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The Exeter Times, 1889-3-28, Page 6E$, ILEALTEL °are Of the Hair. It is noticeable that of the raajority of women few have abundant Wilda of hair, and quelity givea wity to quantity ; the finer the heir, the lees there in ant to be of it, It fa also a. matter of comment) then the abundant tresses that crown the heads of itany r1s become o eutpithously scant as they approach their thirtieth year. The (muse of this deterioratioe oan be traced, in many eases, to the rage for blonde hair. Thee not btoude by nature becomes blonde through urt ; and topped a ie vitality by injunous wattles, Ken deadens and falls out: But another cause ot this early loss of hair is e 'thorn doubt the failure to give it proper care, and as the vigor of youta de- parts, the growth of the ilair perceptibly weakens. There are heads of hair of such vigor, that tue matter what is done or not clone to thane they seem evert° thrive, and oven when silvered througheat, are as heavy and long as in their youth, The tortunate poeseasors of such heads need not concern themselves about treatment. The object of this article is to give information for the in- vigoration and beautifying of week, thin hair. No comb, fiae or coarse, ahould he used upon the ham met.b when necessary in dividing or atranging it. Combs break the y.ourigdealr, awl irritate the scalp, without cleansing. The fine-tooth comb, so often used to orape out clench:ea, is destruotive itself to the hair. The place of the comb should be eupplied by a goad stiff bruit, with brietles deep enough to penetrate the hair to the scalp. A thorough brushing, with such an implement, will make the hair as smooth and free from tangle as a comb, clear out dust and dandtuff, stimulate the growth of new hair, promote a supply of natural oil, and leave the scalp glowing and invigorated. Hair of any color, under such treatment, must be beautified from ita clean- liness and lustroua gloss. A new growth will soon be observed, and the falling out become less and lees, though months, and even years, muse pars before thefull effent of the brushing process will be seen. All washes of soda, hartshorn or borax, and dyes for turning the hair golden, ate injurious to its vitality, and cause, sooner or later, according to the ability of the hair to resist, a bald head. Once a fortuight ie often enough to wash %yell brushed hair, de- spite the charms Amelia Rives picouree of "A women's hair daily wailed." Frequent) washing keepa the hair too dry for vigorous growth. Use tepid water and old castile soap. Divide in the back, plait loosely, and after soaping and dipping the head in the water; rub the scalp thoroughly with a nail brush, or the hands. RillSe ail soap out in clear water, and comb smooth while wet with a comes comb. Dry over the ahoul dens in the sum or with the back to a fire, taking care nob to sit too olose, and do not put up till dry. A. fine tonio for the hair is ono half water and one half Bey Rum, made bitter with quinine. This must be rubbed into the scalp twice a day. But it is thought to darken the color of the hair. The best brushes for use are those with unbleached bristles. Cheap brushes are too soft and thin to benefit the hair. A good one to last, vein scarcely cost lees than $L50. Brushes and combs should be kept scrupulously clean. Leave them fifteen .mintweezu nbacsie, wskter with a table- spoonful hortshorn, and every atom of dust will Be taken out. Prop the brush so that only the bristles are in the water, as the hartshorn will injure the handle and back This can be done by putting the smallest toilet ohne in the Wein with it. Dry well before tieing. The head ehruld be protected from dirt in sweepiog and dusting with a dust. cap. Olippmg the wade of the hair once a month is beneficied. Professional hair- dreesers are said to clip dexterously every hair, but amateurs must content themselves with slightly trimming the hair eveutly when brushed smoothly down the back.—FGood Housekeeping. Headwear. The toque and the princease bonnet ap. pear again among early opting models, in velvet, felt, and straw to suit the exigencies of our fitful climate. Some of the new miilinery fabrics are exceedingly handsome inandebetureout. There are among the novel ties pretty little toques in moss green, mahogany, claMia, and other dark becoming shades, decorated with montures and half - wreaths of arbutus blossoms, jonquils, May roses, crocus blooms, and sprays of pale - pink hyacinth. Jonquils in clusters on a mosegreen tcque form a seylieh little head - covering, the jonquils thinly veiled with pee olive tulle. Delicately -shaded velvet violets were effectively arranged on a little