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TOPICS OF THE TIMES. ', utive and TT Tbe fih,ps OUR RURAL READERS
' arc a great temptation, aria toward
dusK thousands sail) fjrth with the
sol" purpose .f going throuith the
crowded street ami taking note of
what is newest and best la wearing
appaiel. though it In bitterly cold, of
ten leing seven and nin: decree be
low ero.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER
ESTING ITEMS.
CommriiU nd C'riOtoi It uum! I ptm ttm
4Ittppnlng of lb Day IJUtorii al antl
Nvn Not.
SOMETHING HERE THAT
INTEREST THEM.
toetalke or ears while cultivating! LITTLE POWERS.
late in Hie season. An break in the j
surface allowing sap t' exude be- SonK-tiitn; of couiiin ii.ui whi.h
comes at once a breed. rig p ace for , crr but i.uti-.
Clin a;u may lc In d lit. but liqul
datlon is going on. home of ihe sky-
seiaplng i uildiogs are se'lling.
Jit when it appears that the
mountain are the inly th ngs in
Central and outh America that a e
tied down, Poocatapell breaks loose.
T.ik story that John L. Sullivan
wis recently knocked -ensele-s by tils
wife Is erro eous. He was knocked
senseless i.y wh sky, and his wile
meiely j.ut hi iu to sleep.
Mir. Gkoiuii. C, ru.'s i lan of sup
plying the poor with potted plants is
worthy of the highest praise Just
think of the thousands of hungry
and ill-cloihed families that are com
pelled to struggle through the winter
months without a sign of a potlei
plant.
It is surprising to learn that the
total utuuiKTof lyri'hmgs tor I s:t:
L'cO-ls thirty I x less than the aggro
gat - for s i '. K this rate or d' crea-e
were to be continued for awhiieihe
aggregate of liiesc crimes ni ght be
mad" ti fall w thin tin: line of le
fepcclah lily.
Sin(K and including IH.'.l, Cali
fornia flocks have yielded Ufi, 1 -", 4
jxiunds of wool; or i7,iti carloads,
the heaviest cbp was 5 ,, i.'iiii , :(
I An article in the Amerh-an Geolo
gist by J rof. N. If. Winchell of
M inneapolis. forms a t imdy memorial
in honor of the late Increase A.
I.apham of Milwaukee lie was a
scientist without a sujrior in rank
in this or any other country. Mr.
Lapham discovered and exemplified
the fact of lunar tid'S on Lake
Mic'.ikan. which I'nited Mates officers
have continued by Irequent experi
ments, lie was th tlrst to suggest
weather reports in connctlon with
the tele.rapli service Tic War I e
partment accepted his suggestions or
the sub ect, and he made the tlrst
weather signals from Chicago Nov. ,
) m t 1 1. He had rec hid dispatches of
higli winds ami falling barometer at
the far west ward ..nd predicted a storm
on the lakes, which came the follow
day. .Mi lake ports were notified
aid shipping was saved from great
damage. . He remained at C hicago
for a lonif lime, and this early work
of Hie signal service was organized
undo his supervision. His researches
in gologlc il and other sciences pro
duced fruits of the greatest value.
His life was blameless and wasamong
i i the most useful of those which
. 1 scholars and iLseoverers have given
to 'lie world.
How Hnrtn Should lie Slwxl In WlnUr
G-irlD Kill or 1 oru Suitif (lover Ijtnii
row Hnlir Nliorl-Honiii an MiIWpis--Cool
i Itmsttm for Turnips.
Vilnt-r Slnx-iiii; of llorsp.
Shoe. ir. w inter are re uired to dis
charge a double duty to afford foot- .
hold as well a-, to guard agaiiist un- 1
due wear. .. r. William D.ckson in i
the I nit'-d Mates oveirimeut re-',
port on the horse, says o i this sub
ject: annus patterns of shoes have
from time to lime been invented to
meet th s dual requirement, but the
commonest of aP, fashioned wit.i ice
and heel calks or caiki. s, is. faulty
thou.h it he, probably ali things con
s dered. trie u9 which besl suils the
requirements of the case. II should,
however, never b' lost s glit of that
the shorter, the sina ler. the sharp r
the calkins are, so long as they an
swer the purK.se which called them
into exist.cn e, so much the better
for the foot that weais them. High
calkins, while the convey no firmer
foothold, are potent means of indict
ing injur on the foot itself ana the
superincumbent limb at large. Ills
on I v from that port on of the catch
which enters t he ground surface that
the horse derives any lienetit in the
shape of fool hold, and it must be ap
parent to the meanest .apac.ty that
long calkins which do not penetrate
the hard, uneven ground, are so many
levers put into the animal's osses
sion to euab c if not compel him to
pounds In 1 s7'', while Irom 11 to
the present the clip has varied from
'H,oi(,2;l pounds the lowest, to 3-,-6o.',
IGo pounds the highest
wring his feel, rack his limbs ai.u
lnll;ct untold tortures on himself.
