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(London Christian Commonwealth.)
[A little girl was heard to finish her evening
prayer with these words : " And I saw a poor
little girl on the street to -day, cold and laare
footed; but it's none of our business, is it,
God ?"]
" None of aur business I" wandering and sinful
All through the streets of the city they go,
Hungry and homeless in the wijd weather—
THAL* TihBlr.
A Thing of Beauty and a Joy Forever.
There was a baby in the railwayouirthe
other day. It was not an unusual child,
but it had a.deoidedly bright face and
pretty waye. For the first few miles she
was very quiet, and her blue eyes looked
around in wonderment, for evidently it
-Allfar:4,t4,
Then as she became used to the roar and there ie good execiitive &WAY in t so
rumble the baby proclivities asserted them-, management of tide enerueous household,
eelvee, and ehe began to play with her for there is scarcely ever a jar or hitob,
father's mustache. At first the father even under the impulse of the most un -
and mother where the only parties timely demands. Every different depart -
interested, but soon a young lady in an ment is tinder the control of a person
adjacent seat nudged her- -escort- and who is directly reeponeible kr that, and
directed. hie attention to the laughing he has a come of servants and slaves under
child. He looked up, remarked that it his orders, who obey him only, and he ie
was a pretty baby and tried to look omen- subject to the treasurer of the household.
corned; but it was noticed that his eyes .Women have no voice whatever, in the
wandered back to the spot occupied by management of anything in any depart -
the ham family, and he commenced to [mint. Their sole occupation is to wait
iteeeeeeve
of an old lady in front, who
turned around savagely and glared at the
father with a look that plainly said,
"Nuisances should be left at home." But
she caught, eight of the.laughing eye e of
the baby, and when oho turned back ehe
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TUB gULTAN TUEKNY AT BOMB.
How Be IllanageS HO /Lanni ense Household
and How He Eats.
It ie estimated that aver -6,000 pereone
are fed daily at hie Dolma Bagtolee palace
when the Sultan is there. One who (Anima
to be well informed gives a graphic pioture
of the Sultan's housekeeping in the Leisure
'f'Nore of our busineas Childrati'q wan face.a,
Haggard and old vatli their suffering and sin ;
Hold fast your darlings on tender, warm bosoms,
Sorrbw without, but the home light within.
What does it matter that some other woman—
Some commosr mother—in bitter despair,
WMIs in a garret or sits in a cellar,
.Too broken-hearted for weeping or prayer ?'
" None of our business !" Sinful and fallen,
How they may jostle us close on the street !
Hold back your garment! scorn? they are used
to it ;
Pass on the other side, lest you should meet.
On with the feasting, though carts brea for -
Somebody's hungry, sonlebody's freezing,
Somebody's soul will be lost ere the morn.
flomehody's dying (on with the dancing 1)
0zn for earth's pottage is selling his soul
O or a bauble has bartered his birthright,
• e ing his all for a pitiful dole.
Ah ! but One goeth abroad on the mountaius,
Over lone deserts with burning deep sands
Seeking the lost ones (it is His business 1) •
Bruised though His feet are, and torn though
His hands.
Thorn -crowned His head and His soul sorrow
stricken
(Saving men's souls at such infinite cost),
Broken His heart for the grief of the nations!
It is His business saving the lost
The Three. Bachelors. •
Three bachelore slept in their shuttered room—
In their shuttered room when the sun shone
high ;
Not one of them felt he must rise till noon
Or take his breakfast till by and by ;
For single men may happily sleep—
A pillow is good and breakfast will keep
Till -ten o'clock in the morning.
seemed pleased about something. Several
others had become interested in the child
by this time—business men and young
clerks, old ladies and girls—and when the
baby bands grasped the large silk hat of
her father and placed it on her own head,
it made such a comical picture that the
old gentleman across the way, 'linable to
restrain himself, buret out into a loud
guffaw, and then looked sheepishly out of
the window, as if aeharoed •to be caught
doing pooh en unmanly thing. Before
another five minutes he wee playing peek-
a-boo across the aisle with the baby; and
every one was envying him.
