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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1890-04-25, Page 3ENOX&ZID'8 VAST EMPIRE. — aunt tieguree Rosh Mortletnni feronseintcstal. linden the ans_plces ille-Ittatitute, of Be/there, `.dr-d--4•Feetin Xeltrandilbetildatieni the Royal -Geographies' Sooiety .of ,,Tsolte don, recently delivered, ai, the Teniden Institute, Finebury circus, the third mime of four lectures on "Commercial Geo- graphy." The lecturer stated that, inoluding every scrap of land ever which we had any claim -the mother oonntry, India, and her --arr Tor..77 of nurnolonies and the juaioions exteneion et".ae-04:107,ca yot Y could not do without os. One means among otherso enabling tut to keep our piece with eo many powerful rivale in the field wan to ten:1114e full knowledge of the gecgraphiealnonditioneWhioh bore on -the interestof oommeroe. ates and, spherea of influence -the area o ' the empire was probably not lees tha =aee-eeeneeeeseeseeeee_eeeeAeeae;-eeesa-ereeeereeaeseeeo-neeeeysseeeeeeyeeo-se.e fifth of the whole land area of the globe _ It was nearly three times the size o Eteropee 1.,000,000 square miles larger tha The whole of the Ruseian empire in Europ and Asia ; ten time e the size of the Germs empire at home and abroad ; eight millio square Mika theanthe wheilenif French ddminione, even including Madagae oar; and just about a million less than th area of Africa. PRINCESS MAUD OF WALES. The Beautiful Member of the Family of England's Heir Apparent. The deughters and sons of the Prince of bearable and irksome restraint. They n have all been brettghlinenlike eeste,tithe tfaf'i'eUViirfriferi Orfarai fiFf, and • ave been allowed a freedom of enjoyment that f would have seemed impossix_ble In6rinthoeeeeir. n queenly grandmother, e Mand more nearly resembles the Princess n of Wales than do either the Dnohess of., n Fife or her second sister, the Prinoees e -Victoria. In general bearThi she reminds . us of her loyely mother when, as the Q Prins:tees Alexandria of Denmark, she was first eeerr ,by English people. Princess workeaTaW1W-350,00-0)00 people, embracing almost every type of hu-manity under the eun. Thus, of the total popula- tion of the globe, about one-fourth or one- fifth were our fellow-oitizens. An agricul- tural country could never support a very dense population, and in so small a country as urs, eould never have much surplus ce. al for great enterprises, or surplus inhabitants for purposes of colonizetion. Oar coal and our iron had, to a great extent, been the making of us, and had enabled tie to avail ourselves of our geo- graphical advantages. The total value of • — our -trade- had grown.enormonslye within the last thirty years. In 1860 imports and exports together amounted to £365,000,000 sterling; in 1889 their valve was £740,000,- 000. Oar imports thirty years ago were valued at £210,000000 sterling, now they were £427,000,000 ; our exports thirty years ago were £164,000,000 sterling, now they were £313,000,000. About 40 per cent. of our imports oon- Bisted of food products, and about 35 per cent. of raw materials of various kind, to be used, direotly-, or- indirectly; for manu- facturing purposes, partly for our own ooawption, but largely also for being exp rted in a manufactured state. Over 60 per cent. of the raw material ooneisted mainly of raw cotton and raw wool, whioh were manufactured into textile meteriele, to be exported to all parts of the world. - Nearly one half of our exports of home produce demisted of imbrues of raw materials in varieties stages of manuface ture. Cotton manufactures Wed , yarn alone amounted to somewhat less than one-third of the total exports, while metals in various stages of manufacture (includ- ing machinery) amounted to somewbat less than one-fourth. Our great raw export, coal, formed only about one -seventeenth pert of our exports of home produce. The relative importance of the mother country, so far as size and population were concerned, compared with the restseef the Empire, might be seen from the fact that of the 10,000,000 equate miles only 121,000 belonged to the United Kingdom. The _population of the mother country venal to• day close on 38,000,000, or just about oue- eighth part of the whole of Her Majesty's subjects. The whole trade of the Empire might be valued, imports and