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WHEN NANCY FROWNS. (When N.HKy.fro'wns the table cloth Scorns with the and uaucers wroth; iThc pepper boxes are overturned, jl'he slr nk and biscuit both are burned, .The coffee" is as thiols as niuds t&nd through the rooms the kittens scud . When^Nancy frowns. [The grocer gets.his order wrong, 'And brings us butter that is strong;' jThe coal gives out, "the wood is- wet, (The children o'er their playthings fret, l/Lnd just as true and sure as fate, fThe dinner Is an ho.ur late, When Nancy- frowns. (The afternoon sees things still worse; Ehe-m i&txessjeanoot •find her puree; Some not o'er welcome neighbor calls; Dhc baby from his high chair falls; Some agent rings and will not go, Fill he is fifty timesHold no! When Nancy frowns. fancy whom I have written 'bout s our domestic, strong and stout.. [We dare not let her go as yet, For fear a worse one we may get. hat's been our record in the past, teach one is still worse ..than the last, • ; So let tier frown. --Boston Globe. • • < AT A BARN DANCE. Ij. I ninde. iny niind Jo do a really awful tiling .when*i went to the II a y- felsesigejr's ball. l am the'only daugh­ ter of one of the richest comhioners in England. I <?ame out t.wo years ago Kd(! I,had not been out very long be- jfore 1 begfin to have offers. I once jread a book called "How Meiln Pro­ pose." Some day I shall write a Sequel |to it. I am competent to do so. What's ariore, 1 could add a chapter to say how (women do it. too. when they are driven (to desperation, though that part is a (great secret. j 1 am not exactly a beauty, but I do jkuow how to dress. A woman who pas that knowledge and the means to kise it needs no more. 1 think I can teay without vanity that my eyes are (good. They are gray and sparkling jand long, with very curly lashes. Act There are plenty of jealous people who (gay that it is only "les beaux ycux de ra cassette" that makes me popular, do not care any more. 1 am idiotical­ ly happy because I know perfectly well Jtliat in the eyes of one man I should jbe just as charming if the "Bellfleld •patent" had never "revolutionized the {cycling world." 1 quote an advertisement, but though • we advertise we are not vulgar. In­ deed. grandpa was a younger son and did not work for his living, preferring to drag up his family on a small al­ lowance. Papa's tastes were different, luckily for me. He being merely a jyounger son's younger son. tlie family (dignity had dwindled and hardly seeni- |ed worth while,,supporting at such pains. | So Sar-una Bellfield is a catch and might have married--a lord--two lords and a knight's eldest son. though that Is beside the mark. My admirers said I was cynical, for sometimes 1 laughed at them, I couldn't help it. I decided at 19 that I had no heart, and that I jwould accept the first really eligible party that cam$ along. It sounded easy. It was easy, until I went into the country to stay with a friend of mine, married to a clergyman who was an • onorable--as well as merely reverend. | was sick of being the Miss Bellfleld. j persuaded m.v fri< nd to let me be a j rst cousin of hers, down at Cherring- j on-on-Tarn. She is a good, easy soul, j is reverence had gone away to a con­ ference. I overpersuaded her. and-- well, I had a lovely time as Miss Kitty {Bent. It was such an innocent sort of name. I took no maid and dressed the part to (perfection in pink ginghams and mus­ lins. Cherriugton-ou-Tarn is a very Squiet spot; the seasons there consist of (two school treats and a flower show. lAt all three 1 met the one man. | He was-the doctor's son at home on 'a holiday, and he fell in love with me was a girt there who lived quite near his mother in- the country^ the twb famk lies were intimate, I 'knew. The girl wis not very young any longer, though she was certainly pleasing. She had a few partners, and lj noticed that when Victor Farquliarson *passed her with a smiling bow she looked disappoint­ ed. Years ago that girl had had what people call a disappointment. She had loved someone'who did not love her. Perhaps she was all the more pained by the marked neglect of an old friend. I saw a touch of sadness in her eyes, and it made me realize sharp­ ly that the attentive cavalier who was asking so humbly what I would give him had no real good nature. . I knew by signs that he meant to "be even more, eiiipresse than usual. He was so handsome that sometimes my heart had beaten quite fast when he had made kmrtcrme;--He-was-staudktg beside me with that devoted air he can put on so well, when I suddenly saw Dj\ Maydwell. Ho looked" older and. rather jaded;*neat enough; but cer­ tainly not fashionable at all. He was very grave when he saw. me. I sup­ pose the young person in radiant gold­ en brocade was not quite the same as Kitty in her Liberty , hat. He just glanced at Major Farquharson, and was obviously going to pass On without even .uskiug me for "a dance! Then it- flished across methat he had a fouuda- j tion, and that he was angry. lie looked quite stern. I dismissed,Major