princesse bonnet of dark violet felt, trim- med with a deeper shade of velvet. These pretty little flower -crowned bonnets and ca. Rotes will be worn until the warm days of early summer. They will be seen with costames of faille, Henrietta cloth. , and camel's hair in light spring shades, and with white wool toilets further on. Short walk. big dresses in improved prinoesse effects, will be popular next season and en suite will be worn the princesto bonnets just diecribed. Oos wholly new French bonnet is perfeotly soft and is made of one piece of velvet. How this is done is most mysterious. However, nigh -clan bonnet making is a mysterious and occult art. There is a fulled crown, and the velvet is then fulled in close all around. The brim is simply of this veivet double. and oddly bunched into an artistic "huddle" at one side. This is turned back to frame the face and hair, and is adjusted ac- cording to the fang of the wearer. It looks aa if it would Suit nearly every face, bue it is affirmed en the beat authority that only a woman who is smart -looking herself oan wear ib. So it is very often, alas 1 with these apparently "simple" adorning. Taking Medidne, Although a man would not think of med- dling with his wet& or his clock, or any piece of mechanism, but wonld intrust its repair only to a eompotent Workman, he often meddlea with his own health and phy. goal conatitution th the most residua way. He will take medicines that are only of use in mene eritirely differene oircemettimes on the mere guess that hie symptoms are the same as those the which the medigne wits originally preptteed. iWoraen are partici'. tatty prone to de thew They fearlessly fill up Old medicine botelea, and dee them in GUESS Where there hi not the elighteet analogy to the case for Which the modictine was brig. 'Mealy prepared. They niake the most reoki leas diagnosisThey exchange information ail to what the,doctom did for ellen children unclee what seetned to them similar grown.. station, end whichmat be entirely different, They may ha know the differenee betvOeen te dolmen cough and membraneous croup, but they Will tackle the Most dreadful die. eine with the moett inappropriate reit:Lady. Ty the time the doctor (tomes, the patienti Winn nee already bete expeeimented ePeno and has fished deeth by eighty or hy the 80 uggie With hurtful medicaments. The dangerous feature obout the sed-edminietration of opiates M that the subjeot keeps ou taking the drug while partialey deprived by tts use of the Dower a reasem (g the benefit of mem - ore. Tee legitimate nee of suoli agento re- quwes the greatest; ohne end caution. They must be adapted to the system of the recip. Min and to the special occasion. What weuld be hannlese to a person at one time would be clengercus at another. It is well known then narcotic pois3ns are oumulative; that they go on piling up in the system like Mem oolleottnis in a boiler, No burnt is done until et Mit the exploding point is reached.— N'ew York Sun. A RIGHT KIND OF BOY. The Young Canadian Who Speaks or ugs wince as "we." Don't laugh at the boy who magnifies his place. You may see hem coming from the post offioe a with big bundle of h'is employer's totters, which he displays with as much pride as if they were his own. Bat he is proud of hia piece. He is attending to businees. He likes to have the world know that he is at ork for a. busy concern. One of the Law- ra IL ea , of Boston, once said: "I would not give heath or the boy that does not say 'we' be- fo ha bas been with us it fortnight." The boy who says " we" identifiis himself with the concern. Its interests are hit He sticks up for its credit and reputation. He takes pleasure in leis work, and hopes some time to say "we" in cermet. The boy will reap what he sows if he keeps his grit and sticks to his job. You may take off your hat to him as OW of thefuture solid men of the town. Let his employer do the fair -thing by him; °heck hint kindly if he shows signs of being too big for his place; counsel him as to his habit e and associates, and ocoasithally ahow him a pleasant pros- pect of advancement A hone praise does an honest boy a heap of good. Good luck to the boy who says "we." PRANCE AND FNGLAND LATEST FROM EUROPE. A Weobabitity or war luetween these twe nountrien—nritain Preparing nor the "W own. There have been of late a good mazy rui n ors to the effect that Euglaud wouicl have roore to dread then °inanely from the rise of 13eulanger to power in France. Time reports might have attracted more attention had not the greeter part of them emanated from Berlin. We peed not point out thin Beeled, oould she be persuaded to believe herself in need of an ally on the Contieent, ' W014Id be apt to side with Bismarck in East Aftioan matters and the Samoan dispute. 