exports, at about 1,200,000,000 pounds, sterling, of whioh about 68 per cent. was the share of the mother oonntry, leaving , just 32 per cent. to the vast remainder of the Empire. Mr. Keltie, then dwelt in detail on the commercial, strategics' and geographisal features of the empire beyond the seas. On the whole, he said, we were fortunate in our oolonial empire -much more fortunate than France or Germany, Portugal or Spain, who, except France, had very little beyond the tropics. • „. Wteverisaleitable- pants -of -eh -a -ea were available for European settlement had Wien to the lot of English-speaking peoples, and among them we must reckon the United States, whioh we could not treat as a foreign country, and whioh did an annual trade . of $300,000,000, of which $90,000,000 was with the old mother country, who in this matter stood far ahead of all others. Ih commerce, as in some other things, blood counted for, some- thing. Whether our colonies remained attaohed to as, or whether the larger ones -which now managed their own affairs - might, like the United States, set up for themselves, the future alone could tell. Whatever form it might take, however, he thought that, in the interest of commerce as much as for sentimental reasons, we ought to sac* together. The spread of our race on the face of the earth, the enter- prise of our explorers and adventurers, bad helprn d to give nu predominance in the iic corola', as it had done in the political worl . The proportions of our oolonial ernpire, too, were welt adapted to oar wants. He had stated that the total trade of the em- pire might be estimated at about 1,200,- 000,000 pounds sterling annuelty. That was just one-half of the trade of all foreign oountriee put together Of the 1,200,000,000 pounds sterling we must credit 460,000,000 poundeeterling to that portion of the em- pire beyond our shores. Of these 460,000,- 000 pounds sterling about 170,000,000 pounds belonged, to -the 7,000,000 odd equare miles of what we called colonies of settlement, with their population of 10,- 000,000, mostly whites. The remaining 290,000,000 pounds sterling nanet be credited to flee tropical and enbdtopiaal posseseions, whi4h covered only abont 2,700,000 equate° mile. but with a populationof some 300,- 000,000, amoieg Whom was only a sprinkling of whites. Of the 290,000,000 pone& ster- ling of trade allotted to tropical possessione, about 180,000,000 pounds steeling belonged to our great Indian empire. About five - sixths of India's` imports of merchandise came from us, while of India's own produce about three-,eighthe came to' the United Kingdom. In one form or another the Englishlan- guage wanthettletedium of communication for something like 400,600,000 people - nearly one-third of the , population of the earth, and some who tried to forecast the future thought it might' yet become the universe.' language. wino we remembered that more -than one- fourth of the whole trade of the United Kingdom was with the rest of the ' esti regar e as tse "a y I a „ borough houee, and indulged accordingly. A recent photograph of her, taken Soon after the marriage of the Princese Louise, shows tie a rather slight, dignified -looking girl, dressed in a simple frook of some soft, clinging material, with knots of ribbon on the right shoulder and at the elbows as the sole trimming. In her hand she carried s bunch of roses loosely tied together. Probably the life whioh is most to the taste of this young princess is that led at Sandringham, where, with her favorite mastiff dog, the "Prince of Wales," and her -thoroughbred bunter, -she is able to, -revel unconstrained in all the joy and exhilaration of oonntry exercise. Even as a, little child the Princess Maud was a " lassie " more in sympathy with green lanes than with Piccadilly. PI incipies of _ The beet physical development results in health, etrength, skill and graceful The order and method of presentation determine the order and method of repre- sentation.