jewelled hair ornaments of great size and magnificence. This is so far true that the Parisian dames have institu ted a new style of coiffure calculated to show off their massive combs and tiaras to the best advantage. This coiffure sets high on the top of the head and forms a sort of embankment across from ear to ear, against which the jewelled crown may be supported. The crown itself is made wifh a curved and sometimes undulating base, that it may lie directly across the centre of the bead. This new and startling fashion has only just began to made its appear- ECONOMIES FOR THOSE IN MOURNINO. A woman whose mourning gowns are models of elegance, in spite of the fact that she is not rich, gives these suggestions in regard to the care of black garb. “When donning mourning,” she says, “I invested in a half-dozen waist frames (a wooden band with a hook, five cents each). A waist is never laid down or hung by loops. It is put on the frame aud hung on a separate hook from the skirts, so that the puff sleeves arc iu free space and shoulders kept straight on the frame. Never when in your room go without a white apron. This prevents the skirt being rubbed while writing or moving about, and after sewing on lint is to be brushed off, and so the skirt loses no lustre. No truly refined woman walks the streets with a skirt that touches and fails to lift it. This tells you all you need, to have the bottom of the gown correspond in freshness with the top. “A word on wearing white chamois gloves. I have worn five pairs of gloves during the six months—daily riding a bicycle, from lessons to finish, and four months of that time riding ten to twenty-five miles a day; and Snuday going to church, foar months of the time, three miles in the coun try. Once a week, at least, five pairs of gloves at a time swung in the snn and breeze, pinned in a row from my window. They had been washed as I was directed in baying them at the shop: ‘Put the gloves on, wash them in pretty hot water with white castile soap (no ammonia; it stiffens), just as you would rub your soiled hands. Rinse and hang to dry, and when still damp work them on, ani hang again to dry. It is impossible to tell washed from new, except that washed gloves are not folded and pressed fiat. I have darned and put iu one or two new fingers at the very close of the season, but that is because bicycle rid ing requires gloves to be brashed very bard to restore them to pristine purity. If a woman wants to be com plimented on matters that cost little, let her accept these extracts out of my notebook.” faphton notes. A novelty in muffs is long and flat, with sable on one side and chinchilla on the other. Black satin overgaiters with patent leather straps are liked by dressy women. Those of plainer tastes pre fer them made of fine cloth or velvet. Hand embroidery is one of the fads of the moment. Many of the largest stores have a special department for this work, with a teacher who gratu itously instructs purchasers of stamped pieces. A reception dress of black and white brocade was made up with a very full, long train of white satin. The waist had entire front, yoke, sleeve trim mings and sleeve puffs of white. The remainder was of brocade. Pointed shoes, which for a time seemed to be losing ground, are now shown with the toes more pointed than any before put upon the market. The most extreme stoles are so long as to be positively dangerons, unless one is accustomed to them. Bedroom slippers, knitted or croch eted, of heavy double zephyr and sewed to soles prepared for that pur pose, are almost indispensable arti cles. They are very expensive when bought at the shops, bat the material costs bat little, aad they are quite easy to make. Wide, fall knickerbockers of serge, light-weight cheviot and satin, with flannel linings that may be easily re moved, are ranch wora in plt.ee of the short flannel skirts. They are found to be very cosey, and comfortable for cold weather, and they make walking much easier. A pretty dancing dress is made of chiffon. The breadths are side plaited and trimmed wilh satin ribbon sewed on the material before plaiting. The chiffon is pale yellow, and the ribbons aye white. The waist is pnffed, and the sleeves have deep frills of the plaited chiffon. Shonldor wraps of crochet are very pretty and becoming, but unless the stitch is selected with an eye to dura bility, they soon become draggy and worthless. There are few more for lorn things than an old crocheted shawl that has, so to speak, been through tha wars. BUDUEi’ OB F HUMOROUS SKKTCHKS VARIOUS SOURCES A Youngj Woman's Observ; n __^ Cutting Epithet—Well —Nalnrul Conclusion How It Worked. Ktc. “They say I am a wit.” quoth . “Yet spinster I have tarried; The cirl who’s quick at reparte- slow at sett in!; marriei —Wushiugto. ar> 90- A CUTTING EPITHET. “Are you acquainted with ciety people?” “Oh, yes, I know a thing or —Life. NATURAL CONCLUSION. Wee One (seeing a flash of lighng for the first time in her life)—h! wbat was that, Wee Two?” Wee Two—“They was scratchy* match up there.’’