1 Not long ago, however, the correspondent of the London" Morning Poet" had an in. tervievr with 13 anew; and elicited opinions of considerable.' significence. He eald that he thought the English should evacuate Fgypt, and that if he came het° power, he sheuld endeavor to prevail on them to do so. He expreesecl a strong conviction that he ahould succeed, but declined to answer the question whether he would rely exoluialvely on pacific meant Thi e is probe -1)1y a more trustworthy indication of the general's atti. tude toward England than his recent per. funotory denial of hostile intentions. Next to a recovery of Aleaoceliorraine, no echievement would be so much acclaimed in Franoe an the restoration of French ascend- anoy in Egypt. Not only the stooltholdere In the Suez Canal, the owners of Egyptian boucle, and the investors in public) works in the Nile velley, but the mews of the French people ratek tee eaerifiee of French influence at Otero as second only,to the Torment fiasco among the errors ef the repulfflo. To this day the Paris newsmen cannot recall with- out; bitterness the refueal of M. de Freyoinet and the Clamber of Deputies to ocomperete with EnglAnd in entorciog the joint ultima- tum against Arabi Pasha. But for that disastrous blunder, the system of joint control would have been maintained, hencl would hey° had the intimate result that Fritnoe rather than England would have been charged with the duty of protecting the Suez Canal and upholding order in Egypt. No one, who remembers the reluctance with which Mr. Gladstone in the spring of 1886 sonsented to the retention of British troops in the Delta, can doubt that he would glad. ly have devolved the burden of sustaining the Khedive upon the French °imminent, had it up to that time been a loyal co-worker.' Even now it is quite possible that Mr. Glad.. stone, should he return to office, might over- look the conduct of M. de Freyeinet during that period, and allow France to aniline the barren honor and unwelcome cost of support. ing an army of occupation. It is quite =tun, on the other hand, that Lora Salisbury will never withdraw the British troops from Egypt in order to pen mit that country to Le virtually annexed to France. This may have been in Boulan- ger's mind when he would make no answer to the question whether he would confine hints& to pacific MMUS. That the Solis. bury Government either believes or wishes Parliament to believe that the political changes threatened in France might involve danger to Greet Britian, tome clear from the Queen's speech. The ennouncement that the MilliSWII WOUld ask for an un- usually large appropriation for the navy and for moan defence was Explained by the snowmen that while just now England had no enemy upon the ()eminent, the contin. uance of such a state of things could not be relied upon. Every body who read the speech knew that France was pointed ate since she is the only naval power which England has cause to fear. There is no doubt that the English occu- pation of Egypt is inexpressibly galling to her neighbors croes the Channel, and that even a war from theireassertion of French in. fitience at Cairo might be popular in France. Frenchmen feel thaathey have a mortgage on the Nile country because they have ex- pended a great deal of motley there. . White Slavery in Kansas. The sale of white men in Arkansas into what is it praaticg, though limited, slavery is an old law which obtains in that State as well as in some ot the Southern States of the Union. Lo Arkansas it is incorporated in Mansfield's Digest, seotions 1213 and 1214. Tbe law reacts: "When any person shall be convicted of any misdemeanor under the laws of this State by any court of competent jurisdiction, the court shall direct that the person convicted be put to labor in any man- ual workhouse, or on any bridge or other public improvement, or that the person be hired out to some pinion, as hereinafter pro- vided, until the fine and costs are paid. jch shall not exceed one day for each 75 ients of tbeifine and costs. It shall be the ton of the sheriff and constable immediate- ly after the conviction of any person of any misdemeanor, to proceed at once to hire said perton out (if the fine and costs are not paid or secured) ro sone person, company or cer- parader)." The mown sale at auction of a white moan for a fine of $55.50 was in accord- ance with the law. The man brought only 25 oents a dry. A negro oonsteble acted as monomer—quite a reversed of the old order of things in the days of slavery. Charms Against Old. Age. People talk and write a great deal about the necessity for growing old gracefully; but