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ODE biPlOUATIC BESlDJiNTA
Flio and What tho Foreign Bepresentatires
Arc Diplomatists Who Are Bachelors
and Some Who Have American
Wives.
A Washington correspondent of The
Cleveland Leader writes : Little is
mown about tho foreign legations at
! f ITashington. There aro twenty-nine
fi i if them , and among tho men that coin-
lose them are some of tho noted
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liplomats of tho world. They are not
he greatest , perhaps , for America is
: onsidered a second-class mission , and
mr custom provides for only minis-
crs plenpotentiary and notfor ambas-
adors. Diplomats do not consider
ho United States the most desirable
, iost. Located as it is away off at one
ido of tho globe , and far from the
freat European cities , they prefer
ttther tho governments of Europe.
It Paris , London , Berlin , or Vienna ,
he court society is better than here ,
tnd it is a short jump from one coun-
ry to another. London is only a few
tours from Paris , and Berlin can be
'cached in a couple of days. At
Washington the entertainments aro
lot so many , and if ono dislikes the
iountry there is no way of getting
nit of it for a vacation.
The oldest minister in point of ser-
fice is called the dean of tho corps ,
tnd as such he leads tho legations ,
; oing at their head on any state oc-
: asion. This at present is tho minis-
er from Portugal. His name is
yJbguerias , and ho has the rank of
tiscount in his own country. Ho is
luite an old man , very approachable ,
ind ho speaks English. He has his
vifo and driighter with him. His
laughter is a tine musician , one of tho
eaders of Washington society , and
he takes charge of tho fashionable
imateur operas which are exhibited
icre every winter. Minister Noguei-
; as receives a fair salary , as do most
if the foreign ministers at tho capital.
Che foreigners pay their ministers
, f nuch better than the United States.
Mr Lionel Sackvillo West , K. C. M.
x. , the minister from Great Britain
It Washington , has a salary of $30-
IOC a year , while our minister to
England eels only $17,500. England
jays her minister to France $50,000 ,
lo Germany $35,000 , and to Russia
? 39,000. At Turkey , where Sam Cox
B getting $7,500 a year , tho English
uinister receives $10,000 for doing
lie same.
! Foreign countries , in many cases ,
iwn houses at the great capitals , which
Ley furnish and give to their minis-
crs rent-free. Minister West lives in
i great mansion on Connecticut avenue
vhich is owned by the English govern-
ucnt. It is elegantly furnished , and
he government gives him also a largo
illowance for entertaining. Mr. West
s also one of the most popular of the
foreign ministers at Washington. Ho
las been long in the diplomatic service
md has risen from the ranks to his
> resont position. He is a modest , re-
firing gentleman , but entertains a
reat deal. He has one of tho best
looks at the capital , and his dinners
Ire noted. He is a good talker , and
8 very fond of whist-playing. His
laughter , Miss West , is ono of the
) elles of Washington ,
The German legation also owns its
wn house at Washington. It is an
ild-fashioued double brick dwelling of
ihreo stories , located on Fifteenth
jtreet within a stone's throw of tho
phite house. The German minister is
llr. von Alvcnsleben. Ho was the
Serman minister to Wurtemburg when
Sargent was minister to Germany.
During the Lasker trouble his prede-
igssor , Herr von Elsendecker , offended
Bismarck by foolishly giving sonio in
fractions which ho had from the Ger-
ttzm chancellor to the secretary of
feste in writing. Bismarck intended
hey should be given by word of mouth ,
fed , I suppose , because they could
lave then been denied by the govern-
nent and by tho minister. Black and
vhite will , however , not lie , and these
nstructions gave the government trou-
) le. The result was that Bismarck
recalled the old minister and appoint-
id Herr von Alvensleben , taking him
torn Wurlemburg , a third class prin-
: ipality , in order to show his contempt
! or tho government of tbo United
States.
