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TnE CITY OF MTES.
A PEOPLE WHOSE COSTUMES ARE
OF ECCENTRIC DESCRIPTION.
A Kefnge from the Artificial Life at the
French Capital A Homelike Meal at a
Hotel Principal Bosiuess Street A
Royalist' Opinion of the City
Nantes takes a certain character from
the sea, from the fishermen and from all
the queer types of humanity who dwell
along the coast of this department and of
Morbihan well on up toward JJrest. The
costumes of these people are of the most
eccentric description, so much .so that it is
said that nowhere else in France can there
le seen Mich a variety. Some are strik
ingly picturesque. There is the peasant
woman, for instance, whose business it is
to cnitivate early potatoes in the sand
near Xoirmonticr and bring them to mar
ket. She wears a skirt coming just below
the knees, a small cap, sonic sort of apron,
checked cr otherwise, and lias the
foot, ankle and calf entirely exposed, or
.shoes or sabots neatly jwlisbed and stock
ings closely fitting and often of intricate
pattern. The shoes and hosiery anj their
special weakness, aiid it is not rare to see
among them a well made ftiot and ankle.
The entire costume is commonly in sober
colors and neatly kept. On the contrary,
you see little girls with long skirts com
ing to the soles of the shoe, who look as if
they had just stepped from one of Van
dyke's portraits.
As a specimen of the male costume of
Morbihan, wc have the low crowned,
round tojitl hat of velvet, or of straw or
fcltlioiiwl with velvet, very jaunty, or,
as the French would say. cliic. The
Jacket is something like the voluminous
exterior garment of our ancestors of the
Seventeenth century, but a jacket all the
.same, and cay with rows of buttons so
thickly set that they overlap one an
other." The collar of the shirt is as broad
as a ship's mainsail. It is open in front
and rises stiffly up hclrind the head, serv
ing as a background to a face that is the
picture of innocence and as quaint as the
costume itself.
It is a pleasant relief to get away from
the highly artilicial life and the highly ar
tificial articles of food and drink at Paris
even to 11 stupid and not over cleanly place
like Nantes. The country offers its treas
ures more generously than the city. It is
pleasant to know that the wines, if they
are not CIo Vougeot, Poniard, Chateau
Letltc or Chateau Yquen, are at least all
they pretend to le; that you arc near the
place where people produce their own but
ter and lay their own eggs; where they
even put the butter on the table and sell
Iheir milk at four cents a quart from the
wagons in the street and at the corner
groceries. It is rtfally with a homelike
feeling that j on sit down to breakfast or
dinner in a "hotel in a town in Anjou, or
at the hotel at Nantes on which I lc
Btowed my humble patronage. Thestill
nes that pervades the dining room is sol
emn. You hear two orthiee flies buzzing
behind the lace curtains that drape the
windows. You look up to the ceiling not
painted by Michael Augelo, but by some
iiiiiminortaTizcd local froco painter, in
imitation of the sky. You don't remem
ler ever to have seen exactly such shades
of blue in the firmament before. Hut no
matter. The chandeliers are attached to
the ceiling with blue ribbons painted flat
thereon, the ends drutvn out sideways and
held in the leaks of doves, the sitecies
and the sc-iool of art being alike unfa
miliar. Into the room steal furtively from time
to time representatives of the Nantals
lioiirgeoiee solid, solemn, funereal who
tranquilly partake of the several courses
and then steal away sis stealthily as they
entered. Perhaps there enters a whole
Breton family father, mother, sons,
daughters and bonne all of whom make
the sign of the cross before talcing their
places. Their dress is quiet and their
manners almost as reverential as if they
were in church. The repast is served by
the .mature garcons one gray haired
whom ou seem faintly to recollect as
having seen in the opera of ''The Hugue
nots." Their duty is performed decorously
and entirely in keeping with the sur
roundings. There i none of bewardage
80 often seen at French tables. The
cuisine is rather remarkable for its pro
fusion than its line quality, thus reversing
the Parisian rule. Some dishes are even
left on the table where persons can help
themselves. Nothing could be more
uu-Parisian. The butter is of a char
acter to attract attention. There are
perhaps twenty jtersons at table (com
paratively few persons come to Nantes)
aiiil llien are four rolls of golden
butter distributed along the table,
each weighii, at least a jioiind, and, like
everything else offered you, it is "a discre
tion." Then you drink, if you are dis
posed, a whole bottle of white or red wine.
The' hotel is, I believe, the best in Nantes,
and your breakfast and dinner cost you
together only live .Vanes a day, whiie a
good room costs only three f nines more.