- -- -- The knowledge of general relations must be preceded by the knowledge of special relations. Motives are high in ,proportion to the absence of seifiehnese and the presence of benevolence. Physioal akin requires repeated voluntary f tilos% rriragelps whieh_a skin ally. The conditions under which presentation takes place determine the probability. of repreeentetion. The purpose of education is determined by the civil institutions of the country in which the child lives. Ths.development of the moral character depends upon the nature of the motives which influence the will. The power of demonstrative reasoning is developed later than the power of moral or probable reasoning. The motion of the representative faeul- ties is conditioned by the previous action of the presentative faculties. -The leigheei -type-of moral-oleareetasr-is- found in the man who performs right actions from the highest motives. Thai man is best edtiosted who best knowe bis duty, is beet able to do hie duty, and is always influenced in his actions by the highest motives. The mind is best developed whose capa- city for happiness and useful action is greatest and whose intellectual faculties are controlled by a firm will, whioh is always influenced by right motives. -Journal of Education. Enormous Western Dams. It is to be hoped that the dame whioh they are building for irrigation purposes in 1E -es and region are being construoterrio as to prevent any_each disaster as occurred at Johnstown. Some of the dams are im- mense. The following are the dimensions of four recently completed: 1. The Wal- nut Grove dam, near Prescott, A.T., 110 feet high, 750 acres, capacity 4,000,000,000 gallons. 2. Merced dam, in Central Cali- fornia, 1 mile long, 60 feet high, 650 aores, capacity 5,500,000,000 gallons. 3. Sweet- water river dam, near San Diego, Cal, 90 feet high, 725 acres, capacity 6,000,000,000 gallons. 4. The Bear Valley dam, San Bernardino county, Cal., 60 feet high,2,250 acres, capacity 10,000,000,000. -New York Telegram. The Bagpipe Controversy. Mr. Archibald Forbes in the controversy that still continues in the London papers, as to the bagpiposTheing heard at the relief of Lucknow, says the chief metier of the Highland bagpipes used in the Highland regiments 'is that • rains shall sound " savage and ehrilld.in tile very climax of the fiercest struggle of the battle. When the word "charge" is given . the pipers strike up the pibroch, and it is a point of honor that each piper shall be with his company, and his pipes in full blast, eo long as there remains in him strength to move and wind to fill the instrument. Therefore, he concludes, the 78th High- lander° had their bagpipes "before the relief, at the relief, and after the relief." 4ta1y's ()nook. Queen.Marguerite of Italy is not fair, but she is fat and forty. As a rule, to which there are few exceptions, the royal families are not models cf physical beauty. The Count de Patio looks like an amiable -green- grocer, Qaeen Viotoria like a prosperous middle class woman, the Prince of Wales like a gcod-natured bon -vivant. The Queen of Indy affeots literary tests, but her suoL cess as an amateur anther has not been very brilliant, for the story goes that, hav- ing written a etory, she aent it to oleo of the Italian journals under an. asenmed name, and it was declined with thanks. Realism. Manager (entering the restaurant) - What'! Eating, Mr. Bigsalary ? Mr. Bigselary (leading comedian) -Y -yes, an I was hungry. Manager -That's no keen at all. If yon eat and have no appetite, how do you suppose you're going to do justice to that hungry scene in the play. I'll have no more of this. empire, it was surely our interest to do all The only daughter of Victor Hugo is now we consistently conld to 'promote -that :tom- en old woman, confined in a Meath) meree, and to encourage the development asylum. • SOITIPEL A.SIZIACIAM YANEEELA.MR„ The Wonderful Progress of the Argentine itePTabilaIQr.17401°10.Ple04tP0eiVY, The Chilians.are known as the English of South .America, from their devotion to 'maritime lite but the Argentines asensider: themselvee veritable Yankeee, according to a Busmen' Ayree correspondent of the New York Tribune. Their country is old in the historical order of; settlement, Pedro de Mendoza having laid the foundation of their present capital as long ago as 1535 ; but in its existing stage of polities' and • . neepseeeeneneeetereeeeeeneseenseatees,r, eve The revolt of the Argentine Provincial' -*Vdeftibeit go s'Weit-tellitateitek steno period o civil war, military dic- tatorship and disunion. It was not until 1861, when the federal republic was moon - Wilted under the leadership of Buenos Ayres, that a new era of progressive