The Chinese legation has about a
lozen attaches , and it will have a new
ninister within a year. It has rented
fce great brown palace of Senator
Stewart , which lies on thoTDupbnt cir-
le , just opposite Elaine's. This is one
> f the largest houses of Washington ,
ind , as the new minister is said to be
vealthy , it is probable that it will be
i social center. Cheng Tsao Ju , the
yresent minister , has been very popu
lar in Washington society , and he has
fivon a number of entertainments ,
it his dinners numerous eastern deli-
{ acies were served , and his tea , dished
p in. quaint wickcr-eoveced pots , was
imong the finest ever tasted in Wash-
bgton. Ju is a great lover of the
bdies. He likes out-of-door life , and
nay often be seen , attired in Chinese
K > stume , walking about tho streets or
fitting in the parks.
f The Japanese minister , Mr. Kuki ,
Ives in a house owned bj Japan on N
treat. He is a short , slim fellowwith
% mahogany complexion , and a beard
ind mustache of about the thickness
if that of a boy in his teens. He talks
English , likes society , and has a wife
\pd baby with him in this country.
The Chinese afl dress in native cos
tume , the Japanese in American.
One of the most popular ministers
at Washington is Baron Charles de
Struve , who represents Russia. Ho
sots a big salary and has a liberal
allowance for entertaining. Ho is a
tall , light-haired , striking-looking
man , with cultivated manners and a
diplomatic air. He was for a long
time minister at Japan , and I think ,
but am not sure , that he came from
there here. He has an accomplished ,
wife , who is in Europe at present.
Mme. de Struvo is looked upon as ono
of the brightest women Washington ;
society has known. Mrs. Blaine call
ed her the cleverest woman in Wash
ington. She is not handsome , but is
highly cultivated , and her repartees
constitute the best bon mots of Wash- '
ington society gossip. Baroness do-
Struve is n , great student of medical
subjects , and is interested highly in
educational matters. She has a very
brood ot children.and like the average
little Russians they speaK three or four
languages.
Another minister who has a great
number of children is Senor Don Luis
L. Dominguez , of tho Argentine Re
public. His sons were great favorites
in Washington society , and tho family
managed the legation. He has a wife ,
three daughters , and two sons , and as
he has now been transferred to Spain
the whole family will leave the capi
tal.
tal.The
The Austrian minister is a bachelor ,
as is also tho minister from Peru.
This last man , Senor Elmore , hold on
here during tho Chilli-Peruvian war
without pay. He is short , dark , and
looks like a Spaniard , Ho speaks En
glish well.
The Mexican minister , Don Matias
Romero , who has attracted so much
attention lately as the friend of Grant ,
loading him $1,000 when Grant's own
countrymen failed lo come to his own
support , is a very accomplished gen
tleman. Ho does not go much into
society , but is a fine diplomat , and is
very useful to his government. Ho
receives $15,000 a year and has his
rent free. He was hero during the
civil war as minister. Grant and he
had been acquainted for a long time ,
j
and they have had some railroad inter t
ests in Mexico together. Minister
Romero's wife is a beautiful American
lady , and she comes , I think , from one
of the old families of Philadelphia.
The minister from Chili , Senor Don
Joaquin Godoy , has also an American
wife. The French minister is Mon
sieur Theodore Roustan , a man who
has made a reputation as one of the
great diplomats of tho world. He
earned great notoriety by being tho
means of bringing about the annexa
tion of Tunis to Algeria. Ho does not
speak much English , but he gets a
big salary , and as he is a bachelor and
only about 45 years old , ho is one of
the greatest catches of Washington.
Tho new Spanish minister's name is
Senor Don Juan Valera. He has a
house furnished him by his govern
ment , and his salary is $15,000 a year.
He is a noted literary man in Spain ,
and is looked upon as the greatest
novelist of his country. He is a life
senator in the Spanish congress and
was the Spanish minister to Portugal
before he came here. Minister Valera
does not speak much English , and
what he knows of the languago he has
acquired since ho came to this coun
try , about a year and a half ago. He
is a married man , but his family is in
Spain.
