Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1895 — Page 5

FOR THE FAIR SEX.

MEN LIKE BEAUTY BUT ABHOR SMARTNESS. Evan Bloomers Are Tolerable, and Everything Convenient Will Pass Muster Before the Sterner Gaze if it is Nice and the Wearer Pretty. “What Men Think of Women's Dress” is the subject of an interesting article in the North American Review. “The increase of liberty that women enjoy in the latter decade or two,” says the writer, “their entrance into the realm of men’s occupations, and'their consequent desire for greater freedom of dress, make it a hard matter, under these scarcely adjusted conditions, to draw the line between masculine likes and dislikes as to dress reform. It may be stated emphatically, however, that almost all men abominate all forms of women’s attire that merely aim to be mannish, that are adopted only for the sake of making a ‘smart’ appearance. Mannish collars, vests, hats, neckties, etc., when worn by women, almost alwayß create a re-

vulsion of feeling in a man by impairing that femininity in appearance which must always be one of the greatest charms of womanhood. At the same time, men would gladly encourage women in their natural right to adopt suolz modifications as would give them greater freedom for exercise or business pursuits, and consequently greater health. “It should be a recognized principle that beauty of figure is not to be hidden or lost by means of dress. There is no need to distort the art of the Creator by the art of the milliner. If a woman has a beautiful throat she has a perfect right to show it, except when she runs the risk of taking cold. Almost every woman has some good feature. Let her make the most of it. Be it beauty of eyes or hair, or complexion, beauty of stature, of strength, of arm or limb, dress should enhance it.” The season’s craze for ribbons is shown in the gown represented in the first illustration. The material of the gown is of mohair of an ivory white tint and brightened by an entire corsage front of cloth and gold. The ribbons are of a shaded yellow green and appear upon the dress skirt in bands about the lower edge, separated at intervals by broad box pleats. Directly in front, these bands are

each knotted into a spreading bow. The bodice sleeves are peculiarly graceful. They are simply huge puffs to the elbow, but below that they develop into fetching little frills that give them a unique grace. In the back the bodice is fitted closely to the wearer’s figure. In the front the mohair appears in three hanging pleats, two from each shoulder and the middle one half way down the bodice front. Each pleat is headed by bristling loops of the ribbon, a width of which also crosses the cloth of gold a little below the shoulder line. A broad sash-like belt of the ribbon is around the waist. Mohair crepon constitutes the skirt of a second gown. It appears, too. in the lower part of the bodice. It is a mixture of blue and green, variegated effects being another feature of the newest crinkled fabrics. The yoke and sleeves of this gown are of plajn green silk. The* belt is of green of a much darker shade. The bodice of this gown sags both back and front, another apparent tendency of the fall styles, and it is bordered along the yoke and down the front with a band of gay embroidery. This embroidery also forms the choker collar. FASHION NOTES. One of the new crepona in white has a green mohair stripe running through it. The fashion of wearing hats with low-cut gowns seems to exist in all continental watering places. , Fichu effects and drapped pulled sleeves appear on the new Louis XVI. polonaises and street redingotes. Alpaca and mohair, now that the traveling season is at its height, are becoming very popular. A pink silk with tiny dots and hair stripes of black in it is made with a plain, full skirt. The bodice has a plait.

