..i3 TO THE UNWISE.
OTIVES
THOSE
WHICH SHOULD GOVERN
WHO MATE FOrt LIFE.
RAG3
Glv m Fw Fart 'onrmlii( the ItuaJ.
lieu In New York.
are few Indu tries in our big town
jvrjr Cunshlrrallon Weigh! Except tli
or Jlrrmllty Crime ami J !
TranWlcl front ;iierntlou to Conor
tlon Iinjtortanr of Kaultnry 31 arrive.
Men ninl women in marrying teem to weigh
every consideration rather than too natural
mid scientific laws of heredity. They form
alliances from motives of comfort, conveni
ence, LuNinem, Influence, riches, pi(tue In
fart, for well nlKh every purp"' under the
nun except that of M-curing the iiiot !erfeot
.rfpriiig. Strict reasomr I10M that even
the iawion of lovw idioiild weigh as nothing
in thoscnlcs with that. Wlmn the laws of
sanitary parentage t.hnll have U-n thor
oughly mastered and t.ytemntiwj. and U-eoine
generally known an ai-tcd ujxin, then we
may hx.lt fi,r that market! amelioration of
our kind of which ixjeta mul i.liil..t
have dreamed. Ict the reader ask himclf
bow many instances he has known where the
iolo region for remaining single was actual
ill health, or the suspicion that tomo taint
hail been inherited which wus likely to de
velop into diM-iu-j iRime time In afterlife.
IIoinu.it acknowledge that If he known of
any kueh cases they are very few indeed.
fTbo reasons for marriago are evident to all.
f There are, too, sufficient reasons why some
jx-opld hhoul.l not iiuirry. The latter, how
ever, weigh Lut little against the former. To
secure a partner to share their labors is what
influence many men to take unto themselves
wives.
MAP.Rren for a hove.
ITow often we hear it wild that this one
nni mat one "married for a home." The
impression would imply a lark of sentiment,
and certainly does sound eminently practi
cal. And yet, undoubtedly, ninny happy
Marriages have been contracted by those
whoso first prompting wan a desire for that
comfort and Mace one rarely flnda except in
"a home of Lis own." Tliat this is a Hellish
world, none can deny. Each Keeks to in the
other for purposes of Lis own, and life with
us all in ono c ,Cant struggle, or we are soon
left behind in the headlong scramble. Only
In our homes can we And rest. A yearning
or sympathy prompt many to marry,
and naturally we choose mates with
kindred' hopes ami aspirations with
ourselves. If one does not marry,
lie sooner or later loarns to feel tliat the
world has little interest in Mm beyond what
he contribute to its welfare and selfish ends.
Mao and wife labor for each other's trood-
each contributes to the other's welfare, Xot
nl ways the. first rawon for marriage is the
- frratulcation of love. As has been said:
"This is the highest sentiment of the human
heart. Intellect pale before it. The sacred
Look could have said nothing more exalted
when it avowed that 'God is love.' All bu
mau hearts have somewhere and sometimes a
desire to love and bo loved. A loveless life is
g starved life. Love warms human nature;
it Wt it on fire. It can receive its highest
development only in marriage. The loves
bet ween friends are very beautiful, but the
love betwi-en man and woman in a jierfuct
marriage- is divine."
These are some of the reasons for marriage.
Others might be given, but it is purposeless
to consider them. Any one of tho inany
weighs sufficiently in any case where the ten
dency exists. The child of consumptive
parents rarely hesitates to enter the holy
state. Nor does the young man or womau
with a mother or father in the madhouse
often feel that it is a duty to remain single
A lest tnac terrioje misfortune be theirs by in
heritance. Ia fact, notwithstanding some
grave and fatal malady has reapieared down
There
which give employment to so many men.
