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TELEPHONE 72.

Stephen Crane has emerged from the sea to call the United States revenue cutter, Boutwell, "the old isosceles triangle" which is Insulting to our navy.-

Senator Money's brief trip to Havana and its environs will not enable him to speak with much authority for the country beyond tlie Trocha, but he willl know more than the Key West news bureau.

There is a greater Chicago and Greater New York but Boston goes slow on annexation, especially since Sam Jones said hell was only half a mile away. Boston is a pretty good city though sometimes Demo

cratic.

•'"Mr. Cleveland went to see the opera of "Robin Hood." The audience applauded him tremendously and he applauded "Brown October Ale," both parties apparently liking something with a good deal of body, but the song is a good one.

The Loud bill which passed the House, provides for raising the'rate from one cent to eight cents a pound on over 250,000,000 pounds of printed mail matter. The Senate will better serve the interests of the people by taking hold of this bill and letting Cuba alone for a while. Business before* eloquence, gentlemen!

Bryan is a natural born literary pirate, his last effort being to adapt from— 'Tis better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all, the phrase that "it is better to have run and lost than never to have run at all." No one can dispute this little pleasantry of Mr. Bryan's. For him, it was certainly much better to have run. No other candidate ever had so much fun as he.

The Safety Appliance act which requires railroads to equip their cars with air brakes »nd automatic couplings was passed in 1893 and gave the roads nearly five years for complying. The representatives of the big roads will intercede for more time. It is posssible that the dull times of the last three years have made it difficult for the companies to undertake the work, which will require a large expenditure of money, but no more allowance should be made for Bimple passiveness or dawdling on the part of the roads than in any other case. The work has got to he done.

There will be a vacancy for some $40 telegraph operator at Sleepy Eye, Minn., the operator there having sold valuable patent rights for a rotary engine of his invention for $7,000,000. Once upon a time it would have taken a life time to introduce sucji an invention all over the civilized world. Now It can be set to work in every city in the world within a few years and the inventor gets his reward at once instead of waiting for It or losing it. Of course he has a perfect right to it. The rights of man elves each a right to what he has earned but not to what somebody else has earned with his arm or his brain.

A sheep-grower once stopped a lot of men on their way to the gold mines to offer them the Job of shearing his sheep. Their time being valuable they agreed to do the Job for the wool. This offer to shear the •heep and the owner was not accepted.

The Wilson bill did not leave the farmer much more than his sheep and it also reduced the number of sheep, but the wool growers are now demanding a rate of protection which goes too far the other way. The Spanish proverb says that the sheep has a golden foot, but our wool-growers want to wrap the sheep in a golden fleece. We trust our ways and means committee will teach them a sweet reasonableness.

The celebrated Davy Crockett toid an interesting story from his Congressional experience in regard to a narrow escape he had from being defeated for re-election. With the most generous motives he had voted for a grant of money to some poor people of Georgetown whose homes had been burned but some of his hard-headed Tennessee constituents thought he had no right to be sympathetic and impulsively generous at their expense, fiver after, when limllar bills came up, Davy would offer an individual subscription but dccline to vote tor public relief.

Some of our sympathetic Senators while Ttudying the Cuban question ought to read the reminiscences of Davy Crockett, who ivas himself a sympathizer with struggling patriots as his death at the Alamo would rtiow. The Senators can pass resolutions but It is the country which bears the shock ind pays the bills. A cool head is much •ater than a warm heart for the man at

Washington, but there may be both and in good time the will of one pan execute the impulses of the other.

DEMOCRATIC SAINT'S DAY. The memory of none of the former presidents has been more regularly and faithfully honored, if as much so, as that of Andrew Jackson, though the 8th of .January is not the day it once was when In many households, as well as in public, it was observed by a special entertainment. The day, in celebrating a victory which gave great glory to America might well interest every citizen, for none can refuse all honor to the hero of New Orleans, nor any fail to respect the striking personal qualities of Jackson. Professor J. Clark Ridpath in his history briefly and well summarizes his character, though full justice could not be accorded when so much is omitted. Said the writer: "The new president was a military hero— a man of great talents, coarse, stubborn and inflexibly honest. His integrity was unassailable, his will like iron. His accession to the presdency marked the overthrow of the so-called 'Virginia Dynasty,' consisting of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, and tie substitution for the gentlemanly methods of those great personages of the rough and boisterous manners which have ever since been too prevalent in the high places of American politics. At the beginning he removed 700 office holders and appointed in their stead his own political friends."

