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Two Metropolitan Children. It was on Third avenue the other day that tho face of a boy not more than 6 years old, with a cigarette thrust be tween the little lips, attracted the atten tion of a woman who was passing. The child’s puny, sickly appearance, for he looked as if nothing more than ciga rettes was needed to break his slender hold on life, made the woman stop in the hope that here was an opportunity for a word in season. “Don’t you know," she began, “that you’ll never grow up to be a big, strong man if you smoke those bad cigarettes? You’ll die, and you don’t want to do that, I know." “Naw. I won’t die nuther,” said the young smoker without taking out his weed. “What would your mother say if she saw you?” was the next query. “Oh, she lets me.” A chubby little chap of 4, round cheeked, a mere baby, stood at the elder one’s side during the talk. The woman turned to him. “Your little brother doesn’t smoke cigarettes. Yon are setting him a bad example.” The younger boy smiled, but said nothing. “Naw, he don’t smoke cigarettes," spoke up the other one; “he smokes a pipe.” And tho woman fled, abashed before those two terrible infants.—New York Times. Shot While Going For a Doctor. It was in Pittsburg some seven years ago that my wife woke me up one night and said that our little boy was very sick and would I go tor a doctor. I said of course I would, and slipping into my clothes I grabbed my hat and started out. When I reached the first aorner, I passed a stranger who was running the other way. I cut diagonally across the street and ran toward tho center of town. Pretty soon I heard footsteps some distance hack, and then severa’ shots were fired. I felt as though some one had thrown a stone and struck me on the leg, but I couldn’t run any more worth a cent. I stumbled down and then drawing myself up put my hand where I felt the pain and found that my leg was moist with blood. I easily real ized that 1 was shot. The possessor of the revolver drew up before me pan tin.; for breath and exclaimed, “You will rob people, will you?” It was a policeman. I began to upbraid him most thoroughly. Explanations nor execrations did not help the matter any, and I was taken in a patrol to the station. I repeated my story and insisted that a doctor should be sent to my house. The desk sergeant finally did as I wished, and our family doctor called at the house, and later came by the station. It did not take ms long to convince the station officers that I was not the party, and was set at lib erty and removed to my home. When 1 was able to get around again, I sued the city for $5,000, and I got it.—Interview in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. THE IM MORTAL SOUL. , Tictor Hugo** Memon:bIc Impromptu R«> ply to Atlx ints. At a dinner given to Victor Hugo in Paris some years ago lie delivered an impromptu address, in which he gave expression to his faith in the infinite and in the soul’s immortality. His friend, Honssaye, who was present, says: “Hugo at that time was a man of steel, with no sign of old ago about him, but with all the agility, the suppleness, the ease and grace of his best years.” Ho was contradicting the atheists, and his friend says “his face was bright with the heavenly halo, and his eyes shono like burning coals.” “There are no occult forces,” he said; “there are only luminous forces. Occult force is chaos; the luminous force is i God. Man is an infinite little copy of God. This is glory enough for man. I am a man, an invisible atom, a drop hi the ocean, a grain of sand on the shore. Little as I am, I feel the God in me, be cause I can also bring forth out of my chaos. I make books, which are crea tions. I feel in myself that future life. I am like a forest which has been more than once cut down; the new shoots are stronger and livelier than ever. “I am rising, I know, toward the sky. Th« sunshine is on my head. The earth gives me its generous sap, but heaven lights me with the rc flection of unknown worlds. You s :y the soul is nothing but the result of bodily powers. Why, then, is my soul more luminous when iny bod ily powers begin to fail? Winter is on my head, and eternal spring is in my heart. There I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets and the roses as at 20 years ago. The nearer I approach the end the plainer 1 hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. “It is marvelous, yet simple. It is a fairy tale, and it is historic. For half a century I have been-writing my thoughts in prose and verse, history, philosophy, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode and song. I have tried all, but I feel 1 have not said a thousandth part of what is in me. When I go down to the grave, I can say, like many others, I have fin ished my day’s work, but I cannot say I have finished my life. My days will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thor oughfare. It closes on the twilight tc open on the dawn.”