women and children as the rag and ajer
trade. This seems a bold statement to make
in this city of mammoth factories and
crowded oi-ctijxitioiiH, I nit it is none the less
true for that. Our Italian citizens enjoy a
mouoiKly of the trade in old taper and
rags. Very few if any other eople are en
gaged in the gathering and sorting of this
wate material, the utilizing of which forms
so vast an industry. The junk shops through
which most of the rags and laifter pass are
generously sprinkled about the city, and into
ono of tin-so recently the writer wormed his
way Itetweeu shady bowers of bundled rags
and groves of I led jujicr. The proprietor,
in answer to (jucrie plied by the writer, said:
"IVrhnps it m-em likoan exaggeration of
tho truth, but more than 100,000 pounds of
assorted rags ar gathered every week by
the industrious rag pickers and sold to the
dealers, who, in turn, seli them to the mills,
whero they are mado into pajter. The paper
anu rag? wtiicn are brought to us are bought
by the weight, at so much per pound. They
are then carefully sorted and mad up into
bales. Clean white rags are used for making
the best quality of white paper, and are,
therefore, the most exjiensive. Black rags of
good quality are purgod and ir.ade perfectly
white by luimoitiou in acid baths. Women
and girls m:stly oro engaged in sorting the
rags. Constant practice in doing this lias
made them very skillful. Many of the
dirtiest ami most poverty stricken looking
pickers mwcs small fortunes, and there are
nut lew of them who cannot boast of a good
bank account. Slowly they are accumulat
ing money, meanwhile living on next to
nothing. No one knows anything of their
plans until some fine day the familiar griz
zled face of Antonio or C!ui!epe is missed,
and inquiry discloses the fact that he has ac
quired his pile and returned to his sunny
Italian home to enjoy the fruits of his labor.
"Most of tho common rags are made into
roofing material, while newspapers are again
converted into blank sheets to bo used for the
same purjobe. Most of the best rags, such
cotton or woolen rugs, are sent to Ilolyoke,
Mass., there to be made into fine grades of
iper, such as bond, ledger, parchment, etc.
In sorting rags, pieces of new silk or red
cloth are frequently found. These are laid
aside to bo sold to neck tie manufacturers,
who convert them into stylish new cravats
for fashionable young men."
"Do you ever find auy articles of value
among tho old rags" was asked.
"Not very often," replied the dealer. "The
rags are pretty thoroughly overhauled be
fore they reach our hands. The only 'find'
of any great value that I ever made was that
of a beautiful solitaire diamond ear ring
which was found tied up in the corner of a
lady's handkerchief."
Do you think that the germs of Infectious
diseases lurk in the bales of old rags and
pajjerf queried the writer.
"There is but little doubt that disease is
often conveyed in the bales of refuse rags
and paper imported from other and less
cleanly countries than our own. I do not
think, however, that domestic rags are often
purveyors of maladies; at least, such cases
have never been brought to my notice. I
have been in my present business for more
than twenty years, and have never yet suf
fered from any malady more violent than a
headache." New York Evening Sun.
PEOPLE IN CEYLON.
EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER BY EX
MAYOR HARRISON.
The Several Distinct Itare Which Lira
I'pon lb Cinnamon Garden.
Native float A Comcljr I'eople John
Hull and tb Hulloek Cart.
tin? line for generation after generation, sel
t --"Di-nn, if ever, is a member of that family de
terred from marrying, although he could
icarcely commit a greater sin when he does
id. Hence certain diseases are perpetu
""nted which might otherwise possibly become
extiuct, and children are brought into
the world to drag out a sickly existence, and
eventually succumb, after months, if not
years, of intense suffering. In the human
raco there is a process of natural selection
favorable to the improvement of tha race,
' but," says one writer, "it is Interfered with
by ctlier influences money, caste and other
social considerations. Choice is in this way
restricted- A rich husband Js preferred to a
handsome or healthy or clever on. A largo
dowry may induce a man to put up with a
scrofulous wife. A consumptive young lady
may liave a good connection. An exhausted,
broken down roue may have a title or an es
tate. AVJkuow what people mean by a 'good
match. It never means health or beauty or
intellect. It may not eye?) mean good morals
or disposition.
