Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — Page 5

FANCIES OF FASHION.

ACTRESSES RARELY ORIGINATE MODES. The Widespread Notion that Fashions Are Set by Popular FootUght Favorites Is an Erroneous One —No Marked Changes In Style for This Season. Some of the Latest.

HERE is a widespread not’ou, writes our New York correspondent. that actresses set the fashions, and it is an erroneous one. While it may be true that an actress of strong personality and real 1 genius may now and th e n devise some novelty in female toggery that willtake the public eye and attain a certain degree cff modishness, yet, . as a rule, the actresses of our leading theatres have other things to think of than devising or inventing new costumes. This reputation that actresses have as the originators of modes comes from the fact that changes of modes first make their ap-

pearance on the starts. The actress of to day courts notoriety and public attlbn, and what better way than to apply to some well-known designer of costumos for a novelty in apparel when the is about to assume a new role? No; actresses very rarely originate mode-', but actresses very frequently are the animated frames upon which designers hang their creations in order to try the effect of them on the pub.ic. And it’s a good scheme, too To turn from generals to particulars, I think I hear you ask, as the stockbroker does concerning, the market: Well, how do modes stand to-day? My reply is that I don’t note any marked change. There’s a fall in those lofty sleeves, which have held their own for so long. Skirts are Still quoted as q«t bias, close and tight-fitting at the top, and full at the bottom w.th large so ds. There is not the same demand for caboching; their popularity hat a downward tendency. As a prime favorite, I might quote moire antiques in dull colors, either in satin stripes or with floral figures. For dinner dresses straw color, sea-green, silver gray, Parma violet on black ground are great favorites. Rough-surfaced plushes and velvets are much worn In making up these materials, you use no skirt foundation but line it with flannel and thin silk to give it more body. Velvet appliques promise to be very modish trimming for evening costumes, either plain or open-work

SILK AND CLOTH VISITING DRESS.

over tulle and sown with jet, the effect of which so used is altogether charming. Velvet, too, will enter largely int> the makeup of cloth dresses. For instance, if you will observe the costume which figures in my initial illustration, you will see what I mean. Here is a very stylish gown in suede colored cloth, the deep cuffs and collar being of dark velvet, producing a very pleasing effect ( ne of tho handsomest of these cloth and si k gowns that have come to ray notice is the one which I set before you in my second illustration, an altogether refined and stylish garment fittod for calling and afternoon reeeption purposes Let me ( escr be it for you. The cress is a gray vicuna cloth and has small pleated panels of plaid silk, silk skirt foundation wit'i a false hem and a drawing-s ring, the skirt being plain in front and fan pleated at tho back. The pleating of the panels grows finer toward the top. The cor age has basques in man’s dress e. at style, without anv trimming The fronts of the lining h ok in\he middle, and they are covered with a full gathered pla iron of the silk. The corselet starts from the sides of the ccrsage and is so laced as to disp'ay the p astron below It; leg-o’-muttoa sleeves and straight col ar of the si.k. lou may, if your fancy so dictates, make up this dress in black or brown materltfL In my third Hlust-aCon you’ll find another very pretty silk and cloth combination costume for a young person. The color of tho cloth is quite a matter of taste, while the. blouse should be < ither iu foulard or pongee. The dress is made up princess style, tho corselet

GIRL'S SCHOOL DRESS.

lacing in front over some thin lining. It closes either with books or pearl buttons on a band of the same mat -rial. If you use hooks, you must make two small pleats to conceal ihe opening. The straight collar is set off witjj a bow

made of the silk. The skirt foundation has a small run o at the bottom. Tho front breadth, which extends only to tho waist line, is bias on both sides and has a small hem which conceals the seam The front of the corselet is boned its full length. It runs somewhat to a point at the back and is piped. A very pretty color to choose for this dress would be case au lait, with a straw-col-ored blouse.

