Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 May 1897 — Page 2

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TILE DALLY BANNER TIMES, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA,

FOR R^JYS AND GIRLS.

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SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS.

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They eieep Is Aatomu ■ * video haze. The iray leave*, twirkhr.z 1 a tb* fcreexe. Etlil to the 5"*-*: bra tie he* - T • The tr.*hte*t blcaeoKJ vf the rprlhr. Floirer* llr-r-r In ea-h * v *:tere1 r.'-ojc, Ar.d rtlll the cbe-erful *• r,r vf bird, A • I r 1 t - - t- ' * Throorb all the quiet rruvt* are beard.

ter be »»* bees ajipcih obtaic rob*.-

at. orptao aiy. .x. Oae pcblie-ep.rlted jrar bad g ve- the '.ao'i. ard bow they wiebed to ra:f* two t-hired thousand dollar* if possible for tbe boildths* - •. ' •• • ' ' ' ' devirr t: 4 if had already beta eonKilted ca the subject. "Te*,“ thooght I. “and I c-ie** ■-ha: * a:i ft win amount to‘” But he took the paper ani wrote tit hame. asd then he *aii.

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I coo’d e'ar'-ely believe cy ear*. ....... - - - * to a *’a*ure of grandeur before me, -• then 1 ahfs that ’be levs-n of the vp..t wifer* *r.*t |3 feqhe: wna to he tae ln.ua! of my future * access-—Ledger,

TO FOUND A NEGRO CITY.

CHOFIFLDS WORK.

GIRLS PLAN TRADES.

k'.n* tba.L eaunterthg.

bell of browse.

And '-b:-;:n? as be hide*

tlv

Wtere irorgec/u*ly.

toughs.

The c~-per clcthes

side*.

with

Cr.£h*'-E

the oak * gray

!n all the *k!**' end tiows! The g-Tlle * I'd a- -hi - 5 ‘s. HI* re*t Is la bis deep repvee.

How fr.lld the light How bal.-r.ily the ec Jtr mr ‘ ]*• * W A :■ -' . r. :

Thea, whisper* of the f- wlng air. Thiese w&ter* that In rr. ie;c fa!b These »•• . :.?e ie ate The Lcvt that k<-ep* ani h-sne* alb

Why II* Oort.

A profeseiona: gehtieraan. who was sctrutotted to take tls morning gla£*. stepped into a saloon, and going up to the tar called for whisky. A seedy Individual stepped up to his and said: “I say, ’squire, can’t you ask an un-

fortunate fellow to Join you’

He was annoyed by the can s famil-

iarity, and roughly told him

"I am not in the

with tramps.”

The tramp replied: "You need not be so cranky and high minded, my friend. I venture to say that I am of Just as good a family as you are, have just as good an education, and before I took to drink was just as respectable as you are. What is more, I always knew how to act the gentleman. Take my word for it, you stick to John Barleycorn and he will bring you to just the same place i

am.”

Struck with his words, the gentleman set down his glass and turned to look at him. His eyes were bloodshot, his face bloated, his boots mismated. his clothing filthy. "Then was it drinking that made you like thisT’ "Yes, It was, and it will bring you to the same if you stick to SL” Picking up his untouched glass, he poured the contents upon the floor and

said:

"Then It’s time I quit,” and left the saloon never to enter it again.—Class-

mate.

Act* That W*r* r*ef»L In old countries acts make very little trouble, further than getting into the cal- -box or the sugar barrel- But in the troj * th^y are often an abso-:.-e : . : . • Armies and destroy every*r.:ng in their way. And yet even these ants have their use-s Ac Australian explorer says in regard to them "In justice to the ants. I am bound, however to admit that I have found them useful :n more ways than one. * an ;■ ** skin rug from a native. I soon became pa-.nf ily aware of the fact that it literally swarmed with fleas and other vermin. In rain did I exhaust my stock of pepper. Even turpentine “• : • - n effe-t '*y'.nd increasing the reckless activity of these irritating settlers. "At last, in despair, I threw my rug down on an ant hilh In >~ than half an hour every Sea and objectionable parasite wav eaten, but the rug was full of ants. I therefore hung it on a mimosa bush, ani as soon as the ants found they were suspended they hastened to leave th** r:g and d-veended by the tush as best they could. ’ Again. I had k.iled a snake in Tasmania and wished to clean and bleach the sk« ‘-* - whi-:. I intended to have mounted as a necklace I -eft the body

hours

the

bones. The sun soon did the rest.”

habit of drinking near an ants' nest. In a fe

there was not a vestige of fiesh on

The ‘•Irk Kootbiark.

