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On* of tb« eurioaitiM exhibited *t the
Cincinnati Centennial k n petrified
watermelon, which wat found near the
quarries of the Southern Granite Com
panv, at I.ithonia, Ca.
THB LAZY MAN.
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In tbe manufacture of cotton the
United States is the second nation in the
wor d, led on ! J by Great Britain, which
a*es fifty jer cent more than this coun
try. We ronsinie two and one-half
time* as much rnw cotton as < ermany,
and 'hrcc times as much a-t Franca
An imperial ukase lias been issued in
Fu ^a eatending the term of military
service from fifteen to eighteen yeiirt fire
yen s in the active army and thirteen
yta a in the re'crve*. Tiie annual con
tingent of recruits, wh ch in the list
yea.» numhereil about 388,000, ia rai-ed
for the present year to 250,000.
Tbe Moderation Society of New York
ha* a perambulating tank of ice water,
»bii h is driven about the city all day
tod makes frequent stop* that the thinty
may take advantage of the water. The
tack holds 300 gallons, and on hot days
k filled three time* and uses up 2100
poueda of ice. This is the second seasoa
of this mode of assisting temperance
I The Amphitrite, one of the double
turreted monitors, which have been
fourteen years under construction in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, k to have her
steam trial immediately. The Terror,
Miantonomah and Monadnock, aster
ships of the Amphitrite, are also pro
greasing, but it will be a long while be
fore any of these vessels, which will be
ef excellent service for coast defense, can
be fully equipped and put in com
mits on.
A French inventor, M. Pagan, has
discovered e way to stop the headway of
asteimer in short order, and conse
quently lessen considerably the dangers
of colluion at sea. Theharrc and Bor
deaux papers speak of a coming test of
the machine by one of the French war
itcamers. The machine consi.-ts of a
number of parachutes, so placed that
they can be toased overboard readily and
towed by a cable. The resmtance, with
out being great enough to produce a
shock, rapidly overcomes the headway
of the vessel.
Fay* the New York Pot: “The Liber
al journals in Belgium are calling atten
tion to the great increase in the number ol
c«u\ ents in the kingdom. In tiie thirty-
f»Ui years from to 18b0 the numbet
of curb establishments increased from
772 to 15W‘, and the number of inmatei
from 11,1168 to23,262. In the Province
of 1 uxemburg, where until recently
monks were almost unknown, there an
now quite a number of monasteries. It
the town of Brugeq the capital of Weal
Flanders, it appears that the rcligiom
bodies maintain no less thsn forty
hou ce.*’ ____________
A lending ( hicago restaurateur, aver*
tbe JYnirie Parmer, comes pretty neai
tolling the problem of how to furnish
the poor with good food at almost
nom.ua! coat. He will buy the entin
carcass of beef at an average cod ol
eight and one-half cents a pound, re
sene for hi* restaurant the choice por
tions that would cost him twenty-twc
cents a pound, and with the remaindc
make soup. With tbe meat and bresc
he proposes to furnish from a largi
kitchen at fire cents a meal, excellent
food to individuals and families. Tin
sc heme is not a charitable one, but purely
a business venture, run for profit.
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rhe statue of Marion F. Wells, the
discoverer of gold in California, is a
bronze backwoodsman ten feet high,
clad in flannel shirt, top boots and
slouch hat, holding a nugget in the right
hand, while the left points downward.
The gesture is explained by the fact that
the monument will stand on Marshall
Hill. El Dorado county, where Marshall
found the gold. The figure will be
placed on a pedestal and mound twenty-
five feet high, and one panel of the hex
agonal abaft will bear a bron'e relief,
■howing Sutter’s mill. Other decora
tioca to the monument are miner’a too's,
logging camp, saw and ax, the seal of
California, and a frieze with a pine cone
as a motif.
Mrs. James Nader lives on a small farm
near Potistown, Penn. A year ago she
was the mother of twenty-two living
children, the youngeit being a few
months old. There was a mortgage for
♦350 on tbe little Nader property. The
holder of the mortgage one day, a year
•go, said in n joking way to Mrs. Nader
that if her family numbered twenty-four
children within the coming year he
wou'd lift the mortgage. A few days
ago he called to collect the year's interest
on the debt. Mrs. Nader quie'.ly con-
ducted him to a cradle in her sitting
room, exhibited to him a pair of three
weeks' old twins, and reminded him of
his promise. The mortgage was can-
eel'cd and the twins presented with |100
betides.
There are still some old fashioned
bandits in the world, muses tbe TiW
Democrat. One Beitutlah, a Turk, has
shown himself worthy to have lived in the
days when brigandage, under one name
or another, wav the only profession for
a gentleman. Beitullah had long wooed
a beautiful girl named Aishe, and he
finally won her by force, carrying her
off in n raid upon Guebz&h, where she
lived. The ceremony was duly per*
fanned in the presence of hk followers,
and on its conclusion the bridegroom
wrote to the officials of Guebzah, in
forming them of the wedding and re
questing them to properly register It.
11* threatened them with terrible ven-
i legalize his
1 spring
laziest man, I reckon, that a
ever wed! u
Got money I Nary a dollar! I
fer greed,
Fer graspin’an* fer gripfat’when the rerenne
is found;
I’m what you can a lazy ’an—Jet* built far
lyin’ round!
