Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — Page 5

AN OBJECT LESSON.

“GIVE-AWAY” PRICES ON TAGS AT THE FAIR. Clothing Shown to Be SO Per Cent Cheaper in Europe tliau It Is Here —Stop the Tariff Bobbery, and Stop It Quick. Treacherous Trusts Exposed. We are missing one of the great lessons that the World’s Fair could teach us. Last year the Fair Commissioners decided that foreign exhibitors would be permitted to place tags on their exhibits showing the foreign prices of different articles. We should not only permit, but should request the use of these tags. Suppose all articles on exhibition were tagged with the prices at which each sold in different countries. What a “give away” those tags would be not only for McKinley protectionists but also for many of our trusts that are selling at protection and trust prices here, but are taking what they can get in other countries. Just to see how they would look, suppose we place tags on a few articles: Retail Retail prices, prices. New York. London. Fine natural underwear, average sizes— Ladles' light-weight, B>£ lb 9. to doxen, per garment $2.00 SI.OO Men's light-weightshirt,t lbs. 1 or. to dozen ~..2.25 1.16 Men's shirt, u lbs. to dozen .1.75 i .96 Men’s shirt, medium weight, 1114 lbs. to dozen 4.00 1.65 UnderwearMen's Farley A Buttram shirts, per garment 3.00 1.20 Men's Furley A Buttram shirts, per garment 2.00 .60 12-thread merino shirt, 16 lbs. to dozen, retail 5.50<55c.00 2,[email protected] Ladles' merino shirt, Cartwright A Warner, or Furley A Buttram, retail 2.60g52.75 1.08 Ladles’merino garment 4.25 1.68 Children's merino shirt 1.60 .60 Children’s merino shirt 2.08 .96(31.08 HosieryWoolen stockings, per pair... .50 .20 Woolen, men’s naif-hose, per pair 26(3.30 .12 Upholstery goods— Common lace curtains, per pair 90 .48 Gloves (average sizes)— Men’s Fowne's Craven Tan, per pair 1.75 .85 Men's Dent’s Craven Tan, per pair 1.75 .85 (France.) Men's Perrin’s pique, per pair 2.25 1.50 Linen goods. (These prices are wholesale.)— Cheap crash toweUlng, per yard 10 .06 Hnckaback towel, per d0z.... 1.75 .77 Glass towelings, 18-inch, aU linen, per yard 10)6 , .06 Napkins, %, per doz 1.40 .66 Napkins, 94, per doz 2.00 .84 .—Wholesale prioes in—. Cutlery, etc.— U. S. Europe. 1- jack knife, good English quality, per doz 2.40 .98 2- jack knife, good English quality, per doz 4.00 1.60 1- jack knife, Jos. Rodgers' make, per doz 4.05 1.60 2- jack knife, Jos. Rodgers’ make, per doz 5.07 2.20 Carvers, 7-inch, Rodgers’ make, per pair 83 .44)4 Table knives and forks, Rodgers' make, per gross 24.00 13.25 Butcher knives, 6-inch, Rodgers' make, per doz 2.27 1.28 Razors, common, per doz 2.25 .80 Breach-loading guns,cheapest made, each 7.50 4.00 Breach-loading guns.cheapest complete, English, each... .17.00 8.50 Good breach-loader for gentlemen's use 48.00 25.75 Tin plate— I. C. Bessemer steel, coke finish, per box 5.60 2.90 WINDOW GLASS. Sizes in prices, per box sq. Inches. U. S. Belgium. 6x 8 to 10x15 $1.84 $ .89)4 11X14 to 16X24 2.18 1 01)4 18x22 to 20x30 2.82 1.38 16x36 to 24x30 2.99)4 1.68 26x28 to 24x36 8.33 3-5 1.58 26x36 to 26x44 3.50) a 1.79 26X46 to 30X50 3.93 2.20 80x52 to 30x54 4.10 2-5 2.34 80x66 to 34 X 66 4.36 2.63 Total, 9 boxes. $29.06)4 $16.31 POLISHED PLATE GLASS. —Wholesale prices, per foot.—, France. U. S. Cents. Cents. 24x31 to 30x41 Inches. ....... 27.12 46 30x49 Inches and over 30.44 73 HOUSEHOLD CROCKERY. (WHITE GBANITE WABE.) —Wholesale prloe Eng. U. & 1 dozen bakers $ .84 $1.40 1 dozen bowls 47 .74 2 covered butters 28 .47 1 dozen Individual butters 09 .15 1 dozen handled coffee cups 44 .80 )4 dozen covered dishes 1.12 1.80 H dozen ordinary dlßhes 23 .40 2 creams .■ 09 .20 1 dozen flat plates 35 .60 1 dozen deep plateß '35 .64 1 dozen fruit sancers 14 .23 2 sugars 21 .38 i dozen handled tea cups 37 .67 l tea pot 12 .23

