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^ :•*• • v -. 4 - o ; M, -V; » ' ' ' -- '.,:/ ^" t1 "V «: '\ V.\ I. VMSLYUE. KMwsstf PiHrtir. McHENBT, KATE FIELD, though gle herself, is decidedly marriage is not a faiiur^ remaining sin- >f opinion that Miss KUGGLES,,of4iostonr set fire to some property vmcb. she had insured, in order to raipe money for a wedding trosseau. Instead of going to church she went to j; MRS. ACTON, an American lady, has made a pedestrian tour of 500 miles in Scotland, wheeling, her two small chil­ dren in a baby carriage. She was walk­ ing for her health, Vv tHe advice of physicians, and it help^d/ier. CANON WILBERFOBCE is reported as baying of Dublin's two cathedrals, which have been restored liy the liber­ ality of a brewer and distiller, that they are "memorials of drink"--St. Patrick's of Guinness' stout and Christ Church of whisky. SARAH BERNHARDT has got a new pet. It is a large green lizard which crawls about her neck and shoulders in a way to startle the beholder. It was sent to her by an admirer in Spain,who seemed to realize that there is nothing green about Sarah herself. A FEW years ago the Argentine Re­ public did not raise wheat enough for home consumption. Last year it ex­ ported 7,000,000 bushels. Immense tracts of pasture are being converted into farm land, and the country is be­ coming a great grain-growing region. H. RIDER HAGGARD is said not to be a literary man in the ordinary sense of the word, his reading not being exten­ sive. This is stated by his friends to free him from the charge of plagiarism, but to those who are familiar with Mr. Haggard's works it is not the "curious fact" it is claimed tdH)e. . QUEEN VICTORIA recently received from a Glasgow gentleman a copy of her speech at Glasgow inscribed on a piece of parchment no larger than a threepenny bit. The writing is so minute as to be illegible except through a microscope, and was the work of a man over seventy years of age. . SINCE the 1st of January twenty-eight different men in this country have mur­ dered girls who refused to marry them. It seems that a girl ought to have some­ thing to say in such cases, but she shouldn't come right out flat-footed and freeze the marrow in a man's bones. Let her bid him hope on and then quietly marry the other chap. GILES CLAYBORNE, a Vermont fcawtcr, offers to sell his wife. In a circular ad­ vertising her merits he says: Hight 5 feet 5; age 32; form, finely developed; hair, brown and luxuriant; eyes, large and hazel:colored; hands and feet, about the usual size; temper, d--n bad. The last quality is supposed to be the cause for this unique procedures --. DR. J. J. BAYARD, an tmele of' Sec­ retary Bayard, is a recluse down in Texas, living thiry miles from San An­ tonio in a little hut built by himself, consisting of a single room. Fifty years ago he lost his property by a flood, and soon after his wife ran away with a min­ ister. His heart was broken, he became misanthropic, and retired from the world. Ix ten years the ratio of marriage in the large cities of the North has de­ creased 8 per cent. This startling fact has brought out many explanations, but t he one generally accepted is that so inany men are crowded out of work by the cheap labor of women that they eannot think of marriage. The ratio will continue to decrease until only the rich can afford marriage. PRINCESS SOPHIE, according to Lon­ don Truth, is the best-looking of Em­ peror Frederick's^Jaughters, but she is not exactly pretty. She has a pleasing face, however, and a soft, simple man­ ner. Victoria is decidedly "German." Margaret is plain. But she may change. The Russians won't like the German match the Crown Prince of Greece is making, and if they find that German influence comes in with his wife at Athens they will try not to let him reign. KING KALAKAUA has been officially declared a boodler. Before the recent devolution in Hawaii, Akia, a Chinese merchant, asserted that he paid Kala­ kaua $71,000 for a license to sell opium |E in the Sandwich Islands. After receiv- p Ing the money the King gave the license I to another opium dealer. Akia died not long ago and his executor brought l" suit against the trustees of Kalakaua's estate to recover the money. The Su­ preme Court of Hawaii Sept. 21 gave ^ judgment for the full amount of the el aim with interest. Kalakaua thinks ^ the Chinese ought to go. !> • --- " THE superstition of the lower classes - ©f Naples was recently illustrated in a ll/ " striking manner. Some workmen who *vere engaged in repairs on a palace, in Icnocking down the stncco of Jflie facade, (discovered on the wall the picture of a Modonna and child, and soon uncovered •'K the whole without injuring it. The ru- Kmor of the discovery soon spread, and in less than an hour the street was full of people. "Ah!" cried a woman, "look at f J (hose shining eyes and that rosy, smiling mouth!" And she knelt down and be­ gan to recite the "Ave Marie." Other r, vomen went about crving: "A miracle! | , * miracle!" and collected coppers wliere- :! vrith to buy wax candles, and, as if by ;;y magic, a splendidly illuminated altar was soon erected beneath the picture. hunting expedition an animal dropped on his neck, which would have killed him had not two companions come to the rescue, Mr. Newman's