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Ttie Ita-HUtlfnl Coneort of Ferdinand Who Helped Columlius. Isabella was a lady, she was a queen, and, above all she was an autocrat. Gracious and gentle In her manner, says It. Ulick Burke’s “A History of Spain,” she brooked no opposition from prince or peer, and she soon made it known and felt throughout Spain that, although she was the daughter of John II. and 'the sister of Henry IV., her will was law in Castile. Beautiful, virtuous, discreet, with that highest expression of proud dignity that is seen in a peculiar simplicity of manner, with a hard heart and a fair eoutennnce, an inflexible will, and a mild mannersomething of a formalist, more of a bigot—Isabella united much that was characteristic of old Castile with not a little that was characteristic of new Spain. And if her boldness was inherited from the Cid, her bigotry was bequeathed to Philip II. No man can read the history of the times without being struck by the enormous personal influence of Isabella. An accomplished horsewoman, a tireless traveler, indefatigable in her attention to business of state, the queen with her court moved about from place to place, swift to punish crime and to encourage virtue, boldly composing the differences and compelling the submission of rival nobles, frowning upon the laxity of the clergy, denouncing the heresy of the people and laying a heavy hand upon enemies of every degree aud evildoers of every class. In Andalusia the unaccustomed and unexpected presence of the sovereign was everywhere productive of peace and order. Even in the remotest districts of Galicia the royal power was felt. Over fifty fortresses, the stronghold of knightly robbers, were razed to the ground, and one thousand five hundred noble highwaymen were forced to fly the kingdom. COTTON MILLS IN JAPAN.

LANDING ON A FOREIGN SHORE.

STRANGE WHEELS.

The Traveler on Arriving Wonder* What

to Da Flret.

When our steamer lands us in a foreign port—it matters little whether it is an English-speaking port or not—

Bach Were the Ulcyelee of “Ye Olden

Time.”

Archncologists will be interested to ! know that the first record of a bicycle is that of a stained-glass window in the

the traveler who has not taken the trip church of Stoke Pogis, near Windsor, to Europe before wonders what to do in England. It was this churchyard, first, according to a writer in Harper’s bythe way, that inspired Gray to write Bazar. Having donned our shore gar- his ever-famous elegy. The rider of the nients, packed our steamer trunks and cycle in the picture on the window, given it to the room steward, who i writes John Gilmer Speed, in Lippinbrings it to the custom house for us, | cott’s, which is dated 10413, would be mis-

Tbe Industry Han Grown Rapidly In the Mikado's Realm. Cotton manufacturing in Japan is the growth of the last fifteen years. Not a cotton mill, with one exception, of those now in operation was in operation prior to 18S0, says the Industrial Record. There is now running in Kagoshima a mill of 3,030 spindles that has been in operation since 1805. In 1880 an;l 1881 an era of cotton manufacturing was inaugurated by the erection of 14,000 to 15,000 spindle mills. In 1882 a Cl,200-spindle mill was put up at Osaka. The milk is the largest ever erected in Japan. There are two 30,000spindles, one at Tokio and the other at Osaka. The latter location is the principal manufacturing center in the empire. Nearly, if not fully, one-half of the cotton spindles are to he found there. The cotton mills at Osaka are reported as paying average annual dividends of IS {Mir cent., the highest having been 28 per cent, and the lowest 8 per cent. Not more than about ten years ago the people depended almost wholly upon foreign products of factory-made cotton fabrics, while now not over a fourth of this demand comes from foreign sources. The Cotton Spinners’ association of Japan Is the most reliable source of information, and that placed the number of spindles in 1894 at 385,205, yet the Yokohama chamber of commerce placed the number In 1893 at about 000,000. Between these two authorities we put our estimate of 500,000 spindles. The cotton mills of Japan will never be able to spin from the native cotton very fine yarn. The cotton is not suitable for anything but for the spinning of coarse yarns. NEVER GROW OLD.