IHJC nEREBITT 07 CRIVE.
"Seriously, people who think of getting
married ought to think a little more about
it. Thero are persons who ought not to
marry. There are persons who would be
criminal if they kandixl down to posterity
tho physical, moral or mental, results of a
had organization or of their vicious demor
alization. Our most careful scientists tell us
tliat drunkenness is hereditary; that many
rrimes are hereditary; that madness, murder
and suicide are hereditary. Our criminal
population is composed of the children of
criminals. The prhwns are filled with a
criminal race as the workhouses are filled
with a race of paupers. Change of condi
tions, no doubt, may redeem such a race,
but it would be safer to discourage its
j-rs'etuation. Men and women marry for
. theinsjives when they should marry for ttiejr
posterit'. The greatest gratitude a man can
owe to Lis fjaii-jfather is for giving him a
good, wise, healrlij grandmother, and vico
versa. Shakespeare makes om? of his char
acters thank his mother fervently fo giyng
Lira such n father. IIow many a man and
woman have earned the curses of their chil
dren for giving them bad fathers or moth
ers." Says one writer: "Many think love between
two persons justifies their marrying. This
is not so. Beautiful as this passion is,
heavenly as is its source, it does not justify
dsfug a wrong to offspring which may curse
generations yet unborn. TV use the word
curse advisedly, for disease is the greatest of
all curses and indirectly leads to crime. A
majority of all criminals are either diseased
or have an imperfect physical development.
Those who have spent much time in criminal
courts must have observed that a majority
of persons convicted of crimes are inferior
in their physique. They cannot earn an
honest living by honest work, and so they
.try to do it by light fingered employments.
Besides, tliere is acquired quite enough dis
ease on life's journey, without transmitting
the infirmities of one generation to another."
IVo repeat, the subject of sanitary mar
riage is one on which tho world sadly needs
enlightenment. Wo Lave simply given food
for thought. Even from tho httlo that hoi
been said it must appear that those who con
template marriage, if otherwise thin healthy,
should weigh well tho step they are taking.
Not only should they seek wise counsellors
their physicians but a liko duty is as plain
lcfore all whose constitutions b:we been im
jiaii ed. Boston Herald. j
A Head of Her Own.
Queen Victoria is not ornamental as a
woman, but as a sovereign she certainly
commands respect, and she is unparalleled In
her jealous anxiety to aggrandize the family
of which she is the chief and increase the
prestige of her country. She has been called
"a Louis XI in petticoats, a Machiavelli in
corsets. She has more than once outwitted
Bismarck and caused to pale before her
frown tho Emperor William of glorious
memory." Terhaps she is all of this, and
perhaps again she is not, but one thing is
certain, when reasons of state and policy arp
not an obstacle, she dissembles none of her
senti ments ; she never dissimulates, bu t speaks
out her mind freely without a care for what
others may think, all of which is charminsr
when one happens to be a favorite, and not
nearly so nice when' one is not so, as poor
Lady Flora Hastings found to her cost when
Victoria was merely a girL However, in any
case, ttds peculiarity has its advantage
friends aud enemies know exactly what they
have to expect and can shape their course
accordingly. Tho late Col. Baker had only
himself to thank if ho died in exile; he knew
that his sovereign was inflexible in questions
ot morais anu manners.
