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The wife of Munkacsy, the artist, will boob visit Americr., Mrs. Gladstone employs homoepathic phy sicians and remedies. Mrs. Harriet Bwecher Stowe walks from five to seven miles a day. Mrs. Lillic Devereaux Blake thinks women would make good soldiers. The widow of the late Chief Justice Wait* will live in Cincinnati with her son. Julia Folville, of Belgium, is soon to be brought out as a rival to Josef Hof'nann. Mme. Durand (Henry Oreville) is squat, has an almost clumsy face, and is clumsy. President Eiiot, of Harvard, says that women should never lecture to young men. Mrs. Mary Head Ooodale is one of the most successful temperance workers in the south. Miss Virginia M. Holliday, of Carroll, Md., has been gnint4.il a patent for a bonnet holder Mme. Blanc livos quietly with her mother, and is seldom mm except at one or two re ceptions. Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, is a su perbly beautiful woman, with a wealth of chestnut hair. Mrs. Louise Chnnuier Moulton will pres ently return from Washington to Boston and then sail for Europe. A distinguished negro belle of Port au Prince, Hayti, has married a brother of William Black, the novelist. The medical attendant of the queen of Corea is an American woman physician, who receives a salary of $15,000 a year. Queen Victoria offers to sell her villa at Baden-Baden for £10,000, reserving "asquare metre of ground" whereon to erect a memo rial ot' her ownership. The Princess of Wales' most valuable sil ver wedding present was a magnificent neck lace of rubies and diamonds from the em peror and empress of Russia. The queen of England speaks German in her home circle, while English is the family language of the German, Russian, Greek and Danish imperial and royal homes. Queen Victoria has invited the king and queen of Italy to visit Windsor castle in June, and they have accepted the invitation provided the situation of affairs at the time will permit. Mrs. Garrett Anderson is at the head of the London School of Medicine. She is the lead ing woman physician in England; makes an income of £10,000, and has the strength and energy of a man. After Frederick dies tho German empress will receive a fortune, payable by the reign ing emperor, of $150,000 a year, and the use of the Palace of Charlotteuberg and another palace at Potsdam. Miss Mary Tillingnost is one of the most successful among the women who have made a business of decorativo art. Vandert'ilt once paid her $30,000 for inventing a new kind of tapestry hangings for his houses. Lady Haberton stands for the divided ekir(, and accepts no compromise for iniiUi and outer wear. She does not think that reai progress in dress can be made so long as wo men ciing to a petticoat in any form. Empress Victoria of Germany is able to converse learnedly with such men as Virchon and Yon Helmholz, and her comprehension of her husband's casa has awakened wonder among his physicians. She is without doubt one of the best informed women in the world. Ug Toe Cam is the name of a Chinese woman who recently arrived in San Fran cisco. She is possessed of wonderful beauty, and the Californians have gone wild over her. She is a sister-in-law of Lee Kong You, a well known cigar manufacturer of i-.ai! Francisco. One of the contestants !n a walKing match iv progress in Chicago recently was Esther Oiuisten, 12 years old. She is described as "the champion child pedestrienne of the United States," and already has a record for spi'<M and endurance, having walked a hall mile in three minutes and thirty twoseconds. She began her career as a pedestrian at El g'.n, Ills., when only 4 years old. RELIGIOUS GLEANINGS. The latest figures show that there are 1(5,- j •W'.V.iyO Sunday school scholars in the world. The English and American Episcopalian missionaries in Japan agree to co-operate, ond will educate their clergy in one theologi cal school. To a native church in Kafflrland a man was lately received at the age of 108 years. He sought admission with deep solicitude, ami bis recital of spiritual experience was affecting. The Church of England has a mission in Upper Burmah under the lead of six priests, two English, one Tamil and three Karen. Fifty villages aro reached, there are 1,23? communicants and 5.)