The rich men who build hospitals are not the only benevolent ones. The New York shoeblack of whom Dr. Talmage tells this story, showed a spirit

of sweet unselfishness:

"A reporter sat down on one of the city hall benches and whistled to one of the i-hiners The boy came up to his work provoklngly slow, and had Just begun, when a larger boy shoved him aside and began the work, and the reporter reproved him as being a bully, and the boy replied: "Oh, that’s all right. I am going to do It for '1m. You see he’s been sick In the hospital more n a month; so us boys turn in

and give ’im a lift.’

"'Do all the boys help him?’ asked

the reporter.

" ‘Yes, sir; when they ain’t got no job themselves and Jim gets one, they turn in and help ’im; for he ain’t strong yet, you see.' " ’How much percentage does he give youT asked the reporter. “The boy replied: T don’t keep none of It I ain’t no such sneak as that. All the boys give up what they get on his Job. I’d like to catch any feller sneaking on a sick boy, I would.' "The reporter gave h:m a twentyfive cent piece, and said, ‘You keep ten cents for yourself, and give the

rest to Jim.’

“ ‘Can’t do it, sir; It s his customer.

Here, Jim.’ ”

"It Pay*.**

The following instructive story is from the Gv :.g Gun. Several year* ago a young man in the interior of Iowa wanted to go into business. H« | had money to pay for part ef the good* mere on short time. The wholesale man he wished to buy of had the repi utaiicn of being a difficult man to deal with. He visited him and laid the ma*.*'r before him. "'Well,” said he. | “I shall have to consider that before giving you an answer, but let me offer >ou a drink,” pointing to a sideboard filled with the choicest selection j of wines and other liquors kept in h:» 1 private office. "No. thank you," gaid i the young man. “I never drink liquor? of any kind. ’ Tbe gentleman frowned ai d urged him to taste some especially nice w : ne. The young man replied: ‘T disi.k' very' much to offend you. sir, but I have promised my mother never under any » wine, have never broken my word to her. and cannot now.” "Young man,” said the merchant turning and embracing him to his great astonishment, "you

CvlorrU Mss'* ^tbrmr to BtksMlitst* * G ‘ 'rrz ~m Boom T crmzk. One of the most novel negro colun.ration schemes yet sprung Las crigii_»*ed right here in AtiAnta. The person at the head of it is no other than the well-known barber, politician and military captain. M ■*** Bentley, savs Atlanta Constitution. Beetley has his plans weli under war and he will tot take his emigrants to any fxraway place :b Africa or Literta. but wtli settle them In Georgia and will do so a: a stnaii cost to those who folic w. Bentley's scheme is unique in the fact that he will found a city exclusively for the negro He Is to hare the entire government conducted by the people of his own race—a negro mayor ani negro councllmen. negro policemen and. in fact, as there are to be no white people living w-.thin the city limits, every officeholder will be a negro. Then the laws are to be the work of negro mental labor. The : •theme of Bentley's is doubly interest- I Ing. as he contemplates resurrecting an , old Deserted Village," re-eetab.ish.ng the city which once ficuriihed nearly 100 year* ago and which has literally teen wiped off the face of the map. Thu was Scnbury. the city which was located on the Sun bury river, at Its ; month, in Liberty county, and on the ! •eacoasn In the year 1V.<i Sun bury was a south Georgia ’'boom town” and It quickly sprung into popularity, all the wealthy planters of that section going 1 there and building beautiful home*. In • c 1: - 000 inhabitants and was considered a model city. Ships came Into Its tar- ! tor and it was regarded as a cotnmer- j cial cen*er of no mean proportions. But ' suddenly Sun bury V-gan to decline. It | was sickly on account of malaria and j the people fied from the city as if a : plague had stricken the place. In a few years the spot was almost desert- : ed. And now only three or four huts mark the spot where on"* it flourished. Bentley u to build his model negro city on the site of old Sanbury. He Las ascertained that while the white people cannot stand the malaria of that district the miasma has no ill effecs i upon negroes. The land is rich and j can be bought cheap. It can be made a shipping point for tbe products of the country for many miles around, j Bentley has recorded all these pointa. ■'Yes," he said, "I have my plans well i under way. I have written to the par- I tie* owning the land where old Sun- | bury was once located and I expect to tear from them In a few day*. This

