Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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And they wonder, as waiting these loug years through In the dust of that little chair, What has become of our Little Boy Die .y" Since he kissed them and put them there. THE THREE 1)IAMONDS. "It is quite like a fairy story, I am sure, and 1 have a deep affection.for a fairy story," said one girl. "Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp." said the other. "'Or Monte Cristo," chimed in the third, * "Tell it again, Lewis." "Well," said the young man, light. ing another cigar4 "it;s like this: The fellow was not rich, you know. and he took a situation as secretary, or soine thing, with a fellow that was like the Wandering Jew. No one knew how old hb was, and he spent his time and! money collecting big diamonds -rough Giamonds, bome of them, you know that he got from wild fellows who iever guessed their value, and some that he took for debts, and some that he got goodness knows how. And he traveled all over the world with this fellow, don't you see, and got fond of um, and all that, and at last swas taken ill, paralyzed or something.; and the secretary, who knew which side his bread was buttered on, waited on him,' nurhed him, carried him about, saved him from being robbed and murdered, I believe. And so, when the fellow died, he left all his dia monds to this young fellow, don't you see? And he is enormously rich. and he's here for the summer, and every girl in the place will set her cap for him--of course, you among the rest " "Nonsensel" cried the girls in chorus. "Absuredl as if we- But tell us, is he handsome?". "No," said the cous-n. But he was. The girls saw him soon after on the piazza of the hotel, and decided that Charles wra envious or had no taste. He was charming. A little fellow, to be sure, but with jet blask hulr and big dark velvety eyes. He had white hand-j, too, and a chin like a Greek statue, and he wore one of the diamonds in his bosom and an-her on his finger. "Wouldn't a pair of that size look well in my ears?" thought Elsie Rune, as she peeped into her glass that night, and remembered them. "And I'm sure he looked at in. Oh, dearn I do believe I am in -Jve with him al ready." "Grace," said Maud Ripley to her sister at almost the same moment, "should not you think that so dark a man--I mean that any very dark man -would fancy a perfect blonde? Now, Elie believes dark mern fall in love with her, she is so vain, There are laws and rules about such things, as I often tell her; and you never see a dark woman really adored by a dark man."- . 4 . "I am sure I don't know," said Grace. "I should think it's a person's manner you'd lhke, niot his coloring." ,"That is because you are neither one nor the other," said Maud. Other girls In the hotel were speonl latlog on the hero of the diamonds, but Maud and Grace Ripley and Eie Rune was blessed with a cousin who was not unwilling to see any, or all of them married as soon as possible, and who bad made acquaintance with the ) stranger on board of the ocean steamer in which they sailed togethey, so that the introduction was neatly managed. P1 * Eides, drIves and sails followed, and the best match at Newport that season fseelsed cast at the very feet of the prettiest girl there; for, though Grace j was neither a brunette like Elsie, nor a blonde like Maud, she had dimples in hAer cheeks and another in her chin, and the cheeks were carmine and the chin was pearl, Then, toe, she was gentle, sweet and tendler, wvhile Elsie and Maud, though brighter and pos sesised ofjmore aplomb, were already a littl6 liard and worldly; flirts of the first water, and with a keen eye to the advantage of position and money. .No pruldent chaperone was needed to warn them from the ineligibles, while Grace was forever making a goose of herself by meeting towards penniless boys 'and the young students of art and medicine. - ecreply, however, Grace had already bestowed a genuine ad miratton- on the man of- many dia. mQlndI. ils wealth had nothing to do with it. He would lIke Elsie, of courue. She must not think of him; she must drive him from her mind, and she strove hard to do so. For years she had see' no society, but bad lived the life of a hermit. First he made love to one girl, then to another. Innocent little Grace had her share of flattery and nmiles and all Newport declared that the "diamond man" would surely marry one of them. One evening Maud stole to her room, with a diamond ring on her 'inger. The next day Elsie had one in her pocnlet-book, and on the third little Grace had a great 'glltitering, ttitng un der the candle flame and whispered: "I wonder what he -means?" To Elsie the young man had said something about diamonds matching her eyes. To Maud he had said - that the diamond would, for the first time, become