The ubiquitous young man, ever on the
move, passed through, and was at a lose to
exceeuet for the frowns of everybody. He
had failed to notice the baby. The brake -
Three fair maids smiled on the,o bachelors man. looked in from his post on the plat.
)5.-- three—
town ; form and smiled. The paper boy found no
custom till he had spoken to the baby and
n these bachelors three when they came to
'They,waltzed, they sang, they made high tea jingled his pocket of change for her edifi-
And bad their accomplishments quickly cation. The conductor caught the fever
known;
For it matters not if bachelors sleep, and chucked the little one under the chin,
The maids aro awake quite soon in the week, while the old gentleman across the aiele
. And sometimes rise in the morning. forgot to pass up hie ticket, so interested
Three married men jumped when the sun arose,' was he playing peeloa-boo. The old lady
nal-tafa-ab-3a-p-il .f.eapr-J-in-a3ait • • t relaxed. and diving into her reti-
They felt for their boots, they grabbed their tulle unearthed a brilliant red pippin and
clothes,
And thoroughly realized it was day; . presented it bashfullyto the little one, who,
For women will never let men sleep in response, pat her chubby arme around
When there's breakfast to get mad a wash for the the donor's neck and pretend her rosy little
week, month to the' old lady's oheek. It brought
Though it's five o'clock in the morning.
back a flood of remembrances to that
The Surgeon's Knife, withered heart, and a handkerchief was
Seen to brush first this way and then that,
(By Eliza Cook.) as if to catch a falling tear,
There are hearts—stout hearts—that 'own no , The train sped on and pulled into the
r‘i
fear
At the whirling sword or the darting spear— • etion where the baby, ,with her parentst
That are ready- alike to bleed in the dust, were to leave the oar. A look of regret
'Neath the sabre's cut or the bayonet's thrust; .
They heed not the blows that fate may deal,
From the murderer's dirk or the soldier's steel:
But rips that laugh at the dagger of strife
Turn silent and white from the surgeon's knife.
Though bright the burnish and slender the
taide,
Bring it nigh. and the bravest are strangely
afraid ;
And the rope on the beam or the axe on the
block
Have less terror to daunt, and lose . power to
shock. , '
Science may wield,it, and danger may ask
The hand to be quick in ite gory task :
The hour with torture and death may bo rife,
But death is less feared than the surgeon'sknife
It shines in the grasp—'tjs no weapon for play,
A shudder betrays it is speeding,its way;
'While the quivering muscle and severing joint
Are gashed by the keen edge and probed by the
rreinek
It based in the dark and welling flood.
.Till purple and warm with the heat t's quick • Newspapers of the Present.
blood ;
Dripping it cornea fiend -the -cella of life,
While glazing eyes turn froth the surgeon's
' knife.
came over every face. The old. gentleman
asked if he couldn't kiss it just once.; the
old lady returned the caress she hail re-
ceived and the baby moved toward the
door, shaking a by -bye over the ()boulder
of her papa, to 4hioli everyone responded,
inoluding the newsboy who emphaeized
his farewell with a wave of his bat. The
passengers rushed to the side where the
baby got off and watched till she turned
out of sight at the other end of the sta-
tion, shaking by -byes all the time. Then
they lapsed into silence. They missed that
baby and not one of them would be unwill-
ing to acknowledge it. The little one's
presence had let a rift of sunshine into
every heart, warm or cold, in that oar.
—Orphan's Friend, House of Angel Guardian.
the Sultan in some specified capacity, and
the labor about the palace is eo subdivided
that no one works very hard except the
lord high chamberlain and treasurer of the
honeehold.
The treasurer of the household has the
burden of the honeekeeping on his burly
shoulders, and has an organized force of
buyers who are each charged with the pur-
°hue of certain supplies for their individual
_departments, each paying hie helpere, ser-
vants and slaves. One man is charged
with the duty of supplying all the fish, and,
as to furnish fish for at leaat 6,000 persons
is no light undertaking in a place where
there are no great markets such as there
are in other large cities, he has, to have
about 20 men to scour the various Small
markets and buy of the fishermen, and each
of these men has two others to carry the
fish they 'buy.
