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'FHE IPEOPLE S J Vol. 5. PICKENS, S. C, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1895. No. 19. HAND WRESTLING. A Now Fad That Is Now Popular with Students. Even the Stern Professors of a Phlladel pis University Yleld to the Fasoln ations or the Game-now UC Is Played. An athletic fad of recent birth but very remarkable growth in popularisy has replaced football in the affeotions .4t a host of University of Pennsylvan a Atudents. It is Indifferently classed under a whole dictionary of titles, such as hand, India and Malay wrest ling; but no one seems to know just exactly what is the proper word by which to designate the sport. It was first introduced to the college boys a few months ago by an ex-Amherst stu dent in the Engineering school, and in a very few days there was hardly a single undergraduate who had not tried his hand at the game. Not satisfied with the capture of the affections of the students, the hand wrestling fad has made its inroads into the ranks of the faculty itself. Those professors who are too old or too dignified to take part in the fun content themselves with being very much interested but passive spec tators. But many of the younger in structors are not proof against the fascinations of the new game, and al most daily contests between the younger and more active members of the teaching corps and the students are held in the various halls and class rooms. It does not take many words to do geribe this apparently irresistible sport, says the Philadelphia Record. The two contestants take a tight grip with their right hands, each advances his right foot to meet the right foot of his opponent, and then they brace themselves hard with the left leg. At a given signal the struggle begins, the object being to prevent your opponent from moving you from your feet, and at the same time compel him to shift from his posi tion. The man who moves either foot first is the loser. The rules allow one to move the foot up and down on the too or heel, but not to slide, roll or lift it from the floor. The right hand is allowed to touch the floor, but not the left, as that would .serve to steady one contestant at the expense of the other. Neither contest ant is allowed to use the body or head to assist in the overthrow of his oppo nent. From the description it might be im agined that the game allowed a very slight development of skill, but that Is iot the ease. The present university champion is a small fellow, but the way .lie can topple over heavy opponents is . lesson. He has a number of very clever tricks, one of which throws his rival off his feet and down on his shoul ders with a thud ever after to be re membered. The most amusing side of the new game comes from its surprising popu larity, and the lack of preparation re quired for a contest. Does a professor fail to put in his appearance on the mo nent, or leave the room, and it is ten to one that the entire class will be on foot in an instant, and when the represent ative of the faculty returns he will find the room occupied by struggling couples. All the spare time between hours is employed in the same way, frequently with a professor or so as part of the interested audience. It was only a few days ago that a big crowd gatlibred in the gymnasium to see the champion of the 10ngineering school try lis. skcill against W. D. Os good, the great halfback. Owving to some misunderstanding, Osgoodl did not appear, but, lest he should finally come, a very busy professor, who had taken a twoment from his wyork to see the fray, and did not wvish to miss it on any ac count, left word that lie was to be sent for in case Osgood did finally arrive. If you see any university student whose wrist or hand is painted with iodine, and whose knuckles are badly skinned, you may place him down as a devotee of the new game of hand wrestling.__________ GEOLOGICAL PUZZLE IN OHIO. Pebbles In Thousands of Tons Found Far from Any Similar Deposit. A few miles east of Youngstown, 0., in the township of Coitsville, which makes the northeast corner of Mahon ing county, is a freak of nature of an entirely exceptional chafacter, says the Pittsburgh Dispatch. Rising above an otherwise rather level surrounding is an irregular elevation composed almost wholly of smooth, white pebbles, such as one sees in the sand pumpings after torpedoing "pebble rock" and which may also be seen conglomerated in some localities wvhere certain rock strata are exposed. The peculiar bank sunder consideration consist. of several acres, with the highest point perhaps ten or twelve feet high and gradually thinning out into the common plain. There is nothing anywhero in the re gion to suggest anything of the kind, no trail of such material to show where it came from, but when the thin soil is removed it is simply one mass of these peculiar and evidently water-worn stones, ranging in size frem a common pea to a marble. The deposit. must amount to tens of