Contentedl Mighty right I am;
wind* whisper sweat
In the meadows where tbe daisies make a
carpet far your feet;
Where tbe nestin' birds are chirpin’; where
the brook, in witchin’ p’.ay,
Goae laughin' on, a-poshin’ all tbe lilies out
of his way.
I You'll find me almost any time a lyin’ at my
ease,
With the lull song o’ tbe locnat and the
drowsy drone o’ bees
Above me and aroun’ me; I'm a poet in my
way,
An’ I rather hear the birds ting 'an to shco'
’em any dsyl
"Jetf laziness,’’ they tell me, an' I reckon they
are right;
But the world's so full & I«anty, an’ you
cant see much at night!
But different folk* has different minds, nor
drink from tbe same cup;
When I'm talkin’ to the lilies, they're allow
in' of em’ up.
My field's a pasture for the cows, an’ though
it never pays.
It's a source of pleasure to me je^ ter -tee
the creature* graze!.
fbe tinkle, tinkle o’ tbe bails is such a pleas
in’ sound,
But I’m a lazy chap, you know, jes’ built fer
lyin’ round I
A SENATOR’S STORY.
BT ROB. GEORGE O. VEST.
[Sevrral years ago, at the request of some
"fi 0 ® ,w *•** •«> interest,
United Btatee Senator Vest wrote a story for
a little paper they were publishing. The
story was printed anonymously, however,
and few of tho*e who hat an opportunity of
reading it knew who the author was. The
(senator ha* given permission for the story
to be republished under Us own name. It is
as follows:]
In 18C3, while passing through a vil
lage in Alisrissipjit, I w ts approached by
a surgeon of the Confederate army with
inquiry as to my name and place of na-
tiyity. As I had no special reason for
withholding the desired information I
was told that my cousin, Charley 8 ,
from Kentucky, bad been badly wounded
in a recent fight with the enemy and
was then lying in the hospital at that
place and in a critical condition.
“He is badly o.T,” said the doctor,
“mentally and physically, and unless
some one takes a special inteiestin bun,
and in the right way, he will die."
Charley und myself had been raised
together, but hud not met for yenra. In
early manhood our paths in life had
widely diverged I had gone to the far
West, and on the breaking out of the
war hod entered the Confederate service
from Missouri, whilst he had become a
citizen of Mississippi and had been in the
same service from the beginning of
hostilities with the command of Ce.ieral
Chalmers.
A very few minutes' walk brought me
to the hospital where Charley lay with
hundreds of other gallant fellows, wait
ing for the result—Tifo or death.
Tiie fepulchrul light in the shadowy
room, the half suppressed moans of
agony, the weird shapes of the Sisters of
Mercy noiselessly moving from couch to
conch, were not cheerful, to aay the least,
and when I looked down at the poor,
wan, emaciated form before me, stretched
upona<ot, and realized that this was
what war had left of the glad-hearted,
robust friend of my boyhood—well, I
was rather disposed to give up a few of
“ray rights in the Territories,^ if they
would let me live peaceably in the States.
“Charley,” said I, “old fellow, do you
know mef"
“Yes,'’ he whimpered, whilst a faint
gleam of light came into his eyes; “I
Eeanl you were here and sent for you.”
I sat there, and the dce|>enmg shadows
came about mc, t lhc silence unbrokqn save
by a groan, whilst memory went back to
our boyhood, his and mine, the old hills
and the shining river, with the bridge
hanging across it, and the road running
up and aroun 1 the cliffs, like a serpent,
undulating through the trees and rocks,
the schooihouse and the old (hurch,
with the high pulpit and the hard, hard
teats, where we sat on each recurring
Hnbbath, with eyes fixed on the preacher,
until our cervical vertebr c teemed to bo
parting. Oh, how we longed then to be
men! What dream of adventure, traicl,
war, flitted before us as •’scvcnteouthly,"
“eighteenthly” and “in conclusion my
dear friends,” fell from those venerable
lips!
Well, we had become men, and here
was the end, a laid of airoaj nod a
soldier s death! Deeper fell the shadows
and memory still lingered ntnidst the
scenes of the far off past. How the
cold, stern features of that austere
Presbyterian, under whose teachings we
were reared, became zoftened by the dim
twilight of the years ago. Father,
mother, teacher, minister, where are
they/ Ask the marble gleaming in the
moonlight on those Kentucky hills. And
how they taught us our duty both to God
and man. Hard, severe, tyrannical, we
thought it then. But now, softened by
time, we see the surpa sing love which
was in it all.
The mind is at times disposed to vaga
bondize and to dwell upon subjects
utterly »* variance with all our sur
roundings. How often in some holy
place do we find unholy thoughts press
ing upon us? How often with the bier
and grave do wc find some ludicrous
idea dancing, harlequin-like, by our
•ide? And so, tilting there in the gloom
by the bedside ol death, I actually
laughed aloud as the image of “Old
Put came out upon the canvas memory
of the past.
< Mu Put” was an old horse belonging
to my father, and named from patriotic
motives after the New England hero,
General Israel Fulnam, whose famous
gallop down a precipice in his apocryphal
escape has served to illustrate every
school history for fifty years, and has
sent that illustrious warrior down to
posterity, indissolubly connected with a
In color, “Old Put” was white;
from it like the
floating from it 111
venerable patriarch.
