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ftrertiM r, there »r« iev r York to?” ' Herald, I@v000,000 i t the tiu'f, I to f50,- tb« United p'^f* lesponsible I to be made ton sheep ; itate •with p jarm s that tecQted I to receive i be reared. I l ^ t ^ f t h e ^'-^:K»»e in this betels 'A a e rteeare |«eeidestof I P w JIlMbis^isQlared ehriliza- amount of eineethit i ie i le most skilful, 1 methods iu the ml Kbk Measured by i ^ siviUeaMou of the i is the bigheit on earth, e ou rotuamy cloths with a only througfh the ^ j M ^ b t r l e add are taken as ^ ^ e e ot the high civilization jprbt mideat %ypt. are vastly mistaken. Me not aware of tho facility ,|rt0eh cities are created under laws of the State o f Kan. lias no limit on the inferior determine when a village may the dignity o f cityhood. In ^wvatcrniere are no leas than 362 irated cities, 'while the total ir o f cities in the United States k i®®?* ihe 862 Kansas ^ p i s , oniyl6 have jtioi'e ilmn 6000 SIS have less than 2000, lets than 1000, and 10 have 100 inhabitants apiece. A t of the last census the duly iu- dlies of Avilla and Ap ia that state rejoiced in the ^llOtai of thirty-four inhabitants. A World’s fair is proposed for Ber- } lilt iu 1896 and for BarU iu 1000. It is estimated that 40 jier cent, those 'who s tart in business in Great I Britain go into bankmptoy ivitliin j two years from starting. Tbs British general elections are [ never held on one or the same day, because au elector has the right to cast I a ballot in every district in which he | owns property. . A careful examination of the cata logues of English dealers in games shows that the popular games in Eng land are iu every way identical with those in the United States, and not a single game could be found iu any of them is not well known and current Au estimate of the value of the ex ports from this country, including cot ton, breadstufl^, provisions, cattle, hogs and sheep, petroleum and all other articles for the year ending J itne 30, 1892, places the figures at $1,015,- 789,607. During tho year ending June SO, 1891, tho value was $872,- 270,283. The use of saccliarin, the chemical ■uhstitute for sugar, instead of sugar, appears to be widening. An experi ment in which the Hew York Times says, all housekeepers are interested is that of preserving fruit with Mccdiadn, a t a considerable gain in flavor and wholesomenese. It will, of oourte, take lime to test tho new ptoeesB, which, however, is most promising in theory. There is a common misuse o f the word colt, as applied to the young of ilie borse kind, that sounds strange remarks the Boston Cnllivator, to those used to English breeders’ ways of speech. Colt is a young male foal. Filly is tho name of the female, -while foal is the word to use in case the sex is not known. This distiuctiou is found in Shakespeare, and as there is Die for each o f the words in writing or speaking about horses, itisw e llto preserve the diitincliou. «‘Itb a s been a womierfally good 'year for sealing,” said the captain of •t sealing schooner to a Sail Francisco Jfecaminer reprosentative. “ Every body has made money. 1 had a total o f 25 men on board and they all did well. Each o f my six hunters made over $1200 for the time out. The waters are full of seals. Millions of them are to he seen. lYo saw them all tbe way down from near the edge Of the Yellow Sea to close to tlte Straits of Fuca. Passengers on the Canadian Pacific steamship lino to j Japan see them, not for hours, b u t ! lo r days, just as far as tbe eye can leacb every way. Thick is no name fo r it. Talk about the seals dying out,” continued the captain. “ It’s tlie veriest balderdash, uttered in nine oats# out of ten by people who would not know a seal if they saw one. When the fish are ali eanglit out o f the Hacific then the seals will be. Nobody li«eC;Vrorfy about them until lljeii. We l^ot our seals on the Alaska and Ai^arfcan coast, 250 this side o f Capo jj^itfery and 1598 between there and <!ro«i sound. The quality of the skins s|b|t year is first class. The seals are *fia In fltiecondition and there arc many ; ■ I never saw finer fur than The skins are ■' liBK«fing about $14 each at Victoria, f ^ i t i s n o w t h e best market on this thtMrti You can get more for them tbatt here. TJiis is probably the -'*• f o r seals that has been •\me. They are so roesel has dime Park Benjamin, the scientific expert of New York, has a library of over 1000 volumes on the subject of elec tricity. These books are all treatisGs and every one of them bears upon electricity and magnetism. Tho sci- enoe has only been in existence about 3u0 «..d 2 UU years o f that time i t was merely experimental. Electricity