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ANTIQUE GLASS. ericeless Bits That HAve Survived AU Other Art Form. In The Century, Russell Sturgis describes the fauous 'Coleman Col lection of Antique Glass," a collec tion made by an American artist in :rome, and one of the richest of its kind in the world. Mr. Sturgis says' The wo.1I or the Mediterranear. Sea, eighteen centuries ago, was rich in works of art and decoration leyond our flights of imagination It is an effort which few of us can make with sur cess to picture the wealth in beautiful art of . great city of the empire. The marbles have been burned to lime, the bron:es have been melted into gros sous or their e ;uiva tent, the stuc-oes have crumbles from the walls. the paintings have gone :own with their walls to ruin. the shattered pottery has been used in tilling the grading an-1 building, and its reuaining fragments are of n) value except for an inscription or an impressed name-mere potsherds, with now and then a scrap of anti quarian interest The shattered Zlass alone contains in its very sub stance such beauty, and such com pleteness even in ruin, that its frag wents are treasured up and studied. These broken bits point tv a general use of vessels of decorative glass, used as we use porcelain for the tiner vessels of table and toilet. and also a areat abundance of ob.ects of pure ornament, of wall-linings and iloor coverings, Dvade of the same splendid material. No other substance is like that-beautiful in itself. in its every essence. Fragments of glass have often the value that fragments of pottery sometimes have-the partial ligure, the incomplete patte n on the surface; and they have also what no pottery and no other artificial substance has-the beauty we gen ally think of as peculiar to natural stones. to agates. and to jaspers. As a collector tills his cabinet with pieces of precious and semi-precious stones, with here and there a piece which has, as it happens, a head or a piece of a head carved upon it, so the en thusiastic vitreologist collects glass as glass, loving its substance and its surface, its color, and its texture, its translucency and its opa ity, its set patterns and its vague e udings; here and there a stamped or a wheel ground pattern adds its own attract Iveness, but the glass itselt is the thing: Precious and beautifuI is zlass. even in fragments. An Official Purgatory. Two young students, Messrs. Aller and Sachtleben, who made a bicycle tour around the world, describes their journey Irom Samarkand to Kuldja in The Century. Of one city :n their route they s iy: Tashkend nas long been known as a refuge for damaged re, utations and shattered fortunes, or '-the ortcial pu gatory following upon the Em peror's displeasure.'' One of the finest houses of the city is occupied by the Grand Duke Nicholai Constan tinovich Romanoff, son of the late General Admiral of the Russian navy, aind first cousin to the Czar, who seems to be cheerfully resigned to his life in exile. Most or his time is occupied with the busines; of his silk-factory on the outsk-irts of Tash kend, and at his fa:m near Hlodjent, which a certain firm in Chicago, at the tirme of our sojourn, was sokn with irrigating machinery. All of his bills are pa:dl with caecks drawn on his St Petersburg trustees. His private life is rather unconventio a and even d mocratic. Visitors t his household are parti ularly im pressed with the beauty of his wi fej and the size of the liquor glasses. Tne e.ample of the Grand Duke ii lustrates the sentiment in favor of industrial pursuits whrch is growing among the military classe-, and e ven among the nobilitt of Russia. The G;overnment itslif, thanks to the se vere lesson of the Crimi an war, h: s learned that a great nation mnust stand upon a foundation of some -. t ilng more than aristocracy and no bility. To this influence is largely due the present growit g prospa ity of Tashkend, which, in milira y im pcrtance, is rapidly giving away to &skabad, "the key to Herat." Fhin-Loving Parrot Blown Up. In Lexington avenue, just beyond One Hiunared land Twenty-fourth street, blasting for a cable road Is going on at frequent interval s. When a blast is about to be set off the warning cry of -kHi: there: Hi: there." Is heard. Then all rush for places of safety- For several days the alarm has sounded at frequent intervals, and scared the men when no blasts were to be exploded. The torerman was unable to discover the ala mist. Opposite the place or blasting is the Hotel Peteler. To amuse his children Mr. Peteler lately obtained a loquacious parrot. Early the other morning Polly was missed from the cage. Search for the sceeching bird was fruitless for a lung time. Then Polly was seen limping across the avenue. The biter had been bitten. The many colored bird had gone out to yell 'lli' theret" arid enjoy the scam; erinig. wnen a blast was set o:t wh ich tad ly mixed Polly up with the dlebr is. No bones were broken. and Polly Peteler will soon be as weil as usual. if not wise -.