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Boot & Shoe Maker,PULASKI. TF.NN.

OOTS AND SHOES put up in latent Btyla,.13 oi.t of the very best ma lorittl. None butU10 Ve;.t worlcmoii employed. All kiodx o)tejmiricjr promptly done. Whon you want

neat, liltingLi:OANTi:OOT orSIIOU,

'live mn r. call. My phop iionlhtMuinft'O'tt, noui tLo L'mlcn ILiup.

taniji-ly- . OWEN CALLAHAN.

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i' " to no!iclt ami tnko orJor for;. THE MAUAMKUKISWOLU

. ' " latoot Skirt Sttp,.ortim? Cor- -; ' notn. Those cornets have been

cxtonsivoly edvtrtiBod and'v"? hIJ by la ly canvaHsor the

pi5 ton joarH, wliich, withC't-- tlioir imporiority, have crost-'ts- J'

a' 1 ,,ri70 demand for themt iiroviphout the L'nittd 8t'ite, anil auy ludywho ffivus hor time and oner,ry to canvann1or t hem can noon build up a puru'.aoout and.rofitab!o bumiioM. Tlioy tira not aold byinorchanta, and wo pivo exclusive territory,hereby givinjr tho mfi-ti- t entire control of

llupo eu eriorcorsets n tho territory aieni hor. Wo have a lark's number "t ajfantHho aro maViji a prand encee oollioif theseroods and wo wa mu h in ovory town.

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tention j.aid to Enfflmh, ilatliomatic- andl.o elaMOM.

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Kir.b'T-- t L4S. Propares p::pi!d for College,t lor business.

Kor. furt lirf partioalaVs addross.Wossrr. WALL A MOONKY,

Cuilooka, Tern.

and whinky liahits cured atOPIUM homo without pain. Book

of prtiouhirs ?nt tree. B.il. '4ft'.LLKY. Atlurt 1. i.

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Business College

U'tny the Sf.irncr of Avouiits is taught ! praolli'-u- urft'Uitlants and cxjjrrienceti tenchera.

v Course cf Study:keeping, Husincss Arithmetic.

liur int-s- s Corre.pontlencc.Penmanship.Xan.l tli Korm; and Application of

I'U'ttts. rr i rytfc tit ai.v timj as they are in.va .'. iinlit Hiualj tmii nA in classes.

X'JO VACATIOIT.W'ntc fur C'ucuUrs, cj mcuttua thit Per.

Studies f (lie Hainan Ear.Tiio Lost phu-- 1o study the ear is in a

street car, There is the chance to ob-

serve in almost one sweep of the eye un-gainly ears, musical and unmusical ears,and graceful curves and symmetricalproportions in ears. As a rule, musi-cians, having intelligent ininds and re-fined natures, wii! have the most per-fectly formed ears. Hence the ear lias athree-fol- d meaning: It is a useful organ,an object of beauty, and a sign of char-acter. Men and women of very strongand active passions are apt to have earsin full blossom the year rountl-wsome-thi- ng

like an old toper's nose. In judg-ing character from the color of the ear,however, due allowance must be madofor the natural complexion of the per-son. If the hair is red or auburn and theface florid, why the ear will naturally beof the same color. A little observationami critical discrimination will enableany one to distinguish between cars ohealthy color and those made red bythe indulgence and excitements ofthe appetites and passions. Allowance must also be made forvery sensitive ami blushing people, lie-

cause some omsn in meir ears, as well asin their faces, and if you were to judgoof them by the color of their ears at thatmoment, you would do them au injustice.It is the general color you must be guidedb-- , and it must always be rememberedthat the ears of some have' toomuch color and others too little. Verylarge ears may indicate a large-hearte- d,

generous nature or proclaim a humandonkey.

Small ears, as a rule, belong to peopleof feeble minds (not idiotic), foolish orEmail and mean in nature, as well us inmental powers. But in judging fromthe t ar, tho face and head should betaken into consideratic n with it, andespecially should the jhape, thicknessand color of Hie ear be considered in con-nection with its size. One thing i cer-tain, and that is, the veil rounded ear isassociated with a love for music, and themore finely funned the ear, the more

the' nature of the person, and con-sequently, the more artistical its musicaltaste, sense and perception. BaltimoreAmerican.

Teaching the ISeaux Small 'la IK.

A cert;un young lady living in Wash-ington earns a fine salary by teachingAmerican small talk tt those young at-taches who are great beaux in society.Her plan is simple enough. Her pupilcalls, is received, anil converses with hishostess teacher for two hours. The talkis confined to drawing-roo- topics. Thiswicked young teacher taught six youngfid lows precisely the game round ofpretty and witty phrases, and at a certaingrand ball they were hovering aroundone of the youngest and most jiopular ofthe Washington girl.1, and each andevery one was saying the same things toher. Washington Cor. New Orleansliouyune.

Collection of Boot and Shoe HeelsAn old bachelor in Berlin lias for

many years pat been engaged in form-ing a collection of boot and fchoe heels.of which lie has now over 1,000, whichare exposed to view in a hadsome glass

.nd numbered and catalogued withi.bn dates and names of the original own-"- .

.1. 'I'tij notion was first suggested toliiin on '!(! Oth of June, 1SG1, whon on avisd ; ih.i ancient castle of Kinast incoinpa.-.- -- f a beautiful Swedish lady,who lo::r. tho heel off one of her boots.That particular lioot heel became thefirst .Mid most valued item in the entirecollection. Chicago Herald.

The Throat of the Hull Snake.Professor Theodore Gill, of the Smith-

sonian Institution, says of the bull orpine snake, which" is found in many partsof the country: "This reptile has becomenotorious rn account of tho sound itemits. It ij very much like the low bel-

low of a bull, and to this tho snake owesone of its names. This is caused by thefact that the epiglottis, an organ absentor represented only by a tubercle in allother serpents, is abnormally developedin the bull snake." Chicago Ledger.

Warm M ater Supply at 1'esth.Warm water is now supplied at tho

rate of 173,OU0 gallons per day at Pesth,from an artesian well said to be about3,000 feet deep, and the deepest in theworld. Tho temperature of the water is161 degrees, but tho work is to bo con-

tinued until the temperature rises to 178degrees. It is expected that the supplywill also then bo ample for all the wantsof tho city. Foreign Letter.

Something; for ItotU anil Carbuncles.It is stated on trood medical authority

that the application of a solution of men-thol in ether applied to carbuncles, boilsor other inflammatory troubles, will, inmany instances, entirely avert them.The solutions that have been used varyfrom 10 to 00 tier cent, of menthol, andapplication is made by a camel's hairbrush to tho affected portion. ChicagoJournal.

