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House. Ebbitt House, Hotel an.l the Washington News Exchange. Fourteenth street, between Penn, avenue and street. --Sixteen The just and the unjust have no cause to quarrel about the rainfall, as there has been enough for both. When the Citizens' Company undertakes to make figures to show that a 3-cent fare will not pay its running expenses and the interest on bonds, it must drop out the $6,000,030 of stuck.

It is not true that China has joined the postal union. The government would like to do so, but it has no mail service In the interior which could be used to carry out the aims of the union. Three years ago the country was told that Florida would have no oranges to sell for years, because of utter ruin of the groves by nevertheless, Florida will ship a million boxes this year. The three Harvard freshmen who repeated the senseless performance of painting the statue pf John. Harvard red have been expelled.

If for no other cause the young men deserved expulsion for repeating a very stale silliness. Referring to the last Democratic candidate for President, ex-Senator David B. Hill, in an address at Niagara Falls the other day, took occasion to remark that people of this country could hot and would not stand a policy dictated by a crank, a demagogue and a political Because of the insufficiency of white labor for cotton mills in the South the managers of one factory have resolved to employ colored people. It has been maintained that the colored people of the South could not learn to run looms, which requires dexterity and intelligence. This experiment will settle the contention.

There is trouble at Cornell University, in New York, because an old-fashioned faculty has actually required the students who are members of the rowing team to attend to their studies and examinatJons. Thus far the nas not dismissed the faculty, but one can never know what will happen when the sports of a college are interfered with. Benjamin Franklin left $5,000 to the city of Boston with a provision that at the end of one hundred years the principal should be laid out in public works of most utility to the The principal Is now $348,000, but the authorities are at loggerheads regarding what now constitute works of the greatest utility', so the Supreme Couid has been asked to decide. The little men in the City' Council who insisted that lots of land should be purchased for parks in tiieir wards before they would vote for the loan needed to purchase the land for the system are not so jovial as they were when their game succeeded. Since that time they have learned of the anger of three hundred constituents whose property will be specially taxed to pay for that land.

The reception of the President in Nashville has been cordial in the extreme. No effort was spared by the local authorities and the managers of the exposition to show the President and the country that, whatever the past may have been, all Tennessee is now in earnest in its support of the Union. After thirty years the people of that section have fearned that the Union is as great a blessing to them as it can be to any other section. The Chicago Record intimates that it will make no difference if the 3-cent-fare bill should drive baskets full of capital away from Indianapolis, so long as those who patronize the street cars save the two pennies. The only difference between Chicago and Indianapolis in the street-railway is that the former has been beaten by the companies while Indianapolis is sure to be victorious.

As for outside capital, no place in the world is safer! The reader of only a few newspapers cannot fail to aware of the fact that this is the commencement season of high Bchools, colleges and institutions called universities. The reports take more space than they did years ago because papers are better newspapers than they were, mid the graduates are more numerous and the exercises more varied. The Latin salutatory has dropped out for the most part, but there seems to boa very general effort to have the members of the graduating class wear the gown and cap of the long-time-ago classic scholar, perhaps because It is easier to retain an observance of ancient scholarship by the aid of tailor than by the study of dead languages hich were the essentials of the scholarship of seventy or a hundred years ago. Those whose curiosity leads them to note the topics of the orations or themes of the graduating classes will observe a which must be for the better. The Assays devoted to topics allied to the natural sciences murk incursion of such etudes into a realm which was once held by akclent classics and metaphysics.

The graduate of thirty years ago cannot under- stand them, which is evidence that there is anew scholarship allied to the material development of the age. The trail of the pessimistic tendency of a class of alleged political economists who hold professorships with new names is observable in theme and lecture. million of patriots founded the Republic, but seventy millions of money-seekers now occupy is a sentence which constitutes the refrain of this new' philosophy written In a minor key', but the young men and women who put it into their graduating orations will mourn it and learn better. Such topics as the of Analysis of the Past, Present and continue to hold places as themes, but fortunately they are not so frequent as years ago. Several young men told Congress what to do, and one bold and wise y'outh discourses on That the young man who selected for his theme was permitted to speak indicates progress and CLOTHES THAT TALK.

Herr Toufelsdrockh, in his celebrated essay' on the of clothes, declares that neither In tailoring nor in legislating dees man proceed by mere accident, but that his hand is ever guided by mysterious operations of the mind. all his modes and habilatory the professor goes on to say, architectural Idea will be lurking; his and cloth are materials whereon hnd his beautified edifice of a person is to be built. Again, what meaning lies In color! From the soberest drab to the high-flaming scarlet, spiritual idiosyncrasies unfold themselves in the choice of color; if the cut betokens intellect and talent, so does the color betoken temper and heart. In all which there is an incessant, indubitable, though infinitely complex working of cause and effect; every snip of the scissors has been regulated and prescribed by everactive influences, which, doubtless, to intelligence of a superior order are neither invisible nor This is hardly to that the clothes make the man, but rather that the character and personality are manifested by his garments; he needs them not only for mere purposes of covering but to make himself known to his fellow-beings. In a very literal sense he through his Everywhere are proofs and manifestations of this service given by clothing.

