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TR -WEL.IN C TRv-WEYEKLY EDITION. WINN~ R S B O3 18RETBIHD14 Instruction in. English has been! added to the curriculum of the-public schools of Mexico. -It taes eauh year. 200,0006acres of forest to supply cros-sties -for the rail ads of the Tnited States, A proposition to - reorganizo forty counti s in Western 'Kansas in four lrge ones is being . agitated in that -State. Iceland, in the North Atlantic; the I,le of Man, between EnlIand and Treland; Pitcairn Island, in the South Pacific, have full woman suffrage. And now it is claimed that the jaw- 1 bones of civilized peoples are grad eally becoming-..attenuated, chiefly owing to the prolonged use -of knives and forks. .. The high hat nuisance in American theatres is completely oatdone in Japan. On payment of a small fee an auditor is allowed to stand up dur ing the performance. Tenant farming in Great Britain is much more general than supposed by ! many. Out of nearly 33,000,000 acres of cultivated land in.'95, nearly "8,000,000 iere occupied by tenants. - - Not'fong agq~ the United States G6verinnt-was asked to apuropriate $.1,000,UOO fo_ the suppression of the Rassian thistle in the northwest. Now a South Daiota. mill owner has offered S.L 53 a ton for all the thistles which! may be 'delivered at his factory. He says it Jesreaa gocd as coal for . faL . ne . .__________ One;iob hbaa ma.dea study of dye pepsa a2af 't?'na large nnm'oer hofaes tae.dst.rbaice isdue to the use of lart '' suggests- the liberal udne of beef talfe# to the exclusion of ~ all po*fa tas-av:e eay .He says, soii"io':i fond 6! grease" cain saturate his ood4 adh s ith no re ~- sulting'ciestive 1 . rK e ofQers- o the _-Pladelphia publid library say= t as this desadu t cn .ins tntion .grow.. in age the. - r e rne of the Philadelphia ibrary pe mits a reader to have twor books out at one time, but only one book of fiction is allowed. A heraldic authority in the Satur day Rview cruelly says that out of the 23L. wrhy -men who form the London doinmon Council,. only three are legallyf"gentlemen." This must be a shock to ti 228 who are accused of approp.iating from old families, with whoinTthey have no connection, the crests, the noble mottoes, and the complicated quarterings which they I bear so proudly. ' The Memphis Commniercial Appeal says: The on-loo'ker in literature may well ask himself where the humor in the New dumnor comes in. Certainly the distortions in ~orthography have long siece ceased to-possess.the risible elemeut. There is nothing innny in saying "de" and "dat" for "the" and "that," and the man on the alert for1 a laugh has a right to demand that a joke shall have a point to it, and that there shall be something essentially humorous in that ,which is labelled -- humor. Writing in Scribner's on the sub j'ect of ill-advisedi Sanday-school liter ature, Miss Agness Repplier. observcs, among othen..thingh, that nothing is more unwholesome for children thanI dejection, whic'h is especially perni cious when served out to young folks in their literary food.' "It is time we admittedl," she says, "even into religions fiction, some of the conscious I joys of a not sltogether .miserable world." Miss Repplier instances the case of a little nine-year-old house maid who was neat, capable and good tempered, bat s'o perpetually down.. cast that she i,hrew a cloud over thei spirits of all about her. Before long the cause of melarncholy was discovered, in the shape of a book purporting to give the experi ence of a missiotary'inl a 'larger city. The book was made up of nine sepa rate stories, with titles as follows: "The Infidel?' "The Dying Banker," "The Drieskard's Death," "The Mi ser's Death," "The Hospital," "The Wanderer's Deat b," "The Dying Shirt Maker," "The Broken Heart," "The Destitute Poor." No wonder the lit t10 housemaid had no spirits left after tarrying in such a Aiterary mortuary; chaopel as that, ~admits the New York* I Observer. Chil-dre:i need to have their sympathies trained, as well as their wits, but tlieir is no sense in deluging them with the sorrows of the world. Nothing can make up to a boy or girl for the loss of its happy, exuberant: childhood. - - FIRST BRICK ROAD. ;ujcination of a Series of Good Road Experiments. Te Manner in Which the Novel - Highway Is Laid. e good roads movement is ma.king ;radual, hat sure, progress in this ountry. The first brick country road aid in the United States has been put Iown in Moamouth Townebip, Warren jounty, Ii!. It is the fruit of a inove nent for hard roads which has been ;oing on in the township for the last our