C'hansins l"oir Pine to Walnut.A striking fcimilarity to black walnut,

it is said, can be manufactured from poorpine bv the following method: One partof walnut peel extract is mixed with sixparts of water, ami the wood is coatedwith the solution. When the material isabout half dry, solution of bichromateof potash with water is rubbed on it, andthe walryit is ready. In this way excel-

lent walnut can be made from poor pine,and it is said to defy detection exceptupon very close examination. Exchange

A Valuable Hint for Draughtsmen.Sometimes the draughtsman wishes to

erase a line without removing other partsof the work or damaging a line whichcuts the line to be removed. IntheabdVocase, lay a sheet of paper upon the line itis desired to save, and with an Indiarubber eraser the desired line can lie re-

moved, nnd you can work clean andsharp to within one thousanth of an inchof the parts desired to be left. AmericanMachinist.

Improved Glass for the MIcroacopo.A glass of greatly improved quality

has been made by Dr. Carl Zeiss, ofJena, for microscopic objectives. Lensesof the new glass give images of wonder-ful clearness, and have greater resolvingpowVr than has hitherto been known.Arkansaw Traveler.

A Letter from Lord Byron.In the museum of the great National

library is a letter from Byron to an un-

known friend, written in 1821, whereinhe proclaims himself "a citizen of nocountry," and in response to an inquiryabout his works dismisses them "to thedevil, from whence, if you may believemany people, they came." raris Letter.

Hatchiug Out a louble-Yolke- d Kgjf.

The experiment was recently tried ofsetting a hen on a double-yolke- d egg.In duo course of time a little head camethrough each end of the egg, and whenthe shell was removed two chicks werefound. They were slightly united, butwere easily separated. Chicago Times.

Victor Hugo left ten volumes of poetry,plays, and romances for posthumouspublication.

The Oscillation of lall Chimney.--.

Exact measurements of the oscillationsof chimney have lx-e-n made. One nearMarseilles, Franoe 113 feet high and

four feet in external diameter at the top

reached a maximum oscillation of.

twenty inches during a high wiiitL-f-t,

DECLINE OF THE DUEL.

Tint Great Advance JIade In PopulaOpinion Slaves to a Custom.

It has been less than twenty-seve- n

yotja, less than the average lifetime of ageneration, since Robert Toombs deliv-ered in the senate of the United States aeulogy on Senator Broderick, of Califor-nia, who had been killed in a duel withJudge Terry. In referring to the man-ner of Broderick's death Toombs says:

"He fell in honorable contest, under acode which he fully recognized. WhileI lament his sad fate, I have no word ofcensure for him or his adversary. Ithink no man under any circumstancescan have a more enviable death than tofall in vindication of his honor."

When those words were uttered theyprobably expressed the sentiment of alarge majority of tho senators of thoUnited States. There was probably neta senator at the time who, if he did notapprove "the code," would have beenliold enough to denounce it.

This speech, which was in thoroughaccord with the manliest spirit of thetime when it was uttered, is a moraluliiepost from which wo can measure thegreat advance made in tho popular opinionon the subject of dueling in a compara-tively short time. If a member of eitherhouse of congress were to apologize in aspeech in the capital for tho practice ofdueling, it would probably be the death-kne- ll

to his political ambition. It wouldat least mark him as a victim of that un-

compromising public opinion which iuevery part of this country has set theseal of its condemnation on dueling andabolished "the code."

This sudden and almost universal aboli-tio- n

of a custom so entangled with thehighest conceptions of honor, so firmlyfixed in social ethics, and so softened asto the real features of its barbaric crueltyby a gentleness and courtesy that pre-served the romance of medieval knight-hood, is indeed remarkable. It is prob-ably the best single proof that could beoffered of the advance of our people ingood morals and true culture.

The last retreat of the doomed customwas Virginia. After it had been abjuredalmost everywhera eke it seemed toflourish there. This was because of thepeculiar jolitical complications in thatstate which brought men into sharp per-sonal antagonism. In the heated cam-paigns of 1880 and 1881 personal diffi-

culties were numerous, and frequentexpeditions were made to the "field ofhonor." While most of those engagediu thi3 deplorable business were men ofunquestioned courage, the percentage ofdamage to the number of duels was 1

small as to bring these combats intigeneral ridicule. The term "Virginiaduel" wa3 coined, and is still extant, toexpress an affair with all the pomp andceremony of a bloody encounter minusthe blood.

An intelligent Virginia gentleman,who was until late years a believer in"the code," told me the other day thatdueling was dead in this state. He saidthat tho crystalization of the best publicopinion in that state against it within thepast two years had been, simply wonderful, and there is not a county in Virginia where a man would not now ele-

vate himself more in the opinion of thepeople by declining a challenge than byaccepting one.

There never was a time in atrulycivil-Lte- d

country when a man did not revoltfrom the thought of slaying or beingslain in these deliberate combats. Menwho faced each other with deadly weap-ons to fight to the death often had 00 an-

imosity. They were slaves to a customwhich had drifted from barbarism intocivilization; to an idea which had heldits place in, some hard portion of the pop-

ular conscience untouched by the influ-ences that were beautifying and and re-

fining all other sentiments of the popu-lar heart. Public opinion bolstered duel-ing into an unnatural prolongation of itssway. Now that public opinion has notonly withdrawn its support, but haslifted its implacable cry against the mis-erable custom, it must go. Atlanta Con-stitution.

The Process of Thought Transference."As lo tho process by wliich thought

is transferred from one brain to another,it is impossible at present to determine.The committee on thought transferenceobserve:

"It is quite open to surmise some sortof analogy to the familiar phenomena ofthe transmission and reception of vibra-tory energy. A swinging pendulum sus-

pended from a solid support will throwinto synchronous vibration another pen-dulum attached to the same support, ifthe period or oscillation of the two bethe same; tho medium of transmissionhere lieing the solid material of the sup-port. One tuning fork or string in unisonwith another will commuicate its im-

pulses through the medium of the air.Glowing particles of a gas. actingthrough the luminiferous ether, canthrow into sympathetic vibration coolmolecules of the same substance at adistance. A pcrmevient magnet broughtinto a room Wui throw any surrounumgiron into a condition similar to its own;and here the medium of communicationis unknown. Similarly we may conceive,if we please, with many modern philoso-phers, that for every thought there is acorresponding motion of the brain, andthat this vibration of molecules of brain-stuf- f

may bs communicated to an inter-vening medium, and so pass under cer-tain circumstances from one brain toanother, with a corresponding simul-taneity of impressions no more than inthe case of the magnetic phenomena isany- investigator bound to determinethe medium lfore inquiry into the factof transit." Globe-Democr-

The Tucca, or " Newspaper Plant."It seems that in certain far-awa- y ter-

ritories called New Mexico and Arizona,there are great tracts of desolate desertlands, where the very hills seem des-

titute of life and beauty, and where theearth ia shriveled from centuries of ter-rible heat. And in these desert-tract- s

grew a curious, mishapen, grotesque andtwisted, plant that seems more like agoblbi tree than a real one.

