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THE LADESLATEST FAB. VERY LATEST THING IN PETS IS BULLDOGS. Beautiful Specimens Seen in London Tied on to Very Charming Society Girls. The aristocratic young lady is never so happy as when she is exploiting some new fad. The pet fad is now raging all the way from Bayewater to Belgravia; and the very latest thing in pets is bulldogs --the fiercer the better. The folic ing advertisement shows how this tww sensation is catching on, says the London Leader. 'Maid Wanted--Must be smart, good figure, ladylike, and experienced. One with knowledge of care and treatment of Bulldogs preferred. Good salary. Apply-" This kind of sport carries one t ack eorgian days when wealthy darner bought black dogs and mor keys and trained them to take care mels from the hand and to do at surd tricks in the boudoir de luxe But the bulldog bids fair t> outdo this entertainment altogether. The other day a fashionable writer scribed her sensations when was introduced for the first Tim * pet bulldog. "Virginia Panslr ■she "Coi the ether day, tied •clous looking b the Persian cats, alarmed, flew about the room with wide, fluffed-out tails; but peace was soon restored, and the bulldog turned out to bo the .nildest-mannered preature. PERMEATING SOOIETY. A correspondent supplies some re markable details of the new bulldog craze among the aristocratic fair. It flourishes, not only among "doggy" ladies who show at Crystal Palace and who spend much of their spare time in analyzing constituent parts of a Spratt biscuit, but among the quiet ladies who cannot tell the differ Schtpperke and a Chow Chow. The fad began in the Bradley-Martin and is spreading like smallpox, locust cloud, toward the wild fines of Brixton. The result is for the poodle, whose nose is getting put out of joint; but excellent foi the bulldog, who never did have sue! a time as he is having just now, BULLDOG VOCABULARY. In the Bond street tea shops, or the lawn at Ranelagh, and along th< quiet back waters of the Thames, the small talk Is now very canine indeed. Strange words like "brindle," "fallow," "screwed," "roached." and «o on, sound stranger still from fair lips; but they al! mean bulldog. Several beautiful specimens of the breed may be seen in the park most mornings, when there is sun to speak of, "tied on" to very charming girls, who have denly discovered that a chic bination of beauty and the beast makes beauty all the more ravishing. The bulldog loves peace and veal cutlets more than anything in this earth; but when he is twitted and teased and sneered at (by low curs who fancy themselves a bit) until he can positively stand it no longer, he dashes away from the silkon chains that binds him to his mistress, and there is an Homeric battle--war and cur cutlets. The vagabond dogs of the park stand by to see fair play; and My Lady Ermytrude lowers her parasol as a shield, closes her eyes and hopes and prays for dear Bully's Victory. This sort of thing should not be encouraged in his majesty's parks; bit it is very inspiring while lt lasts. A Bi NGEROCS BUSINESS. Some ladies go to all sorts of extremes for the sake of their pets. They patronize tbe experts in tho Dials and down Whitechapel way, ^with the excuse that they are going slumming. "Dold Chubby," is a great friend of one little select coterie of bulldog worshippers, at whoso head is Lady Ermytrude. She does not mind calling upon him in his noisome little den, and I have it that this is the sort of thing that "I want a brindle and fallow--rising three," says she. "Haven't got one, m'lydy," replies Chubby. "I've got a* fine white and pound-tan, and two rlppin' fawns. But a brindle and fallow is B JUS _ / afternoon at 3--with a girl who shows off a red parasol. I'd give fifty poundi for a dog like that. Call round to . Chubbins--and I'll shov you, gentlemen," and the professor's kindly smile seemed to show a trace of irony, "you will be astonished at the vast amount of information you will acquire in this way." MASTER OF THE PACK. A Northwest Missionary and His Favorite Dog. "Jack" was a magnificent St. Bernard dog that Mr. E. R. Young de-scribtw in "My Dogs in the Northland," as possessing all the good qualities of the Eskimo dogs and none of their thievish habits. Jack's place was second dog in the train. He could lead splendidly, and would respond to the various calls as promptly as a well-trained horse re-, sponds to the reins. In the work of breaking in obstinate young dogs, Mr. Young found that Jack was his best assistant. Ho delighted in the work, and it was really marvelous at times to see the cleverness and thoroughness with which he seconded his The plan I generally adopted in breaking in a big, stubborn young dog, writes Mr. i'oung, was to