Before leaving this subject, of woolen stuffs. I might say that the dress materials most in vogue have broad stripes in light tones, plaids in two shades, spotted effects or large or small flowers in relief. Swanskins, plain or striped, and printed flannels are much used for wrappers and morning negligees. Trains hold their places very obstinately, varying in length according to the hour of the day and the style of the costume. For walking dresses the skirt grazes the ground and the wearer is expected to display her grace in lifting it by laying hold of the back folds. Harmonious combinations of colors show the artistic taste of the wearer, and are now-a-days the touchstone of real style For instance, steel-gray and eggplant purple go well together, and so do dove-color and wood-brown, mouse-gray and silver, ash-gray and steel, iron gray and steel, gray and heliotrope, gray and green, beige and cream, Nile green and moss-

GRAY FELT.

greon, lilac and plum color, heliotropo and gold, pansy and mauve, eggplant and ivory, pansy and white, lavender and Van Dyke brown, reddish-brown and coral, straw, chamois, light blue: corn and copper, blue and black, hussar-blue and silvor. cornflower blue and moss gre:n, daik-blue and cream, marine and yellow, sapphire and silver, turquoisebluo and white, pale blue and gold, sweet-flag-green and pink, emerald-green and white, green and gold, pink and garnet, wood brown and silver, cream and gooseberry, putty and white, cherry and gooseberry with pearl-gray, glycine, pale-blue and gold. As for-tho ribbons used for hat trimming, I may say that they run in every color of the rainbow and still keep in delicate tones, forming most pleasing effects. Nothing could be more stylish than those tiny capotes in colored chenille without any other garniture than a large velvet tow set in a crumpled crest-like fashion in front, with broad strings in the same color. I have two stylish bits of modish headgear to set before you. The first one, which is pictured in my fourth illustration, is a light-gray fe t edged with black vehot turned sharply up at the back and trimmed with a bow of light-gray ribbon brocadea with pink, the ends of which are brought around to tho frontandhide tho crown The other is a very elegant hat in coral velvet and black passementerie. 1 should add that the small theater hats are made up of bright, sparkling material. All capotes have strings rather broad and long. In one instance I saw that instead of the bow tied* in the middle there was a bunch of ribbon on one side and from it there were hanging two long ribbons quite to the knee Round i ats are certainly smaller. One of the most stylish and striking shapes is the Marquis. It is in bir.ck velvet, has a fine feather border and is set off bv a tail tuft of feathers, and at the back there are two bunches

A FASHIONABLE HAT.

of bright-colored satin ribbon standing out In 1 old relief. One of the prett’est visiting costumes that I have seen this season was made up in reddish-brown a very modish color—and the skirt and cuffs were bordered with black fox There was a sort of tigaro jacket corsage, gathered all tho way down the front and opening on a plastron of white peau de so'e, of which the standing co lar vas made. I have noticed that it is quite a <omir.on thing this season to make up underskirts in black taille or inervellleux, garnitured w.th acc founces or ruches or bias bands of velvet An old fashion has been revived for young misses, namely, thb use of r bbons tied aro nd the neck necklace like. The tying is done ou the sdo In full knot It I s quite tin thing to it your tailor made with a loose cape of the same materia.', which may or may not be r chly embroidered. As 1 have alreadv warned you, don’t overdo this cabochon garniture It is not near so modish as it was. The bell skirt will no doubt hold its place very effectually. It should, in all cases, be lined with a glace silk, and not made up on a foundation. In this way you can keep it light in weight and easy to pick up on ihe street, tor walking dresses, twee s and .-erges will be popular, altho .gh thick cashmeres, vicunas, and camel shair will divide the honors. Ir m them all With velvet appli jnes, passemen terios, or braid. Now and then there is a feeble protest against the trained skirt for wa.king dresses, but 1 see no signs of its being modified or disappearing. The effect is gracefu , and for the nonce wo must sacrifice tho practical to the beauUMl

THE CARPET INDUSTRY.