About ten tone of fish a week are re-
quired. There are nearly 18,000 pounds
of bread eaten daily, for the Turke are
large bread. -eaters, and this is all biked in.
the enormous ovens situated at some dis-
tance from the palace. The .food for the
Sultan is cooked by one man and his aids,
and no others touch it. It is cooked in
silver vessels, and when done each kettle
is sealed by a slip of paper and a
stamp, and this 'is broken in the
presence of the Sultan by the
high chamberlain, who takes one
...epoopful of octal eepareate • kett
before the Sultan tastes it. This is to
guard against -poison: The food is almost
always served up to the Sultan in the same
vessels in which it is cooked, and these are
often of gold, but when of baser metal the
kettle is set into a rich golden bell-shaped
'holder, the handle of which is held by a
slave while the Sultan eats. The Sultan
never nsee a plate. He taken all his food
direct from the little kettles, and never uses
a table, and rarely a knife or fork—a spoon,
hie brea_d, a pancake, or fingers are found
far handier,
WHAT AMMONIA. 18 000» FOB,
Various Domestic Uses to Which theArti-
elle May Be Put.
A little ammonia in tepid water will soften
and cleanse the skin.
Spirit() of aimroonia will often relieve a
severe headache.
Door -plates should be cleansed by rub-
ehi,n8a440,"440,1k,FWAOPeNOMR41-
water.
11 ice color trine been taken Oat a alike
by fruit etaine, ammonia will nasally re-
store the color.
To brighten carpets, wipe them with
warm water in which has been poured a
few drope of ammonia.
, One or two tableepeonfuls of ammonia
added to a pail of water will clean windows
better than soap.
A few drops in a cupful of warm water,
applied carefully, will remove spots from
paintings and chromos.
, CAN THIS Ilft TBUJI ?
How Some Ministers and Choira ,ifehave
Themselves.
A. clergyman, writing on "Bao maanerfl
in Chureh," givee the following
of the conduct of the choir and ro i,.t er
To _begin with the minister. litark
how often he ie reetlees and inattentive
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letalie the gulp& after enteric ,; , and JijJ
down to center with this or. the ch; (h
officer? While , eeated and awaiting his
"tarn," he no1-1 to various feendiare in
the pews. During the parte of ser vice 4P`
rendered by the ohoir he bueies in
turning the pages of the hyrn c. boob or
tumbling with the paper on the -,eete
Ita brother clergyman site beside hut. he
chide with him while the service oi ciang
proceeds. If the • other clergyman cffere,
prayers, his eyes gre wide open anti wan
Braggarts in courage, and boasters of strength,
At the cannon's mouth or the land's length ;
Ye who have struggled sword to sword,
With your wide wounds drenching the battle
sward—
Oh! boast no more till your soul be found
Unmoved with a breathless silence around ;
And a dread of the grave and a hope of life,
That rest on the work of the surgeon's knife.
The Old Bridge Rail.
Gosh t' goodness! hain't it fun
Whep the yaller of the sun
Transtto purple in the west,
When the da'ry milkin's dun
An' we all can take a rest?
There's the rail with notches cut
Jist above the river'gut.
Where the eddies circle round—
. Pritnest place for lishin'-ground.
Half a dozen leenin' there, "
• bow clost.to elbow wear—
'Ginet the sumo old cedar rail,
Watohiu' boys a-pullin' 'eels—
blver grubs they never fail
Catchin' on to fishes' meals.
Goodnesal what a lot we talk ;
An' we watch the lovers walk
'Mong the willers cleat beside
Rushes where the brushee balk
Into foam the river's tido.
That old rail above the gut
• If't could speak a story'd put
Into words to make you smile;
For it's held for years a pile .,,..
" Of the farmer folks when sun
Turns its yaller in the west'
Into purple an' is dun—
,When the folks kum down to rest.
Tho Cyclone.
All ill -fraught calm broods o'er the fertile plain,
The air is lulled and natnre seems to sleep ;
Arid in the distance 'optima the mist of rain,
T at hangs -o'er space like an outpouring deep.
e lightning darts in multiform around
The black reverted cone that whirling flies;
And the dread thunder'speaka in muffled sound
And tarns the rustic where his safety lies.
