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f jWW'-' ■ DARLIN -. 4;^.. mmm :ir * • i “IF FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WdRLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.’ 1 V VOL. III. DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1892. NO. • iT. THE PBESHEHTIH tHIICES. DOUBTFUL STATES BOTUERUVG POLITICAL PROPHETS. Various Combinations by Which Either Cleveland Harrison Way Win. The Odds, However, in Favor of the Democra cy. The Presidential campaign enters upon its closing stage with a larger number of “doubtful” States to bother the political prophets thau they have had in similiar contests for many years. All authorities ad mit this, and all have reached that conclusion by studing the returns from the few State elections which have been held since the campaign began. The general effect of all these elections has been against Republi can prospects in the •Nation, for they have shown that the party is weakei in the North than it has been in previous contests, and that it has made no headway in the South. The causes assigned by the Republican:-, themselves for the falling off in their party’s strength in Vermont and Maine foreshadow similar losses in other Republican Stales in Novem ber, for the chief of them, the secret ballot and Republican apathy, will enter into tlu Presidential election in all of them. 'Che Republicans must, therefore, confront in the election many more chances for defeat than they had reason to anticipate a few weeks ago, and many more such chances than will confront their op ponents, for the prospects of the lat ter have been greatly improved by the demonstration that the solid South cannot be broken. In order to sue clearly what the chances on both sides are, let us divide the States, with their electoral votes, into the followiug: SURELY DEMOCRATIC. 11 Missouri Alabama Arkansas • Delaware Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Michigan Mississippi SURELY REPUBLICAN, 17 8 New Jersey 10 North Carolina 11 .South Carolina 0 Tennessee 12 Texas 15 Virginia 12 8 West Virginia 6 4 »! Total 173 California 9 Oregon 4 Colorado 4 Pennsylvania 32 Idaho 3 Rhode Island 4 llliuois 24'South Dakota 4 Kansas 10; Vermont 4 Maine 6 Washington 4 Michigan 10 Wyoming 3 Minnesota 9 Nebraska 8 Total 161 Ohio 23 DOUBTFUL. Connecticut 6 N. Hampshire 4 Indiana 15 New York 36 Iowa 13 North Dakota 3 Massachusetts 15 Wisconsin 12 Montana 3 Nevada 3 Total 110 The full Electoral College com prises 444 votes, mid 223 will be le- quired to elect. It will be seen by the above classification that the Democrats will need to gain 50 votes from the doubtful States to elect their candidates, and the Republi cans will need to gain 62. We have placed all the Southern States in the Democratic list, and all of them are conceded to the Democrats with the exception of West Virginia, which is still claimed for the Republicans by some of their prophets, for the only reason that “Ste\e” Elkins lives there and is devoting his personal energies, both as a political manipu lator and as a Cabinet Minister, to the carrying of it for Harrison and Reid. This reason for considering it doubtful does not strike us as suf ficient to justify its transfer from the Democratic column. We have left Illinois in the Republican column, though there are not want ing reasons for considering it a doubtful State this year. We have also left South Dakota and Washing ton in that colum.i, though they are not by any means absolutely assured to Harrison. All the ten States which we have placed in the doubt ful column are there for reasons which are in most cases too well known to require statement here. Montana is placed there because it is believed to be as uncertain a State as Connecticut or Indiana, and Nevada and North Dakota are placed there because it is well nigh certain that both of them will be lost to the Re publicans on the silver issue. In all probability both of them will cast their electoral votes for Gen. Weaver, the candidate of the People’s party. When we come to consider the com binatioiis by which the Democrats to elect their candidates we find the following: Sure Democratic States 173 New York 33 Indiana or Massochusetts 15 Total 223 It will be observed that victory foi either party will be comparatively easy with the thirty-six votes of New York, and more or less difficult with out those votes. With those votes the Democrats are surer of winning than the Republicans, as our com binations show. In all the Republi can combinations without New York, Indiana is an absolute necessity for success, together with Massachusetts, Iowa and Wisconsin, yet Indiana if* to-day an almost certain Democratic State. The chances for the Demo crats carrying it are excellent, as they are for their carrying New York. With these two States added to their column the Democrats will have an easy victory, and if they lose both, they will have at least as many chances for success as their oppo nents. It is possible, of course, that the People’s party may develop just enough strength in the new States to prevent either Cleveland or Harrison getting a majority of the Electoral College, in which case the election will go to Congress and Cleveland will be chosen President.