thousands of tons. It would be most interesting to have an explanation of thils pebble bank from seine of the authorities on geology, on the accepted hypotheses of glaciation. It would indeed be worth listening to to have it explained how this mass was slowly shoved perhaps two thousand or three thousand miles, dumped bodily in Coitaville, without a trail of detritua by which it' could be traced to it. lair. The surrounding region is singularly free of this kind of material, and how came so large a quantity of this reck so rarely seen in strata, all smoothed and polished oil' into these myriads of peb bles, to be resting here? Without a doubt these little white pelieles rye eloquent with a marvelous history., beth ats to origin and method of transporta tion, but who is it that is equipped to .discern "the still small voice" that comes through tho Interminable ages, SOME REMARKABLE' PETS. Weird Yarns of the Sagacity of Dumb Aul. male Told in the Newspaper. A good thing may be carried to e os8, and too earnest and persistent i dwelling on the importance of the minor yirtues sometimes has an effeei 0outrary to that intended. A little girl Who is uniformly kind to animals, and who has been known to make the toui of an extensive neig)borhood, muel overloaded with an arzhful of sacred and clawing stray cat, which she declined to relinquish until she could do so im the assurance that her burden had found a good home, was heard to ex. claim the other day with indignant em. phasis: "I'm so tired of 'out- dumb anhpnals' and 'sagacious pets' and 'the friends of man,' that I believe I shall pull the cat's tail as soon as I got home and tie a tin can to the puppy'si" She did neither, having sutTielently relieved her feelings in the outburst but it is not hard to sympathize with her. Our pets are doubtless often sa gacious and often interesting, but for a change, says a writer in Youth's Com panion, one would like occasionally to hear of a noble Newfoundland that was born idiotic or a feeble-minded kitten that did not know cream from soapsuds. The irrepressible "funny man" of the newspapers, however, is not yet weary of i .imal sagacity. On the contrary, he has recently furnished some striking examples which we give below, mere ly suggesting that if the reader does not enjoy caricatures he had better pass them by. Not long ago, he tells us, a gentle man in India owned a tame snalke of a harmless kind, of which he was very fond and which returned his affection. On one oceasion, at the approach of a dangerous tropical thunderstorm, the Intelligent reptile overheard its master expressing his fears, and proved in stantly equal to the emergency. Wrig gling swiftly to the hearth, it ran up the chimney and stood on its head at the top, with ite tapering tail elevated toward the clouds. The lightning rod thus Improvised answered the purpose perfectly, and the peril was averted. Again, a gentleman in New York was the proud possessor of a beautiful and amiable tortoise shell eat, notable alike for feline sounds and sound feline sense. One tempestuous night her owner, returning late and weary, could not find a bootjack and was un able to get off his heavy, wet boots. Pussy understood the situation imme diately, and running lightly downstairs slipped out of doors, and mounting the clothes drier emitted her very best howl-loud, long drawn, melancholy and moving. At once a shower of boot jacks rained down from the windows ol irate neighbors, and she had but to se. leet the most suitable one and carry it in her mouth to her master's feet. She now wears a silver dollar in commem oration of her sagacity. The third pet, the funny man de clares, belonged In London. He was a pug dog, who, becoming accidentally separated from his master and losing his way in the great. metropolis, on tered a cab which he observed standing by the curbstone, and refused to leave it until driven to the address on his collar! SONGS THEY SING. How the Do* and the Katydid Make Their Music. Many insects make a noise of some sort, at least most of them do. And as this noise Is of different kind in differ ent animals, so it is produced in differ ent ways. Scarcely any two Insects make their music in the same manner. There is the little kcatydid. You all know the katydid, of course. It is in color a light green; its wings are gauzy and beautiful. Just where the wing of the katydid joins the body there is a thick ridge, and another ridge corre sponding to it on the wing. On these ridges Is stretched a t' In but strong skin, which makes a sort of drumhead. It is the rubbing together of these two ridges or drumheads which makces the queer noise we hear from the katydid. It is loud and distinct, but not very musical, and the next time we hear the sound "Katy didi Katy didn'tI" you may.know this katydid Is rubbing the ridges of her body together and per haps enjoying doing it. The moment it is dark she and all her friends begin. Perhaps some of them rest sometimes, but if they do