With mighty rush it comes, ruin in its path I
It roars and whirls the debris in the air ;
The rustic's work is blighted by JO wrath,
And many a mangled wretch is groaning there.
The pretty cote that once the plain adorned,
And boughs wore luscious fruit in plenty hung
The atqrra bath razed and garden growth up-
turned
Confused in wreck is art and nature flung.
J. R. Alihtf3TILON(4,"Fiftrant011,
Saturday night the policemen of the Bow
street station, London, Eng., refused to go
on anty became a constable who haddaken
a prominent part in the agitation for The
improvement of 4the condition of the police
force had been removed to another district.
Eventually this constable was reinstated,
and the Bow street men returned to duty.
'Yesterday 49 of the reoeloitrant policemen
were suspended. The others went on duty
last night. Ad the men left the station
hens° for their reepeetive poste they were
hooted at by a crowd which bad withered clothes ,in constant nee, and, a goosipy
outaide. ! chronicler 04Y0 thateollf-049.Pfl hip Ykrinile
--"-Papa ;Jess -Mate tallativtrintlfilikl7WA—inifra trotittera on shelves labelled "Mon.
I made of dust?" "N�, my child. If you day," " Tneeday," and so on to the end of
were yon would dry up onee in a while." the wook.
Nb doubt the present -tendency toward
trivialities and personalities will. continue
until private rights and public morals are
better protected by the laws,, and until 'the
acnneof size and profit in newspapers has
been reached. In the race for expansion
and power the leader who has adopted the
readiest means has often imposed ,his
.methods upon men who would ohoose the
best mane. The fault of a lower tone here
and there isnot properly chargeable to the
great body of workers, for in the profession
will be found today a high average of
ability and conscientious performance of
duty ; and never before our time have news-
papers been able to command the trained
intelligence and taste to enabhothem to do
all they are now doing for the development
of art and literature. All that the news-
papers of to -day are doing for every good
cause, and notably at this moment for
that of good government. Capital and
financial success are of course essential for
the (moons of great Modern newspaper;
but the public has .ft right to demand that
those who bear the highest responsibilities
of the profession ehoold isene newspapers
which they, as private individuals, wonld
be willing to endorse in every part as men
of character, refinement and self-respect.—
Century.
Prince Lobanoff.
Prince Lobanoff, the Russian Ambassa-
dor at Vienna, who is about to succeed M.
de Giera, is a man of rare intellectual
endowments. He will receive the rank -of
Chanodllor of the Empire, a title never
accorded to M. de Giers, and a general
belief prevails that under his -guidance
Russia will tepidly recover the prominent
position in the councile of Europe which
she held when Prince Gortschakoff was at
the zenith of his career. A ported type
of the grand seigneur, the only fault that
oan be found with Prince, Lobanoff is his
aversion to hard work. • His manners,
although courtly and dignified, are, never-
theleea, remarkable for theirindependence,
and he (Asada on record as having on
several occasions taught the Czar's brothere
lessone in good form and breeding that
they are not likely to forget in a hurry.
His social prestige in Ramie is very great,
for hie family is of more ancient and noble
origin than that of Alexander III., who
treats him with great distinction. The
Murals a wealthy baohelory and boa only -
had one " grand° paaaion " itt his life,
namely, that for Mary Stuart, Qtieen of
Soots, of whose letters and relioa he poet -
semen a remarkable collection.
Mr. Carnegie has donated
• a library at Ayr, Sootlatid.
The Doke of Fife has a dozen nits of
£10,000 for
•
Speed of Locomotives.
It (memo to be quite clear •that if steam
enough could be supplied to a locomotive
engine any speed could be attained, unlees
the resistance to ite progress augmented in
such a proportion that the boiler pressure
was not great enough to overcome it, nye
the " Engineer." The engine would then
be, to use a marine phrase," locked up."