Farqu- harson unmistakably;/"Ten and eleven, if I am here." : I did not care for his annoyance, He had made Ellice Wedderburn unhappy! and lie was showing Mrs. Thesiger how exclusive and superior he was, by be­ ing thoroughly useless. Just to make me a Peile-Farquharson by marriage would be a. supreme honor, he evidently imagined. My own opinion was rather different. I wras not'going to pay for his hunters and other amuse.meuts in exchange for that dubious privilege. Then I held out my hand to Dr. Maydwell. "Have you forgotten mo altogether?" He did look stern; but it rather became him. "I expected to meet a lady who is not here. Miss Bellfield," he began very coldly. "This sort of thin^ is not much in my way, and I think I had better say good-night. I could not resist a chance of meeting Miss Kitty Bent again, but as that is impossible the sooner I get back to my work the better. It was absurd of me to come at all." They were just beginning the barn dance, with that irritating persistent tune. I fixed my eyes oh the swaying figures, some of them so awkward. There was a lump in my throat, and I really couldn't speak. The remem­ brance of the river at Cherringtou, and the sunshine on it, came across me. j He had looked so brown and so cheer- J ful in his canoe; he was so pale, and I so evidently indignant now, that I could j I hardly get the words out. I had never | been afraid of a man before. I was j now.--He evidently meant what he j said. "If I ask you to stay and sit out the ; barn dance you will, surely. I--I-- want to tell you something." He acquiesced so Icily that I felt all j my courage vanishing. We found a lit- i tie room that was empty and sat down. ( I caught him looking at my roses, but j he pretended he was doing nothing of the sort. It was he. who began, after all, to the inappropriate aceompaui- treats her friends can be. nothing' to me." - '• • ' 1 He was hateful, and yet every min- ut| I felt I could not, could not let him go! Quite suddenly I knew that I loved him; that nothing in the /World. mattered, because I knew that he loved me. How did I know? Oh, I can't ex­ plain, but I did. I grew bolder. "You cared once about being my friend, or at any rate you said you did." "Miss Bellfleld, I think- I ought to offer you my congratulations" lind to say good-night. That - idiotic barn dance is over." "Congratulations?" I said it. with a whole string of notes of interrogation. "I mean upon your engagement to Major Peile-Farqufiaraffiar"-He rose W he said this and was turning quickly away when I stopped him. He told me afterward I spoke quite passionately. --"I am^noCengagedto-Major Farqu- harson or any one else. "People have no right to say such things. Down at Cher­ r i n g t o u -- ~ r "Down at Clierrington the village gossips might have fancied that a pen­ niless doctor had been, indiscreet enough to ask a penniless girl to wait for liinr for an indefinite number of years; they were just as far from the truth, probably, much further." All my security vanished, I' felt wretched--so wretched that my eyes were full of tears; one even fell on the roses in my baud. He saw that tear, but he was just as obdurate, just as angry; apparently not even reliev­ ed to hear that I .was free, when I might have been Lady Sandellion but for him. . . I didn't care what I did or what he I thought. "She would have waited all ; her life." | Ilow I got out those seven words I ; wonder still. More tears fell a& I said | them, and there was an awful silence. | Then he began in such a different | voice. | "You cannot mean what you are say- | ing." He was. standing and looking j down intently. He has the best eyes i I ever saw, they are so honest, but I ' could not face them after'that deed of daring. "I mean it with all my heart." "You make it hard for me," he con­ tinued. "When I let Kitty guess I cared for her I thought perhaps a time might come when I could claim the right to ask her to be a poor man's wife; you are a great heiress, and if I am poor I am proud. You force me to tell you that I love you, not to put the foolish question that has but one possi­ ble answer." \ Then I revolted once for all against f i tin- tradition of what is maidenly and right. "Hugh, can't you understand, must 1 tell you that all my money is nothing to me and that I only want you V" He told me later that it was too pa­ thetic, that he had always dreaded to sec a woman cry. But he kissed me, and somehow it all perfectly right and natural. Half an hour later, just as we were so happy, that horrid Major Farquhar- son came for his two dances. "Take care of one of my roses till No. 12, Dr. Maydwell," I said, "and come here then to find me." Y'ou see, I was reckless, I and I wanted the major to 'see how : things were. Hugh took the flowers ' obediently and went off. Positively ' they had put in another barn dance, 1 Major Farquliarson wanted to sit it , , , . . ! out. but I knew better. He must have ment of the barn dance music. j "So $'ou were playing in a little com- | IT GOES TO