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Xab3ghkjeb does not tak much stock in women as reporters. He says: "I never should dream of inserting a fact sent me by the best of ladies. The fair sex is credulous and imaginative. Still less would I insert any fact told by one lady to another lady." Tna latest Western drinker of whisky on a wager varied the usual method by stipulating to torn a handspring between glasses. The doable gymnastic and bibulous feat was repeated nine teen times, and then the pef ormer collapsed in a helpless heap, leaving the t twentieth tumbler emptied, but the corresponding flip-flap nnaooomplished. Twestt-xsvk years ago the ice consumed in Texas was carried from Boston in sailing vessels, andihe people in the interior of the State seldom saw any of ik Now there are ice factories at Denison, Fort Worth, Waco, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, and in fact in nearly all the large towns, and

the cooling luxury is cheapand common. Brooklyn Eagle: "I understands said Prince Bismarck to his American visitor, "dot veQowvot yon calls him, Oxletree?" "You probably mean CoL Ochiltree. uYah, dot is he I unteerstandt his hair is so redt it ofden gave him indentation of der brain. "Well, I never heard that," replied the truth loving Yankee, "but the Washington barber who eats it tells me that he always uses a pair of fire-proof scissors. Akd there were no spinsters in those days. India before the conquest by the Mohammedans was a country where every year was leap year. When a yoang lady felt the inspiring emotions of April sunshine and her fancy lightly turned to thoughts of love the mar. riageable young -men were summoned from the surrounding provinces and she simply cast her eyes over the anx ions crowd and picks out the one that suits her fancy. This is history, according to Protap Chunder MozoomdaxL It has been stated by Captain Galton, in his work on "Healthy Dwell ingt" that a new house, containing 100,000 bricks (each brick sucking up

n 7 to 10 per cent of its weight of

nMr), contains, at a reasonable calculation 10,000 gallons of water in it. All this quantity of water has to be removed by evaporation, and the rapidity of this process will depend on the tension of the vapor at a given temperature. The rate of transmission of heat through building materials depends upon their texture and composition. Foub well-dressed men entered a London tavern and had dinner. When the moment came to pay they said that they had no money with them, but would leave a valuable diamond ring, A tor days later they called, settled the previous account, had another dinner, talked to the proprietor, and finally

sold him the ring fqr 55. He consid. ered that he had made a good bargain, because while it had been in his posses sion he had taken it to a jeweler, who pronounced it to be worth 100. The guests, however, had on their second visit substituted an imitation foe-simile for the genuine ring. A Partsuh correspondent says that the archaeological researches on the site of ancient Carthage, conducted by Messrs. Salomon Beinaeh and Earnest Babelon, have brought to light a num fcer of objects of historical and artistic importance. Conformably to the instructions of the French Institute, this scientific mission has been chiefly occupied in detenining the relative levels of the Soman and Punic soil on the site of Carthage. The great accumulation of rubbish and stones which fauna the upper layer of the Carthaginian soil renders the work of excavation long and difficult. Five meters deep a series of wells, cisterns, and cellars of the Punic epoch has been discovered. The Washington monument, now 414 feet high, is invisible at a distance of miles from the city. The blocks of white marble of which the obelisk is composed a of all sizes and, qualities and come from all parts of the world. Among some of the most interesting are a block from WJliam Toll's chapel en Lake Lucerne, erected in 1838, one

irom the ruined palace of Hannibal at Carthage, a large white marble from a temple erected by Augustus on the Nile, a massive block from Russia, and fini?5 chiseled stones from Baddocks FiekUBunker HU1, Vensuvius,the Bud dhjrf pile of Snam, the Temple of Esculepins in the Isle of Pharos, and from other places of interest in every country under the sun.

Monn than half of the coffee sold is i artificially colored, and the health ofH? cet of New York have recently made $I&e atartiing discoveries. They pro-'

cured samples of the coloring matter used, and of the unroated beans so treated. They found that the coloring matter contained both arsenic and let ,dj also chrome yellow, Prussian blue, y allow ochre, umber, Yenitian red, lamp black, gum Arabic, soapstone and charcoal. The dealers try to make the cheaper grade of coffee resemble the genuine Java, which has a yellow co!xr produced by the long voyage. Several of the large coffee houses in New York claim that while they color their coffee they use no injurious dyes. Th e matter will be thoroughly investigated.