-New York T:mes. Care of the D~eciduous Teeth. The child receives its first temp rarv tooth about the tif th mornt h af ter dr'th. the dentition beong complete1 at the age of two years. These teeth should be cleaned with a so.t i rushr and warm water. The child usua~i retains these teeth until the eruption af the vertuanent set, the first per manent tooth appearing about the .ixth year. The deciduous teet; should he carefully watcei. anid when a tooth showvs decay consult your dentist. and have it tilled. A t this stage the tilling Is not expeni v', and will save the child much pa n. and trouble fromi an achuing toq h The early extraction o:f the decidutu teeth often causes the irregurniite gf the lermanent set. They sh'uM oe retained until the jaw has fury expanded to receive the peruaunent .eeth. Teach the child the ne essit'. )f keeping the teeth iean and pu e. rhe early use of the tooth b:usih wlii tstablish a habit that will. in afte:r ,ears, be cornsidered a n~ e -ssity to sealth and personal cleauliness - N'ew York Herald. SINGING OF YOU, Blossoms and blossoms and blossoma! an6 bit-ds singine of 'em so sweet ! Fressing the down of their bo;oms 'gainst the flowers that fall at your feet' Clinging and swingin- and flinging thi souls to thp heavens so blue 0, sweet to my sroul is their siring, because they are singing of you! Singing of von In the dawn an.1 the dew sit-ing of heaven and singing of you Blossoms and blossoms andi blossoms! and just sparkling with beautiful pearLs, Twining thenselves for your tresses, and fail ing anti ki'o.ng your curls! And all the birds swinging and flinging then souls to God's heavens of blue, And my soul dreaming soft in their singing because they are singing of you! Singing of you In the dawn and the dew Singing of heaven and singing ot you .-Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution BLACKMAN'S GULLY, BY H. M. HOE T was a cold Januar, night when Janei Blake. on his wa3 to Mary Grahant h ome, c am e - through the dense woods crowning the top of Blackman't hill. The night wat long rememberec in the neighbor. hood. A heavy snow .iad fallen the previous day, succeeded by a rain whic1 a sudden north wind had frozen to i slippery crust. The moon, one night on the wane, was a half hour above t'n< eastern mountain, silvering the long stretch of snow, a-Ld turning the ice oz the trees into diamonds. Blake stoppet a moment on the summit of the hill. to admire the spectral beauty of the night, and to cast an awed glance dowr to the hideous gully into which the steep and jagged side of the hill fell. The place was upon the farm of young Rodney Blackman, and ever since the accident death or murder of the eldei Blackman there many years before, ii had been regarded with aversion and horror by the country folk. It may be that Blake stopped, too: more firmly to set his courage for hii errand. He was a prosperous young mechanic in Templeton, the village whose lights twinkled in the valley t< his left, and was going to learn Mari Graham's final answer to his declara, tions of love. Beset by the eustoinar3 obstacles, the principal being elusive ness or coquetry on Mary's part, h( had wooed her for two years. He wai now determined to have the questioz settled that night. Mary's Lather was a well-to-do far mer. Mary herself was a vigoroui country girl, who might well have be'er an ideal of rural beauty, and who sci upon herself an estimate by no incani too low. She was not backward it making known the standard by which the successful wooer must measure. Whether James Blake so measured wvas a much discussed question in the lo cality. It was admitted that he was an ideal of muscular and honest man hood, and if his means did not quite equal Mary's prophesied dowry, he had a capital of vigor and determina tion well worth taking. into consider ation. Another of the obstacles had beer: set up by Farmer Graham. He declared that, having no son of his own, the man who won Mary must come and live on the farm and learn to car-e for it after he was gone. To many this would have been-and, indeed, was more of an inducement than an obsta stcle, but Blake was interested and successful in his business enterprises, and lie btoutly asserted that the woman he married must leave all for him. It was to adjust this dit~erence, as well at to get a final answer from Mary, that he knocked that bitter January night at the front door of the Graham