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THE BOSTON WEEKLY JUNE 16. 1891. 3 WOMAN BRETHARTILOVED Bitterly Attacked His of Roaring Why the Prince if Wales Played Baccarat, Sot Lawn Tennis. Why He Carries Counters and Not a Grip Pull of Sacred Books. attjl Jnne much of the baccarat scandal has been loaded upon the American newspapers, that the inquiry Is what is going to happen? We might apply this Inquiry to ourselves instead of the prince.

The latest British Information Is that all classes rally around the prince, and that his up and down conduct, admitting all that might he used to his prejudice attending the trial instead of getting behind the arras, and turning what was meant to he a place of scandal into an atmosphere of graciousness and government has produced a reaction no mean mentality could have foreseen. The United States seldom shews a letting up of public severity upon a man found out; those who are not found out are the least forgiving people in the world. Bret Hasrto once told me, what might have been a fiction he was trying on my nature or a fact, that when he was a lad in San Francisco some female there, married and connected, and with whom be lodged, allowed him to become enamored of her, and in the course of time the lady went off with her sister, who had married a rich ranchman, and they agreed to write to each other and be true, etc. But after he had published "The Luck of Roaring Camp." which is the tale of a poor eyprian in a mining camp having a oaby, which baby evangelized the camp, he said that the provincialism of California could not stand so much popularity as he received, and the Immorality was taken up and made the most of, since they could not deny that it had constructive, picturesque and literary merits, Every provincial scab harped upon the dreadful immorality of this tale, which looks like a plagiarism out of the New Testament, where the Magdalen was taken in the field, but did not forsake the cross. One set of articles were so severe that Harte wondered what man could have such venom in his nature; and going to Joseph Golden Era, who hail pub- Lawrence of the fished these things in his paper, he said; 'Lawrence, you must tell me who that man Said Lawrence: it is Not a Man at All, bnt a woman; and I will show her to you tonight.

She is connected with one of our best families." The two men wont that night to a charitable fair, and as they approached a certain table Mr. Lawrence indicated a woman. "There is the stern moralist," said he, Harte looked at the woman, he says, and recognized that one who had every reason to forgive the heroine and mother of Roaring Camp. With indignation lie approached the table, hut in one moment be saw from her eyes and look that the woman not found out was going to assumo all the righteousness of that large class of society which has not been found out. And so with our princes of Wales, the public should) be to the people the signals for consideration and respect, that life may be worth living with dignity, they are seldom forgiven by those who are never found out.

William H. 8eward, as I find from the two Interesting volumes edited by his son Frederick, issued during the present year, wrote In October, 1866, when Congress had commenced to quarrel with Andrew Johnson: "I am not appointed or authorized to defend the president against personal calumnies. The entire experience of the United States thus far shows that calumny of the chief magistrate is a chronic form of party activity and that it has always failed of lasting effect. "It is only necessary to say that I have no remembrance of a time during my public life in which less charitable views of my public and private character were taken by those who differed from me than those whioh are now presented by opponents of the polisy which it is my duty to maintain. My first complaint of trakmdness at the hands of my fellow citizens remains yet to he made, and I think it may with safety be still longer While the presses of his own party were thus defaming Seward, and of course he was receiving no support from the opposi tion press, his only daughter, the gem of his in a dying state; and two days after ward sho died.

Says Frederick Seward: Another sad pilgrimage to Auburn was made to deposit her remains by her side, Seward again stood Under the Lcafletl Trees on Fort Hill, as the sun was setting, and saw the grave close over the cherished hope of his old The man thus grieved and jumped upon had himself just recovered from the hacks and stabs which had nearly severed his whole jaw from his face. And two of his sons had been wounded to death by the assassin, his wife thrown back into sickness and the grave, and his daughter was gone, and still the great American people were uying about their hero in a ferocity of par- Jaan spite, "That man Paine ought to have finished his work" This remark is attributed, though I can hardly think with truth, to Thaddeus Stevj litllulj WillA Wim uu Jtunuviouo ens, who had been associated with Seward ver since 1830, when they were in the anti- lasonic convention together. Of course we are hearing every day that the Prince of Wales ought to set a better example, and that he should not gamble in the house of his friends. The criticism means that he ought to be a practical man. But what is he allowed to do that is practical? The President of the United States told me a few months ago, that even in his Democratic magistracy he had never been able but once to get three hours to himself to compose a paper.

The American public expect Harrison when he goes forth to have something ready to speak. But Mr. Harrison said to me, without any reference to public speeches, that he never knew before he entered the presidential office how much It was a life of little details, the whole day chopped up Into small parts, and nothing of a continuity accomplished when night comes; and Saturday, which is reserved for the recuperation and solace, Again invaded by senators and congressmen. Consequently, the President goes away the White House for pleasure alone. the continent with his family, gets about as much privacy as a rat ind in a house or stable.

He goes In summer To a tittle Cottage at the obscurest and most neglected ofi our watering places, and the question is not asked, "Is the poor health but, "How did he get the cottage; we find who gave it to him? If we can prove that on him, we will deliver him to the holy inquisition and make an auto-da-fe of him." In like manner the Prince of Wales turns from jhevast hypocrisy and formality of society, the laving of corner-stones, the gathering of the Bishops, the opening of schools, the foundation of charities by men who snubbed and starved their children, the startiug out of expeditions by cranks to view the man in the moon or find Frankenstein in Greenland, and the attending upon the old lady, his motner, when the beer does not agree with her, while the infinite bother of his family who are intermarried with no end of mistress keepers and drones, come back upon the prince with theircomplaints, that yesterday of Battenburc pulled down their back hair," and, "I really live with Lord Lorne because he is so The Prince of Wales hunts around for something really innocent. He gets a parcel of counters and puts them in ms baggage and says, like the gentleman in Our Mutual I have got him in "The Rise and Fall Off the Roman Empire. Says the Prince to himself, "Down here in the country are persons, innocent, genteel, confiding, who love their prince and look upon me as the representative of 800 years of undiminished fame in this land. I will not attempt there to pay attention to any of the young girls lest it get into the newspapers. In order that tney may not fall in love with me, as the English women are in the habit of doing with their prince, I shall fill up the whole evening until sleepiness comes with a little game of baccarat.

"Instead of encouraging extravagance in those country families, ha might otherwise and invite a hundred guests and go in efrt and have reason to remember me with sorrow, I will Have a little Game lor the family alone and two or three of my friends who habitually play with me, and we shall have a limit to the betting, and then which one of my subjects can say a to my prejudice?" But the Prince, where he expected to find a simple, guileless, untreacheroos family found some of those nasty scandal-mongers, who abound where women, and men, too, are incapable of considering an abstraction or being satisfied with immateriality. The pursuit of imputation is as natural to a great many persons as speculative ology to others speculative scepticism to more, There was a little game on STEERAGE TO LIVERPOOL such as is hehil in many preacher houses since cards have become general. The habit is not a good one, bat it is seldom practiced except where the parties are solvent enough to season their hazards with a little penalty, As the women, single or married, engaged or otherwise, love to flirt, which is nothing more than pushing a card forward in order to see if it win win or lose, so persons of idleness and means, and all persons of means must liave times of idleness or they would be paralytics, love to have a little game. I have seen it played in houses of ail sorts, I have seen two friends meet each other in the morning before 10 o'clock and challenge each other to a rubber for Upon the steamship's crossing the ocean cards are continually Played. The principal novelist of our time tn England commences one of her stories with a young lady losing her money at the German baths upon the turn of the roulette ball, having to at the pawn brokers her whereupon I a stranger redeems it and sends it hack to her.