I have laid p irlicular stress on this
Biibject, as 1 am of the opinion that
the iTeseiice of the navicular diseusi.
Tiikkk Is an am i nt and honoratile : a ,jiro malady from which horses used
anecdote in which a ga.vly clad I for agricultural labor .should enjoy a
practical immunity, is traceanie
Tin: so;ihrette whose son if. dis
pleasing Theodore McVeagh of
Gotham, induced that gallant to hit
her behind the ear with an orange
ouk'htto t'.arik her stars that it was
not the missile more familiar to
jilaycrs and singers of an earlier date,
l'ro.ectile enVcisni is jsrowiiiu ef-femiuaie
IiF.NVKii T mes AtlanU. la, has
asked the Clrand Army of the llepul
lic to hold its annual encampment
for next year in that citv k'naranlee
intf that tie lioys will re ene an
even warmer reception than they di j
on the occasion or their vis.t South
some thirty years atfo. It would be
the hinht of d scourtesy for any
Northern city to comiK'tc with At
lanta. It is safe to say that the in
vitation will be accepted withcheeis,
by a risinu vote,
Ji'imjk A. H. Mohtos, the unshorn
Texan who died lately, was popularly j
supposed to wear his lonr locks be-
cause or a vow he had made that he
would not cut his hair until Henry
Clay was elected I'rcsldent A writer
in the Milwaukee Journal says he once
asked Morton about this and he re
plied: "1 was a warm admirer of
Henry Clay, b it I hojKs that I never
was su' h a fool' as that story would
make mo out. The reason why mv
hair has not teeii cut is that I am a
dunkark, and that is one of the out
ward siyns of our fa th."
Ohemistky Is offering a means to
oblige would-be dynamiters to betray
themselves should they try to carry
about hand-grenades and cartridges.
It is to mix dynamite with certain
salts that (. 1 ve out a stench and to
plunge cartrldtf. s Into a so ution of
these chemicals. The fetid smell
thus caused Is not to be got rid of,
and Is communicable. A person car
rying an infernal machine or who
had carried or handled one, unless
with leather gloves which had been
tak' n o!T with great care, would le
at once detect -d by the odor.
Acf.oitinN'i to statistics lately
compiled by a committee of business
men of Colorado It appears that the
Hiate produced i.'l.CIii,U17 In gold In
18KH. and ",. "3!t. 01! 1 In W' and the
output for the year Just closed is esti
mated at S-.iiim 1,000. It Is further
estimated that the goldyle.d for isti-l
will reach 2o, ooo, io, and that the
Cripple Creek region alone has in :
sight enough low grade gold ore to j
yield a hundred million dollars. !
(ircatas are these figures it must be ;
remembered that gold and silver are
not the most valuable products of I
Colorado. Its agriculture and horti
culture far surpass its mines In the i
taluo of annual products. j
Fashion rules the women of Vi
enna, and It Is confidently asserted
that every Vienna woman or girl is
dressed a long way above her lot in
1 fe. 'J his year not a niald -servant
wears last year's Jacket. It Is im
(I'l.sslblo to say where the hundreds
of thousands of jackets that were
worn last year have gone, for on Sun
d iys and week days are seen even the
humblest women In Jackets whose
hieves stand off like the ears of some
huge elcihant. Alovo the broad
garment, which are, moreover, dec
orated with fluffy furs, the heads In
mall bonnet or fur caps look dlmln-
woman in evening-drees, i omp'ainiti z j
of ( old, is advised by an elderly (jua-
ker to "put on another breast-pin." j
There seems to be enduring fun in i
t e ilea cf the warmth of jewelry.