farm house, and was bidden "Come in !" Mary sat knitting by the wood fire in the capacious chimey place, and seldom have hearth flames brightened a pret tier domestic picture. James put hit hat on the table, pulled a chair ovez near her, and, after a few prelimina ries, began to state the purpose of his call. "Mary. do you know how long I've been coming to see you now?" "It must be," she replied, pautsing mischievously, as if she did not know the exact time to the day, "a year, anyhow, isn't it ?" "It was two years ago yesterday." "Is it, indeed?" she said, in captions astonishmn-t. "I wouldn't have thought it." "Mary," he said, in mild censure, "I'm ser ious to-night, and I'd like you to be, too. I think yon remember ast ell as I do that it's two years since tht' first night 1 brought you home f'r: the protracted meeting in Temnpletont. I have told you often that I love yout and want you for my wife, but you have heen pleasedl to turn away th'i subject, antd I see you are disposed to hd mue oft' to-ni'rht. I want to tell you that I carne to get yes or no." lie paused, and as looked un in realI wner at the dlecizsive tone malrking' the last statemnt. "Yes. I'm in dead earnet.t to-night," he continued. ''What is your answersf There was no sound save the click ing of her knitting-needles but the gave har head tan independent toss, a~nd purbing her lip-s in l ike spirit, she replied " And suppose I don't choose to give aout aar answer to-night ?" mean 'no' to met. You have had time to ind out if vou cain lov& ma~ as hbnand if yo u cannot t.l m1 t no 1'U think you do'n't want rue', and, I'll n.'ver as t you ain." "V-ry we,"' .hie sai l willin Hy, 'ym r.eed't. Ii~ not :so anxious to do er.Ijlttou to reatn 1 * - a d ed here- . Ther are lenty of youn z non who'd be -ad enIough to con e ;trs' 1i1 oyt that ca1 s t.,'ti -1\11.i m--e to' I ne' il' trin'" to. comvel4 you bis afte-'noon, and told mae het s "ll g to come any'% timei." "feginuld tro'n," ho eclsimet Bostapnstly.r~~.*v~~l ~ t "Mat ifTGraham would never marr Blake as Ion, a. ther, was a ebance o. capturing Prown, and the former well knew of such opinion. Brown had been West for a mber of years, and thre bad been whispers of wild, if not criminal, doings the-re, eimi, in view ok his financial worth i:iess, t hey re'mained( wb ispt.rs and tinaly l died awiay. "Take care wihat vol say1' aoI'ut him." :id the girl, a note o'f alirm e-capima. her. "le was here to-day. as I said, and he is very' bitter against yon. He did not threaten you openly, but he said many things to show that he hates you and that he mans to be even with von for tht snuh vou gave him at the ineeting last week." "Just like the cownrdl," Blake said angrily, "to come with his threats to a woman. Why doesn't he cone to me and make them?" "Reginald Brown is a man not to be defied," Mary said, putting down her knitting to conceal the trembling of her hands, "and you L -I best not be so outspoken. If he should hear you, you might regret it." "Pshaw," he cried impatiently, "I'm not afraid of him. If you want him Mary, just say so; don't try to scare me away. Sh 'ooked doubtfully at him a mo ment: then anger flashed over her face, and she said: "I'm not trying to scare you away. Mr. Brown has probably the 51am1e right to consideration a., von. lHe pvas here to-day. as I have said, just as You came to-night, to get a tinal an wer from me." "And what answer did you givo im?" he asked impulsivelv. 'Havo you a right to ask that? But will tell Vou anyhow. I gave him he same answer I will give you. I will take my own time to answer. I won't give it to anyone until I an Ieady. I have no answer to give you o-night. That is your answer." : The young man rose slowly, took his liat from the table and walked toward the door. Deep despondency was up Sn his face as he turned there, and .aid: 'Mary, I see it all now. You love Brown. You love him when he comes to you, trying to win you by threats Df a rival. That isn't manly." "Haven't you done just as much? You have called him names to-night." "He deserves them. I don't fear his threats and I'm going to leave you to him. I'll take the liberty, though, of saying that you'll never be happy with hiTm. I repeat that he is a cow ard. Glood-bye." Ee turned again, and, with sudden impulse she nioved one hasty step toward him, but determination came back to her face, and she restrained her impulse and let him go out. H hastened down the walk to the road, and turned aside into the path leading past Blackman's Gully. Mary walked back to the chair and resumed her knitting, but soon let it fall to the floor. She was restless; looking into the fire a moment, then rising and walking to and fro. Once she put on her shawl and a