Of all the trees in the world, you wouldimagine this to be the most outcast andworthless so meager a living does it ob-

tain from the waste of sand and gravelin which it grows. And yet this goblintree is now being sought-afte- r andutilized in one of the world's greatest in-

dustries an industry that affects thedaily recds of civilization. Those wisefolks, the botanists, call our goblin treeby its odd Indian name of the "Yucca"palm.

This plant of the desert for a longtime was considered valueless. But notlong ago it was discovered that the fiberof the Yucca could be made into an

paper. And now one of theyxeat English dailies, The London Tele-graph, is printed upon paper made fromthis goblin tree. Indeed, The Telegraphhas purchased a large plantation inArizona, merely for the purpose of culti-vating this tree, and manufacturingpaper from it. So, you see, the Yucca ilnow a newspaper plant. St. Nicholas.

Easiest Kecipe for a Novel.Hearken to the ceaseless demand and

the perpetual prayer of an even unsatis-fied and an always Fuffering humanity!How is a book to answer the ceaselessdemand? ' ss is of theessence of enjoyment, and the author j

who would confer pleasure must possess

the art or know tiie trick of destroyinfor the time the reader's own personality,Undoubtedly tho easiest way of doingthis is by the creation of a host of rivalpersonalities hence the number andpopularity of novels. Whenever a novelist fads his book is said to flag; that isthe reader suddenly (as in skating) comesbump down upon Jus own personality,and curses the unskillful author. No lackof characters and continual motion is theeasiest recipe for a novel, which like abeggar, should always be kept "movingon." Nobody knew this better thanFielding, whose noveLs, like most goodones, are full of inns. Macmillan'sMagazine.

Ifow Gladstone Prepares Hia Speeches.We are told on good authority that

this is Mr. Gladstone's method of preparing his speeches: He keeps a box intowhich he is in the habit of throwing cuttings from newspapers and otner memoranda of facts bearing upon the subjectin hand. The morning of the day pre-ceding any great oration he goes throughthis box and picks out his notes of theparticular facts which he wishes to use.These he gums in their proper orderupon a large sheet of paper, and usesthem as the posts upon which the speechitself is to be hung. Then he imagineshimself to be actually speaking composes his oration, m fact, in his headAfter he is satisfied with it, he dismissesthe subject from his mind, and occupiesHimself until the hour for speakingcomes m reading a novel: His memoryis so great that his previously composedsentences come l ack to him withouteffort. London Whitehall Review.

The Lcssoaa of the Gymnasium.It is one of the first lessons of the gym

nasium, given to each on entering', andheld up to him during all the time he re-

mains, that these exercises are not excer--

cises of vanity or jugglery, but are intended to prepare for the work whichbenefits a man, and for responding tothe noblest calls of life; that their aim isto fomi a healthy, strong, valiant, gladsome man, to endow his body withstrength and endurance to render himfit to undergo the hardships 0a march and the work of thecamp and battle-fiel- d. Vanity andempty swagger are restrained; chastityis taught to be the first duty of everyGerman and Christian; beings effeminateor dissolute are pointed at with abhorrence, and none are allowed to stay inthis strict and honorable association whohave done, or suffered to be done, anytiling infamous or vicious. Arndt.

HANDLE YOUR MONEY CAREFULLY- -

One of the Channels Through WhichDisease Alay be Disseminated.

In the numerous speculations as to thevariety of ways and channels throughwhich the germs of contagious diseasemay be disseminated, there is one towhich but little or no importance hasthus far been attached, but which, never-theless, probably plays an important role.We refer to that universal circulatingmedium money. It passes impartiallyfrom tho hand of the millionaire intothat of the beggar, constantly circulatingthrough every class and condition of society. The person of fastidious tastes,who will turn from his path rather thanrisk coming into actual contact withothers of uncleanly dress or person willreceive, handle and carry in his pocketwithout the slightest symptoms of dis-gust, or perhaps without giving it athought, money that has thousands oftimes passed through hands or reposedin pockets whose contact he would deemto be pollution.

In respect to the dangers that mayarise from this cause, paper money isundoubtedly more to be feared thancom, and the indescribably liitliy appearance of much of that which is seenin circulation is familiar to all who readthis. That the handling of such nastystuff is often fraught with serious dancer, no sensible person can doubt. Itwould be well if the system said to be invogue in certain countries of Europe, ofdestroying every note that comes intothe banks and issuing new ones in theirstead were practiced with us, though.even this would only to some extentlessen and not do away with the danger.

But though paper currency is the mostto be feared on the score of communicating disease, coin is by no means freefrom dancer of the eame kind. It hasbeen shown that the blackish coating,which may be seen in the recesses andin the milled edges of coins that havebeen in circulation for a short time, consists of organic filth which when intro-duced into distilled water and examinedunder the microscope was found to beswarming with bacteria and fungi.

We are not sanguine enough to expectthat our readers shall decline to touch orhandle the stuff, for the reasons herepointed out, but we can not refrain fromuttering our protest against the unutter-able nastiness, of which many personsare guilty who would feel themselvesdeeply insulted at any insinuation of alack of refinement or good breeding, ofplacing paper currency or coin in themouth for temporary convenience, whilemakincr chance or the like. The mostdisgusting habit is, singularly enough,confined almost exclusively to womankind, and is an act of thoughtlessnesswhich, if any who read this ever prac-ticed, we feel sure they will never doagain. Manufacturer and Builder.

Happiness of an American Farmer.European writers are constantly mysti

fied by the climatic anomalies of theNorth American continent. M. Hip--polyte Taine, the French Macaulay, oncecontrasted the misery of a Paris slumalley drudge with the happiness of anAmerican farmer grazing his herds inthe palm-grove- s shading the banks of theOhio. Now a German 6n(,hus;ast extolsMilwaukee as that "beauteous lake cityin the latitude of Venice," suggestingorange gardens and Venetian nights. Itmust puzzle such eulogists to accountfor the thousands of Scandinavians whoseem to feel at home on the prairies ofthat West pumpierland. Pr, Felix L.Oswald,

When the Hoy Fell Down-Stair- s.