This is the kind of stranger to he princely indeed, and not the stranger who writes home to England that ho saw Gwendolen "spout" herbracelet, Daniel Deronda was so considerate to this woman, that in the course ot time she guessed him out to have been the man who did this wonderful act, and then of course sho falls Experience of a Passenger Who Tried It Once. Like Many of His Associates Ho Caro to Try It Again. Description of the Single Ocean Flirtation. In Love with Him, and not getting him the ladies throw the hook in the fire, and say that George Eliot was no great person after it is understood that she lived with a man who had another wife. British public opinion shows the advance of British institutions, by coming up all the stronger for the prince when he has departed the most from the puritanic model, There would he uo credit about institutions if their hero was uniformly virtuous.

Then virtue would be its own reward, and having none of the fine qualities of a sinner, there would be no merit in loyalty to him. Your couutry is strong when you go to the side of its exemplar and future prince, who has done something that Mrs. Grundy did not approve of. What is this man to do, I nsk again, since his whole vitality is consumed in the formalities of religious and educational and social existence? Is he to learn a trade? Louis XVI. did that and was a he had married Marie Antoinette for his wife, but had he constructed the platform and timbers of the guillotine it would have been logical work for him and enough for liis ole trade, since to that carpentry he had come to.

The joinery ho taught his restless and insatiate subjects presented to his wife as well, whilst his son was bound out to a shoemaker. in the true practical spirit we hear so much and In order to take the pride out of that little prince the shoemaker bullied him every day with infamous questions about his virtue. In that hour spoke Burke, whose oratory had so much innueuce over the British people at the time of the French revolution, when a large proportion of them were disposed to be radical and democratic. The picture of Marie Antionette arrested attention. This Irishman, more than any other person, stemmed the progress of the French revolution in the British islands, and those islands suppressed tho revolution itself.

"Well," says our practical man, prince surely ought not to -Travel With in his baggago. This suggests that he must bo a sneak and send tho chip3 by his friend, and then if the friend be exposed sacrifice the friend. You may say that the prince might have played tennis. no; he is 51 years old. stont and apoplectic, and he cannot make tho "Then he should read a book!" "Who would read a book when they could have a little game in a private family among "Well, he should take his wife with him and not get into "If you had a wife provided by the people of England through their parliamentary overnment, you might like to leave her ome some times, and see how other men get along with their "Weil, the prince ought to travel on tho top of a stage coach." "Pshaw! Even Andrew Carnegie, who lays baccarat with libraries and music alls, and Jim Blaine, can do that besides, the prince has been all over England, on all kinds of coaches.

The prince has been everywhere; he has been around the world. He allowed a newspaper writer, the celebrated Bull Run Russell, to stare at him all the way to India. You teach the prince anything, for he has got it all. contend that he might as well have played at baccarat at the age of 51 as anything else, and 1 think that it you read between the lines the extraordinary small figure of the stakes in this game prove that he is almost as thrifty as his father, the Prince Consort, who buried all his half shillings and told the children to watch them to see if they would not sprout." Wales must be a good fellow for ho has never even by insinuation been identified with more than one female this I takeit to mean that of designing roguery he has been perfectly innocent, for in the British kingdom wnere royalty goes to great lengths Even with. Women.

he could have played havoc had ho chosen. The Prince of Wales, no doubt, should have gone into the country with nothing but a clean collar and a pocket dictionary. He met with the common fate of all those who descend below their stratum of society. He iound the pestiferous woman at his elbow, telling him that there was a great secret in the house, namely, that one of his companions whom he had not suspected of anything out of the way, had cheated at the game. What was this great cheat? Young Gordon-Cumming had slipped £10 otherwise a 50 bill, over the line after the turn had een called.

Now what was $50 in that party? And is it probable that the companion of a prince should become a paltry pickpocket for the sum of $50? Granting this to be possible, what good ensued from whispering this yarn. Nine men out of ten will say that the family where the prince took up nis quarters, accidentally or from amiability, belonged to the parvenue element. I have seen a good deal of this sort of life abroad and here. I recollect once when a lad at an English boarding-house table said that a young fellow studying medicine said that his father was a corn merchant down at Nottingham. When the cloth was cleared, the landlady said to me, "Gracious heavens! did yon hear Mr.

Roworth say that his father dealt in corns? And he said his father was a I said I was unable to understand how a man could not be a gentleman because he dealt in corns, whatever they were. I have since found out that corns meant wheat, a curious result I suppose of the celebrated knockdown fight between Worces- "WnllgtAP The landlady explained to me that a gentleman was a man who had nothing to do with trade or mechanics or commerce. Now you can see that the Prince of Wales is not allowed to do anything in England. He must be a good fellow, however, to go to court day after day, and perhaps if we inquire what he was doing there, we will find that he was enjoying the silliness of his subjects. Every day when he went to court they stood up, men, women, dogs and babies.

When he sat down they watched him and saw if anything exuded from him not common to mortals, in the way of peach tree gum or salt rheum. When he got up they all got up. And there will be the Prince of Wales as long as England observes the law of her own society and institutions. The country which could stand a little girl at the beginning of her reign who pouted because their ladies in waiting were changed from Whigs to Tories, and which has seen England under Victoria for 52 years have extraordinary growth, can safely pay but the slightest attention to the momentous fact that the Prince of Wales goes down to a stupid country house among a parcel of old maids and fools and takes some chips in his baggage that ho may not open his mouth before these persons and be reported in the penny-dreadful papers. eorge A lfred ownsend Own Daughter.

Wilful is brutal for you all to treat me so! Fond old heavens! my darling. What do you mean? W. W. say the play is abominable and I go; Tom says shocking and I to go; mammasays for me not to dare to go; the newspapers declare that no good woman has any business to go.ess to go. F.

O. H. W. say it's brutal for you all to keep on saying what is making me fairly die to go. The Initials in History.

Some one has discovered that the initials and G. figure more prominently together in the history than any other two letters. He instances in this country James G. Blaine, J. G.