? scholars. There will be divided among the superan nuated preachers and widows and orphans at the Methodist Episcopal church, next year, $100,000 out of the profits of the Methodist Book Concern. The Book Concern will be a century old in 1880. On the 30tb of November, 18S7, in the suburbs of Algiers, was opened the first Pres- '. byterian church of western Africa. ; The beautiful edifice of freestone and marble i is the gift of Sir Peter Coats to the synod of ! the United Presbyterian church of Scotland. ; Congregational churches have a remark able history in Florida. A little more than four years ago a state association was formed ' of the four churches that had then been or- ' ganized. Now the uumber is thirty-five. Of ■ these thirty three are aided more or less by i tho Home Missionary society. The Church of England bos two archbishops and thirty-one bishops. In 1881 there were j 14,'.fJ0 civil parishes, with 14,573 churches , and chapels, the clergy in actual service ! numbered 21,603. According to an estimate | made in ISB3, 13,500,000 persons in England j and Wales were adherents of the Established I church, leaving 12,500,000 to other creeds. j The Adventure* of a Horse. Among the incidents of the storm lv Boston, The Electric Review relates how the entanglement of a horse attached to one of the coal delivery teams was caused by the (vires. It was in the evening. The horse ,;ot entangled and the wires threw him down. Some of the snarl of wires proved to be those ot electric lights. The kicking and the strug gles of the horse brought the wires in contact, and in the words of the teamster, "livery time he kicked it would lighten, and every time it lightened be would kick! 1 thought to myself, 'He is bewitched with lightning.' 1 tried to unbutton him, and every time 1 unbuttoned one place he was struck with lightning in another." The poor horse was finally released from hi» peril by somebody who understood the cause of tho trouble.— Scientitto American. Chong Tong, a Chinaman, who professed : Christianity at Augusta, Ga., recently, Is the first of h."s race to join the Baptist church in tho south. He is the proprietor of a grocery and Chinese novelty store in Augusta, and has accumulated a property of several thou sand dollars. The three northern and the three southern presbyteries in east Tennessee and south western Virginia will participate in the cele bration of the centennial of the general' as sembly at Bristol, May 4. Six speakers from as many presbyteries will speak on impor tant subjects. Dr. Hayes, of Cincinnati, chairman of the centennial committee of the northern assembly, has promised to attend. OLD MAN DUMPER. Alt&uugh Not a l'olitlrmt Sacc«»«. ll* fa Still an American Citizen. ••Well! Well: But I thought you were in Germany by this time!" ex claimed Sergeant Bendall, as Carl Dun der entered the Woodbridge street | police station yesterday. "No, I doan' go. Maype dera vhas* some flies on me—maype not." "But you were discouraged the last time you were here: you had tried pol itics and got left. Perhaps you have struck something else?" . "Dot vhas it, und I shall shtay right here. 1 learn some new tricks, und 1 haf some chances to speculate." . "Tell me about it," said the ser geant, as he settled down in his chair. "Maype you doan' like to hear from some greenhorns!" replied Mr. Dunder with an injured look. "If I vhas green ash grass und some cows feed on me, better I go home?" "Come, go ahead. What new tricks have you got?'' j "Vhell, sergeant," said the old man as he melted slowly, "dot trick I shpeak of vhas to wait until more ash ten loafer^, vhas in my place, schwear ing und spitting und hugging the stove, und den put in a shtick of wood mit some powder in it und blow 'em oop. You neafer saw such schumping und running in your life. It vhaa enough to kill you mit laughing. A stranger gifs me dot trick for two glasses of beer. • "You blow up the loafers?" "Dot vhas it." "But you blow up the stove, too, and perhaps your saloon. Can you afford to buy a new stove every time you want to play the trick?" "Eh? Does der stoaf go, blow up, too?" "Of course." "H'm! I doan' think of dot pefore. Of course der stoaf vhas blown oop mit der loafers, und maype der house vhas on tire." -What else?" i "Vhell, I figure on some canary birds. I can buy 'em in Shermany for two shillings apiece." "Yes." "Und der price here vhas two dol lar." "Exactly." "If I buys one million der profit vhas oafer a million und ahaff dollars.'" "1 see. You want agents here and in Germany, and there is the cost of transportation, the! loss by death, and you must find a million buyers. Splen did scheme, Mr. Dunder! I suppose you'll buy a steamer to ship by!" "H'm! I get dot speculation for two dollars in cash. Vhas he wrong?" "Oh no: go right ahead. Any thing else? "What if I buy oop all