The Democrats wtho celebrate Jackson's fame today will speak of his virtues and re gret the change from his summary methods of distributing spoils, for if it had not been for Jackson there would have been less work for civil service reform.

It would seem most appropriate that the greater statesman, Jefferson, should be the tutelary saint of the annual banquet, but the military fame of Jackson and the glory of one great day very naturally contributed to his great popularity. He was a harder fighter in politics as well as arms, and men always pay tribute to the hard fighters, ever if they were sometimes wrong, as Jackson was, for though he was brave and honest, in him was not the sum of all wisdom.

Though the battle of New Orleans ought not to have been fought, since it occurred after the treaty of peace with Great Britain had been signed, Jackson was no accident and might have become a national figure without it. The battle had to be fought as the attack was made, but it cost the Americans very little, and-the British very deiar. It was a fine seal to be put on the treaty, without which the British would have felt little respect for the American arms, that won so little honor anywhere else on land during the war.

Democrats will talk opposing doctrines over their departed leader today, some of which would much incense him if alive. It is most probable that he, who in his day was condemned by the senate and stood alone against its greatest leaders, would today stand by his successor who occupies a not very different position.

OUR SCHOOLS MUST BE THE BEST. A communication from President Parsons of the State Normal School which appeared in The Express on Wednesday will meet the approbation of judicious friends of education. It was not a plea for money from the taxpayers, but for a better return for the taxpayers' money. That is, Mr. Parsons advocated the necessity of elevating the standard of teaching and giving to the people the best results of their liberal expenditure of money. Never was there such a profuse outlay of money in higher education, on normal schools, colleges and universities, by th? public or individuals, as now and never such an opportunity to supply the common schools with thoroughly competent teachers.

It will be seen that the test of competence made by the State Normal School is exacting and the standard is very high. One who has fulfilled all conditions of the school has served the long apprenticeship necessary to make a master workman and also passed the "Wanderjahr," or more, in actual work.

The taxpayers of Indiana having been mor6-liberal to education probably than to any other, interest have a right to expect and are in duty bound to demand the highest grade of excellence in the scliools for their children, and that presupposes the best teacher for the place in every place.

If the State Normal will hold its standard high it should have the preference which does not exclude graduates of other institutions, but it does fix the standard to which they must attain. We understand the real apex of our public school system to be the State Normal School, and the chief educational work of the state to be the public schools and the supply of adequate teachers.

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No one will be surprised if the rumor that the queen intends to create Princess Beatrice duchess of Kent in the new yeat should prove to be correct. Her majesty has thought more than once of reviving the title of her mother.

A woman living in Honolulu claims to be 124 years old, and the historical events that she remembers prove }ier to be at least 122. She is very deaf, but can see, though very indistinctly.

In her capacity as governor of the Isle of Wight, Princess Beatrice will next summer publicly unveil the memorial of the late Lord Tennyson, to be erected on the cliffs at Farrlngford.

Mrs. Ella Castle, the wife of the San Francisco millionaire, who was admitted to the Polyclinic hospital about three weeks ago, shortly after the return of the couple from their unpleasant experience in London, has ieft that instltut!on entirely cured.

The cc tinuis to give daily receptions :o the il. ^mats, and the resistance to the fatigue attendant upon these receptions shown by his holiness causes general surprise.

South African millionaires who have returned to England.are building and have built some of the most magnificent dwellings in London. Mr. Belt, the stock broker, has built' a palace near Groevenor gate, and Barney Barnato is erecting the largest .&nd most pretentious buiiaine' in England'in Park

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 8,1891

lane. J. B. Robinson has been satisfied to purchase a home and baa acquired Dudleyhouse, Park lane, Piccadilly.

Lou V. Stephens, who has Just taken Wb seat as governor of Missouri, is the first native born governor the state has ever had.

A statue of the late Count Ferdinand De Lesseps is about to be erected at Port Said, at a point overlooking the harbor and entrance to the Suez canal.

