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justly doubted whether the 20-inh
waist of Venus de Medici is not sorr.e
what too large to be iu proportion with
the figure of the average American
woman. It is characteristic of women
of the highest typo of the Indo-European
races the hips are narrower and
the waist larger. The American woman
appears, iu consequence of her large
hip measurement, to have a smaller
waist than she actually has. To the un
skilled masculine eye a girl with a
waist of 21 or 21 inches may seem to
her measurement is very nearly what it
should be to satisfy the critical judg
nient of an artist or her family physi
cian. Teledt) lilade.
Kleain-ra on the Ocean,
There are l.f.OO steamers traversing
the four great ocean routes. The first
is that across the Atlantic, another by
Miez to India, China and Australia.
To go ar mid the world that way talus
eighty or ninety days and covers 2:t,'XXJ
miles. The passage money is Sl.OOO.
and the traveler who wishes to go in
comfort and case should t.ke another
?I,0iO with him. Another sea route
decriLed is that by which you start
from San I rancisco and sail around the
American continent to New York. 'J'h
journey is lOflooo miles long: it takes
I, (HID days to covtr it and thu tare is
about the same as that around the
world. To go arou-.id tlia Cape of Good
Hope to Australia and back around
Cnpe Horn is about 25X)J miles, and
can be covered in eighty-one days. The
cost is only STjO.
The Hebrew Language.
The study of the Hebrew language is
increasing in this country, not only
among the believers in Judaism, but
among Christians, liabbi Schwartz-
berg says thas an acquaintance with it
is indispensible to scholars, that it is
easily learned and that it conveys a
vast deal of knowledge in almost nil
the blanches of science.
Some fishes have horns which are
outgrowths of the bone on their
heads. The box fish, which inhabits
the warm waters of the globe a little
fellow six or eight inches long ha?
horns an inch in length.
A weal liy old man of llordeutown,
New Jersey, wno has been paying. 52.50
a week for board for many years, came
to the conclusion that such extrava
gance must cease and he has therefore
got married
Probably tho largest alligator ever
seen in Lou siana was killed in a small
lake on the pl.ntation of II. J. Feltus
in Concordia parish. It measured
twenty-two feet in length.
There isn't much anglooiania about
a Philadelphia man now in London.
lie has a Philadelphia caterer send him
two quarts of terrapin every week for
his muidny dinner.
It waa long supposed that bees col
lected the wax direct from (lowers.
Now it is known that if they are kept
from plants and fed sugar only they
will form wax.
Fifteen per cent of the students at
tending Svdney university, in Australia
are women, whose advancement there
is keeping step with their progress ii
America.
In 1701 the first Russian newspaper
was published, and so much interest
was taken in it that the great Peter
himself wrote some of its editorials and
corrected proofs.
Tho man without n country lites in
pitiable estate, but he isn,t In it for
friendlessness with the man who is
learning to play the cornet. Albany
Argus.
Farmers near Leeds, N. I)., are com
plaining of the depredations of a herd
of antelope that is destroying 'un
threshed grain in great quantities.
A recent Engl sh invention is a screw
propeller in which the blades can be
adjusted for manoeuvring or can be
feathered for sunning under sail.
The prejudice against the wearing of
whiskers is reported to be bccomnilng
very marked in the leaJing clubs and
restaurants of New York City.
A German chemist has invented a
method whereby petroleum and simi
lar liquid hydrocarbons can be ren
dered non-explosive.
Sturgeon eggs, from Lake Superior,
are said to furnish the "genuine impor
ted Russian caviare" for this counrty.
EVERY BODY
That contemplates building or remodeling
their bulldlnga should call on or write Irvln
1'rlbble lor anerlnratlona. estimate! and Infor
mation regarding Plumbing hteam and Hoi
water heating, the heat of reterenee furnished.
RntclAcaltons and estimates made free. Come
pondonre sntleliad. Address,
IHV1M FRIBBLE, Has i SB. York, Nab.
I UM11 JAW Remover-Warranted to cur.
Leaves no war. IS rents per bottle, postpaid.
bVtn. R, Simpson, York, Neb. Sold by drug
gists, n nao-a Remedy mt Catarrh Is the
I KaaSMt to Vss, and Cbaapeat ) I
SotoTaSsorBsil!n
U Me. . T. MaatKI , Warren, ra. U
His Utile John.