What, for instance, would the order of the Mystic Khriners be without the scarlet fezzes, their red and yellow and green bloomers, their rainbowhued sashes and the other gay regalia with which they dazzled the eyes of wondering Detroit as they came into that oasis from the outside desert? Those merry mummers were there for pleasure, to throw off care from their own shoulders and to bid it begone from the hearts of their friends. They could not have done this so well in their ordinary dull habiliments, for the variegated apparel represented best their joyful mood. To change the brilliant attire of the for the formal evening dress would have been to turn from gay to grave. The fezzes and the rest spoke for them. The wearers would not care to- appear in such dress constantly, since it would not continue to indicate their moods differ as widely as garments for a time it spoke their sentiments in a language that was understood.

The same element, the desire to express themselves in their apparel, is manifested in a different way in the Reformed Episcopal Church, where, as related in the dispatches yesterday, the General Council divided on the vestment question and much excitement and several resignations ensued. The inner meaning of either the white surplice or the black will forever remain a mystery to the nonepiscopalian, but that each is significant of something important there can be no doubt, else the reverend brethren would not have been wrought up to so great a pitch of excitement as to sever their relationship with the organization because they were about to be limited to black exclusively. They cannot, of course, have any personal preference for white over black as a mere color; what they professedly contend for is liberty to wear either, but liberty is a relative term, and the unchecked privilege of wearing black or white would not give these clergymen the right to don scarlet or yellow. It is evident that the white surplice is indicative of some sentiment that the somber black does not typify; that, as Herr Teufelsdrockh observed, some spiritual idiosyncrasy is manifested by the white robes. This being the case it will not do for the short-sighted irreverent public to jeer at the good men in council as mere exponents of masculine vanity.

They are fighting for spiritual and mental freedom to express their sentiments in their bodily raiment. At least, that ia the charitable theory, and, advocated by so profound a thinker as Teufelsdrockh, it has the support of philosophy as well. A PICTURESQUE CITY. Does everybody know what a picturesque town this is in ways distinct from its parklike residence streets, whose attractions, all recognize? In the business quarter are dozens of views quite a3 pleasing to the beauty-loving eye as those in foreign cities made famous by artists who have admiringly reproduced them on canvas. The architectural contrasts of the new and oid with the purposely irregular roofs of some of the newer ones show a pleasing picture from almost any standpoint.

The individual structures may not be tine specimens of architecture in themselves, but the combination of color, the diversity of outlines and the peculiar effects produced by the diagonal streets make what artists call when they see the like in far-away cities. It is a pretty vista down Virginia avenue, with the viaduct and beyond it tho church tower and glimpses of for those who retain enough presence of mind after dodging street cars at the Washington-street corner to observe it. The courthouse and the Statehouse, both of which have lost the effect of newness and might have stood where they are for half a century, make admirable backgrounds. A glimpse of the Surgical Institute, with its towers and angles, is pleasantly unexpected after the square business blocks. Several of the down-town churches with their ivied walls are worth looking at; the Blind Institute is worth giving thanks for when it is remembered that it might have been built like a factory.

The monument looms grandly, but its base is only a promise of what shall be, and the tourist on Circle street is wise to lift his eyes beyond. What he sees will repay him. From the front of the Iron Hall block, looking across to the northeast, is visible a scene that may well be retained in the memory. On one side is the beautiful stone church, on the other the great green wall of the Journal building, between, the clubhouse, with its architectural simplicity, and beyond, as a background, THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1897. the picturesque towers of the Denison Hotel.

If the view is taken just after sunset the effect is enhanced by the softening shadows while the outlines Are cut against the sky like a cameo. It is one of the pictures that members of the younger generation, who scarcely heed it will recall in after years as one of the indelible impressions of their early home. But with all these bits of beauty and the multitude of photographers, amateur and professional, nothing is more difficult to find than photographs that adequately represent the tow n. In many other cities travelers have pictuies of the distinguishing features almost thrust upon them. Here, they must be searched for and are apt to be unsatisfactory if found.

We who live here, however, do not need the pictures while we have the reality. And it is worth while to study this possession and discover its artistic charms. THE CULTIVATION OF PAUPERISM. Those who turn to the article In the current number of the Forum, entitled Grievance of the will be disappointed to find that in the opinion of the writer, Professor Hyslop, of Columbia College, the grievance is the increase of taxation because of what is called relief of the poor and the increasing cost of local government. Including the salaries of public officials.

The writer came to his information regarding the grievance of the w'hile making a few' speeches during the last campaign. Doubtless the increasing burden of taxation during a period of low prices is the cause of considerable dissatisfaction, but it has not culminated in a formal grievance. Conventions protest against high taxation and promise economy, but as a rule there is little change. The last Legislature provided remedies, as it believed, for some of the abuses of township government, and among other things passed an act to compel all children to attend school. This law contains a provision which may fasten upon the taxpayer anew lot of officials to look after truants.