Tho Hawaiian minister is an Ameri
can. His name is Carter , and ho went
from New England to the Sandwich
islands as a missionary. He became
very influential there , and now comes
back to this country to represent that
government as its minister. A case
somewhat similar is that of tho minis
ter from Switzerland , Col. EinileFrey.
Col. Frey came to America as a young
man about the time of our late civil
war. He entered tho union armies ,
and did so well that he rose to the rank
of colonel. He became a naturalized
American citizen. Later however , he
renounced his allegiance to the United
States and returned to Switzerland.
He rose there in influence , and now
represents that country here. Col.
Frey is very popular here. Ho is ono
of the finest looking public men I !
know. Tall , broad-shouldered , and
weli-rounded , ho has a brave , open
face , a full , bushy , flaxen beard , and a
kind blue eye. He wanted to resign ,
1 understand , lately , but the Swiss
government thought so much of him
that they refused to accept his resig
nation.
Senor Don Manuel Peralta is the
minister from San Salvador aud Costa
Rica. He is a fine fellow , and has ris-
risen from the diplomatic ranks. He
was for years a secretary of legation ,
and ho was for a time minister to
Spain from his country. He married
a French countess but I do not think
he has her with him in this country-
Senor Peralta speaks ° : ood English.
He is quite a literary man , and is a
good authority on all that relates to
Central America or its history.
Of the other ministers , the Swedish
minister lives at the Arlington hotel ,
and he is an old diplomat , with a beau- '
tiful wife. Tho Danish minister's
name is P. L. E. do Loevnoern , and he
also resides at the Arlington hotel.
Brazil is to have a new representative j
here , though he has not yet arrived. j
He is the son of an old diplomat , and i
Las in fact been connected with diplo
matic work from tho day of his birth.
His father was one of tho members of
tho council which made tho Geneva
award of $15,500,000 to the United
States. The minister of the Nether
lands speaks good English. A number
of the foreign ministers live in New
York. Among these aro tho Turkish
minister , Hussein Tewfik Pasha , the
representative of Belgium , and the
representative of Hayti.
Prominent German Socialists.
A Berlin correspondent , writing to
Tf'c New York Sun of tho nine social
ists who wero recently acquitted of
tho charge of conspiracy against tho
German government , says : The de-
fendants were August Bebel and T.
H. W. Dietz , members from Hamburg ;
Baron George von Vollmer , member
from Munich ; Karl Frohme , member
fromAltona ; Ignatz Auor , member
from Glauchan ; Louis'Viereck , mem
ber from tho suburban district of
Liepzig , and Heinzel Ulrich , and
Mueller , local leaders from Kiol.OfTen-
bach , and Darmstadt.
Tho most conspicuous among the
defendants is August Bebel , 45 years
of age , a turner by trade , the recogniz
ed leader of the socialistic party.
Since 1867 ho has represented his par
ty in tho roichstag , feared by the ad
herents of tho government , one of tho
best of orators , * whose ringing voice
always attracts the attention of the
house. He has something to say , and
he knows how to say it , although h
was taught in the common pnbli
schools only , and at 13 years of ago
worked at his trade. But he worked
hard to complete his education , by
himself , and succeeded well. His
books "Unsere Ziele" ( Our Aims ) ,
and "Die Frau und dor Sozialismus"
( Woman and Socialising in which he-
has laid down his principles , aro well
written , and have a large sale. He is
successful as a business man , a skill
ful workman at his trade , and from
very small beginnings has built up
tho firm doing business as Issleib &
Bebel , in Leipzig , from which he * was
compelled to withdraw because he
was expelled from Leipzig under the
state of seige. He has been in prison
for political offenses many times ; but
even his political adversaries admit
that his personal character deserves
esteem , and when , after being kept '
away from his home and family by the .
!
expulsion for mouths , having made |
arrangements to spend Pentecost with |
!
his wife and daughter , of Dresden , a j 1
spiteful judge had him arrested on the
street in the presence of his only child
on a trumped up charge , and locked j
up during the holidays , aery of indig
nation , in which even many friends
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of tho government joined , arose from
all over Germany.