In coming from Cholet to Nantes I made
the acquaintance of a young lawyer of
Poitiers, a royalist by birth and political
preference and a most charming and in
telligent traveling companion. He said to
me, "Nantes is a ville de luxe." As I
have already remarked, this is not inti
mated to the stranger. There is nothing
in the houses or hops that would indicate
it. Then as I met him in the evening he
conducted mc through what he said was
the principal business street the only
business street in fact a thoroughfare
narrow and crooked like the rest, half a
mile in length and having on either side
commonplace shops, badly lighted and
with poor displays of goods in the win
dows. There were no carriages, but it
was filled with a crowd of promeuaders
walking purposely to and fro and look
ing listlessly into the uninteresting
windows, as I have seen them in
the smaller towns of Italy or else
where in Europe. There wjis nowhere
else to go, theatres being closed and sum
mer amusements consp'cuous by their
absence. The rich were at the watering
places; the poor were amusing themselves
in low drinking houses, such as are seen
in the pictures of Temers and Steeu, of
types that are universal and have been for
800 years.
There are, however, at Nantes things
that are solid, substantial and elegant in
the way of art and architecture. The
cathedral and other churches are among
the finest in France, and there are statues
of kings and other celebrities in them, or
Jierc and there in avenues and streets
about the city. There is a library of 100,
000 volumes, and the museum of paint
ings and statuary, the finest in France
outside of Paris and Versailles. It is well
worth a visit. I went to the castle, which
is not so massive and interesting as that
at Angers, and better preserved, and from
the top of the dungeon tower the concierge
poiuted out to me that great place of the
famous ncyades, cue ot the mot infamous
reminiscences uf the revolution. Albert
Butliffe in San Francisco Chronicle.
THE QUEEN OF SALESWOMEN.
An Artist in Wliiise Hands the Customer
Was as Helpless a an Infant.
A conversation overheard; the speakers
are feminine. ''How did yon come to buy
those shoes They are very handsome,
but not at all your usual style." "Well,
I've been pretending to everybody that I
changed my mind about square toes, and
that 1 bought them because I liked them,
but I'll confess to you that it was no such
thing; I liought them because the sales
woman was clever enough to make me do
it." 'She must have Ieen clever in
deed." "Yes. I don't wonder you say
so; I generally take pleasure in declaring
my- independence of the usual sales
woman's "dictum. When she tells me
-what is the style, and what she is buying
for herself, and what will just suit me, I
wouldn't buy what she recommends if I
wanted it so much that I went to another
shop -and got identically the same thing;
but the woman that sold me these shoes
was au artist in whose hands I w:is but a
helpless infant. To begin with, she was
a bright, cheery little thing, and struck
me dumb with amazement from the first
by waiting on mc as if it were a pleasure
for her to do it.
"Then she brought out these shoes with
the remark that she rc-as so glad she had
this one pair of this kind, for she knew
they, would fit me, as they had been made
U) uruer, mi iuucu ueuer uiau mo icuuu i
stock. How did it come that shoes made
to order were for sale to me? Why the
lady who ordered them had torced tli
measurer to take her measure too small,
she was so anxious to have little feet, but
when she came to try them they were im
possible. She had gotten them so small
that she simply could not stand up in
them, but then what jjerfection they were
on me; wouldn't I juet stand up and walk
about in them; did ever any one see such
a combination of ease and elegance? 'Of
course,' she went on, 'you never could
wear a cheap shoe; they never make
cheap shoes with that high arched instep.
Look at others Oh, yes, certainly,' and
she came back as pleasantly a.? possible
with several pairs. But for them she had
nothing in particular to say, and she had
by this time, by her adroit fiat tery of my
feet, inspired me with a respect for her
judgment ycu know wc do to resject
the judgment of the people that admire
us that I quite hung my decision on her
approval.
"The flattery was of the most artistic
kind; it was all said with the simplest,
most unconscious air of stating a fact, and
when she said how these broad toes made
a small foot look smaller still, i hough they
were too conspicuous for a big one, I sur
rendered and liought a shoe rncli as I
never expected to wear. Of course, the
fact is that they were ordered, and when
they were thrown back en their hands
they were too narrow to be generally sal
able. That queen of saleswomen knew
that they were the ones alovc all others
to get rid of, and willy or nilly, so far as I
was concerned, she sold them to me. But
I flatter myself there are not three others
in New York who could have done it; and
I am willing to put up with a purchase I
don't altogether like "n consideration of
having found an agreeable woman."
New York Graphic.
The T.itest Fsuhlnnaulo Gait.
"ITave you observed the new gait
adopted by fashionable ladies while out on
a promenade" asked a Fifth avenue
modiste of a reporter recently.