George J. Gould is said to be so expert as a telegraph op'erator that, standing in the operating room on the top floor of the Western Union building, he can distinguish within a few minutes the quality of work that is being done by the operators nearest to him. T£i? faculty of discernment on President Gouii part makes his visits J^o the telegraphers quarters a matter of some moment to them.

The emperor of China is systematically studying the new testament, and is at present reading the gospel of St. Luke.

CANTERBURY'S ARCHBISHOP.

The New Primate to Be Enthroned This Month. London, Jan. 7.—The enthronement of the Rt. Rev. Dr. Frederick Temple as Archbishop of Canterbury will take place at the Cathedral of Canterbury with interesting and imposing ceremony this

month. Ecclesiastical England (including Wales) is divided into two great provinces, each ruled over by an archbishop. The larger province, with twenty-three dioceses, has its seat at Canterbury, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Kent the smaller, with only nine dioceses, at York, the capital of Northumbria. The Archbishop of Canterbury has always held pre-eminent and universal authority over the whole kingdom. This pre-eminence is marked in the titles which the respective archbishops assume. Both are primates. But the Archbishop of York is simply called primate of England. The Archbishop of Canterbury, on the other hand, is primate of all England. It is also indicated by their relative rights jL precedence. The Archbishop of Canterbury had precedence over all the nobility save those of royal blood, the lord chancellor comes next and then the Archbishop of York.

Though the Archbishop of Canterbury is the Sacerdotal head of the Church of England, the nominal and secular head is at present Queen Victoria. The reason why the Archbishop of Canterbury is the priestly head of that church is that his sp^pifil diocese is the cradle of English Christianity. It was here the authority of the pope over England was transferred during the reformation to the Episcopal Church, Henry VIII. then being the ruler.

The. enthronement will be an imposing and spectacular affair. It is the most impressive, perhaps, in the whole category of ceremonies of the Established church. All the leading prelates from far and near will be present. The representatives of royalty will be present, and distinguished men In all ranks of life will occupy seats of honor. A large element in the Protestant Episcopal Church will view the ceremony with indifference, if not disdain and indignation. To them Dr. Temple stands for all that is heretical in the teachings of the higher criticism. He is one of the most advanced liberals in the ranks of English churchmen. He has long been a professed advocate of Darwin's theory of evolution and of views similar to those which resulted, several years ago, in the famous Briggs controversy in the United States. Dr. Temple is, moreover, not a man to conceal his views. He has in many public utterances let his people know his attitude on these subjects, in his successive offices of head master of Rugby School, Bishop of Exeter and Bishop of London. He has written and preached distinctly in accordance with jihe "broad" school in the Church of England. Indeed, so frank has he been that his enemies could not let his confirmation go by without entering a protest against his position.

Th ceremony took place in the Bow Church, Canterbury, December 22d. In the midst of it the Rev. Dr. Brownjohn, formerly chaplain of the Bishop of Bath, arose and startled the congregation by protesting against the confirmation, on the ground that Dr. Temple was a self-con-fessed believer in the full doctrine of evolution, and that this doctrine was incompatible with fidelity to the Book of Common Prayer and the Articles of Religion. The royal commissioners declined to hear the Rev. Mr. Brownjohn. After leaving the church, Mr. Brownjohn distributed leaflets to persons outside the building, jit is welll known that this was not the individual protest of Mr. Brownjohn—that influential and powerful forces stood In His shadow. These forces are not of tie "high church" school, but, on the contraily.j of the low church, or evangelical school.

SUPPOSED DISCOVERIES.

Hindoos Claim That the Ancients Knew Far More Than is Credited to Them A learned Indian prince, Thakore Sahib, of Gond-al, is the author of a history of Aryan medical science, Issued from the London press last week. According to a cabled acccount of this book, it advances some remarkable claims on behalf of Hindoo science and civilization.