harness him up in a train with three strong, well-trained ones in front of him and Jack in harness behind him. When "Marche !" the word for "Go '" was shouted, the old dogs world of course at once spring ■ri.b the r 'log would generally attempt by stubbornly balking. Most desperately would he exert all his strength to hold his ground against the efforts of the dogs in front. This was Jack's opportunity to bring the young dog speedily to his senses. "Go for him Jack !" was all I had to say. With a rush and a roar Jack would spring at the stubborn dog, and with more noise and furor then actual biting, he would so frighten the now terrified young animal that he was glad to spring to his feet, and make the most desperate effort to get beyond the reach of the enormous dog that was making It so lively in his rear. As long as the youngest kept going on straight in the trail, Jack did not molest him, but it often happened that a stubborn dog hated to yield quickly, and tried various other tricks. Every trick or artifice of the young dog would be so promptly met and defeated that it was not long before the training lessons were completely learned, and the young dog was thoroughly fitted for his work. It was amusing to watch Jack's kindly patronizing way toward these dogs, as soon as they were conquered and then let out of - their harness. While they were being broken in he had appeared to be the personification of fierceness and anger; when they had surrendered, In dog-like fashion he licked their faces and bruises and was effusively affectionate. Some of them were, at first, not much inclined to receive these friendly advances; but eventually, perhaps after he had fought a battle or two in their defense, they came to be much attached to him as their friend while they never questioned his title as their master in the pack. TUBER'S STROM AEMY CHRISTIANS ARE STILL : CLUDED FROM IT. Organization That Can Turn Over 1,000,000 Men Into tha Field. At the time of writing, when the Balkan peninsula is virtually an armed camp, and the despatch of Turkish troops, including many Asiatic battalions, to guard the frontiers, continues, without cessation, the defensive and offensive capabilities of the Ottoman empire may fitly be considered. During the war with Greece in 1897 the sultan mobilized 600,000 men without any great effort; but while that campaign brought out the rapidity of mobilization and the devotion and endurance of the Turkish soldier, lt also revealed in high commands indecision and lethargy, and in organization not a few weak points. Since then new laws and sweeping reforms have been put into operation, with the view to perfecting the organization according to the most approved German methods; while the sultan has declared It is his resolve to increase the war footing of his armies to a total of one and a half millions. The organisation of the Turkish army only takes Mussulmans into account, ln spite of provisions to the contrary laid down in 1836, Christians are still excluded from the Ot- a subatitu- pelled to the pay tion tax. It is only in tin non-Mussulman c menlans or Jew tain Mussulmans, Constantinople, t ia, Arabia and Tripoli, are also exempt from military service; while a large number of the Asiatic tribes, Kurds and Arabs, representing a population of over A MILLION AND A HALF, .'al corps that usually Ar-found. Cer-as natives of th of Alban- Redif cavalry.................. 22 225 batteries of horse, field mountain and howitzer artillery ........................... 28,000 145 companies of siege and fortress artillery ............ 29 Technical troops ............... 10 266 squadrons of Hamidie cavalry ........................... 35,000 Grand total.................. 1,310,000 Humboldt's Exp< Electrical Eel in South America. What is it that is so very shocking ? Electricity, of course. Benjamin Franklin found it so when he went kite-flying with a thunder storm. I ate thing that it was only a gentle shock the old philosopher received, we could not have well afforded lose one day of the life of great a man. It was only a cl that the lightning did not send down the cord one of those blasting shocks which rive trees in twain and scorch ing. i the l Howi he e of lightn- Electricity is one of thi ii, most dangerous, moi .ost elusive, and most powerful jents of which we have any knowl-ige. We know how to use it, and will undoubtedly some day know ten i the t 3. for and yet we do not know It may be in almost anything. You may make a temporary battery of irself by rubbing your feet on a )llen carpet any cold day. You I then be so charged with tho wonderful fluid that tho moment you touch a good conductor a shock will appear. After charging yourself you may ig-ite the gas by touching your finger to the