It was almost midnight when he
came slowly up the three flight of
stairs leading to the editorial rooms and
knocked timidly at the door.
"Come in," called out the city editor,
without looking up from his writing.
He came in slowly, a tall, middle
aged man, too thinly clad for such a
cold and stormy night. His wrists and
hard bony hands showed red and bare
beneath the sleeves of his thin and
ragged old coat. He had an honest but
ignorant face and an awkward, em
barrassed air. He pulled off his old
hat and held it iu both hands, while he
asked:
"Is it too late to get a little notice
put into the paper to-night, mister?"
'No; guess not," replied the reporter.
"Got it witten T
He pointed to a table near his own
desk, and the man sat down before it
lie took the pencil between his stiff
ened fingers, bit at the end of it while
in meditation, drew the pad of paper
toward him, and began to write.
Hut he made slow and seemingly
painful work of it. He crossed out a
word here and there and his hand
trembled strangely. Once he furtively
drew his ragged sleeve across his eyes.
Then he turned to the editor and said,
in a tone of troubled hesitation and ap
nea! :
"11 -don't want to trouble you
hone, sir.but I I ain't used lowritin',
an' I never could spell good. If you
you had lime to to w rite the notice
for nie I'd try to pay you what you
Uiink it'd be wutli."
Something in tho man's tone and
manner touched the editor's heart, and,
'jusy as he was, he said:
'I'll wrile it for you if there isu't too
much of it.''
"Only three or four lines, sir."
'Oh, a notice of a meeting, perhaps,
or something of that sor't"
'No, sir; a notice of a a" the man's
voice died away to a whisper, his chin
dropped to his swelling chest, his whole
frame trembled, as he said, "a notice of
a-death:"
"I air very sorry," said tin editor,
kindly and with genuine sympathy.
"What is the name?"
" 'J oil unit-,' we never called him any
thing cie. lie was named 'John,' after
me, but I'd rather have it printed
'Johnnie.' "
"When did he die?"
'This evening, sir. It was very sud
den, and it cbmes harder on that ac
count, though God knows it would be
hard enough if we'd been expectin' it.
Such things never come easy to them
that loves their children, and I I"
He held his faded old hat before his
his face for a moment.
"How old was he?" asked the editor,
glancing with misty eyes at a photo
graph in a little red plush frame on his
desk, the photograph of a handsome,
bright eyed little boy with thick curls
nd smiling face.
"Four years and six months to a day
sir, and our only one. That makes it
seem still harder. His mother's 'bout
heart-broken, and I I well, it's tur
rible hard to sit and watch a little life
like that go out, and to think of what
the home will be without it. Y'ou got
children, sir?''
Theeditor pointed toward the pho
topraph, and said:
"1 his is my little boy."
"He's a sweet-lookin' little feller. 1
hope he'll be spared to you We've got
a good photograph of Johnnie. That's
one comfort. I would't take a million
dollars for it now. Now, how much
w ill it be forwritin' andprintin' that
notice?"
"Nothing at all '
"No? Well, I'm a thousand times
obliged, and I I hope nobody'll ever
have to write such a notice for you
'bout that little boy of yours."
He wiped his eyes with a handker
chief wet with his tears, and went dow n
the stairs as slowly as he had come up,
and back to his poor little desolate home.
to walk softly with bowed head iu the
presence of death, and to try to com
fort his bruised heart with the thought
that the dear little boy had gone to join
the hosts of heaven. Free Press.
t'arlyle and the Bride.
We were inside passengers by a mail
coach, before it started a young bride
and bridegroom on their honeymoon
joind us. The bride was charming
and Carlyle courteously talked to her
about sight seeing and the pleasures of
traveling, mounting at limes to higher
themes, like a man who never had a
care. He got out of the coach for a
moment at a roadside inn, and the
bride, whom 1 happened to know at
Belfast, from whence she came, Imme
diately exclaimed, "who is that
twaddling old Scotchman who allows
no one to utter a word but himself.?"