A Rob Roy plaid silk scarf, drawn around the crown of a sailor hat, and bowed jauntily on the left side, is the latest and prettiest way to trim these popular hats. Taffetta silks in the beautiful ! Cbamelon shades will be the sash- ! ionable material this fall. Cre pons will not be worn by the really swell woman much longer. • Do not allow your gowns to touch the ground. Wear neat shoes, and even if your feet are not Cinderellas, let them show under your skirt. Inlaid enamel and gold buckles, long enough to reach quite across the front of the waist, are the latest fads to be worn with narrow belts. Don’t wear any belt if you are short waisted or inclined to be stout. Don’t wear a chiffon or flower trimmed hat and a tulle veil when you go yachting; they last about as long as the dew on the grass after the sun comes up. Moire belting in all the delicate shades, and powdered with tiny Dresden flowers in natural tints, is exhibited in all the leading stores. Have your grass linen gown made over pale green silk. The effect is delightfully cool looking and invariably becoming. Black satin ribbon and rhinestone or diamond buckles and buttons give the finishing touches to many of the newly imported gowns seen at Newport. If you have a plain linen or duck suit buy enough embroidery to edge the collar, revors and cuffs with. It will not cost you much, and will add immensely to the beauty of your gown. A pretty blue cropon gown worn at a summer resort shows the bodice smoothly covered with white embroidered “grass linen.” Very pretty seashore costumes are created of a white mohair, with coat and skirt with stitched seams, and worn with a bright-colored silk blouse. For soft, fluffy bodices there are almost as many textures as there are different designs. In Paris palm-leaf silk is used for waists and is the very latest vogue. Bandanna silk in all the odd, rich shades and figuros we have seen so often in our grandfather’s handkerchief, is now the most expensive silk, and the very latest fad for blouses and fancy fronts. Capes will continue to rival coats in fashionable favor just as long as full sleeves remain in vogue. Faille and all varieties of corded silk will be in great demand next season. A liberal use will be made by the milliners next season of velvets and velvet ribbons.

Did You?

l2ver see a clam bake some bread? Or an oyster stew clams? Or a cow hide a bucket? Or a mule shoe a horse? Or a house fly a kite? Or a pig pen a note? Or a wagon tire a crowd? Or a car wheel a dude? Or a flax brake a stone? Or a grain cradle a child? Ora calf skin an eel? Or a jury box an Oar? Or a shovel handle a question? Or a tooth pick a lock? Or a shoe string a fish? Or a butcher knife a man? Ota railroad tie a knot? Or a telegraph pole a vote? Ora coal pick a quarrel? Or a watch chain a tiger? Or a belt buckle a shoe? Or a shirt button a glove? Or a molasses jug a thief? Or a beet bottle a fly? Or a wagon wheel a load? Or a buggy harness a colt? Or a grain drill a squad? Or a gun cap a climax? Or » steamboat whistle a tune? Or a cane brake a pitcher? Or a door lock a safe? Or a pocket book an order? Or a dew drop an idea? Or a sprinkling can a tomato? Or a nose poke a fire? Or a barrel hoop a tub? Or a stake plate jewelry? Or a corn stalk a deer? Or a hand saw wood? Or a hat rack brain? Or a coat hook a chain? Or a switch stand a siege? Or a newspaper man a boat? Or an orange peel a potato? Or an ink stand a crash? Or a clothes line a hat? Or a fence post a bill?

California Fruit.

There can be no doubt in the minds of the Eastern fruit growers that their California brethren are hustlers, In 1885 the entire export of fresh fruits from that distant State amounted to 23,000,000 pounds; in -1890 it had risen to 75,000,000 pounds, while last year it reached the enormous quantity of 160,000,000 pounds. This is entirely exclusive of the 300,000,000 pounds of fruit canned and dried, and which raised the aggregate fruit exports of California to 430,000,000 pounds. Unlike its canned and dried fruits, which are thought to have reached the limit of consumption, it is felt that the demand for its fresh fruit has but begun and every effort is being strained to improve the methods of packing, handling, shipping and selling. An arrangement has been entered into to hold but one sale at a time in New York, thereby preventing competition and securing better prices, and on top of this comes the news of a new device by which each refrigerator car may be made to carry 23,328 pounds of cherries instead of 20,000 pounds hitherto allowed. But the saving is stili greater than appears on first sight, as the slatted trays are not merely lighter than the fruit boxes which they displace, but may be folded up, leaving space for the transportation of merchandise on the-"-return trip. These improvements will naturally lower the price of California fruits to the consumer and consequently extend their sale.

MAKING FLAGS.