der orange* in der country for a million dollars?" "Then you could advance prices fifty per cent, and make a heap of money." "Shust so. I vhas glad you see it like me. Dot scheme cost me only tree dollar." "But where is the million dollars to buy with?" "inn, dot's so. Oh! I remember now. I vhas to gif my note for one year. Dot makes her all satisfactory." "What else?" "Vhell, 1 goes in der railroad pees ness. I guess." "How?" "In Mexico. If we build one hun dred miles of railroad we get two mil lion acre 3of land. Dot land vas worth twenty million dollar, uud der income of der road vas life millions a year. Here was der figures like some grease. Dot pointer cost me two dol lar." "Splendid idea. Mr. Dunder, why don't you buy the City Hall for $100,000 and sell it back to the city for half a million?" "By Shorge! but dot was excellent! It was a wonder I doan' think of dot pefore!" .; "And, say, you could buy up forty steamboats this fall for $20,000 apiece and sell them next spring for double the money." j "Donde.r und blltzen, but you vas a sharp man, sergeant! I doan' know you pefore. Shake my hand. How much shall I pay you?" "O, that's all right. Mr. Dunder. You can always have my advice free." "Und vhen I make two hoonered mil lion dollars I gif you der best bank in Detroit for & present. Good-bye, ser geant, I see you quicker again yen I . .is a millionaire."— Detroit Free Press. Chinese Have No Nerves. The North China Herald says the quality of "nervelessness" distinguishes the Chinaman from the European. The Chinaman can write all day, work all day, stand in one position all day, weave, beat gold, carve ivory, do in finitely tedious jebs for ever and ever, and discover no more signs of weari ness and irritation than if he were a machine. This quality appears early in life. There are no restless, naughty boys in China. They are all appall ingly good, and will plod away in school without recesses or recreation of any kind. The Chinaman can do without exercise.- Sport or play seems to him so much waste j labor. He can sleep anywhere —amid rattling machin ery, deafening uproar, squalling chil dren and quarreling adults. He can sleep on the ground, on the floor, on a bed, on a chair, in any position. It would be easy to raise in China an army of amillionmen—nay.'often millions— tested by competitive examination as to their capacity to go to sleep across three wheelbarrows, head downward like a spider, their mouths wide open and a fly inside. . . . —A philosopher says: "Modesty is a maiden's necklace." "*. my! O, my! Thee it should be worn at a full-dress I •-»» V. O. Hcayum. Mrs. fierce was very rondof toe black nag that her husband rode. Nellie Arthur bad a spotted Indian pony for the apple of her eye. Mrs. Monroe brought the first white rabbit to the national premises. Harriet Lane had a large stag bound that was presented her in England. 1 'Dolly" Madison's particular pet was a fine saddle nag. At Montpelier she had a pet sheep. Mrs. Adams had a great goldfish and one of a bluish tint, sent her by a New England lea captain. ; Mrs. Hayes had a magnificent imported Japanese cat tbat was presented to her by a naval officer. TRAFFIC IN HAIR. Die Famous Market of Gloria Id South western France. There is a human hair market at Morlans, in the department of the Lower Pyrenees. It is little known except perhaps in Paris, where it hag a high reputation. The market is held every other Friday. Hundreds of trafficking- hair-dressers throng to the little place from far and near to buy up the hair of the young peasant girls. The dealers wander up and down the long narrow street of the town, each with a huge pair of bright shears hanging from a black leather strap around his waist, while the young girls who wish to part with their hair stand about in the doorways, usually in couples. The transaction is canted on in thu best room of the house. The hair is let down, the tresses combed out, and the dealer names the price. This varies from three to twenty francs. If a bargain is struck the dealer lays the money in the open palm of the seller, applies his shears, and in a minute the long tresses fall on the floor. The purchaser foils up the tresses, places them in a paper, and thrusts them into his pocket. Of course a maiden can iiirely see her fallen tresses disappear in the dealer's pocket without crying, but she con soles herself with the thought that it will grow again and by looking at tho money in her hand. There is at present a scarcity of fancy human hair in the market. Tho scarcest hair is pure white, and