The Exeter Advocate, 1890-1-30, Page 6111
110SE WALKING el OLIGe.
Whey are to 1e rta00 OD Sale lieNew
Orit.
A cable despatela from Vienna sayb that;
Thomas Edition has presented Pfincese
Elizabeth, grantideughter of Emperor
Vrenqie josepb, with a telking dell, the
first ever made. Mr. Edisoa is now in
Akron, 0,, but Mr. john Ott, superintend-
ent in his laboratory at Llewellen,described
to -day those preeieus creaturee which they
are about to run mit at a stertling birth
rate. Mr. Olt said that nix talking dolls
had just been eent to Eueope, poseibly alt
of them inteaded as presente, and one of
these had probably been presented to the
Princess, althongh he aia not know about
it pereonelly: They were emit to Mr.
Ellyon, who is fitting up a store in New
York to be devoted entirely te the sale of
talleires, dells and other toys. The six that
were sent abroad, and almoet all the others
for that matter, are patterned after the
Inoneh jointed dolls, so fer as outwaed
appearance and size go. Tboy are from
15 to 18 inches long. 'be head is made of
china, like ordinary dolls, and the arms
paper maohe. The peculiar part is the
body, which is made of tin. Tin is used
because it allows room for the miniature
phonograph which ie alaced inside. The
doll may repeat everythieg that naay be
recorded by a phonograph. For several
weeks they have had Orange children at
the laboratory talking, laughing, crying and
sighing in ell sorts of ways to the phono-
graph in order that their ()hatter may be
reproduced by the doll.
Another novelty whitth Mr. Edison will
80011 bring out is a clock to 1 alk the time.
Instead of a blank sound it wit/ say "one,"
"two," eta., at the proper hours. For an
alarm it will say in so many words "get
up," in a stentorian and commanding
voice.
Mr. Edison thinks that he has now
nearly perfected the phonograph, and his
improved instrument will readily be Bub-
stituted for all the ones of older make. He
has simplified it considerably, having now
one diaphragm instead of two and a similar
arm. There are no adjustments, the re-
cording needle being self-adjusting and act-
ing upon the wax by gravity,—New York
Despatch W ist. Louis Republic.
ROMANCE OF AN E &ELDON.
An Aberdeen Accountant and Ranker
steps Into a Title.
A ostble despateh states that in the Court
of Chancery at Edinburgh Mr. Augustus
Sinclair, a banker, of Aberdeen, has been
adjudged heir to the earldom of Caithness.
This means that an offshoot with a growth
of four centuries has been traced back to
the parent stem. The last Earl of Caith-
ness, the fifteenth bolder of the title, died
very suddenly in a fit at his hotel in Edin-
burgh some months bs.ck. He left no heir,
and the family was so near eseinot that no
inheritor of the earldom was discoverable
who cent& claim descent from any earl
of the past eleven generations. The
Aberdeen banker, whose olaim to be the
nearest male heir was reeognized by
the Court of Chancery yeeterday, gains
the title as a descendant from an
offshoot of the fourth Earl of Caithness.
He will rank sixteenth in the line. Thus,
at one step yen pass from the fourth to the
sixteenth earl, in a stride that covers
twelve generations. The new earl, though
he has come into an ancient and honor-
able peerage, is by station a member of the
Scottish raiddle dead. Born at Naples in
1827, he removed in early lite to Aberdeen,
where for many years he carried on the
business of chartered emu:Went and acted
as local agent for the Bank of Scotland.
He is married and has eight children, four
of them sons, so that the succession to the
title appears to be well guerded in his
hands. By the way, his eldest eon has
come out to this country, and is at present,
we believe, farming in Dakota. As things
stand, thin son has a courtesy right to the
title of " Lord Berriedale." But if he
survives his father, he will become in his
turn Earl of Caithness. Thus it is quite
on the cards that a plain Dakota farmer
may yet rank as the recognized head of
"The lordly line of high St. Clair."—Bos-
ton Herald.
The Indian Story or the Origin of the arm-
ericaus.
There is a tradition among the Kootami
Indians not very complimentary to Cousin
Jonathan as regards his origin, and one
which shows in its broad humor the dire
hatred which the Indian bears to that Da•
tion. They say that long ago before the
"Boston man" (Ameriown) was known
they and the Tesioux (French
Canadian voyageurs) Jived together
like brothers and traded peaceably
with King George's fur rnen and
the Indian was very contented.