after all, Madame Da Deffand one of the wittiest letter writers of Louis XVes era, was right when she boldly declared that no- body had any businees to grow old at all* The man or woman who keeps youthful heart and spirit through sympathy with the young, preserving an interest in what is passing in the world about, manages to find some occupation, some object on which to employ mind and sympathies, no matter how corlaed the -sphere of action, will al- ways retain a fund of cheerfulness, hopeful- ness aria patience, which, where the feelings are concerned, elves what one might term a mond youth. Age in itself cannot be con- sidered lovely any more than any other apedes of decay; but it has only to follow the example of nature, which is so heedful to make ruine beaming by wreathing them with ivy, graceful creeping plants,' and mosses, its order to possess loveliness that cannot fail to attract and touch all who look upon it. 4. Rich ola Maid s Will. The estate of Miss Catherine Peirson, of Richmond, Mese., has been inventoried, and has proved a great and pleasant surprise to her relatives. She was thought to be rich, but no ont supposed that she WAS possessed of a personal estate of almast $500,000, near- ly all in Government bonds, bank and first- class railroads stocks. Among her house- hold goads and apparel were fifty bonnets dating back as many years ; seventy shawls, some of them very valuable, and 300 glass vials that had sometime contained medichie, but were now empty and wrapped in white tissue paper and packed away, There was also a surprising collection of silks and sat- ins. Miss Peirson was one of the noted. characters of the couney and alwayeattract- ed much attention at the cattle show, which she annually attended, dressed elaborately and wearing many diamonds. ME. Khartoum. Khartoum still figures in newspaper de- spatches, though there really is no Khartoum at the present day. The town was practi- cally wiped out of existence in the days of horror following Gordon's death. The forts are still maintained, but the rest of the town was razed to the ground, and the material used in the most important build. ibgs was taken across the river to build a big mausoleum aud moeque over the remains of the late Mahdi. Omdurman, across the river from Khartoum, is now the seat of the Mandist power, and when we read that Khartoum, is alarmed over White Pasha rumours, it simply means that Omdurman's in a panicky state. By destroying Khartoum the Mahdi meant to show the Soudan what would become of any other wicked city which, accepting an infidel's aid, attempted to keep the hogs of the Prophet ounide ite walls,—EN. Y. Sun, She Can Come VeiT Near It, Why thould a girl remain ugly? There are some exercises and syeteme for filling out her cheeks, neck and bust, devgoping her limbs and formingher nom. The experts will straigh ten her eyes and fix her teeth. What nature has not done for her hair, eyebrows and complexion can be supplied by art. The Oath girl may not And it in her power to be- come a thing of beeutn, but she can come very near it. -.[Atlatita Congitution. He—"Jenny, you are a brio* 1" She (between gaspa)—i es, a premed brick," "WHALE -BRIT." Minute Beings Which Serve to Appease the Hunger of Whales. The food of the northern whale is nowhere in proportion to the tine of the creature that devours it, writes Lieut. Sithwatkit in the Cosmopolitan for March. The sperm whale of warmer waters "tackles something of its size" in eating the giant a quid of that region, but the cold vvater cetacean contents itself with devouring millions of the min- ute life that abounds in frczen seas. This the whalers call the "whale -brit" or"whale grin" and it is effete in euch quantities as to give the surrounding pea it distinct olive green, tingei although the little animal pro. deicing this effect is only about an inch in length. , These minute beings are also carnivorous, and at the mouth of inlets, es- pecially those fedby sediment -bearing rivers, they find their best feeding ground ; though by no means confined to such places, for they are often found in demo swarms far out to sea. Through this " whale-hrit " the whales rush with open mouths, straining the winer through the hairy furze on the inside of the baleen or whalebone, which retains the minute food like a sieve, and than his marine majesty knight cornmanderof the big bath, proceeds to leisurely demolish the small fry, some- what after the manner of crowned heads and "pow -heads" in general. When hungry whales fired find a feeding ground, an old whaling captain told me that they ego slash- ing and boltieg backward and forward through it like so many.hungry pigs across a troughful of food