—Judge. NONE ON THE MARKET. “Money can bny anything.” “No, it can’t.” r “What can’t money bay?”] “A piano of a make that hat first premium everywhere.” THE DECISIVE TEST. Giles—“I am in love wil girls, and can’t for the life of i up my mind which is the pretj Merritt—“Take them into a < cable car some day and see whi a seat first.”—Life. - 9 taken lioth lake WELL NAMED. “Why are you going to call y^ yacht ‘Gossip,’old man?” aske| Wither. “Because,” said Von Miner, isn’t much to it, but how it doosj —Cincinnati Tribune. that 1 had at last succeeded m being original"—Washington Star. This Spring Flows Copper. W. F. Carson, of Tacoma, Wash., traveling passenger agent of the Can adian Pacific, and G. McL. Brown, the company’s district passenger agent at Vancouver, have just returned from extended trips through the famed min ing districts of the Kootenai country. “The prospectors are sticking a litt le closer to the camps on account of the snow,” said Mr. Carson, “but other wise there is as much work going on as if there were not trom two to three feet of snow on the ground. The Koo tenai is such a wonderful country that if half the truth were told of its min eral wealth, it would uot be credited. A recent find that has excited a great deal of attention is the discovery of an actual copper spring, now kuowu as the ‘Red Blanket,’ in the Lilloeet district, just north of Spencer's bridge, on the Canadian Pacific. The water in solution, runs 39.7 pounds of cop per to 200 gallons, ami 10,000 gallons a day come tumbling down the moun tain side. This is the only real cop per spring that is known of, with the exception of one in Idaho, and that only flows two pounds of the metal tc the 100 gallons of water. W. Pritch ard Morgan, a Welsh M, P., promi nently known in Wales, Australia aud South Africa through his extensive mining interests, heard of the Red Blanket copper spring prior to his sailing from Vaneonver with a party of mining experts for Japan and China, December 8. He was very much interested in the reports he re ceived of the spring, aud not only left one of his experts behind to make in vestigation, but is said to have ollered $100,000 for 51 per cent, of it.” Mr. Carson brought a bottle of cop per water from the Red Blanket spring with him.—Portland Oregon ian. Sl.lL.MliU; AM* i.MU.MUlAL. HOW IT WORKED. Della—“He asked for permissioj kiss me, and said that he would silence to mean consent.” Susan—“And what did you say?! Della—“Oh, his audacity struck dumb.”—New York Journal. A DEAD SECRET. Briggs—“Simmerson, the invento says his wife doesn’t even know whit business he ikjta/’ Griggs—“Wh^ has he concealed $ from her?” “He is afraid she might get the im pression that he could do odd job* around the house.”—Life. WHAT CAUSED IT. George—“You do not call on Miss Rosebud, now?” Jack—“NO, I got disgusted. She has snch.#coarse laugh.” hearing When I proposed tt> her. ”— Dublin World. Can Wiite 175 Words in Shorthand a Minnie, Biintifolded. John R. Gregg, a teacher of stenog raphy iu Chicago, has succeeded iu writing shorthand blindfolded, and so legibly that other stenographers are able to read it at sight. He did this a few days ago at a meeting of teach ers and students of phonetics, where the subject of writing without the aid of the eyes had come up iuculentally. Taking notes of illustrated lectures requires double attention. When the lectures are illustrated by storcopticou the reporter is often in the dark, which, of course, handicaps him further. Mr. Gregg said that he be lieved he could take notes without seeing what he wrote upon. He was blindfolded aud wrote upon a black board from dictation, at the rate of 103 words a minute. George Watson, one of the best known stenographers present, read extracts from letters selected at random. When Mr. Gregg The house fly makes 310 strokes! second with its wings; the bee 190. Within a few years 200 artesian wells have been sunk in Queensland, yielding 125,000,000 gallons of water a day. Haller has noted 1000 eases of cen tenarians, 02 of from 110 to 120 years, 29 of from 12o to 130 and 15 who had attained from 130 to 140 years. In his new book on bacteriology Professor Crooksbank points out that iu hydrophobia, variola (smallpox), vaccinnia (eowpox), scarlet fever, measles, and many other diseases, the nature of contagium is still unknown. The rare aud splendid collection of fossils which was brought together by the late Sir Joseph I’restwieh has been presented by bis widow. Lady Presi- wicli, to