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V”- .. --‘. £5th 1. WOMEN TOILERS IN FRAME Desiring to see something of the home life of French women, of the Wage‘ pon dent from Paris. I had easily accepted the comfortable middle-class habit of breakfasting at 9 or 16 in the morning. It was not a ,‘oyful experience, therefore,to be roused at 6 am, nor was it pleasant to drws‘ in a room the cold stone floor and damp walls of which suggested some ancient dungeon. However, I had earnestly sought this very privilege, so In the kitchen I found madame pre- paring coffee over a. tiny alcohol stove. Monsieur, a cooper by trade, was array- ed in his working blouse and just go- ing out to the bakery. Extreme simp- licity characterized alike the table ser- vice and the breakfast.» Three earth- enware bowls and a loaf of coarse bread were set on the bare table.‘ I can still taste that how] of black coffee. I had readily adopted the custom of drinking a tiny glass of “cafe noir” after dinner, but it tastes very differently in the morning. I thought it worse than the cheapest brands and there was neither milk nor sugar available to modify the flavor. However, I managed to take my bowl with due politeness, and furtively looked around for some butter to make the bread more palatable. But there wasn’t any. The loaf was broken in three portions, and we breakfasted by dipping the bread in the coffee. I wrapped m) self in discreet silence, and L thick steamer rug, and strove to ap- Jear cheerful. - “Oh, yes, yes; Lt is very good,” she said quickly, "but we do not afford it. Sugar costs 120. a. {pound and milk 40. a pint. Coffee alone is very dear. “76 pay 600. a pound." Madame disposed of the kitchen work by simply rinsing the bowls and coffee- pot in cold water. She said we would "make the chambers at the noon inter- mission. Aa we were clearing the table I said to madame; “Don’t you like cof- fee with milk and sugar 3” 1 simply gasped when she mentioned the_price. Madame {had no coquetry about her personal appearance on working days. The severely plain ’dress of common, dark cotton was made with a loose jack- et and skirt. The small tight sleeves were explained thus, by madame: “I have balloon sleeves in the latest mode for my best dress; but they take too much cloth for a {working cos_tume.‘_” She made so much noise clattering over the stone floor that Iwas curious about hex shoes. Truth oompels_me t9 say that. they were not entirely of wood. Leather tops and wood soles made a. durable, though not an elegant foot :overing. Shoes of this sort cost $1.40 a. pair. My friend wasted no money on head-gear for everyday wear. A? sort of woolen hood was put on the head and the ends fastened about the waist. Yet, madame, being young,pret- ty, and tolerably neat, looked rather, attracnive in this coarse attire. Everybody takes two hours at mid- day for “dejeuner,” and the family re-- turned at 113.111. \Vhile “making” the chambers, I looked over the furniture and the rooms. 'PeOple here like to live near their work. and it is the custom to huddle the tall stone houses into a. labyrinth of narrow dark streets. The mild climate tempts people to econo- mize fuel, though I think it is at the expense of health and comfort, The thick stone walls keep the houses cold and damp, even when the atmosphere is quite warm. The people live out of doors and in the cafes as much as pos- sible, regarding home as a place in Which to eat and sleep. _ lV'“ UV v‘vv ‘v-- ‘â€" My friends’ flat consisted three tiny rooms on the fourth floor. There was neither city water nor sewerage, The narrow street and tall houses effectu- ally shut out the sunshine, but madame did not seem to care about. that. “The sun shines every day in the factory," she said. The room assigned to me con- tained only the most necessary furni- ture. The wardrobe and dressing case in madame’s room were rather clumsy and looked a century old; but the design was quaint and the wood had acquired a beautiful color. She had purchased these articles from' a second-hand deal- er at a marvelous bargain, and assured me that “few working people had any- thing like that in their homes.” The bed- stead was adorned with an elaborate canOpy of Chintz curtains. vV' â€"â€"_â€" w The kitchen had a. shelf for dishes, a table and three chairs. The only ap- proach to a. stove was a. tiny stone re- ceptacle