suddenly pub before them, and the sea water is lashed into a foam wfth their efforte to appease their ravenous appetites. Randolph Churchill's Erratic Career—The Oervian. Situatioa—King A conecientione calculator, who has sat in the report:re' winery of the House of Commons for twenty-five years mad has olosely watehed the politica.l career of Lord Rendolph Churchill deco its commencement, has anived at the conclusion that his orroe tic lordehip has just three followers in the House, to wit, Mr. Gutzon, Mr. Jennings (formerly of New York), and Mr, lianbury, and that the noble lord has reached a point a*t which he can avoid political extinotion only by joining the Liberal party. Lore Rendolph has been nagging inc OVerOlilent this week wiih much liehtsome industry, but with little effect The Tories have taken to laughing at his criticism instead of re- ceiving them seriously, and hie lordship in consequence is growing restive. A jump Ono way or the other 860MS an imminent probability. The attempt) to raise a a3are in 'western Europe may be very largely discounted. The London Saindard's correspondent, wile sends the news, is an old offender betels re- spect. Austria may possibly he moving troops toward the Servian Wonder, but iu all probability it is only to protect) her own territory. Auetrie con hardly desire to pro- voke it war with Rushdie at this juncture, and Bismarck would assuredly use the whole of his great iefluence to prevent it. But a force of Austro.liungarian troops on the Serviau frontier may ?.ot as a restraint upon those whose delight it would be to rouse an outbreak in the eo-oalled kingdom. Everything, indeed, in Servia points to this little place becoming a hotbed of intrigue, and remaining so for a long tinie to come. The Queen wants to eat back, and the young King wants his mother, but the Re- gents are not disposed to pub up with. this ()harming lady, who, whatever her qualifi- cations tney be has it certainlove of intrigue and a pervadfog predileoticn for turmoil which inight bring trouble upon the country. Things in Servia are at sixes and sevens. The poor peasantry are spiritless, but agita- tors are at work upon them and a tittle fine up may be expeoted any day. But a spitfire dare in Servia, does nut mean it European coeflegration by any means. They say in Belgrade that King Milan acts like a prisoner who has been released from a long term behind iron bars. Appar- ently the agony that he lelt aver the loss of his hair has abated, or else the hair h grown more tenacious, for the King is larky and gay. He has thrown all responsibility to the four winds of heaven, and leaves hie juvenile successor and his amiable wife to solve the European problem to combat the opposing influences of Austria and Russia. —.nmentreashae—itia-- Jade, a Precious Mineral. The tombstone of the conqueror, Tamer- lane, at Se.marcand—he died there iu 1405 — consists of an immenee block of dark green jede. Some courageoue vandal broke a piece irom it for the late Dr Heinrich Fiecher, of Bader, part of which was sent to me. The rest of the tombstone is still at Samar. °end for some enterprising American or Eng- lish collector. The block of Siberian jade exhibited for a time on the British Museum weighed 1130 pounds. De Last (1647) men- tions a lump of j Ade the etze of a man's heed, whioh came from the AUILIZOIL River and sold for £50. ($250). A piece the size of a oup was sold to Rudolph IL by the imperial jeweler at Dresden for 1600 dialers. Cortez was content with four pieces out of all Montezaman accumulated treasures. The Emperor of China has a necklace of fine green beads of jadeite as large as ;cher. ries, strung at intervals between several of the finest coral. Pendant from this is a large ruby -spinal. Among the principal tions may be mentioned thee of the Museum of Freiburg, in Belem which contains the collection ot the late De Heinrich Fischer, of Freiburg, the greatest authority on jade; and them of the Eamon= ab Constance and at Dresden. At the Colonial Exhibition in London there were shown large rounded and waterworn blooks of jade weighing hun- dreds of pounds, and called by the Maoris panamu. Much ot it, of the finest green color, was worked into charms and knife handles at the exposition. The U. S. jury System. "New York Herald:" There is a startling sugg.estiveness about a plan which Judge Dantels has been °compelled to adopt in order to secure jurors for the trig of Thomas B. Kerr. While a talesman is being examined as to his qualifications for the jury box all other talesman are excluded trom the room, so that they may not know what answers are necessary to debar a citizen from jury duty. If this means anything it means that