red hood and stepped to the door, but there she stopped, took them of,; and with a forced laugh said: "Nonsense, it wasi only imagination, or the frost on the pane." and sat down again by the fire. "Of course it was only the frost, sho repeated. '-I anm like a child. But I didn't do wrong. If h- is soin dependent about not wanting to comn here to live, I can be independent, too. And then the way he demanded lay answer. I just won't stand it, and 'll--" She was interrupted by the distant -unch of the frozen snow under run hing steps. They came rapiidly near &'r, and when they tarned into thiA yard, she leaped up and stood ready to receive the corner. Her father hur ried in, his face pale and startled. "Mary, get a bed ready at once," he said. "There have been terribla 'oings this night." "'What ?" she asked forbodingly. "You will know soon. A mnan hs been thrown over into Blackman's Gully. . As I was coming home I saw him lying part way down the steep side, where he had lodged against a i tree. It's mighty lucky it's moon light, or he'd have frozen to death, is he's not already. I roused the neighi bors and they're bringing him here. Be quick and prepare the bed."; "Father," she asked, tremulously. catching his hands, "tell mae right out. It's James; I know it's James. tsn't it ?" "Yes, it's JTames." The willfulness with which she had riven him away died now like a spark n the herrth, and gave place to an; anxiety wh ich would have rendered herl helpless to get ready for his coming ad not her father sternly bade her The unconscious man was brought in nd placed in the bed. While a~ physician, who had accompanied the 2arriers, was examining his injuries,. iarv followed the men down stairs.: hewas thoroughly active and earnest now, and calling their attention in the sitting-room, she said: "Men, Reginald Brown has dont his. I know it. He was here thi4 iftenoon and he threatened Mr., Blake. Mr. Blake was here to-night, ad when I told him of Brown's threats - called him a coward. At the mo-' ient he called him a coward I saw a. ace in the window there. I told my lf at the time it was only the shana tue irost, on the paue, baut now L know it was Brown looking in. He heard Mr. Blake call him a coward, and be has pushed him into the gully for that and other reasons. Go and do our duty." 'The accusation was as a draft of air pon their smouldering hatred of Brwn. The whispers of the life he al led in the We-st sounded again in their ears as loud corroborating voices. here was not a muan in the crowd to wh'om'i James Blake hand not shown his r ess anid genero sity. Of course 't- scoundrel Brown had committed tiii'bded. Hie hadl thouaht to c'over he act under the probability that a ma could' easily slip into the gully on sh an ier nicht. One of the men, a ur, re-olute' fellow, who had ofte'n hi:ouncled Brown, c'onstituted himself lader and marche'd the crowd ofT to brw's residence. Ntwithstnding his protatations of inocene, he was rudcly taken from he house, hurried before a Justice, ad logoud in jail to await the resull Blke's mjuries. These were a 'roken leg and rih, ar.d an internal 'e-rions. In additlon, he had -be almost frozen. Had he not pros identially lodged against a tree, h would have been dashed to pieces 0 Cho rocks in the gully, or. escape these, would ,urely h-ve perished i the awful cold of the night. The Io1 rowness of thev escape Sent a shudao through all the community, and as til facts of the cese were freely and clostl discussel, opinion a.. to Browns gui becamenaf fixed, and indignation increase a.s the horrors of a lonely death i Blackman's Gully were graphically (It tailed. Meanwhile, with remorseful solic tude, Mary (?rahan watched ov( ;lames through the long hours of u consciousess. He was near death but at last one day, when she and he father sat by the hearth, talking i alternate hope and despair, the docic came down from the sickroom and tol them that the young man would live that h! had just come out of a quit sleep ; and that, in view of the seriom ness of the charge against Brown, question as to his guilt would not han the sufferer. Mary and her father ascended to tb siekroom, and James feebly welcome them. "Jarnes,-'' said the farmer, "do il< excite yourself at the quebtion I ai going to ask. You know, I supposf that von were found down in Blacl pcan's Gully. A man is in jail accuse jaf pushing yon down, and a word froi YoU will deeidu his guilt. Did Reg nald Brown push you into the gully? "Brown push me into the gully? Blake repeated, weakly, but in gret surprise. "Why, wi:.n made yo think thai ? Of co-urse I,. did not. Was careless, and I slipped on the it and fell dowh myself." Farmer Grahan hastened away, an ames, reaching out his