A set of crockery as above costing $5.10 in England costs $8.71 in the United States, the United States price being $3.61 higher. The duties on the ware alone amount to $2.81. Duty at the rate of 55 per cent, is also levied on the packages in which the ware is packed, and the other expenses of purchase, which, added to $2.81, makes the whole duty equal to the difference between the English and the American price. In nearly every case the American price can be found approximately by adding to the foreign price the duty and the cost of transportation. These are a great object lesson to our “protected workingmen.” Would McKinley dare stand up in the presence of these tags and tell the throngs of voters present that “the foreigner pays the tax?” But we have not yet noticed the worst “give away.” Just step into the domestic department of the great Manufactures building and see the tags on some of the articles exhibited by our protected trusts: CIRCULAR SAWS. .-Wholesale prices—. Home price, Export price, Sizes. each. each. 10-inch $1.20 $ .92 18-inch 3.68 2.80 30-inch 9.47 7.20 60-inch.... 42.00 32.00 C BOSS-CUT SAWS. Home price, Export price, each. each. Thin back champion, per foot $ .26 $ .20 Extra thin back champion, per foot 30 .22 HAND SAWS, APPLE HANDLE, NO. 28. Length. Home price. Export price. 16 inches, per doz $15.29 $11.50 20 inches, per doz 17.96 13.C0 24 inches, per doz 21.28 16.00 28 inches, per doz 25.27 19.00 We will not take time to quote the prices on more tags, but will only observe that those on hundreds of other articles show t h at foreigners can often get our manufactures at prices from 20 to 50 • per cent, less than we can obtain. This is true of scales, rules, levels, planes, screwdrivers, shears, indurated fiber ware, britannia and plated ware, clothes wringers and dryers, meat choppers, axes, hammers, braces, wrenches, drills, bolts, augers and bits, nails and tacks, screw’s and rivets, gaskets, cartridges, type-wfiters, sewing-ma-chines, bicycles, shovels, plows, cultivators, and most kinds of implements. It will be remembered that when E. W. Stout, a farmer, from near Trenton, N. J., returned from a visit to his father in England last fall, he brought with him a number of plows, rakes, cultivators, etc. He found that he could, after paying all charges, save from 10 to 25 per cent, by purchasing these implements—all American made—in England. The

cordage trust, which is now in sucbl ill-repute the world over, never did a meaner thing than when it began, a a few months ago, to sell cordage in London much lower than it sold It to the people who taxed themselves to support this industry. The tags on the coils of rope and the bundles of twine indicate that the cordage is one of the most villainous and treacherous of our many wicked trusts.— Byron W. Holt.

Mexico Abolishing Corn Laws.

For the second time in less than nine months, the government ol President Diaz has broken down its tariff wall. From March 15 corn will be admitted into the republic free ol import duty, whether as grain or flour. On the Ist of July last a similat order prevailed until Sept. JO, and its announcement was received with acclamation and joy by the poor people. The crop failures of two seasons had not alone rendered corn dear, but actually scarce, and the duties imposed under the tariff law reduced the poorer classes to a condition of suffering and extreme distress. True, the great producers and handlers of corn were fattening while destitute people pleaded for relief; they resisted the proposal to import free the food which the people required, because, forsooth, their particular interests, their exclusive industry, would suffer. Nero, who is reported to have fiddled while imperial Rome was burning, was no unique monstrosity. The same spirit of indifference enables men to-day to witness the miseries of thousands untouched, nay, reaping out of their miseries princely wealth. Maj. McKinley says the principle of protection cannot die; so said the slave owners who had their principle handed down from the earliest days; yet the hour came when, in indignation and shame, the nation cast away the degrading system of slavery. And this is precisely the war of to-day between Republicans and Democrats, commercial and Industrial slavery, or their freedom. It is a great drawback to the development of Mexico that so much of the land is in the hands of few owners, hence the great extent of uncultivated estate. If this land were fairly taxed it would be thrown open to cultivation, whereas it is now held for speculation, and the owners cannot develop it. In the present instance, however, the liberal and intelligent policy of President Diaz’s administration has proved superior to the protective instincts which are responsible for the fiscal policy cf Mexico. The right course is often stumbled upon by accident, or forced into adoption by the dire distress of a people. Several reductions in impost duties will take effect on April 15, including those on wool, ivory, mother-of-pearl, cotton, hemp, flax, and other fibers, jute, zinc, etc., while on some manufactured articles, notably tobacco goods, there are increases, thus indicating a desire to free manufacturing industries from the burden of imposts on raw materials, and while giving the same an impetus relieving in a material way, the contumers from the unnecessary cost of added duties. There is in Mexico a strong party, with several journals in line, notably the Mexican Trader, whose mission is the removal of all vexatious restrictions on trade. Men are traders instinctively, and may be relied upon to make advantageous barter, and to work out the problem of “the survival of the fittest” in industrial undertakings, and any system which seeks by protective duties and enervating bounties to permanently maintain any industry, insults human intelligence, destroys self-reliauce and enterprise, and is a dead weight upon individual energy, in fine, is in opposition to and subversive of the laws of nature.American Industries.