Holland, dames Gordon Bennet, John Gorham Palfrey, John Godfrey Saxe, John Greenleaf Whittier, Joshua Giddings, Jay Gould, and many other conspicuous names, and hndsalsoin foreign countries the same prominence of the combination, as John George Campbell (Duke of Argyll), Jacques George Danton, Joseph Guillotine, Jean Gerome, and the many famous Germans whose front names are Jobann Gottfried and Johann Gottlieb. (Cornhitl When I first got on hoard, and went to see what was before me. I must own to having been somewhat repelled at tho prospect. Imagine deep down the very bottom (as it seemed) of the vessel a barn-like apartment, dimly lighted and badly ventilated, with a moist breath of carbolic acid, about 60 feet long, tapering to a point at one end, and perhaps 20 feet wide at the other. In each of the wooden side walls rough doors 15 feet apart.

These lead into the sleeping pens, each Ut by a porthole, which is too near the water to he ever opened ex- ceot in harbor, and which is completely submerged when tho vessel lavs over or rolls. The pens are about 15 feet by 12 feet; a passage 2 feet wide runs down the middle from the door to the port, on each side of which are two deep shelves, one 5 feet and the other a few- inches from tho floor; each of these shelves is divided out into four envisions by planks some 8 inches high, so that each pen contains 16 bunks about 6 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 9 inches. These are the single and communicating with them is a somewhat similar, but wider place, further aft, reserved for females and married men; this looked even a more detestable region than the other, as it lacked altogether the modicum of air and light that came down tho companion ladder into the main portion. By makiug friends with the steerage steward, as there were so few' passengers, I and one of my new acquaintances, who "knew the ropes" better than I did. managed to secure a whole top shelf to is, double the accommodation to which we were so avoided too close quarters, and obtained ample room for our clothes and bags.

Then 1 went ashore again to purchase ray kit. This is what is sold for according to a printed list, and all perfectly new; Oue bed, One tin plate, One One blanket, One tin pint mug, One piece of One rua, One knife, A towel. One tin basin, One fork, It sounds plenty for the money: but less than a minute after I had handed over my dollars a steerage passenger who had made up her mind to go intermediate and pay the difference, came to give back her lot, which she did not now require, and the utmost cue vendor would allowr her for them was $1. However, after waiting a minutes, she traded them to the next for (is. When I got back on board the Foam she was already casting off her warps, and a lew minutes later we were being towed out backwards into the river: then our screw began to thump, as no doubt, did many a homeward-bound and outward-bound heart on board.

Even to a casual spectator like myself, who knew no one either on tho ship or on shore, there was something curiously affecting in watching the crowd oil the quay and on our deck, waving their hand kerchiefs and straining their eyes to catch the last glimpse of their friends, henceforth, perhaps in many cases forever, to be separated from them by the broad Atlantic, that, like a type of the River of Death, lies between tho old world and tho new; there is, perhaps, only one leave-taking more than that which I was witnessing. 1 But there was little time for sentiment, for all passengers were ordered below, in order that the vessel might be searched for stowaways. This is done very thoroughly, and then the passengers are sent up again, one at a time, giving up their tickets, ana are not allowed to return below until their quarters have been inspected in tho same way. If any one is discovered ho is sent back by the pilot boat, to be prosecuted for attempting to procure a passage without payment; but ou this occasion our pilot had to return empty-handed. During the search I made, friends with my sheTf-mate.

who turned out a very agreeable rattle. He was English, had ujuhudu been 10 years in the States, and also in Australia; had been at showman work most of the time, and was now on his way to as he called it, at the Edinburgh exhibition with a stall for glass engraving, of which he show ed me some very clever and artistic specimens. "Butitisnt those that he told mo; writing a or a name on a tumbler (which I get at a half-dollar the gross), and selling them at a shilling apiece. "Get me a good holiday crowd, and that the game all the He had worked at most of the principal dime shows all through America, and was personally acauainted with all the and knew how far each was natural, and in what manner nature had been assisted. On the shelf underneath were two decent lads, both cabin bovs off English merchant vessels, who had left their ships necause of illness.

Opposite these were four atop and three below, mostly of the operative class: at least two of these lay in their bunks without going on deck during the whole voyage, whether seasick or not. The contiguity of these filthy folk was by far the worst feature of the whole business. Smoking was strictly prohibited below, but was difficult of detection, and when I turned in at nignt (the only timo I put in an appearance in my pen after the first experience), I found it necessary to regularly evade this regulation. It was. of course, far too cold at that timo of year to sleep on deck, especially as 1 had just come up from the tropics.

The food was very fair; fresh bread baked every day, fresh meat well cooked, tolerable butter, and sometimes marmalade; tea and coffee ready mixed out of urns, reminding one of the old days at preparatory school; and everything ad lib. Beer and stout could be purchased at sixpence a bottle, but no spirits or wine. The steerage steward, a German, was very worthy fellow, and did all in his to make us comfortable, even to lend- ng us his little box of a store room in which to consume our provisions. Meals concluded, each passenger was supposed to wash his utensils in large tubs provided for that purpose; but we of tho upper shelf made an arrangement with the two cabin boys below that they should do this for us. British and American subjects were about equally balanced in numbers, and endless discussions wont on night and day as to the relative merits of the two countries; most of the arguments were very crude and savored strongly of the familiar clap-trao talked by the uneducated Hyde Park socialist.

But now and again one heard very sensible opinions put forward, my shelf mate, by reason of his wide experience, being listened to with especial attention. The men far outnumbered the women, and there were but few children; some of the husbands, while going themselves, brought their wives It must, indeed, be a pitiable ordeal for a decent woman to travel in the steerage; there is no one to wait on her when seasick, there is no stewardess, she has absolutely no accommodation below, except her quarter of a shelf; the washing places are all on the main deck above, some little distance along the passages which I have described, uk and to make her way there she has also to scale the steep companion easy matter when the steamship is rolling scuppers under in the full Atlantic swell, ami even the sailors have to use a manline between decks. The washing places are not crowded, even in calm weather; they contain a row of small fixed basins, reminding one of those in a cricket pavilion; there is no cold water, only the warm, oily-smelling, condensed water from tho engines; no looking-glass, so that my habit of shaving myself caused great amazement. I used sometimes to meet a bright little Lancashire lad of about 12 years oid, who had been taught to wash himself proper and not in the fashionable way at sea, with his shirt on. His was a curious experience; bismother had died and his father, who had some work in New York, had.

written for him to come out. On his arrival, his father was not to be found, so the authorities, after keeping him a close prisoner for six weeks at Castle Garden, were now sending him home again. The mighty liner in one respect resembles the tiny excursion steerage passengers are allowed abaft the funnel; a cord is lied across on each side of the upper deck, as a line of deoMrkation. and a very short distance astern of this another line shows the superior limits by which the -well-named is bound. At night these strings were removed, probably lor fear of accident, and then the steerage gentlemen would make furtive visits to the other end of the deck, and even peer into the smoking room to watch the poker playing.

