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3 'Jmr- 'I' K / j ra' Cl ■ iff as , "1 1 w li ^ nc IL \ I ; 4^ ■ >: es as X St U Jk; w •t! I V The battleship Oregon has demon strated that there is something in name after all. With a record o! 18,000-mile crnise at a phenomenal rate of speed she has proved true to the motto of the State after which was named: Alia volat propiis—she flies with her own wings. Mm. 6 ' ^ n8 * ro *'“ n ba| !ot"»yatem Laving come into general use in this conntry the . . J• , m *"•«“» -J-tem of ,. D a w IS now proposed, and will prob ably be adopted. It provides for abolition of the present cumbrons and (*U\4 expensive scheme of searching titles, and is therefore —■" * opposed by lawyers who do that work, bnt by few others. It is worthy of note that the older na tions of the world should have ao many things to learn of some of the youngest ONE SOLDIER DEAD, A fflfr young motb«r calmly rsad. While one haml rocked the cradle bed Wherein her llrat-born slept away The twilight o( a summer day. Hhe carelessly the paper turned Till “i— '“Our I Latest War News” she discerned; loss was small," dispatches said— “A skirmish, and one soldier dead." They troubled not to give his nsme, Or e’eu the troop from which be came; For who, rejoicing in success. Cares If there be one private less? Only a soldier lying there, With blood upon his sunny hair. With no kind friend to raise his head Or treasure the last words he said. ■PPPBPPH-. 0*1, happy mother, do you know I That not so many years ago 'i ii.it soldier was a baby, too. With face as sweet and eyes as 1 As those within yo cradle tber And knew a mother’s tender < Who now must sit alone and weei Le. ause be wakes not from his : And other thousands also said: “Only it private soldier dead," Without a passing thought that ni Might one of nature's nobles be,l Or that the words that line oontafl Would wreck a life that yet remi His mother waits for him in vain,! For be, her only child. Is slain, f —Jean Paul Wayne, In the Chicago i WHY I LEFT SAHTIAGO DE CUBA. I was the iu Eastern Cuba in March, which BY A CABLE OPERATOR ww only American operator In every art and science looking to the development and betterment of mankind, the two nations of Groat Britain and the United States have gone hand in hand in the forefront of progress, apd none the less so in the science of government, notes the New York Mail and Express. Canada with Cuba; with Australia; compare the Philip pines with India; compare the Moors with the American Indians, and bow notable the difference in treatment of dependent nations peoples between that of the United ^ r 1 ‘ , ' a ’ a 1 n ‘\ Brates and Groat Britain, and of Bus- an i s a!1< ( at 1Z ‘ sin, France and Spain Compare compare Poland Eebmary and __ were very busy months in the cable office at Santiago, where I had been for four years. In the early part of 18*.)5 we seldom han dled more than 30 messages a day, but after the insurrection began the number rose to 90 and 100 daily, in creasing a little every month. The cable from Santiago to goes under sea first Snain to Kingston, Ja maica, thence to Puerto Itico, thence to St. Croix and from there to Para maribo ami Pernambuco in Brazil. Cables from Pernambuco cross the South Atlantic to St. Vincent, Cape Verde islands, and from St. Vincent other cables extend to Madeira,thence to Lisbon and overland to Madrid. I There is also a less direct cable from I Pernambuco to St. Louis in Senegal A, - : ' thence to the Canary isl formation,” I replied. “Besid these Spauish government are in cipher, which I am not i to know anything abont." i “Don’t let the cipher tronblj he replied, laughing. “I ha) key to their cipher all right.’ “As to who I am,” he eo “my name’s Macomber. I correspondent of the named an American journal, as to the whereabouts of the torpedo boats and those would be valuable just now, n4 to my paper, but to the At navy at Key West. Now yon L American and a good patriot,| say. Will yon not help us out “I’m a good natrinf ” T time to get forward into the cable room before Merode,who had regained hie feet, struck a match and relighted the lamp. Of the gruesome spectacle which the light revealed I will not speak. After the manner of Spanish justice, both Merode and myself were put nnder arrest, pending an investiga tion, which showed that neither of as knew anything about the affair. Yet the commandant at Santiagosnspected that I had planned it and sent me under arrest to Havana, by steamer, the following evening. I expected to remain in Las Cabanas for the rest of my days, but was dis missed without trial the second day after arriving there and left Havana along with 180 Americans on the fol lowing Sunday.—Youth’s Companion. DEWEY’S GREAT COOLNESS. ! An MANUFACTURES AND COLONIES. A careful compilation by the Scien- „... tilic American shows that at the pres-| that a— A XT- ont time the various Beside myself, there was but one other operator iu the Santiago office, Lnurin Merode, a young Spaniard, who had learned cable work at Lisbon 100 nuaii xuu messages daily maritime powers ! aa ' l « %OT ^ over 80U '' a * se ' d ... ,, . . „ . the day after the Maine of the world possess about fifty first- j n H nv . i.