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} . her jewels. : wo | PAID . THEM \I Newspaper Men Retaliate on aN: THE own! gol abs Men Who Had Ignored Them. At the celebration of the art-Hal __| new German steamshlp the othe somomch cheaper than others \ was' the mark that a man heard the other, r. was. &. pretty young lady. a. Her- damty nght hand & 3 market value for pure white | 'of > ln we1ght, ard that no re- é“Hew 1511: then,”she continued, “that at --, and She mentioned the name of elt known place near Madison square, | they offer me& ring with exactly this of stone -for $857 . The diamond { was watranited. absolutely pure and flaw» : ees and 'to. we1gh a carat.\ The:t¢lerk; to whom this question was put wore & peculiar smile as he uttered the two words ”Jewelry fences \ la dozen 13,1 ge and faeh~ stores on Broadway and } hing. streets between \Tenth $ -fifth streets which are noth- an leposatomes for stolen ar- welry.:. These people, of preserve a. respectable appeat: | en toward thew questionable | Ionable \'fences' _’ vated young gentleman representing C 'of the dailies arose and made} 'l evident that they began to have q .. needed to express some interesting | ‘ firms and the newspaper offices. [Al: . | lot of men, almost entirély G turned the affair into a great | - making in which they ignored the exe- | { paper men-or so nearly ignored th m as | 4 to be very rude indeed. After tlie offee f was served. speeches were made, German. - When there was not élse to do and nobody left to talk, a G man per men present and that althhu hi‘he supposed not any 6% them had understood In response to that invitations ‘A quent addressin pure and brilliant Sf igh. The Germans stared at j amazement and could not under word he said. When he sat dow arose a mild mannered, studious reporter of atiother of the morht pers who proceeded to deliver entirely in Latin. The: 'Germank stated as they had shown themselves i of conscience. When thesecond re sit down a third one, a handsome - haired man, somewhat famous ji eral literature, found his feet and pro- enti- AnD ' ments in the ptire and scholastic (et which he had learned at Heldelb rg. As he finished and was abo t I der- thelr them to think that he bad not stood them during the course of 'selfish monopoly of the occasion; as a matter of fact, in spite of their ¢ \feetive grammar and- clumsy dictids U buggies, emountmg to thousands ! ollars jevery month, in this way. prestige over the ordmamy iF the reason that in nine i cases out of ten they buy the goods out; l Tight, and pay 20 per cont. nearer the : kef: value \than the others. Of‘ 3 \ them, do a Iegttlmate ; 'in this way also are ; ensbled. to se their wares atmuchlowex\ figures than “the square up and. down but they seldom get into s, ag it is the policy of the arters\to place the thieves, onthelr guard by - announcing the‘fact I 1 in tracing up stolen es emally diamonds, he said bis. have found the goods in one Broadwav stews. When $1 000 he.. sand that 'a well : ifdle aged man. brought them . .: to the place. He attired in deep ourmng, land explained in doleful voice that his\ wife had but recently died..and | fhat he had no use at all for. 'the earmzng< . Heasked if the proprietor \would. purchase them, and .on 'being answeledm the affirmative asked how | . fifich he gonad give. $100 he handed them over, and on getting. .. the money left, the store and that was: tho last seen of him. * This was: Fhe proprietor's story. How much tmth there was in it the police could ouly tonjectitre. 'In arother instance where the pohce f were hunting for several ladies' rings, a Glamond lacepm 'and a diamond brace- let, they were found in a Broadway jew. '€lry storea \Tew blocks above Madmen ~ square. oe The person Who sold them, gccording\? A008 to 'the propuetor, was a young lady who ~~ had. every appearance of respectability | and refinement., She told the owner that | ' 'she was an Enghsh woman recently ar- \rived in: the country. Her funds had become exhausted sooner than she ex- peoted and it was positively necessary , ~ fof her «to \begin a western journey at? ~onée. ,. I% W0uld take her some time to !- oommumcate with her friends at home | * to obtairt the fiecessary money. So she! |- Hiad no othet alternative but to realize on ' : She was given $1,200 for the ' .