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• J, Mar ani fMMni. HcHBNBT, ULraora. THE Sultan of Turkey won't allow any morn irig paper to be published in Consftmtinople. He. can gel all the news he Wkots in the harem. JULIA BECK, a Kansas City girl, killed herself because some one had told her she "was too homely to live." Most girls would have fought it oat on the same line of retaliation. MRS. JOBS A. LOGAN has regained her old cheerful spirit and her quiet, common-sense way of looking at the af­ fairs of life. Her health appears to be completely restored, but her has become snow-white. , A VAST bed of borate of lime lias been discovered in Curry County, Oregon, near the ooast. The borate of lime is the erode state of- borax. This deposit is said to be a half a mile long, 300 feet wide, and thirty feet deep. f ? # MB. C. M. CURTIS,' of Kansas City, wears in his scarf a blue-white diamond, worth $3,500, that once belonged to Jim Fisk. Mr. Curtis is not a hotel clerk, as might be supposed. He is just A plain, ewery-day assistant cashier in a bank. . THE little son* of C. E. Huntsberger, of Lyons, Neb., has a live frog in his stomach, and all efforts to expoll it has failed. The boy held the frog in his hand and opened liis mouth. The frog jumped at the invitation and thus had his revenge. - IN Paris a man picks up a living by going about the streets^ playing on a clarionet through a canula placed in a hole HI his throat after the operation of tracheotomy. When he has finished a little tune he takes the eanula out and exhibits it to the audience, to $how\tkat there is no deception. « s • • WORKMEN in a gravel bed FLO the Western Railway .of Alabama recently came upon the skeleton of what they think was an Indian princess. On it was found a silver coronet, silver "brace­ lets, a necklace made of silver buckles, tied together with silk ribbon, and a peculiar knife with a saber blade. v THE longest white pine sticks that "Were ever cut in Michigan, probably, were recently manufactured in* a mill at C'adillae. They were six in number and were sixty-six feet long and ten by twelve inches in diameter. A stick of timber was sawed at the Hastings Mill; Puget Sound, recently that was 106 feet long by twenty-four inches square. WRIGHT SANFORD, the rich New York society man who died last week, was apparently clubbed to death. He was .a member of the Union Club, Lotos Club, New York dub, Manhattan Club, . Lambs' Club, New York Yacht Club, Coney Island Jockey Club--and, in fact, of nearly every prominent club of the city. THE death of the Countess Batthyani recalls the fact that she prevented her husband from being hanged in 1849, when as Hungarian Premier he was under sentence of death, by giving him a dagger with which he cut his throat so badly that the rope couldn't be ad­ justed. It didn't prevent his enemies from shooting him to death, however. EX-LIEUTENANT FLIPPER, whose ears once became of almost National im­ portance when he was a cadet at West Point, is now an explorer and mining expert. He has recently returned to El Paso, Tex., from a trip down the Yaqui River from its source, near the Arizona line, to Nasacari. He says that game and fish are most plentiful in that region. . BALDWIN, the Quincy, HI., man who has aoliieved fame by dropping from balloons with .a parachute, is soiling his reputation in London by tying a cat by the tail to a primitive parachute and dropping him from a high building. The cat, not understanding the scientific principle which is saving his life, fights the air as only a cat could and makes the foolish spectators laugh. BAZAINB'S children all returned with their mother to Mexico except the eldest who is a sergeant in the Spanish army and who shared his meager pay with his miserable father. A brother of Ba- zaine still lives in France. He is an en­ gineer, and his two sons are promising officers in the army. The young men have obtained permission to assume their mother's family name, Hayter. THE great Tilden estate is said to amount to $10,000,000. A New York court has just decided against the plain­ tiffs in a contest over it, thus confirming the disputed provisions of the will, and establishes the permanence of the Til­ den trust for the formation and main­ tenance of a free library and reading room, for which an act of incorporation was granted by the State Legislature. Appeals will now be had. IT is said that Prince Bismarck, Wil- Jrie Collins, and Henry Irving are among the epicures who have sent to a Philadelphia game dealer for a dozen pairs of the first camvas-back ducks that come to the market. At the first dinner given to Henry Irving in Amer- ca, canvas-back ducks were the chief article of diet. They were cooked by the late MTB. L. Sieghortner, who had wo peer in New York as a cook of Mary­ land's famous bird. Mr. Irving has never forgotten the taste of those can­ vas-backs. AT Munich the other day, Mr. Herko- mer complained to a friend that he was overburdened with commissions for por traits. "Every one comes to Leighton, Millias, or to me to be painted." Th* friend did not think it much of a griev­ ance, and suggested that, if Mr. Herko- f mer, insisted on making it one, he migljt J easily mend matters by doubling his i present prices. "It is useless," exclaimed ! Mr. Herkomer. "I am now charging > $5,000 for a portrait, but people would come all the same if I were