Prince Albert was her idol, yet the prince
was obliged to "walk a chalk line" with his
august spouse, who made him understand
very soon that, after all, he was nothing save
her reflection, and the consort never repeated
his attempt to get out of bondage, when, after
Staying too late an4 getting too jolly at a
banquet of some London guild, he found the
gates of Buckingham Palaco closed "for the
night and was fain to ask hospitality of a
friend in chambers. Still, she did adore her
husbaqd, and was so inconsolable after his
death th.lt tha report of her intended abdica
tion was circulated! and t,hat Myely rauU!
in ISOS, Sir Charles Dilke,' moved 'hi the
house of commons that her majesty be pf
fered the alternative of reigning ostensibly,
or of "passing tho hand" the crown to the
heir apparent. When, a dozen years later,
Gambetta's friend became under secretary of
state at the foreign office he did not need to
repeat his motion; he found her majesty not
only very much disp(osed to reign and show
herself in public, but very putpokpif pjso in
her regrets to have been forced to part with
Lord Boacons$eld, tbe person for " whom,
after her children anil h$p husband, she en-,
tertained tho most sincere aft'ectioji,cPari3
Cor. New York Times.
Cis Along Without Drinking.
"Do yon know," said .a commercial traveler
to a reporter the other day, .''that f here are
alout 0,000 commercial travelers "in the
United States? Surprised to hear it? Yes,
most ieople are vhei) they are told of it;'but
it's a fact, nevertheless. ' Voi mpy also Le
surprised to learn that each one of them
spendo oq an average 3,000 a year, making
a total of S240,000.000. If you add to
to this their salaries, .averaging at the
least 1 1,000, you have a total expendi
ture by commercial travelers of J 330,000,000
a year. This is naturally spent in all parts
of tho country, but the hotels and railroads
get the lion's share of it. During the last ten
years there has been a great change in the
character of the commercial traveler. The
old Bohemian type has almost disappeared
from the road, and drinking men nro much
more rarely met witu than formerly. A
short time ago it was almost impossible to
get a merchant over to your hotel to 'take a
look at your samples' withont first getting
him to Jeavo his store on the pretext of get
ting a 'smile.' "Tliat is all changed npw; he '
customers don't look for it, and the drummer
seldom gives it- a tboUfibt." New York Mail r
aud Express, I
If women will frequently wash the hair it
will lie soft and fluffy about tbo temples, and
the gradual thinness will show less. I
Ceylon has several distinct races living
upon it. Long before history begun to be
written it bad prosperous eople, and contin
ued so for ages. It has old cities, deserted
ages ago, and great tanks for gathering and
holding water for irrigation purxwes, which
show thnt portions of the island, now wild
and waste, were once teeming with popula
tion. Tho ruins and the tanks are all that is
left as a record of the eople who built them.
Even the descendants of these ieopIe have
dwindled down to a little over 2,000 and are
wild sava'a, shunning civilized men. The
Singaicse, who have Persian and Arab blood
in them, ate rattier fair, delicate I u form mikI
organization; expert manipulators in jewelry
and other nice work all Buddhists, and
numter less than 2,000,000. They were,
many generations ago, overrun by Tamils
vigorous, hardy, nearly black men from
southern India who today number about
two-thirds of a million, and are the hard
workers and Hindoo In religion. Tho mixed
blood called Eurasians and Burghers are
tht. descendants of tho Portiigeeso, who held
mo island ror nearly a century and a half,
a.id of the Dutch, who controlled for a cen
tury and a third, and numbers less than 20,
000. These, with many Singalese, are Catho
lics mostly. Other jieoples swell the popula
tion to 2,700,000, and are governed by less
than 5,000 Europeans. These latter are
planters and officials. Eurasians and full
uatite have cinnamon gardens.
By the way, this plant when cultivated is
wept uown to a small shrub not over eight
feet high. In the forest it grows to a pretty
tree and as large, say, as the pear. A garden
is very pretty, the foliage being very glossy
and of light, cheerful green. The bark on
the green stem, while spicy, has not tho pun
gency of the cured article. Tho sun in cur
ing seems to bring it out. I will here state
that the growing tea leaf has no more flavor
than an ordinary tasteless weed, and gives no
promises to the uninitiated of that wonderful
quality which makes it the sweetest friend
and kindliest solace of so many countless
millions of human beings. It has not it
properties brought out by sun heat, but by
fire. A few of the fine brands in China are
sun cured, but do not reach the general
nurseis, oeingconiined to the larders of very
rich Celestial connoisseurs. Cinnamon aud
rice cultivation is confined to the low, hot
lands of the island, and is in the bauds
generally of the old Singaloso opulatiou.
