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The Nizams Jem. KbteM. 8t«[> b:f 8t<>p be mnea to my Dedside and lu8 eyes glistens and his kniie ia led, and my eye never leaves hia. 'I'tiuu he {lauana and bends low with hia araia outstretched. "Suhibi," he muruura. and hU voice is sin^flu laxly low and gentle, " I am here." "'ilu> <li;iino;iil I" I hoaraely murmur. B.« reuioveu his turban and Hlowly unwinds its tuany (oldf^ As he do<>s ho Lhe roomi senins fillfvJ wih the rustle of (farmciits. and a si range, swret i)erfunie ocrnies lo mo. There are whispers, t<JO, Hnd a sound like u stifled sob. Slowly ibei Btrajiger unfolds his turban, and audilenly out of it leaiis a great white tiebble. He liftt it before uie betwixt his lean brown thumb and forefinger, and I know that in his other hand he holds the red knife. "The diojnond of the nizam. sahib," he murmurs. Ah lie Mpe^iks a sudden ray of sun- lifrht fulls upo-< (be white i>el>l)le and a miKhty glory seems to fill the room. IVIy eyelids droj) liefore Lhat glare. I see the brown fjice of the indi/in l)end lower. I see his fijig«rs clutching at his knife. Tbe room grows dark and yet darker. I seem to be slipping away. slLivping away. " John I" Is that my name ? Is soriielndy call- ing me? Whk'Ct is this that holds my hiind and draws me back ? No, no; let me go." " John I" Surely eonielxxiy is caillng me. lop- en my eyes ajowly ao slowly. Across tlw, level of my bed 1 see the f.ice of George, leaning forward, hia features in tlie shadow, his eyea gleaming with fri^litened &iixit,ty, in his hand a tiny iiieilicine gldss that catches a dazzling ray of sunliijht. Somebody else is there, somebody who holds my hand tightly, Bomelx>dy who calls a^aim: " John, dear I" 1 raise my eyes a little higher. An- other face is Ijonding over me, a white, tear stained face. " John I" It ia Mary. And so I csine b«ck.â€" W. B. Iloee. CANADA OWNS THE YUKON. And Kloutlyke Wat ItlaroTerrd Bj a «'aii- n<llan-4iii«rlr«n» !>• .^ol Like t» Paj Huynlllri. I had been ill with fever. They tell me t^Mit it was a severe illness and that the outcome was for many days in doubt. Twice, I liey said, my feet press- ed wa the verge of the dark valley.and twice was 1 drawn back. I know little of tbi« personaJly. For two weejts or more I was oitber delirious or uncon- •cix>us. Tlien, one bright May nuirning, I ctuiie l>aok from I lie land of shadows. It aeenuvl to me. .is I lay tliere, that my mind wiva unnaturally acute. I fan- oied thiit my enfeebled physical condi- tion accentuated the action of my brain. It seemed aa if the rest 1 had given itâ€" the rest, at least, from lucid action- had reinvigoratod it. I reanember that I threw a great deal of thought into the construction of the first connectexl sen- tence' I odrlresaed to my man. This is what I said: " Any letters, George?" Be started up hastily. Ivetters sir ? Yes, sir, letters and a telegram." â-  Head the teletgram." I said, after another sjiell of tbought. He tore open the yellow envelope. â-  'Just heard of your illness. Start for home to-day. Mary." Mary is my promised wife. I recalled that she was at Colorado Si)rings with ber invalid mother, when I fell ill- I looked at George. Ha must have read my question. He seemed to make a mo- mentary calculation. " If all goes well, six, she should be here to-day." A£ary was coming. The thought act- ed otn me like a. tonic. I wanted to throw aside the blankets and leap to bbe floor. Gods I And I couldn't even rai*e my arm. "Get flowers, George," 1 murmured.. "Lot Ln the sunlight. Hide these bot- tles." He omiled and smoothed the blank- A section of Lhe United States press et« above me. >« objecting hysterically to the policy "Everything shajl he aa presentable of Canada in collecting "unjust" Cus- as possible, sir," be said. toiiis duties upon foreign goods sent As presentable as possible? That note into the Yukon