to charge $10,000. It is a great injustice. It is lowering art to a business." THE pronunciation match promises to •be one of the diversions of the winter. It is even more exciting than the spell­ ing match and rather more destructive to the lines of combatants. A match held in a city of learning was taken part in by professors, students, teach­ ers, and jouralists, none of whom were able to pronounce more than three words correctly. The majority went down with decided rapidity. It seemed that the simplest words were the most difficult to pronounce, and such words as "gaseous," "obsolete," "luxury," "luxurious," and "allopathy," found ready victims. AX enthusiastic prohibitionist tried to tie Bishop Foss of the Methodist Church to the third party's chariot wheels. For an hour he piled the preacher with the arguments of his faction, and finally demanded: "Now, Bishop, if you saw a mad dog in the street, snapping at everybody in his path, and dooming them to a horrible death, what would you do? Would you try to restrain him and capture him alive, or would you not rather shoot him dead?" "Well, said Dr. Foss, "if I had been blazing away at him for thirty years without hitting liim, IMon't know but what I'd try the othefplan." Miss AMKLIA B. EDWARDS, the nov­ elist, recently wrote a contemporary as follows: "I suppose you have often heard of toads being found in pieces of rock, coal, etc., when broken open by the workmen's pick. I have to-day just seen one taken out of a bed of clay in a railway cutting. It is alive, but very inactive and semi-torpid. It seems to have no bones, it is so limp, and its legs bend any way. It has two beautiful eyes, but does not seem to see. Its mouth is sealed up; but it seems to breathe very slightly through its nos­ trils, though how it breathed imbedded in clay it is hard to say. If it is 20,000 to 30,000 years since the glacial period when the clay was deposited, this toad goes a long way back into hoary antiquity, and was probably contempor­ aneous with the progenitors of Menes himself. But the toad lives still." MR. MURRAY, of Brooklyn, was troubled •with an annoying toothache. He couldn't sleep, he lost his appetite, and was really miserable in consequence. He vowed each day that he would have the molar yanked ont if the pain did not ease. He was a sympathetic pioture to his friends. Every one who met him would stop and inquire: "What's the matter, Mac; got a toothache ?" " Yes," was the answer, "and if it doesn't quit by to-morrow morning I'll have it taken out. I'm sick of this." The morrow came. When Mr. Murray lifted his weary limbs out of his virtuous couch that morning, the tooth still ached. Fully determined to go through the pain of having the tooth extracted then and there, he put a silver dollar in his vest pocket and started for the dentist. As he left the house the paiu eased up a little. As he proceeded farther it be­ came less troublesome, and by the time he reached the door of the dentist's house there was hardly any pain at all. He then A-ent to business in New York, and since then the tooth has scarcely troubled him. He carries th<? silver dollar in his left-hand side pocket con­ stantly. IT now appears that Col. R. M. Pul- sifer of the Boston Herald committed suicide. He was one of the most enter­ prising newspaper proprietors of the age, a popular man, and beloved by his neighbors and employes. He was re­ peatedly elected Mayor of Newton, his country home, and might have had any­ thing in a political way the people of Massachusetts could confer for the ask­ ing. His one mistake was an irrepres­ sible desire for speculation. He sunk money in every enterprise he engaged in outside of the newspaper business. The history of the Herald, if published in full, would read like a romance. Mr. Mr. Bailey, ita original owner, being desirous of traveling abroad after the war placed the paper in the hands, of three of his clerks, Pulsifer, Andrews, and Haskell. They shortly afterward leased it and secured the option of pur­ chasing it outright. Inside of three years they paid for it, out of its earn­ ings, in full. Then Bailey, returned from Europe, and seeing what a mistake he had made, started the Boston Globe and sunk all he had in it. The three proprietors drew $1,000 a week from the profits of the Herald for years, erected the handsome office building in Boston, and had more money than they knew what to do with. Hardly Imbued With Art Ambition. "Our teacher of singing," said he, "was at one time ill, and for a while I took charge of the vocal classes. One day a lady somewhat advanced in years, came to make arrangements for taking private lessons in singing. The results of mv trying her voice were i. par­ ticularly encouraging, and at the end of the second lesson I felt it my duty to tell her that her ear did not seem to mo to be true. She received the remark very coolly, and at the next lesson, went on singing as badly as ever. " 'I am afraid,' I said to her, 'that you can never learn to sing in tune.' " 'Oh, it doesn't matter,' she returned. '• 'Doesn't matter?' I asked, naturally rather surprised. " 'I don't care anything about the music,' was her explanation, 'but my doctor said that singing would be the best thing for my dyspepsia, and so I decided to take lessons.' "~Arlo Bales, in the Providence Sunday Journal. FOR some time past a movement has been in progress