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SECRETS CONCERNING THE lor In<rr»*U>* Their loro me*. FRENCH IN MEXICO. There are three girls in town who have an idea of doing something for a

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EXERALJOHN M Schofield coetr.b-

to the Century chapter of secret

history relative to the withdrawal of French troops from Mexico. General Schofield was first asked to take command of Mexican troop* to fight the

French, but afterwards was given a pacific mission. Gen. Schofield say*: On August 23, 1W5, the secretary of war sent a letter to the secretary of state ■ accrediting me as an officer of the army, in which capacity, and unofficially. I was to be understood by the public a* visiting Europe. A copy of this letter. Inclosed In one from the state department, was sent to Mr Bigelow, United States minister at Pan*, and similar letters were sent to several other United States ministers in Europe. But time paese-d until Nor. 4. and thus more than two months elapsed before the secretary of state was ready for me to start fer Europe Mr. Seward then gave m* a confidential letter, dated Nov. 4. UK-5 addressed to Mr. Bigelow, and a letter of credit on the Barings and requested me to pro-

ceed on my mission.

In the letter to Mr. Bigelow he said: "Gen. Schofield proceeds to Paris. He is. I believe fully informed of the feelings and sentiments, not only of thi* government, but of the American people, I commend him to your confidence." etc. Mr. Seward explained to me several th:r.zs during this period of delay that correspocden'e then going on with the French government rendered it advisable that my visit be delayed until he should receive expected answers from that government. The Atlantic eabie did cot then exist, and hence correspondence across the ocean was necessarily slow. The expected dispatch—vix., that from the French

living, says a writer in Harper's Baxar It t* a perfect crane now among ycAir.g women who want to increase their incomes—or make incomes for themselve*. rather—to go to work, and wna. a blessed thing It U when they are capable of so doing. These gins re*tltied for a ieng time the net entity of some place where one cou.d sen^ a skirt to be freshly bound in a snort space of time. So they are thinking seriously of starting a skirt b:ndtng association. limited.” Their p.an is to take a room and commence ty tne—selves doing the work. They propose to send out cards to all their friends announcing that any sk.rt sent to teen will be cleaned brushed, reiaced and rebound for the smah sum of *1 and returned tbe same day. Fee instance, you send ycur skirt to them at > o c.x k in the morning, soiled, braid wem out and in a genersdiy disreputable condition. you may have it back again In time for the afternoon. What a boon it w.U be if they are able to carry out their intentions' Of ecuxse as •* always the rase in such ventures, a cer-ta-n amount of capital is necessary and the girls Jo not want to run any great rteks. not being sure of success. Even if they start with no workwoman to help them they must pay a month s rent in advance and employ a girl to fetch and carry for them. They need encouragement, and every ot-e '*bo know* them hope* they wtl get 1L Still another girl Is going into trade, or hope* to, rather. She lives in the country, not many mile* from town, ani she Is trying to induce her father to invest in an Incubator for her. and her great desire is to raise spring chickens for private sale. She is work.ng to get orders cow from her circle of acquaintances, and if she manage* to get enough to warrant a start perhaps she may be able to induce her father to buy an incubator for her. She wants orders from families to supply them twice a week, so ail her friends must be very fond of chicken or else she will not succeed. But who does not like really good spring chickens, if they are more than skin and bone? Incubator chickens are sad little things

