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, THE Si<'( AND THE W000. TJp in his office the major of infantry "Ten years ago," said a unanufaet.ur-
who commands the battalion of cadets is y a I Chanbt s of u1e Orlgtnal Stock—Tribes o! ing jeweler, "there was but one diamond
There is a rainbow to the sky, busy with the arduous duties of his post o-ltomtcat lndi�utsienr. I, a s(Luul CUlidren Tee Benton a cutter in the city, VVIten he got sick
Upon the areb where tempests trod, tion. Hanging in the lower hallway that t p Since ill Penan some th f there was nobody to cut a diamond.
'Twos written by rile hand on high, leads to his office is a huge fraena filled
It is the autograph of clod. with closely written sheets of paper. +t Ito find mets and women t+artli study. y eaia a"*O eXplebsed ills dOUbts a9 t0 tli� en otter and Iece to overs oP Nov thele are plenty of cutters, and
The trees their crowns of foliage toss; This is the delinquency list, or f u cadet P p they use improved machinery, by the
Where mougl•ebs fell In thunder showers,o y use of which they can cut diamonds bet-
BpTingdrapes their forms in mourning muss. I slang, the "s:: in board.' Approaching i Il 1 b' 1 [ ter and more cheaply that it can be done
And writes their epitaphs In flowers. it we read: anywhere in the world: Our diamond
—George 7, Buugay in American eagaziue. "Anderson —Wearing cap in quarters bog g d b cutters can take many imported stones
- nt police inspection, i i f 1 1 fi 11 1 t b t od I " and add 26 per cent. to their value by
New Style of Picture Frames. "Armstrong—Odor of tobacco smoke improved cutting. The obvious increase
the byofficers In the number of di• mond worst has
The new picture frames of oust or in quarters at inspection fi a s
" compelled the education of workmen to
meet the demand.
"Another is
thinghas been done. This
is an invention of the American tuanu-
factu er, and consists of the application
of machinery to diamond setting. The
old• time workman would have consid-
ered with horror the idea of putting any-
thing but hand-tvork on a piece of dia-
mond jewelry. Everything about it had
to be done by slow and laborious hand
work. But a shrewd workman got, the
idea that a good deal of the setting of a
diamond may be done quite as well by
machinery as by hand, and a good deal
quicker and more cheaply. The fact is
that where many diamonds are set they
resolve themselves into sizes about as
regular as the sizes of any other com-
modity. It is easy enough to prepare
settings to suit any size of diamonds that
are sold in the market.
"It clay scent a trilling tiring to esti-
mate the crust of a setting—or at least the
difference bct+wcen a hand made setting
and a machine made setting; but the in-
evitable result (,f competition has been to
get tho cost of manufacturing evert dia-
mond jewelry down to the lowest rate.
As to the value of the diamond itself, the
experts have become able to fix that to a
nicety,"—New York Sun.
SIGNS OF CcHARACTER.
Jt WS
OF
MIXED
BLOOD.
INTERESTING
A stud of the race—Diegntn et MY"' Ascertaining the Receptive Powers
a req o Jews.
Sentences.
The utorals of form and face are ap• Mr. 11. H. l3allard publishes iu The
parent as the color of one's hair to those ` vee or our Juuu nal of Education the result of a regi
ago, oftheill t receptive +
Emerson says "a man finds room in the purity of the Jewish race, the hitherto
few square inches of his face for a the receivedopinion on thatsubject has been
traits of his ancestors," which can hardly somewhat shaken. The question, though
gratifying to the manes ofmost an- unscientificallyraise , can onlyo scien-
cestors. ' • 1 to size u the nose is the tt ca y settled; ; b u we may point out,
measure of power," the writers on physi- as a clatter of popular interest, that even
n " w theface themain bodybrew
m tell us. All hollows m if matof the Hebrew (, people
ogowy! !