—New York Evening Post. A Bedside Prayer. WILL IT FILL THE BILLt Total 224 Sure Democratic States 173 New York 36 Iowa 13 Montana 3 Total 225 Sure Democratic States 173 New York 36 Wisconsin 12 Connecticut 6 , Total 227 Sure Democratic States 173 Indiana 15 Massachusetts 15 Wisconsin 15 Iowa 13 Total . ^ 228 All these combinations are made on a basis,of only four Democratic electoral votes iu Michigan, thenum- uer which the Republicans concede. The Democrats claim that they will get more than this, from live to seven. Giving them live, this combination could he made: .3ure Democratic States IT. Indiana 15 Iowa 13 Massachusetts 15 Connecticut Total 223 On the Republican side the follow- mg combinations are possible: oure Republican States 10i New York 3h Massachusetts or Indiana 15 Wiiiconsin 12 Total 224 sure Republican States Ihi New York 3h Massachusetts or ludiatia lo Iowa 13 Total 22o Sure Republican States 161 New York 3b Massachusetts 15 Connecticut 6 New Hampshire 4 Montana 8 Total 225 Sure lb-publican States 161 Masssachusetts 15 Indiana 15 Iowa 13 Wisconsin 12 Connecticut 0 Montana 3 Total 225 Sure Republican States 161 Massachusetts 15 Indiana 15 Iowa 13 Wisconsin 12 New Hampshire 4 Montana 3 These beautiful lines were found among the papers of one whose years were spent in loving devotion to his Master’s cause. The day U ended; ere I sink to rest, My weary spirit seeks repose in Thine; Father, forgive my trespass and keep This little life of mine. With loving kindness curtain Thou my bed, Ami cool In rest my burning pilgrim feet; Thy pardon be the pillow for my head 8o shall my sleep be sweet. At peace with all the world, dear Lord and Thee No fears my soul’s unwavering faith can shake All’s well, whichever side the grave for me, The morning light may break. A Short Prohibition Bill Proposed by Representative Blease. During the recent campaign the comity candidates for legislative honors discussed somewhat the ques tion of prohibition, but all were pledged to abide the re. ult of the prohibition box. A large majority of the votes cast in this sejnflate box were for prohi bition. The question will come up before the next Legislature. There will probably be a variety of bills on the subject, and the trouble is going to be among the prohibitionists them selves or rather those who have been elected pledged to prohibition. If there should be some who are op posed to prohibition themselves, but whose constituents voted for prohibi tion, they will no doubt ease their conscience and explain the matter away to their constituents on the ground of objection to the bill itself. Governor Tillman is not pledged to prohibition, but his position is known to be a division of the license between the town and the comity. The action of the Legislature on this question will be watched with interest. lion. Dole L. Blease has prepared a bill which he says he will intro duce at the beginning or the session, rite followim; is the the text of the bill: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sit ting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: Section 1. That from and after die first day of April, A. I). 18H3, no person shall manufacture for sale, sell, keep for sale, exchange, barter or dispense any intoxicating liquor, wine, beer or bitters for any purpose whatever in this State: Provided: I'hat nothing contained in this Act shall prevent ministers of the Gospel administering wine to com muni cants at the altar. Sec. 2. Any person upon convic tion of violation this Act shall be punished by a fine of no' less than ive hundred dollars or more than our thousand dollars, or imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term of not less than five or more than ten years for each offense. Sec. 3. That one-half of said tint shall lie paid to the infoiniatit ami tile other oue-hulf to the free schools of the county where said conviction is had.—Newberrv Herald and News Raise H heat. Why not raise a large wheat crop in this section next year? The Spar tan gives some good advice in the fol lowing paragraph: Let every fai mer, tenants included, endeavor to raise wheat e lough for home use. There is no reason why it should not be done. If a land lord will not assist tenants and furn ish land for this crop, the quicker the tenant finds a new home the bet ter foi him. Many persons in this county made more than 15 bushels to the acre last year. Lands best adapted to wheat can be brought up to 25 to 40 bushels. A farmer made some inquiry a few days as to the plan for making 25 to 30 bushels to tin- acre. Land that is in a fair condi tion should be selected. If it bus a good pea stubble, so much the better. The land should be well broken. The soil should be friable. That is it should not hold water on the surface or become spouty during wet weath er, nor should i' bake in dry weath er. Lot and stable manure scattered broadcast suits wheat admirably. Rut if you do not wish to use that, 30 bushels of cotton seed and 300 pounds of acid phosphate will make a good wheat mixture. That should make 20 bushels or more io the acre. Is you have fresh strong land it will not require so much cotto i seed. If you do not have the cotton seed, use 400 ’ best guano to the acre, [.et each farmer try his 1-cst to run above 20 bushels on a few seleit acres. SCOTT’S HEROINE. FACTS ABOUT THE ORIGINAL OF THE NOVELIST’S REBECCA. She Wa« a Renldent of Philadelphia and Was the Dearest Friend of Washington Irving's Only Love—Hour Sir Walter Scott Heard of Her. For Girls Who Don’t Erjoy Read ing the Bible. Old newspapers for sale at The Read the 24th chapter i f Genesis. Read the 1st chapter of Peter. Read the 4th and 5th chapters of Esther. Read the 31st chapter of Proverbs beginning at the 10th ver.