for charcoal, built; out. from the chimney. It was not used by this family, however, they bought cooked flood at shops in the vicinity, The simplicity in house furnishing elimin- ated much of the work usually incid- ental to housekeepipgx. The house seemed rather lonesome, and I remarked to madame: “You have no children 2” “Oh, yes; a little boy, 2 years old.” I hadn’t seen or heard him anywhere. so I said tentatively: “He is nof here?” "No no; he is at a Ivillage in the Mantime Alps. f’ “â€"‘V‘tOn a visit to some relatives. per- ham-'1‘) \V’ith an impatient shrug at my stup- idity, madame explained: “It’s the cusâ€" tom to send our Children away to be reared directly after birth. Almost the only exception is when one has to sup- port an aged motmer at home. In that case she may care for the child." f It toqk m'e some time. to fully assimi- late this remarkable place of Informa- “You see the baby often?" I ventured “No,” said the mother, briskly. "Once, maybe twice a. wear. It is ex- pensive to go so far.” “Are you not lonely for him 9’” Madame assumd me placidly that she was not lonely, and found her factory companions more interesting than a tiny child. It 00% $7 a [month for the child’s care; and while thls was aheavy expense in proportion ito the . wages earned by the couple». they evzdently never questioned“ the Wisdom of the plan. Maidame grew hilarious when I tried tc describe American home life. - “So drolll' So very extraordinary,” she exclaimed, “for a married woman to stay at home with her children, in- stead of earning wages to help her husband. (Anyhow, it would be impos sible here, for a man does not earn enough to keep a wife and children.” The latter remark ‘ really explain- ed the custom. It is an absolute neâ€" cessity for the wife ‘to work every .day and supplement the husband’s . earnings. The families are usually very small; one or two children is the usu- al number. Of course there are excep- tions. One woman in the tobacco fac- tory had six children, the eldest only 7 years old; yet she had never been absent from the factory more than seven weeks at any, one time. The women regarded that matron and her family with stern disapproval. “\Vhy do you marry, when you have neither home life nor the companion- “\Vhy do you marry, when you have neither home life nor the companion- ship of your children?” I asked. “It is the custom to marry,” replied madame. “An unmarried woman ov- er 20 years of age is not well regarded." She either could not or would not give any further explanation of the marri- age custom. . l __ .L-_ qumm-m‘. #A finn,_ wev vwvvmu I was now getting too hungrx to con- tinue inquiries about domestic life, qnd madame invited me to go shopping W'ith her. - \ A ‘- . ‘. V'lu ‘ “v... \Ve bought a quart of “Vin ordinaire” for Sc, a loaf of bread at the Boulangerie for 40, a quart of bouillon at the Bon- chere for 100, and a late of hot spinach at the Charcuterie or 60. The bouil- lon, heated over the alchol stove, formed With bread, the first course. The tha bowlful of soup merely whetted my ap- petite. The plate of spinach made about two bites apiece. A glass of wme finished the meal. Madame and herI husband had evidently made a very sat-w isfactory meal, and were quite uncon-1 selous that I had not done likewise. As, a sacrifice to politeness I said that I 11353 an excellent meal and that everything” tasted very good. So it did. My men- tal reservation was that I had only had a taste. The working day closes at 6 o’clock. Before going home we stepped in to a cafe, where monsieur and madame had their evening glass of absinthe. A spoonful is diluted with a glass of wa- iter and the mixture sweetened. The icafe was crowded with people, all of {whom ordered absinthe. It is ' very | cheap, costing only 3c a glass. I dld not. like the stuff, it reminded me of a cheap soda fountain mixture. It has no alco- holic flavor. “You like absinthe?” I queried. "Oh, yes,” they responded in chorus. :‘Qne must always have a glass orntwo __A_‘-‘-â€"A.‘ .l. “'63 uuvv EUDUIHIE uw u.._o-., -_. __ inue inquiries about domestic life, anâ€"d his discovery ‘300‘ years ago, and Peter madame mvited me to go shopping Ka‘lm, the famous Swedish naturalist. vith- her. i . \Ve bought a quart of “vin ordinaire” had WI’l'tten about the resources of the or Be, a loaf of bread at the Beulangerie country as fa;- back as 1750; but at the Tor 40, a quart of bouillon at the Bouâ€" time of the capitullation. in 1763. the :h r for 100, and a late of hot s inach , . _ , Ltetlie Charcuterie or Go. The phouil-- POPUIIat-IO‘D cons1sted of only 3300‘“? 