They and the Tamils are tho fishermen.
A NATIVK BOAT.
The native boat is a queer thing a log of
wood from ten to twenty feet long, turned
upward at each end, is dug out into a shallow
trough, rarely over a foot wide. On top of
this the boat is carried with boards to a
length twice as great as the solid keel lielow,
and say two or so feet high, but no wider.
From this craft springs two leut poles to a
light log of wood from six to ten feet nfT
This out rigger makes the queer catamaran,
one of the safest small boats which run out
into the sea. The native sits with ono foot
in and one outside of the narrow trough, and
rows or sails far out on the deep, and can
brave a storm the ordinary long boat could
not survive. They are rowed rapidly and
sail eight to twelve knots an hour. Two
small platforms, say four feet square, are
built on top. On this the boatman carries
his freight and the fisherman his nets. I am
told the fisherman frequently goes out fortv
miles to sea.
All along tho coast the natives are semi
amphibious. A number of half grown boys
3urround steamers coming and going on
queer little rafts built of three buoyant sticks
ten to twelve feet long and lashed together.
Upon this the half naked fellows sit on their
legs and paddle very rapidly. So expert aro
they at diving that a silver coin, thrown
thirty to fifty feet off, never reaches the bot
tom before it is caught. Passengers get sev
eral of these boats around in a semicircle
from the steamer, then drop a small coin
close to tho ship. The boys spring toward it
and swim up to the point, then go headlong
below, squirming like frogs, after the shin
uig metaL They will even got a copper, if
not very far off. But they like the white
ness of the purer metal These boys are all
quite dark, but the bottoms of their feU are
almost white. Why?
The Singalese aro a comely looking race,
with features quite effeminate in their deli
cacy. This appearance is further increased
by their long hair, tied in a knot at tho back
of the head and held smooth by a light tor
toise comb, such as young girls at home wore
when I was young. Thedress is the univorsnl
band of cloth, here left to fall like a skirt; a
jachet is worn ji ftje cities m tho country
and villages only a cotton cloth is thrown
over the shoulders. The women have, to a
great extent, adopted a semi-European cos
tume. At least those I saw had.
THE BCXLOCK CART.
Tb.e Tamil population dress as the southern
fndian does, by the way, the tea and poffee
estates are worked and the heavy labor about
cities is aone by coolies brought annually
from the poasf of southern India, from Mal
abar to Madi as. This region f m nishes coolie
labor west of Singapore, as tho Chinese do
east thereof.
This leads me to speak of another mode of
conveyance here and in India the bullock
cart The Indian bullocks all have the hump,
but jn pther respects they vary in form and
appearance as much as the different breeds of
our cattle in some" localities ' very tall and
long horned. I have seeq a yoke over six
teen bands high, and have seen horns over
three feet in length. These horns in w hole
districts point up and toward each other.
In some localities they spread and often bend
downward. In Burmah the ox is fair sized,
but his horns are very short. In Ceylon he
is very small, pippactly built, and has little
.nubs for horns. He is very pretty and very
quick in ' motion! At Kalutara, near the
southend of the island, three of us rode in
a little caftdrasvn by a bullock forty-one
inches high' and not much longer from his
front to the root of his tail The brave little
fellow trotted at a gait of say six or seven
miie3 an hour. When, after a steady pull!
he felt tired, h would give a quick back mo
tion, as much as to say hold on.
He is an admirable beast for villages. He
requires no harness. His little yoke is fast
ened to the ends of the shafts; drop it over
his neck, and tie a cord to keep him from
throwing it off, an4 hp s rPSdj. But the
Englishman rarely deigns to use him. What
a compound John Bull is. ns loves liberty,
and yet is a perfect slave to public opinion.
