TOPICS 07 TBE TIMES.
A CMOtCS SU.SCTION Of IN
TENCSTIMO ITBMS.
Things are looking bad for tbe
train robbing industry when it de
votee are driven to holding ud
freight trains acid robbing tb- train
men .
Trie ingenious individual who re
cently invented a device for stopping
instantaneously, or within a space of
three feet, trolley cars going at full
oeed is evidently in collusion with
the surgeons and undertakers. The
sensations of a passenger in a car
going ten or fifteen miles an hour a
moment after the apD:ication of this
wonderful break can better be im
agined than described.
Sib Benjamin- Richardson', the
eminent London physician, bas ex-
. v ' :L ' ?. I
Mia nMfiirin th'jf Kll-l tns la I
very injurious, ne savs
that while
riding tbe machine the spine of the
rider becom s almost an arch; the
chest bone is then affected bv tbe un
paturai pressure, circulation is im
paired, and no doubt the lungs are
interfered with, t-ia In fact, there
is hardly any possible evil effect it
does not produce.
Jerky Rusk showed one of the
many admirable traits of character
tor which he was noted when he at
tended tbe soldiers' reunion iu Min
neapolis in lis.'i. Instead of taking
with him as an escort his regular
staff of blue-aod-gilt ornamental o li
ce rs be commissioned a number of
crippled veterans, some of them his
old comrades-in-arms, as me ml rs of
his staff, had ibem accompany him on
the trip, housed them at a first-class
hotel and paid all their expenses.
Bo-tox Glohe: The New York
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals has i.-sued a proclamation
declaring that massacre of cats, by
chloroform or otherwise, must be
stopped, and that its agents are pre
pared to prosecute all violators of the
laws in this resrxct to then tterend.
The cats will I. e protected, but who
will interfere to protect a suffering
public during the long nights now
upon us, when the sportive Thomas
cat will make the very welkin ring
with hi lusty o ce? t ats have their
right, but have would-l sleepers
owner' Does the New Y.irk Society
for the I revention ot Cruelty to Ani
mals wish to promote the use of
chloroform, morphine and the like
among hapl ss human beings?
It is still recent history, the stir
ring incidents and scenes that at
tended the settlement of Oklahoma
when that section waR thrown open
to the public In addition to lands
in Oklahoma an ! the Cherokee Out
let, the Government will soon have
at its disposal, after some completion
of negotiations several millions of
acres in the Indian Territory. The
exhibition of bloodshed and trickery
and in justice that was brought about
at the time of the settlement of
Oklahoma and t herok c ( mtlet should
never again be permitted in a coun
try under the jurisdiction of oat onal
law. Tbe (lovernment should devise
some more equitable method of dis
tributing these new lands than th?t
which was use I when the tracts now
-occupied by white settlers were
opened.
Every one will be glad to hear of
the rescue of the Carl In hunting party
from tbe wilds of the bitter Root
Mountains with the possible loss of
only one man. It must be admitted,
however, that the sending forth of
rescue parties In search of foolhardy
adventurers is getting monotonous.
The arctic explorers are tbe leaders
in this sort of thing. Scarcely an
expedition starts that is not followed,
sooner or later, by a rescuing expe
dition. If amateur sportsuen and
hunters are to have like considera
tion shown them, the rescue industry
will soon rival a trust in the size of
its operations. The amount or it is
that people who cannot take care of
themselves in tbe woods or in the
arctic seas ought to stay at home,
where tbev might be of some ac
count, Instead of making nuisances
of themselves.
Thk latest dispatches from South
Africa Indicate that poor old Lo
Bengula's innings Is quite at an end
and that he is a fugitive, bis lmpis
destroyed, his kraals buried and his
eountry the spoil of the South Afrl-
cm Company and the Rechuanaland j wherein to exchange the compli
ne! lee. The reflection that presses ments of the season without fear of
most forcibly at the Instant la
Uat the unfortunate savage of to
OygtUao much less of a chance
d 4 bis predecessors. What
C?3 aSacblso suns and repeating
fA tt oiis an Mvaral tboosaad
'. ! favor of the white
Tnttr to not ti p ui
2 tZ tSMVKlMt E&Of
Itl irlf tot 1U
fczi OceKrar of the
, vr.i t-'u cz u mri
reaper t as tbe rabbit receive in Aus
tralia tben why should not all tbe
resources of science be called on to
exterminate him?