70,000 on, heated over the alchol stove, formed French-Canadians, and from the St. mth bread, the first course. The tiny: Lawrence river to the Pacific ocean was Jowlful of soup merely whetted my ap- practically an immense waste. Jetite. The plate of spinach made ibout two bites apiece. A glass of wme ROOM. FOR MANY MILLIONS” finished the meal. Madame and herl Proceedmg w1t‘h has subject, Mr. husband had evidently made a very sat-' ‘Va‘lker said that how; little a com- lsfactory meal, and were quite uncon- ‘ Immunity could live on was show n by the SCIOllS that I had not done likew1se. l inhabitants of Gaspe and Musk'oka. The As a. sacrifice to politeness I said that I 3.135} . an excellent meal and that everything; statement that the. savnngs of the tasted very good. So it did. My men'lworld thus far amounted to only ten tal reservation was that I had only had l months’ food supply and about three a taste. The working day closes at 6 o’clock. Years’ annual. income enabled us to per- Before going home we stepped in to a; ceive what we had in our control. Many cafe. where mousmur and madame had. millions could live in Canada in simple . I . C . o A: . . . ggfifuivgmdfiutiilmwitfi :gsfalistshgf waâ€" =, comfort, but we had 11“th asplrations, ter and the mixture sweetened. The”. both personal and national, which we cafe was crowded with people: all of? would succeed in realizing in proportion whom ordered absinthe. It IS very i ' x . ' -' * cheap, costing only 3c a glass. I did not; i0 the “ lSdoim we display, especially i like the stuff, it reminded me of a cheap; in regard to the development Of our g soda fountain mixture. It has no 3100- ; national resources. l holic flavor. l Referring to the question of our .10“ hke’ absinthe 2” I queried. l nationafl property in raw materials, Mr. \Valker said that we had three! before dinner. It 15 €111 a PBt-129T3' iolasses of raw materials ill) Canada You are DOt afraid 0 getting the! which» answered this definition, nazme- bs° t. ' -' t do . . :itlilodlte flag”, and being unable 0 1y, that whleh was now producrng that. “I think we already have the habit”? profit, that which womld do so if work- said the young woman. "“76 bot'lli dri’fii? ed, that .is if there w‘iat‘S the capital. re- more than “'3 dld a-y ear ago. cou aquisite for that purpose, and that not et alon without. m evenin :é glassg" g y gi which did not now do so because of “Don’t you think it bad (for thei its geographical position. There. were health? ladso two kinds as to destructabilityâ€" "Oh, 'esl oh, 'esl” chi- dmadame. , , "\Ve (will it they route $91119 lunatici that which was not replaced, as tim- asylum, Absinthe. is alkali and burns! her, and that which reproduced itself, out the nerves. But what difference?l an example being the successive crops One lives only once.” . a For dinner we purchased a little plate on farm lamds. _W.hievher .or not we of boiled beef for 15o, another loaf were de-velopmg the right klnd of raw of bread and Gruyere cheese for 40. The materials with reference to these facts latter IS 25c a pound. I quite agreed was a mighty subject. with the. shOp-keeper, who called our nnrnhasp. a “netite morsel.” I CODId THE AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS. '7 ovuv“v :‘I think we alreaéy have the habit." send the young woman. ”\Ve both drmk more than we did a-year ago. I copld. npt get along without my evenlng 0â€"m~v “Don’t you think it bad (for the health 3” “Oh, yes! oh, yes!” chirped madamg. “We call it the route to. the lunatm asylum, Absinthe. is alkah apd burns out the nerves. But What dfiference? 0n_e livgs only once.”_ - 101:! 1-1..- w..- â€"â€"- vâ€" v..-“ vâ€""â€" For dinner we purchased a little plate of boiled beef for 150, another loaf of bread and Gruyere cheese for 40. The latter is 25c a pound. I quite agreed With the shop-keeper, who called our purchase a “petite morsel.” I could have eaten the bread, cheese and meat' myself; likewise the dandelion salad which followed; but it was supposed to make a meal lor three. Madame gen- erously offered to “encore" my portion of meat, and therefore deprive herself, but I heroically refused. I wanted to live for one day as they dld always. The French are accustomed to scant food and small variety. ' This family’s bill of fare varies very little from week to week. It is a good illustration of the standard of living among the best paid workers; there are many'forced to exist on much! ess. I estimated the day’s living expense for three, thus: Breakfast. 