Some time ago the Journal commented on the part of the report of the State Board of Charities devoted to the wastefulness and demoralizing influence of the practice of assisting the poor outside of poorhouses. It is not popular to assail the practice, because are all inclined to be very benevolent at the public expense. At first thought, most of us will say that it is better to help this or that person than to let them go to the poorhouse. Experience, however, is against it. The family which is once helped by the township will in most cases become a continual public burden.

Nor is that ell; the evil, like most evils, will spread. When others see that a man received aid outside the poorhouse, when he is as able to work as are they, and that receiving public aid involves no stigma, they will gradually come to the conclusion that it is better to be supported in part by the county or township than to toil for their bread. Professor Hyslop has collected the cost of out-door assistance to the poor in several States. The figures are startling, both because of the large expenditure and because it is on the increase, indicating that that sort of pauperism is spreading. In 1593 Indiana expended $876,127 for the support of the poor outside of poorhouses; in 1894 the expenditure had increased to 0-58, and in 1895 to $1,020,535.

Here is an increase of $144,408 in two years, or more than 16 per cent. This means that there was during those years a large increase of partial pauperism. It may not have been an increase of the one-sixth in numbers which the increase in expenditure indicates, but it does show an increase w'hich is alarming. At this rate, in ten years, the larger part of the people will be receiving public assistance, which must come out of the incomes and earnings of those who work. As the number increases, some who have contributed will see that it is easier to eat the bread which others earn than that which they may earn by the sweat of their own brows.

is not this someone asks. It is nothing of the kind; socialism is based upon the theory that every man must earn his bread, while the evil which the indiscriminate assistance of those who say they are needy means that one part of the community shall support the other. Those who may ask what can be done to check and turn back the pauperization of communities by indiscriminate aid will find an answer in the article referred to, since the author gives several illustrations of an infallible remedy, which is to make a personal investigation of every application for out-door aid. None of the illustrations which Professor Hyslop gives is more to the point than that in this township, which he has made use of. Several years ago this township was expending from to $90,000 a year for the aid of persons outside the poorhouses, Mr.

Smith King became township trustee and at once adopted the plan of official investigation of every applicant for assistance. The result was that the expenditure was reduced to about $7,000 during the last year of his term. Those who applied and were found 'not to be entitled to assistance were just as well off as they were when assisted, and the business of pauper-malting was stopped. The township trustee finds his a very hard place in the face of this growing tendency to increase pauperism at the expense of the industrious and prudent. If he is an easy-going person he will not resist, because it will be easier to yield to the entreaties of applicants and their friends, some of whom desire to exchange merchandise for township orders, and thus be known as a clever fellow." But taxpayers who see the number of paupers and halfpaupers increasing in their townships can unite in demanding that the efficacious remedy of official inspection in every ease be vigorously applied.

It will not only save millions of dollars, but it will prevent widespread pauperism and the demoralization wnich it engenders. ABNORMAL MENTAL CONDITIONS. Mr. Gordy, tho Delaware wife murderer who was hanged yesterday, he was going to heaven, and expressed the belief that no man could stand waiting for death as he had done if he did not feel sure he would reach heaven. Durranr, the San Francisco butcher of two innocent girls, was lately quoted as expressing a similar assurance as to his future whereabouts.

Such utterances from men guilty of the most atrocious crimes arc by no means uncommon. and it will hardly do to assert that the speakers are indulging in reakiess bravado and are conscious of hypocrisy. human mind is curiously constituted. Every individual, however blameless his outward life, is aware of peccadillos, not crimes, perhaps, but sins, minor offenses against his fellow creatures, committed from time to time during his career. His mind does not dwell ou them willingly or frequently, but when it does it makes excuses: these objectionable acts, usually manifestations of selfishness, were committed under great provocation, just provocation the special pleader urges to himself, in his own behalf, no doubt.

He had cause; he was to blame, possibly, but not so greatly to blame if all the circumstances were known. He cannot think of himself as without reasonable apology for his course, one that should greatly modify blame likely to be laid upon him by a just judge. And having reached this comfortable attitude, he has the convenient faculty of putting his little sins in ihe background and of honestly considering himself worthy or any rewards of merit that Providence may have in store for men. If this be true of individuals who are guilty only of petty faults, why might it not be the case with criminals? A man who deliberately commits murder is probably lacking in those attributes of mind and conscience that enable him to realize the heinousness of his crime. He may understand that he has transgressed the law and may dread the penalty, and yet lie incapable of feeling remorse or regret for the deed itself; he committed the act under provocation of some sort and may even convince himself that he was justified.

Just as It is difficult for the average man to comprehend the mood that leads to murder so is it Impossible to understand his mental condition later. At all events, it. is by no means certain that he is a conscious hypocrite and a liar when he declares his belief that he will go straight from the gallows to the abode of the blessed. The times are not propitious for European counts. Count Henri de Somery, of Bruges, Belgium, drowned himself in Montreal because he found the driving of a laundry wagon too humiliating.