the British Museum, and it will bo placed in the natural history department. A new liquid measuring device con sists of a scale on which the bottle or can is placed under the faucet, the scale being set at t he amount required. When that quantity has entered the bottle the scale beam tilts and closes the faucet automatically. The now dock iccently finished at Dunkirk, on the north coast of France, is said to be the largest in the world. It is (100 feet long by eighty feet wide, and will be able to roceivo the largest vessels at any state of the tide. The dock has been seven years in construc tion. It is said that singers, actors and public speakers find tuat since the in troduction of the electric light they have less trouble with their voices aud they are less likely to catch cold, their throats are uot so parched and, they feel better. This is duo to the air being less vitiated and the temperature more even. The finest wire in the United States is said to be made at Tftuuton, Mass. This metal is exactly l-50Jtb pait of an inch iu thickness, rauchffiuer than human hair. Ordinary wire, even though of small diameter, is drawn through holes in steel plates, but, on account of the wear, such plates can not bo used in making the hair w ire, The Taunton factory uses drilled dia monds for that purpose. L V Trtt t~ IHtvolUo. I care not how In reckless rout The rude winds blow the leaves nbontt Nor how iu summer vales serene They toss the gray above the green. I have -hen' where no cold winds !>e— A kindly cot that covereth me, And one whose smile can cheer and chardl In the strong circle of my arm. Vain is the winter’s icy art While her dear love doth warm my hcorL Within are lights and shadows shed On sweet woe forms tucked up iu bod. Hath glory such alluring gleams As children smiling iu their dreams? O world of waste and wintry snow, Ciive rao but this: my lire side’s glow— A shelter in the storm and strife, With love of little ones and wife— And I shall yield all other art For that sweet love that warms my heart! —F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. FITH AND POINT. Ili THE MIDST OF ADVERSITY. “We seem to be thrown together n good deal,” observed the yontb, as he picked himself up and assisted the young woman to her seat on the front of the tandem after their third fall. And she never suspected that be neath his cheerful demeanor and his sweater he concealed a pair of skinned elbows.—Chicago Tribune. took the handkerchief fi -JiJBaaljy whai from bis eyes. saw the work done said they were satisfied that, with little practice, Mr. Gregg could attain a speed of 175 words, which wonld be ample for tak ing any ordinary speech. He is one of the best known shorthand writers in England or America. He has de veloped a system of his own, which he believes, since his recent experiment, will simplify the work of the short hand reporter materially.—New York Press. wise JUDGE. Mrs. Blnrtout—“Why do yon sup pose the judge refused to grant ns a charter for our new secret society?” Her Husband—“Did you swear that certain portions of your work were to lift Mrs. Blnrtout—“Certainly.” Her Husband—“Then he didn’t want to make any of yon liable for perjury.”—Philadelphia North Ameri can. INFERENCE. Mrs. Gray—“Mr. Sonic is going to preach to-morrow. I wouldn’t miss hearing him for anything.” Mrs. Green—“I’m awfully sorry I shan’t be able to go.” Mis. GsAy (after saying goodby)-*- “No wonder she doesn’t want to be seen in that shabby old cape again.” Mrs. Greene—“Got a new bonnet or something, I suppose."—Boston Tran script. JUDGING ENTIRELY BY OBSERVATION. “How was the play?” “It was very good,” replied the man with a gentle disposition. “I’m glad yon enjoyed it.” “I don’t mean to say that I enjoyed it. I merely said it was very good. I base that opinion on the fact that the lady with a large hat who sat in front of me laughed audibly several times during each act."—Washington Star. Food Allowances For Soldiers. An officer of the United States Army has recently compiled some in teresting figures on the food allow ance made to the soldiers of ditlercnt Nations, and argues that the better the rations, it naturally follows, the better the fighters. For instance, the case ol the vic torious Japs m the recent Chino- Japanese war is cited. The Chinese troops mainly subsisted on rice, together with what they could pilfer, while the Japanese soldiers had rice, tinned and fresh meats, fish and veg etables. The meat allowance of a Japanese soldier is seven ounces. The Russian standard is sixteen ounces, the English twelve, the Italian eleven, French, Belgium,Turkish and German nine;. Austrian and Spanish eight. The allowance to the soldiers of the United States is higher than that of (he others, and is twenty ounces. The daily allowance of bread is highest among the Austrian troops, who receive thirty-two ounces, and the lowest is the English Army, where each man is allowed sixteen ounces. In the United States Army, the French Army and the Italian Army the allow ance is twenty-two ounces. In the German Army it is twenty-eight; iu the Russian, seventeen, All modern soldiers, except the Russians, have a daily allowance of rice. The Ameri can Army is the only one in the com missariat of which beans are an article of diet.