tremblin hand. asked: "Mary, I know I mustn't talk, br how about my answer? Areyouread vet?" "Oh, James, how eruel I was t you," was all she could say; but I knew from it what the joyful answE was-an answer which he was only to glad to meet by relinquishing his r< solution not to come and live on tb farm. -Yankee Blade. Cast-Iron Pillars. "Have you ever noticed," said a S1 Louisan, "those massive iron pillal pow standing erect in the basement < he new Planters' House? Well, di you ever stop to think of the immen weight they will be compelled to sul port steadily for many, many yeart h, you have? But I suppose yo ave thought the manufacturers jui snade those pillars and sold them wit] out knowing anything about how muc -eight they would bear or how lon hey would bear it. Let me tell yo ,about that. "Those pillars a-e cast in the sam manner as cast-irou .noves-byv runnin the liquid metal into sand molds; b'i plongsde of each pillar is east an ire bar from the same metal. The bar precisely an inch square and fh~ and one-half feet in length. Whe cold it is subjected to a very simp] test. Each end of the bar is place upon a table and weights are suspende from the centre by a rope. It mus bear a tensile weight of 500 pounds t the square inch. The test may begi with 400 pounds and be gradually ii creased until the har is 'found to b perfectly supporting the require weight. If it breaks, for instance, 480 or 490 p~ounds, then the pillar cas from the pot of metal which east thm bar is discarded, broken up and pu into the pot again, with more pig ire added. The pillars, you know, ar largely made from scrap iron, and thm manufacturers cannot know th strength of the cast until it is tested The addition of pig iron, in the ever of failure, brings the cast up to thm standard. "Six or ci; t of the pillars designe for the new Planters' House had to h recast in this way. "-St. Louis Repul: Growth of a Snake's Rattle. -The growth of the rattle of the ral tesnake has been studied by Docto Feokistow, who finds that tne rattlei freqently shed; and, after bein; shed (his snakes were kept in a ver; warm room), in three or four month two rattles were present, their appearn ance having nothing to do with th asting of th3 skin. The snakes wer made to register the vibrations of th rattle on smoked paper, and it Wal found that the vibration was a comn pound one, consisting of the vibratio: f the tail as a whole, and of the rattl. independently of the tail vibrations l'he approximate figures~ of vibration vere for the tail seventy-five, of th, rattle 110) a minute.-New York Inde ?endent.'M Rather a Knowing Cat. T. W. Moses of Megquier 111l1, ha an unusually intelligent cat, callei Isaae, who is very fond of fresh flsh Recently while the cat was lying o: the floor a member of the l'amily sal to it: "Isaac. do you want us to g a-tshing?" and then added, "if w had a frog for bait we would go." 0] this old isaac got up with a knowini look and trotted out. only to retur1 in a few moments with a good-s/el frog, which he had caught in a swal near by.-Portland Pressa Etching. When etching is done by the aid o electricity a wire is soldered to th pate to be etched, hy means of ffbic) an electric current is passed througl the etching solution, which is mad much more diliute than in the cast a ordinary etching. Th:s action i much Increased in intensity, and, i many cases, acids, which under ordi nary circumstances are insert, can r1 ued, as. for instance, copper ani weak sulphuric acid. SOME men would never mnarry i they could not marry a grass widow A LEADMSG QUEs'TtON. Teacher-"For what is Switzerlan' Pupil (after a pause)-"Swetzer kase." "Yes, but for something much mor grand, awe inspiring and majestio. TrI a.an." (Making another etiort-"Limburg e. "-Chicago Tribuan, SUPPOSE WE SMILE. HUMEROUS PARAGRAPHS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS. (rleasant IncIents Occurring the World N Over-Sayings That Are Cheerful to the i Old or Youn-, -Funny selvets..ts Tih:ti Everybody Will Enjoy Readig Der itivaL. Mrs. Pearlyloved-Boo hoo hoo: I arm so miserable' I shall get a di. vorce. Mrs. Bynthayer-Why, n.y dear. what's the matter? Mrs. Pearlvioved iwith a fresh outburst) - I got hold of Charlie's ex ense book last night and since Easter he has spent -]10 on some "Kittie" be's Leen spending his evenings with. ludge. - suspic-Ion. HIic-ks-Dd you hear about tho tow a Howbig's house: * s. I. dis covered a letter in his pocket in a lady's handwriting. Wicks--The deuce she did! Do you know, I al. ways suspected Ilowbig. Hicks - I was a letter that Mrs. Hlowbig I wrote ten (lays before and gave him to mail.