I was so tickled by this illustration
of the folly of scattering pearls in
unsuitable places that I burst Into a
imffaw of launher. which was not
easily extinguished. In the evening
rarlvle asked me wiiat i naa Deen
laughing at so boisterously. I told
him. expecting him to do as mucn
mused as 1 was. Hut philosophers, 1
suppose, don i line to do Mugueu ui
youDi brides, for lie was as much
Alnnoarnail hv MM Incident S ft beftU
of four and twenty.-C Gavan Duffy
In Contwnporarj iteview.
Vnuich duels with the small sword
re seldom Illustrated with eats, except
to the papers the next morolng.-
SernnnahaWewfl. I
Beportera Honored.
Chicago has just erected a mono
ment to a newspaper reporter who
lost his life in the discharge of his duty.
In Minneapolis, not long ago, at the
memorial services of the oldest
reporter in the Northwest, tho hall
packed and euloaistic addresses were
made by the Governor and other
prominent citizens. It is gratifying to
observe that as a rule the members of
this profession are advancing in
public appreciation and esteem. The
reportorial business on our great
dailies has developed into both a
science and a fine art. It must be
done by men and women of education
ability, judgment and discrection.
It demands persons not only of talent
but of character. In addition to work
of the most laborous nature there is
a considerable amount of responsibility.
First class reporters deserve to rank
among the learned professions, and the
iudustrious, faihful and conscientious
roporter is eutitled to the recognition
and respect of the community, lie
contributes largely to the success of
every public undertaking; he gives the
people an opportunity to keep well
informed upon local events; he de
scribed many a good deed done in
the interests of humanity, and he
proves a wholesome terror to those of
evil inclinations. It is a satisfaction
to know that his memory is honored;
it Is still a greater pleasure to notice
that there is a growing appreciation of
the inestimable value of his daily
services.
It Must Hare Rren tlillly.
A Georgia man was in Waterbury
during a cold snap, lie had just ar
rived from the sunny south and his
pores were all ope;i. Ha slept at tho
Scoville House when the mercury went
below zero and the wind blew a mile a
minute.
"Why," said he, telling of it in hi
pleasant southern accent, "the chamber-maid
gave me some extra blankets
because 1 was from the south. I wor
all my underclothes and piled my cloth
iug over tho bedclothes.
'Then 1 put the contents of my
satchel over ail and piled the satchel it
self on top of that, and weighed it all
down with the crockery and furniture.
If I could have got the door oh its
hinges I'd have put that on too.
"Ulanie me, sell, 'twas as cold in that
bed as it ever was on Plymouth rock."
Another southern man who lives
here says that Georgian is sure to go
home and tell lies about this climate
which will give the whole state a chill,
Waterbury American.
Fasler Trains In Come.
That the speed of pasenger trains in
this country is destined to rapidly in
crease in the near future seems
certain. There is nothing in railroad
ing that renders such large and quick
returns to the management lis catering
to the wants and desires of the travel
ing public. Nothing so fully exenv
plifies this as the immense change that
has taken place iu the past five years
in tho equipment of through express
trains from the seaboard to the weit.
The luxury and comfort that can to
day be obtained on one of the many
limited trains passing over any of the
great trunk lilies is in strong contrast
to what was furnished five or six years
u go, and it would seem that there was
not much room for further improve
ment in that direction. What the
public are now seeking, and what will
certainly be furnished, is fast time; and
that is appreciated by railroad
managers is well evinced by the large
stuns that are now being spent to
perfect the roadways of the more
important lines. Scribner's.
Forgotten.
A pleasant story is told of how one of
the Dukes deXiveruois showed himself
willing to forgive and forget. His
olive-branch was extended with charac
teristic French wit and grace.
The Count de Tressan was elected to
the French Academy in 1780. He was
surprised to learu that the Duke de
Nivernois, whose enememy he had been
and against whom he had once directed
a scathing eplfram, had spoken iu his
favor. He haUened to call on him and
thank hiir.
The conversation turned on general
subjects, and de Tressan found no op.
1 ortunity to refer to the past or to
make the embarrassed apology which
he would, no doubt, have offered but
for his host's tacts. Just as be was
leaving the Duke said with a mischiev
ous kindly smile:
"Ah, monsieur, you see how in grow
ing old I have lost my memory-"-
Youth's Companion.