Horace was standing in the upper hallone day doing something which hismother disapproved of and orderedstoni. He continued at it after one ortwo prohibitions, and finally she startedtoward him. He darted toward thostairway and down the stairs with suchhaste that he wept two, three and, foursteps at a time, and landed in a heap onthe floor. Gathering himself up, homanatred to climb upon a chair, and satthere ouffinar and panting until hisfrightened mother reached him, whenhe was just able to gasp out, "Mother,von oughtn't to to hurry mo so!"j 'Harper's Bazar.

An Incident In Pioneer Life.An incident in New York pioneer life

may show what times were n 18(H).

"My mother said to her nearest neigh-

bor, a Mrs. Roe, living a mile and a halfdistant: 'I have got a fleece now, for Ihave carded the colt and picked thewool out of an old bed quilt and ammaking stockings.' Mrs. Roe repliedj'So have I got a fleece, for I shaved ourdog, and with wool from a bed blanketwill' soon have a pair of stockings,' too,'"A short time after that the whole neigh-

borhood footed it four miles to see two asheep, so great was the sight, ChicagoHerald. ' - -

THE CHINESE AS THEY ARE.

Tcheng-Kl-Tong-- 's Contrast of Eastern andWestern Civilization.

"A ten-year- s' stay in Europe has onlyserved to convince me that no country inthe world is so thoroughly unknown asChina." Tho speaker is Gen. Tcheng-Ki-Ton- g,

military attache of the Chineseembassy at the German court. "We area nation of over 400,000,000 inhabitants,ana yet tfie most erroneous impressionsexist concerning us. Barbarians we canhardly be called, for our civilization,although different from that of theWest, dates back a time prior to even theconception of most of those trreat nationswhich at present are preponderant in thedestinies of the world. It was in Chinathat gunpowder was first invented. Iadmit, however, that we only knew howto make fireworks therewith, and it wasnot until the Jesuit missionaries taughtus, that we learned how to use it forweapons of warfare. Printing wasknown in China in the ninth century oftne cnristian era, while a Chmese manuscript dictionary of the second centuryHives u description 01 ine magnet ana ofthe marine compass, the latter of whichsome Arabs who visited China towardsthe end of the ninth century broughtback to Palestine and subsequently taughttne use thereof to the Crusaders. Needless to talk of silk and porcelain, whichwould alone have been sufficient to indicate a high state of civilization.

"One thing which struck me greatlyon ainvmg in turope was meeting la-

dies in society. In China they are keptapart from the men and do not becomeacquainted with any members of thesterner sex beyond those of their ownfamily. This has-- its advantages. AChinese proverb states that out of everyten women nine are always certain to beafilicted with jealousy, and on the otherhand men are not perfect. The peaceana welfare of the family are thereforeexposed to great dangers. Now familylife and family institutions are the basison which reposes the whole social andgovernmental edifice of the Chinese empire. It is therefore absolutely neces-sary to assure the maintenance of peacein the family. Hence in China we consider it more prudent by separatine menfrom women to avoid the possibility oftrouble and to do away with any opportunity of disturbance. By these means,moreover, we prevent to a great extentmarital troublesj which are always un-pleasant. For what can the husband do?If he kills his faitldess wife he is sure toregret it afterwards, for it is probablethat he loved .her formerly. On theother hand if he appeals to the tribunalsfor redress he finds but little satisfactiontherein, for the cond- -dition of a betrayed husband inspiresneitner pity nor sympathy. . .T T 1m iuiujie wnenever a scanaai, nomatter of what nature, becomes known,the first inquiry is always 'Who is thewoman?" This saying is not applicable m China, for remembering howConfucius warned us against women asthe greatest danger in life, we avoid theopportunity of domg wrong by keepingtliem apart from the men.

No one has ever been so calumniatedas the Chinese woman. She ia represented as ignorant, silly, unable on account of the malformation of her feetto walk, and passing her whole lifelocked up in a kind of seraglio. This isquite wrong. She is able to walk aswell as yoa or I. She goes out shoppingand making visits unveiled and takesher every afternoon drive in her openpalanquin. Her occupations consist ofthe education of her children, the careof the household, dominoes, embroideries and " tending flowers. We disap-- ,prove of excessive instruction as far asour women are concerned. Their education must be entirely distinct from thatof the mer. The latter are brought upto trades and receive instruction intended to fit them for the governmentor merchant service, whereas the womanmust apply herself to learn all that isnecessary for housekeeping and raisingner ianiiir. we ao not insult ourwomen by imagining that they are incapable of scientific instruction, but weconsider tliat it would be taking themoff from their proper track in life andwould unfit them for the place theyhold in the family. Woman has no needto learn to perfect herself. She is bornperfect, and no science in the world willever teach her the grace and gentlenesswhich are the two chief ornaments ofthe domestic hearth.

From the day of her marriage thewife becomes her husband's equal; cansign all documents in the name of ,thefamily; can sell and buy property, giveher children in marriage, and, in fact,with one exception, has just the samecivil rights as her husband. Moreover,any honor conferred on the latter isshared equally by her, and she i3 "evenentitled to wear the insignia of his rank.Women, however, can not inherit money;no dowries are given, and hence thatcurse of western civilization, namely, amoney marriage never occurs in China.

Old bachelors and elderly spinstersare almost unknown in China, and maybe considered as a product of westerncivilization. Celibacy ia looked upon byus as a crime and contrary to the customs and habits of the country. Mar-riage takes place at a very early ageboys of 10 marrying girls of 14. Theclimate has nothing whatsoever to dowith this precocity, for it is just as cus-tomary in the most northern latitudes asin the tropics. It is rather due to thepreoccupation of the parents that theirchildren should be settled early in lifeand should devote their strength and theresources of their youth to the familyrather than to lead a wild and immorallife away from home. The wife iachosen by the parents of the bridegroom,who does not himself see his intendedwife until the day of the marriage. WTioare better qualified to make the selectionthan the parents?" Berlin Cor. NewYork World.