. , troops vmz»«iwu
was he ever known to exhibit the slight
est impatience, while to the old and in-
film he was a palladium of safety.
Dignified, affable and venerated, both
on account of age and character, “Old
I “ t ’ M institution. There was
nothing frivolous about him, nothing
erratic. In short, he was the erabodi-
meat of Presbyterian ideal, ia the shape
of a horse. One thing only in his per’
wnal appearance did not eustain his
general character as it was known to nil.
In enrly life, probably while owned by
some irreligious horse fancier. Put’s tail
h»d been nicked,and from earliest recol-
lection it presented, the appearance of a
gjwtlj weeping pillow, Wing always
cwrkd at an angleof fortgWdegrei.
the white hair floatia
locks of a f
Now, like all boys worthy the came,
Charley and myself were mighty hnntcrs.
and in the fall when wild pigeons passed
over the woods of Kentucky in vast
droves, we reveled in the sport of hunt
ing. This season only lasted for a few
weeks, and every Faturday, therefore,
was eagerly expected and glonoudy
spent
Never can we forget the sacrifices of
personal pro|>erty, dear to our hearts, the
trades and artifices tod shifts of all sorts
•o which we resorted in order to obtain
ammunition for these autumnal hunts.
One Fridsy afternoon, in tbe mid «t of
Ae pigeon season, when we could look
from the school-house window and see
drove after drove of birds darkening the
sky < barley came to me vith tbs infor
ms inr, that he had secured, by amaster-
*! be of enterprise, a large amount of
■ v lcr, with shot in proportion, for the
evt day, and we proceeded to map out
it the details of the hunt The env^ of
every other boy in the school w as excited
by our boasts of what we proposed to do
on tbe morrow, and in our anticipated
success we went back to past exploits,
many of them imagioa>y:
T hrice fought our battles o'er again.
And thrice we slew the s!ain.
The morrow came, bat instead of the
“sun of Austerlitz,” the heavens were
shrouded in gloom, and tbe rain flooded
the earth the long dreary day. Moodily,
desperately, Charley and myself sat
gazing through the dripping windows,
asking each other over and over the
savage questions: “What shall we do/"
and “Why does it always rain on Satur
day;” We were just in that condition of
mind when Satan makes his appearance,
and in a bland, respectable, gentlemanly
way, as Goethe tells us, proposes some
infcrcal scheme of ruin, tin that event
ful diy his Satanic majesty, true to his
antecedents, intruded himself and
prompted Charley to suggest that we
slip off and go hunting the next day,
Sunday.
At first the proposition was re eived
with horror, then we discussed it with
“!>ated breath.” and finally we illus
trated the truth of that much hackneyed
quotation, “Vico ia a monster of such
frightful mien,” etc., by arranging all
the prelim'naries. t hirley was to tike
charge of (he ordnam e dep irtment and
have guns and ammunition at a
certain ;e laded »-jK>t veiy eirly
the next morning, and 1
was to be responsible for the transporta
tion, and to meet him with an ancient
family chase and “Old Put.” That
night I crept to bed with a feeling of
gudt and pretermitted my usual prayers.
A dozen times I determined to abandon
the unholy cnterpri>c, and even after I
fcl! into a troubled sleep all forts of
spectral visions floated around me. A
negro boy, whom I had suborned for the
purpose, waked me up at an early
hour, and my courage having partially
returned. I managed to secure the chaise
with “Old Put,” and met Charley at the
rendezvous. In safety, without being
Seen by a single person, we reached «the
open country, and then, flinging to the
winds ail reflections as to consequences,
we proceeded to elevate our feet above the
duthboaid of the old chase and to
fmoke two very long but common cigars,
the only luxury of that kind ou; limited
exchequer could afford. Suddenly, at
a sharp turn in the roa 1, wecncounterc 1
the ancestral family carriage of ’Squire
Joe Uoberts, containing the Roberts
family, consisting of the father
and three maiden daughters, on
the r way to the church at
an utterly unprecedented hour in the
morning. Old 1'oinp, a gray-haired
I thiopian, sat in sober majesty on the
driver's seat, driving two lain ly animal*
as faithful h.m elf. To the casual ob
server the vehicle and its attachments
were eminently suggestive of patriarchal
dignity and domestic propriety, hut to
me it suggested nothiug but agony and
tears. Toe Roberts family were staunch
Presbyterians and noted for their strict
observance of the Sabbath, and I knew
that every orthodox Fiesbyterian felt
himself as much railed upon before God
to inquire into the cause of any child be
ing at large on the Sabbath day and to
apprehend and deliver that ch id up to
its proper guardian as to assist a neigh
bor whose cattle 1 nd broken out and
were straying from the proiier inclosure.
My first impulse was to hide that vil
lainous cigar, wh eh I int litively felt
gave me a lawless and ru.iinnly appear
ance, and with the quickness of thought
I thrust it down into the outside pocKst
of my coat. Charley and myself were
side by side, and unf irlunatoly my hand
with the burning cigar went into his
pocket and u, on the tighvly wrapped
pujicr of powder.