As a matter of fact, Jewelry properly j
disposed rai-es the temperature per-1
cepti ly. The slight friction of a
necklace keeps the throat warm. A
diamond i.eck'.a-'c or a strand of i
p arls may ward oiT bronchit is or j
laryngitis. Children who used to j
wear coral bra Is have been known to ;
catch cold when these were taken
dir. bracelets keep the wrists warm, j
l.very woman accustomed fo wearing
bracelet knows how told her wrists j
feel when these are removed. The i
handsomer the bracelet, the warmer j
she teels. A Philadelphia woman,
who has studied the wearing of j
Jewelry as a hygience measure, says
that the entire circulation may le
raised or lowered ly wearing the
proper jewelry at the wrlsU She has
pulse coolers for summer and pulse-
warmers ror winter. Her pulse cool
ers are spheroids of rose crystals,
linked together with filigree sliver.
The theory Is that, these spheroids
absorb cold Instead of heat. The
pulse-warmers are strips of asbestos,
which Is a non-conductor, enveloped
In embossed velvet and fastened with
diamond buckles.
Somk of the doctors are agitating
the. question again as to whether vac
cination is a preventive of smallpox;
whether the i reventlve does t ot in
volve dangers greater acd more
numerous than the disease Involves:
how frequently vaccination should
occur, If 1t is useful; and the ethics
ot vaccination whether providence
should be tempted by creating a mild
foim of disease, even if it will pro
tect tho sub, ect from a worse form
of disease. Some theorists allege
that It Is just as benctlcial to swallow
a prepared pellet of vaccine matter
as to vaccinate externally. The his
tory of vaccination as a preventive
ol smallpox is as well known as the
history of quinine as a preventive or
cure of malarial diseases. Smallpox
had been lor centuries one of the
scourges ot mankind. It was not like
the black death and other plagues of
the middle ages which ravngvd the
populated portions of the earth for a
brief period and then disappeared.
It invaded all the haunts of men and
was a continuous pest In all tho
homes of squalor and tilth, especially
among uncivilized tribes Its victims
were more than hall' the population.
Those who had the disease but sur
vived, were disfigured for life. With
Inoculation atllrst-that Is, planting
the stnalliiox virus under the skin
the disease assumed very mild forms
or appeared simply as a single erup
tion In many cases. Hut with the
discovery that vaccine matter pro
duced by an eruptive disease on cows
was a preventive, with few or none
of the dangers of Inoculation, a new
era began in tho history of smallpox
as a disease. Its victims do not
number one In a hundred thousand,
as compared with those who had no
protection from science against
Its attacks. I' rider the best system
of vaccination, practiced by skillful
hands me serious r su.ts occur.
Itut the number Is so small that tho
danger may bo disregarded entirely
In comparison with all the successful
rases by which smallpox has been al
most banished from amongst man
k od.
largely to the habitual use dur rig
our long winter months of needlessly
larje calkins, only iraetirmal parts of
which II rid lodgment in the earth or
ice during progression. I will ex
plain what, 1 mean. When a horse
i- shod with the exaggerated . a 1 k i f i s
to wli.ch 1 have alluded, the toe and
heel calk' are, or ought to be, the
same height to start with, at ail
events, eiyolten, however, tney
are not, and even when they are ti'e
i'ie calk weais down on animals used
lor draught fill''! oses far more rapidly
than its 1. ilowsou the bee:. The re
sult. Is that the to - is deiires-ed while
the heel is unnaturally raised The
relative pos tio i ol ;he bony strut:
lures within the loot is alter, d, anil
toe navicular bone, which Is not one
or tne weight-bearing hones, is
brought within the angle of incidence
of both weight and oncussion, in
fluences which it was never contem
plated tshouid withstand and which
its structure precludes its sustaining
without injury. The lone becomes
l,i ui ed and then diseased, the tendon
to which it was iiitendel it should
a t as a pulley, wnich passes over and
is in constant contact with it, before
lone also liecouies implicated, and
what is technically known as navicu
lar arthritis is thus engendered and
developed. K.xchange.
Short-Horn as Milki m.
The C hicago Imposition has had
one good result in bringing promi
nently before the American dairy
men the good qualities vet remain
ing in tho one-time re eminently ex
cellent short-horn cows as dairy ani
mals. A century ago they stocd
Sfores of smut that on infected;
ground are always Hying through the
a;r. We doubt whether the smut
can attack a corn stalk where there
is no in urv that will allow sap to
exude on which the sj ores can fasten.
T-i Way of I-ookinlf at hliet-p.