Stop the Robbery and Stop It Quick.

The last National Democratic platform declares that protection “is a robbery of a great majority of the American people.” That declaration is the plain truth. It is also true that a just government never has very much business that is more important than preventing robbery. It is also true that “protection” robbers should not be permitted to keep on robbing for fear that stopping them will reduce the national revenue a little. It is also true that the National Government is now in the hands of men who call themselves Democrats. It is also true that men who will not stop a robbery of the people—and stop it quick—when it is in their power to do so, are no Democrats at all. It is also true that it is about time for the men who now control matters to begin to prove their Democracy by their works instead of their words. It is also true (what good Democrat doubts it) that our President will do all in his power to stop this robbery and stop it promptly. It is also true (what good Democrat doubts it) that every man that Grover Cleveland has associated with himself in his present administration will, without an exception, perhaps, zealously assist him in this good work. It is also true that in the next Congress a large majority of those called Democrats will do just about as little as they possibly can do to stop this robbery. It is also true that politicians seldom do any more for the people than the people make them do. It is also true that Democratic citizens are in no mood to quietly wait a whole year for Congress to fool over a new tariff law. We care little about a new law; we want laws repealed rather than laws enacted, and it doesn’t take a long time to do that. We want the robbery taken out of the present law, and we want it done quick; this, rest assured, Grover Cleveland will give Congress a good chance to do at the earliest practicab'e time. It is also true that if Congress will not, when given the opportunity, make prompt and short work with protection robbery, there will speedily come to our politicians such a day of reckoning as for righteous jhdgment and swift execution has never ye* been experienced by menials of plutocracy upon American soil.—New Crusade

POINTS ON PARASOLS.

ITS WHIMSICAL POSSIBILITIES NOT ENDED. Qualuter and Lovelier This Season than Ever—Same Tendency to Elaboration as Last Year—Drooping Ruffles No Longer the Thing. Gay Gotham Gab. New York correspondence:

HE parasol has J ’ been the delight 21 of the frivolous 1 woman’s heart for several seasons. It seemed last year ip that the end had come to the whlmsi cal possibilities of the parasol, especially since ' the lamp shades pushed the parasol hard in effects and beauty, and that

this year we should be ordered to the plainest sort But they are quainter and lovelier than ever, and what is more, you can no more pretend last year’s parasol is this year’s than you can make the same pretense with last year’s skirt or hat. There is the same tendency to elaboration horizontally in the parasol that there is’ in everything else. Materials, too, have changed, so far as color and quantity goes. All the old ordinary tricks of trimming are scorned and utterly lack modishness. The top of the parasol is as flat as can be. It can be covered with a lot of ruffles, and it may be a pot-pourri of puffs, but the pagoda effect is all gone. It may have a little fence or hedge built up in the middle around where the stick would be, if you like, of upright laoe and ribbon, but the flatter the more correct seems to be the rule. Drooping ruffles no longer hang about the edge,so that you cannot tell whether a lamp or a girl Is beneath. The circumference of the parasol is increased by a framework of fine wire, but not the spokes of the parasol carried out. On this wire is stretched laoe, ribbon, or flowers, not in solid masses, but in cute little tangent caprices of ends from the main part of the parasol. Of course, they have no visible means of support and the sight of them should make one uncomfortable, but it does not. They look lovely. The oldfashioned tiny parasols of our grand-

FOR LAST DAYS IN TOWN.