precious if she wore it. To GrAce nothing of the sort. At first she had refused to take it, but he had an swered: . "I gave your sister Maud one last night." . And then she had slipped it on her finger. A tear as bright as the gem fell upon it as she hid it in a little casket where she kept her few ornaments, and asked H -aven to forgive her if she still cheer ished~a thought that would be wrong it he became her sister's husband. "Girls," said Charles that -evenins, coming into the parlor, "I've come to give you a. warning. There's a story afloat about young Edmonds. They say his diamonds are paste. His ser vant told some men at the hotel so, He may be an imposter after all." Maud started. Elsie grew pale. Grace looked indignant. The entrance of callers interrupted the talk, and later on Elsie sought an interview with her cousin and siowed him her ring, and told him its story. "It will be as well to have it tested," she said. "I don't want to. make any mistakes." "You're a cool girl," said her cousin, in admiration. "I will have the thing done." Au hour afterward another ring was in. his care. Maud had brought him hers. But Grace never for a moment thought of doubting that the glitter lug stone on which she had dropped tears was genuine. Cousin Charles went cityward that day, and returned pale and serious. He bowed coldly to young Edmonds as he passed him on the piazza; and Elsie and--Maud knew what had happened when they looked at bin, but':they went for the jeweler's verdict all the same. As rendered by Charles it was this: "Paste, by Jove." Then the girls waxed furious. So. ciety had cut Mr. Edmonds before the next night, and the landlord regarded him doubtfully as one whose bill was not likely to be paid. Only one stood by him-it was his little friend, Giace. One day they met on the beach; she went up to him and held out her hand. "Mr. Edmonds," she said, "I want you to know that I don't believe you knew it. The old gentleman who left them to you deceived you, I'm sure. P'ease tell every one so. I know you could never be an adnveLturnr, and it's not your rauilt the diamnoLds were false, and I1 thought I'd like to shake hanuds and say ao."t "Thank you," he said, holding out his hand. "So you don't doubt me?" "No," said Grace, "I do not see how any one could." "Yet I knew those wvere bits of paste when I gave thiem," said MEr. E monds. "I knew that they were not genuine diamonds. Yes, I am as bad as that. What now. Miss Grace?" LbI'm sure that can't be true," she said. "Please say It isn't. I have thought so well of you. I-" "Graoie," said young Edmnonds, "think well of mec still. The story of the old man's generosity is quite 'true. I have and can prove that I have dia. monds worth at le'ast a million of money, but I gave bits of paste to three young ladies, because I knew- that a girl who lIked me for my diamonds would he shrewd enough to have them tested, and that a girl who liked me for myself would doubt -neither the gems noer the truth. Thank you, Grace. All this world shall know that I am not an adventurer before to-morrow dawbts. It shall now be known .that you have not misplaced your confidence. Have yon your rig, little lady?" She took it from her pQcket-book. In a moment more he hand ex changed it for another. "Only you must wear this." hie said. And Grace, looking into his eyes1 knew what he meant, and wore it. It was the wedding of the season, that of Grace lLiplhey and Robert E I. monds; and If the two bridesmaids never forgave the balihegroom they were at least ashamed to own it.' MXarriaxo Amn.ag the Afghiar,s. Among the Afghans marriage is a oaue of purchasing the bride. A rich Afghan marries early simply because he can afford to pay for awife, while a poor one often remains single until middle life on account of his inability to pur chase, If the hiusbandI didas and the widow %vshes .to marry again, she or her friends ha've to refund the purchase money to the friends of thes dead hus. band. A common custom is for the brother of the decease I to marry the' widow. No other person would think of wedding her without frst asking this -brother's consent. 'IEAIRDED BE AUTIES. Women With Hirsute Appendhge Who Were Known the World Over. Bearded women have always attract ed considerable public attention in France, and some interest therefore al taches to the fact that the doyenne. of eldest member of what may be callei the "galaxy of Ga'io femmes a barbe,' has just departed this life in a little vil lage in the Pyrenean department of th Arlege. She ha-i exhibited herself a fairs for the space of sixty years, an was supposed to be the woman who in spired the celebrated cafe-concert re frain of Theresa. "C'est mot qui suis 1 femme a barbel" Her. early successe caused a legion of imitators to sprinj up. and women with beards ani whiskers were sought after everywher by speculative Barnums with as mucl energy as. was displayed by the agent of Frederlak the Great in their hunt for giants who were to be enrolled I1 the Royal Guards.