He hates and abuses Hindoo caste, and yet is
a worshiper of bis own oaste. He must be
Jn good form or his caste is lost said to a
party, "Why do ycu not use the pretty bul
lock carti" "Oh, we can't do that. The ua-
ipesqseif. e wais if we can't get a pony
If wqi)4 not da" 1 could not help sayin:
';Qh, you miserable humbugs. You bulry
the natives and wretched public opinion bul
Ues you-"-Carter L Harrison in Chicago
Time.
LOVE-A SONNET.
As when tho harpist strike the rarlous string.
Anil (though iiu:--n uutu the careless eye)
With short and quick vitiations they reply;
BfoTiujf the nir with their awlfi tlutt-Tliiiri.
Till each new vakenitl wavelet softly sings
And bears tlm teuilrr melody on high.
Bo that to all the x-.liyr Hluuilieriui; nigh
New animation and th-lht it brlnH.
So love litli move th filters of my heart
With short ami quick vibrations aud soft triljj;
Ami, at the touch of Itt resist less art.
My frame with mich delightful fervor fills,
IUsitienx flow und quiver iu every part
'Til love's sweet rapture every i:ie:;;ljor thill!:!.
Henry UuJi.-a lu Pioneer I'ni.
IlUinarrk's IZrunily ami Seltzer.
On the occasion of Prince Bismarck's Inst
speech in the leiclistag Count Herbert, his
eitictx son, now secretary of statu in th
foreign ollice, kept the cognac bottle i:i his
own hanLi, while u group of high function
aries divided the rest of tlio work between
them. Nothing could exceed for downright
comicality tho busy scene that was enacted
liehind tho cliancellor's back during the
whole of the speech. Tho difilculty with
which the glass miners hat! continually to
contend was that of securing the requisite
degree of dilution. First one would tnste
ami find the compound too weak, so thnt
more cognac had to bo added. Then another
would pronounce it too strong, ami the addi
tion of seltzer water was tho consequence.
More than onco the i haiiceller, hard to
pleas., refused to drink tho draught so care
fully prepared, and one of the solemn group
had to drain the glass, so that the blending
tqieratiou might begin again. Probably a
dozen and a half small glasses were handed
to Prince Bismarck lull and removed from
his bench empty ln-fore all had leo;i s.-.id
that was iu tho gret t:itcnn'; r-;-.
mat was a L;B.i lcc.u to reach, but then
tho occasion was a momentous one and the
chancellor's throat was unusually trouble
some. leuiple Bur.
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They Got Tired of Politics.
As tho rush and roar of politics once more
roils in upon us, it is instructive to road what
-olm Adams had to say of tho presidency in
comparison with otuer way of sitendin life
" o'i i gcciurougu tins scene of polities
anuv. ar, i win spcinl the remainder of my
ojij s in ciiueavoi-iiig r.j mst nu t my country
men in the urt of making tho most of their
abilities and virtues an art which they have
nnnerio ioq mueu neglected, A philosophi
cal society shall bo established iu Boston, if I
have wit and address enough to accomplish
it." Jefferson also used to hide, as far as
Iossible, in tho rooms of tho Philosophical
society. Washington was at least a member.
It id curious that our earlier history called to
the front of the most uctive life men whose
strongest predilections were for scholarly re
tirement. After all, is not the real scholar
the ablest business man .'Globe-Democrat.
Vanrierbilt and Aators.
The Vandorbilts spend enormous sums on
furniture, bric-a-brac and artistic decora
tions, but comparatively little on jewelry.
Not ono member of tho family cares for gems
except as an accessory to the toilet, and,
while tho women wear costly and beautiful
diamonds, they have not among them a rare
stone, a finely cut intaglio, or an ornament
representing any original taste or discern
ment. The Astors, on the contrary, own one
or ino nnest collection of gems in the coun
try, and the late Mrs. olm Jacob Astor was
a connoisseur whoso judgment was respected
by tho trade. Her purchases were always
mado on conditions of tho utmost privacy.
