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The Frontier. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY D. H. CRONIN, Editor. RUMAINE SAUNDERS, Associate. Uit Days of Jobs Raskin. Occasionally we get a little reminder that John Ruskin la still with us, although his working days are orer. He now lives at Conlston, a beautiful place in Lancashire, England, where he has decided to spend the remainder of his days, interesting himself in his books, pictures and music. It Is said that of late the great philosopher has become strangely silent and uncom municative, and only on special occa sions will he allow his friends to see him. He Is now very old and Infirm, so much so, in fact, that he can no longer attend to his garden, which pastime was formerly one of his great est delights. John Ruskin, however, has always lived the life of a recluse, more or less, somewhat in the same manner that Thomas Carlyle was wont to do. Therefore one Is hardly sur prised at hearing that he now rests In seclusion after working for oter half a century. Rwrehloithi P*wn'hnp«. The very latest of the late fashion able fancies Is the pawnbroker’s fad. If you are a woman and haven’t yet ventured to scour the loan establish ments on South Clark street, you haven’t been a fashionable woman, or If you are you can’t be a flu de slecle fashionable woman. It all grows out of the erase for antique belongings, for old hall silver and colonial mahogany and Wedgewood china and Samothrace Venuses without any heads or arms. If one must have those things In a house one must cultivate the pawn shops, and that Is what tne women arc doing. Not only South Clark street, but Blue Island avenue as well, comes in for Its share of scrutiny. Voyages of discovery are organised with a man for pilot, and a bevy of fair women for mariners bold. Incidents of the Mile. Here are two incidents of the Battle of the Nile told by “one of the gun ners’ crew": One lad who was sta tioned by a salt box on which he sat to give out cartridges, and keep the ltd close—it Is a trying berth—when asked for a cartridge, he gave none, yet he sat upright; his eyes were open. One of the men gave him a push; he fell all his length on the deck. There was not a blemish on his body, yet he was quite dead, and was thrown overboard. The other, a lad, who had the match In his hand to fire his gun, In the act of applying It a shot took off his arm; . It hung by a small piece of skin. The match fell to the deck. He looked to his arm, and seeing what had hap pened, seised the match In his left hand and fired off the gun before he went to thfc cock-pit to have It dressed. Pleasures of Public Ufa It must be an expensive luxury, writes a correspondent, to be M. P. for the Louth division of Lincolnshire. The following are taken from the list of donations of R. W. Perks. M. P. for that constituency, during one week: Lincolnshire Nursing Institute, £10 10s; Tetney Primitive Methodist Chapel, £6; Saltfleet foal show, £S; Market Rasen horse and dog show, £5; Salvation Army at Louth, £1; ditto at Bardney, £1; ditto at Market Rasen, £1; North Somercotes Wes leyan Chapel, £2, and smaller contri butions to football clubs at Horncastle, Market Rasen, Ludford and Louth.— London Telegraph. Vrraeh ltags for Orders. To the Institution of orders, medals and diplomas In France there Is no limit The latest is diplomas for washerwomen. The washerwomen, to be sure, occupy a conspicuous position .on the Seine and have played an Im portant part in the life of Paris, es pectally in revolutionary periods. They •. *r* nearly as formidable as the market women. The government has estab lished this new order and awarded twelve medals. The Important duty of ^distributing the diplomas to the prise . washerwomen is discharged by the .ministry of commerce. * - - T HI* Terms Were Accepted. Oen. Joubert, when he was in New York city a few years ago as the guest ' of Heary George, told with modesty of his negotiations with the British at . Majuba hill, and his eyes sparkled as he recited his reply to the British com mander in chief. “It does not comport with these," said the British general, pointing to the decorations on his . breast, “to accede to your terms.” To which said Joubert, pointing to his 'riflemen: “And it does not comport • Vwlth those to offer any others.” , *: '■ , ImMm la Be«T«r Duu> 1‘-' Tk« discovery of the remains of a ‘-mastodon near Newburgh, New York, ■' Jut summer, recalls the fact that the hast preserved skeleton of one of these I- fctge animals now to be found in our . museums wu also discovered in a ^ marsh near Newburgh. That part of 4. the Hudson Valley appears to baYe 'been a favorite haunt for these Ameri aan elephants.. Inspection of the place -vhere the latest discovery was made emphasises the fact that beavers were ociatemporaries of the mastodons, and ' that beaver-dams were as perilous as - quicksands for the massive beasts who ventured to set foot