Prince Thakore asserts that the grandest discoveries of Western medical genius, such as vaccination, anaesthesia and antiseptic surgery, were all practiced among the Hindoos many centuries ago. He declares that in the "Ayur Veda," or Science of Life, which is the most ancient of all Brahmin books on medicine, nearly all the best mod*-" ern methods of medical diagnosis, as well as of practical surgery, are fully set forth. The circulation of the blood, which we say was discovered by Harvey, is said to be fully set forth in this ancient volume of the Hindoo scriptures. Prince Thakore also cites historical evidence to show that cranial and abdominal surgical operations of the most difficult kind, such as we have supposed were never performed until within the last fifty years, were done a thousand yars ago in the land of Buddha. He points to the record of the trephining of King Bhoja of Dhar, who lived about A. D. 977, to relieve him from severe pains in his head. The record clearly states that the king was rendered unconscious, his cranium opened, the cause of the trouble removed from the brain, the wound closed up and his trouble completely cured. Jivaka, who was Buddha's own physician, performed similar operations.

Such claims tend to shake the self-esteem of Western peoples as the wisest and most highly Inventive that have ever occupied the earth and to cast a doubt upon their boast that they are "the heirs of all the ages in the foremost files of time." It is no new thing, however, for us to be told that a] light travels from the East to the West, and not from the West to the East. We speak of Asia as "the cradle of the race," and so it undoubtedly was. We need not be surprised, therefore, If, as Asia becomes "better known and its antiquities more closely inquired into, we should find that much of the supposed new knowledge of the West was familiar in the East when the world was young. Wendell Phillips' .ost celebrated lecture was entitled "The Lost Arts." Curiously enough it is not included in the standard edition of his published works. A pamphlet copy of it, published twenty years ago, is hard to find. The famous Massachusetts orator very largely forestalled the claims of Prince Thakore. He boldly declared that of a hundred marvelous things known to the nineteenth century ninety-nine of them had been anticipated by the ancients. He poiuted more

particularly to mechanical arts and inventions. He quoted Pliny to show that Nero had a ring with a gem in it through which he looked and watched the sword play of the gladiators in the arena more clearly than with the naked eye—a style of opera glass unknown to us moderns.

The use of microscopes of immense power in ancient Egypt, Persia and Greece is fairly presumable because there is a gem shown at Parma, once worn on the finger of Michael Angelo, the engraving whereon is 2,000 years old, and which reveals the figures of seven women only with the aid of a strong magnifying glass. Sir Henry Rawlinson brought home from Nineveh a stone about twenty inches long and ten inches wide containing a whole treatise on mathematics that was utterly Illegible without a microscope. And if it can not be read without a microscope, it could not have been engraved without similar aid. Mr. Phillips averred that the art of coloring reached a perfection among the ancients far beyond our own. The burned city of Pompeii was a city of stucco. The eteriors of the walls of all its buildings were of stucco, and the stucco was stained with Tyrian purple—the royal purple of antiquity. The city has been buried about 1,800 years, yet whenever the "Walls of one of its houses are dug out the royal purple flames up in view with a great deal richer hue than any we can produce. Evidently the Pompeiians possessed a secret for making fast colors that we h'ave not. When the English despoiled the summer palace of the emperor of China they brought home curiously wrought metal vessels of every kind, and European metal-workers confessed their inability to reproduce them. Sheffield steel is an English boast, but it will not bear the atmosphere of India without gilding. Yet the Damascus blades used in the crusades were not guilded and they are as bright and keen today as they were eight centuries ago. There was one shown at the London exhibition in 1862 the point of which could be made to touch the hilt, and which could be put into a scabbard like a corkscrew and bent every way without breaking. The best eteel in the world today does not come from either Europe, or America, but from the Ponjaub.

Sir Walter'Scott, in his "Tales of the Crusaders," describes a meeting between Richard Coeur de Lion and Saladin, in which the English monarch is made to think that Saladin practices'the black art because the latter takes an eider-down pillow from the sofa and causes it to fall in two pieces by drawing his keen blade across it. Travelers in India tell of seeing Hindoos throw handfuls of floss silk into the air and cut them in pieces with thdr fine-edged sabers. There is no- steel made in Western workshops of that quality. So, too, with the art of glasscutting. It was supposed thirty years ago that there were no ancient glass factories, but the Pompeiian excavations revealed a .workshop full of ground glass, window glass, cut glass and colored gl#iss of every variety. We plume ourselves upon our canals, but ancient Palestine had many magnificent canals, with perfectly arranged gates and sluices. It is doubtful if, notwithstanding MacAdam, we build any better roads than the Romans. We have not yet discovered a perfect way of ventilating either our public buildings or our private houses, but the exploration of the pyramids in Egypt show that those Egyptian tombs were ventilated in the most scientific manner.