NOVEL INDUSTRY AT BROOKLYN NAVY YARD. Though Our Flag Look* Easy to Make, Yat Such is Not tha Casa - - Foraign Ensigns Difficult to Fashion. Almost every flag that floats from the mastheads of our men of war is made in the flag room of the equipment department in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. There are a few flags made at the Mare Island yard, but the majority of them are made here. Before the equipment of a war vessel is complete she has to be provided with the flags of every nation in the world. Her flag locker will contain over 200 ensigns of different sizes and nationalities. The American flag is made in eight sizes, ranging from the huge No. 1 to the little boat flag, No. 8. The No. 1 size is very rarely made, as few vessels are provided with spars sufficiently lofty to enable them to be used. It is 86 feet long and 28.9 feet in width, or, to use the naval expression, it has a 86-foot fly and a 28.9-foot hoist. The regular flag which is commonly used is the No. 2, which lias a 27.19-foot fly and a 14.85-foot hoist. All vessels carry this size, but the cruisers Brooklyn and Minneapolis are the only ships which carry No. 1. The Columbia, however, has recently been supplied with a No. 1 flag, which she used at the Kiel Canal ceremony. In flag making seven colors are used—red, white, blue, green, brown and orange yellow, while canary yellow has been recently added to the list. Foreign navies have discarded white as a color in (signaling, and have substituted canary yellow. The United States Navy has recently followed this example, because it has been found that white blends in some way with the horizon, and at any distance is invisible. 1 On the floor of tho main flagroom are countersunk little brass plates, which mark the different sizes to which flags must be cut. This was an invention of Master Flagman Crimmins, and obivates constant measuring with a tape line. Most of the foreign flags are cut by means of zinc pattern, some of the designs being very difficult. There are also a number of triangular brass plates in the floor which are used to mark out the signal flags and pennants. Chalk lines continuing from the plates show the accurate dimensions of the desired pennant or code flag. The most difficult flags to make are those of San Salvador and Costa Rica. In the first named all the seven colors are used, and in the second all except brown. Brown is used for bronze, which is the usual color of crowns and imperial insignia in foreign flags. The recently adopted Japanese flag is an extremoly difficult one to make, though the old one was one of the easiest. Japan’s new naval flag consists of a red sun on a white ground, while from the sun red beams radiate to the extremities of the flag. No ray is of the same size, and the proper proportion is difficult to keep] The old flag was merely a white ground with a red circle in the center.

China has also considerably changed her flag. The new dragon is far more fantastic than the old one, and he is represented as about to swallow the red sun. The intricate designs in some of the foreign flags were formerly painted, but it was found that, unless in constant use, the paint cracked. At present the designs are all made by colored bunting. Of course, no shading is possible, but the result is surprisingly good from an artistic point of view, while at the same time the flag is more durable. After a flag has been cut to size, it is put together by women in the sewing room and afterward taken to another room, where it is “headed.” This process consists in attaching a thick band of white duck to the hoist, or part next the mast, and through the lines and attachments by which the flag is handled. The flag then goes down to the storeroom, where it is kept until wanted. In making flags for our navy 50,000 yards of bunting are annually used. The bunting, which is of a fine quality, is subjected to very severe tests before it is finally accepted. There must be thirty-four threads to the inch, and an inch of the fabric must be able to stand a strain along the warp of thirty pounds. There is a curious machine in the fiagroom for making this test. A piece of bunting two inches wide and containing sixty-eight threads across the warp is fixed by a clamp at either end. One clamp is firmly attached to a table, and the other is hooked onto the short end of the arm of a lever. By means of a little winding gear a heavy weight is run along the lever arm until a pressure of sixty pounds is exerted. If the strip of bunting stands the strain it is accepted so far as strength is concerned. The color test is also severe. After being vigorously scrubbed with soap and water the bunting is exposed to direct sunlight for a considerable period. If no signs of fading show the bunting is accepted. Thereis a minimum of waste in cutting the stripes for the American flag. The part left over after cutting stripes for a No. 2 flag i 3 used for a smaller flag, and that left over from the smaller flag does for one still smaller, and so on. Though our flag looks rather easy to make, yet such is ncftr the case. The principal difficulty lies in the union with its galaxy of stars.