years and which has resulted in .he construction of a number of miles ,f broken stone road and finally in be departure from old methods Ld the laying of a paved way . of )rick. The road -is the culmination of series of experinients in road build ng,and though it is regarded as more ,r less on probation, the utmost con idenec in its success is expressed. The vork has attracted much attention mong friends of good roads all over he country. The brick road came by way of evb tion. When hard-road building be ;an.in the township four years ago it was decided to expend the money on iand in an experimental way. Mon iouth Township had long been a suf erer from bad roads. In winter the own had often been completely-block ded by mud too deep for wagons. Even within the town itself the streets vere so poor that at times the "bus" ines were obliged to suspend busi iess-and baggage. Mail and baggage ere carried to the railroad station on vheel-barrows. The first road was iompleted daring the summer of 1892. L'wo others were laid during the two rears following. All were of - broken tone, laid with increasing excellence s experience pointed out the weak oints of the first constructions.<Taat rear '.it was determined to try the rearing qualities of' brick,"instead of rokben atoe The manner in which he zosdwny was laid -is described as oll v n e Monmouth Daily Be A m^g--an"beingallwedto stand or two months. It was treated to an )ccasional scraping so that it would pack evenly, and when the contractors were ready to lay brick it was as hard Ld even as afioor. The first thing was setting the curb cg. This was made of 2x6 oak plank, iet seven feet apart, and held .by oak ~takes eighteen inches long, put down ivery four feet. Inside this was put a ye-inch bed of sand. This was ~vened up and the single course of No, paing brick was put down. They ere set on edge, and make a fine *oadbed. Outside the carb two feet f the crushed rock was laid, graded ip to make an easy approach. Tbis nakes a road eleven feet wide. The ~arth on each side was graded and vorked, making it all forty feet wide Lud affording tracks on each side for ise in dry weather. The average cost of the stone roads is been seventy cents per foot. The rick road cost $2,500 for 3,000 feet, r about ninety cents a running foot. We have tried brick roads in Phila lelphia, but they were not a succes. ?hiladelphbia Item. Nutrition in Western Grasses. Exper:ence and careful experiments rave proved that the grasses of South )akota are more nutritious than are hose 'of any other state. This is due oubtess in a great measure to the nany, bright, sushiny days, which to much toward adding to the grasses hose properties which have made the ~rass-fed cattle of South Dakota fain ins in the eastern markets. On the tock ranges west of the Missouri iver alkaili and buffalo grass row luxuriantly. Of the alkali ~rasss there are two varieties. The irst and best is upland, which grows Lpo the prairies and hills; the other ariety grows on the bottomland along he watercourses and in the bottom of try lake beds. These varieties and he wiry buffalo grass', which grows on he prairie, make the best possible ed for stock of all kinds. The up and alkali grass does not attain so :reat a growth as does the other va ity but it cares better. Both va ieties, and buffalo grass also, cure ithout being cut, and west of the fissouri river for season after season hey have furnished the only food upply or tens of thousands of cattle. These grasses retain their nutritive roperties during the entire summer, all and winter and until the comn aencement of the spring rains when hey gradually give way to the new :rowth of grasses of the same varie ies. Cattle feeding solely upon these rasses take on flesh at an astonishing catile which have grazed from year to year upon the ranges without being fed a pound of grain have shown greater weight and brought better prices in the eastern markets than have critie which were fattened upon grain. Biue-'oint also does well in South Dakota, and yields from three to three and one-half tons to th.e acre. The yield of alkali grass is not so great, but experienced stoc.kmen testtfy that one ton of alkali grass for feeding purposes is fully egal to two tons of blue-joint.