-e. Read the first part of the 12th chapter of John. Read the 20th chapter of the same gospel. Read the latter part of the 9th chapter of Acts. Read the 13th chapter of 1st Of all the women Sir Walter Scott has drawn Reliecca and Rowena are the best known and best beloved. The ten der strength of the one, the tender sweetness of the other, the romantic story through which they move and the per fection of the contrast between them— all contribute to fix them firmly in the hearts of all readers. It has been said that Rebecca is the great novelist's finest character. If this is so it is of all the more interest to us, for her prototype was a Philadelphian. The original of Rebecca, the daughter of Isaac of York, was Rebecca Uratz, born in this city in the last century and still living after the two great novelists who succeeded Scott had been gathered to Walhalla. I stood the other day by her forgotten grave in the little old grass grown Jewish cemetery on Spruce street, just south of the Quaker meeting honse. between Eighth and Ninth streets, and I read the simple inscription on the tomb —“Rebecca (iratz. Uoru March 4, 1781 Died Aug. 27, 1869." Miss Uratz was a conspicuous member of an honorable Jewish family. She possessed in early years—indeed even to the day of her death—a singular beauty of face and form. Her eyes were uf exquisite shape, large, black and lustrous: her figure was graceful Vid her carriage was marked by quiet dignity. Besides these attractions she had elegant and winning manners. Gentle, benevolent and accomplished, Rebecca scon became the center of a brilliant circle of men and women— Christians and Jews. Her parents died when she was very young, but the Uratz mansiun, presided over by Rebecca, con tinued to be known far and wide for its hospitality. One of the most intimate friends of her brother was Washington Irving, who was then in the early fresh ness of his literary career, and in this way a cordial friendship and admiration were established between theanthorand Miss Uratz, which lasted as long as life. Matilda Hoffman, wbo was the object >f Irving's only love, was also Rebecca’s dearest friend, many of her younger days being passed with the Hoffmans and other old families in New York. During Miss Hoffman’s first illness Re becca was her constant companion, shar ing with the family the cares of the sick tied and holding Matilda when she died in her arms. Scott and Irving met for the first time in.l617 t tii -idrican visiting Sir Walter with a It-, of introduction from the poet Campbell. He was most cordially received at Abbotsford, and there Irving passed several of the most delightful days of his life listening to the many tales, told as no one but Scott conld tell them, and rambling about the beautiful hills. During one of the frequent con versations between the two anthors Irv ing spoke of his own and Miss Hoff man's friend—Rebecca Uratz, of Phila delphia. He glowingly described her tH-auty and related the story of her firm adherence to her religious faith under the most trying circumstances, but par ticularly did he tell of her zealous phi lanthropy and loveliness of character. Sir Walter was very deeply impressed and interested and conceived the idea of emlxxlying a character like hers in one of his novels. He was then revolving in his mind the story of “Ivanhoe.” And on the strength of Irving’s vivid descrip tion, he determined to introduce a Jew ish female character. Scott conq>osed this story during mo ments of intense physical pain, yet at times he became so interested in the character of Rebecca, for he even adopted her name, that he rose from his couch and walked up ami down the room while he dictated the story to his amanuensis. He finished the book in December, 1819. ami immediately sent the first copy to Irving, hi the letter accompanying it, he asked: "How do yon like your Rebecca? Does the Rebecca 1 have pic tured compare well with the pattern given?" The resemblance of the character to that of Miss Uratz, it is said by those who knew her, was closely market Although the source of the character was known to the Jewess, her modesty made her shrink from the publicity of it, and when pressed upon the subject she would deftly evade the matter by changing the topic. When a young girl, it is said, Rebecca Uratz won the regard of a gentleman of good position and wealth, but as he was a Christian the difference in their reli gious faith proved a hopeless barrier to their union. She consequently never married. Instead she devoted her life to charitable deeds. She founded the orphans’ asylum of this city, and as early as 1811 her name appeared as an officer of the female association. In 1838 a mission school for Hebrew children was started by this noble woman. At this school prayers of her own composi tion were used daily. Miss Uratz lived to the advanced age of eighty-eight, when she died universally regretted. The ancient graveyard where her mor tal remains repose has been closed for burial purposes almost ever since her death, although previous to that time It was extensively used.