Seeing a look of bewilderment on the
reporter's face, she continued: "You
know that fashions change in walking
just as they do in everything else. Even
young men change their manner of walk
ing according to the whims of fashion. A
short time ago it was the thing for fashion
able young men to poke along on tiptoe in
a sort of gingerly wny. That was when
the dude was in his glory. Now the dude
has departed, and his walk has gone with
him. I lx-'lieve a brisk, businesslike stride
is the proper thing now. The correct walk
for girls, until very recently, was a kind of
long, easy lope. I think that Mrs. Potter
was the originator of this. It was quickly
copied by many actresses. Pauline Hall
and Patrice have it to perfection. Any
how, it wjis awfully popular last winter
on the avenue and has been nil the go at
the watering places this summer. It was
very giaceful ami pretty', but it has got
to go.
"The new walk is neither graceful nor
pretty. It is a kind of a waddle. The
would le fashionable young lady now
walks as if she had no joints nor firmness
to her. Every part of her anatomy seems
to shake and wiggle as she goes. She
conies down hard first on one foot and
then on the other, seeming to rest her
IxkIj alternately on each of her nether
limbs. Her cheeks wabble and so do her
arms. I don't know any better way to
describe it than to say she waddles like a
fat duck. I don't know who is the origi
nator of this fashion, but it is evidently
going to be the thing this winter. All the
girls put it on with their fall bonnets, and
all over the streets you can see the little
dears trying their best to be ungraceful in
their efforts to be up to the latest fad.' "
New York Evening Sun.
No raise Tee til for Him.
n', honey! Dis niggah dun
"N'
hab
no 'ficial teef tucked away in his mouf,
yeah me? Fo' de good Lo'd want him fo'
to hab teef. an him ngoin fas' to Ca
naan's Ian', he dun gib him de good ole
crunchers like what he had fu de war, I
tell ye!"
The old man who delivered himself of
this opinion is an old negro in the Newark
almshouse. He is very fond of tobacco,
but whenever he wants a fresh quid he
has to chip it off the plug with a knife, as
he has no teeth with which to bite it.
"Deed, no sah. I can't take 'um; I can't
take 'um," he continued, being pressed to
ask the superintendent for a set of false
teeth. "Mebbejouse gemmen is pokin'
fun at de ole man an mebbe you isn't, but
no matter what 'tis, de ole "man kin dun
gib y' pints on teef. He's mos' nigh outer
ninety-five yeahs ole an' he ain't done had
no crunche's fo' inor'n thirty ob em.
Why bress yo eyes, honey, dis yeah ole
carcase ud dun bin rottin' away in de
tomb long time since, if de ole man's teef
didn't mow out. Long as de ole man dun
need de grinders he had 'em an ccod
ones dcy was too, yeah me. But de time
kem when de coon an hoe cake got too
strong fo' de ole man. Den de good Lo'd
dun take away his teef. De ole man got
no bizness chewin' coon and sich. His
dimgestion n' hab use fo' sich strong food.
Mush an' m'L-isses, milk an' rcglor pick
aninny dishes 's wot he ought to hab. He
couldn't chew nuffin else, so he took de
pickaninny dishes an' good fo' many a
day yet. Ef de Lo'd meant fo' me to eat
de same kinc o' truck dat I eat when
Massa Linkum dun set mo free, why bress
yo' poo' heart he dun gib me teef for to
do it too." New York Mail and Express.
A New Use for Apples.
A new use for apples has been discov
ered which may interest the drinkers of
champagne and Rhine wines. A promi
nent apple grower of the eastern part of
Rensselaer county has for several years
past been running a large evaporator on
what are known as -cider apples," a
small, gnarly variety which the farmers
usually consign to cider mills. These ma
chines slice the apples, skin, core and ail,
very thin. These thin slices are then
bleached white by the use of sulphur
fumes.
When thoroughly dry the evaporated
apples arc put into sugar barrels and
packed as tight as they can be pressed, so
that a single barrel will hold 200 pounds,
or twenty bushels of apples. These are
then shipped to New York for exportation
to Germany, where they are ground up
for the manufacture of what is known as
cider, aud it is generally understood that
much of it enters into the composition of
champagne, Rhine and other wines. It is
said that when these evaporated apples
are cut up and properly "doctored" the
finest cider is produced. Last year more
than two car loads of dried apples were
sent from one station alone on the Leba
non Springs railroad. Albany Journal.
Emt-rson's Interest In Ills Children.