denote weakness, so that a flat face has has preserved au untainted lineage, which
something in its favor, being wholesome is very likely, it has at any rate acquired
r
• •u d working usid • 1 fringeof indubitably
and
strong, deilotan� sten a considerable a udubita l
Y b
b''+ oY
r lung nos- spurious I'
power. —The larj,er the acid o spa to s T us fringe is coui-
tril, tale greater the size and power of the posed partly of pseudo Jews and partly
heart," and the force of the whole ua- of crypto Jews, the former being mainly
tune. Full. lower cheeks are signs of descendants of Gentile proselytes openly
good digestive power, the full rolling professing Judaism, and the latter con -
underlip of a sympathetic nature, easily sisting of more or less sophisticated de -
moved; but the thick, straight lip is scendants of Jews outwardly conforming
cruel and coarse. The full upper lip de- to the dominant religions of the countries
notes affection, and the old painters al- in which they live, but secretly observiug
ways drew such tender lips for the Ma- their ancestral faith. These two divisions
donna and the child. The mouth like a 1 of what may be termed the borderland
Cupid's bow, beautiful as it is, is given to between the Jewish and the Gentile
coquetry and experiments in lose, worlds have again smaller borderlands
The long upper Hp denotes faithful- or fringes of their own through which
ness, but beware, above all things, of the they merge into one another.
woman with the upper lip which hardly As throwing light oil the spasms of
moves in speaking. There can scarcely proselytism with which, in�„opposition to
he a worse feature in the face, for it is their traditional practice, the Hebrews
never found without a coldly false, vin- have occasionally been seized, these
dictive nature behind it. Beware of the pseudo Jews are of considerable interest
woman who smiles to one side of the to the student of religious history. 'i'he
mouth, for she is tricky herself and sus-
picions of others. No matter how gifted,
how lovely her taste in dress or perfect
her unuuturs, if you would be safe strike
off from your acquaintance the worm. n
who shows either of these signs. They
are born mischief makers, in neighbor-
hoods, in church, in society. The large,
projecting eye is that of a chatterer and
a liar, in man or woman. The full eyes
of too many Madonnas are those of ar-
rant hypocrites to those who read feat-
ures. The eye, long rather than round,
but well opened, nobly set under the
brow, with some depth and reserve, is
that chosen by the Greek sculptors for
ideal b ut Large eyes denote com-
mand.beauty. g ,y
mand. In historical collections you will
notice the beautiful large eyes of the
early queens of England. Tho deeper
set eye is one of reflection .and self com-
mand, always enlarging with muscular
exercise and tonics.
The almond eye, praised as it is, be-
longs to the harem, and is no sign of a
or virtuous nature. Full,
straightforwardt
l- b u the phys-
iognomist
eyelids are beautiful; but 1 Y
iognomist does not choose them for the
first to trust. They are secretive eyes
and watchful of self interest. The eye
with drooping lids, slanting ever 'so
slightly to the outer corner, is that of an
intriguante. See the earlier portraits of
t re Eugenie. Sorrow and self
theEmpress e S
communing have made an honester
woman of her today, with loss of crown
and beauty and ambition. Eyes which
slant ever so -little to the inner
corner are prying, -inquisitive and
treacherous. Women with such eyes
lie without .reason, apparently with-
out knowing it. They are bad
neighbors in a village or a boarding
house. Pity the woman whose lips smile
when her eyes do not, for she is the
product of -an artificial life, and has
probably never known a faithful friend
r in her life. Tho
or an unselfish person
p
face of Patti is such a woman, and the
pain of her set, sweet, artist smile and
utterly unsmiling eyes is sore to every
true woman.
Confused or broken wrinkles on the
forehead are signs of a confused under-
derstanding, a weak mind, and often a
weak body. Deep wrinkles under the
chin and around the neck belong to the
easy going persons, not inclined to any
labor. When found on persons of large
brain they indicate characters of great
mental vigor, capable of hard and pro--
tracted mental labor. Lines down the
sides of the nose, which deepen in talk-
ing, are evidence of a malicious and dis-
honest character. Wrinkles across the
top of the nose are indications of com-
mand, as in those who govern soldiers
and sailors, in some teachers and pa-
rents of good executive ability and will.
Dimples near the corners of the mouth
are signs of approbativeness and mirth.
Dimpled hands in fair persons show
amative disposition. Thick eyelashes
show warm passions. Blue eyes with
black hair' show great ability and control
of feelings. Persons of this type carry
out their plans secretly while affecting
.great frankness. Dark eyes with fair
hair indicate strength and fineness.
Light brown hair with a golden tinge be-
tokens excitability and exaltation, often
leading to expression by pen or voice.
