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Queen Victorikt at the Tea Table of the
eanadittu songstress.
It hes been my good fortune to enjoy the
' friendship of Queen Va./tone tor some time
past. I have seen good deal of her
private tife, and especially of her life in her
Scotch Higlaland home. She is, to my
mind, one of the moot °harming of women.
I opend my autumn holiday on Dee Side
in the Sootoh Highlande, where I 000upy
Old Mar Ledge, a home belonging to the
Duke of Fife, in Mar Forest. My house ie
leo than fifteen miles from Balmoral
Cestle, the Scotch home of Queen Victoria.
I have had the pleasure and the honor of
being called there two or three times each
seam to pay a visit to Her Majesty and to
sing for her ; aud once esoh season, in
return, the Queerdpaye me the very unusual
honor of coming lt,0 my old house to take
tea with me. Of this mark of honor I am
naturally proud. It ie not everybody, you
know, who can have the Queen for a visitor
and who on it st their own hearth and
make tea for eo great a woman. The
aloha are quite private and the
Queen ie only accompanied by one
of the Princesses, and perhaps two
ladies of the oourt. It may intereet you
—I suppose it will—if I say that a table is
laid in the drawing room and there I sit
with Her Majesty and pour the tea. The
ladies in -welting are seated at another
table, and my hueband and son are the
" cup.beerers," as no servante are allowed
in the room at the time. The repeat is of
no importence ; it is only bread, butter,
mike and tea, but 1 have noticed that it
seemed to taste good to Her Majesty, for,
on each °omen that she visited me ehe
has taken two oups of my very beat, good
bleak tea.
Knowing the interest all the readere of
my, own sex take in details where royalty
is concerned, I am giving particulars which
posbibly may seem trivial; but I think I
can trust the "gentle reader," at least, to
find eomething charming about an after-
noon tea served with ell its delightful
accessories of dainty china, pretty silver
and out glass, that the time spent over it ie
alwaya remembered pleasantly.
The Queen spende from three.quarters
eef an hour to an hour in conversation and
then drives back home. Last autumn ehe
drove over in an open carriage in a now -
storm.
Her Majeety is very fond of magi° and ie
a very good musician. She studied music
with Mendelesohn and singing with
Lablaohe. As a consequence of thie teach-
ing she prefers the old Italian music/ to
anytother ; but, at the same time, she can
appreciate anything that is good in the
modern music. This I know from ex-
perience, as I have sung all kindsof music
to her, the new as well as the old. The
The fikieen is much touched by a simple,
homely ballad, and after I have sung to
her songs like " Robin Adsir " or " Old
Folks at Home" I have seen teen( in her
ewes.
Tlae Q as ea herself looks after the welfare
of all her tenants and servants, and if any
one of them is sick she is the first one to
pay them a visit and take them little cam.
(forte. e
During her stay in Scotland she takes a
(pleasure during tier drives in stopping at
-.various cottages to ask after the welfare of
the inmates. When so occupied the Queen
ds as kind and simple as any ordinary lady
could be. When she paid me one of her
first visits and took tea with me my little
boy was so much struck with thie that he
esaid to me td ter she hsd gone, " Oh,
mamma, what a little woman for sun
.0 big Queen." It is all this that has
made the Qaeen so beloved by all her
ratthjects.
The Falmer's Boy.
The farmer forgets, as he spurs the boy
'at his side to renewed efforts with the hoe,
the rake orkthe seed -bag, that he himself
-was encee boy, with all a boy's dreaming,
hopes and ambitions. Ae the a oity n:kan
drives past, well dressed and in evident
enjoyment of life, the young drudge bends
,unwillingly to the work that never seeme
'to have an end, and surely shreds no imrne-
eliate reward. The boy wants a holiday
'now and then—not solely the single "oircne
day" of the year, or the awkward Fourth
.of jetty experience—and the more holidays
he gets, up to a judicious calendar of them,
the more veinal:de he ought to be to the folks
at home and to the fettle. Do not, 0
farmer, rack your wits to keep the boys at
work, even on rainy days, fearful lest a
moment ehall be lost that is not in your
narrowness of mind "improved." Give
them a "day off" once in a while, and en-
joyments should be devised for the children
on rainy days that will make them work
with better zest when the sun comes out.