The ladies of the steerage do not enjoy this privilege, for at nightfall ancient, Argus-eyed manners sought them out and drove them below, tnfere to be closely guarded by a sleepless sentinel until daylight should again give them their liberty. The female Intermediate" suffers the same fate; it is only the damsel, or, for that matter, the aged dame of the saloon, who can be trusted to realize Mr. Clark Russell's pictures of the moonlit ocean, or to watch the gay fireworks with whioh passing steamships indicate to each other at night the line to which they belong. During the dav the saloon passengers sometimes returned these visits, ana inspected us with well-bred curiosity. Throughout the whole passage it was miserably cold, with a flue wind dead bonce the few sheltered on deck were in groat demand; when these were all occupied there was nothing for it bnt to walk up and down, for below was unendurable.

Fortunately for myself, who was well hardened to the sea, we had rather a rough passage, which kept many in their bunks for together, and so was ah make the time pass pretty well, iv as I had laid in a small library of the pi rated five-cent editions of all the newest English books before leaving New York. But tha voyage was a long and dreary business withstanding; in the morning one wished It were evening, and at night sleep was constantly disturbed. We had two Holidays, on which the bother to put on their best clothes; but the sailors turn out very smart, all the naval reserve men of whom we had large number appearing in their man-of- war uniforms; there is a service, read by the captain, in the absence of a Church of England parson, at 11 a. in tho saloon, when ail are invited to attend, even tho pariah steerage. Tho Foam appeared to me very fortunate in Tier crow; they all seemed cheery and contented a groat contrast to tho dirty, idle and mutinous seamen one finds on an ordinary merchant vessel.

All the nulling and hauling is done by men, the steam power bo mg only used for Die anchor; to see the crew of the roam lay out on the yard to furl a topsail made one tool one might be on a training shin. I was much amused by' the exaggerated interest which was taken in a mild flirtation in which I indulged with the belle of the steerage. Hhe was an Irish girl, but had been employed for seme years, she told pie, as saleslady in a dry goods store in New York (by which I fancy she meaut that she worked in a shop) and was now off on a visit to her relations in Dublin. She was a good sailor and shared my repugnance to below; she was also very glad to share a large travelling rug which I was fortunate enough to have with me, My rivals, who were numerous, looked on with ill-concealed jealousy, while 1 regardod DEAD. them with equanimity, for I felt confident per great their other attractionsthat, howev might be, in that icy wind my rug would prevail.

It was from her I gleaned scraps of information as to the mysterious portion of the steerage reserved for females; how there was no stewardess, and not even a looking- glass; and the majority of the women, as well as the men, had decided to have nothing to do with the washing; and as discouragement to sleep when shut up below at night, how she the company in her pen, an old lady with a secret rum bottle and a tendency to delirium tremens (which caused her removal to the hospital after a few days), and three mothers, whose babies indulged periodically in squalling matches; these, apparently were conducted on the same lines as those linnet competitions in which one bird sings against the others, all against only one is left, who takes the prize for endurance. Many times a day did my fair friend assure me that, come what may. she was not going back to Now York steerage, and I think she did, In the early morning of the 12th day out (it seemed like the thescrew suddenly stopped and every one hurried on deck to find we were in a thiok, drizzling fog.which gradually lifted and showed the Irish coast. A few hours more and the tender was alongside receiving our mails and the passengers who were to disembark at Queenstown, among them the Irish girl, who had smartened herself up to a wonderful extent. Our farewell was very uuromantio; tlie whole steerage was assembled to witness it, my rivals even indulging in a derisive cheer.

But little did she mind, for was not her brother going to meet her now, when she landed? and was there not a hotel at Queenstown, where, sure, she could get a bath? Tho same night we sighted the lights off the coast of North Wales, and again in the early dawn the cessation of the screw, this time accompanied by the roar of the chain, brought us on deck to find that we had arrived at Liverpool. A SONG. Housekeeping! In the June-time, down around the river, Outen hearin' too world, ft-dorin' under ktver, tho the all in the water, Kinder seems to me like livln'; but they tell me how I'd oughter Be In the sun a-workin', of daisies Be up a reaper, and a- Of down to dry. But somehow rather watch the beauties But I tell why. In the flower time, np the valley, Watchln' little grasses grow, Nnter's gorgeous rally From the wlnd-storms winter; medders yeller, The brooks happily, the sky up o' tho hues the fibre Kinder at 'em in the distance Or a here to He, Listenin' to the pigeons But I tell why.

Sneakin' up down the creek, a-peekln' at the fishes, over in my head a lazy lot much to talk summer, Er, every skeeter et I'd catch, ed turn a partridge Then down again, hands In the river, Outen the world, blessings to the giver the earth meller sky, Contented like happy, jes to watch the water quiver, But I tell why. How They Make Watch Crystals. York In the manufacture of watch glasses the workman gathers with the blowing tube several kilograms of glass. Softening this by holding it to the door of the furnace, he puts the end of the tube jn communication with the reservoir of compressed air, and a big sphere is blown. It is, of course, necessary to get the exact proportions of material at the commencement of the operation, accompanied by a peculiar twist of tho hand and an amazing skilfulness.

The sphere ought to bo produced without rents, and in such dimensions that it is of the requisite thickness. Out of these balls the workmen cut convex discs of tho required size. This is a delicate operation. A a kind of compass furnished with a diamond in one of its branches is used. The diamond having traced the circle, the glass is struck on the interior and exterior sides with a stick, and the niece is detached.

The discs, hich are afterwards traced, aro obtained very easily, They are seized by the thumb, passed through the aperture already made, and detached by the pressure of two fingers. An able workman will cut 6000 glasses a day. Trifling Misunderstanding, Free said one of Mr. acquaintances, suppose you are frequently told that you resemble but it is base I think it flatters you so very "Excuse me, sir; I did not say it flattered me!" and the major walked away, sorely wounded in his pride. Applying the Remedy.

(Detroit Free you know, Mr, Goslin, I am troubled with insomnia. I wead in the papah today that the way to go to sleep pwomptly is to think of nothing, doncher know. very simple. I'll try it this very night, and think of you. Matrimonial Sarcasm.

like that young said father, the kind of man that know more than I returned mother, do you think a young man who knows as little as that will get on in the He Does It in the Printing Offices. York The announcement that certain city churches will be closed during a portion of the summer gives various ersons an opDor- tunity Are we to understand that the devil takes a vacation in No Extra Fare for the Information. Old gentleman (to bus friend, do you do with your wages every week-put part of it in the savings bank? sir. After the butcher grocer rent, I pack away left in barrels. afraid of them banks.

Stop! Lampoon.) the worst flirt I ever knew. Stop! Look out for my hair! Oh, From Her Experience. trip to the Shoals ought not to cost us more than $15 a day. will depend seriously upon when your days 11 p. m.

or 3 a. m. Sunny Joe Emmet Will Warble No More, Warm Heart Beat Its Last Monday by the Hudson. Pneumonia the Must he Content With Imitators, Nlvmtis, June 15, Joseph K. Emmet, the comedian, died at Cornwall this morning at 11.15 of pneumonia.