OtuiEuiE Lyons, train-robber, late
of Minnesota, has at least one praise
worthy action to his credit He bas
killed himself sll ed hitn-elf in bis
swaclike neck in just about the lo
cality where a hangman's knot would
have done the rnot Rood. Not that
George feared fleat h on the gallows,
on the contrary, a discriminating
jury kindly let him ol with a fifteen
year sentence instead of sending birn
up for life. No, George Killed biui-
; self, according to bis own statement.
1 10 spj the detectives who bad run
Km down. These persons will there
, f,,re be expected to pin1 away into
early graves and Mr. Lyons' aveng
ing spirit will be correspondingly
gratified Tbe public, however,
which is not Interested in private
feuds, will be disposed to award hi id
His last act was bis noblest Notb-
ing in life so became him as the
prompt and vigorous manner of his
taking off.
A I'HYsKiAv tells the Cincinnati
Time-Star that the widespread fear
of disease germs Is largely ground
less. "Everything. be sas. "'is
full of serins or crusted with tbe in,
but every genu is not barui'ul. Every
disease germ on the body does not
produce a disease. If it did there
would not be a person on the face of
the earth to-morrow. People lived
before disease germs were known
and were as healthy as they are to
day. Thev lived as carefully as we
do jerhaps more so. We cannot
avoid contact with diease germs,
but we can do what Is better,
strengthen the lody so that it resists
them as easily as a lion can a flea.
Some scientists pretend to deplore a
lack of precaut on taken against
! germs. It issimply because the people
8re. despite theories, that every germ
doesn't produce sickness any more
than every man is a murderer. Every
man may possibly be one, but we
wouldn't 1 justified In going armed
on that account.
No one likes to lav himself open
to an imputation of cowardice, and
many a man bas lost his life uselessly
rather than le accused of a lack of
courage. In the matter of defend
ing one's house againtt burglars, for
example, it is deemed the proper
thiDg for the he l of the household
to arise upon "hearing a noise down
stairs." It is tben incumbent upon
him to march through the house from
cellar to garret Sometimes be finds
burglars: sometimes the burglars
find him. In either ca e the house
holder is morally certain to get hurt
Tbe thieves have all the advantage
on theirside darkness, numbers, fa
miliarity with firearms and the ad
ditional stimulus of Qghting for life
and liberty. Tbe bousenolder is an
amateur playing against profession
als. This is foolish. It may be cow
ardly to lie in bed and let burglars
ransack the house, but a live coward
can have a heap more fun than a
dead hero. Tbe householder may
protect his mansion with electric
bells and burglar alarms if he likes,
but having done that he should trust
to providence and the police. Let
the burglars burgle, lie tier lose a
last year's overcoat and a filled case
watch or so than furnish the central
attraction for a fashionable funeral.
"Thorn e remained writhing upon
tbe ground. His nose was broken
and blood gusbed from mouth and
nostrils." Prizefight? No. Walt a
bit. "Rig Acton said -None of that
here,' and caught Beard on the ja
with a right-bander that brought
him to earth beautifully." Bar-room
row? No Listen some more. ."Oc
casionally some poor cbap would fail
to rise after a great heap bad been
disintegrated, and one of the many
phvsiclanr in waiting would be sum
moned.'' Hiot? Explosion in a coal
pit? Rattle in Brazil? No; oh, dear
no. Only twenty-two young Ameri
can gentlemen from the great uni
versities of Yale and Harvard ' play
ing" the manly game of football, and
a high, old classic time they had of
it Tbe full list of casual ities is not
iet made up, but as In the case of
Thompson, of Angel's, "the surgeon
droops his lelt eyelid, the undertaker
smiles and the sculptor of gravestone
marbles leans on his chisel to gaze"
when these busy-beaded heroes go
forth to battle. Meanwhile those
atmospheric gladiators, Messrs. Cor
bett and Mitchel , can't find a place
interruption from the police. Tbe
proposition to introduce the good
old Spanish sport of bull lighting In
this country is not without pl:iilblc
soppurt. The bull fight is exciting,
romantic, and full of color. It i
botw picturesque and dramatic As
cosspared with football It is a ha
assi and rsflnlaw sport, and it Might
BWCMtraltM too vicious effects of
sorb eUwoaaglttg brutality at marked
tl TaW-Harra! cine
LIGHT IN THE SICK ROOM.