assailant, which was killed, is thus described: It proved to be a kind of ferocious ani­ mal, never seen in this latitude, on the order of a catamount, but hful a web from front to hind quarter like a flying squirrel. It had a face almfrst flat, a little concave, and teeth three inches long. It had very large, protruding eyes, short, stiff hair, a webb foot, like a duck, but long, sharp claws, and very short legs. It weighed twenty-six pounds after being killed. W. D. NBHTOAN had an unique expe- •cnce at Elba, Ala., the other While passing through the woods A BROOKLYN man has originated an enterprise by which the community is to be supplied with trustworthy eggs. His plan is to inclose hens of ascer­ tained diligence as egg producers in caged-up nests and leave them at the homes of customers, the latter to pay a rental of so much per hen, and take their chances of getting more or less than one egg from each fowl. It is stated that the company which has been organized for this purpose will not be responsible for the failure of any par­ ticular hen to perform her duty, but will spare no effort to employ reliable hens that will maintain a reasonable average. It is a great enterprise, and the public is sure to take to it kindly. The cackle of a hen in city homes, with its refreshing suggestions of country life and rural barn-yards, and the warm, white egg fresh from the nest, will be attractive novelties. CHASKA, the Indian, and his white bride, Cora Belle, are in a fair way to come to grief. According to a statement of their late dime museum manager, Cora with the natural penchant of her sex, as soon as the money came in began to lav it out on personal adornment. Her first purchase was a pair of diamond earrings, for wlrich she paid $000. In Chicago she procured a sealskin sacque and an outfit of dresses, which used up $1,200 more. Not content with this she decided to array Mr. Chaska in a stylo as nobby as her own. She procured for him three suits at a swell tailor's, one of them full dress, a gold watch and chain, and a huge diamond ring and set of studs. Their engagement having come to a close, the two went back"*to their farm in Swift Bird's camp decked out in all their finery and with an empty pocketbook. Meanwhile it is a matter for curious wonder what Mrs. Chaska expects to do with her fine gowns among Swift Bird's squaws or to what use Mr. Chaska can put his swallowtail and dia­ mond outfit while hoeing and digging for Mrs. C.'s support. One may readily understand Mrs. C.'s vanity, as it was the first time she had had an oppor tunity of gratifying it, but she might at least have spared poor Chaska from the adoption of a rig which will make him the Sport of the bucks and is not adapted to the exigencies of Indian farming. The money might better have been saved. It would have gone a good way toward^ the accumulation of a^ stock of ponies and firewater.. '" REPRESENTATIVE JOHN J. O'NEILL, of St. Louis, says a Washington letter- writer, has had a habit since his advent in Congress of seeking "the bubble rep' utation" through the columns of the newspapers. He has never hesitated to write "interviews" with himself for pub lication and to hawk them about the newspaper offices here until they be­ came a drug in the market. Two years ago the President sent to Congress a message on the labor question diamet­ rically opposed to Mr. O'Neill's ideas. On the evening of, the day when the mes­ sage reached the House, Congressman O'Neill, accompanied by his committee clerk, climbed to the* top of the Cor­ coran Building and sought out the night manager of the Associated Press. Im­ mediately and without invitation he be­ gan to unburden himself. He held forth at great length in strong criticism of the President's attitude on the labor question. When he had concluded a long harangue, he looked about him in a self-satisfied way. The night man agersaid: "These are your view, Mr O'Neill?" "Yes?" said Mr. O'Neill, "they are. I think the President is al together wrong in this matter." "Well," said the night manager, "why don't you go. to the White Bouse and tell the President what you think. Perhaps he will withdraw the message." Then there was a sudden stillness, broken only by the quiet ticking of the tele­ graph instruments in the room adjoin­ ing. A minute later O'Neill and his committee clerk were tramping down­ stairs, makings a feeble effort to smile as they went. Since that little episode Mr. O'Neill has not figured so promi­ nently in the reports of the Associated Press, except when, with native dig­ nity, he publicly speaks of political speeches on the floor of the House as "slop and rot." Old Maidhood. There are many worse things than single blessedness, and the con&tion of the old maid is no less honorable to her than is that of matrimony to her wed­ ded sister. The old maid may, if she will, and she generally does, dbear a no­ ble part in the good work of making the world a better and happier place. There are probably few who do not carry with them through life the tender memory of some old maid whose love and goodness cheered and blessed their early years. How often is she a minis­ tering angel whose life is spent in acts of unselfish devotion to "those around her? We cannot spare the old maid. She is an important role to play in the human comedy, and the thing for her to do is to study it and play it well. The woman who worries because she sees old maidhood before her is without good sense. Let her bo sure that there are thousands of wives who only wish that they had led single lives, and then she may find it easier to learn of the apostle in whatsoever state die is therewith to be content.