In those days the Great Spirit visited
his children on the prairies and taught
them to be happy. One day he killed a
buffalo on the otlaer side ot the Rocky
Mountains and out of it crawled a lank,
lean figure called a. "Boston man" and
f rom that day the Indian's troubles cora-
asenced and will continue till they go again
where their fathers are and till the evil
spirit comes again and takes the "Boston
man "to himself—they who lived so happily
with the Pesioux and the fur traders of
King George.
Rough on the "Boston man" isn't it?
CRUSHED AND BURNED.
Disesteem, Railway weeek Wear Chian-
natt—Tne Car Stove's Work.
A Ciinoinnati desitetob of Friday (Aye
At 7,10 this evenine eta the Glendale
m000mmodetion trein bound ter Cincinnati;
was leaving the etation neor College Ilill
junotien, the Chicego vestibtfied trainran
into the reor of the accommodation. There
were three passenger cue on the Glendale
train, conteming alsout 75 people. The
locomotive ot the Chicago train ran belt
wey through the rear or of the Scoomrao-
dation, piling the passenger or in a heap
and setting them on fire, The locomotive
of the accommodation was not derailed.
The fire departnaents and patrol waggons
were called from Cincinnati and the fire
was extinguished. Four persons have Vans
far been token dead from the wreck.
Several procure have been resoued fatally
injured. Two cf those injured bave been
received here at the hospital. They are
James Staley, terribly burned, and Wm.
Klanaitz, aged 19, burned. Bob Stevenson,
baggage master of the vestibuled train, was
so badly hurt that he died in a few minutes
after being taken out. The body of John
WilsoneSuperintendent of the Met ropolitan
Life Insurence Company of Cinoinnati, has
been identified ea one of those burned. The
engineer of the vestibuled train is lying
tieriously hurt at Winston Place.
Cinonerreirt' Jan. 18.—The list of killed tn
the accidentin Spring Grove Cemetery
last night wee correct, with a single excep-
tion. What was then thought -to be the
unidentified body of a woman has since
been found to be the body of Charles Kellar,
of Winton Mae. Supt. Neilson, in
explaining the cause cf the disaster, says
the fact that the Glendale accommodation
wee 12 minutes behind time had no bear-
ing. The real cause was the operator at
Carthage, when train No. 31 entered the
block in, which the accident occurred, did
not ehow the eignal that would tell the
engineer that the block was not clear.
British Ship Building.
The Glasgow Herald publishes returns
from all the principal ship -building centres
throughout the United Kingdom. The out.
put during 1889 is the largeet on reoord.
In 1888, the year when the last ship.
building "boom t wag 'at its iheight, the
total output throughout the country was
1,250,000 tons. This year the vessels
launched approach very closely to 1,272,000
tons. The Clyde heads the list with a total
tonnage of 335,201 tone. Neat °omen the
Tyne, with 281,710 tons. The Wear is
third on the list, with 217,336 tons. Then
the Teets, with 110,425 tots. The ship.
building yards in Belfast bave launched
tonnage to the amount of 80,090. There
are now on hand in the various yards on
the river Clyde, and in different stages of
constrtnition, vessels aggregating 300,629
tons. Last year there were at the SitERS
time vessels on hand having a total of
283,301 tons.
After the Holidays.
"Pap," said little Rollo as he laid down
the copy of "Little Lord Fanntleroy "
which he had found in bis Christmas steck-
ing, "papa, why don't you call mamma
clearest?"
"13eoeuse, my son," replied the father as
be leolted at the holiday bine, "no gentle-
men will twit on facts."
The pricee of camphor and gum promise
to rise. The German Government is
reeking gigantic perthaeree of these rti.
Glee for the ranntifaottire of smokeless
powder.
The Armours, in Chicago, did a businees
of 080,000,000 laOt yettie $5,000,000 in Emcees
a 1888. Six theusend men ere employed,
and paid 1)3,000,000. The firm killed
1,200,000 hop, 600,000 cattle and 250,000
ItheeP.
THE RUSSIAN TREATY.