Our architects are well aware that their ancient predecessors knew some things that are still mysteries to them. Mr. Archibald Dunn, president of the Northern Architectural Association of Great Britain, in an address reprinted in a recent issue of "Architecture and Building," speaks in this sense of the stupendous works of the Egyptian builders of the, Nile .temples. He says that it almost passes belief that the blocks of granite used in building those wonderful structures could have beeen handled at all and liften ihto their places. Fof example, many of the stone slabs forming the roof of the great Temple of Karnak weigh upward of fifty tons and some of them are believed to weigh from 100 to 300 tons.each. Yet all these huge stones are set without mortar, and today, after all the centuries that have passed since they were placed, they are found to be joined with such accuracy that the blade of a penknife cannot be forced between them. Lord Armstrong wrote with wonder and admiration of the great statue of Ramases the Great, which is cut out of a single block of syenite calrculated to have weighed 1300 tons before the artist commenced upon it. He observes that to bring such a block out of stone from a distance of 135 miles "was a feat which would daunt the courage of a modern engineer, although aided by powers and apppliances unknown to the ancient Egyptians. These huge blocks of stone "were quarried by means of wooden wedges, which were inserted and afterwards swelled by water, and Lord Armstrong was of opinion that no engineer of the present day could detach them from the quarry by that ancient process.

The contemplation of these evidences of ancient achievement is well calculated to abate our admitted tendency to indulge in too much self admiration. It will do us no harm to take our eyes once in a while from our own civilization and let them rest upon the great works of ages past. Prince Thakore of Gondal may posssibly be claiming too much for the medical science of old Hindostan, but there is no doubt whatever that we are too prone to assume that wisdom has no children worthy of her until we appepared upon the scene. ....

EARNS HIS FORTUNE.

Grant Brambel Sells His Patent Rights For 87.000,000. Sleepy Eye, Jan. 7.—This quiet little town scarcely able to realise tonight that one of its humble residents is worth $7,000,000.

Grant Brambel, an Englishman by birth, the telegraph operator at the little station here the past half-dozen years, has put in his spare time from the sale of tickets and wrestling with baggage in studying motors. .. little more than a year ago he had patented a rotary engine which works after Uie fashion of the turbine water wheel.

Today he sold to Hoary Francis Allen, representing the Allen syndicate of England, the right to manufacture and sell these engines in the United States for $3,100,000. He had previously sold the right for its manufacture In England, Germany and France for over $4,000,000. While still controlling his interests for the Canadian provinces, Mexico, Central and South America, he has already sold his rights for over $7,000,000.

Brambel's genius was recognized by th» people of the village yesterday by making mm an alderman. Speaking of his Invention, Brambel said: "I first got the idea of a rotary engine from the turbine wheel. I could not see why steam could not do what water did, especially when steam had qualities that water lacked and that were essential. You know that when a little turbine is hit by a column of water no bigger than your pencil something has to go. You take a smaller wheel, mechanically correct, and turn against it an inch steam jet at 100 pounds or over and allow for the steam expansion and why won't you get power? 'I knew what was necessary to get the greatest possible development of the steam expansion in order to give success to the idea, and I have been working along this line. It took many models end I a great many failures to get the thing rigBt. I have had engine after engine that seemed to be perfect, and would Bpln along like a top, only stop when Bome unexplalnable point was

to reached. I^-have had "problem after problem,

and finally, about five years ago, I hit the machine substantially &JS it la today. Since then all the experiments liave been in the line of possible improvements, but I have not feund many, and I think it wilt be hard to get anything more powerful or better In its way that what I have. "There have been fourteen of the engines built, all experimentally, and they have bem tested everywhere I could find a place for them, except on locomotives. I have run circular saw&.with them .up to 1,200 revolutions, emery wheels, centrifugal fans and blowers, creamery separators up to 6,500 revolutions, and dynamos, all coupled direct to the engine. They have been In use in el* vators, hoisting works, boats and machine shops. The Baldwin works offered to put one on a locomotive, but it Would cost considerable, as the driveroheels would have to be changed, and extra weight to give the traction power an ordinary locomotive gets from the weight of its machinery would have to be added."

THE THEATER HAT ORDINANCE.