in them. COLOR BLIND ARTISTS. ' HneeeMfal Painter* Who Co a 14 Not Toll Red from Greco. To speak of a color-blind artist sounds like Joking, said a noted Lon don oculist, but, strange as it seems, there are several persons so affected who can nevertheless paint extremely well. Numbers of color-blind people there are, of course, who draw per fectly In pencil. Ink and crayons, but I myself know a scene painter attached to a provincial theater who, though "color-blind,” paints all Its scenery, and has Quite a local name, not only for his "Interiors” and oak chambers, but even for landscapes. I can tell you also of two London ladles who consulted me for color bllndnesss who paint really beautiful pictures. One Is the daughter of a late famous artist, and was taught painting by her fath er. She Is quite unable to distinguish red from green, but her colors are la beled with the names and she has been taught which to use for certain effects. Possibly her painting may seem to her eyes, as it were, drawl.ig with a brush and “shading” with the colors. The other Is a lady artist of some celebrity who has for years exhibited animals In London. The public are not aware that she Is color blind. She painted “The Wedding Group” for a certain noble bridegroom u year or two ago, and also several public men’s por traits ,and one of an eminent physician fetched 500 guineas. There is a gen tleman residing ar Kensington who, having years ago left the navy through finding his advancement hopelessly barred by hts color blindness, is at present making several hundred a year by his brush as an artist, designing most artistic and brightly colored pic ture “posters” for advertisement boards. ■ark UUiikt(4 of Kriindiir IndUnfl. In Leuador, ouo of Uie routh Ameri can republics, the bark of it tree which grows on the slopes of the Andes is utilised for the making of blankets. The blanket is over six feet long and over five feet wide, and is as soft and pliable as though it were made of flannel. It Is about the thickness of a good flannel blanket, and can be rolled up and put in a strap without hurting or Injuring It. This tree or bark blanket Is merely a strip of bark cut from a section of the trunk of the blanket or demajogua tree. The In dians make a cutting around the trunk to get It, and they prepare It by soak ing It In water until It Is soft. It 13 then pounded so that the rough outside can be stripped off and the Inside alone left. The Inside Is of line fibres so joined together by nature that it makes a beautiful blanket, warm enough to be used as a cover, and soft enough for a mattress. Chamnlxon lnk«a. It Is well known ihat the wat. • cf| many lakes exhibits ■ huracre lsti< *>: ora. The lake of < im v*. at the *> e3t- j ern end of Switzei'and. is blue, vhile the Lake of Constance, at the ear'ern end of Switzerland. Is green, nineties . Implies purity, since the natural colo of water Is blue. A green lake has iU water slightly clouded with Impurities, which may be exceedingly fine parti cles. separately invisible. Professor Spring of the University of Liege, saya. that green lakes sometimes become ab aolutely colorless for a time, and h» has found that this sudden change of hue Is due to the washing into the lakes of mud and colored red by oxide of iron. Red Is complimentary to green, and the result of the mixture la that the green color of the water be comes for the time neutral'zed. FAMOUS SET OF CHINA. Wortli Thirty Ttioa«ii‘t Hollar*, mil Ta‘ Can Ba Smashail by 11x4 Cook. A magnificent set of china was re cently purehased by Mrs. William As tor of New Tork for the princely sum of $30,000. It is the most costly set of tableware In America. As the his tory of the celebrated dishes is related by the Chicago Tribune, it seems that they were originally intended for a royal table. Mrs. As .or ha ; added an other servant to her already large ret inue, a woman whose sole duty is to care for these valuable dishes. The china la rich cream white in tint, with a slightly scalloped edge. Close to the rim traced in glitterin'* gold. Is the famous Btar-seattered Astor crest. Be low the crest and enci: cling each plate is a band of gold, then a band of bril liant red, bordered by ino.her .learn ing gold line, and theu. still further down in the plate, directly unoer the crest, are the goMei letters “C. A." (Caroline Astor) wrought into an ar tistic momgram. The soup dishes are large and leep. measuring tea Inches in diameter, 'i he pla ii are slightly smaller in size. The ] la iters are ob long in sha >e. a ad are -quare at the ends rather than rounded. The three cornered disl.es are all th i same size. The china is not only remarkable for its fabulou; cost, but for the sim plicity of it' de; gn. The can of It is a story all c? its ilf. Not one of the 213 pieces Is ever all iwed to touch the oth er, eo brittle are these wonderfully costly plates. A china closet has been especially built to ho'd them, and -acl dish