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BISMARCK'S BIRTHDAY. ? *. Prince Ot(o Kdoiinrd Leopold von I ti? inarek, tho man who linn made more modern history, porbapa, than any other living creature, will l>e SO jcihx old <>n live first <*f Ai?rll next. The birthday of this lino old man tho Man of Blood an.l Jrou ? is always an event whieh atira t.h ? aluggish (leiwan Wood to swift action It iiua u jMjntHtir aignlticance thin year, because it la the flr?t natal anniversary that lllamarvk will celebrate slneo the death of his beloved wife. It will l?e a gala day, though, f <?? the little conunuid ty oif Friadriehruh, wilier* since bin riwli; nation as Chancellor in INSM>, the Kreat man has resided in the beautiful coun try hojne, the gift of William I. 'flhe Fflipllning yearn of ihia great stateainHn, 'diplomatist and hero of many war* are ?()et)t quietly with bin family, bis flow era, hia dogs and his ponderous pipe. Hiantarck haa been an incessant smoker since his early youth, and at SO was uot Friday. It was a die# iiffnelu*, ! at any rate*." Ami as ??f ins ill j luok ho montlona mmual discomfort* ex periQuced en route, nueli tin ait inn in f oh ted Willi Iuiks. "ittfa iiiouh colTof," ??!> triiwivo potltllorn, koi oo ijii? ?tl<?nal>'o jtrin oj-hh tv> h ml a talkative I'nvy Councilor, ' flto traveled in the warm- eai rhijfe. When ' tho titje of t'yiint was oil. i'r. | hint he 1 hesitated 4i I k>u t ae(-e|>tiiiK it, for ho knew ' that duverul Poinoraniaii familii-t wniHt | had acquired the title had lmi>iiH' < v tinct in a ahort apace <>r turn*. During ' the evening of Nov. ??'!. 1S7<>, \vhi!o he ' vi ? t k 1 1 ix tert at Va iTHt'lUfB, In Kpokf I al>ont hla th^ilh, and mentioned Hit* ntfe ! to wtileii he would attain and the y r in I which It wiiii ft|i>ohtt?vl that he ahoiild die. "i know it," he rej??-ated, "it is a Tityntl(> number. " Seven yearn latter repented this Htatonieiit, hut mhi^l, "< . *1 how*vor. only known. " M title t It ?? Itlnu 10 ii v I it it m Ono day during the Franco Prus^iai. war Kintf WUliain and Hleinaivk were detained at a rallrttad htation, and a> they waited in their oarriaiff a <-ro\v.| KUl'herod around und hitfitn to < h< < r fur IIIniiiii ri-lt u( l-:iv. Ii(> hid mini] in vigorous and 'his Iwxlily nil , utoiito lire few. So imic.li fim* ihe tobacco j t'vll. llo soys ho amokca Cho "best to I mooo in 10 u And perhaps that has | <*o 1 11 '? thing to do Willi It. No one i? dourer (o the (Jcrnuin hour I I than in lllHinarck. His completion of j fouroeoro yearn, after a ciirccr Ilia' < would have worn out a hull' dozen of ordinary minds and bodies, will be an ovent. The (Jernian residents of New York have subscribed for a massive sil ver loving cup to he pro*sent<?d to the great lender on the auspicious day. This < la a trivial fact to relate, hut It illus trates how 'he is received, honored and loved h,v the widely separated koiis ami daughters of their mutual country. The hi rlli day celebration this year will j bo a national affair in (iorinany. The j fund composed by individuals of all the component States of tho Oorinau lOni | pire for the erection in Berlin ?>f a m<?n | uiiHMit in h<Mior of tho civil achievements of Jlimnarok bus practically been com pleted, and this has largely IneroaHvd the treneni] interest of the day about to hi' the ( ? <>ri ii 11 ii tro'<|?M. Suddenly the kIioiiI u'dk raised: " 1 1 ii ri'ii li ! I liirriih! The Itisiiiaivkians have won another \' i ? ? > < ?ry !" At these word? Kin# Wdliiini ^icw pale, JiiKi, turning to the Ohanoellor, asked. impatiently : "What do t li?*s?*.? | >t" ? jil<> mean V" ItiMiinivk pretended not to Uear hint, and for wveral minutes not a word wan e\elianjyod between tin* two. I*'i 1 1 a I! >*. however, an tho train moved on, I In- K 1 1? tr said hruBipiely: "These folks onyht to ivmeinber that the |ivm?|?x nre 1 1 1 i 1 1 <>, and not yours." On another occasion lu? was eaujibt in a utonn as lie was strolling through the woods near Kis^'iiR-en, and a servant jjirl ran out of a rental ii rant and offered him an umbrella. Il?? thanked her courteous ly, and, taking her arm. esotrted her to a plaee of safety. There he jravj^ Uer ii kiss, w hi e)i slio aeeepted with kiKm! urnee, saying: "Vou have done me a 'ureal hon- J or, l'rinee," to whleli lie replied: "On the eontrary, my dear. It Is I who a in in your deld, for believe me, my dear, you It I n in ii re It In Ills lilirnrj celebrated Aiiol lii r j;ii at feature will . lie tin1 royal 1 >;i n? 1 1 > ? - 1 In l><> ui\i-n In I'm ' peror W i 1 1 in 11 1 in |l<rlin in honor . f 1 1 1 ? ? I day. Hisinnrtk'n lerthday hat^ a' ways been an occasion for the ti lling <>f a <l?t ? -s connected with liis \\ < > 1 1 ? I ? ? r 1 1 1 enieer, in the intimate f r i ? ? n . | w)i<> travel Inn lr< ?! <>f miles to chat with liitn a few in ? ments niitl |>n*-ent their commit ulnt mi.s As his hirt liihiy drawn near his mail <]? hi blew mill trebles. brimiinjr ^?i<ni wishes from all part.s of the earth. It is a <la> brimful of pleasure t ? > tlx- old man, as i! roHisrln like a mirror his vast army a. iiilliioroii.i ami powerful as any in tin (Icrinaii Knipire. The b?wt index lo th<* i linr.'i ter of the man is shown hy th<- stories In- lover; to t-oll, when in a talkative tn? ?