Side Lights on Russian Affairs from the
U. S. Extradition Treaty.
A Wednesday's Washington despatch
says The Senate in executive seed=
to -day discussed for Eat hour and a half
the Russian extradition treaty, and finally
re-oommitted it to the Committee on
Foreign Relations. Senator Sherman, in
presenting the treaty, said no change
of importance had been made since
it was recommitted to the com-
mittee last year. The clause specifi-
cally setting forth that the murder of the
Czar or attempt to murder the Czar or
any member of bis family, aball not be
considered a political offence was still re-
tained. To this ciente objeetion was made
by various Senate's, the principal speeches
being made by Sonatore Eustis and Tiller.
It was urged in support of the text of the
treaty that the Czar and hie family were
entitled to the same protection that it was
proposed to accord to any of his subjects.
The rejoinder was made that the treaty
without that special definition placed the
Czar and peasant on the same level, and
afforded them the @emit protection. The
treaty provides for the extradition of per-
sons °barged with naurder or manslaugh-
ter. The opponents of the treaty insisted
that that enovision . was broad enough to
protect the Czar. Mr. Edmunds joined
in the demand for recommitting the treaty,
saying there ,were two or three other pro-
visions vshich he aid not altogether ap-
prove. 11 18 the impression that with the
clause relating to the Czar and family
eliminated the treaty will be ratified by
the Senate:
The Dead Empress.
The Dowager Empress Augusta died yes.
terday at nearly 80 years of age. In her
youth she was a gifted child, so graceful
and beautiful that Goethe at 73 called her
" My lovely queen of flowers." Carl von
Holtei, the dramatist, seems to have 'been
equally impressed, for he wrote from
Weimar that he had "formed the acquaint-
ance of a little fairy, the Princess Augusta."
Of course she had many suitors. The
royal families of Europe were anxious for
their sons to make eo favorable an alliance,
Bat of all the young men who paid court
only one filled the measure of her ides, the
handsome but not brilliant Prince William
of Prate ia. Her married life was not withi
oat its bitterness. Emperors make poor
husbands, and palaces do not insure domes-
tics happiness. That she was mooting, and
in middle life jealous of William's atten.
tions to younger and fairer women, is not
the strangest thing in the world. That he,
flattered by all, a king by "night divine,"
as he always stoutly maintained, should
have allowed the obligations of fidelity to
rest lightly on his shoulders is only another
way of saying that be could surrender to a
temptation though never to an enemy. Be
has gone, and his son Frederick, whom we
all sorrowfully followed through a pro-
longed and painful illness, has trodden the
tame path. Now the venerable lady wbo
was loved by the people has fallen into her
last sleep, and her, grandson at 30 wears
the crown.—New York Herald.
INNOUZEI OR ribintatSWetel
How Some of the Large Stores Provide
Their Employees.
With no one is the lunch question so
important as with the proprietore of the
large dry goods etores, The army ef clerks
ninet eat, they must eat regulatelyt and
they ought to etie well, in order to be aisle
to etan d their fatiguing work. At the same
time business muet be attended to, for the
customers come at all hours, lunch or no
lumea. It would be impossible to allow the
clothe to go out of tee stores' for their
lunches, because they would lose too nitioh
time; they have to be at their postejiko
tne eoldier. There is a striot discipline in
all large dry goods stores and a certain daily
routine, and these are kept up rigtolly, and
the sate who often& would in vain ask for
mercy.
Nothing makes a woman more hungry
than speaking constimitly or a length of
time, and if to this is added the fatigue of
standing for several hours, it is not to be
wondered that the dry goods clerks greet the
hour of lunch with rapture. It is the only
time duringthe day when they are an
lowed to put, aside their business mask,
and take off the harness of their deity toil,
Then they are not forewomen, or sidemen
or cash girls; they are ordinary human
b'einge who have a right to laugh Eind talk,
to eat and drink without pleasing any one
but themselves. The lunch hour is the
only time during the workbag dey they may
rest their weary limbo without inigteetieg
their duties. The ordinary lunch time is
between 12 and 2 o'obsolt, but all girls can-
not leave their posts at once. They
usually go one or two at a time, for it
would hardly do to spare more than thet
number from the Same counter. lbe fore-
woman who is responsible for the order
and discipline in her department sends
them according to how they can be spared.