—Philadelphia Bishop Brooks* Sermons. Bishop Phillips Brooks devotes hardly more time to the composition of his ser mons than did the late Henry Ward Beecher. -Mr. Beecher used sometimes to delay that essential proceeding till Sunday morning after breakfast, and on occasions, when in the pulpit ho would discard the material thus prepared for a new idea that had struck him after the services had begun. Bishop Brooks de votes an honr or two during the week to thinking about the text he has selected for use on the approaching Sunday, and bnnts up a few references, but he makes no notes and does not even touch his pen to paper for that purpose. But when he is in the pulpit his discourse flows from his lips without hesitation, and with a rapidity that strains the atten tion of the congregation to the utmost. His tendency then is to preach beyond the limit yt time set for bis sermons. - The toad and its jewel liU.resting Superstition. About a Tory Harmle*. Little Animal. Many remarkable legends and folklore stones cluster around the natural his tory of the common garden toad. All earfy writers on the characteristic hab its ef this harmless little creature make it appoint to never allude to it without interjecting a few cautionary notes on its ^extremely venomous bite," or the awfnl effects of “inhaling the direful creature’s breath.” The facts in the case are that it cannot bite at all, and if it should it has no “venom” with which to inject the wound. When irritated the toad may exhale an offensive secretion by means of follicles on the neck and other parts of the body, but to suppose that this secretion is poisonous is the height of folly. Another toad belief—one that was rife 800 years ago—was that the ugly little batrachian’s head was set with a price less jewel. Shakespeare allndes to this curious belief where he says: “Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head." The belief in the “toadstone” was not only current in England and the other countries of Great Britain, but was known to learned men as one of the popular fallacies of all Europe. In Hangary it was believed that the toad ate dust and drank dew as his only food and drink. The action of the dew on the dost and the dost on the dew was supposed to cause a secretion to form in the animal's stomach which was vomited up each spring during molting time. The Jaques de Mahan collection of oddities at Ronen has a tray containing » dozen or fifteen of these so called ‘ ‘toad- stones.” But. as hinted above, the Brit ish'belief was-that the “toadstone” was to be found only in the head of the warty little animal. Fenton, who lived and wrote in the Sixteenth century, says. “There is to be found in the heads of old and great toads a stone they call borax or steton, which, being need as rings, gives a forewarning of venom." Lnpton, writing about the year 1633, saya: “The crepandia or toadstone is very valuable. Touching any part envenomed by the bite of a rat, wasp, spider or other poisonous beast ceases the pain and swelling thereof." During that uncer tain period of time classed as the Mid dle Ages people in general believed that the toad had the power of charming its prey, as well as men and larger crea- tures. In classical times it waa thought that no man could live who had the mis fortune to be looked sqnarsly In the eyes by a toad! In some rsapects this latter belief partakes of the nature of the le gendof the basilisk.—St. Lgais Repub lics ^ , - ——" ■ ■ - > ‘ Tk. India ftabbu- Wane. TheUtest triumph of Yankee > ive geWta te an India It is said to be a remarkably good imita tion of the common earth worm, is inde structible and in actual use proves as al luring to the fishes as the genuine arti cle. The old fisherman will be quick to perceive its advantages. One can equip himself for a day’s sport without dig ging over a whole garden in his search for bait. A handful of India rubber worms will last him a whole season, and there will be no necessity for pulling up the line every few minutes to see if the small fry nibblers have left the hook bare. Possibly the greatest admirers of the new bait will be the feminine fishers who, however expert with the hook and line, have never reached the point where they can impale an angle worm without a series of shudders. The only one who will find it a drawback will be the girl whose chief delight in fishing comes from the excuse it gives for keeping some young man at her side to hand!- the horrid worms. The invention of tho rubber worm turns angling into an exact science, with no room for flirting ac cessories.