"Whenever a farmer comes to look
at my otswrdd sheep," said a tloek
ma-t r the other dav, "lean always
te.l whether he is an American or an
Kngiisiiman." "How so'.'" waa-ked.
"I'.eeause an Kngl simian will pick
out the tiest-formed sti cp. one that
is deep, broad, with well developed
thigh and shoulder, tine ears and
small shoi t legs: in short he selects
theshep that will fatten e is.lv.
mature early, and give a large car
cass of good mutioti. The American
farmer on the other hand, when be
has caught a -heep, opens the lleec
on the side and examines the wool
caretully to see if it is long, tine, ust
rous, dense, and of uniform st ength
and qualit .
The Knglish farmer asks 'How
much do t hey weigh." The American
farmes asks: How muc i do they
shear'.-' Thefe traits are the results
of accustomed methods. In this
country the chi f aim of the dock
master is to produce heavy lleece in
j Ilnglaud, heavy carcasses, iioth have
succeed d in a remarkable degree.
. We have American Merinos that in
' proportion to their live weight wi 1
shea'- tar heavier ileeces than any
other sheep in the world, and which
stand unrivaled for earlv maturity,
but what we want more than all this
is a heep that is goo I hir wool and
good for mutton. Farm, Stock and
Home.
rlowr Laiel riniws Kirhcr.
In every newly-settled country,
when the forests are cleared oil and 1
the land has been cultivated a few
years, ihe soil where the worm rail
fences stood is always found richer
than that, where plowing and crop
ping has been going on. Some fann
ers, therefore, conclude that this in
crease of fertility where (he fence
stood is an invariable rule, lhit it .s
not. After clover and occasional
manuring omes into the rotatio i the
cultivated part of the I eld is often
the richest. We know farmers
who hive taken up old lence
with the idea that under them they
will lind land that can he cult vated
for a few years without the necessity
of constant mariuriii.: Iiut they
u-uany una n inev nan oeeu giuvveis(
of clover that the long-cultivated
parts of the I eld are the riciiest.
The soil under the fence lias not l een
expanded and contracted by alter
nate freezing and thawing, and it
takes one or two years of cultivation
to show what capacity it has for pro
ducing large crops.
Cool Climates for Turnips.
Tlvs country w ll never equal the
liritish Isles for turnip production.
Our Rummers are too hot and dry to
grow the cron with protlt. hven In i
asily tlrst in this respect, but by neg
lect of this uality ami by constant
cultivation ror beef alone, iliey have
degenerated from their high position
as milk and butter cows. Hut somo
of the old tendency ot the blood still
remains, as mav tic discovered by the
example of a cow of this hreed which
recently appeared at the London
E gland) Dairy Show, and which
gave llftyslx pounds of milk In
the twenty-four hours, with a test of
:.;in per cent of the fat in the morn
ing milk and n.ou percent, in the
evening. The per cent, ol solids ;
varied from 1 1.! to Hi.ti. This is a i
most remarkable Instance of the re- '
appeaiance of ancient chara terislics !
alter many years. This breed of cows
was once noted for its high percent
age of fat in the m Ik and its large
yield. The first Duchess, the pro-,
gcnltor of the great lamily of this (
name, was a twenty-four-pound-a-woek
cow. The milk, twenty-eight
quai ts a day, when skimmed, was
(old for - cents a quart. The income
from this cow was the pleasant sum :
or -1')., o a week. And this was on
pasture alone. This seems to show
that it might be well Worth while to
reinstate this unexampled breed in
its old productiveness and by atten
tion to this still Inchoate and recov
erable duality make It the most use
ful of all cows.
Kngland the best turnip crops and
those having the best quality are
' grown in tho northern parts of the
; Island. Whenever the temperature
' g ,es above liO degrees the turn p he
j comes h-.t, and if the hot weather
, continues long it becomes pilhy and
! wortneaten. The flavor of turnips is
j improved by light fr e.ing. They
i are much sweeter as well as larger
than those grown during hot weather.
! Canada grows better turnips than
! does the States. More, too, is made
' or turnips in Canada, lecausein somo
places Indian corn is not a certain
crop.
The Ameer ot Afghanistan. Abdur
ilahmau Khan, is a grandson oi losl
Mahomet lie was recognized as sov
ereign in 1811. 'i he four provinces
KaouL Turkistan. Herat an I Kan
dahar, are practicany under P.rit.sh
prolectiou" except against the
Am, er's agents of robbery. There
are two harvests a year, but ten
would not sa isf the coriupt tax
gatherers. There are no navigable
rivers and no whee.ed carriages in
the country, wiiicu is bound u.ti
mate,y to be lighting ground for
l.Ussia in her apprua h to the liritish
dominion in that paif of the east.