--North American. • - mm THE '1,000 foot towier" at the Paris high, up. THK UITLE TOWS O* TAUBOIA IT JAKES WHITCOMB BU.KT. Ton kin boast about yer cities, and their atlddy KTowtn and size. And brag about yer county setts, and business enterprise, s And railrotuls, und factories, and all such fool- _ ery-- • . ^er ¥ big «aon«h Toucan lmrp about ver churches, with their steeples in the clouds, And pas about y«r graded streets, and blow nbout yer crowds; Ton kin talk about yer theaters, and all you'va got to aee; put the little Town o' Tailhoit Is wide enough fer mo! They haint no style in oar town--hit's little- liko and small-- They haint no chnrchvs, nuther--jos' the meet in' house is sll; They V no siil*wHlk*, to «)>eak erf--bat the high­ way'« nihil, fiw, And th« lit i Tow it o' Tailhoit Is wide enough fer mo: Borne find it diseommodiu'-lltu, t"ia wttlin' to mliult, Tohi'V tmt ime fwstoffioe muI ft wouisrii keeirin' hit, And tlw> ilruH«t«re, and tl»wslai|t, and grocery, nil t lnw Bat tlu« 1111 |p Tuwn •' TaUW't U tMBdy Bough fm utt? I Tou kin until*, unrt tvfN yeMMMS *f, sad )oke muI And laiiuli nixl ImUtMr, "Tall lwH i is iwttsr holts 'UttOtU<l" f| Eftlio citv suit* >)Ni betlpM »'y, hit's where you'd mto' lx\ r the little Town • Talibolt'i foe tor me I Buti "THE MOONSHINERS." day. ! Exposition will be only 984 feet hi( on a 1 It will take 2,500,000 rivets to put it i N M. UUAJX "WereItt^liecl to name the racesotthe South, I should answer: "White, black, and the mountaineer." The lat­ ter belongs to a distinctive race. While he may be classed with the whites as far as color goes, his tastes, habits, char­ acteristics $nd mode of life are peculi­ arly his own. If he likes you he will make any sacrifice to oblige you. If he hates you he will seek your life with a determination which nothing can dump. The great world beyond his mountain home is a sealed book to him-. He lives in himself, by himself, and for himself. I was riding over that spur of the Cumberland Mountains which Gen. Morgan (Federal) held so gallantly while Buell and Bragg were driving each other by turns over Kentucky, when -1 lost my way. The mountain trails of the South are dangerous puz­ zles to a stranger. They run up and down--twist--turn--dodge--lose tlieni- selvesin dark ravines and seem to sud­ denly end in dark and lonely gaps. There is a feeling of loneliness which you bannot shake off, and a feeling of anxiety which rides with you and keeps every sense alert. Every rod of the trail has its ambush, and every quarter of a mile its cliff, seemingly ready to fall upon you. I came to a spot where three trails branched away. It was luck and chance. I took one which led me into a long, dark ravine, where the summer sun has never yet touched the icicles on the rugged rocks, nor cooled the mount­ ain ' rivulet pouring over the moss- grown ledges. After going a mile I felt I was wrong, and was about to turn back, when a voice suddenly called out through the semi-darkness: " Stranger, you ar' kivered! Throw up your hands!" If that command ever reaches your ears, obey it at once and do your argu­ ing subsequently. It means that your head or your heart is in point-blank range of bullet or buckshot, with a fin­ ger resting on the trigger and ready to pull if you don't obey the summons. Ul> went my hands. ^ " After a long half minute a ihottntain- eer, who had a dead sight on me with a double-barreled shot-gun across a poiut of rock twenty feet ahead, stepped in view on the trail and said: "Stranger, slip down!" I slipped off the saddle. "Now lead yer mule up that ravine to the right!" I simply saw a man six feet high, straight as an arrow, long-haired, whiskers unkempt, dress that of a mountaineer. Yes, I saw more. He held the gun fair for my breast. One suspicious move on my part and I was a dead man. He spoke in a low voice, but there was that in his tones which chilled me. Without a second look at him I took the mule by the bits and led him up the ravine. We had not gone twenty rods before I scented a whisky still. At the end of five rods more we were in a rude camp. Two moonshiners sat on a log, gnus across their knees, and back of and below them a still was running off its extract of corn. "One o' them spies!" said the man wtyo had followed me as I let go of the mule and sat down on a stump. "A good ketch!" growled one of the sitters. "Mighty kind in him to come here!" chuckled the other. They were moonshiners, and they took me for a spy sent out bv the gov­ ernment officials of that district. I looked from one to the other. There was a determination in each look--an implacable sternness of the expression which would have warned a genuine spy that his hour had come. Not one glance of pity--not one line of mercy. A prisoner at the stake among the Apaches would have had more hope. These men were law-breakers--out­ laws--being hunted after every day in the year. Why ? Because they were making a living--keeping soul and body together--in the only way open to them. The bits of valleys in the grim old Cumberland will grow corn and pota­ toes. The potatoes are wanted for the table. If there is more corn than the razor-back hog or the shackling mule can consume, it is a dead loss. Convey it to market--two days to go and two to come, and sell it for two bits a bushel, and the owner and seller would starve on the way. Make it into a barrel or two of whisky and it will bring cash on the spot, or very near it. It is not to grow rich--not hoping to better his condition --but simply to live. It is against the law of the land. The mountaineer may go ragged and hungry, but he must not distill. It is the only law he breaks. Aye! he even lives chaser than most of us to all the commandments. He breaks it because grim necessity forces him to. He is outlawed and hunted that officials may make fees. I knew all this before J. looked into the stern, set faces around me, and I knew why I looked in vain for a gleam of mercy. "I am no spy," *1 'said, as I looked about %ue. "I am a traveler, making for Cumberland Gap, and I've lost my ___ WET. "Go up that path!" commanded the man who had captured me. "Not until I satisfy you that I am no r* S spy • "Kiver him, Joe," whispered the man to one of the others, and a shotgun covered my breast again. The leader ran back down the ravine to be Bure that no one had followed us. When he returned, he said: "Say yer prayers, stranger! Joe, when 11% P^and do ̂ li plag him!" "Did any of you -trref hear of Joe Bickaby ?" I asked, trying hard to keep a steady voice. " Wail, what if we haST* asked the leader. "About a year ago J found him in jail in B- . He had been there for sev­ eral months. He was sick and out of money, and I aided him. Here's his name in my note book. See ?" The man with the gun lowered his weapon and came closer and asked: " Was anybody else i-i jail with .Toe ?" "Yes--half a dozen--all moonshiners. I sent in t wo dollars' worth of pipes and tobacco, and I got one of them some quinine." "He's the chap, sute's shooting!" ex­ claimed the man as he turned to the others. "Oin my soul he is!" added the leader as her came up and removed my hat. "Durn our buttons!" whispered the third. In a minute more it was all right, and thev were shaking my hand so vigor­ ously that my shoulder ached. The humble cabin a quarter' of a mile away was open to me forever more, and it was two days before they would let go of me to resume my journey. The wife at the cabin had more perception than the men. She looked me over and then said: "Oh! sassafrax, but you fellows is all blind! Hain't he Yank all over and all through ? Whar's the sunburn ? Whar's the hoss-pistols ? Putty muss you'd kev got yourselves into, killin' a Yank, who don't keer if every branch in Ten­ nessee runs cl'ar whisky! Better not be so handy with them guns arter this." The leader walked beside me for five miles when I left, and as we parted he said: • "Stranger, when I told ye to say yer prayers, I meant they should be mighty short. I'd liev given ye about ten sec­ onds, for I wanted to git yer body outen the M ay. Yer couldn't liev told us nntliin' else to prove that you wasn't a spy. Give this paw a farewell squeeze, ana don't lay it up agin me." BOUCICAI LTS SCHOOL. Stan Birds in the House. Carelessness so often gets the better of our hum»uity. One reason that ca­ nary and other birds so often lead un­ comfortable and unhappy lives is be­ cause they are looked on merely as dec­ orative. A gilded cage lights up a dark corner very prettily, or lianas gracefully in an archway, so there it is placed with­ out much thought of the little creature shut up in that shining prison, who, born to live in the light and air, is as fond of sunlight as our plants. Do not, then, hang your bird merely where his cage looks pretty. Nor must you fly to the other extreme and place him in a glare of sunlight, even in win­ ter. Birds suffer and die from this cause. The best wav is to give him his choice: put him in the sun and shade a part of his cage, so that lie may do as he likes; You will notice that he often sits in the shade. Remember, too, that he is a visitor from a warmer clime, and take care about placing him in a draught or too close to even a closed window, except on warm summer days. It is as great a mistake to put him where lie will be subject to the dry, burning heat of a furnace or stove. Do not hang his cage too high nor too low, but let him breathe the pure air which you breathe your­ self. From November till June wrap his cage nightly in a warm shawl, or draw over it a thick flannel cover, and never plaoe -the eogcoa the flloo*. as I saw ad­ vised not long ago. Your bird needs variety as well as you, bird store men and bird-book writers to the contrary, notwithstanding. Give him every day, beside his seed and fresh water, a bit of green food, lettuce, sorrel, chick».veed, plaintain (leaf or ends), or a slice of banana or apple, and fasten the delicacy so that it cannot fall to the floor. A dainty bird will not touch it if it falls. Also now and then, perhaps three times a week, give him a snip or two of raw beef the size of a pin head--larger if he's a mocking bird. He may look askance at first, and