CHICAGO. DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION TO MEET JULY 7. * World's Fair City Wine on the Twen­ ty-ninth Ballot--St. Louis Defeated by Two Votes--Gotham Gives the Lake City Her Strength. Location Is Named. . ' , The Democratic national convention will be held in Chicago July 7. ^Dliis con­ clusion was reached by the committee in session at Washington after twenty-nine ballots had been taken and the struggle had gone on until well toward midnight. Starting in with but six votes, Chicago steadily gained in favor until she won the prize. At one time the number of votes cast for her was 'but four. Never­ theless her fitness in location won the fight for her. "It was a pure question of geography," saiti one of the most prom­ inent Eastern Democrats and a member Worth ... . " Hyde Park ' Kimball's .. Kuhns .... Liikota .... Led and .... Mitchell . . . 'Oakland ... Ontario'.... Palmer Ttainier Revere .... Richelieu . . Saratoga . . Sherman .. . St. Charles Trom on t . . . Victoria. .; . Wellington . Windermere Total .. . 100 100 100 40 200 • '750 ' 100 10 100 2,000 75 500 200 GOO 1,000 300 400 500 400 150 .15,190 CHAIRMAN 1IARKITV. of the committee. There was no bluster, no buncombe speech-making, no noise of any sort in favor of Chicago, says a Washington correspondent. She won the fight purely upon her merits, and after the individual prejudices of the members in favor of other cities had given way. The detailed vote on the final ballot by States was: Chicago--Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois. Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky. Maine, Maryland. Massachusetts, Michigan. Minnesota. Nebraska, New Hampshire. New York. North Carolina. Oregon. Pennsylvania. Rhode Island, South Da­ kota, Tennessee, Vermont, West Vir­ ginia, Wisconsin, District of Columbia. Alaska. ENGLAND WlLL YIELD. Graceful Backdown Projected in the Venezuelan Matter. Aside from the leisurely manner in which the Venezuelan commission is ar-' ranging to prosecute .its work, there are other indications, says a Washington cor­ respondent, that the administration has become convinced that this august body will not have the honor of settling the great boundary dispute. While itcannot be stated positively that" this belief is based; entirely upon any Specific reports from Ambassador Bayard upon the sub­ ject. yet there is reason to believe; some assurances of a satisfactory nature have" cAme- to ' the State Department that' the; 'matter will be terminated shortly, proh- . ably, :-within. two mchiths or before, a 're­ port can reasonably be expected from the Venezuelan 'commission,1 and upon lines j that will be ••unobjectionable to our gov­ ernment.-..". • ' •' While'details of- the arrangement are not obtainable, and perhaps have- not yet been fixed, it is believed the basis of it will be arbitration as proposed originally by the Fniied States, but with a limita­ tion that will suffice at least to save Brit­ ish pride and appear to maintain British consistency. This is likely to be found in. an agreement between Croat Britain and Venezuela directly, brought about through the good offices of a third party, not nes- eSsarily or probably the United States, to submit to a joint commission the question of the title to all territory west of the Schoni'burgk line, with a proviso that if in the course-of the inquiry of the com­ mission evidence appears to touch the British title to the lands lying to tlie east­ ward of that line the body may extend its functions to adjudicate such title. This arrangement will meet the British contention that tlie'Original arbitration shall be limited to lands'to the westward of the line, while still conceding the jus­ tice of the contention of President Cleve­ land that the lands on the other side may ABOUT FLAX GROWING. THE CHICAGO COLISEUM. wmzsw; J How the Crop la Groivii ajnul the Kf" ' ... feet on the Soil. It is now several years since It was fully demonstrated in this country that the textile fiber known as fibrelia could be manufactured successfully from ft&x straw, aud, although the predictiuuS that it would be, generally used aa a substitute for cotton may not have been entirely fulfilled, it is used to a considerable extent with goods mtule jof wool and cotton. The attention called to the new fiber gave an incen­ tive to flax growing, however, which has resulteif in a much larger acreage of this crop than ever before. Many farms that were abandoned in New England, or in former days raised flax for spinning, were planted with this crop, and the general output, last year was enormous. The real extent to •which fibrelia is used in the manufac­ ture of goods can be gathered partly from the fact that in 1890 over 1,000,- 000 acres of flax straw were burned in the fields after the seed had been gatli- •ered, wliile to-day little, if any, sucli ptraw is thus destroyed. | In the West the. flaxseed is sown, [broadcast for the fiber at the rate, of two bushels to the acre, aud all the cultivation given to it is that required |to keep down the weeds until the