la always put in a n.the < ,** r . own. Uttar la »W«r Vlihl. An interesting spectacle was s, ~n the other day on the banks of the River Soar, England. A young otter and a huge eel were found In a deadly strug gle. The otter evidently had caught the eel, which had retaliated by winding Itself tightly around the former’s neck. The fight lasted several minutes, the otter eventually freeing itself and making off with part of the eel, which i It had bitten in two. K FISHING WITH STONES. Davie* Clad by Saottlah PoaaharS U Capturing Salmon. It is astonishing what tiny brooks large salmon will ascend in obedience to the instinct which teaches them to Beek a nursery where their young will be comparatively secure from the at tacks of their numerous enemies. In one small pool of a little burn in the highlands, half a dozen yards long and but a few feet broad, I have seen, rather late in the year, eight or ten salmon, some of which must have weighed between twenty and thirty pounds. They ascend these small streams during flood-time, and It fre quently happens that they are caught on a falling water, and unable to escape from their confined quarters until the rivers are again in spate, It may be not for many weeks. In such circumstances they are accessible to the devices of poachers, and although as a rule the Scottish rivers are effi ciently guarded during the breeding time, they are of course raided occa sionally, and large numbers of grayflsh secured. A common method is to se lect a long “holding” pool where sal mon are known to be plentiful, and where the water is moderately deep at the sides. At such a place the poach ers, their faces blackened, and per haps a dozen or so In number, time their arrival an hour or two before dawn and stone the pool vigorously until there is light enough for the next stage of the proceedings. Frightened and confused by the constant splash ing of the water and the descent of big stones all around them, the salmon seek refuge by the banks, where In the meantime the poachers are eareful to leave them undisturbed. When daylight appears the men creep cau tiously upstream along the banks armed with long-handled gaffs, where with to snatch the salmon, which lie quietly as th-.ugh dazed in three or four feet of water. A cartload cf heavy fish is sometimes secured dar ing one of these matutinal forays.— London Telegraph. HINDOO TRICKS. T« tUutHitk Cdtttr Way •( ltllhl the bt«4 India la pre-eminently tka lul at mystery, aid cur most advanced ai itciaaa have never b«aa abla ta re produce all tkalr marvelous perform ances, says tka Cincinnati Eaquirar. One day, la tha market place of aa la land vllage, I saw a curious perform ance. It waa conducted by two mea— one old and emaciated, carrying a sa tire drum; tka otker young and well fed, fantastically gowned with an cwer aklrt of eolored handkerchiefs and a multitude of bells, which Jangled nois ily at his slightest movement; long, ragged hair—altogether a hideous flg ure. The drummer began a weird tom tomlng and the other man an incanta tion; then he extended a “supra"—* bamboo tray used by all natives, on which any one who pleases places a large handful of rice and the same quantity of grain. The two Ingredi ents are thoroughly amalgamated, so that it would, in ihe ordinary way, take hours to separate them. Now the fantastic man with his tray begins. He turns slowly nround, gradually quickening his pace (the drummer also keeping time), farter and faster In a giddy vortex, the tray at times almost out of his hand.--, yet eo cleverly handled that not u grain falls out. It la very trying to watch, but in a couple of minutes both stop simultaneously and the man shows to the wondering apectators two little lna is. one of rice and the othe; grain, at different ends of the tray, which ia his sickening gyrations he has been ab?.e to separate by some extraordinary manipulation. Later It was ray good fortune to be able to witness one of those remarka ble cases of voluntary srspended ani mation of which I had so frequently heard—with a somewhat dubious smile, I am afraid. Hut I am con vinced now. It was called a “Joghee" performance, and tcolc place hefore the maharajah of Dhurbangs, whase guest I had the hoioi to be. The “Joghee” was put by his dinclples into a trance. He became perfect ’y unconscious and dead to all appearances. An English doctor present felt his pu'se and found It had ceased, and a tooklng-glass | showed not the slightest moisture of any breath In the body. The "Joghee" was put Into a coffin, the lid screwed on and seals were impressed on It with the maharajah’s signet ring. The box was burled five feet deep, earth thrown In and wen stamped. Grain was then •own mtd trasty sentries guarded the place. The grain had sprouted and home corn when we were Invited again, after sixty days, to witness the resurrection ot the body. The grave was optned and the coffin found to be Intact. The seals were broken, he lid unscrewed and the “Joghee” was taken out stiff and star.:. His disci ples now began to manipulate tbe body and to go through certain rites, very similar to mesmerism, and by degrees the dead man opened his eyes, a quiver ran through his body and he .