53 T ID X5L 3U ‘X 1 AD HI ’ S3 Hog Mrs Cur I For IVcrms in all Animals. Cured forty young pigR. Read the following: Hennepin, 111., Nov. 24, 189-1. G. G. Stekktee : Your Hog Cholera Cure arrived on time; we used it on forty young pigs that were coughing and off ot their teed and not a bit lively. They are pulled through safely unci are as lively as crickets, bend me |4 worth more. Wm. U. Thomas. Ask druggists for Hteketee's Hog Choleia Cure, fifty cents, or sixty cents by mail. Address, GEO. G. STEKETEE, Proprietor, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Public Sale. I will sell on my farm, 2% miles south o Greencastle, on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17. 1895, all my personal properly, to-wit; Chickens, hogs, 11 Jersey cows aud cal'.cs ,7 fresh), about 100 sheep, 2 fine Shropshire bucks, span big inules . Hi'a hands highi, good team oi work horses, mare and two colts, about 15 tons old hay, about 300 shocks of corn. 00 or 70 bushels wheat, oats, 3 straw ricks and fall pas are. Can furnish good lot to JeeU out fodder, hay and straw. TERMS—A credit of 12 months will be given. All Rums under }5. cash. All notes with approved security before moving property. t 1 9 i win lease my farm of u res for one or more years to the highest bidder, on special contract. Same time and place. Sale to commence at 10 a. m. A. MOUDY. Address ireat WeMfieW. Ind . up to Oct. 14, 1895. 2t25

of AiSiiiiDiMintlion. D hereby given that the undersigned bap. been appointed oy the Clerk of the Circuit Oonrt of Putnam county. of Indiana, Administrator witb toe will annexed of the estate of Louisa A. Case, late of Putnam county, Indiana, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. Dated this 25th «ay of September, 1MW>. JAMES MORELAND, Administrator. Smiley & Carpenter, Attye. 3t24

Parte of the Physical System Which Never Wear Out. In his work on the senile heart Dr. Balfour tells us that there are two parts of the human organism which, if wisely wsed, "largely escape senile failure.” These two, says the Medical Record, are the brain and the heart. Persons who think have often wondered why brain workers, great statesmen and others, should continue to work with almost unimpaired mental activity and energy up to a period when most of the organs and functions of the body are in a condition of advanced senile decay. There is a physiological reason for this, and Dr. Balfour tells us what it is. The normal brain, he affirms,“remains vigorous to the last," and that “because its nutrition is especially provided for." About miidlu life, or a little later, Uu. general arteries of the body begin to lose their elasticity and to slowly but surely dilate. They become, therefore, much less efficient carriers of the nutiment blood to the capillary areas. But this is not the case with the internal carotids, which supply the capillary areas of the brain. On the contrary. these lartre vessels, “continue to retain their pristine elasticity, so that the blood pressure remains normally higher than within the capillary area of any other organ in the body. The cerebral blood paths being thus kept open, the brain tissue is kept better nourished than the other tissues of the body.” A Wily Scotchman. Was not this the retort courteous? It was the custom in Scotch parishes for the minister to bow to the laird’s pew before beginning his discourse. On one occasion the pew contained a bevy of ladies, and the minister, feeling a delicacy in Clio circumstances, omitted the usual salaam. When they next met the laird’s daughter—a Miss Miller, widely famed for her beauty and afterward countess of Mar — rallied the minister for not bowing to her from the pulpit. “Your ladyship forgets,” replied the minister, “that the worship of angels is not allowed by the Scotch church.”

and having given our fees to this same steward, our stewards, our table steward and deck-steward, we have nothing to do but wait with our hand baggage until the gangway is placed in po-

sition and we can go ashore.

With our fellow-passengers we enter a large room, where custom house officers abound on every side. They stand behind long tables, upon which our hand-bags and rolls are placed, and which we should prepare at once to unlock. A cheerful compliance with the request to open all packages does much to make our passage through all custom houses pleasant and easy, and a person has no disagreeable experiences who obeys the requirement of the law of the country she is entering. Travelers, as a rule, and American travelers especially, are treated with consideration. They will ask you, in French, German or Italian: “Have you anything dutiable?” and as cigars and brandy are what they seek, one can truthfully answer in one word: “Nothing”—a word easily learned in oil three languages. When our handbaggage has been examined, one of our party usually stands guard over it, in some out-of-the-way corner, while the others, with trunk keys in hand, wait

taken for Ban with his pipe were it elsewhere than in a Christian church, where pagan deities are not made at home. But history is silent as to the use of any such vehicle at that time. One hundred and twenty years or so later there was exhibited before the French court a manumotive carriage of several hundred pounds’ weight; but the bicycle can scarcely have grown from that. It was much nearer our own time that the first genuine bicycle was invented. It was quite the fashion to ride such a vehicle in England in 1819; the new invention was variously called the “dandy horse,” the “hobby-horse,” and the “velocipede." There are many allusions to it in the records of the day, and in a letter from John Keats in February, 1819, to his brother in America I find this mention of it: “The nothing of the day is a machine called the velocipede. It is a wheel carriage to ride cock-horse upon, sitting astride and pushing it along with the toes, a rudder wheel in hand. They will go seven miles an hour.” How it would have stimulated the poet’s imagination if, in the year he wrote that epistle, he had been granted a vision of the modern bicycle, a thing of grace, swiftness, and outdoor

for the trunks to be brought from the delight. Berliups a really great poem steamer’s hold. One claims them as ot the wheel might have resulted. For they appear, and they all must be . there is poetry as well as utility in it, opened as a rule. As the place for ex- and anybody with a spark of ideality amining trunks is large, a distinctly must feel this, except in those moments marked trunk is necessary. j when the mind is taken up with the ntA red ring or cross on the end of a tempt to escape being run down by one

trunk is seen at a great distance, when I of the reckless flyers.