Baron George von Vollmor , a tall
handsome man walking on crutches ,
both of his legs having been crippled
in the French war , is 35 years of age , '
an offspring of the old Bavarian nobili- .
I
ty , a man of great talents and great.
ambition , whose secret longing is to j i
replace Bebel and Liubnecht in the
leadership of the party. Of untiring
activity , much learning , and winning
manners , he is inferior to Bebel in
political judgment and sound com
mon sense , in impartiality and readi
ness for self-sacrifice. His maiden
speech in patliament against tho to
bacco monopoly in 1881 created a
deeper sensation than any other orator
had produced for years. Ho nurses
.relations with the Russian nihilists ,
and the French , Italian , and other
revolutionists of Europe.
New Orleans and Its Exposition.
Richard Nixon , tho secretary of the
past and coming Exposition in New J
Orleans , thus closes an Open Letter in
tho November Century : "It is fitting
that New Orleans should be the pro
moter of this international enterprise
for the additional reason that it was
through the World's Exposition that
the general public became aware of
the great resources of Mexico and Cen
tral America , and the advantages in
evitably to follow a close commercial
reciprocity. Every ono had of course
read the tales of travelers and had
learned to speak of the wonderous
wealth of Mexican mines and South
American forests in much the same
way as they spoke of the magnificence
of oriental princes , vaguely and some
what incredulously. But the World's
Exposition gave nnmistakablo evi
dence of these and many other extra
ordinary natural resources. Indeed ,
it was the immediate success of Mexi
co's exhibit that has stimulated the
other Latin-American countries to take
advantage of the opportunities pro
sented by the new enterprise.
"The management of tho American
Exposition is national in its organiza
tion and is working for tho prosperity
of the entire country. It purchased
the plant of the late World's Exposi- 1
tion , and will open its doors on the 10th
of November , unembarrassed in any
way whatever. With ; steam transpor-
tion from the heart of the city to tho '
exposition grounds , and with unpre- I
cedently low railroad rates , there is
every assurance of succes. The man
agement has set aside for the discus
sion of the great commercial problem
certain days , when leading minds of
the three Americas will meet for an
interchange of ideas , and give to tho
industrial life of this country an im- -
petus as irresistible as the mighty
river upon-Whose banks lh y deliber
ate. "
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FANS OF OLDEN TIMES.
Wealthy ladles Amusinjr Themselves by
Collecting Weapons ot Gentle War
fare of long Ago.
Collecting fans for chronological
arrangement is at present an industry
popular with ladies of social distinc
tion who can afford tho divortisament
Tho collection forms a conspicuous
feature in the bric-a-bac of not a few
wealthy homes on our avenues , and
where earnestly considered is not only
artistically but historically instructive.
Many of the collections seen are val
uable in antiquity and material. The
various styles from the latter part of
the seventeenth century to the present
] I ' time are more or less abundantly il
lustrated , and the changes and transi
I
I tions of different periods and instances ,
plainly shown. Doubtless the oldest
one in possession is owned by Mrs. F.
W. Eerner. It was given her as a pre
sent by an old sea captain twenty
years ago. It is a Venetian dagger
fan. The sticks are ot ivory , deoora-
tively etched in black. Within the
shaft is concealed tho treacherous
steel , whoso sturdiuess and point for
bid the idea that it was any dainty
plaything. Tho fan is constructed on
tho principle of the sword cane , and
may have been used as a weapon of
offense or defense as easily as for pur
poses of coquetry. An old Spanish
fan of a little later date suited the
gentle warfare of which the fan is tho
chief weapon. This amid its some
what gaudy ornamentation has plates
of mica thatservoas windowsthrough
which the effect of its execution can
be observed. Several Louis XIV. fans
are distinguished by their Watteau de
signs and by tho great elegance of
their iyory sticks. These are broad
and beautifully carved in medallions
and interlacing lines. Several Dutch
fans of the period were shown , which
showed a clumsy interpretation of tho
French influence. A Spanish fan own
ed by this lady is as notable for its
color as for refinement in its design a
beautiful harmony of yellows and
browns. Most of the Louis XTV.
structures have the sticks slender ,
wide apart , and covered with unmean
ing designs in color , and lavishly be
spangled.