Let people people with stiff, straight hair
be consoled, for such it is easier to be
honest and honorable than to be other-
wise.—Shirley Dare.
of
school children. The sentence,"'Your
redemption from the distress into which
you have fallen is in your ownhands,
and in no wise depends on forms of gov-
ernment or modes of election," was care-
fully read to one of ten selected pupils,
who repeated ito exactly possible sible to the
next scholar, and this ono to the third,
and so on to the tenth. The tenth pupil
wrote down what he received from the
enier ed
ninth.I h onesentence
h case the
from this process as "The redemption of
your distress is in your own hands;" in
another it was: "The invention which
has fallen into your hand;" and the sen-
tence had dwindled into this already at
the sixth pupil.
In another case the sentenco was whis-
pered instead of distinctly read, and the
process of calling on the imagination
when the senses give no clear impression
is illustrated in the result, which was,
"The attempts into which we have fallen
during the government election are very
low." In the Pittsfield, Mass., high
school the sentence reduced to, "Redemp-
tion is in your own hands, and depends
upon no formal government nor love."
In the senior class of another high school,
in which the average age of the pupils
was 18 years, the result was, "Our re -
largest community of then are the Fal- demption for (.urdestruction has nothing
ashas of Abyssinia, numbering, it is to do with us." In still another school
said, between 200,000 and a quarter of a it was, "]our distress into which you
million souls. Although they pretend to have fallen is by no means the fault of
be descended from King Solomon and
the Queen of Sheba, ethnologists have
failed to discover among then any truces
of a Hebrew type. That originally they
were strangers in the land is, however,
shown by their name, which means "im-
migrants."
Besides the Falashas, there are several
tribes in Africa professing Judaism, or
claiming descent from Jews, who, in so
far as their ethnological type is a matter
of doubt, must also be regarded as be-
longing to the fringe of Jewry. Among
the Beni-Mzab, on the frontiers of Al-
geria and Tunis, are several pseudo Jew-
ish clans, and all over the Sahara the
Daggatoun boast of a Hebrew ancestry
while professing Mohammedanism. A
Moorish Jew, who wrote an account of
the latter people, explains their name to
mean "Jews who have changed their
faith,"' doubtful of philology
a
piece1 oY
which has however, its historical value.
In Madagascar and on the Loango
coast aro two further small contingents
of pseudo Jews, the "Zafy Ibrahim" or
"Progeny of Abraham," and the "Ma-
vamba," or "Judeos." The former do
not differ in their physical type from
their neighbors, and their Hebrew tradi-
tions and observances are, perhaps, only
a remote vibration of the Judeo-Arabio
influence. Tho Loango "Judeos" are a
superior kind of negroes, alleged to be
descended from survivors of the 2,000
Jewish children who, in 1493, were torn
from their parents by Don Joao II, of
Portugal, and transported to St. Thomas.
Asia is full of varying degrees of the
fringe of Jewry, if the traditions of some
scores of peoples and tribes are to be
trusted. The whole continent has proved
a. happy hunting ground for the amiable
enthusiasts whose s game is the Lost
Tribes. Of actual pseudo Jews, as we
have defined them,:, there are, however,
only a couple of specimens—the black
Jews of Cochin and Malabar and the
Jews of the interior of China. Both pro-
fess fairly orthodox forms of Judaism,
and both assert that they are of pure
Jewish descent; but the investigations of
competent observers have shown the for-
mer to be of Hindoo race, while the
little we know of the latter seems to in-
dicate that they are Mongols, with a
slight admixture of Hebrew blood.
Of the Chinese Jews we have no very
precise or reliable accounts. 'They are
said tote of a very •strong Mongolian
type. On the other hand, the records
prove them to have been at least in con-
tact with pure Jews; and it is probable
that they are a cross between these News
and native proselytes. Crosses of this de-
scription are usually infertile—a fact
that goes far to prove the purity of the
main body of the Hebrew r and the
so called Chinese Jews Rresent all the un-
fruitful characteristics of hybr"1 . In
this respect they resemble the two great
bodies of pseudo Jews which are to be
'Subterranean unean Streams of Barbados.
found in Europe,, the Karaites of South
Russia and the Sephardim of England
and Holland.
Historically the Karaites are even
more interesting than the Falashas.
They are a remnant of the Finnish king -
doth of the Khozars, which was con-
verted to Judaism in the Eighth century,
and which for a time disputed the sover-
eignty of the east with the emperors of
Byzantium.