~« armored cruisers, pleted or under land has eleven either oom- constmotion. Eng- swift and was blown up iu Havana harbor. Four more oper ators were needed, and we called to Havana for help; but no notice was of these swift and ^eu of °» r ft PP« al * a “ d . rat t her than . ., , , ...... desert our posts and leave the com- fornudable craft built and building. pany . 8 btlaine , a un( i one , France has fourteen. Spain has nine, night and day, always The United States has precisely two. pressure would moderate. We are far behind other nations in (>ue day we seut 13,742 words in war vessels combining the sneed of pvar 1100 d « w P atcll «".yet *"0 war vessels combining the speed or lioiirg .. back> . &t m knight, w j t h Ha- raoiug cruisers with ample armor vana fuming at ns over the land wire protection and heavy batteries. These and still hurrying messages through vessels have a function all their own Cienfuesro* cable. There good patriot,” said iu aiso an honest man, bu here to do a certain duty,whic. not betray.” “You will not help me then? well, I shall examine your ta] force. ” “It is not my business to fl. Spain,” said I. “I have no fi resist you, but I will not help y — “Thanks. That’s all I asklBist you sit quiet.” “Do you think you can r« tapes?” I asked, incredulously. “Sure. I was a cable operato J years.” nr ee we slaved hoping the “Bat where did yon get yonr I key?” ’ ler in sea warfare. Their place can never be taken by slow sixteen-knot battle ships. A welcome announcement to many, at this season, in Ghambers's Journal, is the invent*'*" »** * * a uuuruai, the invention of a new life belt of a description wh,ioh meets the were Cienfuegos vault?. 1*. Spanish government cipher messages from Sagasta to Blanco aud Blanco’s cipher to Sagasta; reams of bombast from the Cub."" “That’s a matter that was ark in Havana three months ago. tape bobbins for the current! are in the table drawer, I pres{ “Look for yourself,” I said, my fellow-operator here is a Spa| I do not speak for him " not speak for him. ‘Seuor Merode,” I said in 8 “these gentlemen wish to see 1 ord tapes.” 1-p.rcm . u r£T ? °“-? nt ’ 0 ' T1 *» _ ___ —— — no for Madrid, fol lowed by more cipher to Weyler at Barcelona from bin -<*• H.™., »»«•"*« de- we said with difl ‘Nunca!” (Never!) he exclaim citedly, and made a jump for t * d s.ver, with mgl table - »»u Bume n< think, of destroying the tap was a pluckv faii«— 1 — 1 *’ seizprf P i!“ Ck ^ fe,Iow ' but seized him bv the colli befd ■offered Untold eg most i ontrivances for this purpose is, primaril ejtn- of so purpose ily—-especially in the ease eork waistcoats—that they are bulky as to impede action to a very considerable degree, if hot altogether, bnt this is avoided in the new belt, known as the Loniton float, which, as explained and illustrated in the French journals, has the appearance of a conger eel with conical ends. Made of sheet rubber, it passes round the neck, across the chest and round the waist, and cau bo inflated in one minute by the mouth; its weight is about one pound, and it is alike flexi ble, light aud easily placed in position. The Powors, with the exception of Great Britain, have been standing around, watching the proceedings and looking to see the United States, in its unreadiness for war, and, ns they fancied, our inexperience,—to see us badly beaten at the outset, but, ob serves the Trenton (N. J.) American, perceiving that in spite of our inex porience and unreadiness we were able to improvise a navy aud an army at the shortest possible notice, and that our fleets were the equals in skill aud discipline of any that the world can show, they hasten to get over on the aide which they realize is the winning side. All right. We shall be duly grateful that even in their own in terests they shall stand aside, bnt we shall be able, after the war is over, to measure exactly what the sympathy of these nations amounts to. England did not wait to see the coarse of events, but at once declared her sympathy. This is true friendship, and will be dnly appreciated. As for the others, we are able to thank them for nothing. There fa a growing Interest In.the subject of physical training In the pub- ilc schools, particularly in Massachu setts. A pertinent report on the mar- ter, recently presented to the School Board of Brookline by a committee of physicians, criticises present methods as disjointed and incomplefe. To be effective the committee says, physical training should be so ordered that In creasing demands should be made'upon the strength, intelligence and self-con trol of the pupils as they pass from the lower to the higher grades of the school system. To this end there should be proper apparatus and comp?tent teach- — —...K oa mav bo found In most of ers, such as may tbe European