We know that at a velocity of as much as
72 miles an hour on a level a well-designed
single driver light engine will run with the
throttle but little open, and apparently
exerting very little power indeed. It is
not easy to see why an addition of eight
miles atihour ehould pile up the resistance
as it is said to do. The question seems,
however, to bristle with anomalies and
contradictions of the most • vexations and
puzzling •character, and we are at times
tempted to believe that these difficulties
have no exit -Acme in fact—are for the most
part the creatione of Janoy.
ammonia and water ; lay soft white paper
over and iron with a hot iron.
When acid of any kind gets on clothing,
spirits of ammonia ,will kill ite Apply
chloroform to restore the color.
Keep nickel, silver ornaments and mounts
bright by rubbing with woollen cloth satu-
rated iroppirite of ammonia.
Old brass may be cleaned to lOok like
new by pouring strong ammonia on it and
scrubbing with a scrub brush; rinse in
clear water.
A tablespoonful of ammonia in a gallon
of warm water will often restore colors in
carpets; it will also remove whitewash
from them.
Yellow stains left by sewing machine oil
on white may be removed by rubbing the
spot with a wet 'cloth with ammonia before
washing with soap.
Equal parte of ammonia and turpentine
will take paint out of clothing, even if it be
hard and dry. Saturate the spot as often
as necessary and wash out in soaa suds.
Put a teaspoonful of ammonia in 1 quart
of water, wash your brushes and combs in
this, and all grease and dirt will disappear.
Rinse, shake and dry in the sun or by the
fire.
If those who perspire freely would use a
little ammonia in the water they bathe in
every day it would keep their flesh dean
and sweet, doing sway with any disagree.
able odor.
Flannels and blankets may, besoaked in
a pail o water con &ming one tablespoonful
ot ammonia and a little suds. Rub as little
as possible, and they will be white and dean
and will not shrink.
One teaspoonful of ammonia to a teacup-
ful of water will clean gold or silver jewel-
lery ; a few drop() of clear aqua ammonia
rubbed on the under (lige of aiamonds will
• clean them immediately, making them very
brilliant.
Von Moltke on Beer.
Count von Moltke, in reply to an.enquiry
as to whether he had made the statement
attributed to him that beer was the great-
est enemy of the Germans, has given the
following reply : " I oan never have made
such a statement. Oti the contrary, I wish
a good, cheap, light beer for our people
could be supplied. I myself abstain alto-
gether from alcohol. I do not consider it
necessary or helpful, except, perhaps, after
fatiguing work, when the principal 'thing
is to revive one's strength at onoe. Cer-
tainly one of the greateat enemies of Ger-
many is the misuse of alcohol. A healthy
man needs no such stimulant, and to give
it to children, which is often done, is abso-
lutely wicked. I should like to see tea and
coffee and light beer cheaper than they are
and brandy a good deal dearer."—London
Daily News.
The Parasol.
Before marriage—Exonee me, George,
did my parasol hart you ?
"Oh, no, my dear ; it would be a pleasure
if it did."
After marriage—Great heyens There
was never a woman under the sun that
knew bow to carry .a parasol without
scratching a fellow'e eyes out."
"And there never was a man that knew
enough to walk, on the right side of a
woman with a parasol."
" There isn't any right side of a woman
with a, parasol."
Boys in Corea.
Every man who goes to Corea should be,
or should got, married. Every unmarried
man is considered a boy, though he should
live to be 100. No matter what hie age, he
follow° in -position the Youngest of the
married men, despite the fact, perhaps, of
having lie ed years enough to be their
father. The only parallel to this in
America is in our politics, wherein every
man active in the profeeeion is a
even if he be as gray tie Gen. Spinola.-
0/unter.
The Stove of the Future.
" That looks neat," was the. remark to
the stove Man. " What is it ?" " It is the
new gas stove. • The day will come when
all the world who can get at it will want
to do its Bummer cooking by gas, and
maybe its winter cooking as well. This
stove'you eee, has burners, for all the
stove hobs and , two ovens. It admit's air
into the gas at the point of combustion
and rriakee a buneen flame of each. We
ran all the burnere 1 nil blast for two
hours the other day, having the meter
taken before and after, and it cost ex-
actly twelve cants. We can raise a ket-
tle of cold watdi to boiling IP seven min-
utes and all yon have to do is touch a
match to the gas and your fire is going.