Many of the large dry goods stores have
a room off the warerooms where the clerks
can have their lunches, and all by them-
selves, away from the , busineas. A good
many of the girls bring their lunches from
home; of course, they are cold, and con-
eist of sandwiches, cakes, fruit, etc. If
they desire something warm they make a
cup of tea or coffee, which is (sadly and
quickly done on the gas jets. 'Usually the
friends club together for a little tea or
coffee party, and eometimes divide their
lunches to procure some variety. If they
have money to spare and feel like eating
some dessert, they send one of the errand
boys to a neighboring bakerotore for ;sakes
or meets. Some girls also Bend for a res-
taurant lunch and divide one portion in
two parts. They oat thus get a good
lunch for two tor twenty-five or thirty
cents.' But in dry goods stores where
the proprietor feels responsible for his
employees' welfare he provides a hot lunch
for all those of his clerks who desire it.
It mostly consists of soup, tea, coffee, three
or four different kinds of xneat, vegetebles,
and bread and butter. The clerks are
waited on properly and order what their
palates desire and their purses can stand.
They are good lunches, well cooked, sub-
stantial and very cheap. One or two of
these stores aro said to serve lunches as
good as regular dinners. Ten to fifteen
cents pays for a lunch for which the cus-
tomer of a high priced restaurant would
pay from forty to fifty cents. The pro-
prietor makes nothing astt of it'it is done
solely to acconsinodate the cloths.
It would be very good if all 'owners of
,large dry goods stores would do the same
for their employees, for it is wearyand
fatiguing work to stand, work and talk in
a store from 8 o'olock in the morning until
6 in the evening.—New
He Must Have a Girl.
We want a girl to do general housework,
and if our readers are interested in the sac -
cess of this paper they will help us secure
• one. We can't do the housework and at
the same time edit this paper as well as we
would like to. We do not dielike to edit
this paper, nor do We dislike the housework
particularly, but we find that they do not
go well together.
We find that we cannot think prodigious
tariff thoughts in a satisfactory way while
weshing dishes and bed clothe's, nor does
the divine afflatus seem to hover around
,about ne when engaged in such work. We
may not be as versatile as a man should be
to occupy our position, but we can't help
that. While, as we have remarked, we do
not specially dislike the work about the
house, we prefer, under the circumstances,
to hire a girl rather than an editor, prin-
cipally because of the difference in cost.
You will get a better paper if you senates a
gir/, not too attractive, and one Who does
not require too much superintending.—
Uniontown Genius.
Can the Sealskin Change its Color?
An almost indescribable color is that of
the sealskin before it is dyed. It is silvery
gray, furry brown, and two or three other
things, all at the same time. But it is
strikingly pretty, and here in the east is so
seldom seen that those girls wearing the
undyed skins may feel pride at having
something unusual and individual. A
young Californian, who came to New York
only a short time ado, received on Christ-
mas from a friend on the Pacifie coast a
cape and mnff of the akin in its natural
color, and had great fun listening to
acquaintances guessing what the animal
was. By actual count, eight women and
one man each made a different guess, and,
strange enough, the man was the only one
to name the skin the first time. But he
had hunted Deals in his earlier days and he
ought to have known.
,
Musicians' Salaries in Chicago.
Leader of an orchestra: The average
salary of a musician is $50 per month, and
he must have an engagement every night
in the week to make it. I have heard
about the princely sums whioh they make,
but I tell you they don't make 'em. •
A
musician has to wear good clothes. Ile
can't be shebbily dreesed in an orchestra or
at a concert, or at any place where be goes
to play. Gilmore's musicians are well paid,
for Gihnore knows at the beginning of the
year what he has before hum. You ask me
why it is that the musician doesn't quit
the businese. The answer is easily given,
and has something touching in it at the
same time. It le because he itti in love with
his work. Alois& Of the flddletWould fiddle
if he was Starting to death: The average
nit:widen is a kind-hearted man. Be hels
got to be. A man who is mean and
penurious can't pitty.--Chicago Tribune.
Hr. Depew on the cost of Baslreading.
I never meet Chauncey M. Depew but
that he has eome new idea or story with
which to interest or amuse. This week he
said to me "D� you know that railroad
locomotion and transportation are growing
cheaper every day and that a railroad can
now do amok with a profit that fifteen
years ago would have meant lose? The
modern locomotive has been brought to
such a state of perfection that its cost on
the one side and its maintenance on the
other are but a fraction of what it used to
be. There has been a similar improvement
in cars, rails, frogs, switches and the nunt-
berless details which are involved in the
bnainess. Add to this the smaller price of
labor, the greater amount of work done and
the low rates of interest upon capital, and
you can easily see how revolution has oc-
curred in all railway travel within the
memory of our own generation. If thing.s
keep on in the sante ratio it will be posse.
ble before many years have elapsed to trans-
port people profitably at a much less rate
than now. There will be a eimilar lower-
ing in freight rates, co that it will be as
easy and fiS cheap for a man to move his
household farnittece from New York to
Chicago or even to Omaha as it is now to
take it from New 'York to Brooklyn."—N.