At tbe same moment 'Squire Roberts
discovered the extraordinary turnout,
comprising “Old Put" and two children
of the church, loose on Sunday morning.
The Roberts vehicle stop ed, and as
Pomp proceeded to dismount from his
jiorch to o|*cn the carriage door there
was an explosion, such as my nervous
system h.is never experienced since.
C harley and myself separated immediate
ly. He went over the fence into e
m adow and I passed dear over or
through the Roberts carriage, 1 have
never been certain which. Amidst the
shrieks of the Miss/.s Roberts and the yells
of the 'Squire and old Pomp I sprang to
my feet, burning and half dead, to be
hold a scene of utter ruin. Both vehi
cles were wrecked. Pomp was in the
midst of the debris and 'Squire Roberts
looked like the captain of an exploded
steamboat, but the central figure was
that of “V>ld Put.” True to hismilitary
title, that veneral animal stood his
ground, but terribly demoralized. He
had been blown forward on his fore
quarters, while his tail stuck straight up,
bald and blackened like a charred stump
after a forest fiie.
It is hardly necessary to pursue the
subject further. Carried back in dis
grace on that bright Sabbath morning,
we were swathed and bandaged with
cruel kindness for days afterwards.
Special prayers were made for m at
church and prayer meeting. All the
Sunday-school scholars were brought to
see us ns a warning, whilst tho doctor
and minister alternated in physicing
us bodily and spiritually.
But the disastrous consequences did
not end here. “Old Put” from that day
was no- longer the same horse. From
having been the kindest and best and
safest animal in Kentucky he became
“Satan’s own,” and at Christmas, when
the firecrackers bsgan their annual fug |.
ade. he was perfectly restless.
“Charley, do you rocollcet ‘Old
Pot?’”
1IST0RY Of OCEAN CABLES
m MMXS that closely com.
MBCT TWO HEMI8PHEKE*
A faint ripp'e of laughter satisfied me
there was hope for him yet.
M hen the surgeon came on his nightly
round Charley was better, and ia three
days out of danger. Maimed and dis
figured for “tho land he loved, "he is
married and living in Mississippi, and
h** no doubt told his children the storv
of our Sunday pigeon hunt and “Old
Atlanta Conti,tutim.
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cut be used constantly, if a little care is
oifd i* the washing.
fttflirnltlea Encountered In Laying
the First Atlantic Cablc-Fe*-
tlvitles that Commemorated H.
The fir<t suggestion of the pmet'ea-
lility of an Atlantic cable was made by
Profesior Morse in 1843, nearly two
/ears before his first telegraph line was
u opeiation, and the first submarine
able known to have been laid was
jumpleted in September, 1851, and con-
sected England and France. April 15.
1354, the New York, Newfoundland and
London Telegraph Company was in
corporated, and on May tt the first meet
ing <>t the Board of Directors was held,
tnd preparations were In-gun for laying
s Cable between America and Europe.
In July, 18*<6, soundings were made
in tho Atlantic for a cable route, and
the next summer the work of laying it
was begun, but on August 10 the cable
end was : ost at sea and could not be re-
jovered and spliced, and hence the firet
attempt proved a failure.
In the meantime, however, a second
Atlant'c cable company, called the At
lantic Telegraph Company, had been
fonned, of which Cyrus W. Field was a
prominent member, and he became the
manager of the company before the work
was completed. < n April 34, 1857, the
iteamship Niagara sailed from New
York to assist in laying this second
cable, and August 15 the cable squadron,
comprising the Niagara and the British
aaval vessels, the Gorgon and Indus,
•ailed from C.ucenstown and commenced
the work, which was pursued until in
terrupted by winter and resumed again
June 10, 1858. The end in mid-ocean
was successfully grappled and split cd,
but a few days later the cable parted
'gain but was again spliced, and on
August 5 tbe work was completed. On
tbe loth, the shore connections having
been made, tbe President of the United
States and the Queen of England ex
changed congratulations over the com
pletion of tbe cable, and New Y ork be
gan preparations for one of tbe biggest
celebrations known up to that time. The
city and ^ surrounding country went
fairly wild*over the accomplishment ol
the great undertaking and put in two
days and one night making it niemora
b!<\ Tiie city was overrun with visitors
and the streets were described as con
taining “over half a million of jubilant
people," and nearly every building was
de: orated. From the I’attcry to Union
p acc, as it was called then, Broadway
was *o densely packed that the Seventh
and Seventy-first regiments, acting at
escort to a grand procession, could
scarcely crowd their way through. Thert
were services during the day in Trinity
Church, where Bishop Doane delivered
an address, and there were services else-
wheie and a grand re eption to Mr.
F eld and the o.Peers of the vessels at
the Battery.
During the festivities the next day th<
announcement was made that “a bug had
got into the cubic'’ And it was wisely
concluded to postpone further rejoicing
to celebrate the eviction of the “bug.’