Repression sometimes begets the license
which at weeks to prevent ; and liberal
treatment is frequently as remunerative
se money at interest. Above all, let the
ethildren read, and furnish them with books
and papers for entertainment, as well ae
dor profit. They may find in their read-
ing reasons why they shonld stay on the
tarm.—Albany Journal.
Annie Laurie.
The famous Bong that id sang by all
(singers of the present day, I am informed,
de a mystery as to the author. The writer
was raised on the next farm to aamee
Laurie, Annie Laurie's father. I waa
personally acquainted with both her and
her father, and oleo with the author of the
(song, and have been requested to give the
public the benefit of my knowledge. Annie
Laurie wss born in 1827 and was about 17
years old when the incident occurred which
,gave erise to the song bearing her name.
James Laurie was a farmer, who lived
.and e owned .8 very large faille oalled
Thraglestown, in Damfrieshire, Scotland.
He hired a great deal of help and among
those employed was a man by the name of
'Wallace to sot es foreman. 'While in hie
.employ Mr. Wallace fell in love with Annie
;Laurie, which feat her father soon learned
and forthwith disoharged him. He went
to his home, whin was in Maxwelton,
and wag taken sick the very night he
reemohed there, and the next morning,
when Annie Laurie heard of it, she Oanle
40 hie bedeide and waited on him until he
died, and on his death -bed he oomposea
the song entitled "Annie Laurie."..- Chicago
Why Madge Blushed.
Tommy (at the breetafast table). --Madge,
think Mr. Cutely is a " jim dandy."
Madge—Why so 2 4
Tommy—He gave me ten oents not to
tell what happened in the hall last night,
an' I feint goin' to.
And jest then Madge thought she heard
the kettle in the kitohenboiling over and
hurried out to investigate.
The New York Sarrogate has deoided
that the marriage of Eva Mann to Robert
May Hamilton who void and that she is
still Mrs. Mann.
,r
Le Canadien,maye that Mr. Diable has
'been chosen the Liberal candidate for
.Portneuf County and Ur. (terroll will
carry the Liberel banner in lismoureska.
A bill abolishing capital punishment for
'murder will be one of the first Measures
introduced at Albany this winter. The
iKeraraler busineee Mill give it a boOM.
N.,
AWOriaBIR SAILOIter FRIEND,
The Life Work of Hies Agnes Weston
Among Seamen.
Miss Agnee Weston, the gaiters' friend,
80 Engliale lady, well-known for her life.
long philanthropy, has been made Superin-
tendent of work among seinen for the
World's W. C. T. U. 1:3he has been the
meant of the erection of two large build-
ings ; one at Portsmouth and oneat Daven-
port. In one with her staff of workers she
lives at laer own expense. As she wrote to
a friend, n Like one of old, I dwell among
my own people, and they are blue-jeoltets."
Miss Weston began her philanthropic) work
in 1868, by visiting the Bath United Hos-
pital. She gave the patients short addresses
from pasesges of Scripture, and added to
their comfort by little gifts of flowere and
fruit. She next turned her attention to
the militiamen who assemble annually at
Bath for their training, and labored among
them with great success. Her work for
the sailors was brought about through her
having written a letter to a soldier on
board the Crocodile, bound for India,
which letter proving helpful to him and hie
companions, was read again and again dur-
ing the voyage, and led to the expres-
sion of many wishes on the part of the
hearers that someone would write letters
to them. Several sailors made the Berne
request, and to them all Miss Weston
replied promptly. The oorrespondence
increased so rapidly that she was at last
unable to comply with the demands made
upon her ; so, in order to meet the diffi-
culty and not disappoint the men, five hun-
dred copies were printed monthly. Grad-
ually this number has increased; and
now over four thoneand letters, called
"Blue -backs," are printed and circulated
monthly through the post to all parts of
the world, to every ship which c8rrier:1 the
Union Jack. In addition, over two thou-
sand copies et month of a " Letter " to the
boys in training ships are issued by her.
The next step for the benefit of the seamen
was the establishment of floeting branches
on board eaoh aeon' in connection with the
National Temperance League. The num-
ber of floating branches is two hundred.
The Sailors' Rest and Institute was Miss
Weston's next ore. In 1874 a house was
rented close to the dockyard gates. Appeals
were made for the neceesary funds. Dona-
tions flowed in from all parts of the world,
and the sum of £6,000 was raised. The
Institute combines the varied features of a
restaurant and public house, with those of
an exteneive boarding house, savings bank,
reading and smoking rooms, and sailors'
oh*. Daring the first year, the receipts
defrayed ell working expenses, and left a
profit of £113, 163. 8d.