Judge Daniels is cenvinced that citizens have been in the habit of oominitbing perjury of the white lie port in order to escape from ser- vice. ' This is a and comment not onlyupon the jury system as at present organized, but upon the lack of public spirit) in the citizens of New York. Juryduty is not only the i highest right, bub it s the most sacred obli- gation of citizenship. The man who will swear falsely tonelieve himself from his ob- 'elation is a pretty Breen potato Such a man might not regard bribery as a serious crime. AN AFFAIR 01 HONOUR. — ,Gerocimo, the ,Train Robber. #' Of all the, smooth eine slippery Cal'Slawl$ UM Meth and eitioYieg Peefeet freedom, the emootheet td elipeerteet a Geronhno, the train robber of Anzone and ielexico," wed A A. Herring, the raining „mem Castle Dome, Ari. "1 do Ott refereel the wily' Apache eked, who, a short tinie ago, led itt eo mute depredatiomi orrehe frontier', bub. to the white nameseke'oef his, Who;. if any- thing,zpeesessee inore cunnings • .Not • much. tAtielris SO be known of Geri othimo eh trimly Pacific Coast; . States one Territoriee made of . Arizona andthe mountainous region to the south: He flies from ehne.aide of the Mexioan line to the other in a few hours, ,aeci is aa hard to get sight of as a will initheiwittp. He goes intro the meat civilized towns of the frontier whenever he w'ents to,,and nobody weans to have the nerve to taditle him. "Geroiiimo Wad Connected with' two or three of the' heliviest robberies on the AMU - son, Topeka and Santa Fe roadie year Or so ago. He lent a haud in the latest hold-up on the Soathern Pacific. No deteotives 'are aftei hiin, or if they • are . they make no 'headway in capturing him. He memo to have the right to go anywhere unmol. ceded. • ! His finances are considerably mproved by his robheriee of Wells, Fargo & Co. Mine owners, too, caught out with well-filled pooktt-, an well as nurceirometra.vellere, have paid tribute to him. Miontioan and American cattle and horse owners have suffered. These depredations have -been carried on for three and posobly for five years. A very round BUM must have gone into Geronimo's eschequer in consequonce.People most lade mete with the oirourastancee of his plunder- ing figure his gains at from $100, 000 to 200,000 Perhaps not less than twenty men neve been killed aleo yet he has been rereardedwe a meth by many who have only beard about him in a cursory way. "1 assure . you he is about the liveliest blood, muscle and bone myth, however, that there is ageing, There are no flies on him, and evidently iu is a good man who will get hine—te income Bob Garland or somebody of that eon. He knows the mountains as well as Billy the Kid ever did and better than any other outlaw now living. He oame to Tombstone first about three years ago and went under the name of White. "He stayed for a short time around the gambling houses. He never was known to engage in honest labor. He was a fair gambler, though he never played for big stakes. He Beamed to play for pastime more than anything else. In a short time he disappeared and went to Clifton. Then he began his open career of orime. His last haute were on the Atchison and South- ern Pacific roads, where' ib is believed, he gob not leas than $20, 000each time. Then he went to Mexico and was captured by the regular troops while driving away sonic homes. Bub tee Sonora jails were nob strong enough to hold him, and he is now back in Arizene. He often visits Tombstone, and a short time ago was seen playing billiarde in the Cometsaloon there. "Ho bas no headquarters, and his devices to elude pursuers are always suochessful. Nothing is known cd his presence till the day after he has left a place, and there is no doubt them those who know where he is keep still a boat it, for fear of death at his hands. His companion is a renegade Mexi- can, named Federico. it has been said that Geronirno is a Mexican, but this is a' mistake. He is white, or very nearly SO. " Getonimo is a. dead shot, and officers or at ybody else are not in a hurry to try their ',kill against him. Some stiff rewards have been offered by the railroad and expreeit companies for hin, and private parties have also offered bonuses for him. " The Gavernors of Arizona and Sonora have offered something like $3,000 each. There is money in Ids scalp, if it can be go:: dut to get ib is the trouble." French Fisher -Folk. The industry carried on bythe want peo- ple on the French foreshores is quite a sight Even the little children contrive to make money by building fish -ponds, or forming trenches in Whi011 to gather ealt, or in some other industry incidental to seashore life. Some of the people have old rickety boats patched up