This form of divertisement origina
ted , of course , in tho East , and one of
the prime movers , at present the guest
of a boulevard capitalist and wife , has
brought her treasures with her for tho
edification of tho hoosiers. The de-
signs in imitation of Watteau are pan-
eled off and intertwined with wreaths.
One presents a couple engaged in the
love-making which was the chief
amusement of the Louis XV. shep
herdesses and their swains. The
Dutch fans of the time are ornament
ed with local scenes , chielly commer
cial , 'an interesting commentary on
the growth of Dutch trade , and with
scriptural subjects executed with the
homely fidelity that characterizes
Dutch art. With these are placed
some pretty Dutch fans in carved bone
and smalt ivory hand-screens finished
in gilt. A Martin fan , instead of be
ing covered with lacquer , is divided
into panels. Martin , it will be re
membered , was a carriage painter of
tho time of Louis XV. , who learned
the secret of lacquer varnish from
some missionaries who brought it from
China and afterward applied it ,
among other things , to fans. The
upper part has a French court scene ;
below is the principal design , showing
a large part of the ivory ground. The
subject is Hercules restoring Alcestis ,
veiled , to her husband , Admetus , bav
ins : rescued her from Hades. The
o
Chinese ivory fans are as exquisite as
lace-work , the designs are in fact left
solid on a ground which is cut in
slender lines , apparently too delicate
to bear tho weight of ornament.
Among fans of note is the one of gold
lacquer , on ivory , of great beauty ,
which was presented to Mrs. Grant by
the Queen of Siam , who also gave her
an exquisite representation of Chi
nese figures. Then she received a
silver fan with blue enamel and a gold
filigree and blue enamel from foreign
despots.
One ambitious lady is working for a
collection of political fans , regardless
of artistic merit , and has already se
cured at considerable expense several
of value. One is an old Spanish , rath
er coarsely painted , in which an envoy
offers his King the inscription : "i
bring you peace , " while the King
tramples under foot a compact. On
the other side are three kings who
have evidently acquiesced in the re
sult. A ducal coronet on the sticks
give additional significance to the fan.
The other fan dates from the French
revolution ; this has a portrait of Mira-
beau in the center , and on the sides
the maps of France and the City of
Paris are redistricted. Another illus
trates the surrender of Lord Corn-
wallis. Both ure on paper , t'fe work
rude , though excellent in intention.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart has a fan remark
able for its magnificence. The sticks
are wreathed with a vine whose leaves
are green , enamel and flowers , dia
monds , with large diamonds glisten
ing in the rivers. Mrs. William As-
tor's collection , recently loaned the
Decorative Society , is most inter
esting. Here is a Louis XV. with deli
cate lace-work sticks , heavily orna
mented with a landscape with gilt fig
ures and pearl clouds bearing up gilt
boys. Then there is a red bull-fight
fan and a fine specimen of Swiss carv-
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Ing in ivory. Mrs. Uclmon1 ; exhibits
two modern French fans. One is paint
ed by Charles Dclaille , a brother of
tho famous military painter , tho other
by Do Pene. Both are spirited hunt
ing scenes , tho former representing a
fair hunter taking her fences , and col
ors yellows , reds , and blacks aro
boldly rendered. Tho other shows tho
men , hounds , and yellow drag , tho
features of whose gay occupants aro
sharply individualized. A jocky fan
shows the mounted jockeys in full
dress and at full speed. Those private
exhibitions will give an impetus to fan
painting : which has been comparative
ly neglected. Chicago Mail.
Gastronomic Gossip.
Butter to be kept for some time of
course should have salt added to it , but
for every-day use it is much better
without salt ; the delicate flavor of but
ter is ruined the moment salt is added
to it , and it is a fortunate batch of but
ter that does not take from the salt a
rank , fishy , or other foreign flavor
the moment they aro blended to
gether.