itn value is constantly increasing; and if it is unusually long—that, is, from four feet to live feet—the dealer can get almost his own price while if it is of ordinary length it is worth from 375 francs to ,O(X> francs (£ls to £20) an ounce. The fact that pure white hair Is the court coiffure throughout Europe keeps the demand for it very high. It is much prized by American women whose own hair is white and who desire to enrich its folds, for white hair is held to give certain dis tinction to the wearer. There is no fancy market for gray hair; it is too common. It is used to work into wigs of persons who are growing old. What is described as golden hair is eiiher a washed-out pale red or a dull blonde. The gold color so much val ued has no relation to red hair, except in the vividness of its coloring. The demand for the virgin gold color is great in the capitals of Europe. A woman who gets a coilTure of it is considered fortunate. There are four type colors of hair —white, blonde, black, and brown—and each of these has been subdivided into sixteen dif ferent shades. The commonest types are black and brown, and those are cheap. Golden brown is much in favor, as is pure black, or what is called blue-black. Next to pure white hair the demand is for hair of the color of virgin gold. There sire many braids made of hair colored to meet the demand with certain preparations, but they prove unsatisfactory. .Many foolish women have sought to change the color of their own tresses, but tlu-v have uniformly repented the at tempt. A tine suit of hair of the pur est blonde type will sell for 1,000 francs to •-\. r)00 francs (£4O to £100). It is said that the Empress Kugenie paid 1,000 francs (£4O) an ounce for a braid of golden hair that exactly matched her own. The largest supply of hair comes from Switzerland and Germany, and especially from the French provinces. The country fail's are attended by agents of merchants in London, Paris and Vienna. Only at intervals, how ever, i* a prize like a perfect suit of golden hair obtained, and I am told that there are orders ahead in the shops of Paris and London for all the golden hair that can be obtained in tho next five years. When a stock of hair is collected by traveling agents it is assorted, washed and cleaned. Then each hair is drawn through the eye of a needle and polished. When the stock is ready for the market here the nobility is permitted to make the flrst choice. — QalignanC* Messenger. MAIL IN MID-OCEAN. A Woniau's Tender Thought for H*>r Traveling Husband. On the first night out, just as my vis-a-vis at table was sitting down to dinner in the beautiful saloon of the City of New York, a steward stepped up and handed him a letter, saying: "With the Captain's compliments, sir." Every night this performance was repeated. Sometimes the Captain himself presented the letter. It was mysterious and interesting. The gen tleman who received the letter seemed to be greatly astonished when it came to him on the first occasion, but after ward he merely showed signs of en joyment in reading its contents. He was a very delightful man and a great favorite at our table, but though every body was dying to know where the let ters camu from, nobody had enough impudence to ask him. But on the day before we reached New York I happened to be standing on the companion-way with this gen tleman when the Captain presented the letter, and the former said, as he tore open the envelope: "Queer idea of my wife's, isn't it? She sent the Cap tain seven letters addressed to me and asked him to deliver one to me every evening before dinner. She thought I would be glad to hear from her every day, and I tell you it has been one of the pleasantest events of the voyage, this mail delivery in mid-ocean." — Pittsburgh Dispat''l>. —A fanner does not need to study navigation to get the bearings of the fruit tret?. Merchant Traveler. Black velvet princesse gowns, with fronts of creamy lace, are much affected by the statelier sort of matrons, to whom they are Tastly becoming. Jackets for service come in rough cloth of gmall checks; for dress they are of smooth, almost lustrous weave, and in solid tones of rather bright colors. Shirred or plaited bodices of red surah dlTide honors with the ever faithful jersey as the corsage for wearing out at home skirtfc past street usefulness. In flowered stuffs the stiffly conventional ized stripe, ■» the wreath twining about an impossible column, are chosen in preferenw to the more graceful sprays and cluster*. JViiStRLY CONGRESSMEN. I Statesmen Who Dlslik* to