region, also to the re- of excei>tion must nioaa me. Never gulation requiring miners lo pay an mind, Mary wa« coming. Mary loved " unjust " royalty uiK>n the gold tbey me too well to tike offense at my exiiuuie. The theory seems lo be cur- changed appearance. rent that we have no right to tax "George," laaid, "the world is still williin our own territory. Uut if the outside there, I suppose. Read the news- United States can levy Customs dues paper." ujjon Canadian goods passing into any He read to me for half an hour or part of the country, w'hy in the world more, read the news Just as it came to should it be regarded as unfair or un- handâ€"telegraph, local, political. For just on the part of Ca/nada to collect a tijne his voice has simply a lulling simihir dues upon goods entering this effect. Then 1 l>egan to take notice of country? Again, with regard to the the substance of what he read. When I royalties, it ia well to reniiember that had beard all I wanted, I baile him stop the Canadian system rails for precise- and let the sulistance of his reading fil- ly the soime contributions from Cana- ter through my brain. As I strove diana as from oitizena of the United to recall it all there was aa item that BUites. Nor is the arrangtiment at all â- eenoed to hold my fancy in a peculiar novel. There ia uo part of Canada in way. It was a telegram which told that which royajtiee, or a part oi' the find a aizain of far Hindustan had been rob- are not exacted us contributions to the bod of an almost, priceless diamond revenuo. We have royalties in On- which it was understood he meant to tiirio; and in Nova tiootla the coal present to Queen Victoria at the time royalties are a very important item in of the JulHJee. Thia story, I say,Heeiin- the provincial receiplA. Uur Govern- ed to faacinutje meâ€" the diamond of the „n,„t b^g to provide for many services mziun, lUoned from its oriental owner, ... . , â- . i, » .i j gleaming mayhap from the dusky o„r- "» ^^ """'°K ''"«'»=â-  ^^ ^^ ^ "^t^*""* ner of some squalid hut when it should to the allotment of claims, the preaer- be eoll)>8ing the jewels of a queen. And vation of the jieaoe, the currying of Mary was earning. What a gift for t^e mails, and what not. Al«urd it ia Mary that dianiond would beâ€" Mary, . ., . ,, ..• u n , , my queen I There was a strange hum- *" <"> "'^^'- i^" '''"* '''"^" * **<"» *' no mlng in my head, but out of it all came exiMjnso to the men who receive advao- oue clear thought â€" I would get that tages from tbeae services, and diamond and give it to Marv. When I had determined on this, I SJeme<l tS <:i''l' 'J'UK GOLU TO HOOT, grow cool and calculatijig I realized u sea,i^ really as if the objection to how helpless I was iihysical y, but my . ,â-  ;, .i 1 .u /• * will power, thank fiod, was still left taxation were an evidence that the first me. I would concentrate my mind on principles of civiliiation hjul yet to be the thief. 1 would will to oome to me. learuexl. On« of the United .States ar- I ha.d read Boiiiewhere that the s<)ul gu„,^,uu ia to the effect that the wealth In a IxKly imrtfied by tlie fire of die- , , ,. , ,. . u . ease rises alx.ve the restricUona of oom- ^^ '-'» ^ """'" """ discovered by Amer- mon cloy. Was not. my aoul so pur- icans, and that as a result citizens of Ifled. I fixed my thought upon the nlz- the United .><tat.« have a proprietary am a diamond. ' right in it. t)n thia iKjint tlie Victor- Ited clouds roaiing rapidly ; out of -^ Colonial mentions tlie follow ing facts: them a touch of blue sky, a whirl of yel- •• iq 1880, John MiKenze, a Canadian, low dust a sun that lieat down fieroe.ly ! ^jth a parlj at Canadiaiia, went down from midheaven ; the walls of a city, a ; the Lewis Hiver to l.aJce LeUirgc. He otty with queer nunareta and towers, y^.