Tne ;opulat;on consists of loo.odi
tr.hesiuen. It is not generally
known that tlieie are slaves n Afghan
istan. Tney ae appurlcnam es of
the land system. Thi is headed by
hereditary land ord., who rent to ten
ants, woo rent again tu subtenants,
wiio woik the round with the help
of hired lab ireis wnom they pay in
produce or money, and under these
are si, iv s wiio get nothing but fool
and soell-r for their toll. The are
geneiaiiv better oil than the sub
1 tenants.
i. recce has been experiencing of
1 late almost as frequent change of
cahinets as Italy or France, 'ihe
' king, George 1., Lorn .n . is iii and of
: ae in l-.o-', eri.oysau income of . liih, -i
oeO a year, of wh ch y 0 i.uoo is paid
' by the governments of Croat
i P.tiiain, 1- ranee, and I ussia.
Tho legislative power is invested in
! tne sing e chamber called the boule,
' chosen i,y manhood suiTiiige for four
I yeais. 'ihe number of members is
1..0. The population is a little over
U.OtiO.ooi). The heir is l'r uce Kon
stantinos, born l-iisand married in
iss'j io Princess Sophia of J'ru.ss a.
The foreigners who l.ve in Greece arc
gradually mo lenii.ing many of its
dilapidated antique customs and n-;
Simmons. Ancient poesy still llnds ,
one occupaton la thful shepherds j
are s per cent, of the population.
Of the 1 tt.e powers that are nti
teately connecled with the whole
world by reason of a peculiar institu
tion Monaco is ihe smallest and most
influential. Its arei is not one
twentieth that of C hicago and its
population is I-'.i.hiii. The army c in
sists of seventy live men. It has its
own coinage, bsowii postage stamps
and its own Prince, Albeit, bom ,u
I 4s, who succeeded his father in
iss'.i and has been married twice, tlrst
to Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton, and
se ondly to Alice, Dowager Duchess
(1 i.ichelieu. The gambling at
Monte Carlo, whence the Prince'de
rives hi-income of not less than 8rj.,0,
i Oit, in additidii to what he can rake
oil' iu one way and another, is a "con
cession." The game was founded in
1 s."is arid pa.v s the syndicate $l,uuo,
iioo a year. A number of suicides en
liven each year and the Prince is a
scientific gentleman in his tastes.
The spiritual and temporal go. em
inent of the principality is carried on
out of revenues from - the gam.ng
tables.
reduce it a number of p;pes run down
the whole length ot the caisson and
shell. These open at the bottom of
the caisson and at intervals of ten
leet above, so i hat by forcing water
through them it was possible to di
m iiisn the bold of the surrounding
earth on the steeL Th f pace be
tween the two shells was filled with
lubble concrete. The sinking pro
gressed with no more than the usual
delays: as the shells went down under
the weight ot the concrete placed
between them, aided by the le
moval of the earth w ithin by means
of bucket dredges, plates were added
to ihe top until the whole was at the
required depth. Tne masonry pier
built on top of this cylinder is of
limestone backed by concrete. It is
thirty tight feet in diamter and
eighteen and one-hall f ol high.
(ii-lllnn Kill lit Corn Nun t
Many thousand dollars are lost
every year by the prevalence or smut
In corn. It Is a growing evil and
worst In local. tl'-s where corn Is grown
successively on the same ground for a
number of years. It does not propa
gate on the seed or in the soil unless
possibly where It is made very rich
with manure. It Is very rapidly
propagated in contact with heating
man .re. Hence It is a great tnls
tako to throw corn alTected by smut
on manure heaps or to feed it to stock.
The safest way Is to burn any piece
of smut as soon as id appears, in
this way the disease may bo stamped
out. it Is possible that spraying
with liord aux mixture might de
stroy it, but the smut nppoars r. a
mass, while tho mixture would only
afTect tho outside. It Is also so scat
tered that It is easier to cut olf the
affected part nnd burn It than to ap
ply anything to It Tho propagation
of smut Is of'.ta Increased by Inlurlcs
To th.- Tolnt.
MuitTAii and paint may be removed
from glass with hot, sharp vinegar
Mksd the torn pages of books with
white tissue paper.