Y. Star's Man About Town.
A Biro Story.
A squad of Fifeshire vedunteetre were out
for ball practice recently. One of the Mem-
bars of the squed, a tailor by trade, was
making exceedingly bad practice, and miss-
ing the target every shot. At length the
officer in comnattod became angry, and in-
quired grnfily " Can you not gee the
target, sir, and you a tailor, and must
thread your own needle ?" _
1' Oh, ay, can aeon the target," replied
the volunteer ctelmly. "An' 1 elm thread
a needle so welt; but wha the mischief
ever tried to thread a neediest 160 yard's?"
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night. In the meantime hit freintie parents
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VOR DINNER GEVEES.
Hints for Those Who Enjoy This
Moot !Delightful Hospitality.
those who entertain petite at dialler
()Hewing euggestions ratty be of porno
nners of few mums are isonsidered
more elegant than very Icing dirinerp.
ehort m ina is weitten ou eilk en
te of decorated ohina. Vele worthy
en is of ?renal ()right, but has been
generelly adepted here. Dinner car&
mailer and scarcely ever hand painted.
heon cards may be more elaborate if
desired, as the card and favor may be
e,which gives a unique and pretty
air of the enterteinment.
tted plant(rather than out flowers),
sed for decoration for evening partiee.
have the advantege of being always
.' It is a 'pretty fashion to have a
dish of eaored lily bulbs for a centre
for a dinner or innate table, the
ative mat set underneath, making a
y background. Tbe delicate, subtle
arm adds not a little to their attrao
All mute of bulbous plants axe to be
shion the coming gown. Bornan
ntbs are still among the , most
ate of all. Gold and white Royal
ester is eta' among the beautiful
fashionable wares. And gold and
in, Immo Servo patterns are yet
beautiful and delicate, if more ex.
ve. Tea cups of saucer shape are
elegant than those which are higher
e howl. Small coffee cups are fluted
ewers, as are the metiers also. Menus
imoges ware have a tiny vase at the
for floWere. Al it is the fashion to
he menu at each end of the table, this
e device maltea them more ornamental
The Scotch thistle is the design of
lovely little sherry and cordial glasses
imported. The stem is very fine, and
Mb of the thistle exquisitely cut in
t diamond out; the glass being very
ant, the cutting shows to great itdvan-
Fayal linen embroideries make very
nt and stylish drapery, and are always
od taste. Small and large pieces may
d in this wrought work, and of differ.
qualities. That which is very fine is
spondiegly costly, but any is effective,
all table is preferred to a larger one,
can be made both more cozy and
ornamental. A foliage decoration
ong the prettiest of all the novel
decorations, and the finer the fon.
the more beautiful is it. More
ore is silver taking its place in table
shing. Goblets of antique desigus are
milady attractive. Considering their
durability they are not more expensive
sevexal seta of out glass, which are
to be broken sooner or later. English
rystal, which shows a large plain
ce with fine cuttings, is much more
h than that which is wholly cut
ghout. Silver borders aro to be had
ate for rose bowls, salad bowls and
large pieces. For dinner tables the
'net lamp is still a fashionable erns.-
, although small candles are a newer
raetit still. The Dresden ware candle -
and those of Delft are used to contrast
able service or to match it according
te. A very pretty effect was lately
prod cad by using Miessen candlesticks
with candles decorated in a like manner.,
The shades were of pure white and had
a lace-like effeet. The table service and
its ornamentation were all of blue and
whinte
IEngland and France the finger bowl,
if used at all, is of diminutive size and is
in Venetian or other rare colored glass,
the beautiful opalescent hues being chosen.
It is, however, dispented with at fashion-
able dinners in some houses. For it is no
longer considered desirable to have doylies
since the finger bowl has gone out, and
thus a large expense is saved, for these
trifles got to be so very extraordinary that
they became one of the most expensive
items of the whole table furnishing. Now
a substitute at some tables for the finger
bowl is a large silver basin, which the ser-
vant passes to each guest with a beautifully
wrought lorg napkin. The hostess first
dips her finger in the receptacle and then
passes it on to the guest of honor, and
thence in regular rotation. This is in a
measure returning to first principles, but
is something new and has the merit of
being graceful. A beautiful bowl of silver
for this service is one of reponsse work, and
is not a simple luxury by any means.