leaves Shade- the ground. The plants are al­ lowed to ripen their seeds, and then the straw is pulled' and put. up in small "bundles for drying.' The seeds are thrashed out a good deal as an ordinary farmer would thrash his oats oi* wheat; that is, with a flail or- with a machine thresher, the latter being the. more de­ sirable, as it does not injure the straw so much. Some still resort to the "rot­ ting" process, so common in early New England daj-s. The bundles are taken to the shallow pond or brook, and stood in it with-the butts downward. After standing there for five or ten days the core will come out of the fiber when the stalks are broken. When rotted suf­ ficiently the bundles are taken out with a pitchfork and stood up to drain and dry. The next process is that called "grass­ ing." The stalks are spread out upon the grass and turned over once or twice a day for a week. This improves the color of the fiber. The "breaking" proc­ ess which follows is done by a set of fluted rollers, and the "liatchelling" by a machine that separates the fine and coarse fibers. New and improved ma­ chinery lias, been invented for all of these processes, and some factories take the flax direct from tlie farmers before tlie rotting and bleaching processes have taken place. A good crop of flax will produce (500 pounds of fiber to the acre* Sold in the open market, this means about $70 per acre. But flax seed is exhausting to the soil, and, after it has been grown two or three years on one field, a period of from Ave to eight years should elapse before another crop is planted. The soil has to be heavily manured, from 400 to GOO pounds of mineral fertilizers being required each year to the acre, besides barnyard and other manures. Potash and phosphoric acid are the chief ingredients that tlie soil requires to produce good flax.--Ne Y'ork Trib­ une. HE WAS A hjinER." • " tVIIERK NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION WILL BEHELD .JULY'7. I edy down at Clierrington, and the Miss Bent I knew was a purely imaginary person. Surely it must be pleasantei' to be Miss Bellfield, and to have all London competing for your favor." Major Farquliarson had passed the open door and given a surprised siare at us. as he said this, and I felt I Jiated him for such rudeness. "I was sick of being myself, that' was " why I did it. People pretended 1o like me, and made so much of me, and I knew it was merely money, money." i "AntLwere you successful in finding out if y^j were charming enough to manner 'directly, I thought. He is tremendous- ay clever; they think all the world of j captivate!without it?" His Jiim in his hospital. He is good looking, wag ,.hilff. sarcasm itself. A memory 1 think. He did not propose to me, | ajj he ija(i gaid and looked though there were opportunities. .Tesse | overcame me iwas absorbed with a baby, and she had | „You QUght tQ know- l whlSpered. no idea how often Miss Kitty Bent met Hugh Maydwell. f . At first I did it for fun, but when I got back to London and Major Peile- JTarquharson began to be attentive, then jl knew how much happier Kitty Bent twas than Saranna Belllield. I did not jgive way to my feelings. I rather hated {to realize that I had any. House sur- jgeons of big hospitals don't go in so­ ciety. I dare stfy, they flirt with the purses, horrid things; but that's all. LThen Major Farquliarson came on my orizon-, very young to be a major at 'ail, and very handsome. Luckily I jfouud how utterly selfish lie was other­ wise, as Dr. Maydwell had apparently entirely forgotten Miss Bent: * * * Mamma jis a dear, kind-hearted thing. Sand when I announced that I intended jto go to Mrs. Hay-Tliesiger's with that ihorvid Mrs. Ewart Vane, she let me fjdo it. 1 'told Major Farquliarson to be (there; and then I told mamma he was "oing. It was naug'htv, but one day 1 ot Mrs. Hay-Thesiger to give me a think card for a friend of ours, and ent it to Dr. Maydwell. I wanted him jto see me in my glory, and I wanted still f snore to see if I should like him in la ballroom as much as at Clierrijigton- Son-Tarn. I went warily to workT I Iwrote a short note with the invitation, fiaid I would be there, signed it K. Bent, and wrote on plain paper wit^ pao address! j Very bold and unwomanly, but what [was I to do? I knew lie liked Kitty; If Kitty, -&hy not Saranna Catherine? It w^s his awful pride and independ­ ence that I dreaded. He had told me tery meaningly that he would never, sk a woman to marry him until he' jcould give her a comfortable home. [e never apparently contemplated the ?ossibility that she might have means jto supply that. " It was dreadful, but you see I saw now that if he once went there would onlg' j be misery for me. j He did not even smile. "You sought to break a country heart for pastime ere you went to town," was his rejoin­ der. ! Quotations are not in good taste made like that. He hurt me; he misunder­ stood me. I have my faults, but I am not heartless. I have *>nly done as otber people do--in fact, less than most of them. I plucked up courage and tried