--Boston Transcript. Eminently -f1itted. Mr. Peighweakly-1 should think. Mrs. -limdie:, that you would be bore successful if you turned your board ngnouse into a hotel for in valids. Mrs. Slimdiet,-Wpat kind >f invalids ought I to take in? Mr. L1 Peighweakly-Well, you might run au anti-tat sanitarium, for iustance. Hohon's Choice. Father (who is on the Point of fail. fng -But, young man, will.vou be able to take care of my daughter in t the way she has been living. Young l Man--1'll guarantee i-, sir, or return, the girl. Father-Er-wel 1-never c wind the guarantee, you can have the e riri, anyway.-Exchauge. Would Not Do So Again. Mrs. Goode-Aren't you the tramp who was here this morning? Odorous ebliver--Yessuri. 'Well. I m issed a Lake I had left in the window." "I took it. mnum." "Didn't you know better than that?" "-No, mum, not then. I hadn't cat it then, mum." - -New York World. Ile was Mistaken.' -Will you kindly pass me the bi t ter?" said a Luest at the hotel to a pompous looking man on the other side. ".I'm a gentleman," he retorited, a, he beckoned to the waiter. "That's what I thought when I asked you," said t-.e tirst man, quietly. Lxchange. r Overheard in the Henhouse. Speckled Dominicker-I learned e emeu~thing awfut about Mliss Plymouth SIoeg~ to-day. Mrs. Leghorn Whyte 1 --l'or gracious sake. what was it? ii -he prides herself on her family connections you know, and she hasn't any. s-he was hat hed in an ineu vrWhen They Are Out Late. Returned Traveler--What vou dmight call the societygirl among the t native savages wear rings in their C :oses as well as in their ears. Wag eigh-That's nothing. Some of tho society girls here have rings arouind -heir eyes. _____ t o Money 1'here. t First Burglar-Hark: I hear some e man talkung. Secondl Burglar t What's he saying? 'That he will never bet on another horse race as long as he lives." '' et's get out of this. No money here; he's lost every e ent.'--Exchanze. An Awful C'rlme. A IKentucky paper which stated that the courts had decised the ques. tion in regard to separate coaches for, colored people 'on purely cooii-tatua tional grounds." tries to lay the' blame on the compositor.-lndiana iolis Journal. Ele vated. "Papa," prattled the golden-ha- red boy, "is it true that 1 was born in a seventh-story tfljty" "Yes. my child,' answered the father and then after t Smoment's thought he added: '-You came high but we had to have you." I-Truth. ____ Haird L~uck. R Tusty 'Raggles-Wat's the matter, SWeepin'? Weeping Watson-'ve just had de orfullest nighttnare. I - dreamed I found a barrel of leer wid the bunig all out andI ksobst couldn'r find no straw.-New York World. lietter. First Politician-I can say this, that our party- conducted the cam. paign in an honest, fair, and straight forward way. What more can yor say of your partyy Second Pl'oticiar --We won. -Boston Transcrilt. Like a Cat. "I wish you were a cat," said Bar low, ruefully, as Mrs. Barlow stepped on his fcot in the dance. "Why soy" queried madlam. "The cat always 'ands an her own fe-et," said Barlow - -Harper's Bazar. Under the Weathuer Hiks-Your milk was p~rtty tad la..t night. Mrs. Hic ks-1 expected that thunder shower to atiect it some. iicks-Thundely Our can was hir 'y a cloud burst- t I'I he New Young Man- Th n there Is no hope foy me's'fThere is no hope for you in the wvay you mean- But -but-I will be a brother to you. Ne Yr World. Of the smart Set Teac'her-Her drea w.: l';inI Can you express thaI zhh-a in mioe poliIe langua-re? i.ittl .\ i -s .one ul the 410 -11er gown was giiast y. - Exchange. A lady had just just 1uot h-:r l'f. and. A izentleman. living~ r~ext io on calling to see her. ul her, to his gre-at surpri-e. ;Ivarn on the harp, and said: "D ear mie: I expetedl to tind von in deep distres:"~ A h:" the laciy pathet iraHi tepid:. "ou should have seen ine yesterday f ternoon. "--LAriegui n. Tihe neweSt Se:1'ice issCi -mo , NEW TROLLEY R.-V.LEF., L Vevicn Which Arnid- mhiennnn ience and DObav. It is n half-hourly occurrence with !veir electric trobe~y ear that the :!(llV wheel leave. the wiro. usually it a curve or crossing. stalling the ,:r and not infrequeritly causing a tretty 1:0 ppro-ach to profanity on he Iairt of the condutor, whose iuty it i; to bring everything back to hip shape. It is somewhat to be wondered nt iheefore, that iniven Live progiress has not yet g fiven birth to any thoroughly satisfactory (levice for naintaining uninterrupted con mii,,rlca!ion between a trolley w're ind a car. Putting projecting prongs VZ GERNIAN TROLLEY WflHEL SUBSTITUTE )n ea-h side of the trolley wheel, to match the wire as the wheel tends to lip off. has been tried at Chicago with fairly good results, but, after all, this expedient represents only a partial solution of the problem. On Dne German road. built at the