New York Press "Every Day Talk."
The
P attsmout
h Herald
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enjoying
sl 23oo:m in both, its
He We Tired of tife.
"1 tea you JJrown," moralized Dumley,
"life ain't what it is cracked up to be. You
get up in the morning, go through tho usual
daily routine, and then to bed at nidit
Same thing day in and day out. Thero is a
good deal in tho old question, 'Is life worth
living?'" concluded Dumley, with a ugh,
'and I realize it more and more!"
"I don't know but what you're right, Dum
ley," responded Brown, somewhat depressed.
"Won't you go around the corner and have a
drink?"
"Xo, I haven't time; I'm on my Way to tho
doctor's. I caught a little cold this morning
and I feel kind of nervous about it.?' The
Enoch.
It Effected a Cure.
"IIow did you get your eyes blacked, Ein
leyi'' " "
'Why, a fellow was walking in front of
me a while ago with an juvful rnso 'of hie
coughs. I thought it was my brother, and
hit him on the back to relieve him. Then he
seemed to think I was similarly affected, and
hit me in tho eye. But I have ono consola
tion."
"What's that r
l cured, mm of tho hiccoughs." Xcbrns-
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strongly agitated
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President will lake place.
Cass Countv who would
which the guhjecto
and iiniiortance will
if
le election ol a
'I he cojde ol'
ike to learn of
Political, Commercial
and Social Transactions
ot this year and would keep apace
the times should
with
Shoe Dealers' tost Trade.
No, sir; if, for instance, any of our trade
is lost during a season, it U never recovered
Say that it rains for two or three weeks, so
that ladies cannot go out to buy shoes dur
ing that time, you would think that as soon
as nice weather came enoush shoes would bo
sold iu a short time to make up for the !os
during the wet weather, wouldn't you? Yet
such is not the case, Any retailer who has
carefully watched the matter will tell yo l
that the sales Jost during that time aro net
made up later. Dealer in Globe-Democrat
An African Kind's Vmbrella.
The largest umbrella in the world has been
made in Glasgow for a king of East Africa.
It can be opened and shut in the usual w a v,
and "tvhen open is twenty -pne feet in diam'e' i
ier, me stan: is also twentjtone feet long.
It is lined with cardinal red and white, bas'a
lot of straw tassels, and a border of crimson
satin, The canopy itself is mado of Italian
straw, and the top terminates in a gilded
cone. New York Sun.
I'OR KlTIIKIi Till-:
Daih
y or weekly Herald.
Now while we have the
people we will venture
Pllh
to '
jeet hefore
peak ol
the
our
Students Paying: Their "Way.
Fifteen of the seventy-eight members of
the graduatipgclass of the Sheffield scien
tific school at Yalo earned their own living
while faking the course of instruction, Ron, a
worked on farms during vaeatjojis, Wanesoid,
books, some tutored and somo acted as wait
ers in summer hotels, while ono man dj?
beer at a summer resort, receiving n'sninrr
of $8 per week for hfs senvi.-ua ,kiL:,.X
ci-ald. .71'
To Secure iMTig Life,
A physician lecturing upon physical excN
ciso declared that if only twenty minutes a
day should be spent in physical eTM-e. J?
adjunct to mental education, we mi-bt live
to be 70 without a rbiv'a ;n r, ,
Which is first-class in all respects and
from which our joh printers are tnrnir.f
out much satisfactory work.
PLATTSMOUTH,
NEBRASKA.
Budget
Alabama boasts of nineteen cotton mills
representing an investment of nearly 2,000,
000, and an annual production of over SlSOoj-
A new album for locks of hair is intro
duced. It contains specimens from the heads
of those who are dear to the owner.
English cavalry officers carry their watches
set in a strap on the wrist.
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