mother's day are copied, and then increased to a good size by a ruffle of lace extended out flat all around on invisible wires. Following out the general idea of making things quite different from what they are intended to be, every effort is made in many cases to make a parasol as unfit as possible to keep off the sun. The Idea is evidently to let the sun through, and with this in view, insertion of very delicate lace is put around the circumference, or up and down following the line of the ribs of the parasol. These ribs that used to be endured are now made part of the beauty of a parasol, and they are not hidden by a lining. It is at last realized that the inside of a parasol is the more important part, and now the beautiful gold, silver, or enameled ribs thread their way shiningly through a maze of dainty ruffles that hang down from the roof of the parasol like a fleece of clouds. The stick is now a thing of beauty, and is of fine wood or enamel, or even of gold or silver all the way, instead of having just a handsome handle with the rest ugly. Handles are elaborately beautiful, and no expense need be spared. The girl who is really up in these things will have at least one special stick and handle all together, which is made to screw on to the various parasols she owns. It is not as long as the ultra sticks of last year, nor quite as short as those of the little old-fashioned parasols. . It Is of gold or silver, or pos-

FOR THE PROMENADE.

sibly of Dresden. If of gold, It is either perfectly plain, widening a little at the handle part or elaborately chased and set at the handle with gems. Gems may also be set spirally all the way up the stick. If the girl cannot sport a whole stick of tnis kind then she will have a ball handle. These are big or little, and when of gold or silver are jeweled. The sticks of the parasols are then altered so that this handle can be adjusted when the girl wants to be very exquisite. All colors are shown in parasols. Those of rainhowed mull are dreams. Every soft color made still softer and mixed into a confusion of bright ruffles covers the top of the parasol. You think every color is there, and the rosettes of baby ribbon along the outer edge prove it, for they are made of all colors. Inside the ruffles of the parasol are all one color, taking, of course, a shade exactly matching one color used on the outside, or the outside of the parasol is perfectly plain, changeable silk, and underneath are set the myriad mull ruffles that make every use of the rainbow shades. These parasols are really marvels of artistic effect I know you think that parasols which are set thick with ruffles on the under side are going to look very ugly and baggy when they shut up, but they do not The ribs run Into a ring that is fastened around the ■tick at the top, and the place where

the ribs used all* to come together is now an open space, with just a bit of lace, perhaps, and a bow and a patent sort of network, and the parasol closes up on this network, and the ring keeps it a uniform size below. It is a little clumsy, but not baggy. Bags are to bp had of very dainty and soft silk of a color to match the parasol, and with a drawing String at the top in which you tuck the parasol, tying the string around the handle at the top. It looks odd, but it is right, and gives a man something to carry when you take out the parasol. After so much attention to an accessory of summer toilets, the dresses themselves should have an inning. The first picture shows two handsomo and very stylish models. The left-hand one is especially suitable for small informal dinners, and is very airy and dainty. It is cut prinoess from pale-blue crepe. The edges of the fronts are embroidered with a small design in pink silk, and loose piece inserted in front is embroidered with moss roses. It is cut down a trifle at the neck in front, and the embroidered crepe is arranged with

FOR COUNTRY OR SEASHORE.

a knot over the bust. The sleeves have two puffs of the embroidered crepe and a long cuff of the plain crepe. The other costume Is in brown faille. The skirt is trimmed with three bias folds of velvet. The round waist is tight in back, but the right front has no darts and laps over, fastening with a velvet rosette. The bretelles are brown velvet, and form a rojind flounce in baok and continue along the right front, terminating in a point with the rosette. At the neck there is a plastron of lightbrown silk, pointed in front and round behind, which closes at the left shoulder. It can be made separately from the waist, if desired. The material used for the next example is silver-gray crepe de chine, trimmed with pale-lavender velvet. The bell skirt may be lined with lavender silk to give a changeable effect, or plain gray if desired. It is trimmed with three bias folds of velvet, the two upper ones are cut round and are sewed to the skirt only on the lop edge, so that the bottom flares a trifle and looks like two skirts. The round waist is tucked inside the skirt and hooks in front. It is trimmed with a gathered ruffle of crepe, which leaves a pointed opening at the neck. The sleeves have a very full puff of crepe tied a little above the elbow with a gray velvet ribbon and a long cuff of gray velvet. Around the waist is an Empire girdle fastened with an oxidized silver buckle. At the neck there is a full Jaow of velvet ribbon. A pretty princess walking dress is seen at the left in the third illustration. It Is for early morning walks in the country and at the seashore. It Is made of pink figured foulard; the back Is quite full and is gathered at the waist, falling from there in loose folds to the bottom. If desired the back can be arranged in lengthwise puffs above the waist line and the puffs separated by narrow velvet ribbons. The lining

BETWEEN SUN AND BEAUTY.