city of Barmen, the conventional trolley wheel has been entirely abandoned, its place being taken by an oblong metal frame, the upper sidE of which be.irs against the under portion of the conducting wire. The frame is supported by something analogous to a trolley pole, - and the theory of action apparently is that the width of the frame will rermitconsiderable lateral movement without breaking coatact. OF INTEREST TO OLD SOLDIERS. Monument to thn Andrews Raiders at Chattanonga. This mionum 'nt is Ohio's tribute to the Andrews raiders, and is placed in the national cemetery at Chatta nooga, Tenn., to commemorate the bravery of twenty-two Union sol diers, who stole the locomotive "Gen \,)NUMFENT TO THE RAIDER. eral" from the Confederates at Big Shanty, Ga., in April, ix62. It was their intention to seize a locomotive and train of cars and then dash back in the direction of Chattanooga, cut ting the telegraph wires and burning the bridges behind them as they ad vanced until they reached their own lines. The twenty-two men were captured and placed in jail at Chat tanooga. Their leader, James J. Andrews, was tried and executed as a spy. Twelve of the number were transferre-i to the prison at Knox ville, and seven ( f them were ar raigned before a court martial, charged with being spies. All the prisoners were rim ved to A tlanta, Ga. On June 18, 1$62, their prison do'r was opened and the death sen tece of the seven who were tried at Knoxville was read to them. They were at once tied and carried out to execution. The remaining fourteen ma !e thier escape fro:n prison in Oc tober, 16;2. Six ivached the Union li es. six were recaptured, and of the remaining two nothing is known. Many of the visitors to the World's Fair- will remember seeing the old lo comotive -Gendtat" in the Trans niortationi Building. Asparagus. Asparagus, deservedly a favorite vegetable, was extensively cultivated ly the ancient Romans, but was not introduced into England before ]O660. In some parts of Europe the seeds are used as a substitute for coffee. and a -pir ituous liquor is made from the ripe terries. Asparagus is both ihic and diueretic. and its root5 ~e re once extensively u~ed in medi cne. The young tender sprouts or stems, from six to ten inches long, are the edible parts, and those that are entirely green are the most ten der and delicate. The white aspara gs is. as a rule, very tough, the tips alone being eatable. In some old recipe books directions are given for hiing asparaguis one hour, hut this is a great mistake. Twenty or thirty mrinutes is long ehoug'a to took it Girls in a Cage. Girls are said to be tr~cated in a curious way in the P'acific island of New Britain. From two or three years old until they become of age they are kept in cages. made of palm lea' ea. They are taken rut once ev ery day to be wa-hed, but in all oth er respects this kind of impr-isonmuent is very strict. In sp-ite om this s -em iagly harsh usage, ho.wevcer. t hey grow ip hardy and healthy. But It may be~ doubilted itf this cust om is reali y general ly observed by the islander s. Uiqueiti Recor-l. Recv. Dr. Scarrow. of tlus5ell, lKan., wit h:n one we-k re cent ly had sur vie for :i man whots' hr.iy wm' to al * consuimed by fir.- for a inan who diel in i he penitint arv, for a ir derud ruin. andi iluay o ver t e bodl i- o: three murderers lynchEG by a "That's r well-deveinned id usi ry," sdenly; r.:marked the man who tnr s to e smart. -'-To what do' you re cr:- iuguired the rewarv ac-qua:ntr ance. --To the t ralie in ptoe Aad that is how he1 came to losa his last f;ieud.-Washinteu Star. U. Ne'm---."What is the neGws" E. Ge;"at a very wiL, thanks." COWS AND HIRED MEl. Pointa Won Worth the Attention of E ery Dairy Man. Every discerning farmer, who has kept cows, knows in a general way that there is a great difference in the amount of milk they will get from the same cow. As between two hired men in milking ten or twelve cows of e.-ual flow, one man will be worth double what the other is in his in fluence over his cows. Until Dr. I'ancock made a special experiment on this matter but little was really accurately known as to the extent of this personai influence in affecting the protits of cows. How much %e have learned on old, old questions the past ten years! The Doctor made a careful test, which was published in the Dairyman some years ago, but which should be mentioned frequent ly, on account of its importance to the dairy farmer. It is Important that the size and scope of the mat ter become a living, vital principle with him. guiding him in his own treatment of his cows and in the ed ucation of the men be employs. 