A Suffering Chicago Alderman's War on Obstructive Headgear. Alderman Plotke, a man with a Bhort neck, went to a theater the other night, paying $2 for a seat, and found himself ambuscaded by specimens of the milliner's art akin to the hanging gardens of old Babylon, says the Chicago Tribune.

Monday night at the of the city council the alderman rose to the occasion. He introduced and had passed an ordinance making it unlawful for the owner of any theater or place of amusement to permit anyone to wear a hat within the theater while any performance is going on on the stage. Should any woman persist in wearing a love of a bonnet or a duck of a hat the owner or manager will have to foot tho bill to the tune of from $10 to $25, as the police justice may decide. Every hat Is to constitute a separate and distinct offense. "Nobody asked me to," said Alderman Plotke. "I did It because it was time fop some one to do it. I've got tired of sitting: behind a grand spring exhibit of the latest styles from Paris and Podunk, and resolved to strike a blow for the right to look at the stage and the people on it after you have paid for that privilege., "If managers are given a means'of compelling women to remove hats while in the theater, when a woman who persists in wearing a hat is handed a card with this ordinance on it, I think she will see the necessity of obeying the law," said the disgruntled alderman. "If the ordinance Is legal I shall hall It with delight," said Manager Powers of Hoaley's. "I have been working against the wearing of high hats in my theater for four tr five years. At the head of every programme printed for this theater you will find the quotation, 'The way to deal with the high bat is to take it off,' and at the head of every page of every programme is the exhortation, 'Ladies! Hats Off, Please.' For a long time I have felt as if I should like' to take such measures as would compel women to remove their hats during the performance. People do not go to theaters to study fashions, but to listen and see."

On and after the day when the anti-hal ordinance becomes a law the tickets issued by the Great Northern Theater will bear a printed contract binding each purchaser, of either sex, to remove his or her hat while in attendance at any performance given in the house.

RETURNS HER WEDDING GIFTS.

Claus Spreckels' Daughter Loves Her Has. band More Than Money. San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 7.—Emma Spreckels-Watson has deeded to her father the bulk of her property voluntarily making herself, comparatively speaking, a poor woman. Mrs. Watson consulted her husband about the step before she took it and he gave his unqualified consent.

It is said that before the wedding took place Miss Emma Spreckels informed her father that she wished to marry Thomas Watson. Claus Spreckels would not hear of it and upbraided his daughter when she told him she intended to marry Mr. Watson whether he liked it or not. Persuasion proving in vain, ciaus Spreckels is credited with having resorted to taunts ,chiding his daughter for her ingratitude and pointing out how much he had ddne for her.

Yesterday Mrs. Watson told her husband she thought she ought to deed back to her father all he had given her, including United States bonds to the amount of $1,000,000. With characteristic force Mr. Watson is said to have told his bride to do what she thought right in the matter that he had not married her for what she had, and that he would have married her long ago if she had been a poor girl and he had been able to support her.

This occurred at noon. Within an hour the property had changed hands. The report that Mrs. Emma SpreckelsWatson had deeded back to her father Claus Spreckels, the $3,000,000 worth of pioperty he gave to her before her marriage is denied by Mr. Watson. He says his, wife gave back only a million,and a half and still has enough to live on.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

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election was about 2,000 000 more than at any preceding election the successful candidate's vote was almost necessarily the largest ever cast for a presidential candidate. Mr. McKlnley was the largest, but Mr. Bryan's was larger than any previously cast for a successful candidate, on acount of the very heavy vote by both parties. Grant received 286 electoral votes in 1872, though the vote fbr him was only about half of that for McKlnley. Cleveland had 277 in 1892, when the vote for him was 5,556,918, hence MeKinley's electoral vote is third in order.

SKIRTS AND SLEEVES. Paneled skirts are seen on some of the newest evening gowns, and these serve as a foundation for elaborate embroidery In jeweled designs, or for the fashionable braidings In Russian style.

Brussels net or the "wide open, coarse Russian fish net, made over a changeable silk In some brilliant hue, is much in vogue for evening wear. The skirt is finished with a .full ruche cf the same material at the hem and another at the knee.

The simple leg-o'-mutton sleeve has developed wonderful possibilities In the hands of the skillful modiste. Finished at the wrist with a flaring, and slashed to th| elbow and filled in with gathered lace the enect is novel and charming.