Uflmtla
Bmt atoalrlu
ba titvrm.
Thai Cm
lr. K W. Ric hardson says that a
custom still prevails, despite all our
sanitary tea bings, that the occu
pants of a sick room in the private
bouse should be kept at all times in
a darkened room. Not one time iu
ten di we enter a sick room in the
daytime to find it blessed with tbe
light of the sun. Almost invariably,
lfore we can get a look at the fa-e
of the patl ot we are obliged to re
quest that the blinds be drawn up,
in order that tbe rays of a much
greater healer than the most able
physician can ever bope to be may l
admitted. Too often the compliance
with this re juest repeals a condition
of tbe room which, m the stale of
darkness, is almost inevitably one of
disorder everywhere, foods, medi
cines, lurulture, bedding misplaced,
dust, stray leavings in all directions.
In brief, there is nothing so bad
as a dark room. It is as if tbe at
tendants were expecting the death
of the patient. And if tbe reason
for it is aoked. the answer is as in
consistent as tbe fact. The reason
usually offered is that the patient
cannot bear the light; as though
tbe light could Dot be rut off from
tbe patient by a curtain or screen,
and as though to darken one part of
tbe room it were Deces a-y to darken
the whole of it. The al reason is
an old superstitious one, wbi h once
prevailed so intensely, that the sick,
suffering from the most terrible di
sease,
mallpox fur instance, -were
shut up iu darkness, their beds sur- j
rounded with red curtains during the
whole of their illness. Tne red cur
taios are now pretty neatly given up,
but the darkness is still credited
with some mysterious curative virtue.
A more in .uriou i ractice really
could not he maintained than that of
darkness in a sick room'. It is not
only that dirt and disorder are re- I
suits of darkness a great remedy Is I
lost I
Sunlight is the remedy lost, and j
the loss Is momentous. Sunlight
diffused through a room warms and
clarifies the air, it has a direct in
fluence on the minute organic poi
sonsa distinctive influence which Is
most precious and it has a checrfui
effect on the mind. The sick should
never be gloomy, and in the presence
of tbe light the sbajows of gloom fly
away. Happily, the hospital ward,
notwithstanding its many defects
and it has many is so far favored
that it is blessed with the light of
the sun whenever the suo shines.
In private practice the same remedy
riiKF ht in in Ytsnr1ij1 in 1 hp natinl
f ihe hn.i.eru.Ms. and the first words I
of the physician or surgeon on enter, j
ing the dark sick ro m should be the
dying words of tbe Goethe: "More
light: more light." Tbe Druggists
and Chemists' Gazette
A Graveyard I'urliwity.
One of the curiosities of West Lin
ton, Peeblesbire, consisted In a mar
ble tombstone in the parish church
yard over the grave of James Oswald
of Spittal, a property among the
Pentiaud Hills now Included in the
estate of NewhalL
waia possessea
a ball table of marble, at which be
conducted bis festivities. He de
sired that it might be used as tbe
monument over bis grave, and with i
this view caused an inscription !n !
Latin to be executed on the tablet by !
way of epitaph, which came into use i
sooner than was ex pec ted. j
When going out lo shoot ducks at.
Sllppertleld Loch, Mr. Oswald was',
accidentally shot bv his servant, who '
was walking behind him with his;
gun, and he thus died while still a!
young man in I72H. His widow, &
daughter of Russell of Kingseat, fol-1
lowed out h s wishes by placing the
table over his grave. Subjoined Is a ,
translation of the epitaph, including
the additions made ft it by the be-!
reaved wife. !