Spend All of Their Income. Although three-fourths of the mem bers of Congress find it impossible to lire on the salaries they receive, there are some members of the House who actually manage to save as much as $3,000 out of the $0,000 which they are paid for law-making. These lucky ones come from the South, where elec tion i-xpenses are a mere bagatelle comp; 'ed with the drain that is put upon Lie Western and Northern mem bers, v. io live in districts having plenty ih towns. Congressional sala ries arc M small that many of the ablest me.i in the present House are declining r '-elections. Their business interests are suffering, and $5,000 a year is not enough inducement to re main in public life. A Congressman's j expenses are all the time increasing. ! This has been a year of unusual de- I mands upon both sides. The sending out of campaign material has cost some lof them thousands of dollars. The < average member, no matter how poor I in purse, has sent out hundreds of dol ! lars' worth of tariff speeches. The people have an idea that these speeches do not cost the Con gressmen any thing. It is a mis take. Every speech ordered costs something. The printing and binding is expensive, to say nothing of clerk hire. A Congressman has no time to do tliis work. He is compelled to em j ploy ;i clerk. He is not allowed a | clerk by law, as is the case with Sena tors. Tins few Congressmen who are known to be extremely close and who save money are odd specimens. They live in the cheapest way imaginable. They are never seen at a place of amusement, seldom ride in the street cars, and they would drop dead if they I were to be called upon occasionally to pay carriage hire. One of these mi serly statesmen recently felt under obligations to a well known New Yorker, and so he got up courage enough to ask the New Yorker to take lunch with him. The New Yorker is j a man of means and is in the habit of spending money freely. At lunch tho host said: "Mr. , what will you take to drink?" "Champagne," said j the New Yorker. The entertainer | came near fainting when he glanced at j the wine curd and saw that the brand j of champagne called for was worth Is 4 per bottle. This thrifty member of j Congress, as a rule, eats a piece of pie ■ and drinks a glass of milk for lunch, but it was observed that he didn't even indulge in pie and milk for near ly a month. Ho had to even up. — St. i Louis Republic. ALBANY IN I6BS. i How the Capital tit New York Looked Two Centuries Ago. Although in the first rank of nations as regards our material prosperity, we are, as yet, only a little removed in ] point of time from our origin. It is not yet four hundred years since Ver ■ razzano made the first discovery by I white men of the Hudson river. A | period of only two hundred years takes us back to the time when the city of Albany had the following embryonic existence. The description is from "The History of the City of Albany," by Arthur James Weiso. The houses in the village, about one hundred in number, were mostly structures of logs or of framed timber, weather boarded. There were some that were built of brick. The few stone buildings were of rough masonry. Many of the houses were thatched with reeds, some were covered with shingles, and oth ers were roofed with glazed tiles. Very few of the steep gable-roofs had eave troughs, henco the occasional use of the deceptive phraseology "free drip," in the early conveyances. Frequently small square dormer windows were set in the roofs to admit light to the garrets whicli were commonly used as sleeping rooms. The chimneys were mostly built on the outside of the houses, at their gable ends, and were made wide at the bottom for large fire places. For warmth in winter, long and thick pieces of wood were burned on these ample hearths, particularly in the kitchens, which in cold weather were usually the only rooms that had fire in them. Wide, arched brick bake ovens were often built at the back sides of these spacious kitchen fire places, and I the part projecting into the house yard was generally covered with a shed roof. House doors were mounted with long iron hinges set on strong staples. | Windows contained one or more sashes ' filled with small panes of glass set in grooves of lead. Stoops—low, wooden j platforms with backed benches—were j generally placed before the front doors. i The porches.on fair summer evenings, were the favorite out-door sitting placees of the villagers.