there are plenty more to take up the music. Then there is the bee. The bee's hum comes from under its wings, too, but Is produced in a different way. It is the air drawing in and out of the air tubes In the bee's quick flight which makes the humming. The faster a bee ities the louder he hmosa. Darting back and forth, he hums busily, because he can't help it, until presently he lights on a flowver or even a fence, and all at one ho Ia still again. Quatrying Gran~e by Fire. At Blangaloro, In southern India, granite slabs as large as' sixty by forty feet and a half foot thick are quarried by means of wood fires. A narrow lie of fire, about seven feet long, made of dry logs of light wood, is gradually lengthecned andI moved forward over an~ even surface of solid rock. It Is left in position till strokes with a ham mner show that the rock in front of the fire has become detached from tho main miassq beneath; the burning wood is then pushed on a few inches. The rock keeps splitung about five lnches below the surface. It takesa about eight hours and one thousand flve hun tZ'..d weight of wood to sot free a slab~ measuring seven~ hundred and forty square feet. Afterward the plate is easily cut with blunt chisels into strip: two and one-half feet wide. Snow in Tropical Africa. When Stanley In 1888 crossed the darl continent In search . of Emin, the na tives reported the mountain Rowensol as covered with white metal. Whei they reached the eternal snow they rei eled in the novel phenomenon, bu would not go further when they foun< the snow would melt, for they though the manntain hawitakad. FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS. --hestnut Pie-Grate or chop one pint of fresh ohestnuts, add one pini of milk, threeeggs, one cup of sugai and a little salt. This will make tw< pies. This recipe is reprinted from ar issue of several years ago, for the bene fit of J. H. F. and others.-Farm and Home. -Cold Tongue on Toast-Take cold smoked tongue, mince it fine, mix It with the Ibeaten yolks of eggs, and oream or milk, and a dash of cayenne pepper; prepare thin, small squares of buttered toast, plaae them on a hot platter, putting a spoon of the meat on each piece. Serve very hot.-House keeper. --Fruit Cake (Plain.)--Half a pound of butter and a pound of sugar beaten to a cream, add the yolks of four well beaten eggs, stir till light, then add the whites beaten to a stiff froth, then add one-half pound of English currants, flavor with mace, add a light pound of flour in which has been stirred a heaping teaspoonful of baking powder. Bake in a moderate oven. This is very good if eaten fresh.-Boston Budget. -Fish Rolls.-Take half a pound of any raw white fish, free of skin and bone, and pound it in a mortar with a tablespoonful of butter and two table spoonfuls of bread crumbs. When re duoed to a paste, add two well-beaten eggs, half a teaspoonful of anchovy sauce, salt and cayenne to taste. Blend thoroughly, and make into rolls about the size of an egg. Brush over with egg and dip twioce in vermicelli, broken fine, and fry a golden brown. Serve garnished with slices of lemon and sprigs of parsley.-Leeds Mercury. -Rie Bannooks.--One teacupful of rice set over the Are in a little water until it has swelled thoroughly. Add one teasupful of milk and a piece of butter about the size of a walnut. This must be done at night. Let the mixture stand until morning and then add half a pint of Indian meal, two well-beaten eggs, two tablespoonfuls of flour, a liberal pint of milk and a little salt. Bake an hour in shallow pans.-Ladies' Home Journal. -Oold Souffle Pudding. - Dissolve half an ounce of gelatine in a cupful of milk; add the yolks of three eggs and sugar and stir over the fire in double boiler till it thickens. Mix with this custard an equal quantity of rich peach or apricot preserve which is first put through a sievo or strained, and the flavor brightened, if necessary, by a judicious addition of lemon or orange juice, or maraschino. A little cochi neal to brighten the color is elso do, strable. Beat the whites of four eggs to a stiff froth and stir lemon in, light. ly, with an upward motion, so as t< mix without losing lightness. Mold as usual.-Country Gentleman. USES OF MIRRORS, Invaluable as Guards Against Bad ifabit in Standing or sitting. Mirrors reflecting the person at ful length are most desirable articles with which to have a house abundantly sup plied. To see one's self often, and in all kinds of postures, is a guard against bad habits both in sitting and standing. Hardly any girl would persist in standing with arms akimbo if she could se, her distorted figure as it appears to others. 