burner, from which of course, the gas must be escaping. A slight thock will be produced at the same time. Another very interesting experiment is to have a young person --not too young--of the opposite sex, become charged with electricty. Then apply your lips to his or her lips, as the case may be. A spark may escape regular recruiting either by legal exemption or from their own refusal to submit to it. For Ottoman subjects military service is obligatoiy for twenty years, viz., from the age of 20 to 40, and it is divided as follows : Six years with the Nizam, or active army; eight years with the Redif, or reserve army; and six years with the Mus- tafiz or Landturm. The service wjth|a shock. the colors is according to regulation j WILL ALWAYS BE FELT, three years, the remaining three j Even philosophers may be said to years of active service being spent; take great interest iii this expori-in the Nizam reserve, but the former j ment. period is frequently extended to four, j Some persons are always charged The regis- with electricity In an appreciable d«-eration list of recruits shows that grec; but the human animal is never about 120,000 men are liable to! dangerous from that cause That service each year, but, as a matter! may seem like an unnecessary piece of fact, only about 80,000 are incor- of information, but it is not for porated into the army. A few years the reason that some animals are back the leakage was considerably | dangerous from that cause. There more. i is the torpedo, a huge fish of the The Nizam troops have a peace j Mediterranean, which is able to im-almost paralyzing shock i of 374,300, rhile MADE HTM ENVIOUS. A German addressing' his dog "You vos only a dog, but I v vas you. Ven you go mit "dc in, you shust durn round dree and lay down. Ven I go mit c in I haf to lock up do plac vind de clock und put de cat und undress myself, und m, vakes up und scoles me. Dei-baby cries und I ha P Of £ ,494. The Niz vithoi dir- ield, howit SB, 145 si aud fortress artUtery-cpJHpavrtes;-comptuiies of engineers, eight r way and five telegraph cornpan 24 companies of military-train tro and 36 companies of artificers i "74 battali nfai ' aid 200 squad MOUNTED ( In 48 i the ectly touching it. This fish h__ c°onil,ecn known for ages, though it was -oojiiot until the existence and proper-it zer,tios Gj such a force 0f electricity *m kuffwin tha* the nature of its 30 |^pocking power was understood, rail- Other animals possess a similar ,nies, power, but the most extraordinary oops example is the gymnotus electricus, I a large eel, found in South America. I The groat traveler, Hjnmbol WHEH TOU GO A-IJ8HIM The "Long Guard" Fish of British Honduras--Dangerous Devil Fish. Off the coast of British Hondui are a number of small islands around which the waters swarm with fish of many curious sorts. Dr. Osborne Browne reported some little time ago to a medical paper a case of a fisher boy being almost instantaneously killed by one of these fish. He was hand-lining off an island known as Cross Kaye, whe thing rose from the water flying fish, and struck him bare chest. He called out killed me !" then he 1 l the . fro , of hir and became insensible, shaken and shouted at, but he neith-spoke nor moved again, and death ensued in less than half an hour. Ssh which did the damage was in tho boat. It was of tho known as the "long guard," is just over two feet long, it sharp snout three inches in length, and this was found to have produced a punctured wound in the , ' chest. The snout was covered with blood. The "long guard" has the peculiar property of being able to rise out of the water and fly considerable distance with great speed, arid on several occasions ^ has been known to pass right THE SAIL OF A BOAT. .'erely, the best account of thL He made a personal nvestigation to discover if the eel id really have the power attributed o it. He stepped on one and was lniost prostrated bv the shock, whole day he suffered a mot Though in British jelly fish which stinj miay occasionally cause a swimmer to sink, there are very few really dangerous fish in the seas of temperate climates except an occasional shark. Largo sharks aro rare off ;s, but not altogether un- Off Kinsale, last year, some fishor-len were hauling in their nets when they found entangled among them a blue shark of no less than 10ft. 3in. length, and with three rows of formidable teeth. When dissected the great brute was found to have vallowed three other smaller sharks Lch four feet long. Devil-fish is a name applied by fishermen to at least a dozen separ-ind distinct varieties of fish. Of these none is more dreaded than the barracouta of the Leeward Islands. barracouta is not a very large fish, but it is long and narrow, and e of the speediest creatures that