in front hooks down the center and has a plastron sewed to it at the neck, composed of embroidery, insertion and strips of velvet ribbon, which gives the dress the appearance of being a cloak worn over a regular costume. The shaw collar and balloon sleeves are of plain foulard. The sleeves are finished with a lace ruffle. A dust cloak, made of pongee and trimmed with brown silk cord passementerie, is worn by the companion figure. The back has only one seam and the fronts are turned back and trimmed with narrow passementerie. The garment hooks in the middle. It has a deep cape trimmed with wide passementerie and a ruffle of pongee edged with braid and sewed on to form a point in back but parted in front. Around the bottom is a wider passementerie, which also forms the belt. The collar and cuffs are trimmed with passementerie. In the last picture are some bandsome parasols in which the specifications already described for next summer’s shades are faithfully carried out. Copyright, 1893.

Study of Features.

Very full checks indicate great digestive powers. A small head does not necessarily mean little wit, the old adage to the contrary notwithstanding. Long, projecting teeth are often found in persons of good disposition, but rarely of marked ability. A well arched forehead, with one slight perpendicular wrinkle, belongs tc a wise and discreet character. A forehead rounded at the upper temples indicates large imagination, mirthfulness and good-nature. The most expressive eyes are never very round or wide open, are neither too prominent nor too sunken. Positive character in a face discloses positive power; but its lack does not always signify the opposite. The upper eyolids should cover from a fifth to a third of the iris; more indicates cunning; less, imprudence. Black hair belongs to the most powerful organizations, yellow to tho most delicate, red to the most ardent Foreheads wrinkled in. the upper part, while the lower part is smooth, generally indicate dullness and stupidity. Eyes which show white under the iris are commonly associated with nobility of character and exemplary life. Indulgence in bad tempers may stamp them on the face so indelibly that they appear natural characteristics. A perfectly formed face should be divided into fhree equal parts; from the roots of the hair to the root of the nose, thence to the tip, and from the tip of the nose to the tip of the chin.

A STRANGE QUESTION.

WHEN WILL. THE EARTU BE ENTIRELY PEOPLED. An Ultimate of the World’s Present Population and its Future 1 ncrcuse. In order to answer .this query at all satisfactorily, says a writer in Goldthwaite's Geographical Magazine, it is necessary to determine: First—The present population of the world and its probable increase. Second—The area capable of being cultivated for the yield of food an.d other necessaries of life. Third—The total number of people whom these lands would be able to maintain. I need hardly point out that a precise answer to these apparently simple questions is well nigh impossible. PRESENT COPULATION OP TUB WOULD. This is a fundamental question for the inquiry proposed, but it is quite impossible to reply to it with any amount of confidence. Enumerations of the peoplo have been made in ail civilized states, but with respect to large parts of the world we are still completely in the dark. Of Africa we know next to nothing, while the long array of figures presented to us as the results of a census taken in China are not calculated to inspire confidence. I have taken some care to form a true estimate of the population of Africa, and I cannot believe in that continent supporting more than 137,600,000, instead of tho two, three or even four hundred million allotted to it by certain statisticians. Even 137,000,000 is a high figure, for it means eleven peoplo to tho square mile, while in Austra - lia there are not one and a half and in South America five only. the world’s population in 1820. To a square Toial Milo. Eurjpe .'133,300,030 101 Asia 350,000 000 67 Africa 137,000,000 11 Austialia 4,78 ',OOO 1-4 North America. . 80,350.000 14 South America... .*10,430,000 6 Total 1,407,000,000 8t Exclusive of 800, 00j iu tho polar region*. CULTIVAULE AREA. I shut out from consideration all those territories of the polar regions which lie beyond the limits within which the cultivation of cereals is possible. I divide the remainder of the lands of the globe into throe regions. Tho first 1 describe as fertile, meaning that it is fertile so far only as within it lies most of tho land which is capable of remunerative cultivation. It cannot be assumed for an instant that the whole or even tho greater part of it could ever be converted into Holds yielding the fruits of the oartb. My seoond region includesthe “steppes,” or poorer grass lands; and as within the “fertile” region we meet with comparatively sterile tracts, so within these “steppes” there exist huge areas which can be rendered highly productive, especially where means for irrigating the laud are available. The third region includes the deserts, within which fertile cases are few. The area of these regions iu square miles I estimato as follows, exclusive of the polar regions: Fertile Region. ,Steppe. Desert. Europe 9,888,0.0 (187,000 Asii... .• 9,280,000 4,230,000 1,300,000 Africa 5,700,000 3,528,000 3,230,000 Australasia. .1,107,000 1,5"7,000 614,000 N. America... 4.940,000 1,405,000 95,000 S. America.. .4,228,000 2,584,000 45,000 Total. ..23,209,000 13,901,000 4,180,000 POSSIBLE POPULATION.