< >?! The t est of therte follow, an-1 many ..( Mieui w II Ihi told over and over ai?:iiti on Ajiril I next . lie In Nlipernl 1 1 I???i n Llko many other jrreat men. Ilismarek is Komcwhnl superstitious. '1 hope iher.? aro not thirteen ?.f us f??r dinner," Mii l hi*) coiwin, Count Bismarck llohlen, one day to a friend, count in/ the eoyers at the table. "No. that's rlu'bt, fm'ilie Chancellor has an objection to that." Another day, when there were really f thirteen at -table, special pains were taken not to draw liisinmivk's attention to the fact, im his family knew that it would make him low spirited. < >n n t 14, 1870, flen. Boyer met tl*- Chancellor at Vernalllea to negotiate on '.iwfaalf ??f Itazaine, but a? ?oon as liianmrck re .mombered that it was the fourteenth daw of the month ho exclaimed: ^Hiat Is the date of Iloohkiroh and Jena, ami no hnsi nen shouJd be ooneIiid??d on that day." Perhaps it occurred to him that this 11: h ?f.Oetober was a Friday . o~*? , is* 1852, wriii>? /r/>n> kenbnrsr to bis wife, "I had not as good ?port at Latriinjfen thin time as I had three jeam a?o. It was a Friday:" and some month# later he writes to her from Halle, HI kept ooffftatln* all (hiring th<> Jooraejr yesterday whether after all it ha ve in '1< til }:iveii 1110 >: !"? ?;? t plea.-ure. II In Willi \ o II I It III hii joiith 1 ti still r? k \\ .ir> it rfili'v wild. " I'lii' mad Bismarck," hi.s neigh bors ca'led liiin. I >rliikitr_\ ti>;htinK and } i < > i v ? ? | ? I a y neonied lo I m * hi- Mill" nniiise incuts. lie would till Ins a mvsl ra I home :it Si-hoe iilian-en with irmsis and iiiM.-t that no oii?' should i i.-o from tin* sii|t|ici tablo til! sunrise wa- ;it hand Then those who wi-if r-? >! ??[' ? ji'i ik! NX "II hi l' > to l.o.l. and t!i ".->'' w !i ? w H"t sohi'V ? ?iinii-'h would ?-!?? |? ii 1 1 ? 1 1 ? i" thi' table. Ill iiian'k, I hi' hi-a \ ii'-t il ri nk? r ? >f :i I! . w ?? ; 1<I j remain t-oher ??-: a jud.rt\ ami would j amuse hiin-'l!'. after his ?jin,.-t- li :i < t re tired, in tirim: j .i - 1 o* hn'.hts through the bedroom doors and ft i ^ h t ? ?niir.: tin* in malon almost to death At other time; , ho woiihl riding ii'suit th? nrry I ke t.lio wihl hicNfina n hi : 1 1 - ? ? 1 . .iunipiui; j i ditches and femes and s]nirrin^ li i- horse j | through whi le m? oiV. ?r ina:i . . wonhl dare to j;o. "( >n<i?," ln? himself sn.\ s. I ?\ :i s r uliiiii with in v brother. he in ad\an<e. Sud j i denly lie hen nl ft crash. I I ?? turned. .in !, , , !<?! it was n, y h?vi.l that h:i?l - RTouml. The saddle was bfok -ii. !?;: head wasn't. On another oecasl >n. w hile j ridim.' through the brushwood mi :i 'o j frit I lost eonscioiisne.ss and !a\ three or i four hours before I enine r . > \\ h- } he , doctor examim-d my hurts, lie : ;m<' it i was eontr:|Vy to a'J profes-i ? i.il r.in't* ! flint I had not hroken my neck.' In view of his impet m?tir? in.ua. t-r I and cventrie manner of il/e. ., ir. iiot , Htransrp tlint when lie a-k- I for Hie hand ? of l<'ritiil?>iii .liwu vttii i'uitkum r i" *tin , riajfe her parent.-* hliintly cf.ised Mm , , He wns still very you UK, and they ]? ? i ferret! to wait a few yearn to if I.p j would nhnudon his rt'cklo** h.ihi's. Ilis I inarek, however, did not propose to wnit^? | ^ f *? rr y Frnirlclii .??<rtn hf v. j h'T parer\t* were willing or no*. So he | visib*l hot vvery dn.v, taking n > nt.<e 'of hvr famHi's rebuffs. 1 1 ?> thai Bho loved him, and that mitli ? 'I hi.?* | Atate of thing*, however, did not 'as* | long. A?See h^re, flerr von ru.tkaraer," cxi'lfiiuuil lii*iiuurc-k oiu? day, "why ?1<> you rcl'iiHo to lot ui?- have your da nt h tor 7" "Hwaiiw, 11 err von liUiin w k," win llii? ii'|ily, "you itr? not tit to ?? it y w<> niuu'M liu?l?aud. Vou ride and (uli'v all day ami drink and *v\<ar al! ui^lit. \ < ur life in a scandal lo (ho eoitlitry. ' Mi*inaiyU looked at him in Hilenco for a moment and then rortied out: "Don nerwotter! I* that all? Hut ' i>i al> surd. Com*', ami tri v ?* li?