Don't shut the lidsof pots, boilers
and sauce-pans when putting them
away. it retains the odor ol
cjokery.
Tu hkmove tar, rub in grease (lard
is as good as an . thing , until the spot
! seems pretty well loosened, and then
wash in plenty of hot water anu soap.
T. tak K iron mould out of linen,
hold the spots over a tankard of boil
ing water and rub with juice of sorrel
and salt, and when the cloth is thor
oughly wet clip quickly in lve and
wash at once.
S die housewives say that the col
ors ot cott n fabrics will become
"set" if salt and water is employed,
three gills of salt to four quarts ol
water. The calico is dropped in the
water while hot. and there remains
until it Is cold
Ti kmi's boiled with their jackets
on are of better llavor and le a
watery. A small Inmpof sugar added,
while the vegetable is cooking, cor
rects the bitterness often found in
them. If to be served mashed, run
through a colander.
If you have black or tinted cam
brics or muslins which you hesitate
to trust to Ihe laundress give them
a first dip yourself In water, into
which you have stirred a toaspoonful
of black pepper. This Is also said to
save gray and bulT linens from spots
when used in llrst water.
It- you have never tried apple (ihort
cake, try it now. Prepare it exactly
as you would strawberry shortcake,
using apple sauce in pla o of the
berries: and by the timo apples grow
again you may consider an apple
shortcake as great a treat as straw
berry shortcake.
Tho reigning monarch or Corea is
simple Li-Hi in Celestial language,
but there is translation adequate in
plain Knglish. King Shoal Suing
was his father and is duly worshiped.
The heir is ID years old. Aristocracy
is hereditary and the will of the iuDn
arch is absolute. He is not trou led
with rebellious legislators. The mili
tary attaches of the departments of
government carry matchlocks. Thjre
are departments of ceremonies, war,
civil al'airs, justice, public works,
finance., and foreign affairs, of which
foreign aiiairs is the least important
and ceremonies the most important.
The upper classes' adhere to Confu
cianism and Chinese classics mark
the high t de of Corcan culture,
lluddhist monasteries are numerous.
Two American professors tei.ch Kn
glish in a government school and ex
otlleersof our army are teachers in
the military school. The hermit
kingdom is y elding slowly to modern
Ideas. A railway Is projected be
tween the, cap tal ana one or tne
turee. treaty ports at which alone
foreign trade is allowed.
'LONGEST OF SWING SPANS.
A Hi:c Business n licokeii ; Has.
"The business of buying broken
plate glass" said J. L Lightfoot,
' is assuming vast proportions It
has arisen as an outgrowth of the
plate glass insurance plan, and is
t ing rapidly developed. I late-glass
insurance is of comparative recent
origin, and was a little slow in hu Id
ing up, but it is now a very impor
tant feature of the insurau eb ' liess,
and several large c mi pan e. w th
ample capital are competing for this
class of risks. At first a broken plate
was a total loss, as it had a. so a. ways
b en in the glass factories, out it
soon began to be util ed and now
the insurance companies arid the
glass-works have no trou.de in dis
posingof the fragments These ara
cut into a large number of ways tne
principal one, of course, being into
small r panes and ornamental shape..
In addit on to these paperweights
and oilier articles are made. Small
diamond-shaped paries of plate glass
for front doors and for tunnel win
dows are very popular, and a. lord a
prolit jto the concerns that make
them, and these a e almost invaria
bly pice s of some large plate that
was broken. An a1 cidont to a plate
glass window no longer results in a
total loss. St. Louis Globe Demo
crat. Incivility of American Servants.
.said an Knglish woman to the
1 w.iler "Your society women are
charming, your men are refreshingly
1 different from those I meet in my
set on the other side of the water,
but yuur servants, most of them at
least,, are simply unspeakable. Don't
think me guilty of liriti-h egotism if
I 1 say that the only decent servants I
! have seen since my slay here are,
- those who ap areutly were not
! trained in American households.
Personally, I think that the bad con
duct of a servant is as much a rellec
tion on the mistress of a house as is
the bad behavior of her children.
The servant who closes the door in a
visitor's face, or leaves him or her
standing n the hallway during the
presentation of a card, or who fails
to use a respectful title when ad
dr ssing the caller, or who is imper
tinent or careless who has tousled
hair, or calls her mistress 'she,' I say
such a servant may bo forgiven on
tho strength of his or her ignorance
of tho amenities of society. But as
for the matron who permits these
things, why, she Is either unaccus
tomed to have servants about her or
she cannot teach them the o dinary
politeness that she herself lacks."