* The lady from th department of the Ariego, however long held her own, because she was s genuine article, while many of he rivals were unmitigi ted frauds, whi were popularly supposed to have?eithe false whiskers or to have cultivated dill tNntly their originally slender - hirsuti .ippendage with artful unguents, There .ore she amassed a little fortune, of whiclt she lived in comfort In her ne tive village for the past few years Nowadays Parislans, and even provin cials, have become rather tired of beard (4 "beauties"-there have been to many of them. One of the most re markable femmes a barbe of receni years was an Alastian called "La Bell( Catherine," who used to make capita not only out of her beard, but out of thi conquest of Alsace. She was wont tc say to her visitors In a Franco Germar jargon: "sioissieurs et mesdames, cha suis femme a barbe et chat obte (no opte) pour la France." Catharine wa also a considerable giantess, and was in the habit of calling the attention o spectators to the smallness of her ankli as contrasted with the girth and vast. ness of her body. There is a curion story told of another bearded womai named Jacquelin Doublin, who fell in love with an actor. She had seen hux in the Chatelet theater one night, and from that monnt she ii paired to the -theat tented herself with lookiIIi oi a>$: plaud'ng the man of her choice, OnE night she' was recognized, and the pea. ple lauehed at her, so she rushed off tc the barber's and had her board shaved and her face well powdered. Neverthe less, she was again recognized in the theater and was heartily hooted by r 3ruel crowd. In despair Jacqueli went home and died of a broken heart. Cough Preventing School. A physician's advice, not to cough when you want to cough, now being 3irculated in the newspapers, Is Le lIeved to be sound by some who have ~ried it. Mr. Clark Bell, a lawyer and President of f,he Medico-Legal Society >f New York,'has had some experience n etippressing the. tendency to cough, which it Is interesting to hear him re ate. Hie had a constant irritation in hle' throat and a cough. Somebody ;old him of a teacher in the art o1 'how not to cough when you wanted 0,"' and to that teacher Mr. Bell hled without delay. Sure enongh, pup)ls with all brands attached to them, were here to learn how to lay their bronch al burdens down. Most of them were non in the serious and learned profess ons and pursuits of lite, and they act ~d like awkward and shame--faced ichool-boys, knowing that they were ~here to learn so foolish, If not down' Ight impossible a thing as getting the vulp hand of a cough without smedicine. ~till, there were stories of others whc~ and learned it, and these were the days >r learning and doing new things, se hey held themselves in readiness to nake rapid progress. The teacher stood them In a row, nade them brace back their shoulders, mold up their chins and draw In their Lbdomens. This last was not easy of mcomplishment to some of them, who mad previously allowed their abdomens great license In the way of developi nent and obtrusiveness; buit they hero-. celly made the 'attempt. When the lass was in order the teacher told hem to sing~ "Sweet I{ome." flt hey.couldn't sing, some of theqi said, 3ut they must, the teacher said. iinally they squeaked away, and then ~heir throats began to cut up, The eacher forbade any throat.scouring or 3oughing, but told them to draw in a ong breath and hold it whenever they were tempted to cough. After thany ~allures they succeeded, They met in class three times a week, md spent an hour in singing. Their bhroat troubles soon retired under the averpowering if not harmonious influ mece of their vocalization.- They even flattered themselves that they became pretty good singers. They were for bidden to cough or scour their throate when out of class. Mr. Bell said there were hours when he would have given m year's Income for the privilege of bearing away at his throat in the old Lime fashion. but he woul..'. .il .t. the tenptation, aiid at last all throab torment left him. Another -beneat which the exeroises brought to the moat bulbous of the class, It reduced them in girth several inches, for' which they were corres. pondingly grateful. 