- ?' to tie <* r?i tun w ill Kfi> mo an Motidy and hi*. I t >; a* a liifliop, (.'otnc, I swear it!" IIImiiiii rcli ?i I Nineteen. Sincerity was Klatiijivd on 'no ytuog mau'tf eotthlciiunuo ami words, an. I H< rr von I Nit i ka nicr tinnlly gave hia rm si nl to tin* marriage, though not withoit s 1 1 1 k - ' givingH. lUs-niarek, however, k ? :?t his wiiri lie wrote to his staler, "All right," in Knglish, to Jot hor kno.v iln.t his suit unn at last HUcocHwf'il, and bought it llililo. Wild riding and all iukIiI drinking bout* had no v'Taetiotis i'oi Iiiiii an.v more. llo lieonine >i sober and pious 11141 n and a lender and affec tionate husband and father. Iv I I'll 4'il <li?* KIiiu'm IfoPMe, (Mi tin* hat MeUeld, ?k overywh'ro o;*-e, itismarck looked upon tlio intor*w,H of hl? imperial master. During the battle ?>f koeniggra {/. tlu* <>ld IOmpcror then King' of Prussia had oxpn?od himself ?i ml his staff to tho eneiny'a tiro, mat would not hoar of retreating to a ?>af<' distance. At last I'rinco ltlninnrck rode 1 1 1 > to h i in. saying: "As responsible Min ister of tho l.'rown I must insist upon Vour Miljesty'n rotroat to a wife dis tance. If Vour Majesty woro to be Killed I lie victory would ho of no use to iik " Tl.e King snw tho form* of this and ^ 1 ? ?\\ 1 >? i el ii-ii I til. but lu his /(Nil returned again and again to the front. "When I noticed it." said ltismiirek, lolling tho utory, "1 only roso in my saddle and looked at hint. llo under stood perfectly, and culling out rallier angrily: "Yen, I am coming." lint we did not get ou fa.st enough, and nt lust I rode ii |i close to the King, took my foot out of the right stirrup and at eretly ga vi* Tils horse n u energetic kirk. Such a tiling had never before happened to the fat mare, but the move wan sueocss f ill, for slie set off in n lino <n titer." Sotlll* \l'l'lll 10 |> 1 14 I'll III N liimnarck is the author of several crisp epigrams on the various (European mi II jxin tt r<>U In Hie l<'rniieo-l'rmiitliin War. ( ioiiK, among which are the following: "/V Bavarian Is a cross between an Austrian and a human being." "If Austria has nstonirdicd tlio world by its Ingrutitude, England will astonish it by its cowardice. " "tlo<l made man in llis own image, and Italy in the Image o? Juda?." "The French are a nation of riyl.sk ins. The other European powers are repre sented at foreign courts by j>ersons of mark, l>nl !?' ranee In often represented by marked persons. Von can always di? lingnisli a Freuch ambassador by the simple fact that he never speak* the language of the country to which 1; o is accredited." of the French language Iliamarck has a thorough knowledge, and from all ac counts the same could not be said of the late Napoleon 114- In thin connection an amusing story is |o|d of Napoleon's liiisi Interview with Bismarck: "M. de Bismarck," Miid the Em|?eri?r, "I must compliment you on your knowl . due of French. I have n< vcr heard a j ? i'-rinan spi-ak French as \ou ?!??.** ' \\ ill >011 allow me to return t li? ? com pliment, si re?" replied Bismarck. "I Yrta iiily," said the Fuipcrnr. "Tlii-n p< rmit me to say, sire, that 1 )i n ? ? iii \ . r heard a Frcm-hman t<|Hsik Ficiich as you do," answcrnl Beman-k ) I .hiii li re <i o I ti h unit I ? i-ji pi- r I ! i 1 !n' in " ? i ? .-I ..f I i ll'1 alt, I lie . >ld Hi' I :< 1 1 1 1 ? i > ? ; ? ii t i is no Ioiikit in i- in (-'a ??? if t is I iik. i^utt lira i :as:rui| ;?? .i wimbiw pule or i. il n' oiit it. an I ciih r falling ; ; :i.:>; ! . \ ? d ii m i in oih fiddilign nr I ;? ! iul<> nr.i'il nl ..incudes. The . i i! \ a r\ > I i<>: i:i ? . with an iii . i i 'iti.il | ! 1 1 1 1 1 v t , is ii,i more ?? .- ?? li l:i.tc;i w i t Ii i l umu'.u'ed ? .i ? i.: : lis ..if s\\ ?N-plugs. in .-I . ! way to aiTangi- diap?ry is i: ; !i >t. In the old s t .. I ?, .-tij; ami i. . : '.<? fa I iif was ciil a ml >.???! 1 1 1 1 1 * *hapc < ill the tabic. Now it liiapi'd. If ilnipcil, it nccilri 1> ? ili i .i\ a.1'-:- the t"i? is li'Mig, *>.i that i . !i rfli.i!"\v is trcuteil I iy its. If. If ( .. I. ...Ill I e high, tile effect will he ? ii-. ^ I. ictn-.I ' > arranging it in a scries ? ?an ad m or jabots. !n a ha ads*, inn- parlor there ai.> liiiu^ li : r- 1 jtml v???i?*? (?> ih ? K'liius Mofl, ilo!l '? ate lace i Mi tail. s that reach only to I i,. hi ??f ;hc saaii. Next fallow the I'r. i.i ii f. s'!non js!:ji;Ii's generally of ?- pour '? ? '<r 1 1 1 1 1 1 r light Kilks. T.h-m.- con ! rl.-a i f f'^ir longitudinal iiuITIiikh eon* tro'.icd l.v long lace curtains, and last ly t !. e *Y.k brocade vulotirs or tapes try bantings that re al tached to the ;v?l > by puffrt < > r festoons, and iltsccnil lo t!i- tloor in eloicant and graceful W.ivlngs. IIov~cboJd New 9. 