turn his wise, black eyes upon it with curios­ ity, but- he will soon relish it, and eagerly snatch it from your finger, and it takes the place of the insects he would add to his bill of fare if he were free. In fact, try to keep in mind that the little fellow Las likes and dislikes, pain and discomfort, happiness and pleasure, much as you have yourself, and you will be well repaid by his brightness an J vi­ vacity. , fiamp Explosions. Recent issues of the Boston papers contain an account of an oil lamp explo­ sion by which two children of John Ralston, a banker of Linn County, Or­ egon, were burnt to death. The mother, who had just left them, in attempting to rescue the children, was badly burnt by the blazing oil, which was thrown about the bathroom, in which the acci­ dent occurred. r Although the daily press prints copi­ ous statements of these horrors, many people continue to confide in the com­ mon oil lamp with a fearless reliance nothing short of incredible, considering the well-known dangers associated with its careless management. Some of the State Legislatures have enacted laws to x'egulate the manufacture of kerosene oil, limiting the." flashing point" to not less than 100 degrees F. This, how­ ever, appears to be an illusory safe­ guard. Experiments seem to have con­ clusively proved that most of the lamps made will, even with the best quality of oil, generate gas in sufficient quanti­ ties to cause a violent explosion. A writer in a late number of the Scientific American compares the ordinary kero­ sene lamp to a miniature gas machine, making gas and depositing it in the oil tank as effectively as though it were an apparatus especially designed for that purpose. It may be worthy of mention here that the gas thus referred to is an ele­ ment capable of exerting immense en- ergy when ignited, but this contingency can be always provided against by using a good lamp and keeping it well sup­ plied with oil, so as to leave little space in the tank for gas. Under these con­ ditions a lamp that is carefully handled and never replenished while burning Will rarely or never explodo. i Wouldn't Drink Any. Old Jefferson Catnip, upon his first visit to the city, went with a friend to • restaurant. While they were sitting at a table, a young fellow, carrying a lawn tennis racquet, came into the room. Old Jefferson, after regarding the in­ strument for a few moments, turned to his friend and said : "John, dinged ef I'd drink any milk in this town." "Why not?" "Why not? (pointing) J§st look at the strainers they use. Blamed ef you, couldn' shove a catbird through 'em. -- Arkansavj Traveler. How Yowng LSIIIM Ambit'oas to Aro 1 rained. "Girls, where do you oome from?" Mr. Boueicault called from the stage of the Madison Square Theater to a group of Galateas in the front row. "California, they answered with the precision of a chorus. Yet the Califor- nians were not all there. It is wonder­ ful, for these were all young women who had taken the foremost rank in the school of acting. ^ , The proportion of New lorkers is small. The New England element (lues not seem to be represented, but tin abounding young women from the West, surcharged with A itaMty and convoying an ever-pi*esent sense of "being there." and other less alert but equally plastic material from the less remote regions of the West, made ujrthe bedv of the school. j Mr. Boucicault himself seems to be somewhat impressed ^t /the amount of material in petticoats that he has con­ jured around him. The desire and the ability to act seem to combiue in ridicu­ lous frequency. It is crude and un­ formed ; rough burrs of pronunciation stick in the mouth; but it is certainly alive with dramatic instinct, free and vigorous of limb, and with Voices full, ^resonant, and musical enough to blast any sweeping charge against the West­ ern organ as a libel. In conversation Mr. Boucicault eluded the puzzle of the situation by charging it on those national traits and influences that go to make up the Arner ican girl. ' There is one girl, for Example, a fine physical specimen, with a round, ripo voice, showing no evidence of literary intelligence, yet she will seize a part, overleap the words by dozens, wrench from them their literary value, toss her inflections hither and thither, but charged with dramatic instinct as if it was another sense, arrive at the end panting with enthusiasm, and you breathless in her trail. It is very curious all this raw promise, and in the midst of it Mr. Boucicault, with his forming hand, repressing, re­ straining, toning up and down, insinu­ ating finer shades of expression, closer meaning, pulling oft' the ragged edges, straightening out the English, and at the right moment leaving the individu­ ality to assert itself. His great watchwords are, "Be nat­ ural;" "Don't gabble." yThe minor .in­ struction is given in treading ihe boards. The trial rehearsals ar£ now over. Three and sometimes four days in the week are given to plays. The casts are posted, the students learn their parts, and as the roll is called they present themselves without previous rehearsal upon the stage, and the act, is played, with Mr. Boucicault in a lounging chair, book in hand. A g.iod deal may be discerned by his manner. His ear is caught by intelli­ gence, emotion, fine