^ the first wTiite nutn to run the and strange pala<»s ; a cily with a huge White Uorae ra,pid8. He may be said gateway through which pamed in and to liave discovered Uie route into the out a motley array of strange garbed Yukon valley neoplo, bullocks, and carta, and then a; •• xhe firat diacoverer of gold aoid lumbering elephant, and red coated aol- jnineral on f*towarl river wiia a man dwrs and white turUined men with na,m«Ml Kra.ser, from Nova Scotia. brown faces. And the air was hot and . "Franklin gulch and Forty Mile i?' "-"-u* '^T'-°«^ o*""" !'*">? ^*' ">y no*- creek <li«giiigs were distiovered by three trila. Then in a corner by the huge jwr- Canadiaiia named McCuo, Steiwarl, and tola I noted acrouching figureâ€" a tur- li'ranklin baned native with strange rings in his , •• iuvm creek was discovered by a ears and an eye that gleamed with a p^rty consisting of one Canadian and â- tan ling whiU-neaa. And on him my four AiUierioojis. tboughts centered. Then he aroae from •• M.ii|©r and Glacier creeka were dU- bia iK-nt position and slunk forth. As covered by a parly consisting of Cana- he pafi.>»<l amid the snarling dogs that dians und Aiiiierioi na. fougla and yeliiecl Ijeyond the oity " uiroh creek was tUecovered by a walls I not_iee<l tkat in the folds of hui .,arty consisting of three Canatlians gurmenta lis held a long, keen knife, j^mi two Aiiieriiviaia Ever and anon he looked over hia shoul- . •â-  Klondyke was discovered by n der aa he slouched along. And the sun Canadian named Henderson." glared, and the desert sjiread before ; xiui, aiiart from the di,90(A'erie8, the bun, and the dust arose in yellow puffs. t«.rriioriiLl right is Canadian. A jierson Then came two native soldiers riding named Dore, a returned miner, haa »n weary horses, and they crie.d out al \,eaa saying in San FrancLsoo, that if sight of the footman. And when they our " unjust " Customs, duties, and our diBinounted to seize him the knife : •• unjust " royaltie.s are iiersiated m the flashed, and eme 8<>ldier lay silent at I entire Yukon territory will be seize<l hlB feet, and the other fled across the j by the Aiiiericams in the Yukon dU- gleaintng desert, (ind the knife was red. triot and tranaterred to the Stars and ITiere were clouds and confused stripes. The Canadian Mounted Po- â- cenea and out from lliein all the man I iu», he adds, cannot prevent thia. with the red knife pressed on, in his ; j^re ia evidoatly inflated by hU own eyes astrange light, a gleam, half ter- i cupidity. If that sort of thing were THE YMON^OLD RE&IOH. MR. WILLIAM OGILVIE'S EXPLORA- TION OF THAT DISTRICT. ror, hali deaperalion. the look of a haunted man, whcne fate impels him forward. Then ajiother city, a city of whitewashed walls and many huts and tew palaces and stretches of the sea and the nuists of ships. The swish of waves, and the roaring of the wind, and the rattle of cordage, and in the mlcLst of the ship tb« brown faced man calm- ly iiidiiferent to the tempeat. More plouds and long blanks of chaotic noth- [inefls. My eyes find themsalves gaz- alt the wa.ll of my room, and pre- |ntly it o|i«uj and through it steps ij 11- vimua Kuo iiirougn ii. steps i Mie iiiiure« man who oroucbsd by the cit/ I up to date. contemplated or attempted, we should merely have bo draft a few more police into the district, and charge the foreign iminers added royalties to cover the ex- pense thereby involved. ' Hja MXXMVB. First Boarderâ€" I don't -see that Jen- kins gains anything by kicking ao much. Second Boarderâ€" He's trving to create the impreasioin that his board is paid 4nierle«ii .WUerx Itarprlnrd-Mr. OclUlr'i. Phulacraph* aad Mapx lhe Ouly Mr liable lulormalltto Abuat the <;i>l<l Flrldn Hougli Hallinf on \he Lakrn nn<l lilvrrit - All K>ei( WIvrrIrd from Olbt-r rrlbalarlrpi l» lUe Kiuuklkr. In May, 1887, a Canadian surveyor, William Ogilvie. in the service of Can- ada, began uu*i of the moat noteworthy expliAra lions made in North Anu^rica ifu a long time. ILe wus away frolm