DISASTROUS EFFECTS OF THE M’KINLEY TARIFF. Brilliant Promises End in Failure—Wage Reductions—BiU McKinley and His BUI —Wages and Profits—Tariff Shot, Etc. What Carpet Men Think. According to their own admissions the carpet manufacturers raised a fund of $300,000 to assist in the election of Benjamin Harrison to the Presidency. In return for this benevolence thoy wore promised additional protection. Some of them wanted free wool, others lower duties on carpet wools which are not raised in this country, and all wene In favor of higher duties on carpets. A fact which in part explains their desire for higher duties was this, that at that time they wero making arrangements to form a cast-iron agreement to limit production and raise prices, and in this way get back from consumers the money they had raised for campaign purposes. Those who asked for lower duties on carpet wools were disappointed, for the duties on larpet wools wore raised so high and such onerous restrictions were imposed on their importation that many kinds could no longer be imported In this way the cost of the materials used in carpet manufacture was largely increased. McKinley, however, granted the carpet men a liberal advance In duties on their products, the purpose of which was to give them lull control of the home market

Now, what lias been tho result? The carpet manufacturers have been forced to pay higher prices for their wool, all of which has to be Imported. As a result, they had to raise the prices of their carpets. The people refused to pay these advanced prices, preferring to follow the advice of Jay Gould to the farmers and workmon in regard to their clothing, “to get a ong with one suit where they would otherwise have two." The old carpets wero left on tho floors. The result of this is that one of the largest carpet firm* in the country, that of Alexander Smith <ft Sons, has been forced to sell its sto.'k of over $2,000,000 at auction at what it will bring. At the opening of the sale Walter W. Law, the sellers’ representative, said to the gentlemen of. the carpet trade: “The Alexander Smith <ft Sons’ Carpet Company offer you to day an unparalleled opportunity for supplying yourselves with their fabrics at your , own price. Wo have no hesitation whatever in inviting you to put your own value upon every piece wo have in sto k, ex- ( epting only the few patterns which wo have prepared for tho spring of 1892. With the removal of these accumulations, the only serous problem with which carpet manufacturers will have to (ontend is the high -price of wool caused by the McKinley bill and tho still more severe interpretation of its moaning by the Treasury Department. Remember, nigh prices for wool, mean high cost to manufacture carpets. Gentlemen, this is your day, ours wi 1 come later.” Nor are Alexander Smith & Sons alone in showing the blighting effects of the McKinley tariff on tho carpet industry. The actual situation could not bo shown bettor or clearer than does the following from Mr. Arthur T. Lyman, tho Treasurer of the Lowell Carpet Company, the largest establishment in Now England. Mr. Lyman said: “That the McKfn ey bill increased tho cost of carpets; that the prices of carpets wero increased in consequence of the McKinley bill; that they would not have advanced if the McKinley bill had not been passed.: and that if wool had been made free tho cost and prices of carpets would have gone down are facts that cannot bo disputed by anyone who understands the carpet manufacture and trade and its conditions in 1890 and 1891. * In every industry there aro four classes of persons interested: (1.) The producers of raw material. (2.) The manufacturers (3.) The consumers of the manufactured articles. (4.) The workmen emplojed in turning the materials into finished product- 1 . The McKinley tariff on carpets has certainly not been of any benefit to the first class in this country, for no carpet wool is grown, or would be grown, here under any tariff. Instead of benefitingths manufacturers, it has positively injured them as their own testimony shows. The third class, composed of the consumers of carpets, did notask for increased duties, but resented the enforced increase in the price of carpets by refusing to pay it No one would claim in View of this that thoy have been benefited by the tariff. And, finally, have the workmen employed in spinning the yarn and weaving the carpets been benefited by the McKinley tariff? Have more workmen secured employ me t? Have wages been raised? The answer to both questions is the same. There is no evidence of a >y increase in wages or opportunities for work. On the contrary, wages have been cut down. When Alexander Smith & Sons had finished their auct’on sale, they went back to tneir factories and told their workmen that the mo i myst accept a cut 1 1 their wages or the Works would bo shut down. The me.i preferred the former, and were reduced, No interest therefore, has been benefited by the McKinley tariff on carpet wools and carpets. Why, then, should it stand, sin e it works nothing but Injury to all concer ed?

The Glassware Industry.