60; dejeuner. 280; dinner, 26c; making 200 for each. or 400 for the usual family. To money eur’s and madame's daily expenses were added absinthe tic, alcohol, for fue1,§c. ““v “wuâ€"“v” gnd km for wv'inév'afid.iéi=gé.rette§ in the evening at the cafe; glvmg a. dally total of (360 for living expenses, ‘‘‘‘‘ "Miami; {V2153 vefy acute little per-o son, and managed to see my cglculatlg‘n. i féared mar? had given' offense. 0n. the contrary, sshe kindly showqd me her account of income and expendltures for the previous month. Meals and Wine Care of child Child’s clothing \Vashing . . Madame, 700 per day Monsieur, 800p per day Monsieur sometimes earned $1 a day. but had so many idle days that the daily wages that month only averaged 800. So they had $2.34 a month for clothing and incidental expenses. _-_ 33.. \Ve adjourned to the caie after dim- ner and passed the evening there. It was more comfortable than the home. being warm and well lighted. All the friends and acquaintances gathered there. The air was soon thick With smoke, and there was a perfect babel of tongues. The women drink Wine. but do not smoke. There was much hilarity and animated conversation, yet no approach to intoxication. The com- mon wine of the country contains little alcohol, and a glass or__two suffices for the whole evening. They thoroughly enjoy the relaxation from the sterner realities of life. All their evenings are spent at the cafe. Often there is music or amateur theatricals. The cafe is the one bright Spot in the worker’s nar- row life; and with their vivacious and pleasure-loving temperament, amuse- ment and social diversion is a real ne- cessity. To them the cafe atonee for many other privations. Benton Wilson was liberated from a \Vashington State penitentiary dur- ing the hohdays on pardon, after having served two years of a long sentence that. he had received on a confession o fmurder, which he had made to shield his father. The two were charged two years ago vn'xth the murder of Bentn years ago with the murder of Benton \Vilson’s brother-m-law,‘ and'the father ‘A~v” \ Béing tr'iéévfirrstt am} the prospect be- ing dark for bun, 111's son got up and nonlessed- that ne (nd the' liming. EXPENSE. INCOME. 1- 8-91.!“ '4' -“9' 1 $36 66 $18 20 20 80 $33 00 $29 19. Hr. B. E. Walker Speaks About Them at the Canadian (‘lnh in Hamiltonâ€"Some In- [.eregtiug Statistics About our Country. Before the Canadian Club of Hamilton the other night, Mr. B. E. VVaiker, the general manager of. the Bank of Com- merce, delivered an interesting lecture on “The Natural Resources of Canada.” 30MB OF THE GREAT RESOURCES OF THIS COUNTRY. {HE WEALTH OF CANADA BIL \Vaflker poimted out that the basis of love of country was not the fertility of the land and its goodness to the people who cultivated it, nor was it either the physical beauties of the coun- try .or its historical associations. But the true root of this feeling was such intimacy with the qualities ofacountry as was sufficient to enable its inhabi- tants to conceive it as a. Whole. Canada, however, (had only been 111 existence since 1867. Cabot had made his discovery 300 years ago, and Peter Kallm, the famous Swedish naturalist, had written about the resources of the Forty-five per cent. of our people were engaged in agriculturefand it was only desirable that the percentage should be far larger. At the date of Confederation the agricultural ex- ports were under $20,000,000, and now they were over $50,000,000, including animal and dairy products. That was a great deal of money, but small as compared with the exports of other countries. Canada was now only beâ€"- ginning to be mentioned as a wheati country, yet our wheat brought the highest prices in Europe and had taken gold medals at London, Chicago and San Francisco. Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Assiniboia and Alberta possessed 239,- 000,000 acres, of which only 7,832,000 were used for crops or ranching. \Vheat was also being grown within the arctic circle. Canada could equal any country in raising wheat when the condltlons were equal. CATTLE TRADE IN THE VVES-T. Speaking of the growth. of the cattle trade in the west. Mr \VaJker said that it was in 1890 that. the first car load of cattle was shipped from the North- west, as previous to that time those engaged in the trade had only been acquiring stock from which to breed. In 1895 $1,000,000 worth: of cattle had been sent out from here, Whilst last year Manitoba had exported 13,800 cat- tile, and had packed and exported 26,- 000 hogs. He also spoke of the enor- mous trade there would be when Mani- g toba possessed the. same stock as On-i tario, illustrating his points by the aid; of the following instructive table:â€"â€" % Manitoba Ontario Dominion Farm Stock. 1895. 1895. 1891. . Horses ....... 95,000 650,000 1 ,500,000 Catt ie ......... 210,000 2,150,000 4,200,000 Sheep ......... 34,000 2,000,000 2,600,000 Swine ......... 37,000 1,300,000 1,800,000 Poultry (sold at home, 226,000) 7,800,000. 1 'ABOUT OUR FISHERIES. The fisheries of the country came next. Mr. \Valker pointed out that the coast line of British COIUIm’ifia. was more than 7,000 milesâ€"twice that of the British Islesâ€"and the east- ern coast line up only to Belle Isle was 5,600 miles. There was also 15,000 square miles of inshore salt water, and 36,350 square miles of fresh ' water. The catch of the last 25 years . in the east included 100,000,000 cod, 50,000,000 herring, forty-five million lob- _ ster. 36,000,000 mackerel, 38,000,000 sal- mon and- 12,000,000 haddock. The men j emplloyed numbered 70,000. The catch of herring, r thitefish and salmon trout JLMAU wvw-vu -v -â€"â€"I - .. In British Columbia the value of the catch in 1876 was $105,000; in 1894 it was $4,000,000. The salmon caught in the past twelve years was worth $21,- 500,000. Our chain of lakes extended rLght_ cup. to H’pdeon Bay, which itself -__1-_--AJ-:“]A "1‘“ “5..., u, ........ ,- contaianed an almost inexhaustible sup-§ ply of fish, which might in the future‘ be the food supply of aportion of the‘: pomulation of the. United States. CANADA’S GRAND FORESTS. Spe-ak’zmg'of the Canadian forests, Mr. ‘ Walker said that they had already beeng denuded Lof oak, elm, sycamore and wal- ‘ nut. In white pine, however, Canada; was m the lead. The great bulk of thei world's su ply of white pine was ini Canada. Vhat we had would last for 100 years if any care was taken of it. The belt commenced at the southern edge of Algonquin Park and Inoved west and north to the Gauti‘neau, Bou- longe and Black River districts. In the Latter localities it was rapidly repro- ducing itself. The most valuable-timâ€" ber asset we had, however, was the spruce timber. Reproducing itself as it gdid it was practically inexhaustible, and, in addition, it was of a much bet- ter quality than that which grew in Europe. Canada already supplied Eu- rope with timber for pulp for the best paper, and the next step should be to make the paper itself here. The British Columbia forests, with their immense trees, could not literally be said to be inexhaustible, but the quantity was so great that that was practically the Before concluding, Mr. Walker re- ferred to the mineral resources of Can- ada. He stated that in 1895 the metal- lic products, including gold, silver, nickel, copper and lead, were worth. $6;370,146; . the nonâ€"metallic products, which» consisted of coal, stone, bricks. lime, petrolene and slate, were valued at $153875_,197_,‘ andsomdfies at $254,§§7, {MUIU’LU wuu. Du“ WU wuu “,uu , a total of $22, 500, 000. Of this only $7,- 500 000 was exported The following table of comparison between the out- puts of Canada and the United States Riva/s given :-3 Gold .. Sidver Copper [roan .. L1 U111 .00... Lead 0.0 .0. Petroleum ......... $15,398,000 $418,375,020 WE WANT MORE POPULATION. He also said that population was the one thing that was wanted, for although 5,000,000 was enough for a nation, {t was not enough for suoh a vast tern- tory as Canada, and it was necessary to have from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 Ln order that. there might. be betper eoherence. TLhe quglimy of thenpopulatlon had to be good, however, for size by itself was of no value, as might be seen by comparing little England, Scotland or Switzerland with China, India or the Unite-d States. A very large popu- lation meant poverty and