-at up erect. Jttitr *f All Mmm KiiInm. There was released from active serv ice in England the other day the old est working engine of the world. It bad literally been 320 years in the business. It was made by James Watt and Boulton in Birmingham in 1777 lor the Birmingham Canal Navigation Company. It had a thirty-two-inch cylinder and an eight-foot stroke and -was by no means small, but a low pres sure of steam was used. The engine lias been pumping water ever since, hut Is now "released” and will go into » museum. The Kind You Han Always Boqgfet ism f0 (COOKERY IN BOLIVIA. Chupet to Uncertain Kind of Irlah Stair, la the National DUh. The stoves of the Bolivian Indians are curious things. A hole is dug in ! the ground about 18 Inches deep and a foot square, and over this is built a roof of clay with holes of different sizes to receive the various cooking i pots. Roasting Is done on spits passed through the holes, so that the meat comes out very much smoked unless great care is taken to have only live coals at the bottom of the oven. The national dish, and the common food of the masses, is “chupe,” a sort of first cousin to the Irish stew. It is a con glomerate composed of irregular con stituents from the animal and vege table kingdoms—a mess of mutton and such other meats as are available; chicken, fish, fruits, potatoes, carrots, barley, corn, rice, onions, yams, etc., chopped up, highly seasoned with pep pers and herbs, and stewed to a con sistency of porridge. What happens to be left from one meal simmers in the pot until the next. It the fire goes out the ‘‘chupe’’ is allowed to cool, but It Is warmed up again, and a new supply of the ingredients added to the water logged and greasy stufT for the next meal. In the cities, at the hotels and restaurants where there are French or I Swiss cooks the "chupe” is savory and palatable, but the further you go from the centers of civilisation the worse it gets. One eats it first under protest, I then from necessity, and only to escape I starvation; but finally the stomach re bels, and you limit your diet to boiled eggs and fruit, which are usually to be obtained; but the experienced travel er always takes canned meat and bread I with him.—Chicago Record. Walked la ltla Steep. Beraard Bennett, of Jamaica, L. I., who has been confined to his bed for four years with paralysis so complete that he is unable to more about, is nevertheless able to walk in his sleep. This ability has Just been discovered by the man’s wife, who found him go ing down stairs. When he was awak ened after being led to his bed he was again unable to move. Traa JanraalUtlc Inatlact. In Paris a young woman drove to the Bois, alighted from her coupe, seized her coachman’s whip, and ad vanced before an eager crowd to ad minister a whipping to a journalist who had net flattered her vanity. The journalist caught the whip, broke it, and. lifting the fair one in his arms, covered her with kisses. Then he went and wrote it up. A Mlsandarstaadlng. Lawyer—Then, I understand you to swear, witness that the parties came to high words? Witness—No, sir; wot I say is, the wards was particularly low. Soldiers In the Italian army are al lowed two hours In the middle of the day for a nap. American Grapes. The ancestor of all our native out door grapes Is the original wild grape which the Norsemen found on the shores of Tineland. The Concord is supposed to be the wild grape changed through cultivation. Curiously enough, the seedlings of the Concord often turn out white grapes and a dozen or so well-known varieties, white, red and dark, originated In this way. t*w» Who Wear Glassaa. Cattle with spectacles are to he seen on the Russian steppes. The steppes are covered with snow more than six months of the year. The cows subsist on the tufts of grass which crop above the snow, and the rays of the sun on the snow are so daszling as to cause blindness. To obviate this calamity it occurred to a kind-hearted man to pro tect the cows’ eyes In the same way as those of human beings, and be manu factured smoke-colored spectacles, which could be safely worn by cattle. These spectacles were a great success, and are now worn by 40,000 cattle, who no longer suffer from the snow blind ness which once caused such suffering among them.—Collier’s Weekly. Usd Too Many UUIee . Prom a western Colorado j jstm. ister to the department at \V: suin^ton: "Pleas except my resanation of p m of the govment at this town 1 haf ben 'alacted j of tbe pease & school com misner said duties preventing me from bitin off mors than i can chaw by trine to kill three birds with 1 ston. Tores respectably." Door Slate la SwIlacA. 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