Just as in its effect on the wages of workmen, on the prices of the finished products and on trus.s in other industries, the McKinley tariff is rapidly vindicating itself in the glassware industry. We have shown how the manufacturers of g ass ware took adiantage of tho increased duties and formed a trust under the name of the Unit d Btates Glass Company last duly; how this trust promised not to raise prices, but (mined ately did so, and at the same time threw manv workmen out of employment, and now comes tho announcement of another reduction in wages. The Crockery and jlass Journal publishes the following: “A dispatch from Anderson, Ind., Nov. I<>, sa-a* - : The glass-blowers employed at the Pennsylvania Glass Works, which has been considered o e of the most prosperous in the city, struck this morning and walked out of the factory because tho Board of Directors at its meeting yesterday ordered a reduction of 25 per cent, in iheir wages. The company is a co-operative and non-union factory, and last year.pal t a dividend of 61 per cent. The clai n made by the management is that the pre ent state of the glass market comp is this step. Tho men didn't see it that way, so th»y quit. The works are now deserted, but the managemc t will endeavor to replace the strikers witli new men.” Surelv the editors of the New York Press, the higli tav tariff organ of New York, were right when they said some time ago t' at the McKinley tariff was passed to make profits b g. WmiK in Fall Elver the writer has learned one thing about the wages of cotton operatives that m ist be interesting to the public in general. An old English weaver, who lias been several times across the ocean, has Just returned from Burnley, England, one of tho great

weaving centers. He says that a weavel working fifty-four hours per week in that town makes 612 yards of cloth, for which be receives $7.04, or £1 9s. per week. The same weaver in Fall River has to run eight loom machines instead of four, as in England, sixty hours a week, and weaves 2.304 yards for a little more than $9. In other words, nearly four times as much work is done m this city for one quarter more per week. To add to this difference, every weaver in England is allowed a helper.—New York Times.

Tariff Shot.

The period from 1846 to 1861 is the one to wh ch the high tariftitesof to-day refer as our “free trade” period. They do this because the tariffs during, this period were revenue tariffs, the operation of which put a 1 producers on a plane of equality and gave special privileges to nono. Tho farmers therefore got the full value for all of their products, while the manufacturers were unable to combin * and could not therefore exact a tariff bonus ftom the tarmors. In speaking of this period. Mr. Blaine says, In his “Twenty Years of Congress:” “The principles embodied in the tariff of 1846 seemed for the time to be so entirely vindicated and approved that resistance to it ceased, not only among the people but among tho protective economists, and even among the manufacturers to a largo extent. So genoral was this acquiscencc that In 1856 a protective tariff was not suggested or even hinted by any one of the three parties which presented Presidential candidates. ”

Tho reason why the people, especially tho farmers, wore satisfied with the tariffs of 1846 and 1857 was because they got tho full value of their products. The reason why thoy are not satisfied now is because they do not get the full value of their corn, wheat, oats and other produce. From 1847 to 1861 tho average price of corn in New York was 69.7 cents per bushel, represented by After our years of high protection tho tho price of corn in New York from 1877 to 1891 averaged 54.1 cents per burhel, or During our revenue period from 1847 to 1861 the price of anthracite pig iron at Philadelphia, according to James M. Swank, of tho Iron and Steel Association, averaged $26.25 por ton, represented by During tho past fifteen years, in spite of great improvements in production, the price of the same quality of pig iron averaged $22.15 per ton at Philadelor Under our revenue tariffs it took 37.6 bushels of corn to buy a ton of pig iron, or this Under high tariffs, however, it has required 40.9 bushels of corn, or nearly 33i bushels more to pay for a ton of pig iron. This comparison is not open to tho charge "tH it there have been great improvements in tho machinery used in raising corn, and none in that used in producing pig iron. On the contrary, tne reverse has been tho case. The truth of this charge of shot is that the corn producers have not been, nor in the very nature of things could thoy be, protected; on the other hand, the tariff on pig iron has kept out foreign competit on and thus enabled the Iron men to combine to keep up prices as high as possible. To this extent high tariffs have affected the corn producer in that it lias required nearly throe and one-half bushels more of corn to buy a ton of pig iron during tho past fifteen years than it did from 1846 to 1861, a period which the high tariftites of today dciisively call our “free trade” period.

McKinley and His Bill.