social dan- gers. The kind of settlers needed were young pGOple belonging to northern races, and if they did not come to Can- ada they should be bronght. .L 1.1... ‘In andy event, whether or notothe population increased rapidly, Canadians should be a contented people, sxnce they had good institutions and the largest measure of liberty, a fine climate and a stabiriity of character which was gen- erally recognized. it is the Relationship ofthe Muscles and the Brain. The faculty most nearly approaching a sixth sense is the muscular sense, or} the sense of weight. If weqegard the} senses as merely specialized parts of the 1 l nervous system, adapted for the recep-i tion and transmission to the brain of, impressions of a special kind, then this is the sixth sense without question. In-‘ deed, man’s senses are regarded by physiologists as six in number, and this one is among them. In support of the claim of the sense of weight to the sixth place physiologists tell us that the muscles have a peculiar sensibility, which is shown in that their nerves can communicate to the mind an accurate knowledge of,,\th'eir states andpositions when in action. By this sens1b1hty we itheir relation to each other, and are "enabled to estimate and compare their weight and resistance by the effort to which we are conscious in measuring, moving or raising them. Except With such knowledge of the position and state of each muscle, we could not tell. how or when to move it for any requ1r~ ed action; nor without such a sensation of effort could we maintain the mus- cles in contraction for any prolonged. exertion. More obscure, but no less positive, is the SEIDSB of equilibriumx, ‘10-: cated in the semi-lunar canals of the internal ear. It is this which is af~ fected by “dizziness,” or “giddiness” Among animals and fish the “homing instinct,” or sense of direction, cerâ€" tainly comes under the question. It exists in some human beings, but it ape .pears to be diminishing with the pro- s_L2-_. lav-v.â€" gress of civilization. Johnâ€"“Is your wife clever?” Jack- “Clever enough to make me think that. she knows less than I know.” Maudâ€"“\Vhad; makes you think Maj. Dulwirt is in the signal service?” May -â€"“Because Whenever he appears the conversation flags.” OUR MINERAL RESOURCES. “Berkley is completely out of his head.” “\Vhat makes you think so?” “\Vhy, he. tried to borrow $10 of me the day after Christmas.” Judgeâ€"“I think I have seen you be- fore.” Prisoner-â€"“I have had that honâ€" or, your Honor; I shaved your Honor last week.” Judgeâ€"“Twenty years.” “I hate to bother you. Pop; but, realâ€" ly, I'd like to knowâ€"â€"â€"” “\Vell, what?’ “How it happens that baby fish don’t get drowned before they’ve learned to The doctorâ€""You’ll be all right mum " rmm vinfimzâ€"“Glad to hear it, “I hate to bother you. Pop; 1y, I’d like to knowâ€"â€"-” “\V' “How 11: happens that baby “I’ve made one New Year’s: resoluâ€" tion thaf, I’m going to see earned out.” Paterfamilias (walking the. floor with son and ‘heir)â€"-"Bab1es, they say, are such helpl-eSs things! But. what do they think of me? Talk about helpless- .0000. 000 00.0.. \VIN’T‘ER \VRINKLES. THE SIXTH SENSE. v “w- v _ ~. 1895. 1891â€"92. $1,900,000 $33,000,000 ...... 1,150,000 83,000,000 ..... 950,000 37,800,000 . {238,000 25,300,000 750,000 18,000,000 1,400,000 57,000 7,800,000 191,000,000 1,200,000 30,200,000 Canada United States. 5 (walking the. floor with â€"-"Ba.bies, they say, are things! But what do me? Talk about helpless- less and ROUND IHE WHOLE WORLD. WHAT IS GOiNG ON IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. Old and New World Events of Interest Chron- Iclcd Brieflyâ€"Interesting Happenings of Recent Date. The body of a man supposed to be the only. Hindu in Kentucky was found frozen m iRchmnond. After ransack'mg a. house at Phoepix. Anz.. a thief left on a window 81118 purse from which he had taken 37- Paris University is considering .tho establishment of a. degree for fonelg‘n students, as testimony of their work done there. For a shipment of seventeen barrels of apples which a Waldo, Me., farmer sent to Boston he received only 10 cents a barrel. Unconscionab'le thieves stole the root gt a _house at Skamokawa, \Vash., saw- mg 1t off, rafters and all, just below the top of the walls. Robert Burns’s “Josl‘ly Beggars,” first egh-tlom, a phalrnphzlet of sixteen duode- cumo pages, uncut, was sold recently for $105 to a, Glasgow collector. :Al'G'hd'uchess Step hame, Widow of the late Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria. sang for the first time in pmhiie iately- m the Laxenburg church near Vienna; A glass headstone has been put up over the grave of George E. Evans. 