To James Oswald of Spittal, her I
deserving husband, this monument!
was erected by Grizzel Russell, his
sorrowing wife
This marbie table, slt'.ing at
which I have often cultivated good
living (propitiated my tutelar gen- i
ius), I have desired to be placed over j
me when dead. Stop, traveler, who-:
ever thou art: here thou mayest re-
cline and if tbe means are at hand
mayest enjoy this table as I formerly
. j .
uiu.
"If thou dost so in the right and
proper way thou wilt neither dese
crate the monument nor offend me.
Farewell.
"Lived thirty years and died No
vember 172"."
This curious monument, after fall
ing to luin, ultimately disappeared
fiom the burying-ground, having, It
is said, been furtively carried off and
sold lor Its value as a block of mar
ble. London Tit Bits.
The Hattle or the Wnvt-s.
Of all tbe r-wlas lakes the Lake of
Lucerne has the most irregular shape,
its many b ys running nrth to south,
east to west Owing to thes-. wind
ings it is often exposed to violent
storms, but while In one ba.- the
waters may be lashed into perfect
fury, in an adjoining bay not a ripple
will disturb the surface.
Thus when a strong south wind
blows down the Ray of I ri, the very
same wind, turned from its course oy
mountains, comes frcm the west
from the Ray of Buochs
There Is a point, just opposite
Brunnen. where tbe two sets of
waves meet and then a terrific con
test ensues for mastery. At such a
moment the spray Is driven into
tbe air in vast sheets to a height of
IfW ft or more.
While tbe battle rages there may
ba seen under too shelter of tbe pro
atostory at Trelb several of tbe lake
atMRiofs aad a wools fleet of fishing
J aod saaall boats waiting for the tem
pest to pass. So violent la tbe
motion that even on large steamer
cases of "sea" sickness are not un
usual. The experiences gained in facing
such dangers have made tbe boatmen
of tbe lake famous from tbe earliest
times,
When Stubborn I'rople Men.
A man and woman met the other
day on Cbei e street Thev were
both on the same side of the walk,
and slopped ..ust in time to avoid a
collision.
"I think you are an impudent fel
low:" snapped the woman.
'What for?" said the man.
"Recause you won, t turn out for a
lady:"
"Why should I turn out? 1 am
on the right side of the walk. You
are on the wrong side"
'I don't understand you, sir," re
plied the woman scornfully, gather
ing up ber skirts and preparing to
move on.
Well I'm not to blame for that,"
said tbe man. "Everybody with a
particle of sense ought to know
enough to turn to tbe right"
Tbe woman made no answer, tut
acted as it she felt tery indignant
"I am tired being shoved off the
sidewalk bv fool worn n." said the
man afterward in conversation with
a friend, 'and so I determined to
stand on my rights And. further
more, I won't 1)6 crowded off the wain
by three or four women walki g
abreast The other evening my wife
and I met three young women 1
won't call them ladies on Congress
f-treet The walk was wide enough
f..r , wo .v,unles to nans, but not for
flve pe0pie. My wire and 1 wouldn't
give up our half of the sidewalk, and
! me down, but you can bet her at
tempt was a miserable failure. I
always brace myself for such a col
lision, and 1 guess she Imagined she
had struck a stone walL Oh, there's
lots of hogs In the world, and the
woman who wants to run the whole
sidewalk and crowd you off into the
mud is the particular bog that I am
laying for." Detroit News.
' A little Ilyonl Her.
She was a pretty country girl, rus
tic, but sweet and Innocent as a
flower.
He was an artist from the city and
a poet, and he loved tbe rustic
maiden.
Jt is so sweet to love in the pristine
pret tiness of the provinces.
He had found it so, and this soft
night Id October, when the moon was
touching the earth and the air witb
its silver lingers, h" had chosen to
tell his love and claim the heart he
eit was throbbing in unison with bis
I own.
As sbe sat by him there In the
gloaming, w th the soft breezes mak
ing harp strings of her golden hair,
there was a tender music In his heart
be bad never known before.
"liearone," be murmured as he
held her band tightly in his, "I love
you; love you with all the energy ol
my passionate nature and here, thk
Dight, in the presence of the stars
and yoi.der lam lent Luna, I ask you
to give me that place In your young
, ,. , ty.. ,,. f ,ho mnm!.n h
would make bis own forever."
He was slightly rattled, but she
held to bis hand.
