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Publishers & Proprietors.
The Mysteries of Presentation to
Rovalty-What It Costs.
In these days almost any rcspcetable
person can be presented to the queen, or
princo and prince of "Wales in her behalf.
All you want is an introducer (called n
"presenter".), a lady having a lady and a
gentleman.
Your name, accompanied by that of
your presenter, who must already have
been presented him or her self, and who
nominally vouches for you, is formally
pent to the Lord Chambertain a reason
able time before the holding of the drawing-room
or levee, lie is supposed to
submit it to the queen for approval.
Whether he docs or not I can't begin to
say. There i3 a common idea that the
queen directs the whole business, but I
very mnch doubt it. At all events,if
you or your presenter don't receive a po
lite intimtion that your presence can be
dispensed with, at the appointed day and
hour you make your appearance at Buck
ingham Palace, if it be a drawing-room;
at St James1 Palace if it be a levee. The
difference between a drawing-room and
levee is this: Drawing-rooms are chiefly
for ladies, and are held either by the
queeen or princess of Wales. Both take
place in the afternoon, the former at 3,
the latter at 2 o'clock. They are, of
course, very grand, formal affairs, both
of them. Every woman must wear a
peculiar stylo of court dress of either
silk, satin, or velvet, and while the pat
tern, trimming, etc., are left to the taste
of the wearer, one or two things are de
rigucr. The skirt must have a train two
or three yards long at the back, and the
head-dress must be "feathers and lapets"
the former being white ostrich and the
latter white lace. Gentlemen must ap
pear at drawing-room or levees in uni
form or court dress. Every man who
possibly can wears a uniform of some sort,
for the regulation court suit is far from a
becoming one. It consists of a dark
colored silk velvet dress coat, vest, and
knee breeches with white silk stocdings,
or a coat richly embroidered with gold
cloth, white vest and gold-laced trousers.
With the former, shoes and buckles are
worn, and with both there is a cocked
hat and a steel or guilt sword. The whole
outfit costs from ' twenty one to nearly
twenty-three pounds at the cheapest, that
is if you buy it. You can hire it if you
like. But apart from the necessary bad
fit of hired clothes there are other objec
tions to wearing them which I think most
people recognize and appreciate. Besides.
& man who feels fine enough to swagger
in court ought to be able to buy and own
his clothes.
Why American gentlemen, of all peo
ple, should be willing, and not only will
ing, but anxious, to chuck away" a lot of
money for a few hours' unaccountable
gratification of their republican vanity, is
a problem for which I have been unable
to find a solution. What they gain by
being presented to the queen I am at a
loss to discern. But it is useless to say
this. They still keep on coming
over hear every summer and giving the
American Embassy something to do. I
wonder if they realize the fact that not
one in a hundred English gentlemen are
ever presented. Why then should they
be? I dare say they find it a grand thing
to talk about, to other Anglo-maniacs,
when they go home ia the fall and make
them turn greeen with envy. If, however,
they must come and bend their heads be
fore royal magesty, let me give them this
bit of advice: Get some sort of a uni
form to wear. Some American uniform,
militajy or naval, and gave yourself the
humility of appearing in the c-Gurt dress,
which you must otherwise do. It looks
awkward and unbecoming enough on
Englishmen, but on Americans it is posi
tively grotesque. As I have observed,
every Englishmam who can pets the right
to wear a uniform, either army, navy,
militia, voluuteer or of some civil sort.
Judges and barristers go in their wigs
and gowns. Every one who can avoids
the court dress. London Correspondent
in San Francisco Argonaut.
Around the World.
Boston Herald: The Russian govern
ment has decided to enter upon the work
of building a line of railway across Si
beria, from the borders of European
Russia to the Pacific ocean, the probable
eastern terminus of the line to be the
port of Vladivostok, on the Japan sea.
It i3 estimated that it will require five
years to complete this line, but at the
end of that time it will be possible to
travel from St. Petersburg to the Pacific
ocean in fifteen days. This will materi
ally reduce the time now required to
make a circuit of the globe. It is pos
sible now to improye on the once sensa
tional assertion of " round the world in
eighty days," in consequence of the
greater rapidity of water transportation.