[. jéwels; but hitheugh she was particular < 40 request \the proprietor to keep them,! as she mshed to redeem them, she haul . never shown up.. ... The pohce subsequently discovered that 'he woman was under the protection of 'a well kno Wu thief, who had cominitted | . the bmgl N ew York Journal. i ' l The Greendale Oak. A. cumouslhlstonc interest attaches to gthe great Greemlale oak of Walbeclt Abbey, ,One hundred and ser renty- six l years ago the Duke of Portland made s Wager that 'he éoul1l drive a coach and four through 'the hole made in the trunk. : He wom his bet and ruined the tree. Measmed above the duke's arch it is 35 eat 8 inches in- cu cumference. The arch \i6 10 feet 8 ihehesin height, with a width 'above the Huddle of 6 feet 8 inches. The ¢ \height of the top' of the branches is 54 eat—St, Lowe Pest-Dispatch 60 : i bric can be, bought at from 80 {$§5, or fashioned at bome for half t e t wearing:-she is obliged to buy ma On being told | she looks neat, fresh an for the waist is well starched} { he was reduced to $800, and lath ir l“hestonsutn lawyer he has becor | . ing, descriptions of the stamps 1:0be in each spot and picures of the glen 159g, , .of the albums are printed every t} Winted‘ fo Arrest St. Paur | | - There is a Greek benevolent tyi in : Constantinople which recently ha 1 de- i easton to publish a pamphlet on its wotk, i and on the title page there was quotation from Paul's epistle to the tians. Very soon after it appeared a po- {lice officer came to the printing f 'and demanded of the editor should give him' information as! _| ters to the people of Ctalata (one o the suburbs of Constantinople), as helhgd br- ‘ iL. dens to get a copy of these letters and . bring the aforesaid Paul to headqt | this Paul was who had been wann' let- [1 . +The edltor explained that Paul c . be brought to Headquarters; he was- _ But the functionary retorted ' orders were to- bring Paul, and if the could not 'bring. Paul to bring the 66117913, 1 Ib was Of no use to protest that Paul had i been in heaven for ceighteon '{{'days, until finally the Greek pat arich interfered and presented the bures Iof 'Leensorship with a copy of the léttbr| Paul, which he showed was addressed ii notto the people of Galata, but to! a province of the ancient Roman en 1re This having been at last made clear, editor was leleased ——-Sa.n Francisc gonaut f Ar- Ghéap“ Morning Dresses. 'There are innumerable ways of . ~] Take for instance a wardrobe lof or twelve dresses out of which { maybe but two that are la mode. a skirt the toilet -is half complet«, may, be bright and light, plain or ly. trimmed, but. so long as it is With hea. waist a blouse of silk, flannel or money. A wide awake lady in West Twenty sixth street, who. has puptis as we as small children to care for, wears off brown silk skirt shom of its. glory and a boy's shirt waist of sgri mnslivt, belted in at the waist. I waists cost her 80 cents each, but befa and make new sleeves. Instead of looking queer, as you /f her throat she wears a sailor knot silk.-New York World. When Senator Stamfoul Was P Lelgnd ' Stanford once told me $12.the first.year that he practi is law in Wisconsin. He had one joi Anest law libraries in the northw was doing well, when a fire brolk gand ate up this and the thirteen! gages which then communal the t bis accumulations. rebuild he decided to go to Califo He there became involved in L and railroads, and instead of been; Bric 16 Us kundred millionaire United Sta ator.——Washmgton Letter. The coat of btanxp Albuias, | Big dealers publish stamp alb collectore, omo of which cost as} as $30 and are ver ty elaborate, thop good a one as any uody has regso 1:0 want can be had for $7.50, with $1“ ted 7 spatefi in outline for the stamps, . on the stamps where tLney are desirf , Every stamp known fo collectorsli vided for in this way, und new years to provide £01 fresh issues.