The lask of estimating the number of people whom this earth of ours would be capable of supplying with food and other necessaries of life, once it had been fairly brought under cultivation, is very difficult. There are at present some vegetarians. These would maintain that if their peculiar views were accepted three men would live where one lives now, and there would be no further need of keeping up large herds of cattle and sheep. lam not sufficiently utopian to believe that mankind generally will ever accept these principles. Again, it has been asserted that ojr present method of cultivation are capable of vast improvement; that the earth might be made to yield much larger harvests than it yields now, and that population might thus be permitted to ijcrease without correspondingly increasing the cultivated areas. This is bo doubt true as respects many countri{s, but it is hardly true of the world it large. Making all reasonable alio warn e, however, of these suggestions, I take as a basis for my estiinute the standard of life, such as we find it existing in various climates and among various peoples. Upon this basis I calculate that the “fertile regions” would be able to support 207 human beings to the square mile, the present mean population of those regions. The “steppes,” with their large traits of land capable of cultivation, I belitve to be capable of supporting ten inhaoitants to the square mile, while the “deserts” would be fully peopled if tl.ey had one inhabitant to the square mile. I do not take into consideration the colonization of the tropical regions by Europeans, because lam constrained to maintain that the tropical regions are no field for European immigrants, and because it is not necessary that the oonsumer of food should live in the country that produces it. From all these considerations I assqme th&t this world of ours, if brought filly into cultivation, can supply 5,994,000,000 human beings with food and other necessary products of the vegetable kingdom.

INCREASE OK POPULATION. On this point not only are our statistics still very incomplete, but conditions, social or otherwise, may arise, that would materially affect the present movement of the population. Weighing all the data to be had, and carefully considering all the causes which are all likely to give an impetus to the growth of population or retard it in the various quarters of the world, I assume that the increase in the course of a decade will amount to 10 per cent. Summarized, the results of my careful estimates are us follows: Increase in a decade. Per cent. Europe 5.7 Asia #.O Africa 10.0 Australasia 30.0 North Ameiea 2(10 South America 15.0 The whole earth 8.0 CONCLUSION. Accepting these figures as correct, it becomes an easy matter to compute the increase of the population. By the close of this century the 1468 millions who now dwell upon the earth will have increased to 1587 millions; in the year 1950 there will be 2333 millions; in the year 2000, 0425 millions, and in the year

3072, or 188 years henoe, there will be 4979 millions. These estimates are not presented as a prophecy. I have already hinted at voluntary cheeks to the growth of population which will oomeinto play as civilization advances and the demands for the comforts of this life shall be more general. At all events, so far as we are personally concerned, 182 years is a long period to look forward to; but if we look back a similar number of years and remember that William 111. and Marlborough were then still among us, we are bound to admit that it is but a short period in the lifetime of a nation.

Hunting Wild Geese.

A sure way to hunt wild geese is to stalk them at daybreak or just after sunset, when they aro resting overnight in the waters of rural lakes, way stations in their migratory flight to the north or south. Sometimes the sportsman builds a blind on the shore of the lake, and, screened by its leafy thatch or wall, gets a dozen shots a day at as many different flocks. Of tenor, though, he trusts to luck for u shot. From his homo abovo the shore of the pond he marks a flock that has dropped leisurely and unsuspiciously into its quiet waters at sundown, and a little later, musket in hand, skulks through Holds and pastures, tangled underbrush and swamps, frequently crawling over the quaking surface of black morasses, to the fringe of thickets nbout tho biink of the lake. Then, with wonderful patieuee and selfcontrol, he lingers there,' prone on his face, until the game, splashing about in the water as it feeds, has worked well iu toward the shore. Very slowly and cautiously he lifts himself upon his kneos, stealthily forces the muzzle of his piece through interlacing tree boughs and netted wild vines, brings the ribbed gun barrels into lino with eye and game, and breathless, his figure tense with the huntsman’s rigor, pulls both triggers at once. Thero is u deafeuing report, a wild cry from tho startled birds. Tho recoil of tho overcharged piece hurls the guuner bodily back upon his haunches, but he leaps forward lustantly, tearing his way through the thicket, and darts down the beach. The surface of the lake that a moment before was almost tranquil, shining with tho crimson lustre of the dying day, is now a scene of wild commotion, beateu into foam and spray by tho sinewy pinions of hulf a score of mangled wildfowl. The sportsman does not hesitato, pauses not to divest himself of a garment, but rushes into tho lake, and swinging, wading, tumbling about, hunts his game iri its own elemeut with the skill of an experienced retriever. He wrings tho birds’ nocks with tho lawless conscience of a chicken-stealing poacher, and throws their bodies ashore. Some of the fowl elude him, eventually may escape, but most of them be bags, and returns home.through the darkening wood and meadow lands, laden with spoils.—[New York Sun.