That the Sephardim of England and
Holland are not pure Jews is a statement
which may cause some surprise. While,
however, the Sephardim of Italy and the
east are mostly descendants of the un-
doubtedly pure Spanish Jews expelled
from the peninsula in 1493, the bulk of
those iu western Europe are the offspring
of Marranos, or crypto Jews, who out-
wardly conformed to Christianity in
order to escape the edict of expulsion,
and who, to hide their religious identity
more effectually, gave up their racial dis-
tinctiveness. There is scarcely a Marreno
family which cannot be proved to have
received some infusion of Gentile blood;
and it is a singular fact that in England
at least, while the Ashkenazim, or cen-
-teal European Jews, show an exceptional
fecundity the Sephardim are gradually
dying out. —St. James' Gazette.
chestnut shaded by the rubbing in of
umber from very light at the inside to
verydark at
L110outer ed 6
are the latest
g
fad in their line. 'they are especially ef-
fective when used around a tinted print
of a shade nearly matching the lintel
edge of the frame. It is predicted, how-
ever, that they will soon become too com-
mon and go out of fashion. Some deal-
ers in New York won't plat such frames
on picttu•er sold by them at all, claiming
that the style violates artistic taste. At
one dealer's a still more striking frame
is having a run of popularity. It is of
broad oak with real bars half an inch
thick, colored to look like iron set across
it from side to side. Imitation hinges on
one side and a very real looking padlock
on the other increases the resemblance to
the barred door of a cage- With a pict-
ure of the head of a lion or other beast
behind it, the effect is very startling, if
not strictly artistic.—New York Sun.
The Metaphysical Novel.
"in the tends of men entirely great,"
the nnetaphysical novel is great, indeed;
but what is to be the outcome of a reck-
less handling of subjects of a metaphys-
ical or semi -spiritual, semi-scientifie char-
acter, by authors who have no other
qualification than a vivid imagination
and fervid language? If "it takes a
clever man to be a fool," it certainly
takes a clever and learned man to write
a respectable novel, in which second
sight, hypnotism, magnetism or spirit-
ualism takes a leading part. But the
list of stizh books increases alarmingly,
considering who the authors are.—Pitts-
burg. Bulletin.
,low Florida Was Ilullt.
Auong the t oencies which have
helped to build up the peninsula of Flor-
ida, according to Dlr, A. H. Curtiss, are
certain trees, like the mangrove and cy-
press, which grow on land more or less
under water. Like the coral builders,
theyhave worked slow! but in thou-
sands
slowly,
sands of centuries the change wrought
would be great. It is altogether prob-
able that the thousarsls of tree covered
"islands" in the Everglades and Big Cy-
press were once mangrove thickets, and
that the present mangrove islands will
in time. be added to the mainland,—Ar-
kansaw Traveler.
M((,j, Andre's Fatal Pass.
A relic of the revolution has lately
been found in Washington. It is the
original document given to pass Maj.
Andre through the American lines when
Benedict Arnold had resolved to betray
West Point into the hands of the British.
The pass is signed by Arnold as major
general, and is countersigned by Gen.
Gage, The possessor is a direct descend-
ant of Paulding, one of the scouts who
arrested Andre when he attempted to
pass the picket under the -name of An-
derson.—Chicago
t
d r n — hi
e so C sago Herald.
He .Hail to Say Something.
—There," said Mrs. Ableyer, after she
had concluded, "that is the fust time
'I've sung for over a year, except when
l've sung to baby," "Oh, .then, the
baby dons have tfie benefit of your
voice?" .asked Fenderson, wishing, of
course, to say something, if it wasn't so
bright. "Yes, I have to sing him to
eleep, you know." '(Ain, my dear Mrs.
Abelyer, what a pity it is that as we
grow older we lose the ability to go to
sleep when somelmdy is singing. "—Bos-
ton Transcript:
Parisians Not AU Frivolous.
Grace Greenwood says that all. Par-
isian women are not frivolous, any more
than all Boston women are profound.
She does not believe that Anglo-Saxons
enjoy a monopoly of home 'virtues and
practical piety, and she does believe that
the great majority of French wives are
loyal, French mothers tender, French
grandmothers and elderly maiden ladies
devout.—Harper's Bazar.
day.
"Billingsgate—L 'sing prufuno expres-
sion O11 .1J a in.
si 9
'' u1.
"Same—Absent from room at a.
inspection.