But by the short cut suggested above, as
suming that regular connections could
be made, it is not unlikely that the
traveler, who was willing to go on with
put stopping for. occasional rests, could
make th circuit in approximately fifty
days. That is, starting from New York,
it would require seven days to go to
London, three days from London to St.
Petersburg, fifteen from there to the Pa
cific, nineteen days for crossing that
ocean, and six days from San Francisco
to his starting point. While at present
there is no connecting line on the Pacific
with Vladivostok, the distance from that
point to the trade centers of Japan is
relatively short, and if a trans-Siberian
railway is built, one may be sure that a
line of swift steamers will run across the
Japan Sea in connection with it, and in
this way the regular steamers plying
across the Pacific could be readily reach
ed. Indeed, if the speed of these Pacific
steamers could be increased so as to equal
that of the fast steamers that now cross
the Atlantic ocean, the allowance of
nineteen days given for passage from
continent to continent might be appre
ciably reduced. We are beginning to
realize that our globe is but a small
place, and in a generation or two more
there will probably not bo any part of
the earth's surface, except the polar
regions, that will not bo quite a3 acces
sible to the inhabitants of this city, for
example, as what is now Chicago was to
the residents of Boston two generations
ago.
Bonaparte's Escape from Elba.
From Scribner's Magazine.
Nothing in modern history equals in
dramatic interest tiie story of the Hun
dred Days. Napoleon's daring escape
from Elba, his triumphal march to Paris,
his unopposed resumption of the rcgins
of government, the banding together of
all Europe against him, the acceptance by
France of her isolated situation, her de
termined attitude in the face of her many
foes, her zealous and active preparations
to defend herself-- Napoleon's character
istic resolution to carry the war into the
enemie's country, the first success at Lig
ny and tha terrible overthrow at Water
loo, followed by Napoleon's abdication
and exile constitute, perhaps, the most
striking succession of great events ever
witnessed. Volumes upon volumes have
been written on the campaign at Water
loo, but as it seems to be still a topic of
unfailing interest I may perhaps be ex
cused for sketchiug very briefly its prin
cipal features.
Napoleon's plan was to separate the
English and Prussian armies, which were
in their cantonments in Belgium, and beat
them in detail. What espically induced
him to form this plan was that the com
munications of these armies were in pre
cirely oiposite directions those of the
English being to the west, in the direc
tion of the sea, and those of the Prussians
to the cast, in the direction of the Rhine.
The case, therfore, was wholly different
from what it would have been had the
force opposed to him consisted of only
one army, under one control, having
but one base of supplies. It was much
more favorable for him; for, if he could
defeat either of these armies so completly
as to force it to fall back upon its base,
he would separate it completly from its
ally. There were, of course, other plans
which he might have adopted, f or iustance,
that which the Duke of Wellington ex
pected he would adopt, namely, to at
tempt to turn the English right, and cut
them off from their base on the sea, but
the plan above given to sepcrate, if pos
sible, the two armies was the one on
which he determined to act.
American and English Pottery.
From the Jewelry News.
Whatever supermacy may be truthfully
clajmed by America in the line of all
kind of iitipleacnts, watches and jewelry
England leads the world in the line of
art pottery. A well known English man
ufacturer of pottery has the honor of pro
ducing the largest and one of the most
beautiful vases in the world. This vase
consists of a pedestal, which, rising from
a square plinth, supports a globe repre
senting the earth surmounted by a figrue
of Ceres, who, together with a group of
Cupids, are showering gifts of fruitful
ness upon the earth. Around the center
of the globe runs a frieze divided into
four pane's, on which are Cupids busy in
the pursuits typical of the four seasons.
The subjects are divided by bracelets,
on which are other figures emblematic of
the season. The pedestal contains a
splendid frieze on which are represented
soui6tliing more than sixty Cupids occu
pied in rural work. The plinth is artis
tically ornamented in keeping with the
general design. The color of tho globe
is a shade of green called celadon, the
figures are china bisque, and the other
decorations white china.
The whole stands 11 feet in height,
and the diameter is 0 feet 4 Inches, and
notwithstanding its proportions, this vase
is elegant, chaste and thoroughly artistic.