ON TEIE ALERT.
For the Successful Tradesman Vigilance is
the Price of Victory.
The successful tradesman is always on
the alert; with him vigilance is the price of
victory, the Troy Press says.
Having acquired a heavy stook of goods,
Ms sales must be accelerated, or some day
he will find bimself swamped with shop-
worn, oldfashioned and unsalable mer-
chandise. It counts in making inventories,
but it doesn't satiefy oreditore. Therefore,
the deers must be °Weed ; & failure ie
heralded.
Crowd your alee, Mr. Merchant. It is
much better for a dealer to unload his
goods, or emany of them es possible, on
the public at cost than to hang on long for
profits. With the cash in hand bills coming
due ma be discounted and next season's
stock may blossom out with the latest
styles. Every merchant knows old styles
never produce a profit.
An enterprieing dealer, in detailing his
experiences, claimed that immediately atter
the holidays—the dulleet period of the year
—he made it a special point of forcing his
trade. The results were more than Batts.
factory. By persistently and promptly ad-
vertiaing unsurpassed bargains in the best
newspapers he reduced his stook by March
let to the lowest ebb and then was ready
for his inventory. His bills were all set-
tled, his bank account ehowed a balance on
the right side and he had absolutely eaved
in discounts and deterioration more than
enough to defray running expenses. In
other words, daring the dullest Beason he
had made something and "kept the pot
boiling" all the time.
Not only thie, by giving the public actual
bargains he won its favor, and greatly pop.
nlarized his establishment. The polioy
gave him an immense impetus for the
remainder of the year. A store where a
purchaser rarely, if ever, gets a genuine
bargain, is not apt to prosper. But if a
man gets what he knows to be 55 worth
once for $3, he may buy goods to the
amount of $100 at regular rateu and go
away pleased. Give the public a streak of
fat occasionally. It is a eound business
principle. And January is just the month
to profit by this piece
P. T. Marnum's Philosophy of Childhood
If you would be se happy as a child,
please one. .
Childish wonder is the first etep in human
wisdom.
To best please a child is the highest
triumph of philosophy.
To stimulate wholesome oarioeity in
the mind of the child is to plant golden
Bead.
I would rather be celled the obildren's
friend than the world's king.
Amusement to children is like rain to
flowers.
He that makee knowledge moat attrac-
tive to the young is the king of mem
Childish laughter is the echo ot heavenly
music.
The noblest art is that of making °there
happy -
Wholesome recreation conquers evil
thoughts.
Innocent amusement tranforma tears
into rainbowe:—Chicago News.
What's the use of feeling languid,
illopy, dull and blue?
Cleanse the blood and give it vigor;
Make the old man new..
Bow? 111 tell you. To the drug store
Go this very day—
Buy a medicine to banish
All your ills away—
And that medicine is Dr. Pierce' s Golden
Medickal Discovery, the very beet blood.
purifier on earth. It builds op and
strengthens the system because it cleanses
the blood, and thetas what the system must
have to be strong and healthy. There ie
nothing that equals it. Absolutely sold on
trial! Your money back, if it doesn't
benefit or euro you.
A Train strikes a Fire Engine.
A Jeremy City despatch saya : While fire
engine No. 1 wee going to a fire this even-
ing arid while crossing the railroad track
an express train dashed into it, killing
Driver Dinan and both horses. The Ere
aterted in the °eller of Charles Boltwood's
hardware store. The firemen fought their
wey into the cellar, when two barrels of
thrpentine exploded, killing Chief Engineer
Farrar, who died from suffocation. Smell
firemen were seriously injured. Hemmen
MoDonald was taken out unconscioue, and
his condition is critical. Three others vane
badly but not eerionaly burned.
THILMaRA.PELLa SIJMrItI&RL
Three mina from Lachine, Quebeo, age to
be sent to Alaska to start a ruiseion there.
The coke producers and their employees
are preparing for a prolonged struggle over
the wages question.
The &widen Government has abandoned
its plans for the construotion of barracke
and forte on the Austrian frontier.
Chief Commissioner Wrigley, of the
Hudson Bay Company in the Northwest,
haa retired on a000unt of ill -health.