4 hired man who Is well educated in the handling of cows, who has a quick brain, a kind heart., a patient man ner, and a skillful hand is worth double the amount that a man of opposite character will cost. Dr. L.bcock found that one milkei obtained from four cows 2. 2 pounds of uatter fat in seven days. From the same cows the week following, another milker obtained 21.8 pounds. Here was a difference of nearly four; pounds and one hal; of butter fat depending for its value, of course, on the price of butter. Neither ot these milkers was abusive, and both milked the cows equally dry. By this convincing experiment any dairyman can see how important it is to tike especial pains to educate the hired man, as well as himself, to an under standing of what he has at risk. The usual number of cows wihked by one person in a large dairy Is from eight to fifteen. In Dr. Babcock's experiment if butter was twenty-five cents a pound one man was worth at least twenty-eight cents a cow a week more than the other. When a man is milking, say ten cows, this would amount to $2.80 a weed, or nearly $12 a month. This is but one of the hundreds of fine points that throng the. pathway of dairy farming. It shows so clearly that this unthink ing. unreading, unskillful way of handling cows that so many farmers practice can not pay in the nature of things.-Hoard's Dairyman. No Advantage. A clerical looking gentleman of the "Private Secretary" pattern was among the arrivals at the St. Cloud yesterday. While be was registering, Frank Lincoln, the globe-trotting humorist, watched him curiously. At the proper moment he stepped up to the hotel register and read the newly signed name, "G. Rupert Coxe, England." Turning to him, Lincoln extended his hand, and said:-"Row do you do, Mr. Coxe. Let me wel come you to America." "R~eally, you must pardon me," re plied the Englishman, very timidly and evidiently doubting his new ac quaintance, "but I really-" "Oh, don't you remember me? We met at Luxor, up the Nile, and after ward traveled up the Mandalay to gether." "Ahi, yes; ah yes," drawled the En glishman. "You were giving enter tainments, imitating Amcerican'de . tails, and such things. I am really. glad to meet youi." "That was a horrible ride up the Mandalay,." remarked Lincoln. "Very beastly," was the reply. "Just think, twenty-four hours to go 31t miles. WVell, you'll see the difference in this country," said Lin con, throwing out his Ameiian chest. "Our trains sometimes travei that many miles in an hour." "Ah, yes, 1 know," answered the Enlishmian quickly, "but unf'ortu nat ely you generally arrive la pieces.' -New York Telegram. Rarest Stamps for Collectors. At the philatetic section in the, rounda in Vienna, a 'Swedish col lector exhibited a very rare stamp-a "the" (instead of tre) skillings, yel low, of 1853-which misprint w'as at once purchased by the Field Inter natonal Postage Stamp Museum fer the sum of 2.400 florins, ($1,100 Uni ted States currency) - the highest price ever paid thus far for an ob literated European stamp. The rarest and most costly postage stamp any where is, up to the present day, te British Guiana one-cent of 185t, which is valued at 30,000 marks, and of which only a single specimen is known to exist in the unique collec tion of M. Philip Ferrari, Paris. Net in value (15,000 marig) is thE twocent Sandwich Islands stamp, tist emission-and a British Guiana I two-cent stamp. of 1850, estimated at ;,000o marks; while Maurit~js Post 0:lice 16. and 2d. (non-obliberated) recently sold in London for 14,000 marks-a price which might be ob taine.d eve'n for obliterated specimens. --American Register, Paris. He Explained. In Washington County. Miss., which Is 1.iable to annual inundation from the father of waters, dwells old lsse D--. (On one o,.casiorn he wai witness in a case, and prefaced his answer to every question withi the irrelevant remark: "Wa'al, I war desprately overtlowed that year." Annoyed by the constanit petition of this remark, the examuinhng counsel finally 5aidi, ; a raiher sneering tone: "Mr. D)-, will you p'ease stat" to the court and jury what yoc man by be'ing 'desp'rately over lwe?"Straigthen~ ng himself up to hik full hei:ht-six feet three a-i with a drawl of corresponding lnth, he :e; lied: "Wa'al, sir. I nwan thar war to mneh water for wa .onirn ':-nr not enoug~h for boatin," The counsei gave it uo. Iow Ithe Suttn* ot Turkey Din's. The Sultani of Turkey dines in sole nn etat in a riin .,velxiouin the B~os piarus. I Ie sits un a divata and uses nete.r tabhe. paies. knife or fork, het onv a spoon aini his~ ingers, withl which imrlleeots he :ie& out is foo i from a series of littc ie aupans. Ie generally has a large retirnne in attendance, but he awys ears and d:inks alone, not even a Lew of his favorite wives breaking bread