again. "I think, Dr. Maydwell, you are mas­ querading as much as I was, or else you really have become quite differ­ ent; you never.talked like that when you were boating on the Tarn." "No, I made a fool of myself by talk­ ing nonsense; most people do when it doesn't rain in August." Now. could anything be stupider? Here was Hugh Maydwell--a man who had got gold medals in physiology, or pathology, or sometliing- cdhducting a conversation as if he had not two ideas in his head. been obtuse not to have guessed. I felt so utterly content I thought every­ body wotdd notice my face. We danc­ ed. There is something hopelessly sen­ timental about a barn dance. I was iu mad spirits now. Mamma and papa are dears and quite manageable; there would be scenes, but I should have my way in the end. Providen­ tially the Maydwclls are a very old family, and mamma, who came of no family at all, so to speak, is very par­ ticular on that point. Hugh's mother had a pedigree that would bear the most searching scrutiny. To face the parents was a minor af­ fair, indeed, after the awful ordeal I had come through. My partner was very gloomy. He did not respond to my j liveliness, and was as stiff as a poker in the dance. He took me into the con­ servatory in the interval and I let him say his say. He said it most conde­ scendingly. Lord Sandellion had been careful to let me realize what an honor he was doing me, but even he was nothing to Major Farquliarson. I lis­ tened with a sort of satisfaction, and I then 1 refused him point blank. 1 had no want of fluency in this ease, 1 but I have never seen any created be­ ing look as amazed as he did. I am no scalp hunter, yet I absolutely reveled in the prospect of telling Hugh this oc- j curreuce. I 1 glanced up at him and added coolly: j "The fact is, I am engaged already." j "That being the case, there is nothing I more to be said, except that you have behaved heartlessly to me." He tried j to put on a disconsolate air, but it was | a dead failure. I smiled: j "You cared nothing for me, so I need not say I am sorry; you must have a | wife who will admire you. and I never i did." lie was very angry, but far too dignified to show it. And I went back to Hugh. 1J We were married at the end of the ^ season, and I am the happiest woman "At any rate you were very much ^ }n England. I thought I would write more civil to Kitty Bent than you are ; ja case any other poor girl is bur- to Saranna Bellfield, yet they are on and the same." dened with a fortune, as I was. I read a story once about proposals from la "Indeed, they are nothing of the sort." , dieg 0uo „irl in it told hor friend that ..•-•There was a lovely<rose at Cherring- rn in the vicarage garden. Reve d'or. used to wear the buds in my white Sgown. I got a dress for the ball of their jexact shade. I wore one in my hair, iquite in the old heroine style that has jcouie back again, and I had a very (simple posy to match, instead of carry- sing Major Farquharson's big, rather jvulgar creation of orchids. j There" were'not five people who were lin society at Mrs. Thesiger's. But the iball was thoroughly well done, and ex­ cept Ma jor Farquharson no oue appear­ ed to be at all sensible of the fact.'Tliere he broke in hotly. "The one was a simple country girl full of pure thoughts aud high ideals. She was as poor as 1 am; we met on the same level. With Miss Bellfleld, in her fashionable splendors, with her great fortune, I have nothing,, can have nothing to do. I Your trick was an unfair one; you took advantage of my ignorance. Only a woman would be clever enough to put ou another manner, another nature, with a big hat and a pink gown." !^(Vme'tin-ff- f -\\'^s <'tw^rexl bv . his re- membering the color. It was a Paris dress really, and had cost a frightful amount. For that adorable simplicity they know how to charge. I daresay he thought that if he married somebody on nothing a year she would wear frocks and hats of that pattern.- All the time the dancers were in front of us and that tune kept buzzing on. " t did not put on another nature---1. I couldn't if I .tried. I think you are most cruel. Jp^uppose you think I change my friends as easily as I do my clothes?" "The way in which Miss Bellfield "it simply wasn't done." She was wrong, you see.--Black and White. Bark Volumes, but Not Rooks. Long before the first printed book, great, men and small men alike were in the habit of publishing their works. It was a very heavy job, for every copy was written out, on the inner bark of such trees as the lime, ash, elm and beech. The Latin name of this bark was fiber, and in time it came to be ap- -pfied.