New York Times.
Hi III n Utile Itooin la-It.
The census of 1800 shows that II
the population of tho United Statef
was put Into Texas there would be
more snace for each person than there
now Is In Massachusetts. InTexas there
would bo 2.10 persons to the square
mile, while In Massachusetts there
are 2't persons to tho square mile.
Fort Worth (Tet) Gazette.
That Mow Hring CollHtrurtod ftt Ormtha
Will SloHsure fl'-i" Kent.
A bridge across the Missouri lUver
between Last Omaha and Council
Pluils Is remarkable as possessing the
longest swing span in the world
.",2o feet being tlft.cen feet longer
than the swing span of tho bridge
over tho Thames liiver, in ( onnecti
etit. Tho st.ru ture was designed by
Prof. .1. A. I. Waddell, of Kansas
City. The construction of the pier
of this swinir span presented many
features of interest to engineers.
Prom a long article in Engineering
News it appears that tho work was
begun by sinking a steel caisson for a
foundation, much as A. P. Holler
.started to work on the swing span of
the large bridge in New York City a
year ago. The outer shell of the
caisson is forty feet in diameter and
the inner twenty l'cet, the latter
spreading out at the base to join the
former and thus gl e a culling edge.
Loth Si. ells a e mde of half-inch
sleel, re-en forced at tho lower edge,
where thoy meet, by two bands of
1: eh sleel, ope inside and the other
outside. Tho two shells were kept
In their proper relative positions by
braces running between them, of
which thoro were twenty in all, made
of half-Inch plates. Tho caisson
proper is sixteen feet high. Above
this tho two cylinders extend to a
height of 100 feet, making a total of
1 Hi feet from the cutting edge to tho
top of tno cylinder. Above tho cais
son tho plates are reduced in thick
ness to three-eighths of an inch and
are braced by bars and rods rather
than the heavier and more costly
plates required in tho lower part.
Tho friction of the earth against such
a long cylinder is very great, and to
He Got Even at Ijiist.
"That 'all things come to him who
waits' has been proved to me more
than once," said Judge Henry Mc
Kit.ney. "One day when I was a
boy ot Dor 10 years I was seut on
an errand a long way into tho coun
try. On my way home, being hot
and thirsty, I climbed over a fence
into a meaduw and began picking
some wild strawberries. All of a
sudden this owner of the farm came
rushing up behind me and struck me
a brutal blow with a heavy oxgad, al
most, cutting my body In two. As 1
started to run away he hit me again,
a most vicious blow. 'Old man,' said
I, 'I'll get even some day.' I did,
but it was thirty years later. I was
called upon to defend the property
and rights of some orphan children.
As it happened, the oppressor was
the man with the oxgad. In sum
ming up I told the story of the
brutal blows that I had received in
that nicadnw thirty years ago. 'There
is the man that did it,' said I to the
jury. 'Do you wonder that such a
man wouict ron orpnau cnuurcu.
The jury didn't seem to wonder a
bit, for I got a verdict in my favor
in less than five minutes." Clove
laud Plain Dealer.
Navatfe I'roverhs.
The provei bs of savages are shrewd
and pithy. The liasutos says, "The
thief catches himseir;" tho Yorubas,
"He who injures another injures him
self." tho Wolofs, "Pie fore healing
others, heal yourself." In Accra they
say, "Nobody Is twice a fool;" among
the Oji, "The moon does not grow
full in a day;" "The poor man has no
friends." A Pashto p. over. says,
"A feather does not stick without
gum.''
Others aro: "A crab 'does not
bring forth a bird;" "A razor cannot
shave 1 ts If;' "Cross the river before
you abuse the crocodile " "Truth is
only spoken by a strong man or a
fool;" "Pcrseverence always tri
umphs" "The thread follows tho
needle:" "Preparation is b tier than
afterthought" Westmlustcr lie
view. Colored I Oil neat ion in Uifl (South.
Thoro aro 2','M negro schools now
In tho South where 250. not) negroes
have learned to road and most of
them to write. In tho colored
schools are 2 m, 000 pupils and 20,000
negro teachers. There are 1 f0 schools
for advanced education and seven
colleges administered by negro presi
dents and faculties. Charleston
Mews and Courier.