came into practical use with the telegraph; and the books that have been published within the ;ast fifty years are probably two or three times as numerous as all that were printed in the two and a half centuries preceding. In Kerrick, England, a pleasant feature has been added to an industrial school. Spinning is now taught to both boys and girls, and many little people arc fast learning how to pro duce the pleasant whir-r-r of the spin ning-wheel. They make linen which is used for altar cloths, palls and chal ice veils. Every spinner spins a dif ferent thread, with a different gloss and twist, and thus there is a great variety of color and quality in the linen, some of which is said to be very beautiful. The youngest “spinster” is a little girl, nine years old, wdiose work is said to be excellent. Contentment in Natnue. ■ I would not change my joys for those Of Emperors and Kings. What has my gentle friend, thy'rose Told them, if aught, do you ^tippose— The rose that tells me things. What secrets have they had w ith trees? W hat romps with grassy spears? What know they of the mysteries Of butterflies and honey bees. Who whisper in my ears? What says the sunbeam unto them? W hat tales have brooklets told? Is there within their diadem A single rival to the gem The dewy daisies hold? What sympathy have they with birds. Whose songs are songs of mine? Do they e’er hear, as though in words ’Twas lisped the message of the herds Of grazing, lowing kine? Ah n o ! Give me no lofty throne, But just what nature yields. Let me but wander on, aloce If needs be, so that all my own Are woods and dales and fields, —[John Bangs, in Harper’s Weekly. Under Three Umbrella?, “If it didn’t look as if I were trying to gain some benefit from your um brella,” lie remarked, as he chanced to meet her on the cimrch steps after ser vice, “ I would ask to walk home with you. I didn’t expect rain when I left home, so I am unprepared.” '‘However,” came her clear reply, just arch enough to he fascinating and just tender enough to bo frank, “ if yon’ll carry my umbrella and let me turn my energies to keeping my dress caught up out of the mud I ’ll bo very thankful to you.” They had walked, strangely enough, half way home in almost complete si lence, wlien a man and a woman passed them, like them, under one umbrella, but, unlike them, tho woman was held snugly close to tlio man’s side as she clung to his arm. It was a picture of that open freedom which so undenia bly marks a congenial m.m and -wife, whoso companionship has ripened into frank trust. As they passed Robert Courtrigbt said, half thoughtfully, perhaps: “They are sensible. I f two are trying to use one umbrella, they are surely to bo commended if they strive to take up as little room as possible. Even i f it be noon, won’t you take my “But they are plainly not such— such strangers as w e ,” she returned: conscious that both were treading or •‘Are we strangers?” ho asked quickly, turning his eyes searchiugly The pretty face grow a trifle pah against its light-brown hair. A liirai seemed to d im b to her throat, but slB returned, bravely: “ Yes—tha£is,we’) always bo strangers compared w i^ He slopped for .in instant and gazel fixedly at h er till a hot flush flow ip from out her dark fur collar ai)d swept under tho velvet strings o f htr duinty brown bonnet. Tho Mexicans don’t dress in feathers and paint, like their Aztec forefathers did, and as many Americans and Eng lishmen imagine they do today, ob serves the Cliioago Snn. Neither are they a nation of bauiliis going around with keen-edged stilettos upi their sleeves with which to slit the throats of people from the United Sl.atos and Europe, as popular tradition in many countries have them doing. On the contrary Mexico has become a com mercial country, one wliose trade is constantly growing and which it is but right and proper this country should possess. She is rich and most fertile in her resources, but lack of capital and energy to develop them. “Always?’’ he asked simply. “Yes. Why, can’t you see that they j arc married?” She tried to laugh it away, but it would have been diflicuU to tell which pair of lips quivered the most ,’ or which pair of oyes swam in thi Time had proved lliat she had been right. His wife was ,a bcauUfiil woman, and her wealtli had opened bouiulloss opportunities to him. He had risen—she h.ad known that ho would. But, now that she scarcely was able to know herself, she would venture into his world and see for her self how happy and proud and pros perous he was. So, hiiviug spent ail but her last bill fo r her ticket, she stopped into Phila delphia one spring evening, steeling her heart to what might follow. Tho next evening she had walked past his great, rich house and was starting back when a sudden shower burst un expectedly upon her. She gathered up her skirts in that particular way so characteristic of a dainty woman, and was hurrying along when all at once she was con scious of a sharp, childish cry at ber side. Turning, she beheld a tall sad faced man trying to quiet a fretful baby o f about 8 years, which held out its dimpled hands to her and cried: “Mammal Mamma!” The gentleman strove to stop it and Gabriel started on. But sharp and piercing came the “Mam-mal” and her heart hade her linger. For tho first time the man spoke to “ I must beg your pai’don, madam. His mother has just died and some thing about you seems to have recalled her to him.” Gabriel’s heart softened at once. Going straight up she took the tiny, outstretched hands in her own and murmured: “Poor, motherless little Tho father held out his umbrella over her and for the first time she looked at him—the face was Robert’s? She was glad for the excuse of turn ing to baby again and murmured something unintelligible. However, ho had not recognized her,so she drew all her strength to her assistance and succeeded in hiding her emotion. “If you will walk under my nm- breUajasT am going your way for this square,'yon can keep dry. And, too, I fear baby won’t like to part with you now.” There was no easy way to retreat: it would have been absurd to scud off in a changed direction through tho polling rain, so she continued talking ‘‘UP-ledly to tho child. As they reached Uiext/w- „ , ___ ^ o,.o stopped, “I cannot thank you enough for having calmed Leslie. His nurse left this morning and he will not bo consoled by any of tho other servants. So I finally told Mrs. Clarke, tho housekeeper, tiiat I would try him for a walk. But will yon not take tho umbrella? It will be a shame to ex pose yourself to such § deluge.” She gracefully declined all thanks a]id such kind ofi’ers, and glided qjilckly off, a tall, blacked-robed figure dlring tlio watery drops. But a per- f ct shriek from baby arose when be f und himself deserted in this fashion, each succeeding cry became lin g Uiulev and more distressing. Again dibriel could not go. Again she came ick to him. (“Will yon please come into the ho house with him? Mrs. Clarke may deepest mist as the two started on,' there be better able to get him away both silent, both sad, both realizing than 1.” that a little tragedy had ocenrred ii! So G.ibriel, carrying the child, According to the Baltimore Sun. the fast trip of the ocean steamers across the Atlantic are working a curious re action. People used to take tho voy age long ago for the tonic effects o f the sea air, the long rest it gave them and tho general benefit of the complete change o f life. AH this is done away with on the “ six day boats.” The trip is BO short that tho paasdagera barely get used to the wave motion or enfsd of its first vipheaviiigs when tho dock is sighted on the other side, 'fhen the great crowd on board, tho rush for meats and continued excltemont that brief instant under that dripping umbrella ou the noon boulevard. Eight years went by and foiuul Gabriel Vaugline alone in the workj with necessity for keeping up a li: in which all interest and all eiierg were dead. She bad at last ariat from a tedious illness, and the uuti herself scarcely recognized the ta pale, sad-faced woman, with the shi dark curls, as the bright-eyed, ligf haired girl of six months befd Gabriel had one thing dear to her,fl only one, and that was a memK And some o f our dearest memois are the cruelest parts o f our Its. ■When fiD.ally she stood before a liv- ror, and realized that that clia^ei cheature was herself, a mightjve solve filled her—she would go td lhi source of that memory. { She know Avhere lie was; shelaot that lie had married three jearalifte that bitter morning in the raiiij ' ■ had m,arried a wealthy wife. TJia was the reason that she had thrnit bin back from her long ago, just bscans of his poverty. Not that it woul pain her, a thousand times no I tladti she cried out, n ight after night sinci tered his liouse, unknown, but wel come even then. Leslie was not to be easily deceived, and all the ruses were seen through immediately by his careful, big blue “ We must get a nursemaid this very night,” declared Mrs. Clarke, ns she endeavored iu her practical, cold- hearted way to inveigle tho young lord from his now “ mamma.” “But,” gro.med Mr. Courtright, “ Where can one got one which he can trust on such short notice?” A bold idea entered Gabriel’s lie.ad: She tried three or four times to speak, and her voice failed. Finally she choked back tho lump in her throat