A Canine Cow-Milker.

What has been a mystery for some weeks to the dairy people on Colonel K. M. Lvnehurst’s stock farm, situated nine miles from Bushvillo, Penn., was solved a night or two ago by a shrewd milker known as Jim. Into Jim’s special care was entrusted tho Colonel’s well blooded, pedigreed cow called Kentucky Rose, which has been accustomed to give three full gallons of rich milk daily. But all at once Kentucky Itoso dwindled down to a gallon, scarcely enough for her calf. Jim was puzzled over the mystery. Every night watchers were set to try and solve the problem. One night, after waiting until nearly morning, tho party started for home, when all at once the Colonel saw a white object shoot across a patch of moonlight. He and Jim returned to Kentucky Rose’s stall, the furthest from tho sleeping rooms of the men, just as Jessamine Bell managed to squeeze himself through the narrow pass into the stall. The two men then noiselessly climbed to tho loft above, and there they saw the setter on his hind logs steadily draining tho cow as dry as his capacity admitted. At last Kentucky Rose, no doubt aggrieved at the wrong done her offspring, who were compelled to go hungry, turned about and gave him a severe punch in the side, and it was to this treatment, undoubtedly, that tho setter owed his present adornment. Tho next day he was seen to steal to the pasture, to give himself another good “tuck-in,” but on looking up he saw hi* master and the man just gazing at him with laughing countenances. He dropped his tall and disappeared for days, avoiding the other animals and the men on the place, as well as his master, us if he felt guilty of having been a sly, greedy and treacherous dog.—| New York Telegram.

Spanish Grandees.

In Spuin the Crown gets a goodly fee from the heir who succeeds to a grandeeship on the death of his father or a relative, and this fee for each title that comforts the rights of a grandee, though they are held by only one person. There are Spanish nobles who possess from ten to thirty titles, only a few of which generally have a grandee's privilgees in the original grant. The late Duke of Frias was fourteen times a grandee, the Duke of Pastruna eleven times, the Duke of Medina Sidonia nine times, the Duke of Medina Cmli is a grandee in vlrture of no less than eight dukedoms, five marquisntes, several earldoms and lesser titles. In Spain women inherit titles of all sorts and first-class grandeeships. When a Spanish peer leaves no sons his daughters in tail succeed to the estates and titles, and carry them into other families. The consorts of these peeresses are allowed to use the titles of their wives.—[London News.

How Some Demon Trees Pay.

“I see in the newspapers,” said Edward Cressey, of Highland, to us a day or two ago, “a clipping from the Progress about there being some lemon trees in Duarte that have yielded a crop worth over S3O to the tree. I don’t doubt it. My widowed sister, near Highland, has twenty large lemon trees on her place that have, since she and her boys learned to cure and pack the fruit, pai4 .the entire grocery and clothing bills for the family of four people. About half the trees are over eleven years old, and they have fine care. A good part of them have borne each year on an average of six boxes of fruit to the tree for three years, and the lemons have sold from $5 to $6.75 a box. Thete are a few trees that have brought in an annual revenua of even $lO each.—[Pomona (Cal.) Progress.

NOT MUCH OF A SAVING.

Old Bachelor—Now that you’re mar. ried you don’t have *o send your garments out any more to be mended, I presume. Married Friend—N-o, don’t have to send Ahern out now. My wife always hai the house full of sewing women.—[Nev» York Weekly.

BY THEBE SIGNS. By the gallinaeean chatter, By tho slugging of the bait*r, By the he 0-wear that the hatter Doth on exhibition bring. By the robin’s songful mating, Eke the blue bird’s tote-a-teting, And the carpet's flagellating, I conjecture it is spring. By the furniture they’re hauling. By the ragman's caterwauling, By the solos so appalling That the vender’s daily sing. By the sopping and the mopping. And the general overalopping In the domicile ou'cropping, I am certain it is spring. —[Boaton Courier.

THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH.