'Children would become more graeeful, their gestures would be more eaey, while their attitudes would be in every way more charming if they could frequently see themselves re fleeted from mirrors on all sides in their homes. It is a mistake to think that this cus tomi would foster vanity of an obnox ions kind in young people. It should, indeed, make them vain to the degree that they would wiush to appear at the most pleasing advantage; but this is a form of vanity which parents would do well to cultivate. A young lady known to the writer was cured of a facial ex pression exceedingly annoying to her family by happening to see herself in a mirror one day when she was Indulg ing in it. There would be feweor round shoul ders, less leaning on elbows, less sit ting in inelegant positions, and, I trust, far less gum-chewing if houses were built with large mirrors here and there let into the walls. But let us have plenty of small ones in the nur sery, in the corners of the dining-rooms and chambers, and, above all, in those rooms where the family congregates. A mother I knew used to find a mir ror of much service in amusing her baby while she went about ether duties. Knowing that babies love the company of other children, she ar ranged a looking-glass so that he could see himself and all his toys and sur roundings reflected in it, and he imme diately accepted the substitute for a playmate. This believer in the mirror as a means of entertainment for children used to allow a little niece who came sometimes to stay with her to find her pleasure in the same way on days when the weather was bad and she could not go out. T1he child would frequently stand before a large mirror by the hour together playing "lady," than which there is no more delightful miake-believe in the world for little girls. She was allowed to have ribbons and fans and gloves, a parasol and veil, and, of course, a long skirt, and if the things wore not the freshest or most modiern of their kind sihe never kcnow it, or' at least her pleasure was not at all affected by the fact. The balls she attended, the car riage ridles she took, andi the enter tainments~ she gave wore countless, and, w.hat wvas so charming in it all, she was thoroughly unconscious. The rollected personm.go was another individlt altogether, and the sweep ing couirteiets sh~e madl~e to' the fine lady in the glamss were but the pceursors of the gramceful manners which charmed e veryone in her mother'a drawving-room - at a later day.-ilarper's Bazar. 1 Many Changes. . Jess--In those times a girl can't be 4 too careful who site marries. B esa---True enough; one ought at 6 least to see a revised edition of Brad street's. --Brooklyn Life. THE OUT-T-DINNER MAN. One Who is Not BrUllant. But Make 1i1=slf UsefuL "No," said the slightly cynical bach elor to a New York Tribune man, "it' not because I am tremendously popu lar that I get invitations, and I don' consider it such an honor to be invite< to dine somewhere every night in th week with half a dozen or more invite tions a week to spare. Why in th world do you suppose they invite me Well, I am a good deal like the follom who is taken on a ship and made tU work his passage. Ile pays for his voy age with work. I work my passage a the dinners. Oh, yes, I do. There's n< use in being vain about these thinge You see, I'm not married, and thero' always some young woman, or 014 woman, for that matter, who has to bo taken care of. Now, a married man I at a discount at a dinner. Of course lie takes a woman out to dinner, bu some man has to be provided for hi wife. "I'm just useful at a dinner and that' why I get invited. I'm not good-look ing and I never said a bright thing It my life, but I can talk a streak of stuf and nonsense that is necessary to keol a dinner going. I'm good natured an< amiable. I like everybody, and so : get along comfortably with my neigh bors. In a mild sor't of way, I sup pose, I am amusing. And then I an a good laugher. I laxgh at all th< good things that are said, and at man3 of them that are not so good. I get ir my own little jokes when the time comes, and so we row along through the dinner, I working my passage ani my hostess smiling approval on mo. "Oh, no, it's not a bit damaging t< my vanity. I simply know it's so, ani accept it cheerfully. I can't dance foi shucks, so I'm of no earthly use at a dance. If I were a good dancer I'i probably come in for all that, too. My strong point is a dinnol', and so I'n wanted there, and not at a dance. Il dosesn't wound my vanity a bit. I en joy the dinner. Having a lot of pretty women around the table, and listening to them, and talking to them is lotE more fun than sitting alone in a club with only a lot of ghostlike waiters tc amuse you. It's a perfectly fah bargain. I talk and I am sweet tempered for my ferriage, and I get or the ferry a good dinner and enjoyable surroundings. That's all there is to it and as for the honor of the thing and all that, there's no more honor in my being invited to dino out every even ing than there would be in going oul to fiddle for a party at the regulax price. I talk and get my dinner and pleasant company. The other mar I gets his five or ten dollars, or whatevel the price is, and fiddles." HOW HE WAS AOOEPTED. Here Indeed is a New Way to Win Woman. The .New Orleans Picayune