and said: i “Would it be presumptuous for mo to offer myself? I can show you ex cellent references, and I am now loo k- [ing for some such position.” “Yon a nursemaid?” exclaimed Mr. Courtright in amazomont. Then, a moment later, he would have given much to have it back unsaid; her plain black gown was darned at the elbows—it was merely her way of wearing it that gave her the appear- tbat starvation with him would of a woman of long founded cnl- only bliss? But she hud known hi ambitions and his capabilities; knel his di’eams of success, and she reallzej his ability to turn tho dreams intj realitioB. Slie Was poor. Would permit herself to hang a milUtoi^ use up many of the otlior beneficial about his neck? No, she would huj advantages. Long trip Voyages have 1 M b heart before she would rum hj therefore become fashionable. i [ittre and delicacy. 'Iwo years went by, in which Miss /ariiey, as she was now known, un- Riscovered, was loved by and ived ih return Mr. Courlrighl’s two hildrcn. It was ono evening in arch, just before dusk, when she h ad 1ft Leslie up stairs asleep and hud jst come down to /ho drawing-room with Mabel, to stay with the child till her father came to dinner. lie was lata and Mabel had wan- dered off to a back parlor, thus leav- , iiw Gabriel alone in the dimly lighted room when Mr. Courtright finaUy entered, “ I shall call Mabel.” she began, starting from her station by tbe win- ^ “No, Mies Varney; stay. I have ^ something to say to you. You re member how moved I was the fust j lime, Leslie called you ‘ mamma? You thought tlmn, no doubt, that it | was because of tbe memory of my wife. Partly so, but mostly beoaiwe i as 1 looked up at you I thought for au instant that you were the woman who might have been his mother if , the fates had been kinder. Bo you ] know, Miss Varney, that you often remind me cruelly of a -ivomau I loved better than the world?” uYour wife?” She was glad that | it was dark enough to hide the tremb ling of her lips. “ No, not my wife. I loved Mane one way; she was tender and true to me. But the woman that 1 really loved—” Then, after a short pause, he w e n t ou : “But what I m e a n t to say to you is this: I have learned to love you a thousand times better than Marie, and sometimes, I almost think, asm u c U a s Iloved-the dearest one. Can you, will you bate mo if I you thus to bo Leslie’s luamma m truth as well as in word?” Slowly came tho reply: “ But you love the first woman best o f all, even yet?” “ Yes, I do. But, ns I said, I of ten almost think that you are she when I stop to realize how I feel toward ^°Momont afte** moment wont by. The shadows came closer and tho rim of lighter clouds near tho west hori zon grew narrower. A t last she said: “I, too, loved in tho long ago. But I can never in any way love an other man. But—” Hoforo she could finish the sentence Mr. Conrtwright had recognized in his governess the “ best loved one of all,” and i t is needless to say that the umbrella episode resulted iu Mias Vaughn’s really becoming the mamma of baby Leslie. _ Catching the Octopus. ‘ ‘I t is no trick to catcli them. They aro pulled out with hook and Jino from me deep tVatevs o i me Scyixnd just like fiali, and are found on the rocky bot toms of tho fishing banks,” said a fiBlierman iu Seattle* /iijook at continued ho, raising tho slimy mass of legs and pointing to a perfect counterpart o f a parroi’s black beak. “That’s his mouth. Just like a par rot’s, only much larger and more powerful. When once those jaws Lasieu ou the bait they never let go until lauded on the deck o f the boat, 'fliey seldom give ns much trouble. Experience has taught tho men how to haudlo them safely. The only care iiecessiary is to prevent their fastening iheir suoivcrs ou the sides and bottom of the boat. If by accident or care lessness they should succeed in doing }pns is safe, f o r the suctiou of tlioso cup-Uko disks is so great that nothing but the knife can dislodge them, and as they can’the reached they get away. “ Tho men know by tho weight on the line and its action ivhen an octo pus is hooked. Then, by means Of poles, tlie line is kept away from tbe boat, and, watching a favorable op portunity, with the assisuiiico o f boat- hooks, the fellow is suddenly yanked on board and left to thrash its life away on deck. Of course, tho men have learned to keep carefully out o f reach of its tentacles. On a clear day and in clear weather one can see ati octopus at a groat depth. Their bodies usually lie hiddeii under shelving rocks, leaving one or more of those long feelers visible, moving cautiously back and forth. “ Baiting a hook with a white rag and d ’’oppiiig . it close by, it is fun to watch