-becauso of this uso of it, to books both of the old sort and the new: These bark books-were rolled up, partly to preserve the writing and partly for convenience, and they used a.lso to be wound around a staff or cylinder, and, if they were very long, arouud two cylinders. These scrolls, wrapped around rods, were passed about from friend to friend, •, St. Louis--Alabama, Arkansas, Califor­ nia, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kan­ sas, Louisiitna, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Smith Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia. Washington. Wyoming. Ari­ zona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Indian territory. Cincinnati--Ohio. Chicago was voted for on the final round by all the distinguished Democrats upon the committee. Clark Howell, Sen­ ator Gorman, .iosia'h Quincy of Massa­ chusetts. William F. Sheehan of New Y^ork. William F. llarrity of Pennsylva­ nia, Bradley B. Smalley of \ ermont, E. (3. Wall of Wisconsin and others promi­ nent in national or State affairs, all voted for Chicago. The understanding is that the Chicago delegation will be expected to have a cer­ tified check for $40,000 ready for the ex­ ecutive committee when it arrives in Chi­ cago three weeks hence. This will be turned over to the committee, with the keys to the convention hall, and then tilt- Chicago delegation will step down and out and leave the entire management of the convention in the hands of the na­ tional committee. There is to be no appointing of ser- geant-at-arms or other officers by the Chi­ cago people, aiid no claim for large num­ bers of tickets with which the convention hall can be packed. Everything is to be left absolutely to the national committee. It is expected that that committee will allot -a certain number of tickets to the Chicago people, but how many or upon what terms lias not been decided. The Chicago delegation was quite willing to leave that matter in the hands of the .national committee, content with getting the national convention and preferring to place the responsibility for its manage­ ment in the hands of that organization, and thus avoid any criticism as to mis management, such as has been made with reference to a former Democratic convention held in that city. After the location had been decided upon the committee promptly took up the question of the date for holding the con­ vention, and the issue was soon sharply defined by two motions, one to hoTd it June 2 and another that it be held July 7. The vote resulted .'52 to 18 in favor of July 7. Can Handle the Crowd. - Cliicagoans claim that no other city in the country can furnish anything like the facilities for handling the crowds that acompany a national convention as well as can Chicago. To obtain hotel accom­ modations it will not be necessary for visitors to sleep on cots in hallways nor in chairs in reading and sipoking rooms, and the transportation facilities from the center of the city to the likely convention hall are ample. According to the follow­ ing table forty-three hotels are ready to accommodate over 15,000 guests, besides taking care of their regular patrons: properly be taken into consideration in tixing the boundary. Possibly a supple­ mentary arbitration will be left to deal with the question as to the title of tbp eastward lands, if the original commission dealing wi*li the matter shall find that the title to the lands is a tit subject for arbi­ tration as shown by the evidence produc­ ed before it. At the Budapest -millennial exhibition next year there will be another steel tower the Eiffel tower, but l,02o feet high, instead of 1)75. The old ice bridge at Niagara Falls was swept out by high water, carrying away the Canadian dock and part of the Amer­ ican dock. Another . bridge is forming, greater than the first. English tradesmen are indignant be­ cause the dried potatoes, carrots and tur­ nips provided for the Ashantee expedition were ordered by tlie Government in Ger­ many. Count Tliun. governor of Bohemia, has resigned and his resignation is expected to lead to a healing of the breach be­ tween the Young Czechs and the Ger­ mans. Bicycles have been admitted into the grounds of the exclusive botanical gar­ den in Regent's park. They must not, A Text and Its Application. Lord Chancellor Erskine, the great lawyer, was honorably distinguished for his love of animals, lu his younger days, during a walk on Hampstead Heath, he caw a carter cruelly thrash­ ing a wretched-looking horse. Taking the man to task for his brutality, the carter replied that the horse was his own. and lie would use it as he pleased; and suiting the action to the word, he beat it afresh. This was more than Erskine could stand. So. raising his walking-stick, he struck the man sever­ al blows with it across bis back. Where­ upon. in a whining tone, the carter ask­ ed Erskine what business he had to hit him. "Why." said the lawyer, "my stick's my own. Mayn't 1 use it as I please?" Pcculiar Groaiid Advariccd to Sccnre a Divorce. ' "Anon"., sehds the following story to the Republican accompanied by a sworn statement to the effect that it is a true nar/ntive. The characters are, of course, unknown«to us, and the moral ditto, the story being presented for the light it throws upon a queer phase of modern life that, is not un­ known in this city. We proceed with the manuscript of "Anon:" «•' She was about, forty-five years old, w;ell dressed,- had black hair, rather thin and tinged with gray, and eyes in which gleamed the fires of a determina­ tion not ea-sily balked.. She-walked in­ to the office of a well-known law firm in Court Square Theater Building aud requested a private audience with Mr. C. Having obtained it and satisfied herself, that the law students were not listening at the keyhole, she said slow­ ly, solemnly and impressively: "I want a divorce!" "What for? I supposed you had one of the best of husbands." said Mr. €>.