Tl.e Wife of Historian Bancroft.A topio of conversation in American

ocipty, writes a Paris correspondent, isthe lonely state of Mr. George Bancroft,the historian, who a short time ago wasleft a widower at the age of 86. I had ashort and agreeable acquaintance withMrs. Bancroft, when she and her husbandrepresented the United States republic atBerlin. Had she lived another year shewould have celebrated her golden wed-ding with Bancroft, who was her secondhusband. They were an interestingcouple. She was ceremonious withoutbeing prim or starched. Her smileshowed free, however,from conceit, and certainly a wish to bevery gracious. She spoke with delibera-tion, and yet avoided drawling, andbrought out every word with clear dis-

tinctness. Mr. Bancroft, a white-bearde- d,

hale old gentleman, with a fine eye, thatdenoted sagacity and a quick perception,was, when she spoke of him, "the minis-ter," or "my husband," lie was as cere-monious and. as free from starch as hiswife. Their mental habits and mode ofspeech were cultivated before tele-graphese was invented and the reactiontoward blunt Anglo-Saxo- n phraseologyhad taken plaoe, "

Mrs. Bancroft's conversation savoredof "elegant extracts." It was pictur-esquely and prettily Ionly knew her when she was staying in

hotel; but I was told that she wasnotable, although by no means a fussy.housekeeper, and that the German crow j.

princess plCKed up many American cul-inary notions when dining at the table

such as cranberry preserves with roastmutton, oyster soup, pumpkin pie, anddoughnuts. I one day had the pleasureof walking round a horticultural showwith Mrs. Bancroft, who I found was anenthusiastic rose-fancie- r, and could teachmost of the gardeners who exhibited improved methods of cultivating differentspecies of roses. She was also a walkingbiographical encyclopaedia. Who wasthere within the last sixty-si- x y iars inEurope or America that either hi or shehad not known or seen ' or hefjrd aboutfrom mutual friends? ' '

Mott Street's Chinese in Gotham.Life begins in these fitrange caravan-serie- s

at 6, when the proprietor or clerkopens the front door and sends out forthe breakfast materials. These com-prise rice, fish, pork, bread, and vege-tables. The lodgers next put in an ap-

pearance, crawling out of their bunks,still drowsy with sleep or sleep-givin- g

drugs. A pail of water and a coarse rgin the kitchen scon restore the circula-tion of the body and fit one and .all forthe morning meal. This is made of thearticles described, but cooked in waysvery different from those employed incivilized circles. The rice is plain boiled,the fish boiled or stewed and served withan aromatic sauce in which ginger,cloves and red pepper are prominent fac-tors; the pork and vegetables are choppedinto thin pieces and stewed together.The drinks employed are . hot and coldtea, and sometimes minute quantities ofstrong arrack or rice brandy. ' Afterbreakfast many of the lodgers depart fortheir daily work.' Among these earlybirds are cigar makers, clerks, peddlers,and shipping runners.

Those who remain are generally - seamen, merchants, gamblers, and agents.These after their repast light a cigar orcigarette, opium or hasheesh, and takesolid comfort for an hour or more.

Those who have literary tastes lie downin their bunks and read, for, strange tosay, most orientals assume a recumbentattitude when reading or studying; thosewho desire excitement resort to dominoes and other games of chance, whilethe majority simply smoke-- and ' "swapstories." At noon a second meal is servedsimilar to breakfast, but including besides soups and 6tews, in which macaroniand vermicelli are chief features. At 5o'clock dinner is given. It is like its predecessors in the articles served, onlythere is more of them and all are morehighly spiced anti seasoned. New YorkLetter.

Sle and Value of Pearls."According to their size," said a dealer

the pther day, pearls receive variousnames. Those of extraordinary size arecalled 'paragon pearls;' when the sizeof a cherry, 'cherry pearls;' medium arecalled " 'piece pearls;' smallest, 'dustpearls.' The oval and long are' termed'pear pearls, while badly-forme- d specimens are known as 'baroques.' :

"Is there any standard value?" --

"WeU, the 'piece,' 'seed,' and 'dust'grades have always a market price,which vanes, of couse, with the qualityand general color. The 'cherry' and 'paragon are sold on an entirely differentbasis. If many fine ones are on the market at a time they may be had at reason-able rates. Some years they bring al-

most any price. The last two years,especially, there has been a great scarcity of fine pearls, although there is nofalling off in the supply of the, smallstuff. When a pearl exceeds one caratin weight it is sold separately. Underthat weight they are sold in parcels andbecome less valuable as they becomesmaller. The smallest dust pearls collected average about 5,000 to the troyounce and are at present rated at about59 per ounce. If, on the contrary, oneparagon weighing an ounce (or laOcarats) was on sale it would bring anyamount from $30,000 to $200,000, accord-ing to quality. Chicago News Inter-view. ,

Where Languages Are Best Spoken. ,

The best French is always spoken inParis, where there is an inimitable ac-cent which makes law. The best Eng-lish is certainly spoken in Dublin. Thobest German is spoken in Vienna, al-

though I always liked the Dresden artic-ulation. In Florence they speak thebest Italian, but tho Romans proaouncoit better Lingua Toscana ia bocca Horn ana. 1 never heard more musicallish than from the lips of educated NovYork ladies, ana tera is a pecuLa?charm in the old French Byoica by thapretty womea of Quebec, Montreal Gagetto,

Strength of the French Army.The following are the latest figures of

the strength of the French army. Theyare taken from the book, "Avant laBataille," which was published recentlyby the "Patriotic League," and has beena sort of nine days'1 wonder in Paris.There are eighteen corps d'armee, com-prising 450 battalions .of infantry, 153squadrons of cavalry, and 324 batteries.The total effective force is said to be:Officers, 18,738; men, 671,292; horses, 200,-00- 2:

guns, 1,944; carriages, ' 38,754. De-

troit Free Press.

Another Form of Code-Signalin- g.

Steno-telegraph- y is one of the most interesting among the many methods de-

vised for increasing the capacity of telegraph lines. It may be said to be anotherform of cde8ignaling in which an ab-

breviated sign may indicate a" word oreven a sentence. The manipulation ontliis system naturally requires long practice, which is one of its drawbacks, butthe results obtained compare quite favor-ably with those of other fast systems.Frank Leslie's.

Pri'.Ving from Chinese Blocks.A Chiizffee block is engraved on a hard

na,tive wood with a close grain, cut m adifferent direction to the boxwood prepared for English engravers. : The, Chi-nese printer inks the Mock with a brush

the ink being a suitable compoundlargely composed of India ink. To secure an impression soft paper is laid onthe block, and a dry brush is passed overthe back of the paper, which is printedon one side only. Exchange.

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A Coffin Fair ia Knssia. ,'

In Russia, a coffin.fair is held once a

t 1 Iyear, tvery peasant wuo nas an ageuparent buys a coffin. The present isalways acceptable, for the receiver leeisassured that he will have a Christianburial, and is proud of the son who thus

.. it ,cares tor ms lass resuiig-pme- e. ummCheer. -

Spirit Made by the Moon. ',

The Moors make extensive use of aspirit prepared from the water in whichcomb is boiled in treating beeswax. Thewater, being: impregnated with honey, isallowed to ferment, and is then distilled;the spirit is called maharga. ' It is flavored with anise seed or nana that is,fennel acid. Chicago Herald.