INDIAN WARRIORS.

An Ex-Soldier Considers Comanches the Bravest) The police officer who participated in this struggle is one of the bravest men in the department, in fact, during his experience as an Indian fighter he was awarded a medal for bravery. "That campaign was the hardest I ever went through,” he said recently, in relating the incidents of the fight. “We began to run short of provisions on Sept. 1, and at that time they put us on four hardtack a day. We expected to meet Gen. Terry in that country, but we miscalculated, and starvation

stared us in the face. The day ot the fight we got just a cracker and a half apiece. “We subsisted principally on horseflesh, and as soon as one of the horses was shot down we would cut away the meat while the animal was still quivering. We had a cavalcade of played out horses that seemed good for nothing but food. We couldn't get a move on them to save our souls. but when they heard the first Indian yell they moved off like a lot of 8 year olds. Every night we slaughtered twenty-five head of them. The meat is not bad; it’s a good deal like beef, only a little sweeter. We had no salt or pepper with which to season it, but we used powder, taking it out of our cartridges. We carried no tents—in fact' had nothing beyond what we carried on our backs. We finally reached the Belle Fouchs fork of the Cheyenne River on the I7th of September, and on the 18th marched on to White Wood, in the Black Hills. We got supplies the.'e from Deadwood. “I believe thatr the Indian most to be admired is the Comanche. He’s nothing but game, knows nothing but fight. And he can fight, too, I tell you. Right after him I rank the Soux Indian. No, sir, they’re not thieves, they’re fighters. They are not very good shots. If they were I believe they would be better than the soldiery. We had a Sioux guide once, and the weather was way down below zero, 80 or 40, perhaps. That kind of weather wasn’t extraordinary at all. We were wrapped and bundled up and had the heaviest kind of boots on. The Indian wore nothing but light moccasins, and when we offered him something warmer he refused to accept it. “ ‘How can you stand the cold?’ I asked him. “‘Me all face,’ was his rejoinder. *He meant by that, that just as the face became inured to the cold, so did other portions of the body. But you can’t do much with the Sioux. I remember when the government built cottages for them they didn’t know what to do with them. They were in the habit of sleeping on the ground in the open air. Finally they led their horses into the cottages and themselves bunked as usual out in the field. “In the engagement of which I have told you we wounded a certain Indian most desperately. His entrails were hanging from his body. He coolly clapped his hand over the wound, and without a tremor stepped out among the soldiers without a word, but with an expression on his face that spoke plainer than words, and which indicated that death had no terror for him. They are the gainest of men, I believe, and only one other tribe compares favorably with them. ”

AN ANTELOPE HORSE.

Trained for the Sport and Knows All the Fine Points. “I had ahorse,’’ said an old army man, “that had belonged once to the Seventh Cavalry, but he had the ‘I. C.’ brand under his mane, so he was out of the service Inspected and condemned. Ho was a regular old plug, but he was all I could get to go hunting on, so I took him. I rode away out into the plains from the fort and I saw a bunch of antelope finally. I got off the horse and dropped the reins on tho ground, expecting the horse to stand there till I came back. I started off toward the antelope,and was sneaking along to get a shot when I looked around and I’ll be blamed if that brute of a horse hadn’t started off as tight as ho could lope. “ ‘Well,’ says I, ‘I guess I’m in for a six mile tramp home, and then I went on. l’retty soon I looked up, and I’m blessed if there wasn’t that horse over the other side of that bunch of antelope. ‘Well, now,’says I, ‘l’d like to know what the devil that horse thinks lie’s up to anyhow.’ Pretty soon he began to circle around on the other side, and the antelope saw him and started off toward me. I caught on at once and I lay down and waited. That old horse cut up the most surprising antics out there, and all the while he kept working those antelope towai /. me. By and by they got in range, and I got two; darned good luck it was, too. You see that horse was an old Indian hunting pony, and he had been trained to do that way. Well, I went back to the post, and everybody wanted to know how it happened I had such good luck. But I didn’t tell ’em. Not then. “A few days after I took that same horse out after prairie chickens. It was the time of the year when the chickens were flying and I was riding along when all of a sudden the critter stopped short, braced himself and waited—for what I didn’t know. But in a second a couple of chickens flew up ahead of me and I was so surprised I didn’t shoot. ‘Well,’ says I, ‘l’ll be switched. Here’s a horse that’s not only a hunting horse but is a regular pointer dog, too.’ And he was. I got my gun ready and the next time he stopped I was right on hand and dropped a bird. Well, now, no sooner did that horse see that bird fall than he galloped off right to where it fell and all I had to do was to reach off and pick it up. He was a great horse, I tell you, and I got lots of good hunting with him.”