with add older pieces of wood or.leather; sails mended here and there till it is difficult to know the original portion from those that have been added to is; nets torn and darned tili they are scarce able to hold a fish; and yet, that boat and that crippled maohinery are the capital stook of perhaps two or threegeneratione of a family, the 00110Bra having probably been founded half a century ago by the graadfather, who now sees around him the series of hungry generations that it would take a fleet of boats to keep in -food and raiment. The moment the tide runs back, the seashore is at once overrun with a legion of hungry people who are eager to clutch at whatever, fiehy fragments the receding waters may have, left; the shallow poen are eagerly, hungrily examined, and contents grabbed with an anxiety that belongs only to pover- ty. At some peaces on the coast, how. ener—the adoption of fish culture has led to a traffic in oysters that is surprising—in- deed, a new life has dawned on some dis- tricts; and where ab one time was poverty and equalor, there is now wealth and pros- perity. India Rubber Pavements. The Berlin Paper "Kuhlows" says: "For paving streets India rubber threatents to en- ter into competition with taphole The new pavement is an invention of Herr Buse of Linden, who has introduced it in Han- over. He used it first in ,the summer of lest year for paving the Goethe bridge, which hart a surface of about 1,000 equine mantel, or 10,764 square feet, The new pavement it is abated, proved so satisfactory that 1,500 square meters (16,146 equine feet) of ordinary carriage way in the ony were paved with it this sunimer. The Berlin corporation being favorably impressed with the new pavement has had it large area paved with India rubber as an experiment, and the magistracy of Hemburg is likewise try- ing the pavement. It is asserted that the new pavement combinethe elasticity of India rubber with the resietanceiof granite. It is said to be peefeotly noieelese, And tin. affected either by heat or cold. It is not so slippery as asphalt, and is more durable than the latter. As el, covering for bridges it ought to prove excellent, as it reduce vibra. bration: but a questioa may be asked as to its cost, The expense nun be heavier than that ef any known pavement" A:Dollar Easily Earned. First Tramp—" Hello, Jerry, ootne in and now,' havealtde°1 icairtSmoon EL" B—a"e erstreet What! Clc' k 1 Yon mu First Tramp.--" Yee i I rather guess I am. I'm gettini a dollar a day ter Beta& in a show winder to advertise anew toilet drop." Second Trautp—" Rats 1" First Trathp—ii Yes, I am, on the dead equare. 1 represent the before Wine' i* FOREIGN' NOTES, The grauchnother of bile Queen of Kees - grainier is dead. She was ,a hundred yeare old. Australia non just) made to iteprojected railroad a grant o116,000,000, twee, or 20,- 000 entree a mile, The ,grant to the Pacific rai1roads n;thie country amounted to about 6,40() awes a mile , ,n Stockholm they have not yet naished honoring Jenny Lied. A. new street has .juge been called ,af per her, and a Bottip tor has eeomitly finished a statue representing her in thitoostutne of Ndrina. , A pony in balk; daily sent up in a balloon, and being let down by a pereoltute, a /ct Beldviin, in London, and the Soo:misty for the Preve.ation of Grueity to Anithals is being agth itated he anxiety en know whether, e p is scared or not. The Empress of Austria carries a travel- ling basket fitted up ho that she is able to mince soup 011 the cars. ft has silver sauce pens with gold handles, and the Empress &dares that she can Make in it better broth than any. Ohdi oun 0011000S. What purporbg to be the skull of Darn- ley, the husband whose Violent death history °barges upon leleay Queen of Scots, has been found in an English museum 'It indioates thole) Darnely won IX coarse libertine, and afflicted with a loathsome disease. Two English tervante, Ann Warde and Eliza Wylde, went toe a Salvation Army meeting on a Sunday evening, overstayed the time when they shou'd have been home, and for fear" of a soolding, tied themselves together with a woollen soar! and drowned themselves in a canal. Anoint abetesmen, from Count Tolstoi down, are aiding in the organization of so- cieties for the prevention an impression of inebriety. Total abstinence, excepe from light cider and kvesse and .acid drink with little alcohol, is the rule they seek to estab- lieh for too hard drinkers. A Sootchman in the picturesque and airy costume of the Highlands boarded a train at Lyons the other day bound for Nice. Two French ladies were in the carriage, and the moment the Highland laddie made his ap- pearance they were terrified, and rushed on the platform yelling