has thi interesting story of two literary celeb rities in a recent issue: The late Prol Aytoun was uncommonly difflden - when making proposals of marriage V Miss Jane Emily Wilson, who after ward became his wife. The lady r& minded him that before she should give her absolute consent it would be neces sary to obtain her father's approval. "You must speak for me," said the suitor, "for I could not summon cour age to speak to the professor on the subject." "Papa is in the library," said the lady. "Then you had better go to him, said the suitor, "and I will wait youI return." The lady proceeded to thie library, and taking her father alreotionately by the hand mentioned that the professor had asked her hand in marriage. She add. ed: "Shall I accept his offer, papal Hie is so diffident that he won't speak to you about it himself." "Then we must deal tenderly witih his feelings," said the hearty old Christopher. "I'll write my reply on a slip of paper and pin it to your back.' "Papa's answer is on the back of my dress," said Miss Jane, as she enteret~ the drawing-room. Turning arouni the delighted suitor read these words "With the author's compliments." VERTIGAL WRITING. Telegraphers Ar. Mainly Responsil tes its Introdnetton Heore. If the vertical handwriting which ix being taught in our public schools pre vails, and becomes the ordinary hand. writing, the people who enjoy its ad. vantages will have in large measure the telegraphers to thank for it. They have been the pioneers of vertical wri ing. For the last twenty years almost every telegraph operator in the country has written a round, vertical hand, plainer than any other sort of hand writing known, with round, fat loops for the letters which drop below the line, and simple capitals. This teleg rapher's handwriting has much in common with the English "civil service handwriting," which may have p receded it, but the civil service hand is less often vertical and has certain points of difference. Men's handwriting tends in a general way to conform to the fashion of Roman print prevalent at any time, and as the most ordinary Iprint letter nowadays is of a round or Scottish face, it is not strange on the whole that the tendency in handwriting is toward a round letter. WVomen's chirography is mnore capricious in its fashion, though it has inclined pretty steadily now for several years toward angular Biriticism. lie Was incredulou,,, A party of tourists was being showrn over the Biritish museum; dhid in ono of the rooms the kceeper pointed out a col lection of antique vases, which had been recently dug up at Hlerculanum,. "WVhat's, that?" said one of the party, with a lookc of incredulity. "Dug up out of the ground?" "Certainly, sir. Perhaps some pains have b~een taken in IcleaninW them, but otherwise they were found just us you sec thorm." 'rho wise man turned to his companions and said, wvith a knowing shake of his head: "Hie I nrny say what he likes, but he shall never persuadeO me that they dug up readyv-made note out of the trrourndl" ENGLISH SPORTING LITERATURE 4 About One-Slath of the English PeriodS. I Ials Are Devoted to'sport. It may give some idea of the place of , sport in English life to the sedentary I American to say that is difficult to find i b an Englishman between 18 and 05, in t fair health, and not supported by the rates, who is not a performer at some kind of sport or interested in some phase of it. Of the 078 reviews and I magazines of a nonreligious character I !rinted in England, says the Forum, I one In six is largely devoted to sokie form of out-of-door sport or occupation. Between 1880 and 1885, according to a a private index kept in the British mu- t seum, there were 266 books published a on the one subject of sport or athletics; I between 1885 and 1800, 412, and, al- I though the figures for the last five years are not at band, the number of books on the same subjects promises to be even larger, almost forty bools on I golf alone appearing during the last five years. Nor does this list include books on topics germain to the subject, such as books dealing with voyages, geography, history, biography and trade, of which there were 188 pub lished in London in 1898, and probably more than a thousand during the last year. In a vord, John Bull loves the fresh air. He is a sportsman, an athlete, a soldier, a sailor, a traveler, a colonist, rather than a student, and all -the fig- I ures bear me out in making the state ment. During thos; horrible days in I the Crimea, these sport-loving "young barbarians" were "all at play" when they were not fighting; racing their ponies, getting up cricket matches, and 1 off shooting such game as there was. One family-the Pelhams-have hunted the Brocklesby pack of hounds for moro r than 175 years. t THE END SEAT IN THE PEW. It I the Flsoe Occupied by the Proteetor i of the Famly. - "It is common enough," said Mr. a Gratebar, according to the New York c Bun, "to se a man sitting li the aisle end of a pow in church