HOW TO SAVE THE SEALS. Bacgrolon That > emalaa B* Branded bo a4 t.'* Spoil Their tilde*. Prof. David n'tarr Jordan, of Stanford university, has returned from Washington. D. C., where he ha* been ter the last three week# attending to matter* concerted with the fur sea! investigation. Prof. Jordan went to Washington to see that the Bering *ea fur seal investigation was properly carried over from one administration to the other, says the San Francisco Chronicle. He was the United States commisaicner in the Investigation mate last summer at the seal islands, and he is interested in seeing carried out his recommendation for the protection of the seal herd. He was accompanied on his trip by the secretary of the commission. George A. Clark, who is rise secretary of Stanford un.vers.ty. Wher asked about it Dr. Jordan said tha' steps would be taken by the new administration looking to a final settlement of the fur seal question on the basis of the investigation made las*, summer. He said: "Great Britain sent to the fur sea] islands a commission of her own. which, in connection with tbe American ccmaiss.on. has tboroughiy investigated the condition of the sea. herd. This commission agreed in all matters of fact with the findings of the American commission. Their report. however, has not yet been published. Tbe only possible settlement of tbe fur seal question hes in tbe total prohibition of pelagic sealing Great Britain will, therefore, doubt less Pe asked to unite with the United State* In some equitable arrangement whereby killing of female* a: sea can be dene away with. I: is believed that Great Britain wii: not refuse to un.te with us in taking steps to preserve tie fur seals However, in case she should refuse to make any fair arrangement, the United State* will be prepared to take the matter in its own hands and protect its own interests by aggressive measure* Steps will i—ned.atesy be taken to brand the female seals in such a way as to destroy the value of their skins and also to protect the males by herding them in the salt lagoon cn St. Pa J Island during the sealing seasen. Practical experiments made last summer have demits:rated the feasibility of these two measure* and their effect will be ic put an end to the business ;f yc lagi: seal-ng

MYSTEBY OF GENIUS

SURELY JOHANNA AMBROSlNs OF PRUSSIA IS ONE.

For Tear* ‘•he Never bmw % * , * w *p»p*f — A *Uve to ihe Mo#t ObJe< :ln n4l>l< Farm Dradgerj—^be Become* * p 0ft At 4a- Lm^eror FWA*e<L ORTT years ago, [jI a tiny village c:| Northern Prussia lived a little gin named Jo h a n a j Amtroeins. So poo:;' were her parent that the child s cradle was rocked by the waterfall, by j curious native device of a wheel at*j tached to the rocker, while the mother | toiled on the slope, carrying soil to th»| naked rocks. Johanna mended heria- J ther’s nets in winter, oiled his great! boots so that he could stand In the icy I water to fish, dug the potatoes, cut the! scanty wheat, gathered pine need.eg to! fill the beds, sheared the sheep, and spun until her hands were bleeding. A: sixteen she went out to service in oththere’ fields, and at twenty married a poor peasant lad who had loved he: from chllhood. Until very recently she i regularly swung the flail on the thresh- ,, ing floor, mowed the hay with a scythe, and bound the sheaves in time of har* . vests. For twelve years after her mar-il riage, so stern was her poverty, she \ never saw a newspaper or a book, thei things which above all else she craved Uncomplainingly, however she en- ' dared her hard lot, and from the darkness rose—a poet. A special mes.-enge: wa» lately sent by the Empress of Garmany to find this unknown writer ol newspaper verses which had so moved her. He travelled in the dead of winter toward the Russian border w J

INDIA.

is no wildcat scheme. I mean business and I already see the money in sight for the preliminary work. I have had this in my mind for several years. I wish to show the world what the negro of the south can do toward self government. I want to say right here that we will have no worthless negroes in our new city. They have got to be industrious and of good character. I expect to have a city of 5,000 people in \ few years from now.”

A MONSTER BELL.

it * the

That It

in the World

In Kinging Order.