The cost of this huge ornamented piece
pottery is 16,500.
The quality of lite blood depends
much upon good or bad digestion and
assimulation; to makothe blood rich in
life and strength giving constituents, use
Dr. J. II. McLean's Strengthening Cordial
and Blood Purifier; it will nourish the
properties of the blood from which the
elements of vitality are drawn. 8-m3
Wonderful Escape From Death.
Ouu of the most singular incidents con
nected with the burning of the Opera
Comique, says a Paris letter, was the won
derful escape from death of one of the
chorus singers. On the first alarm he had
rushed up stairs to his dressing room on
the fourth floor to save his sni'ill poses
sions, and on arriving there, overcome
with heat and smoke, he had fallen on
the floor in a swoon. There he lay in a
state of utter insensibility for over two
hours. His dressing room was fortunate
ly situated in an angle of the building
which flaues did not reach, the state of
syncope in which he was had suspended
respiration, and so, unharmed by the fire
and poisonous smoke and gasses evolved
from the burning scenery, he remained
there in safety while death and destruc
tion was rioting around him. It was
long pf.st 11 o'clock when he came to his
senses and realized the horror and danger
of his position, lie made his escape by
a staircase leading to the Rue de Jlar
ivaux, and on finding himself in safety
he once more became unconcious and was
taken to a pharmacy, from whence he
was transferred to a hospital. A few
days ago he was discharged cured, after
suffering severely from his long sojourn
in the pestilential atmosphere of tho
burning building. He can now boast of
being the only person who remained for
two hours in the Opera Comique after
the fire broke out, and who then escaped
not only alive, but comparatively unhurt.
Dangors From Oil.
No oil A'hich envolves an inflammable
vapor at a less temperature than 110
Fahrenheit is allowed to be sold in this
state. The purpose of this law is mani
festly to prevent danger from explosion.
At the time the law was pa.ised the lamp
in almost universal use had but a single
plain wick, and the heat evolved by the
combustion of the oil was not excessive.
Since the introduction and irequent use
of more complicated lamps, with double
or circular wicks, which give far more
light and heat than the old forms, the
conditions have changed, and some ex
periments performed in the laboratory of
Cornell University of New York and de
scribed in the Scientific American would
indicate that the standard is now too
low. Carefully conducted experiments
with various new forms of lamps showed
that in some of them the temperature of
the oil in the lamp reservoir, with the ex
ternal air at 74 , and with a shade over
the lamp, reached 110 . In the old form
of lamp, under the same conditions, the
temperature of the oil was only 94 . As
the experimenters very properly remark,
this does not indicate that the forms of
lamp in which these facts were observed
are dangerous, provided a peifectly safe
oil above tho legal fire-test is used; but it
does indicate that the legal standard is
too near the danger line, and that the
Legislature should take steps to raise that
standard. Philadelphia Ledger.
A Case of Deafness Cured.
Office of Shaw fc Baldwin's Wholesale 1
Notion House, Toledo, '., Dec. .
F. J. Cheney & Co-. Toledo, 0.--Dear
Sirs: About three monts ago, noticing a
letter addressed to you in the Bee from
Gen. Slevin, in reference to the cure of
his son by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure,
we were induced to commence the use of
it for our daughter Nellie now fourteen
years old, who has been suffering from
catarrh about eight years, during which
time she has been treated by one of the
best physseians in the city. We have al
so tried the use of almost all tlie known
remedies for catarrh, with no more success
than temporary relief. Many nights have
we laid awake to hold her mouth open to
keep her from strangling. Her hearing
had also become affected. We were
afraid that she would never recover. We
have now used siv bottles of H.v.l's Ca?
TAitim Cuuk, and we believe Nellie to be
entirely cured. In a few days after com
mencing the use of it we noticed a decid
ed change for the better, and from that
right along she has improved, until now
she breathes as easily as any one. She
sleeps well and her hearing is perfectly
good We feel that the disease is entire
ly lemoved, Yve wrila this unsolicited
letter, feeling that it is due you, and with
the hope that others may be benefited in
like manner. We can hardly realize that
such a change could be effected in so
short a time after buttling with the dis
ease so long. We are still using the rem
edy at intervals, as it seems to build up
her system, Yoij aio at liberty to use
this in any manner you see proper.