iras. The brute's mouth is tre-mdous, having a lower jaw longer in the upper, and both jaws armed th teeth strongly resembling thoso a dog. The awful part about is fish is that it seems to be absolutely fearless, and if a man is " thing or falls into tho water, the rracouta comes rushing up out of e depths like an arrow, though en more silently, and driving savagely at its victim, will snap a piece of flesh completely OUT OF IMS BODY., he sea creature which seems best deserve the name of devil-fish is the horrible octopus, which, in one form or another, is common from the tropics right up to Artie latitudes. In April, 1899, occurred a terrific combat between some Indian fishermen and the biggest octopus which has ever been measured. lt was off Capo Flattery that several canoes full of Tatoosh Indians were out fishing, when they saw ook for a whale on the FASOINATIMIOIEuMu John Wilkes, a London Alderman, Who Was Ugly, Didn't Mind It a Bit. Maybe there was as much truth aa boasting in the statement of John Wilkes, the famous London Alderman : "Ugly as I am, if I can havo a quarter of an hour's start, I will got the better of any man, however ood looking, in the graces of any Of Wilkes's abnormal ugliness thera as never any question. "Tho very children in the street ran away affrighted at the sight of him 1" And his powers of fascination were great that women of beauty and fashion vied with each other for his notice, while handsome men of all surtly graces were neglected. It as said that there were few beau-es of the day whose band Wilkea light not have confidently hoped to in. Ho married one of the richest nd loveliest women of his time. "Beauty and the Beast, they call s," Wilkes once said to a friend, and I cannot honestly find fault ith the description." That there is a powerful fascina-on for s il fere. ■ pa; The arid pulled up to it. is proved by innumerable cases rhich women who have been rich-dowered with physical charms 3 fallen in love with men of almost repulsive appearance. QUEEN WILHELMINA example of a charming and at-ve young woman choosing an ugly man. Fat and plain of face, and, for a royal person, distinctly poverty stricken, Prince Heinrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin has had great icinatlon for womankind. Gossips dspered that the young Duke was icon by surprise when the little een of Holland showed her prefer-:e for him, and yet it was not the first time that he had been admired ad courted by women of high rank. When Princess Helena of Russia suddenly broke her engagement with of Baden it was believed to be ise she hoped to persuade hop parents to let her marry the stout, blond dukeling Heinrich, and tha ngest daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh also loved the young Duke, though in vain. In fact Prince Heintrich was a good deal of a lady killer, and he knew it. Neipperg, an ugly creature, with small abilities and yet smaller fortune, was Napoleon Bonaparte's rival in the affection of Marie Louise who fell furiously in love with him. With everything'to lose and nothing to gain by her encouragement of the man, she left no stone unturned until she was able to make herself Nelp-perg's wife. In the eyes of the world, it was a terrible degradation for the widow of the French Emperor to become the wife of an Austrian Count, but she cared not a whit what tha world said, as was the case with the women who ran after the ugly Duke do Richelieu. t\ lieu " Ki-helieu wr.s shut up ill the Bastile, crowds of women, old and young, and rich and poor, used to collect every day at the hour when he took his exercise on the parapets, and adoro him from a distance, deploring the incarceration of SO ADORABLE A PERSON. Theodore Hook was another ugly man who seemed to be irresistible. When Liszt was an old man with a hard, ugly face, women begged permission to kiss his ugly hands and raved over him as though he were Suddenly j Adonis's self. Dozens of schoolgirls slee go to ! again. ven you ge shust scratch yourself a c< times und stretch, urid you I haf to quick lite de fire de kittle on, scrap mit my ready, und nvaypc get sen fast. You play all tay plenty of fun. I haf to voi und haf plenty of drouble." PEER CLOCKMAKER. lt t i I" Next day, Mr. Chubbins appears, and a stately footman, coughing discreetly behind his white hand, shows Mr. Chubbins up. He and Lady Ermytrude stand by the window and watch. Presently the red parasol appears, and behind it the cherished brindle, and fallow. "I'd know that dawg anywhere," says Mr. Ghubbins, making a mental note of its points. And he slips away, refusing a cup of tea roost politely. Two days later, a bulldog, identical iu all points with the coveted beast, is the property of Lady Eirmy-trude; and the red parasol (who had