-+ change . Jerueelem s Farly Exxetenc ~ Professer lmyeo writes from qu’l 'the Academy to say that he has | e.cam- ‘ ined oneg more the letters from soiut hem ' Palestine found at Te) el Amaran, ane fusa- ‘he imcptioned in ont of the lettersiis | Ln, or Jerusalem, and thinks that ity alceady emsted under that name gm . baad thtenth Cenmiyry before Christ, : ras a. 94341115041 of thg. abypma Kink m I p74 th re some heywspa- | to m remarked and that a hho | bard if the other fellows made fun when . the ir plan got him into trouble at home. If 3 boy came out after some such ex- | on the rest wohld - what had been going On perience with his face wet, and his eyes.. 1 Hike to hear from them. € : Halli: he ' m1 f peech f harder, and. rude and disc mteljous ‘ sit | : down he remarked to the merchants 32nd f men that it was a mistaite for | that © thought he had \understood every word - 'they had. said. ——Ju11au Ralph in COhat- [ . 4 ter. ‘ . 'do an im- |. ,. nl} & 1 junidred. | years; and the editor was taken to heéd- © quarters and put in prison for | Tiara] of- the ' wttlng ‘ ta morning dress for almost nothing . ten . ( here t [t | & fit | will be pretty. If there is no a}aildble | | owner, ~ she ; hadlit in this bonbonniere, \ pall | tromomic impossibilities of the situation | | dav nod 'on those who had partaken of the | . con ents of the box -somebody had } f SW . alt} Nol 1 a Be iff nl ' mom | déalers and so dangerously inflaminable hitherto been investi d in the way of - ' fill-rt hing. It is-certainly cheapand hand- , and is therefore wore tempting to' ~ has: | somle phi: . . | cHugetts, and a . near, | whale up of thre books, and the whole His furniture was a chair aud a table. . : off t first client was & carpenter, and hig , | Hi» | fess and | 'has come to the conclizion that thh place . (nous pieces of finritare. gs 1 Ingglls®® son, Ellsworth, who carried it | o with hen ! . Cox i Several Kinds of Mothers. 'The mother represented the family ovpreignty; the father was seldom. seen, png the outside boys. It was the ther who could say whether a boy hight go fishing or in swimming, and hel was held a good mother or not ac- ording as she habitually said yes or no. re was no other standard of goodness - for| mothers in the boy's world, and . ébulld be none; and & bad mother- mightf be |outwitted by any device that the lot’ r boys could suggest to her boy. Suc h a boy was always willing to listen red); and his lips swollen, of caurse you When a boy's mother had company, woent- and hid fill the girests were gone, or only came out. of concealment . to oth But he had 4 p y of the usages. of grown up socxety t fellow who brushed his hair, and put nd he counted for little or nothing | 'an ordinary seesaw. the surface ouf the Iriss ruins zigzag . from one ead to the other, and on the }| y suggestion, and no boy took It; ball, no larger than a bullot, runs un- : ceaemgly When the ball hus traveled |. . from ore end of the platiorm to the | other, zigzagging from side to side, it | which hangs: from above, and in an im iant the plat- form is tilted up at that.end and the little ball, imprlled by the force of gravity, At the other end it : comes into contact with another wire, ' 'and up goes the platform once more. | © Bometimes a big crowd stand ground 'to laugh; he expected it, and you | eixp‘ected him to stone you for laughing. | starts back again. get some sort of shy lunch. If the | or fellows mothers were there, he; tht be a httle bolder, and bring out | AN INTERESTING CLOCK. | Tts Maker Is Proudwof It, but He Has No - Wish to Make Another. high. The passerby who looks through the window sees under the clock, which . is supported by four poliihed columns, a small brass platform, balancéd to a | nicety on two pivots in the middle, like path so made a brightly polished steel strikes a thin stcel wire the window intent on the little sphere, the mystery of which they find it hard to solve. F. T. Kraft, who runs the store, has | followed his trade for imany years. One day six years ago Kreft was walking | down Broadway when he saw & clgck in | & jeweler's window with the same de- . vice. - the glass watching it and trying to solve | The | He stood for an hour in front of the problem of its construction. proprietor of the store told him the clock hal been made in England twenty-five | { years before, and was the only one of its | Kraft's request | 1 to have a look at the mechanism was | met with a refusal, and he went off with # | the determination to study it out for | hiinself. He