-• "L s'pose that's what, everybody thinks, but if they, knew what I have- suffered for many years, they'd wonder I hadn't scalded him long ago, I ought, to. but for tl,ie sake of the young ones I've born^it/ahd said nothing. . I've told him,, though, what lie might de­ pend on, aud now the time's come. I won't stand it, young ones or no young dnes."1 I'll have a divorce, and if the neighbors want to blab themselves hoarse, about it They can, for T * won't stand it another day." . < "But. what's' the matter? Doesn't your "husband provide for you? Does­ n't tie treat you kindly? " pursued Mr. C. "We got victuals enough, and I don't know but he's as'true and kind as men in general, and he's never knocked any of us down. 1 wish he had; then I'd get him into jail and know where he was nights," retorted the woman. "Then what is y<Jur complaint against him ?" ^ "Well, if yoi#must know, he's one of them plaugey jSiners." "A what?" "A j'iner--one of them pesky fools that's always j'ining something. There can't nothing come along that's dark and sly and hidden but he j'ines it. If anybody should get. up a society, to burn my house down, he'd j'ine it just as soon as he could get in; and if he had to pay for it. he'd go all the suddener." --Springfield Republican. Didn't Do a Thing to Hutch. One of the biggest corners Hutch en­ gineered. in the fall of 1SXD, was partly the result of an accident. He was on the board, trading in his rough and ready style, and fcoonTtrtmd lie was get­ ting well loaded with wheat. On leav­ ing the room he heard hisNiame men­ tioned and caught a sentence to this effect: "And then we ^on'1 do a tiling to Hutch." There were two men iit the. conversa­ tion and Hutch noted them -altd passed on. Hutch then started in to buy all the- wheat in sight. He explained to a friend afterward he was actuated sim­ ply by a desire to "force those two men to make good." He kept quietly at work until five days before the end of the month. Then he pushed wheat up f> cents. The next day he jumped it 20 cents. Most of the crowd who were in the scheme to "do" him settled at this figure. The next day there was no material change, but the fourth day there was another boost, and wheat reached 1(50. Hutch sent word to those of the opposition who were left that they could settle at that price, but the two he was after wei;e left to be the victims of the final stab, when wheat reached the $2 mark. Thus history was made because two men chanced to think and say that they could run down B. P. Hutchin­ son.--Chicago Times-Herald. Japanese Printers. The Japanese are great newspaper readers. There are now fifty daily journals published in Tolcio alone, al­ though the first Japanese newspaper appeared only a quarter of a century ago. It is no joke to set the type of a native journal in the mikado's king­ dom. Instead of comparatively few characters as in England, a Japanese printer's case contains' nearly 4,000 types. Each compositor is assisted by several boys, who run about the com­ posing room calling out the names of each piece of type required in turn. Further, each compositor must set the whole of an article, as the lines of ?ach column read downward, not aeros3 the paper. Rattlesnake Not a Plaything. A young fellow one day fell a-.eas- however, be brought near the museums 1 jni; a rattlesnake with a cart-wliip. By and conservatories. A new knapsack attachment without straps is being tried on the Gordon High­ landers. The pack is fastened to the shoulders by metal, hooks, and is prevent­ ed from wabbling by a back plate, /' Fo'reignets who are not bachelors of arts or science are to be excluded from the Paris medical schools, as the labora­ tories are overcrowded, and even enough and-by the serpent got really angry, and made for its tormentor, who foolishly kept on provoking it. Irritated at last beyond endurance, the creature forced him to fly; but the faster he '-an the quicker the snake wriggled after him, and he saw that at a fence only a lit­ tle way ahead he should meet his doom, for he could not climb it in time. So he A Lunch Astray. At Middlesborough recently two boys were playing in the street late at night, when there came from tlio farther side a voice calling "Willie, Willie, quick come." One of the boys, thinking it was some one who knew him, crossed over, when, from out of the darkness, came two hands, thrust­ ing into ins something soft, hot and very uncomfortable to touch. "Good- by; kiss ine." said a voice. A pretty face was put forward, a scream and down the area steps disappeared a cook. Going to the next lamp, Willie opened the mysterious packet. It was a pile of delicious-looking pancakes. How Willie used to laugh when he told us how that poor policeman lost his supper that night!