expression; his eve is arrested by fine physical action; tiie book falls, his eye l>eams, and his In­ terest is kindled in au instant ; he seams now alive to everything, and his correc­ tions, revisions are in fact the most sub­ tle flattery and encouragement. Or perhaps he leaves his chair and takes up the opposing part, playing with book in. hand, and transforming the scene with his acting. Alpine Funerals. In one of the most powerful scenes in "Der Grune Heinrich" Gottfried Keller describes the way in which a funeral used to be celebrated by wealthy Swiss peas­ ants in remote country districts. The mournful hush cf the first part of the day, the touching simplicity of the re­ ligious service, the sumptuous meal and heavy drinking that follow the return from the church, and the wild dance that concludes the day, are all depicted with a force and vividness which have rarely been equaled in modern fiction,and the impression is all the greater because the horror which breathes through the whole narrative is never allowed to de­ generate into mere disgust. The dance is omitted in Upper Austria, but the other •practices are even more ghastly. In these districts it may almost be said that the funeral begins before the death. As soon as any man or woman is supposed to be in the last agony, not only all neighbors and friends, but per­ fect strangers, are informed of the fact and expected to pay a ceremonial visit. The guests simply enter the sick room, take a look at the dying man and go their ways. No prayer is said, hardly a word is spoken; yet even the chance wayfarer who declines to enter the house of death on such occasion is con­ sidered strangely heartless. After death the stream of visitors ceases, but only for a short time. As soon as the body has been prepared for burial, a long table is spread in the room where it lies, and covered with wine, spirits, and cold viands of every description, and here open lioase is held day and night till the funeral starts for the churchyard. Who­ ever comes, known or unknown, rich or poor, is not only allowed, but urged to eat and drink as much as he can. Be­ side the coffin at least two huge wax candles, which have been fetched from the church, burn dimly, and near them two old women sit or kneel. They are paid for their services, and are supposed to pass their time in prayer. From time to time they are relieved by others, and they then usually make a somewhat lengthened pause at the table before going home. After the return of the funeral the chief mourner invites every one who has attended it to a hot meal, which is as sumptuous as he can afford, and which .usually ends in hard drink­ ing. i Salt Dust of the Sea. While voyaging from Australia to New Zealand, one of the passengers, a lady, complained that the dust of the sea caused her eyes to smart, and had also soiled her clothing. She was laughed at by the other passengers, who insisted that there could be no dust at sea. "They were mistaken," says Mr. M. M. Ballon, who tells the incident in a book of travel. "There is a salt dust which rises from the spray, and impreg­ nates everything, even filling one's mouth with a saline taste. While the sun shines, this deposit, like the dew on land, is active ai$l perceptible; but to walk the deck at night is to become cov­ ered with a thin coating of salt dust so fine as to be hardly noticeable, but which in time becomes sufficiently crystallized to be obvious to the eye. The dust of the sea is no fable. The officer who stands his night-watch on the bridge will testify to this fact, and the cabin steward will tell you that he 'has often to resort to something more potent than a whisk-broom to cleanse clothing which has been exposed to sea dust." THE Cyclopean masonry was not lim­ ited to Greece. Two fine specimens oc­ cur in Italy, at Ausidonia and Saturnia, towns anterior to Rome. HOTT a Ring Is Made. The workshop where rings are is a curious place, full of ingenious me­ chanical appliances. Gold coin is put in a small crucible with flux, and the crucible placed inside of a covere4 pot, which is subjected to the heat of a powerful flame of natural-gas. To in­ crease the intensity of the heat a strong blast is produced by means of a fan, making a constant, even temperature.. The gold is rolled and converted in con­ venient shape for use, precisely as iroi is worked in a rolling mill. It is passed through grooved rolls of various sizes, one after another until it is fashioned into narrow strips of the desired width and thickness. There are also other rolls for converting the ingots into sheet ILLINOIS NEWS BUDGET. ^neviota--the moat atvlish ... . ,. . goods out, 49 cejts at Fitzsimmn>D9 banking powers may be Orga- Heuderaon's. . «*uiu fnretlu °rn hav* In a iargi for fall trade sod are aellia cheap. Look at their Ad. THE Pfl«RIOO."RT^ T7 . final organization, do not differ mater- on the market ^arti y from the forms prescribed for the Geo. market and warranted. W. Besley'a West Side. goM - ri otstill d*ri- „jner. dting rking eUent a frat veve- A of d the a any tfeo« nlQ * itlaet 8*rs Jay, Col. <1 do them together, others inserting and fast­ ening the stone settings, and still others performing various sorts of equally dif­ ficult and delicate work^ all necessary in the making of a