worked at it six months | . fect. The young man A\us jn'e'f. under the kind in existence. Mr. *~ | during his odd hours and finally tri- { maphed. Then he was surprised to find ] how simple the idea was after all, al- though he found the greatest delicacy ; | necessary in carrying it out. ; the author betdkes himself to his . $ It is a little room, a very - “—h15 papal is dehcately tlnted vel- a .; tlst\ before eendmg it to the pub? shers, the sticcess of the book depend- so largely upon its artistic form. | \artist\ to whom the \copy\ is now i ti listed proceeds to repaint the long fo a] dexterity which is somethmg as- | nishing. -New York Journal. : [Some Gne Swallowed the Tooth. Theard u rather amusing story of a ithber of young people who assembled w (lays ago at the home of a charm xomvmuzom the custom 1 \. . 4 Smee the clock wus twa [mare whlch passed in succession round the merry circle until its tiny lid / ed only on an aching void and the { { delicate flavor of Italian mint. the the delicate suffusion flushed Lrow faded to a ghastly pallor as cried, '*Where's my «lmurk's tooth? I or wont around as v. sons of the gas- HMowed the wisdom molar of a man- g carcharias ody knows to tuis diay, but there was gathemng thereafter that fell like a pall vae] the general Jolhty ——Lomsvflle Post. 'Célluloid Silk. - discussing the latest development IL; A it the line of silk imitation, an Ehglieh confemporary says: \Celluloid 'silk' is a 1 cle \L,l‘1) fabricated tissue, which ought | > tepressed by commen consent, or, ; ty 1 reessary, by pallumn ntary prohibi- Nothing so useful to dishonest thoughtless. or the defrauded, who ab steeped in peiroleum. the future possible to lessen this in- inability, but the sample re- Ted to went of like a flash, and owe ; Senator Inbuua Dosh. ‘St nator Ingalls studied law in Massa» i present tum, be made.\ to tlie bar started to Kansas with $50 in his Bnside pocket. ' Atchison. liis daw BHbrary was ras paid in kind.\ He got a table and h desk for his legal services, and Geek piinted a hit thus \(£11 S8 him tu eoll ge uses it as a part of hi. office furn in the storting of his law practice.-> Philadelphia Press. new ture i ||: I ., with blue lines running up and ] another of half the cireum{crence. smaller wheel mukes a half revolution | , | while the other is making a quarter. | the axis of this wheel is fastened a rod. } - which is attached at its other end to the s (of word plctures with a profes: | < nearly three-fourths of the When. pretty box was returied enipty to its '} of her it clock,\ back on its shelf, \but EP wouldn't sell it | It was a pleasure to work - thing, but you! 1 couldn't get me to nike suether cue of | them for a good deal.\=-New York San. ] : for any price. Then the | valgaris, but who? ise of uneasiness about the little | © be induced to buy as \silk' a mate- | {which a spark would inflame, and | hifh would burn with the fierceness of | It may be- y assume it was as fire proof as can at' - is soon as he was ' He opetued an office \and was forced fo do green is kept in the In- | funul) today as one of its most pre-\ It belongs to- ail who probablg f Mr. Kraft took the-clock from its shel : in the window to explain its mechanisiu | to the reporter. | wires which the ball strikes against at The two mysterions the end of each arip are fastened above to a long rod. From the upper side of this rod runs a strip of steel, which rests, agiinst one Of four pins on an escape | ' ment wheel in the works. ' [\ball strikes, the wire it releases this | . | wheel, which makes a quarter revolution When the to the next pin. 'On the same axisis a éog wheel whose tweth fit into those of The To platform, which is pulled up or down ac- strikes. 