cities of even the second and third class. Elaborately equipped gymnasiums are not essential, as the desired object can be satisfactorily ac complished by placing adjustable ap paratus in the larg$ assembly halls which which it is customary to supply all school buildings. be pur sipnon tJL trouble constantly, aud the clooLWorkl that carries the record tape broke down every day or two. Now a Span iard is utterly without native ingenu ity. Merode was a tolerably good op erator, but when it came to rectifying faults of tbe instrument he was an in fant, aud all such tasks fell on me. Anything like clockwork I can “tinker,” but the mouse mill that works the siphon pen is a very delicate bit of mechanism, w hich assists the faint eloeti ic impulses that come great distances through the cable to move the iuk point of the recorder to and fro on the tape. I suppose I had taken the record tape clockwork and mouse mill apart 20 different times, and on the evening of the second of April,after Merode re lieved me, I sot to work to wind a new motor coil for the mouse mill, which had worked so very badly all day that, rather than struggle with it longer, I had determined to sit up all night and build a new “mill.” The cable-house at Santiago is a most lonesome place, particularly at night; but a Spanish sentinel was sup posed to pass the door every three minutes. These poor fellows were rarely paid and often looked in at the door to beg a cigarette. So when the outside door opened behind us that evening, I supposed the incomer was the seutiuel, and I did not even look around till an amused voice exclaimed: “Akn, senors! Buenos noches!” A Spanish sentinel begging a cigar ette docs not speak in that tone, so Merode and I faced round with a jump. There stood a rather tall, good- looking young fellow, in a white dnek suit aud white cap, regarding us keen ly; aud a step behind him was a typi cal Cuban rebel—sombrero, long mus- tachios, broad belt, long boots, revol ver and machete. In an instant Merode was on his feet and shonted, “Sentiuela!” at which our unexpected visitors laughed good-humoredly, and the Cuban said: “I must beg the Senor Telegrafero not to distress himself concerning the worthy sentinel, for that watchful sol dier is now lying comfortably on his back outside, w ith a gag in his month, anil his hands are tied to his feet.” “Well, who are you, and what do yon want here?” I exclaimed, iu Span- : iah. The young man in white duck laughed. “You are an American; any body could tell that by your Spanish. Oh, I know about yon. Speak Eng lish.” “Certainly,” I replied. “What do yon want here?” “The nows.” “What news?” “Are the Spanish warships, Vizcaya and Oquendo, still at Puerto Bico? Has the torpedo flotilla arrived there, or has it gone to St Vincent, at Cape de Verde?” “It is contrary to the rules of the cable company for me to give such in- his machete. “Don’t hurt him, Hkiz!” Macomber, and then, after A glance at me, he stepped to tbe'i himself and took out the rolls of “This will be a somewhat longj tedious business,” he remarks ginning to nnroll one of them, might help me, if you would; outed ®fdy ewer |ape. and The Policy of Nation* Who Make More Article* Than They Can Consume. There has recently appeared under authority of the state department in Washington a table showing the rela tion which the colonies of certain Eu ropean countries bear to the home country, and from it is seen that four of the governments of Europe—Great Britain,France, Holland and Portugal —have colonies larger iu respect to population than the home country, while two oth.er European govern ments, Germany and Denmark, have colonies larger in territorial area than the home country. It is more than a coincidence that the governments which have colonies are, for the most part, those w hich arc conspicuous in manufacturing industries, while it is observable that iu nearly fvery case the agricultural countries or Europe, notably Russia, Austria, Spain and Sweden,either have no distant colonies remote from the home country, or are on the point of losing those colonies which they have, and the same is true of Italy and Turkey. The figures show that all manufac turing countries under the impetus of steam power, electricity and modern invention are able to produce cousid- erably more than their inhabitants can consume and, the home market being insufficient, recourse has been had to a foreign market artificially created by the colonial expansion of the kind now generally favored by those who are seeking to get for American manufacturing products a larger field than can otherwise be se cured. The three manufacturing countries of Europe, England, France and Germany, have been increasing very rapidly their colonial possessions of late years and this is more particn- larly true perhaps of Germany, which has in Africa alone colonies covering over 800,000 square miles. “The Statesman’s Year Book” for 1898 shows the commerce of Great Britain in the export trade daring the year