Count De Cambles, formerly of Paris, now the elevator man in a New York apartment house, offers to sell his title for $75,000. He has no bidders, but there is no reason why those who desire titles and have the money to invest in them should not make the count and elevator man an offer. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Summer will only take a few good real summer mused the ice cream soda, make me a hot The Probable Reason. why do they call a single woman a spinster? Mr.

guess it is because of her ability to turn heads. A limited Look. half said the regular client, you are, or have been a criminal. You have that hunted look in your explained Mr. Dismal Dawson, from Open Arms.

presume you will greet the young couple with open asked the friend. said the colonel, whose daughter had eloped. at least. The ahms, sah, wall be calibuh and wide open at the SCIENTIFIC. A decaying oak tree at Cowthorpe, near Wetherby, England, is more than fifty feet in circumference, and is believed to be the largest in the world.

Two young oaks have been planted to perpetuate its memory. Experiments have shown that the ash constituents of coal, which are not readily permeable, may be roughly estimated by means of Roentgen rays on comparison with slabs having a known percentage of ash. Fruit trees along highways, and even railroads, have source of revenue to some German states, and in the grand duchy of Luxemburg special classes are held every year for instructing inspectors and road hands in the planting and care of orchards. The fascinating idea that eaeh disease microbe has its own specific poisonous principle, its toxin, is attacked by M. A.

Charrin, a French biologist. He shows from experiments that a single microbe species may produce several pathogenic bacillus of pus, for instance, yielding several, which are easily distinguished by their pathological effects. A remarkable collection of dwarfs has been discovered by Olifsen and Filipsen, Danish officers, in a little known region of the Pamirs. Not only are the men of the savage tribe exceedingly small in stature, but their domestic animals are equally diminutiv oxen being about the ordinary size of donkeys, the donkeys no larger than dogs, and the goats and sheep comparable to kittens. The small size is attributed to the exceptional environment and to the arrested development due to great scarcity of food.

An immense electrical influence machine has been constructed by Mr. James Yv'imshurst, whose name is so well known in connection with apparatus of this kind. It is duplex in form, a shaft on each side carrying twelve plates thirty-six inches in diameter, each plate with thirty-two sectors. The machine is certain to excite itself before the hand crank has made a complete revolution. It gives torrents of electricity, the length of the spark between the two outer terminals being thirty-two inches.

The machine is nine feet long outside the case by two feet nine inches in Anew element, bythium, is claimed by Theodor Gross, a German chemist, to have been obtained from sulphur. On electrolyzing a fused mixture of silver sulphide and silver chloride in a nitrogen atmosphere, he obtained a dark gray powder, insoluble in aqua regia and in ammonia. Fused with alkaline carbonate, this dissolved in hydrochloric acid, from which hydrogen sulphide gave a brown precipitate. The new substance equals 5 per cent, of the original sulphur used, and as there is not only a corresponding loss of sulphur, but a smaller loss of chlorine, the possibility is admitted that bythium may have ciime from the decomposition of chlorine instead of sulphur. Photographers are said to be able sometimes to produce direct positives by extreme overexposure or by special treatment.

Anthony's Bulletin calls attention to the remarkable experience of a beginner, who obtained three positives and one negative from four exposures of the same subject, the only difference in conditions being the length of exposure. The one good, clean-cut positive of the three was produced by an exposure of a minute and a quarter, with fairly large stop, in full daylight. In another experience mentioned, two exposures of the same subject under precisely the same conditions of lighting and timing produced one positive and one negative, although developed in the same tray at the same time. One of the most curious and interesting of the electrical exhibits at the Royal Society's last soiree was that of Mr. J.

W. Swan. It consisted of dishes containing resin covered with beautiful and complex patterns that had been duced by placing the resin between two poles of an induction coil in action. The was taken between an auxiliary pair of terminals not pass to the resin, which was merely subjected to strain. No trace of any effect appeared on the resin wtien removed, but on being warmed through the surface puckered up into patterns as the mass softened, the internal strains set up by the electric stress seeming- to be unable to find relief while the resin is hard.

The patterns at the negative pole differ from those at the positive pole. The strains persist for a long time, some of the patterns shown having been developed three months after the resin was electrified. Liquid air has been hitherto an expensive product, as it has been obtained by the successive refrigeration, compression and expansion of several gases, such as carbonic acid, ethylene and oxygen. By the recently perfected process of Prof. Linde, of Munich, a pump of five horse power condenses the air to a pressure of two hundred atmospheres, the air passing down a spiral tube and expanding with the tion of great cold, on being admitted to a chamber surrounding the spiral.