'I'ht' k oitiiK WI?lo?V. < I .! ii?-h written how nth a miniature.) I'.y the nplendor of thine eye#, KltUlhlng u> iltfil* eht>n light Ah a Mar aero.?n tho xktc.t On lh<i aahio noon of night! Uy tlif Kloiy of that brow, In It* calm sublimity, 'With thee, or away, an now, I worahlp I li? ?' ! Sinruw hu? Im*?-ii tliliu', alaa! unit) thou wu'l a happy l?r?do, Joy U like a l.rlill<- ,#hu<8: |t wa* ahlv? r?*d a' 'hy Hide. Shall I lovo I >???<? It.s.-t for this? only ho as truo to ????? Ami I'll g lory In the hlls.H, 'l"h<V Mish <>f thee! Ar?< thy lashox wet with leant? ,*\in'hi thou never ntojv ho Kay? * lMiano afar IhoKn foolish f-arn? I will klsa thy dread away! Wo nro i?artod 'till wo trivfil ? Time .shall paaa how wearily! Vet I'll makv oach hour Hoot Hy thoughtH of llicv! In tl.e Molltm\o of night, In the tumult of tho day, Hy tin- gloaming flro'8 light, In this mazy danco and gay, Uy the all vor-HOundlnjf wireamH, t nd?-rnoath tho ruatllng trio, tu my waking, op In droanifl. I'll think of ihoo! Who 1 1 In ev'ry Mower cup Ka tries* danco the night away, Whon tho (jurte-'tly moon Ih up, MovIii^:?iii her wtately way, W hen mo *?tar? upon tho Khoro Hlleneo o't-n t ho Hounding ?ca-? lOver till wo j<arl no more, I'll think of thee! BRAINS AGAINST BEAU1Y. "They're its homely as hedge-fences," 8iiiU a pretty girl. "I'll never write any poetry hh lonff as J, -live if it's going b> make in? look lik? that," and she east ?? glance on llie jouug man thai made him think he could write all the poetry neces sary for l*>th. Tiny were in the (Jrolier Club gallery studying the engraved portraits of wo iiK ii writers, from Sapplm to tieorge i'?Mot. The girl se?-nied auvxious to dis cover if brain's were destructive of beau ty. If one may judifo l>y theso portraits, poetry certainly does nut agree with it, for it would 'he difficult to assemble a plainer group of countenances than those represented in this collection ltccause their owners wrote verse. There an other homely women there, but none to compete with tho poet*;. The writers of fiction averaged far better, and the few historians might be said to be louk iug;hut we must depend upon the letter writers to redeem the reputation for lovlincHS of their .sex. Hut, whatever tin answer these old portraits gave to the question of wit ami beauty's relation, no argument may bo drawn adverse to the beauty of the elever women of to day. Indeed, the I lypatios oLthe period are unite aware of their go'l looks, it would seem ;for the eolleeting eoininlttee had many offers of pictures from beauti fnl women who wield the pen before it w;us understood that the collection was limited to tho writers of an earlier time. ]?; veil then, it is hinted, some women of sixty years might have been induced to permit themselves to be represciiied by their portraits taken at sixteen. These UK> odd pictures represent, per haiis, 150 different persons, for the collec tion contains many duplicates. "Only lot) women who have l>een prom inent since Sappho, "a sauntering gazer of the superior sex says. "And of these not more tlinn fifty really belong among authors. The rest are women who were wives of somebody or queens of some thing and wrote a song or two in their silly days. Who ever thinks of Queen Elizabeth as a poet ? There are no wo | men authors anyway worth mentioning. Women would better go back to house keeping'. 1 think they will after they see these freaks." Most of these literary ladies died long ago, and it should be distinctly under stood not hiiig-.t hey may-suggest upplys In any way to tho modern women whom every man worthy of tho name will, of conrs, swear are all at the same time beautiful and wise and witty. This, as every l>ody knows, is a more perfect day than that of tho Blue Stockings, and it need cause no surprise if their good brains and fair faces were not always in that perfect harmony in which we now find thorn. Earliest of all is Sappho. SDno of those few lines of hers let to us- linos in .re authentic than her port rait? de clares: "Men will. I think, remember us even hereafter." They have indeed; but probably not ton of those who stop to see how she looked ever read even that one lino before. And nfter they study fho five different portraits of the singer, they are likely to have no more clear Ideas of her face than of her versos. Some prints are from statuary, show a prominent nose, and anything ^mt n c'assio Creek visage. It Is a longNumn from TV C. to 13SS A. TV. which is said to have marked the birth of Juliana Uernors. "the prioress of Pope well nun nerv. near St. Allans." who is called | -the earliest Kmrlish sportswoman and ! poetess of the chase." Hume Juliana s | appearance does credit to her "boVvs of "hanking and fy*?hynge." She had i an oval face, straight no so and fine eyes ' With her nun's crown and cap she wu* ,v t V .!? 