ring. In another part of the room is a curious bit of ma­ chinery which is called a lapidary lathe and used for shaping and cutting down stones when necessary. A round piece of metal, shaped like a small grind­ stone, is set in a horizontal position and made to revolve. To this emery is ap­ plied, and the stone being held against it is soon reduced to the proper dimen­ sions. It is then polished on a similar appliance of wood coated with putty powder. Another interesting object is the enameling furnace. The article to be ornamented, having previously been engraved for the reception of tiie en­ amel, is placed in a little oven coated with the enamel in the shaj>e of a jxnv- der. It is then heated until the enamel runs, and is then removed from the fur­ nace to be cooled and finished. A peculiar process is that of gilding or electro-plating. The article to be gilded is first thoroughly cleaned by a fine brush of brass wires. A piece of gold is attached to the positive pole of an electric battery and the article to the negative. Both are then placed in the same solution, and the electric current does the work, transferring a portion of the gold to the object te be plated.--' Neiv York Graphic. JCYJUfTS A5D INCIDEKTS THAT ' "»/ -: fcATJELY OCCVBKKri. ' I An interesting: Summary of the More Im­ portant Doing:!! of Oar Kclghbon-WaS. dings and Deaths -- Crimps, Casualties, Md General News Xotea. . •'*& A STATS BANKIHG bAW. It is not generally known that at next election the people of this State will be called upon to vote upon the question of the adoption of a State banking law. The last Legislature formulated the act, which, under the Constitution, must submitted to a vote of the people for rat^ ation. The act provides that corpora-' zed after the general manner of oilier rporations. The subscription to the selling *' ®l®ction of directors and offi- s, and the other formalities precedmgj anization of other joint stock compa- Paints all kl ~H~ P under the >general laws. Banks limited qusntitlfia ^ 1° 1 auized under this act shall hare pail or gallon at stoJ.y?g *rer to do a general banking busi- Dontforsjei tiTaeeTild Thrasher ai*' T* Seperator, that attaches to a f 8' They loan money on real or Cotter, at E. M, Owen & Son's, sonal security and accept and execute Bealev'a Kxtw^TTT" sts* They c"n own real estate neceg. the flueat thing on°th« »GlQg{ y to the actual neod9 ot the bank'11114 Weat Side Drug Store. 1 T BUW also acquire title to teal estate Heavv 11 ; en necessary to the collection of debts,. at 21 Cents t they must dispose of such real estatsi bargain. ' ' Owen's, A r; thin five years. The stockholders shalll o held individually responsible, equally and ratably, and not one for the other, for all contracts, debts and engagements ot the bank to the extent of the amount ot their stock therein at par value, in addition to the amount invested in such shares. The act fnrther provides that the Btste Auditor may at any time call upon a bank- doing business under the act for a state­ ment of its business on the morning of any day he may choose, and he shall1 call for such reports at least every three months. These reports shall be exam­ ined by the Anditor and published in some newspaper in the town or city whem the bank is located. The Anditor shall, as often as he deems it necessary, and at least once each year, have an examination made of the affairs of each bank estab­ lished under this act, and shall appoint some competent person not interested to> make snch examination. There are vari­ ous other provisions governing tho amount of money which may be loaned te one person or firm, etc., all calculated to protect the stockholders and depositors* In incorporated towns, villages or cities not exceeding 5,000 in population, the capital stock of a bank organized under this act shall not be less than $50,060. The act fnrther provides that any cor­ poration with banking powers availing itself or accepting tho benefit of or formed under this act, and all corporations with banking powers existing by virtue of any especial charter or general law of this State, shall be subject to the provisions and requirements of this act in every par­ ticular. as if organized under this aet. handsome been dif- nuddle- him, ast and \ilv of of" ap- for How He Won the Widow. X playful shoemaker in Ohio, who had cobbled a pair of shoes for a comely *.s"ido*r in the neighborhood, sent the shoes home with a message to the effect that tluqfe kisses would make it all right for .l\e job. The widow was in­ dignant. . he felt that she had been grossly insul. >d by the son of Crispin Had he been a cobbler perhaps ferent. Had" aged batdieli might have f< stances in the but he was <>0 vpi twice a widower, children besides. pealing to a lawyer ai damages, but concluded first make him a visit a piece of her mind. She shop and found him industriously at work on his bench. There was a merry twinkle in his eye as the irate widow came in, for he suspected her errand, and he blandly requested her to be seated. She said she had not come to be measured for shoes but to deal out to liiui the measure of wrath that his conduct merited, and proceeded to do it. He listened meekly and then said that he couldn't help doing what he did. It was really the smallest pair of women's shoes that had come to his place since he had been in the cobbling business, and liis heart surrendered to them at once. The widow blushed and said she believed she had rather a shapely foot. "Shapely !" cried the enamored cobbler, throwing himself at her feet, "it is di­ vine, and I will not rise until you prom­ ise to be mine!" If there is anything a widow likes it is sudden love-making and an ; .ident wooer, and the woman was won almost before she knew - it. They are to be married next week.