—San Francisco Chronicle. NOT REPEATED. # “When you stepped on that gentle man’s foot, Tommie, I hope yon apol ogized?" “Oh, yes, indeed I did,” said Tom mie, “and he gave me ten cents for being snch a good boy.” “Did he? And what did yon do then ?” “Stepped on the other and apolo gized again, but it didn’t work.”— Harper’s Round Table. THE COMMENT. “I was telling Miss Cayenne about an accident with which I recently met,” remarked Willie Wishington, with a melancholy look in his eye. “Indeed?” “Yes. I was getting off an electric car. Didn’t realize how fast it was going, and landed on my hands in stead of my feet.” “What did Miss Cayenne say about it?” “Not much. She merely remarked Elevators on Shipboard. Tno latest addition to steamship ac commodation and laxary is the eleva tor, and the next liners that are built will certainly contain this improve ment. These new liners will also be built on radically different principles, so that staterooms will be built only on the upper or promenade deck and none on the saloon deck. This ar rangement will enable the passenger to leave his window open and give more light and ventilation, so that every stateroom will be an outside room. —Philadelphia Record. Carved Long Ago. In the heart of an oak tree blown down by the high winds yesterday on the Dalzall farm were found the deep ly carved initials “B. 1.,” the rings ontside the initials, each representing one year, numbeting 125. No white or educated person was known to re side in or be acquainted with the vicinity that long ago.—Chicago Chronicle. How Chewing tJiini is Made. “Four million pounds of gum chi cle, the product of the Mexican sapota tree, entered the United States during 1895,” says theConlcctioners’ Journal. “This entire product, valued at nearly $1,500,000, became the basis of chew ing gam. A walk through a loading chewing gum factory is interesting. Here over 1,000,000,000 pieces of gum arc annually produced and shipped to every portion of the world. Three hundred employes are engaged in the manufacture of the gain, the 8 tap of wtuah is the importation of the raw chicle, which is gathered by the peons in Mexico and exported in bales, containing abont 150 pounds each. The gam is taken from the bales and chopped into small pieces. These are freed of tree bark and chips by steaming and picking; then ground in mills making 3400 revolutions a minnte. The ground gum is subjected to a continuous heat of 140 degrees F. in drying rooms. From here the gum is sent to the ‘white-aproned cook,’ who adds the purcsts of sugar and the freshest of cream, granulated pepsin, powdered guru or kola, or other de sired ingredient to it, and cooks it in a steam-jacketed cauldron, where it is turned and mixed by an ingenions double-acting heater, or rotating pad dle, until it has assumed the consis tency of broad dough. Now the 'dough boys’ take hold of it and knead it in fine powered sugar, passing it to the ‘rollers,’ where it is rolled between steel roliors until i£is of the proper thickness, when it is whisked away to the ‘markers.’ The markers are steol-knived roller, which leave their impre-s on the long sheets of appetizing gum before it goes to the ‘seasoning room,’ after which it is broken 1 on the lines loft by the mark ers. Now the gam finds its way to the •wrapping room.’ The nimble fingers of 153 dainty maidens are here at play. Under their deft touch waxed paper, Hinfoil and pretty wrappers envelop the gum quick ns a wink, and in another moment the ‘packers’ have the gum to place in jars or boxes, wherein it is shipped for sale to the general public.” A Strong Potato. Charles W. Simmons, who lives on a farm near Pleasant Home, brought in from his tarm a cariosity. It con sisted of a late rose potato grown in the root of a tree. The potato vine seems to have crept into the root, and the new potato then started down in the depths, it flourished in its strange surroundings and developed into a large and well formed potato. The room in the root was too small for its expansion, and so the spud exerted not less than a ton pressure on the root anti! the side was split open. The root is about three inches in diam eter, and six inches in length. About an inch of the spnd protrudes from one end. It is quite a curiosity, and all who have seen it say they never saw anything like it before.