Emerson gave much more of his time
and thought to his children, from their in
fancy, than was usual with busy fathers
in New Englaud forty years ago, or is,
perhaps, now. "There is nothing (he
writes in his journal) that is not of the
greatest interest in the nursery. Every
tear and every smile deserves a history, to
say nothing of the stamping and scream
ing;" and he kept a record of their child
ish doings and sayings, in which these
"pretty oracles" are chronicled like the
anecdotes of Plutarch. Their play and
their work, their companions and their
lessons, their out of door rambles and
their home occupations, were objects of
Ida constant care. The home discipline
was never neglected, though it was en
foiced by the gentlest methods. The be
ginning of a childish quarrel, outbursts
of petulance and silliness, were averted
bj requests to run into the study and see
if the stove door was shut, or to go to the
front gate and look at the cloud for a
minute. Cabot's Memoir of Emerson.
Without a Compass,
Says old Allen Thompson: "When I
am in the woods I never use a compass;
in fact I don't need any. There are three
sure ways that I have for finding the
points of the compass. You will notice
that three-fourths of the moss on trees
grows on the north side: the heaviest
boughs on spruce trees are always on the
south side, and, thirdly, the topmost twig
of every uninjured hemlock tips to the
east. You just remember those things
and you'll never get lost, Mount "Wash
ington Among the Clouds.
t costs a railroad company $600 more
to put up 1,000 signs reading "Lookout
for the locomotive" than the same num
ber reading "Danger.", And the latter
aro the most effective, too.
ttUSSIAK NEWSPAPERS.
ONLY GC0 JOURNALS PUBLISHED IN
THE CZAR'S ENTIRE EMPIRE.
All the Noted Newspapers Coadacted by
Independent Writers Have Been Abol
islicd Official Statistics Why Bassist Is
Almost Newspaperiess Warnings.
A co: -piere stagnation threatens the
Russian pre.-. It is not Ijecause nowa
days the:.'1 are no able writers in Russia.
The trr.ui !e is that the present minister of
the interior, Count D. Tolstoi, has suc
ceedeti ::: a'ilshiugall the noted journals
conducted by talented and independent
writers. TLr 1LU of the periodical punli-catioir-.
U..:r have been suppressed during
the larl six years is far more interesting
and valuable than all the papers now liv
ing. Now there is no originality about
Russian journals, no freshness and none
of that domestic siirring interest which
in the days gone by used to so much at
tract attention in all parts of the great
empire.
The suspended Golos (The Voice) has
left fully ."0,C00 subscribers without any
paper to their taste, fcr none of them dare
to defend the constitutional form of the
government as The Golos did. In the
sixties, when the czar-liberator tried to
free the press from the iron grip of the
censor. Nicholas Tchernyshevsky started
The Contemporary Review, a monthly in
which he taught the Russian public for
the first time to conscientiously criticise
the government measures. It is impos
sible in this country even to imagine
what a whirlwind of public opinion he
raised as by magic. But even the liber
ator could not long stand such freedom of
di-cussiou, and Tchernyshevsky was sent
to Siberia for seven years and kept there
for fifteen. But the martyrology of the
Russian editors aud writers is too long to
be given here.
The number of periodicals issued in
Russia :. mounts to a little over 000. As
the population of the czar's empire is
105,000.000, it is evident then that it takes
173.000 Russian subjects to supjiort one
periodical, whereas in the United States
every 4.0CO souls support some publica
tion.
RUSSIA'S -100 PERIODICALS.
Putting aside CG0 periodicals published
in other iliun the Russian language, the
1C0 Russian periodicals are classified as
follow:.: Daily, oii; weekly, 8T; monthly,
oT: several limes per week, 40; several
liir.es ;cr year, loo. Nearly one-half the
Russian periodicals sire published in the
capital of the empire, St. Petersbun:, and
one-third in seven of the largest towns,
leaving for the rest of the great empire less
than 100 periodicals. In the czar's country
t litre ie many towns of 10,000,20,000,
or even 40,000 inhabitants which have not
a periodical of any kind. The whole of
Siberia, with 4.000,000 of population, has
only two newspapers and bi-monthly of a
geographical society.
Accordinsr to the official statistics fur
nished by the post department last year
in Russia there passed through tiie mail
about 77,o00,0C0 copies of Russian peri
odicals of all .-orts, and 4.500,000 of for
eign periodicals were received in Russia.
Thus it appears that there is not for each
subject of the czar during a year even a
single copy of any periodical, Russian or
foreign.
Why is the Russian press so insignifi
cant as to its volume? Some say it is be
cause fully 80 per cent, of the Russians
are illiterate. But if the educated and
schooled Russians would read newspapers
as freely as Americans do, then in Rusia
there would be .",000 periodicals instead of
COO. There are other causes that make
the czar's country almost newspaperless.