-- Texas Sifting8. at the He Dry. Fox Blver Valley Mills, M<5 R. BIHOP% ; I Si . mm Electric Acnpnncture. The Chinese, we are told, employed acupuncture at least 4,000 years since, and the Japanese adopted it long ago. Their practitioners employed punctur­ ing needles of gold and silver, and their manufacture was an art of great impor­ tance. They were of different shapes. Some bladcd like swords and others of the ordinary needle form. At the end of the eighteenth century acupuncture was introduced into Europe, and was de­ veloped in the present century. M. Gaiffe, a French electrician, has recently con­ structed a variety of needles for electric acupuncture, specially applicable to the perforation of painful tumors, so as to avoid unnecessary pain. By the electric acupuncture the current is conveyed into the tumor and applied at the point where it is most required to effect the dissolution of the morbid liquor con­ tained in it. For this purpose the blade is varnished, except at the point, and thus insulated, so that the current only escapes at the point. Glass or India rubber has been used to coat the needle, but insulating varnish is preferred, since it does not thicken the probe so much. The upper end of the needle is con­ nected to one ])ole of the voltaic battery used, and there is a conducting-plate applied to the sjkin, and connected to the other pole. When, therefore, the needle is forced into the tumor the cur­ rent flows from its j>oint to the eonduct- ing-plate through the flesh, and decom­ poses any unhealthy fluids there may be in its passage. This process aids the absorption of these secretions and the destruction of the tumor. Pretty Tough. First Sweet Girl--Oh, it was so ro­ mantic! I got beyond my depth at Long Branch, and he saved my life, and after that we became engaged. Isn't il lovely ? Second Sweet Girl--That's just yon* luck. I worked out beyond my depth six times this season, and was saved by six different young men, but every mother's son of them was married.-- Philadelphia Record. / F. K. GRANGER, General Auctioneer. H°f Ke,al E^ate, Stock. Farming inc Furniture, and Good! kinds attended to oo the most if tvasonahle terms, vc: Order, by mall receive prompt' Address r • F. K. Grange#, ? West McHeory, IU, lor Schools. gfABIfETd, TABLETS, ' $ % Ink. aod Sa»»H» For Pencil and for# 1 cent Tablets! 3 cent Tabletsr 1 tn°h2 f ilet*;10cent rab,etf»L Ail 1 Alw . A,V012',0r,,l3'®re-J n 'Q® Pens, Pencils tj Erasers, Slates, Sponges, scholars E ®to., etc.. Everything Scholars need to be found J. that at the A. Story's Scholars Headquarters cDrug Store. J Tissue Paper. If J* '! M ton is h Ing ho* much can fee , c tone in decorating a home by this atJMM ,meft„D0, Complete out-tits for* Ml kinds of paper flowers kept con- l«ntly in stock at Julia A. Btorv'a C(lrug store. B J* Dropped Dead. ; Physiologists estimate that the y*n does 5,000,000 pounds of wsrk Hach day. No wonder people dro» fjead with worn out hearts. This could o?Lp!:eJ.eated by Miles' new and t»at discovery, the New Cure. Always ammerices when you first begin to get Miort of breath, have weak, faint or twothering spoilt, pain or teodorom aa tide etc. Sold at. Geo. W. Besisy'S e»rug Store. J d 0o to Mrs. C. A. Hutson's BwrFalf ^ Wiater Millinery Good. gfr,BUIT and YetTnfnt li • with fread, so.that it was almost impossi­ ble tc discover them. Secreted in the cell vMte the tools which had been used in ths work. The men planned to fill theee holes with powder and blow a piece out of the ceiling. It is well for them that they did not, for jnst above was a huge tank of water which would probably have been! burst by the explosion, when every person in the jail would have been drowned. --One of the most remarkable series s€ coincidences known to the annals of the vicinity of Galena, is that running through the lives of two young men, Wil­ liam Shanahan and Dennis Donovan, residents of Garrjowen, Jackson County, just across the river from Galena. They were both 27 years of age, being born the same day, in Garrjowen, and were raised in that town. They were both married at the same time, and they lost their wives within a day of each other. Both young men died the same day, and were buried in the same burial rground. Both, too* were excellent young men and were «*• actly similar in disposition. --While at work in the Browning coal mine's at Duquoin, Charles Freeman, ths boss driver, and Dave Howell, the boss trackman, were soriously and perhaps fa­ tally injured by falling slate. Both of Freeman's thighs were broken, and he seriously hurt internally. Howell's men was horribly crashed and both paralysed. He is the eldest son of Alder­ man Thomas H. Howell, of Daqasife, The chances for the recovery ot eHfcs ft vaiy slight. * ;W' . 'V %£ • w. .iih