On the principle that a living dog is : better than a dead lion, a bell that is j whole should be better than one that is cracked, even though the latter be the bigger of the two. For some time past there has been a sort of dead-heat | between the two biggest bells in the world, the one at the cathedral in Mos0411 cow, and tbe other at the unfinished

have all the goods you wish, and need pa g 0 da of Mengoon, a little north of pay no money down if it is not con* [ Mandalay, if • . f rmer was the big-

venient.” It pays.

A Merry IlT^ning Game.

One of the merriest of merry evening games goes by the name of "Mummies.” All the boys and girls, excepting four or five, leave the room. Two

of those remaining act as dressers. I bell, in working order, in the world.

ger of the two, it was cracked, and | therefore useless as a bell, while the j latter, though whole, had dragged its ' supports down till It rested on the ground, and would not emit any sound, i Now. however, it has been reswung, ' and can claim attention as the biggest

They place the others in chairs and put over the head of each a tall newspaper cap. with holes cut in it through which the eyes may be seen. Cover the dresses of the three mummies with sheets, so that they will not reveal the owner. Now call in the other boys and girls and set them to trying to find out who each of the mummies is by peeping through the eyeholes. This causes great laughter and fun. After the party is all agreed as to who is who remove the papers and see how many mistakes have been made. This game is almost as much fun for grown people

as it is for children.

In 16&6 the Burmese community decided to have the bell raised, and employed the Irrawaddy Flotilla company, limited, to do the work. The work has been successfully accomplished. The bell hangs on a large steel girder, with

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The Split Wafers.

A mar. who now stands high in the mercantile community related to me the following little Incident of his early life: “At the age of sixteen 1 entered the store of Silas Sturdevant as a clerk. One day shortly after my Installment into the office, 1 was employed In sealing and superscribing a lot of business circulars—several hundred of them. That wae long before the day of gluten, and I used small red wafers for securing the missive*. \\ hilc I was thus busy Mr. Sturdevant came into the counting room; and when I observed that he was watch-

That Altered the Ca*e. Cf the late French Senator Renaud, the Kolni&che Zeltung tells the following anecdote: When Renaud first came as senator to Pans from his home in the Pyrenees, he engaged a room at a hotel and paid a month's rent—one hundred and fifty francs—in advance. The proprietor asked him if he would have a receipt. “It is not necessary," replied Ronaud, ‘ God has witnessed the payment.” "Do you believe in God?” sneered the host. "Most assuredly,” replied Renaud; "don’t you?” "Not I. monsieur.” "Ah.” said the senator, “in that case please make me out a receipt.”—Sel.

An Anti-1 **a>ale Land.

Rfliz.V'o Gr»«rA ta Florida. Experiment* in Flirida ami Louisiina have stem that bamboo will grow in those state* almost as well as in the hotter countries. Around Fort Myers there are bimtoos that have attained to a height of fifty or sixty feet. They are of a variety which usually grows to about seventy feet in India. In Orange county there is one clump if bamboos, said to be only ten years aid, in which the stalks have attained to the height of sixty-five feet, the stalks averaging thirteen inches in circumference. There are eighty staiks .n the clump. This particular clump s of a variety from Bengal, where the wood is used fer building purposes tnd for light spar vessels.

Some Btlated Snow “torie*. So heavy were the snow drifts in Sargent county. S. D.. that it is said i farmer of Harlem township added thirty-five feet of tubing to his wellpipe in order to raise water above the snow. A hotel proprietor. Z. O. Paten. had to build a barbed wire fence tround the rocf of his barn to keep away stray stock, a horse having one lay crashed through the roof while walking over what appeared to be a snow-covered hill. Sidney Mullen claims to have dug thirteen feet into x drift to get at the top of his windmill.

JOHANNA AMBROSIU3 last, in a house of a forlorn village,* he found the genius all Germany todayA seeks to honor. A woman of forty, buifl bent and worn to sixty, the narrato:H tells us. lay outside the cover of a poc:H bed. the fever of pneumonia a penciiH and some margins of nespaper. a pape:H bought through incredible sacriSees-H the Christmas candle, the last fish uk-fl en from the river, the last drop of BiUjI from the cow. She was at once su:H rounded by comforts and brought ba 1 from death, though not remove : ft fl •he home of her sufferings and triamjt J

The above illustration is a big chestnut tree of India, showing the form in which It naturally grows, when untouched by the pruning knife. It will be noticed that the branches shape themselves into the form of an ovoid. Sometimes it is nearly in the shape of a ball—Farmers' Review.