their movements. They pro tend not to see the bait, believing it is a living prey. They will advance ilieir feelers inch by inch, and grad ually their body, and retreat again as if to draw ou the intended victim. Playing the bait back and forth ex cites tliair cupidity, and when satis fied with the result the beast makes a spring for the bait that for lightning- like speed beats anything on record. Of course, i t fastens its razu’-like^ dottbie-back-aotlon beak into tlie rag and holds on like grim death, allow ing itself to be pulled out o f the water WhatoA'er Is—^Is Best* I know as my life grows older, . And mine eyes h ave clearer sight. That under each rank wrong somewhere That such sorrow has its purposes, By the sorrowing o ft unguessed. But as sure as the sun brings morning. Whatever is—is best. I know that each sinful action, As sure as the night brings shade, Is somewhere, sooic time punished, Tho’ the hour be Jong delayed. I anew that the soul is aided 1 Sometimes by tbe heart’s unrest, And to grow Ineans often to suffer— But whatever i s - i s best. I know there are no errors In the great eternal plan, And all things work together For the final good of man. And I know when in y soul speeds onward In its grand eternal quest, I shall say as I look back earthward, Whatever is—Is best. -[E l l a Wheeler W ilcox. HUMOROUS. A rousing appeal—Time to get u p . A man with a history: Tho book A fly is best off when he lights on a sticky paper. A cent in your pocket is worth two on your handkcicliiof. “Chops for me,” said tho hatched- faced man to tlie waiter. 'The worm must bo contagious or the early bird would not catcli it. What is done cannot be undone, especially if it is a hard-boiled ogg- After tlie pickpocket has succeeded in getting his baud in ho takes things easily. Clara—I want something to match my licad tonight. What would you wear? Mancie—Something light. It sliows the advantages of position that when a woman begins to turn a man’s head she first gets on tbe right side of him. Wlieii a motlior tells her boy he is getting to be just like his fattier, ha knows very well i t is not intended as a compliment. Proof positive: Adelaide—Why are you so sure he loves you? Made, leiuo—Because ho shows mo tlie letters you write to him. “I used to “Is that a good dog?” rink so, “■Why?” “ I’ve had him a motithrand think so b u t I have my doubts now.’' y?” nobody has tried to steal him.” “ Orlando, I didn’t see you with>» Miss Spoons at the concert last night, “No, Perey; I ’m not calling on her any more. I can’t until she retracts what she said last week.” “ All! what did she say?” “ Well, she said 1 needn’t call any more.” rather than let go.” In tho Orchard, le—How the trees are nn He—How the trees are moaning and sighing today. She—So would you, if you were as full of green apples as tliey are,— [Life. A Curious Imlustvy. Tlie idea o f flower farming for per fumes seems to be exciting a good deal of interest in New South Wales, as many inquiries on the subject have lately been submitted to the agricul tural department. There aro at pres ent in tlio colony no means of illus trating the practical operations o f this industry, but tlie Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales hopes that this doliciency will soon bo supplied by tho institution of experimental plots on one or more of tho experimental farms. Tlie Gazette points out that in scent farms largo quantities of waste material from nureerics, gar dens, orchards and ordinary farms might be prolitably utilized, while oc- cupaiion would be found for some who are unfit for hard manual labor. A government perfume farm was A lately established at Dunolly, in Vic- 1 toria, and tins promises to be remark- 1 ably successful.— [Now York W itn e s ^ ' Cnbnu Wid’ys. Many Cuban way^ are different from those o f any other people on the Globe. A Cuban, when ho desires to b ring a person to hint, motions him to go away. They p u t keyholes upside, down, and applaud iu tho theatre by a prolonged hiss. Postage stamps are sold everywhere b u t at the post office, and to get revenue stamps you do not go to a government official, but to a broker on the street. The people live ou the first floor and do their cooking upstairs, the nurses ahd chamber ser vants are men instead o f women, and agricultural implements are sold at chocolate shops,— [Sb Louis Globe- Deinpcrat. Only a Qncstion of Time. Acquaintance—So your son ha* hung out hie shingle as a doctor—ha* he any patients yelp Proud Parent —Jtfot yet; hat ho ha* raised a beard and bought a pair of eye-glasses I—[Buck. Cyrus W. Cady, who died recently in Denver, introduced the first mow- ing machine into Colorado.