--London Telegraph. subjects for dissection cannot be ob- turned upon his pursuer, and was for- GreatncBs, "Aud some," she sobbed, "have great­ ness thrust upon them." She had dieted, and trained, and all Metro pole that, but in vain.--Detroit Tribune. Normandie . ... I • i ' ' ' o Alabama Hotel. . Atlantic Ashland Auditorium Brevoort B riggs . . . ^ Chicago Beach. . . Chicago View City Hotel Clifton Columbia Congress ... Gault Grace Granada • Great Northern. . Bismaryk.. ...... Del Pratlo . . . ... Imperial ....... Le Grand....... Luzerne 1,'vO 500 100 1,000 500 4(10- 4(H) 20 200 800 1(H) 1,000 500 300 150 1.000 30 150 50 50 40 - / 125 l(Kt> tained. In bidding for the new first-class cruis­ ers for the British navy there was but 1 per cent difference between tlie bids of the three competing firms. About $2,- 150,000 will be paid for each 11,000-ton vessel. - >• Yoriek, the humorous writer of the Fanfulla, whose real name is Pietro Fer- rigini, is dead. For thirty years he.stood at the head of the small number of Ital­ ian journalists who can be purposely amusing. During 1894, 3.315 patents relating to electricity were granted in Great Britain, the United States and Germany. Of these 1.130 were British, being one-twen­ tieth of all British patents. 1.704 were American and 481 were German. When horseless carriages come in good sanitation? the Lancet points out, will be a simpler matter! There will he an end to the contagion from the stable pit. and glanders and other diseases derived from the horse will disappear. Iii Stcpniak's last book he stated that Russia stands third among the nations in the number of books published, surpass­ ing Great Britain. As but little fiction is printed, the enormous output of serious literature is the more reinarkaye. The health of Prince Bismarck and of Field Marshal Dvon Blumenthal, chief of the general's staff of the Prussian army, will not permit either to take part in the festivities in Berlin attending the twen­ ty-fifth anniversary of the proclamation of the German empire. -- . -- » tunately able io throw the lash around It and stop its progress. He played with it no longer, but slew it with punctuality and dispatch. Blunt Old Blackie. . Prof. Blackie was asked once to pre­ side at a temperance meeting, and, be­ ing of an amiable-turn of mind, he con­ sented; but lie? dul jiot help the cause much, for this is what he said: ° "I cannot understand why 1 am ask­ ed to be here. I am not a teetotaler- far from it. If a man asks me to dine with him, and does not give me a good glass of wine, I say that he is neither a Christian nor a gentleman. Germans drink beer. Englishmen wine, ladies tea, and fools water." i --:TliiTyoi-[-surely^wesoin-ethingtG your fellow man," said the.genial citi­ zen to the person who sneers fit holi­ days. "I know it," was the reply. "But I won't be able to tell just how much till the bills for my wife's Christmas shopping come in."--Washington Star. Watts--Statesman Witts says he never pays any attention to the papers. Potts--So? I wonder how he gets hold of all his jokes?--Indianapol^kmrnal When two wo;men meet who have babies of about the same age, there Is a. scene of great animation. Made His Father Disgorge. General Skobeleff. the famous Rus­ sian soldier was a notorious son. His father happened to be a. general also, Skobeleff Sr.. took care of his wordly goods, while Skobeleff Jr. had no re­ gard for money--that is, when he had any. So long as the father was the sou's superior in rank things went all right for the father, but when the son was promoted over the father's head there came a sad change. Whenever his martial progenitor refused to give him money Skobeleff Jr. threatened to order the poor old man under arrest, aud sometimes did not hesitate to exe­ cute his threat, despite the prayers and tears of the unlucky parent. He always had money henceforth. Not Safe. A carpenter sent to make some re­ pairs in a private house, eutered the apartment of the lady of the house with Lis appro- "Miii • (#*? .. * •"ed to her ser­ vant, "set? xha tiny jW - *+ , ocked at once!" The carpenter understood. He re­ moved his watch and chain from his waistcoat with a significant air and gave them to his apprentice. "John," he said, "take, these back to tlie shop. It seems that the house isn't (wife."--New York Journal. Disfigured by Seeing a Cruel Act. A scene of .terrible distress is report­ ed in the family of Farmer Gullet, north.of Melvin. ill. it appears that a neighbor crushed a. cat in the presence of Mr. Gullet's little-5-year-old. daugh­ ter. The horror and fright threw tlio child into spasms, from which she was aroused with difficulty, and was stupid, with the face dyawn to one side and the legs practically useless. Eminent phy­ sicians were called, but nothing could be done for tlie little child, and she suf­ fered until death came to her relief.