Tortured an Old Woman. Two white men and a negro tortured Mrs. Anna Beaman, aged 75. of Decatur. 111., into giving up S70«, a few nights since. They threatened burning and offered all manner of indignities during the four hours the burglars vere in the house.

From one spot in the Grecian Archi-

Ing me I worked the best I could, hop- pdago woman is absolutely excluded.

By

Ing to get a word of approbation,

ana by he spoke to me.

"Young man, don't you think half & wafer would secure one of those circulars Just as well as a whole one?” I looked up, probably exhibiting as

much disgust as surprise.

"If you split your wafers,” he added, "you will acc omplish ail you desire and at the same time make a saving

It is said that as far back as history reaches it has been forbidden ground to all females. This bachelors’ Arcadia is situated on a bold plateau between the old peninsula of Acte and the mainland. Here, in the midst ol cultivated fields and extensive woodlands. dwells a monastic confederation of ('.reek Christians, with twenty-three convents, and numbering more than 7,000 souls. A few soldiers guard the

of Just one-half."

He turned av, ay, and while I was border of this anti-female land, and no thinking what a mean old wafer-spilt- \ woman is allowed to cross the frontier.

THE BELL. AS IT HANGS, a distributing girder on the top of it, and the main girder rests on two large iron columns, 25 feet high, which rest on concrete foundations. The bell swings, with its lower rim about three feet from the ground. The weight is about €8 tons, the circumference at the base being Sl’/fc and at the top 26 feet. It averages over a foot in thickness. The bell itself is over 12 feet high, and the shackle, which was intended for logs of timber, about 12 feet. The pin in the shackle has a diameter of 18 inches. The bell was cast about the beginning of the century by King Bodawpaya as an accompaniment to the huge brick pagoda which he never finished.

foreign office to their minister at Washington. dated Oct. 18. 1*65, and communicated to Mr. Seward on the 29th of the same month—was no more satisfactory'. though in better tone, than those which had preceded. In effect it demanded a recognition by the United States of the government of Maximilian in Mexico as a condition precedent to

the recall of the French army. The time had evidently arrived when

Napoleon must be informed in language which could not be misunderstood what was the real sentiment of the government and people of the United States on the Mexican question. It was difficult. perhaps Impossible, to express that sentiment in official diplomatic language that an emperor could afford

though. However, they may taste Just as good.

Fatal Fnlerat'a Bite. Loga Duffy, 16 years of age. of St. Croix, Ind.. is at death's door with nc chance of recovery caused by a polecat's bite. His body is twice norma! size.—Ex.

Captnrpci a hat-

"What is it” is the first question asked by any person who views the queer animal caught in the Columbia river in Washington recently. "That's just wfcat it is—a w hat-5s-it,” is the invariable reply. This strange creature rose to a hook just like a fish and was landed after much trouble. It had the head of turtle, the body of a fish, the tail of a giant lobster, and the flippers of a seal. What is perhaps most extraordinary is the heavy coat of black fur upon the body. This fur resembles more than anything else tbe coat of a black cat. The thing had

to receive from a friendly power. It | OI a 1JlacK tntng bad nc was therefore desirable that the disa- teeth, but its Jaws were strong as any

greeable information be conveyed to turtle s. Napoleon in a way which would com-

mand his full credence, and which he Frichtraiiy tniurky. yet need not regard as offensive. Mr. | For those who believe in the fatali- |

SiiVHK^nr. Civilization is doing all It can to get the savage out of men, to refine and beautify human nature, and to make the body of a man a worthier tenement for the divine aplrlt that created it.— Rev. Walter Calley.