1-ol'ter WHS II. t 1 nun. but *lie was pre'ty. and ?>f ,,or i ?liffuroM shown protllo.^t in n linn ^ 11 s I I v Iw \'il <* ?' -mil. 1?V SW>s ; tlano del IMombo. iWt look at it if you | w;in, t? tIlink <4f her ns a -lellcate < flower I of Italian son v. She is. foi ill t ? i world, like a butcher'* daughter A sorb. ! ,,f i?.r skeleton dug up the other day *>y <i? f.'M-ri' tin ? l-an^s would d<> less t>? de s!r..v 'rominee We don't believe in fli-.t p.rtraM at all H was a erode j .v ,-l< of ? ni," av'.ng, which would have ' . veil :?n :Mlg 1 b?ok Uglv. ' 1 1 , . ? is MarKiieri'o de Valois. C-uld Ll?- have pr. s ded ov.-r ihe gatherings ! ..... . unt-d in the "Hcptameron"? She I l ,?k< more like n nun than the hunt ing prloi-ss b-rs If High eh.-ek l-olieS. I : , y,.s. long locked U'vse she ' Kiir. lv ?as an austere moralWd. #ome ! < ngr.ivor evld n'ly though: her face nnil her uot in keeping. for In a i j.v tme the mouth Is relaxed, the 1 ,-urvt s are differ nt. She is homely st 11. bu' she might have enjoyed the revel*. ! AphorT Mehn ? prominent place." I a nd mwt have been a'tracMvo, if not ' n*. r- ly ?;ood -looking. Her picture faces ' it lb- page ot th^, third edition of her works piiM sh.-d. I e it noted, by a wo | i oh tk 1 ooka.llcr, in 1724. It is "the Play* writ 'en by the lae ingenious Mra. 1 Helm." Ana Kllza Hleekor. who wrote ; jK.etry In the last century, Is one of { ihrrc early Americans. The other two | are Ilillli* Whentl. y and i RowMrti. The plate of the author of Vhutlo to Temple" ?a* |o*t for many yearn. It was dually found among fam ily treasures. ami boiiic print* taken from it. It is <11)0 of thein that imvr r< presents Susanua. A frigh'ful portiait unjustly presents Mary \Voll? oncraft. 11 kIm>ws a hard featured woman with a sugar-loaf hai ? >ii one nlde of the head, looking exactly like a swaggering cockney. The picture .-Mine from a woinau'a I rKiHaz.no of In r time, Perhaps man tliott' was not al>ovo frightening her r> x against her doetr'lhM by painting her with aw ful looks. Tradition tuiya she was beau ?Iful, and other prints hear out tho Htory. Her daughter. Mrs. Shelley, 1 shown in a new mezzotint by Arlenl K,d wards, who also ban a charming picture of Maty I.tmb. Fanny Hurney's faeo will be no disappointment to any lover of her "Kvcllmi." Alice Carey bs as gentle and sweet with her thin fea tures as any one could wisJi. Charlotte Itronte never claimed to be pretty, but her eyeo were most winning. Hannah Moore looks as if rdie might have in strueleil at great length any number of I?ord Macaulays in their budding Infancy. (Jeorge Kliot is not far away llie lad^y whose poetry, says Andrew f^atig, has usurped the place upon vil lage centre-tables long occupied by the works of Ilanuah Moore. Maria Kdge worth's portrait in said to lift apocry phal, but nobody will belicvA It, because it is a really beautiful face and ex actly Hiiggcs s her bright and lovely character. Agnes 'Strickland In good looking. She wrote history which does not seem to have been so destructive to boa uly as love songs. Harriet Hoeeher Hlowo's American picture** show the idoasant matronly faeo familiar to :ill, but an 10ng!l*b print tells of a wo man of youth and great beauty. She was not caricatured like poor Mary Wollstoiieornfl. C< aversely, a woman not popular in America was Mrs. Trol lops. She In represented by three poi trails. Her eyes ami mouth were largo and she loOks comfortable aad intelli gent, not at all the spiteful tale-bearer ?hat the p. op.'e of whom she wrote pre tended ui -believe her. A bystander at t!ie exhibition said they really knew she (old the 1 1 nth, and gave this in-' stance coming from an eyo-witness: .*%i >nie years after the publication of her book a mui in the front row of the i.alcouy of ii \? w York tlicatr ? ? removed !i s i)oal and hung it on the rail. There t the people In the pit Hhotited, "A Trol m |M !/ A Trollope." Th ? offender meekly nit em his c.-ul and i.be audit iter rested is'tui^d t.hii foiiiignois should have hi/ i-h iiiee to Ii ? i rit.i' al Mini), de Sta I must have been ex V-ed Ugly homely. An outline drawing of a t^ide i ?? w shows a more than us ually ugly face with protruding lips. Kii/a ('i'k, in one of several pictures, 1- ans over t In'* "mother's o|<| armchair'" ? 