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A MEXICAN NEW WOMAN.
f io Is a Thoroughly Capable and Carefal
Railroad Station Agent.
Tliero are luuuy things of interoBt
alnug the line of mil road between Pn-
ebla uud Oaxaca , Moxioo , but few at
tract tbe uortbern traveler mora than
the station agent at Etla. Tbis is Con
cha Bianca , a yonng woman with hon
est brown eyes and a great maw of
wavy bJaok hair. Etla , her post of
duty , is the pluco where the Indians
flock from the mountains for 100 miles
around for their annual feasts , and also
the shipping point for the big haciendas
in the fertile valleys among these same
mountains. When the train stops , at
Etla in the dark , a young woman in
white , for Seuorita Concha dresses to
match her surname , stands , at the door
of the express car , lantern in hand ,
checking the packages on the big receipt
book. When the freight train stops , she
flits in and out of the long line of cars ,
telling the brakemen what to take and
what to leave. She goes from ono end of
the train to l ho other , seeing that no mistakes - ,
takes are made. The bareheaded girl in
a white dress is full of business. She
wastes no time on empty words. The
trainmen respect her. She does every
thing about the station but handle the
baggage. There are plenty of stout
Mexicans of the other sex hanging about
for tbat work.
Concha Bianca is so well esteemed by
the management of the road that she
has been twice promoted , until now she
has one of the most important stations
under her care. She does all the tele
graphing , besides attending to the re
ceiving and shipping of freight. It wa9
her knowledge of telegraphing that got
tbe young woman her first recognition.
Her father and two brothers were oper
ators. She learned to use the key. A
station was given to her where there
was not much to do besides the te' -
graphing. Her aptitude for railroad
work attracted the attention of General
Manager Morcom , and the promotion
followed. Concha Bianca lives in the
station. Her mother keeps house for her ,
and a younger sister sits at the tele
graph table learning the vocation of the
new woman in Mexico. The conductors
have got in the way of pointing out to
travelers Seuorita Concha along with
tbe ruins of the ancient city on the
mountain top , the site where the battle
of Tehuaoan was fought , the , hieroglyph
ics on thu cliff at the entrance to Rio
Salada canyon and other objects of in
terest Chicago Chronicle.
1 Chinese Royalty.
The present emperor of China is
Huang Hsu , who succeeded to the throne
Jan. 12 , 1875. fie was ono of the young
est monarchs who ever ascended the
throne , being at the date of accession
only 3 years old. There have been 22
dynasties in China , the royal history of
this country being better ascertained
than that of any other which reaches
back io ancient times. With some few
breaks , the Chinese have had a regular
succession of sovereigns since Fuhhi ,
; who , the Chinese say , reigned from B.
C. 2853 to 2737. According to Chinese
tradition , Fuhhi was no less a persou-
i age than the Noah of the Scriptures ,
l who , after leaving his ark on Mount
Ararat , traveled east and founded the
Chinese empire. Chinese history asserts
that several of their early monarchs
ruled for over a century each rene reign
ing over China for 115 years , another
for 102 , another for 100 , and so on. It
is considered probable by historians that
these figures represent rather dynasties
than the reigns of individual sovereigns.
China has had in almost direct descent ,
with no more than two or three breaks
in the history of the royal family , 33
sovereigns , 92 emperors , 2 Tartar rulers ,
6 Mogul emperors and 3 empresses.
Whit Rules the World.
Many years ago John Brougham ,
Lester Wallack , Artemus Ward and oth
ers used to meet after the play at
Windhurst' : . in Park row. One night
the question , "What rules the world ? "
arose , and various opinions were ex
pressed. William Ross Wallace , who
was present , retired before long , and
some time later called Thomas J. Leigh
from the room and handed to him a
poem which he had just written. Mr.
Leigh read it aloud to the company , and
Mr. Brougham made a happy little
speech of acknowledgment. The thing
was entitled "What Rules the World , "
and the first stanza ran :
They say that man is mighty ,
Ho governs land and sea ,
Ho wield" a mighty scepter
O'er lesser powers that he.