71 Cities of the Future. Some years agp I iasIn the heart of China, where I iean it some lessons in regard to the develoil ent of empires. Given a homogeneot ipople, speaking the same language, 'nd together by the ties of commerc, ind young great cities will -be In .tha interior rather than on the seaboard, for the reason that the domestic pmmerce of a nation far exceeds its foreign trade. China is dotted oaer,with great cities of which we know 'ery little. How many of your read, s ever heard of Soochow, with 2,00 ,O00 people, or Wauchang, with nea' as many? or a score of .clties coh ining 500,000? You see the s,ame press going on in this country. Chicago, St. Louis, Oincinnati, Plttsbi 'g, Hochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, ,Milwaukee, St. r Paul, Minneapolis, uluth, Kansas y ,,yn mah-, Denver, Atlanta, Rich mond, Chattanoogci. A century hence the republic will be sprinkled with great-centers of trade. The Atlantio seaboaid will have its chain of cities-Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston and Savan ah. New York, b hy its position, - its relations with Europe on t.h ona hand, and the interior on the otb8r, bids . fair to wrench the scepter from London, and' become the world's banking house. Quite likely it may always maintain its supremacy as the m9tropolis of the re public, and by'and b# become the chief city of the world. That Chicago t' to stand next in rank seerms to me to Le a certainty, rather than a probability. Intervow on matters of State. When Napoleon I'I was prince presi dent, one day the Brktish ambassador, Lord Normanby, particularly wanted an interview on im ortant business with the president, a ' was requested by an aid-de.camp alt -just long enough to anno visit. The ambassador di, and solemn countenan who had n pa gre ' Impatient; he ghter in the next room,' sly raising the hangings that he door, he saw Mrs. Ilow.ird, y Stanley, the Vicomtesse Pauline Contades, two or three other ladies, the Duke of Cam bridge and the prince president himself playing at blind man's buff, the prince being the blind man. Without a word Normanby advanced on tiptoe, the others keeping silence most discreetly, aid tapped the presidential hand. "OhI this time I've caught you; its Paulinei" exslaimed. Louis. and pulling off the' h %ndkerchief, utood confronted with the ambassador. There was a general i$ugh at the incident, and the plenipo-! tentiary jonied in the game. n ot a word of politics was breathed during the interview, but it lasted ,,a couple of hours, and the quidnunce of the bourse thought it must have been so impori ant-that the French funds that evening dropped 1 pmer cent. A 'Trick -of Oriental Servants. A lady in Brooklyn has just had p; Ringular experience. She engaged a: Jap:inese servant to do up stairs work. Hie appeared in the afternoon, was al bows and smiles, and at dinner tha evening waited on the table in excel lenti style. The lady thought she had a Jewel of a servant. After dinnu lie requesti d to be allowed to go to New York to see about some clothes. Hie went, and that wi the last seen of Jani No. -1. .She tried another with the~ same result.- A ,hird was, tried hi stayed two days, and then left earl, one morning bel'ore breakfast. The lady was nonplused over the matter. She told a friend who had been in San. Francisco the Owircumstances. Th isj friend said that housekeepers there had1 found that when a Chinese servant left a plaQe he didn't like he would put some mark, usually of a character so slight as not to be noticed, on the kitch-! en wall. The next one, of course, would see it, and thus learn what his predecessor thought of the place and act accordingly. Then fIrst servant the lady emp;loyedl ldi't like the situation for some reason, antd so left the place and probably lis mark. The others saw It. and left on account of it. The ladiy says she ia through with orientaf servant . Keep Up a D)eal of Thiniking. Now g'et ready for a bachelor rushi to thuis State. The Eastern papers are spreading the report that Joaquin Mgiller says that California women talk~ less than any women ln the world. They are fluent thinkers. hiowever.. 'HOsTEss (to IJobby, who Is dining out wit.h his mother)--Will you have another piece of pile, Bobby?. Bobby--Yes'mn,. Hostess (smilingly)-And so you are~ one of the fortunate little boys whose mammas let them have a second piece of pie? I3obby-.-Yes'm; she does when we're ont visitmn', but at home I never get but one piece. SWiss FARMINGi E1r1 Work to' Get Crops and So Butter and Cheese Are the Products, From the extieme elevation and rigor of the climate one-fourth or the country is rendered useless., Good arab'e land is3 very limited and com mands 1300 per acre, while the clioce vineyard lands ranke from $1,500 to L2.000 per acre, every square.foot of which is reckoned to produce annually two bottles of wine. From the low lands three grass crops are obtained yearly, in May, July- and October. stock is not permitted to pasture in open flefds, the grass being mown and fed to the animals throughout the summer, as an economy. This rapid grass growth is, aside from the con stant fertilizing and extraordinary care in cultivation and draining, assisted by the moist climate, the average rainfall, including snow being -eighty inches every