Each Installment of air pumped in further cools the spiral, fintll in a few minutes the air escapes Into the chamber in liquid drops. having a temperature of 273- degrees below zero. This process Is said to have reduced the cost In Germany from about 12.25 to cents for each five cubic meters reduced, and the sudden cheapening of a substance of such varied possibilities Is expected soon to bring about many industrial changes. Several substitutes for glass are now made in Germany. Tectorium is bichromated gelatin overlying on both sides a web of galvanized iron or steel wire, and is made into sheets about a sixteenth of an inch thick.

It is lighter than glass, and practically unbreakable. It may be bent, is easily repaired, and is a poor conductor of heat and cold. It is about as translucent as opal glass. Its disadvantages are inflammability and liability to soften on warm days. A material for hot houses is fensterpappe.

It is a tough mamlla paper, made translucent and impervious to water by soaking in boiled linseed oil, and In long rolls one. meter wide is said to cost only about one-hundredth as much as glass, while it is durable and not readily damaged. It requires no shading from hot sunshine, yet at all times admits sufficient light for growing plants. A more recent product is hornglas. This resembles tectorium, but is claimed to be more transparent and to soften less readily on heating.

LITERARY YOTES. lan Maclaren says that Harold Frederic is the American writer who is most widely read in England. take my work too rites Hall Caine, I am too much immersed in it and in love with it either to be carried away by the warmest eulogy or disturbed by the sweetest The New York Book Buyer says that the average sale of each of the late Professor nine books was 121,000 copies. Greatest Thing in the of course, headed the list and its quota was 330,000 copies. Victorien Sardou was to have been a doctor, and his means were so restricted that he gave lessons in Greek and Latin at 20 cents a ticket.

Sardou was also a hack, and made translations. It is stated that for one job over which he labored for three weeks he was paid 32 francs is, less than $6.50. Mrs. S. H.

R. Goodale and her daughter, Miss Dora Read Goodale, have met recently with very serious losses in the destruction of literary work and material by the burning of their home at Amherst, Mass. The pecuniary loss, including hooks, pictures and all personal belongings as well as household effects, was also disastrous. William Kelmscott Press, as is well known, is to issue no more books after those now in hand are finished. It is stated that, excluding the Kelmscott forty-six volumes in all were printed on vellum while the press was under the management of the late poet.

The full set of forty-six is valued at $2,500. They are said to be owned chiefly in this country. A fight, over the literary standing of Stevenson is going on in London. George Moore took occasion to deny that works have any artistic merit. Mr.

Quiller- Couch promptly replied in the Speaker, and Mr. Moore has returned to the charge in an article in the Chronicle, in which he likens writing to the playing of a band. Mr. Quiller-Couch a-; he is better known, is said on good authority, is to finish Robert Louis A task of this kind few men would undertake, either for love or money. The fragment is not often improved by a restoration.

Mr. Anthony debut as a lecturer, his subject being' "Romance," was a most successful one. Trying to show what were the distinctions between novel and the he declared it was not easy to draw the line. The author of "The Prisoner of is an admirer of Dumas, and. talking about this incomparable romance maker, Mr.

Anthony Hope said, taking for his topic Three is romance. Why? Because, in spite of all its complexity, they found running through the whole book and inspiring it that one strong, simple passion or emotion which ruled the lives of the leading characters, and. above all, that of the great hero, trilogv of the musketeers was a romance of the joy of action. Those men did not so much care as to what they were at, but they ust be at Mrs. Mary Hartwell Catherwood comes to Chicago every now and then for a day or two, says a letter in the Book News, but her visits are generally too hurried to be entirely satisfactory to her friends.

Her home is in Hoopestown, 111., a place which was founded, named and settled by members of her family. Mrs. Catherwood is an indefatigable worker, and her success is largely due to that fact. She spares herself no labor, either in preparatory research or in the actual writing. She makes pilgrimages to remote regions in search of material, and some of her most valuable hints and discoveries have been supplied her far from the haunts of books.

The territory around Mackinaw', at the head of the lakes she has thoroughly explored, and in the old settlers she has found a mine of picturesque character and romantic tradition. Mrs. Catherwood lives with the people when she goes on such an expedition. She gains their confidence and sympathy by making herself one of them, and they know how to reward her. She is engaged now upon a number of books for the fall and winter, and her interest in them promises well for their success.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Victor Baillot, who was a sergeant at Waterloo, is still living in the little village of Carisay, in France, at the age of 104. He is in good health, except that he is deaf from the cannonading at this battle. says the Wichita Eagle, be perfectly fair. Sunday, Mrs.

Lease, in the Eagle, attacked Queen Victoria, and we wish to say that the columns of this paper are open to the Queen for The statement has been frequently made that Miss Kingsley, who has been lecturing in this country, is a daughter of Charles Kingsley. In point of fact, she is the daughter of George Kingsley, a brother of Charles. The vandal who painted John Harvard's statue at Cambridge cn the night of the Harvard-Princeton baseball game, on May 29, has been found by the student investigating committee and compelled to leave college. The college feeling was strong against this outrageous piede of business. An electric contribution box is the latest Connecticut invention.