civilizatiun nearly two years, travel- ItMl 27110 luiUea Ln wild and largely un- explored i>arts of eastern Alaska and northwestern Canada, and some of his route waH an a country never visited by a white iniun before. iUe gave the first sulefiQata descriptiou of tlie route our miners had taken, under Indian guixlauiMi, to the placer diggings on Ste- wart Kj.ver and Forty Mile Creek, by way of Chllkoot Pass, Lake Lal>arge, and the Lewes itiver to the Yukum. He wintered north of the arctic circle, then crossed the divide into the Mac- kenzie bosiio, and worked bia way south through the system, al lakes and tribu- taries till lhe reached Ottawa agai<a. Ugilvie's dhief purpose was the deter- miinatiua of pouiits on the 141st meri- dian, designated by treaty as the in- teriifltiunul boundary from Mjount St. Fliaa to( the Arctic Oceou,. The points he establijshed varied uiiiy a few feet or rods from those deterjniiuod later by more refined observations. They were a great surprise to lAmerican miners, who' ceased to clajnor for a United States |)oet-office at Forty Mile Camp wheu they learned it was in British territory. Most of their placer claims were across the border in Alaska, but the mi/ners supposed they were conducting all their enterprises on American soil, and suddenly devel- ufied a {great desire to learn something about Canadian, mining laws. Since hia first explorations Uigilvie has spent much time in the gold re- gions of the upper Yukon and its tributaries. He iias beem surveying and mapping numerous creeks emter- ing the YukoDa where many oumpe are working KLCtt PLACER DIGGINGa Some of Uhem are in Canada and some are in Alaska, and so Ogilvie has been fixing other points on the border, to ascertain whut part o these scenes of activity is ameiuible to Canadian law. tie has the confid- ence of l.he tuiner^ and though hia boundary markings are merely provi- aiouaU everybody accepts his decisions for the tiime. He has also beem settling ditiputes among miners by surveying their placer claims; and his explora- tions in thu region of the new coal dis- coveries ooi Coal Creek, his reports on the wonderful develoinucmt of the gold i'uduslry, his photographs and mui>a, wlucbi have beeu printed in the Iteporta ot the Caoadiun Department of the Jiulerior, are altogvUier the rich- est sources of reliable iuformutiun about tiu> Yuk>m gold-fields yel acces- aiiAa. There is other iaformatiun of muo value, such as Ur. Uawaoin's report oo the region of the Lewes Hiver, Mr MoCanneU's examination of hhie Yukon south of the porcupine, and Mr. Spurr's survey of last year. But IJigUvie has â- (leut momtha in all that region where other iiuvuatigalors have been only days or weeka, aud no other reliable data at hand are so varied, detailed, and oubijdete as ihia. lliis ia why the Cainadiain irovernmenU in its pampihlet of informatiun on the Yukon district just issued, depends almost emtirely upon Dgilvie. TIhe lacts in this issue are ifliieily comviled from his writiugs. Many tbousonas of tuns of freight are now at Uyea, Taiya on the latejst maps, ready lo be packed through the snows aind iip the steep a.-Kienta of Chil- koot Pass to Ine lake and river systeim Iwyund, where it will be floated down t«) tlie Y'ukon. U in by no means auiootih sailing on the lake* and rivers beyond the pass ed. in the suiumer ariFF WINDS BLOW INLAND from the coast, routing rollers on the lakes that trouble Mnall freight-lxMils; and the only rapid transii is among the rupids, wihere the boats skim aloug at thirteen iiiUes an hour, and are liable to upsets, except at high «-Bter. The alternative route, by way of St. Micih- ael and the Yukon, is tar easier, but its disadvantage is t.hat it takes much more time T>he miner who leaves St. Miohuel by the first bout of summer idoes not reach the gold-fields till an i'liiportaoit part bt the sJiort season has l>as3ed. So moat