Stahfobp, Connecticut, Letter: Not long since a pedestrian was seen walking along the old Boston turnpike carrying in one hand a pot of blue paint and in the other a brush. At intervals he halted, and on prominent rocks and fences he painted in large letters the words: "Pray earnestly and prepare for eternity," and other sentences of similar import All along the road are the usual advertisements of patent medicines, and the appearance of the strange announcements in blue was soon looked upon as a novel innovation A man, who claims to know, says tha the lettering had been done by a mem. ber of a colony of Second Adventiits, there being a community of that sect established a few miles north of Port Chester.

There are real love matches in Bussia, judging from , the story that two people had loved and been oonstant to each other for forty-two years, the man being then twenty-five and the woman sweet sixteen. Fortune, however, in their case was crueL The couple knew that to marry and be penniless would be madness. So for forty-two ycrars they have waited. The man now, by industry, owns a two-storied woolen house, and the woman has saved, by thrift and care, 500 rubles, and their patience and preseverance are at last rewarded by a happy marriage. An eye-witness declares that it is impossible to relate the happiness which shone in the eyes of these old and faithful lovers as they were made one by the priestly blessing. A good many ladies are trout lei! with a surplus growth of hair on their faces. Some of them resort to the de. pilatories with which the market is flooded, but they generally have reason to regret their folly. Others shave regularly, but the new process of removing hair by electricity is the most popular remedy. . An electric needle is used for this work, and each separate follicle by the side of a hair is punctured with the needle, through which a current of electricity darts, burning up the root of the hair. When the ha:ir is drawn out with a pair of tweezers the patient does not feel it, for the root has lost its hold and is nothing but. an empty sack. No' second gro th of hair ever follows this operation. During the operation the patient feels a sharp stinging sensation, but it is said to be comparatively painless. Mb. David Dudley Field, in a recent address to law students in New York City, on the subject of litigation, dwelt

at length on the subject of the delays which prolong a suit for many years and entail heavy charges upon litig&nts. In New York it takes from Ave to ten years to get a final judgment in the Court of Appeals, in a suit respecting a disputed title to stock in a corporation. In one case out of three the Court of Appeals reverses the determination of the lower court and the case is begun oveagain. "There is," said Mr. Field, 'a judicial administration, discreditable and demoralizing which you and I and all who practice or expect to practice in the courts should study to find a remedy for." Thus it is that, between the judges and the lawyers, long and expensive delays are manufactured, the blame not being all chargable to juries by any means. While the business is very bad for litigation in civil maters, when its principle, which is delay, is applied to criminal cases the injcuy is incalculable, and upon lawyers themselves, more than any other class, devolves, primarily, the duty of affecting very radical reforms; for they know where reformatory work is needed. But is the reforming element among lawyers strong enough? H er Off Day. A colored man called at a house on Sibley street and rang the bell, and as it was answered he asked : "Has you a culTd lady doin' yer washin dis mawnin?" "No, sir," was the reply. "I don't employ eolored ladies to wash for me. " He went away in a puzzle, and returned in a few minutes and said: "I reckon I made a bit of a mistake. Has you an ole black woman waahin fur you?" Yes sir." "Named Lindy Tibbits?" "Yes, that's her name." ' "Den I'd like to spoke to her. 1 dun forgot dat she's a washwoman on Monday's an9 a cull'd lady de odder six days in de week, an' dat's whar' de mintake come in. Please, kin I spoke wid yer ole black woman?" He was permitted to "spoke." Detroit Freejprexs . Thjs outcrop of ignorance produces a harvest of impudence.

SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE. s '1ct brooms away handle downwards. Clean coarse combs with a broom tuft. Brooms scalded onoe a week wear long. Walking on carpets with protruding nails on shoes, digs off the nap fearfully. Scrub floors with an old broom and strong lye, little at a time, then mop with warm water. Mix turpentine with stove polish, put on cold stove a little at a time, will shine when rubbed. Syrup. Wet granulated sugar with water, flavor with vinegar to taste, beil five minutes, adding pinch grated lemon rind. ' Best way to make coffee is in a fil terer, always filter second time. If you must boil it, only give one boil up and let settle. Easily Madx Apple Sauce. Bako apples with pan over them, plenty water, pick out peel, mash the resb through a colander, sweeten. For burns and scalds alum water, apply immediately, keep well covered with saturated cloths. Cures from onehalf to one hour,4eaves no mark. Ea8ILT Washed Dish Towels. Wet and soap them, put in cold water, stir often till boiled, repeat if necessary with more soap and water; rinse. Griddle Cases. No eggs, one-fifth yellow corn meal, four-fifths flour, very sour milk, whey or buttermilk with corn meal; add flour till all is in, salt Soda till sweet, beat well. Do not sweep hard and get tired and swallow dust. Brush lightly all specks, scraps and dust into a dustpan pushing it with your foot as you go over carpet ; it will look and be clean, and sweeping takes off nap. Either tea or coffee long boiled, drives aroma into the air, and pleases the nostrils, but disappoints the palate. A good way is to scald like tea, clear with tablespoon cold water and let keep hot ten minutes or more, but never boil it. Tea is best drank two minutes after scalding, try it Suet Pudding. One cup each of sugar and milk, suet freed from skin, chopped fine and raisins seeded and chopped, three oups of flour rounding full sifted with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder (Royal). Flavor with cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir all well together and steam about two hours. Serve with sour sauce. Wool comforters are lighter and warmer than cotton ones. One fivepound comfort, with one pair of blankets are sufficient for ordinary cold weather, and repays well the expense in health. How often I rose in morning tired and unrefreshed, when sleeping under cotton comforters, but not since I made wool ones.