11*1 sings "I b ve i ' , 1 love it," with a :il"S s lit inelit il exprcrsi II Hill OhrlS t in- d " l.'isan appears more remarkal'ly no- upied. S^je sits at her d sk in about the year i;(90, while Keason, Itectiiude and Justice, with appropriate para id, i ri. a I a, euiiic to b> l- ami promise to assist Ii r in writ inn "I a < 'it* des (?a nits"; ii nd here is every reason to relieve that liny k? their word. Har riett Mar itn a'.i looks equally odd sit ting Ii t'oie a lire holding a stew-pan u llie (o.i'i), while it large eat perches ? ??? her shoulders and rul its head i:^a list her. That suggests domestic rather than political economy, but the in. ient in, lid n's face lias nothing of the crick''t-nu-|.he-hcarth expression. One <.r the portraits of Chris ina Hoxet i Ki^es a splendid example of the pre Uaphaelite Jaw. A second, though by |n*r brother, <5ibriel, reveal* the fuel that the Jaw wan as much due t.o the ar.ist's pet sonality as are the oblique eyes in a Chinaman's portrait of his ICnglish friend. I ,aw relief's portrait "f Kanny Kem Mi- makes her sovin as she wjih. one of lli?* most beautiful and l>i*i 1 1 i:i 11 1 of wo men. Mrs. Iiiehbnld was not so for tunate in most of her pictures, though cue engraving from Lawrence does much for III" lovable au'hor of the "Simple Htory." She wrote too much and nt l??o early a day to !><? flattered | overmuch. Aline Kllligrew made sure ,of her fame by leaving it in 1 1 1 ? hands of no' hitnxliug painter. She died of lUnallpox at tweirty-flve after having writ! -ii poetry enough l.o call forth an od?> from Dryden. She could endtiru that, hut she took pains to leave por traits of herself by her own hand, and I were ungracious )*? say that her glass were a flatterer. Royalties also abound. Klixaheth, Mary In4' lister, Mary Stuart, Mary the wife of William III., Victoria, Jane Gray, Catherine I'arr, Ann Holeyn, all wrote P'mtry. 31 ii< V most of them wore homely enough to prove the rule we have noted. Jane Grey gives a chance for a little fancy. The child Victoria \ was really charming. All the rest are limit torahle. ICven her tragedy cannot make Mary of Sco'land seem graceful ill tiles ? pie(ur< s. Hut ;hey all Jiad brains, and at a time wlien 'wouini chauee for i ! 1 1 ? ? ! I e?* 1 1 1 ;j I life they rose above t ho surface of tlr- <?.? >ni nioiiplace and ac ? ompl'rdicd things which llie women of ?<.<lay might like to know ahout. New Vork Tribune. Told o I' (lie Kmiiri'itx r'rolerlcU A ] trolly act of kinilncss jm the part of the dowager l'Inipre>*i took place the i other day in a hospital at Potsdam, ami is told in an Knglish paper by an eye witness. A patient was a I death's door, and his wife had been hurriedly snm inoned. With her baby in her arms she was walking up ami down the waiting room close to the ward in which her husband lay. The Kinpress happened to pay one .of her frecpient visits to the hospital, ami, seeing tho poor woman in her bitter sor row, she approached to ask some syu\?". pathetic questions. v " "Yes, he is dying," tho wife Hobtved, "and wants to way so much to me al>out how I am to manage when ho is goii*\ and how the children are to ho brought up; hut Iwtby is not well, and cries, and lie is so weak ho can't bear it, ami he may die at any moment." In an instant tho Rmpress lwid taken I he infant into her anns, and while for a whole hour the mother sat by the siile of her dying hunfoMid her Majesty nurs-' e.l tho child, walking up and down tl v room with it, and soothing it with inol erly tenderness. Tn tlx- IVIri"' ? "?* -ut? *'o?!i Charleston WMn-^'hy William Kirk) er. nail I<OiiM 8tHnher?t. uolh of i n. any. received naturnll/atln.) papers A feature of be (utrA.to on S' . .1 rick's (lay In Charleston will bo th' l??rnnc? In the display of the 8' rick's cadets Just organised. T manilor. Captain Micftftv! Sirs graduate of the Citadel and have his corps In flno ordM The J. K. Nix 8*%-d Cor biiric, has failed. All r them for Med will b* r Complete -Fertilizers for potatoes, fruits, ami all vegetables require (to secure the largest yield and best quality) At Least IO?/? Actual Potash. Results of experiments prove this conclusively. How and why, is told in our pamphlrt& f hey arc stnt free. It will cost you nothing to read tlu-m, anil they will save you i dollar*. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Numii Street, New York. /' I (I cum for Your (ill rdeu ? To nay i h.ii hcUilinfpplan's should be so out hi .strict urtistic relation with the main features i>f the plneo dues no mean a great deal to the' rcudei unless examples arc given, and, un t 1 t (ina't'ly i exampl ??