There has been no more popular German- dialect comedian than ho who was so widely known as "Fritz" Emmet. St. has a stronger claim on him than any other place. His father and other lie buried there. She bore him and bred him, and she never failed to honor him His birthday was March 13,1841, and his first appearance as a professional performer occurred in his native city during the season of It was fritz emmet at a St.

Louis variety house known for a few years as the Bowery Theatre. The records of that establishment aro necessarily meagre, and therefore we lack information as to the line of business in which Mr. Emmet first figured. It is probable, however, that he played a solo on the snare- drum, as he was a clever performer on that instrument, having, if we recollect aright, seen service during the? war of the rebellion, It is understood that for a timo in tho early pari of 1886 ho was on the end with Morris sc Wilson's minstrels, then located in St. Louis.

During 1866-7-8 ho acquired considerable popularity in the city as a wooden-shoe dancer and in tho Dutch song-and-danee "Willix Mid Sargon," Ho went to New York in the summer of 1868, and in Juno opened with Minstrels in Tammany Hall, hut remained for a brief period only. In tho season of 1868-9 lie fulfilled engagements at the Theatre Comique, and also performed in the first-part and in tho olio with Minstrels in Brooklyn. It was a nappy thought that suggested his appearing in a specialty drama. Charles Gavler wrote for him "Fritz, Our Cousin German," and in that play. Nov.

22, 1869, in Buffalo, Mr. Emmet was first seen on the regular dramatic stage lie was successful, and during the remain der of that season he fulfilled star engagements in a number of the principal theatres of the country. His first bow in Now York as a dramatic star was made July 11,1870, at Theatre, in "Fritz, which ho took to England two years later, opening at tho Adelphi Theatre, London, Dec. 2,1872, has since visited England professionally two or three times, the last in 1881, ana in 1876-7 he made a tour of Australia. During the 14- years he has been on the dramatic stage he has presented Fritz in many shapes, and has located him among different peoples and in different lands, his later versions having been "Fritz in Ire and "Fritz Among the He has not confined himself altogether to however, having produced "Max, the Merry Swiss Boy," written for hint by H.

J. Byron, but not proving a success; "Carl the and "dan, tne iew Although he has not always been so provident as he might have been, yet he amassed means enough from his professional labors to huiki one of tho finest residences in this country upon a large tract Of land bought in 1880 from the Van Rensselaer estate, Albany. About 1869, in that city, lie married the lady who, billed as Miss Libbie Kline, has since played with him occasionally, although not during the past two or three seasons. His elder brother, Milton Byron Emmet, was for a timei a member of his troupe, Milton died Minneapolis in 1879, ICURIOUS FACTS ABOUT SEAS, If the Mediterranean Wore Lowered 660 Feet Italy Would Join Africa. The oceans and seas are the great reservoirs into which run all the rivers of the world.

It is tho cistern which finally catches all the rain that falls not only upon its own surface, but upon the surface of the land as well. All of this water is removed again bv evaporation as fast as it is supplied, it being estimated that every year a layer of the entire water surface of the globe over 14 feet thick is taken up into the clouds to fall again as rain. The vapor is trash, of course, and if all the water of the oceans could be removed in the same way and none of it returned, it is calculated that there would be a layer of pure salt 230 feet thick left in the bottoms of these great reservoirs. This is upon the supposition that each three feet of ocean water contains one inch of salt, and that the average depth of all is three miles. At a depth of 3600 feet the temperature is uniform, varying but a trifle between the poles ani the equator.

In many of the deep bays on the coast of Norway and other arctic countries the water often begins to freeze at the bottom before it does at the surface. At the same depth. 3500 feet, waves are not felt. Waves do not that is, the water does not move forward, although it seems to do so; it remains stationary. It is the rising and falling that moves on.

The pressure of the water increases rapidly with the depth. At a distance of one nnle the pressure is reckoned as about one ton to the square inch, or more than 133 times the pressure of the atmosphere. To get correct soundings in deep water is difficult. The best invention for that purpose is a shot weighing about 30 pounds, which carries down a line. Through the shot or a hole is drilled, and through the hole is passed a rod of iron, which moves easily back and forth.

At the end of the bar a cup is dug out, the inside being coated with lard. Tho bar is made fast to the line, a sling holding the shot in position. When the bar, which extends below tho shot, touches the bottom the siing unhooks and the shot slides downward and drives the lard-coated cup into the sand at the bottom. In that way the character of the ocean's floor is determined. If the surface of the Atlantic was lowered 6564 feet it, would be reduced to exactly half its present width.

Jf the Mediterranean were lowered 660 feet Italy would be joined to Africa and three separate seas would remain. shirt, his waist girt with a wide sash ragged aud torn, lie perhaps a a man who carnea great weights on his hack a human beast of burden. Mis load, whatever it nmy be, is outside in the court His hourly task is his daily oread, hut ho hw heard the shrill cry from the minaret tip against the sky, anrt stops instantly to obey. Ho enters the sacred building with his shops in Ids hand. These he leaves at the edge of the mat.

Now he is on holy ground. Advancing slowly, he halts half way across Mahometan at Worship. I know of no religious spectacle more impressive than that of a barefooted Turk standing erect on his prayer rug, with his face toward Mecca and his eyes looking straight into the eyes of his God, It is not a duty with him, nor a formality, nor the maintenance of a time-fionored custom. It is his very life. Watch him as he enters this wretched interior of Bania-bashie, with its scaling and crumbling walls and its broken windows, through which the doves fly in and out.

Outside at the trickling fountain, he has washed his feet and face and. hands, bathing his throat and smoothing his beard with his wet fingers. He is a rough, broad- shouldered, poorly-clad man in fez and the floor, and then erect. Before him is a blank wail; beyond it the tomb of tho prophet, For moment he perfectly still, his eves closed, his lips motionless, it is as if ho stood in the ante-chamber of heaven, awaiting recognition, Then face lights up. He has been seen.

The next instant he fa on knees, and, stretching out his hand, prostrates himself, his forehead pressed to the floor, This solitary service continues for an hour. Tho man erect one moment with ft movement, as if he said; me; I am here." Tho next moment he is prostrate in obedience. Then he hacks slowly out and, noiseless, regains his shoes, bends his baek to his burden and keens on Ills way his face having lost all its tired, hunted look. (ODDITIES IT TAKE8 A STEADY HAND. Steering a Hook and I Truck Not Easy Work, fjtiw York "Perhaps you think it an easy thing to steer a fire truck; so it is -when you know said a gray-haired tiro laddio tho other day, as he nimbly vaulted out of his lofty seat on the tail of the, truck after returning from a false alarm a few blocks away.