Cattle Herders Crossing the Border.Stock raisers in Montana have leased

extensive cattle ranges from theDominion government for a term of twenty- -

one years, and are driving great herds ofcattle across the border into North wee tterritory. Inter Ocean. ;

; Upward of 28,000 persons registered asvisitors to Hunker HUM monument thepast year. . . ... ,

Politeness will succeed where moneyalone will get worsted.

GOING TO SLEEP IN CHURCH.

A Churchgoer's Experience and Physl.elan's Practical Ideas.

"Doctors are consulted for strange rea-sons sometimes," remarked a physicianthe other day, "but seldom has my pro-fessional aid been sought on an odderground than was presented to me re-cently by an elderly gentleman whooffered himself for my treatment. Hewanted me to cure him of sleeping inchurch. , The happy thought had. oc-

curred to him of chewing tobacco apractice that he had abandoned for years

to keep himself awake, but lie droppedasleep all the same, partly swallowed hisfirst quid, and for a few minutes en-grossed the attention of the entire congregation by his wild, unstudied ex-plosions and eavortings." The memoryof that bright but shameful season of unhallowed excitement , kept him wideawake one Sunday, but the next he began to be drowsy just as soon as thepreacher got agoing. His mental struggle with somnolency kept him just out-side the edge of a good,' comfortablesleep, but nodding like a toy mandarin.One minute lie would nod forward,further and fu) ther, until he threatenedto butt the stylish hat of the younwoman in the pew before him, and thenwould wake with a . guilty start.- - Thenext he would nod backward, more andmore, until a consciousness of losing hiabalance startled him up, and he wouldcome erect wTith a choking gurgle andsnort that almost made the preacher losethe thread of his discourse.

"By hi', wife's advice he tried caramels.cloves, dried ginger, lemon peel, and hocould not remember what all else, butthe only time that system was a successwas when she rang in some Cayenne pepper lozenges on him. When all else hadfailed she grimly said that she would undertake the job of . keeping him awake.And she did it once. Just as he "wasdropping off into a gentle doze and tuning up for a catarrhal obligato he fairlynew into the air, with a remark that wasall that could be desired in point of emphasis, but the pious base of which wassadly misplaced. She had jabbed a shawlpin into his, leg. One of the deaconscame to see hini during the week, andsaid he" thought that the provocationmight fairly be taken into account injudging the sinfulness of words utteredin such hasty excitement. The deaconsuggested that he should try prayer tokeep him awake; but, of course, he didn'ttake much stock in that advice, and

to me."came ! i

"Well, what did you do for him?" .

"About all that the least harmful members of my profession do in most casesnothing. 1 tojd hnn he might drinJ. verystrong tea or coffee before going tochurch, and that would probably keephim awake, but the tea would play thedeuce with his stomach and nerves, andthe coffee would be likely to damage hisfiver, so he had better let both alone.His wife's experiment with the- - shawlpin had demonstrated that a nerve couldbe so irritated as to insure wakefulness,and for that treatment he could find therequired nerve pretty, much anywherethat a pin could be got at him. As forpctuiT7 he couhln't go to sleep as longas he would stand on titoe."

"Why is the tendency to sleep in churchso common, especially among men?"

"There are several reasons. One is thetemperature. In winter the church is,as a rule, too warm, ana tne euect of awarm atmosphere upon persons enteringit from the outside cold is to make themdrowsy, almost irresistibly, unless theyhave some very strong mental or phys-ical interest or ' stimulant to keep themwakeful. Then special means are af-

forded for Morpheus to attack worship-ers, both by the ear arid the eye. - Allnoises of the world outside are, as far aspossible, excluded, and the only soundthat is heard for a long time is thepreacher's voice in measured cadences,little modulated, lulling to sleep as in-

evitably as does the soft sound of rip-pling water, or the pattering of Lrain-- .drops on the roof. . That monotonousflow of words is more likely than perfectsilence to make a person drowsy. Asfor the effect through the eyes, there isthe dim, religious light common inchurches, and, second, the straining andunnatural position in which the eyeshave to be kept in looking up at a minis-ter perched in a pulpit or on a platformconsiderably higher than the heads ofhis auditors. You can not long, look upat anything without tiling the musclesthat move the eyeballs and making youwant to rest them by closing your eyes.When you close your eyes in a comfort-able atmosphere, " with a persistentlullaby in your ears, you must have somepowerful incentive to wakefulness, oryou will go off in the land 'of nod, justas sure as that tack hammers are notbananas. Look at congregations in themore . sensibly -- . constructed modernchurches, where the floor, is ' in amphi-theatric- al

form, and the line of sight isstraight, or inclining a little down, fromeach auditor to the minister at the low-est point, and you will find

(very. little

sleepiness there, especially if the place iswell lighted. Why, a preacher must bea first-cla- ss chump who can not keep thebrethren awake in that sort of a church.As for the women, they manage to keepawake very easilyi ' 'How? By givingtheir attention to the study, of one an-

other's bonnets." New;York Sua--

Better Be Blind Than Deaf and Dumb.Are not the blind proverbially cheer--

ful, and is not this a beneficent, useful,and compensating quality in them? Asa rule, we carry our cross gayly, and itia a constant source of .; .wonder to manythat we can keep up our spirits in face ofthe calamityi Contrasted with the deafour bearing is remarkable; they areprone to look gloomy and morose, whilewe ' are, I think, usually, the reverse.The secret is that it is far more depress-ing and miserable to live in silence thanin darkness. ' As proof of this, watch adeaf person sitting apart with saddenedexpression and suspicious glance quicktraveling in all. directions. The wholoaspect and demeanor of the man changeson the instant some one speaks to him inhis own tongue on the 'lingers, that isto say. The silence in ' which he lives is'dispelled; he has found an equivalent forhis ears. .. :

Give, then, the blind man in his fingersan equivalent for his eyes and the dark-ness in which he lives is dispelled. ; Hismood, if happy, simply becomes happier,in that he has an, occupation, the gourcaof all happiness. ' The situation . is notchanged if the occupation be directingor listening instead of teclmical. No';. Imust repeat thi3 is a misunderstandingof the powers of the blind which hashitherto retarded their fullest develop-ment. They have been ' too much tele-gat- ed

to the ranks of the incompetent,too much set aside as a class by them-selves, instead of being accepted as intel-ligent, useful, working members of thecommunity. Fortnightly Review.