"Brooks ----Slow extinguishing light at
taps," and so on throughout the long
list. On Friday punishments fisting their
respective offenses will be awarded the
delinquents.
Academic regulations are very strict,
being the combined result of the experi-
ences of a long line of superintendents,
and any cadet who could and would go
through his whole four years' course with-
out breaking any of them should, at its
close, be graduated straight through the
pearly gates and receive a golden harp
instead of a diploma. He, during his
four -years' course, would have carefully
refrained from the use of stimulants,
bad language and tobacco in any form;
would have attended divine service at
least once a week; would have lived with
his comrades in a spirit of brotherly love;
would have kept his shoes bright, his
collar spotless, and would have been
promptly on handifor every one of his
manifold duties. Such is the ideal cadet,
and the regulations are intended to make
the real ones approach as near to him as
possible. But, alas! they are all sons of
Adam, and the "skin list" is the unfor-
tunate result,—Lieut. E. W. Lewis in
Inter Ocean.
New York's Animal Mortality.
The health of New York compares very
unfavorably with that of London. The
annual mortality in the. British metropo-
lis is about 20 in 1,000, while in New
York it is 26 in 1,000. The population
of New York is also much more crowded,
there being an average of 16 persons to a
dwelling while in London the average is
only 7.—St. Louis Republic.
Drill of the Cadets.
In the closing exercises of the year, at
West Point, there is war enough in the
light and sea coast battery drill, but the.
event to the boys is said to be the cavalry
drill and charge, the cadets vying with
one another in -the speed of their riding.
In a recent drill one cadet leaped his
horse over a seven foot hedge.—New
York World.
Tho Earth's Motion.
In a minute wo are whirled around on
the outside of the earth by its diurnal
motion, a distance of thirteen miles, and at
the same time go along with the earth
on its journey around the sun, 1,080
miles.—Chicago Herald.
Improved D17 Plates.
In some improved English dry plates
the developing mixture is fixed to the
back of the glass, so that the photo-
graphic negative is developed by simple
immersion in water.
The
Sovereigns' "We."
The use of we instead of I by brewer-.
eigns began in England with King John,
1199. The German emperors and French
kings used the plural about 1?AO,—Bos-
ton Post.
Fast Travel on the Ocean.
It gives a confirmed landsman a cold
chill when he reads that the Etruria ran
through fogs at a rate almost equaling en
express train. Is this kind of thing �..('
That is the question. The opinions of
know are almost
those who ought to 0
unanimously in favor of getting out of a
fog just as quickly as possible, and there
seems to bo no question but the driving
through a fog at a high rate of speed is
the best thing to do under the circum-
stances,
onlyvessels lost during recent
The
e
g
years have been lost while either stand-
ing still or going slowly. If the Oregon
had been going faster she would not
have been struck. Still the same may
be -said if she had been going very much
slower. The City of Brussels was stand-
ing still in a fog when she was run down.
In many respects a fast steamer has
great advantages over a slow one. She
can keep in the position she wants to in
a storm, and in many cases she can avoid
a storm altogether or outrun it or get on
the outer edges of it. A steamer going
at a high rate of speed will answer her
helm much better than a •slower boat.
When a steamer slows down the roar of
escaping steam renders it impossible to
hear anything except the roar. When
she is going at full speed everything is as
quiet as it is possible to be, and the
whistle of ,an approaching steamer can
heard and to a certain extent located.
t n
be ea
If a steamer takes two days instead of
three days to get through a fog bank it
is evident that the percentage of danger
is lessened just thnt march.
So in spite of • what the papers have
been saying of the recklessness of run-
ning a big ship through a fog at good
speed, it seems to be the safest thing to
do.—Detroit 'Free Press.
Admiral IIornby says th.st England
would require at least 180 cruisers to
protect her merchant vessels from the
enemy's cruisers, and that she has but
forty -tiro,
Meteorites. are said to some) in,e., :11.
fain a v(docity of 180,000 fee, ler secs
Flowers In Popular Lore.
. It is a remarkable fact that flowers
have usually been regarded as beneficent
in popular lore. While animals are fre-
quently diabolical, flowers are seldom ac-
credited with any malign influences.