Fastest Vessel in the World.

The fastest vessel in the world is the torpedo boat destroyer, Boxer, recently built for the British government by the Thornycrofts. She has beaten the records of her three famous sister ships, the Daring. Ardent and Decoy, her mean speed developed during six separate runs being, according to reports, 29.17 knots, and a total distance of 100.6 miles was covered in three hours, an average of 82.5 miles per hour thus being attained.

Rattlesnake Kills a Wild Cat.

Herman Brawser, of Port Jervis, N. Y., while going to work, witnessed a terrific battle-between a full grown wild cat and a big rattlesnake in a narrow cleft of rocks. The big ratter won, the cat dying from numerous bites. Brawser killed the snake. It supported 14 rattles and measured 81 feet.

A VAST GRAVEYARD.

•II China Is Dottad With Grave* yards. • The face of all nature i 9 pimpled with graves. No farm is so small that it,cannot afford at least one; no hill is so high (I speak of the Garden provinces of China) that it is not dotted with them to the top. No city lacks them, within and without its walls; only the compactest parts of the compact cities are without them. They vary in shape and form, as everything else varies in China. The saying is that “in ten miles everything is different,” and it certainly is so with the graves- Near Shanghai this eruption on the face of nature took the form of shapeless mounds of earth, perhaps six feet long by three feet high. There the coffins had been put on the ground and covered over with dirt. Farther along, toward Foochow and the Grand Canal, the graves were brick affairs, round topped, and square at the ends. In the other direction, at and near Cha-pu, on the coast, there wero often vaults of earth faced with stone and surrounded by a horseshoe or broken circle of earthwork. Some of these had three doorways, and looked like triple bake ovens. But down Cha-pu way many of tho graves were perfect little houses of brick, with tile roofs, and even with roofs whose corners were bent up in grand style. There are graveyards In China, family or village graveyards, that look like mere disturbances of the earth, when acres have been turned up into mounds or covered with brick ovens, and there are graveyards that are solemnly planted with rows of trees. But, as a rule, the farmers bury their dead in their rice or cotton fields or among their mulberry trees, and the poor buy or lease a resting place for their departed upon the acres of some wealthier man. I don't know whether lb be true or not, but I was told that the graves are kept, or let aloue, until a change of dynasty occurs, when they are razed and China begins over again to preempt a great fraction of her surface for her dead. If so, it is time for a change of dynasty, because a vast proportion of tho soil is lost to the farmers, who otherwise cultivate almost every foot of it. And the graves are in all stages of rack and ruin and disorder. At one time you see scores of tombs whose ends have been worn down by the elements or have fallen opt so as to show tho coffin ends or an outbreak of skulls aud bones. There is nothing that is possible that you do not see, oven to disclosures of great earthen jars full of bones, where the original graves and coffins have worn away. There the bones have been reinterred in pots, and these in turn huve been exposed by the careless hand of time. You Bee bare coffins sot out in the rice fields because the mourners were too poor to brick them oveV, and you see tens of thousands of coffins merely covered over with thatched straw. You see the grand tcftnbs of mandarins taking up half a mile of the earth. First there are the granite steps leading to a splendid triple arch all beautifully carved. Then follows the stately approach to the tomb —a wide avenue bordered by trees, and set with lions and warriors, horses and sages, all hewn out of stone. Finally the tomb itself, on a hillside if possible, stares down the avenue at all tlieso costly ornaments. But it must be that most of these monuments are to men long doad—perhaps to men of distant ages. Therefore, most of them are falling to pieces. Some are merely beginning to crumble, some are waste places with broken suggestions of what they were, and some have been Invaded by farmers and by the populace, with the result that you see portions of the once grand arch set in a near-by bridge or used us steps to a waterside tea house.