in St. Louis looking to the introduction of the penny into gen­ eral use in trade and business in that city. Hitherto the nickel has been the smallest coin in ordinary use there. A horseback traveler, in Tennessee, approached an old fellow who sat on a a log, near Richland Station, and asked him if he had lived long in that neigh­ borhood. ,Tbe old fellow scratched his grizzly beard, looked about him, whistled softly and then said: "I lived here' when Andrew Jackson made his famous State Bank speech, standing right out there on that stump." "You don't sav so!" "Yes I do" " " " tf.'V •••<* :Whktfa%urnan«r "Those who know me bent and who consequently respect me most, refer to ma as the Hon. William Hindsley, but the more ignorant and consequently more familiar, call me old Bill." " Very productive land about here,, I suppose," the stranger said. ;s "SodoL" "Good place for watermelons?* "Tolerable. I raised a few last year that were putty good size. I know a passnl of us took one, ripped it in two with old Uncle Jim McLaughlin's cross­ cut saw, hulled out the meat, got in the shell and paddled across the high 'ater." "You don't sav so!" "Yes, I do." ' "Good place for corn?" "Only tolerable. I raised tome last vear, though, that was putty good size. Passul of us one day shelled one of the ears, put the cob on Wat Goosetree's wagon and hauled it to a saw-mill." « "What for?" "To have it sawed into lumber." "You don't----" ] "Yes, I do," Mr. Hindsley broke in. "That's a pretty big stump out them," said the stranger. "Yes, pretty good size." "Was the tree verytatt?" v "About 200 feet. "You " "Yes, I do." "How long has it been cut down?" "I cut it down last spring was a year ago." "Thought you said that Andrew Jaok- son stood on that stump." ' "Oh, no; I said he leaned against the tree." "Yes, I remember now. Timber grows very rapidly in this country doesn't it?" "Yes, pretty-peart. I neglected chop­ ping down some black oak sprouts in my field one day, and the next morning *we chopped down several of them and split them into rails." "Well, that is remarkable. Now, that great tree that was so tall, how long was that a growing?" "Well, I tell you. It came up sum­ mer before last and was grown by the next May." "I thought you said that Andrew Jackson leaned against that tree." "Oh, no; I said he used to own the land where the tree grew." The stranger rode away, and meeting a man shortly afterward, asked him if he knew the Hon. William Hind­ sley. "Yes, I know old Bill." "Know him pretty well?" "Yes, well enough to know that out here at the station if a man repeats any­ thing that old Bill says, w'y, we fine him a bushel of meal." "Suppose the indiscreet man refuses to pay it ?" "He can't help himself, for the matter has been decided by the Supreme Court. A fellow named Ben Hardin contested the case, and it broke him up."--Arkansaw Traveler. The Young Naturalist* John James Audubon was bom New Orleans, May 4, 1780, and died at the present Audubon Park, New York City, Jan. 27, 1851. His father, the son of a fisherman, of La' Vendee, was a French naval officer, who having be­ come wealthy, had acquired a planta­ tion in Louisiana and married a lady of that colony of Spanish descent. The son inbibed a love of nature at ah ex­ tremely early age, M'hich was probably strengthened by his short residence on his father's plantation in Santo\Do^ -slices mingo, and was notr repressed, but m3?»- fowl and other kinds of meat, and lit- * 1 " " " ' tie piles of various kinds of vegetables heaped around the plate. The guests helps themselves to one or all of these as he choses.--Evening Post. tared the situation when he was sent to France to be educated. It is recorded of him that he was accustomed to amuse himself when a mere child by trying to draw the birds he saw around him; and that his crude efforts not being satisfac­ tory, he used to make a bonfire of them at each birthday. His father desired him to be qualified for some occupation connected with the navy, or with .en­ gineering. He was sent to France where the father had bought an estate near Nantes, on which his step-mother was living, to be taught mathematics, draw­ ing, geography, fencing, and music. His drawing-teacher was the celebrated artist David, who set him to draw­ ing "horses' heads and the limbs of giants." but he preferred birds, and im­ proved such opportunities as he could get to exercise himself upon them, and spent much of his time in excursions into the woods, collecting specimens and making drawings of them. The real supervision of his operations was his indulgent stepmother, who gave him ample scope for the exercise of his own tastes. When Audubon's father re­ turned from the sea, he was astonished at the large collection his son had made, and then asked what progress he had made in his other studies. The reply not being satisfactory, he took the youth in hand himself, and'kept him for a year in the close study of mathematics. But ever}* opportunity for natural history rambles was still improved. Audubon spent another year at Nantes, when he went over, after having returned to America and settled at Mill Grov<», to expose the faithfulness of an agent whom his father had entrusted with the charge of one of his enterprises, and to oonsult his parents respecting marriage. During one of these residences in Nan­ tes he is credited with having made a hundred