Their connection with religion has ever
been an' intimate one, and their beautify-
ing use in the important ceremonies of
life—at marriage, death and burial—have
always endeared them to every one, so
that their mission has always been a soft-
ening and humanizing one. Many of
the humblest fioivers and most neglected
weeds have been regarded as saored at
some time or another. •
This fact of the good will held, towards
flowers in popular lore is partially shown
by the beneficent names applied to them,
as heart's ease, traveler's joy, shepherd's
needle, honesty, etc. There are, how-
ever, some exceptions to this beneficent
character. In Silesia it is said that
flowers should not be laid on a sick per-
son's bed. In Westphalia, rto child
should be decked with flowers until -it is
a year old, as it would die soon, and the
flowers wither. German peasants say
flowers should not be laid on the mouth
of a corpse, lest it bite them and become
a Nachzehrer, or sort of vampire. In
England, to dream of white flowers
means death, and the same is indicated
by the sudden blooming of a white rose
bush. Any one who throws a rose into
an open grave will waste away.—F. S.
Bassett in Globe -Democrat.
•
, In a Morocco Bakeshop.
•
In going through the city to the Jews'
quarters I stopped et an Arab bakeshop,
where I saw a pleasant looking chap,
hoping.,should get an invitation to visit
his establishment, but as it did not come,
I invited myself and walked in. The
wheat is ground by hand between two
flat stones, and sometimes whc t a mother
is grinding she will amuse and utilize her
Child by seating him on the top stone,
giving him a ride and increasing the
milling power at the same time.
Tho Moorish oven is a big mud room
perhaps twenty feet square by six high,
and the loaves, shaped something like an
apoplectic mince pie, are ranged on both
sides of this room, a fire of palm branches
beingtilonth floor
m then built t. 00
and bamboo
between the rows of bread. This fire is
fed constantly by a boy standing at the
entrance with an arrangement something
like a Tremont Temple contribution box,
Oil which he places the fuel for the near-
est fires, but the farthest he feeds by tak-
ing an armful of stuff, rushing into the
oven and throwing it upon the heap.
The bread from this practice has a min-
gled taste of metro and fried Moor,
which is perhaps more healthy and
strengthening than agreeable to the un-
cultivated test o.—?loroeeo Cos, Boston
Cases of Smokers' Vertigo.
Dr. 1)ecaisne is reported as having re-
cently ittvestigated'a number of cases of
vertigo in smokers. Out of 68 patients,
49 were between 60 and CO years of age.
More than half of them suffered, in ad-
dition, from digestive troubles, with con-
stipation witlh diarrhoea in-
stipaho n ,
somnia, palpitations, dyspnoea and
diuresis. In a third of the number there
was marked intermittence of the pulse,
and granular pharyngitis, while others
suffered from aphthte, amblyopia, etc.
Thirty-seven were persons who smoked
habitually on an empty stomach; and
these suffered from vertigo, principally
in the morning. The vertigo generally
coincided with suppression of perspira-
tion mrd diminished excretion. of the
urine. The treatment consisted mainly
in regulating or suppressing the cause,
but 33 out of 37 patients ceased to suffer
on merely refraining from smoking on
an empty stomach.—Neto fork Medical
Record.
--
Child Labor in Germany.
he ideal
�•ast
Tho German laws s ate near(
es any. Children under 13 cannot be
employed in factories; those tinder 14
mint not labor beyond six hours a day;
those between 14 and 16 may be held to
labor ten lours, and no more. They
tnust br allowed all Sundays and all holi-
days, and regularly one hoar at noon.
and half an lour in the forenoon and half
government." A set of 8 -year-old pupils
reduced it to, "The redemption that lies
in•your hand is done;" and the first class
of the high school in the same town made
it, "Your redemption into which you
have fallen is your own fault."
In one school the experiment was
modified; two pupils front each of five
grades were selectee, and the sentence
clearly read aloud to them all. After a .
minute's interval each of the ten wrote
down what he could of the sentence.
The sentences written by one pupil of the
highest, one of the middle, and one of
lowest grades were these: "Your re-
demption from the distress into which
you have fallen lies in your own hands,
and in nowise depends on the govern-
ment or manner of election." "Your
redemption from the distress into which
you have fallen is in your own hands,
and depends in no wise upon the forms
e the modes of election.
of government
"Your redemption and distress in which
yott have fallen depends on yourself,
and in no wise on the government or its
mode of election," Although not one of
the ten got it perfectly accurate, yet
many were very near it; and they all
show how much more the wear and tear
on the sentence is in passing through ten
mouths than through one. By the outer
process one accumulates the combined
inaccuracies of all, and one pupil with a
very poor receptive organ in thio middle
of the ten prevents the circulation of•a
good repetition after ]tiro. After this
the sentence was passed through the ten
pupils arranged in order of grade, and
issuer! as, "Your redemption from the
distress into which you have fallen de-
pends entirely upon yourself, and by no
means upon the forms of government or
helps from education."