The minister touches a button, and small silver cars, lined with velvet, visit each pew simultaneously, running on a slender rail back of each pew. Each car returns to a lockbox at the pew entrance, and the deacons collect the receipts after the service. There is a crusty old bachelor, of considerable wealth, in Kentucky. will you do with your money when you someone asked him, recently. he replied, going to sell everything for cash, and get all my money in paper.

When I find that death is near. pile this paper money on the floor, stick a match to it. and lie down on it. Then the money and the house and I will go together. Queen Victoria has some proficiency as a vocalist.

From the programme of the royal private concerts, left by Sir Michael Costa, it is discovered that on one evening she sang no fewer than five times, and on occasion sang in duets and trios, not only with the Prince Consort, but with such artists as Rubini and Lablaehe. Mendelssohn himself has borne enthusiastic testimony to the excellence as a vocalist. The Buffalo Commercial tells a story of a little girl who was greatly disturbed by the discovery that her brothers had set traps to catch birds. Questioned as to what she had done in the matter, she replied: prayed that the traps mil ht not catch the she said: "I then prayed that God would prevent the birds getting into the traps, and then I went and kicked the traps all to In a recent interview Prince Bismarck laughed about the sentimental reports of his loss of interest in life. he said, 'is solely my great age.

Wait till you are eighty-two and see how you feel, especially if you have spent nearly half a century in struggles and anxiety. My whole life has been spent in playing high with other money. I could sail my ship on the stream of events, but not steer In some of the high-lying villages of the Riesengebirge in Silesia some German reformers have lately been trying the experiment of the drunkards. This, though only possible in a limited population, serves as a preventive, for it brings the inebriate into startling prominence and enerfurages the sober to be content with virtuous obscurity. On the outside of the public house and no great distance from its a tablet is suspended which bears the names of all the drunkards in the village.

A recent traveler in that region relates that the first tablet of that kind he saw ran in his wise: "Inebriates Exclusion forbidden bv the glice to the following habitual drunkards: upplg, tailor; Schuffel, bootmaker; Widow Paula and then, in striking capitals: mayor and members or the Common Again graduation day! The black-gowned senior now holds sway In exaltation. The things wise men have said before, His own three or Combine to form that awful bore Called an oration. Cuba he frees: Armenia, too; Offers suggestions to tne new Administration. Or thrills us with the in Greece. Price Must Still Reign of Universal And He camly settles every cause Amid tumultuous applause And admiration.

One question, though, is left behind. Still to torment his anxious mind: Where under heaven can he find A situation? SHREDS AYD PATCHES. If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy We excuse our selfishness by assuming our greater Horn. astonishing how much patience some people have with The only really happy animal is a goat. He can eat Bachelor.

Some women act like cactuses and expect you to treat them like sensitive plants. York Press. Nothing is so hard for those abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in When you say don't try to see that your tone of voice indicate that you When a man fails in other ways he can attract attention by shaving off his Globe. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we wake and when we Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest hen others share their happiness with Taylor. When himself, a man says he has accepted a position; when about another man.

he says found a York Press. It most always happens that the men who talk most about domestic women are found home the least with Times. When a man becomes so ill it is feared he will die. lots of people say nice things about him which embarrass them greatly when he Bachelor. No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best H.

Chapin. When a woman sees a couple with a whole lot of babies she always looks indignant at the father; when a man sees them he looks indignant at the mother. Globe. AT MONTICELLO. A Number of Senators Visit Jefferson's They Saw There.

Washington Post. The first thing the visitors were shown on entering the Jefferson mansion was the great box-like clock, high over the door, three or four times the size of the ordinary of a century ago, and made, so it was said, by Jefferson himself. The weights consist of a dozen huge iron balls, the cords being carried from the clock so that the weights hang from pulleys in opposite corners of the room. These would hardly bo an ornament in a modern reception hall, but in this great high-ceilinged apartment they were singularly attractive. Beneath the clock depends a weather vane, which moves with the wind, for a rod connects it with the vane on the roof.

Jefferson was the first weather observer in the United States, and this contrivance, by which he could know the direction of the wind on the stormiest or coldest day without going out into the yard and looking up at the roof, was only one of the many inventions of a like character. In another corner of the room was a huge spy-glass, with which Jefferson, from the roof of his home, was wont to supervise the work going on in the various fields of his extensive estate. It is also related that he used the spy-glass, which has powerful lenses, equal to anything of modern make, to personally watch the construction of the University of Virginia buildings, in which he was especially interested. Colonel Duke, one of the oldest inhabitants of Charlottesville, who was a boy of four years when Jefferson died, told Jefferson, one day, watching the workmen laying brick on a university building four miles away, saw one of the men putting in a defective brick. The great statesman immediately descended, called for his saddlehorse and dashed away down the mountain and across the valley to the university ground, where he called up the offending workman and made him undo all that he had done since the poor brick was laid.