Tke Black Man's Own Country.Jt is only too certain that the emigrant

is not wanted in the Cape colony. It iathe country of the black man of thatscorner of clothes, the noble savage.White labor languishes; energy fails atthe moment prosects open. The Boer,the most adhesive of mortals, rests con-tented with a squalid home and a pros-pect of uutilled acres more extensivethan his eye can survey. The truecolonial jLaatinct is wanting that indo- -

scribable intellectual capacity of taftingroot where the foot falls. Ambition heroseems to impel a man no further than adesire to obtain money enough to enablehim, whether he be an Englishman or aGerman, to return home and stop there.

A posterity may arise that will be asthe vino bush is, or the gum tree a puregrowth of South African soil, but withantecedents with a lieginning in wliiteliands. But down to the present momentthe symptoms are not those of a coloniz-ation such as created a great republicacross the western ocean, such as hasbuilded an empire of cities and populoustowns in the distant Pacific. I say it isa pity; for you cannot think of themighty tracts of tho green and beautifulcountry stretching in mountains and val-leys and plains to the equatorial latitudesand of the dreadful poverty you see andhear of and read about in London andthroughout Great Britain and Irelandwithout deep regret that tho land shouldbe universally declared to offer no op-portunities to those in need of bread.Cor. London Telegraph.

An t's Life In Paris.A Detroit youth studying in Paris

writes home: "The impressionist is notupheld, even ever so slightly, and a stu-dent cannot work as he likes. First ofrll drawings must bo in charcoal nojrayons, pencils, or stumps are allowedand the charcoal used here is hard, takinga very fine point like a pen. Iu makinga study from life one must use charcoalpaper, and your study must be finishedwithout resort to rubbing flat shadowson patches of light and shadow madethrough any other means than the point.Thus you see your study is drawing atevery stage, and you can not resort totricks or accident. In drawing ahead' or the anatomy cf anarm or leg one Is taught bythis means not only the use of a point,but he is instructed most accurately inactual movements of the muscles, ten-dons and bones; thus fixing in the stu-dent's mind with more certainty andmore lasting effect the values of artlines and physiological construction. Itis drawing in the true sense of the word,without any nonsense whatever.

"Student life does not seem exien.sive.On the contrary,' it is proving quite reasonable. We get well-cooke- d dinners inmost quaint and artistic little restaurants for 2 francs 40 cents of ourmoney- -

and our studios cost us but $8 a month (

with coffee included, served eacli morning in our studios. Our school, our tui-tion, is $12 a month, and so you see onecan live well here," Exchange.

The Dog Did ot Count Seven.It is one thing to think by resem

blances and another thing to think bysymbols. A story was recently publishedby M. Dubuc of a pointer which hadlearned after a few years that its masterwent hunting every Sunday, while 011

the other days ho went to business; andM. Dubuc concluded that the animal hadlearned to count up to seven.

The conclusion is not legitimate; itmay even be said to be wrong. The dogdistinguished Sunday by some featuresthat were peculiar to it by the move-ments about the house, tho behavior andSunday dress of the servants, tho dress ofthe master.or any one or more of a n umberof tilings that make Sunday differentfrom other lays of the week; but womay say without contradiction that itdid not count seven. We, ourselves, if we were restrictedto a fife absolutely uniform, wouldnot be able to distinguish the seven Hiday without mnemotechnic aids, and asa rule we seldom - recollect the day ortne uate except Dy ine assistance ot in-trinsic circumstances. Popular ScienceMonthly. '

Separating Aluminum from Corundum.As an instance of the need of one por

tion of our country for every other portion, I may refer to corundum, which isnow mined in North Carolina, near Ash-vill- e,

. to be sent to Lockport, N. Y., adistance, I should think, by rail, of 1,000miles. Some young men in Clevelandhave invented a process of separatingaluminum from corundum, the lattercontaining 00 per cent, of aluminum,which, while tho most generally distrib-uted substance or element on the globe,has been hitherto inseparable in quanti-ties ' from the sand ur clay withwliich it was impurely mixed. Youcould throw it on top of the highest blastfurnace on the globe and it would notmelt at all. The new blast furnace atLockport is to melt it by electricity.x et even how thev do not undertako toeparate it, except from corundum.Aluminum is a remarkable metal, not

known till 1828; not handled tilllBSl itgives tremendous tensile property to ironand copjier, makes wrought iron adaptitself for castings, and a little of it hasall the influence of gold in arts; by itselfit looks like lead or tin, but it is hardlyheavier than wood. The young menwho invented - this process have spent

20,000 at it. George Alfred Town- -

send. '

A Minister's Crashing Repartee.I never heard of a finer piece of wit

and repartee than was told me the otherday by a minister from tho ' south, involving two of Ins brother ministers,whom I will call White and Green.Rev.. White had recently been honoredwith the title of P. D., and really do--

served it, not only for hia learning butfor his piety, wlu'ch was of a particularlymarked and gentle type. Rev. Greenwas of a jealous disposition and ; some-thing of an upstart, and on meeting oneday with Rev. White undertook to belit-tle his new honors by telling him. thatthe title of D. D.'was conferred so indis-criminately and so frequently nowadaysthat it didn't amount to . a great deal,anyway. If this indecorous and

assault' offended or nettledRev. White it was not tho least visible,and to this day no one knows whetherhe was even conscious of tho crushingrepartee which he then got off. Ho as-

sented in the mildest and most dispas-sionate manner imaginable to what Rev.Green had said, and then added, in asort of absent-minde- d may: "As you say,the title has got to be so common that aminister who hasn't got it isn't anybodyat all." Chicago Journal.Conscientious Pupils in the School lloorn.' One of the most serious trials of the

teacher, aftr all, is the painfully goodand painfully literal boy. A readingclass was at work in a Boston school notlong ago, and the piece- selected was an"Address to the Mummy in Belzoni'sMuseum, London." A pupil, one of thososerious, conscientious fallows, was calledupon to read the notes on the piece attho bottom of the page. In these oc-

curred the namo Cheops, and the pro-nunciation was spelled and inclosed inbrackets. This is how he read it: "Ac-cording to Herodotus, the great pyramid,

was built by Cheops (pro-nounced' Keops)." Perhaps it was an-

other type of a child who was requested ato give five important uses of rivers.This is one use he ingeniously manufact-ured: "When you lose a hat off in thowater you can go out in a boat and getit." Boston Budget.