"C harlle," she whispered as she
nestled her head on his manly bosotn,
If that means a proposal I'm yout
huckle erry: but if you mean It for a
description of the fcenery you'd let
ter look out for the dog."'
And Charles revised his language.
Detroit t ree i ress.
.lenloup-y Is Not I,oe.
home one has asked whether true
love and jealousy can ever be as-
sociated. Ix-i ide.ly not. Where
there is Jealousy true love does not
eist, because to love truly you must
have perfect faith. Perfect love is
belief without uoubt
Home young people are under the
delusion that if their sweethearts are
Jealous of them they are so beca. sc
of their intense lo e for them, but
they will find out eventually, if they
marry, that It is only another name
for selfishness, as jealous people do
not stop to consider the feelings of
any one else. The are only worried
about tbe fancied hurt to themselves.
; LTl'l'Li'i"?
; ta;B ui icai lure anu avmo J i i uu. t
love, and you will notice that the
ones most intensely jealous of their
partners were the easiest to console
after the departure from this weary
world.
Jealous persons are not only sus
picious of your trnth, but they carry
thtlr dlsagreeableness Into every
walk of life. Tbey have no real failb
in Jo e or anything else on earth.
On tbe other hand, where true love
is perfect on both sides, faith Is
supreme and no matter what others
may sav or do they can never see
wrong In each other.
W tlkie (.inns' i-'at Villain.
Here is a story lately told by Hall
Calne concern 1 1 g Wilk:e Collins:
The most succe-sful character lo
Tbe Woman in White' Wis not a
woman, but a man f'osco, . the fat
lllain. Whtu the book was' pro
duced everybody was talking atiout
the fat villain. While the author
was staying with bis mother a visitor
came. The lady said to Collins:
'You seem to have made a great
success with your v Main In "The
Woman in White." 1 have read the
hook. I have studied tbis villain,
but he is not bait a villain: vou don't
know a real villain, and the next
time you want to do a villain come
to me 1 a n very close to one; I
have got one constantly In my eye
In fact. It is my own. husband:'
"Wllkle Collins often told tbis
story, bat with-beld tbe name of the
lady. It was tbe wife of 8!- Edward
Bulwer Lytton."
JOURNALISM IN MEXICO.
w mm AarertrM mpnrkm Got Mril.
cm Newspaper lato Troabta.
"Haven't you worked on a Mexican
newspaper?" 1 a-ked of Dave Ward,
tbe old tramp reporter, as we fished
for black bass from the name skiff the
other day.
"Haw! haw! haw!" laukbed Dave,
as bis wrinkled old fact- lighted up
like a big lantern. "Yes, 1 had a
sit' on a daily paiier In tbe City of
Mexico about tea years ago and it
as a ra.e experience"
"Any objections to stating the par
ticulars?"
None at all. Haw! baw! haw!
Rut it was funny! I was on one of
my trips around the globe and got
financially busted in tbe City of Mex
ico. I can speak and write Spanish,
and it occurred to me that 1 might
get a "sit' on one of tbe dailies.
1 dropped in on the editor ot tbe
government organ and stated my case
and be took me on tbe local depart
ment I loosed over the files to see
how some local matters bad run and
could find only about half a column
a day, and most of that was three or j
four days old when printed. I thought
It a good chance for Yankee enter
prise and started in to bustle When
I got around to tbe office again I had
two columns of live matter ready to
work up The editor wanted to
known what I had found, and I
showed him a bundle and expected a
word of praise Instead of being
pleased, be mournfully said:
Mr dear sir, an this nappenea
last night or to-day. It is too fresh.
It would excite our readers. And,
besides. It would be unfair to our
contemporaries to publish these
things first."
"In tbe batch 1 had a fatal acci
dent A drunken Mexican had fallen
off bis mule and broken his oecg.
" That Is sad, v ry sad' said the
editor, 'but we cannot publish It.
The shock would be too great for our
readers. In two weeks thev can read
of it wltb placidity. I know his
brother, and I know the brother
wouldn't like to see tbe sad account
In the paper.'
" 'Well, here is a child run over by
a water cart,' I said.