previous to have amounted to 8300,000,000 of cotton goodL $100,- ‘000,000 of woolen goods, $4(}000,000 least oblige me by turning ul> the lamp a little and placing it ou| the table here.” ‘Thanks,” he went on, when be- fYou l>|ut at complied and began rapidly unnflling 000,000 of machinery and Cutlery. France’s trade with French colonies, exclusive of Algeria and Tunis,amount ed last year to $30,000,000 of imports and $25,000,000 of exports, and the exports of German manufacture to Intevertlnf InclUmt la the Career of the Hero of Manila. A good story is told of Commodore George Dewey, which illustrates not only his coolness and judgment in a moment of peril, bat also tbs high re gard in which he is held by the men under his command. It was during the spring of 1887, when Commodore Dewey, then a captain, had command of the flagship Pensacola, a sailing vessel, in the Mediterranean. While en route from Athens to the coast of Spain the vessel encountered a series of short but violent squalls, which not only greatly retarded her progress, but proved intensely wearing on the crew. One night, when the inconsistency of the weather wss particularly annoy ing, the officer of the watch happened to be a young lieutenant who was very unpopular with the men, being what is termed in the nautical vernacular a “bucko.” Several times during the watch 111 hands had been called to shorten sail, and they were naturally very much exhausted from racing back and forth from the decks to the upper rigging. Finally the order was again given to make sail, and the tired sailors set about to put it into execution. But, after the work had been accomplished aud all bauds had come down from aloft, it occurred to the officer that the men had not exhibited sufficient alacrity to suit him, and, advancing to the break of the poop, speaking-trumpet in hand, he thundered a torrent of epithets at the crew,following it up with an order to lay aloft and go through the tactics of shortening sail by way of drill. Un fortunately, however, he had failed to reckon upon the inborn spirit of the American sailors, and right here their forbearance forsook them, and not a man of their number made a move ment to exeente the overbearing or der. Wildly flourishing his trumpet, the now frenzied martinet threatened and cursed aud stormed, - but to no avail. The blood of the crew was up, and they enrsed back, ridiculed, laughed him to scorn. Suddenly the sea and sky were seen to grow darker to windward, and it was clear that another sqnall was imminent. Alive to the danger to which the ship, with all her canvas spread, was exposed, the lieutenant retreated from his threatening attitude and urged, entreated, implored the men to save the vessel—but in vain—they had been driven to sheer desperation and only scoffed at him the more. Onward came the tempest, its fierceness fore told by the livid shafts of lightning which repeatedly flashed from its inky depths. The lieutenant, in despair, had sunk to his knees, with his face in his hands, awaiting the inevitable doom. Suddenly from out the cabin companionway a form emerged. It was the captain. In an instant his glance had taken in all—the approach ing storm, the defiant crew, the snp- t officer-Mm lapping sails, and | order: ,7 Xn hands shorten sSfll^T’ That was all, but it was sufficient. Be fore the last word of that command had been uttered the rigging was full of flying sailors,cheering their captain as they sped - to their task, and in a which was cut off by the prew the storm, and then requester office between to tell him wh storm arrived there. So as the moved he got a history of it “This he repeated many tim by means of questioning along i afterward also made snr« that was always rain falling whe lightning was central every tic flashes were visible to him, al no rain might fall at Perth Ami days or weeks.”—New York Su THE FORT OF TODAY, The Modern Emplacement I* Supi That of Year* Ago. The modern type of fortifk contrasts strikiugly with the n old stone works, excellent spei of which are Fortress Monrc Fort Wadsworth. To the ey novice, Fortress Monroe, the 1 of its type in the country, is sept impregnable; up to the close « civil war it could be defended a a fleet or army of any size, but as a gnu as the eight-inch rifle con it iu ruins in a very short time, old method of fortifying has be< placed by the emplacement systt earth, stone aud concrete, exc points where tbe topography ( coast line permits the- use of n formation. This is the case at land, Me., where the rocky clil been utilized, the batteries being elevation of 50 and GO feet abov water. Here, however, a large ar of concrete aud stonework has used to reinforce ihe walls of The walls of the modern fortifici are very broad and gradually ii from the summit to the base, appear like mounds of earth wi inner coating of cemeut, bat in construction thousands of yari broken stone and concrete are for a single emplacement. The ern fort is constructed more 1 than above ground, the magaz