John D. Rooaefeller has an income of
$600,000 a year, or $684 an hour, or &boat
$5 while you are reading this equib.
The Kaukauna paper mill at Appleton,
Wis., owned by VonNortwiolt Brothers,
was burned Saturday. Loss, $175,000.
The Dublin Insuppressible, the paper
started by the hloCarthyites as a rival to
United Ireland, ha o stopped publication.
The lookout of the stoneouttere at
Chicago by the aut•stone contractore hes
been settled by concessions on each side.
Fears are entertained tient the British
ship Glenfinernwhin sailed fro ca Greenook
on August 2nd for San Francisco, has
foundered.
•
Thirty.two counties in the western part
of Nebraska are in sore dietreee, and an
appeal is being made to Congress on behalf
of the suffering people.
The Ohio miners in convention at
Columbus adopted unanimouely a resolu-
tion favoring the enforcing of the 8 -hour
system after May let next.
Tlaere are rumors in London that Eng-
land is anxious to secure the transfer to
herself or Canada of closer political and
commercial relations with Hawaii.
It is rumored that Mr. Parnell will go to
the States thorny with Mr. O'Brien, and
that during his absence Mr. Dillon will
lead the Irish Parliamentary party.
The London Mansion House petition to
the Czar respecting the treatment of Jews
in Russia has been returned to England hi
order that it may be presented through the
ordinary diplomatic channel.
Capt. John Ericsson, the iaventor, be-
queathed 5125,000 in hie will. His estate
amounts to only $90,000, and his exeoatore
are seeking a construction of the will
learn it any heir has precedence.
From the report of the Regietrar-Gen-
eral for Ireland it appears that in 1890
there were 780,901 mores of potatoes, ae
against 787,234 sores the year before, while
the yield deoreseed 1,037,193 tone.
Chancellor von Caprivi has submitted to
Empeeor William report e showing that
Dammaralsnd is worthless to Germany,
and ought to be ceded to England in
exohange for land in Africa, more favorable
to German development.
Between 400 and 500 pounds of opium,
valued at about $7,000, was seized at
Broadway wharf, Oakland, Cal., Saturday,
while being taken aboard the ferry boat for
San Francisco in an express waggon.
Three hundred tons of hay belonging to
theWalrond ranche, near MacLeod,Alberts,
has been burned, and it is supposed the fire
was caused by some of the settlers in re-
taliation for berth treatment by the ranohe
company.
The big mining and reduction company
of Helena, Mont., is in financial trouble
It has not paid off its men for the past two
months, and owes about $9,000. Saturday
29 men quit work and employed an attor-
ney to take legal action.
Interest in the Koeh treatment is abstin
An English bacteriologist who is notable as
the discoverer of toktottbumene, and who
is now studying the Koch method at the
Elygienio Institute, announces that he has
discovered a remedy for anthrax.
The Sodialists have introdaced in the
Reiobeteg a bill providing that the State
shall take charge of the manufacture of
drugs and medicines, claiming that it is the
duty of the State since paeging the Work-
men's Insuranoe Bill to supply remedies at
cost price.
Two thoneand miners at Sosnowiece have
gone on etrike. This is the first strike that
has occurred in Russia. The workmen in
the Imperial dockyard have struck for
an advance of wages. .
Intelligence has been received of the
death on Monday of Thomas Sinmeon, jun.,
of Lakefield, who was killed by being
crushed under a log on H. H. Cook's limits
on the north shore of Georoian Bay.
Negotiations have been conoluded by
which the Standard Oil Company will
acquire all the property of 0. C. Harris,
the largest individnal producer in the
northern Ohio field. The price is 51,750,000.
Detailof the colliery explosion Wednes-
day near Charkov, Maeda, show that • the
disaster occurred in a pit at Jagovka depot.
Forty miners were killed outright. Eighty
were taken out unconscious, and many will
die.
Latest intelligence from Chili says a
portion of the troops who have hitherto
been faithful to President Balmaoeda have
joined the revolt. Chilian Government
newspapers received here continue to be
filled with reports of defeate suffered her
the insurgents.
The Telegram, the Government organ in
St. John's Nfld., blames the Canadian Gov-
ernment for the collapse of the reciprocity
negotiations between Newfoundland and
the United States. The Newfoundland
press is higbly indignant and demands
home rule for Newfoundland.