drawings of European birds. Popular Science Monthly. < • - • feass tiubbins Makes a Speech. Mr. Gubbins, aroused from his slum­ bers by serenaders under his daughter's chamber window, raises his own window and remarks: " Gentlemen, it affords me no end of pleasure to contemplate the intense de­ light and unutterable ecstacy that would have filled the maidenly bosom of my beloved daughter, had she been per­ mitted to absorb the soulful stains that have been lavished on my ^appreciat­ ive, because uneducated, eaasf In her absence it devolves upon me to speak a few words of acknowledgement, of the kindness of heart that has prompted you to come hither, alone and unat­ tended, on this moonless night, for no other purpose than to give a fellow- creature a momentary pleasure. I sin­ cerely and unfeignedly thank you, gentlemen, for your consideration. I will not trouble you to sing again, gentlemen, if that's what you call it, but will simply say in closing these im­ promptu rppuarks, that thoj gh in mnsi- myafacation tad ob­ servation have been limited, yet I am satisfied of one thing, namely, that Dame Nature never committed a more egregious blunder during her long and eventful career, than when an insatiable and consuming passion for serenading by moonlight was coupled with such out-landish fog-horn voices as your party possess. Good-niglit, gentlemen. Bear to the right a little as you pass out of the yard, as Towser's chain is rather long, and he is anchored just around the northeast corner of the house."'--Dansville Breeze. -- J Madrid Cafes. The Madrid cafe give one i vivid sense of the fact that the Spaniards are the most democratic nation in the world. In Paris or Vienna one hardly ever sees a peasant or an ill-dressed "city loafer enter a cafe: but in Madrid all* classes meet in these places on e^ual terms, the peasant thinking he has as much claim to the title caballero as the politician or officer. In this democratic atmosphere it strikes one as all the more odd that guests should call the attention of the waiters by clapping their hands, which may be a relic of Moorish days in Spain. The hotels in Madrid and other Span­ ish cities are becoming modernized so rapidly that one has to go to the cheaper ones if he wishes to see what a Spanish fonda is like. In the larger hotels the menn is printed in French, and the cookery is French too. Certain dishes, peculiar to the country continue, how­ ever, to give a local flavor to the meals, and the Spanish hours are always re-' tained. For those rare and eccentric beings who get up before 10 o'clock a desayuno is provided, consisting of chocolate or coffee, with bread and but­ ter. It is a most .unsatisfactory way to begin the day. because it leaves one hungry all the forenoon, even if one can swallow the bread and butter. Spanish bread is, ]>erhaps, not unwholesome, but it is unappetizing and heavy, and the crust is almost as hard as a cracker. Of the butter a little goes (a great way. The Spaniards need what little pastur­ age they have for their bulls, so that cows are scarce, and goates have to be depended on for the breakfast requisites. Goat milk to me is an abomination, yet it is the only kind one can get here. Jfc is quite unwholesome in summer to foreigners, and hardly less so to the natives, who have a not verv charitable proverb to the effect that in 'March milk is good for yourself, in April for your brother, and in May for your mother-in- law. If the guide-books would conde­ scend to mention this matter, many a tourist might be saved a few days of discomfort, such as I suffered from until an Englishman, who has long lived in the country, advised us to drink our coffee without milk, or take chocolate and quoted the proverb just referred to. Much mmre satisfactory are the other two meals apich are served in tliip coun­ try--the amnierzo or breakfast and the comida or dinner. The latter is gener­ ally served as a table d'hote at a fixed hour, while the aim verso must be a sore trial to cooks and waiters, since it lasts from 10 to 1 o'clock. Everyone drops in when he feels hungry, and or­ ders, from a list of a dozen or twenty, three dishes, which are cooked to order in ample portions. The first course generally consists of eggs in some form or other, or some kind of sea food, of which there is a great variety. Kid­ neys,beef steak, and mutton cutlets are always on the list. For deserts there are cheese, oranges, cherries, strawber­ ries (small but good ), apricots, roasted a|monds, etc. StraAvbcrries are eaten with sugar, and the juice of an orange squeezed over them, which I find bet­ ter (i. e. with a spanisli orange), than the French way of adding claret, or the American of adding cream. At the ta­ ble d'hote one occasionally, but not of­ ten, gets opportunity to taste the favor­ ite national dish, the puchero, of which De Amicis happily says that "it is, in re­ gard to the culinary art, what an an­ thology is to literature; it is a littlo of everything and the best." There are of beef, ham, smoked sausage, Bid Yon Ever Kill Anybody f IT may seem at first glance that no­ body lias any right to hurl such a mon­ strous question at a promiscuous public. But however startling that statement may be, about one-half the population is methodically engaged in killing off the other half. If Darwin's famous theory of the survival of the fittest is true (and who can