—L’Univers. SHE TURNED THE , ABLES. How a Little II ?y Knov ledge Saved a Voting Lati^ 3iucii JJiMco in fort. A young indy through her knowb- ' -e of liousewiii ry rather turned the t. s upon a would be jl ter one day and let that individual, who was of the mala persuasion, into a little secret of con siderable importance to those who have occasion to work in the kitchen as ai: teurs. The two were members of a party . iting an Adirondack camp in the Sara nac lake region. Every one was wed acquainted, and the days passed mv.. ,ly away until a heavy rainstorm drove the ladies and the less enthusiastic fish ermen indoors and compelled them tc seek other forms of amusement. The rain continued to fall almost without intermission for several days, and as a means to relieve the monotony the gen tleman already referred to proposed that the various members of the party try their hand at cooking the next- meal Permission was obtained from the host i he members of the party laughingly agreed to the proposition, and the guide, whose duty it was to act as cook, was for the time sent about other business. The gentleman acted as chef, and with a knowledge obtained from serving on the house committee of a prominent New York club proceeded to assign varioui work to his aids and appointed the young lady first vegetable cock for the express purpose of making her peel onions, the odor of which she loathed. When the party adjourned to the kitch en to begin preparations, a large supply ol strong odored red onions was brought to the lady, and she was requested to remove the outer cuticle. The acting chef and the others who had been let into the secret made merry over the supp sed discomfi ture of the first vegetable cook, but the lat ter smiled sweetly and uttered no protest. “Bring me a deep pan,” she said to liei helper, and when this was produced sli filled it to the brim with water. Then she tucked up her sleeves to the elbow showing just the prettiest pair of arnu in the world. :.iul removing her rings set to work pc to .g the onions under watei with a deft, to s that showed how famil iar she was with the work and depriv ing it of all its offensiveness. It was a revelation to the man, who had looked either for a vigorous protest or had expected to see the eyes of the vegetable cook water from the effects of the onion juice. The amateur dinner was in every way a success, but none of the cooks achieved a greater triumph than the, one whose practical experience showed to the others the common sense method of peeling onions.—New York Herald. , TPiJB. • I ■BIBIII inn ^ I ft Prints • j § <311 Tfie IT S - ews. ,1 ik 1, . • rp I jf§jj Iia^»« <* s j JR |iJT: | B | First»<3Jass -*• I. . I Advertising 1 k I •*• ° ■ .Medium. 1 1 I m m -j. >,w? ;:jai 'mamuamr ^Spr Violating; Parlor Car Rules. “I have violated the rules laid down by Mr. George M. Pullman every time 1 have ridden on a railroad train in the past two years,” said Mrs. Robert Ver non of New York as she and her hus band were preparing to leave the parlors of the Lindell for a walk the other day. “You know. I’d uever think of traveling without my little dog Nellie—named after me, you know—she’s such an affec tionate little thing and worries so much when I leave her behind me. Now, when Bob goes on the road I frequently take trips with him, and of course Nellie comes too. The first trip we took her with us we had to leave her in the bag gage car, and in the morning the pool thing was nearly dead with fright. Then I made up my mind I’d have her with me or quit traveling. “In Philadelphia I noticed women car rying dark green cloth bags on the street and found that they were called ‘cabas,’ and they carried most everything in them. Well, I made one for Nellie, and she travels across the country now in a caba. Pullman conductors think it’s a package of elothing or anything else they like, for Nellie never moves. She is perfectly content to know that I am close by her and would rather keep quiet than ride in the baggage car. Oh, don’t tell me that dogs don’t know any thing. You do, don’t you. Nell?”