The visiting -card is used as math as the
reception card for afternoon teas and
should have the small card envelope. For
the "coming-out afternoon tea" a more
formal reception card is used rather than
the visiting card, as the latter is larger and
admits of the debutante's name tinder her
cliaperone'e.
New stationery is in slate or French gray
and peach colors, and the stamping is
either in white or in sneer to be very
stylish. Plain white Irish linen paper, Is,
however, still considered elegant for any
11E0.
Coalport china for furnishing the 5
o'clock tea table is the prettiest of ell the
English wares and one which appeals to
the beet taste, for it le Owego beautiful.
A highly polished mahogany table is
much more desirable for luncheon when it
is spread with the dainty lace -trimmed or
fringed cloth which is now quite commonly
used. A beautiful surface of even polish
requires constant care and pains to keep it
in good condition. The scarf of fine em-
broidery is the only cover allowable on this
beautifully kept wood, which makes the
most beautiful background for lovely china
and rare glass as well as unique silver.
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Brace up your own nerves first and then
be indulgent toward the capers of your
over nervous children.—Ladies' Hoene
Journal.
The Pall faU Midget says: It is said
that since Canada has hit on the plan of
sending ready.me.de houses to the Mother
Country orders have flowed in apace. Next
streamer Will accordingly tree England
dotted with transetlantict chalets; for, once
they become known, 1 prophesy they will
become indigenous to the soil. Think of
the advantage of being able to "move off"
or " move`on " wheneVer the fancy takes
you 1 Seaside lodgings will become a thing
of the peat, Fernlike will in future take
their town house siting with them.
A sum
"ixI arithmetic, If you eon get
one towel out of one braid of cloth, how
many can you get mit Of two yard° / It de,
peas altogetherion how many thoreett on
the oldtheo
Common Salt a Remedy for Animal Poison.
The Rev. J. G. Fischer, formerly a mis-
eionarv in South America, says he
'‘ aotu'ally and effectually cured all kinds of
very painful and dangerous serpents' bites,
site; they had been inflicted for many
hours," by the application of common Ealt,
moistened with water and bound upon the
wound, "without any bad effect ever occur-
ring afterwards." "1, for my part," says
he, "never' had an opportunity to meet
with a mad dog, or any person who wss
bitten by a mad dog. I cannot, therefore,
speak from experience se to the hydro-
phobia, but that I bave oared serpents'
bites always, without fail, I can declare in
trnth." Ile then cites a case from a news-
paper; in which a person was bitten by a
dog, which in a few hours died raving mad.
Salt was immediately rubbed for some
time into the wound, and the person never
experienced any inconvenience from the
bite. Mr. Fischer was induced to try the
above remedy from a statement made by
the late Bishop Loskiell in his history of
the Missions of the Moravian Church in
North America, purporting that certain
tribes of Indians had not the least fear of
the bites of serpents, relying upon the
application of salt as so certain a remedy
that some of theta would stiffer the bite for
the sake, of a glass of ram.—Sillimare s
Journal. ,
Cost Her Weight in Gold.
Mrs. Jesus Castro, an aged Mexican lady,
who recently died at American Flag, in the
Santa Catalina Mountains'Arizona, was,
perhaps, the only woman in the world who
ever cost her haabend her weight in gold.
In the early gold.digging days of Calitornia
she was a resident of Sonora, Mexico, in
which State she was born and grew to
womanhood. When about 17 years of age
a paternal uncle but a few years her senior
returned gold -laden from the newly dis-
covered mines, and soon fell desperately in
love with his niece. He sought her hand
in marriage and wan accepted, but the
Church refused, on account of the near re-
lationship of the pair, to solemnize the
-marriage. Persuaeion beingin vain, he
tried the power of gold to win the church
his way, and succeeded only by payment of
her weight in gold. She at that time
weighed 117 pounds, and against her in the
Ecales the glittering dust was shoveled.
The husband still had sufficient of this
world'goods to provide a good home.—St.
Louis Republic.
They Went Together.
Wife—I bought yon a beautiful smoking
jacket to -day, and, oh, such a lovely box of
cigars.