quarters for the artillerymen, ap tus for elevating, sighting and 1 and other machinery being inc in water-tight casemates oftei to 15 feet below the surface, the seacoast guns of today ca discharged by electricity, if des there is little need of exposure o men, and most of the gun crev remain under cover and out of dai —Collier’s Weekly. Th« Spanish Royal StandaM. The Spanish royal standard is i complicated. The red and yello the Spanish flag is said to be der from this occurrence : In 1378 Chi the Bold dipped his fingers in blood of Geoffrey, Count of Ban na, and drew them down the cot golden shield in token of his ap ciation of the latter’s bravery, shield so marked became the aru Barcelona, which became part of ragon, ^nd its arms were taken that ki&dom. the sosat sta J l/U *,■»,»• * foreign colonics now amount to a con- I twinkling every foot of canvas had siderable figure. Last vear these im- j been stowed, and the ship was placed • - ■ 1 under bare poles. Even before they could regain the decks the gale burst ports into the Cameroons amounted to I under liare I H)lea - * « r-v » had the tape through his fingers, j He read well aud fast, aud his ruc(ning comment amused me. “Oh, this is a dandy siphou of yours, isn’t it!” “What ails Jyour mouse mill?” “Say, friend, youn rec ord bore looks like the teeth of'aiji old dull buck saw.” “Your ink’s coagu lated.” I sat back and quietly lookea on. Merode still lay on the floor. | The Cuban stood watching us botn; if Merode stirred, he shook his mauhete at him. Thus, fully an hour paicied; it seemed much more than an l</ur, indeed, before our American visitor found what he sought “Ah!” he exclaimed at last. “Here we are! So the Vizcaya aud Oquendo left Puerto Rico for St Vincent last Sunday. GoodI Blanco is infoimed that the torpedo flotilla is goitg to St Vincent, too, instead of coming to Havana. ” “That’s all I wanted to know,” he continued, taming to me. “Sorry to leave your tapes in snch a mess, but I really cannot stop to roll them up again, for I must be well out to sea before daylight. Oblige us now,both of you, by remaining quiet here ifter we bid you good night.” But just then there was a new noise outside. The door opening tb the street was flung back, and there Rood a Spanish lieutenant from the fort, with half a dozen soldiers at his back I For the Spanish sentry—a boy f; 18 —whom they had gagged and tiid up outside the house, had proved;npre nimble than they had thought him. He had worked himself loose an| bad run to the fort for aid. The Cuban turned instantly, killed the lieutenant with a swing of his machete aud was at once shot own by a soldier who fired over thf I ionl- der of his falling officer. Macomb r showed better judgment, if less courage; he dashed the amp out and grasped me by the arm. ‘Help me out, ’’ he said. It would be difficult for anyoie to resist the appeal of a fellow-eoUitry- man at such a time. While thi sol diers rushed in, trampling and fkiing over the slain men and Merofc, I pulled the American after a door, back of the opened into our bai this back room was a wi; r .„^. out on the harbor side, from ahich Macomber swung in an instant and decamped without a word. I had $2,000,000 in value, into German Africa to. $1,000,000, aud into Togo- land to about as much. The policy of all producing coun tries largely engaged in manufacture is to discriminate agaiust like manu factures in other countries, aud the possession of large colonies, there fore, is a decided benefit to the home , country, a benefit which agricultural 11 1 ® ^id- countries do not enjoy. Austria-Huu- 4 onmn gary furuishes a fair illustration of this. The Austrian products, and particularly glass, leather, woolen goods, porcelain aud stoneware, are extensive and give employment to nearly 3,000,000 persons, but the com merce of Austria is inconsiderable, and much more than half of it is with Germany under conditions which are necessarily more favorable to the Ger man consumers than to the Austrian producers. QUAINT AND CURIOUS- upon the vessel, demonstrating only too forcibly the fate another moment’s delay would have hurled upon her. When the shock had passed and the crew had assembled in readiness to obey the next order, Captain Dewey addressed his first words to the offi cer of the deck. “Go to your room, ” Then, turning to the crew, he commanded, without the least sus picion of rebuke in his tones: “Boat swain, pipe down!”