--Chicago R?cord. The Witness Spoke Up. - "Now, sir, -I hope we shall have no dificulty in getting you to speak up," said the lawyer, in a very loud, com manding vuic:. "I hope not sir," shouted the wit ness, at the top of his lungs. "How dare you speak to me in that way?" angrily asked the lawyer. "Because I can't speak no louder, sir," said the hostler. "Have you been drinking?" "Yes, sir." "I should infer so from your con duct. What have you been dirak ing?" "Coffee," hoarsely vocif2zated the knight of the stable. "Something stronger than ooffee, sir; you have been drinking! -Don't look at me like that, sir !" furiously. "Look at the jury, sir! Did you have something in your coffce, .sir?" "Yes, sir." "What was it?" "Sugar," "This man is no fool--he is worse f" stormed the counsel. "Now, sir," turning to the witness, "look at me. What besides sugar did you take in your coffee this morn ing?" The hostler collected his forces, drew a deep breath, and, ir: a voice that could have been heard half a mile away, belloived out: "A spu2el a spune ! an' nuthin' else !"-Texas Sifter. Development of Department Stores, Department stores have advance for tuna ei .= h tlie: lity of eb zt,'ta''the sales -The business of .several an:ounts -an nually to from $7,500,000 to $15,000, 000, and this, roughly speaking, is as much money as many a prosperous railway one thousand miles long handles in a twelvemonth; one great store in the West carries s rent ac count of almoat, if not quite, $400,. 000 a year; the mail order business of another amounts to $900,000 a year; a number of houses send to the homes oi their customers more than 20,000 packages in a single day, while perhaps as many more are carried away in the hands of the shoppers. In the busiest days quite 100, 000 persons have visited each of the very largest stores of New York, Philadelphia,Chi cago and Brooklyn. One firm spende more than $300,000 a year for adver tising; and single departments in sev eral stores sell more than $2,000,000 worth of goods annually. -Scribner's. How Hog Back Changed Its Name. "Until a few years ago a little Wis. cousin hamlet was known simply as 'Hog Back,' from the peculiar shape of a hill near there," said a Milwaukee drummer. "Finally the citizens held an indignation meeting to wipe out the plebeian name and e,hoose a better one. "It was decided to honor the place by giving it the name of the oldest settler, a man named King. Some oody suggested 'King's Mills,' and another 'Kingsville' and SO on,but the old man himself objected. Then it was agreed to name the town for one of Mr. King's daughters. But he had seven of them,and jealousies promptly cropped outa At last some genius no ticed that all the girls were red-headed and suggested 'Auburndale.' And Au burndale it is to this day."-Chicago Times-Herald. Highest Bridge ini Europe. The most noteworthy feature in connection with the new Prussian State line, which is now in course of contrnction between the industrial centres of Remacheid and Solingen, will be the viaduct spanning the Wap perthal at the little town o,f Mungsten, says Popular Science News. When completed the structure will enjoy the distinction of being the Icoftiest of its kind on the European continent. The total height of the:Dlouro bridge in Portugal is 204 feet,-wherens the viaduct at Mungsten will attain an al titude of about 353 feet. The spanbf the centre arch at Mungsten will be 170 m., or about 557 feet. Upward of 1,700 tons of irouwork will be re quired for the principal arch, and the total quantity of iron employed on the viadnct will amount to 4,000 tone. The cost of the viadhet is estimated at $625,000. t y~ . i a 1. w /1I -I rr;j A fall to th" raes A turn to the toes, A spread of-the hau - Andu diof.the =i It Lakes all these just to sa In. Chrysanthemum-land,s t --3aeBramhal in hoa. I have 'a little pony :3 niy, writes "No Name,'? and . cle.; 1 any time I want to. and candy. My father h .tawhors;; Babe and Billy, and her got n miums at two fairs:o have a big brother who es <thi i cycle. I can play most nyting the organ. I have also Mrre"e _c t' Spot,Diek and Tinker, _ :gla :" HQmestead. A- DWARF S While Alboin and h dwarf were talking there came a mr ge_fiomhe angry queen, who wastermined to be revenged on Berffibl tor. his mocking and too presntio:uspranks. The unfortunate little ant hadto contrive many artifi o 'e_ effect of her ill-will, for-hsba o.eg s invent schemes, and hsd ourtiesA soldiers ready to obey. her commanzd& The message waa to snri1h txai tY to her presence, s e.:ad four large,. ferocious - da i i h court through~ which cjV aopass. They were.fierce bsssWrea t at tack any one, but . h de ffidin, o't what was ir, svore or h m) rtd aged ta-prociire ai f live:ha es. -'A h -hyw ._p d.hilm they pursued tho qr the dwarf es caped, and to the queen's . surprise appeared bdore her, with his usual sarcastic smile. -St. Nicholas, -, OLLIE'S PE. Mollie was nine years old, and she was the youngest of The three girli. -Bat she was oftener her mother's helper on baking days than either Laura or Grace, becanse, as she said, whcn she was grown up she meant to be a housekeeper "like mamma." Mollie had never baked anything thing all alone, though, until the time her mother went into the city to stay a few days with grandma and left the girls to keep house alone. On the day she was expected Mollie said, "We ought to have something nice for dinnier. -We've eaten up nearly everything she left baked." 