In the first place, there is no political life
at all, and the industrial life there is
in its embryotic state. Russians have
not so much news to exchange as the
people in other countries have. In the
second place, the autocratic government
systematically and niot strenucusly op
poses the growth of the press. Czarshave
always been aware that writers, even
though in the clinches of censors aud
under political sutjervision, are apt to
think for themselves, to argue and to
criticise, lima they develop in them
selves and in their readers the qualities
most decidedly objectionable in imperial
subjects. Every job printer in Russia
must procure a police certificate of good
character and furnish bonds, and every
publisher, besides these qualifications,
must maintain an imperial inspector at
his own establishment.
In Russia every editor of prominence
must pass a part of his life in prison. If
we add to that the fatul ministerial warn
ings, prohibition of inserting advertise
ments, heavy fines and suspension, we
shall wonder not that there are so few
periodicals, but that among Russians
there arc men and women ready to enter
the career of journalist, which ranks in
danger next to that of conspirator. Mos
cow Letter.
IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Dr. Holmes Writes of Some of Its Won
ders How to See the Sights.
I made but two brief visits to the Brit
ish museum, and I can easily instruct my
reader so that he will have no difficulty,
if he followmy teaching, in learning how
not to see it. When he has a spare hour
at his disposal, let him drop in at the mu
seum and wander among its books and its
various collections. He wSi know as
much alout it as the fly that buzzes in at
one window and out at another. If I
were asked whether I brought away any
thing from my two visits, I should say,
certainly I did. TLc fiy sees some things,
not very intelligently, but he cannot help
seeing them. The great, round reading
room, with its silent students, impressed
me very much. I looked at once for the
Elgin marbles, but casts and photographs
and engravings had made me familiar
with their chief features. I thought I
knew something of tie sculptures
brought from Nineveh, but I was aston
ished, almost awe struck, at the sight of
thoe mighty images which mingled with
the visions of the Hebrew prophets. I did
not marvel more at the skill and labor
expended upon them by the Assyrian
artists than I did at the enterprise and
audacity which had brought them safely
from the mounds under which thev were
buried to the light of day and the heart of
a great modern city.
I never thought that I should live to see
thcBirs Nimroud laid open, and the taln
lets in which the history of Nebuchad
nezzar was recorded spread before me.
The Empire of the Spade in the world of
history was founded at Nineveh by
Layard, a great province added to it by
Schliemann, and its boundary extended
by numerous explorers, some of whom
are diligently at work at the present day.
I feel very grateful that Hany of its rev
elations have been made since I have
been a tenant of the traveling residence
which holds so many setrcts in its re
cesses. There is one lesson, to be got from
a -visit of an hour or two to the British
museum namely, the fathomless abyss
of our own ignorance. One is almost
ashamed of his little paltry heartbeats in
the presence of the rushing and roaring
Torrents of Niagara. So if he has pub
lished a little bcok or two, collected a
few fossils, or coins, or vases, he is
crushed by the vastness of the treasures
in the library and the collections of this
universe of knowledge.
I have shown how not to sec the British
museum. I will tell how to see it. Take
lodgings next door to it-ina garret, if
vou cannot flfTnrrf vt,iw ', i
pass all your days at the museum during
tne whole period of your natural life.
At three score and ten you will have some
faint conception of the contents, signifi
cance and the value of this great British
institution, which is as nearly as any one
spot the nceud vital of human civilization,
a stab at which by the dagger of anarchy
would fitly begin the reign of chaos.
Oliver Wendell Holmes in Atlantic
Monthly.
Manufacture of Counterfeit Jewels.
Artificial precious stones have become
an important article of trade. The pro
ducts of some of the shops would almost
deceive an expert, but the .test of hard
ness is still infallible. The beautiful
"French paste," from which imitation
diamonds are made, is a kind of glass
with a mixture of oxide of lead. The
more of the latter the brighter the stone,
but also the softer, and this is a serious
defect. The imitation stones are now so
perfectly made, and are so satisfactory to
those who are not very particular, that
their influence begins to be felt in the
market for real stones.
By careful selection of the ingredients,
and skill and manipulation, the luster,
color, fire and water of the choicest stones
arc to the eyes of the layman fully repro
duced. There are a few delicacies of
color that cannot be perfectly given, for
they depend on some undiscoverablo pecu
liarities of molecular arrangement and
not on chemical composition; but the per
sons who buy the atones know nothing of
that. Yet Sidot, a French chemist, has
nearly reproduced these peculiarities, in
cluding the dichroism of the sapphire,
with a composition of which the base is
phosphate of lime. Two other French
chemists, Frcmy and Fell, have produced
rubies and sapphires having the sains
composition with the genuine stones and
nearly equal hardness. Popular Science
Monthly.