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Wedding Cakes, New Style. Who was the inventor of the new wed ding cakes? Whoever he was he de serves immortalizing, for his was a bril liant idea, one I should have been “real proud of” myself had I thought of it. In the wedding cake of more ancient type there was always a thick layer of white sugar which nobody cared about, a medium layer of almond paste which every hod y wished for and did not always get, and an immense quantity of cake of which many only ate a few crumbs. The latest specimen has a thin layer of sugar, only just enough to look pretty, apd underneath are alternate layers of cake and almond paste, one as thick as the other. Ti e consequence is that no one is de fl. . J 1 of their lawful share of almond paste or “love,” as it is usually called, and for purposes of distribution it is far better, as the contents of the box do not crumble away nearly so much as they did When the principal portion was cake alone. If only some one would invent a box which could not he rifled and was bound to reach its lawful destination, we should have nothing left to desire.— London Gentlewoman. vvnat to uo. When a young woman asks you to go with her to choose a pocketbook and tells the clerk she wants one “so long,” measuring a space of six or eight inches with the first finger of each hand, it is just as well not to express your surprise that it isn’t to be a dainty, sil ver mounted affair that accords with her costuming, and when she chooses an enormous seal leather affair with lots of compartments for bills and checks and numerous other such articles it is safe to decide that “Charley” still lives in her memory as she in his, and when she talks about the marking and takes the pencil in a determined way and an swers the salesmen’s remark about the letters with a savage “I’ll write them,” \yhv, it's time to turn your back and ba awfully interested in something else.— Buffalo News. Public Dinners a Dore. “Public dinners are becoming more and more of a nuisance to professional men,” said a distinguished lawyer of this town somewhat peevishly the other night. “Now, why should an extremely busy man like myself be asked to devote several hours of valuable time to the preparation of an address on some im portant topic for free delivery before an association in which I have no particular interest? Of course I have the privilege of declining, but when two or three warm personal friends urge me to com ply on the ground of sociability, I have to accept or else appear surly. In con sequence I give up time which I can hardly spare from my clients, am kept up late at night and go down to business in the morning with a headache or an at tack of indigestion.”—New York Times. Not Bigamy. De Smith—Is Ponsonby a bigamist? Travis—A bigamist! Well, I guess, not! What made you think so? De Smith—Oh, I don’t know. I Uiought I heard his wife telling some body that Dr. Swindle'em’s weed tonic bad made another woman of her.— Texas Siftings. Amelia Rives’ Newsboy. “There is a young man in Mobile,” said Colonel Robert McEachin of Win chester, Va., “who has cause to remem ber Amelie Rives twice a year. When the now distinguished lady was a little girl and lived in that city, she became fondly attached to a newsboy who cried out his papers every morning in the neighborhood in which she lived. She met him one day and a friendship sprang up between them that has lasted to the present time. After the boy’s stock of papers were sold in the morning he would call for the pretty little blue eyed miss, and they would take long strolls down Froscute road, plucking the orange blos soms and the magnolia blooms. They soon got to be familiar figures on Gov ernment street, as they would walk along that busy thoroughfare with the young girl’s head garlanded with wreaths of beautiful flowers and the little boy's arms filled with vines and evergreens. Then Miss Rives moved far away into Vir ginia, but she never forgot her newsboy friend, for it was her custom almost daily, to write him. The boy met with a misfortune some years ago which crip pled him for life. He is poor, but hi purse is twice a year replenished by a postoffice order from Mrs. Chanler. One of these arrives in Mobile on his birth day, which is in June, and the other on Christmas day.”