Wm. E. Vitas, who was Postmaster
General under Cleveland, was nominated
United States Senator yesterday by the
Demoorstio caucus at Madison, Wis.
This is equivalent to election, the Demo.
orate having control of the Legielatare.
Mr. William Ledderdalo, Governor of
the Bank of England, was yesterday pro.
sented with the freedom of the city of
London in a gold box by the Common
Council for averting a commercial crisis by
aiding the Baring Brothers in their recent
financial diffioultiee.
It is rumored that the Prince of Wales is
deeply in the finanoial toile of Baron
Rhode and another distinguished Hebrew
to whom the Prince pays speoial attention.
He borrows their money, it is said, to pay
when he plesees, and they take out the kn.
tartlet in the way of sooial recognition. The
Prince's course in this reepeot is attrsoting
attention in all the courts of Europe
and is the subject of much comment
the olube.
The Empress of Russia is 43 years old.
She was never very pretty, and is now
exhibiting a tendency to grow stout. She
is the second daughter of the Danish King,
and ie three years youngerthan the Princess
of Wales, her eider.
The Australian cannibal has a dieerimin-
sting taste. He does not like the flesh of a
white man, because it is too gait. The
flesh of the Chinese, whose food is ohiefly
rice and vegetable, is highly prizedby him.
iTtheartives do not eat preens of their own
ib
A coat of tar is reported to have been
ddministered to a couple at Morton recently.
he village °notable was alarmed by cries
o " mnrder," and found the pair a sorry
opeetaole.
THE CHILTERN BWIDHEDS.
HOW England Wisely Provides Against a
Stampede in Parliament.
I tind that very few people in Ole coun-
try, Bele E. G. Chalmere, of London, in
the St. Louie Globe -Democrat, underetand
the way in whiph English menebers of
Parliament resign. Most people know that
accepting the ()lantern Hundreds hi equiva-
lent to reeigning, but not one in a thousand
ie aware of the reason for this roundabout
method of quitting Parliament. Accord-
ing to the English law a member of Par-
liament can not resign, but he can become
inelligible by the acceptance of some other
office under government.
Oar legielators were of the opinion that
serious emberraesmente might be oo-
oseioned by the simultaneous resignation of
a large number of members of parliament
and took etepe to prevent it, The com-
mand of the Chiltern Hundrede, a nominal
office, disqualifies a man from holding a
seat in parliament, but only one man oan
hold this office. Wiaen a member wiehes
to withdraw he applies for the Chiltern
Handrede, which is granted as a matter of
course. He ceases to hold a Beet and the
next day resigns his new office. The effect
is that only one man a day can leave par-
liament, and wholeeede resignation is pre
vented.
Peru's Beautiful women.
As all the world knows, the women of
Lima are proverbial for their beauty. Saab
large, liquid, "skeletal" eyes; suah rosebud
lips and pearly teeth; auoh dainty hands
and feet and rounded arma and graceful
figures it would be hard to find so oom-
tnonly anywhere else on the earth. A 0001-
paratively few of the most ultra -fashion-
able wear modern hate and biennete for
state °tensions, but the vast majority still
cover their glossy black tressee with the
lace mantilla or black mantas of Bilk or
woolen. The letter is the only zoned
thing for ohuroh wear among young and
old, rioh and poor; and a, bonnet would no
more be allowed during service than a
gentleman at the north would be expected
to come to the communion altar with hie
het on his head. But the menthes are 110
longer put on as formerly, so that only one
eye 18 visible, but are disposed with more
or lees coquettish effect, and are vastly
more becoming to the Quinlan type of
beauty than the most elaborate triumphs
of Frenoh millinery.—Lima Letter.
medical Ethics and Advertising.
Buffalo News: Dr. Edward Storok has
undertaken quite a, °entreat to read every
doctor who advertises out of the business.
Will the good dootor tell us whet is the
difference between a doctor who advertises
and pays for it and the doctor who gets his
advertising under the rose, does not pay for
it—but gets it all the eame 2 We think the
doctor has given more attention to the
ethics of the medical profession than to
legal jurisprudence or to his own private
practice. Others, wiser, older and some-
what abler, if that were possible, than oar
learned friend, Dr. Store's, have tried to
make advertising in newspaper columne a
crime and have not succeeded. The legis-
lation that he promieed to obtain this win.
ter he won't obtain, and it will be a very
cold winter when he gets it.