year-about double that of the United States. Then the peasant must apply the highest order of intelligence and good management to secure productive re suits from his little farm. The hap hazard guess-work and go-as-you please methods would soon bring him to starvation. He is an eminently con servative purchaser his economy is dis cerning, and lie does not take readily to new idas that do not assure lWm a better result for his hard-earned money. While the land is cut up into such small divisions that it has the cultiva tion of a garden, it is on too small a scale and labor is too cheap to justify any outlet in modern agricultural im plements; for cutting, threshing and winnowing purposes the scythe, flail and winnowing basket are used; the scythe is apparently an exact counter part of that which is seen in the hands of "Time" in the school primer; the plow would adorn an archeological col lection, and i'istead of the harrow or cultivator after the ground is plowed, a number of women and children, armed with clubs, go over it and pul verize tke surface. But attention of the Cwlss peasant is not so much directed to agriculture iu the American sense as to the rearing of cattle and the produce of the dairy -tending klne and maktting cheese. o one falls to observe the ag p and gentleness with ' a man tieteli " perior conditio'and '1IZt bear ample testimony tetie fact. In the spring it is a pretty sight to see the groups of cows with tinkling bells start for the mountains, where they will browse and shake their mellow bells upon the green Alps. The queen cow leeds the procession; she wears a finer collar and larger bell than the others, and seems proudly conscious of the dis tinction she enjoys, and also of the way she is to go. How Locomotives Are Nameti. "Locomotives," said the railroan man, "are oftener numbered than. named nowadays. The great trunk lines of the country numbsr their engines, but some of the Newv England lines still continne to both name and number. Localities are conciliated by naming engines after them, and the directors feel flattered of course to see their names on majestic express or monster freight engines. Then there are individuals iocall'y iniluential whom the corporation wishes to place, and they are honered. Sometimes those men are 'kickers,' and the road doesn't like to be kicked, and names the loot - motive to soften their asperities. But as I said before you've no idea of the number of letters and the many forms of pressure exerted. Some man who owns some pleasure resort on the road wants its name put on a locomotive as an ad vertisement of that place, and as his interest is a go3od deal the road's Inter est, he generally has his wish gratlied. "There is a sort of unwritten custom of localities and individuals to give clocks or ornaments to the engines named after them. DIfferent roads have different, Ideas and methods. The Providence names its shifting engines after characters In Dickens, suggest,ive of quahities that will be cailed into pla,y. There is thie 'P'anclte,' that goes abont puffing, the Micawiber, that waits for something to turn upi, etc. The Eastern road once ran on Sntake 3peare some years ag3, andl gave its machines such names as Coriolan us, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Tempest, Hlamlet, etc., thus makinig ies trains prop'aganda of Shakespeare study. The Ofrense or Lying. P'resident Eliot struck the right note the other day . When lie characterizedi lying as the one unparloniable offense whicho the faculty of Harvard would sot forgive. West P'oint has always icted on this principle, and to such an 3xtent that the cadets themselves will iot wInk at aiid condone the lie. They ire taught to expose the liar, uinder ~he feeling that in their after lives in hie army, truth is the only basis on which they can live with one another md administer discipline. Nor are ~hese the only institutions that are de ermined to ostracize the 110. Rutgers ~oIlege noti long ago actually expelled a itudent for th.e one offense of lying to ~ov9r up his agency in the .perpetra d1on of a college ticL DIARS AND.HIS MOONS. Now Irformation Brought Us by tho Great Liok Obsoryatory. Whether life actually exists on Mars must In all probability ever remain un known. .Even if we could build a tele scope as far surpassing in power the giant of the Lick Observatory as that great Instrument does.the "optic tube" of Galileo we should be little nearer to a solution of the problem. A vastly increased Interest was given to observations of Mars by Professor Hall's discovery In 1887 of two minute satellites which revolved around the planet and exhibited many remarkable peculiarities in their motions. These two satellites are the smallest known bodies belonging to our solar system if we except meteorites and pos sibly some of the small asteroids. A