The sentence here selected is quite a
difficult one, but an easier one from Em-
erson was hardly more successful. The
sentence was "All things are double, one
against another—tit for tat, an eye for
an' eve, a tooth for a tooth, blood for
blood, measure for measure, love for
love"—and the result; "All things are
good for one another." Although the
test, as thus applied, is too complex to
allow valid inferences to be drawn from
it, it at any rate shows how difficult it is
torepeat accurately what has been heard,
as well as how little confidence is to be
placed in the declarations of persons re-
porting the very few words of a conver-
sation held weeks or months before; it
illustrates, too, in a simple form, the
process by which a simple tale becomes
an elaborately embellished narrative by
passing through several hands; and per-
haps it indicates that the powers of care-
ful attention and retention need • more
systematic training than is devoted to
them in the ordinary school work.—
Science. •
i rettiest Sight in Mexico.
The prettiest sight in Mexico is the
Paseo do la Reforma, stretching, tree -
lined on either side, front the statue of
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IV h castle of Ch. a to
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when, of a morning, scores of riders,
many of them in picturesque Mexican
costume, dot the long roadway, the trap-
pings of the horses flashing in the. sun-
light and the mettlesome steeds giving
animation to the scene. Many rich Mex-
icans use saddles, costing g,i00, silver
mounted find inlaid beautifully. Hats
nn hour in the afternoon es resting tunes, With gold braid, costing $100 and more,
This law is guarded by provisions so rigid are frequently worn, and the tight fitting
that an Americnn employer woulo do- black trousers with silver buckles up the
nounco them as burdensome. Too much outer seams, and the short charrojacket,
cannot he done to prevent the feeding of make up a riding costume unique in
child life into Cate machines.— (globe• beauty 11101 elegance.—C'"r. deuton II(•r-
The island is nearlystreamless. The
only brooklet that I have seen is called
Indian river. It originates in a swamp,
flows a dignified course of three or four
hundred yards in length and ten feet in
width until it reaches the aea just above
Fontanelle. No cascades add their beauty
of snowy lace foam to white coral cliffs
—there is no surface water. This, where
a single day's rain fall has been•knownto
measure ten inches, seems curious; but
the same porous rock that coral insects
,built for Barbadians to live upon takes
care of that, The water finds its way
down 100 feet or more until it reaches re-
sisting material, and then, in darkness
and unseen, returns to the sea, There
it makes itself known by springs
1 sufficient that are occasionally c f .uf;iicient size to
temper perceptibly the salt water around,
and even to become visible through the
latter, as they spout up through white
sand at the bottom; and bathers in this
pleasant mixture can feel what seems to
be some living thing -Ming and crawling
beneath their feet, a sensation more
startling than cheerful, where one is not
quite certain what strange manner of
creature May turn up at any minute. ,
These subterranean streams are occa-
sionally found, in caves that tireless. teeth
of wind. and wave have gnawed deep
into the bowels of the land. In one
cavern named "Cole's" quite a river has
been found, whose exit is unknown,
whose source is ungees:,ed—That flows
quietly on through a great distance in
darkness to the s( a.—ll. William F. I'igoors, of which we found km voni(•-
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with lni'l Lauds mala r:harp, haul clap -
Illusions and Hallucinations.