But a mip'itier power and stronger
Man from hi3 throne has hurled.
And the hand that rocks the cradle
la the hand that rales the world.
Kato Louise Roberts in Critic.
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The Old Man's Decision.
"I dunne what to do with him , "said
the old gentleman. "He won'twork , ho
won't study , spends half the day fishin
and the other half loafin , smashes the
crockery ware if the breakfast don't suit
him and walks and talks in his sleep.
I've bad seven doctors to examine him ,
and they're all at sea about him. So
I've just arrived at the conclusion that
he's one of these darned long haired
geniuses that-'s built to write books and
have monuments on the installment plan
when they die of starvation ! " Atlanta
Constitution.
She'd Go Through It.
"How I would love , " said the oldest
and much the heaviest of the Snigsby
girls , "to sit on yonder snowy cloud
and float across the azure empyrean !
Wouldn't it bo a daring experience to
ride on a clond ? "
"Yes , " said young Mr. Mallow as
be looked at the cloud in question , "but
I'm sure yon'd go through it all right. "
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
' More Eloquent.
"They say there is character shown
in the way a man combs his hair. "
"Well , I think that often there is
more charaotcr shown in the way ho
doosn't courb it. " Detroit Free Press.
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MUSIC AND MICE.
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A ftaffcesMoB ot * Novel Trap Effect of
j Piano Flaying on Rodents.
' Truth of London suggests that as
mice like music there is an independent
fortune awaiting the man who will in
vent a small music box which when
wound will run all night , since such a
contrivance would serve to call mien
into traps and would bo to the mice
what a decoy is to a flock of ducks or a
looking glass to a tiger. After this sug
gestion , which is not untrue to nature ,
Truth goes on to say that music that
sounds out of kilter to a critic's cars
would also drive mice from the house.
If the Truth writer had even actually
seen a mouse under the influence of mu
sic , he would never have made that mis-
. take. Neither would he have said "an
I accordion would also make the agile ro
dent desert the house as ho is said to
desert the sinking ship. " Whether mu-
sio affects rats is a question not yet Bet- <
tied by stud < nts of natural history.
As to the actual doings of a mouse
when listening to music , it has been ob
served that tbe playing of a piano , even
tbe turn turn of a beginner learning his
first tunc , will cause mice of the oom-
| mon house variety to run up and down
behind the plaster of a house , causing
; it to rattle in a way fit to disturb the
most earnest student. One night half a
i dozen persons were gathered in the par
lor of an Adirondack home listening tea
a skilled player , who , as a woodsman
said , "could make a piamier talk , "
when itv observed that' the inico
were acting in an unusual manner. The
ordinary ccrduct of mice when they
hear piano music is to merely rattle the
plaster , I nt on this night they squeaked
and Fque i e < l and rattled the plaster ai
they had v. < wv done before. The rush
of the rcuvi is died away after the mu
sic stopped , hut it was hours before the
last squeak was heard.
One of the human listeners was a boy
who had some little skill as a harmon-
icon player , and he went frequently to
the woods , where , with the aid of the
instrument , he succeeded in calling
chipmunks , red squirrels , and on one
occasion a woodchuok , besides wood
mice , including the deer mouse , and
the smaller birds. The mice ohiefly ran
about the player , with now and then a
squeak , but sometimes a low strain
with slight modulations would seem to
drive them insane , and then , without
hesitation , they would run over the
player as if he had been a stump. The
squirrels were less demonstrative
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He Walked Far Too Tar. |
In a hotel in Berlin there is a night
watchman who did not take kindly to
the system adopted a few years ago
requiring him to go through the hotel
at certain hours and touch an electrio
button fixed up in various places.
After much thought he fixed up an
automatio arrangement on several of
the buttons so that they would report
at certain hours. Soon the button sys
tem got so out of order that the man
agement abolished it.