miners prefer the overland route. This is why so much thought is given just now to finding i and improving the beat overland way. But until a railroad connects the coast with the gold-fielda, most of the sup- plies may ixmtinue to be carried up the Y'ukon, Tihe lakes along the overland route are merely wid&ninga of the river-tx)ur- sea. We hear most about l,iademaa and labarge,, Uie latter being the point reached by the litiemen of the Western Union Telegrainh; Company when they were calle<l, lack by hhe news that the Atlantic cable had been our^'essfully laid, and the comjiany had al>andoned its pr(>je»'.t to Htretch a line of telegraph across Behring Strait, through Asia, to Europe, The lake was named after Zvlike Labarge, the leader of the party. The diataace frosn Dyea. where the lamd march beginsi, to the mouth of tho Klondike U i)75 milest Hard work ( over whem the Lewes River is reached, aud the boatai drift down to the Yukon! The whole course of thia river through the gold-fielda is bordered by mountains of granite, shnle, and lime.stone, extend- img far away tm either side. Through many a raviine and canyon, creeks an I riivers jmn the Yukon, and each of these- has its l(â- s.^<',r system of trihrutaries. It ia in the alluvial wash from the.ss many streams Ibroughout thia expon- aive net-worlc of waterways ajuoogthe mountaiaw that the placer gold is found. Many of these ravines and gnlohea have not been prospected. Regioiw ILk the .Stewart River, profitably worked for a aeason or two and then abandon- nd, have drawn new pro8(>e<:tors, who have made richer finds than those known there U-.fore. Nolxxiy knows how exteiwive these gold-fields are, and it imay be long before they are even auperflcially prospectedi, THE KLONDIKE DISCOVERIES have diverted all eyes from many Yu- kon tributaries where miners produc- ed exceptional results last year. Who hears now of Glacier and Miller cri*eks, where nearly one hundred claims were worked in 1H96, every one paying a handaome profit, while the largest pro- ducer yielded |40,000 in 1895 and |75,- 0()0 last year ? These sums were ob- tained from working out part of a claim 500 feet long in the narrow valley. Gold has been found alt along .Sixty Mile Creek, an<l on dozens of smaller streams toward which no influjc of min- ers is yet tanding. It is only eleven months since G. W. Cormack, happily pinning his faith to I'udlan reports, turned up the Klondike, discovered rich indications, and located the first claim. Ln the world-famous di^- gtngs. Two weeks later Mr. Ogilvie estimated that there was room for at I least 1000 claims on the little river and I Its creeks. Theni the despatches to hia government became very frequent as he recorded the wonderful story that kindled the Klondike fever. But one phase of the news he sent has been I over-looked, because the leading feature absorbed all interest. This phase is sig>uiti<a,nt. I -Vlmost simultaneously with the dis- covery of the Klondike diggings, reports oaaue in of muot important finds in other Yukon regions, both north and W;>uth of the place where Oormock made his lucky hit. Rich proepects were found on Indian Creek. Prospectors reported that the district between the Klondike and Stewart rivers, was the richest gold regium they had ever seien. Excellent reports came from the branches of the Stewart River. Gold w^ found in the valleys of tributariea of the Pelly and all along the Hootalin- qua. <iuartz discoveries were made on the Klondike and in various other plac- es and some of the ledges were said to LARGE AND VERY KlOU ; and more placer diggings were report- ed on the American side of the line. "I think," wrote (Jcrilvie, long before laat year's diaoovery. "tl»t rich finds will yet be made, both of coarse gold and {gold-bearing quartz. It is not likely that such a vast country shoul have all its gold depoeited as sediment. If this is not