— Christian at I Work. Greenland's Icy Mountains. "I heard an odd story the other day about Bishop Heber's beautiful hymn, 'From Greenland's Icy Mountains, 1" said a well-known Cincinnatian. "What is it?" "It relates to the j music for the hymn. You remember I that Bishop Heber wrote it while in Ceylon in 1824. About a year later it reached America and a lady in Charleston, S. C, was struck with its beauty. She could find, however, no I tune that seemed to suit her. She re- I membered a young bank clerk, Lowell | Mason, afterwards so celebrated, who Was just a few steps down th<: street, $nd who had a reputation as a musical genius. So she sent her son to ask him to write a tune that would go with the hymn. In just half an hour the boy came back with the music, and the melody dashed off in such haste is to this day sung with that song."'— Cincinnati Star. PLAYS AND ACTORS. Av"u U. Saxon, thb baritone, has signed with the Asuv Slierwin Opera ooni]iany, now iv Austral:;'.. MiM Mattit- Karle wauts to star next sea son, iiini is negotiating for a new play with the dubious title of "Rank." Miss KaWe is °t present the leailing lady iv the Kobert Downing combination. One of the several productions of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"' next season will have as a realistic feature a tank of water, in which will be placed blocks of floating ice, over which the fugitive Eliza will run in her ef forts to escape th« trained bloodhounds. CRYING FORJTHE MOON. Tlie Vsiii Longing* mi<l H"|«« Whldi Coni«> to All of V*. There is no use in denying it -it is a folly we must all plead ffnOtgr to. and which we commit all om- l!»es long-, more or less. A 9 children it was the actual moon we wanted -the palo, silver crescent, or the golden harvest moon that we could see shining so far above us in the clear sky from our nursery window. So far above us: Yes; that is, after all. the grand secret of most of our wishes in childhood. *9 well as in later yoars. What we desire is so far off. so difficult of attainment. As \-Mirs (jmss by and wo grow older, though very often not. wiser, it b DO longer the moon itself we want as a plaything; we are content by that time to see it la its proper place, shining; placidly above, and our wondering fancy leads us in a roving search after will-o'-the wisps and newer lights. Sometimes one hearsof a man wasting his whole life in thi* restless craving for some object totally out of his reach. Openings of success are given him, honors, chances of distinguishing him self lie before him. He lias only to stretch out his hand and take them, but he pa«ea them carelessly by, perhape because they are so accessible, and fixes his eyes and longings on ao impossibility. lie treads ruthlessly under foot the i-ad roses of life which grow about his path a-* he hurries by in his eager search tor a blue rcca He is a man of one idea, and that a foolish one, and the will-o'-the-wisp that he follows lea;!.- him over marshy ground and into many dangers; sometimes, it may be, to his own destruction. Why is it, I wonder, that this longing for the unattainable is so strongly im planted iv our nature? And is there not, perhaps, greater pleasure really in the pursuit than there would he even in the possession of the desired object itself. 1 Might it not happen that the blue roses would wither at a touch, and the much-coveted golden fruit turn to (lust and ashes, like the apples of the Dead Sea? How seldom one comes across a person who is perfectly con tented with his lot in life, who has ab solutely no crumpled rose leaf to dis turb his rest. Sometimes our moon is riches, some times fame aud honor, and there have been known cases of men eating- their hearts out for a love that could never be theirs and wasting their time and energy in the mocking lijjht of eyes whose brilliancy was not for them. Every one's individual ease is different, but the fact remains the same. We all want something we have not got; wheth er we should appreciate it if it were ours i- another question and, as a rule, one not often proved. It is man's na ture to wish most ardently for that which baffles his pursuit and the more obstacles there are in the way so much the better. He will pass by the modest (rild flower to seek the rare exotic whose beauty is perhaps intrinsically less, but whose kind is rarer. It must be a sad thought at the end of a wasted life to look back on all the long years misspent in a vain craving for something unattainable, and to think of t! c many tangible blessings we have left unheeded as things of small account. It is of no use then to recall the loss and tin' might have been, and in that clearer light which will