> vary in II n . t*?l y . If is easier perhaps to say what should iint he (loin* with bedding plan- 1 >ou't plant masses of thorn on the lawn ho iis :u ?lwail' and divide up the main expanse of the greensward, which should he the ill iff beauty of every place. As a rule, don't set plants of any kind out in t ho middle of 'the lawn. A pernicious practice in to surround single shade I re i s with little collars of col euses and geruniums. Avoid that, i\? " . ;1 as any arrangement that consists <u' itn isolated group 'hat Is fuoperly h Inted to nothing els** hut the grass. M. dding-plants look parllcularly well alio'niiig arehl octurnl structure*-'. There is something ahout the palm and c-autia lliat makes them specially et fe-tive planted against 'carved or cut stone masses as ji background. They seem part of the architecture ItaelfJ ornamenting and- enhancing Us I'hunno like some deftly arranged drapvrV. Adjoining a house or fence, hedding generally arranges Itself hot er than elsewhere. There is one place where you can always plant hedding safely, sure of not marring- the offect of the lawn, and : luit is hack of, or away from, the '"?us \ in a regular flower garden, shut i.. completely by trees nnd shrubs or a -tone wall. Arranged in this way ?the IvmI ling plaints may be combined in any fashion fancy may dictate, since i hey make no part of the effect of the lawn. It is an excellent way to lay out a tlower-ga idea, livery thing can be grown there, and many paths can bfc made to lead the visitor to different Dowering masses of follage^C^a tafrte for old-fashioned Mower/ gaTue'ns ot ill's type is growing, and it is a- hope ful landscape-gardening sign of the ?ini's.? From "Ruilding-plunts," b^ Saml. Parsons, Jr., Supt. of Parks, N. V., in the March Scrihner. Industrial Notes. L.ast year was the slackest time since the war in the mailer of railroad con st ruction . Rubber was liitle used except for eras ing until 1820, thro hundred years after its (1 IsjMu'crv ? .. Tho lOloctrleal i lev lew says the West ern Onion Toletfruph Company 1 collected about $1,500,000 last year for telling the time of day. Tl*> Russian Government has sane* Honed a telegraph line from Peters burg to tin* Marman coast, at aiPexpen diturc of aliout 500,000 roubles. Mexico's Wrea-t drainage canal, which is 30 miles long, w 111 be opoiexl In abovit s'.xtccn months. Its construction will cost s unething like $20,000,000. Last year the copper production of the t 'tilted States was 330,500 tons. The In creasing demand for 1 1)0 metal, for use in connection with electricity, promises to become unlimited. Nickle steel armor plates, made by Krupp, on a now system. Were success fully tested at Meppen. The plates were about 5 1-2 inches thick, and showed a nssi.sitan'-o equal to plates of 0 1-3 Inches made by the old process. From one ton of ordinary gas coal may bo produced 1,500 pounds of twenty gallons of ammonia water slid 140 pounds of coal tar. Hy destructive dlsUllation tho coal tar will yield 6G.G pounds oT pitch and 17 pounds of creosote. Tho stockholders of tho Wiscasset and Quebec Railroad, in Maine, have voted to bond tho road for $100,000, to build lines lo Hurnham and to make a connection with tho nangor and Aroostook anil Canadian Pacific companies. Olllcers of tho West Virginia Central Railroad aro arranging tho details for the placing of $3,000,000 of bonds of tho Ualtimoro and" Oufflberland Road on the market. Tha.t amount, It Is believed, will lie sutliclent to construct the road from Cumberland to Ilagerstown. Tho Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. has made a preliminary report of its o]*'r:ttlons during the past year. Re ceipts from coal fell off $2,of>5, 495 and re ceipts from railway Iralllc $7i>3,Hl!?. while mlscellan'ous receipts Increased $2'!l.xi7. operating expenses were cut down $1, .V.i??".:il, and the loss In not was $1.0X3,51*1. For the first time In several years the annual roi>ort of tho Poughkcepsle Hav* inus Rank shows an Increase In the num ber of de|?osltR over tho number of with drawals. The total number of- deposits received In iS;d was Pi. I'd, and the total numbt r of payments lo depositors 'was ci, Tb" sum of $l,37i">,07ii.XX was ie ccived from depositors and j;.:;!7."J 2. was withdrawn. The average atn uiui of i ach account Is $11 1.72. ? I It It 10 \ 'I' COmilONT. 1 *l i i I :? < l< -I i>)> t :? Press: IVmoera t Ic news papers in their cotnint'titH on the close M ill - last l)emoeratle Coiikivss arc fiir [ nIshinK nil inlinirii'ili' array of arguments for 1 1 so next year i.ualnst the election of another I)?>in0(*raiiu CoiiKresH. Itoclio.ilor 1 )emocrat : A writer In the Hankers" M aK-i'/.li"' says there is "Kr.it IfyliiK evidence that fr.