the caoe, the matrix from which all the gold on these streams hais come must stUl exist, in part at least, and will no doubt be discovered." Thia prediction Is being fulfilled by the devel opmenu of the post fifteen months. ^'ojty MUe, Oudahy, and Circle City, the famoua mining towns on the Yuk- on, are now almost deserted, but their marked decline began months before the exodus to the Klondike set in. An in- terest:ng change in the habits of the miners planted the seeds of their down- fall. In thd earlier years all work on the placers were alMndtmed during the long winter months and there was a ma.v)ing of miners in the settle ments. and loafing, gambling, ilano- ing. :wid high jinks generally marked a few little spots in the vast bleak land. But th« miners now turn the winte twilight to l)etter profit. They stay on their claims, thaw out the frozen dirt, lift Itl to the surface to be washed in the summer, and visit the tnwna rare- ITEMS OF INTEREST. A Ffw Iteais Which .May Prave W»r«» Heading, Fottr-fifth« of all the hail-storms oc- cur io the day time. The tirgeAt organ ixi jthe world ia |a the, cathedral of .Seville, Spain. It haa 53 pipes and 2(iO stops. Kissiing, rarely occurs in Japan un- letsu between hual),^nd and wife. A mo- ther does not ev«n kiss her child. The longest distance at which a tele- phone ia operated ia between Boaton and fit. Ixiruis, about 1,400 miles. There are no cows, sheep, or pigs in Japan. The Japanese do not drink mjlk, eat meat, or wear woolen clothf in«. Zena King, of Fairland, Mich., made a Vicious kic kat a do^. He missed the OAimal, but struck a post, and broke his leg. Foo Cih«e, a Ohloeae laundryman in Niles, Mich., ridea a bicycle, and uses It when c<J lee ting or delivering his wash to hJs patrons. Lightning struck the hocne of Joseph Voorhees, at New Hackensack, N.Y., seven timea within an hour, during a receint thmnderstorm. St. Peter's, at Rome, required three arwl a half centuriM for its completion; and while it was in course of erection forty-three popes reigned. "The oldest poplar tree iin Prance ia in Dijom. Authentic records show that it was in a flaurishimr condition in th» year 722, nearly 1.2110 years airo. In FlindoBtan when the parents of a baby cajinot ayree upon a name, two lamps are plare<i over the names. The one over which the lamp is brighter 'W that wiilch is chonein.l During a recent rain-storm at Leeds N.Y., a shower of white toads fell over a,n area of one hundred feet stiuare. Th» (fround of fh'it space was literally covered with them, ' On the police force of Duluth there ia xn offiwr. Royal McKenzie by name, wihose heisrht is 6 feet 10 3-4 inches and wh/iae weight is 285 pounds. His agi^ ia 26 years and he states that he IsstiUf growing. Whf* Mrs. John El itch, of Denver, desires an excitinar and pleasant drive she harnesses a large catrich to a light S{)ring wagon, and gayly sets forth. The ostrich moves very rapid.- l.v. easily covering eighteen miles an hour. A body of water know<D as itihe Ijiks of Ink. is in the Oocopaih Hills, Ariz- ona. It is of Lnkv blackness, but does not stain the flesh. The temperature of the water ranges from HI fo I'lS degrees. Rhi-iirTintic patiaats bathe ia it. and find relief. Claries H. Rhine, a colored bo.v, aged twenty, of Howard County, Md., can lie on his back with his oxms extended above his head, and let a inanlvieiffhing 150 pounds stand on his palms, and then arise from the groiuid until h«ist-rect, and still sustain the n^an on Ibis bands. A typewritten letter was sent to a farmer in Burke County, N.C., from the State Board of .