It was found necessary to keep watch
in some way on the gentleman , how
ever , and finally a pedometer was given
him to carry on his rounds which would
register every step he took. All went
well the first two nights thereafter , but
on the morning following the third
night tbe old man was missing. On
search being made he was found sound
asleep in the engine room , and the pedometer
demeter so attached to the piston rod of
the engine that with every stroke it reg
istered a step. It had been traveling all
night , and when taken off it registered
212 miles. Berlin Gazette.
Dn Maurier Liked the Fashions.
It was inevitable , as the principle ex
ponent of topical art by pictorial satire ,
that Da Maurier should hold pretty
strong opinions about women's dress
and fashions generally , and it is a fact
that he was by no means adecrierof the
productions of the mederu modiste. On
the contrary , he admitted a very warm
admiration for his feminine contempo-1
raries small waists , pointed shoes , big |
hats and all and felt a constant pleasure - '
ure in delineating them. And as for tlu
children of this fortunate country , ho
would say he could think of no painted
or sculptured children of the past who
were more charming at least , to him.
And this , from an artist who never for
got that he was French by birth , was
praise indeed. Lady's Pictorial.
Thousands of Tons of Dust.
According to the estimates of Mr. J.
A. Udden , who has studied the remark
able phenomena of dust and sand storms
in tin arid regions of the west , every
cubic mile of the lower air during an
ordinary "dry storm" contains at least
225 tons of dust , while in severe storms
of this kind as muoh as 126,000 tons of
dust and sand may be contained in a
cubic mile of air. Dust storms some
times last for 20 or 30 hours.
To See Plainly.
The more I think of it I find thh
conclusion more impressed upon me ,
that the greatest thing a human sou *
ever does in this world is to see some
thing and tell what it saw in a plain
way. Hundreds of people can talk for
one who can think , but thousands can
think for one who can see. To see clear
ly is poetry , prophecy and religion all
in one. Ruskin.
Belgium's Royalty.
The present king of Belgium is Leo
pold II , who ascended the throne Dec.
10 , 1865. The kings of Belginm are
successors of the princes of Orange , the
first being Philibert , who succeeded to
the throne in 1502. For a long time they
were known as stadtholders.
The cloth of the old Egyptians was eo
good that , although it has been used for
thousands of years as wrappings of the
mummies , the Arabs of today can wear
it. It is all of linen , the ancient Egyp
tians considering wool unclean.
The water pump of today is an im
provement on an invention which first
came into use in the year 283 B. C.
GARISH BOOK BINDINGS.
they Are la Had Taste and Are Disliked
by Bookworm and Scholar.
Books have a right to ho , first of all ,
books , not purveyors of whimsies in
color and design. As matters are at this
moment three-quarters of the new
books look more like some strange en
tree at a feast than like cvoryday edi
bles. You take up one , aud it haa the
air of a ouriona ragout ; there are un
known fragments of design floating in
a sauce of queer elemental color. The
next one has an air as honest as apple
sauce at first glance ; 'tis a pale greenish
thing , but presently you see that the
trail of a serpent is over all its border.
Aud who can hope for content from a
dish thus garnished ?
I Again a book , and this ono burns
bright red aud yellow , like a pudding
on fire with cognac , which is all very
well for a pudding. Another has a cover
| which looks like a resisting beefsteak
pounded by the stern baud of fate in a
boarding house ; another reminds you
irresistibly of coffee wherein chickory
has too much inserted its diluting aid
and cream is missing But , first and
last , the new books are ever moro prone
to resemble small plots of deceptive
stage verdure than honest , simple souled
books. It is impossible to help doubt
ing the value of the literary pasturage
to be found in such inclosures. Fortu
nately ouo is sometimes most joyously
deceived. Authors have little "say"
concerning the garb of their volumes ,
and often good luck to them they
rise superior to the mechanical makers
of books aud rejoice the souls of their
readers in spite of the bindings.
And it must be repeated that in the
present bizarre and excessive fancies in
binding there is seed of abounding hope
for the future. Publishers are groping
for something ; few of them know what.