come to us all then, we shall see but plainly the insig nificance and folly of our dreams. It will seem so foolish then to have spent our lives in pursuit of a shadow which always eluded our grasp, and those wasted years will never, never return to us. From the summit of the steep hill we have climbed we can see, ere we feebly totter down the other side, our children in the golden ha/.o of the valley below setting off with buoyant hearts on the same journey, only to meet with th« same disappointment as jvc have. And yet, if we try to im press this on them, does it make them any the wiser in their turn? It may be folly, and no iloubt it is so; but it is v folly mankind will continue to cling to. in spite of precepts ami counsels, and happy indeed are those few rare ex ceptions who obtain their heart's desire. — London Truth. AN HONEST PEOPLE. The Trusting ami Unsophisticated Nature of Norwegians. I like the Norwegians. All travelers here declare them perfectly honest. I certainly have not- seen the slightest disposition on the part of any one of them to deceive or cheat, and if trust fulness is an evidence of honesty these people are wonderfully so. They have huge keys to their storehouses and granaries—keys big enough to brain a man with. They are nearly always in the keyhole or hanging somewhere within reach of one feloniously inclined. At wayside stations curiosities—some times of small silverware—are exposed in the public room, where any one can easily carry them off. The cigars are in open boxes for the traveler to help himself from, with the expectation that he will honestly account for any he has taken. Farm-houses are left open when the whole family goes off to the moun tain to cut hay, and in some unfre quented localities the wayfarer goes in, builds a fire anil cooks a meal; goes to the store-room, helps himself to milk and "flat broed,'' and leaves on the ta ble money enough to pay for what he has used. Frequently a post-boy (he is sometimes a man and not infrequently a girl or woman) has taken what 1 have paid for his dues, putting it into his pocket without counting. He always, however, sees what you give him as a gratuity, and shakes you by the hand when de says "tak" (thanks). I gave a servant-girl too much for our dinner. She was much amused, when she fol lowed me, that I should have made such a blunder. At wayside stations they charge ridiculously low prices, and as far as I can learn make no dis tinction in making charges to foreign ers and home people.— Carter U. Har rison, in Chicago Mail. Draperies, like the ways of Providence are past finding out, at least by the casual observer; but close inspection reveals so much of method in their mndn«_-l as makes elegant length their prevailing too*. India silks are a rage, and beside the fa miliar patterns of blocks, bars, stripes flow era, interlaced rings, come in huge branch designs that sprawl in the most inebriate fashion over the delicately tinted ground. For house wear in the dim and distant sum mer nothing is better or more ladylike than the plain and striped nainsooks, while for street gowns in hot weather the roperser «eeable sateens will again be Jong ,av£ite& -New York Commercial Advertiser ' ' fAMOUS SITTING BULL. The Char»i-t«r of sitting Bnll, the Great Chief of the Sioux. Probably when the facts are all known it will be "discovered that Sitting Bull had more to do in influencing the In dians against signing the treaty at .standing Kock than any other man. Bull is an Indian of large brain, as the writer ascertained while traveling with him for three months in the Eaat. He is diplomatic in his nature; not a great warrior, but rather a safe counselor, and as such he has great influence with the Indians. He is a thoughtful gnvage. and his travels in New York, Phi.adel phia and Brooklyn, in 1884, taught him the ways of the whites to such an ex tent that he is now well able to copo with them. He is especially good in making a bargain. Indeed, the writer considers him intellectually one of the most powerful Indians on the American continent. That he has had much to do in shaping the opinions of the triba there can be no doubt. Sitting Bull's Indian name is Ta-ton- Ka-i-a-ton-Ka, and he was born on the banks of (Jrand river, within the boundaries of the great Sioux reserva tion and about forty-five miles south west from the present Standing Rock Agency in Dakota, He is fifty-five years of age, has a very large head, is cool and thoughtful, very decided in his ways, and yet will listen to argu ment and wilt answer with argument. His