doubt it ?), the strong­ est survive and the weakest perish. It is said that iK) per cent, of people who go into business fail. Competition is so strong that only the shrewdest, the most active, and the most vigilant suc­ ceed, and under the operation of natural business laws this small fraction dis- jtossesses the other and larger fraction, and occupies the whole field themselves. The little fish are eaten by the big fish, the big fish are eaten by men, and men, speaking metaphorically are eaten by other men. But it is the ways and indiosyncrasie? of individual men and women'that kill. A wise philosopher has said that no two persons, unless they are a man ar.d women violently in love can live inti­ mately together for 10 years without hate- ing each other. And a man often slowly murders his wife by his manners. The unconscious defects of one's character, his little whims and crotchets, his pet theories or his darling hobbies are some­ times the instruments of slow torture by which a man murders his wife. In pre­ cisely a similar way a wife frequently murders her husband. The daily torture of tired nerves finally brings the victim to the grave, just as surely as a daily pinch of strychnine in the coffee pot. There have been thousands of boys who have murdered their mothers without knowing it. Perhaps after all it is not an impertinent question for any man to to ask of himself, "Did yon ever frill anybody?"--Yankee Blade. Reduced to a System. Two vagrants called on a kind lady in the suburbs of New York. "To which of you two shall I give this nickel ?" she asked. First tramp--Give it to him, madum, He has purchased the route from me, and I am just taking him around to in­ troduce him to the customers.--Texas Siftings. As KNOWLEDGE without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wis­ dom, so a mind prepared to meet dan­ ger, if excited by its own eagerness and not the public good, deserves the name of audacity rather than- of courage.-- Plato. "COME and have a quiet game of ten­ nis," said Johnson. "Cant," replied Thompson, "never could play tennis without a racket."--Boston Bulletin. 4 ^^^4* - * • • ••*' •11 , Mm Vilk Artlflctel Members Almost m» Well Off* M Other People. Ofew Tock Jjjriegraiu. i The place lOolfed like a ghastly cari­ cature of a butcher-shop in the land of the cannibals, but it was only the inner sanctum of a manufacturer of artificial limbs. Arms, legs, hands, feet--what you will--hung on walls, screened in glass cases, or laid about in heaps, greeted the eye wherever it rested. There were audacious pictures of gentle- men in various active employment who, having "tried your valuable leg would have no other." One of the grateful men was pictured in the act of riding a bicycle. Another bore his whole weight on an artifieal leg while plying a miner's pick at a mass of rock over his lieud. Still another stood on his sound leg, and with the artificial leg drove a spade deep into the soil of a garden spot. Three were farmers following the plow, blacksmiths shoeing horses, and a pedes­ trian without a nose--all with at least one artificial leg. • "Do they really do all that?" inquired the reporter. "Perhaps not quite as well as you'd suppose by the cut, but it is true that there are a good many thousand men with artificial legs doing work that one would think likely to require the aid of sound limbs." "Then you come pretty nearly sup­ plying any natural loss?" "Pretty nearly. The war gave a great impetus to the manufacture of artificial limbs, and we are still making limbs for the veterans.* "How long does an artificial limb last?" "That depends upon whether it is an arm or a leg and upon various other considerations. I've known an artificial leg to be in use twenty-five years. The more elaborate attempts to counterfeit nature the more liable the member to get out of order and require renewal. We make arms and hands with which the wearer writes, uses knife and fork at table, and performs many operations that one might think impossible." "What is the cost of artificial limbs?" "Anything from a few dollars up to hundreds. The simplest 'peg-legs' or wooden legs cost from $5 to $50 each. Arms cost from $25 to $75. Hands are from $10 to $25. Then there are in­ numerable contrivances for hiding de­ formities. They may cost almost any­ thing--the price varying with the nature of the deformity to be corrected. Oh, our frionds with a leg or ann missing are not so badly off as they once were, and if science goes on in its march of pro­ gress there is no telling how soon the so-called cripples may be objects of envy." The Blessings of the Commonplace. In the rush and hurry of men ami women to gain happiness through posi­ tion and wealth, they often neglect the means of happiness which lie directly around them. Not until the individual has learned to find joy in the flowers at their feet, in the blue sky above their heads, in the fresh winds of Heaven that blow around them, in their children, in the happy animals of the field and the birds of the air. will they find true happiness. Like the bird in the marvel­ ous story that flew from the tree with a talisman "glittering glory," happiness ever eludes him who seeks it in position and wealth only. The further he fol­ lows, the further it flies. A great writer has said that not until we come into harmony with God's own world can we find sincere joy--until