It was never got out, however, and the
cable was use ess from that date. Mr
Field and his associates, although sadly
disappointed, were not entirely discour
aged, but tbe war came on before they
could get to work again and the thircl
Atlantic cable was not ready to lay until
about the 1st of June, 1MI5. On July
2 2 the shore end was laid, and the next
day the Great Eastern, which had failed
to find any other field of usefulness, com
me need paying out the cable. Ex
perience gained from the two previoiu
voitures proved xaluable to the third
enterprise, but even yet there was much
to learn alxiut ocean cable laying. Ow
ing to the immense size of the Great
Eastern the work could be done more
perfecily, and as coil after coil of thi
cable was wound off the reels and
dropped into the sea extreme can
was taken to make tbe splices tc
the following sec:ions as strong as the
body of the cable was, but,nevertheless,
on Aug. 2, the cable parted and much
difficulty was experienced in grappling
the ends and splicing them. As the
cable wai completed, section and sec
tion, tests were made through it to the
shore. After a few months’ delay the
Great Eastern resumed work again it
recovered an end which had been
lost and completed the cable, which wa
opened for business July 2!», tho tarill
being fixed at $100 a message. 1 oui
days later the cable parted in raid-oeeac
and the Great Eastern again grappled
the ends. Communication was restored
September 8, and the cable worked
twelve years, having been abandoned it
1878. In the meantime, however, othei
cables had been laid, and the tariff wa>
reduced first to $25 and later in ISIO tc
$15, and then cables began to multiply
so fast that the rates got much lower.
The difficulties encountered in the first
ventures have to some extent retarded
all efforts to lay Atlantic cables, bul
nevertheless there are now twelve ol
them in operation, ten from North and
two from South America.
Atlantic cables are usually constructed
of seven sma'l copper wires wound to
gether so as to form one conductor, and
covered with a heavy coating of composi
tion insulation, largely composed of rub
her and paiatline, around which othei
and larger iron or steel wires are wound,
protected by another coating of insulst
ing material, and protected on the sur
iace by other and still heavier wires, at
though some Lave another coating out
side the wires. The shore ends are about
two and one half inches io di imeter and
the mid-ocean sections from an inch t<
an inch and a half.
The work of transmitting roessagci
over the cables has been materially rc
ducid of late years by improvements ii
the machinery. The first effort madeti
transmit messages was by means of thi
Morse c <de of signals as used on ordinar
telegraph lines, but owing to the intro
duct ion of the current, which does no
affect aerial lines to an appreciable cx
tent, it was found that only one or tw<
words a minute could be sent. Sir Wil
I lam Thomson, the g eat English elec
trician and scientist, then devised i
means of signaling by the aid of a needh
ana looking-glass.
A small needle ia vibrated to and fix
by the alternate currents. Attached, U
the end of the needle is a siphon about
the hundredth part of an inch in diame
ter, through which ink flows constantly
The ooint of the siphon or pen rests oi
a strip of naper which is automatical!]
pulled under it, and as the needle vi
brates the pen marks the vibrations ii
rig/ag lines tn the paper. The operate
reads the signals off as they pass befon
him and writes them on the usual blanks
while an attendant coils up the papei
atrip and files it away. The paper goo
along continually and when theoperato;
at the other end of the cable has a met
sage to transmit he goes right ahead will
it. The sending operator aits to th«
right of the receiver and manipulatei
two keys side by side, one for the posi
live and the other for the negative cur
rent—ATm* Fer* World.
The Beak of ]
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NEWS AND NOTES FOB WOMEN.
Red aad violet do not accord.
Washington giris are *ki«f up f*a*-
ing.
Oriental combinations of color are ia
vogue.
Ruas’a leather ia all colon ia won for
house shoes.
Loose blou?e* art won by youag girts
and children.
Mrs. John Sherman in a devoted
•tudent of horticulture.
Silver for personal adornment in
creases In feshionab'* favor.
Miss Mary Anderson, the actress, baa
celebrated her thirtieth birthday.
The fall colors will be petri gray,
olive, absiat'.e green and reseda.
Edith Thomas, the poet will assist in
(diGng St Nicholas next sea*on.
White esame'ed slicks are seen npon
tome of the p ettkst white parasols.
Q* een Margherita, of Italy, is popu
larly called “The Queen of Hearts.”
Mrs. Laura A. Russell, of Bluffdala,
HI, is ninety-one and loves to work.
Lace fi mneings and net are about
equally popular for costumes this season.
Thirty-five women are students in the
London School of Medicine for Women.
The fancy of the hour in jersey pins is
a long rusty-looking nail of oxidised sil
ver.
Miss Ella Transom Las challenged Mrs.
Shaw to a whistling match for $500 a
side
Gieen and blue produce an indifferent
effect, but better when tho colors are
deep
Somber-colored costumes may be re
lieved with lucifer red or absinthe
green.
Draped bodices of soft wite silk, with
blac k Swiss belts and braces, are in high
favor.
Novel white parasols are composed of
large petals of muslin overhanging each
other.
A new shade of green, rather dark,
is extensively used in combination with
white.
Mrs. Livermore is engaged to give
her Fourth of July oration one year in
advance.
Coiffures are worn higher than for
merly, although the Psyche knot is still
in favor.
In fancy woolens and ganzes pure
white is preferred to cream by young la
dies this season.
A pretty hat for a little girl is a wide-
brimmed leghorn, trimmed with a curl
ing ostrich plume.
Mrs. George Westingbouse is credited
with an income of $7u00 a month from
natural gas stocks a’.oue.
When two colors accord bsdly to
gether, it is always advantageous to
separate them by white.