3 Mason, art Eugene, 0r. It was sent on there by his father from Gibeon, Neb. Rather than stand the cost of feed- 111g horses through the Winter, farm- ers in sections of northernlndiana have killed them and disposed of the car- casses to fertilizingr factories. A spree in North Miami, Fla... has brought one Seminoie Indian into deep disgrace before his tribe. Some one out his hair, and he has been forbidden to return to the tribe until it shall have grown again. His fellows think a mean white man tricked him. Several farms of \Vabash county. Ind., were overflowed by oil, from the new Cudahy p: pe line, which burst near La Gro, and one fan mer has began suit for $12, 000 damages. A dozen of his neighbors are. waiting to see how he comes out before su 11-.g The family of Mrs. Mary Ragland. a widow of 83, living near Port Gib- son, Miss, objected to her marriage with L. H. Lyman, a neighboring far- mer of 70, who had courted her for two years. So the lovers eloped and Eere united in matrimony at the Court House by a supervisor. A lively old lady of 109 years, named Sarahâ€" Thomas, provides excitement for the town of Ldanelly, in \Vales. She possesses all her faculties, butt thae‘tzo be locked up in her bedroom at night, as she is a dangerous somnam‘hulist. The Princess of Wafies sends her on her birthday as many shillings as she has lived years. Uilysses’s Isle of the Cyclops, lying close to the Sicilian coast. near Acicas- teLlo, has been presented to the Uni- versity of Cantafnia by the Marchese Gravina, its owner, The island is a. basalt rock rising 300 feet above the sea, and will be used as a biological station, the university establishing ex~ t‘ensive laboratories on it. Lille has a hundred-year-old woman who 'has not onlly abstained all her life from- Wine, beer, and liquor, but has also never tasted coffee. Sihe drinks bouilllon and occasionally tea. She is descended from a merchant Who is still celebrated in Lille as “Pere Quaranlte Deux,” having been the father of forty- two children in Louis XV.’s time. Deductions from employees’ wages are made an: a factory at Elwood, 1nd., to pay the salary of a physician whom the proprietors place there to attend the workmen in case either of illness or accident. The practice is said to be against the Wishes of nineâ€"tenths of the men, and a suit to test the em- ployers’ right to make it is contem- plated. f An enterprising schoolmarm, of \Vestbrook, Me, seeing a fine rooster choking to death on her way to school one morning, caught it, cut open its crop, which was cleaned out thorough- ly sewed up the incision with silk, and put the rooster in a. barrel where there was nothing to eat. Three times daily for. two days she gave it medicine, and it came aroundall right. According to recent French statistics, France lost 136,000 [men by death through wounds, sickness, or accidents ill] her war with Germany, while 139,421 men were disabled on the field of battle Genmany’s losses were 79,155 dead and 18,543 wounded. The monetary loss is more evenly divided, that for France being 12,666,487,522 (francs, while for. Germany is was 8,000,000 francs. On the Glasgow underground rail- road the experiment was recently tried of doing away with tickets and ietting people ride as far as they wished for a penny. On the first. day of the trial, however, many persons got into the cars and spent the day riding round and round. The directors did not; haye the l‘JUJJ\Jo Aux. mun--v‘ -v patience to wait for the novelty to wear off, but restored the ticket sys- tem after a week. A drill which J. J. Kaminer was sin-king in a quest for water on hlS place at Gadsden, S. C., struck at a depth oi thirty-five. yards, three feet of a substanee which was softer than the sand above it and below it. It was found to he wood that resembled cy- press or walnut. There have been oth- er. similar finds in the neighborhood, and no water has been struck any- where. around there. . In Brighton, England, the Christmas dole of half sovereigns was distributed M 1320 npmnns over 74 years of age. this M