we learn to work with Him in accordance to His laws, be­ coming thus in very truth fellow-work­ ers with God. Not on the highest mountain peak do the fairest flowers grow, but in the valleys. Those who have the greatest heights, in worldly power, if they have served faithfully, have found that the responsibilities and cares of their position have made them the veriest slaves. "Give me neither poverty nor riches," exclaimes the in­ spired psalmist, for he knew that it is in, every day commonplace walks of life the truest chance of happiness lies: The woman of society on whom social demands are so exacting that she has no time to spend with her children, and must delegate the cares of her home to a hired housekeeper, misses the keenest pleasures of motherhood and woman­ hood. The tortures of ennui from which the wealthy and frivolous woman of the world so often suffers are unknown to the busy housewife. The little every day sacrifices which the woman in a commonplace position must make render the object of them doubly valuable when it is obtained. Every hour of the busy woman's day is filled in with little do­ mestic cares, each one of which brings its own blessings, and it is the finding out and recognition of these blessings of every-day life that brings the sincerest happiness the world affords. Little children should be taught above all things to enjoy the pleasures that lie around them rather than to reach toward those which are beyond them. It is a fault of the country forever to neglect the present possibilities of happiness, and to consider any object valueless as soon as it is obtained. A restless, nerv­ ous life is the result of such unhealthy aspiration. The full frutition of work is lost, and the pleasure derived from the attainment of any goal is but a shadow. From one step to another the worker rushes on till he reaches the highest summit, to find too late that the true happiness he seeks is left behind him.--New Fork Tribune. A Misplaced Mine. How might the stock of the Panama canal have Arisen if the French engi­ neers could have invoked to their aid the energy of the terrific explosion that swept away the Japanese peak of Little Bandai-san on July 15. A visitor who spent four days estimating the spot esti­ mates that this last great mine of na­ ture's firing uplifted and distributed no less than 700,000,000 tons of earth, rocks and other ponderous material, the calculation being based on the very moderate assumption that the debris oovers the buried area of thirty square miles to an average depth of fifteen feet. The denuded base of the moun­ tain seems to be between three and four square miles in area.--Arkansav' Trav­ eler.* , , i C> jHotel Experiences. Drummer (showing cuff-button to hotel clerk)--I say, I found this button on the third floor this mornings If the owner should call-- Clerk--Thanks. I'll tell him-- Drummer--Tell him if it's gold to leave the other one at my room 191, fourth floor.--Detroit Free Press. The Dude's Thermometers. First Dude--Why do you hang two thermometers in the window ? Second Dude--My deah fellah, one is for the heat and the other is for the cold, you know. You ain't as well up in astronomy as I thought yoo Texas Si/tings. ,, Advice it ffeireknt. , Arrange to start quietly after a plen­ tiful meal. Take overshoes and water­ proof in your handbag. This is impor­ tant. Avoid railroad food by carrying Chicken, beef, hard-boiled eggs, bread, fruit, and salt. Drink little or none erf the railroad icewater. If obliged to eat at stations choose simple food. Eat slowly. Better less food than much haste. Bread and fruit or chocolate make an excellent lunch. Attend to the daily functions, else travel will de­ range them. On warm days ride back­ ward by an open window, thus avoiding cinders and draughts. Engage sunny rooms up two flights in advance. Un­ sunned rooms are unsafe. If the weath­ er be only chilly, still have a small fire. Avoid nearness to water closets. Be sure of dry bed linen and clean blanket^. It is better to use your shawls than be exposed to dampness. Throw back the bed clothing two hours before retiring. See that your gas burner does not leak. Move bedsteads away from windows. Old hotels are draughty. Retire early. If wakeful eat simple food. Start with warm feet. In winter provide them with a soapstone, fur shoes, or wrap them in a shawl. Carry a bottle of par' egoric and cardamon mixture, half each, for diarrhoea. Wait twelve hours, then take one teaspoonful in hot water every two hours till better. Eat hot boiled milk, salted to taste^ and crackers, also cracked ice, freely. The safest place in a car is the center opposite the side taken by passing trains. At night, if fatigued, drink a cup of tea with a bit of bread, and rest thirty minutes before dining. Hence the frequency of diar­ rhoea during travel. For ocean trips take abundance of outer garments and flannel bed gowns. Walk the deck for exercise, else first days ashore will be fatiguing. But rest the first two days at sea. Final days ashore are exhaust­ ing. If seasick keep the deck; lie upon the back in the center of the ship; eat in spite of nausea. If vomiting follow, eat again at once. This is the only remedy. Drink hot beef tea with plen­ ty of hot pepper. Eat ship crackers, raw beef finely chopped, salted and (red) peppered, and mixed with bread­ crumbs. If not seasick, control the