'Oh, well," said Grace, "mamma will bring something with her for din ner; I'm going over to see Mabel a few minutes, Mollie, and then I'll go around by the depot. You come down with Laura." Then nine-year-old Mol lie, left to herself, went into the kitchen, and wandered about with a thoughtful little face. "I could make a pie just as easy if I only had some thing ready to pat in it." Molle looked in boxes and paper sacks in tiae pantry for something to help her, and in one she fonda some nice looking dried apples. "Mamma makes lovely pies with them, and so can I,"' said Mollie. And very quickly her sleeves went up above her elbows and the beard and rolling pin were on the table. Mollie did not get through'her bak ing in time to go to moet her mother, but she mect her at the door w'ith a flshed and smiling face. There was a dash of flour on one rosy cheek. Mamma to::ched it with her hand and said "What have you been doing, Mol lie2" But then they were all talking at once and her mother did not notice that Mollia did not answer. So no ne knew of the pie till she brought it to the table. Then her mother pr-aised it and the girls looked surprised enough to please even Mollie. And Mllie quite forgot the burns on her fingers and knckles and even the long one on her arm where it touched the oven door. "What kind of pie is it, Mollie?" asked her mother, as she started to cut it. It did not cut easy. "Dried apple," said Mollio. "You didn't Shink to let the apples stand in water irgtigi they were soft, did you,dear?" "No, mi'rml answered Mollie, "is that the way?" "Tiiate the way we have to with dried apples," said her mother, "and you shall see how the Inext time I make the:n." Nobody uA oat the pie, of course, but their i i i eased -her the best of a e a -ha5 ever bad. Do you F e: ?griculturist. Vr- .'beaver is the most inter all th,rxoeitia, and possesses so iauch iteligen~e r.d is so remark ablein its lIabitsthat it has ever been, tie sunl; lintense interest to nat-t urahts T10 teeth- of the beaver' are ea-_ trr v tro~ng and sharp, and in cut y.zng wood the chips it leaves are pr -. cisely=such as are:made by a carpenter. wheA:he uses,:ae ieoL The imbro ..cRt t axerves as a t owel; the fore paws e'the- sk i and power of a nd e iti these appliances, .so imperfect compred with the facilities p9ssesed by anI this. wonderful ani 'm :.rform setraordinary tasks of ,b bouldsd ause"s larger and better Vihe"Laplaider's hat, and erects trouh "treams of running r'naa.he most scientific princi o{ th.engineering ar. The-ouese 'are composed of a nedemass of d, stones and mnd, the y" ole spgeniouslr irought to gether so' i -om a solid mass of - r a "shrengt and firmness. After tl a. ti uc aW.hich is sometimes feeidiameter, is finished it is i over annually with plaster, 3x" on smoothly as if done. ya " rowl, but as the bea =ver q}3., ls-ithe night, how hi- _fi _h is accomplished has ascertained. The ea lodge :is -under be , ~e{ w ~ si= tt vhea ~i aygra l;be. ~icd of .hbuding the Oco ued. Most gder "i'aiies occuocastra Theobject of water so thatthe idsofr*ieia of a plentifaln supply. differs according to the demand of circumstances. If the current runs strongly the dam is niade to curve against;it, s-> that the fall occasioned by it resembles the horseshoe of Ni agra; but when the current is light the dam is placed in a straight line across the stream. At the first con struction a dam is sometimes 300 feet in length, and from eight to ten feet high, with a base of twelve feet, the whole work graceful.y narrowing toward the top, When it happens that a colony has uninterrupt edly continued its labors for many years-and each member under all circumstances works on the damn cvery day-the structare becomes of gigantic size,seeds of the birch and other trees all upon it, branches of the willow atch on its sides, and in time pleas ant groves spring up filled with sing ing birds, and the whole assumes the appearance of a natural bank rather than the original work of animal in dstry. The beaver is proverbial for being a hard worker, nevertheless there are some drones-always