Last week Major McKinley was the principal guest and speaker at the banquet of tho Home Market Club. In his speech after the dinner Was over ho made a new departure or, rather, he added a little more to his old sterotyped speech on tho tariff. Of course, he said that the foreigner pays the tariff taxes and that his bill was passed to raise the wages of workmen, utterly igno.ing the fact that all the important industr.es, on the products of which duties were increased by his bill, the wages of the workmen have boon cut down. The new feature of his speech was that portion of it in which ho to d tho people of Massachusetts how much they suffered under the revenue tariffs from 1846 to 1861. Concerning his statements the American Wool and Cotton Keporter says: “Major MdKlnley was, of course, the hero of tho hour, and made an eloquent and interesting address; but. whilo he was deploring the condition of the country In the fourteen years of tariff for revenue cnly from 1846 to 1861, the Democratic Treasurer of the gr at Amoskeag Mills, who sat upon the platform and approved the proceedings, could have told the Ohio statesman that the period from 1846 to 1861 was not characterized by such una’loyed poverty and distress as some would have us believe. In 1846 the Amoskcag declared dividends of 25 per cent, in stock and 10 per cent in cash, in 1847 it declared 25 per cent in stock and 5 per cent, in cash, and in 1849 it declared 20 per cent. In stock and 3 per cent in c sb, and there were but few half years from that time to 1860 In which It did not pay semi-an-nual dividends. A panic occurred in 1857, and the Bay State Mills at Lawrence failed; but so did a panic occur in 1872, and in 1889 some very important mills fa led. “The following great textile corporations were started between 1846 and 1861: Atlantic mills in 1849: Lyman mills, at Holyoke, 1854; Nuumkeag steam cotton mills, at Salem, In 1847; Pepperell mills, at Blddeford, In 1852; Bates mills, at Lewiston, In 1852; Hill Manufacturing Company, at Lewiston, In 1855; Franklin Company, at Lewiston, In 1857. “Furthermore the cotton manufacturing Industry of the United States has not chanced to be as prosperous since the passage of the McKinley bill, as it was for a year or two before that measure became a law. The great Merrimack Manufacturing Company, at Lowell, has recently reduced its semi annual dividend to 2 percent It paid 3 per cent, semi-annual in 1890 and 4 per cent semi-annual In 1889, and in 1891 the shares of the company sold for just half what they biought in 1881, viz., &2.030 in 1881, and si,o .0 in 1891.” And yet in spite of this McKinley wi 1 go on asserfing that the years during which we had revenue tariffs were disastrous, just as he (Ontinucs to declare that “the foioigner pays the tariff tax—you don’t," even though he knows that it is not true

A tellow-pixe trust in New York State is tho latest development in the trust world. The promoters of the enterprise are already < alcu ating the exact size of the dividends they expect to dec’are. The fact that the lumber-buy-ing community will have to pay these fine dividends is not especially dwelt on, it being considered immaterial. —Philadelphia Kecord.

Thoroughly dry salt intended for table use, and mix it with a small proportion of corn starch, if you would overcome the tendency It has. in damp weather, to pack solidly in tbe salt-cel-lars dr shakers.

BEALS’ BABY BOY.

An Air of Mystery Surrounds Kansas City’s Kidnaping: Case. The abduction and subsequent recovery of Banker Beals’ baby boy-at Kansas City, Mo., was as much of a mystery as-a sensation. People are now asking about the man who brought the child to the banker’s home and received the ransom of $5,000. Albert King, the suspect, and Lizzie Smith, the servant, are under

arrest. King says nothing, and the woman claims to have been stolen with the child, jjand driven away “in a carriage. It Miias been learned, "however, that the 'pair are man and wife, and together

THE STOLEN CAILD.

served five years in the Colorado Penitentiary at Canyon City for horse stealing. The man says his name is Joseph Dennis, and tho woman denies the relationship. The mysterious part of the story is that the Beals family will say absolutely nothing about the case, and will refuse to prosecute a search for the man who got away with the money. The woman has an autograph album In which the names of Laura M. Dennis and Sarah E. Dennis, of Mount Carroll, 111., appear. The cottage w here tho baby was concealed, and where the woman was arrested, had the appearance of a

house that was rented for temporary purposes. Leading oil from the room adjoining the front room was a closet, and here it is probable thai. the child was kept, as there was in it a feather ta d and some clothes that would

answer for bedding*. In the adjoining room was a bottle of chloroform. It is supposed that the anaesthetic was there for the purpose of keeping the child quiet should persons corno into the house. The bottle was a small one, holding about an once. George D. Ford, who was present when Mr. Beals paid the $5,000 ransom to the unknown man for the return of the boy, called at the jail to ascertain if Albert King, the alleged confederate of Lizzie “Smith,” was the man who brought back the boy. He took a long look at him and was possitive beyond all doubt that King was not the man to whom the $5,000 was paid. Mr. Lord and Mr. Beals, who were the only persons who saw tho mysterl-