Seward's explanation and instructions

to me. after several long conversations j can quarter-dollar

on this subject, were summed up in the words: “I want you to get your legs under Napoleon's mahogany, and tel! hiij that he must get out of Mexico.”

ty* of the number thirteen, the Ameri-

1s about the most

Exclamatory. Miss Mobile—“Well, Martha, how is your husband now?” Martha—’’Po'ly, miss, po’ly*. He's got that exclamatory rheumatism.” Miss Mobile—"Y’ou mean inflammatory rheumatism, Marthat. “ Exclamatory’ is to cry out.” Martha (with solemn conviction)— ‘‘That's It, mum, that’s it! He don’t do nothing but holler.”—Northern Christian Advocate.

unlucky article they can carry on their persons. On this coin there are thir- i teen stars, thirteen letters in the scroll - which the eagle holds in its claws, j thirteen feathers compose its wings. ! thirteen feathers are iu its tail, there j are thirteen parallel line* on the ;

shield, thirteen horizontal stripes, thir- °* P ara( ' ise P' llme has not yet reached teen arrowheads, and thirteen letters in a P r!ce 'hat will permit of its getting

the word ‘’quarter-dollar.” i common

To feel a sense of utter helplessness

JUST FOR WOMEN. The furnace fire is being snubbed gradually. The magnolia trees look like giant snowballs. No one ever thinks your pen quite good enough for them. Robin’s egg blue stationery is being used in preference to violet, so long

popular.

The most casual church-goer made yesterday remarkable by strict attention to religious duties. Your umbrella may seem a burden in the morning, but it is frequently* a joyous friend before night. It seems as though borrowing had reached the limit when a neighbor comes after your sewing machine. A skirt that bags well and a shirt waist made by a tailor combine correctly. according to the summer girl's

notion.

A woman who goes about with her hair in curl papers has no reason for wondering why her husband wants a

divorce.

There is one thing certain, the bird

Gladstone as a Linguist. Gladstone, Justin McCarthy writes had a profound sympathy with lulya strong passion for Italy—very muc:! like the passion which Byron had ! *' Greece. He loved the language tiv<j literature, the country*, and the pee: He spoke Italian with marveloi% fluency and accuracy. An emine: Italian told me once that Gladstos* J when speaking Italian, fell quits na: urally into the very movement a: gestures of an Italian. If Glads: ne. i! said, were to address the repr*s-J live chamber in Rome, every one pre-*.. , ent would take him for an Italian-! only it was possible that the usa jB might think he was a Roman, and thjg the Roman would set him down a.= §j Tuscan. Whenever he needed rest : almost always sought it under th* sk. ; a! of Italy. Gladstone spoke Fren h * perfect fluency, but with a very mark?! accent. Indeed, his speeches in '.bfl house of commons were always del ered with an accent which told unmdl takably of the "North Countrre Fro:, 5 * his forbears he got the tones of S I land; and then Lancashire has a tinct accent all to herself. I haTeil strong impression that some at least! the influence of Gladstone’s fin*' speeches in the house of common^ would have been a little marred if tbe: had been delivered in the comm?: place accent of West End London ; city.

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Fortune* of ItrltUh ArtUte.

The greatest fortune ever made b) H British artist in the exercise of i | profession was that of Sir Ed*! Lanseer, who died in 1873. His p?! sonalty amounted to £160.000, and contents of his studio were sold auction, shortly after his death. f« an additional £60.000, of £70,000. » Edwin Armitage, R. A., who died year or so ago. was still wealthier, bs I his fortune of £318,000 was not i 1 rived from the sale of his pictures. Ki had large private means, and his pi fessional income was comparative!' small. Mr. Edwin Long, who died-U 1891, left £74.000, and Sir Josef! Boehm, the sculptor, £47,276. AnotW rich sculptor was Sir Francis Chantre! who bequeathed £100,000 to the RoP Academy for the purchase of mode: works of art. Turner left £140,0>? Of those living, Sir Edwin-Burn? Jones is supposed to earn a larger it come than any other British artU ; There are wealthier painters, such a ' Mr. Yal Prinsep, but their fortunes atderived from private sources. The i“ come earned by the late Sir John Mi ' lais at one period exceeded £20,000 ^

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