ap­ petite or prepare for dyspepsia. • '] • Ideal Housekeeping. v-Sihthe house of tie ideal housekeeper everything is in order all the time. No dust is visible anywhere, no finger­ marks are to be seeu, the windows are always clear as crystal, nothing is" ont of place, savory meals are served at stated hours, and all the table appoint­ ments are simply perfect; washing, ironing, scrubbing, and mending are regularly and promptly done. The ideal housekeeper, in addition to keep­ ing her house in immaculate order from Sunday to Sunday and from May to May, to spring cleaning and spring sew­ ing, to fall cleaning and fall sewiug, to putting up fruit, tending plants, and rearing children, finds time for reading, painting, music, the study of languages, and for society, without neglecting the nurture of her own family. This is a beautiful picture, is it not? and many a woman in trying to realize it in her own case has laid herself in a premature grave, or made life a burden, release from which was gladly wel­ comed. "The life is more than meat and the body than raiment." The house­ mother is more than the house, and she owes it to herself and to her household so to adjust her work that care of her­ self and her household may be appro­ priately divided and applied. It is pos­ sible to pay too much for even gold, and it is possible to pay too high a price for immaculate housekeeping. -The more we simplify our mode of living the easier does it become to live. There are those who prefer cobwebs in their houses to cobwebs in their minds; who prefer to polish their faculties I rather than their silver; who choose embroidery for their intellects rather than their garments; who enjoy elegant stylein dictation rather than in equipage. . Those who have made their choice deliberately must not allow themselves to regret the absence of what th^v have not chosen.--Ameri­ can Agriculturist. Express Companies Dnrlng the War. Probably at no period in the history of the express business in this country was that vast carrying interest so over­ worked, it might be said, as during the years of the war, for every living adjunot to its transactions, from manager, super­ intendent, clerks, messengers, and driv­ ers, down to horses, were worked for all they were worth day and night. The vast amount of supplies, the unlimited packages passing to and fro, the millions of dollars as payments to soldiers with the remittances from the gallant fellows to parents, wives, daughters, and other dear ones at home, and last but not least, the transportation of thousan alsa! who went forth strong, brave, sejf- reliant, men and were returned in th< coffins, gave the leading express com­ panies an immense amount of labor. It was no uncommon sight to see piled up in the early morning, in front of a large express establishment, from half a dozen to a dozen boxes, each containing a dead soldier. On one of these mornings the writer, who was interested in a leading express company, discovered a little boy sitting upon one of the boxes and looking rather disconsolate. He was approached and asked, "Why are you sitting here, sonny?" "Because," replied the little fellow, "my mother is in this box, and I promised her that I never would lose sight of it until I got home." This, then, was not the dead body of a sol­ dier, but that of a woman who had died in a remote Western place, and her remains were forwarded to her former home in Maine, in charge of this 10- year-old boy, and he was faithfully per­ forming his sad duty. The generous- hearted expressmen took good oara of that boy. THERE is a sweet pleasure in con­ templation. All others grow flat and incipid on frequent use; and when a man hath run through a set of vanities in the declension of his age, he knows not what to do with himself, if he can­ not think.--Sir T. P. Blount. MEN are miserable if, their education hath been so undisciplined as to leave them unfurnished of skill to spend their time; but most miserable if such mis- government and unskilfulness make them fall into vicious company. --Jeremy Taylor. " THE library of the United States geo­ logical survey, begun in 1881, now con­ tains about 25,000 bound volumns, more than 40,000 pamphlets, and the finest collection of maps in the country--num­ bering about 20,000. LABOUCHERE says that "the American E'rl has almost entirely cut out the nglishgirl in public favor." THE amount of loss to creditors In England and Wales through bankrupt-* cy last year was £7,114,905. jEVMrra AKD IKCIDKHTH THA*; liATtt/r OCCtTMKRlk. ' I «••--•••! PIWIJ MFRH* fMHtft PHI--l Oar Neighbors--Wo*-' aM Epfc^ - Crta... CMwa«ia«, •ad General NT^ws timtwn. , APPRAISERS' WABEHOUS8. --The Secretary of the TreasWy fcsflf approved plans for the Appraiser's ware.1 house in Chicago, and bids will coon bat called for. The buildinp will heeomoMM dioug and handsome. On the fitst floa$ will be rooms for the use of tha broken ̂ the merchant appraiser, etc. Ott tfc# second floor will be the 'offices of the Ap­ praiser, the Chief Examiner, the Tea Ex-* aminer, and the room for the Inspection of cigars. The whole of the third flocir; will be one large room for the inspeetiaai of merchandise. Above this will be ft»| stories divided into half a dozen OfBcetf oa| a floor, to be assigned to various Federal officials in the discretion of the SecM retaiy of the Treasury. Probably sonut of the officials who