BEADS’ RESIDENCE.

ous man who got the money, refused, by reason of the terms of the agreement in the offer to puy the ransom, to give any description of him or to give out any information that might lead to his capture. Several other arrests were made, but no one was held, each being able to prove his timoceuce.

LUMPY JAW.

Something About the Cattle Disease Which Is Now Attracting Attention. Actinomycosis, or lumpy jaw, is the name of a cattle disease which has been brought prominently before the public by reason of a trial which has been in progress at Peoria, 111. Among the witnesses placed on the stand there have been two or three skilled mlcroscoplste, as many veterinarians, several butchers, and a number of experts in the diseases of cattle. It has been proven beyond a doubt that a number of cattle infected with lumpy jaw were shipped from Peoria to Chicago and slaughtered for domestic purposes; but the main issue in the case was whether the disease is contagious, not among the cattle themselves, but whether jt can be transmitted to human beings. On this point there is a wide divergence of opinion. Ziegler defines the disease as a progressive inflammatory affliction set up by a certain function, the actinomyces', attended with the formation of granulations and fibrous tissue and with suppuration, attacking human beings, cattle and swine, and communicable by inoculation. In almost every case the disease locates itself In the lower jaw. It presents itself as a tumor resembling a sarcoma, and from the swelling has obtained the name among cattlemen of lumpy jaw. There are a number of well-defined cases of actinomycosis mentioned in the medical Journals, and it is claimed that the disease has been transmitted by inoculation from man to the lower animals. It is originally contracted from the same source, but in ninetynine out of a hundred cases the infection is spread from the lower animals. Dr. A. Roulf, a prominent veterinarian, said in regard to the disease: “Actinomycosis is primarily con-

AN ANIMAL WITH LUMPY JAW.

tractcd by cattle while on pasture. The germ is in the grass, and in the course of matication becomes imbedded in the root of the tooth. This forms in time a small abscess, which gradually develops, spreading to the outer surface of the jaw, where it suppurates. Other abscesses follow

this, and before long the entire Jaw becomes one mass of these running sores, and blood poisoning affects the entire body of the animal. Some animals get fat and some poor from the disease. Cooking destroys tho germs, but so many people eat very rare meat that they are in danger of Infection." The Doctor knows of one case, personally where the disease showed it self bn a human being. It first ap-

peared on the woman In the shape of a small abscess of the gum just above the molar teeth. It gradually, developed, and when it hurst she naturally thought it was nothing more than a gumboil. About two months and a half afterward she felt another small lump in precisely the same place, about tho size of a pea. This was by the sudden growth of a number of others, similar to the first, until ultimately tho entire inner mouth on the right side was filled with them. The Illustration abovo Is from a photo of the original.

DAVID T. BEALS.

Drlof Nketalt of Ira D, Chants Now Chief KxemUlvo of the Hoonler Htate. By tho death of Governor Hovey, 'Lieutenant Governor Chase has hecome chief executive of Indiana. The new executive is 57 .years old, a native of Now York and of honorable lineage. One of his ancestors, Samuel Chase, was a signer of the declaration of Independence. Another, his great-grandfather, Rufus Chase, was ono of twenty-four revo-

lutionary patriots who stole after night into the British camp, captured General Prescott and brought him into the American lines. When the war broke out he enlisted! in Company C, Nineteenth Illinois Volunteer Jnfautry. In

1802 he was discharged from tho army on account of 111-health, and returning to Illinois, lie entered upon a course of study for the ministry. In Februury, 1880, he was unanimously chosen by his Grand Army comrades as Chaplain of tho Department of Indiana. Five months later he received the nomination as Republican candidate for Congress from the Fifth district of Indiana. lie made a thorough canvass against Colonel C. C. Matson, but was defeated. In February, 1887, he was elected at the grand encampment of the G. A. It. Department Commander, and was re-elected ut the expiration of his term. His nomination us Lieutenant Governor In 1888 was unanimous. lie is genial and energetic, a firm Republican, but not narrow in his partisan feeling.