KILLING GRASSHOPPERS.

Eight Thousand Bushels Killed Dally in Hopper-Dozars. Minnesota scientists have tackled the grasshopper pest in a new way. Canvas and kerosene is the combination, before which the tiny hoppers go down to their death. Out there it is known as hopper-dozers. The State pays the expenses of the slaughter, and the slaughter is terrific. Think, if you can, of 8,000 bushel baskets packed with hoppers. That was the average record in a day of killed and wounded insects at the height of the scourge. Dr. Otto Lugger, Minnesota’s expert on bugs, is the man who utilized the curious “hopper-dozer." Why he calls it by that name it would be interesting to know. Perhaps it is because it sends the hoppers to their last sleep. He was invited to do something to rid the farms of their voracious brigades of hoppers early this summer. He found evidences of enough of them to kili all the crops in Minnesota. The trains helped to kill of some of them, but science had to do its share in the extermination. In the neighborhood of Taylor’s Falls Dr. Lugger found a grasshopper infested district covering fifty or sixty square miles. The Insects were descendants, he thought, of a previous generation, which had made trouble in 1890. They were of the so called pellucid, or California variety. There happened to be a State appropriation for killing hoppers, and this was turned over to the executioner. “I had 200 hopper dozers built after the most approved sash ■ ion," said Dr. Lugger to a World correspondent, “and purchased sixty barrels of kerofoene oil. All wo asked of the farmers was that they run the machines. That they were anxious to do this is shown by the fact that there was a fight for the machines. Every farmer in the section wanted one and wanted it at once. We could nob get them built fast enough to supply the demand. The same thing was done at Rush City, Duluth and other points, although there was not as many of them furnished at these places. I estimate that these machines killed about 8.000 bushels a day during the time that they were all running. 1 do not think that this is exaggerated in the least, as there were over 400 of the maohines, and at the end of a

day’s work from three to ten bushels could be taken out of each machine j with a shoveL Just about one hopper in ten that dies does so in the machine, so you can see that my estimate is not a large one by any means. “What is the nature of the machine?” lie was asked. “It is something of the nature of an overgrown dustpan, and is made of tin. It is about eight feet long by two feet wide, run on three small runners, and is drawn over the ground by a horse. At the front of the machine is a trough filled with coal oil, and behind this, at right angles. a piece of canvas rises to the height of three or four feet. As this machine is drawn over the ground the hoppers jump into it, the canvas preventing them from jumping over. They fall into the oil and that is the end. “Some of them strike the oil head first and die instantly. Others only touch it with their feet or bodies and are liable to jump out again. It makes little difference in the end, howe ar as they cannot live over three minutes If they have even the smallest drop of the oil upon their bodies. The fact that only those which gets into the oil head first die instantly is the reason that such a small percentage of them are found in the pan at the close of the day’s work. "Of course the hopper-dozers are only a makeshift. lam conducting experiments now which I hope will show me a much better way of getting rid of the pests than the very clumsy one of gathering them up on a dustpan. A little while ago I read in some paper that In certain counties in Colorado tho hoppers were dying in groat numbers with some sort of disease. I sent to the postmasters of a number of towns in that State asking them to send me some of the insects that wero diseased. I received a large number, and there is no doubt in my mind that they are really afflicted with a disease that is contagious in its nature. We aro trying to find out If the insects which we have In this State are liable to this disease. If so we will then know how to deal with them in a scientific manner.”