Various recipes for cooking sweet
potatoes are given , but only an
old soldier who climbed the mountains
of Tennessee , and marched through
Georgia , knows what this vegetable is
when properly prepared ; i. e. , baked
slowly in the ashes of wood ( fence rail )
fire , and served hot , with expedi
tion sauce.
"Scbrod , " said Gen. Benjamin F.
Butlsr to a representative of the Cook ,
"is a dish known well in Boston. You
will find it on the bills of faro of eood
Boston hotels. Take a small codfish ,
not too thick , clean it thoroughly ,
open and draw it , split , and lay it with
the back down ; pour salt and water
a prepared brine over it , and let it
lie over night In the morning drain
him and broil him , fiist face down aud
then with the back down , in a plenty
of good butter. It isn't fresh cod
and it isn't salt cod. It's schrod. "
The of hoe-cakes and
topic - corn
dodgers is thus settled by a Southern
writer : 'When the old negro cook
makes a dodirer she mixes some water
with corn meal in the bread tray and
works it up into a stiff dough , takes a
handful and pats it into an oblong ball
between both hands , and drops it into
the pot that is boiling the bacon and
greens , and as the pot boils the white
ball of dough dodjjes up an-l down.
Hence its name , dodger. The hoe-cako
of to-day is corn-meal dough baked on
a griddle , first o.no side and then on
the other. But in old colonial times
the negroes made griddles of old cast
away weeding hoes , and baked their
corn-bread on theus. Henco tho hoe-
cake. "
At a dinner party in France , not
long ago , dessert was brought in in a
novel form. A tray uliich appeared
to be filled with hard-broiled egirs was
placed before the hostess , who gave
each guest a couple , and poured over
them a sort of syrup or dressing , la a
strange country the tourist is always '
on the lookout for otld things , but this
seemed to cap the climax hard-boil
ed eggs at a swell dinner party for
dessert. But it soon was discovered
that the white of this bogus egg was
blanc mange , and yolk was made of
quince jelly , eggshells being used for
molds. Hotel Mail.
A Biff Tortoise.
The discoverer of the of the gi an
tic extinct sea-turtle found near Fort
Wallace , in western Kansas , first ob
served the large bony shields project
ing from a blutf near Butto Creek.
They were carefully taken out and
brought to Philadelphia , where tho
restoration made. Tho
was fore-flip
pers alone were nearly five feet long ,
while its expanse from tho tip of one
extended flipper to another was about
soventeen feet. The question may
arise , how did this sea-turtfo become
buried in a bluft in tho State of Kan
sas ? A natural supposition would bo
that Kansas is tho bed of a former
ocean , and so it is. Ages ago , in what
is called by geologists the Cretaceous
Period , that part of the world was tho
bed of a great sea , in which the great
turtle swam , together with other
monsters of curious shape and appear
ance. Gradually tho crust of tho
earth was raised , the water fell back ,
or became inclosed , and left the in
habitants of tho Cretaceous Sea high
and dry , to be covered by the earth
and preserved for us to study ages
afterward.
The shores of this ancient ocean aro
easily found and followed by geolo-
gists. Its extent has been traced on
our Western Plains by tho bleaching
and disintegrating remains that have
been found , upon and beneath the sur-
face. From "Giant Turtles , " bij
Charles Frederick. Holder , in St. Nicho-
las.
Au Awful Predicament. ]
A well-dressed young lady waa
walking along the south side of King '
street on Saturday afternoon , neai
Leader lane , when she stepped into a ;
grating with several broken bars. One
of her logs was held fast above the
knee in the hole for some time. A
crowd of several hundred people
gathered around her and many offers .
of help were indignantly refused by ;
the young lady. Finally a gentleman '
procured a crowbar and by breaking '
some of the bars released the impris- '
oned limb. Toronto Globs. I
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Matrimonial Advice.
Marry in your own religion.