—Portland Oregonian. “Papa, why does the sun go South in the winter?” “Oh, I suppose ha can afford to.”—Detroit Journal The Blonde—“l wonder if I shall ever live to be a hundred?” Tho Brunette—“Not if you remain twenty-two much longer.”—Tit-Bits. Laura (showing her album to a friend) — “Isn’t it strange that our oldest pictures always make ns seem tho youngest !”—Fliegenda Blaotter. “It,” said tho grinning savage, as ho turned the machine gun on tho dis comfited civilizers, “is a poor Maxim that won't work both ways.”—Indian* upolis Journal. Pedestrian (to footpad)—Money or my life, is it? I was wondering how 1 was going to live through this week. Now I won’t have to. Very kind ol you. Hboot away.—Boston Transcript. Mrs. Peck (during tho breozo) — “Before wo were married yon said you would die for me.” Henry I’ock - Well; and if I did?" Mrs. Beck— “You might do so uow.”—Philadel phia North American. Ominous; “.My wife never said a word about a new seal sack tins wip ter." “I suppose yon rejoice at that “Not much. I’m afraid she’s ligu on getting a now ’97 model whe Cleveland Plain Dealer. “It’s pretty tough,” sig small sickly tree. “There girls iu this block learuiug t bicycle, aud I am absolute! object they can run into., was only a hydrant or son Detroit Tribune. “What is your broth doing since bo left colie] just at present be is very] back our family tree." me 1 Then he’s got thi theory into his head, has “I think that it is for anything,” sai have been looking over t! vessel for half an hour''and can't it.” “Can't see what,< my dear?" asked Baby. “Why, the equator.' Tho captain said we were crossing it.’* —Tit-Bits. A gentleman saw the following ad vertisement in a newspaper: “Tha Road to Wealth. Bend twelve stamps to —” Tho gentleman sent twelve stamps, and in return for his outlay received minute instructions how to get to the Bank of England from any part of London. It was definitely decided lij the Par lor Haircloth Furnitnre Society yes terday that Mrs. Bitlinger Jennings had plain bilious fever; her claims that she was suffering with &ervoas prostration were langhed at No woman in as poor circumstances as Mrs. Billinger Jennings could possibly have such a disease.—Atchison Globe. “Yes,” said the retired army officer, *‘1 can recall two occasions when I was most terribly frightened.” “Oh,” ex claimed tho romantic young lady, “do tell me about them. I suppose it hap pened When you were fighting the In dians.” “No,” he replied; “one timo was when I was married aud the other time was when we had our baby chris- icueJ.”—Cleveland Leader. mg I.”— ad the are ten ride the the only If there ethingj”— Reginald e?” “Why, busy tracing “Goodness t Darwinian e?”—Truth, too horrid “Hear* side of the I>r. Nansen’s Strength. Fritdjof Nansen, the Arctic ex plorer, is a man of extraordinary phy sical strength. At Tromso the other day when At the least of welcome be was proposing the health of Captain Sverdrup he suddenly lifted his ship mate up and held him aloft with one arm, so that every lady in the crowded hall could get a sight of his comrade. He will not wear his great cross of the Order of St. Oiaf because his crew re ceived only a paltry silver modal apiece. “It might at least have been gold,” be says. f It Salting Fruits. It is the eastern in Italy to sbi] fruits in large casks tilled with and brine. The fruit is sliced or cat in pieces and immediately pat into the piokle. This fashion of shipping has its advantage over ordinary meth ods, in that the frnit prepared need not be so fresh as that which ia shipped whole and wrapped in papers or packed in boxes. Fruits of this sort are snbjeoted to the most rigid sorntiny, as one imperfeet specimen may infect the entire paroel. The salted fruit upon reaohing its destina tion is soaked in fresh water until all traces of salt have disappeared. While this method may be tolerated in emergencies, the flavor and quality are so much impaired that shippers are looking for some other vay of preserving their product. Origin of a Phrase. * The origin of “another feather In his cap” is thus explained: In Han gary, in the year 1599, it waa decreed that only he who had killed a Turk should be permitted to wear feathers, the number of feathers thus worn to designate tho number of Tnrks the wearer bad vanquished. The law was finally repealed, bat not antil it bad become a positive reproach to a man not to be able to wear one or more feathers. No Honors for Suicides. The German Minister of War bee issued a general order to the effect that military honors are no longer to be rendered at the funerals of officers who have committed snieide, whose names are likewise to be made pnblim instead of being kept secret. . < x ] fi $