—St. Louis Republic. . A Queer Performance. Several years ago a Hampshire baronet was amazed to find that, although hi went to bed clothed as is customary, yet he invariably awoke naked in the morn ing and could not find any trace of his missing garment. A great number of shirts disappeared in this inexplicable manner, and as every nook and comet in the room was searched without re sult the baronet at last told one of his intimate friends, and requested him to sit in the room all night and watch de velopments. This the friend did, and after the baronet had for some time given audible evidence that he was asleep the watcher was surprised to observe him get out of bed, open the door and proceed with a quick pace along a corridor, de scend the stairs and emerge into an open yard. Suddenly the baronet, divesting him self of his only garment, seized a pitch fork and buried the linen in a dunghill. Afterward he proceeded leisurely back to his bed. In the morning the baronet, incredulous at what his friend related, repaired to the dunghill, and after dig ging for some time found several shirts stowed away in this anything but pleas ant receptacle.—Boston Globe When Traveling Was Dangerous. Hounslow heath, Finchley common and Gadshill, in the neighborhood of London, were celebrated haunts of the highwayman, and the secluded roads of Epping forest, on the route to Cam bridge, were often the scenes of plunder in broad daylight. These desperate rob bers at last became so dangerous, and the peril of their attacks so serious to travelers of all kinds, as well as to the postmen, that the government passed a law making highway robbery an offense punishable by the death of the criminal and the confiscation of all his property. But robberies still occurred. In 1783 mail coaches, protected by armed guards, took the place of post boys. The coaches carried passengers also, and as these generally carried arms the mails were better protected, but still daring and oftentimes successful attacks were made upon them.—St. Nicholas. The Glass Industry. The progress of the glass industry in America has been far from constant. It has suffered severe and violent fluctua tions, amounting almost to annihilation. Several times it lias needed to be bom again. But the sum total of these suc cesses and vicissitudes has been the es tablishment of an industry which, while it is the oldest, is also at the present time one of the most promising and most highly developed of all our indus tries.—Professor C. H. Henderson in Popular Science Monthly. A iondon Idea. In certain London restaurants each customer is allowed to make his or her tea. The waitress lights the gas burner, which is affixed to each table, and sets thereon a silver kettle. Then she pre sents to the teamaker a silver caddy divided into compartments and offering a choice of Souchong, Ceylon or green tea. Any one who is compelled to drink the lukewarm stuff called tea at res taurants will appreciate the new idea.— London Letter. France's Great Canal System. Interior navigation lias long held a prominent place in the traffic of France, and it is not surprising to learn that the length of navigable waterways in that country is 8,000 miles, of which 650 miles are returned as tidal, 2,ICO miles naviga ble without works, 2,250 miles canalized rivers and 3,000 miles canals. The state looks out for all but 7 per cent of this network, which is therefore practically free from tolls. This system of inland navigation has cost about $300,000,000 for construction and purchase and $25, 000,000 for concessions. The annual cost of maintenance is about $2,600,000, or $325 a mile, which covers all expendi tures whatsoever. The number of ves sels employed on the waterways is be tween 15,000 and 16,000. About 26 per cent have a capacity of 300 tons or more, while more than half have a capacity ex ceeding 100 tons. Moreover, about 2,000 foreign boats use the French canals each year. The motive power is now almost entirely furnished by draft animals, although a few steam tugs are used on the Seine, the Oise and some other rivers, and steam cargo boats are occasionally met. Cable towing and tow locomotives are also used in a few places. The average cost of moving a ton of freight one mile is stated to be 064 cents on the rivers and 25 per cent less on the canals.—Paris Letter. The Pale White Light of Death. Those who have admired the phos phorescent glow of certain species of crustace will be interested to learn that a startling discovery respecting it has been made. Formerly It was supposed that such creatures emitted the light of their own accord, and that they used it in a variety of ways. It is now known that the light is a disease as deadly to the infected individuals as cobra poison ing is to the human species. M. Girard has traced phosphorescent light in tati trus and other crustaceans to exceed ingly minute bacteria in the muscles. On inoculating healthy specimens with glowing bacteria, the same luminous ap pearance was transmitted. He also notes that the disease runs a regular course, and that those infected die within four days, the phosphorescence lasting but a short while after death.