This story, Colonel Duke said, Jefferson had often told his father, who had related it to him. must have been considerable of a liar was the only comment made, and that by a senator who shall be nameless because he is a Democrat. was a wonderful man for accuracy of said Senator Bacon, of Georgia. "I know a man in my is his name. The city of Milledgeville was named after his grandfather, who was once Governor of the has in his possession a letter which I have seen, which is a most Remarkable illustration of this feature of character.

grandfather I am speaking of to pay a visit to John Randolph, of Roanoke, and asked Jefferson to tell him the way. The letter of which I speak gives the most minute directions for traveling from the city of Washington to home, beginning with telling him where to take the ferry in Georgetown to crofis the Potomac. This letter I do not believe has ever been published. It interested me and I think I shall send for a copy and have it No portraits of Jefferson or any member of his family now adorn the walls of the old mansion. All the personal effects of the family were removed when the estate was sold in 1843.

It was purchased at forced sale by a man named Barkley, who soon sold it. however, to Commodore Levy. A portrait of the latter, in uniform, adorns the wall to the right of the main entrance. In his right hand is a scroll partly' unrolled, which hears these words: of the act that abolished flogging in the United States Commodore Levy was the uncle of the piesent owner of Montieello. The latter was born in the old mansion, and was christened by his patriotic parents Jefferson Montieello Levy.

Commodore Levy died in 1863. in New York. In his will he provided that the estate of Montieello should be given to the commonwealth of Virginia, in return for which the State should establish a school for the education of the children of warrant officers in the navy. The feeling tr. the North at that time against the South was so great that the heirs caused the will to be set aside, and in the distribution of the estate, subsequently.

Montieello became the property of Jefferson M. Levy. To all suggestions that the federal government or the State of Virginia should purchase the place and maintain it as a public park, Mr. Levy' has replied that no money could buy' it He has no need of money, and it pleases him to maintain the famous estate as as possible as it was in time. On the mahogany center table in the nnrlor lie four volumes, the magnificent binding of which not even age has impaired.

Ihe books contained the published writings of Jefferson, and from the inscription on the fly-leaf of the first volume It is seen that the books were specially bound to be presented to Louis Kossuth, the great Magyar statesman, patriot and martyr, by the heir of Jefferson, at the time Kossuth visited this country. Why they were not presented is not known. Mr. Levy heard of them in possession of a book dealer in New York and purchased them for Monticelio. Many of the magnificent shade trees on the lindens, sycamores, locusts and of the last halfcentury growths, but several of them were planted by Jefferson himself.

Among these are two linden trees of remarkably slow growth. An Eaaterr senator, aware of this fact, in questioned a statement made that these lindens were planted by Jefferson himself. cannot said this theorist of the Senate in a tone intended to carry conviction to all his listeners. is very evident that these trees are older than that. They must have been here before Monticello was may said Senator Turner, the clear-cut, keen-eyed and athletic-looking young senator from the far-off State of Washington, who is eminently practical in everything, if it be true, as tell us, that Jefferson leveled off the top of this mountain and cleared it of all its timber before he built, it seen equally evident to me that what trees are here must have been planted since, and may, therefore, have been planted by Several interesting old negroes, who had lived all their lives on the estate, and expect to die there, were met by the visitors in their wanderings about the grounds.

One of these, who used big words indiscriminately, was a source of great amusement to Senators Deboe and Nelson, both of whom appeared to have wonderful talent in what is commonly known as the unsophisticated. remember, of asked Senator Nelson, The old darkey looked puzzled for a minute. but finally replied: yaas, salt! yaas, sah! I 'members dat. When the laughter which greeted the now astonished darky subsided Senator Deboe took a hand in the me, be said, it true what I have heard, that Bonapsytc rode bis horse right up through that clump of lilac But the old fellow was not going to commit himself so definitely after having been laughed at once. he began, hesitatingly: right froo rioin lilacs, sah.

but sumwhah in dat ar neighborhood, Another hearty peal of laughter from senatorial throats brought this reproach from the old man: "You is havin' fun wif de old man: shuah you But still he lingered about the party and was finally induced to stand at the head of the little table where they sat eating cake and cream, while Arthur Kcnna. the Senate page, took a couple of snap shots at the party with his kodak. "Has he got me now, he asked. I'd like to see how dis bcah nipgah looks in one of dem little brack boxes." Young Kenna said he would send him a picture and asked his name. name.

sah. is Fleming West. Dat's what dey calls me now, sah. But dat ain't de name my ole mammy guv was a chorus asked. Jonas Solomon Saul Shadrach Meshach said the old fellow, solemnly, chanting it as schoolboys were wont to scan their Virgil.

Representative Tongue also came across a very communicative old negro, who liked to talk about the place. there any battles fought around asked Mr. Tongue. sah; no, was the reply. since de wah.

After all that had been said previous to the excursion about making a pilgrimage to the tomb of Jefferson, none of the party visited the tomb, which is some distance from the house, near the road leading to the valley. No one seemed to notice the neglect save Senntor Turpie. who said, half reproachfully, half regretfully, as they passed it on the way home: ought to have gone in a body to visit the tomb. I was there, individually, twentyone years AT THE PARIS SALOY. Au American Colored Artist Wins tlie Medal of Honor.