Murdered the Hermit.
An Argentine, Kee., despatch says: The
lifeless body ot Wm. Horan:Ian was dis-
covered on Friday in a miserable hut near
here. There was a hole in the top of hie
head. The body was in a etate of advanced
deoomposition. Hemmen wee a hermit
and a miser. He lived in the utmost
squalor, and ate bat little. He owned 40
aceellialaottom land, and it is known he
had considerable money, some placing the
amount at a20,000, hidden &bout the house.
Search was made for this, but not a cent
was found. It is believed he was mur-
dered for the purpose of robbery.
Hawkers and Peddlers.
What eer-spitting cries we hear daily in
the streets of every large city But these
itinerant dealers who hawk their wares
about are, when under proper restriotions,
a ueefal portion of the community, and not
sun nuisances as the catarrh hawkers.
This is a stabborn disease to eorquer, but
Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy doea It is
mild, soothing and antiseptic, unlike snuffs
that irritate, or solutions emit burn. 14
corrects offensive breath, and restores taste,
smell and hearing. Nasal Catarrh often
ends in consumption. Applyahe only cure
n time. Price 50 cents, by all druggieto.
Curiosities of Vaccination.
There has been an immense amount of
nonsense written about young ladiee re-
fusing to be vacoinsted on the arm bemuse
of the inconvenience of appearing in full
dress with the Boer showing, Bays a St.
Louie doctor. But it ie not generally known
that some people who will not " take "
on the arm will do so on the leg. I have
heard Dr. Dorsett, for exa mple, explain
that although frequently vaccinated the
operation wee never sucoeseful until he had
it performed on his leg. Then it " took "
with a vengeance. The hint may be of
value to some who have tried to be vac-
cinated, but have met with no success.
MR. GOISIPERS, tbe President of the
Amerioan Federation of Labor, an organi.
zation numbering 650,000 union men, made
a striking speech the other day on the
eight.hour movement to the International
Bricklayers in session in Toronto. Here ip
an extract from it :
It ought to make an impression npon men
whose minds were not too beclouded to see
children who should be in the playground
dragged in thousands by the almighty dollar
into the factories, the mills and the mines. For
men and women who submitted to tyranny he
bad little pity. They bad the improvement of
their condition in their own hands. But it was
O blot upon the honor of anycountry to allowits
children to be dragged into factories and
deprived of the pleasures and advantages to
which they were entitled. At present he was
contending for eight hours a day, but he
thought that so long as there was idle a man
or a woman who was willing to work, the
working hours of the laboring classes were too
many. There were some who thought t they
worked less they would be paid less. This was
not so. The trades, skilled or unskilled, that
worked the greatest number of hours received
the least pay, and those that worked the least
number of hourii were the bolt paid. Any who
did not believe this might be satisfied of the
truth of it if they would stand on tho street and
watch workingmen go to and from work. Those
who wont to work the earliest would be found to
be the meanest dreseed and the most Miserable
and wretched looking, while those who went to
'their business the latest in the day were gener-
ally happy and bright looking. In the evening
those who roturned home the earliest had the
most prosperous look, while those who went
home latest appeared the poorest and most
wretched. Ur. Gompers was frequently ap-
plauded and hi address greatly delighted the
meeting.
Ireland's Three P's.
Washington Star: Potatoes, politica,
Parnell.
Poor Old Ireland.
Chicago Mail: "What's the matter with
Ireland?" "She'd all riot 1"
If yen don't piey yonr debts you hml
better not talk toke numb in olaes meeting
The Farmers' Alliance is going to extend
it organization to New Merl State,
00LB AND GIRLS ABOVE PAH,
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That is the Present State of Airaire //own
ha Argentina*,
" There ie a great ohance for old maids
in the Argentine Republic," remarked
Henri Bosquet, of Buenos Ayres, to a Chi-
ogo Tribune reporter on Me/3day. "There
are about eixteen men to one woman there,
and the unmarried males are more than
anxious to genre wivee. This is eopecially
true of my oity. Witten new woman,'
as we oall the welcome arrival, comes to
town about fifty men make a wild effort to
secure her.
" It doesn't matter muoh about the
wonaatdo age or looks, she ie received wiph
open arras and married off in a jiffy to
some real nice man.