for help. They are talking of having oranieeises in London, especially for them who want to smoke when they ride. Apparently there is a Yankee in the scheme, for it is said that the vehicles will be fitted up with reeks of newspapers, and also with drop.a-nickle-in. the -slot machines that will deliver cigars, cigarettes, tobacco, and matthes. The jacket which the Empress of Ramie wore at the time of the railroad accident at Boxed recently, has a hoe as large as a hand torn in the left side, and the buttons have beau crushed, evidently by a shook. She has ordered a duplicate of the .garment, minus these reminders of her narrate escape 'rota the Paris dressmaker who made the original. Kraszewski, the Polish author and pat- riot, who wits imprisoned for eeare in a Ger- man fortress has just died an Italy. He bit to his family 92,000 rubles, a valuable collection of paintings, a library of 42,000 volumes, and a large number of vefflable manuecripts. The Imperial Librare( of St. Peteraberg has entered into negotiation with the heirs for the parasite of these manuaoripts, many of which relate to ROSSI& The Prussia War Minister has just pidi- lished in two volumes a history of the colors of the 'Prussian army from 1807. It ap- pears that in the earnpeigne of 1864 and 1866 ninety-nine standards were pierced by balls. In the campaign of 1870 the number of regimental. colors pierced was 151. The flag of the Seventh Regiment of Infantry was hit by twenty-three balls in the single battle of Mars -la -Tour. In the entire Franco Prussian war thirty eight Finnigan standard bearers were killed while hold- ing their colors. ' The Australian ballot system, which has been the topics of rauoh disouesion in the Ithited States and whioh meets' With gen- eral approval,' appears to be simply the bal. lot systeni in use in Canada for many years. Australia is credited with having first adopt- ed the plan, which afterwards became popu- lar in England, Canada and several other countries, 'Massachusetts has now made it the system of the State, and it will be used for the first time in the vote on State prohi- bition this spring., , One of the.most remarkable engineering feats appears, to, have been achieved in China, in theface of extraordinar eriphysical difficulties, namely, the succeeeful , stretch- ing of a steel wire cable of seven strands ecrese the rivettenatin, this feet having been accomplished by :the Danish engineer Delindee mended only by unskilled native labor. The cable extends between two a points, at a distance of nearly 4,700 feet apart, the height df the first support being about 450 feet above the present level of the river, and the second about 740 feet. The cable in question is said to be the longest in the worla, with a single exception, namely, the cabal across the Kiatna, measuring some 5,070 feet, There are aiso two cables scion the GAnges, of 2,900 and 2,e30 feet, rea- PerievelY. The Paris correspondent of the eSecolo) of Milan report)s all interview with M. Naqueb, in which the Senator says: i'Boulanger hasn't at his back either an Aroole Or a Marengo; but who knows ?, they may come yet, Bou - bang ee Will nevem renounee the' tights of Franco to Aliaoe and Lorraine; but he won't declare war aesinsti Germany, because he 'knows that if Francie attacked Germany she would have ell Europe against her. He will wait for Germany to begin the attack. Only one circumstance might force him out of the line of prudence, and that is a d'eolarittionof war against Germany by Russia. Then certainly he would attack Germany on The Rhine with the entire French army. The triple alliance incises still, and it would be absolute madneseon our part to commence hostilities single-handed." , The merite of a new church organ were thus described by a local paper . "The Swell died away in a deliciouti suffocation, like one singing a sweet song under the bedclothes. Teacher : "Now, children, I will give you three words --Boys, Bees, and Bears; .and I want you to compose it sentence whioh will ingude all three words." Small Boy: 4' 1 lia-vo it" Teacher:. "John Mo. Garthy, you may give us your aentence." John McCarthy " Boys bees bare when they goes in swirnmin.' " The Chitiese grant known as ramie, so valuable as is textile plant, and yielclieg is fiber as fine as silk, has not, ,hitherto, been cultivated to the extent desirable, owing to the lack of machinery suitable for•extracting the fiber. In1880 the Indian govetriment offered a prize oe $25,000 for such it machine, and now the French ministry of agriculture offer 1.6,000 in Prizes for maChinei or pre- emies to that end: Heinle ix grown near Paris, and some of the steme Will be used to try this competing machines.