get up on the arrival of some other member of the family, stop out into the aisle to lot the late comer in and then resume his seat at the end of the pew. It seems to me that I have read that this custom originated in New England in tle early e days, when the men all sat by the aislo so that they could seize their $at ond get out promptly in ease of atthok by Indians. We don't have much to fear from Indians nowadays, but the seat by the aisle is still occupied by the head of the family. He stands in the aisle while the others pass in, and then calmly takes his place in the end seat, t at the head of the line, as a sort of gen oral protector. "Sometimes in these days (we are so very free from Indians now) the head 1 of the family thinks it is safe for him to stay at home when he has a headacho, and then the young son takes his place, I imagine that be talks it over with ht mother on the way to church, so that it 6 is all understood. When they got to the pow he stands in the aisle w hie his sisters and his mother pass in. I fanoy A that his sisters are rather glad vwhen c they are all seated and no longer eon- 2 spicuous, but upon his mother's faee as she brushes past him into the pew there b is a smile of affectionate pride; and then he takes his seat in his father's i place and sits there with fine boyish c dignity." g y THEY SHET THE DO' NOW. t< Gleorgia Cracker. Aetually DIseover 2sow to Keep Cold Oat. 11 In "Craoker" cabin., in north Georgia, * no matter how cold the weather, both a doors, back and front, stand open from t daylight till dark, the year through. s This, perhaps, is accounted for by the ' fact that there are no windows in the houses, and the doors are kept open for light. One bitter cold winter's day, says an exchange, while hunting for a work man, a northern superintendent of the a Georgia Marblo company went into ~ one of these cahins and found the t whole family, bluo with cold, huddled ,a over a few pine sticks in the fireplace. a Every door was open and the icy wind a was sweeping through the room un hindered. Before proceeding to business the y northerner banged to the door., throw several logs on the coal., and soon had things steaming. As thesy grew comfort- tu able, he remarked: "Now, don't you see how quickly you , warm up when you keop the wind out? See what a difference it makes to shut the doors?"a eThe thawed-out Oraeker turned to his li wife quite energetically and said: b "Wife, danged if hit an't soS Don't y forgot it. When hits cold arter this, a lo's shot the do'." The Fveeoh Colt. The common belief is that the Pretch are a Celtic race; but, according to M. S Riviore, the Colt is not even the largest clement in that mixed race called the F~renoh. It is probable that they de rive much of their artistic faculty from their savage ancestors in the stone age, who carved quite artistic designs with a flint burin on bones. The genuine t Celt does not appear to be particularly artistic. The Auvergnats are almost pure Celt, and yet their reputationh mainly rests upon their capacities as as cabmen. The true Celt, 10. Riviore asserts, is chiefly to be found in a belt drawvn across Franco from Savoy to Low 13rittany, and ho has not boen identified at all in the United Kingdom. Electric Teeth. g A case of electricity generated by ar plate of false teeth occurred recently in England. A man feeling a severeo pain in his tongue consulted a doctor 0 andl dentist, neither of whom could find ti anything wrong. Hie then went to au 8 electrician, who found that his falso a teeth were fastened to the composition 'X plate with two metals. They were con- y nocted by wires to a galvanometer, ~ which, as soon as the metals were moistened by the saliva, showed a cur rent strong enough to cause uleeration ri and severe pain. The plate was cov. (ered with an insulating varnish, which b DONNEOTICUT'S GYPSY PRINCE le Makes Regular Horse Trading Tonr of the Country. For over forty years a family of gyj les have been residents of this stat( Lt the present time one of them claim o be the head of the gypsies in thLi ountry, says a Bridgeport correspoi lent of the New York Sun. He I >rince William and lives with his fam ly near East Hartford. The East Harl ord branch is the main branch of th amily. All the male members of th amily are born .horso traders and ar, mown all over Now England as uprigh ,nd honest business men. Attached t< heir residence at East Hartford ar< tables which in winter are alwayi Lled with choice horses. One of thE nteresting sights at the barn are thE vagons in which Prince William an< 'amily go off on their annual trips Dhoso wagons cost from one thousam( o twenty-five hundred dollars eich. There are branches .of the family i1 qow Haven and also in this city, anm Phen one of these trips about the coim1 ry takes place the other branches joii t. The trips are usually begun abou ,ho 1st of August and sometimnes es 4nd into the winter months, the famnil ravoling in the south when col weather arrives in New England. Th !amily lately returned from a tri wvhich was begun last August. 