an now in the overcrowded Postoffice buildingi will be accommodated in the warehoused Over all there will be a half-story or available for storage purposes. In basement there will be an office for janitor and the nsnal store-rooms, bo: rooms, etc., and under the greater part this basement will be a vault, (hie paa-j senger elevator will rnn from thebase-4 ment to the top of the building, and twej" freight elevators will run to the thiidr floor. The building will have a front ofj sixty-five feet on Harrison street and runt back eighty-five feet on Sherman street,aim the designs provide for a sufficient nmouif of ornamentation on both sides. The base­ ment and first story will be of stone,! but whether granite or red candstane hasi not been decided. The second story*wilt bet of red pressed brick, in combination withj the same stone a? the first story. TW third story will be a combination oflW-, wankee brick and stone and Above thin there will be five stories of brick terra-eotta ornamentation. The cornice! will be very deep, the half-windows of (hi attic being within the lines of the cornio# and will be of heavily ornamented term cotta. Small rounded turrets will finish off the corners. The main entrance will! be in the middle of the Harrison streefc side, and in each story there will be tvof windows close together over the en­ trance and one window between thisi double window and the right-hand cornerj and one between the double window and! the windows in the staircase in the left-i hand comer. The staircase will be at tha> front end of the building, at the extrea* left from the main entrance, and will bej lighted by small windows placed in paiisJ of which one will be a little higher than* the other. Thus there will be consider-̂ able variety of form and color in the front* of the building and an agreeable flronpliti of what architebts call the void* andj solids, or the openings and the walls, aarif yet every feature will be part of a common! plan. There is now available for tN erection of the bnilding $330,000. • --Cornelias Kelly, a wealthy fari»»r «|f Texas Township, Macon County, hung himself in his barn. His body was> notj discovered till the next BMnua^,:;.IIio! family did not feel any naeesineeStfcooti hie not appearing, as they 'ihon^tyiai! missed the train at Decatur, where he had! gone in the morning. But when he did noli come with the morning train they madsj search for him, and found him dead in thai hay loft. No reason can be given. Hid home relations were happy. His son in Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of! Macon County. --Robert Freeman, one of the oldestt settlers and most respected and wealihieslj citizens of the vicinity of Naperville, diedj quite suddenly at his home in that village of cancer of the stomach. The deceased) was born at Meadville, Pa., Feb. 21, 1809,1 and resided there until 1833, when he weatj to Chicago, where he worked at the car-i pentel's trade for ten years, and laid the) foundation of his fortune by jadicioi investments in real estate there, much which he still o'wns. He bought a in Will County as early as 1837, and eolti-j vated it from 1843 to 1876. In the year he built a fine residence in Naperville. where he resided until death. Mr. Free-' man was married three times, first in 184l| to Adeline Boardman, who died io 1859.; Dec. 11, 1861, he married Miss J. who died March 14, 186G. Hl^ third Vife, Mrs. F. Y. Brown, and fivaf children--Mrs. E. B. Wesoott, Mrs. Jea-t nie Morse, Arthur R., Ella, and Jessiej Freeman--survive him. He was a man ofj great benevolence, and gave largely to the church. He will fee greatly missed in tfcat community. ' --Some eight or ten of the most prow-! inent business men of Duquoin have been.' euchred out of amounts rauging from $29% to $500 each, aggregating altogether $4,000> or $5,000 or more, by Hugh Magee, who* for the past two years has been tho man-j ager of the Evaporator and Dry House| Company in Duquoin. Magee settled an all of his accounts, giving each of his crad4 itors a check for the amount due on thsj Exchange or Duquoin banks, and in manyj instances giving a check for a largely amount than the bill called for, receiving the difference in cold cash, one morning Magee boarded a i bound Cairo Short Line train, it is presumed, vent to St. Louis. Boon as the banks were opened the ch began rolling in, and were, of course, in­ fused as woithless, as Magee had not af cent on deposit at either bank. Attach"1! ments were at once made upon tfo cam loads of dried fruit standing on the tracks ready for shipment. Just what conside#4 ation the merchants will derive from tlm| sale of the fruit remains to be seen. Any* way, Magee is gone, and the merchants are ont many hundreds of dollars. Among the heaviest losers are the St. Nicholas Hotel, D. M. Quatott Hardware Company* Brooking s drug housa, James Bell Lum­ ber Company, Star Clothing House, Da«t quoin Iron Works, Siekman's shoe house^ and Mifflin's restaurant. Magee has rela-I tives, it is said, in Chicago, and the es«j _ tablishment he had charge of was estabW lished in Dnquoin July 18, 1887, by C. K| Prescott & Co., of Chicago, the coaapaa$ being young Magee's nncle. The baoiniea Will probably be continued bjr the cred­ itors. The plant is the largest one in 0* [West. Magee is a yo«ag*a*aad nniversally popular. „» • > • ' » • ' ^ ^ JL&J&JtLteJL. ^ ***& v-s-' r: • •W