Letter in Now' York Post. At the opening of the Salon of the Champs only salon conferring official honors painting by anew American artist was favorably noticed. Afterwards it was numbered among the annual acquisitions of the French state. Finally, it has carried off a third medal, a distinction which it shares this year with the work of only one other American painter. And now it has become known to all.

except to the editors of the American papers in Paris, that the promising artist is a young colored man from the United States. The effect of this discovery is unimportant among the French, to whom color has never been more than an accident of race, shading indifferently down through Italians, Portuguese, Algerians and South Americans to the millionaires of Hayti. To Americans, whose theoretical love of human equality often goes by contraries in practice, the case is different. When the younger Dumas died, a year ago, it was remarked that few American editors were willing to believe that the admixture negro Wood in the family came from a legitimate marriage. At least, nearly all the biographical notices published were made to say that the first Alexandre Dumas, mulatto general, was only a natural son of his noble father, and had taken the family name of bis negro mother in consequence.

In reality, the Marquis De La Pailleterie, emigrating under Louis XV to Hayti. married there, legally and religiously, the free woman, Colette Dumas, whose lands helped to retrieve his dilapidated fortune, and the absence of whose comforting management so afflicted him that he returned to France after her death with the son she had left him. This young Hercules in mahogany was recognized without question at court as the Comte De Ri Pailleterie. When a courtier thought to revenge himself on this rival in love by professing one evening to take hint, in the half light of a theater box, for a lackey, he was properly pitched over into the pit for his insolence. In the duel which resulted the veteran Marechal De Richelieu spontaneously came forward as second of the son of an old friend and companion at arms.

The young count gave up the use of his title and adopted his name for the simple reason that he enlisted in the army against his will. After the revolution he naturally kept the name under which he had won military rank and fame. But. both himself and his son. the novelist, who was also a legitimate child, have always been reckoned in the annuary of French nobility as the rightful owners of the La Pailleterie titles.

It was only the third Alexandre Dumas who was a by a Parisienne, such as he has touchingly portrayed in his play of that name. The colored artist who, thanks to French equality, has thus vindicated the theory and overcome the practice of his countrymen. is noted in the salon catalogue as Henry O. Tanner, born in the United States, and a pupil of Tony Robert-Fleury and Bouguereau. The subject of his painting is Resurrection of It is a small canvas, with Christ standing at the head of the open tomb from which Ivazarus is lifted up.

Behind are the Jews in attitudes of wonder. The light on all these figures is from the reddish blaze of lanterns. In the background is a bit of blue sky, seen through the entrance to the sepulchre. It is not a great painting, nor even faultless in drawing and color. But it is a meritorious precisely for those qualities of permanent value, which all masters have aimed at, but w'hich are ignored by many of the younger artists.

Its composition is original, without upsetting what may be called the ideas of the scene, and its color scheme is not one which might be admissible in an impressionist landscape. For Stamp Collectors. Round Table. The Canadian jubilee issue will be made by the American Bank Note Company. There will be fifteen stamps, ranging from a half-cont to $5.

Very clever counterfeits of the 1858 Naples stamps have been offered to collectors lately. They are very cleverly made and would easily deceiv young collectors. The original dies of these plates, excepting that of the 2 grant, have just been placed in the Postul Museum of 'ltaly. These plates, together with the die of the Parma stamps, 1852 and 1854. the matrix of the same die and the die of the newspaper tax stamp.

1857, were ail sold as old junk by the Italian government in 1 sTS. but the purchaser had hitherto held th-m at too high a price to effect a sale. The first issue of Servian stamps was in April. 1866. Os the 1-para 2,040 and of the 2-para stamps were printed.

One month later 18,360 of the. 1-para. 18.300 of the 2-para, were printed in a different shade of the same color. In June of the same year 12.000 of the 10-para, 200,000 of the 20-para. 20.000 of the 40-para, were primed.

The reason why almost all the 1 and 2-para stamps ar. found unused is that they were purposely not canceled, but were placed on the wrappers of foreign journals corning into Servia in such a way as to necessitate their destroyal through tearing. They were practically used as stamps. Lending; Editorial. St.

Louis Globe-Democrat. It was the practice of a certain London editor some years ago to write his leading article or articles at homo the night before publication. The rest of the week he did nothing. One night his articles did not come to hand at the office. Ten came; 11.

12. and still no sign of the article. There was commotion in the office, and at last a messenger was sent to the house. He found him with a glass of brandy and water before htm and newspapers scattered about. There was no article written.

do you asked the editor. urticle for 1 send at least it has not come to the me the mentioning a leading city paper. The paper was found and handed to him. and with steady fingers he cut out one of its leading articles. This he stuck upon a sheet of paper, and then, taking his pen, wrote at the top: "What does the mean by this?" In that form and with that introduction it appeared next morning aa the editor's leading article..