FISH FRY PARTIES:

How Cincinnatians Amuse Themselves at Night. Any warm, starllghtod night, writes a correspondent from Cincinnati, if you row up the Ohio rivor In a Hklff, or if you walk through tho willow forests that line the broad, white sand beach for six miles, or by steamboat or by sailboat, you will see all the way, sometimes out on the gleaming sunds, again half hid in the willows, a tent and always In front tho red (lames of a driftwood lire. Music and laughter fill the air. Out on the river a fleot of skiffs, John boats, occasionally a sail or a canoe, swarm about. Tho men In them fish with hook and line, with net and seine, and triumphant shouts announce the capture of a fish. At the fire points aro the ladies and the children of the party. A colored man Is there, too, with shining pans and in the roar is an improvised table. Somewhere near 10 o’clock the fishermen began to come In. The colored man cleans the scaly game and odors of frying fish fill the air. Then coinos singing. For miles music and good stories and laughter accompany the fish fry supper.

Odds and Ends.

Grand Haven, Mich., has a citizen, 94 years old, who served under the great Napoleon. England Imports $8,000,000 worth of potatoos overy year. There are ten newspaper editors in the iiritish House of Commons, six printers and three stationers. It is claimed that no treo has yet been measured which was taller than the great eucalyptus ip Gipsland, Australia, which proved to be four hundred and fifty feet high, In Mexico, and Spain as well, judge, jury and lawyers ail smoke in court, if they wish to, while a case is being heard. Even the prisoner is not deprived of his cigar or cigarette. King James I bought of a Mr. Markham the first Arabian horse ever owned in England. The price was £SOO. He was disgraced by being beaten by every horse that ran against him. A German has invented a chemical torch which ignites when wet. It is to be used on life buoys. When one is thrown to a man overboard at night he can thus see the light and find the buoy. An original kind of wedling took place in a little village in Surrey, England, the other day. Bicyles and tricycles took the place of carriages, the bride and bridegroom leading the way on a “bicycle built for two." Th 6 roots of ivy, dug by the mountaineers of North Carolina and Tennessee, are sold for $lO and sl2 per ton at the railroad stations, whence they are shipped North to be turned into door and bureau knobs. A concrete bridge having a clear span of 164 feet and 26 feet wide was recently constructed over the Danube at Munderkingen, in Austria. Stone is scarce and dear there, while good cement is produced in large quantities. When pins were first invented they were considered so great a luxury as not to bO fit for common use, and the maker was not allowed to sell them in an open shop except on two days of the year, at the beginning of January. When a person in the Soudan is bitten by a dog supposed to be suffering from the rabies, the animal is instantly caught, killed and cut open ; the liver is taken out and slightly browned by being held to the fire, after which the whole of the organ is eaten by the patient. The itchwood tree of the Fiji Islands and New Caledonia produces valuable timber for building purposes. It secretes al deadly milky sap, a single drop of which, should it happen to fall on the hands- or face, will produce a pain equal to that caused by contact with a red hot poker.

VAST HERDS OF CARIBOU.