Husband (reeignedly)—Thank yore dear,
but how could you bring yourself to go into
a tobacconiat'e 2
Wife—Oh, I didn't. I got the cigars at
he tame place I get the jacket.
She Knew It.
Bellew -That is Mr, Griggs who just
reseed.
Jennie—I know. •
B.—He is extremely homely, isn't be?
J.—He is; but he is a man of most excel-
lent taste.
B.—Indeed 1 How do you know?
J.—He once propOsed to me.
Revenged.
Coal Scuttle—Old men gave you a grate
shaking up this morning, didn't he ?
Stove—Yee, but 1 made it warm for him
before he got throtieh with isle.
It has been calculated that the mobiliza-
tion of the Erma, Gorman end Russian
armies would net $100,000,000 and their
rasintoneneet in the field would cost e200,-
00,000 a month, A War a six montho
duration would therefore, use up, for Olden
three countries alone, the snot Of $1,30%-
000,000. Besides that every riatiale in
Europe, iseluding England, vvotdd have to
arm and hold itself ready, which would coot
miilione more.
•-••••
A TIME TO DANCE.
Rev. Hr. Eaton's Views on the 9‘t0stfun of
Dancing.
Bev, Charles Eaton, of the Chttrolt of
the Divine Paternity, Fifth ave„ New
York, has been preething a series of ser-
mons on " The Elting; of Pleasure,"On
Sunday night his sabject was "Minister
and the Ballrooart" He is thus reported
in the New Yore Herald :
"There is, perheps," the , preacher be-
gan, "no queettou so betty discassed as
the no 1 hrtve prorosed for our. evening'et
consideration. Die httitude of the present
Church, as represented by the clergy and .
its ;strictest members, has been one of
antageniera to the dance, At pregent,
though, the olergymeu who are the des
seendante of those who formerly so bitterly
denounced the evil of drumlin; are silent
about the ball, and honored church people
crowd the present month so full of the
dance that there seems to be no cessation
of the nightly gayetiee.
" It must be granted that those who ob-
ject to the dance and the ballroom have
ranch ground for complaint. A life may
be so absolutely given to this form of
pleasure that it becomes only evil, and so
excessive and unseasonable that actual sin,
is committed in connection with it. But
this may be vain of ell honest and pure,
recreations. Indulged in under proper
restrictions, danoirtg is of real advantage.
It cultivates grace and manliness and
gives self-possession.
" Under such restrictions it is produc-
tive of physical and meats,' health, and is.
by no means incompatible with religion.
The Church would do well to out loose
from fanaticism, and exercise a wise con.
trol and benefecent influence over this class
of entertenument. It is bardly short of
orirae ter women to live the feishionable
life of the day. Connected with the evil
of late hours is the evil arising from the
excessive number of balls given.
"1 would have every darme begin, like.
the dramatie performance or the opera, at
8 o'clock and End at 11. Promiscuoue.
belle should be unqualifiedly condemned.
The private eaneing parties where the
associations are pure should be encouraged.
Extravagance of preparation and im-
newlesty of dr( es bre mere the ecconet
panimeiats of balls whioh Should be avoided.
But these remethe reav be applied to a
church reception as well as to a ball.
"A proteet should be made by the
Christian Church againet the use of wine
et public balls, both before and after 1
o'clock. The Centennial Ball was a shame
and disgrace to the city at NEW York.
Wine at private gatherings may be left to
personal judgment, but there should be no
liberty of judgment in reference to these
large gatherings.
" My advice a a minister is then, dance,
but dance at proper bons, with proper
company. Let your pleature be not in
Extravagant display, but in sinsplioity and
grace, and do all with temperance.'
Fred Had Weakened.
Sweet Girl (anxiously)— Did Fre—I
mean Mr. Nioefellow call to see you to -day,
papa
Papa—Yes, and to oblige him I con-
sented. I suppose time hangs heavy on his
hands.
Sweet Girl (mystified)—Why—why what
aid he say?
Papa—He requested tbe pleasnre of a
series of games of chess with me. The
first one we will play this evening, and
after that every third evening during the
winter. I hope, my dear, you will keep out
of the library, as chess is a very absorbing
oommation.
Mrs. Fitz George, morgencitio wife of
the Dirk° of Cambridge, (lateen Victoria'
certain'is dead. No breath of scandal ever
totiohed her, and it is to the credit of the
Duke that he always reepected and pro.
aided for her, and persistently, eilthengh
vainly, urged the Queen to legitimize her
children.