-e wool has come to slay In this country." It wil< prohahly stay for a while, hut there Is nothing Kt'iLilfyltiK In 'ho fact to American sheep owners. Their louses In t.io values of tleeees an<l fWx-ks const iinte a disastrous ohjeet lesson Jin tariff reform Boston Traveller: Tlicy ;u<? in the j wroiiK who/ a re mourning th** low sup- I posvd to /.o .sustained by ?';/ country through / ?o many hclrr?ss? j(narrylnK j abroad. So far from helm* ' '/ s It Is a | distinct K?ii> to the cans /? r.| evo lution. Tho women wl* ,?)* 1 p<**?pi<> America will do so v / f. 'jl'Om haid ler, more freedom-'-* "''/// < lies* | illltlc toadies evep ^ ^ N- w Vork ' ^Qiff '"f ,Jlle awl , ?> man who l> fOf, ' 'hj , J >r t what ho / ''//,/ * O ?>'vA"(-'S OUT \V I honors;/ /''^Jysia (tf l?q. ,,oc- /' //?, "/// ,// v ^ tuo * r/ e f y jktnte Inspeci j* l,'dr r?0/(''er *? **m'n av, / bl,ying " we ?e? / ?<?*., ?" r/) ?o */j 'v, i'i, '/A 1 '<?/>. r -V, '?0 *'*' .1 r'" ''' i "/. ./'? .,r! 1 bf (? f- ?' I* Ht J. / \ " f'V/; y "/* r'fl, 'n. Oj c. A* own interest and fiad at the iNGTO BHATE I'urent* lu J upon. The moral and gociul law of Japan is, "Thou shalt love .thy father ami mother wii h all thy hear':, mind and strength." The Ja|*anoso wifo loves her own parents rnoro than sho docs her husliand, and a Japan husband lov< h his 'wifo with hii a ffwt Ion far tt'?ikiT than dint which lio bentowa on Ills own fa' her. Mr. lloarn, In "GMimp st's of Unfamiliar Japan," quotes this conversation, in a school-room, * be tocn the lOnglinh Uncher and a Japa nese pupil: "Toucher, I have been told that if a Kuiopcan and his father, and his wifo wero all t<> fall irv'o t ho si'U lojpH'her, ami thit he only could swim, ho would try to saVe his wife flrut. Would "lie realty ?" "But why?" "One reason Ik that ISurcgieaus con sider it a man's dtt y ';<> help the 'weak er llrrf* ? especially women and child Vi II." "And does a Kuropean love his'wlfo more than his father and mother?" "Not always? 4>ut (jenern'lly, perhaps he dor#." "Wliy, teacher, aceofding to' our idias that is very immoral." A l'id of sixteen wrote a composition >n "-lCuropcan and Japanese Customs," in which he ' gave expression -to his iders about the relation of husband and wife as held in Rurope: \ "What we think very strange is that in K n rope every' wife lovas her husband ^ more than her parettf s. .In (Nippon '(here ? is en wife w ho more loves not her par ents '.ban her husband. And Buro p ans walk out in the rond with their wifes, which we utterly refuse- to,- ex- , ? ;>t a" he festivul'of Mnehiman. 'The 'Japanese woman "is trea'ed by man as <i servant, while the European woman is rcsperted as a master. 1 think ' t lies ? customs are both bad. We tlilnk i is v? ry much ?; rouble to treat Plumpean ladles; and we do not know why ladles are so much respected by Knropcans." ? Youths Companion. ' Norry Klio Wiun't u Man, There has .been Tor some time lan guishing in the Paris Police Depot 'i young married woman from Bordeaux, , who has -a mania for appearing yi pub lic dressed a* a man. .She was nf>t sort-! isli. .1 with the pantaloons, cutaway jackets, tdnmb-up collars and knicker bo. k<_ is pa t ro: isedfby lady bicyclists, but assumed complete masculine attire am! walked 'annul as a beau male. Some wei ks since she clandestinely en tered a w1k?p mi t!i ^ Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, hid herself under a counter, and. iij -l:b? natural order of things, v?is arrostid as a burglar. It appears that on the oe.asiop she had discarded s un ? i.f her cloililnjr; keeping her ,oati t iloi.iis, bi; t divesting herself of her hat and glh-t. When arreted she gave t he name of Georges .'Wilhot, and re Cus-d to impart any Information about* herself, li r husband, a manufacture!, has since claimed hi& a erring spouse, who lies already given him a good deal of trouble, owing to her extraordinary object i as to r tain the proper gar iilenis of her six. ? Paris Letter 'to Lou don Telegraph. ? J. li. S. Smith, a young nierehaut i A - ? j ti t cel'o, has failed, with liubili tie.s of shout The stock of goods wa.-i sold to T. A. II ii tehinson in pay inen I of a mortgage ho hold rtn the stock. The a wets are as follows:'' /Two hundred acres of land purchased. 1>i?t yoar for about $1 per acre. Li."?0 acres of land, worth about :? I per acre. The Hindoos show singular frankness in making rcnsiis retiiMis. Among those who w re called iij o:i to describe their callings, sum ? designated their moan* of living as "village thieves," "aty^port od by relatives," or "living on loans." 4c. COTTON Makes 4<'. 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