initials are not distinguishable. Great patience works wonders in a customhouse, and when rough hands plunge

Think of seven miles an hour and several hundred pounds weight set against the figures concerning the modern

into every corner among our small | "hike!” Verily, the world moves and number of treasures, we are supposed | bicycles move with it. It would be to smilingly approve. The hat tray is J dangerous in the light of the past to

always attractive to these guardians of , the peace, and then a woman is allowed to make known her feelings by a gen-

tle "Prenez garde, s'il vous plait!" or, "Bitte, in acht nehmen!” or, again, the soft Italian: “Badate, per piacere!”— all of which is simply; “Please, take care.” If a person preserves a calm indifference, and does not attempt to violate their laws, there is nothing to dread in these places of custom. But no fee is ever offered a custom house

official.

After passing the customs, a porter carries our luggage to a cab, or, if we have too many trunks for a one-horse carriage, we must take a larger one. A onc-horse cab can carry comfortably two people with their hand baggage, and two small trunks in front with the driver. We direct the coachman to the hotel previously decided upon, our decision having been reached by our redbound Baedeker.

POETICAL COMPETITION.

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A Pleasant Poitline of Literary Folk In China. The Chinese have at least one very gentle and highly civilized amusement —competition in making verses. Tcher.g-Ki-Tong says, in his book, “The Chinaman at Home;" “Instead of shooting, or playing lawn tennis, or croquet, our literary folk, as soon as a certain number of them have a little time to spare, meet together in turn ;:t each others’ houses, and give themselves up to poetical tournaments.” This is done in all parts of China, but especially in the province of Fukien. As soon as the players are ready, a vase is passed round, and out of it each draws a slip of paper, on which is written a word denoting what part lie is to take. He may be examiner, copying clerk, or competitor. When this formality is over, one of the examiners takes up a book and opens it at random. Another examiner calls a number, say nine. The first examiner reads the ninth line of the page at which he has opened, and from this line a phrase or word is chosen as the subject of composition. Then a second vase is placed upon the table, to which a bell is attached, A thread hangs from the bell, aud at the end of the thread Is a lighted stick of incense. In about half an hour the stick burns out, the thread ignites, and as it snaps, a weight drops, which at at the same instant rings the bell and closes the lid of the vase. The time Is up, and no more verses can be put into the urn. Now the clerks pour tne manuscripts out of the urn, copy them all on the same sheet of paper, to secure anonymity, and so submit them to the examiners. The examiners compare them, decide upon the best and the second best, and one of examiners mounts a kind of desk and reads or intones the best one. Each candidate may write and drop into the urn as many poems as he pleases—before the bell rings—but has to pay a small fee for each entry. The money is spent for paper, ink and prizes. A second trial follows immediately, and the two winners of the first trial are made examiners in the second one. This may go on for an entire afternoon, and in the evening a dinner brings the fete to an end.

say what the machine of the future may evolve into, one can hardly believe in an improvement proportionate to that of the last fifty years, but anyway it furnishes another reason for wishing to live a hundred years or so that one might behold the wheel of 2000 A. D. The “nothing of the day” of 1819 has become an almost indispensable of personal business and pleasure 1895. It must be left to some John Keats of the present to attempt a better prophecy than his fellow bard of England eighty odd years back, whose gifts were not of the kind to give him a hint of the great prospects of the “velocipede.” TOWNS OF SETTLED HABITS.

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A little Ohio girl was taught by ] the feet, find the other method being to her good mamma to pray regularly compare the distance between the cvWrj day, but Lhe lequesta made were . knee and t!',C Vi,itb^/a with that fl'om the the same night and morning, week in I knee to the coroneL In the first and week out. Finally her mamma 1 method it is considered that the oolt suggested a change for the next day, ! will grow as much taller as the first and what was her surprise to hear the ! measurement exceeds that of the secdear little innocent pray that God would end, and the second method, if the promake her “ ‘absolutely pure’ like the portion is as two to one, the horse will

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