Morbid psychology is a rubric of para-
mount importance to the full and clear
comprehension of the phenomena of
mind. The genesis of illusions and hal-
lucinations, the perversion of the natural
channels of the emotions, the disintegra-
tion of the elements of personality, the
dissolution of the logical powers—all
these problems transform the apparently
areet
ly
wild and chaotic picture of. the mad-
house into a sal but interesting record of
process .of character and of mind
This interest is !heightened by
re;oeiubering that ]here lies tho key to
the understanding of the psychic epi-
demics that in the
past past have upset et the ra-
tionality of mankind, ami transformed
the incoherent babbling of some de-
mented soul into the mysterious titter -
tutees of a revealed spirit. It is further-
more heightened by the notice that the
phenomena conveniently grouped • as
"psychic research" are attracting, and
always will attract. Hypnotism,nfte
r
an adventurous and uncertain existence
in the hands of charlatans, has been ad-,
minted into science.; and although the
literature of the topic, at least in France,
is increasing out of all proportion to our
insight into the nal;4 L•eef the pheuomena,
yet enough has been Established to rec-
ognize in this semi -morbid condition lite
key to the solution of many otherwise
barely accessible problems. With regard
to those borderland phenomena—"tele-
pathy." °'clairvoyance," and the like—
they illustrate the subtleness of the pro-
cess by
which falsesystems 1
ut success,
and demonstrate the advisability of hav-
ing men who can speak on such topics
with the authority of trained experts,.—
Joseph Jastrow in Science:
Curlons Experience in Barbados.
Lying beyond St. Andrews, a long
drive from Bridgetown, and occupying
the eastern face of the northern end of
the island, are a series of remarkably
steep cliffs, that climb out of the sea to a
perpendicular height of hundreds of feet. h
To their bases come along Atlantio swells
that have met no hindrance to their will i/'�
fbr 3,'000 miles, and these attack this �L
rocky barrier with a fierceness that gives timmtiss
to the coast some of the ,most magnifi-
cent sea effects that I have ever watched.
Even North Irish or Hebridean cliff
surges were but baby play beside them. .
Striking with a boom, they mounted
almost to, thesummit with a
green,
glassy
rush that reminded me of Niagara just t
above the fall; then combing into spray,
lashed out greedy fangs of foam at the
looker on, and retreated with a roar like,
near and heavy thunder.
They followed in quick` succession,
each seeming to climb a litter higher than -
the last, until one's senses were quite up-
set by enormous force, and: we experi-
enced a curious illusion of motion. Lamm
and wave were waltzing to the music of
of the sea. An infernal one, two, throe,
one, two, three movement began; soli1
rock lost its anchorage, and. the world
went round and' round' until giddiness
came and the steadiest head dragged tho
rest away. There was a wild look in
h
my companion's eyes, and site was half
hysterical when the earth regained its
senses a little away from the orchestra'•.
reach,—Dr. William F. ITutchinson 111
American Magazine.
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Woodcraft of the Cuban.
The woodcraft of our va uero Jose,
vaquero,
had many extraordinary illustrations.
Striking his machete into a beautiful
tree he brought it forth ejaculating most
dramatically: "Mira! la Sangre de la
Doncella 1" ("Seel the blood of the vir-
gin 1") Tho blade was dripping with
blood red sap of ,a red wood known as
carne de doncella or virgin flesh. Again
when we had become thirsty and could
find no water, Jose knew a back door
out of this dilemma. "Hero is• Aaron's
rod," said he. "I will givoyon•water."
With this he struck a large•vino twice,
severing a piece as big as one's arta from
the pat'ra cimarona or wild grape, and
from the mouth of the hanging tube we
drank our fill of winy, refreshing sap.
So, too, his seductive calls of the wil,1
t.n(k of Facials m,nru•c, pings, grading these down to sounds e-
T1:a two sides of the face are not 11111:0.+ mew tn"' soft flapping of wings. This
cvi,;al(i I •i• fr,lluw' d I;y a wheal
As 11 1n1e, says a German professor, the ht of the wild pier:onl that ono premed
want of symmetry is e(nntinedtothf -;1:; tLcm,Jorourh-nek, '1'otie e,
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upper part of the face. The left half
the heron overweighs the right (half; the
,nose les, : c. little to the right or to the
left. The 1 gion of the right eye is usu-
ally slightly higher than that of the left
eye, while the left eye is nearer the mid- 1 - -
dlo line of the countenance, The right . , r'.;,t.;, t \ :.I(.' ih nr„es lion inns
ear is also higher, as a rule, than the Left I gain of iv :;,( 1 , .11r 1,1 1' t ' unakc the
ear,—Chicago herald, (evil cl(d'n
t,o,hn 1 ,• u,u' low, half donl'ting ansv.,1 rs
fi,u•, :,1i :rl,otnt u:,, 011,1 finally filo sem t 1 ,
;,:,d ,rustling a the 1111 111le'l bird.
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