0 heso trips spare horses are taken alon o trade. This means a cavaleado of lozen gorgeous wagons and about on iundi-ed horses. The entire famil non, women and children, go along Cho party keep together, traveling b asy stages, about twenty miles a da )eing considered a good journey. Whe turried they can make forty miles lay. The place selected for the night eating-place Is usually a grove. Ther he wagons are drawn up in a circle he fires lighted and supper prepared dter the evening meal the entire fam y gather around Prince William's ten r wagon and the affairs of the famill ro discussed. A watchmnan lpatrols th< amp all night to guard the horses. INCREASING LENGTH OF LIFE. fodera Hereines at Least Are Mue Lenger Lived Than Jane Austen's Wore. Is the human race becoming longe ived despite the fret and fever of mod rn civilization? It is an interestinl tuostion, and it may very probably bi nswored some day by science in thi mrwativo. The longevity of profes Ional men is now generally considere< a be greater than that of farmers am icohanics. In other words, intellectu 1 activity, although in many respeet xore exhausting than physical, 1bs h1 he main a salutary efYfet upon tb, muman frame. It may be the nerve ather than the muscles upon which w nainly depend, after all. It is a con rnonplace of observation that the bil learty men are constantly droppin 3ut of the world, while -thoso of ft nore fragile organizations, apparentl Live on to a ripe old age. As to the increasing longevity of th -ace generally, there is no little ino lental testimony on this head to b rathered from various sources. Som f the early heroes and heroines of re iance are old before they reach wha re should call middle life. And at th< eginning of our own century Jan< ,usten, whose testimony is always un apeachable, speaks of the healthy ai :ntented woman of forty as having c ood prospect of twenty years of lift ot. Twenty yearsl What woman oi >-day, asks the Providence Journal lnks of herself as felling into dlecrep mido at sixty? Elsewhere in Miss Aums mn's pages we run across people wh<d re old with the passage of half a con try of life. But now we have Glad Wmnes at eighty and over, and thini othing of it. THIS WAS A SMART OAT. Low He Geavincedi Himself 'That It Wa His own Image. The late Dr. Romanes, in his "Ani ial Intelligence," gives two stories o ats, which, on seeing their own reflce on in a looking glass, convinced them ilves that the reflection was an illu on. In the ease of a very intelligeni it of mine, he went, I think, a stop be ond this-namely, ho satisfied himnsoli iast it was in some way his own image, yen if my deduction is wrong, the first irt of his proceedings was so singularly kce those in Dr. Romane' accounts, ist it seems as though it were a uni >rm law of cat nature to act in this ay, and so far it may not be alto ather uninteresting. "I put the cat on a table, ina front o1 small toilet mirror. After looking ai s reflection for a short while, he won1 ,hind the glass; then he returned t< s seat in front, and again watched I ~tentively. After a few moments h< ipidy dashed behind it. He again re trne to his seat in front of the glass id, whiae retaining his seat and keep 4g his eyes fixed on the image, h~ ruoc about behind the glass with hm aw in diffeuent directions. "is next action, was, I fancy, sug osted by seeing the image apparently ~rikeo with its paw also. Keeping him mat and retaining his eye fixed onm the nago, he proceeded to (if I may use io word) posture ini front of the glass. :o raised his paws alternately, licked mem, touohed the glass, moved his mad, eto. I have tried to simply (10 ribefaceta, and as far as possihle avoid pawing conolusions." Humps on the Earth. The alarming theories propounded cientists make one sit up at first ance. For example, M. do Lapparenit ad a paper before tho scientific con ress at Paris the oilher day in which a labored to prove that the mountains 'the earth are (decreasing inm size, aind mat they will ultimately vanish alto ether. Thme tremendous friction of the tmosphere is 'wearing them away. ho Alps, he said, exemplifIed the outh, th e Pyronces the maturity, the touintains of Provence the declining ears and the central plateau of France lie death and dissolution of mountainm anges. But don't worry. Four or five undred thousand years must Blip by efore the bumps on the earth's surface re .rgo4...d, SET RULES AT DEFIANOE. N No RIairoaud Comiany Couli Prevent He* Meclig Inilna Off. When the train for the west was called, there was a rush of passengers a at the door, and amoing them Wats a a small, thin young woman about twenty years old, who had a humble and re signed expression, atdit a shairp-nosed, iron-jawed female of forty-five, who was evidently her muotIer. 