Handsome, too, isn't it? Looks like a
stylish fanoy range."—Lewiston Journal.
George Angustue Sala drtiWo 110,00Q a
year for dictating four editerials a weird
or the London Daily Telegraph.
To prevent your glue jars from crack-
ing when putting in -hot 'hop, stand a
tablespoon np in them. Theron( taprevail.
• ing idea that thin promos haft something to
do with eleetrioity, bot the true solution
is that the spoon aboordo some of the heat
and also carries some of it out into the
open air.
fiCITioduFfIFT6 Mires
long. It cost $22,000,000, and eighty lives
were lost in ite construction.
- Worthy of Imitation.
A etory that is almost too good to be
true comes from Chicago, rind concerns
Mies Fanny Gary, a daughter of the famous
judge of that city. She is a member of the
Girl's Friendly Society of St. James
Church, which has a number of poor per-
sons under its cm& One of these, Mary
Anderson, aged 15, was broken down and
was unable to take a vacation in the coun-
try offered by Mise Gary because the tailor
who employed her threatened to discharge
her if she went eway without providing a
subetitute. Mies Gary sent the girl away
_and worked herself in the tailor shop two
weeks, leaving her luxuriomdhome at 6
o'dlock in the morning and returning at 7
at night. Truly, this la preeitical Chris -
lenity.
• Cupid and Cupidity in Brittany.
In Brittany a curious Matrimonial
custom prevails. On certain fete days
the young ladies appear in red petticoats,
with white or yellow borders around them.
The number of borders denotes the' portion
the father is willing to give his daughter.
Each white band, representing silver,
denotes 100 francs per annum, and each
yellow band denotes gold and betokens
1,000 francs a year. Thus a young man
who sees a face that pleases him has only
to glance at the trimmings of the petticoat
to learn what amount accompanies the
wearer.
Baldnesa Due to Indigestion.
Of all the. causes of premature baldness
none is so common as indigeation. Dyspep-
sia and weak and falling hair go hand in
hand. As the one affection' has increased
so has the other, and not all the oil of
Macassar, the bear's grease of Siberia nor
the cantharides of Spain will prevent a
man's hair from shortening and thinning
whose stomach is badly out of order.
Indeed, anything which debilitates the
mervous system has a weakening effect on
the scalp tissoes,awhich shows that less of
hair may proceed from general as well as
looal oakum—New York Telegram.
What an object-leseon In bad eaniers,
visible and demoralizing to tht e, ice
assembly !"
We have attended servioe in a graat :nary
places in Canada and are thankful ibni we
never saw a minister behave in that way.
We hope the number of those who 60 uon-
duct themselves among our neighbors is
mall. Still, there must be some ground
for complaint, or a staid coneervative
journal like the Christian at Work would not
publish the clergyman's letter. Her is
what he sap about choirs:
"Pass to the choir. The example of
ministerial indecorum naturally corrupts
the' Binger& They regard themselves as
performers and the servioe as ti per-
formance. As soon as their duties are
discharged, sometimes while they are pro-
ceeding, their by-play fa noticeable and
annoying. When the sermon is reached
the curtains of the ohoir loft are closely
drawn. The soprano places a box of
caramels in her lap, draws a novel from
her pocket and- regales -herd- rieletif •and -
her mind at the same time. The
organist soribblee notes to the con-
tralto. The beescloses hie • eyes
and nods assent to the minister in
the wrong places. Meantime, the tenor
slips ont and speeds away to an adjacent
saloon to wet his whistle. All ate" alert,
however, when the last hymn is reached,
and the curtains are drawn back to display
the choir once more. True, the baseo's
hair is ' untiff—tifOrrientritre
suipicionely, as though she had not had
quite time to dispose satisfactorily of that
last caramel;' but the organist is seated
dedorously at the key -board ; the contralto
stands demurely in her place; while the
tenor displays an amount of white shirt
front which is calculated to Mislead 06 -
servers into imagining he mean e to make a
dean breast of hie evil doings. - - •
Better a thousand times over to have no
singing at all than havethe Sabbath ' pro-
faneirand the Hama of God desecratee -ha
that way. Canadian congregaticnee, cannot
watch, too closely the beginnings of suoh
scandalous praotices.—Canado Pr eskyt in.