—St. Louis Re public. Worries of Letter Writing. Of course you never had important letters ready to mail and went down town without them? Or did you take the letters and carry them around all day and bear them safely home with you at night? Did you ever post a letter that you would have given almost anything to recall after it had passed out of your reach? You never delayed to seal your letter until you were outside the house and then found that the en velope wouldn’t stick or needed a stamp beyond anything, when there was none to be had?—Boston Commonwealth. The Effect of Early Training. Recently a young woman came to this city from a town about two hour’s ride from New York to study. In the exam ination that she was required to pass, she was told to name some of the prin cipal English authors. She did so, omit ting Shakespeare for the reason, as she stated to a friend, “that she might of fend the teachers by putting in the name of a man who had written plays for the aters.”—New York Sun. A Persistent Dog. Mother—Horrors! Where did you get that dog? Young Hopeful—He followed me home. “Hum! Why did you coax him?’ “I didn’t coax him. I threw things at him, but he would come anyhow.” “That’s 3trange. What did you throw?” “A lot of hard, ugly old bones the butcher gave me.”—Good News. A Life Work. Mr. Sutherland got hold of a prodig ious Clarendon and Burnet and made it the richest and most extensive pictorial history in existence or ever likely to be in existence. He found nearly 19,000 prints and drawings for it and no less than 731 portraits of Charles I, 518 oi Charles II, 353 of Cromwell, 273 of James II and 420 of William III. If, remarks Mr. Percy Fitzgerald, we only think how few are the portaits of Charles I, and these mostly copies after Vandyke, we shall have an idea of the labor and exploration necessary to gather up the 731. Think also of the pains and cost in cleaning, “laying down,” “insetting,” and “inlaying” these portraits, the bind ing, arranging, etc., and we shall not be surprised to learn that this folly occu pied the fanatical Sutherland such a lengthy portion of his life. When finished, it filled 67 huge vol umes and had cost £12,000! We may conceive all the visitings of print shops, the turning over boxes of prints, the groveling among winds and lanes, the correspondence and the endless paying of money! To give a finish to his labors a catalogue was prepared of all the en gravings. This filled two great quartos. At Sutherland’s death the work was car ried on by his widow, who is reported to have given as much as £80 for a single plate!—Temple Bar. Peculiarities About Tramps. • ‘A fact about your professional vagrant or tramp is that they never want to go back to the place from where they were sent,” says a penitentiary superintendent. “For instance, if one is sent in from along the Susquehanna road, on his discharge he usually requests to be sent north, east or south, or any direction that will take him away from that in which he was ap prehended. “Only the other day a tramp sent from Otsego begged to be sent to Hudson. He begged so hard that I gave him a ticket to Hudson. The next day he was back again. ‘They pulled me as soon as I stepped from the train,’ he said. County officers, you see, are always on the lookout for tramps because of the mileage received for bring ing them here. Work? No, they wouldn't show any inclination or desire for work if they had to lay in the penitentiary for months. But we compel them to earn their keep, very much to their disgust. Usually I set them to work cane seating chairs.”—Albany Journal. Mrs. Mossman Was Petrified. In June, 1884, Mrs. Abigail Mossman was interred at the Hazelwood cemetery in Poweshiek county, la. Not long since relatives determined to remove the re mains to another cemetery. The work men engaged to perform the job found the coffin filled to overflowing with red colored mineral water. This was drained off, whereupon it was found that the corpse, with the exception of the fingers and toes, was perfectly petrified. The hair was perfectly natural, as was also a bouquet of roses that lay on her breast. After a thorough examination by rela tives and friends the coffin was again closed and covered in.—St. Louis Re public. A Kind Mistress. It was raining in torrents. “Julie!” said madam to her maid, “be quick and run across to the milliners and tell her not to forget my hat.” “Can I take Azor cut with me, mad am?” “Are you mad, Julie? Can’t you see for yourself that the weather is not fit to turn a dog out of doors?”—Evenement. F. D. 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