In tho For North Thoy Aro as Thick os Evor Buffaloes Wore. The Barren-Ground Caribou now Inhabits the Great Slave Lake country, and just eastward thereof, not only in thousands, but tens of thousands, and it is almost safe to say hundreds of thousands. In 1891, when Mr. Warburton Tike found himself in the very midst of the vast throng of Caribou that were migrating southward, he was moved to doubt whether the buffalo had ever existed in greater numbers. Think of it! Vast herds of big game animals, fit for food, alive and unslaughtered in North America to-day! Why this oversight on the part of the game butchers? Where are the hide hunters, the tongue hunters, and the grand army of greedy game killers generally! The reason for the unslaughtered condition of the Caribou herds of the far North is that Jack Frost owns the Barren Grounds, and by game butchers Jack is considered “bad medicine.” As usual, the inhabitants of Caribouland slaughter tiie herds with sickening wastefulness whenever they get an opportunity; but thus far the Caribou is holding its own fairly well, save in Alaska. Mr. Warburton Pike says that in summer they keep to the true Barren Grounds, but in the autumn, when their feeding grounds are covered with snow, they seek the hanging moss in the woods. “From what I could gather from the Yellow-knife Indians, and from my own personal experience, it is late in October that the great bands of Caribou, commonly known as La Foule, mass upon the edge of the woods, and start for the food and shelter afforded by the stronger growth of pine further southward.” Of this groat annual migration here is what plucky Mr. Pike actually saw on Luke Camsell, about dixty miles north of the eastern end of Great Slave Lake. It reads like a fairy tale, but nevertheless the account Is undoubtedly true. "Scattered bands of Caribou were almost always In sight from the top of'the ridge behind the camp, and Increased in numbers until the morning of Octobor 20, 1889, when little Baptiste, who had gone for firewood, woke us up before daylight with the cry, ‘La foule 1 La foule 1’ (The throng 1 The throngl) Even in the lodge we could hear the curious clatter mado by a band of traveling Caribou. La foule had really come, and during the passage of six days I was able to realize wliut an extraordinary number of these animals still roam the Barren Grounds.” He thus describes tho migration : "From the ridge we had a splendid view of tho migration. All the south side of Mackay Luke was alive with the moving beasts, while the Ice seemed to bo dotted all over with black islands, and still away on the north shore, witli the aid of the glasses, we could see them coming like regiments on the march. In every direction we could hear the grunting noise that the Caribou always make whon traveling. The enow was broken Into broad roads, and I found It useless to try to estimate the number that passed within a few miles of our encampment. We were just on the western edge of their passage, and afterward we hoard that u band of Dog-Ribs, hunting some forty miles to the west, were at this very time In the last straits of starvation, only saving their lives by a hasty rotrout to the woods. This Is a common danger in the autumn, as the Caribou, coming In from the Barren Ground, join togethor in one vast herd, and do not scatter much till they reach the thick timber. The Caribou, as Is usually the caso when they are in large numbers, were very tamo, und on several occasions I found myself right in the iniddlo of a band, with a splendid chance to pick out any that seemed in good condition. Notwithstanding all the tall stories that are told of their numbers (the buffaloes) I cannot believe the herds qp the prairie evor surpassed i n size La foule of the Caribou.”

Beat Sugar Industry.

According to official reports the production of beet sugar is one of the ordinarily profitable branches of agriculture. The returns iye double those from wheat and many other crops. An acre of beets properly cultivated will yield about eleven tons. Eight hundred and six pounds of beets will produce one hundred pounds of sugar. There is a great deal of sirup residuum, which may be worked up into products of varying value. It is said that alcohol can be made at a high profit, which will add largely to the average net results from this source. Imperfect and undesirable portions of the crop may be fed with great advantage to domestic animals. According to careful computation it costs thirty dollars and sixteen cents per acre to get the crop into the ground and up to harvesting point, then something like eight dollars additional is necessary to gather the crop. It is hard work to grow beets. A gentleman who has made a study of their culture gives the following facts about them : “This is a peculiar crop. It cannot be raised in a slovenly fashion. It means work; it means intelligent, painstaking labor. It requires a much higher order of intelligence to grow beets than it does for wheat or corn. Every acre planted in beets means twenty days’ labor for one man. If two million acres of land are needed to supply this country with sugar, it follows that forty million days’ labor could thus be given to the laborers of the United States. It would also mean the transportation of twenty-six million pounds freight for the industry.”

Oldest Olive Tree.

The oldest olive tree in the United States is at the Mission of San Juan Capistrano, in San Diego County. The., seed of this treo was brought from Barcelona Spain, 126 years ago. This olive tree is fifty feet high, with a Crunk five feet in diameter. Since the first planting of olive trees in California the industry has extended so that it to-day embraces 700,000 trees, of which 400,- • 'OO were planted in 1898.