—Troy (N. Y.) Times. SIkuI GraHt. Sisal grass is likely to prove a very important source of wealth for Mexic >. It grows in long, narrow blades, often to the length of four or five feet, ai 1 these, when dry, curl up from side o side, forming a flexible string stronger tiian any cotton cord of the same size ever manufactured. It is in great de mand among florists and among manu facturers of various kinds of grass goods, and it is said to be capable of being ap plied to many new uses. Ropes, cords, lines of any description and size may be manufactured of it, and a ship's cable of sisal grass is one of the possi bilities of the future. It is almost im pervious to the action of salt water, and is not readily decayed or disintegrated by moisture and heat. It takes its name from the port of Sisal, in Yucatan, through which it was formerly exported. —Board of Trade Journal. PRETTY AND SHE KNEW IT. A Flgnr© In a Shop Window Mode tho Old Man Think of Other Days. “Well, I’m gosh darned, M’randy!” "Do you jest come along, Jesse, an yon t-cen a-married nigh enter forty years.” The twain were from the interior man ifestly. He was of conventional rural dress, baggy pantaloons and coat sleeves too short, and a hat that half concealed his features. Ho wore hnge glasses, and was peering through them with all his might and main at a revolving female dummy in a State street window. She wore a plain, black frock, short in the skirt and high in the neck, and a very plain bonnet of antique architecture. While he stared she tugged at his sleeves. “Well, I’m goshed Earned!” he re peated, giving no heed to the entreaties of his wife. “Jesse, Jesse, do come away," she urged. “Why, everybody’s a-sighting of ye." “Well, I’m gosh darned!” he repeated for the third time. “If that thar gal don’t top anything ter looks 1 ever see. Wonder what wages ihey give her fur spinuin around all the time. Not mnch, 1 reckon. Most any purty gal ’ud be glad er a show er p’inted at ’n praised by every feller ’at comes along, er thousand er more a day, I’m thinkin.” “Jesse. Jesse,” pleaded the wife, pull ing at his elbow more vigorously, “them youngsters is langhin at ye.” “She’s dooced party, 'll she knows it," he added os he regarded her more crit ically. “Yaas, she knows It. W’at purty gal don’t know that? I shud think her feller ’oqjdn’t like it, though. But, law, MTandy, she hain’t a-mindin him, w’at wi’ all the oglin ’n winkin she gets. Most er young wimmiu has big enough heart fer more uer one till she gits set tled down. Law, Suz, blamed if she don’t smile sweeter nnr a peach on that ther’ redheaded chap yander. 1 guess tho shop folks gin her that frock, fur its beyond her pile. “It’s pow’ful funny w’at store young wimmen does set on finery. Think o’ her standin ther all day jes’ fer fine shop clo’s ’n ter be shined at ’n admired. It do beat all. I bet she kain’t cook a chicken pie to save her gizzard. Yaas, she’s purty enough ter be looked at, but when it comes ter gittin a wife” “Jesse," interrupted his spouse firmly, as she gave him a jerk that caused his teeth to rattle, “if you do not come right straight erlong I’ll have you tuk up fer a lunytic, that I will.” “All right, MTandy, all right,” said the old man meekly and with a sigh, as he dragged himself along after her. “It sorter tuck me back ter old times when i were a youngster around among the purtiest on ’em,” and he licked his chops - in apparent enjoyment of ancient days, bn’re what yon alius was, Jesse— ’ fool—’nther’H be no stoppin afore ' i' In this here wicked city,” and med her steps as she spoko and forced him to keep pace with her.—Chi cago Mail. Why the Lecture IVu a Failure. One winter Nye was at Jefferson City, and as the legislature was in session a number of newspaper men of the state were there, too; and to show what they deemed proper courtesy to one of their number they arranged an informal re ception, with Nye the principal attrac tion, on the afternoon of the day in the ;veuing of which Bill was to lecture, and they expected of him the same cor diality and bohemiai:ism that marks the average writer. Nye was at the re ception, bat he was a dead stick; never once did he smile; neither did he at any time attempt a witticism. His enter tainers were disappointed and disgusted, aud sorry that they h.ul paid him the compliment of purchasing a couple of boxes at the opera house to hear his lec ture. But they got even. When Nye mounted the stage that night and began pouring forth his jokes and drolleries not a news paper man in the box smiled. All looked solemn os owls, and occasionally glanced with astonishment at the audience that kept in a roar of applause. Nye con tinued, and became conscious of the fact that this portion of his hearers was not pleased, and he directed his shafts of wit at them. But they smiled not, bat only stared at him in solemnity. Their coolness soon communicated itself to the audience by some occult means and it ceased to cheer, and beiore the entertain ment was half over it was voted a dead failure.