Plaid velvets are much In vogue-for house wear, and the woman who does not own a blouse of tartan velour does not oonsider her indoor wardrobe quite complete. These are made decidedly loose, a la Russe, and are belted with the Inevitable jeweled girdle.

For evening wear sleeves resemble miniature lamp chades for ballet skirts, as they are made of frills and tulle and stand well out from the arm. Some are draped close up to the shoulder, and so form a sort of butterfly effect, decidedly chic afld becoming.

A fancy of the moment Is to wear long sleeves with the low-cut bodice, a boon to women whose arms are not their strong point. Z*e most striking novelty is the long, transparent sleeve of net or chiffon, gathered very full In mousquetalre fashion.

The very latest mode In skirts is the graceful Spanish flounce, a most becoming style to the tall, slender woman, and that brings up the query why do most fashions seem better adapted to the "daughters of the gods divinely tall" than to the petite morsels of femininity?"

Among the most elegant materials for dinner gowns Is the lovely mlror velvet, which falls in erao'efol. clinging folds and has a sheen and luster all its own. Whole costumes u... oi utui eitecUve fabric, which, when trlmme* with fur. saems peculiarly appropriate for xrlcter wear.

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

The Fair Little Colleen.

"There Is one at the door, Wolfe O'Driseoli At the doer, who is bidding yon OOBMI" "Who la he that wakes me in the darkness

Calling when all the world's dombt"

"Six horses has he to his carriage. Six horses blacker than the night] And their twelve red eyes In the shadows

Twelve lamps he carries for hit light}

"And his coach is a coffin black and mouldj^ A huge black coffin open wide He asks for your soul, Wolfe O'DrUcoll,

Who is calling at the door outside." '":-M

"Who let him thro' the gates of my garden!^ Else no entry the strong bolts gave?" "Twas the father of the fair little colleen $

You drove to her heart broken grave," fs

"And who let him pass through the courtyard By loosening the bar and the chain?" "Oh, who but the brother of the colleen

Who lies in the cold and the rain!"

"Then who drew the latch at the portal, And into my house bade him go?" "She, the mother of the poor, sweet colleen

Who lies in her youth so low."

"What is here, that he dare not enter, Stands the doors of my chamber between "Ah, the ghost of the fair little colleen,

Herself fr^m the churchyard green." ,4 —Dora Sigerson in the Bookman.

It takes thirty-seven specially constructed and equipped steamers to keep the submarine telegraph cables of the world in repair.

The inauguration of McKlnley will be tb«fd one hundredth anniversary of the retirement' js from public life of George Washington.

Although the fire loss for the year Jusf closed has not been promulgated for the wholf countrv, the reports so far had from differ* ent cities indicate that it will be the smallest In recent years.

At a recent meeting of the board of trader of Little Rock, Ark., adopted a report of a committee which favored a scheme of building a railroad with convict labor. The legislature, is to consider the matter.

Samuel Reynolds of Lawrence, Kas., has the largest Vandiver pippin apple tree known. It Is forty years old and measures twelvcj frot in circumference at the trun*. Its boughs spread over a circle 100 feet In diameter.

In a law case at New York an attorney asked a question of 663 words in length. Tha witness was unable to follow the intricacies of the query and asked that it be repeated. His request was granted, whereupon the witness answered: "I don't know."

There were 31,200 persons arrested for drunkenness in Boston the past year, ac: ordlng to the report of the local police commission. The figure is more than 5,000 in excess of the number of similar arrests :aadc ths previous year and far above the recent yearly average.

The Gazette of Alexandria, Va.. has just closed its ninety-seventh year of publication. During all that time, save only wnec the Union army seized, j^jp^ressed and flna.lj burned and utterly destroyed its office all its Invaluable contents, It has been prinis every weekday.

Governor Lowndes of Maryland has arou :o{ jealousy at Annapolis by opening an of.'.c* r. for the winter in Baltimore, where he Viiu attend to oriclal business. The Annapr.lii Record speaks of It as "the beginning of th most potential effort ever made to remove ilid capital from this city to Baltimore."