lhad Stevens' Strong Individuality. His whole life was shadowed by a deformity in the foot, which caused slight lameness and gave a morbid sensitiveness to his nature. While $ in York he desired to join the lodge of Freemasons, but this physical defect rendered him ineligible. He was much chagrined, and become a most violent and pronounced opponent of the order, never losing an opportunity to denounce it in unsparing terms. This hatred, took a strong political bias, and from that time he was one of the most bitter and unrelenting Anti-Masons. His strong individuality impressed every one who ever met him, and his sayings and doings are still remembered in many characteristic incidents. Judge Durkee, who, like Stevens, was a Yermonter and was an ardent and devoted admirer of that gentleman, told me he was once engaged in trying a case with him and received a letter which was positively nnreadalite. He gave the letter to a friend, promising a liberal percentage of the prospective fee if she would translate it. She earned her reward after some hours' hard work on the epistle. His writing consisted of two or three letters in the beginning of a word followed by an irregular scrawl. He was once asked to read a letter of advice which he had written a client. Jle glanced over it. found himself quite unable to read it and handed it back with "Humph, I don't write letters to read myself. ' I wrote it for you to read. 99 A gentleman once wrote asking an opinion, but neglected to enclose the customary fee. With grim humor Stevens returned a blank sheet of paper by next post. His powers of sarcasm were unrivaled and made him a terror to his antagonist in a debate. The counsel opposed to him in a cause always endeavored to avoid an encounter of wits, in which he was sure to be worsted. . His influence over a jury was marvelous, and his crafty line of argument often inclined the jurymen in his favor even when upon the wrong side of a case. He could manage to extort from a witness almost any testimony he desired, cunningly turning theJr evidence in his favor by a series of artful and unexpected questions. An eminent judge, before whom he often argued cases, said his manner was most bewildering to an inexperienced witness. Philadelphia Times. Islands of Lake Superior, Mr. Cabot, who wrote the narrative of the Agassiz expedition in 1851, estimated that there were nearly thirtysix thousand islands in the lake, most of which lie aoross the mouth of these three bays, and along Point Magnet, which bends westward from the western extremity of "the Nipigon," and as we passed between them and the mainland, there wan at times the impression that one was floating down some river like the Danube or llhine; again, the effect was of a submerged mountain chain, while still again the appearance was wholly like the sea as we swept by breezy headlands with projecting reefs of dark brown rock fringed with curling foam, or stopped to sketch some pile of blocks richly mottled with patches of yellow, brown, and green, and crispy with its brilliant lichen coat, John A. Butler, in Hater's Magazine. "No," said a sinner, "I have read the Bjjle all I want to. It's too personal," i s

THE AMERICAN GIRL. '

Another English Attempt to Size Her.. According to Mr. James, the American girl is a combination of nervous force, vivacity, and feminine insight, while delicate and subtle are epithets which convey only the feeblest idea of the operations of her mental being. Indeed, so exquisite is this piece of machinery that whenth&novelist attempts to pick it to pieces for our identification, he rarely fails to puzzle himself and his readers. A erpat deal of her