males by the way-which refuse to labor, and are therefore driven from the settlement These idlers scrape a hole in a neigh borinig bank and associate together, picking up a living as best they can. They seem to be particularly unpopa jar among the females, and are by them snubbed and ridiculed with im puniy. The beaver in captivity soon be comes tame, and is a very amusing animal, but hard to keep confined,for by his poweriul teeth no ordinary woodwork of onr habitations stops his progress from one place to an other. Although a beaver is thus powerful with his teeth, felling some times trees of immense size by cutting them asunder near the butt, yet in eating a potato they will skin it with a precision that could not posihly be obtained by the human hand or by the blade of the most delicate knife. - Detroit Free Press. Caring for the Birds. The temporary organization of the Penn sylvania Audubon Society, the object of which is to prevent the de strution of native wild birds, has been completed. The members of the society pledge themselves not to use feathers of wild birds for orDa mentation, and to encourage the pro tection of native birds. A circular sent out by the society states that several species of wild birds, includ ing the heron, egret and tern, have already been exterminated by the de mands of isshion.-Philadelphia Rec QUAINT AND CURIOUS One of the Dake of Wellington's post boys has recently died at the age of 89 years. London 'busses are drawn by Amer ican horses, thousands of which- are imported annually. Okefenokee, in Georgia, boasts a thirteen-year-old girl who tips - the scale at 175 pounds. Two wood sawyers at Prescott, Ari zona, under contract cut sixty cords of wood at the Court House in seven and a half days. Two churches of Jasper County, Missouri, have been ilvisited . by thieves who stole even the carpets of the aisles and pulpit platform. Corn husking has been so thorough ly mastered by a resident of Papillion, 'Neb., that he made a record of 167 bushels ten pounds in one day. Eighteen and one-half hands is the height of a horse owned at Plymouth, Neb. The horse is said to be the largest west of the Mississippi River. For nearly a year prior to its fourth birthday a steer of St. Clair county, Missouri, took on weight at the rate of 100 pounds a month, " and was therm shipped to its fate weighing 2;460 pounds. The best way to ascertain whether coffee has been adulterated is to pour cold water ca it. If pure, it will color the water very slightly; if mixed with chicory, the water will take a brown ish hue. The ancient-copper mines of Sinai have been re-explored. These. were worked by the Egyptians, or their slaves, tho.usands of years ago, and are believed- .o,have been abandoned about3000"years ago;. A sheriff to whom the letter of the 'law was as good as the spiri .attsch three sticks of kindling.ooc t pre y o some resic of1Bn - , ~o were sueKd'oc. rC .- T two toward the rear on-each oo A bankruptcy which occurred in 1811 has jast beeii wound up in the London Registrar's court by a pay ment that brings the total dividends up to 100 cents on the dollar. L. re-. cent bankrupt at about the same time offered to settle at the rate of 1-27 of a penny in the pound or 7-10 of a cent to a dollar. According to the railw.iy returns for last year, 171,514,920 litres of riik I(37,733,000 gallons) were brought to Paris, or fifteen times more thau the volume of water in the great reservoir of Belleville, which, until three years .ago, e.xclusively supplied the north side of the city with drinking water. A Gigantic RevolTlag Tower. France star'e' ~ he ball with the Eif fel tower. England cndeavored to go one better with the Wembley, which is stilt in an embryo stage and appears likely to remain so, while our Ameri can cousins struck a bright and novel idea in the Ferris revolving wheel, which was afterward introduoed into England, and last season went merrily round, except when it occasionally stopped and required more or less coaxing ere it resumed its "daily round." As a fact, our readers will remember it once had "a night out" on its own account. Now French ingenuity is once again to the 'Zore, and this time the idea is to con struct a lofty building that will spin slowly, like a majestic top. The fes tive Parisians are, it is stated, to have this noveliy in their midst, the site chosen being near the stummit of Mont martre, the highest point within the fortifications of the gay city. The conception of this big re volving tower (about half the height of the Edffel) is credited to M. Devic. The motive power for turning the structure, a complete' revolution of which would occupy about two minutes, would be hydraulic force. The upper part of the building would be occupied by a public ballroom, in which dancing would take pl-ac-e from 11 p. mn. to 2 a. mn., while below this it is intended to construct an artificial ice skating rinh.