Tlio Feathered rent Now lloliiß Slaughtered In IlllnoD. The United States Is indebted to England for Its language, Its laws, many of its institutions, and, unfortunately, for the so-called English sparrow. This feathered pirate has engaged the attention of the lawmakers of Illinois, and at the lust session of the Legislature that bird was put in the same category with mad dogs, snakes, and other disagreeable things. The Agricultural Department of the Federal Government has had a dozen of scientific men investigating the sparrow and his hab-

its for several years past. The result of their investigations has been given to an expectant world in the shapeof a bulky volume of 400 pages, adorned with pictures of the imported pest in various attitudes, and with maps showing how much of the country he has already taken possession of. It may be said of the English sparrow as was said by the schoolboy who was told to define the manners and customs of the Fiji Islanders. The boy answered: “Manners, nonet customs, disgusting.” He could truthfully have said the same about the sparrow, and received a “perfect” mark for the recitation. That the Europeau sparrow is a dirty, destructive and useks* animal is beyond dispute. It is alleged that he devours the grubs and larvae of insects, but the truth is that he only does this when he cannot obtain other food. What he wants is grain, and this failing the buds and blossoms of trees suit him better than anything else. Ills apologists have claimed that he only tackles such buds as contain worms; and that therefore his presence on fruit trees is desirable, but the evidence does not bear out this claim. Many States offer bounties for the destruction of these pests, and the last Legislature added the jSucker State to the list. The law went into effect Dec. 1, and now every person who takes the f p irrow or head thereof in lots of ten to the county clerk is entitled to the bounty. Rkx-bf.oonias will root rapidly during the warm weather. Set tho leaves oogewise in sand, or la. them fiat on tho sand, staked down with bent toothpicks, being careful to keep the soil moist and partly shaded, and they will soon show Ufa.

THE RESULT OF EATING DISEASED MEAT.

INDIANA’S NEW GOVERNOR.

AFTER THE SPARROW.

THE ENGLISH SPARROW.