A Boston Boy's Top.
One top is named StonewallJackson,
because of an unconquerable tendency to
"ride ahead" of the rest. This came
shows that "Barbara Freitchie" has stuck
in the memory of at least one small boy.
Another long legged top, which has a de
cided preference for a stationary attitude
in spinning, aud wears an aspect of pa
tient, smiling dignity, is named. Gen.
Grant, because, its ownei said, it sug
gested to him Gen. Grant "sitting in his
wiudow and smiling down on the children
going by to church" obviously an inci
dent of the general's last illness which
had impressed the small boy's imagina
tion. There is a certain battered old top,
seamed with lashings and perforated with
hostile peg holes, which nevertheless lies
very close to its owner's heart, and which
proudly bears the designation, always
quoted at its full length, of "Daniel Web
ster, the old war horse." One top has
the name of Pegasus, a title which tlie
"Listener'' fondly fancied showed a clas
sical tendency on the iartcf Tommy's
tastes until, upon inquiry, he found that
it was borrowed fiom the name of a
highly approved locomotive on the Boston
and Lowell railroad. Boston Transcript
"Listener."
Doctoring; Wines in Paris.
Of the hundred and odd millions of gal
lons of wine that yearly enter Pans all is
as represented, the "doctoring" lieing
done after the wine has paid its duties
and luissetl into the hands of tlealvrs.
The most harmless of these tricks is the
marking of ordinary vintages by th'
name of some wine of much higher iratU ,
the next is making, say, three b.-u-rels ot
of two by adding dUtilled water and in
creasing the color by mixing in a few
quarts of a wine grown in the department
of Loiret called "black wine," front its
excess of natural coloring matter.
Besides all this a large proportion of
the "sherries," and practically all of the
"Madeiras" are made at Ccite and else
where from rough native wines some
what doctored up to suit; these are, how
ever, principally used in cooking, are en
tered at the custom house for what they
are anil so sold to dealers. In fact, the
names have come to be so well under
stood by all that the wines can hardly be
classed as deceptions. As for marking
fair ordinary wine as Chateau Iafittc or
Clos de Vougeot, it is probable that Noah
did something of the kind when lie asked
friends to dine with him who were not
experts in fermented grain; juice. E. J.
Uiddle in Globe-Democrat.
I.enrs Made of lee.
The London correspondent of Le Mon
iteurde la Photographic writes to that
journal that in tho middle of the winter
which has just elapsed a student made a
lens of ice, .itii which he lit the pipes oi
some of the skaters on the Serpentine by
means of the solar rays, an experiment,
he says, which was first performed in the
polar regions by Dr. Scores!) to the great
astonishment of the sailors, for they could
not understand why the ice did not freeze
the lieams of the sun. We may remark
that Professor Tyndall at times would set
fire, at the Royal institution, to a little
heap of gunpowder with rays from the
electric arc concentrated upon the powder
by means of a lens of ice. His explana
tion was that although ice absorbs rays of
certain wave length, and is uraduallv
melted thereby, other waves it does not
absorb, and these latter produce the heat
ing effect at the focus of the lens. It is
wholly a question of the relative motions
of the molecules of frozen water and the
motions of the waves of light; when there
is discord between the two the discordant
waves pass through the ice without ab
sorption. British Journal of Pho
tography. As Seen In Mexico.
A traveler who has visited the various
states and territories of Mexico presents
a condensed view of his observations.
Nothing could be more sententious and
epigrammatic than the style in which the
people of the several states are described.
He found in Yucatan, farmers; Vera
Cruz, merchants and travelers; Tabasco,
plantation owners; Federal District, poli
ticians and soldiers; Tlaxcala, ignorant
people; Chiapas, Indians; Oaxaca, fanat
ics; Durango, mule drivers; Queretaro,
priests; Morelos, fruit farmers; Guana
juato, liberals; San Luis Potosi, wealthy
people: Mexico, conservatives; Tamauli
pa, sick people; Chihuahua, savages; Ja
lisco, potters; Zacatecas, miners; Nueva
Leon, Yankees; Lower California, adven
turers; Colima, Germans; Aguascalientes,
government clerks; Siualoa, fishermen;
Guerrero, negroes; Sonora, horsemen;
Coahuila. poor people; Tepic, mountain
eers; Hidalgo, Protestants and English.
Boston Traveler.
The Meaning of a '"llmim."
Do not listen to the man who proposes
to "lxioni" your business. An excessive
boom" means working at high pressure.
The "margiu" or "fnctor"' of safety be
comes too small to with.stand the strain
and your "boom" becomes a butt bub
ble. On the other hand, .should the boom
be carried out, a reaction is sure to follow.