effect still depends upon her novelty. 4

English society is naively slow to take the measure of social novelties; and though London has been flooded by our nasal cousins, the American girl herself is still imperfectly understood. If she is distinguished by one quality more than another among womankind, it is by that tribute which is common to all our countrymen, and generated by their restless life. She is 'cute ; quite 'cute enough to take every advantage of the momentary confusion she has produced. Now is her critical time; the eager competition of her ever-increasing sisters will destroy her favorable position ; she is resolved to take ber fortune at the flood, and society hears whispers of a determined invasion in the course of the season at whose eve we have arrived. The fashionable world of London is in a state of chronic boredom, and is always ready to welcome a new sensation. Together with her novelty the American girl exercises something of the charm which a half-educated visitor has on a conventional society Pocahontas might have had the town at her feet; her successor is less simple and more sshooled than Pocahontas; but compared with the smart people of Europe she is uneducated. She has not, that is to say, lived in an atmosphere the creation of centuries, charged to an extent impossible to realize with social opinions, conventionalities and traditions. They are born and bred in the European children. The American girl has more or less to assume them; and assumption can be made very fresh and very naive. She brings a quick and new susceptibility to things on which we are the slaves of preconceived impressions. It is the same with her countrymen. They give you halfeducated impressions of art and literature, whereas the European is clogged with traditional judgments assimulated from the hour of his birth. All of which is very piquant and amusing ofh in men and women for a time. Put an American girl by the side of her English sister, and thd contrast is as instinctive as the jealou&y of the English matron is edifying. Our conventionalities have not sunk into her being, and she is shrewd enough to discriminate what part of them has a real and what a present worth. Therefore she can transgress them without the transgression being imputed unto her for sin, and she does. Her transgressions and her criticisms give her half her piquancy, but what is amusing in her would be embarrassing in her English sister. Her natural quickness of perception, has, moreover, been sharpened by more traveling than falls to the lot of the ordinary English girL Tables d'hote and second-rate Joreign society, if thev have not added to her refinement, have taught her a precocious selfpossession. Again, though a run in the States is getting to be the usual autumn holiday, and knowledge of American ways is becoming diffused, yet society across the water does not present the same stable and obvious gradations as in the old country. Therefore, the fair adventuress, with a little maneuvering, may shroud her exact antecedents in mystery, and find herself credited with a fabulous dowry founded on Chicago lard or Denver beetle-poison. Indeed, the popular belief that American women bring their English husbands large fortunes dies very hard, in spite of all demonstrations to the contrary. The English girl, though temporarily eclipsed by her rival, need not despair. Her qualities will tell in the long run. The apparent distinction and tact of the American girl is as showy and as smart and as little part of her as her Parisian dresses. Real refinement is the attri

bute of a leisured class. This does not !

exist in the States, except in the narrow Puritan circle at Boston. The feverish pushing and striving and barbarous ostentation of the men must react upon their sisters. And, indeed, American women are the most showy, restless and unquiet in the world. Repose and dignity are alien to them ; smartness is their ideal. Nor are they physically equal to the overshadowed English girl. Far from evolving a superior, American civilization seems destined to evolve all inferior type of woman. The American girl is as different from her English sister a? the woman of the insipid American parlor fiction are different from the women with heart and brains of the robuster literature of Fielding and Scott. London WcrhL The Royal Widow Did Not Suit. Henry VII. of England, hearing that the widow of Xing Ferdinand, of Naples, was young, beautiful, rich, and good, and being moved to matrimony himself, sent ambassadors to Italy to investigate and report to him what manner of woman she was, and whether she would grace his royal bed and board. They were, according to liacon, to furnish their master with the most minute particulars of her personal charms her visage was it sharp or round, fat or lean, pleasant or amiable, and "malincoiyous?" What was her complexion, the shape of her noe, the height and breadth of her forehead, t e fullness of her bust, and what was the state of her toeth? They were also to try and get a glimpse of her majesty's shoes, so as to be able to give the King some idea of the size and shape of her feet They were to besure and see her hands uncovered so as to be able to speak positively as to their shape and color. The account of the emissaries efforts to pertorm the duty that had been imposed upon them is very amusing. They were so fortunate as to obtaiu one of her slippers, and they were able to pump her physician, but there were many points in wbinh they were quite battled. They were unable to speak a-$ to her forehead, which she always