But they will learn , and the world will
bo made glad by a genuine revival in
the lovely old half forgotten craft of
bookbinding. In that happy coming day
there will be great honor for the men
who lead the taste of this country to
ward better things in bookbinding , sim
pler and saner and more sincere. Bos
ton Transcript.
QUESTION OF LUCK.
A Citation That Clinched the Other Sldo
of the Argument.
"I hate to hear people cay there's no
such thing as luck , " remarked the mel
ancholy Mr. Dolittlo.
"I don't see why , "his wife rejoined.
"Because it isn't true , " ho returned
with asperity. "A man can go on try
ing and trying and never get along ,
end some other person will go ahead
and tumble into good things without
making any effort whatever. "
"Hiram , no great man has succeeded
without hard work. "
"That's the kind of talk you always
hear. But nine times out of ten it is all
owing to the opportunity that presented
itself. Fortune just seems to lie in wait i
to kidnap some men. Look at Sir Isaao
Newton. His name is handed down
from generation to generation. And
why ? Simply because he was sitting .
under a tree , aud an apple happened to |
drop on him. You can't pretend that a j
man is in a position to claim superior
merit simply because , through no ac
tion or preference of his own , he gets |
hit in the head with an apple , can you ? "
"No , Hiram. "
"Then don't tell me about there not
being any such thing as luck. "
"It seems to me that you've chosen a
poor example in support of your argu
ment. The case of Isaac Newton goes
to show that the difference is in the
-people. If it had been some men that I
know of instead of Newton , the first j
thing they would have done after the
apple fell would have been to go into ;
the house and moan for the arnica bottle
tle ; then they would have spent two or
tbreo hours of precious time talking
about their bad luck. " Washington
Star.
Clocks With Nerves.
There is one disadvantage about very
tall buildings which is being noticed by
the occupants. It is perhaps a small
disadvantage , but still is worth consid
ering , as it involves some annoyance to
those who have not made provision for
it.
The trouble referred to is the stop
ping of pendulum clocks by the vibra
tion of the buildings. Many a pendulum
clook that has kept accurate time for
years in old fashioned low structures
has refused to run at all when moved
into some ono of the new tall steel
framed buildings in the lower part of
the city. On the lower floors of the
buildings the clocks run fairly well , but
when higher up in the buildings they
become more whimsical and on the top
floors will not run at all. Now York
Times.
Ho Responded.
The late archbishop of Canterbury
had a favorite dog named Watch ! Once ,
as he lay on the mat at the open door of
the chapel , the archbishop read impress
ively this sentence of the Scripture
lesson , "What I say unto you I say
unto you all watch. " The dog sprang
up , came forward and lay down before
the reading desk at his master's feet.
Ono hearer at least heeded the lesson
and responded. Congregationalist.
Ho Got the Place.
Great Editor You have your theory ,
of course , as to how newspapers should
bo conducted ?
Applicant ( fresh from college ) Not
the slightest , sir.
Great Editor ( amazed ) Is it possible ?
My dear sir , you can have your pick of
any department in this office that is ,
if you have not already arranged with a
museum. Buffalo Times.
A Sprinting Match.
Governor You've been running
ahead of your allowance , Jack.
. Jack I know it , dad. I've been hop
ing for a long time that tbe allowance
would strengthen up enough td'overtako
me. Household Words.
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Every Thursday afternoon , a tourist
sleeping car for Salt Lake City , San
Francisco and Los Angeles leaves Ouia
ha and Lincoln via the Hurlingtoii Route.
It is carpeted , upholstered in rattan ,
has spring seats and backs and is pro
vided with curtains , bedding , towels ,
soap. etc. An experienced excursion
conductor and a uniformed Pullman porter
ter accompany it through to the Pacific
coast. While neither as expensively fin
ished nor as fine to look at as a palace
sleeper , it is just as goods to ride in.
Second class tickets are honored and the
price of a berth , wide enough and big
enough for two , is only $5 00.
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For a Mere Song.
A limited number of novels by best
living authors for sale at this office at
five cents a copy. Only a few left.
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