The ex-Emprcss Victoria talks of
donating a large portion of her dowry
to German charitable work.
The long, loose-fitting tan suede glove,
with its wrinkles and generally rumpled
appearance, is again in style.
Mme. Patti’s castle in Wales will be
sold because its fair owner has been
robbed right aad left by her neighbors.
Pretty, cool-looking white dresses are
made of the sheer linen lawns, which
may be procured in various degrees of
fineness.
A clnb of society women m London ia
going to start a large poultry farm near
Loudon. Bee culture is also included in
the scheme.
At an Indian wedding in Bombav re
cently every guest received a splendid
bouquet on which attar of roses had
been poured.
Fashion has settled that body “linen"
is to be of foulard silk, and in the case
of a blonde it must be of black, tender
blue or pink.
There are in England 347 female
blacksmiths who actually swing the
heavy hammers, and 1)138 women em
ployed in naii making.
The two prevailing colors, luc’fer red
and absiuthe green, should compose but
a sma 1 part of a toilet. A complete
costume of these colors is atrocious.
Skirts are now provided with a loose
horse hair plaiting instead of steels or
bustles. It is worn attached to the
waist-band, under the back of the skirt.
A fall gown much worn in England
and on the continent is made of bine
serge with leather trimmings and with
narrow straps of leather in place of but
tons.
An ugly color called crushed raspberry
is the latest in English costumes. It is
a bright color, but exceedingly trying
to the complexion, taking out all the
flesh tinls.
The number of women engaged in ac-
ti e journalism is constantly increasing.
The latest a !dition to the ranks of news
paper women is an Iowa lady who is
managing a daily paper.
Mrs. Gladstone re ently appeared at
the Irish Exhibition in London with a
white Irish lace shawl thrown over her
poplin dre*s, and her little grandson
dressed in Irish costumes.
Miss Mary A. Greene, of Boston, who
recently received from Boston University
the degree of Bachelor of Uws, has
been admitted to the liar, and in the fall
will open a law office ia Boston.
Three women were in hysterics at one
time in the waiting room of a New York
dry goods store the other day. Some
slight ca ise unbalanced one, and the
other two went off because they looked
at the first one.
Dowager Emnrcss Victoria, widow of
Frederick IIL, has an annual income of
$200,000, $40,000 of which is derived
from England. She will be obliged to
make Germany hvr nominal residence
and to visit Berlin every vear.
Leghorn Straw Farming.
What is known as Leghorn straw is
raised on (he hills which rise on each
side of the rivers Pisa and Elaa, to the
southwest of Florence, Italy. Its adapt
ability to tho uses to which it is destined
depends principally on the Soil in which
it is sown, which soil, to all appearance,
exists only in this small district, out of
the bounds of which, the industry is
unknown. Any variety of wheat which
has a hollow, flexible steam can be used
for seed. The soil must be tilled and
prepared very much as it is for corn, but
the seed must be sown five times as
thickly as is usual for other purposes,
and this is done in the month of Decem
ber or February. When tho straw is full
grown, and just before the grain begins
to form itself in the car, it is uprooted
and firmly tied in little sheaves the ei/e
of a handful. Each aheaf or menata, as
it is called, is spread out in the shape of
a fan, to dry in the sun for three days,
after which it is safely stowed away in
barns. The harvest being over and the
fields empty, it Is again spread out to
catch the heavy summer dears and to
bleach in the sun, daring which process
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It is carefully turned until all _ _
equally whit*. Here the cnltivatory
work ends, and the manufacturing be-
g na.—.Eta Fer* ZMspa’c*.
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The Monster Factories at Sol In gen
Where Keen Bladed Weapons ot
Steel are Forged.
A letter from Solingea, Germany to
tho Pittsburg Ditpmth says; Of all the
places of industry in Germany there is
not oho whose very name is so apt to
make your blood run cold, and make you
think of murder and death as tha men
tion of this little town on the Wupper.
i Wherever you go knives, forks, daggers
and swords are always confronting you.
! Whenever you talk to anybody you are
j always forcibly entertained with a volu-
; ble speech alxiut instruments of death.
How many factories there are really in
Solingen it is hard telling. Thera are
25,000 inhabitants, and with the excep
tion of women, infants and old people,
everybody is engaged in making some
part of cutlery. This industry has been
going on in this place for nearly a thou
sand years. Tradition has it that Count
Adolf IV., of Berg, who was the owner
of Solingen, went to the crusades with
Emperor Frederick II., of Carraany, in
the eleventh century, and on his travels
to tbe holy land came to Damascus, in
Syria. Here the nobleman observed the
manufacture of all kinds of weapons, and
he learned it there himself. On his re
turn home he at once started a factory in
Solingen, and since then Solingen weap
ons nave become so famous that they
are now considered to be uncqualed in
the world.
I went all through a factory, which
employs more than one thousand men
exclusively in the manufacture of fine
weapons. They art bow filling an order
for the German Government of a new
bayonet Eight hundred thousand are
to Ue made, and the firm delivers 1500
a day. The weapon is twelve inches
long.
Before a piece of steel is converted
into such an instrument of war it has to
go through quite a process.
In the centre of the room stood a large
machine where one man and a boy were
occupied.
