HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1890-04-25, Page 3ENOX&ZID'8 VAST EMPIRE.
— aunt tieguree Rosh Mortletnni
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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