Never both bo angry at onco. *
Never taunt with a past mistake. \
Never allow a request to bo repeat *
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Lot self-abnegation bo the habit ol
both. i 1
Lot a kiss be the prelude of a robuko.
"I forgot" is never an acceptable
excuse. .
Marry into a family you have long
known.
A good wife is the greatest earthly
blessing. i
If you must criticise , let it bo dona
lovingly.
Make a marriage a matter of moral
judgment. '
Never make a remark at tho expense
of tho other.
Never talk at one another , either
nlono or in company. i
Give your warmest sympathies foi
each other's trials.
If one is angry , lot tho other part
the lips only for a kiss.
Neglect the whole world besides
rather than one another.
Never speak loud to one another un-
less tho house is on fire.
Let each strive to yield oftenost to
tho wishes of tho other.
The veriest felicity is in tho mutual
cultivation of usefulness.
Always leave homo with loving
j | words , for they may bo tho last ,
i Marry into different blood and tem
perament from your own.
Never deceive , for tho heart onco
misled can never trust wholly again.
It is tho mother who molds tho char
acter and fixes tho destiny of tho
child.
Lot your mutual accommodations
bo spontaneous , whole-souled , and
free as air.
Never lind fault unless it is perfectly
certain that a fault has been commit
ted.
ted.Do
Do not herald the sacrilicos you
make to each other's tastes , habits , or
preferences.
A hesitating or grum yielding to the
wishes of others always grates upon a
loving heart.
Consult one another In all that
comes within the experience , observa
tions , or sphere of tho other.
They who marry for physical char
acteristics or external considerations
will fail of happiness.
Never rellect on a past action which
was done with a eood motive , and
with the best judgment at the time.
They who marry for traits of mind
acd heart will seldom fail of perennial
springs of domestic enjoyment.
They are the safest who marry from
the stand-point of sentiment rather
than of feeling , passion , or mere love.
The beautiful in heart is a million
times of more avail , as securing d o-
niestic happiness , than tho beautiful
in person
God Everywhere.
I remember goin r once to our lake
shore with my children , who had car
ried ine off with them to play. And
sitting down on a sand-bank , whila
they strayed along the margin of the
waters , 1 gradually got into a waking
dream about the might } * inland sea. I
thought of the primitive era , when , by
'some new balancing of the internal
lires , "God said , Let the waters ba
gathered together , and it was so ; and
God saw that it was good. " But tho
picture 1 made of the sceuo was vast ,
dreary , and uncertain , as tho waters ,
of the lake seem to be on the edge of
a wild winter night , with not a touch
of blessing or beauty about it. Just
then tho children came running to mo
with a treasure they had found in tho
sand. It was a small shell of cxquisito
beauty , bedded in a piece of limestone.
It was a sermon in a stone. For it
said to me : "I was born in the timo
you hsve just made so dreary. I was
no more to that Tor which I was made
than tho garment is for your child.
Yet you can see how beautiful I must :
have been , and then gusss what bless
ing past your understanding was pres
ent in the world you have made so
dark. Look at me and repent of your
incipient atheism , and believe that
wherever there is life , let it be evci/ o
mean and poor , there also is God.
The whole round world , with ail its
life , is touched in some way by his
shadow and his light. " Robert Goll-
yer.
Perpetual Motion.
There is a clock at Brussels which
comes ' about as near being a perpetual
motion : machine as can bo invented ,
for ] the sun does the winding. A shaft
exposed ' to the solar rays causes anup-
draught of air which sets a fan in mo
tion. Tho fan actuates mechanism
which raises the weight of the clock
until it reaches the top , and then puts
a break on the fan ant 1 tho weight
has gone down a lictle , when the fan
is again liberated and proceeds to act
as before. As long as the &un shines
frequently enough , and the machine
ry does not wear out , tho clock is
practically a perpetual motion ma
chine.
The Button Business.
There were 21,000,000 buttons made
in this country last year. And when
a man is waiting for his wife , prepar
atory to her going out with him , ho
imagines she's secured at least 20-
000,000 of them on her gloves. Yon-
kers Statesman.