“This is where tho steel is cut before
it has received a stroke yet toward the
shape of a sword, so we urght call this
the store room for raw material.' Thus
my kind informant began his explana
tion. The long pieces of steel, which
were about 21 inches wide, were then
put under the ma Line, and by the
turning of a cian't pieces of about twelve >
inches fell one after tbe other into a
basket. The boy then handed the man
another p ; ece of s'.eel, put an empty
basket under the machine and earned
the short piece* into an adjoining apart
ment. We followed, and from tbe num
ber of fires all around I guessed that we
must have arrived at the forgei. And so
it was. Each one of these piecesof steel
was put into tbe fire, and when it was
hot enough a mau put it under
a a!eim hammer, which struck the
heated steel in rapid aucceasion about
twenty times on every particle of its sur
face. When it was pulled out the piece
wax about eighteen inches long. It waa
now thrown into a large barrel tilled
with water. Now the wouid-be sword
had gone through the hardening process,
and a number of boys gathered them again
into baskets to carry them to the rolling
department. In the front of each of
these rolls 1 ha l my attention called to a
big coke fire. This fire was stirred up to
an enormous heat, aud then tho piecei
of steel were one by one put into the fire.
There are two men occupied at each roll,
viz: the roller and his helper. As soon
as the steel is hot again it comes under
the roll, from where it emerges about
one-eighth of an inch thic * and the
eventual shape of the sword stamped
on it
Again the piece* of steel are ca-ried
off, and this time they go to the centre
presses, where they are put under a con
trivance which cuts the margin off the
steel, and when they leave here you cau
see that the thing looks like a sword..
Hitherto, however, you have seen
nothing but a dark blue piece of dirty
steel, while we now come into the de
partments where the metal is brightened.
There is at first the “grind-mill.” This
is a large place which looks like a barn.
From one end of the room to the other
I ob-erved row* of immense grinders,
tome of them eight feet in diameter. In
thii factory I saw forty stones, and in
the front of eich sat a grinder. The
stones are turned by steam aud watered
automatically. The grinding depart
ment is the most important in the entire
factory, and the grinder has to be very
skilful. He hat to have a keen eye; be
must know when to press tho steel hard
against the stone and when nut. A sin
gle scraping of the stone too much spoils
the whole weapon, and it has to be
thrown away. Most of the other work
it mechanical, while here it is intelli
gence that does the work satisfactorily.
From the grinding stone the piece of
steel comes bright and sharp. It is now
tal en to the burnishing rooms. This
pirt of the work is chiefly performed by
boys, who vary in age from 12 to 16
years. In this place there are a number
of wheels, but they are very small
Some of them are of stone, others are
covered with leather, which, if tho arti-
clp has to receive a polish, is covered
with a powder which lends the blade a
high polish. The knob and the back
of the handle are now brilliantly burn
ished, and the weapon is already very
dangerous. But still it it unfinished.
The different holes which are made in
the handle, the one which fastens the
blade on the gun and several others are
now bored. This is done, however, by
machinery, and takes but a very short
time. Then the handle is covered with
leather, and now that the blade itself is
thoroughly comp eted it is taken to the
controlling room.
In this department we find, as a rule
a number of old men who have been at
work for the firm for long years. They
arc not able to do actual hard work, but
still in this department their services are
indispensable. Their duty is, in fact, to
examine the article and tee whether
there is a blemish anywhere. As soon as
he detects a flaw he knows where it was
done, whether in tha burnishing, the
grinding, the rolling, or any other deo
payment, aud the man who is found to
have made tho mistake has to make it
good, or, in other words, he has to pay
for the damage.
Things of that kind very often lead to
S cat unpleasantness, and were it not for
o iron discipline which is evsrywhsre
maintained, Solingen would be the
scene of bloody war every day.
When the weapon leaves the control-
llrg department is is taken to the room
wl ere tbe eheetb bee been made, nnd
after that the thing ie packed aad
•hipped.
This process is gone through with
•Tory other article ef cutlery, scissors,
knives, etc. *
The late Kaiser Friti, of Germaav
ev.T after his marriage with the English
PrlBcy Royal kept the annivenjy of
Waterloo as a fete day.
a sorvo or wwamb*
A dream of a oasny ckAMt aft ptey,
• Bins eyed and fair, frolicsome, gay.
Glad as tbe bird* In (he springtime am.
Sorrows afloat like clouds star.
Careless of trouble, untouched by f+y
Singing her « ay through tee aoMen y^ar
A dream of a woman, old and gray,
Wrinkled aad brat, wending her Way
Lomesomely toward the last mi'estone.
Where the grim, dark shadow of <i—h j,
thrown.
Storm stained sad weary, and worn with
care—
Tbe candle of life at its final flan.
A dream of • grave in a churchyard Jet
Neglected, drear, with weeds o’ergrown.
With only the chirp of the cricket's song,
As it tings in the gram the whole night long,
To break the silence that krooJ so deep
Where tbe worn out soul and body sleepi
—Susie M. Best, fa Homo Journ U.
HFXOB OF THE DAY
Tn a nutshell—Sweet meats.
Born to rule—A book-keeper.
Notes of the day—Sight drafts.
Worth its weight in gold—Gold.
He “whoops 'em up”—The cooper.
Awaiting its turn—A buckwheat cake.
The bent of many a man's inclination
is crooked.