'l'he small thin woman had a bundle and a ticket a to St. Thomas. The sharp-nosed wom 3 an had a basket and two bmiles and b no ticket at all. "Ticket, ina'nn," said the gateleep or, as she attempted to follow her daughter out. "I'm jest goin' to see Melinda on the train," she replied. "Ticket, ma'am, ticket: got to have a ticket." "'I've got to put MA[elinda aboard of the train, I tell yel She's nover trav eled before in her life. and is jest as apt to git under or on top of t lie car as into It." "Show your ticket, ma'ai," persist t ed the gate tender as lie whirled his ticket punch around. "I have to do ils I am ordered, you know." "I tell you," replied the woman as e she crowded closer, "I'm boind to see Melinda off 1It won't, hurt yer old railroad any to let me tirough. Ale linda, don't you cry, fur I'm a-comin'. The idea that a mother ean't see tier i daughter otT!" "Ticket., mat'am. Youl are defiiin't fifty pissenger.s. I'leuse show y, ticket or move back!" "I've got to putit Mel ida on that var shouted the woman in a lmirhih ky "I've got twelve eggs, a bot tle i skunk's ile, two 1111)) chlimeiyN's, a pumpkin pie, a bottle of hair dye and a 3 pint of buttermilk in this basket, anad Icither go through or bust this ba sketf right hero and now!" She dropped the bundles and began swinging the basket mabout her head4, bnt it made only two eireles and the gatetender smilingly said: "Wish to see youI daughter oity? Pass right in, lady, and stay as long as you want to." "You bet I will!" muttered tle old lady, as she joined Melinda, "lit, I'ml, a little sorry he give up so quick. - Good lands, but I could hev made sich r a wreck of that depot that no traia could hev gone out fur a weelcl"-N Y. Recorder. A Tuscan Girl' Dower. A girl is always allowed a certain time per week to work for her dower, and generally brings her husband a bed, with two or Imore paiirs of linenl lheets util a wadded -enverlet, a chest, 3 (eassone) and from ten pounds to twenty-live poiids in omioney. She Ims , usually a good stock of body linen, two winter working dresses, several cotton r ones for summer, and at least one ihli g day dress, besides her black silk wed ir ding gown. Every peasaunt girl has " earrings and a necklace (vezzo) of sev. eral rows of irregularly-shaped pearls 0 or of red coral. The richer ones have a gold chain and watch. Before tihe a marriage a valuer (stimnatore) is called 3 in, who makes out a list of her posses. - sions on stamped paper, which is given to the headmnan of her future husband's famtily. Should she be left a Childless widow, lie returns the dower, and she( genierally leaves the house.-Macmil. lan's Magazine. I'rimroes Are I'opular. One of the cheapest and most beau tiful of potted plants, and onto conse quen thy beloved by the poor ini all parts of the city, is the primatrose. It biloonms for many weeks together-, andl( the plant, with care, maty be carried over. from 0one winter to antther. Its great enemy is the heat of the summer here abouts. Cheaper anad mor-e easily prop agated is the geranium, which will endure aill sorts of weathter, can be0 multipliedl indefiInit ely, anad blooms a large part of the year. 1t, too, is a prime favorite in the tenement qutar' -tera,wvhore the poor still have theo mrit to cultivate flowers.- I'hxibidelphmia Proe. __________ Buckles of filigree or silver gilt are chosen for the thick h~elts worn with shirt waists of silk, mandras, cheviot, etc. Tlhose of bright silver are by many preferred to gold for. wearing with (lark belts, while the gold buckles are effective with white belts. Square and diamond-shaped buckles are newer- than the oval buck les used last year and are worn rather small since narrower belts are in vogue. A pretty slide of the filigree silver holds the ribbon in place.-Troy Times.' A Cutting Reoply. Mr. D'Avnue-My stars! More mon ey? What on earth did you do with all I gave you last weekc? Mrs. D'Avnue-Well, I used a little of it in buying a ntew al bmI fot' the~ photographs of the duk Ies and princes I refused before I married you. -N. Y. Weekly. _________ In These D~ays. Miss Fan dle Syckcle-Whto was it said "'thte hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the worIl?" Mrs. Strounginiad-I[ don't know, but, a ny way, nto one pays anty attention to any'thing said of the men nowadays. Belle-And so you have accepted Ilarry! Anid you always laughed at the ideai of mnarr-ying him. Nellie--I know it. But when lie proposed I was all takevn aback, and I exclaimed, "Do you take me for a fool?" And lie said. "No, I want you for myself." It so aston ishedl me that lie should. say any thing so bright that I said "Yes" be fore I knew what I was doing. --oston TIrascript.____________ -A Bath (Me.) woman who has had trouble wit postage stamps that would not stick has shown herself a woman of resources by sewing the refractory bits of paper on to the envelopes with good strong knitting cotton. -Europe derived Its name from the Greekc language, the original wvord sig nifying "broad face of the earth." -Egypt to the liebrews and ever since was "the lad one opre-.....