-London Invention. Unique Sofa Pillows. The demand for sofa pillows is still on the increase. The pillow~ covers are now made to suit the taste of the owner. Fancy silks and handsome satins are put to one side for some thing novel and unique. The latest over for a woman's room is made of a piece of fine white linen, upon which her college friends have written their names. The owner's fingers outline the writing in wash silks with the,color of each writer's coller.e. NATIONAL DUMAIN. Free Homestead Lai Responaible for 3,000,000 Farms. Wonderful. Transformation Due: to the Industrious Farmer With the hope of arousing a deeper interest in agricultural pursuits, the United States government in 1862 adopted what is known as the free homestead law. This law, which is. still operative, gives to each individ ual who is willing to aid the govern ment in subduing its wild lands the sum of 160 acres from- the national domain. It is required, however,that each beneficiary of this law shall not only put the tract of land given to him in a state of cultivation, bat-also that he shall reside upon it for a certain number of years. To show the effective manner in which this law has operated"during the last thirty four-years it suffices to say that no less than -63,000,000 acres of the national domain have been d posed of by the goveriment within this period. Aside from the.I andpar' celed out under this statute, howeierr := the government has 40id directly ti enterprising pioneers as-any as_335 000,000 acres, making a.total'ef e . 000,000 acres .withdrawn _from the national domain since 1862: - Using these figures qis a basis t Chattanooga Tradesman estiatest _ 3,111,250 farms, each pos - acres, have sprung up-.ron the- g ' ernment's wild Ia a4c see fe homestead law While these e iitere they are a insruct The show Ct t a z re&Td ee .a(yrogirff bas' hbeetai6da-within the eu! eara is a nha's adeddto - as a few years ago these lands were densely wrapped in primeval solitude. and without commeroial.value, except for the trees which gr.ew upon them, they are today worth millions. Under, the transforming touch of American labor these gloomy forests have -been converted into rich and 'fertile dis tricts, abounding in all the frdits-o mother earth and supplyingthe nation with food and prosperity. To the industrious farmers belonge the credit of this wonderful transfor mation. With sublime faith,. and courage he has braved the solitudes of frontier life and endured the extremes of heat and cold; and while ho has. realized but little in his own right, it cannot be denied that his plowshare has been a potent factor in the na tion's progress. A Friendly Mocking Bird. A mocking bird serves as a night .watchman at the residence of R. F Bettes at Ta-mpa, Fls.,and notifies the family of the coming of dawn every morning- by pecking on the window pane. Often when the doors are lef& ajar the mocking bird comes ~inside' and perches on the chairs and about the room. It will allow the family io come very close and show marked at tention to ?ars. Bettes and her daugh ter. When they start out for a visit it follows th'em some distance, and then returns to the yard. When the family -returns it appears very glad and will fly all about them, and give evidence of its joy in other ways. The children feed it about the house, and. when the family meal is to be served,. if the window is not raised, it makes; its presence known by pecking on the window. Daring the day it gets on a neighboring brush or tree and sings its roundelay of song for hours at a tim.-Savannah (Ga.) Newt. A Doubtfal Compllment. American wheelmen traveling alone in Europe have many queer experi ences. A young man 'who was bicycling in Southern France was pushing his wheel up a steep hill, when he over took a peasant with a donkey cart, who was rapidly becoming Eialled, though the little donkey was doing his beet. The benevolent wheelman, putting his lefta hand against the back of the cart, and gniding his wheel with the other,pushed so hard that the donkey, taking fresh courage, pulled his load up to the top successfully. The summit reached, the peasant burst into thanks to his benefactor. "It was very good of you, mon seur" he said. "I should never in. the world have got up the hill with only one donkey I"-Yonth's --Com-.