It is reported that Dr. Qaccarelli of Roui« has discovered the characteristic germ oi yellow' fever, and that he hopes to utilize hit,discovery for the prevention or amelioration of the disease. This physician recovered i.°t long ago from an attack of yellow fever wh:!» residing temporarily In one of the South Amcr*. lean countries.

A statistician says 12,000 vehicles. lncludi:if 3,000 omnibuses, pass through the Strand Juondon. in the day. and the narrowness the street causes each of tne 63,000 occupaiiti to waste, on the average, three minutes. Tlw total waste of time equals 3,150 hours, till money value of which, at the moderate raU.,.* of 1 shilling an hour, is $785 per day, or nearlj $250,000 per annum.

A member of one of the most noted boat' building firms in this country severely critw else sthe work of artists who put sea craft into their marine views. "Artists make very pretty and picturesque looking boats, he says, "but you never could sail in them. Thelines are altogether wrong. People who ventured into such vessels on the water would take their lives in their hands on the calmest seas."

Maine has fifty-two savings banks, 'eighteen trust companies and thirty-four loan

Sir Hugh Myddleton started the New River Company in 1860 to supply London with water from the Hertfordshire hills, forty mi ci away. Myddleton was ruined by the speculation, but one of the "adventurer's shares recently was sold for $625,000 In London. -e~ half of the "original shares was

Vf.y

at the

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'.f Jt

:|N

anc*

building associations. TheL,totei-»B»eU of these Institutions are over

*70,000,000, an

crease of nearly $2,000,000 in the last offlcia year. The bank examiner has recommended to the legislature amendments reducing thr rate of taxation on savings banks and restricting the operations of loan and buildinf associations.

In New York City last year the death: numbered 41.652, a decrease from the preceO' ing year of nearly 2,000. Pneumonia seeinai have become a more deadly disease ia tna city than consumption, the former causing 5,402 deaths and the latter 4,995. It la *tate by the health report that the mortality froit diphtheria has decreased from 30 per' cent it 1893 to 14 per cent in 1896, a change attribui-fl to the new form of treatment.

given

to ICnig

James I. as his moiety, and the other half was divided among the thirty-six adventurers. The company owns much property in London, and in the counties of Middlesex and Heritor^ The Income from a share Is about a year.

John F. Flournoy. one of the most enterprising citizens of Columbus, (ia., has organized an electric light and power company, which is to invest *500,000 in its plant for .an development of electric

power

from the faKa

of the Chattahoochee. Already 1-200 hv.i ju Dower has been developed, and this will bt raised to 2,000 horse power. The power now ootalned fiom the

falls,

about one mile froa

the center of the city, is used to run str et cars to supply electric arc lights to furnl.h power for two clothing factories and several smaller industries.

Two Polar Bear Cobs.

The first nennocks. or polar bears, ever borv on the American continent made their appearance vhis week in the winter quarters o! the Barno-a & Bailey greatest show in earth. They are twins, a maie and femaie. Besides being the first white beiys ever born here it is tated on most excellent authority that they *re the first be born in captivity anywhere, the occurrence thus becoming a matter of unusual Interest to

the

scientific world.

'ibe young nennocks are about the size of shepherd dogs and are In exeellentcondition, strong and healthy, and give promise of reach ing maturity. They weigh about forty-se\en

^T^e parents, two enormously large and fine specimens, were secured by August, and immediately upon arrh al transferred to Bridgeport, where they wee r-oofiiiiv tended and guaded. The motne is

jealous of he offsplng. and she suapec.s every moving object to be an enemy and snaps and growls at everybody approaching her cage. Polar bears cost $1,000 each so the advent of these two little ones ^ansquue a sum csined aside from the importance^ oi th™ event as an addition to natural history records They have been called 'the heavenly twins."—New York Times.

American Ileer In Australia.

"American lager beer is becoming very pof^ ,ii«r In Australia and its use is constantly In

creasing

said Mr. phillp Brody of Melbourne

Normandle. "We have local brew

eries, but somehow the beer they Prod"" not satisfactory to most drinkers. It has a ii=Hnrilv bad flavor, which is generaii) thought to be due to the water used in rnakiug

Wt have to depend on the rains

for our

water supply, and construct tanks for storing it. When it comes to the ardent heverag Scotch and Irish whisky have the Kentucky product

being

but little knowo in

our country."—Washington ost.

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