Seemed Unjust to the Man.
An Atlanta paper relates an instance
that took place in a police court in that
city. A woman who had been begging
in the streets was brought up as a
vagrant for the third time, but on ac
count of the repeated offense was sen
tenced for thirty days. Wrhereupon she
begged earnestly that she might be
release 1, as she had a large family to
support, and what would her husband
and children do if she wa? sent up. The
Judge expressed incredulity, a to her
having a husband, when a man stepped
forward and vouched for her as his
wife, and said if the judge would only
let her off he would see that she worked
in the future and supported her family.
The judge distinguished himself by
replying that lie would let the woman
go and send the man up for six months
as a vagrant, since he bad no risible
means of support. 1 lie man was
marched oat mattering, "No visible
means of support? Good Lord! Ain't
my wife In court r
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
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Enthusiastic Copyists'
She "I wonder why it is that the
Japanese are so enthusiastic about
everything from America. It is said
that they are copying us in everything."
He "Until a comparatively recent
period the Japanese knew nothing
about kissing, They learned that from
American", and now everything from
America goes,"
Asking too Much.
Ticks: I wish you would buy a
ticket to the concert to-morrow night
It is to be a benefit to Mr. Screecher
he's just lost his wife you know.
Wickles: Just lost his wife? Well
how many benefits does he want?
Boston Courier.
"Brown's Bronchial Troches" are
of great service in subduing Hoarse
ness. Sold only in boxen.
A Gcnuulne Honfce- Warming.
Mr. Way back "The next time I go
to one of Brother Stumpland's house
warmings, he'll know it. What "d'ye
think the mean cuss did?"
Mrs. W'ayback "I'm sure I don't
know."
Mr. AYayback-"Well, he waited till
all the guests had assembled, an' then
he led the way to the back yard and set
us to choppin' wood." New Ycrk
Weekly.
The Only One Ever I'rliiteil, Can You Find
the Word?
There Is a tliree-lmh dlcplny advortlM-nifnt In
this iwipcr, this week, whu-h hup no two woirin
alike, except one wonl. The mine In true ti
each new one appcai-int; each week, from tho
Dr. llarter Medicine Co. This house places a
"Crescent" on everything they make and pub
lish. .ook for ft, send them the name of the
word and they will return you HOOK, liKAl'TI
Fl'LUTHOHRAl'llSorSAMl'I.ICS KHKli.
Her Selection.
Mrs. De Fine "Here's my new bon
net. Isn't it a darling? Only twenty
eight' dollars!"
Mr. De Fine ''Great snakes! Y"on
said bonnets could be bought at from
three dollars up."
Mrs De Fine "Yes dear. This is
one of the 'ups , "New Y'ork Weekly.
The heat in Saline valley, situate in
the Yosemite reigion, must be very in
tense when animals caught in traps
will cook before being released. Such
is the story told by Special Agent Nel
son, who has been exploring that region
for the government. Another story he
tells concerns a dog that jumped into a
spring to cool himself. After com
ming out, the w ater remaining in the
animal's fur, soon reached the boiling
point and so scalded him that on the
next day all the hair came oiT, and in
that state the poor dog died.
The Germans have various descrip
tive names for the grip, such as "blitz
catarrh" lightning catarrh, "schaaf
shusten" sheep cough, '-huehueziep"
crowing, ,-modefieber'' fashionable
fever, ect. The Russians call it Chinese
catarrh, the Germans often call it the
Russian pest, the Itatians name it the
German disease, the French call it the
Italian fever and the Spanish catarrh.
In Long Island sound not far from
the north shore of the island, is clearly
defined the channel of an ancient river.
As shown by the United t-tates survey
it is a gorge, having a depth of about
sixty feet below the general floor of the
sound on either side of it. The gorge
or channel was cut into the bedrock of
gneiss, the erosion of which is exceed
ingly slow.
Judge Wheeler of the United States
circuit court in New York, having been
called upon for a decision as to whether
corsets are to be scheduled as a cloth
ing or mechnnieal contrivances, wroto
an opinion, in which with becoming
modesty, he says: "I think they are
clothing. 1 am not, however very con
fident about it."