\ifriculture. He thought it was an insult:ng intimation tlhat he co«.Id hot oomprehemd "pen and ink writtlng," and he indignantly re'turned it. stating that he could "read writiji' yit," NEW MATERIAL FOR MATCHES. Waod Will Tery flooa cive Way U r«»cr Wlr%H. It is predicted that paper is the com- ing material for matciiesL The pros- pect of the wooden match liindustry bei.n(g appreciably affected by a new process for mamifacturimg matches ol paper is held to be extremely prolabloi particularly as the best wood fur this rro'^U^'x^^^'''^^ i^rnr& ^'P- - <=<«-'--*•> «™--« â€" m this general decay of town life, for a host of miners delve within a few miles of the settlement, land its at- tractions are more accessible than were those ot Forty Mile and Oudahy to the miners who made and marred them. AN ARMY OF TRAMPS. Wkal Keports Collrried Cite of lhe I's- empUrrd ut lhe Calird Sialr*. ReiK>rts collected from every sec- tion o£ the country show that there is now a Koatarmy of tramps spread over the United States, The total number at present (n the United States, aooord- iiig to the most conservative estimates, is lixed at 336,250. Of these, by far the larger portion are men honestly look- ing for work. '11m greater number aeom to i«ntre about New York and llliinois. The summary by states is aa foll^ows: Maine 800 New HampahiriB 1,000 Vermont 500 Massachusetts 8,000 Rhode Island. . . t . . 200 Connecticut, . . < . . 2,500 New York liaOOO New Jer,Hey 10,000 1U.00O 1,000 900 l,:iOO 700 3,000 100 3,000 4.000 5,000 3.000 Pennsylvania. Maryland. l>ela-''ire. Virginia. West Virginia. North Carolina. South Carolina. Georgia. . . Florida. WLsconsin. . Mii-.higan IlIiiK^ia. 8R,000 Indiana, .<.... lO.tHM) Ohio E^OOO Kentui-ky. . â-  4,000 IpiineateeL .<,,... 8,000 Mis.sissippi. ...... 1.500 Alaliama. . , 20!) I«>^a i. 400 MlssKmri 12,000 Loutaiana 1,000 Texas 1,400 North DakoU. , , , . . 1,000 Nebraska. ...... 5,000 Kansas 10,000 Montana. . . , , . . 2,0t>0 liJaaio. 2^000 Wyonunff. ...... 1,000 Utab 2-50 Colorado (inn 1.00O â- Â».IM1I) i W^aahington. . . California. . . , and more costly. The new mutohes are oonsi^lerably cheaper than the wooden product and %veigh. much less, which counts for much tn eotportation. The sticks ot the matches consist of paper rolled together on the bias. The pap- er is rather strong ami porous, and, when immersed in a solution of wax, stearLne and similar 8ub«<tances. sticks well together' and Inims with a bright smokeless and odorless flame, i ijlrips one-half ln«h In width are first drawn through the combustible mass and than turiMHl by irv:K%iinery into long, thin tubes, pieces of the orilinary length of wood or wax matches l>eiin« out off au- tomatically by the machine. Wheaa the sticks) are out to size they are dip- pe<l into phosphorus, also by nuu-hin.- ery, and the dried head easily ignites by friction on any surface. There is so<ue talk of utilizing the new inrsntion in the xnanafocture of matches on an extenaive scale for ex- port in India. The invention involves no waste whatever, and the paper ia delivered in rolls like the telegraph tape, and converted at one operation in- to match-sticks, and by a second into mati'.hes that would dry without stov- inig for a lar^e part of the year in In- dia. One thtnx, however, iinust be icado sure of â€" thut a wax is used which will harden at a shade tennperature of 140 degrees Fahrenheit at least. BOMB NICE TEA SETS, The sum of $2,1X10,000 would not be an extravagant estimate of the value of the Queen's china at Buckingham Palace, and at Windsor, considering that the Sevres dessert service in the green drawing-room at Windsor is valued at £100 0)0, and the Rose du Barrie vases, in the corridors, at £50,- COO. while there arc six Sevres vases at Buckingham Pa'ao^e for which there would he an eager competition if they were put up to-morrow at £30,000. Total. SHE KNEW HIM. Mary, you don't sympathize with ma whecn 1 have to push the lawn-mower. No; if it was the anow-shovel you would be making the same old fuss, TEE WISE VIRGINS, Their lamps are trimmed and burning. And ao of cciurs?!, it ought 1 i To be Rupposexl with safety that 336,250 Their carllns-toogs • re hot. â- .> - s