nativity opened. For twenty years jealousies were excited by rival etepiratietle for the seat of the national government, end it was not until 1881, when • this city was selected as the capital, that the danger of thermion and a renewal of civil war was as made remendone strides in material prosperity. During the last ten years it has gone ahead, like one of our own western etates, by leaps and bounde. The Argen- tine Republic has trebled its population sines 1861, its inoreeee being relatively much more rapid than that of the United Statesduring the same period. The esti- mates of the present population range from 3 500,000,, to 4,000,000, in the place of 1,160,000 in 1857. Immigration has swept up the Platte like a mighty inooming tide during the last decade, and the vast domain of the nation ie filling up with European eettlers. -The .valun of houses; land , oft ttle- d public works has quintupled in twenty. five y eare. A wheatnbelt of enormous extent has been opened for profitable agri- culture. The pastoral industries have been developed until there are now 23,000,000 cattle, 71,000,000 sheep, and between 4,000,000 and -5,000,000- horses -non the farms of the pam,pae. *The total value of stock has risen from $159,000,000 in 1884 to $369,000,000 in 1888. The exports of wool have risen from 1f31,446,495 in 1881 to $48,- 820,570- in 1888. The total exportations have increased from $26,000,000 in 1871 to $100,000,000 in 1888, while the importa- tions 'for the same period have risen from $44,000,000 to 6128,000,000, and the foreign carrying trade from 1,114,000 tons to 4,885,147 tone. Thousands of miles of railway have been built; a banking system has been establieh.e opened in all the provinces; public works of tremendous magnitude have been under- taken, and a prosperous nation with vast undeveloped resources behind it has been created. This is the work cf barely more then a single generation. The Argentine people have a record for industrial pro- grese, commercial enterprise; and enlight- ened faith in their own future Which can- not be equalled in South Amerioa. The, are the Yankees of the Southern hemis- phere. . m..44r0.2.1x1.5:n . PSIerneen- enneen Every Ellousepriltte-cetorid. trQvca Otte Ca* apart in Every Week, Every. hothiewife ehonld set apart oife day in each week for a mending .day -its duties g And that their Maker understands the pleedinto Of their ale; And I shouldn't bo surprised, sir, if in the judg- ment day, O Some cruel, heartless Iniman folks should be as dumb as they. My house is not as elegant as many are, know; But my cattle s.re.all sheltered from the wintry__ Aiietbey're not kept on rations that leave nothing but the frame, whence they came." Ah 1 God hath wisely ordered, sir, that in • money way, Starving, abusing critttre are the things. that . ....wallet pay. ... If any of my flock are sick or hurt in any way, I see that they' are cared for, sir, by night as wan ea da_y. My- l'ettir's on their wool, sir —tbsit'ff all OW brand I know ; should be as religiously performed se he daily devotions, slued writer in "good -Housekeeping." eWhioh day it shall be depends upon the n Final time of getting th olbthes in from the wash. 'If that disagree- able work is done at home, it should be as early in the week as preoticable ; the flan- nels eshould b washed out and dried --dedenienneendenennatalenseheseeers' and to allow plenty of time to air them, for damp flattlers. Talf1"34°442-gl"' If the clothes ere all in by Thursday evening, then Friday would b3 a nice oppor- tunity to lay out every garment and put it through a rigorous examination . It is well to have a epeoial stocking basket, in which all the woke and stockings areplattedeready for inspection. It should be furnished with suitable needles, darning cotton of all colors to suit the /anon hosiery, a pair of- sciesers, etc., so that it may he picked up aseenseeseeeseleeeeenesese-en don'tsokhnoolawramteulich of langeto z.gez ucla4, Oats, But the language of dumb crittI nu rstand quite well. And I think, sir—yes, I think eir thitt thc.03r. vetoes reach. the sky, DO3tID10 WHIST. Latest Game With (aids Mbich is Super- _ se ding " Hearts." Do you ever play dom'no whist? It is the latest game of oards extant, and is rapidly superseding poker, hearts and other games involving a minimum of science with a maximum of