—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. Five is the great sacred Chinese num ber. In Greenland potatoes never grow larger than marbles. If kept going, the wheels of a watch travel 3558 3-4 miles a year. The smallest cows in the world are to be found in the Samoan islands. The Japanese have a custom of cele brating the blossoming of fruit trees by a general holiday. The largest clock in the world is that in the Westminster clock tower. It was set np on May 30, 1859. In some parts of central aud South Africa a single firefly gives so much light that it illuminates a whole room. The cloak on which Wolfe breathed his last, at the capture of Quebec, is one of the cariosities in the British Museum. The elephant can neither trot, can ter nor gallop. Its only pace is a walk, capable of being hastened to a fast shuffle. Tomatoes have been grafted upon potatoes by a French experimenter, whose hybrid plant produces tubers underground aud tomatoes above. In a certain village it is said that the church offertory is collected iu a bag at the-end of a pole, with a bell attached for the purpose of arousing sleepers. In the early days of Rome the la dies of that city wore snch heavy ear rings that they made the ears sore, and sometimes tore the lobes. There were doctors whose bnsicess was chiefly to heal ears thus injured. NO LIGHTNING WITHOUT RAIN. DUcovery That There I* Always Rain Where the Lightning I* Central. The observant Jerseyman and a friend of his were standing out of doors chatting the other evening when they were startled by a sharp flash of lightning in the western sky. “We’re going to have a shower, said the Jerseyman. They listened for an answering peal of thunder, but as none was heard the friend said: “I guess not; that is only heat lightniug.” “There never is any lightning with out rain,” said the Jerseyman. “My father made that discovery when he was a telegraph operator. That was in the early years of telegraphy, nearly fifty years ago. In those days there was no such thing known as reading by sound and all the operators nsed recording instrnments. The crude ness of the instruments in those days made it very difficult to operate the lines except under the best circum stances, and utterly impossible, even with careful adjustment, when there were electrical storms. “My father begun experimenting to overcome this difficulty, and at last he made a self-adjusting relay magnet which would not only work on any line, long or short, without manual adjustment, bnt it would also work just as well when the line wire was overcharged by aerial electricity, and tbe working of the key merely made slight differences in the amount of the current on the line. At these times he could receive messages from any one on the line, although they could not get messages from him as they had only the ordinary relay magnets. His ability to take messages under such circumstauces soon became known all along the line. His office was at Perth Amboy, N. J. One day it occurred to him to inquire into this question of heat lightning, and,seeing a storm away off in the west, he tele graphed along the line asking all the offices where the storm was. He got answers from all the offices ap to that are the arms of Leon Castile, theTion and the castle ; second quarter ie taken np, one by the arms of Arragon, one-hat the arms of Sicily. The upper t of the third quarter (directly ui the first), shows the Austrian col the lower two-thirds is divided tween the flag of Bnrgandy and black lion of Flanders; the U] third of the fourth quarter shows chequers, another Burgundian de\ while the lower two-ihirds is shi by the red eagle of Antwerp aud golden lion of Brabant, and on top of all this are two shields, showing the Portuguese arms, other the French fleur-de-lis.—PI delphia Times. Crown* Worth Million^. The King of Portugal’s crowt valued at $8,000,000. The crest of crown which the Czar of Russia w ou special occasions is a cross c posed of five marvellously brill diamonds resting on a large ruby, cut but polished. Tbe state crow' the Czarina, though small, is comp* according to authorities upon the i ject of gems, of the finest stones i strung. Queen Victoria’s great crown, val ot $1,800,000, contains a splei ruby, one large sapphire, besides teen smaller ones, eight emera four moderate-sized rubies, 1360 1 liants, and 1273 rose diamonds * four small pear-formed pearls and of other shapes. When the Sultan of Johore w< his crown and state clothes, the < monds on him alone are estimated be worth $10,000,000. The Mahi jah of Baroda’s chief ornament is a crown,but a necklace of five stra containing five hundred diamoi some of which are as large as hi nuts, while the upper aud lower n consist of emeralds of the samesiz< Tit Bits. The Saving of fetep*. A very little story with a very moral has just come to my notice, was told at a gathering of houseke ers who were considering the “sav of steps,” and I hasten to pass it while there is still time for it to hr l, comfort for warm weather hoaseka ing. The story was of a wise Chin woman who raised her family to n aud wealth by her wisdom. On* bar rules was that they should ne go to or from work in the fit empty-handed. Going they ti from the honse garbage, ashes* something else, which, a nuisa near the dwelling, served as fer izers further afield. Coming hi they brought sticks for fuel or sto: for walls, and thus cleared the fie while they provided for tbe boa The principle is a wise one, and mi a trip np and downstairs might saved by its adoption in the home Philadelphia Press.