—Charleston (Ho.) Democrat Traveling Stones In Nevada. The curious “traveling stones” of Australia are paralleled in Nevada. They are described as being perfectly round, about ns large as a walnut and of an ivory nature. When distributed about on the floor, table, or any smooth surface within two or three feet of each other they immediately commence trav eling toward each other and meet at a common center, and there lit huddled in a bunch like eggs in a nest. A single stone removed to a distance of four feet, upon being released returns to tho heap, hut if taken away as much as five feet remains motionless. It is needless to say that they are largely composed of magnetic iron ore.—Grass Valley Union. Miilt.se Wit. The poorer Maltese have a ready wit. An English officer, failing to make a Maltese understand what he meant, called the poor man "a fool.” Under standing this much the man, who had traveled about a good deal, though he did not understand English, replied by asking, “Do you speak Maltese?” “No.” “Do you speak Arabic?" “No.” “Do you speak Greek?” “No." “Do you speak Italian?’’ “No.” “Then if I be one fool you be four fools.”—Loudon News. All He Guarantees to Do. The cleverness of the waiters who stand at the doors of the dining rooms of the large hotels in charge of the hats which are left outside by the guests is very striking. Some of them jierfonn really wonderful feats of memory in the way of identifying the hat of each per son, although they often do not see the guest more than once, and that for only tho instant when he pauses to leave his hat behind him as he enters. At a hotel on the Maine coast is a darky who is famous among the guests for never making a Mistake, although sometimes the guests have tried to puz- i zle him by going in in gronpa and by wearing hats which he lias never seen. One day one of the boarders talked with him about this power and the waiter said that he had acquired it by long practice. “And do you never make mistakes?" the gentleman inquired. “No, sab; 1 don’t cal'late to make no mistakes," was the answer. “And do you give every man his own hat?” “Oh, sah," returned the waiter, 'tain’t noun o’ my bus'ness whose the hat am. 1 gibes to ebory man the hat tie gibes to me."—Boston Courier. luformiitlon Wanted. “Do birds think?" asks a writer in opening an article. If they do, wo should like to know what a canary thinks of a woman who stands up on a chair and talks baby through tho bars of the cage. —New York Recorder. Wanted the Color to Match. A young man from Kalamazoo was in Detroit not very long ego, drawn hither by tho fascinating attractions of one of the brightest and best looking girls in this City of the Straits. The visitor was more or less of a Kalamazoolu and the girl didn’t feel flattered by his atten tions, but she did the best she could under the circumstances, In tho even ing he asked her to go with him to the ice creamery and she went. “Waiter,” he said in a loud and com manding tone, “bring us two ice creams —tho best you've got in the shop, mind." The waiter bowed. “And, waiter," said the girl in a low, sweet voice, “bring me pistache to match the young man here,” and the young man didn’t know what pistache was till ' he saw the color,—Detroit Free Free* The Picture Illusion. A correspondent writes: “Almost every careful observer of pictures must have noticed how the eyes of portraits appear to follow one all over the room. Can you account for this?” The illusion referred to has been ex plained thus: Suppose a portrait with its face and its eyes directed straight in front, so as to look at the spectator. Let a straight line be drawn through the tip ef the nose and half way between the eyes, which we shall call the middle line. On each side of this middle line there will be the same breadth of head, of cheek, of chin and of neck, and each iris will be in the middle of the whole of the eye. If we now go to one side the apparent horizontal breadth of every part of the head and face will be dimin ished, bnt the parts on each side of the middle line will be diminished equally; and at any position, however oblique, there will be the same breadth of face on each side of the middle line, and the iris will be in the center of the whole of the eyeball, so that the portrait preserves all the character of a figure looking at the spectator, and must necessarily do so wherever he stands. In portraits the apparent motion of the head is generally rendered indistinct by the canvas being imperfectly stretched, as the slightest concavity or convexity entirely deforms the face when the ob liquity is considerable. The deception is therefore best seen when the painting is executed on a flat board, and in colors sufficiently vivid to represent every line in the face with tolerable distinctness at great obliquities. Distinctness of out line is indeed most necessary to a satis factory exhibition of this optical illusion. —Brooklyn Eagle. A Noble Husband. The historian Xenophen relates that when Cyrus, the founder of the Persian empire, had taken captive a young prince of Armenia, together with his beautiful and blooming wife, of whom he was remarkably fond, they were brought before the tribunal of Cyrus