The higher the 'boom" the lower the
"doom" will be to which your business
descends. "Booming" may well be com
pared with alcoholic stimulating. The
latter will make things hum for a time,
but the reaction surely comes, and things
are equalized to a dead level. Then and
there are the "boomed" and the stimu
lated found wanting. Force business with
conservative pressure. It may not go fast
enough, but it will surely reach the mark
if persistence handles the throttle. Bos
ton Budget.
Food of the Canary Inlander.
The splendid physical development of
the Canary Islanders gives special interest
to their peculiar food. Five-sixths of the
inhabitants, according to Dr. C. F. Taylor,
subsist almost exclusively upon a fine
flour made by grinding roasted wheat,
corn or barley. This is called goflo.
Being already cooked, it requires no pre
paration for eating except mixing to any
desired consistency with milk, soup or any
suitable fluid. Goflo is delicious, whole
some, highly nutritious and very con
venient to use. For these reasons, Hnd
the important one that it seems to remove
a tendency to acidity of the stomach, Dr.
Taylor recommends the addition .f this
food to our own already large variety.
Arkansaw Traveler.
The Has Meter Dangerous.
The meters which gas companies intro
duce into our houses are put together
with solder that melts at a low degree of
heat. When a fire originates near a ens
T tVTa ong,nates "f"11?"
ter the heat very swm causes !t to fall
apart, and the unchecked flow of gas from
the influent pipe quickly fills the premises
with a roaring and devastating flame.
After every fire, when there is a total loss
of the building, a blazing stream of gas
roars on beneath falling walls and debris,
until measures are taken to stop the sup
ply of gas from the street mains. With
these facts before everybody's eyes it
seems strange that no attempt is made to
have meters differently constructed, or
some way devised to prevent the loss that
necessarily results from the present state
of things. The Engineer.
An Old I to man Fen.
At Acosia a Roman metal pen has been
found. It is a bronze pen slit in exactly
the same fashion as the present steel pen.
The Dutch invented a metal pen in 17t7
but it was hot until many years later that
the hand-screw press, which made the
first cheap steel pen, came into use. Bos
ton Bndget.
Worth Knowing.
Mr. W. H. Morgan, merchant, Lake
City, Fla., was taken with a severe cold,
attended with a distressing cough and
running into consumption in its first
stages. He tried many so-called popu
lar cough remedies and steadily grew
worse. Was reduced in flesh, had diffi
culty in breathing and was unable to
sleep. Finally tried Dr. King's New
Discovery for consumption and found
immediate relief, and after using about
a half dozen bottles found himself well
and has had no return of the disease.
No other remedy can show so grand a
record of cures, as Dr. King's New Dis
covery for consumption guaranteed to
do just what is claimed for it, Trial
bottle free at Dowty & Becher's drug
store.
Matinees of surahs are trimmed with
a new kind of thread lace called dentelle
Rttsse.
Its Delicacy of Flavor
And the efficacy of its action have ren
dered the famous liquid fruit remedy,
Syrup of Figs, immensely popular. It
cleanses and tones up the clogged and
feverish system, dispels headaches, colds,
and fevers, cures Habitual Consumption,
Dyspepsia, and the many ills depending
on a weak or inactive condition of the
Kidneys, Liver und Bowels. Manufact
ured only by the California Fig Syrup
Company, San Francisco, Cal. For sale
only by Dowty & Bocher.
Long Pine has voted bonds for the
purposo of erecting a complete system
of waterworks.
Nome Foollntk People
Allow a cough to ruu until it gets beyond
the i each of medieine. They often say,
Ob, it will wear away, but in most cases
it wears the m away. Could they be in
duced to try the successful medicine
called Kemp's B;ilm, which we sell on
:t positive guarantee to cure, they would
iinniedinti'lv see the excellent effect after
taking the nmt dose. Price fiOu and $1jOO.
Trial lte free. Dr. A. Ileintz.
J. E. Ciiapin, the republican candidate
for county treasurer, died at his home in
Sloan, Woodbury county, la., Sunday
morning.
A Good One. -Mr. James Marsh, of
Aten, Neb., sifter an experience of four
years in using and selling Chamberlain's
Pain-Balm, says: "It is the best and
most reliable liniment ever produced."
A fifty cent bottle will accomplish moro,
in the treatment of rheumatism, lame
back or severe sprains, than five dollars
invested in any other way. A great
many cases have been cured by it, after
l)cing given up as hopelessly incurable.
It promptly relievos the pain in all cases.
Sold by Dowty & Bechor.
Henry Young, 20 years old, a son of a
rich farmer, twelve miles north of St.
Joe, was found hanging by a stout rope
.11 his father's barn.
