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A curious fact concerning the. festiv
ities over the coronation of the czar
ii the enormous Impetus given to the
manufacture of paste gems. Russians,
It appears, even of rank and status,
are prone to the weakness known as
kleptomania, and wise women prepared
for possible loss by substituting sham
jewels for real. A pageant and display
such as has been described must in
evitably call for the wearing of such
gems as are seldom seen. It Is rather
amusing to learn that much of the
splsndor is pretense and that, too, be
cause the grand dames do not dare
trust their treasures In a crush, even
though the crowd be composed of their
own kind. Among the Muscovites, how
ever, the sin Is said to be held a trifling
one, and the story is told that one lady
of high rank was caught appropriating
her cousin's emeralds, and that the vic
tim declined to prosecute, merely say
ing: "Poor Sophie! It is a very paln
ul and nervous disorder." New York
Journal.
A Spcalclnc Jicn.
A well-known club woman the jther
day went to her dressmaker to order a
. gown. The woman asked at once:
"Shall you wear It to the club meet
ings?" The reply was in the affirma
tive. "And to make speeches in?"
was the next question. Again she
said yes. "Then I must have it
trimmed accordingly," said the dress-
maker. " "It will be ered closely and
for long periodB of time at once by
'women at leisure to observe. Such
gown must be absolutely perfect."
An BngtUh Slap at lbs Dutch.
The Boers are no doubt puffed ay
with their constant good luck when re
sisting BritiBh attacks, but they must
be well aware that they have nothing
to gain by war and that their position
just as it is Is one of the aost fortunate
In history. At least, we can recall no
other republic In which every man was
for his wants well off. in which all
taxes'were paid by foreign Immigrants
and foreign toil and in which the whole
community, without ever submitting
to a conscription or entering a barrack,
had acquired a high military reputa
tion. Wo cannot believe that these ad
vantages will be willfully thrown away
and do not see wherein, if peace is
maintained for the next ten years,
Great Britain will suffer except from a
few taunts, and what do taunts .matter,
to a people with our history?
If it amuses Dirck Cloete to consider
John Bull cowardly cf soft, let him
consider it; hcwill reconsider that opin
ion before the end arrives. England la
not in a hurry if the capitalists are. She
survived Napoleon and she will survive
Krueger, not to mention the very mem
ory that there ever was a Dutchman
between the Zambesi and the Cape.
What proportion of all those who can
read now know that New York was
once a possession and a settlement ol
the Dutch?" Thr Spectator
Legend of the OpaL
There is an ancient legend that saya
a woman's living heart was once im
prisoned in a milk-white stone, and the
throb of its passion and Its pain shone
through the half-opaque surface, and
Bade It dart and flash, and flutter with
Came color, and rose and violet and
goldeu tints. Sometimes it beat high
with hope, and the surface was radiant
with light; frequently sorrow oppressed
It, and its rays were fainter and let-s
glowing. There seems no more beau
tiful or more fitting association for
the lovely opal to have. It almost has
life in its center, and no matter how
small the stone if it be of pure origin
the colors are as perfect and as vary
ing as J larger specimens.
Or Head Them to Blind Aaylam.
"I think," said the statesman who
didn't have any great hopes, anyway,
"that it would be a good plan to make
these here campaign buttons of mine
with eyes to 'en, so that ef the demand
to smaller than the supply I kin sell
'sa te some overhauls factory or some
thing of that klndVItilABkfttfte
Journal.
It the armties ef Earepe skeaii
starch at am eight-mile gait. Its
abreast tfteea laches apart it weald
reaalre Bine and one-half days for
them to pass a given point
t-lly Frrncli Town.
The record for quickly increasing
population, as shown by the recent
census, says a Paris correspondent,
certanly belongs to Roubaix. In 1800
the population of this town was 8,302;
at the taking of the last census it was
114,917, of which 53,075 were Belgians.
Of this increase 61,600 were Immi
grants, while the remaining 53,075 were
due to the excess of births over deaths.
There is certainly no other town in
France where the population has In
creased so rapidly. The rate of in
crease is ten times that of the rest of
France and three times that of Paris.
Young-eat School Teacher.
The youngest school teacher In the
United States is 11 years old. At the
examination he secured a first-grade
certificate and finished his papers be
fore many of the older teachers. His
name is Marion Glasgow, and of course
ho IIvpb In Ohin
No Wonder It'a a Crase.
The silver question, as it 1b under
stood in some parts of Kentucky, is
graphically illustrated by a letter
which one of the statesmen at the cap
itol received from a correspondent In
that state. It appears from this epis
tolary evidence that a controversy was
"being waged between a sound-money
man and a silver champion. The gold
man thought he had the best of the
argument He asked his adversary why
he thought that the free coinage of sil
ver would make times better.
"Simply because It would put more
money In circulation," 6ald the white
metal crank.
"But how will It put more money in
circulation? " demanded the gold man.
"How?" aBked the silver man, with a
smile of contempt at his opponent
"How? Why, you blamed fool, if you
can take one gold dollar to the treas
ury and get sixteen dollars for It, won't
that increase the circulation?" Pitts
burg Disp'sitii.
ft Wn Too Ha.
Walter Savage Landor, though he
often handled his fellow-men some
what roughly, hated to see an old trco
felled and even shrink from plucking
a rose. One morning he collared his
man cook and flung him out of the
window. Then, suddenly remembering
on what "bed" in the garden the man
would fall, the -flower-loving Landor
exclaimed: "Good heavens! I forgot tha
.! wJnlotot"
Repettlnz Klflr.
The kins of Denmark's "r.ort of new
Invented guns, which bei: ; but once
charged will discharge many times, one
after another," in 1657, would seem to
have had rivals about the same period.
Pepys twice refers to such. On July 3,
1662, when "at the Dolphin with the
officers of the ordnance, after dinner
was brought to Sir. W. Coaipton a gun
to discharge seven times, the best of
all devices that ever I saw and very
serviceable, and not a bawble, for it Is
much approved of, and many thereof
made." And on March 4, 1663-4, he
mentioned "a new fashion gun to shoot
often, one after another." Notes and
Queries.
The Baseball l'ltcher.
The famous base ball pitcher had
walked the floor with the youngest of
his family for an hour or so. "Mary,"
said he, "If the manager saw me tow,
I bet I'd get soaked with a fine."
"Why?" asked the wife, Bleeplly.
"I don't seem to have any control of
the bawl at all, I don't"
Foresight.
"I think," said the statesman, who
didn't have any great hopes any way,
"that It would be a good plan to make
these here campaign buttons of mine
with eyes to 'em so that- If the demand
Is smaller than the supply, I kin sell
'em to some overalls factory or some
thing of the kind."
la That Uar
Shade of the Period "In your day,
M I understand it there was no glorl
ou death except In battle." Shade of
Achilles "That is substantially cor
rect They did not operate for appen
dicitis them." Detroit Tribune.
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