to receive their sentence. The warrior in quired of the prince what he would give to be reinstated in his kingdom, and he replied that he valued his crown and his liberty at a very low rate, but if the noble conqueror would restore his be loved wife to her former dignity and possessions he would willingly pay his life for the purchase. The prisoners were dismissed to enjoy their freedom and former honors, and each was lavish in praise of the conqueror. “And you," said the prince, addressing his wife, “what think you of Cyrus?” “1 did not observe him,” she replied. “Not observe himl" exclaimed her husband. "Upon whom, then, was your attention fixed?" “Upon that dear and generous man,” she replied, "who declared his readiness to purchase my liberty at the expense of his life.” C.ovua Orator*. Humorous, if a trifle unkind, was the orator, who, when describing the in ordinate love of praise which character ized an opponent, said, “He is so fond of being praised that 1 really believe he would be content to give up the ghost if it were but to look up and read the stonecutter's puff on his tombstone." This is in striking contrast to the graceful and witty compliment paid to the beau tiful Duchess of Devonshire aud her sister, Lady Duncannon, of whom, when they canvassed the electors of West minster on behalf of Fox in 1781. it was said that “never did two such lovely portraits appear on canvas.”—London Standard. Haw One Painter Was Started. The Pall Mall Gazette tells a story of a British—or was it an American?—col lector, who paused before a picture by the late Belgian artist, Mauve, for the first time, having been struck by its beanty. He oeked how mnch it cost, and was told $125. “Nonsense,” he said, “it’s too cheap. Make it $500 and I'll take a dozen more from him at the same price.” Thus was Mauve's financial suc cess begun. Conlcan Haudlts. Corsican bandits have friends in every village, who supply them with what they want, and those who have only taken a life or two out of revenge are not regarded as criminals. We have seen a girl scarcely out of her teens flash up with auger if anything were said against the vendetta.—London Saturday Review. The greatest day's run of an ocean steamship was about 615 miles. The steamer in question was 562 feet long am! had previously been known to make 501 miles per day for three days in succession. An Author's Feelings. The author of "The Turkish Spy” tells us he would rather meet a lion face to face than feel a spider crawling over him in the dark. This he humorously attributes to transmigration. “Before 1 came into my present body,” he says, “perhaps I was a fly.” This is quite as reasouable an explanation of his anti pathy as can be given for any of them. Even Shakespeare, though he gives sev eral examples of this riddle, offers no solution of it.—Loudon Illustrated Ne ws. tn.rtn.M and DsUmm. Carlyle’s “Reminiscences” are smart, though the great genipa in them almost overshadows their smartness. Still, the predominant egotism in them, the ao» . cent of self assertion, is never at tent. And Mrs. Carlyle's letters are smart, ve.y smart, though extremely fascinati. g in their way—indeed, we do not wonder, when we notice the predomin.-tirg though subtle egotism in both Carlyle and his wife, that there was not a ittle of jarring between natures so mnch alike in the one characteristic which needs supplementing and abhors riv dry. We should say that while smartness may be combined with high geniu: ui 1 great fascination, it cannot be comuin 1 with those qualities which are ol' li e very essence of high bred society- -re - icence, modesty, fastidious taste. Se t forgetfulness and smartness are irrecon cilable qualities and self forgetfuln. ss is essential to the highest breeding. And smartness, when it is not joined with great genins, soon satiates, nay, even nauseates. It is all very well in public life, because all public life is intermit tent. But in private society smart ne s wearies and overwhelms. Mr. Disraeli was smart, and in his youth oppressively smart. When lie took Gibraltar by storm by chan dug his cane at the evening gun, he was smartness in excelsis; but if we -vere compelled to choose between smart nevs in excelsis and Sunday school teacherism in excelsis, we are disposed to think tin t of the two great evils we should cl oo: e the latter. Dullness can be endi re., but glare—and smartness in excelsis is full of glare—soon becomes intolerabl —London Spectator. .. ,'rfi •. jn’.'&S Effort of Invention on Fiahlnx. Doubtless the india rubber worm Is only a beginning of the marvels in the fishing line. From artificial flies and artificial worms it is only a step to other kinds of artificial bait. The time is not far distant when bogns frogs, crickets, dobson, snails, grasshoppers and grubs will form a part of every sporting outfit, with perhaps artificial trout and bass for the returning fisherman who dislikes to pass down t.ie street dangling a single suutish.