direct measurement of their diameters Is quite impossible and their size can only be estimated by the amount of light they refleot.' The ottter satellite, Deimos, has-by this method a diameter not much exceeding ten miles, while the inner one, Phobos, Is somewhat larger. From the summit of Mount Hamilton a marble In San Francisco would appear to be about the same size. These minute satellites are beyond range of the most powertul telescopes. except when Mars is in opposition or nearest to the earth. The present op. position Is by no means a favorable one as Mars Is nearly twice as far distant as he was in 1837, and probably few telescopes are capable of showing the satellites. In the great telescope of the Lick Observatory they are easily visi. ble,and promise to remain so even when the distance of the planet has greatly increased. The motions of the satel lites foim a most interesting subject for study. Phobos revolves at a distance of 8000 miles from the surfzice of Mars in the remarkably short time of seven hours and thirty-nine minutes, and thus may be seen to pass from one side to the other in the course of a single evening. In the telescope it can be seen to move. Deimos, at three times the distance, revolves in thirty hours and eighteen minutes. To an inhabitant of Mars, one of these moons would rise In the past and set in the west, with a very a #notion; the other would rise In :moving in opposdtdirections and pass iing each other in the sky. Many other Interesting consequences of their mo tions will occur to any one watching the satellites circling around their pri, mary. A Specimen uotter. As a specimen of the letters that are received by the Buffa'o Business Men'd association, the following will suffice: Mr. Secetary of Buffalo Business Mens Association of Buffalo, 1 notice your advertisement In regards to put ting In Watter power in nigeria River and I ame a pAttent Right man I thought I would drop you a few lines now ir you want a Butment I have a plain drawing Out. how to put a But mient in the river and have a plan how to put the wheel In also. I think this will be a susces I am willIng to go and put it in if you say so I will come and see you as soon as I here frcm you bop-i Ing to here from you soon I remain yours trulley J-- P'---, I am a hot man. is ardor has doubtless coole d ere this. Only two or three of the entire number of correspondents have suh. mitted detailed plans, the remainder contenting themselves with the elabora-. LIon of theories and the presentation of a bewildering array of technical uineering terms and mathematical formlLO, which are incomprehensible without drawvings.. A Boston Dootor Sees a Ghost. The following is one of the ghost stories which are floatIng about in the general revival of all things spookish. The Esses are a family as well known as any going out of Boston to the North Shore, where they have a beauti ful summer home. Mrs. Es; achiarmq ing and cultivated woman, died at IIartford, where she had been staying for a short visit. On the day of her death her family physician chanced to call at the house at the seashore to ask for the health of the absent lady, as he hiad heard of hier illness at IIartford. lIe was assured that she- was better and that ar letter received that morning pronounced her out of danger.. As lie was leaving the hiopse he saw Mrs. flss cross the lawvn and enter the house by a side door. She passed wIthIn a sccore 'of feet froma him, but gave no sign of being aware of his presence, iIe re turned hast,ily to the house, but no one had heard any one enter by the side door, which, indeed, proved upon ex anmnation to be looked on the !nside. The telegraph noon brought news of the death of Mrs. Ess, which had taken place at that hour in Hartfolrd. -China has to raise $323,000, te repair the levoes on the Yellow river, and the money is secured by stopping all omIcial salaries for two years. rThe Chinese may be old but they know a thing or two. -An eight-legged calf attracts at tention in (Jadlz, 0, 'The curIosity is alive and able to walk.1 NEWS IN BRIEF. -A woman in New York, seventy years old, died recently from the bite of a cat that attacked her while she was at prayer. -An English peer, whose revenues have been reduced, has accepted a po. sition as d i unmer for a piano forte manufacturer. -The. sheet iron trade employs 100, 000 persons in this country at, wages from two to three times those in ELg land and Germany. -The Salvation Army conducts 0100 processions weekly -through the streets of the British Kingdom, on an average of 1800 per day. -In the Grand Court of the Krem lin, at Moscow, there Is to be erected a monument in memory of the late Czar, at an expense of $050,000. -Of all the countries of the western hemisphere Chill alone has honored Christopher Columbus by engraving his face on her postage stamps. -It has been calculated that it 82,. 