luok in the home circle and quite decorous social gatheringe. Four people play the game, and one who is familiar with the tea:linked names of cards informs the Memphis Evening Demo- crat that the person who sits at the left of the dealer -whatever that is -begins by playing what is called the seven -spot -of some suit-snades, hearts, clubs or dia. monde. If the player cannot show up a tieven- spot he is elected to put a check in the pot, though our in orreaM bays a nickel, a dime - or a two-bit piece is juin; ae good ass check and costs more. Then the next person takes up the game and plays a seven -spot -if he can -and after a seven -spot is placed on the table the other cards in sequence are placed, eight -sots on the right and six -spots ,,on the left of the seven -spot. Every time a person cannot play gamed on one of the fcur piles in the centre of the table down goes a check to the bottom of the pot. When sera() one plays his last card the game is at an end, and he take a a a:sheik for each card held by the other three players swhen the game ceased. A Eater Should be Mature and A cave 'There, is something to be known in pro- perly selecting a rooster for the flock. If he has long sickle feathers and developed early, the pullet's from him will in all probability be early layers, es the full tractile and long sickle's denote early ma- turity. The ceinb is an indication of health and vigor and should be upright, and in color a bright scarlet red, He ehonld have etrong, clean limbs,' with plenty of bone, unless of the Asiatic breeds, which are feather legged. The whole appearance should indi- cate activity, while he ehonld al- ways pay great attention to the hens. If the rooster is of Asiatic breeds, see that he is close and compactly built, and not longelegged, hut he 'should not be too cicse to Abe eround in his make up. The mailer breeds, laoweven'may be somewbat leggy, provided they' are not too much so, and especiolly if for crossing upon large, heavy hens. It is considered beat to use emall.roosters with largo hens, and if the twiner is an Asiatic or Plymonth Rook, he will give greater satisfaction if of medium size instead of being extra heavy in weight. Activity in the rooster, corn• bined with good form and robust consti- tution, is very important. The robster is really the value of one-half the flock, as all the chicks will be impressed with his char- acteristics. The Ruling Passion. Weeping sponse-I shall erect a -monu- ment to you dearest when you are gone. I shall have "Loving Husband" engraved at the bottom of the column. Dying Advertiser - Good heavens, Pauline, that will never do I Top of column, eighth page, next •reading matter -or----I refine to.,_ die 1 --Dry _ Goods Chronicle. , The difference between a liar and a hytocrite is that the Her in not always i mumble. My lambs—they are not tailless, for Gcd didn't make them so. Some say sheep don't need water,, but I toll you it's &Mel Ittyve-aEsneStr-Gontin-141---iirefrraise-i you or I. My horses—you have seen them, sir they are lust what they seem; And, if I do say it znyself, they are a splendid team. They wear no foolish blinders, and from hitch - up reins they're free ; And they never had a hurt, sir, that has been caused by Me. the way they do my bidding, now, 'tie really a surprise l They know my very Step, sir, and thank me with their eyee. My pigpen, over yonder, I'd like; sir, to have shown; My hogs—they never are the "breed" that is but I know, sir, that to fatten them, they need both food and drink, A shelter and a bed, sir. will help it on, I think. I have a yard on purpose, they can root whene'er they choose— It seems to Inc like crue:ty, so rings I never use. There's one thing more I want to show, 'tie !farms -Vs hen house here— - Our poultry. always pay ue well, and just now eggs are dear— 'Tis warm and clean and bright, you see, with gravel on the ground ; There's feed and water standing here all day the whole year round. Rut maybeThave tired you7iir—forg[vo an man's pride; But somehow I love dumb critters, and I want their wants supplied. come to a housekeeper when she is not ready to settle down to work whioh needs cutting out and planning. After the holes are mended, thin, places should be - neatly darned, for then they present a strong, even surface which is more com- fortable than the hole