—Troy (N. Y.) Times. A jHirtable sundial is not an uncom mon object in Spanish shops, and it is still in current uso in Spain. At Burgos no less than three different kinds are of fered for sale at prices varying from nine to seventeen cents. Tho highest type of character is that which is made up uf feelings so lumi nous that the man takes a More elevated path than he could ever do if he were bound down to rules and precedents.— Henry Ward Bucher, Titus died in the third year of his reign. Suspicions were entertained of poison, the i»oisoner being believed to be his brother Domitian, who succeeded him. — —— , t ■ Flogging the Tired Brain. A singular discovery has been made by Dr. Lauder Brunton. By an accident he found out the secret of how to na\ e ideas at will. One night, after a Ion ; day’s work, ho was called upon to write an article. Ho sat down with pen, in .c and paper, and, as has very often Hap pened before under similar condit on-, not a single idea came into his head He then began to reason and to at tern, it to find why the brain, which was appar ently the same as it was the day be ore, when it worked normally, should n fuse to respond to the dictates of the wili. He arrived at the conclusion that the day before he was not tired, and that there fore the circulation was brisker. Continuing his cogitations he traced the connection between cerebral circu lation and mental activity, and coni InJ- ed that if the blood would not come to the brain the next best thing woul l to to bring the brain down to the bl3e£. And this he did. The happy thought of ' 1 laying his head flat on the table sudkleiK ^ ly flashed across the seat of th«, late in-* activity, and at once his ideaa-began J flow and his pen ran swiftly aorossf paper. The work progressed, ap , that Dr. Brunton thought’' well sit up. But it would not do. The moment he raised his head his min ! re verted to blankness, so he had to put down his head again upon the table, ami finished the article in that positio.— Exchange. Classes on English Kuiluay. The division of the great public into first, second and third classes on all Kn.:- lish railways is one of the things ’.h .t forces itself on the attention wher.-ver one travels on this side of the Atlantic. Not only are the railway carriages divid ed into compartments for each class, but at many of the stations separate v. ait- ing rooms and “booking offices” are pr< - vided. It does seem singular to see: uch signs at the stations as “First aud second class ladies’waiting room” and “Thin l class ladies’ waiting room.” A criucnl observer is likely to wonder why tho companies do not set a grammarian to keep watch on tho sign painter. Why not let “ladies” stand first in these signs, or better still, let "ladies’ waiting room'' precede the designation ns to class? Perhaps tho answer would be that it lias always been as it is—tliat is. as long as railways have existed—and that is a sufficient answer so far as tho people of England are concerned. That it is : re flection upon an estimable lot of people to call them "second chiss ladies" or "third class ladies” does not seem to have penetrated the minds of those n - sponsible for this atrocity.—Loudon Cor. New York Tribune. The Meanest Man on Record. There is a business man over at La grange who is meaner than the man wi.o crossed his bees with lightning buys so they would work at night. The Indiana man is a merchant, and while driving from Rome City home lie lost a wallet containing $8,000. A lightning rod a ,-ent from Kalamazoo, Mich., chanced a ong and found the money. The Michigai.der proceeded on his way, and it was three months before he heard of the owner, although he made diligent seareh for him. When tho Lagrange man got pos session of his lost treasure he said n >th- ing, but went straightway and began suit in the circuit court against tho lightning rod agent fur interest on tho money at the rate of 8 percent., set; ing up in his complaint that the use if it was worth that amount.—Warsaw (lad.) Republican. The Love of Fine Linen. In the German household the love of linen is a passion. During the Fn uch wars under Napoleon, when from eiery town and hamlet tho terror strn ken people fled before the approaching armies, before all else they sought to save their many chests of homespun linen, and when peace returned v hat had escaped tho Argus eyed enemy was tenfold more precious because of the horrors witnessed and the dreadful pangs endured. And even today the German woman prizes far above rubies her ) iles of snowy linen, the labor of many happy hours.—Garden and Forest. For Women Students. St. Andrew's, the oldest of Scutch universities, not only offers to women tho privileges of its classes with a \iew to graduation in arts, science, theology or medicine, but generously makes pro vision fur them to share iu its pecuniary benefits. In the year 1893 a sum of $150,000 will become available fur bur saries or scholarships at the univer-ity, of which one-half is reserved fur the use of women students exclusively. Tuoso who intend to enter the medical profes sion will have prior claim to those .inr- saries, though they are tellable w bile art and science classes are being at tended.—Glasgow, Letter. , g. ! THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER DEFECTS WHICH MAY APPEAR ON THE FILM.