"There aro practically two men on tho truck, tho man who drives and tho man who continued the veteran. "I've done both duties now for more than 10 years and flatter myself that I know something about them, hut I think that tho teeror has the harder job of the It is probable that any one who has thought of tho matter at all has to the same conclusion, for the deftness with which a hook and ladder truck is swung around sharp corners, in its mad race to a lire is something to bo wondered at by the onlookers, Tho truck Itself is about 40 feet long and carries from six to eight extension and several life-saving ladders, the longest of tho former projecting out behind about 10 feet. The trunk is drawn by three strong and fleet horses, which are driven by a man sitting on a high seat in front! Tho members of the company find standing room on the low- platform whioh runs along either side of the truck below tho body of the conveyance, while at the extreme end sits tho stoerer away up in tho air. You scarcely the men between for looking at toe driver and his coadjutor at the other end. The latter has his hand on a big wheel like an enormous brake on a freight car, on which he keeps his hands firmly closed.

Meanwhile his eyes aro on the driver. He sees the driver turn a corner, and he is ready in an instant. If his eye was not true and ids hand brawny and steady the unwieldy vehicle would be dashed into a lamp post or even into a building in a twinkling. But the steorer knows his business. At jnst the crucial moment he turns his iron wheel this way or that way, and the heavy wheels of the truck, which answer to his touch as tho ship answers her holm, barely touch the curb, and in a moment swing into a direct with the forward wheels, and tho machine dashes on until the same dangerous manoeuvre is repeated at tho next corner.

Every fireman connected with the several hook and ladder companies is taught both to drive and to steer, but in some way the duties are apt to devolve upon tho most competent in the company, and so it is that one man or another comes to do tho same work year after year, and good work gains for him a reputation for his specialty. Beginners are taught their duties tn that direction by handling the truck on the returns from fires, and little by little learn skill from experience. LEGENDARY FLOWERS. ThuJRomance of Rose and Shamrock. Free Ill the year of 1450 a few nobleman were discussing together tho rival claims of those who asserted their right to the throne of England, and to avoid interruption adjourned to tho Teraplo Gardens.

Hcarcely, however, hacl they arrived, when they perceived coming toward them Richard, Duko of York, and at onco their conversation ceasod. Richard bogged to know of what they had been so eagerly, and also how many of them believed him to bo their rightful king. Still they were silent, both from policy and politeness. Presently Richard said; 'if you are reluctant to give me your opinion in words, why not give me a sign? Let my friends follow my example and pull a white Earls Somerset and Suffolk declared for tho reigning of Lancaster; Somerset proposing that tho friends of Henry should gather a red rose. Earl Warwick, by gathering white rose, declared for tho house of York.

"But," said Vernon, a friend of Richard, "before gathering more roses we ought to agree that whichever party has the greatest number wins the Agreed to by all. This, nevertheless, led to violent excitement and threats, and the party separated to make known to their friends the badges of the houses of York and Lancaster, Notwithstanding reconciliation, once thought to have been safely effected between the rival factions, war again broke out and raged for many years; and it was not until the marriage of llenry VII. of Lancaster and Elizabeth of York united the two houses that tho nation had peace. The roses, then blended, became the national flower of England, emblazoned on her arms and on the coin of the realm. Let merry England proudly rear Her blended bought so dear.

Says Sir Walter Scott; Chosen leaf Of hard and chief Ob! native shamrock. Next claim our attention the white clover and the oxalis (the wood sorrel), both having been claimed as the ancient shamrock; but the decision seems to have been in favor of tho oxalis as the plant of St. Patrick, the apostle of Ireland. The son of a priest in North Britain, he was stolen by pirates and carried to Ireland at the ago of 16, where he was sold as a slave and endured great hardships for six years. At tho eud of that time he fortunately found a piece of gold while ploughing in a field, and with it he purchased his freedom.

He then hastened home to his parents, who were overjoyed to see him. But ids stay in the strange land had inspired him with profound pity for a poor people without the gospel, and belonged to preach it to them. Urged by an inward voice, and further inspired by a dream, in which lie saw a man from Ireland beseeching him to come and dwell among them, he left home and friends and went to France, whore he entered upon his preparation for holy orders. After his ordination he was appointed by the pope bishop of Ireland, and at once set out for his diocese. Arrived there, he lost no time in commencing his labors.

Ho travelled through the entire country, being everywhere received with delight, the people hanging on his words. One day, however, while preaching to them of the doctrine of the Trinity, they failed to follow his meaning, and demanded an explanation, angrily. He paused lor a moment, absorbed in thought, and then stooping down he plucked a leaf of shamrock, and. holding it up lie fore them, bid them behold ap emblem of the three in illustration of his words. The simple teaching delighted the people, and from that time the shamrock became tho national flower.

How He Made It. Stodgell (recognizing old Grinders! How does it happen I find you a waiter in a restaurant? you make any money out of that college of Delsartean culture you were running when I saw you Grinders (with cold made over notes and accounts to mv creditors. Did you say corned-beef hash? Stage Fun. 1 hear that Miss Parlorstar has made a great hit as Lady Macbeth. that so? Hisnibs Yes, she introduces a kangaroo dance in the sleep-walking scene.

Prepared for It. (Clonk Husband (coming wearily in and seating you can buy that cloak you wanted so much. I realized something ou an investment today. am so glad, dear. Here is the bill.

Early Summer. York Mrs. Gadd -How are you passing the time now, Mrs. Gabb? Mrs. Gabb-Oh.

dressing and undressing with the weather. The Hotel of the Future. Weakly.) owe me a quarter, for? dat dime. One of the railway tunnels under the Hudson, connecting NOW York it with the Jersey shore, at Hoboken, will he finished in about six months. From end to end it I will he 13,000 or font long.

The motive power of the trains will probably be electricity Tho oldest United States warship In com- mission is the Lancaster, built in 1868, But sho has been touched up all around and is to go to China to keep up our prestige until there are steel enough to fly the Hag on every station. A mechanic of Portland has patented an invention for converting tho sawdust and other waste from mills into a wood pulp of peculiar strength and quality, that can be utilized for nearly overy purpose in which worn! used. Experiment has proved that If a delicate piece ot lace ho placed between an iron plate and a disc of gunpowder and the latter he detonated, the lace will be annihilated, hut its impression will bo clearly stamped on tho iron. Ten days per annum is the average amount of sickness in human life, The Bible has now been translated into 66 of the languages and dialecte of Africa, Columbia, S. C.

ladies are signing a paper not to shop after 6 p. On Sunday evening last a Clearfield, man dropped a $5 gold piece in the contribution box at the M. K. church at Tonesta, hut on Monday, when he dis covered it, ho returned and got $4.99 in change. It takes nn expenditure of nearly $20,000 to carry a vessel like tho Majestic across the Atlantic, Four thousand women aro employed in the various government departments at Washington.

They get good salaries, have easy hours and do good work. A man in Pittsburg, advertises: "Guess the name of my dog. 1 will write a song, free of charge, for any minstrel, vaudeville or burlesque company that does 80." Tho state bed of the last king of Poland was made of Smyrna gold braid, embroidered in turquoises, with verses from the Koran. Its supports were of silver gilt, beautifully chased and profusely set with enamelled and jewelled medallions. Ithad been taken from the Turkish camp Vienna, and the standard of Mahomet had stood under it.