unaccountably lost her bulldog) is broken-hearted, until (after a decent interval) Mr. Chubbin's soft heart is too much for him, and he restores it again to its original owner. Profit on the transaction, £63 10s., and four silver apostle teaspoons I A venerable professor of a noted . college w graduating class. "Gentlemen," 1 addressing the :>rld of action, me degree the > have preceded Among other things you may ready at the ap- •Big B ' itific horologist. A chimne; clock designed by his lordship is be ing erected on the tower of the par church at Beckingham, nea Gainsborough. "Has he a character for punctual ity ?" inquired a merchant of ; young man recommending a no the for the position of clerk. "Yes. sir he has a character for punctuality it the evening, six o'clock to the secom but I am sorry 1 can't say so motel for his character for punctuality ii the morning." H» the raled how > far the hamidie ' phey ran to a d in earning for j drove over ti enviable notoriety i Juto the pond who worshipped i his shrine cared not a pin for his j music, nor understood a note of it. but were keenly alive to the charm monster was flung'across their I of his personality, foot canoe and coiled around1 There were few plainer men of his vices however and' il- Next instant this living cable 1 generation than the great Lord is practiced the odd-lhad cracked the boat in half, and' Brougham, and as few who took so ling ever' before se,n. j t Ho men were flung into the sea. The | little trouble to ingratiate them-leighboring plain and ! tentacles of the octopus coiled round j sel t v 'horses' from there itwo of tllc mcn and dragged them ■ In a moment the eels '■. shrieking to destruction. Two other re nearly six feet long, rose itanoes camo to U,c re9C'le- A show-surface and touched the I el" of p< eel-tipped lances pierced the The poor beasts were drive' b'^v of devil -ilsh, end eventually •antic and endeavored to ! H was i<ined alK> hauled ashore. It im the water. This was' weighed 2,500 pounds, that is, con-lioueier and in is'. „ ! .si.irral.ly over a ton, and its horri- I ble tentacles, armed with suckers as Perhaps the reason of the attrac-saucers, were 56ft. from tivene ' IE MANTA RA VA, the favor of \ them | he might have picked and chosen among the fairest of society beauties. To a question whore Lord Brougham was, the answer was once hore the ladies are the thickest." By following this signi-t guide he was generally run to TWO HORSES WERE DE A to | tit shock sted. SAVED BY of the A tiger ct Bengal the otner ctay, ana, s two little children who were in a bungalow, broke in upo Passing a looking-glass, h what he took to be another Furious, he attacked his re and smashed the glass into c ed, into the jungle. HIS ADVICE. [ Lady--"A friend of i Young Lad\r-shilling." Old Lawyer- x remedy l the af-j » of par- '3j;:; )t be controlle ties of electric ,fyothlr uS xblf agents is otSdeal jw-hie t effort being node is acjrii> f tbe Redif, dow i the Pacific in is the shark. , but instead of ong arms it has leathery body ■a." Tn December pearl diver named ido a bet that he i dragged down. mchored off as fishing off one of these URL'S NOVEL TOUR During * Glasgow right, i mg girl ,.icity I from Paris, has jus while) "lie world without a sou in h heat et, giving lessons in French light j her way. She took four years for i • one! G'e journey, and travelled through he el- Belgium, England, America, South irrents i Africa, Australia. New Zealand, f steel j China, Japan, Siberia, Russia, Ger-ay -in 'many, etc. Miss Cauchet will soon ie ter- recount, her experiences before the Paris Society of Geography,. Iie'ci "A pretty man is a nuison«e," ono girl was overheard to say. "I mean the man whose hair curls, whoso cheeks ore red and who poses in public places where he may be easily seen, and who always wears a sleek smile on his thoughtless face. Ha is a nuisance because of his conceit. Girls grow weary of looking at him, but he still keeps in the way, believing he is giving them a treat." KNEW HER WEAKNESS. The slender woman faced the burly burglar's deadly revolver without a tremor of terror, for, as is well known, the weakest are often the most truclently, "or I'll ' she answered, dctermin-with a marked accent on "Kill me if you will, but er reSeal the hiding-place sband's hard-earned hoard! \ lie? villi' tried the baffled for beaten. ' In three minutes more h< ged tbe money and was through the midnight dark north-easterly direction. in.ndre woolly caterpil BLIND MARVEL, remarkable figure has passed away ln Victoria in the p Mr. Patrick McCarthy, a pioneer the Carterton district in that Stat Though blind from the age of three, he became a fearless rider, and ' 1 horsemanship was a marvel t who saw it. H# ws* a skilful I of all