000.OCO people should clasp hands, they could reach around the globe. Very likely, but some of them would get their feet very wet. -A Louisville young woman is said to have been made insane by dyeing her hair. She was found in her room seated among broken mirrors, crock ery and pictures, a raving maniac. -The Siberian Pacific railroad has been begun in earnest. With bridges over the .British channel and Belriug strait there might be a continuous line of rail from New York to London. --It is said that Tennyson sometimes spends hours on a single line. We can rattle off a single line in the twinkling of an eye; it is the second line that exhausts our poetic genius. -The slaughter of the birds to deck women's head gear may be Judged when one London dealer says that last year he sold 2,000,000 small birds of every possible kind and color, from the soft gray of the wood pigeon to the gem-like splendor of the tropical bird. -Yellowstone National Park's 85'5 square miles are illed with geysers, hot sprn:s, rivers, fall,, mount.ains, valleys and forests, making it a verit able wonderland. The Old Faithful Geyser sends into the air every hour a stream of hot water, 200 feet in hight. -Conductor Stillwell, who was in charge of the ill-fated train that was wrecked and burned near Chatsworth, Ill., and whose hair turned gray from the shock of the disaster, is still in the sei vice of the road. His hair is now as whi e assyow. -Sir William Magnay, who is part SUthpr.or. w flew "London play, "Daariece Tjand,' is the son of the Lord Mayor oe London who was made a baronet on the occasion of Queen Victoria open ing the Royal Exchange, a few months after her accession to the throne. -Francis I,, of France, was the first monarch who introduced ladies at hila court. He said, in a true style of gal~ lantry, that a drawing room without ladies was like, the year without the spring, or the spring without flowers. -A stock company with a capital of $2,000,000, equally divided between English and Minnesota capitalists, pro. poies to ship wheat direct to Liverpool by the way of the lakes. The princi. pal object of this new plan is to avoid t,he mixing in transfer elevators, hitih erto found so hard to prevent. -Lake Michigan, according to Chi cago engineers, is this year a foot lower than a year ago and one and sin, tenths feet lower than in 18865. Th effects of the low water are felt at all most every port on the lake, but speci ~ally at the mouth of the Chicago river,, where extensive dredging will have to (be done to make a proper channel. -An old musket that is supposed to be a relic of the time when Colonel B3ouquet wait commander at Fort Pitt was dug out of the bottom of the Allegheny River near Pittsburg re cently. The gun is a fiintiocik of French make and is somewhat rusty. but otherwise well preserved, -A cat died in Boston recently that had an eventful history. Many years ago she was shipwrecked In the Pacific Ocean, but managed to catch hold of a pitece of wreckage, from which she was rescued by sailors from a passing vessel. Pussy was brought to B3oston and was for years a noted attache of a flub store. -Printed matter Is measured by "ems," the letter "m" being the umit. Tne following compilation Is by Pro fessor A. P. Lyon: The Bible contains' 8,500.000 "ems," Webster's Diction ary 20,000,000, Chamber's Encyclo poedia 58,000,000, Johnson's Cyclo-~ poedia 56,000,000, Appleton's Cyclo poedia 00,000,000 and Encyclopeedia Britana 140,000,000 "ems." -A correspondent -of a Southern~ rewspaper points out the fact that i4 the nickel fie cent piece may be used } as a unit of measure in caloulating by the metric system. It is exactly twd centimeters In diameter and lveighi five grammes. . Five of the coins place edge against ..edge give the exacO length of a decimeter. -Mrs. George W. Childs is a fre quent and cordially welcome guest as Atlantic City. A co'rrespondent as that resort says that Mrs. Obilds pos. senses one of the 'finest delle0ogis of jeweIs-to be seen, thoug a a tteM of fact she wears,. as a rule, very few and simple jewels. She possesses, among other things, a rare East Ins diani gem, that seldom gets beyond the borders of that land, and of whiclg there are very few specimens In - America. -Needles have somewhat of a repu tation for travelling the human body, and now cactus th4*ns seem to be seek ing fame in the same respect. A bout, seven years aige George W. Mitchell, of the Palatka (I'ia.) Hatws, falling against a cactus plant, oneof Its thorns entered .the calf of his leg. After they lapse of a week scarce any trouble was experIenced from the foreign mubtensa save for a tinae alight pains like those of rheumatIsm, until lately a swelI1n . appeared on his chin, and stie quenily the tho6rn manifested It*el8 and was wifthdrawn,