original name was Wa-Kan-you-na gin, or Standing Holy, which name he retained until he was fourteen years old, when his father, whose name was Sitting Bull, took him along with him on the war path in the Crow country (the inveterate enemies of the Sioux), and lie, the fourteen-year-old boy, counted his first victory by killing a Crow Indian. After returning to their home hU father "threw away" three ponies, i. c.. killed them in honor of his brave son* achievement, at the same time announcing that he had changed the name of his sor; from Standing Holy to that of Sitting Bull, bestowing his own name upon him. In person, Sitting Bull is a solidly built Indian, not quite so tall as an or dinary savage, yet heavier in many re spects. His features are strong, and when lie walks he turns his toes in ward, strikes the ground with a heavy, jarring tread, and moves rapidly like a man of business. His general look is heavy, while that of Little Crow, the londtir of the great Indian outbreak in Minnesota in 1861, and Hole-in-the-Day, the great, Chippewa chief, were more refined, but none the less true Indians. The Dakotas believe that they must im itate Hay-o-Kah, the undemonstrative god. who inculcates the idea that it is. not dignified, or manly, or great to evince lively emotions of grief or joy, but under all circumstances, even of torture and death itself, the Indian must show a stoical, impassive face, and hence the immovable features ot Sitting Bull or any other Indian who lays claim to power among his tribe. The principal characteristic of this great medicine man—for he is known among his tribe as such—is his stub bornness of character, the samo ele ment which made Grant the greatest warrior of modern times. With ju dicious management Bidl could, no doubt, be won over to the whites, but you can't drive him.— Cor. Ithaca (N. V.) Journal. FIRST POLO GAME. Something About the Moat Exciting ami Exhilarating of Sports. ! Polo, or hookey on horseback, as it is sometimes called, is the national j game of the people of Gilgit, a moun tainous country to the north of Cash mere. Reports had reached India, by way of Cashmere that the Gilgittia were a race of blue-eyed Kaffirs (unbe lievers in Mohammed), and it was sug gested that they were probably the de scendants of one of Alexander's settle ments, and to solve this question the Punjab government, in the spring of I*B6, deputed Dr. Gottlieb Leitner to visit the country and inquire into the history and language of the peoplo. As far as concerns that matter,the language of Gilgit was proved to be a sister lan guage of Sanscrit? and not like Hindi m- Greek, a daughter language; but the point of interest for us is that Dr. Leit ner took as much interest in the na tional game of polo aij in the laaguage, and persuaded three natives of the country to return with him to British In dia and bring their polo sticks and po nies along with them. The party reached Sakou, the capital of the Punjab, some time in August, 1866, and the game having been discussed at Government house a couple of teams were got up and the day fixed for the trial games, which all the European residents turned out to witness. The teams were com posed of Captain Charles Marshall, Lieutenant Pemberton, Lieutenant R. Nicholetts, Mr. C. F. Amery, Dr. Liet ner, Serdan Mohammed, Hyath Khan, the three Gilgittis, and one other, and the game thus inaugurated rapidly ac quired popularity, clubs being <*tal> lished promptly at all the military sta tions. The game was played with an energy, and with. »uoh speedy ponies of Arab stock that severe casualties were frequent, so much so that considerable pressure was brought to bear on the army authorities to put a stop to it, but they wisely forbore, and the game was «oon transplanted to English soil, where it flourished freely, throwing off vig orous shoots for transplantation in America and the British colonies. It is perhaps the most exciting and exhilar ating game known, but it is only Cen taurs who can play it creditably and, enjoy it thoroughly,-a. F. Amen, ta Chicago Inter Ocean, ~T( ' Oil'cioth.—Shred one half ounce ... good beeswax into a saucer, cover it entirely with turpen tine, and place it in the oven until melted. After washing the oil cloth thoroughly with a flannel, rub the whole surface lightly with the flannel Hipped in the wax and turpentine, theu rub with a dry cloth. Beside the pol ish produced the surface is lightly coated with a wax, which is washed oft together with any duet or dirt it may twve contracted, white the oil ©loth ia preserved. o.