A CHICAGO SCANDAL.
How Unfortunate Women are Said t,o Have
to Contribute to the Public Fonda,. '
Startling revelations were made last week
by the Woman's Alliance of Chicago to the
judges of the Circuit and Superior Courts.
ft was proven that the Police Courts were
fostering a system of fining unfortunate
women for revenne only '—that for this
purpose women and girls are 'arrested in
droves fined only in their capacity to
"earn," ' and all for the purpose of giing
the profeesional 'bailer,' the shyster 'and
the i adge each a fee,leaving $1 besides for the
City, _Treasurer. The Alliance °bargee that
the whole machinery of the police force of -
Chicago ie run on this plan. The order is
issued to an officer to go out and bring ie
load,' because, forsooth, them who live off
the,trade of law enforcement reed a little
money, and in gathering the 'load' fin -ta-
unt girls, married women in company
with their hueban'de, have been arrested
and in spite of all pleading and ,
atrance placed in the wagon end driven to
police headquarters. When taken before
the jadge it has been proven (eat
they were ' doing nothilig,' but the fine
Was levied met the same and their
names entered on the long roll
of convicts. The Allianoe also claims that
on the other hand a proouress Wile Las
enticed sooree of innocent girls to her dens
—who has made $50,000 off their despair
and shame,' when proaeouted by distracted
parents, has been allowed to go free on
some technicality. Judges Tuley, Altgeld
and Shepherd replied to the ladies charging
them to pnah the (Anse of girlhood sgsi nst
the city boldly; Judge Altgeld sving :
" You ehotild not hesitate to mention the
names of those who are to blame, be they
high or low, in or out of office."
The Nizam of Hyderabad paid e65,000
for the big Gordon•Orr diamond to wear
in his head-dress. Before etitting, the
stone weighed 671 carats, and after ciitting,
24/ carats. It is said to be the best, pnreet
and moot brilliant atone known.
Cameo (reading the newepaper): An
African explorer has discovered a wonder.
ful race of hardy dwarfs at Hohm. Mrs.
Crimea (sweetly); That was much better
than finding them away frfiro htne—at the
club, for instance.
The Empress Frederick's youngest and
prettiot daughter who is soon • to marry
PiiXlph, of telatatimliturg7L-Wes a
girl of AttfrotCtitT figPrel,,v4thMt1P °MAO,
fair hair. Sho is devoted ,tb ontof•door
exercises, and rides, plays lawn tennis and
drives a fonr•inhani in fin&atyie.
The U. S. Wheat Crops,
The Chicago Farmer's Review ',say : The
propheoiea of a shortage in the wirter
'wheat crop are confirmed by.; the late
reports of private correspondents relative
to the yield and condition of the grain.
Winter killing and the ravages of ineects
reduced the crop in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
Missouri and Missiasippi. In Eaneas
drought prevented the perfect development
of the berry, while the wheat fields of the
Pacific coast, as also those of the Southern
and Eastern States, were drowned out by
the excessive rainfall experienced during
the early spring months. It may safely be
said that the average condition of the
entire crop when harvesting commenced
was 20 per cent. below the average. The
Review estimates a total of 272,344,436
bushels as the entire wheat crop of th,e
United States, but adds that, conaiderin g
the low condition of s wheat at harvest in g
time, the merchantable product will be
considerably lees than that figure. ,
An Agreeable Speech.
Miss Itedingote—Mr. Ponsonby, yon are
very quiet this evening. Do say something
agreeable,- — • - • -
Ponsonby (with an effort)—I feel all out
of aorta, and I believe 1'11 say good eight.
Mies Redingote (erohly)—There 1 I
knew you could say something nice if you
tried.
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They have a curious oustom at the burial
of an unmarried woman in Brazil. The
coffin, heard°, and tho Ilveicy of the driver
must be bright scarlet, the four white
1-orileai riionnt''bo env -area
'with ithatlet note, and the itotirkt pintaes
must deck the borsee' heads.
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