Lame men have running expenses the
same as other folks.
Keep your conscience but not your
farm void of a fence.
Strange to say, elastic has its greatest
snap when it’s “broke.”
The bottom of a gun-barrel is always a
good base for a change.
The chief disease of a miser ia attacks
of tightness of the chest.
Paste diamond* are so called because
people get stuck on them so often.
When a physician loses his skill it
naturally follows t r
tice.
i thot he is out of prsc-
An imposing sight—A street fakir
selling bra$s watch cases as solid gold
watches.
Shakes|>eare advised his readers to
throw physic to the dogs. He is silent
about cats.
A little up-town boy is so fond of
whipped cream that he licks the dish.—
DrakP, Magazine.
Big Head is the name of a prominent
Sioux Chief. His Sioux-de-nym as it
were.—Phi’adelphia Ptmo.
Some men are born witty. Others
have a good memory and some witty
friends.—8om‘rcUU Journal.
Determining the weight of an eel is all
guess work. You can’t weigh a fish
without scales.—Ottawa Bee.
Signor Casus Belli, the celebrated
Italian, is still trying to foment trouble
in Europe.—Detroit Free Prett.
Some one says that wealth it a shadow
This is, perhaps, the reason that we all
like to sit in the shade.—Ifosfen Gazette.
The sweet girl graduate about this
time is getting sour over the kitchea
range, learning how to cook.—SomerctUe
Journal.
“Poor childless wish!*’ exclaimed
Fogg, when Fenderson spoke of his wish
being father to his thought—Sm/os
Traneeript.
Blobeon—“Don’t you think that
Dempsey rather plays the fool?” Popin
jay—“No, sir; I think he works at the
job.”—Rurfi/ig'oa Fru Pres*.
“I am so glad your sister enjoyed her
vis t to us, Mr, Smith." “Oh, well, you
know, she is the sort of girl who cea en
joy herself any a here, you know."—£i/&
“1 love you, dear!’’ tbe young man said,
"Oh, will you be my wifsf’
Tbe maiden drooped her modeet head
And whispered, “Bet your fife!"
—SomoniUe Journal.
Probably there is nothing’ ia the
world that a man reaent* so quickly and
so deeply as to find you awfully busy
when he is perfectly at leisure.—NAossod
leather lie) or ter.
Do not let your overweening modesty
prevent you from recording your own
good deeds. A real estate man lost t
furl uae ome through an unrecorded
deed.—Harper'e Bazar.
Hopeful Youth—“Is Miss De Cash
in?” Servant—“Yis, sor.” Hopeful
youth—“Is she engaged/” Servant—
“Yis, sor; but he isn't here this avenia’.
Come in.”—The Cartoon.
“Do you understand much abont arbor
cultureasked I abatt of a friend. “Yes,
I think 1 do.” “Well, I want to ask
you a question; Are all forest tree*
seeders?"—Ikras Bating*.
You can’t weigh grams with a grammar,
Nor sugar euro hams with a hammer,
Du some with a summer,
Stow plums with a plumber,
Ner shear an old nun with a rammer.
—Sgrinqfield Union.
Dentist— 1 ‘Well, how do the new teeth
work I" Patient—“Not very well. They
seem to ent the others." Dentist—“That
is (wrfectly natural. They belong to aa
entirely different eat, you know. —Am
Francisco Examines.
At em on hie yacht, with a fair lady by him;
He aske.l for a kiss, bat she chose to deny
him, „
“Not here,’’cried the lady, in tone* full or
mirth,
“Though I have not the slightest objection
on earth.”
Visitor at Cannon Foundry—“This i*
al! grand, stupendous, astounding. But
where will your occupation be when
universal peace prevails?” Proprietoroi
Works—“Casting cannon llo celebrate t
with, Sir."—Chicago Tribun*.
“ If you think my legs eccentric.”
Said the grasshopper to the bee,
“ And my forehead queerly pointed
Where the brain-box ought to be;
That my mouth has feeble motions
Whence dark mysteries do exude,
Please to know I once existed
As a Pythagorean dud*”
“Father, the paper says you (officiate*
at the wedding clad in tha traditional
garb of the clergy.’ What does tisdi*
tlonal meant” “Traditional, my son,
replied the poor minister, as he looked
at his cheap suit of black with a sigh*
"refers to things that have been ‘handed
down.’ ”—ChUago Tribune.
Flameless Neearite.
Securite, the new flameless exploriT*.
Is the invention of Herr Behoenweg,
has been used in Germany for two
past. It is composed of a n! V**~
hydro carbon in combination with car-
tain oxidizing agents, which i* rend*!*®
flameless by the addition of s ccrtaia
proportion of an organic salt. It •ro'™
a spark in exploding, but this •P ttr k ”
hnrm'ess, not possessing sufficient ei • P.
to explodo inflamable gases orOoridlR
‘securite" wee exploded in veiw>»''
taining the most oighly exploo**
ture oigas and air, and, in som®
this combined with coal dust, bp 1
gunpowder invariably cause* 1h«!' •
-‘“'-in, tbe flajfteless “tccurive’’did »»
j the gas or the coal dust, a"" if __
mstrated to be safe, even under
severe tests and conditions ih >■> a*^ ^
present in mining operations.-
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