kef t covered, and they could not speak positively as to her height, as she usually was seated when they saw her. As to her breath they found it impracticable to get near enough to her before breakfast to decide; but they inferred from her appearance, and from what they gathered from her physician, that that must be satisfactory enough. Tha young widow, as far as they could ascertain was all that fame had reported her, but her fortune seemed none of the best, and the widower monarch dropped the matter. Who Discovered ttunpcmder. When it is considered what an important part gunpowder has played in the wars of the would, and in the arts in the time of peace, it is not a little remarkable that its discovery is a matter of considerableauncertainty. It has been the custom to ascribe its invention to Bertholdus or Michael Schwartz, a Cordelier Monk of Goslar, south of Brunswick, in Germany, about the year 1320. It has been maintained by many writers, however, that gunpowder was known much earlier in various parts of the world. Roger Bacon, who was born in 1214, refers about the year 1267, to an explosive mixture of the nature of gunpowder, as known previous to his day, as being employed for the purpose of diversion, and as producing a noise like thunder and flashes like lightning. It has been maintained by some that the Chinese and Hindoos possessed it centuries before even Bacon's time. The following condensed extract in the American Cyclopedia, from a long chronological statement compiled by Hzhia, shows the controversy in reference to Schwarz, or Schwartz, to be of second ary importance. A. D. 80 The Chinese (according to tradition) had already obtained from India a knowledge of gunpowder. 215 Julius Alricanus (according to Meyer) described its preparation. 668 Callinicns, of Heliopolis, introduced Greek fire to the Byzantines. This was probably a mixture like gunpowder with resin and petroleum ; it was certainly no fluid, and according to one author was used to project stone balls from pipes. It may nevertheless have been a rocket nrxture or a bombfilling. 690 The Arabs used firearms against M ecca, bringing the knowledge of them from India. 811 The Emperor Leo employed firearms. 846 Marcus Gracchus, a Greek author (MS. said to be at Oxford) described a mixture of lib of sulphur 2H charcoal, and 6tb saltpeter, 880 Leo the Philosopher made rockets for the Eastern Empire. 1073 King Solomon, of Hungary bambarded Belgrade with cannon. 1085 In the naval battle near Toledo the ships of Tunis shot "fiery thunder." 1098 The Greek ships used artillery a gainst the Pisans. 1232 The Tartars employed "fire pipes" against the Chinese. 1238 Don Jaime threw into Valencia fiery balls which burst. 1247 Seville was bombarded with artillery. 1249 Damietta was defeated against St, Louis with bombs, 1280 Death at Cologne of Albertus Magnus, a preaching monk, said by some ancient writers to have invented bombard am, bombardulam, et scolpum manualem." 1294 Death of Roger Bacon, in whose works the destructive qualities of saltpeter and the production of terrible thunder and lightning from its compounds are alluded to as well known. 1303 Reported date on an ancient cannon now in the arsenal of Amberg, Bavaria. 1308 The Spaniards had artillery before Gibraltar. 1311- Henry XVII. bombarded Brescia with "thunder guns." 1312 The Arabs had cannon before Baza. 1326 Martos was attacked with artillery. 1330 Bertholdus Schwartz is said to have discovered gunpowder. Different witness say 1320, 1354 and 1380. MSS. in the monasteries perhaps informed him. Inter Ocean.

Sargent S. Prentiss' OIF-Hand Eloquence. Bailey Peyton used to illustrate his readiness at an impromptu speech by narrating an incident which occurred in 1884, when Prentiss joined a hunting party, with which he spent a week or t wo "undor a tent in the forests of the Sunflower, a small river tributary to the Mississippi in the vicinity of Vicksburg. Towering above the tent stood one of t liose remarkable elevations, evidently ly the work of art, which abound in the Mississippi Valley and are called Indian mounds. One day Mr. Prentiss, with t ie aid of the vines and the overhanging boughs, made his way to the top of the mound, when his friends, who were collected around the tent, discovered liim united in the call for a speech a speech from Prentiss. "Upon what subject?" "Upon the subject on which ;ou now stand.1' He at once set off in a playful sally for the amusement of himself and friends, but, warming in the subject as he proceeded, his creative imagination now peopled the forest vith the lost tribe, that mysterious race who, ages past, inhabited' the country before the birth of the aboriginal trees that abound upon these huge piles. He introduced every variety of character, fairies, princes, courtiers, warriors ; c hailed armies and fought battles, going on thus for more than an hour, in a vein of philosophical reflection and poetical invention, which imparted a thrilling, almost real, interest to the imaginary scene. The gentleman from whom I had this incident was a man of cultivated tastes, and often heard Mr. Prentiss at the bar and on the hustings, and he considered this one of his happiest efforts. Troy Times. No Norwegian girl is allowed to have n beau until she can bake bread and lenit stockings, and it would do your heart good to taste the bread and wear the stockings that 15-year-old Norwegian girls can make. ' ' Tim longest direct lino of railroad in ;his country is from Boston to the City of Mexico, a distance of 3,000 miles.

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