1 It was in the manufacture of the ball- itself that Mr. Kraft had the most difa- culty. It had to he & perfect sphere to bit by bit to the proper size. A little guard rall is placed at- eac), angle of the , . groove, so\ that the ball will not jump I | ofi' to make the trip, a half second for each . section of the groove. The platform. acts . as a pendulum with a five second swing. ° \ The device is only interesting as a novel- 1 ty, as it is more susceptible It takes the ball ju«t five seconds Every second it runs 4 2-6 inches Smiles a day, or 180 milrs a. °f 190 miles a year. ball has traveled a aistunce equal to the globe. been ground of considerably. \I have had lots of said the ol I jeweler, as he put it out the principle of the Dispatch. It is like that which the physieuins call predigestion, measure not tlispahjh by time of sitting, | but by the advancement of the business, ° and as in races it is not the large Stride {or high lift that makes the speed, so in | < business the keeping close to the matter, and not taking of it too much at onee, proctires dispatch. only to come off speedily for the time, or to contrive some false periods of bust: ness, because they wax seein men of dis- patch: but if is ene thing to abbreviate t by contracting, another by cutting off, and business so handied at several st-- tives or meetings grows commonly back- ward and forward in an unsteady man- - mun that had for { A 1)y“fl ll-d‘ ‘Vhl‘ll h“ Siw men hnuan to n l. ner. We knew a wise conclusion: \Stay a little. Absent Minded Indeed. One of our good farmers, living not a ~ thousand miles dist rnt, thought -he would ! , plant twenty acres of sround in corn, < \which .ontiined his seed eofnu, welt info the field, put his? and, taking the as corn planter into unumnnu end pretty soon had the 1 eqmn ganted so he t “mu-Li, with. seed com. ut upon finishing ias joo, what was his T consternation and muazetaent to find his: sack of corn untouched, forgotten to pat the o He hill-l Silhllly «cu iw the planter, My over lgdln _L(M‘1L-HV“ Lli0.} Letter. A Daren-me Caller-Is the pro Wit Clerk-Yes, m, Caller--Are you t Wit Clerk-Yes, lc tor i‘; in this tope di, xchange. and u Distinetion,. 'iefor in? Gentleman] Mu, the proprie Tl call him.- or 22 feet a minute. | This is a quarter Of a awilé an hour, or over 11,000,000 feet . started the | way around - In that time it has not been 4 | worn to any perceptible degree, although | have taken ninety days tooooI sufficient | the brass surface on which it runs has elere for this 0\ ho-ty «digestion, which | is sure do fill the body full of erudities - . and secret seeds of disease., It is the care of some that we may | . end the sooner. \-New York Ledger. | cording to the wire which the ball . | work properly, and it was turned down t to changes | in the weather than the pendalum clock, [ - and has to be regulated frequently. 'f It is interesting to figure out the dis: | tance which the industrious little ball , | travels from day to Guy. Therefore | A groove cut into { what I think dissimulation id. ~ bos wis . ington Post. \* same thing, as they number of acres | Effectual Preaching; The old parson made the sorrows of | his parishioners his own. In the window of jewéler: had broken his en; gagement witha young | on Court street, Brooklyn, thero stands : a brass clock not more than ten inches woman, and the minister, moved with mdlgnatlon, preached from; the text, \Let love be without dissimulation.\ His sermon, which was exteinpore, con- . sisted of little morethan talilike this: ''You see, my dearly beloved brethren, what the Apostle 188,33 without dissimulation.' Now T'll tell y' When a young chap gues out a wilking with a girl-aé nice a lass as ever you saw, with an uncommon fresh pair 0° cheeks afd pretty egaanstQ brought up- \When I say, my dearly beloved | brethren, a young chap goes out walk- | ing with such a young woman, after | church of a sunmer cvemug seen of [| every one, and offers her lns arm, and | they look friendly like at each other, | and at times he buys her a: present at the fair, a ribbon, or a bit of\ Jewelry— \Leannot sey I have beard say that I have seen-tWhen, x, dearly | beloved brothren, a young chip Tike this | goes on for more than a year, and lets everybody fancy they are gomg to be | married- \I don't mean to say that at times a | young chap may not seo a nice lass and [ admire her, and talk to her a bit, and then go away and forget. her--there's no | dissimulation in that; but when it goes | on for a long time, and he uidkes her to | think be's very sweet upon her, andthat | he can't lve without her, and he gives her ribbons and jewelry that I can't par- ticularize, becauso I haven't séon them-} when a young chap, (ll xirly beltovedi brethren\-and so on