"The loventasking doesn't last 'Ong,
however. Three days is the usual limit."
A Misplaced Queen.
When I eee a woman scrubbing or bend-
ing over tine washtub who was (nested with
an artist's tastes and a poet's song in her
heart; when I see a bright woman, in
whom the drollery and sparkle of life die
hard, amid a life of drudgery and unrest;
when I eee a woman patching trouser/ and
darning }woke who was intended by nature
to reign the crowned queen of some high
vocation; when I mark the pallor and the
lines of tell-tale care on the cheek that in
girlhood outblushed June's oweetest rose,
or note how the hands that once drew
divineet music from obedient keys have
warped and twisted in the faithful per.
forma= of homely duties, I feel like
kieeing the faded cheek and folding the
poor hands in a reverent grasp, for, I tell
you, says a writer in the Chicago Herald,
though she may sometimes falter by the
way, though fretful moods may sometimes
overtake her, not queens aae ;non royal in
the inheritance of their purple robes, not
cloistered saints folded away from the
world's turmoil so faithful, not dying
martyrs so brave—for it is not dying that
tells. To die is easy enough—but living 1
there's the test. Anybody can die, bat ab,
She infinite difficulty of living 1
Quick Eyes.
The experienced railroad Con doctor easily
locates and keeps in mind all the passen-
gers on his train. He seldom &eke a
paesenger twice for his ticket. He goes
without doubt or hesitation straight to
those who get on at way stations, no matter
in whet oar they may be. Brakemen,
intelligent and with an eye to the future,
acquire the same habit of accurate observe -
tion. The man who walks briskly through
the car, apparently intent on reaohing the
brake at the other end, may take as he
goes a quick mental photograph of all the
passengers. At a etation the other day a
woman who had just stepped off a oar
exoleimed, "1 have lost my pocketbook 1"
A brakeman who need on the oar platform
looked at her for an instant, and then,
with more than a mind reader's celerity of
movement, and with greater certainty of
soden, he walked wide awake straight to the
seat the lady had occupied. He wets not
aonfused by the foot that it was now
occupied by other passengers; he simply
asked them to let him look for the pooket•
book. I* was there on the floor where the
lady had dropped it and was restored to
her within a minute after her discovery
that she bed loat it.—New York Sun.
Chinese Ladles in Washington.
When the ladies of the Chinese legation
at Washington go out on. the etreet for a
walk, they are objects of universal eaten.
tion. Their poor little feet are mere scraps,
and they cannot walk, but hobble along
like orippleseclinging to a. friendly fence or
past if they are jostled, and sometimes
tumbling all together like a row of bricks.
Then never go singly, and rarely extend
their walk beyond sight of their own home.
A eervant tands in front of the Legation
house --he is an Irisbman, by the way—
and keeps a watohful eye on all their move-
ments so long as they are in the street.
They do not walk abreast, lest any one
should fall and upset the others. They are
raddy of cheek and -bright and pleasant to
look upon, and they appear to be cracking
an:Tendons Chinese jokes about the
posers -by who stare at them too rudely.
These aristocratic ladies are so clumsy,
with their fat hands and little feet, that
they are guite unable to dress themselves,
but require the constant service of a maid.
They appear to greatly enjoy the freedom
of their American life.
Burning Up.
a But, doctor, I must have some kind of
a stimulant," oried the invalid, earnestly;
"I am cold, snd it warms me."
"Precisely," came the dootor's crusty
answer. d See here, this stick is oold,"
taking up a stick of wood from the box
beneath the hearth, and tossing it into the
fire; " now it is warm ; but is the atick
benefited?" The sick man watched the
wood first send out little puffs of smoke,
and then burst into fleme,and replied, " Of
coarse not, it is burning itself." "Ansi so
are you when you warm yourself with
s,loohol ; you are literally burning up the
delicate thanes of your stomaoh and
brain."
Booming Towne.
The speculative mania; the desire to
boom towns; to unduly enhance prices; to
absorb real wealth in the creation of
fictitione values mast be ()hooked and is
receiving a °heck that will do much good
when accomplished by giving the people a
deeper appreciation ofite dangers. The
wonder among conservative men has been
how the boom in Kansas City veee so long
maintained without produoing the effects
whiole are becoming apparent. Borrowing
and booming may only require skilful
manipulation, but there comes a day of
reckoning as certainly as night succeeds
day.— Toledo Commercial.