when drawn together later. The garments which need mending should be placed in another basket. Every button should be examined, and if they are pulling out by the roote, as children's but- tons always do, a double bit of cotton, or material like the garment, can be hemmed .on,the-wrong- eide, theeedgea ot ethenhole, hemmed down on • it, ' and the button replaced, opncealing the hole entirely. It looks mfich better than setting the button higher or lower to gain a fresh foundation. Strings have a way of wearing half off just where -they- wee sewed -on-. They ehonld be out, the old piece ripped off, end a new Bewing taken up, or else new strings. Little elite in underclothing should have a strong piece of material laid underemuch lemger-than the slit; when that is darned down with a few neat stitches it will hold much longer than if it is "just run up." • Boys' clothing should be furnished with . good strong pockets, for the joy of a little chap's first pantaloons pales before 'I lots of pockets, to hold just everything." Li tle ir „jet ate sized one, in -the seam of • a calico or gingham dress, holds her handkerchief, thimble and other necessary things which would otherwise be left lying around and lost. I find that a child's habit cf neatness largely depends upon the condition of the clothing put upon her from infancy. If she is accustomed to whole cleaib,,clothes, ehe will enjoy them, then find Them a necessity, and finally learn to love and keep them eo. The poor little children who dive'into bureau drawers, pulling out buttohleas bodies, torn aprons and ragged dressee, which they strew about until t ey find acme wear ablegarments, Ate grea4ly ha be pitied ; nor are they to be blamed if they grow up into eareless and untidy men and women., It ie never wise to buy jaet enongh material for a child's dress, with nothing left for mending. The elbows always rub out firet, and if there is enough to make new underside to the sleeven it helps the dress to last maoh longer. If there is aewide sada like the drese, it can be utilized later on for new sleeve% and it will be all " washed alike," for nearly all colored goods will fade in time. I 6 • I . it Be Had to Walk. A Boston father whose son last autumn took it into his foolish head to run away from home, taught the boy a lesson which is not likely to be soon forgotten. The lad bad read a lot of sensations' trash, and although he had a,good home be was led away by what he read, and started off to " enjoy life." Hie funds and his codreee gave out together before he got further than New York, where he was robbed in one place, ill- treated in another, and fell ill in a third ; eo that by the time he -had been absent from home for about ten days he gent a pathetic postal card to hie family, begging for the money to come home with. His father had Ore ady followed him to New York,.put detectives on bis track, and knew what was happening to him ; but was 'ewe- ing him to hie own devices in orderthat the lad might see to what his course would lead. Leaving a friend to see that the boy was watched tied 'kept from actual halm, the father returned home, and when the son's appeal came be simply wrote back : " Don't you think you had better walk ?" The poor prodigal was probably tveli-nigh heartbroken at such a response which, in- deed, it cost th p father a goods:Lai of reso- lution to make, but he set out to walk from Now York to Bostore A man was employed by the father's orders to come along with him. The eon supposed that he was merely a tramp with whom he had fallen in and who chose to be lehod..to him . The rnnaway readied home e'afely, but a more changed boy it wetild not be easy to find. Hie father has never alluded to his adventure, and thereis now a respect and confidence between them which is really charming to see. -Youth's Companion, Horace Cl re eley '14 Penmanship. gere is what Greeley wrote: DEAR §IR,—I 8rn evartvorked and growing old I shall bo sixty next February 3rd. On the whole it res me I must decline to lecture henceforth except in this immediate vicinily, if I do at all cannot promise to visit Mb ois ou that errand —certainly not now. Yours, HORACE• GREP,Lny. M. B. Castle, Sandwich, Ill. And here is how the /1/seture committee read it SANrwrcn, M., May 12. Horace Greeley, Now York Tribune: Dunn Sin,—Your acceptance to lecture