anl son, becom- ing more and more involved. g Butthe jumble of a => u.. its ef- pulpit, with tlie eyes of ~ grey -Youth's Comlumon Prompt Adhvulon of Dental Plates. L.C. Bryan gives an excellent plan for | securing immediate suction lin a new | ; dental plate or a newly repaired one. The plate is moistened, and then simply | sprinkled with fine powder of gura traga- | canth. The platcis tien pressed into place, . ~ and no matter how good or bad'a fit, it will | bold firmly for a day ursiler almost any use or abuse. apparent; for the digstely sfecessful, are at once discon- | misfit. Jt is said that a thin coatlng of traga- canth will even up all irreguldgrities, pre- | ; venting the plate from woumlmg the J o membrane. of the mouth, and sensitive often leading to a satisfactory fit where [ otherwise the: pl ite could not be worn. f I If the dentist is of opinion that time | and ise will i imprové the general adapta- | | tion of the plate it is recommended that | a small box of should be pre- |. sented to the p'munt with diréctions for -use whenever the variation in the suc- | tion of the plate from atmospheric causes | . should rew ler its employinent necessary. -New York Commercial Advertiser. Some Monster Hammers. Sightseers in St. Lonis llVVd)S take & lively interest in the monster, trip ham- 1 . mere nsed in the various large fron | ~ works, which, although as Luge as any- thing of the kind to be found within the limits of the United States, are but pig- | . mies when compared with those used in | ; | the great rolling mills and sun foundries. of Europe. Ai the Terni wof! there is a hammer which wei tons. It was-cast in 1878, and is said to | in Italy Ivy to admit of being set in position. Alemmdrm skt, Russia, has one ten tons | heavier that was cast in 1874. At the| - Crenstot works in E‘mncevthe't‘e is one of | eiglity tons. sets on an anvil block of 160 tons weight. | The Cockerill works in Be ln-mm have a It was made in 14877 and | 100 ton hammer, and the Krupp Gun { works at E-sen. Germany, have one of 150 | The Inst famed hammer is the tons. largest now used in the world '—St Louis | Affected dispatch is one of the mast | Republic. dangerous things to business that can be. - Planted the Eggs., Some of the officials of tllJO George- | town eaustom heause are wiser than they | were. One day a strange hog; came in bond from Teheran, Persia, Add: ressed to |. a well known Washington gentleman In due course of time it was opened for | i Under a heavy | ayer of dump cotton were sey Hal quarts | of some kind of seeds: inspection and appraisal. No one could classify than bit sev- eral samples were tsL.eim-out and planted <in & convenient plaere, due season eame and claimed; his prop- erty. He was, of coun c.inte Lluédtt d as to the Aature of tha Sisee «Is.\ ~Silk worm eggs,\ he lvplle H Fire and Blood. The Japanese consider that w. 1 blood and fire to practically were in [ the Frene h pm tie. middle ages. aldique\ to the flames of fire Humer of the bled. and the anixed f as il-p. che says, the symbol of the diay of jlnlnj’mellt; and | he goes on pleasantly to- likeiiit to the wrath of (iod, < the wicked in eternal flame. \the ve Hole work ! As a Soldier. ~ The. mMcn fighting white woos atraxght to |. | heaven to become iq hundsome young | ' man of 95, who is provided “nth fifteen I , beautifal wives and all the game he can eat for a thousand years. Under this be- I lief hundreds of them do theu' best to and it's father funny to thiiik | are bambuoce¥rd wlnn they there;\ “DLU wit Free get HiHed, how they wake up Cover . Press. } A young wan | ‘Let love be | black eyes too, and not a word, her character, very respectably‘ d I don't Whole con- ation furned on him, and 'he and the F 'nive lass\ were married hot long after. Th > advantage of this is fir<t half hour after a: plate is put in in: tkosol mars the reputa- | ~ tion of the dentist. for the tune being, in ' the estimation of the patient, whose ef> ] - forts to \suek up\ a plate. if 'notimme- | ths fiftv: The owner of the\ notified cof its arrival, and in | | { may not take cmulu'rfelt change. . Better be too. hot , . \ for two ur three hours at nout thiun to be / they go so fast f cool for the remaifider of the twenty-four. «ought