" 'Ah! That is also very sad. We
will let some other paper publish It
first and thus be sure there Is no mis
take.' 'Here's a case of a man stabbed
in a fight'
'That Is not so sad, but the po
lice have n it notified me yet lie
sides, he may die. It Is better to
wait a week or so and see if he dies.'
" 'How about an old man found
dead In his bed?' I Inquired, as I dug
out my notes of the a :air.
' 'There Is sadness in that. It
woul I be a shock. He may have many
relatives an I snma nf t.hem would hf
relatives, an I some of them would b
offended. I think atone lime he was
an Insurgent, and tbe Government
might desire me to say nothing.'
' 'Rut fJon't you want any live
news?'
Oh, yes. You had best go and
see my friend Senor Ixn . He
generally bas news important news.
He will gladly give you all he can,
and it will be pleasing to the public
and perfectly reliable
I posted off to see his friend,"
continued Dave, as he reeled in his
II .. . ...... I .1... k.il ....... .. 1 1 ,,.L,
hub ir occ u tuo udiu was ail j iriiu
"He was a high stepper and aJ.m
dandy. When I told him what I
wanted be cried out:
" 'It Is splendid! I shall give you
great news' It is news of ihe army,
and therefore of the Government and
to piease all readers. My good friend
Capt A has rcs'gned his com-
mission and will enter into business.' j he would like to speak to the ch 11
" 'When old he resign?' dren, and, being In nowise modest
"Six weeks ago! You are the : and retiring, he at once fell n with
first to have it! It will be great j the sugge tion.
news!' j "A young man," said he, Islike,
"That's the way things went for a ship on the ocean as long as the
three or four days, and theo I got ship is so'ind, and no water leaks in,
bold of something about one of the 'she rides triumphant So with a
Government officials being short in
his accounts. 1 had my facts solid
and ripped bim up tbe back, and
some how or other the item passed in
and was published. Haw! haw! haw!"
"What resulted?"
"The paper hadn't been out an
bour when the police swooped down
upon us and waltzed us all off to laiL
When 1 say all i mean ever man
Jack connected with the paper, from
editor-in-chief down to press feeders
and office boy. It was ao attack on
the Government you i-ee, and being
In the Government organ it was al
most a bootable offense
"I suspect they ail put it on to me.
and as a matter of fact 1 owned up
to It, but tbey kept tbe crowd In jail
for three months, just tbe same. 1
don't know how long tbey Intended
to keep me, but soon after the others
were released our Minister interfered
In my behalf, and when I got out i
made tracks for the I'nited States,
and you bet your bottom dollar I
never tried fo: another newspaper
sit' In that country!" New York
Herald.
An Ancient "l-'ake."
What is known as a "fake" in mod
ern journalism Is but a new name at
tached to a very ancient offence. Tne
editors of our early papers were not
free from the dltcreditable practice.
One quite remarkable instance of
the kind has recently been unearthed i
In tbe columns of James Rivlngton's
Royal Gazette of October 2X, ;",.
hiving ton printed a Tory paper In
this city during tbe Revolution and
made himself most obnoxious to the
patriots by publishing canards about
the Continental army, tbe Congress
and General Washington. His office
was sacked just prior to the battle of
Long Island, but after that event
and during the British occupation
bis paper was the subsidized medium
of issuing British Ilea.
Id tbe issue of tbe paper referred
to 1 tod tbe following rsmarkable
bit of faklBf:"
"Oct 27. By letter from Fblla
datpbla we learo tbat on tbe receipt
of the last manifesto flora the Eng
lish Commissioners one of the Cou
gress had the resolution to make the
following short speech:
" 1 have listened to this manifesto
with great alien lion, and 1 am
asbanied to acknowledge that it
bre ithea a spirit ot candor and reso
lution by which 1 am considerably
Influenced. No man in this august
a-sembly dare not express a doubt of
my true attachment to t .e true In
terest of my country. 1 ;iui con
vinced that the Interest of America
is inseparable from that of Rriuiu,
and that our alliance with France is
unnatural, unprofitable, absurd. I
therefore move that this phantom of
I: dependence may be given up.'