In order to celebrate the fourth centenary of the discovery of America, Spain has prepared various festivals and expositions. One of the lattor, entitled “Amer- ' ienn History of Madrid,” has for its aim the presentation in the most complete manner of tho 'condition of the various countries of tho new continent at the time of tho conquest, up to the first part of tho seventeenth century. This comprises ull objects, models, reproductions, plans, drawings, etc., which relate to the American aborigines. Accordixo to “Tlio Presbyterian and Reformed Review,” the total number of distinct words in the New Testament, excluding proper names and their derivatives, is 4,829. A few comparisons may bo interesting. The vocabulary of the (>ld Testament is larger, Gcsnius’s "Lexicon,” omitting proper names und obsolete roots, contains 5,810 words, of which 042 are marked “Chald.” Tho “Iliad” and tho "Odyssey” together contain 9,000 words. Shakespeare uses 15,000 and Milton 9,000. Gkroximo and his captive Apaches must hour with surprise, in their wintor quarters in tho South, how Dr. Oarl Luinholtz has discovered now cities of the cave-dwellers iu the Sierra Madro range of mountains, so long the Apachoß’ stronghold. Dr. Luinholtz represents both the American Museum of Natural History and tho American Geological Society. On tho eastern slopes of those mountains, so long objects of abhorrence iu the eyes of all Americans in the Apache country, Dr. Lumholtz Ims discovered many caves containing wonderfully interesting houses, some of them throe-stories high, built of “porphyry' pulp," whatever that is. Missouri is competing with Knnsas for the honor of producing the largest crops. A Cass County farmer, who has 920 acres, raised this year wheat on 100 acres ami corn on 100 acres. From tho 1(H) acres of wheat ho got a crop of 3,500 hushols, which sold at tho nearest railroad station for 85 eonts a bushel, or a total of 12,975. Tho corn is still in shock, hut good judges say that tho yield will be at loast 50 bushels to tho acre, which, at 50 cents a bushol, would not the farmer $2,500. So that in wheat and corn lie would oleur $5,475. Besides grain, ho has twenty acres in hay, iui orchard of twonty acres of heuvily laden apple-trees, fifty heuc\ of cattle, ‘ ond u poultry-yard, lie calculates that his farm this year will bring him inslo,IKX) above all expenses. This following petition, addressed to the Congress of tho United States, is being extensively clrculuti d for signatures: “The undersigned citizens of tho United States, having u profound souse of tho evil mid inadequacy of war as a mode of settling international disputes, hereby pray your honorable body to take what- • ever notion may ho necessary to invite a conforeuoo ot tho governments of tho world to sit, during, and in commotion with, the World’s Columbian Exposition, to be held in Chicago in 1893, for tho devising, discussing and recommending measures by which the principle of arbitration may be incorporated into treaties, conflicting international laws may be harmonized, and an international court established, having jurisdiction iu coses which governments sliail fail to settle by negotiation." Wkatiikh prophets In tho countries o£ the torrid zone iu this hemisphere, a region of exceedingly diverse climates and generally erratic conditions, have to work from very different data from tho doings of the ground hog and the chipmunk. hi the vicinity of Quito, tho oapital of Ecuador, a city about twenty miles from tho equator, yet having in sight eleven snow-capped mountain summits uud possessing u climate like a raw New England spring, mtvtliqoakCi are tho weather sharps' stronghold. Quito is mainly noted for its luxuriant crop q£ earthquakes. There was a very severe shock of earthquake tliere three or, four weeks ago, followed by a still strpuger shook two days later. Tho last shook wus followed by a heavy hu.il storm,, "which," a local paper says, "is n sure sign that tho winter will bo ns sovoreanth ns long as the summer we have lind this year." Wohkmkn whilo boring for tho Kansas* city water-works tunnel under tho Missouri river tho other day observed some< brightly tinted particles' in tho dirt which they were bundling, and showed them to tho engineer who hud formerly boon connected with a mining company. Putting tho sample submitted to him under a powerful microscopo ho declared that the stratum contained frcogold in quantities to make the mining of it profitable.. Mr. John C. Hopo of tho Kansas city Board of Public VVorks, who lias had a. great deal of experience us a prospector, also detoeted tho presence of gold in the dirt. The precious stuff’ was struck at a depth of 117 feet at u point on the Harlem sidoof tho Hannibal bridgo. The samples of gravel woretestod witn acids, and there is no doubt that flic dust was gold. Kansas'city pooplo are now talking about paying for the tunnel with tho profits to be made by mining tho stratum discovered. At any rate, an assay of tho gravel Ims been ordered. « '♦ The new pauper law of Denmark is,, according to tho American Agriculturist, a model of paternal governmental philanthropy, und worthy of adoption in every civilized country having the necessary means nt command. By its provisions u man, if ho accepts cither for himself or for his family .support as a pauper, loses liis political rights or privileges. If persons, after having bcoa paupers, become aide to do so, thoy are obliged to pay back tho money paid by tho municipal authorities for their support while paupors. Husband and wife must not be sep- rated if they conduct themselves properly. Aged and feeble persons must not be plucjJ whore they will bo disturbed or annoyed, and children must not be placed under immoral influences. And, most wonderful of all, pensions ure hereafter provided for tho aged native and naturalized citizens, men and women,who have completed their sixtieth year and are of good clmractor, not having been convicted of crime, and who have not, for the bonofit of their children or by improvident living, impoverished themselves, and who huve lived for the ten, years immediately prccoJing without having received relief! All such persons nrc suppo.tod and provided for during their declining years, uot as paupors, but as pensioners, losing none of their political rights. And,finally, throughout the Danish kingdom, whoever cannot maintain himself is givou the necessaries of life by the parish authorities, and none arc permitted to go naked, or starve, or be without shblter. _____________ ♦* The rage for feather boas continues unabated. Ostrich, black and green coque, turkey, and even peacock feathers are used, the two latter in conjunction with some other variety. To complete a carriage, reception or theatre toilet tho long rich boas are very suit* bie uud handsome.

GOV. CHASE.

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