before our association next winter came to hand this pornitig. tour penmanship not being the plainest, it took SOU) time to translate it ; but wo succeeded, and would say your time, "third of February," and terms, "sixty dollars," aro perfectly satisfactory. As you suagest, we may be able to got you other engagements in tbis immediate vicinity, If so, we will advise /on. Yours respectfully, - M. B. CASTLE,. Mme. Pommery, the champagne pro prietor, is dead, She leaves a fortune of 64,000,000. Such great fortnnee, made in that way, show the power of appetite. WHY WOMEN ARE FASCINATING. Some of the Reasons that Attract' the Sterner Sex to the Gentler. • • a z-lneVvet--df--Ninlierent en women may, moreover, be divided into two kinds. We all, says the Brooklyn Eagle, have seen the old lady, -generally white haired, with kindly, pleasant features, on whioh time has set no unfriendly mark, who still retains an her attractiveness. Note how the boys and -girls adore her ; they will go to her and confide their sor- rows, their hopes, their ambitions, and when they would not breath a word to their mothers. The kindly, loving interest evinced in es lad's affairs by such a one has time and again first implanted the mpulses in the heart which eventually led him on to an•honorable oereer. Quickly, almost by stealth, the good is u�h,ThM the godd seed sown whioh will ripen in after time into a rioh and abundant crop. On the other' hand, we hava most of -us aeon, perhaps in reel life, certainly- on the etege, the fasoinatireg adventdrese who, by her enthralling . beaute de diable, enelaves men's smile and leads them (on the stage) to do all for her sake. Such is directly opposed to the sweet old lady in her old,fastrioned chair'and these two form the opposite poles between which the women who !sect, nate vary. Types differ, and any one yon may select has some position between these two opposites. Take, for instance, et pretty and may be wittynewomen who hardly of her own free will, makes every .man fall in love with her to greater or lees degree, She may be inno- cent of any evil intention, but her poeition on the settle ie not vastly_ removed from that of the melodramatic eoroerese. Or, again, take the instance of the pretty young matron who, while devoted•to home, hus- band and children, yet has -several inti- mate friends of the male persuasion. But her influence is all for good. Her famine. tion is exerted in a worthy cause, and she has found out a great truth -that there is no friendship so lasting, so • true and -so pleasant as one between person° of oppo- site seees, where a true. feeling of bonne camaraderie exists and there 'lane pretense to love -making. Such a woman, if she lives long eeough, bido fair to develop into a snowy -haired' old lady, on whose friendship the children will rely. 33 Groping in the Dark. She (over an ice) -Do you care for 'been at ell ? He (who has never heard of him - Ye -es; 1 rather think I do. She - Yet you speak as if you did not specially admire him. • He (to gain time) -Oh, really, yon know, that is hardly fair--- She-At leant 'you grant he is original. " A Doll's House,' for instance, is quite uplikaanything else of the sort. He (not knowirig whether it's •a book, picture cr musics' composition)-Originsi. perhaps; bat (pulling his monetacha) don't you think it's-er-rather faulty, too ? Slie-Why, ; I thought the plot strong and interesting., He (relieved at lest to have caught op) - Ob, yes ; interesting without doubt, -but (loftily) I'm 'rather tired, don't von knew, of children's stories einem the l'auntleroy craze. English thieves aro using a contrivance looking like an ordinary wanting stick, but vehicle is -so arranged"that by pressing a spring at the handle the ferrule will spread apart arid form a sort , of spring clip that - will talte'hold of anythirk that is within reach. Tho thing is Called e the Contin- ental lifting stick " Ia a library in Paris, said to be the largest in thel world, is n Chinese chart of the heavens, in which 1.1(30 stars aro found to be oorreotly placed According to,4h scientists of the present day. Tho was made in 600 B. C. Pennsylvania is to haVel two ether " this year, April lith and 25th. The reason is that the State is so largo that the condi- tion° wonld,not be equally favorable to all looalities on any one date. -NV 1: • •