Tho origin of the cold dog's is said to have happened in the ark, when Noah took the nose to stop a leak. The number of changes which can he flayed upon a chime of bolls is wonderful, twelve bells Will allow no less than 479,091,600 changes. F. W. Turnley of Galveston, is In receipt of a letter from his brother, in which ho describes a hailstone that fell 14 miles from Cold Springs that was so largo as to require the united efforts of four men to lift it on st wagon.

It has recently been observed that when liquid carbonic acid is allowed to escape into a stout canvas bag in the dark, and by its expansion to freeze into a snowy mass, the effect is accompanied by a pale, greenish violet light and electric sparks. Herr Frederick Winterhoff of Cologne has patented a process for preparing plates of glass to act as lithographic stones. They are said to he cheaper, free from veins and more convenient in use. The apparent flattening of the vault of the has been found to have an annual period and to depend on clouds. It least flat with a misty horizon and less by night than by day.

The settlement of tho position of tho French accent was recently attempted in France by means of the phouautograph. the measurement of the record being made by a tuning fork. It was found that even in the shortest syllables the ear is capable of not only hearing the tone, but of detecting fine shades and differences in the modo of pronunciation. The lowest body of water on the globe is the Caspian level has been gradually lowering for centuries, and now it is 85 feet below the level of its neighbor, the Black Sea. At Querotaro, near Mexico, soap is the currency of the place, and a legal tender for the payment of debts.

The cakes are about tho size of common brown Windsor, and worth I a cents a piece. Each cake is stamped with the name of the town where it is current and of the person authorized to manufacture and utter it. It is by no means uncommon to use these cakos for washing the hands and face, and they never lose their current value as long as the stamp is preserved. In the gizzard of a hen killed at Le bee, last week, was found a small gold pin lost 10 years ago. Two prisoners in the Doyles town, jail allowed to attend the circus the other day returned to their cells alter their ure.

If a gentleman takes a gold band from his finger and places it on the third finger of a hand while repeating a marriage ceremony before three or more witnesses, the ceremony in Now York State makes her his wife. The discovery of the territory of Virginia attending expedition was declared by Queen Elizabeth to he tha most glorious event of her reign. As a memorial of her unmarried state (in she named the country Virginia. The loilowing presidents were horn at regular intervening periods of eight years and retired from office at same regular periods: John Adams, born 1735, retired 1801; Jefferson, born 1743. retired 1809: Madison, bom 1751, retired 1817 Monroe, born 1759, retired 1825; J.

Q. Adauis, born 1767, but served only four years. The president of a brass pin company of Ansonia, intends to rebuild the sidewalk in front of house with pins. He will use several barrels of old and imperfect pins for the purpose. There are over lo miles of pneumatic tubing in Philadelphia store, requiring 90 horse power to operate it.

The coast line of Alaska exceeds in length by 3020 miles that of all tho rest of the United States. In proportion to its population, Australia is the largest tea-consuming country. England comes next. Military experiments in Russia prove that the strongest walls are snow walls. No cannon can hatter them down, A Grand lover as mean and ungallant enough while courting his fiancee one evening to steal her watch.

The name ot a Philadelphia debutante is Miss Sybil Pine-Coftin. The laughing plant of Arabia produces black, bean-hke seeds, small doses of which, when dried and powdered, intoxicate like laughing gas. The victim dances, shouts and laughs like a madman for about an hour, when he becomes exhausted and falls asleep, to awake after several hours with no recollection of his wild antics. There is a man who lives entirely on a Georgia train, fie goes every night to the sleeper, pays his $1.50 and gets in the berth ana sleeps through to Augusta. Next night he goes back to Atlanta.

Ho has plenty of money, arid never has anything to say to the conductor or anybody else, The first account we have of an armored ship is in 1530, It was one of the fleet of the Knights of St. John, entirely sheathed with lead, and it is said to nave successfully resisted all the shot of that day. At the siege of Gibraltar in 1782 the French and Spaniards employed light iron bomb- proofing over their decks. The first practical use of wrought iron plates as a defence for the sides of vessels was by the French in the Crimean war in 1853, to he used against the Russian forts in tlie Baltic. The flora of Europe embraces about 10,000 species, India has about 15.000.

The British possessions in North America, though with an area nearly as large as Europe, have only 6000, One of the richest floras is that of Cape of Good Hope and Natal, which figures up about 10,000 species. Australia is also rich in species, about 10.000 being now known. Queen yacht, the Osborne, has cost just $785,000 in tho last 17 years. She uses the yacht only a fortnight each year, and it is sometimes used a little by other members of the royal family. An American debutante disturbed the equanimity of the royal circle one day this season by seizing the hand and giving it a hearty hut unceremonious shake, after which she floated by the other royalties without paying the slightest attention to tflem.

Tlie first railway post office, the parent of the-present fast mail system, was organized on the Chicago Northwestern railroad in August, 1864, on a fast train running be- Chicago and Clinton, la. An East Indian prince hits lately had a bed made for lum in Paris at a cost of $25,000. Its mattress is a huge musical box, and its canopy is supported by automatic figures that wave fans to cool the air. A newspaper started in Bay City, is christened To Rent. Members of the eather bureau should know that the oldest known journal of the weather was kept by a feifow of Merton College.

Oxford, during A. I). 1337-44. A physician who kept a nightly record of his pulse for five years reports that every year it falls through the spring until about midsummer, and then rises through the autumn to November or December. Then comes a second fall and a second rise, culminating in February, There is an average of 2694 ties to a mile of railroaa in this country.

An adult laboring man wastes five ounces of muscle in the course of his daily labor. A postal card bearing the following superscription was Auburn, few days ago: "Postmaster Auburn, Please Del ver to Some Aufseror Cbeefee of Police, N. It contained the startling announcement that a reward of $15 would be paid tor the conviction of a man and tha rotors of a and buggy stolen from in Cortland county. A philologist that the coinngo of new words goes on at the rate of annually In the English language. Mrs.

Mary Coarsen of WUkedtarre, has just buried her sixth husband, chey all ex-soldiers of tne war, all pensioners, and ail died from tlie effects of injuries received in service. An epitaph tn a provincial cemetery in Frimm follows: lynth my wifa, She fnan amIs but it is nothing to what I had to go through. Mrs, Clarissa Berry of Chicago, after 21 yun of ifApoh, hiLi found her husband. Hermann Berry at Cleveland, am! immediately commenced suit for divorce. A Pettis man had his hair and whiskers cut the other day by a Hedaim barber for the first time 1366.