AORRIaa ......„HONTII CAUL°,
Whore the Pass' a for Gandeling and Sot-
eide le wean Sway.
Galignwni's Mess ger, of Parte, flee un-
earthed a borrible a te of things in Monte
Carlo. A oorreepon ent of that paper haii
discovered several ottioide in a few dayee
all due to the victime osing their lakei 'gni
at the gaming table. Jho method Of deal-
ing with them saioide ie intereeting. A
few days ago C. L. Bon took hio lite after
losing his money. His rieetrese applied to
the head of the Casino for alai:AO/at money
to leave the piece. The suriof 400 franca
\
WAB given her upon °onsidel'often that ebe
should F leave lIfente Carlo a d give up tat
Bourte papers. This she did, aud, although
the pipers showed who he Was and who
were Ws relatives, the latter were not com-
municated with, and he was buried in Pot-
ter's field.
A day or two after his death a young
Englishman informed the correspondent
that he had wit/mooed the ouicide of a man
in the casino, and that the attendants had
thrown the body out of the window and
oarried it sway. .A. day later the corre-
spondent found two new graves in the
suicide part of Potter's field, showing that
etill another victim to the gaming table
bad taken his own life. All this goes tn
thaw thet suicides in Monte Carlo are not
registered by any board of vital etatistioa,
and that their number is far in mem of
that dreamed of by the general public.
Leopold Graham, manager of Galignande,
informed the New York Sun reporter that
most newepapers and newspaper corre-
spondents are subsidized by the authorities
of the casino at Monte Carlo in order to
keep the awful death record away from the
world. His newspaper has been approached
with thief end in view, he says, but he will
endeavor to let the world know the tragic'
results of the gaming passion at this place.
How 'Twos Done in Austria.
On Wednesday last the decennial °ensue
of the dual Empire of Austro-Hungary was
taken with a degree of thoroughness that
mats even the work of Mr. Porter into the
shade. The subjects of Emperor Francis
Joseph were required to give a full account
of themselves and their familiee, their
ages, religions, languages, prinaipal and
seoondary occupations, property indebted-
ness, income and expenditure. They were
likewise forced to state the number of the
domestic animals of their household, in-
cluding oats, doge and birds, and also to
give information concerning the character
of their clothing, the size of the rooms
occupied and the height of the ceilinge.
All these things and naktny mop the unfor-
tunate inhabitants of the dual Empire were
forced to write down themselves, or to get
it done for them, on eohedules provided
far the purpose. According to a Vienna
letter dublished to -day any one failing to
hand in the document in question on New
Year's eve become liable to a fine and im-
prisonment. —New York Tribune.
The U. S. revenue cutter Bee r is fitting
out for service in Behring Sea.
The mama which ems taken in Japa n
last year showed the population of th e
Empire to be 40,072,020,m which 38,074,558
were "common people." With the ad •
yawn which Japan is making in the scion° e
of government it is not likely to be Ion g
before the common people will be able o
make their influence felt.
The Art of Being Entertained.
Let everything dark melt sway before a
sunny nature. If you go to a home for a
social visit, be merry, be easy of manner,
ready to join in whist has been prepared
for you. Learn the great art of adapting
yourself to your eurroundinge. Don't
forever expect your friends to aocompany
you or show you around. Go off by your-
self, even though you hava no special
errand. Show your hosteas that you do
not expect her or her family to continually
wait upon you. Enter into the family
circle, be "one of them in spirit, so that,
when after a hearty hanci-ehttke at the
station, it may be said of you : "What a
pleasure she has been! How easy to
entertain 1"—The Ladies' Home Journal.
Henry George continues to improve in
health, end goes about the city quite freely.
He will probably sail for Bermuda next
week.—New York Standard.
The name of Baroness Burdett•Couttre
heads the list of beautiful old women. She
is described as being magnificently capari-
soned and having a "strange, sweet, weak
face."
Mr. James B. Austin, one of the beak
known all-round telegraph and newsmen in
Washington, for years past connected with
the telegraphio system of the United Press,
has been transferred to the news depart-
ment of this company. Mr. Austin is a.
native of Simcoe, Norfolk County, Ont.,
where he learned the telegraphic art, and
has been a resident oa Washington for
twenty years. He has filled positions of
trust with the Western Union Telegraph
Company and the United Press.
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