The echo at the Eagle's nest on the
hanks of a buele call which seems to
be repeated by a hundred instruments
until it gradually dies away in the air.
At the report of a cannon the loudest
thunders reverberate from tha rock and
die in seemingly endless peals along
the distant mountains.
The most powerful electric light
house in Europe is the one at Hans-
tholm on the Scow. It eVBft ength
of 2,000,000 caudles.
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Uftd in Uniioni f Hooo-iO Yean the 8tac2d
Batons
The Moat Fertile Keglon in America.
The famous Red river valley is by
some students such a comparative val
ley declared to be the third agricultural
region, in point of fertility, in the
world, there being one Asiastec and
one African valley in the fore ground
beyond it. This Red River valley
takes in many counties of Minnesota
and the most easterly counties of the
two Dakotas. It is prarie laud of black
soil that once formed the bed or deposit
an ancient sea. It reaches up into
Canada, beyond AVinnipeg, and Is a
great deal richer at its southern end in
the United States than in Canada.
This region pours its wealth of grain
(or a great part of it) into Minnesota's
twin cities, there to exchange it for
merchandise. Other cereals and cattle
are produced beyond this valley m the
new Etates, and the valley itself returns
the same commodities along with its
wonderful output of wheat. Julian
Ralph in Harper's.
ANTKI):-I)0 YOU WANT TO MAKE FIFTY
' dollars per week at home. Mm. Smith sent
bIx doflare ts AlTrcMl Coles for a box or wardrobe
l-ouiifie and allowed hi in to send people who
ant-wcr his ndvertibiiu-nt to see her lounge, for
which he pave a commission w hich iiverujred
fri(i per week. If you will do the same iu your
dislrict, send fur terms to,
Al.l llKIl COLF.S.
470 Myrtle Ave. Brooklyn, S. Y.
Manganlne, a New Alloy.
Manganine is the name of a new
alloy, consisting ot copper, nickle, and
manganese, which has been brought on
the markets, says Iron, by the German
firm Abler, Upas & Angerstein, as a
material of great resisting power. The
specific resistance of managanine is
given as 42 microhm centimeters, that
is higher than that of nickeline, which
has hitherto passed as the best resist
ing metal. Another advantage of
manganine is it behavior under variar
tion ot heat, the resistance, it is claimed
being affected only in a minute degree
by high temperatures. It is therefore
adapted for the manufacture of
measuring instruments and electrical
apparatus in general, which are re
quired to vary their resistance as little
as possible under different degrees of
heat. A further interesting fact is
that, while other metals increase their
resistance by the raising of the tem
perature, that of manganine is di
minished. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, )
Lucas County ,
Fit ank J. Cheney makes oath that
he is the senior partner of the firm of
F. J. Ciikney & Co., doing business in
the City of Toledo, County and State
aforesaid and that said firm will pay
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DuL
LA lis for each and every case of
Catarrh that cannot be cured by the
use of Hall's Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this Oth day of Decem
ber, A. D. 18811.
Teal A. W. GLEASON,
- , ' ' Notary Public.
Hall s Catarrh Cure Is taken internal
ly and acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system,
Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
tySold by Druggists, Too.
An Underground River.
How many people visiting Florida
know any thing about the great fresh
water spring in the Atlantic Ocean?
This great natural wonder covers an
aera of about two acres, is located in
the Atlantic Ocean about two miles
(east) from tho shore and abeut teu
miles from St. Augustice (south). The
sil7er-gleamir.tr, white caps are trying
to force themselves over the powerful
boiling spring.
If there was some way of wrapping
up a baby so that it would look liko a
game bag or a gun, the women would
have no trouble in getting their hus
bands to carry babies on the streets.
Atchison Globe.
Sheep have two teeth in the center
of the jaw at one year and add two
each year untill five years old, when
they have a 'full mouth." After that
time their age cannot bo told by their
teeth.
With some 0,000 homicides in the
United States there were but 123 legal
reductions. Judge Lynch, though:
contrived to attend to 1M more.
In Ventura county, California thero
is r sulphur spring that is hot in the
morning and cool In the evening
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