Danger of Beating Carpets in th* City. —The City Improvement Society considers it vitally necessary, in view of the pending danger from cholera, that citizens should be informed that the pernicious habit, which has become so general, of beating carpets, rugs, clothing, etc., in the open spaces called “yards,” in the rear of their premise*, is in direct violation of Section 98 of the Sanitary Code, which provides that the above shall not be done “ in any place where particles may be set in motion and pass into any occupied premises.” Sympathetic Inflammation. —This peculiarity is strikingly exemplified in cuses of foreign bodies entering the eye, and in a recent explanation of the matter by Dr. David Webster, emphasis is laid upon tho necessity, in all instances of inflammation of one eye coming on suddenly and without apparent cause, of searching carefully'for such intruders on the corner and on the conjunctivia—removing them, when found, with as little injury as possible to the surrounding pnrts. Dr. Webster guys that when a foreign body is lodged within tho eyeball, especially in tho ciliary region, the patient ia in danger of losing the followeye by sympathetic inflammation, whether the foreign body is removed or not, though the removal of the foreign body greatly lessons such danger; but if the foreign body has alrcudy destroyed the sight, the eye should ho cleared without delay. If sympathetic iuflummatiou sets in, Dr. Webster says that the soouer the eyeball containing the foreign body ia cleared —unless it has serviceable vision —the better will bo tho patient’s chance* of retaining useful sight, or, if the fellow-eye is attacked with symptom* of severe sympathetic irritation, tho eve containing tno foreign body should be cleared without waiting for actual sympathetic inflammation. Further,'the magnet is serviceable in cases where the foreign body is of attractable material and can bo seen, and is not firmly imbedded in the eyewall, or encapstded with organized lymph.

About Tight Lacing. —lt would still he premature to conclude that we have done with tho practice of the ill effects of tight lacing. Were we disposed to doubt the prevalence of this custom, tire medical records of every day could prove its continuance, nor can wo *ee iiow it should bo otherwise as long as tho stiff corset retains its place' us an articleof dress. Now and then some fatal misohunco is found to bo traceable to it* abuse, while instances where ill health has boon the peualty aro far from uncommon. Every practitioner is familia* with eases of this kind, and it needs nosearching examination to convince him. that among tho pallid complexions and palpitating hearts which require his attentlon some arc directly traceable to the pinching vanity of the corset. Why this effect should follow such a cause we need hardly explain to medical readers. They can well appreciate the vicious influence of cramping pressure exercised upon the trunk and its viscera without cessation for the greater part of every day, say* the London /.meet. Let us, nevertheless, discuss briefly the effect of such pressure upon the different organs exposed to it. Naturally the kidney* being deeply placed may bo expected to escape entirely from its direct action and they constitute the sole example of such immunity. The lungs and heart suffer almost if not in equal degree and the consequonces In their case are visible iu impaired respiration, defective nutrition of the blood, with consequent impoverishment of every organ and tissue and a weakened and excited or languid cardiac action, culminating, it may even happen, as in an instance lately reported, in fatal syncope. The effect upon digestion is noteworthy. There being but little space for the normal expansion of the stomach afte*r eating, less and less food is taken until the foolish sufferer is virtually halfstarved. Constipation is a neceesary sequel, and flatulant distension adds another impediment to the coarse of a laboring circulation and overpressed respjratory organs. Naturally those viscera which lie low in the pelvis feci this strain, so that almost every function required for healthy existence is deprived of its normal exercise. What then of health itself ? And need we feel surprised If now and then the thoughtless vanity which thus exchanges every physical comfort for mere appearance leads to forfeit of life also? If experience be credited, it is so.

An Odd Trade in Paris.

'The mneehabcc men, or fishers of dead bodies, who ply their doleful trade on the Seine, between the Auteuil Viaduct and the Billancourt Bridge, threaten to go on strike owing to the slowness with which their money premiums aye paid. Pere Joseph, the senior member of the profession of ecumers, or scavengers on the Seine, has been fishing for macchabees for the past twenty-live years, but he is now idle with his companions, as he has n»t been paid for the last batch of corpses sent to the morgue. Joseph, by the way,sent forty-two macchabees to the city dead-house last year, and was paid th’g-e dollars each for them, his total gams for the twelve months being a little over $125. This year the trade againseemed to be improving; the morgue was literally overflowing with bodies taken out of the river of late, and in one day Pere Joseph made sl2. That money, however, has not yet been received, although it has been due for a fortnight, and hence he has laid down his hooks and grappling-irons until the city officials, whose duty it is to remunerate him and his companions for their services, shall see their wayr to organizing more expedition in their pay department.—[Paris Letter. It would be interesting to know how the word “key,” which is the characteristic name .of many small islands in the Spanish-American waters, should have crept so far north as the coast of New Jersey, where it is found in Key East and Key West The word is from the same root as quay, and it appears some Hundreds of times between Florida and the coast of Sooth America.