When he ent home his own harked at turn and his wife shut tho door in bis lace. Queen Victoria now ntlcs, subject to the wholesome limitations of the British constitution, over a population scattered In the four quarters of trie globe and the islands of the sea, aggregating 367 000 000 a greater number than lias ever acknowledgad tho sovereignty of one person in ancient or modern times. Divers in the harbor of Syracuse havq discovered a magnificent marble building, whose highest point is only three under the water. The building great stairways and columned It is believed that the edifice as once used bath or a Next to France employs moro women in ciarical positions than any other country. Their as bookkeepers arid accountants rango between 1000 and 3000 francs a year.

Thirty percent, of all the women of America arc employed in remunerative occupations. fn the last decade the percentage was only 21, Montana is larger than the empire of Turkey. Texas is larger than the whole Austrian empire by 30,000 square miles, and New Mexico is larger than Great Britain, and Ireland together. The tallest trees in the world are the gum trees of Victoria, Australia, in districts they average 300 feet high, Tho longest prostrated one measured 470 feet, anuSl feet in girth near tho root, The big trees of California must take a back seat. The largest forest fires in Michigan have occurred a decade 1871.1881 and 1891.

London to build a structure that will throw the Eiffel tower in the shade. The most turbulent member of the Topeka City Council is named Lull. An Illinois Central conductor tha( female tramps are on the increase. Thej are not as daring the men in Jumping or off trains, hut they are found hanging over a freight car. ou the trucks or clinging to tne truss rods by bands and feet, in fact in a good many places that 4 male tramp would never think of getting in, A woman was recently summoned as a in St.

Louis. She took the matter philosophically and attended court, only to receive the apologies of all concerned in tho blunder, Forsyth county in Georgia has developed an infantile prodigy, who at 4 years of ago can read difficult music correctly at sight. His voice is soft and tuneful and he bids fair to become famous. The inventor of the game of being promised by the king, whom he first taught the game, that he should have any reward he might ask for, meekly replied that ho would be content if tho king would give him one kernel of wheat on the first square, two on the second, four on the third, eight on the fourth, and so on, doubting up to the 64th square. The king gladly acceded to this seemingly modest request, and ordered his attendants to bring in the wheat, which they began to do.but, to the astonishment of the monarch, it was found that there was not wheat enough in the whole dominion to pay off the crafty inventor.

It would require 9.627,268,786.934,775,1 AS kernels, equivalent to 30,027,097,184,485 bushels. The product of gold in the United States the last 16 years has aggregated the enormous amount of $572,900,000. The queen and the nine-spot may still bo regarded as the lucky cards in the dock. A Chicago woman was recently told by three different fortune-tellers after they had looked at the queen and the nine-spot that a fortune awaited her. 8he was poor but incredulous, and the fourth nalm was crossed with silver.

The two cards again came to the top and the story was repeated. She is now enjoying a half interest in a fortune of $70,000, John London Macadam, the inventor of the road that bears his name, labored for years to perfect his ideas, and, although tha English Parliament voted him $30,00016 hardly covered his outlay, "His monument is the roads of England." The annual productof salt throughout the world Is estimated at 7,300,000 tons, the larger share coming from English works. Probably the rarest stamp in existence has just boeu sold in London It is an American five-cent stamp issued at Brattleboro, Vt, in 1840. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes believes that body and mind are both affected by the character of food exclusively ork diet gives a bristly character to the eard and and too much food from the sea gums the shine and motions of a fi3h, A fad of among some fad- affecting young women is to chew a flower, or, to put it more elegantly, to wear one between the lips.

This, it may be added, is purely a house fashion. A unique carpet is being made for the church of de Jesus, Montmartre, in Paris, by some Parisian ladies. It will cost £4000 and tho names of the workers are to bo embroidered around the border. The centre represents Montmartre, and above are to be the arms of the city of Paris. Emin Pasha appears to have found the ivory which Stanley is said to have left on his journey down to the sea after the rescue of Emin.

The prudent German has telegraphed to Hamburg that he has just spatched to the coast a consignment of ivory worth $500.000. Wednesday last was fruitful in the unveiling of monuments. Tho Grant monument was presented to Galena, the Southern Monument Association gave a monument to tho Confederate dead at Jackson, and Mr. Leland Stanford enriched California withastatueof Father Junipuera Serra, the pioneer missionary of the coast. The street rail ways of Paris are under the government control and the rules for their guidance are very strict.

Only four passengers are allowed to stand on the back piatfoim, and they must pay the same fare as the first-class passengers inside, six cents, while those on the roof of the car ride at half rates. A boot sole, the bottom covered with iron, was found imbedded in a chunk of coal at Benton Harbor the other day. There is no cure for stopping talking while asleep. The color adopted by the royal family of England is scarlet. 1 he royal households of Portugal.

Prussia. Sweden and Germany are blue. color is dark green and black, and yellow. One of the delusions of the crazy King of Bavaria is that the carpets of his apartments are of thin glass and must not be trodden upon. Another of his hallucinations is that the walls of the rooms are hung with newspapers, and from them he reads aloud to ids attendants imaginary stories of the events of the day.

9 A wedding took place in Brooklyn recently, the contracting parties to which could neither speak the language. The groom was a 66-year-old canal boat captain and the bride a Hungarian woman of 31, who had been a passenger on his boat to the city. The wedding ceremony, like their courting, had to be done with the aid of an interpreter. A New York girl of 14 has just been married for the third time. The great treasury vault at Washington covers more than a quarter of an acre and is 12 feet deep.

Recently there was $90,000,000 in silver stored amount that weighed 4000 tons and would load 175 freight cars. When Thad. Butler, editor of the Huntington (Ind.) Herald, was married he thus announced the event: Wabash. Tuesday. April 4.

at 5 o'clock p. at the rasidence of the parents, Mr. Thad. Butler us) and Miss Kate E. Sivsy more of The base of celluloid is common paper; by action of sulphuric and nitric acid it is changed to guncotton, then dried, ground and mixed with from 20 to 40 per cent, of camphor, after which it is ground fine, colored with powder colors, cast in sheets, pressed very hard and at last baked between sets of superheated rollers.

An Englishman has invented an apparatus through which, he declares, he can see the soul leave the body. He arranges lenses that so magnify the particles of dust in the air that their disturbance by anything passing upward can be detected. A Philadelphia surgeon says that by three strokes of the lancet he could the nerves acted on to make a man get mad, and thereafter any one could pull his nose, cuff his ears and spit on his boots and he would simply smile a soft, bland smile. Thear is a spring in Bear valley, near Chambersburg, from the surface of which bubbles of sand and air ascend about 10 inches and then burst. The spring is 10 feet in diameter.

The water is pure and refreshing. Near Buchanan, a few days ago, W. A. Keith found a solid flint rock near the centre of the heart of a pine tree. How the rock got there is a mystery, A tornada at Trenton, carried off tha roof of a house, leaving a sick man his bed, unharmed but shelterless.

The neighbors at once built a temporary shelter over him. A State official of Maine is wearing a straw hat that he bought in 1869, Santa Barbara, boatts of a hotel waiter who can take an order for dinner in seven different languages. ti i.Tiir-iK.inrn.