periitps now fo say they € be thef d nungczjy of the later, In Bion's old fArt Her- l pe color all“ vis compared both [ 1 1 a | ( . whicte will u LL“ Plunge . chamber door lock the door, turn the key | £8 ] so that 1f cin be drawn partly out and put Thus any at- | tempt to use a. jimmy or another key will push it out and cause a racket among the | crockery, which. will be pretty sure to | religion of Dahomey Land is to! effect that any soldier lulled while | STRAY BITS Japaneee saying: ion can't rivet a pail in a boiled {potato. _ ' Two wealthy Jews of Bagdad now own _ that remains of the ancient town of ? B | hope fof in the. . way of relief, I most hear- 1 tily recommend them to any sufferer from Babylon. : oe. A woman buried at New Madrid, Mo., | : recently weighed 750 pounds. There were gixbeen active pallbearers. \Deserted Village,\ one of Goldsmith's) . . masterpiéces, has beentranslated into the | tongue of the Hinduo race. There are fourteen pages in the United | States soniite. They serve for four years each, being eligible only between the ages ; of 12 and 16. A gentleman who drew out his pipe for | | an after dinner smoke in the Grand hotel, | Paris, was immediately told that the 11118“ of the house did not allow pipes. Some practlcal but infartistic German IE has fade up a compound of sugar and . condensed milk and tea, from which a cup ' of tes can be had by simply pouring on | ' boiling water. Feminine toilets in England have this | year reached a hitherto unheard of luxury | Natural flowers have been | éntirely discarded for imitation blossoms | of costlingss. made of jewels. Among the-guests at the Stanley-Tennant | wedding, in Westminster Abbey, were | twelve street Arabs, pupils of the London | Ragged Schoolunion, who were present by , special mvltatlon of the bride. The reason given why birds do not fall ; from their perch is because they cannot ; open the foot when theleg is bent. Look at - a hen walking, and see it close the toes as it lifts its foot and- open them as it touches | . the ground. H. M. S- Blenheim, recently launched, will be the queen of cruisers. She is of A horseshoer of Norristown, Me., made nine miniature horseshoes from a silver ten-cent pigéce. He has made affidavit that each and every one of the miniature shoes were made with the same hammer and . . punch used in making the largest sized real | horseshoes, The great Bear River canal in Utah, for | = ' the construction of which $2;000,000 has { been provided, is expected to be: one of the © most extensive 1rmgat10n works in Amer» | dea. To get the river along the side hill | along Besar creek canon and oitt on to the plain near Plymouth will necessitate mov- | - . ing 220,000%cubic yards of solid rock. A watchmaker in Newcastle, England, | * recently completed a set of three gold shirt | studs, in one of which is a watch that keeps | excellent time;, the dial bemg only three- sixteenths. of an inch in diameter. contained in the middle one is wound up by turning the stud above. NldKNAM-ES OF CiTiEs. Athens, Greece, is called the City pf the: Violet Crown. Limerick, Ireland, is called the City of ' the. Violated Treaty. London, England, is called the City of | Masts and the Modern Babylon. Venice, Italy, the Bride of the Sea, and | ' Havana, Cuba, the Pearl of the Antilles. Jeruealem, Palestmo, is called the City | ; of Peace and the City of the Great King. 'Mass., is called the City of Lowell, . Spindles and the Manchester of America. Plttsbnrg. Pa., of Homes. Cmcmnntl O., is called the Queen City, Porkopolis, Queen of the West and Paris . of America. Baltimore, Maryland, is.called the Monu- | | mental City; and Birminghain, O., is called Bran Town. Edinburgh, Scotland, is called the Maiden Town, Northern Athens, Modern Athens | and Athens of the North. Aberdu n. Scotland, is called the Glamte . City; Alexandrina, Egypt, the Delta City, and Akron, Ohio, the Summit City. Rome, Italy is called the Eternal Clty, . Nameless City, Queen of Cities, Seven Hilled City and Mistress of the W orld Washington City, D. C:, is called the City of Magnificent Dmtances and New | York, N; Y, Gotham, Empire Clt} andthe | Metropolitan City. Boston, Mass., is called the Puritan City, Modern Athens Hub of the Universe, City | -of Notions, Athens of America and the | | Hub.