One woman has made the silk gowns of
the Justieme of the United States Supreme
Court for the pewit forty years, and she
gets 9)100 for each one of them. They are
all made alike, the only difference being in
the neeterial, tho Chief jaetice weating
black Chinese satin, while his assotiatee
ate eobed 111 bleak silk. The Chief Justice
always wears a new gown when he swears
in a President.
"That's the most stutik-up man 1 ever
saw, but 1 took him down thio morning,"
remarked the small boy with a proud toss
01 the head.
"WeI1 and who are yon ? " osmotically
asked a listener.
" Oh I I'm the elevator boy," he replied
ofily.
The Newsboy.
A business man of Detroit, whose office is
on Woodward avenue, relates this singular
experience in the Free Press:
"1 wanted a elt) bill changed, and as I
wee alone I stepped to the door and called
a little newsboy whom I had frequently
employed to run on errands, and told him
to carry it to the neareEt store and get it
changed. I then went inside and waited.
My partner came in and ridiculed me for
what I had done, •
" You will never eee the boy or the
change again,' he said.
" I must say his prophecy looked pos.
eible when as hours went by tbe boy did
not return; still I trusted him. I could
easier believe that he had been ran over or
made away with than that he bad stolen
the money.
"1 did not change my mind when a week
had passed. I did not know where he
lived or who his associates were, and no
newsboy seemed to be missing. The second
week was nearly gone, when a woman
COME into my effiee one day- She was
crying.
"'Are you Mn.—?' she asked.
" I am, madam. What can I do for
you?'
"Then she told me that her little boy
was dying; that he had been ill nearly two
weeks, and kept constantly calling my
name. I went with her and found my
missing newsboy. As soon as he saw. 3110
he began to rave.
" I lost itt I lost it I ' was the burden
of his cry, but I alone knew what he re-
ferred to. He had lost the $10 note, and it
had preyed on his mind, causing brain
fever. He died in nay arms, unconscious
that I had truated him from the very first,
and that I would have done anything to
save his life. I have not a doubt that be
either lost it or had it snatched from him,
and his sensitive nature kept him from
telling the truth, and he gave his life trp in
the struggle." •
HE DAS CORNERED QUININE.
rd an old-fashioned cold in the head,
/ rather felt grumpy and bad;
It came with a wbacl., with pains in the back,
That's ell in the world that I had.
But a doctor who charged rue ten dollars a trip
Declared I was likely to die with the Grip.
0123 Hutch ain't a patch on the man
Who started tho scare of La Grippe;
It's only the old, most reliable cold
And catnip made into a flip.
With a plaster of mustard both fiery and broad
Will easily wallop this bare -faced fraud.
Yes—Old Hutch ain't a patch on the man
Who started this popular fake,
But the doctors loon WiE0—and are twice their
old size,
I wounder how much they will make.
But the man who Is booming the terror, I wean,
Has certainly a cornered" the whole of Quinine.
—T
hs
there is anything in the —AfrhieEhn,,
enngar,sb
bag it belongs to England. Portugal at last
understands that.
—Don't expeot a four dollar smile from
the hotel clerk when you're signing for a
dollar and a half room.
—Those who say that women has no
sense of humor have evidently failed to,
notice how a mustache tickles her.
"The Angelus" will go to the Chioago
Exposition after the 15112 of January, where,
it will have a room"to itself, but no extra,
tillage, so it is reported, will be made for'
to inspection.
-A belated juror at Pittsburg, gave as an
excuse for his abeence that he had been
sitting up with a sick child all night. The
Judge had the matter investigated, ad,,
finding the man's statement to be false,.
discharged him with a rebuke.
Buffalo desires to cut loose from the
county towns of Erie county and make of'
the city the 61st county in the State. The
city with its 250,000 people and fourt finite,
of the wealth of the county objeots to being
diotateci to by the repeesentetives of 65,090,,
people and one-fitih of the maimed valua
tion iron the county towns in the Board es•
84Pervoluen"ga'
Aylady in the town of Minsk,
Russia, purchased a pair of gloves a
Sarah Bernhardt. Imutediately snot put.
ting them on her banda began to itch. 1,fhti
next day her drme Were coveredf with,
sores, knoll week later she died of bloc&
poisoning. The dootore suppom that the
skin belonged to an animal that had some,
coutagionemitiady.