Whale Fisheries of tiie I'arinc.Whale fisheries are established all

along the coast of Oregon and California,and numbers of whales are taken In theirmigrations down the coast, while whaleshave been taken up north with harpoonsin them belonging to San Diego andMonterey whalura.

PEOPLE WHO ARE STAMMERERS.

A Hblt Which Slay Ite P.uily OvercumeWhy Women Speak Clearly.

. A richly-furnishe- d suite of apartmenton one of the thoroughfares of tho citym devoted to a peculiar purpose. Agilded plate of modtst dimensions,- -

011which a name, and nothing more, is in

is among the flaunting signs bythe main entrance to the building. As-cending one flight of staici tho visitor's1attention will be attracted by tne markedcare with which tho doors leading to thofront apartments aro curtained He willunderstand at once that it is not a iri- -

vftte establishment, for the 11.11110 whichapix.'ars on the plate below is again in-

scribed on one of the doors. A reporterwas ushered into a small private apart-ment, where a tall and handsome gentle-man in a fashionable spring suit waitedon him. In a l;u-g- parlor connectingwith this nnte-roo- by a glass door aconversation was going on. It ran inthis way:

"Try once again, please.""

inof th-th-t- year."

A young lady was endeavoring tostattiin plain English that a thrush singssweetly in the spring of tho year.

The place proved to be a private schoolfor teaching persons who lisp, stammer,and. stutter to articulate their words dis-tinctly. Tho instructor eonsentd to ex-

plain tho secrets of lus interesting busi-

ness. He said that not one in twentyof those who lisp and stammer have nnyorganic or natural defect, and in proofof his assertion he cited the fact thatfew children commence to stammer la-fo- re

the ages of 5 or 6 yearn."Various causes can bo assigned for

stuttering, lisping, and stammering," heproceeded. "Fright often causes this re-

sult, and sickness, which does not at allaffect tho vocal organs, prixluecs thosame effect through nervous action.Stammering, too, is contagious, and achild whoso speech is distinctwill almost certainly Ixn-om- a stam-merer if permitted to play and associate.with stammerers. The habit is acquiredby sympathy."

Can persona whoso habit of stammering and lisping is a matter of long stand-ing be taught to speak distinctly ?"

The habit can bo overcome in a veijrshort space of time with training andpatient practice where there is 110

of the vocal organs.""Is it not truo that many ladies prido

themselves on their ability to lispprettily?"

"In some circles lisping is considereda fashionable and desirable accomplish-ment. . The trouble about lisping is thatwhen a lady has once acquired tho hajiitshe can not adopt a new stylo as slutwould a new dress. Most young ladieswho take lessons in lisping when frolick-ing with companions of their own agoare Borry for it later on, and the habit isnot then so easily dropped."

"How do you distinguish iietweetistammerers, stutterers, and lispcrs 'f

"Stammering is simply spasmodic ar-

ticulation, while the stutterer sjieakiifrom an exhausted chest, and is unabloto commence speech easily. I loth li- -fects arise from a jnlsuso of the vocalorgans, sometimes brought alout byignorance and sometimes tho result ofhabit. Lisping consists in giving thosound of th to s and z and some othersof the consonants, and is almost invari-ably an acquired habit. When not ac-

companied by a serious difficulty in ar-

ticulation it is surely unnatural and thoresult of a forced use of nature's organs."

"Are not the facial contortions whichfrequently manifest themselves when attutterer tries to speak proofs iu them-selves that some physical defect exists?"

"Not by any means. These contortionsresult from a misuse of the respiratoryorgans. Teach the sufferer by wordand example the proper Use of thesocrgans and gradually thesn contortionsdhaptiear altogether. I have seen jier-so-

who would almost go into sp.'ixm.-- t

CU attempting to speuk, after careful(raining for two months converse withperfect couijxjsuro as easy an you or 1.The mechanical part of speech is an un-conscious effort. To correct defects iuBH-ec- it must lie made conscious, thatis to say, the attention mu.'t lxi concen-trated upon the vocal effort and tho ac-

tion of tho articulatory organs." Tho '

instructor explained that the male stam-merers exceed the female 111 numlier inthe proportion of seven or eight to one,for the reason, lie said, that women imih-se- ss

more mobility than mi in tho or-g:u-'ia

of speech. A bail stammerer whohas no physical defect in f ho vocal or-

gans, can bo taught to HjK'ak distinctlyin from cue to two months. While underinstruction, or immediately afterward,he must liot bo allowed to withothers who stammer, or with personswho Fpeak very rapidly. Stammeringand lirtping aro more general amongwealthy people than among the jHxir, forsome unaccountable reason. Severalclergymen who stammer iu ordinaryconversation, articulate quite distinctly :

in the pulpit, but only when they readtheir sermons from manuiK-ript- . NewYork Mail and Express.

The Dissimilarity of Twins.Twins, although sometimes ludi-

crously like in features and characters,are very unlike in other coscn; while thochild which resembles ono parent inbodily features may not rosemble it iumental character. Nor have the halv.-- i

of double monsters always similar dis-

positions. The Hungarian twin sister.-- )

that lived united by tho bottom of thoback for 22 years had extremely differenttemperaments, albeit" after their denthitheir blood vessels were found to com-municate, so that the same blood servo 1

them. The Siamese twins,again, who died a few years ago, did notlive happily together to the' end of theirdays; one gave way to drinking, therebydisturbing much of the other's comfort;and they quarreled so mucii on that ac-

count and because they took opjiositoviews of tho American civil war thatthey were earnestly eager to have aseparation of bodies and consulted emi-nent surgeons on. tho subject. Fort-nightly Review.

A CI01 k That Need No Wiiiilinff.An electrical clock that runs without

winding, is not affected by the atmos-phere, can not vary, and can lio sold forone-ha- lf the cost of the ordinary clock,has been invented. Exchange.

The s of an DrililJ. 'An orchid displayed in the horticultural

show was a faithful representation, all inono flower, of a fairy slipper, a toboggan,and a pair of eagle's wings. FrankLeslie's.

A careful estimate shows that 019,000

pianos have been made in the UnitedStates since 1780.

It is singular that the post mortem "fcharacter seldom reveals any altort-coming- s.

WhitehallTake lililuelica OUS cj.' LuJ wolld fcuJ

how maay wtu'--l pu-.ti- ua onvL.etv morita. Jud Lafaah.

The busines, of tho story-telle- r Is t

the sry ted Urntell the story, and letmoral. Chicago Times.

Purity isTii'feuunino, trui.'t the ma

culine of honor. Hare.

A higgle hair wui aupport Uw weigh.fjt about four ouucua.