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any thing else in tbi world. Anyone anywhere
can do the work, and live at home also. Better
write at once; then, knowing all, should you
conclude that you don't care to engage, why no
hurm is done. 4-ly
Tommy Warren the feather-weight
pugilist, arrested in New York for va
grancy, has been released. His friends
claim the arrest was the result of spito
work.
Renews Hrr Youth.
Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson, Clay
county, Iowa, tells the following remark
able story, the truth of which is vouch
ed for by the residents of the town: "I
am 73 years old, have been troubled
with kidney complaint and lameness for
many years; could not dress my
self without help. Xow I am free
from all pain and soreness, and am able
to do all my own housework. I owe my
thanks to Electric Bitters for having
renewed my youth, and removed com
pletely all disease and pain." Try u
bottle, 50 cents and 81 at Dowty t
Becher's drug store.
Men's umbrellas are as thin as a cane,
and do not look as if they were intended
for rain.
Mr. Ed. F. Bourne, the efficient and
worthy cashier of the United States Ex
press Co., Des Moines, Iowa, says:
"From the lack of exercise and from
close confinement to office work, I have
been troubled with habitual constipation
I have received more benefit from St.
Patrick's Pills than anything I ever
tried. I gave them a thorough test and
am now in perfect health. I hereby
recommend them as a pleasant und re
liable medicine." They do not grasp
nor cause the sickness occasioned by the
operation of almost all other cathartic
pills or medicines. Sold by Dowty &
Beeher.
Long waistes, short skirts and full
blouse fronts are the features in little
girls' frocks.
tiooil Vaps Ahead.
George Stinson Jc Co., Portland, Maine, can
give you york that you can do and live at home,
making (treat pay. You are started free. Capi
tal not needed. Iioth 6exe. All age. Cat this
out and write at once; no ham will be done it
you conclude not to go to work, after yoa learn
all. All particulars free. Best paying work in
this world. 4-ly
Lace lamp shades with silk fringe half
a yard long are now held to be the- most
elegant.
No one is well equipped for a journey
without a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. In an
emergency its value cannot le estimat
ed. Sold by Dowty & Beeher.
Basques and bodices are generally be
ing lengthened to cover the hips more
deeply.
The nelleKt Mm ia Cola hi.
As well as the handsomest, and others
are invited to cull on Dr. A. Heintz and
get free a' trial bottle of Kemp's ttalsaui
for the Throat and Lungs, a remedy that
is selling entirely upon its merits and is
guaranteed to cure aud relieve all
Chronic and Acute Coughs, Asthma,
Bronchitis aud Consumption. Price 30
cents and $ I. DecXt-t
Those imported plush-lined India
shawl wraps only cost from S250 to STjOO.
Spldar Webs in Waahlngtou.
The use of electric light on public
buildings at Washington has led to a
great increase in the number of spiders
webs. The lights attract multitudes of
insects, and these in turn attract the
spiders. In many cases architectural
outlines have become badly obscured by I
be webs. Chicago Times.
A Story of Intense Interest, and a Most Important Con
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During and Suffering!
The Story of the Most Heroic and Tragic Episode of the Civil War.
SIL,ENDLDL,Y ILLUSTRATED?
A History of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862, embracing a full and accurate account of the Journey ia DiegtttM t
the Centre of the Confederacy, The Capture of a Railway Train, The Terrible Chase by the Enemy,
with the Subsequent History of the Leader and His Party.
By WILLIAM PITTENGER, A Member of the Expedition.
The aataor has consulted every available source of information, has gone repeatedly over the ground, explored the GoYenuaea ar
chives at Washington and files of Confederate newspapers, and obtained the assistance of survivors on both sides of the struggle. He is
thus able to present a vivid, impartial and perfectly authenticated picture of the most romantic event of the Civil War, thelall story of
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centre of the Confederacy, and have succeeded in the most daring enterprise of the
Civil War the capture of a crowded Jtailroad Train in the
midst of a Confederate Camp.
THE FOLLOWING QUOTATIONS SHOW THE CHARACTER OF THE RAID:
" The expedition in the daring of its conception, had the wildness of a romance; while in the gigantic and overwhelming results
it sought, and was likely to obtain, it was absolutely sublime." Judge-Advocate-General Holt's Official Report, from Official. War
Accords, Series L, VoL X., Part I., page C30.
" It was all the deepest laid scheme, and on the grandest scale, that ever emanated f rpm the brains of any number of Yankees com
bined." Thb Southern Confeckract (Atlanta, Ga.), April 15, 18&.
" Despite its tragic termination it shows what a handful of brave men could undertake in America.' Coiupte de Pari' HJ3T0BT
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