"He had scarcely uttered the words
before the President sent a message
to the Polish Count Pulaski wbo hap
pened to be exercismg a part of his
legion In the courtyard le.ow. The
Count flew to tbe chamber where the
Congress sat, and with his sabre in
an instaot severed from bis bodv the
bead of this honest delegate. The
brad was ordered by tbe Congress to
tie fixed on the top of tbe liberty
pole of Philadelphia as a perpetual
monument of the freedom of debate
In the Continental Congress of the
I'nited States of America. "New
York Herald.
A City or IMI-Makrrs.
At Sonneberg, which Is In the
heart of Germany, all the Inhabitants
are in th business of doll-making
l-,0o(i people are all more or less doll
makers, and among them they pro
duce no fewer than twenty-five mill
Ion dozen doll babies every year. It
I very hard to realize what an enor
mous quantity that is.
After this it sounds (Kid to say that
in Sonnelx-rg it takes eighty persons
to make a doll. Yet such is the fact
In Germany, labor is subdivided as
much as possible, or, in other words,
a doll-maker docs one little thing
from year's end to . year's end, and
thus it comes about that It takes
eighty people to make a dolL
Little boys, when they enter the
Sonnelierg factories,, spend a long
time In painting nails on dolls' fin
gers, for which they are paid about 25
cents a week. Some girls do nothing
but fill bodies with chopped straw or
hay. Men pass their lives In paint
ing dolly's lashes and brows, and
others In putting rouge on her
cheeks. .So It Is with other parts of
! a doll; each is done by one person.
Tbe dolls' wigs are made by girls at
Munich, and their eyes come from a
little town only a few mile from
Sonneberg, and are made by men in
their own homes.
Endless are the varieties of dolls
Every Sonneberg manufacturer hits
i aliAiif. nnA hundred desiins. Tmk(j'
! and besides, in exporting dolV
i v.. .i ..
many tilings uave w
be taken into
consideration. A wax doll can not
be sent to a very hot or a very cold
country. In the former it would
melt, In tbe latter, era k. Then, if
a doll has rubber Joints she can not
i le gent a ,ontf K royaie, for on ar
rival at her destination she would be
! armless and legless A sea journey
also takes the curl out of Dollv's hair,
I and tbe starch out ot her clothes.
I Fashion, moreover, is constantly
chanirlna A doll which evervlmdv
; b lg noticed ai, the
-
i nevt
Wa Nut Ku-ccHfnl.
Not many Sundays since a young
man, having returned for a short
holiday to his native vlllagfi visited
the Sunday School in which he had
once been taught
The sujennieident asked him if
young man. He may be where there
Is w ckedness, but If he keeps It from
leaking in If be keeps tight that is
he If he's always tight and
and"
And then the poor fel ow realized
that be could never make it right,
and so, with all his conceit com
pletely gone, he sat down and feebly
mopped bis crimson and perspiring
face.
Ithoile Inland Not Measured by
Feet.
The following Incident I beard re
lated at a banquet recently. Captain
Wlmans of Rhode Island was there.
He is a venerable looking, but lively
eld gentleman, with white hair l ow
ing down over bis coat collar and
with a face resembling that of the
late Henry Ward Reecher. The
toastmasler arose to introduce Cap
tain Wlmans and jokingly said:
' The Captain halls from lhat famous
State of Rhode Island. Let me see,
how many square feet itrs there in
Rhode Island, Captain?"
Quick as a flash the little old gen
tleman was standing, and with bis
white hair flowing over his -houftiers
ho exclaimed:
"iihode Island Is not measured by
feet, sir, but by heads." Seattle
ii'ost
Much la Fame.
A Dumlcr of New York women
(savs the llecordsr), touched with a
literary distemper, formed a literary
club, and bored each other by read
ing e-says When they could not
' stand that any longer, thev decldtd
i to discuss famous authors, and Edear
Allen Foe was chosen as the first sub
ject "Who was Edgar Allen Poc?"
asked the President of tbe aspiring
member. "I don't know much alio it
him," was the demure answer, "c
eept tbat be played on tbe Prlncet a
foot-ball team a year or
Tbat broke up tbe club.
two ago '
As sooa as a womu sincerely loves
a man, bar first Instloet Is to wait on
bias.