We are yours, truly,
Mi?, and Mrs. S. Bbldwin,
220 Franklin Avenue.
E2T"Sold by Druggists. 7."e, 20ml
Mrs. James Brooks, of North Modus,
Coon., is more than ever convinced that
there is truth in the adage that "to find a
strange dog in the house is a forerunner
of good news." The Fourth of July
found a si ray dog under her bed, and
before the sun dawned she received the
intelligence from her pension solicitor at
Washington that her petition had been
granted, and that she would receive
$2,3SS as back pay and a monthly allow
ance of $12. Globe Bern.
rFaults of digestion cause disorders
of the liver, and tti3 whole system be
comes deranged. Dr. J. II. McLean's
Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier
perfects the process of digestion and as
simulation, and thus makes pure blood.
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The Ceoreia Picnic Kiss.
The Georgia kiss, if the Miuon Tth
graph is authority on the subject, is far
superior to all others. It says: "And af
ter all there is iu chance for improvement
over the simple Georgia picnic kiss, at
tho mere mention of which there rise be
fore the visions of all the old boys dainty
muslins, pink ribbons, rosy cheeks, and
Rembrandt shadow. The very air seems
redolent of heliotrope, laughter like the
rippling of a hidden brook trembles in
the distance, and the good right arm feels
again the faint struggle of modesty upon
it. How tawdry, how coarse and revolt
ing seems the stage spasm compared with
this. No; the best kissing after all is
what the circumstances mako it. The
circumstances that surround the old-fashioned
Georgia picnic make it simply de
lightful. The young man who is led off
by the stake kiss drops the substance for
the shadow, and is to be pitied."
!n Brief And To The Point.
Dyspepsia is dreadful. Disordered
liver is misery. Indigestion is a foe to
good nature.
The human digestive apparatur is one
of the most complicated and wonderful
things in existence. It is easily put out
of order.
Greasy food, tough food, sloppy food,
bad cookery, mental worry, bite hours,
irregular habits, and many - other things
which ought not to be. have made the
American people a nation of dyspeptics.
But Green's August Flower has done
a wonderful work in reforming this sad
business and making the American people
so healthy that they can enjoy their
meals and be happy.
Remember: No happiness without
health. But Green's August Flower
brings health and happiness to the dys
peptic. Ask yonr druggist for a bottle.
Seventy-five cents. (2)
"Yes, children," said Mr. De Baggs,
addressing a Chicago Sunday school,
"yes, children, wrong doing is always
punished, either in this world or in the
next. Retribution may be long in com
ing, but it is sure to come at last. You
yourself, when you grow older in years
and experience, will learn how true the
lines of Shakespeare are.
"The mills of tlie sods frriml slowly.
Hut tliey get there just the Kime."
Journal of Education.
In the decline of life, infirmities be
set us to which our youth and maturity
were strangers, our kidneys and liver are
subject to derangement, but nothing
equals Dr. J. II. McLean's Liver and Kid
ney Balm as a regulator of these organs.
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Morristown Herald: A young wom
an in Sheffield, England, was lately so
highly amused at the predicament into
which a neighbor got that she broke into
a fit of laughter which continued until
she fell to the floor unconscious, and died
in a short time. Her neighbor's predica
ment is not stated, but we suspect that
she attempted to get into a hommock
that was suspended too high.
- If ycu suffer pricking pains on mov
ing the eyes, or cannot bear bright light,
and find your sight weak and failing,
you should promptly use Dr. J. II. Mc
Lean's Strengthening Eye Salve. 2 cents
a box. 8-m3
President Cleveland is a tittle unde
p;ccd ah to what he will do this fall, but
his fall for next year has been arranged.
- Peroia Transcript.
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It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac
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The best and surest Remedy for Cnro of
all diseases caused by any derangement of
the Liver, Kidneys, Stomach and Bowels.
Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, CVitffipation.
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It is pleasant to the taste, tones np the
system, restores and preserves health. -j
It is purely Vegetable, and annot fail to
prove beneficial, both to old and young.
As a Blood Purifier it is e nperior to all
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