-Louisville Courier-Journal. Sodom and Gomorrah afc called the Cities of the Plain; Winfipeg, Man., the Gate City of the Northw est, and 7aneewlle - O., the City of Vatural Advantagee HINTS FOR TRAVELERS Take one-fourth more money than your - estimated expenqes Acquaint yourself with the geography of the route and region of travel. So arrange as to have buta single article of luggage to Took after if possible. Put yourpurse and watch in your vest | pocket and gll under your pillow, and you will not be likely to. leave either. Have a good supply of small change and no bill or piece higher than #10, that you Dress snlmmutldll) under all cireumstances to be at the place of starting fifteen or twenty | minutes before the time, thus allowing for . unavoidable of unanticipated detention on . the way. Do not be'fln a day's travel before break- fast, even if it has to be eaten at daylight. Dinner or supper, or both, can be more healthly dispensed with than a good warm- | breakfast. f If there is no bolt on the inside of your the wash Basin under it. arofse the sleeper and rout the robber.- True Flag.: | Pasteur mxght have been the richest man . 'in the world if he had cared for the com- } . mercial value of his discoveries and pro- tected them by patents. In addition to his discoveries im tle prevention of hydrophobia | he discovergd the cause of a. mysterious dis- ease umong silk worms, which threatened } to destroy the silkworm industry in France, , { and applied & remedy . ' Plumb 9,000 tons displacement, 20,000 horse power, | . 22 knots speed for four hours, unarmored, | . with steel deck 61¢ inches thick, two 22-ton J guns, and other smallarms. The | { threestuds are connected by a strip of sil- | , ver inside the shirt bosom, and the watch | t The hands are | | set by turning the below. tinued, and the plate pronounced a [* by burnjmgll e one below .. is called the fron City, | | the Smoky Clty and the Birmingham of ] America. . Phlladelphm Pa., is called the Quaker | City, City of Brotherly Love and the City | { Jonan fi Guam, June 11, 1888. I havlp found in Dr. Deane's Dyspepsm Pills a Jemarkablt remedy for Dyspepsia. Speaking from an experience of four in their use, Lhave found them to my own case all that I dared to . months meet i BillousDyspepsta E. Vax SivyK®, 1 Pastor Reformed Church, 9w3f§ Catskill, N Y . Stoves, Crockery, &c. A GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES QWE ARE SELLING- CREAM FREEZERS Reffigerators and Stoves at Cost: Our prices on FRUIT JARS are very low. We are selling GLASSWARE: very cheap. Our frices on STONEWARE will surprise . you. _| Try ”$3? of Mrs. Van Dusen's improved patent . CAKE PANS. They are the best. We are selling TINWARE fit prices that defy compe- tition |We have also a large stock of CROCKERY, consistil g of DINNER and TEA SETS, which 'we are gelling very cheap. LAMPSOf: all kinds. __ We aie agents for the Alt Right Steam and Hot Wfter Heater. ng, Tinning, Steam and Gas Fitting j T REASONABLE PRICES. Give usia call and be safisfied that we will do as we say.. \CALLAHAN&SELMSER No l . . 31 West Main Street, | JOHNGToWN, N. v. Grocerles. NNED CHICKEN AND TURKEY, ' Luncéh Ham, ibotted, Meats, 3 - i Imported Sardines, | OLIVE OHL, SALADDRESSING. LINS & HANSON Conétractors and lullders. | fill EslTABLISHED 1856 JOf ‘N E. SEAMAN & CO. | DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF i Building Material, Agents forthe Adamant I Plaster and Mineral Wool. Persofial attention given to all kinds. of work $521,321“! ig to a building and materiais fur- a STAIR BUILDING, 1. ine! Ceiling. aiid Wainscoting, ''Seroll falling and Tarning of At Kinds, ”P, Sasi, Poors, Blinds and \Mouldings. i { : Estimates freely given forall kinds of work. S | Nos. 27 [Karim rly Fonda Plank Road, JOHNSTO W N N- Y- TEAM MILL , 29, 31 and 33 Chestnut Street, i Hess. F E. BEEKMAN' HESS & BEEKMAN, l GENERAL Contractors ani Builders RIqoplNo. 6 Cayadatta St., Johnstown, F‘ettmafte made and contracts talien for all hunk of Iinidings. - Good workmanship guaranteed. JOBBINIG AND REPAIRING OF ALL KIND3 9.131} ited, and promptly attended to. Shop Stipplied with the Latest Machinery, which is run by &n Electric Motor,.